If God didn't want us to be happy, he wouldn't have made drones real!
Oh, right...
So, here's our Booru: https://dronebooru.co Wheel of OCs: https://wheelofnames.com/z8q-2mf Wheel of modifiers: https://wheelofnames.com/4h8-fyf The wiki inside the Booru: https://dronebooru.co/wiki_pages/original_character The usefulWiki: wiki.dronebooru.co And last thread: >>327050
>>327983 You know, I'd engage in the usual rigamarole of "reclaim my honour" coupled with simping for Y but cramming for tests is really taking the wind out of me, have this image instead
>>327997 >When Anon returns home, Pavo is waiting for him with a rose in his teeth and in the sexiest pose a drone can muster >Don't ask how he got into your house, Anon, he's a sentinel drone, he can do even more
Old Atlas Drone >vintage technology >shiny chrome finish >who needs gimmicks when you're the best >could go for a lot of money if you found the right buyer
Dahl Drone >affordable military hardware >steady and reliable >variety of camo patterns >register a Dahl+ account for additional features like reciprocating affection
Hyperion Drone >cutting edge technology >very expensive >very elitist >DO NOT mention the CL4P-TP product line in its vicinity
Jakobs Drone >old fashioned >made of high quality wood and filigree >not all of its charming southern phrases make sense >won't respect you if you don't have a mustache
Maliwan Drone >elegant in form and function >very smooth and artsy >batteries not included >elemental fluids are not for human consumption
Bandit Drone >you definitely didn't acquire this thing legally >ramshackle piece of shit >surprisingly good mileage >will try to kill you and steal your stuff if you don't keep it on a short leash
Tediore Drone >extremely affordable >family pack >made of disposable plastic explosives >planned obsolescence is measured in hours
Torgue Drone >EXPLOSIONS! >EXTREME HIGH PERFORMANCE! >WHAT THE F@&% IS SAFETY WARRANTY?! >EXPLOSIONS!
Vladof Drone >drone of the proletariat >manufactured in country that technically doesn't exist anymore >will liberate your household from the fascist tyranny of non-Vladof appliances >Yuo see, Ivan, yuo don't need to be better shot. Yuo just need to shoot more boolet.
New Atlas Drone >state of the art >cutting edge on technology and trends >modern comeback story >acts as a loudspeaker for the Atlas CEO's social media
What do you lads think works better with Negev having Vickers girl terrible posture that makes her look shorter than she is: her being at most as tall as Beretta, or her being anywhere from the female DD height of 4'10" to the apparent WD max of 5'2", whichever half of that range you think works better and it genuinely surprising people when she stops slouching or slumping over and standing with her knees bowed inwards?
>>328014 If murder drones have nanite milk and nanite nut. What do sentinel drones have? I know Avre has that muscle relaxant in her tail. What is sentinel drone cum and milk like?
>>328034 Cause asshole or not, having your whole family ripped apart in front of your eyes trying to protect you because the aforementioned buenolord you were bullying couldn't withstand the stress of living in a relatively safe and funcional society is kinda messed up.
>>328032 >Uzi is now an Eldritch god >She can now easily bully Lizzy back with interest as a scary Solverpede monstrosity >Immediately gives up when it becomes apparent acting and looking like a horror movie monster only succeeds at turning Lizzy on
>>328025 Officially, sentinel drones can have nanite nuts and milk. And it's blue.
>You wake up quite late because you don't have to go to work >You hear the sounds of frying with clattering dishes >You get out of bed and quietly enter the kitchen >Your beautiful, tall, sentinel drone wife is preparing breakfast for you >You sneak up behind her and carefully grab her up into your arms >Even though, thanks to her sensors, she knew you were awake in advance, she still lovingly reciprocated and pulled you closer >Now you're in the clutches of a first-class war machine, and she won't let you go easily >As payment, you give her a kiss, and her hands soften, granting you sweet freedom >But nothing is sweeter than her lips >Finally, she asks you to sit at the table, for dinner is ready, and it's time for you to get your precise dose of nutrients >She places an omelet, sprinkled with herbs and spices, and a salad of the freshest greens appears next to it >The final touch is a mug of freshly brewed coffee, over which steam swirls in a cheerful dance, and under a thin film of black coffee dust you notice a slight blue tint
>>328049 True, she could've just vaporized V while they were "hanging" with Lizzy instead of wasting time, but you know, gotta rape her epic style in front of others or it doesn't matter.
>>328048 Only if you run your hand over them from nose back towards the tail. If you drag your hand over shark skin from the tail back up towards the head it will feel rough like sandpaper.
>>328061 Isn't it kind of unclear? On the one hand I saw some stuff on the old /co/ threads that talked about how you could see snow and sky and whatnot at their death scenes, indicating it took place out-of-bunker. On the other hand the behavior of pilot Doll, the 1-3 month timeskip between episodes 2 and 3, and the fact that Doll was hiding in a closet all indicate it was the bunker entrance(not to mention how much more interesting of a plot point it is if Uzi's episode 1 actions have actual long lasting consequences). Even purely evidence wise it looks like it could go either way.
Before we all continue we’ve all watched the show right you’re not just here to hang out and pretend you know who the characters are or what the story is because you want to fuck robots
>>328070 >anon isn't celebrating the influx of fresh dronetists >anon dosen't realize the sheer metaphysical weight of the racism/sexism built into the board and world will cleanse their little reddit souls, allowing them to ascend to the glorious status of "newfag" and maybe, eventually, draw or writefag instead
>>328069 That’s true, newfriends are welcome provided they read the thread lore, at least that’s how I feel like it is. But the thread is too slow for there to be newfriends here.
Wonder what the plan with Doll was going to be before Liam decided against the multiple season story arc, considering she already had oil stains on her clothes early in episode 1 when her parents implicitly got murked during the break-in. I still say the original plan was going to be that Doll's thing had kicked in before then and Yeva was helping her learn to manage it based on her own experience with being a vampire, and her parents were going to die partway through season 1 while the family was scavenging for oil (dad knew his wife and daughter were vampires and was providing lookout for them).
>>328065 In one of the glitch inn livestreams they showed off the set for the flashback of Doll's parents dying and it is very clearly outdoors somewhere (with a ship present for some reason). Doll is hiding in an ambulance, which you can see the door of in the episode itself
>>328080 Crying shame then, as I said in my big pargraph it's way more interesting from a narrative perspective if Uzi being impulsive, stupid, and desperate actually ended up severely hurting people the story actually cares about.
>>328079 Yup. Sentinels are great, even if they are a bunch of bums chilling on their special planet. Reviving headpats and cuddles from their humans. Wouldn’t want them any other way, cute wastes of resources that they are.
>>328084 You clearly haven't had any coffee this morning, anon. I know a coffee shop where the coffee is made by a very cute sentinel drone, and she's literally a master of her craft. I promise you'll love it.
>>328080 >which you can see the door of in the episode itself Screencap? Wiki isn't helping. In any case, begs the question of why they were outside, especially since it happened in high school... is what I would be saying, if I didn't know the reason was one of the following: >"I don't know!~" >"Because!" >"Unclear!"
>>328092 It's quite difficult to truly defeat a god.
I remember there was a discussion about this a long time ago, and one anon made a post where he described how while for humanity this is not just an ordinary war, but a war for its own existence, for Cyn it is simply an RTS.
>>328096 I wouldn't go so far in my certainty, but I wonder if it's a remnant from an earlier script, like the sheer size of the episode 6 Cabin Fever set.
>>328084 >Sentinel drones are an extremely effective use of resources for their Job, yes really >But their Job is exclusively limited to killing Solver-Witches/command creatures, assasin/hunter-killer style >Strictly speaking there's nothing for other commanders to complain about, they are the only ways to kill Witches with any level of reliability after all >But holy fuck if it dosen't feel bad to see a billion+ dollar warmachine swoop in, kill one(1) singular entity, and give the whole "mission accomplished, returning to base" speech while you're stuck facing an army of mutants and dozens of DDs cause "not their Job" >And it's almost more enraging that the sentinels who do bother helping clearly do so out mostly so they can use the DDs as stress toys >The overall effect, plus the fact that Sentinels benefit from a "quality over quantity" policy that humanity can't afford for any other units, generally makes it seem like Sentinels don't really care about the war effort and see the whole thing as a game instead >Ground level grunt may love seeing a Blue in the skies, but anyone who'se interacted with then tend to hate them almost as much as the Solver itself
>>328082 Not the original anon you've been talking with, but I think you're not seeing the intent with their characters. Uzi and Doll are supposed to be narrative foils with similar backstories, their characters diverging with how they chose to handle their revenge plots. Where it actually falls apart, imo, is that both of Doll's parents are actually dead while Nori simply went for milk, which makes the whole thing fall flat since Uzi had actually had nothing to seek revenge over after all. >>328090 I might be mistaken that she's in the ambulance since this looks like a pickup truck to me. Luke didn't show this scene off much so idk which vehicle she's in now.
>>328094 reminder that cyn can collapse planets by chucking null orbs at them from space, and the only reason cyn hasn't steamrolled the universe already is because she's enjoying playing with her food too much (and because there would be no story otherwise)
>>328102 >Where it actually falls apart, imo, is that both of Doll's parents are actually dead while Nori simply went for milk, which makes the whole thing fall flat As BRRF Anon once observed, same with the idea that Doll shoulda just trusted people (people meaning V and the two who unconditionally stand by her mindbroken-corrupted-morally degraded-bimbofied ass), because the person she did trust stabbed her in the back at the last second for claimed reasons that are asinine (and Lizzy comes to regret it horribly, judging from how she's taking her corpse to school with her)
DRAWPILE TIME MY FRIENDS!!! yayaya https://magma.com/d/yQJY1hzggh you know the rules !! no drama no drawing over other people no minors no being a scoundrel be nice and let's all have fun!
>>328096 >>328098 (me) Friend of mine when I shared my theory with him:
>That's what I reckon. The most pragmatic explanation for me is that it was an attempt to make use of assets they had on hand.
>It strikes me now that something CGI has in common with live action is that in a lot of ways you do wind up with props and sets, and I imagine the urge to make use of all of them (after all, you paid for them) and reluctance to alter them after script changes without a compelling reason must be pretty powerful.
>>328123 (me) In line with that, considering how obscured everything is in Doll's flashback she flashbanged V with, I wouldn't be surprised if, before a hypothetical rewrite, we were originally going to see it as it happened in a scene that was shown to be outside.
Tessa did nothing wrong and was screwd over by Liam for being a moraly good person with good opinions and ideas, as reparation she demands cuddles with the cutest drones and the establishemnt of a drone ethno state
Gotta say, the plot holes and unexplained "Wait, what?" things in MD would certainly make sense if you assume the whole thing is Uzi's chuuni ventfic/accidental admission she still has a crush on her third grade teacher Mr. Kovach.
>be me >ask my giant centipede thing brother what he thinks of the Batman and Spider-Man soundtracks >he gives his thoughts on Danny Elfman in general >he moves on to a bunch of musical theory shit I don't understand >and more >and more >oh Robo-God oh fuck how is he still going >he stretches and shifts his body to get comfortable >how do I tell him he's blocking the door
>>328134 I have my own version. It started out as a hectic multi-system fight, but after Cyn took more planets, humanity decided to fight smarter, not harder, using stealth tactics and whatnot, to reclaim as much as they had left.
>>328092 To quote some guy >"You can kill us all. But something, somewhere, some way down the line. Doesn't matter how long it takes, it WILL overcome you" >"K, can't wait"
I'm just going with the idea that the Solver doesn't "Play with it's food" but just has Goku level fight autism. It wants Humanity as strong as possible. If it loses? Who cares, it got a good fight, which is the shit it lives for. And it'll show up later anyways!
>>328158 Sadly not possible in cannon, otherwise focusing as hard on the Patch as if did wouldn't make any sense. A true fight-autist would have either jabbed Uzi with the patch or, failing that, at least not directly sabotage their attempts at training(patch construction and witch study) like that.
>>328168 How so? It seems like in practice (Uzi and Nori) it just keeps Cyn from mindjacking them with the casual ease she seems to enjoy(see her attempted hijack in 8).
>>328174 The DDs were sent to copper 9 in the first place by the solver to take out the solver witches. That and kill all the worker drones and make spires because the AS works in mysterious ways.
>>328178 >the spires are equivelant to chocolate chips on a cookie >the Solver dosen't need them or anything, but eating a planet just dosen't taste the same unless all the yummy yummy drone oil is piled up in large enough piles to sink her teeth into
>You hadn't been able to sleep after the kiss >The robotic maid had hurriedly apologized for the breech of decorum and run off, you hadn't been able to find her for the rest of the party >You retired to your single suite, drunk >The pounding headache and dryness in your mouth woke you up some time deep into the evening, perhaps 10 or 11pm local >You roll sideways, slide off the bed, fumble in the drawer for a pair of "hangover drops" gulping them down dry >The acetate-binding drugs take enough of the edge off to let you make it to the sink, half the water goes down your throat and the other half over your face >No hope for any more sleep now, the stimulant half of the drugs would take hold soon >A five minute power shower leaves you...nominally clean and nominally awake, you wander over to the door and out into the hall >The lights in the mansion are at half-brightness, music no longer filters out from the dining hall or ballroom >Not all is quiet though, wandering down to the first floor you find a half dozen of the diminutive drone maids and butlers cleaning up after the late-ending festivities >"Your" maid is not among them, and they silently edge out of the walkway around you >Perhaps they aren't programmed to talk to guests? Perhaps they're used to hungover guests wandering the halls >Struck by an impulse you head back towards the library wing
>The drones thin out towards the extremity of the mansion, and it seems deserted by the time you return to the lounge from the earlier afternoon >Its large outward curved panoramic window looks out a twilit alien forest, the spiraling intertwined pseudo-trees have folded in their leaflike fronds, shrinking into short, stocky, barrel like mounds that stipple the ground >The gas giant blots out a quarter of the horizon with a matte black disk, only dim amber light filtering through the edges of its atmosphere defining where it ends and glittering specks of star >Near one pole a lurid sputter of green lightning ripples deep within its clouds >Turning from the vista you head up the small curving staircase to a second story where a connecting door leads into a small but real library, stacks full of books, shelves carved from expensively imported wood >It has the ornamental feel of something rarely used >You find your maid near the end, four stacks down from the door with her back to you >You can see a book in her hands, illuminated by the spearmint blue glow from her face display >For a mad moment you have the urge to play a childish prank by sneaking up behind her, but instead choose to clear your throat politely >The light illuminating the book blinked, she looked up and turned, her symbolic eyes wide and hollow at first, then relaxing to filled in ovals >Then the checked bars of blush emotes again
>"G-good evening, sir!" >Her dainty slippered feet shuffle anxiously "Is there something I can help you with?" >You notice the cover of the book as she hurriedly stuffs it back into the shelf >Some kind of lurid, literotic manual, exactly the kind of smut you'd expect in what was essentially an upscale hookup lodge >"Company, I guess. Couldn't sleep."
Half-part, the saucier bit later tonight or tomorrow.
>>328172 Here's how I look at it >Be Solver Witch >Be used to using a swift Solver hand-waive to get rid of your problems >Be only vaguely familiar with the limits of your abilities, and are at-best familiar with not being able to target other Witches with your Solver >Suddenly Murder Drones show up face-to-face >Attempt to use your handy dandy Solver on them >[LIKE OBJECT NON-INTERACTABLE] >You are dead before you have another chance to try something else
Really the only Witch that could've possibly guessed their Solver wouldn't work on a Disassembly Drone was Nori, but she was still in the middle of getting over amnesia/being kooky
>>328134 This solver war interpretation best interpretation. Not only because it leaves tons of room for awesomeness(what with that being the primary purpose of the war in Cyn's opinion, with all the attendant singular superweapons/creatures that would imply), but because it leaves tons of room for a billion different greens in various touched/untouched areas, all possible thanks to Cyn being neither so fast in her advance that everything dies at once nor so slow that there's any place that doesn't feel it.
Against what precisely? The broken ruins of the planet that used to be there? The Solver doesn't exactly have "infrastructure" after all: the only things it "wants" are suffering and a broken world. Any mutants or solverforms not dedicated to carrying out one or the other (by breaking a world's defenses or by perpetuating a particular kind of hell) likely wouldn't even be considered worthwhile enough to save from the core collapse. I do suppose there's room to quite literally scavenge the remnants of these blasted systems (mutant hells with potential survivors included) once Cyn gets bored of looking at them though... but I can't imagine one would find much in the way of meaningful opposition there (pretty much just whatever solverforms can survive no longer having an atmosphere). More of a scramble/escape than a war though if you aren't even trying to stop your enemy's advance.
>>328155 That's interesting, but I think humanity would have fought in a more logical and thoughtful manner if it could in the beginning. It was Cyn, with its vast hordes of mutants and disassembly drones, that demanded that humanity maintain massive fronts on planets and star systems.
In my vision I described that this war looks like this, because Cyn wants it, because she could wipe out humanity as quickly as possible, no matter what tactics humans use. She has no problems with resources, logistics, moral fatigue, or anything else, she just does some incredibly terrible shit and see how humanity reacts, and if they get lucky and push her forces off the planet, she'll clap and say, "Nice, more."
Actually, you and I are both describing AUs, because in the original, Cyn was more into roleplaying than strategy.Plus, Liam didn't care at all about what was happening in the world. He was so unconcerned that he even forgot that disassemblers needed to drink oil to keep from overheating, and what those damn corpse spires were for.
>>328219 Of course Cyn's MORE into roleplaying, but that isn't exactly going to stop her from indulging in some different kinds of pain along the way. I agree though that, if there was any real war effort in cannon, it probably took the form of her dropping a bunch of DDs on a planet with a new cover story from the last(and either assistance or not, depending on the cover) and then watching the fireworks happen, but there's relatively little room for greens in that(since you need to setup every planet's LARP individually) so it's probably better that anons write the solver war as they do.
Honestly Harpernon's probably closest to cannon out of anybody: it really seemed at least from the posters + diagram in CFL that humans were expecting the annihilation of the entire universe in a matter of days or months. Not exactly the kind of thing that screams "Cyn was slow and fun about things." Nor the kind of thing that leaves, well, basically any humans alive besides on a theoretical "can't kill me neener neener" planet.
>>328224 I agree, the main goal of any interpretation of Solver War is to allow anons to describe what they want. I don't see a problem with an anon describing their version of Solver War in their green, because I can easily imagine something similar happening in mine. The main thing here is to tell a story, and a well-thought-out world simply facilitates this.
many people don't know Tanner but he's a drone that actively takes care of sentinel-H!
>Tanner was once a human that got a job as a sentinel repair man, once he realized how doomed they were, he basically killed himself before waking up as a drone.
>H finds Tanner while broken trying to find help for her fellow sentinels, Tanner, being a previous technician repairs her
>H grows fond of tanner, dragging him around, Tanner realizes her sentinel parts belong to a sentinel he would care for as a human, so he goes along with her, acting begrudged
>H is naturally interested in humans and human things, tanner tells her about human things but never reveals who he used to be
>>328227 >it really seemed at least from the posters + diagram in CFL that humans were expecting the annihilation of the entire universe in a matter of days or months Keep in mind that Copper-9 was implied to be the last stop on Cyn's all you can eat buffet across the human systems, meaning those posters + diagram (and really the whole Patch program itself) naturally reflect how desperate the situation was at that point. Also keep in mind that in spite of what the posters were saying it still took upwards to a few years after the core collapse occurred for the Disassembly Drones to actually arrive on Copper-9, and it wasn't until 3071 (close to 20 years after the collapse) for Cyn herself to arrive and finish things off
>>328189 Read it. Great stuff, man, love your writing. Excited to see what's next! Or hell, even anything you've written in the past, if anything, I'd love to read.
>>328234 Yeah but I figured THAT was cause she was very much sandbagging her "last hoorah" of a planet, really letting herself enjoy her time with her dolls for as long as possible before she has to put them away in the toybox till the next universe (I honestly can't see Cyn as the type to discard the things she enjoys having around and/or made promises to whether the universe they came from still exists or not).
As evidence see how we go from "t-minus 100 days until oblivion" in the labs to "literally 20 years before she even sets foot on the rock" as Uzi's classmates imply.
>>328232 >Sentinel-H presumably has major loyalty to humanity going in addition to her humanboo thing, since she's imitating a Sentinel >Tanner is, even under the best considerations, a WD and not a human
So if it came down to saving him vs saving a human, or obeying a human's orders vs going with him, which one would she pick?
>>328240 Oh she would no doubt pick the human over tanner, me and H's drawfag had a conversation about this once lol, it's also more out of an interest thing too I'm pretty sure(?)
>>328241 The minute Sentinel drones got Steven Universified and turned into crybaby hugboxes it was all over for the whole Violet Evergarden emotionless assassin aesthetic
>>328242 From my understanding her drawfag framed it as if it was an infatuation with a lost civilization There was a doodle ahe sent me once of H excitedly showing tanner nyan cat and saying he wouldn't understand (despite him previously being human) lol
>Tanner was a human, then became a WD >Even assuming this some other supernatural nonsense rather than Solver shenanigans, he's still vulnerable to all the parasites, infestations, and flesh twistings that can afflict any drone during the Solver War(especially any drone hanging out close enough to the front lines for DDs not to be a top priority target)
So what does he do when/if he starts changing?
And at exactly what level of mutation does H decide he's too far gone to keep around?
Matter of factly, what happens if they run into human human forces when he's only partway to unsalvagable and they understandably want to put down the mutie. Does H kill them if she can't get away? How would that impact the rest of her personality?
Feel free to answer all or none of these non, this just got me to thinking and I don't have time enough to write green right now.
>>328244 anons can cry that he ruined themqll they want, but lets not forget harperanon is the reason why sentinel characters are a staple of thread culture
>>328246 Sentinel-H's drawfag isnt as into murder drones and moved onto a different fandom but I'll try finding an answer if she has any.
i don't think that both of us thought that deeply bout the affects lf the solver, nor do I think their storyline is in line with much of the thread accepted lore and just goes with the original murder drones story.
>Tanner is very much like how the teacher acts in murder drones, considering H is his only connection after being locked out of his last outpost, he'd be around as a ride or die
>humans are long gone by now, tanner was apart of the experiments that helped with the solver patch and died before everyone else did, if they were to run into humans Tanner would probably spill the beans about who he was
>>328249 The vast majority of anons like these sentinel drones, and salonanon and Avre have contributed greatly to their popularity. In my opinion, his art and greens have contributed even more to the popularization of sentinel drones than droneanon's work.
Duh, but this is a Murder Drones board: "silent emotionless killers with, maybe, a handful of tiny personality quirks if you looked real close" were never gonna win out against big personalities with big gimmicks attached(like how the show does characters).
Matter of factly, if Harpernon never wrote his green, I'd bet Sentinels would exist only as slightly scarier jobbers to throw up against DDs + Witches + Mutants with actual personalities who can loev anon/be funny. Then, once they got blasted into the dirt in every green, they'd become another set of thread jokes like jobber-J. The only way Phoenix's admittedly badass interpretation was ever gonna survive at all was by having a bunch of actual characters to contrast the "tool" Sentinels against. And the best way to make people write about characters on the Droneboard is to give them art(very hard) or make then drones.
>>328256 She didn't model herself, the solver put together whatever parts of what was SD-H and a sentinel and made, sentinel-H. Much like how J was a solver piede in a way? But she lost memories of her life as a DD, and believes she is genuinely a sentinel raptor
>>328258 Not until Copper-9 she dosen't! That's plenty of time for Anonymous "lost loves" from the war effort if you want to write them. Bare minimum the "anon tries not to get shot by a real Sentinel Drone" green from a tgread ago was probably the only green I've seen made about ger ever and she could sure use some love.
NTA but I'm still not cucking my humanbro, even if he's been dronified. If he wants to take it slow with his retard GF then anon will be there in my greens cheering him on and giving him tips on Dissembler lovin the whole way. With his own drone/Solver-Sap gf of course.
>>328254 Anons write about what they like, that's all.
I like absolute war machines that love humans and think they're cute, and I write about that. I like to thinking about a society where drones and humans have to live together, taking into account their peculiarities and terrible past, and I write about that. I like to imagine humanity's struggle against an indescribable otherworldly horror for which resistance is just a fun game, and I write about that.
That's it, it's that simple. When thinking about what anons would like to write about, you just need to understand that we're driven by basic desires and needs, and if we like a concept, we can change it to suit our needs, just like we did with sentinel drones, and just like any AU works.
Anons, if you notice that someone has uploaded a green to Booru that was already uploaded, please report it to snow, pointing to the earlier green. Those who uploaded the art cannot delete it, only a moderator can.
>>328227 My idea is that humanity only can LIVE on a few things from now on >Colony ships >The planet that people hate being on Humanity is surviving and living, but thriving is not possible anymore. The Solver prowls around the stars, slowly taking systems apart bit by bit. The most humanity can manage is a stalemate via taking down spires, but they can no longer live on those planets. Humanity can take down spires to stop the Solver from advancing, but cannot make any meaningful progress to actually reclaim anything.
>>328272 >>328185 >humans take down spires >pour tremendous wealth and effort, essentially all the vanishing remains of their civilization into it >this slows down the Solver's advance >not because it actually impedes its abilty to planet crack mind you, but because the Solver is a picky eater that wants its cuisine "just so" >every time this happens it sends out a DD team, one per broken spire, for rebuilding >and each time that DD team looks upon the shattered remains of that spire, glass and bone and metal scrap strewn across a burning field of oil for miles around, and thinks one thing >"Fuck my life"
>>328281 Booru detects duplicate images but that system is 100% useless when it comes to greentexts because of the way they will read to the system. The only way to figure out what has and hasn’t been uploaded is to use the tag system to see what matches or read every single green ever written
Good news for JCJ, after being involved in a scandal dubbed the flight of 87 Afton Robotics will be closing it's doors, leaving JCJ as the king of robot manufacture
>>328138 >She haunts the story from top to bottom.
Eh, that video was made after the show was over and it wasn't made by either GLITCH or Liam. As haunting as it was, whether it's canon and the actual impact on the story is debatable.
>>328299 Oh hey! Since the topic is up and I'm on my 15 minute sanity mandated break from cramming, a question to anyone who read the last part : Do you think Beau starting to speak again was rushed? I'm kinda double guessing myself with pacing now that I really think back on the stuff I wrote
>>328189 Not to be a critic but this part: >Its large outward curved panoramic window looks out a twilit alien forest, the spiraling intertwined pseudo-trees have folded in their leaflike fronds, shrinking into short, stocky, barrel like mounds that stipple the ground >The gas giant blots out a quarter of the horizon with a matte black disk, only dim amber light filtering through the edges of its atmosphere defining where it ends and glittering specks of star
What exactly am I reading? I got the window part, I understand the gas giant is supposed to be the sun(?) but I'm confused about the matte black disk or the mounds? Is this an eclipse?
>>328309 dude are you implying that big drones cannot be friends Wow. Casual sizeism, in my wholesome drone thread? You should be ashamed. Help me install my dronewife’s 9th expansion pack to make up for this transgression.
>>328319 Nobody's stopping me from making a couple of changes to the original design, plus I don't give a damn about the warranty, these bastards don't pay it anyway for the stupidest reasons.
>>328328 >You made one step that was too loud and now you have to pay the snack tax so that your wife lets you lay down on the bed again (you showered so she doesn't recognize your smell anymore)
>>328299 I do, but admittedly my discussions with a friend of mine before those greens started being written have seen me develop a take on the concept fairly different from the one the greens' writefag developed afterwards. t. the Anon who first suggested the concept and Nori still being alive but disabled in it
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>>328272 >Humanity survives by living on spaceships (that somehow avoid being destroyed) and a magic jungle planet >Humanity stops the solver from spreading by blowing up corpse spires (this somehow prevents planets from being eaten) If you say so
>>328347 Well, beats having marching music in the background and it's much better than nerd stuff, It's hard to "focus" when you hear pig latin chanting... or linkin loyalist...
>>328298 He died next to a drone, i figured more weirder stuff happens in md canonically, that waking up as a drone after death wouldn't be too out rageous
>>328350 >Died >Didn't go to hell >Didn't go the heaven >Didn't get the peace of the void >Woke up as an uppie craving manlet bot >Has to take care of a retard drone Puragtory awaits as punishment for suicide huh?
molli has gone on strike she says that HODR isn't doing anything about her humie boyfriend requests so she isn't going to stream until they assign her a humie boyfriend
Is Tessa a minor? I recall many outside the chan saying she was not until it comes to Jessa And Cynessa (heh) shipping, where suddenly she's an adult because she drinks wines and digs up graves.
What was the shittiest MD fanfic you guys have ever read? I read a reader insert fic where the "protagonist" spent more time bawling their eyes out than actually interacting with the setting Half way through the story the author dropped all pretenses that it was a reader insert and made it a self insert fic and used their real name It was some jeet name
>>328368 Damn dude... That honestly has to be one of the worst fanfictions I've ever heard of, and I've read quite a few from different fandoms throughout the years myself ranging from really good and memorable to plain mediocre. Also sucks to hear it's about J too, I wouldn't wish this fic on any other characters since I love all the drones, but dammit not my favorite jobber! ;(
>>328365 >where suddenly she's an adult because she drinks wines and digs up graves. wine aunt Tessa... drunkenly boning you on her dead (poisoned) mother's grave...
>>328352 Legally, she's a sole proprietor, so she can't go on strike, as that would signal the unwillingness of one legal entity (her) to fulfill a contract to provide services to another legal entity (her manager).
Molly will have to talk to her about the intricacies of labor law, but this conversation will take place in a cell.
>>328368 I once read a fanfic where the main character, a human woman, appears at the beginning and immediately demands that the other characters address her as "it" instead of "she." I was completely transfixed by that moment, it was so strange.
>>328385 I know, I've heard of faggots+ and all that, but for me it's always been something that happens in Burgerstan, and then I found it. The prose itself was crap, so I didn't even get halfway through the first chapter, but that's what I remember about it.
>>328379 Logically speaking Tessa appears to be somewhere between her mid to late teens (so high likelihood of her being younger than 18), and naturally all humans poop. Canonically speaking these aspects are never addressed or touched on because doing so is completely unnecessary to the story, if not outright detrimental to it (as demonstrated by how much some spergs flipped their shit over N calling Uzi a kid or Tessa calling Cyn a robo child). Naturally most fanworks also avoid touching these questions for that exact same reasoning.
>>328389 I figured she was in fact exactly of age by the time of the Gala and that was intended to be her debut into high society, hence why she talked about "never yakking with humans before" despite the fact that her folks put on parties as a semi-regular occurance(judging by the Cyn introduction flashback). Makes sense that they would try and cloister her away until the moment it was socially unacceptable/strange to do so in hopes that her autism would run its course/etiquette lessons would take root before she could embarrass them.
can you imagine how many absolutely vile DDoujins neo-japan would release after the war? I'm talking the kinda shit that makes emergence look like sailor moon
>Geist doing the drone "tiny to the point we can't see it mouth while giving a thumbs up" thing >with at least a dozen human hand tentacles, all of the same side
This worthless thing gave her master to some random bot without even bothering to check who it was. The other drones are definitely bullying of her now.
Yeah I didn't think I was going to make another one this early. Going with the white eyes feels a bit like a copout, but those were intentional on Tessa's part so she would look closer to N, V and J. Hell she probably would've gone as far as bleaching her hair, but J stopped her from doing that. She also doesn't wear any collar, belts or cuffs cuz uh....those can trigger some bad memories if she comes in contact with them.
>>328385 Why? I can understand a desire to be called the opposite gender. I can even understand wanting to be ambiguous and be called “they”. But why “it”?
>>328447 Counterpoint: N, specifically, eventually, feels remorse. V and J I'll grant gave exactly 0 shits (at least about the drones, I could totally see J mourning over having killed humans/the company she adores) but N worked out that killing workers was a bad thing and he should feel guilty for it.
>>328467 And they have gay pseudo sex like in avatar and it attracts half the avatar fandom. Mainly the guys who remembered it because they were 40k fans and wanted to fuck the navi to death with a bolter.
>>328474 >its just talking in circles about best girl >the show's big final fight left over half the plot unresolved and it was clearly slated for a longer runtime, Liam just got bored
>>328315 It's a giant gas giant that has a black atmospheric curve of darkness, with bits of its atmosphere sort of fading into that, and likewise where speckles of stars meet.
>>328514 It's a tit-for-tat stuation. Cyn's afraid of gays and gays are afraid of women. Cyn is a woman therefore she and the birdfaggot run on an uneasy stalemate.
>>328522 you'll have to settle for a love potion from plague doctor drone. hope your true love has a tolerance for hallucinogens extracted from nightshades
Hey I just joined in the drawpile and I have two questions. Why is chat disabled for me, I can't type out anything but I can only read? What's up with the second brand new drawing with nothing but chicken scratch text? Is that new?
>>328281 I placed the wiki to put the greentexts as article pages so it would be easily text searchable once the greens are ported over. However, there isn't a clean way / standard of doing it yet. There is the greentext plugin I made, but it has to get updated, cause it does not support spoilers yet. Also, the other one you're probably thinking is the 4chan scraper bot that goes and finds greentexts and posts them on the booru discord. However, searching for stuff in discord is a pain sometimes. Sure it's a fun bot, but it's utterly useless if it doesn't have a good interface. Perhaps I should make some sort of UI that collects these greentexts and displays it to you by searching for text. However, if it's automated, it won't be categorized. The wiki's great for that, and the booru too. However, the latter is image only.
>>328545 Everything's fine, Snow, thanks anyway. I was thinking about some kind of LLM-like system for finding identical greens on Booru, but I'm not a programmer to ask for that.
>>328535 >>328533 Additional ways N and Uzi attempted to "accident" their "little mistake" include the following:
Flight practice >high G forces failed to damage >did manage to successfully discomfort grub into vomiting nanite acid >further exploration deemed "kinda bad" idea after the crash
Drop testing >Grub successfully dropped from a height of full 8 miles(Uzi got tired), despite its best attempts otherwise >Grub confirmed to lack wings >Grub also confirmed elastic >Subsequent wallball shenanigans deemed intimidating but harmless
Swim practice >Waterproofing confirmed >Mechanical components confirmed >This confirmed by grub electrifying the water to a "ridiculous" extent when submerged, as reported by N
Sun Fun Run >Idea scrapped(too obviously not survivable to give them any sort of plausible deniability, which they want to maintain as much for their own consciences as for familial relations)
A day with Aunt V >Idea scrapped(same reason as above)
Zooology >Couldn't figure out how to keep him from climbing out of the lab-hole
"Random human bullshit I don't know, isn't this supposed to be bad for you?" >Grub eventually ceased consumption after eight(8) bags of Cheetos, three(3) cans of Red Bull, and a painstakingly recreated Taco Bell meal >"Frenzy" deemed "adorable" by Lizzy, "hilarious" by V >Resulting damage to merch cabinet too dire for continued testing, further research no this subject to be conducted at "that absolute glitch's" place from now on
>>325785 (me) New ideas for expanding this, for even more cringе: >Doll was also observing baby Geist in the time his parents were, just as suspicious of him as them at the start, but not having his parents' autism, her suspicions of him dropped off more quickly >the discovery of Geist by his grandparents was put into motion when Doll, during one of her get-togethers with Nori, tipped her off >she was present and involved in the discussion during the elder Doormans' intervention, because this felt serious enough for her to stop hiding from Uzi and confirm her continued presence as a wraith stranded between life and death >N spent the whole intervention distracted and asking her questions no one responded to ("Did you at least put a towel down before you sat there?" "Why is your hair doing that?", etc.) >after that, just as she would ask Geist's teachers in that period if he did any Antichrist stuff, before she finally accepted her son isn't a danger Uzi would ask Doll to keep an eye on him in his sleep, since she couldn't keep up her own observation of him through her Solverpede camera eyes while she was asleep herself
>>328556 >Nori casually hanging out with Doll on the regular >Asked why she didn't bring up the continued existence of Uzi's classmate sooner, especially when Lizzy's been doing her whole obsessive mourning bit for the last year >"I forgor"
>>328556 >>328561 >Uzi's immediate first reaction to seeing them was "Shit! Suprise visit! Put it under the couch! >The entire first half of the meeting was Uzi trying to desperately gaslight and "nuh uh" both her parents and Doll out of believing in the thing's existence >This only ended when N came back from the store with the jumper cables and a car battery for today's accident
>>328562 Was thinking more that Doll asked her not to. Similar thing applies as in the green I wrote for Orthodox Christmas (>>318764), she didn't want to be a bother to Uzi.
>>328563 >>The entire first half of the meeting was Uzi trying to desperately gaslight and "nuh uh" both her parents and Doll out of believing in the thing's existence >"Uzi, the kid's coiled up right next to me." >"No he isn't."
>>328565 >She almost managed to convince them it was really one of Lizzy's novelty horror adapters >Then she realized what that would imply >Uzi's face when she either has to bluff clanging Lizzy on the regular or cop to her demon-baby
>>328569 >Uzi turns out to not have the mental bandwidth to fend off MULTIPLE panic attacks and keep her current body from slipping out of the Nth dimension at the same time >after that, it also turns out she doesn't have the mental bandwidth to simultaneously fend off multiple panic attacks and avoid blatantly projecting her disgust and shame about being the same kind of abomination as her son onto him
>>328570 >this causes Nori in turn to believe she's having another cathedral moment and, with all the certainty in the world, start attemtping exorcism-by-slap again >Khan, trusting his wife's judgement, joins in >Doll just sighs >she may not like the monkeys, but this is most certainly now her circus >perhaps if she had actually watched all those soap opera disaster families with Lizzy instead of focusing on "other things" she might have been more prepared
>in hopes of making things moderately less terrible, N tries to make small talk with Doll as a fellow 3rd party to... this >because all he really knows about Doll is "Lizzy's friend" and "former witch, now ghost monster" he tries to spark up conversation and bond over their common ground >their common ground of eating people >cue Doll getting the full explanation on how best to scare flavor into someone without the stress preemptively breaking their servos >she hates that she's still salivating a little bit
I KNEEL I SQUEAL MY HEADCANON ISNT REAL I COPE I MOPE SOMEONE HAND ME A ROPE I CYN I NEVER WIN I GOT THROWN IN THE TRASH BIN I JOB IM A SLOB IM TOO SHORT TO REACH THE DOOR[MAN]K[N]OB I SMELL LIKE A TRASHBAG MY WIFES A WEIRD FAG I AM, A [V]E[J]ITABRO
>>328585 >J(obber) ever exercising that much power You are an exceptionally kind and generous man to let her believe she is anything but a girlfailure.
>>328585 >J imagines herself like this >She goes to the kitchen >Anon is there doing dishes, just like her imagination >She will assert her dominance over her lover just like her fantasies! >Anon notices her >"Hi honey, you slept well?" >This is not like her fantasies! >Spaghetti falls out of her pockets >Anon laughs to himself as J is unable to anwser the simple question >He kisses her on the screen >J begins to blush and continues to fumble for words untill she can anwser "Yes" >Anon and J cuddle on the couch afterwards
>>328597 I usually just hide the N effigy untill they calm down, though one time I forgot to place it back the next day and they started performing sacrifices to "Invictus Horribilis Anonus" to release their god out of his basement
>>328608 >Y tries to to join the bnnyu NKVD >Is denied because : >She has no security training >She isn't particulary politically motivated >Her behaviour isn't very befitting of a functionary >And the accent of the officer she saw wasn't a mandatory part of their behaviour >He was in the middle of a lingustics packet update
>Molly keeps finding edits of her when she was still a WD >They're mostly nostalgia bait or sad >Half of them have this song playing ANRI - I Can't Stop The Loneliness
>>328620 This is a government service that combats the initial solver infection. It's mostly made up of Solver War veterans and is rather poorly equipped, yet they literally nip apocalypse-level disasters in the bud.
Funny guys, they prefer to die from mutants and the clutches of feral disassembly drones than to fuck a drone.
>>328620 Emergency measure comprised mostly of civilians given bare minimum training and substandard or repurposed equipment. Combination of a planetary defense militia and CBRN cleanup crew. Average survival rate is 4 deployments. Properly organized during the Solver outbreak that began the prolonged siege of the Platinum binary system and it's multiple colony worlds. There is no special corps, liquidators are only nominally associated with the overall state whatever that is, they have official military handlers who provide transportation, training, and specialized equipment when absolutely necessary.
As their name and aesthetic implies, like the Chernobyl Liquidators, they are civilians from vaguely related fields conscripted into state service as expendable muscle.
>>328651 >>328650 >>328648 Canon Harper would let Drones onto the liquidation corps for a different reason. More of an "All the troops you can get" kind of deal. She's protective of civilians, but her treatment of the military is different. If you cannot stand up for yourself, she will do so for you, hoping to inspire you to do the same. If you choose to pick up a gun, to stand and fight, she will treat you as a warrior and will not deny you that honor.
>>328654 >>328655 >>328656 Wow! Those adapters sure are loose! Anon should be a gentleman and buy her some better quality hardware, still nice work! But you forgot the part where they get married afterwards
>>328653 That would be silly, the solver self evidently can instantly seize control of even uncorrupted drones once it has enough power/influence. And in the Harper version of the solver war solver-immune drones would be way too valuable to toss into the grinder.
>Oh mighty Droneanon who probably lurks in this thread. I offer this maid Harper that I drew in the drawpile in exchange for knowledge. >How does Harper fit in her sentinel body, does her worker drone head enter her sentinel head. >Does her back open up like suit of power armor? Is her sentinel neck bigger than her wd neck so that it can fit inside or does she curl up in the fetal position in her chest?
I finished part 3 of sentinel roadtrip and I'm curious how this works.
>>328678 >the noodle limbs actually run through her entire sentinel body >it's more like a sort of very advanced power armor than anything else, just neurally linked space marine style
Bunne Ngl I'm not the happiest when it comes to this one, but I guess it fits J's personality to be the most "standard" since she is like the big sister figure to N and V.
>>328666 Uzi, while exploring her mind palace, runs into the WDF peeps who got eaten in episode 2 and wonders if she should apologize to them for what her current body's previous owner did
>>328701 > the virgin artist beating themselves up over every mistake (the mental beating will continue until the art improves) >>328477 > the chad '''artist''' unleashing questionably ironic mspaint doodles with no commentary (the basic rules of making art have no power over him)
>>328102 So how did V not notice Doll in the truck? I thought they had 360 degree vision in the concept art. If not, her thermal vision would've probably made her visible.
>>328722 I believe one of the posts durectly after that one has the answer you're looking for anon. It's the same reason Doll would have been avle to hide in a closet:
when I heard I was getting paired with a cavalry drone I was excited that I was gonna get to pilot a mech, but I walk in to work today and I'm met with a sentinel drone with a horse ass. y'all really couldn't think up a different name?
>>328418 I mean, Earth is destroyed, Tessa is dead, N is constantly mind wiped, V is bipolar, J is buck broken into bootlicking their captor. And he is still a midget.
>>328620 It would incorporate threadcanon elements I enjoy, sprinkled with bits from my personal autistic headcanon
>Drafting of concepts for specialized counter-corruption forces & associated protocols began shortly after the Sol System was completely lost (early-to-mid 3000's) >Initially conceptualized as specially trained & equipped expeditionary elements dedicated to reclaiming corrupted worlds, these proto-Liquidator forces first saw action in the Proxima System following the crushing defeat of its heavily entrenched planetary defenders >After the near-total loss of units tasked with failed reclamation efforts within the system (and with even reactionary responses to encroaching Solver corruption inflicting catastrophic casualties) the few surviving proto-Liquidator forces were reallocated as an auxiliary attachment dedicated to the defense and "screening" of human refugees up until the official fallback from Proxima >In the years-long interval between major system incursions that followed, all remaining proto-Liquidator forces were dissolved and subsequently reorganized into a rapid response task force charged with handling a steadily growing number of incursions & outbreaks happening across 'minor' systems to far greater effectiveness >As it became evident that a major incursion into the Plat-Binary system was imminent (with capitulation threatening to effectively split the interstellar human civilization in half), these now-experienced forces were retasked with spearheading the formation of elements dedicated to "liquidating" any and all attempts by The Solver to corrupt these vital worlds >The first divisions of dedicated "Liquidators" were operational by the time Plat-Binary came under direct assault, mainly consisting of local planetary defense forces supported by civilian volunteers >Casualty rates at the onset remained high, albeit noticeably lower than expected due to a combination of improved anti-Solver tactics and the en masse deployment of effective anti-Solver weapons & support elements >This optimistic start slowly but surely soured as the conflict grounded into a years-long siege, with the attrition of professional military manpower and a growing trend of high command "volunteering" qualified military-aged civilians soon becoming increasingly hard to ignore >When The Solver began to simultaneous assault multiple planets across the widening intergalactic front, new & existing Liquidator elements were officially turned into localized forces consisting mainly of constricted civilians nominally led & supported by intergalactic forces >While hands-on leadership gradually became nonexistant (and with anti-Solver weapons being stretched thin or otherwise exhausted), support in the way of overwhelming 'traditional' firepower (artillery, aerial, orbital, etc.) remained mostly reliable and saw increasingly liberal usage when available >Liquidator doctrine likewise became much more fatalistic; With plummeting survival rates across the board, the threshold of 'success' for Liquidator operations boils down to whether they can hold their ground long enough for coordinated fire support to destroy high valued targets and/or the growing intensity of corruption they simply aren't sufficiently equipped to deal with >Heavy and brutal Liquidator responses to purported/potential corruption shift from being a last resort to becoming the de facto standard practice, with protocols formally designating ALL contested territory as free-fire zones with Liquidators being ordered to "Kill at Will" whenever operating inside them >The fateful enactment of Operation: Hail Mary in the 3050's (effectively a Nero Decree designating ALL remaining human assets & infrastructure to be liquidated/"euthanized"), coupled with what remained of the Union imploding from a subsequent civil war, left whatever Liquidators that survived against impossible odds; With intergalactic infrastructure all but completely ruined and with what little remained of the human military fleets fleeing to the fringes of (formerly) civilized space & beyond, the remaining Liquidators that refused to follow the Operation either fought to the death on their respective planets or fled off-world in hopes of finding somewhere that would be safe just long enough for them to die of old age
After careful consideration I have decided to just toss this fucking drone against this wall as hard as I can. I will not be taking questions at this time.
kowloon megaslum hellscape that started taking shape in the early days post-solver war when the first human remnants touched down and started repurposing what they could salvage from the ruins of the old world
>>328772 >Molli does a themed stream! >At her producers' orders! >With an identical frame and code-copy directly bluetoothed into her systems! >Both Mollis think they're the original >Both Mollis know that the producers will "reduce headcount" down to one after the special stream >Now the two must race against time and the ever increasing panic shared through their feedback loop as both compete to entertain the most viewers as "Molli and -Molli" in order to be the last drone standing come sunrise >In the end, the "lucky chosen" still has to feel her counterpart being beaten to death by a stun baton, as removing the connection was deemed too costly >But the audience loved the show >So the producers did too >Molli's face when they tell her it's going to be a yearly event from now on
>Fun Nighttime OC Facts: by the present day of the Post-Good Ending period, J has had three children with Thad, all of them named by her: their worker drone (and also daywalker) sons Paul and Adam (named for JCJensen founders J.C. Adam and Paul Jensen) and their disassembly drone daughter Tessa (who, if she had been a boy, J was going to name after JCJensen's third founder, Paul Jensen's brother Alex)
>>328768 >The place is an incredible feat of engineering, designed to be "apocalypse proof" with endless redundancies >Doesn't make the place any nicer to live in, it just means that the building adjusts to architectural issues >Like when floor 38 collapsed, and after a week, all that happened was that floor 39 became the new 38 >You're on the 89th floor, or so the stairwell says >And that's the 89th floor of your segment, as more were built out horizontally >Your balcony opens to an incredibly narrow view of the outside and is against the neighbor's window at a 13-degree angle >Your balcony also needs to be closed at night, to avoid anything getting in >Today your groceries are running low, but last night your neighbor discovered his door wasn't secured well enough when the Writher came along >You heard him scream as it passed by, then nothing, and once it passed you immediately went to your business >Boarding up where his front door was until it was just another wall, then smashing out the walls between yours >Now your place is twice as large and you've got his belongings, though he seemed to be on starvation mode given how little food he had >So you're going to turn his sentimental items into sustenance at the floor's "store" >You arm up with a shotgun just in case something or someone takes offense to your passing, and navigate the floor to avoid falling through to the floor below >The trick is to know which hue of spraypaint the local samaritans use to mark the safe paths, and not fall into any traps set by less-savory individuals >Like cannibals, obviously >You make it to the store like it's nothing and walk into the entrance, a reinforced room >The upper half of a salvaged grunt drone points an arm-mounted gatling gun at you as it scans, its other arm held out >You hand it your shotgun, and it places it to the side >You briefly recall thinking that the drone was a bluff and its gun didn't have ammo, until one day you visited and saw dried blood painting the wall behind you >After verifying you're on its list of trusted individuals, it salutes and unlocks the next door, letting you through >You greet the drone technician turned scavenger-supplier, and he tells you about his "children" and their latest salvage runs >One died, apparently, but he broke her safeties and recovered the body, so she should recover soon >You quietly remember that the Writher is one of his children, or was, but his practice of disabling the failsafes led it to become... what it is now >But you keep it to yourself as you offer various trinkets in exchange for cans of food >You hungrily eye the freezer, full of vat-grown meat, an incredible find >But you know better than to waste your recent windfall on something so temporary as flavor, and settle for subsistence for the next few months >He tells you things will get better soon, that there's word that the distribution pipelines have been repaired up to floor 59 now >But you know better, you know they'll never get past floor 66 >Still, any news is good news >You've been eyeing the walls outside your balcony, you found a route >When the day comes that the first city's walls go up, you'll make your escape, across the walls of this tower >It's a mile of twisting metallic hell full of God knows how many booby traps, bandits, and mutant drones >And then there's the descent, you've never been skydiving, but you'll have a narrow window to open your parachute, lest you become a floating target for whatever psychos shoot would-be escapees >But when the day comes that there's a better life outside these walls than in them, you'll risk everything to see it >As you mention that, the shopkeep reminds you that he's got the parachute you'll need, in mint condition >And he reminds you that the price is to take one of his "daughters" down with you >You admire the man's devotion to his mechanical pseudo-progeny, even if they are the reason life's like this
>>328779 >Additional fun fact: J does not understand how these children came to exist. This is because she wholeheartedly internalized the human method of babymaking back when she was researching human lore for her sona at the mansion, leaving her unable to inherently grasp the worker method and far too prideful to look stupid by asking. >She is for similar reasons also unaware that she is in a romantic relationship with Thad, which may be the sole reason she has been able to successfully maintain it.
NTA but he seems to figure that eventually humanity just went "fuck it" and tried to risk literally every resource their society still had at once (after sending out a few generation ships, if memory serves from the last time I heard about Hail Mary in a green) in a single "Last Charge of the Light Brigaid" style offensive to maybe-hopefully-potentially kill the Host and stop the end of the universe. It failed obviously but it also signaled the death knell of essentially every organization that followed the order, leaving only cowards and colony ships for remnants. The fact that I know the Sentinel Corps still exists in the same green as this operation is telling.
>>328780 Other random lore stuff I thought of when writing this but wasn't important enough: >The best place to be is either the bottom or top of the sprawl. The top is where the "penthousers" live, which are the people so rich that they can afford to have new floors built when their existing ones get a little run-down. Trickle-down real estate, in a way, though their security forces and waitstaff get first pick of their previous rooms. >The bottom's where the new government has control, on account of them trying to rebuild an actual city. Supplies get sent up the tower via pipes, and crews are sent in to try and keep the pipes working. >So rich people on top, the government at the bottom, the middle varies from floor to floor but is generally anarchy. >Most food on the mid-level is hydroponically grown. Beans and rice are popular but a bit expensive, most of the destitute survive off of spirulina blocks. If they're lucky they can get flavored ones. >Serious hydro grow ops are basically hallowed ground. Entire floors will starve to death if they're destroyed, and so gangs will fight for distribution routes rather than ever attempt to go after the labs themselves. >Nobody's entirely sure what their deal is, but now and then black-armored men wearing masks show up. They inspect locations for Solver taint and sterilize those which fail inspection. If you attack or kill them, they retaliate tenfold with no regard for collateral damage. They might be government, but they patrol the midsection and even the top floors without care. >There's a kebab guy on the same floor as the story's protag. The meat is not human and is not seriously tainted, as he passes every inspection, but nobody knows where it comes from. It does give you the meat sweats, but protein is important now and then. And he uses a really good seasoning blend.
>>328793 >There's a kebab guy on the same floor as the story's protag. The meat is not human and is not seriously tainted, as he passes every inspection, but nobody knows where it comes from. It does give you the meat sweats, but protein is important now and then. And he uses a really good seasoning blend. Poor keeters.
Great setting, actually, I like it. And kek, thanks for the reference to the Liquidators.
You may not know this but the homeless Jobbers in the streets are free to take home, I have 7 Jobbers in my house, my taxes are filled, my floors are clean and by letting them use demo mode on a stock broker website I can use the inverse J index strategy to be able to afford taking 7 drones on dates!
>>328783 Here's an attempt at summarization, along with the original greentext for additional context (although it's quite old and somewhat out of date to my current iteration of this particular 'tism. It has now definitively gone from "Humanity, Fuck Yeah...?" to "Humanity, What The Fuck?!")
>By the 3050's humanity is basically fucked; Major systems under siege are on track to inevitable capitulation, minor systems are falling one after another, every supposed miracle project to win the 'war' has at-best only bought more time and at-worst catastrophically backfired (with the loss of Copper-9 and the Cabin Fever Patch Project being the definitive final nail in the coffin) >The remaining leaders/elites of what's left of human civilization decide to play their last card in the form of Operation: Hail Mary >It is initially pitched to the (remaining) masses as one last heroic charge to either strike down The Solver for good, or to at least buy as much time as possible for those in charge to come up with a solution from the safety of colony ships heading into deep space >The reality is far more cynical: All the 'Important' people get on the last colony ships on a one-way ticket into uncharted space as quickly as they can go, while everyone else covers their retreat >The operation itself is deceptively compartmentalized, with the average soldier and civilian only being ordered to "Stall the Enemy's advance by any means necessary" >Only specific elements of those that remain (specific command staff, special forces, basically any die-hard loyalist who could be trusted to carry it out to the letter, etc.) are given the true scope of what this "cover the retreat" operation entails: Preemptively deny and/or delay The Solver from assimilating as much of the remaining human information/territory as possible >Commanders were ordered to send EVERYTHING they had left against designated targets suspected to inflict the greatest delay in The Solver's advance while simultaneously deploying all remaining WMDs to "euthanize" the surviving interplanetary human settlements, Special Force units were ordered to wipe all sensitive information, disable critical industrial infrastructure & assassinate any 'valuable' individuals left behind, and fanatical loyalists were ordered to ensure the former two groups actually completed their tasks >The result was an absolute clusterfuck; Only a handful of commanders actually complied with the full set of orders (and those that did faced mutinous pushback from subordinates), special force units largely succeeded their tasks against information and infrastructure (inadvertently complicating the overall operation in the process) but only achieved confirmed kills against barely a fraction of their human targets, and the fanatics found themselves needing to do much of the unfinished work themselves (like personally attempting to seize control of WMD platforms or directly assaulting black sites deemed non-compliant) >When the initial confusion finally settled enough for most to figure out what was truly going on, things quickly spiraled into a brief and BRUTAL civil war between those carrying out the operation (a minority faction consisting of fanatical specialists convinced this is the only option they have left to spite The Solver) and those refusing to do so (a majority faction consisting of everyone who just found out their friends, families & homes were almost certainly blown up behind their backs) >The conflict is more or less concluded when an armada of rallied (and understandably pissed) refusers plot a direct course to the planet housing (what's left of) the acting Union government at the edge of human controlled space, assaulting the capital with the goal of killing every loyalist (guilty or otherwise) in their path >The aftermath is definitively cataclysmic for the surviving humans; The Union is no more, many of Hail Mary's architects have escaped justice on their colony ships, most of the inhabited worlds yet untouched by The Solver have been nuked or otherwise rendered uninhabitable, much of the infrastructure necessary to connect what remains of the intergalactic human forces is ruined, the few remaining defensive lines on contested planets quickly collapsed, the remaining human survivors are now scattered across space and humanity as a whole is on the verge of extinction, the corruption of The Solver is now spreading unchecked across the ruins of human civilization, and Cyn is left somewhat crestfallen because her favorite toys decided to implode on themselves before she had a good chance to watch it all unfold
why does nobody ever talk about the black markets basically operating in the open selling "domesticated" mutants as servants or worse? they used to be people, for fuckssakes!
>tfw you have to reinstall your wife's operating system because an update was filled with backdoored malware Oh wait! I can't post a image because I'm reinstalling windows! I fucking love notepad ++
So between Nori, Yeva, Alice, and Amda, which one do you think had the most Cabin Fever interns secretly wishing she'd sit on his face? Nota bene: I'm talking on-model drones with smooth bottom plates
>>328824 YOU ARE ANTON ANTONOVICH, ABOUT TO BE A STUDENT AT A PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITY. @ FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR STUDIES, YOUR PARENTS ARE SCHEDULING YOU WITH YOUR EIGHTH-REVICE AUNTE ON YOUR GRANDFATHER-IN-LAW, YACHSMITOVNA, IN BLOCK 110-D3-4L-UP-K4, CLOSER TO THE UNI. @ ON THE EVE OF YOUR FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, AUNT YACHSMITOVNA STRONGLY RECOMMENDS YOU TAKE A BRIQUETTE OF BELYAK WITH YOU @ YOU LOOK AT HER CONFUSED AND ASK, "WHY?" @ - "Why? For the fare," - SHE ANSWERS. @ YOU HAVE NO LESS QUESTIONS, BUT YOU STILL TAKE THE BRIQUETTE OF WHITE BEETLE. @ @ @ YOU BARELY MAKE IT ON THE NEXT SHIFT, THE ELEVATOR ARRIVES AND DROP IN. @ YET YOU ARE IMMEDIATELY PARALYZED WITH HORROR: A GOOD PORTION OF THE ELEVATOR CABIN IS OCCUPATED BY THE SHARK BODY OF AN FRIDGEDRONE ARACHNE. @ YOU SCREAM AND TRY TO BACK UP, BUT THE DOOR HAS ALREADY CLOSED BEHIND YOU. @ YET, YOU CAN'T SEE THE OTHER PASSENGERS ARE TERRIFIED: EVERYONE IS LAUGHING AT YOU AND FEEDING ARACHNA HALF A BRIQUET OF WHITE CONCENTRATE @ ARACHNA PURRING CONTENTLY @ NATURALLY, YOU ASK THE GRANDPA STANDING NEARBY WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE @ "Oh, that's Marusya, don't be afraid of her, she's tame!" - THE GRANDPA LAUGHS. - "She's already taken us on fifteen cycles! They refuse to build us a proper elevator, so we're stuck riding like this... hand over the fare, hand over!" @ ASKING WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU DON'T "PASS THE FARE" @ "Everyone who didn't pass the fare is taken over as the fare," - THE OLD MAN SHRUGS. @ MARUSKA SEEMS TO SMIL AND WINK AT YOU. @ WELL, ALL IN ALL, BETTER THAN BEING A LIQUIDATOR.
Wait, are spider-drones a type of refrigerator drone? I've been thinking about this for a while now, so I'm not sure, and I don't know if I should fix it when I move this copypasta to the next thread.
>>328832 I've had to use the translator a couple of times, and I can see that bastard made a few mistakes. It's a shame I can't convey the full energy to our English speaking comrades.
>>328834 When she what? That's it? "Beretta when she gets a million dollars"? Or "Beretta when she gets her own spaceship"? I mean what the f- Oh no, I get it. They got him! Somebody stuck him with a stake through the heart! Oh, this is so sad! Oh Anon, I pine for you!
>>328835 It was just a text editor... btw if the guy who posted his linux install a while back is still here : mind sharing your absolute solver ascii?
>>328864 I have no idea who that is but I have to imagine a gruesome death is preferable to being absorbed into her and remaining conscious in perpetual agony
>>328863 >When your sentinel drone wife has some weird fetishes and brings home a disassembly drone >You don't ask the new drone if she agrees, you don't want to be locked in the basement again
>>328873 >For her service to humanity, Sentinel Strychnine was rewarded with a human husband >Of course, no one asked him, so this is literally the perfect match for Strychnine
>>328799 Honestly I've been back and forth on the names since I see the Union-Federation as interchangeable due to them both serve the same general narrative purpose (they are the humans united against The Solver). The closest I've got to an internal naming convention regarding all that is as follows
>Before the destruction of Earth there was the United Systems, an interplanetary UNesque political forum that the major systems interacted with to some degree (meaning most systems were for all intents and purposes self-governing) >After the destruction of Earth (which was broadcasted live thanks to Cyn strategically preserving key satellites watching the planet) virtually every system was galvanized into taking decisive action, with the United Systems marshaling a military alliance that in turn quickly spiraled into complete federalization (either Federation or Union) >After the failure & subsequent violent dissolution of the former, it would take years after the Post Canon begins for a successor group to form under the name not taken by the previous one generously assuming that humanity even reunites back under a singular governing body in the first place
>>328891 It just threw me off a bit, but your description is good. Based on what the anons told me, I imagined it like this: >The Federation, which owns all human planets, wages war against Cyn. >After Cyn disappears and the war effectively ends, it collapses due to the idiocy of its leadership. >The Federation fragments begin civil wars for power. >One fragment gathers most of the remaining Federation, suppressing all resistance. >The new government declares itself the Union of Human Systems and vows not to repeat the Federation's mistakes. >Drones are given equal rights with humans, DDs are being integrated, and so on.
I think humanity can still be united after the war, after all, cultural ties are not broken.
>>328897 Well, in this reality, we accept that sentinel drones exist and that they can have a huge impact on society, plus when you realize that it was the disposable nature towards drones that led to the death of more than half of humanity, you start to think.
To be fair anon, drones ARE going to be disposed of at some point. That's just the inevitable nature of time, wear, and limited resources. Under the light of "every member of this artificial people group that we ever produce is going to die someday and, in dying, quite possibly become a blood hungry monstrosity or, worst case, Satan himself" I can't imagine the idea of continuing to make drones being popular. Though for or reasons of limited population/resources/infrastructure/loss of technology base, one couldn't reasonably try to exclude/genocide either them either I'd bet.
On the other hand the Sentinels are still the very best remaining human weapons systems, now literally irreplacable both in their technical expertise maintained (no way they were losing technicians) and in cost-to-make, and still likely maintain the single best/fastest fleet of ships that exist in human space. In other words, it's just not humanity's choice anymore what happens to drones, because if the sapient heavy weapons platforms disagree there's nothing they can do about it.
WAKE UP! SENTINEL DRONES ARE JUST AS VULNERABLE TO SOLVER INFLUENCE AS ANY OTHER DRONE! THEY'RE ALL TICKING TIME BOMBS!!! WORKERS! DISASSEMBLY! SENTINEL! ENFORCERS! LABOR BOTS! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM NEED TO GO!
>>328896 NGL I can only imagine DDs being integrated in anti-reunion states, and even then precisely because they need ALL the firepower they can get to try and resist Union encroachment. Nobody's gonna WANT to play nice with literal babyeaters who were making spires out of your corpses until their boss went AWOL and, if said boss should return, would immediately go back to their prior status quo, unless they NEED to. In other words any kind of DD/Solver critter integration makes the most sense as a top-down initiative that essentially the whole human and most of the drone population fights every step of the way. Would also make an exception for Avre style sebtinel-converts, but mostly because I don't expect regular dudes to be able to tell them apart from a regular sentinel.
>>328904 The frame wears out, but the drone itself, its soul—its core, specifically—I don't think so. Worker drones have cores that need to be properly disposed of to prevent them from becoming zombie drones. I think that, based on the use of sentinel drones, they will be treated not just as equals, but even exalted and recognized as individuals. Worker drones, on par with disassembly drones, will be recognized as equals. Plus, we need a working population after the genocide, and who makes a better worker, a drone or a man?
Regarding the emergence of new sentinel drones (and the emergence of new drones in general), I'm in favor of the procreation idea. Mainly for greens, of course, but I can justify my headcanon in the fact that worker drones have pillbabies, and disassembly drones (and therefore sentinels) have "solver magic" that can lead to a "more natural" birth of a pillbaby inside them (they also have meat inside). Overall, I believe each anon decides for themselves how this all plays out in their headcanon.
Not sure how far I got with these, drew her around early November when I was still testing ideas for fridge drones before I came to a conclusion that people where getting a little too into the concept.
But to summarize the spider: fridge drone equivalent of those deep freezers people typically put in the garage for game meat, made to "collect the meat for you"
(ill see if i can find the original post about them)