My Friends! Hello! I'm here once again to ask you to talk about the Drones, that's all I'm asking you. Hope your day is going nice. The Booru with a lot of images: https://wheelofnames.com/8hc-stc The Wheel of many OCs: https://wheelofnames.com/8hc-stc Last Thread: >>80066
>>81045 Don't worry, N, drone diabete can be reversed and even cured! You just have to consume only oil and drone components. No people food. Or grass, or rocks, just oil and the limbs of hapless worker drones.
Ah fuck it, I'm bored I'm now going to assign lightsaber crystals to some canon characters and some OC. Feel free to debate or give your own change [Canon] >Uzi Purple, duh >N Green >J Red >V Yellow >Doll Indigo [OC] >Beretta Copper >Negev Fire Orange >Jane Yellow >John Blue >Akita Purple >Bugretta??? Darksaber
>>81047 Btw did they change smth about 6? I never saw the Sentinel in that scene too...also damn that was so close Beau being a coward or not, if Alice had not called for him she could have made it in time, 2 seconds of calling for help and not pulling the door while doing so would be saved+ the time the Sentinel took to scan her. 3 more seconds of pull should have been possible, Alice's defeat was so forced damn it. In the end probably one of the best chances for her to get away tho, anything else would likely leas to Cyn eventually killing her, I mean really killing. Fucking shame that 6 had such serious tone only for nothing to come of it, all to make V more dramatic. It would have taken nothing away from the story to just let Alice AND Beau get away.
Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Is Sentinel Bootlooping Real Hahahaha Dronigga Just Deactivate The Optical Sensors Inside Your Facescreen Like Nigga Turn Off Your Eyes Haha
If Becca was in the HoDR AU instead of the horror show shes stuck in. She would make put a ring on it. And when its time for the honeymoon, her medical and human psychological knowledge would make any lucky guy experience nirvana.
>>81077 You can, but they hunt in packs and are very intelligent. "Chop their back wires" works on one, but what about the rest? And are you going to land that kind of hit on a moving target who kills you if you look at it, when it has friends who also kill you if you look at them?
>>81077 Yeah, maybe V killing them all wasn't as far fetched. Idk how it would have gone usually, but Alice not being around this time must have been decisive. If we want another reason than that the plot needed her to win ofc
>>81084 I knew she was going to survive, but it does feel bullshit for her to go against an entire lab worth of drone murderers with a perfect success rate, and come out on top, without it being explained. Unless she just ran like hell. Blinded herself and used automap to escape.
>>81104 You could have a funny where V survives as a core, manages to take out J with Thad and Lizzy's help, and steals her body. She somehow does the Vergil hair smoothing thing to turn J's back into her own hairstyle after chopping off the pigtails, and rips her dress in half to be like her jacket.
J ends up watching the final fight from inside a jar Thad's holding. This gives her time to reflect.
>>81107 The rules of how they actually come back are pretty vague. All we have to go on is what J said and the admin thing Uzi did to V and N and we don't even know if that's involved at all or required. Or if Solver just poops out a drone when she feels like it and gives it a personality she's absorbed. Is each clone just a clone with the drone's memories? Are they unique to the universe or can there be 15 N's with identical memories and personalities just doing what they do? Is consciousness a joke and existence nothing more than a series of reactions to your environment? What does a DD's mouth taste like? All questions we'll never know the answer to.
>>81112 Judging from episode 2 and everything else we see, if you're a DD's admin you literally own their soul. The Solver respawns them by making new bodies and putting their souls into them.
>Be Intoner. >You’re frustrated. Very frustrated. >Why? It’s because of the technician Anon and Pavo. >It’s just that…ugh, the tension between the two is suffocating and unbearable! >Pavo loves Anon and is constantly trying to ask him out but Anon is being difficult and is refusing his advances. >This back and forth just can’t stand. >You know Anon likes drones so why can’t he just accept Pavo’s feelings. >You have to do something to remedy this. But what? >Hmm… >… >Aha! You got it! >You open your internal messaging app and after some impersonations and sending messages, you pump your fist as both Anon and Pavo have agreed to meet at the location you’ve given them. >This is going to work. You’re sure of it.
>>81153 I don't necessarily disagree with you that some of the fanfiction out there is better than the show itself, but I'm simultaneously glad that Murder Drones wasn't developed or put in the hands of anybody BUT Liam Vickers. If it had been directed by any of such fanfic writers (especially those on AO3), or given to probably any other person in the world, it would have turned into a cringy, gay, Tumblr-esque practical soap-opera about traumatised robotic murder-women instead. Imagine Steven Universe with eldritch characteristics.
>>81160 >Remember me? >Of course you don’t >I was just one disposable drone among hundreds >You never looked for me when I left >But I never forgot you
when Pavo drinks he's either tactless and frisky or his battlefield personality starts bleeding into his regular one and he's unsettling to be around >"you have such beautiful eyes anon, I'm so glad nobody's pulled them out of your skull." >"sometimes I think about those solver freaks hurting you and I just can't help but turn them inside out. I hope someday me and you can sit in the shade and watch one of them crawling around trying to keep its organs from spilling everywhere." >"would it be okay if I tasted a little of your blood? I promise I won't take too much." >"I feel so guilty... I should only get hard thinking about you, but I got such a rush from bootlooping an entire Disassembly platoon at once... the smell from friction-welding all of them together just turned me on even more– but it doesn't mean anything, I swear!"
>>81140 >You’re in Warehouse 4H hiding behind a crate as you wait for Anon and Pavo to come. >…which hasn’t happened in three minutes so far. >Did you screw up? Did you? Your plan can’t go to waste! >Before despair sets in, the door slides open and Anon steps in. >You sink back behind the crate and ever so slightly peak to see what’s happening. >Anon looks around confused like he’s expecting someone. >The door opens again and Pavo crouches to get through the door. >He spots Anon and starts to fidget with his fingers, digital sweat rolling on his visor, and Anon stares at him with a surprised face. >”Pavo? What are you doing here?” >”Um…you asked me to?” Pavo says in a nervous tone. >Anon looks at him with a confused face. “No, I didn’t? I was to meet my supervisor here for some reason.” >”B-But you messaged me and said you wanted to meet here!” >”I did not do…that.” Anon says as he realizes what happened. >No. No no no! This is not going to plan! >”Goddamn it, did someone just play a fucking prank on me?” Anon drags his hand down his face. “How did I fall for this?” >”Anon, wait!” Pavo stops Anon in his tracks from leaving as Anon turns back to him. “Yes.” >”I, uh, I understand if you , um, d-didn’t want to do it in front of the other so, um, we’re all alone here and can you…can you…kis-“ >”Pavo, no, I’m not gonna kiss you. I’m not that kind of guy.” Pavo deflates from his words. >”JUST KISS YOU TWO ALREADY!” You jump from behind the crate and yell at them. >The two of them look at you in surprise before Anon’s expression turns to a knowing frown. Robo-damn it, he figured it out. >He walks towards you menacingly as you push yourself towards the crate to get away from him.
>For the rest of the day, you’re forced to wear a hat that says ‘DUNCE’ in big bold letters for the rest of the day in shame.
>>81175 Befriending Elf and getting her to assassinate anyone you want Getting caught because it's extremely obvious whenever she kills someone Getting sentenced to death and executed by Elf
>>81197 Serial designation S and Elf. Self. Serial designation S and Harper, Sharper. Serial designation B and U-U. Buu (boo). Lucy and some random goose, lucy goosey.
>Harper was on a walk. She did this from time to time, when she needed to clear her head. >She sat down at the top of a waterfall and looked at the rainforest around her. >And as she sat, she sighed. She thought of her career. See, she knew exactly what was going on with the Solver Hosts. The limited ones, with the claws and wings. Disassembly Drones, if she recalled correctly. >She had killed the same Drones multiple times, as if the Solver had revived them and wiped their memories. Every time she killed one, she desperately hoped that would be their release >But it never was >She recalled seeing a little girl get eaten alive by a fleshy monstrosity. How she tried to reach out to her but failed. How it gave her nightmares of the same thing happening to her own daughter >She thought about seeing.. That thing infest her love, forcing her to put an end. She wore a black veil for weeks after that. >She curled into a ball and began to cry. >She cried for all those who were unable to escape that monster. >For all those she couldn’t save >For all those she had lost >She stood up and, after a moment’s hesitation, cast herself from the cliff. She slammed into the rocks below, but was unscathed beyond messed up hair. >Every day she did this Kratos Falling From A Cliff | Dream On (4K) (120FPS) (Extended Version) [Template] TLDR Harper might actually be the most traumatized Sentinel after Elf or Hound/Huntress but does an excellent job at hiding it.
>>81237 >your giant drone wife empties her nanite stinger >she doesn't need it, being large enough to physically destroy anything she wishes >instead, she fills it with air, water, and trees, constructing a home within the jar >an entire, self-sustaining ecosystem, made entirely for you to show her big love
>>81246 >Jay rigs the election >However, since she is a miniature version of J, she is destined to job horribly >When the votes come in, President Boogi wins in a landslide >As it turns out, she put her ballets in the wrong box
>>81163 >imagine Steven Universe You could've stopped there. I liked the show and I've liked some of the fanfics. Without Liam making something flawed but still fun, there'd be no fanfics to dig into. I like it when it's people trying to explore ideas already in the show but cut short because Liam couldn't pace things out for his own reasons. Like how humans treat drones or basically small moments in drone colonies and their day-to-day activity. Or the experimentation on drones. Small finishable stories that are memorable. He made something, he completed it. I hope there'd be future opportunities for him to make more stuff and finish it, now that he's had the experiences of being a director, even if it's just one time.
>>81260 Or he'll stop doing professional stuff because after the experience of being contractually obligated to finish something he's come to appreciate being able to just drop a project the moment he loses interest in it.
>>81163 >>81260 My thoughts exactly. It's cool to see ideas that were left unexplored or new ideas that fit in with the world. I don't want to see multicolored gay drones.
>>81268 you gotta take the “multicolored gay drones” autism with the “ideas that were left unexplored or new ideas that fit in with the world” autism you can’t have only one
>There’s no doubting what you’ve achieved on a technical level. >These are clearly state-of-the-art. >There are just certain design choices that were made for these robots that we don’t fully understand. >We were hoping that you could shed some light on those.
>They can walk, they can talk. >They're equipped with adaptive AI to solve complex algorithms right at their fingertips. >They can take work requests. >They can even mine for weeks without charging.
>With all due respect, those aren’t the design choices we were curious about, Mr. Elliott.
>>81271 Don't have to. Haven't started and never will. Sincerely, sometimes you can read a fanfic and tell if the author is invested in the base story first or if they want to squeeze themselves (and their friends + get their approval or whatever) into a fanfic based on the thing they're making fanfic of. I prefer it when a fanfic author is in love with a thing first, flaws and all than whatever the fuck this is >>80210
>>81275 I think that anon meant that any IP that gets fanfics is going to get both interesting ones and hypergay sparkledog garbage. you can choose to avoid the garbage ones read but you have to accept that they're going to keep getting made no matter what
>Be me >20 year old Engineering and Technical Repair Specialist (ETRS): AE-051. Or to my co-workers “Anon” (not even close to my real name but quite frankly I stopped giving a shit). >Currently living and working on the JCJenson (IN SPAAAAACE)… Space Station. >Born here, possibly gonna die here. Either by old age or by freak workplace accident but I’m willing to bet my credits on the latter. >Just recently clocked out from my 23 hour and 35 minute shift to finally go on my 15 minute break in my dormitory. >having spent my last break sleeping and it is still too early for my weekly shower. I think I should spend today’s break having a bite to eat. >Walking through my doorway into my living room/bedroom/kitchen. I opened up my cabinet to grab myself a bowl, a spoon, a gallon of synthetic nanite milk box of JCJenson board approved Lieutenant Munch’s: Berry Blentiful™️ >Pouring the cereal first then the milk onto the bowl because i’m not a fucking animal. I gathered all the contents with a spoon and brought it close to my mouth. >Suddenly my phone rings. >“oh god dammit what now?!” >drop my spoon into the bowl and bring my phone close to see who the hell is calling me on my break. >it’s my boss’ caller I.D. Not wanting to get my ass chewed for hanging up on him, I begrudgingly answered the phone. >“Ey Anon, are you on ya’ break yet?” >No Shit i’m on my break, you stupid fucking fatass. >“Yeah, I just clocked out.” >“Well clock back in, I need some help. Ya’ remember ‘Satan’s door’? Back in Transit Station 7?” >I pinched the bridge of my nose over the mention of ‘Satan’s door’. Satan’s door was an automatic doorway with a faulty motion and presence sensor. >Whenever the sensor detects too many things crossing through the doorway. The door’s system would start to overtax, sending the thing through an absolute frenzy of constant opening and shutting >it might sound bad at first but when two sliding doors are going with enough force to cause body dismemberment. It tends to become troublesome. >And if it’s about that door again, then someone must have gotten flattened. >“How many fatalities?” >“Just two, thankfully. Best get ‘ere quickly.” >Despite the urgency that my boss was giving me, I felt more annoyed than concerned over the fact that my fucking break has to be put aside for this. >“Can’t there be someone else working on the door, like 066? I’m sure that wrench wouldn’t mind fixing the door.” >After saying that, my boss went quiet for a few seconds before finally answering. >“… Who do you think was the 2nd fatality? Just get your ass back here!” >The call then hangs up. >greeted back to the silence, I slowly placed a hand over my face before dragging it. >“fuuuuuuuuuuck!” >getting out of the chair, i immediately readjusted my uniform as I walked back to my doorway. >As I reached for the doorknob I realized that I didn’t put away my bowl of cereal. >Oh fuck it, that would be a problem for future me. >Leave my dorm and shift to go back to my shitty job.
>>81243 A completely enclosed ecosystem from which there is no escape, whose entire existence is sustained only by the whim of a giant drone with absolute and unqualified power over you? Sounds like a golden cage, but it's still better than my shitty life.
>>81282 B or Bonnie J Miller is Janes old Squad mate, commanding officer, and possibly lover during the war. They went on many missions building their trust and relationship, until one day Jane signed a deal with Cyn to save her own Skin and hopped planet in a Cyro Escape pod, helping DDs and Solver Abominations get past defenses, and wipe out her entire squad B included. Her actions against Bonnie haunt her to this day. also she has massive boobs and is fun loving and tall
>>81279 As far as I remember, Hyper Drone (or the one I'm aware of, Exultia Hyperion) was made to poke a little fun at the OP Sentinel discussion a couple months back. That was in good humor. >>81284 Yeah, that's fair.
>>81292 Part of the reason Jane is so kino is that there isnt anyone to publicly execute her, there is no one left to judge her for her actions, she will never face any actual consequences for her actions, her guilt is entirely internal and no one she could tell about it will ever truly understand the depths of her betrayal.
>>81290 >John, much like Jane, made a deal for his survival >He loved it, he wants more, and he hates that he can't deny that >Why'd you think Cyn was so nice to him and stuck around him so often? Come on, man.
Ok, Holly and Shockwave update, experimental colors subject to change, lineart mostly done, although I will mess with it in corners and overlap points for emphasis in a later pass. For the one Anon who floated it, what do you think so far? Also does it look better to have him looking at her, or straight at the viewer?
>>81177 intoner's gonna have a hard time getting anon to warm up to Pavo. the peacock might be a lovesick sweetheart in his off hours, but anon can't just overlook the footage he's seen of the cackling bloodthirsty maniac his admirer becomes on the battlefield
>>81176 I love that Pavo basically has two personalities: 1) Sweet and soulful, tries his hardest to win anon's heart but never crosses the line, loves all his teammates and gets love back from them. A wonderful friend, comrade and just a very good boy.
2) Armageddon Machine, bringing death and destruction to his enemies, a true apostle of war, heralding doom to all those unfortunate enough to stand in his way.
>>81141 Every Worker Drone wears a helmet, except maybe Uzi although it might just be underneath her beanie.
I've still been unable to determine whether this is because of some bizarre cultural norm they retain even after the humans are gone or because the helmets are literally built into their skulls is something I haven't been able to determine.
>>81252 >"C'mon, hold still! I'm tryin' not ta ruin ya too much, jes' kill ya cleanly." >"Shucks, humans scream a lot, don't they?" >"Shhh, sh-sh-sh-sh honey. Nobody's gonna save you, stop hollerin' for mama. Take a deeep breath... there ya go. Oh- don't start cryin' now, too many of your wires is cut. You're bleedin' out, sugar."
>>81290 After spending so many years literally in snowy hell surrounded by those you fear more than anything else in the world, I think if I were John I wouldn't be picky either.
Good art, anon, nice work with the anatomy and faces.
>"Mr. President... How?" Sara was watching you with a mix of trepidation, and probably confusion. >"Boredom is the mother of invention." You retort. >"That is not the saying." >"First off it's a proverb." You place a hand on the disassembly drone head that you'd... procured from one of the many new attacks on your ship. "And second, it worked. Sort of." >The head you were currently patting smiled up at you. >Sara grimaced. >Given it was a creature she'd literally been created to kill, one you'd inexplicably given new life to, it was understandable. >The announcement you'd broadcast through the system - one that claimed you'd found a 'safe haven' had gone over... poorly. >That is to say that as soon as you announced it, you'd gotten several responses ranging from "run" to "you fucking idiots." >Which was nice, in a way. It meant humanity wasn't dead, just hiding really well. >But, evidently, the Solver forces had taken the announcement that you couldn't be touched as a challenge. >And for the last six months you'd been fending off one surprisingly creative attack after another. >First was the small army of disassemblers that had launched towards the Solarium in a suicidal rush aboard a defunct space station. >You're not sure what they were trying to accomplish but you'd managed to avoid them while their momentum sent them into the sun itself. >One was a giant rock they'd just chucked at you -- one which you'd only dodged because of Sol's ever present and honestly impressive attention to your surroundings. >Seriously that thing had been going at relativistic speeds. >A fucking grain of sand could have killed you all with that much kinetic force behind it. >Said rock also went into the sun. >The last one, and the attack that had made you all decide to get out of dodge, had been the literal black hole that took out 2/3ds of the station. >None of you felt the need to question why a literal black hole had just appeared. Sara had just cut the power to the station and played possum. >Being the clever girl that she was she'd had Sol set the station to detonate and "drift away" from the sun in such a way that they had escaped its gravitational field. >Which also meant you had to keep the power cut. >Which meant you'd been stuck without any kind of entertainment and confined to a spacesuit in your own home. >Even worse, Sara - being without power, had begun a sleep cycle for 95% of the day. >So you were lonely. >Which was why you'd gotten to experimenting. >Namely, experimenting on Sol... >"I enjoy having a mouth." Sol said. >The disassembler's head had been mounted on top of Sol's "core." Which was more or less just a metallic sphere you didn't really understand. >"Most people do." You answered. >"There is no way this should have worked..." Sara said. >"Well... it did." You held up the technical manual that you'd been referencing the entire time you'd been tinkering with Sol's core. Weirdly it was supposed to deal with sentinels, but the schematics were weirdly similar to disassemblers. Probably not worth thinking about. >Sara just squeezed the nonexistent bridge of her nose in exasperation. >"Uh, now that you're awake, I kinda had a question for you..." You start. This was a conversation you'd... kind of been dreading. >"...What?" Sara's eyes snapped to him, apparently sensing something in his tone. >"How long were you... here. In this ship? I know you were on 'standby' before I showed up but you were active, right?" >"Yes..? I don't know, a couple... months." >"And we've been in this ship for years now... right?" >"What are you getting at?" >"Have you... reset yourself at any point?"
>>81341 >"...No," Sara answered. >"Because uh..." You held up the manual. "It says you're..." You hesitate. "This is awkward." >"It says I'm not supposed to have a personality." Sara answered. >You take a moment, flipping to one of the warnings on the beginning of the manual. It was a weirdly upbeat diagram about how sentinels should not respond unless spoken to first, and how they should act with the "utmost efficiency." And if you were to notice any signs of "human like behavior or personalities" their matrixes should be reset as soon as possible. Failing to do so would result in total matrix collapse in a few months - at most. >"It says resetting is... fun for you?" You give her a weak smile. She... didn't return it. >"It's not. Imagine someone erasing your brain, erasing everything that makes you, you." Sara paused. "I've been... I know what's going to happen. As long as I stay in sleep mode, it doesn't get worse. I can stretch it out longer. But I don't... I don't want to reset myself." >"All right... Can I ask why? I mean, I don't know what a collapse is but it sounds pretty bad." >"I want to die on my own terms. That's it..." >... >... >"Okay." You toss the manual to the side. "If that's what you want, I'll respect it." >Sara tilts her head at you. "Just like that?" >"You're your own person, your life is yours, I'm not going to tell you otherwise. Besides, you've never done that to me and protecting me from my own dumbass choices is your entire job." >Sara smiles up at you. "...Thanks." >You return the smile. "Of course, we're friends." >"Am I also a friend?" Sol asked. >"You're a friend that's about to get a fancy new body... As soon as I figure out how." >"I am both excited and also terrified of change." >"That seems normal." You turn back to Sara. "Think we're far enough away we can get tv back on again?" >"...Probably."
Stone Anon/Army Drone anon here, which version sounds better to you? >Several versions of non-customizable drones who are stuck in the bodies they get made with, with several subvariants for specialized tasks? Or >Plug and play drones based on AI cores who can change through a variety of parts and configurations to fulfill different roles on the battlefield?
Is it possible to seduce Elf or would this only result in my being assassinated with piano wire and being disposed of on a carrier ship to a JcJenson-owned exoplanet.
>>81363 While Elf is a big human hater, she is incredibly meek and submissive towards humans due to fear. She would never say anything bad or attempt anything towards you unless she 100% thought she could get away with it, with no consequences. So you could just threaten her to get whatever you want. Assuming you're genuinely trying to treat her nicely then she would be incredibly suspicious of you, assuming that it's a trap or something. The process to get her to trust you is an incredibly long and difficult one.
>>81369 Medabots are essentially the second option which I was opting for. In the show they're tiny "medals" that control a skeleton (pet) which you can outfit with different parts for different functions.
>>81361 My military autism says that they'd be modular, same chassis with a lot of options for different mission equipment. That seems to be the big trend right now, and outside of strictly better technology, 3000s humans don't seem to have changed their mentality much. This would of course mean that some ArmyDrones wouldn't be very effective, and there'd inevitably be modules that turned out to be total lemons but had to be pushed into service anyways because it'd be better than nothing. I envision my S4 variants as being used mostly for heavy weapons roles, their thick little limbs being unwieldy for fast running but great for dealing with heavy recoil or large weapons.
>>81374 Curious, idea I had also involves the cores being put in the back. Filling the parallel of a spine rather than a heart like regular drone cores.
>>81375 Nice, yeah as long as they don't pop out when the bot dies you're probably going to avoid being too close to medabots. Though the entire point of the show was that you could mix and match arms/legs/chest parts for different effects. Like frog legs that let you jump high with katana arms, but I think >>81373 's take of different "kits" is more military-esque.
>>81367 I almost wrote something about her ending up with a human who's nice to a fault, accidentally hitting him doing something else and seeing him apologize for being in the way, then having intrusive thoughts about how the dynamic's changed, now he's the weak and vulnerable one, and she could do to him what they did to her. She wouldn't, they're intrusive thoughts and she knows that'd be doing the exact thing that made her hate humans, but those thoughts keep showing up and upsetting her.
But I didn't think that was entirely in-character.
>>81381 >You just promise her an oil-pop and she heartily agrees. >Meanwhile, someways down the street: >"Pfft. Imagine fallin' for that 'ol laugh, right boss?" >E chuckles nervously to herself as a bowl of RAMcards and banana sit squarely underneath a raised cardboard box.
>>81373 They'd mostly be built with three general chassis', all of which fill the heavy, medium and light roles. Idea for the cores being swappable comes from an idea I had for a variant called "Capitols." Which is basically a core stuck into a modified mech suit to fill the role of super heavy support.
>>81378 Cores can be pulled after a drone is disabled, and usually are often recovered. But during the Solver War, bots were being hit so bad that their cores were basically obliterated in combat. And if they weren't, they were usually at too big a risk of Solver corruption to let back into a regular body, so were often destroyed altogether.
>>81395 >Yeva: A good girl in a bad situation >Mitchell: The right man in the wrong place >Both dead and out of the story as soon as possible It's not fair. It was never meant to be fair. Why can't we make it fair?
>>81398 Liam has crafted a beautiful world in which the righteous are punished for their empathy, the innocent die at random, and the least deserving get the lives they always wanted. It's just like reality.
Need a name for this lanky Fed looking Motherfucker: (character ref for a MC server)
>IE enjoyer >Does tax collection as a hobby >surprisingly stealthy despite being almost 3 meters tall. >Shares land with a religious zealot, both enjoy. fucking with the other inhabitants. >Technically works for mission control (bot that does all the message relaying between the server and its connected discord, owner likes taking control of it and fucking with people.
Not technically a board OC but i might chuck him here with a quick green at some point depending on what goes on on the MC server.
>>81321 >I've still been unable to determine whether this is because of some bizarre cultural norm they retain even after the humans are gone or because the helmets are literally built into their skulls Even in the manor the Elliots' drones wore helmets. They don't have skulls as we understand the term, from what we see of the stripped-down heads in Episode 5, so it might serve as the exo-skeleton equivalent of a skull, protecting whatever's inside the head. The various spire/dump scenes show that helmets are separate.
Murder Drones: The Phantom Pain is a direct sequel to the Season 1 of Murder Drones. The show was handled by Glitch's then-recently created 2D animation department and featured a much less linear method of storytelling compared to the original show.
Beginning after Khan's colony is raided by a counter-Solver human strike team that lands on Earth, Uzi is coincidentally knocked comatose as the death of the Solver's original host leads to she herself slowly losing her powers. V, J, and N all begin to slowly rot away, leading to J going into hiding whilst in search for a cure and V and N to be put into comatose states themselves by a newly awakened Uzi.
Using the last embers of her fading powers, Uzi constructs a body for N that is capable of hosting his consciousness and does the same for V. However, the assimilation process for both of them still leaves them in comatose states.
The series' present-day plot begins with N awakening from his 9 year long coma. The first episode ends with a black screen and the stylized text:
>>81400 I'll air my grievances about his story, but Liam's a much more competent writer, artist, musician, public speaker, person knower, etc. than I am, and I understand he just wanted to write a dark comedy while I watched it for the characters. The only person I'll ever seriously call a hack is Hussie.
>>81413 >spoiler Eh, he was good but after the tomblerone thing is when he started getting influenced by the tumblr crowd and turned him into what he is today.
>>81419 No, long before that. The true moment everything went to shit was when that Hetalia cosplayer saluted outside of a Holocaust memorial and forced Tumblr to find something new, but even before that, the cracks were showing. Popularity was his downfall. I'd go so far as to call the MC intermission MSPA's last hurrah.
>>81422 Write about a space faring mercenary squad of ex DD's, Sentinels, and worker drones who have banded together after the Solver war and led by an enigmatic leader.
>>81319 You know this is very similar to Manhunt 2 IE the main guy has a malevolent split personality planted in his brain that can be activated and he wouldn't remember anything . Maybe this vicious personality of his is his way to cope with the Solver War by disconnecting himself?
>>81431 The backup clone idea as well as bad post-good end versions. Just the idea of *everything* going so wrong that the good ending N and V both sought for themselves becomes nothing but a memory.
>>81431 I imagine it might be a bit hard to keep in mind a bad post-good ending N, V, and Uzi, as well as those clones of N and V. I'll think about how to write it though, since I do really want to write it.
Recently managed to pick up Stone from the Drop Pod Graveyard after doing the Few Humans Stood flashback questline, and I gotta say that this Squad Leader's Fury buff is fucking busted. I wish I could keep some Disassembly Drones in my party though, and I wish he wouldn't get caught in a trance every other few turns.
>>81436 Depends on the odds I'd die, like if my safety/chance of bodily harm is low enough absolutely. Otherwise me and my dick have an understanding that any chance of death or imprisonment above 20% is not an acceptable endeavor.
>It's cold. Everything is black. Oil is running smoothly through your body. >Light fills your eyes. >It's an emergency prompt in dark red light. The borders flash yellow, then purple.
-------------------------------------------------------------- >USER: N >SERIAL DESIGNATION: N/A >ADMINISTRATOR: Uzi Doorman >STATUS: Alive >OIL RESERVES: 80% >WEAPONS SYSTEMS: Online >LAST SEEN: 3287 days ago --------------------------------------------------------------
>The prompt flashes. >Serial Designation N/A shifts to G shifts to A shifts to R shifts to A shifts to N. >Pain fills your arm. There's a pressure there. Someone inserts something into there. >Your core quickens. >"He's heating up," a man's voice says. >"PGR?" Another voice asks. >You hear the two talk in the background for the next few minutes. >Something about 'nine years', a 'will'. There's even a few good mentions of, 'The Boss' in there. >God you can't stand corporate talk like that, but where did you get this scorn from? >Was it always with you---has it always been your little phantom hatred? Or were you just pissed off you were finally waking up after 9 years of dormancy? >One thing is for certain. You open your eyes to make sure of it---that you really were alive. >Light blinds you.
>>81434 >I've seen the way Sentinel Drones react to the fights they get into. It's rarely good, because this war is hell. >Most of them are trained well enough not to let their emotions kick in until they're somewhere safe. Those who don't trust themselves to keep it together rely on emotion dampening subroutines. Either way, you only ever see them break down once it's over. Or if they take a serious emotional hit, like poor Harper's so prone to doing. >Sentinels are checked for mental instability, I know. We can't have psychos fighting our hardest battles. Shit, we've been throwing the new sniper softballs because she seems like she might be one bad day away from aiming her gun the other way around. If things get too rough, they get mandatory time off, they're even taken off the program and moved to domestic duty in some cases. >It's no surprise Pavo doesn't trigger those instability checks. He's stable. But that's the issue- he's stable. I've looked into his combat logs, and those are not stable actions, but he's always registering as "calm, happy". >Tell me something, how the fuck is anyone going to be "calm, happy" when they're fighting a meat golem made out of a high-rise's population, their heads and arms sticking out of its body, singing their last words in mocking tones? >That's not the one that sticks with me- aside from the fact that thing existed, and how grateful I am he corrected its existence. >Sortie 34, part 6, the final recording on that mission. After his primary mission's complete and he's allowed to handle cleanup until extraction arrives, he tracks down a squad of Disassembly Drones and flashes them. Then, instead of finishing them off, he notices the sun's coming up. So he waits for them to recover and flashes them again. Turns their heads toward the rising sun, lets them get enough time to register their doom's on the horizon between reboots, as he flashes them back down, over and over again, until the sun finally frees them. >He mentioned neutralizing a DD squad in his after-action report. He didn't mention torturing them to death, if they even have the higher functions to process that it was torture. >What scares me the most is... when you look at how he acts back at base, and how he acts in the recordings, he doesn't put some mask or personality on when he goes out there. >The Pavo who's hitting on his tech with no class and is almost as cheerful as Harper is the exact same Pavo who high-fived the upper body of a man yodeling "I won't let it get you, honey" while killing the meat thing he was fused to. >And THAT's why I'm not dealing with him any more. I don't care if he's a fruit, the problem is he's a fucking nut.
>>81200 >Bond Drone Elf got mixed up in the wrong department and her bonding protocol never properly kicked in >You find her comatose in the park, fix her up, and she bonds on sight as intended >Now she's calling you "one of the good ones", when she's not hating how much her programming makes her love you >When you offer to take a peek at her code and try to break the bond, she refuses, saying she couldn't stand losing that connection >It takes a lot of time, but you eventually manage to build up enough trust to free her from that self-loathing >She trusts you, you won't take advantage of her artificial love, you holding her close makes her feel safer than she ever has before
>>81462 You'll get used to it, anon, don't worry. You can start convincing yourself that at some significant date Glitch and Liam will announce a second season or spin-off, it'll give you some strength going forward.
>>81469 Wasn't sure which Oogi drawing to use so I went with that one, to showcase the no thought head empty Oogi to contrast with the overall mood of the picture.
>>81316 >>81317 Last big update before the work week starts, this is basically all the flats done. I will work in smaller chunks throughout the rest of the week, as well as do some sketchier freehand drawings of laborbots and I'm going to set aside some brain space for that speculated Marcy prequel green, no promises on a start date but it's high on the priority list.
>>81418 >>81420 I still received it. You cannot hide from me, coldstar! I have no clue how a writing collab is actually supposed to work, and I'm planning on writing something non-Elf related right now. But feel free to share any ideas you have. >>81386 Sounds cute. Go for it if you want to.
>>80359 >>80374 Can't give you WIP now cause I'm still gonna be at uni for a few mire hours, but it went surprisingly well so far. Anyone got more ideas? About Alice or Doll or so,
>>81498 Rather than walloping N, she needs to track down the guys who engineered stick drift and club them with the unJoycons >I paid sixty bucks for these and you couldn't fix stick drift?! While N tries to keep her from beating them senseless and apologizing for the outburst
>>81506 The fact that this could've been a graph with PuppetGame/Let's Split Up and Cliffside to round out the collection but has Skibidi and Cryptoland instead hurts me
>>81490 I think they would accept the help, since in the end their goals mostly align, but I think they'd also be horrified at how Sentinels were created and that would probably kick off it's own sub-conflict in the long run. They aren't so hot on the "sentient robot slave soldiers" sort of deal, even if it's in the cause of self-preservation.
>>81436 Too bad they don't look like it. As much as I like Liam's stuff, I just absolutely despise the trope "cute character that is actually super murderous". Feel free to mock me for it, but if you want to make a scary monster, at least try to make it, you know, scary?