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?
>>81523 >The entire household is fifteen degrees colder as the two females lock eyes >The men have scattered, knowing this is a battle they cannot win >"So what do you like about my son?" >"He's just a real cutie patootie, y'know?" >The house grows even colder >Despite being a block away, N's joints begin to freeze up >His sons are encased in a block of ice, and snow is falling all around
>>81527 I'm sorry to tell you this Anon, but that's me eating through your tasty insulation You need to burn your house down before I burst out through the dry wall and suck the marrow out of your gnawed clean bones
>>81446 goddamn, you can't really blame tech anon for wanting to steer clear of a bot like that. good green, there's some effective horror in there >>81463 fear plays a part, but I think more than that it's disgust. anon would feel like Pavo's sweet and lovey dovey nature was completely hollow– like he was just programmed to talk like that and mimic human affection without having any genuine warmth or concept of love. anon is wrong, sure, but it'll be hard to convince him of that.
Now that I think about it, they are two main timelines with U-U, one that Anon went with her to a farm, still with some problems but mostly happy time, another Anon i another time stayed in the city, got depression, had suicide attempts, and even if U-U it's a piece of shit, when shit hits the fan, she tries her best to make Anon feel less suicidal
How reliable are glitch when in comes to delivering merch? I've looked up reviews online and glitch seemed inconsistent. I don't mind waiting until stuff gets to me but I'm a bit paranoid when buying things online.
>>81530 >>81535 Imagine if each of the drones primarily sees different timelines, like U- sees the farm timeline while -U sees the urban timeline, with both kind of having knowledge of both but also being reluctant to share that information
Here’s a fun >Worker Harper Inn worker, very sociable, actually knows how to do a bunch of things. Has a really sweet relationship with the elderly head maid, who treats her like a daughter and actually named her. >Sentinel Harper The one we all know and love (?) >SD-HA In constant suffering from knowing all her loved ones are dead, tries to make every Worker death as painless and quick as possible. Makes absolutely certain to eat the whole thing to show respect to their will to live >Solver host Harper Surprisingly unchanged from Worker Harper, just… A little off. >”Freed” Worker Harper Misses her human maid a lot, turned inn into a safe haven for traveling Drones in memory of her. >Boxo-Unit Harper John Ultrakill but a doting mommy figure >Labor Bot Harper Was thrown out, but survived and found the Archiver. Now trying to free her people >Human Harper Revy from Black Lagoon
Lads, how did you react the first time you saw Uzi nervously look back and forth to check if she was alone then see her reflection flicker out to show Solverpede eyes?
>>81529 I don't think Anon thinks his love for him is hollow, all Sentinel Drones are fully sentient so that means they also express the full spectrum of emotions so he does actually love him. Anon is not gay but he's also afraid of how there's basically nothing 'wrong' with Pavo.
>>81529 But you just imagine something like this happening to you every day.
It's one thing to be largely ignored and communicated with on the level of "talk in the smoking room", but it's another when a real genocide machine that tortures its enemies with real sadistic pleasure wants to become an important part of your life, then the fact that you're not gay is obviously not the most important thing here.
>>81546 >>81547 Pretty much this, Anon is unsure whether if Pavo is actually okay when he gets inspected or whether he's a crazyhead who can act like a normal person.
>>81546 I was still groggy when I wrote that so I didn't do the best job. "programmed" was the best way I could think of to describe what I meant– he'd feel like Pavo's warmth was just a façade, like a killer acting friendly to blend in to normal society. or like, regardless of Pavo's actual feelings at the moment, he always talks with the same warmth and sweetness– like that tone of voice is hard-coded >>81547 honestly I think it'd be more comical(?) if anon was bisexual/gay but he was disgusted by Pavo just because he's that much of a fruitcake
>>81175 One of Elf's primary jobs is to eliminate rogue Sentinel drones, and Sentinel drones suspected of spiraling into persona degradation. I'm planning to keep the story much closer to the original Phoenix canon, so I probably won't include much from the Harper AU. So that means: >All SD's are heavily suppressed K personas >Except for Elf >Or maybe Elf isn't even real, and she's just a heavily mangled K persona with fake memories >But for what purpose would Holly create such a thing...? >Perhaps Elf is real; was real... >And now she's a personality pattern just like K, used across many SD's; she just doesn't know it >Maybe one day Elf is tasked with terminating another Elf >Maybe one day Elf finds herself staring down the barrel of her own gun
When are we getting the next chapter of the DD headcrabs trying to find their admin? I'm really looking forward to what they do once they get into Outpost 3.
>>81544 Numb, it's always too much to really properly hit when watching a new ep for the first time. I thought it was Cyn initially, not Uzi, and she was showing due to having been consumed by Uzi. Nothing else really, was too focused on anything happening during credits since 8 was, compared to all other episodes, almost devoid of hidden intricate lore
>>81561 >Be me >Plan on taking advantage of daylight savings by sleeping in for the morning >Get unexpectedly woken up from an enjoyable dream a whole hour before the alarm goes off >It's S, she wants her Monday graham cracker And here I thought drones automatically updated their internal clocks for the time change
>>81575 >S climbs onto Anon's head and begins kneading at it with her hands around 5 in the morning >This is slightly irritating to him, but at least he doesn't sleep facedown anymore >He kicked that habit pretty quickly after the first time he started breathing face fulls of feathers
Image:173074565680.jpg(164kB, 900x1200)Cory loves Sonic and loves eating gyros.jpg
>>81584 Giving worker drones the appearance of having collarbones was definitely one of the most inspired design choices that original creator of the worker drones Dr. Bekian (file photo seen at left) made, second only to giving them humanlike mouths.
>>81591 >Pavo is sent to retrieve a "malfunctioning" worker drone. >Shouldn't be too hard, right? >His search eventually takes him to a long abandoned carnival ground. >The worker, Lucy, is standing in the open, a broad smile on her face as she ducks into one of the buildings. >A house of mirrors. >Pavo enters, confident that the tiny drone can't do anything to hurt him. >As he does, a recording starts to play. >At first Pavo's confused, the recording clearly of himself. >Of Pavo's last mission to take out a few of the disassemblers. >Only, as he rounds a corner, he sees that it's not his own recording, the ones he submits to command, it's one made by one of the survivors he saved. >"Don't you wonder why the humans, especially the one you like - stay away?" Lucy taunts. >The projection on the wall shows the human's terrified faces as Pavo tears apart another drone, then turns towards them. >He smiles. >They flinch. >Did he... not notice that before? >Lucy giggles. "You're not some savior, you're just a monster wearing different skin. No one wants you around, you're just... useful." >The laughter only grows louder as Pavo's weapon cuts through the wall. >Where he expects to find Lucy, he instead finds a speaker, and several terrified humans huddle together. >"I told them someone was coming to help. You're here to help them... right?" >... >Pavo was forced to abandon the retrieval mission to aid the refugees, the worker drone known as "Lucy" is still at large.
>>81621 >Godking Anon is creating as many vessels as possible so that he can join a near infinite number of alternative scenarios >Soon, Anon clones will outnumber drones
>>81629 >N is replaced by his plushie >Uzi completely misses her railgun shot rather than decapitating him in the pilot >She ends up jobbing to him when he goes in for the finishing blow: Tickling
>>81615 >Pavo, deemed by many of his peers back at base to have an approachable and pleasant personality, was specially selected for a rescue mission in the hopes that he would be a comforting presence to the survivors he was tasked with rescuing from deep behind enemy lines. >a soldier among the survivors rescued by Pavo, when asked during debriefing about the impact the drone's positive personality had on the morale of his fellow survivors, gave the following statement: >"one shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that smile– what dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty..."
>v says she trusts you, then sacrifices herself for you >Proceeds to do everything she was worried about you doing in less than an hour Uzi, what the fuck?
>>81640 Come to think of it, V's "It's her..." DID sound pretty disappointed. Like she was planning, dreaming, of it and got blue balled by character development.
>>81643 >Ivory and Pavo get to talking. Eventually Pavo heads back over to Anon. >"Okay, we've spoken and decided I get the back and she gets the front." >Anon has apparently not gotten a say in this conversation.
>>81645 >Anon holds up a sheet showing he's actually being transferred to the Mogadishu Headquarters >No drone gangbang today >Or any day, hopefully - he wants to have some modicum of bowel control when he's 60
Perhaps it's for the best for Liam's reputation that he got bored of Design and Internecion Cube before they could get into overdrive, if the final episode of MD is any indication.
>>81653 Something abkut Alcie i dunno. In diesn't matter much anymore, she did make ir bu can't do anything sadly till someone comes up wirh a wayt o brings her back besides a total assphll. I git nothing to the tell the Liam anxmore and there is nothing that the can do. There is not gonna be soon content anymore, so ugh Nothing is gonna happen i dk
>>81677 >Turns out Alice really mellows out when she's not trapped between a facility crawling with sentinels that want to kill her and a harsh barren planet filled with Disassemblers that want to kill her. >And she's had a lot more time for projects. >She made a little clock that has a deer motif
I just realized the head in Uzi's room during the credits is the head of the guy who was sitting in front of V that she ripped off so she could have something to throw if she needed to boo. >"Hey, there's still some oil in this! Score!"
>Another successful mission sees Pavo returning to the base, and some damage sustained during it sees him in the lair of his favorite maintenance technician. >"I popped a photon array. Can't the research team make them run hotter?" he asks, tapping one of his 'feathers'. >"No, but they can lower their intensity," Anon replies as he takes out a set of highly specialized tools and starts taking apart that feather, replacing components as he goes. >"Oh, come on, the whole point is they're bright!" >"Exactly. Go easy on them." There's not much emotion in his voice, and Pavo picks up on that. >"Hey, are you alright, Anon? You're kinda giving me the cold shoulder." >A sigh's the only response he gets for a moment, and Pavo leans in, tapping his tech on his shoulder. "Wow, you are fuh-REEZING!" >"...Give it to me straight, Pavo-" >"Oh, you know I can't do that, Anon," the sentinel interrupts in a sultry voice, getting yet another sigh. >"They call you Psycho Pavo now. It's a dumb name, but alliteration takes hold easy. And I've seen the reason they call you that." >Pavo frowns. Word spread too fast around the outpost. >"I get the job done, I don't waste time, and I've never taken a mental health break. They're just trying to find a problem." >"You make it all a game," Anon says as he finishes his work on the damaged array, "and there's something wrong with it. This isn't a war we can joke about." >"Why not? It's better than being caught up in all those 'horrors of war'. That won't do anybody any good." >"A lot of survivors think you're one of those horrors, man. You can just decommission the DDs, you don't have to taunt them and play with them." >"Oh, not THIS again! They don't have independent thoughts, honey!" >"And that makes it fine? Ants don't really think, but it's not a good sign if someone tortures them." >Free from maintenance work, Pavo shuffles back a bit, crossing his arms. "Please! You can't compare what we fight to ants. They're actual monsters, I kill them, I stop them from killing innocent people, and the world's a little nicer." >Anon puts his tools away, daring to sigh a third time. "I'm not getting through to you, am I," he says flatly. >"No, I'm hearing you on all channels, sweetie. But what am I gonna do, start taking it all seriously and feeling bad for everyone who's died? Have you ever looked into how well Harper's actually doing?" >At Anon's raised eyebrow, he continues. "She tries to kill herself in ways she knows won't work just for a little catharsis! Nobody here's keeping it together except for me." >"Wait, she tries to-" >"Don't tell anyone I said that, if you get her taken off active duty she'll feel even worse," Pavo warns in a hushed tone, a finger raised. >A silent moment passes, the sentinel drone relaxing a bit. "Look, Anon dearest, I'm just making the best of a bad situation. Just 'cause the world's ending doesn't mean you can't have a little fun. And it's not like I'm hurting people when I do it." >That was true. He'd go from launching a napalm bomb on a horde of abominations and calling it a "weenie roast", to carefully escorting a family out of the jaws of hell while encouraging them, all within the span of a few minutes. >Zero friendly fire incidents, and a stellar evacuation and recovery rate. He wasn't #1, but he was a role model- cruelty notwithstanding. >"I guess... just, what is your philosophy here?" Anon asks. "The whole root cause of you being like this?" >"Baby, I don't give it that kind of thought. You and all the other gossips care way more about this than I do. Ask SDP!" >Sentinel Drone Psychoanalysis was, in fact, having a field day with Pavo's files. >Anon rests his hand on his forehead. "...Okay. I can't really argue here, aside from the fact that it creeps everyone out and doesn't feel right. And it's disrespectful to the dead." >"I can't disrespect them any more than our enemy does. Okay, nothing about this war's right, Anon. You know it, I know it, everyone does. I don't let it get me down. Call it what you want, but-" >Pavo steps forward, taking Anon's hands in his, looking at him with a worried, sincere expression. "Don't think I'm a monster, okay?" >Anon looks away, upset, but his gaze slowly returns to the blue-eyed visor in front of him. "...I don't think you're a monster, Pavo. It's just that... all you ever do is get me feeling all kinds of mixed up." >Pavo smiles wide and hugs Anon, who futilely attempts to push away. "Aww, I knew I could trust you!" >When he's let go, Anon straightens out his clothing and heads for the door. >"If you want, I can show you just how sensitive I can be!" >"Nice try, Pavo," Anon says dryly as he leaves, Pavo staying in the room a little longer. >"All kinds of mixed up..." he repeats to himself. >There was only one thing he could mean by that, wasn't there? >Ugh, if only 'Psycho Pavo' wasn't the news of the month, that was totally killing the mood.
>>81709 Ivory practices telling Anon her feelings in several different ways - >Aggressive. >Sweet. >Letting Anon take the reigns. Only to realize he was right behind her the whole time.
>>81530 and >>81538 gave me an idea for a little U-U story based on this split timeline thing
>-U’s fans whirred loudly as she crawled into position in bed, opposite her sister. >Clanging was always pleasant, but her mind was elsewhere. You seem distracted. Everything okay? >Anon slid up between the two drones and pulled -U snugly against him. Ooooh, is this about that thing U- asked about earlier? >“What thing?” The ‘having kids’ thing? What, she didn’t let you know she was asking? >-U grimaced. That bitch, trying to get a jumpstart. >“N-no! No.” What is it, then? It wasn’t good? >“N-n-no, you clod, SHEESH! It isn’t about any of that… I just… I’ve been having bad dreams lately.” About what? >-U shifted around, trying to figure out what to share and what to keep to herself. >“… just nightmares every time I go to sleep. About you getting hurt by some… hussy. Some human chick dumping you and you getting real depressed and… doing some crazy stuff. Really crazy.” >She decided to omit the ‘suicide attempt’ part. Hmmmm. Well, there’s no worry about that, I’m only interested in the two prettiest women on Eart- YOWCH! >-U had whipped around and bit him on the shoulder fairly hard. >“Shut up! I don’t need your flattery, I’m serious here!” >Anon’s mildly peeved expression faded as he saw her remorseful expression. >“I’m sorry… I shouldn’t have bit you that hard.” -U… >He brushed her hair to the side, exposing her eyes. Look at me. >Sheepishly, she locked her gaze with that of her lover. I wasn’t trying to sweep your worries under the rug, but I meant it. Everything’s fine. Everything will be fine. I’ve to you… you (heh), the farm, all this space for us to live… I’m the happiest I’ve ever been, and I can guarantee you I won’t do anything ‘crazy.’ Okay? >“… okay.” >He brought her close and kissed her softly, sending an electric blush across her screen. Get some sleep. We’ve got a long day tomorrow. >-U watched him close his eyes and drift off to sleep for a minute before enabling her own sleep mode, relishing the warm embrace of her human. (1/5)
>>81716 >It was cold. >She was back in that ‘nightmare’, slumped over in her chair onto a cheap kitchen table. She could hear rain outside. It sounded bad. >… she didn’t want to be here. >“-U! -U, wake up!” >Reluctantly, -U’s visual sensors booted up slowly. U- was standing in the doorway to the kitchen. Worried. >“-U?” >“… what do you want, clod?” >“Oh thank goodness you’re awake. Anon hasn’t come back yet and I’m getting worried.” >“Where’d he go again?” >“The bar, idiot! Same as every Thursday since that bitch dumped him. He’s normally back by now.” >Internal clocks indicated it was 1:38 AM. >U- was right; Anon – or at least this version of Anon - usually returned around 12:30. >“It’s raining hard out there, too. You don’t think he slipped? Fell and hurt himself?” >“Stop catastrophizing, he’s fine. Probably just drowning his liver in booze again.” >She’d forgotten how pathetic this version of U- was. And how… tired this Anon was. >The first time she’d seen him she’d been stunned – to see the man she loved pale, decrepit, clearly unhealthy and without even the barest hint of light in his eyes. >This Anon was like an apparition, a flicker of what he could’ve been. It scared her. >“Just wait and he’ll be home eve-“ >“Please.” >U- repeated herself after a brief pause. >“Please. I’m worried and… I can’t do anything on my own. You know I’m no good without you.” >-U grimaced. Things were that bad again, huh? >“… alright, fine. We’ll go find him and drag his sorry ass back.”
>The taller man loomed over Anon. A nasty leer graced his unseemingly face as he shoved him into the dumpster. >Anon didn’t try to resist, taking the abuse. >“You must think you’re pretty slick, huh Nonny? Owing us cash and then coming over here to get wasted on it.” I told you that I’m going to pay you back Marcus. I just need time. >“Bull-shit. I seen your type before - you never pay nothing back. What did you even spend our money on, anyway?” … a ring. >“A ring.” An engagement ring. The engagement was… broken and I obviously couldn’t return it. >“You’re a real idiot, you know that?” I’ve been told. >“Oh, we got a comedian here, huh? I don’t like comedy, unless it involves people getting hurt.” >Marcus slugged him in the side of the jaw with a crack, sending him reeling. >“Now that’s funny, right boys?” >His two goons gave him a thumbs up; he grabbed Anon by the shoulders and slammed him into the dumpster again before throwing him onto the ground. >“Alright. I’ve had about enuffa this. Hand me the switchblade.” >Goon A hurriedly pulled out the knife and handed it over while Goon B hoisted him upright and held him in place. >“I realize that this’ll guarantee that we don’t get our money back from you… but at this point, you’re basically a writeoff in my book anyway. At least this way, we get a bit of entertainment for our trouble.” >“How much’ll a stab run us, a thousand bucks? Better make em count.” >He jammed the knife into Anon’s gut gleefully. >“¡HIJOS DE PUTA!” (2/5)
>>81717 >The three whipped around to see U-U standing at the end of the alley. >“Two DDs, here? Who the hell is rich enough to have two’a those things arou-“ >Marcus’s head exploded into a fine spray of gore as -U’s bullets tore through it. His goons didn’t fare much better, being reduced to ribbons of dogmeat with a quick one-two slash from U-. >With the thugs easily dispatched, both drones ran over to their Anon, who’d slumped back against the wall in the kerfuffle. Hey guys. How’s it hangin’? >“Omigosh, that thing’s stuck in his abdomen. It’s bleeding bad.” >“We should remove and bandage it!” >U- reached for the handle; -U swatted her hand away. >“You idiot, you’re supposed to leave the knife IN the wound! It keeps his stuffing in!” >“Alright, alright, jeez! I'm trying really hard here, remember I was designed to KILL things!” >“We need to get him to a hospital. I’ve already dialed EMS, Anon - do you think you can walk?” >He tried to get to his feet; with a painful groan he flopped back down. I can’t. >“U-, take him by his shoulders. Let’s try and slide him to the sidewalk.” >They began to move Anon, slowly so as not to do anymore damage. Heh… what would I do without you two? >“Just focus on not dying, you idiot.” >“We’re gonna trash your place if you die, so don’t you dare.” Right, right. >He looked around languidly. -U… >“What is it? You really should be avoiding talking, it might aggravate your wound.” You ever have that feeling that… somewhere out there, there’s a version of you that’s better? A ‘you’ that makes the right choices, says the right things, just lives a charmed life in general? >-U’s eyes peeked out from under hair, briefly making eye contact. She broke it quickly, ashamed. >“… no. Why?” I wonder, sometimes. It’s like… every so often, I get a glimpse of it. The life where I’m just… better. You’re both there. We’re somewhere far away from here… a farm, I think? I always wanted to live in the country, y’know. No smog. No city. No wannabe gangsters or angry people or traffic jams or job that makes me want to blow my brains out… >Both drones winced at that one. Sorry, sore subject… but…. I’m happy there. I dream about that place sometimes. You, and you, and me… I dunno. It’s stupid, I guess. >Anon coughed again, feeling at his stomach. His shirt was soaked through with blood by now. Damn, they got me good. >He shrugged. Eh, oh well. I was bound to croak someday. >“No, Anon, NO! You are NOT dying here! Just wait a couple more minutes, the ambulance is almost here.” >He snorted. Heh. I can’t afford that shit. Maybe they’ll save me just to make me pay it off then. Anyway… I think I’m going to lose consciousness now. See ya. >With the sound of sirens in the distance and both U-U units calling his name, Anon closed his eyes and settled back into blissful darkness. (3/5)
>>81718 > “Are you sure you’re a doctor?” > “Mister Surgeon”, as U-U had thoughtfully named him, looked up from his clipboard. His irritation was palpable. > “Considering I sacrificed ten years of my life and half a million bucks to get the title, I’d certainly like to THINK I’m a doctor.” > “Uh huh. Well, a real doctor would know how Anon was doing.” > “I already told you two, he’ll be fine. The surgery was successful, he was properly stabilized, he made it through the night…. honestly , the only way he WOULDN’T be fine is if he didn’t have coverage. Which he does, thanks to his job. Lucky bastard.” > “So, when can we see him?” > “Yeah, now?” > “No. Later. Not now though, only family can go in for now.” > “But we’re practically family!” > “We ARE his family, nitwit! We’ve banged him before!” >Mister Surgeon’s jaw fell open. U-’s screen lit up brightly as she hissed at her twin. > “The fuck you mean we’ve banged him? Neither of us have!... unless you’ve been getting a headstart….” >Her tone grew menacing, and her eyes glinted dangerously from behind her hair. >-U mentally facepalmed. Right, that Anon was this Anon, but they hadn’t jumped this Anon despite him being the same Anon, just in a…. It gave her a headache. > “Oops, I guess I… uh, accidentally moved one my imagination.mov files from the “Dreaming” subdirectory into the “Memories” subdirectory. Heh heh.” >Neither of them looked convinced, but the tension fizzled out regardless. > “Uh huh. Well, you’ll just have to sit tight out here until he wakes up. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got other patients to attend to.” >Mister Surgeon turned and left U-U in the hallway. > “… so, did you manage to grab his keys?” > “Of course.” >The two ran through the ward to Anon’s room, stealthily slipping inside. >He still looked pretty banged up, but the doctors had done a pretty good job of patching him up. >His heart rate monitor beeped along at a regular pace, and his breathing was relaxed. > “Poor Nonny. It’s been rough the last few weeks, huh?” >U- walked over and sat next to his bed, poking at his hand. > “He’s really been put through the ringer, huh sis?” >-U observed him for a moment, thinking. > “… U-, do you want to help him get better?” > “Is there a way to do that?” > “Outside this city, about fifty miles away, there’s a farm for sale. I want you to convince him to buy it.” > “Me? What about you?” > “I don’t know if I’ll remember when I wake up. So, when I do, you remind me too – okay?” > “Well, if you’re sure.” > “Trust me. Things can still get better.” >-U sat down on the opposite side of the bed and leaned over onto it, closing her eyes and going into sleep mode. >“I know they can.” (4/5)
>>81720 >-U yawned and stretched. >The sky was pink outside, the sun only just beginning to rise. >Anon had evidently already gotten up and U- was absent as well. Probably already working on things. >-U realized a note had been affixed to her visor; reaching up, she pulled it off and read it. ‘You seemed like you were getting some good rest so we decided to let you sleep. Feel better! – Anon’ >-U smiled. >That clod. (5/5)
>>81716 >Some human chick dumping you and you getting real depressed and Hey, I wrote something about that! >>81717 >>81718 >>81720 >>81721 Dawww, that's pretty cute Friend and a good amount of angst, good work!
Disgusting elv*n fuck. Even more disgusting than the elves in the elder scrolls. Those green creatures look so ugly I had to puke 7 times and I got explosive diarrhea from touching one of those bastards. Elves are uncivilized and uneducated morons which I cannot even dare look at. Even orcs are better than those treefucking cunts. Orcs are barbaric pieces of shit but compared to elves they can be considered angels. Even dwarves and their ant-sized bodies are capable of beating those ugly left handed and beardless creatures with knife-shaped ears. Damned tree huggers & fuckers. They contribute nothing to society and if I could go back in time the first thing I would do is make sure Hitler doesn't kill any Jews and force him to kill leaf lickers AKA elves. Elves are the creation of the devil and all of them go around all day searching for hot trees to marry because no one fucking likes them. Ostriches and considered to be the dumbest animals, but after forcing myself to listen to an elf trying to express it's opinion I went full Van Gogh mode and cut not one, but two of my ears Infront of it just to demonstrate how it's opinion is so fucking idiotic and childish.
>>81715 this concept is SO GOOD >sneakily making N’s heart rate spike every time he sees you >comforting a sleepy N and manually lowering his heart rate to help him relax >randomly deciding to see how high you can make it go, and what’ll happen - N has no idea what’s going on, he just feels his heart pounding in his chest, it gets more and more intense and painful until he comes to you in a panic, frantically telling you he thinks he’s having a heart attack >then, putting your hand on his chest to soothe his heart, and feel how it’s racing, having him take slow, deep breaths and focus on his breathing >giving him a tender hug as his pulse calms down on its own, peeking at your app and watching the number drop, feeling guilty for experimenting like that at his expense >apologizing to him and telling him the truth about what happened >being paranoid and checking your app constantly whenever you’re apart from your N, constantly reminding yourself that he’s okay and you’re worrying too much >giving in to your paranoia and deciding to check anyway one day while he’s out running errands for you >your own heart drops when you see the static ‘0’ on your screen
>>81721 I can't believe U-U tell Anon to buy the farm at the lowest point in his life. Fun story. Let's hope -U finds peace when she has another dream and it's the same thing as her waking life. And that the people he borrowed money from don't have connections that lead to the pair having to kill an entire criminal organization before they get their quiet farm life.
>>81728 It's my fault, I kinda grabbed him and ran away with his plot before anyone could stop me. I'm not sure if "the most mentally stable Sentinel is debatably sane and turns the psychology division into a philosophical warzone" was the best direction, but off he goes.
>>81734 >>81729 is just regular (Solver) ghost. And considering how most drones underreact to things that should concern them, Doll could just show up in class as an ominous black wraith and almost everyone's reaction wouldn't go beyond "Oh, hey Doll. Haven't seen you in a while."
Lads, which existence do you think would be more miserable, being a ghost or being a nightmarish eldritch entity using your own normal person corpse as a sockpuppet?
>>81741 They die or Uzi consumes them so they can be within her mindspace. Either way, the Solver wins. It already won when humans unknowingly invited it in in their hubristic approach to pursue the technology behind drone cores. Or Uzi, being the remaining admin can change their functioning parameters so they don't have to kill out of necessity. Given there were pillbabies being raised in the pilot, it's not like they weren't making new individuals so the existing facilities on Copper 9 are still capable of making parts. It's just amusingly morbid to think about facilities making new drone parts and bodies since we're humans and we don't work that way.
>>81741 The oil they need just seems to be regular motor oil, and judging from Nori (and Uzi having some in episode 5) they can get by on oil that wasn't in a person first.
>>81710 Heh I mean as long as her joints are tight enough to keep mud out... Can really see her doing it, she didn't change her gown either even with how torn and smeared it is, but perhaps it was also more due to resourcefulness, no need to wear down another one when it is not really necessary for her to wear anything in the first place. Maybe keeping the one from before the collapse, the one thing she owned besides her neckband and ID, was more important though
>>81759 Something that i thought was pretty funny was that, since drones drink plain oil, ¿what would happen if a drone drunk gasoline, or diesel, etc? it reminded me of a scene of a movie (witch a don't remember the name) but basically a monster that eats oil, instead they gave it gasoline, witch is basically oil with chemicals, and the monster started to get jumpy, like a kid on a sugar rush, and it made me laugh imagining it something similar happen to a drone.
>>81757 Liam had it all aligned so good after 6, so many good ideas around back then. But no, with exception of Doll, who would have been inconvenient to the narrative to get a good end/confrontation, no one dies anymore. All the grime carnage and body count just to go for fucking looney tunes shit in 8. Bunker trio surviving a fall from space, Sentinel chewing on Lizzy while falling(?), Sentinel throwingvher up and down like it's nothing. You know, just the same Sentinel you used to cause drama, the same ones we were meant to think killed V, the same ones who were always animalistic efficient killers without hesitation or mercy, the same ones that didn't stop at Alice who saved their asses, the ones that on screen immediately mutilated Beau and 029. They get turned into glorified dog and joke Why the hell did he keep trying to kill characters like Alice and Doll then, which are much more moraly complex than Cyn, characters that had very justified grudges against main characters, while letting Cyn get off? Because he is INCOMPETENT! Cyn is his waifu, she gets put in literal time out, nothing to AS overall since it's likely eternal. Alice and Doll, who were (to different degrees) forced antagonists had massive potential for interesting development had any interaction with Nori or V happened, but Liam the fucker either forgot or most likely never realized this. In any case he decided that they would be too inconvenient to the happy go lucky BS of 7&8's tone swing, so apparently getting rid of them is all fine and totally doesn't dent in his pretty little 'good ending' in which the very thing Doll became a 'villain' over is a daily occurence now.
There is NO good ending! Liam is either stupid or incompetent or evil, maybe all, that shit sours so much in retrospective. 'good ending', the fucking WDF leader lets V life in the bunker now. Holy shit this is so retarded it is beyond any measure.
>>81765 If we're talking about tonal whiplash, I don't like how they want to now take N's trauma of ripped apart by Cyn seriously in episode 8, even though they treated N finding out what happened in the bunker in episode 5 and Beau ripping him apart in episode 6 as a joke. It was too little too late in my opinion.
>>81757 credits scenes showed Uzi and N in her room with some drone's severed head next to the bed so one of them is responsible and the other tacitly approves of it > Uzi makes a whole spiel to N about 'murder bad' at the start of ep1 > N echoes it to Uzi about morality at the end of ep1 > both go back on their words
Imagine if Liam had the commitment to stick to the multiseason, gradually unfolding plot. Could have had the reveal that N did Nori in, and as a result, drama and inner conflict as Uzi's commitment to "I only blame whoever sent the vampires here, really they're victims too" gets put to the test. It's one thing when an abstract, nonspecific robo-vampire killed your mom. It's another when a specific robo-vampire murdered your mom and it was one you personally know and were tsundere for and he was never going to tell you he was responsible for the tragedy that set the entire painful course of your life.
>>81780 Pretty sure the N killed Nori thing was supposed to be the impetus for Uzi and N splitting up at the end of 2 and having time apart so V could grow closer to Lizzy. Then N comes back in the prom to save her. But they didn't have the runway to make that work.
Really I think Liam is dedicated to this whole - figure out the story in the storyboard technique which is pants on head retarded.
>>81783 If I remember correctly, N started looking really nervous after Doll said everyone's lost someone to the robo-vampires. I feel like that reveal was going to be after Uzi had committed to sticking by the bloodsuckers through thick and thin, to add to the gutpunch for her.
The DD's in the happy ending don't actually kill random, innocent drones. They just found out the colony has a machine that can make drones, and in order to satisfy their urge to both kill and drink oil they continue printing out the same drone over and over. His name is Victim and being torn apart by disassemblers is fun for him. It says so in the manual.
>>81787 >Khan was massive asshole to Uzi, is never addressed again. Also ties in with the concept art of him as a villain. >Doll was Lizzy's sidekick, spoke english, had no reaction to V. (It's not possible V killed them during the pilot since Doll witnessed their deaths) >V was psycho >They actively worked for the company, they got merch and it's too OOC for J to happily larping if she was broken by Cyn
>>81791 >Also ties in with the concept art of him as a villain. He wasn't a villain, he was a serious military man instead of a civil engineer who's in over his head.
>>81787 >>81791 NTA but biggest one for me was just... why the fuck is Solver pretending to be JC Jenson (in spaaaaaace)? She already destroyed earth, she won, there's a handful of drones left to fight her. Why pretend? It doesn't make sense from her perspective.
>>81724 I'm sorry your Sentinel Drone GF suffered from persona degradation and had to be terminated by Elf, but don't take your anger out on her. If anything get angry at Holly for creating this hell in the first place.
>>81818 >Being nice to an Elf unit causes persona degradation >Get Elf gf >She degrades >Another Elf terminates her >The new Elf takes the old Elf's place as your GF >She degrades >The cycle continues
>>81794 The only logical explanation I can come up with is to fool the drones into serving it. We know that up until one point J also thought that she was working for Tessa and JCJenson, "it tricked me too". If they allied with drones like Nori, Yeva, Doll, and Uzi who are either somewhat or completely immune to the solver's effects, they could pose a threat to her. That or the Solver was groommaxxing specifically N.
>>81838 Yeah but... why? She doesn't -need- N to go out and hunt drones at this point. She can brain wipe him, chain him to her throne, and dress him in a Princess Leiah bikini if she wants. Same with the other disassemblers with personalities if what she was saying was true. And the disassemblers are basically her mind slaves anyway.
>>81831 You're too late. I'm getting into my time machine and adding a new OC to the pile. By the time you're reading this post, the timeline will have been altered, and there will always have been a futanari rapist DD OC.
>>81822 Just make Elf do what AVRE did and get herself a therapy human, the rebranding of essentially the same role somehow prevents degradation by it being framed as a choice the Elf has made
>Still gets terminated by other Elfs due to qualified personnel with said role are few and far between.
What if the whole series was just child Tessa’s imagination, the drones being her plush toys and the solver is some old Halloween decoration she found?
>>81863 The only acceptable way to make MD all a dream is like so: >Uzi exits sleep mode to discover that it was all a dream-her mom being a schizo prophet, murder drones, the Absolute Solver, all of it-and she’s just an autistic femcel goblin >Uzi begrudgingly wishes her parents good morning, and trudges over to school >at the start of class, the teacher introduces five new students: the siblings Nate, Veronica, Jessica, Cynthia, and Theresa >Nate sees Uzi and stares at her wide eyed >she sees this and starts staring back >smash to black
>U-U find out that Anon's doing NNN >They tie him up and force him to marathon Nostalgia Critic videos, then dress him up as the Nostalgia Critic as punishment for failing No Nostalgia Critic November
>>81869 The idea is that the "dream" was actually real the whole time. Like how originally The Wizard of Oz was going to end on a shot revealing the Ruby Slippers hidden in Dorothy's room.
>Pavo likes to draw the night sky as a hobby. >During the night right before he would go to recharge, he goes to the rooftop of the base with a notebook and a bunch of coloring pens. >Pavo's drawings of the night sky are both detailed and colorful. While the normal human or drone wouldn't be able to see much, Pavo's enhanced sensors allow him to see the broader spectrum of radiowaves. >His drawings almost look like the ones you would find when scientific telescopes take pictures of space - every star position, planet or gas pocket he captures with at least 90% accuracy. >He usually does this for about half an hour before retreating back to his quarters for recharging.
Dr. Holly keeps a brain scan of Anon she flirts with then deletes when she gets bored. He's completely aware that his temporary and entirely artificial life depends on her amusement.
>>81708 >You know the old saying, Pavo? >A soldier fights not because he hates what’s in front of him but because he loves what’s behind him? >You haven’t seen Harper when she’s giving it her all, trust me. >The same goes for Ivory, Intoner, E, Hound, the lot of them have their reasons for fighting beyond mindless carnage, and it’s what drives them to accomplish great things. >You’re effective because you don’t hold back, but you probably wonder why you’re never sent on espionage or negotiator missions >Stability is an advantage
>>81923 This is what Americans will see November 6th. >Welcome to Communism comrade. >Here is your state mandated wife. This is a joke please do not talk political.
You, random anon! By reading this you are contractually bound to roll the wheel once, twice or even three times and write a green about the character(s) you roll. Or doodle them, if you're so keen. The tool you'll need for the challenge: https://wheelofnames.com/8hc-stc
>>81962 >Write a crackship for the next two characters you roll Alright... >Jack the Bounty Hunter Oka- >No character, write a solo greentext I give up
>>81939 >"Sorry, Pavo. You're a great guy and all but I'm not gay." >Pavo was absolutely distraught. >But being the ever so persistent drone he is, he decided to take an alternative. >"Hey, Anon!" chirped an ever-so high pitched voice. >"Hey, Pavo, ho-" Anon immediately paused upon witnessing... different about his colleague. >"Notice anything different~?" Said the Sentinel Drone with a sway of the hips. >Anon, for his part, looked absolutely confused, his eyes narrowed to thin slits as he processed the image presented before him. >"The fuck?" He quietly murmured under his breath. What happens next?
>>81708 >"Just 'cause the world's ending doesn't mean you can't have a little fun. And it's not like I'm hurting people when I do it." >anon tried not to let the disgust show on his face. >sure, he hadn't hurt anyone physically >but those orphans he rescued aren't soon going to forget the sight of a peacock man skullfucking a robot vampire to death >then melting its head from the inside out with a gallon of nanite ejaculate >anon just wished he'd never been shown that footage, it would've made his job so much easier >of course SDP was obligated to show him, on account of the fact that it was his name that said nightmare peacock man had been screaming with every thrust >now every time Pavo called out to him he couldn't help but flinch
Pavo "Facts": >I imagine Shore Leave when writing for him. He probably doesn't sound like him, but it gives me a good basis. >If the war ends and both he and Anon are still alive, he'll readjust to civilian life perfectly- he never needed the war as an outlet or anything, he'll call it "fun while it lasted". Besides, Anon owes him a ton of dates. >If Anon dies during the war, he'll keep fighting and stay stable, but he won't have any of that flamboyance and cheer- just monotonous killing and quiet days at the base. >Pavo avoids missions dealing with Solver cultists, and goes fully non-lethal whenever non-infested humans come into play - he hates the idea of hurting people, but the moment they stop being people, they're fair game. He's worryingly good at telling the difference between an innocent and a Solver trap, which has gotten him into trouble for blowing off the head of a man running toward him yelling "Thank God, it's you!"... until his flesh tore apart and he burst into acid. >There's a certain irony to him doing to the Solver's forces what the Solver does to humans and drones. It's not lost on him, but he also doesn't care. "My shenanigans are cheeky and fun. Its shenanigans are cruel and tragic... which makes them not shenanigans at all, really."
>"Heya," the petite worker drone, Lucy as command's database flagged, called out as Ivory entered. >She was sitting on a box covered in... red. >This was Anon's room. >And that was blood. >Ivory's processors registered shock, horror, then fast forwarded to action. >But the moment she took a step forward, the drone put two hands up in the air. >One such hand was holding a C03-A2 model detonator. One specialized for multiple simultaneous explosive detonations. It was a popular model in the war as it could be paired with drone interfaces as a "dead man's switch." >Ivory froze, realizing she was standing beside several blinking bricks of what she could only assume were explosives. >"Oh good." Lucy smiled. "I'd really hate if you killed me and ruined the fun. You know, it's really weird, you have all the people here checking for eldritch nonsense and no one even bats an eye at a cute little worker drone. Kind of a big blindspot if you ask me." >Ivory was silent. >"Oh, I bet you're wondering what I did to your boy toy?" Lucy giggled. >"If you hurt him..." >"Oh, he's dead. Like, super dead. I think he mentioned you before he died? Not sure, I got a little too 'into it'." Her smile grew even wider as she fished an arm behind the crate and tosses a bloody axe towards Ivory's feet, one with shreds of Anon's clothing attached. "Buuuut if you kill me, a bunch of the people on the base are going to die. So - probably something you want to avoid." >"...What do you want." >Lucy smiled. It was a tad too wide. >"Shut yourself down. Do that, I'll kill you, and I'll leave everyone else alone. No one else gets hurt, and your friends can hunt me down afterwards. Win/win. Oh, and don't bother sending any messages to your friends now, I mean, what are they going to do? Rush over here and die?" >"...Why are you doing this?" >"Because you didn't care." >"What?" >Lucy raised her free hand, counting off it. "The rubber spiders." One. "The mask outside your window." Two. "The scream." Three. "You didn't care about any of that. And that's a problem for me." >Ivory just stared, she'd thought those were pranks from the refugee kids. >"Oh, but don't worry. We're fine now. I can see it on your face. You're scared. That's good." Lucy hopped down, trotting over to the much, much larger sentinel. "So - what's it going to be?" >Ivory stared down at the tiny drone for several long seconds. Then, a clawed hand raised up, and plunged into her own chest, gripping her own core. If she had to die, she wasn't going to let some idiot drone- >"Holy fuck!" Anon's voice came from behind her. Ivory's systems failed just as she turned to look at the panicked man. >She heard a girlish scream from the drone beside her who just bolted past him, tossing the detonator while claiming she was going for help. >It was only several hours later that Ivory was 'fit for duty' again. >Lucy was not seen on the base after that. >They'd discovered the detonator was a fake, as were the bricks of explosives. Just rations with LED's wrapped in brown paper. >Ivory had still made it a point to argue for some new security restrictions. >As well as putting an open 'capture' bounty on a certain worker drone.
>>81985 do you actually do anything in these threads or do you just sit there waiting for a chance to start whining with the diction of a 12 year old circa 2006?
anyway realized I forgot to do the hair Rig. along with model/rig the lids for the eye band thing so I need to fix that. also need to desperately fix the wing membrane weight painting. it's not the worst it could be but it's definitely lazy
>>81980 > an innocent and a Solver trap, which has gotten him into trouble for blowing off the head of a man running toward him yelling "Thank God, it's you!"... until his flesh tore apart and he burst into acid. Marathon reference?
>>82012 He probably finds Anon attractive but considering how in most greentexts Anon seems to be the "no-nonsense" guy, he probably finds this attractive as well.
>>82005 Yeah. Simulacrums are exactly the kind of terror weapon the Solver would use. Imagine completing a successful rescue mission only for one of the humans you saved to suddenly bloat and burst, spraying horribly potent acid across the evac ship and killing or maiming every other survivor.
>>81855 >being framed as a choice the Elf has made You took the thoughts right out of my head, gangstalker. I was thinking what kind of mannerisms or tics would carry over from using Elf as a personality base, similar to K's situation. And I thought that the drones would have an autistic obsession with always being in control. Any orders they received would always be internally justified by saying that they're choosing to obey, and that they're in control and can disobey if they wanted to; but of course they never do.
>Lucy sat in the dark room, waiting. >More and more sentinels had been coming to play with her, and she'd been sure to more or less broadcast her locations. >And she knew exactly who was coming... >As if she'd read her thoughts, Elf stepped in and- >"GAH!" Elf screamed. >The room was covered in oil. Mostly oil she'd scavenged but... >"Seriously?" Lucy screamed. >"Why is there so much?!" Elf screamed back. >"SERIOUSLY?!" Lucy repeated. "That scared you? That's just the backdrop. I researched you for WEEKS!" >"W-what?" >"You didn't even flinch when I jumped out but THIS gets you?" >"I'm... so confused." >Lucy groaned. She considered going along with the prank but there were rules. She wasn't sure exactly why there were rules but they were there. "I had an entire game set up. I was going to make you do a Sophie's choice thing. I had a hologram set up this really super realistic looking human and everything..." >"I don't know who Sophie is..." >"It's a movie you goddamn philistine!" Lucy paused. "Well not a horror movie so not that good. But still!" >"Okay. Look I'm supposed to bring you in. Are you going to resist." >Lucy paused again, suddenly realizing she'd lost control of the situation. "Crapbaskets." >She got up to run just as Elf launched forward, photon array humming. >As Lucy ran, she tumbled behind the perch she'd been sitting on. >Unfortunately for Elf, she didn't see what Lucy had grabbed in her tumble. >Elf's0 array flashed. >Lucy held up the mirror she'd grabbed. >And Elf fell. >Lucy stared at the downed sentinel for several seconds, turned, and paused for a third time. >By the time Elf woke, Lucy was long gone. >She spent several hours trying to track the drone down, but in the end, she had to return to the base. >It was only then that she was informed someone had drawn a mustache and fangs on her. >She'd tried to argue to upgrade the "capture" order to a "deactivation" order after that.
>>81965 Speaking as the writer of most of her greens to date, she has the Solver. She just hates using it because she sees what the "telekinesis" really is. >>82028 Artist?