Lets Play - Falcon 5: The Dying Sun

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 3:57 pm

As quick as it may be, we don’t know how often it can shot web. It could take a while for its body to produce more spider-glue. That being said I agree that we should blast it since it probably expects us to try to attack what it’s standing on since we literally just tried that, while if we blast it we might catch it off guard enough to knock it off its web and make it fall, and hopefully the combination of the blast wound and the fall will kill it.

Pariah Dog · Post by **Pariah Dog** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 6:37 pm

Murderize the bug.

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 3:47 am

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[Score an X]
A bolt of white-hot plasma crashes into it, shadows flicker and flare as the Engineering Deck is lit by the flash. The Thaccoid shrieks ear-splittingly and shudders but then it brings its bloated body sac around, impossibly contorted, and produces from its end a thin stream of web-like thread, which hurtles towards you. Desperately you try to dive aside. Make an Evasion Roll.

If you score 2-6...6 and 6 (+1), so:

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[Score an X]
You throw yourself back and the thread rushes past you to hit the ceiling of the corridor where it sticks with a slap. You pick yourself up as the Thaccoid crawls out of the hole, its jointed legsmoving with remarkable speed for something of such bulk. you prepare to attack again as its roving eyes orientate on you and it spins around to face you on its eight legs. Will you:
Draw your blaster and fire at it?
Blast a hole in the bulkhead of the ship, opening the B Deck up to space?
Thinkstrike it?
Try to control it using your Power of Will?
Hurl a CSX Gas Grenade, if you have one?
Launch a hunter/seeker at it, if you have eitherthe Reptilian or the Insectoid version?
Run back down the corridor to the storage area and try to hide in ambush?
Do not choose an option you have chosen once before.

Pariah Dog · Post by **Pariah Dog** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 3:50 am

Really against the idea of blowing holes in the ship where the cyrogenicly frozen people are stored. Also while that idea worked in Aliens, the Xenomorph could not shot web.

Gas the bastard.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:37 am

This thing is starting to piss me off.

I'd rather try Thinkstriking it first, if not just to save our gas grenade.

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:13 am

Thinkstrike worked on Baal, and the Thaccoid isn't some sort of extradimensional god (and is presumably sapient given it can have missions).

SGamerz · Post by **SGamerz** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 11:21 am

I vote to run and attempt ambush in the hope that we actually run into something that might be effective against this thing.

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 12:57 pm

Concentrating your mental faculties you hurl a blast of psychic
rower at the raging predatory mind of the Thaccoid. There is a moment's hesitation but it seems unhurt, either its mind is of too alien a nature or it is invulnerable to Thinkstriking. Suddenly the Thaccoid whips up the two longest of its legs and, to your horror, you notice a silvery web stretched between themlike a net. With a swift stabbing motion it whips its legs forward trying to trap you in the net-like web. Make an Evasion Roll as you try to dodge its attack.

If you score 2-6...1 and 4 (+1), so:

You are too slow and the web slaps into you. Instantly you are stuck fast in its gluey embrace. You thresh wildly but it only serves to enmesh you further. The Thaccoid spins the net around, bundling you up in the web, cocooning you. You can dc nothing as it draws you to its mouth and begins to eat you alive.

Yeah, that wasn't the right answer.

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 6:16 pm

I call bullshit. How is this thing more alien than fucking Baal?

I'm also partial to my original suggestion of nerve gas.

Pariah Dog · Post by **Pariah Dog** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 6:36 pm

Bounty Hunter is immune to that and is less alien than Baal.

Also still suggesting gassing him.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:15 pm

Can we have a do-over with the reptilian missile? Or is that just as ineffective as the insectoid one?

Alternately, do-over where we blast the grill, and then blast the creature's web rather than the creature itself.

Pariah Dog · Post by **Pariah Dog** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 9:35 pm

Yeah if we're gonna rewind, may as well rewind back to the first chance to grenade Asshole Spiderman in the face.

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 12:25 am

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You hurl the grenade at the Thaccoid, it clatters to the ground and rolls beneath its bloated body-sac. There is an explosion and a bubbling cry of pain from the Thaccoid as the force of the blast lifts it momentarily off the ground. Clouds of greenish smoke billow up around it, filling the corridor with noxious gas. The Thaccoid is obscured from view and you back up the corridor to await events safe inside your Environment Suit. Vents in the walls of the ship open up and begin sucking the gas away - the ship's automatic life support function - clearing the air. Suddenly, to your horror, the Thaccoid hurtles out of the dissipating gas cloud, completely unaffected and charging at you! Cursing its alien metabolism you jump back and prepare to attack again. Will you:

Draw your blaster and fire at it?
Fire at the grille it is standing on?
Blast a hole in the bulkhead of the ship, opening the B Deck up to space?
Thinkstrike it?
Try to control it using your Power of Will?
Launch a hunter/seeker at it, if you have either the Reptilian or the Insectoid version?
Run back down the corridor to the storage area and try to hide in ambush?
Do not choose an option you have chosen before.

Pariah Dog · Post by **Pariah Dog** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 12:37 am

*Anime style shock at target emerging unscathed from the smoke cloud of giant attack*

Whoever our Q is back at TIME is really starting to let me down.

Really want to space the damn unkillable thing, but I'm pretty sure that will dick us over and not him.

It seems to generates web fast enough that doing the grille/web combo does not look like it would slow it down for long.

If Thinkstrike is out, Power of Will probably is too.

So its either going to be space the damn thing or run. I don't really see a good option here either way. Odds are it can outsprint us.

At this point I might have to go with the worst possible option and try spacing the fucker. If we have the grapplepoon we can try to use that to save ourselves in that scenario plus if it webs onto something, we could blast the web to cut it loose and hurl it into the void until the sequel.

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 7:42 am

Space the bastard.

Do we at least get to restock on toys back at base, he said, as if the nerve gas was ever going to work on anything larger than a squirrel

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:37 am

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You unleash a blast of superheated plasma at the bulkhead behind the Thaccoid. There is a blinding flash and a small hole appears in the wall. Instantly it is torn wide open by the force of the air in the Ark rushing out into the vacuum of space. There is a clicking cry of distress from the Thaccoid as it is lifted up and sucked towards the hole. You find yourself ripped off the ground by the escaping air hurtling after the Thaccoid. You watch horrified as it sweeps into space and then bursts like a ripe melon as the gases inside it rush out into open space. Black ichor and glistening grey viscera balloon outward into space. If you have the harpoon/grapple backpack...

As you hurtle out into space after the Thaccoid, you fire the harpoon at the Ark. Its titanium head embeds itself in the ship's outer casing. Chunks of metal float up and away. All around you is the awesome blackness of space, a vast expanse of stars. The Ark looms beside you, a huge bulky mass of gleaming steel, travelling silently through the emptiness. Slowly you pull yourself along the length of the plasteel hawser back to the grappling hook in the side of the Ark. Soon you are back inside. You have no way of retrieving the harpoon - cross it off your Agent Profile. Several Maintenance Droids have arrived on the scene and they begin to repair the damage. To them it is the work of a meteor, you are not supposed to be there so you do not exist as far as they are concerned and you are ignored. You move towards the steel door and open it.

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The door opens into a small alcove with a hole in the floor. Running up and down through the hole is a simple iron ladder. Presumably down leads to the Engineering Deck, but you know you must go up to the Systems Control Deck. You climb up the Ladder as quietly as possible - certainly the Thaccoid could not nave come here alone, it requires someone with psychic ability to pilot a Time Machine, as well as the knowhow to re-program the Navigation Computers. You come out in another small alcove. A thin circular corridor, padded and lit with flickering instrument panels, travels for about ten feet and then opens out into a bright white area, lined with consoles, screens and instrumentation of all kinds - the Systems Control room. But is the Thaccoid's companion, possibly Yelov himself, still in there, or has he returned to 3034 AD? How much time have you before the Ark leaves the timehole? Will you:
Run forward, dive into the Control room and roll to your feet?
Stay where you are and wait a few minutes to see if anyone is there?

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:49 am

Assume the worst and trust that we'll respond fast enough to thwart a Yelov ambush.

SGamerz · Post by **SGamerz** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 11:30 am

Wait. I think we can afford to be cautious here since we didn't take any sidetracks on the way.

Pariah Dog · Post by **Pariah Dog** » Wed Mar 14, 2018 6:48 pm

Hold up.

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 1:42 am

[Score XX]
All is quiet.

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A voice rings out from the Control room, 'Thak! Where are you, it is almost time for the Symbiont to arrive in the Time Machine!' The voice is unmistakably Yelov's. You tense as you recognise the voice of your ancient enemy, the arch-traitor Yelov, the man who has sworn to kill you. You hear him stepping towards the corridor. 'Crazy spider,' he mutters to himself. He steps into the corridor ahead of you. A laser pistol hangs at his side and the bionic half of his face flashes brightly in the glare of the light. Will you:
Fire your blaster at Yelov?
Try and Thinkstrike him?

Pariah Dog · Post by **Pariah Dog** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 2:57 am

Shoot him. IIRC he has some kind of psionic dampener.

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 7:57 am

Lasers. Since Yelov has indeed previously demonstrated a thingy for protection from psi.

Thaluikhain · Post by **Thaluikhain** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 10:56 am

Yelov looks up and spots you just as you level your blaster at him. His reactions are like lightning and he spins back into the Control Room out of harm's way. You couldn't help noticing the hate and loathing in his eyes, the eyes of a madman. 'Curse you, Falcon, you have come to plague me again, but this time I will be revenged. I have changed the course of the Ark and even if you manage to redirect it, you will be marooned here forever!'With that he opens fire with his laser pistol, criss-crossing the entrance to the Control Room with streaks of ruby light, making it impossible for you to get in. A minute later you can see two large metal legs materialising in the room in front of you. You recognise them as belonging to a Model A3 Time Machine, the rest of it blocked from view by the small corridor. There is a shout of triumph from Yelov, but he keeps up his laser fire, delaying you further. Then he ceases. You charge in only to be greeted by the sight of the Time Machine phasing out again, disappearing into null-space. Add another X to your list.

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You hurry over to the ship's navigation computer, knowing you must set its course back to the original, or risk the possible destruction of the Federation. You run a systems check. Your heart sinks - not only has Yelov changed the ship's course, but he has drastically slowed up the ship's speed, using up some of its precious fuel to do so. You call up the star chart. The original destination of the Ark was the M43 star cluster. Which course will you direct the computer to take:
Course 1?
Course 2?
Course 3?

(There is a picture here. There isn't an explanation of why you don't get CAIN to do this)

Omegonthesane · Post by **Omegonthesane** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 12:33 pm

I'm gonna say Course 3 because presumably it has some kind of slingshot nonsense to exploit the gravity of suns to save fuel and thus be doable.

Pariah Dog · Post by **Pariah Dog** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 6:59 pm

Agree with Omegon