There's a mod that lets you swap Tokens from one Patron to another. A must-have.
Seems cheaty to me. Some patrons are way more valuable than others, while some have awful fucking missions. Besides, you can just donate cash. 10k to 1 token is steep, but doable once you get to this point.
Figured daylight would be better, they don't seem to have any trouble at night. And this time we got full plate with a shield, not chainmail.
And while we don't have the fatty to take these things down...
This seems to do an adequate job.
Wait, where are they all? I know it's a small craft, but seriously?
Ugj, rats can't even handle tropical weather. What kind of lame ass rats are these?
Next pair of rats makes it to the ship. Only 2 enemies inside? A wasp and a guardian?
Oh, right, I can probe these now. Man, no wonder I had trouble figuring out what kills these.
Less impressive than I'd expected.
Still, we'll let the rats take point on this one.
Oh, right. That.
Fuck it, we're going in for the haymakers! We can probably beat 45 armour on a good roll with Luka...
Or not. Lets try the force blade.
Damn, right through the shields and nearly killed the cunt. Going to be hard to avoid finishing it off now. They seem to have bizarrely high evasion?
Or we could luck out and land a hit with the tazer end of the origami.
Apparently having the rats pass out counts as the summoner's fault somehow.
Hmm, anything nice?
Bah, that's all too unwieldy to be practical. I was hoping for a grenade launcher type deal. Though vapourizing an entire map full of zombies at once would be satisfying...
Got this off an exoguard. They seem to mostly hold dossiers on aliens and shit. Bah.
Hmm, more hellerium would be nice. Not for selling at this point, but to fuel ships if we run low.
I bet that enables an even better process. Tempting. What, is this fusion power that things keep referencing? That'd be huge...
Wow, Primal Hunt already huh? Shamblers? That'll be a piece of cake. We were fighting them with spears to begin with anyways, with far worse stats.
Alas, no sending a Syn in, but a hyena rider would have been fair game, apparently. Feels like there should have been more monster mounts, honestly. Gimme my spider riders!
They are actually very resistant to mind damage, so the demon essence wouldn't even be that useful.
Oh, but while browsing stone age stuff I remembered these! they'll be great for luka, I can trade 6 morale per turn for 6 energy. Very nice.
Man, this is going to take forever.
About 33 hours for the one way trip apparently. Urgh.
What, I'm not trapped with 20 of them in some tiny arena? This is a cakewalk!
Pipes of doom take them out in 2 shots. Not too shabby. Also, a single shot would make them berserk.
Spearwall isn't working at all though. Every single time a shambler approached nobody stabbed it and it got into fisticuffs. Thankfully our evasion outclassed it easily.
There's a lightsource over here? Weird. Loot for the mission I guess.
For a second I thought I'd melted his corpse apart, but he's just clipping through the hill.
Man, we kicked their asses and took half of them alive. We rock!
Hmm, a moon flower is nice but 3we can buy those now... Frog Concotion? That's new. No idea what it might do.
Alas, we exhausted our most precious resource to win. We may never recover.
Somehow, Luka ranked up during this mission. Good job, uh... delegating?
Oh damn, it's everything I hoped for. Balanced resists, hefty armour (better than platemail!) and it's got some stat penalties, but who cares? Give an ogre a huge weapon and stick him in front to trade shots. This rules. It even LOOKS cool.
Been wanting to do this one for a while, even though it's basically obsolete. I just love these things. They perform way above spec for some reaosn. Maybe the stabbing damage? Whatever it is, they tend to kill things way faster than they should.
Huh. Not what I expected. That's such random gibberish I have to find out what it does. Better melee weapons would be welcome, this sounds vaguely EMP related?
Protip from a guild engineer. Now if only we could fire the fucking minilaunchers we have stockpiled.
Well this is new. Reward for the primal hunt?
Bombing run at our drug plant. They failed though, and after the missiles blew up the bombers vanished. But not the other enemy vessels. Weird.
Man, it's nice to outrange and outspeed something for once. Just sit back an fire one missile at a time to avoid wasting ammo or taking damage.
Oh right, the zombie gal this. We had a few potential candidates, but out of all of them... apparently the Gnome was one?! Seemed only fair to test the process out on her, since the stupid cunt wouldn't give us any techs while we were stuggling for the first 2 years without finding any gnomes. It's actually a pretty nice modification for a gnome; the HP boost is really substantial, and will make a huge difference in a vehicle with a ton of armour. Now we just need a good vehicle. Where are those cyberdisks when you need them...
Anyways, the freak gals arrived. There was another with slightly higher vpwr, but in the end I settled on this one to take up the mantle of Slut. The stamina is off the charts, and health was actually at 110 before the weirdgal tranformation, which seems to have brought it down to the cap. Still decent melee and strength too, and bravery high enough to not need 2 years of training programs to get in the mix. Now I just need a decent spellcaster outfit. Oh, and voodoo training. That'll be a while.
Azira has been succeeded by a gnome, since I really wanted another on the team.Remarkable voodoo power here too. Going to need some training as well before seeing battle though.
That's uh, quite the 'interrogation' technique we have here.
Apparently we destroyed the robe during the interrogation or something. I wonder if it would have been better to kill it in battle. Bet it would have dropped the robe and studying that might have revealed armour tech. Ah well. More where that came from!
Arcane box finally gives us something cool! This is the accessory that restores TUs by dealing damage!
The problem is, who to give it to. Luka is out because the effect is mind base, and Syns only take 25% mind damage. Toxo here could benefit like crazy since she's got ungodly energy supply to keep spamming attacks with... but she'd need to hold it in one hand. Not the end of the world but... I think we stick it in Lenneth's backpack.
Also, I am so thrilled one of our ogres has enough strength to do this. This is gonna be fun.
And what better place to test it out than a Taberna? Good luck piercing 70 armour with fucking pirate guns, ya dickheads!
Luka having a field day too with the cards. Necropirates have shit armour and don't resist cutting. The cards 2 shot them.
Vampire gal over here refuses to move for some reason. More weird LoS shennanigans; targetting the tile behind here gives 70% accuracy instead of the 35% on her. But if I hold Ctrl to target the tile through obstacles... it drops to 35%. Doesn't do that elsewhere. It let me fire on the tile without doing that... but the bullets seemed to just phase through her. Spherical cow in a frictionless vacuum or something, I dunno.
One of the things I wanted to try with the skull was see if splash from a mortar would trigger the TU recovery. No dice though, alas.
Brought the Tarnian arrows (fire damage) as well. One shot a werewolf with them. Pretty nice vs the right targets.
I calculated Modron's turn a little TOO precisely and he got left out here when spotting an enemy ate some extra TUs while turning.
Not really worried but... I'll zap him with the wand of airlessness so he falls down before getting too wounded. I think this is part of why the choking damage thing confused me; the wand just does what it says on the tin. None of this 'special fire damage' nonsense.
I actually wildly underestimated how much stun I'd given him, forgetting that half a bar is just 50, not half his total of 220. We only ended up taking one shot anyways though. I really ought to give him poisoner so he can regen a bit during long battles where he gets injured. Shouldn't be hard with the cobra staff.
Ooh, this is what hit him I think. I finally get to see what the hell it is when we win!
Vampire boyfriend was just as reluctant to move as the gal. Weird. I guess it's so they ambush you when you get close to them. Suckers didn't know we've got spotters!
Quicksilver cutlass huh? Maybe a good way to build traditional ranks on Lenneth, I'm still trying for that fusion training. Seems kinda cheap though, maybe it's not actually that good? Could be a voodoo weapon too, since it has ranged attacks...
Trying to make space for all those filthy rags, I finally found out what the T-D lockers are. It's just storage space. I don't remember activating them at any point, but apparently we've got 300 extra space thanks to these. Scary to think it's not even close to enough or all our loot. I almost need another vault. Well, it'll be easier once I transfer the ships to the other base.
Wait, what the fuck? The they blow up Luka's lascannon when I dropped it near the ship? Motherfuckers!
Not sure why the cards are gone too, never dropped those. I thought they were like the medikits?
We discovered a new title though! Would be kinda crazy to get this with an axe as intended, though I suppose an ogre with that barrager armour, or Luka herself, could do that once or twice before getting exhausted. It's a good title for Luka too, more throwing and energy regen will be nice, and getting 3 kills in a turn with the cards is easy.
Another primal hunt? I'm curious about the frogs, heard of them but never fought them. Heat instead of cold would make catgirls and goblins in camo viable too.
Ugh, it's way over here though? Fuck that. I don't want to keep a crew busy for the better part of a week to get frog parts.
Huh, this seems easier than I expected. I wonder how much damage to their mental abilities is caused and what that entails. Would suck if it drained voodoo power each time... but still a worthy tradeoff no doubt. I can't exactly take a look either; we don't have those two facilities in a single place. Will have to sell off a charged radar at avalon to install a surgery. Kinda makes sense, that's our second best research area anyways.
Finally did this one. It's about what I expected for their lowest tier weaponry. Didn't unlock anything more either. Ripoff.
Huh, so this does qualify as a VIP I guess. Next rank whenever I want it I suppose. Not exactly chomping at the bit for that though. We're starting to get real powerful weapons and armour; I think we can clear out these enemy bases and stop them from starting new ones now. Maybe I'll try for that first. Though it'll probably give so much infamy we get the rank in the process anyways.
Hmm, pointless lore or useful tech?
Ooh, that's interesting indeed. I look forward to us getting annihilated in space by cyberdisks.
Found this while browsing the bootypedia. Will be good to know when we end up going after the rimriders again. Since their bases aren't actually vanishing on their own, I wonder if I should tackle another of those next. I have a good idea of how to handle them I think, way better gear now, and I know they can drop a fatty, which would actually be a huge upgrade to our arsenal even now. And we never did catch an animatron or those green ladies. And I want plasma knives again! Hmmmm...
Man, that's some crazy shield regen rate. No wonder I failed to kill them properly before. Immune to choking too, and 50% daze resist, so no wonder we couldn't punch it out. I wonder what the other weakness of blue shields is. Apparently I've yet to test bio, chem, and fire. Any of those could be useful for catching these guys alive; they actually have proper morale mechanics, and will stay asleep if I drain their freshness. Also, definitely fight them during the day. 30 NV, fuck me. That chrome camo would have to be amazing to make it worthwhile with enemies like this around.
This was hidden in the entries too, never popped up when we interrogated him. Guessing it's an issue of overlapping unlocks or something.
It allows fucking craft upgrades? Jesus. Of course that's locked behind a fucking vibro sword.
Oh, excuse me, fucking School Graduation is locked behind it too. Along with 3 other rad looking techs. Seems we'll be having a lot more brainers in the near future.
