Queen Raidne

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I'm patient. Good luck with the out-of-towning!

Mahz, You are Amazing

Awson said
She's probably pointing out the way the avatar relocates in the split-screen. [...]

Precisely!

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Sub-surface, Perfection Valley, Nevada

Hibernation. Hundreds of years of quiet hibernation, waiting to run out of food, waiting to grow. Always waiting to grow. The latest long cycle was nearing its end; dormancy would quiet, and the rapid-paced life cycle would come with the Great Warmth. Digs Vigorously was old - so old that she could remember six long cycles - but she still hadn't gotten her shakes yet. This new brood would be born feral, and only the strong would survive. Digs Vigorously had seen six broods grow past her, get the shakes, and hatch upper void runners. She herself always joined them in their hunts, feasting on what vibrations she could find near the upper void, always glad that the broodlings were born dumb. They would chase the vibrations past the side void if that's where the vibrations ran. Some time later, the Great Warmth did come again, and the desperate feeding frenzy began again.

They broodlings learned quickly, though, and soon enough Digs Vigorously began to lose her edge. Her skin was numb in places; she couldn't detect everything she once could. She'd managed to feast while the brood was dumb; she was bloated, resting in a comfortable layer of clay, wondering when her shakes would begin. Then vibrations swarmed around her. The clay was jumping, hardly deadining the vibrations at all. And they just got more intense. Digs Vigorously found herself in immense pain from the vibrations. She could just feel one of the broodlings circling crazily, blindly trying to find the source of the great vibrations in order to eat it. So great were the vibrations that Digs Vigorously lost herself for a while. When she came back to the ground, something felt wrong, far above and around her. The upper void had changed somehow. As had the rest of the ground.

Digs Vigorously cautiously sent a subsonic test wave through the earth. The side void had expanded, and the four walls of stone were gone. Something mushy was beyond the side void now; something like void yet still present, somehow. That was good. More room meant more hunting grounds, which meant less competition. Vibrations-rhythmic-scraping-fast-moving south reached her from the south, and somewhere far above.

Food! The broodlings sensed it, too, and one of them - the largest one - was already making its way toward the vibrations. Digs Vigorously didn't survive this long by being curious, so she stayed behind. A few broodlings stayed nearby, too, either being too weak, too lazy, or too stupid to chase after the vibrations.

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A large graboid launched itself after the tug. The displacement flash had paralyzed it for long enough that it was far behind the tug, but as it approached the moon base, it shifted targets to the nearest thing making noise that was touching the ground. It seemed rather unfazed by the foreign terrain (or perhaps it was just too stupid to notice), and kept tunneling straight through it. A small furrow was visible in the lunar dust as the graboid hurtled toward its target - an off-duty soldier enjoying the new-found oxygen near the edge of Eagle's Nest One.

The graboid stopped short of the man and poked its three snake-like tongues from the lunar dirt. they blindly groped around, searching for the source of the vibrations. It found them, grabbed the soldiers leg, and pulled him toward its subterranean mouth. The soldier died screaming, dragged underground, caught by complete surprise.

OOC for A Superpowered War

Oh! Thank you. I've updated my character sheet. She's more neutral than anything else, but her willingness to cooperate with governments puts her on their side (even though the governments generally look down on her, as they tend to either think that she's mad or has incredibly ambiguous powers).

Mahz, You are Amazing

And this is one of the reasons why.

It's like the reason I use Opera: occasionally I'll stumble across a mildly marvelous feature that I would never have thought of.

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I see there being either an aquatic route, or an Orkish route. Of course, I'm not entirely certain what would influence Metroid evolution. Gills might be handy.

Edit: Ooh! Yay! Someone ventured into an interesting hex!

Guess the Videogame from a Quote Game

Time for some GMing Arbitration!

Only post a new quote if you were successful in guessing the previous one. Should the previous poster not respond to guesses, then I'll step in and post a new quote. To make things explicit, the current quote is:

"Blood is the Emperor's currency; spend it well."

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Some variant of Warhammer 40k? I think there's some game about blooded dog space marines or some such thing.

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Oh, okay. Not having actually played Metroid, I wouldn't have known all that. And I didn't mean to make it out to be more than a sensitivity, although looking back I can see the potential for confusion, so I'm glad that's been cleared up. And for some reason I thought that you had a Queen, but you don't, so that's okay. The only thing that matters in the end is how you RP them, anyway.

Generic Thread

Generic birth of a forum game.

Almost certainly the most WTF thing I've ever seen from Japan

This is another one of those threads that I'll just quietly ignore....