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Invasion into the Qularr - a cute bedtime Fairy-Tale
dakrushmor
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We: - Hey, mah lil' sis! Btw.: recently We upgraded Our Demogenic HyperScanner, that We invented in order to scan another's costumes. We extended its range to astronomical values. And then, pointing it to the Venus, We discovered a concealed alien base. According to its architecture specifics - this is the Qularr base. Hey, robogeisha, give Us violaceous "Amyjia"!
A robogeisha threw a can of energy drink for teen girls "Amyjia" (refer - @Amyjia ) with violaceous flavor, We caught it.
We: - This base has pretty decent size, We could say it's full-scale colony, with its mining/production/military infrastructure. Most likely, there's even Qularr Queen inside. And speaking off - Qularr is a civilization, that is based on bio-technology, and they have DNA library on each colony, where DNA of all lifeforms of the Galaxy, or its part at least are stored. These libraries are used for construction of their biomachines. It's very possible, that base on Venus has it too, and there could be Rainicorn's DNA. If We manage to capture it - We could grew Our own Rainicorn in Our Syndicate lab, and using its abilities We could start to tint Our powers!
Alinea: - It sounds very tempting, Your Imperial Majesty Empress Elaina Inversonia von Heidi de Nibeashe el Lerella Linda Celia Dimensina the First, but which way we could capture it? It's notable, that Venus belongs to people of Earth, according to galactic laws, and Qularr have no rights to be located there. Now, Malvans will smoke out them from there, and for Qularr to drop a base, without taking off or destroying its library...
We: - Not so fast, mah lil' sis u_u! Malvans, nor Earth government don't know about presence of that base, only We have this information. And We're sure, Our own Syndicate is powerful enough to scatter this wasp nest without Malvan assistance. We will infiltrate this base, capture their library and force rest of these bugs to leave it!
Alinea: - Very interesting thought, Your Imperial Majesty Empress Elaina Inversonia von Heidi de Nibeashe el Lerella Linda Celia Dimensina the First, but which way we gonna reach Venus?
We: - That's not an issue, do you know that Until Shuttle, which courses to the Mechanon's satellite? So, deal is if We install Phase Drive of Demaydayizer on it, We could reach relativistic speed, and close distance between planets in several minutes. Although We will slosh away decent volume of its fuel... Here's also one detail - this Shuttle can carry no more, than five persons, and this will be Our party n_n! We already defined with DPS - that will be My Imperial Majesty Ourselfie, and our the nicest, this most beautiful lil' sis - exactly this girlie!
We /e point at Alinea.
We: - Now We'll define the rest of Our party. Before anything: Our Syndicate has only one full healer - and this is Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva.
Using Connector, We called third girl ^.^ into Our party.
We: - Now We need tank and offtank. Let Broot be Our main tank, and offtanking job in this run will be on Our mind brother - Wwyhuh!
We called them too. Afterwards We forced Demaydayizer to appear on terrace of Our headquarters, and, screwed its main drive out of its hood.
We: - First in history, We'll perform full-Syndicate run, i.e. all members of Our party will belong to same Syndicate, what isn't very law-wise, but We'ren't gonna chatter Our plans to governments, because they'll call Malvans at once. So, party, letz rush to the Until Building.
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The @DaKrushmor Syndicate presents:
PARTY
My Imperial Majesty Empress Elaina Inversonia von Heidi de Nibeashe el Lerella Linda Celia Dimensina the First = We, aka very nice girlie from counterfactual reign of universal wavefunction, where We are the only person on the whole wide planet, that's Our secret why We are noice that much ^_^.
Alinea - very nice and pleasant girlie too, which identity kept in secrecy, but if you compare Us to Batman (tho that's uncomparable things lOO), this nicey'll be like Robin.
Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva - this girlie utilizes a suit, that is equipped with Wonder Beam, able to revert back damage.
Broot - that's da serious mehn.
Wwyhuh the Lamprey - is not an actual lamprey. He is alien, and his species have consciousnesses stretched across multiple bodies, but not bound just to one, he's absolutely not afraid of own death (although no one should do that, there's such thing as Quantum Immortailty). He's "Fifth Wall" technology on his side - such as mind control & forcefields.
AND
Demaydayizer - vehicle, based on Spectral Engine MK II hull, is equipped with phase defense, loads of firepower and so delicate bed inside, that ten of usual princesses would sell their souls to Satan, just for sleeping one night (together) on it.
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INVASION INTO THE QULARR
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And now, the whole Our patry, packed & ready to rock - is near the Until building.
We: - Everyone knows a way? First We need to warp through ADIS (space station elevator), and then take Mechanon's mission.
Then We made that way. And here's metallic-glittering, newish Until Shuttle, it looks not exactly like a railgun shoots into it every single day.
We: - So, everyone's ready, We say that as a leader of Our party (and Syndicate).
Once lock has beeon opened, Wwyhuh used [Telekinetic Force Field Inducer], and carefully carried out the aviator from the cockpit. Aviator got dazed a bit, and in that instant We dove into the machine's inner. Because orbital gateway wasn't closed yet, and Shuttle control is almost exactly same as Demaydayizer's (only w/out the most delicate bed), We were managed to slip out of docks.
We: - Let Us float away short distance, then We'll replace the engine.
After about half of minute, We tookout from Alinea's inventory - the Phase Drive, glowing with cyan shine, absolutely unearthly looking. This is technology from Our homeworld, it's unknown terran, it's Our own stuff. We pressed a button on Connector, and Our girlish body got enveloped into the pressure suit, then We exited outer space, and quickly juryrig the Phase Drive on place of its standard jet thruster.
We: - Now this rattletrap should get a bit speedier, or blow up us all to the billions of pieces. Full forward to the Venus!
Instant We said it, an incredibly bright cyan-colored flare has appeared beneath a Shuttle, which reflected back from metal surface of the station, which next instant became particle-sized. Meanwhile, Shuttle was accelerating, We all got pushed to the seats with insane overdrive.
We: - Wwyhuh, use your Inertial Dampening Field, direct stream at Us. Broot, do this too. Wwyhuh, not on yourself, if you hold overdrives, only on others. Broot is sturdy, so you may release field from him too. A-a-a-a! Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva - leave this one too, let that lassie use own suit's stasis generator. Only Us & aL1n3A!
We: - It looks like We already covered a midway, We turning thrusters forward.
We did that, and after another midway of absolutely savage gravity, We exited to the Venus's orbit, already not on relativistic speed.
We: - That's all We heading to the landing, We'll perform it on another hemisphere from base's one, for them to not detect Us.
And We directed Until Shuttle to the surface.
BOOM!!!
That was a bit crash landing. Outer surface didn't look too friendly as well, there were barren yellowish rocks scattered around, and sky was covered in lead-gray clouds. Everywhere We could see yellow smoking puddles - not clear what's it - an acid or maybe lava?
Alinea: - And what we're gonna do now? Where we'll head to, Your Imperial Majesty Empress Elaina Inversonia von Heidi de Nibeashe el Lerella Linda Celia Dimensina the First? The temperature outside of hull is above than lead melting point, are Your Imperial Majesty sure, that pressure suits inside this Shuttle can endure it?
Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva: - And there's also acid, which already dissolves the hull, ermahgerd!
We: - Don't worry please, We're thought about everything.
Pressing a button on Connector, We forced Demaydayizer's translucent cyan silhouette to appear. It couldn't fit into the Shuttle entirely, thus its hood protruded right through its salon, without breaking it though, that's Phase Shift for you.
We: - Broot and Alinea, letz put on pressure suits, that you find in this Shuttle, We have Our own, and Wwyhuh & Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva have them already worn.
After that, We had launched Our Connector's Plazmabeam in direction of Shuttle's poop, and, making a hole into engine room, mounted away the Phase Drive, letting poisonous atmosphere of Venus in. Then We mounted it back at Demaydayizer.
We: - Hey, leggo right into Demaydayizer! There can be not much of a room, but We don't have choice. Demaydayizer, remove the most delicate bed!
We all jumped inside. Demaydayizer slid through thin, but still sensible Shuttle's shell, which already had been almost dissolved. There's nothing can save this ship now, but there's nothing valuable left in it. We put suits down, because there's a bit tightly even w/out them. What's left now is to moving towards the base, and We did it.
...
And that's it. It was prostrated, looking like giant brown bug, flattened, but not less colossal because of that building, this was a whole full-scale alien colony. Demaydayizer caught some radio signals, which was not possible to decrypt - most likely a secret code, they requested calling something back, to they recognize Us as allies. But We're not allies, We're enemies for them!
So, as it should be, after several seconds, mounted turrets, placed on top of nearest edge of building, had turned towards Us, and let out Heat Shots. Demaydayizer detected that, and performed Phase Dodge maneuver right in time, but it still became pretty hot inside. We had Us coming to the base, under cruel barrage from Heat Cannons, feverishly maneuvering in both 3 normal dimensions, and Phase ones, but then...
We noticed, that above about the center of the base, the intense deep-blue sparking has appeared.
Alinea: - Hey, look at this, Your Imperial Majesty Empress Elaina Inversonia von Heidi de Nibeashe el Lerella Linda Celia Dimensina the First, it looks like that is some kind of Teslatron.
We: - No, energy readings are quite different. We've a wild guess, that's in Our opinion it could be EMP Blaster only. Phase Dodge is useless against EMP Blasts, and this's PBAoE, but fortunately recently We've sloshed Our Syndicate's treasury to [Advanced Hyperkinetic Dampening System MK3]. According to Pauli's denial principle, there's not possible to make higher electron density, this is analogue of Faraday cage. Even superconductor, you may say. We've only one chance, We have to use Our woman's intuition, and measure a moment of time, where... NOW!
In a seizure-like move, We pressed the button! Beautiful, deep-blue colored sphere had surrounded Demaydayizer's hull, and that instant...
Whole Demaydayizer's appartus went nuts, light and displays were turned off, and even We felt an electric tickle in Our girlish fingers. But several moments afterwards, Demaydayizer's electronics turned on once again, Hyperkinetic Field had managed to fight EMP Blast off.
We: - Yeah! No, seriously, if We did that too early... Shield would goto Cooldown, and if too late... In any case, Demaydayizer would be short-circuited, and it would become easy target for Qularr Heat Cannon, which would make roastbeef out of it - with Us as a stuffing inside. Of course, Strangelet Bomb would explode, and make Quark Star out of Venus...
Alinea: - La-la-la!
It looks like that girlie got a bit deranged. But enemy's weapons, meanwhile, let out shot after shot, but We had approached a base close enough to open a backfire. We fired Our Incendiary Cannon, and then shiny, pleasant to eye, cyan-colored spheres extended at their impact points, scattering pieces of its brown covering. A cyan flame, that is hotter than venusian ambience, and doesn't need atmosphere with oxidizer, had lighted. Now We switched Gravity Pulse on, and weakened by fire elements of wall, fell outside, now We brake Our demaydayizer too, We already reached minimal range of turrets. Demaydayizer drifted on inertia, and it blasted through couple of walls, before We ordered to open its lock, and simultaneously enter Phase Space at 3-rd, thin wall, and Our party was thrown out of Demaydayizer (which disappeared instantly after that into Phase Space, in its deep part, where laws of biology already don't work properly), into the inner space of colony, belonged to insectoid alien species Qularr.
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Alinea: - Ew! What's there floors made of, l think, l had to put some shoes on!
We: - Mah tiny lil' sis, generally for invading alien base you need armored suit. It's strange, that breathable atmosphere is supported there, We think Qularr could adapt themself for local one, most likely Qularr built this base for raiding Earth. But anyway, We're two pretty girls, We should experience pleasant sensations ^_^ constantly. Because qularr have advanced biotechnology, they probably didn't forge this base constructions, they grew them. Btw.: almost forgot:..
We took out from Alinea's inventory an injector with some serum, and inserted it to whole party (inclusing my own girlish body), except Wwyhuh.
We: - This is nanomachine serum, which will protect us from pathogens, Qularr could keep at this base for protective measures, in next several hours. And there is, it seems base's security is coming for intruders, brace for impact!
And really, on Connector's display there was several dozens of signatures, rushing towards Our landing point from all corners of the base.
We: - Broot, get ready! There're small adds, group them with your Iron Cyclone, and Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva - lets turn your +144% on. Wwyhuh, provide support with mezzes & Inertial Dampening Field, also Sentinel Mastery.
There they are.
We: - Alinea, letz Gatling Gun them all that way. Thank goodness, this is Champions Online, not the real world, there isn't such thing as friendly fire!
And so We turned our AoEs on (We - Our connector's Plazmabeam, aL1n3A - interlacing Gatling Gun & Lead Tempest), shredding all enemies on Our path. We never saw Qularr units of that kind, along with usual drones and turrets, there were Qularr Hive Pods - a blob, that constantly produced bugs. And that weren't just well-known Firebugs, but also blueish wasps, which We called "Freezebug", and they shooted skyblue rays and casted unbreakable Incapacitate, their Frozen Spires were IMMUNE to all damage. Yellowish Zapbugs, they had pretty large windup time, before striking with Chain Lightning, but it could hit nearby allies multiple times. And deep-purple colored Mendbugs had access to Arcane Vitality (oddly enough for species, based on bio-technologies, not the bio-magic). What's curious - pretty much powerful - a couple of these buggies could make a whole Qularr troop stack totally unkillable. Qularr Hive Pod has pretty much HP.
We: - Wwyhuh, these bugs don't have nerve system, as it should be. These are not living creature, but rather biological machines, they don't have individuality, they just follow orders. Blast them without mercy!
Wwyhuh: - Noted, initating peripharyngeal ring scanning sequence. Hijacking control...
Two Firebugs flung right inside of enemy troop stack, and there they fired Heat Rays to eachother, detonating their bellies with fuel inside, and scorching nearby units. But We were suffering enemy's fire too, despite field covering from Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva and Wwyhuh, and Broot's fine AoE aggro holding. Our Necrullitic regen system barely managed to mitigate damage, and even nanoweave Our dress made of started to become dull under barrage of thermal and chemical shots. Despite everything, there was nothing threating Us yet, and We surely were closing distance to the entrance of Queen's apartments, which, accorting to wild guess of Our woman's intuition, were placed right at the center of colony.
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Drones, defeated by Us, fell onto floor, then immediately dissolved into it. Why, btw. this floor can't dissolve Us same way? Probably because it's not a part of mechanic. Sometimes We met diaphragms, instantly regenerating from bullet impacts, We or Alinea had to throw [Ice Grenades] into them, after which We (or aL1n3A) shatterd them with Our girlish bare feet, and We very liked this sensation, and Our lil' sis apparently too u_u.
Now, that's the door, leading to the Boss. But what is this? All of sudden, now it's locked by four impenetrable fences with Ultimate Regen. They can't be destroyed from this direction, but where their regen starts from? Alinea established Lead Tempest around a girlish body of that girl. We initiated scanning, and after dozen of seconds, We located source points of interlock's regen - these were distant base annexes. One at each of those - North, South, West and East annexes respectively.
We: - We all need to head at each of those places, and destroy these sources, We don't think it's gonna be too difficult.
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Fighting Our way, finally We reached first in a row - nearest to Us South Annex, where temperature of air has been raised a bit (but maybe Connector's Plazmabeam and other shots heated it). And this is some bulky gate, behind which one of biomachines is placed, onto that one interlocks in Queen's chamber is linked. And this!..
We: - Hey, look at this, this's Qularr bioconsole, and Our Connector has translator from their... language. Now We'll discover, what is placed behind this door.
Connector: - Translate: Qularr Planet Burner. Being an upgraded Qularr World Burner, it's developed for purpose of eliminating hostile biosphere, it's also useful for blast mining. Qularr Planet Burner's metabolism is based on nuclear superhightemperature biology, it's body consists of silicon orgaincs, and heated above 1000 degrees constantly. At critical moments, it's capable to heat itself above...
Less than several minutes, We had hacked this door - and got inside. And this is that burning beef, it's larger than Qularr World Burner for sure, and has uncomparable HP - more than 1KK. And what is over there, near sides. These look exactly like Qularr World Burner, but they for some strange reason, have green-colored flame. Tintable powers? We became excited in an anticipation of a fact, that this base's DNA library has what We need, practically reliably. Three units, We called them Greenfire World Burner. Apparetly, they stood on respawns, just like in TA, so taking them out won't made sense.
We: - R?
Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva: - r
Wwyhuh the Lamprey: - R!
Broot: - Reeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Broot /e charge
And so the party got started! Boss threw at Broot Fire bolt, taking off approximately 3000 HP, but Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva rushes in too, Bionic Shielding him, but...
Broot: - Ne-e-eigh!!!
Heck, the health dropped down to nearly zero, luckily Broot blocked in time, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva Iniquities him, but if these green bozos aggro at healer girl... Green ones can dish out hell of a wallop, it looks, like this is the Wwyhuh's job.
We: - Wwyhuh, Masterful Dodge, aggro these Greenfire World Burners instantly.
Wwyhuh hangs Ego Sprites on them, and kites them to the corner of room, where...
Wwyhuh: - l wonder, if it's possible to mezz them, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva now stretches between two tanks.
Thunderclap, so, that's it, unlike usual World Burner, Greenfire ones can be mezzed, now Ego Sleep, then Wwyhuh restores his HP with Sentinel Mastery (ES DoT's still on them). But what's about the Boss?
Boss shoots small Fire Bolts, Fireball decreased Broot's HP by 6000 through boss, Wwyhuh replaces Inertial Dampening Field to Manipulator, and Entangling Mech got in action; Fire Breath from boss caught Alinea.
Alinea: - A-a-a-a-ah!
Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva rezzes Alinea, it looks like Broot produced enough aggro, now Alinea shoots at Boss with Two-Gun Mojo, We took out Our Pulse Beam Rifle and doing the same. Wwyhuh has a bit difficulties with mezz, Resist Stacks didn't dipell yet, but that's temporary, he hypnotizes greens once again... And now!..
Boss launches Fire Wave, a slow-moving at ground level wave of fire, that penetrates Broot, and moves toward Us, We with Alinea trying to Block our girlish bodies, and a-a-ah, We fell to the floor, because Block can't protect Our girlish legs from this Fire Wave, only Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva miraculously survives (most likely two HoTs from BCR hung), and Wwyhuh, because He's tough, healer rezzes us, two girlies n_n.
We: - Probably it worths to get up into air, using aerial TP's, to avoid this wave, because it can't be blocked or dodged, it deals fixed damage.
We did that, but there's another surprize. Qularr Planet Burner had casted an ability, We called Backdraft afterwards - it started to suck air in, Reverse Repelling Us, exactly in a manner of Gravitar's Singularity, and inflicting little Crushing Damage, nullifying with Arcane Vitality of Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva, in time We orbitting next to the Boss, when bump!..
Boss casted "Self Combusion" - and nonblockable, nondodgeable, penetrating PBAoE Maintain with Fire Damage caught each of Us. Everyone fell - We, linea, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva and even Broot, only Wwyhuh survived, because he's hid behind hitboxes of greenfired (just like he did that at TA Gravitar), and PBAoE didn't catch him, because it had short range, not roomwide apparently. Boss aggroed at Wwyhuh, he blocked, but rest of us casted our Rebirths, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva - Bountiful Chi Resurgence, then Arcane Vitality Us, casts Circle of Radiant Glory. Broot aggroed the Boss, but annoying Fireball almost knocked Us out through block (even with +144% AoRP).
We: - Yeah, that was a bit too hot, We love cold more. It looks like he need to consume enough oxygen from the air, to launch this attack, something like that was in description. Everyone - better activate Dark Speed, you can escape from Gravitar's Singularity, that means this Boss' Backdraft too, and then PBAoE won't hit any of us.
Slowly, but steadily, Boss was losing his Health Points. We replaced [Ice Grenades], to Robogeishas, and after several time, released them. Boss launched one more Fire Wave, We jumped, it flashed right under my girlish feet soles, but it wasn't painful, even Wwyhuh jumped now, and not counting Broot, only one tick was caught by Healer, because healing abilities root, so there was some delay. Now it's another Backdraft's time, and We all rushed backwards, except physically blocked with Greenfire's hitboxes. We resisted Repel, resting Our girlish bare feet to uneven brown floor, everyone ran away enough distance, and yeah, one more Self Combusion. But this one didn't hit anyone, except few pecklizards from [Teleiosaurus Pheromones]. We advised broot to setup IDF, to Flat Reduction lower Backdraft's Crushing Damage - and it really lowered that significantly.
Generally, We understood mechanic of this new Boss, and surely made his HP-Bar to the bottom. We did it - and this boss was defeated. The victory is Ours now! One of four biomachines, locking entrance to the Queen fell over, now the rest of three, which, We hoped, will be easy and interesting, like this one as well. Now We had Plazmabeamed, and Alinea had Gatlinged greens to the beatdown, and rushed to the next Annex - the West one.
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We: - There's another monster, how it's called?..
Connector: - Qularr Planet Zapper. This machine represents biological electronic warfare, of multipurpose kind. It is developed mainly for purpose of reprogramming or causing malfunction of automatic stantions of von-Neumann type, used by alien species, but it also can be used for electromagnetic scanning of planet surface, to find mineral deposits.
We: - Yeah, exacly, there are races, that use automatic von-Neumann systems for automatic mining unpopulated planets. They're based on self-replicating machinery complex, controlled by AI (something like Tas, but more primitive). The biggest lack of this technology - its "fragility", they're really way too easy to hack or blast, for security reasons, AI is not allowed by Galactic Lawbook to learn anything new. Malvans rejected this tech already, but maybe Terrans will commonly use it someday...
Wwyhuh: - And Mvvythrwyuxx don't need that, we're AI for us ourselves.
But what's inside?
And there's a chamber inside, with a floor, that is rubberish to touch, and impressive-looking Boss. It reminded previous one, but sparkly and with a bit different color of Hide. But main thing - there were absolutely no adds, thus maybe this fight will be even easier!
We: - Wwyhuh, let IDF be switched on, if there'ren't mobs!
We: - R?
Alinea: - R!
Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva: - R!
Wwyhuh the Lamprey: - R!
Broot: - RRRR!
Broot /e charge
And it started, but what's happening, Broot lost almost all HP to first Lightning Arc, luckily he blocked (because of IDF its damage got nearly nullified, it had abnormally fast ticking rate, like Plazmabeam). We adviced him to switch Inertial Dampening Field on for him too, and he did that. But Wireframe Tell had appeared. We thought, that Blocking now won't be excess, and did that!..
BOOM!!!
An electric sensation, like that one We felt inside Demaydayizer, coursed through Our girlish body. And Connector went nuts, and how!.. went out Electric Sphere AoE around Our girlish bogy! This, just like tiny tick from EMP Blast, seemed unblockable, and We fell over, the only didn't is Wwyhuh because of his big HP, and fact that for some strange reason he went to other side of room. Broot has more HP, but he got knocked out too, because someone's Hatchling has exploded with Electric Sphere AoE (most likely EMP Blast is inducing extra tension in its electronic controller). We concluded from this, that pets explode here as well. Wwyhuh's Dark Speed got short-circuitted (would up being NTTG'ed). Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva rezzed herSelfie u3u & everyone else o3o.
We: - Switch your pets off, don't turn on Travel Powers, We've feeling, they'll explode here from these EMP Blasts, something like that is implemented on one Boss in DCUO.
Boss let out Chain Lightning, targeting to Wwyhuh, but Alinea FS/SR stood there (which also didn't switch [Teleiosaurus Pheromones] off, and spawned one pecklizard), and bouncing bolt knocked out both lizard and girl, Wwyhuh blocked, and suffered low (about 4000 HP) Electrical Damage. Broot aggroed the boss again, Wwyhuh began to shoot mezzes at him. Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva rezzed mah lil' sis.
Boss lifted his left hand in a gesture, like Dark Horse, when he using Ball Lighting, and really, there appeared three ball lightnings at different corners of the room. We called these ball lightnings "H-V Bolt" - high voltage bolt, they had PBAoE Static Field with pretty decent Electrical Damage, if it's not blocked +Flat Reducion, and also they hang linger, called "Jammed". They can be targeted for some reason, but they are IMMUNE to all damage, no matter what We shoot at them.
We: - Wwyhuh, these dopey ballies are heading to Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva, and the stacked "Jammed" linger, as Tooltip says, "Reduces outgoing damage and healing", and really Broot getting not enough healing, take them away from the Healer, Bountiful Chi Resurgence efficiency of this girl now on DPS level.
Fortunately, these balls appear to be vulnerable to aggroing, they aggroed at Wwyhuh, instant he poured them from Minigun with Challenge. Static Field almost didn't damage Wwyhuh, with his Invulnerability, especially under Block, and he didn't need DPS very much. The "Jammed" debuff got dispelled from Healer, and now are Wireframe cylinders, a-la TA Gravitar. These things - are exact Gigabolt copy, and they Hold, if are blocked lately, just like Electrocute, plus one thing like that, hitting blocked Broot, leaped to Alinea, and dropped the girl to the floor.
Alinea: - pomf =3
Rezzed.
Thunderclap, all party suffered Sonic Damage. It was also short-lasting stun. And ball lightnings, stuck to Wwyhuh a-a-as got detonated, dropping him to the floor.
Wwyhuh: - Uh-oh, which way could l block or evade this, if Thunderclap hasn't Tell, and these Electrical AoE Spheres're irresistible and non-dodgeable?
We: - Most likely it's worth to try and mezz those dopey ballies, probably they couldn't explode under mezz, and will do it a second mezz expires.
Rezzed. All of sudden, Alinea started to flicker, and We felt, that unknown force tows Us towards girlish body of Our lil' sis, Our nanodress curved at direction of second DPS of Our party. What's that? That was linger "Electrify" - it dragged Us towards Our ally, exactly in a manner of OV Gravitar, but through all the room, and We were forced to move constantly, in order to stay at same place, but Broot accidently got closer to Alinea, and provoked Lightning Arc about them, which damaged them both.
We: - This boss is able to electrify random player, in this case We need to keep faraway from that teammate, until electrical charge is grounded.
Then "Electrify" got dispelled, and again "H-V Bolts", Wwyhuh aggroed them, "Electrify" on Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva, everyone fall back from healer, healer Iniquities tank. Wwyhuh physically blocked with balls' hitboxes to counter attraction, mezzes balls right in time, Thunder Clap, and a linger "Selfdestruct" is implosed onto them - Wwyhuh walks away, explosions hit "outer". One more EMP Blast, which didn't harm anyone...
Generally, We solved this Boss too, and coundered him successfully, following three basic rules - NP, NP, NTP - no proximity, no pets and no Travel Powers, and his Health gravitated towards the zero. Luckily, We hadn't Melee DPS amongst Us, Alinea even droped Two-Gun Mojo, and sprayed a Boss with Gatling Gun from afar. Not that powerful, but safe, We, of course, used Pulse Beam Rifle (and what's the point of AoEing here?). There was even possible to avoid Gigabolts, just like at TA Gravitar. So, Qularr Planet Zapper went down pretty fast.
We: - Yeey! /e Harajuku_Girl_Peace It was reilly electrifying, We so-so loved it. We hope next boss will be cool one too.
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The North Annex.
Connector: - Qularr Planet Freezer. This unit represents highly effective temperature pump, that allows to dispense large amounts of thermal energy within short time. It is used to put high amounts of Qularr units into cryostasis - to prepare them for interstellar travels, or for dampening volcanic activity at the place of base's location.
We: - It's very wise of them to place that thing onto Venus, counting its volcanic activity, although in next five minutes, there's nothing to left for protection this colony from raging nature.
There's nearby a niche was located, and Temporary Device - Qularr Jet Wings in it, but that wasn't needed for Our party, we all had Aerial TP.
And this is his blueish, covered by rime carcass...
Alinea: - Aw, there's so coldish floor in this chamber. So noice...
And that was true, even We felt sensible cold through dense skin of Our girlish feet. And it was reilly pleasant refreshing sensation for a girl.
We: - R?
Alinea: - r
Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva: - r
Wwyhuh the Lamprey: - r
Broot: - ofc r
Broot /e charge
And now, at the very start of the fight, the Boss did...
Qularr Planet Freezer: - Khffffffffffffff...
And a linger "Frigid Ambience" had been hung onto whole Our party, and We felt, that Our girlish body began to cover with rime.
We: - R-r-reilly... H-h-here's a b-b-bit cold, but W-w-we love it!
But We were fond of not every single linger's effect, Tooltip said: "Movement, power charge and power recharge speed decreased.", and [Necrullitic Elixir], which both We & Alinea used before starting of a battle got a bit slugged, really its cooldown already 12 mins, but not below 10 (that was a blah in Our opinion), and We couldn't cover whole megafight just with two instances of it, although We hoped that it won't need. Thank goodness, both of us - bright girls, based on Maintains, but Broot has Charge Up - Haymaker, and it now smashes boss pretty slow, but We felt, that the floor became somewhat colder...
Alinea: - A-A-A-A-A-A!!!
We: - Ow-ow-ow! My girlish feet are sticking to this floor.
One more linger - "Chilblain" was hung onto Us, and it did produce Cold Damage, it was clear, that it came from the floor, and it grew in strength with each "Chilblain" stack, and We risen into the Air, but girlish feet of aL1n3A became stuck to the floor, forming Ice Root - Ice Cage construct, and We directed Our Pulse Beam Rifle at it, and Alinea - Two-Gun Mojo (consuming all of energy of this girl, thanks @Kaizerin for revamp), but We destroyed Ice Cage, and allowed Alinea to lift into the air on top of the Hoverdisk.
We: - Don't make contact with this floor! Here's floor is lava, but opposite!
Boss shooted at Broot Ice Shards, which were quite healable, Wwyhuh accidently caught Frost Breath, but didn't fall, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva healed everything of that, but there was one more surprize - We didn't draw attention to the ceiling. And in vain - several Icicles menacingly loomed there...
At this time - We became victim of that stuff. A huge icicle collided with Our girlish body (and without Wireframe Tell previously), inflicting Cold Damage, Knocking Us Down, and imposing NTTG, removing Hoverdisk, and We begun to fast fall towards the icy floor of the room, in addition "Chilblain" stacks didn't wear off yet.
We: - A-A-A-A-A-A!!!
It was absolutely beastly cold, We felt it right throught Our multilayered nanoweave dress, equipped with one layer with almost 100% thermoisolation, We started to receive immense Cold Damage, and almost fainted (there was useless to trying to Block or Dodge Ice Damage from the floor), but Pulse Beam Rifle helped to break Ice Cage, and We lifted into the air once again. We decided to switch autorun on, and float accross the room in circles, to avoid icicle dropping.
Broot as well, not being a fool (although the only person in party without Intelligence SS), hopped into the air, and tanked Boss from above. Then he caught a second Icicle, there was for some reason more of them above the Boss, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva healed everything. Unlike two previous Bosses, this one wasn't rooted at center of the room, but constantly followed Broot, chaining angle of attack, and striking teammates with random Frost Breath.
Then Wwyhuh got an idea, these Icicles are targetable anyway.
Wwyhuh: - Maybe it's possible to mezz them?
And it was really possible, Icicles were pretty vulnerable to mezzezs, once Wwyhuh even "lulled" one of them with "Ego Sleep", right in mid-air.
Wwyhuh: - Broot, l held this Icicle, move a bit.
Icicle dropped to "outer". Icicles weren't IMMUNE to damage at all, but they had that much HP, that it didn't make sense to shoot at them - they would drop to floor earlier anyway. One curious detail - it turned, that Cold Damge from "Chilblain" can damage not only person standing on the floor, but in range of Sphere AoE, and that damage is split evenly, i.e. teammates can "warm up" eachother! Wwyhuh held himself next to Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva, and it was really needed, once, after Icicle drop on top of Healer, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva almost fainted, winding up being Rooted, but fortunately Wwyhuh arrived next to Healer's head, he fainted hilself from Cold AoE, but letted Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva lift into air, and then rez him.
Pets weren't effective here too, because they stuck to floor almost instantly, and then dropped onto it, or even could hit low hovering teammate with Cold Damage Sphere AoE. Bit by bit, Qularr Planet Freezer's HP had been thawing, and finally it got melted entirely. Linger "Frigid Ambience" was dispelled, and floor became heated, so We could descend Our girlish feet on it easily. Necru had about a min of work, and 3/8 min on instances respectively. There was only one Boss left, or two, if count Their Majesty too
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Alinea: - l wonder, we met the "holy trinity" of elements. Fire, thunder, ice... But what's gonna wait us in East Annex?
We: - We are thinking... These Qularr Hive Pod, they produce Fire-, Freeze-, Zap- and Mendbugs. Fire, Freeze & Zap are elements, We encountered, thus the last one should be somehow connected to Mend.
Connector: - Qularr Planet Restorer. It is capable to operate biological processes, occuring inside living cells, its duties include restoring of natural Qularr ecosystem, regeneration of large Qularr-made objects, elimination of consequences of wars or calamities.
We: - For instance, that damage We did to this base's wall - that is within its duties too... We mean - it would be, if they could repel Our invasion OwO.
There was familiarly shaped insectoid inside, but now its hide was very beautiful, nacreously-lilac colored.
Qularr Planet Restorer: - ??? ??????? ?? ???? ?????.
Connector: - Translate: Do you think you can defeat me? Get me out of all my Health? l don't think so, any Health, no matter mine or yours, is on my command!
We: - So, this one appears to can speak? We'll let's see how good is he in action; r?
Alinea: - r
Broot: - R
Wwyhuh the Lamprey: - R
Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva: - R
Broot /e charge
And that instant - your type very shiny beamy, reminding Seething Soulstrike of Valerian Scarlet, has been fired at Broot. And this beam - ermahgerd - it's not even a valid damage type. Battle log: Qularr Planet Restorer deals 1028 Health Points to Broot with Disrupt Life. It's clear, that Block won't work against that, as well as Dodge. But despite anything, because of Broot's solid HP count, and high Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva's outheal, this battle went pretty well, but then...
There alleared some green, cylindric, vertical Wireframe Tells around teammates, We pressed Our Block, but then... We got Held right through block, just like some bugged PSI mobs could do, there was same as. It was the "Grasping Vines" hold, and also in center of each tell an enemy "Qularr Bulb" has appeared.
We: - Oh boy, it looks like CO is getting Plant Powers finally, although they're not playable yet...
We used macro Z mashing, and broke out pretty quick, but there were "Thorn Patches", inflicting Piercing Damage have appeared beneath those bulbs, and let's notice that We with aL1n3A were barefooted, but on the other hand - thorns were able to pierce even Wwyhuh's suit. The one that suffered most was Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva, because AoRP gives less Resistance to user, than teammates, and lack of Ward-/Guardicator.
But nevertheless, this girl broke out too. By the way: "Qularr Bulbs" began to reek with Epidemic, inflicting PBAoE Toxic Damage, and We quickly stepped back.
We: - It's probably better to leave them alone, Wwyhuh, you may mezz them as well.
Wwyhuh hit with [Psionic Accelerator] three of bulbs, together with Boss, rest two of them Spit at us with slight Toxic Damage, they aggroed at Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva. Thank goodness, they're immovable... Then above of them a red schtick has appeared, and they... Threw "Seeds" at a healer, inflicting Crushing Damage, Knocking Down, and next to Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva the whole stack of "Qularr Bulbs" has been spawned.
We: - Hey, these things multiply, they must be destroyed, use your AoE attacks!
We let out Connector Plazmabeam, heck, that Qularr Bulb is pretty tough, Alinea interlaced Lead Tempest and Gatling Gun, our AoE's damaged both boss, and Qularr Bulbs, now one more greenish Wireframe Tell, but this time everyone managed to run around from them, We splashed with Plazmabeam Boss with Broot's Bulb (it jams, ty @Kaizerin). And continued to cut these plants, and hit a boss, but after reching 2/3 HP threshold, Boss decided to extend his Wireframe Tell's radius. We and Alinea were managed to escape them on inertia, rest of party were held with unblockable Hold, Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva became fained, We rezzed healer.
The only thing was left is to run around then, after destroying all of the "Qularr Bulbs", just in a manner of TA Gravitar, but these "Thorn Patches", although vanished after a while, were a bit annoying for Our girlish feet, but luckily We could escaped or block them. Even Broot now enabled autorun, and ran around Boss in melee range, smashing him with Haymaker simultaneously, so the next Wireframe Tell didn't catch anyone already. It's good, that Our party didn't have Melee DPS, they would experience difficulties with taking out Qularr Bulbs, due to their PBAoE "Thorn Patch" and "Epidemic".
The most interesting thing has been started, when boss teached 1/3 HP threshold.
Qularr Planet Restorer: - ??? ??? ????????? ?? ????? ????????????????????? ?.
Connector: - Everything, you did till now was just waste of time, you can't defeat me, and now l'll prove that!
Then the color of the beam, which Qularr Planet Restorer is directing at Broot had changed, and in log his name was changed to "Extract Life". But main thing was - Boss' HP now slowly, but steadily began to restore, but he still couldn't outheal Our DPS, but We noticed that Broot has debuff stacks now, called "Adaptive Extraction", tooptip: "Enemy adapted to extract life from you.". Now "Extract Life" ticks produced almost 3K HP loss per tick, moreover, the Boss now healed himself even for more. Thank goodness, he didn't throw Bulbs anymore, obviously he directed all the life force into his own HP Bar. Now We couldn't outDPS his healing.
We: - Which way can We defeat him? This Boss is a giant Healer technically! Broot needs to get this linger worn off, but We haven't Celestial Cleansing (and it's not likely going to work at this). Broot must faint, or get his threat wiped.
Then Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva stopped healed Broot, allowing him to faint, and then rezzed. And it really happened, after Boss' losing Broot's aggro, immediately he shooted at Our girlish body (We've more DPS, than aL1n3A). And really, after that boss started to lose health pretty fast. We discovered two specifics - "Life Extraction" both Damage and Healing are scaled with both target's Max HP (that's why Boss could heal THAT much from Broot, because of his 17.5K max HP), and # of stacks of "Adaptable Extraction" debuff. Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva now gave to Us HP, that boss extracts ATM, then his "Life Extraction" began to hurt stronger because of Debuff, We palliated Our girlish body. Boss aggroed at Alinea, now he was needed to adapt to new teammate, and We all DPSed, and kept Our pets on, they weren't useless here, although "Thorn Patches" hit pecklizards pretty much at first two phases. After Alinea got stacks, Boss was forced to aggro at the Healer, now boss almost hadn't HP.
Finally, Qularr Planet Restorer from the East Annex, the last biomachine, that held interlocks to the royal chamber, took critical damage, and was finished off.
We: - That'll folx! Reilly insane, in good point, battle mechanic, lahl, instead of hitting Tank the whole fight... He need to get aggroed at someone fragile, not with that much HP, like Us ^_^. That's why delicate, given to pleasures girlies like Us rock n_n.
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[Ice Grenade] froze all of the four interlock diaphragms with its icy grasp, and We shattered them with Our girlish foot, the membrane didn't regenerate anymore. And reason is - We pwned already all of the four things, those locked the path. And inside there We have...
The royal apartments, immense luxury, although at the Qularr measures, but it still was perceptible. There's the Throne - and on it - the Queen HerSelf. No, even so: that was Their Majesty - "Qularr Hive Queen". Da HUEG, outsizing any of biomachines We met before, with king-sized paunch, covered with brown chitin, with non-humanoid shape, several pairs of limbs, reminding Us a giant spider.
Qularr Hive Queen: - Ah, there they are! Exactly those intruders, which my drones can't catch already about a hour. And now they stepped onto my territory...
Interesting, it looks like the Queen can even speak at Our lauguage, and Connector isn't required to translate, that may prove Our idea, that the base is founded on Venus for purpose of raiding Earth.
We: - Aw noes, no way! Actually it's Our territory, according to Galactic Laws, this planet is belongs to Terrans. That's why We can do here what We want to, and You - let'z shoo from the Venus, and also leave your DNA library as a compensation for trouble You made for Us, that's the ultimatum!
Qularr Hive Queen: - What the next you would want to? This library contains the whole Qularr technological power, there's no way for you to obtain it! In addition, you aren't in that state to setup ultimatums for us. We, Qularr Hive Queens are mighty creatures, and l will enjoy the taste of your bodies at this dinner. Puhhhhhie-yaaaaahhh!!!
We: - r?
Broot: - r
Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva: - y
Alinea: - r
Wwyhuh the Lamprey: - r
Broot /e charge
And so the really royal battle - Their Majesty vs My Imperial Majesty Empress Elaina Inversonia von Heidi de Nibeashe el Lerella Linda Celia Dimensina the First - has been started. Broot Lunged, he managed to aggro the Queen, she making "Cheliceral Attacks" constantly, inflicting about 4000 Slashing Damage per hit, that need to be outhealed in time.
We: - Let'z put on a deck insect's natural enemies - the SPIDERS!
We used Mechanical Monstrocity, aL1n3A - Loyal Henchmen - Reprogrammed Spider Unit, also armed with Ecologically Clean Electricity. That was not very effective TBH. Now is blue schtick above Queen's, not not the head, Boss has her head in front of body, but above Boss' giant belly. Broot had Blocked early, but Wwyhuh & Alinea got Held, that was a conical "Sticky Substance" ability.
Alinea: - Ew!
Now there's Wireframe Tell had appeared, red colored and short, apparently Melee range. Broot Blocked reflexively.
Broot: - Wow, that's a deal, l should say!
As it turned to - this ability "Head Bite" ignores Block ENTIRELY, and it burned above 10K Broot's HP, although Slashind Damage is irresistive, but it completely penetrates Blocking, although it probably can be dodged. But since cone is narrow, it's probably possible to adoid it too, running the flank of the Queen. Moreover, Queen healed a bit from this chomp ("Bead Bite" is the best doctor for an alien). We'll write down this way - Block early Sticky Substance, and avoid the Head Bite. The further it gets - the more interestingness.
Alinea: - A-i-e-e-e!!!
Little girl screeched from swift poison spit, from the end of Queen's tail, Alinea became a bit green, and the spit poured down beneath bare feet of that girl, as a dark-green smoking poisonous spill, although Toxic Damge can be blocked, but not Dodged. But from linger "Replicating Poison", that hung on a girl, Toxic Damage is stable, Alinea got out of venom puddle, now Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva stretched between healing the Tank and second DPS, and then...
Furrr!
As it turned to, after several second Alinea poured one more venomous puddle underneath of own girlish body, as result of Alinea's sickness, although linger timer is still counts down, and that puddle inflicted additional Toxic Damage. Yah, that's the deal - it appears, that poisoned person starts to pour toxic puddles below themselves periodically, and they must be avoided, or maybe stacked, just like at TA Grond.
We: - Watch out, that poison is really vicious.
Then Alinea convalesced, fortunately without pouring a puddle under own girlish body at moment of Linger expiration, and Broot held the Queen faced to opposite wall. Luckily it hasn't dino's tail, but she sometimes cames out swinging with her paw, and it's 180 degree Knock Down, directed forward without a Tell, but it hasn't high magnitude, Broots withholds it with Circle of Primal Dominion almost always. Once Broot missed Sticky Substance accidently, but mitigated the "Head Bite" with Masterful Dodge.
But then Alinea had spawned a Coruscator with [Teleiosaurus Pheromones], and because of girl stood next to toxic puddle, it turned, that pecklizard can carry this disease too, and he did that, just catching one Toxic Damage tick from the puddle. Pecklizard rushed towards the Boss, and poured a spill below himself, infecting Broot.
We: - Switch your pets off, or else they will spread the poison!
Broot now must hold Queen's attack, being sick with a poison simultaneously, stacking Puddles, just like he does that at TA Grond. He also seem to suffer more damage per DoT tick, because of his big HP. Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva now is completely consumed by Broot healing, then the Queen turned around, because he poured a puddle in his old place, the whole party got turned. One pecklizard and robogeisha got under "Head Bite"'s AoE, providing the Queen with a tick of healing, Alinea came to the puddle, previously left by Our lil' sis Selfie, caught a Linger again, and because Healer now works only for Tank, ran out of Alinea's HP, and got fainted. Alinea used Rebirth, but because of falling into a puddle, a girlie caught vicious Linger once again, Alinea fainted once again. We rezzed Our lil' sis.
As long as We switched Our pets off, the Queen decided to switch her ones on, yellowish Wireframe Tells inflicted Crushing Damage and Knock Back, and on their impact places there appeared "Qularr Hive Pod". Various bugs spurted out from them - Firebugs, Freezebugs, Zapbugs and Mendbugs, last ones at once headed to heal Qularr Hive Queen. We began to splash all these hordes, Alinea performed better than anyone with Lead Tempest. Wwyhuh turned useful too, mezzing couple of hives with [Psionic Acceletator], two more of them with [Revanancy], and last one - with [Telekinetic Force Field Inducer].
The poisonous Puddles almost got vaporized - and here one more spit is on its way, this time targeted on Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva, luckily Our party doesn't have Melee DPS, or else they would suffer for most, those puddles are Sphere AoE technically. Healer pours toxic spills beneath herSelfie, but luckily self-heals are strong enough, to not bother with that too much, although once this woman almost fainted.
Now, first third of royal health got down. There appeared two "Qularr Hive Males" from some hidden doors, at the edge of the apartments. These were pretty beefy guys, their Hurl almost knocked freshly convalesced Healer into the own Toxic Puddle, and also they had Knocking Back "Shockwave", and they sought to produce Uppercut or Haymaker in melee. Broot used Iron Cyclone to aggro those horses, and in vain, because they blocked him physically with their hitboxes, and he missed one Heat Bite, that inflicted 15K of Slashing Damage, chomping off a portion of his brain, and healing Qularr Hive Queen a bit. Btw.: regarding to the Queen, a Buff "Enraged!" was imposed onto the Boss, which tooltip said: "Strips away Resistance and Avoidance." - not the Dodge, @Notyuu would be 100% amused.
We and Alinea took out those thugs with our AoE's, which also had the "Defeant!" Buff, but luckily they didn't respawn anymore, puddle on Broot, and at time he stepped away under Blocking, the Queen performed a Lunge with Slashing Damage, this Lunge, as it turned - did heal the Queen too, also it Snared the target, making avoiding "Head Bite" harder. Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva healed that injury, then Queen released Qularr eggs once again, Wwyhuh mezzes them, Freezebugs mezz Us, annoying Mendbugs heal the Queen. We forgot about Our pets, because We afraid of poison spreading.
Now it's third phase, this time three "Qularr Hive Males" were released, Wwyhuh aggroed them, but he couldn't hold their aggro, and they Lunged at Us with Alinea, almost making Us faint, and making that with Our lil' sis. They couldn't be mezzed, but luckily they didn't respawn. Nevertheless, after a while We took them out, thanks to Our awesome AoE DPS, but there's one more issue - Broot got Knocked Down again, then got Held, and since he spent his Masterful Dodge half of minute ago... Queen, on whom a Linger "Infuriate!!!" - "Strips away more Resistance and Avoidance" was imposed, performed one more chomp. Broot took >20K Slashing Damage, and was defeated. The Boss then reaggroed at Us, and despite We Blocked Our girlish body, We took 5K Slashing Damage right through Block +144% AoRP, healing the Queen a bit.
We: - Alinea, Block, We wiping Our aggro!
We wiped Our aggro, then Boss lunged at Our lil' sis, and annoying poison flung towards Wwyhuh. Despite of armored suit and alien biology, he got poisoned as well, although running around Qularr couldn't care about this toxin absolutely. Alinea wiped aggro, then Boss lunged at Wwyhuh, respawned Broot now mauls Queen with his Haymaker, struggling to regain his aggro. But some time ago, and losing some of Our girlish nerves, We regained control over battlefield once again, Broot avoided "Head Bites" and the rest of junk quite effectively, We shot off "Hive Pods", and flying out of them buggies, and last Boss' HP Bar surely continued to approach towards the zero point...
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Qularr Hive Queen: - Oh, no! My body has received critical damage, l need to cure it, let me get to the Qularr Planet Restorer, please.
We: - We're afraid that thing won't work anymoa OwO.
Qularr Hive Queen: - This cannot be! l will perish, if l won't...
We: - Btw. - what's that is visible from this porthole? Innit it inner yard of the base, with Qularr Mothership standing on it? According to its dimensions - it is suited for interstellar travels. There should be Cryostasis Chamber in it, that will freeze You for period of travel to the nearest Qularr colony, which We hope, won't be on a precarious existence, unlike this one.
Qularr Hive Queen: - But l can't do that! There's a library... No one of biomachines, that were capable to destroy it, is operational now, and if l leave you alone with it, you'll call Malvans here for sure, and hand it over to them. Qularr won't forgive me for that.
We: - Your Majesty, if We were wished to unleash Malvans onto this base, We would already do that. But naw, We don't like those lazy people very much too, which also justifies their corruption with a nonsense, like Elder Worm's "Magic Curse". Although Earth is under their protectorate, and Our government is 100% pro-Malvanian. But We don't like Earth government very much too. Fairly say, We don't need the whole library, We need only certain components of it, and once We took them out of it, We can destroy it all, with this base altogether, and Malvans won't get anything valuable.
Qularr Hive Queen: - But how could l trust you?
We: - Okay, okay!.. We are both royal persons - We are the Empress, You are the Queen. We shud understand eachotha ^_^. We swear, that We won't hand over all of the DNA from there to the Malvans.
Qularr Hive Queen: - OK, OK, yeah, l probably will trust You. Your Imperial Majesty've very dark, almost black hair, and in Anime that points at the honour of character. l love watching Terran Anime, and doing it often, in its original japanese edition mostly. Yeah, You can be trusted. l'll just grab mah Harem of Hive Males, and will get the hell out of Venus.
Qularr Hive Queen: - ?? ??? ??????? ??? ???? ??.
Then left backdoor near the throne had opened, and beefy-looking Males marched in a column near Us, under a lead of their Queen.
Qularr Hive Queen: - The library is behind the right door. Please, fulfill your promise, or l'm going to get splatted. And after me - probably all of the Qularr civilization.
A shiny, pinkish-colored flare of Qularr traditional engine flashed behind the window, a thunder was heard, and a brown point has been dissipated deep into yellowish-lead sky of the Venus.
We: - It looks like there are only drone left, and We can blow up this place freely, but first... Our honey...
...
We: - Technically We could call in the Terran spacefleet here, and it would carry this library to the Earth. With all these technologies Our race could advance by several centuries... And Our Syndicate will be likely rewarded with all that various stuff, but... There's such thing as "honor", and it should be notion of intergallactic scale. We all should hold our words, and help those who need it, or else majority species will excinct... Most likely including Terrans too.
This room was really huge - even larger, than Queen's apartments, all of the shelves were filled with stuffing, with intuitively sensible as immense value. That's Our reward for taking out a base - soon, very soon, in fact reliably We'll get Our desirable genetic code, that will allow for Our Syndicate to Tint Our Powers finally, and with that fully get on the layer of rest of the other biggest Earth Syndicates. After that We might provide tinting services for other Syndicates too - like @Avianos - they have what they teach to Our one u_u.
We: - Demaydayizer, get out of Phase Space at the center of this room!
Then cyan flare has flashed, and at the center of the room, the familiar, translucent, cyan, glowing loco has appeared.
We: - Demaydayizer, open the lock. Remove the furniture from inner. So, its inner is cube-shaped... And these DNA cellblocks have same. There's We dunno how many DNA of unknown spawns are stored, they're numbered AA-, AB-, AC-... ZZ-. Just like words in a dictionary. According that edge of a cell is about 2x less than of the inner, We could store eight of these blocks within Demaydayizer. Eight is Our favorite number ^_^...
We: - Broot, letz take off a cube, with letters "RA-".
There well Rainicorn DNA may be stored, or something connected to Radiation, and now it's already in Demaydayizer's salon corner.
We: - Now, lets take cells on CO- and TI-...
Broot: - Your Imperial Majesty, what's the deal about interest on c***s and t**s?
We: - Noes, it's from Color & Tinting. Lahl!
Really, a private joke, that Broot let out made Us laugh that much, that We started to giggle, and Alinea burst into hysterical laughter, and then dropped own girlish body right onto brown floor of the library. Wwyhuh the Lamprey didn't get impressed.
Da Most Melee-friendly Fixor Eva: - That's a jokes you have really...
Next to two of these, the PO- cube (from Powers) was sent inside, and HU- (from Hue). Then We thought, and decided to take EM-, from both Emit and Emanation Point, maybe something will get out of this side. As the seventh, We took PA-, Paint, that is pretty close too.
We: - Broot, let's take DO- cube as the last. There could be found some biomachine's DNA, that would be able to refine Donatium somehow...
Alinea: - Your Imperial Majesty Empress Elaina Inversonia von Heidi de Nibeashe el Lerella Linda Celia Dimensina the First, but Your Imperial Majesty lectured us about a fact, that it should be impossible because of laws of physics...
We: - Oh, let it go... But what if? Anything could be, what if We still learn how to produce Donatium somehow, and will use it to Tint Our Powers just like others always did, but yeah - chances are pretty ghostish. Donatium is a foul compound, this is not Our way, We were always proud of Our donatium-free technology...
We: - Demaydayizer, close the lock, then sterilize inner chamber, then exit into Phase Space.
A cyan flash - and no Demaydayizer here!
We: - So, Demaydayizer moved to the Phase Space, now there's Our time to get away from this abandoned base. We hope, everyone here has "Teleport to Ren Cen Device".
And really, every teammate had this thing carried.
We: - But We dontvont to carry some defensive pathogen to the Earth (and possible causing pandemic there), We should find a way to sterilize our boldies. Best way to do that - it's radiation. Let's look at the sky! It is covered by clouds, what's solar energy for powering base you can speak? There were no geothermal fields We saw, when We approached a base too. Thus only one option is left - this base should have its internal energy source, and that source should be nuclear, because Venus doesn't have fossil fuel!
We: - There should be some kind of reactor core, We have Geiger counter built-in Our Connector.
Waddling around a room, We located estimated direction.
We: - Exactly, there's background radiation a bit different, in different corners of the room, We need to descend from the Central Tower, the power core will be... There...
We /e point
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There's notorious green shine... Yeah, We never saw nuclear reactors, like this one, some kind of wobbling spherical transparent membrane, and there's uncertainly shaped green-gloving rock inside - that's working fluid apparently. And next to the reactor some kind radiophilic mushrooms have been grown - We already saw Qularr growing same shrooms intentionally - what they are used for at all?
We: - This membrane looks so thin and fragile, what's the deal with powering the whole base just with this single trinket anyway? But We're afraid, that if We just tear it - nuclear reaction will just stall within this crystal. We need... isotope. Wwyhuh, you've Minigun.
Wwyuhu: - Yeah, but it doesn't have "U-238 Rounds" advantage.
We: - We are in the knowledge. Nevertheless, it's possible to retcon outside of Powerhouse, using console command /respecpowertrees 1. The moolah is required for this anyway, but We earned about one global each, by shredding local mobs.
We opened a Trade window, flushed all of Our moolah to Wwyhuh, then he executed aforementioned command, and after that freed 2 of his Advantage Points, on which he purchased "U-238 Rounds" Advantage for Minigun.
We: - Yeah, Wwyhuh won't survive explosion, he will be too close to reactor, and We need to get away... Inside library at first few seconds after radiation outburst, levels of radiation will be enough, to kill all the living things, but not vaporize all of the materials.
We took out needleless syringe with another serum from Alinea's backpack, and injected it to whole party, except Wwyhuh.
We: - This is the RAD-X, it will protect our bodies from lethal doses of radiation for several minutes after injection. Wwyhuh, shoot at the core after a minite, rest of us, run with Us!
And We dashed outside of the room, enjoying that very pleasant feeling, when rough floor impacts Our girlish feet.
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We met some of Qularr Drones on Our way, but just Palliated Our girlish body and flashed through - there's no time to fight left, they going to get nuked SoonTM anyway.
There's the library.
We: - Everyone, get right into this point, next to Us, brace for "Teleport to Ren Cen Device"!
And there's penetrating green light burst from somewhere below, that's power core went racing, as We assumed, but radiation isn't intense enough, to kill all of the possible lifeforms yet. The floor got heated that much, We felt it even through thick and hard pads of Our girlish feet, and it seemed - couple of moments, and Nuke Blast will occur...
We: - Now, switch your warps on, press & hold LMB on it in a tray with inventory closed, then drag cursor somewhere else on the screen, then release!
Two seconds, those seemed enernity for Us, Blue/Flash, and now We are...
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At the Renaissance Centre. And whole party is next to us, only Wwyhuh the Lamprey didn't return :C. And also on one of levitating tabloids, the newscaster messaged about anomaly radiation flash on Venus' surface, as if nuclear explosion has been occured there.
We: - Mates, let's honor fallen heroically Wwyhuh with a minute of silence.
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Already within HQ.
We: - And now let'z call Wwyhuh.
Into the connector:
We: - Wwyhuh, let'z return, charge another of your bodies to the Syndicate. Nuke Blast is still better than fodder for dawgez. This mission is accomplished succesfully, We got everything, what We were need of.
On the balcony Demaydayizer has materialized, Broot began to disembark Our precious loot from it, We opened a can of energy drink for teen girls "Amyjia" with cornflower flavour, and aL1n3A took a can of it with bellflower taste.
After this mission Our enemy's database has been updated, and following enemies have appeared.
Qularr Planet Burner:
Fire Bolts - standard ranged attack.
Fire Breath - classic.
Fireball - classic.
Fire Wave - can't be blocked or dodged, it roomwide, and you can jump or fly high enough to avoid it.
Backdraft - sucks in air with force, pulling like Gravitar's Blackhole, dealing constant Crushing Damage, after usage of this power Self-Combustion is executed immediately.
Self Combustion - this ability produces series of extremely powerful PBAoE Fire Blasts, those deal 50% irresistible, non-dodgeable Fire Damage.
Qularr Planet Burner is followed with three Greenfire World Burners, which have ramped up damage, and can be mezzed.
Qularr Planet Freezer:
Ice Shards - standard ranged attack.
Frost Breath - classic.
Frigid Ambience - forces all of the players and entities to lose Movement speed, power Charge speed and power Recharge speed.
Icy Floor - cools the whole floor of the room. Players and entities receive stackable Linger, which increases subsequent Cold Dmage ticks (the "Chilblain" Linger), it has a chance to produce a root construct with decent HP. Can't be dodged or resisted. Each tick produces splitable PBAoE damage, so players can "warm up" eachother, or oppositely, an entity, dropped onto the floor can damage a player, if he hovers nearby.
Icicles - there are Icicles, those grow constantly on the ceiling (above players and at random place), they are very durable, and have Invulnerability passive, they have a timer, and when it expires they drop, and if Icicle touches a player, it inflicts Cold Damage, Knock Down and Nailed to the Ground. They can be mezzed.
There's Qularr Jet Wings provided before this fight - a temporary device, that lets a player to hover in mid-air.
Qularr Planet Zapper:
Lightning Arc - maintained attack with decent damage, but 0.1 ticking rate, so is easily mitigated with subtraction.
Chain Lightning - deals some damage to the target, and can arc many times, dealing incredible damage to the close packed group.
Gigabolt - Gravitar-like cylinders, but if target is hit with it, another one in 50' receive same damage, they can Hold if blocked lately.
EMP Blast - electromagnetic pulse deals slight irresistible non-dodgeable Electrical Damage, but if player uses Travel Powers, or it hits non-playable entities, they produce intense irresistible non-dodgeable PBAoE Sphere with Electrical Damage. Variant 2 - all non blocked entities produce irresistible electric spheres around them, and everyone is NTTG'ed for a big while.
Electrify - electrifies random player, that player starts to pull another things across the room slowly, and if some entity gets close enough to him, there's Lightning Arc appears, that deals damage to both of them.
H-V Bolt - summons 3 ball lightnings, those are immune to all damage, but can be aggroed or mezzed. They inflict PBAoE Electrical Damage with Static Field, and also inflict stackable "Jammed" linger to the victim, this debuff reduces outgoing damage and healing drastically. These anomalies explode after lifetime is expired (shows in their tray), or instantly if Boss performs Thunderclap.
Thunderclap - untelegraphed, deals slight Sonic damage and Stun, but "H-V Bolts" get a linger "Explode!", and when they mezz out, they will produce powerful electric PBAoE boom around them, this can't be blocked or dodged.
Qularr Planet Restorer:
Disrupt Life - maintain, that deals Health Points "damage" type.
Flourish - green colored telegraphs light some places, and there Qularr Bulbs are spawned, if player stands within telegraphs, he gets unblockable "Grasping Vines" hold.
Grasping Vines - paralyze, it can't be avoided with early blocking (like mezzes of some PSI mobs).
Qularr Bulb - immovable enemy, it constantly maintains "Thorn Patch" for Piercing Damage beneath it, spits for Toxic Damage, has access to Epidemic for PBAoE Toxic Damage, and throws seeds for Crushing Damage and Knockback, and at place where a seed lands a new Qularr Bulb appears.
Extract Life - maintain, that deals Health Points "damage" type, Boss changes Disrupt life to it, when he has 1/3 HP, but Boss doesn't perform Fluorish anymore. This maintain heals the Boss, and his both Damage and Healing factors ramp up with target's Max HP, and # of "Adaptive Extraction" linger, which each tick of Extract Life adds to target.
Qularr Hive Queen:
Cheliceral Attack - base melee attack, deals Slashing Damage. This attack also imposes slight Toxic DoT "Qularr Saliva".
Lunge - deals Slashing Damage and snares the target, also heals the Queen for a bit.
Sticky Substance - this is Cone AoE with wide area, it paralyzes, if is not early blocked.
Head Bite - telegraphed, produces melee Cone AoE Slashing Damage that cannot be blocked, but can be resisted, dodged or avoided. Each entity that is suffered this heals the Queen for some HP.
Replicating Poison - spits the poison to the random player, and pours a toxic puddle underneath, which first tick can't be escaped. Those puddles impose "Replicating Poison" linger with DoT on a target, that doesn't have that currently, but if target already has - its timer is not refreshed. Puddles produce Toxic Damage and are blockable/resistible, but not dodgeable, DoT deals irresistible damage, scaling with target's max HP. Any non-poisened player or entity, that comes into a puddle will be poisoned. Venomous puddles dissipate after a while.
Throw Eggs - shoots out (spawns at random place) several Qularr Hive Pods, these things have decent HP and can be mezzed.
Enraged! - a buff, that imposed at the Queen at 2/3 health, and grants Resistance and Aviodance penetration.
Infuriated!!! - a buff, that imposed at the Queen at 1/3 health, and grants even bigger Resistance and Aviodance penetration.
Qularr Hive Males - have access to wide range of Knocking Back powers, deal primarily Crushing Damage, have Defiance passive and can't be mezzed.
Firebug - "firefly", that has Single Target maintained heat ray.
Freezebug - this one can incapacitate a player inside an icy construct, then they can't act or breakout on their own, you have to kill a bug in order to free a player.
Zapbug - powerful Charge Up Chain Lighting, it damages primarily target's surrounding, but not target itself.
Mendbug - has access to Arcane Vitality, that is used to heal other Qularr units, including Qularr Hive Pods or Qularr Hive Queen.