Chapter IIa: Absolute Disaster

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Mar 22, 2019 4:52 pm
Cass grins. It pulls on the skin grafts, but not as badly as the weird steely one she'd done earlier. "I like it. That brings up an important point, though - there's a substantial chance that any or all of the prisoners have been affected. We need a plan for how we're going to deal with that contingency."
Mar 22, 2019 4:53 pm
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Hey! You're supposed to be sick, but now you're trolling us with renaming threads.
Mar 22, 2019 5:04 pm
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Nice, Spinach. Tell us how you really feel XD
Moira scrunches her forehead.

Hm. A shuttle with a strike team ta bring our folks back manually? It's old-fashioned......

She looks to the others for insight.
Mar 22, 2019 5:15 pm
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We know what we signed up for haha
" Marbo has a concern. If the crew and hostages are infected by the parasites, then the parasites wont tell us that. They could infiltrate the potential.

Also, they can survive in open space. Nothing stopping them from latching on to the outside of the shuttle and coming into the potential. Would need to set up a localized field array using the same biofilter as the transporter."


Marbo pulls some graphs up on his datapad and shows everybody a crudely drawn animation of a a stickman with a sluginside its head, waddling into an even worse drawing of the potential, and then all the stickmen in there get slugs in their head, and then a game over screen pops up.

"Would be better to eliminate the threat using a biologically targeted agent. Marbo can whip something up. Dna samples of the creatures are surely available from the woman inside stasis."
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The similarites between marbo and mordin grow even closer, as marbo may get to create a xenophage to exterminate a very aggressive race.
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Mar 22, 2019 5:25 pm
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Someone else would do it wrong.
Mar 22, 2019 5:32 pm
lavtodd says:
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Someone else would do it wrong.
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I really am overdue for a mass effect replay.
Mar 22, 2019 5:33 pm
Hey, I didn't approve that.

Yet.
Mar 22, 2019 5:38 pm
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We both know that as soon as Marbo had the idea he was already designing it in his head. Maybe i can make it as a backup plan. If all else fails it could be released aboard the potential, and through our external vents as we cruised this system, to selfreplicate and clear the slugs. and then we wouldnt risk all of us dying, and somebody else discovering the slugs and them spreading further.


We could call it the Mass Extinction of Space Slugs. or MESS for short.
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Mar 22, 2019 5:43 pm
Moira still isn't too comfortable with the thought of genocide, though the individual that got Cass and Marbo deserved far worse.

Doctor, what do we do ta save our people? If they've taken organs out, even with a targeted agent, we'll still be beamin' back a ton'a ....

She wanted to say "throatless folk" but realized it was too soon.

A ton'a code reds.
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Mar 22, 2019 5:49 pm
RobbOgden93 says:
lavtodd says:
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Someone else would do it wrong.
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I really am overdue for a mass effect replay.
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I am struck with the overwhelming urge to hug you both right now (I started a ME replay last week, incidentally)
Mar 22, 2019 5:52 pm
"The host bodies are not alive once the parasites are inside them. The disconnection the the brain stem makes it impossible. They are being used like suits. Marbo got lucky. The slugs are ruthless, and if we have to choose between killing a thousand slugs or risking exponential expansion of a hostile parasitice race, Marbo chooses te former."
Mar 22, 2019 5:53 pm
78RPMLife says:
RobbOgden93 says:
lavtodd says:
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Someone else would do it wrong.
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I really am overdue for a mass effect replay.
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I am struck with the overwhelming urge to hug you both right now (I started a ME replay last week, incidentally)
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Going 1 to 3 using the "continue old save" method? I goofed up a whole run doing that once trying to romance tali, and then in the third one i sided with Legion and the geth because he could make them what they were supposed to be, which was a friendly sentient race capable of great things. Tali got pissed.
Mar 22, 2019 5:55 pm
Moira loses some color in her face.

And they snap tha brain stem immediately? There's no transition? Like, they don't start at tha stomach 'r' somethin'? Commander, why don't we start tha course to their coordinates now. We can figure out tha rest on tha way........
Mar 22, 2019 6:00 pm
"Based on marbos personal injuries, it seems the brain stem is the first place they attempt to disconnect so they can control it. Prevent the host from trying to dig them out while they take over other organs as well. Hence why they must be dealt with, quickly and severely. Marbo does not wish to see the end of civilization due to his own inaction."
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Mar 22, 2019 6:03 pm
And if any of ours are infected. Like Zephyr. Or... Well, ah suppose Mike's fine. But what'll we do then?
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Mar 22, 2019 6:06 pm
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Perform Funerary rights and services.


Marbo puts on his Ray-Bans.
Mar 22, 2019 6:08 pm
"Marbo is not certain. It is a sad thing to think about, but marbo has been too close to these creatures. He understands what it feels like. All marbo wished for when he knew he was about to be taken was death.

Worst case scenario would be cybernetic organ implants, and a lot of them. Further insight required."
Mar 22, 2019 6:16 pm
"Nope," Cass says. "Nope, I refuse to accept that the host is lost. If any of our people are infected, they haven't been so very long. The medical department's priority, other than treating my first officer for the wounds she thinks she's still hiding, is to come up with a plan for saving any of our crew who come back to us hosting an unwanted puppeteer."

She realizes how many times she's bitched about a captain making a wholly unreasonable, even impossible demand, and not taking impossible for an answer. Being on the other side of that dynamic is a pleasant change.
Mar 22, 2019 6:17 pm
So.....Commander.......tha coordinates? Yer ship's ready fer warp.
Mar 22, 2019 6:26 pm
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The bridge has the coordinates. You can just give the order and be on your way
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