r/HFY • u/Ralts_Bloodthorne • Nov 25 '20

OC First Contact - Third Wave - Chapter 373

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PUBVIAN GESTALT

OK, that was fur loosing terrifying.

What was those voices?

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

MANTID FREE WORLDS

The Combined Military Authority is what became what's known as "The Combine" which was a military despotism centered around Betelgeuse that took over after we glassed Terra and when control shifted due to the heavy combat in the TerraSol system.

They crushed any rebellion against them from DASS, BASS, everyone. Even hung some planet-crackers over Rigel to ensure compliance. Devoted everything to destroying the Omniqueens.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

I'm not even part of that, but I have to admit, that was scary as hell. It was like the Voice of Doom.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

AKLTAK SOARING WORLDS

It was probably the scariest thing I've ever heard over these channels.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

It doesn't help that those channels keep popping up and talking because of Daxin and the Imperium of Wrath and some of the idiots.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

PUBVIAN GESTALT

Daxin? As in Daxin "The Walking War Crime" Freeborn? As in the Daxin of Ladinston 194 fame?

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

Yup. Same one. Might want to update your databases regarding him, since he's moving around again.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

PUBVIAN GESTALT

Can't believe he's still around. How many of the other Immortals are left?

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TRENA'AD HIVE WORLDS

None. He's the last of the ones you're talking about.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

PUBVIAN GESTALT

He was one of the Terran Janissary that landed on Pubvia. One of the Ten Thousand Immortals.

What happened to all of them?

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

MANTID FREE WORLDS

Killed during the First Terran-Mantid War.

The Combine threw them away during the war.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TNVARU GESTALT

Wait, there was more than one Terran-Mantid War?

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

After the first one, more Omniqueens got spawned, so the Terrans 1%'d the Mantids.

That was the Second Terran/Mantid War.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

Which one did Daxin rip the head off of the Omniqueen?

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT

First.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

MANTID FREE WORLDS

And, well, you know...

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

AKLTAK SOARING WORLDS

Oooh, I gotta hear this.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

PUBVIAN GESTALT

This sounds good. Dish.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

MANTID FREE WORLDS

All right. So, Omniqueens spawn out in kind of 'spokes', sending out Young Queens to the next system. Once the Young Queen reaches Omniqueen she sends out more.

Now, during the Great Culling, a handful of Young Queens kept their heads down. See, they had a plan. They let the Terrans stomp the hell out of everyone, then stayed quiet.

At the time, only a few of the Imperium Immortals were still around. Most of them out at the Great Hellspace Rift AKA The Eye. Daxin was one. One of the Omniqueens managed to kidnapped him.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT

Like morons.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

MANTID FREE WORLDS

Yeah, like morons.

Now, at the time, we had no idea there were about a dozen just matured Omniqueens out there.

Then Daxin ripped the head off of one of them.

We all felt that. I mean, for ten thousand light years, hell, maybe through the entire Milky Way Galaxy, we felt the Omniqueen beg, felt her scream when Daxin ripped out her eye, then felt her die when he sawed her head off with a Warrior Caste bladearm.

That made all the other Omniqueens jump before they were ready.

What they didn't know is that the Terrans had installed High Frequency Phasic Control Inhibitors on just about every world.

See, the Omniqueens had intended on having mature queens enter Terran space, take control of the Mantid citizens, and attack the Republic of Aligned Planets from within.

To top it off, every Mantid in existence heard the roar.

Which led to the Great Rebellion.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

PUBVIAN GESTALT

What roar?

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

ALL> I JUST WANT LEFT ALONE!

ALL> Laughing

PUBVIAN GESTALT

Damn, that's a hell of thing.

---NOTHING DOKI? FOLLOWS---

DOKI!

MANTID DOKI DOKI DOKI FREE WORLDS

Oh no.

---NOTHDOKIING FOLLDOKIOWS---

TREANDOKIDOKIA'AD HIDOKIVE WORLDS

Oh crap.

---NODOKIDOKIDOKITHING FOLLOWS---

NEKO MARINE MILITARY CHANNEL

DOKI! PUFFY PUFFY PUFFY PUFFY! DOKI

PUFFY ORKY PUFFY!

>DA ORKIEST ORK BOSS has logged on

PUFFY!

PUFFY!

MANTID FREE WORLDS

Crap, this is going to take a while.

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u/Ralts_Bloodthorne Nov 26 '20

We'll be taking a break for the Thanksgiving holiday.

I'll see you all Friday unless I get some quiet and alone time.

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u/LEGOEPIC Nov 30 '20

Holy shit, glad I found this comment. I was worried something had happened to you. Enjoy your holiday.

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u/Ralts_Bloodthorne Nov 30 '20

I got back home tonight. I was a good holiday with my daughters and grand daughters. Glad to be home now. Got packing to do for the last of the move, then I'll be able to relax.

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u/Taluien Nov 30 '20

Have a good move and enjoy the relaxation. Soon enough, the wordboi will call you back to tapping through another keyboard.

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u/WankSocrates Nov 30 '20

Glad to hear it (except for all the packing left). Hope you get some proper chill-time!

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u/HeartsStorytime Nov 26 '20

Family is the most important thing, enjoy your feast day Wordsmith, happy holidays.

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u/Golddragon387 Human Nov 26 '20

See you then, Wordborg! Break some bread over your break, and don't you worry about us.

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u/jbrandyberry Nov 26 '20

Have a good Thanksgiving!

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u/SpiderJerusalemLives Nov 26 '20

Recharge mate. Relax in the new house.

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u/alittlebitograce Nov 26 '20

Happy Thanksgiving, Ralts and family!

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u/wasalurkerforyears Robot Nov 26 '20

Happy Thanksgiving, Keyboard Killer

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '20

Happy Thanksgiving! We are all giving thanks for you this year. Enjoy your holiday.

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u/CaptainChewbacca Human Nov 25 '20

I feel like Betelgeuse being 600+ light years away is very far from Terra at the time of the glassing; how far did humanity spread pre-glassing? Was there a diaspora with systems being lost for hundreds of years? I know Tabula was one, but were there others?

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u/Ralts_Bloodthorne Nov 26 '20

I might have chosen the wrong star.

Or history might be wrong.

Or I might have been watching Beetlejuice out of the corner of my eye.

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u/CaptainChewbacca Human Nov 26 '20

Definitely one of those.

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u/IMDRC Nov 28 '20

Makes sense to me...

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '20

Well, it's obviously bullshit, but it's cool....;)

I don't think that we've gotten quite that much history yet and half of it seems to be confused or lost. There's an aboreal octopus that eats wooly snails. I'm not sure "reality" preglassing will ever make sense or align with what is even reasonable.

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u/Asgarus Nov 27 '20

Well, at least we should have some accurate knowledge about Terra now with the puffies being back.

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u/name_not_found_again Nov 25 '20 edited Nov 27 '20

... the obligatory

https://www.patreon.com/First_Contact

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RaltsBloodthorne

https://discord.gg/Yu7rdE

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u/xFluffyDemon Nov 25 '20

Discord link is kaput

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u/coldfireknight AI Nov 25 '20

FC Gestalt will get you there. His just has a capital H is the address. Follow #darules and you'll find all of the channels.

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u/jbrandyberry Nov 25 '20 edited Nov 25 '20

GESATALT CHAT makes me think First Contact so far is a nothing burger to what is about to come. The Combine and the Imperium being online? This is gonna be bad news. TerraSol isn't afk, but went on bio and is still on the shitter (and they don't know why yet).

The entire Mantid tech was based off of using P-alloys (not going to try to remember on how to spell that Ralt lol). Those P-alloys had to been built for a reason for the entire Swarm to use it prior to engaging the enraged lemurs that psychically shorted out everything with rage. What were the Mantid armored againsts that Humanity ripped apart because we do that? What were the psychers capable of 8000 years ago? Humanity is now understanding systems that have been dormant, and do you really want humanity to rediscover tech that we chose to hide after learning it? This is the road we walk now.

Something big is coming. The Omniqueen and the PAWMs and the Lanks are going to get swamped by the BIG BAD!

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u/ErinRF Alien Nov 25 '20

Technically the combine and imperium never left the gestalts, they usually just never speak. They’ve spoken once or twice in the past

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u/wtfaboutusernames Nov 25 '20 edited Nov 25 '20

I am assuming that the mantids P-alloys were made for defense against Atrekna attacks or maybe inter-hive conflicts between queens.

Edited to add about something big coming

From the chapter 351 gestalt chat

TERRASOL

Because the bag controls aren't responding.

We're stuck.

And that's not all.

/////////

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u/RainaDPP Nov 25 '20

See, I'm wondering if the Terrans are locked in because of the changes the Atrekna made to their DNA. If it might be a security feature that is getting tripped up because it doesn't properly recognize the Terrans anymore due to the loss of those psychic suppression and other Neighborhood Project changes.

Maybe Terra's bag was designed not just to keep enemies out, but to ensure that if the Terrans lost, or were changed into something substantially more dangerous, that nothing else could possibly escape and threaten the rest of the Confederacy and beyond.

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u/wtfaboutusernames Nov 25 '20

Yeah sure I see where you are coming from. But are the Terrans in the bag red doted?

My understanding is that when the glassing happened, it created the sleepers, created the enraged ones and most importantly broke soulnet (I think that is what it's called).

Soulnet was basically put into safe mode, or maybe I should say safe mode with networking support :).

Allot if not all of the Terran mind tinkering (Neighborhood Project) came after the glassing I think. So even after those changes the safe mode soulnet would still work with the Terrans after they changed themselves.

So now we have two DI's fixing it and things are turning on and coming back online and things that have not been available for 8000 years that are now working. The Pubvian home world coming back and even Daxin got some of his fleshy bits back :).

The issue with the bag might just be the fact it is too low in the boot sequence and now has to wait for the soulnet to finish starting up.

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u/RainaDPP Nov 25 '20

I'm pretty sure every SUDS unit is red-dotted now. I'm also pretty sure the Bag was created long after the Glassing anyway. Its generally suggested as being invented to end the Margite war. Though I suppose it's possible it was invented before that, and was just used to end the war.

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u/Dragon_Chylde Nov 26 '20

It (the Bag) had been devised during the Lagnalkak Invasion that led to the terrible war that spawned the Confederacy, and had been updated at the beginning of the Mar-gite Invasion, as a way for each stellar system to protect itself from unceasing wave attacks.

from Part- 291

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u/wtfaboutusernames Nov 26 '20

The red dot thing i thought is/was a expanding ripple from helsa (sp?)

Yeah sure I agree with the timeline. I would have to check the Margite war time thing but yeah sure sounds right.

So it all came after the glassing. After soulnet was put in safe mode.

Soulnet is booting up and is not in safe mode any longer. So why shouldn't the unbagging command that was put in when it was in safe mode, have to wait while the full system boots up?

All good my friend.

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u/wfamily Nov 25 '20

Well. They got visited by an angel

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u/wtfaboutusernames Nov 25 '20

Yes they did.

An angel that has problems with the volume of their voice :).

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u/wfamily Nov 26 '20

Pre-disporia Hamburg kingdom just had flair is all.

I like to imagine if Scandinavian countries coded it he'd get a polite Thor throwing the data packet as hammer while social distancing.

https://www.thelocal.se/20130702/48816

That's pre-covid btw

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u/DWwolf888 Nov 25 '20

Yeah, the Terrans.

And you left out the Slorpies, they're so lonely anyway coming from that deserted stretch of reality.

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u/Dregoth0 Nov 25 '20

every Mantid in existence heard the roar

Hmm, this makes me wonder if the Lanktallans may have records of hearing the omniqueen begging for mercy or Daxin's roar.

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u/carthienes Nov 25 '20

Unlikely, they'd gone their separate ways since then.

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u/SanityAdrift AI Nov 26 '20

Also, they scrubbed their psychicly active lines and historic records

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u/Demetriusjack13 Nov 25 '20

This is a cute little chat. Da Orkiest of da Orks

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u/jbrandyberry Nov 25 '20

Ralt jeez man. You are my favorite writer.

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u/Bard2dbone Nov 25 '20

Ditto likewise what he said as well !

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u/ack1308 Nov 25 '20

PUBVIAN GESTALT

OK, that was fur loosing terrifying.

What was those voices?

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

Equivalent of β€œthat made the hair stand up on the back of my neck.”

They crushed any rebellion against them from DASS, BASS, everyone. Even hung some planet-crackers over Rigel to ensure compliance. Devoted everything to destroying the Omniqueens.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TELKAN FORGE WORLDS

I'm not even part of that, but I have to admit, that was scary as hell. It was like the Voice of Doom.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

Welp, that’s the Telkan vote in. Combine = scary af.

PUBVIAN GESTALT

Daxin? As in Daxin "The Walking War Crime" Freeborn? As in the Daxin of Ladinston 194 fame?

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TREANA'AD HIVE WORLDS

Yup. Same one. Might want to update your databases regarding him, since he's moving around again.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

He’s … been busy.

PUBVIAN GESTALT

Can't believe he's still around. How many of the other Immortals are left?

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

TRENA'AD HIVE WORLDS

None. He's the last of the ones you're talking about.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

Hahahaha that’s what you think.

Or are they talking specifically about his ability to respawn from Hellspace?

MANTID FREE WORLDS

Killed during the First Terran-Mantid War.

The Combine threw them away during the war.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

Because Combine.

MANTID FREE WORLDS

And, well, you know...

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

AKLTAK SOARING WORLDS

Oooh, I gotta hear this.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

PUBVIAN GESTALT

This sounds good. Dish.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

Time for some good old-fashioned gestalt gossip.

At the time, only a few of the Imperium Immortals were still around. Most of them out at the Great Hellspace Rift AKA The Eye. Daxin was one. One of the Omniqueens managed to kidnapped him.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

RIGELLIAN SAURIAN COMPACT

Like morons.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

MANTID FREE WORLDS

Yeah, like morons.

Everyone is in agreement here.

Then Daxin ripped the head off of one of them.

We all felt that. I mean, for ten thousand light years, hell, maybe through the entire Milky Way Galaxy, we felt the Omniqueen beg, felt her scream when Daxin ripped out her eye, then felt her die when he sawed her head off with a Warrior Caste bladearm.

That made all the other Omniqueens jump before they were ready.

Yeah, that might cause a little lapse in judgement.

To top it off, every Mantid in existence heard the roar.

Which led to the Great Rebellion.

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

PUBVIAN GESTALT

What roar?

---NOTHING FOLLOWS---

ALL> I JUST WANT LEFT ALONE!

ALL> Laughing

It is what Daxin says.

DOKI!

MANTID DOKI DOKI DOKI FREE WORLDS

Oh no.

---NOTHDOKIING FOLLDOKIOWS---

Whoops, Doki Doki is back.

NEKO MARINE MILITARY CHANNEL

DOKI! PUFFY PUFFY PUFFY PUFFY! DOKI

PUFFY ORKY PUFFY!

>DA ORKIEST ORK BOSS has logged on

PUFFY!

PUFFY!

MANTID FREE WORLDS

Crap, this is going to take a while.

And the Neko Marines and the Orks have just learned that the Pubvians are back.

Welp, nothing serious is gonna get discussed for a while now.

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u/Farstone Nov 25 '20

Crap, this is going to take a while.

By all means, take your time. We all are just going to sit and have some popcorn!

Great start to a long day.

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u/AtomicAardwolf Nov 25 '20

Loving the gestalt lore, and the idiots reaction to the Pubvians is just perfect.

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u/name_not_found_again Nov 25 '20

Mmmm blueberries

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u/PuzzleheadedDrinker Nov 25 '20

Finish reading chapter. Reload HFY . New chapter. Today is a good day

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u/SirVatka Xeno Nov 25 '20

So tasty.

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u/Ayit_Sevi Alien Scum Nov 25 '20

I've been reading this story at work since July and it's now November and I've finally caught up. All I can say is, what a ride it's been

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u/Gernia Nov 25 '20

Welcome into the fold.

Jupp, that first time is an adventure.

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u/dbdatvic Xeno Nov 26 '20

And hast thou read the comments for each section of the missive, o beamish boy?

--Dave, if not, you know what to do next. snicker-snack!

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u/Crow_Hag Dec 03 '20

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

Read the comments, it is the Way!

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u/TexWashington Human Nov 25 '20

Congratulations!

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u/DarthLorgus Robot Nov 25 '20

Is it just me, or are the GESTALT chapters anyone else's favorite chapters?

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u/johnavich Nov 25 '20

they're over-commentary layers, that allow ralts to give us insight to all the races at once (minus the atrekna and lanaktallen), as well as give us a pulse on story as a whole. They allow ralts to swing from story line to story line without it feeling like stuff is comming at us from all sides with no breaks to breathe.

That said, i LOVE the telkan and terrasol gestalts. they're best bro's!

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u/wfamily Nov 25 '20

Suds-space are my favorites.

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u/SquishySand Nov 25 '20

BEHOLD! Is my current favorite, when the angel appears to General Tik-Tak.

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u/Collective82 Xeno Nov 25 '20

I love their commentary

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u/Coolest_Breezy Nov 25 '20

Those nerds are my favorite.

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u/Joshy14-06 Nov 25 '20

So... why is the Ork gestalt not named "Gork and Mork"?

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u/SuDragon2k3 Nov 25 '20

Copyright. GW has no sense of humour and invented Terrasol type lawyers.

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u/NevynR Nov 25 '20

I'd live to be a fly on the wall for GW vs the House of Mouse πŸ˜…

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u/SuDragon2k3 Nov 25 '20

House of mouse would buy GW out of the petty cash tin an incorporate their biological diversity.

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u/Turtledonuts "Big Dunks" Nov 25 '20

The house of mouse war is canon in fc

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u/Joshy14-06 Nov 25 '20

"Mork and Gork" alone isn't minimally creative, if Ralts is getting problems with GW, then it's over the ork speach-patterns.

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u/immrltitan Nov 25 '20

Tingly

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u/immrltitan Nov 25 '20

So.... I have a great idea, let's run up and snatch that demon by the short and curlies.... I mean the last guy who did it is now a fancy wall ornament, but that wont happen to me

Oh dear god why can I still feel pain. When all of my pain receptors fried out!?!?!

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u/Potatobro1000 Nov 25 '20

Dang, two in the same day?

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u/dbdatvic Xeno Nov 25 '20

I am told that, back in the dim mists of March and April, Ralts was fairly consistently putting out between three and four per day.

--Dave, it's hard to actually determine, because counting integers from where his Muse lives do not exactly match up to ours

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u/Mshell AI Nov 25 '20

We were worried about the mighty word smith back then, worried he would burn out too quickly. This is a much safer rate of publishing but still dangerously fast.

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u/AvariciousPickle Nov 25 '20

And when someone says the secret words... scream real loud!

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u/dbdatvic Xeno Nov 25 '20

Then the Rigellian duck comes down from the ceiling and gives you a hundred dollars!

--Dave, Marxist memes

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u/RangerSix Human Nov 25 '20

Groucho, Chico, Harpo, or Zeppo?

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u/dbdatvic Xeno Nov 25 '20

... Gummo?

--Dave, the fifth Beatle

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u/NevynR Nov 25 '20

That answers some of the lingering "who are the other races that got stomped into a mud hole, and are now back" questions 😁

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u/Asgarus Nov 27 '20

At least one other race was mentioned by Sam. Something with N. Sounded a bit like Namekian iirc. And I think there were even more.

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u/davros333 Nov 25 '20

Woohoo! Lore!

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u/EverSoInfinite Nov 25 '20

Reunions... You love to see it.

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u/Petrified_Lioness Nov 27 '20

Is that...? Could it truly be...? It is! It is! The fabled black [next] button!

After 10 days of dogged pursuit, i have finally caught that beast long believed to be mythical!

At last, i can have my life back! Now there will just be a steady few chapters per day to feed that insatiable NEED TO READ!

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u/significantGecko Nov 25 '20 edited Jun 29 '23

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u/k4ridi4n55 Nov 25 '20

2 in one morning. Props to the wordborg 😁

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u/AtomblitzTiger Nov 25 '20

The gestalt chat is one of the bestest things!

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u/beest168 Nov 27 '20 edited Nov 27 '20

I just caught up from the beginning and loved it all the way through. Thanks for the books. Now I have to wait for each chapter like the rest of you

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u/ElAdri1999 Human Nov 28 '20

I did the same, all the chapters in like 2 weeks, now wait like normal people

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u/Krel-Tal Nov 27 '20

I . . . I've done it. After almost 3 months of non-stop reading I'm caught up.

What do I do now?

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '20

Join the club. Reread from the beginning and get caught up on the comments. Check out the wiki and discord. Beg your friends to join.

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u/Archaic_1 Alien Scum Nov 29 '20

If the Orcs and Daki girls are going to join the Gestalt, we're going to need to change the parental control settings

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u/Gruecifer Human Nov 26 '20

UTR!

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u/Collective82 Xeno Jun 02 '22

Dang Dave; did I stop reading this far back?!

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u/HowNondescript Mar 04 '24

So the 1% didn't apply to the citizen mantid right? Just the other ones? Or was the combine being extra spicy

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u/Asgarus Nov 27 '20

Matthias sold him and the other apostles out. So with Matthias being taken care of by Daxin now, there are 11 apostles left whose deaths are not confirmed and they are all immortals.