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Let's *All* Play [Star Wars: The Old Republic] Let the hate bro through you.
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Heh, ok.
You asked for it.
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On the Jedi Covenant server, Empire side, we have The Lost Squadron.
I'm not sure what the Republic side guild's name is.
@Cambiata would know. I'll place both names in the OP.
Also, we have a global chat, in case you want to be in a different guild. Just type
/cjoin pennyarcade
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The guild I'm on on the Republic side is an awesome guild and has a couple of PAers in it besides myself, but it's really not a Penny Arcade guild. It's called Dominus Nihil if you are interested in a good casual guild that raids on the regular, though. Full 10% xp. http://www.dominusnihil.com/forums is where you sign up, send me a PM if you want to apply but can't get into the forums.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Not sure I like the sound of that. As for the guild stuff, I'll probably join up with TLS once I'm off Hutta.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Just check your mail when you have a chance. I'm not sure how long mail takes, but...
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I'm such a flirt. :winky:
OMG! I'm seriously excited right now!
Let's go, Khem. Super-sprint time!
Hurry up or I swear to Space Christ, I will leave you here!
"Master, I would like to talk to you."
Fuck that. Zash has a surprise for me and we're not stopping for shit!
"I was hoping we could stop by the cantina, Master."
Oh.
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Oh my, you wanted to talk about me? That's my third favorite subject!
D'aaaaw, you're such a sweetie.
Says you.
Top ten at least. Definitely behind booze and women.
Speaking of my favorite things, let's do a round before we report to Zash!
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Now to debate if I should drop the cash for the month sub to get some bells and whistles...
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It's Cartel armor, anyone can wear it. Crispian wears the same set.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
But mine's cooler. 8-)
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It's a sexy combination of eradicator and valiant armor, with just a hint of pretentious toothpick.
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Welcome back. After taking a break to complete Hutta's Heroics for some sweet gear and crazy old man tears, we're returning to our main story. Which is tracking down a former accountant of Nem'ro and hack his head off for traumatized wife tears. But first we'll be visiting that location with the green arrow.
If you recall, a crackhead spicehead purveyor of spice at Nem'ro's cantina asked us to trash a rival's chances at getting spice from the Hutt by planting an electric bomb on the tank of Hutt-caviar to fry it all.
Seeing this is Hutta, the rival's smart enough to use security droids while he's away. Not that their metal frames are tough enough to withstand my new Flamethrower, the three you can't completely see all dropping in one three-second burst.
Once the droids are gone, we can slap the bomb onto the glass(?) of the obviously invisible eels.
Crap, it looks like he also bought a Xfinity Home Security package from Comcast-Hutta. Think fast!
What, your droids? I found them like this. No, I don't know why their faces are half-melted. Do you see a blowtorch on me?
So Nokril here is indeed the 'laser-brained smuggler' Getzo mentioned to us and he's actually pretty calm about some stranger busting into his place to wreck a deal of his. Especially as he's working for the Empire, trying to get the spice to use as ingredients for a new brand of painkiller. He's sadly out of any test-samples but he's willing to pay us if we ditch the bomb and let him know who hired us in the first place. Considering that a) we're going to be getting a lot of work from the Empire soon and b) Getzo's more likely to...er, do whatever one does with spice to get it inside of them if he gets it...
We'll meet both Nok and Getzo later, once we're done with the Rust Yards.
Speaking of which, the Rust Yards' speeder-point is the last you'll find in Hutta, leading to the area containing Nem'ro's former factory and the last mission area of Hutta. In between and where we're at is another work-camp of sorts but minus any Evocii.
Before doing anything, we'll drop off Rudd's datapad of sabotage his blond friend here. In turn, we get the Codex entry for their race.
Right, time for extra job hunting. First up is this odd-talking fella called Kraay, another covert agent of Nem'ro's who claims to have found a gaping problem while taking care of dirty buisness at the factory.
Unless it's a direct job from Nem'ro. Then it's less making holes and more 'By the Emperor, why are you putting that hacksaw to my ne-EEERRGKKK!!!'
As it turns out, the 'hole' in Nem'ro's security is a smuggler of his accidentally caught for slave labor over at the factory. Kraay wants us to try freeing him by taking a device that'll shut off the shock-collar the smuggler should be sporting by now and help him escape. And if we can't for some reason..?
Employee of the Month material right here.
Next up is this delightful couple, Ezra and Rand.
And if you still haven't succeeded, then RELOAD RELOAD RE-RE-RELOAD!!
Ahem, sorry about that. Anyway, the reason for Rand's bum leg is that it got hurt while he was scrounging around the factory's courtyard for power-cells. See, with Fa'athra taking the slave labor route, Rand and Ezra haven't been able to buy any food until they found someone willing to swap some for the old but still useable cells chucked outside. All we have to do is pick up enough and get them charged inside the factory to trade for several weeks' worth.
So, the factory grounds. They aren't too bad when it comes to the enemies hanging around it. The only wrinkle is the droid I'm targeting at the moment. See his buff? As soon as I start attacking, he'll briskly walk right over to me and self-destruct right in my face. He's pretty wimpy in the hit-point count however, so a couple of shots will drop him quickly.
The cells we're looking for come in the containers seen with our talk with Ezra and Rand before. There's also a Bonus Mission involving shooting down a particular brand of mooks outside, the Rust Runners.
At the same time I'm looking for the cells, I'm circling around the factory for the three generators I have to blow to lower the security field (AKA activate the instance-gate) between me and Yalt. Shooting the mooks by the generators also grants a Bonus Mission to drop another type of enemy, Industrial Guards.
And on the way, I get a mission-notice on my map on the other side of the Rust Yards' wall. Making a quick detour to check it out, I pick up a Codex entry for another of Hutta's wildlife.
Not far from a downed ship in a river is another dead body with a Terminal Mission. It seems like no one will be getting any spice from Nem'ro unless someone dredges the river and the shores for the canisters that spread all over the crash-site.
Complicating matters are the oversized geckos roaming around the barrels, though killing them happens to be a Bonus Mission as well as a way to pick up their Codex entry.
Getting back on the factory's grounds, I make another off-course move by checking out the two little islands that barely show up north of my position. I can't get on the island I want to though since the slopes on it are too steep.
Instead I jump on these row of pipes here, following it to the end...
...where I have to use this unit to the right of me to hop over to the pipes ahead, not an easy feat to do with the game's jumping physics so be ready to try this a couple of times.
It's worth it though to get what's by that Chemilizard.
This is Hutta's last Datacron, raising a stat that hasn't been mentioned before called Presence. I'll go more into it when what the stat does come into play. Enjoy the Codex entry from the Datacron in the meantime.
With those diversions out of the way, I clear out what's left of the generators, power-cells and mooks to finally be able to enter the main section of the factory. Seeing as this update's gotten a bit too long as is, we'll leave that for...
Next Time: Just how cheap can one Hutt get with his workforce?
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
I've always gone with 3 (long hair) because, well, long hair while still having a similar face (except for implants).
I prefer default, but if you don't like that, 3; it looks most like her.
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I tried 3 for a little while on my Fem BH, but that face looks pretty much exactly like one of my nieces and I ended up feeling weird about it.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I'm guessing by selling crafting mats.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I suppose assholes come from all walks of life; meatheads and intellectuals equally.
I don't. Killing that dick was the highlight of my week.
Oh, here's the relic.
:winky:
:winky: :winky:
Well...
What did one magnet say to the other?
I'm attracted to you!
Ghosts have a 16.6667% chance to hate science jokes.
Oy, if you didn't like that joke, you're a prude. Both Zash and Khem smiled.
You've been dreaming about me again?
:winky: :winky: :winky:
Interesting. Zash foresaw me pacifying Kallig by "humbling myself." It didn't exactly go down that way. Sure, I got my ass kicked, but I wasn't humble about it. Now she foresees that only I can command the power of this Tulak Hord ritual. We'll see how that plays out, when the time comes. I should note that since that amazing scene with Kallig and the Dark Temple's environment design and atmosphere, I have been completely drawn into the story and I want to see how this all plays out.
That's Grandpa for ya.
Two of the artifacts are somewhere on Balmorra and Nar Shaddaa (is the extra 'a' at the end really necessary? The two 'd's already make 'Sha' a soft vowel.). So that's two whole fucking planets that I get to search. Hopefully Darth Zash can narrow the range down further once I get on the ground. She also needs to find out where the last two artifacts are located.
Oh boy!
A... A ship?
:shock:
I'VE ALWAYS WANTED A SPACESHIP!
Eat me. I'm getting a spacesh-What the fuck are you doing?
OW!
DON'T BITE ME, ASSHOLE!
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What Cambiata said.
Since I spend a lot of my time taking screenshots, deciding which ones to use, uploading them, and then making posts, I just send off Khem and my robo-butler to gather mats and I sell them while I do all that.
When I started playing, I took synthweaving, but I later dropped it for cybertech so that I can more easily upgrade my adaptive armor. Ends up that underworld metals sell for a fuckton. Specifically, grade 1 and 3 underworld metals. Grade 2 sells ok, but 4 and 5 sell like ass compared to the time and credits it takes to acquire them. I'm talking about the blue quality metals of course. The epic quality sells for quite a bit more.
So not only can I keep myself and Khem constantly up to date on gear, I can also make a lot of money.
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It usually just works itself out, cause I'll just keep crafting the same thing over and over until I get the blue quality recipe for my current level.
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Copying them over took longer than anticipated, because once a thread is closed, you cannot edit a post. This means I couldn't simply select-all and copy over. I had to copy each line and image individually. Also, I resized each of the 400+ images to better fit the forums rules. Instead of being sized at 1920x180 and over 1mb in size, all of my images are now 1600x900 and most are under 1mb.
I also did a few small things, like clean up any grammar or spelling errors that I found. It seems that I like to toss around a lot of commas.
Lastly, I experimented with adding color for when my companion's speak, so that it'll be easier to tell which one is speaking in the future.
All of that said, let's continue the story of Rhaevos, the sexiest Inquisitor alive...
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"Master, the ship isn't going anywhere."
You don't know that, now move your ass!
Oh.
My.
Space God!
Oooooh, I can feel it. I can feel your power...
What's that?
You want me inside you?
Who the hell are you and why are you on my ship?
Wait, "Toovee Arrate" we're actually doing this? Seriously?
It's 2V-R8! Why in the fucking fuck would I ever phonetically spell out a goddamn number/letter designation? I don't call it an Emfore or Kaytoo, it's an M4 and K2. It's not Threepio or Artoo or any of that, it's 3PO and R2. Two to four simple letters and numbers, not a twelve letter name.
Ok, rant off.
So... you're useless and I should paint a huge target on you. Got it.
Now tell me about my ship.
Oh yeah...
Codex Entry - Fury-class Imperial Interceptor
Captain Rhaevos? Oh man, the galaxy is fucked!
Is that Corellian leather?
"Ah... Yes, master."
Corellia is famous for it's leather!
Move aside, we're taking off.
"Master, I should warn you that this vessel is brand new and still needs to be broken in. So it would be wise to not over work it."
WOOOOOOOOOOO!
WOOOOOOOOOOO!
"Master, did you hear me?"
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
"Oh no..."
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But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Heheh.
Kana, you read me like a book.
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That armor had it's hood constantly up and it was annoying me in cutscenes.
I replaced it with a similar armor, but with the hood down. Unfortunately, it's gold colored so I bought a sexy dye for it. Dark-gray and black. Appropriate broody, emo Sith coloring. It won't show up for an update or two.
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Ten steps ahead of you:
EDIT: My inquisitor and smuggler have these for their droids. I really wanted my Knight and Agent to have the tux ones.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I do like how the valiant armor looks like Cerberus armor when dyed black. It's black and silver, with a gold, broken circle on the chest...
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I think it was originally to differentiate between "droid model" and "character". In books and such, Luke doesn't call R2-D2 "R2", he calls him "Artoo". People who don't know him call him "your R2 unit".
I think 2V-R8 is aware of the fourth wall, and tried to get himself some named character plot armor. (He needn't have worried; this is still an MMO.)
Am I that transparent?
That's exactly the direction I'm going in.
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Hey all. Last time we did the prep-work needed to take care of a few missions inside the factory at Hutta's Rust Yards. Time to head inside and check out how bad Fa'athra's laborers have it.
The factory's much like the Muckworks with three floors and a basement. Besides the guards, there's also friendly-to-us slave-labor here and there. Said slaves by the way all tend to look like this guy which could possibly make players with PC tendencies a mite uncomfortable.
Let's start with the sub-bottom floor and work our way above ground. Thankfully there's only slaves in the basement so there's nothing stopping us from checking this cell.
Out from it (with no door-opening animation to boot) comes our missing smuggler. Zeven here is a Mirialan, a playable race that's normally only available to subscribers and one of two exclusive to the Republic side of the game though both can be fixed by simply buying a server-unlock for them from the cash-shop.
He's also a pretty nice guy, wanting to use the device we got from Kraay to turn off the other slaves' collars too.
Ooops, looks like there was supposed to be one of 'these poor people' in this shot.
But yes, Zeven refuses to leave unless we free the others, worried that they'd pay for his escape. We could just kill him and take that chip from his skull to prove he's dead but I guess it wouldn't hurt to imitate Araminta Ross for a while.
As it turns out, we don't have to free everyone in the factory but just five of the slaves (you'd think Zeven would want six instead). As two of them are in the basement and if you're feeling particularly lazy, one can free them and then take a few minutes break while waiting for them to respawn under the guise of the guards presumably kicking more down the elevator shaft.
Once we've unzapped the shock out of enough collars, Zeven thanks us and bails stage right back to Kraay to let him know the good news.
Out of the hole and up the ramp, we hit the second floor where the rest of our objectives are. First up is the room by the ramp where the recharge station for the power-cells is.
Whoa, easy there, I almost shot you! Who the heck are you supposed to be?
Oh. Bummer. Yeah, it seems Fa'athra found out about the whole cells-for-food trading going on and doesn't like it, willing to take it out on his own workers since the guards haven't been able to stop it yet. The desperate foreman here doesn't care whom we're giving the cells to though but rather the guy taking the cells. One problem with that though.
The foreman has one solution for that.
We could just put our hand to this guy's face and shove past him without the tracker but it's not like he wants to get our clients in trouble, just their supplier. Plus they did say the swap would keep them fed for weeks so that's plenty of time to find a new route for food. But hey, nameless foreman, just remember...!
Yeah, yeah, don't tell them either.
Our last stop's next to the recharge room. I took this shot because of the view and totally not because I went the wrong way.
The second we step inside, Yalt dives behind an overturned meeting table while some thugs inside try to stop us. All three are regular mooks so they're not really much of a threat. I can't help wondering what happened before I got here since the table was like that when we arrived. Oh well, let's see what his story is.
Whoa, relax there guy. I haven't even told you who I am yet. Don't go freaking out into a heart attack or something.
So yeah, he didn't get kidnapped or at least not how I thought. He simply left Nem'ro for more cash only for Fa'athra to tell him the moment he switched sides that the accounting department fell under the factory's general slave-labor employment plan. Also threatened his wife though I don't see how the Hutt would get to her seeing the missus is inside the cantina at Nem'ro's palace. Fa'athra certainly comes across as cheap though, tricking a guy into basically kidnapping himself. Yalt knows somehow who we're from though and is willing to do anything to get out of being part of the Hutta Chainsaw Massacre.
To that end, he's willing to use the same 'magic' Fa'athra wanted him for, trashing the Hutt's accounts and leaving him with practically no money while Yalt and his wife flees the planet during the chaos and Nem'ro's happy dance. Not a bad plan and all but...
Hmmm, that'll work. One fade to and from black later:
Neat how Light Side options are the majority here for Yalt while Huttsbane's last choice had Dark Side ones as the two out of three.
Hope Yalt's wife pulls off a convincing performance when she runs out of Nem'ro's. At any rate, hacking off an old man's head isn't exactly a rep-builder and hey, he got me some extra cash s-
...Yalt? Yalt, are you still here?!
Dammit. Ugh, let's go wrap up our missions.
First up is Rand and Ezra, both glad to see us despite the chores Rand will have to do on his bum leg. As the foreman asked, we don't tip them off about the tracker. I'm sure they'll be ok anyway. I mean, Hutta's not THAT bad of a place, is it?
Next up is Kraay who lets us know with his special word-phrasing how smart it was to both retrieve Zeven and deprive Fa'athra of workers. He even hooks us up with some cash Zeven left behind though if it actually impacts the cash reward I can't tell.
And as for the crashed spice shipment, we actually have to jog back to the work camp's QT-terminal (since I QTed right out of the factory). Tivlik here is pretty glad we bailed the spice out of the drink.
He's in fact so glad he hooks us up with a new gun, making the hike through the hip-deep muck quite worthwhile. And with that, we'll pause for now.
Next Time: Aren't you supposed to be blonder, fitter and packing two weasels?
A reminder to anyone who hasn't voted yet; you've still have a chance to make your opinion known until I post the next update. I also plan to add an additional vote at the end of that one.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Sounds more like the work of an evil genius imo.
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"Master?"
"Master, you have an incoming transmission from Imperial Fleet Command."
What the hell, 2V?
"Master, you have a-"
I heard you the first time! Patch it through.
Get to the point fast, Commander.
It's hard to stand with such a throbbing erection pushed up against a durasteel codpiece.
Oh? What a coincidence, I happen to be looking for something to test my awesome laser cannons on.
:winky:
All right. 2V, set a course for the Nez Peron system and then bring up some space vodka!
Khem, get up here!
You and I are gonna take a shot for every fighter I shoot down.
"..."
Ready?
Set...
GO!
You'd figure asteroids of that size would aggregate into a planetoid or something.
Ok, where are these fighters at?
There's one, chase 'em down!
"Master, the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are 3,720 to 1... when sober!"
WOOOOOOOOOOO!
"Maker, help me!"
Booyakasha!
What the shit..?
2V... Why is my goddamn engine on fire?!
"But... master... I said that the Fury hasn't been completely broken in yet. The sub-light engines are overheating and we're losing power to the shields and blasters."
GOD DAMNIT!
Zash is gonna kill me.
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Hutts are the epitome Lazy, Evil Genius. I mean, you really think they're gonna do any real work to make money when they can get others, or even better the actual victim, to exploit themselves?
It's an ugly planet. A bug planet. A planet hostile to life.
Would you like to know more?
WAR
The Killik hive swarms!
Out of the ashes of Rhu Caenus comes first sorrow; then anger.
The only good bug, is a dead bug!
In the Juran Mountains, the Imperial council convenes.
We must meet the threat with our valor, our blood, indeed with our very lives. To insure that human civilization, not insect dominates this galaxy now and always!
Ground-marshal Thul announces plans for an offense against the Killik hive, source of the bug assault that destroyed Rhu Caenus spaceport.
Would you like to know more?
Everyday, Imperial scientists are looking for new ways to kill bugs.
Your basic formicid warrior isn't too smart, but you can blow off a limb...
and it's still 86% combat effective. Here's a tip. Aim for the nerve-stem, and put it down for good.
Would you like to know more?
Young people from all over the galaxy are joining up to fight for the future.
I'm doing my part.
I'm doing my part.
I'm doing my part.
We're doing our part too.
They're doing their part. Are you? Join the Imperial Infantry and save the galaxy. Service guarantees citizenship.
Would you like to know more?
We now break net and take you live to battle-group Tulak, deep inside the formicid quarantine zone, where the men and women of the Imperial Armed Services prepare to attack.
No one here in the FQZ knows exactly when the attack will occur, but everyone's talking about it. Here's a bunch of II kids who look like they could eat bugs for lunch. So hunter, you're not too worried about fighing the formicids?
Hey, shoot a nuke down a bug-hole, you got a lot of dead bugs!
Some say the bugs were provoked by the intrusion of humans into their natural habitat.
That a live and let live policy with them is preferable to war with the bugs...
Let me tell you something, I'm from Rhu Caenus and I say kill em all!