shitposting rave 5: discount rejects from every genre

...did someone not already say that my own science was weaponized and turned into a torture method by my superiors? I'm well aware helm-tech was probably mostly used immorally. That doesn't mean the science behind it is incapable of having other, less harmful applications. Like, say, helping the critically-injured adjust to mechanical prosthetics, or entirely new bodies, without or extremely minimizing the common rejection issues.

Well, that and I don't know what your species' baseline is yet so I'd be able to understand even less. Data is data, of course, but I don't seem to have nonintrusive machinery here and I'd rather not needle anyone I'm not sure I can patch up afterwards.

 

-there is suddenly a very tired-looking troll! She blinks for a moment, then catches up- Helmstech is full of awful tentacles that are probably, somehow, connected to the Emissary. I'm not going to attempt her name, I'll probably sprain my tongue. That lowers the chance of non-horrifying uses, since horrorterrors aren't known for being anything nice and the Emissary is Her Condescension's lusus.

They're also psychic- the helmstech tentacles, that is- but I'm not supposed to know that. I'd work harder to hide it but this is a nightmare so I may as well get it over with.

 

glubglub

 

-cups one ear with a hand- I think it's trying to communicate.

 

glubglub
the hentai apocalypse mom
man you know what they say if you gotta explain a joke
i need to retire

 

-covers her mouth with her hand- No, I'm sorry, I was teasing you. It's hard to tell since I only have one expression. I should be nicer- you're probably going to die horribly any minute now.

 

(I feel so called out right now)

 

hey same hat
anyway read me my fucking rites im ready wheres my eulogy i lied im performing it myself
here lies dave strider died as he lived dishing out sick burns and ill fated zingers alike
im donating my dick as a public service so that the world may not go without it for even a single moment
youre welcome

no youre the hentai apocalypse aunt
fucking obviously

 

Still, the integration between organic and metallic materials, wherever they come from... Psychic, though, that's interesting-- psychic how? Are the tentacles themselves cognitive or is it just some squishy variation of AI?

Were you not here just a bit ago? He doesn't stay dead.

 

Oh good. I feel much better now.

 

[jazzhands]

i mean at least not this round probably i mean you might be able to spin it for just but i doubt it
conditional immortality amirite

least it isnt hentai apocalypse grandma
wrinkly old lady tentacles
werthers original tastes like squid and something incomprehensible and terrifying
pinch my damn cheeks before casting me into the abyss

 

:/ Please don't make me like you it'll only make it worse.

Going theory among rebels those in the know is they're branch-offs from the Emissary herself. Partitioned fragments of her consciousness. And psychic 'as in 'mindrape you only think what we want you to' and also using themselves to bridge the connection between troll and ship. But much of the conditioning is in the tentacles as well. Allegedly.

And no? I just showed up. Right before I opened my idiot mouth. -she wraps the beads around her hand and chews on them, a Very Obviously Nervous bug-

 

I would make an HPL joke but considering how few lady characters he had....

 

Oh, so it's decentralized... and it's these tentacles that are what makes the whole interface work? Rust. Well, there goes that avenue of research.

Did you? I heard a little bit before I actually materialized, are you sure-- oh, are you still alive? That might do it...

 

its ok i dont stay dead

i was gonna say something about roses shit but to be honest most of the perfumey garbage i dragged myself through had a lot more beards and a lot less creatures from beyond the beyond than id anticipated

 

Allegedly, theoretically, ect. I'm a pissblood and don't have clearance, I just managed to talk Maksim into talking his horrible fishy moirail into looking some things up. And since fishguts isn't going into helmstech in any form there wasn't a lot he could find other than theories and general discussion.

And I should still be alive. I fell asleep, so this should be a dream. And if it's a dream it's a nightmare. Because they always are.

That doesn't always make it better.

 

The thing about unknowable horrors from beyond is they're unknowable. Most cosmic horror is light on the big scaries and focuses either on the people worshipping them or their children/minions/servants.

 

Ah, that's fair. Thank you for sharing what you have, at least.

...I'd say there's ways to fix the nightmare business, but I'm not actually sure I could work on you for multiple reasons even if you wanted to go that route.

 

i dont think an outward force is gonna kill me in this place
only person who might is dear auntie over there and i think only if i ask her to help me provide a demonstration

[in his best ominous voice:] unknowable like non euclidean geometry

 

"Non-Euclidean geometry is supposed to be hard?"