Previous Thread: https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2026/6358836/First Thread: https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2025/6212686/>Your party goes on a tour of a spooky mansion.>Your group finds a meth lab, also the anomaly>You return to base, and eventually find your tour guide was turned into a zombie.>It's the weekend!>Time to go shopping!
"What exactly are you planning to buy?""Just some body parts." Hilde says, not meeting the alien's eye."I don't think so" Zul says, frowning."C'mon, I can just pop down there really quick and-""No. Maybe later if you're good we can go, but you are especially not allowed to go alone." The LGM says firmly."Agh! Fine!" She says throwing up her hands, "Let's look around the stupid topside stores."The robot doesn't seem to care which store you all go to, so your group decides to just go to the closest weapon shop they can find. Zul points out a rather flat, boxy chrome building with large panel windows on the front. The store's sign glows in a clean teal light, spelling out something a language you can't read. The inside is very similar, with corporate levels of clean minimalism for the furniture to the shelving and advertisements flickering among the screens on the walls. In the center of the room is a circular desk where an anthropomorphic jellyfish-like cashier sits. On the tables however, are an assortment of strange arms and armor heaped upon them. Some of them are displayed nicely, but most are crammed together on the surface of the furniture or in overstuffed boxes.While you soak everything in, the rest of your party has begin to browse the wares.Kamiko is looking at some weapons being contained under glass. She opens it briefly and takes out what seems to be a very large looking spiked metal bat. She seems to think better on it though, and puts it back down.Tamako and Hilde are picking through a box on a table near you. Though you can't read the label on the container, from the quality of the goods the pair are examining you are sure it says "clearance" or maybe "discount".Emogen is browsing a shelf full of small boxes while chatting casually with the shop owner. From what you can tell, they might be batteries.Zul walked to the back, and is examining rather colorful, sleek looking ray guns. She handles them quite carefully, but to you they almost look like something out of a spaced themed cartoon.What do you do?
>>6419793Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah, we're back!As for this, well, I'm a bit curious as to what our cute piglady needs a battery for. We should ask Emogen about it.
>>6419803Sure, +1 to this.>>6419793Welcome back, QM!
>>6419792Welcome back, EggOP!Damn, just a week old and already a homeowner... How'd Tamako manage that?I'm more curious about the shields across from Emogen, but yeah, let's hang near her.
Welcome back EggOP! glad to have you back!>>6419793lets check on Emogen, im curious why she came with us to begin with, she must be looking for something special, also, like this anon >>6420039 said, those shield could be useful, might be worth a watch too
>>6419793Welcome back! It's good to see you again!>Kamiko: compliment the metal bat, ask if it is magical>Emogen: Ask about the batteries, but wait for a lull in their conversation
You approach Emogen and catch some snippets of her conversation."So it has a longer life, but smaller active capacity?" The boar woman asks. The shopkeeper responds in a language you can't understand. It sounds like something between a sloshing balloon and ripping tape quickly off something. Your co-worker nods along, and then says, "That does sound better, but I'll have to think on it."You ask Emogen what she's doing."Oh! Just checking out the batteries for these shield generators." she says, presenting the small package she was talking to the shopkeeper about. You can't read it, but the picture on the front looks something like a futuristic, glowing coin cell. "The ones they give us for combat aren't for long missions so they are only good for a few hours."You look over to the table and see more of this boxes on display. They all resemble coin cells, but they vary widely in size. On the other side of the table are what you assume are various sizes and brands of shield generators, as they have the appearance of literal shields but with mechanical bits attached to the back of it. The front is a solid, black panel. From a nearby advertisement however it appears when activated the face of the shield produces a blue light as well as a semi-circle field around the user.You don't recall Emogen ever using a shield, and ask if she's thinking of buying one."SHR will give us one if they know there is going to be fighting, but I never much liked them. Sure, it'll stop bullets and stuff, but these shield doo-hickeys don't stop magic, and most of the more dangerous stuff is magic." your porcine co-worker remarks. "Still, I'm considering it. Not sure if they'll ever beat magical wards and enchanted items for me though. Not to brag, but my tough skin is usually enough for anything physical."You ask why she doesn't just use both a shield and magical wards."Well, I'm not quite so wealthy that I can afford to deck myself in all that gear." She says with a snorting chuckle. "Plus technology and magic don't work well together a lot of the time. The stuff coming from the younger fairies blends them together well sometimes, but even then it usually tends more towards PSI than magic."You ask if they like, explode or something if technology and magical items touch."Nothing quite so dramatic. Usually they just malfunction." Emogen says, chuckling again. "Zul can explain it better, but something like technology depending on logic and magic breaking logic. I dunno, you'd have to ask her."What do you do?
>>6420085perhaps we could chip-in to help her get some slightly better batteries?
>>6420085What about armor & magic wards? Her physicality lends itself to wearing armor, and she can still have the magical protection of wards. Plus, (relatively) mundane armor should be cheaper than high-tech shields?
>>6420086She doesn't sound that invested, but she is considering it, despite being built Tonka tough.>>6420085>Is she anticipating a lot of dangerous fieldwork soon?
