Let's go on a Whale's Voyage! -- Blow it all up! -- Done!

Crooked Bee said:

See, a vibrator sidequest!

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Strong, independent woman. Even if she can't just buy her own damn sex toys.

...yeah, is this a bad translation, or did she really just ask a group of strange men who'd just leeringly invited her out to some sort of communal date to travel across the entire galaxy in order to bring her back a rampant rabbit? Because that's something truly wonderful, right there.

I reloaded my tab to see if the lp is updated a minute before it was updated

Crooked Bee said:

See, a vibrator sidequest!

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Definite of quests but I'm not convinced that it isn't somehow related to the mainquest. Btw red sardines = red herring?

A definite there. Never stand between a woman and her vibrator. In other words, go fetch one NOW! Fuck the main quest.

So alcohol is the DEVIL but a vibrator is fine?? These crazy germans and their even crazier humor

lightbane said:

So alcohol is the DEVIL but a vibrator is fine?? These crazy germans and their even crazier humor

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Didn't we discover that it's an Austrian game? That explains a lot more.

This and the following updates will only cover the correct way of doing things, not the way I did 'em on my first try. This game is so full of trial and error, it makes my head hurt.

12: Mothership Zeta

Another sidequest?

Previously on this LP: Danielle is looking for a vibrator, Erasmus fancies red sardines. Got it.



First, however, we'll do another (?) sidequest, the alien one. To solve it, we need a couple of items on Arboris, the green planet.
Here's the new trading table, by the way:

ARBORIS
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As Arboris is favourably placed with respect to the sun, its climate is ideal for a thriving vegetation. The entire surface is covered by a thick jungle.

Obviously, wood is available in abundance, so the buildings are made of this. Most of the other planets, however, do not have large resources of this material, and as a result the government has issued a firm ban on exports of wood. No one is permitted to trade in it on Arboris, as it is clear that it is and important material, and that its importance can only grow in the future.

Like Lapis, Arboris is rich in mineral resources of all kinds. This makes these raw materials the main export.

Although the planet is only at an average technical level, a trade in technically sophisticated articles is also flourishing.

As the climate is relatively pleasant and criminal activities have been kept within limits, the planet is a popular holiday destination.

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The Arboris trader is apparently an Austrian beauty.



And we beam down to Sando, the first Arboris town.





A popular holiday destination indeed.



So rural and idyllic.



Say hi to Sepp Bimpf.

Hi.

Come on, tell me what you want.

Sando is a nice town!





How are you?

Quiet well, thanks.



Our party is level 9 now for some reason. Here are the new stats:

Grotley -> level 9
Experience: 149740
[No stats for Grotley as I can't find the screenshots. :/]

Kingcomrade -> level 9
Experience: 134736
Strength: 77 -> 81
Max Health: 86 -> 94
Max Mental Energy: 84 -> 94
Rhetoric: 61 -> 69
Honesty: 59 -> 67
General Education: 61 -> 65
Speed: 54 -> 61
Defense: 57 -> 69
IQ: 60 -> 66
Skillfulness: 62 -> 69

Mrowaksu -> level 9
Experience: 135743
Strength: 58 -> 63
Max Health: 83 -> 92
Rhetoric: 81 -> 91
Honesty: 64 -> 74
General Education: 85 -> 93
Speed: 34 -> 38
Defense: 61 -> 71
IQ: 92 -> 101
Skillfulness: 57 -> 61

Korenzel -> level 9
Experience: 133632
Strength: 24 -> 25
Max Health: 47 -> 52
Max Mental Energy: 102 -> 110
Rhetoric: 79 -> 87
Honesty: 79 -> 87
General Education: 74 -> 82
Speed: 37 -> 41
Defense: 36 -> 41
IQ: 85 -> 95
Skillfulness: 50 -> 56

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Meet Franz.

May we ask you a question?



Just for a very short moment?

Sorry, but I have got much work to do.

Not even a second?

Sorry, but I have got much work to do.

Whatever.



Emil Cross is the local shopkeeper.

What are the latest news?



So we can attack the locals freely?


What can you offer?



We buy a Translator device.



And a bottle of wine. (Still no idea what it's for.)



Austrian!



Quite the contrary, it will come in handy very soon.



We also grab a Flowerpot off a nearby table.







Sup Mrs. Paterson.

Do you know something new?

I do not know anything new.

Where is Mr. Paterson?





Can I help you?



Could you help me?

Another sidequest? We'll be on a lookout for your key, Mrs. Paterson.



Lush vegetation!



And here's Kirm Vuk, another pointless NPC.

Hi.

Hello.

The temperature is very high today.





How are you?

Quiet well, thanks.



Julia!

May we ask you a question?





Is there something special going on on Arboris?

Sorry, I do not know what you mean, bye.

How are you?

Quiet well, thanks.

Any news?





More and more people join the revolution.

You don't say!



Remember some guy on some planet told us about an alien spaceship earlier? Let's pay those alien scum a visit!







Looks like we can't trade here.



And here we are.





Spooky!



Everything here looks rather strange!







What's that you're saying, alien thingie?



We turn on our translator device.



Hallo, Svladir.

We are comming in peace!





Can we help you?



We got stuck in a time zone because of an engine trouble!



Thanks!

I do not think you can help us.



A special essence?



Hmm...

Grfsxyzagr?





We are going to kill you, damned aliens!





A weird bunch, these aliens.



Noxyarowyc



Wow, these aliens actually look different from each other!



A lot of computers (?) in here, but Mrowaksu's Manipulate computer doesn't seem to work on them.

So, you know what X-109-E is?



It's a flower essence!



So we hand the flower pot to the aliens -- and receive a lot of exp!



We are hard! 21572 more points to become dynamic.
I think we're level 12 now, but I'm not really sure.

Grotley -> level 12
Experience: 269740
Strength: 103
Max Health: 103
Rhetoric: 57
Honesty: 21
General Education: 42
Speed: 122
Defence: 109
IQ: 67
Skillfulness: 122

Kingcomrade -> level 12
Experience: 254736
Strength: 97
Max Health: 116
Max Mental Energy: 121
Rhetoric: 88
Honesty: 92
General Education: 82
Speed: 81
Defense: 101
IQ: 86
Skillfulness: 91

Mrowaksu -> level 12
Experience: 255743
Strength: 81
Max Health: 122
Rhetoric: 116
Honesty: 101
General Education: 119
Speed: 48
Defense: 99
IQ: 127
Skillfulness: 74

Korenzel -> level 12
Experience: 253632
Strength: 30
Max Health: 65
Max Mental Energy: 138
Rhetoric: 115
Honesty: 112
General Education: 103
Speed: 51
Defense: 58
IQ: 124
Skillfulness: 73

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Next time: more main quest stuff. And the vibrator.

Giving a flower pot to some aliens to create fuel for their engine? Fuck. This is officially an adventure game.

MMXI said:

This is officially an adventure game.

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Yup, and that is the only good thing about it.

:D These aliens were funny.

What happens if you give a vibrator to an alien?

MMXI said:

What happens if you give a vibrator to an alien?

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Not that kind of game. The Mass Effect series may be more up your alley.

The alien part was very tongue in cheek and a flower as fuel amused me There are really sidequests in the game? wow...
That the alien all look different seems to suggest that there was a lot more of content planned I suppose.

What's that about the storage room you can use? Is it for equipment or trade goods? And are the alien gone now or can you still visit them?

Morkar said:

What's that about the storage room you can use? Is it for equipment or trade goods? And are the alien gone now or can you still visit them?

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Just for equipment, from what I've gathered. And now that the aliens are gone, you can't use it anymore. I didn't feel the need for using it myself in any case, so no big loss.

13: Kill Them All and Blow It All Up

In which the game suddenly ends.

Alright, dear readers, so previously on this LP we dealt with the aliens by giving them a flower pot. We need two things now: a vibrator and a red sardine. And I wonder if you still remember this guy from update #5:

update #5 said:

What are you doing?

If you need something special, just tell me.

Something... special?

What can you get?

Krueger will fetch you anything you need!

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So Krueger told us he could get us anything we needed earlier, but there was no option to ask him for something specific. Let's see if he can get us a vibrator or a sardine perchance?



Krueger's on Lapis, so off to Lapis we fly.



Sup Krueger. No vibrator option, alas.

Can you get a red sardine for us?



Got one with you?

Here are your $100.



Dropping a fish on the ground? So unhygienic.



Just look at that happy sardine!



Grotley levels up. He's now level 13 = "dynamic", needing 36239 more exp points to reach level 14 = "become energetic".

Grotley -> level 13
Experience: 309873
Strength: 103 -> 109
Max Health: 103 -> 109
Rhetoric: 57 -> 58
Honesty: 21 -> 22
General Education: 42 -> 44
Speed: 122 -> 130
Defense: 109 -> 119
IQ: 67 -> 72
Skillfulness: 122 -> 132

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Smells fishy, yay!



Alright, let's head to Lapis 17 and hand the red sardine over to Erasmus.



Hmm, just a moment...







Now we can finally chat with Erasmus.

Max Schimmel told us, you are the right man.



A hidden basis? A Hilbert basis, maybe?

But I do not exactly know where.

No wonder.

I think that they will start an attack very soon!


Whatever.

Where is our kidnapped contact?



Where is Dymy?



Unfortunately, Erasmus doesn't tell us the exact coordinates of Dymy, so it takes me a while to find it.



Hell yeah, here it is.



And so we're in Dymy. Let's find the contact now.





Samuel Brown is the local shopkeeper.

What are the latest news?



Fair enough.

What can you offer?



A vibrator!


We buy one.







And here is the entrance to the prison. We level up as we approach it, so the kidnapped contact must be held in there.



Grotley is now level 14 = "energetic", needing 40126 more points to reach level 15 = "become explosive".

Grotley -> level 14
Experience: 361282
Strength: 109 -> 117
Max Health: 109 -> 116
Rhetoric: 58 -> 59
Honesty: 22 -> 23
General Education: 44 -> 46
Speed: 130 -> 139
Defense: 119 -> 131
IQ: 72 -> 76
Skillfulness: 132 -> 141

Kingcomrade -> level 14
Experience: 346278
Strength: 97 -> 110
Max Health: 116 -> 130
Max Mental Energy: 121 -> 139
Rhetoric: 88 -> 102
Honesty: 92 -> 106
General Education: 82 -> 96
Speed: 81 -> 96
Defense: 101 -> 120
IQ: 86 -> 105
Skillfulness: 91 -> 105

Mrowaksu -> level 14
Experience: 347285
Strength: 81 -> 96
Max Health: 122 -> 141
Rhetoric: 116 -> 134
Honesty: 101 -> 119
General Education: 119 -> 137
Speed: 48 -> 54
Defense: 99 -> 119
IQ: 127 -> 147
Skillfulness: 74 -> 84

Korenzel -> level 13
Experience: 345174
Strength: 30 -> 32
Max Health: 65 -> 71
Max Mental Energy: 138 -> 148
Rhetoric: 115 -> 123
Honesty: 112 -> 120
General Education: 103 -> 110
Speed: 51 -> 54
Defense: 58 -> 65
IQ: 124 -> 132
Skillfulness: 73 -> 79

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The guard isn't interested in talking to us, so let's try doing it the hard way!



Grotley kills him with the Plasma thrower, and now we can enter the prison.



A lot more guards inside, but it doesn't take us long to discover that the Plasma Thrower can shoot through walls.
I wonder if that's a bug/exploit or what?



Having slain all the guards, we pick up a key to the cells.



A normal key.



We unlock the cell door -- but the prisoner starts attacking us!
It looks like we accidentally hit him with our awesome through-the-walls-hitting Plasma thrower when we were attacking the guards earlier.

Oh well, reload and try again -- this time with the Sonic Absorber on, which prevents guards from spawning spawning spawning, and without the Plasma thrower.



Cool, this time everything goes well. The contact is freed, and he isn't hostile.

You are free now.

Thank you for your help.

What do you know about the secret service?

We have not much time, because the secret service is starting an attack against our headquarter on Lapis.

An attack!



This machine is hiding their fleet!

And our next objective is set: destroying the cloaking device in the secret mine on Lapis.



Good to know.
Our characters level up again!



Grotley is level 15, "explosive". He needs 27217 more points of exp to "become feared" = reach level 16.

Grotley -> level 15
Experience: 433583
Strength: 117 -> 124
Max Health: 116 -> 123
Rhetoric: 59 -> 60
Honesty: 23 -> 24
General Education: 46 -> 48
Speed: 139 -> 148
Defense: 131 -> 143
IQ: 76 -> 81
Skillfulness: 141 -> 150

Kingcomrade -> level 15
Experience: 424023
Strength: 110 -> 120
Max Health: 130 -> 139
Max Mental Energy: 139 -> 148
Rhetoric: 102 -> 110
Honesty: 106 -> 114
General Education: 96 -> 105
Speed: 96 -> 104
Defense: 120 -> 130
IQ: 105 -> 113
Skillfulness: 105 -> 113

Mrowaksu -> level 15
Experience: 419586
Strength: 96 -> 101
Max Health: 141 -> 150
Rhetoric: 134 -> 144
Honesty: 119 -> 129
General Education: 137 -> 146
Speed: 54 -> 56
Defense: 119 -> 128
IQ: 147 -> 157
Skillfulness: 84 -> 89

Korenzel -> level 15
Experience: 417475
Strength: 32 -> 36
Max Health: 71 -> 80
Max Mental Energy: 148 -> 166
Rhetoric: 123 -> 141
Honesty: 120 -> 137
General Education: 110 -> 125
Speed: 54 -> 61
Defense: 65 -> 78
IQ: 132 -> 150
Skillfulness: 79 -> 90

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Let's now give Danielle the vibrator, yay!



Here we go...



No batteries!?

We're carrying a battery we got on Sky Boulevard with us. Why not give it to Danielle?




I haven't been able to find any way to recharge the battery, so I guess this sidequest will have to stand incomplete.



And then we locate the Lapis secret mine. Let's beam down there.



It's pitch black. You're likely to be eaten by a grue.





We turn on the Infrared device.



This mine has a SHITLOAD of enemy soldiers, but we easily shoot them through walls with the Plasma thrower.



Die, bastards!!



FFS we can't shoot those through the wall, so we do it the straightforward way
Grotley levels up again!



Grotley is level 16 now = "feared". He needs 54497 more experience points to reach level 17 = "become dangerous". He's pretty dangerous even now if you ask me with that Plasma thrower of his.

Grotley -> level 16
Experience: 469791
Strength: 124 -> 132
Max Health: 123 -> 130
Rhetoric: 60 -> 62
Honesty: 24 -> 25
General Education: 48 -> 51
Speed: 148 -> 156
Defense: 143 -> 154
IQ: 81 -> 85
Skillfulness: 150 -> 159

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Having killed all the soldiers in here, we reach the cloaking device.



Using Mrowaksu's Manipulate computer skill, we disable it, and then the other two.
Our party reaches the next level! Again.



Grotley is now level 17 = "dangerous", needing 60085 more points to become level 18 = "elite".

Grotley -> level 17
Experience: 531787
Strength: 132 -> 138
Max Health: 130 -> 138
Rhetoric: 62 -> 63
Honesty: 25 -> 26
General Education: 51 -> 53
Speed: 156 -> 165
Defense: 154 -> 166
IQ: 85 -> 89
Skillfulness: 159 -> 167

Kingcomrade -> level 16
Experience: 476023
Strength: 120 -> 124
Max Health: 139 -> 148
Max Mental Energy: 148 -> 153
Rhetoric: 110 -> 118
Honesty: 114 -> 122
General Education: 105 -> 109
Speed: 104 -> 112
Defense: 130 -> 136
IQ: 113 -> 121
Skillfulness: 113 -> 117

Mrowaksu -> level 16
Experience: 471586
Strength: 101 -> 108
Max Health: 150 -> 160
Rhetoric: 144 -> 152
Honesty: 129 -> 137
General Education: 146 -> 156
Speed: 56 -> 58
Defense: 128 -> 137
IQ: 157 -> 167
Skillfulness: 89 -> 93

Korenzel -> level 16
Experience: 469475
Strength: 36 -> 37
Max Health: 80 -> 85
Max Mental Energy: 166 -> 176
Rhetoric: 141 -> 150
Honesty: 137 -> 146
General Education: 125 -> 132
Speed: 61 -> 65
Defense: 78 -> 83
IQ: 150 -> 158
Skillfulness: 90 -> 98

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As soon as we're done with the cloaking device(s), General Noth, the main villain, appears!



And instantly beams up. Har har har.



We beam up, too. Our next mission is to blow up Sky Boulevard! We already have a Bomb we bought earlier, let's hope that'll suffice.



So off to Sky Boulevard we fly!



Oops, the Federation fleet's attacking us.



At first I screw this battle up.



But then I use the Cloaking device to my advantage -- and the battle is won!



Well, almost. The enemies come in two waves, actually.



This ship looks like trouble!
But it can't see us with the cloaking device on.



And win the battle we do.



So here we are, shooting enemy soldiers through the walls on Sky Boulevard.



Let's set this baby right here, in the centre of the computer room.



The bomb is activated, and a timer appears!



Unfortunately, our beamer is blocked everywhere but at the spawn point, so we must hurry back to it.



Fuck yeah!



And the Sky Boulevard explodes!







Pixels!



Congratulations!




















Programming blah blah



I wonder which one of those guys came up with the vibrator sidequest



blah



blah blah



blah blah blah



blah blah blah blah



meaningless indeed
And lol @ "1 zu 0 für die Zwerge"



Kaaaaarsnocken!!!!



I hope this ends here



Unfortunately not



See you, yeah




And the final text starts again indeed. I guess that concludes this LP. 'Til next time!

Congratulations for your effort.
I would have never played this game on my own.

A fine lp. Good thing that Sky Boulevard's citizens were evacuated before the explosion... Right?

Now with added soundtrack!

Let's listen to Whale's Voyage:
A Child is Born
The Whale's Scream
Boot Music
Fantasy
Painful Emptiness
It's Battle Time!
Space Battle
NEO Title Remix
Lost Spaceship
Castra
Lapis
Arboris
Nedax
Inoid
Louis 17
Sky Boulevard
The Bomb is Started

lightbane said:

Good thing that Sky Boulevard's citizens were evacuated before the explosion... Right?

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Kz3r0 said:

I would have never played this game on my own.

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I would've never played it mysel--- Oh wait.

Quiet good LP. So were any of the psionic, or any other skills besides set trap ever useful?

Crooked Bee said:

Let's now give Danielle the vibrator, yay!

Here we go...

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Cocks out time!

Crooked Bee said:

No batteries!?

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Cock back in.

Crooked Bee said:

We're carrying a battery we got on Sky Boulevard with us. Why not give it to Danielle?

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Cock back out!

Crooked Bee said:

I haven't been able to find any way to recharge the battery, so I guess this sidequest will have to stand incomplete.

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Blue balls.

Edward_R_Murrow said:

Quiet good LP.

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Edward_R_Murrow said:

So were any of the psionic, or any other skills besides set trap ever useful?

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Well, I used Brain Blast on a prison guard once and Paralyze opponent a couple of times. Disarm opponent never worked for some reason, and the other skills were totally useless, too. The Biochemist skills, like Use substance, turned out to be entirely worthless as well. It's probably a matter of the game having been rushed and a lot of content cut, but as it stands, the game is a totally lost opportunity. A RPG that failed, lol.

for finishing it. I have not closely followed your LP, but only because want to finish game one day myself.

So, anyone still interested in seeing the sequel LPed? It's in German, mind you.

Is the sequel any better?

Crooked Bee said:

I haven't been able to find any way to recharge the battery, so I guess this sidequest will have to stand incomplete.

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That poor woman! I had no idea you could be so cruel Bee...

dextermorgan said:

Is the sequel any better?

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Supposedly. No idea if that's true, though.

Crooked Bee said:

That poor woman! I had no idea you could be so cruel Bee...

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Crooked Bee said:

So, anyone still interested in seeing the sequel LPed? It's in German, mind you.

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As long as you provide a complete translation, I'm fine with it.