#lithophage

Lithophage (Mercadian Masques) - Mike Ploog

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Deep Rock Galactic (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Driller (Deep Rock Galactic), Scout (Deep Rock Galactic), Gunner (Deep Rock Galactic), Engineer (Deep Rock Galactic), Mission Control (Deep Rock Galactic), various other dwarves Additional Tags: various injuries and bug killings, Dwarven Shenanigans, the rockpox is horrifying, scout is VERY greenbeard. his team will not be, working within canon and game mechanics where I can, adding more tags later I guess, many workplace injuries (it's Hoxxes.) Summary:

The Lithophage has both Hoxxes IV and the Deep Rock Galactic company in a scramble. A freshly recruited scout is assigned to Space Rig 17’s team to fill it out after the previous scout met his unfortunate end on a mission. Now Catten has to keep himself alive, keep his much more veteran team alive, keep Mangement happy with his performance, and keep a little secret…

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So I’ve started writing and posting again for the first time in ??? years. Posted the 3rd chapter today. This links to the 1st chapter

tags/warnings/et cetera all subject to change. This is a little-but-growing fic exploring “What if the Scout was very new to his job and got assigned to a team that’s basically all Gold promoted and everyone’s kinda a mess?”

Knowledge of thegame is helpful but not vital - DRG is a first-person co-op shooter where you explore a breathtakingly hostile planet full of valuable minerals and murderous bugs. We’re not given a lot of lore. I have sunk my teeth into what there is and am shaking it vigorously to see what might fall out

Decided to scribble out a comic in MS Paint of something funny that happened to me yesterday. Will be putting it under a cut.

Also posted to the DRG subreddit.

Context:

The situation happened on Steam. So I was just playing Scout in an IS mission in the Fungus Bogs with a bunch of randos, trying to get through more of my Scout promotion assignment. A big Lithophage meteor ended up falling in the mission, and after Engie called down the Rockcrackers, he decided to put some plats around the meteor (presumably so we didn't burn our feet off when setting up the jackhammers), but when he placed one or two plats the meteor just... vanished. Went poof. Blipped out of existence. No particle effects, and it left behind the Plaguehearts without needing to do the Rockcrackers. Lots of us went "?????" in the text chat, and one of my other teammates, who was using voice-chat (I think it was the Gunner, but I admittedly don't quite remember) just went "WHAT THE FUCK?".

Hey, not like any of us were complaining. Free Plaguehearts! It was just a very surprising bug lmao.

Comic under cut.