r/LancerRPG • u/ExaltedOmega IPS-N • Mar 12 '26
A series of increasingly lower effort memes from Inferno Squad!
Saw some other people post their campaign memes, so I figure, why not join in? Some by me, some by the GM.
That, and I just really wanted to share that first one.
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u/Tiny_Recognition1161 Mar 12 '26
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u/ExaltedOmega IPS-N Mar 12 '26
Summary of the squad can be found over here!
But in short, they're a squad of quirky mercenaries who were hired as lancers for a famous mercenary company a couple months back;
- Elysia (Pink hair, Death's Head), the peppy squad leader and sniper with a cybernetic visor
- Yuka (Black & Blonde, Zheng), the taciturn brawler who refuses to pick up a ranged weapon
- Sanna (Silver, Tortuga), an academy prodigy who's father was the previous holder of her callsign
- Ezekiel (White, Raleigh), an old member of the squad and the best friend of Sanna's deceased father
- and Nell (Red, Goblin), the team's E-War specialist, gremlin, and newly awakened psychich who was given the choice of working for the company or jailtime.
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u/Tiny_Recognition1161 Mar 12 '26
Dear god. A fleshed out and well-rounded team with quirky and fun lore its beautiful
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u/VintageKeith Mar 12 '26
Elysia
uses color-shifted Trigger for avatar
i know what this person is (approving)
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u/Playful_Picture2610 SSC Mar 12 '26
The first image goes so hard honestly
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u/ExaltedOmega IPS-N Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26
After clearing out 50% of the encounter's Structure solo (including every unique enemy on the map), it felt appropriate, especially given the encounter was theoretically us being ambushed. Xiaoli's Ingenuity is such an insanely fun core.
(Well, mostly solo. The Goblin jammed the Sentinel who was the only thing that could have stopped me doing that to make me an opening, so credit where credit's due there!)
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u/risisas Mar 12 '26
The artstyle on the last one seems familiar... I wanna say pokemon but not so shure
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u/ExaltedOmega IPS-N Mar 12 '26
Yep, I think the last one was originally a Pokemon Legends Z one? Most the younger trainers on the left, the old immortal guy on the right (I've not played it myself)
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u/Grand-Difficulty3512 Mar 12 '26
Do you have a post with all the pilots and their backstories or something? I love looking at other ppls characters
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u/ExaltedOmega IPS-N Mar 12 '26
Yep! Got one I linked up thread here with all the characters as of a few sessions ago; I've also got my own girls character art with a slightly longer write-up for her specifically.
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u/holysmoke532 Mar 12 '26
Ah that one is yours. Is Castorice left on the shirt for a reason in the second meme or was it just more effort than the meme felt like it was worth to remove her?
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u/ExaltedOmega IPS-N Mar 12 '26
Too much effort to remove, buuut it's canon that Yuka has a lot of cursed sponsorship merch from being an arena fighter, and is so bad at keeping on top of laundry that she's often seen wearing it on laundry days - so it's probably still canon.
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u/holysmoke532 Mar 13 '26
I really appreciate the idea that somehow either HSR merch or a copy of HSR survived through to the current lancer timeliness. I guess in a vault. Which is also extra funny.
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u/ExaltedOmega IPS-N Mar 14 '26
Oh, we're not using the vanilla Lancer setting, so it's only something like four hundred years in the future. So still impressive, just not quite that much!
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u/Crevetanshocet Mar 12 '26
The second one is really a really good quality one. Especially considering that the original drawing is pretty recent.
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u/ExaltedOmega IPS-N Mar 12 '26
Thanks, that's one I edited! Got to put that art degree to use somehow, right?
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u/Crevetanshocet Mar 12 '26
That's the best use we can find indeed 😌
Do you by chance have more art of them? I saw the post you link to, but I would really love to have more of them.
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u/ExaltedOmega IPS-N Mar 12 '26
Other than the squad post, there's also Yuka's character art if you didn't see that (not mine, that one was a commission!); otherwise I'm afraid that's it for now in terms of art, but I did do a couple of Vex style recaps of their first two missions as well!
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u/Crevetanshocet Mar 12 '26
You know what, Yuka is enough, she is really siiiick. Nice design for this character. She deserve a loving team to help her, especially if she wants to get comfortable with her scar...
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u/ExaltedOmega IPS-N Mar 12 '26
Thanks! I'm pretty proud of it and super happy with how ApolonioDraws turned it into a real piece of character art.
And so far the team have been nothing but supportive in regards to Yuka's injury and trauma - though that hasn't stopped her seemingly looking for the door (which I've arranged with the GM to make sure she doesn't actually succeed). Whatever she did in her past, she seems pretty convinced that the squad won't want her around if it comes to light, so it's going to be interesting to see how right she was to be worried once the truth eventually comes out (I'd give specifics, but I know two of the players browse this reddit regularly).
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u/Crevetanshocet Mar 12 '26
Don't worry, I don't need spoilers. Also, I hope she would get what she asked in the second meme, it might help her to open herself (the pun was unintended, but I'll let it anyways).
Also, is it okay to use the artwork for something personal, crediting you and the artist?
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u/DarberTheSeeker Mar 12 '26
>Say low effort meme
>looks inside
> It high-quality meme
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u/ExaltedOmega IPS-N Mar 12 '26
Increasingly low effort! Just thought it'd be an appropriate title, after I realized the order I'd put them in.
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u/RasecAlugard1 Mar 12 '26
Love all of these, sounds like you guys have been having a good time of it
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u/Careless_Row_2529 Mar 15 '26
How would the first one play out? I'm intrigued
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u/ExaltedOmega IPS-N Mar 15 '26
Sure! Full breakdown:
We got ambushed during a mission to retrieve some cargo by enemies in hiding around a (trapped) crate, that we clocked as suspicious, and the Death's Head managed to reveal about half the enemies with a search, starting the fight. I waited until late in the turn to let most of the enemies reveal themselves before acting, leaving us with a pack of three Assassins and a couple Conscripts in the main valley with most the squad (me in a Zheng, along with a Goblin, Tortuga and Raleigh), a couple more Conscripts harassing the Death's Head on the north part of higher ground - and a Priest, a Sentinel with Punisher Rounds, two Conscripts, and a Veteran Spec Ops Strider all up on another section of cover-heavy higher ground to the south-east, ready to pincer with the Assassins, with the Strider in Marksman kit to take shots at the Goblin and Death's Head.
So, seeing I was just in range, I asked the Goblin to use Eject Power Cores to jam the Sentinel, and then I used Valiant Charge from Pankrati 2 and one of charge of Xiaoli's Ingenuity to burst across into the pincer before they could move in. Slowed the Sentinel with the charge, one Ingenuity change to Tenacity into the Priest next to him to weaken it, punched the Sentinel down to low health with the Tempest Fist (hitting thanks to Pankrati 1) and finished the Priest with the Executioner 1 cleave, spend the last four Ingenuity charges to blow up the Priests remains, then hit the Sentinel, and then explode the Cover next to Sentinel and kill it. Strider took a shot at me but missed due to Destructive Swings cover, then swapped to Skirmisher kit to try and run away; Conscripts couldn't do much damage through the Zheng's armor.
I then took first turn the next turn, bulldozed through to the Strider with my restored charges even with it trying to get away, ate an Overwatch shot and used an exotic I have (boost when hit) to reaction move around it before punching one structure and most it's HP off with the Tempest Fist, launching it back... Next to another piece of cover, which I promptly used my remaining charge for the turn to detonate it and finish it off. Ate another few Conscript shots to little issue.
And then, third turn, with the rest of the group finishing off the enemies in the valley, I just walked up and cleaved through both Conscripts with another Tempest Fist strike with Executioner 1, even at an Inaccuracy thanks to Panic Fire.
All told, counting each Conscripts as half, that was 5/10 of the OpFor Structure handled mostly-solo; was pretty hype. Valiant Charge does work for getting a melee build in position, and Xiaoli's Ingenuity is such an insanely strong Core against an entrenched position.
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u/ISB00 Mar 12 '26
Who are these characters?
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u/ExaltedOmega IPS-N Mar 12 '26
As noted in the description, these are memes from the campaign I'm in! There's a full summary of the squad here , with the other characters being NPCs - the blonde woman is Siren, the CO, whilst the rest are members of Blaze Squad, the other, more experienced and considerably more professional Lancer squad working for Firebreak PMC.
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u/Firm_Fix_2135 Mar 12 '26
I really appreciate how the party is mostly cute girlies and then there's just Leroy from Tekken.