You have just entered room "citiesofthefuture."
T3chn0Namagomi has entered the room.
Arch mage144: Shini is online, but idle as of the last hour or so; Shaun I don't see anywhere. Sorry about the late start.
T3chn0Namagomi: It's okay.
T3chn0Namagomi: Sometimes, you just need sleep
PapatymisonN: Shaun is now invited.
PapatymisonN: ... on his OTHER SN.
T3chn0Namagomi: ...That SN's been ignored all day.
Arch mage144: That is pretty much where I was at. I needed sleep like a bitch.
PapatymisonN: Ah...
TheWaiChibiAngel has entered the room.
Arch mage144: Ah, excellent, it is Shini!
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Sorry, BW was all "Hey, I'm here!" and I was all "Bah!")
Arch mage144: That's no problem. I'll give Shaun a little time to show up, he was apparently around about an hour ago, and if he doesn't we'll just figure something out.
Arch mage144: We started late last time and it seemed to not bother anyone, so I hope the group will forgive the fact that I needed a nap.
T3chn0Namagomi: 'sokay
Lithaladhwen: Shaun's around.
Lithaladhwen: He just needs to get in here.
CGNakibe has entered the room.
CGNakibe: (Mew)
Arch mage144: *salute*
Lithaladhwen: Ahoy.
T3chn0Namagomi: T_T The PCs will be misrepresented
Arch mage144: They wil be what now o_O?
T3chn0Namagomi: Eh. Exaggerating the patch deal.
Lithaladhwen: Yeah. Because we're clearly all dragoons. =P
T3chn0Namagomi: Dragoons imply more sophistication to me than a fist punching something.
Arch mage144: You've clearly never been to Riva.
T3chn0Namagomi: And regrettably, I haven't had any inspiration for additional suggestions.
Arch mage144: Right now I'm not incredibly concerned about things like unit patch designs.
Arch mage144: Everybody present and accounted for, then?
T3chn0Namagomi: Yes.
T3chn0Namagomi: Also, I need to stop watching IaMP match vids.
Lithaladhwen: Present!
CGNakibe: Half-present.
T3chn0Namagomi: Despite it being the most projectile-rific fighter ever
T3chn0Namagomi: Also, I might go AFK at one point to help with groceries when my mother comes home.
Arch mage144: Fine.
Arch mage144: ...surprisingly, this curry udon still tastes good after sitting on my desk for roughly an hour and a half.
T3chn0Namagomi: Heh
T3chn0Namagomi: AFK
Arch mage144: Which is to say he's going now, evidently o_o
Lithaladhwen: Heh. S'all good. He'll be back, God willing and if the creek don't rise.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *And if it does?*
Arch mage144: We drown.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *I dunno about you honkeys, but I can swim.*
CGNakibe: Chris will be the founder of the merman race which survives the human ones.
Arch mage144: Like Kevin Costner?
Lithaladhwen: ...
CGNakibe: That movie was horrible. >.>
Arch mage144: OK, so the decision to mix a cream soda and brandy and then let it sit on my desk while I fall asleep was a bad one.
Arch mage144: This is going in the fridge for a minute.
Lithaladhwen: We do have ice.
Lithaladhwen: That may help.
Lithaladhwen: Ice is cold.
Arch mage144: Yeah, I am going to solve the problem.
T3chn0Namagomi: Sorry about that
Arch mage144: No problem.
T3chn0Namagomi: I currently have 1x Cockatoo. Inflicts status: Annoyance
T3chn0Namagomi: So, uh, everyone ready?
CGNakibe: GALACTICA PHANTOM! *punches a random preson through a nearby wall*
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 1 5-sided die: 5
CGNakibe: (Today we have Shini, who'll probably dodge anyway. >:{)
CGNakibe: *poses* A REAL MAN'S PUNCH.
T3chn0Namagomi: You mean Shini takes after Remilia? XP
Arch mage144: Well, I'm ready. Sound off, people.
Lithaladhwen: *steps forward*
Lithaladhwen: Helena*
Lithaladhwen: *steps back*
Lithaladhwen: </Mickey Mouse Club>
T3chn0Namagomi: One, two!
CGNakibe: Serran!
CGNakibe: M-I-C K-E-Y
CGNakibe: M-O-U-S-E!
PapatymisonN: <Oxblood (I still haven't found his first name)>
TheWaiChibiAngel: <HM!>
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Also, Priam is making us a mage.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Aw. And I wanted another meatshield for shell weapons)
Lithaladhwen: (Oh, yeah? Well, in just seven days... I can make you... A MAAAGE...)
Arch mage144: <RP>
Lithaladhwen: (Also: <HM!> are Hel's initials.)
Arch mage144: *Okay, last time, delta unit investigated the remains of a MAC outpost on the southern edge of the mountains and discovered some interesting things.*
Arch mage144: *Most notably, they retrieved the remains of an enemy mecha for analysis, and Tareen began to attempt to figure out what the hell was going on with it with the aid of the engineering crew.*
Arch mage144: *Helena's conversation with a deceased staff member confirmed and reinforced some of the information already provided about the enemy.*
Arch mage144: *And, interestingly, a woman claiming to be Makura's sister showed up just before the group's evac--though why she was there or what her intentions are is still a mystery.*
Lithaladhwen: (Because she WUVVVS him.)
Arch mage144: *Delta unit has returned to MAC Igala D; it has been two days since the mission.*
Lithaladhwen: (Ew. Two days with Tara.)
Lithaladhwen: (Silly little bint.)
CGNakibe: (I feel for Helena)
Arch mage144: *In her time spent analyzing the enemy mecha, Tareen has come to the following conclusions, some of which she had before from preliminary exams, but that are now firmly established:*
PapatymisonN: (You mean you WISH to feel Helena.)
T3chn0Namagomi: *And Zeiren is convinced that she's hot*
Lithaladhwen: (Zeiren was hard to convince. >_> )
Arch mage144: *The enemy mecha are not sophisticated enough and do not have the appropriate equipment to support an advanced AI. In fact, they're practically stock models with minor adjustments.*
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Zeiren: You mean she's not a microwave?)
Arch mage144: *However, they aren't designed for pilots, either, so it's clear that the enemy has found a way to automate mecha and have them fight at least as well as competent human pilots.*
Arch mage144: *The mecha's astral symbiote core is...different from normal. What this difference means is unclear at this point.*
Arch mage144: *And, after a thorough search of every part of the machine, Tareen has discovered a partial serial number.*
Lithaladhwen: (Apparently including turning herself into a thin gel and worming all around inside it...)
T3chn0Namagomi: (How else?)
Arch mage144: *However, the serial number is inconclusive; depending on which part of the serial number it is, it could indicate manufacture by as many as three different companies.*
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Hey, if you got it..)
Arch mage144: *PCs are free to do as they wish at this point! Intro yourselves doing whatever.*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *If that part is small enough to carry around with her, she'll do that. If not, she'll have gotten some pictures.*
CGNakibe: *is in the mess hall, busily munching on whatever is the menu for today.*
T3chn0Namagomi: *and Zeiren is once again playing video games at the arcade! This time, an arcade port of Intangible and Absent Strength.*
Lithaladhwen: IM: Cadets seem to have classes here, implying that as I am a cadet, I might be expected to attend. This would... be unfortunate, but I thin it would be worse if I didn't go.
Arch mage144: *You've got holophoto images of it.*
PapatymisonN: *Oxblood stumbles to the front door of his dorm, a dopey smile on his face...*
Lithaladhwen: *sighs* Tara?
Lithaladhwen: If I were to seek out some sort of class schedule, where would I find that?
Arch mage144: Tara: *looking over her shoulder, sitting on her bed, noisily chewing gum*
PapatymisonN: *he's watching the form of the female Tek orc who emerged from the same dorm moments earlier*
CGNakibe: .. *sighs* Couldn't they at least use the meat that DOESN'T taste like flavored paper today? -.-;;
Arch mage144: T: Uh...you mean they didn't give you one? *smacking noise*
Lithaladhwen: I wasn't given much information when I was ...sent here.
PapatymisonN: *he knows she doesn't see it, but he waves anyway... you have to wave, after a night like that...*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Well then, she's wandering somewhere, looking those over!*
Lithaladhwen: (Ew. Orc sex.)
Lithaladhwen: (I'm racist and I know it. You don't have to tell me.)
T3chn0Namagomi: Come on, damnit. I want to get good enough to be in the next Togekii...or whatever that Nekonian tournament is.
Arch mage144: T: *waving her hands idly at the viewscreen, "channel surfing" through about seventy-five channels of nothing but teen dramas*
PapatymisonN: *he WILL be getting several notes from his neighbors regarding the noise...
PapatymisonN: *
PapatymisonN: *they'll be ignored*
Arch mage144: T: Go talk to the dean, I dunno.
Arch mage144: T: Or look it up online.
PapatymisonN: *... ...*
CGNakibe: I swear... I need to find out when pizzas are coming by again. Much better stuff.
PapatymisonN: *stomach growls...*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Projectile madness EVERYWHERE on the screen...*
PapatymisonN: *so, heads for the mess hall!*
Lithaladhwen: Oh, I can look it up?
PapatymisonN: *and, soon, lands a full tray of food next to Zeiren* Hey. ^_____^
Arch mage144: T: Duh.
CGNakibe: *sighs and munches*
CGNakibe: (Zeiren?)
T3chn0Namagomi: *Too bad Zeiren's in the arcade*
PapatymisonN: (... er... uh...)
Lithaladhwen: IM: I really can't afford to go consulting with the authorities. Much better to try not to be noticed.
Arch mage144: (Serran.)
CGNakibe: (Serran)
PapatymisonN: (Sorry.)
CGNakibe: Oh, Hi. *smilesmileforcedsmile*
PapatymisonN: (Easy to mix up.)
Lithaladhwen: Hm. Like I said, I wasn't told how to do that. You have a moment?
Arch mage144: *Cecil is also in the lunchroom at the moment, eating a bowl of some sort of chowder. He waves to Oxblood.*
PapatymisonN: *waves as well, waving him over*
CGNakibe: (Not really. Zeiren is the one who's hitting on Helena. Or thinking about it. >;P )
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: Hmm. I wonder how Hel would look in that dress.
PapatymisonN: (S-like sound. R sound. N sound. Vowels.)
Arch mage144: T: What, you don't know how to use the internet? *looks at her roommate like she's mentally handicapped* Just turn the computer on and tell you what you want it to do. You've got a computer, right?
PapatymisonN: (I'm just dumb.)
CGNakibe: (Shush you. >:{)
Arch mage144: *tell it
CGNakibe: <.<
CGNakibe: Hey Cecil. How goes?
Arch mage144: C: *moves to sit with Serran and the orc* Ah, it's okay...did you guys hear about Makura?
Lithaladhwen: I didn't bring anything with me.
T3chn0Namagomi: Gah. Still can't get used to all the projectiles *quits, and heads for the mess hall, looking at what's available*
PapatymisonN: o.o No... does it involve him dying?
Arch mage144: T: Then I bet they issued you one, just go find the switch on your desk.
PapatymisonN: *hopeful*
Arch mage144: C: Ahhh! I should hope not, I'd be doing a really lousy job if it did!
Lithaladhwen: *shrugs and heads to her desk*
Arch mage144: C: No, I heard he put in for a leave of personal absence.
PapatymisonN: ... huh.
T3chn0Namagomi: Blech...they always have the worst stuff here.
CGNakibe: Probably has NOTHING to do with his sister showing up. 9.9
PapatymisonN: Nope. Nothing at all...
PapatymisonN: How long?
PapatymisonN: A year? ^^
TheWaiChibiAngel: *And guess who else wanders into the mess hall, still looking at those images. Granted, she's probably bumping into everyone, but hey, she's on a mission!*
Arch mage144: C: I think it has everything to do with his sister. I overheard one of the commanders talking about it, and apparently his justification for the leave is "family reasons."
Arch mage144: *Cecil waves enthusiastically at Tareen*
CGNakibe: Eh. Just a little bit of sarcasm there. *shrugs*
CGNakibe: I'm well aware his sister probably is involved in whatever dragged him away.
T3chn0Namagomi: *sits down at the table with very little on his tray--he apparently doesn't care for the selection*
CGNakibe: I'm sure it involved grumbling from him.
Arch mage144: C: I saw him this morning and asked him about it, but he didn't seem to want to talk.
Lithaladhwen: *finds nothing recognizable* Thanks, Tara! I'm heading out for something to eat.
CGNakibe: ... though... the place does seem quieter without him.
Lithaladhwen: I'll look it up later.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Notices not! Instead, she'll stop right in the middle of everything.*
PapatymisonN: Pleasantly quieter!
Lithaladhwen: *heads to the cafeteria to bug someone else about it*
Arch mage144: T: Yeah, whatever. Let me know if they're serving anything good today. *smack*
TheWaiChibiAngel: Three companies! WHY IS IT ALWAYS THREE?!
Arch mage144: C: Er, Tareen? What are you talking about?
CGNakibe: ... eh?
TheWaiChibiAngel: Two is too few, four is too many, five is WAY off...
CGNakibe: Because three is the magic number.
TheWaiChibiAngel: Six is just silly.
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Hey, what are you guys doing in my room?
Lithaladhwen: (Shaun: I'm singing that song now.)
Arch mage144: Um, this is the cafeteria.
TheWaiChibiAngel: ....Come to think of it, why are all these people in my room.
Lithaladhwen: (Brian can verify.)
T3chn0Namagomi: *shrug* Whatever. His problem is his problem.
PapatymisonN: This is the mess hall.
Lithaladhwen: *waves to the others and grabs herself a grilled cheese sandwich because those ROCK*
CGNakibe: Your room is somewhere that's not here.
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...When did they make my room the cafeteria, and why wasn't I informed?!
Arch mage144: Yeah, I'm just a little worried. His sister shows up and all of a sudden he has to go...home, I would guess.
Arch mage144: *looks at Tareen like she's crazy*
PapatymisonN: ... you LEFT your room.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Okay. So once again I'm plainly missing something painfully obvious to anyone who belongs here.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Wonderful.
PapatymisonN: You're IN the cafeteria.
T3chn0Namagomi: *Seems to only have a grilled cheese sandwich and some water*
TheWaiChibiAngel: No, I left the ..Place.
Arch mage144: You know, um, I'm licensed to prescribe medication, if you're having some trouble...
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Indicates images* See? I got these.
Lithaladhwen: *sits by Zeiren* Hey.
Arch mage144: What are those?
Lithaladhwen: IM: I can't believe I'm doing this again.
T3chn0Namagomi: Hey. >_>
Lithaladhwen: How you been?
TheWaiChibiAngel: Holopicturephotoilluminographic drawerings.
Arch mage144: Oh. Of what?
TheWaiChibiAngel: The thing.
TheWaiChibiAngel: Oh! The thing!
Arch mage144: ...which one? *looks confused*
TheWaiChibiAngel: Someone missed a spot when they messed up the codes. *Nod nod*
Lithaladhwen: (The one with the stuff that had things happen to it.)
Arch mage144: You mean...on the mecha?
TheWaiChibiAngel: *NOd*
T3chn0Namagomi: Quite well--after all, I'm not sick, and apparently Smelly took a shower, so...perfectly fine, really. ^.^
CGNakibe: So you finally got part of a serial, eh?
TheWaiChibiAngel: I asked them to see where it came from, and they said it could have come from, like, three places.
CGNakibe: So which company did they come from?
CGNakibe: ...Ah.
Lithaladhwen: Great! Listen, could I ask you for a favor?
TheWaiChibiAngel: Because two is too few, four is too many, five is WAY off...
TheWaiChibiAngel: Six is just silly.
Arch mage144: *Tareen's got a bunch of little discs in her hands; pressing a button on the disc will project a three-dimensional image of whatever the "photograph" is of*
Lithaladhwen: I'm having some trouble getting to my schedule, and I was wondering if you'd be able to help.
Arch mage144: Oh, so you can't match the serial to one company, just narrow it down...well, that's better than nothing!
T3chn0Namagomi: Sure! ...You do have a password, right?
T3chn0Namagomi: I don't know your password.
Lithaladhwen: *pulls out her ID* Honest to my god. This is all I was given.
Lithaladhwen: See my problem?
Lithaladhwen: IM: I need a what-now?
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Lays a couple discs down, and presses siad buttons*
CGNakibe: Hmmm.
T3chn0Namagomi: Hmm...right then. Might as well hit one of the public terminals.
Lithaladhwen: Sure.
Lithaladhwen: (Hel: Zeiren... can you help me? *eyelash-bat* I trust you. *eyelash bat*)
Arch mage144: *a three-dimensional image of a partly-scratched-off serial number on a portion of some hydraulic actuator appears*
TheWaiChibiAngel: The three we're looking for are...
Arch mage144: So...which ones could it be?
TheWaiChibiAngel: Uh...
CGNakibe: (Zeiren: *dies of severe blood loss. Through the nose.*)
Lithaladhwen: (Heheh.)
T3chn0Namagomi: <_< Hm? You found something?
PapatymisonN: ... so what companies ARE they?
TheWaiChibiAngel: Sentaicorp, Marcosoft Electronics, and kuro-kuro...Paradise.
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...No, that's not right.
Arch mage144: *raises an eyebrow* I have...not heard of any of those companies.
Lithaladhwen: IM: That means nothing to me.
T3chn0Namagomi: ...
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...I mean.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Ahem*
TheWaiChibiAngel: Sentancorp, Karume Enterprises, and Macrosoft Electronics. *Is she reading off her hand*
TheWaiChibiAngel: **?*
PapatymisonN: Do any of them specialize in Tek rigs?
CGNakibe: ... Sentancorp does.
Arch mage144: I'm not an engineer, but I think that most of the parts are standard, aren't they? *blinks*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Nod nod*
CGNakibe: ...*frowns*
TheWaiChibiAngel: A lot of them are the same just with different names.
PapatymisonN: What?
Arch mage144: I mean, you can use the same parts for a tek rig as a regular mecha, or at least some of them, I think.
PapatymisonN: *to SERRAN*
CGNakibe: ... eh? Oh, nothing.
TheWaiChibiAngel: ALSO!
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Does anyone have any pudding?
PapatymisonN: No.
Arch mage144: No, but I can go get you some if you want it.
Lithaladhwen: ....*looks down at her plate* No.
Arch mage144: I was going to get up anyway. I need some crackers.
TheWaiChibiAngel: No, that's okay.
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...*Snickers* Pudding.
T3chn0Namagomi: *Does anyone know the "location" or "base" of each company?*
CGNakibe: We have You, Tareen. Don't we? >:P
PapatymisonN: ... actually, Cecil, stay.
PapatymisonN: I'LL get the crackers this time.
TheWaiChibiAngel: The stuff we found isn't much different fromt he normal stuff you buy. *Nod nod nod*
Arch mage144: *Sure!*
TheWaiChibiAngel: Just little changes they made.
TheWaiChibiAngel: They didn't trick out their rides much.
PapatymisonN: *heads for the ... cracker... place*
Arch mage144: *Macrosoft is located in Doma proper; Karume is a Valthi company; and SentanCorp is located in southern Doma, near Isil.*
TheWaiChibiAngel: Meaning that if you lowered your mechs a bit and put some stickers on them, you'd stand a better chance!
PapatymisonN: *returns with two hands full* How many did you want?
T3chn0Namagomi: So...hm.
Arch mage144: *Cecil decides not to think about riced out mecha and looks at Oxblood* Uh, just one pack is fine.
T3chn0Namagomi: *color*
PapatymisonN: ... take two, just in case. *give*
PapatymisonN: *piles the rest on his tray, where there's room...*
T3chn0Namagomi: ...The one guy who said they came from the north...isn't that typically the Valthi Imperial Zone or whatever?
Arch mage144: *Cecil crumbles crackers into his chowder* Man, Baron has the best clam chowder. I don't know how they do it.
PapatymisonN: Necromancy.
CGNakibe: But what would the Valthi be doing attacking us out of the blue like that?
CGNakibe: And yeah, there is that.
PapatymisonN: The best clams are undead.
Lithaladhwen: ...
Arch mage144: Well, strictly speaking, straight over the mountains is kind of far west for Valthi territory.
TheWaiChibiAngel: Necromancy tastes like dead people.
Lithaladhwen: That's not true.
Lithaladhwen: You should never eat the undead.
T3chn0Namagomi: >_>;
TheWaiChibiAngel: I can't help it!
Arch mage144: I don't think undead clams would improve the flavor of my soup.
Lithaladhwen: You're correct.
T3chn0Namagomi: Hmm...right.
PapatymisonN: Hel?
Lithaladhwen: You would probably vomit until you died.
Lithaladhwen: Please try not to do that.
Lithaladhwen: And yes, Oxblood?
PapatymisonN: Please, understand what a JOKE is, OK?
CGNakibe: *sighs*
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: Your stench is probably a joke to you...>.<
Lithaladhwen: I understand jokes. I've even made them on occasion.
Arch mage144: *a cafeteria employee walking by with an enormous sack filled with crabs gives the various delta unit members talking about undead seafood an odd look and continues on with his life*
TheWaiChibiAngel: You're tearing this family apart!
Lithaladhwen: Does anyone still study necromancy? I mean, besides me.
Arch mage144: Yeah, sure.
T3chn0Namagomi: Err, didn't you say you needed help?
T3chn0Namagomi: Terminal's this way.
T3chn0Namagomi: *starts walking*
Lithaladhwen: Yeah. Be right back. *heads off with Zeiren*
Lithaladhwen: IM: That was sudden.
CGNakibe: IM: Uh oh. >.>
Arch mage144: *quirks an eyebrow* Okay!
TheWaiChibiAngel: Um..
CGNakibe: Zeiren...?
TheWaiChibiAngel: Anyway...
Arch mage144: Yeah, anyway.
TheWaiChibiAngel: I think we should look at Macrosoft.
T3chn0Namagomi: (XD)
TheWaiChibiAngel: because I don't trust people named Marco.
Arch mage144: *nod* That's a really big company.
CGNakibe: (But everyone KNOWS they're evil)
Arch mage144: ...though I don't know how that correlates...
T3chn0Namagomi: (And REALLY EVIL)
Lithaladhwen: (Nay, nay.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (THEY INVENTED THE Z-CRATE!)
CGNakibe: ... don't tell me, let me guess... 9.9
TheWaiChibiAngel: Marcosoft? It's just a company named Marco!
PapatymisonN: It doesn't. Sentancorp should be our first target.
Arch mage144: No, no, it's "Macrosoft."
TheWaiChibiAngel: Sentaicorp is innocent. I garuntee it!
Lithaladhwen: (They just make it easier for the really evil companies to work. What with Macrosoft flying around like a great black bat, attracting attention....)
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...What are we talking about?
PapatymisonN: You'd need experience to alter Tek mecha like that.
Arch mage144: *scratches his head* You know, Oxblood...I hate to say this, but...
Arch mage144: ...I think that your dislike for Makura might be clouding your judgment a little.
Lithaladhwen: So.... here, Zeiren. *hands him her ID* I don't know how to do this yet.
PapatymisonN: It's not.
Arch mage144: SentanCorp makes a lot of parts. It's totally possible that they got stolen, reappropriated, or just plain bought by someone else.
Arch mage144: But we have to start somewhere, and they're all pretty much equally likely in my mind.
PapatymisonN: Then we should rule them out first, as they're the most likely to be the culprits...
PapatymisonN: ...
PapatymisonN: ...
CGNakibe: Lots of parts are out there on the black market.
PapatymisonN: Wait.
T3chn0Namagomi: Yeah...they're kinda assholes on making passwords with these things. Assuming you haven't changed it, the default should be...
PapatymisonN: Makura just left for "family business".
Arch mage144: Let's not forget that just because they made the parts it doesn't mean that they created whatever system controls the mecha.
CGNakibe: ... so what's your point?
PapatymisonN: Timing's... interesting.
Arch mage144: Well, that's what I heard. He didn't seem like he'd seen his sister in a really long time.
Lithaladhwen: (But, Charles! They will have taken into account that you have studied, and therefore would make that assumption. You can clearly not choose the headquarters in front of them!)
CGNakibe: We all know you hate him, so its not surprising you'd bring that up.
Arch mage144: Maybe someone in his family is ill?
T3chn0Namagomi: *typetypetype*M21Z98O55, given your last name and the ID number...
PapatymisonN: Doesn't make the timing any less interesting.
Lithaladhwen: ...*nods and lets him sort things out*
TheWaiChibiAngel: Oxblood!
Lithaladhwen: *because she doesn't know this shit*
PapatymisonN: Yeah?
TheWaiChibiAngel: What's your job, again?
PapatymisonN: ... Pilot.
TheWaiChibiAngel: That means you hit things, right?
TheWaiChibiAngel: Until they stop moving?
PapatymisonN: When they let me.
TheWaiChibiAngel: What's my job?
PapatymisonN: Mechanic.
PapatymisonN: You FIX stuff till it starts moving AGAIN.
TheWaiChibiAngel: That means I know things!
TheWaiChibiAngel: Things you don't!
Lithaladhwen: IM: I wonder if sleeping with him would help me string him along, or if I should continue being a horrible cradlerobbing tease.
TheWaiChibiAngel: Like Sentaicorp. *Nod nod*
PapatymisonN: Sentancorp.
Arch mage144: I, um, I think you probably both know things, just different ones.
CGNakibe: -.- Sentancorp
TheWaiChibiAngel: That's what I said.
Lithaladhwen: IM: He's good to keep around. I'll have to decide eventually.
CGNakibe: (Hel says she's robbing the cradle. I say Zeiren is robbing the grave. >:{)
PapatymisonN: And, anyways, who CARES if Sentancorp is run by Nancy's family?
Arch mage144: (BWAHAHAHA)
PapatymisonN: They're still the most likely.
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Who's Nancy?
PapatymisonN: It's Makura's callsign. Like how you're Longbow.
Lithaladhwen: (A winnar is Shaun.)
PapatymisonN: IM: Did she get... dropped on her head... or ... something?
Arch mage144: (I somehow doubt that would cause her much of a problem.)
PapatymisonN: (Me too. Don't tell Oxblood, though. He won't believe you.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Second RP she was in she tripped down stairs and shattered her head against a wall :D)
Lithaladhwen: (Splat?)
CGNakibe: (Tareen: You keep droppin me against the floor... yeah, I know I let you slide before..)
Arch mage144: Okay, well. Tareen thinks the part was made by Macrosoft. Oxblood thinks it was made by SentanCorp. So far we have no votes for Karume.
PapatymisonN: (That is highly amusing.)
CGNakibe: Which is suspicious in and of itself.
CGNakibe: Either way, I suggest we check them all.
PapatymisonN: Me too.
Arch mage144: We can't just walk in the front door at any of these corporations and start interrogating people, though.
CGNakibe: Eh.
CGNakibe: I can handle that.
NebbieQ has entered the room.
PapatymisonN: Good.
TheWaiChibiAngel: I know we need to check them all, but checking all of them at once is stupid!
T3chn0Namagomi: Right...so now...hm. Maybe we should change your password first.
PapatymisonN: (Hi.)
Arch mage144: ...and impossible o_O
CGNakibe: Checking all of them at once is smart.
CGNakibe: And quite possible. ^^
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Not if we split up. *Gives Cecil an odd look*
Lithaladhwen: I'm not as worried about that. I just need to see what information they've put out for me.
Arch mage144: Oh, well, yeah, but that could be kinda dangerous.
PapatymisonN: ... I'd better not get Sentancorp if we split.
T3chn0Namagomi: Oh, right then.
TheWaiChibiAngel: PRECISELY! >_<
CGNakibe: Feh.
CGNakibe: Let me do MY job.
T3chn0Namagomi: (Oxblood: *gets Sentancorp*)
PapatymisonN: I'd probably crack a skull or two before I could get any answers.
TheWaiChibiAngel: HEY.
TheWaiChibiAngel: SHUT UP!
CGNakibe: Cracking skulls is droll. >:{
Arch mage144: Wait a minute. Oh, I see! Yeah, you're right. It would be stupid.
T3chn0Namagomi: *click, click, click*
PapatymisonN: Eh?
CGNakibe: And yes, stupid too.
T3chn0Namagomi: Your...schedule, right? *looks!*
PapatymisonN: *to Tareen?*
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...I forgot what I was about to say. ._.
Arch mage144: We have to get permission from the brass before we do anything official, though.
Lithaladhwen: And whatever else you find.
Arch mage144: *scratches his head*
CGNakibe: *snickers*
Lithaladhwen: They haven't told me anything.
PapatymisonN: It's OK.
CGNakibe: What corps did you say, Tareen?
DarkLordKelne has entered the room.
TheWaiChibiAngel: OH YEAH! If the villians know we're on to them, we should go to the one that'll- Lost my train of thought.
CGNakibe: Macrosoft, SentanCorp, and Karume, right?
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Anyone have any pudding?
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Nod*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Looks to the last one*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Snickers* pudding.
CGNakibe: Hmm... *thinks*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Err, looks at the schedule* Here's your class schedule...thing.
Arch mage144: (Tareen should have Cecil trephan her and find out if she's keeping any in her head.)
Lithaladhwen: IM: Oh, shit. I have to go to class?
Lithaladhwen: IM: What the hell?
Lithaladhwen: IM: I'm too old for this crap.
NebbieQ: (Haha, she forgot the academy part.)
PapatymisonN: (*stops Riggs from blowing his brains out*)
Arch mage144: (Don't worry, you're exempt from classes if you're on active standby, so while she has a class schedule, they aren't meeting at the moment.)
CGNakibe: IM: I wonder if Chelsea is busy...
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Bounces on her feet a bit...Dancing?*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Yep.)
Lithaladhwen: (Neb: She had no input on the academy part.)
PapatymisonN: ... got back your train of thought yet?
TheWaiChibiAngel: Check the one that takes longest because they're gonna be the one that moves-There it goes again.
Lithaladhwen: (She didn't come here voluntarily.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Snort* Laundered.
Arch mage144: Well, Karume is the...laundered?
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Snorts again, nodding*
T3chn0Namagomi: Is that what you wanted to know?
CGNakibe: ... laundered?
TheWaiChibiAngel: Heehee.
Arch mage144: Karume is the farthest away, but it should take relatively little time to fly to any of those locations.
TheWaiChibiAngel: Hmmm!
Arch mage144: I still think it's important to remember that we can't just walk in and start interrogating people. We have to find another way to get our information.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *If her eyes could spark!*
PapatymisonN: ... hacking?
PapatymisonN: Anyone know how to hack?
TheWaiChibiAngel: You all go to Karume. I'ma look at Marco.
Lithaladhwen: Yeah, that's fine. Can you get me a copy? Like, to keep?
Arch mage144: *shrugs* Um, not computers.
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Computers? I know some computery type information of things.
CGNakibe: Hack, you say?
TheWaiChibiAngel: I worked with them back when I had to call people and ask if they'd be interested in changing lost distance providers. o_o
CGNakibe: ... you know you could get into a LOT of trouble around here hacking.
Arch mage144: *looks seriously worried about Tareen*
CGNakibe: I'd suggest you not do it. *sage nod*
TheWaiChibiAngel: And they'd scream at me and insult my mom and I Had to try to punch them over the phone. ._.
CGNakibe: *...evilgrin*
Lithaladhwen: (Tareen has the right of it.)
PapatymisonN: *snicker* OK...
T3chn0Namagomi: (TELEMARKETER TAREEN!)
Arch mage144: We need to share whatever information we have with unit commander Herzog.
NebbieQ: (Neb: What a worthless daughter.)
Arch mage144: (He's referring to Giles, FYI.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (The only way she could get more annoying; thus making every other thing she did look better in comparison.)
Lithaladhwen: (And what's terrible is that Shini is only exaggerating a little.)
PapatymisonN: OK....
Lithaladhwen: (People are about that rude.)
T3chn0Namagomi: ...Err, why would you need it now? I mean, we're currently active.
NebbieQ: (Yeah. Even I have to deal with some of that, and I'm not even a real telemarketer.)
Lithaladhwen: I know. But I don't want to go hunting after it later.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Didn't know that!
T3chn0Namagomi: Right then. *clock, click, print*
T3chn0Namagomi: *click
NebbieQ: ("Hello, someone is calling you through Ohio Re-" "WHAT IS THIS" "A service for the dea-" "I'M NOT INTERESTED")
Lithaladhwen: IM: Excellent.
Arch mage144: Okay, so...maybe we should schedule a unit meeting?
PapatymisonN: I'm not hearing anything I don't like.
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Do we have to? Meetings are boring and lack pudding and Launder.
CGNakibe: There's a good idea.
Arch mage144: Helena and Zeiren are missing this conversation. Someone will have to catch them up, and we might as well go over it as a unit.
Lithaladhwen: Thanks, Zeiren! I knew you'd be able to sort that out.
TheWaiChibiAngel: Heehee.
CGNakibe: Hey, we can go get pudding.
CGNakibe: In fact, pudding for everyone!
Lithaladhwen: Shall we go bug the others now?
TheWaiChibiAngel: I'll do it. Where did they go?
Lithaladhwen: (To Make-Out Point.)
Arch mage144: Over there, to the terminals.
T3chn0Namagomi: Yeah. Maybe I can convince stinky to take a shower.
Lithaladhwen: (AKA, the public terminals.)
T3chn0Namagomi: *heads back*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Zips over*
Lithaladhwen: *follows*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Midway, then!*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Takes a deep breath*
PapatymisonN: (O: Hey! It's a natural musk. Gets me laid more than it'll ever get YOU any...)
Lithaladhwen: *sees Tareen headed their way*
Lithaladhwen: IM: Oh, Lord. What now.
T3chn0Namagomi: (Z: Obviously the definition of getting "laid" has changed in the last ten minutes.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: Heyguyswe'regonnahaveameetingbecausenobodyknowswhat'sgoing onexceptmeandpeoplewanttolookatcompaniesthatdidn'tdoanything andIwanttogotothebadcompanyandbeatthemupandmaybetaketheirl unchmoneyheydoyouguyshaveanypudding?
Lithaladhwen: >.o
NebbieQ: (Well technically, anyone can get laid if they hit on people enough times.)
T3chn0Namagomi: ...
PapatymisonN: (O: Oh, since I got laid this MORNING? That's FAST...)
Arch mage144: (Laid out, perhaps.)
Lithaladhwen: I heard something about pudding.
NebbieQ: (Or both.)
T3chn0Namagomi: What's this about pudding?
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Yeah, do you have some? o_o
T3chn0Namagomi: ...No.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Mumbles* What a worthless daughter.
CGNakibe: (Ah, the spirit of Cervy works wonders.)
Lithaladhwen: I'm no one's daughter. No one here anyway.
TheWaiChibiAngel: Not you. Him.
Lithaladhwen: Oh, well. That's different.
T3chn0Namagomi: o.o; *sweatdrop* ...I'm a guy.
Arch mage144: (This music is perfect. Fischerspooner's "We Need a War.")
TheWaiChibiAngel: This changes nothing! *Fingerpoint*
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...BUt we're gonna have a meeting because nobody knows what's going on but me.
T3chn0Namagomi: ...Uh huh.
Arch mage144: (Also, this product amuses me immensely)
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: Well, at least she knows something.
Lithaladhwen: Thanks. That...sounds great.
Lithaladhwen: The others still back at the cafeteria?
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Nod nod point nod*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Zeiren:My nigh-adonic beauty has made the times I have not had sex completely of my own choice, not theirs. Such things as scent are meaningless)
Arch mage144: (I'm going to start calling Zeiren Mid-Boss now.)
Lithaladhwen: (....)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Way to go.)
CGNakibe: (See what you've done?)
PapatymisonN: (Now THAT'S a callsign!)
Arch mage144: (Because he is a SASSY DEMON and you have officially used the word "Adonic" to describe him.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (XD)
T3chn0Namagomi: I take it the meeting's going to be held in the normal place?
Arch mage144: *Cecil finishes his soup and looks at Serran* So, are you going to call your girlfriend?
Lithaladhwen: *heads back to the others*
CGNakibe: Girlfriend? o.o
T3chn0Namagomi: (I am not an ordinary mid-boss!)
CGNakibe: Oh. Oh no no. What gave you THAT idea?
Arch mage144: Yeah, the one that you call all the time that apparently knows everything.
Arch mage144: She's not your girlfriend?
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...We have a nromal place? o_o
PapatymisonN: *grin...*
Lithaladhwen: (But you just admitted you're a MidBoss.)
CGNakibe: Nope!
T3chn0Namagomi: I must be thinking of something else. ^^;
CGNakibe: She just helps me out with things every now and then when she's free. We're old friends.
Arch mage144: Oh. *blinks* I gotcha.
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...You're weird.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Heads back*
T3chn0Namagomi: *heads back to the table*
Lithaladhwen: *reclaims her sandwich and takes a bite*
Arch mage144: Reminds me of a girl I used to study with back in my early days as a medical student.
Lithaladhwen: So. What did I miss?
PapatymisonN: The apocalypse.
Lithaladhwen: Oh. Well, crap.
Lithaladhwen: Apparently we still have cheese. *another bite*
PapatymisonN: Don't worry, there'll be another one soon.
T3chn0Namagomi: You mean you actually took a shower.
Arch mage144: Well, we're just trying to come up with a plan, because we have a lead, but we need to talk to Unit Commander Herzog before we do anything.
T3chn0Namagomi: Amazing.
PapatymisonN: ...
PapatymisonN: *puts his fingers to his lips* Shh. The adults are talking, sweetie. e_e
Arch mage144: You know, Zeiren, I have some nasal spray that dulls your sense of smell for short periods of time.
Lithaladhwen: Yes. They are, Oxblood. *returns the shush-signal*
Lithaladhwen: Anyway. What is this lead?
T3chn0Namagomi: Won't work with his rancid ass. Anyway *ignoring Oxblood* The lead?
Arch mage144: The parts for the mecha were made by one of three companies, of course.
CGNakibe: (BRB)
TheWaiChibiAngel: YOU BOTH SMELL!
Lithaladhwen: IM: Bickering! Freaking children.
PapatymisonN: *would be annoyed, but nods, acknowledging a non-verbal "touche"*
TheWaiChibiAngel: Shut up!
Arch mage144: Ignoring the natural pheromones of our comrades for a minute...
Arch mage144: Each company is just as likely as the rest to be implicated in the production of these mecha, and it's always possible that the parts were second-hand or salvaged.
Arch mage144: But it seems to me like they went to a lot of trouble to hide the manufacturer...
T3chn0Namagomi: ...Quite so, given the fact that the model's a very common one.
Lithaladhwen: And if they really wanted to confuse you, they'd just leave all the mismatched salvaged bits to lead you in ten different directions at once.
TheWaiChibiAngel: It's THE Common one. *Nod nod* ...Just old.
Lithaladhwen: Which suggests that it's just one.
Arch mage144: Yeah. I didn't look at the parts, but Tareen, they were pretty thoroughly debadged, weren't they?
Arch mage144: It can't just be normal wear.
CGNakibe: (Back)
TheWaiChibiAngel: Yeah, someone scratched them up real bad.
Arch mage144: *nods* It's a conspiracy!
PapatymisonN: IM: Like I guessed....
CGNakibe: You realize that they pick the place on your part where the LEAST daily wear would occur to put the serial numbers, right?
CGNakibe: Well, usually they do.
Arch mage144: No, actually. *blinks* I didn't know that, but it makes sense.
Arch mage144: (BRB myself.)
Lithaladhwen: (And now it's my turn for the loo.)
Arch mage144: (Back.)
CGNakibe: (WB)
T3chn0Namagomi: Pretty much. I heard about the three companies in question...
CGNakibe: Meh.
CGNakibe: What have you heard?
T3chn0Namagomi: Well, it WAS being talked about before I left, wasn't it?
Lithaladhwen: (Back.)
Arch mage144: I think he means that he knows the names because we were talking about them.
Arch mage144: Not that he knew anything specific about the companies.
CGNakibe: ... true. I assume you got more than what we already have...
CGNakibe: Ah.
Arch mage144: They're all big corporations, so any one of them could have made the parts.
T3chn0Namagomi: Or obtained them elsewhere
Arch mage144: *suddenly, red lights flood the room*
TheWaiChibiAngel: Oh snap!
Arch mage144: *loudspeakers begin blaring*
T3chn0Namagomi: THAT can't be good.
CGNakibe: .... Oh crap.
Lithaladhwen: ....
Arch mage144: ALERT! ALERT! UNIDENTIFIED MECHA SIGNATURES APPROACHING. ALL COMBAT PERSONNEL, REPORT TO YOUR STATIONS AND ASSUME DEFENSIVE FORMATION!
T3chn0Namagomi: (SRPG intro battle? Who gets to be Gafgarion and Agrias?)
CGNakibe: I feel loved...
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Dibs on Agrias.)
T3chn0Namagomi: Right...guess this should be saved for later.
T3chn0Namagomi: (Dibs on Gafgarion)
Arch mage144: ALL COMBAT PERSONNEL, REPORT TO DEFENSIVE POSITIONS IMMEDIATELY!...OH SHIT!
Lithaladhwen: (I knew this was coming because Brian switched to Bleach combat music. >_> )
CGNakibe: *Puts away food, starts towards hangar. Like NOW*
T3chn0Namagomi: No time!
Lithaladhwen: ...Oh, shit.
TheWaiChibiAngel: WATCH YOUR MOUTH, THERE ARE CHILDREN PRESENT!*
T3chn0Namagomi: *RUNS to the hanger!*
Lithaladhwen: *runs, bringing her staff of ultimate carryingaroundness*
Arch mage144: *looks unnerved* I'm going to the medical wing! Good luck, guys!
Lithaladhwen: *quick wave to Cecil*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Also runs, changing into her..."Costume", as she does. What's with that, anyway?*
PapatymisonN: *HEADS 'ER!*
PapatymisonN: *was already in uniform*
Arch mage144: *Awesome Girl is ready for battle*
CGNakibe: (Gonna have to head back to my room to put on Xenosaga's battle theme...)
PapatymisonN: IM: Here we go...
T3chn0Namagomi: (Fuck. Need some battle music here)
NebbieQ: (I suggest Yackety Sax.)
PapatymisonN: (*grabs his GBA, loads up the FF2 music player*)
Lithaladhwen: (Don't talk back. *fwaps Neb*)
Arch mage144: *delta unit heads to the hangar--and in short order, they're totally ready to rock!*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Ah yes. The Xenosaga 3 boss music should do for now until I can get my Janne Da Arc and other music over to this comp)
Arch mage144: *Tareen's battlesuit is prepped and ready for her, and Helena's armor is in a locker with the group's other things*
NebbieQ: (Actually, I'm referring to the Benny Hill theme.)
Lithaladhwen: (Yeah, I know. Our PBS used to play that show.)
Lithaladhwen: *totally wants armor*
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Because I can:-)
T3chn0Namagomi: *Zeiren is totally in his piloting suit and armor*
Arch mage144: *technicians and non-combat engineers are running around the hangar frantically, trying to make sure everything is ready to deploy*
PapatymisonN: *heads to his baby, and tweaks a few bolts before he climbs into the cockpit*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *She switches her hair, too. Medium length and dusty blonde. Fairly organized, but not quite.*
TheWaiChibiAngel: (As I said: I got Agrias. >:-)
Arch mage144: (Oh dear.)
T3chn0Namagomi: *Quickly enters Scelestus through the rear entrance hatch*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Meliadoul is better anyway. >:-( )
Lithaladhwen: (...You just said that, Nama.)
Lithaladhwen: (You just fucking said that.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (...)
T3chn0Namagomi: (I did!)
CGNakibe: *enters the Pan, and starts turning on the systems.*
PapatymisonN: (*turns on the dungeon music for FF1* Perfect....)
Arch mage144: *the hangar doors are wide open as other pilots scramble*
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Wow.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Zeiren enters his mech from behind.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (More sensual back there, I guess.)
Arch mage144: *as delta unit's mecha flare to life, the face of a central command officer materializes in typical holoscreen projection format*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Shut the hell up. The mecha is configured in that format.)
Lithaladhwen: (And apparently... quickly does so. Poor Scelestus. I'd hoped he'd at least buy her a drink first.)
PapatymisonN: *Cranks Blood on the Floor by Giant Axe...*
Lithaladhwen: (Or, I don't know. Some WD-40.)
Arch mage144: Officer: Delta Unit! Defend the eastern flank, the enemy's position is unknown. Switch to short range communications, they're projecting a heavy ECM from somewhere.
CGNakibe: Sir!
T3chn0Namagomi: (I didn't know all mecha were to have cockpit entrances in the front)
CGNakibe: *does so immediately*
T3chn0Namagomi: Affirmative. *starting the mecha up, initiates cyberplane dive, and all that fun stuff*
Arch mage144: O: The jamming field is too large to isolate a single source, but we have visual confirmation. Alpha and Beta units are defending the north and west. Protect the flank at all costs!
PapatymisonN: *salutes*
PapatymisonN: Yes sir!
TheWaiChibiAngel: (...Hahah, set up to take it from the rear.)
NebbieQ: ("I'm going to board you...gently...")
Lithaladhwen: *activates her weapon, and her staff develops a long scythe-blade that seems to be made of light, giving off a warm glowing warming glow*
CGNakibe: (hahaha)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (And he makes special note that it's female.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Go to hell.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Does he spend a lot of time just climbing in and getting out a couple times?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Okay. Shini. Enough.)
PapatymisonN: (Simpsons. COOKIE.)
Lithaladhwen: (Thanks, Charles!)
Arch mage144: *Delta Unit takes the field...*
CGNakibe: (Less OOC, more Battling.)
CGNakibe: (I call Id!)
T3chn0Namagomi: (I call Grahf.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Heavens wish to destroy all mimes. :-( )
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Herring explosion!)
Lithaladhwen: (RRGGGGHHHH TOASTER BATTLE)
Arch mage144: (Okay, this is going to be the first time we've had combat, so I'll explain things as necessary.)
CGNakibe: (*Heaven's Fish_
CGNakibe: (The pointy end goes in the other guy. >:D)
T3chn0Namagomi: *attempts communication* C: Stay on passive at all times.
Arch mage144: *message gets through*
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: Okie doke!
Arch mage144: *it does occur to Zeiren that active might not even work given the strength of the jamming field, though it would sure as hell show you where the jamming field is*
Lithaladhwen: C: I won't change anything.
PapatymisonN: C: I have been waiting too long for this...
Lithaladhwen: IM: Don't know how, really. So! No problems.
T3chn0Namagomi: C: Active likely won't work at all anyway, thanks to the jamming field.
T3chn0Namagomi: *Time of day, and weather?*
CGNakibe: (Hah. Wild ARMS: Critical Hit)
Arch mage144: *Time of day is approximately high noon--you'll need to use polarization to cut out excess glare. The weather is clear and sunny.*
Arch mage144: *You are outside the perimeter fence for MAC Igala D; there are automated and static defenses that will back you up if the enemy mecha get too close, but relying on them might not be a good idea.*
Arch mage144: *MAC Igala D is built on relatively flat terrain, so you have a long line of sight.*
Arch mage144: *Everyone in mecha, give me your maximum sensor range.*
T3chn0Namagomi: *10mi passive, 15x visual magnification*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Er, 10x)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Confusing visual range with magnification)
PapatymisonN: (A moment.)
Arch mage144: (Also, everyone give me your move score.)
Arch mage144: (Not your mecha, you.)
CGNakibe: (Passive sensors run 20miles)
PapatymisonN: (5-mile range, 5x magnification.)
Lithaladhwen: (5)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Personal move? 6)
PapatymisonN: (6.)
CGNakibe: (Serran's Move is 6)
Arch mage144: (Tiebreaker roll between the three of you, roll 1d6.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (That's base, right? Not modified for skill?)
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 1 6-sided die: 6
Arch mage144: (Your move is never modified by skill.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Six!)
Arch mage144: (Unless you're talking about Running.)
Arch mage144: (You also roll, Shini.)
OnlineHost: PapatymisonN rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
OnlineHost: TheWaiChibiAngel rolled 1 6-sided die: 6
TheWaiChibiAngel: (I have no idea which way that's appropriate.)
PapatymisonN: (Uno mas?)
Arch mage144: (Reroll Shaun and Charles, reroll Nama and Shini.)
OnlineHost: PapatymisonN rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
CGNakibe: (... Go Die Shini. >:{)
OnlineHost: TheWaiChibiAngel rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
PapatymisonN: (^_^)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Either I'm second or second last)
Arch mage144: (OK, so the initiative order is going to be Tareen, Zeiren, Oxblood, Serran, and Helena.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (:D)
T3chn0Namagomi: (:D!)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (High five, Nama!)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Go team fast! *high five!*)
TheWaiChibiAngel: *One: Can she see the enemies?*
CGNakibe: (*Chris and Doug become a certain Hank and Dean* >:{)
Arch mage144: (Everyone give me a vision roll--that's your WIT, unless you have Acute Vision advantage.)
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 3 1
OnlineHost: TheWaiChibiAngel rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 6 6
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 5 2
CGNakibe: (10. Pass.)
OnlineHost: PapatymisonN rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 6 1
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Okay, she's got her helmet on backwards or something.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Were my vision 15, that'd be a crit. Success.)
OnlineHost: Lithaladhwen rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 2 1
PapatymisonN: (11. ... pass?)
Lithaladhwen: (8. WIT=15.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (And I don't see WIT on this sheet. :-( )
CGNakibe: (Is it over your WIT, Charles?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (WIT=IQ)
Lithaladhwen: (It's IQ. For whatever reason.)
Arch mage144: (IQ, by GURPS parlance.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Ah.)
Arch mage144: (I should probably just use GURPS terms and say fuck it, so I think I will from now on.)
PapatymisonN: (Yeah.)
CGNakibe: (If the answer is no, Charles, then you pass.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (My roll was 16, and Tareen's WIT is nine. :-( )
PapatymisonN: (IQ's 12.)
Arch mage144: (You pass.)
CGNakibe: (You pass, Charles.)
CGNakibe: (Tareen fails to see.)
PapatymisonN: (As I thought.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Time for the standby!*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Run in a random direction!*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *FLAILING*
T3chn0Namagomi: o.o;
Arch mage144: *Serran, Zeiren, Oxblood, and Helena have visual confirmation--the enemy is headed straight toward you! There are three Shadowstorm units coming straight at your position, each one forming the branch of a...well, three-pronged thing
Arch mage144: *
Arch mage144: *Since Tareen hasn't seen the enemy yet...*
Arch mage144: *Zeiren, piloting roll!*
T3chn0Namagomi: N: It's about time I got to use my clearly superior abilities!
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 2 3
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 2 3
T3chn0Namagomi: (Piloting, or Will?)
Arch mage144: (Piloting.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (11. Success)
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: Who attacks a place like this in the middle of the night?!
Arch mage144: (By how many?)
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: AND WHERE ARE ALL THE LIGHTS?!
T3chn0Namagomi: (Well, counting HUD bonuses...by 8)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Without them, 7)
Arch mage144: *Zeiren's turn to act! According to your HUD, the enemy is approximately one mile away*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Someone tried to IM me?)
Arch mage144: *Position-wise, you are both facing one another, and it is approaching you at its maximum speed...*
PapatymisonN: (Moi.)
PapatymisonN: (Just a quick question.)
Arch mage144: (Yes?)
PapatymisonN: (OH, I asked Nama in IM. I'm good now.)
Arch mage144: (Oh, it has occurred to me that I haven't really gone over the things you can do.)
Arch mage144: (Basically, you have a list of options: You can move, you can use a weapon, you can move up to half your normal move distance while firing a weapon, you can aim a ranged weapon...)
T3chn0Namagomi: (And Tek multitasking?)
Arch mage144: (A tek can move full distance while shooting.)
T3chn0Namagomi: *Moving diagonally while facing the front-mo, a burst of air fires from the inside of the left shield as a large rifle shoots into the Scelestus' main hand, grip first.*
T3chn0Namagomi: *The mecha then holds the large weapon in both hands, firing four bolts of green light at the approaching frontmost target*
Lithaladhwen: (A potentially mindbending question: Ignoring the casting time.... If curse is the same as bless only backward, can you use a curse missile spell with bless?)
Lithaladhwen: (Or do we need to invent bless-missile?)
T3chn0Namagomi: Z: Right then...let's see how you can dodge...
CGNakibe: (Curse Missile works with any spell that can be used as a missile spell.)
T3chn0Namagomi: Z: Alpha Rifle, fire!
Lithaladhwen: (It lists curse, specifically.)
CGNakibe: (Hmm.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Four attack rolls?)
Lithaladhwen: (Because, you know. It's curse missile.)
Arch mage144: (OK. That's a snap shot since you didn't take a turn to aim; what's your weapon's SS modifier?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (25. 18 if you count the HUD modifiers)
Arch mage144: (Which I do. What's your skill, including HUD and Tek Aptitude modifiers?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (20, counting Tek Aptitude and IQ bonuses)
Arch mage144: (Also, I don't know what weapon type you're using.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (2x linked heavy laser. Oh, do we count sensor targeting bonuses as well?)
Arch mage144: (Yes.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (21, then)
Arch mage144: (OK.)
Arch mage144: (Four attack rolls, yes. You're firing two groups from two blasters.)
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 12 6-sided dice: 4 2 4 4 6 1 3 2 2 5 2 6
T3chn0Namagomi: (10, 11, 7, 13)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Under normal conditions, success.)
Arch mage144: (OK, you're shooting snap shots, so your skill on all of those is -4. The speed/size modifier for your target is -13, so your effective skill is 7.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Blarg!)
Arch mage144: (Sorry, 3.)
Arch mage144: *Zeiren sprays a barrage of laser fire toward the incoming mecha, but it's no good--they're just too far away for a snap shot like that to be anywhere near accurate*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Ugh. Note to self, range mods will KILL.)
Arch mage144: (I told you you wouldn't be doing combat at ten miles without aiming at each other, even with "ridiculously long ranged lasers.")
T3chn0Namagomi: (Ugh. This is what happens when I DON'T know the range/speed mods)
Arch mage144: (If you spend one round aiming, you get your weapon's Acc bonus to hit, which makes a huge difference.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Too bad that'll screw up if you opt to dodge)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Anyway, someone else gets a turn or something
T3chn0Namagomi: )
Arch mage144: (Yep, I'm getting to that.)
T3chn0Namagomi: N: Damnit!
Arch mage144: (Oxblood! I need a piloting roll.)
T3chn0Namagomi: Z: ...Right.
Arch mage144: (I expect this first time to go very slowly because everyone is totally just now learning how to use this system.)
OnlineHost: PapatymisonN rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
OnlineHost: PapatymisonN rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 2 5
T3chn0Namagomi: Z: Yeah, you're not doing anything related to suggestions anymore.
PapatymisonN: (13. Fail.)
Arch mage144: (FYI, you can move at half your speed and still aim; Teks can move at full speed.)
Arch mage144: (Fail?)
Arch mage144: (What is your piloting skill?)
PapatymisonN: (11.)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 4 5
CGNakibe: (...)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Wow. Redshirt walking.)
Arch mage144: (OK, yeah. It's your turn now.)
PapatymisonN: *simply advances as much as he can, seeing as anything he fires would be useless*
PapatymisonN: (Just... move him up as far as possible.)
Arch mage144: (You can pick a target to aim at.)
PapatymisonN: *picks the one on the right (relative to them, of course)*
Arch mage144: (You have to declare that, and what weapon or group of weapons you're aiming, of course.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (How far do we move, by the way?)
Arch mage144: *The enemy mecha continue to advance--so does Oxblood, instructing his computer to target the enemy on the right*
PapatymisonN: *aims his missile launchers accordingly... e_e*
Arch mage144: (Since right now the rough distance between you is one mile, I'm abstracting things a bit, but...what's your speed?)
Arch mage144: (Mecha SPD x 4 = mph)
PapatymisonN: (10.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (48 MPH)
PapatymisonN: (So 40.)
Arch mage144: (OK, you can move 60 feet, or 20 yards, on a given round, maximum.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Wow, okay. Talk about long-range combat)
Arch mage144: (The distance between you and the enemy has closed by a mere 120 feet at this point.)
PapatymisonN: (He'll advance forward the whole 60.)
Arch mage144: (Tek or machinist? I'd forgotten.)
Arch mage144: (You can only move half your speed while aiming if you're a machinist.)
NebbieQ: (Well, it isn't like Rockem Sockem Robot Larping is the only thing you can do with a mech.)
PapatymisonN: (Machinist.)
PapatymisonN: (So, 30, then?)
Arch mage144: (Yep.)
PapatymisonN: (No sweat.)
Arch mage144: (Serran, need a piloting roll.)
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 2 5
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 5 3
Arch mage144: (Tell me how much you succeed by.)
CGNakibe: (Pass by Reference... err... by 7)
Arch mage144: (OK, it's your turn.)
CGNakibe: (Can I move and activate Chameleon mode?)
Arch mage144: (Yes.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (I've made fuckups this big before anyway. First time playing FFT, I used Wish on an enemy, thinking it was an attack spell)
CGNakibe: *Serran starts the sequence for Pan's Chameleon mode while moving it towards the enemy mecha*
CGNakibe: (Movement 30)
Arch mage144: (It's not like you're totally screwed, you just fired at an enemy and missed.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (It was the demo battle)
Arch mage144: *Serran advances on the enemy, and the enemy continues to close in...*
T3chn0Namagomi: (So...I wouldn't be screwed either way. XP)
Arch mage144: (It's Helena's turn.)
Lithaladhwen: IM: Assuming there are spirits in these machines... the machine would have to be the focus of the spirit... and I'll deal with how that was accomplished later.
Lithaladhwen: (How is she being transported right now? On foot or is there some vehicle or other?)
Arch mage144: (You are on foot, in your armor.)
Arch mage144: (The mecha are way out of spell range right now.)
Lithaladhwen: (I assumed.)
Lithaladhwen: IM: So what I'm tentatively going to assume we're dealing with are ghosts of some sort bound to possess a machine as pilots.
Arch mage144: (Because she's in what is basically toned-down mage armor, her spells have an effective range that is modified by projectile speed/range modifiers, not standard spell mods.)
Arch mage144: (So she's not at -1 per yard, but they're still really really far away for her.)
Lithaladhwen: IM: So my options are limited, but may not rely on destroying the machine itself. Which is good.
Lithaladhwen: IM: But I need to be closer.
Lithaladhwen: *Simply tries to close the distance like everyone else is doing.*
Arch mage144: *Tareen isn't totally stupid; she's observed Zeiren firing at the enemy, so she knows the general position of her opponent now!*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Oh snap!*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *One: She know how those rocket boosters work now?*
T3chn0Namagomi: N: How the hell did I miss?! With my perfect skills, I couldn't have missed!
Arch mage144: *Yes. She can take advantage of this to move pretty fast. Tareen's weapons are hand-sized weapons, though, not mecha-sized weapons, so their efficacy against mech is questionable.*
T3chn0Namagomi: Z: ...simple physics?
Arch mage144: *This means that she will probably have to do something more creative than just aim and shoot at range.*
T3chn0Namagomi: Z: Common sense?
CGNakibe: (WHat's this? REALM OF PHYSICS?)
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Psh.*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *She's gonna have the time of her life:*
T3chn0Namagomi: N: It was perfectly within the realm of common sense and physics to land a shot like that!
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Rocketing towards the nearest enemies head. SUPPAA UPPERCUTTO!*
CGNakibe: (Tareen: AWESOME PUNCH!)
T3chn0Namagomi: (A mile away? By the way, how far would a boosted jump take you?)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Oh yeah, I forgot to confirm how close.)
Arch mage144: *The nearest enemy is something like 5,220 feet away. But Tareen can move at a rockin' 72 mph!*
TheWaiChibiAngel: (If she's in range, she'll do that.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (!)
TheWaiChibiAngel: *ROCKET SLIME~*
Arch mage144: *So she can get closer, but no uppercutting this round.*
Arch mage144: *Tareen closes the distance by roughly 30 yards.*
Lithaladhwen: (I think my milk wasn't processed properly.)
Arch mage144: (Zeiren, you're up.)
Lithaladhwen: (This tastes like it's straight out of the cow. ^_^ )
T3chn0Namagomi: (So, uh, how far would a jump take me?)
NebbieQ: (TO THE MOOON!)
Arch mage144: (I'll say that a jump can double your effective speed.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Nuts!*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Right.)
Arch mage144: (And it's part of moving, so you can still aim/shoot/whatever)
Lithaladhwen: (All we have to do... is jump OOOver the moon....)
Lithaladhwen: (MOO with me!)
T3chn0Namagomi: *And this time, Zeiren simply rushes toward the center one, taking aim with the inaccurate-from-a-snapshot weapon...before the wings on the back move up...one downbeat, and a burst of green plasma exhaust, and it's off!*
CGNakibe: (Fly me to the mooon...)
NebbieQ: (Let me slay among the stars...)
Lithaladhwen: (Let me see what mech are like on.... Jupiter and Mars...)
NebbieQ: (In other words, charge my blast...)
T3chn0Namagomi: (They're space-capable modular mecha with forcefields and rocket fists!)
T3chn0Namagomi: (GEKIGAN FUREEA!!!)
Arch mage144: *Zeiren closes the distance by another 40 yards or so, and takes aim at the middle mech*
T3chn0Namagomi: (*shot for the engrish*)
Arch mage144: *Suddenly, Zeiren catches a flash of light out of the corner of his eye as he completes his jump arc...the enemy on his left side is firing at him!*
Arch mage144: (Give me your size modifier.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (+5)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 1 1
T3chn0Namagomi: (Can the weapon be identified?)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 3 3
Arch mage144: (Yes, give me a sec)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Whew. Almost crits.)
Arch mage144: *It's a pair of high-powered blaster bolts! Huge shockwaves of energy are coming straight at Zeiren...roll to dodge!*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Once for each, right?)
Arch mage144: (Yes.)
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 1 1
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 4 5
CGNakibe: (Good luck dodging THOSE)
T3chn0Namagomi: (7, 12. Both successes under normal circumstances)
Arch mage144: (You're at -2 because the attack is coming from your side flank, so what's your dodge + PD?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Ah. Nevermind. 13 dodge+PD.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Then that's one that hit)
Arch mage144: *Quick thinking gives Zeiren (or is it Zeiren's mecha?) the notion to rapidly adjust his thruster direction, and the first blast misses narrowly...*
Arch mage144: *...but the second one impacts his mecha hard!*
T3chn0Namagomi: (DR vs. blasters is 1100)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 5 3 1 6 3 5
Arch mage144: *luckily, Zeiren's mecha is totally built to handle energy weapon attacks--and his mirror field absorbs all 920 points of damage*
Arch mage144: *Unfortunately for Oxblood, his enemy has a bead on him, too! The middle mecha opens fire, and another pair of high-powered energy particle bursts erupt from the mecha's blaster cannons...*
Arch mage144: (What's the size modifier for your mecha, or did I tell you?)
PapatymisonN: (You did not.)
Arch mage144: (What's its STR?)
PapatymisonN: (130.)
T3chn0Namagomi: N: Hah! You think my supremacy can be touched by your filthy self?!
Arch mage144: (OK, it's +5.)
Lithaladhwen: (Mmm. This milk is like.... straight out of the udder, man.)
PapatymisonN: (So... one 3d6 roll?)
T3chn0Namagomi: N: You're next for even entertaining the thought!
Arch mage144: (Hold on a sec.)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 4 2
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 5 2
Arch mage144: *Both of those shots are right on target...you'd better dodge, Oxblood!*
Arch mage144: (Roll 3d6 twice.)
OnlineHost: PapatymisonN rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 1 4
OnlineHost: PapatymisonN rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 2 2
T3chn0Namagomi: (Owie.)
Arch mage144: (Add your PD to your dodge. If you rolled less than that total, you succeed.)
PapatymisonN: (So... 11 and 13.)
PapatymisonN: (Er, wait...)
PapatymisonN: (Yeah, both fail.)
Arch mage144: (Your mecha has PD 6. What's your mecha's dodge score?)
PapatymisonN: (4.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Er, PD 4, you mean)
PapatymisonN: (Sorry, I'm mixing things up...)
T3chn0Namagomi: (I thought it was PD 4 for mecha)
Arch mage144: (Oh, right.)
Arch mage144: (Sorry, PD 4. So your total is 8.)
Arch mage144: (What's your mecha's SPD?)
PapatymisonN: (10.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (He's got a heavy frame)
Arch mage144: (Ah, OK, so 8 is your defense roll.)
Arch mage144: (You rolled a 6 and a 9. The first one is less than 8 so it succeeds.)
PapatymisonN: (Kay.)
Arch mage144: (The second one is greater than your skill. So it fails. You're taking a hit.)
PapatymisonN: (Got it.)
Arch mage144: (What is your mecha's DR against an energy weapon?)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 6 1 4 2 6
PapatymisonN: (I've got 50 metal, 75 ablative...)
CGNakibe: (Somehow I'm expecting a Hertz Donut.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (You mean there's going to be something LEFT?)
Arch mage144: (880 - 125 = 755 damage. Your entire ablative layer is now vapor.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Right, back for real.)
Arch mage144: (Damage dealt by blasters that gets through armor is doubled, so you take 1,510 points of damage.)
NebbieQ: (Crispy McChrist.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (...Owfuck.)
PapatymisonN: (...)
CGNakibe: (... Charles?)
Arch mage144: (My mental image here is something like the Hoth scene in Empire where the AT-AT fires its standard barrage at those little Hoth turrets and they
T3chn0Namagomi: (You got nuked.)
Arch mage144: EXPLODE)
CGNakibe: (.... I... take it that we should break out the weiners now. o.o;;;-)
Arch mage144: (What's your mecha's HP?)
PapatymisonN: (1000...)
Lithaladhwen: (Hel: *pins a brat on the end of her scythe*)
CGNakibe: (... crap.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Oh dear.)
CGNakibe: (FFX: <OVERKILL>)
Lithaladhwen: (Aiiya.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Brian's very right.)
NebbieQ: (This will only end in tears. And shrapnel.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (This is like when Ghaleon pulls out Fate Storm)
PapatymisonN: (And a lack of an ejection seat...)
Arch mage144: *The first blast is narrowly dodged by Oxblood's piloting skills, but he leaps right out of the way into the second...and Oxblood's mecha explodes into a huge shower of metal parts*
Arch mage144: (Charles, roll vs. Oxblood's HT, including bonuses for Hard to Kill.)
OnlineHost: PapatymisonN rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 6 5
CGNakibe: C: DAMMIT. >.<
TheWaiChibiAngel: (...)
T3chn0Namagomi: (...Wow.)
Lithaladhwen: (...)
CGNakibe: (... auto-fail. ;_; )
T3chn0Namagomi: (Spend a CP?)
NebbieQ: (Oxblood: *lands on a stack of pillows* Well, this isn't so bad... Shrapnel: *falls in right after him* )
Arch mage144: (Spend a CP or die.)
PapatymisonN: (Done.)
Arch mage144: *Oxblood is so unconscious and bleeding in a pile of mecha wreckage*
Arch mage144: *It is an absolute fucking miracle that he somehow managed to survive*
PapatymisonN: (...owie...)
Arch mage144: *a piece of Oxblood's machine flies over Helena's head*
T3chn0Namagomi: Z: SHIT! Man down!
Arch mage144: *Serran's up*
T3chn0Namagomi: N: I thought you hated him?
CGNakibe: (Range?)
Lithaladhwen: C: I'll see if I can get to him.
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: ...Oh.
Arch mage144: (Range is still approximately one mile.)
Arch mage144: (You are in stealth mode.)
T3chn0Namagomi: C: Please do. He's still part of Delta squadron, regardless.
Arch mage144: (Tactical suggestion is to pick an enemy target and aim; it worked for them, after all.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Indeed)
Lithaladhwen: C: I'm not much of a healer, but it's better than nothing.
T3chn0Namagomi: C: Right
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: Damnit. Cecil would so be needed right now
CGNakibe: (Gathered that one.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (I take it he'll need a new robot after this?)
CGNakibe: (Move + Aim available?)
PapatymisonN: (No, I'm sure he can still pilot a burning pile of wreckage.)
Arch mage144: (Unless he's interested in piloting a pile of parts, which has a move speed of 0.)
Arch mage144: (Yes sir, at half speed.)
NebbieQ: (How about a bucket with wheels?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (That has the move speed of a...wheelchair, I'd say)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Something like STR/6 or STR/8 or somesuch)
CGNakibe: *Serran speeds fowards, and activates the aim routines on his Gatling Guns*
Arch mage144: (I think that the wreckage is too heavy for Oxblood to move it.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (I meant the bucket)
Arch mage144: *Serran draws a bead on his opponent...which one, left, middle, right?*
CGNakibe: *Left*
PapatymisonN: (Lemme know when/if Oxblood regains consciousness.)
Arch mage144: (I will.)
CGNakibe: (Its the Evil Hand, after all.)
Arch mage144: *Serran is moving, which is creating a some disturbance in the environment, but he's pretty damned hard to see visually*
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 3 6
Arch mage144: *...so why the hell is the mech on the right taking such an accurate-seeming pair of blasts at him as it unloads its twin blasters!?*
Arch mage144: (Size modifier is what?)
CGNakibe: (Processing...)
T3chn0Namagomi: (STR 100-120=+4)
CGNakibe: (Thank you, Doug.)
Arch mage144: (OK.)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 5 5
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 2 6
Arch mage144: *Those shots are indeed pretty accurate--they're both coming straight at Serran! Roll to dodge!*
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 1 1
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 1 5
T3chn0Namagomi: (SUPER CRITICAL!)
CGNakibe: (Like I said, Doug. Maaaaagic.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Those should both work)
Lithaladhwen: (....)
CGNakibe: (Snake Eyes, Biatch!)
T3chn0Namagomi: (That's not Snake Eyes. That's just a Super Critical)
CGNakibe: (Pass by 8 and Pass by 3)
Arch mage144: *Both blasts sail past Serran harmlessly, lucky for him*
Arch mage144: *Actually, entertainingly enough, the first roll would have succeeded if Serran were unconscious*
Arch mage144: (Helena.)
CGNakibe: (Serran: C'mon guys. Keep me awake here.)
Lithaladhwen: *Hel simply does her best to get to Oxblood before he goes and gets himself dead.*
Lithaladhwen: (How far is she from him?)
T3chn0Namagomi: Z: Looks like Serran's surviving well enough
Arch mage144: (She's got enough time in the technically ten-second round that she can reach his position.)
Arch mage144: (Beyond that, she can't do anything, since you have to concentrate to use a spell.)
Arch mage144: (Tareen!)
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Still running! Of course, halfway, she'll remember something!* C:..Wait, I've got a gun!
Arch mage144: *Tareen is a good distance out from the enemy, an estimated 1,700 yards--but she's totally able to continue speeding at the enemy...and she totally does.*
Arch mage144: *She can aim while moving, even!*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Make it so!*
Arch mage144: *Tareen draws a bead on the leftmost mecha...*
Arch mage144: (Zeiren)
T3chn0Namagomi: *And Zeiren, from his landed position, fires a now-aimed burst of lasers at the asshole center mecha...*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Hey. Can I use a discharger shot?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (In the same round, I mean)
Arch mage144: (You can fire and discharge, but not move, I'll allow that--if you make a piloting skill roll.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Right)
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 4 5
T3chn0Namagomi: (13 vs. 21)
Arch mage144: (You discharge successfully.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Hot smoke! And attack rolls!)
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 1 4
Arch mage144: (Your new effective skill, before range modifiers, is skill + accuracy, but you can't get a bonus to accuracy greater than your skill.)
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 5 2
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 3 4
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 5 1
T3chn0Namagomi: (6, 13, 10, 10)
Arch mage144: (Heavy lasers, right? Your accuracy is 23, which is probably more than your skill; so your effective skill is skill + skill.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (I believe the first would crit. Total is 21+23, or 44)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Or 42, then)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Three dodge rolls, then...)
Arch mage144: (42 minus range penalties is still way high, so you're totally rolling well enough to hit with all four bursts.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Did the first one crit?)
Arch mage144: (Yes it did.)
Arch mage144: (Your opponent gets no dodge roll for that burst.
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 2 4
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 2 3
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 1 2
T3chn0Namagomi: (Damn.)
CGNakibe: (Ugly>)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Thank god for that crit)
Arch mage144: *The last three bursts don't seem to have any effect, but the first one is a solid blow!*
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 6 6-sided dice: 2 5 2 4 3 3
T3chn0Namagomi: (1140 damage)
Arch mage144: (Rolling on the critical hit table)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 6 6
Arch mage144: (Double damage. 2,280.)
CGNakibe: (You're using that thing? o.o)
CGNakibe: (Notes)
Arch mage144: *The mecha takes it hard from that first burst--a dead center hit, dealing significant structural damage. It can't take another hit like that and stay standing!*
T3chn0Namagomi: (*notes*)
Arch mage144: *the enemy continues to draw closer...*
Arch mage144: (Serran, you're up.)
Arch mage144: (Enemy range is now 3/5 mile.)
Arch mage144: (That's not totally realistic with the relative combatant speeds, but fuck me if you're going to spend the whole round at 1 mile)
CGNakibe: IM: THIS should get their attention... *Fires Gatling Guns!*
Lithaladhwen: (....Boys, take as long as you like. *leers at Brian*)
CGNakibe: (Hahaha)
Arch mage144: (Which kind of gatling guns?)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Tareen's already closer than a mile :-( )
CGNakibe: (Two Light Gatling Guns)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Therefor; we have not spent the whole round at one mile.)
Arch mage144: (OK, accuracy 13, so add skill to accuracy.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Also, both sides have been approaching)
Arch mage144: (Indeed.)
CGNakibe: (Total Accuracy 29)
Arch mage144: (Your range penalty is -12, so your skill is 17.)
CGNakibe: (2x Gatlings to the face, yay!)
Arch mage144: (Each burst is one attack roll, so roll twice.)
Lithaladhwen: (This milk is doing something weird to my stomach. It tasted good, though. I regret nothing.)
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 4 6
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 3 6
CGNakibe: (Both succeed. First BARELY.)
Arch mage144: (You succeed by 1 and by 7.)
Arch mage144: (The first one, half the burst is good enough to hit; the second, the whole burst is.)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 5 6
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 1 5
Arch mage144: *the enemy mecha manages to dodge the second burst, but the first one impacts the enemy's armored hide*
Arch mage144: (Roll damage; 8d per bullet x 10 shots hit.)
Lithaladhwen: IM: Don't destroy them all just yet. I just need one.... just one.
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 8 6-sided dice: 2 6 5 4 6 5 1 2
CGNakibe: (310)
Arch mage144: (Enemy armor is at 1/3 due to piercing capabilities...)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Ad hoc ruling?)
Arch mage144: (But it's still enough to nullify the attack completely.)
Arch mage144: (No, not ad hoc, that's how autocannons work.)
CGNakibe: Hmmm...
T3chn0Namagomi: (Machine guns weren't counted as that in there. o.o;-)
Arch mage144: *Serran's aim is fine, but the enemy's armor is just too thick for the gatling gun to penetrate; he's going to have to try a heavier weapon*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Otherwise, they'd have a (3) there.)
Arch mage144: (Wait a minute, that was a gatling gun. Your RoF is 50)
CGNakibe: (Yep. o.o)
Arch mage144: (Then again, the armor is going to cut each individual shot's damage down to 0 no matter what.)
Arch mage144: (So it really doesn't matter. Moving on then!)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Right. Debate on machine/gatling gun balancing inevitable)
Arch mage144: *the enemies close--Helena!*
Arch mage144: (These guys have better than average armor and that's only a light gatling gun.)
Arch mage144: (I am going to apply the armor divisor to all m-guns, though.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Right.)
CGNakibe: (I didn't expect it to do much and neither did Serran.)
Arch mage144: (You're right, the table doesn't say so.)
Lithaladhwen: *Despite the limitations of her specialty... Hel is capable of a bit of minor healing magic. It isn't much, but it's better than letting Oxblood bleed out where he's lying. So... casting minor healing on the orc fella.*
OnlineHost: Lithaladhwen rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 2 4
Lithaladhwen: (There. You can call that her roll for whenever.)
T3chn0Namagomi: C: Damnit. These guys have some serious armoring
Lithaladhwen: (She succeeds. Spell casts at the beginning of her next round.)
Arch mage144: (Yep.)
CGNakibe: C: Noticed that. But I have long sleeves.
Lithaladhwen: (3HT to Oxblood...whenever.)
Arch mage144: (Tareen!)
Arch mage144: *Tareen can close another 15 yards while firing her weapon accurately!*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *She'll do that!*
Arch mage144: *OK, Tareen unloads with her heavy blaster rifle...*
TheWaiChibiAngel: C:This freakin' SUCKS!
Arch mage144: *Calculate your to-hit roll by adding her skill to 10, which is the accuracy bonus.*
Arch mage144: (Beam Weapons skill, that is)
T3chn0Namagomi: C: We better take them out quickly. Those guns aren't worth fucking around with
Arch mage144: (You rate of fire is ~3, so you can shoot up to 3 times. Your recoil penalty is -1, so your skill is reduced by 1 per shot past the first.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (One moment. Something's weird with my sheet, I guess it saved funny.)
Arch mage144: (OK)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Huh. All her sheets say beamweapon 16. While likely a mistake, the points appear to check out. o_O)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Meaning, shall we chalk that up to dumb luck?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Two point IQ bonus)
Arch mage144: (Her IQ is 9)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (He-Yeah.)
Arch mage144: (She does not get that bonus.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Ah)
Arch mage144: (16, then, so your effective skill is 26.)
Arch mage144: (Your target's speed/range modifier is -12, so your true skill is...18!)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (!)
Arch mage144: (Your second and third shots are at 17 and 16 respectively. Roll to hit 3 times.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (3D6 each?)
Arch mage144: (Yes.)
OnlineHost: TheWaiChibiAngel rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 1 1
OnlineHost: TheWaiChibiAngel rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 3 6
CGNakibe: (Nice.)
OnlineHost: TheWaiChibiAngel rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 5 3
T3chn0Namagomi: (Crit!)
Arch mage144: *Here's the good news--Tareen's a really accurate gunner with her heavy blaster rifle, even at what amounts to an incredible range!*
Arch mage144: *And because she's so small by comparison and the mecha isn't paying attention to her, it's not even trying to dodge, so it takes all three hits.*
Arch mage144: *However, it's too heavily armored for the blasts to penetrate. But...*
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 1 1
Arch mage144: (BWAHAHAHA)
CGNakibe: (Be glad you managed to amuse the GM, if only for a moment...)
Arch mage144: *The first blast strikes a vital mecha circuit, and the machine appears to have shut down!*
Lithaladhwen: (BWAHAHAHA)
CGNakibe: (AHAHAHAAHAHA)
Lithaladhwen: (*clutches her shoulders and laughs* BWAHAHAHA)
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: That was frickin' SWEET!
CGNakibe: (The Return of AWESOME GIRL)
PapatymisonN: (... the orc gets put down in one shot, and the slime takes out a fullsize mech.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Thank god for a comp kill)
PapatymisonN: (LIFE IS NOT FAIR. ;_;
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Hahahah)
T3chn0Namagomi: (You're the one who had a piloting rank of 11)
CGNakibe: (That's why they call it life.)
Lithaladhwen: (And not happyfunjustice time?)
PapatymisonN: (*sadly loads the gun... v_v*)
Arch mage144: (Zeiren)
T3chn0Namagomi: *Range to enemy?*
CGNakibe: C: What the... that one's... not moving? o.O;
T3chn0Namagomi: C: ...it's dead?
Arch mage144: (3/5 mile.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Right)
T3chn0Namagomi: *And Zeiren aims, at the enemy Armor, moving forward if necessary to do so*
Arch mage144: *OK!*
T3chn0Namagomi: *The one that got uberhurt*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Also, staying in the smoke as much as possible to fuck with aiming at him*
Arch mage144: *Zeiren takes aim at the middle mech--and the middle mech, apparently not as interested in Zeiran, unloads a double blaster shot at Serran!*
Arch mage144: (Also, I have something funny to share.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Hm?)
Arch mage144: (That mech was aiming its double missile rack at Zeiren.)
Arch mage144: (But, uh, it's not functioning now.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Lucky me)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Should've fired a flare.)
CGNakibe: (Thank the nice slime, Zeiren!)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 6 6
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 6 5
CGNakibe: (That's not enough 6es. e.e)
Arch mage144: *Both shots are good enough to hit--DODGE THIS!*
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 6 2
Lithaladhwen: (Owfuck Trinity.)
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 6 4
T3chn0Namagomi: (Eep.)
CGNakibe: (Both hits. Happy now? e.e)
Arch mage144: (I have a feeling that one of those is going to hurt.)
Arch mage144: (Oh dear.)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 6 4 2 3 5 3
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 4 3 2 5 3
Arch mage144: (DR against energy weapons?)
CGNakibe: (210)
CGNakibe: (90 Ablative, 20 Mirror Field)
T3chn0Namagomi: C: SHIIIIII---------------------T!!!
Arch mage144: (520 -210 + 800 - 210 = 900. Damage through armor is doubled for total 1,800. You no longer have functional ablative armor.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Err...bye Shaun.)
CGNakibe: (No longer have a functioning mech, more like.)
Arch mage144: *KABOOOOOM*
PapatymisonN: (... I'm not the only one. Thank Indari.)
Arch mage144: (Roll HT + HTK)
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: That needs to STOP HAPPENING!
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 6 2
Lithaladhwen: C: You people and your damned machines.
CGNakibe: (Failed.)
Arch mage144: (Spend a CP or die.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Wow. We need more EDEF. And more HP)
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: DO NOT WANT! >_<
Arch mage144: (Don't worry, I have you guys covered.)
Lithaladhwen: (Shini: XD )
CGNakibe: (*done*)
T3chn0Namagomi: C: Tareen! Aim for the Armor on the left! I'll take care of the center one and then focus on that!
Arch mage144: *Serran's mecha is reduced to a pile of scrap, bits of shrapnel flying everywhere as they cease to be camoflauged*
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: DO NO-Okay!
Arch mage144: *Serran himself manages to survive through sheer luck, unconscious in his pilot seat*
Arch mage144: *Helena's spell takes effect now! Oxblood is in no immediate danger of dying from his wounds, and he is at 0 hit points*
Arch mage144: *Now Helena can do something else*
Lithaladhwen: C: I swear. I'm going to have to keep everyone alive, aren't I? I can't reach the other machines. I'll handle Serran for now.
Lithaladhwen: *Same deal*
Arch mage144: (Tareen)
T3chn0Namagomi: C: I don't think we were prepared
T3chn0Namagomi: C: Not this prepared
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Adjusts herself to her new target. Rocket boosters available to cover the distance?*
Arch mage144: (The one she shut down is on the left; the middle one is the one that's heavily damaged; the one on the far right is spotless.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Err, right, then)
Arch mage144: (She can continue rocket sliming forward and start aiming at a new target if she desires, just specify which one.)
Lithaladhwen: IM: This kind of thing was so much easier before. Those twisted bastards in the technology department made this stupid thing with human limitations, obviously. That's really really cute. And really helpful.
Arch mage144: *Tareen closes the distance to 2/5 mile*
Lithaladhwen: IM: Fragile mortal bodies. *inward sigh as she continues rushing around after 'sploded allies*
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Freakin melee characters. ...Not that with "Dumb luck" type skill in lasers makes her melee.)
Arch mage144: *Zeiren can act now*
Arch mage144: (Tareen is basically using a rifle to fight tanks.)
T3chn0Namagomi: *Piloting roll to discharge flare and fire at the same time!*
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 3 3
T3chn0Namagomi: (12. Success)
Arch mage144: (She's armed for fucking bear if you guys were fighting other infantry)
Arch mage144: (8d+8 damage per shot is, like, on average, enough to kill you four times)
CGNakibe: (But we're not. >:P_
T3chn0Namagomi: *And once again, the rifle fires its deadly emerald rays of deadly light at its target*
CGNakibe: (This definitely is NOT in the realm of the Tazered Bear, I see.)
Arch mage144: *Zeiren's mecha is totally covered in smoke! Hot smoke!*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Flare, not smoke)
Arch mage144: (Your range modifier is -12, roll to hit.)
Arch mage144: (Oh, right, flare.)
Arch mage144: (Intending to confuse missile guidance, right right)
Lithaladhwen: (You taser mecha. Mecha takes 1 damage. Mecha crushinates you.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Right)
CGNakibe: (Unless your name is Tareen)
Lithaladhwen: (Indeed.)
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 3 2
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 6 5
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Squish)
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 4 1
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 2 2
T3chn0Namagomi: (One crit, again.)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 3 1
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 1 2
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 1 6
T3chn0Namagomi: (10, 14, 6, 7)
T3chn0Namagomi: (And they keep evading the noncrits)
Arch mage144: (These things are getting really lucky dodge rolls, but your crit still goes through!)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 6 6
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 6 6-sided dice: 1 6 5 3 3 6
T3chn0Namagomi: (1440 damage)
Arch mage144: (Oh dear.)
Arch mage144: *Zeiren's shot is...well, both incredibly accurate and incredibly lucky. Kinda. It strikes the enemy mecha full on, and its armored exterior soaks up some of the energy, but...*
T3chn0Namagomi: N: About damn time!
Arch mage144: *The electrical discharges and blast shockwave go straight to the mecha's power core.*
T3chn0Namagomi: N: Of course, nothing can match up to my genius, right? Not even YOU!
T3chn0Namagomi: Z: ...I really wish you'd stop bragging while we fight.
Arch mage144: (Tareen and Zeiren are within range of the meltdown shockwave. Roll dodge.)
T3chn0Namagomi: C: Two down, one to--SHIT!
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 5 6
T3chn0Namagomi: (13. Versus dodge of 13.)
Arch mage144: *The enemy mecha begins to smoke and vibrate violently...*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Success or failure?)
Arch mage144: (Tareen, roll Battlesuit, actually, not dodge)
Arch mage144: (Tie = success)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Success(
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 5 2
OnlineHost: TheWaiChibiAngel rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 3 4
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Roll 12, score 15)
T3chn0Namagomi: *and the Scelestus leaps back, reverse thrusters firing! It shields itself instinctively with its arms and...wings--well, what's there of the "wings".*
Arch mage144: *Tareen hits the dirt just in time...*
Arch mage144: *a huge shockwave of astral energy tears across the battlefield as the mana-based power core of the mecha undergoes a critical meltdown*
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 4 2 5 1 4
T3chn0Namagomi: (<OVERKILL>?)
Arch mage144: *the stunned mecha to the left has no fucking chance to survive*
Arch mage144: *it now looks like the wreckage of a car near ground zero of an atomic bomb blast, or alternately, a chocolate bunny that's been shoved in the microwave*
Arch mage144: *the right mecha manages to evade the burst by dropping to the dirt*
Arch mage144: *Helena, out of range, is treated to a remarkable fireworks display*
T3chn0Namagomi: C: That's two down, one to go
Arch mage144: *if you were hoping to capture and study the wreckage of either of the left two mecha, you can give that up about now*
Arch mage144: *the right mech advances and unloads a pair of missiles at Zeiren!*
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: ...HEY! WARN ME WHEN YOU'RE GONNA BLOW STUFF UP!
T3chn0Namagomi: (Flare!)
Lithaladhwen: IM: I should be over there. What the hell happened to the days when everybody had potions? Why am I the only one who can fix anybody?
Lithaladhwen: IM: Don't they have medics?
Arch mage144: (Roll 3d, Nama.)
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 5 1
Arch mage144: (Again, two missiles.)
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 1 2
Arch mage144: *the missiles go wide, thanks to the flares*
Arch mage144: *they explode harmlessly in the air above Zeiren*
Lithaladhwen: IM: This is worse than relying on horses. They spook, but at least you can get around.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Doing everything on foot? How do mages here manage?
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: That was lucky...
Arch mage144: (Helena)
Lithaladhwen: *Finally reaching Serran, she does the same thing she did for Oxblood, because someone's gotta play party support and why not her?*
Arch mage144: *Helena begins concentrating on her spell*
Arch mage144: *It'll go off at the beginning of next turn*
Arch mage144: (Tareen)
Lithaladhwen: IM: Not like I need to go poking around in the enemy armor. Gods forbid I be allowed to work in peace.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Have to run around healing everybody.
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: Let ME get this one!
Lithaladhwen: IM: I should be over there! *aggravated sigh....and spellcasting*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Continues the charge! If she can't cover the rest of the distance in a moment or two, she'll begin aiming.*
Arch mage144: *She can't, so aiming!*
Arch mage144: (Zeiren)
Lithaladhwen: IM: This is what happens when you have an army full of children. Everyone is invincible, and no one considers that they could be blown up by gods-know-what.
Arch mage144: (Tareen is now 1/4 mile from the target)
OnlineHost: PapatymisonN rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 3 4
CGNakibe: (Helena, the Sane one of the group.)
T3chn0Namagomi: *And the Scelestus performs a downbeat, followed by another green burst of flame, sending it rocketing toward the enemy Armor! If it's in reasonable range, he'll start firing. If not, aim.*
PapatymisonN: (Well, she's the old chick that's actually gotten WISER with age, instead of... well... Tareen.)
PapatymisonN: *stirs*
PapatymisonN: IM: ... dammit.
T3chn0Namagomi: (Now now. Tareen's become less insane)
PapatymisonN: *limb check! What's broken?*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Probably aiming, given distances*
Arch mage144: (If you succeded, you're conscious.)
PapatymisonN: (I did.)
Arch mage144: *What's broken? Practically everything, as far as Oxblood can tell. Guy cannot move. He was just in an exploding vehicle.*
Arch mage144: (Your range to target is 2/5 mile, I would not say reasonable for a snap shot.)
Arch mage144: (Aiming is better.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Yes. Aiming is good)
Arch mage144: *enemy closes...Tareen!*
T3chn0Namagomi: (What about Hel?)
Arch mage144: *Tareen closes the distance to 300 yards if she's still moving at maximum speed she can move at if she's still aiming*
Arch mage144: *Oh yeah, Helena*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Unless Tareen doubleturns...uh...it would be Helena's turn)
Arch mage144: *Helena is currently lamenting a lack of mode of transportation*
Arch mage144: *She also should roll for her spell*
PapatymisonN: ... grg... *wreckage check? How buried is he? thrown free?
PapatymisonN: *
OnlineHost: Lithaladhwen rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 5 1
Lithaladhwen: (Yeah, okay.)
Arch mage144: (In the interest of you somehow surviving, you're peeking out, but buried under mecha wreckage.)
Arch mage144: *Serran is not in immediate danger of dying, now*
T3chn0Namagomi: *and the Scelestus is still fighting on!*
Arch mage144: *Helena can act now*
Lithaladhwen: *Yet another healing spell cast, Hel moves on to what feels to her to be more relevant work, trying to get closer to one of the mystery mecha before her teammates deny her her test subjects.*
Lithaladhwen: *Keeps moving...*
Arch mage144: *walk walk walk*
Lithaladhwen: (3HT for Serran! Yay!)
CGNakibe: (Walk SMASH Walk)
Arch mage144: *Tareen is 300 yards away after moving; she can totally fire and hope for another lucky shot!*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Done and done!*
OnlineHost: TheWaiChibiAngel rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 5 6
OnlineHost: TheWaiChibiAngel rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 2 2
OnlineHost: TheWaiChibiAngel rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 2 2
TheWaiChibiAngel: (...Oh my.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Another crit?)
Arch mage144: (Her range penalty is -9, so her skill is 17, 16, 15.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (What will it be this time?!)
Arch mage144: (The last one is a crit. XD)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 2 1
Arch mage144: *Unfortunately, Tareen's not so lucky this time; she hits the mecha, but it's like shooting an elephant with spitballs*
Arch mage144: (Zeiren)
T3chn0Namagomi: *And Zeiren stops...to try and fire another flare before shooting*
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 6 6
T3chn0Namagomi: (...)
CGNakibe: (That looks eil indeed.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (No flare?)
Arch mage144: *The flare jams in the Scelestus' discharger port...*
Lithaladhwen: (Wow.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (No discharger. GAH.)
Arch mage144: (Also, you can't shoot this round.)
T3chn0Namagomi: N: GAAAH! What the HELL is wrong here?!
T3chn0Namagomi: (GAH! I'm a sitting duck!)
Arch mage144: *and the remaining mecha launches a pair of medium missiles from its shoulder-mounted launchers...*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Hell.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Done in by a critfail)
Arch mage144: *...those flares in your discharger are totally not doing you any good*
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 2 6
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 2 3
T3chn0Namagomi: (Next time, I'm going superheavy)
T3chn0Namagomi: (About...10,000 HP will do, no?)
CGNakibe: (With my last breath... I CURSE ZOIDBURG!)
Lithaladhwen: (Heh.)
PapatymisonN: *despite TEH PAIN, is struggling, STRUGGLING to get out (almost definitely to no avail)*
Arch mage144: (Roll to dodge. Your PD is 0.)
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 4 4
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 2 1
T3chn0Namagomi: (Dodges one)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 5 3 2 4 5 1
Arch mage144: (DR?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Modified for missile DR reduction, 38...)
T3chn0Namagomi: (...Please be less than 1558...)
Arch mage144: *Zeiren leaps out of the way of one missile, but the other slams right into him, dealing heavy structural damage*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Incidentally, did that jam not occur, he would've dodged both)
Arch mage144: (762 points)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Whew)
T3chn0Namagomi: N: AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!
T3chn0Namagomi: N: FUCKER!
T3chn0Namagomi: N: You're so DEAD next time!
Arch mage144: (Helena)
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: Stop getting blown up!
T3chn0Namagomi: N: How DARE you pull this on ME!
PapatymisonN: (Stop exploding, you cowards!)
Lithaladhwen: *Yeah. Um. No one needs to have their asses or relevant posteriors healed right now, so all she can do is continue heading toward the interesting stuff.*
Arch mage144: *walk walk lament lack of faster movement ability*
Lithaladhwen: (Please, Captain. Not in front of the Klingons.)
Arch mage144: (Tareen!)
T3chn0Namagomi: C: I'm fine. Nanashii's trying to deafen me with her cursing, but...
TheWaiChibiAngel: *FINALLY IN MELEE RANGE?!*
Arch mage144: *Tareen is 300 yards from the enemy before moving; she can close to melee range if she doesn't spend time aiming*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *She won't!*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *She's just gonna dash in before someone ELSE messess that thing up.*
Arch mage144: *Tareen is now at the enemy mecha--she's basically at its feet*
Arch mage144: *she can use her boosters to be up on top of it if she makes a battlesuit roll*
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: Don't blow this one up!
Arch mage144: *Since she moved her full range, she can't attack this round*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *She's gonna try!*
OnlineHost: TheWaiChibiAngel rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 2 1
TheWaiChibiAngel: (...)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (This is hilarious in the wrong way.)
Arch mage144: *You are so on top of the mecha's cockpit right now*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Cling!*
Arch mage144: (Zeiren--keeping in mind that your ally is riding the enemy mecha)
CGNakibe: (The sad thing really? Tareen's doing better than all the rest of us combined.)
Lithaladhwen: (Aye.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Only because she didn't roll a CRIT FAILURE. Or get shot at)
Arch mage144: (If you want to shoot, you can, but you might want to specify a target area)
T3chn0Namagomi: C: What the HELL are you doing?! Get off of there!
TheWaiChibiAngel: (The benefits of being an easily missed target.)
Arch mage144: (Also, you're at 1/4 mile)
Lithaladhwen: (Oh, boo hoo Mister I Can Deal Actual Damage.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: Not getting blown up!)
Lithaladhwen: (You have a giant foulmouthed robot.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Oh, we can do damage. We just have to get lucky/Creative.)
T3chn0Namagomi: C: You're keeping me from safely killing this one!
Lithaladhwen: C: I need to check it out too. Disable it if you can.
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: ONE: YOU CAN'T KILL ROBOTS!
T3chn0Namagomi: *Thank god for aiming. Do not thank god for that critfail
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: B: YOU JUST GOT BLOWN UP!
T3chn0Namagomi: C: Excuse me, I told you that I'm STILL ALIVE
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: Well, I need something to look at!
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: And parts to see!
T3chn0Namagomi: *and Zeiren attempts to aim for the, err, "groin" of the mech, so to say--take out both of its legs and the like*
Arch mage144: (What's your skill with aim mods?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (42, like before)
Arch mage144: (You are rolling at -20, which amazingly means you still have a good skill because your aiming ability is gross)
T3chn0Namagomi: (XD)
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 4 1
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 6 2
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 5 4
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 2 3
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 1 6
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 5 2
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 4 3
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 6 1
T3chn0Namagomi: (STOP DODGING!)
Lithaladhwen: IM: For once, I'm glad to have Tareen on my side in this discussion. At least someone else here is interested in an opportunity to have more information.
Arch mage144: (Four dodges)
T3chn0Namagomi: (AAAAARGH!!!)
Lithaladhwen: (To the enemy mecha: Please. Stop doing anything. Thank you.)
PapatymisonN: (*points* It's a GUNDAM! o.o)
Arch mage144: *Unfortunately, there is no groin shot for Zeiren today; his laser blasts either strike dirt or are simply absorbed by the enemy's defenses*
T3chn0Namagomi: (No it's not. GW Gundams soak damage. They don't dodge.)
Arch mage144: *he then hears the characteristic alarm warnings that his opponent is attempting a missile lock, klaxons blaring*
Arch mage144: *Tareen*
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: You've GOT to be shitting me
T3chn0Namagomi: C: Get off of there, NOW!
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Cockpit, eh? She and I recall how she got the one open before. She's gonna try and do it again.*
T3chn0Namagomi: C: If neither of us can kill it, then there's going to be yet another corpse on your hands!
Arch mage144: (Does Tareen have any engineering tools of any sort?)
Arch mage144: (You know what, I'm going to rule that her suit is equipped with a cutting laser.)
Arch mage144: (That, and a mecha is designed to be opened.)
Lithaladhwen: (Dude. She's like a slimy squiddie, sitting on your vehicle.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (I was actually going to ask about a couple extras that would be thought up.)
Lithaladhwen: (Cutting it open to get atcha.)
Arch mage144: (You can do so. However, this time, I'm just going to have her roll basic DX.)
Lithaladhwen: C: Calm down, Zeiren. You know as well as I do... that we need information.
T3chn0Namagomi: C: I'm going to get killed for the sake of information.
Lithaladhwen: C: There are worse ways to die.
Lithaladhwen: C: I know. I've seen them.
T3chn0Namagomi: C: Dying is still dying!
Arch mage144: *the hatch to get inside the mecha is on top of it; this one is sealed shut, but it's a shoddy sealing job--it's basically just had a metal plank bolted across it*
OnlineHost: TheWaiChibiAngel rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 1 3
Lithaladhwen: C: Stop being a baby. You'll be fine.
Lithaladhwen: (Helena hears ya. Helena doesn't care.)
T3chn0Namagomi: C: FINE?! You expect me to be fine when I'm stuck between killing a squadmate and DYING?!
TheWaiChibiAngel: (8 of 14)
Arch mage144: *Tareen uses her wrist-mounted cutting laser to slice open the weak panel and is free to jump in!*
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: Then run away!
Lithaladhwen: C: ....Are you a soldier or aren't you?
TheWaiChibiAngel: *If she can find some ignition type thing in here, she'll shut it off. Or anything that looks like it could shut down the mech, really.*
Arch mage144: (Engineering roll)
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Of course, that may very well devlolve into "HIT BUTTONS"*
OnlineHost: TheWaiChibiAngel rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 5 6
T3chn0Namagomi: (I get the feeling 10,000 HP won't be enough. Maybe 16000)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (12 of...12.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (It's a good thing I upped that from the points last session. o_O)
Arch mage144: *the bad news, depending on Tareen's mood, is that there really aren't any buttons, as most of the controls have been stripped out*
TheWaiChibiAngel: IM: Drat! No bu-tons.
Arch mage144: *in their place is a huge transparasteel box with a glowing tube inside*
Arch mage144: *it, however, has a huge red fire-alarm style switch*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Ker-pull!*
Arch mage144: *KSSSSSSEEEEEEEEW*
Arch mage144: *Tareen hears the sound of machinery shutting down around her; Zeiren's missile lock klaxons stop whining at him*
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: See? You're fine.
T3chn0Namagomi: C: ...what the hell just happened?
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: I shut it down!
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: With the power of KNOWING ...THINGS!
Lithaladhwen: *laughs*
T3chn0Namagomi: C: ...more like the power of being absolutely lucky.
T3chn0Namagomi: C: ...Thanks.
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: Hey, you're the one who got blown up.
Arch mage144: *the badly damaged mecha is no longer moving*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Err, it wasn't damaged)
Arch mage144: *the glowing tube in the box is pulsing faintly*
Arch mage144: (Oh, right, wrong mecha)
Arch mage144: (Scratch)
T3chn0Namagomi: C: Right then. Moving in to disarm it
TheWaiChibiAngel: (The one we have, to my knowledge, is virtually unscathed. Correct me if I'm wrong?)
Arch mage144: *It looks like one of those things you send through the vacuum tube at the bank, only slightly larger and emitting pulsing blue light*
Arch mage144: (Yep. This thing is basically not damaged.)
Arch mage144: (It has scratches on the paint from Serran's bullets.)
Lithaladhwen: (Let me know when I'm allowed to be there.)
Arch mage144: (You're there.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: And now I might even have parts to fix your junk with!
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Man, is she pleasted with herself.*
Lithaladhwen: *Can she get up there?*
T3chn0Namagomi: C: If that thing was melted down for armor plating
Lithaladhwen: IM: Must look.
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: There's more to your junk than armor, you know.
Arch mage144: (It's designed to be entered by a human pilot, so there are rungs up the back of it. She can climb.)
Lithaladhwen: *Holy shit hurries up there.*
T3chn0Namagomi: C: Prepare for unexpected movement, girls.
Arch mage144: *Zea's up there within a few minutes, and she can be on top of the mech or in the cockpit with Tareen as desired*
Lithaladhwen: (Can she make a spirit lore check to find THINGS?)
Arch mage144: Comm: Good work, soldiers, we seem to have repelled them for now...
Arch mage144: (Yes.)
OnlineHost: Lithaladhwen rolled 2 6-sided dice: 1 4
Lithaladhwen: (Whoops.)
T3chn0Namagomi: *would it be possible to irreparably damage the weapons without fucking with the people inside too much?*
OnlineHost: Lithaladhwen rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 5 4
Arch mage144: Comm: The enemy forces have been decimated. Victory is ours!
Lithaladhwen: (Dang. That's.... 14. Success.)
T3chn0Namagomi: Comm: Not a complete victory.
Arch mage144: (It would probably require more delicacy than you're going to manage in a mecha.
Arch mage144: *OK, Helena senses the presence of a spirit.*
Lithaladhwen: Holy shit.
T3chn0Namagomi: Comm: Zeiren Aslan reporting. We've got two down, I repeat, two down. We need a med-evac and a capture team immediately.
Arch mage144: (Roll against your IQ.)
OnlineHost: Lithaladhwen rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 4 5
T3chn0Namagomi: Comm: Against all possible odds, we seem to have taken one mostly whole.
Arch mage144: Comm: Understood. Med-evac is coming. We've got your coordina...WHAT!?
Lithaladhwen: (Um. Versus 15. Yeah.)
T3chn0Namagomi: Comm: Our engineer somehow got inside its cockpit and shut it down
TheWaiChibiAngel: Comm: I got in and SHUT IT DOWN!
TheWaiChibiAngel: Comm: Go me.
Arch mage144: *Helena is suddenly hit with a burst of emotional backlash. She feels pain, anguish, and torment.*
Arch mage144: Comm: Holy fucking shit.
Lithaladhwen: *stumbles backward a bit*
Arch mage144: Comm: Uh, okay, we'll send medics to your location, it should only be a couple minutes. We can figure out how to deal with the disabled enemy later.
Arch mage144: *Serran's conscious at this point*
T3chn0Namagomi: Comm: The other two are dead for the most part. One may not be too bad, but the other suffered a core overload. Requesting permission to leave the theatre of operations and return to base.
CGNakibe: ....uuu....
Lithaladhwen: Holy shit. I think I can get it out. If it's *winces at the shared sensations* .... if the spirit in this machine is tied to the core, pulling out the spirit should yank it away from that.
Lithaladhwen: I think I can get it out.
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Eh?
T3chn0Namagomi: C: They're sending a team to capture that Armor, girls.
Arch mage144: *within a few minutes, crews are on the scene with appropriate extraction equipment, and someone uses an enormous pneumatic device to remove the debris from Oxblood and Serran*
Lithaladhwen: *Attempts to force it to manifest the way she did with good ol' Mark back at their last assignment*
Lithaladhwen: C: They can do as they like. They're not taking this ghost.
OnlineHost: Lithaladhwen rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 3 6
PapatymisonN: *very, VERY mad at himself...*
T3chn0Namagomi: Comm: Requesting permission to return to base.
Lithaladhwen: IM: I don't know how much else I can do after this... but I have to do it.
Arch mage144: *The spell takes a lot out of Helena--she's really getting tired, pushing herself to cast like this*
Lithaladhwen: IM: There's no other option.
Arch mage144: Comm: Permission granted.
Lithaladhwen: (Yay for the sense of duty. She does it anyway.)
Arch mage144: *Oh, fuck fuck fuck.*
Arch mage144: *A tangible form begins to manifest in the cockpit...*
T3chn0Namagomi: *and the damaged Scelestus starts to return to its hangar for some severe repairs*
T3chn0Namagomi: C: See you back in base, girls. I need some sleep, badly.
Lithaladhwen: C: You don't want to meet the pilot of this mecha?
Arch mage144: *Helena sees a spirit unlike any she has ever encountered before. It looks like a screaming humanoid that has been partially melded to a shifting, semi-amorphous mass of colors.*
T3chn0Namagomi: C: ...I thought it was the astral symbiote that was piloting it
Lithaladhwen: *deep breath... suddenly not sure whether she wanted to meet it either*
Lithaladhwen: C: There's more than that, Zeiren. Use your fucking eyes.
T3chn0Namagomi: *Err, can Zeiren SEE it?*
Lithaladhwen: (Yeah. That's what the spell does. Forces it to manifest.)
Arch mage144: *Tendrils of "flesh" sweep back across its figure, attaching it via ectoplasmic connective tissue to the mass. The humanoid's eyes are wide open. Its mouth is stretched wide, as if it were screaming in agony from
Arch mage144: the worst torture imaginable, but no sound escapes.*
T3chn0Namagomi: (I meant thanks to the cockpit)
Lithaladhwen: *stares in horror*
Arch mage144: (The cockpit is transparent right now.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Ah)
Lithaladhwen: IM: Oh, gods. How did they do this?
T3chn0Namagomi: *Zooms in*
T3chn0Namagomi: C: What...the...HELL?!
Arch mage144: *The human portion of the entity seems to be straining endlessly to free itself from its bonds of flesh, but it struggles in vain. Its arms are attached to its sides by webbing of flesh, and below the waist its body simply
Arch mage144: melds into the prismatic form behind it.*
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Can you tell your friend to go away?
Lithaladhwen: Shut up Tareen.
Lithaladhwen: *almost absently* I... don't know if forcing it to solidify would help. I know that it would... solidify the spirit portion, but I have no idea whether it would bring the astral nonsense along....
T3chn0Namagomi: C: ...that...thing was in the Armor?
Lithaladhwen: I also don't know if it can understand me. *addresses the form* Hey. *reaches out a hand to touch it, for lack of any other method of examination*
Arch mage144: *The entity hangs in the air, semitransparent, and unresponsive to Helena.*
Arch mage144: *her hand passes right through it.*
Lithaladhwen: IM: This is a worse abomination than anything I've ever seen.
TheWaiChibiAngel: Well, I don't think it likes you very much!
Lithaladhwen: All right, now that alarms me more than anything else.
Lithaladhwen: If this were just a spirit, I'd be able to touch it.
Lithaladhwen: Something is horribly wrong, beyond the obvious.
Lithaladhwen: Its very nature has change.
Lithaladhwen: *changed
Lithaladhwen: I...*shakes her head* I don't know what to do. All I can think to do is destroy it.
T3chn0Namagomi: (I'll assume Zeiren can't hear her over the comm)
Arch mage144: (She's not using the comm, I don't think, but you can retroactively decide she is if you want.)
T3chn0Namagomi: ('s what I mean)
Lithaladhwen: (We decided last time that you can hear normal speech through it as long as it isn't off.)
Arch mage144: ('kay. You can hear her.)
Lithaladhwen: (And since she isn't speaking at huge range, I decided to ignore the painintheassery of the C: every time. )
Lithaladhwen: (Thus is the logic of Kai.)
Arch mage144: Comm: What are you doing with the disabled mecha?
Arch mage144: Comm: I told you not to worry about it, a crew can collect it later.
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: ...One of my eyes fell out.
Lithaladhwen: C: Noted.
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: We're looking for it.
Arch mage144: Comm: Get inside and relax. Your other unit members, miraculously, are...WHAT?
T3chn0Namagomi: Comm: ...Noted. Returning to base.
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: ...Earrings.
TheWaiChibiAngel: C: Earrings!
Lithaladhwen: C: Guys. I have to do something.
T3chn0Namagomi: *and the Scelestus walks back to the hangar*
Arch mage144: Comm: ...right. Make no alterations to the mecha or any of its components. That is an order.
Lithaladhwen: IM: It can't live like this. Fuck their study.
Lithaladhwen: IM: They don't know jack shit.
T3chn0Namagomi: C: ...You heard the man. Back to base.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Glances at Hel for a moment*
T3chn0Namagomi: *returning like a good soldier. Given, a good soldier that has almost gotten nuked out of existence himself*
Lithaladhwen: IM: But I don't know what to do.
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: Oh GREAT. Now it's the report-writing, isn't it...
Lithaladhwen: IM: I'll get you later. I won't let my superiors keep you any more than I'll allow our enemies.
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...C'mon. We gotta leave.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Out!*
Arch mage144: *the retrieval crew is showing up about now, equipped with a large hover-platform and a bunch of other gadgetry*
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: At least I can let them know about the freak failure of the decoy discharger.
T3chn0Namagomi: *Techie team to repair the Scelestus?*
Lithaladhwen: *reluctantly turns away, reaaally wishing to destroy that spirit but having no way to do so at current*
PapatymisonN: *will asks the medevac guys one thing*
Arch mage144: *anti-grav technology levitates the mech onto the platform, with the two girls in it*
PapatymisonN: ... bring me my axe...
PapatymisonN: Please...
Arch mage144: Medic: Uh, your axe? Where is it?
PapatymisonN: ... I was... sitting next to it... it was with me...
Arch mage144: Medic: Don't worry, we'll dig it out of the wreckage for you.
PapatymisonN: Thanks... got any tranquilizers?
Arch mage144: Medic: They have to clean up the mess anyway.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Sits down somewhere, and pulls her helmet off.*
Arch mage144: Medic: *nods and injects Oxblood with a prefilled syringe of something that eliminates any sensation of pain*
T3chn0Namagomi: N: ...FUCKER! LET ME AT IT!
TheWaiChibiAngel: I wonder if I'll get a reward for being so awesome?
T3chn0Namagomi: Z: ...ugh...
Arch mage144: *his bones are still in bad shape, so moving is out of the question, but he's not hurting anymore*
PapatymisonN: Thank you... *goes back to that sleep-like place...*
Lithaladhwen: (Where the hell are we?)
Arch mage144: *OK, so, basically*
Arch mage144: *Helena and Tareen are on the mecha, which is being carted off by the evac crew, and they'll be inside the hangar in a couple minutes time*
Arch mage144: *Oxblood and Serran are on stretchers being wheeled through the MAC building to the infirmary*
Arch mage144: *Zeiran and his mech are back in the hangar now*
Arch mage144: *the manifested entity has vanished from sight*
T3chn0Namagomi: Initiating Cyberplane Dive Reversal...breaking attunement now.
Arch mage144: (Shall we time-lapse to a resolution of events?)
Lithaladhwen: *When they get inside she yanks off her helmet, and punches a wall, looking damned-near tears with frustration.*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Yeah)
Lithaladhwen: Shit. Shit!
Lithaladhwen: How could I let that happen?
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Sure!)
Lithaladhwen: IM: Where has my head been? Not again. Next time will be different.
Arch mage144: (Hel can have her moment first.)
Lithaladhwen: (She GETS A DAMNED MOMENT)
TheWaiChibiAngel: You're old, like me.
Lithaladhwen: (Jeez.)
Lithaladhwen: So what?
Lithaladhwen: You're older.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Cough* You can't always do everything. You should know that...
Lithaladhwen: I can do this. You wouldn't understand.
T3chn0Namagomi: *Zeiren exits his Armor, his posture saying as if he's ready to absolutely collapse at any spot.*
Lithaladhwen: I should have destroyed it. I should have been able to destroy it.
Lithaladhwen: That was so. Fucking. Wrong.
Lithaladhwen: *head shake*
TheWaiChibiAngel: There's stuff you can't do.
Arch mage144: *meanwhile, in the medical wing, Cecil is looking in horror at Oxblood and Serran*
TheWaiChibiAngel: I couldnt' save Mom. You couldn't save...
TheWaiChibiAngel: ..Uh.
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Mr Blobby.
TheWaiChibiAngel: You just can't.
Lithaladhwen: I didn't want to save him. He's beyond that now.
PapatymisonN: *doesn't want to be awake...*
Lithaladhwen: The least I could have done was destroy him.
TheWaiChibiAngel: You know what I mean.
Arch mage144: Oh, shit! You guys look terrible! I guess you'll have to tell me about it when you're recovered...*making sure they're comfortable with the latest in painkillers*
Lithaladhwen: He can be destroyed. I wasn't prepared. I assumed that the pilots would be able to pass on if separated from the machine.
Lithaladhwen: Next time I will be prepared, and they will be destroyed.
Lithaladhwen: They deserve that much.
Lithaladhwen: They can't just....just be held here in a machine.
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...I know.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Says nothing else!*
Lithaladhwen: There's no time. I have to fix this. I don't know when this will happen again. I'll be in my room if anyone needs me.
Lithaladhwen: *heads off without another word*
Arch mage144: *luckily for Helena, Tara's not there to make her mood worse*
Arch mage144: *if Helena's lucky, she died during the mecha assault*
Lithaladhwen: (But is she?)
Lithaladhwen: (I demand a roll or something.)
Arch mage144: (Timelapse is now?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Yeah)
Lithaladhwen: (Ja.0
Lithaladhwen: *)
CGNakibe: (Doom?)
Arch mage144: *Later on that evening, everything is getting back to normal...*
Arch mage144: *MAC Igala D's main headquarters suffered relatively little structural damage, most of it from stray fire instead of intentional damage. The enemy seemed to be focused on taking out pilots and mecha first.*
Arch mage144: *Serran and Oxblood, thanks to both magic and scientific medical advances, are totally healed to the point where walking around doesn't seem like a horrible idea anymore.*
Arch mage144: *Tara returned to her room later with a nasty gash across her forehead--she had no words to say to Helena, and instead sits at her computer in silence.*
PapatymisonN: *sulking, but is OK, walking about, slightly painedly, with a cane on his shoulder*
Arch mage144: *The intact enemy mecha is now being stored in a restricted hangar under maximum security.*
Lithaladhwen: *Helena's going to be all broody and angsty for a while. So that's perfectly groovy.*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Do the techies get yelled at by the chief engineer for what happened?*
CGNakibe: *Stays laid down* Five more minutes... please?
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Would have liked to get a look at that!*
Arch mage144: *Delta Unit is being called for a debriefing by Unit Commander Herzog in their ready room.*
T3chn0Namagomi: *looks like he's ready to drop from exhaustion*
PapatymisonN: *ooh! Did they find his axe?*
Arch mage144: *Zeiren's technicians are reprimanded and forced to do a total inspection of all its weapons systems and dischargers.*
CGNakibe: *mutters various things and then gets up.*
Arch mage144: *Oxblood's axe was retrieved by the evac crew and was brought to him in the medical unit.*
PapatymisonN: (Turns out there was gum in the launch tube.)
PapatymisonN: *yay!*
PapatymisonN: (And, uh... the priceless antiquities? No? Oh, well, just claim insurance, then... :P)
Arch mage144: *At 1930, Delta Unit is scheduled for its ready room meeting...*
Arch mage144: *People are presumably present?*
PapatymisonN: *yep.*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Probably!*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Yeah, though looking extremely worn out*
Lithaladhwen: *Yeah. All morose and whatnot.*
PapatymisonN: *with axe on back and cane in lap*
CGNakibe: *looks decidedly nonpulssed*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *With glasses and whitemage armband!*
Arch mage144: *Cecil is present, also*
Arch mage144: Giles: Nothing personal, but you guys look like shit.
PapatymisonN: None taken, sir.
T3chn0Namagomi: I feel like it too, sir.
TheWaiChibiAngel: I don't look so bad. ._.
Arch mage144: Giles: In all seriousness, you did well. I'm amazed you two are alive. Your mecha are scrapyard fodder.
CGNakibe: ...
PapatymisonN: *sigh*
Arch mage144: Giles: We can discuss the specifics of that in a moment.
Arch mage144: Giles: *sighs* Okay, since you guys captured the enemy mecha, you get some special priveledges.
PapatymisonN: o.o Slobbu?
Lithaladhwen: IM: Not enough. Guaranteed.
Arch mage144: G: It's under total security lockdown, but Delta Unit is permitted to investigate and examine it as part of the engineering team.
Lithaladhwen: ...
Arch mage144: G: You're also going to get first notice of anything we find out.
TheWaiChibiAngel: Whoo!
Lithaladhwen: IM: Oh, that's rich. Sure we are.
TheWaiChibiAngel: I wanna looka t all the parts and stuff again. o_o
Arch mage144: G: You two were in the mecha for a while before evac, right? Anything worth mentioning?
TheWaiChibiAngel: I dropped an earring.
T3chn0Namagomi: *looks up with almost dead eyes from his seat*
Arch mage144: G: I haven't personally been able to get more than the preliminary reports regarding the other wreckage you retrieved.
Lithaladhwen: IM: I don't... I almost don't want to mention it.
Lithaladhwen: Um. Sir?
Arch mage144: G: Yes?
TheWaiChibiAngel: Oh, controls were taken out again, except for the big red button.
Lithaladhwen: Due to the potentially-incorporeal nature of the piloting... well, the pilot, for lack of a better word... It will be much more difficult to deal with the machine, as we all know.
Arch mage144: G: Are you referring to its astral symbiote?
Arch mage144: G: The symbiote was doing all the piloting? How do you know?
Lithaladhwen: Pretty much, if you count in that it was probably melded to the soul of one of our fallen soldiers.
T3chn0Namagomi: This was partly from the first examination.
Arch mage144: G: ......
Arch mage144: C: It was what!?
CGNakibe: Something we figured out during investigations earlier, actually. The mecha had no signs of a pilot ever being in there.
CGNakibe: Well, not a living one.
Lithaladhwen: I can't destroy that with my current weapon, and nothing we've got will either, sir.
T3chn0Namagomi: The encasement for the symbiote was built...stronger...if I remember correctly.
Lithaladhwen: We can break the machine, but the pilot still exists, and I don't know what it's capable of, sir.
Arch mage144: G: You're telling me that a humanoid pilot's soul was somehow merged to the astral symbiote?
Lithaladhwen: Yes.
Lithaladhwen: Do you want to see it?
PapatymisonN: ... that's ... sick. e_e
T3chn0Namagomi: It looked like it.
Arch mage144: G: *shakes his head* Maybe later, I believe you for now.
Lithaladhwen: All right, sir. As you wish. Here's my point:
TheWaiChibiAngel: ..It was pretty gross.
Lithaladhwen: I can alter my weapon and possibly others, but I'd need help. It's an expense of resources and energy I can't handle on my own.
Lithaladhwen: I didn't know if you could offer a solution, sir.
Arch mage144: G: I'm not sure I understand. You want to destroy the first piece of evidence we've collected?
CGNakibe: Hm? o.o
Lithaladhwen: With all due respect. Sir. What do you think will happen if we meet an enemy on the field we can't destroy?
Lithaladhwen: We aren't prepared for dealing with a ghost, sir.
Arch mage144: G: We will run into real problems. And you are entirely correct.
Arch mage144: G: However, I think we need to investigate the nature of this link before we destroy whatever specimen we have.
T3chn0Namagomi: And possibly the specimen itself?
TheWaiChibiAngel: ..>We should probably try and get more...
Lithaladhwen: IM: I will get that one. They won't keep it forever.
Arch mage144: G: If indeed it is possible to bind souls to astral symbiotes so that they can pilot mecha without living pilots...
Arch mage144: G: We need to have some idea of how.
PapatymisonN: Who cares how?
T3chn0Namagomi: If we know how, then we can think of how to undo it
T3chn0Namagomi: Disable them faster.
Arch mage144: G: That's one reason.
PapatymisonN: We find who's doing this, blow up whatever they're doing, and let those souls REST...
Lithaladhwen: *clenches her jaw at the very notion* I can help with the research. If anyone will know what to do about it, I will.
Lithaladhwen: IM: And if we start using them on our side, I'll be in a better position to destroy them as well if need be.
CGNakibe: We.. also had a lead to follow from the last examination as well.
Lithaladhwen: *nods to Oxblood*
Arch mage144: G: It certainly explains the superhuman reactions of the machines
Arch mage144: G: They have a human spirit and an astral spirit, so they probably divide the work.
T3chn0Namagomi: And they dodge like nothing else
PapatymisonN: And their weapons are... pretty good...
T3chn0Namagomi: Twelve aimed Alpha Rifle shots fired, only two hit.
T3chn0Namagomi: <_< Those are standard weapons.
Arch mage144: G: Astral symbiotes aren't really intelligent, from what I understand, or at least, their intelligence is rudimentary. They have wills, can make plans, and the like.
Lithaladhwen: Sir, I wish you could have seen it. That's one of ...one of ours, to be frank. And you should see what he's become.
Arch mage144: G: But they aren't capable of complicated reasoning...
Arch mage144: G: What has he become? *blinks*
Lithaladhwen: He's not even a ghost anymore. He's nothing but a mass of pain crammed into a machine.
Arch mage144: G: .....
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Rubs her eye*
Arch mage144: G: I think...I may not be envisioning this correctly.
Arch mage144: G: You see, I assumed from your description that they created a hybrid astral entity of some sort.
PapatymisonN: I don't think you WANT to, sir...
Arch mage144: G: But you left out a noteworthy detail.
CGNakibe: o.o
Arch mage144: G: The relationship between the two entities...isn't symbiotic, is it?
T3chn0Namagomi: No sir...it didn't look like it
Lithaladhwen: I can't imagine that it is.
Lithaladhwen: I felt it. That was no voluntary bond between them.
T3chn0Namagomi: The standard soul looked as if it wanted to get out.
Arch mage144: G: Kazeros. *mutters*
TheWaiChibiAngel: ..Huh?
T3chn0Namagomi: ?
Arch mage144: G: You need to show our technicians whatever it is you know.
Lithaladhwen: If I'm in any position to recommend or advise... anything at all.... Sir, I think that anyone making choices regarding the potential uses of this finding... needs to see it for themselves.
Lithaladhwen: And I think we all know it will come up. Whether or not to use it.
Arch mage144: G: Not tonight. You can do it tomorrow morning. From the sound of things, it's an inhumane technology.
Arch mage144: G: I am certainly not going to recommend its usage.
Lithaladhwen: *deep breath....and nods*
T3chn0Namagomi: *nods*
Arch mage144: G: And...well, if it's as bad as you say it is...we've got a responsibility to find out who's doing this and stop them.
Lithaladhwen: Yes, sir.
PapatymisonN: With as many explosions as possible.
Arch mage144: G: Anyway, Serran, Oxblood.
PapatymisonN: ... for them.
PapatymisonN: Yes, sir?
CGNakibe: (He seems like such a nice guy, too.)
CGNakibe: (So much for having our own Gendo Ikari. >:{{{)
CGNakibe: Sir?
T3chn0Namagomi: (That would be higher up, Shaun)
PapatymisonN: (It's GENDO... *the music plays...*)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Oh snap.)
Arch mage144: G: Your mech units will be replaced. Battle replay analysis suggests to me that you may be interested in working with our engineers to do some redesign work.
T3chn0Namagomi: (Someone who is actually vague and sinister would be closer to the top, I'd think)
PapatymisonN: Just maybe... >.>
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Redesign work?
CGNakibe: *nods* Yes sir.
Lithaladhwen: (Nama has the right of it. The lower officers are never that bad, but they have no power anyway.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: Redesign is my middle name!
Lithaladhwen: *bites her fingernails*
Arch mage144: G: I haven't seen the schematic for your mecha, but as I understand it both of you seemed to be a little underarmored for the foes we're facing.
Lithaladhwen: IM: This is no good. I need assistance from these people, and I worry about what they'll do if they know how to perform this procedure.
PapatymisonN: .... seemed that way, sir.
T3chn0Namagomi: Hm...if I had it, I'd lend my old Sturmpanzer Mk.II
Lithaladhwen: IM: I need to find out how it's done. And... then figure out later whether or not anyone else with that knowledge can safely continue to live.
Arch mage144: G: The Shadowstorm unit is designed for quick barrages that cripple or destroy enemy mecha in all-or-nothing blasts. Not to say that they're the only models we may have to face.
Arch mage144: G: But it might be worth rethinking your designs before we issue you refurbished models.
PapatymisonN: ... yes sir...
Arch mage144: G: Just thought I'd bring it up.
T3chn0Namagomi: Sir, I have a suggestion.
Arch mage144: G: Investigational Engineer Tareen, I want to commend your battlefield ingenuity...and your incredibly crazy luck.
CGNakibe: Hopefully the newer mecha will allow us to fare better.
Arch mage144: G: I'm told you short-circuited a Shadowstorm with an infantry heavy blaster rifle. O_o
Arch mage144: G: Yes, Sierran?
Arch mage144: *Zeiran
PapatymisonN: (TOLD YOU!)
T3chn0Namagomi: *Zeiren
Arch mage144: (Lapse)
Arch mage144: (I meant mental lapse, not time lapse)
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Grins*
TheWaiChibiAngel: I'm freakin' awesome, that's why!
T3chn0Namagomi: If it's still in circulation around here, I used to own a Sturmpanzer Mk.II. It was ridiculously heavy and immobile, but for the most part, it seems like it'd have the armoring to stand up to that kind of attack at least once.
Arch mage144: G: *nods*
Arch mage144: G: What about it? I vaguely remember that model.
Arch mage144: C: Yeah, you hear the unit commander? You guys have to get heavier armored mechs so I don't see you in the ICU again. >_>
PapatymisonN: Won't happen.
Lithaladhwen: Eh. Could have been worse.
PapatymisonN: With my shield or on it, next time...
TheWaiChibiAngel: OH! I totally have ideas. o_o
Arch mage144: C: Yeah, you could have died.
T3chn0Namagomi: I at least used to have one. Attempt at a cheap heavy assault type. I'm requesting somebody check to see if it got a new pilot. If not, then one of these two can have it. It's got enough armor to stand up to at least one shot.
Arch mage144: C: And then what would I do!?
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Wait a minute, didn't you two get blown up?
PapatymisonN: Therapy. *grin*
Arch mage144: G: We can look into it.
Arch mage144: C: That's not funny!
Arch mage144: C: Seriously, it isn't!
Lithaladhwen: *snarls to herself a little* There has to be a better way to navigate around that running. What am I supposed to do, find a horse?
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Raises hand, and swings it around a bit*
Lithaladhwen: Need transportation if I'm going to run all over the place healing people.
Arch mage144: G: *looks back and forth between the two*
Arch mage144: G: A horse?
Arch mage144: G: Uh. What year do you think this is, 1310?
Lithaladhwen: *dry little laugh*
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Uh, yeah, it took me forever to run across to where they were...
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Does this make Hel The Boss?)
Lithaladhwen: Hey. If I'm still on foot, have we really come that far?
Arch mage144: G: Your battlesuit is equipped with mage rocket thrusters. *blinks*
T3chn0Namagomi: Also, sir, my damage was a result of a failure of the decoy launcher to function. I take it such things will be rectified in the future?
Lithaladhwen: (Shini: Yes.)
Arch mage144: G: Hopefully. Your engineering crew is looking it over.
Lithaladhwen: (Hel: THE JOY! *explodes*)
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...I thought I was his engineering crew? o_o
T3chn0Namagomi: (Zeiren's engineering crew: Three old men and a cat.)
Arch mage144: (If by forever, you mean it took about a minute or so of "real" time to travel roughly a mile...)
Arch mage144: G: Well. The hangar crew.
Arch mage144: G: You can look it over if you want.
CGNakibe: (Mao)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Consider how ADD Tareen is!)
Arch mage144: (Considering!)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (I'm surprised she's not chased a cat.)
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Like, now.)
Arch mage144: G: I can't really do much for you, but Helena, we can install mage rockets in your armor and upgrade it to full battlesuit if you want.
Arch mage144: G: Unless you want some other mode of transportation to be issued to you.
TheWaiChibiAngel: OH
TheWaiChibiAngel: GET A MOTORCYCLE!
Lithaladhwen: (That was fucking random. Thank you Tareen.)
Arch mage144: G: o_O
T3chn0Namagomi: o_o;
TheWaiChibiAngel: Motorcycle! >_<
CGNakibe: ... what? o.O;
Lithaladhwen: (I swear to God. Did I mention that to you, Shini?)
Arch mage144: C: Hey, motorcycles are cool. But...where did that come from?
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...I just think she needs one.
Arch mage144: C: o_o; *massive sweatdrop*
Lithaladhwen: I... don't know how to operate one, but if it'll help. I need mobility if I'm going to be any good against huge walking machines.
TheWaiChibiAngel: You could paint fire on the side to make it go faster.
Arch mage144: G: Er, uh, okay, we can issue you one.
TheWaiChibiAngel: Oooh, and make sure it's red.
Lithaladhwen: No thanks, Tareen.
TheWaiChibiAngel: Red goes faster!
TheWaiChibiAngel: Trust me, I've studied these things.
Lithaladhwen: Black is better. It's... well, I don't know how to explain it to you.
T3chn0Namagomi: (...)
Arch mage144: G: A military cycle, equipped with the latest technology. Incredibly fast and maneuverable. We can even mount it with weapons.
Lithaladhwen: IM: I have no idea what about black would appeal to her.
Arch mage144: G: You just tell us what features you want.
Lithaladhwen: I.... all ...all right, sir.
Arch mage144: G: I can probably pull a few strings.
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: ...This is screwed up...
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Tareen: Crraawwwllling iiinnn my skiiiiinnnn..)
Lithaladhwen: IM: Oh, please don't give me options. I have no idea what I'm doing.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Still waving her hand around, of note*
Arch mage144: G: So, er. Does anyone else have any questions? If not, you're dismissed. Tom...what, Tareen?
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...
TheWaiChibiAngel: I forgot.
T3chn0Namagomi: ...
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Puts her hand down.*
Arch mage144: G: *facepalm*
CGNakibe: ....
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Oh wait!
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Hand's back up*
Arch mage144: G: Okay, dismissed....WHAT?
CGNakibe: IM: ARRGH. Hurts my HEAD.
Lithaladhwen: *cracks a smile at Tareen's antics*
TheWaiChibiAngel: Can I request a change to my..Stuff?
TheWaiChibiAngel: .....Things?
TheWaiChibiAngel: ......My suit.
Arch mage144: G: If you're a little le...yes.
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Yeah, that's it.
Arch mage144: G: What do you want altered?
TheWaiChibiAngel: A couple more built in tools. And something to ram into things, so I can go through and into their stuff! ...Like pudding!
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Heehee, pudding.
T3chn0Namagomi: ...
Lithaladhwen: ...
Arch mage144: G: *nods* Uh, right, well, pudding doesn't come standard in battlesuits in any form.
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
PapatymisonN: ... oh brother...
Arch mage144: G: But we can expand your toolset.
TheWaiChibiAngel: No, no.
TheWaiChibiAngel: I mean, like...
TheWaiChibiAngel: A pipe.
TheWaiChibiAngel: In the arm.
Arch mage144: G: Give me a list of things you want tomorrow morning. *rubs his eyes*
TheWaiChibiAngel: That I'm all "WHACHAA!" *Punches the air*
Arch mage144: G: I will speak to the crew about it.
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...Okay, but I'm gonna forget. ._.
Arch mage144: G: Cecil will remind you.
Arch mage144: C: I will!?
TheWaiChibiAngel: You will!
PapatymisonN: Niiiiiice...
Arch mage144: C: Uh, okay. I'll come by your room later to remind you to give Unit Commander Herzog a list of desired battlesuit upgrades.
TheWaiChibiAngel: Oh!
TheWaiChibiAngel: *HAND*
TheWaiChibiAngel: Do I get a medal for being awesome or anything? I heard this place gives out medals and stuff.
Lithaladhwen: *smirks*
PapatymisonN: ... if she really took out a full-size mech with a RIFLE...
Arch mage144: C: Maybe I should bring along several doses of ConcentrationPlus.
PapatymisonN: Wouldn't be a bad idea...
Arch mage144: G: ...I'm submitting you all for a commendation on capturing an undamaged enemy.
TheWaiChibiAngel: SWEET!
TheWaiChibiAngel: ....That means a medal, right?
Arch mage144: G: And Serran and Oxblood will receive medals for being wounded in the line of duty.
Arch mage144: G: Yes, possibly.
TheWaiChibiAngel: SWEET!
Arch mage144: G: Now for the sake of all that is holy, you are dismissed.
PapatymisonN: IM: ... OK.
Arch mage144: G: *turns and exits*
PapatymisonN: *stands, salutes, and leaves too*
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: Thank you, Tareen, for making me unable to ask about expanding the antimissile capabilities of the Scelestus.
Arch mage144: C: He left before I could offer him any Totalgesic. He clearly has a killer headache. *shrugs*
Lithaladhwen: Okay. So. Motorcycle. Have to learn how to do that. That will give me something to do I guess. In the midst of studying abominations against the gods and enchanting my weapon.
TheWaiChibiAngel: People get headaches around me a lot...
Arch mage144: C: I'm going back to my room. Nice work on the battlefield, guys!
T3chn0Namagomi: *Stands, weakly salutes...and as he's about to leave, falls over*
CGNakibe: (Sleepy sleepy)
Arch mage144: C: Oh, shit!
PapatymisonN: (I have to work in 6 hours.)
Arch mage144: C: Zeiren! *kneels and checks him out*
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...You totally fell over.
CGNakibe: *remains seated* You know.. I probably should just stay right here...
TheWaiChibiAngel: (Likewise.)
Lithaladhwen: ...What happened?
T3chn0Namagomi: *It's just exhaustion*
Arch mage144: C: Vital signs are okay, he's just really damned tired.
CGNakibe: Its a nice chair. So comfortable...
TheWaiChibiAngel: He failed his walking check!
Arch mage144: C: *pats Zeiren on the back*
TheWaiChibiAngel: (I had to do that and each and every one of you damn well knows it.)
Arch mage144: C: You've been playing too many RPGs, Tareen.
Lithaladhwen: (He did, Tareen. He did.)
T3chn0Namagomi: *He's out*
TheWaiChibiAngel: Too many what?
PapatymisonN: *goes back to his dorm, where his girl's waiting for him... ^_^*
PapatymisonN: *she missed him SO much...*
Arch mage144: C: Huh? You've never played an RPG and yet you make reference to walking checks?
Arch mage144: C: Where'd you hear about that, then?
TheWaiChibiAngel: ...What in the world are you talking about?
TheWaiChibiAngel: Doctors are weird.
Arch mage144: C: .......
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Out!*
Arch mage144: C, IM: She is going to drive me to shooting myself up with absomorphine.
Lithaladhwen: *heads back to her room, hoping to be bugged for a public ghost exhibition the next morning*
T3chn0Namagomi: *out like a damn light, at that*
Arch mage144: C: *goes to call someone to help get the other two back to their rooms without, like, falling in the hallway*
Arch mage144: <FIN?>
TheWaiChibiAngel: <~Fin>
T3chn0Namagomi: <FIN>
Lithaladhwen: <FLIPPER>
Arch mage144: OK, Charles and Shaun, you are free to replace your mecha with exact copies, or you can rebuild new ones from scratch.
PapatymisonN: <Shamu>
PapatymisonN: Oh, new ones.
Lithaladhwen: Font!
Arch mage144: Tareen gets 5 character points for ingenuity, incredible luck, and disabling a mecha with a hand weapon.
T3chn0Namagomi: I made stats for the Sturmpanzer if you want it.
PapatymisonN: I need to get some energy shielding for that bitch...
PapatymisonN: Font my black ass.
Arch mage144: Of note, she didn't actually kill it, but she short-circuited it until it passed a DUR check.
Arch mage144: Well, it never got to make the DUR check.
T3chn0Namagomi: Thank Zeiren for that.
Arch mage144: She also saved his ass as far as breaking its missile lock XD
T3chn0Namagomi: Yeah
Lithaladhwen: Font MY black ass.
PapatymisonN: Oh, you collect them?
Arch mage144: Helena gets 3 character points for advancing the plot by pulling ghosts out of her hat.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Heehee, 5 points.*
Lithaladhwen: She pulled ghosts out of a mech, technically.
Arch mage144: Oxblood, Serran, and Zeiren get 2 points each for successful completion of their mission and bravery under fire.
Arch mage144: We'll pick up again at an appropriately scheduled time slot next week.
PapatymisonN: Cool.
CGNakibe: I didn't even know that Helena HAD a hat full of ghosts. o.o
Arch mage144: Those of you need to get sleep and stayed up to RP, I salute you.
T3chn0Namagomi: Note to self. Find ways to improve luck. Including buying the Luck advantage later
PapatymisonN: I salute you.
PapatymisonN: *crumble*
Arch mage144: The luck advantage is very expensive. o.o
CGNakibe: Now back to my regularly scheduled sleep and Chicken Soup already in progress.
CGNakibe: Also: Doug has 50 points to spend?
T3chn0Namagomi: It also prevents stuff like that crit-fail.
T3chn0Namagomi: I thought it was 10 for the most basic
CGNakibe: Actually, no it doesn't.
T3chn0Namagomi: Well, it prevents one crit-fail per hour.
CGNakibe: Luck is 15 points.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Real time hour, or in game hour?*
CGNakibe: And prevents? No. You get to reroll
CGNakibe: Real time hour.
T3chn0Namagomi: Reroll. Twice.
T3chn0Namagomi: Chances of getting three 18s are next to none
Arch mage144: Also, I'm making note of some system issues since we're basically playtesting the mecha stuff, and I thought it worked well.
CGNakibe: Yeah, so? And then you'll wonder what happened within the hour. >:P
Arch mage144: Though one thing that is weird is movement and time, so I'm going to deal with it the way mecha suggests, which is basically to alter the length of a combat round.
CGNakibe: I dislike the length of the GURPS combat round anyway.
T3chn0Namagomi: 10 seconds. So basically, 10x normal movement.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Also:*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *ROCKET SLIME!*
Arch mage144: Yeah, pretty much.
PapatymisonN: Anyways: BED!
Arch mage144: So if you move 30 yards per round, you're really going to move 300 yards per round if you do nothing but move.
PapatymisonN: Everyone have a good night.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *SHOWER TIME*
CGNakibe: I mean, 1 second is pretty odd a standard for a combat round, IMO.
Arch mage144: Because it's a 10 second round
Arch mage144: I actually like it. It's...really realistic, but only in certain cases.
Lithaladhwen: Night, people who are going to bed.
Arch mage144: Having taking fencing classes has shown me just how fast you have to react in a fight.
CGNakibe: Most of that realism comes through the double-rolls.
CGNakibe: Roll to hit vs roll to dodge.
CGNakibe: That and the fact that movement is more or less realistic enough.
Arch mage144: Yep.
Arch mage144: Anyway, I think things went pretty well once people got the flow of combat figured out.
CGNakibe: Except I still don't see myself doing a punch every second.
Arch mage144: It'll only get better.
Arch mage144: No, probably not.
Arch mage144: An assumption made by the 10 second mecha round is that you spend most of the time moving and stuff.
Arch mage144: So whatever.
Arch mage144: In any case, I'm going to assume the 10x movement deal.
T3chn0Namagomi: And jumping allows double that?
PapatymisonN has left the room.
Arch mage144: Yeah.
Arch mage144: I mean, it's not really 10x movement. It's normal for the amount of time spent moving.
T3chn0Namagomi: Yeah
T3chn0Namagomi: It's technically 10x time
Arch mage144: Anyway, I'm done with ye olde things. Good session, everyone, I enjoyed GMing it.
Arch mage144: We had mecha combat and hardcore plot exposition.
T3chn0Namagomi: I enjoyed it, though post-missile, I was stressed a bit
Lithaladhwen: I had fun.
Lithaladhwen: And Hel needs a motorcycle.
Lithaladhwen: Big shiny black one.
T3chn0Namagomi: Zeiren would actually be in condition to teach her to use one. XD
Lithaladhwen: If she spends 3.5 of her unused 5 points, she'll have a 13 in driving.
Lithaladhwen: In this battle, on a motorcycle, Brian informs me she'd have closed the distance in two rounds. Twenty seconds.
Lithaladhwen: So, yeah.
Lithaladhwen: Zeiren needs to make sure their party support can get to them by teaching her to drive.
T3chn0Namagomi: Once he's done being collapsed
Lithaladhwen: Keen.
Lithaladhwen: It'll be a good opportunity to sit on his bike with his arms around a woman.
T3chn0Namagomi: Fortunately, unlike me, the fight wouldn't really linger on him
Lithaladhwen: For "educational" purposes.
T3chn0Namagomi: It's not that he forgets.
T3chn0Namagomi: He just prefers to live in the now as much as possible.
Lithaladhwen: It's that there's more important stuff. Like women who want you to teeeaaach them things. About your manly motorcycle.
T3chn0Namagomi: Heh
T3chn0Namagomi: And he'll probably have a talk with the commander about more antimissile measures
T3chn0Namagomi: Just in case the bastards fuck up again.
Lithaladhwen: Heh.
Lithaladhwen: Grah. Now I have to build Hel's minitoaster--I mean motorcycle.
T3chn0Namagomi: Eh. Not quite a minitoaster. Besides. It's a MOTORCYCLE!
T3chn0Namagomi: MOTOSLAVE!!!
T3chn0Namagomi: </BGC>
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Tareen's dumb luck is now the stuff of legend.*
Lithaladhwen: And her apparent psychic abilities spanning even the fourth wall.
Arch mage144: I posted to the thread and included a note about it.
T3chn0Namagomi: Yeah...I've got 4 points total, but as of now, nothing to reasonably spend them on ICly, so...heh. ^^;
T3chn0Namagomi: That, and I sorta want to at least have an extra life
Lithaladhwen: Yeah. I'm keeping at least one.
Lithaladhwen: The rest are for motorcycle justice and drive-by reaping.
Lithaladhwen: Eventually.
T3chn0Namagomi: MOTORCYCLE JUSTICE!
Lithaladhwen: Yarr.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *I need to decide what Tareen's points should go to.*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Possibly more Engineering.*
T3chn0Namagomi: Also, I'll put the Sturmpanzer Mk.II up if anyone would want it.
T3chn0Namagomi: QUITE heavy for a 100-pointer
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Or maybe "Unintentional premonition"*
T3chn0Namagomi: Has very little extras, though, as a warning.
Lithaladhwen: The latter, Shini.
Lithaladhwen: Not that she needs them.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *I LOOK FORWARD TO HEADING TO BED SOON*
Lithaladhwen: DO SO THEN
TheWaiChibiAngel: *I THINK I WILL*
Lithaladhwen: And remember: Crabs are this season's grapes!
Lithaladhwen: In fact... I've got a big bag of crabs here.
Lithaladhwen: I'm gonna put them in my mouth, Oh yes.
T3chn0Namagomi: Meanwhile, as I'm so tired that I'm awake...
T3chn0Namagomi: I'm going to convert the Sturmpanzer Mk.II, clean out the dishwasher, and then bake cinnamon rolls for tomorrow.
T3chn0Namagomi: Yes, I know it's 3:04 AM. XD
Lithaladhwen: WTF
Lithaladhwen: Ashley glomps you for baking cinammon rolls o_O
T3chn0Namagomi: With ICING.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *Ashley, you and Brian aren't going to be at Sugoicon this year?*
T3chn0Namagomi: Regrettably, I'm not going to be either.
Lithaladhwen: I don't think so. Nowhere to stay and probably school to attend.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *That's a damned shame. Sarah's coming up, and she's bringing a couple batches of her mom's cinammon rolls, by request.*
Lithaladhwen: I think we're going to be stuck with class the following Monday and also the preceding Friday.
TheWaiChibiAngel: *I didn't like that shit until I tried hers.*
Lithaladhwen: And I haven't made any hotel reservations or anything, nor can I really afford to right now...
T3chn0Namagomi: I can't get a bus there. :-(
Lithaladhwen: In fact, it doesn't even take place on a weekend, it's through the week
Lithaladhwen: So it's right out.
T3chn0Namagomi: UGH
T3chn0Namagomi: What a pity
T3chn0Namagomi: I really wanted to go, too
TheWaiChibiAngel: *..It's through the week?*
Lithaladhwen: Oh, hold on.
Lithaladhwen: I am looking at the wrong calendar month
TheWaiChibiAngel: *I was about to say*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *"Oh shit I gotta jump on this shit"*
Lithaladhwen: Nevertheless, still don't think I can make it, which kinda sucks, but eh
TheWaiChibiAngel: *That's what I was about to say, see?8
TheWaiChibiAngel: *I GO NOW*
TheWaiChibiAngel: *GOOD NIGHT*
Lithaladhwen: Later!
T3chn0Namagomi: Bye, Shini
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