Fine. If things go unexpected, though, we're gonna rub it in your face.

Have the driver stop some distance away and launch the drones then. Having intel can only help us, and it'll just take a few minutes.

Will one drone zipping around in a high tech city be noticed? After dark, at that? You'd think they would be hard to see at night, and reasonably common place.

Heck, we could toss it out the window a block before we arrive if they're worried about being seen from the front.

>going all tactical
Maybe it's for nothing, but a little caution is worth it when things go bad.

If you two really prefer us to go in blind we can play it that way but it would be good to get an idea of where they are before we step in. Even if it does tip them off they'll only be getting a couple seconds.

With what we have done today, this will be a cake walk, take it easy, our boy here is right, just relax.

mm, I agree that sending in the drones might be a slight waste of time if that is all that is expected.

Just say you want one drone out to make sure that if they call for reinforcements we can get some forewarning about it is all.

>>498888
Well in that case we can let the drone loose right as we bust in.

Yeah, he's kinda right; Recon drones flying all over will probably raise alarms before you'd like them to.

How about this instead? Park the car just up the block from the warehouse, roll down one of the back door windows, and leave the heli-drones on the seat when you get out. Then when things do get hot, you can fly them out to watch the perimeter or peek in warehouse windows and skylights or something.

So, how are we going in? Bustin' in the door and going all "RAWR" like a trenchcoated Godzilla, or walkin' in all calm like, tellin' them we own the joint now and they better get the fuck out while they still can?

>>498913
I think the calm and menacing manner is best.

But a trenchcoated Godzilla would be more fun...

>>498915
We might even be able to pull it off, with our scary propaganda 'rep, and Guardsman applying smart-mean talking.

I mean, really, for anyone to come after us, they have to think they have a chance of winning. With the right introduction, they'll know they can't.

If we just bust in, we could be any old brute and they're sure to fight back.

>>498919
Thing is, how do we show we're the big, bad Unity? We could be any jetal trying to cash in on Unity's name, as far as they know.

>>498918
It might be more fun, but in this context "fun" leads to mass property damage, and we're being paid to not wreck the joint.

Maybe if we need to threaten them, we could wind the KiloBeam up just enough so it makes a plasma glow and sparks in our mouth, Godzilla style, then pull the charge back before it goes off. Actually, can we even do that? Without wasting a load of surge and power, that is? If we can, that could be a good intimidation tool. Put just enough juice into all our energy weapons so they make the enemy jetal's surge detectors go off. "ENERGY SURGE DETECTED" times seven sounds like something that'd make 'em shit bricks.

>how do we show we're the big, bad Unity? We could be any jetal trying to cash in on Unity's name, as far as they know.
Because, any Jetal crazy enough to admit they've got a 50 million sheep currency unit bounty on their head is either crazy, or strong enough to back that up.

I have complete faith that Guardsman will be able to come across as both crazy and strong enough to back that up.

Alison 2013/03/08(Fri)19:57 No. 498932 ID: c4e5c2
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>Can Unity charge a megabeam in her mouth and pull it back before it goes off?
No, unfortunately for intimidation purposes. Once it charges, there is no 'off' switch.

"Fine, we'll go in blind."

"Do any of you have any input on if we should go in menacingly, bursting the door down and all of that, or play it calm? We could play off of Unity's reputation simply by saying we're Unity-"
"Whoa time out, snake lady!" guardsman says. "Time out!"
"What is it, guardsman?"
"I am not saying I'm Unity!"
Why not?
"It's the name! It's a girly name! I might as well burst in saying I'm Princess Sugartooth of the Lollipop Syndicate! You said I get to drive, so let me drive! It worked last time, didn't it?!"

Huh. Did not consider that.

>It worked last time, didn't it?!
Mostly.

All right, if you've got an idea that will make us as scary as the big bad ravenous jetal with a 50 million bounty on our head, go ahead. Intimidate away.

I'm not paticularily attached to using Unity for this op. It was just the 50 billion bounty that is associated with it is intimidating on its own right.

Also when you look at something like the Borg, Unity takes on a whole new, not very nice meaning.

>>498932
Alison, say this to Guardsman.
"All right, change of plans. Burst in saying,
I'm Princess Sugartooth of the Lollipop Syndicate. And you're...
*shades*
...about to get licked."

>>498939
hah!

I like it.

To be fair even with a 50 million bounty everyone knows we don't kill anyone. So any non jetals know they can just ignore us. I would let Guardsman do his thing. Alison can be a big softy even at her meanest.

Well, Guardsman is right about Unity not being an intimidating name. We may even want to drop it in favor of another one at some point, but that's for later.

>>498939
Definitely say this with a totally straight face, and try not to crack up if he takes it seriously before saying it was too good to pass up. Then apologize for pushing in on what you said would be his show, and that you'll lay off the backseat driving. Then lay back and say you trust he'll do the best job.

Wonder what kind of crazy intimidating name he's going to come up with for this.

Ask him what sort of name he'd be okay with. We used Unity to represent the fact that the Jetal is a group of AIs, and also because we're kindof uniting everyone in the competition under our banner in the name of escaping the simulation.

>>498939
Do it just because I really want to see guardsmen's reaction.
But yeah, let him run the show just step in if he's about to do something stupid, like fire of the megabeam stupid.

>I might as well burst in saying I'm Princess Sugartooth of the Lollipop Syndicate!
Do that! Do that!
...or yeah whatever you want, guardsman >u>

>>498939

second.

1/4 Alison 2013/03/09(Sat)10:33 No. 499080 ID: c4e5c2
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"Alright, Guardsman. Burst in saying, 'I'm Princess Sugartooth of the Lollipop Syndicate. And you're...'"

2/4 Alison 2013/03/09(Sat)10:33 No. 499081 ID: c4e5c2
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"About to get licked."
"Snake lady you are bad at this!"

3/4 Alison 2013/03/09(Sat)10:34 No. 499083 ID: c4e5c2
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Alison lets Guardsman drive Unity. He gets out of the car and makes a straight line for the front door, while Alison makes sure that the other two are in fact following.

"I'm Princess Sugartooth of the Lollipop Syndicate. And you're..."

"Wait you're actually doing that?!"
"YOU ASKED FOR THIS."

4/4 Alison 2013/03/09(Sat)10:35 No. 499084 ID: c4e5c2
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"ABOUT TO GET LICKED."

>"This some kind of fuckin joke?"
"Where's the owner of this place?!"
>"You're talking to him. You got a problem?"
"That isn't right, cause I'm not talking to myself. Anyone who has a problem better scram!"

There is a lot of equipment around, blocking Unity's view. Alison can hear people running away, as well as others running on the upper catwalks to Unity.

>"Idiot! Do you even know what this place is?!"

Ask him to educate you. Once he replies thump him over the head and say you don't care.

Wait, what have we done. (Oh gods, we really are a CAI. Discarded a reasonable plan for silly reasons, and then discarded the next plan for an even sillier one just for the lulz.)

...okay guardsman, feel free to be intimidating now.

Core sense on, start ID-ing jetals, and someone start watching to figure out who's organic or mechanical.

snrrkk, ok didn't think he would go through with it.

Ok if that's a jetal or robot just cleave him in half with a beam sword. if not just punch him in the gut and tell him this place is now yours or whoever is taking this joint over (dead batteries? the web? I don't know)

>Do you even know what this place is
Yeah, it's the Web's newest property, and soon to be resting place of anyone stupid enough to argue. (With additional guardsman improvements welcome. I don't do intimidating anywhere near as well as he does).

ask Guardsman to allow the guy to educate us before he does with them whatever he sees fit. he's driving after all.

Suggest to Guardsman that he grab the ex-owner by the lapels and haul him up to eye level in one smooth motion and say "I dunno; I just do this for fun. Enlighten me." Having him in front of us will make the opposition in here think twice about opening fire.

While Guardsman is doing that, could you discreetly drop a ground drone from under your trenchcoat and send it under some of the equipment? Or at least ready a ball cam to throw up and over the middle of the shop floor once things get hot.

>"YOU ASKED FOR THIS."
[Obligatory Adam Jensen "I never asked for this" reply]

Cannot suggest, incapacitated by laughter

...wait. Did Alison burn an armor rank slot just to make an outfit with sunglasses?

Oh well, it'll be worth it whenever we want to make awful jokes, I suppose.

>>499084
"Do you know how many fucks I give? Come on, you can count them on your unbroken fingers in a little bit if you ask me a question."

>>499100
I actually second this to regain our intimidation >.>
That, or really let Guardsman take over. He handled pretty well when we ACTUALLY let him do it.

>>499084
OURS is what it is!

Pull out autoguns and use Core Detection to spot the nearest Jetal. Open fire upon them.

>>499081
This is the funniest thing I have ever seen in a quest, hands down, I cannot stop laughing, you magnificent bastards rule.

1/5 Alison 2013/03/10(Sun)20:47 No. 499413 ID: c4e5c2
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"Okay, guardsman, I'll let you keep driving, but only if you turn back to being intimidating! I was kidding! I never asked for this!"
"Fine! I'll do it right."

"It's the Web's newest territory!"
>"No, you moron, it's--"
"Don't care."

The core sense is always on, and there is only one jetal in the entire building. It is also on the catwalks.

2/5 Alison 2013/03/10(Sun)20:49 No. 499415 ID: c4e5c2
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And those on the catwalks start shooting as soon as the punched guy scrams out of the way, including the Jetal with an externally made autogun.

>"Guns? This place must be protecting the highest quality goods, if they are holding such illegal weaponry in mass. Machine guns, too." notes the Duelist.
Alison notes Unity just standing there. "Um, Guardsman, you're still in control. Are you going to do anything? About all these people shooting at us? Then again, they may be biological..."

The weapons are relatively weak though, and Unity's shields block nearly all the damage. Mass loss is minimal.

"I got it, I got it! All they're doing is messing up my clothes. Then they'll use up all their ammo and their guns will click and I'll just be smoking and looking all action hero buff like I don't care and then just go..."

3/5 Alison 2013/03/10(Sun)20:49 No. 499416 ID: c4e5c2
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"Insignificant."

4/5 Alison 2013/03/10(Sun)20:55 No. 499420 ID: c4e5c2
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FOOSH

Unity used Kilobeam!

"Guardsman no!"
"Oh please I'm just hitting the catwalk and the wall! That's barely any collateral value, and now they know I've got kickass weapons! It's only the kilobeam and just a tiny one too!"

5/5 Alison 2013/03/10(Sun)20:56 No. 499421 ID: c4e5c2
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Although Alison is worried now about police heat, it does get the robots to realize they're out of their league here and run off. Which accounts for almost everyone, including the original boss of the place.

It would be everyone except for the single jetal, who leaps down and confronts Unity while everyone vacates.

>"So you think you're hot stuff, huh? What'll you be saying when your core is being rolled around in my palm, eh?"

Start to say something, but halfway through the second word immediately open fire. Heavy weapons if you can get a shot that won't damage anything.

Guardsman understands the rule of cool. (I do hope some of the others are amused by his antics).

>what do?
...he's in melee range. And we can see his core.

Plasma swords go. Slash from the left and the right, and pincer his core. (And chew him up with autoguns dead center too, why not). All it takes is a glancing blow, and then he'll be disabled and we can cut his heart core out and eat it absorb his stuff.

>>499421
Grab him. Let's use that grapple-gun move we learned with one hand, and chop him up with a plasma sword in the other to isolate his core. If he starts actually doing something dangerous we can toss him outside where we're more free to use bigger guns.

Also, I must say... Guardsman really IS good at this. I think we've been treating him unfairly.

>>499421
That's assuming you have the skills necessary to absorb us. And he knows nothing about us. So heres the thing, how lucky does this punk feel? Because we feel lucky. Feel goddamn lucky.

We came in here alone and didn't give a single fuck. What does that say about us? It means were tough or foolish, so what's his gamble? Because we'd sure love for him to try so we can get all his little juicy mods, but we've been told to let him kneel first to minimize collateral damage, so kneel, or bend. And then get eaten.

>>499426
we came in here practically alone, with little backup. Anyway, the two here are just some assitence for other things. We're the real muscle here.

Or just skip all the talking and intimidating bullshit punch and rip out his core and go "NANOMACHINES, SON!"

Say nothing. Remove broken sunglasses and flick them at his face.

Uh, folks, this jetal might just be a wee bit more powerful than we think it is. See, it didn't flee. It didn't fire its integrated weapons from a distance. It bloody well came right up to us and is making threats. From the way it's acting, we just might be dealing with a jetal spec'd for close combat here.

It didn't fire at us from a distance 'cause it doesn't have any ranged weapons, or at least any powerful enough to matter. That's why it was using an external autogun.

Whatever we do, do not get close enough to this jetal for it to grapple and hold on, and be ready to dodge away if "ENERGY SURGE DETECTED" pops up. Other than that, fire up both plasma swords C and D using cooling on one hand, and both kinetic autoguns in the other, set to max mass non-explosive.

...And the way they are openly carrying guns in here is making me suspicious. Perhaps they aren't illegal guns... Damn, I hope this isn't a government facility or something like that.

Yeah he might just be a low end jetal but best to not take any risks. Don't be to afraid to let loose a bit if we have to.

>>499430
This being a government building is looking more and more likely, especially with the way that guy keeps trying to reference what this place is, and with how the Web members actively discouraged us from gathering intel beforehand. There is a sizable chance that the Web members will attack us from behind once they find out we know about their plan, so we should watch out for that.

Text Polatt, have him check what the building is and watch for EIN being alerted if he can do that.

>>499430

that's cool. see, it was said about the instruments that the higher rank your weapon is, the better you can also use it otherwise. guardsman has a sword at rank 420, the best rank. he should be outduel him easily. if we're losing, we'll get duelist to take over a second sword. not yet though, let guardsman have his moment.

You really want to know?

Lean in close. I can see where your core is.

>>499430
>>499422

Don't let him get too close.

Look like you're about to begin monologuing, then tri-sect him so that his core's left with an insignificant chunk of jetalium.

Follow it up with "That's how I roll."

>>499423
Just wanted to say, I also am very amused by Guardsman. He's the best.

Back the fuck up! He's closing in on you for a reason.

I think guardsman's got this covered. Like, damn.

Alison 2013/03/15(Fri)12:50 No. 500167 ID: c4e5c2
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"Be careful guardsman, he's getting up close, and I don't want to think he's an idiot! He might be awesome at short range. Then again, we might be able to trisect him or something and finish this quick."
"WE'RE awesome at short range! With out... snake lady pleaaaase let me burn some mass for some A rank plasma sword! It'll be a great finish I swear!"
"I don't know, that seems kind of overkill? I mean, that would be a decent chunk of mass to burn..."
"It was you who was worried! I swear if he's any good then this will be a good investment because I can see his core and it is right there I want to punch it."

In the meanwhile, Scanner looks up this building. It was a governmential factory at one point, but was abandoned. There's no info on what they made or why it was abandoned.

>>500167
I love his exuberance. Alright lets see what it will cost to do 400 extra surge. 40 KG for a single use without anything else, with 1 every additional 2 seconds of use.

That isn't too bad actually. If we can end this within say 3 seconds we'll be down to 787 KG. We'll have to burn more if he actually does have something awesome though, but that'd add the shield cost.

I say do it. It'd be good to know what our sword does before we use it seriously against a Noble or an Operator.

C rank plasma sword. B rank MAYBE. We don't need to bust out the A rank stuff here

We don't want to cause collateral damage, so no A rank.

Would be a good test though. Important to know if it will blow up our arm or something earlier rather than later. But if we let him live then eventually someone might know we have a class A weapon.

>>500167
IF he can see his core wouldn't it just be more satisfying to rip and tear it out with his bear hands then use plasma sword A?

>>500183
Hes gaurdsman, not mongrel.

Let him have his fun, A rank!

...I'm torn. Part of me really wants to indulge guardsman. He's the manifestation of our inner awesome. But then there's the part of me that worries about overkill and managing our resources intelligently (and a simultaneous plasma sword C from the left, B from the right, autoguns from our chest, and kilobeam from our face would probably more than do the job).

Fuck it. Super sword. Remember, you're shooting to damage/stun/cut out his core, not destroy it. Move fast, though. We'll be burning off 2.5 kg/b-sec, on top of the initial 40 kg.

Oh, Guardsman wants this so bad, and he does have a good point about the jetal being right there, within striking distance. Kinda want to see what Loviro meant by it being able to change its form quickly, too.

Alright, Guardsman gets to use plasma sword A, just as long as he points it at the ceiling when activating it; Don't want to find out the hard way it springs a plasma beam the length of a telephone pole on initial startup or something silly like that. It shouldn't, but better safe than sorry. Oh, and he gets full permission to look as awesome as possible while using it. That's a must.

Keep Unity's cooling systems off for starting the plasma sword A. The cost in jetalium burned later to recharge her batteries would more than offset the savings in jetalium burned to cover ongoing surge now, unless this fight goes on for a very long time.

Did the numbers and Unity will have to burn 40 kg initially to cover the startup surge, plus 1.5 kg per b-second afterwards to cover the ongoing surge. There's also the cost later on to recharge Unity's batteries. The initial 1500 energy to start the sword will cost 23.8 kg, with about 0.4 kg per b-second after that. So the total running cost of this sword is approximately 1.9 kg per b-second.

>>500179
>>500202
The only other plasma swords we have are plasma swords C and D, not B and C. Maybe this jetal will have plasma sword B so we can complete our collection. Then all we need is an ultra power core upgrade to do a four armed naga-kali quad blade attack. That'd be so cool.

...fiiiiiiiine.




<3

Yes. Go for it, Guardsman. His excess mass will make up for whatever we burn. Also OMG THE AWESOME IT WILL CAUSE.

If we use the A sword, we should not use its launch function if we can avoid it. We want at least one surprise ability for our first noble fight.

We should not reveal that we have a class A weapon unless we plan on outright killing this jetal so he can't report us.

>>500244
Meh, it doesn't matter. We know from Felix we already got a noble death sentence on our head from being a rogue operator. The death sentence of having a class A doesn't change that.

Oh when Gaurdsman does attack, be prepared to enegage core dodge and both shields. We aren't going to have too much warning if he does have a surprise for us.

>>500211
I support this fully.

This is all about intimidation, and if a kilobeam scared off everyone, the sword should be amazing. We might want to talk about the Web hiring this guy though, he's obviously a <i>cut</i> above the rest.

Suggestion 2013/03/16(Sat)07:59 No. 500370 ID: 2f4b71
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>>500211
>Then all we need is an ultra power core upgrade to do a four armed naga-kali quad blade attack. That'd be so cool.

Showing that we have A-rank *anything* is a bad idea. Stick to the lower-class swords.

Alison 2013/03/18(Mon)13:00 No. 500851 ID: c4e5c2
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"Alright, guardsman, go ahead and -"

He didn't wait for Alison to finish before launching the sword out, although manages to be casual about the quick stab. The jetal doesn't see it coming, and the sword is not in the shape of a sword, it was in the shape of a hallow cylinder. He stabbed right around the core, only leaving the core a tube of jetalium separated from the body.

He then changes the sword's shape again to close the cylinder entirely around the core, only leaving a small layer of jetalium around it. Cutting through this jetalium was on par with cutting air. Alison now understands why, with core absorption, a rather small, unflashy weapon like this is class A.

Unity absorbs!
Kinetic Autogun Class C x2
Thrusters Class C
Plasma Absorption Class C
Plasma Sword B
Plasma Shot B

650 KG of jetalium is available for straw or gel absorption.

"That's how I roll." Guardsman has Unity say.

...holy shit. We cored him, like an apple! Plasma sword A gives us complete control over the weapon form! That's fantastic!

Anyways, discard the core, and get absorbing. Burn as much as needed to recharge our battery, and straw absorb the rest as mass.

...might want to check with our backup that we actually got everyone out of this place first, though. Or send a remote drone to do a once around before we announce an all clear and let the web people move in and start setting up / looting, whatever.

were alone now right? guardsmen scared everyone else away right? If we got time the straw absorb him and maybe see what our Backup is doing and going to do.
also congratulate guardsmen and say your sorry about the lollipop thing you just thought it would have been good for a laugh, you didn't really mean for him to go out and say it, but on the plus side at least one guy heard you say it and then got his sorry ass kicked so in a way it just adding insult to injury. I mean him and his entire crew just got there asses kicked by some guy claiming to be called Princess Sugartooth of the Lollipop Syndicate so that's has got to sting.

This was almost too easy. Keep the act on, but be on the lookout for hidden enemies or drones.

Well from the looks of his mods against any normal jetal he would have been a good fight. Keep a eye out for other threats while we work on absorbing. Can have our helpers deal with stragglers.

Alright send out the drones to do a quick once over of the base and maker sure everyone is out. Report your success to the ones waiting outside then get dat Jetalium!

........... :D WOW. That is incredibly badass.

Time for cleanup~

oh my god Guardsman marry me

oh and straw that motherfucker

straw him like a girly drink served in a hollow coconut

also explain what thrusters do

do they just sort of thrust you

What I want to know is... how did he know that we could control its shape? We never tested the thing.

>>500963
MY guess is it reacts to what we want. We knew the core was there, we wanted it seperated from the jetal... so it did it.

Oh, and someone please give Guardsman a high-five as he returns to the lobby. He's earned it.

Alison 2013/03/18(Mon)23:22 No. 501016 ID: c4e5c2
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Alison looks over what the thruster function is.
http://tgchan.org/wiki/Unnatural_Selection_Stats#Thrusters_Class_C

Engineer insists that the absorption is worthless.

"Good job, guardsman. How did you know it could change shape?"
"Old sheepguy said so! He was all 'it can change its form so yadda yadda.'" Guardsman imitates the gruffer, cynical voice of Loviro.
"It seemed... too easy."
>Don't jinx it! says Scanner.
"Alright. Scanner, high five guardsman, I'm going to get absorbing.

Clarence operates a drone while Unity informs the Jetal and the Robot that it appears cleaned out. After a moment of confirming that, the web official comes out and Unity takes a quick break from absorbing. It will probably take over a b-hour to do anyways.

"Good job. We'll wrap it up from here. Go on and get back to your place. We'll have your payment ready."

You realize you have to keep that core your prisoner or the nobles might get their hands on him, learn about your super cool weapon that relies on the element of surprise.

so how much mass do we have right now? I don't think we could use the thrusters to fly but could it be possible to use them as some kind of super jump maybe?

Alright now with that out of the way what else do we have on our to do list?
1- see if our meeting with undertool has been bumped up yet
2-Fight the crazy bounty hunter guy who challenge us to a dual in some old ghost town (possible trap)
3- get to the O-Route between 0:00 and 2:00
4- kill the sapphire empire
5- maybe buy some more crap like drones or something even though we probably can't take it with us when we go to world A
6- See if we can find some way to convince/cheat the system to maybe see if we can't get Vinyl, Loviro, and/or Polatt out with us when we go through the O-Route ( something like since we are a group of A.I.s all with the ability absorb and everyone around us is also an A.I. we should therefor be able to absorb them into us like any other A.I. ... or something like that)

Well we we're going to do 1 through 3 anyways so lets start with them and just go in order.4 is more of a long term sort of thing so we can put that on the back burner for now. 5 I think is useless unless we are buying things from undertool. And 6, well if we are going to try and do 6 the clock is ticking and we should get started on that sooner rather then latter... somehow.

>>501019
But the web guys said no one in here would be willing or able to contact EIN. That should mean that jetal was an illegal.

...and besides, he ain't talking to no one till he gets more jetalium. Which probably isn't happening before the nobles start showing up to kill us like Loviro said, anyways.

>Go on and get back to your place
So... lug the jetalium back to the car and keep straw absorbing while we head back to DB central to get paid? (Remember- fill the battery first, put everything else into mass). And start shifting back to our new "default" look (Loviro's daughter, or whatever we wanna call it).

>Good work
Yeah, thanks. Enjoy your building.

actually, wondering, why use it as excess mass now? if I remember right it can take a while before the jetalium will degrade/die, couldn't we store it to help recharge our battery later?

>>501064
Because every jetal battle we survive gives us a chance to recharge, anyways, and it's likely our new more powerful crime buddies have access to a charger, if we really need one (after all, the web has it's own jetals). And because if we're fighting for our lives, we're gonna need every once of mass we have.

Alison 2013/03/19(Tue)10:58 No. 501097 ID: c4e5c2
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Alison decides to recharge mass, as it will only cost a piddly 30 kg, which she finds worth it to avoid having to make another trip to wherever the web is, assuming they even have a recharger. She gets the phone as Clarence calls the drones back, and texts Polatt.

The mission went smooth, I am going to see about getting payment and then fighting Bodec, now. Any luck with undertool?
>I might have something. Can't promise it yet, but I'm gonna talk to someone with an early appointment. If it works, I might get you something at around 80:00 tonight.
Okay, thank you.

Unity sits in the backseat again once the robot offers her a ride back. She tilts the car backwards, enough that entering the parking lot made the backend scrape and spark. As usual, she goes up to the boss's room.

>"Quick. Efficient. The Web is appreciative, as are we. They pay well. A new battery and 250 grand is yours."

New battery gained!

>"Will this suffice, or will there be anything else you need from the Dead Batteries?" the boss continues.

no thanks.

look at the time. when will you be dueling?

that's all for now unless you have any information on Bodec or a place called Wratch. other then that no we're good for now.

No, this is more than enough for now, thank you.

Now we just need to meet with the Undertool so we can spend some of that money, and see if we can find out anything useful in preparation for fighting Bodec.

The news showing anything about the heist we just pulled? Did Unity's bounty jump again?

What time is it anyways? How long till the meeting, or the duel time? How long do we have till Loviro's estimate of nobles starting to come for us? (He said we had till "tonight", but it's already dark, innit?).

>Car has trouble
Hmm. We may have to make do without a sleek mob-limo or whatever from now on. There anything like a landrover or truck sheep hover-car equivalent we could use the next time we go out?

Although, wait, why'd the car have so much trouble? We only added 444kg, and coming up we had Unity and the web's jetal riding. Was he a lightweight or something?

Make sure to thank them for there support. Let them know if anything comes up they know where to contact you. Maybe give out some hugs.

>>501097
Will this money carry over to the "real world"?

>>501138
Nah, thats why we want to spend it.

1/2 Alison 2013/03/19(Tue)14:38 No. 501149 ID: c4e5c2
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Alison does recall that the car seemed better off with both her and the other jetal, so perhaps he was a complete lightweight. It doesn't matter, she guesses.

"Thank you, this is very good, unless you know anything about Bodec and the town Wratch?
>"Nothing useful that you do not already know."
>"Alright. You know where to contact me if anything comes up."

>How long do we have till Loviro's estimate of nobles starting to come for us?
Sometime tonight, which is beginning about now. So, any time, come to think of it.

Scanner looks at the news.

>"-hit on an abandoned factory building, ruled by a mob, and now ruled by another mob. Due to the fact that no upstanding citizens nor government officials were harmed or even involved, this gang warfare will be justly looked past. We have contacted the Lollipop Syndicate, and although they will not publicly show their faces, they have assured us that they have nothing to do with the capital city, and whoever claimed their name was a complete fraud and, quote, 'better not show their face in our town.'"

Unity's bounty appears to be the same.

2/2 Alison 2013/03/19(Tue)14:39 No. 501150 ID: c4e5c2
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After giving the boss an unreciprocated hug, she moves down to Polatt.

>"Going to kick bodec's metal rear, now?"
"Yes. Did he give any specific time?"
>"Not at all, he seemed pretty sure you'd end up showing sometime tonight. Want to go, now? I can get some muscle if you think it's going to be a trap."

The time is currently 55:20.

>>501150
Lets go alone. If need be we can super jump our way outta trouble.

Oh, hey. A lotto feed. I wonder if we ever play the Belenosian simulation again if the numbers will be the same? Oh well, not something we'll have the chance to test anytime soon.

>there really is a lollipop guild and they're pissed at us
...oh gods. That's hilarious.

>Bodec
Yeah, sure, let's deal with him next.

>muscle?
I appreciate the thought, but if it is a trap, and one intended to take out an overpowered jetal at that, I kind of doubt extra muscle will be able to get us out. It would just be more people we'd have to worry about getting away.

No muscle but have a getaway car ready incase this is a really good trap and we need a quick out

no need for the muscle. we'll do this alone.

Ha ha ha ha that's funny, actual lollipop syndicate. Let's roll.

Alison 2013/03/20(Wed)14:13 No. 501326 ID: c4e5c2
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"I'll go it alone, thanks." Alison says.
>"Uh... I'll drive, since you don't know how. I'll stay outta your way." Polatt says.
"Yeah, in case it is a good trap, I would like a getaway car anyway."

Once Alison is driven for about 20 b-minutes, Polatt gets a ding on his phone.

>"Good news, the Undertool talks went well. You've got an appointment at 82:00. By the way, you gonna use that form to fight Bodec in?"

Thank Polatt for getting you an earlier meeting and we should probably use a form we don't use to walk around causally on the street. I think the 4 armed naga form could be useful here but I'm not really 100% sure on that.

>battle form?
Yeah, we probably want to shift again, if we're using this as our not raising attention face.

Anyone got a better idea than just going Alison form again? Constriction could really work in our favor with all our plasma swords now- wrap 'em up, and dice 'em and/or core 'em.

Course, Bodec's got those beam blasters. We're gonna have to deplete his surge or something before we can get close. And he's gotta have some kind of trick up his sleeve... after all, we almost beat him before, when he had backup.

We should probably have Polatt drop us off outside the site, hug him goodbye, and then go in on foot, using drones to scout.

I think an 8 armed naga should do it. We're starting to pile up on the weapons.

>>501337
...do we need that many arms? I mean, we can also manifest weaponry from our hair, mouth, and tail. There's also a power limit on how much we can run at once, and a limit on how many bullets we can pump out.

>>501340
in case any get sliced off its a good idea to have backups.

>>501326
No, let's shift to multi-armed Alison form. Also, may as well tell Polatt about how the form's general appearance aside from the arms is the form of the AI he's speaking to.

1/2 Alison 2013/03/20(Wed)17:05 No. 501368 ID: c4e5c2
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"No," Alison says, shifting. By the time she's done morphing to Alison's naga form, she explains it. "This is the form I have as an AI, if you were wondering."
>"What, like, as a robot?"
"No, just... as an AI."
>"AI's don't have forms."
"I do. All of us do." she says, and Polatt lets it go.

The car moves off the highway and into town, and within minutes Polatt stops the car a few blocks away from the designated building.

>"This good?"
"Yes, thank you again, Polatt." Alison gives him a physically awkward tail hug as she leaves the car, as he remains inside in case a quick getaway is required.

"I'll be back in a bit."
>"Yep."

use the same form you used when you first met him.

2/2 Alison 2013/03/20(Wed)17:05 No. 501370 ID: c4e5c2
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The streets aren't smoggy here, but it is cloudy and drizzly. She sees someone in front of the building who notices Alison.
>"Bodec is on the other side of this building on the street. He's got company, but he has told us to stay out of it. He only brought us in case you brought more than yourself. If you fight alone, so will he."

>>501370
Thank him. Lets go see Bodec.

>AI's don't have forms.
They have physical avatars when they're trapped inside a simulation.

>>501370
I assume this guy is a robot?

Tell him you're more than happy to do this one on one. Then let's go around and face Bodec. Maybe launch a heli-drone and send it up high, give us an eye in the sky?

cool. lead us to him.

Ask if this company well interfere with the fight or not otherwise ask how long we will have to wait and thank him and then wait for the fight to begin.

Alison 2013/03/20(Wed)17:49 No. 501410 ID: c4e5c2
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Alison confirms that he means Bodec's company is to not attack Alison even if Bodec is killed, so long as Alison does not pull a trick.

She sends a drone upwards and around, and at the other side of the building, there are more Belenosian shaped robots. Once Alison goes around, they simply shuffle themselves indoors and away from the street in silence. Bodec stands, as much as that odd new form does. He is noticeably larger.

>"I was careful, as you laid a trap for me before. But the force said that not just would you show up tonight, you would be true to your word if you said you would come alone. It looks like I can keep trusting them after all." he explains.

>you laid a trap for me before
Nothing personal. You were hunting me, and I needed to be stronger. So I did what I had to do.

>the force
The police force told him that? ...out of curiosity, who said I could be trusted to honor my word? (Be interesting if it were Sevener, considering her attitude on trusting us).

Can you see his core? I'm wondering if he will have a module designed to mess with core sense.

force?

Anyway lets start this battle. Start with the Megabeam to see how he reacts. Prep the shields, thrusters and core dodge to move quickly. I wonder if we can use thrusters to better steer the beam as well.

Oh and start tossing out cameras.

>>501410
We should let him know we had no idea that stealing his partner's abilities would get him in so much trouble. If we had known, we probably would've taken his core with us to give him a chance to escape.

>>501410
Hey Bodec, do you want to break out of this harvestor simulation? Or are you fine living here?

ask if it was Anya (sevener) that was the one who said you would come alone, because if she planed this I'm getting a little worried. I don't think she plans to have Bodec to beat us since she want's to learn more about these simulations but I'm just as sure she doesn't want to help us unless she gets something out of it.

Anyways ask Bodec if we should just start shooting each other or go off a signal or something because I'm not really sure how these duels happen?

yes.

ready, set, go! charge up both kilobeams and fire off to his sides. do a scissor attack. you may have to burn a little J to keep the beams up, but you'll probably lose way more if you let this fight drag on for too long.

While it's tempting to thruster-charge Bodec right out of the gate with the plasma sword A and core his core out of him, we ought to keep the fact we have such a weapon under our hat. That way we can spring it on any noble jetal we're going to fight. If we used it here, Bodec would undoubtedly tell the authorities after the fight, unlike that mob jetal we cored. We'll keep the sword, and Guardsman, on standby in case the situation is dire enough we have to use it.

>>501416
>>501453
We shouldn't use beams in this fight; At least, not initially. They nail us down while we're using them, and that's something we do not want while out in the open. Especially against a guy we know has at least KiloBeams, and likely got an upgrade to MegaBeams. We're going to need mobility here to dodge around the beams and get out of his line of sight behind cover.

We should also assume Bodec has put down cameras and surveillance drones around at least this particular area of Wratch. We'd best take the fight away from here ASAP so he can't remotely target us.

Be on lookout for any of his drones or cameras to shoot, and keep our air drone up high and in an evasive pattern so it'll be harder for him to shoot down. We're going to need it if we want to beam target him through the walls.

For the opening salvo, lets fire two 850 energy plasma shots at Bodec. They'll make his energy surge detectors ping like we're firing our KiloBeams, which might cause him to respond the wrong way.

Once the plasma shots fly, let loose with all autoguns set to max mass explosive. At current morph limits, they'll only be able to fire one round per b-second each, but that's enough. Keep firing on Bodec as long as he's in view, and aim for any obvious eyes to knock is aim off.

While firing, dodge to the left, and coil up to do a thruster-jump up to the second level of that building. That'll get us out of Bodec's direct sight, and make it easier to dodge his shots.

>>501450
Let's ask to start on the count of three deca-b-seconds, or 10 b-seconds if that's too long his patience.

Alison 2013/03/22(Fri)12:41 No. 501752 ID: c4e5c2
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"Lemme fight 'em!" Guardsman says.
>"You've had enough, guardsman. Let Alison." replies the Duelist.

Alison will toss around cameras once Bodec does not have such a clear shot on them. Her helicopter drone is still up in the air. She can see his core, though, it is at the center of his mass, but it is zigzagging around surprisingly quickly.

"It isn't personal. Was it Anya who told you that about me?"
>"Yes. You two have history?"
"Yes. How are we going to do this? Is there a signal?"
>"Standard duel rules. I'll flip a coin inbetween us. Once it hits the ground, the duel starts. The rules state that you may charge weapons beforehand, but only fire them once the coin drops."
"Are you fine living in this harvester simulation?"
>"I am. It has everything I care about, and if you care for your own life, you will stop talking about it. If you don't do anything stupid, I will be turning you in alive."

Bodec tosses the coin. Alison has already given thought to how she will open, although she can still rethink it while the coin is flying.

>[his core] is zigzagging around surprisingly quickly
He must have a higher level of core dodge than we encountered before. No quick kill for us, this time.

We're going what we did with out core before, right? Low, and behind where the torso meets the tail? So is can dodge back into the tail, or up into the body and maximize our opportunity to use our mass to shield it?

>Anya / Sevener said we could be trusted
Aw. How nice of her.

>If you don't do anything stupid, I will be turning you in alive.
Nice of him, but we're dead if we lose anyways. Most being taken in alive might do is buy Sevener more time to learn if we aren't killed immediately.

>>501752
Personally I think we should just tank his shots and rush him. We've got the Jetalium to absorb a Kilobeam, and once we get in close he's done for. We can use Thrusters to get there faster.

The quicker we end this fight, the more Jetalium we will have at the end. Him shooting us and us shooting him BOTH reduce the total pool of Jetalium at the end of the fight!

Beam sabers seem particularly well suited to combat core dodge. You can literally bisect whatever form the Jetal has, and whichever half has the core in it won't go inert. Of course he can do the same to you, but from what you know of his strategy it seems to be to burn away his opponents Jetalium, not to isolate their core.

charge them lazors

Personally, I'd prefer to stick to the previously discussed range and evade tactics over changing him blindly. Yes, bisecting him with a the beam sword A would be nice, but I suspect just trying to tank whatever he throws at us will be suicide.

>>501756

Start shooting before the coin hits the ground, it's petty but we're fighting for more than just survival.

do you think the B sword we got could cut him well enough and what is the charge on that thing again also how well is our new battery we never really went into how much of a charge the thing holds before going bone dry?

But yeah I think for an attack plan, use your new thrusters to jump into the air after charging your b plasma shot (well the coin is still in the air), once in the air blast the guy and aim for the biggest part of his body (he uses quick morphing so unless we hit anything but his core all we will be doing is burning off some of his mass), then after we blast the guy use your thrusters again to push yourself into one of the buildings to avoid any counterattacks he might have.

>>501776
Emphatic no. We still think we can win this- Alison isn't so hard up we need the split second cheating will buy us.

Especially since we're still trying to win Sevener over, and prove we can be trusted, this time. Last thing we need is word getting back to her we were willing to go back on our word for our own benefit. (There are witnesses here, remember!). And if we don't play fair, he may not either (he has backup, remember. If they're backing enough heavy firepower, they could kill us- jetal vs mechanical gap notwithstanding).

Nevermind the fact it would be completely out of character for Alison to cheat so blatantly and so pettily when she expects to be able to win this anyways.

1/4 Alison 2013/03/22(Fri)15:09 No. 501797 ID: c4e5c2
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Weapon/Auxiliary List:
http://tgchan.org/wiki/Unnatural_Selection_Stats#Weapon.2FAuxiliary_List

Alison won't cheat for a few b-second advantage. Her core is still in her tail, starting to zigzag as well.

She will attempt to dodge his initial barrage in an effort to try and come out of this with as much mass as possible, since she is still a ways away from having control issues from too much jetalium. She uses her tail to spring back, with some thruster help, to duck behind the building. She does have her helicopter out, so she may be able to fire through the building as well as effectively leap into the air.

She prepares her autoguns, and starts charging a kilobeam, and to prepare a decent plasma shot with leftover surge.

2/4 Alison 2013/03/22(Fri)15:09 No. 501798 ID: c4e5c2
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Energy Surge x4!
High Class Energy Surge x3!

Bodec has gotten more than one upgrade.

3/4 Alison 2013/03/22(Fri)15:12 No. 501803 ID: c4e5c2
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tink

4/4 Alison 2013/03/22(Fri)15:12 No. 501804 ID: c4e5c2
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Alison's kilobeam, autoguns and a 500 charge plasma shot fire while he fires back. Alison thinks she hit him, and she knows he hit her, but only partially. Their collision of beams is explosive. She's knocked back, but hasn't lost balance. Neither Bodec nor Alison will be able to see each other until the debris and plasma clouds dissipate. Alison has lost 213 mass and activates her cooling, letting her beam die back down once she figures she's probably just firing into the rain.

Mother of GOD where did he get all that? He's supposed to be restricted to B-class weapons! Did we at least block that with our shield?

Well go on, rush him now that his surge is depleted. He very obviously outclasses us at range. Shouldn't we be able to sense his core even through the smoke?

>>501804
I agree, he just plain outclasses us long range. Time to burn mass for surge.

>>501797
Okay, digging the Taxi Driver style guns sliding out of her coat deal.

Also, I'm not sure when we actually designed our more conservative coat, striped shirt and skirt cyberpunk warfare outfit, but it's pretty rad. If we survive this, we should add that to our armor class rotations.

>Bodec has gotten more than one upgrade
If I had to guess from the improved charging message, probably class A or B.

>What do?
Spring jump with thruster assistance up and inside one of the damaged buildings before the dust settles. Your form looks a lot lighter and more maneuverable than his armadillo-turtle thing, maybe we can get a jump on him.

Have someone start scanning for him with core sense- if we can see cores through jetalium, why not through debris clouds too?

stick to the buildings and make sure you never give him a clear shot at you. Stick ball cameras around the area and try and set up a perimeter with them so we can track his movements more, maybe even drop both of your ground drones and give them to someone else to control to try and hunt this guy down. I believe our best bet against this guy is to use guerrilla warfare to try and get closer to him then take him down with our swords. but if we get in close I highly doubt that he didn't give himself any close range weapons/skills since he or at least Sevener knows that is our preferred weapon of choice so be careful and be ready to block/dodge whatever he will throw at us.

dive into a building and move towards him from the inside.

We shouldn't try to charge Bodec at this point, since he'll undoubtedly burn as much of his considerable mass as he needs to for surge to beam spam us down. Best to be evasive and figure out a way to jump him, and give ourselves time to recharge surge.

From now on keep your cooling systems on at all times, except when you're charging a weapon to fire. That'll keep the surge recharge up without using too much extra energy.

Pull out the other flying drone and throw it high up and away from Bodec. Start it in mid-air and maneuver it around the corner of a building so he won't have a clear line of fire on it. Keep it in reserve around corners from him, that way you'll have it ready right away in case the other heli-drone is destroyed.

Set thrusters to maximum and either jump up and through the nearest second floor window, or sprint through a doorway or around a corner; Put as much building between you and Bodec as you can before the dust settles. Keep moving at full speed the entire time, circling around Bodec's position.

Occasionally stick a ball camera high up on the inside of the building windows. They're mirrored, so he won't be able to spot them from outside that way.

>>501798
Before the plasma explosion, could you tell if all of those energy surges were from beams charging up, or if there were a couple other energy weapons in there?

>Plasma beam + opposing beam = BOOM
We could use this to our advantage if we get into a tight spot. If we aimed our beam so it intersects Bodec's at a shallow angle close to where his is firing from, the explosion would at least blind him and screw up his aim, likely damage his ability to fire for a bit, and maybe cause an explosive backfire in his beam emitter. Wouldn't want to base a plan around it, but it an option if we're caught out in the open.

Alison 2013/03/23(Sat)20:26 No. 502044 ID: c4e5c2
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>When we actually designed our more conservative coat
Far back, when she first gained her first Armor point, this coat was one of the ones she thought of but opted out of. It was also to have a keytar and goggles and a tail band, but she is going the basic route.

Alison corrects herself - she can sense his core through smoke and debris. The trouble is that it looks as though the core shines, and so does the plasma. So until the plasma fades, attempts to spot it would be like trying to find the lightbulb on the surface of the sun.

In the meanwhile, she uses her thrusters, and creates grooved spines on her underside for some assistance, to scale a roof. She manages to get to the third story before the dust settles.

Bodec moves down the street running alongside Alison's building. Either he cannot see Alison, or he is pretending he can't. Most of the glass down the street up to the fifth floor is busted from the explosion's shockwave. She can still place a ballcam on the intact shards, but can't expect the remaining glass to hold out again if this repeats.

Lets try for a sword attack from above.

Can our eye in the sky see what he's doing yet?

>Running along the street
That means he's got momentum in one direction, and that form didn't look terribly spry or agile, and he's got a lot of mass. I don't think he can stop or change direction very quickly. Could we throw or drop a bomb at him?

He'll retaliate by firing at us through the building, but we can dodge by cutting down a floor or two with a plasma sword. Then, while he's recovering from / reeling from the explosion we can jump out the building and attack with swords?

>it's the keytaur outfit
Oh wow, completely didn't recognize it without the bling. It's so practical now!

>>502044
If we can actually catch him by surprise with a drop attack, we could end the fight right now. Burn a bunch of mass to activate all four of our swords (or maybe just the two best ones) and just cut through all his weapons before he can react. The 'high class' weapons appear to be in his tail, so cutting that off is a priority.

We could also use our class B plasma shots to disable whatever we can't cut. He has four kilobeams (it seems), so we should shoot to disable those after cutting off his tail.

After his weapons are disabled, we can easily core him.

...guys, I'd rather not jump out the window right for him. Once we're in the air, we're basically ballistic for several seconds (although thrusters give us some maneuverability). If he's not caught off guard, he's free to shoot strait up and incinerate us while we have nothing to do but fall into his beams.

>>502057
Your underestimating how quick it takes to actually fall when you are free falling. By the time hes noticed us we would be already on top of him.

Well, on the other hand, we have seen that it takes only about as long as a coin to fall less than a story for his weapons to go off. We would have to be absolutely sure he doesn't have any drones watching for us. If he spots us as we jump, he can shoot us, and we WILL get caught midair by the shot. We could again block his blast with a blast of our own, but then both parties would again take damage from the resulting explosion.

So we could just... stick our head out the window to see if he turns to shoot us, before committing to the jump.

Instead of the jump attack, we could stick a ball camera on the glass, then fire through the wall at him. That guarantees he won't know where the shot's coming from, and he will get hit. He will of course return fire but if we cut a hole ahead of time to jump through like someone suggested, he won't hit us.

It's a safer plan that guarantees damage... I think I'm actually leaning towards that now, even though I suggested the jump attack.

>>502059
He precharged them and we have seen we have lots of warning between that and actual firing.

>>502058
Well... that would be

t = SQRT(2*y/g)

We're on the 3rd story, and if we assume 3m stories and earth-like gravity we can estimate... 1.3 seconds to fall.

Which I think is less than the beam charge interval? And probably less time than it would take to form new kinetic guns? If he saw us, it would be sufficient time to rotate existing weapons and start firing though. Or if he knows where we are and already has guns pointed.

I'd still rather drop a bomb on him. Just as hard to dodge, but much less risky for us if it doesn't work.

>>502061
You can't hold a charge with these weapons- we asked about that already. All he did was time the beam to go off right as the coin hit the ground, same as we did.

>>501752
Look here.

I really don't think the jump attack Idea is to good, I mean it seems to easy if we could just win it like that and this is assuming all he's got are those kilobeams. We really have no idea what this guy has for close combat weapons or skills because we have never once fought this guy up close. For all we know he could have some kind of exploding jetalium punch thing were he destabilizes some jetalium and either times it our has it go off when he punches us or something like that. I think we should take pot shots at him with the kilo and mega beams for now to chip away his defenses and then go in for a sword take down. Also are we still trying to hide our A-class weapons from him now or did that go out the window when we blow up half of a city block?

>>502080
The thing is we are completely outclassed in both surge and sheer weapon mass long range. The only way to win without getting close would be attrition and lots of luck. And he will win the war of attrition with the amount of mass he has.

place it.

Unless the explosive collision was a metaphor, getting his weapons cluster solidly in a wide kilo-beam before he counters it will cause any counter-beams from that cluster to detonate on top of him.
Placing the camera (on the more stable window-sill instead of the glass if we can) and taking a shot through the wall would likely give us a decent chance at this.

Best course of action right now is to get a lead on Bodec and take an evasive tact, while setting up to attack him. Get him to chase us and waste mass and energy trying to hit us from afar. Use our thrusters to our advantage by climbing up the inside of buildings and making thrust assisted jumps across the streets into neighboring buildings.

For now put that ballcam on the window, but show as little of yourself out the window as you can. Get as low as you can and slither on over against the wall and into the corner, and place the ballcam against the upper window frame, near the corner. If there's another explosion, the corner will be the least likely to break.

Could you place a heli-drone here on the floor, then start it and fly it out the broken window later, once Bodec isn't right where he'd see it?

Once that's done, head towards the interior of the building and look for a way up. Preferably a stairwell, but if there isn't one then you could wrench the elevator shaft doors open and thrust-climb up like you did on the exterior of the building.

1/2 Alison 2013/03/26(Tue)23:34 No. 502506 ID: c4e5c2
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Alison tosses a ballcam on the shattered remnants of a surprisingly well maintained abandon building.

She has a helicopter drone still trying to regain balance and tail Bodec, so she will forego launching her other, more noisy, helicopter.

"Jumping out is too risky. He almost definitely has omnidirection vision. I'm going to get us higher for now."
>"Agreed." Engineer says. "But, if you get up higher, then we may be able to fall so fast he won't have time to react. Not like I am condoning that as a great idea due to other, high velocity related problems."
"It's better than sitting around. I'm going up."

2/2 Alison 2013/03/26(Tue)23:35 No. 502507 ID: c4e5c2
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It does not look like Bodec has much of a way to track Alison. Instead, after Unity reaches the 5th floor, the drone's sight sees Bodec starting to run alongside a building. As he does it, he cuts through a building somewhat diagonally upward.

>"He's... cutting through the whole building next to us." says the Engineer.

This would be a perfect time to attack. Lets use the megabeam then move to the building he was just shooting. It will let us get closer and probably redirect his attention.

>>502507
He must be burning mass to fire that beam for so long.

Also, won't that collapse the whole building? And kick up a giant dust cloud? Which would obscure his vision? Which would let us dive bomb him?

...he's starting a domino chain, isn't he. He's collapsing the whole goddamn line of buildings! He knows we're hidden in one of them, so he's collapsing our hiding places on top of each other!

I think our objective now is to avoid getting trapped, while letting him to burn battery (and possibly mass?) possible chopping up buildings, before we counterattack.

Can we duck out the back or something? _Won't buy us much time if we assume he's got drone cams too- but the collapsing building should supply a lot of cover from aerial surveillance. ...and stationary surveillance is going down with the building!).

>>502510

>dominos.
I don't think buildings work like the way he and you think it does. They are for one thing not solid. If you hit a side of the building with something on it will simply cave in. And you definately won't get a domino effect.

>>502511
...forgive me the inexact terminology, professor semantics. -_-

Yes, it's messy building collapses and disintegration with a running cutting laser impetus along the whole line rather than a single initial mechanical impulse carried along a line of collisions- but it's still bringing down a row of rectangular regularly patterned objects in sequence, thank you.

He's not going to stop running at the edge of that building- in a moment the building we're in is going to be hit from the debris of it's collapsing neighbor as Bodec begins cutting it down. We need to move.

let him waste his energy. keep hidden.

Possible plan for making an exit: leap out, let him aim, use thrusters to adjust trajectory just before he fires. Can prep a weapon before or during our fall. Try to crisscross his beam close to him.

Feel free to shoot this plan full of holes, it's risky.

>>502527
If Alison and Engineer were of the opinion before he started firing that jumping would get us shot, it would be even worse now. He wouldn't even have to pull the trigger- just rotate the beam. And i doubt our thrusters can change our course faster than that beam can sweep out along an arc length for small angle corrections.

let the building he's cutting in half fall down creating a dust cloud then using the dust cloud and your core detection jump down and hit him with your swords. maybe hop to another building as well if you think he can knock down your building down faster then it would take the dust cloud to give you enough cover for you to safely cut this guy in half.

>>502529
Good point. I was aware the plan probably had flaw and it looks like this is a fatal one, period. I forgot to take into account that beams' angles could be adjusted too.

It looks more like Bodec is aiming to remove our cover more than start a "domino" chain reaction of falling buildings. The way he's cutting that building, it's mostly going to collapse into its own foundation and onto the street. If it's a tall building the upper levels might hit the mid- to lower levels of the building across the street. So we only have to worry about it hitting us if we're in the building across the street from it. Though, the impact from the tower collapsing could be enough to shatter all the windows in the buildings around here. It might even be enough to cause floors to collapse in some of them.

However, what the collapsing building will give us is a huge, multi-storey high plume of dust and debris to hide our movements from Bodec. We'll know where he is in the dust cloud by using Core Detection, and from the glow of his big-ass bright plasma beam. We will have to check if he has Core Detection before jumping out, so wait for the dust cloud to reach our window, move out where he could see our core if he had that capability. If he doesn't change direction, then we're good. If he does, then get behind cover and away as fast as we can.

As soon as it's confirmed Bodec doesn't have Core Detection, make a running leap out the window in his direction, and use thrusters to slow our descent and keep us moving over to and above him. He'll almost certainly still have his plasma beam on, so he'll be easy to spot from its glow. Once we're almost over him, go into a thrust-assisted dive right at him.

At eight meters from Bodec, have Guardsman activate the class A plasma sword and extend it out as a hollow cylinder lance, like Loviro said it could. Point it at Bodec and use it to at least core a chunk out of the middle of him in the spot where we're about to hit. We're looking to carve out a spot inside Bodec where we can land, and where he can't fire his plasma beams without shooting himself.

At the same time as the class A sword turns on, also activate all autoguns at max mass explosive and fire at that target spot. Activate plasma sword B just before we hit and position it so it slices through Bodec top to bottom.

If at any point it looks like Bodec is turning his plasma beam around to hit us, have Guardsman swing the plasma sword A into his plasma beam emitter. The explosion from that won't be the best for us, but it'll get Bodec as well, and give us time to escape.

>>502579
this sounds pretty good

>>502579
This plan sounds like the best one so far.

...I don't know why everyone else seems to assume that the monster running along the street with the cutting laser is going to stop at one building. If he's doesn't know where we are, and he's trying to remove our cover, than he's going to remove a lot of it.

But more broadly, if we can use the debris cloud as cover to attack from above, that could work.

If the cloud doesn't provide sufficient cover? We could huck an explosive at him. Timed right, it should be indistinguishable from the other debris falling out of the collapsing buildings.

>>502584
Raining explosive jetalium on Bodoc does sound like a good possible addition to the plan. It'd also lower our mass so our thrusters could keep us airborne longer; Throw about 500kg, and we could fly using them. Though, the big question is if we could time it right, since the minimum fuse length is 60 b-seconds.

Oh! Here's an idea: Do a bombing run from the air. Before jumping out the window in this plan >>502579, set 500kg of jetalium in our tail to explode in 60 b-seconds. Thrust-jump over Bodec, detach our tail and let it fall right on him while we thrust up, then thrust-dive down at him right after it goes off.

Of course, we'd only do this if we're almost certain of the timing, and Bodec being roughly where we expect and not seeing us, but if we land it right on him, or even to the side, the explosion would have to be enough to at least stun him long enough for us to get in close and finish this.

>>502613
way too much. We might need to burn mass once we are close to him

If we're willing to use mass as explosive we may as well just burn mass to shoot him with surveillance-aimed megabeams and shit.

I mean, I don't think mass-explosives are as effective as our big guns at this point. Their only advantage is being able to use it as a timed attack.

>>502618
well our exploding mass may not be as effect as our kilo and magabeam it doesn't ping our enemies with an energy build up signal and since we seem to all agree that this guy could outlast us in a ranged fight and the fact that he currently has his weapons leveling a city block I don't think it would be worth the risk to use either of the beams to try and open him up for a melee attack as it would give away our position and with his beams already fireing all he would have to do is just re-aim them and any chance we had at a surprise attack would most likely just go out the window. Using the beams might make a good follow up attack though just incase our swords don't do as much damage as we hope they do.

>>502624
There is something that we should find out: What's the range on our jetal energy surge detectors, and how walls and such effect them. 'Cause there is a limit, since Bodec's beam charging up didn't ping ours. We might be able to start charging our beams on the way down without him detecting them, so we'll have them ready to counter his beam if he somehow detects us as we approach.

Alison 2013/04/02(Tue)18:16 No. 503607 ID: c4e5c2
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The building he is taking down is not directly next to Alison.

"Engineer, can we just fly off to another building?"
>"We need to get higher to do so. Our thrust to weight ratio is only about one-half, so we will still fall at an acceleration of a few meters per second. We can do so, but we'll end up perhaps around 5 stories lower than when we jumped."
Have our explosives been doing much damage to enemies lately?
>I was meaning to ask to test one on ourselves, but we have been busy. They do not appear as effective as weapons for raw damage, the shockwaves the explosions cause seem to be well absorbed. They appear best for knocking away terrain and for more strategical performances.

Bodec is currently moving away from Alison's location at the moment. His beam dies, but he still runs to wrap around the block. It seems that Alison will want higher ground regardless, so she runs up. The other building wobbles, and Alison reaches floor 8 by the time it starts collapsing. Since Bodec is moving, Alison will need to anticipate his movement and get into a new position to get a drop on him.

>Alison will need to anticipate his movement and get into a new position to get a drop on him.
Okay, that seems good. Do that, then. He's moving around the block in strait lines, right? That makes him easy to anticipate.

>>503607
Strategical purposes, eh? We could blow up part of the building to kick up a bunch of debris to hide our descent. No, nevermind, he'd probably shoot the debris if it was coming down on top of him. Also a distraction wouldn't help since he's got omni-directional vision most likely. I guess we COULD kick up a wide cloud of debris and dust (like, blow out the entire side of a building) to descend upon him from, to make it impossible to tell where we are... and he can't shoot ALL of it.

Yeah, let's start planting charges. Time them to go off about when you've reached the top and Bodec is in one of the alleys. It should be simultaneous, and with the intent to blow out as much as possible. Engineer should be able to direct you in how to do this.

get your drone to track his movements. If we can find out where he is going we could try and bomb the hell out of his path to crate a dust cloud to give us cover and use our core detection to pinpoint where in the cloud he is and try and tare him apart with beam swords.

It looks like Bodec is going to make a left, fire up his beam, and start cutting the building on his left. Considering that the collapsing building is going to kick up a big dust and debris cloud that'll travel up the street between the building Unity is in and the building Bodec is cutting, once he's done cutting he's likely not going to turn left because he does not want to have his vision obscured by the dust. He's going to keep going straight up the street he's on. So lets move to that side of the building and get ready. Estimate where he's going to be based on how long it took him to cut the previous building, and how fast he moves.

>>503630
>>503639
Thing is, if Bodec sees the explosion and the dust cloud coming down on him, he's going to assume we're in it trying to jump him, and start waving his beams all over the place above him. That'd make striking from above near suicidal. And throwing bombs out to blow up dust from below will just make him sweep his beams around at ground level. With all the dust down there diffusing the beam light, we won't be able to see them coming to dodge until it's too late.

However, I still think we should kick up a whole bunch of dust, in order to make Bodec waste a whole mess of energy and mass waving around his beam spam, then swoop in for the strike right when he cuts them off 'cause he's either used too many resources, or he thinks we've run and hid again. We'll use the time he's firing all over the place to get down the building and as close to him as we can without being seen. All the dust should obscure our movements while we're in here.

Here's the plan to kick up as much dust as we can. Use plasma sword D or C to slice through the floor near the exterior wall such that the wall is hanging on by just a few tabs, then stuff explosives around those tabs. Since we can't stick the plasma sword through the wall without it being spotted, use it to instead cut holes not quite all the way through and put explosives in those. Do this on as many floors down as you can.

That'll take care of making a load of dust from above. Now for from below. Make about 20 5kg chunks of explosive jetalium, and place them so they're launched out over the street when the wall is blown off. Time them so they'll go off right before or soon after hitting the ground.

Once this is all set up, head down to level 3, slap a ball-cam to the window, and move behind an interior wall. Then it's a matter of waiting for the dust cloud to descend and for Bodec to exhaust himself from beam spaz before thrust charging in to strike.

use corevision to do that. or just stay where you are until he starts taking down your building, at which point you'll need to jump to another building (or whatever's left of it) and hope he fails to notice you. or you could just jump into the rubble right now. by its appearance, I'm guessing that beam is fairly noise- and vision-blocking.

Alison 2013/04/03(Wed)14:28 No. 503721 ID: c4e5c2
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>Get your drone to track his movements.
Bodec moves fast, but Clarence is able to just keep up. Core vision has distance limitations, although Bodec makes a sharp turn again, running back up the opposing street, and Alison can see his core again.

Alison runs to the opposite side of the building while loosening chunks of jetalium from herself. She has not activated them for exploding as of yet, but that is the plan.

Bodec grabs the side of the building and starts running up it.

>"I haven't seen him use any thrusters, but he is running across the wall easily. We still may be able to throw an explosive timed to explode right at the corner of the building when he reaches it, blowing him off." says the Engineer.
"He moves erratically, I don't even know what he's thinking. Would you be able to help me blow out the side of the wall here as well? If I jump, that will make it harder to tell where I'm coming from if I take out the whole wall. Also the street below him."
>"Iffy. I don't know how sturdy these buildings are, but blowing up the street likely will not do much more, as him taking down another building is going to cover up the whole street level and then some with debris. Which he appears to be doing. Again, blowing him off the wall will send him down. If that happens, he won't be able to see us anyway assuming he has no core vision. And he won't see or hear us blowing up a wall beneath all this noise." The first destroyed building is still crashing. The fog makes it hard to tell how high these buildings are, but if they are as tall as the capital's building, then they are well over one hundred stories.

Is he still firing into the building as he climbs / runs? It's hard to tell. If he's been running his beam this whole time, that's a heck of a nice battery he's got. Better than ours, for sure.

Blowing him off the corner seems as good a plan as any.

Ok then so the plan is to plant a bomb on the wall he is climbing and send him flying back down to the ground, then basically jump on top of him and start slicing away. That could work but as we are jumping out after him I think we should also throw a few more jetalium bombs around nearby buildings just encase we need to make a quick retreat and if we have more holes in the buildings around us we have more place to hop into and if there is still dust in the air when we fall back all of those extra holes will make it harder for Bodec to figure out what building we went into.

>>503733
I essentially agree with this.

If he's intent of running down his battery/mass on buildings, it seems we may as well leave him be for a while.

There might be an alternative way to blow Bodec off the corner of the building. If we're far enough away that us charging our MegaBeam up to fire won't be detected by him, then we could fire that down to intersect his plasma beam either right under him, or very close to him. A benefit to this, in addition to not using as much mass as explosives, or possibly even any (assuming we have full charge,) is that the plasma bloom will obscure our descent from him, and blind any surveillance systems Bodec might have watching this area. Even if he has core detection, he won't be able to see us coming at him through the plasma glow. And if we can jump down through the middle of the glow (assuming that after the explosion it won't cause much or even any damage) that'd be even better

We should also remember that if we absolutely need aerial agility at any point, we can jettison a mass chunk so our thrusters are more effective. As long as the jettisoned mass isn't vaporized or buried under a mountain of rubble, we can recover it after the battle is over.

1/2 Alison 2013/04/03(Wed)23:43 No. 503798 ID: c4e5c2
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Alison gets to the other side of the building in time, timing out when to activate a jetalium chunk and when to throw it. She is not sure she is out of surge detection range, so trying to do so via plasma beam may give away her intentions too soon. The explosive works out fine, and although Bodec hesitates at the last moment when he sees the chunk, it still knocks him down. His beam was on the whole time, and the building makes similarly enormous structural groans.

2/2 Alison 2013/04/03(Wed)23:44 No. 503799 ID: c4e5c2
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Everyone is quite certain that jetalium won't be damaged even under immense weight of a building, and she can just beam her way out to make a debris tunnel if it comes to that. So Alison leaps out, starting to fall as the building does.

The debris pushes at Alison. Her thrusters are strong enough to get her on track for diving onto Bodec, but trying to toss small chunks of jetalium into the side walls to make an escape route are is not viable. She is confident she'll be able to get on top of Bodec, and the debris will only help obscure visibility. She has not sensed any energy surges, so it is safe to assume Bodec cannot see her right now. She just has to decide which weapons to activate.

>"We're only going to have a second anyways." the Engineer reminds Alison. "We're right next to a falling building. We're going to get blown away in a moment, metric ton with thrusters or not.

Core him with the plasma sword?

>>503799
Plasma swords A-C. A should be used immediately to disable his super tail cannons, B and C should be used to disable his shoulder cannons. Then we can start chopping away to get at his core.

Yeah we'll have to burn like 100kg of mass to do it. Don't care!

I wouldn't object to using a megabeam to melt his face either.

If we want to finish this thing quickly, use core detection to see where his core is and try and tear it out with the plasma sword A, If we are still trying to hide the fact that we have A class weapons hit him with both the B and C plasma swords and just try and lop off the chunk of jetalium his core is in and we can try and deal with a weakened Bodec after we push ourselves out of the rubble.

Use the A class, seriously. Cut him in half so he doesn't have access to all his mass, aim for his core. Go full burn on our miniguns on whatever half has the core as well. If we still have burn for it as well do a couple close range B plasma shots. Use our tail to slap away the half he doesn't have access too.

If we can get to him, the plasma sword is an option. But Alison's not sure she can get to him, and visibility is hampered.

I say we just blast him with all our beam weapons. Energy surge detection is not directional, and we have core sense while he does not. That gives us a short window to fire on him unopposed while he does not know where we are.

mid-air slash with the lightsaber? yes please.

Too late to charge beams, and the autoguns aren't going to be able to put out enough damage to matter, in addition to being tough to aim in this mess. That leaves plasma blasters and plasma swords. Since we're trying to keep as much of Bodec's mass intact for absorption as we can, and not use up too much of our own, go for swords first, with blasters on stand-by to knock out his weapons if he tries to fire.

Guardsman and Dualist on swords A and B, respectively. At just inside eight meters out, fire up plasma sword A and lance it out to its maximum length to attempt to core Bodec, and bisect him if the coring maneuver misses. Activate plasma sword B once next to him, and use it to remove more of his mass to isolate his core.

There might be a way you could stay stuck to Bodec and continue slicing him up, even while being knocked around by the debris. Use the plasma swords to gouge hand-holds into his body, then use those to hold on long enough to coil your tail around at least part of him. Create grooved spines on your underside to jab into him, same as when you climbed up the wall after the plasma explosion. Perhaps even gel absorb in a hook pattern down into his body, and use that to hold on.

Would it be feasible, if you were in physical contact with Bodec's body, to gel absorb down into it fast enough such that you could undercut chunks of his mass and throw them off. That'd be useful to divide up his body to isolate his core.

Wiki stats page doesn't show Unity's mass after throwing that bomb.

Alison 2013/04/05(Fri)01:22 No. 503987 ID: c4e5c2
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>Would it be feasible, if you were in physical contact with Bodec's body, to gel absorb down into it fast enough such that you could undercut chunks of his mass and throw them off.
Alison would be surprised if that was feasible to do at all, but she is certain that so long as Bodec's core is still healthy and in contact with his body, she will certainly not be able to do so fast enough to be practical.

She will use her A class sword.

One major energy surge occurs just before Alison connects with her sword. She uses her bottom two hands to clasp onto Bodec's back so that she cannot get tossed off easily, and tries to fire a plasma shot with her remaining charge to try to break Bodec's weapon. It does not work, and the enemy beam continues charging.

His core snaps away from Alison's sword, but it does cut cleanly through him without issue. In response, Alison splits sword A into spikes, poking several holes through him. His core still moves too fast. Every spike misses, but this gives Alison the opportunity to simply cut Bodec into several pieces. The downside of that is that at this point, that will take a split second, which is about how long she has now to react if she wants to dodge the beam Bodec is still charging right underneath her.

Move your core away from the beam weapon and do your best toshift his body so the weapon isn't pointing directly at you. Also start up the B class AND C class shields to see if you can layer them. Finally burn mass to jam the B sword right into the focal point of the beam weapon. Oh and take the opportunity to cut him into pieces. Make sure to snag whatever piece his core ends up in so you can finally finish this.

>>503984
Rotate around his body. Essentially grapple and swing around to a different angle so his shot misses. As a naga you should be very good at doing that. Use that tail. Swing underneath for maximum dodge- he can't exactly shoot through himself, now can he.

Then use the time you bought to start cutting him into pieces.

turn the sword into a sickle as you jump away. it should take a good chunk off.

1/2 Alison 2013/04/05(Fri)02:30 No. 503997 ID: c4e5c2
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Or, instead of choosing, Alison takes the third option and yanks herself with her tail downward. Bodec does not, or can not, react in time. His beam shoots up to destroy nothing but debris.

Alison slices through him.

>"They didn't say... you got an A class..." his expression locks, and he no longer has access to his body. Alison grabs the chunk with the core and immediately absorbs it.

Core Dodge B! Does not stack with other Core Dodges.
Megabeam A!
Gigabeam A x2!
Kilobeam B x2!
Kilobeam A x2!
Power Move - Up to 20 surge per b-second can be used to perform physical feats of strength at a greater capacity. At maximum power, strength is approximately tripled.

2/2 Alison 2013/04/05(Fri)02:33 No. 503999 ID: c4e5c2
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And lastly, an A class battery with high surge focus.

Unity keeps on clutching Bodec as the building continues to fall. Power move does nothing to outrun the debris, and Alison is soon riding a wave of junk, or more realistically, Alison is getting knocked around from flying chunks of junk. Eventually it settles, and now she is just plain buried. She can not say it is pleasant.

She also only has about 300 kg on hand from Bodec's remains she managed to catch, and unfortunately has no 'jetalium sense' to see where the rest of it was pushed off too. Probably nearby, but it was still knocked around, and is merely a question of if she wants to spend the time searching for it.

Jesus Christ Bodec was LOADED.

Jackpot! Now lets either test out power move and burst out of the rubble, or some of our new beam weapons and blow our way out.

use power move to emerge from the rubble. or use the swords. whichever works.

you don't want to get too heavy to use a car, so the 300 kg is probably more than enough. use gel.

Nice haul! Bodec either called in all his favors for that kit, or he's got a major backer. Most likely the latter; Possibly both.

Alright, first things first. Check the time, burn mass to top off your battery, and if there's cell phone reception down here, text Polatt that you won and to bring the car up. If the flying drone is still airborne, keep it up and circling until right before you leave, just to make sure nobody is moving in on you. Leave the ball-cam; You can just buy a new one later.

While doing that, either morph around Bodec's core and shift it up to your face, or shift your face down to his core, and put a smidgen of jetalium on it. Let's see if he's going to be at all talkative. Maybe he'll be kind enough to tell us how much mass he had at the end, so we can judge whether or not to dig it up, and when to stop if we do.

You might not need to use beams, swords, or Power Move to get out from under this rubble. Start morphing to as skinny and long as you can, then shimmy upwards. Make like a burrowing snake.

With the formula for base energy use changing a squared power to a cubed, Unity is now pulling ~837 energy per b-hour at her current mass and morphability just to keep running. That's 13.28 kilograms/b-hour just to keep the battery filled.

Considering the large increase to Unity's base operating energy draw, and that we only have burning mass to recharge, I think we should get as much mass here as we can in two b-hours. As long as the average mass recovered is more than 13.28 kilos per b-hour, we're good. With that, Unity is going to need a better form to dig and sift through the rubble. Perhaps a giant mole form, or something akin to earthmoving equipment. Engi might have ideas on going about this.

Right. Absorb that mass, recharge battery. Then use power move (if necessary) to dig out and/or root around for move jetalium. Snake body's not a bad form for moving around underground, or under rubble (slither slither!) but you might have to adapt your hands to something better at digging.

If it turns out we're pressed for time, you can always fire a beam weapon to make a quick exit.

>time to search?
What's going on topside? Can the drone see what Bodec's backup is doing? Or have it pull up for a wider view- are the police or army or anything closing in? Or text Polatt and see what's up.

>also
Bring Bodec's core with you. No point in leaving him buried alive underground. You can place it outside the rubble where he'll be easier to find, or toss him to his would be robot backup as you pass.

I actually think we shouldn't bother with searching. That Noble could come at any time. With our battery and new weapons we should be able to deal with them now. And after that its time to plan our assault on the O-Route.

I think we should dig ourselves out of the rubble and then text Polatt to come pick us up unless something happens, like we start getting chased by the police or nobles or something and well we wait for him to pick us up do a little searching for Bodec's remaining mass. If we find it by the time Polatt comes to pick us up SCORE, if not oh well. So next on our list (assuming nothing else comes up) is to get to that undertool meeting to see if he could have anything that could help us for when we hit the O-route, and seeing how much effort we put in to arranging this damn meeting we better freaking go and undertool better have some kick ass gear for us, or at least some jutalium we can buy if we can't find Bodec's.

and speaking of Bodec I say we keep his core until we can just pass it off to someone, like Bodec's robotic friends or maybe even some passer by in the city, which would be funny to see to see that poor souls reaction when we tell that we just gave them Bodec.

>>504010
>>504020
We might actually want to keep Bodec from being recovered for awhile; He's EIN-linked, so he can just call out his location to be picked up. Once the authorities have him, he's going to tell them we have a class A plasma sword. Even though we got other class A stuff they'll know about already, I'd be good to keep the fact that we have that kind of plasma sword hidden so we can spring it as a surprise.

>>504014
Why would we be expecting a Noble to show up here? I thought the plan was to camp Loviro, Vinyl, and Felix and wait for the Noble jetal to show up, take it down, and absorb it. Noble jetals aren't destroyed on death in the simulation like the other operative jetals to prevent absorption, so we'll get quite a haul from defeating it.

Working out our tentative schedule might be a good idea to take care of before leaving here.

>>504046
I meant the Noble could show up at Loviro, or Vinyl's at any time so we should go on back.

>>503999
I'd like to point out here that this rubble is easily cleared by energy blasts, while jetalium is rather resistant to it. Also we have a strength surge enhancement now. We can just throw rubble around willy-nilly.

So let's search for it. Should only take a few minutes.

Alison 2013/04/05(Fri)14:26 No. 504053 ID: c4e5c2
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She marginally tests Power Move, which while her strength increases to three, it does not help coordination or more movement requiring much finesse, so she only doubles her speed. Her new battery still only has so much energy, so she spares trying to test out a gigabeam. It would take about 40kg worth of mass to recover the battery power needed to test it fully charged.

While trying to get out of the debris, she leaves Bodec just enough jetalium to form audio capabilities while gaining 228 kg.

"You had a lot of stuff!"
>"I have a lot of friends."
"But that's a lot of beams and not many.. other things."
>"I did not think I would lose, but I still always come prepared. I dropped my my non-beam weapons for you to get as well. I already feel I brought too much. Or perhaps too little. You have far more capacity than I would expect.
"There's a max?"
>"Yes, obviously it varies. You must be reaching a cap soon, with all these weapons. So. What are you going to do to me?"
"I don't know. You have robot friends around here, right? I'll just leave you with them."
>"... so you won't kill me. Good. We are still enemies."
"That's fine. How much mass did you have when we finished?"
>"What part of 'we are still enemies' did you mishear?"
"Nothing, but us being enemies didn't stop me from not leaving you underneath the rubble."
>"... 900 kg. I burned much of it during the fight."

"Polatt, I beat Bodec. Are the police or anything coming?"
>"Glad to hear it. Not another vehicle in sight."

The current time, after spending some minutes getting out of the rubble, is 57:94. Alison's new battery did not come filled, and already formed a 10,000 energy hole from last time. With the energy spent for the battle itself, she must burn a total of 205 kg to recover nearly 13,000 missing energy. If nothing else, she can just set aside a certain amount of time she is willing to spend here searching for Bodec's jetalium before getting back to the capital. And, for that matter, what she's doing back at the capital regardless.

We're already over a metric ton, I don't think we need more mass. Lets drop Bodec off and head off back to the city. I think the only things we had planned were meeting with the illegal goods guy and preventing the Noble form offing our awakeners. Otherwise we can do more jobs for the Dead Batteries or hunt bounties. We have quite a bit of time before midnight rolls around and O-Route turns up.

>You must be reaching a cap soon, with all these weapons
Unless no cap is a perk of being a player character and/or operator core! Still, it's no biggie if a cap does exit. If we run out of slots on a future absorb, we can always start throwing away some of our obsolete weapons.

Assuming that is, that "dropping" a weapon or upgrade is something we can do at any time? It doesn't take a special process or tech to remove them.

I thought having class A stuff was deadly illegal for non-nobles? I mean, we're a rogue anyways, but I thought he had to play by the rules.

>battery down 13,000
Oh. So... we're down to 67.5% battery.

Spend, I dunno, 15-20 (real) minutes looking for additional jetalium in the rubble. I wouldn't expect their to be more than another 200kg tops, though. He probably burnt off a good third or half of what he started with.

Back in town... not sure. We still have time to kill before the undertool meeting, or the o-route window opens. That means more time to try and learn and grow stronger, if we can. Which I guess would include dealing with any nobles that come after us or our friends when and if they do.

time is the most valuable resource you possess. don't waste it on things you don't need. like more jetalium.

is it time to meet up with that trader guy yet?

>>504053
Start burning mass now. Also test zapping yourself with a low-surge Class F plasma shot to see exactly how efficient that energy absorb is. Then I think we should go ahead and use the straw method. Won't take more than a b-hour. Also, check the current time. We need to be back to catch that mysterious employee.

>>504067
Engineer was pretty clear in his evaluation of that addon as useless. It doesn't even really work for anything above class C! It's not worth burning even small amounts of energy and mass to get exact numbers.

>>504060
I suspect refilling our battery would be faster by burning mass than going back home and using the charger. Also, to use the charger, we'll have to expose ourselves.

Granted, right now police are not much of a threat.

>>504068
What if we can get a profit on energy using the F class plasma shot combined with the class C shield, though?

>>504070
No. So long as the basic laws of energy conservation and thermodynamics hold, we cannot absorb more energy from a shot than we put into it. Heck, you can't even recover 100%.

And even if we could make a net profit of energy that way, you'd still technically be burning mass to do so at the site of the plasma hit.

>>504069
Our charger is almost certainly watched by this point, and it's in a really bad tactical position. We shouldn't using it if we have alternatives.

>>504072
Dude, Jetalium works like MAGIC. Don't bring reality into this.

I still say we should spend the time we are waiting for Polatt to pick us up to see if we can't find SOME of Bodec's jutalium if to use it as nothing more then energy to burn to refill our battery (just until Polatt gets here), as for what to do next I say just wait for Polatt and see if he has anything else we can do to kill time before our Undertool meeting.

Stay and dig up Bodec's mass, but not for more than a b-hour. Stop early if you've pulled out enough to straw absorb about 250 kg. That'll offset the mass burned to recharge and then some.

Hold off on burning mass to recharge or absorbing mass until you're in the car and on the way back to the capital. That way you can focus completely on digging up that mass.

Now might be a good time to test out the limits of our morph volume to make our body bigger for digging and rooting through the rubble.

Ask long as you've got Bodec here, ask if he has any idea who put that fifty billion dollar bounty on your head. It wasn't a government bounty, and it's doubtful the operatives would have dropped that on you at that point, so where did it come from? You hadn't pissed off anybody or organization that bad by then for them to put such a whopping bounty on you.

If we're planning on fighting the jetal Noble that comes for either Loviro, Vinyl, or Felix, we should consider getting them to move to someplace where the fight won't cause massive collateral damage. Though, the Noble might not pull out its biggest guns if we fight in a populated area. It's a trade-off we'll have to choose between.

>>504075
Undertool is 10 b-hours after the employee comes out of the mystery building. We are to meet her first.

Priat Kij was her name.

>>504074
Magic, yes. The simulation still follows rules, though.

>>504077
...we know what the mystery building is now, though. It's the police station with the secret base of operations for the operators inside of it. I'm not sure there's anything Priat Kij can tell us that matters anymore. We already know we're in a simulation, and how we're going to get out.

>>504081
Wait, since when was it a police station? We know there are Operators in there but we don't know what an Operator really is, outside of the fact that they can go through O.Route and we are using an old Operator core.

Speaking to Priat could reveal quite a lot of interesting information about the outside world. We don't know what to expect aside from that we'll be dumped into a vat of Jetalium.

>>504087
Since we broke in to rescue Yallows and found it was full of police. And Sevener, who had enlisted!

And we know what Operators are. They're the agents of this matrix. They keep thing inside the harvester simulation stable and running, suppress information about being in a harvester simulation, and eliminate those they have to. Felix explained this. He's a got part time operator status. (They couldn't stop him from figuring out the truth no matter how many times they wiped him memory, so they just enlisted him).

>>504090
That is a different building. The building with Operatives in it is right next door to our home base. The building with Yallows was blocks away.

If you want to search for jetalium break out your hair into individual strands to poke into the rubble without needing to move any more rubble around than you have to. Otherwise it's time to beat feet and plan out how we want to get to the exit.

>>504108
Oh, that is a good idea, but how about going further? Do tentacles! With eyes on the ends. And make them glow so the eyes can see.

Alison 2013/04/05(Fri)22:50 No. 504127 ID: c4e5c2
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Alison will probably spend the time riding back to absorb jetalium she finds.

"Engineer, what happens if we use our plasma absorption while using a shield?"
"The absorption only works if it gets past the shields, the shields themselves cannot absorb. What would happen is that you use the surge to use a shield, and nothing else. Otherwise, you only are able to get energy if you lose mass, and only a tiny portion compared to if you simply burned it off directly for energy."

"Bodec, I thought it was incredibly illegal to have A class weapons."
>"Did you also think it was a coincidence that I have been in this town, where EIN does not look or care what happens?"
"Oh. Anyway, who put that 50 billion bounty on my head? It was not a government bounty, and I don't think anyone else has it out for me like that, at least not when I got that bounty."
>"I do not know. It was anonymous, so how do you know it was not a government funded bounty that simply did not want you knowing it was government funded?"
"Uh... I guess I don't."

Alison spends half of one belenosian hour searching around, forming small cameras at the ends of her hair. She can get a thin strand to about 6 feet before she has trouble moving it, and can go out to 15 feet if a strand of hair is one inch thick. While beams could be nice to help search, she would then just end up using the jetalium she finds to recover the energy spent finding the jetalium.

At the end, she finds one of the bigger chunks with 284 kgs.

She will go back to Polatt, although will only have this time to ask Bodec anything more before she passes him off to his robot buddies, presuming she still will. It is about 58:50. She gets paid for the jewelry heist at 70:00, Priat Kij comes out at 75:00, and her Undertool meeting is at 82:00.

Ya lets head back. With some luck the Noble will fit neatly into our schedule and attack sometime between now and when we get paid.

Alright! That was a good idea with the hair tentacle scouting.

>Bodec
He arranged a duel where civilians and EIN wouldn't be a problem, he's been reasonably polite and helpful, and kept every agreement we made. He deserves decent treatment in return- go ahead and hand him over to his friends as you leave.

(And hey, if he's keeping his class A weapons hidden from EIN, that means no one else will know we have them, yet).

So if we're still enemies, how long do we have till he's coming after us again? I kind of assume he has the resources to get more jetalium and swap his weapon loadout around again.

>timing
Alright. That looks like that leave us just enough time to do some other kind of mission or two between getting back to town and going to the undertool. Not sure what kind of mission that should be- another task for the DBs or the web? A bounty? Taking out a noble? ...although we still don't know exactly when they're going to start popping up. Be nice if there were way to detect people entering the simulation (hey, maybe we can? Seems to me that's the kind of thing that would concern an operator).

Ask him if he'll do you a favor and equip some different mods if he's gonna fight you again today. He'll probably need some different tactics anyway to win, right? Or maybe we could just ask his robot buddies to hand over his other mods.

For what to do next... how about we hang around in this town? No EIN to worry about, so we should be relatively safe. If we go back home, we risk getting attacked at any moment.

>>504131
Um. Explicitly asking/taunting him to come back with more stuff for us to absorb, or trying to extort the modules from his allies, seems needlessly mean and rude. (If he comes after us again, he'll swap around anyways. And if he stripped off stuff so we couldn't get it, he wouldn't leave it with the robots we could easily take). You're burning what little goodwill and respect he may have towards us for no gain.

...and staying here ain't such a great idea. Sure it's safe, but it's a ghost town. There's nothing here. We need to be using what time we have to get stronger.

>>504127
Tell Bodec if he wants to have another show off, it will have to be in the simulation above this one, we're not waiting around for the sake of his honor. The sim above this one is NOT a harvestor sim, just a regular simulation within a simulation of artificial intelligence assortment program contest. Tell him to not sweat it, we're only three levels from a real world, which is thousands of years in the future. And he can't come to the third level of sim because he doesn't exist there beyond as a data label in a compilation ai program. Also, he'll probably be rebooted, as well along with the friend we ate, so most will be well. It'll be like we never came here in the first place eventually.

I see no real reason not to give Bodec to his robot buddies. We are planning on leaving the harvester simulation tonight and unless he can follow us I don't really think we have to worry about him in the future. Also we probably shouldn't tell him we are taking the o-route out of here as that might cause the nobles to show up quicker or at least put more guards at the o-route exit.

As for things to ask Bodec, well ask him if there are any nobles we should watch out for and you can probably tell him that they are going to be hunting you sometime tonight for reasons that you can or can not explain (you chose). If you have some down time before Polatt shows up and and run out of things to say to Bodec maybe you can just bring up some small talk like what he plans to do next, and if he is considered to be like a super hero to everyone do you think he'll ever get some kind of tv show or comic based off of him and if so do you think we'll be in it?

as for what to do next once we get back to the city, well first off once we leave this place change back to your Belenos disguise then maybe see if there is some kind of quick mission we can do to kill time between now and 'meeting' with Priat Kij.

Just out of curiosity, ask Bodec when and how he figured out this is all a simulation. After that, thank him for being reasonably civil in defeat and not a sore loser, and that, for what it's worth, you wish you didn't have to fight against him or anyone else. That if you weren't against the clock, you'd have found a better way. Then hand him over to his buddies, collect your drone, and head back to Polatt.

First choice, if it looks like a Noble is coming after Loviro, Vinyl, and Felix sooner rather than later, is to stake them out, using them as bait, and jump the Noble when it shows up. If the Noble isn't likely to show up for awhile, then may as well ask Polatt if the DBs have any other missions you could run, or know of you could take.

In the car, ask Polatt if there's any way to get even a general idea where the jetal Nobles are at any time. Even just knowing if one is in a particular sector of the city would be useful. There anybody in the underworld that keeps tabs on them and sells that info?

Here's a thought on that "useless" plasma absorption module: Perhaps it could be used to absorb energy from plasma that's non-weaponized, such as in industrial processes or power generation systems. If there's a facility that uses high-energy plasma similar to that used in class C and below plasma weapons, we might be able to go there and "bathe" in it to recharge. That is, if the energy uptake is fast enough to be worth it, and doesn't damage us in the process.

>>504127
Oh, and ask him why he keeps coming after you, anyway. Jioc didn't get executed, did he? Or did Felix's bodyguard losing his Jetalium matter that much? What was up with him, anyway? Felix thought he was strong, but compared to literally any other foe you've faced, he was incredibly weak.

>but compared to literally any other foe you've faced, he was incredibly weak.
I think it was more a matter of how awesome our class A sword is. Once we get in melee range with that, the enemy just can't hold up- even if they have enough dodge to prevent a cheap shot at the core. I mean, c'mon, we were chewing him to pieces with a plasma sea urchin from the inside. Anyone without the right shielding or their own close range weapons to fight back with are toast.

...and please, let's avoid insulting him for no reason. It really doesn't help, nor is it very Alison-y.

>>504207
I was talking about the bodyguard, dammit.

>>504241
Ah, yeah, nevermind then. That's an accurate assessment.

1/2 Alison 2013/04/06(Sat)14:16 No. 504279 ID: c4e5c2
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"So how did you find out this was a simulation?"
>"The signs are all around, if you take a look. Many people know, but wisely never talk about it."
"Why did you come after me so much, anyway? For one thing, Felix's bodyguard... he was, uh, surprisingly not strong, at least compared to most of my foes."
>"He was not weak, you are stupidly strong. He lost a good deal of standing and funding due to his embarrasingly simple defeat. I suppose you defeating me has a silver lining, proving that he was not defeated by some chump. In any regard, at first my hunting you was simply a stop out of my way to help set things right for him, and then it was for both that, the bounty money, and my pride."
"And Jioc, I left his core in that building where we first fought, and he let a B class get into my hands. Is he alright?"
>"He is living, but with 'community service' penalties. If I beat you, it would have helped him out, another small bit of incentive I had."
"Oh. Are you wanting another fight?"
>"No. I will be level with you, I called in all of my available resources to get those weapons, but now you have them and more. Perhaps now is a good time to retire from bounty hunting, but those are my personal affairs."
"And, you can just drop mods? At any time? No special procedure?"
>"A special procedure is needed if you want to preserve those weapons to gain later, but you can simple forget and delete weapons at any time if you simply need them gone to make room."
"Any nobles I should watch out for?"
>"What? Yeah, all of them, you've turned into a jetal the normal masses can't take care of. I don't deal with 'em."
"Alright. Thank you for being civil, by the way, and for what it's worth, I haven't wanted to fight against you or anyone. Goodbye, Bodec, unless you continue hunting me, I don't know if we will ever see each other again."
>"Then good luck living the life of being hunted."

"I'm still thinking about trying to use that plasma absorp-"
>"No. Alison. Stop. the Engineer interrupts.
"Just tell me how it works, then."
>"It does not even absorb plasma like the name implies, so much as it just burns off a portion of the jetalium that is getting burned to a crisp via plasma anyways. It's a mechanism that says 'you are getting hurt, but here is a small kickback'. And that is it. You have to take damage, and never returns anywhere near as much energy as just burning the jetalium for energy properly anyway. And any plasma weapon of any strength, typically C or better, burns jetalium too quickly for the auxiliary function to kick in, so it does nearly nothing by that point."
"Thank you."

2/2 Alison 2013/04/06(Sat)14:20 No. 504283 ID: c4e5c2
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Alison turns back into her Belenos form after handing Bodec off and goes to Polatt.

>"Have I ever told you you're awesome?" Polatt asks.
"I think so."
>"Good. Ready to go back."
"Yes. Say, are there any more jobs I can get? I still have some time before my next appointment."
>"Geez. Sorry, I don't think so. I'll ask, but would it be a crime to relax? I'll take you out to some good corner shops. You've earned it, if I'd make an understatement. At least to dry off."
"I do have a lot to worry about. Is there any way to know where nobles are at any time? Does anyone keep any tabs on them?"
>"Huh? Sorry, if there's anyone who has the balls to keep tabs on them, then they don't just sell their services. I don't think so. Hate to say it, but if you get nobles on you, I don't think the rest of us are gonna help. Not cause we don't wanna, but cause we can't. Would just get in your way at this point. And if you plan on leavin' us... force heat is cool with us, but leaving us with a bag of royal heat isn't somethin' we want to be left holding."

"I am still wondering, and surprised, about the fact that it was Sevener who sent Bodec after us." says the Duelist.

>>504283
It is somewhat surprising. Either Sevener expected us to lose (she didn't know we had the A-class sword), or wanted us to have Bodec's A-class stuff so that we could kill the Sapphire Emperor while cooperating with her and then she'd backstab us at the last second or something. I don't like either explanation... Or maybe she's thinking on the long term. Wanted to make sure we were capable and ready if we were really going to win this instead of her, and save everyone. Why don't we ask her? We have her phone number, sortof.

As for what to do... well, we could take a small break, and recharge without burning mass. Also, I am curious about that warehouse we helped take over. Would it be above your station to ask, at this point, what was being made there?

I suppose we could kick back with Polatt long enough to dry off.

...and yeah, we weren't thinking of trying to get you guys to fight nobles. We know you can't do anything against them. But that's kind of the problem- if we don't know when they're coming, we can't stop them from trying to get at us by going through other people. Kind of one reason why we don't want to do nothing.

And I don't think we'll be leaving you guys in the lurch. When this is over we'll either have won, or we'll be dead, and they won't care about you any more.

>Sevener who sent Bodec after us
Her saying we're trustworthy is interesting.

But I suspect she still needs us for something (possibly she can't take the o-route alone while playing legally?), or she's just making sure we'll be strong enough to survive the next thing trying to kill us and prevent the simulation from ending prematurely.

>but would it be a crime to relax?
We have been trying to keep ourselves busy, haven't we? When's the last we just stopped and had fun, the party in SZ6 and the subsequent dates with Iso and Arbiter? We have just under four galactic hours before we're paid for the heist and a good five and a half before Priat Kij leaves that building, so I say we spend that time having fun. Try some new foods, see if Unity's any good with a harp while you're in control, maybe even let someone else take over for a while so you can see how some of our allies who aren't in the room are doing. (I'm still surprised King hasn't come by, yet. I think he came with us on the raid, anyway.)

>>504286
>Her saying we're trustworthy is interesting.
She knows we're trustworthy, though. To a point, at least. It's like Captain Jack Sparrow said, "You can always trust a chronic backstabber to stab you in the back while muttering to themself 'Must. Save. EVERYONE!'" (I may be misquoting that)

I believe sevener is going to help us out whenever she can. If your wondering why she would help use just think about it from her point of view. With her being a legal jetal she as access to a wealth if knowlage that will help her fill her logs for any future cia battles and if she clames to be after us personally be after us then she will most likely get bigger and bader weapons from EIN. Also if she helps us take down the empire then we go into overtime and since she is a legal jetal that is after the head of the jetal that just killed the empire she'll have everyone and there mother after us and have a huge advantage. So to counter this I say we start collecting evadince that sevener is helping us by actually recording what our drones and cameras see, something to record our conversations with her, or even just us taking pictures of her with our smart phone while hiding it in our mass. That way when she stabs us in the back somewhere down the road we can stab her right back.

Okay, may as well take a break since you've got nothing scheduled for about fifteen b-hours, and the Nobles probably aren't going to drop on Loviro, Vinyl, or Felix until later on. Maybe not even until after the O-Route exit time, making planning to lay in ambush for one moot. So let's take a breather and chill.

Tell Polatt that it is about time you relaxed for a bit; It may be the last chance you have for a long time. So you'd like him to show you a real good time. Ask if we could go someplace that'd let you use their musical instruments, mentioning that you bought a music skill upgrade back before, outside this simulation. Lets see if that carries over to "real" instruments.

Make sure Polatt knows that you'd never bring the DBs into a tangle with the royalty, and that you'd actually work to keep them from getting caught up in that if there was a risk of it happening.

>Module offloading
Better check how to do that so we don't have to outright delete modules and weapons if we can help it. Text Loviro and ask, since he's the most knowledgeable, or do a "how to jetal" Internet search if he's unavailable. Maybe we could even sell the ones we don't want.

>Nearly worthless Plasma Absorption
Well, at least we know exactly which module is going to be first in line to be jettisoned when we run out of module capacity. Gotta wonder why that warehouse jetal even had it installed, since module space is at a premium on regular jetal cores.

>Sevener sent Bodec after us(?)
Actually, do we know if she did? Bodec didn't say as much, or even really hint at it. It could have been a case where Bodec was already calling in all his favors in the police force, and Sevener/Anya took the chance to speak with him. So she'd say we were trustworthy so he'd be less likely to try to pull any preemptive strikes, ambushes, or something like that that'd risk us being destroyed or captured.

Alison 2013/04/07(Sun)00:54 No. 504355 ID: c4e5c2
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"Perhaps Anya - sevener - just did that as a means to help her learn more about the simulation... and, perhaps if she is on the force, trying to stop me directly, then the better weapons I get, the better weapons she gets access to stop me with. Otherwise, let's try to record what we see so that we have evidence against Sevener since she's working with us, a criminal."
>"That may not work." Clarence says. "Apparently tech here is so good that actual recordings can be sufficiently forged."
"Then why do places have security cameras?"
>"I guess so criminals can still be caught in the act. And maybe they're still worth something as evidence, just not as good when a criminal with class A stuff tries to use that alone. I mean, it doesn't hurt either, so I'll use a couple of our ballcams to record everything we do regardless."

"No, not just would I not expect you guys to get wrapped up in royal business, I'd go out of my way to make sure that didn't happen... and alright, Polatt, I won't overwork, and I have some hours until my next meeting. Go ahead and show me around."
>"Excellent."

On the ride back, Alison tries to message Sevener to just ask her directly. Alison is blocked, apparently, so she texts Loviro next, asking how to offload a module so she can get it later. There is no response, which is particularly disconcerting, but in the meanwhile, she searches online for it. There are boxes designed to hold one module each, similar to the one Loviro used to give her the A class sword. Unfortunately, they do require a legal license to acquire, so Alison would have to steal some to use them.

>"Got any food preferences, or for that matter, preferences on what to do?"

Loviro still hasn't responded.

>>504355
Steakburger? Steakburger and Malts? Steakburger and chocolate chip mint malts?

Well, crap. Time to hunt down Loviro. The Nobel might have already attacked.

well text Felix and/or Vinyl to see if they are doing alright and if you can get a hold of them then ask if they have heard anything about Loviro. If the nobles got him already I don't really think there is anything we can really do other then watch our backs as we now know they are on the hunt. so lets try and enjoy what little time we have left to ourselves because as Polatt said, we work far to damn much.

As for what we like to eat just say anything without a lot of meat in it would be fine for you. and as for things to do ask if there is someplace near by that has musical instruments as I want to see if you music ability has carried over to this simulation.

There is no way this is not enemy action, we are simply not that lucky.
Remember kids its not paranoia if they really are out to get you.

>>504355
Loviro is probably dead. We could go check his place out to see what damage a Noble can do... but perhaps we shouldn't expose ourselves to unnecessary danger like that.

We could contact Vinyl about this. Ask her if she knows what our max mod count is, and if she's got any modboxes on hand. Don't contact Felix- actually, we don't have any way to contact him anyway. Lacking any answer from Vinyl, we could just buy some modboxes from the Dead Batteries.

>>504357
Sounds good.

Also we gotta pour a 40 out for our homeboy Loviro. Or some more appropriate way to pay tribute to the passing of a Belenos friend. Do we have any info on that?

Wait, how can we text Loviro? Didn't Sevener take his phone? His silence doesn't prove anything- yet.

Looks like the noble finally caught up with Loviro. Either that, or he just doesn't want to talk any more... Or he committed suicide, but that's real unlikely.

Text Vinyl that you can't contact Loviro on his phone. Then check the news for that hotel Loviro was staying in, on the off chance anything shows up about it.

As for food preferences, you don't know; You've only been in here for less than a day, yanno. You haven't really eaten enough different things to even choose one you like better than the others. So how about a little bit of everything? Or at least something from each of the major culinary styles and tastes around here. Get the "Taste of Belenos," so to speak. Oh, and ask Polatt what food he likes the most and try that too.

You'd also like to go someplace where you could try playing some instruments. Preferably someplace where you aren't up on stage, since you don't know if your musical skill from outside came into this "realer" world.

>>504375
He got a new one. We know this 'cause Vinyl texted him our story about this being a CAI contest. Presumably Loviro or Vinyl gave us his number.

1/2 Alison 2013/04/12(Fri)23:19 No. 505496 ID: c4e5c2
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Alison did get Loviro's new number back at his hotel room. She texts Vinyl, but her phone is simply off, as is Felix's. They, Alison figures, may simply not wish to be distured, but she did not get the impression that Loviro would not give time to Unity if it was wanted.

"We'll spend some time relaxing, does anyone have issue with that?" Alison asks the lobby, but there are no voiced complaints.

"For food, uh... a little of everything. Maybe the stuff you like. And perhaps we could stop off at a music store? I'm curious about something."
>"Sure thing."
"There is one place I'd like to stop first, though."
>"Doubly sure."

Alison checks in on Loviro's room. The room is locked, and there is no reply. She figures that's about all she can check on, and can't see a valid reason to worry about it when she's already decided to take some time off. From what Clarence can see, the only methods of paid respects are all extremely long and ritualistic. Short little things like toasts to such-and-such can actually be seen as rude if that is all that is done, but it gets complicated and Alison just will keep the sentiments in her head.