>Anybody? Nobody? Huh. Didn't I say I was running today?

>>18717390
There hasn't really been anything to respond to.

I've refreshed this quest five times since you posted it.
Six now.

>>18717390

"c-coffee, Coffee now!"

>>18717404

>Yeah, good point. Just people normally chime in.

>>18717446

>Sorry, friend's laptop. Giving me issues. Moreso than usual.

>>18717273
>busy trying to blow up a Red Lobster.
>have to move my mammoth tusk
>couch caught on fire
You have the weirdest hobbies...

>>18717467
To be fair, the Red Lobster is in character in a Shadowrun game.

The other stuff, I don't know.

Just saw this hell yeah at the start of AC quest!

Another person here, waiting on things to comment on.

same here, just waiting.

Uh, remember what nightmare I had?

Looking around the Hanger, you notice that it's a lot quieter than it should be for this time of day.

>Give me a roll for percetion, target 40.
>Also, I fucking hate this laptop. OH MY GOD, it eats posts and it's taken me how long to type this? Fucking Cloudflare issues.

rolled 100 = 100

>>18717560
Perception!

If we don't notice anything shrug about it being quiet and get a cup of coffee.

Sorry about the laptop, write things up in notepad first and copy paste so you don't lose anything?

>>18717572
Off to a great start.

rolled 7, 3 = 10

>>18717572

You don't notice anything odd.

Which in itself is odd, seeing as how quiet it is.

You go to get a cup of coffee....

Did we decide on dice pools? Or we sticking with normal rules?

>>18717644
Dice pools eventually. Trying (and failing to) roll under is just tradition at this point.

could we use a fate point for that roll?

>>18717644

>I would have averaged, but nobody else rolled.

rolled 4 = 4

>>18717683

>Sure. Give me another roll, while I find out how many points you have.

>>18717693
Blarg, I thought about rolling when I asked but didn't because I didn't think it would count.

>>18717642
>>18717560
Uhhh... What the fuck is going on? Why are we in the hanger?

If you can't post with this laptop, maybe you should not do the quest tonight.

>>18717712

>The answer is 2 points apparently.

>>18717693
Wait, what?
You always took the first one before. When I saw that someone had already rolled, I assumed it was too late.

rolled 58 = 58

>>18717712

rolled 58 = 58

>>18717712
Here's hoping for a much lower roll.

>>18717693
I was going to. But then I thought, "Hey, what if there's an AC standing in the middle of the room."

And we rolled bad enough to miss it. Whoops.

rolled 2 = 2

>>18717712
Let's try to reduce that average

>>18717725
Perspective change to Lawrence.
Makes sense for him to be in the Hangar.

Oh hey, it's AC Quest.
Not that I care about any of you.
Idiots.

rolled 34 = 34

Rollin

holy crap i have been wandering around /tg/ looking for this for an hour, i finaly find it and its been up for half an hour with almost no posts >_<

>>18717745
>>18717752
>>18717766
58+58+2=118
118/3=39.333333

JUST MADE IT!

>>18717793
If we're just doing the first three.

>>18717725

>We switched perspective characters, Lawrence is still in the Hanger. Alex is unconscious in a hospital.

>>18717734

>Was going to switch it for a while, since people complained, see how it works out.

>>18717745
>>18717752

>NOT THAT IT MATTERS APPARENTLY.

>>18717781
also Praise be to the /tg/ gods for returning AC-Guy to us

>>18717793

>Huh, alright then give me a sec.

rolled 69 = 69

You take a look around a realize.

Where is everyone?

Then you notice something out of the corner of your eye...

Something man shaped, and dropping at you with a club.

>Roll initiative. Beat mine by ten.

>>18717881
Rollin'

rolled 42 = 42

>>18717881
Club is bad. Avoid club.

rolled 43 = 43

>>18717896
Forgot my dice.
Derp.

rolled 37 = 37

Rolling

>>18717898
>>18717907
>>18717910

rollin

rolled 94 = 94

>>18717898

>WELL DONE SIR.

>Choose action:

[ ] Dodge.
[ ] Parry.
[ ] CROSS-COUNTER.

rolled 49 = 49

>>18717881

[ ] CROSS-COUNTER

rolled 74 = 74

>>18717940
parry

>>18717940
[x]Counter

>>18717940
Dodge, we don't have a weapon on us.

>>18717940
>[x] Parry.

>>18717967
we dont know that, we might i dont think it was stated, i mean after alex got mugged and beaten id think we'd all start carry heat

rolled 45 = 45

>>18717940
[X] CROSS COUNTER

>>18717940
C-C-CROSS COUNTER.

rolled 77 = 77

>Counter wins apparently

You reach behind you and snag the first thing your hand meets, and bring the large pipe-wrench up in a vicious arc.

>Beat my roll.

rolled 43 = 43

>>18718019
It's pipe-wrench time!

rolled 23 = 23

>>18718019
lets do this

rolled 75 = 75

Cross-counter, bitchs.

>>18718032
>>18718039

>Averageing in the 30's.

>Give me 2d12 for damage.

rolled 15 = 15

>>18718019

rolled 12, 2 = 14

>>18718063
PIPE WRENCH!!

>>18718061

>SOOOO fucking lucky...

rolled 6, 12 = 18

>>18718019
Let's do this thing!

rolled 6, 12 = 18

awww yeah

>>18718076

>A 12!

>give me a roll for crit, target 30.

Just like in real Armored Core, I have skipped all the brainless chatter. Check the radar! Is anything on it colored red, blue, or yellow? If yes, then fly towards it and shoot lasers, missiles, bullets, or sword lasers at it! We'll find out if it's too powerful when we get to that part.

>>18718084
>>18718081
Hivedice

rolled 24 = 24

>>18718099
Critical Wrench Blows?

rolled 14 = 14

>>18718099
here we go d100 right?

>>18718081
>>18718084

>That's awesome and hilarious. I'll give you the extra four damage.

>>18718116

>Another d12 sir.

>>18718116
Critical.

Wrench.

Blows.

>>18718106

rolled 11 = 11

>>18718133
Gonna kick ass with our wrench.

>>18717487
>>18717467
>blowing up a Red Lobster
>in Shadowrun

T...Two-Dee? Is that you?

rolled 3 = 3

>>18718133
crit wrench powers!

Watch this person just be like Ari trying to fuck with us or something and we're gonna send her to the ER

>>18718139
There are different ways to play different games. I know Armored Core well. This is how it is played.

>>18718164

>29 damage.

>Nice.

You let go of the wrench mid swing, letting it fly. It soars straight into the man's stomach, and he falls, dropping his club on the way. You walk over to him, and make sure he doesn't get up anytime soon.

>SEARCHING THE BASE. Give me a d100.

>>18718189
Well, okay. Actually, I'll admit that I skipped the part where I spend hours carefully designing a robot. I assumed we're just using the stock model, though, since no missions appear to have been completed yet and we can't afford any good weaponry.

rolled 50 = 50

>>18718219
Searchan

>>18718189
That is because From Software cannot into writing.

AC Guy is a different story.

>>18718219
Luck be a lady tonight!

rolled 28 = 28

>>18718219
eye eye capt

>>18718174

>Heh. No, we did it for a totally different reason.

what is the guy wearing and can we loot it?

rolled 22 = 22

>>18718219
I can't wait to be a useless piece of shit all day and fuck up our winning streak

rolled 19 = 19

>>18718219
Searchan' gaems.

So who do we think this guy's working for? Mooch's dad or Nineball's mysterious backers/enemies?

rolled 16 = 16

Maybe we should see if Mooch is around.

>>18718258
>>18718253
>>18718249
>>18718240

Fuck, I'm falling down all these good rolls!

>>18718253
I'd think Mooch's Dad is off the hunt for now... So I'm guessing Nineball's crew.

Seconding the observation of what he's wearing by the way.

Also,
>average dice rolls for a thread
>everyone rolls amazing enough to pull through on one roll anyway
These fucking dice, man.

>>18718278
Meddle not in the affairs of /tg/ dice, anonymous fa/tg/uy, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.

to night the /tg/ gods are with us tonight, they must be making up for our lack of progress yesterday

>>18718229
>>18718240

You find the others quickly, obviously they had been quietly taken care of.

One of the mechanics comes back from a coffee run, and helps you check on the people. They aren't dead, merely unconscious.

Then you realize why they're they're alive.

That bomb would deal with them nicely.

>What do?

[ ] Attempt to disarm.
[ ] Try to transport the bomb to a safe distance.
[ ] See if the mechanic has any ideas.

>>18718353
Oh fuck. Ask the mechanic.

>>18718353
WHERE IS MOOCH FIND MOOCH.

If anyone would know how to disarm a bomb, he would. Also ask the mechanic.

>>18718353
[ ] See if the mechanic has any ideas.

>>18718353
>[x] See if the mechanic has any ideas.
They ARE a mechanic after all.

>>18718353
See if the mechanic has any ideas, before we do anything check if it has a movement based explosion device, if not we're surrounded by a fuckton of desert, plenty of space to just toss the bomb. Also find out how much time we think we have and the size of the bomb and what we thing the yield will be.

>BRB, PIZZA'S HERE.

>OM NOM NOM.

>>18718353
[x]Mechanic

Worst case we get him to spool up our core REALLY FUCKING FAST and drive that shit outside the city limits.

Asking the mechanic is as good as anything.

>>18718399

>>18718467
Man, seriously. Maybe not worst timeing evar, but it's pretty close.

rolled 30 = 30

>>18718353
mechanist

>>18718467
>>18718486

>Back. Pizza guy was SUCH an asshole.

>I don't care if you can't break a 50! give me my 20 bucks of pizza and take your best tip ever.

>What the hell man.

>>18718667
The fuck is wrong with him?

>>18718667
Did you

did you really just pay 50 for a 20 dollar pizza

fuck, this board is SO much better than /v/

You ask the mechanic what he can do.

"I might be able to disarm it, but bombs are more my sister's thing."

You recognize him from the other day. "Wait, your brother fights ninjas for vengeance, you sister's the fucking Unibomber... what the hell is up with your family?"

"Man, I don't even know. I fucking turn wrenches for a living. I missed out on all the crazy awesome genes."

[ ] Let him try to disarm it.
[ ] Try to disarm it yourself.
[ ] Try to send the bomb AWAY.

>[x] Try to send the bomb AWAY.
Unless the bomb has the timer set in such a way that it goes off at 8:12. Then we disarm that shit, because we do NOT want to go to Garhalla just yet.

>>18718685

>I tried to. He wouldn't let me. I had to go the fuck BACK INSIDE and get a friend to break my 50.

>>18718773
^This,
Also if your pizza guys wont take a $30 tip i'd gladly take it

Let him try to disarm it. Thanks to his sister he might have some experience with bombs and I have a bad feeling that the bomb will go off if moved

>>18718746
I'd rather not risk us blowing it up, ask if he can at least tell if it has a motion activated detonation. If it does have him try to disarm it, he has a better shot I think, if it doesn't get it the fuck out of here, if we have time use an AC or at least a heavy equipment mover. If he can't tell, hope for the best and get it the hell out of here.

>>18718782
dam, i hope you didnt tip him

>>18718746
Unless Lawrence has been hiding some bomb cracking skills from us, now is the time to play football. And by that I mean the bomb is the ball, we need a touchdown, and the goal post is out in the middle of the desert.

By the way, ACguy, just realized that Hope isn't referring to...Hope, B.C. is it?

>>18718834

>Congratulations sir, you win the 'most convoluted awkward metaphor' award.

>>18718882
What happens if I make a more convoluted metaphor, does that mean he loses the award and I get it?

>>18718897

>Well this is going in an interesting direction....

>>18718746
Let him try to disarm it.

rolled 11 = 11

"Can you disarm it?"

"I can try."

>He's aiming for a 40.

>>18718952
>3 degrees of success

Like a wrench-wielding BAUS

rolled 34 = 34

Gogo bomb skillz

>>18718952
here we agogo

>>18718897
Aw man don't be like that. We're all buddies here.

>>18718952
Also wtf why is this thread rolling so well. Is it because we're Lawrence right now?

rolled 46 = 46

>>18719016
god damit i hate it when that happens

>>18719022
I didn't have any immediate plans to do anything like that, but I do end up making extremely convoluted metaphors sometimes, I want the future of any awards to be clear-cut so we can keep score properly.

>>18718952

>WELL THEN.

He deftly removes the wire, then separates the blasting caps, disassembles the detonator, and separates the various components.

In about 15 seconds the bomb is reduced to a few neat piles.

"Is that it?"

"Yeah. Yeah it is."

"I'm impressed."

"Me too."

--

YOU ARE ALEX RASTON.

AND JESUS FUCK, THIS IS THE WORST PAIN YOU'VE EVER BEEN IN.

>>18718952
>aims for 40
>gets 11
Yeah... pretty sure you did get some of them awesome genes...

>>18719058
Grab pills.

rolled 80 = 80

>>18719058
oh god why! why all the time ME!

>>18719058
Swear. Profusely. And loudly.

>>18719058
Assuming they're no longer cutting into us and the procedure is done with scream a bit and ask for a bucket of morphine.

If we still have scalpels in us and the operation is underway tough it out so we don't disturb the operation.

>>18719058
Jesus fuck can't we get some morphine?

>>18719053
Alright, I'm cool with that.

>>18719058
We have two faces. Let's scream with them.

>>18719058
GIVE ME OPIATES!

>Going AFK, Going HOME.

>Will be offline for somewhere from 30-45 minutes. Maybe an hour tops.

>Sorry the thread was a little fucked today, was trying to run it while playing Shadowrun with my friends.

>>18719096
AC Quest: I have two mouths, and I must scream

>>18719058

Ask for Mom and Elsie. Not necessarily in that order. Also look around.

>>18719110
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF SOMEONE POST AN APPROPRIATE RAGE IMAGE FOR ME.

>>18719110
>DOING IT AGAIN

>>18719137
>>18719152
I think that'll do.

rolled 33 = 33

>>18719110
so he's gone now, do we...do we post the robot porn now?

>>18719221
yes

ill start off with some light shit

>>18719278

>>18719221

>>18719221
and now to get the party started

>>18719357
Disgusting.

>>18719357
please, do try and keep tasteful.

My word... you can see her circuits!

draw me like one of your french girls

Hmm, well my AdEva game didn't run as long as I thought it would, AC Quest is probably still on-

> Quick, AC Guy's gone, Robot porn time!

...Why am I not surprised?

>>18719501
Oh, Soundwave, I could never hate you. Even when you look like some sort of shitty drone. Or some bullshit satellite. Actually, the satellite's not too bad.

>>18719586

>Welcome to /tg/

>WAITING FOR AC GUY

>>18719612
Damn robots getting with our women.

>>18719677
Dude, those chicks are totally both robots.

>>18719677

>Damn robot women getting with our robot women

>>18719686
Damn robot women indeed

>>18719704

>Hey guys, I'm BACK.

>I'm so glad to be using my shitty mac again, instead of my friend's laptop.

>I am WAAAY to used to and comfortable with the bullshit this rig gives me than the other bullshit.

so is it time to "lay down" yet?

AIGHT
IM HERE
TEMPORARILY.

LETS HAVE SOME SHINANIGANS!

>>18719815
We've got to work through this indescribable pain, first.

>>18719814
carp he's back quickly hide the robot porn

>>18719829

>Please, there is little you can do to scandalize me.

>I play Armored Core for fuck's sake.

>>18719814
Oh good! Now can we finally scream with both of our faces? You know, the one we were born with and the one we took from Nineball.

...you know, the Core kill markers we paint on our core should look like little smiley faces.

>>18719851
>...you know, the Core kill markers we paint on our core should look like little smiley faces.
Man, I was thinking something quite similar.

>>18719851
sounds like a plan, also smiley faces forthewin

>>18719888
or ginger cookies

>>18719902
well shit guys, i like this one too

>>18719902
Gingerbread men with their heads strewn about. The heads are smiling.

>welcome back

*Ahem*

"ARRGGHHH! PAINKILLERS, PAINKILLERS NOW!"

>>18719902
^this i like

>>18719937

Why not gingerbread men with a bite taken out of whatever we did to them? Headless / armless / etc.

oh god its been twenty minutes since AC-Guy posted something, everyone panic

>>18720029
I blame all the robot pron, nice job guys hes going for the high score.

>>18720029

>>18720029

>>18720080
>>18720071
thanks guys

>>18720029

Where have you gone, AC-Guy?

>>18720126
ded

>>18720029
Oh cruel spiteful gods of /tg/ why hath thou forsaken us

"How you feeling Buddy?" Dave asks as the anesthesia wears off.

"AAAHHHHHH!" You answer.

"Ah. Right then, let's get some happy juice into you."

"IT HURTS! MY EVERYTHING BURNS!"

"Hold up, I got it right around here....."

"THIS IS THE WORST PAIN OF MY ENTIRE LIFE!"

Dave picks up a rather large syringe. "Right-o, morphine cocktail. Should numb the worst of it, hold on...."

Elsie walks in the room and calms you down enough so that Dave can inject you. After a minute the pain goes down to a dull throb in your chest.

You hear your friends talking just out of ear-shot, or so they seem to think. "Dave, what the hell was that? I've seen him hurt before. He's just BARELY got over the neural feedback from hope when he got jumped. But all that, he barely even flinched. Normally when he gets hurt he gets focused. Or just angry. I've never seen him just..."

"Yeah, I hear you. What we just did was basically cut him open and forcibly WELD his fucking ribs back together, instead of letting them heal naturally. I told him it would be painful, I just don't think he really UNDERSTOOD."

"I don't think he cared. He's been... different lately. I mean, Hope.... losing our home did something to all of us. Laurie has nightmares, I can't sleep without Alex like he's a fucking teddy bear or something..... And he's gotten focused. For all the shit he gives us about it not being our fault, I think he really blames himself. It's almost like he doesn't even care about him anymore."

[ ] Go talk to them.
[ ] Keep listening.

>Am somewhat slow on the big posts.

>OH GOD HE HASN'T POSTED!!!11

>I find your discomfort and fear hilarious by the way.

>>18720152
[x] Keep listening.

We should hear what she has to say.

>>18720152
keep listening

>>18720152

Eavesdropping is fun. Talking would probably just hurt our chest more.

>>18720152
Keep listening, she's not going to let this out in front of us most of the time, she wants to support us and not add to our burden, so listen. We won't be that coherent anyway, our ribs just got welded and we're still in pain.

keep listening

>>18720152
What do our Elf Ears tell us?

>>18720152
[X] Keep listening

Might as well, I mean the potential for horrible pain is still there if we get up.
Let's enjoy not being beaten up for once.

>[x] Keep listening.

[ ] Keep listening.

>>18720191
THEY'RE TAKING THE CORES TO ISENGARD

[X] Keep listening.

Just for a bit more. If things go waaay to sad then speak up.

>>18720221
Yeah, I was asking for that.

>>18720152
Listening.
Adding one more to the consensus.

oh god he's not posting again DX

>>18720363
No, he's working on it.

>>18720363

DAMNIT AC-GUY!

>>18720369

It's been more than 25 minutes now.

"You're freaking out over all this a lot more than I thought. I'm guessing you don't want Alex to know?"

"God, we just pushed leadership onto him, Mooch dropped his bombshell, all that... I think it's getting to him. All the stress. The other day when he freaked out on Ari.... He actually told me he was so angry that if she was anybody else, he might've killed her over that."

Dave let's out a low whistle. "But something's bothering you. He's a lot better at deflecting uncomfortable topics than you are."

"....Yeah.... It's mostly about us. I mean, me and him."

"Yeah?"

"I mean, we sorta had a moment right before Hope fell. And he clearly cares about me, a lot. But I mean, should we be dating? I'm kinda scared that some part of me is convinced that if I'm not on him he'll just walk away. Like I'm having sex with him just to keep him close. I mean, he was always there through all the bad shit in my life. I'm really freaking out because.... because some part of me is worried that I don't really love him. That I'm just using him to keep from having my head explode."

>>18720418

That hit you like a ton of bricks. It takes you a minute to realize Dave had something to say on the topic. ".... and besides that, we kinda knew it. ALL OF US. Hell, fucking Sells had a pool on how long it would take you two to hook up. El, I know that all this shit has been getting to us all, but I know this. He loves you. Other than maybe, MAYBE his sister, he cares more about you than anybody. You're just scared of rejection. Whatever else happens, I don't think it'll come to that. Besides, as much as you're trying to dance around the topic, you're head over heels for him. It's obvious to everybody who even looks at you two. The difference in the last few days? He finally fucking NOTICED. You're just not used to the idea he loves you back. Give it time."

"....Thanks Dave. I actually just feel better getting that off my chest. Though do me a favor? Don't tell him about this."

"Your secrets are safe we me, same as always."

"You know, I never asked you why you went out of your way for me so much."

"Well duh, that's because I love you."

"What? Like friends?"

"Yeah, now. Wasn't always like that."

"And you've never said anything?"

"It was pretty obvious you never felt the same. Besides, old wounds long healed. I'm gonna go give Larry his dosh, go grab Alex. I'd like to get him home so he can relax where we can watch him before that morphine wears off."

You act like you didn't hear all that as you go outside. You aren't even sure how to bring it up.

>>18720422
I think we need to give her a good hand squeeze when next it is opportune

>>18720422
Simple answer to that. We're not bringing it up.

>>18720422
Walk out, hey snookums my ribcage is augmented now, pretty cool. Ow, it hurts to laugh.

No bringing that up. It can only end in tears. Hell. It's already bad that we even heard that. Doubt is a powerful force and it has been sown.

>>18720422
fuck, how do we cope with that man, all we know is bad advice from our mother and piloting giant kill bots, fuck our lack of life experience

>>18720447
Hurts to laugh? Hurts to live, more like.

>>18720453
We deal with it the same way we've dealt with everything else so far. We keep on going, we've got too much on our plate right now to consider whether this is going to explode or not. We care for her, she cares for us, there is going to be oddities when on the day after you start going out your town explodes, don't bring it up and hope to hell it blows over.

>>18720422
So don't bring it up. Thank Dave for the painkillers though they kept us a little out of it for a while there.
Get home and get some rest.

Yeah. No bringing that up. We can act (subtly) on the knowledge, but we were passed out for that and Elsie plainly stated she'd rather we don't know.

The thing about Dave, well shit that's the past.

Let's focus on being there for Elsie and being strong for everyone who's depending on us.

We are Alex motherfucking Raston.

And our ribcage is augmented.

>>18720489
>And our ribcage is augmented.
But isn't it just temporary? I can't recall, now.

>>18720489
after all that pain i cant beleave that we would still want this as a temp upgrade

>>18720509
well yeah but whatever we need a catchphrase for the moment

i dont know

>>18720509
Yeah, we went for the cheaper temporary just to fix our ribs. When we aren't quite as strapped for cash we might want to get it permanent because of how much time we spend getting beaten up.

>>18720422

When you get home, you see Mooch doing first aid to most of your crew. Ari looks like she got put in a choke hold. Some guy dressed like a ninja is tied to a work bench, and Laurie is having a beer with one of your support crew.

"What's going on?"

Mooch hears the question and taps some control, and you see a couple of security clips.

In the first one you see the ninja take out several of your support staff with a silent mastery of martial arts. The next you see the same ninja choke out your sister. In the next he's planting a bomb.

In the clip after that, you see him do a flying leap at Laurie, who then grabs a 30 pound pipe wrench and fucking takes him out of the air with it, before casually curb-stomping him.

Then the engineer Laurie's drinking with walks in, and the two of them find the bomb. Moments later, the bomb is diffused.

The short video starts to loop. Elsie looks at it and gives Laurie a nod that he returns between sips. Mooch explains that the video was more efficient method of telling you what happened.

Dave finally blurts out "What the fuck? We leave for like three ours and Laurie becomes a fucking action hero?"

Mooch tells you that he's going to interrogate the guy later. You call the diner and not long after passing on everybody's orders, your mother arrives with the delivery guy, who explains that he offered her a ride back from where she was having coffee with his Mom when the order came through.

The rest of the evening passed in a tired blur, before you make your way to bed. Elsie seems to have forgotten her earlier threat as the two of you go to sleep.

>>18720575

Ninjas came to bite us in the ass I see... Damn that glorious mechanic

>>18720575

He threatened Ari?

After we extract every scrap of information on him, we're going to strap him to a the sole of our AC's feet and we're going to take a walk around town.

>>18720575
Awesome Mechanic is credit to team.
He needs a name.

>>18720575
so how many times do we have to wake up to pop pain killers?

>>18720609
nah, let's try juggling him, first. Getting walked on is too quick a death, not enough fear and pain.

>>18720575

They... Left the ninja wearing his clothing and facemask when they tied him to the bench?

This seems ill advised. Ninjas are sneaky bastards. Let's get a look at his face, and divest him of all of the throwing knives in his boots and cunningly concealed lockpicks up his sleeves.

>>18720609
No, he choked Ari. He Did Her an Injury.

>>18720609
He didn't threaten her; he assaulted her and choked her out. In the morning, we are going to go to town on that guy's face with a ball-peen hammer.

>>18720612

>Dave gave you like 400mg of morphine earlier.

>If you weren't half way to the grave with pain, that would kick your ass. As it is, you're pretty much cool until like noon-ish tomorrow.

Guys, guys. Let's not over-react here. I'm fairly sure we can come up with inventive ways to get information out of him that don't involve grevious bodily harm. After all, we don't want any odd questions on /us/ when we get around to dropping him off with the proper authorities.

Observe if ninja is in familiar garb! OBSEEEEERVE

I figure it's related since he seemed to take an alternate approach to our sister.

Also. That mechanic. He needs a name so we can follow it up with gratuitous amounts of FUCK YEAH. And up his pay.

Also yeah mom gettin some action?

Oh by the way, we DID use condoms when we unfed Elsie the first time right? I could see AC guy throwing that at us down the line from now. Outta nowhere fucking pregnancy!

>>18720666

>I have a fully stocked Chekhov's Armory at this point. Elsie getting knocked up is the least of your concerns. You haven't even SPOTTED some of the shit I've more or less stated.

>>18720666
Nah bro drunk bareback and sloppy, thats the way are moma raised us

>>18720681
Truly the DM I love to hate

>>18720681
>You haven't even SPOTTED some of the shit I've more or less stated.
And I probably never will.

>>18720717
>>18720695

>I think I'm going to give you guys a freebie, since I think I'm gonna have to cut out early tonight.

>Remember the rules thread? How I made a list of things I wanted to do?

>Expect all of them to combine in some way with hints I've been dropping in the actual threads.

>>18720638
400mg of Morphine would probably kill us actually.
And if it didn't, we'd be pretty woozy and shit.
Also kinda lousy for what we're going through.
Morphine acts on the brain, rather than the nerves, so it would still REALLY FUCKING HURT, we just wouldn't notice because we would be OUT OF IT.
Also, he needs to stop giving us that stuff.
Addiction rate greater than friggin' Heroin.
Oh crap, I just spotted one of the Chekov's Guns, didn't I?

>>18720762
FFFFFFFFFFffffffffffff i guess its off to rehab for us then

>>18720757
I can safely tell you that any sort of clues you consider obvious will be more or less completely opaque to us. We know the generalities of the world and the rules, but absolutely everything that matters is up in your head connected by things you've made. This is a GM thing I've noticed, assuming your players will think in the same way you do.

Not criticizing, just informing. I for one am not going to even put any effort into thinking about it. If I could I'd prefer to make some rolls to see if Alex knows or figures out something, which is how I usually handle these things.

>>18720762

>No actually.
>Pain killers are MUCH less addicting when your in serious pain, since it's making the pain stop, not getting you high.
>The drugs Dave had you on prior were not Opioids.
>He only gave you the SERIOUS stuff because you were in HILARIOUS AMOUNTS OF PAIN.

>>18720821
Alright.

so i think we should wait till every one falls asleep, fighting are drug induced stupor, go find the bitch that choked are sister and shove are hard cock through his eye and skull fuck him..... or think we did because we are high off are ass

>>18720666

>[mom gettin some action?]

>I just noticed this.

>What.

>>18720757
Oh, I was really just commenting on my own obliviousness.

>>18720872
>What.
Forsrs.

>>18720872
Probably thinking that she and the delivery boy were planing on boinking.

>your mother arrives with the delivery guy, who explains that he offered her a ride back

Not noticing that she was actually there having coffee with the nice lady at the diner.

>>18720821
All that horrible pain.

We really should have gone for permanent solution. 50k is not that much of money anyway when we're looking forward to tens if not hundreds of millions.

Is it too late for retcon?

>>18721040
I feel you bro, we lost that fight by one freaking vote

>>18721040

>Kinda.

>Plus, you got less than a million on an SA.

>You will be earning that money.

>On the plus side, by the end of the next thread you should be in a position to GIANT ROBOTS again.

>>18721040
>Is it too late for retcon?
Probably. Though I'm sure we could talk to Dave about if it's possible to transition from the temporary solution to the permanent augment.

>>18721040
Too late. We could have easily made up the cost, and now if we do get the permanent version that'll eat up another day as we go under the knife.

>>18721063
not to mention all that PAIN again.

>>18721053
so you got anything else planed for the night or can i go to bed now?

OKAY
IM HERE
WHAT I MISS!?

>>18721053
>Plus, you got less than a million on an SA.

SA?

>>18721080

Mostly just Q&A.

Maybe do another Crunch thread in a day or two, if I can set it up early.

>>18721081

NINJAS AND BOMBS AND SHIT, YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN PERFECT HERE

We only had 80k and technically are already 3.5 million in the hole. And with our rolls in combat we are going to need all that money to fix our core. We had to spend that 10k to save 3 months of healing.

>>18721053
I vote for a DM fiat, have Dave and the others bought the perm up grade for us without us knowing

>>18721102
DAMNIT I KNEW IT WAS FUCKING NINJAS.'
EVERY TIME IM FUCKING BUSY,
ITS FUCKIN NINJAS
DAMNIT NINJA GODS.
WHY YOU SO CRUEL!

>>18721103
Massive debts exist for a reason. And the reason is that you don't have to pay them immediately.
We probably have a decade window to pay off that debt.

Of course, the sooner, the better.

>>18721108
if DM agrees, then I support but I'm not that distraught about the situation... it's just a shame we missed that opportunity. Alex's fights are only going to get worse from now on, we need all the protection we can get.

>>18721056
Alex didn't ask for this

>>18721134
Thats what makes it a DM fiat, its just him being nice to us

>>18721134
True but, our people live in a shanty town and the faster we get cash the faster they get to live better. Plus, our horrible rolls aside its always smart to have spare cash.

>>18721096

Ranking for jobs and pilots use the same scale.

D,C,B,A,S,SA,SS are the most used ones. Generally people don't bother ranking above SS because that's abut the point where people start throwing nukes around.

Basically, it's a rough idea of how good a pilot/how hard a job is.

Alex is currently rated as a B.

The job with the bandit that brought about 700k in was SA.

>>18721108

Yeah, that'd go over well. "Well Alex, I know you anted to be just healed and not waste the money, but we decided to ignore and then LIE to you."

>>18721153
I'm just sayin', man.

>>18721166
hey id hope my friends would do nice things for me and also stop me from making retarded mistakes, like having to experience that kind of pain more than once, also they haven't mentioned them being temp parts since the surgery

>>18721157

>Nice.

I like how you guys just assume there's no downsides to this shit.

Did you stop to wonder about the fact that, despite the fact that all pilots get their hands on some serious dosh, VERY FEW of them opt to have such a procedure done? And that a lot of them that can afford to just take the time to heal naturally do?

You guys didn't exactly grill Dave for the list of side effects earlier.

>>18721160
So we spend another 10k the next time our ribs get broken? And the time after that?

>>18721211
I think if our ribs get broken again, we can spring for the permanent ones.

>>18721211
Well, for what it's worth, the cost of repairing augmented ribs is probably higher than repairing bog standard...

>>18721198
We'll have to ask later, but honestly given our financial situation as well as the number of people after our ass we couldn't afford to be out of commission for two months. I hope the side effects aren't too bad.

Can we please shut up about our ribs so we can move on?

>>18721211
>>18721228
If it happens again, we can get more information, and decide if we really need to save the time that healing naturally would take.

>>18721198
Really? I assumed that if there were any drawback that Dave would certainly mention them to us. He is a freaking doctor, why would he hold back such information even if we don't ask for it?

>>18721238
Well, we can't really move on till OP makes an update, can we?

>>18721232
also, Dave probably wouldn't have mentioned it if it was too faustian

reading quests, playing AC5, while on break from kitchen work.

this day is turning out pretty good.

>>18721238
NEVER

AC-Guy?
Where are you?
Why does everyone I like always leave me?

>>18721401
I bet his shitty mac died on him

>>18721401
We kill all that you love

>>18721401

I'm still here, I just don't have much to talk about.

I already said I was ending the main part of the thread early.

About an hour ago, actually.

>>18721425
I'll kill every last one of you Arschlöcher before I let that happen!

Wouldn't the permanent solution make us basically a Plus?

I'm smelling synch rate shenanigans here...

>>18721433
Oh. Missed that.
Derp.
Well it's not like I cared or anything, I just figured it'd be a problem for me if you were dead cause then I'd have nothing to do with my free time.
Jerk.

>>18721439
Mech fight to the death lets do this thing

>>18721462
(Hold on, at what point in the respective series are we fighting, because if Asuka is at "Mama is with me" power level there's no way anything from any Gundam series except MAYBE G Gundam could take Unit-02 down. Hell, even if she isn't, it's still like throwing a two year old in the ring with the fucking Undertaker.)

>>18721433
when are you running the next one?

>>18721474
Full powered Turn A could easily (teleporting beam shots inside cockpits, nanomachines disassembling everything, etc). Also Colony Drops, Colony Lasers, Solar Rays, etc.

>>18721474
>like throwing a two year old in the ring with the fucking Undertaker.
So obviously the babby wins, right?

>>18721474
Z-ZZ vintage, an era of war manly men fighting with manly machines of manwar, and much death in manly explosions of passion

>>18721474
Unless they can run away for five minutes.

>>18721492
How am I going to stop some big mean EVA unit from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer: drop a colony. And if that don't work, drop more colonies.

>>18721504
cut the umbilical cord, bitch i run on a nuclear generator

>>18721487
Okay, yeah, forgot to factor in Turn A
But still:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inhbY-lmudE#t=1m21s
followed by
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH32Chen5Vo
Took down a numerically superior foe and only lost because they had hax and she ran out of battery. Like, worse hax than the AT Field, which is basically pure distilled hax.
What you got bitches?

>>18721452

>Wants to 'borg.

HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh wait, you're serious.

Please, let me laugh even harder: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Seriously though, That's a slightly less than fantastic idea, for reasons that won't come up for a while.

Even though you kinda already got an in character warning.

>>18721486

I've been shooting for daily. Not sure I can keep the streak alive, but I do know I'm like two weeks from taking the 'longest continuous run' with having a thread every day from MSQ, because of a couple days he missed.

I think that'd be nifty. I already hold the record for Giant Robot games in that category.

How long did Zeon Quest run for thread count? That's my goal. I want to beat out fucking apologized if I can.

>>18721504
also mass production models, an EVA is built for low number combat, not fighting a swarm of mechs

>>18721515

>How kill an Eva.

Third impact.

By which I mean we drop a colony the size of Texas on it.

Failing that, we put Armuro in the Turn-8, and feed her to the fucking White Devil.

>>18721530
AT field. Jump straight up, project the field below you, push down.
Congratulations, you just crushed an entire swarm of small enemies.
But yeah, I was assuming a one-on-one fight.
Which is completely unfair in favor of an Eva.

>>18721525
>wants to beat MSQ's longest continuous run
>want to beat Zeon quest thread count

God speed, AC-Guy. God speed.

>>18721525
116 threads, you've got one long road ahead of you if that is your goal. I'll be with you every step of the way, well almost every one I occasionally have a life, not often but it does happen.

>>18721535
Berserker.
We never find out if Unit-02 CAN do it, but honestly, if it hadn't been suffered metaphor rape from the Lancea Longini, it just might have considering she finally realized that mama was with her the whole time.
I could see Kyoko-sama being a right bitch if you fuck with her daughter, considering the only parts of her soul that are in Unit-02 are the parts that know and love Asuka.
Of course now we're in full on speculation mode.

>>18721547
I'm pretty sure Commander quest has beaten that by a long shot.
Let me check.... yep, 170 threads.

>>18721566
But is Commander Quest about Giant Effin' Robutts?

I honestly have no idea.

>>18721582
Nope.

>>18721535

Actually, It'd almost be funner to make him do it in the Alex.

Or shit, how about any of the Protags from Wing?

Heero's let him see the fucking future and had a gun that can and has blown up space stations. It can also fly.

I mean, Eva is cool and all, but outside their element, they aren't quite as awesome. Not saying Gundam is Be-All, End-All, but a lot of these giant robot things... you give them one thing they don't normally deal with, and the whole thing collapses.

You know what fight I would pay to see? Nine-Ball in the Heavy Arms Kai (the one from Endless Waltz) Vs. Char in the Turn-8.

That would be like fucking Heroin to me.

>>18721539
just throw an unstable new type at her like Kamile, dude cause people to have brain failures just by being a fucking retard, I'd like to see an AT field stop psycho-bable, or any of the units with nuclear power supplies just have one of those bitches go critical and then boom fuck life

>>18721564

The colony drop in the original Gundam series fucking destroyed Australia.

I don't think that the 02 would be able to do shit against a direct hit.

Although to be fair, they were aiming for BRAZIL when they launched the fucker.

>>18721588
And yeah, late game shit really can fuck stuff up.
An Eva's weakness is that fucking extension cord.
Seriously, who certified those things for field use?
If they didn't have to worry about the power supply then "A.T. fields, A.T. fields everywhere.", but they do, so they have to be careful.
Fuckin' extension cords.

Anyway, I need to sleep.
See you folks tomorrow.

>>18721607
several models capable of reaching escape velocity, probably could cut your cord before you knew what happened

Not to diverge, but is it Wrong that whenever I see Mooch written I read 'Moloch'?