>>22574572
May I suggest investing in a $5 USB flashdrive to back up your notes to, from now on?

>inb4 RETURN OF BAN FILTER

>>22574623
They were on paper, I do believe. He said something about a fire.

>>22574623

>Three burned discs, three computers, two digital automatic back-up systems, not counting to copies possessed by friends.

>These are also ignoring the physical notes either printed or written down.

>Still managed to lose absolutely everything. Two years of Computer Science have done nothing to help prevent or recover so far.

YOU ARE ALEX RASTON.

And Elsie's smile is kinda freaking you out. I mean, normally El smiling is a GOOD thing in your books.

Right now it looks as much like she's baring her teeth as happy.

The base's comm line rings.

You could answer it, or your could ask El what she means by 'Another way to kill time'.

>?

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>>22574701
>3 discs
>3 PC's
>2 back-up systems
>AND backups at different physical locations held by friends
>AND PHYSICAL COPIES
Okay, that is some bullshit by the universe right there.
I know of multi-national 100-year old corporations that have less robust backup procedures than that.
And you STILL lost everything?
Fuck.

>>22574811
Ask Elsie.

>>22574811
inquire about timeslaying.

>>22574701
Holy fuck.

>>22574811
Can we at least see who's calling? But, I guess, ask her what she means. I hope it's only as "benign" as going shopping with her, and experiencing what she went through.

>>22574811

[x] Pomf =3

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>>22574811
El I like that expression what do you have in mind?
> AC-Guy your ability to get fucked over will never cease to amaze me

>>22574836

No mediafires when emailing to friends?

No USBs when transferring from PC to PC?

Nothing left in the email sent folder?

>>22574938

>I've checked every single angle I can think of.

>There's like one dude in Germany who might have some concept art I drew still. Other than that.....

In case anyone forgot, elsie is getting revenge for feeding her to mom and sister.

>>22574968

Thats... fucked up.

Dammit.

Are you going to try data recovery?

For those of you that can into multitasking and don't have enough to occupy your time, I'm recruiting for this quest here >>22574291 if you're interested.

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>>22574701
That's insane. Somebody up there REALLY has it in for you, man.

"So El, what do you have in mind for killing time?"

"Oh? Nothing too crazy. Why?"

"Because you're looking at me like I'm dinner. It's like watching a hobo stare at a baked potato."

She snickers. "Well first, I was thinking we could have a go in the simulators."

"Huh, that's not-"

"Rabbit."

"Ah." You respond with a wince This will.... suck.

"After that we'll see how I'm feeling."

"How are you feeling now?"

"Fucking fantastic. Then again, I've learned to savor the kill." She tells you with a kiss. Somehow she managed to slide into your lap without you noticing.

The phone continues to ring in the background.

[ ] Oh look, a distraction.
[ ] Might as well get it over with.
[ ] Just let me get that first.

>>22575150
>[ ] Just let me get that first.

>>22575150

>rabbit

What does this mean?

>>22575183
Well, Elsie's a sniper, and we're gonna be having a go in the sims. I'm guessing she's gonna use us as a live target.

>>22575150
[x] Just let me get that first.

"Oh hiya Dervish? What's that, you need another distraction?"

>>22575031

>Data recovery is on the list of 'things I thought of that did nothing'.

>>22575183

>Imagine a rabbit, set loose in 'rabid wolf land'.

>It's basically her way of informing you that you're target practice.

>>22575150
>[ ] Just let me get that first.
We're not trying to get out of it, but this could be important.

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>>22575150
>Time to engage in our famous mind-games to get what we want. and by that I mean putting this off until we can do something foolish to make her forget that she's mad or we get horibly raped by her once this has gone over the boiling point
[ ] Oh look, a distraction.

>>22575150
[x] Just let me get that first.

>>22575208
Wait, what email service do you use? If gmail, wouldn't everything still be saved in your Sent box?

I am trying to understand how you could get so thoroughly fucked.

>>22575208

Data recovery as in sending it to expert to recover sector by sector.

Of course this comes down to the question of how much you value your work...

>>22575332

>I should clarify: the prime problem wasn't a wrecked disk, it was extreme data corruption.

>Like to the degree that the computer had to be coaxed into recognizing it was a 'file'.

>>22575365

Oh...

Theres no coming back from that.

What did you suffer?

Some fucking EMP pulse?

"Just let me get that first."

"Trying to weasel away?"

"No, but that might be important." You tell her, slipping out from under her and picking up the phone. "Hello?"

"Hey Alex." Tony's voice comes over the line.

"Hey Tony. What's up?"

"Not much, sadly had to call to ask you a favor. Think you can help?"

"Depends on the favor, I guess."

"Kinda need fourty thousand dollars."

[ ] Sure.
[ ] Need to run it by the others.
[ ] ..... Dervish said you guys were rich.

>>22575466
[x] Need to run it by the others

"Is this bail related?"

>>22575466
>[ ] Need to run it by the others.

>>22575466
[X] Need to run it by the others.

"Also, why?"

>>22575466
[x] Need to run it by the others.
"Also, can Dave or Laurie handle this? I'm about to become indisposed very soon, for an indeterminate amount of time."

>>22575466
>[ ] ..... Dervish said you guys were rich.

>>22575466
>[ ] ..... Dervish said you guys were rich.
C'mon, how can we not?

"Kinda need to run that past the guys." You tell him. "Might need someone else to finish the transaction." You add lightly, looking back over at Elsie.

"Nah, that's cool. I'd just rather keep our financial concerns on the down low."

"Alright." You tell him. "What's up anyway?"

"Nothing much." He tells you with a note of irritation. "Just sorting out Dervish emptying our three million fucking dollar expense account as a final 'fuck you' before vanishing. Fucker didn't even leave money to have our cores repaired." He sighs. "Oh well, you guys have your own problems. Get back to me when you know."

He hangs up and you sit the phone down.

"Something happen?" Elsie asks from her seat at the table.

[ ] Not to us.
[ ] Kinda.
[ ] ... Let's just go get my punishment over with.

>>22575706
[x] Not to us.
After our Core repairs, do we have that kind of money to loan?

>>22575706
[X] Kinda.

>>22575759

>Somewhere in the 60-70 thousand range. Which for cores is the lower end of the 'a good safety cushion.

>>22575706
>[ ] Not to us.
>>22575785
Guess we need to go looking for work again. Yay.

>>22575706
[x] Not to us.

>>22575706
[ ] Not to us but we might need to break Tony's legs if he doesnt pay us back

>>22575706
>[ ] Not to us.

Rolled 39

"Not to us." You tell her. "Need to have a little talk with the team later though."

".... So does that mean you're ready for your punishment?"

"..... Be gentle." You request, which is answered only by laughter.

A few minutes later, the two of you are in the simulators. your core is limited to a super-lightweight model built for speed. You also note that she hasn't given you any weapons.

"Give you a headstart." She tells you, as you pop into the simulator. you've never seen this map before, but there's a lot of Pillars standing in the forest. You also note that you're standing on a pad in a clearing, and the edges of the forest are a huge caldera. "Rules are simple. Escape the valley and we quit."

"That's.... that's not going to happen, is it?"

"Your pod's been set to give you a little.... incentive every time you need to restart."

"THIS DOES NOTHING TO COMFORT MEEEE!" You yell, launching yourself into the forest. You REMEMBER Elsie's brand of encouragement. Elsie's encouragement made Sells take her off the drill roster.

As you run, you thank god Elsie doesn't have a thermal scope on her core..... right?

>Beat my roll by fourty.

Rolled 69

>>22576005

Oh god, whyyy.

Rolled 97

>>22576005

>I like how it got THAT number. I could have done any of the lower ones for the same effect, but it chooses to go to BARELY completely fucked.

>I'm just gonna give you a freebie.

Rolled 32

>>22576005
Oh god the terror.

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Rolled 14

>>22576005
>beat my roll by forty
>rolls a 39
>>22576027

Rolled 87

>>22576005
oh god that wont happen

Rolled 18

>>22576027
freebie indeed. Yay fucked up dice!

Rolled 96

>>22576027

I like your freebie good sir.

Rolled 72

>>22576035
>>22576036
>>22576038

>Mid fourties vs 57.

You stumble slightly and an entire chunk of forest to your left vanishes in a hellish flash of light.

"That's NOT your gun!"

"Nah, I figured I'd play around a bit. This is just the gun I want to get someday. Costs almost a million dollars and has advanced ballistics computing inbuilt."

"Whoa wait, they have guns with built in ballistics SPUs?"

"Yep. At extreme ranges they can boost accuracy by sixty percent." she tells you. "I just kinda went crazy with this build. Advanced thermals, target trackers, advanced rangefinders. Figured I'd take the chance to play around with my options."

"So why am I not already dead?"

"Because the MAC derivative needs a few seconds to cycle the load and build a charge." She tells you.

"MAC... derived....."

Elsie has a compact and overcharged Rail gun.

And the high ground.

And very good targeting systems.

And a nice view.

And you've got difficult terrain doing very little to hide you.

Well, at least now you KNOW the odds.

>Beat my roll by 30.

Rolled 17

>>22576166

fuuuuuu

Rolled 84

>>22576166
Yeah, that's not going to happen.

Rolled 41

>>22576166
dice preserve our digital ass

Rolled 87

>>22576166
Oh god run, run away.

>>22576180
>>22576182
>>22576189
47.3333333333333333 average.
This is gonna hurt.

Rolled 2, 2 = 4

>>22576180
>>22576182
>>22576189

>Let's see the damage.

>>22576219
pffff

Rolled 85

>>22576219

Heh.

>>22576219
That's surprisingly not all that bad for us.

>>22576219
Well.
That was lucky.

Rolled 22

>>22576219

>Well lets see what she managed to hit.

Oh, hey, we've had a refresh on fate points, right?

Rolled 75, 92 = 167

>>22576252

Your Core lurches as your shoulder's almost ripped off by the force of the glancing blow. "I forget." Elsie muses into your comm. "Is it the right or left arm that you normally place the Ace-Patch on?"

"Right. Left's for flag of affiliation." You tell her, rubbing your arm unconsciously. "At least, that's the normal standard, with the Berets and proper uniforms."

"Damn. hit the wrong arm then." She tells you, as she starts lining another shot.

She's on one of those damn pillars. If you knew WHICH ONE you might be able to improve your odds.

>Beat my roll by thirty, and give me a tactics roll: Target 50.

>>22576311

>Why is there two dice?

>Ignore the second one.

Rolled 28, 47 = 75

>>22576295
I sure hope so, 'cause it looks like I already refreshed them at some point in the past.

>>22576311
And a go for this.

Rolled 99, 29 = 128

>>22576311
Fight smarter not harder!

Rolled 54

>>22576311

Oh crap.

>>22576317

>ignore the worst dice roll

fuuuuu

Rolled 14, 61 = 75

>>22576311
Rolling.

Don't look for the one with the best vantage, that'd be too obvious, look at the 2nd-4th best ones.

Rolled 49, 88 = 137

>>22576311

>>22576331
>99
Well, we're fucked.

Rolled 6, 9, 6, 2, 10, 11 = 44

You leap from the tree-line to try and figure out where she is.

You get a good look at her position as she lights up a second sun in the sky, firing at your airborn position.

Rolled 43

>>22576373

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>>22576373

>>22576418

It hits you in the hips, and both of your legs are just gone.

You crash violently back into the woods onto your back, and desperately start scripting.

Thankfully you can't get a real synch going, but that means you cant just crawl away. You have to teach your core how to crawl by splicing AMBAC subroutines into attack protocols and remapping the controls.

You wonder if you even have the time to fix it before Elsie reloads and brings her scope back down.

>Computer Use check: Target 60.

>Let's see how fast you think on your feet, Raston.

Rolled 3

>>22576485

Rolled 28

>>22576485

SHIIITT

Rolled 10

>>22576485
Fuck.

>>22576498
>>22576504
NOBODY

ELSE

ROLL

>>22576485
Don't you mean think on our hands? Dohohoho.

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>>22576511
>>22576504
>>22576498

>Fuck me, six degrees of success?

>Apparently I need 7d10.

Rolled , , , , , , = 0

>>22576570

'ere we go!

Rolled 5, 9, 6, 2, 7, 1, 10 = 40

>>22576570

Rolled 6, 5, 6, 1, 10, 7, 2 = 37

>>22576570
Rolling!

Rolled 9, 10, 1, 9, 9, 9, 2 = 49

>>22576570

ohboy

>>22576604
>>22576605
>>22576610

>I expected this to take more than one round.

"How you feeling sweetie?"

"Like I just lost my legs, El." you respond calmly, windows opening and closing almost too fast for you to see. The system Almost seems to be cooperating with you, small typos getting auto-corrected as you furiously pound the keys for results.

"Oh damn." She laughs. "Don't worry, I'll help you get over that. Respawn will make this easier on you."

You can hear her computer get a targeting solution. Just in time for you to execute your new command.

You feel a heavy shudder and the pod spins sideways as Elsie curses, confused into the coms. "Oh what the hell? you fired all of your thrusters to throw yourself out of the way?" A moment of silence as she tries to find you through her scope. "And behind a PILLAR?! how did you do the math that quickly?"

"No idea, I was just guessing." You can see her throwing herself around from pillar to pillar trying to get a better angle on you. "I really hope my second insane plan works as well." You say with a wince as you hit the button you're tentatively dubbed 'Emergency Rocket Handsprings' in your mind.

>Piloting check, target 60.

Rolled 27

>>22576736
LUCK BE A LADY TONIGHT

Rolled 95

>>22576736
Honestly, guys, should we let her kill us a few times?

Shouldn't we let the Ellie win?

Rolled 69

>>22576736

Rolled 31

>>22576762
oh hey this wont be so-

>>22576770
>>22576775
ffffuuuuuck you

>>22576762
>>22576770
>>22576775

The core does exactly what you wanted it to do.

By spinning at about 300 miles an hour.

"Alex? What the FUCK are you doing?!"

"I HAVE NO IDEEAAAA!" You whine as the core spins out of control like a hellish pinball through the trees. you feel a long series of swats and crashes until a big one finally stops you upside down on the side of the mountain ring.

You can see a trail almost fifteen miles long of plowed, burning forest that looks like a bulldozer fire fired out of a railgun.

You smell something burning, but that doesn't concern you as much as the sharp 'clacks' you've been hearing over the comms. Judging by her rate of fire, you only have about three seconds to get the hell up- the slope before she has a lock on you.

>Piloting check, target 50.

Rolled 71

>>22576848
Rolling!

Rolled 88

>>22576848
have we not embarrassed our self enough yet?

Rolled 37

>>22576848
"You know I'm sure a psychiatrist would have a field day with you if they knew about this El!"

Rolled 93

>>22576848

Rolled 10

>>22576870
>>22576881
>>22576886

You scramble desperately up the slope. "Seriously, how are you doing this?" Elsie asks.

"I hacked the AMBAC and attack protocols. I'm remapping the controls and winging this."

There's a long moment of silence. "What? That's... What?" you hear a distinct 'chunk' noise as Elsie kicks off another round.

>Beat my roll by 30.

Rolled 70

>>22576933
GOD DAMMIT

Rolled 70

>>22576933
yeah. -20. no sweat.

Rolled 13

>>22576933
Well, fuck.

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Rolled 14

>>22576933

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>>22576933
>Beat my roll by 30.
>Rolled 10

You havin' a laugh, mate?

Rolled 12, 3, 3, 12, 3, 1 = 34

>>22576933

>Well, Elsie's having a good time at least.

Rolled 61, 27 = 88

>>22577005

>Let's see how hit location and synch looks.

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>>22577005
I vote we put this thing on auto pilot and make a sneak attack against El in her sim after the respawn

You launch yourself sideways, and the round slams into your arm, spinning you sideways.

"OH COME ON!" The two of you yell together, seeing that you've managed to lose your right arm.

"Bloody well hold still!" Elsie complains into the mic.

"Nope, still in the game." You tell her.

"Your arms off!"

"Tis but a flesh wound!" You respond cheerfully, wondering how the hell you're supposed to supposed to climb the other half of the mountain with one arm and malfunctioning thrusters.

".... was that a quote? Are you QUOTING something?"

You ignore her and start hitting buttons.

>Piloting check, target 40.

Rolled 73

>>22577072
THE SNARK KNIGHT NEVER SURRENDERS!

Rolled 48

>>22577072
oh god how are we still in this

Rolled 72

>>22577072
"COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEMMMMMM"

Rolled 13

>>22577072
"Of course I'm quoting something!"

Rolled 22

>>22577072
CRAZY IVAN

Rolled 58

You manage to make it about thirty feet dragging yourself and trying to get the boosters to work.

Elsie demands that you just take it like a man, and you hit the 'I hope I don't die' booster override.

>Beat my roll by fourty.

Rolled 85

>>22577121
>58
>beat by 40
So we need an 18 or less.

Rolled 6

>>22577121
here we go

Rolled 38

>>22577121

Rolled 85

>>22577121

doom

Rolled 8, 9, 8, 6, 7, 6, 1, 2, 7, 12 = 66

>>22577132
>>22577134
>>22577144

>Let's see if she can kill you this time.

>>22577132
>>22577134
>>22577144
average of 43.

>>22577134
The trick here, is to spend a fate point to take this roll.

Rolled 61, 49 = 110

>>22577160

>Alright, there's only two places she can hit that won't finish Alex off here.

>>22577165
Damn, too slow.

>>22577166
inb4 she hit one of them.

>>22577166

>Of course....

The screens black out, and a moment later, Elsie's disbelieving voice tells you you're still in the game. "What? How am I not winning this?"

you check your readout, and see that your head's gone.

So you're now attempting to flop BLINDLY up the side of a mountain. Goodie.

At least Elsie'll take a minute to reload.

>Piloting check, target 30.

>>22577166
I have to ask: is the fact that we've been alive so long even with all of the advantages that El has on her Core, simply because of how good of a pilot Alex is, or is it because of simple dumb luck due to the dice?

Rolled 93

>>22577193
cackle madly as we jam go.

Rolled 30

>>22577193
CRAZY. IVAN.

Rolled 49

>>22577193
still think we should put this on auto pilot and ambush her in her sim, or even take out a second sim unit and ambush her with another mech

Rolled 1

>>22577193
Maybe...Elsie needs to brush up on her shooting if she can't kill an AC with no weapons, no legs, and now no head.

>>22577193
Called it.

>>22577208
Fate to lock this.

>>22577195

>99% dice.

>Alex is getting a feat out of this to commemorate the bullshit.

>In a real fight, you would've taken enough from feedback damage to spontaneously kill your entire family. It's Sims+Dice here, all over the place.

>>22577214
shouldn't we lock this>>22577210 instead?

>>22577214
>using a Fate point in a simulator the whole point of which is to let Elsie horribly torture us
What's the point? The next shot's gonna finish us off anyway, and we might need it later.

>>22577219
One of the first three

>>22577226
They will reset when the sim's over anyway.

Rolled 81

You feel yourself tumbled back down the side of the mountain.

Dammit.

You hear Elsie sigh as your core spins, crashing.

>Beat my roll by 50.

Rolled 88

>>22577278
So. Dead.

Rolled 43

>>22577278
Really, now?

Rolled 69

>>22577278
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

Rolled 98

>>22577278
wheeeee!

>>22577278
I want us to succeed in escaping in this situation.

Simply so Alex can see the look on everyone's face when they watch the playback.

Rolled 2, 10, 12, 7, 11, 3 = 45

>Alright, there's pretty much no way for you guys to survive this one.

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>>22577278
we yell as we fall down the mountain

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>>22577314
Yes, I'm fully aware that "people die when they're killed" makes sense in context, sepcifically because thanks to Avalon he DOESN'T die when he's killed.

Rolled 64, 25, 75, 22, 50, 27 = 263

>Heh, I get to roll for lots of things now.

>Three million dollars lost
>We receive the exact same sum from some benefactor after the tournament

Elsie's round finishes you while you tumble.

And then the tumbling speeds up. You smell that burning scent again, and you begin to panic.

And then it speeds up again.

>Mechanics+computer use, target 50.

Rolled 61

>>22577378

Arghy.

Rolled 71

>>22577378

WE SHALL LIVE ON!

Rolled 77

>>22577378
oh god what hell is this

>>22577378

Is she... Is she playing explosion pinball with us?

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>>22577319
>A true man never dies, even when he is killed!
Well this one can be taken straight faced because this DOES actually happen to him. It's a statement about legacy.
>Shoot her to death, without killing her!
Well this is just fucking retarded.

Rolled 36

>>22577401

Actually I think the simulator is on fire.

whelp.

>>22577408
To be fair saying that someone "wouldn't die, even when they're killed" is actually a figure of speech in Japanese used to mean that they're really fucking tough. "Shoot her to death without killing her!" is just an example of the fact that One Piece is like one giant piratey acid trip.

Rolled 10, 3, 10 = 23

The shifting is disorienting and starting to become painful.

Suddenly you feel something shit and the situations changes. a sense of nausea and a sensation of falling.

>This is... getting interesting.

Rolled 65

>>22577416

No simulator was meant to spin so much so fast!

Fuck!

Rolled 58

>>22577436

>Suddenly you feel something shit

Aide! Fetch my brown pants!

>>22577419
I'm pretty sure the figure of speech comes from an old tale or legend of a samurai who stood on a bridge and held off an entire army and didn't fall down until someone cautiously approached and poked his arrow-riddled corpse.

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>>22577436
AC-Guy if your about to tell us we die in a fireball that used to be our training simulator.... I might have to cry a little on the inside

>>22577436

The impact snaps you against your harness so hard you can feel your arm pop out of socket.

After a minute of hanging, upside down you hear a noise, and a hatch opens. "Alex, what the fuck did you do to my simulator?" Mooch asks, completely bewildered.

Behind him, you can see part of the hangar, twisted at a different angle than your inner ear claims it's at.

[ ] I'm very bad at dieing.
[ ] It couldn't handle my skill.
[ ] Excuse me while I vomit. FLARGLEBLRGHTCH

>>22577467
> "The ghost was really Mr. Zaku all along!"

>>22577485

>[ ] I'm very bad at dieing.

>>22577416
Look at it this way.
If we get sufficiently injured to put us on bedrest again we can guilt Elsie into dressing up in one of those kinky little nurse outfits and "nursing us back to health".

>>22577485
[x] Excuse me while I vomit. FLARGLEBLRGHTCH

>>22577485
>[ ] It couldn't handle my skill.

>>22577485

[x] Go to the toilet before Elsie finds us because we shat ourselves in the sim

>>22577485
[x] Excuse me while I vomit. FLARGLEBLRGHTCH

>>22577485

I am very bad at dieing.

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>>22577485
>[ ] I'm very bad at dieing.

>>22577485
[x] I'm very bad at dying, apparently.

>>22577511

>That was a typo.

>>22577485
[x] I'm very bad at dieing.

I still want to see everyone's faces during the Simulator playback.

>>22577524

Doesn't make it any less funny

>>22577515
And now I have to go read that piece of shit again, just for that scene.

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>>22577645

"I am very bad at dying." I tell him.

He pushes his welding goggles up onto his face with a wrench as he stares at me. "I need to see the footage for this."

"I'll talk to Elsie about it. By the way, Tony called asking about a loan. We need to talk to everyone about that."

"Yeah, sure." He responds, and then leaves. He comes back a moment later with a ladder, and helps you get down.

You climb out of the pod, and see Ken sitting in an office chair eating a cheeseburger. "Mind getting me a drink?"

"Uh.... sure?" You say, looking at him. "Why me though?"

"You destroyed my last one." he tells you, with a nod to the exploded workbench where he was clearly having lunch before you came through the wall and crushed it.

You nod sheepishly, and walk up the stairs. As you do so, Elsie walks out of the sim room and looks at you. "What just happened?"

[ ] That. (Point at wreckage).
[ ] I am too awesome for simulators.
[ ] I interrupted Ken's lunch.

>>22577671
>>22577645
>>22577515

>Alright, someone needs to explain this joke to me.

>>22577672
Pick her up, spin her around, give her a kiss.

[X] I am too awesome for simulators.

>>22577672

[x] RUN YOU FOOL, HER HUNT IS NOT OVER

>>22577672
>[ ] I am too awesome for simulators.
"Also I seem to owe Ken a drink."

>>22577679
Read away, AC-Guy.
http://archive.foolz.us/m/thread/7303601/

>>22577672
[x] I interrupted Ken's lunch because I'm too awesome for the simulators.

>>22577672
>[ ] I am too awesome for simulators.

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>>22577672
[ ] I am too awesome for simulators.

>>22577679

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>>22577679

>>22577672
[x] You...should hold back a little more in the sims.

>>22577672
[x] I am too awesome for simulators.

>>22577705

Noooo.

His updates will be even slower

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>>22577705
Never Change /m/ never change

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>>22577778
"I am Bright Noah descendant of Solid Snake Ryoji Kaji and Misato Katsuragi when they had threesome. It is time I gave some Noah Family Justice."

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>>22577778
For great Hamburgers and Justice Launch every Bright

"I am too awesome for simulators."

"What?" She asks, looking at the obvious trail of destruction as you continue up the stairs. "Alex, that's not an answer."

You hesitate at the door and slam your arm into the frame, putting the dislocated shoulder back. You bite your lip to avoid screaming out as your vision turns white for a split second, before grabbing a Coke out of the fridge and turning to head back down.

"Alex, are you alright?" Elsie asks, from the doorway.

"Fine, why?"

"You just drove a simulator through a wall and dropped it a good thirty feet."

"Actually I CRASHED the simulator. If that was intentional it would've been more graceful."

"No jokes." She says, walking up and looking you over. "Did you get hurt at all?"

"My arm hurt like a bitch when I popped it back into place, but I can barely feel it anymore." You tell her.

She smacks you and makes you sit down. "Alright, does this have something to do with your attempt to hack it?"

"I wasn't hacking the simulator, just the control system." You tell her. "I just don't think the sim was ever designed with attempting things like that in mind." you hesitate. "I actually can't see why anyone would even TRY to program that sort of functionality in, stopping to think."

She sighs dramatically. "Well, I don't think anything I'd do to you now could possibly measure up to what you just did to yourself."

"So I'm off the hook?"

"... Yeah." she says, sitting down next to you. "Kinda petty of me anyways."

>What do?

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>>22577792
I think we've derailed the thread and killed AC-Guy, all in all a successful day

>>22577862

Sounds like bouncy fun times

>>22577862
Hug Elsie.

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>>22577862
"I think we should go out for Hamburgers. Also i still need to give this to Ken" hold up the soda

>>22577862
Put an arm around her.
"Nah, you needed to vent, and it was kind of low of me to leave you hanging with my Mom and sis like that."

>>22577862
"It was fun, except for the last part, which ought to make a great story.

Have I ever mentioned that I love you?"

Give her a hug and a kiss.

>>22577897
dis

>>22577705

What in the all buggering fuck did I just read.

Fuck greentext, fuck everything.

What the fuck am I re3ading, right now?

I..... What?

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>>22577934
That's an good summery of that
>3 G's

>>22577934
*sigh*

Explination: Johnny Spaceboots. He is 'Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?' in fan-fic form. That feature the 'Bright Noah Chronicles'. And Char as Batman. Usually.

/m/anly /m/en of /m/ like to toss out lines from it, like the three G's text in the image referenced at >>22577515 , to... I don't know... share the pain / spread the horror / remind each other what they survived reading / for the 'lulz'.

I was actually roped into wrtiting one, and my current quest is kind of a... pennance / sequal. Something.

End Explanation.

So, apparently AC-Guy just got banned. As hilarious as it would be to just.... let the quest end on that note tonight, He insisted that I give people a heads up.

He says he'll keep running when/if he fixes the ban thing, assuming the thread's alive.

So uh, Nowhere Man out.

>>22578023

Banfilter is yandere for AC-Guy.

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>>22578023
>>22577972
>>22577934

Welp.

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>>22578023
4 hours from thread creation to being banned, I think that might be a new record AC-Guy normally the thread would have started earlier and AC-Guy would be been banned later

>>22578023
Well, that's a right bugger.

>>22578023
>>22578051
>>22578091
>>22578257
Par for course.

Did anyone archive this thread? Can't find it in sup/tg/ .

>>22578789
Sure, but just cause we're used to it, doesn't make it less of an actual annoyance.

>>22579087
Probably hasn't been archived yet, then. They tend to not get archived first day, since they usually go on for a few of them.

>>22580567
Its archived now: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/22574572/

So, since AC Guy needs to redo almost all of the mechanics, will we go through some combat sessions in order to rebuild the mechanics?

>>22583786
No, because all of this quest is archived, so a lot of the developmental notes actually exist on Sup/tg/ and foolz. AC just forgot that he's posted a whole bunch of the mechanics in prior threads.

>>22577934
Hey, I'm trying to compile a quest schedule and am wondering if there's a set day and time for this quest. Timezone indication would be great.

Schedule is here >>22585294

>>22585663
Once, it was every goddamn day. Then there was a break, and a goal of running Tuesday & Thursday nights. Now it seems to be whenever AC Guy feels up to it.

>>22586019
Whats the record of ours set at anyways, 40 something threads in a row right?

>>22586584
It was 33 consecutive threads.

>>22587305
That shit was crazy.

I was there for every thread.

>>22587554
Me too though I didn't actually start posting till thread 11 or something. I've been on 4chan for 5 years and this quest is the only thing that ever actually got me want to post anything.

>>22589431
Always an anon, all the time myself. I post here and there from time to time.
>Multi-hour conversation get!

>>22586019

>To be fair, it's mostly a scheduling thing. I'm never entirely sure when I'll have time, between family obligations, my other projects, and my endless battle with Loki, god of Mischief.

>>22585663

>Alaska time for me. I'm terrible with schedules, but I try to start the thread between 7-8 local time and give at least a few hours warning in my twitter.

>>22590585
Anon reporting for quest, Sir!

>>22591471

>Probably another hour-hour and a half out man. Still got a few things to do.

>AC-Quest should be back live in five.

>You guys still with me?

>>22593860
Still here.

>>22593860
I'm here.

>>22593860
I'm here.

>>22593860
Kinda. Also kinda tired. Don't know if I'm actually going to be around.

>>22593860
Just waiting on you man

>Alright, so what exactly in the plan of action here? Seems to be all over, with a slight skew towards comforting Elsie.

>>22594078
Seems to be say something comforting and to hug Elsie, maybe give her a kiss.
And ask if she wants to go get hamburgers for lunch.

>>22593860
Sir yes sir, until you bad luck manifests through the internet and causes my laptop to explode in my lap.

>>22594078
[x]Comfort Elsie
sounds fine to me.

>>22594078

And bouncy fun times

>>22594113
dis

>>22594078
How about we comfort Elsie, see if she wants to go out for lunch and then when we get back call a group meeting about that 40K loan/gift to Tony

"It was actually kinda fun. Other than that last part." You tell her, putting an arm over her shoulder and pulling her close. "Seriously though. Don't worry about it. If that's the worst thing that ever happens to me, I'll be thankful. This'll be a funny story we tell years from now."

"Seriously?"

"Of course. People love to laugh at me, and I like making people laugh. And all it costs is extreme risk of permanent physical or psychological harm."

Elsie gives you blank horrified stare for about two seconds before sighing as she cracks up. "You are getting way too good at deadpan. It's hard to tell when you're ACTING crazy and when you've genuinely gone nuts."

"The difference isn't me, it's in my success rate." you tell her with a kiss. "Now I'm going to go and replace part of Ken's ruined lunch."

".... It's like nine in the morning. Why is he eating lunch?"

"I don't know. Honestly, I'm starting to think he doesn't sleep at all." You tell her, walking away. The 'punishment' didn't take as long as you thought, so you now have to come up with a plan to kill even more time. you drop off the drink and Mooch bitches about having to rebuild one of the Sim pods as you turn to go back upstairs.

>Actions?

>>22594414
We have some free time. Let's get some breakfast and then bother people, I think our Sister deserves to be bothered a bit and we can throw her in the sims.

>>22594414
Breakfast, and see what other people are doing, to see if we can get them together to talk about the loan.

>>22594414

>Actions.

Panic. Ken said he was leaving to try his luck with a girl he met.

Can we really subtly tell if he's buzzing? Isn't that how Dervish showed us we can spot imposters?

Am I the only one taking notes?

>>22594512
I think figuring out this loan should be dealt with fairly soon so this seems like a good plan of action.

>>22594520

THIS.

Equally concerning second note: We've had to tell our Mother about Elsie's dead family like three different times. Not counting when she did it.

A woman who's normally very on top of social issues.

There's also the fact that It was 3 P.M. at the bottom of the last thread, and now it's 9 A.M. afterwards. The same day.

Normally I'd chalk it up to the QM being forgetful, but AC-Guy is incredibly together and consistent.

>>22594630
>>22594520

MORE CONCERNING IS THE FACT THAT WE ALREADY HAVE EVIDENCE OF MIND CONTROL/MEMORY ALTERING PEOPLE RUNNING AROUND.

ON A SCALE FROM 'ZERO' TO 'FUCK THIS' I'M NOPEING THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!

>>22594520
>>22594630
>>22594662

>BWAHAHAHAHA!

>Oh god, you people JUST noticed? I thought you were being subtle about it.

>>22594774
Shit, you should know by now that I'm fuckin' oblivious to things like this, normally.

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>>22594774
Well fuck. I thought it was just a typo.

So, instead of panicking, what can we do?

>>22594833

>Plus you said you were tired right now.

>>22594840

>Well, for one I always call my own typos. For two, your actions are entirely up to you at the moment. I'm just the GM.

>>22594871
Yeah, that's certainly not helping.

>>22594871
I'm tired enough I have to genuinely ask, is it a typo or is there actual perception fuckery going on here?

>>22595050

>If I don't go out of my way to call attention to it and correct myself, it probably isn't a typo. Five hour time shifts aren't typos.

>>22595168
in that case, gonna go with,
[x] Panic.

>>22595168
Call attention to the time shift?

>>22595254
>>22595298

First we should see if Ken is 'buzzing'. Then react accordingly.

>>22595315
Seconding this.