Fuck you navyfag

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“S-Settle-”

“There was a man named George S. Cohan. He wrote songs. Do you remember them? Over thee~re,” you sing in a passable baritone. “Over the~re! The yanks are coming, the huns are run~ning, the drums rum-pumming every~where! Georgie got a Congressional Gold Medal for those songs, Naka. Highest award for civilians. Because it did that much for the war effort.”

“That's not-”

“That IS,” you snap, still rubbing her head. She's gently trying to pry your hand off, but not making much progress. “You already fought your fucking war, kid. You paid the price demanded of a warship. You don't look like a fucking ship to me now.”

“Looks are deceiving-”

“Oh show me a fucking *ship* that talks about her fuggin *feelins,* you slur. “You're a really good *singer,* Naka, and we've got a damn shipboy who's sent me like ten damn emails over the last two days complaining about your harpy-like nagging ways followed by a subject-only email which was all 'nevermind' like I'mma let him get away with THAT pissweak excuse and, just... shut up.” You pat her one last time on the head, and stagger out the door.

The administrative building is never dark - not in wartime - but you manage to nod your way past the roaming hall sentries without looking obviously drunk, and without opening your mouth to reveal the scotch - WAS it scotch? - on your breath. Where did she get Scotch that smooth? Had to be scotch.

>>43211561
inb4 navyfag

>>43211574
>>43211582
Wow Navy must be asleep or dead.

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The summer night is muggy and hot and miserable and makes those miserable dress whites stick to your damned skin as you teeter towards home - the last fucking thing you need is a motor pool jockey spreading word around base about the drunk-ass Admiral Dumbfuck. What betting pools are already in place for you, you wonder? How long it is before Kaga pops your head off like she's dismembering a doll she's grown bored of? Fuck them. You don't need an escort.

The day goes spinning through your head almost as fast as the landscaping. All your promises, all your foolish bravado, all of it - all of it falling flat before the hard eyes and intense, low voice of your XO, the man who's name has been wiped from your memory forever by a jagged piece of Higgins deck. How fitting, you think as you glare at a moth buzzing around a forlorn streetlamp. How fitting that the unremarked hero, the true hero of The Battle of Los Angeles goes unnamed even in your own damned skull as the imposter who stole the credit goes limping around Naval Base Yokosuka like the impotent fucking cripple he is. Maybe if *he* was here he could pierce the bubble of Naka's lies, that quiet ignorance you can sense but not quite name in her earlier words, the unconscious confirmation bias of a girl who set out to condemn herself and naturally found what she was looking for.

She's wrong.

She's wrong, and you know it.

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>>43211561
>>43211578
cute

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Goto's words go echoing through your mind as you thrash your way through a hedge fucking landscaping who even *puts* this shit here god *damn.* Goto, old Goto, tried and true and beaten to hell Goto, his damned words looping 'round to condemn you once more. What are you going do to, Settle? Fix them? Open up the inspection hatch, adjust the set screws, get them back into alignment? It's not so simple. You can't fix them, anymore than you can fix that dumbfuck Marine - or he, fix you. You smash an inconveniently low-hanging branch out of the way with the ebony cane said dumbfuck gave you. Must've been a month's pay, that. Fucker. Why does he care?

Why do you?

Why can't you *help* them?

Well, it wasn't your job.

Your job, you muse. Yes, your job. Your fucking job. Captain. Your job is to fight the ship, save the ship. If you'd brought Higgins back to port, wounded but seaworthy, all your losses would be made good. In her steel and frames would be preserved the souls and spirits of those who bled across her decks, those who died to see her through the fight. Their sacrifices would've been enshrined in steel to strengthen her structural members, still guarding the nation they fought for. Perhaps they would help, as the ghosts of Flight 93 helped to save lives when they could - it makes sense, and in the age of the kanmusu, who could deny it? Higgins would have taken them to her breast and carried them on as she carried the soul of her namesake. And always, as at LA, she would be “First To Fight.”

But that you failed her.

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You failed her, and now she sits in Long Island shipyard, in a drydock long abandoned, being restored to become a museum ship to commemorate the lie of your leadership, memorialize the defeat where you let your warship be shredded too badly to ever fight again when an ocean full of eldritch monsters still threaten your shores. That is your legacy, and that is why, even here, even in Yokosuka, you cannot help a crying girl who's taken a weight upon her shoulders larger than she should ever bear, larger than anyone should've asked for her. There's no magic button to press, no wondrous option to take that will undo these wounds, and least of all for a half-assed failed cripple tossed into the doctor's coat.

You thrash aside another hedge and emerge onto the next sidewalk. Fuck. Fuck, fuck, FUCK.

Coming down the walk towards you are two tall men in JSDF whites, striding towards you swift and sure. You note as they open up, one of them stepping off the curb to gain separation like ships returning to formation interval after UNREP. Their right hands are not swinging as they should, not in synch with their left, hovering by their pockets.

A strange sense of satisfaction comes over you. This is what you wanted, wasn't it? Out of the CIC, and into the fire? Back onto Higgin's bridge, to stand where your XO stood, and take the hit so he might live?

You grip your cane tightly as your heartrace increases.

Come on, you sons of bitches.

COME ON!

[ ] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITE WHALE
[ ] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES

>>43211621
>But that you failed her.
Damn right

>>43211582
>>43211594
didn't he say he had to go to bed early?

>>43211637
>[ ] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES
Is this the option that means you hold off for longer?

>>43211644

y e s

>>43211637
[x] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITE WHALE

>>43211637
>[X] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITE WHALE
HEEEEEEEEEEEEY FAGGOTS!

>>43211637
>[X] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES

>>43211637
>[ ] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES

>>43211597
>the true hero of The Battle of Los Angeles goes unnamed even in your own damned skull as the imposter who stole the credit goes limping around Naval Base Yokosuka like the impotent fucking cripple he is. Maybe if *he* was here he could pierce the bubble of Naka's lies, that quiet ignorance you can sense but not quite name in her earlier words, the unconscious confirmation bias of a girl who set out to condemn herself and naturally found what she was looking for.
So is this Settle like, Vemon Settle?

>>43211621
>But that you failed her.
God fucking dammit Settle no you didn't
I swear if Higgins comes back the first thing she needs to do is hug this dense fucker and tell him he did good

>>43211637
>[ ] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES
On the one hand I want to write-in NOT freaking out but we're a bit too drunk and I'm a bit too tired

>>43211637
> WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITE WHALE

C'mon Pequod!
>inb4 Shipgirl Pequod

>>43211637
>[X] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES

>>43211637
>[ ] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES
I hope Settle gets a good talking to from the CNO.

>>43211637
>[ ] They are nothing but a figment of your imagination. A hallucination brought forth from the alcohol. You cannot fight a hallucination. Keep walking and wave at the hallucinations.

>>43211637
>[ ] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES
yea, let's not have Admiral Drunken Fistfight

>>43211637
>[ ] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES

>>43211637
>[ ] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES

>>43211657
>I'm already an abyssal.

>>43211637
>[ ] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES

>>43211637
>[ ] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITE WHALE

I'M NUCLEAAAAAAR
I'M WIIIIIIIIIIIIILD
I'M BREAKING UP
INSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE

>>43211637
>[ ] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES

>>43211672
For what, killing some yaks?

>>43211637
>[X] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES
This is the properly American response, honestly.

>>43211687
>In before we're actually the XO of Higgins

>>43211637
>[ ] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES
COME CLOSER SO I CAN HIT YOU WITH MY CANE, YAKS

>>43211637
>[X] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES

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>>43211657
No, he's just got enough survivor's guilt to literally kill him.
EVERYBODY on Higgins' bridge died except him.
Him, whose contribution to the battle was to steer and to direct the men of his ship.
He's wrong that he failed and was worthless, but he's not wrong that his XO and the men and women in his CIC did the lion's share of the work.
It's just, that's what being a captain IS

>>43211637
>[X] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES

>>43211637
>[x] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES

>>43211699
For wandering around without a bodyguard.

Fuck Arizona is going to be PISSED.

>>43211661
>On the one hand I want to write-in NOT freaking out
Given how drunk Settle has gotten, I don't think a write-in to stand down would even be accepted.
People definitely don't want reasonable and professional right now anyway. Shouting memes and getting into a fight with JSDF personnel is what they want regardless of the consequences.

>>43211637
>[X] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES

>>43211699
I knew i wasn't that sleepy, those are yaks impersonating officers right?
[ ] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES
CQC is go!

>>43211657
You mean Venom. And he's certainly Punished Settle.

>>43211637
>[X] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES

Wonder who's going to be the Cavalry this time?

... Hmm. Betting on Shoukaku AND Arizona.

>>43211637
>[ ] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES
As important as initiative is, we need to be able to prove it's self-defense and not just a crazy drunk admiral lashing out.

>>43211699
Wandering around without a bodyguard when we were told to keep one with us, especially when we learned that Abyssals have subs and can do land operations now.
That's not including not telling the CNO about randomly manifesting PT boats that don't listen to orders and will attack USN personnel.

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>>43211717
>Implying Arizona actually left
>>43211720
It would have to be pretty much a unanimous backing for such a write-in, yeah. Such is booze.

>>43211726
Just to be different, I'm going to bet on DesDiv6, Tenryu, and Tatsuta instead. It's been a long time, since we last saw them. Bonus points if Wille is with them.

>>43211747
Ohhh, much more interesting possibility! I was merely counting on narrative convenience.

VOTES CALLED

AHWAHWOHEAORHOAHEOHWOHEOWAHRE

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One of four things is going to happen:

[ ] We summon another boat
[ ] Shoukaku comes and gives us a cooldown hug
[ ] Dues ex Hate comes in and gives us a manly punch
[ ] We go Nuclear

>>43211739
Arizona is going to do unspeakable things to us if we fuck up again ... and not in that good 'ole Irish way ...

call for backup? Naka's got to be less than a hundred yards away and Arizona is probably a lot closer than we think she is.

>>43211764
There's no choice to avoid it, all we can do is decide how the train wrecks. Choo choo.

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>>43211763
>[ ] We go Nuclear
Oh yes, let's do that one.

>>43211764
I feel like she'll be equally upset at Naka for getting us plastered
>inb4 it's Yaks, and Naka arrives to murder them with their own dicks

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>>43211759
>AHWAHWOHEAORHOAHEOHWOHEOWAHRE

fuk u plamefag

its 3 am stop suspensing me i can't sleep like this

>>43211763
[X] We go Nuclear

It's always time for Outer Heaven.

>>43211780
I am actually hoping its Naka that saves us.

>>43211789
But is it time after the votes have been called?

>>43211782

No, don't encourage him. This is how we lost sunday threads.

>>43211789
>I won't scatter your sorrow to the heartless sea

>>43211782
Cry me a river 0427hs here, still in the office, i suspect people will wake me up when they start coming in in a few hours...

>>43211726
I'm going to guess 'somebody we couldn't even think of'.

Like a corgi.

>>43211780
Yeah, it could be Yaks.
But wouldn't it be funnier if it was just JSDF sailors or MP's who want to help the obviously drunk American admiral but they're being cautious because he's fucking drunk and might punch them because he's a drunk American?

>>43211637
>put the gu-errr, sword down, you nigger
>YOU'RE HOLDING A SWORD UP AT MARINES

>>43211810
>Musashi shows up to break some heads
>She actually showed up before Yamato did, but unlike her sister she can actually stay discreet
>>43211814
Then it becomes far less funny and far more horrifying if Naka murders them

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Does anyone have a good resource on the use of nuclear weapons in naval warfare? I've been looking everywhere and can't seem to find anything but the most basic information.

>>43211797
Yes.

>>43211828
Even more time for Outer Heaven.

>>43211814
I pity whoever said in charge of base security if the admiral commanding the USN shipgirl detachment runs into any trouble here ... in a time of war that will get you a one way ticket to any number of places you don't want to go.

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>>43211834
I just know that nuclear depth charges kill whales real good in CMANO

>>43211834
That's because there's not a lot beyond that since it was never attempted on a large scale past Alpha and Baker.

Most of it would be theoretical or the usage of aerial munitions against either enemy planes or ground targets.

>>43211834
The Soviet's liked nuclear torps and depth bombs ... must of our stuff was airborne.

>>43211834
The thing is that nuclear weapons are so devastating that, no matter how you use them, they WILL make a mark.

Geographically speaking.

So really, anything man-made has less than appreciable odds of surviving any use of nuclear munitions.

>>43211854
Note that there is some thoght that the black shape on the right side of the mushroom cloud is a capital ship blown completely vertical ...just an idea of the power we're talking about.

>>43211637
>[X] WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES

>>43211891
You might be just late enough to actually see them, Anon.

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>>43211882
Are you familiar with Operation Crossroads?
It seems you aren't, and should read up on it.
Those ships survived surprisingly well after being nuked twice.
>>43211886
Nothing I've read about those tests has mentioned anything like that

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>>43211886
>Most of it would be theoretical or the usage of aerial munitions against either enemy planes or ground targets.
Not just any capital ship! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arkansas_%28BB-33%29

>>43211905
Yet any ON them would not have been so lucky.

And really considering how often Operation Crossroads comes up in these threads, I'm more surprised you assume anyone doesn't know of it.

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You lurch closer to your soon-to-be assailants, remembering the words of someone-someone Fairbarin, the guy who made the nifty knife - the element of surprise is key in close combat. That was a man who'd survived countless Shanghai streetfights, a man who understood the bloody and brutal nature of combat; who understood that a true duel only happens between two professionals who've both scrounged for every possible unfair advantage till they inevitably ended up at a tie. So you keep your lurching gait as they draw closer, keep your swaying unsteady step till they reach into their pockets and casually produce the weapons - one has a tanto blade, held in both hands, ready to unsheathe, and the other flicks a spring-loaded baton open to full extension. The former one lazily exposes the naked steel, razor-sharp edge glittering in the sallow yellow light of the sodium lamps-

- and wheezes as your cane's tip impacts his solar plexus with a vicious, full strength jab. You have just enough time to leap backwards, dragging your gimp leg as the other one swipes at you with his baton swift and sure, element of surprise be damned. He's young and fast and inside your guard within another step, still short of striking range. You whip your cane at his head in a horizontal slash, aiming for the asteroid artery in his neck or his temple, but his telescoping steel shaft catches the ebony wood before your swing can build any momentum. His free hand seizes your cane as the steel blurs, twisting over your defense and swinging at your face -

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>>43211905
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arkansas_%28BB-33%29#/media/File:Operation_Crossroads_Baker_Edit.jpg

>Arkansas being sunk in the Baker nuclear test. The black mark on the right of the column marks the position of the capsizing Arkansas

>>43211916

Oh great.

Yakuza.

SMASH YAKUZA.

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- only for the steel pipe to meet the meaty part of your fisted off-hand before the blow can gain force. You shove forward, closing the distance before he can get cute again, your blood singing and roaring in your ears as you jerk your skull forward for a headbutt, or maybe to bite the bastard but he springs backwards like a jackrabbit, trying to yank your weapon with him. You yank it to the right as hard as possible to slide it out of his grubby paws, and something *tugs* and gives as you twist it with desperate strength.

Both of you reel back as his buddy wheezes upright, his tanto dangling listlessly from one hand. Your playmate stares uncomprehendingly at the length of black ebony cane in his hand, then back up at you. Unconsciously, automatically, muscle memory has brought the cane up in front in a classic low guard, keeping you assailants en pointe - and hovering between you and your would-be assassins is four feet of razor sharp steel.

And then everything happens very, very fast.

>>43211916
Well fuck, they actually mean business
>>43211922
Capsizing doesn't mean "did a fucking flip", that's just a shadow from the gap in the water thrown up

>>43211916
>asteroid artery

>>43211905
Damage to USS Arkansas is consistent with it being flipped completely over. While we can't know for sure, conventional wisdom us it caught the blast wave just right and went vertical, then capsized over -- getting crushed like a tin can at the same time.

Baker was significantly more damaging to craft nearest the blast since it was under water...unlike Able.

>>43211726
It's clear that there's only one girl Settle wants right now.

He wants his Higgins back

>>43211934
Oh shit, Settle is a fencer. Hate is a better Marine bro than many give him credit.

>>43211934
oh fuck I forgot we suspected it was a sword cane
things are about to get nuclear

>>43211939

cateroid artery

god

fucking fuck shit damn openoffice why the fuck haven't i downloaded libreoffice yet FUCK

>>43211951
It might be the lack of sleep.

>>43211951
Go to bed faggot.

>>43211934
How long have you been planning this specific sequence, planefaggot?

>>43211934
You've been waiting for ages to use the sword cane haven't you.

>>43211935
As I said, there's two theories. We'll likely never know for sure.

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>>43211940
I'll need to dig up some archival footage when it's not 1am, because I'm still skeptical at lengthwise flipping

HOKAY

WE ARE DONE

FOR

TONIGHT

AND YOU ARE WELCOME CRUNCHBERRY, FOR THIS QUEST JUST WENT FROM "WEEPY ADMIRAL FAILS AT LIFE" TO "ANGRY ADMIRAL SWORDS DUDES TO FUCKING DEATH"

THAT'S FOR YOU, SPACE COWBOY

JUST FOR YOU

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I'm going ot fucking sleep guys see you on saturday woot

>>43211959

yes.

yes, I have.

anon managed to vote around drawing it twice already. Both times Hate was on hand to actually reveal the secret. I am actually impressed by their self-control and acumen in those votes.

Still.

BEEN WANTING TO USE THIS

FOR SO LONG

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>>43211963

>>43211963
>"ANGRY ADMIRAL SWORDS DUDES TO FUCKING DEATH"
Fuck yeah, shit getting good! Too much of this woah is me bullshit time for Settle to man up and earn his command!

Hah I knew it was yaks. Totally saw the swordcane coming too.

>>43211963
I like this cliffhanger. All of four feet of its shiny and sharp edge. Have a good night.

>>43211962
It definitely capsized, whether it actually went vertical or not is debatable.

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>>43211951
>using anything but vim in custom set up for writing

You brought this upon yourself.
Kongou bets that you don't even use a superior pastel color scheme on a slate background planefag!

>>43211963
DAMN YOU PLANE FAG

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>>43211963
Ahahahahahaha well shit.
Have fun on Saturday guys, I'll be at work.
Try not to slip in shipgirl love nectar

>>43211935
If you watch the video it's clear that isn't a shadow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njBmHmmycjA

>>43211974
When were those?

And those two. They're Yakuza i guess?

>>43211963
Night, planefag.
Though if what I've seen of Yakuza assassinations holds true, that guy with the tanto knife should be holding it low and right against his hip, and try to bumrush Settle, so that he can get in close and stab him in the gut with a sewing machine-like action, and damn the sword swinging in his face.

>>43211935
Flipping stem over stern is called pitchpoling and it can happen to even the largest ship with a big enough wave.

>>43211963
Good night, PF. See you Saturday, friend.

For more "Settle goes full MGS" action.

>>43211984
>vim
>not using LaTeX

>>43211994
No, they were the Russian Mafia.

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>>43211984
>Kongou bets that you don't even use a superior pastel color scheme on a slate background planefag!

emacs has a macro for that actually

>>43212002
Please, they were clearly Cosa Nostra.

>>43212007
>>43212002
>>43211994
Mafia, Yakuza, whatever.

They're about to lose an ass-kicking contest to a one-legged drunk.

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I wrote a thing.

http://pastebin.com/DfxMgdgY

It's just the beginning, but there will be more of a spoopy missile cruiser soon enough!

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>>43212000
>LaTeX is a text editor

>>43212013
Latex is a Sex editor, Kongou.

>>43211984
So Kongou, you catch that part about how Goto's considered bending you over a dess but that it'll NEVER HAPPEN? How do you feel about that?

>>43212011
Indeed.

>>43212020
>implying it won't happen in the end.

>>43212020
Matter of time.

Matter of time.

Heck, we throw both into a closet and don't let them out till Kongou Desses.

>>43212030
>Implying Goto and/or Kongou will survive to the end.

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So, I think tonight went well.
We threaded the waifu choices with minimal social awkwardness, learned important things from Parker, brought up the corgis as something to be aware of and got some help with that, did actual paperwork without insulting Arizona yet again, finally caught up with Wainright, had a fucking raw heart-to-heart with Naka that's gonna take some more time to digest, and then, well, probably the lowest point of the night is drunkenyl swordfighting Yakuza.
Still, overall I think we did good.

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>>43212037
might as well leave the door unlocked then

>>43212046
>drunkenly swordfighting Yakuza.
>Lowest point

You need to get your priorities in order, m8.

>>43212006

>DEAR PLANEFAG

Q: What was our biggest fuckup today?

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>>43212037
Kongou has literally crawled into bed with Goto without actually raping him, I think he's safer than he lets on.
>>43212046
Oh right, we also had a rather raw talk with Goto about ~things~
>>43212064
I'm measuring things by how responsible they are anon, as radical as it may be it's going to become yet another headache

>>43211997
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crossroads_Arkansas_Toss.jpg

>>43212073

Its gonna be another headache we'll throw on the MPs.

Take them away and shoot them.

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>>43212072
>Q: What was our biggest fuckup today?

Nothing. The votes were either [ ] Accept the cold, cruel lessons of the day at face value or [ ] Continue to deny those cold truths, because fuck those cold truths. Both were in character. And both would result in Settle drunk, alone at night, and railing internally at the injustice of them.

Sometimes, there's no easy option. There's no magic vote to fix everything. Sometimes you'll have to trudge through dark times and shitty choices. That' stories, and that's life.

But there is hope at the end of that tunnel...

... if you're willing to bleed for it.

>>43211708
>Settle is actually Higgins who thinks it's Settle

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Speaking of all those Venom Snake/Settle Parallels...

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>>43212101
>... if you're willing to bleed for it.
Mate Settle is way too fucking willing to bleed we need to reign in the blood seriously mate

>>43212012
I like it

>>43212109
>filename

aahahahahaheaedhafhf fuck I'm going to bed that was not funny enough to laugh at that loudly

NIGHT GUYS

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>>43212103
Pretty sure the Iowa writeups confirmed Higgins as a gal.
Ignoring everything else that would make that not work.

And the side stories were pretty informative as well.

>>43212124

Night fap angel.

Thanks for the happenings.

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>>43212124
Cheers boss

>>43212007
They're clearly the Swedish Mob.

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I still want a canefight with Wo.

>>43212150
Nah man, they're the Amish mafia.

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>>43212157
Also we need a Hamp vs Kongou (Based on her performance in the Kaga summoning sidestory) drift race around Tokyo.

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>I dedicate about as much of my time, thought and energy to this quest as I do to my weekly pnp group, if not more.
The future is a strange place

>>43212194
This is what happens when you have an amazing GM.

>>43212157
This needs to happen at least once, really if you think about it a Wo would be the easiest to capture once you wiped out her aircraft.

>>43212225
Shoukaku and her sister have more horsepower than Yamato.
Carriers are stronk because they are fast and they carry so much shit
>>43212219
I think it's more specifically the storm of consistency and agency and actually rewarding us when we sperg out over details because he also sperged out over them to write it.
Lord knows I wouldn't have spent an hour and a half poring through the evolution of the wire-guided torpedo I didn't trust planefag to write the combat based on sound, reasonably realistic principles

>>43212225
>>43212255

Can work.

Eliminate aircraft and know out the engines.

Now if only the abyssal won't just fucking submerge like a strategic submersible aircraft carrier.

>>43212269
Honestly any abyssal ship is a sitting duck with no props/rudders. And we already have a proven capability to target them with acoustic torpedoes. Even WW2 tech ones could work with the levelling effect.

>>43212269
The plan is to drive them ashore where they can't submerge, isn't it?

>>43212373
That's our plan yes, but I severely doubt we'll catch an enemy carrier with its pants down close to shore like the rest of the plan requires.


Also, I just realized why teaching the SOSUS what Abyssals sound like makes me unconfortable. It's like the pandora's box of the Hyperwave Decoder

>>43212385
explain further?

>>43212388
It's the plot coupon that takes an X-COM into serious mode.

>>43212388
In the xcom games, the Hyperwave Decoder is a facility that can intercept the invading aliens' communications. What this means mechanically is that you see and know every UFO in your range, along with data such as its type, mission, and crew. In Enemy Unknown it also reveals the penultimate boss UFO

What worries me here is more simple. It's scary knowing that there are Abyssals in the deep. Knowing just how many of them there are will probably be really fucking terrifying, with the ambiguity stripped away

>>43211174
>Read last thread
>Read Fluff's write up

>U-505 has PTSD
Expected

>Edmond Fitzgerald was somehow brought back.
This could be funny.

And the President

>>43212388
>Alien communications rely on a supre-dimensional wave which travels instantaneously. The decoder facility intercepts UFO transmissions and decodes the information. This will show the type of UFO, the alien race and the type of activity.

Anon is likening it to knowing when and where the Abyssals are going to hit next, in my opinion.

>>43212108
Venom with a fully upgraded sprint arm?

Not even mad.

(The real secret is that everyone is demon.)

>>43212405
>>43212434
>>43212474

Ah. That makes sense.

Well better to know than not at all.

And then our squirrel will be very busy.

Doing the work of Bletcher park, to see how we can make use of the intel, without tipping our hand to the enemy of the presence of the sosus.

>>43212497
Better strategically, tactically, from an all around warfighting perspective, yes. It's absolutely better to know.
But seeing the veil of "here be Abyssals" pulled back to see how fucked we actually are...

>>43212513
Well hey, at least the info isn't public. Only the navy has to panic about it. Unless, y'know, it gets leaked.

>>43212513
We've stared into the abyss. Time to do so again.

Only problem would be seeing where their bases are. If they're all mostly underwater, we might have to mobilise the U-boat fleet in order to launch an attack.

>>43212539
TFTD time?

>>43212539
>If they're all mostly underwater
...where the fuck else would they be? Mars?

>>43212557
Well, they turned Iwo into an Abyssal island...

>>43212557

That or operating out of converted Abyssal land installations/outcroppings.

They don't need full working human facilities, they just need to 'turn' the island.

It just raises the problem of how to use our surface assets to attack an installation underwater.

We might have to consider nukes.

>>43212557
Hell?

What was that area in pacific rim that they went to? Was that another planet?

>>43212575

Yep. It was a wormhole.

>>43212572
>>43212562
If we weren't already watching islands via satellite we certainly are now.

Though if the ~climactic final battle~ of this quest consists of the entire production run of nuclear depth xharges and not much else I'd laugh my ass off
>>43212575
Another dimension entirely

>>43212434
What also is scary is that the more we have learned the more questions that pop up.

The signal somehow making everyone hear their names or their deaths. The creepy voice that talked to Settle, the fact that they were able to force Goto to relive the experience of a Nuke and his own Grandfather's death.

This is some heavy psychic powers we're talking here and they most likely know that they know already.

What will we find at the heart of this, is there even a heart to stake? If not this will be a war without end. If the thing they face is literally death personified with the abyssals being twisted Valkyries how can you beat something like that?

Then there is Naka's side, not only have we learned that the boss abyssals are real there's also the same canon possibilities that there are dark persona versions out there. And the worrying thought that some of these Abyssal girls are just brainwashed and are just in need of saving as the regular girls.

>>43212637

And thats the most worrying part to me.

ICwise, Settle might try to save as many as he could of the abyssals.

>>43212513
R'lyeh

>>43212637
It's like Goto said.
Something has Changed in the universe.
Is a signal that's percieved differently depending on the listener's death strange?
Absolutely, but is it any more fundamentally strange than girls that are ships that are girls? Stranger than some mechanism that can metabolize hamburgers into armed airplanes?

Stranger than the Levelling Effect, which ties together a seeming value judgement of naval history on a rolling scale?
We'd best start believing in ghost stories.

>>43212686
Only thing i want to know is, what is causing this bullshit and how do we stop it?

>>43212721
Whatever it is, it wants the fight to be 'somewhat' even so it's clear it wants a war not a simple slaughter, a war liked the 'good old days' of oceanic warfare...

That says something...

>>43212721
That's the real question here, the other question is "Can we stop it"

>>43212807

Answer is yes.

Its just a matter of whether we can stand to pay the price required in blood. Both in shipgirls and humans.

>>43212882
If a fundamental law of the universe has changed/appeared I don't think any amount of blood will do the trick

>>43212907
But can we say it has? Perhaps it's a local effect, albeit only local in the astronomical sense. If we sent a kanmusu to the moon, would she disappear?

>>43212882
>>43212907
I seriously doubt we can reverse it. We can win the war, but hell, wars aren't over when the guns cease firing. World War One is still going strong in the economic and sociopolitical ramifications, to say nothing of the Middle East.

After this war, the fallout of, "Soooo... Spiritual stuff is real," is going to have an effect for the rest of all time. Hell, the Native Americans are summoning a ship now, remember? Imagine how things will go after that? Finally, ghost dances and stuff actually has an effect. What about all the national legends? Is Amaterasu really looking over Japan and her decedents, the line of Emperors? Is Arthur really sleeping in Avalon (if so, where the FUCK is he, England has never SEEN a threat like this)?

As for where they are coming from... I'm not sure, but my money is on the fact that they come from the netherworld. Sunk ships sail the river Styx, or the Sanzu River, whichever you like, right into the oceans of the living world. It's possible that they have a floating base somewhere out there, or maybe R'lyeh or Atlantis or somesuch. We'd better hope that's the case or there's no striking against them... Their taking bases in the living world might be a sign their supply lines are stretched, or maybe the portal is closing or something... Or maybe they're just testing their ability to move to the next phase of their plans. We don't even know if sinking them puts them permanently out of the fight, or just makes them respawn back in the underworld!

Anyway... Unless Fap Angel wants to confirm otherwise, I'm betting on a huge, floating necropolis somewhere out there in the ocean... Something to support the portal to the waters of the underworld. By summoning, we open a small, temporary portal somehow... But I don't know how that makes a Shipgirl different from an Abyssal and the existence of Anti-Naka has worrying implications...

I CAN'T LET THIS THREAD DIE WITHOUT MY LAST SAY

DEME
VOCALOIDS ARE COOL
YOU TAKE YOUR WORDS BACK
SERIOUSLY
also new writeup on Saturday, hope I can make it

>>43213357
The Native Americans aren't summoning a ship, fluffs write up goes straight into the non-canon do not touch pile.

>>43214188
I thought they were considered cannon until proven otherwise? Or unless they contradicted something Planefag or his direct associates had written?

I mean, the shit going down at Portsmouth and so on is canon? And that was all done by unaffiliated writefags.

> Get up and go to work
>Quest thread still active
>Erryone talking about the Abyssal Signal
>No one talking about the Arizona, Harder, and Akagi's humming in TeleGraf 3
>NO ONE WONDERING ABOUT AN ACTIVE US NAVAL WARSHIP HUMMING

Guys, pls.

>>43214290
Normally yes, but this is Fluff we're talking about.

>>43214290
Did you actually read fluffs shit? Why the hell would Native Americans revolt and why the hell would they be able to summon a fucking warship?

>>43214519
Navy, you distracted them with boobs for that one, its your own fault.

>>43214519
>No one talking about the Arizona, Harder, and Akagi's humming in TeleGraf 3
>NO ONE WONDERING ABOUT AN ACTIVE US NAVAL WARSHIP HUMMING

BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW THE WORDS

>>43214519
I am very much wondering, but honestly it
1. falls under the category of 'the thing that Changed applies to conventional ships as well as shipgirls. This isn't that surprising considering the leveling effect, which already shows that the new spiritual mojo extends to ships
2. conventional ships still having their girls in some remote spiritual sense already popped up from Los Angeles
3. jesus christ this month has been hell I need coffee

>>43211994
One would be the fight with Tenryuu

The other the otaku showdown, maybe

>>43216520
Otaku showdown was definitely one of them, since planefag went on about how our clarifying that Hate was the weapon we wanted to use was extremely important

>thread is still up

woah

>>43216520
>>43216561

Yep, that's correct! Both those incidents were potential unsheathings.

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>>43217929
will you ever stick to your 'scheduled times'

>>43218421
Planefag runs on "Mediterranean time" thanks to his Greekness.

AKA, whenever the hell he feels like.

>>43217929
Lack of autosage and meandering speculah is a hell of a drug.

>>43214519
>No one talking about the Arizona, Harder, and Akagi's humming in TeleGraf 3
>NO ONE WONDERING ABOUT AN ACTIVE US NAVAL WARSHIP HUMMING
This is a setting where sunk ships come back as either young girls or murderous ghosts

I'm pretty sure that the whole "humming" thing is just ship spirits.

>>43218421
>>43218436

I'm doing my best. My grandmother's death and the fact that her estate is 300 miles/4 hour drive from home kind of knocked my schedule into a cocked hat, y'know?

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>>43219111
Ain't complaining man, you've got a life that you need to run and it's more important than some random assholes on the internet.

Just giving you some shit.

>>43219111
You always make up for regularity with awesome. You do You.

Also, I thought the "Asteroid artery" bit was just Settle being drunk.

>>43214519
Because we already figured even the living ships had souls, this just cements it, while it is a good sign, the spookiness outweighs the good.

Though the addition of German ships makes things interesting.

>it's still alive
That silk rope Ari has is going to be put to use pretty soon. Arizona AND Shoukaku are going to murder Settle or never let him out of their rangefinders again. Hate is going to get to make the dog jokes now after those two start leading the Good Admiral around on a silk leash.

>>43219702
>silk leash
That's one of the worse things to make a leash out of.

>>43219111
Its all fine Plane, people are just gonna complain to complain.

Question, If you were to be a shipgirl. What girl?

>>43219501
I just love that the Americans are going to pretty much be in charge of a combined Axis fleet fighting death-themselves on the high seas.

That and the uncomfortable parallels between these ships and the humans around them. Like Hate, the living weapon denied his purpose.

>>43219732
>worse things to make a leash out of
>implying Settle won't be dommed by two senpais.

>>43219857
When can we requisition Graf Spee's rangefinder from Uruguay I wonder.

I'd probably have a better idea what the hell is with Graff if I'd bothered to read the first two parts... Anyone have the pastebin link?

>>43220142
Here's the first two parts of Navy's dump tonight/yesterday/most recently:
http://pastebin.com/hW8x9Sfn
http://pastebin.com/z8JBH5Yx
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Here's the other ones relating to Graf Spee:
http://pastebin.com/A03VzSuf
http://pastebin.com/XKeL4Z8B

Why dont we test the upgrading theory by having Arizona's signaling bell installed i am pretty sure they have it in a museum

>>43220473
Because her silence is probably more related to 70+ years of symbology as a silent tombstone than any hardware concerns

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>>43219732
>Question, If you were to be a shipgirl. What girl?

USS Growler. I'm not sure if it's metaphysically possible for a ship or crew to give fewer fucks than that boat did.

>>43220505

also this the next person to mention that bell gets murdered

by goats

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>>43218436
>Planefag runs on "Mediterranean time" thanks to his Greekness.

Also this guy is right. "Greek Time" is an actual fucking thing I swear to god. When people ask me what "Greek Time" is, I say, "You know how it took Odysseus 20 fucking years to get home? THAT is Greek Time."

seriously

*greece*

wtf guys

>>43220860
;-; which one?

still going, huh

>>43220975
Probably SS-215

>>43220229
We really should keep an archive of links to the side stories in a pastebin, its an unmitigated pain to try and find previous chapters because the writers keep them as private pastes.

I made the mistake of not reading the torpedo sluts side stories when they where first posted, took me hours to find and read all of them because i had to crawl through every single archived thread.

>>43220903
Is Greek economics also a thing too. Since Greek time exists.

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>Thread is still alive
What the fuck.

>>43221395
I'm pretty sure all the greeks have been burning money in offerings to Olympus. The gods can only stomach so much badly done meat scraps.

>>43221437
Now now, Don't pick on Plane. Were it up too him Greece would be nothing but Shipgirls as an Eco. You get paid in Crogies as change and then up from there are actual ships.

>>43211951
>Year of Our Lord 2015
>Using OpenOffice
Jesus christ dude.

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>>43213357
And then surprise Touhou crossover.

Oh god what the fuck

I just did a full day at work and you yahoos are still bumping this thread.

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>>43221416
no brakes on the boat plane train

>>43221812

SHITPOSTING AS USUAL, NAVY

does this make you a sourkraut

>>43221812
Howdy Navy

>>43221832
SPRUCE
GOOSE

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>Listening to Naka's soulsong

What is the chances of Settle winning?

Actually thinking about the previous chance of using our cane sword, do you think we would beat Tenryuu?

>>43221812
We are... I suppose I should contribute something, or at least force Planefag to keep posting until we fall off the board...

Was there anything more done on Portsmouth? I don't feel easy addressing Yokusuka and the Royal Navy makes the most sense for me to write about, given I'm a native of England...

>>43222092
Tenryuu is a lot of bark and not so much bite. Not sure if she's got the skills to back it up.

Settle may have to do it fast and with skill so his leg doesn't seize up, but I bet he could beat her.

>>43222041
that picture should've said Lewd instead.

>>43222120

lol once I get Graf Und Friends over to GRORIOUS NIHONGO I'll be done with Portsmouth. So I'd say have at it like an unchained Kongou on an unwilling Goto.

>>43222221
I was contemplating something simple. A letter from HMS Hood to the ships of the returned French Navy, apologizing on behalf of the entire fleet for Mers El Kebir. As I recall, there wasn't a sailor aboard any of the ships that day that didn't feel thoroughly dirtied by their actions, so she would want to ensure there's no hard feelings, I think.

So I bet that if the WWI German ships came back they'd be treated a lot better than the WWII ones are.

Also, if we're going to be summoning hospital ships, we need to summon Britannic.

And we might want to consider awakening Queen Mary and seeing whether that gives us a full division of fairy soldiers aboard a fast troop transport.

>>43222303
Has the Admiralty ever offered an apology for that? Because if not, they might be a tad miffed at one of their ships conducting independent foreign policy.

>>43222120
I've got a description, though it may be different to Navy's version.

Portsmouth is doing well roughly speaking, considering that at the start of the war a large area of it was rubble. It's been mostly rebuilt and there are defensive emplacements around it. Mostly Anti-ship missile batteries and AA defences but it also hosts a large number of NATO ships and ship-girls that run convoy duty. The nearby airbase that was called HMS Daedalus has been reactivated to host aircraft.

I should have a more chunky description by Saturday's run.

>>43222303
>>43222353
Renaissancefag (the guy behind the Vanguard summoning) is planning some more stuff with the Brits, though to my knowledge its just going to follow a small task force and I don't think its going to do much on the home front.

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>>43211934

...

Settle? Where did you--Settle? S--

...Oh no. No, no, no, no. God, please, no.

SETTLE!

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Aww, is Bismarck not coming too?

>>43222420
My stuff may have more focus on the home front as a significant chunk of what I'm doing will be on convoy duty during the early stages of the war. as such there will be sections on the war's effects on the UK.

>>43222431
Too late, he's on a fight of his life while drunkas hell.

Shouldn't mention him healing his leg.

>>43222431
Don't worry about it. Arizona's likely sensed that he's in danger and is running to his aid.

>>43222431
WELCOME TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TICKING TIME BOMB COIN, NAKA
EXCEPT INSTEAD OF SHIPGIRL MENTAL TRAUMA, IT'S PLANEFAG'S LUST FOR SWORDS THAT HAS BEEN LEFT TO SIMMER

>>43222452
Bismarck is currently stuck in Britain being a drunkard.

>>43222452
I didn't need this, I really didn't but now I want more.

>>43222576
>>43222431
We are gonna be fine, worse case we get stab.

>>43222350
To which I dare say that Hood would reply, "I was simply speaking on behalf of myself, as flagship of that incident and the girls under my command. Of the ones I have met, they all harbour a deep regret of the necessity of their actions that day. I do not claim to speak for England, sir; merely for myself and my girls."

I have this funny feeling that British flagships would have a very matronly approach to the girls they command... Especially as it's apparently been established that DD uniform for the Royal navy girls is a maid's dress and apron, while BBs and such get naval-style 'uniforms'.

>>43222467
In my story regarding the Warspite, that was actually mentioned. England is on the verge of mass starvation. They were bringing supplies through the channel tunnel for a little while, but the abyssal subs and depth charges fucked it so hard that it's either caved in or is considered too dangerous to send another shipment through, lest the whole thing come crashing down.

>>43222452
>>43222584
The pride of the Kriegsmarine, ships and gentlemen... At least there's little enough hostility between them and the RN. God FORBID that flare up... It'd be more of a problem than the USN and IJN girls!

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>>43222611
You did need it.

>>43222614
England's that Mcfucked? Whelp, GG England.

>>43222646
why? Why did I go from 0 to over 9000?

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>>43222685

Bisquick a best

>>43222614
Ok then, I'll bring that up in a later part of my story. My idea was that the French and Germans would use their navies to cover convoys from mainland Europe to the UK while the RN and USN cover convoys between the UK and USA. In addition, transport aircraft are carrying supplies in.
>>43222685
>England's that Mcfucked?
Yes. It's of common belief among writefags that the UK is on the verge of collapse.

>>43222467
>>43222614

I'm going to be leaving the home islands alone once I get past my next chapter. Most of the stuff i have planned out thus far is jaunting about in the Atlantic.

Also, has there been a name for England's Kanmasu Admiral yet?

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>>43222747
Indeed.

>>43222716
>>43222743
>I'll captain her ship anyday, With or without permission.

>>43222756
You know, Honestly I don't like England but for once that sucks. If a nation is gonna collapse i'd prefer it not be from lack of supplies and food.

>>43222787
Yeah... they aren't actually part of the writefag group.

So take what they say with a grain of salt.

>>43222762
I was planning that RN Kanmasu are divided into fleets with commodores commanding them. Those commodores then answer to the Commander-in-Chief of the RN.

>>43222805
At the time we aren't listed as cannon writefags, but we are striving to make as much of what we write cannon compatible. Afteral, what's the point in writing something completely unrelated that nobody will continue to read when you can write something cannon compatible that a few people will read.
>>43222787
It's how England nearly fell in WW1 and WW2. It's the most likely way for it to fall.

>>43222420
Quite frankly, if Renaissancefag isn't planning on doing anything with Vanguard I'd like to do a series of shorts on her.

Hell's Bells, i went to sleep, missed a work day and came back to the office and this is still going on?

>>43222935
There's no way people were going to let this die overnight, and it was only at 150 posts when the thread ended.

>>43222905
Oh, i'm planning on using her. You could always get your own abyssal writeup going though.

>>43222805
head canon is best canon, Until Plane destroys it

>>43222886

WW1? I know WW2 but didn't know that. Guess we better win the war soon huh?

>>43222809
Ok, that makes sense. I'll slap a random name on the one I use, and give him a secretary ship that's running around.

>>43222809
>>43222886
god fuck off already

>>43222685
>>43222756
Dig For Victory and rationing are back in full force. I don't think there's three square feet of land that doesn't have veggies in it.

I like to think that after parliament dithered on what to do following Portsmouth, her venerable Majesty made non-committal comments to the tune of, "We are not amused," and "We expect our government to do its damn job, or remember who holds the power to dissolve it." We may not have a Mr. Churchill this time around, but societally-speaking, England's the strongest it's been since 1945. The British people are preparing for yet another long and bloody conflict. Not a place in the nation is more than 100 miles from the sea and everyone very aware what that means. Britain's a nation of whiny, entitled cunts at the best of times... But at the worst of times, we have an odd ability to straighten our backs, stiffen our lips, sip our tea and "Keep calm and carry on."

There were elements who resisted the measures, especially those claiming the measures somehow hurt THEIR community more than everyone else, but rather than the social unrest that would usually result, they were firmly told that if they wouldn't take the steps everyone else was to protect Britain, they could jolly well bugger off to wherever they came from! Given that meant crossing the water, not many people took the offer. If Great Britain doesn't die the slow death it nearly suffered in WW2, she's going to come out of this with a lot of social problems fixed and forgotten. As it is, they are in a worse position than when the Atlantic convoys were under threat, the English Channel is a near-constant battleground (the Abyssals recognize that continental aid is a priority target) and England's people are about a missed meal from widespread panic, but the important thing is that no-one is SAYING as much, or letting it effect their day-to-day work to fortify every inch of coastline.

>>43223025
Trust me when I say this. it's going to be VERY hard for the RN.

At this stage in the war they've lost multiple warships and ship-girls. They are having to use converted merchant ships as impromptu aircraft carriers while the Prince of Wales is repaired. There are more warships being built but it takes time that the RN just does not have at the moment. Their role is mostly convoy defence while the RAF and other airforces cover defence of the country's shores.
>>43223045
Sounds good, I look forward to your next instalment.

>>43223140
>>43223045
>>43223157
So, did you guys read the VERY CANON post just made by Navyfag that had the Germans SENDING SHIPS TO JAPAN?

>>43223186

I did, and it doesn't effect my story in the fucking slightest.

>>43222431
https://youtu.be/F9hagVL-__c

>>43223242
then you're actively going against the canon, while saying you want to be canon

good to know

>>43222809
I'm pretty sure that the Royal Navy had an admiral mentioned aaaaages ago, when the destroyers showed up and we all realized that someone with a crown, anchor and oak leaves on his hat, saw destroyers in maid outfits for a joke and assumed that they were the shipgirls' uniform. Since then, like many inexplicable things England does, it's become 'tradition' and therefore utterly un-questionable.

>>43223186
Reading it now. That doesn't effect the RN too much, does it? The Germans stayed with them, then moved on.

Also, someone PLEASE feel free to take my Britwank apart and make things worse for them than I paint them. I am WELL aware that my nationalism may seep into what I write and I need you people to check and balance on that. I doubt England would UTTERLY fall, but it's unquestionably going to be in a VERY bad way. I don't want to think about how it'll happen AFTER the war... Or even after five years!

>>43223186
Implying Germany would be stopped by anything other then GENERAL WINTER!

but in all honesty, was it in here or last thread cause I don't have it if it was last.

>>43223140
Yeah that's sort of what I was going for. Except that with the appearance of cults worshipping the abyssals martial law is now in effect to keep those cults under wraps. Especially after a number of sailors were killed in the streets by loons in yellow and black robes. I'm thinking that the cults are treated as the enemy by the British public and either reported or crushed outright by civilians before the police and military gets involved.
>>43223186
Yes, he stated that a small group was being sent. That is not what we are deputing. In my opinion the situation can be summed up as the Germans sending ship girls to the pacific as a political stunt rather than because the Atlantic is a stable war zone.

If the Atlantic was stable then why would the RN be summoning all the ship-girls they can?

>>43223283
>>43223287
In the last thread.

The Germans are explicitly their to help their allies. They're sending forces to Japan because the main battle is IN THE PACIFIC.

While England isn't all sunshine and rainbows, the channel getting raped everyday is far from canon and actively against it at worst.

>>43223272
Events happen to ships not appearing in his story.
He says these events aren't going to affect his story.
>Going against canon
Are you retarded?

>>43223272

lol where did I confirm OR deny that Jolly Ol' Bongistan was suffering?

As far as I'm concerned, let them write what they want; I've tried to keep events from Graf's perspective of the UK as vague as possible, so other could step in and do more with the RN.

I mean, jfc; it's on the other side of the world from where Settle and Company are shitting things up.

>>43223339
...couldn't they just transport the shipgirls across land and not across the ocean? It'd be safer and more cost effective... So how is what they said against canon?

>>43223384
Pretty sure they're going by plane

>>43223384
That's pretty much how ship girls get around. In fact, that's mostly how the RN is defending the Falklands.

>>43223379
Hey Navy, would you mind if I used a few German ship-girls?

>>43223379
>>43223457
Mind if i grab one as well? I haven't used her much as is.

>>43223457
>RN defending the Falklands

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>>43223545
you* I cant into typing at this hour.

>>43223457
I would imagine the Brits up and said fuck the Falklands, and either evacuated it and let it sit idle, or evacuated and made it Argentina's problem.

>>43223457
..I meant more flying airplanes over the land or trains... Isn't most of the ocean a No-go zone?

>>43223549
England will never give up them islands, Even during an invasion like this. You should know how fucking stubborn England is.

Heya guys! Just popping in to remind anyone interested in writing that we generally really appreciate efforts at communication in the IRC. It's not strictly necessary, anyone can write what they want of course, but as far as determining canonicity (for a fanfiction setting, no less, go figure) it's a lot easier when authors talk to each other!

>>43223457
You know that Argentina has its own myriad of shipsluts to summon, right? As well as a standing Navy?

And no fucking way are they going to accept any form of British assistance.

>>43223339
Read it again. The battle is in the Pacific and the North Atlantic, with a secondary wars in the Med and presumably the Indian Ocean and the Philippines/Indonesia area. That's to say nothing of the fact that, IN CANON, Canada and the East Coast USA are under heavy attack, so it's not just historic battleground, as I don't believe either of those places saw particularly heavy pre or post-Dreadnought action.

>>43223332
Abyssal cults..? I like it! It shows how close to the brink England is and gives us writefags something to worry about on land, much like apparently Settle has to worry about nationalists and Yakuza. But even so, we get to see how much of England isn't losing their head over blood-mad doomsday cultists, instead just keeping England going through the worst of times.

>>43223413
>>43223384
Plane is how Settle and fleet arrived in Japan without risking chaos and destruction the whole way.

>>43223549
Call the Royal Navy and England what you want, so long as it includes 'stubborn'. Add to that, the sea around the Falklands has oil we'd need to keep the fleet working.

Just because Britain is getting cut off doesn't mean there's lots of work for shipgirls, especially if those girls are capital ships, which do jack all against a submersible threat. In fact that could be an incentive to get some of the large German ships out of Britain so they don't use up preciously needed supplies.

>>43223615
Please point to me in canon where the east coast is under heavy attack.

Please.

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>>43223597
>Argentina defending the Falklands

>>43223596
I've forgotten how to get there...

>>43223457
>>43223545


I'd... prefer it if you guys left the Kriegers alone; there are certain things planned out with a few of them, and I'd hate for anyone to feel 'left out of the loop' when writeups get posted due to conflicting stories and such.

>>43223596
>determining canonicity (for a fanfiction setting, no less, go figure)
See, to me that whole song and dance matters because I care about this story, and the characters in it. I want them to do well, or at least suffer in relatable and inspiring ways. If I want that I need to be an informed and active voter, and when planefag is weaving things in from sidestories that are just as important if not more so than the current events of the main thread it becomes imoprtant to know what knowledge to consider in the decision-making process.
Also speculah is my crack

>>43223760
rizon.net #swq

>>43223640
Hey Planefag, with all this talk about starvation and rationing, is any country conducting operations like the Berlin airlift yet? Or is most of the Navy providing escort for trade ships?

>>43223777

Oh, I understand where you're coming from, no problem. I've been working on a list of what fits where, but there's an awful lot of material right now, and I only just got started Monday, haha. I'll work on it, with any luck we'll have a document up by saturday.

>>43223760

Rizon network, Head to #SWQ and usually you can catch someone there who knows what's up. I'm on and off right now myself, as a matter of fact.

>>43223549
>>43223591
I'd imagine that the UK would try and cover the islands because of the chances of loosing them to Argentina. Which would likely have ship-girls of their own. Do remember that the did once have an advanced navy with battleships and carriers.
>>43223597
Did I say that the RN was there to cover Argentina? They're more there to cover other countries like Uruguay and other countries that don't want to invade British lands.
>>43223615
Yeah, the cult Idea is something that I plan to have a major effect later in the story.
>>43223627
I'm thinking more that they have to worry about very old ships coming back to try and attack convoys.
>>43223640
My point exactly.
>>43223768
Ok then. I'll stick to RN ships for now. Though I'll be ready for if you change your mind.

Also, I'm headed to the IRC, I'll continue discussion there but I'll also be here too.

>>43223379
The ships you sent over actually makes sense to send over, at this point in the plot it's clear that the abyssals have changed tactics.

Most likely because countries are now putting determined efforts on shoreline defense.

This makes the earlier "send a bunch of ships to blow up a coastal city" a suicide mission because a handful of shipgirls backed up with modern defenses could most likely inflict heavy losses on the Abyssals.

So the abyssals have changed tactics to commerce raiding, raids on soft targets to inspire terror (The group Arizona faced down in the beginning of the plot had been hitting vacation spots and cargo ships), and provoking attacks (The air raid on the naval base), in order to draw the ship girls out into an arena of their own choosing. (Such as the Bonn islands trap)

If England isn't going to rise to the bait and are playing a defense game, then the ships they're sending aren't needed.
Graff Spee, Atlantis, Pinguin, and of course, U-172, and U-511 were all used for commerce raiding, something that the current combat situation in the UK isn't necessary.

Sendai spent the early part of her return hitting Abyssal supply ships, that proves that in the pacific the abyssals have a logistics system of some sort.

Shutting that down could be something the Germans could do very well.

Scharnhorst is the only odd one out but another battleship is always useful especially if there are abyssal land bases out there.

>>43223591
The Krauts can cover it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Falkland_Islands

I think all those sunken WWI German ships would be important enough to keep an eye on the place.

And I wonder if Argentina has the Phoenix.

Thank god that the Abyssals aren't coming up as pre-WW1 ships.

There's only the fucking Spanish Armada sitting at the depths off the coast of Ireland.

Then we get to the English Fireships. Not sure how they feel about being used as suicide weapons.

>>43223615
Ya gonna jump in the IRC channel?

>>43223768
Only issue is that there's a limited number of ships to use without crashing into even the side canon since all American ships apparently go to Settle.

Most of the other world war 2 era European ships are likely abyssal since half of them were scuttled without a fight.

Though now I'm interested in a ORP Grom shipgirl. I have to imagine she'd be like an even more sadistic Sammy.

>>43223862
A document will be useful, I worked on something regarding SMS Goeben for the longest time until I found out the German ships had all been snaffled.

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>>43224237
Only post US civil war era ships so far.

Also last thing. If anyone wonders where abyssals could be getting supply ships. US let over 130 of them rot in a shallow bay of the Chesapeake.

>>43224433

I'll work on it some more, but no promises about it dropping this weekend.

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>>43224576
Cheers dude.

Take your time, deme isn't going to abandon this quest just yet I'm sure...

>>43224306

'Nau mentioned both the Regia Maria and La Royale in TeleGraf 3; don't forget that other countries might have their own shipgirls doing shipgirly things. There's plenty of others that might've come back friendly.

>>43221339
People like you are why I made the SB.com and SV.com transcriptions a thing. Most of the write-ups are compiled and threadmarked there.

>>43224861
As a guy who only posts on 4chan, thanks for doing what you do.

>>43224861
Do ya have my writeup added to the archive yet? My friend told me it was missing a while ago.

>>43224563
Wouldn't that mean there are Japanese shipgirls from the Meiji Era?

>>43224861
Of course, you also run into the situation that one of the SB blokes pointed out- with a flood of authors, you're going to have to sort through things that should just be in the general fanfiction thread

Ban assault caneswords now

>>43225173
No, it's a concealed carry assault canesword with a high strength blade!

>>43225197
Why do you NEED a canesword?

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>>43225173
>>43225197
>>43225210

It also becomes a Whip. Constitution when?

>>43225098
The Vanguard one? No, sorry, I haven't been able to find it anywhere. I think it got buried amongst the shitposting in one of the threads.
Do you have it in a Pastebin or something, or which /suptg/ thread I can find it in? Throw me a link and I'll tack it on to the Warspite write-up.

>>43225197
FOLDED A THOUSAND TIMES
>>43225210
Honor

>>43225231
>I'll tack it on to the Warspite write-up.
No, I won't, because you and UnAble Seaman BritFag are two different people, but I'll make it its own post and point out the narrative link between the two.

>>43225234
IJN go home.

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