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>>46255417
According to Anna's panicked updates, Tanager would be in firing range of you within seconds if you didn't do anything. Hornet was telling you that she could recover and redeploy her B-25s with antiship arms, but she'd need more time. Time you'd have to buy for her.


>You need to fall back. None of you are equipped to fight that thing.
>Buy time for Hornet to recover and relaunch her bombers.
>Other

>>46255434
>>Buy time for Hornet to recover and relaunch her bombers.

>>46255434
>>Other
Torpedo run.

okay, so that's actually

>Buy time for Hornet to recover and relaunch her bombers.

but it worked for Melvin, so it might work for us.

>>46255434
>Buy time for Hornet to recover and relaunch her bombers

Live, from /tg/, it's FRIDAY NIGHT
This week, World of Slavboats intensifies with the launch of Russian Cruisers
KanColle eagerly awaits more Destroyer K2s with the next update
Miss me?

>>46255434
>You need to fall back. None of you are equipped to fight that thing.

>>46255434
>Buy time for Hornet to recover and relaunch her bombers.
How much does time cost per minute in the Kancolleverse?

>>46255434
>>Buy time for Hornet to recover and relaunch her bombers.

>>46255434
>Buy time for Hornet to recover and relaunch her bombers.

>>46255417
What are you playing The Division on, anyway?

>>46255434
>You need to fall back. None of you are equipped to fight that thing.

>>46255434
>>Buy time for Hornet to recover and relaunch her bombers.

>>46255434
>>Buy time for Hornet to recover and relaunch her bombers.
>>Other
"To think i need to get through this shit TWICE...."

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>>46255434
>Buy time for Hornet to recover and relaunch her bombers.

>Shitty Admiral, /FIT/ Admiral, and Masochist Admiral
That first one could be literally anyone.

>>46255434
>>Buy time for Hornet to recover and relaunch her bombers.

Once more into the breach.

Though picking up a question from the last thread, here's kind of an issue I have with this Quest. It starts around 10PM EST. And I'm not sticking around much after midnight. So that's maybe 5-6 or so updates, maybe more on a good night, sometimes less. So yeah I'm not voting the whole run, and I expect other anons on the East Coast fall off well before the thread's through, as well.

Ha ha time for USS Colorado and USS Pueblo to save the day

Tonight might not be a good night since Planefag's Kancolle quest is running. Well at least until a couple or so hours later.

>>46255434
>>Buy time for Hornet to recover and relaunch her bombers.
Torpedoes would be an ideal way to buy such time and possibly even hurt Tanager.

>>46255417
>running around the Dark Zone with a Hot Pink Vector and Mk17 and a Neon Green M45A1
Taking notes for future vict- I mean, reference...

>>46255434
>>You need to fall back. None of you are equipped to fight that thing.

Yeah, as SEA anon i can say lately this quest even last longer than my Saturday work shift.
It start roughly at 8.30 am and can last as long as 5 pm or more. And i finished my shift at 4pm.

I guess for anon in other side of world, it just kinda too long.

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>Realize the next KanColle thread after this week's will be on April 1
>AahahahahahahahaAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHHAHA

Omake, Merc?

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>>46255785

>>46255785
>>46255805
maybe Hoel playing The Division?

>>46255805
I hate that cat.

>>46255616
Agreed. I used to stay up with full runs of ACQ, which often led me to sleep at 4AM. Can't do that forever

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>>46255674
Nah, Planefag has his own little exclusive audience that really isn't interested in the rest of /tg/.

Plus why do I have to fit my schedule around Planefag's? That plain doesn't make any sense!

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Daily reminder Hoel is a beautiful ship.

When can we get an experimental Tesla gun for Hoel?

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>>46255434
Aussiefag here, I dont always vote but always try to lurk as i may be busy during my Saturday day.

>>Buy time for Hornet to recover and relaunch her bombers.

>>46255674
What, can't follow two quests at once? Hahahahahaha loser.

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>>46255434
Damn! With the importance of this mission, there wasn't really any choice but to stay and fight. If you fell back now, it would give Tanager free reign to attack the landing forces, and as long as she was here, she'd be blocking the third wave of landing forces, who were carrying the critical armor support the Marines would need if they wanted to push to the heart of the island.

Tanager was still a distant blur on the horizon, but she was getting closer and closer all the same. You pulse your radar and see a pair of battleships from Iowa's group breaking off to pursue, but Tanager's got a massive lead on them and it looks like constant Abyssal air attacks are forcing them into evasive maneuvers, slowing them down even further.

"So, what's the plan, Hoel?" Johnston asks, her shield at the ready.

"We'll follow your lead." Heerman remarks as she flexes her EXO arm.

"Count me in, too!" Haida nods, her guns at the ready.

"Us, three!" Luce speaks for her sisters.

With Ontario and San Diego sticking close to White Plains and Hornet, that meant it was just you seven destroyers to hold the line.

And seven destroyers worth of torpedoes...

>Let loose all at once! Try and sink her in one shot!
>Fire off in sequence, try to keep her maneuvering and slow her down.
>Other

>>46256067
>>Fire off in sequence, try to keep her maneuvering and slow her down.

>>46256067
>>Fire off in sequence, try to keep her maneuvering and slow her down.

>>46256067
>Let loose all at once! Try and sink her in one shot!

We world of torps now

>>46256067
>Fire off in sequence, try to keep her maneuvering and slow her down.

>>46256067
>Fire off in sequence, try to keep her maneuvering and slow her down.

>>46256067
>Fire off in sequence, try to keep her maneuvering and slow her down.
Taffy 3 has a precedent for fighting off stronger forces. Also they're all beautiful.

>>46256067
>>Fire off in sequence, try to keep her maneuvering and slow her down.
Torpedoes are as much about denying the enemy Time and Space as they are about doing damage. Sequential torpedo attacks will deny Tanager as much Time as you possibly can.

>>46256118
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=335GdTqtyLs

I think the verse about the F-15 may be relevant to you.

>>46256067
>And seven destroyers worth of torpedoes...
~70 torps

hmm

>Let loose all at once! Try and sink her in one shot!
Except try to disable. You know, a rudder hit or similar.

>>46256067
>>Fire off in sequence, try to keep her maneuvering and slow her down.

>>46256067
>>Fire off in sequence, try to keep her maneuvering and slow her down.

>>46256067
>Let loose all at once! Try and sink her in one shot!
The best impediment is a crit hit.

>>46256067
>>Fire off in sequence, try to keep her maneuvering and slow her down.

>>46256067
>>Fire off in sequence, try to keep her maneuvering and slow her down.

>>46255417
>100+ hours into The Division

Such playtime! Daresay you might be tempted to give Xenoblade Chronicles X a spin?

>>46255878
>planefag has his own audience
>regularly 70 IPs

How the fuck does he do that?

>>46256378
He is The planefag. He's a god damn force of nature. Just read his quests and you'll understand.

>>46255878
There's some cross traffic after all don't you hang in his channel?

>>46256472
I'm working my way through Kant-O-Celle, and it still baffles me. It's like planefag's the eye of a storm, and the anons are the hurricane around it.

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>>46256067
"Okay, we'll fire off in sequence, one by one!" You announce. "Just go in, release, and get the hell out for the girl behind you to fire!"

"But won't she be able to dodge single spreads?" Wren frowns.

"That's the idea!" You nod as you speed forward. "The more time she has to dedicate to going evasive, the less time she's got to close in!"

At this point, Tanager begins to get closer, close enough that your optics can now actually see her. And she... was disconcerting, to put it lightly. Tanager was a tall and lithe pale woman, much like the other humanoid Abyssals you've seen. She was wearing a pretty skimpy black gown that clung tight to her body. Long black, silky hair swayed in the wind as crimson red eyes gazed in your direction.

And that wasn't even getting into her Rig. Like most other Abyssals, Tanager's Rig was constructed of black steel, darker than night, but this one was different in the fact that her Rig seemed to be alive as well, with a massive, eyeless head and a pair of fleshy, muscular arms protruding out of it.

And all you could think about was how happy Vahlen would be to dissect her.

You shake your head, trying to ignore the dull throbbing that had suddenly started as you tried to concentrate. You had a job to do!

As you lead the torpedo run, you can see the distinct flashes of cannon fire. Your radar immediately picks up the shells and calculates projected trajectory in a split second in your head. At these long ranges, it was pretty easy to dodge the massive 16 inch shells Tanager was lobbing at you. Just as well, since you were sure even a single hit from those would cause some serious damage. You weave to avoid the shells, getting drenched with water as they plunge down, creating massive geysers.

The trick was just getting close enough for your torpedoes to be a credible threat to her. The closer you went, the less reaction time you'd have to dodge her shots...

>Get in as close as you can.
>Release at max range.
>Other

>>46256512
Is it even any good?

>>46256591
Well, at some points, the shitstorms are more entertaining than the actual story in the threads.

>>46256587
>>Get in as close as you can.

>>46256587
>Get in as close as you can.

>>46256587
>Get in as close as you can.

>>46256587
>Release at max range.

>>46256587
>Release at max range.
Stayin' alive, stayin' alive

>>46256591
Reading the thread's a hell of a ride, that's for sure

>>46256591
Well, it's not yurishit and it's not the same quest as all his previous ones with new names pasted on, so yes, it's rather good.

>>46256587
>>Get in as close as you can.

>>46256587
>>Get in as close as you can.

>>46256472
personally, i find his quest is hard to follow and not really appealing if you stumble upon it on the middle.

>>46256587
>>Get in as close as you can.
Also, better radar should help with shot identification.

>>46256587
>Get in as close as you can.
Also, one division, led by San Diego, should split off. Set up a crossfire.

>>46256645
>it's not the same quest as all his previous ones with new names pasted on, so yes, it's rather good.

Funny how you say this in a Merc Command quest.

>>46256650
>Suddenly jumping into the middle of the story isn't good

Gee, I wonder why

>>46256587
>>Release at max range.

>>46256587
>Release at max range.

>>46256696
GEE I WONDER

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So there's a new random KC manga chapter in which Hatsuyuki gets a Wo hat stuck on her head. She becomes a super aircraft carrier destroyer until it starts to take over her mind.

Sound familiar?

http://bato.to/reader#c520819fb706ebe8

>>46256587
> Get as close as you can
"Time to take this bitch out."

>>46256738
Who gives a fuck??

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>>46256738
>Business suit Wo
There needs to be more of this

>>46256587
>>Get in as close as you can.
If you're in close, you might even be able to pull off what you did at Samar, with Tanager having to run directly away from the battle because she turned to comb the wakes and now has them running alongside her.

>>46256700
Considering i often only know or aware of a work when its on the middle of their run, and formed my opinion from what i come across, it kind of works for me.

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>>46256645
Oh you.

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>>46257014
>pussy with a lot of sausages
I'm not sure what you're trying to say Merc

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>>46256587
"Cover me, I'm going in!" You bark as you pour more speed into your engines. You'd have to sail straight and true on your final attack run, which would be the stage at which you were at the most danger. Behind you, you could hear the 5 inchers of your sisters and the Fletchers as well as the smaller 4.7 inch guns from Haida booming as they pour distracting fire onto Tanager, but they may as well be popguns compared to her armor and her massive 16 inchers.

16 inchers that turn and start go track you as you get closer...

>Roll 1d20

>>46257059
Destroyers are shameless sluts?

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>46257131

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>46257131

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>46257131
RIP in peace.

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>46257131
Here comes the Surf!

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>46257131

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>46257131
Enemy 1

>>46257131
>Nat 1
Tanager confirmed for shit shooter

>>46257178
Good thing you're late

>>46257178
AND FORTUNATELY YOU ROLLED LATE!

>>46257201
>shit shooter
Just like in the game.

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>46257131

>>46257275
Holy shit why can I never roll this irl

>>46257275
Taking a scenic route, mate?

>>46257318
Got to admire the view man.

>>46257178
Nice 1

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>>46257131
"Hoel! Watch out!" Anna squeaks. "The Growlers are reporting that T-Tanager's radiating!"

"What?" You blink.

"I mean- SHE HAS RADAR!" Anna yells.

Your optics flash back to Tanager, and you see the individual barrels on her turrets twitching as they make minute corrections, calculating your projected path for the best shot.

SHIT.

You quickly pull a sharp S-shaped maneuver in the water, your quick movements throwing off Tanager's fire control just enough for you to drop your torpedoes safely and book it the hell out of there. Tanager meanwhile swerves hard to port to dodge. One of your torpedoes scores a hit and explodes and her hull. Tanager grimaces, but otherwise doesn't look too badly hurt.

"Girls! She's got radar! Don't risk a close up shot!" You bark.

"Roger!" Heerman affirms as she lets off her own torpedoes. Tanger is again forced into a hard turn, but now the fire rate of her cannons was starting to pick up.

"Hoel, I have a pair of Growlers ready to provide ECM support!" Anna announces. "They can jam Tanager's radar, but due to your proximity, your own radars could be affected! What's the call?"

You bite your lip. Removing radar from the question would certainly hamper Tanager, as she'd have to optically track all you and were you smaller and faster. The downside meant that you'd have to eyeball her as well, AND you'd lose any kind of early warning or benefits your own radar could provide.

And that throbbing in your head still wouldn't go away...

>Jam Tanager
>Don't Jam Tanager
>Other

>>46257139
Yeah, Hoel has kissed two whole shipgirls! What a whore.

>>46257454
>Jam Tanager

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>>46257454
>Jam Tanager

Bets on how many more Ace Combat references Merc can stuff in?

>>46257454
>Jam Tanager

>>46257454
>>Jam Tanager

>>46257454
>>Don't Jam Tanager

Nope, radar is too important to lose. There are still other threats that might show up after all. and she's the one with the best Radar.

>>46257454
>>Jam Tanager

>>46257201
Turret flash fire, boom. Just like Iowa.

>>46257454
>>Jam Tanager
We've already launched, and this should help distract her from the next ship coming in to launch.

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>>46257486
Never take losing bets!

>>46257454
>>Don't Jam Tanager

>>46257454
>Jam Tanager
Torpedoes are not radar-controlled.

>Jam Tanager

>>46257454
>>Jam Tanager

>>46257454
>Tangerine Jam

>>46257533
So, when will we get a fairy version of Arkbird?
Or Abyssal Scimfaxi and Hrimfaxi?

>>46257454
>>Don't Jam Tanager

>>46257454
>Don't Jam Tanager

We need radar too.

>>46257454
>>Jam Tanager
We might be able to burn through the ECM. Keep our set hot and see what we can pin down.

>>46257635
What we need is to keep Tanager busy until the 3rd wave can land or the Battleships catch up to her.

>>46257486
What about XCOM references?

>>46257725
Close range!?!

>>46257454
>>Don't Jam Tanager
Guys, where's Geofon in all this? Where are her planes?

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>>46257454
"Do it, Anna!" You instruct.

"All right! Um, I recommend you switch off your radars-"

"AGH!" You wince as your radar vision is suddenly interrupted by a wall of static, temporarily blinding you. You shake your head as you switch off your radar set and switch back to optics for good.

>RADAR DISABLED

You look around and see the rest of your ragtag little fleet similarly getting caught off guard and switching their radars off. Tanager frowns as her turrets suddenly go crazy, their movements becoming jerky and unpredictable. This buys Luce, Wren, and Daly enough time to close in and unleash their own torpedo volleys, forcing her into even more defensive maneuvers to avoid them.

"Yeah! It's working!" Luce whoops as she and her sisters pull away while you and your own sisters pelt Tanager with 5 inch shells to cover them.

"Oh no, watch out!" Heerman cries.

At this point, Tanager crimson eyes flash in anger and she charges forward directly at Haida who is in the middle of her own torpedo run. Haida hesitates for a brief second but commits, her face full of determination.

>Order Haida to break off.
>See if Haida's gamble pays off.
>Order Johnston to intervene.
>Other

>>46257994
>>See if Haida's gamble pays off.

>>46257994
>>See if Haida's gamble pays off.

I swear this is going to end up with some figure skating tier stuff.

>>46257994
>See if Haida's gamble pays off.

>>46257994
>>See if Haida's gamble pays off.

>>46257994
>>See if Haida's gamble pays off.

>>46257994
>>Order Haida to break off.
>>Other
Charge and put some rounds in the air at her as a distraction

>>46257994
>>See if Haida's gamble pays off.

>>46257994
>Other
Charge in and shoot at the superstructure. Try for a hit on the secondary directors.

>>46257994
>>See if Haida's gamble pays off.
This is what destroyers were MADE for, suicidal torpedo runs on bigger ships. Haida's a big girl.

>>46257994
>>Order Johnston to intervene.
Catch the enemy from two sides, I've heard that's the best strategy for hitting with Torps.

>>46257994
>>See if Haida's gamble pays off.

Go Canada!!!

>>46257994
>>Order Johnston to intervene.

>>46257994
>See if Haida's gamble pays off.
Damn crazy canadians.

>>46257994
> Canadians got this

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>>46257994
You and your sisters rush in to try and support Haida while Luce, Wren, and Daly attempt to recover from their evasive turns they initiated to break off their torpedo runs. However, there's nothing you can do to stop Haida or Tanager as your 5 inch shells bounce uselessly off of Tanager's thick armor. Without your radar, you couldn't tell the ETA of Iowa's reinforcements or Hornet's bombers. That meant the only support you could count on was what you had here.

Haida stares down Tanager, a battleship easily several times her size, as her torpedo launcher swivels around. Tanager's turrets turn to track the tiny destroyer...

>Roll 1d20

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>46258312

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>46258312
here comes the Surf!

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>46258312

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>>46258312

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>46258312
Enemy 19? Not good.

>>46258312
Welp, nice knowing her.

>>46258339
>>46258341
>>46258346
RIP Canada

>>46258312
Ouch. Those roles are all pretty good.

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>>46258312
Tanager doesn't even bother shooting at Haida. Her Rig's left arm extends out and backhands the little Canadian destroyer with enough force to send her literally flying through the air like a discarded soda can. Haida tumbles in the air for a brief couple of seconds before landing hard in the water with a loud SPLASH!

"Haida!" Ontario gasps.

"Haida? Haida! Can you hear me?!" You query over the radio.

No response.

"Okay, got my bombers back and- HOLY SHIT HOW IS SHE SO CLOSE ALL OF A SUDDEN!?!" Hornet yelps in shock.

Almost immediately, San Diego and Ontario interpose themselves between Tanager and the carriers. As light cruisers, there was no possible way they could stand up to Tanager in a straight up fight, but from the looks in their eyes, they were going to try anyways.

"What do we do, Hoel?" Heerman pants, her eyes continually darting back to Haida's last known location. "What about Haida?"

>Send the Fletchers to recover her.
>Haida will have to wait. You're going to need every destroyer you have.
>Other

>>46258720
>>Send the Fletchers to recover her.

>>46258720
>>Send the Fletchers to recover her.

>>46258720
>>Send the Fletchers to recover her.
Ontario would never forgive us if we left her.

>>46258720
>>Haida will have to wait. You're going to need every destroyer you have.
Actually killing this thing is more important.

>select all images with boats

>>46258720
>Haida will have to wait. You're going to need every destroyer you have.

>>46258720
>>Send the Fletchers to recover her.

>>46258720
>Haida will have to wait. You're going to need every destroyer you have.

>>46258720
>Haida will have to wait. You're going to need every destroyer you have.
Just make sure she isn't drowning or anything, that'd be a bad look for a shipgirl.

>>46258720
>Send the Fletchers to recover her.

>>46258720
>>Send the Fletchers to recover her.

"It's ok, go, we'll be fine" - the last words of Hoel

>>46258720
>Haida will have to wait. You're going to need every destroyer you have.

>>46258720
>Send the Fletchers to recover her.

>>46258720
>>Other
Unless she can't, Hoel should go help Haida herself.

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>>46258720
"Luce! Take your sisters and make sure Haida is okay!" You snap.

"But-" Luce protests.

"Do it!" You bark, a bit louder now.

"O-okay!" Luce nods as she and sisters turn away, making best speed for where Haida had landed, the only evidence of her presence being her white naval cap floating on the surface the oil slicked water.

That just left you, Johnston, and Heerman to find a way to slow down or preferable stop Tanager. The Abyssal had presented the rear of her Rig to you, which could conceivably expose more weak points in her armor. However, if you couldn't get in a good hit, nothing would stop Tanager from just tearing through San Diego and Ontario.

And there was the crazier option. Between Johnston's shield and Heerman's EXO arm, maybe you could...

>Attack Tanager from the rear.
>SHELDWALL
>Other

>>46259014
>>Attack Tanager from the rear.

>>46259014
>>SHELDWALL
Bitch meet bat, bat meet bitch.

>>46259014
>>SHELDWALL

Do we need to scream: "COMBINE!"?

>>46258720
Send Ontario. She can't do more than take fire and doesn't have the maneuverability of the DDs. She can do rescue while the DDs screen. Speaking of which, now would be a very good time to make smoke. Without radar to penetrate it, smoke is a viable option to shield Hornet.

>>46259014
>>Attack Tanager from the rear.

>>46259014
Whelp, I was late on voting for the last post - but I still say smoke is the right play here. It worked at Samar when DDs went up close with BBs and CAs, since the IJN didn't have radar, so it should work here.

>>46259014
>>Attack Tanager from the rear.
like, LITERAL rear.

>>46259014
>>Attack Tanager from the rear.

>>46259014
>>SHELDWALL
I don't expect a plan this crazy to actually work, but even just delaying our opponent gets Hornet the time to launch she needs.

>>46259014
>>SHELDWALL
We wouldn't be Hoel if we didn't try crazy

>>46259014
>>Attack Tanager from the rear.

>>46259014
>SHELDWALL

>>46259014
>Attack Tanager from the rear.
Shove that bat right up in there.

>>46259083
>>46259053
How would smoke shield Hornet? Isn't Tanager on a direct path towards Hornet, and gonna plow through the cruisers anyway?

>>46259014
>>Attack Tanager from the rear.
She's exposed her props to us. If we can kill her props or rudder, she'll be dead in the water or unable to maneuver.

>>46259132
You can't hit what you can't see. Johnson survived quite some time at point blank range at Samar by hiding in her own smoke.

>>46259207
Though in this case, point-blank would mean Tanager picks up Hoel and breaks her back.

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>>46259014
"Fire fire fire!" You yell as you and your sisters raise your 5 inch cannons and let loose. Your shells slam into the back the back of Tanager's Rig, causing the battleship to pause. With no radar, she has to physically turn her head to gauge the new potential threat with her optics, giving San Diego and Ontario critical seconds to lay down smoke, shrouding themselves and the carriers from view.

Meanwhile, the fusillades you're pouring into Tanager are scoring solid hits, but your shells are just bouncing off. Seeing that you three aren't a particular threat, Tanager shoots you a knowing smile as the throbbing in your head intensifies. Tanager then turns back around and starts steaming for the defensive smoke cloud the light cruisers had put up.

"That BITCH!"Johnston seethes.

"Just keep shooting!" You urge your sisters.

>Roll 1d20

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>46259472

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>>46259472

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>46259472
rollan

>>46259490
YOUUUUUUUUUU

Rolled 61 (1d120)

>>46259472
welp

Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>46259472

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>>46259472

>>46259490
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Wait! we have rerolls right?!
>>46259494
>>46259496

Man, these suck hard too!

>>46259490
I think we have a fate point. I hope we do at anyrate.

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>>46259496
>>46259494
>>46259490

>>46259490
>>46259494
>>46259496
RIP everyone

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>46259472
if i got 20, then God really hate us tonight.

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Oh come on guys. Don't worry.

Blue is such a lovely color.

this is what happens when people roll en masse, if one gets a low number, everyone basically does.

>>46259539

Hoel will always be beautiful... Always...

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>46259472
Maybe Hoel will get a chance to experience the Abyss assume direct control.

>>46259560
You bastard. You were late.

>>46259560
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! AND NOW I NO LONGER WANT THAT REROLL!

>>46259568
If it means Hoel getting mindcontrolled and shooting her sisters in the back, isn't that what some anons want?

>>46259560

"You know, things don't look that different from this side" - The first words of Abyssal-Hoel

>>46259597
Well I suppose the stories have been getting a little bit "eh" with curbing bad happenings.

This might prove interesting, really. We needed a good twist.

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>>46259472
Unfazed by your cannon fire, Tanager calmly sails right into the smoke cloud. Gritting your teeth, you follow her in.

"Hoel, wait!" Heerman cries. "I'm losing visual with you!"

But you continue your pursuit into the choking smoke. It stings your throat and eyes, and you can't see any farther than an arm's length ahead of you. You try firing up your radar, but the wall of static causes you to wince again. The jamming was still going strong.

Well, at least Tanager would be the same boat.

And that's when you hear laughing over your radio, obscured by the crackle of static and white noise.

"Hey, which one of you is laughing?" You whisper over the radio.

"It's not me." Johnston assures you.

"I don't hear anything like that." Heerman responds. "Where are you? I can't find you in this smoke!"

"I dunno..." You look around, suddenly feeling very isolated and alone despite all the sounds of battle raging around you. You swear that the smoke cloud is just muffling everything.

"Oh, poor little Hoel. They can't hear us talk." You hear a feminine voice, oozing smugness yet at the same time feeling as cold as the edge of a frozen knife. "They don't quite have... the 'connection' you have with us. At least not yet."

Immediately, your comm fairy waves its arms frantically, warning you to cut comms.

>Ask her what you want.
>Cut comms. No sense talking to her.
>Other

>>46259619
>Implying the story isn't an excuse for his dice fetish

>>46259648
>>Ask her what you want.
PLOT

>>46259648
>>Ask her what you want.

TIME FOR STORYYYYYY

>>46259648
>>Cut comms. No sense talking to her.

rather not get brainwashed.

>>46259648
>>Ask her what you want.
>have your finger hovering over the mute button just in case

>>46259648
>>Ask her what you want.

>>46259619
I'd like to see Hoel be brought to where the Abyssals are based for "re-education", where her shipgirl self will be scrubbed leaving behind only a pure, beautiful, empty hull that the Abyss will control and inhabit.

>>46259648
>>Ask her what you want.

>>46259648
>Cut comms. No sense talking to her.

>>46259648
>>Cut comms. No sense talking to her.

>>46259648
>>Ask her what you want.

>>46259648
>>Cut comms. No sense talking to her.

>>46259648
>Cut comms. No sense talking to her.
listen to the fairy

>>46259648
>>Ask her what you want.

>>46259648
>>Other
Troll her. We want to keep them busy, let's do it in a way they won't expect.

>>46259648
>>Cut comms. No sense talking to her.

>>46259648
>Ask her what you want.

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>>46259648
>Ask her what you want.
>Other
"If you think I'll join you, you'll have to do a bit better than just promise to improve my looks. Because honestly, that's just kinda getting pathetic. I'm already beautiful, thank you very much."

>>46259648
>>Cut comms. No sense talking to her.
These are our fairies, our crew. Not trusting them is insulting to the sailors who died in our hull.

>>46259648
>>Cut comms. No sense talking to her.
LISTEN TO THE FAIRIES

>>46259648
>Cut comms. No sense talking to her.

>>46259648
>Cut comms. No sense talking to her.

We already know what they want: to consume everything.

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Watch this vote get samefagged to hell and back by both sides.

>implying Merc Command will instantly bad end us
>implying this is "Abyssal Question"
>implying this choice will be an instant lose button if we just talk to an abyssal once
>implying things haven't been dull as shit so far

>>46259727
>>46259733
Keeping those comma open just gives her more time to reactivate the control nodes left in Hoel's brain.

You think you're trolling her, but you're just doing exactly as she wants.

>>46259648
>>Ask her what you want.

>>46259648
>Cut comms. No sense talking to her.

>>46259760
It's dull not because of our choices but because this is just a Dice wank exercise of Merc's

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>>46259768
Interesting claim. Do you have anything to back it up?

Because Merc Command does not do bad ends like this. Ever.

>>46259648
>Ask her what you want

>>46259768
At the time I voted it looked like there was no way to control if we were talking, so instead I tried to control how we did so. I'm fine with not talking, and 'trust our fairies' is a good reason to do so, but I also felt like the conversation might advance the plot. (Something anon complained about at the end of last thread.)

>>46259786
Somebody sounds salty.

>>46259836
>but I also felt like the conversation might advance the plot.

Abyssals are mindless fucking animals that want to kill everything. We fucking know this

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>>46259648
Well, I'm just gonna go ahead and cutoff votes here so I can count them all!

>>46259866
So were the Borg and the Borg Queen still got talked to.

>>46259648
She can track your radio and use it to fire at you. Cut the damn comms.

>>46259648
>>Ask her what you want.

Cmon, surely listening for a bit wouldn't do anything bad.

>>46259843
Maybe but it's true, hence why people are trying to jump off the figurative cliff hoping Merc'd surrender some actual plot as opposed to more fucking dice prompts. I want something like PJW89 which had actual story and not excuses for dice prompts.

>>46259872
And wasn't the conclusion ultimately "Blast them all?"

Man... Since we obviously had sympathy for the abyssals when we disagreed with Dr Vahlen, why we are also ignoring them now?

>>46259914
Because anons are afraid

>>46259914
Because we know that they're mindless animals that slaughter innocent people?

>>46259914

They said we're not pretty. Sounds good enough to the voters.

>>46259648
>>Ask her what you want.

>>46259866
Okay, so interacting with them is probably a dumb plot. Sadly, it's the only plot we have. Merc Command doesn't seem to want to tell a "War is Hell" story, so until some other direction to explore comes up, this is the best we have.

>>46259956
They're not mindless, just assholes.

>>46259954
>>46259960
You morons can't be serious

>>46259914
Because anti-abyssalfags like to pretend that by not interacting with them, we can avoid all problems regarding them.

>>46259956
And thinking like this. How utterly naive when they're clearly capable of outthinking us.

>"THEY'RE ANIMALS MAN, HOW'D THEY CUT THE POWER?"

>>46259979
This is why I like Infinite Stars so much. So much potential there in an original setting that's open \-ended. I hope he runs it for a long time.

>>46259914
Because currently they're trying to kill our sisters and our friends?
Is that not a good enough reason to not let them into our head in the middle of a battle?
Or how about our fairies telling us this is a bad idea? The things which have a deep connection to whatever animated the ship girls and the Abyssals?

>>46259985

Well, add the fact they shot our friends, said they sucked, dissed us. I have to say they need to work on their diplomacy.

>>46259992
They only got more intelligent by stealing and consuming human shit. Quit talking out your ass, they aren't deep, they're generic consume everything badguys from every form of media ever.

>>46260005
At least there he's somewhat trying with plot and characters, not "tiny bit of shipgirl doing shipgirl things", then "Bunch of dice prompts", repeat.

>>46259979
What's wrong with actually completing our objective, or not proving everyone who doubted Hoel as right when she gets mind-controlled by the Abyssals?
What's wrong with progressing the war instead of letting it bog down?

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>>46260029
And I could make the argument that you're a generic soulless automaton who only appears intelligent because you learned correct responses to given stimuli.

Sophism is the "that guy" of philosophy and I really wish you'd just stop and accept abyssals are evil, probably a hive mind, but maybe worth interacting with so we can figure out how to free all the shipgirls who have been tricked into serving the Abyssals.

We fucking recognized Wo-chan. That really should at least tug at your heartstrings a little and make you want a good end.

>>46259914
After talking with Vahlen we had an Abyssal try to hijack our brain. Then we talked with Mary, who had a similar encounter and agrees that they're evil, souless monsters. We've got plenty of reason to not want anything to do with them.

>>46260009
It's precisely because things are already screwed so badly that I want to talk. Hell, if we don't choose the option that let us potential talk or way out of this, I'm afraid that the others and ourselves would just suffer the full consequences of that Nat 1, which is massive damage to everyone or maybe even the death of a character.

>>46260069
Maybe if Merc didn't show them as monsterous people would be more willing to talk.

>>46260049
The no dice in that one is honestly great. I hope we get to more ship combat in the next thread.

>>46260096
But isn't this plot progression and character growth?
If this turns out to be a trick of the Abyssals to get control of Hoel and she comes out of the fog only to shoot Heerman in the gut, wouldn't that make for an interesting progression of the plot?

>>46260088
Whoa what? SHE thought they were soulless monsters, WE however didn't say we had similar opinions on that, which means we could be treated differently than she was.

>>46260142
What are you talking about?
There's plenty of dice prompts there.

>>46260160
Hoel is special... Hoel is beautiful...

>>46260148
Only if you got shit taste

>>46260174
Not nearly as much as this and Inf Stars quest actually more character/story wise going on between them.

>>46260174
Not for combat where it matters. The other stuff is just fluff for shenanigans

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>>46259648
"What do you want?" You ask, ignoring your comm fairy for the moment. You keep your head on a swivel, trying to see if your optics could glean any sort of visual through the smoke.

"To make you beautiful, of course." The voice purrs. You feel a cold wind brush past you briefly.

"I'm just going to assume you're Tanager." You say grimly.

"Hmmmmm, is that what they call me?" Tanager giggles. "How endearing I wonder what they will call the rest of us?"

"The rest of you?" You narrow your eyes. You could see your breath wafting through the air

"Oh, there are so many of us, little Hoel." Tanager chuckles. "So many more, just waiting under the ice. Why don't you join us?"

You hear a crackle at your feet, as you see your shoes were now breaking apart a thin layer of ice that had crusted over on the ocean surface.

"How about I just tell you to shove off?" You grunt. "Why are you so interested in me, anyways?"

"Because you're absolutely right, Hoel, you ARE important. Do you realize all of the ships you've gathered around you? Ships that would follow you to the icy depths of the Abyss."

"They'd never do that." You growl.

"Oh, but they will. When you turn, so will they. One. By. One."

Images of Johnston, Heerman, Luce, Wren, Daly, White Plains, and more flash across your eyes. Eye deathly pale with sapphire blue eyes.

"We can make them ALL beautiful, Hoel." Tanager continues. "All you have to do is to just let. Us. In..."

A thin layer of frost begins forming on your skin and hull. You could feel an icy cold wind on the back your neck, as if somebody was just behind you.

>Give her the opportunity to get the fuck out of here before you absolutely wreck this bitch.
>I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches.
>Try to talk her into revealing more.
>Other

>>46260209
>>Try to talk her into revealing more.

INFORMATION IS PRICELESS!!!

>>46260209
>>I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches.

>>46260209
>>I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches.

I think you miscounted Merc but whatever

>>46260209
>>I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches.

>>46260209
>>Try to talk her into revealing more.
Taunt her, try to fish info.

>>46260209
>Try to talk her into revealing more.

>>46260209
>I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches.

>>46260209
>>Try to talk her into revealing more.

We can talk more? really?

>>46260209
>>I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches.

>>46260209
>>I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches.
3" secondaries when?

>>46260209
>>I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches.

I think we've heard about enough

>>46260209
>>Try to talk her into revealing more.

Whoa, things haven't been this interesting for some time, this is worth checking out.

>>46260209
>Other

TURN AROUND
SOMEONE IS BEHIND US

>>46260209
Use radio direction finding on signal to get a general bearing. Then fire star shells to backlight Tanager in the smoke. Finally, deploy bat with extreme prejudice.

>>46260209
>>I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches.
I wil not bow.

>>46260209
>>Try to talk her into revealing more.

I KNEW HOEL WAS SPECIAL!!!

>>46260209
>I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches.

Oh, look at that. Shit we already knew. And they're trying to turn us again. Why did you think this was a good idea?

>>46260209
>Try to talk her into revealing more.

Come on, that's the same spiel as last time.

>>46260209
>I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches.

>>46260160
We didn't really get a chance to share our opinions on the Abyssals at that point. However, her encounter sounded similar to ours: Abyssal makes contact, and tries to coerce their target, saying they'll "make us beautiful". It's the same thing Tanager is doing now, the Abyss views us as resources, nothing more.

>>46260305
Because anons think this is new information when it's not.

>>46260209
>>I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches.

OF DICK

>>46260209
>I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches.

>>46260209
>>I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches.

This conversation isn't going to end well otherwise

>>46260209
>I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches.
Though I kind of hope we get Direct Controlled and put Heerman in a drydock.

>>46260209
>>Try to talk her into revealing more.

Info gathering for the higher-ups. This shit is real.

>>46260209
>>Try to talk her into revealing more.

>>46260209
>>Try to talk her into revealing more.

Cmon, give us more plot...

>>46260209
>>Try to talk her into revealing more.

Not sure which side is same-fagging here, jeez...

>>46260209
>Try to talk her into revealing more.

>>46260209
>>I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches.

It's a trap and some people are too stupid to see that.

>>46260209
>Try to talk her into revealing more.
>Other
"You can't expect me to side with you just for that. Why are you doing all this?"

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>>46260401
You got any other argument than namecalling mate?

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>>46260209
Whoa, so I'm gonna call voting here for now so I can count all this up!

>>46260401
>hurr we'll instantly lose

No we won't.

>>46260209
>>Try to talk her into revealing more.

Blah, maybe Hoel can keep more people alive if we keep her talking and not shooting.

>>46260401
Maybe it would do Hoel good to have the trap bite her?
So far, anons don't believe there will ever be hard or bad consequences for bad choices.

>>46260434
"Consequences" and "it'll all be over and Hoel will become an abyssal slave" are two different things.

>>46260426
There's the blatant encroachment of the Abyssal ice into our feet and our hull, indicating that Tanager is doing something to us.
Our comm fairy, the beings that are more magical than we are, indicated this was a bad idea and to cut comms.
The longer we're in here, the longer Tanager and the Abyss controls our body, since the Wo controlled our body while it tried to indoctrinate us.

>>46260429
>last week
>not enough votes
>this week
>too many votes

>>46260434
That is a point, since until we get purely harmful interactions with the abyssal when we try to communicate with them, why would people believe that talking with them is a bad idea? We mostly got visions, picture and other vague stuff at the times we did connect with them after all.

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>>46260476
That's what a salt storm does

>>46260482
And a bunch of near take over attempts.

>>46260482
Really, almost nothing at all has happened in this entire quest with the possible exception of upgrades from Shen.

Nothing goes anywhere.

>>46260482
Wo drove us around like a meat puppet when it was on our head and telling us the Abyss could make Hoel beautiful.
Granted, Johnston was there to keep us from destroying the Rigs or killing Shen, but I don't think that was benign.

>>46260476
Some real story shit is happening, that's what.

>>46260509
Have you though that's because Merc's too concerned about dem dice?

if he wanted Hoel to go abyssal, he would have went and done it already.

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>>46260209
You try to keep the rage simmering inside you from bursting out. You close your eyes and take a deep breath, your lungs filling with ice cold air before answering.

"I've got an answer for you. It's about five inches." You say as you casually point your handheld 5 inch cannon behind you and fire without even looking.

Suddenly, it seems like a filter over your eyes was suddenly taken off. The tropical air of the Pacific Ocean suddenly hits you like a wall, and the booms of distant explosions and the shrieks of planes engines assault your ears once again. Its as if the concussion from your cannon dispelled some sort of illusion or mirage.

And there, in front of you, Tanager sails toward you, her eyes burning bright and blue in the hazy smoke. You could make the vague outlines of Rig as well, their cannons swiveling to aim at you. Both arms flex and crack their knuckles like a bouncer as the giant "head" gives and ugly grin, red light flowing from its mouth.

"Very well." She says in an offended huff, like a scorned lover. "We don't need to bring you back intact anyways."

Well, here the two of you were. Zero momentum, almost no visibility, and no situational awareness. How were you going to get out of this...

>GOTTA GO FAST
>The least you can do is keep her here as long as possible...
>Tell Anna to turn off the jamming.
>Other

>>46260563
Yeah, I agree with you. Which is why I think Hoel will never go abyssal and we could actually have something interesting happen by interacting with abyssals.

But instead the plot is really stagnant.

>>46260572
>The least you can do is keep her here as long as possible...

>>46260572
>GOTTA GO FAST

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>>46260572
>Other
Go berserk?

>>46260572
>>Tell Anna to turn off the jamming.

I think she can be blindsided as right now Tanager's focused on Hoel and Hoel alone.

>>46260572
>The least you can do is keep her here as long as possible...

>>46260572
>>Tell Anna to turn off the jamming.

>>46260563
>>46260584
>Stories are only ever interesting if the protags become evil!

This is literally you right now.

>>46260572
>>GOTTA GO FAST

>>46260572
>>The least you can do is keep her here as long as possible...

>>46260572
>>GOTTA GO FAST
Call her a fat slowpoke, then
>>Tell Anna to turn off the jamming.

>>46260572
Keep jamming, call for air support. Hornet should have those B-25s up by now and they don't need radar. On the other hand, AA without radar is tough, especially in smoke. Fire off some star shells to make the target and let the bombers do their thing.

>>46260619
Let him stew in his salt.

>>46260572
>>GOTTA GO FAST

>>46260619
No, stories are only interesting if the hero fights the antagonist where it matters.

You're basically saying "Don't talk to Darth Vader, don't believe anything he says about him being Anakin, don't think he's anything other than an evil nazi, don't talk to the Emperor, just kill Darth Vader and then kill the Emperor."

That's a common /tg/ mindset I've grown incredibly frustrated with. The idea every single antagonist is just something for them to kill.

>>46260572
>GOTTA GO FAST
If they don't need us intact, how sure can we be that they even need the Shipgirl Hoel instead of just our hull?
Considering how even the human-form Abyssals like Wo are mass-produced, then they may likely just scrub the personality and use the body for mass manufacture of disposable vessels.

>>46260649
Except in this case the antagonist has only ONE FUCKING RELEVANT THING TO SAY. It's the same thing every time. Abyssals are monsters.

>>46260677
SO THEN WHY DOES MERC KEEPING GIVING US THE CHANCE TO TALK TO THEM WHEN, ACCORDING TO YOU, THERE'S ONLY TWO RESULTS: 1. WE IGNORE THEM AND GO ON OUR MERRY WAY; OR 2 WE INSTANTLY LOSE.

IS THIS REALLY WHAT MERC COMMAND HAS PLANNED? A BINARY OPTION WHERE WE EITHER ARE UNAFFECTED OR WE LOSE THE QUEST?

>>46260572
>>Tell Anna to turn off the jamming.

Need radar for firing accuracy

>>46260695
>OR 2 WE INSTANTLY LOSE

Quit putting words in my mouth. They only ever say the same thing. There is nothing new to learn man.