By the way, an important although not urgent question to consider...and it's more me gathering opinions than a vote in any case...who would you like to play as in an upcoming interlude?

>>48377547
>>[Pay attention to Fatima]
>>[Pay attention to the crowd]

>>48377547
>[Pay attention to Fatima]
She does have the mind control thing on, something you might want to pay attention to.

Also I didnt even know this was on today.

>>48377573
How about we play as someone in the extra solar division?

>>48377606

I mean of established characters, although I'll keep it in mind.

>>48377573
Clearly we must play as the second most capable character to appear in the quest: Oda Yoritomo.

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>>48377665
>second most capable

You're thinking of Samantha

>figures out that there's corrupt bullshit going on in her unit and immediately leaves
>successfully convinces fooking pirates to go save a colony for her
>uses pirates to wipe out other pirates
>is now one of the de-facto ranking officers of the largest pirate armada in the Belt
>befriends her main rival
>manipulates Colonel Cake into letting her go completely free from the military and totally become a pirate with Roarke
>BTFO Fairy and the Green Skulls

She's a ninja with hundreds of mecha at her disposal and an invincible redheaded husbando who treats her like a princess.

>>48377619
Then maybe Kycilla or Oda

>>48377779
>>48377779
>cant go one on one in her mech with roarke
>cant go one on one with swords against clementine
>isnt a captain
>doesnt have a ship
>didnt actually BTFO the green skulls with a missile barrage
>doesnt call her attacks
>has no samurai spirit
>has small amounts of oxygen in her muscles
Get the fuck out of here with that shit.

>>48377547
>>[Pay attention to the crowd]
>>48377573
Oda or Sam

>>48377547
>>[Pay attention to Fatima]
>>[Pay attention to the crowd]
We need to make sure Fatima's condition is stable and see if we can safely remove the circlet. Might have to call Karen to get a bed ready for her as well if anything bad happens for being away from her controller.

Also, are those Harpy Shinobis equipped with active cloaking and stealth? Because they are scary machines if true.

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You're busy looking at Fatima. You do see Red Siren scooping the wedding gifts into her mech's cargo space, and you're both amused and unsurprised, but right now the woman in your arms has all of your attention as you scale the hatch and settle into your cockpit with Fatima on your lap. It's creepy, she isn't unconscious, and she's clearly awake and moving. You snap your fingers next to one of her ears and she tilts her head away from it. She moves to get more comfortable on you. Despite all of this, her eyes are blank, she doesn't utter a word or seem to be responding to anything other than base stimuli.

"I don't know if you can hear me right now, but it's going to be okay." You hug her. Her body isn't doll-stiff like a corpse's, it's warm and pliable and turns to fit more against your arm, but she doesn't look at your face or shove you or put her arms around you. She simply exists.

You want to tear the circlet off and snap it between your fingers, but despite that natural and wholesome urge you hold back. After all, you don't know what that would do to her.

"We'll fix this, I promise." Despite your innate implacability, your voice breaks a little, and you hug her tighter. She makes a small sound of discomfort, but doesn't move at all, "I swear, we'll get that thing off, and you'll be back to trying to bite my head off and insulting me in no time." You take a deep breath. You can do this later, you're still on the clock right now.

You check the Kaiser's sensors, and scan the crowd. Red Siren is just about done scandalizing the Martians, but in the eddies she creates through the crowd you spot pockets of calm. Spaces without movement, without disorder. Spaces where hard-faced men in desert robes are speaking into their PCs, their eyes flicking from one mech to another almost with disinterest. They're more noticeable because they almost invariably seem to have a rather larger than usual concentration of armed guards around them.

[Continued]

I wonder when were gonna end up wandering into the other Zabis

>>48378178
Fairchild mentioned the President and his Son, who was very diplomatic, That could be either the old man and garma, or space hitler original recipe.

>>48378178
We already met two. Gihren is probably sitting in a flagship somewhere being unkillable and Garma is probably head vulcaning people.

>>48378241
>>48378210
I hope Garma doesn't die in this one, he was pretty much the only really nice Zabi

>>48378312
Dozle wasnt that bad.

>>48378325
But we didn't get to see alot of him though, we really only saw him at Solomon which was maybe three episodes. He did seem like an alright guy though

>>48378312
Dozel and Garma are pretty much the good members since Dozel was more a family man and a proper soldier compared to his sister and brother. Oddly enough, the zabi members here seem to do rather well, so we might see them yet.

Hey Wong how are you handling mechs with more than one pilot?

>>48378384
I think I have said it before but going by Gihren's greed Dozel is actually the worst at fighting of the four siblings.

>>48378427
I wish I could read moon runes so I could play it easier, I have no idea what half the events happening even are

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It's definitely time to go.

"Alright, everyone. Pack it up, we're leaving." Some part of you had hoped that Fatima would be piloting the Tarrasque, it makes your formation a little more awkward when you have to carry her and are being slowed down by controlling the Tarrasque.

With admirable teamwork, they're airborne in less than a minute, assuming a diamond formation around the Knuckle Kaiser. You focus on your radio around the tall, warm woman sitting as serenely as a statue in her lap.

...Which is why you don't see Rashad snap out of his apparent stupor and grab a guard's gun. You don't see him pretend to stumble and fire into the Jovian's stomach from such close range that the plasma from the energy pistol singes his fine shirt. You don't see him whip the guard's body between himself and the other guard. You don't see him shoot some of the guests in his frantic volley of shots before the second guard falls. Fairchild ducks behind the groundcar and pulls her sidearm, yelling into her PC for the specific mecha she had performing a holding pattern in reserve to get their asses over here. You definitely don't see Rashad running, not for one of the Scimitars or even the more expensive Tulwars, but for a long, low pillbug of a mech resembling a short, fat millipede with a smaller millipede running along either side of it. Underneath each smaller millipede is an armored tread and rows of retractable stake-like piston legs. At its very forward tip is a small, cylindrical turret with a narrow gun barrel. He thumbs the lock and hauls himself in while the various dignitaries' bodyguards are pushing their way through the panicking crowd to try and reach him.

[Continued, note that the baund doc's legs vary significantly from this mech's.]

>>48378513
Annnnd here's that SOUL tech Haman was talking about. REALLY should have made sure he was down for the count. Rookie mistake!

>>48378466
It gets easier as you play it and figure out what the buttons do. Also some dude on sufficient velocity did a lets play where he explains what all the moon runes are saying.

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The oddly jointed, black-and-tan armor shifts, plates retracting on each of the side-millipedes so that a pair of short, stubby appendages tipped with massive autocannons can fold out. Fire and thunder tears through the parked Scimitars and tanks, explosions rocking the landing pad. More armor panels fold out, like the petals of a great steel lotus, on the backside of the mech's main body to reveal a massively complex thruster array, while a glow from beneath hints at further thrusters on the underside of the central millipede. Dazzling blue-white fire paints the landing pads as the lumbering mech lifts into the air, and rockets after the pirates at breakneck speed. It resembles nothing so much as a flying tank or some sort of assault ship.

As for you, you get the notice from Basil in the rear of your formation first.

"Pursuers, sah. Just the one for the nonce, it's a big thing, coming in at 216 klicks-per-hour, looks like it came from the wedding." The old man's precisely clipped voice alerts you.

You grunt in acknowledgment. You expected Scimitars, which means you expected there would be mecha there that could match your speed...but Scimitars are hardly something you would describe as 'a big thing'. You check your sensors, and whistle. Whatever is behind you, it has a powerplant on the same scale if not larger than the Knuckle Kaiser's. It's likely massing nearly as big as the Tarrasque, in fact.

It's not within visual range yet, you still have time to plan and act.

Or so you think, because next you get a message from Red Siren, "We have inbound Scimitars to the North-Northwest, coming in fast."

>[Send Fatima ahead with the others to keep the Scimitars off the one carrying her, engage Rashad solo]
>[Fight all of them at once with your whole formation]

>>48378959
>>[Send Fatima ahead with the others to keep the Scimitars off the one carrying her, engage Rashad solo]

It'll be easier to have the rest of the team kill the scimitars while we fight the big guy

>>48378959
>>[Send Fatima ahead with the others to keep the Scimitars off the one carrying her, engage Rashad solo]

>>48378959

Hmmm.. this is going be bad either way. If Basil has a few missiles, use one now to set up cover and then split them up. That machine seems to be built for multiple foes and likely has some of the same tricks as the Tarrasque.

>[Send Fatima ahead with the others to keep the Scimitars off the one carrying her, engage Rashad solo]

Can we get a scan of the machine once it's close?

>>48379075
and by missile I mean the smoke/scatter ones. They last a few turns and it would cut off the machine's view of us.. while we can see it clearly thanks to our better sensors.

>>48379075

Yes, although it doesn't have its points cost listed because I fucked up and lost the finished version of it and had to hastily remake it from memory.

>>48379111
Then Have Basil throw it behind the group by a bit, then rush into it for cover and ambush. That cannon is going to be the main problem.

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Hey Wong, you said something about making a Jovian flag right? What were you expecting to be in it?

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You think for a moment, and come up with a plan. You have no idea what this thing's capabilities are yet...but you have a plan.

"Basil, I need three of your grenades, the ones that spew out all that smoke and metallic chaff Cornelius came up with."

There's silence over the comms for a moment, Rosita speaks first, "Roarke, you're using something besides your fists?"

"No time to argue, everybody land, the control is portable and I can stick it on the Archen. One of you is carrying Fatima."

Your four mecha land, kicking up huge clouds of crimson dust. You hand her off as swiftly and gently as possible, and accept three large, flattened discs of metal from a belt on Basil's Warmouth. "I'm counting on you three. Take care of the Scimitars, get back to within visual range of our own flyers and call in to Karen for support. I'll handle this one."

"Aniki, you can't possibly go into battle alone. I'll stay with you and fight by your side." The Osano-Wo draws its swords in a flourish, the edges glowing red as Oda activates them.

"I can and I will. I came here to save Fatima, not lose one of you. I'll be back shortly." You grin at them over vidcomms, "If more Martians show up, I'll call Samantha and have her activate the spoofer she left on the satellite, that should distract them."

"Is there any point in arguing with you?" Rosita pouts, looking both worried and upset.

"Not at all, China Girl. Just get Fatima to the transport ship quickly, and I'll try to hurry up." You wink at her, and she nods.

Basil, holding onto Fatima, nods grimly, "Good luck, sah. Jove and Allah smile on you." He fires up the thrusters on his mech, prompting the other two to do the same. After some fiddling with the control, Red Siren gets the Tarrasque activated too. You watch them fly away with a sigh, turning the Kaiser around to see the approaching black speck on the horizon.

[Continued]

>>48379499
Cue to roarke missing with the grenades totally.

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The smoke on these should last for thirty seconds, and the chaff will disperse beam weaponry. No matter what, they'll at least block line of sight. You may not know how to throw the things very well, but you can activate and drop one.

Whoever the pilot is, he's experienced enough not to waste his time firing at you from this distance. Of course, that also implies he doesn't have a beam weapon that has effectively unlimited ammunition due to drawing off the mech's microfusion generator. The flight of the enemy mech is hurtling, barely controlled, it doesn't seem to have wings and is therefore flying like a comet in a straight line.

When it's half a kilometer away, you activate the first grenade, smoke and gleaming shards of metal exploding outward in a sphere 150m wide. At that moment, the comms crackle.

"STARWIND! Where are you, Starwind? I know you're here, you treacherous dog!" Bullets cut through the smoke, huge shells like those on Oda's customized gun, but he can't see you yet and you can see him.

His mech is bizarre. Long and low, but with your ASP to pierce the smoke and your mech's advanced analysis systems you're able to get a sense of it. The sluglike main form you're seeing is created by a shell of armor plates over the main mech, which more closely resembles a stick insect. A large epoxy gun tips the turret where a head would be on a normal mech at the very front, and you see the armor plates fold away from the main frame as it leaves its aircraft form. Although the thrusters and legs remain unchanged, the torso has more range of movement with the armor folded back into a series of mobile attack-deflecting fins, while four spindly arms tipped with curved plasma blades fold out like the joints of an umbrella.

[Continued with stats]

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Khanda Rashad Custom

Medium Heavy Torso: C/S/K 16, 8 tons
Medium Weight Head Turret: C/S/K 6, 3 tons
Heavy Striker Left Arm 1: C/S/K 6, 2.5 tons
Heavy Striker Left Arm 2: C/S/K 6, 2.5 tons
Heavy Striker Right Arm 1: C/S/K 6, 2.5 tons
Heavy Striker Right Arm 2: C/S/K 6, 2.5 tons
Light Heavy Left Leg: C/S/K 8, 3.5 tons
Light Heavy Right Leg: C/S/K 8, 3.5 tons
Armored Heavy Pod: CP 9, 18 Spaces

Armor: Officer's Light Heavy (7 SP, 10.5 CP, 3.5 tons) on all locations, does not ablate from damage caused by attacks dealing less than 4 Kills.

Main Sensors (Head): 4 CP, 1 Space, 2 Kills, 1 ton
Backup Sensors (Torso): 2 CP, 2 Spaces, 2 Kills, 1 ton

Options: Torso Cockpit with Environment Pod (2 CP, 2 Spaces), Torso Storage Module (1 CP, 1 Space), Liftwire (0.3 CP), Spotlights (0.2 CP), Interservo Melee Weapon Link (4 Beam Sabers 21 CP), Interservo Weapons Linkage (Custom Heavy Autocannons 3 CP), Deluxe Anti-Theft Lock (0.4 CP), Stereo (0.1 CP)

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Armament:
[Arm-Mounted] Beam Saber x4 (Stats show an individual sword): WA +1, 7K (only 2K of structure), EMW (treats SP as 4 less than usual), 6 CP, 6 Spaces, 1 ton
[Leg-Mounted] Custom Heavy Autocannon x2 (Stats show an individual cannon): Range 350m, WA -1, 6K, BV 4, Ammo 10 bursts, Reloads 3, 17 CP, 8 Spaces, 3 tons
[Head-Mounted] Custom Epoxy Gun: Range 250m, WA +2, No damage but a successful hit counts as a Grapple with a DC of 18 to beat, 6 Kills of structure, Ammo 3, 13 CP, 5 Spaces, 3 tons
[Torso-Mounted] Active Shield: DA 0, SP 8, 18 CP, 9 Spaces, 4 tons

Thrusters & Speed: It has both Medium Weight Wheels and Treads. The wheels have 3K per leg, the Treads 6K per leg. Together they cost 18 CP and weigh 9 tons, but remove non-aquatic terrain penalties and add +100 meters per turn. Moves 200 meters per turn on land. As for its thrusters, it has 28 spaces worth in the Pod, 2 in the Torso, allowing it to move 300 meters per turn in flight.
Jet Mode: Allows the Khanda to take the form of a mechafighter (costs 0.3 multiplied by the base CP of the mech). This doubles the flight MA, prevents the use of handheld weapons (if the Khanda had hands), and inflicts -2 MV. It takes one Action to transform.

Total Weight: 87.5 tons before Weight Efficiency to reduce it to 59.5 tons

Rolled 3 + 10 (1d10 + 10)

Let's see if Rashad can see you.

>>48379806
Welp.
Good thing hes rich I guess because this thing must cost a fucking bomb.

>>48379734
>Khanda Rashad Custom
...thats not good. For it to have a custom means there is a standard variant. By the body alone it's incredibly heavy and-
>>48379806
>87.5 tons before Weight Efficiency to reduce it to 59.5 tons
And thats about 56 cp worth of weight loss alone. Dear god this thing is nuts. Taking out it's head seems the most viable option since it removes it's glue gun and gives it a -2 to hit us, but damned if this is a mech thats probably in the 400s.

>>48379940
Makes you want to stat something other than supposed grunts for once.

>>48379973
Yup. Though the big question is how skilled a pilot he is. thats the same penalty we are taking weight wise, but if he's around a 7, maybe 6, we could beat him down. HOWEVER, if he uses those swords we MUST put luck into dodging that shit! Since they are all servo linked, they will have one dice roll. Even using our shields might not do much with that barrage.

>>48379916

And he cannot. Which means that you have initiative. He's 100m away, at the very edge of the cloud of smoke. You could get there in one action with a dropkick charge and still attack with the second action, if you like. You should also decide where you're attacking with your other action. If the Khanda loses its pod, it can no longer fly, although since it has more dakka than you that doesn't hinder it so much unless you choose to flee and leave it there. If the Khanda loses its legs, it not only loses its ability to travel via its treads, it also loses the heavy autocannons. The arms, obviously, hold its beam sabers. The head has the main sensors and an epoxy gun, although Roarke can beat a DC of 18 almost effortlessly to get free if he spends an action on it.

>>48379924
>>48379940

This is a pretty extreme customization. Normal Khandas are naturally lighter (and only have two arms), slower in the air, but also don't have the Weight Efficiency Rashad's does. He's the sort of person to get SOUL tech from Project Skywalker and immediately slap ALL of it on his own gloating chariot regardless of cost.

>>48380084
Dropkick to his head and then ATATATAT to finish the servo off

>>48380084
A man after my own heart.

>>48380084
A drop kick to the head followed by a flurry of blows to it might be the best idea right now. With that heavy armor and the active shield(which we can punch through luckily), attacking it's arms and legs will take a good while and it's chest, while heavy, can be taken out with concentrated effort.

Always debuff the boss.

>>48380120
sounds like plan, although if we punched the pod out of existence we would be punching him out of the air

Keep in mind that dropkicks automatically hit the TORSO, and can't be aimed at other servos. The one exception was Caesar using his lance charge to remove Mohammed's arm because the alternative was Caesar's lance removing kebab entirely.

>>48380177
Not really much of an advantage if we aim to kill him seeing as we need to be in his face to hurt him.

>>48380206

However, if you land both punches, that would definitely destroy his head. Do you want to spend two luck apiece on your punches?

>>48380235
Fine

>>48380206
Well, a free softener/possible crit is always nice and it removes his active shield block for the round if it hits. Considering it's a 8 pointer, two actions worth of hits to it would destroy it full.. and we still half it thanks to armor piercing. Hell, give me a bit and I'll see how many hits it take to get to the center of the Rashad pop.

>>48380235
Thats fine. That head must go and it certainly lowers the chances of him hitting us for the rest of the battle.

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>>48380262

Oh, right. Active shields automatically parry the first attack made per round, not the first hit. However, you still roll attack and he still gets a dodge roll, if he successfully dodges it his shield won't be damaged but its autoparry for the round will nonetheless be used up. That's the only way to keep Active Shields from just being destroyed in a few rounds.

Give me 1d10+14s, I'll manually apply the -2 to the first one and +2 to the other two.

Rolled 8 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48380347
Time to remove kebab

Rolled 2 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48380347
go dice go

Rolled 8 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48380347
I WANT YOUR HEAD.

Rolled 1, 7, 5 = 13 (3d10)

>>48380358
>>48380364
>>48380377

+12 to all.

>>48380347
Channel your inner Serbian Roarke

>>48380407
Wut? Did it eat my roll?
Meh, I'm moving back to my laptop

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>48380393

And I need a 1d10+13, first come first served.

Rolled 6 + 13 (1d10 + 13)

>>48380436
I got you

Rolled 10 + 13 (1d10 + 13)

>>48380436
Got you covered chief.

Rolled 10 + 13 (1d10 + 13)

>>48380436

Rolled 5 + 13 (1d10 + 13)

>>48380436
Remove kebab

Thunder bird post our mixtape

>>48380485
Here you go anon, how about this for the fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v--IqqusnNQ

>>48380485
Of course I forgot to link it

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6iimHE85EZZZjRoaWVwQ3U2ZFk

>>48380522
Works for me Thunderbird

>>48380449
>>48380455
..Welp, whatever these rolls are used for, they are going to make someone's day sad.

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Rolled 6 + 12 (1d10 + 12)

His mech may be bigger than yours, but you're Roarke fucking Starwind and you don't take shit from little shits like Rashad.

You come barreling out of the fog like a demon, feetfirst. The jointed fins of armor plating fold in front of the Khanda Custom's body, blocking your blow, but the sheer force of the Knuckle Kaiser's charge chips one of the fins and slams it against the sticklike torso of the Martian mech hard enough to dent the plating (-1 SP to both the shield and the torso armor). Your southpaw haymaker misses its turret-head, but your right cross strikes true, metal shattering with a gritty squeal that's clearly audible in this atmosphere-rich planetary environment (-1 armor SP on the head, -4K, leaving the head with 2K). The Kaiser's visor pops open, baring a grin that matches your own, and you hear him swearing madly over the comms, shaking so badly he can't react as quickly as he normally would. Nonetheless, his cannons spray bullets at you, albeit at close range.

>[FEED ME d10+14s! Also, you won initiative, intimidated him out of one of his Actions, and after resolving his burst fire it'll be your turn again. I'm assuming you're continuing to punch at the head, but if that gets destroyed what will you aim for next?]

Rolled 4 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48380719

Rolled 5 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48380719

Rolled 1 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48380719
lets do this thing

Rolled 1, 2 = 3 (2d10)

>>48380738
>>48380746

+12 both, you still have two more punches.

>>48380736

Another paint-scraping dodge for Roarke Starwind.

Rolled 7 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48380768
some more dice?

Rolled 3 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48380768
Time to channel our Kenshiro

Rolled 5 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48380719
Torso should be next. The ammount of hits equired are not bad and there is no point in dismantling him with so many limbs.

Rolled 5 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

One thing I've noticed is that narrow fights in this system come more from near misses rather than both parties being pretty fucked up by the end of it, because it only takes a few bad hits before you're crippled and the fight goes onesided. Like, looking back on past threads, there have been a few fights that would have been completely turned around if the enemy just landed a single hit but instead their attack roll tied with our defense roll and they got fucked. It kind of reminds me of L5R that way, honestly, where one hit can really determine the course of the fight.

>>48380768
...shit, even with the 1 we still hit him, Dude has Luck 1 by the looks of it.

Rolled 4, 7 = 11 (2d10)

+12 to both.

>>48380854
call it karma for him being an utter dickwaffle.

So are we going to be able to loot this beast or is it too heavy to run away with?

>>48380841
Well, compared to GGG and it's more super robot build, Mekton is more like macross and gundam. Mobility is your friend and a ace in a machine that utilizes his aceness will be horrifying to deal with. Likewise, luck makes risky rolls safe and can turn a sudden missile barrage into GLORIOUS SAKURA FIREWORKS.

>>48380947
Were pirates anon, of course were looting this thing

>>48380854
Its because we need to TAKE BACK THE LOVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAqLie4EgUc

>>48380982
>GLORIOUS HANABI FIREWORKS
FTFY, filthy Gaijin

>>48380947
When no one was looking, Roarke Starwind scavanged 4 arm servos. Thats four arm servos. 04. Thats as many as 2 2s, and thats terrible.

Rolled 9, 9 = 18 (2d10)

Whoops, forgot his normal parries. First one is versus 15, second versus 21, +12 to both.

>>48381026
so that shield is at half health of 4 SP. Just need to scrape 1 kill with each hit and we are golden. Sturdy little bastard.

Rolled 8, 3 = 11 (2d10)

First blow is autoparried, but hits his shield. Another -1 SP for the shield (reducing it to 6SP), -1 SP and -1K for his Torso, reducing it to 5SP, 15K

The second blow is parried normally. Another -1 SP for his shield (reducing it to 5SP), -1 SP, -2 K for his Torso, reducing it to 4 SP, 13K.

The third blow, he dodges.

The fourth blow is also parried normally. -1 SP for his shield, again (reducing it to 4 SP), -1 SP and -3K for his Torso, reducing it to 3 SP, 10K.

Roarke Starwind bringing the hammer down even without scoring a direct hit. Writing it up now, but you might want to roll 1d10+14s to dodge his attacks meanwhile.

Still at +12 because his head remains partially intact.

Rolled 3 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48381119
Probably another close dodge

Rolled 8 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48381119

Rolled 7 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48381119
Dodge!

Rolled 8 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48381119
I thought we were destroying his head first? First head then torso. Add a bit of luck if need be.

Rolled 3 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48381171
Yeah I thought it was head first too.

>>48381171

You're trying to, but when a shield parries a blow but doesn't entirely stop it the spillover goes into the servo holding the shield, in this case his mech's torso.

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I wonder what Doan would think of Roarke

>>48381203
Ah, that explains that. Makes sense. Though at this point, we just need a few more hits to kill him.

>>48381211
We don't throw enough rocks.

>>48381229
We also don't make enough kids into orphans

>>48381277
We probably made a few kids orphans somewhere along the way.

>>48381293
I'm sure theres a bunch of green skull babbies somewhere alongside that one merc leader we killed. Luckily this guy hasn't had the chance to spread his seed! Kinda want to step on him though.

>>48381355
>>48381355
We should kill him, no one's going to be upset about it and we can get revenge for Fatima better idea lets capture him

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"So Rashad..." You have Life on Mars playing quietly over your comms, but you want to verbally abuse this bastard a little, "You were the traitor who sold Suleiman 1, and factories that probably helped make your mech, to the Green Skulls. Just to get one of those headbands?" You don't give ground, pressing forward despite the superior weight and armament of his mech. He's good at using his shields, angling them in front of him as your unyielding fists pummel the relatively fragile panes of metal.

"Foolish infidel, the Jovian degenerate whore is a sinner and a liar. No matter who wins here, it is over for me, I am finished, yet I will not die without ensuring the destruction of at least one of my enemies. Although I doubt the Jovian government would listen to anything I have to say now, betraying Suleiman was her idea, I simply supported it." He spits out, reeling from your blows. The frame of his mech is looking decidedly battered, the raw ferocity of your fists shredding his shields and leaving long scrapes and rents in the armor of the insectile Martian war-machine's main body.

"Why?" You ask, dumbfounded and enraged.

"Why? Because the Belt is a critical security flaw in the Solar System's defenses. Avalon could easily exploit it, or simply bribe you...if they haven't already done so, infidel...to give them passage. The Green Skulls were to wipe out all of the prominent bands of pirates within their area, then they themselves would be purged by the joint efforts of the Jovian military under Fairchild and the Holy Militia under MY command. A stirring triumph of the forces of holiness over evil. This would solidify our grasp of the Joint Forces, secure the Belt, and keep Avalon out of the system." As he snarls at you, his quadruple beam swords flash. You dodge one blow, but another leaves a long scar down the side of your shield (-1 SP to your left shield)

>[More 1d10+14s!]

>>48381399
And ransom him for fat cash!

>>48381418
to who though, who would want anything to do with rashad after this

Rolled 6 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48381415
incoming dice

Rolled 6, 2 = 8 (2d10)

>>48381171
>>48381188

Using these for your first two attacks to save time. I'll need two more attacks from you, then two dodges and possibly some parries.

+12 still.

Rolled 5 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48381418
Nah torture from us and Fatima

>>48381415
Time to rock and or roll

Rolled 8 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48381415

>>48381438
Thats a good point.

Rolled 6 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48381453
even more dice then

Rolled 4, 5 = 9 (2d10)

>>48381453

Two hits already. Let's see if he can beat a 22 and 17 by parrying.

Rolled 1 + 14 (1d10 + 14)

>>48381415
cute, so you planned to use Fatima's inheritance to get your way and use the money and man power to fund your holy war? you really are a worm.

>>48381477
Not the 22 though

Rolled 4, 2 = 6 (2d10)

>>48381444
>>48381459

And now for you. He's at +10 now, meaning he needs 10 or higher to beat the first, 9 or higher to beat the second.

>>48381525

And his parries.

>>48381524

...Except that the 22 destroyed his head, so he's at 15 for that second parry and gets hit again.

Rolled 4, 3 = 7 (2d10)

>>48381545

Oops. Forgot my dice.

>>48381525
Even in his super mech he jobs, Roarke truly is the Hulk Hogan of the universe with all the jobbing going on

>>48381545
>>48381560

Nope, I am an idiot and forgot his autoparry. Let me, uh, work out what actually happens here.

>>48381562
god I'm so glad we chose fists at the start of all of this, it just makes things so awesome especially with how much jobbing everyone else does!

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>>48381589
>>48381562
So we fist of Polaris?

>>48381616
When we get the bit system we will be

>>48381616
Nah, we Star Platinum now.

First blow is autoparried, but hits his shield. -1 SP for his shield (reducing it to 3 SP), -1 SP and -4K for his Torso, reducing it to 2 SP, 6K

Second blow is successfully parried, barely. -1 SP for his shield (reducing it to a pitiful 2 SP), -1 SP and -5K for his Torso, reducing it to 1 SP, 1K.

The second two blows hit plainly, destroying his head and torso. I'll write that up, shall I?


You pretty much gave him an Iron Blooded Orphans type beatdown where you just whacked his mech until it stopped working.

>>48381674
Can we capture him?

>>48381674
Not even Shields will stop the Wrath of Roarke S. Starwind

>>48381562
>>48381589

Is it jobbing when it's this close? He could have potentially assfucked us if he got lucky even once.

>>48381706
But he didn't, and as long as were following wrestling rules almost all the top guys in the WWF and WCW have jobbed to Hogan at times

>>48381674
Well, time to crush him. Squeeze him for the last bits of info and end him.
>>48381691
Why? It's a bad idea to keep him alive because his very nature is one that will cause problem. He has no value as a hostage, he has no value as a informat. He is wanted by everyone and will likely get the death penalty. We are doing Mars a favor.

>>48381781
Let Fatima get some revenge for her father and we can kick the shit out of him some more, we can't let a guy who pulled shit like he did get away with so little punishment

>>48381800
No. We are not going to be petty and give him a chance to possibly wound or kill someone. We took our eyes away from him and he did THAT to fatima. When we beat him in the duel, we took our eyes away from him and he stabbed two and got in his mech. Not here. No more tragedies from this bastard or last ditch attacks. End him decisively and let god punish him thoroughly.

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"...Also there was something about removing an annoying subordinate, but whenever that woman started to bitch about her old schoolmates and her problems at work I simply ceased to care. At any rate, Fairchild would easily make the rank of Marshall and likely achieve the rank of Consul or even Planetary Chairman without effort, and I, with Sheikh Ahmad's lands, the loyalty of his people for avenging the fallen of Suleiman, and his daughter to wife until that happy day I shove her down a well, would be ideally positioned to become the second Caliph once that old beggar Hakim finally dies." You hear him spitting something thick and viscous, probably blood, as your punches rain down on his mech. You hear a crunch as you force his machine into the ground.

Your fists rip through the shields, hammering the Khanda's main body. Blow by blow, you hammer it into the earth. You grab the head and crush it between the Kaiser's palms, "Not what I'm asking, you piece of shit. Why would you do this to Fatima? She was determined to marry for the sake of her family, you didn't have to do this to her father, or to her."

To your surprise, he starts laughing, "You...you think I wanted her? That shrew!? You've spent time in her company, she is utterly insufferable! No. I did not intend to subject myself to THAT any longer than I had to. Removing her was always the keystone of my plan, and to inherit her father's property without Fatima I needed him to be dead too. I could always have had one of her younger sisters. Pariya is nearly fourteen, that should have been old enough to bear me children." There's a resentful smugness in his voice, as though mourning lost opportunity.

"...You don't deserve to die quickly." You stiffen the Kaiser's fingers and prepare to yank the cockpit ball out of the hole you've torn in the Khanda's armor. The enemy machine can't even move anymore, its limbs twitching like a dying insect.

[Continued]

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>48381887
I don't like that 10, boss. Don't like it at all.

>>48381901
I got the feeling he has a bomb in his mech

Rolled 9, 10 = 19 (2d10)

>>48381887

>>48381906
Nah prolly his ejection seat roll.

Rolled 2, 10 = 12 (2d10)

>>48381908

You don't have an "other" servo, so rerolling both.

>>48381855
Well, if you were planning on being a glorious hero, we sorta have your big villain spiel on tape. Chances our family will be a name for traitors and your family lands seized. Nothing waiting for you but-
>>48381887
what.
>>48381908
W-what? What are these dice rolls? Whats going on?

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>48381930

>>48381930
Burn all of our luck right now if it means saving us

>>48381930
Did.. did he just snackbar himself as one last fuck you?

>>48381933

He said that he's finished and he meant it. By telling you a little bit, he hopes to somehow fuck Fairchild over down the line.

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what's going on!?

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>>48381958
>>48381930
>>48381908
>>48381887

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His laughter only grows louder, "That is NOT your choice, infidel! God is great! ALLAHU AKBAR!" There's an unhinged note to it, and your rage-fogged eyes only then notice the fact that his powerplant has been deliberately destabilized. The fact that he didn't eject was the biggest thing keeping you from noticing.

You stagger a few steps back, as a blue-white fireball illuminates the sky. Shrapnel pelts like a deadly, molten rain around you. Most of it is stopped by your shields, but a beam saber on its last sputters of life lands a one-in-a-million strike...and hits your powerplant.

[Continued]

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>>48382043
I stepped away to make dinner what did I miss
...... Oh Dear GOD

MOTHERFUCKER

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>>48382043
>To be continued on Friday

Roarke can make it out right??? Please someone tell me everything is going to be all right

>>48382043
FUCKING SNACKBAR!

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>>48382087
We going to Martian Gulag if we don't die here.

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>a one-in-a-million strike

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I'm sure everyone here knows the mechanics of a powerplant explosion, right? What gets rolled, and all that? I mean, you have blown up a starship with Oda's help, after all.

>>48382162
..wait, but isn't the explosion a blast attack? I thought you couldn't crit with the blast itself... shit. Is this going to lead to us getting the new Kaiser or limping back with a damaged power plant?

>>48382162
If I understand the corebook then we got lucky and ours didn't explode

>>48382162
Are we getting a mars island arc with just us and a broken kaiser? And a Space Circe to add to our harem

>>48382043
This is why you don't draw out killing your opponents, guys.

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You close your eyes. This isn't how you wanted to die. No, you don't really know if you've ever thought about how you want to die at all, but it wasn't like this.

You're not sure what you regret most. You've made a lot of mistakes. Hell, now that you think about it, this wasn't even one of them. You won this fight and saved Fatima, didn't you? Not many people actually die a winner. The thought cheers you up a little.

The icon representing your powerplant is burning itself into your retinas. Time must have practically stopped for you, because it's still green. Still green. Still...green...?

You feel air rush back into your lungs, and bring up the onboard diagnostics. You inspect your powerplant in more detail...then start to laugh. You laugh until it hurts.

The plasma blade did have enough power to breach your powerplant's outermost layer of armor...but then it died immediately. You're safe. You're not dead.

"Whoo..." You collapse into your chair, rubbing your temples.

>[Having rolled a 10 on your Do Not Explode roll, you have survived a powerplant hit. Continued]

>>48382043
holy shit we just got done in by a job saber.

>>48382273
In hindsight we should've seen this coming, him being a Muslim and all.

>>48382273
no, wait, false alarm.

>>48382284
Even the saber turned out to be a jobber

>>48382273
This is why we use Cool Powerplants.

>>48382293

Less the fact he was a Muslim and more the fact that he was a pussy.

A real man would have fought to the bitter end, ranting and raving blood at his enemy, this no balled fucker tried to take the easy way out.

S-should I feel bad about all this talk of jobbing? Some of Roarke's enemies have had very powerful mecha, he just has ridiculous luck. A jobber is someone who never had a chance of winning, right?


>>48382205

Yes. A 10K blast attack according to the first roll. Hence, 5K attacks to two random locations. In this case, the torso, and a 10 on a location roll means a roll on the special chart, so the second location got a SECOND roll, which was the powerplant.

And then you rolled a 10 and refused to explode.

>>48382215

Yes.

>>48382273
I don't know if I want to leave the scar or paint over it... or piss on the ashes of Mr Rashad who jobbed even in death. I hope Rashad spends eternity suffering for his crimes while being bitten by Shaitan. Might even do a bad end paste bin for the Bastard if Wong doesn't.

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>>48382273
I have never felt so much despair and joy before in one night

>>48382348
Don't feel bad, it's not your fault the dice gods love Roarke

>>48382348
You shouldn't its more Roarke being insanely lucky and skilled then the enemies being weak. You can job without being a jobber, it all depends on how you do overall

>>48382348
don't feel bad about the enemies performance, roarkes just been on a win streak since the start of the quest, I swear the dice know exactly what sort of anime this quest is like and roll accordingly.

>>48382320

Yes. There's sort of a perpetual stereotype that pirates favor Hot Powerplants, at least among the UJCIDF and Holy Militia, because pirate mecha are seen as primitive and rickety. In reality it's an extremely bad idea given how fragile Harpies are and most serious pirate bands will kick you out if you endanger your teammates by having one. Hell, even Oda has a Cool Powerplant. Oda.

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Wait a fucking minute, that faggot just blew up his own mech to prevent us from getting any CP from stealing his shit.

Son of a bitch.

>>48382390
Same thing with NERV Bridge quest. They delight in our suffering.
>>48382421
...fucking sandnigger

>>48382421
Fuck, you're right! FUCKING WHORESON DENIED US LOOT! I want to make his grave a local shitting street for this.

>>48382441
>>48382475
Also, with his rather high Reflexes, and the +4 bonus from initiating his own self-destruct, there's a decent chance he could have managed a successful Emergency Ejection Roll, if he was actually considering such a thing at the time.

Man just imagine how hard the waifus would have taken it if that killed us. Fatima would probably take it the worse when she woke up

I'll be back in just a minute, that was pretty intense and I could use a drink myself.

>>48381015
Dude.
Hanabi IS fireworks.
I'll have to take away your weeb licence.

This hotel's connection sucks. keeps dropping out.

>>48382518
Imagine what they're going to say anyway when we come back and they realize from the massive scar on our Torso that there was a point where we had a 1 in 10 chance of dying. Not really 1 in 10, but you get the point.

>>48382626
Roarke's D gonna be sore in the morning.

>>48382626
Karen finds a way to make a powerplant that doesn't explode at all... then reinforces our cockpit.

>>48382626

You have a beamsaber hilt (well, it's sort of a curving beam claw) and part of the Khanda's arm sticking out of the Kaiser right where the powerplant is located.

>>48382650

His ass too, our Gothic princess still has her original equipment if I recall correctly.

Man imagine how strong Roarke would be if he became a newtype

>>48382703
We always top anon

>>48382703
We pitch but never receive.

>>48382323
>A real man would have fought to the bitter end, ranting and raving blood at his enemy, this no balled fucker tried to take the easy way out.
Well it WAS the only way left for him to possibly damage our mech.

>>48382672
"Hey guys, I got us some salvage and only got hit once!" Then all 4 start screaming and act as his personal guard. Who knows, maybe Fatima will give us anti snackbar powers?

>>48382711
>>48382712

Hmm, well that's boring, but to each his own.

Roarke's getting a workout though, that's a fact.

I'd be amazed if he's able to even move tomorrow considering how dehydrated he's going to get.

Is Roarke more of a Char, a Quattro, a Yazan, or a Treize?

>>48382771
Well, that can come after we escape Fraggle Rock. Gotta leave mars and repair our shit after all.

>>48382783
Probably Char

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You feel almost drunk, picking through the wreckage until you ascertain for certain that, yes, Rashad Abujamal did not eject from his mech, and took a fiery path to the hell that awaits him in every civilized religion. You don't feel even slightly petty for putting your boot on the burned-out cockpit ball and grinding it into the dirt for a while before you leave.

The Kaiser's gigantic metal feet crunch through the scarlet dunes and the thin patches of razor grass. You decided to walk back, to avoid taxing the powerplant unduly. Although you want to immediately find your team and help them if necessary, part of being a leader is knowing the strengths and weaknesses of your subordinates, and you are absolutely confident that the three aces in their souped-up mecha can handle any number of Scimitars long enough for your forces at the ship to arrive.

There are no gardens out here, this is wasteland for a reason. Overhead, the sky is a thin, strange blue you aren't used to seeing. Being on a planet is unnerving when you're alone and have time to think about it. It's like being at the center of a giant drop of water, surrounded by the great, clear bowl of the sky lit and colored by the sun's refracted light. All around you stretches the endless soil of a solid planet utterly unlike the gas giant of Jupiter. You know it has a curve, too, but it's so large it looks flat, a disorienting sensation as though a harsh new axis has been imposed on the three-dimensional reality you're accustomed to. You pour water down your throat, as your ASP picks up the readings of your ship ahead.

Despite your habitual cool, the Kaiser breaks into a run at your mental prompting.

[Continued]

>>48382966
Roarke's gone full spacenoid

>>48383002
He doesn't want to be weighed down by Mars gravity. I don't blame him.

>>48382845
Char OYW during the Suleiman Arc. Quattro after. Can't wait for Char CC

>>48383075
We haven't fucked anywhere near enough underage girls

>>48383096

That's because we have standards.

>>48383113
Were sleeping with Karen

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>>48383164

That just means we have good taste, Karen is darling.

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>>48383164
Oh dear, is it waifuposting time again?

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>>48383193
Isn't it always?

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"This is the Knuckle Kaiser, I'm home." You call in over the comms. You've affirmed your position with the Scimitars when you passed by them, and confirmed that they saw the rest of your group returning. The local warlords and small-town elders might be able to call in a dozen or two Scimitars or light tanks each, but that just isn't enough.

However, nobody told you about the spread of crushed tanks and small jets laying practically on top of each other. They're ramshackle, little raider jets smaller than a Scimitar, light spider tanks and treadcrawlers, even a fair number of Roadstrikers like children accompanying their parents. All of them are peppered with tiny plasma holes. There are drifts of them closer to the ship that seem to have been shredded more directly, and you spot the explanation quickly.

Mohammed's mech has been partially painted. Miles did the most minimal job she could. She sprayed down the torso with black, essentially, touched it up a little, and called it a day. The limbs and head are still white. Its forearms are oversized, with a protruding hemispheral beam emitter on the back of either. The S-Flowerhorn stalks around from the other side of the ship, flourishing one of its beam rapiers as if cleaning blood off a sword, practically prancing as it hops around the downed tanks. Its golden paintjob is splattered with oil, but you don't see a single dent on it.

For that matter, the Knuckle Kaiser isn't too badly damaged either. There's a gash in one shield, and the debris from the explosion gravel-bombed the front of your torso chassis like a titanic shotgun blast, but that's mostly cosmetic damage. However, sticking out over your shoulder is the hilt of a beamsaber embedded in the top of your shoulder and angling down into your mech's chest. Since the sword was joined directly to the arm, this also means that you're lugging around a giant, black, insectile forearm that sways around behind you with each movement.

[Continued]

>>48383212
Welp, looks like we just got the prototype for our cape full of fist bits; the stabby scarf!

>>48383245
Another trophy for Roarke, so far we have the Mohawk, the Mask, and now the Arm

>>48383259

We keep this up and we can make a spare mech out of our trophy bits.

>>48383272
To actually give you an answer its still a trial board so no one is actually forced to use it for now, plus thats not counting the problems that /qst/ actually has

>>48383267
screw that, we need to make a throne out of the bodies of our enemies. That or out of the husk of Fairchild's warship.

>>48383297
Don't bother with them. They don't listen and will say the same thing again and again like they have done before.

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"Roarke!" Karen and Clemmy yell at the same time.

"I've got visuals on him." Clemmy chirps, crouching down and taking a bounding leap towards you, landing with a huge puff of dust and creating a small crater as she hunkers her mech down to get a better look at the damage.

"So do I, I have binoculars and a window. He's twenty meters tall and hard to miss and...ROARKE ARE YOU ALIVE!? He has a sword sticking out of him! A sword! Actually, wait...at that angle...um...quick, what are the rad levels on him?" Karen knows the Kaiser better than you do, and realizes what Clemmy hasn't.

"He's hot." The former Lieutenant says with cheerful smugness.

"What!? Oh Jove, oh holy Jove..." You can hear Karen's lower lip starting to quiver.

"And his rad levels are normal. Why wouldn't they be?" The S-Flowerhorn gives you the impression of a crouching cat, you could almost feel like she's sniffing the Kaiser from how close she is, "He's here, so he must be fine."

"You...what..." Karen's voice goes momentarily squeaky with rage, "He has a sword sticking out of his powerplant! A slow destabilization might be a delayed reaction, it can still lead to complete meltdown! Don't you know anything about your mech!?"

"Not a Jove-damned thing, nerd." Clemmy replies, the S-Flowerhorn rising up and patting the Kaiser's exposed face, "I like this expression. It has good spirit. It only comes out when you fight, doesn't it? Next time, I want to see it. I want to be there when it happens." She breathes in deeply.

"Get him into the mech bay! I can't believe you'd be so irresponsible. I'm turning comms over to Maya, I'll be right there!" Karen's voice cuts off into static.

>>48383313
Answering him doesn't hurt anything though, if he's being sincere then he should get a real answer, and if he isn't then he'll chimp out about it and we'll know

>>48383331
Assuming thats not a continued, say that you managed to get the bastard. Pulled a suicide attack, but so far we're green. Got a recording of the fight too. Still, is everyone alright? No damages, plenty of salvage, and Fatima holding up well? Because quick repairs just incase aside, we should probably leave this planet fast.

>>48383331
I see Clemmy is continuing the time-honored tradition of trolling the shit out of Karen, because there is no way someone that doesn't know how her own mech operates would ever be cleared for a pilot slot in the military.

The cousin didnt tag alone, did she.

So, what if Fatima's portrait abruptly becomes Casca? She might not be sane again for a while...

>>48383433
you say that, but Jesus is in the military as the poster boy for all the recruits to follow.

>>48383515
Get ready for an eight year boat arc anon

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>>48383529

>>48383529

Wait they were on the boat for eight fucking years?

Damn and I thought Naruto had Filler hell.

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>>48383529

>>48383548

When Guts first got on the boat

Vol 1 on One Piece was just released

>>48383515
Nah. That would mean that Rashad was Griffith for what he's done when he's more a Rape Horse.

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"Got him." You say, wearily. Fighting is stressful, even in a giant robot, your muscles are strained and tense and you have a very short list of things you want to do before collapsing into bed.

Unfortunately, you're only halfway done. You've made it to Mars, but you still need to leave, and more importantly, "Is Fatima safe?"

"I think so." Karen's voice is a little quiet, "Grandfather is taking care of her now. She's just sort of...quiet, she does what she's told to do, if you word it plainly enough. We haven't really had time to find out anything yet."

"Obviously you got him. You're here. We had some raiders show up, but it wasn't important enough to call anyone else in. A hundred of these weaklings don't matter. Although..." Her voice becomes a tiny bit dangerous, "That Colonel has been a bad girl. L'il Mohammed's weapons clearly use schematics partially taken from my swords."

Mohammed is sitting very quietly and just gives you a nod with the Zulfiqar. He seems to be trying not to draw attention to himself.

"Then it's a good thing we have both of you here, so nobody else can copy you." You stay as neutral as possible, while making your way to the mechbay doors. The two Pumpkinseed IIs are flanking them, but move aside at your approach. Their heads turn to follow you as you haul your mech to a rack, strap in, and power down. You slump into your chair momentarily, take off your shades, and rub your eyes before you get up and pop the hatch.

You go straight to the infirmary, and Doctor Cohen.

[Continued]

>>48383548
Filler implies there was a lot of content in there. It was mostly just cutting to Griffith building his holy city or whatever, and frequent delays that would often end up being half a year or more

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>>48383617
>Mohammed is sitting very quietly and just gives you a nod with the Zulfiqar. He seems to be trying not to draw attention to himself.

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...At least, that's what you try to do. Because, as you pass by the parked Archen, a girl falls out of its luggage compartment. She gets up, wincing and rubbing her backside, before spotting you and waving vigorously. She has on a blue and white dress and a similarly colored headscarf. Her skin is a bit paler than Fatima's, "Sir pirate! I wanted to see my cousin, and I need to ask her about someone. Sir pirate!" She skips over to you, then comes to an abrupt stop, "Oh, I suppose I could just ask you. My cousin's escorts, where are they? One of them was a boy I knew." She smiles sweetly.

You make every effort to keep walking to the infirmary, while she bobs along behind you, smiling.

"His name is Mohammed Al-Tabir. He has hawkish eyes, is clean-shaven, and his hair is very, very fluffy." She continues, hopefully.

You don't recall your Second Mate mentioning ever having a girlfriend. He talks about Regina Hatsheput a lot, and you lend a sympathetic ear, but you've never really heard him talk about anybody else.

>[The pursuit of fluff is noble, aid her]
>[Protect Mohammed from her, lie or put her off]

>>48383771
>>[The pursuit of fluff is noble, aid her]
If Moe is truly our successor he'll succeed

>>48383771
>>[The pursuit of fluff is noble, aid her]

Because yes

>>48383771
>[The pursuit of fluff is noble, aid her]
For better or worse, Mohammed must give her a reply. It does not do to leave someone with false hope.

>>48383771
>>[The pursuit of fluff is noble, aid her]

she runs an orphanage right.

Should send an invite along with passes for the kids for a field trip to pirate fun land.

>>48383771
On the one hand, Moe is trying to run. On the other hand, we wouldn't really know their connection and Moe is slowly becoming out apprentice. He's actually able to pull off the gundam look and not be a dweeb!

>[The pursuit of fluff is noble, aid her]
Sorry Moe. OOC I hope you can escape, but IC it would make sense to check and make sure there is no problems. Protect your cake.

>>48383816
He is of the faith. He can have multiple waifus in his laifu.

>>48383827
Perhaps, but it's not so much she's his waifu as it is that he's her Husbando... actually, thats the same for the Colonel. Man, he going to be eternal moe bait if we ever manage to grab a hold of that avalonian anti aging stuff, because chances are his harem would drug his tea with it.

>>48383771
How about
>[The pursuit of fluff is noble, aid her]
but give him an advance warning?

Like tell her "Your cousin's escorts have joined us, let me check" and then text him from the PC.

>>48383771
>[The pursuit of fluff is noble, aid her]

>>48383853

Speaking of the col, since theres a rather clear power struggle, we obviously need to try and boost her standing and faction.

We have recordings of our negotiations with the avalonians along with the sensor records of our ships right? We should send them all to her.

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On that note, I just caught myself nodding off in my chair. We'll call it here and pick up again on Friday.

>>48383771
>[The pursuit of fluff is noble, aid her]

Truly, the Way of Fluff is a virtuous path.

>>48383910
Night Wong

>>48383910
Goodnight Wong! Thanks for running!

>>48383899
We REALLY shouldn't do that. As is, any information about the avalonian's goals are not going to help her, but Fairchild. Remember, Fairchild is the one who is trying to get everyone to fight and unify against the avalonians so anything that can make them into a bigger threat only gives her power. If anything, we keep this to ourself UNLESS the situation changes.

>>48383928

It actually helps abit since they can now quantify the threat. Whats more he revealed that they only have a single ship. Thus they have actionable intel as to enemy strength ans fairchild cant fear-monger her way to God-knows-how-strong-their-fleet-is.

>>48383944
Except it allows her to power monger. 'It's just one ship and the second in command! We can easily take it out if we poor our resources!'. Likewise, you also forget that it was only 1 ship due to the gate not fully working. He had his own fleet ready to do the job fast and even on it's own the machine is above and beyond the Wels Class.

ANY Avalonian information is going to be spun or used by fairchild, just like how she used Jihad Rashad as a scrape goat when he was also a aid for her plans. If anything, we should be looking for a way to quickly and peacefully get the ship out of the system.

>>48383972
Another thing to consider; Caesar's girlfriend looks like an exact copy of their goddess. Considering green men made controllable clones, that would imply that souls A and the Jaburo are compromised.. which would hurt the Colonel and be used for fear mongering.

If you want to increase relationships, we could invite the Jaburo to the tournament so the Kaiser and Swordfish could have a sort of exhibition match to show camaradrie between souls A and the pirates.

>>48383972

Fair point i guess.

Still i'd like to pass on some info so she and her command dont get completely flat footed by the enemy.

Still i guess we should start to be clear on our stand. Are we gonna eventually fight to clear out the avalonians or just want them to leave us alone and piss off.

We're not going to help them fight and if we leave them to their own devices, they will want to glass the planets in sol, something i dont think even roake will want.

>>48384071
The avalonians as a whole aren't a problem. It's their goddess who eggs them on. Taking her out or making them not side with her will likely defuse the situation. A large war is not going to help the navy in the long run. The tech difference is great and chances are the extrasolar foothold is small compared to the avalonians. Likewise, our fleet is small and would be worthless in a straight war.

What we can do is serve as guerrillas, sabotures, smugglers, and privateers. Make the belt Kestrel Territory and in return make it hard for invaders to get through that way in exchange for fees for crossing it.

War does not profit us, but peace and a deflated military on both sides does.

>>48384116

We come to the problem of religion then. Are they even going to want to attempt to come to the negotiating table? Killing the goddess is liable to engage the whole lot of them into a full holy war.

Theres also not alot of info about the extrasolar war situation except from their word that they have taken several systems already.

>>48377547
MECHA TENGU
GO!