Thank God captcha finally worked after a literal half hour of alternating between "cannot connect to captcha" and "copypaste this text...but the post button won't load."

Now while I type this, someone explain this silly argument going on in the other thread about cross-linking.

>>648883
The rules about melee cross links are silly and contradictory.

SPECIFICALLY Brazilanon had better goddamn explain why he thinks Hands get the free ability to choose their second target if they're interservo linked but not cross-linked beause that's a big claim to make. I need a page number citation, because even though I'm about 99% sure he's wrong, if he's right I have to redo the Kaiser.

>>648753

Wong is pretty damned sure hands and claws don't get anything special and that Brazil is reading something wrong.

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>>648883
Reposting the conflicting rules for convenience.

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>>648883
>>648960
Sure wish I could post two images at once.

Basically, we're not sure which of these rules take precedence.

>>648960

That's from the corebook, Advanced Technical Manual has the rules for melee weapon links.

>>648855
I know this feel.

>>648974

If you have an interservo melee linked but not crosslinked pair of weapons, the first attack is called and the second attack is random. If they're crosslinked, they both hit the same place.

Let's say the S-Flowerhorn, which has an interservo melee crosslink, hits an enemy mech in the head. All four of her crosslinked beam sabers would hit it in the head. If they weren't crosslinked, only the first would hit it in the head and the other three would roll randomly for location.

If you have a regular (non interservo) melee weapon link, the same rules apply only Wong gets a headache if you don't crosslink them because the idea of having a pair of claws or something and one hitting the head while the other hits the right foot on the same attack is dumb.

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>>648975
Yeah, but the ATM doesn't go into any more detail on the specific topic of Melee Weapon Links (at least in the paragraph on them) apart from saying this.

>>649009
Just fluff it as one big slash that carries on and hits his foot.

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You aren't in immediate danger of bleeding out and the Undefeated numbed the wound with some clear gel, but you still have a massive, throbbing headache on your way back to the ship.

It doesn't help that Karen is the first of your women to see you. She's got an arm full of brightly colored plastic piping suitable for a hamster's habitat. It's not the stuff you bought, it looks like she cast it from resin using her own tools in the mechbay. She shrieks and drops it, "Roarke! Oh no oh no, what happened!? Alice WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM?" She bristles, her hands clenching into fists.

"It wasn't me!" Clemmy protests, hiding behind you.

"I got in a fight, that's part of my training." You smile, reach into your pocket, and pull out the damaged shades, "Guess what saved me?"

Karen blushes, "I-I'm pleased, but still, you shouldn't be so reckless! I know you want to be strong, but strong or weak, you're precious to me and it tears me up seeing you hurt." She kisses your uninjured cheek, "I'll go get grandpa. He'll fix you up."

She leads you to her grandfather's infirmary. It's a lot larger, now, with better facilities and a larger staff of nurses. The two women firmly push you down into a chair, and exit, returning shortly with Cornelius Cohen, who sets to work immediately. Thankfully, he reassures you that medical technology has advanced enough that you won't have a scar from this. The procedure is quick, painless, and over quickly, but he encourages you to rest until the painkillers aren't making your legs wobbly. You protest that you're a grown man and tougher than a bucket of nails, but he ignores you with practiced ease.

[Continued]

>>649145
Probably use to this sort of stuff when Dude McCool was still a teenage Rookie. Makes you wonder what other old doctors are kicking about.

I just had a strange thought.

I want there to be a female clone of Roarke, just to see if the Harem effect carries over.

>>649211
>I want there to be a female clone of Roarke
Farchild will be so conflicted

>>649211
So what, he gets a cute mechanic boy, a girl who dress like a guy, some sort of Luchador boyfriend, a axe crazy hot blooded type and Moe?

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Before I go, I may as well leave some things I statted out for a laugh earlier, that will never be entered into the tournament because they're all some combination of not viable, not legal and plain bad manners:
http://pastebin.com/MKHhQYx6
http://pastebin.com/BAJhNTz0
http://pastebin.com/B2Jv5Gu0

I'm liable to have gotten some of the math (and indeed the rules) wrong, because it's late as hell here and I'm going to sleep now.

Feel free kill time by laughing at them, shitting on them, and completely dismantling them. Or just ignore them because they're all clearly shit.

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>>649215
>"You look just like your mother..."

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>>649262

>>649009
Oh boy, i just got up here, i will explain my point in just a few minutes, just let me get dinner first.

>>649226
Just straight up Moe. Hatsheput will be livid.

>>649333
And then she meets her in the field of battle with the perfect zeong. Moe head rubs are a sacred treasure.

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"Hey Doc." You ask, while he's cleaning off his tools, "What do you know about something called the Megabass?"

The old man pauses, then with exaggerated casualness shrugs, "Oh, I'm too old to care about Bahamutcorp and Bucephalus' internal politics. At my age, I just want to see my crew and my granddaughter happy."

"I don't think she would be very happy if she knew you were calling her a liar. She told me an interesting story about this Mobile Army Weapon...thing. And it's funny how you jumped straight to the corporations, someone who really didn't know anything might have thought I was talking about fishing." You note.

Cornelius gives you a look like a disapproving raisin over one shoulder, his wrinkles seeming to become even deeper, "Why do you want that monstrous thing? Roarke Starwind, Jeremy didn't train the kind of man that would destroy a planet. Better to let it sink into obscurity, there are some depths even I won't sink to in the pursuit of science."

"So you weren't just telling her bedtime stories. I don't want a nuclear platform, I just want to be able to do what the Anseis did. Just like with this..." You almost reach up to touch the place where your cut was before you think better of it, "I got lucky. I can't always count on luck, and I've got too much to lose not to make the Kaiser as powerful as I can."

He sighs heavily, "Very well. You're familiar with Floyd Beck and the Colts system, yes? Don't answer that, it's a rhetorical question, of course you are." He rubs the loose skin of his forehead, "In the early days of the War, at least early by the standards of the Solar System, after the HMIS was perfected, Bucephalus Heavy Industries had a virtual monopoly on mecha production and Bahamutcorp was a handful of bright young men working out of a few run-down garages on Europa. However, by the end things had turned around. Bucephalus was reeling from its losses, including Floyd Beck and the system he had designed himself, while Bahamutcorp was flush with capital and producing starships along with several promising lines of mecha. The decision was made at the upper levels of Bucephalus...without consulting any of US, I might add...to slash the budget on the R&D division and focus on lines that were guaranteed to be profitable. Certain executives were stupid enough to believe that the demand for war machines would drop drastically, and they sunk credits into things like the Budweiser construction mech and the Shetland. Bahamutcorp wasn't so foolish."

[Continued]

>>648918
"Guys, check the example in the advanced manual, page 14.

The rapier uses 3CP only to Cross-link weapons in an intersevo link, it doesn't pay 2 to cross link and 3 to intersevo, it just pays the 3CP from the intersevo link.

Meanwhile, when it links WEAPONS INSIDE THE SAME SERVO it pays the normal link cost(2 for long-ranged weapons and 4 to melee).

As the example goes, the Rapier pays 4 CP for each "Triple weapon crosslink" inside each arm ,plus 3CP to interservo.

So, by logic, things should go this way:

4CP to Melee link inside the same servo, 3CP if they are only linked, but not cross linked.

3CP To Cross-link anything interservo, 2CP if only linked but not cross-linked.

2CP to Cross-Link long range weapons inside the same servo, 1CP if only linked but not cross-linked.

Linked= Attack in the same action and with the same roll, but rolls for locations independently.

Cross-Linked=Attacks with the same action and roll, and target the same servo as the first attack."

This is what page 14 implies, forget the "Hands are imune thing" if that apllies for hands, it should apply to every other weapon, rending cross-linked melee useless...

So... I must deduce that if not cross linked, melee weapons rolls in the location table... Or the second one does, as it was implied by some anon before me.

>>649365

Are the Rapier's weapons ranged or melee?

>>649365
Came back to note that the Rapier conveniently side-steps the melee weapon issue by mounting Beam Weapons, which are guns.

>>649387
Beam, and they are Cross-linked, but the interservo effect doesn't change when applied to melee weapons... So, by my calculations,Cross-linked Fists should cost 3CP. Not 4,Not 7, but 3.

As interservo apllies to ANY type of system.

If not, please send me the page, i will have to change things too >.<

>>649429
so wait, you are using a example that is set for a ranged weapon and saying it to apply for melee when everyone has stated otherwise?

>>649365

Alright, I looked it up. It costs 7 CP (3 for interservo linkage, 4 for melee cross-link) to cross-link two melee weapons on different servos. The Strike Rapier has three beam guns per arm, and while the arms themselves are not INTERSERVO linked for some reason the three per arm are linked to each other. That's a pair of Cross-Links (2 CP each) per arm, for a total of 4 CP per arm and 8 CP total.

I don't see how you interpret any of this as cross-linked melee weapons being useless, and all logic implies that regular linked melee weapons would only have the first get free called shot and the second would have to roll randomly.

>>649363
The Bahamut Corp logo looks like a whale going "later homo"

>>649429

You're wrong. 4 for the melee cross link plus 3 for the fact that they're interservo linked.

Oh, and then the Strike Rapier pays the additional 3 for the interservo link that lets both of its trigun batteries fire at once. So yes, that proves that it's additive. Your mistake seems to be missing that melee weapon linking is more expensive and that the Strike Rapier is using beam GUNS, not beam SWORDS.

>>649481
>screw you guys, I'm going home

>>649481
Would make sense. Their entire rise to glory is one part shady and two parts their major competitor continuing to fuck up.

>>649486
Ok... I didn't know for the melee calling shots before some anon pointed it in another Thread, my fault in that.

I do know that melee is more expensive, what i 'm pointing is this:

When linking the Beam gun to the other Beam gun in the other arm, the Rapier pays ONLY 3CP for the interservo-cross link, Not 5CP(Interservo Cross-link + Normal cross-link between weapons).

So, if he had only one weapon in each arm, he would pay just the interservo, no? proving it is not additive, no?

Sorry if am annoing you, it was not my intent.

So I got a coconut today.

>>649594
Hm...How?Did it made you more happy?

>>649594
Was it a big one? Small one? One as big as your head?

>>649552

Look just above where you're looking. It specifically says they pay 4 CP per arm (two sets of cross-links each) before the 3 CP for the interservo link.

>>649594
first time I got one of those I ended up stabbing myself with a screw driver trying to poke a hole in it.
or are we talking one of those young coconuts that still has white woodpulp stuff around the hard brown bit that some asian markets sell as a to-go beverage?

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"Even after a bitter marketing campaign to convince the public that their designs were safer, the Europan company still had an interest in the Colts and believed correctly that the UJCIDF would be used to bring extrasolar planets back into the fold. Now, there are all sorts of unsubstantiated rumors about certain disgruntled former Bucephalus employees who were unjustly fired over the failures of the Thoroughbred MP and Arabian lines leaking confidential information to Bahamutcorp...but those are just rumors, and not any reason to be suspicious about the culpability about certain rogue Bucephalus technicians who found out the hard way that raising a grandchild alone is expensive." He sighs again, "At any rate, Bahamutcorp established a facility, now believed abandoned, in the vicinity of the asteroid 16-Psyche, an ugly ball of iron believed to be the naked core of some unfortunate protoplanet. Now, I'm well and truly out of the loop at my age, but from the rumors I've heard Bahamut wanted to finish off Bucephalus entirely and ensure their primacy as long as Jupiter remains, so they set to work developing the largest, most impressive machine they could. It worked, partially. It took endless failures and many, many millions of credits paid to the families of test pilots whose brains burned out trying to manage the system, but the basic concept was proven solid. The stated goal of creating a single-pilot system that could replace an entire planetary bombardment force was, in my opinion, unsuccessful because it would require a truly special brain to manage all of the parts, a genuine superpilot. Still, since you aren't trying to command a fleet of fighter-sized nuclear missile platforms controlled by one gigantic mech, you should be alright." He concludes.

You pause to consider this, then something hits you, "Hey, no, wait a minute. If all of this is true, why haven't we seen some fish-named knockoff of the Colts on Bahamutcorp mecha?"

He shrugs, "Because they wanted as little publicity as possible focused on the things they had to do to achieve it. From what I've heard the project was shelved, I doubt they actually constructed the Megabass. And because it's very expensive, mass-producing it for regular line units wouldn't be practical and at the time building customized ace mecha as distinct and costly as a SOUL mech just wasn't done, aces normally flew slightly upgraded versions of regular mecha."

You get out your PC, "Cornelius, we're going to 16-Psyche, is there anything I should know about the facility?"

He shrugs, "Probably, but I've never been there."

You prepare to contact Miles.

>[Which ships are you sending and which are you leaving behind to defend Auditorium?]

>>649620
If I remember right the way to open them properly is with the back of a machete or something similar.

>>649637
From here:
>>641773
>First Fleet:
>Commander: Admiral Roarke S. Starwind
>Ships:
>Battleship Rhinehawk (Flagship)
>Heavy Cruiser Yammamoto
>Light Cruiser Browning
>Mecha Capacity: 250 (203 in use)
Gets us 203 mecha, and most of the aces, while still leaving two heavy cruisers to backup the Auditorium.

>>649667
>>649637
Also has the Countess's ship in reserve, but I'm not clear on our progress on that one.

>>649637
Shouldn't we mention that General Jersey Coop is supposedly piloting the Megabass in combat against the Avalonians?

That and maybe ask Lori about her fight against it.

>>649637
Lets bring Quaritch and Harlock and leave Oda, Red and the goshawk and avalon battle ship to defend.

Break in the new guys and all that. Also maybe mention that our captive paladin has fought a megabass to Cornelius.

>>649644
yeah, learned that afterward... at least I didn't put it on the lathe in the basement like I briefly considered doing...

>>649616
Yeah they say that...
Weapon 2 is linked to One
Weapon three is linked to One
Weapon One is Called the "Control beam Gun"
Each link costs 2(Cross Link) and each arm has the same layout.
(It is also implying that, if the Control Beam gun is destroyed, the other two weapons are not cross-linked between themselfs, what would make them shot independently)
SO, Rapier buys the interservo to link One controlling beam gun to another, making one of them the TRUE controlling one, as to say, one of them if used, fire 6 Shots, the other would shot only its arm guns, so 3 Shots.

So, the interservo cross-linked them without the necessity to pay 2CP extra for it, paying only 3CP that way.

What you are suggesting is that you need to add +3CP to Interservo Cross-links, and then pay the normal price (4CP for Melee weapons and 2CP for Guns) to really make them Cross-linked, while the Rapier examples dictates that you only need to pay the interservo, not adicional Cross-Linking systems. If you needed to pay additional CP the total cost of the links would be 4+4+3+2=13CP, And would resulting in the Rapier paying 52,6CP for the whole shenanigan, not 50,6 as the book says.

>>649637
Lets bring our ship with Flint and Beckingham and bring Clemmy and Sam as our personal back up

>>649667
This.

>>649667
>>649637
Seconded

>>649721

I feel like there's some language barrier here or something getting in the way, I'm not suggesting anything, I'm flat-out stating that the book says the cost is additive. "An additional 3 CP".

Fix it in your mecha, please.

>>649721

Also I have no idea what you mean by "really make them cross linked". 3 CP is how much it costs to interservo cross-link two ranged weapons or sets of weapons on either servo. For a non-crossed interservo link it costs 2 CP.

The Gold-Tail, now with hands!

http://pastebin.com/n05PF3QG

Is the weight of handheld weapons supposed to be factored in to the Thrusters?

The six beam guns (at 6.6 CP each) cost 39.6 all together before any linking is done.

Then, each of the two non-controlling guns cost 2 CP to link to the controlling gun on that arm. That's four guns being linked to their respective controller, for a total of 8 CP. 8+39.6=47.6

Then an additional 3 CP, to interservo cross-link the two arms' weapon arrays together. 3+47.6=50.6


Now, where I may have been wrong is in my addition, it looks like the links might actually be multiplicative (melee weapons just cost double to link and otherwise function normally).

There we go. Everything is settled. Now hopefully my headache will subside and we can get back to the damned game.

But regardless the original claim that melee weapons just get to hit wherever they please and there's no point to crosslinking them is bullshit. If they're not crosslinked, the noncontrolling weapon hits a random location.

>>649849
here, some chill music should help with that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULRTwOMwLoA
It even features a giant transforming robot.

Also, Brazilanon, don't worry, you're cool. After the long argument with the Anon who was 100% convinced that all space combat should be scry-and-die with unarmed unescorted comms ships and gating in missile boats I am wholeheartedly immune to getting annoyed at this kind of thing.

Space efficiencies still legal, right?

>>649877
The guy who got all worked up about Sam being a girl and Roarke not being a little gay was worse

>>649914
I remember when fucking a dude in the ass was queer, but still the manly thing to do.

RIP, Rome.

Sam is best girl, I will fight anyone who says otherwise. Sam, Karen, Clemmy, Fatima and Rosita in that order.

>>649925
Things were better when a man could be gay without having to be a faggot.

>>649849
I got confused already... But i will abide by your decision...So, how much for Linking fists?And to cross-link them?
(The Walkure is with 7CP Link and the Elder-1-2 is with the 6CP version... Do i need to change any?)

>>649925
Fucking traps isn't gay mate.

>>649870

Ironically, the limbs look a lot like how I pictured the original Pumpkinseed, back when I was trying to describe mecha more than just find the closest picture. Long, slender limbs, small fins on the back of the legs, etc.

>>649914

I got what he was getting at, though. The guy insisting that sleeping with Samantha made Roarke totally gay and that he should husbando Moe and Oda as a result was the one who annoyed me more, the other guy just needed to stop responding.

>>649954

6 CP for interservo melee weapon cross-linking. I was wrong on that particular point and am now editing the pastebin fixing stuff...which actually puts me in a good mood, because it gives me ideas for upgrading the waifu mechs.

Samantha's is actually a horribly monstrous beast. Her pilebunkers, with the damage bonus from her Heavy Striker arms, are a whopping 7K of Shock, and Shock gets better the more damage you do. The S-Betta uses a Heavy Striker frame that, bizarrely, isn't based at all on the Warmouth...now I wonder what other Bahamutcorp Heavy Strikers there are that we know of?

>>649958

She says she's a girl and she's cute, so personally I agree with you but the actual decision is up to Anon. Sometimes I wonder if anybody REEEEE'd over the trap-springing faction winning the vote to waifu her way back when.

>>650003
hey Wong, are we allowing space efficiency? I know weight and verniers are out, but forgot if you said anything about space

>>650003
I wasn't there for those early threads I started posting when we started playing as Amos. I fell for Sam the minute they sang Killer Queen together, Queen is my favorite band and they bonded over it which I found cute. Once I learned about Sam I didn't care she was already best girl in my eyes

>>649958
I'm not here to argue pedantics with you. The fact you are making an issue of it is telling about you. Nor did I say anything about traps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c2YaacTQ2s
Rare unedited footage of clementine fighting.

>>650028

Space Efficiency is fine and expected. I don't remember a hard ban on all weight and verniers but my brain is completely frazzled right now and I've lost my train of thought. Writing stories uses one side of the brain, after all, and doing math uses the other.

>>650042
It's semantics dummy.

>>650054
I'm high as fuck right now, what's your excuse?

>>650044

I'm not 100% sure how accurate that is. Nabe is the strongest Pleiades by far, sitting a comfortable ten levels or so above most of them, and Clemmy is in that same level 50ish range they occupy.

Also no bully the Clemmy.

>>650050
not banned, per se. but a old junker of a warmouth modified by a man with more money than since would'nt have them

>>650061
Sleep-Deprivation. I haven't slept in 28.1 hours.

>>650050
From what I recall it's doing it to a absurd degree like I use to. a few cp to put it to a reasonable penalty is good, but not to the point of spending 20 cp plus verniers for it.

Game resumes in half an hour! That should get my head straight!

Curse you, Fatima, and curse your Tarrasque waggling its tailpipe at me going "Upgrade me Wong~ You know you want to improve my shields, trade the pod for wings, and give me Weight Efficiency~"

What are some good 80s fighting songs we don't have right now on our mixtapes anons?

I really want to play this when we fight at some point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSh73d3TZcA

>>650071
Christ, go to bed.

>>650054
Actually, hold on, no it isn't. Pedantic is about specific details and little shit, semantics is about how someone interprets a word. I'm onto you, you little shit.

>>650091
Technically, we're arguing about the definition of gay.

>>650089
I wish I could.

>>650079
lood

>>650065
>Clementine
>level 50
Wong you might know a lot about robots but you are wrong here. Clem and Gazef are somewhere around level 30. Hamsuke is roughly the same level as them.

>>650100
Still be pedantics.

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Gentlemen, I present, the Halsey Engineering Spartan!

http://pastebin.com/nyfGhqkS

>>650119
See, this is why you need to grind past the main storyline before getting into PVP. Otherwise you end up facing some punk in glamored gear and get your ass handed to you.

>>650150
Okay, first off, buy space efficiency to make it so that you can fit all that stuff in there. All of your weapons are too big for your frame.

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>>650151
Or a troll with fighter levels.
>>650150
I appreciate the low price.
>>650171
Technically he could two hand them.

Anyways, while we're waiting on Wong can I get some opinions on the Gold-Tail ( >>649815 )
and the Spartan ( >>650150 )?

>>650171
Oh shit, you're right. Lemme fix that.

>>650119

What? Really? That's quite strange, I was sure /a/ said otherwise. Oh well.

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>>650204
This is probably a fairly accurate description of the power levels. Seems to be the newest version.

So, the general consensus is on bringing the Rhinehawk and the Browning (Flint's ship), along with a third vessel. Will you take the Harmonium, or the Yamato?

>>650234
Yamato

>>650234
Harmonium, we haven't seen Beckingham fight yet. Lets make sure to take Clemmy and Sam as our back up though

>>650234
Bit of a toss up. I'd say the Harmonium might be good for hit and run, though Oda will be great for stealth and scouting with his ninja harpies. May as well take the new member with us since his knowledge could be useful. Hopefully we have enough mech protecting our base.

I ended up redesigning the Gold-Tail again because I realized the Arms were Useless.

http://pastebin.com/CBwZ0JUv

And I fixed the Spartan's Issues: http://pastebin.com/1g8rVYSs

>>650234
Harmonium

>>650234
Yammamoto

>>650234
>>650253
This sounds good.

>>650234
Harmonium, besides it's just a milk run to an abandoned facility right?

>>650370
Yup and nothing at all will go wrong and we'll all be back for a pint by noon

>>650370
What could possibly go wrong?

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"Miles." You call out once she picks up her PC.

You hear the sound of food rustling around the clink of bottles, "Yeah Dude? What's up?" Your First Mate's voice reaches your ears.

"Where's Loriette? Contact Flint and Beckingham, we're preparing for launch. I need to know everything there is to know about the asteroid 16-Psyche, because we're going to go ransack a military facility there." You instruct her.

She makes a sound somewhere between a sigh and a grunt, "C'mon Dude, I was making lunch...ooh, are these kebabs? Yum, these'll go down nice with some beer. If it's a military facility, it's gonna be classified. Remember we needed Sammy to get us to Suleiman, I didn't know jack about the place until she slipped me that file. She's a sneak, but I like her." The irony of Miles Longshadow calling anyone else a sneak is apparently lost on her.

"Well, if that's everything you need from me, I'll just be going..." Cornelius starts to shuffle away.

"Hold up Miles. Hey, Cornelius, I hate to disappoint you, but the Megabass is real. I'd been wondering where I heard the name before, and now I remember. Loriette told me she survived fighting it, it's piloted by some Jovian general." You call out after him.

He turns and looks at you, and for once, you can see profound worry behind the thick lenses of his spectacles, "Then this really is a war, and things really are as bad as they seem. Oh dear. Well, I'll just have to hope I live to see the end of it. War may be good for people in our profession, Roarke, but I don't relish the cost in human life. If it ends, maybe I'll get to see my great-grandchildren grow up." He smiles, the smile of a sad old man enjoying a sunspot of happiness, and shuffles away.

You shake your head. On the one hand, this conflict is probably keeping Fairchild from throwing a few Wels-classes at Auditorium. On the other hand, you're worried about it spilling even further into the Solar System. You talk into your PC again, "So, where is Loriette?"

"Eh? Who?" Miles scratches her head, you can hear it over the line.

"The Countess." You clarify.

"Oh, her! Why are you on a first-name basis with her? Oh, right, because she's cute. Hon hon hon le dirty peasant boy sacre bleu baguette and all that. She said she was leaving later today. To Karen, not me. Funny thing, that, for some reason she doesn't seem to like me at all!" She sounds mildly indignant.

>[Attend to business immediately]
>[Go to Loriette]

>>650383
>[Go to Loriette]

>>650383
>[Go to Loriette]
We need to have a bit of a talk with her about calling martian Heiresses and our second in command peasants.

>>650383
>>[Go to Loriette]
The colony isn't going anywhere

>>650383
>[Attend to business immediately]
Work before play.

>>650383
>Loriette
We got time to spare, could ask more about the Megabass, and see what shenenigans Karen is up to now

>>650383
The Rhinehawk has wooden floors?

>>650383
>>[Attend to business immediately]

>>650383
"It's probably because of your abrasive personality. Also, if you stole Fatima's kebabs she's can kick your ass now that she isn't a prisoner anymore."

>>650398
Waifu time!

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"It's probably a matter of clashing personalities, you can be a little abrasive." You note, leaving the room.

"Abrasive!? You asshole, I'm not fucking abrasive at all, my personality's as smooth as...as these pudding cups. Who left these in here? Maya? They look homemade." Miles sounds more indignant than ever.

"Mm. Those wouldn't happen to be Fatima's kebabs, would they?" You ask.

There's silence over the line.

"She's not a prisoner anymore, there's nothing stopping her from hitting you, including me." You note.

"Lemme see if there's a note." You hear the sound of foodstuffs rustling around, "If they're Moe's I'm eatin' 'em. Shooky's a nice girl but she'll make him as fat as Avi if she keeps stuffing him full of chow, I'm doing the kid a favor. A-hum, here we go, 'Roarke's Dinner for Tonight -F'."

Now it's your turn to be dead silent. You're a little touched, your Martian betrothed clearly enjoys spoiling you.

You hear the sound of someone taking a bite over the line. Munch. Munch. Munch.

"That's it, you're going back in the vents." You promise her, setting off for the Rhinehawk's bar at a run.

You hear the sound of someone hurriedly shoving something back into the fridge, the door slamming, and tiny feet running away before your First Mate hangs up.

[Continued]

>>650544
Miles, this is not what we meant by 'remove kebab'.

>>650383
>Go to lorriette

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You charge down the hallway, and directly into Fatima, barely catching her before the pair of you tumble into the floor. Your momentum still pushes her back against the wall, and you right up against her. She looks into your eyes, blushing, and puts her arms around you, "Roarke! This isn't proper, not here..." She might be haughty to everyone else, but you only see warmth and concern in her eyes as she looks you over, "Karen told me you were hurt. She says her grandfather forbade anyone from pestering you while you were being treated, but obviously such exclusions do not apply to me." You're fairly sure she's joking, "My poor wolf, another fight?" She shakes her head, "You remind me of a tomcat one of the servants on my father's estate adopted. A big, evil-eyed creature, a ferocious ratter but incredibly loving to humans. Yet every night it would go out to scrap with the other cats, and come home with its ears tattered and scars on its proud brow. Did you at least win?" She asks, stroking your hair.

You give her a cheerful grin, "You know I did. I always do. I'm invincible, remember?"

She tuts, smiles, and pecks your lips, "I shouldn't have said 'not here', I am quite comfortable being held by you. Does it hurt?"

You shake your head, "The skin is a little tight, but Cornelius said it should go back to normal in a few hours."

She smiles radiantly, "Good. I am going to go have tea with my four new sisters. I think having all of us sit down together, talk out our problems, and gossip is healthy, certainly better than waging a years-long passive-aggressive war over your affections because of some incident in a bar. I'm sure we can all get along if we try, we all have enough in common...including the fact that I will scold them if they cause trouble for you. Miss Colburn is coming as well, she's pleasant company and wants to ask us a few questions. JNN owns a women's periodical and apparently one of her coworkers wants to know some rather personal things about you for her articles." Her dark eyes dance with mischief, "I cannot lie, I am interested in hearing what the other girls have to say." She frowns suddenly, "Ah, so that's what was so different. Your sunglasses, where are they?"

"They perished valiantly saving my life." You explain, completely truthfully.

She chuckles, "How noble. I'm sure Karen will fix them, she can be crude sometimes and has an oddly feral cast to her personality...but she has a big heart. The modifications she and the good Doctor Clancy are planning for my Tarrasque take my breath away!" She squeezes you tight, then releases you, "Work hard, my brave prince, I have something special for dinner tonight." She winks, adjusting her headscarf and practically skipping away down the hall, stopping occasionally to look back at you with a smile.

You don't tell her about Miles taking a bite out of one of her kebabs, you don't need to spoil her good mood.


[Continued]

Hm, actually, since you're seeking her out...and input on how you want to approach Loriette? You know she's rather fond of you, and she could use some warmth and attention.

>>650684
Flowers and an invitation to tea would do wonders i'm sure.

>>650684
Rosita probably has a ballroom she isn't using right now. Have Lori dress up in her best dress and take here out for a night of dancing and a nice dinner No salads though

>>650684
Well, probably with some respect about the same as Fatima when we captured her(well, once she stopped biting and the like). See how she's holding up, if she has any questions, and just general consideration. If fatima is coming or not, show consideration to her as well.

Got a feeling Lori's main issue is culture confusion since Fatima and Miles teamed up on her and no one did anything.

>>650684
scourge up some flowers, take her into auditorium.

>>650714
This, including the last part, change it for missoshiro, it is quite fancy in my culture.

...And in Oda's too.

Say Wong, how's is Caesar reacting to the news about Roarke taking down a paladin, and the about his buddy Amos doing the same in one shot?

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That colony isn't going anywhere. Launching in the morning should be fine. Dinner isn't for some time, either, so you're in no rush. You stop by the hydroponics lab and pick up a bouqet of flowers, on impulse.

You knock on the door of the room Loriette has been using, the bouqet held behind your back out of sight.

"Oui?" She opens it, a hairbrush in her hand. Her room is simple, unadorned, as expected of a guest room. From the things laid out on the makeup table along one wall, it looks like she was maintaining her drills, "Ah! Rowarc...you came to see me off. I was worried I had insulted you in some way." She blushes, looking down at her feet, "I shall not trouble you, I can be the good little prisoner on my own ship. You must be tired of dealing with me, non?" She looks up at you with eyes as golden as a lioness', soft as spring sunlight.

You smile, and show her the flowers.

She gasps, her hands covering her mouth, "Oh! Oh...what is this? R-Rowarc...I do not understand..." She practically squirms in place.

>[Say something to charm her, you've already got an advantage so don't stress too much, even a dorky line from someone you like is still charming!]

>>650766

It's been a while since we've seen Caesar, hasn't it?

>>650798
"I could never tire of dealing with someone so lovely."

>>650798
Is it not customary for a gentleman to bring a beautiful lady flowers before asking her out to a walk out in town?

>>650798
Well seeing as your such a handful, I thought it appropriate that you have an escort

>>650798
Apologies if I have been busy. Training was a bit stricter than usual so I had to work for it. No worries about troubling me, I've dealt with plenty of problems.

Now, considering the look on your face, something seems to be troubling you. Mind telling me about it?

>>650798
>"its a peasant custom: A man usually brings flowers to a beautiful woman before asking her to spend time with him. By the way, are you doing anything tonight?"

>>650798
>I can't well let an honored guest of mine leave with a bad impression of Roarke's escort service, so get ready because I'm going to give you the best night of your life

>>650798
Very serious question, do roarke knows about "Flower lauguage?"
If so, the bouquet must mean something.

As for her:
>>650858
Plus "You don't understand? Hmmm... But would you like to be able to? I think it could begin with you letting me take your hand and bring you with me..."

>>650881
Don't think Roarke would know something so rare, especially when he's more a fighter than a botanist.

>>650903
You know who would? Sam for sure. Maybe Oda.

>>650909
Fatima probably, Lori might

I think the point is kind of moot considering far flung future tech, interplanetary plant life and a race of genocidal plant men souring the whole thing imo.

>>650935
got a point. many plants and flowers could have gone extinct and trying to find reasons for every flower considering foreign fauna would make it troublesome. Then there's the people who dealt with greenmen and I REALLY can't see them seeing any plantlife translating into 'DEATH DOOM AND SUFFERING'.

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"Are the customs different on Avalon? Here, it is normal for a gentleman to bring a lady flowers before asking her to accompany him on a walk through town. Training was more strict than usual, so I've been busy, but I'm free for a while now so..." You smile at her, giving her the flowers.

"Oui! I mean, of course you would be lovely." She sniffs the blossoms, her cheeks scarlet and her eyes sparkling, "Er, I-I mean that would be lovely! The exercise would be most pleasant, non? I hear from Miss Karin, ze daughter of your mentor, that upon le colony there is a grand lake, can we swim in it? Please, mon duckling? I love to swim almost as much as I love to dance, and I have not had the chance in so long..." She bats her eyelashes at you.

You gently tug one of her drills, letting go and watching it spring back into place, "Oui, of course. After all, an expensive escort service like mine should have luxuries befitting noble blood, non?"

Her cheeks redden even more, "You are a tease, surely I must be a burden and yet you treat me warmly."

You shake your head, "I could never get sick of looking at someone so beautiful, inside and out."

She squeaks incoherently and hides her face behind the flowers, "Rowarc! I...I...ma déesse~ I-I must refresh myself. Three minutes! Non, two! Then I am yours!" She spins gracefully, pulling the door shut. You smile as you catch a series of delighted squeals that she probably thinks you can't hear.

[Continued]

>>650966
Meh, I don't see that as a reason for people who love the pretty stuff to stop doing just that. We wouldn't have even been able to snag some flowers at all if people were that freaked out about em.

>>650975
ok, lori's gaining some points in the rankings now, that was cute.

>>650992
What I find cute and endearing is her two favorite things to do. Dancing and swimming. Two things a young girl who is crippled could never do.

>>650975
man, it took Fatima four weeks, two battles, and a duet to get a date. we must be getting soft.

>>650992
Ranking the girls is hard as shit their all best in their own way

>>651000
I know right? I'm just glad lori gets a chance to shine now.

>>650996
Nah, we're just getting better and better man. Plus each girl is different. Besides I'm figuring the difficulties with this waifu are just beginning.

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>>650996
Fatima was honestly the most interesting case, we didn't give a shit about her for the longest time and then bam their was just a crazy surge of people who wanted to waifu her

>>651007
What about all the interested parties coming to pay for her at the concert/tournament/wedding? If we do waifu her, I'm not against this, how do we deal with that?

>>651020
well, she's not the only paladin on the market anymore.

>>651020
>Eh I decided to keep her, now get the fuck off my land
We can be a bit nicer to the Martian since Fatima is pulling shit for us

>>650975
LORI A CUTE! A CUTE!!!

I really like her, she just needs more of that Solar love

>>651005
Me too.
>>650981
There is not only one "Dialect", in fact, we may have different "Flower language" depending on in which society we are.
Oda probably knows a few, though.

The problem is... We may cause misunderstandings.

(ANIME SHENANIGANS ENSUES)

>>649594
How was it?

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>>649594
How much did you pay for it?

>>651020

Knowing you guys you'll troll Fairchild the entire time. After all, you get to pick the offer you like, and nobody ever said you were going to be fair. After all, you're a pirate.

>>650995
Well, I think the Paladins in general may have been preserved so to speak. Sure they are kept youthful, but the way they act seems oddly youthful for their ages. The Duke acted more like a bright eyed young man than someone who was around the end of the war, Maria certainly seemed less world traveled than she claimed, and Lori also seems pretty innocent.

I don't know if that makes them less horrifying or more horrifying.

>>651020
Simple. We find any reason to take umbridge with our nemesis and let Lori go. She can go back to her people or stay with us. So far the avalonians haven't overstepped their bounds, they most likely won't attack us. We don't even have to take their money, since people can use it against us. It wouldn't be hard to piss Fairchild off anyways. Pirates live off screwing the system.

>>651017
It's because delicious brown infects the mind.

>>651060
Knowing Fairchild she deserves worse than trolling. But I agree on the not playing fair. Never play fair. Fair is for suckers and marks.

Okay, I'm all up for doing what a pirate does and giving everyone the finger and keeping Lori, but what about the Martians?

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If there's one thing you've learned, it's that even aces are human. She emerges shortly, resplendent in a blue gown with white ruffles and floppy blue bows in her hair. She hugs your arm and follows you to the mechbay, then to a shuttle.

"You will not tell the countess of this fief that I mistook her likeness upon the colony hull for a lady of the evening, non? Miss Karin was kind enough to correct me, although...it is the strangest thing, when first she heard it she broke down into the gales of merriment, such laughter that she was in tears! However, she was quite firm that I must never tell le Harpy Crimson of my mistake, and I agree most fully, it is shameful for one of my rank." She nods, as if repeating sage advice.

"Red Siren. A Harpy is a type of mech." You point at one of Red Siren's patrol harpies as the shuttle descends, putting your arm around Loriette to do so, "That one there, do you see?"

"Oui? It is not the Saracen Scimitar? It is so small, and has le shape..." She gestures with her hands, outlining the frame of a jet.

You shake your head, "Those are slightly bigger, and the Harpy transforms. See those bulges underneath? They fold out into legs, and those, there, are the arms..." You point them out and she nods as if committing it to memory.

"Such tiny striders, like le petit puppies. Tres charming." She leans against you unsubtly, "Rowarc, am I truly beautiful to you? Ah, it is a question selfish and improper, please ignore..." She twirls one of her drills around a fingertip.

"Yes, absolutely." You answer without hesitation.

She gives you a warm, guileless smile, "So are you. So indeed are you. It is no wonder so many love you." She rests her head on your shoulder, "Oh, and if I may...the Saracen woman, if she is of noble blood, am I permitted to duel her without your word? Where I come from, it is most impolite to chide another noble's retinue and servants, but Miss Karin insists that the Saracen is of the blood noble."

>[If you must, Loriette]
>[Don't do it, Loriette!]

>>651066
Did you read anything Maria said? She was the most Alien person we have encountered. We only saw a glimpse of her scariness because through sheer luck and gratuitous use of explosions we won. Less traveled my ass.

>>651066

Lori is also nowhere near as old as Maria or Eustace.

>>651119
>[If you must, Loriette]

>>651020
there are many ways to end the auction with little issue. 1; If Fairchild does something dirty it will sour negotiations because she can't be trusted to tell the truth. 2. Negotiating a deal that indirectly helps the other two. (i.e. Cease fires, withdrawal from the solar system, ect) 3. Something that Fairchild simply can't voice a complaint about. If they outbid her, if she can't bid, if her offer is subpar or she rejects an offer.

Make it so she can't spin the story and she will lose. 1 month cease fire buying Jovian forces time to recover, repair, and send their wounded and tired back home would be a great pr tool and gives their R&D team time to perfect some new machines.

>>651119
She is very dear to me, why do you feel the need to duel her? Also she has a name. Not the Saracen woman.

>>651137
Actually switch those two statements. Saracen woman then asking why while stating how dear she is. Sounds better.

>>651119
Agreeing with >>651142
>She's very dear to me and has a name, you know
>Why do you want to duel her?

>>651119
'Why' first. Got to have a reason before butting heads around here, and we don't know what this duel would entail.

>>651119
> what kind of duel?

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"If you must, but do you really have to?" You shake your head, "Her name is Fatima, not 'Saracen', and she is very dear to me. In fact, I was on Mars rescuing her from the honorless dog she was engaged to marry when I met you, why do you want to fight with her?"

She makes a face, "You misunderstand, mon duckling. She has insulted me, yes, but I do not hold that against her, I am an enemy and have killed Martians on the field, perhaps even people she knew. I am a Paladin of Avalon, it is my duty. This is simply how it is, oui?" She sighs and shakes her head, "If we duel, perhaps it will ease our grudge. Her people are proud, brave warriors, surely we can come to understanding through the clash of striders, non?" She smiles shyly at you.

You tug on one of her ringlets again, "Try talking, first. Do it with me there, perhaps, I'll keep you both civil as best I can." And in the back of your mind you hope that Fatima behaves as sweetly as she has around you recently even with Loriette there, "If that doesn't work, have your duel, but remember that I am an honorless pirate dog who will intefere if I think either of you is about to kill the other."

She kisses your cheek, "Pirate? Oui. Honorless? Non. I did promise to pay you for an escort to safe harbor, it was my own fault for not asking the price." The shuttle lands, and the two of you get out and exit the shuttleport, the artificial sunlight gleaming off its bright roof of clear glass. You walk out into the city, where she gasps and makes excited comments about the architecture. You're a little surprised, you figured someone from such an extravagant culture would find Red Siren's facsimile of an ancient Mediterranean city somehow flawed or tawdry, but she seems quite impressed.

[Continued]

>>651274
Objectively it would be interesting to see a melee mech like hers go against Big Goddamn Zam.

>>651317
does she even have anything that could pierce the barrier?

>>651317
personally, I was hoping for a fist fight in bikinis.

>>651338
Who says we can't push for that?

>>651344
Who says it won't just happen organically?

>>651338
zero-g space lube wrestling.

>>651354
Good lube is more water like. Would probably just float around the contestants, make it less efficient.

So, after watching everyone making efficient, cost effective mechs, I decided to make a 53 ton, Dragonball inspired mech instead.
http://pastebin.com/WDrZr57C
Also my weight calculations are off somewhere, and I need someone to check my work.

>>651363
That's why you coat them first. then shut off gravity mid fight.

i'm occupied DMing Mage the ascension right now guys, please handle this with care, I'm on for a duel, if its not letal.

>>651377
Then it's no longer zero-g wrestling ain't it?

>>651384
I've played old Changeling, Vampire and Werewolf myself. Good shit man.

>>651372
Dunno about the math but I love it.

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The two of you stop at a small parlour for ice cream. She gets some on her nose and giggles when you wipe it off, then eats it too quickly and gets brain freeze. When she recovers, she realizes that she doesn't have a swim suit and dashes into a lakeside store.

"Stay here, Rowarc, I'll be just a minute!" She promises, "Non, do not peek!"

You grumble, but obey. Inwardly, you're expecting something either very old-fashioned or very ornate and lazy. Instead, she surprises you. She emerges with her clothes in a bag provided by the shopkeeper, dressed in a smart blue, black, and bronze one-piece athletic competition swimsuit emblazoned with an illustration of a sawfish. It may not be the most provacative attire, but she fills it out splendidly, and does a little twirl for you to examine her, "Well Rowarc? Do you like it?"

You nod, staring rather shamelessly.

She blushes and puts a hand on your chest, pushing you, "Go change, mon duckling, then we shall go to the beach!" She laughs excitedly, and despite her own admonitions you hear the shopkeep distinctly tell her that she isn't allowed to peek into the changing room while you're in there. Thrice.

You walk down onto the sand, hand in hand, with the afternoon light shining on the water. The surf is cold at first, but it warms up rapidly as you sink in up to your chest. Loriette finds an unattended beach ball, and the two of you toss it back and forth, playing without reservation or care for the worries of your professional lives.

[Continued]

>>651384
Well, as I said, if any of her attacks are below 7kills, the Paladin cannot win. It'd be her using all her weapons and the Zam kicking at her or using that all around attack to destroy all her drills. It's actually a bad match up for Lori.

>>651409
And now all the rest of our waifus show up for a beach day after their interview

well goodnight guys, I have work tomorrow and gotta sleep, hopefully all goes well with lori.

>>651385
so what do we cal it? semi-g? demi-g?

>>651438
Bye Bro! Have a good rest!

>>651442
Semi-g sounds fun. If it happens of course.

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Eventually, she tucks the ball under her arm and splashes her way over to you through the waves. Her golden eyes shine like the sun as she runs her free hand over your chest, tracing the contours of your muscles. Her cheeks are flushed scarlet, and her golden eyes lowered to where her fingers meet your skin, but then she looks up at you and speaks quietly, "Non, I do not regret it. Honor or not, I do not regret being tricked. I do not regret meeting you. I do not regret our duel...and I do not regret losing to you. Had I the power of a deity, I would change nothing at all. Not even your choice to stay you rather than heed my entreaties to become yourself a Paladin." Her fingers tense slightly, the nails dragging across your skin, "To tell the truth...I have not enjoyed this war. It was my duty to fight, oui, but it is a sad thing to fight brave men and women whose striders are, and I say zis without insult, small and weak while I possess le mighty Anseis. I had hoped war would be like in le old stories, where brave knights face each other with respect and honor, and show le strength of their convictions with noble battle...but instead, I have witnessed slaughter. Even when I faced enemy officers, either they fell against me like the rest, or were a monstrous inequity like le Megabass that none can face evenly. Like a little girl, I was naive and my expectations foolish. Mon teacher, she told me that le solars fought by throwing away the lives of their people in droves, and I began to believe it. Until I met you, Rowarc." She shakes her head softly, "It was not until it was done, until I lay in bed that night, that I realized how happy I had been as we danced among the stars. You and that brutish strider you move so well, they were the one good thing I have known since the fighting began." Her smile becomes more playful, and she reaches up and pinches the tip of your nose, "Which is why I shall beat you to that island, there! Swim as fast as you can, Rowarc, don't leave me sunning on the shore too long!" She laughs, splashing water on you and diving into the waves like a fish, making her way towards a small island populated by young trees some way out from the shore.

>[Roll 1d10+17, Reflexes plus Athletics]

Rolled 8 + 17 (1d10 + 17)

>>651479

Rolled 7 + 17 (1d10 + 17)

>>651479
Gotta go fast, add 2 luck

Rolled 2 + 17 (1d10 + 17)

>>651479

Rolled 4 + 17 (1d10 + 17)

>>651479
SWIM KING IS GO!!!

>>651485
Best result

>>651490
best view.

Rolled 2 + 17 (1d10 + 17)

>>651479

>>651479
dice+1d10+17

>>651502
Options anon.

>>651516
Well there is the fish, then there are the dumplings and soup, we also have steamed vegetables and chicken potstickers, three types of cheese for your cheeseburger and smoked ham. Drinks are on the back of the menu.

>>651519
No various types of steak or pork? For shame.

>>651519
I'll take beef dumplings and some soup. And a burger

>>651525
Pork is off the menu today for religious reasons.

And we ran out of steak. Maybe not wait until the end of the day to get your steak on.

>>651532
Sounds like a shit restaurant with shit employees. Who runs out of steak and at dinner time? or any time for that matter?

>>651537
It's 1 in the morning, sir. You've been sitting here for five hours not ordering.

>>651540
The customer is always right pal.

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You dive in after her. The two of you tear through the surf like mated sharks, honed and focused, skin glistening. Sometimes she pulls ahead, sometimes you do, but your hearts are pounding as you both stumble onto the island at exactly the same time.

Your eyes meet, and you both start laughing, collapsing onto the sand in the shade of the trees. She crawls over to you, and much to your surprise, pounces, her body laying halfway across yours as she wraps her arms around your shoulders and kisses you fiercely. Her lips are soft and her tongue is agile, and she kisses you over and over and over as if afraid that if you stop for even a second that she'll never get to do it again. Finally, even a Paladin can run out of breath, and she rests in your arms with her backside on your lap, her head on your shoulder.

"Rowarc, I do not want this dream to end." She closes her eyes, a pleasant shiver running through her as the cool lake breeze tickles your skins. "Mon cousin was right, I am a dishonorable, selfish woman who takes her blood and gifts too lightly...but still, I do not want this dream to end. It cannot be wrong, feeling this happy."

You shake your head, "I've never fled from happiness, but then, I'm not a Paladin either. Just me."

She grins, "Just you is more than enough my sweet and perfect duckling." She's wearing a small implement like an antique wristwatch, and it beeps at her. She taps it and activates a small holographic screen, it must be some kind of Avalonian PC. Then she frowns, "Rowarc, I cannot stay. Le repairs on mon Anseis are complete and...and I need to be there when it wakes up. Le Duc de Rothschild-Beauchamps says it is silly, but mon teacher, le Duchess Carnegie, taught me that the bond between the Paladin strider and the Paladin rider is strong, and since le Paladin is a living thing, it responds to us. Mon Anseis cannot speak or express its feelings, but...anyone would want someone there for them when they wake up from a long sleep." She smiles sadly, cupping your face in her hands and kissing you soft and slow, "Mmmm...Rowarc~"

You kiss her back, long and deep, then look into her eyes, "No matter what happens, we have a quarter of a standard year together at least."

She smiles secretively, "That...that, mon Rowarc, makes me happier than anything."

Game resumes in the same thread Wednesday!

Thanks for running, have a good night everybody.

>>651545
>"Mon cousin was right, I am a dishonorable, selfish woman who takes her blood and gifts too lightly"
Nah, she just jealous that you can pay the rent without handouts from old men.

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Thanks for running Wong. It was a great thread. I want to add Lori to the harem even more than before.

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Thanks for running Wong, as aways, it has been an honor.
Have a good week!

Incidentally, don't 100% count on it but later tomorrow (which is today at this point where I am) I MIGHT handle the dinner with Fatima if people are around.

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>>651577
Always lurking here, I don't join in on the technical discussions but it's nice when they talk about mech designs or ideas on what to do.

>>651584
lordy lord, that one is hella good looking. That Thunderbolt Gundam?

>>651584
Me too, i hang around so much that my friends are getting jealously of you guys '-'.

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>>651589
Yes but I haven't seen the OVA yet, I have taken a break after marathoning most of the Gundam franchise, sans Seed, Reconquista(?), Origin and Unicorn. I did watch Ibo but it was on hulu. I need to watch less American shows and more mecha.

>>651589
>>651594

I'm trying to start on Victory, but after I marathoned 079 through ZZ it's hard to refocus.

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>>651600
Victory is in my top three for UC. I won't post any images from it since it's all spoilers but Uso is a damn fine pilot the battles were tight and the Victory is one of my favorite Gundam designs.
1. Nu
2. Zeta
3. Victory
Not in a specific order you can't make me choose

>>651603

I'd just like to say that Zeta was astoundingly baller too.

Two words. Beam bayonet.

Also, a note on repeating songs: Roarke has been in enough battles as a pirate that him repeating songs wouldn't be that unusual. Miles and Richard have probably heard 'Breaking the Law' by Judas Priest at least a dozen times by now.

>>651613
Well, the new season of Iron Blooded Orphans started, and I have to admit, it's looking good so far.

>>652022
Still shit animation though.

>>652022
Like the mecha, story's and characters are pretty meh though.

I might give it a try to see the new mobile suits, but I can't really give a shit about the characters.

Hey Wong, what are you going to do if 4chan gets shut down due to no money?

>>652162
I buy 4chan and we continue as usual, don't worry man.

>>652162
Is that even a likely occurrence?

>>652264
Well have you noticed there are no adds on the bottom of the page anymore?

>>652274
Not until you pointed it out

>>652321
I wasnt too worried until someone said the adds were gone.

>>652333
>>>/qa/706294
Shit

>>652359
How the fuck did Jap Moot fuck things up so fast?

>>652369
>Japan
Like the Grory Japan de Empire of DEAD Franchises?

>>652369
Its been like a year and a half

>>652385
And Moot ran it for twelve years before without anything like this as far as I know

>>652391
To my knowledge he ran it at a loss the entire time.

>>652359
>close some boards
My tinfoil hat is tingling that qst will be on the chop and the quests will remain banned from tg on the excuse of "traffic hog"

>>652391
I have reason to believe 4chan was already heading this direction with or without moot.

>>652397
Well, there's always Akun

>>652404
Thats probably the most likely way this is going to end, and honestly it won't be that bad. Akun is different but its not bad

>>652404
How's that tgchan thing? Bad, good, dead?

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>>652404
>>652428
What the ell is a Akyuuun~~??

>>652480
Seconding this, Who is this Akun that you speak of?

>>652480
>>652548
https://anonkun.com/
Its a questrunning site, based on /tg/s quests but with different structure.

>>652582
I followed a few people who migrated there, and it's not terrible, and there's a few decent original quests there as well (The Tribe is fucking awesome).

(Un)Fortunately, smut is fucking rampant there. almost every goddamn quest has porn in it, so if you prefer your quests to be smut-free, you'll have a hard time finding something worthwhile.

I'm hoping for another encounter with the First Mate soon. I really want to end him once and for all

>>652868
Her.

>>652892
It.

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>>652892
It.

Since Wong won't make a twitter for the quest, should one of us just do it? I mean ya it won't do any good if he cancels but it will let people know when a thread is live

>>652892
>>652868
>>652900
Them

>>652892
Xir

>>652910
That Punkass Bitch.

>>652907
You shoudn't do it bro, he will get mad about it, didn't you see what he said about twitter? And i wont blame him, because i agree with in that regard about the actual nature of twitter.

>>652369
I believe part of it is because people think pepe is apparently a symbol of hate and hillary and those types fucking around has made the add people pull out. Or at least thats what one anon said.

>>653244
I had a feeling, I just hoped that people weren't that stupid. Life is getting to feel like one long Twilight Zone episode now

>>652404
Or sufficient velocity

>>653261
Soon there will be nowhere left where you dont have to be nice to people out of fear of some SJW calling you out and smearing your name. People hate the smug anime girls, the frog posters and the namefags now but they will miss them when they are gone.

Well maybe not the namefags

>>653282
I'm very sad with the direction the world is turning to, and today in Brazil was an election day for electing the cities mayors and prefectures... deputees?I don't know what the exact translation would be.

Anyway, as things are going, what i see is SJW and socialism growing more fanatic and imbecile day by day, and the right growing with anger and extremism in awnser to that...
(What doesn't matter much because here in Brazil almost every politician is either corrupt or allied with one who are, and you choose them not based in principles or something, but basing in who will tweak things into your favor in detriment of others...)

I just want freedom of speech and to be left alone without people stealing my money in the name of the greater good man, who do we need to kill to get that?

>>653379
>who do we need to kill to get that?
Everyone

>>653379
By the sound of it...the current majority of your voting base

I wonder who Roarke would have in his Harem if he took the Navy route? Most likely Clemmy and Sam still, maybe Lori

>>653393
>>653434
As thing sgoes... The discussion of politic matter tend to go with both sides claiming the other is corrupt while trying to convince unalied people of their innocence, using arguments based on "I was framed by the opposition!" or "My opposition is worse than me! They favor (Someone their side claims as BAD) people while making things more difficult to (YOU)!" or even "Hey, i admit it, i do steal your money in my own benefit!But, do you know what?Everyone does it, but i at least use part of the money to do something to you guys."
And then people try to defend their favorites anyway, while most of them don't really knows half of how the government works.

If you guys want, i could tell you the bizzarre "Game of Throne-esque" saga that happened not so long ago in our government... You may have fun with it, the creators of House of Cards seems to have liked it, in fact.

>>653551
And all of that without mentioning the almost "Noble Lineages" that rules some parts of the Country as personal dominions...I'm very thankfull that i didn't was born in one of them.

>>653551
>>653592
Go for it bro
I needed more reasons not to go to Brazil anyway

>>653282
In short, you want a safe space from SJW.

>>653683
Yeah but the difference is I want to be safe from some prick with fake glasses making my life miserable because I said something was retarded rather than because the sight of another human being causes me to hyperventilate.

>>653743
>>653683
That type of shit will pass when the next major conflict breaks out. Like the saying goes
Hard men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men create bad time, and bad times create hard men.

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In the interest of discussing things that aren't politics: have the Final version of the Valkyrie Close Assault Mech: http://pastebin.com/LkDJjdpF
As you can see, I dropped the crosslinked beam sabers for a quick two handed beam naginata, and ended up saving space and cost while improving damage. Thus proving that crosslinking beam weapons is usually a terrible idea unless you don't already have a pair of quick weapons.
Anyway, I've got two potential pilot backgrounds for her, and I wanted people's opinion on them. The First is based on Kirara/Mihoshi, who is a singing and dancing pilot idol from Gundam Build Fighters. She also pilots the Gebera Tetra, which automatically makes her good. She would be a relatively new recruit to Red Siren's Pirate Crew, who wants to make it big as an idol and a pilot. Young, bubbly and naive, but with talent.

The Second is based on Lucrezia Noin from Gundam Wing. She was a fairly serious yet simultaneously gentile military pilot and reciprocated love interest of the resident Char Clone. In this formulation, she's an old friend of Rossetta who joined the military while she went into show business. After the whole stabbing incident, she ended up resigning her commission and became her best friend's long suffering second in command. In this instance, she's joined the tournament to represent her pirate gang, and to try to ensure that the Iron Kestrels don't get ALL the good new pilots.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqioAAFt7_I

This is the tale of a judge who became a hero and a japanese federal police agent that went from a symbol of justice to just one more dissapointment, the tale of conspiracy between powerhungry commies and a man who went in a quest for salvation and veangence... And a tale how families tore themselfs apart because of political preferences...

From where i should begin?

I guess we got to begin with how the Workers Party got in power and build this biggest scheme of corruption documented in the world...

it was 2002 when President Lula was elected, he was this carismatic leader of the masses, that came from a difficult life as a "Mechanic something" who lost a finger in a industrial accident in the installation he worked at, with his proposals about protecting the workers and poor classes who are the majority of voters, and being unnalied with the old guard of politician who were in power since the time of the military dictatorship, he became this sort of national hero who could make everything look much better just with his oratory.

And at first, everything looked okay, and brazil grew economically under his government(in fact, by other factors non-aligned with his gestion, he got lucky with the tides of time) and he created various social programs that improved the quality of life of the poor by giving them food and all sort of help.

But you should know that this isn't exactly a happy story.

In a few years, his government was assaulted by scandal after scandal. Because, away from the eyes of the population, he and his party deviced this magnanimously scheme of corruption to be able to maintain themselfs in power, with included bribes to politicians and all sorts of private enterprises with public funding, to either have their support in their campaigns or in the lower house/senate.

Meanwhile, people obviously became muchkins using the social programs to minmax their lives in a way that they didn't need to work or pay taxes and could live at the expense of the state, creating all sorts ridiculous situations that the opposition keep pointing at.

As the time went, nobody was ever punished from any scandal, because politicians are judged by the "Supreme Tribunal of the Federation"(STF for short) that have Judges appointed by the people in power obviously... And them the economic good wave passed and people started to noticed things like lula giving hugs to this ridiculously corrupted people who he had denominated as some of the worse human beings and saying that they got better now that they were in his side.

One of them, Paulo Maluf, is this absurdly corrupt São Paulo's ex-governor and twice mayor who is actually chased by the Interpool,France, Jersey islands Police and know as a renomed example of corruption by the World Bank and ONU, a man who is so infame that has a verb in his name, "Malufar", that means "To steal government money", and was a elected by the proverb "He steals, But do something!

>>654333
Please keep /pol/ in /pol/

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>>654355
Anon asked for this

>>648820
isn't the kk's face supposed to have sharp teeth like a shark?

>>654333
Always Commies ain't down in South America?
>>654355
I have better /pol/ conversations off /pol/ than on it.

>>654417
*isn't it. for top part

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>>654333
Funny fact abou Lula's powers with people: One time he lowered the "2012 END OF THE WORLD" paranoia and became a meme with the frase "Calm down, you know how Brazil goes, when it gets here, it will be just a breeze!"

>>654417
I didn't understand the question... but if i get it right... The popularity of Communist/Socialist ideology varies wildly depending with where you are, one good example is, excluding some more desperate communities that vote for whoever gives them something, the only big Workers Party voters base is in the North (Because of problems that goes back to my Great-Great-Grandfather time, but that's is another story) while things are more distributed in the rest of the country.

>>654434
This image really happened, this is not a joke.

>>654507
Didn't she get impeached? and hey, at least you're not Venezuela.

>>654530
Venezuela is what happens when an actual socialist government is run by someone stupid even by socialist standards.

>>654564
Man, the PT(Workers Party) is this comedic villain in the sense that they try to do this overly big things but are too dumb to really be sucessfull,having everything backfiring in them in some sense because they aways forget some vital aspect of the plan.

>>654564
Should be interesting to see how that situation goes down. sooner or later the public will break and shit will get bloody. and i don't understand why some people say it wasn't a real socialist government.