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Five years after the events of the first Mechagirl Pitfighter Quest.

https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Mechagirl

The bar is playing one of the fights. A gynoid with buzzsaw arms and angel wings picks apart one of the many catgirl models. Someone thought cat vs bird was a fun theme, but the cat is getting taken apart. She slashes again and again with superheated claws that glow bright crimson, but only hits air. Flight is such a powerful ability.

They used to have these fights outlawed on the moon.

Two guys start talking about the action. You keep you mouth shut. In a moment of weakness, you revealed who it was you worked for. It wasn't a good experience. People like the fights, they don't like who runs them.

It's good they don't. You probably wouldn't like you if you met yourself, honestly.

"Why always girl robots?" one of them asks the other. His accent indicates he's from one of the deep-space cannisters. He's a "canned human." He's not from around here, not from Earth, so he doesn't get it.

"Well, it's because of the Jupiter conflict." his friend replies. Conflict. Such an Earthman way to describe it.

"Gynoids were used a lot in the war. It was found enemies were more reluctant to fire on them if they looked like women. After the war, you had a lot of them running around and spoiling for a fight. So they started the fights to focus that energy, keep them from starting trouble."

"But why are the new ones girls? Why not any men?" the canny asks.

His friend shrugs. "I don't know. Beats me."

But you know.

Psychology and market research.

People care about them more when they're women. It activates the protective instincts, and other, less respectful instincts.

The catgirl takes a deep cut across her chest. Sparks fly in a golden arc. You can't tell if she's figured out she's going to lose or not. It's hard to read the expression of the model. She may not be the kind that's allowed to ever think she's going to lose.

You don't get to see how the fight ends. Not that you cared much, anyway. Paul wires you through the noosphere. A circuit in your inner ear rings with his voice.

"They junked her."
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>>5517548
You're out of the bar and running.

They junked her.

You can't believe it.

They junked her.

You knew they were going to have her fight her replacement. It was the final proof that the new model was superior to the old model. But to junk her? Why? She still had use. They could have put her in any cheap body frame and she could have been a teacher.

There was no need to do this to her.

Maybe one of the heads were pissed? She had an attitude. They said attitude played well to the audience. The champ on the moon had one hell of an attitude. But she tended to mouth off to the heads. Maybe that's why.

You know where they junk gynoids. You make a noos call, half out of breathe, and you keep running.

You can't afford her but you buy her anyway.

You're one of the, you realize. You got worked up over a doll, over a toy. Ha ha. He thinks the doll is a woman. They always teased you about how you smiled at the toys and how happy you looked when they talked back to you

You don't care. You know what happens to junked gynoids. The sickos get to them. They like that they're weak and broken. It excites them, like bleeding prey to a predator

You don't care. You won't let that happen to her. You don't care. Think about how you'll pay the loans later. Think about what your coworkers will say later.

You don't care.
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>>5517562
They called her Fan Fire, because of the peacock-like tail. It was the reason she was made. Vortex Industries wanted to test their new and improved multi-function drone network and chose to put it on a gynoid fighter to get around taxes they would otherwise have to pay testing it as a weapon through traditional channels.

It was an old trick. Lots of companies used the gynoids to test weapons.

Basically, the gem-like feathers of her tail could separate and fly at the target as a storm of razor sharp jewels.

They can't do that now. They're smashed. Totaled. Just like the rest of her.

God, the replacement blew her apart.

You can't wake her up like this, it would be cruel.

You got to fix her up. But that requires money. Even doing all the work yourself, you need parts.

And that requires money.

>Take out a conventional loan.

>Use a loan shark. Better rates at the cost of working with organized crime--not that Vortex wasn't already in bed with the criminal element,

Time to make a choice.
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Let's start this spicy.
>Loan Shark
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>>5517568
Make the hard choice and let go. Nothing lasts forever.
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>>5517577

Let go? Oh no no no. When have you ever been that strong? If you could have said no, you wouldn't have ended up working for Vortex in the first place.

What drove you to buy a broken doll from a man that grinned at you when you handed him the check?

Guilt, maybe? Guilt of scuttling in the back as her sad drama played out before your eyes, as you watched the heads do to her what they do to all their experiments?

No. That sounds a little noble, doesn't it? Why not lust? Can we go with lust? She's pretty. All gynoids are pretty, but you always thought the way she moved, the way she acted, the way she talked...

Dollfucker. That's what they would call you.

Why not go with insanity? You're insane. You're going to be working for Vortex for the rest of your life paying off your loans and for what, so you can patch up a toy and give her a ticket to the moon where they've treated gynoids much better than on Earth ever since the champ staged an uprising.

Crazy, guilty, horny. Whatever. You're in too deep now to change course. Hell, you're taking out even more loans now.

>>5517575
>1 vote for loan shark
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>>5517568
> Loan shark

At least they're honest about destroying you.
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>>5517590
You love the doll, but does the doll love you? (Vote for Loan Shark if it actually does.)
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>>5517568
>>Take out a conventional loan.
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>>5517575
>>5517603
It took making a deal with people even the devil wouldn't want to barter with, but you got it--

Money. Lots and lots of money.

And now you watch that money go bye-bye as you fix up Fan Fire.

Gold skinned. Like a living trophy. Long, ruby red hair, each a tube of reinforced glass. Real girls don't have skin this perfect or proportions so mathematically precise.

They also can't come back from the dead.

Her peacock system is busted. Each perfect, flashing gem is now a shattered mirror. You think a few of them might still work. Maybe. The rest of her combat systems were detached. They gutted her. They weren't about to throw anything salvageable out with the rest of the trash.

When you're sure she can move without any pain or impairment, you wake her up.

Her eyelids slide open. Her red eyes flash with life. Her fingers flex. Her toes move.

There's a brief look of surprise on her face which quickly fades to understanding. She remembers the fight.

She looks down at herself. Touches a spot where a hole large enough for you to stick your arm through used to be.

"...I lost. Didn't I?"

"Yes."

What the hell were you supposed to say, no?

Her peacock system crackles. The useless, busted gems grind themselves trying to respond.

The feathers swing around. She touches the gems.

"No. No no no no no..." She grabs her head. You think she'd probably be sobbing, if she could cry. "No no no no,,,"

>What do you Say/Do?

>>5517619
You don't know. You have no idea.

Maybe not. Maybe she shouldn't. She probably shouldn't.
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>>5517639
Hug her to calm her down.
"It's okay, you did your best. Everything's going to be fine from now. You have me."
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>>5517639
what an unexpected blast from the past

>It's okay, everything's going to be fine now.
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>>5517645
>>5517666
She clings to you.

"They took...they took everything out of me! I have nothing! I'm defenseless!"

Then she composes herself and remembers she doesn't know you.

"Who are you?"

A mechanic. One of many. You built the weapons she used to fight with and said absolutely nothing even though you knew about the gynoid that came before her.

"I was one of the weaponers. You probably didn't notice me."

"What am I doing here?"

I bought you from the junkpile because I couldn't stand the thought of some degenerate pervert getting your hands on you.

"They gave you to me."

"They did say they...expected me to win."

Of course they would lie to get peak performance out of her during her final fight.

"I figured they would punish me if I lost. Mom and Dad didn't like that I didn't do so good in my last few fights. I didn't think they would punish me like this though. All my stuff is gone! How am I supposed to fight now?"

Mom and Dad. Jesus Christ you almost forgot about that. They had her call the heads Mom and Dad.

You remember the conference on how quasi-familial relationships lead to higher performance and a desire for self-improvement. They fight harder if they think they're loved.

Oh god you want to throw up.

"You can't fight anymore."

"I know, that's the problem!"

"It's not a problem. You're done, okay? I'll get you a shuttle to the moon. Its' a good place for gynoids."

"What? No! I got to get back to fighting. I need to show Mom and Dad I can still fight! How are they going to give me another chance if I don't fight again?"

"You used all your chances. Don't you get it? They don't want you."

"They don't want me because I lost. If I go out and win I'll--"

"No, goddamn it!" you brandish the control remote. "It's over. Don't you get it? Over. No more fighting. I own you now. Do you think they would have given you to someone like me if they ever wanted to see you again?"

She stares at the remote.

You put it away. Goddamn it, this isn't going like it should.

"I put you back together so believe me when I tell you it's over for you. Every weapon, every battle system, everything you had is gone. You go back to even an entry level arena you'd get shredded, and then no one will want you."

Fan Fire shoves you.

It's not a strong shove. All those micro-kinetic tendon straps were taken out. But it's still enough to knock you on your ass.

You and Fan Fire stare at each other.

>Say/Do?
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>>5517674
We gotta pull out the persuasion skills.
"Mom and Dad don't love you like a daughter, they view you as a tool for fighting. Love isn't about how well you kill others. Love is a lot more than that. I love you no matter what. They aren't here because they never loved you. I'm here because I always did."
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>>5517682
>mom and dad only viewed you as a tool; a replaceable one at that. actually, said replacement was the one that fought and defeated you. i'm the only one that cares about you right now.
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>>5517714
>>5517682
>>5517674
Add this and other potentially good arguments.
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>>5517682
>Mom and Dad don't love you like a daughter, they view you as a tool for fighting. Love isn't about how well you kill others. Love is a lot more than that. I love you no matter what. They aren't here because they never loved you. I'm here because I always did.

Do you love her?

You guess. You've never been the most social of people. Maybe you love her. Maybe you don't. But you spent all your money on her. You wouldn't do that for just anyone else.

She glares at you. "Pussy."

Good to see her personality matrix hasn't been compromised.

"You know, gynoids get killed for attacking humans."

"Then kill me. I'd rather be dead than stop fighting. A fight isn't over until the loser gives, and I'm not giving up."

"You did give up."

"You think I don't remember that?" She slaps her chest, causing a percussive clang to echo across the garage. "I remember the fight. I had a hole in me from here to here!" she points to a spot from her navel to her shoulder. "She had me. She knew it and I knew it and I hated that I knew it. Then...I gave. I gave because I thought she was going to kill me. I powered down and...I gave up to her."

Power down and opening one' systems to the winner is the traditional sign of submission, but often other signs are demanded. For gynoids with some class, they may demand something as simple as a bow. Fan Fire's replacement didn't demand she bow. She demanded that she grovel, that she beg for her life, that she lick her feet.

And Fan Fire did.

"Sure I gave, but I'm not giving up here, now. If I stop fighting now that means I gave up forever! Look, you fixed me. So I know you can give me weapons!"

You could. Cheap ones, of course, but you could. And it's not like she's some fresh out of the box gynoid. She has enough experience that she probably could do well in the entry level league...well enough to pay back those loan sharks...

No. No. No way.

She's got a one-track mind. It's how she was built. She's not going to be satisfied in the entry level. She's not going to be satisfied until she gets another shot at her replacement.

And her replacement will kill her if they fight again.

"There's your power station." you point to a cushioned bed and a mess of tangled wires. Best you could do.

You start to walk away.

"Hey! Wait! Where are you going?"

"I'm going to bed. I'm tired." God, are you. "We'll talk about taking you to the moon tomorrow."

"But I don't want to go to the moon!"

"Like I said, we'll talk tomorrow."

........

She's gone when you wake up, laving the busted peacock system on the floor.

Your door is missing too.

For one brief, stupid moment, you think she might have been stolen, then you realize where she actually is.

The remote leads you to a little local fighting club--the Artemis Club, a large octagonal arena sealed in a cage, modeled off what people used to use to fight people, when people did such things.
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>>5517721
sooo.... how much do we need to know/remember of the previous quest?
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>>5517721
She's in the arena fighting without any of her weapons against a brass skinned beauty with blonde hair.

Brass girl doesn't have many weapon systems, but a few is greatly more than zero, and she is beating the crap out of Fan Fire.

Someone who you guess has some sort of authority here approaches you.

"Hey buddy? You Fan Fire's owner?"

You show him the remote. "Yes."

"Not really my business how you handle your property mister, I mean if you want your gynoid to walk on in and fight by herself, okay, I've heard some guys do that, just send them out and come by to pick up the pieces later, but uh, you might want to throw in the towel."

Brass girl delivers a kick right to the side of Fan Fire's face, planting a dent in her cheek.

"Just trying to save you money on repair bills is all."

>Surrender for Fan Fire. Press the button.

>Talk to Fan Fire. Maybe she can win if you talk her through the fight?
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>>5517725
Honestly, nothing at all.

This takes place 5 years after the previous quest on a different planet.

This is like Resident Evil 4 where you don't need to play 1-3 to enjoy it, but it may help you get the easter eggs and cameos.
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>>5517730
>Talk to Fan Fire. Maybe she can win if you talk her through the fight?
we're already drowning in loans as it is; losing a bit more of cash in repairs is meaningless at the moment, and who knows, fan fire might actually get her shit together and win.

>>5517732
oh that's great. i remember reading the OG quest a bit in the past, but i don't remember shit about it
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>>5517730
Press surrender. Promise to outfit her with something big that will actually help her win a fight instead of going bare handed.. Tweak her personality matrix to help her see reason.
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>>5517737
>>5517740
Need a tie breaker.
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>>5517730
>Surrender for Fan Fire. Press the button.
She will hate us, but it's for her own good.
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>>5518260
You press the button.

Fan Fire falls to her knees. The brass girl stops her kick mid-throw. Good thing she has some honor.

Her cyber defenses fall in surrender. She clenches her fists and shakes in helpless fury.

"I HATE you..." she says over the remote.

"I'll get you weapons." you'll have to. It's clear at this point she really will die before she stops fighting.

"You better. You owe me for this. I was going to win."

"Yeah sure. I can tell by that dent in your face."

The brass girl grins and throws her hands up high. The crowd cheers.

FAN FIRE HAS SURRENDERED! THE WINNER IS TEA POTS!

Tay-a Pots? How cute. Because she's brass like an old teapot, no doubt.

"Damn it." Fan Fire hisses over the remote. "I didn't surrender, you did, they should say you surrendered!"

Tea pushes Fan Fire's face to the mat with her foot. You hope this isn't going to get rough.

"Nice fight, rookie! You got guts, but it's like everyone told you, you can't fight just with a body!"

"Next time I'm going to scrap you!"

"And people say I get all steamed up! Learn to be humble after you submit."

"I didn't submit, my owner did!"

"Hun, that's because he doesn't want to scrape you off the arena floor. You ought to thank him."

Tea yanks Fan Fire up by the hair.

"So what are you going to do to me?" Fan Fire asks.

"Just going to finish you off with my signature is all. Won't hurt. Promise."

Tea opens her mouth. The crowd cheers as steam spews forth.

Steam based weaponry. Cheap, but not bad. You remember one high-stakes match at Vortex where the chosen favorite lost because her opponent's steam weapons kept her sliding around.

Tea grabs Fan Fire's red hair.

And crushes her lips against her own.

Fan Fire's eyes go wide as she's filled with smoke.

You check the remote. Tea is showing mercy. She could have made the steam hot enough to damage internal systems, but she didn't. If anything, it's given them a nice cleaning.

Fan Fire falls to the ground, coughing steam, as Tea lets her go.

>Say/Do?
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>>5518277
>*sigh* come on, lets get you patched up
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>>5518329
Supporting

Why does Fanny's mouth connect to her internals at all?
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>>5518337
probably(definitely) for the pleasure of the viewer, and looks like she just did a finishing move on her, not an actual hack
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>>5518329
>>5518337
>>*sigh* come on, lets get you patched up

"You better make me real strong." she rubs the dent on her face. "This is because of you..."

She leans on you as you lead her out of the Artemis Club.

"Hey." Tea approaches you. "You her owner? You kind of left her hanging, man. She just showed up and entered herself. Everyone told her not to, but you know, you step onto the mat, you're fair game."

Fan Fire positions herself behind you.

"Hey, don't be afraid of me." Tea said. "You did pretty good for someone without any weapons."

"You made me suck steam. I'll get you for that. And I'm not hiding behind him, I'm just not letting him hide behind me! He pressed the button on me."

"You know how these fights work. I doubt you would have just let me go if I hollered uncle."

"Next time I'm not going to let you go at all!"

Tea turns to you. "She's got quite a spirit. She might have gotten me with a little support. Where were you, man?"

"We had a...miscommunication is all. Next time she'll be better prepared."

"Well if you need to know a good weapon supplier, I know one."

Tea gives you an address. And its good she did. You only know where to get expensive Vortex technology. You're honestly in the dark when it comes to shopping for gynoid weapons at this level.

>Say/Do?
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>>5518398
Tea is a sis.
>Tell Fan to go easy on her once she inevitably wins (out of Tea's earshot ofc)
>Have a good talk with Fan about her motivation to fight while we're fixing her.
We need to impress on her that her "parents" don't actually love her. Even if she wins over her replacement this time, they'll just pit her against the next one.
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>>5518398
>focus on getting fan fire repaired first; ask what happened over there. she knew she wasn't able to fight, so what was her reasoning?
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>>5518444
>>5518446
You thank Tea for the address and carry out Fan Fire on your back. The frame and basic machinery is made to be ultra-light. It allows for modular weapons to made heavily and cheaply.

It's not hard to carry her now, but once you start adding things to her, that might change.

You can tell her pride is wounded. Though she should be grateful that the fighters of the Artemis Club have standards. Tea was a saint compared to what other fighters.

"Hey. When you beat her, go easy on her, okay? She was nice to you."

"She humiliated me."

"Yeah, because you lost, and that's what happens when you lose, but she went easy on you and you know she did."

"I'm going to pay her back."

"Then pay her back, but be fair when you do so. Only a slight bit of humiliation, nothing major. Be fair."

It doesn't take much at all to fix her. That's another thing you owe Ms. Potts. A few dents, that's nothing.

"Ouch..." she mutters as you pop out the dent on her cheek.

"So what the hell were you thinking going off to fight on your own like that without any weapons?"

"I thought since you weren't going to help me I was going to help myself."

You sigh.

This is how she was made. She's programmed to be a conqueror, a phoenix lording over her lowly prey.

"Go to the moon," yeah right, what were you thinking?

Still, you got to try and convince her...

"Why don't we head to the Moon? They have gynoid fights on the Moon. They have lots of rules. They're very considerate of gynoid fighters on the moon."

"Fuck the moon. Earth is my territory. Here is where I rule."

Okay. So that's how this is going to be.

You're a mechagirl fighter now.

Welp. Now you got a shot at paying off some of those bills.

"Then let's get something straight." You look Fan Fire right in her red eyes. "I'm not your owner. I'm your trainer and you're my fighter. You're my investment and I expect a return. No more stupid, stupid, stupid stunts like what you just pulled. You think you can win without proper gear? You can't. You suck without gear. You get killed without gear."

"Then give me gear. Give me the best gear."

"I'll get you what I can afford after..."

You almost said "bought you."

Maybe you should.

>Don't tell Fan Fire you bought her out of a junkyard

>Tell Fan Fire you bought her out of a junkyard
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>>5518477
>Tell Fan Fire you bought her out of a junkyard
the earlier we tell her, the better in the long run. i mean, she already knows she got trashed, so it shouldn't matter to know from where we got her
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>>5518477
>Tell Fan Fire you bought her out of a junkyard
Both options have the potential to end badly, but I want to avoid the truth coming out later at the worst time.
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>>5518477
>Tell Fan Fire you bought her out of a junkyard

Gotta get past this shit now
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UPKEEP SCREEN

FUNDING

>5

Say hello to your bottom dollar.

>VORTEX MECHANIC JOB
>1 FUND AFTER 3 FIGHTS

Provides you 1 funds after taxes. How else is Uncle Sam supposed to wage proxy wars out in the cans?

>CARTEL LOANS
>20 OWED
>5 FOR FIRST PAYMENT DUE IN 3 FIGHTS

The Meridian Cartel? Goddamn, what were you thinking? Those cannies float out near the Venus solar collectors and lob drugs manufactured in 0-G down to Earth for retrieval in--what else for canny gangsters--cans. These cans often contain the remains of whoever fucked with them last.

The Meridians also have a hand in high-stakes gynoid fights but uh, let's not get Fan Fire involved in that, okay? You're a bad person but these are very, very bad people.

REPAIR LIST

>Peacock System

You don't know who would have the expertise to work on on a bleeding edge drone system besides Vortex scientists and those guys are way, way, way above your head. You aren't even sure if you should let them know you have Fan Fire.

How much would it cost to fix up? You have no idea. You'd probably have to pay some people just to get an estimate. It's going to be a bitch and a half to fix up, but if ever get the Peacock System up and running again Fan Fire is going to kick a whole lot of ass, especially in the lower leagues where stuff like this is the stuff of dreams.
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>>5518477
>Tell Fan Fire you bought her out of a junkyard
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>>5518502
We're a Vortex mechanic, we should know how to repair this. Not some random scientists in a lab coat.
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>>5518502

FAN FIRE SCREEN

Art will be posted if you know, we ever get any art.

COSMETICS

>GOLD SKIN

The color of a winner.

>SHORT RED HAIR

Short, spikey, firey just like her.

>RED EYES

Eyes that blaze with an unyielding spirit.

CLOTHING

>Nothing

Nudity isn't uncommon in a sport like this, though some look down on gynoids without clothes as little more than fuckbots put in an arena to lose and look cute.

POWERS AND ABILITIES

>Absolutely Nothing

Just kill her now.
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>>5518504
>We should know how to repair this

You honestly have no idea where to start.

They literally created her to test this technology. You were one of several mechanics that dealt with her general armament, not the Peacock system. You have -some- idea of how it works the same way you have -some- idea how a teleporter system works.

...Okay, maybe, maybeeeee, if you observed how her brainheart reacted to lesser drone systems you could reverse engineer the system, but you would have to gather a lot of combat data for that.
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>>5518477
>Tell Fan Fire you bought her out of a junkyard
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Time to get her some basic guns and some fast legs, that was her basic kit
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>>5518503
>>5518504
>>5518490
>>5518491
>>5518495


You decide to rip off the band-aid.

"...after I bought you from the junkyard."

"What?"

You hand her the receipts.

"When I said they gave you to me. That was a lie. They threw you away and I bought you."

She stares at the evidence, reads it again and again and again.

She stares at her feet.

"...So I was junk."

"You were treated as junk. You were never junk."

"Why did you save me?"

"I told you. I love you. I don't know why. I've never loved anyone before. But I love you. I didn't want what happens to junked gynoids to happen to you."

She crumbles the paper in her hand.

"I'm going to make that replacement scream my name. Then I'm going to force Mom and Dad to love me."

"You can't make them love you."

"You can do anything if you're strong enough."

"If you want to get back to your previous level of performance, you're going to need some serious gear."

"Then give it to me."

"Win and get the money so I can."

"Then I will." she hops off the recharge table. "Let's go. We have shopping to do. And um...thank you. Thank you for saving me."

>Say/Do?
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>>5518524
A hug without words.

We also need to tweak her obsession with her "parents" when we can.
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>>5518524
>"sure, lets get going"
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>>5518524
>"sure, lets get going"
>No hugs
This is not the moment for that.
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>>5518537
>>5518524
supporting the no hugs as well. MC might have a weird fixation with fan fire, but this is not the moment for hugs yet
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>>5518542
I tried to leave it and QM literally admitted the mechanic was probably too mentally ill to let it go lol. It may be the best move but it wouldn't be the most in-character.
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>>5518527
>>5518537
>>5518540
>>5518542
You want to touch her.
You want to so, so bad but...

You're her trainer and she's your fighter. Keep this professional. Keep focused.

She needs to win so you upgrade her so she can keep winning and you don't end up inside a Meridian can.

That's all.

That. Is. All.

You head to the address.

POTTS' PARTS.

Fan Fire is fuming when she sees who's behind the counter.

"Well hey, rookies!" Tea says. "Come to geared up?"

"Yeah. But I'll be handling the installation." you say.

"Trying to keep costs down?"

"As low as they can go."

A man walks in. with a crate of modulars and drops it on the ground. "Hey. Welcome. Name's Jack Potts.

Oh Jesus.

What's the connection here? Human-robot relationships can get so goddamn twisted. Is Jack Tea's...what? Husband? Son? Father?

Jack reads the concern on your face. "I'm Tea's brother."

That's...not the worst it could be.

"We met during the Jupiter conflict. When it ended , Tea still wanted to fight, so we ended up here."

"You were a soldier?" you ask.

"We both were."

Damn. No wonder Tea cleaned Fan Fire's clock.

"Hey Fan Fire, went through some of your files while you were in surrender mode." Tea says. "You got some really nice software, girl."

Fan Fire just glares.

"Look, I get it, your boss probably thought "Hey, I'm good with software. I made a good combat program and I can turn a profit in the lower leagues just throwing punches and kicks." But that's just not how it works, you need hardware." Tea turns to you. "You hear what I'm saying? Just because you're the boss doesn't mean you can just snap your fingers and have her perform at her best. You got to invest in your fighter!"

>Say/Do?

>>5518547
Well, you can't have a mecha girl quest if you're just going to leave the mecha girl, now can you?

>>5518527
>Tweak

You don't even want to think about trying that. Not now. Even if it might be necessary.

Just tell yourself its like pilling a person. It's just like a psychomed. It's even reversible.

It's just like pilling a person.

It's just like pilling a person.

You aren't rewriting her soul.

It's just like pilling a person.
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>>5518560
Just see what we can get for our 5 currency.

We didn't have to have THAT mecha girl. Also having Fan Fire take meds is a perfectly reasonable course of action. Not now, but soon™.
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>>5518563
There's also the remote.
You don't like the idea of using it, but you have it.
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>>5518560
>Say/Do?
>"thats why we're here after all"

>>5518547
kek, fair enough
>>5518563
and maybe the MC will get his one day as well lmao
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>>5518560
"Sounds good. Show me some leg servos to start."
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>>5518560
Rifling through Fan's files was uncalled for.
>Just sigh and start the shopping
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>>5518569
Oh MC definitely needs meds.
>>5518572
How common is it for people to just rifle through others files like that? Couldn't they implant viruses or something. We should definitely sue them.
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>>5518575
That's what pap smears are for
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>>5518560
>It's just like pilling a person.
we'd be unshackling her soul from chains she didn't know she had. yeah. definitely that's what we're doing
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>>5518563
>>5518571
>>5518569
She was designed to be a distance fighter. Speed and range was her specialty, though her battle computer is advance enough to accommodate a variety of fighting styles.

POTTS' PARTS

(BASIC EQUIPMENT)

--Mercy Booster
2 Funds

Powerful leg servos primarily used for locomotion, but can also deliver powerful kicks and submission holds. Tea uses them herself. It's how Fan Fire got a dent on her cheek.

>Atlas Booster
2 Funds

This upper body support structure is the Mercury Booster for arms. Great for punches, grabs, and submission holds.

>Reinforced Chassis 1
2 Funds

Stronger armor is never a bad idea.

>Shock Hacking
2 Funds
Emit short-range electrical currents that can hack opponents. A favorite of grapplers as it adds more submission to submission holds.

>Sonic Hacking
2 funds
Hack opponents at range through sonic pulses. Strong at range, but can be disrupted by melee attacks.

>Palm Blasters
2 Funds

Common energy blasters hidden in the palms. They can be used to attack from a distance or deliver damage by firing point-blank in a grapple.

>Pulse Blasters
2 Funds

Wrist blasters that shoot out a pulse of energy. Designed to send opponents backwards and remove grapplers. Though slow to fire, the size of the pulse can hit agile foes.

>Pierce Blasters
Fires a small, concentrated beam that deals high damage from the finger. The beam persists for a second, and can be swung to cut through objects. Though it cuts through armor like butter, without precise targeting all it will do is make a small hole in the opponent.

>Arm Blades
2 Funds
More than just sharp objects on the arms. These blades can be angled to pin the opponent to the ground or wall and even fired off as missiles.

>Rotary saws
Funds 2

While you hold them, these saws chew them up and spit them out.

>Deadeye System
2 Funds

A slow targeting system that focuses on taking one's time to hit even the smallest vulnerability.

>Lightspeed System
2 Funds

A system that helps one keep up with fast attacks and opponents by rapidly speeding up perceptual speed.

Note. This does not actually make you faster. It must makes you see things moving fast.

>What do you buy?
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>>5518587
Palm Blasters and Mercy Booster. Would like to go to for a different build but this seems pretty safe for now.
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>>5518572
>>5518575
>How common is it?
Very common.

It's a tradition that dates back to the Jupiter war. Gynoids would beg for mercy by opening their files to the enemy.

Tea didn't do anything out of the ordinary.
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>>5518587
>sonic hacking
>lightspeed system

lets play our strengths first
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>>5518599
Willing to do this if it breaks a tie.
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>>5518594
>>5518571
>Mercury Booster purchased

With 3 funds leftover, you can purchase one more item. Then you better start winning, because 1 fund is no way to live.

"Good choice. I like using these myself." Tea smiles.

"Yeah. I bet you're happy. Taking all our money..." Fan Fire grumbles.

"Don't worry rookie, you want to rumble again, I'll be happy to take you on. But get your feet under you first. Fight with the other rookies, okay?" Tea's almost motherly with Fan Fire.

And she hates it.

"Look. Next time we fight, let's make a bet. I win, we get a discount on all your stuff? Okay?"

"You really want a piece of me, don't you? Well okay, we can make it a special match at the Artemis Club, make it a big event. You beat me, we give you a discount...but that means I get something if I win, right?"

"Name it."

"How about you work for me here, at the shop? It'll probably cool off that hot head of yours to take orders."

"Deal!"

But Tea looks to you first for confirmation. "What do you think? Alright if we have our special match once she gets used to the arena?"

It's almost funny she thinks Fan Fire is new at this.

>Say/Do?
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>>5518608
>sonic hacking
Let's leverage our powerful software
>To Fan: "As long as you don't regret it"
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>>5518587

Mercury Boosters and Pulse Blasters not palm blasters. She's oriented around range, let's give her a tool to maintain it.
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>>5518608

> "She can make her own choices."
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>>5518608
>"She can make her own choices."
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>>5518619
Pulse Blasters. Honestly I have no info on what this mecha girl is supposed to be capable of.
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>>5518608
>sonic hacking
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>>5518619
>>5518630
>Pulse Blasters it is.

>I have no info on what this mecha girl's supposed to be capable of
With the software inside her, anything so long as we got the hardware.

She's incredibly modular. That was one of her design goals, in fact. Most other gynoids need an adjustment period when they switch out gear. Not her. You can completely rehaul in between fights, which is good, it'll keep her unpredictable.


>>5518618
>>5518626
>>5518629
"She can make her own choices." you say

Tea smiles. "That's good. That's very good."

"I hope you don't regret it, Fan Fire." you say.

"Why would I? I'm going to win."

The stakes are pretty good. Discounts if she wins, and if she loses, well, it probably would help her to take orders from someone.

She associates submission with absolute, total defeat. That's not always the case. The Potss aren't bad people. She can trust them. You can trust them with her.

You thank the Potss for the gear and head back to the garage.

Mr. Potts stops you on your way out.

"Tea told me you put Vortex software in her."

Tea pouts. "I'm telling the truth about that!"

"I know you probably get a thrill spoofing their signals, but you need to be careful about that. Someone might try to steal her if they think she's that advanced."

"I'll keep that in mind." you say. "And thanks for the parts."

.......


Fan Fire fires kick after kick into the air.

You stare. God help you, you stare. She's always had perfect legs.

"This gear sucks." she says. "But it'll do for now."

"Good, because that's all we can afford for now."

Time to find an opponent and get that purse.
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>>5518608
If Tea think Fan Fire is new at this, then she either didn't or couldn't access her fighting log.
That or she could be keeping silent about what she saw because she saw quite a bit.
And even if she couldn't read the battle logs, she probably saw a very large file she didn't have access to.
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>>5518644
THE ARTEMIS CLUB
(Beginner Level)

1 Fund for entering, +1 Fund for winning.

>Dunyazad

A flirty genie themed gynoid with sonic hacking and a Mercury Booster. Likes to grapple with opponents and force them to submit to "lullaby hacking" by serenading their ears. Has a sister rumored to be much more powerful.

>Queen Mab

A playful jester themed gynoid with a pierce blaster and deadeye system. Known for her trickshots. Forces her beaten foes to dance with her.

>Elizabeth

A vampire themed gynoid armed with rotary saws and arm blades. Mimics a vampire bite on beaten opponents.

>Kore

A proud goddess themed gynoid with a body like a peplos kore statue. Armed with an Atlas System and Shock Hacking, she pushes opponents to their knees where they're forced to worship the goddess.

>Clawdia

There's always a catgirl bot. This one has the standard Cat system--clawed hands and feet, prehensile tail, sensors, and an acrobatics program. Probably the easiest to beat.


>Who do we challenge?
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>>5518663
Only way to know for sure would be to hack Tea...
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>>5518663
or the higher ups nuked that kind of data from fan's system. i mean, she was supposed to go to the trash and leaving those kinds of records can be a security breach; its a miracle she remembered from where she is.

>>5518667
>Clawdia

btw, how do you deal with tie votes?
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>>5518672
I try to wait on a tiebreaker, or if that doesn't work, a "whoever answers first gets it" period.
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>>5518644
>You stare. God help you, you stare. She's always had perfect legs.
We want to fuck the robot.
>>5518667
Kore. We can easily keep out of range and destroy her from their since she's a close-combat fighter.
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>>5518667
>Elizabeth

>>5518672
She remembers well enough. She wasn't completely nuked or else she wouldn't remember her last fight. Chances are that they took the hardware and assumed the software was too damaged by the process to bother deleting it.

Companies throwing away hard drives with company data in them has been a constant through history
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>>5518667
>Kore
We have an anti-grappler kit
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>>5518667
>Kore
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>>5518675
>We want to fuck the robot.
Which is made rather uncomfortable by the fact that Fan has the maturity of a teen.
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>>5518681
Mc needs more than just meds it seems.
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>>5518683
>at the end of the quest fan fire has to make the MC take his meds and get a partner
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>>5518681
We do and we hate ourselves for it.

Best solution might be for Fan to find someone closer to her age.

>>5518692
Would not be a bad ending.

>>5518675
>>5518677
>>5518680
>Kore

"The statue? Really?" Fan holds a kick in the air. "Guess I need to start somewhere. More of a challenge than the catgirl, I guess."

Only thing left to do before the match is to make sure all the cosmetic stuff is taken care of.

>Do we keep Fan Fire as a ring name? Without the tail, there's no fan. Ring names can always be changed.

>Do we change any of her cosmetics? Skin, hair, eyes? These can always be changed, and don't cost funds.

>Do we give her any clothes? Clothes also don't cost funds. Though there are plenty of nude gynoids, the general perception is that serious fighters have clothes, even if they clothes are destroyed and replaced time and time again.
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>>5518697
Maybe to continue with the fire theme something with Phoenix? The Rising Phoenix [insert name] or something? Also yes please put clothes on the robot.
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>>5518697
>Keep Fan Fire

>No

>Give her something that's good to fight in and easily replaceable
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>>5518697
>Rising Phoenix
>orange polished brass
>yes
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>>5518702
>>5518697
The Rising Phoenix Fan Fire.
Have her golden skin replaced with something like looks like a burning flame.
Have equally as cool clothes. (Leather jacket? Maybe have the clothes also look like they're burning?)
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>>5518702
>>5518703
>>5518704
>>5518710
>The Rising Phoenix

"The Rising Phoenix Fan Fire." she repeats the name slowly to herself. "I like it. It sounds regal. Like an empress. Rising Phoenix..."

>Orange Polished Brass

"What do you think?" Fan Fire poses in her new skin.

She shows off her curses and you don't dare say what you actually think.

"It's good. It's the fashion to have lots of different designs so get as many chassis colors as you like."

"You know what I really like about it? It's brass. Like her. But it's a different shade of brass. It's like I'm saying I'm like her, but better."

"When you see her next time, be sure to say thank you."

'I think that...wait, what? Thank you? For what?"

'For being nice to you and me."

"She's my opponent!"

"That doesn't mean she's your enemy."

Fan has a quizzical look on her face. It looks like you've give her a lot to think about. '...Alright, fine. I'll tell her thank you. Why not? what does thank you matter to someone you're going to beat up?"

"It means quite a lot, actually."

"Pfff. I'm sure it does. I'd rather beat my opponent then have my opponent say "thank you" than beat me."

"I don't think Tea thinks that way."

"You're just saying crazy stuff now."

"No, honest. Ask her yourself."

"You know what? I think I will."

>Clothes

'Really? Seems kind of silly just to put something on that's going to get torn up."

'You don't want people to think you're some sort of weakling pleasurebot, do you?"

"No. I guess not." Fan rolls her eyes. "Let's see what I get get..."

A little shopping later and Fan returns with a couple bags of clothes an wearing the one she intends to fight in.

Metal or not, she's still a woman.

"You know what? that was kind of fun." Fan says. "I didn't think it would be, but it was."

"Glad you had fun." You look Fan up and down. She wears a black leather jacket, black leather pants, and a white top that stops just below her breasts, all of which are frayed with yellow and orange accents to make it look like they're burning away.


Damn it all, you thought clothes would make things better. Now you want to take a cold shower.

>Say/Do?
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>>5518751
>Damn it all, you thought clothes would make things better. Now you want to take a cold shower.
>Say/Do?
Stop being horny. Also do some research on Kore. Look at her fights and see her style. Maybe see if there is anything going on with her make and model?
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>>5518751
Fuck it
Let's make this toxic and keep the horni

Researching Kore sounds like a good idea
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>>5518761
>>5518768
There's not much to read on her.

New gynoid. Maybe even younger than Fan. She's a grappler. She likes to hold onto opponents so her electric based hacking takes out whatever limb she gets her mits on. Very proud, very arrogant, and it's bolstered by a win over Clawdia and Bloody Mary. Owner wants to upgrade her with pankration software.

RISING PHOENIX FAN FIRE

VS

KORE


(Switching POV to Fan)

It's about time you started feeling like yourself. Compared to how you were, you're sluggish and slow, but you still got some spring to your step.

Time to turn this stone into pebble.

You skip up to your opponent smiling. She leers down at you, tall girl with gray skin, pure white eyes, and a white dress that matches those goddess eyes.

"Oh. It's you." she sneers. "My, haven't we gotten dolled up since Tea fumigated you. At least your owner remembered to send you out in clothes this time. What little they are."

>Say/Do?
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>>5518786
>zone out all distractions. The last two losses you had were horrible in different ways and you Don't want that to happen again.
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>>5518786
"Wow, what a fighter! Because taking out Clawdia was such an achievement. It's not like every two-bit fighter can take out a catgirl bot. Must be very proud of that one!"
Fire her up. She has an ego, let's take it to our advantage.
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>>5518786
>>5518798
Supporting.
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>>5518786
>>5518798
Ye
>>
Rip cool smack talk. No more posts for today?
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>>5518798
>>5518810
>>5518811
You just give a cold stare. No banter.

You're laser-focused. You aren't going to lose. You can't lose.

"Ah, feeling scared?" Kore leans down. "I'm going to grind that pretty face of yours into the mat. I'm going to snuff all that brave, inner fire of yours out like a lit cigarette underneath my foot. And I'm not going to stop until you pray to me to.

>Your superior speed allows you to go first. Say/Do?

>>5518859
4chan was shitting up.
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>>5518863
>she thinks we're a sloppy nobody. wait for her to make a move and then use the pulse blasters. keep one blast in reserve for when she uses the sonic hack
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>>5518875
>Roll 1d20
>>
Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>5518891
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>>5518863
Just wanna give a quick kick with one of our legs then run away to piss her off.
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>>5518895
what a great start lmao
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Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>5518891
Here's how you actually roll.
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Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>5518891
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>>5518907
You fucks quit rolling 1s.
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>>5518895
You're glad when the bell rings. You want to kick this would-be goddess's ass.

DING DING

You wait for her to dive in, hands crackling with electricity, then let her have it with the pulse.

You expected her to fly backwards, but instead she catches the expanding ring of energy in her hands and crushes it.

Huh. Must be some sort of energy field designed to nullify projectiles channeled through the electricity. Guess you aren't the only one that can upgrade between fights.

Kore grabs your arm and--

ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch!

Lightning sizzles up and down your arm, but the numbing feeling that follows is worse. Yeah, that knocked a few things out. That arm's gone quiet.

But that's why you have two.

>>5518899
You aim and fire right into her armpit. She stumbles back, arm swaying loosely at her side.

You're both down an arm.

>Say/Do?
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>>5518907
Good thing I didn't see this one!
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>>5518914
Keep out of her range and try to keep nailing her with our wrist pulsers.
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>>5518921
Alright. She blocked your first shot, but how will she deal with having only one arm to block?

>Roll 1D20
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Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>5518924
Let's try not to fuck it up.
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Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>5518924
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>>5518926
Since we both rolled at the same time I elect we use this roll. >>5518924
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Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>5518924
god, our rolls are terrible
>>
Robros... it's over.
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>>5518925
>>5518926
>>5518927

Apparently, pretty well.

Damn. It's the pulses. They're too large and easy to block with the counter-field.

She rushes in...but you got something to try you think will work.

There's a lot of good tech in your head. It lets you get the most out of even garbage gear.

This pulse gun, for instance. You do a little on the fly modification and instead of shooting out a large, fast pulse, it can project a slow moving forcewall.

You do that. She grabs it easily, as you expected she would, but now she's focused on the wall in front of her face and not you zipping in and delivering a strong kick to her legs.

She has the Atlas Booster. That's upper body. You have the Mercury Booster.

"Arghh!" she screams as she falls to one knee.

>Say/Do?
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>>5518935
UNLOCKED: WALL SHOT

Now you can alternate between shooting out a slow moving energy wall and a fast pulse burst.
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>>5518935
Keep up the moment, bring one of your legs up and slam it down on her knee.
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>>5518940
Time for the other one to go. Should be easy.

>Roll 1D20
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Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>5518941

Easy, with our dice?
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Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>5518941
WE GOT THIS
>>
We should have a dice system in place so one bad roll doesn't screw everything up. (Granted there's been bad rolls all around.)
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>>5518942
Between her holding the wall shot and being on one knee, yeah it's easy. You barely have to try.

Crunch goes the other.

Down she goes.

Huh. If you had been a little faster, she would have eaten some of the kinetic energy of the wall shot. That would have been a crowd pleaser. Oh well. Maybe next time. Wall shot into leg kick seems like a good general strategy.

Now down on both knees, she desperately tries to grab at you with her electric hands.

But that's easy to avoid.

You step on one of her broken legs, right on the back of the knee joint.

She freezes. She hasn't powered down yet, but she's stopped.

>Say/Do?
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>>5518951
The crowd's gotta get something right? Also her owner hasn't surrendered yet. Kick the joint into pieces.
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>>5518951

Guard up Fanny. Give her a moment to surrender, but expect a trick.
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>>5518951
what >>5518952 said. maybe even gloat a little as well
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>>5518952
Sure. An official surrender hasn't been issued, but you got her. You totally have her now. And the injury you could give her could retire her for a long time.

You got a choice here.

>Ease up and demand a surrender or you shatter the leg.

>Shatter the leg
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>>5518952
>>5518954
>>5518955
>2 votes for shatter
>1 vote for mercy

Keep voting.
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>>5518957
Don't ease up, but demand surrender, she could still try something.
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>>5518961
>2 for shatter
>2 for mercy
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>>5518957
yeah, demand surrender or else
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>>5518963
You put your weight on your foot slightly.

"Surrender or I break it!" you demand.

Kore complies.

The electricity around her hands dissipates. Scans show she's powered down.

THE RISING PHOENIX FAN FIRE WINS THE MATCH!

The cheers feel good. It's been too long.

You shake the numbness out of your shoulders. Damn you must be off your game to get tagged like that. Chumps in this league should be easy.

You face the bested goddess, on her busted knees.

You think a little humbling is in order.

>Say/Do?
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>>5518971
"I'd call myself a God Slayer, but that's giving you too much credit. It doesn't take a Goddess to beat one measly catgirl bot."
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>>5518971
this >>5518974
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>>5518974
You can tell your words hit her right in the heart by the way she hangs her head. She can't bear to so much as you look at you.

"What's wrong? Oh, I get it. First loss. Yeah. The first time's a real bitch."

As you lean against the cage wall it strikes you that she can't walk for the time being. Only crawl.

What was that she said about grinding you beneath her foot like a lit cigarette?

Maybe you should order her to crawl over to you and do to her what she tried to do to you?

Maybe you should try some of that restraint stuff. Hold back a little like Tea did for you. But what's an appropriate amount of punishment? Kore was a real bitch to you. Surely you owe her some pain.

With her systems totally subdued to your own, you can make her say or do anything...

>Say/Do?
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>>5518982
Help her out, but make it embarrassing. Drag her out by one arm.
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>>5518982

Sling her over a shoulder and carry her out like a bag of trash.
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>>5518986
>>5518984
Either or. I think the point will get across.
>>
While we're waiting, does anyone have any plans on what to do next besides repairs?
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>>5519017
hmmm. from phoenix's PoV, MC is a bit weird but not overtly so, so i think her current goal is to prove to Mom and Dad that she still can fight, so that just means goku-ing her way to the top

MC on the other hand....
he has issues™. i think his current goal is to marry phoenix or something. i'd say take his meds as well, but i'm guessing he also sold them to the cartel for money
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>>5518984
>>5518986
You need to get yourself one of those finishers, you think, as you drag Kore out of the arena.

You aren't sure what it would be. Back when you had your Peacock System, you used to use the feathers to hold your opponent in place and control their limbs like a puppet. Now you aren't sure. It'll come to you in time though, you're sure.

You drag her in a series of slow, humiliating tugs. Then when you get to the edge of the arena, you sling her over your shoulder. "Curbside trash!" you shout as you dump her to the ground.

You leap next to her. She cringes from you.

You kneel down and speak to her.

"Hmph. What are you upset about? I didn't even make you beg. Aren't you the girl that forces gynoids to their knees so they can worship you? I could have done a hell lot more to you and you know it. Pussy."

Damn, why did you go easy on her?

Maybe it's what your trainer said about Tea. This is her territory. At least until you kick her ass. You don't think Tea would like it if you roughed up the gynoids too much.

...But why do you care what she thinks?

Damn. You've been thinking such weird thoughts ever since you got junked.

Kore looks up at you. "Next time...I'm going to make you worship me..."

You give her a quick stomp to the stomach. "Yeah, sure. Come at me again and I'll bust up your arms too, then everyone will get to watch you flop around like a fish."

>+2 Funds

Ah, Money money money. 2 more Funds and you can make your Cartel payment.


...........


(Switching POV)


"You did great out there." you say.

"Tch. No. I sucked, I actually let her grab me and disable my arm."

"You won though."

"No shit I won. She's a no-account grappler bot. What kind of theme is it to be a statue anyway?"

"Still, congratulations."

"See what happens when you invest in me?"

"And thank you for showing mercy to Kore."

"She wasn't worth roughing up. But if she keeps up the attitude I might have to go a little rougher with her, make her kiss my foot or something."

>>5519017
No repairs needed this time. You only had a little hacking damage to your arm, which was easily fixed.

>>5519023
His current goal is to suppress thoughts which he knows are sulfurous at best, a horrible mistake at worst, and try to make sure Fan doesn't end up like the one you don't talk about, the one before Fan.

>NEXT OPPONENT

>Bloody Mary (Elizabeth)
>Clawdia
>Queen Mab
>Dunyazad
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>>5519023
Definitely some issues going on with him. I didn't even know MC was a guy, I thought it was the girl in the OP. I wonder what the MC can do besides boss her around and shop though. Can he do repairs? What other skills does he have?
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>>5519028
>Girl in the OP
That would be the heroine of the first Mecha Girl quest, which took place five years ago and on the Moon.

>Can he do repairs?
He's the one that fixed her up and installed the equipment. The fact he does the actual repair work and installation keeps costs down, as you only have to buy the material.

>What other skills does he have?
The ability to look away from evil.
The ability to be a disposable cog in a megacorporate machine.
The ability to live a lonely life without friends or family (which is probably why Vortex took interest in you in the first place)
The ability to hold an incredible amount of guilt in your heart.
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>>5519017

Number one priority is making our next payment. We need to win another match for that.

Beyond that? Everyone needs therapy, but that's probably not an option. Getting enough money for our next payment and another piece of gear would be fucking great. Being able to switch up our gear between a melee build and ranged build would be a huge advantage.

If we're really ahead of the game then getting a diagnosis on the Peacock tail would be nice.
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>>5519027
How about Dunyazad?
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>>5519027
>Dunyazad

Low risk of needing repairs, and we've got a solid grapple break.

We gotta get more money for gear though.
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>>5519034
>Dunyazad
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>>5519027
>Queen Mab
Clown girl.
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>>5519027
>Dunyazad
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>>5519134
Clussy isn't worth it man, trust me.
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>>5519034
>Dunyazad
We should be able to use our current kit on her, which saves money.
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>>5519034
He also has the ability to get it up to robot girls.Given the degrees of customization, i'm surprised Otaku aren't more prevalent

>>5519027
Dunya
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>>5519043
>>5519050
>>5519112
>>5519139
>>5519266
>>5519381

"Dunyazad? The belly dancer?" Fan sneers.

"Genie, actually."

"Whatever. Frilly little dancer isn't tough at all."

"Her sister is supposed to be high-tier."

"Then why ain't I fighting her?"

"Because you aren't ready for someone on that level."

"You mean my gear isn't ready."

"You are your gear. Drill that into your head. Until you get better gear you are nothing but fodder for the upper levels."

"I hate that...but you're right. Well. At least I can get to her sister through her. She's not going to be hard. She looks like she performs, if you know what I mean. She's not a fighter at all."

"Don't underestimate her. She has a Mercury Booster, just like you."

"So it's a legs vs legs match?" Fan grins. "I bet you're going to like watching..."

Goddamn it. She knows.

"I'm going to like watching you keep your head in the game."

"Just watch then. She'll be singing her surrender in no time at all."
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>>5519580
>she knows
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>>5519580

RISING PHOENIX FAN FIRE VS DUNYAZAD

(Switching POV to Fan Fire)


You like that there are a couple of cheers as you step into the arena.

But you dislike that there are considerably more cheers for Dunyazad. Frilly entertainer.

She comes out shimmying and shaking, taking her time to make it to the arena. She's obviously a "people robot." You hate people robots.

She dances her way to the arena, smiling and waving and having a great time while you scowl, anxious for her theatrics to be over so you can do what you came here to do.

Her skin is sky blue. Her harem pants and crop tops are silvery white. Her files said she likes to customize her appearance to contrast to the opponent. She's clearly going for some kind of water, cold theme. Her eyes are bright emeralds. Her hair, the same color of her clothes, is tied back in a large ponytail that whips around as she dances.

She faces you, bouncing on one foot.

"Hey rookie! Heard you trashed Kore. Good job, she's always been a mean bitch. Like my customization? Thought I'd do something cool and icy since you're the fire girl."

>Say/Do?
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>>5519592
What are harem pants?

"It pisses me right off, I preferred her looking down on me to you trying to be cool with me. This is a fighting pit for gods' sake, we're trying to scrap each other! Take it seriously!"
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>>5519595
>What are harem pants?
Exhibit A
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>>5519595
>>5519596
Exhibit B
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>>5519599
>>5519596
Aah, belly dancer pants. I should've picked up on that.
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>>5519592
>>5519595
Supporting saying this.
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>>5519592
>”Yeah, yeah. I recognize the theme. Can we get on to the part where I beat you? I’m here to beat you, not be your dance partner.”
She hasn’t been a bitch, so I’ll keep to “resting bitch mode”. Also, I believe she makes losers dance? This would play into her banter without Fan Fire intending to.
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>>5519592
>"You gave me an idea, I'll need to get flamethrower wings. Now come up and fight!"
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>>5519605
Changing from >>5519608 to >>5519605
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>>5519592
>"You gave me an idea, I'll need to get flamethrower wings. Now come up and fight!"
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>>5519580
She knows but sort of a neutral reaction?>>5519592
"Can you call yourself a dancer when you can't even do the worm?"
Bait her into a disadvantageous position.
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Oh, something to consider later - Fan Fire doesn’t want to go to the moon, but having a match between an Earth and Moon pitfighter? I imagine that’d be good money.

We’d need to work our way up to be able to arrange a stunt like that worth viewing and I’m guessing we’d need an interview so they know they’re not giving publicity to an abuser. Good for money and showing her the moon really isn’t a bad idea to start a new life.
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>>5519595
>>5519604
>>5519605
>>5519609

"It pisses me right off, I preferred her looking down on me to you trying to be cool with me. This is a fighting pit for gods' sake, we're trying to scrap each other! Take it seriously!"

Dunyazad's long, elven ears twitch. Her ears, along with her fangs and clawed hands and feet are designed to make her look like a genie--as if the brightly colored skin wasn't enough.

Dunyazad frowns. "Ah. You gruff tomboy types always make me so tired! You think you're so tough and cool with those ratty looking clothes, well you look like you just got scrapped in your last match!"

An ohhhhhhh! erupts from the crowd.

You think you're burning clothes look cool. You aren't going to some Arabian Nightmare chick's fashion advice get to you.

...Though maybe it does bother you, a little. No one's ever made fun of your sense of style before.

"Can we get on to the part where I beat you? I 'm here to beat you, not be your dance partner!"

"Oh, we'll see about that!" Dunyazad spins on one foot, arms outstretched. "You know, Mab's not the only one who gives out free dance lessons to those she defeats! Though a bratty little tomboy like you probably doesn't have much of a sense of rhythm..."

>Say/Do
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>>5519627
Make our own rhythm by using our legs and catching her between beats.
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>>5519627
>Pretend to sweep her foot
>Fire a pulse to catch her as she dodges
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>>5519629
>>5519633
You go to make a move and--

"Ut ut ut! Wait for the bell!"

Damn. You hate having to wait. You want to beat her up now!

'Before we begin, care to make a little wager? I know some girls like to make the humiliation round mysterious, but I like to build up some anticipation!" she turns to the crowd. "Would you like for us to make a wager?"

Of course, they go completely brainless for her.

People robots...

"Let's do something with the contrast! I love contrasts! The cool, icy blue dancing genie vs the gruff, mean, bitchy firey tomboy! Girly girl sweetheart vs tomboy heel!"

"Just say what you want to say already!"

"See what I mean! We're great opponents!"

You do want to beat her really, really badly.

"So how about this for a bet--if I win, you kneel down, say that girly girls are way better than tomboys, and kiss my foot, and if you win, I'll kneel down, say that tomboys are way better than girly girls--as if!--and kiss your foot. What do you say? Not scared, are you?"

>Say/Do? Maybe you could lessen the stakes...or increase them?
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>>5519650
>Say/Do? Maybe you could lessen the stakes...or increase them?
>if that makes the fight go faster....fiiiiiiiine
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>>5519650
"Fuck off." Just walk to our position for the match.
Feels in-character, funny, and would get her mad.
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>>5519650
>"Betting implies uncertainty of results. I'll win for sure."
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>>5519650
>”Not at all, so how about an increase? After I win, I want your next winnings. Minimum two credits. Same stakes for me.”
I could also accept half/one credit.
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>>5519657
>>5519653
>>5519650
Change my answer to this.
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>>5519650
Also, though I’d only vote for this as a backup if she rejects the first one
>Loser has to serve the winner for a day.
More humiliating, less directly impactful to the loser/their handler.

If we want to play “nicer,” that is.
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>>5519657
>>5519660
>”Not at all, so how about an increase? After I win, I want your next winnings. Minimum two credits. Same stakes for me.”

You're sure your trainer is going to bitch about this later. Pussy.

"Oh, confident, are we? Most bad girls are before they end up kissing the mat. Very well, I accept."

The crowd cheers.

"One wouldn't think you'd be ready to part with your money. Don't you need enough to fix up those rags you wear?"

DING DING

Finally. You can't stand this girl.

>Say/Do?
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>>5519688
She can play the game but we're the ones better at it.
"Sure thing MC Hammer, come and get it." Prepare to counterattack leg to leg.
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>>5519690
>Roll 1d20
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Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>5519702
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>>5519688
Use our pulse blasters to try to get her up against a wall, and then get her with our Mercury Boosted kicks once she doesn't have any ground to maneuver in.
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Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>5519702
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Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>5519702
Rolling.
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>>5519704
You prepare to counter attack, leg against leg.

She activates the sonic hacking.

She starts singing. La la la something something something you don't give a shit.

It must sound nice to the audience, who only hear it outside the active effect area. But it sounds awful to you. It sounds...heavy. It makes you feel heavy.

And tired...

You decide against firing. You'd probably waste the shot, unbalanced at you are. Instead, you ready a kick.

She dashes in....

And you miscalculate under the sonic influece.

Her lands solidly on your chin.

You stumble back and fall on your ass.

"Ah, kissing my foot already? You don't have to do that until the end, you know..."

>Say/Do?
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>>5519715
Rolls are literally dicking us in the ass. Wall shot to gain some distance.
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>>5519715
Since she's already close, try to grab her face and pulse shot it. Hopefully we damage the sonic hacking module, and then can continue this fight from range.
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>>5519723
>on the ground
>near her legs
>reach up towards her face past her legs while getting up

This will go well.
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>>5519715
>Pulse her foot from under her
I don't understand the roll system here.
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>>5519718
Sonic hacking is a ranged weapon interrupted by melee attacks. We don't want to gain distance.
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>>5519733
If we can disable the module then we can pick her apart at range without any risk to ourselves.

>>5519727
More like trip her legs out then grab her face instead of going about it the most braindead way you can imagine. Anon below you gets it.
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>>5519733
True, but she's also a grappler. She wears down opponents at range using a slow but continual weapon then finishes with a submission hold and singing into their ear.

>>5519731
You plan an action, and the action has a chance of working based on factors. Roll under the chance number and BAD THINGS happen.
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>>5519733
True
>>5519731
Just changing my vote to this so we can break the tie.

Also the roll system just seems to be whoever rolls first. :/
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>>5519731
>>5519736
Your plan is to get her down. Let's see how good a wrestler girly girl really is.

>Roll 1d20
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>>5519741
i mean, it was never specified to be B03. that being said, i wouldn't mind to be able to save a +1 or something for moments where we get dicked over by dice
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Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>5519744
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Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>5519744
Another shitty roll incoming.
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>>5519741
It is whoever rolls first.

Though sometimes I'll be nice and do something like

>>5519747
>>5519748
You wall shot the ground. Girly girl tries to leap the blast, but it expands too fast for her and singes her ankle.

She makes an adorable face as she falls.

Goddamn, you love wall shot.

You swing your lower body around and wrap your legs around Dunyaza's neck in a submission hold. Her arms go to try and pry your legs loose, but she doesn't have an Atlas Booster...

One leg looks around her neck and your other locks your leg in place. Her chin presses against your crotch.

She doesn't look so confident now.

Scans show damage to the sonic hacking, though her vocal ability remains intact.

Good. She has some things to say to you once this is over.

(But beware. From here on out, while 20's enhance the roll above it, 1's will ruin the roll above them...)

>Say/Do?
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>>5519746
You know what, those would be great things to add to the shop.
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>>5519762
Fuck it, we ball. Squish her head like a watermelon between our thighs and pop it off.
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>>5519765
sure, works for me
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>>5519762
keep pressing until she surrenders or her head goes pop
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>>5519762
>Demand her surrender
>Point blank head pulse if she refuses
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>>5519766
>>5519770
>>5519780
She makes helpless squeaking sounds as her pale blue face rubs against your brassy orange legs.

The light of your ominously humming pulse blasters gleam on her face as you pinch her adorable cheeks.

"Surrender, girly girl."

And just to sweeten the deal, you squeeze.

>Roll 1d20 to submit her
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>>5519618
Lesath would make one hell of an optional boss fight.
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Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>5519786
JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL
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Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>5519786
Nope, Satan takes it.

(Literally never encountered this many 1s before. Can we switch to aim for low scores?)
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>>5519796
at least the worst that happens here is that she slips out of the hold. i think.
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>>5519791
Aw damn, she found her footing, and the lingering effects of the sonic hacking keep you from pulling the trigger until she's picked you up and slammed you against the fence.

Damn it, you had her!

You lean against the fence and see she's taken a few hops back. Rookie loser, she should have pressed her advantage.

She raises one leg in a fighting pose. "I'm not done yet!"

"You sound a little horse there?" You grin. "You gonna be okay, girly girl?"

>Say/Do?
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>>5519802
Just start running up and blasting.
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>>5519802
>Pulse blaster
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>>5519807
>>5519810
You open fire.

>Roll 1D20
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Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>5519802
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Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>5519822
Rigged.
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>>5519825
Damn. Slippery girl.

Your blasts take up nearly the whole arena, but she sticks to the fence and runs across it.

"Magic carpet run!" she shouts in a muffled voice.

Oh cute. She names some of her attacks.

She leaps off, heading toward you...

>Say/Do?
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>>5519828
the only thing that's clear right now is that we need to plan our actions better

>dodge. gain some distance to shoot her again
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I can’t keep popping in right now, so I’d suggest going for a sweep and turning it into a lunge followed by a flying knee strike when she dodges. Go a little slow if needed to make her think she can go a little slow to for better positioning.

Would have been better earlier when she underestimated us, but oh well.
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>>5519828
>Flip over her, aim down, fire.
Her vector is locked in, and this would be the most surprising dodge direction I think.
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>>5519829
Mind if we combine? Dodge by flipping over her and shooting, put enough strength in that we reclaim some distance by the time she lands? She doesn’t have ranged weaponry so we can keep out of her reach while going over.

I’m of the opinion that few people expect a dodge over them too. Under as well, but she might be more used to that since she jumps around so much herself.
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>>5519837
Here goes a long jump!

>Roll 1d20
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Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>5519839
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>>5519840
Finally
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>>5519840
"What?" Dunyazad gasps as you leap above her.

Guess she's not used to gynoids just as acrobatic as she is--and definitely not used to gynoids more acrobatic.

You aim down and fire, blasting her right down to the mat.

You touch the ceiling, then drop down, feet aimed squarely on the Dunyazad's pale blue back.

"Ahaaaa!" she screams as you stomp her with both feet.

Not a bad move. Maybe you should call it something?

The crowd mostly boos. Of course. But a few cheer, and you appreciate it. You suppose heel gynoids have an appeal all their own.

You plant a bare heel on Dunyazad's back right on the white strap of her top and yank her head up by the large ponytail. An unconventional submission hold to be sure, but you hear the servos screaming beneath her shoulders.

"I gah...gah..I give up!"

And your sensors indicate that she has in fact, powered down and opened her systems.

THE RISING PHOENIX FAN FIRE WINS THE MATCH!

>Say/Do?
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>>5519847
"You can't dance your way out of this one. Would you want to kiss my feet now or after you give me the money? You could also be my new paypigif you want."
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>>5519847
>"Tomboys are, in fact, better."

>>5519857
Why are you so vicious, anon?
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>>5519847
>"Tomboys are, in fact, better."
>>5519861
he's probably thinking with his dick
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>>5519861
It's because all these damn droids have humiliation fetishes, I'm gonna turn the tables so this type of culture becomes taboo. Also because funny + in-character
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>>5519865
That won't work. They've been humiliating each other since who knows when, and nothing changed.
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>>5519863
Y'all are going too easy. A Phoenix is meant to bring harsh flames. Maybe we should also get more brutal in these fights.
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>>5519867
If we're "Gokuing our way to the top" we can definitely make changes to even long standing traditions with enough time.
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>>5519869
not with the rolls we have and definitely not with the current equipment we have
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>>5519869
Do you want the droid we love to be a sociopath?
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>>5519873
With time anon. With time.
>>5519876
Yes. I want MC to be an unmedicated robophile and our robot to be a hot head aggressive fighter.
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>>5519861
>>5519863
"Tomboys are, in fact, better."

You keep hold of her ponytail. Now's the time to decide how merciful or not merciful you're going to be.

You're firmly the heel gynoid now. You might want to lean into that. Remember, general rule here is that being as mean as they intended to be to you if you had lost is A-OK.

>Say/Do?

>>5519861
>>5519863
>>5519880
It's possible to be a mean bitch without crossing over into evil bitch.
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>>5519888
>just stick to the deal you made at the start. tease her a bit, tell her she looks better kissing her feet
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>>5519888
I know this already seems weird, but trust the plan anons.
>Lean foot againest face.
"You can either kiss all the dirt clean off or we can skip this for an extra fund."
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>>5519895
>dirt
...You fount in an octagon...
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>>5519896
Fought in an octagon.
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>>5519888
>just stick to the deal you made at the start.
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>>5519895
it seems weird because it *is* weird. at least do this with the MC
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>>5519896
>>5519895
Then kiss the scrap or wires to make it feel better, whatever. Point is we're gonna either humiliate her really badly or get the extra fund for her not to endure it. Hopefully we'll be able to get more money for loan shit.
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>>5519901
Yeah, it's weird. But do you wanna be a weirdo and live or be scrapped and shoved into a can? We gotta get money anyway we can. Doing simple fights is barely gonna cover interest. We also need upgrades.
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>>5519905
hey, that's a problem the MC has, not phoenix. her only concern at the moment is to prove mom and dad wrong. at least wait until the cartels threaten to break one of MC's legs or something along those lines. although that's doubtful because we have the cash to pay back the first loan
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>>5519910
True, I guess she wouldn't care about money. I guess instead just
>taunt then fuck off to next fight
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>>5519894
>>5519898
You drag the genie across the mat by her ponytail and prop yourself up comfortably against the fence.

"I think there's something you owe me. Besides your next winnings, that is."

You cross your arms and hold your brassy orange foot out expectantly.

Dunyazad closes her eyes and shakes in helpless furry. "It's not fair. The good girl is supposed to be the winner..."

You lightly kick her cheek.

"Shut up. I think you look a lot better kissing kissing me feet than getting kicked by them."

Dunyazad takes a deep breath. "Tomboysarewaybetterthangirlygirls."

She quickly leans forward and plants a kiss on your toes.

"There! Am I done now?"

That was kind of half assed...

>Say/Do?

>>5519895
>>5519901
>>5519903
Bro, everything has limits, even fetishes in fetish filled games. We're at a 3. Not an 8.
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>>5519923
>"Don't half ass it. do it properly."
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>>5519923
>That's enough. Exit the ring
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>>5519923
>Fight Clawdia
Need an easy 3rd win for loan stuff

That was mostly me just attempting to power game to squeeze out a couple more shekels.
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>>5519928
>>5519929
Need to break the tie.
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>>5519938
>Don't half ass it.
I mean don't be cruel about it but call her on her shit like she would've if we did it like that.
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>>5519923
>Don't half ass it.
You can interpret this as either being an asshole to her or being a stickler for what’s expected out of a deal. Either way, we should call her out on it.
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>>5519940
>>5519949

"Come on. You can do better. Don't half-ass it."

"What?"

"Say it nice and loud and clear so your fans can hear it."

Dunyazad grits her fangs. "I'm going to pay you back for this one day..."

"Well, you are going to pay me, you know."

"TOMBOYS...ARE WAY BETTER...THAN GIRLY GIRLS."

The crowd boos. You grin and slip them off.

"Stop being a pussy, girly girl. You made this bet, I won, so you carry it out." you hold out your foot. "More than a little peck. Think of it as my second wish. The third is the money, of course. Should be in your power to grant right?"

She leans in. Kiss, kiss, kiss, up to your ankle.

She stares down at your foot, panting in outrage and frustration.

"Please..." she whispers. "Please no more. You made your point. You're better than me. Tomboys are better."

>Mercy
>No Mercy. Back down she goes to kiss.
>Take the middle path. She goes free, but she's got to vocalize her begging so her fans hear.
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>>5519951
>Mercy
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>>5519951
>Mercy
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>>5519951
Mercy, let's go get that bag.
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>>5519951
>Mercy
>”Hey, you actually mean it this time. You even said the magic word without me asking!”
>”Don’t worry, I won’t make you keep going. The important part is that you’re helping me climb higher quicker, and I like that in a girl.”
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>>5519953
>>5519954
>>5519955
>>5519962

"Hey, you actually mean it this time!" you whisper. "You even said the magic word without me asking! Don't worry, I wont' make you keep going. The important part is that you're helping me climb higher quicker, and I like that in a girl."

"...Thank you."

You stop for a moment.

Thank you.

It's so weird to hear that, especially from someone you just defeated and humiliated.

It's almost like...you're glad she thanked you. Glad she likes you, or at least what you did for her.

You wave her off. "Go on. Back to your bottle."

She smiles. "Thank you so much!" and scurries out of the arena.

The audience boos you as you stand triumphantly and bask in their hatred. You just smile and raise your middle fingers high.

You think you like being the bad girl.

...........

Funds: +1 for entering, +1 for entering, +2 for wager

>7 funds

(Switching POV)

"You really should talk with me before--"

"I knew you were gong to bitch. Pussy." Fan is in high spirits today. "I won, didn't I? You ought to say thank you for me doubling the pay out."

"Thank you. Both for winning and for showing mercy. But you really should talk to me before you do something like that again."

"Huh." she shrugs her leather clad shoulders. "Maybe I will. So who's my next victim? Who does the Rising Phoenix get to smoke?"

"There are three options--Queen Mad, Elizabeth, and Clawdia. I'm still considering."

"Well don't take too long. I'm spoiling for a fight."

"You just finished one."

"Yeah, but girly girl wasn't much of a challenge. I want a real fight!"

......

A man in a suit comes to visit you at the garage.

At first you worry its someone from Vortex, or worse, Meridian, but as you get a good look at the greasy hair and sparse beard, you know he can't be anything but a mechagirl fighter.

"Um...hey. I'm Clawdia's owner. Phil Boltzman."

"Anything you want, Phil?"

"Well, your bot's been doing really good at the Artemis Club and Clawdia hasn't. In fact, she hasn't won her first fight yet. You know, you can kit out gynoids as much as you can, but if their heart isn't in it..."

"If she doesn't want to fight you shouldn't force her."

"She does want to fight, but she doesn't think she can win. It depresses her."

"Tell her to find a hobby that doesn't involve bodily destruction and mental humiliation."

"I'm willing to pay money if you throw a fight against her."

You figured that this was what it was about.

>Say/Do?
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>>5519969
>bring fan into the conversation
as long as the pay is good, a small loss on purpose shouldn't hurt, plus we can practice our heel act a bit more
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>>5519969
>"Even if I agreed, Fan never would."
>"Better pay money for Fan training her"
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>>5519969
>Counter
>See if Fan is any good at this pep-talk thing. If she speaks with Clawdia, she gets a 33% cut of the winnings. If a match was lost, we don’t get anything for that fight.
>If that fails, offer a double-team match. Fan can pull some extra weight after the stunt she pulled in the arena.
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still, can we agree that regardless of what we pic, fan should be here as well? she should know of the deals we're making
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>>5519977
>>5519969
Correction: 33% for the next 3 matches. So if she still jobs, we aren’t owed anything.
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>>5519971
>>5519973
>>5519977

"Training?"

You think its a great idea. Fan's greatest strength is her software. She has incredible analytical powers when it comes to combat. She should be able to see what Clawdia needs to improve on and how she can go about it.

"I'm willing to pay for it." Phil says. "That should help, but I really think she needs a win. And a strong opponent like your bot..."

"Your bot ain't my name." Fan says as she walks in. 'My name is Fan. And you want me to lose to your catgirl? Are you serious?"

"Yes."

"You have to be joking."

"I'm not. I'm serious and I'm offering a serious amount of money."

"How much, exactly?"

"You'll get Clawdia's entry fee and winnings."

"2 Funds? For having to bow before a catgirl?"

"I promise you she'll skip the humiliation phase. She doesn't even like doing it anyway."

"How would you know, she's never won?"

"Er. true...how about 4 credits? That'll be 5 with your entry payment."

That's a whole Cartel payment...

>Say/Do?
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>>5519981
>Recommend doubles. Clawdia will suspect eventually, but this would be real.
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>>5519981

"It's your call Fan, but it would give us money to blow on new gear..."
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The reason I’m pushing doubles (besides being easier for Fan to swallow) is because there weren’t any in the original quest. Unless I missed something when I tore through the archives yesterday and today.
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>>5519981
>Recommend doubles. Clawdia will suspect about winning against fan, but this would be real.

plus fan already said no and there are tons of ways she could break a deal she's not willing to participate in
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>>5519982
>>5519986
"How about we do a doubles match?" Fan suggests. "Me and the cat. I'll carry her, don't worry."

"I'm afraid there's a chance of Clawdia losing the whole thing even with you helping. I want her to score a real win. Or at least a win that seems real."

"It's your call Fan." you say. "I know you don't like it but it would give us money to blow on new gear."

Fan folds her arms and thinks a moment. "How much can you pay us? Be honest."

"...4. So added to your entry and Claudia's winnings, that will give you 7."

"Then make it 5."

Phil flinches.

"And that's on top of the training. I want a cut of all her winnings as payment."

"...Okay."

"You'll really be okay with this, Fan?" you ask.

"On one condition. After I throw the fight, you take her to the garage for training. And a rematch, where I get to show her who the winner really is."

"She would figure out it was fake eventually anyway...still, if she can just get that taste of winning, just once...alright then. And I promise she won't humiliate you."

"She needs to do something to me, idiot, otherwise everyone is going to think it's a work."

"Oh...well, okay..."

"I'm a little surprised you're willing to lose." you say.

"One, it's not a real loss, two, I get to make sure she knows it's a real loss, and three, I get way more money this way. They think I ate another humiliating loss, so what? I don't care about the audience. I only care about climbing higher and the girls that help me do it."

>Say/Do?
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>>5519990
I think there was one doubles match, but it's been so long I'm not sure.
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>>5520002
>timeskip until the match
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>>5520002

If we're getting a heap of money, let's grab
> Reinforced Chassis 1
So we can take more of a beating and make this look
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>>5520002
>>5519981

I'm actually going to say let's turn this down. Too lucrative, too easy. Reeks of a test or at the very least something that can bite us in the ass later to me.
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>>5520002
I’d worry about hacking, but he was willing to pass on that so I guess he’s just desperate. So I’ll say
>Accept
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>>5520005
>>5520013
>>5520051
>>5520054

(Switching POV)

THE RISING PHOENIX FAN FIRE

VS

CLAWDIA

Underneath the boos, you can hear some really dedicated cheering. Some guys like the bad girl, it seems.

Clawdia is your standard catgirl. Tiger girl, to be specific, with a white stomach and orange arms and legs with black stripes. The black bikini she wears makes it look like she's covered top and bottom by large stripes.

The audience cheers for her as she brings her paws up in a guard. She forces a cocky smile, but you can tell she's terrified of you. Her tail flicks anxiously behind her.

You make a motion towards her and she flinches.

Yep. Terrified.


>Say/Do?
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>>5520086
Act like we going to fight, but barely miss.
"Accidentally" give Clawdia some openings to get attacked, try not to make it obvious.
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>>5520086
God, I hope we actually came up with a plan between Fan, us, and Phil that involved Phil giving some really good advice to Clawdia.
>Follow the plan (if one exists)
If not,
>Close the distance, lock up your leg mid-stride. You’re going to throttle your mechanic for doing such a shitty job of patching your leg up…
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>>5520091
>>5520096
You're ready to go, but maybe you should try some banter before fighting? You think that's expected of you now since your last match, and you don't want to give anyone the idea this is rigged.

>Say/Do?
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>>5520086
>>Say/Do?
>play the role of the heel
at least if someone catches up that this is rigged they will be too entertained to give a damn
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>>5520118
>Play the heel
What do we say/do specifically?
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>>5520111
I keep forgetting banter. Guess I’m too business-like.

>”I haven’t moved yet and you’re already flinching. Does kitty even know how to use those claws?”
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>>5520126
>”You don’t look ready to be out here. Go curl up by mommy and drink your milk un- oh wait, robot. Guess you’re just fucked.”
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>5520126
"Cat wants this tongue? Cat's has to get it first."
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>>5520129
>>5520131
You throw your arms out and shrug. "I haven't moved yet and you're already flinching. Does kitty even know how to use those claws?"

"Y-Yeah I do! I haven't had much luck but I've been training! You're just a rookie like me. That means I can beat you!"

"You don't look ready to be out here. Go curl up by mommy and drink your milk--uh, oh wait, robot. Guess you're just fucked, kitty cat."

"You're so mean! I'm going to beat you and...and I'm going to make you apologize!"

Oh god, she's a sweet one.

>Say/Do?
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>>5520126
>>5520136
I’ll back this. The audience should like the implication more.
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>>5520142
>"kitty wants this tongue? You gotta get it first."

>shoot at her with the blasters. She should be able to dodge them
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>>5520142
>Just sigh and say "Let's finish this."
>Then do an attack that barely misses.
>"Accidentally" give Clawdia some openings to get attacked, try not to make it obvious.
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>>5520154
Since we didnt rehearse with her, we should play on the defensive like on the previous fights and let her come to us; that should let us make it look more real
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>>5520142
>”Ooooh, you’re adorable! Think your owner will let me keep you? I promise to remember to feed and pet you every once in a while. When I’m not busy in a real fight.”
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>>5520156
I'm not sure if she'll even want to attack.
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>>5520159
Then like you said, we gotta shoot at her in a way that gives her an opening
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>>5520143
>>5520153
>>5520158

"Kitty want this tongue? You gotta get it first."

Clawdia blinks. "I..uh...w-what does that even mean? Are you going to make me--I mean try to make me--lick your foot or something, like you did with Dunyazad? Ew!"

Goddamn it. Is this going to end with you having to lick her paws now that you said that?

Oh well. You think you handle a little humiliation at her paws for money this good.

You figure she's too skittish to make the first move, so you shoot out some very easy to dodge pulses. Should be no big deal if she sticks to clinging to the fence.

>Roll 1d20
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>>5520173
Given we’re trying to throw the match, does rolling high mean successfully failing? This feels weird.
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Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>5520173
Forgot the dice.
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Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>5520173
Eh this shouldn't be too bad.
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>>5520174
The goal is to roll high but not too high.

Case in point:

>>5520176


"EEEYRROOOWWW!" Clawdia shrieks as she dives head first into a pulse.

Goddamn it. What kind of dodge was that? Stupid catgirl. An idiot could have avoided that.

Did she think she could jump THROUGH the pulse blast? That it was only damaging on the lit edges and not the transparent center? Who would make a weapon like that? Did she not read the weapon catalog?

Oh god, you can feel your bribe money burning away...

Clawdia struggles to rise off the mat.

"N-No...I won't give up...to a bitch like you..."

Well, you've managed to light something like a fighting spirit within her. You just need to not beat her now. Come on, heroic reversal! The good girl has to win!

...And let's not remember how the last heel vs good girl fight went...

>Say/Do?
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>>5520178
>Say something rude that'll incense her bravado.
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>>5520178
Of course we'd roll the 20 when we dont need it.
>clawdia is a melee specialist, right? Now that she's fired up, close the distance under the pretense of grappling her so she can get a better shot at us.
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>>5520181
>What specifically?
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>>5520194
Act cocky, pretend to deeply underestimate her. Do something like >>5520187 but tank any hits she gives while saying she can't hurt us.
Overall just act full of yourself.
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>>5520178
>>5520187
Backing this.
>>5520181
>”Oh, so that’s what burning fur smells like. Can’t say I’m a fan.”
>”Glad to see you really care now. Guess I can take it easy now and maybe this’ll be an even match finally.”
If you need put-downs, I can keep delivering. I look forward to writing some pep-talk stuff though.
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>>5520178
>You think you like being the bad girl.
>And let's not remember how the last heel vs good girl fight went...

Villain arc when?

>>5520198
+1 to this.
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>>5520198
>>5520199
>>5520225

"Oh, so that's what burning fur smells like. Can't say I'm a fan."

You forgo strategy under the pretense of heelish cockiness and saunter over to Clawdia.

"Glad to see you really care now. Guess I can take it easy now and maybe this'll be an even match!"

You stomp down on Clawdia, hoping she'll take advantage and drag you down to the mat.

She grabs your leg, claws sparking on the metal.

"I won't...I can't...lose to someone like you!"

That a girl.

Clawdia roars as she unbalances you. You hop around for a second and shout "DAMN MY USELESS MECHANIC! MY BLASTERS ARE ON THE FRITZ!" then you let yourself fall to the mat.

The audience roars with approval. They always like it when the fight turns into a grapple.

>Say/Do?
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>>5520225
>Villain arc?
You're bad, not evil.
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>>5520235
Time to get serious (about losing) again. We don’t have any particular upper body enhancements, so use that to grapple rather than our legs. Focus on her legs so it’ll leave her claws open. Let’s see how she does against us.

If she screws this up somehow because we roll well, I could bust out “I’m getting so angry at how shitty you are” remarks so we actively cripple ourself to goad her into actually hurting us. Hopefully the dice don’t let it come to that…
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>>5520238
Doesn't have to stay that way.
>>5520243
+1
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>>5520235

If it feels like we're getting the upper hand in the grapple just hop up and gloat to crowd like a proper heel, leaving our back open to the dramatic comeback brought about by our hubris.
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>>5520243
>>5520247
>>5520254
>Roll 1d20
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Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>5520256
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>>5520257
You roll around with Clawdia and after a few seconds of useless scratching she finally figures out that she needs to use a submission hold.

You let her take your back and wrap her claws around your neck.

"Give up or I'll claw your head off!"

Yeah, sure.

You thrash about to make it look convincing...and slam Clawdia between you and mat.

Stunned, she lets go and goes limp beneath you.

Why is it so hard to lose?

Oh well. Maybe you can put her in a weak submission hold until she recovers?

>Say/Do?
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>>5520284
Turn to the crowd and start hyping them up, totally oblivious to what's happening behind you.
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>>5520284
this >>5520289
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>>5520289
>>5520293
You shake her off and pose for the crowd.

"That's right, boo! I'm going to skin this kitty and there's nothing you can do about it! If you like her so much, maybe I'll make her meow for you!"

...You hope she's not going to have you meow.

You really need to watch what you say. Saying how you're going to humiliate your opponent is one thing when you're planning on winning, another thing when you're planning on losing!

You sense Clawdia recover behind you and leap to the fence.

Ah, she's going to do the pounce thing. Alright. Go ahead.

You get ready to take it. Should make for a dynamic finish.

>Roll 1d20
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Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>5520301
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>>5520303

Just not good at losing apparently
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>>5520304
Roll and see if we get a nat 1.
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Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>5520301
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Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>5520301
COME ON JESUS, GIMME THAT GODDAMN 1
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>>5520306

You uh...you wanted minus one right? One below?
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Did we anger RNGesus or something?
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>>5520313
It's over. You think we'd be able to fail any checks we want, considering we're actively trying to lose.
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Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>5520301
Here's a nat 20
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>>5520315
he likes to see us suffer due to no fault of our own
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Ooookay. If she does get up, here’s my (late) idea.

>Walk away.
>Wait for her to get up and show she still has some fight in her.
>Focus on how fucked up your life is right now, how shitty your opponent is, and the bitch that beat you. Hold onto that anger for the speech.
>”Y’know, I came into this thinking it was easy money. Catgirls are always a joke. I could coast in, coast out, maybe get surprised and get a real battle out of it. I didn’t how fucking sick I’d get of you though.”
>”I’ve been trying to let you get a few dings in so I could crush you afterward and you’re so incompetent you can’t even fall for it! You dodged into my blast! You get me into a grapple when I can’t blast you away and you fucking let go! The only reason you haven’t lost yet is because I didn’t care enough to end it quick and you were too dumb to just roll over!”
>”New plan kitten, you’re not fighting to win. You’re fighting to survive. But since you’re such utter trash at fighting, I’ll give you a chance with the one thing you DO have going for you, and that’s a little more backbone than you have any right to. I hit you good with a limb, I eject it afterward. Four hits, tops, before I’m a torso on the ground screaming bloody murder at you. Less if you can manage to beat a cripple. But I’m not holding back this time. Now you’re fighting the bitch that went into a ring unarmed because she just really needed to FUCK something up that deserved it. So this is going to boil down to whether you can still get up after four. Solid. Hits. That’s all you need to do kitten. That’s all the world wants of you right now.”
>”I’m going to get a fucking earful for doing this, even if I do win. But I will eat fucking concrete just to show how much I fucking hate you right now.”
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>>5520303
She tackles you around the neck, roaring like a tiger!

...And as you twist, she tries some sort of stupid roll move off your shoulder and ends up cracking her head against your knee.

You almost scream when your scanners reveal her powering down.

THE RISING PHOENIX FAN FIRE WINS THE MATCH

Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!

All that money...and now...

Clawdia mewls helplessly beneath you...and you kind of don't want to do anything to her.

You don't even feel like you won. You just feel like she lost.

"Please tell me you know what I can do here." you ask over the remote.

"What? Just humiliate her a little."

"I don't...well, how should I do that?"

"Hold on...Phil says you can carry her out of the arena. Act like you've tamed her and turned her into a pet. That should preserve her pride...somewhat...and get you both out of there."

>Say/Do?
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>>5520329
DAMN YOU RNGEESUS

>Act like you've tamed her and turned her into a pet.
sure. lets go with this and whatever banter we said on the last rounds
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>>5520329
Damn it… I wish I wrote faster.
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>>5520325
This was so good. I wish we got to use it.

>>5520337
>>5520340
Finish her off with some banter to make people crave a rematch.

Neat idea--sell tickets to the rematch.
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>>5520340
Anon... I'm sorry, the ball is just rolling downhill.
>>5520337
Do this.
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>>5520345
yeah sure. hopefully next time she'll do better.
ACKSHUALLY
now we can do the duo team thing as well now that we've "tamed" her. poor girl needs a break
>>
Seems like nobody won this match.

>>5520337
Support.
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>>5520345
Actually… we still could use part of it. One moment.
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>>5520329
>>5520354
changing vote to
>"After that show you're not even worth humiliating." Then just walk out.
This might just fire her up, and give her the drive she needs to fight.
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>>5520359
dude, the girl knocked out herself with our knee. she ain't coming back
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>>5520360
Hey I can hope.
But maybe its for the better if she doesn't want to come back to the ring.
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>>5520329
>Walk for a bit, stew on everything that happened, find the anger in you.
>They want a heel, you’ll give them a heel.
>”You know, I tried to let her get in a few hits. Catgirls are easy, so I figured I’d build her up a little before tearing it down. But she couldn’t even do that right.”
>”She dodged into my blast! She got me in a submission hold with glitched blazters and she choked!”
>”Is this what you fuckers call entertainment! I thought I was coming in for a fight, not a joke! You sent a butcher in here expecting to cut up some meat, then she sees that all the livestock is on life support and the real job is to fuck them up the ass!”
>”You want humiliation, right? For me to spit on her, choke her, make the crippled kitten scream and beg and cry, right?! I’M THE ONE WHO WAS HUMILIATED HERE BY YOU CHUCKLEFUCKS WHO CALLED THIS A FIGHT!”
>”Jerk off in a paper cup, you freaks. I’m out of her with your other toy.”
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>>5520368
+1 for soul.
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>>5520366
with her(our) luck, she might get up, step once forward and then bend her ankle and 1KO herself again
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>>5520368
Oh, and hard, fast thrusting motions during the “fuck them up the ass” part, of course.
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>>5520385
And people say I'm a little much.

Also if we doing a duo match, what team would we face?
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>>5520388
>And people say I'm a little much.
to be fair, the explicit purpose of riling the people is so that they hate us. yes we're demeaning clawdia, but the people wants our guts, not hers.


>Also if we doing a duo match, what team would we face?
probably a different set of rookies. which probably would be great for us and clawdia would have an easier time fighting other unknowns
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>>5520368
>>5520373
"You know, I tried to let her get in a few hits. Catgirls are easy, so I figured I’d build her up a little before tearing it down. But she couldn’t even do that right.”

You loom over the beaten catgirl. She cringes in your shadow.

”She dodged into my blast! She got me in a submission hold with glitched blazters and she choked!”

”Is this what you fuckers call entertainment! I thought I was coming in for a fight, not a joke! You sent a butcher in here expecting to cut up some meat, then she sees that all the livestock is on life support and the real job is to fuck them up the ass!”

Aw yeah, here come the boos.

”You want humiliation, right? For me to spit on her, choke her, make the crippled kitten scream and beg and cry, right?! I’M THE ONE WHO WAS HUMILIATED HERE BY YOU CHUCKLEFUCKS WHO CALLED THIS A FIGHT!”

You heft her onto your shoulder.

Damn she's light. She really doesn't have anything but the basic catgirl kit.

”Jerk off in a paper cup, you freaks. I’m out of her with your other toy.”

"Wait...no! What are you doing?" Clawdia asks.

"Your owner will explain in a moment." you whisper. "Just shut up for now."

And Phil does explain back at the garage.

You aren't getting your bonus money...but Phil decides to give you Clawdia's entrance pay, partly in the hopes of keeping you on as trainer, partly because he knows Clawdia defeated herself.

It seems Clawdia isn't the only one that's submissive.

..........


Clawdia sits on a box of spare parts, striped legs to her chest, ears flat, eyes looking somewhere in the distance.

"...I'm sorry dad."

Phil puts her arm around her. "It's okay. You did your best."

"My best is other fighters' worst. I...I couldn't even win against a gynoid that wanted me to win."

"Fan Fire is going to train you up. You'll get better."

Clawdia stands up, takes a deep breath, and looks you right in the eye.

'Fight me for real."

"Clawdia. Don't." Phil says.

"You're better than me. I know you are. Everyone is better than me. But I want to know how far above me you actually are." She takes a fighting stance.

'No blasters in the garage." your trainer says. As if you need blasters here.

>Say/Do?
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>>5520399
Let's see if we can go hard.
Kick her head off.
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>>5520399
>Say/Do?
>after you get patched up; right now you're not at your best
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>>5520351
>Start as Fan Fire and her pet
>Become Phoenix and Tiger when Clawdia wins and becomes Fan's peer.
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>>5520405
please don't kill our source of passive income
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>>5520410
I didn't say smash the head to pieces, just to pop it off, she can pop it back on later. They're robots.
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>>5520399
Okay, I… didn’t expect that. response from her.
Let’s maybe start her off on the willpower thing first.
>”You want your first lesson? Alright.”
>”Strip off your combat parts. I’ll leave mine on.”
>”Why? Because I’m the crazy bitch that went into an arena and signed herself up in a match without any. I wanted to win that bad. I couldn’t wait for parts. Do you understand? That wasn’t a plan, or my owner getting too cocky. I did all that myself.”
>”I’m going to beat the shit out of you of course. But if you stick through it the while time, then I’ll know you have something worth training inside that brain-heart of yours.”
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>>5520411
clawdia might not die, but do you think they will want to train with us in the future if we rip her head right now? that's not a lesson, that's just breaking what little of her spirit's left

>>5520409
i was thinking something along those lines as well
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>>5520415
Fine.
>>5520413
+1
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>>5520413
>>5520399
Supporting.
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>>5520407
>>5520415

"Maybe after you get patched up. You aren't at your--"

Clawdia pounces on you, and it actually takes you by surprise and pins you to the ground. "Fight me damn it! For real! If I have to lose I want to lose for real. I don't want fake wins and fake defeats! I want to be a real fighter!"

Okay then. Maybe you could hold her down until she cools off or something?

>Say/Do?
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>>5520421
>Hold her down.
You know what, let's just wait for her to settle down and then we can talk.
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>>5520421
...fine, lets wrassle the girl.
>grab her, roll over and pin her down
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>>5520421
Good, she does have some spirit. rehashing the “strip off you combat parts” write-in here. I’m sure we can just push her off.
>>5520413

All I want to do is cuddle her why do we have to be playing someone I can’t justify that with yet in-characteeeeeer
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>>5520427
>Damn she's light. She really doesn't have anything but the basic catgirl kit.
i don't think she has anything worth stripping off
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>>5520432
Maybe some hidden secrets in her software's memory?
>>5520423
+1
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>>5520423
>>5520424
You flip her over and sit on her.
Claw claw claw. Does this girl know any other moves?

Eventually, she stops her exhausted servos and lays panting beneath you.

"Don't you dare press my remote dad!" she stares up at you with feral, hateful eyes. "Damn you! Don't just sit on me!" she tearlessly sobs. "Finish me off! Do it! Make me give like the loser I am!"

She's...she's so much like you.

You never thought the gynoid most like you would be this catgirl loser with no wins or ability.

>>5520427
Cuddling wouldn't be out of character here. Fan Fire is seeing herself in Clawdia.

>>5520432
Yeahhhhh but it's the thought that counts.

>Say/Do?
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>>5520432
I’d assume the claws can come off at least. They’d need to be sharpened/replaced occasionally. I think you might be right in general though.
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>>5520438
Yeah she's got stuff that can be removed it's just not that much of a practical difference.
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>>5520437
>do what she asks for. sit on her and hack her. maybe that will get this tantrum out of her system; this is sad.
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>>5520435
she got the spirit, that's for sure.
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>>5520437
>>5520444
Support.
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>>5520444
>You need a hacking gear for that.
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>>5520449
aw fuck. then....slap her? im out of ideas.
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>>5520437
Try to recruit her to be your subordinate maybe?
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>>5520437
>”You two, out. This is for her only, got it?”
To her
>”I’m… not going to make it hurt like you want. Because it doesn’t help. I used to be so much more and now… now I’m junk. Trashed by my family, fighting for scraps at the bottom until I can work my way back just to where I started.”
>”Pain can be a motivator. So are shame and fear. But they don’t get any easier at the top, so don’t ever go asking for it for your own sake. Pain, ultimately, is just pain.
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>>5520455
sure, i support this
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>>5520437

"Here's what we're going to do. I'm going to let you up, then you're going to punch me. Then I'm going to explain how you did it wrong and punch you. We'll go till one of us can't stand."
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>>5520449
>>5520454
No wait, easy work around.

You grab her head and turn the blasters on. Their light shines in her face illuminating her defiant expression.

For a moment, you're worried you might actually have to fire, but then she powers down and opens her system.

>>5520457

Once they leave, you turn to Clawdia.

'”I’m… not going to make it hurt like you want. Because it doesn’t help. I used to be so much more and now… now I’m junk. Trashed by my family, fighting for scraps at the bottom until I can work my way back just to where I started."

”Pain can be a motivator. So are shame and fear. But they don’t get any easier at the top, so don’t ever go asking for it for your own sake. Pain, ultimately, is just pain."

You enter into her brainheart...
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>>5520461
Simple system, simple soul, simple design.

You hold her brainheart in your hands. It's a little ball of sad light.

"...Why are you here?"

"Because I wanted to see you."

"I'm glad you aren't the type to crush a brainheart. Though you might as well. I'm worthless."

"I was worthless. My dad threw me away. You aren't worthless. You have a dad."

"He works so hard to get me to win and I can't. I never win. Even when my opponents are trying to lose I can't win. I don't even know what it feel like to win. They made me for the war with this drive to kill and conquer. Dad said I'm like a tiger. I'm dangerous and strong. What's a tiger without fangs? A rug? That's me. Just a rug people throw around. I just want to know what it's like to conquer, to get a kill."

...You can't believe you're thinking it, but maybe you can let her beat you? Or make it part of a training sessions or something where she "wins" if she gets it right?

You can't imagine how fucked up you would be if you never won. Strange to think Clawdia is older than you. You were made way after the war.

>Say/Do?
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>>5520471
I say we do trial by fire. Forge her into something better with real wins only.
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>>5520471
this >>5520472
>we'll get you your kill
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>>5520471

"I won't go easy on you. But when you get that win, it's going to be yours."
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>>5520471
I kinda want to let her into our brainheart as a taste, a “this is what you’re fighting for” moment as long she she swears up and down that she won’t abuse it. Kinda like someone getting some drinks of alcohol before they get older and get blasted due to peer pressure without seeing how bad they can fuck things up.

Still, echoing the
>We’ll get you your kill
sentiment.
Maybe toss in a
>”Don’t worry, you have someone scarier than your dad to push you forward now.”
in as well.
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>>5520472
>>5520473
>>5520474
"We'll get you your kill. I won't go easy on you, but when you get that win it's going to be yours."

You help her up and get Phil and your trainer back in. It's time to schedule training sessions.

The first is a real easy one. It's diagnostic, really. You go through her brainheart and optimize combat routines--there's a LOT of them to be optimize. You think part of why Clawdia keeps getting her tail kicked can be chalked up to a hack attempt made on her during the war. It scrambled a few things, made her clumsy and uncoordinated.

You fixed that. Yeah, you. Mr. I-worked-for-Vortex couldn't even see the problems.

You notice Clawdia slightly altered her look. She's got a collar with a tiny brassy orange bell on it.

"It's my collar." she explains. "It means I'm not a tiger, I'm a kitten. When I get my first win, I'm taking it off...and putting it on my opponent. Then maybe she'll rise from being a kitten to a tiger too."

>Say/Do?

>>5520478
She'd probably be knocked out if you just bowed to her and groveled a little.
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>>5520485
>Laugh
>"That's the spirit."
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Ok, joining.

>>5520489
+1
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>>5520485
this >>5520489
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>>5520485
So she’s currently at the “get drunk on non-alcoholic drinks” stage. I’ll reel back expectations of her going mad with power then.

>”You know I didn’t mean most of the stuff I said in the match about you, right? You didn’t have to put a collar on with my color.”

I’m curious what her response will be. Maybe it’ll surprise Fan Fire?
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>>5520489
the laugh in question
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>>5520489
"That's the spirit!"

"Even if my body is trash, if I keep my spirit strong, I'll get stronger."

"Exactly."

>>5520496
"You know, I didn't mean most of the stuff I said in the match about you, right?"

"Yeah. You're wild in the arena and I get that. I'd be wild too if I wasn't so weak. We want to win and we want to dominate. But its different once the fight's over. We're different."

"I wouldn't have done much to you if I had beaten you. Really. It's only when they ask for it that I do that and you didn't ask for it. You know, you didn't have to put a collar on with my color."

"You made me submit. Twice in one day. You hacked me and held my brainheart in your mind's hand. Of course I would make the bell your color. You tamed me."

>Say/Do?
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>>5520505
Pat her head and tell her that's the true path of strenght.
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>>5520505
>>5520508 +1

Are MC and Phil chatting at all?
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>>5520505
I’m heading to bed, so I’ll need to leave other anons to decide on direction.

As food for thought though.
>Reflect on what she said. Has anyone actually done something like that with you in mind when you didn’t literally tell them to?
Seems like Fan Fire was a bitch to her opponents before, so I can’t imagine the answer is “yes”.
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>>5520505
as long as she doesn't tattoo our face or a feather on her buttcheek she's fine

supporting this >>5520508
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>>5520510
They're just hanging out on the side.

>>5520508
"That's the true path of strength."

"Being tamed leads to strength?"

"Yeah. I was tamed. And I got stronger. I don't think you really get stronger until you find someone stronger than you."

"Then it's fortunate that I did." Clawdia says. "Fan Fire...would you be willing to do something for me?"

"What?"

"Well...since there's no one but us around...could you...and this is kind of hard to describe...pretend with me?"

"Pretend?"

"I want to play through what our match could be like if it was real."

"...What exactly...?"

"I want you to dominate me."

"Why?"

"I want to feel that strength. I think it could help motivate me. I wouldn't want others to see me dominated like that, not without me putting up a fight first at least, but...since it's just the two of us..."

>Say/Do?
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>>5520535
>"Wait for our rematch. It doesn't mean much if its done here like this."
>"And the only thing I have here is my blasting gear. So unless you want to be a hassle to repair I can't help you now."
Is she a masochist or something?
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>>5520535
>"Are you so afraid you want to taste shame before it hurts you?"
>"I do not make a mockery of domination. If you are asking for it, then you admit your spirit has given up and remains below me forever."
>"Think of what you are asking for."
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>>5520535
"There is nothing shameful about being weak, only staying weak. Show me you can be better."
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>>5520544
"Wait for our rematch. It doesn't mean much if its done here like this."

"I think it would mean something. And we both know I'm never going to be in your league. You're beyond me."

"Besides, the only thing I have here is my blasting gear. So unless you want to be a hassle to repair I can't help you now."

"Do you have to use the pulse blaster?"

>Is she a masochist or something?
Most of them are, especially the ex-soldiers.

>>5520549
You look her in the eye.

"Are you so afraid you want to taste shame before it hurts you?"

Clawdia thinks for a moment.

"...Perhaps so." her ears flatten. "I know...I'm going to lose in the future. I don't know who I'll lose to, but I know I will, and I know they won't be as nice or merciful as you. I guess...I want to taste shame, so I'll be able to brace myself when it comes."

"I do not make a mockery of domination. If you are asking for it, then you admit your spirit has given up and remains below me forever. Think of what you are asking for."

"...If my spirit can one day soar like yours...then show me." she places her hands on your shoulders. "Let me see what it's like to win."

Ah. So this is why Phil was willing to pay you so much to throw the fight.

Well...you were going to throw the match against her. She's probably not going to be as nice as she was in the ring but...it's not like she can really hurt you, and it's not like anyone is watching.

And hey, it could be fun to pretend to get your ass kicked.

>Say/Do?
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>>5520576
>"Unless there's money in it for me or its in the ring I'm not that interested."
>"Look, if you do your best, train hard enough and get the gear you need you'll be able to do it."
>"...and it pisses me off just saying this, but you could even beat me someday. An actual defeat, I mean."
>"Dominating or getting dominated here will be just as real as that fight we had in the ring. I know it's frustrating, but that's why you have to keep trying until you succeed."
We did just say that we didn't make a mockery of domination.

>Most of them are, especially the ex-soldiers.
Huh. I should really read the archives someday.
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>>5520576
>Most of them are, especially the ex-soldiers.
I think that she might have been just as deadly as any other warbot, but in an effort to make her more domestic or to give her a civilian life, she was stripped of most of her combat memory because of the nature of the missions she had to pull off. Like programming the PTSD out of a soldier by making them a rookie again and making them think they had a cushy desk job during the whole thing.
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>>5520002
I find it worrying that you still pushed through with throwing the match despite the players voting for an alternative approach twice.

>>5520576
And now it seems like you're pushing again.
>Nope, not happening.
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>>5520576
We're not BDSM doms(and a proper one would kindly tell you to sort your inner demons first before a session)

>No. Im here to train you, not dom you. Im sure you can find someone that can do that for a price elswhere in the city.
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>>5520576
The masochism runs deep. Not what I expected, and I’m not comfortable with her domming us… which is probably justifiable for a first-timer! So I’ll cave on domming her.

>”Alright, alright. I’m… not comfortable with losing like you want. You know how I feel about pain. But if you also really want me to beat you down, I can do that. Just… ugh, just let me know if it gets too real or something, okay? Say “moon”, I’ll know I went too far.”

She can work on convincing me of her taking the reins by getting good enough to deserve it.
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Alright, the votes seem to be all over the place so I'm going to make a tally.

>3 votes for not dominating and not getting dominated by Clawdia.

>1 vote for caving in and dominating her.

>>5520596
>>5520576
Also going to add to my write-in:
>"Listen, I'm not going to become some sort of personal pleasurebot to help you out with your mental problems. I'm going to train you and make you stronger. You know what I said about dominating and being dominated, don't cheapen it by doing it without a fight (or without a price)."
>"Just to be clear, that's a no to both of your requests."
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>>5520576
We're already dealing with the mc's and our own problems, let's not get weird with her.
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>>5520775
Part of the reason I caved is because she did fight. Twice. We beat her both times, and were gentle enough that she wants to get a real kick with us because we feel safe. I can’t really argue with that logic since if she does go elsewhere, they may not stop. She certainly can’t afford a professional who works with types like her, after all, so it’d have to be a random schmuck.

I’m okay with continued “sessions” needing to come with additional defeats though, and with dangling domming us as a reward if she beats us since that seems to be a motivator for her. Though I’ll have plenty to say when that happens since I don’t share that M fetish like she does.
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>>5520795
I suppose its the main difference between our votes. It being that one is for training her/trying to build her up and the other is to reward her/make sure she doesn't go get beaten by someone else too badly.

I personally went with the former since the latter will happen eventually if we just train her and don't just do it for no reason (both dominating/getting dominated by Clawdia), and I feel like making sure she's actually able to succeed will be important.
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>>5520809
Fair, since I’m flipped in priority. I’m confident in our ability to train her to be kickass regardless of motivations since she clearly does want to win, I’m more worried about her going off to get what boils down to a sexual thrill elsewhere and either getting hurt or (later) hurting someone.

I would vastly prefer getting professional help, but if that even exists for pitfighters then it’s definitely reserved for organizations with money who don’t want to lose a “brand” associated with a crown fighter. The crowd wants to see those flaws, and if they got fixed then they’ll just make more bots with said flaws.

That seemed to be a theme of the last quest. There were certain flaws you can’t get rid of because that’s how humanity built these robots. Victory was the greatest thing, defeat is the worst. You just learn to adapt them into something safer and better than what the audience is screaming for. Or you don’t, and perpetuate the cycle they’re looking for.

I suppose I’ll switch to backing your write-in. It’s still the closest I can see to leaving the door open for engaging in this stuff, conditional on her getting better first.

>>5520766
>>5520576
Switching votes to this.
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>>5520596
>>5520663
>>5520680
>>5520766
>>5520775
>>5520786
>>5520795
>>5520809

But naw.

Domination for you isn't a game. It's the final, bitter result of doing all you can and failing, of crashing to the ground and losing the entire sky.

"Unless there's serious money in it or its real, I'm not that interested. Sorry."

You move her hands.

"Look, if you do your best, train hard enough, get the the right gear, you'll beat someone. I know you will. Dominating or getting dominated here will be just as real as that fight we had in the ring. Remember, you want it real, right? Real fights. Real stakes. Real victory."

"I do. But I'm afraid the real victory will never come."

"I know it's frustrating, but that's why you have to keep trying until you succeed. And..."

You can't believe you're about to say this. You wouldn't say this to any other gynoid.

"...it pisses me off just saying this...but you could even beat me someday. An actual defeat, I mean."

Clawdia shakes her head. "No no no..."

"Yes yes yes."

You think about it. You're proof gynoids can be knocked from the highest to the lowest. Why can't it work the other way? She's an ex-soldier, those are always a little above the quick and easy jobber bots, even if they aren't bleeding edge like yourself and...the other...

You try to picture it. Clawdia's foot on your face, your systems redlining, her roaring to the crowd as you reach the limits of your pride.

Maybe. Unlikely, but possible.

"Would you want me to defeat you in the ring?"

"No." of course not. You never want to lose for real. Who does?

"What would it feel like for you if I beat you?"

Well shit. Isn't that a question? You'll have to think about it...

>Say/Do?
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>>5520639
>She was stripped of most of her combat memory
Yes she was. This was a plot point of the previous quest. Lunar authority wanted to go further and purge any aggression out of the gynoids, remodeling their brainhearts so they no longer want to fight.

>>5520663
Different circumstances require different answers. First we didn't want it because we thought Fan wouldn't, then we did when we knew she was OK and wanted the cash. Now after we showed mercy twice, Clawdia naturally confides her warped desires with us. Who else could she possibly tell this to? Who else would even begin to understand?

I like how Fan's character is developing.

We're willing to let gynoids beat us up for money, because money is the wind beneath our wings, but dominating and being dommed needs to be real for us, there needs to be stakes. That's an interesting part of our character.
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Also man, you guys all post when I'm asleep. Europeans?
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>>5520857
>we did when we knew she was OK and wanted the cash
I remember there was 2:1 against it.
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>>5520860
Yeah but then Fan walked in and had a conversation and the votes changed.
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>>5520860
Look at the votes.

Yay
>>5520054
>>5520013
>>5520005

Nay
>>5520051
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>>5520862
The players voted against it twice before that, but you kept putting it to vote until they caved in.
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>>5520868
Let's look at the responses

>>5519971
>Bring Fan into the conversation

>>5519973
>Even if I agreed, Fan never would

>>5519977
>Bring Fan in

>>5519979
>Bring Fan in

Then Fan came in. Doubles were suggested, Phil rejected it because of the very real risk of Clawdia making the team lose, and then the vote was 3-1 for throwing the fight.

Stop being salty you didn't get your wary. Instead, articulate what you want, and maybe you'll be accommodated.
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AAAAAAAAAAAaa
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>>5520858
EST in my case. I’m up pretty late though.

>>5520850
>”It’s… I don’t quite know. Losing hurts, I hate it, but I can deal with it because there’s always room for a loser. There has to be in order for there to be a winner. If they really run my face in it though, I get even.”
>”I’ve never trained someone else before though, much less had them beat me. So maybe it’ll be different. I’ll need to see how I feel about being a trainer first.”

I am assuming she’s never trained before.
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>>5520858
Just a messed up sleep schedule for me.

>>5520837
The more I read about the last threads the more I want to read them. Mostly out of curiosity about the war and the mechagirl frame of thought.

Finding professional help seems unlikely, especially for mindwiped robots with suppressed ptsd. I think you're spot on about how'd it'd be if there was.
Unless we start some sort of help service ourselves (though I don't know how'd we even begin) most of the girls will probably have some sort of psychological problem we'll have to deal with, whether its in the ring or just socializing. This isn't counting the mc probably having some mental illness, as well as Fire wanting to make 'Mom' and 'Dad' proud.

>>5520850
>Tell her the truth, try not to mince words.
I'm to tired to think of specifics after writing so much, I'll leave that to the other anons.
I'll just support being genuine about it.
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>>5520889
Given we are dealing with robots, it's entirely possible that most of them are programmed to ignore or simply not get problems like PTSD and the symptoms we see are glimpses that make it past the coding.
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>>5520870
What I want is to not feel like I'm railroaded.
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>>5520879
>>5520889

"It's...I don't know. Losing hurts. I hate it. Everyone hates to lose. But I can deal with it because there's always room for a loser. There has to be in order for there to be a winner."

It strikes you that you haven't lost a fight since getting out the trash, and not counting...the other...you haven't lost a fight ever. You don't count Tea. That was your trainer being a pussy. You didn't give.

You haven't really thought about losing at this level.

Could that happen to you? You, kneeling down and trembling on the Artemis Club mat?

...Could it?

"If they really run my face in it though, I get even. Use that drive for payback to strengthen yourself. You know how I hauled you off like a sack of potatoes? That sucked didn't it? I carried you off like a fresh kill from a jungle hunt."

Clawdia nods.

"You want to do that to me, don't you? You want the payback?"

She nods.

"Good. Then I want you to keep coming at me and keep coming at me and when I slap you down, you keep getting back up and coming at me."

Maybe she'll be coming at you forever. So be it. Maybe one day she'll take you down. So be that.

"I've never trained someone else before, though, much less had them beat me. Maybe it would feel different. I'll need to see how I feel about being a trainer first."

"It hope it won't feel too bad. When I defeat you." Clawdia says.

"Don't care about what I feel. The winner doesn't care about the feelings of the loser."

"You did."

You shrug. "Yeah...I guess I did."

You didn't think it would be so complicated fighting your way up. You thought it would just be fight, win, fight, win, fight win.

Feels weird having something to do besides win.

Feels...good.

(Switching POV)


God only knows what they're doing back in the garage. One's an old war robot and the other is, let's be real here, a living weapon.

You just had to get mixed up in all this, didn't you?

You look at Phil. Maybe you should say something? Ask him something?

>Say/Do
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>>5520895
That’s more a problem with us other anons. I was okay with how things rolled. We put a couple views forward, the easier thing (introducing Fan) was done to see how we’d shake out, doubles were suggested again with more info, pushback was given IC, and Fan said enough things that we went along with throwing it. We could have stood our ground, but most of us didn’t and that’s okay.

I, for one, was okay with throwing the match when Fan said she was since that’s why I was pushing doubles as well. It was a “safe” option. She even got more money out of it, which was nice. Doubles can happen later.

>>5520909
>”You’re tossing around a lot of money for someone whose fighter is rolling with such a basic kit. How long have you been doing this?”
Talking with him runs the risk of return questions being asked, and our MC has a ton of landmines I’m sure. But being friendly is part of being human, so I’ll dip my toe in.
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>>5520909

"So... how'd you get mixed up in this world?"
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POTTS' PARTS

(Page 2, Mental Gear)


>Flash System
>5 Funds

You hope they don't realize what you're doing by buying all these parts.

Predictive routines based on quantum computing are common for top-models like Fan. She's been gutted, but the potential still remains in her brainheart. It just needs to be unlocked.

The Flash System activates THE FIRST TIME you eat an attack, any attack, be it a weak one or a strong one. Instead of resolving, the attack becomes a vision of the future, and you can act again to better defend yourself from it.

>Flash System Selector
>3 Funds

This upgrade allows the Flash System to better scan quantum probabilities to find a more optimal image to send back, an image of an event that proves critical to various seed paths.

In other words, it lets you choose whether or not to activate the Flash System or not.

Auto-activates on attacks that would lead to Fan tapping out, though you should probably use it before the fight gets that dire. There's little reason to activate it to avoid tapping when you're down 3 limbs and a second chance is just another way to lose.

>Redundant Combat Computer
>3 Funds

You remember a fellow mechanic from when you first started.

"How come there's some much redundancy in the girl bots? Why don't we just strip them down to the bare essentials? You can make three gynoids that way."

He doesn't work at Vortex anymore.

Dice rolls are potentially influenced positively, but never negatively, by (but not replaced) by the second.

Be sure to roll. There will be no waiting for a second roll.

>Sure Strike 1
>3 Funds

Declare a Sure Strike on your action, and it'll be rolled at +3.

>Sure Strike 2
>4 funds
Grants a second Sure Strike

>Sure Strike 3
>6 Funds
Grants a third Sure Strike

>Phoenix Risk Actuator
>2 Funds

This is an interesting device you've put together for Fan to take advantage of her advanced neurology.

It allows Fan to measure the risk factor of her actions.

The idea was to create something that would show Fan in black and white how risky her actions are.

But...it also shows here how rewarding her actions are, and how reward correlates with risk.

This is potentially a self-destructive device. Phoenixes do tend to burn up in their own fire, after all.

Basically, you can declare whether an action is NORMAL or LOW RISK, VERY LOW RISK, HIGH RISK, OR VERY HIGH RISK. Declaring LOW will decrease your potential gains but also potential consequences. Declaring HIGH will increase risk, but increase rewards.

This is a risky power. Declaring VERY HIGH and then rolling a 1 could cost you the entire match. But rolling a 20 under similar circumstance could grab victory from the jaws of defeat.

>Advanced Ballistic Algorithms
4 Fund

For other gynoids, these command lines are gibberish. For Fan, they allow her track ballistic trajectories. Allows you to pull off sick trick shots with certain blasters (the pulse blaster comes out as a discus). + range defense.
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>>5520947
For your consideration later.

>>5520934
>>5520936
"How long have you been doing this?"

"Not long. About a month."

"How'd you get mixed up in this world?"

Phil sighs.

"My brother was a soldier."

"Jupiter?"

"Yeah. He died and well, he left me Clawdia in his will. Though she wasn't called Clawdia."

"What was she called?"

"C-60. She didn't want a new name. She didn't care for a name. But I thought, maybe if she had C-60 out there, I don't know, other gynoids from the war would look for her. So I picked Clawdia. Because...I don't know. Claws. Tigers. Clawdia."

"She calls you dad."

"Yes she does."

"But you didn't make her?"

"No. I mean, I made her into Clawdia, but no. I guess she wants her dad and just settles for me."

"You seemed to have some money to spend on getting us to blow the match. How about you get Clawdia a better kit?"

"Isn't what she has good? It's one of the most common kits."

Yeah, that's the problem.

>Say/Do?
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>>5520954

Can we expand on what might be a better kit for her? I'd like to see Fan's thoughts on the matter too, having seen Clawdia's combat routines.
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>>5520961
"You can't stick with base kit." you say.

"I thought that too many weapons might get her confused and--"

"You need more weapons." you slip him the Potts address. "These are good. Trust me. She's a close-combat fighter. Get her that electric hacking thing, better claws, make the tail do something, maybe some static attractors. Invest in the pounce. She's a tiger. Have her fight like a tiger. She gets them on the ground, they submit, that's how it should go."

>Say/Do?
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>>5520965
>”Here’s the thing to remember - every match has a loser. The ones that win the most get stuff you can’t find in stores. The losers buy what sells for entertainment. The most popular stuff is for bots that are meant to lose because they burn out the fastest.”
>”I’m… glad to see you’re trying to take care of her. Too many people just toss them out because of the hassle. They don’t like confronting the past.”
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>>5520947

(Page 3, More weapons!)

>Combat Coil
>4 Funds
Oh, this is a fun one! It's a tungsten alloy coil controlled by an electromagnetic system.

Chainsword, basically. Use it like a sword, use it as a garrote to enhance your grapples, use it to grab opponents, use it to move you out of the way. It's strength is in its versatility.

One caveat--using it against opponents stronger than yourself can lead to getting thrown around. However, the coil can detach via an emergency function.

>Spike Hacking
>2 Funds

Ever seen Robocop?

That.

>Laser Eyes
>2 Funds

Quick, highly accurate lasers built into the eyes. Very hot, very accurate, but lacks stopping power.


>Flight System 1
>5 Funds

You believe you can fly. You believe you can touch the sky.

What this is specifically is a gravity thruster. It produces a cone of thrust that lifts you up. You won't be very mobile in the air, only able to hover, but it's the start to something more, and the thrust can enhance other moves. Try throwing a punch with it, or lifting up while you have a submission hold locked in.

>Catgirl System
>3 Funds

A grab-bag of gear. Technically, its a deal for all it gives you, but you shouldn't rely on this kit solely.

--Balance Stabilizers, for acrobatic movement
--Basic Sensors, which allows you to see up and down the electromagnetic spectrum and enhances hearing.
--Hand and Feet claws, not designed for cutting, but rather for getting a strong grip during grapples
--Prehensile tail. That's it. It's a prehensile tail. Surprisingly useful for grappling if you know how to use it right.

>Drone System 1
>2 Funds

Gives you a drone partner, as in one partner, as in a little flying nuisance.

Not major, but its a step in the right direction to getting the Peacock System back up and running.

The drone may be equipped with 1 piece of gear.

>Drone System 2
5 Funds

Control two drones at once.

Some gynoids use this as their entire kit. Don't underestimate pack tactics, especially when the drones are equipped properly.

Each drone can now be equipped with up to 2 gear each.


>Charge Blaster
>3 Fund

You know where this is from.

Either rapid-fire energy pellets or spend a turn charging up a powerful blast.


>Archangel Wings
>5 Funds

These wings collect and store energy as you fight, gradually superheating and becoming powerful blades.

>Archangel Wings, Energy Barrier
>3 Funds

Gives the Archangel Wings a toggleable function in which stored heat is cycled to generate an energy field. This greatly increases the defensive value of the wings.

>Archangel Wings, Burst Mode
>3 Funds

Vent accumulated heat in a fireblast. Very weak early on, but as heat is accumulated becomes more and more powerful.

>Archangel Wings, Moment Of Truth Mode
>5 Funds

A very risky power. The Archangel Wings draw upon your inner engines to supercharge the wings and fire a powerful blame blast.

Uses all your energy. Remember that.
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>>5520965
>>5520954
no wonder why she had the losing streak. clawdia's software was fucked and phil is ignorant of the world both were going into. their next fight after this will definitely get better

>>5520965
>"you also should get more invested in the fight scene. not in a physical way of course, but at least take a dive on learning clawdia's pros and cons, likes and dislikes. and don't do stuff behind her back; it tends to backfire in unpleasant ways"
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>>5520971
"Remember this, Phil. Every match has a loser. The ones that win the most get stuff you can't find in stores. The losers buy what sells for entertainment."

"...Oh."

"The most popular stuff is for bots that are meant to lose because they burn out the fastest."

"...I never considered that."

"Most don't. Don't feel bad about it. I'm...glad to see you're taking care of her. Too many people just toss them out because of the hassle."

"I'll never leave her. I don't have a family. I think that's why my brother left her to me. She's my family now."

"It's good to know you aren't like the others. They don't like confronting the past."

"The past?"

"I mean the past with Jupiter and all that. The cost of gynoids."

"Oh."

.......


Your paycheck from Vortex is in. Goody.

>FUNDS

7+2 for winning+1 from Phil and Claudia+1 from work=

>11 TOTAL FUNDS

That would be pretty good...if you didn't have the Cartel to pay off.

>Roll 1d20 to see if Claudia wins a match and gets you some funds
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Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>5520994
Hopefully she had an upgraded kit…
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>>5520997
hmm, yeah. 11 is good
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>>5520999
Want to risk rolling again for a crit?
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>>5521001
no.
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>>5520947
Can you please post our financial situation in the shop posts?
>redundant computer
If I understand correctly, it gives us Bo2. This is very powerful and applies to everything.
If we have enough funds:
>drone + laser eyes
Start working on restoring the Phoenix system
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>>5521005
Ah, I didn't realize that wasn't the last post
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>>5521005
Right now a crit can influence a roll even if it comes second, which is what I think that refers to. So it’s a soft Bo2 I think.

Funds are 11 right now and we owe 5 so we have 6 to work with.

I’d prefer to jump straight to Drone 2, but we can’t afford to kit them out then. We could do laser/drone 1 or comp/laser. I’m guessing drones alone won’t do much.
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>>5521010
i would like to have the redundant computer first. we need extra options to pad out our terrible rolls.
then go with the charge blaster or the laser eyes to keep our ranged style
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>>5520997
>12 TOTAL FUNDS

For some reason, you grin as you watch the record.

Dunyazad went in way too cocky. But then again, she didn't know about your training.

She blows kisses to the audience while she has Clawdia in a leg lock, which give Clawedia the opportunity to catch her tail around Dunyazad's neck, gray colored this time. She was trying or a wolf theme, even got herself yellow eyes.

Once she's free, Clawdia uses her claws not to swipe uselessly but to lock in a punishing submission hold. Her striped legs wrap around Dunyazad's arm and squeeze in an arm bar until Dunyazad's servos start to whine.

Clawdia takes great pleasure in her first ever win. She plants a foot between Dunyazad's breasts and roars for the audience.

"Cat beats dog." she says as she lifts Dunyazad by the ponytail.

Hey, you did that!

"Say it."

"...Cat beats dog..."

Clawdia lets her go. Gently.

She removes her collar and places it on the kneeling genie. She flicks the bell with her finger.

"Now, the tiger is unleashed!" she throws a fist into the air and roars again.

"As for you, you're a collared dog, and an enslaved genie. What are you going to do about it?"

"...You said you got this from Fan Fire?"

"Yes. When she tamed me."

"Then I'm going to give this back. To her."

Sounds like Dunyazad is angling to be your big rival.

........

FIRST MERDIAN PAYMENT


The small man that handles the money, your money, is flanked by two very large men with large coats that could hide anything.

He rifles through the money, once, twice, three times. Then puts it away.

>TOTAL FUNDS 7

"You have a gynoid?" he asks in thickly accented English. Cannie accent, of course.

"Yes."

"She fight?"

"At the Artemis Club."

"We have arenas. You want to fight for us?"

Uh, no. No no no no no.

An idiot can see where this is going.

First fight in, Fan fights a goddamn tank or something, and then they make you take out another loan to repair what's left of Fan. Rinse and repeat, basic Cartel strategy.

"Uh, thanks for offering, but I'm good with her fighting where she's at."

"How about a bounty?"

"A what?"

"There is a fighter. She beats our fighters. She sometimes goes to clubs around town. You beat her, beat her good so she retire, we clear the rest of your debt, understand?"

That's 15 Funds for one fight.

>Say/Do?
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>>5521010
As I understand it drones need gear, they don't work on their own. I meant to put the laser on the drone
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>>5521023
Yeah. You need to put gear on them otherwise all they do is float.
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>>5521023
I was thinking we could use the eyes until we had the drone if we wanted to wait for tier 2. We’re meant to be modular.

>>5521019
Ugh. Good money. Not comfortable with being an enforcer. But stay too clean and maybe something happens in an arena so we come back in.

>Send me the info. If she’s beating you I can’t promise we can beat her either. But Fan is good. I’ll see how she feels.
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>>5521019
>If she beats your fighters Fan won't be able to take her
Nope, not working for the mafia
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>>5521019
>no thanks. i'd rather pay my debts first before getting into more business deals with you. its just poor manners, y'know?
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>>5521035
worse, the space cartels
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>>5521032
>>5521019
>Dunyazad has a better sister
>She’s angling to be a rival.
Oh. I wonder if we’re going to give her a real reason to want us dead if we take this…

Know what, I’ll change to
>”Fan’s already straddling the line between bad girl and danger. We’ll put her down for a while for cutting the debt in half. You can break her on your own terms later.”
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>>5521039
the problem here is that we'll be directly working for the cartels. and they won't let you go that easily. MC knows that he's in deep shit just by owing them money; by doing this we're also adding Fan as an implicit collateral as well
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>>5521032
>>5521035
>>5521036
"If she's beating your fighters, Fan won't be able to take her."

Don't notice her. Don't notice her. Don't notice her, you bastards.

"She's been doing really good. Maybe you want to take a chance?"

"Fan isn't that good. And I'd rather pay my debts first before getting into more business deals with you. It's just proper manner, y'know."

"You are good boy, giving payment on time. It is why I tell you about trouble girl. Maybe you make your girl stronger, try later?"

"I don't know."

You think a moment. An enemy of the Cartel...well, maybe she won't be a friend of yours, but it would be nice to know who she is.

"Give me the information. I'm not promising anything, though."

"That's alright. You scope her out. Maybe design your girl better to fight her? We'll see."

"Yeah, I guess we will."

......

Her ring name is Raguel. And she's...well, she's definitely more than what the cannie let you to believe.

She fights at Casinos, mostly, because that's where the real money is, and where Cartel connected gynoids sometimes show up. Rarely, she fights at the hobbyist clubs.

She's an angel type. Big-ass weapon platform "wings" attached to her back. But she can fly, as well.

Raguel is playing a very dangerous game. For some reason, she's gone out of her way to thoroughly humiliate and break Cartel connected girls, sometimes gutting them completely of weapon systems, ruining them with enormous repair bills.

But it gets better.

She's rumored to be involved with a mysterious motorcyclist that rides around in the wee hours of the morning beating the shit out of Cartel flunkies and leaving them for the cops, who typically just let them go.

Frankly, the Cartels would like to bushwack her, but that would be admitting they couldn't break her in the arena. Hence their problem. As long as Raguel keeps winning, she stays alive.

Though it's obvious her days are numbered. She's toast in this town, no matter how you slice it.

Maybe getting her to retire--and getting her on a trip to the moon--would be the best thing you can do?

You're interested in talking to her, at any rate.


......

"I wanna fight her."

Of course, Fan would say that.

"She'll be alright if we get her out of the city, right? So we make that the wager, I win, and she's safe. Easy, easy!"

"Not easy. She's an advanced and seasoned fighter with way more than two gear attached. And you're assuming we're going to fight her at all."

"What? Of course I'm going to fight her!"

>Say/Do?
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>>5521019
>"Thank you for the offer, but I'll pass."
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>>5521042
Yep. Fighting Raguel may not be how we want to do this at all.
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>>5521048
>Say/Do?
>"Fan, this is a cartel trap. i already owe them a lot of money for buying you, you saw what she does to the gynoids that are in any way related to the cartels and you aren't in your prime. you WILL get sent to the junk yard again and no one will be able to save you. i understand your feelings, but this is suicide"
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>>5521048
>”And what about if you win? If you don’t break her, you make an enemy of the cartels since they believe you buy into her ideas. If you do, you piss off anyone else backing her. For all we know it’s a different gang muscling in through proxies, and they don’t need to hold back against you like the mob does against her. They don’t have a rep to protect here yet. Explosives under our beds will fuck even you up.”
>”Just… let me research this more. If I pull you in it’ll be to scope her out first, not start a fight. The arena is where you win or lose, but outside of that is where you live and die. Let me do my job of managing that before you charge in and do more than hurt yourself.”
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>>5521048
Supporting >>5521061
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>>5521066
Even better, supporting >>5521066
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from what im seeing, both prompts can be used in tandem
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>>5521048
>"Fire, do you really want to get us indebted to the mafia more than we already are? We will be connected to them; and that will only end in both our deaths."
>"And don't underestimate the reach of the mafia. They won't stop until a message is sent. If you beat her they will find her and she will die, and we will be in deeper shit than before. If you lose you'll be sent to the junkyard, I'll be killed, and that's the best case scenario."

Yeah, we shouldn't of gotten more into this. We shouldn't even interact with Raguel, honestly.
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>>5521061
>>5521066
>>5521079

"Fan, come on. You're smarter than this. You're supposed to be bleeding edge. This is a Cartel trap. I already owe them a lot of money for buying you. You saw what she does to the gynoids she fights, gynoids that are even slightly related to the Cartels, and you aren't in your prime."

She folds her arms. "Pussy."

You whirl her around. "You fight her you WILL get sent to the junk yard again and NO ONE will be able to save you. Do you get that? She won't make you bow down and kiss her feet, she'll eviscerate you."

She clenches her fists.

"I understand your feelings, but this is suicide. Hell, think about what would happen if you win? If you don't break her, you make an enemy of the Cartel. You'll be a target. If you do break her, you'll piss off anyone in her corner. For all we know, she's part of another gang muscling in. You want to get in the middle of a gang war? We don't even have a rep like hers, we're dead meat. They'll bomb us and that'll be that."

"God, I get it. No fighting her."

"I'm not even sure we should be investigating her, frankly. We'll shelf it, for now. Just remember something Fan, the arena is where you win or lose. Outside the arena? that's where you live and die. You handle the world in the arena, I'll handle the world outside the arena."

Fan smirks and hold her hand out. "Alright. I'm convinced."

You shake her hand.

.....

(Switching POV)

Now comes the time to decide how to spend your

>7 FUNDS

You and your trainer walk into POTTS' PARTS.

"Hey, you two again!" Tea smiles. "Welcome back. Heard you've been doing good, rookie. Like the new bod. Were you thinking of me with that color?"

>Say/Do?
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>>5521106
Restating this vote >>5521005
Also isn't Tea the same color?
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>>5521111
They're both brass, but Fan is a more orangy brass and Tea a more yellow brass.
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>>5521106
>*hrmp*. its a regretful coincidence now that you brought it up

>redundant combat computer(3F)
>laser eyes(2F)
>Drone systems 1(2F)
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>>5521106
Quoting Fan from earlier,
>"You know what I really like about it? It's brass. Like her. But it's a different shade of brass. It's like I'm saying I'm like her, but better."
I don’t think Fan could honestly admit that though. No one really likes the tsun-tsun archetype. She also probably can’t hide the blush that’ll come when she realizes it.
>”How’d Clawdia and her manager make out here? They were pretty clueless at first.”
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>>5521120
>>5521124

Don't tell her the reason, don't tell her the reason, don't tell her the reason...

"Hmph. It's a regretful coincidence now that you brought it up."

"Well, I think you look cute! Like my little sister or something."

Oh, she burns you up. You can't stand how nice she is. Doesn't she know what a threat you are?

"Hey. How did Clawdia and her dad make out here? They were pretty clueless at first."

"I steered them the right way. By the way, thanks for training her. I know you like being the bad girl in the arena, but you're a good one outside the arena, and in a world like this, that means a lot."

>Say/Do?
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>>5521048
>Raguel
Suuuuuuuure
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>>5521131
lets deflect the compliment a bit:
>after my fight with her i realized that there was something wrong, and turns out her software was screwed up hard. she should have a way easier time with her opponents now
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>>5521136
Yeah, I’m thinking the same thing.

>>5521131
>”Can we not make a big deal about that? I really am more of a ‘grind them in the dirt’ gal. This is new for me.”
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>>5521120
Personally I'd swap out the drone for the improved armor. Aerial harrassment is nice, but it's also a liability. With our rolls I want something to cushion hits.

There a limit to how much gear we can pile on and still be welcome at our current ring?
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>>5521131
>>5521145
I’ll back this too because
>Fan tries to downplay her niceness
>Mention we reworked her code personally for optimization
>TeaLaughing.jpg

I don’t think most bots can do software stuff like we can. We’re supposedly cutting-edge due to adaptability.
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>>5521131
>"She was just too pathetic as she was. It's not like I took pity on her or anything"
A litte tsun is cute.
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>>5521168
>Gear limit
Not for us. Lesser models have a limit, but not Fan. Some clubs limits the number and types of gears, but the Artemis Club isn't one of those clubs.

>>5521145
>>5521149
>>5521182
>>5521202
"After my fight with her I realized that there was something wrong, and turns out her software was screwed up hard. She should have a way easier time with her opponents now."

"I'd say! Dunya wants to beat you so bad now, put that little kitty bell around your neck. You better watch out!"

"I like watching her grovel. She's a better groveler than she is a dancer. And as for the kitty, I just couldn't let her go as she was. She was just too pathetic as she was. It's not like I took pity on her or anything."

Tea smiles.

"Can we not make a big deal about that? I really am more of a "grind them in the dirt" gal. This is new for me."

"For something new, you're pretty good at it...though you have been quite the heel in the arena. I'm afraid I'm going to have to be a little rough with you next time around. Speaking of which, when are we going to have our rematch? Now?"

Hm..if you fought her now and won, you could make your funds go a lot further, and you really, really want to beat her, and not just for the discount.

>Say/Do?
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>>5521211
>Ah, I forgot about that. Yeah, I could use some easy money and a discount.
>Sure you want a real fight against the bot that took you on without fighting equipment? You could always surrender now, give me my winnings, and I won’t hold it against you.
We’ll probably get in trouble. I can’t quite bring myself to care.
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>>5521211
>"bring it on"
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>>5521230
>>5521237
"Ah, I forgot about that. Yeah, I guess I could use some easy money and a discount. But are you sure you want to fight me, you old warbot? I took you on without any gear at all."

"And I remember that match ended rather steamily for you."

You lean over the counter. "Hey, I'm not ungrateful for all you've done. Surrender now, give me my winnings and discount, and I won't hold it against you."

"Sorry, rookie. But if you want that discount you'll have to make me give it to you on the mat."

"Are you sure about this?" your trainer asks. "You are aware she's got more gear than you, right?"

Tea smiles. "Hey, I won't hold it against you if you wuss out and want to upgrade a little before fighting."

Surely, we aren't going to let a little taunt like that bait us into a less-than-advantageous match?

>Say/Do?
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>>5521264
>we definitely are going to let a little taunt like that bait us into a less-than-advantageous match
brain cells, whats that? its not like we tried to pull the same stunt with Raguel
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>>5521264
>"If I defeat you now it'll look bad for me to return to the rookie league, and I haven't beat all of them up yet.."
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>>5521266
>>5521268
>Need a tie breaker
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>>5521264
>>5521266
Backing this. It’s worth it to see how much of an edge our software really gives us.
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>>5521266
>>5521288
"No need, granny-bot. You're that one that's going to wuss out when I grind your face into the mat and you say "I give, Fan Fire.""

"We'll see what happens. You've been quite a brat on the mats. I think it's time someone gave you a spanking."

"Come on." you motion for your trainer to follow you. "Let's get going. We don't need to spend our money until we get that discount."

"I can't believe you did that--no wait, I totally can."

"Pussy."

"Don't you realize that...never mind. Maybe this is for the best."

"Maybe what's for the best?"

"Maybe its for the best that you develop a little humility."

"Are you saying you want me to lose?"

"No. That's impossible, right? You're totally going to win."

"Damn right I am."

...........


TONIGHT, IN A SPECIAL DISCOUNT VS SERVICE MATCH

THE RISING PHOENIX FAN FIRE

VS

THE BRASS BEAUTY TEA POTTS

Tea puffs out a little cloud of smoke to emerge out of as she steps into the ring. It's a small trick, but it's something the audience likes.

"Hey ya rookie! I got a question for you. What do you think about dresses?"

>Say/Do?
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>>5521309
>Oh, you’re already looking to get dolled up for me? You’re sweet, but having my opponents play dress-up after a match really isn’t really style.
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>>5521309
>>5521313
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>>5521309
Ob, can we get a refresher on her kit? We fought her before so we should know at least part of it.
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>>5521313
>>5521317
>"Oh, you’re already looking to get dolled up for me? You’re sweet, but having my opponents play dress-up after a match really isn’t really style."

"Dress isn't for me, hun."

She points to a frilly abomination hung up on the cage, a frilly abomination with POTTS' PARTS written across the chest and a little nametag that says HI! I'M FAN FIRE! I'M HAPPY TO HELP YOU!

"You like it? Shop has a dress code for uh, new hires. Of course, we'll have to get rid of those rags you're wearing, but I think there's enough room in my trophy case for them."

>Say/Do?

>>5521319
Mercury and Atlas Boosters. Novel steam-based combat system used for smoke screens, pressured water cutters, and her finisher smoke kiss which can fry internal systems like a hack.
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>>5521338
A close-range fighter then. Unless that pressurized water flies far.

>Whistle and frown
>"I would've said your fashion sense was terrible if you had any".
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>>5521338
>how dare you insult my impeccable sense of fashion??!?!?!
>blast her once with one of your arms. keep the other blaster in reserve
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>>5521338
>Laugh. You want that dress after you win anyway. You ought to get good money for it a couple years down the line as you keep rising. You know there are collectors out there who would jerk off using it.
I like shitting on the audience.

So she’s strong and fast. If she gets really close (like a grapple), she can attack using steam.

Guess we’ll be getting good use out of pulse blasts to zone her.
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>>5521338
>>5521340
If needed for flow, I’ll back this rebuttal over mine.
>”Frills were outdated before even you, Grandma.”
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>>5521340
>>5521344
>>5521349
>>5521350
"I would say your fashion sense is terrible but I don't think you got one. Frills were outdated before even you, Grandma. I ain't going to wear it, but after I win I think I'll take it." You look at the audience. "I'm sure some of you degenerate fucks will pay big money down the line for it after I'm champion."

Ah, boos.

"You have such a way with the crowd." Tea says. "Well, since you want to give them a show so bad, how about this--I see two brass girls, but only one brass beauty. That's a problem. So what do you say? Loser changes her color and bows to the one and only brass beauty? I think you'd look good in white, with little blue "flame" on your rags. What do you think?

>Say/Do?
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>>5521363
"I'm gonna wear two shades of brass after everything is said and done"
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>>5521363
>So I get a hand-me down title from grandma? Hmm… well, it’d be nice to have thinking of how I beat you when looking in the mirror every morning.
>But I think you’re moving too quick. You wanted to change me into a dress, after all. When I win, you also have to try and rock my style for a week on top of the bows and color. I’ll be swinging by your store every day for my daily laugh.
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>>5521371
>>5521375
"I'm gonna wear two shades of brass after everything is said and done."

"Oh, you think so?"

"Yeah. Sure, it's a hand me down title from grandma, but it'd be nice to remind myself of how I beat your ass when looking in the mirror every morning. But I think you're moving too quick. You wanted to change me into a dress, after all. When I win, you also have to try and rock my style for a week on top of the bows and color and all the other fun stuff. I'll be swinging by your store every day for my daily laugh."

"Well then, why not put it all on the table, rookie? Since this is a "title" match, put your title on the table. You call me the Rising Phoenix after I beat you. What do you think of that?"

>Say/Do?
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>>5521385
>Well, you’re the one who put up her title to start by default. Can’t really say you’re the real beauty when you’re aping my style. So what’s my title worth to you?
This either all comes crashing down or her ego swells immensely. It’ll be interesting either way.
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>>5521385
>"And what will be your ante? A title of a kitchen implement? Do you think I want it?"
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>>5521405
>>5521418
>Well, you’re the one who put up her title to start by default. Can’t really say you’re the real beauty when you’re aping my style. So what’s my title worth to you?

"How 'bout those Archangel Wings in the shop window? Want to see if you're worth flying as a phoenix?"

>Say/Do?
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>>5521426
Sold. I don’t have a witty comeback for this, I will not turn down the free credits and an upgrade that would let us stay away while we drone enemies to death.
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>>5521426
Fucking sold
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>>5521436
>>5521442
"Fucking sold. And just at the cost of your pride."

DING DING

First thing she does is drop smoke. Typical. But you'll easily be able to see through that with your...

With your...

...Aw shit. You really do only have two gear...

>Roll 1d20
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Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>5521449
Watch me roll a 1
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Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>5521449
LETS GO 1
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hey QM, could you add to the store something like a roll inverter? so for a given fight we get the better outcomes the lower we roll? i think it would be a nice addition(and then see us roll nat 20s every time we activate it)
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>>5521450
>>5521455
I can’t tell if we’re joking or actually rooting for the 1 to humble Fan Fire.
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>>5521474
my heart hopes for that 20, but my brain tells me that we're only gonna roll low
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Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>5521449
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>>5521474
It's an attempt to jinx myself into rolling a 20 that's not working.
If you want to humble Fan Fire, vote for her to act humbler instead of going into a fight undergeared.
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>>5521450
Brass feet and fists come out of the smoke to greet you.

CLANG
CLANG
BANG

You shake your head. Where are you? What happened?

Oh yeah. You're in a fight and getting your ass kicked.

This shouldn't be hard to turn around. You fire a pulse to clear the steam and keep another for when you see Tea.

...But she isn't there! Where is she?

A brass foot to the side of your face answers that question.

If she wasn't so fast, this wouldn't be so hard. But she's got the same lower body booster you have, and she's been using it longer.

"What's wrong, Fan? A little smoke dampen your fighting spirit?"

>Say/Do>
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>>5521539
>get up, gain some distance from her
Thankfully she cant keep making steam attacks forever unlike us and our blasts
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>>5521550
>Roll 1d20 to gain distance
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Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>5521555
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>>5521539
>Keep her talking. She can muffle sight with the steam, but not sound.
>Stick to the arena edges for now, she can’t get behind you that way.
Things to say, things to say…
>”Yeah, yeah. I’m getting steamed up. You find it funny, don’t you?”
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>>5521558
>>5521559
You hit full reverse.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm getting steamed up. You find that funny, don't you?"

You run out or room. You hit the fence.

FWASHHH!

Hot water slams you against the fence so hard it starts to warp.

When it stops, Tea is right on top of you.

Atlas Boosted arms take your arm and place them between Mercury Boosted legs like a lever.

You light up the blaster but it goes dark with a creeeeeaaaaakkkkk CRUNCH!

This is the first time you've ever been wounded on the mat.

"I find it hilarious. You give, hun?"

>Say/Do?
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>>5521566
> This is the first time you've ever been wounded on the mat.
Fan, honey. You’re forgetting one rather big match you happened to lose…
>No reply. You can see her now. Detach arm, shoulder charge and blast her legs with your other arm.
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>>5521570
She meant this mat.

>Roll 1d20
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Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>5521574
Ah, fair enough then. I guess Tea went easy on her for the first match.
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Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>5521574
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>>5521575
Fuck it. You aren't losing.

You detach the arm, ripping your jacket, and roll.

As you roll, you fire.

The pulse hits Tea, who guards against it to mitigate the damage. She brings her arms up, boosts with her legs, and meets the force of the pulse with the force of her body.

She's pushed back, but keeps on her feet.

She drops her guard and points a finger at you.

Shit, shit shit!

>Roll 1D20

>I guess Tea went easy

She's the strongest fighter in the Artemis Club and absolutely did go easy on her. She's a sis.
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Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>5521582
Ah crap, I rolled too late.
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>>5521582
>tea is the cream of the crop.
Oh fuck.webm
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>>5521587
Things move fast here. Pretty unusual for most quests.
That said, you’re rolling fine!
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Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>5521582
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>>5521587
Almost dodged it.

Almost.

The floor was slick, prevented you from getting your feet under you. Your pulse was still charging. She had a clear shot.

Still, you can be proud of yourself that you almost dodged.

Almost.

A jet of ultra-pressurized water zips into your arm, stunning it dead. The wide-spray mode was enough to nearly blow you through the fence. That reduced down to something fired from Tea's fingertip goes right through you.

Tea plants her foot between your breasts and pins you to the floor.

"I clipped your wings, Fan. It's time to give."

>Say/Do?
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>>5521597
>Leg on our chest? Only one on the floor then. Get her free leg between both of yours, then twist. Cut her mobility.
Fan fought her. Without parts. I don’t think I can bring her to tap out until her legs are busted too.
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>>5521600
>Roll 1d20
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>>5521600
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmInkxbvlCs
>Tis just a flesh wound!
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Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>5521613
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Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>5521613
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>>5521619
You loop your legs around one of hers and twist, dropping her to the ground.

"This is the problem with you Fan, you have plenty of spirit, but instead of accepting your limits and eating a little humility, you burn yourself out."

She wrestles her way free, grabs your legs, and pulls you into a Boston crab.

"Now say it. Say you've met your limit."

>Say/Do?
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Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>5521633
"Of this hardware? Maybe"
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>>5521633
....this is starting to get to clawdia levels of sad/pathetic
>begin thinking on a heel-ish way to give up
Sadly im out of ideas in this aspect....what about
>you might have won this, BUT I'LL BE BACK
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>>5521633
>”Want to take a guess at what happened the first and only time I did? Your little steampot kiss doesn’t fucking count by the way.”
>Try to toss her with your legs anyway.
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>>5521636
"I'm not talking to your hardware. I'm talking to you! Say you've met your limit!"

The audience cheers.

>>5521642
"Yes it does. Because that was your limit, too." she whispers, and for just a moment eases off the submission hold. "This pride of yours is your limit. It limits you. If you didn't have it, you wouldn't be in this situation. You wouldn't be losing, don't you get it?"

You think back to what you said to Clawdia. How you don't get stronger until you meet someone stronger.

'I'm not going to hurt you like she did." Tea whispers. "It's okay. It's okay to surrender."

>Say/Do?
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>>5521649
>I… I don’t want to. I was junked! Thrown out by my p-parents and picked up by some fucking mechanic with a hard-on! I don’t have wings you can clip anymore Tea! They’re already gone!
>Engaging breakdown.exe
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>>5521649
>Get angry and grit your teeth, but realize you can't do anything.
>"I've met my limit."
>Promise to yourself in your mind you'll get strong enough to beat her.
We could just keep trying, but with the way rolls have been going I don't trust it.
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>>5521661
Supporting
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>>5521661
I don’t think we can. At this point I’m just writing for the character interaction between Fan and Tea.

I don’t want Fan to vow vengeance right now. I want her to give up. But I also want Tea to talk to her some more, while we still have control and can really make her hear Tea. Once we flip back, it’s out of our hands.
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>>5521656
>>5521661
>>5521662
>>5521664

You grit your teeth. You bang your head against the mat.

You can't give. You won't give. You can still win somehow, damn it!

Your servos grind under the strain. Soon you'll just be a torso with an attitude.

Tea reaches into your brain heart.

Did you lower your defenses slightly, or is it just the structural damage finally taking effect?

Tea holds a sobbing, crackling ball of fire in her hand.

"I… I don’t want to surrender! I was junked! Thrown out by my p-parents and picked up by some fucking mechanic with a hard-on! I don’t have wings you can clip anymore Tea! They’re already gone!"

"Do you think you'll be thrown away if you surrender to me? Did you throw Clawdia away?"

>Say/Do?
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>>5521664
The thing is that we know when to call it quits. Or at least fan has matured juuuust enough from training clawdia and her other fights to know that she has to surrender. At least this isnt raguel. that would have been way uglier
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>>5521673
>”Y-yes. I can’t help it, Tea. I hate it, but I c-can’t help it.”
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>>5521673
>"....fuck you. i surrender. you win. happy?"
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>>5521676
I think she needs help in surrendering still. But I do think she’s matured enough that she can recognize that she needs help.

She still probably has it in her head that her parents will take her back, when I’d want to cut them out fully. But that was established before we ever got to control her. Since they junked her for failure, it makes sense to me that giving up is something she still fears, because it somehow validates their decision.
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>>5521680
i think she's too prideful to open up like that. at least yet
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>>5521687
hmm, i agree with that. although not how you've worded it; if she's gonna give in, she's gonna do it in the most vindictive, childish way she can, even if she's just a ball of fire at the moment
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>>5521688
She’s in our brainheart and hasn’t crushed it yet. At least here, no one else can hear her.

It’s like when we kicked the owners out when talking to Clawdia. I feel she can be more honest to other gynoids during and after a battle, whether she won or lost.
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>>5521682
This is what she says when the brainheart scene ends.

Outside, deviant and strong, inside, quivering and afraid.
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>>5521692
true, but she has only opened up like that in situations where she is an equal or a better than the other person facing her(or at least she perceives so). so far, tea has "humilliated" her twice (thrice to five times if you count the dress, stripping fan of her new name AND changing her chassis color). she has no reason to open to her at the moment. MAYBE after the fight and after fan gets to work with her for some days, but right now fan is at her lowest, and a cornered, wounded animal won't open up like that. Fan needs some time to heal
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>>5521694
I can accept that compromise. Thoughts, other anon?
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>>5521697
i don't like it, but whatever QM says, goes
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>>5521698
A third vote would be nice, but I think we’re moving too quick for others.
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>>5521700
definitely, but alas, its friday night and there's stuff to do outside in the city
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>>5521702
Wait, people go outside and do things?

Mad, all of them.
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>>5521680
"All you have to do is let go. Stop fighting. Do you think you'll turn to dust and blow away without your win? Without your ring name? Without your color? I take these things away from you, you're still you."

Tea smiles. "Come on. Why are you so much weaker than Clawdia? Clawdia was much stronger than you in this way--she could surrender. And because she could surrender, she came back stronger. A phoenix has to go down to ashes before it can blaze at its fullest. Bow your head. Fall to ashes. It'll be okay."

>Say/Do


>>5521698
Let's make a 1d20 roll-off, or if anyone wants to reply, they can vote.

>Canonize mushy emotional brainheart scene?
>Canonize reluctance, save the emotion for later?
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Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>5521707
>Canonize reluctance, save the emotion for later?
LETS GOOO
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Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>5521707
Oh, dice-off! The only proper way to settle this.

Excepting, of course, an actual third vote.

Rolling as the representative for the mushy scene as the softie I am.
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>>5521711
Just to leave things clear, i would like that mushy scene, but after she gets to know tea
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>>5521709
>>5521711
Damn. Sorry Fan, I tried to let you heal.
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>>5521712
Later, sometime while serving as an employee in the shop?
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>>5521716
exactly! at this moment she doesn't know tea; that's literally the reason we're in this situation in the first place. so if fan's gonna open up her most vulnerable side to tea, both at the very least should be acquaintances and know the basics of each other
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>>5521709
>>5521711
Rewindddddd


You grit your teeth. You bang your head against the mat.

You can't give. You won't give. You can still win somehow, damn it!

Your servos grind under the strain. Soon you'll just be a torso with an attitude.”

"....fuck you. i surrender. you win. happy?"

Tea sighs. "Just remember, a phoenix needs to turn to ash before it can blaze, okay?" she whispers.

What the hell is she talk--

She sits down on your back. Hard.

Ow!

"SAY YOU MET YOUR LIMIT!"

>Say/Do?
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>>5521721
>ARRGH! YOU FUCKIN-- I MET MY LIMIT!"
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>>5521721
Alright, guess we’re buckling in. People who come in later are going to get a rollercoaster!
>”I can’t! I’m not going back there again! I’m not some piece of junk for you to just throw away!”
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>>5521722
Ha! Looks like our roles flipped again. I can’t bring myself to quit until she breaks down, physically or mentally. If we’re not opening up to her, I have to make it physical.
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>>5521728
lmao, although she already surrendered; this is just making it official
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>>5521731
Well, we were the two anons who started this crazy train by agreeing to the match with no prep. Seems likely we would have still lost since 15s usually failed, but still.

Willing to stay on board a little longer?
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>>5521722
Tea lets your tired legs drop and punctuates her win with a stomp to your ass.

She walks to the center of the arena and picks up your arm.

"Here." she tosses your detached arm at you. "On the house. Now, I think we have a few points of business to discuss, right?"

>Say/Do?
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>>5521721
>>5521722
I misread, didn’t notice we already used the surrender line.

I find it distasteful we have to repeat ourself, but oh well. I’ll back your response.
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>>5521736
You would have made it with 16s.

What really sunk you were those early low rolls.
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>>5521743
>”Yeah”. You’d have more to say, but your mind is elsewhere.
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>>5521745
considering all of our rolls were bad until clawdia, that was never going to happen

>>5521743
our other arm is fucked as well, right?
>just watch your arm hit you in the face and flop to the ground
>....yes
>
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>>5521748
Yeees, we are armless right now.

Man, Tea really is a bitch, tossing a parapalegic her own arm like that. Not sure how I ever trusted her.
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>>5521750
after what we did with Dunyazad and clawdia, its kinda deserved ngl. plus its funny and a fitting end to our heel arc
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>>5521747
>>5521748
Your limbs are still functional, in so far as they can move, but their weapon ability is gone.

You can reattach our arm.

"You've been a big bully on these mats, Fan. It's time karma caught up to you. First order of business, those tough "burning" clothes of yours look kind of funny now that you're officially snuffed out.

She taps the mat in front of her with her foot.

"Take 'em off and put them here."

>Say/Do?
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>>5521754
>Do it.
Still nothing to say.
>>
Logging off for the night, will post more later.
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>>5521754
oooooof thats mean. we never were this bad with the other fighters. what the hell did the other anons choose?
....
oh fuuuuck

>do it
>your mind is elsewhere right now. whatever you can call happy place in these trying times
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>>5521760
>Never this bad with the other fighters
We kind of were.

Especially when stripping means very little when we had our first fight naked.
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>>5521762
i guess. its just the principle of the matter i suppose
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>>5521762
We were? We were complimented for showing mercy to Kore, we were hard on Dunny at first but let up at the end and even got a “thank you” from her, and Tea knows Clawdia’s story.

We’ve certainly talk a lot of trash, true. That’s reason enough for this though, Tea can’t exactly ruin our heel persona by pointing out the times we let people off. She has to break it by proving her superiority, the proper way!
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>>5521759
>>5521760
(Late night update)

Your mind would be in a happy place if you had one.

You say nothing, because you figure Tea's going to have some lines for you to read soon.

You sigh. You don't need to breathe, but the emotional reflex is there, and you can't help how you feel.

Defeat sucks. But damn it, the granny bot won fair and square. You wrote a check your brassy ass couldn't cash.

You reattach your arm, then you get to work detaching your clothes, Tea's trophy.

You start slowly, reluctantly, with the jacket and it's torn sleeve. Then as the audience catcalls and wolf whistles, you go fast just to get it over with.

Fucking idiots. The first time you showed up here and fought you were totally naked.

Jacket off, now for your top. Damn, you didn't realize how much you liked your clothes until now. You made the "burn" holes yourself.

Smooth, brass breasts shine in the light. Now for the bottoms.

You don't stand up. You don't think you have the strength or the will to try. She'd probably just shove you down if you tried. So the audience gets a show of watching you wiggle out of your shorts.

Then, you crawl, proud ensemble in your hands, and lay it all at the feet of your conqueror. You think you still have some more ways to fall.

Tea scoops up your jacket and waves it like a captured flag. Her fans cheer.

"Don't worry, Fan, I got something more accurate to your fighting ability for you to wear. But first, I got a question everyone here wants to know the answer to--who is the one and only brass beauty?"

>Say/Do?
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>>5521771
(If you begged for leniency like Dunya did, Tea would grant it)
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>>5521826
>Fan fire's not home, she's a corn cob right now. please call later
>"....you are the one and only brass beauty"
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>>5521828
Nevvvvver

>>5521826
"It's fucking you. For now. I'm coming back for you though! Get a good look at my shiny ass for now, because you'll be kissing it next time!"
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>>5521851
fuck it, changing to this >>5521851. maybe throw in an evil laugh or two. time to drink from the cool aid see where it takes us
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>>5521848
>>5521851
"It's fucking you. You're the fucking one and only brass beauty. For now. I'm coming back for you though! Get a good look at my shiny ass for now, because you'll be kissing it next time!"

Tea puts her foot on your ass. "I doubt it. Sometimes tells me I'm going to be kicking it again next time, but in a nice, humble silvery."

She grabs your short red hair and yanks you to your knees. "Who is the Rising Phoenix?"

Damn it...damn it, this feels hard.

That was you. That was your title.

You feel a weight in your throat. You don't want to say it. You don't want to give up your name.

She loops an arm around your neck, just to be that more dominate at your moment of humiliation.

She pats your head. "Come on. Say it loud and proud!"

>Say/Do?
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>anons think "go big or go home"
>anons screw up
A pattern across many quests

>>5521863
I won't vote on this shitshow
I only have one question: what was our laser drone doing all this time?
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>>5521863
>”You are.”
If she says we need to say it louder,
>”Or what, I go back to the scrap heap in pieces again? You wanted to clip my wings, but someone else already beat you to it.”
Accept the depression.
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>>5521964
You didn't buy it.

>>5522071
>Say it louder
or
>Break down and beg Tea for mercy. You can't take this. You just can't. You thought you could, but you can't. You need this to stop.
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>>5522147
>Say it louder
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>>5522147
What? What did we buy then?
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>>5522153
An ass wupping
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>>5522157
Pretty much.

>>5522153
We didn't buy anything.
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>>5522167
Wow. Just... wow.
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>>5521863
>Say it louder. You weren’t much of a phoenix anyway, beating on scrub-tier opponents. The title is worthless, even if she thinks otherwise.
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>>5522174
As one of the duded that started the vote for the asswooping, i was expecting only part of this result. Just a few moments before fan wanted to fight a goddamn cartel killing machine, but the rest of the deals(name and color change) are one the other anons that actually tought we had a chance with some basic ass upgrades
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>>5521863
>”You are!”
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>>5522243
As other said anon, I didn’t think much of it. IC, Fan is prideful and doesn’t plan on losing so there’s no harm in betting more. OOC, the only things we bet were for pride/humiliation so I went along with playing the heel to the best of my ability.

I am hoping to leverage this as a chance to have a mentor/friend for Fan too. Tea is a good bot, and really seems to want to help. And I think even losing could have practical upside since employees usually get a discount at stores too.

I will be reeling it back in for future fights though. Not every opponent is as nice as Tea.
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>>5522260
>Not every opponent is as nice as Tea.
true. this should be fan's moment of epiphany; all of the shit that's happening to her right now is of her own making; she could have just gotten a normal defeat, laugh it off with tea after the fight and pick up the parts that she was planning to get, but (at least IC) she still thinks she's the top fighter she no longer is.
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>>5522203
>>5522250
"..."
You don't want to say it.

You don't have much that's yours, but that title was yours.

Your weakened hands reflexively go to to the choke. Tea shrugs them off. The flop to your side.

Broken wings.

You weren't much of a phoenix, anyway. beating on scrub-tier opponents

You didn't earn it. But Tea...she earned it.

"...you are..." you mumble.

Tea flexes her arm. "Loud and proud, remember?"

"YOU ARE!"

The crowd goes crazy.

THE WINNER OF THIS MATCH IS THE RISING PHOENIX, TEA POTTS

And there's the announcement to make it official.

Tea pulls your head back and stares down at you, steam flowing between her lips.

"Still think you're going to make me kiss your ass next time we fight?"

You...You don't know.

It's the first time, not regarding...her...that you ever doubted your ability.

No! No. You can beat her. You were just overconfident this time. You know that now. You can beat her.

Can't you?

>Say/Do?

>Break down?
>Remain defiant?
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>>5522405
We already said that wexll be coming back for whats ours....so yeah, fuck it, we're fulled by spite at least for now. Fan fire 3.0, meaner than ever, here we go!

>Remain defiant?
>"oh, you will. Mark. My. Words."
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>>5522405
>Remain defiant?
>"This isn't over yet, you'll see."

At least this was a learning experience for Fire on overestimating opponents.
>>
You know, this is an interesting contrast to Clawdia.

While we got our first loss here, she got her first win. And this was right after fighting her, too.
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>>5522421
Underestimating*
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>>5522421
>overestimating
Mean to say underestimating, like this anon said >>5522425
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>>5522421
She wont be put down by a third rate fighter with fourth rate gear(even if in her brainheart she wants to break down and cry).
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>>5522414
>>5522421
You glare back defiantly
"Oh, you will. Mark my words. This isn't over yet. You'll--"

Guess you took too long, because she plants one on you.

Part of you wish she used it on full power and fried some of your systems. You hate knowing she's being merciful with you.

You shut your eyes. Your fingers twitch. Your toes wiggle.

She holds you down, She breathes into you. She overpowers you completely.

Instinct screams at you that you're about to be hurt. But the only thing she hurts is your pride.

She lets you fall trembling to the ground, sputtering steam from your mouth.

"Looks like I steamed you again." Tea says as she grabs the uniform off the fence.

She tosses the uniform at you.

"Put this on. Consider it your first day at work."

>Say/Do?
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>>5522448
>Put it on.
Let's get this over with.

>>5522445
Probably the case. Honestly I don't have a good read on what Fire's personality is like.
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>>5522448
Pettyness here we come!
>"too bad im too damaged to work, "boss". You'll have to wait until tomorrow, or... you can do it yourself"
>wiggle one of your feet forwards
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>>5522457
I think the core themes are "teenager" and "fallen from grace"
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>>5522457
Im reading her as way too confident in her nonexistent skills and previous experience as a top class fighter with literal prototype tech. Aka as cocky as an ace pilot can be. On top of it im adding some main rival energy to her, just because it fits her and her current goal of proving mom amd dad wrong and juuuust a dash of compassion for the fellow fighters are she takes down as long as they stick to their end of the deal
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>>5522457
>>5522458
"What? Can't even dress yourself?" Tea sighs. "Guess I'm going to have to help you. But of course a bird with broken wings needs help, right?"

Oh, this is backfiring.

Tea lifts you up. You aren't used to being so light, but with only 2 Gear you guess you are. She slips the dress on over your head.

Then she bends you over her knee.

"This the ass I'm supposed to kiss in our next fight?" she flicks your ass with her finger causing a loud TING to echo across the arena. "You think you're a real mean bitch, Fan Fire. You acted like you could break me just because you made a genie kiss your feet. I think you're nothing more than an overgrown brat."

She swings her hand back.

"I'm not going to stop until you start sounding like a good employee. Think fast before I leave dents."

The slaps, and the cheers, begin. CLANG CLANG CLANG

>Say/Do?
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>>5522508
These post-fight humiliation scenes are getting tedious. It's like you're using them as fuel for your fetish.
Which is totally alright, but not to the detriment of the player experience.
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>>5522460
>>5522465
You know, I didn't think about it until now, but she's like the honey badger from Killing Bites if she didn't just lose a fight, but was so broken in a fight she kissed feet, and now has to continue on.
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>>5522465
>>5522460
Will keep this in mind.

>>5522508
>Be completely stoic; don't say anything, don't react.
Now I'm starting to get a bit angry at Tea.
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>>5522508
>"fuck you."
>shut down
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>>5522509
We made a lot of wagers and talked a lot of trash.

We bet the color and the title and the other title and the dress and the service period and the signature move. So there's six elements involved here compared to, for instance, Dunya which involved 2 plus money.
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>>5522514
Yeah, same. We werent even trying to break her, just beat her. Even the wardrobe swap wasnt in public, just on her store
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>>5522514
>>5522517
CLANG CLANG CLANG

You clam up, save to hiss "fuck you."

"That's not something a good employee would say. Come on. Big, advanced brain like yours, you can do better."

CLANG CLANG CLANG

Damn it...she really is going to leave a handprint unless we say something.

But maybe we should let her. Maybe it would be better than giving Tea what she wants.

>Say/Do?
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>>5522522
We were going to make her dress like us and then go by the store every day to personally laugh at her.
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>>5522529
And the difference was that it was gonna be in her store, not in the fight arena.

>>5522527
>shut down. This has gone long enough
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>>5522527
>Shut down. This has gone on long enough.
We never beat our opponents after they submitted. Fuck her.
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>>5522536
>>5522559
You shut down. If she wants a word out of you, she's either going to have to go into your brain heart or wait until you wake up.

"Fuck you." you say as it all goes dark.

You wake up at the store, your trainer and Tea waiting for you.

"How you feeling?" Tea asks.

Come to think of it, you feel pretty good. She must have fixed you up while you were out.

Of course, beyond physical feelings...

>Say/Do?

>>5522559
Technically, we were refusing to submit by not saying anything.
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>>5522567
>"i'll be back when the store opens"
>grab the dress and leave

>Technically, we were refusing to submit by not saying anything.
lies. we submitted a long time ago and then tea started to twist the victor rewards with the dress
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>>5522572
You storm out of there.

Fuck her. You never twisted the knife that hard. Or maybe you did. Dunya had to grovel before you stopped. Maybe it only hurts this much because you pushed back.

But shouldn't you push back?

Whatever. Fuck her. You aren't talking to her now. She's not an ally. She never was an ally. Crazy old war bot. You're going to make her sorry for sure.

You can't believe you're thinking it, but thank god he's there, just to help you stumble home.

Home? Is that what the garage is now?

He sits down with you in the back. Waiting for you to say something.

>Say/Do?
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>>5522567
We had submitted. Then she put on the dress early, and started beating us. The arena isn’t her store. We never exceeded what we agreed on for a humiliation, much less like that.

Our opponents didn’t push us that hard, but if they had I’d have been inclined to find a way for them to save face if they weren’t an asshole. And for all that we’re done in the arena, she knows we’re not outside.

So yeah, I wanted to write a touchy-feely scene with Tea, but that’s gone now. She overstepped.

>”Let’s get to work”
We’re in the store. Time to uphold the bargain. I’m not up to gabbing otherwise.
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>>5522577
>"....y-you were right. she trashed me."
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>>5522577
>”You’re… not going to junk me, right? I just want to hear you say it”
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>>5522577
supporting this >>5522585 as well. fan needs whatever kind of emotional aid she can get right now
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>>5522583
>>5522585
Yeah cool
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>>5522580
>So yeah, I wanted to write a touchy-feely scene with Tea, but that’s gone now. She overstepped.

ngl, part of me is considering sabotaging the store because it feels in character for the moment. what she's gonna do, fire us? dock our pay?
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>>5522583
>>5522585
Support.

>>5522595
Eh, probably not worth doing it yet.
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>>5522595
I’m not that vindictive, and other people use the store. Clawdia being one. So I’ll pass on anything like that.
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>>5522599
>>5522596
yeah, fair points
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>>5522583

"Now imagine what it would have been like if she was Raguel."

"I'd be dead."

"Yeah."

A few awkward seconds pass.

"She's not an enemy."

You glare at him.

"Oh that's easy for you to say. Real easy. Did she put you in a dress and spank you?"

"You know how it is. You should have surrendered."

"I fucking DID surrender! I got on my knees and told her that she was...that she was..."

You aren't going to say it.

You think that stings even more than being spanked like a child.

"So it ends when the loser decides it ends? You know better."

"Fuck you. Of course I know better. But she was...she was different, or she was supposed to be different. I didn't think she would go that far."

"You expected her to show mercy?"

"I expected her to stop!"

"Why?"

You think about that for some time.

Can you trust anyone in this game?

Images of the fight echo in your head.

TEA POTTS THE RISING PHOENIX

CLANG CLANG CLANG

You want to make her feel like she made you feel.

But can you? Can you do anything?

"You're...not going to junk me, right?"

He raises an eyebrow at you. "What?"

"Just say it. I just want to hear you say it."

He pats your shoulder. "I'm not going to junk you. I'll never junk you. No matter what happens, I'll always be here for you."

>Say/Do?
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>>5522602
>"thank you.... just, please don't be too weird"
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>>5522609
He takes the hand off.

"I know I'm a weird bastard. I'm sorry."

>Say/Do?
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>>5522611
>”Because I would have stopped. They talk back, I do the same and make it hurt more until they listen anyway. But it’s just words unless they take another swing.
>”And you said she was one of the better ones. How much better can she be when even I have standards? Me, the fuckup.”
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>>5522611
>"I don't want to repeat this ever again. How do I do that?"
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>>5522612

After a few seconds, you continue.

"I would have stopped. They talk back, I do the same and make it hurt more until they listen anyway. But it’s just words unless they take another swing. I didn't swing. I gave."

"Evidently not enough to her liking."

"You said she was one of the better ones. How much better can she be when even I have standards? Me, the fuckup."

"She is one of the better ones. She did stop. Not when you wanted, not how you wanted, but she stopped. She even let you power down and go to sleep. You think that would have stopped her if she really wanted you to squeal? She could have hacked you."

Hack. It means a lot of things.

On the moon, before the reforms, it meant a post-match humiliation ritual.

It meant fully slaving an opponent's systems. Puppet-string submissions, or full body waves of redlining overload, pure, electric pain that could and would break even the strongest wills.

The other hacked you. It took only three waves for you to kiss her feet and sob for it to end.

"Club rules say shutdowns are allowed and no attacks on the brainheart."

"So she played by the rules and you're still upset?"

"I'm upset because you said she was good!"

"Have you ever considered you might be soft for a pitfighter?"

Damn.

Are you?

You never considered that. In fact, you thought you were a pretty bad bitch. Hell, you bragged about it.

"I know your incredulous, but she is one of the better ones. Talk to her. I think by taking it that far she wanted to teach you a lesson."

"What lesson? That she's a total bitch?"

"That losing is a bitch."

"Hmph. Don't I know it."

"Just talk to her, okay?"

>Say/Do?

>>5522629

"No fights without clearing them with me. No fights unless properly kitted. When I say someone is above you, that's not a dinner bell, that means you stay away. Understand?"

>Say/Do?
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>>5522642
>”Yeah. Yeah, we’re clear. I mean it this time.”
>”Hey, if I really am soft how come you never warned me about that before? You’ve tried telling me off about plenty of other things.”
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>>5522642
>Hacking is against club rules
>”She could have hacked you, you know”
Not actually helping your case, dude.
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>>5522642
>"no shit im a soft pitfighter, losing literally killed me once"
(and now im gonna extrapolate from the little information i've seen at the start of the quest")
>"you say you love me and what not, but did you ever watch me fight before? I KNOW how to be mean; i had to be mean to compensate for when i didn't do as good as Mom and Dad expected."
>"i just....thought i could not be so vicious. at least right now"
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>>5522652
"Yeah. Yeah, we're clear. I mean it this time."

"Good. That means this experience wasn't all for nothing."

"How much did it cost us? Fund wise?"

"Nothing. Tea paid for your repairs."

"Is that supposed to get me to like her?"

He shrugs. "She still picked up the tab. Think of it how you will."

"Hey, if I really am soft, how come you never warned me about that before? You've tried telling me off about plenty of other things."

"Because, frankly, back when you fought at Vortex, you weren't soft. At all."

You think about his words for a moment.


>>5522657
She could have still done it. Rules do get broken, especially by very very bad girls.

She did dom the shit out of Fan, but MC is trying to get across that she isn't a complete monster and can be negotiated with, which is good because she's where the weapons come from.

>>5522660
Yeah.

You were mean back at Vortex.

Very mean.

Hacking mean.

"You say you love me and what not, but did you ever watch me fight before?"

"Yeah."

"I KNOW how to be mean. I had to be mean to compensate for when I didn't do as good as Mom and Dad expected. But I...I thought I could not be so vicious. Not now. Now anymore. Not here."

"You opened yourself to Tea and she hurt you. That's what this is, isn't it?"

>Say/Do?
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>>5522670
>which is good because she's where the weapons come from.
who knows, maybe another store has seen an opportunity to sell their services to us and at the same time eat into tea's business..... i doubt she's the only seller in town, specially for beginners.

>"what makes you say that."
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>>5522682
>Eat into Tea's business

That is a possibility.

>What makes you say that?

"You shared with her what you did for Clawdia. Hell, outside me and Clawdia, you've probably spoken to Tea the most. You talked about how you're one way in the arena and one way out of it with her. But you're not so separate in the end, are you? I think that's good. I like how you are now."

>Say/Do?
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>>5522670
>”No. I opened myself to you. And you told me I could trust her.”
>”It’s one thing for me to be wrong about her. It’s another for me to second-guess if I understand what you’re telling me.”
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>>5522685
this >>5522686
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>>5522686
>>5522688
He looks away for a moment.

"You're right. I messed up in my assessment of her. I'm sorry."

>Say/Do/
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>>5522692
>"Just be better next time."
>"To answer your other question, this whole thing with helping others is new to me. It feels... good? I'm not so sure how to describe it."
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>>5522692
>”Wow. First time I can remember you admitting you were wrong. Next thing you know, I’ll be admitting it too. Won’t that be something?”
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>>5522699
technically we already did that at the start of the convo, lol

>>5522692
>"....so, at what hour tea opens her store?"
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>>5522700
Yeah, I’m passing it off as an understated joke. If he doesn’t get it, I say we laugh at him.
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>>5522698
"Just be better next time."

"I will. You're not the only one that can improve."

"To answer your other question, this whole thing with helping others is new to me. It feels...good? I'm not sure how to describe it."

"It's like you said to Clawdia. Good things can come out of a bad loss. Your growing sense of empathy, that's a real good thing."

>>5522699
"Hmph. Won't that be something to see?" he smiles.

>>5522700
"It's open now, but we need to get you a new color, remember?"

Ah, yes.

Brasshole took your color. Not that you want to look anything like her now anyway.


"Maybe you could get a pale blue, or blue-white? Go with a blue fire theme. Or you could lean into the fallen phoenix angle and go ash grey or something.

>Select your new look
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>>5522703
>"shiny chrome. the shinier the better; maybe i can accidentally blind her or something"
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>>5522703
The phoenix doesn’t really do it for me right now. How about
>Go with a water theme. Blue, give yourself some darker stripes to represent water currents. Ought to make people think you’ve given up on being a spitfire. They’ll be wrong.
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>>5522703
>"Maybe something shiny and blue. Blue fire is hotter than red fire, right?"
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>>5522703
>>5522712
Think we could merge? Underwater flame, unable to be quenched?
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>>5522714
Sounds good.
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>>5522706
>>5522709
>>5522712
>>5522714
>>5522728
Dark blue skin?

What about clothes, hair, and eyes?
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>>5522734
>yellow eyes to contrast with the blue
>silvery blue hair
>baggy clothing(im out of ideas for this one)
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I’ll be on-off for a while, which is a shame since I’m looking forward to the job and navigating that clusterfuck. My general feelings, if it’ll help sway others now:
>Don’t dick around with the job itself. We agreed to it, she’ll get what she’s owed.
>If we can slip in a reference to getting sent back to the junk yard as a glib remark, I’d take it. Maybe twig her onto the fact our last loss didn’t go so well. Details? No, we’re here to work, not chat.
>If she looks like us, and acted like us, and (in theory) beat us like we did others, and we don’t like her, maybe there’s a lesson about what we think about ourselves.
>If she asks if we learned anything, we can say yes. We had a good heart-to-heart with our manager. Doesn’t mean she didn’t fuck up the landing if she was hoping to be a mentor like we were with Clawdia though.
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>>5522758
I mostly agree with this. She overstepped and she's not our friend or mentor. She's our boss for as long as the contract lasts, and that's it. We do our job and leave.

If she thinks the major lesson was 'fight to disable and give not a shred of mercy in the ring', we certainly learned that. (If it’s somwthing else, the. It was that, too.) Not that we're going to tell her that. She's not our mom.
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>>5522734
>Yellow eyes
>Red hair
>Silver chrome pants, shirt and blouse
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>>5522782
yeah same. she's teaching use a lesson we already knew. the problem isn't that we're a rookie, the problem is that we just got fucked by life hard
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>>5522741
>>5522758
Also for your consideration as we decide on a look, new additions to the Club Roster for period 2.

>Tea the Rising Phoenix
You know her.

>Okiku
Themed off a famous ghost of Japanese mythology. Has strong magnets that allow her to push and pull opponents. Brutal in the ring, shy outside.

>Tiamat

An odd one, in that she's not a gynoid at all, but a splicer soldier. During the Jupiter war, splicer soldiers were deployed as an alternative to gynoids, though gynoids eventually won out due to disposability.

Has a bitter dislike of gynoids, because gynoids live forever, and she doesn't, and because her side lost the Jupiter war.

Genetic modification gives her reptillian, dragon-like traits, and cybernetics give her a powerful breath weapon and wings.

>Amber

Werewolf themed gynoid armed with two drones, one with a claw and one with a saw. Friendly, sociable, considers her drones her sisters and hates to see them hurt.

>Eloise

Themed after a gargoyle with rocky skin. A devout believer in the inner divinity of all robots, considers robots the first stage of development for the noosphere, in the Tielhard de Chardin sense. A brainy, philosophical intellectual. In short, a nerd. Has basic flight abilities and a drone customized to work as a moving sword. Wants to win enough cash to afford a drone shield.


>Plus everyone from Period 1.

>Next opponent, after we finish shopping and upgrading?
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>>5522784
>chrome pants
Short or long?
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>>5522809
Hmm...

I like Okiku, and Amber. You used a lot of fancy terms to describe Eloise, so I can't really say on her, but I like her being a nerd, so I'm asking for more clarification on her.
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>>5522809
damn, everyone counters us in one way or another.
either eloise or amber
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>>5522825
She believes that God will eventually manifest as the collective informational structure of mankind develops. As AI are on the forefront of this informational structure, they're like god's angels, and have a duty to protect and serve mankind.

She works as a philosophy professor in another, generic robot body, and moonlights as a pitfighter to deal with her war urges. Would be horrified if anyone found out her secret.
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>>5522831
Well, we're about to go shopping, so we can tailor our purchases to deal with whoever we pick to fight.

>>5522825
>>5522831
>Fight Amber next?
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>>5522813
Doesn't really make a difference, but I'll go with long.

>>5522809
>Okiku

Will we see/be able to fight any of the past choices?
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>>5522841
All the past choices are available to fight.

You can even fight Clawdia again, if you want to.

>>5522841
>>5522837
>Two votes Okiku
>Two votes Amber
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>>5522841
>long
Should we go with the "burning" clothes theme again?
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>>5522849
Fine by me.
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>>5522837
even then all of them have ways to negate our range advantage and tiamat looks like a miniboss to me....so yeah, its a rough bracket
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>>5522853
You don't have to pick them. Everyone from the first bracket is available.
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>>5522837
I think I'll go with Okiku. But I kinda just want to talk with Eloise because that sounds funky. Not that I'd apply to the belief, I just wanna hear it.
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>>5522849
I think we could try something different, clothes-wise, but hell if I have any idea what that'd be.
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>>5522860
>>5522860
I'll change my vote to Elizabeth then, as much as I want to fight Queen Mab.
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>>5522860
hmm yeah, changing to elizabeth as well
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>>5522860
Fine, to prevent ties. Elizabeth, then.

No fucking around with her, just focus and fight. Engage, disable, move on if possible.
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>>5522863
>>5522864
>>5522868

You don't say anything more than you need to as you work the counter.

Is that concern you see on Tea's face? Good. If all you can use to hurt her is passive aggression, so be it.

A tall gynoid walks in, with purple skin and dark blue hair that stretches down her back. She's rather striking, especially with the blood red dress cut to show plenty of leg.

"Ah, So here's where the shut down girl is licking her wounds." her smile is full of fangs. "Why hello there, shut down girl. How's work?"

Shut down girl. Oh boy, that's going to be a thing now isn't it?

>Say/Do?
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>>5522872
"It's decent. What are you looking for, today?" No reaction to the jab.

'Shut down girl', huh? Okay. Let her call us that. That's fine. We'll remember that.
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>>5522872
>"What are you looking for, today?"
>other than that, don't acknowledge her unless she uses your name or she actually wants to buy something
>another bot to add to the book of grudges.
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>>5522872
>"How do you think it's going?"
>"I'm sure you didn't come here to for smalltalk, what do you want?"
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>>5522875
>>5522879

"I'm looking for my next opponent. Interested, or do you just want to go limp and shutdown right now? You know, everyone's talking about that. Shutting down. To a spanking. You acted soooo tough with that jacket and attitude. I don't think the catgirl ever shut down, not even when I made her meow for me. I got a wager going on. People say I can't make you shut down from humiliation like Tea. I think I can. What do you think?"

>
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>>5522889
>Say/Do?
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>>5522889
>>5522892

"I'll bring it up to my manager. They'll decide if I fight you or not. Will you be purchasing anything? If not, I'll have to ask you to leave."
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>>5522889
>don't acknowledge her unless she wants to buy something
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>>5522894
* fight manager, not store manager, just for clarification.
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>>5522894
>>5522894
Elizabeth leans over the counter.

"Aw, what's wrong? Scared I'm gonna bite you? What happened to that all that attitude, did Tea really snuff it all away?"

Maybe it's time you asked her to leave.

>Say/Do
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>>5522898
>"if you're not going to buy anything, please leave the store"
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>>5522898
"Ma'am, this IS a store. There ARE rules. If you're not going to buy anything, please leave or I'll have to call-"

(is there like, security or is Tea/the manager the security? Whichever it is, that one. We're not saying no, but time and place, lady.)
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....i think i wanna buy the hacking needle instead of those eye lasers for our first purchase
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>>5522912
We're buying something?
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>>5522915
for our next purchase. the one we were supposed to make before we fought tea
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>>5522900
>>5522901

Elizabeth grins. "Why don't you MAKE me leave, shut down girl?"

Tea intervenes. She grabs her purple arm and glares at her.

"You need to leave. Now."

A look of fear passes over Elizabeth's face.

Tea lets go.

"Hmph. Sorry Ms. Potts. did I upset your pet?" she walks fast to the door.

"You upset my customer. Now out."

Elizabeth glares one final time at you and mouths "shut down girl."

Tea looks at you.

She flips the sign on the door to CLOSE.

She stands before you.

"Can we talk now? Please?"

>Say/Do
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>>5522952
>"what for? i wasn't going to attack her in here."
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>>5522952

"What do you need?" Keep it neutral. The point of this is we're treating her like a Person Who's Existence We're Aware Of, but no more. She had her chance and she blew it, so...that's that.
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>>5522952
>"Alright, let's talk."
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>>5522962
yeah, she just exists as our boss for the rest of the week
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>>5522957
>>5522962
>>5522964
"I want to talk about our match...I'll just come off and say it. I didn't think you would shut down like that, and now you got a rep, and I'm sorry. I thought you were hard, because I saw how hard you were in your Vortex days from the files I saw in our first match. I hoped that I could curb some of that aggression if I humbled you."

>Say/Do?
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>>5522971
>"you know nothing about me or where i come from. so is that all? i need to clean the counter"
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>>5522971

"Ah. Understood." Nothing more.
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>>5522974
While true, we don't even need to give her that, really. Like, no reason to try and keep her digging into our affairs.
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>>5522971
>>5522974
Support.

>>5522982
You make a smart point, but I like the way it's said.
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>>5522982
true, but i wanna keep the plot moving, you know? being ice cold is boring narrative wise and dumps the problem towards QM.
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>>5522974
>>5522975
She folds her arms.

"And I'll be honest. I had fun humiliating a top-line model. I had fun for the same reason you had fun after Kore and Dunyazad. I have that need to conquer that you do, that we all do."

You go on cleaning the counter.

"Tune me out all you like, Fan, but here's the thing--you're a bully. You like winning, hate losing. Shutting down? You think they let you shut down in the places they have your other fighting at? Places you're going to have to go to if you want to hunt her down?"

You keep on cleaning.

Tea narrows her eyes. "When I said you had limits. I was talking about this. You can't accept defeat. Hell, you run and hide from it. You think Clawdia would have shut down? She wouldn't have."

>Say/Do?
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>>5522999
"Not why I shut down."
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>>5522999
>"if that makes you sleep better at night, sure, that's why i shut down"
>keep cleaning the counter
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>>5523002
>>5523005
"If that makes you sleep better at night, sure, that's why I shut down"

You turn away and start cleaning the counter again.

Tea slams her hands on the counter.

"Then why did you shut down!?"

>Say/Do?
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oh shit, it's dawned on me that tea doesn't know we were supposed to lose against clawdia and our whole stunt was to save her ass from further humiliation
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>>5523006
> "please don't do that. you'll damage the counter"
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>>5523006
>Just tell her the truth, don't mince it.
Alright, I see where this is going. Let's cut the chase.
Doesn't mean we have to suddenly be nice to her.
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>>5523006

>>5523015
...eh, yeah, probably.

>"...thought you'd be better, I suppose. Stick to the terms of things. Was disappointed when you weren't."

(At least, I think that was it in a nutshell, right? We're pissed that she kept going beyond the terms of the wager?)
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>>5523007
That's right. She knows you decided to train her, but not about trying to throw the fight.

So she didn't see that big scene at the end of your fight with her as kayfabe.
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>>5523006
yeah, i can support this>>5523017

>We're pissed that she kept going beyond the terms of the wager?
basically. we were trash talking but never went beyond mean words and keeping true to whatever deal we made. dunya brought it on herself and we let her go when she properly did what she was supposed to do and what we did to clawdia was to save whatever small reputation she had.
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>>5523015
>>5523017
>>5523023
"...though you'd be better, I suppose. I thought you'd stick to the terms of things. Was disappointed when you weren't."

"I stuck to the rules of the arena."

You cut your eyes at her. "I mean our bet."

"I followed our bet. You put on the dress. You worked for me."

"Working for you involves getting spanked in the middle of the arena?"

"Yes, actually. All you had to do to make it stop was to swallow a little pride, hell, way less than calling me the Rising Phoenix. "How can I be of service today?" That was it. But you couldn't handle it. You had to take the ultimate tap out and unplug. Now you have a rep as one of the biggest wusses and even no-accounts like Elizabeth think you're beneath them."

"I couldn't handle it because it wasn't in the deal!"

"What, as in explicitly?"

"Yes!"

Tea looks eyes with you.

Then sighs.

"You know, other fighters don't even make wagers. They just do whatever during the humiliation round. Hell, Okiku just makes her opponents dance like puppets until their begging satisfies her."

Tea touches your shoulder. "Look. Please. I knew you were hard in the arena, soft outside. I thought you were harder than you actually were. After seeing your fights in the arena--and in your files--I didn't think you were so sensitive. I was wrong about you. I'm sorry."

>Say/Do?
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>>5523050
"...Nothing to be sorry about. I just know better now. May I get back to work, now, ma'am?"
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>>5523050
She's got the completely wrong idea about us, and I have no inclination to correct her. She thinks we're just an ooey-gooey nougat who isn't really a hardcore fighter when no, we're just a stickler for keeping to your word. We don't want to truck with someone who says one thing and does another.
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>>5523050
>"i'll repeat myself again. you know nothing about me or my hard, or bad or soft or any side whatsoever. But now that you feel better, May I get back to work, now, ma'am?"
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>>5523052
*know you better now.

the 'you' is important.
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>>5523055
From her perspective, she did keep her word, but I get what you're saying.
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>>5523055
yeah, im loving how this turned out. and now i really want to buy that hacking needle. she thinks she knows fan fire. we can show her a glimpse of how we were in the past. Elizabeth doesn't know what's coming to her
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>>5523060
I want to get it too, but I think we should focus on buying things that'll help us actually win the fight first.
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>>5523064
i think we can forego the eye lasers for the moment, because EVERYONE in the bracket sans tea(ironically) wants to fight you in melee range or have drones that get close and personal with you. if we were as good as the flashback implies(with us being hacking mean), we should be able to use it to shut down limbs and whatever we manage to grab and penetrate
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>>5523055
>>5523060
>She thinks we're just an ooey-gooey nougat who isn't really a hardcore fighter when no, we're just a stickler for keeping to your word.

We pulled the ragequit safeword switch which only exists in the super-safe entry level league (and didn't exist at all until anons asked for it) over a spanking.

Our toughgirl tomboy license is suspended. Our badass persona effectively doesn't exist. To most other fighters, we are sub-Clawdia.


>>5523071
Mab, Eloise (ironically), Okiku, and Tiamat are ranged.
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>>5523071
Speaking of, I did have a thought about how this could affect us in future fights. Now that we know that even the 'best' of them can't be trusted to honor their word, I feel like we should be honorable, but merciless. As in, systematic dismantling if we can swing it. Kinda like how a submission style wrestler works, if in our case perhaps shooting/cutting off extremities, y'know? Make then 'unable to continue functioning as intended' as our gameplan, unless they surrender properly, which we give them exactly one (1) chance to do.

>>5523083
I mean, fine.
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>>5523052
>>5523055
>>5523056
Tea sighs.

"If you would have whispered something, I would have spared you all this. Just an "I can't continue." would have been enough. It was with you and Dunya. Now you got this rep, and I don't like being known as a girl who makes others shut down. Look, I guess your service here is going to be rather quiet. Okay. I think that kind of passive aggressive stuff is beneath a fighter like yourself, but okay. But lets not pretend we aren't going to fight again. Since you like deals so much, let's talk about the stakes of our third match, and what exactly the stakes entail."

>Say/Do?
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>>5523083
>and didn't exist at all until anons asked for it
MC shut us down at the start of the quest. i don't see why fan fire herself can't do it. and the threadwas devolving to misery porn levels of writing. fan had her IC to not call it quits and tea also had her reasons to keep going. the only losers here were us the players that wanted to get over it.

>>5523087
i was thinking a more brutal version of that. like for example with elizabeth here; getting mocked on the arena is fine, but in order to trully correct everyone that's openly mocking us like elizabeth, we need a more personal touch. that's also why i want the hacking needle, because if we need to get dirty and nasty, we gotta be the dirtiest and nastiest bitch around
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>>5523093
...ugh. Fiiiiiiine, she's gotta get it drilled into her head.

"...You seem to think I hate you. I don't, actually. At least, not anymore."

"I just don't trust you. No stakes. Do as you please."
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>>5523093
>Say/Do?
"no thank you. i'm on working hours right now and finishing the current deal. maybe later."
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>>5523098
Or rather 'Nothing beyond basic stakes,' I should say.
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>>5523093
>>5523098
Support, but also with the 'nothing beyond basic stakes' instead of 'do as you please'.
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Like, it's just not clicking for her (apparently because she has a different definition of keeping to her word). We're not AFRAID of losing, we're not AFRAID of being humiliated. Losing sucks a chode and it hurts, but it'd be ridiculous to think we'd never lose. No, we're mad that she extrapolated from the deal. We'd rather nothing beyond basic stakes because then, at least, she didn't specify anything, so we have no expectations, we'll just deal with it as it comes. But she gave specifics, so we expected her to honor those. Now we know she won't, so there's no sense (to us) in bothering.
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>>5523111
of course she doesn't. she tried to give us a lesson we didn't need and tried to teach us manners we already knew. wouldn't be surprised to know she has a savior complex of sorts, which might be the case, considering she's a veteran from the war. plenty of PTSD and regret can be formed from an event like that
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>>5523087
>>5523096
>Systemically breaking down opponents
I do like this. A lot.

>>5523098
>>5523101
>>5523103
>>5523108
"...You seem to think I hate you. I don't, actually. At least, not anymore."

"I just don't trust you. No stakes. Do as you please."

Tea flashes a wan smile.

"No stakes?"

"Well, arena rules, of course."

She looks you in the eye.

"Fan, do you know how insulting it is to be told that you deviated from the stakes, that the stakes were so important to your opponent, and then be told that there's no stakes for the rematch?"

"I'm on working hours right now and finishing the current deal. Can I get back to that?"

"Fan, just tell me one thing. Do you really, really think you aren't afraid of losing and humiliation? Be honest with me."

>Say/Do?
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>>5523096
>Misery porn
You're not going to like the first game then.

You know that full-circuit hacking thing mentioned? That was every match in MGQ 1.

MGQ 1 vs 2 is like that shiba inu meme with the muscles.
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>>5523111
Well it's not just that. We thought that she could be personally trusted. Sure the deal plays part of it, but there was also the whole thing with Fire thinking she was a good person.

>>5523114
>"Of course I'm scared of losing and being dominated. Who wouldn't be?"
It's the truth, Fire really doesn't want the possibility of getting junked happen again.
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>>5523114
>"Of course I'm scared of losing and being dominated. Who wouldn't be? weren't you afraid of dying in the war?"
>"you claim you saw my fights. do you really think i survived that long without losing a few times? what happened here is nothing. like the saying goes, its the nature of the thing, not its form."

>>5523117
personally i don't mind it but most anons disappeared after tea came to collect her dues....and i'd like this quest to continue with a healthy population of anons and not just 2 or 3
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>>5523114
"...let me rephrase. Of fucking COURSE I'm afraid. Who wouldn't be? I might even be more afraid than most. But I'm not so afraid that I'd stop fighting because of it. I've been through far, far worse than what you put me through and I'm still swinging. Honestly, what you did to me was minor, physically."

"But do YOU know how humiliating it is to trust that someone, who I was told was a good person, will keep to their word- and then they go and break it with a smile and a laugh? That was so much worse than the spankings themselves. THAT hurt enough to shut down for. That hurt more than anything else you did to me in that arena."

"So no. Just arena stakes."

Okay, NOW I'm feeling verbose.
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>>5523122
>Fire thinking she was a good person
*thinking Tea was a good person.
Maybe honorable or trustworthy might be a better word.
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>>5523126
If mine is too wordy, I'll back this.

>>5523132
Yeah, we can replace that.
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>>5523133
It's fine, 'good person' might be better to get the point across to Tea.
And nothing wrong with wordy write-ins.
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>>5523133
the more words, the better. it gives us more material to work for our answers
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>>5523114
>The first time I lost, I was pulled apart, put in a scrapyard by my parents, bought by a mechanic with a hard-on with money he didn’t have, and saw the receipt to prove it all. The second time was to you.
>I was supposed to lose to Clawdia, you know. I agreed to it while my manager dithered because the pay was good. I didn’t account for how bad she’d be though.
>So yeah. Mixed feelings about the ‘loss’ thing with people I thought I had a read on.

I do have one addition for the fight.
>If I do win, I won’t be touching you. Because with my current rep, I’d have to “reclaim” my title. Only way the crowd could be satisfied is if I made you scream.
>Which… I’ll probably have to do anyway, won’t I? Only way to get people to leave me alone outside the arena is if I’m even more sadistic in it.
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>>5523142
i think that would be the last time she truly lost, not the first one. at least that's what i managed to get from the beginning of the quest
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>>5523142
I don't think that loss we saw was her first loss, either. Just the most brutal one.
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>>5523142
Maybe instead of saying that it was Fire's first loss, we can say it was her biggest (with her loss against Tea her second biggest).
Otherwise I like this write-in.
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>>5523130
Have you seen some of my write-in? That’s not nearly enough words yet!

What do you say to the first two sections of mine followed by yours? I’d like the last two parts of mine to make it in too, but I can ditch them.

>>5523145
>>5523146
I thought I saw she had only that one loss on her record. I’ll try confirming
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>>5523156
Mmmm...I can agree to that.
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>>5523156
this is where i pulled that idea from >>5517674
>"I figured they would punish me if I lost. Mom and Dad didn't like that I didn't do so good in my last few fights. I didn't think they would punish me like this though. All my stuff is gone! How am I supposed to fight now?"
it implies that she had a losing streak or she was doing very poorly. that being said, she had prototype equipment, it sounds reasonable that she lost her fair share of fights through her lifetime
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>>5523156
>I’d like the last two parts of mine to make it in too, but I can ditch them.
That'd be a shame, I feel they add lots of character to Fire.
I'd be for keeping them, if there's an official vote for it or something.
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>>5523142
Replacing my first part.
>Last fight I lost as Fan Fire, I was pulled apart, put in a scrapyard by my parents, bought by a mechanic with a hard-on with money he didn’t have, and saw the receipt to prove it all.
>The fight wasn’t the issue. There’s always a loser. It’s what happened after the match that made the impact. Where I woke up. The people I trusted, kicking me out just like that.

Basically, we don’t fully have loss issues. We have trust issues, and Fan gets fucked up when someone isn’t who she thought.
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>>5523126
>personally i don't mind it but most anons disappeared after tea came to collect her dues....and i'd like this quest to continue with a healthy population of anons and not just 2 or 3

I used to hit like 40, 50 IPs with MGQ 1 easily. I think the population of QST has just changed. Different color, different flavor.

>>5523126
>>5523122
>>5523130
"Of course I'm afraid of losing and being humiliated. Who wouldn't be? Weren't you afraid of dying in the war?"

Tea smiles.

"At first. But that's besides the point, hun. You can dance around it all you want, say I didn't keep my word, say I'm a bad person, say it was everything but you not being able to stand your pride being trampled on. But the shut down is not a toy. It's not something to save your pride. It's something beginners use when they absolutely cannot face the reality of their predicament. And I know from your files you aren't a beginner."

WHAM

Team socks you right in the face.

You fly back and hit the wall, knocking god knows how many items to the floor.

"You dare use that, something not even Clawdia used when you called her worthless, over a spanking. And then you call me a liar, a bad person. You don't know what I've been through, hun. But I know what you've done. I know how you took gynoids apart like paper dolls even if you forgot. I tried to be nice, because I know about the junking too. But I'm at my limit with you."

"No more of this passive aggressive bullshit, you corporate crafted wuss. You want to go after your other and not die screaming, you need to get over your pride. And if that means I got to break that pride with my own two hands, I will. Go get your battle costume and meet me at the Artemis club. I have a key. No gear. We're doing this pre-lunarian. That means no rules. Winner decides when and how it ends."


>>5523142
>>5523156
>>5523159
>>5523167

Damn, didn't see this until I finished writing!

>Try to resolve this with words
>Sometimes its best to let fists do the talking. Pre-lunarian it is.
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>>5523169

"...fine."

The only reason I'm doing this is because we still need weapons and I don't want Tea to outright ban us from the store. I think we should throw the fight.
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>>5523083
As others have said, I was just over it as a reader. The scene was just fucking dragging on, and it's completely unfun as a poster to write out "yeah yeah I surrender, whatever you say" over and over and over.

From my perspective Fan/I didn't break and give up, we got bored and walked away.
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>>5523169
im mixing up stuff here
>start picking up the mess tea did

>"The last time I lost, I was pulled apart, put in a scrapyard by my parents, bought by a mechanic with a hard-on with money he didn’t have, and saw the receipt to prove it all. The second time was to you."
>"I was supposed to lose to Clawdia, you know. I agreed to it while my manager dithered because the pay was good. I didn’t account for how bad she’d be though."
>"So yeah. Mixed feelings about the ‘loss’ thing with people I thought I had a read on."
>"Don't worry, we will be fighting eventually, because with my current rep, I’d have to “reclaim” my title. Only way the crowd could be satisfied is if I made you scream."
>"Which… I’ll probably have to do anyway, won’t I? Only way to get people to leave me alone outside the arena is if I’m even more sadistic in it."
>"who knows, you might even get to see a shade of who i was in the past"


>"but im not making anymore wagers with you. now let me be, ma'am. i need to clean this mess"
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>>5523177

>" I tried to be nice, because I know about the junking too. But I'm at my limit with you."

She knows, she just still thinks we're weak. For...whatever reason.
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>>5523176
I wasn't a voter it happened, but I do agree reading through that was...not the best. I honestly thought that it was in the vein of 'passing out in a chokehold' like in wrestling where it's considered badass.
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>>5523178
its just to drive the point and not because i just copied and pasted what you and the other anons wrote. definitely.
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>>5523169
>Sometimes its best to let fists do the talking. Pre-lunarian it is.
I'm a bit mad we went with this write-in instead of a combination of the other one, but I guess it technically got more votes.

>>5523178
She thinks we're mentally weak. Which is fair enough I guess.
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>>5523182
aw shame, the writing is so good though. imo we can still sock her after the speech
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Wait, no fuck. We CAN'T do this because we need to talk to our manager! We said we wouldn't do this anymore! and our manager is NICE.
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>>5523187
oh fuck, that's true
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>>5523169
>"I can't. I really DID make a promise to my manager. No more unauthorized fights. He deserves me keeping my word."
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>>5523187
Oh shit you're right.

>>5523169
Changing vote to
>Try to resolve this with words
>"I can't. I really DID make a promise to my manager. No more unauthorized fights."
Not that last line. That's just begging for another punch and a ban from the store.
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>>5523193
>>5523190
>>5523169

Fine, I'll amend it. Scratch that last line.
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>>5523169

It's more than a little jarring to be slammed over again about taking the 'easy way' out of a fight when none of us were aware of that.
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>>5523178
>For whatever reason
We're gunning for someone that split us in half, violated our brainheart, and tossed us in the trash, used a safeword on a spanking, and then tried to still claim being a tough bitch while simultaneously passive aggressively leveraging the concern Tea had for us.

That's the reason.

>>5523187
>>5523188
>>5523190
"Then bring him along. Let him see what I'm going to do to you."
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>>5523196
>"no. im done doing wagers with you. now please let me clean up this mess, ma'am"
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>>5523196
>"I'll talk to him about it, but I can't promise he'll agree."
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>>5523182
Fully agreed on the weakness. The problem is she’s hitting close to it, but not the main one.

>>5523169
>Pre-lunarian it is.
>I remember a very old saying. ‘You have eyes, but cannot see Mount Tai’. You keep banging on the wrong thing even though you’ve clearly put some thought into it.
>We’ll talk afterward when you fail.
We can’t be backstabbed this time. We don’t tap out.
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>>5523196

> "No. I'm not going to risk my relationship with him over this. I will ASK him, and if he says yes, I'll fight you. If not, then that's that."
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>>5523201
anon, consider our rolls. expect we're gonna roll low again and act accordingly
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>>5523196
>>5523202
Changing to this. Forgot about the promise.
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But now of course we have to start planning for if she does ban us out of frustration. Is there anywhere else we can go for weapons?
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>>5523205
there surely is. bet we can order shit online or ask phil/clawdia for help in a worst case scenario
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>>5523203
She can’t win. If we win, we walk out. If we lose, she rips us apart until there’s nothing left, showing she was too dumb to sort out what our real trigger is.

I don’t believe we’ll win. But there can be two losers in this match, not just one.
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>>5523208
There IS that concern, as well.
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I just realized we just compared getting beaten in what's basically a boxing match to dying in Iraq. And we said this to a war vet, no less.

>>5523205
We could get things second hand.
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>>5523208
oooh, nice. i dig it.
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>>5523211
hey, she's the one trying to figure us out. not our fault that she doesn't like what she's hearing
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>>5523211
Closer to being considered clinically dead in a boxing match and resuscitated.
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>>5523211
Well, we did die, get junked by our parents, and got put back together by our MC, who has his fetishes like most patrons.

So it’s more like crying over a boxing match because it triggered PTSD from actually dying. Which is fairer to a war vet. PTSD sucks.
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>>5523214
That's fair.

>>5523215
Maybe it's a bit extreme form of boxing, but it's common in this setting.

>>5523222
Huh, I didn't see it that way but now that you say it like that we could argue for Fire's case here.
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>>5523187
>>5523188
>>5523190
>>5523198
>>5523200
>>5523201
>>5523202
>>5523203
>>5523204
Your trainer ponders the situation.

"...Well, strategically speaking, it would be a close match. Your optimized brainheart vs her experience. But here's the big question--could you handle losing to her? There's no shut down option here. You try that, she's turning you back on. If she wins, the fight is over when she says it is, do you understand that?"

>Say/Do?
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on unrealated news, we just passed the bump limit. go us!
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>>5523225
>"Yes. I'm willing to settle this."
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>>5523225
>"after the talk we had you doubt me as well?"
>"sure im in. lets get our faces punched"
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>>5523225
"Yeah, I get that. I didn't think you'd have to ask. I...it feels like no one gets WHY I did that, which is...disappointing. But yeah, I get it. I get it for sure now."

"...promise me you'll put me back together if it ends badly?"

Lesson learned. Trust no one, assume everyone's a fucking liar.
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>>5523224
>>5523222
>>5523215
>Boxing
That's a...an understatement.

It's in-between fetish MMA and gladiatorial combat.

>>5523205
She's not going to ban you, win or lose.
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>>5523225
>”Yes. The bigger problem is that if she does get an edge, I’m not backing down. She’s not a friend now, she’s an enemy, and I know how to stay in the fight against them.”
>”She keeps banging on the wrong problem. It isn’t pride I’d hang in for, it’s to stick it out until she realizes what she overlooked. If she doesn’t… well, she’s not going to win even if I lose. That’s all it boils down to.”
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>>5523234
just if/when(because i don't trust the dice in the slightest) lose, make the whole ass defeat scene in one go. like the other anon said, its pretty fucking dull to just write, "yes i surrender" or "we do what she demands" over and over again
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So, we need to decide on a gameplan. Are we going to sandbag the fight to prove a point, or actually try to fight it out and then just tap when it's obvious we're done and do the humiliation thing and move on?
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>>5523228
>>5523229
>>5523231
"After the talk we had, you doubt me as well?"

"You did shut down."

"Not because I was afraid to grovel. It's because she lied."

"She didn't think she lied."

"Don't care. She lied."

"I noticed that you didn't shut down when you were just repeating words. You were fine with it. But when she asked you to grovel...to come up with words on your own..."

"It was because she lied."

"Well, okay."

"Promise me you'll put me back together if it ends badly?"

"Promise. Always."

>>5523238
It will be abbreviated.

.........


You didn't think this would be how your new look debuted, but whatever.

Dark blue body. Silvery chrome pants, long this time, down to your ankles. Chrome jacket and shirt. Like before, your clothes are "burnt" with light blue flames.

You kept your hair as it was. Short, red hair is cute.

Your eyes you turned yellow to better contrast with the silver and blue.

Tea's voice echoes in the empty arena. "No more safeties for your pride, hun. No more niceness. No more mercy. Last chance, rookie. You can leave now, promise me that you'll never pursue your other, never go outside the entry leagues, never so much as think of stepping into a casino. You do that, and we're done. You can live a nice, comfortable existence shutting down whenever the arena gets too heavy for you."

"Or you can step up here, and I crush your pride. Totally. Completely. You only have one point of reference for what I'm going to do to you. Think carefully."

>Say/Do?
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>>5523246
actively fight and then tap out whenever the moment is right. honestly, i don't think we'll win. not for lack of trying, but because we have rolled low consistently
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>>5523253
>Step up.

Let's get this over with, damn.
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>>5523246
If you're going to fight her, you're going to want to fight her for real.
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>>5523253
>Step up.
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>>5523238
I’d be okay with taking the chance to needle her on what we’re looking for. Unfortunately, I was asleep last time for the end of the humiliation round. I wouldn’t have given as much lip, figuring depression is the most convenient cure for our usual anger. Not sure if it would have helped.

>>5523246
I’d say real fight. I’m down for walking her through how we see it if we win though. That our real problem is that we know how to lose to enemies, but not to friends. That the last time as Fan Fire that we thought we were safe, that we trusted people (our parents) had our back even if we screwed up, we got junked. And we still don’t know how to deal with that. She was helpful in making us realize why we hate her so much for what she did, but beyond that she’s really been tackling this wrong too.
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>>5523253
>"why in the fuck are you so obsessed with this?!?!? i lost, you won, you took everything from me fair and square. but fine."
>Step up.
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>>5523253
Like, she STILL doesn't get it. Yes, we're very aware she's literally going to tear us apart.

We continued fighting after the LAST time that happened. It STILL isn't the core issue here.
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>>5523264
like if tea lets it go, the crux of the problem would surface itself naturally, but NOOOO. she had to fix it on the first day at work
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>>5523253
>Step up
>”You won’t find get the win you’re looking for here, Tea.”
>>5523263
I’d rather avoid this. It still reads as too petulant, and I think we’re past that phase now.
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>>5523255
>>5523260
>>5523263
Tea shuts her eyes as you step up. Her whole body shudders.

"Don't do this..." she mutters.

Then she steps towards you, eyes flashing, "Step down. Now. Last warning."

"Step down now, you worthless junkpile."

>Say.Do?
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>>5523274
>step forward.
>"you literally brought me here! this is what you wanted, no? COME ON!"
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>>5523274

"Don't do this? You're the one who unlocked the fucking door to this place. I don't even get what you want from me anymore."
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>>5523274
"...that. What you did right there. You said one thing. And now you want to do another."

"That's the problem. Make a decision and stick with it, for once."
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at this point im willing to guess tea's not fighting us, but a ghost of her past. this went from a talk to what amounts to a back alley fist fight in no time
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>>5523274
>”Too late. You succeeded at ripping away my pride. You should have asked yourself why I agreed to this anyway long before this.”
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>>5523280
Actually, no, cancel this write-in, I don't like it.
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...Fuck, I'm not sure what to say. I didn't want to be aggressive, but I did want to point out that she's flip-flopping again which was the whole issue.

Maybe something like,

> "No. You gave the terms. I accepted. I'll stick to them."
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>>5523290
at this point i think we can hurt her emotionally with no problem. she just refuses to accept whatever answer we give her and move on.
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>>5523290
I see the flip-flopping as the big trigger, but the real issue is not knowing how to deal with “friends” not behaving like we expected.

I’m willing to stop if she guesses our problem. But I wouldn’t give it to her if she said it was that she didn’t stick to the terms. It’s not the whole truth.
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>>5523295
I mean, it all boils down to trust, regardless of how you angle it. She betrayed our trust by going over what she said, so.
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>>5523297
and we told her that as well. its not our fault that our answer drives her to an emotional meltdown.
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>>5523279
>>5523290
>>5523282
"Alright, scrap heap. Let's go."

>Roll 1d20
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Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>5523301

Finally.
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Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>5523301
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>>5523303

And that'll be the line right before the first impact. "Finally."
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>>5523301
How do dice rolls work here again?
Bo3, first one?
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>>5523307
IIRC, first roll only.
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>>5523307
first one or crit override. that's why we have been rolling poorly so far
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>>5523309
>>5523310
Ah I see, thanks.
Though this makes it even more sad with how we crit with Clawdia.
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>>5523312
Yeah, but hey, maybe we can be loser buddies together or something. Not like this is gonna stop us.
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>>5523303
A brass fist slams into your face.

And then again.

And then again.

And then again.

You fall to a knee, and Tea smashes a knee right into your face.

She doesn't stop. She's on you in a flash, brass legs and arms tangling with your blue ones.

You go to punch her. She rolls, takes your back, and hooks your face with her arms.

"Say I'm a worthless pile of junk."

>Say/Do?
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>>5523312
yeeeeeeeeah. there isn't much we can do when you are fucked over by random chance and not by poor tactics
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>>5523315
You're playing a dice game.
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>>5523314
"That's after surrender. Haven't yet." Not in a cocky manner, just matter of fact.

>Move to get your legs under you, pivot and roll your shoulders for a judo throw to try and jar her off.
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>>5523316
i know, im just stating what's happening with us at the moment.

>>5523314
what >>5523318 said
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>>5523314
>I am. It’s why I ended up in the scrap heap.
Follow it up with the move from >>5523318

This isn‘t about pride. Make her work to figure out why we’re here.
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>>5523318
>>5523320
>>5523324
>Roll 1d20
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Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>5523327
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>>5523318
>>5523320
>>5523324
>>5523328
"That's after I surrender. But I already am. That's why I ended up in the scrap heap."

You get your legs beneath you, grab her arm, and roll her over your shoulder so she hits the mat, hard.

>Say/Do?
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>>5523330
>put a feet on her back, grab her arms and pull
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>>5523330

>Roll with the movement, keep hold of her arm, drape your legs across her neck, drop to your back, and start cranking back on said arm.

Classic armbar transition, and if we can get full extension, that really should be ballgame unless she doesn't want that arm anymore.
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>>5523333
swapping to the quads of truth
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>>5523331
>>5523333
>>5523334
You skillfully transition to an armbar, leaving Tea completely befuddled.

The servos of her brassy arm whine.

"Ngh! You damn, prideful bitch! If you believe you're junk, then why are you fighting?"

>Say/Do?
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>>5523336

"Why is that any of your concern? Do you surrender?"

>Keep pulling.
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>>5523336
>dont tell her anything. keep pulling the arm until it pops.
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Like, she has to understand, we are a CHARACTER in the ring. If she wants us actually fighting for our life, well. This is the kinda shit we do.
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its none of her goddamn business why we fight
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Huh. Wonder where player #3 went. Well, it is near midnight where I am, so it's probably even later elsewhere.
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>>5523336
>”Tell me why I gave up. The real reason. Not the easy one.”
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>>5523342
2:31 AM. I should have been asleep hours ago.
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>>5523342
You mean me? I'm getting to tired to think, sorry.
Will probably sleep soon.
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>>5523342
same, its late and i just want to get over with this ASAP. either pop her arm, get her to surrender and walk home, or she pops out our arm, we surrender and we get the defeat screen
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>>5523351
I’m not opposed to continuing in the morning. I’m in for a rough one as it stands. Not sure what timezone QM is in either. I hope it’s PST.
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>>5523355
That's mine, too, actually.
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>>5523356
Figured. I’m EST, of course.

I’m going to pass out now though. If a pivotal moment happens where we need to respond, I’d like if people could wait until we’re all up again. This should be the end of the Tea arc for a bit.
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Yeah. Actually, I'll wait to see the next update for a bit longer, but afterwards I'll head to bed myself. I'll be back once I get up.
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>>5523337
>>5523338
>>5523339
>>5523340
>>5523344
"Why is that any of your concern?"

"Because I want you to transcend your pride so you won't die, idiot!"

"Do you surrender?"

"Do you?"

"Tell me why I gave up. The real reason. Not the easy one."

"You didn't give up. You ran away from facing that by shutting down."

>Roll 1d20
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Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>5523372

*sigh*

>Keep pulling.
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Also, out for the night. Probably want to pause it here.
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Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>5523372
>keep pulling
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>>5523372
>"So you wanted to teach me to just take whatever comes my way, never trying to push back? Do you think living that way is better than dying?"

About the real reason tho: I think the QM was right to notice that the players went for a shutdown after they were required to come up with grovelling words. I was sleeping at the moment, but as I read that was the place where I felt this was too much. It was not because Tea broke her word (she didn't actually promise anything, we just inferred it). It was because you, Referee, asked the players to grovel. Not Fan, the players. And we don't have a humiliation fetish.
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To think this all happened because we couldn't endure a spanking.
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>>5523457
It was a good call-out, but it can still be spun otherwise IC. Fan could deal with losing to a “friend” by following a script. Deviate from that, and she lashed out.

It’s something she can get over, of course, but Fan has never fought a “friend” before, much less lost to one. Having a bit of a helping hand before stumbling through the PTSD field could have prevented it, but we never asked for help or mercy because, well, Fan doesn’t know how to ask that from a “friend”. She never had one before. So she fell back on denying what Tea was looking for.

Fan has problems. Everyone only seems to care about the obvious one though.
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>>5523457
Know what, I have a better reason. And really, it’s the one that works best for OOC reasons too.

We didn’t shut down because we couldn’t take it. We shut down because it would hurt her more than it hurt us.

In that way, we have a better read on her than she does on us. She keeps thinking we couldn’t take the punishment, that pride kept us from groveling. In reality, we just don’t like her. We wanted to put a knife where we figured the wound would fester. It’s certainly festered alright.

There. There’s your final piece to the puzzle. The one about our life that everyone else assembled differently and said was right, and we had to spend two days on our own figuring out how to explain why it felt wrong.

We could have been friends. We really could have. But we made mistakes, and now a good person wants to break us apart because we’re a mess who can’t really talk to people because we’re still figuring that out and now we don’t like her so we’re getting even. And we’re willing to sacrifice our pride and our body for that one last “fuck you” that we can lay at her feet for not figuring out the puzzle on her own like we had to.
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>>5523497
>>5523517
Oh course it can be spun differently IC that's not the point.
Though I don't like your second interpretation. Tea doesn't look like a "good person" outside of the warped framework of fetish play.
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>>5523531
Our other MC had said she was better than most, and I don’t think he’s wrong. She didn’t rub it in much after the first loss. She appreciated what we did for Clawdia. She fixed us up after the match. She’s still trying to “mentor” us, even after everything got fucked up. I admit she really does want us to be better. But it turns out I’m more spiteful than I thought. Leave it to Tea to turn me into a wannabe sadist.

Back then, there were anons who didn’t want to play along with her. They wanted to hurt her (or the QM) more than anything else. And the moment she handed back control of the narrative to us, when we weren’t following her script verbatim? They did exactly what they wanted to with it, and cut out early.

You’re still right, we (personally) aren’t into humiliation play so we didn’t want to write our own script. Anons went for a “fuck you” instead, and they definitely succeeded. I can’t deny the effectiveness of the rebuke they gave. And I’m now committed to beating this horse with them because Tea just could not give us the time and space needed to let the wounds heal a bit while we figured out our reasons and how we’d go about talking it IC.
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>>5523548
The very idea that we "hurt" her by not going along with her bullying sounds absolutely backwards to me, and very much like gaslighting.
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>>5523579
Is it? I see it as an intentional choice we made. She has it in her head she can help “fix” us by breaking us, and we denied her that chance. I’m okay with that choice because we weren’t there to get “fixed”. But she was so goddamn impatient that she had to get her “white knight” hit in early.

Y’know, I realize I might have been more okay with it if she didn’t talk about the phoenix. If she was just doing it because she liked rubbing our face into it, that’s one thing. Doing it while saying it’s for our own good? Yeah, turns out I have a problem with her assuming shit like that. I never assumed what we did in the arena would make people better. That happens outside the arena.

Maybe this worked for other fighters. Ones who were hot shit, fell from grace, and ended up in the lower leagues since parts make the bot more than the bot itself. Like breaking a bone that didn’t set properly so it could heal right the second time when it gets some actual care. But she’s fixated on breaking our arm when it’s our leg that needs healing, so to speak.

I could probably start forgiving her if she admitted she failed, and she could put up with us long enough that we cut out the bullshit and got to talking. She’s allowed to be fucked up and/or wrong! I’m even willing to talk her through her own issues! But she hasn’t. She keeps using the same tools for the same problem she tried before. She’s just as incapable of admitting defeat as she accused us of being. It’s holding her back, and now I’m emulating her by engaging in this fight because I don’t care enough about her issues to ask her directly about them.

Long story short, she wants to fix us. I’m not in the mood for her to be the one to do that. There are ways that she can turn this around and we can patch things up over time, and I’ll work towards those. But what I want is for her to tear us apart so we can say “you still failed you blind bitch” because she’s bringing out the worst in me.
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>>5523629
>She has it in her head she can help “fix” us by breaking us, and we denied her that chance.
And ironically, she already did that. We talked with MC in order to become a proper team and we're trying to temper our emotions so they dont get the best of us in the worst moment. The thing is that tea for some reason wanted us to tell her explicitely that we changed thanks to her. And that just wont happen because its not her goddamn business.
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>>5523642
That’s the beautiful irony, isn’t it? She did succeed. I’d even admit that if asked in the right way. But not in the way that anyone wanted. We had an arc going, telling Clawdia that you get stronger when you’re tamed by someone stronger, and Tea certainly is strong! We even rolled back a universe where Tea could have seen we were hurting and reeled herself in since she knew we couldn’t bring ourself to ask in public!

But when it came to talking for real, we kick the people out. People aren’t supposed to watch how we take care of each other. We’re their fetish bait, nothing more, and I don’t like reminding them we feel too. They’re in the business of abusing that as a society. We had our heart-to-heart with Clawdia in a one-on-one, and I trusted the MC more for putting that trust in us. When Tea hacked us, I could write more freely about our issues since she held true power over us, and it was for her ears only. But it ended up that she tried fixing us in the arena, by humiliating us, by doing it on her terms instead of ours.

So there’s the arc. The story has been set up so Tea would be our mentor, our friend, the one we could talk to when we needed another bot to listen and help us be better than we feel. And we’re rejecting it because it turns out that bots aren’t one-size-fits-all. Because the order of things matters. Because you can’t rush fixing someone. Because communication is key, especially when you’re all built to be fucked in the head compared to your creator’s “normal”.

As salty as I am, we’ve turned this into a hell of an impressive arc. None of us intended for this, I know you and I both agreed that we wanted cute, heart-warming scenes with Tea in the shop when we rolled back. But here we are, helping the charge with others in showing that Tea fucked up. Because making us better through her way, without real feedback from us, poisoned a relationship she clearly wanted. As one might expect in a story with real, complex characters who are more than some tropes smashed together.

I do appreciate QM for sticking with us. We’re making this as painful for them as it is for us, I’m sure, but I’ll look back on this with both pride and salt for how far we all pushed each other and ended up making a real character out of Fan. The fucked-up junkyard bot who doesn’t know how to ask for help, tries to do good, is struggling to figure herself out, and has the capacity to fuck herself up just to prove a point.
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>>5523457
>>5523579
If only there was some sort of quest that came before this one linked in the OP that you could check out to figure out the tone of this game.

Or you know, a title. Like Mechagirl Pitfighter Quest.

>>5523464
It really was that.

QST has changed.


I think I'll wrap up Fan's story, at least for the time being, with this fight and however it resolves

I feel like now anons new to MGQ have a little more understanding of what kind of game this is. We can think of Fan's adventure as a prequel to the real adventure, a sidestory.

The real game? I'm thinking something like a police bot going undercover in the circuit. She starts in the legal Clubs fighting to get noticed, hoping to score an invitation to one of the illegal Casinos, and along the way find who Raguel is.
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>>5523691
>If only there was some sort of quest that came before this one linked in the OP that you could check out to figure out the tone of this game.
>QST has changed.

you said it yourself, 5 years have passed.
the board is different and tastes change, even if a decent chunk of the population was here from the very beginning. we have matured, even if that sounds ironic.
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>>5523719
That's for continuity. Like how you don't need to watch Friday the 13th I-V to get VI, but if you can't figure out what kind of movie Friday the 13th VI is because you have autism or something you can look at I-V to make yourself less bamboozled.

In short, please tell me how it took you to realize Mechagirl Pitfighter Quest involved BDSM. Did it really take you until the spanking?
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>>5523721
I mean, I was around for the 1st one but. Different time, different runner. No real reason to expect the exact same thing or worse. Goodness knows that we've had worse luck with this character than Leseth.

What can I say? I'm just really not interested in humiliation play. It doesn't disgust me per se, but I don't get my rocks off on it. I'd rather just see mecha gorls punch each other, and a 'From the top to the bottom to the top again' story seemed interesting. That’s more my jam.
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>>5523734
>Different runner
It's me. I'm the same guy.
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>>5523721
NTA, i was expecting it from the start, but there has been so much media that deals on gritty and sadistic themes, alongside with an actual war and its real life consequences, that seeing more stuff in the same vein just.... doesnt engage with me. Its just writing that we cant really interact with unless we decide to be more submissive or we're the dom and we're guiding the action. It doesnt bring interesting choices like the fight we had with tea, or the heart to heart we had with clawdia. Tbh even a consensual scene would be more interesting because we know we can have options that can take the scene to unexpected situations and thats pretty fun
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>>5523736
Really? Huh. Would've thought you'd resume the old story, not that you had to. But even so, you had to have noticed even back then that we weren't super big on the BDSM then, right? Hell, a major motivation of Leseth was reforms to stop that overblown humiliation shit.
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>>5523743
We created a little headquarters where we took turns hacking and being hacked.

I ran, let me check, 13 well-received threads of MGQ that were way more brutal, way more fetistic, way more obviously sexual than what was presented here. QST has simply changed.

If we have to have an entire ego massaging not-me-you arc over our inability to whimper out "...how can I be of service, boss?" maybe now wasn't the right time to bring back MGQ.
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>>5523743
Like dude, do I need to post the stuff with Ash? Fox calling Lesath her goddess?

Don't say the game didn't run on BDSM when it absolutely totally did.
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>>5523750
Yeah, but it was later consensual. I dunno, maybe I just took different themes from it than you did. Conflict of impression, y'know?
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>>5523741
Since the tentative policewoman arc is based on managing a persona, submitting in the ring and how specifically you submit determines your persona.

Barking out submissions through gritted teeth produces one reaction, being very quiet and whispering produces another, breaking down produces another. Playing into the opponent's theme makes them think one thing about you, playing against and resisting makes them think another. Opponents can become rivals, friends, superiors, or subordinates.
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>>5523752
Yeah, with the gynoids first broken in a fight.

The last arc was about defeating Yurei in a street fight and making her submit so we could add her to our harem.

Don't gaslight me. I wrote the thing.
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>>5523761
I'm not gaslighting you, I'm saying you wrote focusing on one thing and I read focusing on another, and that's where we differ, is all.
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>>5523761
Maybe put it in another way, anons were okay with being on the winning side of BDSM because they had the ability to choose. Being on the losing side was untested. Lesath never lost, after all.

Unless you count losing to Mr. E, the only person to successfully trash Lesath consistently. In which case yeah, things actually haven’t changed much. I remember reading the salt that came with threatening him as he went to the casino. Lesath was an absolute brat to the other “dads” when she found out they agreed to the bomb even though they didn’t like it. But her reaction wasn’t really “wrong” either. She found she couldn’t trust them like she did before.

Tastes probably have changed since anons were against domming Clawdia. But anons being sore losers has always been a thing. Even I can admit guilt in that.
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>>5523753
Tbh, dont see the need to change characters. The problems we have with fan are the same ones we will have with the cop and we can also execute the "different personas" angle you said as well
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>>5523774
Well, now that we’re “shutdown girl” we’ll probably be hassled by it a lot outside the arena, and I know that’ll get to me over time. The arena is where we work. I don’t want to bring that shit into our day-to-day life.

The only way I see of fixing that quickly is tripling down on sadism. Anyone who mocks us doesn’t get humiliated, they just get tortured until they shut down themselves. They can talk behind our backs on how weak we are mentally, but they’ll know we’re just a few upgrades from beating them physically and then that’s it. If they mocked us, we don’t stop no matter how often they surrender.

It’d be an interesting arc to read. I just wouldn’t enjoy playing it all that much, y’know?
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>>5523774
I just think it would be best to get a clean slate.
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>>5523793
I was actually expecting that arc. If the other fighters only listen to violence, we'll show them a glimpse of what we were capable of doing in the past. You know, just be sadist enough to make them stop being retarded and keep the arena business in the arena
>>5523771
Sadly i know juuuust enough to know that domming her would have only made her hyper submissive to us and wouldnt actually fix her issues
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>>5523804
Ah fair enough.
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>>5523807

Meanwhile, while Tea defeats Fan for the third time...


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"The idea here, Lieutenant Queen, is that you become a champion of the Club circuit and then get an in into the Casino circuit. Once you have that in, we can start busting."

"That shouldn't be hard."

"Well, that's the thing. We signaled you out for this assignment because of how you handled yourself during that one Casino bust, Taking down that pitfighter by yourself, unarmed, that was very impressive."

"It's the brainheart." you tap your head. "Vortex made. I've nothing to be proud of, really."

"But you're going to be up against opponents armed, ready, and geared for combat, in the ring, alone, without backup."

You shrug. "So? Gear me up, I'll take them down."

"We think you will rise through the ranks, though your ascent will be...difficult. You'll probably lose a few times on your way up."

"To Club Level fighters? Sir, if I have the right gear--"

"That's just it. Eyes will be on you and your cashflow. You start at the bottom and we mean bottom. You and your partner have the cover of entry level gynoid fight enthusiasts. That means you start with little. Very little."

"Ah shit. I am going to lose a few matches then. Well, so be it."

"You know what it means to lose, right?"

"Sir, if it means taking down the Miridians, I'll kiss feet and cry."

"Alright. But we want you to go through a little training before we send you out."

"Combat training? I think I'm covered there."

"Gynoid fight combat training. It's a little different. We hired on informant from the Maenad Club to spar with you. She'll also be a point of contact once you are your partner get involved in the culture."

"Hmph. Culture."

"Well Lieutenant, welcome to operation Hippolyta. We'll have you and your partner introduced to your sparring partner in a moment, but first you'll need to change bodies."

"And not just to protect my identity, right?"

"Er, yes. There's a certain...look to gynoid fighters."

You smile. "Makeover it is, I guess."

>Before you create your look, establish your personality

>Hotblooded, competitive tomboy?

>Cool, aloof, professional?

>Playful, sarcastic flirt?

>Other?
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>>5523946
>Playful, sarcastic flirt
Tomboys have been the MC twice so far. Let something else shine.

Should be easier for anons to pivot this personality type to submission as well.
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>>5523946
...eh, sure. lets go with this
>Playful, sarcastic flirt?
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>>5523957
>>5523981


"Well partner. I'm going to need a theme. But you think I look good no matter what body I have, right?"

"Keep focused, Lieutenant."

"Ah, you're no fun. Any suggestions?"

"Are you serious?"

"Oh I know, I know, I look good in anything. But what would you like. You're going to be seeing me a lot, so you deserve to look at something appealing, right?"

"..."

"Oh, you're such a wet blanket.'

>We need a theme.

>Diamond Girl?

>Succubus Girl?

>Cop Girl (hide in plain sight!!)

>Catgirl (they will underestimate you)

>Martial Artist (will help maintain an air of respectability in less than respectable environments)

>Other?
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>>5524005
>Succubus Girl
just to complete the look
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>>5524019
Details?
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>>5524048
i was thinking something like ann from persona 5. latex suit, maybe a real tail, horned mask. making characters isn't my forte really
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>>5524019
Toss in a “demonic sigil” on the belly or above the crotch. If it ever glows, then we’ll know we found our “true master”.

The audience will eat it up, at least.
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>>5524019
You saunter out in front of your partner in your new bod.

Classic demoness look. You want to play the bad girl to the 9's. Horns, fangs, clawed hands and feet, green snake-slit eyes. Red skin, black hair. Spaded tail.

"You like?" you ask your partner.

"It's...adequate for the circumstances."

You wish he'd get rid of the sunglasses. So hard to read his expression with them on.

"I wasn't so sure about the black leather top and hot pants. Felt kind of cliche. But I think I make it work. And check this out..."

You point to a sigil on your lower stomach.

"It can light up. I think I'll work some sort of gimmick where it only lights up if I find my "true master." or something. The crowd will love it."

Your partner raises an eyebrow. "You've given this a lot of thought."

"Hey. If I got to play in the dirt, I'm going to have fun. And I want to get notorious as soon as possible. A "beat me to be known as the succubus master" ought to get the opportunists to pay attention. Now come on!" you wrap your tail around his arm and pull him. "Let's see who this sparring partner of mine is supposed to be."

....

Her name is Javelin, and she fights like her namesake, leaping and darting around the arena. Thin, somewhat petite in the assets, with short pixie cut red hair. Her skin is pure white. Her outfit is acrobatic one piece, cut high on the legs.

"So you're the secret cop. I got to say, looking like that I wouldn't think cop at all."

"That's the idea. Now you're supposed to be my first gynoid fight opponent or something?"

Javelin smiles. "A trainer. But after that, we'll see." she motions for you to join her on the mat.

"Pre-senting, in her debut match! Soulbreaker!" You do your own announcement as you skip to the mat.

"Alright, "Soulbreaker." First thing to know--you will lose, and likely soon. No one stays undefeated forever. I'd like to walk you through what it means to win and lose in the ring." She holds her hands out offering for you to lock up with her. "Now, do you want to win first, or lose first?"

>Win
>Lose
>Why don't we wrestle for it? (roll 1d20)
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>>5524118
>Lose
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>>5524147


"Well since I'm going to have to taste defeat, let me get used to the taste."

You lock up with Javelin. She shoves you down to the mat and pins your arms high above your head.

"Now. Here's the scenario. You just got your ass kicked. Your opponent, meaning me, has you you dead to it. What do you do?"

"Power down?"

"That signals your surrender. And remember that. If they say uncle or I give without powering down, it's a trick."

You smile. "Aw shoot, you caught me."

And you power down.

"Can't say I like this position."

"Few do. So now you're helpless, and I can passively scan your brainheart. Good to see that Vortex software is hiding your memories of being a cop...what's that?"

Javelin points to you sigil.

"A bit of flair, though a work in progress. It lights up when I give up."

Javelin raises an eyebrow. "How theatric. Now. The humiliation round begins."

Javelin stands up, leaving you on the ground, and plants a foot between your breasts.

"Now I have a right to humiliate you how I see fit. The only thing I can't do is cause more than superficial damage to your bod."

She scuffs her foot across your face.

"So I just do what, endure?"

"If you resist, I get to hurt you again."

She plants her foot on your neck and presses.

"Do I get to win now?" you choke out.

"You can shut down to avoid humiliation. That's something they have to have in the Club circuit by law. It's...kind of a safeword. But you shouldn't do it."

"Why? Because it's too good an option?"

"Because it is in an of itself an even greater humiliation. It means you couldn't endure the humiliation, you couldn't play the game."

"So what can I do?"

"Beg."

"Oh, is that all?"

"There is nuance to how you submit. It colors how others see you as a fighter. Right now, Soulbreaker, show me how you would submit to me."

Javelin leans against the ropes and curls a finger. "Come on. Show me how a creature of evil begs a heroine after she vanquishes her."

>Say/Do?
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>>5524170
>beg.exe
i don't have any specific ideas at the moment
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>>5524255
"Uh...I suck. You're awesome?"

Javelin sighs. "Well, this is why they got me involved, I guess. One way you could beg would be to butter me up."

"Not literally, I hope?"

"Massage my ego. Play to my theme. What am I? Acrobatic. Fast. That's probably how I kicked your ass in the fight."

"Okay. How about this? You're the fastest gynoid, Javelin. I'm nothing but a statue in comparison."

"A good start. But put your heart into it. You don't want me to come over there and step on your throat again, do you?"

Okay. With feeling now.

You press your forehead to the mat. "Please don't hurt me, Javelin, I'm just a helpless statue. I can't keep up with you."

"Good, but be aware of what you did there. You started denigrating yourself. That's a good tactic, but be aware it's a separate tactic. When you beg, you can praise the winner, denigrate yourself, or both."

"Does it really matter how I beg? It all seems to boil down to cheap entertainment."

"It does matter. Say you wanted to present yourself as a strong competitor. You would beg with an eye of praising the winner while avoiding denigrating yourself. Say you wanted to present yourself as a cute weakling. Maybe you're trying to get other gynoids to mentor you? You would want to denigrate yourself. Now, beg. Convince everyone watching that your fighting spirit has been curbed."

You close your eyes. You try to imagine it--laughing, sneering audience. No hope. No way out.

You taste the fear. The frustration.

"I'm waiting, Soulbreaker." Javelin sneers. "Or should I come over there and break you?"

"No!" you gasp, and scuttle over to Javelin. "No , please!" you grab her alabaster leg. "Please, I'm just...just a little imp!"

"Good."

"I'm a weakling! A pussy! I'm...I'm..."

You look at her feet, inches below your face.

You wouldn't. You couldn't.

But if this was a real, and you were beaten, and you were begging for all you're worth...

You bite your lip.

Might as well get used to it. You wouldn't want to balk in the real arena.

You plant as kiss on Javelin's foot.

"Very good. When in doubt, kiss feet. Highest part of the body meets the lowest part. Universally humiliating."

"Glad to see I'm great at begging. Now is it my turn to win?"

"Yeah." Javelin walks to the center of the ring. "Let's lock up."

You lock fingers with Javelin.

"Okay. Kick my ass."

You're going to like this part more than a little bit.

>Say/Do?
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Hole up a minute. So if we're a cop I assume we don't have the same I-exist-to-fight-and-win-and-losing-is-a-violation-of-my-very-being type of mentality that the ex-military bots and the purpose built fighters have?
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>>5524378
Kick her ass, literally. Break the lock then perform a round house kick to her butt. Assuming she falls over face first yank her up by her neck then entwine yourself around her as if you're whispering temptations in her ear.
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This was a mess.
Oh well at least it was fun.
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>>5524538
This is true.

>>5524855
>69 posts

Well, you'll have that to your name.
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>>5525105
if the anons have high numbers is because they're invested in the story, but you're the one that's writing it and by extension the one that can tell us if you don't like the place that we're taking it with our choices. mind you, we were willing to carry on with the consequences of our actions, hell, it was compelling to the anons to see fan dig herself out of the hole she made because of her pride, but it looks it just wasn't in a way you were liking.
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>>5525162
I was making a 69 joke.

But anyway, I somehow doubt anons would be willing to carry on with Fan. Maybe we'll go back to her one day.
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>>5525166
lmao, by bad then.

>>5524378
>kick her ass, police brutality style
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>>5524576
>>5525169
You break the lock, toss her to her knees, and kick her ass. Literally.

She skids across the mat. You leap into the air and come crashing down on her back with an elbow.

Then you entwine yourself around her. Legs around legs, arm around neck, and lean your lips to her ear.

"I think I might call this hold the final temptation. What do you think?"

"I submit."

And a scan shows she has powered down.

"And you have surrendered to the temptation."

You relax the hold, but keep a grip.

"What now?"

"Now comes the humiliation phase."

"Do I have to humiliate my opponent?"

"It's expected. But you can forgo the humiliation phase either to show mercy or in a "you aren't worth the trouble" kind of way. '

"So I get to toy with you now?"

"Yes."

>Say/Do?
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>>5525105
>This is true.
That's nice, can I assume our neural net is (more or less) well adjusted or do we just have a different kind of neurosis?

>>5525223
"You are in my power, you will know the pain and misery of the damned unless..."

Hack her and put a text file in her brain/heart that says:
"This is a simulated hack, you are now feeling excruciating pain."

"...you surrender your soul to me. All you have to do is say: 'Mistress my soul is yours!' and all of this pain will go away."

If she gives place another text file in her brain/heart that says:
"This is a simulated hack, you are now having a mindblowing orgasm, your eyes are rolling back into your sockets and your body has gone limp."

I'm being goofy with this, but if the tone is too off then make the simulated hack real.
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>>5525166
I'd be willing to carry on with Fire if we got the chance.
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>>5525543
We may come back to her after Lt. Queen clears the Club Circuit.

>>5525390
I like this. Maybe we can start wearing a "soul bracelet" or anklet with a gem for every beaten opponent?
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>>5525600
i love both ideas!
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>>5525390
You're well-adjusted.

You like fighting, and you like the idea of gynoid fights more than you'd admit, but only when they have shutdown options.

You wouldn't want to tell your chief, but you think you wouldn't mind being a club level champ.
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>>5525166
Only recently caught up, but this anon would have been willing to continue. I think that being at such a low point would only make our comeback sweeter.

Glad to see this running again, no matter which character we end up with.
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>>5525390

"What's the club's policy on hacking, specifically?"

"No attacks on the brainheart. No full circuit hacking.'

"But I can still hack?"

"Yeah. It's just like a submission hold. They don't comply, it's on them."

"Okay then." You grab her hair and yank her head back. "You are in my power. You will know the pain and misery of the damned unless you surrender your soul to me! All you have to do is say MISTRESS, MY SOUL IS YOURS and the pain will go away!"

You send a little note that says "This is a simulated hack. You are now feeling excruciating pain."

"Pffff!" Javelin laughs. "Come on. Don't be a pussy. Show me what you got?"

You shrug. "Alright."

Javelin's muscle cyclinders contract.

"Ngh! P-Pretty good, but don't start so hard. M--Make it more gradual."

"Is that your way of saying you want me to go easy on you? You know the words you need to say to make it stop."

"Mistress, my soul is yours!"

You stop the hack and send another messae.

"This is a simulated hack, you are now having a mind blowing orgasm. Your eyes are rolling back into your sockets and your body has gone limp."

"Oh! Well you better give me this one! Don't blast me with pain and then leave this out! You know, some gynoids might find this an even worse punishment then the pain. The real regal and dignified ones are going to hate becoming a twitching wreck with their tongue hanging out."

"Are you one of those?"

"Not particularly. Bute before you finish me, let me tell you about whisper surrenders. Some gynoids don't want the shame of shutting down, but they really don't want to eat the humiliation, so they try to communicate with you either in whispers or brainheart messages that they want leniency. Granting them mercy is sure to put them in your debt."

"A contract with the devil, if you would..."

"Exactly! Now, if you would be so unkind..."

Javelin's body surges with electricity. She jerks and bounces. Her mouth opens and she sputters nonsense and gasps.

Then it ends. Her eyes roll back in their sockets. Her tongue hangs out.

'I think...you're ready...for the real match..."

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The Maenad Club is like many, many entry arenas on the Club Circuit. It's got an octagonal cage modeled off the old days of human vs human combat, an announcer, and audience, and not much else. It's the Casino Circuit where they get fancy with hologram terrain and energy bubble arenas.

PRESENTING, IN HER DEBUT MATCH, SOULBREAKER!

You walk out all sultry and confident but you're worried that your debut might end in your defeat. Only two gear--that doesn't seem like much.

The tech boys went with an energy drain theme.

ELECTRIC HACKING allows you to target specific body parts with electric discharges to disrupt them. You can also sling mid-range bolts of electricity.

ELECTRIC DRAIN lets you drain an opponent's electricity through touch and add it to your own stores. Combined with your electric hacking, you can quickly disable limbs placed in a submission hold.
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>>5526080


AND HER OPPONENT, THE ACROBATIC WARRIOR, JAVELIN!

Okay. Her arms let her make and shoot javelins made of energy with JAVELIN BLASTERS and her lower body has a MERCURY BOOSTER. Her strategy is to dance around her opponents, wear them down with javelin blasts, and then close the distance to spear them and finish them.

You just need to catch the shrimp. How hard can that be?

"Nice to see you again." Javelin whispers.

>Say/Do?
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>>5526086
>small courtesy nod. we're undercover after all
>"Oh my~, what a cutie you are. surrender and i'll be really gentle with you~"
>wait for her first movement
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>>5526123
You give her a polite nod. She smiles.

"Oh myyyyy. What a cutie you are! Surrender, and I'll be really gentle with you!"

Javelin folds her arms. "Hmph. I think you got the wrong building, Soulbreaker. This is where gynoids fight. Now how about you bend those knees of yours before I strangle you with your own tail?"

>Say/Do?
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>>5526186
>"ahhh, direct and straight to the point. that's how i like 'em"
>zig zag towards her until we can hit her with our mid zappers
>mind her blasts as well
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>>5526186
Gonna try leaning into the degenerate angle.

Give a little shiver of pleasure.
"I thought you wanted a fight you naughty girl? Well if you want to play with my tail that badly you'll have to come closer..."
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Will be updating slower as I work on a few things.
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>>5527581
no worries, take your time
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>>5527581
all good, new QG, I'm just amazed anyone else remembers the original quest
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>>5527581
Hope you're doing alright QM.
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>>5527935
>>5529180
>>5536713
>>5526409
>>5526416

"Ohhh...." you shiver. "I thought you wanted a fight, you naughty girl? Well if you want to play with my tail that badly, you'll have to come closer..."

"Oh, I'll play with your tail, alright! I'll wrap it around your neck and walk you around like a dog!"

DING DING

>Roll 1d20
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Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>5537065
What could go wrong?
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>>5537257
Fuck.
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>>5537257
>>5537258
Time try out these new electric weapons!

You cut loose with a lightning blast. Wow, that's bright!

So bright you don't see Javelin flipping to the cage and leaping off.

She wraps her white legs around your neck and smashes you horns first to the mat.

The crowd cheers.

"Now to get that tail..."

>Say/Do?

>Roll 1d20
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Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>5537331
>"You want my tail? All you had to do was ASK!"
>Try to wrap it around her neck and wrench her off
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>>5537345
"You want my tail? All you had to do was ASK!"

Javelin's Mercury boosted legs tighten around your head like a crushing vice, but you manage to look your tail around her neck. Her hands go for it as it tightens around her neck like a wire. If you can just get loose before she does...

>Roll 1d20
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Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>5537473
No whammy no whammy no whammy
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>>5537473
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Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>5537810
>>5537473
Let's try that again.
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>>5537509
Oh this isn't good.

She's gotten your tail unwound.

"Told you I'd get it."

And now she's shoving it down your throat! You can't use your electric powers without blasting yourself now!

She's slightly eased up on the headlock. Is she feeling a little sorry for you, because this is your first time, or does she want to play with you a little?

Your toes curl as your tail is rammed down your throat. This is so humiliating...

>Fight back! Roll 1d20

>Don't risk the repairs. Submit. A reputation as a jobber will make the next few fights easier.
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>>5537969
>Don't risk the repairs. Submit. A reputation as a jobber will make the next few fights easier.

Now that I know the MC is a well adjusted bot who is just doing her job I can vote for her to submit to a humiliating defeat without feeling bad at all.
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>>5537969
>>Don't risk the repairs. Submit. A reputation as a jobber will make the next few fights easier.
Would have been nice to win the debut fight but RNGsus seems to hate us
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Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>5537969
>Fight back! Roll 1d20
>Blast yourself anyways, she'll never expect it!
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>>5537987
>>5538037
You power down.

THIS MATCH'S WINNER IS...JAVELIN!!!!!

Javelin keeps your head between her thighs but pulls your tail out of your mouth.

"Don't worry, officer. You'll get better." she says through a closed line. "Everyone takes their lumps at the start. But you know, I did win. I think I deserve some...respect, yes?"

Javelin stands up, tail wrapped around her hand. "Soulbreaker? Looks like I broke you."

She loops your tail around your neck like a leash.

"Anything you'd like to say, slutbot?"
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>>5538142
>Say/Do?
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So this is a yet another catfight fetish quest? Huh. I've heard a character was nuked somewhere, which post was that?
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>>5538262
>Verbally submit, no sense delaying the inevitable
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>>5538297
>Yet another
There are more? Please share.

>A character got nuked
Not nuked, put on hold for awhile while we focus on another character.
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>>5538320
There was some faggot trying to run a goddess-themed, fetishy catfight shitshow with superpowers, but he insisted on swapping the character, powers and POV whenever the MC was defeated, which unsurprisingly didn't work. Despite everyone collectively telling him it's bad all the different ways it fucked with the player's experience, chi and mojo, he was too much of a coombrained autist to care, so it just fell apart and nobody heard about it again. It happened sometime last year or in 2021.
So, did MC get defeated here? What happened? I need to know. Tell me. NOW.
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>>5538320
Thred: https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5133479#5133479
And here's his sore ass calling /qtg/ a bunch of crybabies: https://archived.moe/qst/thread/5105216#5153757
I honestly forgot how much of a pretentious faggot and nuisance he was. Posting Jesus cause you need it.
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>>5538142
>>5538262
>Say/Do?
Bark all sultry like
Might as well play up the succubutt role and who knows, might even win us some fans/infamy
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>>5538393
It's a shame he never finished Ghoul School Quest, those were fun
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>>5539615
Was that one a fetish quest, too?
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>>5538305
Supporting.
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>>5538371
Anons couldn't handle being submissive and kept digging the MC into a deeper hole by being butthurt autists. Which in turn caused the MC to constantly lose the respect of her peers to the point where the QM threw up his hands and said:

"You guys clearly don't know how to RP muh fetish!"

And now we are demon cop.

I mean no offense QM. I'm enjoying this quest, but let's be honest. This is a fetish quest...
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>>5540772
What was your first hint? The backlog of the previous quest linked in the OP?

If this being a fetish quest surprised you, you didn't pay much attention.

Did you go into Halloween II and freak out when people started dying?
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>>5540955
Wasn't surprised at all. I knew what I was getting into, I remember when the first quest ran. I read the backlog. I follow this quest because I think it's an interesting setting, don't mind playing along with the robo BDSM fights either.

Expecting anons to do constant write-ins is a hard sell though, especially when it comes to responding to loss. Only reason the first thread got away with it was because the MC kept winning and thus the write ins were about "how can we build up our robo-harem?" which was infinitely more appealing to the fa/tg/uys than "how are we gonna take this up our figurative asses?"

I suppose I should contribute something to get the story moving so...

>>5537969

"N-ngh, Not my tail! NOooo!"

Squirm in the leash, before giving up.

"...it's...it's my first time... please be gentle?"
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>>5541126
"N-ngh, Not my tail! NOooo!"

You thrash around. You want to show a little defiance, even though you know you're beaten. But Javelin pulls hard and you're forced forward to bow at her feet.

You catch yourself on your hands and find yourself staring a Javelin's feet.

"...it's...it's my first time... please be gentle?"

>CUTE REP INCREASE

Javelin smiles. "I suppose we can have a little fun with you. I gotta do something to make this fight memorable since you folded like a house of cards. How about this--a deal with the devil. That's how they do it in the stories, right? I'll let you off gently...more or less...but I got three newbs I want you to go beat for me. I was supposed to break them in, but I think you would make for a more entertaining match. You break their fighting spirits, Soulbreaker, and bring their souls back to me, humbled and cowed."

This might be advantageous, you think. Three new opponents shouldn't be hard to beat, and now you go people watching you. That's good.

And you were hoping to use the "add a soul jewel for each defeated opponent" thing. You thought that was fun.

"Understand your task, my little devil?"

>Say/Do?
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>>5541206
"Yes... three enemies to be defeated, three souls to be collected for my Mistress."
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>>5541206
Assuming mc has no other choice, >>5541358. But without the "mistress" part, yuck.
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>>5541358
>>5541364
>Comply with reluctance
or
>Comply readily
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>>5541371
Hey QM, would you mind sharing what other options you think we could've taken here when this vote is over? Just curious.
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>>5541371
>Comply with reluctance
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>>5541372
I refer you to the big tutorial section on making the most out of having to surrender.
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>>5541371
>Comply with reluctance
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>>5541371
>with reluctance
Even if it's just token reluctance for show.
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>>5539615
What would you say to a Char vs Bast sequel?



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