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- M Fnord - 06-22-2014
And now, a special treat for the Fenspace Forum: A taste of things to come from somewhere in the Clan War period!
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$day $month 30XX
“You’re right, I’m not a warrior.” Jade agreed, striding towards the abandoned hulks. “I’m not Joan of Arc reborn like you all think my little sister is. I’m not a super-scientist like my grandmother, or a mad scientist like most of my aunts.” Green fire flared at her clenched fists and began to run up and down her arms. “I’m a Hasegawa, like my mother before me. Hasegawas are engineers. We build stuff.”
The pile of junk quivered, groaned and ever so slowly chunks lifted off the ground and swirled around Jade Hasegawa, each individual part bathed in a corona of green fire. Jade half turned and gave Mika an absolutely feral grin. “And it turns out I build stuff really well.”
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- Rajvik - 06-23-2014
Oh mal you marvelous mischievous son of a slitch, I've been kicking around some clan side stuff in my head as well and will send it shortly.
- M Fnord - 08-17-2014
Canon? What canon?
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- Matrix Dragon - 08-17-2014
Oh, shiny new thing. I'll take it!
- trantos - 08-24-2014
-Finishes reading thread up to tenth page-
Huh, how about that. I honestly hadn't expected the Zaku mecha I wrote up on SB to actually get enough interest from you guys to copy it over here.
- ECSNorway - 09-04-2014
Random silly. Scene would -not- get out of my head until I'd written it down. Unlikely to fit canon as we've established it; feel free to use, abandon, or fold-spindle-and-mutilate to fit.
---------- Duelling Poems ----------
Admiral Elza Newman paused briefly to look away from the viewscreen at the commotion that had suddenly erupted in the rear of her flagship's bridge.
On the screen, the Clan Star Admiral waited impatiently.
"No! You hear me, no! They're pathetic! I won't have it! I could ownzor that ship with my -toenails-!" was heard from the squirming form held back from the bridge entry by at least two - no, it was three now - GSS security troopers.
"Please try to calm down, Ms. Dolittle," the Admiral offered, getting up from her seat and pacing over towards the scrum. "We are in the middle of some rather tense - "
"FUCK NO! I CHALLENGE!" The tomboyish delinquent pushed one of the guards aside and burst onto the bridge, in full view of the screen and the Clanner waiting for the Admiral's reply.
"You wish to challenge me, young one?" The Clansman was clearly an experienced warrior, used to the work of killing.
"Nononono. Not -you-. Your fecking piece-of-shite EW officer. They're clearly incompetant and unworthy of that ship you're flying."
* * *
The Star Admiral shrugged. He had force enough to make an interesting fight of it, but if someone wanted to call for an initial duel, who was he to intervene? He turned to the nearest officer. "Bring me the technician responsible for the electronic warfare systems."
"So," he said, turning back to the screen. "You are a soldier, quiaff?"
"What? Me? No. Not hardly. I mean, ok, I can fly a pretty mean Valkyrie, but that was just because Jenny wanted to do it. No, I'm an engineer."
"Then what sort of challenge do you wish to undertake, hm?"
By this time the security goons had caught up with Lynn again, but she shook them off and kept glaring at the screen until the Clan security goons had brought in their own man. "Technician Owen, as requested, Star Admiral."
"Ahhh, good. Technician Owen. You operate the ship's electronic warfare systems during combat, yes?"
Belatedly, the man snapped to attention. "Y - yes, Star Admiral."
"Good." He turned to gesture at the screen. "It seems one of our esteemed guests wishes to challenge a Trial of Grievance. Against -you-."
"M - me, sir?"
"That's right," came the ridiculously young voice from the viewer. The girl was small, perhaps a teenager, with short, somewhat wild brown hair and wide brown eyes. Her clothing was quite casual, although parts of it might once have been parts of a uniform.
* * *
The terms of the challenge were worked out quickly enough between the two EW experts (Lynn refused to allow the term for the Clansman), and the two admirals. A fighter would be dispatched to an equal distance beyond the two capital ships, such that no direct line of sight would be possible between them. Each ship would then attempt to transmit a signal, encrypted, to their allied fighter-craft, without the other ship being able to interpret it.
A tense half-hour later, the Admirals proclaimed the time-limit expired. Lynn had been sitting back and chuckling to herself for some time by this point, while Owen was sweating and still poking at controls.
"So, just how much of our transmission were you able to read, engineer?" asked the Star Admiral.
"Oh, that part was easy." Lynn looked down at the iPad in her hand and recited, in something of a monotone, the complete (if rather obscure) passage from the Remembrance that Owen had selected.
"So, Technician Owen. Can you match her?"
"Ah, Star Admiral... I fear I was only able to decrypt the first few lines."
"I see. Let us confirm that you got at least -that- much correct, then? Read it for us."
Owen nodded, looked down at his console, then read, "When Deadeye Dick and Mexican Pete went out in search of fun..."
--end
For those tempted to google for the rest of Lynn's poem, be warned. Highly NSFW.
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- Rajvik - 09-05-2014
And why couldn't this end up cannon for us? Granted it would be arcs later but it could happen.
- Rajvik - 09-10-2014
alright managed to get on a real computer and copy it over here, hope you like it.
the other day i was watching an AMV and had the crazy idea to shift the song lyrics to match BT, hope you enjoy, and anyone who wants to add to the list feel free to drop one in here
Banned from Terra
When we pulled into Terran orbit in need of R & R
The crew set out investigating every joint and bar
We had high expectations of their hospitality
But found too late it wasn't geared for mechwarriors such as we
And we're banned from Terra every one
Banned from Terra just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Terra doesn't want us anymore
Our star captain's tastes were simple but his methods were complex
We found him with five partners each of a different clan and sex
The shore police were on the way -- we had no second chance
We pulled him out in the nick of time in the remnants of his pants
And we're banned from Terra every one
Banned from Terra just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Terra doesn't want us anymore
Our engineer would yield to none in putting down the brew
He out drank seven elemental marines and a demolisher tank crew
The navigator didn't win but he out drank almost all
And now they've got a drop shuttle on the roof of city hall
And we're banned from Terra every one
Banned from Terra just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Terra doesn't want us anymore
Our proper cool lance commander was drugged with something green
And hauled into an alley where he suffered things obscene
He sobered up in sickbay and he's none the worse for wear
Except he somehow taught his mech's computer how to swear
And we're banned from Terra every one
Banned from Terra just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Terra doesn't want us anymore
The head nurse disappeared a while in the major dope bazaar
Buying an odd green potion guaranteed to get one far
She came home with no uniform and an oddly cheerful heart
And a painful way of walking with her feet a yard apart
And we're banned from Terra every one
Banned from Terra just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Terra doesn't want us anymore
Our lady of electronic warfare won a ship-wide bet
By getting into the planet's main communications net
Now every time someone calls up on an Terran HPG
The flesh is there but the clothes they wear are nowhere to be seen
And we're banned from Terra every one
Banned from Terra just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Terra doesn't want us anymore
Our doctor loves humanity; his private life is quiet
The shore police arrested him for inciting whores to riot
We found him in the city jail, locked on a thieving spree
Intact except for hickeys and six kinds of VD
And we're banned from Terra every one
Banned from Terra just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Terra doesn't want us anymore
Our helmsman loves exotic plants and the plants all love him too
He took some down on leave with him and he wondered what they'd do
The exarch called and swore upon his life
That a gang of plants entwined his house and then seduced his wife
And we're banned from Terra every one
Banned from Terra just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Terra doesn't want us anymore
A gang of Blakists landed and nobody seemed to care
They stomped into the nearest bar to announce that they were there
Half our crew was busy therein and invited them to play
But the Blakists only looked at us and turned and ran away
And we're banned from Terra every one
Banned from Terra just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Terra doesn't want us anymore
Our crew is Outreach’s finest and our record is our pride
And when we play we tend to leave a trail a mile wide
We're sorry 'bout the wreckage and the riots and the fuss
At least we're sure that planet won't be quick forgetting us
And we're banned from Terra every one
Banned from Terra just for having a little fun
We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four
But Terra doesn't want us anymore
(Wonder why')
- ECSNorway - 09-12-2014
There's a few lines in there that don't quite scan well, but yes.
Hmmm.
In the year of our Lord, thirty hundred fourteen
We set sail from old Halstead Station
We were sailing away with with a cargo of books
For the grand school at New Avalon
We'd an elegant craft, dropship rings fore and aft
And how her stardrive drove her
She had twenty-three pasts
And she'd seen several "lasts"
And we called her the Fox's Rover.
Hmmmm. Not quite what I was hoping for....
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- M Fnord - 11-09-2014
The work continues--slowly, but we persevere. In the meantime have a graphical teaser of sorts:
![[Image: Mk7E6pn.png]](http://i.imgur.com/Mk7E6pn.png)
(Can you name all the flags?)
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- M Fnord - 07-26-2015
*dusts off thread*
So... yeah. Been a while. Sorry about that. Things were starting to come together for the next arc as of the last post, but it all fell apart for reasons not totally under my control & honestly I'm incredibly pissed about it. Hopefully that will get resolved one way or the other this week, though.
In the meantime, the next chapter of Candle in the Dark is standing more-or-less ready to fire and I swear to you that we'll get going again sometime during August. For now, have a teaser, because when I'm in a pissy mood Melissa Steiner's antics never fail to cheer me up:
Quote:“(...) Now, Melissa,” (Katrina Steiner) said, dismissing the general and turning her full attention to Melissa. “What do you think of all this?”Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
“I think…” Melissa stopped to gather her thoughts. “I think somebody needs to pick up that phone.”
Katrina, Misha and the rest of the room gave her baffled looks. “Hah?” Misha finally said.
Melissa leaped to her feet in triumph, a wild grin plastered on her face. “Because I fucking called it!”
“Melissa!”
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- Matrix Dragon - 07-26-2015
"Damn. Melissa Steiner is ONE OF US."
"I know, I'm expecting her to show up at the next con in cosplay."
- ECSNorway - 07-26-2015
Lynn: "Yes, but who would she come as?"
Jenny: "She's short, she's blonde, she could make a pretty good Sailor Venus."
Lynn: "Possible, possible. I want to get her to come as Saber, though. Her fiancee might even be persuaded to play Shirou."
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- Rajvik - 07-26-2015
Her as Saber, yes Hanse as Shirou, never happen
- M Fnord - 07-27-2015
Yeah, Hanse is more of a Shinji or Gil, really. (No, not a fan of House Davion, why d'you ask?)
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- Matrix Dragon - 07-27-2015
"Christ Mel, I can see why you wanted to run off and join the circus."
- Bob Schroeck - 07-27-2015
Short and Blonde? Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- ECSNorway - 07-27-2015
I could see Hanse as Archer, actually. But then we don't have a Rin.
Hmmm. Melissa as Sakuya Shimazu?
Young, blonde, noble, spiritually powerful...
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- DeputyJones - 07-30-2015
I think Hanse could make a decent Kiritsugu, actually.
And Melissa... Neko-Arc!
Edit: spelling correction
- M Fnord - 08-18-2015
I'm in a mood, so have a Fenspace Forum exclusive teaser:
“The engineer sighed as he studied those plans / and he read the demented designer’s demands / and he called in his techs / and he said to his crew: / ‘This guy seems to think that there’s jobs we can’t do / and parts we can’t build / so let’s give him a thrill. / We’ll build his machine and then send him the bill.’” ~ Jordin Kare, “The Engineer” (ca. 1988)
xoxo,
The Fun Tyrant
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- Rajvik - 08-18-2015
Son, never challenge an engineer, you'll only walk away sorry and sore
- M Fnord - 08-22-2015
Restarting the thread, expect new content in the morning.
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- Matrix Dragon - 08-22-2015
Candle, my story, State of the Rock... decent output in Fenspace stories this month.
Also, MOMO AND THE COCK.
- Berk - 08-22-2015
Extremely happy to see this being a thing again.
- Grumpy Uncle Gearhead
- M Fnord - 08-22-2015
What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger.
The next chapter of Candle in the Dark is now available for reading.
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