Wow, it's been a while since I kept up with this - got distracted by a cold, then was reading the Bleach Quest and Peter Parker Quest archives. This'll probably be on the disjointed side of stream-of consciousness, since I'm writing it as I read the updates that have built up.
post 162 -
"So there I was, flipping through the last few pages of Schwartzwald's The Structure of Magic (in the original Belkan; I'd not yet learned to speak it, but I could read it just fine by now), when
Uno walked into the room."
extra line break there, I'm guessing it happens to not stick out at the window width you're using
165 - "Il Numero Imaginario" - so we can definitely figure on you intervening in the Sakura situation if you end up in proximity to the Fifth Grail War? Good, Grandpa Rapeworm needs to be KWEP'ed as soon as possible in as many universes as possible.
166 - I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that what Ford sent to Lindy was less "Here's a rundown of some events that haven't happened yet" and more "Hey, the Book of Darkness showed up again, way out in the boonies, just thought you should know. Oh, and there's a kid who lives nearby with hella lots of mage potential, if you care at all." Lindy is one of the good ones, give her a lead and she'd follow it to protect the innocent even without the personal connection, and it's much more likely to be taken seriously framed that way.
171 - another extra line break:
"Well, one of my barrier jackets- I had Mal designed to store two jacket styles at a time. The first one is basically a Number's bodysuit with black armor bits added over the top, a cape, and
Black Mage's hat. Even managed to get the shadow thing and the voice changer working, so I should be safely anonymous."
Huh, I posted #174... I thought this was new stuff now. Well, if I didn't remember it, it's just as well to get a refresher. I remember the discussion on familiars, though. Weird.
180 - I'll say it again: Tsundere mode activated. "No one would fail in love with a wretch like you!" just doesn't come up in combat banter unless the person saying it was already thinking about it. Of course, there are many forms of love, and she was also berating you about being a disappointment to the "family" so romantic feelings are not necessarily involved... just kind of likely given she's biologically a teenager, for however much biology counts with high-percentage cyborgs like the Numbers.
181 - "Tre, of course, noticed this, and resisted" probably doesn't need "noticed this, and" - it's really hard to not notice someone squeezing your throat. Like, really really, dude. I'd even say that if you aren't noticing someone squeezing your throat, either they're too weak to hurt you at all or you're already at the point where it just doesn't matter, like your spine already being detached higher up than where they're squeezing.
185 - Well, I suppose Jail could have ordered her to talk about love, that works. Not nearly as amusing as the other way round, though. An admirable point to include for trolling the genre savvy though, bravo.
189 - Seconding Blackaeronaut's sentiments, though I'd probably also have some buyer's remorse in Ford's situation - not as bad as Wave Convoy since it was something sought out and considered ahead of time, but Ford is even more cut off from his old life and routines than WC, and even when the new situation is an improvement change is something I deal with poorly.
191 - if you can defeat novices in close combat and hold your own against the moderately trained after just a couple of months, then yes, you are in fact an accomplished fighter for your level of experience, and in fact on par with shonen protagonist level learning curves. Don't you dare complain about that... until you land in an actual shonen series and have to deal with people who have that plus a battle-junkie mentality, I suppose. At least when Nanoha befriends someone she only does it once, Kenpachi or Ranma or Vegiita are always looking for another round, to see who's improved the most!
MALLEUS BELLUM HAS ASCENDED TO SUPER-DEVICEJIN LEVEL TWO! And this is not even his final form...
193 - "What do I need with artificial lighting? MY BRILLIANCE ALONE LIGHTS UP THE LABORATORY LIKE ONE THOUSAND SUNS! Hahahahaha!"
And, hey, a little sister at last! Just remember Ichigo's principles on that, 'cause little kids missing an eye is not cool. Yes, even if (probably when) she can normally kick your ass up down and sideways.
195 - Yup, up, down, and sideways.
A handful of good plans that don't actually require combat success are the best kind of plans. Not so many that you have to spend time thinking about which one to use, but enough to provide a range of options to match what the situation actually is when when it arrives.
As for getting your spacebattles card revoked... if it didn't already happen for becoming a minion, Jail is Spacebattler enough that being part of his organization covers most of the bases - collect all the shinies, massive firepower for fun and profit, TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! etc.
Really, the minion thing is the biggest obstacle, and positioning yourself to use his efforts as your tutorial level and continue to your own goals after he falls or you just part ways makes that A Cunning Plan on its own. Plus, you know, gaining the trust and loyalty of your "sisters."
198 - hee, "teleportarium." I like your word. Certainly better than "teledrome."
Did Ford get around to adding the rubber soles on his armor form, btw? Not that they'd be doing much clanking on sandy gravel anyway, or that the rubber would help when most of the noise is generated by little bits underfoot moving against each other under your (presumably greater than a squishie's) weight.
Funny how specific that feeling of doom was - oh, you're in a messy store room. Nevermind, carry on.
202 - Good job, big brother. Now the question is, will you get puffed out cheeks and stern-puppy eyes, a beatdown/lecture on how you're the least combat capable of the family, or both.
And of course dealing with who- or what- ever is throwing around golden energy beams, but that much is obvious.
203 - Heheehee, I think I know what's up with the wonky magic. I can't remember if it was public info or not, though, so I won't risk spoiling it, beyond saying that slapping the enemy out of the sky looks a lot like what happened to Tre when Ford was prodded into activating his I.S.
Or maybe it's just a Shi-shi Hokodan, and Herr Scaglietti installed a mental filter so you don't recognize how depressed you are about being cut off from home/turned into a shrimp/etc. I think those were green, though, not blue.
207 - Um... the key is also the lock and the gate? Ford has an easier time stepping out of this world and back in due to not being from it originally? Having a Relic in the area for a long time pulled the various dimensional layers closer together (it's the IC explanation for how magic works in MSLN) and they haven't yet realigned? Or he could have just discovered a new more efficient solution to block transfer equations without realizing it. There'd be more than one Doctor interested if that's the case.
209 - You do realize that technically, your plan to attract Jail's attention end in being vivisected, right? And it worked out so far. Then again, no need to press your luck, as it was no fun even the first time, and now you have a hat to think of as well. Even if you can recover from vivisection with only minor difficulty, any plan what involves losing your hat is definitely bad plan.
211 - I really love how SCIENCE! has become a verb and adjective as well as a noun - and the "Huh, that's funny..." moments are, if anything, more significant than the "EUREKA!" because you can't even start trying to find an answer until you know there's a question, even if you aren't quite sure what it is.
215 - I'm not really sure what to say about posting both here and at SB... either way works, I think. There's a fair amount of overlap among the regulars here as far as I can tell, but the atmosphere of the two is different enough that it could still be worth the different viewpoints. Maybe post here a day or so ahead of SB, so we can catch any holdout typos etc.? Up to you in the end, unless Bob has something official to say on the matter.
So what you're saying is, you're the center of attraction? It's only natural I suppose. (Gah, stupid theme music, get out of my head. It wouldn't be so bad if the production values were higher, but without an effects track and action sequence visuals as distraction the Bleach music really fails flat.)
218 - ... having sound dampers that yell at you sounds kind of like having a bottle of hand lotion that complains about touching your freaky dry skin when you put it on, or a flight spell that sends you plummeting to the ground at random intervals.
Oh.
Yes.
Nevermind, carry on
- dNN
Edit: So. Many. Typos. I strongly dislike this chromebook keyboard.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
post 162 -
"So there I was, flipping through the last few pages of Schwartzwald's The Structure of Magic (in the original Belkan; I'd not yet learned to speak it, but I could read it just fine by now), when
Uno walked into the room."
extra line break there, I'm guessing it happens to not stick out at the window width you're using
165 - "Il Numero Imaginario" - so we can definitely figure on you intervening in the Sakura situation if you end up in proximity to the Fifth Grail War? Good, Grandpa Rapeworm needs to be KWEP'ed as soon as possible in as many universes as possible.
166 - I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that what Ford sent to Lindy was less "Here's a rundown of some events that haven't happened yet" and more "Hey, the Book of Darkness showed up again, way out in the boonies, just thought you should know. Oh, and there's a kid who lives nearby with hella lots of mage potential, if you care at all." Lindy is one of the good ones, give her a lead and she'd follow it to protect the innocent even without the personal connection, and it's much more likely to be taken seriously framed that way.
171 - another extra line break:
"Well, one of my barrier jackets- I had Mal designed to store two jacket styles at a time. The first one is basically a Number's bodysuit with black armor bits added over the top, a cape, and
Black Mage's hat. Even managed to get the shadow thing and the voice changer working, so I should be safely anonymous."
Huh, I posted #174... I thought this was new stuff now. Well, if I didn't remember it, it's just as well to get a refresher. I remember the discussion on familiars, though. Weird.
180 - I'll say it again: Tsundere mode activated. "No one would fail in love with a wretch like you!" just doesn't come up in combat banter unless the person saying it was already thinking about it. Of course, there are many forms of love, and she was also berating you about being a disappointment to the "family" so romantic feelings are not necessarily involved... just kind of likely given she's biologically a teenager, for however much biology counts with high-percentage cyborgs like the Numbers.
181 - "Tre, of course, noticed this, and resisted" probably doesn't need "noticed this, and" - it's really hard to not notice someone squeezing your throat. Like, really really, dude. I'd even say that if you aren't noticing someone squeezing your throat, either they're too weak to hurt you at all or you're already at the point where it just doesn't matter, like your spine already being detached higher up than where they're squeezing.
185 - Well, I suppose Jail could have ordered her to talk about love, that works. Not nearly as amusing as the other way round, though. An admirable point to include for trolling the genre savvy though, bravo.
189 - Seconding Blackaeronaut's sentiments, though I'd probably also have some buyer's remorse in Ford's situation - not as bad as Wave Convoy since it was something sought out and considered ahead of time, but Ford is even more cut off from his old life and routines than WC, and even when the new situation is an improvement change is something I deal with poorly.
191 - if you can defeat novices in close combat and hold your own against the moderately trained after just a couple of months, then yes, you are in fact an accomplished fighter for your level of experience, and in fact on par with shonen protagonist level learning curves. Don't you dare complain about that... until you land in an actual shonen series and have to deal with people who have that plus a battle-junkie mentality, I suppose. At least when Nanoha befriends someone she only does it once, Kenpachi or Ranma or Vegiita are always looking for another round, to see who's improved the most!
MALLEUS BELLUM HAS ASCENDED TO SUPER-DEVICEJIN LEVEL TWO! And this is not even his final form...
193 - "What do I need with artificial lighting? MY BRILLIANCE ALONE LIGHTS UP THE LABORATORY LIKE ONE THOUSAND SUNS! Hahahahaha!"
And, hey, a little sister at last! Just remember Ichigo's principles on that, 'cause little kids missing an eye is not cool. Yes, even if (probably when) she can normally kick your ass up down and sideways.
195 - Yup, up, down, and sideways.
A handful of good plans that don't actually require combat success are the best kind of plans. Not so many that you have to spend time thinking about which one to use, but enough to provide a range of options to match what the situation actually is when when it arrives.
As for getting your spacebattles card revoked... if it didn't already happen for becoming a minion, Jail is Spacebattler enough that being part of his organization covers most of the bases - collect all the shinies, massive firepower for fun and profit, TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! etc.
Really, the minion thing is the biggest obstacle, and positioning yourself to use his efforts as your tutorial level and continue to your own goals after he falls or you just part ways makes that A Cunning Plan on its own. Plus, you know, gaining the trust and loyalty of your "sisters."
198 - hee, "teleportarium." I like your word. Certainly better than "teledrome."
Did Ford get around to adding the rubber soles on his armor form, btw? Not that they'd be doing much clanking on sandy gravel anyway, or that the rubber would help when most of the noise is generated by little bits underfoot moving against each other under your (presumably greater than a squishie's) weight.
Funny how specific that feeling of doom was - oh, you're in a messy store room. Nevermind, carry on.
202 - Good job, big brother. Now the question is, will you get puffed out cheeks and stern-puppy eyes, a beatdown/lecture on how you're the least combat capable of the family, or both.
And of course dealing with who- or what- ever is throwing around golden energy beams, but that much is obvious.
203 - Heheehee, I think I know what's up with the wonky magic. I can't remember if it was public info or not, though, so I won't risk spoiling it, beyond saying that slapping the enemy out of the sky looks a lot like what happened to Tre when Ford was prodded into activating his I.S.
Or maybe it's just a Shi-shi Hokodan, and Herr Scaglietti installed a mental filter so you don't recognize how depressed you are about being cut off from home/turned into a shrimp/etc. I think those were green, though, not blue.
207 - Um... the key is also the lock and the gate? Ford has an easier time stepping out of this world and back in due to not being from it originally? Having a Relic in the area for a long time pulled the various dimensional layers closer together (it's the IC explanation for how magic works in MSLN) and they haven't yet realigned? Or he could have just discovered a new more efficient solution to block transfer equations without realizing it. There'd be more than one Doctor interested if that's the case.
209 - You do realize that technically, your plan to attract Jail's attention end in being vivisected, right? And it worked out so far. Then again, no need to press your luck, as it was no fun even the first time, and now you have a hat to think of as well. Even if you can recover from vivisection with only minor difficulty, any plan what involves losing your hat is definitely bad plan.
211 - I really love how SCIENCE! has become a verb and adjective as well as a noun - and the "Huh, that's funny..." moments are, if anything, more significant than the "EUREKA!" because you can't even start trying to find an answer until you know there's a question, even if you aren't quite sure what it is.
215 - I'm not really sure what to say about posting both here and at SB... either way works, I think. There's a fair amount of overlap among the regulars here as far as I can tell, but the atmosphere of the two is different enough that it could still be worth the different viewpoints. Maybe post here a day or so ahead of SB, so we can catch any holdout typos etc.? Up to you in the end, unless Bob has something official to say on the matter.
So what you're saying is, you're the center of attraction? It's only natural I suppose. (Gah, stupid theme music, get out of my head. It wouldn't be so bad if the production values were higher, but without an effects track and action sequence visuals as distraction the Bleach music really fails flat.)
218 - ... having sound dampers that yell at you sounds kind of like having a bottle of hand lotion that complains about touching your freaky dry skin when you put it on, or a flight spell that sends you plummeting to the ground at random intervals.
Oh.
Yes.
Nevermind, carry on
- dNN
Edit: So. Many. Typos. I strongly dislike this chromebook keyboard.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows