Fyi: Last post was Yukari's plan. I don't know if it will work. If you have suggestions, let me know. If I fuck up and we lose, I'll take the heat.
It's going well so far. Here's hoping.
It's going well so far. Here's hoping.
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OOC Black Knights/Byakuren Discussion
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Fred
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I have a Reika-centric GM post up. I would have written more, but it's 1:30 AM and I've already taken 2 hours writing that much (and it was a tough write, and at the time I post it I lack time to edit it or make it sound better than it is).
So, I have that up. @Khasidel can reply to it if he'd like. I'll post the continuity of the battle in the hangar once I have more time.
So, I have that up. @Khasidel can reply to it if he'd like. I'll post the continuity of the battle in the hangar once I have more time.
Fred
Retired Staff
For your information, Man-Machine Interface Level 4 isn't a widespread feature amongst the M15 Kishi because when Nimura devised it, it amounted to a self-destruct mode.
MMI-4 has a Kishi uprate its wearer to handle the computing of a quantum computer. For most users, that's impossible with what they have, which means that the Kishi has to upgrade you. The upgrade process eventually turns out fusing you with the power armor, preventing you from continuing to function like a human being. In return, you grant the power armor the features it lacks: gyrospopic control posture, balance, grace, skill... the kind of things that allows it to trancend just being an armor.
Reika is a NH-33 Eihei. She's one of the few rare cases where Shinigami recalled the stuff that was experimented and discarded through the prototype stages, and decided to use it anyways because it figured that it could briefly flip the switch on and off to gain the kind of man-machine communion Reika needed to win the fight. And, of course, since that made Reika addle-brained through the process ("this hurts, what is happening to me?") Shinigami "assumed direct control".
At least until a point before it crossed the line of no return, before it rewrote Reika so completely that she stopped being Reika. Nor that her body be changed so far that it wouldn't have a chance to revert back.
Understandably, though, Reika currently feels like crap.
MMI-4 has a Kishi uprate its wearer to handle the computing of a quantum computer. For most users, that's impossible with what they have, which means that the Kishi has to upgrade you. The upgrade process eventually turns out fusing you with the power armor, preventing you from continuing to function like a human being. In return, you grant the power armor the features it lacks: gyrospopic control posture, balance, grace, skill... the kind of things that allows it to trancend just being an armor.
Reika is a NH-33 Eihei. She's one of the few rare cases where Shinigami recalled the stuff that was experimented and discarded through the prototype stages, and decided to use it anyways because it figured that it could briefly flip the switch on and off to gain the kind of man-machine communion Reika needed to win the fight. And, of course, since that made Reika addle-brained through the process ("this hurts, what is happening to me?") Shinigami "assumed direct control".
At least until a point before it crossed the line of no return, before it rewrote Reika so completely that she stopped being Reika. Nor that her body be changed so far that it wouldn't have a chance to revert back.
Understandably, though, Reika currently feels like crap.
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Fred
Retired Staff
Next post up for the fighting in the hangar.
@Tom @Doshii Jun @Nyton
I wrote it while at work and had a great deal of trouble squeezing that much out. I haven't had the time to review the text or word it entirely to my liking.
@Tom @Doshii Jun @Nyton
I wrote it while at work and had a great deal of trouble squeezing that much out. I haven't had the time to review the text or word it entirely to my liking.
My wife and I are going on vacation next week; I'll post before then.
Everything OK, Tom?
K and I are in Vegas. Got a post in my head, at least.
K and I are in Vegas. Got a post in my head, at least.
Fred
Retired Staff
Nyton hasn't been involved in the two other conflicts Shizuku participated in, so there's nothing to be familiar about. Reika might have recognized her... if she'd actually seen her on Planet Kotori. She didn't, though - Shizuku was invisible most of the time, and then disintegrated with aether.
I did give an enemy's point of view, but that was to spice things up narratively. There's not much to gain from it, nor can Nyton pick up a lot of things from a mind that's, well, dead.
I figure her head, if it survived, is well cooked.
I have no idea what an SV is.
I did give an enemy's point of view, but that was to spice things up narratively. There's not much to gain from it, nor can Nyton pick up a lot of things from a mind that's, well, dead.
I figure her head, if it survived, is well cooked.
I have no idea what an SV is.
Shadow Vipers.
Nyton
Inactive Member
Oh no not from Reika or the enemy POV, I meant the flash back Mel gave Ny back on the train to inspire him about the hemo synth link to keep Kotorious alive. That was Shizuka's second attempt on her life so I was curious if that would give him the 'hey its that same SV who tried to kill her in the palace if he saw the head.
Nyton: "Looks like this time she, *puts on sun glasses* lost her head.'"
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
(other honorable mentions was 'third time wasn't the charm' and 'struck out' but he doesn't know this was her third attempt)
Nyton: "Looks like this time she, *puts on sun glasses* lost her head.'"
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
(other honorable mentions was 'third time wasn't the charm' and 'struck out' but he doesn't know this was her third attempt)
"Oh, you know! Just, hanging out. Making sure everyone is OK! Except me ... I mean, I'm OK too! These silver tendrils in my skin aren't so bad. They're like jewelry! Do you think Kotori will like them? I hope she does. They don't sting at all! Unlike my head. It's more of an ache. Or a throb? It's a little hard to tell! Oh? No, you don't need to take a look. Really, I'm fine! Nyton, wait AAAAAAAH -- "
*SMASHCRUNCHSNAPWRENCHSNKTCRUNK*
"I'm sorry!"
