Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)

landcollector · Nov 5, 2017

Sitxar said:
Isn't Flare Blade basically a magical lightsaber and thus too lethal for anyone without a Barrier Jacket? I may be wrong.

Flare Blade does have a non-lethal setting.

LancerisDead · Nov 5, 2017

I think the priority would be Samantha getting Recursion Field up, which is rather easy since it has a range of miles so it'd reach regardless of where in Philly Sam is. Get as many potential enemies out of the picture.

EmperorArthur · Nov 5, 2017

[X] Aerial barrage/Run away
-[X]Activate Recurion Field
-[X] Drop a Wide Area Search and a Bursting Flare Shooter aimed at the ground in front of them to gather data and provide cover while getting some height on them...eighteen or nineteen hundred meters should do.
-[X] Once you've got some nice, protective distance...and some targeting data...light them up with as many Flare Shooters as you can put out for making this day suck even more while thinking up a more nuanced plan.

Racoras · Nov 5, 2017

LancerisDead said:
I think the priority would be Samantha getting Recursion Field up, which is rather easy since it has a range of miles so it'd reach regardless of where in Philly Sam is. Get as many potential enemies out of the picture.

Couldn't that actually go a bit badly for us.... like "contact PRT and get permission, or in emergencies warn them as soon as possible" kind of issue? With its range, we might accidentally pull a blaster away from protecting civilians from a dozen gangsters or rat-beasts or something. Something new to worry about in the future, yaaaaay -_-

Silently Watches · Nov 6, 2017

Moment of truth.
Please don't fuck up, please don't fuck up, please don't—

[X] Aerial barrage
No. of Votes: 35
-[X] Drop a Wide Area Search and a Bursting Flare Shooter aimed at the ground in front of them to gather data and provide cover while getting some height on them... a hundred or two hundred meters should do.
No. of Votes: 27
-[X] Call Sam, ask her to teleport here and bring up the Recursion Field.
No. of Votes: 27
-[X] Once she's here and you get information about these guys abilities and numbers, attack. Sam will cover you.
No. of Votes: 27
--[X] Light them up with as many Flare Shooters as you can.
No. of Votes: 27
--[X] If there is more of them or they seems actually dangerous, don't hesitate to use Temporal Sludge and Solar Wrath.
No. of Votes: 27
---[X] Wait for Sam to arrive to coordinate with her before getting in range for Homing Burst Flare Shooters.
No. of Votes: 1

Scope

--[X] Call the Protectorate before summoning Wide Area Search to track the three you saw and see if there is anymore lying in wait.
No. of Votes: 1

Scope

-[X] Call Sam, bring up a Recursion Field, fly up to a range where it is easy to dodge blaster fight and throw down a Solar Wrath fast with a Cartridge.
No. of Votes: 1

Scope

[X] Close the distance for melee
No. of Votes: 1

Balewood

Total No. of Voters: 36

...Well, shit.

Guys. Guys. Why do you do this to me? Now I have to decide just how this goes, because this vote right here? HUGE chance of going Bad with a quickness. Like, all you needed was to add a lethality condition to make this a trifecta of unintentionally awful decisions.

Spectral Waltz · Nov 6, 2017

Silently Watches said:
Guys. Guys. Why do you do this to me? Now I have to decide just how this goes, because this vote right here? HUGE chance of going Bad with a quickness. Like, all you needed was to add a lethality condition to make this a trifecta of poor decision-making.

Don't look at me, I'm pretty sure I voted to run.

Faraway-R · Nov 6, 2017

That's ominous.

@Silently Watches, Keep in mind that we aren't in a good headspace right now. You said so yourself.

You can write this as an attempt at theurapetic wailing on acceptable targets, just proclaim it loud and clear once the Recursion Field is up. Proclaim it so that they cannot help but hear us. That we had a really bad day, that our father cannot remember us, and that them shooting us is an invitation to a way for us to decompress. And they better apologise right now.

Basically, it's all their fault. If they want for us to stop, they better have a good explanation.

If it's a misunderstanding, it's now on them to get through to us.

EDIT: It's not six minutes (6!) after I posted. The author has marked my post Funny.
More ominous.

Always Late · Nov 6, 2017

Silently Watches said:
Guys. Guys. Why do you do this to me? Now I have to decide just how this goes, because this vote right here? HUGE chance of going Bad with a quickness. Like, all you needed was to add a lethality condition to make this a trifecta of unintentionally awful decisions.

Look at it this way: if Taylor decides to just hover motionless in the air and get shot a third time, we have a running gag!

Either that or we did just decide to tangle with a TSAB team being very liberal in interpreting their orders.

Alayne · Nov 6, 2017

Well. It'll be an interesting chapter at least. Who knows? We might find out what happens when Taylor dies.

Shaseyu · Nov 6, 2017

...Welp.
Now I'm dying of anticipation.

What could possibly go wrong?
Sam'll hung up on us again?
Recursion Field'll really screw-up some fight nearby?
We'll destroy something important with Solar Wrath?

Solusandra · Nov 6, 2017

Silently Watches said:
Guys. Guys. Why do you do this to me? Now I have to decide just how this goes, because this vote right here? HUGE chance of going Bad with a quickness. Like, all you needed was to add a lethality condition to make this a trifecta of unintentionally awful decisions.

Rofl, would my blitz action suggestion have been better or worse?

landcollector · Nov 6, 2017

Silently Watches said:
...Well, shit.

Guys. Guys. Why do you do this to me? Now I have to decide just how this goes, because this vote right here? HUGE chance of going Bad with a quickness. Like, all you needed was to add a lethality condition to make this a trifecta of unintentionally awful decisions.

...
*sighs deeply*
How could we have known? Crap.
*Goes to get helmet and poncho to weather the incoming shitstorm*

kokuenDG · Nov 6, 2017

Hah.

Well, I can take solace in the fact that I'm pretty sure I forgot to vote this time. So I guess I'm a helpless bystander in this situation!

Crusader Jerome · Nov 6, 2017

Hey, at least the vote was in character for Taylor. If she resembles Canon Taylor at all, it's that she has no instinctive flight response, only fight.

Sitxar · Nov 6, 2017

Seems like we will soon know what happens when we die. If we are lucky.

kokuenDG · Nov 6, 2017

Eh, we'll probably get kidnapped or something if things go bad.

But hey, at least we'll probably get a new ability from This! Cuz we fought and stuff!

Always Late · Nov 6, 2017

landcollector said:
...
*sighs deeply*
How could we have known? Crap.
*Goes to get helmet and poncho to weather the incoming shitstorm*

Here, don't forget your gasmask. Shit gets smelly you know.

landcollector · Nov 6, 2017

Always Late said:
Here, don't forget your gasmask. Shit gets smelly you know.

Good call:

tyaty1 · Nov 6, 2017

landcollector said:
Good call:

Ranger armor from F:NV os one of my favorite body armor designs.

LancerisDead · Nov 6, 2017

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the problem is we are going with dakka instead of making sure we are not being flanked and getting out of there ASAP.

The whole lethality thing would imply we are firing at civilians, but that one does leave radiation everywhere.

@Silently Watches let me repeat and say you're killing us.

Also, it's totally a Coil plot and we're gonna get kidnapped. Goddamn, I'm not looking forward to this.

Racoras · Nov 6, 2017

Considering, for all the plan involves fighting and not fleeing.... it opens up with "gain longish range and sweep an epic area for hostiles" (though was there an ominous warning about showing off WAS recently?) AND has us immedietely calling Samantha for backup.... I do wonder what we were meant to do instead, and what should've warned us to do so.

If its friendlies and this is a misunderstanding, WAS should have been a good call.... if flankers or ambush, Samantha+WAS+Recursion maybe+distance... if its TSAB thinking they've spotted an IAE puppet well they aren't wrong

but they shot first already so what would we have changed. If we were purely supposed to flee.... is Teleport fast enough for that? I know its been reminded that is has some delay before, thought it wasn't really suited to combat. And if its Coil i have nfi how you ever fight his power without something like Path to Victory meaning that /all/ futures have him losing. Unless a dimensional teleport is unforseeable to his power or something obscure

.

Paranoia intensifies, this has been a wonderful day.... (not just thread).

Silently Watches · Nov 6, 2017

I'm freshly awake, my brain has had all night/day/whatever to ponder and plot, and I've made my decision about what to do. On the one hand, I've been looking forward to showing this mechanic off. On the other, did you have to pick this point in the story to do it?! There are two things I can count on you guys for, it looks like: being unjustifiably paranoid, and buggering up my plans. Just when I'm sure I have something all wrapped up, you decide to make everything go sideways. :lol

And I have to scrap a really funny interlude. That's the worst part.

Solusandra said:
Rofl, would my blitz action suggestion have been better or worse?

Better, actually. I'll go into details in the AAR.

landcollector said:
...
*sighs deeply*
How could we have known? Crap.
*Goes to get helmet and poncho to weather the incoming shitstorm*

Crusader Jerome said:
Hey, at least the vote was in character for Taylor. If she resembles Canon Taylor at all, it's that she has no instinctive flight response, only fight.

Racoras said:
Considering, for all the plan involves fighting and not fleeing.... it opens up with "gain longish range and sweep an epic area for hostiles" (though was there an ominous warning about showing off WAS recently?) AND has us immedietely calling Samantha for backup.... I do wonder what we were meant to do instead, and what should've warned us to do so.

There's a reason the vote tally post mentioned that it was UNINTENTIONALLY awful decisions. There were no hints of "hey, you should really do this, this is the secret answer". You just managed to pick a bad combination of options for this situation. Again, the AAR will reveal all the nitty-gritty details.

steamrick · Nov 6, 2017

Silently Watches said:
And I have to scrap a really funny interlude. That's the worst part.

Omake?

LancerisDead · Nov 6, 2017

Someone trying to steal Perfect Storm and getting a face full of solar radiation? That sounds like being kidnapped to me.

@Silently Watches, can you at least confirm Taylor isn't gonna die? If this were an EB fight I'd understand getting screwed by really bad choices, but dying now would be way too sudden.

aceraptor · Nov 6, 2017

Shoulda just run away instead of going guns blazing.

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