>[X]Future Simulated Scenarios (Varies)
>>[X]Manifest Destiny (The West Coast is now under human control. With only the major breaches left and isolated, clear a path to the East Coast of the North American Continent.)
>[X]Hold back. Allow the others to do most of the work, see if Sandra can put her money where her mouth is. You're still going to intervene if you see one of them in danger though.
 
[X] Randomly generated scenario
[X] Any Difficulty
[X]Since there are two aces in the flight now, would you like Shuri and I to hold back further? Or should we stop for the next exercise and decide after that?
 
Changing Vote to avoid the trama of Vae Victus:
[X] Randomly generated scenario
-[X] Difficult
[X] Hold back. Allow the others to do most of the work, see if Sandra can put her money where her mouth is. You're still going to intervene if you see one of them in danger though.
If not in conflict with:
-[X] Since there are two aces in the flight now, would you like Shuri and I to hold back further? Or should we stop for the next exercise and decide after that?
 
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[X] Randomly generated scenario
[X] Moderate
[X]Since there are two aces in the flight now, would you like Shuri and I to hold back further? Or should we stop for the next exercise and decide after that?
 
Holding back is counterproductive. Picking a difficult scenario and letting our people die because of arbitrary restrictions will be infinitely worse than flipping out.

The reason I picked vae victis is that it's a scenario practically tailored to Anna. Lose? Our squaddies become aware of her debilitating mental issues and can start taking action. Win? We realize that even in the worst case scenario we can depend on others. Anna doesn't fear death, she fears meaningless victories - the squad would likely die. Bit they will have saved. Humanity. In direct contrast with her back story.

And the people that vote to hold back even further? That's shitting on the wishes of the entire cast. They want an example, they want to be stronger. We want them to survive. Better have the breakdowns in a sim than real battle. "sorry for not mentioning my capabilities in a safe environment and letting you make decisions with incomplet Information . Oops."
 
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[X] Randomly generated scenario
-[X] Difficult
[X] Hold back. Allow the others to do most of the work, see if Sandra can put her money where her mouth is. You're still going to intervene if you see one of them in danger though.
 
Current vote tally:
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[x]Vae Victus (Humanity has lost. Earth burns. Protect the Major Arcologies as they lift off. Until at least one passes Lunar Orbit. Humanity will remember your sacrifice.)
No. of votes: 4
kellanved, JoshieWoshie, mc2rpg, Lost Egos

[x]Use everything. No mercy, no calculus, no hesitation. No risk to the others. All you need is kill.
No. of votes: 23
kellanved, HidCyan, Ragnar, Chronic, Gore17, Bki, UberJJK, JoshieWoshie, kylina, notgreat, mc2rpg, meganeshounen, EmpirePlayer, Mizu, Enjou, Cassiemouse, Pipeman, Varano, Lost Egos, jacobk, Delwgun, Tavarokk, EternalLight

[X]Historic Scenarios (Difficult to Impossible)
No. of votes: 20
veekie, boonerunner, dpara, HidCyan, Chronic, Bki, UberJJK, Enjou, Zhead, Cassiemouse, Pipeman, Varano, Nervos Belli, Cuddles, SometimesMaybe, defenestrator, Hannz, Aranfan, Bozwevial, RandomLurker

[X]Once more unto the Breach (Objective. The Elazig Breach is ahead, Type Zero Indra is behind. Destroy the Breach before you are destroyed.)
No. of votes: 6
veekie, Nervos Belli, Cuddles, SometimesMaybe, Bozwevial, RandomLurker

[X]Hold back. Allow the others to do most of the work, see if Sandra can put her money where her mouth is. You're still going to intervene if you see one of them in danger though.
No. of votes: 34
veekie, Bag of Bones, Dark as Silver, boonerunner, dpara, Restalaan, Kerfitd, Aeondrac, GaleBread, Seventeen, marids, Nervos Belli, Cuddles, Serous, wingstrike96, Hazard, SometimesMaybe, khang, bdun140, Artantasys, Bozwevial, Sasha, xenondestroyer, Archanist, Nagon, NotAlwaysFanfic, Candesce, Alphaleph, Felipe Melo, RandomLurker, Tornadohunter, rikalous, Slith10, Kliden

[X]Historic Scenarios (Moderate)
No. of votes: 1
Bag of Bones

[X]Dunkirk (Objective. Protect the Island of Bretagne and the arriving refugee convoys from Swarming Antagonists.)
No. of votes: 1
Bag of Bones

[X]Randomly generated scenario
No. of votes: 50
Dark as Silver, Restalaan, Koden, Kerfitd, Aeondrac, Gore17, Seventeen, Devran, marids, Inglorien, Serous, wingstrike96, Hazard, khang, Paper Weasel, Guilop, Artantasys, racnor, CeBrudras, LightMage, Goldenlima, Clarvel, Sasha, skaianDestiny, xenondestroyer, Chimeraguard, Bloodalchemy, Archanist, Camellia, King_Rule, NotAlwaysFanfic, Cogsprocket, Alphaleph, Felipe Melo, chocolote12, ........, TopHattedZombie, Octol, Tornadohunter, Vanguard_D, Nave, The Sylentnight, Redshirt Army, Chaosbrain, Eisenstein80060, core_88, eraserman, Slith10, Yun, Kliden

[X]Difficult
No. of votes: 45
Dark as Silver, Restalaan, Koden, Kerfitd, Aeondrac, Seventeen, Devran, marids, Inglorien, Serous, wingstrike96, Hazard, khang, Paper Weasel, Guilop, Artantasys, racnor, CeBrudras, LightMage, Goldenlima, Clarvel, Sasha, xenondestroyer, Chimeraguard, Bloodalchemy, Archanist, Camellia, Nagon, King_Rule, NotAlwaysFanfic, Dark Abstraction, Cogsprocket, Alphaleph, Felipe Melo, chocolote12, TopHattedZombie, Octol, Tornadohunter, Vanguard_D, Nave, Chaosbrain, Eisenstein80060, core_88, Slith10, Kliden

-[X]First Contact (Survival. As the name suggests. Survive the Antagonist attacks, protect the ICBMs on terminal approach, survive the resulting explosions)
No. of votes: 3
boonerunner, Chronic, Bki

-[X]One small step for man (Objective. Protect lunar base Armstrong from attack until Valkyrie Battleship Gomorrah activates.)
No. of votes: 1
dpara

[X]Battle of Britain (Survival/Objective. Hold the island until the first of the 300 frames arrive.)
No. of votes: 5
HidCyan, Ragnar, GaleBread, bdun140, Tavarokk

[X] Since there are two aces in the flight now, would you like Shuri and I to hold back further? Or should we stop for the next exercise and decide after that?
No. of votes: 38
Koden, meganeshounen, Inglorien, defenestrator, Guilop, Hannz, Aranfan, racnor, CeBrudras, LightMage, Goldenlima, Clarvel, skaianDestiny, xenondestroyer, Chimeraguard, Bloodalchemy, Camellia, Nagon, King_Rule, NotAlwaysFanfic, Dark Abstraction, Cogsprocket, Guile, chocolote12, ........, TopHattedZombie, Octol, Delcer, Vanguard_D, Nave, The Sylentnight, Redshirt Army, Chaosbrain, Eisenstein80060, core_88, eraserman, Slith10, Yun

[X]Hold the Line (Survival/Objective. A military installation must be protected as long as possible while they finish a weapon that can win the war. Antagonists are attacking in endless waves of increasing size and danger, eventually attacking with the support of Type Zero's.)
No. of votes: 1
Gore17

-[X] Uralsk Massacre (Survival/Objective. First human attack on a Breach. Succeed.)
No. of votes: 19
UberJJK, notgreat, meganeshounen, EmpirePlayer, Mizu, Enjou, Zhead, Cassiemouse, Pipeman, Varano, defenestrator, Hannz, Aranfan, Delwgun, EternalLight, Nagon, Dark Abstraction, Cogsprocket, Nave

[X]Hold back.
No. of votes: 1
Zhead

[X] As this is a training exercise, ask Sandra if she wants Shuri and us to hold back a bit.
No. of votes: 1
Paper Weasel

[X]Future Simulated Scenarios (Varies)
No. of votes: 3
jacobk, Candesce, rikalous

[X]Manifest Destiny (The West Coast is now under human control. With only the major breaches left and isolated, clear a path to the East Coast of the North American Continent.)
No. of votes: 3
jacobk, Candesce, rikalous

-[X] Moderate
No. of votes: 4
skaianDestiny, The Sylentnight, Redshirt Army, Yun

[X] Either one of
No. of votes: 2
Cogsprocket, Nave

-[X] Difficult if allowed to cut loose, Moderate if asked to hold back
No. of votes: 1
........

[X] Any Difficulty
No. of votes: 1
eraserman
 
Well since it looks like Uralsk won't win I'll vote for this since I don't want moderate to win.

[X] Randomly generated scenario
-[X] Difficult
[X] Hold back. Allow the others to do most of the work, see if Sandra can put her money where her mouth is. You're still going to intervene if you see one of them in danger though.
 
Holding back is counterproductive. Picking a difficult scenario and letting our people die because of arbitrary restrictions will be infinitely worse than flipping out.

The reason I picked vae victis is that it's a scenario practically tailored to Anna. Lose? Our squaddies become aware of her debilitating mental issues and can start taking action. Win? We realize that even in the worst case scenario we can depend on others. Anna doesn't fear death, she fears meaningless victories - the squad would likely die. Bit they will have saved. Humanity. In direct contrast with her back story.

And the people that vote to hold back even further? That's shitting on the wishes of the entire cast. They want an example, they want to be stronger. We want them to survive. Better have the breakdowns in a sim than real battle. "sorry for not mentioning my capabilities in a safe environment and letting you make decisions with incomplet Information . Oops."
So, you think that not choosing the Trauma Bait is bad for Anna, and that not immediately bulldozing everything in the simulation will be bad for team work? We aren't going to reveal our full capabilities because we can't, in the simulation rooms. Even outside of them, only Shuri and maybe Yukari are even capable of intellectually comprehending just how far above them we are; Koujirou got the emotional bits right for a brief second before we broke his sword. No amount of showing off in a simulator is going to drive in to the newbs just how awesome Anna is.
 
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Holding back is counterproductive. Picking a difficult scenario and letting our people die because of arbitrary restrictions will be infinitely worse than flipping out.

The reason I picked vae victis is that it's a scenario practically tailored to Anna. Lose? Our squaddies become aware of her debilitating mental issues and can start taking action. Win? We realize that even in the worst case scenario we can depend on others. Anna doesn't fear death, she fears meaningless victories - the squad would likely die. Bit they will have saved. Humanity. In direct contrast with her back story.

And the people that vote to hold back even further? That's shitting on the wishes of the entire cast. They want an example, they want to be stronger. We want them to survive. Better have the breakdowns in a sim than real battle. "sorry for not mentioning my capabilities in a safe environment and letting you make decisions with incomplet Information . Oops."

The problem with Vae Victis is that if it hits the right trauma button, Anna might go crazy again. The last time she did that she was only brought down because the amount of communications between the UN soldiers overwhelmed her. That is not going to happen again. If Anna goes crazy, there is nothing to stop her.
 
>Rokusabe Koujirou: "@Setsu oh I know what the ladies like"<

Setsuna splutters out a laugh, chuckling under her breath, "You're freaking incorrigible Koji."

Oh. Remember this later son. When you manage to do something stupid enough to piss off all the women on your team.

Koujirou is sitting on the floor, holding a slightly curved wooden stick, his Impeller flicking and waving over the surface. Shuri is sitting opposite him, looking on as Koujirou concentrates. Sandra was on a couch to the side, probably one that she expressed from her storage, using her hair as a cushion as she waited.

Wait she brought her own couch? We have clearly not been abusing subspace enough.

There is a crackle, and then a sharp snap accompanied by flash of white light as the Impeller Fields contact. The top half of the stick bounces off the ceiling, and Shuri lazily catches it before it hits her. It also breaks Sandra and Setsuna from their conversation, the two looking over at the disturbance.

Koujirou stares between his broken stick and your hand dumbly.

Oh God. The fandom is never gonna let him live this down. How much of a running gag is this gonna be?

True, it wasn't baseless alarm even if only the first step with the compression of your Impeller Field was completed. The energy gathered within, if you release it all at once, it would be… pretty bad. Worse than a shot from one of your Heavy Particle Projectors to anyone too close to you. You were sure that the simulator can negate that much energy, but if you weren't within its safeties, then bets were off.

Interesting. I wonder if this can be used for close combat or if its one of those it damages the user too?

Uh… avoid the question, that's what you should do right?

"I was doing something with my Impeller, but-"

"I knew it! Also, was that you in the new first year ace vid? I mean… are you also an Ace level flyer?"

…Diversion failed.

My sides! Oh man that's just so matter of fact.

"Cadet Cato, Valkyrie Sanchez was not drawing particular attention to the fact that she is an Ace Valkyrie. She was likely even downplaying the fact. Have you ever thought why that might be? Please, have some consideration."

This will in no way cause people to look into our background.

>>Cadet Julia O'Conner: (13800) (330)
Cadet Delma K. Gonzales said: snip
Wouldn't do that. She's freaking good at ewar. Detected a low band scan and slammed me for it right after I started. She was involved in Alaska somehow, that's all I'll say.
So that's who we almost melted with sensors. That's some good advice and hope people take it. Because if not? They are gonna get lit up with sensors and jamming.
>>Cadet Sofie Iversen: (6850)
Cadet Mary Braun said: snip
Reporting in.

You can't mention her name on public net. Not on Local Arcology Net or Wider Arcology Net.

Highly suspicious.

*inb4 getting dragged off by UNOMI*

In the near dark future there is only war and the FBI Party van.

>>Instructor Sofia Meyer: (Moderator)
Cadet Zara Wight said: …Meyer playing good cop? Holy shit, fucking can't even imagine, getting chills just thinking about it.
Heard you were talking shit, cadet.
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>>Cadet Zara Wight: (12,330) (556)
Fuck me.

Oh God. You gotta watch that. Someone is gonna be running forever.

Because it didn't matter in the end.

Ouch right in the feels.

Now for voting.
>[]Historic Scenarios (Moderate)
>>[X]Blitzkrieg (Search and Destroy. The Three Hundred Frames have devastated Antagonist forces across the entire European front. Uralsk breach was destroyed. March for either the Moscow or Elazig breaches, destroy every Antagonist you find.)

Nothing fancy. Do a search and destroy, so we can see how the other handle it. Also well this looks like this could be a long range patrol. So more time to see how they move, handle E-warfare and if they can pick the right weapon for the right job. Also see how they handle fatigue.

How will you try to approach this simulation?
>[X]Hold back. Allow the others to do most of the work, see if Sandra can put her money where her mouth is. You're still going to intervene if you see one of them in danger though.

There are reasons to let loose. But I think we still need to see the others in action.

However? At some point we need to cut loose and let them see what we can do.

Still overall good update. High Fives all around.
 
I think I would like to try a Future Simulated Scenario... Sure, there is no way the actual mission is going to be exactly like the simulation, but considering we might be called to the front for one of those missions I think it would be nice to familiarize with what we are going to be expected to do. Plus, if after we are out of the academy we are called as a flight for one of those missions, we can be all nostalgic and draw the comparisions and memories from our first training as a team. You could say it's symbolic on its own way. So I would say... The darkest africa one? Since the instructors said they were going to do something about that in the near future.

By the way, when in future scenarios says that difficulty varies, it means that it depends on the scenario, right? Not that we can set the difficulty?
 
[X] Randomly generated scenario
[X] Difficult
[X]Hold back. Allow the others to do most of the work, see if Sandra can put her money where her mouth is. You're still going to intervene if you see one of them in danger though.

Unless I'm misunderstanding things the other people on this team are so far below Anna's level that any type of teamwork is impossible if she's serious. They wouldn't learn a goddamn thing other then how strong Anna is.

Also, on the meta level I think it would screw too much with the narrative pacing if we went all out at this point.
 
[X]Historic Scenarios (Difficult to Impossible)
-[X] Uralsk Massacre (Survival/Objective. First human attack on a Breach. Succeed.)
[X]Use everything. No mercy, no calculus, no hesitation. No risk to the others. All you need is kill.
 
[X] Since there are two aces in the flight now, would you like Shuri and I to hold back further? Or should we stop for the next exercise and decide after that?
 
>[X]Historic Scenarios (Moderate)
>>[X]Blitzkrieg (Search and Destroy. The Three Hundred Frames have devastated Antagonist forces across the entire European front. Uralsk breach was destroyed. March for either the Moscow or Elazig breaches, destroy every Antagonist you find.)

>[X]Hold back. Allow the others to do most of the work, see if Sandra can put her money where her mouth is. You're still going to intervene if you see one of them in danger though.
 
Holding back is counterproductive. Picking a difficult scenario and letting our people die because of arbitrary restrictions will be infinitely worse than flipping out.

Read the vote, bud. See the last sentence, where it goes, 'You're still going to intervene if you see one of them in danger though'?
And the people that vote to hold back even further? That's shitting on the wishes of the entire cast. They want an example, they want to be stronger. We want them to survive. Better have the breakdowns in a sim than real battle. "sorry for not mentioning my capabilities in a safe environment and letting you make decisions with incomplet Information . Oops."
Yes. Choosing not to go full Monster in the first cooperative sim op basically means sending them into battle with the Antagonist blind. We'll probably never tell them about our capabilities within our three years of schooling if we don't do it now!
 
Holding back is counterproductive. Picking a difficult scenario and letting our people die because of arbitrary restrictions will be infinitely worse than flipping out.

The reason I picked vae victis is that it's a scenario practically tailored to Anna. Lose? Our squaddies become aware of her debilitating mental issues and can start taking action. Win? We realize that even in the worst case scenario we can depend on others. Anna doesn't fear death, she fears meaningless victories - the squad would likely die. Bit they will have saved. Humanity. In direct contrast with her back story.

And the people that vote to hold back even further? That's shitting on the wishes of the entire cast. They want an example, they want to be stronger. We want them to survive. Better have the breakdowns in a sim than real battle. "sorry for not mentioning my capabilities in a safe environment and letting you make decisions with incomplet Information . Oops."
It would be worse to push Anna's trauma button than it would be to let the noobs have a challenge and to hold ourselves back. Plus, we are peerless, but we only need to show Shuri's standard in all honesty, seeing as our best weapons aren't even usable in the sim. Koujirou and Setsuna are already pushing themselves (see lunch, dinner, evening, and possibly breakfast practices) and are ahead of the curve, so there's no need for us to go all out.
Congratulations! It's just as good as Avatar "No Matter What Happens, I Will Still Not Become an Anime Character"!
 
By the way, I wouldn't worry too much about losing mystery just cause we go all out on the sim. We already broke the sim. That means that even when we fight at full strength, there's still shit we're not showing.

That being said..
[X] Since there are two aces in the flight now, would you like Shuri and I to hold back further? Or should we stop for the next exercise and decide after that?

I don't care the mission. It's pretty set in stone it'll be difficult now, so... good luck, Setsu-chan, Gigolo-kun.
 
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