VeterenKoujirou in +3? Snark machine. We are talking about Guile and Dark as Silver in one room levels of snark. What is this eroge game setting and why am I here? Unfortunately I don't have a real talent for snark so I'm glad I don't have to write him.
On the upside, now I know who to Fusion Dance with if I ever gain that ability.
Re; Flight merger. Yeah that something I wasn't and still am somewhat frustrated about. I thought about halting the update with Koujirou messaging you with a y/n and a vote, but I was rather sure it would end on a positive vote, resulting in a wasted vote, and it would also result in the shortest ever update (from lunch to just before afternoon class) so I decided to skip it. I then wrote a scene from Koujirou's PoV about the merger but threw it away. The resulting scene reads helter and skelter and rushed because it was. I really wanted to get past the scene to move on with the rest of the update. Were I to rewrite that sequence of events, it would be different.
I liked it. It seemed like the kind of thoughtless thing a harem protagonist would do.

'No one could possibly be upset with getting more waifus friends!'
Most strikingly, the mantra would be actually one you use in positive settings rather than one used by the Agitators in negative settings.
Finally confirmation on this :)
I first read that as 'rather than used by the Antagonists in negative settings.'

Anna confirmed for Ghengis Khan. "I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you."
 
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On the upside, now I know who to Fusion Dance with if I ever gain that ability.

I liked it. It seemed like the kind of thoughtless thing a harem protagonist would do.

'No one could possibly be upset with getting more waifus friends!'


I first read that as 'rather than used by the Antagonists in negative settings.'

Anna confirmed for Ghengis Khan. "I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you."

The agitators were to the people who stirred up the village and encouraged them to turn on each other.
 
@Avalanche

I got one other question now. (Actually I had two but I forgot the other one)

Sehkmet came very close to killing Anna, right? How would she do/ have done against an average Class D or E?
 
@Avalanche

I got one other question now. (Actually I had two but I forgot the other one)

Sehkmet came very close to killing Anna, right? How would she do/ have done against an average Class D or E?

Murderfest, probably -- strength doesn't scale linearly with type zero rank. It would depend on the subclass of the Zero (by which I mean what its armaments are specialized towards). A class-D made for valk hunting using an exotic armament built for the purpose might be a major, MAJOR problem. But the average class-D...? At worst it'd go toe to toe with Anna if its exotic/s were useful for the sort of combat involved. That could go either way, potentially, but I'd favor Anna's chances honestly. At best, if its exotics were more, say, medium-light damage, high AOE, it'd get shitstomped, though it might take a while. Prescription for a class-D is 1 of the top 20 valks using a 300 core. That was before Anna came along.

A class E would just get deleted, period. The UN's best Valks could take class-E's without 300 cores. Anna would eat it for breakfast.

Without the exotics being involved, D or E would be a shitstomp for sure -- they'd just be Sekhmet but way, waaay weaker.

Now a B- or A- class... The primary reasons we're at Perth are threefold. First: science = wave force / projectors / maybe she'll even come up with something else. Second: we really do need to familiarize ourselves with UN combat capabilities. Just because we can kill AGs until they die doesn't mean that it wouldn't be more efficient to call in a missile strike and go kill AGs somewhere else. Third: until and unless we get some serious formation training in, we can't effectively deploy against Type Zeros over C-class. Once we can fly formation fucking perfectly, we can snag the various benefits of multivalk team combat -- overlapping impellers, for instance. That stuff is the sole reason the UN can fight B and A classes without having to deploy stupidly large force ratios -- you think 40:1 is bad? It would be 80+ without formation, I expect -- and from the UN's point of view, we are somewhere between glass cannon and liability in any confrontation with a major Zero until we pick that stuff up.
 
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Murderfest, probably -- strength doesn't scale linearly with type zero rank. It would depend on the subclass of the Zero (by which I mean what its armaments are specialized towards). A class-D made for valk hunting using an exotic armament built for the purpose might be a major, MAJOR problem. But the average class-D...? At worst it'd go toe to toe with Anna if its exotic/s were useful for the sort of combat involved. That could go either way, potentially, but I'd favor Anna's chances honestly. At best, if its exotics were more, say, medium-light damage, high AOE, it'd get shitstomped, though it might take a while. Prescription for a class-D is 1 of the top 20 valks using a 300 core. That was before Anna came along.

A class E would just get deleted, period. The UN's best Valks could take class-E's without 300 cores. Anna would eat it for breakfast.

I see,

So even assuming she can't desynch from Durga and thus will not be able to get a 300 Core she could still kill quite a bit of them.

I wonder how many she will be able to kill once she learns all of the UN's cooperation tactics and other stuff... she won't be alone after all.

Edit: Wait, one other thing. How strong is Sehkmet when compared to the average Class C?
 
I see,

So even assuming she can't desynch from Durga and thus will not be able to get a 300 Core she could still kill quite a bit of them.

I wonder how many she will be able to kill once she learns all of the UN's cooperation tactics and other stuff... she won't be alone after all.

Edit: Wait, one other thing. How strong is Sehkmet when compared to the average Class C?

Sekhmet was frankly closer to D-level than C-level for Anna's purposes, because he didn't have his exotics available. We do not want to take on a C-class alone. We'd do better than anyone else would, yes, but that might wellnot be enough. No, what we would do is instead of soloing it and maybe winning but probably not, the UN would punch a couple 300s over to us. It would run, we'd probably be able pin/chase it down and murder it. Best odds if it doesn't realize who we are before we're able to punch a wave into it.
 
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Probably literally if the simulation was anything to go by.

Does Anna get more power from The Flesh of Fallen Angels?
Only in the sense of replenishing her energy and Higgs with their own. Considering the energy she almost certainly had to expend to devour the alien morsel, it's probably not much of a net gain.

A diet of only Antagonists is actually quite slimming, it seems. No fat on Anna, that's for sure.
 
It's still enough of a gain that Sekhmet decide having the mooks around is an unnecessary effort.
It all depends on if Anna can nom the Types before they can expend their Higgs. If she can get the first ones fast enough she can then Higgs boost to eat the rest of them. If she can't she'll probably just zip away after absorbing a few and come back once she's modified their munitions.

"Anna! There's about a hundred air-superiority Types heading right for you!"
"I noticed. It will be nice to replenish my missiles."
"Those are dangerous Antagonists, not a resupply convoy."
"Potayto, potaato."

I like to imagine Anna's "kill them until they are dead strategy" involved teleporting on top of something that looked like it had Higgs, eating it, and using the stolen Higgs to teleport around like demonic food processor. Or, if nothing looked that big, just ramming into the mooks to save ammo/reactor capacity.
 
It all depends on if Anna can nom the Types before they can expend their Higgs. If she can get the first ones fast enough she can then Higgs boost to eat the rest of them. If she can't she'll probably just zip away after absorbing a few and come back once she's modified their munitions.

"Anna! There's about a hundred air-superiority Types heading right for you!"
"I noticed. It will be nice to replenish my missiles."
"Those are dangerous Antagonists, not a resupply convoy."
"Potayto, potaato."

I like to imagine Anna's "kill them until they are dead strategy" involved teleporting on top of something that looked like it had Higgs, eating it, and using the stolen Higgs to teleport around like demonic food processor. Or, if nothing looked that big, just ramming into the mooks to save ammo/reactor capacity.

A is for Antagonist, that's good enough for me,
A is for Antagonist, that's good enough for me,
A is for Antagonist, that's good enough for me,
Oh, Antagonist, Antagonist starts with A.


- Anna the Antagonist Monster.

This will always be relevant it seems.
 
A thought just occurred to me; we know that in the last years of the village Anna was patrolling basically 24/7. So what did she eat?

I have a hard time imagining her hunting caribou or fishing with Heavy Particle Cannons or Lasers.

The latest update however has brought up an alternative:


If Durga actually ate whole Antagonists to harvest their Higgs then it's possible that they were used to supply whatever biomass Anna required.
Okay, this is disturbingly plausible and also fucking hilarious.

I mean, just imagine the reactions of Anna's flightmates upon learning that Anna survived for years without food by literally eating Antagonists for breakfast.

"Wow, Anna. I hadn't realized you started eating things in alphabetical order that early on. But I suppose it makes sense; 'Antagonist' starts with 'A', so..."

Sekhmet was frankly closer to D-level than C-level for Anna's purposes, because he didn't have his exotics available. We do not want to take on a C-class alone. We'd do better than anyone else would, yes, but that might wellnot be enough. No, what we would do is instead of soloing it and maybe winning but probably not, the UN would punch a couple 300s over to us. It would run, we'd probably be able pin/chase it down and murder it. Best odds if it doesn't realize who we are before we're able to punch a wave into it.
Er, Sekhmet's exotic weaponry was geared towards long-range indirect fire/fire support, so it wouldn't have mattered if Sekhmet did have ammo for his exotic weapon.

And Sekhmet absolutely qualifies as a C-class. Shit, you think it'd be responsible for killing so many veteran valks if it were just D-class?

That's not to say that Anna can just go and take on C-class Type-Zeroes all on her own; even on a good day, it'd be dangerous as hell. But in fairness to Anna, that was the first time she'd ever encountered a Type Zero, let alone heard anything about them whatsoever. She'd do a lot better now that she knows what to expect (and has actual experience at dueling Type-Zeroes). Regardless, given how Wave Force attacks are (currently) risky ultimate attacks that leave you vulnerable if you don't effectively kill the Type Zero with them, Anna should always be backed up by a team whenever engaging a Type-Zero with the intention of doing anything more than holding it off for a while (unless it's Class-E, in which case she can eat it for breakfast).
 
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But in fairness to Anna, that was the first time she'd ever encountered a Type Zero, let alone heard anything about them whatsoever. She'd do a lot better now that she knows what to expect (and has actual experience at dueling Type-Zeroes).
Durga has also been upgraded in some areas, and downgraded in others. Which comes with the additional cost of her being relatively unskilled with the new equipment.

So she's about the same as she was before, honestly. Probably a bit weaker.

Honestly, I want to level up Target Rich Environment, finish up our Impeller skills and master our new equipment. Would only take 521 actions. :p
 
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