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Battle Action Harem Highschool Side Character Quest (No SV, you are the Waifu)

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Icipall said:
What I know is that the anime watcher would be combing through that footage, frame by frame, since for them it would have actually appeared.
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I see an opportunity here!

While I would prefer to focus only on the true harem protagonist, increasing character relevance is also important.
Because of this it is necessary to interact with Koujirou and thus the "audience".

In order to increase character relevance one must advance the plot. In this case a Kandakara investigation action could be a readily available option for the next vote.

[ ] There is something strange going on with Kandakara. Ask Koujirou to help you find out what is going on.
[ ] Is the frame supposed to have more components? Track down UN records to find its original user/maker.​
[ ] Sudden safety failure? Study/talk to the frame to find out how and why this happened.​
[ ] Do the same to the K2 frame. Koujirous crossdressing tendencies aside, it was acting strangely.​
[ ] The K2s impeller strenghtening ability is potentially valuable. Try to find out how it works.​
[ ] Has he ever noticed anything else strange/wrong with Kandakara?​
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Kandakara is the true harem protagonist. She is always present when the harem hijinks happen!​
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Tallamee said:
The games might not be needed in the strictest definition, but the current situation also fits the game's playbook. Assuming STRATNET is actually trying to protect Anna for her industrial uses is not the only hypothesis, nor is it even the one that most fits the current situation. STRATNET wants to conceal the capabilities of HPPs until they are ready to enter production or for a target of more significance than a big ball of rank and file Antags.

The UN knows that HPPs can fire through walls, and the Antags on North America certainly got to be on the receiving end of these weapons enough that they are also going to be aware of this ability. The only secret is the range to which this can function extends, which Anna was never able to employ before coming to the UN because she lacked the ability to accurately lock onto targets at such ranges.

If, or rather more likely when, STRATNET orders Anna and the reserves directly into the fight, the planet will cease to be an obstruction on Anna's path of fire. The secret will no longer be at risk of being revealed.
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EDIT: Very good explanation, my fellow Oregonite.

skaianDestiny said:
Because there's a difference between 100,000 Antagonists destroying a UN task force and 1 Antagonist doing the same.
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Um... that... what? Don't go pulling your Homestuck mindgames on me! My Carapacian!Handmaid sees through you! :V But I think you have the factions reversed? Or else you somehow interpreted my message in a weird way that I cannot see.

Alphaleph said:
Not quite. They don't generally team up, yes, especially two of the hives involves due to some sort of rivalry from "back home." But the majority of the reason why they're not or unable to team up was due to a giant Anna shaped spanner.


Anna tied up 3% of total NA AG production cap at the end of the campaign and 20% of the combined output of two minor hives for that one year all by her lonesome.

Also, it's not in story so it can be non-canon or untrue, but Avalanche told us what the AG called Anna: "The Predator."
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Well, that seems to be implied. Except some of that conflict seems to be outside her range. Mind, it could be that the hives likely dismissed Saskatoon's report of THE PREDATOR as being stealth attacks by an opposing Hive.
 
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Weren't Anna's cannons salvaged from AGs themselves? So they have the tech, or at least know its capabilities. I think thinking of them like they're going to drastically change the flow of the war is a bit arrogant.

After more thought, I understood why the chapter felt a bit off for me. Without Anna's fucked up behavior she's kinda boring. Her entire character is based around the fact that her only two problems in life are AGs and her trauma.
 
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sabreFather said:
Um... that... what? Don't go pulling your Homestuck mindgames on me! My Carapacian!Handmaid sees through you! :V But I think you have the factions reversed? Or else you somehow interpreted my message in a weird way that I cannot see.
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Just using an analogy. The reason they'd be hunting Anna is because a single unit taking out a Breach (after soloing a Type Zero) is way more alarming than a team doing the same. A massive flight of bombers will devastate a city the same way one with an atomic bomb would, but the latter is of far more concern.
 
[X] Yukari
-[X] You can help.
--[X] Task: Yukari is not okay. Solution...
---[X] Task: Anna is not okay. Solution: apply extra blankets until task is resolved.
----[X] Supposition: Yukari is not okay when her status is set to away, she is alone, and she is still watching her messages.
-----[X] Action: next time Yukari has status set to away, is alone, and is still watching her messages, find her and apply extra blankets, pillows, etcetera until [Task: Yukari is not okay] is resolved.
 
[X] Yukari
-[X] You can help.
--[X] Task: Yukari is not okay. Solution...
---[X] Task: Anna is not okay. Solution: apply extra blankets until task is resolved.
----[X] Supposition: Yukari is not okay when her status is set to away, she is alone, and she is still watching her messages.
-----[X] Action: next time Yukari has status set to away, is alone, and is still watching her messages, find her and apply extra blankets, pillows, etcetera until [Task: Yukari is not okay] is resolved.
------[X] Action: If [Task: Yukari is not okay] is not resolved by adding blankets, pillows, etectera., Add Sandra, Shuri, and Setsuna to Yukari.
 
[X] Wait. STRATNET's assessment appears correct. You will hold, unless something goes seriously awry. You should do your best to not place your squadron in danger, the drones are quickly replaceable and expendable. Keeping your ability, or that of your Heavy Particle Projectors to make such long range attacks through terrain secret will be strategically significant in the medium term future.

-[X]You can help.
--[X] But not on your own. Call upon your fri-friends... Koujirou and Setsuna and Sandra and Shuri. Help Yukari together.
 
Varder said:
Weren't Anna's cannons salvaged from AGs themselves? So they have the tech, or at least know its capabilities. I think thinking of them like they're going to drastically change the flow of the war is a bit arrogant.
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Anna took SOME stuff from the AGs over the years, but because valkyrie cores are capable of doing [bullshit] to technology when you need them to, nothing she has remotely resembles its original form or function.
Unfortunately valkyrie cores can't export a convenient instruction manual for building the things afterwards, which is why the UN is having to reverse engineer them from donated examples.
 
Vote change to Aggressive Halping

[X] Engage. STRATNET's assessment appears correct, however the possibility of a the Antagonists counterattacking your position with long range teleports is remote, and easily intercepted by your Interdiction unless the Antagonists use an exorbitant volume of Higgs. The risk you and your squadron will bear is minimal compared to the potential lives saved by your attacks at the Antagonist formations. Revealing your ability to attack at extreme ranges through obstructions to the Antagonists is not consequential in the short term.

[X] Yukari
-[X] You can help.
--[X] Task: Yukari is not okay. Solution...
---[X] Task: Anna is not okay. Solution: apply extra blankets until task is resolved.
----[X] Supposition: Yukari is not okay when her status is set to away, she is alone, and she is still watching her messages.
-----[X] Action: next time Yukari has status set to away, is alone, and is still watching her messages, find her and apply extra blankets, pillows, etcetera until [Task: Yukari is not okay] is resolved.
------[X] Action: If [Task: Yukari is not okay] is not resolved by adding blankets, pillows, etectera., Add Sandra, Shuri, and Setsuna to Yukari.
 
[X] Wait. STRATNET's assessment appears correct. You will hold, unless something goes seriously awry. You should do your best to not place your squadron in danger, the drones are quickly replaceable and expendable. Keeping your ability, or that of your Heavy Particle Projectors to make such long range attacks through terrain secret will be strategically significant in the medium term future.

-[X]You can help.
--[X] But not on your own. Call upon your fri-friends... Koujirou and Setsuna and Sandra and Shuri. Help Yukari together.

I like Briefvoice's write-in. It's short and punchy.

Jonen C said:
While Rank Has its Privileges, ordering the strategic command and control resources of the UN war effort to resolve our outstanding interpersonal subscriptions would probably be a gross missappropriation of scarce resources.

Especially as Anna has yet to even muster the will to ask for advice from the Instructors.
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Now I'm imagining this looking like the bit in Restaurant at the End of the Universe where Arthur tries to get the ship's computer to make him a cup of tea.
 
SaltyWaffles said:
And as long as she's kept out of significant combat and her true capabilities kept secret, she can serve as a secret trump card against the AGs in case of emergency. The AGs trying to do to Perth what they did to Sydney would probably fail at the point where Anna hits all four of them at once with a Wave Force attack, causing all four Type Zeroes to nope the fuck out of there in sheer panic, because now their Impellers are all completely gone and it all might be a big trap for them for all they know.
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I'm pretty sure they also lose teleportation ability when they get by wave force (because they need impeller to teleport.) If they got hit, that also meant that the gap in the armor would revert to its normal size. It would be a case of "We're not trapped in here with you. You're trapped in here with us."

[X] Wait. STRATNET's assessment appears correct. You will hold, unless something goes seriously awry. You should do your best to not place your squadron in danger, the drones are quickly replaceable and expendable. Keeping your ability, or that of your Heavy Particle Projectors to make such long range attacks through terrain secret will be strategically significant in the medium term future.
 
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SaltyWaffles said:
Question: what the heck is with Shuri's limp? Shouldn't medical science/care for ace valkyries be advanced enough that such injuries are not only healable, but would never remain for long? What's with the whole "has good days and bad days" bit? What could possibly be wrong with her? Am I forgetting something?
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UberJJK said:
My guess would be that it is purely psychological. If it was a physical problem Shuri would have either dealt with it herself or the instructors would have forced her into receiving treatment. But a psychological problem like phantom limb syndrome isn't so easily fixable.
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I mean, there's not all that much reason for her or the UN to worry about needing it fixed. She is a Valkyrie, and not some noob to being one. That she's walking at all is entirely voluntary, period, and any circumstances that would see her needing to actually use her leg -- her impeller is gone and she's already dead.
 
[X] Wait. STRATNET's assessment appears correct. You will hold, unless something goes seriously awry. You should do your best to not place your squadron in danger, the drones are quickly replaceable and expendable. Keeping your ability, or that of your Heavy Particle Projectors to make such long range attacks through terrain secret will be strategically significant in the medium term future.
 
Kaizuki said:
[X] Yukari
-[X] You can help.
--[X] Task: Yukari is not okay. Solution...
---[X] Task: Anna is not okay. Solution: apply extra blankets until task is resolved.
----[X] Supposition: Yukari is not okay when her status is set to away, she is alone, and she is still watching her messages.
-----[X] Action: next time Yukari has status set to away, is alone, and is still watching her messages, find her and apply extra blankets, pillows, etcetera until [Task: Yukari is not okay] is resolved.
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On a slightly meta level, I honestly think this notion is both thoroughly in-character and likely to succeed reasonably well. It's... Demonstrating that you care, demonstrating that you know they're not alright, and demonstrating it in a way that is keyed to forming at least amusing memories is...

It's not a bad approach, as far as approaches go.
 
[X] Yukari
-[X] You can help.
--[X] Task: Yukari is not okay. Solution...
---[X] Task: Anna is not okay. Solution: apply extra blankets until task is resolved.
----[X] Supposition: Yukari is not okay when her status is set to away, she is alone, and she is still watching her messages.
-----[X] Action: next time Yukari has status set to away, is alone, and is still watching her messages, find her and apply extra blankets, pillows, etcetera until [Task: Yukari is not okay] is resolved.

This is a very Anna-like way of resolving things. This might also make her popular in the anime. Ok, I've changed my vote.
 
[X] Wait. STRATNET's assessment appears correct. You will hold, unless something goes seriously awry. You should do your best to not place your squadron in danger, the drones are quickly replaceable and expendable. Keeping your ability, or that of your Heavy Particle Projectors to make such long range attacks through terrain secret will be strategically significant in the medium term future.
-[X]You can help.
--[X] But not on your own. Call upon your fri-friends... Koujirou and Setsuna and Sandra and Shuri. Help Yukari together.

Might as well put it into an actual vote.
 
This is adorable.

[X] Yukari
-[X] You can help.
--[X] Task: Yukari is not okay. Solution...
---[X] Task: Anna is not okay. Solution: apply extra blankets until task is resolved.
----[X] Supposition: Yukari is not okay when her status is set to away, she is alone, and she is still watching her messages.
-----[X] Action: next time Yukari has status set to away, is alone, and is still watching her messages, find her and apply extra blankets, pillows, etcetera until [Task: Yukari is not okay] is resolved.
 
I usually just lurk in quests, content to experience them as stories. I'm not sure what makes this different, but it is, so: Let's try this democracy thing.

First off: disregarding STRATNET is a bad idea. I'm not one to Trust Friend Computer, but the system has access to so much more information than we do it's not even funny. Even if we disagree with the reasoning, it's likely that STRATNET assumes compliance with its directives and bases its future decision trees on that fact. Ignoring the directive means ruining more or less every plan at once.

Second: I don't think this is the most likely answer to succeed, but it's definitely the most adorable , so it gets my vote.

[X] Wait. STRATNET's assessment appears correct. You will hold, unless something goes seriously awry. You should do your best to not place your squadron in danger, the drones are quickly replaceable and expendable. Keeping your ability, or that of your Heavy Particle Projectors to make such long range attacks through terrain secret will be strategically significant in the medium term future.

[X] Yukari
-[X] You can help.
--[X] Task: Yukari is not okay. Solution...
---[X] Task: Anna is not okay. Solution: apply extra blankets until task is resolved.
----[X] Supposition: Yukari is not okay when her status is set to away, she is alone, and she is still watching her messages.
-----[X] Action: next time Yukari has status set to away, is alone, and is still watching her messages, find her and apply extra blankets, pillows, etcetera until [Task: Yukari is not okay] is resolved.
 
[X] Wait. STRATNET's assessment appears correct. You will hold, unless something goes seriously awry. You should do your best to not place your squadron in danger, the drones are quickly replaceable and expendable. Keeping your ability, or that of your Heavy Particle Projectors to make such long range attacks through terrain secret will be strategically significant in the medium term future.

[X] Yukari
-[X] You can help.
--[X] Task: Yukari is not okay. Solution...
---[X] Task: Anna is not okay. Solution: apply extra blankets until task is resolved.
----[X] Supposition: Yukari is not okay when her status is set to away, she is alone, and she is still watching her messages.
-----[X] Action: next time Yukari has status set to away, is alone, and is still watching her messages, find her and apply extra blankets, pillows, etcetera until [Task: Yukari is not okay] is resolved.
 
Oh hey this updated after forever. Let's see how big the new post is...

31K words?! And we're not even through the whole vote? Avalanche you don't write quests you write whole stories!
 
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ltmauve said:
I'm pretty sure they also lose teleportation ability when they get by wave force (because they need impeller to teleport.) If they got hit, that also meant that the gap in the armor would revert to its normal size. It would be a case of "We're not trapped in here with you. You're trapped in here with us."
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Partially.
The reason the T0s can engage and disengage against Valks with impunity is that they have functionally infinite amount of Higgs with which they can just swoosh away with so its hard for the Valks to inflict severe or lethal damage on them.
Teleport can be interdicted by either side. It's a bit harder to pin down the "meep meep" plan.
 
Alphaleph said:
Admittedly that was her doing it with her own impeller instead of in a 300 Frames, so result might be a bit safer with the latter's more robust impeller.
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Maybe in the run-up period where the ace is trying to set up the Wave Force without getting pasted, but that might not be worth letting someone in a 300 frame use the Wave Force. Currently Wave Force usage completely destroys all impeller close enough to it going off, whether it belongs to Types, allied valks, or the user themselves - and this is generally considered to be something of a suicide move because said user can then be cherry tapped to death by basically anything.

Humanity only has a limited amount of 300 frames, and said frames are much more likely to be destroyed if they accidentally all their impeller, so from a cold STRATNET perspective it'd be better to have a couple Aces tag along with a 300 strike force in their normal frame whose entire job is to try and pull off Wave Force so that the 300 members can kill the Type while it's vulnerable. Sure it'd be a nasty attrition rate for the Aces that are just there to supermove the puzzle boss into a DPS gate boss, but Aces are significantly more expendable than 300 frames. It would be an excellent excuse for escort missions in the eventual Valkyrie Core video game, though.
 
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