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Calibration (BAHHSCQ/Sanctioned)

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ChaoticSky said:
So... its war between the matchmaking club and the crafting club?
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And Kaja is a double-agent.

Alivaril said:
head-sized beetle-Friend
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Anna in an orange jumpsuit, with a crowbar.

Alivaril said:
"Pure-chan is a fr—er, anomaly of nature,"
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But we love her so~

Alivaril said:
She hated it when she couldn't tell people why they were wrong.
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QAlor has the most adorable pout.
 
Master Basher said:
And worse of all, if popular enough for the "Black hole harem protag/player base" to take an interest on her?
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Are we talking about Anna or Kojirou? :V
Vampire 24 said:
Monica is a minor character in the quest right?
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Nope.

greynoise said:
All of the crafting club members are OCs created for this story. In BAHHSCQ proper the Crafting Club is juat an undifferentiated critical mass of nerds.
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Actually, most of them are OCs. A few of their names did actually come up in the original, with very short glimpses into their potential characters and/or roles. Which I suppose could make them CINOs if you tilt your head and squint, but I'll hold up this as a shield:
Avalanche said:
Well they're spot on, mate, well done. A right room of genius dipsticks, haha.
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greynoise said:
All of the crafting club members are OCs created for this story. In BAHHSCQ proper the Crafting Club is juat an undifferentiated critical mass of nerds.
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Subcritical.

Proximity to Anna, interesting crafting projects, and in this particular continuity the anomalous Valkyrie cadet known as Taylor Hebert, can bring them to criticality if a moderating element is not present.
 
Alivaril said:
Actually, most of them are OCs. A few of their names did actually come up in the original, with very short glimpses into their potential characters and/or roles. Which I suppose could make them CINOs if you tilt your head and squint, but I'll hold up this as a shield:
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Oh no, I wasn't saying you made any of their personalities up. You're spot on with the aggregate personality, and I never meant to imply otherwise. It's just that they were never characterized as individuals, per se. Pedantry and all that.
 
greynoise said:
It's just that they were never characterized as individuals, per se.
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They are, somewhat:
Avalanche said:
"Oh right, you're that third first year Ace aren't you?" a cadet breaks out from the main group and waves at you, Asia Castiglioni from her tag, "What did you think of the cutlery? I designed and shaped the atomic lattice personally."

Oh, so it was her who made your cutlery set for you.

"I like it very much, thank you. It was nice of you to go out of your way even while you are so busy."

Cadet Castiglioni hesitates, a slight frown taking over face as she looks you over, then she smiles, looking sheepish, "It was no problem, we aren't getting anywhere with this-"

Another cadet breaks from the huddle and bumps into Cadet Castiglioni from the side, knocking her aside with a slight squawk of alarm and crackle of contacting Impeller.

"Ignore Asia, she prefers to keep a pessimistic point of view. I see from your results that you must be familiar with construction, how say you to joining the Crafting Class? We-"

"Oi oi, giving her the rush just like that, Sibel? I know she's great but we should be talking-" "Carpe Diem Mindy! Finally getting an Ace into our class? We might be able to start recruiting members with true talent again!" "If you'd simplify those damn questions and make the 'welcome' actually welcoming-" "We can't accept mediocrity! Anyone who's afraid of a little challenge won't be one to innovate!"

The crowd, which had broken up and started making their way towards you, quickly collapsed back into an arguing ball.

One third year squeezes out from the ball and grins sheepishly at you, sticking out a friendly handshake, Cadet Tamara Hasiholan from her tags. A firm shake and she steps forward and turns to stand next to you, looking over the arguing mess of seniors with a wry tilt to her mouth.

"Sorry about them, they've been together so long as a group they've kinda forgotten that other people exist. No firsties joined last year and it seems that Mindy is determined to keep it that way this year too, so it's just us lonely and crusty third years here right now."
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Avalanche said:
"No fabricator on earth can maintain that level of granularity across the size of the quantum matrix we need!" snaps Cadet Sibel Neuer, who you remember is the president of the Crafting class
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Avalanche said:
voluntary humanitarian aid mission in east Asia for aid in the construction of general use shelters.

The rest of the volunteers have arrived. You recognise a few names, Cadet Deneuve of the cooking club, Cadets Castiglioni and Hasiholan of Crafting and Cadet Liu of Aerospace Modelling are amongst the group.
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Avalanche said:
cadets Sibel Neuer and Mindy Hatono drop into simultaneous bows. They're both even wearing a full set of dress whites.

"Valkyrie Sanchez, I am here on behalf of the crafty— uh, crafting class to deliver an invitation," the president of the Crafting elective class intones, her solemn atmosphere damaged by the slight slip.

You give an awkward smile and nod back as formally as you can. They sure are crafty; they learnt pretty quickly that you were not someone to turn tail and run from a reasonable request. You might turn it down, but teleporting away from someone just trying to talk to you is just rude, so you've forced yourself to stay around and listen as long as they aren't being obnoxious. Now they've changed their approach to be polite and unobtrusive. How crafty. They aren't aggravating, not really, but their enthusiasm, it's way too strong for you. At least this time it's just two members on the lookout for you.
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Uncharacteristically remaining serious, Sibel nods solemnly.

"Under my role as the deputy director of UNARD Oceania, I am informing you that the Relativistic Particle Projectors and the Onium Capacitors have been raised to Beta Eight, Schema Blue One October First. Further transmissions and details of the projects must be through direct laser communications."

Hmm? Strange, why the sudden increase in secrecy? A quick check through your own service record and attached projects doesn't show any direct changes related to you. A development you are not aware of then.

"Most of the membership of the crafting elective class do not meet this classification rating," you half state, half ask.

"We all had a long chat with UNOMI and we have been elevated in Blue Schema all the way to Beta Eight for just this project," nods Sibel, "Rumour is that there's been an incident in Santiago; not sure of the details, neither is my source."

You search for it as soon as Sibel mentions it, but aside from news of an unexpected power outage to the highest ring of the elevated Arcology, there is no particular news on the Wider Area Network. Santiago Arcology also did not file any AARs. Officially, the second of March was a normal day, nothing happened. Record of generator activity, publicly available requisition requests for resupply of armaments for the Santiago police department and missing inventory reports from the UN Air Force suggest differently.

"Okay," you reply, perturbed, "I should be able to visit, but I cannot lock down a timeframe at this moment."

Sibel nods, but she doesn't leave.

"Um, Anna, how is Yukari doing?" she asks carefully.

Yukari? She's—

Sitting on a beach, one hundred and twenty six kilometers north of Perth, according to her transponder and a quick look through the eyes of a patrolling sensor drone. Resolution insufficient for further analysis. Her status on the Flight's chat is set as away.

How is she doing?

You… don't know. She seems happy with the flight.

"I'm not sure," you admit, "She seems ok."

Sibel smiles slightly, "I'm glad to hear that. With that whole business with Malik, I was worried. She was part of our year originally, but after transferring back down, she hasn't really reconnected with the rest of us, I think she doesn't want to. If she's happy now, if you can, Anna... please look after her."
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Color-coded character hints for your convenience. As you see, there's four members that were somewhat fleshed out.
 
Thank you very much for this chapter. Seeing everyone getting puzzled over QA's actions never fails to amuse me.
TortugaGreen said:
The crafting club continues to be great in every way. QA's going to be responsible for a tangible shift towards bio-tech equipment for certain purposes though, and that'll be interesting.
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And we end up with an unmanned Evangelion.

Or perhaps Jet Alone?
Jonen C said:
Subcritical.

Proximity to Anna, interesting crafting projects, and in this particular continuity the anomalous Valkyrie cadet known as Taylor Hebert, can bring them to criticality if a moderating element is not present.
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If the words are too long, we can all just say, "Escalation".
 
eveakane said:
And we end up with an unmanned Evangelion.
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Evangelions are technically purely biological 'physical gods' masquerading as cybernetic battleforms masquerading as robots; the mechanical parts of Evangelions, the armor etc. are actually there to restrain the Evangelion's true capacity and allow them to be controlled by the teeny tiny human soul stuffed into their spine, alongside the other teeny tiny human soul stuffed into their wherever-it-is-that-souls-go.

That's why their fleshy bits start bursting through the seams when they go berserk; if someone ever took all the armor off of an Evangelion (for some stupid reason) then the cloned creature underneath would be permanently berserk and no longer limited by available power. It would also be entirely uncontrollable and functionally identical to an Angel in every way that matters.
 
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eveakane said:
If the words are too long, we can all just say, "Escalation".
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Crafting club does not escalate. They deconstruct, reverse engineer, and construct AT LEAST to specification.

Crafting club does not escalate, but they do occasionally exceed specifications.

And when they shoot to do better than just what is required, they do not settle with merely shooting for the moon.

And when they fail, they fail exp[losively/ensively/ediently/asparatingly/ectedly/onentially (strike as required)].
 
Neruz said:
Evangelions are technically purely biological 'physical gods' masquerading as cybernetic battleforms masquerading as robots; the mechanical parts of Evangelions, the armor etc. are actually there to restrain the Evangelion's true capacity and allow them to be controlled by the teeny tiny human soul stuffed into their spine, alongside the other teeny tiny human soul stuffed into their wherever-it-is-that-souls-go.

That's why their fleshy bits start bursting through the seams when they go berserk; if someone ever took all the armor off of an Evangelion (for some stupid reason) then the cloned creature underneath would be permanently berserk and no longer limited by available power. It would also be entirely uncontrollable and functionally identical to an Angel in every way that matters.
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So... as long as you point it at an enemy it's fine right? Just hope it doesn't turn around...
 
Jubjub115 said:
So... as long as you point it at an enemy it's fine right? Just hope it doesn't turn around...
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Well, it's possible to 'point' a normally berserk Eva, as long as the pilot is still inside, because of the mental\spiritual\whatever synchronization between the pilot, the 'sacrificed' soul and the Eva itself. But, said synchronization sort of 'merges' them together, so the pilot tends to go berserk alongside the Eva, which can be... problematic.

An unbound Eva though? Yeah there's no way to 'point' that at anything. But the real danger of berserk Evas is that they tend to home in on the nearest S2 Engine and attempt to assimilate it, and you really, really don't want an Eva to get an S2 Engine, because Evas already have a brain (the Fruit of Knowledge), so if they get an S2 Engine (the Fruit of Life) then they ascend to literal godhood and become the First Ancestral Race reborn. If the Eva has a pilot when this happens, then it uses its imminent divinity to grant the pilot's greatest wish. (And turn everyone on the planet into Tang in the process.)

If it doesn't have a pilot... I'm not sure what would happen (beyond Tanging the planet), but I don't think it would be a good thing for anyone other than the Evangelion.

Jonen C said:
And when they fail, they fail exp[losively/ensively/ediently/asparatingly/ectedly/onentially (strike as required)].
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Exponential failure sounds absolutely terrifying.
 
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Alivaril said:
"Or to bringing cutlery," Kaja agreed. "My partner couldn't breathe, I was laughing too hard."

There was a brief pause.

"Don't you mean–" an unnamed Crafting Club member began.
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*Raises eyebrow*
I'm quite sure I don't want to know. :rofl:

I was hoping that this would update soon. I'm so glad to have it back. And I really do look forward to when her Emotional Support Companion performs its proper job of showing support by utterly annihilating all nearby enemies and returns covered in the dust of its foes. :) (with the probable result of putting her in counseling again...)

I love the idea of using her ID as an authentication/scrambler code for their drones. That has to be one of the more off-the-wall ideas I've heard that's a reasonable and yet horribly improper use for something.
 
Reread complete.

So much to love, but I especially can't get enough of the Crafting Club. Loved them in BAHHSCQ, love them even more here.
 
It's kind of hilarious how it's obvious that a bunch of people know exactly what Kaja's talking about but nobody is willing to actually admit it.
 
Jensaarai said:
Strawberries? I didn't get any of it. Until someone brought it up, I thought all the innuendos and jokes were just something made up for the club.
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Strawberries and cream are a very common innuendo for oral sex. Really, pretty much that comes out of Kaja's mouth can be summed up with a classic Monty Python number.
 
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