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aw bugger off I copied it verbatim from the last post
Fixed, thank you.
It's a real shame there aren't more stories with Supergiant elements out there-but that just makes this one shine even more.
Edit: Actually, pacing with peaceful moments is good. Have to set a good example for Blue and Bracket too. I'm always down for gluttony.
that's my secret, I seek out the most niche fucking audiences I can find and give them exactly what they want, it's why I'm writing optimistic sci-fi with zero humans based on the inherent optimism of David Bowie's music and the aesthetic of your average TWRP/Dan Avidan collab for my first original works
How in the heck does Jaune not get to use the "basically unlimited so long as it's with good purpose" budget for weapons to upgrade the Transistor? Especially when the costs are really not that high to begin with (given that it's basically off-the-shelf computer hardware) and that it requires no maintenance or upkeep (meaning that it's only a one-time investment, rather than wearing a part down until it can't even be recycled).
This is just how this particular class's reward pans out with your weapon choice- Mulberry needs something to grade you on, you
have something for him to grade you on, and Zero Hour is, to be quite frank, kind of a piece of crap. It's an off-rack form-shifting weapon that you bought with Signal's
significantly smaller first-year budget on relatively short notice, it's
not actually that good. It's just about fitted to your size and that's it.
If you want a pure, cynical Doylist explanation, I need a way to bottleneck your upgrading capabilities so that they still have some semblance of, I can't think of the word right now- I needed a way to keep you from rolling up to Weapon Upkeep and Maintenance every Wednesday and going 'I KNOW YOU'RE HERE MULBERRY YOU BIG FUCKING NERD WHERE'S MY METRIC TON OF 3090S'
If you'd picked Transistor only, I would have had to find some other way to keep you from speedrunning its upgrade tree, sure, but this is what works best here.
If you want a Watsonian one- Mulberry
does actually need something to grade you on, since this course is essential to passing your first year of Beacon, and "he threw a bunch of those RAM stick things on his sword and
it ate them" isn't exactly valid evidence of your technical ability in maintaining and upgrading weaponry less esoteric than the Transistor. Thankfully, you
do have a (semi-)traditional weapon onhand that he can grade much more efficiently and would rather you focus on.
This is the path of least resistance for him- he wants you to upgrade a weapon that he
felt every single flaw in, while also giving him something to grade, while also giving you a weapon less likely to crap out on you in the middle of a Beowolf trying to snap your face off, and in exchange you no longer have to gut your wallet like a Cornish game hen to buy Transistor Snacks.
While, yes, you could just strop off to Ozpin and point out that this is something that you should be able to do without jumping through hoops, honestly, just upgrading your second weapon, the one
you all picked, might I remind you, is easier, necessary in even the medium-term,
and doesn't make you look like a diva. Is it a valid complaint? Sure, I'll admit that.
Is it actually worth the time, effort, and Karma to follow up on for the purpose of,
not having to do something you probably would have been doing anyway? Well, that's for you to figure out.
In short- you
have access to it, Mulberry's just asking you to put in the same effort as your classmates towards something that, a) is in his wheelhouse for grading purposes, thus making his job infinitely easier, and b) will most likely save your ass more than once before this quest is over, in the meantime, because shipping a whole-ass crate of ASICs takes a while anyway and he'd rather you not spend his class learning to balance a chisel on your nose.
Knew a guy that tried that once, now he'd be considered downright
dashing in 19th-century Germany-
Mentioned back in the Creme outing, Roya is Remnant's equivalent of Google, well, the search engine, at least- and, like Google, is named after a mispelling of a famous big number- Rayo's Number, discovered/created/whatever the term for making up a new number is'd by Agustin Rayo at MIT in 2007.
I fucking love huge numbers, I do, they just serve
absolutely no practical purpose, they only exist to let mathematicians explore the wildest possible scenarios for no other reason than
just because.
Mentioned back when you finally
left for Beacon, the Elden is the largest river running through Vale, notable for its surface colours being unnatural, vibrant, and unnaturally vibrant. The entire river just looks like someone poured a whole B&Q's worth of paint down a water slide, and nobody can really explain why- it's not Dust, it's not something on the river bed, and if you take the water out, it turns out it's actually completely clear, and actually perfectly potable, no matter what part of the river you take it from.
One of the world's mysteries, you suppose.
Wasn't expecting a living suit if armour as a teacher. So ghosts are a thing in this rendition of RWBY?
It's not a normal state of affairs, no- I think easiest way to say it is that Mulberry is a ghost by dint of various outside influences interacting with his Semblance in an unexpected way, rather than some inherent mechanic of the world at large.
Anyway, the vote will close at 8pm tomorrow night, and choosing to go and enjoy lunch with your friends is currently winning by almost double the number of votes.
