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Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)

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Always Late said:
Suits are busted, and so's their coms. No having it both ways by giving a statement remotely either. If you want to give a statement to the cape-cops, you have to stay with Samantha.
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I mean, you could always leave them a message:

-"I tried to just get all the Dragonslayers at once. Setting the warehouse on fire was only a mistake, I swear!" Aaaaand that's about what she said...
-...You really can't see anything wrong with that statement, do you.
-...Not particularly, no.
 


Relevant to our vote, perhaps? Pity Brandish got taken out by the Simurgh (not that she'd be our best choice if she's holding a grudge over recruiting Purity) , how many cape-lawyers are out there you think?

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Re: Having our Cake and Eating it (because cake is yummy!) with votes, other quests have definitely left some 'trauma' on the issue, but I feel SW is generous enough usually about keeping this "what direction does the story go" and not "players vs QM fight to win" that we don't need to be pushing for optimal control when time-management is meant to be the key challenge here. We should really be more worried on how to minimize dice rolls :cry: with our luck, instead of trying to cram in extra action efficiency on top of the "minor weekly action" that was already generously conceded.
 
[X] Explore the Dragonslayers' (maybe?) base.

Let's go for the loot the Dragonslayers didn't bring with them, and (maybe?) our new base.
 
[ x ] Explore the Dragonslayers' (maybe?) base

Vote seems pretty unanimous. No one wants to stick around and talk to the boring ass prt
 
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Always Late said:
Now, the DS may have hired mercs to break them out, or otherwise provide backup in some form. We don't know for sure.
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I know it's fanon, from Cenotaph IIRC, but breakout insurance* is something that both makes sense in universe and would be something a mercenary like Saint would invest in.

*The idea being you paid in advance for a breakout crew, like Madcap back in the day, to rescue you. I'd guess it would work like a reverse bounty: you put the cash in a secured account, almost certainly guaranteed by Numberman, and whoever rescues you gets the reward.

Racoras said:
Slightly related, we're seeing now and should remember a major limitation of our mana-conversion Immunity here. Doesn't do too much good to be immune to fire, if we aren't immune to the zero-oxygen environment after our fire has eaten all the breathable air. Wonder if Tim could eventually find us some sort of option for the problem, that'd be compatible with our barrier jacket. I'm not chemist enough to be sure whether the problem of "recycle your own held breath" is purely about splitting off the unwanted Carbon, or if the total Oxygen is decreased as well with some of it getting processed through the body.
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Well the simplest solution would be to carry something like Spare Air. A small tank like that holds enough air for over a minute of breathing. If we can't get to a safe to breath environment by then we're probably screwed either way.
 
UberJJK said:
I know it's fanon, from Cenotaph IIRC, but breakout insurance* is something that both makes sense in universe and would be something a mercenary like Saint would invest in.

*The idea being you paid in advance for a breakout crew, like Madcap back in the day, to rescue you. I'd guess it would work like a reverse bounty: you put the cash in a secured account, almost certainly guaranteed by Numberman, and whoever rescues you gets the reward.
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And something that's been featured in a Omake.
That said, even if he gets out, Saint and his crew are finished. We'll have their base, all of their data, all of their equipment, everything. Frankly, I'd be skeptical of a merc breaking out someone who can't make the full payment.
 
If in fact it is the DS base we are going to. There was a maybe in that choice, we probably shouldn't forget that. And isn't the point of the break-out insurance is that is it already in effect pre-paid? Well in an escrow account or something similar.
 
UberJJK said:
I know it's fanon, from Cenotaph IIRC, but breakout insurance* is something that both makes sense in universe and would be something a mercenary like Saint would invest in.

*The idea being you paid in advance for a breakout crew, like Madcap back in the day, to rescue you. I'd guess it would work like a reverse bounty: you put the cash in a secured account, almost certainly guaranteed by Numberman, and whoever rescues you gets the reward.
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The problem is Saint might not believe in the Endbringer Truce, but everyone else does. There's been a bit of arguing back and forth, but the general concensus is the truce is a big deal. We couldn't set recording equipment, and it might not have set up a manhunt, but it's still a big deal. Being known as the person who breaks out people arrested for violating the Truce would bring a villain to the top of the PTR's s**t list. Given Dragon's opinion on the matter, especially when we reveal the kill switch to her, we're probably talking an actual full on manhunt.
 
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I'm not worried about talking to the PRT. The truce is a big deal, but we certainly didn't break it. All we have to tell people is: "We stayed behind from from the Endbringer fight because we were worried about a sensitive piece of technology. Our worry was justified, and the Dragonslayers broke into our storage warehouse. We defended our technology." Either Saint is breaking the truce, or nobody is. There's no way that that series of events is us breaking the truce. And since we have WOG that the truce doesn't apply to normals, nobody broke the truce.
 
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I keep thinking we have some sort tagging monitor like in some games. Something like Watch Dogs to hack the cameras to tag.
 
Always Late said:
Nah. Just tiny lil' balls of energy doing math and code.
And a Lost Logia even its creators couldn't control. :p
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One that's by default set to overwrite its holder with not just a template, but the entire personality and memories of it's original owner.* It's a good thing for Taylor that Perfect Storm had memory corruption.

* If I remember what the QM said, it doesn't do this if passed legitimately, but it considered one transition to be a coup so kept trying to resurrect a dead queen.
 
EmperorArthur said:
Being known as the person who breaks out people arrested for violating the Truce would bring a villain to the top of the PTR's s**t list.
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Madcap used to break out Villains headed to the Birdcage. This would be worse than helping a Truce-breaker.

Madcap is now a respected hero known as Assault.

I don't think that's as big an issue (for the hypothetical people breaking Saint out) as you do.
 
EmperorArthur said:
One that's by default set to overwrite its holder with not just a template, but the entire personality and memories of it's original owner.* It's a good thing for Taylor that Perfect Storm had memory corruption.

* If I remember what the QM said, it doesn't do this if passed legitimately, but it considered one transition to be a coup so kept trying to resurrect a dead queen.
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Slight misremembering of the QM. It was a Dread Queen being killed and overthrown by her daughter that made Perfect Storm revolt, not a handover of the device.
 
[X] Explore the Dragonslayers' (maybe?) base
-[X] scan them for the mage and inform the prt that this one has parahuman abilities :>
 
If it's only been twenty minutes, couldn't we teleport to the Endbringer fight to see if we can help there?
 
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