[x] Let's murder it.
-[x] Find a big enough boulder, approach it from the blind side, and whack it until it stops moving.
 
Taking the 300th post because I'm a selfish jerk like that. You may or may not have noticed I edited the title slightly, adding one whole word to it! Gasp, shock. Did this both for the sake of making it sound better, and to reference a similarly titled short story I adore (that unfortunately has little connection otherwise, being a slice-of-life about the reconciliation of two estranged sisters) called The Celestial Mechanics Of Midsummer.

What does any of this matter? Not at all. Same bat thread, same bat times.

Today's going to be pretty busy, so update probably won't be until tomorrow night rather than tonight.

Hoist the flag and strap on, lads! We are going a-huntin', and by my life I swear we'll find where this metaphor has gone terribly wrong our waifu!
There are so many different things I could say about your choices of phrasing here, and they'd probably all get me banned for indecency. :oops:
 
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[X] Nope nope nope nopity nope. Turn back now and tell Victoria, whether or not she'll care, and if she doesn't care keep finding other people to tell. If that thing breaks out and hurts someone else, you'd bear responsibility if you didn't do anything.
-[X] Be sure to grab Yelena if she isn't moving.

Well hello guys !

I will be joining this Quest from now on!
 
2 Face Fears (Arbitracom, Veekie)
3 Nope.avi (Nuker, Military, Raiseth)
5 Nope.avi + Grab Yelena (Spectrum, Icipall, Dryskim, Naan, Terran)
1 Move On (Lapin)
1 Murder Time (Nevill)

Votes not locked, but here's the current tally. Expect update in a few hours.

Also

Rough sketch of the dragon mech. Still a conceptual design that I'll probably make radical changes to before I'm happy with it. But the size chart is about accurate.
(Tail is longer than it looks here, I was just too lazy to do the rest)
Alexandra is smol.
 
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So what's the jet engine-looking thing at the top? The dragon in a long range transport mode or something?
 
My night took a weird and personal turn and now I just want to sleep, so I'm going to have to delay the update until tomorrow afternoon. Sorry. :/
 
[X] Nope nope nope nopity nope. Turn back now and tell Victoria, whether or not she'll care. You're not ready for this.
-[X] Be sure to grab Yelena if she isn't moving.
 
It's fine, sounds like you need to go and sleep it off. It's not that long of a wait anyway.
That's fine, I hope you are okay? :eyebrow:
Thanks for your patience. I won't get into details, but I would up playing emotional support to a complete stranger who was in the midst of a breakdown. I'm fine, but I was too worried about them to really focus on anything after that, so yeah.
Got some stuff to take care of today, but once that's done I should have the next bit up pretty quickly.
 
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A Moment Of Silence
Like any halfway-sensible person, you instantly drop into fight-or-flight mode, and given the lack of conceivable armament anywhere, you opt for flight. Stooping to grab Yelena, you half-yank, half-drag her with you back around the bend. She's only given a moment of reprive to find her feet, then you're off again, pulling her along until the both of you are back out in the open.

"That was... too close..." You give Yelena a worried glance, but she seems to manage to pull herself together; possibly even more than you are right now. "Thank you."

You shrug nonchalantly, trying to calm your own beating heart. Replaying the encounter over in your head, you find yourself thinking aloud. "That thing was trapped, but we don't know how long that'll last. If it gets out with nobody to catch it, it could cause some serious problems. But we probably can't destroy it ourselves yet... we'll have to tell Conley."

"Do you think she'll listen?" Yelena asks in return, dubiously eyeing the distant vehicle down the slope.

"I'm not sure," is your attempt to remain charitable, "But if she doesn't, we'll find someone else to tell, until this gets taken care of. We found it; we're responsible if someone gets hurt because of it." Yelena pats herself, as if to double-check that she hasn't gotten hurt by it, then nods and begins walking back down the slope. After a final glance back at the foreboding passage, you follow suit.

Hatice and Victoria are much as you left them, the former glaring moodily at her own knees while the latter fiddles with the radio box, humming something off-key. As she sees you two approach, she leans back in her seat, glancing over at the city - sure enough, Lynx and Elaine are approaching from that direction - while you and Yelena are likely still looking rattled, they both just look sad. The end result is a palpable silence as you all take your seats back in the vehicle.

Even Victoria seems considerably more sober than she's acted thus far, letting out a troubled sigh as she stares at the ruins. "Before I take you back to base, I want you all to take one last good, long look at Cauterets down there." She turns around in her seat to fix you all with a significant look. "That's what we're fighting to prevent." And with that, she sets her foot down on the petal, taking you to the next destination.


Well Then
> Bring up the robot now.
Best to at least let Victoria know.
> Stay silent for now. Saying anything with this mood might be too awkward.
> Talk about something else. (Write-in)
 
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[X] Robot. Now.
-[Q] "It was so sad and lonely, can we take it with us?"
( Feeping Creature, this is for you )
-[Q] "Or, I guess, you could murder it real hard, Vic. Can I call you Vic?"
-[Q] Don't wait for the answer, jump off from the moving vehicle. Do a backflip in midair. Be teh perfect waifu for anyone looking. Anyone female. You're pretty sure you're gay.
 
[X] Bring up the robot now. Best to at least let Victoria know.

-[Q] "It was so sad and lonely, can we take it with us?" ( Feeping Creature, this is for you )
-[Q] "Or, I guess, you could murder it real hard, Vic. Can I call you Vic?"
-[Q] Don't wait for the answer, jump off from the moving vehicle. Do a backflip in midair. Be teh perfect waifu for anyone looking. Anyone female. You're pretty sure you're gay.
I shudder to think when you'll eventually put X's in there.:o
 
I shudder to think when you'll eventually put X's in there.:o

Don't worry, I'm just your friendly neighborhood resident shitposter. Any self-respecting thread should have one. ( edit: "specting"? Really? And no one pointed it out. What we really need is a resident Grammar Nazi. )
Onmur's understudy, as it happens. ( don't tell Onmur, they don't know. )
 
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[X] Bring up the robot now. Best to at least let Victoria know.
 
[X] Bring up the robot now. Best to at least let Victoria know.

I'd imagine that the robot getting loose and killing people would be rather more awkward than breaking the mood.
 
[X] Bring up the robot now. Best to at least let Victoria know.

Be teh perfect waifu for anyone looking. Anyone female. You're pretty sure you're gay.

You know, it occurred to me that I'm pretty sure our armed forces are pretty mystified by how they keep recruiting lesbians for this job.
 
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I literally just had the idea for Magical Girl Mecha and right as I look for new quests, here you go. *huffs lightly*
 
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