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Yargnod wait's patiently for Sefel to provide detailed information about their opponents and their potential strengths and weaknesses, watching both them and him with polite curiousity. Just kidding. He's pretty much going to do the same thing no matter what they are. Tossing the disc up, he catches it between both hands, switching it back to the fully formed Justifier and blasts the closest skeleman (Teal.)
"But I just got this thing!" Yargnod complains. Cursing, he gets out of palisade knight and starts stomping, kicking, scratching and tearing at the metal panels and the crack beyond.
I was keeping track of loot on THIS SHEET. I think it's still up to date because we haven't really had any looting, lately (it's all been getting mechs.) It's all pretty much up for grabs, as far as I'm concerned to buy UPB's. Maybe Telirix can stay with Mordack in Time Knight. Sefel can stay in Flame Knight. Yargnod can take Palisade Knight. Or Yargnod can stay in Flame Knight and Sefel can move to Palisade Knight.
Yargnod watches Sefel get to work. "Let's get back to the ship and and do complete repairs then we can set out for the last Mech," he says.
I have no preference over how we organize the piloting of the different Knights. Soonish we'll have all four and we can all ride solo. For the moment, I think Flame Knight should have the solo pilot, since it's the only one that has a weapon that requires 2 actions, that way, there's no need to coordinate actions and we can each just do our own thing.
Yargnod ends up in the new mech, if only because he's got a head start on the people who would have to get out of the ones they're already in to get to this one. He gives the computer a good jab with the spear on the way out, mostly out of spite. Then, he scrams, pushing the new mech to its fastest for at least a quarter of an hour before stopping. His cackling laugh of victory comes over the comes. "That's three! Soon we'll have all four. Now...let's figure out who's going to pilot what." He opens the hatch but doesn't get out of Palisade Knight. It's quite possible he may never be out of a mech for more than a few seconds again.
Yargnod calls down curses from every god he's ever heard of as well as cursing those same gods as he gets close enough to the computer to hack it (40'). He pauses only long enough to turn Justifier back into a pocket dimension disk and slip it into an actual pocket before he starts to find a way to destroy that thing forever.
Yargnod continues to curse thoroughly and roundly and creatively. Not least of which because he knows that every second they miss, the damage they've done is slowly being undone. But there isn't much to do but keep trying (and maybe look for another planet with legendary lost mecha.)
"Are all the targeting systems broken?!" Yargnod growls as this fight starts to look a lot like the one upstairs. Though, this time, he has trusty Justifier involved and he knows the person who built that didn't mess it up.
Then again...it was made out of spare parts he salvaged out of wrecks...
It was fairly awesome. We went to the Dallas Arboretum (we live in a suburb) and they had activities and speakers from NASA. I was a little nervous because it was really overcast in the morning and cloudy for the beginning but it was perfectly clear by the time the real action was going. I couldn't really have asked for a better experience.
"I've been hitting him!" Yargnod declares, though the defiant part of him takes up the challenge as he continues to blast away.
Sorry for the posting delay. I went to watch the Sun being devoured, and the hotel did not have the promised wifi (or breakfast! negative three stars!). Where did you go to view it?
Hey guys...I know it probably seems like I never work but I really do most of the time...just a lot of time away lately... Speaking of...I'm taking Monday off to watch the Solar Eclipse, so I may post again over the weekend but likely won't again until Tuesday.
"Ok, ok, you win! You win!" Yargnod says as the ghost out of the machine hits him yet again. He withdraws, hoping it will go after a bigger, juicier target, two of which he hides behind. Like a punk.
Yargnod is reminded of a game he used to play with his friends back on Daimalko. It was called "Whose the Punk" and involved two people taking turns hitting each other as hard as possible until one of them gave up. Well, Yargnod ain't no punk so he's not going to quit. "Get ready to shut this thing down and out. When I blast it to pieces, it's going to try to jump into a computer. If we let it, I'm just going to have to blast it to pieces, again," he says.
"Ow! Stop that!" Yargnod says as he gets shocked again. Knowing that it's incorporeal, he adjusts a couple of settings on Justifier, switching out the flames for something more...forceful. He steps away from the creature's reach before blasting away again.
He tries to remember more information about Shocky McShockenstein.
"Hey! Don't ignore me!" Yargnod says, though being ignored would actually be a very good thing to be right now. He steps to the side to keep a good shot at the thing but takes a moment to calibrate his weapon against it.
"Oooow! I don't like it when computers bite!" Yargnod snarls. "I like it even less when they generate avatars," he continues when the machine man pops up. He's used Justifier so much that it's more than second nature for him to whip it around and take a shot. Although, he takes a step away so that he doesn't get smashed while blasting.
That makes Yargnod the designated explorer out of Flame Knight. He hops out and, just to be safe, pulls Justifier out of it's pocket dimension before looking around. He heads toward the computers, ready to run a diagnostic, if nothing else.
Yargnod scowls and grumbles, but then again, that's his default expression so what matters is that he throws in his own skills and assistance while they spend another hour finishing up the repairs on Time Knight. "Everyone satisfied now or do we need to wrap it in bubble wrap?" he asks, even as he's climbing back into Flame Knight's cockpit.
Yargnod pats the UPB created plating that has just been put over the gap in Time Knight's armor approvingly and gives a nod to Sefel for a good job. "Good enough for now," he says and points at the stairs. "I don't know about the rest of you but I want to see the new mech."
Yargnod is too busy cursing this outdated, shoddily made, inaccurate technology to be the first one out of Flame Knight so, by the time he's out and muttering curses, he lends a hand to Sefel's work rather than being the one getting a hand lent to him.
Everything seems to be missing, so Yargnod sticks with the thing that does the most damage on the rare occasions when it doesn't miss.
"Wait...what's this 'flip y axis' setting?" he says, toggling off a setting he just found.
"You're going to pay for that!" Yargnod says as the armor damages his Mech. "Seriously. I'm going to turn you into UPB's and use you to fix that." Now that he's had a little success, he spams the buttons.
But, it seems like it was just luck, last time.
Yargnod curses and bangs a fist on the console, yet defines insanity by banging his head on the same brick wall.
Hello fellows, I'll be going on vacation today. I'm heading to Austin so I probably will have internet connectivity but probably won't be able to post. Bot me as necessary, please and thank you.
Yargnod checks the displays. He's not pleased with any damage done to Flame Knight, but it's at an acceptable level. Time to counter.
The missile launcher is definitely broken.
Yargnod curses roundly, pounds the controls with his palm and growls quietly as his missiles go astray. Still, the tactic is sound, he's sure so he tries it again.
He howls in fury as the missiles go astray.
Yargnod's instinct is to give his opponents room, but he knows Time Knight is hurting more than Flame Knight so he keeps his mech between the armor and his robot partner. First things first, he protects his mech.
Then, he drops some missiles on Yellow.
"Oh...this is going to be useful," Yargnod says, looking around at the workshop. But it's no mech so he turns his mechanical back on it and heads toward the stairs. Gingerly, he reaches out and tries to slide one of the armored suits out of the way.
"I wonder if those were the last pilots," Yargnod says as he watches the screen. "Don't expect me to start kissing you," he continues to Telirix. Seeing that there is nothing else really interesting in the room, he turns toward the remaining door.
"Didn't we see that symbol somewhere else?" Yargnod asks, but he's already moving Flame Knight toward the next door, having little time for gods or mysticism.
After getting the arms working Yargnod pulls out his UPB dispenser and starts manufacturing plates and infrastructure to replace the structural damage to Time Knight.
He does quite well, even if he does say so himself and manages to use up only half the expected number of UPBs and only half an hour.
Yargnod hops out of Flame Knight and pulls out his kit. He waves the pilots of Time Knight down so that he can take a look at the limp upper arms. "Well, there's your problem," he says after a quick examination. "You power couplers are shot. Just need to bypass those."
Yargnod takes another look at the calibration on the missiles. He's going to have to investigate more closely. They would have been invaluable in that fight, if they would have hit. Then, he looks over at Time Knight. "We should think about doing some repairs. Time Knight's not looking so good and I'd hate to have to rebuild it entirely if we run into more trouble."
As he starts to get more accustomed to the targeting interfaces on the mech, Yargnod calls up the missiles again, burning another burst of energy from the engine to improve his Aim.
Sefel's moving Flame Knight is enough to keep Yargnod from activating the missiles again. So, instead, he sends another blast of the plasma rifle at the golem, pulling up the targeting reticule, again.
"Hey! Stop that! We just got that!" Yargnod shouts at the golem as it continues to hammer away at time knight and that mech starts looking poorly. He pulls up the targeting display to lock in on the target.
"I did better with Justifer," he mutters as the shot goes wide.
With time on his hands, Yargnod looks over the loadout of Flame Knight again. "Oh ho ho...this is gonna be good," he says with evident glee as he cues up the mech's other weapon system. He flips a couple of switches and grabs the targeting control. Panels open up on Flame Knight's torso, revealing what appear to be red, metallic blisters. Until Yargnod pulls the trigger and two mini-missiles fly out toward the golem.
Yargnod does not like his "baby" being damaged so he pumps some of the spare engine power back into the shields.
Then he lights up the golem with the plasma rifle again.
"Scatter!" Yargnod says as it becomes evident that this creature can affect large areas at once. He moves over slightly to avoid the thing smacking them while they're exposed in moving then takes a shot with the plasma rifle. He also boosts his chance of avoiding the force attack (spending the PP on the Resist action.)
"And exactly who are the authorized personnel?" Yargnod asks.
As a reminder, a mech with two pilots has either one move and two standard actions, or one full-round and one standard action, per turn. You can decide amongst yourselves how to use them.Yardnod, being aboard the Flame Knight how do you want to handle this? There aren't specific "copilot" actions like the different roles on a starship and I've been executing the Flame Knight's actions to this point. "Handing off one gun" feels a little restrictive. Other ideas? I think, in forum play, the easiest way to play it will be "first come, first served." Whoever posts first in the round can take a standard and a move action or the full action and the other person can take the extra standard. If the first person just takes a standard, then the other person can take the full or the move and standard.
D'oh! I thought I could ask questions OF it rather than questions ABOUT it. Please disregard my nonsensical questions.
The decorations are real pretty but the fancy writing doesn't mean anything to Yargnod so he doesn't pay them very much attention.
"Noqual. This will help against a dragon," he says when he recognizes the crystal.
"No, we won't be doing that, we'll be coming in," Yargnod replies. He gets a sense of the golem and carefully subverts one of its subroutines. "What are the criteria for bypassing you without resorting to combat?" "What other defenses does this installation hold?" "Where is the Palisade Knight located?"
Yargnod hops into the cockpit behind Sefel, Justifier stored in a pocket. He looks around for a few moments then starts flipping switched, pressing buttons and entering command prompts. He hums a jaunty tune for a while as they move along to the next temple/hangar. "Nice one!" he says as Sefel handily handles the security computer. Perhaps he is sick. Or possessed. How else to explain his pleasant demeanor?
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