The 42nd Gecko

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@KoL

1. "the orange arrows ricocheting off the ice to hit the targets of Miyu, Henry, and Dora" It's clearly established that the ice attack was finished before Stark attacked. He's even standing on a broken of shard of ice floating away from the center of the icy burst, implying some time has passed.

2. Aright. Well, thanks for giving me the speedboat shoes, or I wouldn't have been able to participate. I'll have to write up all the techno-gear her weapons factory she owns has produced, because her having access to angel subordinates is counter to her backstory.

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Also, if you wanted to guarantee each faction a win, one way to do so while serving a purpose other than balance would be to have each faction's leader show up for a fight to establish their awesomeness. We haven't even gotten to see the Imperator yet.

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@KoL

1. By my math, Miyu was certainly 100% dead. Then Stark started firing at me. Unless Stark is supposed to be established as a blithering retard, he would probably not fire at an enemy that had just been crushed into in a 3 by 3 ft pile of scrap. Seeing Stark is Windel's character, I took him firing at me as an answer to my "hey, how strong is that attack?" question to be "not really, seeing Stark's firing at you" So, I thought it was clearance to survive from a GM.

2. If you wanna say I don't have access to normal grade Machina technology other than my Mecha and upgrades to it. That's fine. I assumed it was under the "generic reinforcement" powers that everyone has access too. Where another person might go "Hey, squad XYZ of NPC angels, charge with me" or "Hey, we'd probably have an anti-air guns on the Elicitor with awesome explodey rounds, even though that's not explicitly spelled out, let's fire it at said charging angels", I figured calling in some turrets from my cache of machina technology would be ok as long as they're not too special (And I figured not having auto-targetting or shields would be enough to say they weren't at Bastion Turret level). Can I at least call in say a care package of explosives so I can rig some traps?

3. If that's what you wanna do. Can't stop ya.

4. Righto.

Remaining Statement: Yup, the Demons did great, even while outnumbered.

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1. Has anyone been complaining about this? Also, Machina and Angel players have been wanting to team up vs the demons constantly. If the demons keep winning, that's a good motivation for that to happen.

2. Why is keeping the Status Quo a goal worth doing that for? I'm alright with Deus Ex Machina for good reasons, like, say, plot progression, but Deus Ex Machina to maintain our actions being meaningless seems less awesome.

3. So, a tool to force players to play characters/sides they don't like as much to enforce a degree of numerical equality, when in this battle the least numerous force is absolutely dominating?

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6. I'm asking for a review, seeing I'm disagreeing with pretty much every point.

In summary, I'd really like to know what the problems you're trying to fix with these are, before giving counter suggestions.

The ones I can see are "Numerical Superiority" which is odd when the least character numerous faction is probably going to win this battle. And "Complaining about one Faction Winning" which I haven't seen happening. And "Things changing as a result of player actions" which I vehemently disagree with about that being a problem.

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@Lucius Cypher To avoid metagaming, you should really do what you were going to do anyway, unless you have some way of seeing what I was doing, have a personality that chooses death and glory, and being able adapt your plans in time.

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@KoL@floodtalon

Miyu

"I am alright with this turn of events." Miyu noticed the Leviathan leave, and, as the ice started breaking away from her mech, decided to move out for Alpha, leaving the fight here behind. The Daimyo V was heavily armored, and further enhanced against demonic corruption by her Mantle of Unconquerable Sun spell, and so was doing alright for now. No point staying here though, so she speed out with her speedboat shoes, giving Henry a wide berth and throwing a decent portion of her shields on preventing him from attacking her.

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Action Summary-TL/DR

1. Move to Alpha

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@Lucius Cypher Ok, well that's going to make my turn utterly useless. Bummer we have no IC way of communicating. :/

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@Lucius Cypher
If someone else can help me in Alpha, we could capture it, I'm adjacent, and won't get killed by the Rosewater this turn. Let me know if you'll have an action free to cap it, or if I should go ahead with my current plan of laying traps.

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@Lucius Cypher

So, if the angel meteor wants to have any effect on the battle, it needs to be launched now, or assuming no demon territories are captured, the battle will literally be over before it lands, if you don't launch it before another update post.

Pretty please launch the meteor?

@Flamelord

If you want to help with that, ignore the leviathan and fly over to Alpha (so that you don't get killed by rosewater), hoping that Dorafraki helps Omega with capturing Gamma.

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@KoL@floodtalon

Miyu

"Hell, here goes nothing." Miyu charged as the Leviathan awoken, ramming the Leviathan with the full weight of her mech, targeting a joint in the scales with her skill for the hyperedge blade to pierce... And achieving about a foot of penetration, entirely inconsequential to the beast. And then for good measure getting stuck when its muscled pulled taught around the blade. "Well.... This is du..." And then she was frozen. And then people started shooting at her. And then she was dragged out of some of the ice, and towards another sector. Her sword would have surely snapped from the pressure of dragging her mech around if it wasn't reinforced with the Mantle spell.

"At least I can do something about the projectile. Shields." Miyu shielded her mech against the lone projectile, able to manually babysit the shield settings to ensure deflection given it was only one projectile.

If the Leviathan eventually stopped, Miyu would finally be flung off, and Henry would be treated to a vision of the mech had wanted to capture slowly arcing towards the bottom encased partially in ice a few meters away from him.

Summary-TL/DR

1. Attack ineffectually at Leviathan.
2. Get dragged to where-ever Leviathan is going, Sector Iota if it follows Henry's commands.
3. Defend self from Stark's arrow.

Other

I'm taking getting attacked by Stark's arrow as evidence that the ice attack didn't destroy Miyu, but instead immobilized her.

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@TheWindel Is that four update posts, or four anybodies posts?

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@Awesomoman64 Hang on a second.. I'm in a mech, with a bunch of back ups I can call, my main ability is shields... I'm the dorito gremlin. O_o