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03:19:27 ER: hmm, maybe Febuary will be nice
03:21:05 ER: now time to brace for the double fakeout
03:21:18 ER: or maybe triple fakeout at this point? whatever
03:23:06 Devastator: Eh, the cult thing won't happen for like a couple more weeks.
03:23:26 ER: something else horrible might happen
03:23:55 ER: it's not like the only horrible thing that's allowed to happen to Katia is the oblivian crisis
03:24:12 Devastator: I'm not sure, but
syv suggested that gro-upp is going to rob her again.
03:24:20 ER: in fact I'm not sure if there are any horrible things that aren't allowed to happen to Katia
03:25:14 Devastator: Although the questionable effects of alcohol are questionable.
03:25:21 ER: *within the confines of what is acceptable to put in the comic :V
03:27:32 Devastator: Someone should tell Katia to take a nap. She could use another level.
03:32:57 ER: Isaac rolled a 20 on one of his damage dice, and the scittergramp dodged it anyway somehow
03:35:36 ER: I mean, it does us literally no good.
03:42:22 ER: current plan seems to be tricking it into drinking a health potion, which makes it fall asleep.
03:48:24 Devastator: Woot, size increase mattered. ;-p
03:51:45 Devastator: Well, that was entirely predictable. (i.e, curse being released was always going to happen given our presence or not.)
03:52:34 ER: [1]
Devastator: "It was inevitable"
03:52:53 Devastator: Yeah. Hence why I wanted to get the drop on it.
03:53:08 Devastator: Did I say that earlier?
04:24:06 Devastator: I think those plague guys said the city was fucked as soon as they found out there was an active cult there.
04:25:31 Devastator: so.. lets eat, get to purgin', and see if there are gonna be survivors or not.
04:25:36 ER: did we really accomplish anything on this sidequest which came close to killing us and gave us a mostly detrimental mutation?
04:25:39 Devastator: If not, well, we can still do the army of the dead thing.
04:25:55 Devastator: we got an extradimensional ally, a good tip, and we freed those hostages.
04:26:28 Devastator: And mantorok got a stick in the eye, again.
04:26:58 ER: have you ever played Creeper World?
04:27:31 Devastator: (We also levelled.) ;-p
04:27:43 ER: Strikes me as something you'd like for some reason.
04:31:56 Devastator: Eh, every time Sydney gets a little bit more powerful it just gets a little bit less of a mismatch between her and her enemy.
04:32:18 Devastator: So keep shaving pieces and eventually there will be a chance to win.
04:32:48 ER: just gotta become the new drider god first
04:33:12 Devastator: Yup. And we now have one, mutation-immune, cult leader.
04:53:45 Devastator: the cult leader we now own.
04:53:52 Devastator: Alternatively, we could eat him.
04:54:00 ER: probably dead, to be honest
04:55:54 Devastator: maybe. He's immune to the plague, though.
04:56:15 Devastator: ..we did gain 10 max HP recently.
05:00:41 Devastator: There's also the call of the abyss. We say screw it, eat every single mutated creature in this town, and 'win' that way. ;-p
05:01:48 ER: hmm, screwing it is usually one route to success in life, yes
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05:11:44 syv:
ER please yell at me to write the thing for you.
05:12:01 syv: I have proven incapable of yelling at myself sufficiently forcefully to effect it.
05:15:06 syv: I forgot what the second half was even supposed to be. :(
05:15:34 ER: "I'll write more tomorrow, detailing the exact supplies Sophia can find"
05:15:53 syv: Sophia shou... wait, actually, she'd be dead right now if she hadn't made her wish. Aaand Isabella's witch would be loose, likely killing people.
05:16:14 syv: Sophia's storyline so far is actually 100% purely positive.
05:16:38 Devastator: Because it can't get worse.
05:16:44 Devastator: so it has to get better.
05:16:51 Devastator: Yeah, another update.
05:17:04 Devastator: Shoulda wished to be a catgirl, then. ;-p Maybe the next character.
05:17:12 Devastator: Hey, pretty quick for.. what, three days?
05:17:43 syv: Meh, I hold out hope that after Alida detonates, Lenglon will come in and play an actually functional creative.
05:17:54 ER: I'm not sure if you can call this story "100%" positive but the end result is pretty much entirely an improvement, regardless of how badly things go from here.
05:18:08 syv: Which will presumably be either a catgirl or a foxgirl.
05:18:26 Devastator: No, because that would involve defining said character to be something. ;-p
05:18:43 ER: switch out depending on which is more useful because hey, fleshhorror
05:18:50 Devastator: detonates? I suspect I'm not going to fail every single roll forever.
05:18:59 Devastator: I mean, I have been so far, but that's life.
05:19:16 syv: "Detonates" is fun and not used nearly often enough.
05:19:20 ER: every magical girl is doomed to detonate at some point
05:20:11 ER: what I really mean is that the Sophia within me yearns to *be* alive, rather than suspended.
05:20:34 Devastator: Aren't you always tired?
05:22:01 syv: Today I woke up at ~0740, so I am more tired than normal. Getting up after the sun is a bad omen for me.
05:31:42 Devastator: I don't think I'd recommend watching Saikano.
05:31:56 Devastator: 'Ultimate Weapon' seems to be 'city destroying blue laser.'
05:32:01 Devastator: Not that interesting for that. ;-p
05:32:48 Piecewise_: its more about the characters and the odd premise than anything specific in weapons
05:33:02 Piecewise_: except that time she accidently pooped out all those missiles
05:33:07 Devastator: the premise doesn't seem that odd, though.
05:33:41 Devastator: It's got extremely standard romance plotting.
05:34:03 Devastator: And apocalyptic romances are a pretty old genre.
05:34:13 syv: Standard romance plotting is a very irritating thing.
05:34:28 syv: Always present, always forced, always stupid.
05:34:42 syv: Dubs I still want an anime with proper firearms tactics.
05:34:57 syv: And preferably blood and not cutesy overdose.
05:35:17 Piecewise_:
Sy hates love for he shall never have it
05:35:34 syv: No, romance is like my third favorite genre.
05:35:40 syv: Bad romances just piss me off.
05:35:51 Piecewise_: its not a bad romance though
05:35:57 Devastator: It doesn't count if one of the two categories is 'everything else'
05:36:02 syv: If it's standard it's bad.
05:36:06 Piecewise_: also, gunslinger girl
05:36:08 Devastator: Yeah. Once I realized that, it made me stop asking quesitons about the setting.
05:36:16 syv: Have you even watched that?
05:36:41 ER: I had IRC unfocused and suddenly a bunch of messages appeared at once
05:37:00 syv: Looked at it. It looks like they brought on
ER as their tactical advisor.
05:37:55 Devastator: I still like the guy with the branch service cap that just says her name on it, with an exclamation point.
05:38:12 syv: I pulled up the imfdb page just now, and the page image is a girl's ass in short shorts.
05:39:19 Piecewise_: Black lagoon is stupid and over the top but it has gun porn stuff in it
05:39:33 syv: I don't want stupid and over the top.
05:39:46 Piecewise_: Here, this is a scene from gunslinger girl. Watch it, I think you'll like it. Its not over the top
05:39:59 Devastator: tactical gun drawing action.
05:41:06 Devastator: so.. she's a robot?
05:41:51 syv: ...Fuck, it has a P90 AND an SVD in the same scene.
05:41:57 Devastator: I think I would have like undercover assassin robot.
05:42:30 syv: That's not realistic though, that table wasn't cover at all.
05:42:38 ER: that's the most dakka I've ever seen from just a couple of pistols
05:42:54 Devastator: Is a table actually cover?
05:43:19 Piecewise_: Depends on the rounds and the table
05:43:46 Piecewise_: in reality probably not
05:44:12 Piecewise_: but gunfights in reality are generally not very interesting
05:44:30 Piecewise_: they tend to go fast or go really slow
05:44:53 Devastator: It could be realistic.
05:45:01 Devastator: Just make one of the participants a robot with an inaccurate gun.
05:45:06 Devastator: and bam, you've got a gunfight.
05:45:08 syv: This video won't load, but it should be more dakka unless the title lies.
05:45:50 Devastator: "I've been reloading for 20 minutes."
05:46:37 Devastator: fat guy greasing up his pistols with pig grease.
05:48:20 Devastator: Aww, they didn't show the targets.
05:48:32 Devastator: I was hoping they would be completely intact.
05:49:32 Devastator: The title doen't lie, though.
06:04:28 syv: Got distracted reading about a fairly modern revolver shotgun designed in Russia, which was marketed to Russian police, but didn't sell well. I'm not sure whether that's sufficiently Russian or not.
06:05:30 syv: Bottom of the page has a sexy woman ad which wasn't blocked for some reason. All the text is in cyrillic, and mystifyingly, one of the pictures is a nun on a surfboard, which doesn't even look sexual to me?
06:06:41 syv: Sophia is why I was researching Russian firearms.
06:07:01 syv: Just because I've learned nothing new from the research doesn't mean it's unrelated.
06:07:42 syv: Well, nothing useful. I have learned that a revolver shotgun is surprisingly hard to market in Russia.
06:07:54 Devastator: They dont' like shotguns.
06:26:03 syv: What is even the point of a two-round box magazine? Especially for a shotgun, that's like the worst of both worlds between tube fed and mag fed, except somehow worse in every way than both.
06:27:09 syv: There's a bunch of them for all kinds of guns on ebay.
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06:47:48 midnightjaguar: Hey, here it’s 12:47 so really I’m running a bit late
06:48:27 ER: I guess 12:47 is about as early as you can get, from a certain perspective.
06:50:46 Piecewise_: time is an objective measure and mine is the correct one
06:53:32 syv: We should all just use Zuli time. And 24 hour, instead of this idiotic AM/PM junk.
06:54:16 midnightjaguar: Why is it called Zulu time?
06:54:51 Piecewise_: Underwater space nazi robot
06:54:57 syv: Because Zulu is the phonetic word for Z, and Z is the last letter of the alohabet and distinctive. Probably.
06:55:15 ER: to avoid ambiguity, measure time by the number of picoseconds since the dawn of the universe. And have a seperate reletive measurement of the angle of the horizion compared to the sun at your current time and location.
06:55:30 syv: It's also known as GMT, or UTC.
06:55:36 midnightjaguar: I like how he’s holding a knife in his claws
06:55:42 syv: But the Z makes it cooler.
07:03:35 syv: I'm continuing to procrastinate about Sophia by lookingat guns. Found a video advertising a Russian pistol (which she found, so excuse), and it's just hilariously stupid. It shows a guy running around dual wielding them, doing combat rolls to pick them up, constantly keeping his finger on the trigger, sweeping people, the target demonstration has him doing the novice down and left pattern...
07:04:11 syv: It's like a video consisting of concentrated mall ninja incompetence, but it's a genuine ad. I think.
07:05:03 ER: well it's good to know that my arsenal will be well-researched? >.>
07:05:42 ER: if they're exotic that might made handling them a little harder
07:05:55 syv: The pistol itself turns out to be boring and practical. It's a little worse than a 92FS from what I can tell, but not in ways which will really matter.
07:05:59 midnightjaguar: Maybe it’s like an ironic ad?
07:06:41 midnightjaguar: Like watch and laugh at all the stupidity while wishing that the world would totally let that totally radical thing happen. :P
07:07:16 syv: Also, the soundtrack is new age trance, which is amusingly inappropriate.
07:08:17 ER: for a moment I thought you meant you were listening to new age trance to write
07:14:17 Piecewise_: Chances of there being a pot strain called "New Age Trance" : 87%
07:15:00 midnightjaguar: I would up those odds frankly.
07:15:02 syv: It's a bit weird that Sophia doesn't know how to operate a car, but has a decent understanding of firearm safety.
07:15:49 ER: dammit, I don't want to die again
07:15:56 syv: Is that a 0-5%, or a 95-100%?
07:16:02 midnightjaguar: Just pull a Groo
ER.
07:16:14 ER: did you not decide before rolling,
syv? :P
07:16:38 ER: generally dice without context lower=bad
07:17:41 midnightjaguar: Definitely not.
07:17:57 syv: Also Sophia is going to die. It is inevitable. The only question is how many years you'll end up waiting for it.
07:18:10 midnightjaguar: Do magical girls age in Pumsys?
07:19:33 ER: Or maybe they just age on a seperate axis. ;P
07:25:26 midnightjaguar: I do wonder if that could actually injure someone.
07:25:45 ER: at least as much as a wasp could
07:26:37 midnightjaguar: Depends on the wasp that
07:26:56 midnightjaguar: I mean most of their pain comes from their venom.
07:27:18 ER: get venom coated bullets then~
07:27:35 midnightjaguar: I know the OSS once tried to make that
07:27:57 midnightjaguar: Like a dart launcher conversion for a M1911 that fired poison darts.
07:29:04 syv: I'm pretty sure that's the same tiny pistol the slow mo guys did a video on, shooting soda cans.
07:29:33 syv: It wouldn't be lethal, unless something crazy happened, but it would hurt.
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08:03:20 midnightjaguar: I guess we scared dubs off with the talk of the devils lettuce.
08:03:57 syv:
ER, was Sophia going to take ALL the guns?
08:05:13 midnightjaguar: Just mount your guns to your guns. And set up a complex trigger system to fire all of them at once
08:08:08 midnightjaguar: What is Sophia?
08:08:09 syv: You somehow manage to break all the guns.
08:08:40 syv: Either extremely lucky, or extremely unlucky, depending on your point of view.
08:08:44 midnightjaguar: You know it’s kinda funny that Innoncence is Black/homora
08:09:22 syv: She was originally very innocent, moreso than any of the other chars.
08:09:23 midnightjaguar: Since she’s like probably the least innocent char in that show after bunny cat
08:10:00 midnightjaguar: Airway breathing circulation?
08:10:22 midnightjaguar: I don’t think MGs really need any of those
08:10:48 ER: or at least she can breathe water
08:11:28 syv: Sophia doesn't because of immaculate soul, but everyone else is quite capable of drowning.
08:11:48 syv: Creatives would need to breath unless they modify themselves so that they don't.
08:12:19 syv: Braves can just use painless to ignore the fact that they've drowned.
08:12:34 midnightjaguar: Braves are Blue right?
08:12:38 syv: Mercies will drown, but could just heal themselves.
08:12:49 syv: Everyone else will drown and die and that will be bad.
08:12:49 midnightjaguar: Heh. Appropriate somehow.
08:13:29 syv: ...Actually, I guess loves could use memento to make their partner drown instead, but that's not exactly helpful.
08:13:37 ER: fuck you I won't let the water in my lungs stop me
08:13:55 midnightjaguar: Hmm. So are Loves Mami?
08:14:18 ER: it's helpful if your memento isn't an effective member of the team!
08:14:23 midnightjaguar: Hmm. What are creatives then?
08:14:34 midnightjaguar: I mean inspiration wise
08:14:41 syv: Though Mami, as statted in this system, has only one Love power.
08:14:57 ER: you might note that PM3 has less characters than there are classes in PS
08:14:58 midnightjaguar: Just Dubs reimagined as a magical girl? :P
08:15:13 syv: Ask again some other time. I should really finish Sophia.
08:15:37 midnightjaguar: Heh. Yeah. I need to go back to studying anyways.
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08:43:16 ER: I'm going to stay and stare at
syv a while more
08:43:37 syv: I have three paragraphs written.
08:44:10 syv: This is hard. Having great difficulty maintaining a train of thought. And
MJ ended up distracting me.
08:49:27 syv: This feels like trying to fill a glass with water by rubbing it with a grimy and very damp piece of cloth.
08:50:21 syv: It's very slow and I feel like nobody would prefer the result over just the empty glass.
09:01:04 ER: I'll take any glass over no glass~
09:06:09 syv: In this analogy empty glass is Sophia in permanent stasis.
09:06:29 ER: well at least spit in it then
09:07:15 syv: I was hit with the sudden desire to just write about Sophia dying painfully in a completely out of context and random way.
09:08:08 syv: Maybe I should. Writing character deaths in the past has been pretty effective for breaking writer's block.
09:10:23 syv: You can lose if I just give up and never write anything more.
09:11:18 syv: I'd like to. Can't, because I'm nothing if not stubborn, but I'd like to.
09:20:20 syv: Hmm. Should put Akira on The List.
09:20:47 syv: Is Gunslinger Girl something for me to watch alone, or do either of you (
Dev,
ER) care?
09:21:09 ER: all I know about it other than the name I've forgetten
09:40:38 ER: okay imma go now and hopefully wake up to a glorious pile of guns
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