rolled 16 = 16

Coming right up.

>>18823028

You walk into the simulator room and see Elsie looking at a display. She doesn't seem to have noticed you yet.

[ ] Ask her what's up.
[ ] Walk over and observe with her.
[ ] Sneak attack.

[x] Walk over and observe with her.

Be a good CO. See how she's progressing.

>Off to a slow start today...

[ ] Sneak attack.

[ ] Sneak attack.

[x] Walk over and observe with her.

Observe her.

>>18823018
SN-SN-SNEAK ATTACK

>>18823078
>[ ] Walk over and observe with her.

Observe

>>18823078
[x] Ask her what's up.

>>18823078
>[X] Walk over and observe with her.

>>18823078
Observe with her

[x] Sneak Attack

You walk over to the monitor bank Elsie's sitting at and watch.

"What mode she doing?"

"Survival. See how long she can handle herself against worse and worse opponents."

"And she went with a Urban setting?"

"For this one, yeah."

You watch. There's a heavy melee built coming right at her. She jets one of her plates at the last second, and his heat rod gets caught in the metal shard and misses her core entirely. She then hits the over-boost and slams right into him hard enough to bisect him.

"This is the rig she has out in the hangar?"

"Yep. And before you ask, Mooch coded it in, so it should be fairly accurate."

You continue to watch. Three more cores drop in. Two of them are mid-ranged like yourself, and the last one is a heavy more on her scale. She turns and retreats, And her core goes rigid. "A glitch?"

"No, she just left combat mode."

"What?"

"It's a dual phase rig remember? She can go between a combat mode and a support-mode at the drop of a hat."

"So why?" And then Ari answers your question for you, by shooting a handful of rockets into the building ahead of her. You check the displays: no hostile contacts...

Then she goes back into active mode, and over-boosts through the building, losing some of her plate in the process. The enemy cores give chase, and get smashed in the rapidly collapsing building as Ari smashes free on the other side.

"That was reckless."

"Must run in the family."

[ ] Excuse me?
[ ] I exercise caution.
[ ] But I know the risks.
[ ] I have no idea what you're talking about.

>>18823452
>[ ] I have no idea what you're talking about.
Bestworst answer.

>>18823452
>[X] I have no idea what you're talking about.
Seriously. I don't think of what we've done as all that reckless.

[x] But I know the risks.

We train her how she'll fight. We've already been in combat.

>>18823452
>[X] I have no idea what you're talking about.
Preferably dripping with sarcasm.

>>18823452
>[X] I have no idea what you're talking about.

Deny everything

[ ] I have no idea what you're talking about.

>>18823452
I have no idea what you are talking about.

>>18823452
[x] I have no idea what you're talking about.

To be honest, I think we're very conservative in real combat, and only balls-to-the-wall crazy in simulations.
I don't think we'd done anything that might be construed as reckless in real combat.

>>18823452
[x] I have no idea what you're talking about.
Play dumb, we're a natural!

>>18823564
Except getting blown up twice.

>>18823564
There was that time where we decided that WE HERO NAO and solo'd an S rank...

>[x] I have no idea what you're talking about.

>>18823585
The first time was sort of beyond our control and the second time was the only other time I can think of that we have been remotely reckless and that was because we thought is was the safer option at the time.

>>18823452
>[x] I have no idea what you're talking about.

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

She snorts. "Oh REALLY. Then I'm so glad I made this video."

You see that she's put together a brief montage of various things you've done while piloting. First up was during your training back at hope, when you and Dave used a boulder as siege weapon during one memorable combat sim.

Then comes the one where you got your first actual combat kill against some bandits, where you opened up by kicking their leader's head off and using him as an improvised shield to take on his friends.

After that is the time where you attempted to fly a sim blindfolded, and still scored three kills based on directional ping before Dave took you out.

Then your fight against Nine-Ball in Hope, where you opened up by leaping INTO his gunfire to kick him in the face. And then later in the same fight where you willingly turned off your weapon, the only thing keeping his laser sword in check, to punch him in the face.

Then comes the fight against that bandit with the flail, where after getting entangled you chose to use his momentum to LAUNCH both of you out of the trench, into your allies imminent gunfire.

Then the sims where you tricked your enemies into shooting themselves, then charged directly into rocket-fire to hit a tank with your sword. Then dropped dropped a cliff on some others. Then jumped into the rubble from the cliff-drop, and used it as a moving shield.

Then the fight against the experimental core, where Elsie begins to comment "You know, I almost have enough clips of you running to deliver a flying kick to the face when you're holding a perfectly good gun that I can almost make a video of nothing but that."

[ ] Say nothing.
[ ] Try to defend yourself.
[ ] Admit defeat.

>>18823452
[x] Denial, it's not just a river in Egypt.

>>18823694
>[x] Try to defend yourself.
There might be a method to our madness.

>[x] Try to defend yourself.
"My actions are always based in perfectly sound tactical judgement."

Silence...with a bit of annoyed staring thrown in.

>>18823694
Seconding >>18823722

>>18823722
Second.
They seemed like good ideas at the time.

>>18823694
>[X] Try to defend yourself.
Admittedly reckless
admittedly reckless
dicking around in sim
only good option that didn't end up in many innocent deaths
accident
dicking around in sim
only good option that didn't end up in many innocent deaths

>>18823694
Defend your self.

[ ] Say nothing.

>>18823757
and yes Ari is in a sim, but she is supposed to be training not dicking around

>>18823694
Defend.

"They were all perfectly good ideas at the time!"

[x] Try to defend yourself.

Although she has a point, we should try to actually...shoot things more...maybe then the dice wouldn't keep trying to kill Alex.

>>18823694
Not. A. Damn. Word.

silence is golden?

>had to go to page 3 just to find the crunch thread just to find this thread

what is up with /tg/ tonight

[X] Defend yourself

"Just because I take risks doesn't mean they're the best choices in any given situation. Recklessness breeds carelessness which breeds getting killed. Besides, I've got experience."

>>18824044
I think it might have gotten hit with the automatic auto-sage curse.

>>18824063
Yeah, it looks like it. On page 7 and still going down.

>>18824063
Naw on page 0, by the catalog. Seems /tg/ is just being somewhat fast tonight.

>>18824081
ssssssunday night motherfuckersssss

>>18824081
I'm seeing it on page 7 on 4chan proper, maybe I'm just odd. It's also reasonably far down on the catalog if it's organized natural.

"Alright, but let's put those into context."

"Go ahead."

"First one you played was a combat sim, where we were trying to prove a point: just because we were prepared to deal with a 'standard' threat to hope, didn't make us invincible. Our boulder taking out half the trainees and breaking a hole into the dome proved our point rather effectively."

"And the Bandit one? Why didn't you just shoot him?"

"I wasn't in a good position to hit anybody else. So I did something a little crazy to redefine the combat scenario and put myself on favorable ground."

"Doesn't make it less stupid."

"When it works, it's reclassified as 'daring'."

"And Nine-Ball?"

"If I didn't stop him where he was, our fight would've happened in the middle of those people you were helping evacuate. As it was, I got partially injured and we didn't lose any of those people, as opposed to ALL of them if I didn't change the rules of engagement."

>>18824125

She's quiet for a moment as she considers this. "What about the bandit?"

"He had a laser sword on his leg he was a bout to booster-kick into me. Jumping was the best option I had."

"Fair enough. And the sims?"

"Which one, the one where I was obviously dicking around? Or the one where I went on the insane killing spree?"

"You know, your sister can use the same excuse."

"My sister earns the right to act a little crazy in the sims after she can prove she can fly properly in a combat zone."

"So then it's hypocrisy?"

"Look, you've seen how I fly. If I were any less skilled than I am, I would have died well before what happened at hope. I am GOOD enough to fly crazy OCCASIONALLY. That-" you point to a screen with your sister's sim running, as she attempts to use one core on another as a sort of improvised flail "-is a bad habit to get into. We can't have her practicing like that, because then she'll try and fly like that where failure means DEATH, not a low score."

"....Point taken. I'll talk to her about it when she gets out. By the way judging by the noises coming from upstairs it looks like Mooch is up and searching for coffee."

[ ] Go talk to Mooch.
[ ] Hang out with Elsie.
[ ] Other.

>>18824122
Yeah, no, I'm dumb, I was looking at the crunch thread.

>>18824133
>[x] Go talk to Mooch.

>>18824133
Give her a quick kiss then go talk to Mooch. Check our finances, talk to him about the Arena.

>>18824133
Remake thread then Talk to Mooch

>>18824133
Mooch Talking

>WE ARE sinking?

>What the fuck?

>>18824163
>WE ARE sinking?
Yup.

>What the fuck?
A fine question, man.

>>18824133
>[x] Go talk to Mooch.But give Elsie a good kiss first.

>>18824133
Talk to Mooch find out how much we made off the last mission. Also if he wants to take part in a team arena match.

>>18824133
>[X] Go talk to Mooch.
You summarized that so much better than I did. AC-Guy do you personally think that we have been overly reckless? (not that it will change anything, just interested)

>>18824177

>Rasafracking.... Fine then. I'll make a NEW quest thread. With BLACKJACK. AND HOOKERS!

>I'll see you fuckers in five minutes.

>>18824193
Coem back to this one and link us so we can all be lazy and not refresh the front page for a bit

New thread: >>18824256