You look up into the mirror located along the canopy bar and Merlin catches the movement, shooting you a thumbs-up before dropping her helmet's visor in place and looking back down, grabbing the handles to either side of her console for the fairly brutal afterburner kick. You gradually open the throttles from idle all the way up, listening to the now-familiar roar as they respond to the input, their howling made almost unworldly by the addition of the magic being fed to them by Merlin.

You release the brakes a second later and the fighter lurches forward, your airspeed indicator telling you of acceleration a well tuned sports car would be happy with. Not quite what a catapult can do, but still enough to get you off the Barin runway with a few hundred feet to spare. You dearly wish they'd get that crew out to lengthen it though.

“We're clear.” Merlin announces from the back, the first either of you have said since climbing in the cockpit. “Gear coming up, take heading three-three-zero true at angels twenty.”

“Three three zero at angels twenty, got it.” You respond, turning the fighter on to the specified heading and setting a gentle climb up to altitude. “Any jumbos in the area?”

“Not right now.” Merlin answers, bringing up a composite radar picture for you. Tied into every available radar system on the islands, including civil traffic, you've got full coverage out across the channel, with no civilian airliners-jumbos- to worry about. “They're trying to keep them out of our flight path and the training area is completely restricted.”

“Good.” You're a little more comfortable knowing there's no threat of running into an airliner of people. “So what do we know about this girl?” You ask, changing the subject.

2/3

“She favors top-down attacks.” Merlin says, having actually studied the witch's dossier much more heavily than you. “Rosalie says she thinks a lot more like a fighter pilot than a witch, so she should be aware of energy. Her strikers are supposed to be the German Tomcat variants, but she could have swapped them out for tornadoes or even typhoons.”

That's mixed news. The German tomcat variant has the best thrust of the three, but the typhoons are next generation, and plenty dangerous, especially in a turning fight. The tornadoes would be the least threatening of the three, but represent something of a midpoint- they're not quite as fast as the cats would be, but they can turn better at lower speeds, even if just barely.

But if she favors energy tactics, she's probably going to have gone with the tomcats, you think. The big units would suit boom and zoom flying the best with their size, relative weight, and the massive Daimler-Benz jets in them.

[] We’ll go in high, and limit her chances to bounce us. If it turns to energy, we should be ok.
[] We'll go in low, and try and draw her out of her element, maybe stay in the rain and use our sensors to our advantage.

>>32002159
[x] Lick Merlin's soulgem and ask deculture for art

>>32002200
>[X] We’ll go in high, and limit her chances to bounce us. If it turns to energy, we should be ok.

I'm not taking any chances with this one.

>>32002200
>[] We’ll go in high, and limit her chances to bounce us. If it turns to energy, we should be ok.

>>32002217

Wrong quest, bob.

>>32002200
[] We’ll go in high, and limit her chances to bounce us. If it turns to energy, we should be ok.
Limit Young's ability to bounce us

>>32002200
[x] We'll go in low, and try and draw her out of her element, maybe stay in the rain and use our sensors to our advantage.

Let her bounce, she's going to be miserable fighting in the rain, at speed, against our Wyvern.

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>>32002200
>[x] We’ll go in high, and limit her chances to bounce us. If it turns to energy, we should be ok.
This will be a good fight, negate her bounce factor. Best night of the week!

>Rosalie says she thinks a lot more like a fighter pilot than a witch
Young must be proud.
>German Tomcat variants
Oh gods, that would be awesome to see.

>>32002159
It's been out a week nearly but just in case you haven't seen it Ghost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGtEH1i78sI

>>32002200
>[x] We’ll go in high, and limit her chances to bounce us. If it turns to energy, we should be ok.
Have Merlin try to communicate with Young's gear, and see if she can't mess with the settings in her equipment - make her strikers take in more magic than needed, force her detection gear to ignore certain things and register false contacts, etc. The more problems she has to deal with mid-flight, the less she will be able to focus on us.

German Tomcats?! You mean someone else other than us (and Iran I guess) is using the Big Cat? :O

>>32002200
[] We’ll go in high, and limit her chances to bounce us. If it turns to energy, we should be ok.

there can only be one bounce king!

>>32002200
>[] We'll go in low, and try and draw her out of her element, maybe stay in the rain and use our sensors to our advantage.

Best night of the week!

Hey Ghost, did Chernobyl happen in this setting?
I need to know for reasons.

ALL HAIL THE MONOLITH

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>>32002384
iirc, The Japanese were flying Tomcats when we were there.

>>32002443
Must've missed that. Then again it's been a while since that happened.

>>32002384

in SW '89, the tomcat found export success with the IJAF, IJN, Luftwaffe, and IRAF adopting the type. Most of the export models by the time of the quest have indigenous upgrade packages (with the exception of the IRAF, where it's less 'upgrade' and more 'kitbash to keep it flying')

The Luftwaffe doesn't operate too many of them, though the IJN and IJAF combined have more in inventory than the USN currently.

>>32002463
Well I'll be damned.
Also I'm pretty sure there is a catgirl joke in there somewhere.

>>32002436
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s who happen to be witches and Lolis as well would be an interesting thread. spin off or no.

>>32002485

It's never catgirls.

>>32002200
>[] We’ll go in high, and limit her chances to bounce us. If it turns to energy, we should be ok.

>>32002503
or could be a witch that started the whole thing due to a stupid radio man....

http://www.scp-wiki.net/incident-0401-42-iii-chornobylska-katastrofa

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so how long until the reds hire assassins to kill us?

>>32002612
kill it with fire!

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>>32002612
from how much security we have now, i can bet on there is assassins after fronk now.

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>>32002612
sup roberta

>>32002756
>yfw WWIII is just another skirmish in the Assassin/Templar war

>>32002911
I would not be surprised....I bet longstreet is a Templar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NZaIE-OBYg

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>>32002911
You're wrong. It's a Hydra plot.

>>32002200
>[x] We'll go in high, and limit her chances to bounce us. If it turns to energy, we should be ok.

Ten bucks says she points out which closet her eldest sibling was conceived in once we're back on the ground.

>>32002955
or she can be Hydra. also Hail Hydra!

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>>32002200
[X] We’ll go in high, and limit her chances to bounce us. If it turns to energy, we should be ok.

>>32002965
Yes please.

After that, we can have her teach Wendy how to bounce RAF Faglords. We're not sending Wendy back to the RAF until we're sure she can look after herself.

http://youtu.be/coGVpUFf9LY

Let's make some sour kraut.

>>32002965
we have still not gotten a full count of how many young spawn there are. there could be a dozen or more...

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>>32002965
I can't bet against that, it's bound to happen.

>>32002936
the way she is acting I bet she is trying to turn the US covens in to something like the templars.

>>32002200
>[x] We’ll go in high, and limit her chances to bounce us. If it turns to energy, we should be ok.
She is a youngspawn, she will try to bounce if she can.

>>32003128
the base we're stationed at, it has high towers, right? did we bother to notice if there are wagons or piles of hey (or other soft things) placed at the base of them? there are probably tones of handholds and easily scalable walls all over.

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[x] We’ll go in high, and limit her chances to bounce us. If it turns to energy, we should be ok.

You decide to take it in high, beginning a gentle climb to the range complex. Merlin, if she notices, doesn't say anything, though your sensor feeds begin to expand as she brings more of the suite online- including, critically, the magic sensor.

You enter the complex at about thirty thousand feet- well above where most witches tend to cruise, and above even what you figure this girl is likely to fly at as a perch altitude. “Revenant is in the range.” You announce, indicating to the controllers nearby in the big RAF Nimrod AEW5 aircraft and the ground control team that the exercise is on.

The cloud deck's tops skim by a few thousand feet below you- the rainstorm a truly massive one that's soaking most of the English isles and northern France and Germany. Below you, the highlands of Scotland provide plenty of ground clutter- though the radar is having trouble with the storm anyway, the clouds being thick enough to interfere with the return, even from your powerful- and augmented- set.

1/2

It's Merlin that spots her, just barely a distant spec skimming along the cloud tops, occasionally dipping into them enough to almost disappear before resurfacing above them. “There she is!” She calls. “Four O'clock, maybe angels twenty five. I don't think she sees us yet.”

You crane your head around, tilting your fighter on it's side to get a view. “Yeah, I see her.” You respond, noting that Merlin's playing the sensors without trying to achieve a lock- only the magic sensor is locked on her, something that you're both reasonably sure she can't detect. “She's pretty damn high up. I'm surprised she can see a damn thing through that soup.”

“She's a nightwitch, remember?” Merlin responds. “She doesn't have to see us, and our RWR won't tell us if she's detected us.”

“Smart though.” You note. “If we dive on her, she can duck into the clouds, maybe take it down to terrain. If we don't, we'll have to give up the advantage of surprise.”

[] Bounce her. Let's see how she handles this shit.
[] Give up the advantage and try to bring her up into the clear.

>>32003410
>RAF Nimrod AEW5
Oh, MoD procurement...

>>32003436
>[] Bounce her. Let's see how she handles this shit.

>>32003436
>[x] Bounce her. Let's see how she handles this shit.
>[x]Have Merlin see if she can't play around with Young's detection gear

>>32003436
>[x] Bounce her. Let's see how she handles this shit.

Turning the tables on a member of the Young family? Yes, please!

>>32003436
>[X] Bounce her. Let's see how she handles this shit.

DEUS VULT!

>>32003436
>[x] Bounce her. Let's see how she handles this shit.

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>>32003436
>[] Bounce her. Let's see how she handles this shit.
B O U N C E

>>32003436

[] Bounce her. Let's see how she handles this shit.

>>32003436
Open the throttle and zoom and boom, cause we're about to bounce this gal.
>[] Bounce her. Let's see how she handles this shit.

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Guys, won't bouncing a witch lead to them out maneuvering us? The Wyvern is neat and all but Strikers are still Strikers...

[] Bounce her. Let's see how she handles this shit.

Let's see how good she is a taking her own game.

>>32003503

Her daddy is gonna be so disappointed in her if this works. :)

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[] Give up the advantage and try to bring her up into the clear.
You gits. She grew up with bouncing. She'll expect it

>>32003546
You... You don't understand the bounce. Its not a turn maneuver, its an energy one.

>>32003553
smileys pls

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>>32003436
[X] Bounce her. Let's see how she handles this shit.

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>>32003436
Time to bounce

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>>32003436

>>32003436
>[x] Give up the advantage and try to bring her up into the clear.
Let's pull her up here.

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we SWQ now

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>>32003733
We never weren't. It was there, beneath the surface. Ready, waiting, to BOUNCE

>>32003559
If she's a Nightwitch and used to having superior detection abilities, it's possible the idea of being bounced has never occured to her.

LET'S CHANGE THAT.

[X] BOUNCE.

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I miss the days when Ghost would put a sexy plane as the OP post...

oh this will not end well....

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>>32003806

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>>32003788
Her father is also the Bounce Lord, it's possible being bounce is up there on list of things that may happen to her.
>>32003802
>A Duck has a bigger radar signature then it

>>32003869
Hell of a sales pitch for a fake advert.

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>>32003802
Sexy planes huh?

I'm going to laugh, trying to bounce the spawn of young

>>32004031
its like trying to bounce Dr Doom... YOU JUST DON'T DO IT!

>>32004044
Well unless you're Squirrel Girl.

Time to wait patiently for the next update.

>>32004057
eh I am waiting for tanks to open up for testing

http://devblog.warthunder.com/2014/05/07/the-t-35-in-war-thunder/?hl=en

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>SWQ
>ask players if they want to bounce
>expecting anything but that

>>32004082
oh god this means the lee will be added.....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>32004082
I'm over in >>32000669 myself.

Seems like a new grim counterpart to the '89 universe.

>>32003436
>[X] Give up the advantage and try to bring her up into the clear.
Pretty sure her mom advise her on what to do when bounced. Also, her dad and "uncles" would totally bounce her during training.

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>>32004130
>dad and "uncles" would totally bounce her during training

>>32004105
Heroes & Generals added a whole bunch of tanks recently including the Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS-nLm26ycY

>>32004105
I don't understand the hate for the Lee?

It was a good tank for it's time and situation and better then the T-35

>>32004082
I am downloading decent freespace on steam right now

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>>32004163
LEE STRONK HATERS GIT OUT PZ III A SHIT

>>32004163
It was good in comparison to what was had at the time was the thing. the 75mm sponson mount was punchy, and it waws reliable enough to start up everyday.

It was sorta shit when compared to the M4 the T-34, or the Pz.Iv.

>>32004198
It's miles better than the Stuarts and Matildas it replaced, why does liking lee = LOLOL AMARIFAT GO HOME

>>32004234
Of course, that's why it was phased out but I just hate the fact people say it's shit.

It was a very good thank, for it's time

>>32004121
Don't advertise that shit here, GermanSchteel.

>>32004285
I'm not him though.

>>32004256
Especially when it was only a stopgap measure.

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[x] Bounce her. Let's see how she handles this shit.

“Alright, hold on to your ass, Merlin.” You order, snapping the fighter around and getting a slight climb going- you'd like the additional height to build up energy, every little bit helps.

This is the worst part- you're in the sun, so you're relatively sure she won't be able to see you, but at the same time, if she does, You're not in a good spot to react, being too high above the cloud deck to make it back to them quickly and in a climb. Even with the massive excess of energy the wyvern tends to have, a climb slows you down.

Less than a minute, though, and you've set up for the bounce- above and behind, enough to make one pass that will send you screaming into the rain storm and well out of sight, a classic boom and zoom. You can practically hear Merlin's breath catch as you push the nose over into a dive, bringing up guns- the computer assisted reticule appearing on your HUD.

1/2

“Frank!” Merlin calls, just as the witch rolls away from your gunsight and into the clouds.

“Shit!” You grunt, opening the throttle forward, trusting the terrain following radar and the computer to keep you from flying into the mountains below as you crane your head around to try and keep her in your sights. “She saw us coming!”

“Hardly. You merely adopted the bounce.” Kathrine responds over the open channel. “I was born into it. You think you can use it against me? Please, smalltime.”

You don't reply, instead switching your attention to getting into the mountains before she gets on your tail.

“Frank! Frank she's behind us! She's closing in!” Merlin says, her voice excited. “She's between our tails! She's closing fast!”

As if to accentuate her point, a group of computer-generated tracers- courtesy of the range control computers, your fighter's avionics suite, and Young's G36 Prototype, flash by your canopy, close enough to make you glad they're only computer generated.

Well, there went the mountains.

[] Drag her lower, we'll have to play hide and seek here, we can't outclimb strikers.
[] Keep it in the cloud cover. We’ll both be on sensors, but we can fight with ours just as well as she can fight with hers.

>>32004365
[x] Use Merlin to cheat

>>32004365
>[] Drag her lower, we'll have to play hide and seek here, we can't outclimb strikers.
Told ya guys.

>>32004365
>[] Drag her lower, we'll have to play hide and seek here, we can't outclimb strikers.


Idiots, you don't bounce the spawn of the bounce king

Rolled 16

>>32004365
>[] Drag her lower, we'll have to play hide and seek here, we can't outclimb strikers.

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>>32004365
Worth a fuckin' try, Youngspawn!
>[] Keep it in the cloud cover. We’ll both be on sensors, but we can fight with ours just as well as she can fight with hers.
Activate the magic sensor goyim

>>32004365
So the choice is to get lower down and maybe not be seen, but she is a nightwitch and will probably see us anyways, thus giving us minimal room to maneuver or to duke it out in the skies where we are equal. I choose that.
>[] Keep it in the cloud cover. We’ll both be on sensors, but we can fight with ours just as well as she can fight with hers.

>>32004365
>[X] Drag her lower, we'll have to play hide and seek here, we can't outclimb strikers.

I regret nothing.

>>32004394
>>32004397
you seem upset

>>32004365
[x] Keep it in the cloud cover. We’ll both be on sensors, but we can fight with ours just as well as she can fight with hers.

>>32004365
[X] Keep it in the cloud cover. We’ll both be on sensors, but we can fight with ours just as well as she can fight with hers.

We have a one of a kind anti-witch magic sensor, lets give her a taste of just what the fuck that means.

>>32004365
>[x] Drag her lower, we'll have to play hide and seek here, we can't outclimb strikers.

SHIT SHIT SHIT. SHE'S ONTO US.

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>>32004365
>smalltime
We must end her!

[x] Drag her lower, we'll have to play hide and seek here, we can't outclimb strikers.

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>>32004392
Best solution

>>32004365
[] Keep it in the cloud cover. We’ll both be on sensors, but we can fight with ours just as well as she can fight with hers.
if we go low, she'll bounce us!

>“Hardly. You merely adopted the bounce.” Kathrine responds over the open channel. “I was born into it. You think you can use it against me? Please, smalltime.”

OH SNAP! she's bane to Fronk's batman!

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>>32004456
WE BREAK HER NOW!

>>32004365
>[x] Keep it in the cloud cover. We’ll both be on sensors, but we can fight with ours just as well as she can fight with hers.

Trust the Merlin Sensor

>>32004436
Not really, just baffled,

>>32004365
>[x] Crazy Fucking Ivan

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>>32004365
>[x] Keep it in the cloud cover. We’ll both be on sensors, but we can fight with ours just as well as she can fight with hers.

Let's put that magic sensor to work.

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>"Come on Merlin, do some of that RIO shit!"

Rolled 4

>>32004337
>[] Drag her lower, we'll have to play hide and seek here, we can't outclimb strikers.

>>32004533
This fucking gif, my sides are lost

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>>32004365

[X] Drag her lower, we'll have to play hide and seek here, we can't outclimb strikers.

>>32004365
>[] Keep it in the cloud cover. We'll both be on sensors, but we can fight with ours just as well as she can fight with hers.
A close-in maneuver fight with a witch is bad news. We screwed up with the bounce, but we can still win this one if we keep on even footing and use Merlin.

[] Drag her lower, we'll have to play hide and seek here, we can't outclimb strikers.
Also [] Merlin can you cheat?

And here are the results of the bounce fever. Must be the air or water in Barin.

Save us based Merlin

Promise her chocolates and shit

>>32004729
if we beat the spawn of young we must give her this

http://www.hersheysstore.com/product/7452

>>32004365
>[x] Keep it in the cloud cover. We’ll both be on sensors, but we can fight with ours just as well as she can fight with hers.

We can fight toe to toe in the clouds if we use the sensor and Merlin, fighting in the dirt with a witch isn't too smart.

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>>32004807
>5 lbs of hersheys
That's a coma in candy wrapping.

>>32004807
5 pounds of chocolate would be enough of a reward?

>>32004807
but Merlin loves Jolly Ranchers....

>>32004879
fuck that we up it 25!
http://www.hersheysstore.com/product/7541

According to my count, guys, the vote is a tie. anyone want to break it?

>>32004365
>[x] Keep it in the cloud cover. We’ll both be on sensors, but we can fight with ours just as well as she can fight with hers.

Have a tie breaker.

>>32005022
thank you kindly. Writing

>>32004807
>[] Drag her lower, we'll have to play hide and seek here, we can't outclimb strikers.
Noooooo

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[x] Keep it in the cloud cover. We’ll both be on sensors, but we can fight with ours just as well as she can fight with hers.

You'd like to drag her lower, and for a minute, you keep your dive, before you think better of it. In the clouds, if you generate any kind of distance between her and you, you'll both be totally reliant on sensors- where you have parity at least, if not an advantage.

Still, right now, she's all over you, and you're forced to keep your fighter rolling through the sky, breaking left in a brutal snap turn away from another burst of rifle fire, causing Merlin to grunt with the sudden G force slamming into both of you.

The clouds are cold, bone chillingly so- you can feel it seeping through the cockpit walls. “Frank C'mon! She's still back there!” Merlin cries, and you can hear her shifting around to keep the witch in her sights through your attempts to lose her. You jerk your fighter to the right, then try another snap to the left, banking on the thrust-vectored nozzles of your jet, augmented as they are by Merlin, to help you outmaneuver the witch- to no avail- she stays firmly glued to your rear quarter, and sends another burst of rifle fire your way as payment for your efforts.

Snarling wordlessly, you slam the throttles forward to the stops and your fighter roars, the powerful turbofans unleashed. Fed nearly a hundred pounds of fuel in an eye blink, and suddenly able to access the entirety of the energy Merlin's made available to them, they slam you back into your ejection seat, opening a five hundred yard gap between you and Young in a second.

1/2

“Running away?” She taunts, unable to keep up- and unwilling to try.

You don't respond, instead getting beyond visual range. “She's tracking us.” Merlin announces, quietly, as you watch a lightning bolt flash through the cloud nearby. Idly, part of your brain wonders if that's got something to do with you, then decides it doesn't matter.

“What can you do about it?” You ask, looking at your options- in this soup, it's going to come down to guns and positioning. The problem is, she's able to track you same as you can track her.

“I'm not sure. She uses her talent differently than Konstantina did. I'm not sure I can do anything about it.” She says. “And if I do, I don't think I can keep the sensors and engines running. We'd have to pick two.”

Twisting in your seat, you can just see the faint outline of the witch in the distance, still giving chase. You've got to turn back and engage, and you could simplify the whole thing by going head to head with her, but that's dicey as all hell. You're pretty sure you could afford to lose the engine power to shut down her sensors, but at the same time, that effectively locks you into a fight if you don't get her in the first pass.

[] Turn on her and make a head to head merge. You've been playing like a fighter pilot who's rational, let's see how she likes crazy.
[] Have Merlin kill her sensors, let's see how she fights blind. (give up one, engine boost or sensors)

[Sorry about the lag there guys, puppy related. that and I'm trying to kill a headache that's pretty stubborn, haha.]

>>32005691
>[] Have Merlin kill her sensors, let's see how she fights blind. (give up one, engine boost or sensors)
Engine Boost

>>32005691
>[] Have Merlin kill her sensors, let's see how she fights blind.
>Engine Boost

>>32005691
>[] Have Merlin kill her sensors, let's see how she fights blind. (engine boost)

>>32005691
>[] Have Merlin kill her sensors, let's see how she fights blind.
>Engine Boost

>>32005691
>[X] Have Merlin kill her sensors, let's see how she fights blind. (give up one, engine boost or sensors)
Kill the engine boost, who cares if we're ONLY fighter plane speed if we can see her and she can't see us.

Get hunter-killer or dis bitch.

>>32005691
>[X] Have Merlin kill her sensors, let's see how she fights blind. (give up one, engine boost or sensors)

Kill the sensors. We can still rely on our less-fancy mechanical one and use our engine advantage to out-energy her shit.

>>32005691
>[] Have Merlin kill her sensors, let's see how she fights blind. (give up one, engine boost or sensors)
kill boost

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>>32005691
[X] Have Merlin kill her sensors, let's see how she fights blind. (give up one, engine boost or sensors)
Engine boosto.

>[X] Have Merlin kill her sensors, let's see how she fights blind. (give up engine boost)

inb4 Kathrine's Witchgnome bullshit fixes the sensors immediately

She's crazier than we are and we're screwed if we go in blind, but this looks like the least bad option.

>>32005691
"Hey Young, ever wonder what it would be like to be blind?"

>>32005804
Guys, remember what her mom's trait was?

>>32005839
Fucking newtype bs?

>>32005691
[X] Turn on her and make a head to head merge. You've been playing like a fighter pilot who's rational, let's see how she likes crazy.
Don't be rational. Rational gets you killed when dealing with the Young.

Wait, even if her strikers' sensors are off, couldn't she just track us with her night witch magic?

>>32005839
Situational Awareness, duh.

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>>32005839
Fffffffffff

>>32005855
Man has a point going with this

>>32005691
>[] Turn on her and make a head to head merge. You've been playing like a fighter pilot who's rational, let's see how she likes crazy.
Time for the special gnome bullshit.

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>>32005804 here, changing vote to
>[X] Turn on her and make a head to head merge. You've been playing like a fighter pilot who's rational, let's see how she likes crazy.

Apologies for being an indecisive faggot.

>>32005839
No fucking wonder people are jealous of the Youngspawns. Bullshit piled on top of bullshit.

>>32005691
>[X] Turn on her and make a head to head merge. You've been playing like a fighter pilot who's rational, let's see how she likes crazy.

>>32005839
>“I'm not sure. She uses her talent differently than Konstantina did. I'm not sure I can do anything about it.” She says. “And if I do, I don't think I can keep the sensors and engines running. We'd have to pick two.”
Because Merlin is totally just talking about her stikers mostly mundane sensors.

>>32005691
[] Turn on her and make a head to head merge. You've been playing like a fighter pilot who's rational, let's see how she likes crazy.

you still owe up puppy pics ghost! we want to see those cuties!

We need to throw sense out of the window people this is a young we are talking about

>>32006019
>Youngspawns run on crazy and dragging people out of their comfort zone.
>dragging people out of their comfort zone.
Why play her game when we can give her some of her own medicine?

Frank really needs to let lose. He's been surrounded by estrogen pretty much 24/7 these past few days.

>>32005691
>[x] Turn on her and make a head to head merge. You've been playing like a fighter pilot who's rational, let's see how she likes crazy.

Deleted my post to change, go for the merge.

>[x] Turn on her and make a head to head merge. You've been playing like a fighter pilot who's rational, let's see how she likes crazy.

>other

Ask her three sizes. Tell her her butts too big. Ask her out on a date. Give her cheesy romance advice. Mind games. Alls fair in war. The less she focuses on shooting us and chatting the better.

>>32006193
I am immediately reminded of the hallucination of witches part in SWQ.

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>>32006193
Yes YES! We must do this no matter what.

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>>32006193
I like it.

>>32006193

>I'll have you take responsibility, Frank!

>I SAID I WAS SORRY!

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>>32006193
I can dig it

>>32006193
i second this! good thing talking is a free action!

>>32006193
That's just silly, and not even the good kind.

>>32006193
i say do this, but remember, the line is open and all the other witches are likely will hear everything.

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Hey guys, remember that family photo Captain Blackwell was talking about/holding when we were drinking with her? You know, right after she kicked Longstreet off the Sara?

Deculture just finished it.

>>32006524
>likely
They're literally making briefing videos out of this shit. Everyone will hear everything that gets said.

Rolled 1

>>32006525
Sweet moses, hhnnnnnggggggggg.

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>>32006525
hhnnnnnnnnggggggg
>>32006524
So?

>>32006525

What happen to the younger daughter, the one that did not make the cut?

>>32006585
Looks to be Blackwell herself as a toddler.

>>32006525
Adorable.

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>>32005691
>[X] Have Merlin kill her sensors, let's see how she fights blind. (While giving up engine boost, no need to waste good fuel, et cetera)

Also that bit about the sizes and such because that's A: Hilarious and B: Likely to have repercussions down the line that I want to see.

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>>32006937
>B: Likely to have repercussions down the line that I want to see.
This guy gets it.

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Attempting to summon Ghost.

>>32007435
Shhhh, he is sleeping!

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[x] Have Merlin kill her sensors, let's see how she fights blind. (engine boost)

“Kill her sensors, Merlin.” You order, Turning the fighter around and climbing. “And stop boosting the engines. We'll be fine.”

“Done.” Merlin says, and you can feel the sudden loss of power as the magic augmenting the jets is suddenly cut off. “And she's blind now, but we'll have to move fast.”

“Fine by me. Here we go, we're gonna take her down the left side.” You respond, passing above and to the right of the witch, making a tight turn to get behind her.

Blind in the storm, Young tracks you by ear- though she's responding well enough that you're almost afraid that she's able to get something through Merlin's jamming attempts. She breaks hard to the right, forcing you to reverse your turn- she's trying to get inside of you, and without engines, you can't outrun her, so you'd have to out turn her- a tricky job, at best.

“I got you now!” You crow, gaining her tail- she's a bit far for guns yet, but you're slowly closing the gap, though you're having to use full blowers to do it, and her evasives aren't making it easy, she's throwing herself all over the sky trying to keep you from a shot- you're having to strain just to stay on her tail.

1/2

“Watch out Watch out!” Merlin cries, a half second before Young viffs hard, pivoting around her waist and swinging her legs forward, leaning way back against her inertia and dumping speed and forcing you to roll over her top to avoid a collision- though Merlin's shield flashes to life between your fighter and her, intercepting any incoming rounds.

“Dominant, aren't you?” You grunt, looking back as she scrambles to make the most of her reversal.

“You're too slow, smalltime. Other girls might like it, but you gotta keep me interested.” She responds, blandly. “You're good though, I'll give you that.”

“You don't know the half of it.” You say, rolling away from her guns again, caught in a dogfight now.

“Break left!” Merlin yells, and you can practically feel the tracers cross beneath the wyvern's belly. “Frank!”

[] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.
[] Not risking a coma here to prove a point for these bitches. We can handle her without it.

>>32007599
>[] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.
We ARE here to test this after all.

>>32007599
>[] Not risking a coma here to prove a point for these bitches. We can handle her without it.

>>32007599
>[x] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.

>>32007599
>[] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.

We're going to die...

>>32007599
>[x] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.

'ERE WE GO. 'ERE WE GO. 'ERE WE GO.

>>32007599
>[] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.

She's playing to win, and so shall we.

>>32007599
>[x] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.
All or nothing.

>>32007599
[] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.

>>32007599
>[] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.
SMALLTIME MY ASS.

Rolled 20

>>32007599
Pull the stops out. If we don't do anything for fear of a good possibly several nights' rest, we won't get anything done.

>>32007599
>[x] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.

WE ARE NOT SMALLTIME!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2v3S7f3_dk

>>32007599
>[X] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.

It has been a while since we've been hospitalized.

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>>32007599
>>32007599
[X] Not risking a coma here to prove a point for these bitches. We can handle her without it.

>>32007599
>[x] Not risking a coma here to prove a point for these bitches. We can handle her without it.

IIRC, we were told to avoid a coma flying against the aggressors.

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>>32007599
>[X] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.
"Fucking fine. This is why we're here ladies, watch closely."

And then shred her ass.

>>32007599
[] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.

Rolled 9

>>32007722
even so, it seems out of character to intentionally hold back. As responsible as he is, I don't see him holding back for any reason.

>>32007715
>>32007722
she nearly just killed us....

>>32007599

Pop the air break. Use the momentum to poll vault the fighter in a full 180 with help from a bit of thrust vectoring and magic to keep the airframe from disintegrating under the strain.

>>32007783
Something tells me she's not exactly other people's favorite witch, high list of kills or no.

>>32007599
>[] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.

Rolled 14

>>32007838
to be fair, when was the last time anyone in her family gave more that a third of a shit about being well liked?

>>32007599
>[x] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.

No more Mr nice guy!

>>32007599
>[] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.
"Well you asked for it. Also get the healwitches ready, cuz your going in the hurt locker!"

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>>32007689
I love you.

>>32007599

>other

CRAZY FUCKING IVAN.

>>32007689
by god he got a 20! WE GOT THE DICE GOD BLESSING

>>32007599
[X] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.
It's fine.

>>32007599
>[x] Not risking a coma here to prove a point for these bitches. We can handle her without it.
She's good. Konstantina was better. We'll slog through this without pushing the Gnome button, she'll brag, and then she can have a quiet "oh shit, I fought *that*?" moment once we bust out the big guns.

>>32007599
>[x] Not risking a coma here to prove a point for these bitches. We can handle her without it.

>>32007599
>[x] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.

Rolled 5

>>32007957
yeah, but we never pushed the gnome button when we flew against Konnie the Commie. Push come to shove, we end the fight at 3 minutes instead of 5.

flying american dread when?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0id8r-w1YZ4

>>32008084
The Gnome button shouldn't ever be pushed lightly. One of these days, jumping up and down on the button is going to get Fronk or Merlin killed...and it'll probably be Merlin.

>>32008269
But we're here specifically TO test it, dumbass. So nothing goes wrong when we need it.

Rolled 10

>>32008269
I'm not saying push it for shits and giggles. I am saying that the Matrons are all here to see us push the big red button, and the more matrons here, the less matrons keeping our witch forces together in order to effectively push back the Reds and win the war before the Martians go "HAHA THEMS THE BREAKS" before they decide that an invasion circa March of '91 is a good idea.

>>32008269
look we need to test EVERYTHING. This is the perfect time to go all out

>>32008269
Except Franks always just subconsciously started leaning on the button whenever he needed it, and ended up dam near breaking it at Berlin.

We need practice on using and abusing this shit and if it helps the old ladies get an idea about what the fuck we're doing then that's just icing on the cake.

>>32008269
I'm willing to take that risk.

Fine, I guessed I have to play that card.

Slider said we don't have to prove these bitches anything.

She's honestly concern and gave us advice not to force it

>>32007599
>[x]Open canopy and fire with service pistol.

>>32008269
I don't see the gnome as a button so much as a volume control. it's always on with fronk. We just need to crank it up to 11 for now.

>>32008397
we are not Chirico!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEbAqyhujs8

Rolled 7

>>32008388
We didn't have to save Rand or Rudel either. We did it anyway. Why? The greater good. If we can get all these witches back to the war, or prove that we are overwhelmingly better than anything the Russians can throw at us, the war will end that much quicker. And since the Martians will be reinvading in '91, we need to end the war as fast as we damn well can.

>>32008388
Who cares about the bitches, WE need to figure our limits. If we just leave gnome on the "Don't think about it, it just kicks in." setting another Berlin could happen and we might take even longer to wake up next time.

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>>32008367
>willing to risk killing Merlin

>>32008476
she knows the risks

>>32008476
She knew what she was signing up for.

You guys remember that witches know how to help a guy deal with gnome juice depletion right?

Remember what the prerequisites on the witch's side was?

Oh yes~.

>>32007599
>[] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.

OUR HAIR IS ALIGHT WITH LIGHTNING AND THUNDER

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[x] Pull the stops out. We've got healwitches, we'll be fine.

You're totally defensive- and you can feel the frustration building. She's got more combat experience, she's got a hell of a family history- her dad isn't exactly unknown in the aviation community, even the USN fighter community, being noted for taking a P-61 off a carrier deck once upon a time.

But she's not you. And she doesn't have Merlin, who's warnings are getting more and more frantic- she's not able to counter this witch, and it's scaring her.

“Merlin, how are we looking?” You ask, too busy to look at your panel for fuel state and the essentials- you're having to keep your head outside the cockpit, focusing on the witch.

“We- uh. We're ok on fuel.” She says, hesitating for a second, getting her head back on the instrument panel. “No stress warnings, temperatures are all good.”

“Groovy.” You respond- Chopping the throttles back, deflecting your canards down and your thrust vectored nozzles the up, causing your fighter to go into a vertical roll- pitching up and over. Normally, this would be a kulbit, or tight diameter loop- but you intend to arrest it, and do so, canceling the roll without protest from the fighter and heading in the other direction, momentarily catching a glimpse at the surprised look on Young's face as she screams past your fighter, though she's already starting her reversal.

Not that it matters to you.

1/3

With enough airspeed to spare, you pivot the fighter again, slewing the tail around wider than the nose, putting a massive amount of stress on the frame- a normal fighter, or one without Merlin in it, would have snapped in half at the attempt. The wyvern hardly complains.

With two total direction reversals in as many seconds, your airspeed should be shot all to hell- you'd probably be just above stall normally, allowing Young to get away and re-engage. Instead you've managed to preserve some, and she's forced into the defensive, deflecting away from your gunsights.

She attempts another viff, but this time you're ready, rolling over the top then deflecting away from her waiting gun, turning your head to track her as your helmet umbilical floats in the negative G of the maneuver.

Now on your tail again- she's good at reversals, you've noticed, she fires another burst, but it's rushed- if you knew her better, you'd have said it was panicked. You dive under it, dropping briefly below the cloud deck into the storm- noting that the wind's buffeting you pretty badly.

You're vaguely aware of the radio network in the background, but no call to knock it off has come through, no cancellation of the exercise. That's fine by you. Still, you're sure at this point, there's more than a few witches not sure they believe what their cameras and radars are showing them.

“Watch the mountains!” Merlin cries, though it's just a warning as you climb back into the clouds, noting they seem thinner inside, now.

“She's still with us!” She says, looking around. “You haven't lost her! She's gonna get a shot at us! C'mon Frank you gotta do something! Break Right!”

2/3 (I think)

She's good, you admit, one of the best you've fought- but in this case, it's just not enough. She's used to conventional pilots, good ones, sure, but not you. Not bleeding edge air superiority fighters with full witch integration, and certainly not ones piloted by the Eagle of.. whatever the hell it is now. You seem to recall it having been changed to the Eagle of the north, but you're not sure who told you.

While you can't win an energy fight, at least not now, you're not totally defensive. You throw the fighter into a series of rolls, forcing her to mirror them to keep behind you, though she drops back a bit- enough that your options just opened up.

You throw the fighter's nose skyward once more, fully expecting Young to follow- and she obliges. You grin, chopping both throttles to idle and popping your airbrakes and spoilers wide open, brutally throwing you against your straps as your fighter suddenly stalls- exactly as you wanted it to. As it slips down- in reverse and still under control, Merlin's shield flashes to life again briefly as Young pivots- and her rifle's bolt clams home on an empty chamber.

3/4 (oops.)

Rolled 20

>>32008650
See, right here, I like to think that Fronk waved as Miss Young went rocketing past at over twice the speed of sound. With biggest shit eating grin on his face. Just because/

You grin again, tasting copper now, and slam the throttles wide open, arresting your near vertical fall on afterburner plumes hundreds of feet long, and you settle your gunsight right over the witch.

Her shield flares to life as your computer begins to tell the story of her death- hundreds of 25mm shells, augmented by Merlin, slam into her shield, shattering it before she can move. Or, would have, were it for real.

“Splash one.” You announce over the intercom as the range controllers announce it- their computers recorded the entire thing as well.

“All participants, this exercise is over. The RAF looks forward to working with you again.” The range controller announces from his mount in the nimrod above. “That was impressive, Revenant. You too, Hauptmann Young.”

“Pfft.” She responds, forming up on your wing and looking over- she can't see you through the one way canopy, but she shakes her head all the same. “Not bad, smalltime. Won't happen again.”

> Respond how?

>>32008724
no you are the small time

>>32008724
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SMALLTIME! SMALLTIME!"

>>32008724
No. You are small time.

>>32008724
>tasting copper now
...we are so dead when we land. Merlin? You bleeding to?

>>32008724
[x] "You talk mighty big for a dead woman"

>>32008724
"Come back and talk to me when you've got a list of nicknames the length of your arm, Rusty."

>>32008724
[x]"Heh, smalltime."

No need to be loud, just barely whisper on the radio.

>>32008724
See >>32006193
>Ask her three sizes. Tell her her butts too big. Ask her out on a date. Give her cheesy romance advice.

Rolled 2

>>32008724
"Did you see me waving when you went flying past at mach 2 point whatever it was? Cause I was waving.

>>32008724
"Aww, what's the matter? Scared of getting trounced again?"

>>32008724
>[x]You sure like to flap those lips for being dead.

>>32008699
>out-dueling youngspawn with fucking pugachev cobra

damn. we own the skies.

>>32008724
>Respond how?

"Not bad yourself. You never had a chance, but nod bad."

>>32008724
"Why does everything taste like copper?"

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>>32008724
"I feel like I need a cigarette."

>>32008724
Grin, Grin the Grinniest Grin we can, the most shit-eating-est I-just-bounced-you GRIN we can muster. Say nothing.

>>32008754
we are fine hush you

>>32008724
"No, it won't."

We can't use this every fight.

>>32008724
Don't respond. Just smile all the way down.

>>32008808
we use it when we need it moron why the fuck would we use it on small fry

>>32008724
>> Respond how?
"Probably not, damn you're tough."

Strong opponent. No need to gab, show respect.

Rolled 20

>>32008800
OH SHIT THE TOMCAT METAL JUST WENT THROUGH OUR LUNG
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

>>32008831
We just used it on small fry.

>>32008724

"It's a date. I'll bring the ice cream."

>>32008724
"And if it were a real fight I would've had better backup than you"

Rolled 11

>>32008843
Dice Gods, I am truly blessed, but why all the twenties? That's like the third one.

>>32008843
YOUR 20 JUST KILLED US, WHY

>>32008865
I had 4 20's and a 1 trying to save a girl in another quest. I failed.

>>32008724
>No it won't, I should have actually tried from the start. Next time will be cleaner.

>>32008843
no we unable to breath

>>32008724

"Grab a drink later? I'm going to need one."

Rolled 6

>>32008867
or saved us. Who knows.

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>>32008724
"This smalltime just splashed you."

>>32008724
>>32008839
>>32008892

These

>>32008892
+1

>>32008911
all for this, respect where respect is due

>>32008724

Whatever we do, we've gotta mail her a complimentary USAF thermos with 'Smalltime' engraved on the side

>>32008957
Pants with 'SMALLTIME' on the ass.

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>>32008724
This >>32008911

>tasting copper now
Fuck, just fuck. Check on Merlin.
>You seem to recall it having been changed to the Eagle of the north
I was finally starting to like Eagle of Tanana.

>>32008911

Make it happen.

Too much smalltime bullshit

>>32008724
God, I need a drink.

>>32008892
Drinks sounds like a good idea

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>>32008957
This. >mfw

>>32008984

>pants
>not sexy lingerie that spell out Smalltime in the lace.

>>32008911
yes please

>>32009057
>lingerie
No. We're not going down this road again.

>>32008724
"Not bad yourself, Hauptmann. Kept me on my toes. I dunno about you, but I could use a drink."

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>>32009057
She'll probably send Frank the smalltime pants in response.

>>32008957
Papa Young will hear this and steal some wyvern or other prototypes USA have to have some 'fun' with frank.

Just because.

>>32008911
Maybe not the drink, but acknowledge with respect for sure.

>>32009081
Anon's right. Besides, it's just about time for Konstantina to show up with the original pair we left back in Alaska.

>>32009103
kek

>>32009089
perfect final fight!

Rolled 14

>>32009103
And the fibersteel necklace she salvaged from our Tomcat.

>>32009081

>we're not going down this road again

We haven't even left the previous lingerie road.

>>32009057
>>32008984

"She has an ass like DAMN."

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>>32008957
Wait. WAIT.

>USAF

Who the fuck you think we fly for, nigga? We look like bitch-ass Chair Force to you?

>>32008642

As someone who didn't really follow the original SWQ, no I don't.

>>32009487
A deep emotional connection. Nothing actually lewd, but you know how anon thinks.

>>32008642
>>32009487

They have to have a near-intimate connection, or at least powerful feelings for them.

But since Frank went and done broke his brain again, odds are we're going back to Georgette's healing ward again instead of one of our witches do that.

Rolled 14

>>32009487
Basically, a witch can blunt force trauma a gnome back onto his feet by kinda sorta jumpstarting him, using magic. Only thing is, the prerequisite for being able to jumpstart the gnome is a strong emotional bond. That's why only Minna could jumpstart Young; the others didn't have the requisite emotions.

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>>32009478

>almost half-hour later

It took someone that long to point it out? For shame /tg/.

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>>32009511
It can be used for lewd things though. Lewd torturous things...

>>32009535
>That's why only Minna could jumpstart Young; the others didn't have the requisite emotions.

She was also the only one who knew how to do it. Everyone else didn't have the training.