>>37683025
Archive now while you can qtg is out for blood

>>37683025
>>Allow her to speak first
Also, I want to know what Mary knows about Enterprise

>>37683025
>Ask her what this is all about
Are they gonna probe us?

>>37683045
Already done. Learned my lesson right quick on that one.

>>37683025
>>Allow her to speak first

>>37683025
You settle into the deep leather cushions, shifting your weight until you find the most comfortable position. It's a little warm for your taste, and it sticks a bit to your exposed legs and wrists, but you try your best to hide your discomfort.

After all, it seems that Yamato is doing the same.

She coughs twice, then looks you in the eye briefly before turning slightly to break the momentary contact. All the while, you notice she refuses to drop the facade of poise and power she's trying to present you.

Then, finally, she speaks.

"How much do you remember, Maryland?"

"From before I was taken by the Abyssal, or while I was one of its tools?" you ask, needing some clarification.

Yamato bites her lip. "Both, I suppose. Whatever you believe I need to know. You have no need to hold back, I assure you."

You ponder her request for a second or two, trying to discern why she's asking you this in private: and now of all times, well after she found out who and what you are.

>Tell her what you can, focus on the War. Strange that those are your fonder memories.
>Tell her what you can, but include information about the Abyssal. You figure that's what she's really here for anyway.
>Try to recall more about your time as an Abyssal girl: you figure she needs to know, and you need to remember.
>Other?

>>37683571
>Tell her what you can, but include information about the Abyssal. You figure that's what she's really here for anyway.

>>37683571
>>Tell her what you can, focus on the War. Strange that those are your fonder memories.

>>37683571
>>Tell her what you can, but include information about the Abyssal. You figure that's what she's really here for anyway.
Also, Enterprise.

Possibly tease Yamato for only firing her guns in one engagement.

>>37683571
>Tell her what you can, but include information about the Abyssal. You figure that's what she's really here for anyway.

>>37683571
>Tell her what you can, focus on the War. Strange that those are your fonder memories.

>>37683571
>>Try to recall more about your time as an Abyssal girl: you figure she needs to know, and you need to remember.
>Tell her what you can, but include information about the Abyssal. You figure that's what she's really here for anyway.

WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA?

KI SA RA GI!

Ah, I'm just in time.

I remember a comment from a previous thread that this might be the last one, I hope that isn't the case. I only just found out about this quest and got done reading the archives.

>Tell her what you can, but include information about the Abyssal. You figure that's what she's really here for anyway.

>>37683571
"Well," you begin haltingly, not entirely sure what it is Yamato wants to hear, "I remember that there were a number of me when we were with the Abyssal, and that I had to kill them all. And I remember being killed by myself a couple of times... which is weird."

Yamato raises an eyebrow at you, but otherwise remains silent as you continue the story.

"I also know that at each stage in the game I started to remember more of my previous life. Like that time at Surigao straight with some of the other old-timers, where we jumped two of your old-timers. Fusō and Yamashiro, I think? Mogami too... it was a real mess."

Yamato nods. "I've heard about that day from Yamashiro. She's still less than thrilled about it."

"And I'm still not thrilled about watching Ari blow up," you reply.

"It would have been easier had you not remembered that, I think."

As you're getting ready to shoot off a snarky reply, you hear a knock at the door. Yamato sighs, before calling "it's open!"

Nagato steps into the room, her eyes quickly sweeping it before settling on Yamato.

"I thought we agreed that this was unwise," Nagato growls softly.

Yamato shrugs in cool indifference. "I recall no such agreement, Miss Nagato."

>Wait, what agreement?
>It's fine, but I also remember something else (roll to recall another detail about your time as an Abyssal)
>It's fine, we were just shooting the breeze.
>Other

>>37684186
>>Wait, what agreement?

>>37684186
>Wait, what agreement?

>>37684186
>>Wait, what agreement?
Oh my, politics. I remember shuttling politicians around once. It was boring. Was it as boring for you being an over glorified hotel, Yamato?

>>37684186
>>It's fine, we were just shooting the breeze.
"We were just talking about the War."

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>>37684186
>Wait, what agreement?

I have a bad feeling...

>>37684186
>watching Ari blow up
Speaking of Ari, will we be seeing her around since she was just left there and not scrapped? I mean, sure parts were retrieved and repurposed, but that isn't the same.

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>37684186
>>It's fine, but I also remember something else (roll to recall another detail about your time as an Abyssal)
Rolling 1d100

>>37684186
>The Midway and the Pearl Harbor ships in one place.
Think of all the hatesex!

>>37684354
She's with the other USN battleships. You've yet to speak with them as Maryland.

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>>37684377
Oh wow!

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>>37684354

>>37684414
>>37684377
was me, forgot to turn my trip on.
Dice gods are with us.

>>37684382
Brings a new meaning to "battle lust," right Anon?

>>37684442
Fuck meant to link to
>>37684377

>>37684390
>yet to speak with them
Hug timez

>>37684377
That's not actually the type of dice I would have eventually asked for had that won.

Sorry.

>>37684497
bah, was wondering why you didn't specify a type of dice to roll :( Oh well.
Going with
>Wait, what agreement?
then

>>37684497
Can we apply it to later if we get the chance to hug Ari? She's probably over most of it, but that doesn't mean she can't get the hugs she deserves.

>>37684561
With a 96, it might not end with just hugs.

>>3768472
Oh my. It might end up with an UNREP! How lewd.

>>37684186
"Wait, hold the phone," you interrupt. "What did you mean by an agreement? I mean, if it's not to not interrogate me, you don't have to worry Nagato."

Nagato shifts her gaze to face you. "It is not that, Mary."

"I do recall Miss Nagato mentioning something she wished for me to not bring up," Yamato admits, "but I can hardly say I recall agreeing not to pursue it."

Something about this makes you a little nervous... what is it that's concerned them?

"I still do not believe this is something we need to know," Nagato tells Yamato. "You asked my advice and I gave it to you: do not concern yourself with this matter."

"It concerns my SISTER," Yamato hisses, the image of calm momentarily disturbed before she catches herself. "You may be my senior, but when it comes to Musashi I refuse to stand by."

"What do you mean?" you ask Yamato. "What's this about Musashi? She seemed fine when I saw her earlier today, aside from not wearing an actual shirt."

Nagato turns to you, concern evident in her face as she resigns herself to the situation. "Some time ago, a few of our sisters fell out of contact. Near the Bonin Islands. It was only for a week, but it had all of us a bit nervous."

"Musashi was one of those," Yamato tells you, "along with Kitakami, Ooi, and Taihou."

>But she's fine, right? What's the problem?
>Sorry, I don't know anything about it.
>I was part of the Abyssal, I can try forcing a memory out, if I have one.
>Other?

>>37684789
>But she's fine, right? What's the problem?

>>37684789
>>I was part of the Abyssal, I can try forcing a memory out, if I have one.
This option will likely lead to tears and sadness.

>>37684789
>But she's fine, right? What's the problem?
Did they get tentacle raped fatalpulse style or something?

>>37684789
>>But she's fine, right? What's the problem?

>not wearing an actual shirt
Oh yes. I want to hear why she isn't wearing a real shirt.

>>37684789
>>But she's fine, right? What's the problem?

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>>37684789
>>But she's fine, right? What's the problem?
>>37684847
This is why

>>37684789
I can try to force a memory out if I have one.

>>37684865
I know HOW she dresses and WHAT she wears, I want to here Ace's explanation for WHY she chooses to wear wraps instead of a shirt.

>>37684915
Ahh, okay. I want to hear it too, actually.

>>37684915
>>37684920
There IS an actual reason.

And I just realized I have like no art of her for some reason.

>>37684993
will you share?

Is she secretly trying to drive prim and proper Yamato to apoplexy or something?

>>37684789
>But she's fine, right? What's the problem?
I don't the abyss have developed brain slugs, yet.

>>37684789
"But she's fine?" you ask, uncertain if there's something here you missed. "I can't see a problem."

"The problem," Yamato presses, "is that none of the four recall anything about that week. At all."

"You asked them?" Nagato asks quietly.

Yamato nods. "None of them realize that they've all forgotten one week."

"And you all remember that week?" you question Yamato, trying to narrow down the possibilities.

"Of course. It's only the four girls who were out of contact."

You sigh, understanding why it was that Yamato called you here. "You want to know if the Abyssal had something to do with it."

"I do. Nagato didn't want me to ask, but if you could remember anything at all I'd be grateful."

"You do not have to force it," Nagato reminds you softly. "Not if you do not wish to dwell on it any longer."

>Do you have some pictures of Kitakami, Ooi, and Taihou? I don't have faces to attach to the names.
>I can try to recall any information about that week, in that area.
>I'd rather not, sorry. It's not a time of my life I'm comfortable enough with to face just yet.
>Other

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>>37685238
>>Do you have some pictures of Kitakami, Ooi, and Taihou? I don't have faces to attach to the names.
Oh god! They did get tentacle raped!

>>37685238
>>Do you have some pictures of Kitakami, Ooi, and Taihou? I don't have faces to attach to the names.

>>37685238
>Do you have some pictures of Kitakami, Ooi, and Taihou? I don't have faces to attach to the names.

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I have a picture to Kitakami!

>>37685238
>>Do you have some pictures of Kitakami, Ooi, and Taihou? I don't have faces to attach to the names.
SUPER KTKM-SAMA

>>37685238
>Do you have some pictures of Kitakami, Ooi, and Taihou? I don't have faces to attach to the names.

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>>37685238
>Do you have some pictures of Kitakami, Ooi, and Taihou? I don't have faces to attach to the names.

Well this is worrying.

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>>37685238
"I haven't met three of them yet," you explain to your fellow battleships, "so I've got nothing to work with. If you can get me pictures of what Kitakami, Ooi, and Taihou I may be able to remember something."

Yamato nods and produces a small purse from one a small pouch on her left thighhigh, apparently having come prepared for such a request. From it she pulls three little pictures, and hands the first to you.

"This is Kitakami," she explains.

You look at her, focusing. Black hair with a braid and bangs, greenish school uniform, light cruiser by the look of her...

>3d10. DC 8.

Rolled 1, 8, 6 = 15 (3d10)

>>37685705

Rolled 8, 7, 8 = 23 (3d10)

>>37685705

>>37685705
and then we forget our name.

>>37685760
Imma need you to reroll that, anon.

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>>37685749
Bravo!

Rolled 3, 9, 9 = 21 (3d10)

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Rolled 5, 10, 2 = 17 (3d10)

>>37685705

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>>37685787
You look closely at her... and then it strikes you. A definite sense of familiarity, both from your own memories and the memories of the "Maryland" clone you simply refer to as #3. Beyond that, you recall little more aside from a vague feeling of sadness.

"I've got something at least," you tell Yamato. "One of the clones of me that I killed had seen her, and there's some sadness there. Though I can't be sure why, it could just be that I'm still not happy about killing Number 3. She was nice."

Yamato shakes her head. "Number Three? I see. I suppose that's a start."

She then passes you a second photograph: this one of Ooi. As Nagato looks on nervously, you take in the details of Ooi's image. Possibly related to Kitakami, you figure, with similarly plain looks and even more nondescript brown hair...

>3d10, DC 7.

Rolled 2, 8, 2 = 12 (3d10)

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Rolled 9, 1, 4 = 14 (3d10)

>>37685902

Rolled 7, 10, 5 = 22 (3d10)

>>37685902

Rolled 10, 2, 4 = 16 (3d10)

>>37685902

Rolled 5, 8, 1 = 14 (3d10)

>>37685902

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>>37685964
Again, something about this seemingly nondescript girl gives you pause. You remember her, once more from the memories of #3. But something else disturbs you this time.

#3 felt she deserved death.

You explain your new findings to your companions, who seem uneasy about the revelation. Nagato in particular seems concerned about what may happen next.

"You can stop any time you want," she insists.

You shake your head. "No, this is what I want to do. I want to help, and I need to know."

Yamato passes you the third picture, of Taihou.

She seems a lot like Sara and Lex, but more heavily armored all around: especially on her flight deck. She has pretty brown hair, and her uniform is strange. It has a black under layer with a green skirt, white sleeves, and what looks to be an iron armor plate across her abdomen.

>3d10, DC 5.

Rolled 4, 5, 1 = 10 (3d10)

>>37686125

Rolled 1, 2, 6 = 9 (3d10)

>>37686125

Rolled 5, 6, 4 = 15 (3d10)

>>37686125

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Rolled 8, 10, 4 = 22 (3d10)

>>37686125

Rolled 9, 8, 6 = 23 (3d10)

>>37686125
and then we feel really bad about ourself

>>37686145
Once again, #3's memories reveal that at some point you've seen Taihou as well. And this time it can't be from passing her on-base: she's been on patrol since you arrived. There's no way you've seen her face to face since you joined Nagato's team.

"I see," Yamato's eyes narrow as you explain this to her. "It seems I may have been correct in my suspicions."

Nagato crosses her arms and shuts her eyes, deep in thought. "Mary, what do you believe this all means about what happened to Musashi and her squad during that week?"

>Reply?

>>37686244
And with that I'm off to trudge back to my apartment in the snow.

Feel free to discuss and reach some form of consensus, this could be a 20-30 minute break.

>>37686272
Don't turn into a Teitoku-sicle.

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>>37686244
>>Reply?
Time travel.

Or, they could have all gotten drunk and woke up in bed with #3. Everyone decided to never speak of it again. #3 wants to die since she took advantage of all of them.

Rolled 10, 5, 2 = 17 (3d10)

>>37686244
I'm not sure about the timeline. Was this before or after the abyss girls first started appearing? Maybe they captured some girls to find out how things worked to make their own?

Though that doesn't explain why their memories are missing, which implies they were let go if captured.

>>37686244
I don't remember screaming and death at least. So that's good. However I don't remember enough.

What we do all remember is #3 getting captured by the Abyssals and getting drug off for whatever. Therefore, I don't think that they're brainwashed, the Abyssals would be trying to capture everyone then.

However, we should probably be on the lookout for clones like myself and Enterprise. How effective these clones or even there existence would need to be confirmed first hand since I don't have any memories.

>>37686244
collective amnesia induced by blunt trauma to the head

#3 hit them so hard the ended up in next week

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Not enough to go on really. Perhaps we should ask if/how they were damaged, if their behavior changed, and if the Abyssal behavior changed after they returned.

>>37686244

Perhaps an attempt at forcefully turning them into sleeper units?

whatever the situation, I believe that Ooi engaged in combat and killed/destroyed/damaged something that #3 believed to be important...

It is possible the Sadness towards Kitakami could be pity, suggesting something unpleasant occurred to her...

and all we can do is confirm that whatever happened, Taihou was there as well, though it is possible that whatever happened, her reaction/response was expected...

Perhaps some kind of experimental Jamming test? The effect could have been crippling to Ooi, worked on Taihou but Kitakami tried to fight back?

>>37686244
#3 knocked them up with her tentacles.

Yamato, you will be an aunt.

Maybe we should roll to see if we remember Musashi as well with these other three before we come up with a theory.

>>37686244
#3's attempt to get Musashi to wear a sundress was met with mind shattering results.

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>>37686782
But we have confirmation of the sweater.

>>37686840
the photographer did not survive.

is our response going to be a shoulder shrug or something then?

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>>37686914
Not if she decided to hit him, no.

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>>37686977
>is our response going to be a shoulder shrug or something then?
No, more questions about what happened.

>>37687006
more questions to jog our - or #3's - memory then.

I still say roll to remember Musashi and see what happens.

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>>37687063
>I still say roll to remember Musashi and see what happens.

Yes, this too.

>>37686244
So, we have one case of sadness, one case of "Bitch should die" and one of "Yeah, I've seen this chick before", aall coming from Mary #3.

I think...
The four of them encountered Mary #3, they fought and were captured, Ooi either fucked up or did/suffered SOMETHING that made M3 think she deserved to die, and finally they were released.

We can be sure M3 returned to base after the encounter because we killed her there, and it can't be just normal amnesia because they lost their memories after finding an Abyssal.

>>37686244
"Amnesia, of some kind," you ponder aloud, "barring some sort of time travel shenanigans that I highly doubt."

"It could be that they were captured in combat, but I don't think the Abyssal has ever done that before. Plus, I kinda doubt it would let them go."

"Which leaves one possibility," Yamato frowns. "That what you remember is another version of you engaging and participating in the sinking all four."

You fear that you've come to the same conclusion. Any other possibility just seems more and more far-fetched.

"It would explain Number Three's willingness to die," you admit.

"But not how they returned anyway," Yamato points out. "The major naval powers that possess kanmusu keep careful track of figures: losing a whole squadron is unheard of. In fact, we've never lost a girl! I'm actually rather proud of that... we all are."

Nagato's expression is nearly impossible to read...

>d100, best of four

Rolled 81 (1d100)

>>37687282

>>37687144
Not that Ooi deserved to die: that #3 felt that SHE herself deserved to be killed by the clone that would become Maryland as we see her.

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>37687282

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>>37687282
Hmm...

>>37687144
You should also consider the WW2 history.

>During the attack on Pearl Harbor of 7 December 1941, Ōi escorted the battleship force of the Combined Fleet from its anchorage at Hashirajima in Hiroshima Bay to the Bonin Islands and back.

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>37687282

>>37687346
Not bad.


>>37687333
That changes quite a bit...

>>37687383
Though that's probably unrelated on second thought. Too much history I'm unfamiliar with as it is.

>>37687346
It's hatred.

You've never seen Nagato look that way before. Not when talking to the ships she fought before during the war, not with you, not even in battle with an Abyssal. Her eyes are filled with a burning rage that even catches the usually-unflappable Yamato off her guard.

"Nagato?" you ask, already understanding what she's no doubt concluded in her own mind. "What is it?"

Your old friend doesn't look at you, perhaps ashamed to show that sort of emotion among friends. "I always had trouble believing that," she admits.

Yamato picks up on what's been worrying you as well. "You mean, having never lost a kanmusu?"

Nagato nods firmly. "They split us up into small teams and scatter us. We have only their word that none of us have died."

"And when you fight a war, soldiers die," you add.

Nagato forces a gloomy smile as she turns to face you. "They created us all once. We would be fools to think they could not do it again..."

>Response?

>>37687632
did the team come in normally or did they just show back up?

>>37687632
>Well, shit.

>>37687632
Given how badly I've seen you guys get treated...

Wouldn't be surprised. We're "Weapons" not "People" at least to most of them.

>>37687632
A re-summons? Or a new one?

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>>37687632
Not really sure what to say here.

Perhaps:

"Which is it that makes you angry? That they might resurrect kanmusu, or that they didn't tell you if that is what they did?"

I'm not quite sure what part of this Nagato is angry at.

>>37687823
Well yeah, it's not like that sentiment isn't unjustified.

>>37687879
Depends on how you look at it, but yes, I could see how some people would view it like that.
But playing from a Kanmusu's viewpoint, we definitely wouldn't be thinking "Oh yeah, lets go get killed for the humans, I have no feelings on how they kinda treat us like crap."

>>37687632
anyone else have memory gaps?

>>37687632
>Even with human bodies, we are still weapons of war. If a weapon breaks, you fix it. Or get a new, identical one.

>It's not like we can tell this to everyone. Morale wold drop to zero, I wouldn't be surprised if some girls went suicidal. And we might all be replaced to make sure the secret doesn't get out.

>The best way to go about it is to make sure only the more stable ones of us are told of this. Then we lay low and plan a way to stop this... affront to the natural order.

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>>37687971
Treating them like weapons isn't necessarily treating them like crap. I'm sure the last thing a sailor wanted to do in a war was mistreat his ship after all. Survival and victory depended on it.

This is going straight into "what is a kanmusu" territory.

>>37688121
Maybe I worded that wrong.

But from what we saw back at Pearl, most people were ambivalent at best, the one Admiral was chill and the perv was a perv, though he's probably just that way to everyone and likes to do it to ships too.

But yes, this is headed straight into "What is Kanmusu" territory, so unless you also want to go there, I think we should stop.

>>37688168
Kamnusu is adorable

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>>37688168
>But yes, this is headed straight into "What is Kanmusu" territory, so unless you also want to go there, I think we should stop.
Well this is probably the most appropriate time to have it in the story, no?

>>37688168
A miserable little pile of secrets?

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>>37688231
"Adorable" isn't the word I'd use for a lot of them.

"Sexy" Maybe.


>>37688286
True.

My thinking, as probably given away, is that they should be treated like people. At the very least they shouldn't be treated like disposable weapons.

>>37688288
A miserable little pile of steel, bauxite, fuel, and ammo?

>>37687632
You place a reassuring hand on Nagato's shoulder, her skin warm under your unnaturally cool touch. Her own hand finds yours as you tell her what she already knows.

"You think they've been replacing you?" you mutter. "That every time one of the kanmusu dies there's another lined up to take their place?"

"In smaller teams they'll be more likely to be wiped out entirely on one mission," Yamato observes, her face turning pale in disgust. "And if a few survive, just run them on a suicide mission and replace them all in one go."

"After all these years we think we have come so far," Nagato growls bitterly. "And yet they still see us as expendable. A resource to be thrown at problems until none remain, then casually replaced."

"Does anyone else have gaps like that?" you ask Yamato.

She shakes her head. "Many of us have nightmares, though... nightmares of whole teams being sunk repeatedly aren't actually uncommon, especially among the furthest units afield. We thought it was stress."

"The Maternity Ward," Nagato mutters. "They must have some way of distributing them from ports or airfields nearby."

"Our new mission is to hopefully end the war," Yamato realizes aloud. "Once the war is over..."

-PERSPECTIVE CHANGE-

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>>37688354
>My thinking, as probably given away, is that they should be treated like people. At the very least they shouldn't be treated like disposable weapons.
Methinks the first thing to do would be asking them how they want to be treated. They might not all have the same opinion.

Though really I doubt that is on the minds of the people in charge. They started this whole thing for a rather specific purpose, defeating the abyss.

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>>37687971
>>37688121
>>37688168

A dozen h-doujins ironically bring up this issue one way or another.

>>37688497
I highly doubt that the Kanmusu feel being used like disposable tissues is a good thing. Most living beings don't.

However, as for the people in charge I'm sure you're right for the most part.

>>37688513
Yes and most of them I don't read because I hate the rest of them.

>>37688422
You are Nagato... no.

No you're not. It's time to stop thinking like that.

You are more than Nagato: you are a living, breathing person. You have hopes and fears, you love your sister and your friends, and you have pride in your abilities. Gone are the days when you were a cold, unthinking, unfeeling mass of steel and steam.

So why do they insist on treating all of you like your lives don't matter? Why did they lie to you?

"Our new mission is to hopefully end the war," Yamato realizes aloud. "Once the war is over..."

>Don't think that way, Yamato.
>They'll have no use for us anymore. It'll be the same as Crossroads, but with all of us.
>There has to be some way of finding out for sure
>Other

>>37688121
Simpler than you think.
A Kanmusu is the ultimate specialist unit. They are a specialized soldier capable of feats of greater precision amd power than their size and weight should permit, and are as such an important resource in a war.

The fact they can be cloned and deployed even after death makes them all the more valuable, because that means they are a soldier that doesn't need to be trained. They can even have more than one of the same Kanmusu active at the same time, as long as they make sure they aren't in the same theater.

Ideally, they would be treated the same way an officer is treated, and that IS happening, since Kanmusu do have an exclusive O-club and a measure of respect. In fact, they have been shown to be very well regarded and respected, besides the whole "Denying a person their Eternal Rest" thing (which is how Kanmusu came to be in the first place), isand the worst they have to deal with is few asshole officers and constantly being sent to battle Demon Ships from the Deep, things any soldier in this world would have to deal with.

For most of the part, the Navy appears to be doing their best to treat them humanely while being pragmatic, something understandable, especially when your enemies are Demon Ships from the Depths of the Ocean.

Of course, this may change as we see more of the world and the military.

>>37688620
>>Don't think that way, Yamato.
>>There has to be some way of finding out for sure

>>37688652
This. Let's keep optimistic.

>>37688620
>>There has to be some way of finding out for sure

I doubt they'll be able to convince all of the girls to hang out and just be sunk or something. A few would survive, and then the blood would be ankle deep.

>>37688620
>>Don't think that way, Yamato.
>There has to be some way of finding out for sure
>Other
That one Admiral was cool maybe he could help?

>>37688422
Hmm.

>>37688564
>I highly doubt that the Kanmusu feel being used like disposable tissues is a good thing. Most living beings don't.
You might be right, but Kanmusu are not most living beings. They possess the spirits of tools of war that are very much supposed to be used to their fullest and repaired or replaced as necessary.

I think it's unwise to make assumptions about their nature, instead it would be better to ask what they think.

>>37688620
Well that certainly shows how Nagato feels.

Well Nagato wonders why they lied. I have a question then, how much do the kanmusu socialize with humans then? Have they ever had a chance to learn to think differently about kanmusu? I'd like to think any that attitude is a product of a lack of anything but formal interaction.

>Don't think that way, Yamato.
>There has to be some way of finding out for sure

>>37688620
>We'll still be weapons, but now we will fight other countries instead of Abyssals.
>We need to think. First we need to find out whether we really are being replaced, then we plan and organize.

>We really need to think about what will happen when the war ends, about what we wish to do after the Abyssals are no more.

>>37688724
I think the implication is more that after the battle is over, there will be no need to put the time or effort into reviving any of the fallen.

No Abyssal means no need for a full fleet of kanmusu.

>>37688620
>>Other
time for high school harem drama shenanigans

>>37688820
Of course that's a given. I'm saying a repeat of Crossroads would be catastrophic for everyone and only a moron would try it with the girls.

>>37688758
For the most part they seem to be isolated, if the separate quarters, bases and O-club are any indication.


Judging by Yamato's responses she doesn't seem to like the idea of being treated as a weapon either.

>>37688620
>Don't think that way, Yamato.

>>37688620
"We know too little to jump to that sort of conclusion, Yamato," you tell her. "But there has to be some way to figure out the truth of their intents."

"I'm just afraid that once the war is over, they won't need to revive the kanmusu who don't make it," Yamato sighs back at you. "And there will be many. I don't doubt that."

The room falls into an uncomfortable silence.

"We could talk to that Clarke guy?" Mary suggests. "He seemed like a decent sort."

"The JMSDF and USN consolidated their operations as we were redeployed here," Yamato points out. "It's down at the Kure Arsenal. It wouldn't take more than a half dozen of us to take it over, ensure that the main task force revives as they're lost."

Both of those ideas have some merit: one is tactful and diplomatic, you realize. But the other is more like what a girl with the soul of a battleship should want, you feel.

Even Mary seems to be contemplating the option.

>Talk to Admiral Clarke
>Try for the Kure Arsenal
>Scout the Kure Arsenal while talking to Clarke
>Other?

>>37689373
>Talk to Admiral Clarke

>>37689373
>>Scout the Kure Arsenal while talking to Clarke
hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Just taking the arsenal might cause problems with the equipment. We want to make sure nothing goes wrong.

>>37689373
>>Scout the Kure Arsenal while talking to Clarke

>>37689373
>>Talk to Admiral Clarke

>>37688620
>other
Even if we are killed and resurrected, them not telling us is the most efficient way to keep us combat effective so long as we're in constant combat. Once the Abyssal's are defeated, we'll likely be kept around since we're more cost effective than full size warships.

>>37689373
>Scout the Kure Arsenal while talking to Clarke

>>37689373
>>Scout the Kure Arsenal while talking to Clarke

I don't want to hurt anyone. But sometimes it's best to have a plan to.

>>37689433
This

>>37689497
When do you think we'll have our equivalent of Strikers '89 where technology marches on and shipgirls become increasingly obsolete to become mere advanced weapons-mulch?

in b4 Elysium-tier firepower to make shipsluts gone

>>37689702
yes, those other museum ships and mothballed ones are getting older by the day, and then they'll have guided missile frigate girls. So much more affordable to maintain and use than those inaccurate, fuel guzzling battleships.

>>37689702
Seeing as how the Abyssals currently run on bullshit weapons haxx and they don't seem to be able to get guided missiles near them, quite awhile unless they figure it out.

>>37689373
>Scout the Kure Arsenal while talking to Clarke
Plan A and Plan B.

>>37689373
>Talk to Admiral Clarke
Any scouting risks a reaction from the Navies.

>>37689859
if only we had tiny planes no one would notice that we could do recon for us...

>>37689702
Kanmusu are a paradigm shift in naval combat.
See that old ship over there? That one with the a few missile batteries, and torpedo launchers?

Now it's a small girl with all the firepower it had as a ship. And now she can run circles around your ships and fire her weapons faster than your ship can turn.

And what about that old Aircraft carrier there? It served a long time, used to launch Tomcats, Hornets, amd even a couple F-35s before it was mothballed.

Now it is a busty woman who can launch miniature drones at the drop of a hat. Drones with missiles and bombs way more potent than they should be able to carry.

That kind of thing won't become obsolete any time soon.

>>37689907
Wouldn't it be less conspicuous to just act like you're exploring instead of launching planes?

>>37689373
You speak up, finally breaking the silence. "We can do both. Hope for the best when asking Admiral Clarke, but plan for the worst. We should at least scout out the facility at Kure."

Yamato nods in agreement. "That sounds like it a solid plan."

"Wait," Mary mutters. "Kure Arsenal... it's on a harbor, yes? Not inland?"

You nod. "Correct. Why?"

"The Abyssal keeps track of shipping lanes," Mary reminds you. "We may be able to cover our tracks by telling everyone we're trying to protect the base from a possible Abyssal raid."

"And we'd want to do that anyway," Yamato observes. "If the Abyssal destroys that base, it'll make our long-term mission a LOT harder."

"Very well," you conclude. "That seems to settle matters."

>Explain to your team what you've found, leave it to Yamato to deal with the others at her own discretion
>Explain to everyone what you've found before this gets any more complicated
>Explain nothing to nobody. This doesn't leave the room.

>Last vote of the night

>>37690029
>>Explain nothing to nobody. This doesn't leave the room.

>>37690029
>Explain to your team what you've found, leave it to Yamato to deal with the others at her own discretion

We need to tell someone, the three of us can't do it alone. Or at least it would be restrictively hard.

>>37689948
Exactly. The idea that kanmusu won't be revived after the war is over is absurd.
Kanmusu provide all the firepower and abilities of any conventional ship in a smaller, cheaper package.
The only thing they can't do is transport personnel and cargo.

>>37690029
>>Explain to your team what you've found, leave it to Yamato to deal with the others at her own discretion
If we drag our team into this, they should know. They should still know even if we don't drag them into it so they can ask us about it later and then be concerned if we're 'disappeared' and replaced with a pod person.

>>37690029
>Explain nothing to nobody. This doesn't leave the room.

>>37690029
>>Explain to your team what you've found, leave it to Yamato to deal with the others at her own discretion

>>37690029
>Explain nothing to nobody. This doesn't leave the room.

>>37690029
>>Explain to your team what you've found, leave it to Yamato to deal with the others at her own discretion

>>37690061
>>37690122
>>37690194
You do realize that it'll be impossible to pull this off without the team informed, right? That people will immediately notice that Nagato and Yamato went missing all of a sudden?

>>37690279
there's also the fact that it will take half a dozen girls to take over the arsenal

>>37690307
Correct, and I count three in this room.

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>>37690029
>Explain nothing to nobody. This doesn't leave the room.

>>37690307
We're only scouting though, not taking any action right now. It's far too early to be thinking of taking action when the war isn't even over. Best to keep this quiet until we actually talk to the admiral(s) and see which way the wind is blowing.

We could be blowing things out of proportion and looking for the worst sorts of explanation for things. It could be that the people in charge kept this quiet not just for morale but because they cared on a more personal level.

We still need to investigate.

>>37690029
Okay, by my count we'll be starting off next time with telling the team what Nagato, Yamato, and Maryland have managed to piece together.

Thread is archived, and thanks for playing!

I'll post a notice on twitter again next week when I know when I want to run.

>>37690459
Oi, don't skip the vote i just posted.

>>37690458
hello anon i dont recall allowing you to post a picture of my waifu

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>>37690524
>>37690565
Quote the wrong post?

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>>37690565
like we care

>>37690576
yes

>>37690458
So that's Bismarck?

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>>37690624
Yes.

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>>37690624
Yes. Clearly superior German engineering.

>>37690458
I'd jam her rudder with my torpedo, if you know what I mean.

>>37690489
Your vote wasn't up when I counted, and I made a call to end voting as well as the thread. So I'm afraid it'll have to stand as-is.

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>>37690676
Only if you got her some good beer first.

>>37690848
What about a fishing trip? We could catch some swordfish!

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>>37690848
>German
>Drinking an Irish stout

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>>37690712
I'd understand that if you had already started writing or had posted the next bit, but that isn't the case here.

I guess you just don't want it ending on a tie, that's fine.

>>37690922
Catch some Wo-fish.

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>>37690922
You just want to see her in a swimsuit.


>>37690934
Do you see that face? That is the face of a sad girl who can't find any proper German beer and has to drink some Irish swill instead.

>>37690975
I'd rather see her out of a swimsuit.

Also, American craft beers are where it's at.

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>>37691033
She's a proper German lady, she drinks German beer.

So have a Bismarck-Claus.

>>37690975
If anything, a German who likes good beer does one of three things: drinks a wheat bear, which is literally liquid bread, or gets their beer from Belgium or the Czech Republic.

Purity Laws a shit.

>>37690966
That's a part of it as well. I'd rather not backtrack on a decision to make it a tie, and have to redo the vote with what's likely fewer posters.

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>>37691143
I don't actually drink beer, so I'll take your word for it.