[X] Don your armor!
[x] Armor up, then bust down the door. Save or subdue anyone as necessary from the explosion or shenaniganry which is afoot.
-[X] Structural analysis on the whole room before moving in.
-[X] Did you ever figure out how to stare through solid objects?
-[X] Was there an SM eyewear that let you do that?
[X] Don your armor!
[x] Armor up, then bust down the door. Save or subdue anyone as necessary from the explosion or shenaniganry which is afoot.
-[X] Structural analysis on the whole room before moving in.
-[X] Did you ever figure out how to stare through solid objects?
-[X] Was there an SM eyewear that let you do that?
Yeah... I’d inadvertently lost this bookmark and it was only when I was cleaning out my SB follows that I realised. Just came in, found the chapter was posted weeks ago, and that the next vote is already closed. Still, what can you do? 🤷♂️
At at least the chapter was good .
edit - Eh, let’s jump on the bandwagon. Seems like a reasonable option.
[X] Don your armor!
[x] Armor up, then bust down the door. Save or subdue anyone as necessary from the explosion or shenaniganry which is afoot.
-[X] Structural analysis on the whole room before moving in.
-[X] Did you ever figure out how to stare through solid objects?
-[X] Was there an SM eyewear that let you do that?
Felt like I closed the previous vote too early, and indeed a bunch of votes have come in since the time I originally intended to close it. Thanks for voting. Polls are now closed.
@Speaker4thesilent I know you had your reasons for moving the quest here, but if moving it here causes you to forget about it or for you to lose interest in updating I'm not sure if this is the right site to continue it for now. After all when you were doing this on SB.com it was updated about once a week. There is an obvious difference.
@Speaker4thesilent
Not to nag, but if you are over there anyway.... you might as well involve the other players.
You have a massive amount of people that want to play, but don't want to move.
@Speaker4thesilent I know you had your reasons for moving the quest here, but if moving it here causes you to forget about it or for you to lose interest in updating I'm not sure if this is the right site to continue it for now. After all when you were doing this on SB.com it was updated about once a week. There is an obvious difference.
[X] Don your armor!
[x] Armor up, then bust down the door. Save or subdue anyone as necessary from the explosion or shenaniganry which is afoot.
-[X] Structural analysis on the whole room before moving in.
-[X] Did you ever figure out how to stare through solid objects?
-[X] Was there an SM eyewear that let you do that?
Yeah, this semester was busy as hell. Made the mistake of taking two half-semester classes, so there was always something on my plate that needed done. Between that and losing my old rig/building a new computer and the problems associated with it (went through 3 motherboards before I got it working) I had just about zero free time.
My dad's health had also taken a turn for the worse with near-constant infections thanks to an undiagnosed septic joint with infected hardware. He's just had both shoulders operated on, and can't really do anything with both arms in slings, so I'm doing all of the chores around the house and outside instead of most of them. I was also involved in a motor vehicle accident back on the second. Not my fault, but I totaled my car and only just got things mostly sorted out, new car purchased, etc.
Hope to get back on track for this, but I need to get back into the right mindset and WttJ has had my attention since the semester ended. Hopefully this will get picked back up, but I've got a full semester starting up again after the first of the year with even harder courses. Thankfully, I'm graduating after this semester, so I'll be down to just working full time and taking one class here and there instead of working full time and taking classes full time.
[X] Don your armor!
-[X] Armor up, then peek inside.
--[X] Depending on if it's an attack or someone trying out "odd" abilities should decide any further action.
---[X] If it is an attack, disable the attacker as quickly as possible with the help of Arturia.
---[X] If it's not an attack pull back and stop using the armor then knock once Arturia looks normal.
A Brave New World 8
With a bare moment’s focus, you Traced your own armor and helmet, blue and black contrasting with Saber’s blue and white.
You inched the door open a touch, wary of a bell or other noisemaker on it.
“-tch! That should have worked! Did I calculate the tension wrong? Maybe-”
Not that it would have mattered. The man on the far side sounded thoroughly distracted, so you opened the door a touch more. He was standing in front of a machine tha-
Your instinctive Structural Analysis made your eyes all but cross in your head. How the hell had he managed to create that memory alloy with a welding torch and a hand hammer? That made no sense at all! The Silver Millennium had used stelar forges in zero gravity to prevent crystallization, and somehow this guy had made half a kilogram of it with hand tools inside a gravity well.
You inched the door back shut and turned back to your wife.
“Apparently people are now using superpowers to invent better exercise machines, though that one seems to be a work in progress,” you said, releasing your traced equipment. Once Arturia released her own armor, you opened the door.
“Everyone all right in here? I thought I heard an explosion,” you said as you stepped through into the gym proper, Arturia right behind you.
Immediately, the man spun around to stare at you, a mix of surprise and embarrassment on his face.
“Ah, uh, yes, everything’s fine,” he said, then seemed to realize he was still holding the broken memory metal resistance arm and tucked it behind his back. “I’m working on an invention, building a better mousetrap as it were. I thought I had all the bugs worked out, but …” he trailed off.
“As good a thing as any to keep you busy when things are slow,” you agreed casually. A look around revealed more or less what you’d been expecting. The machines were in better shape than the building, and the owner hadn’t spent the money to have cameras installed.
The place gave you the feeling that it didn’t see much use. If business was poor, that might also explain why the owner was trying to invent more sophisticated exercise equipment, though what mattered for the moment was that here you could afford to max out the machines without being recorded.
The downside was, of course, that the owner must have had some sort of superpowered bullshit to be making sophisticated memory metals, however flawed, with such basic tools. Did you want to risk going to a gym where the owner might wake up one day and decide to put on a costume and start robbing banks or abducting people in order to force them to get fit?
On the other hand, he might be able to design something that would let you and Arturia really push your limits, though there were certainly risks to that approach as well.
ASTtM
Your search for a gym with attached dojo fails. It seems like you’re looking for a Unicorn there. If you want one, you’re going to have to build it yourself. Since the first gym was effectively unusable, you’re stuck with two options. You can either:
[ ] - Become a member of the second gym.
[ ] - Approach the owner in costume with a request that he build some exercise machines to your specifications.
[ ] - Something else. (Write-in. Subject to GM approval)
ASTtM
Before the weekend rush hit and swallowed you whole, you had wanted to take Arturia out on another date. You remembered touring Buckingham Palace with Rin when you’d first come to London, but in this instance, your memory had betrayed you.
“I can’t believe I forgot,” you muttered to yourself as the two of you walked past the building. “It must have been in ‘93 that they opened it up for tours, not ‘83.”
Saber, though, didn’t seem to mind. It was an uncommonly cold, blustery day for the fifth month, and she simply leaned into you for a bit of extra warmth, even bundled up as she was in a coat.
“It’s fine,” she said, taking in the architecture. “Not at all what I expected,” she admitted after an intense study, “but beautiful nonetheless.”
“Very different from Camelot?” you asked, half curious and half amused. For all that you’d lived the Dream Cycle during the war, you didn’t know that you’d ever seen Arturia’s castle.
“Very,” she agreed. For a long moment, she was quiet. Just before you were ready to prompt her, she continued.
“Camelot was the … I suppose the prototype for the concept of a ‘castle,’” she explained. “Up until that point, the Britons’ most impressive fortifications had been hill forts, but I wanted something grander. A symbol to rally the people around and a structure that could see off the most ferocious foes. I looked to the ruins of the Roman forts along the Wall and had Agravain, Merlin, and my other advisors ... scale them up a bit.”
That made you blink and turn to look down at the top of your wife’s head.
“Wait, you built the first castle? Ever?”
She nodded.
“The first of what could be considered true castles, meant to see off armies of other humans, rather than both humans and Phantasmal Beasts,” she agreed. “Can you imagine trying to build something like that with gryphons or wyverns around? They’d move in to claim the new ‘mountain’ in weeks. It would have been nothing but trouble in the Age of the Gods.”
You just looked at her for a long moment. She seemed to feel your eyes on her, and turned to look up at you, meeting your eyes.
“What?” she asked, a cute, confused expression on her face.
“Every time I think I know how amazing you are, you find some way to surprise me,” you said.
She blushed and leaned back into you. Your arm wrapped around her shoulder as you left Buckingham behind.
It was definitely hot chocolate weather, and you’d expected to be spending an hour or two on a tour that didn’t exist yet. With nowhere pressing to be, you decided to keep your eyes open for a likely looking cafe.
ASTtM
By the end of the week, word is starting to spread about a hot new dish on the menu at the Ritz, and the phrase ‘fusion cuisine’ has appeared in the nation’s vernacular. For the first time in years, The Ritz Restaurant is booked for the dinner service each day before the doors open. Your bosses have taken notice and are pleased with the upturn in business.
Didn’t even bother to roll the Perception test. You’d probably have been able to hear what was going on through the door with Reinforcement, but that isn’t what won the vote.
You have options on two townhouses. You and Arturia choose to-
[ ] - Purchase the Run-Down Townhouse, accepting the warts for the increased living space.
[ ] - Purchase the Move-In-Ready Townhouse. Convenience now is worth the risk of needing to move again later.
[ ] - Buy neither. They aren’t quite what you’re looking for.
There is also the gym vote, as above.
So, I never expected this to be on hiatus for so long. I really do apologize, but my limited free time last semester ended up being devoured by the second arc of Welcome to the Jungle. The up side is that I am now finished with my second degree and will be down to just working full time instead of working full time and taking 12-15 credit hours of classes as well. I plan to leave this vote open for about six days so that people have a chance to get discover that it has updated again, and remember what the hell was going on. I will attempt to keep to an 'every Sunday' update schedule and churn out some content now that I've got the free time.
Bribes to my muse in the form of omakes are always appreciated, and active discussion makes me happy. Thanks to Seraviel for beta work.
[x] - Approach the owner in costume with a request that he build some exercise machines to your specifications.
[x] - Purchase the Run-Down Townhouse, accepting the warts for the increased living space.
[X] - Approach the owner in costume with a request that he build some exercise machines to your specifications.
[X] - Purchase the Run-Down Townhouse, accepting the warts for the increased living space.
[x] - Approach the owner in costume with a request that he build some exercise machines to your specifications.
[x] - Purchase the Run-Down Townhouse, accepting the warts for the increased living space.
We can work on our place ourselves. And apparently, so can Arturia.
[x] - Approach the owner in costume with a request that he build some exercise machines to your specifications.
[x] - Purchase the Run-Down Townhouse, accepting the warts for the increased living space.
[x] - Approach the owner in costume with a request that he build some exercise machines to your specifications.
[x] - Purchase the Run-Down Townhouse, accepting the warts for the increased living space.
Thanks, sorry it took so long, but I was full head-down autistic this last semester. First time ever writing a thesis, largest paper I’ve ever written, first time I’ve ever had to change a paper’s topic as I was writing it due to an unexpected discovery in the research.
I was busy even before the Wu Flu nonsense, and we had half the people where I work out for two weeks thanks to the panic about the virus.
Hmm for next turn maybe it would be worth looking for investment opportunities in the UK a lot of companies are being privatised also are a few area that could really do with not having their industry collapse from underneath them.
Also hey more money to help us in the long run is a good thing.
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