Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Thirty-Seven:

So, did I say this part would be Thursday? Hahahaha, silly me, forgot that the RNG would rather do ANYTHING than actually let me, like, paly or anything. Yesterday was a late start (whereas normally on Thursday at the moment I can get a goodly few hours in) and what time I had was frittered away mostly reading Sarna while I tried to get some decent contracts.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Forty (Finale):

So time to pick a fight with Natasha Kerensky.

The Dobrev had been located. Crashed and severely banged up after the idiots misjumped with it so many times.

And Yang had discovered that the crate the Bounty Hunter had given them (that had the Bull Shark bits in it) was, surprise, surprise a trap, with a homing beacon imbedded in it. So that was another problem to have to deal with.

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Bad news, everyone! As my local Ponythread is so terribly quiet these days that I decided, in addition to soiling my local main forums (Giant in the Playground) with this, I'd also amuse myself with cross-posting this here as well.

You may commense rueing!

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Part 17: Spring in Autumn

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Part 10: Winter Blues

Reckon we'll get a couple more in (Mon/Tues. Wed/Thurs maybe) before I'll be away for a week.

Monday, Winter Day 8, Year One

After seeing to the chickens, Illy attempts to go see Leah to give her a flower, but the festival is being prepared, so she can't get there. Alright, Illy will remember to check the calendar now (or the first time this winter...), then and maybe do some yard work while she waits.

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Well, I'm finally about to start only my second game of BATTLETECH. I last played pre-flashpoint (August 2018 Steam tells me). I then basically just waited until all the expansions were out (might as well maximise the amount of new stuff, I do this A LOT). And then it's been sitting there as "something to look forward to playing."

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Part Twenty-Two

((Added "faster bio-sculpting" mod, since the 25 days thing is ridonculous. Vanilla values used, except bioregen time set to 10 days (as it was before the change) instead of 25.))

Day Two-Hundred and Fifty-One.

Two bionic eyes done. Navarro - your turn!

Stab authorised four more sleep accelerators for Trocur, Worm, Oscura and Reille plus Barracuda.

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Boy, do I really need this not to suck after the couple of days I've just had...

So, cash was a problem again. Alarhan decided that they better get some more cash in before they tried that flashpoint. There were a couple of missions yet, the first being a half-skull assassination and one more being a one-skull battle mission.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Thirty-Three:

Last contract a 2.5-skull mission. Data needed to be extracted from a secret facility and transmitted to a satellite, which mean triangulating the position and holding station...

Oh, this could be nasty.

Zuranna would swap the Decapitator for the Atlas (more armour). Poppy would take the Bull Shark, Anja the Annihilator and Summer would grab the Phoenix Coil, in case they needed to rush to position.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Twenty-Six:

Shorter one again, though because quite a lot of time was spent outside of missions!

So. Where next? There was a 4.5-skull Davion flashpoint at Kern (apparently the alliance flashpoint) and a 4-skull one further into Capellan space... Lynessa considered, and decided no, they would go Bromhead first, deal with that (and the faction shop) and then head on to the Davion faction flashpoint.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Twenty-Nine:

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So. AI Dungeon. Which is in the style of the old text adventure, that procedurally generates stuff in response to what you put in.

Heard about from Distortion Devil on the Role with Me stream and thought I couldn't not give it a shot for fifteen minutes. (Watched a couple of youtube videos first, then dived in.)

Here is the result:

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Eight:

So. The choice of where to go boiled down to the 1.5 skull travel contract to Linhauiguan or 1-skull Joppa (which was a trade hub and also a black market planet).

After a lot of debate, Mylassta decided to risk it and go to the former.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Seven:

First thing, Lynessa had to cancel and re-do a couple of the work orders, so that the Blackjack could be repaired first, then wait a day before taking the next contract.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Twelve:

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Fifteen:

So, next mission would be a 3-skull escort mission for the Taurians (before their reputation dipped below the point it could be taken...)

Mylassta took the Decapitator. Scarlet grabbed the Fair Marauder and Pseekie subbed in for Summer in the Catapult Hammer. After some thought, Mylassta assigned Velina to the Stalker Barrage - she needed some practise if she was to be subbing in for Alarhan as was the intention.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Thirty:

So, as it's gonna be a short one tonight, I'mma going to defer the decision (because I can't be arsed to faff about at the moment) and I'll just get on with the missions where the paladins are. (I'm leaning towards installing Edmon's mod - if nothing else, it makes me much less beholden to RNG. And also means that the entire Arano region is basically not just worthless.)

Lynessa sighed and bought the three +ER medium lasers.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Thirty-One:

Blame the contract RNG for a short session...!

So, I elected to go down the mod route. I figured I might as well, since I will likely play RogueTech at someone, so get that groundwork out of the way now, right?

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Part Thirty-Two

Day Three-Hundred and Thirty-Four.

Bionic leg for Hallie.

Oh. It was a techprof persona core, not a regular persona core. You used it for research, not starship control. Oh well. Use to learn FTL drive then, Stab, arriving back at base, guessed.

More Lenere tribe visitors.

Stab ordered the wall where the ship would go to be thickened up.

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Part 19B: Three in Twenty-Four

Autumn Day 21, Year Two

Illy learns to cook crab cakes off the telly.

Uh, okay? I guess kicking Joja Mart out meant maybe Pierre took on more staff? Or does he work every day now (that seems daft...)

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