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Axis & Allies E9: My Sidearm is These Fists · The Multiverse Collective

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Oh, Matt, are you excited for Jenny to bully you next week?
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Oh yeah. Am I ready for Jenny to bully
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me? That's.
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He lives with me, I. Married her Niall.
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You cannot tell anyone. But I very briefly lost Ace.
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He's back now. Everything is fine.
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But he made his way to a rebel camp.
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And by made his way, I mean he followed a squirrel into the
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woods and he got, he got kidnapped.
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Isn't that isn't that great? But Rex and I flew out in the
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Divine and we got him back without incident.
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And now we have some new Intel. I still have to figure out what
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to say about how we got it, but I will find a solution.
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And now to deal with Schmidt. The Multiverse Collective.
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So Lizette and Sakamoto lead you guys into their equivalent of a
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war room. It's essentially just a big open
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space with a big table in it. I think you guys saw it last
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time. I can't remember exactly.
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On the table is just sort of like a rough like outline of the
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general area. And Lizette, she goes.
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So we've had some teams doing some scouting around the area,
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but we don't really know what's inside.
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We can tell you what's outside, and we can tell you what happens
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around the area. And she hands you a map.
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Oh yeah. Amazing.
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Oh shit, that's a lot of samurai asters.
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Yeah, that is a lot of samurai asters.
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And she goes, so this is what we found.
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So the main factory is in the centre there.
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It's surrounded on all sides by those samurai asters that you
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guys fought on the beach. There's a parking lot on the
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left with a dirt Rd. leading into it from the West.
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Every few days a convoy of about 15 trucks pull in and they
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deliver something inside the factory.
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We don't know what's in those, but tomorrow is the next day for
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the delivery. OK, well, seems like we should
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see what they're bringing to the factory, huh?
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We it's, you know, it's, it's, it's up to you guys.
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You guys are in charge of this. The best we can offer you for
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help other than this this Intel is we have a small militia that
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we can help if you guys need ground support assistance.
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Are the convoys coming in protected?
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No, actually, but there are a lot of them.
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I mean, there's 15 trucks. Well, I don't know about you 2
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boys, and accordingly it turns to Ace and Rex, but I feel as
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though between the two of you and the firepower and the
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Foxcatcher, we could probably take 15 trucks worth of men to
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at least to figure out what's being brought to the factory
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before we, you know, open it up like a can of sardines.
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Do we want to try to do something stealthy?
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My thought if, if we're able, if, if we're able to stop the
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convoy and replace the drivers with with your militia, then we
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can get in there and we can fight them from the inside,
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right? So, so you guys go in, you drive
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the trucks potentially we, we load the trucks up with
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explosives or something like that, then they're not going to
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be expecting people coming in from the inside.
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Meanwhile, from the forest we have, we have like a, a A2
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pronged assault, right? We have the foxcatcher come
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straight up from the the front and and Rex and I come from the
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back through the forest. My question is, is how the fuck
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do we deal with the several the Samurai Astairs on our own?
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I got merked by two. I mean, if it's just the two of
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us in the foxcatcher, they'll we, we just have to use the the
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forest to our advantage, right? I mean, we were out in the open
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on the beach. They knew that we were there,
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but when I was when I was on my own, I was able to dispatch one
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of them pretty easily just by kind of sneaking up behind it,
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slitting it to the throat. So, you know, we we kind of lead
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him into the forest one by one. We also have the fox Ketcha
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providing, providing assault from the front.
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And we have, we have a team on the inside of the factory where
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they may not be expecting on resistance, if at all we might
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be able to to divide their forces enough to where we can
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take care of them. I have an idea for the samurai
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asters, actually, and I'm going to look at, I'm going to look at
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Schmidt. I'm assuming Schmidt's in this
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war room. Yeah, I'm going to look at
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Schmidt and I'm going to go. Did you investigate the
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carcasses of the asters that were already, you know, dealt
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with on the beach while we were there?
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I'd looked at them the best I could, but they were pretty well
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dismantled by you guys. OK, I have one question.
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How? How high would they have to drop
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from to be rendered useless? I did not closely examine the
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shark system in the legs, but I would assume pretty far.
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OK. If they're anything like
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Uruguays, they can they can fall pretty far and land effectively.
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OK, I have a plan. If we can get all of the Samurai
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asters into one location, I will halter them to the highest point
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I can get them to. Couldn't you portal them like
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into the ocean? Yeah, but we don't know if they
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can swim. But we don't know if they can't.
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Could you create a portal underground perhaps?
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Or does it have to be somewhere you could see?
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Because you could theoretically, I mean trap them all below
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ground. I mean, if you don't have to see
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them, you could put them right into the center of the earth.
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So the the the portals act like they would in like portal where
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there has to be like somewhere to go.
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On the other side of it. I'll always just be standing on
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solid ground. You could send them to the moon.
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We could send them to the moon. I like this idea, Ace.
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This may be the only good idea you've ever had in one of these
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meetings. How feasible is sending them to
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the moon? And Cordelia looks at Ace like
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he's the dumbest man in the entire world.
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I'm going to look an at an apple like I'm going to pull like an
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apple out of my pocket and I'm going to use the portal.
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I want to see how far I can like push myself for something small.
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All right, we're going to call this channel Your Powers role.
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OK. But just know that if you get
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anything less than a full success, it's going to have some
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pretty drastic consequence. Lovely.
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Cool, cool, cool, cool. All right.
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Let's. Get that bitch to the fucking
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moon. Oh, it's.
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Just roll plus channel right? It is plus channel, yeah, which
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is unfortunately your best stat. Unfortunately for who, we're
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having a great time. That's a 14.
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Jesus Christ. All right, The thing I didn't
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watch. All right.
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It wasn't a full success, to be fair, you said, if anything, 14.
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Anything higher than A9. I mean, that's how you see, I
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see a full success as a creative one.
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So you, you, you open this portal under this apple and it
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doesn't go all the way to the moon.
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It it, it actually doesn't even break the atmosphere.
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It just sort of falls into a hole.
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I don't know if you have a way of knowing how far it goes.
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Can I just stick my hand in that portal and like if if my hand
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freezes off and we know it's the moon because you know.
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It is cold, but it's not the moon, it's it's you are.
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You do appear to still be in atmosphere.
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Just like, yeah, close enough. I need you to know if you had
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failed, you were going to make a portal to the moon and it was
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going to start sucking all the air out of the room because it's
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fucking. Space.
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A vacuumer space. Yeah, so cool.
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Wait, why don't we just do that for all the all the fucking
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samurai mix? Just make a portal inside to the
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moon. Absolutely.
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We can create a black hole. What happens if you double up
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the portals? Does that.
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We'll, we'll find out. My my other plan was I go to the
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absolute brink of where like I can get to like to like this,
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like the upper stratosphere and just fucking drop or drop like
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something. I mean, and these are, these are
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solid ideas at least for separating them, because we can
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just use the portals to separate the samurai.
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You could put a portal under one of these samurai and drop them
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into the woods where A's can fight him one-on-one and we can
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disassemble them like that. Well, 'cause I can, I can be
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cloaked, right? So, I mean, that's, that's how I
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got the jump on the one I was able to be cloaked.
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They couldn't see me. You know, I, we, we throw one
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in. I, hi guys.
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I, I take care of them. I move somewhere else.
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I give you my location and you send another one.
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OK, yeah, I mean, I I think that is reasonable and repeatable.
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And not that I don't love the sending them to the moon idea
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because I personally delight in that.
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But however, I think for the sake of not overextending Rex's
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powers and you know, ensuring that we have have the ability to
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feed all seven of these these samurai asters without
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encountering any issues perhaps where multiple would swarm
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wrecks or one of them has flying capabilities that we don't know
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about. You guys hear a thud on the roof
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as the apple hits it? Oh good.
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Yeah, wait, does. Anybody know how to do that kind
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of math? Doctor Schmidt, perhaps?
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Could it reach terminal velocity?
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I do not know what the terminal velocity of an apple is off the
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top of my head. I feel like this is a great
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opportunity for you to be a really high level contributing
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member of this team. We.
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Understand that you play as. A significant part of the
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Manhattan Project and I feel as though now would be a really
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good time to offer us some deliverables.
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What if I continuously do that just with rocks and then set up
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a portal at the bottom that shoots them out at the samurai?
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Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little rail gun situation.
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See, Schmidt, these are the kind of ideas you should be coming up
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with, not standing there scratching your ass.
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Alright, alright, maybe maybe we don't want to be mean to the guy
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who can can fix and run diagnostics on the machines that
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keep us alive. Rex No.
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No, I'm, I'm fully asking him for his input here.
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I, I, I believe that this is a really great opportunity for us
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to work collaboratively and, and perhaps mend some of the fences
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that I, that I have broken. Doctor Schmidt, I acknowledge my
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shortcomings. If you want my advice I will
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offer you this. That one in the South it seems
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to be fairly unguarded and unchecked.
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If you can separate it and disable it in such a way that is
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it will not call for backup, then I can study it and tell you
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if they have any weaknesses. Whatever, give it the old Kalima
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treatment. What does that mean?
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All right. He means he wants to RIP the
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pilot out of the chest. Yes.
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As long as the Acer itself is mostly undamaged, this is
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acceptable to me. OK, I would say then our portal
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idea to remove that aster in the South from its location far
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enough away perhaps that it won't be able to call for help.
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Do we have anything that we can block a radio signal with and
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and? Cordelia will turn to Lizette
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and Sakamoto. They think about it for a minute
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and they go, not on hand, but we could probably rig something up.
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It shouldn't be that difficult with what we have around.
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OK, I think if we can portal this samurai Astor away into an
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area where he does not have radio communications and Rex and
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Ace can take him on and, you know, remove the pilot from the
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aster so that you, Doctor, Doctor Schmidt can study it,
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then we may have a more well informed approach to our attack.
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Are you going to do this at the same time as your truck trick?
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Are we going to do this today? No, I think we do this today,
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yeah. I was going to say me and alias
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can probably get this done today.
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Yeah, and I will study it overnight.
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Excellent. Do you need to go and have a nap
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now like? No, I am fine.
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I can tell you for a fact the coffee here is shit.
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It is. I have a team that will help me
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out, don't worry. Excellent, as long as you're
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prepared. What do they have a good coffee?
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We have the best coffee. Bro share why we're doing the
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grunt like the grunt work here, you know?
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Filled in my boots with sea water.
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Why won't I share my coffee with you?
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Because you came in here swinging your Dick about.
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He does kind of have a point, but that's.
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Ace, whose side are you on? Yes, Ace, whose side are you on?
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I am on the side, Doctor Schmidt.
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Cordelia's head is fully in her hands.
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Doctor Schmidt, please don't push it.
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I am trying my best. That means he's on my side.
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I'm just going to walk out of the breathing room.
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Yeah, Schmidt just sort of goes. Let it be known on the record
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that I am on the side of winning this war and taking care of the
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objective that we have set out to do and ace.
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Walks out. That's great, Ace.
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You just, you just hear from the hallway.
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You're a fucking nerd. And Cordelia is left in the
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briefing room and he's like, I, I apologize for their behavior.
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They're both. This may look like Cordelia
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goes. I will prepare my team to
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receive the enemy estimate. Excellent.
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My behavior? What do you mean my behavior?
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Ace pokes his head from behind the door and walks out again.
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Latrines. Ace, why are you being such a
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fucking kick ass? The German doctor.
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He sighs deeply. God, man, you're supposed to be
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on our side. We made a deal yesterday, man.
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We, we fucking, we bonded. What the?
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Fuck, I'm scared of the Lieutenant Cunningham and I'm
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scared of the fucking doctor. Yeah, I think Cordelia is just
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trying to like get the details ironed out for, for the
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interruption to radio communications and for coming
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with a location essentially to bring this ass here so that we
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can jump it and kill the pilot and steal it.
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Yeah, the Lizette will sort of give you guys the rough like
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she'll give you guys the coordinates of where it's at, so
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you guys can find the factory at least.
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So assuming you guys head there now.
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Yeah, but we're not bringing the Foxcatcher because that's not
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subtle. We're going stuff.
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Are you guys going to bring the divine?
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Oh yeah, obviously you may need the divine.
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Technically you would just need Rex.
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I mean, it depends if Ace feels comfortable fighting with three
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of us in this fucking cockpit. Well, I mean, I can always, I, I
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think I have the ability to, to make the cockpit larger, so.
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I have an even better idea. OK, I'm going to this.
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I'm going to say this is like as we're heading up to like the
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base and we're like, what if I hijack the summer?
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I asked it. Love it.
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Instead of having to damage it, as long as I can get close
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enough I can portal in. Can you speak Japanese?
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Yeah, my concern. Is you won't be able.
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To pilot it once. You're in?
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Yeah. We we are following the anime
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rules of everybody who speaks the same united language.
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Not only, not only that, but if we, if we have a, if we have an
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Astor that goes missing and comes back, they're going to
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ask. What?
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Happened I. Never said he was going to come
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back. I just mean Schmidt wants it
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undamaged. So we take it undamaged.
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But I'm I'm not going to say it's going to be in the best
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condition on the inside. And you're confident in your
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ability to kill the driver without harming the Astor?
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100 percent, 100%. OK, OK, we'll have the secondary
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staging area prepared regardless.
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I mean, it's already ready, but all right, gentlemen, let's
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let's go fuck shit up. Yeah, before we leave, I'm going
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to get my my bastard sword out of the divine.
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I'm going to take its sheaf so I can put it on like on the hip.
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And then I'm going to probably grab like a a knife as well.
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Good idea. Are you also bringing a sidearm
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perhaps? Maybe a sidearm?
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Test sidearm is a sword we just he doesn't have, he only has the
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sword. OK, only doesn't.
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Have a gun I don't. Cordelia will pass him her her
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handgun and be like, you know, just just in case it's too tight
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to draw. You do have a sidearm.
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You have your sacred weapon and a sidearm, so you would have a
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sidearm. My sidearm is fucking these
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fists. Your fists are ranged.
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Cornelia sighs so heavily. My my my fists are rated E for
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everyone. Before we get before we get too
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far, here's what I can do in the way of making this go a little
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quicker. And so Hyperion is able to is,
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is pretty flexible in the appearance that it can take.
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So I'm going to have the like the headpiece of Hyperion get
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get large enough to where there is enough for a like a three man
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cockpit. And instead of that like battle
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Droid, like bird, it almost looks like the head of like an
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Orca on like a little bit of a meteor.
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Yeah, like, yeah, like almost like a like an Orca with, you
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know, with like the the window eyes so that everybody can kind
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of sit and see. And then the body of Hyperion is
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going to be it's, it's going to be a little bit meteor and a
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little bit slower, but it's going to be able to support that
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larger kind of head piece. It's like that dude that's got
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the neck that's wider than his head.
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Yeah, so that at the very least, Cordelia doesn't have to be
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walking on the ground and Rex can like can be in the head of
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Hyperion as Ace is piloting it before he portals him to the
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aster. I mean, if it, if it's OK with
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you, my plan is just to be safe. I'm going to, I'm going to swing
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around, head into the forest and cloak myself so that if we need
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to do the the secondary piece, we have that ready to go.
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But Rex, how, how close do you want me to get?
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You know, walking distance would be lovely.
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And we're going for the one on the far South of the main
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factory. And just as a reminder,
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gentlemen, we do need to pull him away from the factory very
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rapidly so that the other six don't swarm us and kill us.
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True. True.
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True. All right.
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How's my Japanese? Good.
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Yes, it. Sounds great to me.
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Great. So as we as we get close, I
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would say once we're about half a mile out, Ace is going to
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activate the Chameleon cloak. OK, Yeah, you as you're walking
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through this forest, you just sort of vanish into the trees
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and become one of them. Well, if anybody's looking real
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close, they might be able to see some of your, I guess shadow
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here, move here or there. But for the most part, you just
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blend right in and you approach. There's you, you do see the
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these guys. I, I imagine you're probably
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right about here off to the southeast.
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These guys are scanning the, the forest, watching for anybody,
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any shit going down, but they don't detect you.
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This guy's just watching the South.
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All right, I think Ace is just going to is just going to park
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and kind of get ready. Just get ready to like pull out
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a pull out a sword and be ready to go.
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All right, Rex, there's a stop. OK, so from where I am, where we
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are, I can see the the the a stair on the South.
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Right. You can see all three of these.
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Yeah, you can see all three of these.
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Guys, I'm going to, I'm going to instead of walk in because I can
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see I'm going to portal behind the this samurai aster at the
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South. And then I'm going to, I'm going
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to attempt to portal inside. And if not, I will like climb up
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the aster and climb in through the mouth or something.
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Yeah, give me a channel check just to see how accurately you
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can get inside this cockpit. I'll say you can get behind him
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pretty simply. You don't need to roll for that
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one because that's just you moving from a place, but.
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A channel chair, That's a 13. All right, you.
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You. Always do.
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Those dice are loaded, I swear. I am never getting rid of them
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ever, no matter what anybody says.
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You shouldn't, Yeah. So you, you sort of, he doesn't
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detect you standing behind him because you sort of scan him a
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little bit and trying to figure out the best approach of where
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the cockpit might be. And you pop in and it's because
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you rolled above a 12. It's it's silent.
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He doesn't even realize he dropped in behind him in the
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cockpit. I'm going to just like, like
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cover his mouth and like just stab him in the throat with my
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nerve like she's. OK.
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Roll me. I feel like there should be
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let's see, roll me a strike to or actually let's do Wow, let's
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do weather to weather the storm plus defy to see how accurately
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this goes. Well, that's my second best
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start. I saw that.
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Trivial. Roll a a nice 12 on it then.
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Don't jinx me now that is a dirty 12 I told you.
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All right, yeah, with with a full success.
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He the the samurai Astor you're in doesn't even like flinch.
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Oh yeah, and I'm just going to take attempt to take control and
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I've got an idea of how I'm going to do this.
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So just like with Aces hard drive, I'm going to flood this
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samurai with divine power so it will respond to me.
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First things first, how you getting this guy to the cockpit?
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Are you just going to drop him through another portal or?
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Yeah. I'll just the same place to put
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that up. May I suggest like?
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A body is going to hit the main base of the Rebel.
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May I suggest maybe like 50 feet to the right?
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No, I think it's perfect. That's going to go right through
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the roof that. Probably not.
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Oh. Probably.
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We'll deal with that when we get back there.
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God shit. I ain't nothing but you.
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Didn't see that one coming today, did you?
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And even today, you know. Oh fuck.
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All right, so as as you drop this guy out and you get the
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seat, you actually realize that there's no like, plugs or
25:37
anything for hard drives. It appears that these things
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actually aren't magical in nature.
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Oh, OK. Is it like a key?
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Like an engine. I mean, it's activated.
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Oh, I'm. Just going to it's.
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Already on I'm just. Going to start trying to move it
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forward then. OK, let's roll.
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Oh God, let's roll. Let's.
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Before you start moving it, let's really dispel
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uncertainties to see how well you can figure this out.
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That is A7. 7 All right, so you see, I, I think what you learn
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is that it is not magical in nature.
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There's nowhere for you to like, plug into it.
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And it appears as though it's just sort of like joystick and
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pedal controls as to how to use it.
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And it sort of takes you a second because you didn't get a
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full success. Hyperion and the people inside
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of it can see it's sort of a little bit unsteady on its feet.
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Maybe you fall over once trying to get this thing to move.
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OK. How similar would it would the
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controls be to like the Foxcatcher?
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To the foxcatcher, Not very. The foxcatcher is very much like
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a vehicle. OK, right.
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Yeah, I'm just going to just keep walking, just keep going.
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You, you, it takes you a few steps, but you do finally start
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to figure it out a little bit. And you're, I think by the time
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you get into like eyesight of any other samurai, you have it
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moving somewhat smoothly, if not perfectly.
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OK. But functionally and I'm just.
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Going to keep walking. I'm just going to keep walking
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in that direction until I know I'll be out of the eye line and
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then just start veering off to the rebel base.
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So you want to walk in eyesight of.
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Well, I can't just like pawl them.
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You could. Totally portal yourself.
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Yeah, you could portal yourself. Oh yeah, portal yourself.
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And Ace and I can get the hell out of Dodge, yeah.
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Yeah, I'll just. Say if you walk this way, you're
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going to get hailed by the other samurai.
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Yeah, they're going to be like why the fuck are you going away
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from your post? And they'll they may just like
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fire at you anyway for abandoning your post.
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Yeah, I'll just, I'll just part of yourself away.
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Perfect. Perfect.
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Yeah. So you just portal back to the
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base. Yeah, but there was something in
27:47
me then that was just like, I really want to walk.
27:53
Thank you for ignoring that part of you.
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Do we and this is just covering our own asses thing?
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Do we want a portal like not right to the base and have
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Doctor Schmidt like meet us there just in case there is a
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tracker? I I imagine you guys have like a
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he would have set up like a base, like a landing spot for
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you guys, yeah. We have like an arena set up
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where we were planning on portaling them over 1 by 1.
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OK, perfect. Yeah, I I imagine there's like a
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gravel pit or some shit in this base.
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This is like an abandoned mining.
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Camp that these guys are. So there's like a quarry of some
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sort I. Don't know what?
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That like quarry of. That would be fucking sick.
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A quarry mech battle, Sorry. Yeah.
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Yeah. So you, you, you portal into
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this quarry. Do you do you bring Hyperion
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with you or do you just leave them to walk back?
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Well. I'll roll.
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It's OK. We're we're not super far away.
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I think it's fine for Ace and I to to come back separately.
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Yeah, I rolled like a four, so I don't even think.
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Yeah, no, you so you were. That's too many portals.
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And especially once you get over there, you can't find them
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accurately. It's yeah.
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Yeah, and you've portaled. So many things to space.
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Today. Plus it happen period's also
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invisible, so you don't know how that happened.
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Or not. Yeah, I think once, once we see
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the once we see that one Samurai Aster portal away, I think Ace
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starts heading back to the landing spot.
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So yeah, you guys get back there and Doctor Schmidt's just sort
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of like he's sort of stunned. He wasn't expecting just a whole
29:38
ass fucking Astra to show up that wasn't like ready to fight.
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And he just sort of walks over and goes, hello, Are are you not
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attacking? No, do not Rex Buchanan.
29:56
So help me God. Oh.
30:02
You and Ace will have to share the fucking maid outfit and
30:06
clean with the latrines together if you do anything Hey other
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than. For once I am doing.
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For once I am doing. I I am being.
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I am being the good one. Is is.
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Cordelia is not there, and neither is Ace.
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Oh, it's going to be like you'd start speaking.
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Rex has started speaking Japanese and just be like.
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So the same language everybody else speaks, Yeah.
30:30
But but yeah, but but discerning it and just be like prepare to
30:36
die and then like. Then like it's like brains
30:40
around you pulls their weapons. And then like, then I'm going to
30:44
pull out behind, behind Schmidt and just be like, what the fuck
30:50
did you? Do what's going on?
30:55
I don't know. I've I've been having a shit for
30:58
the last 45 minutes. Like I don't know where this
31:01
came from. God, you must have just horrific
31:05
hemorrhoids. Mr. Buchanan, I know it was you.
31:08
It showed up in a portal. Well, if if yesterday taught us
31:12
anything, I am not the only person on this planet who can
31:15
use poles. It's but the odds of one of them
31:18
being a portal user in the same fashion as you, it's highly
31:21
unlikely. I don't know is this.
31:23
Thing ready for me to study, is it not going to attack?
31:26
I'm just going to like kick it just like, I don't think so.
31:31
It falls over. You see that, You see that
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Schmidt. You see that Schmidt.
31:36
That's how strong I am. I can push over a full Astor
31:39
with just a kick and hench, yes. Yes, yes, whatever.
31:44
You are very big and strong. I understand.
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Now let me do my job. Go to radio, through to Ace and
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Cordelia and just like I just fucking pushed over and I stay
31:53
with my fucking foot. Please tell me you didn't push
31:56
it on to Doctor Schmidt. As much as I wanted to, I did
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not. I appreciate your restraint from
32:03
the bottom of my heart. I did.
32:05
I did prank him though, just letting you know.
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Bye bye. Just turn the radio up.
32:12
Cordelia's head is in her hands as per usual, just next to Ace
32:17
like. And I'm just going to start
32:18
making my way back to the base, to the rebel base.
32:22
Yeah, as as you're walking away, you just see the science team
32:25
absolutely swarm this fucking aster.
32:27
Lieutenant, at least, at the very least, I am not the target
32:32
of your eye at the moment. No, it's still residual though.
32:37
Don't think I'm getting you off easy for the whole squirrel
32:41
incident. Understandable.
32:45
And the fact that you were captured, which I still haven't
32:48
told anyone, by the way. I was kind of hoping that I
32:53
could figure out a way to to make that up to you between
32:57
latrine duties or holding your stuff or whatever needs to be
33:03
done so that we can just kind of not have to report that
33:08
officially. You're doing a great job of
33:10
sucking up so far and I hope that it continues so that I
33:13
don't have to report it officially.
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A salutes. Perfect.
33:17
Now let's get back to the base so that we can make sure that
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Rex doesn't burn it all to the ground.
33:24
Good call. When I get back you'll see
33:27
people panicking like from a corpse hitting us.
33:31
Yes, yes you do. They're very concerned as to
33:35
where the hell this body came from.
33:37
Don't don't mind that guy. He's dead.
33:38
He was dead before he hit the roof.
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We can see that. Why I had to get?
33:44
Rid of him to Doctor Schmidt to to study.
33:48
He's not much left at this point.
33:50
It's just pretty much just. Based on the roof.
33:53
I had to get rid of him and you know previous location of of
33:59
Paul like in. History from our last location.
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Yeah, they sort of didn't realise that, you know,
34:06
sometimes, you know, when you just do something
34:08
idiosyncratically, like that's just sort of what happened, and
34:12
this is where that poor, poor man ended up.
34:18
So Cordelia and Ace, I think get back to the rebel base unless
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you guys have anything else you need to do overnight.
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Klaus is just going to doctor Schmidt is going to just study
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and he'll report back to you in the morning.
34:32
So the the next morning he shows up, he's very perky, like he
34:38
doesn't even though like he worked throughout the night, he
34:40
doesn't seem like he didn't lose any sleep at.
34:42
All as he walks in the in the room.
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I'm going to scream like Oh my God, it's a fucking monster.
34:46
Oh wait, it's just you, Schmidt. He looks at you just deadpan and
34:53
goes very funny. Thanks anyways.
34:56
Would you guys like this report that I made for you?
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Please, I didn't risk my life for nothing man Good.
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As you obviously found out Mr. Buchanan, these are non magical
35:09
in nature. That being said, being as they
35:12
don't have the same link as the American esters, they are
35:17
limited in their mobility and actions.
35:19
I think if you fight smart for the most parts you should be
35:24
able to outmaneuver them. On top of that, they have a very
35:29
I should say it's a weak covering a power plant in the
35:33
back. Clearly they aren't designed to,
35:36
you know, have anything attack them from the rear.
35:40
And if you strike them here and he hands you like a a diagram of
35:43
it and goes 1 decisive strike here should disable it.
35:48
Easy. Is there a, is there like a
35:51
double tap rule or something? Like when you say disable, is
35:54
that like permanent disability or is that just like they'll
35:58
shut down for a while? Depending on how you hit, the
36:00
pilots may or may not survive this depends on how you hit.
36:04
Hit it hard and hit it good. If you disable the power plant
36:08
then I mean it could be repaired in time, but it will not be in
36:12
the fights for the foreseeable future.
36:15
Well, I think our initial idea of bringing them all
36:18
individually to the quarry and jumping the shit out of them
36:21
there might be effective. I feel feel like we should call
36:26
wreckage even the answer to that. 3V3V62 per.
36:32
I don't disagree with that, I just also want to ensure that we
36:35
don't take massive damage like we did the last time that you
36:39
were engaged with multiple samurais at.
36:41
No promises. No promises.
36:44
Cordelia was very pointedly an ace.
36:47
Do we do we think we can set a trap?
36:50
Ace as avoiding Cordelia's gaze. Whatever filled the quarry with
36:55
sea water. What is with your obsession?
37:00
Hey look are you what else could I use?
37:04
I was thinking maybe we could do something where we we set up
37:08
like a bed of shop spikes, drop drop the astas back first onto
37:14
onto this trap and then we don't have to fight them at all unless
37:20
they are able to maneuver themselves.
37:23
But it sounds like they don't have the maneuverability if
37:27
they're portaled into the air and very quickly land on a bed
37:31
of sharp spikes or explosives. I think no matter the direction
37:37
we drop them from, if they're landing on sharp spikes it's
37:39
either going to kill the driver or destroy the the Astor itself.
37:43
I don't think that's a bad idea. Do we have the ability to set
37:47
this up in the next two hours? That's that's my only concern is
37:51
that we have a very tight window.
37:53
He's the one with the nature powers.
37:54
So, you know, I, I, I've just got to, you know, practice my
37:57
portals, but. Thoughts Ace as well and goes we
38:02
we also, you know, we're pretty familiar with setting traps.
38:04
It's sort of what we do. OK, do you think you can get
38:07
astir sized tiger spikes up? In that I mean with, I mean what
38:12
I could do. That big sword out there, we
38:14
could probably cut some trees down, you know?
38:17
OK, I'll cut trees. I mean, what I could also do
38:20
here is if we, if we're able to bury me, I can, I can transform
38:27
Hyperion to basically just be a set of tiger spikes.
38:32
Well, not not damage Hyperion, though with the explode it's
38:36
going to cause burns and lacerations which I don't think
38:39
we can afford if we are going to be battling straight after.
38:42
This is true. We don't know what's on the
38:43
inside of that factory. This is true.
38:47
I mean, I can. I can also very easily take some
38:53
tree trunks and whittle them into a fine point, probably in
38:56
the next couple of hours here. OK.
38:58
I would say that that's probably a better plan of action.
39:01
I'll go and cut some trees down then.
39:03
Yeah, we'll get everybody on this Go team.