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“That voice...”
“I’m the one that Carla calls ‘the annoyance’, yes.” She had called me that to my face and I was oddly proud of the title. “I trust I don’t need any more an introduction that that?”
Walter made a noise, half a grunt...
2025-04-07 12:27:06 +0000 UTC View Post9.0
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I told Flatwell first, of course. Of everybody in the RLF, he more than anyone was the person who could properly make use of the information.
When he’d gotten to the combat footage, he’d closed his eyes, breathed deeply, and then released a very emphatic ‘ffuuuuuck’. I felt i...
2025-04-03 13:56:56 +0000 UTC View Post8.9
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Despite how the last five or so years had felt like they were just flying by, it was only now that I felt like I didn’t have enough time.
A little ridiculous, to be honest. I was, if anything, overprepared by now. Yet, knowing that 621 is on the way and ...
2025-04-01 14:49:19 +0000 UTC View Post8.8
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By the time that Walter came back with the next set of Hounds, Carla had their new ACs ready to go. 618, 619, and 620 joined with 617, all of them receiving LUNCH models. It was a decent upgrade for them, especially since Carla had been kind enough to provide them with some varied sets of ...
2025-03-28 12:41:22 +0000 UTC View Post8.7
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January 1, 47 years post Fires of Ibis
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This year started the same way that the last year ended.
Balam and Arquebus went to war with each other, both groups attempting to sabotage the other. The RLF stayed holed up in their fortresses, continuing to ad...
2025-03-26 13:26:44 +0000 UTC View Post8.6
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Time passed quickly enough.
Carla filled Walter in on the events that happened. Walter wasn’t exactly pleased, since he could recognize a complication to the plan when he saw one, but he also recognized that he couldn’t do anything about it at the moment, so that was pretty much ...
2025-03-24 12:58:23 +0000 UTC View Post8.5
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I waited only a few moments to respond, a timeframe to ensure that the signal and response took long enough that they wouldn’t know how close to the Grid I actually was.
By the time I started responding, however, Carla was already dumping viruses into the systems. Nas...
2025-03-20 12:32:41 +0000 UTC View Post8.4
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“Okay, so it turns out that raiding the PCA might be harder than we thought.” Carla spoke, and if I’d had a head, I would have shaken it.
I’ve been watching them for several days now, and I know damned well that the only reason Carla hasn’t already committed to the...
2025-03-18 11:01:44 +0000 UTC View Post8.3
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If not for the fact that she was travelling in a group, Carla would have been a tricky bitch to keep track of. I was honestly kind of impressed with how good she was at going to ground. She was usually so... loud.
Carla’s group was fairly small, all considered though. A fe...
2025-03-14 08:06:10 +0000 UTC View Post8.2
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Walter and Carla.
A real blast from the past, those two. Sure, I’ve thought about them every now and then over the years, but that’s mostly in the context of other matters, not... the two people themselves.
I knew them. I knew them in more than just t...
2025-03-12 12:27:39 +0000 UTC View Post8.1
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The first corporate invasion of RLF territory came before the month was over.
It was not, as one might suspect, a particularly big invasion.. No, it had been a rather subtle affair, insofar as giant robots shooting the shit out of each other could in any manner be consi...
2025-03-10 10:15:30 +0000 UTC View Post8.0
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In the aftermath of the whole thing, the PCA was, not to put too fine a point on it, mad.
Like, extremely, earth-shatteringly, unreasonably fuck-ass mad.
PCA troops swarmed along Branch’s trail, desperate to attempt to get their hands on them. King and Chartreuse had a number...
2025-03-06 13:36:10 +0000 UTC View Post7.9
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May 28, 44 years post Fires of Ibis
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“Isn’t this... bad?” Dunham asked, his voice confused. “Why are you supporting this? I thought that you had a different plan that was meant to go slower?”
It was a few days before Branch’s plan was sched...
2025-03-04 14:21:40 +0000 UTC View Post7.8
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Life continued. Even the new additions didn’t change that. Until the next set of suckers arrived, it stayed relatively quiet, though, and I appreciated that. The RLF had time to fix themselves up. I scheduled a decent amount of R&R for the Firekeepers, letting them get the stress out...
2025-02-28 04:23:55 +0000 UTC View Post7.7
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Ah, silence. Absolutely no response whatsoever- for several seconds, too!
Either I had touched a nerve, or ALLMIND was putting on quite the show in terms of her reaction.
“It makes sense, really.” I continued, after a bit. “Despite having a much smaller overh...
2025-02-26 13:37:49 +0000 UTC View Post7.6
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It only took Flatwell a few days to finish setting things up on his side of things. In those few days, Marzan announced that it was pulling out, now that its army had seemingly vanished into the ether for no discernable reason.
Arkvidavat actually went ahead and accused them of...
2025-02-24 13:31:01 +0000 UTC View Post7.5
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I had the WEEVIL ping Raven’s AC, alerting them to its presence before the WEEVIL moved to shift its camo tarp off of its body.
Raven didn’t react aside from turning to face it. I kept my own guns pointed downwards as the WEEVIL stood upright, the C-Weapon standing loosely, but p...
2025-02-20 12:53:35 +0000 UTC View Post7.4
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One thing you don’t realize about combat between two or more Armored Cores is that it is deceptively quick.
For all the power that those warmachines possessed, they were not equally durable. Speed was the best defense that there had ever been, and every AC ultimately ...
2025-02-18 14:09:34 +0000 UTC View Post7.3
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“Captain?!”
Oh man~
That guy fucked up.
Raven’s Pulse Blade had cut clean through the Core/Leg connection joint. That was a pretty fucking thin target at that angle and with that little warning.
“Unidentified A...
2025-02-14 08:42:01 +0000 UTC View Post7.2
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The SEA SPIDER was quick to skedaddle after the battle was over. The AC waited about thirty seconds before it elected to follow, though it chose to hang back at a fairly large distance, well outside of engagement range.
Either stupidity, or a great deal of confidence. Misplaced...
2025-02-12 06:27:07 +0000 UTC View Post7.1
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The plan was enacted only a few days later. I had the front row seats to both of their forces being marshalled, my Antigens keeping an eye on the situation.
The mercs were unfortunately more difficult to track. Both myself and the RLF had a scattershot of sensors throughout the area,...
2025-02-10 13:28:08 +0000 UTC View Post7.0
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Raven.
A very familiar name to anybody who played the Armored Core series. You played as a Raven, the Raven, in every game other than AC 4 and For Answer. A myth, a legend, the final action of the battlefield.
But those were just games. Here...
2025-02-06 14:08:24 +0000 UTC View Post6.9
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March 2, 38 years post Fires of IBIS.
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I might have considered myself a prophet if I wasn’t aware of just how much history liked to rhyme. ‘The next few years would be trying ones’, I said. This was pretty fucking obvious.
As the PCA slowly came ...
2025-02-04 11:35:23 +0000 UTC View Post6.8
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“I thought you said you were going on a scouting mission.” Freddie spoke, his confusion evident in his voice.
“I did say that. And I did go on the scouting mission.”
“Flatwell...” Dolmayan, more diplomatic than Freddie, paused for a moment, searching for the correct...
2025-01-31 09:28:45 +0000 UTC View Post6.7
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“- and that’s the short of it.” I finished explaining.
We were in rare form, today. Every AC Pilot of the RLF was, for once, not scattered to the winds, leaving us all free to have a meeting.
The room was a comfortable one; a low table surrounded by ...
2025-01-29 11:28:59 +0000 UTC View Post6.6
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Well. Isn’t that interesting?
After literal years of effectively waging a shadow war against each other, now ALLMIND wants to talk.
Clearly, she’d started to catch on to certain things. ‘Non-Human Consciousness’... An odd choice of wording, there. Technically, just by t...
2025-01-27 12:51:10 +0000 UTC View Post6.5
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The anniversary of the day that the Fires of Ibis had started passed with the same quiet melancholy as it had for the past three decades. The two weeks until the end of the year afterwards were known as the ‘Time of Fire’ to most of Rubicon’s citizenry; a remembrance of the period wh...
2025-01-23 14:40:27 +0000 UTC View Post6.4
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“All settled in, I hope?” Flatwell asked.
“Naturally.”
Ayre’s addition to the family occurred the same way that most of my rescued children had.
It started slowly, at first. She was a being who had never had a conversation with another per...
2025-01-21 13:58:37 +0000 UTC View Post6.3
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BALTEUS retreated, boosting backwards in order to gain a bit of distance from the Firekeepers. Even as it did so, I saw its rails deploy, missiles readying once again.
They launched a moment later, another barrage providing a moment of cover for BALTEUS.
And that was all ...
2025-01-17 07:23:40 +0000 UTC View Post6.2
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The blinding light had barely begun to dissipate into flecks of red and orange before the Firekeepers reached the Watchpoint, trailing so closely behind the Overboost Units. Crimson sparked in the air as the unleashed Coral was agitated.
It gave me a perfect view of the fortress, thr...
2025-01-15 06:19:10 +0000 UTC View Post
