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[no99]

-1-


[After a long, desperate battle! Over the course of the grueling fight, Suma was apparently injured quite seriously, but was still laughing all the way to the infirmary, from which she is posting now.]

What a glorious battle! What ruthless foes! What fearless comrades! What a time to be alive!

Never in a thousand years have I enjoyed such a brilliant fight. Hundred to one odds, and yet never did we falter. Takes me back to the old days, when battles were fought with blood and blade. Nearly as good as Thermopylae, tonight was. Perhaps this was how those unyielding Spartans felt as they charged to their deaths!

If you're planning to do this again, I hope you wait until I've had a chance to recover, for I'd hate to be giving anything less than my best for it.


-2-


[Immediately following your character getting some kind of mental, spiritual or physical mid-season upgrade, Suma be hunting you down in person.]

Fight me, right now. With or without your machine, I'll accept either. I want to see what you're capable of now.


-3-


[Night owl prompt! Suma's off in some less-often traveled corner of the ship/base, in the dead of night. Somewhere where you can see the stars.]

[She's sitting cross-legged on the floor, and in front of her appears to be a single lit candle. Her eyes are closed and she's speaks softly and slowly, as if reciting some sort of old ritual.]

Ankhesenamun.
Seth-Peribsen.
Mukarramma.
Aquila.
Diocletianus.

[She half-opens her good eye.]

I do know someone's listening. You're not interrupting much.

Comments

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[modern_ancient]

You still do that?

[no99]

I never know what I'll remember and what I'll forget. The least I can do for the war gods is carve their names into my memory until I die.

[modern_ancient]

And you remember ALL of them, or just they ones who did the whole die in bed thing?

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[abugslife]

Oh, I see you heard about the amazing power of Scaraber's Crab Frame. Are you so eager to experience its fury first-hand? To test your skills against the ancient power of the mightiest warrior of my race?

I refuse your challenge.

[no99]

How cruel you are. Do my many lifetimes of victory not make me worthy of your blade?

[abugslife]

This frame is an antique. What if you put a scratch on it? Think what loss for the local culture that would be. All historians in a 100 km radius would cry.

[Nevermind that she used this antique to beat up bad guys not so long ago.]

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[herodrawing]

Right here?!
[Shocked Izuru is shock.]

[no99]

Is there somewhere else you'd prefer?

[herodrawing]

You want to spar me in my AHSMB, right? There's not enough place here, the rooms are too tight.

More importantly, the Commander said I'm not allowed to use it for now.

[Just when Red Five got an upgrade. No... because it got one.]

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[moves_planets]

I thought it was pretty run of the mill. I guess if you're with the Fraternity you're used to a different level of battle...

[no99]

Maybe I signed up with the wrong team, then. Can I join your Fraternity?

[moves_planets]

No offense, [totally offense] but it's an organization for Topless. You're a little on the old side to manifest any powers.

[Does she know how much of an understatement that is or doesn't she who knows]

2 - The upgrade is money

[a_monetized_mind]

...Thanks for the offer, but I'd rather not.

[Jen is just gonna keep walking.]

Don't know the backstory here so I'm winging it

[no99]

What's wrong? Realized that you can't buy your way through every fight?

[a_monetized_mind]

It's more that I don't want to deal with whatever crazy superpowers you're hiding.

Do you mind? I've got a report to make.

[She'll try to edge past the weird cyclops.]

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[reach_understanding]

That was terrible. It could've been avoided.

[Look, a fellow one-eyed person. As a non-combatant, Philia didn't fight. But she assists the wounded, yours included.]

Try not to talk, your injuries are quite severe.

[no99]

[Suma gives a derisive snort, accompanied by a bloody cough.]

The battle is over. I won't die from this, that much I guarantee.

[reach_understanding]

I said don't talk! Dammit - Doctor! I need someone here!

If it's a punctured lung, you need help right now...

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[kill_all_vagans]

[And you know what Suma? Flit's totally okay with that. No point in not testing out the new Swordia parts, after all.]

That's not a problem. It still hasn't had a proper field test yet.

[no99]

I'll be waiting for you outside the base.

[kill_all_vagans]

[And sure enough, Flit and his Gundam make it outside in short order. The new Swordia parts are installed, and AGE-1's looking more knightly and heroic than ever too.]

Alright then.

I'm ready whenever you are.

1)

[mistaken_for_monster]

A... Are you crazy? I almost died!! WE ALMOST DIED!!!

[Yeah, Volya with absolutely no skill at all with his sole plan in battle being 'Not die' was still hyperventilating. He'd be flailing right now if he wasn't dead tired. It didn't help that the mass of plant and armor that was his 'machine/partner' was currently covered in scorches and gashes and smelled like a burned down forest.]

I never... EVER want to do that again!

[Too bad for Volya his life sucks and an army of mecha using knights will hunt him to the ends of the earth.]

[no99]

Ha! There is no greater feeling than fighting for survival. It is the instinct that has driven us for millennia.

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[mechmadeoflove]

Ma'am, with all due respect?

You'd kick my ass in hand to hand.

I'm not even sure of my chances against you with me in an ANIMa and you on foot.

[This is said with something approaching AWE. Josh has seen Suma fight.]

[no99]

Ha! Flattery, at least, is among your strengths.

Love is your power, is it not? If have the people among us are to be believed, you should be all but invincible!