Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Thirty-Five:

Righty-doke, then, where were we?

That's right - anti-Kurita missions. Starting with a 4-skull mission to capture a newly-activated factory from them for Davion.

It was in polar climes, so the current lance - Zuranna in the Decapitator, Mylassta in the Rocket Shark, Natasha (still in high spirits) in the Bull Shark and Summer in the Annihilator - would do fine.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Thirty-Eight:

So, considering this got posted on Sunday, you can imagine how well it went on Saturday's session, can't you...?

On day 1102, the paladins arrived at Frazer.

"Frazer?" Lynessa asked a cheerfully humming Poppy. "Weren't we going to Horsham?"

"Um, no ma'am," Poppy replied, smiling softly. "Why would we go there? You wanted to fight Kuriat, didn't you?"

"Yes," Lynessa replied, feeling confused. "Yes, I did..."

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Twenty-Two:

Last night was quite short, but I finished late, so figured I might as well add it to today's, since that would be a bit shorter than usual, since I went out for the afternoon.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Fourteen:

Off they set to Mendham.

To come to a complete grinding halt. Scarlet had Accidentally the Engines, with a laser pointer. Farah was grimly amused, Darius (as usual) was just No-Fun-Stick-Up-Arse man about it, Pseekie was in a fit of hysterical laughter and Scarlet was quite distraught.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Twenty-Five:

Will be a short one today; got to knock it off early, because we're out early tomorrow morning for a much-needed tomato-soup-in-the-car day trip.

Okay, so two 2-skull and two 3-skull missions to choose from (all from Davion). Lynessa somewhat arbitrarily elected to start with a 2-skull test drive, the Davions wanting to further test a Cataphract 1x by killing some pirates.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Twenty-Eight:

Looking at the positions of the enemy indicators, Mylassta had he lance head south, towards the reinforcements, and away from the other nominal contacts.

The first warning the reinforcement lance had that things were about to go south was when the head of the Stalker exploded.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Ten:

Next job for the pirates - 1.5 skull convoy ambush, only with one of the convoy supposedly being a Shrek PPC carrier.

So, back into the Phoenix Hawk with Alarhan, and Lynessa would be taking out the Kintaro.

The defenders did not, in fact, have a Shrek PPC carrier; it was a Striker, a Bulldog, and LRM carrier, a Shadowhawk and a Locust.

BOOM! Headshot. (And without the need for Azurella's guidance for once...!)

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Eighteen:

Didn't do anything on Friday (well, I DID spend an hour or two going through HeavyMetalPro and adding a [Mech designation]"-2" wherein ala BATTLETECH, any rear-weapons were facing forwards...) and not much yesterday, not enough to warrent a full installment.

Lynessa put the Banshee is storage - there really wasn’t any point keeping it lurking if it wasn't going to be outfitted.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Thirty-Six:

(So, after a LOT of reloads to get some anti-Kurita contracts - not helped by the fact that my new BT toys came today and I got very distracted and was doing stuff like starting to get the profiles sorted in HeavyMetalPro - we were ready to carry on!)

The paladins arrived at Flintoft. There was nothing aside from a 0-ton arm mod in the store, so time to get on with the Double Agent flashpoint.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Thirteen:

The Catapult Hammer and Stalker Barrage were done!

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Nine:

(Welcome to "Ambush Convoy" theatre! Let's see how many of these I can get through before I'm well and truly sick of them!)

The paladin waited a day for the Enforcer to be repaired, and started on the first one-skull convoy mission. Lynessa decided that it was worth just doing these for max cash.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Twenty:

(You would not believe how much time I spent trying to get a decent set of missions, after the end of last time and today. I never managed more than four Davion, and never more than three verses the Capellans. (On one instance, all seven missions were pirate...) In the end, I settled for what follows as it wasn't too awful and at least didn't have any escort or base defence missions...)

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Since the site was down, and neither is a particularly long part, here's parts three and four together.

Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Three:

So, as would have been posted on Friday:

Uhuh. So, yeah, my grandmother died this morning and one of the three places that is one of my regular haunts is down with hardware problems (no ETA), because that first one alone wasn't enough of a brutal rebuttal by 2020 to "gee, I hope things are better soon..."

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Part Fourteen

ALL CHANGE! With 106.3 hours logged in, and increasingly the management portion becoming difficult to deal with, I felt it was time to add in a few more mods.

EdB Prepare Carefully
(Not that it will affect THIS game...!)

Common Sense, Pick up and Haul, Hospitality

Wall Lights, Autocleaner, Doormats RT Fuse

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Part 22: Iridium Ore Bust

The end-point creeps ever closer...

Sunday, Winter Day 7, Year Two

Illy learns how to cook poppyseed muffins off the telly.

The last large batch of starfruit has grown. Illy harvests it. She won't replace them at the moment because - as Illy has neatly timed, all her ancient seeds have sprouted. All fourteen go into the seed maker, and give her twenty-eight more.

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Part 4: Water lot of effort farming is...

Another big one, since I have been playing basically every night and will be for all of today, like as not. Fair cop to it, it IS as addictive and relaxing as folk have said. (And would functionally work as a "I only have an hour to kill" game...)

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Part 5: This is Illy's Jam

On through summer!

Sunday, Summer Day 16, Year One

It's raining again today. Well, if Illy can get her pickaxe back... It'd be another good go at the mines! So, Illy will leave Robin about the coop for another day.

Illy will have to find Jodi first, though...

Illy checks her crops - the wheat is done, as are more tomatoes and hops.

Illy runs into Penny on the way to the blacksmith's. Apparently Pam really doesn't like squid.

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Part 8: Getting the Cart Before the House

Is a mine cart a sort of mine craft? Let's find out!

Thursday, Autumn Day 18, Year One

Today, after her chores, Illy has three things planned. Get a kitchen, finally and turn in some geodes. But first...

Check the mine carts!

WOOHOOOOO!

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Part 15: Summer Daze

Onwards through summer of year two, which now seems awfully close to grandpa's return...

Friday, Summer Day 5, Year Two

Challenge accepted, Mr Qi, whoever the frack you are. You know, in a good while, Illy probably needs better weapons.

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Part Thirty-Seven

Day Three-Hundred and Seventy-Six.

Right, then let's actually look at Lightcaller.

...

So, what does it... Do...?

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