Part 23A: Finale

Had to devide this into two parts (I hope two will be sufficient!) because of the number of images in the last gasp! (Yell if you see any broken image links, but it all appears clear on my end!)

Thursday, Winter Day 18, Year Two

Time is moving on... It won't be long now before Illy has to go to magical paladin school!

Olivia is the one Illy will be giving a secret present to this year... Wine? No, a diamond, everyone likes diamonds.

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And we are back.

While away, Derpy and Sunset helped with a little hydrodynamic engineering...

Not bad for a mere hour or so's work.

Anyhoo, without further ado...

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Part 21: Miner Incidents

Been a little quiet this week, but this is simply because of various day-trips or otherwise being-out-ness and the short evenings before chewing into my playing time...

Friday, Autumn Day 27, Year Two

Illy finds that her Rare Seeds have sprouted into Sweet Gem berries. After some debate, she elects to sell one silver berry, save the gold one and place the last into the seed maker - which gives her two to plant again.

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Part Six

Day Seventy-Eight.

There weren't any pressing tasks (and they were still plenty close enough to get to that nearby loot site soon enough), so Stab started out on planning her throne room.

She elected to have a jade door for this one.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Thirty-Nine:

Next mission - a 4-skull clash of the titans between a Capellan Assault mech and... Someone else.

It in the badlands, so the lance would be the same as previously - Pseekie in the Overlord, Mylassta in the Annihilator, Alarhan in the Shortbow, Natasha in the Bull Shark.

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Part Twenty-Seven

Day Two-Hundred and Ninety-Eight.

Okay.

Stab would try this quest now.

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One more post on the Dungeons and Dragon's situation, before I truly get back to ponies and stay there.

I'm not going to say a lot in text, just post this video:

Because it's better off to hear what the people who stepped forward said, from the one they've been talking to.

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Part Eighteen

Day Two-Hundred and Twenty-Four, several times...

((No clue as to the temperature thing. After much reloading experimentation, the only thing that worked was moving the new heaters to the outer corridor. No idea why rooms near the other larger corridors weren't affected.

Also, the over-wall cooler in the dining room was backwards. Dammit.))

Restructuring happened.

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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 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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After getting my laptop fixed, I'm online again.
I'm releasing a new book on Amazon on friday; Pasts & Futures will be a collection of 49 science fiction stories, many of them super-short.
But... in the past, my first-day sales have always seemed to depend on my author rank. And after 2½ months unable to release anything, my author rank is in the tank.

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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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