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 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 17: Spring in Autumn

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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-Nine:

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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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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 Forty (Finale):

So time to pick a fight with Natasha Kerensky.

The Dobrev had been located. Crashed and severely banged up after the idiots misjumped with it so many times.

And Yang had discovered that the crate the Bounty Hunter had given them (that had the Bull Shark bits in it) was, surprise, surprise a trap, with a homing beacon imbedded in it. So that was another problem to have to deal with.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Thirty-Seven:

So, did I say this part would be Thursday? Hahahaha, silly me, forgot that the RNG would rather do ANYTHING than actually let me, like, paly or anything. Yesterday was a late start (whereas normally on Thursday at the moment I can get a goodly few hours in) and what time I had was frittered away mostly reading Sarna while I tried to get some decent contracts.

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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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