Post by spacetimeCounselor on Sept 19, 2012 12:35:56 GMT -5
No, see. I just really like killing things? And it makes me want to burst into song? Why would this sword thing do rainy things to me, anyway, jeez. Y'all oughta calm your figs.
Anyway we finished a fight against a thing, and then Zero and I had a chat and he sent me this log thing. I'll put the chat up in a minute once it's formatted, but for now yeah here's his log of the robot fight with the ROBOT he TOTALLY HAD. Dude gets loquacious as shit when he goes to writing things down, what is up with that.
Anyway we finished a fight against a thing, and then Zero and I had a chat and he sent me this log thing. I'll put the chat up in a minute once it's formatted, but for now yeah here's his log of the robot fight with the ROBOT he TOTALLY HAD. Dude gets loquacious as shit when he goes to writing things down, what is up with that.
Perhaps having an alternative viewpoint on the battle would be informative.
As I understand, the Black Queen is usually not supposed to be enlarged by the effects of the Rings, a property which is reserved exclusively for the Black King’s usage of his own Scepter. sC did not see fit to inform me that the Black Queen would be much larger in combat than anticipated, either due to our poor interpersonal relationship at the moment or the Black Queen not using the rings while inside the throneroom due to fear of damaging the structure at such a large size.
In any case, I was not expecting the Black Queen to be on a matching scale as my Abtragung. Fighting the Black Queen in my personal mecha, even with Aloice helping me, would prove problematic. For one, the Abtragung was not designed for grappling combat; it moved quickly but had forgone frame stability in exchange for raw accelerative speed. I was expecting that I’d be fighting an enemy much larger than myself, after all; the Black King was indeed monstrously huge. However, this design decision meant that I’d have much trouble preventing the Black Queen from interfering with the dungeon crawl that sC’s party was leading at the moment.
But there was nothing to be done for it; this was my part of the final battle, and I had to carry it out to the best of my ability.
I began the fight with a plan to cut off the Black Queen’s wings or arm; cutting off the wings would remove her flight and make her an easy target, while cutting off the arm bearing the rings would defuse the fight in and of itself. However, this quickly proved an impractical course of action.
The Black Queen, as huge as she was thanks to the largeness aspect of the Meteor prototype, could crush Aloice in an instant if she turned her attentions away from me. I endeavored, too, then, to engage her with long-distance beams of slicing force while Aloice hovered in and out, trying to pluck the rings off of the Black Queen’s finger. Thus, my primary actions during this fight were rather in the form of physical distraction.
Which is not to say that my attacks were ineffective. Indeed, for most of the battle, the Black Queen was actually kept on the defense; though her body and limbs were sinusoid and flexible thanks to the effect of the Cal puppet, even she had trouble dodging the dozens of piercing rays I fired at her repeatedly. However, I couldn’t actually land a hit, and with such heavy firepower bearing down, Aloice’s dozen or so time clones had trouble slipping in to snatch the rings.
At this point, I realized that a change of strategy was necessary to prevent stalemate. Thus, I rushed in, converting my ranged blaster back into melee sword form, and engaged the Black Queen in melee. Initially, I was highly disadvantaged, as the flexibility of the Queen allowed her to literally dance circles around me. Clash after clash, I found myself making no headway whatsoever. The Black Queen was, at that point, laughing and opening taunting my mecha’s lack of flexibility, and commenting on my lack of foresight.
It should be noted, at this point, that we were doing combat in the air. The Abtragung was quite agile on the ground, but I’d failed to build adequately sensitive thrusters into its design- which proved quite unfortunate for me. Aloice was casting multiple time-acceleration buffs on me to try and improve my chances, but the Black Queen was simply too slender. At this point, it became obvious that my mecha’s specs were simply not high enough to defeat the Black Queen, a fact which Aloice noted as well quite disheartenedly, along with a suggestion to abort and focus firepower on the Black King.
So I tried a different option. Accelerating rapidly towards the Black Queen, bladed angled as if to try and inflict a decisive strike of some sort, I must have looked like a hot-blooded fool with no plan or reason. The berserker yell emanating from the cockpit probably assisted in producing that illusion.
Whatever the reason, my deception worked; the Black Queen did not try to dodge the attack completely, but rather executed an elegant twist of her torso in a way that torsos should absolutely not be twisted, in order to catch my mecha in an enveloping nest of multiple outstretched limbs winding around each other.
She did not expect that I’d captchalogue my mecha in midair and launch myself out of the cockpit with the same velocity that the Abtragung was originally traveling at. Where a huge mecha would have failed and been impaled in four different critical places by the Black Queen’s arm-stingers, my tiny form slipped through the net- and just before I was about to impact, I pulled the Abtragung’s huge mecha-scaled broadsword out of my inventory, pointed right at the Black Queen’s chest.
The transfer of momentum went swimmingly; it appears that Sburb maintains constant velocity when changes of mass through inventorization occur, rather than maintaining constant momentum. The end result of my abuse of game physics was a staggeringly large sword penetrating straight through the Black Queen’s chest like a bullet, to fly some distance before crashing into a faraway castle and knocking it down quite spectacularly.
As for me, I crashed right into the huge bleeding gash in her chest and proceeded to take advantage of the opportunity, firing every single cutting and disintegrating ability I had into the gash, further exacerbating the damage. Whereas my previous attempts had bounced off her plated carapace surface, this time the Black Queen absorbed the entire attack to her health bar.
Surprisingly enough, it didn’t kill her. However, it stunned her long enough for Aloice to fly over to her flailing arms and rip the oversized rings off her fingers. With the prototyping effects gone, the Black Queen reverted to her normal size- and to her normal stats, apparently. Her health bar shrunk at a massive pace, until all that was left was a fraction of her original durability.
As it happened, that durability was less than the damage I’d just inflicted to her. Her health bar shrank until she had no actual health left in her bar, and that was that.
I crashed through the sky for a few panicking seconds until Aloice caught me and lowered me gently to the earth. On her left hand were the Black and White rings, now safely neutralized. Above us, at about the same time, the huge ebon citadel that was the Black King collapsed slowly onto the ground, informing us that sC’s strike team had also completed their mission successfully.
And that was that.
As I understand, the Black Queen is usually not supposed to be enlarged by the effects of the Rings, a property which is reserved exclusively for the Black King’s usage of his own Scepter. sC did not see fit to inform me that the Black Queen would be much larger in combat than anticipated, either due to our poor interpersonal relationship at the moment or the Black Queen not using the rings while inside the throneroom due to fear of damaging the structure at such a large size.
In any case, I was not expecting the Black Queen to be on a matching scale as my Abtragung. Fighting the Black Queen in my personal mecha, even with Aloice helping me, would prove problematic. For one, the Abtragung was not designed for grappling combat; it moved quickly but had forgone frame stability in exchange for raw accelerative speed. I was expecting that I’d be fighting an enemy much larger than myself, after all; the Black King was indeed monstrously huge. However, this design decision meant that I’d have much trouble preventing the Black Queen from interfering with the dungeon crawl that sC’s party was leading at the moment.
But there was nothing to be done for it; this was my part of the final battle, and I had to carry it out to the best of my ability.
I began the fight with a plan to cut off the Black Queen’s wings or arm; cutting off the wings would remove her flight and make her an easy target, while cutting off the arm bearing the rings would defuse the fight in and of itself. However, this quickly proved an impractical course of action.
The Black Queen, as huge as she was thanks to the largeness aspect of the Meteor prototype, could crush Aloice in an instant if she turned her attentions away from me. I endeavored, too, then, to engage her with long-distance beams of slicing force while Aloice hovered in and out, trying to pluck the rings off of the Black Queen’s finger. Thus, my primary actions during this fight were rather in the form of physical distraction.
Which is not to say that my attacks were ineffective. Indeed, for most of the battle, the Black Queen was actually kept on the defense; though her body and limbs were sinusoid and flexible thanks to the effect of the Cal puppet, even she had trouble dodging the dozens of piercing rays I fired at her repeatedly. However, I couldn’t actually land a hit, and with such heavy firepower bearing down, Aloice’s dozen or so time clones had trouble slipping in to snatch the rings.
At this point, I realized that a change of strategy was necessary to prevent stalemate. Thus, I rushed in, converting my ranged blaster back into melee sword form, and engaged the Black Queen in melee. Initially, I was highly disadvantaged, as the flexibility of the Queen allowed her to literally dance circles around me. Clash after clash, I found myself making no headway whatsoever. The Black Queen was, at that point, laughing and opening taunting my mecha’s lack of flexibility, and commenting on my lack of foresight.
It should be noted, at this point, that we were doing combat in the air. The Abtragung was quite agile on the ground, but I’d failed to build adequately sensitive thrusters into its design- which proved quite unfortunate for me. Aloice was casting multiple time-acceleration buffs on me to try and improve my chances, but the Black Queen was simply too slender. At this point, it became obvious that my mecha’s specs were simply not high enough to defeat the Black Queen, a fact which Aloice noted as well quite disheartenedly, along with a suggestion to abort and focus firepower on the Black King.
So I tried a different option. Accelerating rapidly towards the Black Queen, bladed angled as if to try and inflict a decisive strike of some sort, I must have looked like a hot-blooded fool with no plan or reason. The berserker yell emanating from the cockpit probably assisted in producing that illusion.
Whatever the reason, my deception worked; the Black Queen did not try to dodge the attack completely, but rather executed an elegant twist of her torso in a way that torsos should absolutely not be twisted, in order to catch my mecha in an enveloping nest of multiple outstretched limbs winding around each other.
She did not expect that I’d captchalogue my mecha in midair and launch myself out of the cockpit with the same velocity that the Abtragung was originally traveling at. Where a huge mecha would have failed and been impaled in four different critical places by the Black Queen’s arm-stingers, my tiny form slipped through the net- and just before I was about to impact, I pulled the Abtragung’s huge mecha-scaled broadsword out of my inventory, pointed right at the Black Queen’s chest.
The transfer of momentum went swimmingly; it appears that Sburb maintains constant velocity when changes of mass through inventorization occur, rather than maintaining constant momentum. The end result of my abuse of game physics was a staggeringly large sword penetrating straight through the Black Queen’s chest like a bullet, to fly some distance before crashing into a faraway castle and knocking it down quite spectacularly.
As for me, I crashed right into the huge bleeding gash in her chest and proceeded to take advantage of the opportunity, firing every single cutting and disintegrating ability I had into the gash, further exacerbating the damage. Whereas my previous attempts had bounced off her plated carapace surface, this time the Black Queen absorbed the entire attack to her health bar.
Surprisingly enough, it didn’t kill her. However, it stunned her long enough for Aloice to fly over to her flailing arms and rip the oversized rings off her fingers. With the prototyping effects gone, the Black Queen reverted to her normal size- and to her normal stats, apparently. Her health bar shrunk at a massive pace, until all that was left was a fraction of her original durability.
As it happened, that durability was less than the damage I’d just inflicted to her. Her health bar shrank until she had no actual health left in her bar, and that was that.
I crashed through the sky for a few panicking seconds until Aloice caught me and lowered me gently to the earth. On her left hand were the Black and White rings, now safely neutralized. Above us, at about the same time, the huge ebon citadel that was the Black King collapsed slowly onto the ground, informing us that sC’s strike team had also completed their mission successfully.
And that was that.
