Memorial for a friend

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

 [Whatever happened on the other side of the gate, a few things are known. Roads was injured; he's got orders to take it easy for a while and quite a few stitches in his side, along with a truly impressive medication regime.  The Zweilicht was lost, replaced now with a massive blue Deus Machina. And...Kurou and Al did not return.]

I can't believe I'm seriously considering doing this...

[He's in front of that memorial wall, sitting down. He takes out a bottle of pills and downs one, rubbing his temples.]

Stupid headache...urgh, I should have brought a heavier suit...

Comments

[mecha_eihwaz]

Roads... What do you think you're doing?

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

...I am seriously considering putting the name of a non-sentient mecha with no AI on the list of the dead.

[He sighs, rubbing his head again.]

And getting out of sickbay for a while. They really need some posters in there, or something...

[mecha_eihwaz]

Well, there already is a non-sentient being here... But I don't think you're like the man who put it there.

[Lily gestures towards Dick Pentagon's name on the board.]

I thought it's about Kurou and Al. But they're not dead, are they?

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

Yeah, they're still kicking. Probably still gonna be beating some eldritch horrors into the dirt and stealing their lunch money, too.

It was more about...well, it's about the Zweilicht. She's been with us longer than most of the crew, and now what's left of her is lying on a blasted world under five hateful suns.

[mecha_eihwaz]

Roads...

Please snap out of it! I know you've been through together a lot, but Zweilicht was, in the end, just a machine. You can make another one. An even cooler one!

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

Yeah...Yeah, I guess that's true. Got some of the best things in the world to work from, now.

[mecha_eihwaz]

And I saw you have a brand new giant robot suit already! Somehow. How did you make it so quickly?

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

Didn't make that one. Found it in an ancient library in another dimension...Well, found the parts Eibon needed to fix it.

She's always had Mu Thalan, but it's been broken since like 1900. There's not a lot of high-power magical energy sources or arcane libraries on this earth to help fix it, but we weren't exactly on earth over there.

You shoulda seen it, Eibon got real dramatic. Almost forgot to patch me up, she was so busy feeling sad.

[mecha_eihwaz]

She's not as disattached from us mortals as she claims, huh...

Mu Thalan. A magical machine based on a book. How does it work? What can it do?

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

Nah, she's not. She tries real hard not to be emotional, but Eibon likes the people here. She's just like a...stand-offish, angry grandma.

Mu Thalan...It's like Aeon, the Deus Machina that Azrad had. Spells that get complicated enough they act like computer programs, and it jams your head full of the information needed to operate it. Mu Thalan's not as crazy powerful, but it doesn't shred the pilot's life force like Aeon did.

It's can fly, has a sword, and shoot some homing bullets. There's a black hole attack, but I haven't messed around with that one too much. It's a lot faster than the Zweilicht was, and tougher to boot.

[mecha_eihwaz]

If it's full of program instructions, then I'm sure you can make it do much more than that!