"Dawn" combat log

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While one team attacks Nicolai's castle and another infiltrates the base, most of White Chalice has to take care of Nicolai's army of Id Beasts! From mooks, there are the giant Deep Crows, and various Invasion Type creatures, using Mobile Suits and Gucun mecha but with extra monstrous limbs and features added. From tougher, quickly regenerating monsters, there are acid-spewing Fleshsteins made from many bodies stitched together, largely immobile Spiny Id Beasts covered in thousands of spikes which they shoot everywhere, and Moon Worms, huge sandworm-type creatures which have a slowing aura of cold around them. And there might be even more of other, less common monsters!

All but the mookiest Id Beasts are very ferocious, very tough, and quickly regenerating - but only as long as they're in the dark. After some time, Roads breaks the orb of light, which illuminates the battlefield, turning the monsters close to the castle into dust and removing the regeneration and reason of the rest, turning them into even more of unthinking beasts. And soon after that, the sun rises over the battlefield, destroying all the Id Beasts. All it takes is to fight and survive until that point...

But White Chalice has one additional advantage here! A few of the units might be equipped with the Sunlit Hero system. It's only one-shot though, so make it count!

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[themomentoftherose]

Good evening, everyone. I just received word from one of our observation posts that a Stalker matching the description of Stalker Shrike was seen in Alaska. There are several things I'd like to ask him, and I'm also a little worried about him. Who knows how long it has been since he's had any maintenance? Anyway, I'll be gone for a few days tracking him down. If you have an interest in thanatobiorobotics, you're welcome to come along.

[11] As he recovers, the hope for true communication kindles an idea!

[gurrenbrigbonded]

[Dated to after 'Char's Counterattack]

[1]

Afflicted with heatstroke during the fight with Kairos Aspida, then nearly crushed to death during the Axis Drop, Matthew has been bedridden for several days.

Finally on the mend, he's been taking brisk walks around the Chalice, exercising his muscles with an elastic rope, and staring out at the view of both space and the earth, recalling the bright green glow that encircled it only a week ago...

"All the miracles I've seen in the Earth Sphere...and I never realized what a simple feeling could do..." He whispers.

Interject?

[2]

Jogging through the main mech bay, he notices the White Chalice's junk pile, filled with the components of incomplete/destroyed mobile suits. Strapped down on a block is the battered torso of a Doven Wolf, it's Quasi-Psycommu and parts of it's guidance wires still intact.

Matthew jogs in place, and considers the piece of salvage, remembering the deadliness of Zeon prototypes and their funnel attacks.

"Hmmmm." He vocalizes. Ask him more about the idea he just had?

[3]

Later on, both Matthew and the White Chalice techs are working on his Nova Messenger, adding a new wrinkle to it's design.

They've slid out the cockpit nose, and are modifying it's computer block, adding in circuits and processors from the Doven Wolf. Motor-driven reels of wire are being bolted onto the Nova's arms and back shoulders, and hooked into it's control system.

Matthew himself is working with some people at the base of his Mech's foot, welding a set of satellite-grade plasma thrusters to one of the Nova's arm radiators, lying flat on a trolley bed at the moment.

Inquire? Assist? Maybe call him out for doing manual labor after getting injured?

As one chapter ends...

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

 [It's been a good day. Nicolai's defeated, Gucun is back to the Kwan's control, and it turns out Han Zhi was a bigger dick than anyone thought. The vampire army was beaten back from  the city of Xiaofang Shou with minimal civilian casualties thanks to the team up of the White Chalice forces and the local guard. Turns out even when you're wanted as foreign terrorists, monsters from the pits of hell still take precedence.

RIght now, there's a small celebration for pilots at a base on the outskirts of the city. There's rubble to be cleared, salvage to reclaim, all the dirty work of cleaning up after a battle-but hey, we just killed an evil god. So people on break from cleanup duty are hanging about, enjoying shared food, splitting small amounts of coffee and tea, so on and so forth. The White Chalice crew aren't the only guys there as well; the local military division's got plenty of representatives hanging out to chat with.

There's talk of a memorial. It's just a whisper on the wind now, though it will eventually be made by the city early the next year. The winning design for it will be a model of the White Chalice, flying with a stylized version of the sun at its back, while Zilongs are arranged in formation on the ground below.

...But that won't be for a while yet. Instead, it's time to take a break and celebrate the good work everyone's done today. Roads is there, getting ready before he relieves some of the Zilong pilots. And while everyone else is having fun and partying and whatnot, he's sort of off on his own, looking out at the morning sky.]

Good bye for the second time, White Chalice

[nietzsche_waifu]

Han Zhi... you knew nothing of Nietzsche, or his beliefs. You only thought you did, like so many others who misinterpret him.

...

It's over. Han Zhi's illegitimate government overthrown, and Nikolai receiving just as he deserves for his crimes against humanity, all in one swoop. I do not know how will Cheng and I manage to govern the State without the former's help - but I will not give up. I will do my best, even if it means committing mistakes. Because I am a human.

Yes, this means it's time to say good-bye. It's time for me to forge a path to the future - not the one Kairos Aspida wants. My own path. White Chalice will always find allies in the State of Gucun, while Kairos Aspida never will. I will promise you that.

My friends - Laura, everyone.
Watch me. And good luck.

[Devon turns, and leaves - but she picks up her family on the way.]