Quote:I was wondering when I posted it if anyone would figure out the significance of the figures. In retrospect they're probably somewhat higher than she could really manage, but since, if I have my figures right, structural steel gives at around thirty tons to the square inch and she's hitting with somewhere north of four thousand, I doubt it'll matter much.
Here I thought, there was no way a normal baton can generate that much pressure.
Quote:Safe to say 'no.' The purchase price of a single M.I.Y. Unit would make the United States military cringe, and bankrupt some first world nations. Even Searrs' resources have limits.
Does Searrs have one one standby?
So it'll be a few months before anyone sees her again. ^_^
Quote:*innocent* Do I?
BTW...do you realize you have the elements of a dating sim game..aka as the "polygon of love" in place?
The other incident that happened while I was down for the count I can't be as certain about, since there were no cameras, but having heard accounts of it from both of the involved parties, I think it's safe to say I've a fair idea what went on.
The one that was mauling me (and hitting Nao's locker and Natsuki's shopping bag) wasn't the only 'subsidiary self' that the Orphan had had out and running about. For some reason - I'm honestly not sure I want to know what - one of those other bodies decided it was going to stop by the boys' dormitory.
Evidently there are a surprising number of places to find girl's underwear within same, but by far the largest concentration was of course in Akira's room. In the long run it was probably fortunate that the lady herself was out - art club, y'see - since her roommate was having his sister over for a visit.
Of course, I'm free to think that, since it wasn't my room that got demolished.
Anyway, the first sign they got of the thing was when it knocked over some of Akira's art supplies in the process of getting into her sock drawer. Takumi poked his head around the curtain first and caught sight of the thing slurping down one of her chest wraps like a kid with a spagetti noodle.
So he yell and fell on his ass, so that Mai, being the sweetheart she is, dashed over to check that he was okay and what was it that had startled him like that, anyway?
One of the problems with knowing what to expect from an opponent is that it can cause you to be overconfident because you 'know' what they're going to do. This time, though, it didn't seem to much matter - after all, when something launches itself at you like those monsters did, the instinctive response is pretty much all that you have time to do. So she tried to swat it away, just the same as I had, though fortunately with different results.
The one that attacked me had been trying to cause damage - Nagi would later outright admit to targeting me - but Mai's was 'just' trying to eat her clothes. That probably wouldn't have made much of a difference without the second thing, though, which was her showing the same kind of panic-reaction 'partial activation' of her Elements that had been shown in the show's version of the first episode.
The shield blasted the Orphan across the room so that it bounced off of the wall and landed, quite disgruntled, in the middle of Akira's bed. It gave her a nasty look, somewhat spoiled by the fact that its nose was smoking visibly, hissed at her, then bounced out the window.
To hear Mai tell it, most of their conversation after that consisted of her mind bouncing from one reason for panic to another, what with her having it just had it emphatically confirmed that not only was her own life at risk, not only did she all of a sudden have super powers, not only were there conspiracies and all-out, real monsters out there - after her - heck, it wasn't even enough that her brother's continued survival was dependant on the success of not one but two people at an event that had a truly terrifying casualty rate.
No, now she had to contend with having the fate of the entire world very literally dumped onto her shoulders, and she said that it had been all that Takumi could do to keep her calm enough not to hyperventilate.
His version of events, in stark contrast, has her as being perfectly calm through the whole thing, if a little worried, and simply sitting him down and filling him in on what a HiME was, that she was one, and what would likely be happening over the next few weeks. When we talked about it, he tried to tease me about how often my name came up during that talk, which, frankly, is ridiculous - Mai's more than sharp enough to know better than to think I'm anywhere near that important.
Anyway, both of them had it concluding the same way - one of your Kodak moment hugs... You know the ones? Tears, smiles, 'I love you too, Sis!', the whole nine yards.
Which was broken up, alas before anyone could get a picture of it, when the fully merged Lingere Monster ripped out the room's outside wall.
Okay, so, I'm off to conquer the ancient world for a bit.
Ja! -n
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