[Date: Oct 14, 2020 1200 GMT.] [Yuri's been doing that wacky monk think. Lucky for her, it has involved various adventures that brought her back to full health and energy.] [As I'm really not that cruel. Or maybe I'm more cruel for maintaining the illusion of hope.] [Rev. Warlow and Vanguard's rep, Ceilia, are meeting in a park in London. They look like they both just arrived when Yuri appears and walks up.] [Start!] * Yuri enters the park from behind a tree. She looks... birdy today. With a beak. Although no feathers. Small favors, as they say. Jeans and a red Mazinger Z t-shirt. * Yvonne has joined #sab2020 * Brett has left #sab2020 * Ceilia looks over and looks a tad startled. "My... our cosmetic GM group has been working on that look for a while. How do you find it?" * Warlow looks over to Yuri and looks sympathetic. * Yuri shrugs slightly. "Call it fate." * Ceilia shakes her head. "No, I didn't mean to pry about how you look that way. I mean how does it feel?" * Warlow eyes Ceilia. "This is a scheduling meeting, not a marketing focus group." * Yuri looks at Ceilia funny. A gold-eyed glare, if you will. * Jexless has joined #sab2020 * Jexless is now known as Jex (#sabwatch Jex, and Ren's welcome.) * Robin has joined #SAB2020 Right. ::she looks to Yuri and doesn't flinch under the glare:: Do you have any preferences? * Jex is now known as Ren * Yuri says, "I like it hot." A faint grin. "Must have been a tropical bird." A jungle would work. Excellent proof of concept for our hardware. * Warlow looks to Yuri. "Agreed?" * Yuri stretches her arms behind her back and chuckles. "Not a desert? Now that's what I call proof." I never knew monks were such desert creatures. But agreed. ::she looks to Warlow:: I want it noted on the videos that Yuri choose that location. Saldin would say it's an aestheticism thing. * Warlow nods. "Done." * Yuri pauses, then says, "Guess I'll see you there, then." [And everybody goes to the Sahara! Well, Yuri travels by her own means with a quick stopover on the way...] [Yuri appears again at Prudence's lab. The inventor is presently examining a belt and set of talon guards with a chrome finish.] * Prudence looks up. "Welcome back. Here's what I promised. I based the measurements of the lab scanners but can fine tune them a bit if need be." * Yuri rubs her beak and says, "Well, fine tune them to like sand, since that's where we're going." * Prudence takes both pieces of equipment and walks over to sealed chamber in one of the walls. She presses a button and opens it. With another button press it closes and there's a miniture sandstorm behind the transparent door." (-"_ ... plan on watching from up close? [And after half a minute the sand storm dies down. Prudence removes the equipment, runs a few tests, and hands them to Yuri. "All good. And no. If I'm not there than Vanguard may be less on edge." * Prudence pouts for a moment. "Although watching it on screen isn't the same." * Yuri blinks, then shakes her head. "This feels a bit off." She looks at the gloves and puts them on. "Then again, I'm not really trained for mecha combat." * Yuri puts on the other stuff too. * Prudence smiles. "I wouldn't worry about it. Classically 70% of anti-mecha fighters have minimal formal training the first time and are thrown in largely dependent on spunk and natural talent." * Yuri rolls her eyes, but you can never see that with the monkies. "Do they usually have, ooh, I don't know, mechas of their own?" * Prudence glances away. "Well, good luck!" * Yuri flexes her hand. "Yeah. Thanks for giving me a shot." * Prudence smiles and Yuri vanishes off to the fight sight. * Yuri closes her eyes and takes a deep breath, murmuring, "Stay calm," as she walks-poof! [Bookie is standing there as are Warlow and Breaker.] * Bookie is presently in normal non-Mecha form. He waves. "Hi Yuri." * Yuri waves, and then rubs her beak again. "Like the new look?" * Breaker glances up at Warlow and comments quietly. "I'm not going to go all beaky am I? I mean the talons are cool and all, but the beak doesn't seem like so much fun." * Bookie nods. "Very exotic." * Warlow shakes her head. "Not an effect that applies to your extraplanar fighting." * Yuri nods slightly and then looks to Breaker. "Yeah. That's more our type of problem." She looks to Bookie. "Well, guess it's gonna be a bit more real this time, huh?" [You're presently in a tent. It's presently on the top of rather large dune. Dunes extend in both directions as far as the eye can see.] [In the distance you can see a large military transport plane circling. That's where the watch group is based out of.] * Bookie nods and comments in a more serious than usual tone. "Yes, I guess it will be." He then steps outside of the tent and summons the mecha. [The sequence is the same as in Bookie's last fight. Yay for not re-animating things in order to save money.] We'll be watching from the tent. So don't smash it. You both ready? * Bookie over speakers. "Yes." * Yuri closes her eyes for a second, and then steps out into the desert as if it were a nice spring day. "Don't worry about ME smashing it. I'm not even two meters." * Breaker smiles. "I'll bet you could smash a tent if you wanted to." She then looks more serious. "Positions!" * Bookie's mecha walks way from the tent about fifty meters. It doesn't move quite as well as it does on grassland, but its walking system seems to be able to adapt to the sandy conditions. * Yuri walks alongside, parallelish. Go! [Init rolls please.] [Bookie, Yuri.] * Bookie starts conservatively and lumbers over to Yuri, taking a mighty swing. * Bookie's aim is just on but Yuri manages to get out of the way in time. [Yuri!] * MLINK_AFK has joined #sab2020 * Yuri has quit IRC (Ping timeout) * MLINK_AFK is now known as Yuri * Yuri reaches over to the hand she just managed to dodoge and says with a faint smile, "Coming out swinging? Why don't we shake first?" She grabs the hand and PULLS, her yellow eyes glowing bright gold. [Bookie didn't expect that at all and falters. The mechanical leg buckles and he falls to the ground with a massive thud throwing sand up into the air.] [The chrome talons rup into the armor on the mechanical leg. They scratch it up impressively although without Yuri's strength they wouldn't have made a dent. (Arm.) (Oh, right.) * Bookie voice is broadcasted via the loudspeaker. "Nice, but I can't have you doing that again." [The mecha finds it footing on the sand and there's a slight buzzing sound as sparks of electricity begin to appear over the entire device. They do not seem to damage it.] [Bookie can't do more than stand up this turn, although he was nearly quick enough to do so.] [Yuri! * Yuri runs forward, saying, "Well, I guess it's just a question of who drops first." She runs for the weaker-looking of the two legs, trying to tear at it with her Super!Talons. [The talons hit into the leg scratching the surface. The talon guards protect Yuri from the electricity however they can't defend against the powerful repulsive force of the current.] * Yuri 's eyes widen at the shock and she lets out an ungenteel grunt as her feet suddenly set in the sand and neither her feet nor the sand moves at the slightest. Her eyes are still very much glowing gold. * Bookie falls back and launches four rockets into the air from the shoulder launch pads. [Three of the missiles fail to track Yuri and fly wild. The fourth however homes straight in on her. Ranged defense roll, Yuri!] * Yuri starts running to chase Bookie and smiles slightly as the missiles fly, but when she sees one actually track her, pauses a split second and then leaps up into the air, timing the jump just right to kick off the back end of the missile and land herself on the sand very close to that damaged leg. She lets out a soft, "Whu!" and then strikes back, talons tearing at the leg once again! [The talons rip deeper into the leg cutting through the surface armor down tho the servos.] [The mecha is also moving a bit more sluggishly, as if energy usage is begining to take a toll on the vehicle.] * Bookie grunts in pain and then leaps up into the air, propelled up by jump jets in its feet. It seems to lack a hover capacity and just moves up in an arc as it launches another four missiles. The first four also come around again.] [Inconceivably, once again, only one missile tracks Yuri. She'll need a defense roll.] [Yuri doesn't get out of the way fast enough this time. The missile hits dead on. It's a small thing with a minimal payload, but still it looks like it hurts.] [Yuri's turn. And Bookie's still in the air, though starting to come down.] * Yuri 's feet set again in the sand to resist the electrical knockback and she turns to eye the new missiles. Her head whirls to the old missiles and she makes the wrong call! Blammo. At least she doesn't cry out in pain, although her t-shirt and jeans are the worse for wear. [Four of the missiles miss Yuri and explode. Another three are still tracking her. The mecha has 12 left.] * Yuri looks up to Bookie and then starts running towards him beforoe trying to take a big leap to grab his leg.. [Yuri flies up into the air going farther than an ordinary human should be able to reach, but she falls just short.] [Two of the missiles fly free and come nowhere near Yuri, the third tracks her successfully.] [The missile hits Yuri mid air hurting her badly. He launches another series of four missiles, although his aim is weaker given the electrical drain.] [The missiles all fly wild.] [Yuri!] (Bookie landing?) [Bookie is now on the ground again, although still moving away fast.] * Yuri gets hit by the missile and shoved towards the ground and when she slams into it, on her feet, starts to running. She's bleeding now, and probably lucky to have any clothes left on as she runs and goes for Bookie's leg with no small hint of desperation. [Yuri *just* misses. Bookie launches another salvo of missiles. 4 left.] * Bookie appears to have temporarily recovered from the his tiredness. Two missiles are on.] [The first missile hits and Yuri goes down. The second missile would have easily hit but veers away at the last possible second.] * Yuri 's claw misses and she just doesn't have anything left to dodge with, smashing into the sand. [And shortly there after Bookie leaves the Mecha and everyone gathers together at a landing field. Everyone in here.] * Ren takes the quick way down, a burst of fur signalling his arrival, then fading. [Yuri comes too after a bit of patching up.] * Yvonne hops off the plane as it lands. She's wearing a blood-red, sleeveless velvet trenchcoat, a dark red halter, and red shorts. * Ren kneels down over Yuri. "Hey, kid." (I'm not down anymore.) * Ren doens't kneel, then! * Ceilia gets out and walks over to Bookie giving him a pat on the back. "You did good kid." * Yuri is standing, still not suffering from the heat. She dosn't even look to be in pain. * Yuri just looks very damaged. She glances to Ren, not adressing him, then looks back to Bookie. She doesn't seem to have anything to say, though. * Bookie looks over and comments quietly. "The damn leg nearly fell off. I was afraid I'd have to learn to hop." * Yuri snorts. * Bookie looks over Yuri's wounds. "You going to be alright?" * Ren looks over the mecha, Bookie, and Yuri, then gives a shrug, not saying anything, and turns to walk off. * Yuri says evenly, "Doesn't even hurt." She looks him over, then shakes her head slightly. * Ren is now known as Jexless * Bookie smiles. "Good." (End?) ( K ) (Not yet.) (Check) * Yuri adds, "Not through lack of trying, though." She looks to Breaker. "Well, maybe you can still bug me about Will sometime." A weak chuckle, and then she turns and walks. * Yuri limps slightly as she goes. * Yvonne stretches and walks off * Break grins. "Great!" * Warlow looks down to Breaker with a disapproving look. (Break->Breaker) (End now?) (Sure.) [End!]