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Between heats, Lady Mercury consults with Juan. You can't hear what they are discussing, but to your annoyance you note the Jaun flawlessly mimics your technique and moves as he demonstrates something to her.

Damn. It's nice to have talented friends.

The larger shield's not a bad idea, but blocking the strikes of a larger weapon gonna put pressure on the knees to block the strikes, and pairing it with a shorter weapon's going to mean less chances to get a good hit in.

I'm not sure we have a choice on the first point. Either we play defensive and let her outstamina us, or we go all out and let her out-everything-else us.

I agree with the second point but I still think it's the better plan. If we have a longsword, she'll still outrange us unless she moves in closer, and if she manages to get inside our guard she'll grapple us again. If we have a shortsword, we'll be completely useless except for if she tries to grapple or body-shove, but those are the conditions we're most worried about outside getting demolished by a greatsword.

Daisy is coy when you ask if the items are enchanted, but you trust her not to have done anything that goes against your interests.

She's already a sexual deviant, Daisy. You really didn't need to do that.


I say we wait on the proposal, since proposing after the tournament (or at a dramatic lull) should work almost as well. Give her both items; they're both culturally significant and she probably likes shiny objects. Besides, she'll have a spare in case she loses one in a tomb or something.

Less sure how to fight her. The crossguard daggers almost certainly mean she's intending to parry her way through. I'm tempted to go for a big sword and try to just flatly overpower her; it's one thing to catch a blade, it's another to avoid getting shoved back. We could also try matching her in a dagger duel, but then she might just go for the grapple and we'll be basically useless against her slippery hide.

Using a shield or "human powered missile" in our off-hand has some interesting potential. I feel like she'd tend to get around a shield, but even if we can't grapple or stop her from getting into our guard, we can probably pry her off and shove her around with a shield. Throwing a banana peel or bottle of glue under her feet could be effective at screwing with her mobility, but presumably it'd only work once per fight at best. A smoke grenade or the like might also benefit us more than her, if we're swinging blindly with a longer sword.

Continue! Sessha first.

+1

Might be the ever-hungering Void, might be a great way to get stains out of fabric.

How are we going to manage a public tournament whilst adhering to the Mass Gathering limits?

...shit. That'll look especially bad if we violate it right after everyone gets mad at us for implementing it.

I'll second the television angle, but we might not have enough hardware for that either. A private session would indeed be more romantic, but less glorious, and our marriage is supposed to be something of interest to the entire planet.

"Have at ye, ruffian!"

Leap onto the sawbot and do glorious battle!

Oh, very well.

Change vote from E to D

Potion bottle, uh... sorta worked for the Jacithium Emission? This is... probably less volatile, but it might creep us out just being near...

Try scooping some into an empty potion bottle. Sessha might want to handle this bit, since she's probably the most familiar with horrors beyond mortal comprehension.

No sense in hiding anything, tell her everything that happened.

+1

And good point about the helmet footage, assuming it was being recorded.


I think we should attempt the proposed mass gathering ban to see if that works, and try to propose to Lady Mercury before her mead tasting event. Whether that means cramming 2-3 more dates in (did this one count?) or trying to pull off a single date that doesn't end in calamity.

Speaking of which, how about trying to capture and train several different metallic animals to see which ones make good pets, attack hounds, or mounts? The Chrono-Sirens would probably have fun too.