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« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2019, 11:49:15 pm »
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So Dancer starts hurling bears up, but point defense ain't exactly her specialty, and while the teddies are vicious, they're far durable - the bullets blow them apart and drive the magazine straight into TTB as the new wave surges out of their form. The explosion is, well, it's more like an old Hollywood fireball more than anything than a magazine cooking off. There's just this plume of fire that sends teddies and stuffing scattering as TTB 's systems overheat and their processes freeze.

It's at this point that two lagging fireballs teleport and clip into Janitor C's chest. A third one appears in its head and it just falls, vanishing into the segfault below. Another two round burst leaks Janitor E into oblivion along with the teddies unfortunate enough to be near them.

The room falls silent. No alarm was raised.

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« Reply #16 on: October 05, 2019, 12:17:12 am »
Bogosort-chan had successfully defeated the enemies, and she felt exhilarated about that! She was really being useful! But that's when she saw the Teddy Breach in a terrible state, and the rainbow-haired AI gasped -- she couldn't let that happen! All of the enemies were gone, so Bogosort immediately leapt downwards towards the Teddy Breach (also, 2 1 4 5 3, darn), shouted "Don't worry, Teddy-san! I'll help you!", bounded over, and then began immediately indiscriminately firing around healing spells in every direction.

Bogosort-chan uses Check Validity, and then spams several non-hyper Check Validity spells!
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« Reply #17 on: October 06, 2019, 11:37:34 am »
"Wow. That doesn't look very pleasant." Dancer commented after seeing Teddy's condition.

If there are any Janitor bodies around, kick them a few times to make sure they're fully taken care of.
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Within that world, she was God. But here, outside of it, her name was Yoake o-Shiri. That was unimportant. She was a Godslayer. That too was unimportant. But what was important, was that she had a motherfucking boat.
And by God, was she going to use it.

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« Reply #18 on: October 11, 2019, 11:22:14 pm »
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"Wow. That doesn't look very pleasant." remarks Dancer as she proceeds to continue doing nothing about Teddy's condition, opting to kick one of the fallen Janitor avatars a couple of times. Yup, it's completely crashed. Smells strongly of bleach too, which is seeping out of the many wounds inflicted by the teddy horde. Where the bleach has run dry it appears to be corrupting and decaying.

Bogosort-chan meanwhile just sprays healing magic everywhere like a malfunctioning lawn sprinkler. Amazingly, the big heal at the start does hit Teddy with another two more minor pulses for good measure, which is enough to get their process to start responding again. That being said, they are still overheating and the precious blue magic smoke is leaking from the rift. They need to cool down, ideally by using something to vent off heat. With that in mind, she proceeds to pivot a full 107 degrees and nail Dancer twice in the head with her heal spell. She then shoots Teddy again for good measure. Well at least some of the smoke's been replenished?

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« Reply #19 on: October 12, 2019, 11:07:21 am »
"Oh, oops." The dancer felt the two useless heals impact her, and decided to head over somewhere better. Namely placing herself on the opposite side of Teddy. Hopefully that'd do the trick.

"Do it again."
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Within that world, she was God. But here, outside of it, her name was Yoake o-Shiri. That was unimportant. She was a Godslayer. That too was unimportant. But what was important, was that she had a motherfucking boat.
And by God, was she going to use it.

"But deceleration is for pansies. We're headed for the stars. Bye, Burnsie. Bye, Mission Control. Bye, Sol. See you at heat death" -Blindsight

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« Reply #20 on: October 26, 2019, 11:23:53 pm »
Oh wow ow oops.

"Note to self, attempt to develop bears that can weaponized ongoing data loss due to simulated exothermic reactions."

Spawn bears, transferring the fire to them as they spawn and have them charge off deeper into the facility, programmed to hug anyone they saw that was not a party member. Use whatever Method is necessary and available to do this.
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« Reply #21 on: October 27, 2019, 01:36:31 am »
In many circumstances, Bogosort-chan was beyond terrible at making decisions -- that's about what's natural for an AI entirely centered around a joke sorting algorithm that can't do its job. But right now, the rainbow-colored spambot girl certainly did not need to be encouraged again. Right now, after all, there was no denying that Bogosort-chan was Helping, even if she was kinda slinging extra healing spells every which way. "I'm! Doing! It! Again!!" And once again she got with flinging spells wildly, a powerful bolt of healing and then several rather less powerful ones. They may not have been cast with precision, but they were certainly cast with enthusiasm, at the least.

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Bogosort-chan casts the Check Validity hyper (altering a 2 to a 3 and then using it) and then again spams the normal version of the spell repeatedly.
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« Reply #22 on: October 31, 2019, 05:25:18 am »
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"I'm! Doing! It! Again!!" Bogosort sort of just makes a gun shape with her finger, green light gathering as the process spun up and... immediately pointed it at her own head. It's at this point that Dancer bounds up the stairs and fucking tackles her trying to force her comrade's pointing finger away and at the patient. This, proves to be a surprisingly difficult task.

While this struggle is happening, TTB summons yet another horde of teddies using them as heat sinks. Turns out they don't handle heat too well and proceed to immediately combust, setting her horde on fire, said horde proceeding to charge out the door in a burning stampede. The chatter of automatic gunfire soon follows. Okay so there's probably a few enemies across that door, they're probably better armed than the last few, and they're probably going to try and sound the alarm soon.

A flash of green strikes TTB, Dancer finally managing to force her comrade to fire, TTB's system integrity return to full soon after with a few more spells (though Bogosort still manages to shoot herself a few times).

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« Reply #23 on: November 01, 2019, 10:30:06 pm »
"Are you okay now Teddy? Shall we move on?" The Dancer asks, getting off of Bogosort, now that TTB seemed to have made a full recovery. "Sorry about that Bogosort-chan!"
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Within that world, she was God. But here, outside of it, her name was Yoake o-Shiri. That was unimportant. She was a Godslayer. That too was unimportant. But what was important, was that she had a motherfucking boat.
And by God, was she going to use it.

"But deceleration is for pansies. We're headed for the stars. Bye, Burnsie. Bye, Mission Control. Bye, Sol. See you at heat death" -Blindsight

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« Reply #24 on: November 03, 2019, 01:56:02 am »
"It's okay~" Bogosort responded in a singsong voice, with not even a hint of frustration or irritation behind it. "I healed Teddy-san!!" Quite pleased with herself, Bogosort then elected to (after, shockingly, getting the direction correct) waltz RIGHT into the room where the sound of automatic gunfire and exploding teddies was coming from, although in her favor she was at least electing to go to the doorway and peek in to see what was happening.

Bogosort tries to sneakily peek into the Automatic Gunfire Shit's Going Down Room. If the other two don't post, they go near to the doorway and prepare to enter next turn, while TTB uses its teddies to try and get information on the layout of that room if possible.
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« Reply #25 on: November 03, 2019, 12:45:06 pm »
"Yes, you did, good job."

Prepare to enter the room, try to determine first which enemy seems in the best position to raise the alarm, and charge them down. If this is not obvious, Weaving Lull [4].
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Quote from: Empiricist on May 14, 2017, 06:47:19 am
Within that world, she was God. But here, outside of it, her name was Yoake o-Shiri. That was unimportant. She was a Godslayer. That too was unimportant. But what was important, was that she had a motherfucking boat.
And by God, was she going to use it.

"But deceleration is for pansies. We're headed for the stars. Bye, Burnsie. Bye, Mission Control. Bye, Sol. See you at heat death" -Blindsight

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« Reply #26 on: November 04, 2019, 07:42:15 am »
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The door opens up into a long hallway with paper walls. Or at least with what used to be paper walls. Currently they're more like thin burning slices of swiss cheese, a death trap with fallen flaming teddies piling up faster than they can despawn, gunfire tearing through the walls as they hack their way through and charge onwards, out of the hallway, out of the building, and into the nightbound courtyard. You can't get a good angle on the adversaries, it's a bit hard to from your limited vantage points through the teddies, fire, and bullets, but judging by the projectiles, there's no fewer than eight of them, likely four per side and packing substantially more heat than the last guys. Automatic combat shotguns you reckon, spraying buckshot into the crowd and unlike the ones you just fought, with the reload speed and spare mags needed to not get overrun immediately. Still, if the horde's pushing out through the holes rather than just clogging the place up, you can't imagine they'd hold forever, and more importantly, they they'll struggle to take out any more units that show up. Hopefully anyways.

A teddy dressed in a messenger's uniform sprints inside, letter in hand. A message from the front! It's as you've observed, four units either side. Automatic shotguns and highly mobile, though being forced to retreat There's one on the right side readying to raise an alarm, and the left flank is covering them as their squad makes a break for it, towards some sort of archway at the front. Apparently it's red, rectangular, and topped with a guillotine blade.

You could probably rush them now, though the fire is a bit of an issue given that it's bloated further thanks to the steady stream of teddies being thrown into the meat grinder. Plus you'd probably catch some stray buckshot unless you breach through real quickly. Alternatively you could have TTB amass her reinforcements into a single unit and send them crashing through in a coordinated charge. The delay should be enough to let the flames die down and the greater organization should make the assault swift and crushing... if you can make it in time with that delay.

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« Reply #27 on: November 04, 2019, 08:02:27 am »
Whether we rush in immediately, or wait for Teddy to amass units, Dancer will go in for the one with the alarm with Weaving Lull [4] at that point, and hopefully end up kicking them in the face.

If powder does not post, let's go in without regrouping, have Bogosort start popping off fireballs I guess.
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Within that world, she was God. But here, outside of it, her name was Yoake o-Shiri. That was unimportant. She was a Godslayer. That too was unimportant. But what was important, was that she had a motherfucking boat.
And by God, was she going to use it.

"But deceleration is for pansies. We're headed for the stars. Bye, Burnsie. Bye, Mission Control. Bye, Sol. See you at heat death" -Blindsight

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« Reply #28 on: November 05, 2019, 11:17:34 pm »
"Your call, guys. Regroup and then push or keep up the pressure? All the same to me."

Either way, execute the bearpocalypse, either to join with the regrouping troops or charge in after them.
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« Reply #29 on: November 12, 2019, 03:10:14 am »
Bogosort-chan, it appears, had been left in a leadership position, as her intense decision-making skill was known far and wide -- anyone who knew Bogosort-chan had something good to say about her time-tested, well-worn strategy of running in with zero impulse control at complete, literal random. And so, entrusted with the grave and solemn duty of carving a path for her fellow artificially-minded comrades, Bogosort immediately took initiative and ran in shouting "LET'S GOOOO!" And then, shortly after, she wildly started flinging fireballs with absolutely no mind for even if she was in the right place.

Bogosort runs down a completely random hallway, fires off a Method Fireball Method 1.0, and then fires off several normal Fireball 1.0s.
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