VertigoMonkey

12h

Commented

As today's program came to an end, everyone slowly left the parade ground. As Ves tried to keep an eye out on Dietrich and his cat, he reconsidered the matter of upgrading his attributes. Now that he developed some decent skills, perhaps it was time to upgrade his intelligence.

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VertigoMonkey

13h

Commented

if my own clothes could abduct me, I think I'd have to choose being a walker...

The poor fellow got shot by a stun projectile, shutting him up pretty quickly. A handful of his type joined him in his unconscious bliss. Fortunately for all of them, their antigrav clothes kept them aloft. Through some override, the clothes automatically floated them off the fields.

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VertigoMonkey

17h

Commented

you mean too much awesome to process

"Okay. Okay. So my pet is a killer assassin. Okay. That's too much crazy for me to process."

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Sci-fi · Exlor

VertigoMonkey

1d

Commented

"Considering my next destination, I can use all the DP I can get."

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VertigoMonkey

2d

Commented

I'm pretty sure the family kind of offered its direct support, but he turned them down as he wanted to do it completely on his own.

He lacked too many things. Though he had a tenuous connection to the Larkinson family, they wouldn't go out on a limb to subsidize his business nor purchase his first mech. While they saved up a sizeable amount of credits over the years, most of them were reserved for emergencies. Using them to save a failed business was not in the family's collective interests.

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Sci-fi · Exlor

VertigoMonkey

2d

Commented

At least the excessive time is acknowledged by the author. Some authors have a challenge with math and somehow something that should take way more than a single day is crammed into less than one day.

After about half the contestant's work had gone on stage, the presenter announced the end of the testing. "Due to a shortage in time, we will pause the testing and resume it later tomorrow morning. Don't worry, Hans will continue familiarizing with the rest of the mechs tomorrow in order to allow him to run the gauntlet without interruption."

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VertigoMonkey

2d

Commented

If 1/3 of the 150 contestants were disqualified, that leaves 100 mechs for one person to test. The acclimation time of 5 minutes per mech is a little over 8 hours. That's on top of the 12 hours the contestants have already spent. That is a long day...

"First up is a creation by Natalie Montag. Hans will put the Lance Star to the test after five minutes of acclimatization. This preparation period applies to all other mechs tested today."