12-2 Adverse
[For the level I used the AFK stratery with: Siege E1MAX, Bagpipe E2, Elysium E2lvl20, Ptilopsis E2lvl50, Vigil MAX, Puzzle E2lvl20, Heidi E2S2 and Lumen MAX]
! Everything ahead is SPOILERS !
[Text: 'We've confirmed that a high-speed warship belonging to the Duke of Windermere was attacked by an unknown Sarkaz weapon. There were no survivors.]
GREAT! WONDERFUL! What the hell would you expect me to do about that? How in the hell do you 'gather intel' all we can do is probably look at it from below as it disappears into a cloud of steam and originium specks and hope that the next thing it fires at will not be ummediately us.
I keep forgetting that the title Duke is absolutely available for men and women, so when she comes up every time I'm like... I kind of want to be her when I get older but Ma'amn I do not appreciate the way you're talking about Allerdale. At least she has a good and honest (?) opinion on what she's fighting for, because she's at least being real about how this is progressing and what Victorians think about the 'homeland'.
And are you telling me the Duke of Windermere is dead or... Am I supposed to give up on this model now? They talk about her like she's still alive, so I suppose she was not on that ship.
Sir... Your model is so good. GOSH I LOVE Victoria's clothes so much. Look at the back of his tailcoat, look at the gorgeous cane he'd holding. What a distinguished man whose real agenda and opinions I do not remember thus I can't say if swooning over the model is tipping my good girl scales.
[Text: How about a Sankta patron firearm? I just happen to have one stached away back home...]
I know the Sarkaz are famous for their battle with the Sankta, having past history and whatnot, but are you sure you can just brink a dead Sankta's weapon into the conversation and think that's going to be enough of a temptation?
[Text:
Sarkaz Soldier: Interesting... You got your hands on an angel's guardian gun huh?
Timid Citizen: Oh, um, it's not mine though. It's just for safekeeping... Heavens, those angels from the Notarial Hall are going to flay me alive if they find out, but if you're interested-]
Dude, you are NOT asking if he is interested because they collect them....
[Text: I just happened to hear, you- Err, the Sarkaz enjoy collecting them, so...]
Oh, he asked, alright...
[Text: Listen up. I prefer my angelic toys freshly looted from a pile of corpses. Now, piss off.]
O-kay. Alright, you know what? You can... Do that. I- And that angry guy is dead now, alright. Oh, those two are down the drain as well...
To be fair, he's not wrong. Sarkaz have been living in dar for so long just because other countries are 110% sure that they will be back asking for vengeance and they are such a great of a number that it's going to be catastrophic. This is what I'm talking about when we talk about Arknights' whole 'Who is the good guy?' meter because it is BROKEN. Those who live well do it at the cost of someone else but they didn't really... do anything to get that going, it's all politics. In the meantime those who are mad are mad for a reason you can kinda nod to because it's relatable.
Terrible, really.
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CADOR? HELLO? HE'S BABY???
YO THE GLASGOW GANG?
I can't even begin to imagine the damage Kal'tsit would have taken. They say she was already frail, but I wince every time she raises her hand to call on Mon3tr. Don't worry Amiya we can do this. She's gonna be fine, you are gonna be fine, it was all a bad dream. The weight of the Crown of the Sarkaz is heavy but I will hold it up for you babo, I promise.
12-2 Adverse
Poor Golding being told she's probably the reason why all 3 houses got ambushed is really heartrending. She is literally me, for real, actually, and just like how I refuse to give up so did she...
[Text: You little twat, you think being a knight gives you the right to teach me to look at the big picture? I don't give a shite about wiping out some old Sarkaz monsters. My friends are in danger. My home is in danger!]
Okay, indra coming in Indra-ing all over the place until Siege just says 'Indra, enough.' and we instantly stop Indra-ing.
So who the hell are you, Mr. 'I'm the reason Allerdale died but also all your comrades are safely evacuated as much as we could do' and what the heck is your deal??
Trillby Asher? What do you want?
[Text: My sincerest pleasure to meet all of you, ladies and gentlemen. I hope there yet remains room for our objectives to coexist.]
You, Sir, are a clown-
[Text: 'Doctor', the commander of Rhodes Island... There exists very little information on you. We were under the impression that this was due to a lack of importance.
We will reevaluate our internal appraisal.]
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
"We thought you are useless, but it seems that was wrong."
[Text: Your subordinates are very strong, even after they heard the word Vampire.]
Which is weird because... what even are you? Your race is undisclosed, W refuses to call you a Sarkaz and bites your backside for having horns, but you also have Baphomet in your E2 art.
What are you????
But also...
INES INES INES INES SHE COMES IN TO SAVE THE DAY BEING A BADASS ONCE AGAIN. And apparently she's been in cahoots with Ascalon because how was she meant to know that Ines is going to come around after annihilating all the communications- no, all the people waiting on the other side of the radios to hear whether or not they get to attack
Better question
HOW DID YOU SURVIVE THAT FALL???
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Skin intermission, because I caved. Czerny skin is what I'm saving for next, but it's okay because the new CC and the ExeAlter comes first and I can work on that.
12-4 Adverse
And after all of that horror I just get to listen about how Logos is just great at darts and apparently unbeatable at... *checks scribble on hand* chair sliding.
[Text: Cador presses against the door with his body and grabs the axe peeking through the hole back with his two hands. The Man outside makes several attempts to pull the axe back in vain.
Cador: I don't care who the hell you are, but get out of my sight, or I'll have this axe in your brain!]
GET EM CADOR! What a mess, the hecking audacity to be breaking in like that.
This level... Took me like 5 tries and in the end I had to learn the hard way that maybe bringing more robots is a good idea only if I have Chiave and only if I am braced to wait like... what... 200 seconds??? It was insane. I managed though.
12-5 Adverse
[Text: War is cruel. Suffering and death follow in its wake. It exposes out barest, truest forms to one another. It tears off all disguises.]
Oh yeah, I can absolutely see people going insane with all that is happening already, you don't need to remind us... We didn't learn our lesson with the gold tooth that Per left behind after his body got mauled...
Grannynapping happens, Clovisia used her arts and I'm so sad I didn't get to see what they were. Here and then she's not. I don't really get why the workers would try to save Catherine. I mean, yeah, the attempt is fine, since they do care about her, they want to be safe and giving up at this point is a little useless as she said... The Sarkaz will not be showing mercy anymore and I don't think there is any place safe they can go.
In any case, I appreciate the worry. even if Catherine is gonna be like 'You absolute twats.'
Ayo Originium Dust spoiler, dead Infected explode.
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[Text: Of course, Victoria has never been truly at peace. The things we make are sent to the border region to fight the Sargonians ot the Leithanians and blast holes in their bodies - Not that it has anything to do with us. All we had to do was stay in the factory and turn screws on the iron blocks.]
Me: "Why is Victoria fighting Laterano again?"
Pinkie: "Because they have all the GUNZ."
Me: "I meant Leithania actually."
Pinkie: "Because they are right next to each other."
Me: "THE SIMPLER EXPLANATION HAHA!"
Pinkie: "Well, yeah! You're Balkan, I'd think you'd know that the best."
Me: "Oh my god, I would."
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Pinkie: "I'm saying globalization isn't a thing the way I can voice chat with you all. A Leithanian can't voice chat with a Victorian. For me to contact you, Lundi, I have to send a letter to Kazimierz, wait a week, wait another week for a responce and then read your letter."
Me: "If he survives."
Pinkie: "And that is if the Messenger survives multiple cancer-inducing snowstorms, yes."
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Pinkie: "Cador is definitely one of the based ones in the Glasgow gang. When Siege shows up he's like 'Oh would you like us to fight for you M'lady' and Siege is just 'Can you... not?' because she doesn't want to deal with the weight of her title like that."
God Chapter 12 is giving me such feeling about the Glasgow Gang. We literally just got introduced to them proper and I'm already crying about it. They used to roughhouse and marathon movies and drink themselves silly together! I wanna see them get back to being a bunch of rabblerousers together!! And the thing is the story has made it abundantly clear that even if the war ended today, things would never be the same asthey used to! They could try and pretend things were the same as before but it would be a lie!
Arknights, Chapter XII - All Quiet Under The Thunder
I'll be honest, I kind of missed a part of the previous stories like chapter 9 and 10 becausse I was grinding stages still, but hey now that I caught the end of Chapter XI I can actually start a new, fresh start knowing that this is where my husband Hoederer comes in.
Here. Watch.
Freaking epic Episode opening.
Also, some spoilers. I didn't manage to get far because I ran out of sanity.
[Text: The battlefield always puts people on edge, even more so when you don't know where the when or where- ]
Excuse me, this sentence...
[-the when or where war will break out, or who you can trust.]
Me: "I have a bad feeling about this."
Pinkie: "What makes you say that?"
Me: "..."
Pinkie: "The war can happen any moment now."
Me: "???"
Pinkie: "With the press of a button."
Me: "Stop. My guy is going back to his family."
Pinkie: "Any moment now."
Me: *Continues with the story, trying to ignore them.*
The story:
Me: *Visceral scream of despair.*
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Me: "STUPID MILDRED!"
Pinkie: "Mildred?"
Me: "... Manfred."
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Pinkie: "So far, let's take an account on all that has happened. You have eight or seven dukes that are all keeping an eye on the capital of Victoria, while they're also conspiring with the Sarkaz in a seven-sided-civil war. Your enemy, the Sarkaz, isn't really helping out the situation, but as we have seen, they're not really doing it without a reason.
We know something is going on with the Sarkaz. So everybody is keeping an eye on the capital of their country to see what's going on, right?
Rhodes Island is trying to infiltrate Victoria to figure out what's going on as well in an attempt to help. Suddenly an airship flies out of their capital, blasts one of their tanks out of the skies, and refuses to elaborate as it leaves.
Imagine the mass panic that erupts in this power-vacuum that has to be filled.
Me: "If I had to live through that kind of historical event, I'd rather blast people out of the sky and disappear too."
Pinkie: "So you figure out that your least favourite enemy has a weapon of mass-destruction and you don't. Now what are your options? You cannot take it down because this ship is much larger than anything you have. Do you steal it? Do you infiltrate it and sieze control? Do you try to side with the, now remaining, SIX lords?"
Me: *Sigh of complete exhaustion*
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Pinkie: "So whoever is in possession of the bigger weapon is the winner."
Me: "Small nukes?"
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Me: "What was the name of Chapter 12 again?"
Kryo: "All Quiet... Uh-"
Pinkie: "All Eepy On a Rainy Day."
