#contact procedure

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*clenches hand*

Three introducing MB to sparring protocols non-rental SecUnit’s use to tune their combat parameters. Disabled arm weapons and limited strength output, possibly with heightened pain sensor readings for extra spice (or completely off for no spice just practice drills and reaction checks)

Three learning to fight not for survival but to socialize with its mentor.

MB actually having a fight where condition = win is not only possible but actively encouraged.

PresAux reaction to SecUnit experiencing PLAY.

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The art that has slowly inserted itself into my brain as a claim for Three from Murderbot.

YouTube video I’ve listened to a lot for Contact Procedure.

Artist’s Kofi

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I made MiniBot Fanart from Parameter Lock Ch8. Don't ask why I made University Housing look like a bowling alley idk either.

I LOVE THEM?? I LOVE THIS??? I LOVE THEM!!!

I LOVE THE BOWLING ALLEY TOO I didn’t think of the university using bus upholstery to hide the nonsense students get up to LMAO I love it I love it

They are SO suspicious of this strangely clean student that doesn’t eat anything.

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Contact Procedure: Three trying desperately to turn a mountain into a molehill.

Parameter Lock: Three consistently making mountains out of molehills while ignoring that One Particular Mountain that is getting bigger and closer.

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Pretty sure I’m updating Parameter Lock again tonight because I’m 3k into the chapter with one more scene to go that’s veeery clear in my head.

If work is nice then I’ll get that scene done, proofread after work, and post.

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*looks at chapter limit*

*looks at chapter*

*looks at chapter limit*

why did I think I could get Murderbot AND Karime into the same chapter for full resolution of the entire story and all its emotional beats in only 4,000 words? Have I met me? Have I read a single thing I've ever written?

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18 was easily the hardest chapter of Contact Procedure to write just trying to get order-of-events and vibe right.

Actual computer programmers DNI I know I didn’t use a single term correctly but I made myself really sad and that was the goal

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Yeah nah, we’re 3500 words into 18 and Three and MB haven’t spoken yet.

Oh noooo multiple chapters of comfort after all the huuuuuurt oh how aaaaaaawful nooooooo