ABS FIESTA REDUX

[CypherX]

"It's been a long time."

The game progresses as a general stalemate.

[Ad Bot]

[Badger]

Walter finishes up on his book and heads off to go find Virvel within the base

[NoZoner]

Lorens eventually breaks the stalemate and moves his pieces forward, but after a series of exchanges and a few mistakes, he eventually loses his grip over the game. Gus gets a pawn to the other side of the board, and cleans up the last few pawns on the board. The game ends with Lorens' king as the last piece standing against Gus' queen, knight and king.

"I think that's the game. Well played," Lorens says. He extends a hand to the victor before realizing his palms are dripping with sweat.

[CypherX]

"Well played indeed. I was sure I lost there!"

Gus shakes his hand before looking around the room to see if anyone else would like to play.

[NoZoner]

Lorens retracts his hand and looks at his palms. On the surface below, he sees several sweat droplets scattered over the board, accompanied by a few smears resulting from the movement of the pieces during the game. He quickly pulls out a handkerchief from his back pocket, wipes his hands down and pockets them, clearly embarrassed by his own condition.

[Tayasaurus]

"You're only gonna scare away helicopters or something,"

Jaakko moves his character around a bit.

"Any details on the world we're in? You said this game had a bazillion procedural campaigns or something,"

"Some military society bullstuff that i don't even care about. Basically each and every one of our actions has consequences on game direction even if its not obvious. we can technically go anywhere we want. even off this base."

[Qwepir]

Cualli walks out to the hangar and looks to see if Elu is around.

He is.

Walter finishes up on his book and heads off to go find Virvel within the base

You find her walking out of the mess hall.

[carolcat]

Cualli walks over to Elu. "So what kind of work do they have us doing today?" she asks, glancing around at the aircraft.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko is having his character do laps around Tippy's.

"I'm pretty sure that was this games schtick, that no two campaigns would be the same," Jaakko replies to Matsumoto.

[Badger]

You find her walking out of the mess hall.

Walter approaches Virvel and begins talking to her 

"Hey, are you busy at all? I was wondering if you're up for something."

[Tayasaurus]

Jaakko is having his character do laps around Tippy's.

"I'm pretty sure that was this games schtick, that no two campaigns would be the same," Jaakko replies to Matsumoto.

Tippy guides her little character into the HQ building and the screen fades to black as a dialogue box appears at the bottom of a screen. To the left of the dialogue, a pixel art depiction of the speaker plays a little animation to emulate speaking.

*"Hello and at ease. I'm Super Commander Chief Boss, the director of your upcoming missions. Here at HQ you can find information on current and upcoming level objectives as well as keep track of your achievements and look at all the items you've found in hidden locations from each level."*

Tippy begins pressing 'A' a lot trying to skip the dialogue but only comes across 10 more lines worth for each press.

"Ugh, Kintharian games throw so much unnecessary exposition at you. I regret choosing this as the first place we walk into..."

 

[Mr. Hurricane]

"'Supreme Commander Chief Boss?' That's some quality translation," Jaakko remarks.

[Qwepir]

Cualli walks over to Elu. "So what kind of work do they have us doing today?" she asks, glancing around at the aircraft.

: Repairs and maintenance on Major Rask's airplane.

Elu points to the grey and teal Berkut inside the hangar.

Walter approaches Virvel and begins talking to her 
"Hey, are you busy at all? I was wondering if you're up for something."

: Depends on what "something" is.

[carolcat]

Cualli follows where Elu is pointing. "Any report on what happened with it?"

[Badger]

Walter smiles and it's hard to tell wether he's taunting or nervous

"You offered a friendly sparring match awhile ago, given you're not busy with anything today."