Ready player one! (D2 EE Simulators - Simulation Battle)

[Ezmeralda]

"Mmmm, they make some crazy nonsense manageable. I wouldn't be surprised if once one of the Great Houses thinks it has enough it hunts down the factories making them for anyone else. Again," she sipped her drink.

[Catherine Maia Hayes]

"Ugh. If that happens those fecks needs to get a serious spanking and be sent back to their rooms without dinner." The small Sergeant complains. "And then have their doors nailed shut."

[Lakshmi Kaala]

Laks giggled. She wrapped an arm around the back of Cat's neck. She was grinning. "You're allowed to swear Cat. Your punishment sense is adorable. I doubt it'd work though, cause like Ez says, that's sort of their normal stupid behaviour."

Laks raised her other hand, finger held upright. "It took mercs to rediscover the lostech for double heat sinks. The only way they'd not deny them to their enemy is if you threatened to nuke their capital worlds... maybe not even then." She sighs a little. "Shitty morons."

[Catherine Maia Hayes]

Catherine giggles in response. "Well, there is that tiny little hope that if you treat them like unruly children, they hate it enough to grow up."

"Maybe we really should go and re-rediscover that lostech again." She suggests playfully. "And the we can go amaze everyone with our new triple heatsinks. And then sell some to everyone, except those jerks."

[Ezmeralda]

"Triple heat sinks would be ridiculous," she laughed, "It'd be an all PPC brawler world with those!"

[Lakshmi Kaala]

"I wish..." Lakshmi sighs wistfully. "That would be really something." She played with her fringe as she considered it. "Maybe we need to fund a research team."

[Catherine Maia Hayes]

"It would be hilarious." Catherine giggles. "All the pepper. All the salt. But sadly, we ain't even got doubles yet, so it's just a dream within a dream."

[Ezmeralda]

She laughed, "We don't have Wolf's Dragoons or Grey Death Legion money. We can't just commission R&D."

[Catherine Maia Hayes]

"Well yeah. Discovering a trove of lostech treasure like they did would be pretty insane for us. Would be for anyone." Catherine agrees.

[Lakshmi Kaala]

"We do have a few, but not many. They're hard to get hold off according to Tess."

Laks smiles and laughs more at Ez's mention of two big names in the mercenary business. "Hai. I wish we were."

She claps Cat on the shoulder as she makes an affirming noise.

"So, fancy a gentler sim with me or are you both going for dinner?"

[Catherine Maia Hayes]

The small redhead shot her Captain a grin. "I'm up for both, Laks. In any order."

[Ezmeralda]

She raised an eyebrow. "Oh?"

[Lakshmi Kaala]

"I could put us up against what we estimate the Militia will be like in some kind of scenario. What do you fancy?" She grins back at Cat. "And nothing too long because I'm starting to get hungry. We've also got an operation on tomorrow."

[Catherine Maia Hayes]

"You know I will gladly take any Sim you throw me at, Captain!" Catherine salutes cheerfully. "Let's use this timeslot to the fullest. We don't know when we will next get a chance. The waiting list is so long!"

[Ezmeralda]

"I'll monitor it if you want," she offered, "What is it anyways? A combined arms lance? An LRM launcher in a truck, a Savannah Master, a Galleon, and.... say a Blackjack? Wait, no, they got their mechs off the Combine so a Jenner."

[Catherine Maia Hayes]

"I'll take on whatever it is." Catherine boasts eagerly. "Can't wait to see what special little twists you have in store for us, Laks."

[Lakshmi Kaala]

"I'll run something standard. We can all be there that way. I'll just tell the system to treat us as being two lances. How's that sound?" She wore a cocky smile. "It'll still be less enemies we need to face that you both just have."

She thumbs over to the pods.

"Let's go."

[Catherine Maia Hayes]

"Hai~, Laks." Catherine replies eagerly and quickly drains her water bottle empty. Discarding it on a nearby table, she climbs back into the pod she had just come out of a while ago.

After the door closes with a hiss, the small Mechwarrior begins with the basic bootup routine of her simulated Battlemech.

[Lakshmi Kaala]

Grabbing her neuro helmet, Laks inputs some instructions onto the computer and then she takes a pod. She was a little excited. Once the mechs had loaded, while the simulation was loading, she immediately turned on comms.

"So, who does what?"

[Ezmeralda]

"You rack 'em up, I'll knock 'em down?" Ez suggested. It was the classic Hunchback play admittedly.