right

shield is bulked

got the power limit up to almost twice what it was before

got twenty nine layers of the flipping things

did some acid testing and i mean it still pops shields like whoa but as long as it's not sustained aciding it shouldn't get through more than like eleven layers at a time. i can hotswap reload the thing and restore all layers before any acid-skin interaction happens.

also made myself another cannonball pistol

gonna wield those things guns akimbo

why not huh

why the flip not

although it is getting to the point now where i've got a bunch of stuff just like everywhere. most of it has straps or just like little cords so if i drop something it dangles down off my wrist. i know it's dorky but when you're fighting a giant ant and your gun slips looking dorky is not the worry you have. at that moment.

what was i talking about

right guns and organisation. so i had a look at my loadout. hip holsters for cannonball pistols seems sensible. plus wrist cords of course. got a teleportal on my chest for dispensing swords. works pretty good. just order one up and grab it as it emerges from my heart. v symbolic. by the way pulling a sword out of your chest is such a boss move it automatically cancels all dorkiness from gun cords. true facts stated.

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also got a couple of spare swords on starfax. just in case. those ones are bigger. you can't aggby power a teleportal sword. because it will explode. also if you try to pull a massive sword out of your chest what happens is your arm isn't long enough so it just kind of gets stuck. and you have to lean forward so it slides out. then you have to pick it up off the ground. coolness cancelled. go home. party's over.

shardrifle is on a strap. boring but practical. shield harness is like. everywhere. takes a while to get into that thing.

stopped using the heatshield. it makes me sweaty and gross. also it has this cooldown thing where you never really know when or if it's going to trigger. can't rely on it.

but mostly the sweatiness issue tbh

roboarm with fireball drone glove + sword claw blades + tiny useless lasers. that all kind of takes care of itself.

spidereye lives in my skull. snug and warm. didn't get time to make a tiny battlesuit for it. we live in an imperfect world.

scouter does its thing on the side of my head. no hands required.

plus all my drone bodyguards. #4 crudlaunching. superhammer squads. buzzers for distraction. no scrapbags this time. we're taking this thing alive.

i think that's everything

seems like a lot

and yet

yeah no it's a lot. man am i strapped. hey jin remember back when you just had a crappy sparky cumin popcorn-smelling shield your kid self made? and that stupid prototype teleportal crudlauncher? and one little scout ant was an issue?

how far you have come

huh. wasn't trying to be real or whatever but honestly just had a little moment

like

yeah

i really have come a long way

i'm doing okay here

enough patting yourself on the back there jin girl. gotta focus up. gotta get your eyes on the prize. got that juicy waterfactory crawling with ants. could be a queen in there. could be anything.

are you ready for this?

yeah you're ready

let's go exterminating