#I've named a ship “the mackerel”

[loreofthejungle]

Rangers are the heavily armed members of any expedition crew. After your rodents guide you to your destination (often a ruined world), it's up to the Rangers to clear a path to its core. Whether it's overrun with daemons or the abandoned descendants of the previous tenants, it's the Rangers' responsibility to deal with it before the glorious work of plundering can commence

[silvermuffins]

NieR:Automata: get me out get me OUT OF HELL

Sidequest hell, specifically. WIll there be more plot tonight? Iunno!

- where'd I leave off, gonna go talk to anemone? and then hit up the forest

- yep anemone sure did work with A2

- anemone doesn't know shit about the current A2 situation....

- god i need to farm up a lot of shit for my weapons

- do....i need to go kill animals for this quest

- gets a little lost but gets there eventually

- oh fuck moose machine

- OH FUCK IT'S LEVEL 40-SOMETHING

- OW IT HITS HARD

- OW MY THUMB

- WHY'S IT ALWAYS MEESES

- we have navigated to a part of the area where i can't see SHIT through the bushes

- also my pause screen is currently full of animal butt

- and the beast machine's record is pain, of course

- and now we break for meal

- well over an hour and closer to two later i have had the foodstuffs as humans do, let's get back to no humans. i got a couple more hours in me.

- "how can you love animals and not bat an eye at the death of another machine?" .....the androids, made by humans, don't get that.....and yet, it's kind of a very human thing

- kind of. i like to think the vast majority of people couldn't hear about something like that and be unfazed.

- ah this quest is the new resistance camp

- i. look like someone who cares very deeply about gastronomy.

- who cares very deeply

- about gastronomy

- GASTRONOMY

- CAN I EVEN ACTUALLY EAT????

- okay no mackerel end proved that i can, and that i can taste, but

- why.....would one robot assume this of another.....

- yeah i can do a spot of hunting

- oooh androids generate energy from water....that's cool

- huh.....interesting stuff about cooking and needing to or not.... Why? Why can androids eat and taste if it serves no purpose? this is now up there with the "why can they feel things if it's forbidden" question

- also, yeah, wtf happens to the soldierbots when the war ends?

- it's like worrying about Ritsu all over again

- hello parade man.....oh

- he's given up.....and his comrades vanished in the desert

- oh wait quest log indicates this machine's not the same one

- imma go hit the fairgrounds for emil's frickin' flower

- his backstory gets more and more ominous and also he gets here faster and faster

- okay the only things left are either beyond where i've been, down in an area i'm not sure how to safely reach yet, and daddy serves who is level 50 surely and not to be trifled with. oh and also the racer dude.

- one more crack at him with +20% move speed....

- almost made it. my route's not optimized.

- i have no idea how to make that better.....

- we're just gonna move on

- i think i am out of sidequest hell for the moment so let's get this show on the road

- i do not remember this bigass pipeline but ok

- wheeee!!!

- "The Flooded City" this area name is a goddamn aesthetic and I am for it

- where the fuck is all this water coming from

- can androids swim???

- what makes the line between one machine war and the next? are there periods of truce?

- androids cannot swim i just get mario karted back to land

- let's do some ocean fishing!

- i caught a pod....neat i have three now

- lots of shit to catch here

- i appreciate that the ocean water actually moves in and out, nice detail

- also why the fuck did machine versions of all these fish get built

- holy fuck coelacanth

- anyway that's a big boost to my fish encyclopedia, that was like ten new fish

- i know there are chests over there, how do i get over there?

- holy fuck a rocket ship

- annnnd immediately sent to fly around and do some more shit

- she can wait im fishing a little more--

- SHARK

- okay let's fly

- flying tank, not too hard. weirdly easy, actually

- o

- o fuck

- MACHINE DUNKLEOSTEOSAURUS OR SOMETHING???

- fuck dude why couldn't i fish THAT up

- thing's ancient. okay. also, devastating.

- aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

- ALSO APPARENTLY INDESTRUCTIBLE

- is that A2--

- nop

- ooooh, mortars! why is shielding against the satellite laser striker possible but not close-range mortar fire?

- ftr most of my knowledge of what a mortar actually IS comes from there being one in Bastion

- EAT CANNONFIRE, BITCH! LITERALLY!

- sweet

- fuck

- OH FUCK IT'S GOT LEGS

- shiiiiiiiit down they go--

- we OUT OH FUCK

- FUCKFUCKFUCK

- !!!!!!!!!!!!!! PASCAL AND PALS

- shiiiiiiiiiiit so this thing went berserk??? even the machines don't like it??????

- POD DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE CALL 9S A DESERTER

- looks like two emp thingies on this thing's back

- actually like three

- it keeps trying to punch me

- i only needed to destroy two and 9S wrecked it...

- where the fuck is he

- commander got a little emotion there....

- god. that was epic. hooboy.

- ....is Pascal okay?

- OKAY MENU, WHAT WAS DUNKLEBOT'S NAME....lemme translate.... GRUN? Is it GRUN? I like dunklebot better.

- aaaaaa the Operator was so happy to hear from 2B.....and we already have permission to search for 9S!

- oh i think i found the body of that other android who came to my aid

- im finding a lot of bodies

- this is not what i meant when i wanted a way to turn 9S off to get him out of the way of my platforming!

- right we're just gonna. transport back to the resistance base. instead of going the long way lmao

- oh....we. can't. go right there.

- get close, then

- didn't i get mail at some point? should check that too

- oh it was emil giving me fishing tips

- redheaded twins?

- the resistance camp is....pretty empty.....

- anemone says the twins are my next bet! and also DOESN"T say something probably important

- Popola and Devola!

- i like them

- seems like this is basically the itemfinder from pokemon?

- i have no idea how the fuck it actually works

- dammit it's getting late i think i need to stop for the night

- let me find a save point