... even if Ibuki suggested a lighthouse thing, an entertainment center with the possibility of karaoke is too much of a huge draw for her...

and/or a Dance Dance Revolution machine

...So many things Ghaleon thinks are a good idea.

XD Colin has several ideas... he can also build some of those, with time, so blowing a core on them may not be the best idea.

(He's actually been working on a comm system in his spare time... he wants communications between the Bastion and the Observatory at the very least.)

Ibuki's just so stoked on the idea of an entertainment center so feel free to ignore her XD;

though you could probably convince her to change her vote idk

Actually Colin probably could get her to do it fairly easily

... wait is this an OOC vote or IC vote, anyway?

He almost certainly could.

Though, she'll have to talk Ippo into bringing back stuff to make it. XD

You mean to make the entertainment center? I-I was just talking about Colin being able to convince Ibuki to vote for something else

XD;

And Ghaleon can help on the defensive shielding.

but yeah I need to know whether this is an OOC or IC vote

XD!

Yeah, making the entertainment center.

(He's actually been pulling HARD for a rec area, but he doesn't think a core should be spent on one...)

it's an IC vote sorry

you're voting OOCly for what your character would ICly vote for

Okay. Would Colin try to get Ibuki to change her vote?

It could be something as simple as, "We could just... spend shards on that, Ibuki" XD;;;

He'd tell her that he could build her just about anything she wanted.

Duke can help Ghaleon with the defensive thing (cough barriers cough), which in tov canon would also include a big glowing symbol of sorts.

XD Not even shards. Just "Hey, Ibuki... look at this. I can MAKE the stuff you want."

hahaha okay, and from thereon

he'll be trying to get Colin to make a karaoke machine

she'll*

so what would Colin want her to vote for

Alucard's vote is for the farm upgrade, because of course it is.

... Duke likes the farm upgrade too :|a

Did someone say karaoke......Takamura the karaoke king

oh god

or the land upgrade.

Ibuki and Takamura need to do a karaoke duo

or drag in Ippo for a trio

Colin kinda likes the Lighthouse, but he also thinks the land upgrade would be the wisest use of shards.

Errr... Cores.

The SHARDS it would cost to bring in that much land would be astronomically high.

What Takamura lacks in talent, he makes up for in effort......and he puts in a LOT of effort.

yeah

BASICALLY we noticed you guys talking about bringing in NPCs you find out there

... Anna is a little !! at the idea of games, but she can pick up that Colin can make them too.... And Colin -> radio things is also a thing she would connect
So land or food. :|a Weather is nice

land upgrades would be handy for bringing in NPCs, since they can;'t really go out and get shards

but a lot more boring when not in color.

... Moon knows nothing about any of you, but food is always A+

/nodnodnods.

I'll be lazy and just... mark Ibuki as adding an extra vote to whatever Colin goes for XD;

/snerks!

...Colin does make a good point about the land being the most economical use of the core.

He does XD

Moon is still going toward food, but I'll think on Anna and Duke some more

Moon needs to be introduced to the meat lab. XD

yes well, he does like actually hunting the food down too XD

Does the bastion have chocolate at all?

besides donuts that have chocolate frosting

or chocolate anything donuts

.... other than those donuts, i don't know

is there going to be a chocolate tree next

Chocolate chip jerky tree

all the flavors, a non-nut tree

XD;;

But no if Ibuki wants to introduce a new food growing thing, she doesn't want to copy the tree thing

XD

chocolate tubers.

it looks like a brown potato. it s a lump of chocolate

Chocolate mushrooms.

.... i like that one

you can see banding or something if its flavored. or the gills are colors for flavors.

No no no.

Willy-Wonka this shit.

Chocolate Waterfall.

XD

...

We need Willy Wonka here.

He needs to comment on the donut trees.

...Oh man, we do need Willy Wonka.

Particularly the Gene Wilder one, because yes.

Yes. Gene Wilder Wonka. YES.

the bastion does not currently grow cocoa beans, so no, no chocolate

so they can just scrape chocolate off chocolate frosted donuts from the trees XD;

if they ever need chocolate for anything

Obviously the chocolate mushrooms need to be a thing then.

Sadly, chocolate mushrooms would be too... plain for Ibuki to do

Chocolate chip jerky mushrooms, on the other hand...

moon doesn't get what this is on the meat...

Aw

didn't we... have a radio tower in the bastion? it just wasn't working?

I think we do?

But yeah, Rob will vote for land because he's done the calculations about how much it costs.

Specifically, a vote for land that is forested or a mountain or really anything that's not flat plains because that's getting boring

ohh yes would there be pretty landscaping?

trees?

If Rob is allowed to influence what that land looks like? Yes.

Very yes. It will be beautiful.

we do have a tower! But Nathaniel hasn't finished doing all the things to it to make it actually work

he. got a little sidetracked with the illness thing lol

he certainly could work on it more and finish it, though that would take time and resources

/Drops Megaera directly into "Entertainment Center". She does have valid-at-least-to-her reasoning for it.

Rob actually has a selection of gaming supplies with him, they're just all in English so 3/4 of the Bastion wouldn't be able to read them.

That and he's too awkward with other people to actually invite anyone to play with him.

Would maintaining the larger amount of space take more energy?

Because if creating more land etc. means a bigger energy drain, that's also a factor to consider.

"Gaming supplies"?

Did Rob bring D&D?

........ Ibuki would be terrible and incredible at D&D at the same time

what did I decide he had on him (he was explicitly going for a day of gaming when the world ended)...

Settlers of Catan, Cards Against Humanity, Kittens in a Blender, and a bunch of Magic: the Gathering stuff (plus a WoW TCG deck but with only one that's useless)

I think that was everything.

There's a reason his backpack has a hole in it - it was pretty stuffed

K-Kittens in a blender?

and that reaction is exactly why I put it on the list XD

XDD Ibuki would scream- and then make a stupid joke

ostensibly the goal is too keep your kittens out of the blender, but in practice it ends up with you shoving your opponents' kittens in the blender so it's hardly better

the final line in the instructions is to go home and apologize to your cat

hahaha

Ibuki could probably read the game instructions... English is generally a required class in Japan isn't it? I think??????

For simplicity's sake I just picked games that I've played so I'm not struggling to write tags involving them.

very little reading is actually required for that one

Settlers has a bit more, but could probably be worked around

Magic is right out without translation

Honestly, one of the two reasons that Colin hasn't started building a rec center yet is because of Xeno Psychology... he only has a limited idea of what other people would enjoy.

And you can only do so much with video games, after all.

and CAH relys heavily on understand English references

/nodnods.

well you don't have to worry about Zuko she doesn't enjoy anything anyway

If we do an IC log for any of this decision making..... He'll basically ask "What do you guys find fun? I'll build it for you. Who wants to help?"

Yeah, he'd have to ask everyone for input

Ibuki would be all over Colin's question... and listing too much

XD

But Karaoke and Dance Dance Revolution would be the top things for Ibuki I think

"Ibuki, pick the thing you want most. I need to build stuff for other people too. When I finish a lot of that, I'll build more for you."

XD I like to think that his movie nights have been a slight band-aid solution, at least?

c-can't she have two things

yes we should have more of those!

DDR and karaoke how does she pick

also anya would be down for karaoke

Ibuki will sing a duet with anybody

We've been having lots of them. (It's just not easy to RP showing a movie every other night.)

(Really need to find a way to show what movies Colin's showing every week...)

if Ibuki had to choose, she'd pick karaoke I think over DDR

because you can just dance anyway with karaoke

I think I just like the parts where Zuko does not understand these movies

Ibuki, if you ask him nicely, and in secret, he'll probably be convinced to build you a little something extra.

He should also build a manipulator system so Paar can use all these tiny human toys

one of those surgery robotics that turns tiny hand movements into even tinier ones

karaoke shouldn't be too hard for Paar, they just need a stand for the mic, boom, dragon singing

He's been trying to figure that out. Paar's physiology is... a significant hurdle.

otherwise grandpadragon might feel left out

He can do it, but.... Yeah. It's a puzzle Colin's been working on for a while.

poor Paar-ojiichan

If Colin had his FULL workshop, it would be easy... but this is frontier engineering. He's got to work with what he's got.

Building a set of manipulator arms that can respond to a dragon's thoughts is a very irritating puzzle with limited resources.

... AZ suggests psychic type pokemon

For the time being, he talks to Paar, keeps him company... and makes sure that the movies are always shown on a big enough screen that Paar can appreciate 'em. /sage nod.

... though I'm picturing Paar with a Gardevoir or a Grumpig and it is adorable

... It's funny because Megaera votes for the Entertainment center but... Uh, isn't the most fun-type person in practice. At all. XD

Ibuki will make you more fun, Meg-chan

tricia868 We hadn't thought of that whoops. But let's say that, along with more land, the upgrade via core would also optimize power output so that it would use up exactly how much power it uses now

XD Yeah, that's why Colin's thing was "If it can supply the power, let's get more land. If not... let's just use it for power."

And that's exactly why Ghaleon's was the same.