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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M029

    There came a time when you had nothing to do. When actually doing something was counterproductive. Bolt was in one of those times. After the contest he'd resolved to do two things. Brush up on his studies, and forget completely about comparing himself with others. That he was ahead of the...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: I004

    "Hello and welcome to the Hundred Worlds Cup! I'm your your host Kimi, cohosting with Lady Galena. Pleasure to meet you, virtually." Kimi smiled widely at the other woman. Galena gave a small nod. "It is a pleasure, despite the enmity of our nations." The two girls were a study in...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M028

    Dai had taken it upon himself to inform them about the contest's last part. The young man had a lot to say. None of it good. "You'd think that being low stakes would mean that it'd be free of politics, but no. It's actually worse." The man told Bolt and Lilly as they watched the mechs...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M027

    Lilly had probably been a tiny, tiny bit hasty. Volunteering to test mechs for the contest thingy that Bolt had gone to had seemed amusing at the time. She'd grown up with junk mechs. She knew how janky some designs could be. It was perfectly fine to do this behind his back and surprise him...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M026

    So, one thing about contests was that they were all timed. Bolt had sort of accounted for that, but his deadlines were typically a bit more fluid and less you have exactly this amount of time before we literally turn off the screens. Bolt found it more than a little annoying. He swallowed that...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M025

    The College Clash was a yearly mech design contest sponsored by several colleges on the planet. So far as contests went it was more a vessel to show off their students than anything else. The prize was on the low side compared to other contests, the glamour wasn't particularly high, and the...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)

    Still plot is starting up some.
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M024

    The MTA didn't typically bother with standard power plays. They had no need. When they wanted to display power they did so in ways that were both unmissable and deliberate. Otherwise they kept a professional distance. It was one of those things that cemented their leadership amongst...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: I003

    Doing a webstream was actually hard work. For every hours worth of video she had to do a similar hour's worth of prep. Livestreaming required similar, though that was typically afterprep or deciding what to stream than editing and storyboarding. Kimi loved her job though. It was close to the...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)

    More power to you and thanks! I'm still getting like 50 likes on this. Which means probably about 200 or so reading it. I've gotten up to like 1000 on some fics. Just the nature of the beast.
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)

    I blame the position it's in and the people bouncing off the source it's from. I'm fine with that at the moment.
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M023

    Iron Spirit had some complicated matchmaking. Very, very complicated matchmaking actually. Lilly didn't know the details. She just knew it was supposedly fair but had a bit of trouble when you got groups of more than five players. That was apparently a common game problem typically balanced by...
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)

    Missed that! Thank you, and that actually doesn't hurt my plans at all then. Good to remember at least, and good to know PTW still exists in the future haha.
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)

    Didn't know they did repair time too. That's understandable but how do they do it? I mean how do they measure the time if you know. Or if you know the vague chapter it's in I'll look it up.
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    What's Junk? (The Mech Touch)
    Threadmarks: M022

    They were approaching the one month mark now. The time when the officials had said the testing should end. There were already signs that the MTA would extend it. Nothing obvious, but the officials did have uncomfortable looks occasionally. It was absolutely impossible for the MTA to be...
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