savetheearth | video/text; slightly forward-dated to late tonight

[ Anyone who knows Ellie will probably be surprised to see that she's posting via video. Though since she's an insular, cagey little shit the significance of this will be lost on most people.

Still. Video it is! The feed doesn't seem to be showing anything interesting at first - even disregarding the fact it's really dark out, it's just pointed high up between a couple of buildings in the dead district - but after a few seconds:

PCHOO. A small hooded figure hurtles through the air, aided by some kind of belt-mounted propulsion system and a set of twin grappling hooks. It's almost Spidermanesque, if Spiderman had a jetpack and a passion for extreme sports. Here's a handy illustrative gif!

After pulling off a couple of fancy loops that are clearly designed for the purposes of showing off, the figure swoops to the ground. She's holding her hood down to cover her face, but that doesn't do anything to hide the fact that she's super tiny. ~~And has a wonderful, beautiful nose.~~ She approaches whoever is recording the footage, holds out a hand and orders them to "give it here" before the video cuts out.

A few seconds later, a text message is apended to the footage. ]

If anyone remembers using anything like this, or killing giants in general, they should speak up.
If the "Vermaxi" ever do start appearing, a list of people who can fight them off effectively would be useful.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Holy crap that was so cool! Man, I wish I had one of those. What even is it?

About the giants though, how big are we talking here?

It's my 3-dimensional maneuver gear. You may prefer "3DMG" or "the thingy that you do the pointy shooty zoomy thing with."

I don't remember many of the giants. The ones I remember seeing were

[ um ]

very big.
Large enough to swallow a human whole.

Hm, I think I prefer that last term most.

Oh so upwards of like ... yeah I have no idea what the bare minimum for that would be. I remember some, but they're like 5o meters maybe?

Fifty metres seems too big... That would be colossal in comparison to the others, according to the little I rem

[ Oh, look. IT'S ECHO TIME.

She doesn't remember the pulse clearly once it passes - there's no context - but she does recall a particularly colossal titan. HO HO. ]

Wait.
What did your giants look like?
Skinless? Odd proportions, tall enough to look over the walls?

[Oh now this is interesting.]

I'm not sure on appearances, but they were definitely tall enough to look over walls. Could break them down too.

I didn't say "walls." I said "the walls."
I would assume anything fifty metres tall would be able to peer over walls in general.

Right right, sorry. Memories are fuzzy you know?

Mmhmm.
I assume our giants are different anyway. You're the one who got back the car. We didn't have those.

... You didn't have cars, but you had those maneuver gears?

Shocking, I know. Feel free to take a moment to cope with the knowledge that the inner workings of a car are likely to be far more complicated than that of a Shooty Grappler Propulsion Thingy.

I mean, I imagine the workings themselves aren't, but movement on a 2D plain is a lot more logical route of thought than making hip mounted grappling hooks.

Not when you're fighting giants and need to get up high to attack them. A car would be no use there.
You're not too bright, are you?

[Whoops. Echo time]

Actually, you'd be surprised.

I haven't yet grasped your feeble human notion of "surprise."

I just got an echo of my car being used to fight a 50 meter giant. Surprised?

When there are talking animals and robots on the network?
Please.

... Ok. Really good point. I think the pony is turning human though so there's that.

video/text; slightly forward-dated to late tonight

Audio;

text;

Audio;

text;

Video;

text;

Video;

text;

Video;

text;

Video;

text;

Video;

text;

Video

text;

Video;