Traditional Games

>the Universal Threat Assessment Manual called my machine "an experiment in HORUS's 'corebreak' combat doctrine"
>that makes this chassis sound pretty fucking intense for what I downloaded half-drunk off of a thread the entirety of 10³chan assumed was a bait leak that linked to an IP grabber
>the reality is, the Manticore is a highly-combustible walking meme that pilots will not shut the fuck up about
>the main reason for which being that the core device mounted on the Manticore is it's unstable Castigation State, which turns your walking hulk of metal into a suicide bomber's wet dream
>the mech's main feature, is blowing itself up for a whopping 8d6 explosive damage
>after-action reports from pilots who've fought the damn thing noticed "a significant uptick in certain omninet noise-to-signal ratios: anoriginary recitations of passages from the Old Humanity Book of the Dead, jigsaw corruptions of ancient works of apocalyptic art, and other eschatological renderings, all of which point toward a nascent psychological warfare tactic."
>but those reports only scratch the surface, they don't realize that Castigation IS the psychological warfare tactic
>enemy pilots know what this thing is built fore
>enemy pilots who now have to grapple with the idea that if they get too close,
>if they hit the wrong thing on my machine at the wrong time;
>their lives are forfeit.
>so "come towards me" I say
>dare you risk both our lives