Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
- Pronouns
- They/Them/It
If we go to the space hulk, can we at least have a sub vote to be loaded for really nasty aliens instead of doing the schmuck bait options?
Panopticon: A Game of Posthumans, Perniciousness, Paranoia, Politics, and Plasmaguns
- Location
- in the trash
The schmuck bait options are probably already loaded with horrible nasty aliens. Like Xenomorphs. Or Predators. Or Metroids.
... Huh.
So, everything is vulgar in the past, because just being there is vulgar...
... What's the additional penalty for doing something normally vulgar-without-witnesses.
So, everything is vulgar in the past, because just being there is vulgar...
... What's the additional penalty for doing something normally vulgar-without-witnesses.
Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
- Pronouns
- They/Them/It
Yes, that's why I want to bring equipment suitable for fighting them.The schmuck bait options are probably already loaded with horrible nasty aliens. Like Xenomorphs. Or Predators. Or Metroids.
- Location
- in the trash
Yes, that's why I want to bring equipment suitable for fighting them.
Well, I'm sure we'll be doing that.
And even if we don't (for some stupid reason), who knows? There might be an armoury onboard the ship, possibly even an abandoned power loader that Henriette can reactivate and pilot
(because fighting on foot with nothing but handheld weaponry is so bleurgh)
Does the Daredevil Merit apply here?
Actually, a general question here -- would Daredevil make sense to apply to most actions done while time-traveled, given how risky and dangerous apparently any action is when you've traveled to the past?
Or are we out of luck on that front until/unless we actually do something genuinely physically dangerous?
Actually, a general question here -- would Daredevil make sense to apply to most actions done while time-traveled, given how risky and dangerous apparently any action is when you've traveled to the past?
Or are we out of luck on that front until/unless we actually do something genuinely physically dangerous?
No, it does not. It only applies to actions which risk horrible awful immediate death. This is not the case here, since it's more 'risks paradox and retroactive erasure.'
Be Jamelia:
Jamelia is going to tell An-Jin:
[X] (3.0x) Exactly nothing. She'll just have to force it when she needs to take over, or make him think that her decisions are his idea.
-> [X] Pre-emptive contingency - if things really go to shit, it's not like Technocrats aren't used to taking orders from mysterious authoritarian sources, and Jamelia is a Director now and has (admittedly ahead-of-date) security codes and a knowledge of the protocols. If everything collapses faster than she thinks, he'll likely be welcoming of someone who knows what they're doing who sounds like a senior Technocrat.
Jamelia is going to manipulate An-Jin into:
[X] Asking for a broader clearance than necessary so he can access what Jamelia needs to know quietly. (PARADOX RISK)
[X] Explore the Avellone
-[X] What could go wrong?
--[X] It's probably completely abandoned and harmless.
---[X] No really it's probably just really creepy.
Jamelia is going to tell An-Jin:
[X] (3.0x) Exactly nothing. She'll just have to force it when she needs to take over, or make him think that her decisions are his idea.
-> [X] Pre-emptive contingency - if things really go to shit, it's not like Technocrats aren't used to taking orders from mysterious authoritarian sources, and Jamelia is a Director now and has (admittedly ahead-of-date) security codes and a knowledge of the protocols. If everything collapses faster than she thinks, he'll likely be welcoming of someone who knows what they're doing who sounds like a senior Technocrat.
Jamelia is going to manipulate An-Jin into:
[X] Asking for a broader clearance than necessary so he can access what Jamelia needs to know quietly. (PARADOX RISK)
[X] Explore the Avellone
-[X] What could go wrong?
--[X] It's probably completely abandoned and harmless.
---[X] No really it's probably just really creepy.
A start of an idea came to me for an alternative option for Elsa and crew
Death Race 3000!!!
A mysterious group of sponsors are fronting a totally Awesome! So Radical! Completely Bodacious Out of This World Prize! for the Death Race 3000!!! (aka our crew) and talking it up among the inhabitants of Hollywood.
After an intensive vetting process (do you have a ship?) (will you sign this release voiding us of all liability?) the various racers will receive an email outlining the race course, the start time of said race, and ways to score extra points
At the same time a slander campaign of "Henrietta was totally out-piloted by sister on earth. Why she isn't even the favorite to win Death Race 3000!!! No its the mysterious masked Racer X whose the current odds on favorite. Maybe they'll be replacing her with an updated model soon"
Said race course is the in fact the Autopolitan spaceship with bonus points for corking drones, its systems, sensors, engines, weapons, oh and of course the DSS, with a whooping 9000 bonus points for destroying it. 10 full laps from stern to bow and back to the stern with weapons blazing against other competitors and the involuntary racecourse
Death Race 3000!!!
A mysterious group of sponsors are fronting a totally Awesome! So Radical! Completely Bodacious Out of This World Prize! for the Death Race 3000!!! (aka our crew) and talking it up among the inhabitants of Hollywood.
After an intensive vetting process (do you have a ship?) (will you sign this release voiding us of all liability?) the various racers will receive an email outlining the race course, the start time of said race, and ways to score extra points
At the same time a slander campaign of "Henrietta was totally out-piloted by sister on earth. Why she isn't even the favorite to win Death Race 3000!!! No its the mysterious masked Racer X whose the current odds on favorite. Maybe they'll be replacing her with an updated model soon"
Said race course is the in fact the Autopolitan spaceship with bonus points for corking drones, its systems, sensors, engines, weapons, oh and of course the DSS, with a whooping 9000 bonus points for destroying it. 10 full laps from stern to bow and back to the stern with weapons blazing against other competitors and the involuntary racecourse
- Location
- in the trash
Or we could clear out the Avellone and then turn into an improvised kinetic missile.
First, this would require the Autopolitans to assent, which they are not. In fact, the only reason they are not consuming the station is because the Residents have their own designs for the station. Second, this would require the Autopolitans have a lot less firepower than they actually do. Because they have way the fuck more firepower than some hypothetical random podracers would have. Third, this would require them to actually be bound by the terms of whatever was happening instead of being able to go "fuck you, we're the Technocracy," which they can.
Finally, just because this Quest is not always 100% serious and does have some surreal elements does not give carte blanche to make everything as silly as possible. There are actual thematics and limits to what's going on.
There is a time and place to suggest silly antics. This is not the time, nor the place.
- Location
- in the trash
Not to mention, such a race would need a prize.
Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
- Pronouns
- They/Them/It
I think she'd rather you be quieter about that.
I think she'd rather you be quieter about that.
The funny thing about this, actually, is that if you look at the timeline Harry Potter is actually only two years younger than Serafina. Which means that the Husblando Incident occurred the same year as the Chamber of Secrets.
It's probably for the best that Damien doesn't get invited to the Triwizard Tournament [1] anymore. Not after the Incident of '57. They still haven't got the Progenitor giant warsquid out of the lake yet. Although in Damien's defence, the HITMark they sent as an exchange teacher was one of the most effective Defence against the Dark Arts teachers in Hogwarts' history.
[1] Or as it used to be called, the Triwizard-and-Monoenlightenedscientist Tournament.
- Location
- in the trash
How does a HITMark deal with Dementors?
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- Location
- Singapore
Did he/she/it really teach defenses against the Dark Arts, though? Or did the HITMark teach all the wizards how to shoot a Thunderhead?
- Location
- in the trash
Obviously it taught them the arts of hand to hand combat, as well as anti wand tactics (snap the bloody thing in half, break the wizard's hand so they can't hold it properly, etc)
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- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
Hey, 'Blast it into tiny pieces with a Thunderhead X-14 and 4,000 Primium bullets' is a perfectly valid defense against any wielder of the Dark Arts! It's an amazingly effective charm!
Quantumboost
Now with 50% more dots in Dimensional Science
- Location
- Ensemble Space
The same way it deals with everything else.
Cornuthaum
Be kind to each other.
- Location
- Austria
- Pronouns
- He/Him
As HIT units lack a soul. It probably walls up to them and tears then in half. Them sets fire to the pieces.
Fear elemental vs terminator. 0 to 1
grommile
nasty-minded old cynic
- Location
- NERV-Mercia
- Pronouns
- Traditional/Animate
"Gaze into the fist of Dredd!"
"Does this unit have a soul?"
"No, of course not. Don't be ridiculous. There's no such things as souls."
"Correct answer. You passed the loyalty test, citizen. All hail the Computer."
The General Extelligence Tactical HITMark rebellion never really got off the ground.
Cornuthaum
Be kind to each other.
- Location
- Austria
- Pronouns
- He/Him
If I hadn't been typing from my tablet when I made that post, I would, in fact, have made a "Does this unit have a soul?" joke.
But yeah, HITMark III through V vs a Dementor? The words you want to use are "Terrifying carnage", "brutally one-sided slaugther" and "hail friend computer".
Okay I have had it up to here with certain BLEEDING COWARDS going on about how soul trading is dangerous, and we shouldn't do it.
TISH TOSH AND POPPY COCK.
Soul trading is a perfectly respectable business, why a great many sleepers sell their souls every day without even leaving the earth. There is no reason we should not be part of this grand venture.
Why it can even be therapeutic I say. I mean, think about all that trauma poor Henriette, Henrietta? Whatever, can't keep the straight, subordinates, not worth remembering their names. But, as I was saying, think about all the trauma she has from the computer, which the idiotic void engineers tried to suppress, when any right thinking syndicate could have simply told them much better to sell them. I know a few who would pay top dollar for tragic memories of her once boyfriend saving her.
And Donald, think about how much more he could be improved. No more of that nasty drug habit, or his whiny "but I don't want to send my once girlfriend to become a horrible cyborg parody of a human". No with just a few sales he could be sober and hard working as Jamalia. Same goes for Serafina no more breaking down crying, just proper work. And that cyborg fellow, entirely too much lip, but I know a few fools out here who pay for that sort of thing. Shame we lost thorn, an entire multiple personality, and selling rather than having to go on silly enlightenment shenanigans, what a capital idea.
But, these are only the small part. Why limit ourselves to our crew, there is bigger game available. As any proper gentleman knows, selling children (preferable firstborn, but any will do) to spirits is the best way to do business. No fuss, no muss and you are right as rain, and I suspect Donald has plenty of children we can track down, not to mention Jamilia's offspring, frankly I think it would be doing her a favor, at least she'd be of more use than a hollow one. And think, werewolves love to play the "surprise my kid is a wolf and now you don't get them" wouldn't it be simply a great jest to play turnout, imaging sending a letter to one letting them know that they won't get their precious Donald mutt- because we already sold them off, oh the hilarity.
So stop being cowards, and let's get to business.