... Oh come on, now I want to know what's up with Nichols. >.<
Panopticon: A Game of Posthumans, Perniciousness, Paranoia, Politics, and Plasmaguns
In the ending with Control never having left, how are the vampires doing? Are they getting purged too?
Well, ES gets to have his avatar be a sentient cloud of blades. But you get to be a sentient cloud of blades. (Who may or may not be a lost daughter of Adjoran. Very lost.) Not sure which of you has the better deal.
Okay, I want to know what else Nichols has planned for Jamelia. Also, I'm imagining her handing over a map of various thought-to-be-secret bases and saying "Yeah, before we pulled off that time-travel stunt, all of these were controlled by Threat Null. You're welcome."
Actually, when you raise that - we do have to bear in mind that the entire party is actually pretty fucking experienced and have almost all been mages for a long time. Even Rose has 4-5 years under her belt, and those years have been filled with conflict, questions of self-identity, and the memories of an archmage creeping through.
Jamelia - Awakened for 44 years, although she fucked up a Seeking and dropped down to Enlightenment 2 again 32 years ago.
Kessler - Awakened some time between 1982 and '88, at a guess, so he's probably been Awakened for somewhere between 33 and 27 years.
Serafina - Awakened in '87, so she has 28 years.
Henriette - Awakened for 15 years.
Donald - Awakened for 11 years
Rose - Awakened for 5 years, with some memory bleedthrough of a just-short-of-her-700th-birthday ancient wizard.
Like, compared to your "typical" average Traditions party where everyone's got fewer than five years under their belt, the party is full of old people.
FunkyEntropy
Occasionally insightful, possibly grumpy
- Location
- Los Angeles
So what you're saying is that the environment exerts selective pressure on its local mage population, thus proving that the Progenitor - and therefore by extension the Technocracy - paradigm is the most correct paradigm.
[X] Get back to the Avellone and rig it via the good ol' reliable Hollywood standby of Killing The Bad Guys With A Malfunctioning FTL Drive, and then lure Khornetta in with a pre-recorded message of Henriette on the bridge implying she was hidden there all along and that Henrietta only missed her because she was distracted by the messages from the station. As this is a DSci/Corr thing (as befits a malfunctioning FTL drive), it should bypass Forces protection - and Iterators are weak against DSci.
-> [X] If that doesn't kill it, then fire a Chronal Torpedo down her thermal exhaust port via stealth vessel (the Redemption) while she's distracted and preferably hurt by the . How lewd. Thus proving the comments about how Harlan has a creepy uncle moustache to be correct, because Khornetta is only fifteen.
--> [X] If that doesn't work... desperately think of a new plan. That is the plan. Yes.
Unfortunately, I believe Harlan has gotten rid of the uncle-'stache.
-> [X] If that doesn't kill it, then fire a Chronal Torpedo down her thermal exhaust port via stealth vessel (the Redemption) while she's distracted and preferably hurt by the . How lewd. Thus proving the comments about how Harlan has a creepy uncle moustache to be correct, because Khornetta is only fifteen.
--> [X] If that doesn't work... desperately think of a new plan. That is the plan. Yes.
Unfortunately, I believe Harlan has gotten rid of the uncle-'stache.
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
ES, thanks to you dubbing her Khornetta, it turned into Cornetto, and I now have Harlan Aristede played in my head by Nick Frost in age-makeup. Now I'm stuck wondering who Simon Pegg is going to show up as...
Can we make the next Incarna we accidentally awake in Panopticon an Avatar of Grouchy Old Ladies, then?
Can we make the next Incarna we accidentally awake in Panopticon an Avatar of Grouchy Old Ladies, then?
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- Location
- in the trash
ES, thanks to you dubbing her Khornetta, it turned into Cornetto, and I now have Harlan Aristede played in my head by Nick Frost in age-makeup. Now I'm stuck wondering who Simon Pegg is going to show up as...
Can we make the next Incarna we accidentally awake in Panopticon an Avatar of Grouchy Old Ladies, then?
I dunno if making Catherine Nichols undergo Apotheosis would be a good idea...
She travelled back in time to impart the secret of Dimensional Science 6 to her past self?
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Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
- Pronouns
- They/Them/It
We came out here to prevent Evil Space Jamelia.
- Location
- in the trash
But she wouldn't be Evil Space Jamelia, she would be Grouchy Old Space Jamelia (who is only perceived as Evil by her enemies). And she wouldn't even be Space Jamelia once we get her back to Earth. So she'd just be Grouchy Old Jamelia (blah blah blah). Which is basically just normal Jamelia.
In any case, she's not grouchy enough or old enough at the moment, due to being a cheerful young waitress.
Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
- Pronouns
- They/Them/It
You do remember the remorseless murder, right? 15 years/maybe an hour ago? Jamelia is not a nice person, and turning into a spirit seems very likely to remove the human intuition that allows her to fake it so well and work with actual nice people.
So, on a side note, what exactly is a Qui La Machinae? It sounds and is treated like a big deal for the VEs, but I don't really have an image of it beyond, I dunno, Enterprise.
Qui La Machinae
Acatalepsy
Firewall Proxy
- Location
- The Diamond Age
The 70 meter long X160 Qui La Machinæ looks like its predecessors: an armored insect bristling with guns and blades. Entering production in 1998, the X160 was designed as a cost effective alternative to the X200 "Vader." PDC captains were eager to migrate from the disaster-prone X156 series, but those lucky enough to have secured "Vaders" refused to take an apparent downgrade. This was a blessing in disguise, because it left six X160s in Benning Aircraft's dry dock, abandoned by the officers assigned to them. They were all staffing their old X200s — and all of them were wrecked by the Anomaly. Four of the X160s are in operation. The Convention saves the other two for spare parts and tests.
Structural Capacity: 30 crew life support pods, four officers' quarters, and one stateroom, 480 cubic meters cargo capacity, + 20 Health Levels of reinforced structure. Life support is rated for Deep Universe travel. 102 Health Levels. Successes: 100.
Propulsion: STAR-TPU with escape velocity capacity and Deep Universe rated Voidcast Drive. Successes: 300.
Hull: 30 dice of standard armor; 10 dice of Primium countermeasures. Successes: 125.
Armament: Assault ram, six Alpha class and three Beta class particle beam cannons, three HEX missile volleys, eight hardpoints for general-purpose machine guns (damage 15, close range only). Successes: 144.
Additional Features: Active camouflage, atmospheric flight, docking bay (8 success hull capacity). Successes:108.
Combined Construction Spheres: Dimensional Science 5, Forces 5, Matter 5, Prime 4.
Total Construction Successes: 777.
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Nobody wants to think about Zeus without underwear
Cornuthaum
Be kind to each other.
- Location
- Austria
- Pronouns
- He/Him
She's very timey-wimey.
- Location
- in the trash
Nichols' past/future self travelled/will travel/travels back from the future/past to possess her past self and substitutes/substituted/will substitute her self, thus imparting her superior spheres, knowledge, experience, and skills on her past self which carries/carried/will carry forward into the future/past, up to the time when her past/future self travels/will travel/travelled back from the future/past.
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Elsa: "Time to give her a good licking, then! : 3"
Henriette: "Oh my god you are literally the worst. Ew. No. Just no. That's a super-evil alien killing machine. And before it was an utterly inhuman subjectively ancient monster, it was my little sister."
Henriette: "..."
Henriette: "Also, how the hell did you make that noise with your mouth?"
Elsa: "Ex-Virtual Adept, remember? I took the Parlour Trick merit so I can make emotes in regular speech."
Henriette: "... you wasted a background point on that?"
Elsa: " : ( "
Henriette: "Stop that!"
Or at least a young waitress who is good enough at pretending to be cheerful that she gets more tips from her foolish over-tipping American customers.
Yes. It is all coming together. With the increased income from this cunning plot, she will be able to complete her objectives and so afford decadent American cable for her apartment. With hundreds of channels! And after work yesterday, some of the other waitresses took her along to a comedy club and the things they said in there... they were shocking and ribald and totally improper and she was blushing bright red and it was absolutely nothing that a proper young woman like herself should hear and... uh, she may have to investigate this further. And see more. So she can find someone she can complain to about this, of course. No other reason. She was only laughing to blend in.
Donald: "She is adorable. Can we find a way to keep her? Like, we do need the boss back, but can we get her younger self as an intern or something?"
Serafina: "... are you thinking about how hilarious it would be to corrupt her? And how cute she is when she blushes?"
Donald: "..."
Serafina: "Because I totally am."
Donald: "Oh good, it wasn't just me."
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- Location
- in the trash
Gnarl would be proud, if Jamelia was his protege. If only Jamelia would embrace[1] her Evil side and become Evil Space[2] Jamelia.
[1] No, not literally. Pretty certain Donald is the only one who wants to see Jamelia hug her evil clone.
[2] Space being optional, because Earth needs to be conquered first. Maybe she's an Evil Space Overlady[3] invading Earth from space?
[3] Or like, the Evil Spymaster/Assassin lieutenant of the Evil Overlord/Overlady, who is secretly undermining the defences of Earth in preparation for the invasion of Evil. Which means she only would be pretending to be Good[4]. Which means she's already embraced her Evil side, I guess.
[4] Except, she's working for a secret conspiracy that controls the world and does things like using people as expendable pawns to further her plans, so I suppose she was never Good to begin with?
They can have a group hug! We have Jamelia the Grouchy Old NWO Operative, Jazmin (Clock) the Evil Clone, and now Illiyeen the Waitress!
Aleph
Princess of Stabbity
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
And Jameliabot and Chibimelia from the flashbacks she had, if we can get Chibimelia down from the tree.
... which may take some doing.
- Location
- in the trash
I thought the lesson from the last time we time travelled was that time travel is terribad and we would be better off focusing on the other great mystery of the universe?
Also, you forgot that we also need to resurrect Jamelia in Black. And also find Alice, though Clock is working on that.
Elsa probably does as well.
See might be the wrong word.
We probably aren't going to be able to explain this to Rose.
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
Elsa: "I can also pronounce things like 'Sailor Moon +' properly."
Henriette: "...you mean 'Sailor Moon Plus'?"
Elsa: "Nope! 'Sailor Moon +' +! +! +!"
Henriette: "Stop doing that! You're making my brain hurt!"
Rose: "Oh, no, I already know about that sort of thing. Donald's stash was very um... er... educational. Not his 'recreational chemistry' stash, the other one. It was labeled 'Reference Materials' in that hidden folder in his computer."
Donald: "........you found my stash?!"
Rose: "You told me to go practice hyperstatistic-encryption breaking on your computer! I thought that was the point!"
Donald: "That was so we could break into Jamelia's computer and change her desktop to nothing but pink and kittens! You know, for laughs!"
Rose: "Um... well... I still did learn a lot. And you were in a lot of those pictures, so I was... curious!"
Donald: "Mew?" :-3
Henriette: "I'm a cyberized space mecha pilot who's sister just turned into an avatar-goddess-thing of RAGE and VENGEANCE out to kill me. Why am I the most normal one here?!"
Elsa: "Somebody sounds like she needs a hug!"
Rose: "Hug pile!"
Henriette:
ckk185
Crazy Bunny Girl Scientist
- Location
- Port city
We have a Kessler. Trees are no obstacle against a post human war machine.
Shouldn't that be Elsa
Ah, but the obstacle is to get the Chibimelia down from the tree with minimal damage. Which means that the Kessler will have to get within range of weaponized cuteness.