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Panopticon: A Game of Posthumans, Perniciousness, Paranoia, Politics, and Plasmaguns

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Hmm. I would think Dimensional Science would let you dominate places though, and let you 'recruit' 'native' 'sympathizers'.
 
Well, DSci was deliberately designed to not allow summoning - maybe that functionality was taken out as a consequence?
 
[X] Blaze of Glory. The core is in this room. The enemy's gate is down.

We cannot win a battle of attrition with Khornetta.

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[x] Offensive fighting. Try to take down the Core-MkV TDP.

On the other hand, surviving is pretty important too.
 
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MJ12 Commando said:
I do want to write an update soon so if you could vote that'd be nice.

Yes, this is Mega Update Weekend.
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Damon Hunters:
[x] Keep moving, also try to use the narratives of the Damons against each other.

I'm not a particular fan of any of the original options, they all seem likely to backfire. Thus keep moving appears to be the only remaining choice. I'm quite intrigued by @Kerrus's idea to wake them up and break the stories they think they are in, so I think that's what I want to see.

Henriette's Challenge (Continued from Update 121):
[x] Offensive fighting. Try to take down the Core-MkV TDP.
[x] Blaze of Glory. The core is in this room. The enemy's gate is down.

I'm not entirely sure which this is, but we need to kill the core quickly, and distracting Henrietta so Harlan can take the shot is a perfectly fine way to do that. Any delaying, however, is a terrible plan since that will give her time to recover and bring more assets to fight us.
 
[X] Blaze of Glory. The core is in this room. The enemy's gate is down.\

Preferably by making it look like we're gonna come at her for serious fighting, then instead using a Matter/Forces effect to overcharge the engines and leave her eating our nuclear exhaust as we slam axe first into her core. If that doesn't finish her, drive the blade all the way in with our MELTDOWN PUNCH
 
[X] Blaze of Glory. The core is in this room. The enemy's gate is down.

One. Good. Hit.
 
Henriette Strategy: [x] Offensive, but not all-or-nothing
ckk185 said:
[X] Blaze of Glory. The core is in this room. The enemy's gate is down.

One. Good. Hit.
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Were I a posthuman abomination against all reason, I'd include shields and probably point defense on/around the giant ball (which is probably itself made of amusingly thick and tough armor like, y'know, it has to contain tremendous energies) powering my everything if I was putting it in a giant empty space. Trying for just one good hit might well not get anywhere.
 
So, those Agents who are being the moral guardians... how sure are we that they're actually Agents? Because the moral guardians thing and the murdered dude in a suit makes me think they might actually be Evil Space Choristers.
 
Winged One said:
So, those Agents who are being the moral guardians... how sure are we that they're actually Agents? Because the moral guardians thing and the murdered dude in a suit makes me think they might actually be Evil Space Choristers.
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They're Agents. 100% probability.
The post in question said:
The cigars vanish up the Resident's sleeves. "Well, no matter," the Resident says. "Wouldn't you prefer us to be... cooperative? We will of course comply fully with the letter of the regulations, but there is compliance and there is compliance. At the very least, I will not acknowledge such regulations until my legal team has vetted them fully. In extensive details."

"Deliberately obstructing the Timetable is a sin," Ms Piano says in a tone like ice.
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The Timetable is the Technocratic Union's plan for moving Earth forward. The Choristers are interested in advancing decidedly different agendas.
Guess which post said:
The pale man's knuckles whiten around his briefcase. "Gentlemen. Ladies. I reassure you, Iteration X will face due punishment for its quite shocking incompetence in this - and other recent - matters. Gentlemen, ladies, I reassure you of this. Iteration X appears to have forgotten the necessity of the Timetable. It has overtly displayed technology beyond the permitted level of development on Earth. It acts without the proper consultations with my parent agency. Corrective measures will be taken against it. Regulations state that my agency is entrusted with internal regulation of the Technocratic Union, and Iteration X is in dire need of extensive regulation. But, gentlemen and ladies, that is not the topic under discussion."
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There is only one group that is responsible for the internal affairs of the Technocratic Union, and it is emphatically not the Choristers.
 
Winged One said:
How hard is it to imspiritinate Agents, though?
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In front of all of the senior Residents in the realm of Hollywood production (an immensely valuable post)? After passing the security systems thereof? Do you think that the senior agents of the Syndicate and New World Order were that easy to fool or impersonate, let alone now after they've abandoned their humanity? Where are you even beginning to get this from?

Back to you, where's your extraordinary evidence that this is all a Rogue Council ruse that's somehow taken in senior elements of the Technocratic Union's Control cabal in their own strong hold? Keep in mind that Control codes were the next best thing to completely inviolate before, despite what I'll bet was the Traditions' best shots at impersonation.
 
Also, a question. What happened to that Shockwave Code request the Computer sent to Control a while back?

I don't want to us to defeat Henrietta, only to be hit by something even worse.
 
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[X] Offensive fighting. Try to take down the Core-MkV TDP.

An all-or-nothing attack on the core, with an angry Incarna in the room, will likely end with the Trinity Titan in pieces before it can manage to do any significant damage.
 
I liked ES's write-in, though I can see why some people might want to stay in Hollywood for a bit longer. Is it jumping from one frying pan to the next, or straight into the fire?

[X] Try to hole up in a building that has enough bulk to stop those railgun shots.
-> [X] Fuckin' Agency disagrees, and in fact they've just walked into a plaza filled with guards
--> [X] "Oh, this makes perfect sense", the ex-Virtual Adept says. "None of this is real. It's a simulation. Let's find the place it's being simulated from, which hopefully isn't full of film characters trying to kill us."
 
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Wakka said:
In front of all of the senior Residents in the realm of Hollywood production (an immensely valuable post)? After passing the security systems thereof? Do you think that the senior agents of the Syndicate and New World Order were that easy to fool or impersonate, let alone now after they've abandoned their humanity? Where are you even beginning to get this from?

Back to you, where's your extraordinary evidence that this is all a Rogue Council ruse that's somehow taken in senior elements of the Technocratic Union's Control cabal in their own strong hold? Keep in mind that Control codes were the next best thing to completely inviolate before, despite what I'll bet was the Traditions' best shots at impersonation.
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Okay, so my intuition makes no sense to people who actually know things? Fair enough. I guess it does make sense to assume that they're using Control codes for their intended purpose as well as the subversion we've seen. And it's imspiritination now. An Agent isn't a person. :p
 
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[X] Try to hole up in a building that has enough bulk to stop those railgun shots.
-> [X] Fuckin' Agency disagrees, and in fact they've just walked into a plaza filled with guards
--> [X] "Oh, this makes perfect sense", the ex-Virtual Adept says. "None of this is real. It's a simulation. Let's find the place it's being simulated from, which hopefully isn't full of film characters trying to kill us."
 
Anasurimbor said:
I liked ES's write-in, though I can see why some people might want to stay in Hollywood for a bit longer. Is it jumping from one frying pan to the next, or straight into the fire?
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My line of thought here is that

a) it gets to show off that there's more than just the "space" and the "spirit court" versions of this spirit realm out here - this place is a much more abstract view of Hollywood, in that Hollywood is defined by the things it makes, it's a place for making films. As a result, this has a much more "high level" view of the spirit realm - you can't talk to the characters here, but you can find any film which was ever made. And since they're all the same realm
b) it puts Elsa and Jazmin in a place where they can influence the battle in both Hollywoodtown and Planet Hollywood - yes, they can influence both. They're all equally the Realm of Hollywood. That means there's some representation of what's going on outside in Planet Hollywood here too, although it'll be in the frame of this space.
c) it provides something of a change of pace from constantly being chased by film characters. And be chased by something else.
d) it allows Nichols to totally bullshit that it was just-as-planned and coordinate a three-subdimension plan, which amuses me greatly. Agents are trying to counter Kessler's forces, but the scripts they're working on censoring are changing under them, while Elsa and Jazmin can take down an army of Matrix squidbots threatening Kessler / subverted Planet Hollywood drones (they're the same thing in the eyes of the Hollywood Archive) by setting fire to the film copy of the Matrix Revolutions.
 
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