GhostStalker
Jeopardy! contestant
- Location
- NYC
Since when was Izanagi Construst the Aperture Science Testing Facility?
Panopticon: A Game of Posthumans, Perniciousness, Paranoia, Politics, and Plasmaguns
- Location
- Library
Well, we did go with "there is no kill like overkill" and leveraged all our assets to get overwhelming force.
[X] The Hangar Bay: Yes, it's very open and gives room to maneuver. But it also lets you advance the greatest number of forces through.
Simplicity is its own strategic virtue./
[X] The Hangar Bay: Yes, it's very open and gives room to maneuver. But it also lets you advance the greatest number of forces through.
Simplicity is its own strategic virtue./
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Dirtnap
Kanmusu Affecionado
[x] Strypgia
Mainly because I agree with his reasoning and that Henriette has grown a hell of a lot since she first started this gig. This choice reflects that.
As for the Hanger Bay, we can't really leverage all the armor assets we've brought if we don't take it.
Mainly because I agree with his reasoning and that Henriette has grown a hell of a lot since she first started this gig. This choice reflects that.
As for the Hanger Bay, we can't really leverage all the armor assets we've brought if we don't take it.
- Location
- in the trash
[X] Idealistic
[X] The Hangar Bay
Yeah okay no real objections here.
[X] The Hangar Bay
Yeah okay no real objections here.
Quantumboost
Now with 50% more dots in Dimensional Science
- Location
- Ensemble Space
It's a Technocracy lab.
They're all the Aperture Science Testing Facility.
Now you're thinking with portals!
[X] Idealistic
[X] The Hangar Bay
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
The Technocratic Union: We Do What We Must, Because We Can.
Imrix
Periodically Malevolent QM
[X] Hug her. "She's mine now. She's a valuble asset who was given bad orders, and was unable to act contrary to her programming. Now that I have her, I can atone for my past sins against her by saving her life and fixing her." Tightens hug. "Thank you for your assistance."
ES is correct that Henriette is arguing from the heart here, but the idealistic approach doesn't actually seem very... idealistic, to me. It reads like the most robotic of them all, honestly - it's a cost-benefit analysis of the time and effort of a bullet. I would be wholly unsurprised if Piero dismissed it on the basis that he is overkill wherever he's deployed anyway, and the cost of one trigger pull is negligible.
ES is correct that Henriette is arguing from the heart here, but the idealistic approach doesn't actually seem very... idealistic, to me. It reads like the most robotic of them all, honestly - it's a cost-benefit analysis of the time and effort of a bullet. I would be wholly unsurprised if Piero dismissed it on the basis that he is overkill wherever he's deployed anyway, and the cost of one trigger pull is negligible.
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I, on the other hand, am opposed to "hug her" because she's still a super-strong Awakened killing machine and Forces 4 is still enough for one last "discharge my batteries" and cook Henriette like a barbecue roast.
I'd rather not touch the disabled killing machine until things are suitably demonstrated that she is in a mood for talking and hugging, not last ditch "kill Henriette"-ing. Which she is noted for having a psychological proclivity for.
Reminder that just because Ling no longer has a valid focus for Forces 4 effects, which are generally needed to hurt Piero, doesn't mean she has no valid foci for lower levels of Forces, which can be pretty dangerous in and of themselves to someone like Henriette, who finds it more than a little inconvenient if the room around her blows up.
Versus Piero, who is more like "sigh I kind of liked those walls and the roof and not being in the rain."
Piero; the best damn cover around.
Imrix
Periodically Malevolent QM
This is a true and valid point which, nevertheless, does not make me feel any better about the 'Idealistic' option.
[X] Idealistic: Isn't the mark of a good military commander knowing how to use force effectively, which also includes showing mercy on non-threats instead of inefficiently wasting force on them?
Idealism good, I like the idea of Henriette being the Iterator with the purely metaphorical heart of gold.
...there's probably a half dozen Hermetic tomes about the merits of transmuting your heart to gold isn't there?
(Also I'm indecisive about the entry point, so....)
Idealism good, I like the idea of Henriette being the Iterator with the purely metaphorical heart of gold.
...there's probably a half dozen Hermetic tomes about the merits of transmuting your heart to gold isn't there?
(Also I'm indecisive about the entry point, so....)
pt246
Sometimes sarcastic, occasionally grumpy
I'm convinced. Changing vote to:
[X] Idealistic: Isn't the mark of a good military commander knowing how to use force effectively, which also includes showing mercy on non-threats instead of inefficiently wasting force on them?
[X] The Hangar Bay: Yes, it's very open and gives room to maneuver. But it also lets you advance the greatest number of forces through.
[X] Idealistic: Isn't the mark of a good military commander knowing how to use force effectively, which also includes showing mercy on non-threats instead of inefficiently wasting force on them?
[X] The Hangar Bay: Yes, it's very open and gives room to maneuver. But it also lets you advance the greatest number of forces through.
- Location
- Brazil
I'm catching up! And sweet omissiah, I've never seen a quest throw away loot like this.
"Magical bracelet for warping reality and punching through tanks? Give it to random robo girl!"
"Intact alien super-capital ship? Use it as bait for angry robot just to make it angrier!"
"Killed legendary dragon and could eat its heart or cancel the apocalypse even harder? Throw it away, you don't know where it's been!"
And I'm like "What did these shinies do to you?"
Especially this part.
So, was there some actual drawback to it? Or did the players really just throw away a legendary powerboost, or stupid amounts of money?
Players really are their worst enemies.
"Magical bracelet for warping reality and punching through tanks? Give it to random robo girl!"
"Intact alien super-capital ship? Use it as bait for angry robot just to make it angrier!"
"Killed legendary dragon and could eat its heart or cancel the apocalypse even harder? Throw it away, you don't know where it's been!"
And I'm like "What did these shinies do to you?"
Especially this part.
"Too smart for your own good", twice in a roll.
So, was there some actual drawback to it? Or did the players really just throw away a legendary powerboost, or stupid amounts of money?
Players really are their worst enemies.
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Well it kind of was a corrupting, immortal dragon.
I think the issues with consuming its power might be obvious.
- Location
- Brazil
Don't we have a method to essentially rendering it down into pure magical energy? "Tass"?Well it kind of was a corrupting, immortal dragon.
I think the issues with consuming its power might be obvious.
Still, while reading I was trying to work out how they'd cleverly go home on the super alien ship. Because surely, they'd think of something, right?
And then Khornetta happened.
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- Location
- Spain
Tass keeps the resonance of wharever source you used.
So if you render vampires into tass and make an artifact with it, it will be some kind of cursed thing that seeks to kill people regardless of what the mage wants. Etc etc.
Eating the Dragon heart would have slowly turned kessler into a greedy offidian thing. Just look at what the void did to the leaders of the Syndicate.
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- Location
- in the trash
Stupid stupid stupid. Why am I doing this?! Henriette fights every instinct in her body, ignoring the entirely rational fears that tell her she should shut up and stop being stupid. With the clinical, unemotive logic of her ADEI and NWO-taught meditation techniques, she forces herself to be calm, using her BLO to keep her body language completely locked down until she can get a handle on the turmoil roiling inside of her.
Think logical, rational thoughts. How can she best persuade the reincarnation of Achilles to not kill her one-time rival? "She's... an asset. If we take her in alive, she should know things about the enemy. And she's an emoneut, so if she's given valid orders I'm sure she'll spill everythin-"
Piero inclines his head slightly. "I can just keep the head. A brain trawl would allow us to extract all the information we need." Henriette doesn't pale--but only because her blood is already artificial, and her BLO is keeping her emotive responses suppressed. "That's..." she starts, before Piero cuts her off.
"There is something you are not telling me. Satisfy my curiosity." Piero says, gaze fixed on Henriette as he lazily lifts one arm to the side to shoot some unseen target. An explosion resounds in the distance. "And make it quick. I have a battle to oversee, and every second is precious."
Henriette mentally cycles through plausible sounding excuses, logical reasons to spare Ling, and one look at Piero's eyes tells her he won't buy any of it. So she decides to spill everything, and hope the truth will be enough. "I was a terrible bitch to her."
"Oh?" Piero raises an eyebrow.
"I was a stupid teenager at the time, but that doesn't excuse it. We were classmates, and I treated her awfully because she beat me this one time in the sims, and because she was an emoneut and so never acted like a normal person would and I found that disturbing, and because I was j-jealous. She didn't deserve any of it, and she doesn't deserve to die now." She looks pleadingly at the demigod who could kill her with no more than a finger right now, if so he wished.
"So you wish to absolve yourself of your own guilt by saving your former rival. Amusing." Piero says, but he makes no moves. Not that Henriette would be able to see anything in time, if he really intended to kill.
"She's just an emoneut. You know how they are. They can't tell a good order from a bad one, as long as it's legitimate. And they may be misguided and taking orders from traitors, but we're still fighting U-Unionists." Henriette says. "We shouldn't be so quick to needlessly spill the blood of our brothers and sisters in arms. If they can be spared and shown the e-error of their ways, it will make patching over the wounds easier in the aftermath." She stops speaking, and hopes.
[Only if Piero spares Ling, obviously]
Piero takes less than second to mull things over, but the moment seems to stretch out for an eternity to Henriette. "It appears my attention is needed elsewhere." He finally speaks, eyes looking at some far-off scene. Just like that, he's gone, transhuman speed carrying him away faster than even augmented eyes can see.
Think logical, rational thoughts. How can she best persuade the reincarnation of Achilles to not kill her one-time rival? "She's... an asset. If we take her in alive, she should know things about the enemy. And she's an emoneut, so if she's given valid orders I'm sure she'll spill everythin-"
Piero inclines his head slightly. "I can just keep the head. A brain trawl would allow us to extract all the information we need." Henriette doesn't pale--but only because her blood is already artificial, and her BLO is keeping her emotive responses suppressed. "That's..." she starts, before Piero cuts her off.
"There is something you are not telling me. Satisfy my curiosity." Piero says, gaze fixed on Henriette as he lazily lifts one arm to the side to shoot some unseen target. An explosion resounds in the distance. "And make it quick. I have a battle to oversee, and every second is precious."
Henriette mentally cycles through plausible sounding excuses, logical reasons to spare Ling, and one look at Piero's eyes tells her he won't buy any of it. So she decides to spill everything, and hope the truth will be enough. "I was a terrible bitch to her."
"Oh?" Piero raises an eyebrow.
"I was a stupid teenager at the time, but that doesn't excuse it. We were classmates, and I treated her awfully because she beat me this one time in the sims, and because she was an emoneut and so never acted like a normal person would and I found that disturbing, and because I was j-jealous. She didn't deserve any of it, and she doesn't deserve to die now." She looks pleadingly at the demigod who could kill her with no more than a finger right now, if so he wished.
"So you wish to absolve yourself of your own guilt by saving your former rival. Amusing." Piero says, but he makes no moves. Not that Henriette would be able to see anything in time, if he really intended to kill.
"She's just an emoneut. You know how they are. They can't tell a good order from a bad one, as long as it's legitimate. And they may be misguided and taking orders from traitors, but we're still fighting U-Unionists." Henriette says. "We shouldn't be so quick to needlessly spill the blood of our brothers and sisters in arms. If they can be spared and shown the e-error of their ways, it will make patching over the wounds easier in the aftermath." She stops speaking, and hopes.
[Only if Piero spares Ling, obviously]
Piero takes less than second to mull things over, but the moment seems to stretch out for an eternity to Henriette. "It appears my attention is needed elsewhere." He finally speaks, eyes looking at some far-off scene. Just like that, he's gone, transhuman speed carrying him away faster than even augmented eyes can see.
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- Location
- in the trash
Because it was incompatible with our paradigm? Besides, who needs anti-tank punches when you have an RPG? Coincidental, reliable and effective.
You know the saying "too good to be true"?
That was schmuck bait, and would probably have had some horrible hidden costs that would have slapped us in the face later.
Yes, people prefered the thematics of rejecting the heart's power over going "Ooh, shiny" and chittering away like a chipmunk.
Aleph
Princess of Stabbity
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Though I'm still mildly pissed we didn't get Legendary Stamina (Cannot Be Oneshotted) for Kessler.
- Location
- U.S.
As people noted, this was paradigm incompatible, and not something we could hide using terribly long. And if caught...consequences. We tried to get something out of it...but people didn't follow up.
Hey, that plan worked. It blew a huge chunk out of her, enabling the final mecha fight.
This got covered well, an if you go back and read there are some good points amongst all the salt. There are consequences to taking in the Dragon's legend.
Honestly, we've done pretty well, and all of these choices honestly made sense to me when I read through.
Aleph
Princess of Stabbity
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Serafina breaking her paradigm enough to hit Enlightenment 6 would almost certainly have resulted in Serafina defecting from the Union.
That wasn't "a choice". That was the by-product of numerous unlabelled choices and sum-over-decisions pathing that, during Super Special Spying Sneaky Sexy Subtle Sera Side Story, had the players choosing options that didn't challenge her paradigm and instead had her reaffirming her decisions and working within the system (which also got her her Legend). And, you know, didn't pick the option that'd make her an Orpheus character for the entire side story with a good chance of just killing her.