Panopticon: A Game of Posthumans, Perniciousness, Paranoia, Politics, and Plasmaguns
Just the communications one and 'hiding from Choi' right now, for a relative dearth of ideas.
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
Let's reduce Choi's supply of ablative Mooks some.
[X] Jamelia and Harlan have the codes and technical know-how, between the two of them, to optimize the defenses of the facility. A low-security museum basement doesn't have much in the way of defenses, but there are some very useful antipersonnel solutions that could be used to defeat a mob.
[X] Jamelia and Harlan have the codes and technical know-how, between the two of them, to optimize the defenses of the facility. A low-security museum basement doesn't have much in the way of defenses, but there are some very useful antipersonnel solutions that could be used to defeat a mob.
[X] Harlan can program the camera system to catch anyone who might be evading surveillance, and set up powerful, but limited, EDE/RNE-disabling systems along possible flanking and ambush routes.
Considering the strategy we want to reveal them so making sure the sneakiest ones get revealed too makes sense
Considering the strategy we want to reveal them so making sure the sneakiest ones get revealed too makes sense
- Location
- Library
Ok, we need a delay and... what will delay them most? I think there is good chance that Choi will risk full-front assault as we already voted for him being overwhelmed with passion/urge. If not, the crew can take care of few weaves of mooks between them in the variant when Choi decide to play it tactical. It might not be easy, but..
Therefore:
[X] With enough time to set up, Elissa and Harlan can put together some sort of delayed psychic attack to take down a single powerful target. This is dangerous in even a low-level Union facility but attacking a hardened target sometimes requires sacrifices.
->[X] Target the deathlord Choi. Procedure write in: Lock'n'Loaded'n'Fated - Effect of big trap target the deathlord and can be accidentally triggered by any of the mooks, using the fate connection between him and Jamelia as a base. [Time 4, Entropy 3, Dimensional Science 1]
So yeah, run a deadly guantlet of lesser spirts of Technocracy's past in a museum, but hopefully we can stun the deathlord.
Therefore:
[X] With enough time to set up, Elissa and Harlan can put together some sort of delayed psychic attack to take down a single powerful target. This is dangerous in even a low-level Union facility but attacking a hardened target sometimes requires sacrifices.
->[X] Target the deathlord Choi. Procedure write in: Lock'n'Loaded'n'Fated - Effect of big trap target the deathlord and can be accidentally triggered by any of the mooks, using the fate connection between him and Jamelia as a base. [Time 4, Entropy 3, Dimensional Science 1]
So yeah, run a deadly guantlet of lesser spirts of Technocracy's past in a museum, but hopefully we can stun the deathlord.
mouli
Terrible QM
- Location
- United States
[X] Jamelia and Harlan have the codes and technical know-how, between the two of them, to optimize the defenses of the facility. A low-security museum basement doesn't have much in the way of defenses, but there are some very useful antipersonnel solutions that could be used to defeat a mob.
Trim the herd before engaging the Big Goat, so to speak.
Trim the herd before engaging the Big Goat, so to speak.
- Location
- Georgia, US
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Looking at the options:
This option would presumably be for taking down one of Cho's lieutenants. It has its uses but I'm worried about the mention of sacrifice, we don't have an abundance of assets and thus risking the ones we have seems like a mistake. Even if it does come with taking down one of their heavies.
This one is very attractive, our strength is that we have a low number of high-quality Enlightened, but qualitative superiority can be beaten down by a quantitatively superior foe. Taking that advantage away from them could be critical.
Hmm, this option also has its appeals. We can eliminate their means of information gathering and give us the tactical edge.
But compared to the advantages of thinning out their forces I'd say it narrowly losses out.
[X] Jamelia and Harlan have the codes and technical know-how, between the two of them, to optimize the defenses of the facility. A low-security museum basement doesn't have much in the way of defenses, but there are some very useful antipersonnel solutions that could be used to defeat a mob.
This option would presumably be for taking down one of Cho's lieutenants. It has its uses but I'm worried about the mention of sacrifice, we don't have an abundance of assets and thus risking the ones we have seems like a mistake. Even if it does come with taking down one of their heavies.
This one is very attractive, our strength is that we have a low number of high-quality Enlightened, but qualitative superiority can be beaten down by a quantitatively superior foe. Taking that advantage away from them could be critical.
Hmm, this option also has its appeals. We can eliminate their means of information gathering and give us the tactical edge.
But compared to the advantages of thinning out their forces I'd say it narrowly losses out.
[X] Jamelia and Harlan have the codes and technical know-how, between the two of them, to optimize the defenses of the facility. A low-security museum basement doesn't have much in the way of defenses, but there are some very useful antipersonnel solutions that could be used to defeat a mob.
@Strypgia is right - numbers are really our worst enemy here.
[X] Jamelia and Harlan have the codes and technical know-how, between the two of them, to optimize the defenses of the facility. A low-security museum basement doesn't have much in the way of defenses, but there are some very useful antipersonnel solutions that could be used to defeat a mob.
[X] Jamelia and Harlan have the codes and technical know-how, between the two of them, to optimize the defenses of the facility. A low-security museum basement doesn't have much in the way of defenses, but there are some very useful antipersonnel solutions that could be used to defeat a mob.
- Location
- in the trash
[X] Jamelia and Harlan have the codes and technical know-how, between the two of them, to optimize the defenses of the facility. A low-security museum basement doesn't have much in the way of defenses, but there are some very useful antipersonnel solutions that could be used to defeat a mob.
- Location
- Australia
No-one reads the Terms & Conditions.
...Janice was right, the Verbena were the Syndic-analogue all along!
meianmaru
The Devourer of Fiction
[X] Jamelia and Harlan have the codes and technical know-how, between the two of them, to optimize the defenses of the facility. A low-security museum basement doesn't have much in the way of defenses, but there are some very useful antipersonnel solutions that could be used to defeat a mob.
Spectrum
Tell me a secret~
- Location
- Behind you~
This is such a cursed option.
They're wandering into horror movie tropes and you want to lean on the cameras? Presumably there will be some sort of limited power supply meaning all of the doors and/or traps can't be activated at once or for long while they're sitting in a vulnerable control booth?
We know how this one plays out in the end!
[X] Jamelia and Harlan have the codes and technical know-how, between the two of them, to optimize the defenses of the facility. A low-security museum basement doesn't have much in the way of defenses, but there are some very useful antipersonnel solutions that could be used to defeat a mob.
Tentatively, anyway.
[X] Jamelia and Harlan have the codes and technical know-how, between the two of them, to optimize the defenses of the facility. A low-security museum basement doesn't have much in the way of defenses, but there are some very useful antipersonnel solutions that could be used to defeat a mob.
...
Um.
Oh dear.
I mean, I've been worried about Elissa for a while, but... now I'm really worried about Elissa.
This would, in fact, be an excellent time for Ms. Clock to show up and destroy the one thing Jamelia could possibly still call sacred. Even if she's too busy to show up literally now, putting Elissa on her radar is probably bad.
... Not sure what we can do about that other than "be extra careful," which we are already, but...
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- Location
- Random place
[X] Jamelia and Harlan have the codes and technical know-how, between the two of them, to optimize the defenses of the facility. A low-security museum basement doesn't have much in the way of defenses, but there are some very useful antipersonnel solutions that could be used to defeat a mob.
Sirrocco
Pedantic
Hmmm... except that Ms Clock's ability to project force right now is kind of limited... and in some very real ways, Elissa is her daughter too. If anything, I'd see her trying to turn Elissa by being a better mother. (She's not all that good at it, but the bar is so very low, and she is the one that went heavy into Mind.)
WarpObscura
Sleepy Big Stick
- Location
- A dot at the edge of continental Asia.
@Spectrum 's convinced me.
[X] Jamelia and Harlan have the codes and technical know-how, between the two of them, to optimize the defenses of the facility. A low-security museum basement doesn't have much in the way of defenses, but there are some very useful antipersonnel solutions that could be used to defeat a mob.
[X] Jamelia and Harlan have the codes and technical know-how, between the two of them, to optimize the defenses of the facility. A low-security museum basement doesn't have much in the way of defenses, but there are some very useful antipersonnel solutions that could be used to defeat a mob.
- Location
- Under a cat
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Ooh, always nice to see an update for this quest.
Uh, I have a question about the long quote in this post.
This an Exalted reference, right? I don't know that game's lore real well, but the Sidereals betrayed some primordial supergod or something. There's some dubiously canon stuff that the Sidereals then became mages? And the Lunars became werewolves and the Solars... did something else?
Uh, I have a question about the long quote in this post.
This an Exalted reference, right? I don't know that game's lore real well, but the Sidereals betrayed some primordial supergod or something. There's some dubiously canon stuff that the Sidereals then became mages? And the Lunars became werewolves and the Solars... did something else?
- Location
- Georgia, US
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I... highly doubt that.
She might do this as part of a ruse but Ms. Clock is even less of a kind person then Jamelia is unless she thought it was likely to be useful she'd probably just do her best to assassinate Elissa.
I mean, IIRC that literally happened, Elissa was brought into the story when Ms. Clock sent a Panopticon Kill Team(s) to hunt her. Clearly there isn't any maternal connection there.
FourthWall
Love & Destroy
- Location
- Chiraq
Anyone else hear the Ghostbusters theme here?
- Location
- Georgia, US
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Panopticon: A game of posthumans, paranoia, and references I never get the first time I read the post goddamn it.Anyone else hear the Ghostbusters theme here?
Reminder that Clock attacked Alice/Elissa to hurt Serafina, not Jamelia herself.
Sirrocco
Pedantic
I have a fair bit of confidence in Clock's ability to pretend to be almost anything she might need to pretend to be in order to acquire a manipulable minion and harm a hated foe... and Elissa doesn't know that it was Clock who sent that kill-team, right?