I'm hoping for a skip over the human testing phase or figuring out how to install the system into a knightmare without extra options. Maybe even a way to increase the base power of a psychic without gear.
Semper Ad Meliora (Code Geass/Britannian Royalty Quest)
- Thread starter Slayer Anderson
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If we lose:
"Son, I am disappointed. Sure, you have bravado...unfortunately I have to exile you now. Australia looks like a fun place to be."
Victory?
"Son, I am disappointed. Your mother wont stop nagging me about her perfect little boy being just like his father."
The only other reward in the 250+ range that I know of was Rakshata as a potential learning advisor from Schneizel recruitment action we took. So unless Slayer toned down the tables of crazy crit rewards we might be getting something nice. But while it will be something nice it will also be extremely troublesome and throw out all tentative future plans on which actions to take.
Getting enough shinobi to start our own major spy agency was in the 300+ range I think.
We already got the system small enough during turn 8 for KMF. And it was just a 182 crit.
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Maybe we get a Piety adviser in the form of telepathic Arthur?
Thinking about it the best outcome would be the ability to give people psychic abilities. Our bottle neck is the same as NH and the ninjas. In the difficulty of getting units replaced once their dead due to their uniqueness.
meianmaru
The Devourer of Fiction
One thing we should remember is to temper our expectations to the limits of the action itself. Some actions, no matter how well rolled, will have either a soft or a hard limit what they can accomplish by their very nature. This same roll example, if we had jumped straight to human testing, would almost certainly given us vastly better rewards by just the fact it would have been dealing with humans who are already capable of psionics.
Basically, risk vs reward. We didn't necessarily risk or aim high with the action, so we shouldn't expect completely impossible things. Or that is my guess, Slayer Anderson might prove me completely wrong when the update drops.
Anyway, I'm curious yet afraid if this repeats or even exceed animal testing rolls when we move to human testing for extra OP and broken results. Or better yet, for the Expedition. Because Jaeger clearly was... lets say motivated by being vindicated after hearing Lelouch's revelation about the ancient history of humanity. But I'm not gonna say here is hoping, because the RNG is cruel and laughs at my and all other expectations.
EDIT: some edits done because my hands skipped over quite many of the words my brain thought that were typed
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I'm personally hoping for psychic animal familiars. I could see a wide variety of benefits from that.
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Honestly I don't really care about the power of the reward. Whatever we get will be fine. It's just that crits lead to Slayer being rather creative in his writing and I'm looking forward to the results. I'm just thinking that with the shenanigans in Code Geass when animals are involved I'll be snickering for some time after reading the update.
Practically all the high crits lead to interesting lore about the world and fleshed out the AU into something really unique.
And all the theories flying around are also amusing.
flying emu cavalry? they would likely rival our KMf corps
i for one hope for animal familiars and then we only need to dress up the girls as magical girls
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flying emu cavalry? they would likely rival our KMf corps
i for one hope for animal familiars and then we only need to dress up the girls as magical girls
I would prefer psychic dolphins and whales in power armor:
We really need more Learning Actions. Money is a non-issue for now, but technological supremacy is everything in the CG world, the higher generations the Knightmares, the bigger the difference.
It's why Milly should have gone in Learning. Pray we can recruit Rakshata, since she's in India/China.
I guess Nedzu, who I assume is the consequence of our animal testing can slot in there. He is a megasuperultra genius with a ridiculous IQ, so aside from his initial lack of knowledge, he'd do well.
It's why Milly should have gone in Learning. Pray we can recruit Rakshata, since she's in India/China.
I guess Nedzu, who I assume is the consequence of our animal testing can slot in there. He is a megasuperultra genius with a ridiculous IQ, so aside from his initial lack of knowledge, he'd do well.
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Quick question @Slayer Anderson: Does the KoH reroll only apply to turn actions, or would it apply to any mini-turn rolls as well? And how does the reroll interact with crit-chains, would it start over before the explosions? (E.g. If we try to reroll to fish for better results, does it start over from the beginning, or continue from the end of the explosion?)
I ask this because apparently the Martial actions have already been rolled and is just waiting for the final bonuses, but if they already have great results, then we might want to use the KoH reroll for "Weapons of Faith" which rolled poorly. That is assuming KoH rerolls can't be used for mini-turn events.
Sorry if this is confusing, not sure if this gets across correctly. Basically boils down to "should we consider using the KoH reroll now" and "how does it apply to crit-chains".
I ask this because apparently the Martial actions have already been rolled and is just waiting for the final bonuses, but if they already have great results, then we might want to use the KoH reroll for "Weapons of Faith" which rolled poorly. That is assuming KoH rerolls can't be used for mini-turn events.
Sorry if this is confusing, not sure if this gets across correctly. Basically boils down to "should we consider using the KoH reroll now" and "how does it apply to crit-chains".
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we got one reroll for the whole turn in total from that
and slayer applies them automatically when a roll fails and not just because some of us want a better result on a roll that barely passed
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That is an incorrect assumption, KoH rerolls can be used for mini-turn events. So for an action that didn't fail, I'm loathe to invoke it.
...if the reroll isn't used, I'll give people a vote on whether they want to use it on Weapons of Faith or burn it on Controlling the Narrative retroactively. I highly doubt it'll come to that, though.
Yes. But it wouldn't be the most ludicrous string of luck this quest has seen.
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The past is the past. We must look to the future. Let the rolls stand.
While I don't believe that we won't use the reroll during the combat turn, if we keep it why throw it away?
Personally if we keep it, I think rerolling Weapons of Faith would be the better option, we can get a second try on Controlling the Narrative anyway
John Thunstone History Post by Zrayz10 (+10 Omake Bonus)
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- Pennsylvania
So since I know nobody besides me has probably ever really read anything about John Thunstone before this quest I shall now present the history of John Thunstone, his sword, and how maybe some of this stuff can be used by Slayer if he's interested in it. It's 50% lore from the original pulp novels and 50% my own attempts to work it into the Code Geass verse. And if you're wondering why I'm typing all this...eh I'm bored while waiting for the next update.
The silver sword cane of St. Dunstan was supposedly forged by the real-life saint St. Dunstan the patron saint of blacksmiths who lived in England in the late 900s CE. Said saint is famous for being the source of the lucky horseshoe myth. Supposedly the Devil decided to bother Dunstan while he was hard at work at his forge and Dunstan took exception to the interruption. He then proceeded to grab the devil by either his nose or his tail using a pair of blacksmiths tongs and forced him to swear to never enter a house where a horseshoe had been nailed up over the door. Interestingly the way we nail up horseshoes nowadays is actually wrong, Dunstan had them with the points of the horseshoe facing down but somebody at some point decided that it was better for the points to face up so the luck wouldn't run out...somehow.
In any case...the blade despite being hard as steel in fact is pure silver or at least plated in silver maybe through the same alchemical process Crowley is currently researching for us, and due to its construction, it is psychically conductive. On it is written a line from the book of Judges Sic pereant omnes inimici tui" – "thus perish all your enemies". It can also create a psychically safe area around the bearer if they carve a circle into the ground
Many hundreds of years later the blade possibly came into possession of the Templars and later the Geass Order and the OSI. There it fell into the hands of retired Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant, born in 1891, retired in 1919, had studied at Yale and Oxford, and was decorated while serving in the intelligence services during whatever passes for WW1 in the Code Geass verse. Possibly after reverse-engineering the sword to make the OSI blades he retired and as a reward was allowed to keep the original blade. After the war he was a noted author, and occult scholar who investigated mysterious supernatural events and lived with his manservant in what is Washington D.C in our universe....side note what is the CG universe's version of Washington D.C called? Does it even exist?
Anyway among the judge's adventures was: killing a werewolf who in fact was some guy who could manifest and solidify an ectoplasmic shell around himself in the shape of a wolf creature ( A different story by the same author showed werewolves who functioned the same way but could also make themselves immune to bullets somehow...maybe they could magnetize the ectoplasm to reflect bullets? I don't know). Then there was the time he helped kill an immortal Lord Byron who was going to trick some actress into taking his devil-granted immortality from him so he could finally be free from his curse...and if that doesn't sound suspiciously like a Code Bearer then I don't know what is. Then there was something involving killer rabbit spirits...basically, there was some native tribe that held the rabbit sacred and so they forced the white folk to be nice and greet the rabbits properly or the rabbits would be psychically compelled to tear you apart. Then something involving a haunted house and another quest where he killed a vampire, could just be a female code bearer with a sadistic blood fetish. Then the judge got too old to wield his sword cane and passed it down to Thunstone who was his student and apprentice.
Thunstone is a Richmond-born scholar and playboy who investigates mysterious supernatural events like his mentor. He is described as physically large and strong, intelligent, handsome, and wealthy, and used to play both boxing and football in college. Besides his sword cane he also carries a book of white magic "Powwows or the Long Lost Friend". Side note he is also friends with Japanese scholars of Shintoism Tashiro Shimada and Oishi Kiyoki (the latter of whom was only in college when he met Thunstone but his father is supposed to be a big-time scholar), he's also friends with Chief Reuben Manco (M.A. and Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth) of the Tsukali or as most people call them the Cherokee Indians. Thunstone would face a variety of enemies most notably a sorcerer named Rowley Thorne who was constantly popping up and being a bald pain in the ass until the idiot blasted himself out of existence in the last story. He also faced off against a sword "The Dai Sword" forged by a group of evil Tibetan monks who had gotten chased off by the other monks for doing evil shit. Their sword was proof of their evil as the blood-red stone it had on its handle seemed to compel people to wield it but once the blade was drawn it could not be sheathed without drawing blood from someone or it would turn on the wielder. Fortunately the sword cane Thunstone had contained stronger juju on it and he was able to force the evil blade into sheathing itself. But his most notable act was killing the slumbering god Bran, a neolithic horned hunting deity who honestly could have been the result of people worshipping a totem and feeding it psychic energy for so long it literally became flesh and blood. Thunstone stabbed him while he was still slumbering and then broke the obelisk that Bran was drawing power from in order to awaken thus killing the entity and leaving only charred animal bones where the being once was. The incident was covered up by European authorities and a Scandanavian female psychic involved in the incident mysteriously disappeared...possible Praetorian coverup maybe.
What's most interesting about the incident was that on certain nights of the year the obelisk and the giant chalk man outline of Bran on a nearby hill could temporarily open a two-way portal back in time to the ice age, it kind of reminded me of the climax of Code Geass Akito where everybody believed the same thing really hard at the same time and reality kinda got warped? I imagine the obelisk was drawing on the power of 10,000+ years of continuous belief to pull this trick off. Oh and for the record Bran is actually a real Celtic deity, Brân the Blessed (Welsh: Bendigeidfran or Brân Fendigaidd, literally "Blessed Crow") he was a giant and king of Britain in Welsh mythology. He appears in several of the Welsh Triads, but his most significant role is in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi, Branwen ferch Llŷr. He is a son of Llŷr and Penarddun. After his death, his head was buried on the Gwynfryn, the "White Hill" (thought to be the location where the Tower of London now stands), where they bury it facing France so as to ward off invasion. The imagery of the talking head is widely considered to derive from the ancient Celtic "cult of the head"; the head was considered the home of the soul, again reminding me of that talking skull from Akito. Anyway King Arthur then decided to be stupid and dug up the head, declaring the country would be protected only by his great strength...and then he got killed by Mordred and the Anglo-Saxons went and conquered England. The Neolithic Bran could have been the inspiration for the later Celtic god. And speaking of King Arthur, the king of the Anglo Saxon's who took over after Arthur's fall was supposedly also named Thunstone which may or may not make him a distant ancestor of John. Then again maybe John is related through a branch family that shared the same last name, who can say?
And lastly, as a reward for anyone who read through this wall of text here is the only known non-book appearance of Thunstone:
View: https://youtu.be/uqglSvMaPKA
The silver sword cane of St. Dunstan was supposedly forged by the real-life saint St. Dunstan the patron saint of blacksmiths who lived in England in the late 900s CE. Said saint is famous for being the source of the lucky horseshoe myth. Supposedly the Devil decided to bother Dunstan while he was hard at work at his forge and Dunstan took exception to the interruption. He then proceeded to grab the devil by either his nose or his tail using a pair of blacksmiths tongs and forced him to swear to never enter a house where a horseshoe had been nailed up over the door. Interestingly the way we nail up horseshoes nowadays is actually wrong, Dunstan had them with the points of the horseshoe facing down but somebody at some point decided that it was better for the points to face up so the luck wouldn't run out...somehow.
In any case...the blade despite being hard as steel in fact is pure silver or at least plated in silver maybe through the same alchemical process Crowley is currently researching for us, and due to its construction, it is psychically conductive. On it is written a line from the book of Judges Sic pereant omnes inimici tui" – "thus perish all your enemies". It can also create a psychically safe area around the bearer if they carve a circle into the ground
Many hundreds of years later the blade possibly came into possession of the Templars and later the Geass Order and the OSI. There it fell into the hands of retired Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant, born in 1891, retired in 1919, had studied at Yale and Oxford, and was decorated while serving in the intelligence services during whatever passes for WW1 in the Code Geass verse. Possibly after reverse-engineering the sword to make the OSI blades he retired and as a reward was allowed to keep the original blade. After the war he was a noted author, and occult scholar who investigated mysterious supernatural events and lived with his manservant in what is Washington D.C in our universe....side note what is the CG universe's version of Washington D.C called? Does it even exist?
Anyway among the judge's adventures was: killing a werewolf who in fact was some guy who could manifest and solidify an ectoplasmic shell around himself in the shape of a wolf creature ( A different story by the same author showed werewolves who functioned the same way but could also make themselves immune to bullets somehow...maybe they could magnetize the ectoplasm to reflect bullets? I don't know). Then there was the time he helped kill an immortal Lord Byron who was going to trick some actress into taking his devil-granted immortality from him so he could finally be free from his curse...and if that doesn't sound suspiciously like a Code Bearer then I don't know what is. Then there was something involving killer rabbit spirits...basically, there was some native tribe that held the rabbit sacred and so they forced the white folk to be nice and greet the rabbits properly or the rabbits would be psychically compelled to tear you apart. Then something involving a haunted house and another quest where he killed a vampire, could just be a female code bearer with a sadistic blood fetish. Then the judge got too old to wield his sword cane and passed it down to Thunstone who was his student and apprentice.
Thunstone is a Richmond-born scholar and playboy who investigates mysterious supernatural events like his mentor. He is described as physically large and strong, intelligent, handsome, and wealthy, and used to play both boxing and football in college. Besides his sword cane he also carries a book of white magic "Powwows or the Long Lost Friend". Side note he is also friends with Japanese scholars of Shintoism Tashiro Shimada and Oishi Kiyoki (the latter of whom was only in college when he met Thunstone but his father is supposed to be a big-time scholar), he's also friends with Chief Reuben Manco (M.A. and Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth) of the Tsukali or as most people call them the Cherokee Indians. Thunstone would face a variety of enemies most notably a sorcerer named Rowley Thorne who was constantly popping up and being a bald pain in the ass until the idiot blasted himself out of existence in the last story. He also faced off against a sword "The Dai Sword" forged by a group of evil Tibetan monks who had gotten chased off by the other monks for doing evil shit. Their sword was proof of their evil as the blood-red stone it had on its handle seemed to compel people to wield it but once the blade was drawn it could not be sheathed without drawing blood from someone or it would turn on the wielder. Fortunately the sword cane Thunstone had contained stronger juju on it and he was able to force the evil blade into sheathing itself. But his most notable act was killing the slumbering god Bran, a neolithic horned hunting deity who honestly could have been the result of people worshipping a totem and feeding it psychic energy for so long it literally became flesh and blood. Thunstone stabbed him while he was still slumbering and then broke the obelisk that Bran was drawing power from in order to awaken thus killing the entity and leaving only charred animal bones where the being once was. The incident was covered up by European authorities and a Scandanavian female psychic involved in the incident mysteriously disappeared...possible Praetorian coverup maybe.
What's most interesting about the incident was that on certain nights of the year the obelisk and the giant chalk man outline of Bran on a nearby hill could temporarily open a two-way portal back in time to the ice age, it kind of reminded me of the climax of Code Geass Akito where everybody believed the same thing really hard at the same time and reality kinda got warped? I imagine the obelisk was drawing on the power of 10,000+ years of continuous belief to pull this trick off. Oh and for the record Bran is actually a real Celtic deity, Brân the Blessed (Welsh: Bendigeidfran or Brân Fendigaidd, literally "Blessed Crow") he was a giant and king of Britain in Welsh mythology. He appears in several of the Welsh Triads, but his most significant role is in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi, Branwen ferch Llŷr. He is a son of Llŷr and Penarddun. After his death, his head was buried on the Gwynfryn, the "White Hill" (thought to be the location where the Tower of London now stands), where they bury it facing France so as to ward off invasion. The imagery of the talking head is widely considered to derive from the ancient Celtic "cult of the head"; the head was considered the home of the soul, again reminding me of that talking skull from Akito. Anyway King Arthur then decided to be stupid and dug up the head, declaring the country would be protected only by his great strength...and then he got killed by Mordred and the Anglo-Saxons went and conquered England. The Neolithic Bran could have been the inspiration for the later Celtic god. And speaking of King Arthur, the king of the Anglo Saxon's who took over after Arthur's fall was supposedly also named Thunstone which may or may not make him a distant ancestor of John. Then again maybe John is related through a branch family that shared the same last name, who can say?
And lastly, as a reward for anyone who read through this wall of text here is the only known non-book appearance of Thunstone:
View: https://youtu.be/uqglSvMaPKA
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Interesting. Theoretically, if this is something that happened in the quests thunstone's past, a sufficiently intelligent Psionic Animal could possible form an Psionic matter shell into a vaguely human shape and use it to communicate?
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Possibly, in the original story the werewolf was barking and howling like an actual wolf…so maybe he actually could talk to them. I suppose an animal could do the reverse theoretically. As for the dude in the original story he was trying to use his ectoplasm to turn some psychic medium woman he had the hots for into another person like him. He would hypnotize her or wait until she was doing her seances and then started to secretly encase her with his ectoplasm basically trying to infect her with his mindset. However Judge Pursuivant figured out who the werewolf really was in time. The bad guy almost got away by using his ectoplasm to make his wrists seem thicker than they actually were so his handcuffs would be loose but fortunately they managed to shoot him before he could escape.
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- SF Bay Area
Oddly enough, there is kinda sorta probably an answer to this that can be extrapolated. The port of Georgetown predates the American Revolution in our timeline. Assuming usual development patterns, the area we know as DC is either just a relatively minor port or smallish city on the Potomac River to the much larger Duchy Capital of Baltimore, or it possibly is a sleepy university town home to an Oxford or Cambridge University upon the Potomac, or all of Maryland is just the Metroplex of Baltimore (It is one of the smaller Homeland Duchies). There's also the town of Alexandria across the Potomac in the duchy of Virginia, but it might have never become more than a town surrounded farmland.
DC only really became more than a small town due to it being the designated Federal Capital in our world. Also given what Slayer's said about how Duchies are far more insular and more border restriction even within Brittania... it's quite likely that if there is a bridge crossing the Potomac... with border checkpoints. Where the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington Cemetery is in our world is likely a relatively minor duchy checkpoint. After all there are better places to make crossings than in DC to cross the Potomac
I can't imagine a world where she didn't jump on the opportunity to sail into battle on a battleship.