RoninSword
Sky God
- Location
- Canada
Anti armour bullet that did not completely take off the cat girls entire shoulder/arm. Aura is crazy.
Hold It In (RWBY/Transistor)
- Thread starter Prok
- Start date
- Crossover
The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
- Location
- Wherever I am, which isn't where I'm not
Thought occurs: sniper has a scroll, given that he called the rest of his team to tell them they had just been fired and were about to be fired upon. Can't that be used to locate him?
Tiypo
Forever Phone Posting
Her aura was probably already broken by the Bad Cells, which actually helped her since it didn't allow the bullet to deform thus preventing energy transfer to her arm since it apparently only hit muscle.
- Location
- Box of Granola bars
[X] Pin and flank: Use the Transistors prediction capability to guide your fixed weapons in suppressing the sniper. while this happens your mobile assets will move to flank him and go for the capture while he's busy trying to sniper duel a AI operated fortress.
An update? Right after my birthday? Well, don't mind if I do!
An update? Right after my birthday? Well, don't mind if I do!
As a suggestion, you could add small notes as to what the links are supposed to lead to. Things like the song title, who made it, etc. so that if there's a broken link and you're indisposed they could dig for it themselves.
- Location
- Jaburo
.50 BMG hasn't been an effective anti-tank round since World War 1.
It's used in machine guns for its effectiveness against lightly armored vehicles (up-armored HMMWVs, older APCs, that sort of thing), ability to punch through medium cover (jersey barriers, concrete walls, et cetera), and ability to defeat body armor.
And it's used by snipers for its sheer inertia making it maintain effectiveness over extreme range, and ability to defeat body armor even at the aforementioned ranges ranges. And in this role, it's being supplanted by purpose-built cartridges like .338 Lapua Magnum.
While I'm dispelling myths about ye olde fiddy cal, it is NOT a violation of any treaty, accord, or convention to shoot enemy troops with a Barrett or similar rifle. That's just people who don't understand how loose designations can be, seeing the phrase "anti-materiel rifle" and making dumb assumptions.
- Location
- Hyperborea
[X] Welcome to Anor Londo, you Red Phantom f*k:
I like the plan that has us firing giant Process arrows to convert the things they hit into more of the Process and then using that to pin him down.
I like the plan that has us firing giant Process arrows to convert the things they hit into more of the Process and then using that to pin him down.
What dice was that? 1d20?
CaesriusPolybius
Worldgate Mechanic
- Location
- United States. Ish.
Playing bullet hell boss sounds fun, but let's shelf that idea for now - the Process causing a massive amount of collateral damage won't exactly endear it to people...
[X] Pin and flank: Use the Transistors prediction capability to guide your fixed weapons in suppressing the sniper. while this happens your mobile assets will move to flank him and go for the capture while he's busy trying to sniper duel a AI operated fortress.
It might, but we'd need a plan for it... aaand I've got nothing, sorry.
Please correct me if I'm wrong @Prok , but I assume that's already an automatic action? Since none of the non-write-in options include any means or choices on how to track the sniper.
...The Process can read Jaune's thoughts, right? I do hope it doesn't take those lines as directed against it...
- Location
- Springfield
Run him off then tell the police where his base is.
- Location
- United States
[X] Pin and flank: Use the Transistors prediction capability to guide your fixed weapons in suppressing the sniper. while this happens your mobile assets will move to flank him and go for the capture while he's busy trying to sniper duel a AI operated fortress.
- Location
- England
[X] DAN! MA! KU!
- we ...need... moar.. DAKKA
- we ...need... moar.. DAKKA
Prok
Go play Star Fetchers
- Location
- Scotland
The fortress currently has all the properties of a steel table, since, you know, that's what it assimilated to make it. It's only held up for as long as it has by sheer thickness, and the Process's wonderful talents for self-repair.
The Process, right now, can't copy anything it hasn't sampled beyond the most surface-level imitation. Hence it making something that looks and feels like medical gauze, but lacks the required molecular properties needed to absorb water. It has no point of reference for absorbent materials.
In a best-case scenario, the Process would politely intimidate everyone in the café into keeping schtum about it and reconstitutes the matter it claimed, leaving literally no evidence it existed on a physical level, while the Transistor does what it can for digital evidence.
Now, call it a teeny tiny hunch, but I think that ship sailed a while ago. The Transistor gets away with constantly blasting every camera pointed at it with so much IR light that you'd be excused for thinking they'd somehow taken a picture of Remnant's first nuclear test in action, but the Process hasn't quite developed that level of mindfulness yet. Or, you know, that level of finesse.
I could be wrong. Depends on the dice, honestly.
Remember; Aura isn't a constant thing. It needs to be brought up consciously before it can protect someone.
As I've said before, the easiest and most cost-effective way to kill a Hunter's is to pray they haven't developed the skill of presience, walk up behind them in a crowd, and dome them. A sniper works too, but tends to trigger a Hunter's danger sense more often than a man in a crowd.
Part of it is being sure, sure, but some part of his ammo choice is just... sadism, I suppose would be the closest thing.
Happy belated birthday!
That's actually not a half-bad idea, I'll keep it in mind for the future after I've gone through and fixed all the broken ones myself.
Just a straight d20, yeah.
I'm also beginning to wonder if rolling everything myself is actually a good idea anymore since I'm apparently luckier than a whole warren of rabbit feet. I don't think I've rolled below 15 for Jaune et al since... Ironwood, at this point.
Tracking his Scroll signal wouldn't really be accurate enough to do that, and if he isn't in line of sight anyway, then being able to track him is a moot point- nothing except for the Transistor and whatever Process units go after him will be able to attack him.
The way I'm choosing to read Pin and Flank is that if he leaves the Process's line of sight, the job of the mobile units is to harass him and herd him back into its line of sight so it can try to pin him where he is long enough for them to deal the finishing blow.
Anyway, voting is over, only four hours late, and Pin and Flank wins!
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Nihilo
Authorial parasite
- Location
- Catalonia
So you're saying rip up a piece of our shirt and feed it to the Process?
Syqadelic
That's not a mountain.
- Location
- Earth
So I just reread the whole thing and got to this part. Anyone up for writing an Ironwood omake?
Tiypo
Forever Phone Posting
My luck is situational. Anything involving a gatcha has been stupidly lucky for me; meanwhile I have a D&D character who was named Medio as a joke but has unnaturally middling and one-off luck, he makes 50% of all rolls regardless of difficulty but only to substandard results.
- Location
- Box of Granola bars
Though it might not be what you expect it to be, based on the block you quoted
Wait, wrong fic, I'm a putz.
No, there hasn't been one yet.
- Location
- USA
So would name dropping Weiss to Ironwood for help controlling the reveal? An important asset for humanity needs to be kept safe after all
Actually, how was Ironwood depicted in this? I've seen multiple depictions but I tend towards the one where he's staunchly "pro-humanity" in a "for the greater good" kind of way.
he genuinely wants to do good but he's got a "get a bigger hammer" mentality to problem solving that makes him easy to lead around by the nose.
Prok
Go play Star Fetchers
- Location
- Scotland
I actually got a fair chunk through one before it got thrown into the idea dungeon. I didn't know whether it would be funnier to have the Transistor, not Blue and Bracket, the honest to Christ Transistor, blow up at him for managing to ruin a perfectly good terminator, look at it, it's got anxiety, or dropping a hint towards one of the main reasons that it can't develop a soul yet.
...
See, this just makes me wonder if there's another Transistor/RWBY quest that's been floating about that I have no idea of because I'm somehow as much of a hermit on SV as I am in real life.
Don't you worry, they'll find you when they need to talk.
- Location
- Box of Granola bars
Completely different fic.
RWBY/Pokemon crossover, Boldores & Boomsticks. On SB, dunno if it has a SV mirror
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- Location
- Earth
I didn't read this quest in the proper post-order, but if memory serves, no one but Jaune's family and friends know about the Process yet. Might it be Ironwood's turn to have an aneurism when he finds out, so soon after the last bombshell?
And I suppose some of the early funding will be going towards buying various materials for the Process to deconstruct for recreation. First aid kit, military grade metal/armor, insulation, etc.
I'm guessing the Process can't mimic magic-esque materials, like metal that's been infused with earth dust.
And probably not materials that are 'aura-conductive' (if that's a thing)?
And I suppose some of the early funding will be going towards buying various materials for the Process to deconstruct for recreation. First aid kit, military grade metal/armor, insulation, etc.
I'm guessing the Process can't mimic magic-esque materials, like metal that's been infused with earth dust.
And probably not materials that are 'aura-conductive' (if that's a thing)?
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PsyFarrow
Verified Necrodancer
- Location
- Space
Your memory does not serve, the family is well aware of the Process.
- Location
- USA
Are you talking Canon or fanon? Because fanon it often is, but Canon doesn't even have Dust alloys as far as I can tell
- Location
- Earth
...yes. That's why I said no one but his family and friends.
- Location
- Box of Granola bars
Actually, Jaune's friends know too.
Creme, Ada, and Lumen were all given their own Cells.