Of course I forget to refresh this this morning. 5 pages of discussion to comb through means I'm sure I've missed stuff.
- Final Frontier – The Triumvirate Dynamic Duo is interested in what resources Earth Bet would have access to with convenient interdimensional transport. Explore Cauldron's base again, hunting for vials and information about the Fallen.
- Bone of the Father, part 2 – Maybe it's just because it's one you grew up hearing about, but the idea of an Empire offshoot running around Philly fills you with dread. Plus the fact that the real Empire was turned into Ziz-bombs. Check their territory for any known Empire capes calling the shots.
- Daddy's Little Girl – It's been a while since you last checked on your dad. It hurts to see him and know that he doesn't and probably never will recognize you, but you should probably stomach the hurt and go to his nursing home.
- Burn the Sinners, part 2 – You have the information about the Fallen you wanted, specifically about the Simurgh family. Track them down. Burn them out. Leave no survivors.
...and TWO social activities.
- Participate in Final Frontier as a social activity instead of a main activity.
- Build a template for somebody. Specify which character and which template.
- Hang out with another character(s). This is by definition a non-combat activity.
- Go on patrol. You can bring 1-3 other characters with you if you want.
- Make yourself available to help Operation Pentagram.
- Explore somewhere on Earth Bet. A location must be included. You may bring 1-3 other characters with you.
- Explore another world. If you do not select a world where Taylor has been or already knows about, one will be selected randomly. You may bring 1-3 other characters with you.
- Train, either in the real world or in Perfect Storm's simulator. SPECIFY which spell or skill to work on.
- Write-in (subject to my approval)
Take another 24 HOURS to talk things out.
I'm thinking
Bone of the Father, part 2 to train our new Mages
Daddy's Little Girl Bring the TSAB medic to check him over, see if they can help, and if they can't, accept that we did all we could. That would finally be true, after all.
Participate in Final Frontier as a social activity instead of a main activity.
(write in) Bring the team to that village we liberated, see how things are going, check out the surrounding area. Maybe leave a recording device to pick up enough samples for PS to decipher the language for translation.
According to Cassiel, those twisted by Ziz can be de-programmed by keeping them on LSD for a week or two.
Who knows if that would work on other types.
The big difference, I expect, is that the Simurgh's influence was intended to hide until they encountered their trigger event. The Fallen, I expect, care very little about their victims being able to pass for being unmastered.
Ash (Laura) Soot (Missy) Cinder and Spark (Kayliegh) hit the fallen, then make their debut as team arcana with the vote names and not-standstill?
This makes me think of them coming back with Fallen capes in giant hamster balls they throw into battles.
Regarding Standstill, I'd prefer to build up the Boost Devices necessary for the sacrifice before giving her a Template. If we do continue socialing Paul with the aim of giving him a Linker Core, having Tim provide Device fuel for Standstill's Template would let us give Paul a Template if he winds up without anything interesting.
As for the rest of the vote, I'm going to sleep on it before I make any decisions.
I feel that the whole reason we were given Paul is for that last template, so I'm fully behind this.
If we are voting yet then I am voteing for [X] Final Frontier and [X] Bone of Father Part 2 as the mains and [X] building the Devices to Template Standstill with Infinite Enhancement and [X] go on Patrol with Missy, Laura, and Kayleigh as sort of a trial run and Teamwork training rolled into one.
In order to vote, each of the votes have to be on their own lines, like
[Not a vote] Final Frontier
It is not time to vote, yet, though.
.....FFS seriously Alexandria? At this stage of things you're still playing coverup and lying to our face on something like this? Shame you won't ever be seeing a drop of Mutagen vials...
She isn't lying, so far as I know. She knows Cauldron kept extensive records on every cape they knew of, whether theirs or natural. Alexandria did not have all of that information in her head, as she seems to still need time to actually read stuff if she wants to store it in her head. There's just too much for her to do it all.
... Miss wants to study Computer Science actually factually said that to his face... and didn't see anything odd. She must've deleted from her memory the horrors of her family dial-up (or really, even file transfer between folders on Windows >_>).
Before she had PS, she was used to school and library computer connections, which tend to actually be pretty fast just because they have to have enough bandwidth for a lot of people. Since then, she has become used to the single most powerful supercomputer on the planet being her personal computer.
Its already a little wobbly-gray that the Protectorate gets so antsy about their No-Compete-Contracts and Cartels, given they're a government organization and aren't super thrilled about permitting Vigilantism. But I'm still a little fuzzy on why we don't just yoink her anyways with the raw deal shes getting.
Uh, Racoras? *I* wasn't the one who said "go talk to Legend and get Standstill as a Protectorate liaison". You want to bitch about that, you talk to your fellow players.
We didn't yoink because too few of us opposed this conversation. Permanent shifting of allegiance might still happen, though, if we treat her well.
We of course need to think of ways to generate revenue for Arcana in order to allow its members to not have to work a normal job. Dragon has the budget for it but it would be rather awkward to ask her to pay the living expenses of Arcana's members when we aren't part of Dragon Tech.
Tim IS a member of Dragon Tech, and if nothing else, the rest of the party could get jobs from her. We also have plans on collecting some hefty bounties in the near future, and might come up with some other revenue streams. As Dragon pointed out a while back, what Tim is making and coming up with has her rolling in the dough on a level she hadn't hit with just her own reverse engineered Tinker tech.
Hm... if we only have two or three more event votes then I'm going to have to change my mind on 'Burn the Sinners' vote
Two or three more votes, after this one, in this arc, that is only being limited as an arc for ease of reference, at least as I'm reading things.
I'm still not really getting the viewpoint of those wanting to interact with Danny.
My primary desire with this is to finally get the TSAB to look at him. I don't really care whether they can help, it just bugs me that she has access to a group with technology radically different from everything she knows and has not asked them to see if they can help with this one case.
And speaking of which... does Taylor know Laura was not just a member of Winter Hill, but the daughter of a member? And does anyone else think that Laura will need support (cape, legal, and/or financial) to break away from her former team? Thus, I vote we use one of our social chances to hang with Laura, and find out what she think might be necessary to make a clean break with her past.
Laura has made her choice to leave. That happened when we voted for a device for her. Letting us know those details is likely going to come up in an update already voted for, when she, Missy, and Kayleigh get their Devices.
She's also already tried to check on and contact him before, and seen no improvement, unless i'm mistaken. And we have no new specific capability to prove our circumstance is changed, just.... a vague possibility that maybe somewhere in the wide field of mutagens we /might/ find a combo that can regenerate not just brains overall (say, healing some injury to the center for forming new memory) but restore the specific connections that encoded memory.
Human memory is encoded in patterns. How much of his memory can be regained depends on the level of damage done to where those memories were stored. Brains will try to make new paths to connect to old bits when a substantial chunk of neural architecture becomes inaccessible. That's why it's possible for amnesiacs to get any of their memories back at all. This is a very slow process that cannot be reliably predicted, though, at least not with modern technology.
Hopefully, I'm remembering that correctly and not accidentally reciting something I picked up in sci-fi somewhere. I think it's right, I just know better than to trust myself.
I don't begin to know enough of the medicine on how memory is stored and whether its (to compare to computers) merely the index links being broken so it can't be found, or whether the storage has been wiped and reformatted to blank-as-new state. Even in the former case, hoping that a Crawler-derived regeneration is precise enough to actually restore such a large swath of memory perfectly and not leave him a jumbled mess seems optimistic, but hey its a story and the option is there for some reason.
We have one option, an option we've had since the injury first occurred, an option that it really bugs me was never approached: Getting the TSAB to look at him. I don't expect Danny to be curable in any immediate sense. It's just that we never even tried that really bugs me.
