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Strange Blooms (Warhammer 40k Tyranid Quest)
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[X] Plan: One Swole Doc and His Alien Space Bug
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[X] Plan: One Swole Doc and His Alien Space Bug
1.0 Vote Tally
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So, we've got a unanimous vote for this one. Swole laser-doc it is.
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Cyrus' character sheet has been updated in light of the last vote.
1.05 - Into the Deep
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[X] Plan: One Swole Doc and His Alien Space Bug
-[X] Why did Cyrus choose to go? (Primary Drive)
--[X] Justice: For the sake of a friend, taking their place to save them from the censure which their inability to go would invite. (Add 4 to Justice)
-[X] Why was Cyrus useful to bring? (Primary Skill)
--[X] Discipline: For his unyielding focus, hardiness and steady drive, sure to come in handy on such a perilous expedition. (Add 3 to Discipline)
-[X] What Assets does Cyrus have? (Choose three; all are Potency 1)
--[X] Augmetic Limbs. These limbs' servos or vat-grown muscle allow Cyrus to exert superhuman strength.
---[X] Write in: Briareus's description of their form here. Strange Blooms (Warhammer 40k Tyranid Quest) Sci-Fi
---[X] Write in: Integrate the lasgun as described here. Strange Blooms (Warhammer 40k Tyranid Quest) Sci-Fi
--[X] Mnemonic Mantras. Taught by Magos Hakor to his apprentice, these mantras aid in concentration and the focusing of the mind and spirit.
-- [X] Fortified Physiology. Cyrus' body and genome have been fortified with organic implants, from enhanced kidneys to subtle subdermal armor plating, increasing his physical resilience and resistance to poison, disease, radiation and mutation.
-[X] Who thinks the same way as Cyrus? (Secondary Drive and Asset ally)
--[X] Sabine Anate, a pious Lexmechanic and one of the reptilian abhumans known as Scalates common to several nearby worlds. She is very knowledgeable, immensely skilled in data-processing and absolutely dedicated to the great Quest for Knowledge which drives the Mechanicus. (Add 3 to Faith, gain Sabine Anate as an Asset.)
-[X] What useful trick from a friend saved him?
--[X] "Though it can be refined, all flesh has its failings and flaws," taught Metasurgeon Rho-Eta 9. "It is a blessing, in that there is little which cannot be destroyed with the right understanding." (Add 2 to Understand, gain Rho-Eta 9 as an Asset.)
-[X] Why did Cyrus choose to go? (Primary Drive)
--[X] Justice: For the sake of a friend, taking their place to save them from the censure which their inability to go would invite. (Add 4 to Justice)
-[X] Why was Cyrus useful to bring? (Primary Skill)
--[X] Discipline: For his unyielding focus, hardiness and steady drive, sure to come in handy on such a perilous expedition. (Add 3 to Discipline)
-[X] What Assets does Cyrus have? (Choose three; all are Potency 1)
--[X] Augmetic Limbs. These limbs' servos or vat-grown muscle allow Cyrus to exert superhuman strength.
---[X] Write in: Briareus's description of their form here. Strange Blooms (Warhammer 40k Tyranid Quest) Sci-Fi
---[X] Write in: Integrate the lasgun as described here. Strange Blooms (Warhammer 40k Tyranid Quest) Sci-Fi
--[X] Mnemonic Mantras. Taught by Magos Hakor to his apprentice, these mantras aid in concentration and the focusing of the mind and spirit.
-- [X] Fortified Physiology. Cyrus' body and genome have been fortified with organic implants, from enhanced kidneys to subtle subdermal armor plating, increasing his physical resilience and resistance to poison, disease, radiation and mutation.
-[X] Who thinks the same way as Cyrus? (Secondary Drive and Asset ally)
--[X] Sabine Anate, a pious Lexmechanic and one of the reptilian abhumans known as Scalates common to several nearby worlds. She is very knowledgeable, immensely skilled in data-processing and absolutely dedicated to the great Quest for Knowledge which drives the Mechanicus. (Add 3 to Faith, gain Sabine Anate as an Asset.)
-[X] What useful trick from a friend saved him?
--[X] "Though it can be refined, all flesh has its failings and flaws," taught Metasurgeon Rho-Eta 9. "It is a blessing, in that there is little which cannot be destroyed with the right understanding." (Add 2 to Understand, gain Rho-Eta 9 as an Asset.)
Cyrus Tranth fell through fire and into darkness. It was cold and silent, but the silence clawed at his mind like fingers over his scalp and skin. It was like being in a still place underwater, but buffeted at the same time by a blasting gale of particles. He could see nothing, and yet he knew that he was not alone here - there was something else, a solid presence that burned and froze, but seemed little more composed than himself.
Reflexively, the apprentice retreated to his teachings, calling to mind the mantras his master Hakor had taught him. He rolled them over and over in his mind like the tumblers of a lock, and seemed to hear the distant, comforting sound of machinery beneath the still and rasping gale.
The other had gained a grip on its will as well, though. Cyrus felt it forge itself like molten steel into an arrow, intent upon nothing but him. It rushed towards him like a shell from a cannon.
He braced, the mantras of the Machine God growing in his mind until he was steel as well. It crashed into him with the force of the falling sky, but he withstood it, though cracks spread through him. This small victory earned him no respite, though. No sooner had he cracked than the other splintered, sending forth veins of white-hot purpose to infiltrate every crack.
His stomach yawned like the void, his mouth seemed to run hot with saliva. He hungered, and the hunger spread like rust across an ancient hull, rotting the wheels of his mantras to immobility. He could hardly comprehend - he could not comprehend the sheer magnitude of the all-consuming, all-devouring want.
He didn't understand it. How could he hunger so deeply? He had hungered before. He had been nearly starved, when the initial implantation of his augments went awry and his digestive system couldn't keep up with his metabolic demands. But even then, he had known more, been more than hunger.
[] What did Cyrus know, when his body starved him? (Tertiary Drive)
-[] That he was his master's pupil, his juniors' tutor; he could not let them down. (Add 2 to Duty.)
-[] That there was so much more to do and be; he could not succumb. (Add 2 to Power.)
-[] That there was so much more to know and discover; he could not bear to go without learning more. (Add 2 to Truth.)
It wasn't that the hunger receded. It wasn't that the attack faltered. But the other - the mind of the Tyranid monster, Cyrus finally had the presence of mind to fully realize - rushed over and engulfed the memory like a wave over a stone, and then its steel cooled and curled away from its singular purpose, a thousand momentary confusions. Images bled through Cyrus' cracks. It wasn't that he had stopped it or mounted a defense it couldn't breach. It didn't comprehend these things as its own.
It had felt what he had felt, remembered feeling, and had been bewildered. It wasn't that it didn't know of these sensations, but it had never felt them. It didn't seem to be able to process them.
Emboldened, Cyrus tried to make a strike of his own in turn. He willed...
[] How does Cyrus conceive of his attack? (Tertiary Skill)
-[] ...the Omnissiah's wrath to fall on his enemy; guns and arcane technologies to assault its form as battle-hymns rang out. (Add 1 to Battle.)
-[] ...his words to take root in its mind, to strangle and split its thoughts like vines through plascrete. (Add 1 to Communicate.)
-[] ...his body to move, his augmented hands to wrap around the thing and squeeze, to cast it out into whatever nether-blackness lay around. (Add 1 to Move.)
He struggled against it, but the attack had been a mistake. He had opened himself up, and the other took advantage of the weakness. The hunger welled up once more, but more than that it was accompanied by the same gnawing, biting multiplicity as before. It pushed into his mind, grabbing thoughts and tearing them a thousand different ways. It was trying to fill and drown him, spread him so thin that it could devour him - or perhaps he, in his hunger, would devour himself.
Desperately, Cyrus tried to find something to center on. It was hard to think; the other's will beat against his own, each moment splitting it further apart. All he could find was the hope of...
[] What does Cyrus hope for? (Quaternary Drive)
-[] ...Returning to help in the defense of his home. (Add 1 to Duty.)
-[] ...Feeling an approving hand from his mentor upon his shoulder. (Add 1 to Power.)
-[] ...Spending time unravelling what lay within the cogitators Magos Karayev and the Skitarii sacrificed themselves for. (Add 1 to Truth.)
For the second time, the alien mind of the Tyranid seemed to recoil from the thought it could not quite comprehend. Its fear, that it could not emerge unchanged, radiated from it. Cyrus held the hope before him like a lantern in darkness, walking the paths of his own psyche as he searched out the torn remnants of the rest of himself. He stitched them back together and kindled them to light as well, until he hung like a tapestry of stars in the darkness. The other prowled about the borders of his light, unwilling to come closer.
It really was afraid, Cyrus realized. Not of his power, but of what he meant. Maybe it was stronger than he would ever be in the physical world, and with whatever powers it could wield, but this place was not physical. It was not the maddening currents of the Warp, either, which carried vessels between the stars and, if their Gellar Fields failed, drowned them in madness and horror. This was a place of the mind, very nearly pure, and for as strong, wilful and intelligent as the other was, it was… blunt, stunted. All its will and power didn't count for much, not here. Meaning was more, and it was so terribly, pathetically focused.
Cyrus could taste its memories, planet after planet whose devouring it had overseen. He glimpsed the flash of lasgun fire, the bold hues of power armor, being of types he had never seen. He could hear the whisper-skitter of its strategies, the encirclements and traps it had led, the thousands it had personally killed. And through all that, for however old this monster was he, an apprentice of the Adeptus Mechanicus, knew a thousand things, remembered a thousand little, meaningless moments that it could not even comprehend. It recoiled from them, fearful of its un-knowing.
If he didn't know all too well the horrors the Tyranid had committed, it would have been pitiful.
But this was a gift from the Machine God - it could be nothing else, as sacred knowledge itself was the key to this battle. If Cyrus had had any consciousness of something approaching a mouth, he might have grinned as he marshalled himself, all the myriad little memories that he knew intimately, and it knew not at all.
[] (Focuses, choose three from at least two different Skills)
-[] The pleasing ache after Unarmed Combat training. (Battle)
-[] The satisfaction of victory in games of Tactics (Battle)
-[] The wordless oneness with a favored Weapon (Battle)
--[] Write in: Choose a type of weaponry; for example lasguns, plasma weapons, chainswords etc. Subject to approval.
-[] The weaving of speech to Charm another.(Communicate)
-[] The thrilling rush of Command of followers who give their loyalty. (Communicate)
-[] The Empathy that leads one human being to comfort another. (Communicate)
-[] The Composure needed to endure the sting of fear and failure. (Discipline)
-[] The Concentration hard lessons demanded. (Discipline)
-[] The will to Endure the hardships of Covyria's jungles. (Discipline)
-[] The thrill of Stealth to pilfer snacks. (Move)
-[] The terror even his newfound Might would not be enough to lift a crushing beam. (Move)
-[] The joy of Piloting an eager vehicle. (Move)
--[] Write in: Choose a type of craft or vehicle; for example tanks, interceptors, shuttle-craft, mass haulers etc. Subject to approval.
-[] The careful work of Medicine, to stitch a broken body back together. (Understand)
-[] The intricacies and absurdities of History. (Understand)
-[] The wonder of the revelation of Science. (Understand)
--[] Write in: Choose a type of science; for example physics, biology, cybernetics, cogitation, engineering etc. Subject to approval.
It was less an attack, and more like force-feeding. The other shied away from what it could not understand, but there was only so far it could go. With each light, the apprentice could feel himself spreading into his enemy, like a virus overtaking a cell. It tried to resist, but as the cold place receded, he felt himself filling every part of it - the other erased.
He blinked. He moved an arm. Tubes trailed from it, and a medical shift moved as he sat upwards. His body ached in every way it could.
He moved an arm, one of four. It was numb, carapaced. He blinked another set of eyes, and looked out upon the mottled, shadowed green of the understory.
He was in a bed in a medicae center, his arm torn and raw. He was in the jungle, his chest and shoulder cracked and exposed.
He was human, and he was thrice the height of a human.
He did not understand.
And thus we reach the start of the main premise of the Quest!
Please vote as a plan. As with last update, you cannot pick a Drive twice. There will be a 24 hour moratorium on voting, and voting will close in 48 hours from now.
I'd like to thank @BungieONI for helping with this, as always.
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Yeeeeeeeeee! Two bodies! This is gonna be a weird and wild ride and Cyrus is a very lucky boy.
So I'm just gonna preface. Focuses are really useful, because we can get a huge crit range in specific situations. I think we definitely want Medicine as an Understand focus. When we do that we'll have a 1 to 7 crit range on Medicine related Understand rolls.
@QafianSage I presume Concentration in Discipline would be most helpful with Medicine activities, but am I mistaken?
So I'm just gonna preface. Focuses are really useful, because we can get a huge crit range in specific situations. I think we definitely want Medicine as an Understand focus. When we do that we'll have a 1 to 7 crit range on Medicine related Understand rolls.
@QafianSage I presume Concentration in Discipline would be most helpful with Medicine activities, but am I mistaken?
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Well, Focuses don't stack. So if Medicine already applies to a given roll, you won't get more from having two applicable Focuses.
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Yeah, I meant in the two different situations of medicine: the under pressure first aid/combat medicine using Discipline, and the longer and calmer medicine using Understand.
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Ah, I see. Yes, it would.
Okay, there's a whole lot here and I already have preferences. I think it'll be easiest to break it down by tackling Drives as a whole first.
All this said, I feel pretty biased and I'm unsure how practical it is to hyper focus like this. We have the body of a Tyrant under our control, but what's the plan to use it? Will we be able to basically start another Tyranid Hive, and this Tyrant will be it's commander? If so, it would make sense to take some Battle focuses. The original entity seems to be gone as well, so we probably can't mooch off of it's memories and experiences of combat.
Thinking this way, taking Endure and Command make sense. Maybe take Power as our Tertiary Drive and Command as a Focus? Tactics makes sense as well, but that would mean giving us Endure or Medicine. Which I don't want.
Hmm, I do have an idea. With the Hive Tyrant in particular, I feel like having Tactics is more important than Command. I'm thinking if we have the +1 to Communicate from that Skill choice, we can give up Command and take Tactics instead as a Battle focus.
I'm still unsure about what Drives should be a priority, but I like that idea for Skills and Focuses. Unless you guys think we should take something different than Medicine, such as Biology.
Edit: Also, I don't know how much of a good idea it would be to have a Focus without a bonus from the Skill it is derived from.
I'm favoring Truth and Power over Duty, based on the descriptions of the Drives and how Cyrus is already built up. So...
...which one do we want more?
I honestly don't know what I'd prefer. What makes for a better shonen protagonist in 40k?
As you might expect, I'm favoring Communicate here.
This makes sense.
Hard to pick one here.
More Communicate seems attractive to me, Empathy and Command in particular here.
All this said, I feel pretty biased and I'm unsure how practical it is to hyper focus like this. We have the body of a Tyrant under our control, but what's the plan to use it? Will we be able to basically start another Tyranid Hive, and this Tyrant will be it's commander? If so, it would make sense to take some Battle focuses. The original entity seems to be gone as well, so we probably can't mooch off of it's memories and experiences of combat.
Thinking this way, taking Endure and Command make sense. Maybe take Power as our Tertiary Drive and Command as a Focus? Tactics makes sense as well, but that would mean giving us Endure or Medicine. Which I don't want.
Hmm, I do have an idea. With the Hive Tyrant in particular, I feel like having Tactics is more important than Command. I'm thinking if we have the +1 to Communicate from that Skill choice, we can give up Command and take Tactics instead as a Battle focus.
I'm still unsure about what Drives should be a priority, but I like that idea for Skills and Focuses. Unless you guys think we should take something different than Medicine, such as Biology.
Edit: Also, I don't know how much of a good idea it would be to have a Focus without a bonus from the Skill it is derived from.
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In terms of skills and focuses, my general thought is that a focus is more powerful than a skill point frankly and I think Charm is actually very useful for a couple of reasons. The first is that thematically shounen protagonists are often surprisingly good at the "Hi, you're friend now," process, and the second is that its very useful for getting people to help us and give us stuff like the Deharmonizer and Medicae kit.
I was thinking for Focuses to pick Medicine, Concentration, and Charm. Concentration specifically because it helps with Discipline based medicine and psykery activities. My own take on using the Tyrant is that it can be a very blunt and powerful psychic tool while we focus on getting people to Perua and then think about combat against the Tyranids on a greater scale, and I think not taking Concentration is kind of shooting all our psyker prep work with getting Discipline to 8 in the foot a little. A potential crit range of 1-8 for at least some psyker based stuff (I would think, and its more likely to be most in my mind) seems really useful.
In terms of skills I was thinking that if we don't pick Communicate to increase, we can pick Battle to get that to 5 and be in general slightly more competent at it. There's a lot of ways to essentially contextualize the defense of Covyria according to either Justice (My friends literally live here and will die if we lose the planet) or Faith (Losing Covyria and its information is a loss for the Quest for Knowledge) so rolling with a Battle skill of 12 to 13 seems readily plausible if its against Tyranids and that's not a bad target number, especially if we have allies to assist by giving us more dice and rerolls. Plus the body of the Tyrant itself is likely to be an Asset of considerable power, which will give us a lot of personal power if we have to defend Cyrus and co outside the basecamp (such as during travel to Perua). And charm would help us convince people to not shoot the giant alien space body.
Then in terms of Drives I was having some trouble too, but Power as tertiary gives him this sort of vibe of a powerhouse trope or hmm a sort of driven idea that he needs to protect his friends and is interested in making a better life for himself and his monkeysphere. That also helps with battle and communicate and a bunch of other things frankly since Power is usually always usable in either immediate survival decisions (like fighting) or in convincing someone to give you something you want.
Then the final Drive I was thinking could be Truth, to put it at 5. On one hand I'm interested to see how Qaf plays with a high Faith but low Truth Mechanicus boy, is it going to be the process more than the knowledge itself that he values? And its framed very specifically as a means to almost unwind from the horror of the universe. On the other hand, it means that Duty is low, and a rebellious but good hearted guy is definitely a fit for a shounen protagonist.
E: And there is something going for the fact that a Target Number of 8 which we'd get from a combination of Duty + a skill rated at 4 is bad, but not catastrophically bad especially if we have more than 2 dice.
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I can see your point, and I get where you're coming from. I don't know if it matters, but my point of divergence from your thoughts was because I focused on some things and overlooked others.
Tactics, Endure, and Command all looked good for using the Tyrant effectively, but for a number of reasons it's probably not the best thing to focus on at the moment. Endure won't be as useful for us because of the augments, our Discipline, and the Deharmonizer. Taking it just for the Tyrant, the space bug that thrives in conditions like this, probably isn't the best reason to take Endure over other options. Charm was something I overlooked because I interpreted the snippet negatively, as it came off as manipulative.
That said, your take makes sense and sounds good for me.
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I think there is something to be said for the fact that out of all of our Skills, Communicate is the one that has an Asset that provides a reroll when talking to most other mechanicus individuals. So there probably could be arguments made to go harder into it, I just don't entirely want to.
But hmm, sorting everything together into a Plan.
[] Plan: Nice Doc Lends a Hand
-[] What did Cyrus know, when his body starved him? (Tertiary Drive)
--[] That there was so much more to do and be; he could not succumb. (Add 2 to Power.)
-[] How does Cyrus conceive of his attack? (Tertiary Skill)
--[] ...the Omnissiah's wrath to fall on his enemy; guns and arcane technologies to assault its form as battle-hymns rang out. (Add 1 to Battle.)
-[] What does Cyrus hope for? (Quaternary Drive)
--[] ...Spending time unravelling what lay within the cogitators Magos Karayev and the Skitarii sacrificed themselves for. (Add 1 to Truth.)
-[] (Focuses, choose three from at least two different Skills)
--[] The weaving of speech to Charm another.(Communicate)
--[] The Concentration hard lessons demanded. (Discipline)
--[] The careful work of Medicine, to stitch a broken body back together. (Understand)
(I really need a better name for this lol, but *head empty* for what it could be)
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Alright, so, first pass, choosing vote options based off the descriptions and such that I like the most.
[] What did Cyrus know, when his body starved him? (Tertiary Drive)
-[] That there was so much more to do and be; he could not succumb. (Add 2 to Power.)
I like the description for the Duty one here a bit more, but that'd feel closer/better off if it was under Justice, wanting them not to suffer because they shouldn't. When it comes down to taking strength in your self or your position I'll choose the former.
[] How does Cyrus conceive of his attack? (Tertiary Skill)
-[] ...the Omnissiah's wrath to fall on his enemy; guns and arcane technologies to assault its form as battle-hymns rang out. (Add 1 to Battle.)
We're running a high Faith Mechanicus character, the Omnissiah's Wrath is just perfectly fitting.
-[] What does Cyrus hope for? (Quaternary Drive)
-[] ...Returning to help in the defense of his home. (Add 1 to Duty.)
Its the right thing to do, although again that's more for Justice rather than Duty in my mind. Understand however just feels odd. It'd be the right thing to do for hoping for the future, but is an odd one for what he wants to do now like the duty one is presented as.
[] (Focuses, choose three from at least two different Skills)
-[] The satisfaction of victory in games of Tactics (Battle)
-[] The weaving of speech to Charm another.(Communicate)
-[] The Concentration hard lessons demanded. (Discipline)
-[] The wonder of the revelation of Science. (Understand)
Concentration is a must, as it helps both in dangerous situations and for Psykery in general. Science feels like it really ought to be there if we take Truth as the Quaternary Drive. Tactics and Charm meanwhile are how we get what we want in battle and in social interactions, and we've built the character to be decent at either, although the situation and the focus on body alterations for our Assets incline me towards Tactics.
Not sure which to drop, but I want 3 from these right now.
[] What did Cyrus know, when his body starved him? (Tertiary Drive)
-[] That there was so much more to do and be; he could not succumb. (Add 2 to Power.)
I like the description for the Duty one here a bit more, but that'd feel closer/better off if it was under Justice, wanting them not to suffer because they shouldn't. When it comes down to taking strength in your self or your position I'll choose the former.
[] How does Cyrus conceive of his attack? (Tertiary Skill)
-[] ...the Omnissiah's wrath to fall on his enemy; guns and arcane technologies to assault its form as battle-hymns rang out. (Add 1 to Battle.)
We're running a high Faith Mechanicus character, the Omnissiah's Wrath is just perfectly fitting.
-[] What does Cyrus hope for? (Quaternary Drive)
-[] ...Returning to help in the defense of his home. (Add 1 to Duty.)
Its the right thing to do, although again that's more for Justice rather than Duty in my mind. Understand however just feels odd. It'd be the right thing to do for hoping for the future, but is an odd one for what he wants to do now like the duty one is presented as.
[] (Focuses, choose three from at least two different Skills)
-[] The satisfaction of victory in games of Tactics (Battle)
-[] The weaving of speech to Charm another.(Communicate)
-[] The Concentration hard lessons demanded. (Discipline)
-[] The wonder of the revelation of Science. (Understand)
Concentration is a must, as it helps both in dangerous situations and for Psykery in general. Science feels like it really ought to be there if we take Truth as the Quaternary Drive. Tactics and Charm meanwhile are how we get what we want in battle and in social interactions, and we've built the character to be decent at either, although the situation and the focus on body alterations for our Assets incline me towards Tactics.
Not sure which to drop, but I want 3 from these right now.
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There is still a moratorium on voting.
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Personally, if we take Science, I'm of the opinion we'll have basically just flipped around and gone in a completely different direction from the doctor set up we were going for with my prior plan. Focuses are kind of absurd in how much impact they have on how effectively a character can do something. Without a focus on Medicine, Cyrus basically only gets 2 successes on a 1 when doing Understand Doctor things, while with it he would get a crit on anything equal to or less than a 7 when his Target Number is around 15. I cannot understate how powerful the difference is.
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To be fair, we'd be flipping around on how you intended to go from your plan. your plan rather obviously did not make a doctor. It made a fucking beefcake shonen protag, which is more in line with Tactics+Charm+Concentrate than any plan with Medicine is. Will note however that if you really wanted to go doctor yeah Medicine/Charm/Concentrate's the best we've got for skills.
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I can't say that the shift in priorities was the wrong move to make though, everything considered. The plan is to get a Medicae kit and a Deharmonizer from the camp, and Charm will play a part in doing that. Medicine as well.To be fair, we'd be flipping around on how you intended to go from your plan. your plan rather obviously did not make a doctor. It made a fucking beefcake shonen protag, which is more in line with Tactics+Charm+Concentrate than any plan with Medicine is. Will note however that if you really wanted to go doctor yeah Medicine/Charm/Concentrate's the best we've got for skills.
It should be easier to get those kind of Assets, even if we didn't have the Focuses for it, than to get Cyrus Inherent Assets like the fortified physiology and augments.
So when we get around to actually taking some actions, we already have some direction to go in. Get a Deharmonizer and Medicae kit, using Communicate and helping out. Another option, that some may disagree on, is getting to know the one Skitarii that survived with Cyrus. Hard to say how it'll be best to go about all of that at the moment, but we'll learn more next chapter.
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I mean, no? The intent was to make a swole doctor, as the plan name said "One Swole Doc and His Alien Space Bug". The doctor part came from the skills and drives and needs to be supported by the focuses and courses of action we do in the coming updates. The point was not to make just a beefcake shounen protag, though that's a very cool result, the point was to make a swole doctor, but that was gonna take multiple steps and a consistent direction since we don't have enough space to cram everything in at character creation. I mean hell, you were the person who made the very point that led to me to dropping the medicae kit by pointing out that it'd be easier to get the inherent fortified physiology right now than later.To be fair, we'd be flipping around on how you intended to go from your plan. your plan rather obviously did not make a doctor. It made a fucking beefcake shonen protag, which is more in line with Tactics+Charm+Concentrate than any plan with Medicine is. Will note however that if you really wanted to go doctor yeah Medicine/Charm/Concentrate's the best we've got for skills.
The assets are... in comparison to what focuses and skills do to shape a character they are somewhat less impactful.
Like, Tactics in place of medicine basically puts us in the position of having Cyrus's build be going in at least four different directions between small unit leader, psyker, battlefield medic and systems engineer. Note, I just listed most of our potential focuses, if we went Tactics/Charm/Concentration not our assets. Concentration and Discipline can help in battlefield medical activities, Medicine is the Understand counterpart of that. That combination of skills, drives and focuses is what makes us a doctor, not anything else, in terms of how much impact it has on the abilities of Cyrus to be a doctor in this system.
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