Light Quest: a CK2 Style Quest in an 8-Bit Dystopia

[X] The Upper Pipeworks [Alone]
-[X] Her name was Roll.

Roll never really got the attention or chance to shine in most of the games, so a chance to get to do so here is a valuable opportunity!
 
Adhoc vote count started by Chocobro Mamba on Nov 18, 2023 at 3:59 PM, finished with 29 posts and 15 votes.


Well, it looks like Roll swept the vote! Alright! We will take one more post that will go into how you want Roll to start out and then after that Turn 1 will begin. Let's see what we can get into, down here in the pipeworks.
 
Bioroid Creation #1: DLN-002 - "Roll"
Light stood hunched over the endoskeleton of a bioroid, a dim light illuminating the room. Jack was kind enough to allow him some space to make into a lab as Light's current house was in no shape to hold one. That would have to be fixed if he wanted to make more bioroids as he didn't want to intrude on Jack's life more than he was already going to. The man in question waving off his concern, besides. There were children gathering outside to watch as he booted up a dusty computer and begin to lay down the various boxes of parts and tools he would need to build his new creation. A friend.

He had decided to fire up one of his old prototypes, DLN-002. Roll. She would look like a young human girl, but beyond that everything was a question mark. With a small smile as he waved to some of the kids, he began to focus on task at hand.




Physical Appearance [Optional (Blonde and Blue Eyed is Default]
It does not have to be natural colors. Go wild, if you want.

[ ] Hair Color [Write In]:
[ ] Eye Color [Write In]:

Initial Personality [Pick Three]

[ ] Friendly: Light designed Roll to be friendly and considerate of others. A bright child with a smile on her face that always tries to see the best in people. Hopefully as an example for others to follow. If nothing else, a friendly face is always better to be around.

[ ] Vigiliant: Light designed Roll to be sharp-eyed, watchful of trouble. The pipeworks were dangerous and could change in a moment. A keen mind on the lookout for danger was always a benefit. There was always the worry of her of being too suspicious of people or overcautious of everything... but was that a bad thing in this day and age?

[ ] Reserved: Light designed Roll to be somebody you could lean on in a crisis, a disciplined sort of person that could keep herself and others calm when things were breaking down, even if he refused to make her truly emotionless. She would be quiet and unflappable, but might come off as cold if she didn't have any warmer traits about her.

[ ] Curious: Light designed Roll to have a love of knowledge and always willing to fan the flames of her curiosity. There was always the risk of her getting into trouble trying to satisfy that curiousity but a love of learning and always being willing to find the answers herself was always a good trait to have.

[ ] Passionate: Light designed Roll to have an excitable nature about her and to throw herself into the things she cared about, always ready to go out looking for a new adventure. He gave her a love of life and living and always being willing to experience new things and be enthusiastic about the things she came to enjoy.

[ ] Elegant: Light designed Roll to have an elegant personality. She would have a love of luxury and fashion and always be graceful with her movements and speech, if maybe too refined. In hindsight, it would have been incredibly cruel to do this given he lived in the pipeworks, but if anybody could pretty it up it would be up to her.

[ ] Whimsical: Light designed Roll to be full of fun. She'll be a bit unpredictable at times but always in the pursuit in putting smiles on other people's faces. The city would need these types of people to breathe life back into it and an opponent that doesn't take you seriously would anger the enemies she might face. If she faced any at all.

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Initial Purpose [Select One]:

[ ] An Assistant: Light created somebody that would keep up with him. Her processing power and ability to comprehend things are optimized and a significant amount of Light's own knowledge of the sciences, along with some other more useful things that he himself lacked are downloaded into her knowledge base. She would assist him in his endeavors, though beyond a bioroids natural strength and durability would lack much combat potential. Why on earth would an assistant need to fight, though?

[ ] A Protector: He doesn't like it, but Light needed somebody to protect him. He... wasn't in any state to even begin the idea of trying to fight. It always seemed cruel to build a soldier... but maybe a protector would be a better word for it? She would be given reinforced ceramic titatium plating, subdermal armor and a stronger endoskeleton and power core would work on the physical side of things. A general knowledge of combat and some forms of martial arts would be downloaded into her brain, but she'd lack the sheer ferocity and level of skill of some people in the city. She'd have to learn that on her own.

[ ] An Operative: Light's target was Wily. He had just picked somewhere to live that was literally under his line of sight. He needed somebody who could sneak around and accomplish things without being found out or even erasing somebody's footprint. The physical part was easy. Although he had to use a lighter frame and endoskeleton, which would hamper her ability to fight she hopefully wouldn't need to. She'd be lighter than a human and a few bits of hardware that would help muffle her sound along with small bits of equipment to help break into things to round that out. The rest was downloading the appropriate knowledge into her brain.

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Supplemental Upgrades [You Have 3 Parts and 5 Slots for Upgrades]

Large Frame [3 Parts]: Making your robot bigger is not a simple a task as everyone would like to believe but by making the machine bigger you can place bigger, more powerful hydraulics and actuators along with more surface area for ceramic titanium, which makes the machine bigger, stronger and more durable as a result. It does come with the drawback of making them a little slower and a lot heavier to start and they won't be able to fit everywhere. They can also be pretty intimidating. This uses up all of the bioroids 'slots' to place.

Ball Joint Torso [3 Parts]: By modifying the torso to instead sit atop an enlargened ball joint and doing the same for the rest of the frame you can vastly increase the bioroids flexibility at the cost of it looking much less human, which some might consider a drawback. This reduces the profile of the robot and will allow them to fit inside even the smallest of cramped spaces. They will be smaller and weaker as a result, but damn near silent and invisible. This uses up all of the bioroids 'slots' to place.

Enhanced Mapping Software [2 Parts]: The pipeworks are a mass of winding pipes and tunnels and even the best and most veteran can get lost down here. A bit of software to fix that issue by downloading maps into its memory and using some extra programs to keep updating them with new knowledge once it's discovered. Going a step further by pairing the programs with a piece of hardware than can emit a high frequency pulse that can show nearby physical or geological data makes sure the bioroid and those with them can never get lost. This takes 2 slots.

Improved Speed and Reflexes [1 Part]: It's a simple thing to put better actuatiors on a robot and call it a day, it's another to connect it to the machine's reaction speed and pull every bit of preformance out of the parts as you could. As a result this robot is quicker to move around and reacts more quickly to things- a fraction of the time a human would take. Not only would it protect the bioroid from danger and allow them to react more quickly but it would provide an advantage in a fight should it ever come to it. This takes one slot.

Experimental Geothermal Energy Converter [1 Part]: A testy little device that converts ambient light and geothermal energy into more power for the bioroid to use. It's meant to keep the bioroid operational down in places where the light doesn't reach but it can be expended to provide a temporary boost in power and speed at the cost of taxing the bioroids body and leaving them low energy for a while. The benefits are obvious if you could get it to work right. Maybe you could even use it to power other equipment? This takes 2 slots.



Let's get building. There will be a 2 HOUR MORATORIUM and we'll end the voting around 4 PM EST tomorrow. After this we will start Turn 1. I'm pretty excited to start this, so without further ado let's get on with it. I will be periodically updating some setting stuff as well, now that we know for sure where we are and where we're going. Votes should be done by plan.
 
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Should the votes be done by plan?

Also how does something that converts solar energy work when its somewhere light doesn't reach? Those seem like two contradictory things.
 
Physical Appearance [Optional (Blonde and Blue Eyed is Default]
I like the idea of a Roll with blonde hair and green eyes.
Initial Personality [Pick Three]
Friendly, Curious, and Passionate feel appropriate for Roll in my opinion.

After all we're trying to change The City and by extension mankind's future. Having Roll be good natured, willing to learn, and emotionally charged about what she does would stand in sharp contrast to the cruel, information controlled, and cold-hearted villains that plague the city.

If our goal is to fight Wily and his ideal world, then our creations should embody or rejection of them. Not simply in their ability to fight back, but by the very beliefs they hold.
Initial Purpose [Select One]:
Protector is very appealing to me. I like the idea of Dr. Light making Roll initially to help him. But all of the matters he needed immediate help with were so physical in nature that Roll ended up somewhat unintentionally built for rough-and-tumble behavior. The idea of Roll just casually lifting heavy objects, working on the outside of the shack, or pulverizing rocks or dangerous pipe-critters feels like a fun contrast to being the world's most sophisticated Roomba in canon.
Supplemental Upgrades [You Have 3 Parts and 5 Slots for Upgrades]
Enhanced Mapping Software & Improved Speed and Reflexes seem very appealing. Not just for our immediate situation, but in the future as well. Being fast and agile will never not be useful, and being able to emit pulses to map our surroundings could be used in clever ways. Alternatively it could save Roll if they're ever somehow blinded or their conventional optics are disrupted.
Also how does something that converts solar energy work when its somewhere light doesn't reach?
I think going by plan might make the most sense here.

As for the Solar Energy Converter, maybe it converts the ambient light occasionally found in the underground? The planet is alien and strange. Who knows what sort of light sources could be taken advantage of?
 
Votes should be done by plan.

Also yeah, changing it to ambient light and geothermal heat would make more sense. I'll get to changing it. I had put it there as a sort of stage one to another option you'd research but Light wouldn't be focused on Solar Energy down in the Pipeworks.
 
I'll provide more detailed thoughts on the varied options later, but for now - my ideal looks something like...

[] Plan: Caskett
-[] Blonde hair.
-[] Green eyes.
-[] Initial Personality: Friendly, Passionate, Whimsical
-[] Initial Purpose: A Protector
-[] Supplemental Upgrades: Enhanced Mapping Software, Improved Speed and Reflexes

Someone who can both act as emotional support for Light, as well as someone who can balance him out - a strong Martial figure with a fiery heart.
 
Here's my pitch based on what I said above.

[] Plan: Combating Evil With Love & Fists!
- [] Hair Color: Blonde
- [] Eye Color: Green
- [] Personality Trait #1: Friendly
- [] Personality Trait #2: Curious
- [] Personality Trait #3: Passionate
- [] Initial Purpose: PROTECTOR
- [] Supplemental Upgrades: Enhanced Mapping Software & Improved Speed and Reflexes (3 Parts and 3 Slots)
 
Interesting quest and the idea is fun. The plan turns Roll into an explorer and adventurer of the depths, figuring out exactly is in there and if there are secrets that can help Light's cause. She will be acting agent that truly understands and able to gauge potential friends for the cause.

[X] Plan: Lighting the pipes
-[] Hair Color: Default
-[] Eye Color: Default
-[] Reserved: Light designed Roll to be somebody you could lean on in a crisis, a disciplined sort of person that could keep herself and others calm when things were breaking down, even if he refused to make her truly emotionless. She would be quiet and unflappable, but might come off as cold if she didn't have any warmer traits about her.
-[] Curious: Light designed Roll to have a love of knowledge and always willing to fan the flames of her curiosity. There was always the risk of her getting into trouble trying to satisfy that curiousity but a love of learning and always being willing to find the answers herself was always a good trait to have.
-[] Passionate: Light designed Roll to have an excitable nature about her and to throw herself into the things she cared about, always ready to go out looking for a new adventure. He gave her a love of life and living and always being willing to experience new things and be enthusiastic about the things she came to enjoy.
-[] An Operative: Light's target was Wily. He had just picked somewhere to live that was literally under his line of sight. He needed somebody who could sneak around and accomplish things without being found out or even erasing somebody's footprint. The physical part was easy. Although he had to use a lighter frame and endoskeleton, which would hamper her ability to fight she hopefully wouldn't need to. She'd be lighter than a human and a few bits of hardware that would help muffle her sound along with small bits of equipment to help break into things to round that out. The rest was downloading the appropriate knowledge into her brain.
-[] Enhanced Mapping Software
-[] Improved Speed and Reflexes
 
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[X] Plan: Best Girl & Protector
-[X] Hair Color: Blonde (default)
-[X] Eye Color: Green
-[X] Personality Trait #1: Friendly
-[X] Personality Trait #2: Vigilant
-[X] Personality Trait #3: Curious
-[X] Initial Purpose: A Protector
-[X] Enhanced Mapping Software [2 Parts]
-[X] Improved Speed and Reflexes [1 Part]

Chose friendly and curious because they go well together in my opinion and helps with her bonding with Dr. Light, while vigilant is necessary to help protect herself and Dr. Light, especially since that's her role here. Originally thought about making her initial purpose an assistant.

[X] Plan: Super Fighting Schema?
 
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Looks like there's a lot of plans up already! Since most of the other angles are covered, this means I can propose something to completely throw a wrench in!

Record of Thomas Light - 200X

Due to a conjunction of new demands and less than ideal conditions in which to meet them, I have completed my first original bioroid design in some time. While I wish I was able to bring this new intelligence into the world under better circumstances, I am at a turning point. I can either continue to struggle as one man against the world, or forge a new pair of helping hands to continue the work I cannot do alone. As the blueprints for DLN-001 sustained fire damage, I will carry on with the creation of DLN-002.

DLN-002 will be designed as a lab assistant, first and foremost, as there is still much work to be done. A helper to assist with constructing a new lab with safe conditions from which to work in. A new home. Fortifications, for defense against the mutated creatures that roam the pipes and tunnels. The Drillers have been kind as to donate one of their old construction mechs that I had designed for them a lifetime ago, seeing it as "returning the favor". Once I have finished repairs on it, DLN-002 will have the required navigational and piloting software with which to aid me in mapping the area around our section of the "Pipeworks", as the locals have taken to calling this place. Her positronic brain has been tuned to have a high amount of intelligence, and, I hope, curiosity for the world she inhabits. While some have called me the father of my field (a notion which which I strongly disagree), there will be many parts of her personality beyond my control. The "nature" to the roboticist's "nurture".

Though positronic brains have their limitations, DLN-002 will develop into her own over time, with her own thoughts and feelings. Someone to carry on in my ideals, if I am lost to this subterranean maze that grew beneath our feet. I hope that she, or any other bioroids I make in the name of saving this City above us from Albert's mad ambitions , can forgive me for the great task that I am thrusting upon their shoulders.

I hope that Blues can forgive me for betraying his trust. I know it's foolish to hope against hopes that he is still out there in the City, after all of these years. But if he is, then my son may join us in our refuge with his sister.

She's opening her eyes for the first time. I need to hurry! I will write down what she says in a later--


[X] Plan: Misadventures of Tron... Light!?
-[X] Hair Color: Brown
-[X] Eye Color: Green
-[X] Personality: Vigilant
-[X] Personality: Curious
-[X] Personality: Passionate
-[X] Purpose: An Assistant
-[X] Upgrade: Enhanced Mapping Software
-[X] Upgrade: Improved Speed and Reflexes
 
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