Vox Vitae: Warhammer AI quest

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meianmaru said:
Actually, is this okay by the mechanics? It seems to me that it has 5 actions instead of four. Am I just looking at it wrong, or misunderstanding something about the mechanics?
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Ah wait... I did not realize you took two diplomacy actions. Fair enough:
[X] Plan: Self and Inventory have been Checked, let's get to Adventuring! (V.2.0)
[X] Avatar: A woman of indeterminate age, a little on the smaller side, but with a warm smile and expressive features to the point you'd never expect her to be a synthetic intelligence more ancient than the Imperium. She has her hair in a long bob, a pair of glasses, and when circumstances don't require her to dress to the occasion, she favors a well pressed uniform of a nation long since forgotten in history, because she's still never had her commission as a Naval Surveyor relinquished and as far as she's concerned, that's how you dress on the job (And she's very often on the job)
 
Woopsay!
[X] Avatar: A woman of indeterminate age, a little on the smaller side, but with a warm smile and expressive features to the point you'd never expect her to be a synthetic intelligence more ancient than the Imperium. She has her hair in a long bob, a pair of glasses, and when circumstances don't require her to dress to the occasion, she favors a well pressed uniform of a nation long since forgotten in history, because she's still never had her commission as a Naval Surveyor relinquished and as far as she's concerned, that's how you dress on the job (And she's very often on the job)
 
birdmaster01 said:
But how will we trawl the Void and the Warp without the void abacus and psychic shields ?
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I think it's already been noted that you've got them already, you just can't make/repair/improve them yet.

DragonParadox said:
I get that but the internet is built for interconnection from the bottom up, for efficiency, the datanet was built by a paranoid mystery cult worried that literal demon code was going to break in. Even if the attitude changes I do not think one can ever get anything as seamless as the internet especially the Web 2.0 in which we find ourselves without ripping out the whole system and starting fresh. I do not doubt the planet's datanet is more accessible to more people that the IoM would ever allow, but it's still designed more to allow emergency disconnect than to put the local baker in contact with their potential customers. That is why I said a person cannot have an 'online presence' in the modern sense.
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Fair enough. There isn't reddit/amazon/facebook. There is email.

meianmaru said:
I also added what I suggested earlier for the free option of going through the database. Though I have to ask, @Neablis, is the way I put it okay? Because it is somewhat OOC for me to just introduce a term I know, but it is not some hidden knowledge and I think the term would draw in Vita's attention based on her own interests.
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This is fine. That free action is a way to convert OOC knowledge to in-character knowledge, though it's gated on what is in the files of a remnant mechanicus enclave on a civilized planet. We can also assume Vita reads pretty much all of it, but I'm not going to type out everything, so it's just asking you to call out places where detail is important. Explorators are fine.

DragonParadox said:
[X] Plan: Self and Inventory have been Checked, let's get to Adventuring! (V 3.0: Research included)
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Err, does this plan have 5 actions in it? 2 diplomacy, 2 construction, 1 research?

Edit: Oh I see you dropped the vote. Is all good.
 
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[X] Plan: Self and Inventory have been Checked, let's get to Adventuring! (V.2.0)
[X] Avatar: A woman of indeterminate age, a little on the smaller side, but with a warm smile and expressive features to the point you'd never expect her to be a synthetic intelligence more ancient than the Imperium. She has her hair in a long bob, a pair of glasses, and when circumstances don't require her to dress to the occasion, she favors a well pressed uniform of a nation long since forgotten in history, because she's still never had her commission as a Naval Surveyor relinquished and as far as she's concerned, that's how you dress on the job (And she's very often on the job)
 
DragonParadox said:
Ah wait... I did not realize you took two diplomacy actions. Fair enough:
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Tbf to you, my plan is also formated a little bit differently than Alectai's plan, even if the distribution of actions and the actions themselves are the same (with just some minor wording changes). (Plus the free poke into the database.) So it might not have been as clear as in Alectai's original plan in hindsight.
 
DragonParadox said:
As promised plan with research included

[X] Plan: Self and Inventory have been Checked, let's get to Adventuring! (V 3.0: Research included)
-[X] [Free] Poke around some more in the databases, looking for anything in particular.
--[X] While going through the files you stole from those tech-cultists in hopes of finding way to subvert at least some of them, you came across a term that seemed interesting. "Explorator".
-[X] Diplomacy: Talk to people x2
--[X] It's pretty clear that the Mechanicus are making a mess of things, holding a gun to the people's heads, but it's also pretty darned clear that not everyone likes this. You've done a deep dive into the government datanets and have a pretty good idea on who's who now, find a collaborator--someone with respectable character who you think could keep a secret--and lay almost all of your cards on the table (with the exception about your nature as an AI). You're a Surveyor from ancient times who's been stuck in stasis until recently, and you'd like very much to get back to the stars, and if you can give a leg up to some folks who have been going through some rough times, all the better. Some political cover to operate more openly will accelerate your timetable dramatically, and based on how limited the Mechanicus' reach seems to be, you'll have some time for your other ploys to start panning out. (Summary: Find a government collaborator, establish a working relationship)
--[X] You refuse to believe a mystery cult will leave a mystery alone, and while their official policy may be fixed to maximum regression and maintaining their powerbase, you doubt that carries forward to their entire population. Use your access to their systems and your discreet transmission to seed a few interesting breadcrumbs here and there, for the genuinely inquisitive sorts who haven't yet been turned to close-minded conservatives. It'll help you sift out who you can work with, since their current system has got to go in the long run if this place is going to survive--because seriously, space bugs? That's a problem. (Summary: Seed a few interesting breadcrumbs for the genuine adventurers who might be suppressed in the Mechanicus Enclaves, to see if we can identify some potential allies among them.)
-[X] Construction x2
--[X] Underground Manufactory (300 BP)
-[X] Research 200/200
-[X] Combat bot Humanization (100/100 RP) Your combat robots are obviously artificial, with metal skeletons and obvious sensors. But with a bit of tweaking you could make them look like humans in full-body armor. That would include the ability to speak and be mistaken for a human. They wouldn't be able to remove their helmets, and any investigation of wrecks would expose them as machines, but... it still might be useful. (No obvious follow-on tech).
-[X] Psychic shielding: (150/300 RP) How does your shielding even work? What does it do? You've got the manuals, but it's going to require some brain-sweat to understand the darn thing. (Gives you a stability metric and a readout on your shielding. The first step towards building more/better psychic shielding. Half of unlocking research for better warp understanding).
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This plan isn't valid, it takes 5 actions.

Neablis said:
Err, does this plan have 5 actions in it? 2 diplomacy, 2 construction, 1 research?

Edit: Oh I see you fixed it.
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I'm not seeing how it's fixed?

[X] Plan: Self and Inventory have been Checked, let's get to Adventuring! (V.2.0)
[X] Avatar: A woman of indeterminate age, a little on the smaller side, but with a warm smile and expressive features to the point you'd never expect her to be a synthetic intelligence more ancient than the Imperium. She has her hair in a long bob, a pair of glasses, and when circumstances don't require her to dress to the occasion, she favors a well pressed uniform of a nation long since forgotten in history, because she's still never had her commission as a Naval Surveyor relinquished and as far as she's concerned, that's how you dress on the job (And she's very often on the job)
 
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[X] Plan: Self and Inventory have been Checked, let's get to Adventuring! (V.2.0)
[X] Avatar: A woman of indeterminate age, a little on the smaller side, but with a warm smile and expressive features to the point you'd never expect her to be a synthetic intelligence more ancient than the Imperium. She has her hair in a long bob, a pair of glasses, and when circumstances don't require her to dress to the occasion, she favors a well pressed uniform of a nation long since forgotten in history, because she's still never had her commission as a Naval Surveyor relinquished and as far as she's concerned, that's how you dress on the job (And she's very often on the job)
 
[X] Plan: Self and Inventory have been Checked, let's get to Adventuring! (V 3.0: Research included)
[X]Plan My Space Rock Science Woman Life in a Cave
 
Alectai said:
Jeez, I literally clarified that, the QM confirmed it, I further iterated on it, and nobody cares.

T_T Makes me *frumple* it does.

Well, Meianmaru's post is basically what I would edit it to, it's just a burr in the back of my neck more than something I'm actually upset about.
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Better ahead of time than when the vote is in progress. No amount of explaining makes up for the drive by votes you lose because the wording gives a surface level read that says the opposite of what you meant.

And then a miserable amount of your time would be spent doing that explaining for the people who don't drive by vote but still didn't read the whole thread. Just how it is.
 
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[X] Plan: Self and Inventory have been Checked, let's get to Adventuring! (V.2.0)
[X] Avatar: A woman of indeterminate age, a little on the smaller side, but with a warm smile and expressive features to the point you'd never expect her to be a synthetic intelligence more ancient than the Imperium. She has her hair in a long bob, a pair of glasses, and when circumstances don't require her to dress to the occasion, she favors a well pressed uniform of a nation long since forgotten in history, because she's still never had her commission as a Naval Surveyor relinquished and as far as she's concerned, that's how you dress on the job (And she's very often on the job)
 
Can I get 2 people to each roll a d100 for the diplomacy actions? First is for government, second is for mechanicus. +10 bonuses for each due to (Wo)man of Stone.

Not closing voting at this point, but the vote tally is promising.
 
Ah, beaten, for the best though, my roll was dogshit too.

But the Mechanicus roll was good at least!
 
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