Tinker Quest (Current Character: Ajax Washington)

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Doesn't controller mean an inherent robotic nature to all our creations, and our magnum opus in particular?
Controller simply means you have minions or things that can run without your direct control. That can be robotic but when combined with your speciality of Life x Impulse you're focused on cloning. So you won't have robotics involved with your minions and instead will be pure biology.
 
I mostly want a human base, but the actual end product being just a massive mountain of muscle and whatever we add-ons we design, because hands are just so convenient. They could do our laundry, walk our dog, tuck us into bed at night, carry the money we steal from the bank! And just think of the little suits and hats we could put on them!

Also would want the Igors to have hands as well, for their assisting.
If we take our backstory, then most likely any humanoid creature will look like our character.
But this copy will be a better version of the character with a perfect body that our character didn't have, but which he always wanted to have.
That kind of mental pressure is quite in the style of the Shards, they like to give forces that remind you of the trigger by constantly tugging at an old wound.
 
I mostly want a human base, but the actual end product being just a massive mountain of muscle and whatever we add-ons we design, because hands are just so convenient. They could do our laundry, walk our dog, tuck us into bed at night, carry the money we steal from the bank! And just think of the little suits and hats we could put on them!

Also would want the Igors to have hands as well, for their assisting.

I suggest primates but not humans. Think of the adorable little monkey assistants. Adorable, I say.

Clearly we should make a dragon.

With kobold assistants.

This is also very tempting, however.
 
But this copy will be a better version of the character with a perfect body that our character didn't have, but which he always wanted to have.
That kind of mental pressure is quite in the style of the Shards, they like to give forces that remind you of the trigger by constantly tugging at an old wound.

Egads, the mental trauma of sending our mirror out to repeatedly get shot, stabbed, and mauled by the dangers of the city...

This is also very tempting, however.

Dragons make everything better, who could complain about a biotinker who creates such a magnificent creature? We could also ride it into battle, or just on patrol, transportation!
 
Doesn't controller mean an inherent robotic nature to all our creations, and our magnum opus in particular?
Controller doesn't specifically mean Robotics, it means that the focus of our Tinkering is on the creation of a separate entity that we control, whether that be robots, a hardlight projector that creates artificial soldiers, or sapient plants that can be given orders.
 
I vote to make our Focal minion a knight and our minions goblins/gremlins

I dunno, kind of feels like a waste of the Focal aspect. We'll only get one to deploy and I'm not at all sanguine about assuming we'll be able to toss a bunch of cheap minions in to make up the difference. Swarm tactics were an entirely different build. Given that we've settled on an area chock full of combatants that all have plenty of experience with combat, and considering that nothing in our build directly translates to "gain/impart combat skills at an accelerated pace", I think we'd have an uphill time of it trying to get a humanoid minion properly online.

Making a beast (such as a dragon!) gives us more real estate to really flex that biotinker expertise and create something that no one's already familiar with. Wings, claws, hide/scales/carapace, breath, tail, the list goes on.
 
Witherbrine26 Can we choose a type of social insect such as ants? So that we have several types of specialized creatures in the basic version.
Besides, if we choose non-humanoid creatures, will we be able to endow them with intelligence?
 
@Witherbrine26 Can we choose a type of social insect such as ants? So that we have several types of specialized creatures in the basic version.
Besides, if we choose non-humanoid creatures, will we be able to endow them with intelligence?
You only get one creature no matter what type, if you pick something like ants or bees though you'll have a queen which will allow you to produce drones instead of the more mundane way you would otherwise.
Yes, one of the augments you can give them is an intelligence boost.
 
The Person behind the Cowl
Your alarm blares out into the small, shitty apartment you rent. You blink, your eyes blurry as you swing your legs out of bed. Looking around, you breathed in, rising to your feet as you started getting ready for the day.

There was a small bathroom attached to the apartment, but you had to be careful as you maneuvered around it. The landlord hadn't gotten around to fixing the broken cabinet, so it didn't close. The wall was close enough that even propped open, you had to be careful.

You hated your landlord. He was a greedy whale of a person, but he was also one of the few people who would rent to somebody in your state. Your hands clenched around the sink as you peered into the mirror. Your eyes were baggy, and your hair was greasy. You couldn't help but think back.

Things had been going well. It was not amazing, but it was better than you had thought. The military had been your path forward, but after being rejected—your hand drifted to your chest, and you could almost imagine the thump, thump, thump of the malfunctioning organ under your skin; you tried to settle down with your folks and—

You shoved those thoughts aside and shucked off your pajamas. Stepping into the shower, you turned the heat up as high as it would go, but it wasn't very high. You then sat there and started to clean yourself.

Toiletries were pricey, so you squeezed as much as you could out of your bottle of shampoo and mixed a bit of shower water with the soap you had left to stretch it a bit further. You quickly cleaned yourself. The landlord had threatened to raise the price of utilities if you stayed in too long. You doubted he would actually do that, but you would rather not risk it.

Stepping out of the shower, you scrubbed dry, moving quickly, and managed to finish quickly. Stepping back into the tiny bedroom/kitchen mix, you pulled on your uniform, thankful that it was Friday.

This was the last day of the week you'd be working, and while setting your schedule on Sunday, you had two days off this week. A few ideas swirled around your head about what you would be doing next week, but you ignored them.

Stepping out of your apartment, you closed the door behind you with your key, making sure the door was locked. You then jammed the key deep into your uniform pocket as you started walking towards Fugly Bob's.

It was fast food, not exactly what you'd have hoped, but you didn't have many options. With about five hundred in the bank and your expectation of joining the military being a wash, you didn't have many options. I mean, who would hire an eighteen-year-old whose only experience was with military-related things? It didn't matter that you were decent at training and were fit if you couldn't crunch numbers.

The walk wasn't that far, thankfully; Something you were happy about since the early April weather was a bitch. The Bay was nasty in the spring months, Something you had learned since moving here. However, you set those thoughts aside as you stepped inside the warm restaurant and slapped on our customer service smile, your fingers crossed that Stacy wouldn't be the manager today.

"Why are you late? Your shift started two minutes ago!" Stacy demanded, her tone snappish as you gritted your teeth. You didn't say anything aside from a mumbled apology as you hurried over to your station.

Thankfully, Stacy didn't seem to be focusing on you, instead harassing the new hire. You bit your tongue and kept your head down. Your paycheck was today, and while you didn't think she would mess with it, you couldn't miss even a handful of dollars.

So you kept working, a false smile ever present on your face the entire shift.



You sighed as you stepped inside your apartment, closing the door behind you with a faint thump. Making sure to lock it, you hissed at your slightly burnt fingers. The fry cooker was a bit run down, and Stacy, the head manager, had refused to do anything about it.

You ignored the faint pain and sat down on your bed, head dropped in your hands. You hadn't wanted this. You had a road paved for you ever since you could walk and talk. Now that you had fallen off it through no fault of your own, you didn't really know what you could do.

That's when Something wriggled inside your mind, a memory from a few days ago. Rising to your feet, you headed over to the tiny table that took up a portion of your "kitchen." Brushing aside the handful of envelopes, you picked up the paper that had Something delicately inked on its surface.

You had been having that itch, the itch to build and create, to raise a creature, and to go out there and fight. You had been suppressing it, but was that really what you wanted to do? Did you want to be a person slaving away at a dead-end job in this shitty city?

Of course not. You wanted to be known and to do something that mattered. You needed to get set up for building a proper foundation, so you sat down and started sketching the blueprint for your first and greatest creation.

It would be marvelous.

[] What is your Focus? (This is your main creature; you can create other minor ones, but this is what the vast majority of your efforts will revolve around.)
-[] A person:
It resembles a person, and that has all the upsides and downsides you think it would. It can handle tools, is somewhat smart, and could even fake being a cape, but a handful of people will be really scared of what it represents.
-[] A wolf: Bipedal, covered in hair, and very loyal. You don't have to worry about the last bit, but the other two are nice. It might be able to pass for a large shaggy dog, and there is Something to be said about passing yourself off as having a projection of some kind.
-[] A lizard: Can crawl up a wall, has thick scales, and could possibly be made into a dragon one day. There is something to be said about the ability to have your own dragon or just a creature that can ignore small-arms fire.
-[] An insect: A big creepy crawly. It's got pincers, a stinger, or mandibles; this is the sort of thing that'll give people nightmares or just kill them. Well, you don't care; it's great, and you enjoy having this carapaced monstrosity around.
-[] Something else: It's not one of the above; it's something completely different. (The creature must be based on a real-life animal; fantastical augments can come later.)

You had worked long into the night and were finally done. Your first creature had a blueprint, along with a handful of other things to get you started. You looked up, stretching when you caught sight of yourself in the mirror. You almost flinched back; you had something you hadn't seen before.

A smile, stretching from ear to ear and perhaps somewhat mad. Yet it was true and free with yourself behind it.

This is who you are now.

[] Who are you?
-[] Name
-[] Gender
-[] Appearance
-[] Any other details
 
I want a humanoid giant, a Great Ape base is also fine with me, they don't need to be ultra-skilled, just so long as we can make them big, strong, and tough. As for the Igors, I mostly just want them as assistants, extra hands for when we need them, not a mainstay of our arsenal, I don't have much interest in choosing an Ant Queen or Termite base or similar. Also, I really like the idea that's been put forth on using ourself as a base to make an idealised version, it just seems really fun, and likely to lead to the Igors being spindly little deformed dudes with a lisp.

Also, we could go with a Cape Name like Dr. Jekyll and name our Clone Mr. Hyde.
 
Witherbrine26 Can we choose a creature like Shoggoth or Thing as a focus?
That is, they are basically lumps of undifferentiated flesh, but which can acquire new properties in the process of hunting and are easily modified by us.
 
@Witherbrine26 Can we choose a creature like Shoggoth or Thing as a focus?
That is, they are basically lumps of undifferentiated flesh, but which can acquire new properties in the process of hunting and are easily modified by us.
No, that can come later. Right now it has to have a base in a real world creature, follow the guidelines of the given creatures if you want roughly what you can pick. Nothing like bacteria for example
 
[X] What is your Focus? (This is your main creature; you can create other minor ones, but this is what the vast majority of your efforts will revolve around.)
-[X] A person:
It resembles a person, and that has all the upsides and downsides you think it would. It can handle tools, is somewhat smart, and could even fake being a cape, but a handful of people will be really scared of what it represents.

[X] Who are you?
-[X] Ajax Washington
-[X] Male
-[X] young, dark-skinned and with a military buzz cut that's starting to grow out a bit, Ajax has a large, solid build that probably could've made him a linebacker if he'd trained for it. As it stands, he looks like the kind of guy who could put a man on his ass in a fight.
-[X] A scar above his right eye, from an accident when he was a kid.

Figured we could go with something that isn't often seen in Worm Quests, and be a non-white guy. Will probably cause the Empire to be hostile but, let's be honest, we were always going to pick a fight with them.

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[X] What is your Focus? (This is your main creature; you can create other minor ones, but this is what the vast majority of your efforts will revolve around.)
-[X] Something else: An ape. Hands like a human, but can't easily pass for one, greater strength and less intelligence than a human, probably less likely to cause bad reactions.

I like Deadman's Great Ape idea.
 
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[X] What is your Focus? (This is your main creature; you can create other minor ones, but this is what the vast majority of your efforts will revolve around.)
-[X] A person:
It resembles a person, and that has all the upsides and downsides you think it would. It can handle tools, is somewhat smart, and could even fake being a cape, but a handful of people will be really scared of what it represents.

[X] Who are you?
-[X] Ajax Washington
-[X] Male
-[X] young, dark-skinned and with a military buzz cut that's starting to grow out a bit, Ajax has a large, solid build that probably could've made him a linebacker if he'd trained for it. As it stands, he looks like the kind of guy who could put a man on his ass in a fight.
-[X] A scar above his right eye, from an accident when he was a kid.

Knight/ Super Sentai here we go!

Alternatives
[X] What is your Focus? (This is your main creature; you can create other minor ones, but this is what the vast majority of your efforts will revolve around.)
-[X] An octopus:
smart, sneaky and versatile, you could even use the bay to transport itself and hide it.
 
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I had a funny thought. We could choose coral as the focus and build a coral tower by actually duplicating the plan of the tower only making it alive.

Although it's mostly a funny thought, I think we should pay attention to underwater creatures. They are interesting and exotic, and we are located in Brockton Bay, so the sea would be a good place to hide our creations.
 
[X] What is your Focus? (This is your main creature; you can create other minor ones, but this is what the vast majority of your efforts will revolve around.)
-[X] A lizard: Can crawl up a wall, has thick scales, and could possibly be made into a dragon one day. There is something to be said about the ability to have your own dragon or just a creature that can ignore small-arms fire.

[X] Who are you?

-[X] Ajax Washington
-[X] Male
-[X] young, dark-skinned and with a military buzz cut that's starting to grow out a bit, Ajax has a large, solid build that probably could've made him a linebacker if he'd trained for it. As it stands, he looks like the kind of guy who could put a man on his ass in a fight.
-[X] A scar above his right eye, from an accident when he was a kid.

I have no feelings on the MC design vote, but I feel a lizard would be the best option for an urban environment as it'll allow a third dimension to traversal which is always useful.
 
[X] What is your Focus? (This is your main creature; you can create other minor ones, but this is what the vast majority of your efforts will revolve around.)
-[X] A lizard: Can crawl up a wall, has thick scales, and could possibly be made into a dragon one day. There is something to be said about the ability to have your own dragon or just a creature that can ignore small-arms fire.

[X] Who are you?
-[X] Ajax Washington
-[X] Male
-[X] young, dark-skinned and with a military buzz cut that's starting to grow out a bit, Ajax has a large, solid build that probably could've made him a linebacker if he'd trained for it. As it stands, he looks like the kind of guy who could put a man on his ass in a fight.
-[X] A scar above his right eye, from an accident when he was a kid.

If you can, always be a Dragon.
 
[X] What is your Focus? (This is your main creature; you can create other minor ones, but this is what the vast majority of your efforts will revolve around.)
-[X] A lizard: Can crawl up a wall, has thick scales, and could possibly be made into a dragon one day. There is something to be said about the ability to have your own dragon or just a creature that can ignore small-arms fire.

[X] What is your Focus? (This is your main creature; you can create other minor ones, but this is what the vast majority of your efforts will revolve around.)
-[X] Something else: An ape. Hands like a human, but can't easily pass for one, greater strength and less intelligence than a human, probably less likely to cause bad reactions.


[X] Who are you?
-[X] Ajax Washington
-[X] Male
-[X] young, dark-skinned and with a military buzz cut that's starting to grow out a bit, Ajax has a large, solid build that probably could've made him a linebacker if he'd trained for it. As it stands, he looks like the kind of guy who could put a man on his ass in a fight.
-[X] A scar above his right eye, from an accident when he was a kid.

I do like the dragon idea, but also like apes as a possibility. I'm against the human thing, generally. Fine with the name and appearance.

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[X] What is your Focus? (This is your main creature; you can create other minor ones, but this is what the vast majority of your efforts will revolve around.)
-[X] An octopus:
smart, sneaky and versatile, you could even use the bay to transport itself and hide it.

I'm cool with this, too, probably. Anything but a human, mostly.
 
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[X] What is your Focus? (This is your main creature; you can create other minor ones, but this is what the vast majority of your efforts will revolve around.)
-[X] An octopus:
smart, sneaky and versatile, you could even use the bay to transport itself and hide it.

Hey I have a proposition, why not go for an octopus? Smart, able to handle tools after training, sneaky, use camouflage (possible shapeshifting ), ink projection (possible other liquids ), an octopus is a versatile minion.
 
[X] What is your Focus? (This is your main creature; you can create other minor ones, but this is what the vast majority of your efforts will revolve around.)
-[X] A person:
It resembles a person, and that has all the upsides and downsides you think it would. It can handle tools, is somewhat smart, and could even fake being a cape, but a handful of people will be really scared of what it represents.

[X] Who are you?
-[X] Ajax Washington
-[X] Male
-[X] young, dark-skinned and with a military buzz cut that's starting to grow out a bit, Ajax has a large, solid build that probably could've made him a linebacker if he'd trained for it. As it stands, he looks like the kind of guy who could put a man on his ass in a fight.
-[X] A scar above his right eye, from an accident when he was a kid.

If we can't BE a soldier, then we are going to MAKE one.
 
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