Hold It In (RWBY/Transistor)

I think we need to get replication: prioritize. We can't let our deus ex machina die on us.
I also think we should ignore war until it learns what to shoot at (hint not the weak flabby meatbags)

HNNNNGHHH

Okay, adorableness overload over. And I don't mean just the Process, your fussing over the paranoia shown by people earlier is also adorable.

[X] Plan Make Science, Not SupCom
-[X]COMMUNICATION- PRIORITISE: Brings the Process's basic level of communication up to Blue's level- able to hold a decent conversation in Valish and some other languages.
-[X] BIOLOGY- PRIORITISE: Brings it up to Bracket's level of understanding- except this one has hands! Eventually. Could easily become a medical professional and degree-holding doctor.
-[X] ASSIMILATION- IGNORE:... Are you saying you don't want to be Remnant's first real magician?
-[X] WAR- (HUH) WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR: What are you, some kinda hippie?

I just don't want the Process to have war among the first things it learns. Communication is just generally a good thing to have. Biology is useful so that Process can help us out in case some of our hard to replace meatware gets shanked or something and also make it far more acceptable as "Oh look, adorable medbots". Assimilation I'm also a bit iffy about, since it seems like something that would make a lot of people incredibly nervous, and we'll be doing that already by conjuring bots that seem to do some undetectable stuff to buildings.

[x] Prioritise nothing.

Let nature take it's course.
In other news, HOLY SHIT QM QUOTED ME AHHHH-

Process is going to be the AI, do we really need to prioritize one thing over the other this early in its development? Give Process some time to deal with physical existance. It is a child right now, please let it learn at its own pace.

Sivantic said:

While I think that having the little Process be a motormouth sounds adorable, I honestly think we would be okay to let it grow normally over the week. Let us be honest, nobody here was expecting this and there is no immediate need to have Process as our work horse. We still have our Transistor for that.

This also benefits us by ensuring nothing gets left behind.

@Prok Are we doing plan voting?

[X] Plan Au Naturel
-[X] Prioritize nothing

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Thing is that since we created the Process we should be the ones to guide it. If we never do anything and just let it grow without thought that seems like it would be extremely likely to bite us in the ass. The last thing we want is a child gaining super powers without realizing the consequences of it's actions.

[X] BIOLOGY- IGNORE: 'The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.'

[X] CHEMISTRY- IGNORE: It won't make anything too dangerous right off the bat. Because it doesn't know how to.

[X] EVOLUTION- PRIORITISE: By the end of the week, it will have evolved into a Creep, and grown to about the size of an actual puppy, and gained some control over its form, namely size.

[X] ASSIMILATION- PRIORITISE: By the end of the week, it will have learned to do this to the point of, well, prestidigitation- snap your fingers, change the grass at your feet to bright blue. Make flowers bloom from your hand. You get the idea.

[X]REPLICATION- PRIORITISE: By the end of the week, there will be enough mesh to support a small cadre of Process units, as well as officially moving it into the realms of the truly immortal.

[X] WAR- (HUH) WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR: What are you, some kinda hippie?

It's only the first week. Assuming we can change it's priorities later I would simply like to maximize it's safety first, and then learning capacity second.

Red Bovine said:

Thing is that since we created the Process we should be the ones to guide it. If we never do anything and just let it grow without thought that seems like it would be extremely likely to bite us in the ass. The last thing we want is a child gaining super powers without realizing the consequences of it's actions.

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By the same token, I expect that we'll be better served observing it carefully to see how it naturally develops first before coming down with the decrees from God. I can see an argument for prioritizing communication, since that lets us get a better insight on its thoughts, but I'm very much in favor of generally affecting development as little as possible at this stage - this formative period is going to have a grossly oversized effect on it's total development, which means almost any pushes can't help but be too heavy-handed.

Even something as seemingly benign as the "Ignore War" option is rife with issues. Many of the main questions that the Process is fundamentally designed to address are violence based - Boriah and the Grimm. Stunting development in that area may later come across as us not trusting the Process to perform its literal reason for existence.

Plan: Seed.
[x]COMMUNICATION- PRIORITISE: Brings the Process's basic level of communication up to Blue's level- able to hold a decent conversation in Valish and some other languages.
[x] ASSIMILATION- PRIORITISE: By the end of the week, it will have learned to do this to the point of, welln, prestidigitation- snap your fingers, change the grass at your feet to bright blue. Make flowers bloom from your hand. You get the idea.
[x] BIOLOGY- IGNORE: 'The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.'
[x] CHEMISTRY- IGNORE: It won't make anything too dangerous right off the bat. Because it doesn't know how to.

Let's get the Process up to speed in communicating and doing its own thing at the expense of not being able to intentionally rewrite people.

Hopefully this would make jumping up other abilities in the future easier.

[X] Plan Au Naturel

Just let the little guy learn at its own pace, at least to start.

Alright I'm convinced let the puppy do its own thing.
[X] Plan Au Naturel

Prok said:

If the Process prioritises it, it'll get a little boost to it, if it ignores it, it'll stunt its development a little. If it gets neither, it goes ahead as it would normally. They're not huge changes, in the long run, just... a little dunt forward. Or backward.

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My impression was that these choices won't have really big long-term effects- based on the descriptions, it's more like "what things will you want to have in about a week?"We'll get everything eventually, and it seems like it will even out over the long term.

Proceeding under that assumption, let's think about what we want right now.
The immediate focus I see right now is Lee. He's probably heading in this direction, and he's a definite threat to us and our teammate.

What things do we want in order to deal with him? What do the priorities get us, not in the long run, but in the short term?
Communication: Prioritized, I mostly see this used for introducing the Process to our team or family. Most things that we could use it for, Blue can do just as well IMO. Leaving it only able to talk to us is a possibility, if we want to really bunker down and do something specific.

Biology: I see this as one of our anti-Boriah tools... maybe. This is what builds towards "fix Aya's eye", which I think is a laudable goal.

Chemistry... Similar to Biology, but on an offensive bent. Biology can help us figure out how to fix whatever he did, but Chemistry could help us drug him- and while he can fleshshape away physical wounds, it's up in the air as to whether he can deal with chemicals.

Evolution- Not really sure what this is useful for right now. It kinda fits in between Communication in that it will help us introduce it to people, War in that it's more powerful, and Replication in that it makes it a bit safer? Still, I think this one is an easy ignore overall.

Assimilation: I don't like the idea of ignoring it, but I don't think we need to focus on it yet. This is really only useful if we combine it with knowledge IMO.

Replication- Mainly important to keep a random event or battle for killing it. I don't think we can really afford ignoring it, but that might just be paranoia.

War: A direct Hunting tool. I don't think we can use it that well against Boriah (see Chemistry), and I doubt that Grimm will come up especially soon. I'd say either:
-Ignore
-Take as a focus with some of Evolution and Replication

Redshirt Army said:

By the same token, I expect that we'll be better served observing it carefully to see how it naturally develops first before coming down with the decrees from God. I can see an argument for prioritizing communication, since that lets us get a better insight on its thoughts, but I'm very much in favor of generally affecting development as little as possible at this stage - this formative period is going to have a grossly oversized effect on it's total development, which means almost any pushes can't help but be too heavy-handed.

Even something as seemingly benign as the "Ignore War" option is rife with issues. Many of the main questions that the Process is fundamentally designed to address are violence based - Boriah and the Grimm. Stunting development in that area may later come across as us not trusting the Process to perform its literal reason for existence.

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Decrees from god? Jaune is the creator watching and raising a kid. The thing we should definitely be worried about is it gaining abilities and powers to utilize when it's still pretty much a kid. Seriously, have you read about child-likepowerful beings that cause immense damage because they were too young to understand a ton of concepts including underestanding the consequences of it's actions? Remember a quest where we had a golem with a childs mind that nearly killed someone because it didn't underestand the concept of death and killing.

Just saying that letting a kid reach for a weapon while their still a toddler seems like a very bad idea. Once it's matured more we can see about easing up on the war restrictions.

Red Bovine said:

Decrees from god? Jaune is the creator watching and raising a kid. The thing we should definitely be worried about is it gaining abilities and powers to utilize when it's still pretty much a kid. Seriously, have you read about child-likepowerful beings that cause immense damage because they were too young to understand a ton of concepts including underestanding the consequences of it's actions? Remember a quest where we had a golem with a childs mind that nearly killed someone because it didn't underestand the concept of death and killing.

Just saying that letting a kid reach for a weapon while their still a toddler seems like a very bad idea. Once it's matured more we can see about easing up on the war restrictions.

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Except...it cannot reach for those weapons?

Read the descriptions for leaving things as they are and remember that Prok said the Process would be pretty weak and need time.

Rather than priorities, we should spend time with the Process to understand morality. None of these skills help with that. Not even communication as it is unnecessary for Jaune to communicate with it and Neutral still allows the Process to communicate.

Sivantic said:

Except...it cannot reach for those weapons?

Read the descriptions for leaving things as they are and remember that Prok said the Process would be pretty weak and need time.

Rather than priorities, we should spend time with the Process to understand morality. None of these skills help with that. Not even communication as it is unnecessary for Jaune to communicate with it and Neutral still allows the Process to communicate.

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That's understandable, but the reason I'm picking speech to focus on and combat to ignore is because we also need to get other people to acclimate to them, sentient, physical masses of code is something new, and we need to be able to show that they can be... Human, I guess.

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Prok said:

As for the roll... that picture's accurate, I'm glad I'm getting so much mileage out of it, because I too extend my arms about 20 feet in both directions when I don't believe something's happened.

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This is especially hilarious to me for reasons that will become apparent later.

Prok said:

... The entire point of priorities is that some things are more important than others.

If you prioritise one thing, something else needs to be ignored so the extra time and processing power can be devoted to the priority task.

Balance must be kept.

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Prok said:

[]REPLICATION- PRIORITISE: By the end of the week, there will be enough mesh to support a small cadre of Process units, as well as officially moving it into the realms of the truly immortal.

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I'd like to start with Replication Priority so that we can have multiple adorable puppy-spheres floating around (and to unlock more processing power for it), but I'm not sure what to give up in exchange.

Prok said:

[] Marked. (Mark of The Outsider, Dishonored)
[] Rebirth. (Link, Legend Of Zelda) The Hero Lives On In You. As You. As He Has Before. His Mark Adorns Your Left Hand Already.
[X] Start() (The Transistor, from, er, Transistor) "... Hey. Look, whatever you're thinking, do me a favour; don't let go."
[] Wraith. (Not-Celebrimbor, Shadow Of Mordor) Their Minds Will Be Forfeit.
[] North Star.(Hokuto No Ken- Shin Ken- Whatever Ken, Fist Of The North Star.) ... What? If the name doesn't give it away, I don't think I can help you here.
[] Vox Deus Vox Dei Verbum Dei THE WORD OF GOD FROM PREACHER I'M BAD AT LATIN OK
[] Pillar. (Pillar Man, JoJo) You Have No Masters To Awaken.
[] Spiral. (Spiral Power, TTGL) Every Moment, Every Second, We Move Forward. Like A Drill.
[] aberrant (Aberration, The Zombie Knight)SOUL GLUTTON. HOW DARE YOU BLIGHT THIS WORLD WITH YOUR PRESENCE.
[] Ten Meti.(Disciple Of Meti, Kill Six Billion Demons.) Is The Violent Breath Of Life In You Not Hot? Exhale! Exult!
[] 100%. (Shigeo Kageyama, "Mob," Mob Psycho 100)

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Remember when @Prok considered this to be one of the low-power options? Good times, good times.

Wow, lots of crazy rolls in quests I follow recently (another had the final boss kill itself the first turn of it's battle by double crit-failing an attempt to kool-aid man through an unmovable/unbreakable object by accelerating to the speed of light).

Anyways, here's my plan. Namely focusing on making sure we can't loose it due to some strange happenstance, biology and chemistry are low priorities that can be caught up later. Also, we should show it off to our friends while it's still adorable and not able communicate like a professional speaker.

[X] Plan: Lay a Foundation
-[X] EVOLUTION- PRIORITISE: By the end of the week, it will have evolved into a Creep, and grown to about the size of an actual puppy, and gained some control over its form, namely size.
-[X] REPLICATION- PRIORITISE: By the end of the week, there will be enough mesh to support a small cadre of Process units, as well as officially moving it into the realms of the truly immortal.
-[X] BIOLOGY- IGNORE: 'The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.'
-[X] CHEMISTRY- IGNORE: It won't make anything too dangerous right off the bat. Because it doesn't know how to.

[X] Plan: Lay a Foundation

@Prok Do we get an achievement for nat crit on a dream roll on the exact turn we received a +50 bonus to dreaming?

[X] Plan Au Naturel

Huh. We're doin' it live, then.

Appealing though letting them do their own thing and seeing where it goes may be, I think we should make sure they're safe, first.

... that's vaguely ominous... I'm concerned about their well-being, not paranoid.

[X] Plan: Lay a Foundation

[X] Plan: Innocent Survival
-[X]REPLICATION- PRIORITISE: By the end of the week, there will be enough mesh to support a small cadre of Process units, as well as officially moving it into the realms of the truly immortal.
-[X] WAR- (HUH) WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR: What are you, some kinda hippie?

Tiypo said:

Wow, lots of crazy rolls in quests I follow recently (another had the final boss kill itself the first turn of it's battle by double crit-failing an attempt to kool-aid man through an unmovable/unbreakable object by accelerating to the speed of light).

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Which quest was that? You can tell me in a spoiler or over PMs, so no one else is spoiled.

[X] Plan Au Naturel

...So will we ever shrink the Transistor into a dagger/supercomputer/reality manipulation device/whatever the fuck it can be and not make us look like some kind of 'SHOOT ME' sign?

[X] Plan: Lay a Foundation

Best possible time for a crit, We should probably make sure Ada never hears about the aneurysm. I'm not sure how much survivor's guilt she has but hearing that her best friend had an aneurysm immiedately after she told him about her past won't do anything good to it.

[X] Plan Love, Not War