Now that makes more sense. People can hardly express their awe for us properly, if we're busy doing it already.
Abrogation (Steampunk)
so next objective is to build Mechanicsburg?
- Location
- A single human dimension
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- She/Her
As an aside, the creations of Inspired do not operate off belief. A stick will remain a stick even if untold thousands of people believe it's a magic wand. You can, however, play with physical traits. For Skybreaker, this was primarily used for durability/containment and to create a fuel source that (as far as you know) breaks the guideline of conservation of energy.
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Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
I can see why it has the "artillery" tag now. I'm not sure why, but I was expecting smallish rifts, maybe big enough to ride a horse through. This is... something else entirely.
...Also, we should probably close that rift sooner rather than later. >_>
I guess Inspired have a bigger say in the Consensus.
Near-crit.
I guess this is a measure of how much belief you'd need behind you to build something that could out-bullshit Skybreaker's durability, rather than direct test of opposed belief-power?
How big is Skybreaker? Would it object to being used as a melee weapon in extremis? Would it bite people that we hit with it?
Hum, interesting. So it's... lower-level, for lack of a better word? Belief isn't coherent or detailed enough to directly produce artifacts, and artifacts once constructed play by the rules that they were built with, but belief can bend reality enough for an Inspired to will more subtle effects into reality? A particular material to be more durable than it should be, pieces fit together in ways they really shouldn't, similar effects?
- Location
- Bowling Green
[X] Share your name: Lorelei von Mendel. It'll make it easier for your parents to find you, but it'll also help you establish a reputation as quickly as possible.
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- A single human dimension
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- She/Her
About as tall as you are. No objections. Yes, but without sustained contact, it wouldn't do that much extra damage to most humans.
Depending on what you mean by this, possibly not. You could have high explosives detonate in the barrel as a weapon. Normally a dumb idea, perfectly fine if the barrel is adjusted. Glass tubes that would normally shatter in open flame can travel right through it. That sort of thing.
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- va
[X] Share your name: Lorelei von Mendel. It'll make it easier for your parents to find you, but it'll also help you establish a reputation as quickly as possible.
Motile Mollusc
Bitten by a radioactive were-tilde
- Location
- Here
You know, I wonder if an isolated Inspired could over time could push the boundaries of what works in their area?
like, if reality expects the properties of things to change when they're being worked on, and Inspiration is just bluffing reality into accepting way more than it should. Out here in the middle of nowhere, we have very few example of what bronze can turn into, so Inspiration says "Crystal. Trust me on this.". Reality does a quick survey, and we've got several hundred minds going "eh. Seems legit." and no prior cases of bronze not turning into crystal, so it's allowed. In a city, bronze is worked often enough that saying "crystal" has lots of past history of that never happening, and thousands of minds going "That doesn't seem right."
But here in this place, we now have an established example of bronze turning into crystal. Can we do it again? Maybe, maybe not. But if we do do it again and again, reality now has loads of prior cases of it happening, and no counter arguments. So, bronze into crystal becomes a normal thing here, like water into steam.
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- A single human dimension
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- She/Her
You honestly feel like it's better than anything you've personally seen. Certain high-end creations might be about equal, but although you've heard of such devices, you've never seen them.
Your parents don't even have any individual item equaling even the original version of Skybreaker. However, having numerous upper-middle quality Clockwork minions is a point in their favor and you know better than to underestimate simpler equipment. Just look at lightning rods.
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Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
Sweet, we have a bitchin' wizard's staff, complete with awesome nobody-expects-the-wizard-to-have-full-BAB skull-bashing action.
Causing pain on touch isn't great for causing damage, but it'll probably do wonders for messing with people's concentration during a fight.
@Alivaril Do we understand more or less everything there is to understand about Skybreaker, or would we have to do some tests? Like, would we know how much pull a 1 km sized void rift would have? Do we know if Skybreaker would survive being poked into the Void, being near indestructible?
Also, a non-skybreaker-specific question. If we poke something partially into the Void, and pull it out, is it cleanly cut off at wherever it stopped going in?
Also, a non-skybreaker-specific question. If we poke something partially into the Void, and pull it out, is it cleanly cut off at wherever it stopped going in?
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- A single human dimension
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- She/Her
Tests.
You don't think it inherently destroys anything it takes. You just won't be getting anything back from it.
If you poke part of something into a void rift, you can generally assume you're not getting the rest of it back either. In fact, if you're that close, you'd often be in danger.
[X] Just instruct the spectators to flee and leave the area yourself. They'll talk, certainly, but nobody is close enough to get a good look at your features. Switching your hairstyle and changing clothes should (hopefully) be more than enough to throw them off track, assuming you cover Skybreaker with something.
I imagine if we disappear we'd just be known as The Skybreaker
I imagine if we disappear we'd just be known as The Skybreaker
I was under the impression that itty bitty rifts were safe enough. Rifts small enough that we physically CAN'T go through it, even if they were sucky-enough. We considered using it to keep the area around us free of mosquitoes.
Nixeu
Lord of Madness, Harbinger of Llamas
- Location
- Your nightmares.
Not "no chance". We've been able to discern possibilities. But the acronyms can make it harder on us.I believe that that's the point, yes. Alivaril has a habit of rolling dice in public so the rolls are easy to find and we can't claim he's cheating, but in such volume and with such cryptic tags that there's no chance of anyone figuring out anything unduly important.
...There are SO MANY inappropriate jokes I could make right now. You're damn lucky I'm too lazy to look up the lyrics to Terry Pratchett's "A Wizard's Staff has a Knob on the End". Or at least, what few lines we got.
...Are we channeling the power of Chaos, by any chance?
I have absolutely no regrets about our choice of first creation. Though I do have to wonder how awesome that gun would have been, if all of these options were meant to be equally advanced. Or maybe just equally reality breaking? Whatever.
Now that you mention it, it does sound like a wonderful idea. That said, apparently buildings would screw with the effect. What we need is an army. One that we can use to bolster our control over reality.
Certainly explains why eating your Inspiration gives you superpowers. I wonder if that's just another type of symbiosis, or if, by consuming the light, it becomes a more exploitative relationship, with the host in control.
I mean, technically, bronze does form a crystalline lattice structure, or at least can. So it's not entirely out of the question to make a crystal from a type of copper-alloy (the definitions of bronze and brass being a touch...elastic, that's often the term used in archeology).
Do we not have the option of taking on an assumed name? Are we too Stubborn for that?
but that's the thing the buildings aren't the thing that screws with the effect it's more that you have so many people who just don't believe all the BS you can pull off hence why if we can make something like mechanicsburg we could pull it off. It's a town filled with people who already know you can pull all kinds of BS off so therefore you can
Nixeu
Lord of Madness, Harbinger of Llamas
- Location
- Your nightmares.
Maybe, maybe not. The effect buildings have may still have an impact. Also, armies are much lower investment, in terms of time. Also, we'll likely want one anyway in order to be able to hold anything we conquer. So the captive audience is just the icing on the cake, really.
"You couldn't do this in a city, for instance; artificial structures and expectations would work against you. Reality would have a predefined set of rules and you'd have an exceptionally difficult time fighting them."
@Nixeu
You're right it does say that artificial structures would affect it.
As for investment? I would think that the army is a lower initial investment but a high upkeep cost for the logistics vs the castle/city that has a high initial investment but would, hopefully, make money. Granted you could use an army to make money by attacking places but that would get you enemies until you scare everyone off.
@Nixeu
You're right it does say that artificial structures would affect it.
As for investment? I would think that the army is a lower initial investment but a high upkeep cost for the logistics vs the castle/city that has a high initial investment but would, hopefully, make money. Granted you could use an army to make money by attacking places but that would get you enemies until you scare everyone off.
Nixeu
Lord of Madness, Harbinger of Llamas
- Location
- Your nightmares.
Not what I was talking about. Mechanicsburg is the result of centuries of semi-accidental selective breeding and culture-building. It's people are near-perfect minions, and term incredibly helpful to any effort Heterodyne decides to make. It's got serious history. It's too high a bar to hit within any rational timeframe. And it would take way too much time, and probably require building a cult centering on ourselves.
Now, we might own cities. And they might even be a source of an audience. However, if we do get one, we'll likely want an army to help us hold onto it, if not to conquer it in the first place. And that army makes for an excellent captive audience. One we can train to help back us up, and to boost our Inspiration. And we're likely to have an army before we have a city, so...
[x] Just instruct the spectators to flee and leave the area yourself. They'll talk, certainly, but nobody is close enough to get a good look at your features. Switching your hairstyle and changing clothes should (hopefully) be more than enough to throw them off track, assuming you cover Skybreaker with something.
kinigget
Best Demon
- Location
- People's Republic of Portland
[X] Just instruct the spectators to flee and leave the area yourself. They'll talk, certainly, but nobody is close enough to get a good look at your features. Switching your hairstyle and changing clothes should (hopefully) be more than enough to throw them off track, assuming you cover Skybreaker with something.
I am thoroughly pleased with our first creation
I am thoroughly pleased with our first creation