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Abrogation (Steampunk)

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[x] Change course and leave the League. You've delivered your warning, now time to continue onward.
-[x] Head for the mountains to the southwest. It should be sparsely settled, so it should be easy to pass through the League without being bothered and come out on its east border.
Vote change, mountains gives us place for mining.
 
[x] Change course and leave the League. You've delivered your warning, now time to continue onward.
-[x] Head for the mountains to the southwest. It should be sparsely settled, so it should be easy to pass through the League without being bothered and come out on its east border.
[x] Attempt to hug inspiration.

Mainly because the other options suck.

Also apparently other stuff I said that didn't get responses got buried in discussion and forgotten, so:

Even if we can't *upgrade* skybreaker, does that preclude making some kind of amplifier that connects *around* it, and makes up for the lack of quality with the size of the machinery and the brute force energy from Gift?

Could we rig up whatever link this spyclock has to send information back, and the info war suite on Gift, to probe the network on the other side to deliberately send information, and maybe even get some information on whats on the other side back if it happens to be connected to some larger network?

Is the void a single 3-brane parallel with our world, or is it any or some combination of not-flat, several branes, or higher in dimensional? Does it ever move in relation to our world, or are things dumber into it still floating around near where we left them?

Does "Nature of Inspiration" count as a field of knowledge that information can grant access to? If so, is it not doing so because it's afraid we'd use the knowledge against it?

If we made a mind that was inspired, but was had no capability for emotions, goals, or memory, and just mindlessly did what inspiration tole it to, would that effectively give inspiration a body of it's own? Actually, just capturing an existing weak inspired and lobotomizing them might do this.

Does warklanks and vehicles and other things powered by Gift's portals also let gift remote control them?

How hard would it be to build a slightly larger (maybe 20cm) portal frame like the one used for powering things of Gift, and have it open to the Void?
 
Oh I didn't know about that. I don't really regular these forums I got recommended this specific thread from elsewhere.

Hey @Alivaril check out the above post?
 
Hmm, think I'll stick to my vote to go north. I prefer having more familiarity with the land, and I also want to go somewhere we'll be able to buy materials for inventions. I feel like mountain communities won't have a lot of parts we can use to build stuff.
 
[x] Vebyast

For reasons they've stated, mountains seem safe and out of the way while we let the heat die down a bit before our next grand act of blasphemy.
 
[x] Vebyast

Going low key for a while in the mountains sounds like a good option, after the two surges we pulled in the league.
 
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[X] Vebyast

It gets us away from the public eye much more effectively than many of the other options, and mountainous terrain us good for building a concealed base in, if need be.
 
Kai Merah said:
And honestly, I'm not in favour of going to the mountains with all those isolated little communities that will instantly mark and remember us as foreign. I'd rather go to familiar lands where we will have some idea of the terrain and government instead of plunging totally into the unknown again.
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I suspect that we'll be pretty easy to follow no matter what we do. Especially now that they know we have a staff and can start getting the word out about that. Given Skybreaker, I think that our best bet for staying ahead of the message is to find the most horrible terrain we can and travel straight through it. Bonus points for taking cuts through outright impassable geography; it doesn't matter if they track us to a particular village if the next village we hopped to is in another pass and the only way to the one we're in is all the way out of the range, around, and back in. That kind of terrain probably even slows down Empowered, though maybe not enough.
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Neither would really work. If anything, the ratio of benefits per person would be worse than in a city. Too many people doing the same or similar tasks day after day.
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Hmm. That's annoying. But that's only for audience-powered surges, right? If we asked to borrow the town's forge and went for some minor surge we wouldn't be meaningfully impeded?

Also, now that I think about it, Prometheus is going to be great for public relations. It's pretty obvious from its body language that its personality is "giant friendly puppy".

edit: I bet Prometheus is good with kids. Dogs usually are.
 
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Vebyast said:
Given Skybreaker, I think that our best bet for staying ahead of the message is to find the most horrible terrain we can and travel straight through it. Bonus points for taking cuts through outright impassable geography; it doesn't matter if they track us to a particular village if the next village we hopped to is in another pass and the only way to the one we're in is all the way out of the range, around, and back in.
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OK, this argument convinces me.

[x] Vebyast
 
Not forgotten, although since I didn't answer when I got home, I don't really mind the reminder.
Alivaril said:
@ArmokGoB Your questions will be answered once I get home, although I believe a few have already come up in thread.
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ArmokGoB said:
Even if we can't *upgrade* skybreaker, does that preclude making some kind of amplifier that connects *around* it, and makes up for the lack of quality with the size of the machinery and the brute force energy from Gift?
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You think that would be possible, yes.


ArmokGoB said:
Could we rig up whatever link this spyclock has to send information back, and the info war suite on Gift, to probe the network on the other side to deliberately send information, and maybe even get some information on whats on the other side back if it happens to be connected to some larger network?
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Whatever it once had is almost certainly destroyed by now. Apart from that, you're not sure. Maybe? Even if you could, the information would be given to Prometheus, not you.

ArmokGoB said:
Is the void a single 3-brane parallel with our world, or is it any or some combination of not-flat, several branes, or higher in dimensional? Does it ever move in relation to our world, or are things dumber into it still floating around near where we left them?
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You're pretty sure it's both three-dimensional and you think it might not move in relation to your own world. Whether they'll still be there when you next check is a different story.

ArmokGoB said:
Does "Nature of Inspiration" count as a field of knowledge that information can grant access to? If so, is it not doing so because it's afraid we'd use the knowledge against it?
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You don't know.

ArmokGoB said:
If we made a mind that was inspired, but was had no capability for emotions, goals, or memory, and just mindlessly did what inspiration tole it to, would that effectively give inspiration a body of it's own? Actually, just capturing an existing weak inspired and lobotomizing them might do this.
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You don't think making Inspired is possible. The Light of Inspiration seems to be the only one capable of such. Apart from that: You don't know, but you doubt it. Other Light cultists are sure to have tried it at some point or another.

ArmokGoB said:
Does warklanks and vehicles and other things powered by Gift's portals also let gift remote control them?
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Not yet.

ArmokGoB said:
How hard would it be to build a slightly larger (maybe 20cm) portal frame like the one used for powering things of Gift, and have it open to the Void?
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You think it'd be much more difficult than making a frame to link with Prometheus. It has already done three-quarters of the work.
 
More questions for @Alivaril :

Light cultists? What do we know about those? What does inspirations opinion on them seem to be?

What channels does Gift have that'd let the energy link double as a control link? At the very least presumably there's a measure of the power drain and modulation of the total power so that to much isn't sent to something that isn't using it, but is there als maybe something like phase Gift can modulate? Even if we only have that, could we use something like Power-line communication - Wikipedia ?

What happens if we request access from inspiration to basic knowledge on "data compression", "communications protocols" and "side channel communication", and then immediately apply those to the side channel that we've been using of field-of-knowledge access being used to communicate Inspirations mood or opinion on things, to allow inspiration to send us more complex and explicit messages?

How much materials and time do we think would be needed for that cutting torch/melee weapon idea? It should be just a tiny bit of clockwork right, since the battery is already both the power supply and has the ability to vent that energy in a way that's just a less controlled version of what we want?
 
[X] Vebyast

Because the mountains seem like a good place to avoid notice, with a sideline of:

[X] Attempt to give Inspiration a hug

Because D'awww.
 
[x] Change course and leave the League. You've delivered your warning, now time to continue onward.
-[x] Head for the mountains to the southwest.

Vote change, mountains gives us a bit of breathing space and peace.
 
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