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- Fabulously Rainbow Ireland
That's Loom, Erasmus is the budget TT who hit on Geode.veekie said:
Alchemical Solutions [Worm/Exalted] Thread 10: Journey Joins Juniors, Jerk Jinxes Juju
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- exalted (white wolf) worm
Or we take the chance on Uriel and go to him with a proposal to try to bring the Undersiders in.veekie said:
One of his big concerns is apparently that we're secretive, and this could at least partially allay that.
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- Fabulously Rainbow Ireland
Yes she isveekie said:
Sounds like fun then.Daemir Silverstreak said:Something along the lines of this I would imagine.
Gromweld
Learning By Mistake
No one, not even Autobot, knows that it's the Game Over for Everything if Taylor fails. However, Taylor is from a reality where the existence of the multiverse is common knowledge; the term 'world' and 'universe' are more interchangeable in Earth-Bet. As a result, this was meant to be more of an over-dramatic 'save the world' thing, but I've since changed that line to make things more ambiguous for the Soul vote and thus rendered this whole matter moot.Klaus said:
There are three side-perks to meditating on your exaltation, and this was the one that came up on the random roll first. The two you have left are similarly nifty/amusing, I feel.Klaus said:
This gave me an idea for a plot much later down the line. Good work. Yes, you should be worried.Anasurimbor said:
It was mentioned in 6.1, but Uriel had Taylor put her armor through Tinkertech Approval and PR Approval. Tinkertech took the week, but PR just looked at the request and laughed while insta-approving it.uju32 said:
This is more a testament to the rotation of PRT guards through the various bases, actually.uju32 said:
"Hel~lo, friend."uju32 said:
If you want a mental image for her normal face, it's somewhat like Death here, here, and here. She's a hit at birthday parties!uju32 said:
I laugh, because I am reminded of DotA2 players that are muted, but still spam emotes like, "Good Game!" or "Top Missing!"uju32 said:
By weighing Taylor down and confining her to a small circle, it became more of test/exercise for pure Dodging, rather than Dexterity+Dodging. Also, yes, Bladedancer was going harder on Taylor than the other BB Wards.uju32 said:
In Worm, there is a close correlation to degree of mental handicap/instability and the strength of one's powers. Worth thinking about.uju32 said:
"I can only use cockroaches tomorrow? That should give me enough time to prepare."uju32 said:
He was hoping you'd shoot yourself in the foot and do as you have been doing for a while now: keep your secrets to yourself.uju32 said:
Butterfly effects are a bitch, but he maaay be making it seem worse than it really was.uju32 said:
PR is in charge of that, and they'll be getting new ones soon (as will Aisha).uju32 said:
She'll be our chaperone for the Anima trip.uju32 said:
Elsewhere is a blank void. I think you may be mis-remembering our visions of Autochthon's world-body from a 'see the whole planet' distance.uju32 said:
Completely mundane/blank, just like everything else in this multiverse.uju32 said:
All the BB Wards are getting therapy, mandated by the Philadelphia Youth Guard.uju32 said:
The billowing smoke clouds of your anima rain liquid soulsteel flakes at the highest level. They (wisely) wanted none of that.uju32 said:
Max Payne 3 for the first, but I suppose that in itself was a reference to the Glen Campbell. Just listened to the song, not bad. Got the second one, though.uju32 said:
As far as he knows, they don't have to hang around. He could get credit for bringing them in and then send them off elsewhere where they would be less of a disruption.Amberion said:
Given Who is the sister of one of the members of the gang, it it's pretty likely they're going to turn up anyway, and being proactive about the situation should allow him to exert more control over it, which seems to be something he's fixated on.
Some media exposure of quite what that healing involved should shut that down right quick. I'm amazed it's been allowed to go on as long as it has.Jinnt said:
So best to delay until we can be at least sure that Uriel would hear us out then. If we make contact earlier than that HE would do something unadvisable about the Undersiders and push them over the edge. Sending Aisha out is risky for the opposite reason. Her loyalty to the PRT is at present, fairly limited, but her budding friendship with Missy and Dennis should help on that end.
*sight* That's likely going to take several weeks minimum. Post S9 appearance anyway.veekie said:
Gromweld
Learning By Mistake
We won't see the whole thing, but there will be enough references to what you said on camera to get a decent picture of the event.Jinnt said:
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Yay! I'm helping!Gromweld said:
It's probably a secret that rather than a heroic sacrifice he only makes at the most critical junctures he cuts himself to allow higher intensity training - I just can't see the public accepting it, and the PRT is still subject to public opinion at this point.Jinnt said:
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STOP HELPING!! Don't stop actually, this will be fun, from a reader's standpoint .Anasurimbor said:
We could try to fast track gaining his approval, I can see a few ways to score points with Uriel even given his restrictions:landcollector said:
1) Get the independent heroes and rogues of Philadelphia more organized so the PRT doesn't need to take an active hand to keep crime down. They have the manpower, but are poorly organized, leaving cracks for villains to cause trouble in(and that's where the precogs are needed to counter, or having poor mutual support. Preferably under the PRT of course, but Uriel seems to be socially Armsmaster with a better Manipulation, so just establishing lines of communication and getting information on them may help. Incidentally this would reap great returns for the S9's arrival.
Presence, Socialize, Investigation, Bureaucracy, War. Powers optional
2) War on crime. Gather solid, actionable data on crime in the city, and figure out a plan of attack to put them out of business. Deliver said plan to Chevalier so he can see about putting the strategy to work, then once it plays out, we'd have his favor, if only for making his job so much easier.
Stealth, Investigation, War, Optical Shroud, SoPA
3) Enact social change. Starve crime from the roots, wield economics like a scalpel, make it more profitable for capes to operate as rogues than as villains, reduce the ordinary criminal number. Good luck getting this done in reasonable amounts of time though.
Bureaucracy, Performance, Presence, Socialize, Investigation.
We're not just charms. We got amazing stats and reputation to use.
A strange definition of fun, I think...NotAlwaysFanfic said:
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It's the Dwarf Fortress definition. So yes, it is strange.landcollector said:
Our charms are a big deal though. Anything we can do without them, a Thinker can probably do better. We're very clever, but many of our other skills aren't amazing, particularly without the ability to use IEU and lacking an efficient bug computer interface denying us the ability to abuse SoPA to massively multitask.veekie said:
They are, but that's no reason to let it get us down. Charms are locked? Cool, we'll work without. Optical Enhancement, and Augmentations still work, used in moderation.Alratan said:
As for SoPA, I imagine the bug computer interface would be up on the crafting shortlist as soon as we finish sorting out our meditation. We can delegate some of the design work to the real Tinkers, if they can be persuaded.
Time to play suck-up and prove IEU and our other charms are safe to use then.Jinnt said:
Or commute from somewhere else, if we can persuade the twins to play ball.landcollector said:
Hence my mention of talking local Tinkers into making the first copy(Chris would probably do it in an instant, Bezalel might be a harder sell given how pissed he sounded at not getting to use iEU). We're good and pretty fast at copying stuff, but designing something new is horribly time consuming for us because we're bullshitting the science with Lore rather than a Tinker shard and generally kitbashing it out of available parts.Jinnt said:
So I guess get Kid Win started on a BCI while we make headway against one of the objectives? The sooner we show Uriel some results the sooner he'd unlock some charm use for us.
We don't need a BCI. The firefly trick I proposed before should be plenty good enough, particularly if we can get Dragon to feel sorry for our plight and have her program it.veekie said:
Well, whatever we do we need to talk a real Tinker into doing it because we have to get permission to make our crafting efficient. So delegate while we see about improving the city, one way or another.Alratan said:
Personally favor a mix of 1 and 3 though. We could scout out the villains under Optical Shroud, but it'd just leave us weaker when the S9 hit. Much better to increase heroic teamwork and coordination, improving the city so it's less vulnerable, let Uriel know we're good for more than just beating up capes
Talking of vans, I wonder what it would cost to buy a big one and park it outside school all day. Once we get a decent insect computer interface up and running we can have a mobile workshop placed in one of the containers with drone robots, and have a spider terrarium set up in the other. That should allow us to get back on top of crafting things we can then leverage for greater influence.
We can ask Kid Win to do us a favour with designing a computer interface (probably specifying we want a unit that can contain an arbitrary array of communication cells, each using a firefly or similar, to exploit his modularity focus), but that's probably the best we can do on that.
I don't see how we can improve the city at a useful speed. We have neither the influence or the skills to do so, and don't have the charms to bypass those limitations. Performance 1, Socialise 2, Bureaucracy 2 just aren't enough for this, and we've opted not to take the more broadly social choices for this arc that would allow us to rapidly improve them.veekie said:
We can ask Kid Win to do us a favour with designing a computer interface (probably specifying we want a unit that can contain an arbitrary array of communication cells, each using a firefly or similar, to exploit his modularity focus), but that's probably the best we can do on that.
Uriel explicitly forbidden us from meeting his two prize Thinkers I think? So we can't make that work. Yet.iamnuff said:
Start with Plan 1, get in good with the heroes and rogues of the city first, that'd be pretty time consuming in it's own right, especially since we can't forget about our friends now that we got them here. Offer help with planning raids on villain power centers maybe. Plan 3 needs connections, Resources and more skills.Alratan said: