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Alchemical Solutions [Worm/Exalted] Thread 16: Playful Parasites Pervert Prayer, Perpetuate Plagues

We don't have to deny it. It is irrelevant. Jack is lying, all we need to do is negate him. (Negation via crater a preference.)

The God he speaks of is not our God, even if he stole a religious figure of ours and strung them up unable to speak as "proof."
 
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Sure but if we are to clear Autochthon's good name then there will probably be a public reveal that he exists. If we lie about the facts then that could have consequences down the road.
 
Autochthon is a powerful Tinker from another world. He saved our life and asked us to save him and the people of his world. His physics are not our physics, but his people are people and they need help. We can save them from a dying world; they can save us from the Endbringers. (We'll want to back up that latter with Marrow PAWNCHing Leviathan.)

In Earth Bet terms, his technology also runs on gratitude, trust, and admiration, but that is a later thing. (Exalted Prayer can be run off of heartwarming musical numbers somewhat effectively.)
 
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Do Taylor and Sirkalla worship Autochthon? I mean he is a literal creator deity so if you are going to worship anyone then he is a pretty good choice. This arc seems like a good place to explore that sort of thing in addition to punching the Nine several times in uncomfortable places. Maybe we could even start spreading Autochthonia's state religion to EarthBet if we wanted to. Yep.
 
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Not necessarily. In canon, the projection was able to protect Manton by rendering invulnerable the car he was driving.
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Invulnerable but, I seem to recall, not opaque. So the question arises: given that you're in an invulnerable car, what does that do to minimum safe distance to a nuclear detonation? Light can penetrate, which means other radiation plausibly can as well. I wonder if vibration could?
 
I would like to see the reaction if we applied to have worship of Autochthon recognized as an official religion under national law. I don't think it would be too hard to do. I bet plenty of people would join too! Freedom of religion, man. :)
 
The real nasty bit is if they manage to corrupt the Eye into drawing on the Engine of Extinction, rather than Autocthon.

Gremlin Syndrome is the last thing that Bonesaw needs to get her hands on.

But yeah, after this I foresee our PR being all but unrecoverable. Even if it's all false, it was the first impression that many people got, and that's what matters. I think we're going to be very limited in the pool of people who are willing to join us, now. And we'll probably be getting more interference from Saint and people like him who think we're ushering in the apocalypse. We'll also be getting a lot of close oversight from inside the PRT, in addition to what they already had (security measures against us? Really guys.).

This is what we get when we trust a government organization so thoroughly. They squeeze us for everything we can offer, and they hide behind "need to know" and "clearance" when it comes to equity. Then they're inept when it comes to protecting that information. Taylor risked it all on the heroes and now the Great Work is in jeopardy. Nine people may have just doomed everything, everywhere, to Oblivion.

SO! The new objectives are: Save who we can, kill the S9, reclaim as much PR as possible and railroad as many Alchemicals as we can before the rest of the populace turns against us. Then fast-track Autobot's arrival, head down to the pub and have a pint.
 
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Invulnerable but, I seem to recall, not opaque. So the question arises: given that you're in an invulnerable car, what does that do to minimum safe distance to a nuclear detonation? Light can penetrate, which means other radiation plausibly can as well. I wonder if vibration could?
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As long as it can't change the invulnerable object in any way. So just put Manton in a cardboard box and you're mostly fine.
 
sun tzu said:
Not necessarily. In canon, the projection was able to protect Manton by rendering invulnerable the car he was driving.
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A decent sized bomb would kill the people inside an invulnerable car while leaving the car intact.

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As long as it can't change the invulnerable object in any way. So just put Manton in a cardboard box and you're mostly fine.
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The neutron flux from a nuclear weapon would go right through a cardboard box and kill him pretty easily. As would plenty of microwaves. The absorption cross section of cardboard isn't that great.
 
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If someone was put in the Cradle, could Autochthon start the process, give them a soul and then pull out the soul stone and drag the shard though the pinhole, dissect the shard and then just stop? Don't spend the resources to make a shardlike supercharm, don't build an exalt body, take the intimate understanding of the shard and free up the cradle, discarding the rest of the subject.

A tinker would provide Autochthon with the complete technical knowledge of an advanced civilsation from our universe (more even - at the time of harvesting they would have had 300 years to learn from their tinkers access to the knowledge of previous victims).

The trick will be letting Him know not to re-embody Alan Gramme.

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People here like creepy tea parties more than cyber-gorillas. Who are you people and what have you done with the internet?
 
Err Siberean\Manton can choose what forces she can null. If she wants radiation to stop. It stops. She does the same for gravity all the time.
 
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"I apologize for abusing your gift barely an hour after it was given. Uzu and Tatsu were unavailable, and my city desperately needed my presence, but you are a person - not a vessel of transportation."
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Good job, Marrow. Costs us nothing to treat Strider decently and pays dividends later in that we have a teleporter that doesn't hate our guts for using him as a glorified taxi service.

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Not that you have much choice in the matter, as your Plasma Thruster Assembly apparently only has one speed: ramming speed.
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That's a very strange interpretation of the charm. I'm going to assume it's because she doesn't have her charms properly calibrated because the alternative is dumb.

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Reaching up with both hands, your smooth helmet snaps off your head with a single fluid motion.

Bladedancer turns at the sound, and you meet her lips with yours.

The world does not go white, this time, though the joy is similar.
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SHIPPING INTENSIFIES

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Indeed, the sheer audacity of the move threatens to bring a smile to your face and you feel your essence reserves surge in response to the display.
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FPoP has discovered stunting! It is super effective!

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You anticipate a thorough chastising from Uriel after this, but it will be worth it.
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It totally is.

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You're barely done with the first five when you feel Bladedancer's index and middle finger walking them way up the front of your armor until they reach the base of your helmet.

"Off," she growls, playfully. "Now."

Though you have much more pressing matters to attend to, now that you no longer have to wait on others to clear you an opening, it would be a waste of time trying to convince her otherwise.

The crystal helm has barely crested your forehead when Bladedancer yanks down on the pointed 'V' of your gorget while levitating herself up slightly to meet you, hungrily.

Then she pulls away after barely a second, her eyes dancing with wicked playfulness.

"Now we're even."
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"Vox,"
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Vox?

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Less than two minutes into your mad dash towards the Security Control room on the second-floor basement, a small cloud of cockroach-looking metallic drones swarms through a ventilation shaft into the air above you. Both you and Bladedancer react instantly, already tearing apart the drones as they appear, until a warbling - yet still familiar - voice echoes through the remaining few dozen in the air.

"Marrow! Bladedancer!" comes a crackling, tinny version of Administrator's frustrated voice. "Stop! It's me!"
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Sweet. Cyber Roaches, get!

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"Uh oh, viewers! Looks like it's decision time: helpless PRT workers, or unlucky tourists?!"
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You know, the context of all this, that we've being watched by Vox, the Nine, and the rest of the world might have been useful information to know before we did the vote seeing as how that probably would have significantly altered the nature of the discussion.

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Less than twenty seconds later, the ten other canine robots are in more than twice that many pieces. A few do manage to belch blasts of lasers that glance harmlessly off your own armor, but Bladedancer's right hand gets clipped by a blast hard enough to render it blackened and useless.
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LRN2DEFEND OTHER, FPoP.

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It was expected that the A-Class drones would be kept to the end, but you never realized just how many Bezalel had in reserve. Armored bears with containment foam breath and EMP missile racks, packs of simian-drones capable of wielding automatic rifles and waging guerilla warfare, and a least one pride of lions and panthers capable of tearing through walls with blazing claws and laser-beam tails.
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Bezalel has good taste.

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I think the PRT has security just for me, now. I feel special."
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Weaver, you are special.

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"If it wasn't for my experiment with Dragon today, I wouldn't even be able to control these drones, either, though I can barely do it right now. They hardly register to my charm at all."
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Silver lining for not having Dragon available for this little cluster fuck. Not sure if it's worth the trade off.

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Then, in a rising series of whiring clicks and mechanical clicking, the door to the security room folds up and disappears into some unseen point of space roughly chest-high. Barely two seconds later, you hear the sound of buttons being pressed and the fizzling of ionized air as the forcefield powers down.
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I...I have no idea how that worked. Did Weaver just absorb the door with TIE? That makes no sense.

Gromweld said:
"But fear not, good people of Philadelphia!" grins Jack Slash, raising his hands up as if to bestow a blessing upon his worshipers, "Autochthon has spoken! The Reckoning is nigh!"
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And now you're punishing players for picking up Familiar 5 (that you failed to disclose exactly what sort of Familiar we'd be picking up in the first place) after contriving circumstances to take him away from us.

That's just fucking wonderful.

Willing suspension of disbelief broken.

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Sitting atop a pink, lacy pillow is an enormous black pearl, easily six feet across. The lights of the studio illuminate it only barely, as its shimmering, glossy surface appears to drink the light more than it reflects it.
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WAT


Yeah, I'm not too happy with how this update turned out. The whole thing just looks like one thing after another being contrived to fuck us over for the flimsiest of reasons.
 
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FunkyEntropy said:
That's a very strange interpretation of the charm. I'm going to assume it's because she doesn't have her charms properly calibrated because the alternative is dumb.
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Probably the modes of flight thing. You can fly long distance, or you can fly at essentially ramming speed in combat.

You know, the context of all this, that we've being watched by Vox, the Nine, and the rest of the world might have been useful information to know before we did the vote seeing as how that probably would have significantly altered the nature of the discussion.
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It's a snap decision made on the spot. Similar lack of information there.
I...I have no idea how that worked. Did Weaver just absorb the door with TIE? That makes no sense.
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TIE checks
1) Not a Person(still annoyed at EOA over that)
2) Not owned(concept of ownership absent in non Essence scenario)
3) Not bigger than EOA

All passed
 
Peanuckle said:
The real nasty bit is if they manage to corrupt the Eye into drawing on the Engine of Extinction, rather than Autocthon.

Gremlin Syndrome is the last thing that Bonesaw needs to get her hands on.

But yeah, after this I foresee our PR being all but unrecoverable. Even if it's all false, it was the first impression that many people got, and that's what matters. I think we're going to be very limited in the pool of people who are willing to join us, now. And we'll probably be getting more interference from Saint and people like him who think we're ushering in the apocalypse. We'll also be getting a lot of close oversight from inside the PRT, in addition to what they already had (security measures against us? Really guys.).

This is what we get when we trust a government organization so thoroughly. They squeeze us for everything we can offer, and they hide behind "need to know" and "clearance" when it comes to equity. Then they're inept when it comes to protecting that information. Taylor risked it all on the heroes and now the Great Work is in jeopardy. Nine people may have just doomed everything, everywhere, to Oblivion.

SO! The new objectives are: Save who we can, kill the S9, reclaim as much PR as possible and railroad as many Alchemicals as we can before the rest of the populace turns against us. Then fast-track Autobot's arrival, head down to the pub and have a pint.
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Yeah, as soon as Weaver said that built systems SPECIFICALLY for her, I was like, "Really guys? Why not the guy who's goal was to cyber-fy himself? You didn't think that might be worthing looking at?"

A lot officials dropped the ball on us and now we are paying the price.
 
redaeth said:
Err Siberean\Manton can choose what forces she can null. If she wants radiation to stop. It stops. She does the same for gravity all the time.
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So, it can touch the world, chose to switch off the Strong Nuclear Force, and watch the planet be unmade?

No limits fallacy ahoy!

A neutron beam isn't a force. There's nothing to nullify. Trying will just make it worse. The problem is that it doesn't interact that strongly with things, so can pass through most material without noticing. Nullifying forces will make that worse.
 
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I hate you so much right now, Gromweld.


*sigh*


Who and Chevalier, especially Who, need medical attention ASAP. If we can at least stabilize them then they should be okay. Can FPoP help with that?

We should try to take Bonesaw alive, perhaps we can somehow get her to reverse this....I hope.
 
As a side note, I think Taylor needs to start riding the Clarity Train. This is a triage situation, and Who is too far down the scale to be prioritised.
 
We are going to have to ask a lot of questions to some PRT officials about Bezalel and Vox.
 
Omnitool Implants: Stabilization was automatically successful as long as we got to them in time and nothing is continuing to kill them.
 
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