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- He
[X] Community Minded
We need good pr
We need good pr
Bound to Earth: A CK2 Earthbound Quest in an 8-bit Dystopia
- Thread starter Crosswire
- Start date
- Crossover Sci-Fi
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
-to fund our resistance against the alien invasion!
[X] Self-Supplying
Correct, PSI good.
[X] Psychic Gravity
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- Gainful Employment
- Pronouns
- He/They
[] Critical Thinkers: Don't focus on always being right, just learn from when you're wrong. Should a research or engineering related Learning Action end in failure, a +10 bonus will be granted to the following re-attempt. This bonus is increased to +20 if it's a SMAAASH Failure.
[] Psychic Gravity: Your faction subconsciously attracts those with PSI abilities, much like a celestial body draws in meteors into its gravity. A small fraction of your faction's starting manpower are very weak non-Hero PSI users. This allows your faction to take certain PSI related actions immediately that would otherwise require time or research. However this might make you more prone to raising suspicion.
I like both of these a lot, but...
[X] Community Minded: You of all people know how someone is viewed effects everything, the others seem to be grasping onto that too. Whenever your faction receives positive Reputation they receive +2 additional rep. Whenever you damage another faction's reputation, or a faction is put into a poor light by your actions, any negative reputation they receive will be increased by +5.
There's really no contest. Having a boost on every single action in the war for hearts and minds right from the beginning is such a massive advantage, I can't pass on this.
[] Psychic Gravity: Your faction subconsciously attracts those with PSI abilities, much like a celestial body draws in meteors into its gravity. A small fraction of your faction's starting manpower are very weak non-Hero PSI users. This allows your faction to take certain PSI related actions immediately that would otherwise require time or research. However this might make you more prone to raising suspicion.
I like both of these a lot, but...
[X] Community Minded: You of all people know how someone is viewed effects everything, the others seem to be grasping onto that too. Whenever your faction receives positive Reputation they receive +2 additional rep. Whenever you damage another faction's reputation, or a faction is put into a poor light by your actions, any negative reputation they receive will be increased by +5.
There's really no contest. Having a boost on every single action in the war for hearts and minds right from the beginning is such a massive advantage, I can't pass on this.
[X] Psychic Gravity: Your faction subconsciously attracts those with PSI abilities, much like a celestial body draws in meteors into its gravity. A small fraction of your faction's starting manpower are very weak non-Hero PSI users. This allows your faction to take certain PSI related actions immediately that would otherwise require time or research. However this might make you more prone to raising suspicion.
I feel this one is the most suited to Cass
I feel this one is the most suited to Cass
Yeah... I don't know if it will show up later but community minded seems... well again unfitting givne Cass's current grudge with said community.
- Location
- Everywhere
Plus, we need all the mind juice we can get to fight Psychic Hyper Satan
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
on the other hand, even mainlining all the Psychic Energy of the planet and with his inner demons defeated, Ness was still nowhere even remotely close to a match for Giygas. It required Literal Divine Intervention to defeat him in the form of the player reaching in and smacking him with numbers Bigger than the Game can Calculate numbers to kill him.
(It's actually a neat trick they pull. Giygas isn't actually taking damage after that first phase no matter what the Pray command is saying. Which is why the damage numbers outstrip the game's damage engine in the final bit. He just lives until you hit the Pray command enough that he gets /killed by the Player.)
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huh, funny that it's basically ALL community minded. I guess it makes sense since it lacks downsides. don't mind whether either that or gravity wins, hopefully will be fun to play? but since it's so clear set I might as well be contrary and vote for
[X] discrete
if I'm already bringing up weird ideas, I wonder what faction building would have been like for the other organisation types? especially with archaic and its bonus perk
anyhow, rather than fighting them, we'd probably either need to recreate the methods of their regular death (access to abilities like pray+being able to spam it by drawing a confrontation out), or enough power for the leeway to do something indirect like cadian pyloning them away
psychic gravity would be very helpful for that, but at the same time an organisational ethos is probably more likely to be physically relevant than something most people won't notice
[X] discrete
if I'm already bringing up weird ideas, I wonder what faction building would have been like for the other organisation types? especially with archaic and its bonus perk
the psychic might needed to fight Giygas more directly is going to be a bit unrealistic since they're both the definition of 75+ PSI stat and have silly narrative/contextual advantages, but that doesn't mean improving it isn't a priority to oppose their *lieutenants* who we will probably be fighting inevitably (and are presumably far harder to avoid). fighting Giygas specifically (as opposed to their army) is weird because they're sort of out of the way physically? hopefully they'll be unlikely to come to us because they're too busy being spooky/a final boss/not very sane/questionably physical or such.
anyhow, rather than fighting them, we'd probably either need to recreate the methods of their regular death (access to abilities like pray+being able to spam it by drawing a confrontation out), or enough power for the leeway to do something indirect like cadian pyloning them away
psychic gravity would be very helpful for that, but at the same time an organisational ethos is probably more likely to be physically relevant than something most people won't notice
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- Location
- Salem Oregon US
[X] Community Minded: You of all people know how someone is viewed effects everything, the others seem to be grasping onto that too. Whenever your faction receives positive Reputation they receive +2 additional rep. Whenever you damage another faction's reputation, or a faction is put into a poor light by your actions, any negative reputation they receive will be increased by +5.
- Location
- Oregon
- Pronouns
- Any/All/Allowed
Really need to get to reading this (same for playing the earthbound games =w=;
, but in the meantime I wanted to slam-dunk this here:
I wanted to propose it to Brightflame, and by extension the other 8-Bit Dystopia QMs, as it'll make it easier to find the quests (and any fics should they happen) on the forums.
, but in the meantime I wanted to slam-dunk this here:
8-bit Dystopia now has a tag on the forums
I wanted to propose it to Brightflame, and by extension the other 8-Bit Dystopia QMs, as it'll make it easier to find the quests (and any fics should they happen) on the forums.
Ah, thank you! I changed the tag (I think?) to include 8-Bit Dystopia!
Also, expect something fun soon!
- Location
- Oregon
- Pronouns
- Any/All/Allowed
[X] Other Influences Interest Check
-[X] BURGERTIME
-[X] VORTEX FARMS
-[X] Starfox
-[X] Animal Crossing
-[X] Kirby
-[X] Sonic
-[X] Mario
-[X] Yakuza/Like a Dragon
finally catching up a little, but wanted to contribute to the interest check
I love how she visually reminds me of Aubrey from Omori
Also huh, I didn't expect the group to choose Porky for the neighbor / party member.
I like the family choices, and I'm fascinated by Paula as a choice. Gonna end up a role model for her aren't we?
I like the others are undecided tho
god, rip to EMS existing
Yup, that's poverty, but still a bed to sleep in
GIRL CLEAN THE ROOM, but also smart frankly
FIRST EARTHBOUND STYLE ENEMY LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
YES REACH HEAVEN THROUGH VIOLENCE
OOO curious
pausing, because, STAG BEETLE FORM OF AN ALIEN I LOVE YOU
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W22YF48Me50
I was by chance putting this on because Cass reminded me of Aubrey Theme, so I went looking for other "World's End" type songs because I loved World's End Dancehall, and forgot that World's End Girlfriend is a band.
Put it on loop during this exposition
This was uh... perfectly horrifying to put on right as I went into "gigyas plot described in prose is terrifying"
I love Alien Benefactor tropes, Im so glad I got to see a retelling of earthbound with an alien but compassionate exposition speech, and to The People because the powers that be are too unwilling to trust or cooperate.
LOVE THESE SIBLING INTERACTIONS, Im enjoying the cast so much already. Also colored dialogue!! Its so well done I feel
I just. Am Love Buzz Buzz, am love this plot.
This is VERY inspo stuff to learn from. The dialogue is well written for the type of character and the plot mechanism.
Yeah I chose to read this high at the best time.
godddd, love this love this love this, rooting for CD so much
there's a mood I relate to with the burn out and being unable to sustain what might be necessary to survive due to minimal quality of life
YES YES YES YSES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
LMFAO love this uqest
all the binary converters I tried kept saying "searching for target" 8c
goddddd. wild wild wild stuff
RIP how martial rolls go next turn.
love all these methods to resolve the sharks
godddddd
YES YES YES YES, love the options we could have taken, love how this turned out, good update
AAAAAAAAAA LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO
fuuuuuck.. but glad peopl went for the tablet. maybe we can change the fate of the game's plot
AMAZING.
poor guy
HUG THE BUG
WELL FUCK
lmao, is this wordplay in the games?? love it as a synonym to use.
STRONG SUCCESS ON OUR DUMP STAT LETS GOOOOOO
So he has principles
I wonder if there's a way we could get him to teach us some and then betray him
yeah if we take over the sharks we gotta do it after learning from him
godddddddd he's in on it, cahoots!!!
love this
I know its not a moon stone, but I like the idea of it.
YOOOOOOO
LMAO
LOVE the worldbuilding, extremely good passage to finish off the update.
I'm amazed this isn't tagged as an Art Quest, when it's got so many splash panels and illustrations going on.
It absolutely counts for me.
I'm nearly done with catching up, holy shit what a quest.
For now I can post the above
-[X] BURGERTIME
-[X] VORTEX FARMS
-[X] Starfox
-[X] Animal Crossing
-[X] Kirby
-[X] Sonic
-[X] Mario
-[X] Yakuza/Like a Dragon
finally catching up a little, but wanted to contribute to the interest check
Reactions Time
I love how she visually reminds me of Aubrey from Omori
Also huh, I didn't expect the group to choose Porky for the neighbor / party member.
I like the family choices, and I'm fascinated by Paula as a choice. Gonna end up a role model for her aren't we?
I like the others are undecided tho
That sure is McGigyas!!
god, rip to EMS existing
Yup, that's poverty, but still a bed to sleep in
GIRL CLEAN THE ROOM, but also smart frankly
FIRST EARTHBOUND STYLE ENEMY LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
YES REACH HEAVEN THROUGH VIOLENCE
OOO curious
pausing, because, STAG BEETLE FORM OF AN ALIEN I LOVE YOU
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W22YF48Me50
I was by chance putting this on because Cass reminded me of Aubrey Theme, so I went looking for other "World's End" type songs because I loved World's End Dancehall, and forgot that World's End Girlfriend is a band.
Put it on loop during this exposition
This was uh... perfectly horrifying to put on right as I went into "gigyas plot described in prose is terrifying"
I love Alien Benefactor tropes, Im so glad I got to see a retelling of earthbound with an alien but compassionate exposition speech, and to The People because the powers that be are too unwilling to trust or cooperate.
THIS POOR GIRL
LOVE THESE SIBLING INTERACTIONS, Im enjoying the cast so much already. Also colored dialogue!! Its so well done I feel
I just. Am Love Buzz Buzz, am love this plot.
This is VERY inspo stuff to learn from. The dialogue is well written for the type of character and the plot mechanism.
Yeah I chose to read this high at the best time.
godddd, love this love this love this, rooting for CD so much
there's a mood I relate to with the burn out and being unable to sustain what might be necessary to survive due to minimal quality of life
YES YES YES YSES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
LMFAO love this uqest
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, love this lockdown setup.When asked "Why", Captain Strong simply stared directly at the camera and said:
"You know why".
[Access to areas outside Onnet has been blocked by the O.P.F!]
all the binary converters I tried kept saying "searching for target" 8c
goddddd. wild wild wild stuff
RIP how martial rolls go next turn.
love all these methods to resolve the sharks
godddddd
YES YES YES YES, love the options we could have taken, love how this turned out, good update
AAAAAAAAAA LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO
fuuuuuck.. but glad peopl went for the tablet. maybe we can change the fate of the game's plot
AMAZING.
poor guy
HUG THE BUG
WELL FUCK
lmao, is this wordplay in the games?? love it as a synonym to use.
STRONG SUCCESS ON OUR DUMP STAT LETS GOOOOOO
So he has principles
I wonder if there's a way we could get him to teach us some and then betray him
yeah if we take over the sharks we gotta do it after learning from him
godddddddd he's in on it, cahoots!!!
love this
I know its not a moon stone, but I like the idea of it.
YOOOOOOO
LMAO
LOVE the worldbuilding, extremely good passage to finish off the update.
I'm amazed this isn't tagged as an Art Quest, when it's got so many splash panels and illustrations going on.
It absolutely counts for me.
I'm nearly done with catching up, holy shit what a quest.
For now I can post the above
- Location
- Italian City
- Pronouns
- He/They/Name
Everything alright on the other side?
Also, just to ask, are the Paper Mario Games (N64 and TTYD) going to be counted as separate from the 8-bit Dystopia Koopa Kingdom, ooor....?
(Read: I am asking if there are multiple Peaches, MArios and Bowsers running around.)
Also, just to ask, are the Paper Mario Games (N64 and TTYD) going to be counted as separate from the 8-bit Dystopia Koopa Kingdom, ooor....?
(Read: I am asking if there are multiple Peaches, MArios and Bowsers running around.)
Either there is a kingdom entirely made of paper somewhere out there in the depths of the pipeworks/outskirts. Or there is a magic book somewhere out there which houses the PM world. I'm not a lore expert but I think those are the two options.
(Incidentally the magic book is the way that the Mario and Luigi X Paper Mario crossover handled It.)
well, iirc in this setting bowser, the mushroom kingdom and the plumbers are all somewhere in the sewers? a more mundane/down to earth scenario with less magic and more mutation, so there probably would be less (parallel universe-style at least) clone weirdness and the like.
doesn't hurt that I'm pretty sure TTYD is too recent to count for this universe, and presumably many other games as well
It might be that characters could be composite versions, or any alternate dimension versions of Mario etc characters are out of the way for now?
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