Hold It In (RWBY/Transistor)

[Serpentsblight]

[x] Plan Safe Mode
-[x] All 40 resources to Core OS.

Partially because I think the interactions with "the teal fucker" will be interesting.

 

[ADeshantis]

Honestly I was proud of "unga bunga the fuck out of everything" so all y'all suck. [Kidding]

But yeah, interacting with Transistor is going to be interesting one way or another, I think.

 

[PsyFarrow]

But yeah, interacting with Transistor is going to be interesting one way or another, I think.

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Yeah. I said it a while ago, but we're going to have to sit down with our sword and make sure they TELL us about doing this shit beforehand.

 

[mastigos]

this thing came out of the remnants of the only leash the Transistor has on its curiosity

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I'm confused by what you even mean by this since the phrasing implies it's a restraint AGAINST curiousity, while you also later imply that it IS curiousity and wants its questions answered.

Plus "only leash" just seems weird in a programatic context

 

[ArcanePariah]

[X] Plan Safe Mode
[X] Plan Redshirt

 

[Karugus]

Just out of curiosity- why was 'this is a copy of Ozpin's soul' the first thing you three jumped to? I'm confirming and denying nothing, I'm just curious about why that's the first conclusion you came to, compared to something simpler.

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I guess for me, it's because the transistor is the interface with which Jaune interacts with his own semblance, the Process. Combine that with the Transistor's capacity to scan and partially replicate semblances and it paints the picture of being an interface for souls to interact with. Given Oz's whole thing is having a soul that doesn't know when to quit and appears to be transmigrating on death and I can imagine some really weird interactions with something like the Transistor. It scans Souls, and it scanned a soul who's gimmick appears to at least in part be making copies of itself. The Transistor having the mother of all copy paste accidents doesn't seem so out there in light of that.

 

[zeromass]

[X] Plan Safe Mode
[X] Plan Redshirt

 

[Enerael]

Did Transistor scan Ozpin before it broke though? I think I remember it poking/pinging before it broke, not scanning.

FakeEdit:

He noticed when we were scanning him during his speech. You saw his face, right?

{Yeah. What, you think he can feel his soul being poked and prodded at?}

There's a lot we don't know here. He very well might, and as terrifying as that is, I think we can make it work. All we have to do is draw attention to ourselves and figure out a way to get a message to him. Preferably in the same stroke.

{... Set up a program to tap his soul in a pattern. Morse code?}

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Yeah, that was the plan at least.

 

[_Autumn_]

[x] Plan Safe Mode
-[x] All 40 resources to Core OS.

[x] Plan Redshirt
Seems like the safest bet for now.

 

[Demojay]

[x] Plan Safe Mode
-[x] All 40 resources to Core OS.

[x] Plan Redshirt

 

[Endie Babel]

[x] Plan Safe Mode
-[x] All 40 resources to Core OS.

[x] Plan Redshirt

[x] Zero Hour

 

[Yellow Paint]

[x] Plan Safe Mode
-[x] All 40 resources to Core OS.

[x] Hard Disk

I feel like this one's pretty self explanatory. Transistor and Process are just normal computer related terms, so why pull out the Latin now? There's still plenty of room in this naming scheme. (When we get a projectile weapon, it could be named Troubleshooter!)

 

[Blue Dullahan]

[x] Plan Safe Mode
-[x] All 40 resources to Core OS.

[x] Plan Redshirt

Seems like the safest route, anyway.
Better to have core function back, THEN bring back The Boys.

 

[Tiypo]

[x] Plan Safe Mode
-[x] All 40 resources to Core OS.

[x] Plan Redshirt

 

[Redshirt Army]

[x] Plan Safe Mode
-[x] All 40 resources to Core OS.

[X] Plan Redshirt

[x] Hard Disk
[x] Zero Hour

Finally, some shield names I like. No need to break out the Latin- Jaune's got a naming convention, and he can stick to it.

Hard Disk is pretty freaking literal, but the play on Zero Hour exploits is neat too.

 

[PsyFarrow]

[x] Plan Safe Mode
-[x] All 40 resources to Core OS.

[X] Plan Redshirt

[x] Hard Disk

Swippity swappity

 

[Serpentsblight]

[x] Plan Safe Mode
-[x] All 40 resources to Core OS.

[x] Zero Hour

 

[KidFromPallet]

[x] Plan Safe Mode
-[x] All 40 resources to Core OS.

[x] Plan Redshirt

[x] Zero Hour - There was a flaw in our style, a vulnerability without our primary weapon, and that flaw has been repaired before it could ever be exploited. Plus, we kind of have a theme.

Now that I'm moderately more awake, I like this name better. Also, fits with Jaune's already established naming scheme better than Gratuitous Latin, which is nice.

Honorary vote for Hard Disk, but I like Zero Hour better.

 

[ADeshantis]

The Latin isn't actually terribly off theme; Crocea Mors is the Arc family sword and shield, and that's Latin. It's just that I don't really want us to mimic that naming scheme. It wasn't really intentional, but we've gone and made one of the most complex mundane weapons ever in mecha-shift armor, which gels with the high science theme Jaune has going on nicely, and part of that would be moving on to modern linguistics.

Hard Disk made me laugh and then groan. It's funny at first but I think it would get old fast. Plus, part of the reason I pitched Zero Hour is a nod to the "Eleventh Hour" trope, because whenever we use this sucker it's probably going to be the eleventh hour, in that it's a last minute use of the thing to save our bacon bits.

 

[Prok]

Good luck getting the sword out the tree, and nice touch having the Process make an assumption that would be correct with literally any other creature but isn't because Grimm. Adds character to it all. Shouldn't the Process kinda already know this though, since the Library() is a thing that's happening? Seems like a big piece of info to miss.

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Whoops, missed this the first time round-

It's a bit of column A, a bit of column B- both Lumen and 01 are right, it's just a matter of which Grimm you're talking about. A normal Beowolf isn't smart enough to correlate the sound of a falling tree with human activity, or, the sound of a falling tree with the sight of a fallen tree more than thirty seconds later. Now, as we all know, the older a Grimm is, the smarter it is- eventually, someone's gonna get the thinkmeats necessary to actually put two and two together, and by the time they're that smart, they're generally the kind of Grimm two green Huntsman students want to avoid, unless you're young and impulsive and have a massive scythe and are also the nominal main character, then you can do whatever the fuck you want and look great doing it.

01 is correct in that it will attract attention, Lumen is correct in that it won't attract every Beowolf, Ursa, and Taijitu in a mile radius- just the Deathstalker, the Nevermore, maybe a Hag if you're unlucky- the big boys.

I feel like this one's pretty self explanatory. Transistor and Process are just normal computer-related terms, so why pull out the Latin now? There's still plenty of room in this naming scheme. (When we get a projectile weapon, it could be named Troubleshooter!)

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The Latin, in-story anyway, was mainly just Jaune's baser bloodlust wanting to be a dramatic bitch- after like, three seconds, yeah, he's going to come up with something a little more on-brand.

Anyway, I'm closing the vote tomorrow, around 2 PM my time- so far, Zero Hour, plan Safe Mode, and Redshirt's plan are the winning combination. Sundays are my writing days and I wanna get a good start at this before Christmas takes up the free time I've just wrestled out of college's cold, dead hands.

 

[ADeshantis]

Welp, this is probably the one time I ever came up with a good name.

Thanks, everyone. xD

Edit: Also, regarding naming our potential mundane ranged weapon Troubleshooter, I'd like to name our gear after things that work, please and thank you.

 

[Silversun17]

Can we have 01 eat the entire tree starting from the top?

 

[Redshirt Army]

"Nothing too big. I'm just thinking over what you said, and… I think I'd be better off with using the Transistor most of the time. I'll just, get something to use as a backup. You know, in case something locks it up again."

She winces, no doubt remembering the last time the Transistor crashed.

If Juniper wasn't an absolute saint and hadn't volunteered to be the first person to have her Semblance scanned, you'd still be paying your neighbours for the damages.

"Is… that likely?"

"No, I can't think of anything that would be that much of a shock to the system. It's a lot more robust these days. Still, I think a backup weapon would be a good idea if nothing else. A knife, maybe a mace."

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@Prok you fucker, I just noticed that you'd been foreshadowing this all along! Now I've gotta re-read the whole thing and see if there's other stuff I missed!

 

[Bob Saget]

Money's going to be important relatively soon, since our protagonists ultimate goals are about killing as much as socioeconomic influence.

Some methods to get cash quick/outside the bounds of cloudgate:

Healer/repairman for Beacon students. Logically, Beacon definitely has a semblance empowered healer on staff and some repair service, given its isolation from the rest of Vale. However, that repair service likely isn't fast or affordable, at least for some things. And healing is likely reserved for very serious injuries, since aura can heal with time and the healer(s) need to save their aura/supplies for emergencies, not dumb accidents. So Jaune could find a very profitable niche there, given how quick he can repair and will be able to heal.

There's also the possibilities like lending out CPU processing time (thank you Process), a translation app (not sure what competition here), or a Beacon focused 3d printer service (not sure competition again).

Obviously down the line there are large opportunities like military or infrastructure or energy contracts. This is more 'what can be done within a few weeks of initiation'.

 

[ADeshantis]

Money isn't going to be an issue for the moment, I don't think. Even if it is, there's something morally wrong about charging for healing among the Beacon students. There's probably not a market here for processor time, or flash-fabrication via Processing; we're the only one that hacks here besides Cinder, and we don't want to help her. Everyone else is going to make their own parts because Hunters.

We can pick up freelance work on weekends if we need cash, but right now we still have a more immediate focus than socioeconomics.

And once again it falls to me to remind everyone that we don't have a convenient timer that's going to tell us when Lee is about to show up. We're mechanically guaranteed to run into him when he does; read the "Protagonism" trait on the character sheet. And this man can kill entire towns, including trained and seasoned Hunters.

Yes, the economic issues will be a problem, but they're still Future Jaune's problem. Present Jaune has to worry about the Bonesaw expy that wants to murder our friend. Morally, this is less important than the suffering of Faunus everywhere, but it could also kill us next Tuesday, and then we still can't do anything about the dystopian nature of Remnant society.

Money making is less important than taking full advantage of Hunter school and honing our Functions and combat skills.