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Hold It In (RWBY/Transistor)

Which of the other starter choices do you want to see interludes from most?

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I have a unit idea for the process: mini hover tank with three or four rifle scale laser emitters. Ironwood would proboly be happy to loan us one of the ones his forces use to be the templet
 
Prok said:
You can almost grasp the shape of something else. Something that only used pieces of your code out of necessity, that's missing a second component.

Ozpin must see it too because you listen to him make this pitiful moan, something you realise a moment too late is, grief.

With the light reflecting off his glasses, you almost miss the way his eyes grow wet the more he examines it, the sheer, open-mouthed horror you'd expect from someone being asked to identify a corpse.

… Oh. Right.

"Ohh… you poor thing…" he murmurs after a moment, a hand slowly moving towards the table.

Arcane Check, 2 Successes needed: 0d10= 10, 10. Success!

You feel it, around his raised hand- a sudden knot in reality, as if it's being twisted and curled around itself, something boiling here and not here and not in this physical reality and absolutely in this physical reality, and you glance to his face and see it set not in grief, but wide-eyed realisation.

Then conflict.

Then…

The knot loosens. The boiling ceases.

The projection winks out, the Transistor floating back down between you and Qrow.
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I don't even know where to begin
 
Well....It seems that Magical Memetic Hazards are plentiful and very effective on Jaune then.

Consequences of being a organic mini-me of Mag'ladroth I suppose.
 
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"Witch-queen," you whisper.
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I'm thinking what happened here was the 'Figure shit out' Semblance leaping way, way ahead of itself. There's the possibility it hit some sort of Magic curse thing Salem set up, or perhaps we touched some sort of world-info-record like the Akashic Records or something. Or maybe it analyzed the shape of the world and figured that such a figure MUST exist once Ozpin was slotted into the equation. Dunno if this is voodoo shit or Jaune just being kinda too stressed to function at the moment what with the panic attacks and the immortal magical queens of darkness.

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Ozpin turns to your sword again, away from the temporary distraction, as he remembers exactly what he asked it to do.

"... Please. Show me."
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Probably not this body's original owner, but probably the last guy Oz was in, not quite all the way gone.

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"The dawn," Ozpin breathes, more than says. "It is the colour of the dawn sky. Symbolic, of cleansing, of hope, of… the cessation of darkness. Everything, really, that the Grimm are not."
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This is the sort of shit that really only Ozpin could know without some weird Semblance in play, and it makes me want to shove a fresh Cell into his hands and just tell him to explain everything he knows about the Grimm from the most common to the rarest in that order, but man that would be a LOT of extra work for Prok to write out to make sense in-story. That'd be hundreds of Grimm entries in the Library with exhausting detail, even if Ozpin's rather busy teaching classes to students and doing shady conspiracy things.

Prok said:
Arcane Check, 2 Successes needed: 0d10= 10, 10. Success!
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Arcane: This is a measure of a character's ability to attack and defend themselves in more esoteric ways- for most, this means Aura manipulation and creative use of their Semblance, for a few, this means real-ass goddamn magic. Creating Aura shields, achieving minor prescience, using your Semblance weirdly, wielding a shard of magic grafted onto your soul- these all fall under this stat.

I feel like it's going to be important to pump this skill up. Luckily Glyph Craft, Aura Arts, and Semblance Help classes all seem like the sort of place where we could improve our Arcane score.
 
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"Why does the world needs someone like me?"
pull thoughts and memories from the endless archives, the ones that have existed since our conception
You blink, unsure how to take the question. Why… does the world need someone like Ozpin?
there is more now, a new player on the board- the wizard-king, endless and deathless is he
… Ozpin, the immortal wizard who has been around since some before-unknown extinction of humanity, and has survived… who knows how long, is apparently needed by the world.
too great for something so petty as a loxy or a myrmek or a vampyr- bigger, BIGGER.
Well, the Grimm in general, maybe, but that's too obvious, too, broad a question. The Grimm are why humanity needs something like Dust, why they need Huntsmen and Huntresses, not… one man.
three thoughts, three theory-knives to the jugular of the human species- the storied the leaders, the storied the minds, the witch-
… There have always been rumblings about the Grimm not being the random groupings of animals that people think of them as. Rumours to some grand guiding intelligence picking out the weakest settlements.
the witch.
… Your stomach drops.
the witch.
You've… always known, you think.
THE WITCH.
Your throat has dried up completely for some reason, some shape you've only grasped in dreams coming to the forefront-

"Jaune? What's wrong?" Qrow asks.

Whatever you try to say, it dies in the back of your throat as your mind whirls, spiralling into itself, towards an inevitable conclusion. Some minor part of you realises that you're very rapidly descending into a panic attack.
MOTHER OF ANGUISH. EMPRESS OF THE GRIMM. SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN. SHE WILL ALWAYS BE. UNLESS YOU LEARN DEICIDE. DEICIDE. DEICIDE.
Words are forming in the back of your throat, words of fear and truth and bile, forcing themselves up through your gullet as your body grows leaden, your vision flickers as your blood pulses through your ears-
SCREAM FOR HER.
"Witch-queen," you whisper.

The shape becomes real, a pale face framed in veins like obsidian, a cruel laugh ringing through your ears one last time, a laugh you've only heard in the deepest hours of dreams before you tilt to the side, the floor swinging towards you and voices and bodies rush to catch you. Then, you are one with sleep.
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We got invisi-text, seems Jaune's got access to some archives, even if it seems a tad hazardous.
 
mastigos said:
And here I was just assuming it was his Semblence digging through the corpse of Ludens for memory fragments. And that that wasn't exactly healthy for him
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Black Sun Memetic Hazard came from the Transistor observing the Runes that came from Oz speaking.

Prok said:
Data incomplete. Scanning recovered logs.

PoI displayed anomalous behaviour directly following Function deployment.


  • Involuntary facial muscle movement, consistent with internal brain damage- sudden recovery suggests damage was effect of Function, not physical in nature.
  • Exclamation made: "ᛊᛏᛟᛈ ᛏᚻᚨᛏ".

the black sun turns its gaze upon you again speak the words speak them speak them SPEAK THEM-

WARNING MALICIOUS DATA DETECTED PURGING PURGING PURGING-
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Whatever just happened to Jaune is an entirely different Memetic Hazard, albeit almost certainly Magical in nature from the little bits of Invisitext at the end there.

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Here is the Invistext highlighted in Red:

Prok said:
"Why does the world needs someone like me?"
pull thoughts and memories from the endless archives, the ones that have existed since our conception
You blink, unsure how to take the question. Why… does the world need someone like Ozpin?
there is more now, a new player on the board- the wizard-king, endless and deathless is he
… Ozpin, the immortal wizard who has been around since some before-unknown extinction of humanity, and has survived… who knows how long, is apparently needed by the world.
too great for something so petty as a loxy or a myrmek or a vampyr- bigger, BIGGER.
Well, the Grimm in general, maybe, but that's too obvious, too, broad a question. The Grimm are why humanity needs something like Dust, why they need Huntsmen and Huntresses, not… one man.
three thoughts, three theory-knives to the jugular of the human species- the storied the leaders, the storied the minds, the witch-
… There have always been rumblings about the Grimm not being the random groupings of animals that people think of them as. Rumours to some grand guiding intelligence picking out the weakest settlements.
the witch.
… Your stomach drops.
the witch.
You've… always known, you think.
THE WITCH.
Your throat has dried up completely for some reason, some shape you've only grasped in dreams coming to the forefront-

"Jaune? What's wrong?" Qrow asks.

Whatever you try to say, it dies in the back of your throat as your mind whirls, spiralling into itself, towards an inevitable conclusion. Some minor part of you realises that you're very rapidly descending into a panic attack.
MOTHER OF ANGUISH. EMPRESS OF THE GRIMM. SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN. SHE WILL ALWAYS BE. UNLESS YOU LEARN DEICIDE. DEICIDE. DEICIDE.
Words are forming in the back of your throat, words of fear and truth and bile, forcing themselves up through your gullet as your body grows leaden, your vision flickers as your blood pulses through your ears-
SCREAM FOR HER.
"Witch-queen," you whisper.

The shape becomes real, a pale face framed in veins like obsidian, a cruel laugh ringing through your ears one last time, a laugh you've only heard in the deepest hours of dreams before you tilt to the side, the floor swinging towards you and voices and bodies rush to catch you. Then, you are one with sleep.
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I don't think it was an infohazard; the invisitext reads to me like some of those old dream sequences before we critically crit the dream roll and unlocked the Process several months early.
Except: Calculation (Our Semblance) said:
It will take in questions that Jaune doesn't even realise he's asking, and eventually give him answers
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Jaune's Semblance analyzes anything he can perceive to answer questions, and Aura lets you sorta-perceive a lot of things, including things that aren't necessarily physical like intent; every Aura user can sense ill intent from Grimm and other Aura users, if I remember correctly. It's not much of a stretch to extend that to some kind of Force or Collective Unconscious or WAAAAAAAAAAGH! analogue; something that penetrates humanity, binds them together, etc, and Salem is one of those things that the collective unconscious would recognize. The Enemy, the Lady Grimm, the Witch-Queen. Salem is Important, but she's also terrifying, and her very existence is loaded with so much importance, so much subtext, both mystical and mundane...

With Jaune already pushing himself as hard as he could and then latching onto a veritable land-mine like that with his Semblance, I can see it blowing up in his face even harder than anyone else.
 
I mean, given how Ozpin defined magic as interpretation and lenses, and how at the root Jaune's semblance is all about identifying and processing information I'm not that surprised a Salem epiphany hit him that hard. Although I think Oz was really intending to scare Jaune into being careful about things, not give him a prophetic seizure.
 
On a quick reread, specifically of the phrase "you've always known", I'm even more convinced this isn't so much an infohazard for everyone as it is Jaune walking face first into a knowledge bomb that sends his Semblance into shock.

Everyone recognizes the Queen of the Grimm, instinctually, but thanks to Calculation we can comprehend her, and for an existence that old and powerful and evil, understanding it isn't necessarily... well, I won't call it a bad thing as understanding something means you can more effectively work around it, even if it terrifies you, but it's a lot. Jaune was not ready for this kind of crystalline revelation today, and when his Semblance oh-so-helpfully answers Ozpin's question with a raw, primal understanding of how completely, utterly fucked Remnant is, well...

Down he goes.

[X] Dream

I also think a dream sequence might be thematically appropriate here. I'd just try to write an omake but I doubt my ability to capture that perfectly disjointed feeling that the Process dream sequences had.
 
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Umm. Plot waits for no man? That 10 of 10 arcane check and 900 of 850 dream check indeed feel like the Plot decided to progress, 'cose it wants to.
Which is really cool for the parallel with the Process coding itself alone. I'm not even talking about other fun stuff which like causality and brothers and destiny and magic maybe having a will if it's own and who knows what else.
I know I'm reaching really hard here, but they're so many interesting possibilities when we consider that there might be even more actors at play here.
Just reading this chapter and thinking of possible implications feels like it gave me some of good ol' Insight and I'll soon rant about eyes and moon ang go quite mad.
And I know that's the wrong fandom, but it kinda fits quite well in my head at least.
TL;DR: I put on my tinfoil hat and ranted about possible spooky stuff a bit, sorry about that
EDIT: also, [X] Dream sounds really appropriate right now
 
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Prok said:
Total power draw was 25 megawatts
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This is bit of a nitpick, but a watt is not an amount of energy, it's a rate of energy transfer, specifically one joule per second. Usually electric companies measure their sales in MWh or megawatt-hours (KWh are also used). Beyond that I have no complaints regarding my fragile immersion :V.
 
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