Hold It In (RWBY/Transistor)

[Nopeguy]

[X] "I was banned from all Valish public transport for 6 months when I was 12."

 

[GunnarS14]

I've been convinced.

[X] "I was banned from all Valish public transport for 6 months when I was 12."


And Prok? I'm glad you're writing this story for you now. When an author is passionate and enjoying writing, that comes through. So for my own selfish reasons, I'm glad you're making the decision to go to a narrative style quest too.
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[catDreaming]

[x] "I was banned from all Valish public transport for 6 months when I was 12."

 

[BadAtScreenNames]

[X] "I was banned from all Valish public transport for 6 months when I was 12."

 

[Zeromaru2]

[X] "I once accidentally joined, and then broke up, a group of criminals who were looking to hack into the Valish national bank."

 

[Fpkfor]

[X] "I was banned from all Valish public transport for 6 months when I was 12."

 

[Hopeforthebends]

[X] "I was banned from all Valish public transport for 6 months when I was 12."

 

[civilCornball]

[X] "I was banned from all Valish public transport for 6 months when I was 12."
[X] "I am, due to an incredible amount of legal chicanery, technically 16th in line for the Norrell Lordship in the Kingdom Parliament."
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all of these are great options

can we have jaune add "Man, I'm spoiled for choice here."

 

[kenmadragon]

[X] "I was banned from all Valish public transport for 6 months when I was 12."

 

[Parzival95]

[X] "I once accidentally joined, and then broke up, a group of criminals who were looking to hack into the Valish national bank."

 

[The Grey Mage]

[X] "I am, due to an incredible amount of legal chicanery, technically 16th in line for the Norrell Lordship in the Kingdom Parliament."

For no other reason than that I crave that juicy worldbuilding.

Glad to have you back Prok, and I hope things go better for you going forward.

 

[Ashmaker]

[X] "I am, due to an incredible amount of legal chicanery, technically 16th in line for the Norrell Lordship in the Kingdom Parliament."
[X] "I solved three of the 10 Gordium Problems, and I never received a penny for it."

 

[CosmicHood]

[X] "I was banned from all Valish public transport for 6 months when I was 12."

 

[Karnax626]

[X] "I was banned from all Valish public transport for 6 months when I was 12."

I've read fiction before for the numbers, but this was never one of them. Limiting it to random event rolls and the like should be fine, if you're not having fun with it as well there's not much point in having it.

 

[Sir Loin]

So, as my first bit of selfishness- I am once again scrapping the entirety of Hold It In's system, and replacing it with, and this is going to sound experimental, possibly highly dangerous:

Nothing.

From this point onwards, and I fully reserve the right to drag my future self out to the desert and bury him up to the neck should he go back on this, Hold It In is going to be a purely narrative-driven quest.

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Holy Based, Batman.

As someone who considers narrative systems to be objectively better in every way, I fully support this decision. Welcome back, Prok, hope you're doing better.

[x] "I was banned from all Valish public transport for 6 months when I was 12."

 

[ExoKai]

Welcome back, Prok.

[X] "I was banned from all Valish public transport for 6 months when I was 12."

 

[Enerael]

Happy to see this again! Also happy to see that Prok is making changes that will make them happier!

[X] "I solved three of the 10 Gordium Problems, and I never received a penny for it."

I would very much like to know why he didn't.

 

[ushiva]

[x] "I was banned from all Valish public transport for 6 months when I was 12."

 

[Dauan Tienar]

[X] "I was banned from all Valish public transport for 6 months when I was 12."

 

[StandOfVampGuy]

fuck all y'all. You were right, but, fuck all y'all, and a happy anniversary to Hold It In

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Look, I know i'm two days late but...

 

[Ralyx]

[X] "I once accidentally joined, and then broke up, a group of criminals who were looking to hack into the Valish national bank."

 

[Prok]

Function Name: Disconnect()
Function Category: Combat
Function: Alters topography such that a two dimensional area no longer connects, in effect creating an indestructible stationary barrier in the shape of any regular polygon. One might assume that it would be perfectly black but it turns out that by it's nature space cannot connect to nothing, in this case it wraps in on itself, this results in it being a perfect, frictionless mirror.
The altered topography is inherently unstable and must be actively maintained, this means that they can in effect be collapsed by force if the surface becomes too chaotic for even the Transistor to account for, before this limit however they are inviolate, even magic cannot go "through" because that is not a thing, (that said magic doesn't really need space in the first place). The edges would be perfectly sharp but as this is a safety concern and Jaun doesn't want that to come back to bite him(or slice him in half after a stumble) and touching the edge would also destabilize it significantly(for a similar reason they can't be created intersecting solid objects) so a dimensional distortion around the edges causes objects near the edge(~1cm?) to occupy a smaller area as they approach, causing them to put pressure on themselves gently preventing them from touching it, it feels a bit like trying to press a magnet to another pointing the other way.
Since space is relative they could theoretically be made traveling at any speed, infact since they aren't objects in the traditional sense they don't have "velocity". Rather movement (or "stillness" too) results from the temporal angle they are created with. But keeping them stationary relative to the local gravity source makes things much simpler, besides, he already has Spin() for all "unstoppable force" needs.
-Upgrade: Makes each attack unblockable once, increases damage.
-Passive: Prevents most external buffs/debuffs
Projected MEM cost: Equal to max simultaneous disconnections, can be changed during configuration, min 4.(sufficiently large areas can use more than one "slot")
Function discovery: Brainstorming about uses for the Transistor's spacial potential.

Function Name: Quarantine()
Function Category: Other
Function: (Pretty much a subset of the previous function, felt it was worth describing separately) Normally due to their 2d nature when normal topography reasserts itself over a disconnect there isn't any external effect but if an area is disconnected completely from reality it does not reconnect, instead the polyhedron of surfaces that used to connect to it instead shrinks to nothing almost instantly, the sudden absence of an area creates a violent gravitational shockwave as the universe reaches equilibrium.
This function automatically keeps these pockets stable and adjacent to the Transistor, allowing the possibility of a connection, like a quarantined section of a computer (sandboxed might be more appropriate, technically but sounds a bit silly.), these can be managed by this function.
This method provides a way to remove opponents that would otherwise be beyond harm as it does not actually effect them or even the space they occupy and allow a means to study them from relative safety. The pocket keeps no "memory" of where it came from, it doesn't even matter if they can teleport if there's any sort of range limitation. In theory at least the Transistor and Jaun or the Process through it can study and control the area at their leisure but all connections can also be vulnerabilities, like a quarantined sector of code. Technically something could effect the Transistor from within without any connection specifically established but it's no more vulnerable than it already was by being on the same plane of existence as whatever is trapped. What would happen to something if it's untethered entirely is unclear, for typical things they would be effectively destroyed but typical things wouldn't need to be exsized from reality. For something within to effect anything else they will have to go through the Transistor.
In fact there is no true difference between such a contained area and one of the Transistor's perfect simulations, the difference between a thing and a perfect description of a thing is purely subjective, like a mathamatical translation, this is the principal by which the Transistor functions. Magic too though the approach is fundimentally different, it could be compared to the difference between analog and digital. It is also why the Transistor has weight, the maximum amount of information that a system can contain is infact the amount of information the system is, information is energy is mass is weight, presumably one could use this to derive the amount of data the Transistor is formed from via ~2.577 * 10^43 * M * R * (bit/kg*m) with M being ~400kg and R being it's radius in meters if it were a sphere.

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... Wait a fucking second why the hell do I actually understand what this says-

No, you can't create a "this box is only for asshole immortal witch-queens" Function. I'll throw it on the list, but I'm just saying that you haven't cracked that particular problem right off the bat. The actual Function is, fine, I'd probably make Cache() a prerequisite as your first toe dipped into spatial manipulation, but otherwise I'm pretty okay with it.

Overall changes I'd ask you to make:
-remove most references to magic, or at least make them sound much more theoretical.
-make Cache a prerequisite, since this is essentially the same idea, but evolved.
-chief, it's like 70% random conjecture to actual Function description. Let's flip that ratio, yeah?
-MEM cost on Quarantine().

Also, 2.3e+54 bits, assuming a radius of basically 7-ish metres on just the blade alone. Fun fact: that is sssllliiiightly more than the number of bits required to perfectly recreate the average-sized adult male human's brain, down to the quantum level. Now, granted, that slightly is referring to the 12 extra zeroes on the end of the number, but when you're dealing with numbers that large, 12 extra zeroes is pocket change.

question, if we choose to afix a chainsaw to Jaune's gauntlet is it less likely to mutilate him due to there being no luck rolls, or more likely to mutilate him due to that being the logical conclusion to beating giant mosters over the head whit a chainsaw?

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Less likely, because if I have to let Ruby get away with her scythe-shaped pile of suicide waiting to happen, basically anything short of putting a nuke on a stick is kosher.

In truth, though, the moment you learn how to make Process prosthetics, the entire thing goes into the same category as Jaune's, ahem, fascination with Faunus; which answer is funnier at that exact moment in time?

Doctor. Unless this is a wilder AU than I remember.

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Doctor, professor, same general neighbourhood- I'm kidding.

Fixed all of them, I think, and fixed a completely unrelated error I saw in the process, so double thank you.

[X] "I once accidentally joined, and then broke up, a group of criminals who were looking to hack into the Valish national bank."
[X] "I was banned from all Valish public transport for 6 months when I was 12."
Approval votes are ok here right?

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You know, I got irrationally angry seeing people vote for more than one, but then I realised I a) hadn't specified to only pick one, and b) it, really doesn't matter all that much here.

4 am's a helluva drug.

Admittedly, I am a bit glad you've preserved the occasional progress roll for projects, getting that huge crit on forming the Process was hype as heck, and it'd be amazing if we somehow got something like that again.

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Yeah, even like halfway through the decision, I did realise that I'd still need rolls for some things- just not... everything, y'dig? Functions, Process research, and probably some long-term project stuff, but I could easily make that one go either way.

It's what I can deal with- being free of the rest of it is just... such a weight off my shoulders, even now.

Anyway, thank you all for your support, I genuinely have no idea why I keep expecting anything other than that; it genuinely means quite a lot to me every time it happens regardless. I normally make a post announcing the vote will close, but this time there's really no point- by nearly double the amount of second place, finding out why Jaune was on the no-bus list for 6 months wins!

 

[Eisenhelm]

Anyway, thank you all for your support, I genuinely have no idea why I keep expecting anything other than that; it genuinely means quite a lot to me every time it happens regardless.

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people tend to like authors who write with such quality for free.
its like piracy but without the guilt and more direct interactions.

 

[TortugaGreen]

Less likely, because if I have to let Ruby get away with her scythe-shaped pile of suicide waiting to happen, basically anything short of putting a nuke on a stick is kosher.

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I'm now imagining some guy going about whose weapon is just a couple spar torpedoes, the conventional explosive version of nuke on a stick. It was a real thing people actually did (in like the american civil war, as an anti-ship weapon). I figure remnant's fondness for insane and (often) oversized weapons should mean it's a viable (if relatively insane even for remnant) weapon, especially against the larger grimm.

 

[Blue Dullahan]

Glad to see this back, shortly after I finished catching back up after craziness in my own life had made me fall way behind on keeping up.