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Hold It In (RWBY/Transistor)

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

  • Dishonored

    Votes: 3 7.0%

  • Legend Of Zelda

    Votes: 9 20.9%

  • Shadow Of Mordor

    Votes: 2 4.7%

  • Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

    Votes: 4 9.3%

  • Preacher

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

    Votes: 8 18.6%

  • Fist Of The North Star

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Kill Six Billion Demons

    Votes: 12 27.9%

  • The Zombie Knight

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Mob Psycho 100

    Votes: 2 4.7%

  • Author's Choice

    Votes: 3 7.0%
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    • catDreaming said:
    Eh, if my speculation was wrong, that's fine. I'm pretty sure I half wrote that post in a fugue state after a day of half aware recovery from working 36 hours in 3 consecutive days (don't let anyone tell you that doing afterhours work is easy). While it's too late to change my vote, if I wanted to, I can certainly apply a slightly finer toothed comb to the post.
    What with this being our first time seeing Jaune intentionally disconnected from the Trransistor in a non-combat situation, it's understandably different than him running on 'attempting first aid and process combat forms' or 'navigate a forest full of Grimm and try not to die in the process'. The first thing of interest? The Transistor (now running not in Safe Mode) openly defies gravity when it's not connected to Jaune. Furthermore, the disconnection from Jaune does the job of our favorite piece of math made into physical form appearing as... itself. It doesn't give the impression of being broken, or not whole, just not the impression of being alive. Which leads down a fun rabbit hole of... well, why?
    The journey down that particular rabbit hole takes some turns. The Transistor is typically physically away from Jaune when it's disconnected so it drops doing things that would help it register as nonthreatening. It also seems to become snarkier and/or less laid back, which once again, could be less of a problem when it's away from Jaune. But the personality change hit within less than a minute, so that's a bit odd. The Transistor raises a metaphorical eyebrow and takes some prodding from Jaune to acknowledge that something's weird. We find out that it's actually using Jaune for an important part of how ( as far as anyone can tell, psychology gets weird ) humans do empathy. Disconnecting from Jaune removes his Semblance from the system. We hit two important things here, and as one of them leads into the other, we're going to hit them in a different order than they are written. First, the Transistor isn't able to run the mirror neuron hardware without the connection; It's a hardcoded limit that they haven't even seen the error codes from before.
    The other important thing is Jaune's dull mental pain intensifies at about this point. Let's step back a bit, because throughout all this, Jaune's had some sensations happening. The disconnection being slow makes it go from a blackout inducing sensation to 'merely' giving him absurd tingles through his entire body. Jaune's Calculation doesn't start doing anything immediately as it turns out, getting rid of all the technology in his perception seems to have actually done the trick. The conversation continues, and Calculation seems to initially settle for timing how long it is between Yang or the Transistors statements. It starts as pressure instead of pain, and we get an initial idea that it's because Jaune is still stressed. Calculation doesn't do anything until Jaune's stressed. And we've heard before that the Transistor helps Jaune handle the load while they are connected. But it isn't connected, so we're looking at... Calculation being a very sleepy dog with entirely too much fur rousing itself from a comfy nap in the middle of the winter. So it's not doing a lot yet, but it's getting there.
    Jaune ticks over from pressure to a dull pain when Yang asks the important question about whether our newly revealed-to-be slightly emotionally impaired physical math friend can run the mirror neurons. Calculation interestingly spits out a coherent answer to Yang's question, something it usually doesn't do. Whether this is because Calculation is more familiar with The Transistor or just because it isn't attempting to do something with technology is still up for debate. The pain intensifies when he accidentally catches a glimpse of Yang's notes in a reflective surface and processes them... But the pain doesn't stay physical. The pain instead of going in is heading out, and it's forming into... something. He can tell that much, but he can't tell what it's doing beyond that. When he moves in response to Yang's request, and then flares his aura, Yang and the Transistor confirm that the pain is forming into something: A hand, connected to an arm, and it seems to be searching for something. And out of everything in the room it picks Yang.

    Okay catdreaming, we're 700 odd words into your rambling here, get to the point. And I think that I was wrong about Calculation misfiring on technology. I think that what we're seeing here initally is Calculation waking up without anything to really calculate, he's familiar with everything here, and so instead Calculation latched onto something that was providing questions. That being Yang. But Yang has an Aura, so Calculation is limited by it's ability to analyze her. Keywords here, being Aura and Calculation. We've been told that Calculation is an exceptionally strong Semblance in terms of raw potency. Based on the end of the post, we also get a tidbit. A Semblance is a manifestation of the soul, just like Aura, but perhaps it isn't the whole soul. So when Calculation's thing of... percieving? Searching? Let's go with searching for now backed up the raw power finds another Aura with absolutely nothing else it's being directed at it does what it is meant to do. It reaches out, meets with Yang's Aura and thereby her Soul, and makes connection.
    It's not misfiring with technology, that's probably just a case of information overload on the steriods you hear about that make people into insane rampaging superhuman monsters, but what it did here is probably a combination of Jaune and Yang both trusting each other immensely in the moment, both having strong souls, and Calculation essentially stretching a muscle that it hasn't had the opprtunity to ever really use before. I don't think this is something that will happen again easily, or even soon. It's something that Ozpin is almost certainly aware of the possibility of occuring. And it's a moment that will invariably stick with Jaune and Yang for the rest of their lives.

    Edit: Brother gods, I just wrote 1000 odd words of this, that's a thing.
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    ... Very good, top marks! You're closer to correct than not, but unless you have a sudden attack of prophesy, you've gotten about as far as you possibly could have. Things will only become clearer with time.

    Anyway: update is on track, for once, currently sitting around 3000 words, so maybe half, three-quarters finished. In a week. In less than a week!

    I'm writing again! Ha!

    In other news-
    Prok said:
    Yang doesn't respond, taking a really quick sketch in her notebook, then turning it around to face you.

    It… she gets an A for effort, but it does just look like a hand. Not a very good one, either.

    Blue projects an image of yourself sitting there, and you see it- a too-large hand on a too-long arm, clearly not human, but also not the other possibility, thankfully. Wreathed in white, and clearly made of segmented parts, with little sharp nubs coming off in places. It has no elbow- not really. It connects around an empty circle, a pattern repeated in the deep divot in its palm- so deep that your Aura slowly darkens and fades into nothing around it.
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    Some people asked for a reference for this, and it occurred to me that, yeah, it probably needs some visual assistance. So, I broke out the old drawing tablet and chiselled something out just for the people struggling with it. I'm actually kind of happy with it, even if it is just a very rough sketch. Pretty much the only thing I'm not too happy about after I've already closed Photoshop is just how ham I went on the elbow-circles, there are definitely less than illustrated. I also misread the anatomy chart I was using for reference and accidentally gave it two elbows, but honestly that just kind of adds to the oddity of the image. Happy little accidents.

    So, here, a kinda shit charcoal sketch. Fun fact: this wasn't the shade of blue I used. It just saved like that because apparently I chose a boring shade of blue and Photoshop decided to zest it up a little.
     
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    • Running the caption of the image through a Zalgo text generator backwards I get "The Gxaxxixg Hand" which I suspect is "The Grasping Hand" with several letters redacted. What does this mean? Who knows! Not me, that's for sure.
     
    Okay, thats a bit less mechanical than I was imagining in my head, more amalgam than a singular theme, very interesting.


    Also neat to see some input of catdreaming's thesis. I have to imagine that Jaune, Blue and Bracket are going to be foaming at the mouth analyzing this scene from top to bottom once they really get the chance to.
     
    Solarshade said:
    Running the caption of the image through a Zalgo text generator backwards I get "The Gxaxxixg Hand" which I suspect is "The Grasping Hand" with several letters redacted. What does this mean? Who knows! Not me, that's for sure.
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    ... WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN RUN IT THROUGH THE GENERATOR BACKWARDS

    ARE YOU FUCKING-     alright, noted for future reference. I didn't intend it to be that hard anyway. Well- not that easy either, but, not that hard.

    Polaris37 said:
    Okay, thats a bit less mechanical than I was imagining in my head, more amalgam than a singular theme, very interesting.

    Also neat to see some input of catdreaming's thesis. I have to imagine that Jaune, Blue and Bracket are going to be foaming at the mouth analyzing this scene from top to bottom once they really get the chance to.
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    Blue and Bracket already are. Jaune just wants to go to bed for about 3 days straight.

    Menthewarp said:
    Please re-upload the image to an alternate source, it's disappeared.
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    That's damnable. Is an Imgur link any better?

    pucflek said:
    While this is true, it made me realize that if you hover on where the picture is supposed to be, there is TEXT. TEXT WITH LORE. I did not notice this before.
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    Yeah, the abbreviations tag is really cool! Up until now, it's mostly been footnotes in the excerpts from On The Souls Of Grimm, but you can do all sorts of cool stuff with it, so long as it's just plain text, which really ruined my first bit, linking to the Rhythm Heaven map of All I Want For Christmas Is You, so that's my day ruined twice in one post.
     
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    Hey, just to ask, but do you think we could maybe teach our friends our Soul Language thingy? I think it might be a fun thing to do, and it'd give the group a good Secret Language, especially if the Team learns how to make the Shapes using Aura.
     
    Creation Cage said:
    Hey, just to ask, but do you think we could maybe teach our friends our Soul Language thingy? I think it might be a fun thing to do, and it'd give the group a good Secret Language, especially if the Team learns how to make the Shapes using Aura.
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    Soul Language? Admittedly, it's a week or two since I did full reread the quest, but soul language doesn't bring anything to mind.
     
    catDreaming said:
    Soul Language? Admittedly, it's a week or two since I did full reread the quest, but soul language doesn't bring anything to mind.
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    MoonSerpent said:
    Soul Language? I didn't know Aura/Semblances were teachable things?!
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    When Jaune visited Professor Teal to scan her Semblance, it was revealed that he had to make a full-on language to actually boil his scans of souls down into something he could work with.

    From Weeklylife.bat, Cycle 1, Result Page 1/2

    Prok said:
    You learned quickly that basic 2-dimensional code just didn't cut it where Aura and Semblance quantification were concerned- the result was a file that usually measured terabytes in size, and several hundred billion lines long, almost as if boiling a metaphysical construct that essentially defined a person into a purely digital format was hard or something. So, you decided on a different approach. First, you tried Goedelisation, using the products of powers of prime numbers to try and compress information down, but that only led to slightly smaller gigantic block codes. Useful for a lot of stuff, but it's still...

    It took a while, but Bracket figured out that dealing with the code in a 3D environment seemed to make things slightly more manageable in terms of searching for things. It was still terabytes in size, and the three of you had to create an entirely new language, not a coding language, an actual language, alphabet and all. After a while, it occurred to you that you had essentially boiled down one of the most complex metaphysical concepts into a language that could probably gently place every philosophical text on the subject on a table, then flip the table, off a cliff, and chase it with a molotov cocktail made from an entire fire Dust canister, so you decided enough was enough.

    Combine the two, and you end up with a projected cube that at least partially describes your school nurse's soul.
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    CaesriusPolybius said:
    When Jaune visited Professor Teal to scan her Semblance, it was revealed that he had to make a full-on language to actually boil his scans of souls down into something he could work with.

    From Weeklylife.bat, Cycle 1, Result Page 1/2
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    Oh. That. I mean. I guess we could try? Jaune... kind of has enough on his plate at the moment without trying to tutor his teammates in a language constructed by himself and the transistor purely for the purpose of getting some comprehensible out of scans of the human soul.
    Or it could be discussion topic with Ozpin. That could be interesting.
     
    Prok said:
    ... WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN RUN IT THROUGH THE GENERATOR BACKWARDS
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    This might just be a me thing, but Zalgo text is actually fairly easy to read if you just concentrate a little. You can also pull up inspect element or highlight the text if you need to make it even easier.

    Prok said:
    go listen to Constant Companions by Jamie Paige, honestly my album of the year
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    So true, also. Constant Companions is peak.
     
    @Prok : Could Jaune just do a business of offering cloud computing using the Process' arbitrary computation power? It'd be easy to avoid suspicion because it's a business that doesn't involve much in-person interaction, doesn't require a physical location beyond an address, and can easily scale up or down as needed to avoid social impacts while still providing a nice income?

    Could also do some cybersecurity consulting work for Atlas and Vale. Nothing quite like having two best-in-the-world AI supercomputers casually sweeping your code for vulnerabilities to be found and fixed.

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    Also, gear up towards pitching Atlas or Vale on defensive laser turret emplacements on the walls or something? Maybe not 25 megawatt monsters like at initiation, but ones that can help cut down swathes of more delicate Grimm fliers or Beowolves trying to storm the walls. Or...railguns? It occurs to me that railguns are a really good fit for the Process, given their ability to freely and easily control their own catoms, so wear on the rails would be a non issue since it could just repair the damage trivially easily, and generating tons of power is not a problem for them either. Generating ammunition is trivial, too, and since you don't have thermal bloom like with lasers, you could get some really powerful railguns without having as much of a problem with collateral damage.

    Like, put railgun turrets on the walls, with a physical inability of most of the turrets to even point towards Vale (with the ones that can being heavily guarded and/or much lighter in caliber).

    Does Ruby have any interest in weapon design beyond Hunter formshift weapons?

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    Other random question: the Process can't, well, process Dust. Any reason why? I assume it's because Dust is made in some way from souls or soul residue, such as it is. Or did you make that decision to avoid allowing Jaune to instantly break the world economy over his knee?
     
    SaltyWaffles said:
    Other random question: the Process can't, well, process Dust. Any reason why? I assume it's because Dust is made in some way from souls or soul residue, such as it is. Or did you make that decision to avoid allowing Jaune to instantly break the world economy over his knee?
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    I mean, even just with the bedrock processing, IIRC the process already has access to enough dust to do that if we had hard-focused on that, so presumably it's got deeper implications.
     
    SaltyWaffles said:
    Any reason why? I assume it's because Dust is made in some way from souls or soul residue, such as it is. Or did you make that decision to avoid allowing Jaune to instantly break the world economy over his knee?
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    As someone somewhere have said about Dust:

    "THE SECRET SAUCE TO DUST WAS PEOPLE ALL ALONG!"

    Ergo Dust Casting is essentially Necromancy in a roundabout way :V
     
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    CaesriusPolybius said:
    I mean, even just with the bedrock processing, IIRC the process already has access to enough dust to do that if we had hard-focused on that, so presumably it's got deeper implications.
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    Access to is not the same thing as "can extract and deliver them to retail locations easily". Considering how much of that Dust is deep underground, we couldn't answer where we're getting this gigantic amount of Dust from without giving away that we have massive underground operations. And even if the government doesn't ask, SDC would move mountains to find out entirely of its own volition.

    But a small contract to supply Dust to Beacon would be plausible and get us a notable profit without raising any eyebrows.
     
    SaltyWaffles said:
    SDC would move mountains to find out entirely of its own volition.
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    Is the amount of Underground Dust found by the Process enough to crash Dust Prices by such a margin that Jaune singlehandedly cracks SDC's Monopoly of the stuff? Not factored in of course, the processing, shipping. etc.

    Side note for for the previous functions I've posted awhile back;
    The inspirations from two of em I've based off of Nero from Devil May Cry;
    Prok said:
    So, technically Freeze() doesn't specify whether the object has to be inanimate or not, but you made the effort so I'll throw it on to annoy the munchkins
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    View: https://youtu.be/ysU-8kIHQFo?si=vf3WeS4Pfg-Dj7Gw&t=754

    Yep affects both animate and inanimate beings, I'm thinking at the earliest of stages it's just a single target before further coding adds more space/enemies.

    Prok said:
    Blam(), no notes, good function, maybe 2 MEM instead of 1
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    View: https://youtu.be/LGdtdfzOTOI?si=5DN6YSmjNSypow6h&t=74

    Nero's visually striking here in how he kinda lets the sword move him rather the other way around with all of that momentum, with that GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE energy. 💪

    The beginning of the moveset matches that of Crash()'s start and end state: hilt up, blade down. So I thought it'd be nice those two flow into each other.

    Prok said:
    SweepUp() is basically just canon Transistor's Get() Function, so I'll probably just replace it with that, but they're all officially on the list!
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    That one's from FF7 Rebirth's Cloud's Deadly Dodge Moveset.

    View: https://youtu.be/zCS8Wf0G_Y4?si=uW08IQK295zAZAAb&t=4

    There's something satisfying just getting everything gathered up in one place with a swing of your giant sword and then send em flying...

    Also...
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    A surprising amount of the code was copy-pasted from the control scheme for the Transistor's 'telekinetic' movement. {It's almost impressive how little effort went into this.}
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    with how little effort it is for Jaune to telekinetically control the Transistor. It's not far off he could pull off this shit:


    View: https://youtu.be/QAU_8GEgSwI?si=oj-g-ykuxuKDMxez&t=191

    Just tie in a program suite consisting of a two way telekinetic tether and a pocket dimension. Add that to the existing telekinetic command framework and this boi can dance yo!
     
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    MoonSerpent said:
    Is the amount of Underground Dust found by the Process enough to crash Dust Prices by such a margin that Jaune singlehandedly cracks SDC's Monopoly of the stuff? Not factored in of course, the processing, shipping. etc.
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    From Beacon()

    Prok said:
    You can't just have Dust ore magically appear out of thin air. Even if it's just a ten-foot hole in the ground surrounded by a mile of very heavily protected land, you're still gonna need to do something to make finding that kind of thing believable. Speaking of, if you refined that ore, how much Dust would you end up with, anyway?

    The Process gives you the number.

    "Fuck me, really?" You ask, the curse slipping out in a breath of pure shock.

    {Congratulations, Jaune, you're sitting on a stockpile that could crash the world Dust trade three times over and make you the richest person on the planet for about five seconds before the economy tanks.}
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    So, yeah. He could most certainly break the SDC monopoly if he so desired. Just to start.
     
    Hold up, why have we not given Cells to our other classmates? Lots of useful data up for grabs, there, between Pyrrha, RWBY, and Leathers. Leathers because the Process needs experience dealing with utterly nonsensical bullshit, and that's too much quality comedy to pass up. Ruby because it would make her inner nerd squee and the Process might pick up on some interesting ideas for combat forms from her rambling.

    Weiss because she could use an assistant that isn't an SDC plant, and it tickles my sensibilities for the SDC heiress to already be using the Process.

    And a cell for Lumen's twin would be nice, when the opportunity arises, for the same reason it's super helpful for Lumen? An outside measure for their own luxen mix for making sure their personality is "normal" each day. And a reminder when their luxen mix is out of balance in general.

    Point is, each Cell out there in good hands is a lot more life experience more quickly for the Process, while also being good life experience. As an example, a Cell for both of Jaune's parents gives the Process some valuable insight into the lives of normal, older parents, which is a major demographic, while also giving the Process two more good role models.
     
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