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- A state of cleverness
Sold to the Jaune in the funny hat!
Also it's a late observation but did anyone else notice that Ada pretty much called Jaune the same thing her mom called her dad?
Hold It In (RWBY/Transistor)
- Thread starter Prok
- Start date
- Crossover
Also it's a late observation but did anyone else notice that Ada pretty much called Jaune the same thing her mom called her dad?
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- Box of Granola bars
Sold to the Jaune in the funny hat!
Also it's a late observation but did anyone else notice that Ada pretty much called Jaune the same thing her mom called her dad?
Could you quote that for easy comparison?
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- Box of Granola bars
[X] "My name is Jaune and I was hired to fix your laptop by a guy with a ponytail. Please don't stab me in my eye I only have one of those left today."
Forgot the vote.
Forgot the vote.
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- United states
Thing is saying that a ponytail haired guy hired us isn't really saying much. What does that even mean? Who is Jaune talking about? It just sounds really damn weird that Jaune suddenly showed up out of nowhere and no one told her about it. Jaune should at least explain that he thinks the guy was SDC instead of potentially someone she never heard of.
Jaune doesn't need to be a social butterfly to just explain what he was hired to do.
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- A state of cleverness
"Big lug" vs. "Big goof". It's not romantic at all nor meant in that way, buuuuut going by relative heights...
Prok
Go play Star Fetchers
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- Scotland
Honestly, now that you kinda have the thing that everyone was working towards, I might not bother with the vote limit on the Zoltar option as long as you're above 100 points.
Might not. Haven't decided yet, ask me in the morning.
I mean, she's probably not gonna stab you unless you decide to go full on caustic, but that vote isn't going to amuse her in the slightest, especially on its own.
But maybe that's what people want. For some reason.
Maybe they enjoy angry heiresses threatening to stab them in the neck, I dunno, I ain't gonna judge-
... That's what I've been forgetting!
Oh, man, that's been bugging me for like a month!
Right, yes, I'll deal with that in the morning- thank you for reminding me!
...
What do you think this is?
More seriously, it wouldn't help you much, because no matter how much Jaune practices in Turn(), I can almost guarantee that it'll go out the window as soon as he gets out of it and remembers the razor sharp sword that wants to say hello to his jugular.
Your social skill isn't listed because, by default, it's so all over the place that trying to quantify it is near impossible, on top of the fact that a sword to the neck is a hell of a penalty.
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Okay in that case I definitely think we should spend fate points to ask that question. I mean Prok could have just said no and we do have canon examples of people being able to come back to life or exist after death in both settings. Not to mention seems like it would make sense for the Process to want to have a way for Jaune to respawn incase he dies since their existance is virtually tied to his. Potentially knowing that being able to come back from the dead is possible and how to do so would be huge so to me it's worth the points.
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- Hyperborea
Yeah, I suspected as much. there's a reason I included other stuff as well and not just that. I guess I'll just return to my old one.
[X] My name is Jaune Arc and...
[X] Your laptop was targeted by some really nasty ransomware, some probably SDC guy just hired me to fix it hush hush- ponytail, super slimy personality, ringing any bells?
[X] I thought the offer was too good to be true, but now that something actually went wrong I'm not sure which one of us is being set up.
[X] Once she's calmed down and removed the sword from your neck, warn her about the spyware.
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- A state of cleverness
Schneenanigans.
....yeah that's about it. (Actually I just dislike giving long overly specific in-character answers unless requested)
...The Transistor cannot create souls. It cannot fix them, manipulate them, or grant them. It can analyze them up to a point and break them down, but if you want to get real technical so can we all. That's like, the essence of the game's conflict, and its last word. I know I've ranted about this before.
Can the Process copy Jaune? Hell yeah it can, hell the Transistor can make a perfect replica of his mind. But say you want his fleshy meatbag body back after he kicks it. Sure, meat is easy. Download the mindmap. Done. Soul? Wuh-oh. The Ship of Theseus has sailed, it's not him. The Transistor has incredible power to affect reality, to help and hurt, to change things. But people are not things.
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Prok
Go play Star Fetchers
- Location
- Scotland
Keep your Fate Point, the man's got it in one.Schneenanigans.
....yeah that's about it. (Actually I just dislike giving long overly specific in-character answers unless requested)
...The Transistor cannot create souls. It cannot fix them, manipulate them, or grant them. It can analyze them up to a point and break them down, but if you want to get real technical so can we all. That's like, the essence of the game's conflict, and its last word. I know I've ranted about this before.
Can the Process copy Jaune? Hell yeah it can, hell the Transistor can make a perfect replica of his mind. But say you want his fleshy meatbag body back after he kicks it. Sure, meat is easy. Download the mindmap. Done. Soul? Wuh-oh. The Ship of Theseus has sailed, it's not him. The Transistor has incredible power to affect reality, to help and hurt, to change things. But people are not things.
Ok, look, let me make this clear- by the point the Process is advanced enough to understand, modify, and create souls, the Grimm will be gone, the White Fang will have returned to peacefulness on account of the new international police force literally being the ground they walk on, the Academy Artefacts will belong to you, and the only aesthetically off thing about your giant sky castle of technical wonders is Salem's perfectly preserved head on a pike above the gate.
By the time the Process can work with souls, you will have won the quest.
After a certain point, the Process will become advanced enough to recreate Jaune, far before the point of creating a soul, but it would just be another finger puppet of that higher-dimensional mesh.
One given admin access, yes, and a personality apart from the rest, but still just... a puppet.
Not human anymore. No soul, no true independence, it would be... a mockery of the real thing.
If you die, that's what will happen. If that's alright by you, then good for you, but remember that, in the end, all it is is the Process...
Not being ready to say goodbye.
... Just try not to die.
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RazorBlaxe
Just another transient being
- Location
- Earth
[X] "My name is Jaune and I was hired to fix your laptop by a guy with a ponytail. Please don't stab me in my eye I only have one of those left today."
First, this post is not about the options for the quest, or even truly a critique. I just had to say after reading this, you have some thing pretty special. The action is good, dialog witty and funny, and good feels. The scene releasing the process? Chills, especially with the music. Only real problem is that I'm too eager to the Canon storyline to see how things change making me impatient. You write really well, and this was a great idea. Good job man.
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- United states
Makes sense but, don't take this is me trying to convince you to do this by being pushy just bringing up some points, couldn't Jaune just cheat death by him scanning people that are able to do just that? I did mention there being canon examples and the maiden powers are things we can copy. An example I have is Jaune scanning a certain someone from canon RWBY who can move his soul into another body upon 'dying' and Jaune replicating that process and setting it to trigger upon his own 'death' except rather than actually dying his soul is moved into another body before he actually dies.
Again just asking since there are canon examples and the Transistor has been noted to be able to copy things like even the Maidens powers which are magical in nature.
Edit: Actually now that I think about it depending on what's unraveled in the canon show of Rwby would it be possible to gain other forms of resurrection even without the Transistor? You did bring up the possibility of Jaune getting access to the artifacts themselves which seem to be a certain level of bullshit themselves.
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@Prok this is more of a derivative of an existing function than a full fledged function itself, so I'm not sure how to format it:
Name: Ctrl+Alt+Delete()
Purpose: In case of emergency ... use something else. In case of catastrophic emergency of unspeakable proportion, break glass.
Effect: remove most of the safeties on Swirl and exposes the target to "knock the planet off its axis" levels of kinetic energy. WARNING: air will likely immediately detonate upon being impacted by the target. WARNING: we kind of need this planet
Name: Ctrl+Alt+Delete()
Purpose: In case of emergency ... use something else. In case of catastrophic emergency of unspeakable proportion, break glass.
Effect: remove most of the safeties on Swirl and exposes the target to "knock the planet off its axis" levels of kinetic energy. WARNING: air will likely immediately detonate upon being impacted by the target. WARNING: we kind of need this planet
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[x] I was just hired in order to fix some virus that appeared on both your scroll and laptop by a shady guy downstairs. Also, your backup is filled with spyware sending stuff to SDC. Do you want to keep it or should i remove them?
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- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
This isn't something that Jaune would ever leave lying around pre-coded in the Transistor. If he actually ever encounters that situation (spoilers, he won't), he'd recode the thing himself, live. You don't make "blow up the planet" buttons, it's just bad practices.
ADeshantis
King on the Chromium Throne
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- United states
We need a "horrified screaming" reaction.
.... yes you do. Because coding on the fly is bad coding. And risks stupid mistakes like a variable transposition reversing the angle of release so it shoots downwards. Instead you pre-code it but add in several don't-blow-up-the-planet safeties, failsafes, and a authorization confirmation lock.
Also its worth noting that one of the key safety features would be that this would still retain Swirl's basic format: spinning ball that launches things up (away from impacting the planet) and that even if it touched the ground it'd just rip dirt and whatnot out and launch it upwards
CaesriusPolybius
Worldgate Mechanic
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- United States. Ish.
[X] "My name is Jaune and I was hired to fix your laptop by a guy with a ponytail. Please don't stab me in my eye I only have one of those left today."
Jokes aside, "doing it live" is a horrible idea for something like this. Yes, it would be incredibly hazardous to just have, but doing it on the fly is an even worse idea. Sure, Jaune's good enough that he probably could pull it off, but... well, first comes pride.
(Note that I don't think we should keep it prepared. That shit's not safe, and if we need it then ironically we have bigger problems. Just felt I should back up mastigos on the viability of doing it on the spot.)
[Disapproving Alteran Noises]
Jokes aside, "doing it live" is a horrible idea for something like this. Yes, it would be incredibly hazardous to just have, but doing it on the fly is an even worse idea. Sure, Jaune's good enough that he probably could pull it off, but... well, first comes pride.
(Note that I don't think we should keep it prepared. That shit's not safe, and if we need it then ironically we have bigger problems. Just felt I should back up mastigos on the viability of doing it on the spot.)
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Prok
Go play Star Fetchers
- Location
- Scotland
I have plans for them.
When your suggestion contains reasons to not accept your suggestion, you're not doing yourself any favours.
Look, remember how I said that by the time the Process could work with souls, you'd have won the quest already?
If you ever need this, I would end the quest, because you will have completely and utterly lost, without any chance of a comeback, miraculous or otherwise.
By the time you'd need this, you'd be in a position where you have no way to use it, and also be on the gallows for your execution.
Spiral()'s only safety feature is its shape- it's designed to keep all that energy contained by reflecting it back in on itself, in a way that happens to resemble the energy of another series. Without that one thing, you would shear the planet in half, and keeping it just gives you a relabelled Spiral().
The only reason I can think why you would need to take the safety feature off of it is specifically so you can blow up the planet in some kind of M.A.D-ness induced 'if I can't have it, nobody can' final middle finger to whatever put you in that position, in which case turning your brain to goop is probably the least of your problems.
... No, I'm not convinced.
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- United states
Back to this, we pretty much have confirmation that this
[] "My name is Jaune and I was hired to fix your laptop by a guy with a ponytail. Please don't stab me in my eye I only have one of those left today."
is a freaking terrible by the QM himself:
Making jokes when someone has a freaking sword to your throat and pissing them off in that moment is just beyond moronic and goes into suicidally stupid territory. Also when someone says five seconds more often than not they are not being literal about that. They just mean give a quick explaination. There really isn't any reason whatsoever that Jaune couldn't just take explain why he was there instead of deciding for some reason to make a joke. And yes that is a blatant joke option since Weiss doesn't even have her sword near his eye.
Seriously, lets not play a fucking dumbass that pisses off the person holding a freaking sword to their throat by deciding for some reason that making a joke at that moment is a great idea and not actually explain anything.
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- Box of Granola bars
[X] My name is Jaune and I was hired to fix your computer.
How about this then @Red Bovine ?
Short, and to the point.
How about this then @Red Bovine ?
Short, and to the point.
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- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
@z3r0gamer, @Captain Clever, @Great Greedy Guts, @Splodge, @RazorBlaxe, @CaesriusPolybius
@Prok has confirmed that your current vote won't go over well with Weiss at all. Can I please ask you to consider switching votes to something else?
@Prok has confirmed that your current vote won't go over well with Weiss at all. Can I please ask you to consider switching votes to something else?