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I want a refund! (Tinker of Fiction Semi-SI)

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After a bunch of pondering I've decided to take a small hiatus.

This is because there's loads of shit happening in a very short time frame coming up in Addy's future and I need to figure a general plotline to work along (which Addy will inevitably derail at some point). I just have so many ideas for all sorts of things and my Muse keeps throwing more and more at me.

It'll also let the SB version of this thread catch up to this one, since ideally the next update I do will be with both threads in the same place story-wise so they can be updated at roughly the same time (probably going with updating her first, then SB a day or so later).

Also, because I'm evil I figured I'd leave you all with this hilarious teaser snippet. Warning Spoilers:



Okay that's that all sorted. I grinned to myself as I finished putting Splyce's body back into her life support tank. A quick flick of my telekinesis and the tank holding my dead clone was quickly switched to recycling mode. Waste not want not and stuff.

Now I just need to clean up the bloodstains and summoning circle before anyone else shows up. Or more specifically, get the Sectoids to clean up. I have much more important things to do.

Like learning to fly with my kickass new wings! I ran a hand over one of my new large feathery limbs, admiring the dark plumage. The feathers were so black, so soft, so elegant!

"Addy! Are you here? I smell blood." Lisa's voice called out the open door leading to where the packing plant offices used to be (which the Tattlesnakes currently use as living quarters). Moments later Lisa steadily moved into the room, laser SMG at the ready in case of danger.

Lisa looked at me, then the long blood trail leading to the life support tank my dead clone was beginning to be recycled in, then the summoning circle made of powdered silver and filled with magical runes drawn from said clone's blood.

Damnit, why did Lisa have to get back to the Lair before I could hide the evidence clean up? I don't even have my cover story in place yet. Now she's totally gonna tattle on me.

"What the fuck."

"It's not what it looks like." I said instantly.

"What the fuck?" She repeated, still staring at the circle.

"Um. I can explain?" I hazarded, though she wasn't paying much attention to me.

"What the fuck." She was still staring at the circle in a bit of a daze.

Uh oh. I think I broke Lisa and made her bluescreen. Or maybe her power is the one bluescreening?

Ah well, luckily, despite humans being extremely complex organisms, I happen to know where the universal reboot button is.

I licked my finger, making sure to coat it in as much saliva as possible. Then I stuck it straight into her left ear.
 
randoomy said:
Why wouldn't she revive him just to snitch on what his friends have been up to?
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I would say that she fell into a mindset of resurrection being too cheap.
It doesn't hold the implications or the weight in her mind.
It's more of a quick and dirty solution to human sacrifice problems and less the heavy political weight it actually has if it's used to revive some specific people.

You can see this with the casual way she interacts with death in general.
That is why she doesn't even think about it as a leverage she could use to twist cauldrons arm behind their back with Hero.
 
Unders said:
After a bunch of pondering I've decided to take a small hiatus.
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I didn't read the spoiler, not in a rush and prefer to see it when the next post happens. On that note, take your time and work at the pace and approach that works best for you. I would rather wait and have the story continue with how you want it to rather then the oh so common sidetracked frustration that is often seen in 'seat of the pants' style writing that often ends up with the story being 'rewritten' and then abandoned.
I eagerly look forward to the next chapter when it is ready for posting.
 
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Unders said:
I mostly play pathfinder nowadays
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Are you familiar with Spheres of Power? It's an alt magic system for Pathfinder that I like so much better than Vancian. In short:
  • Your caster's abilities have continuity, steadily improving every level (still with tons of choice) rather than picking totally different thematically disconnected new spells for optimized numbers.
  • You don't have issues with non-highest-level spells having trash DC and action efficiency--everything scales fully with CL.
  • With the way resources work you don't wind up with useless unused low-level slots at the end of the adventuring day.
  • Non-full-casters like rangers are actually balanced and versatile casters, and there are tons of archetypes that add or adjust sphere-casting to base classes.
  • Casting Traditions turn the arcane/divine/psionic/etc split into a cool and freeform part of the build.
(You can basically recover the Vancian Wizard experience using a Sphere Arcanist with a somatic-verbal-prepared casting tradition and the Spellcrafting and Spellbook feats)
Spheres of Might is cool too, it actually manages to make me excited about building a martial character every time, which is just incredibly weird. Fits together with Spheres of Power incredibly well, too.
 
Spheres of power is, in fact, pretty great. It's so simple to build for yet has infinite complexity and character options. Also it makes casters actually balanced (mostly) without taking away all their cool abilities.

Still, there are some flaws. Mostly Telekinesis sucking and the Warp Sphere eating way too much of your build if you want strategic teleportation. And while I love the Conjuration Sphere you can absolutely snap game balance in half if you play it to its full potential, which considering the lack of other game-breakers in SoP makes it stand out all the more.

...Wait, why are we talking about Spheres of Power again?
 
Ted009 said:
Depending on what rules your using 3.5 D&D True Resurrection is 10 years per casting level they can be dead for, Pathfinder 1st edition is the same, and I believe 5th E is that they can be resurrected as long as 200 years hasn't passes since they died.
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Yeah it's 10 years. I was misremembering. This gives Addy a range of 170 years to revive somebody in (and since it's true resurrection she doesn't even need a body).
I can actually half see her reviving some famous dead person for history class show and tell, because it's just the sort of shit she'd do.
deadlyham said:
I wouldn't be surprised if some PHO poster takes contention with Magpie calling her the greatest Tinker ever.

PHO Poster HeroNumberOneFan:
There are always debates in the VSs threads about who is the greatest Tinker, but it's always implicit that it's a debate of who is the greatest current Tinker. Sure, Magpie is great, but she isn't the greatest Tinker ever. She is the greatest Tinker since Hero. Also, she definitely falls short in the actual heroic department.
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I'd probably use this, but my Muse has already given me an idea for if I do opt for reviving hero.
28th00 said:
SHE'S AN UNREPENTANT MONSTER IN A LITTLE GIRLS SKIN! I've never seen such evil in my life!
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Well she had to one up herself after everything else that scene implied.
canned Tomatoes said:
I would say that she fell into a mindset of resurrection being too cheap.
It doesn't hold the implications or the weight in her mind.
It's more of a quick and dirty solution to human sacrifice problems and less the heavy political weight it actually has if it's used to revive some specific people.

You can see this with the casual way she interacts with death in general.
That is why she doesn't even think about it as a leverage she could use to twist cauldrons arm behind their back with Hero.
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Yeah death is real cheap for Addy. At it's cheapest the only thing it really costs her is electricity to power the vita-chamber and time spent refilling the ADAM reservoir. The scrolls are more expensive since they need diamonds and she can't mass produce those (for now)
Jubjub115 said:
So she gave herself fallen angel wings from dxd... why? And are they on her shoulders or are they buttwings like albedo?
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They aren't DxD Fallen wings. She's still in D&D. The Fiend Folio has some interesting stuff in it.
Also they're shoulder wings, though after looking at some pictures I'll admit i like the buttwing look.
Darth Bayes said:
Are you familiar with Spheres of Power? It's an alt magic system for Pathfinder that I like so much better than Vancian. In short:
  • Your caster's abilities have continuity, steadily improving every level (still with tons of choice) rather than picking totally different thematically disconnected new spells for optimized numbers.
  • You don't have issues with non-highest-level spells having trash DC and action efficiency--everything scales fully with CL.
  • With the way resources work you don't wind up with useless unused low-level slots at the end of the adventuring day.
  • Non-full-casters like rangers are actually balanced and versatile casters, and there are tons of archetypes that add or adjust sphere-casting to base classes.
  • Casting Traditions turn the arcane/divine/psionic/etc split into a cool and freeform part of the build.
(You can basically recover the Vancian Wizard experience using a Sphere Arcanist with a somatic-verbal-prepared casting tradition and the Spellcrafting and Spellbook feats)
Spheres of Might is cool too, it actually manages to make me excited about building a martial character every time, which is just incredibly weird. Fits together with Spheres of Power incredibly well, too.
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ImperatorV said:
Spheres of power is, in fact, pretty great. It's so simple to build for yet has infinite complexity and character options. Also it makes casters actually balanced (mostly) without taking away all their cool abilities.

Still, there are some flaws. Mostly Telekinesis sucking and the Warp Sphere eating way too much of your build if you want strategic teleportation. And while I love the Conjuration Sphere you can absolutely snap game balance in half if you play it to its full potential, which considering the lack of other game-breakers in SoP makes it stand out all the more.

...Wait, why are we talking about Spheres of Power again?
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It certainly sounds interesting. I probably won't use it though since it's was a massive pain in the ass trying to teach my players how to use the psionics rules and even then they barely use it. I've got no chance getting them to learn an entirely new casting system ¬.¬
 
Unders said:
The scrolls are more expensive since they need diamonds and she can't mass produce those (for now)
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Simple solution - "I Wish for every Wish, including this one, to be implemented exactly as I intend them to be without any side-effects or drawbacks" and then just go nuts and start creating matter and energy ex-nihilo :V
 
Eyeless said:
Simple solution - "I Wish for every Wish, including this one, to be implemented exactly as I intend them to be without any side-effects or drawbacks" and then just go nuts and start creating matter and energy ex-nihilo :V
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Result: the Wish fails (for some reason, people seem to forget that this can happen with a non-standard Wish), and the stress from the attempted casting results in her never being able to cast Wish ever again.
 
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    • Unders said:
    I can actually half see her reviving some famous dead person for history class show and tell, because it's just the sort of shit she'd do.
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    *poof*

    "As you can see, Hitler was an obnoxious little troll that nobody should listen to. And that concludes my book report on The Diary of Ann Frank."

    "Was ist los?!"

    "Umm Addy? What were you planning on doing with him?"

    "Oh, right. I forgot to clean up my materials."
    *casts disintegrate*

    "Did you just… kill him!?"

    "It was Hitler, so it doesn't count."
     
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    • Unders said:
    I can actually half see her reviving some famous dead person for history class show and tell, because it's just the sort of shit she'd do.
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    Then it turns out that she actually summoned Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter instead of the historical person. Making her get an F for the presentation on her interview with him.

    Or maybe Silver Age Superman since Addy forgot that the movies/comics are fictional?
     
    truenull said:
    Then it turns out that she actually summoned Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter instead of the historical person. Making her get an F for the presentation on her interview with him.

    Or maybe Silver Age Superman since Addy forgot that the movies/comics are fictional?
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    .. But are they? Are they really fictional?
    If Worm is real there's absolutely nothing stopping other realities being real from Addy's perspective, from our perspective we KNOW other realities are real because Reality Lens is giving Addy tech from other realities which are supposedly fictional, which Addy knows about so she'd know that Fiction isn't so fictional after all.
     
    Blaflaix said:
    *poof*

    "As you can see, Hitler was an obnoxious little troll that nobody should listen to. And that concludes my book report on The Diary of Ann Frank."

    "Was ist los?!"

    "Umm Addy? What were you planning on doing with him?"

    "Oh, right. I forgot to clean up my materials."
    *casts disintegrate*

    "Did you just… kill him!?"

    "It was Hitler, so it doesn't count."
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    Repeatedly revive and kill Hitler the next time the Empire messes with her, just as the ultimate power move.
     
    Polenball said:
    Repeatedly revive and kill Hitler the next time the Empire messes with her, just as the ultimate power move.
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    But it's Earth Bet. Their motto is, "It gets worse." The trauma of reviving and dying to a little magical girl over and over again would make him trigger with teleporting to get away from Addy, and tinker powers (Nazi Super Science) to counteract the magic that keeps smiting him. Then you've got Stupid Jetpack Hitler.
     
    Unders said:
    Yeah death is real cheap for Addy. At it's cheapest the only thing it really costs her is electricity to power the vita-chamber and time spent refilling the ADAM reservoir. The scrolls are more expensive since they need diamonds and she can't mass produce those (for now)

    They aren't DxD Fallen wings. She's still in D&D. The Fiend Folio has some interesting stuff in it.
    Also they're shoulder wings, though after looking at some pictures I'll admit i like the buttwing look.
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    Why can't she mass produce diamonds? Doesn't she have some fairly versatile nanotech? Those should be able to make them no problem! Heck, making cultured gem quality diamonds is *modern* tech. Also, automatic reset repeating Fabricate trap to create massive amounts of diamonds! Also, you've seen these, right?

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    ScarletFlames said:
    .. But are they? Are they really fictional?
    If Worm is real there's absolutely nothing stopping other realities being real from Addy's perspective, from our perspective we KNOW other realities are real because Reality Lens is giving Addy tech from other realities which are supposedly fictional, which Addy knows about so she'd know that Fiction isn't so fictional after all.
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    Since when does she know what her shard does? I don't remember her ever finding out how her Reality Lens got blueprints, or even it's name in the first place
     
    AGiantB said:
    Since when does she know what her shard does? I don't remember her ever finding out how her Reality Lens got blueprints, or even it's name in the first place
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    She's an SI... She recognized all of the fictions her power granted her tinkering for... She sees herself as a Round-Robin Tinker of Fiction (with the powers being Round Robin'd)
    LokiTheDarkGod said:
    Israel would love to get there hands on Hitler. What they'd do to him I don't think I can say on this forum.
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    Execute him and be done with it, or so said me that is Israeli and knows the law. At worst we'll make a show of the trial and list out atrocities for the defence to try and rebuke and allow racists to publicly unveil themselves like the pea-brained idiots they are.

    If you're talking about Worm Israel, pretty sure the entire area is not fit for human habitation, I honestly can't imagine that there won't be a zealous Muslim in any of the countries surrounding israel with powers strong enough to allow him to shred a good portion of Tel Aviv before any resistance is put up. Now add to that a period of 40 years of multiple such assaults... Yeah, Israel is definitely gone in Worm, just realistic about it.
     
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