Cornuthaum
Be kind to each other.
- Location
- Austria
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Swordsmachine
[X] Warweave
[X] Petriform Gas
I am part of big sword energy
[X] Warweave
[X] Petriform Gas
I am part of big sword energy
Last Light of a Dark Age (Warhammer 29K/Disco Elysium)
- Thread starter Cetashwayo
- Start date
- Sci-Fi
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Egophage: Masters of electronic warfare, egophages adopt the trappings of pneumatic psychic powers for a cybernetic age. Manipulating light in order to attack enemies from ambush and range, Egophages are snipers, commandos, and assassins.
[X] Irontamer: Knights on machine-back, irontamers tame and control powerful sentient machines as war-mounts. Synchronicity between rider and machine can unlock ancient abilities and systems. Irontamers are scouts, lancers, and cataphracts.
[X] Combat Plugs. Grow your hair into woven braids ending in tied electronic jacks you can use to enhance your weaponry and machines. +1 RHYTHMS (so long as Combat Plugs are active).
[X] Irontamer: Knights on machine-back, irontamers tame and control powerful sentient machines as war-mounts. Synchronicity between rider and machine can unlock ancient abilities and systems. Irontamers are scouts, lancers, and cataphracts.
[X] Combat Plugs. Grow your hair into woven braids ending in tied electronic jacks you can use to enhance your weaponry and machines. +1 RHYTHMS (so long as Combat Plugs are active).
If you really, truly want to min-max, consider that we know that Harmony is going to survive everything she's remembering. What really needs dealt with is the actual present, where she's currently trapped in her own head and has had her memories wiped. For that, she needs allies who'll rescue her, enough ability to escape on her own, or ideally a combination of the two. I'm not sure any of the augments she chooses here (and their stat boosts) will still be with her in the present, but whatever events she goes though and lessons she learns will affect her current situation.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
The main disadvantage egophages have is less that they are not good at combat in close quarters but that egophages have to physically focus their vision on a person or persons. It does not scale well unless you have some truly grody tech, because the only direct network connection everyone has is the Black Noise, and the black noise is full of infohazards that behave like starving sharks after chum when someone moves too loud inside it. Egophages can absolutely be a force in combat and most pneumatics have cyberpsychic training for this reason - otherwise blanks resistant to their psychic powers could just kill them with hacks that the pneumatic would have little way to counter.
You want stealth and range as an egophage so you don't get targeted by too many people at once to manage and die.
You want stealth and range as an egophage so you don't get targeted by too many people at once to manage and die.
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Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
@The Froggy Ninja @Professor Vesca
My friends, you mind switching to line voting for the sake of the tally? I think it is still capturing your votes but it is confusing the tally a bit.
The vote is very close and I don't want any votes to be lost.
My friends, you mind switching to line voting for the sake of the tally? I think it is still capturing your votes but it is confusing the tally a bit.
The vote is very close and I don't want any votes to be lost.
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I am fairly sure we will retain our war-era augments, as it is essentially the voters getting to choose another part of our identity and skillset, and also generally questers don't enjoy having stats/stuff taken away. Maybe not the mecha-steed, but I think the stat increases if we pick Irontamer are actually about the aguments rather than the robot itself? Completely agree that min-maxing is generally not the most productive framework to view this through, but I think being able to use bullet time will absolutely come in handy after the war, as well as lead to some very cool setpiece and fight scenes.
Now, an Egophage will no doubt also be a real asset in whatever Harmony's line of work is after the war, but the idea that Swordsmachine would necessarily be a detriment is untrue. This update in fact gives us a pretty direct view of Miss Lovergirl the Swordsmachine working as the partner for Miss Mulberry the Egophage, and how two Monad agents with different combat focusses can complement each other. Including letting us see the takyon tripwire and optical camouflage in action in dealing with a tricky situation! This is maybe not a coincidence.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
It is about the augment. A spur is an augment which can interact with any mountable machine and it is really just the outward extension of a more attuned system of internal acoustics.
Otherwise the Irontamer choice would read like +6 LIVING WEAPON because you have a giant equine monster boosting your stats, but unfortunately you need to work with it to get that done
Otherwise the Irontamer choice would read like +6 LIVING WEAPON because you have a giant equine monster boosting your stats, but unfortunately you need to work with it to get that done
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- Location
- Canada
[X] Swordsmachine: Masters of blade arts, Swordsmachines are instruments of death. Using their speed and arm-blades to slice apart the enemy frontline, they are trench-butchers. Swordsmachines are shock infantry, duelists, and blademasters.
[X] Petriform Gas. It starts as a coughing, a wheezing, released from a Koinon artillery shell. Then the crystals embed themselves in lungs, in the bloodstream, in the muscles. Within hours, the growths emerge on your skin. Within days, the crystal is fusing and clustering, eating the victim alive. Within weeks, the infection reaches their soul. There is no cure.
[X] Petriform Gas. It starts as a coughing, a wheezing, released from a Koinon artillery shell. Then the crystals embed themselves in lungs, in the bloodstream, in the muscles. Within hours, the growths emerge on your skin. Within days, the crystal is fusing and clustering, eating the victim alive. Within weeks, the infection reaches their soul. There is no cure.
The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
Done, though none of the options we voted for are close.
[X] Swordsmachine: Masters of blade arts, Swordsmachines are instruments of death. Using their speed and arm-blades to slice apart the enemy frontline, they are trench-butchers. Swordsmachines are shock infantry, duelists, and blademasters.
[X] Warweave. Pull your hair into a tight and intricate spiral weave which focuses the power of your null field to disrupt electronic attacks. +1 INFOWAR (so long as Warweave is active).
[X] Petriform Gas. It starts as a coughing, a wheezing, released from the warhead of a shell. Then the crystals embed themselves in lungs, in the bloodstream, in the muscles. Within hours, the growths emerge on your skin. Within days, the crystal is merging and clustering, eating the victim alive. Within weeks, the infection reaches their soul. There is no cure.
[X] Warweave. Pull your hair into a tight and intricate spiral weave which focuses the power of your null field to disrupt electronic attacks. +1 INFOWAR (so long as Warweave is active).
[X] Petriform Gas. It starts as a coughing, a wheezing, released from the warhead of a shell. Then the crystals embed themselves in lungs, in the bloodstream, in the muscles. Within hours, the growths emerge on your skin. Within days, the crystal is merging and clustering, eating the victim alive. Within weeks, the infection reaches their soul. There is no cure.
unObservant
Just drifting along, really
- Location
- USA
Y'know, regardless of the more contested augment or career choices, I find it fitting that we've decided on our answer to Noosphere's earlier question with an overwhelming majority:
Good point, good point, that is a bit odd; let me just go and check on the... ah, there we go! Juuuuust took a hot minute for the existential terror to finish setting in again!
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Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
Appreciate you, Derp! Just the nature of some people pasting just the vote and some pasting the associated text, I think.
Professor Vesca
Good News Everyone!
Request completed.
[x] Irontamer: Knights on machine-back, irontamers tame and control powerful sentient machines as war-mounts. Synchronicity between rider and machine can unlock ancient abilities and systems. Irontamers are scouts, lancers, and cataphracts.
[x] Helmet-Bob. Grow your hair into a thick and close-cut bob that protects your vital skull and strengthens your mind against suffering. +1 BIOMECHANICS (so long as Helmet-Bob is active).
it won't win but I support far future flapper fashion
[x] Helmet-Bob. Grow your hair into a thick and close-cut bob that protects your vital skull and strengthens your mind against suffering. +1 BIOMECHANICS (so long as Helmet-Bob is active).
it won't win but I support far future flapper fashion
Given that it's specified that each hairstyle gives its bonus so long as our hair is styled that way, I wonder if we can actually gain more hairstyles over time which we can then sort of swap in and out as needed for the situation, like Pokémon.
"Bangs, I choose you!"
"Bangs, I choose you!"
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
- Location
- within 2 hours of the White House
- Pronouns
- They/Them
this has probably already been stated, but based on what we know about petriforms now, we may have a pretty good answer for why the Council of Normalities doesnt want to acknowledge what a petriform is- its terrifying and traumatic
- Location
- an unseen void
- Pronouns
- Any
hearing some disturbing things about the evolution of the pokémon franchise. looking into it
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
Okay, going to do some patchnotes here for what I've updated. There are some things I wanted to get into the update that were missed and I think some of them will help eludicate some of the questions voters were having.
First, I have updated the statblock and axioms. Nothing special there, just the incandescence change of +1.
I've also threadmarked this post from @Laplace. Too funny not to, and right beside a great one by Etranger too! Might as well have some memes remembered.. "Malsocialized face witches" lives rent free in my head.
Next, task updates. Going to make these a bit clearer in the text so players don't miss them, and put the updated text into the update.
Next, I've fixed some typos here and there, and brushed up some dialogue. I've also added a few clarifying lines, and a bit to Sympathy's portion.
First, in the first section:
Next, in THE LOVERS:
In the HANGED MAN:
In GUNS OF DRONESONG:
Enjoy the edits! I don't normally do this but looking back there were some sections I wanted to brush up since they were a little tight and missed some of what I wanted to convey. These were three very challenging scenes by themselves, but committing to doing them all together was a little kooky. Don't do this, folks!
First, I have updated the statblock and axioms. Nothing special there, just the incandescence change of +1.
I've also threadmarked this post from @Laplace. Too funny not to, and right beside a great one by Etranger too! Might as well have some memes remembered.. "Malsocialized face witches" lives rent free in my head.
Next, task updates. Going to make these a bit clearer in the text so players don't miss them, and put the updated text into the update.
Next, I've fixed some typos here and there, and brushed up some dialogue. I've also added a few clarifying lines, and a bit to Sympathy's portion.
First, in the first section:
Next, in THE LOVERS:
In the HANGED MAN:
In GUNS OF DRONESONG:
Enjoy the edits! I don't normally do this but looking back there were some sections I wanted to brush up since they were a little tight and missed some of what I wanted to convey. These were three very challenging scenes by themselves, but committing to doing them all together was a little kooky. Don't do this, folks!
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The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
More Autofails, which may indicate that our Attributes are a result of monadic thought-shaping. Or, perhaps, that whatever we are was the inspiration for them.
In hindsight, this is honestly incredibly ominous. The virtue of freedom was murdered and wiped from the records.
"spiral-shaped pure land" may imply the galaxy to me. It's unclear how much Illuminata knows and remembers about the state of the universe beyond their shield.
thelordofmango
may be stupid
- Location
- under a rock
So basically, you're saying that Sympathy's waifu got put in the creepy time out cube by a witch…
- Location
- boundless optimism
cetash if you give me free xp for me to spend I may churn out more bangers
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
You have 1 XP. I will not inform you of any way or purpose to spend it on. It appears you have also forgotten what XP is for.
thelordofmango
may be stupid
- Location
- under a rock
A number as important as that should be added to the character sheet so that we don't forget.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
- Location
- Across the Horizon
Very true! It has been added.