Silently Watches
Professional Stalker
- Location
- Right behind you
I'm not at all adverse to the rechargeable grenade idea. It would definitely simplify matters without going crazy OP. I have enough trouble on that score without help.
Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)
- Thread starter Silently Watches
- Start date
Crusader Jerome
Subsisting on Supplication
- Location
- My home away from Rome
It looks like Maclibluin's Device is the most pressing thing we need built. I may restrict my vote to just that unless someone suggests something really good. (Impress me, people.)
Silently Watches
Professional Stalker
- Location
- Right behind you
Unused build slots I will use for what I think would be interesting. This could be good for you or bad for you. Just so everyone knows.
- Location
- USA
Chain links maybe?
It WOULD make a great gag(IIRC the barrier jackets are actually configured, so changing the look isn't too complicated out off combat, so you could do this and then go through the reset before they actually need to deploy:lol
Mac: Hey, don't judge. I can rock a skirt like nobody's business.
Epoch: The skirt's fine. It's the lacy panties that worry me.
)Build projects wise...anyone thoughts on a stealth observation drone? Something like Wide Area Search, but less visible.
- Location
- Oregon
That would help it serve better as an actual scout drone...
Any reason we can't use a barrier jacket type light projection for a stealth field? It would at least be very good replaceable camouflage- set a few presets like sky blue, cloud grey, weathered concrete... It might take a second to switch, and might sacrifice the actual protective shield part of the jacket, but I'd be okay with that.
EDIT: Also, on the topic of grenades, and previous mention of Nora, what are everyone's thoughts of Sam wielding a magiteched-out Magnhild? Smashing things with a giant hammer, and then tossing around confoam and rust shells like it's as awesome as it sounds?
In the old 'looking upon the gods and wondering why they haven't crushed you yet' meaning of 'awe' we get 'awful' from, I mean. It sounds absolutely terrifying.
Last edited:
Given our usual MO, I consider a stealth drone to be of marginal added value for the time spent designing it/the necessary modified spells and then building it.
Now that you mention that, I'd be surprised if they lasted much longer. This is one of the things that Contessa explicitly deals with, IIRC. Don't want the normies to get it in their heads that they can fight capes, after all.
Contessa is dead, remember?
Plus, with Scion dead even if she was alive she'd be all for it.
I genuinely don't remember either of these. When did this happen?
I can't recall the specific chapter, but I think it was an Alexandria interlude near the Simurgh fight.
Edit: that's when it was confirmed, I mean. The actual event was earlier.
- Location
- Ekaterinburg, Russia
@Silently Watches
Can we have Tim construct us a few remote-controlled and/or VI-controlled drones for overwatch and disabling the opposition?
What weapons can we mount on them (assume at least one with non-lethal capability should be included)?
How well-defended will they be (as in, how easy it's to shoot them down, and can they auto-create hardlight shields or something similar for us when we fly)?
How large will they be?
Can they be controlled via Perfect Storm?
And how close in functionality would that be to those flying spearpoints Nanoha used in StrikerS when dealing with Vivio?
Can we have Tim construct us a few remote-controlled and/or VI-controlled drones for overwatch and disabling the opposition?
What weapons can we mount on them (assume at least one with non-lethal capability should be included)?
How well-defended will they be (as in, how easy it's to shoot them down, and can they auto-create hardlight shields or something similar for us when we fly)?
How large will they be?
Can they be controlled via Perfect Storm?
And how close in functionality would that be to those flying spearpoints Nanoha used in StrikerS when dealing with Vivio?
- Location
- Ural, Russia, Earth
I don't see anything it can offer.
Also, my idea of working closely with Angel Dust is lock him up and throw away the key.
My idea of Sam's weapon is a sword or spear, able to transform into multi-tailed whip (for better use of Shredding Claw), with Brute-rated taser, for shock value.
The Arthra was definitely in realspace during the end of A's as in Episode 9 we see a shot of it orbiting above the Earth with the moon also in frame. Of course the scale on things is pretty terrible there so it doesn't really help with telling the orbital altitude.
Silently Watches
Professional Stalker
- Location
- Right behind you
Still wouldn't work. The projections need to stay stationary relative to the projector. Enlarging or stretching them is fine, but trying to do that to emulate movement would just give you an unrecognizable mess.
Wouldn't even need to be a Barrier Jacket-derived product. A "soft light"(?) projector could accomplish that.
The actual event happened in June 2009. It's first mentioned in 3.x.
Yes, you could create battle drones. You already have one, after all. They would likely wind up being one weapon apiece, so laser blasts on some of them, shield generators on others, cutting/melting lasers for property destruction or lethal combat on a third set, etc.
The one Tim's already built is weak-sauce but about the length and width of a 20oz drink bottle. Ones better situated to combat would be… I don't know, dinner plate sized or larger? The bigger they are, the more powerful their weapons will be.
Controlled, possibly, but it would probably be easier for PS to communicated with Mandy (the coordinating AI Tim built) and let her do the actual control.
Well, you couldn't use them to help cast Solar Wrath or Ragnarök, so in that respect not very close at all.
- Location
- Ekaterinburg, Russia
Fair enough. How reliable is the communication (hardened against jamming etc)?
What about Binds or equivalent?
I'm mostly interested in flying shield projectors, we've seen how several times we've been taken out by an attack we were blindsided by. Having a few of these so that we aren't taken out by a surprise RPG to the face/surprise Breaker from below/surprise blade from behind is something I'd happily invest into.
Besides, it isn't like we can't use those same drones to shield others, so it's an even better investment than it would otherwise be.
[] Plan Support and Defense
-[] Build a flying shield projector drone for Taylor
-[] Build a second flying shield projector drone for Taylor
-[] Build Maclibuin's Boost Device
I'm guessing you're talking about AI-guided drones?
Silently Watches
Professional Stalker
- Location
- Right behind you
This goes to the same idea of building non-Device tech that casts spells on its own, so no. Lasers, hardlight, mechashift. That's essentially it unless you can convince me it's tied to basic energy weapons in some way, shape, or form.
- Location
- Erebus
;p What about a roughly human sized hard light box? Only six shapes! As opposed to the multi-poly of a weapon. Or one depending on how the projectors work.
- Location
- Oregon
...
Sorry, had to restart my brain after the BSOD from reading 'mechashift' while still thinking about drones, and following the rabbit down the hole to tiny transformers.
What were we talking about, again?
A set of shield box drones doesn't sound too bad, but I'm not sure how well they'll lock together to prevent someone from just forcing the walls apart. I'm sure it'd work for a gaggle of thugs, but a real high-level brute would probably find a way out of it. Not sure it's worth the build slots.
- Location
- Erebus
I was supposing one drone Its entire purpose is a 6 poly box as opposed to however many dozens it takes to make the Hammer we were offered at one point for vista. Both should be doable by a single projector each, as I understand things. Though the size of the box may change that. Any cape that could break out of it would break the shields or hardlight weapons as well.
Last edited:
- Location
- Russia
Question. Can we make bondage drones? As in, ones that would fly around the enemy and then try to immobilize them? Kinda like that cage-harness-thing in Doctor Strange, only automatic. And can we make them brute-proof?
- Location
- Oregon
Ahh, yeah. Might not be big enough to hold more than one person then, but it'd probably be stable up to really high brutes, then. Would probably need to knock the person out first, though- since the drone likely wouldn't have space for defensive shields and capture shields. I assumed the grid of drones to fly in and basically catch a whole room, target and all, hopefully out of easy reach. Anything dangerous enough to need the box drone for could probably swat it out of the air before it can start up the projector.
I'm sure they've got a strong nanofiber cloth they can use for it, the question is whether they can control it well enough to have it deliberately wrap things, or if the drone would need to do that silly 'fly around target to wrap them up' thing, which would take at least a second or two. Using metal-imbedded or metal-woven cloth and magnetic fields might be possible (Look up ferromagnetic fluids, it's neat) with how advanced Nanohatech is, for example. Might be a bigger drone, especially to have that AND any defenses to get up close to wrap people, as seen above. If we're just wrapping up downed capes, that's less of an issue, but also less of a priority to get a specific tool for.
Honestly, a simple restraint drone might be the best bet. Make it look like a lobster, armored drone body and cuffs like pincers, flying around snapping up wrists and tough enough to not be easily broken. Not to mention less resource-intensive, and thus more expendable. Make its 'weapon' a brute-level taser, and then it can cuff the other wrist while the target's out.
EDIT: Wait, tasers are the ones that shoot the little needles and cables out, right? I meant a stun gun, I always confuse them. Any physical contact with the drone could shock someone into, well, shock, long enough to wrap up some hands. Dang tasers not having the right name *grumblegrumble*
Last edited: