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Mister Ficser said:
A quiet *ding!* distracted the man, reminding him that it had been five minutes. He reached over to press a finger against the massive .50 caliber rifle leaning against the chair so he could invest a charge into it, focused on silence and recoil, then he summoned a fresh Phantom to keep an eye on the door to his apartment.

He wasn't going to be ambushed in his own home.

Not twice.
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I hope Minnie Mouse Protector doesn't decide to teleport in by the truck and proceed to kick his door down. That would end...poorly.
 
Lycanthromancer said:
Yes.

Also, he has a clone's trigger finger on his boosted gun. Anyone who breaks down the door is getting shot with nuclear rifle rounds.

Also x 2, can Al boost weapons he could create from Miss Militia's power?
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I've actually been debating that one since I started writing these, as my initial plan was for Al to pick up Miss Militia's Omniweapon as his Blaster power of choice before everything else went the way it did.

This is actually a really hard one to answer because the Traits that Al might want in a shotgun, wouldn't be worth nearly as much in a long rifle or a pistol. That's not even getting into the kind of crazy stuff like using it to imitate a Mini-Nuke.

With that being said- Yes. I do believe that, if written as a discrete object that simply assumes a desired form, Omniweapon could be improved with Empowered Investor. Al's choices would specialize it, if he chose to do so, which might otherwise limit how he chooses to use it.

A knife with a major reduction in sound generation might be a useless trait, after all, but it doesn't detract from the fact that it's still a knife.
 
Mister Ficser said:
With that being said- Yes. I do believe that, if written as a discrete object that simply assumes a desired form, Omniweapon could be improved with Empowered Investor. Al's choices would specialize it, if he chose to do so, which might otherwise limit how he chooses to use it.

A knife with a major reduction in sound generation might be a useless trait, after all, but it doesn't detract from the fact that it's still a knife.
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you couldn't try to improve its impact? That feels like it'd be useful on basically everything involved, though guns might start risking overpenetration after a while.
 
cheesyme said:
you couldn't try to improve its impact? That feels like it'd be useful on basically everything involved, though guns might start risking overpenetration after a while.
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That should be at least partially covered by the general enhancement that comes from the investment, though admittedly a more focused trait could be willed into an item.

As an example, the .50 that Alec stole from Victor has been the sole focus of enhancements for nearly two days of skipped time and has picked up the minor traits of recoil reduction (5%) and sound reduction (5%). However, to max those out would eat a solid 20k points of investment each.

What would a .50 cal look like if it impacted with 400 times its original power? Honestly, aside from 'Big Numbers go Brrrrr' I just don't see the point in trying to figure out the math behind that. I'll probably cap out 'mundane' potential at 2k investment and require that Al focus on traits after that.
 
I mean, depending on how the improvements work, they could modify themselves slightly to better fit a new form.
Example, a gun enhanced with quieter shooting could turn into a knife that does something like "Less noise from cutting", "The thing being cut makes less noise" or "The person using the knife is quieter as long as they are engaging in an activity that will lead to the knife being used". It probably comes down to how technical vs thematic the enhancements are.

It's still reducing noise associated with the use of the weapon, it's just changed the way that "use" is defined for a weapon.

(Side note, a silenced rocket launcher sounds amazing)
 
Mister Ficser said:
That should be at least partially covered by the general enhancement that comes from the investment, though admittedly a more focused trait could be willed into an item.

As an example, the .50 that Alec stole from Victor has been the sole focus of enhancements for nearly two days of skipped time and has picked up the minor traits of recoil reduction (5%) and sound reduction (5%). However, to max those out would eat a solid 20k points of investment each.

What would a .50 cal look like if it impacted with 400 times its original power? Honestly, aside from 'Big Numbers go Brrrrr' I just don't see the point in trying to figure out the math behind that. I'll probably cap out 'mundane' potential at 2k investment and require that Al focus on traits after that.
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So, two days of dedicated effort results in basically nothing.

Why is he wasting his time on that, again?
 
Mister Ficser said:
I've actually been debating that one since I started writing these, as my initial plan was for Al to pick up Miss Militia's Omniweapon as his Blaster power of choice before everything else went the way it did.
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What if Alec got endless ammunition instead of Miss Militia's omniweapon?

Being able to summon bullets/magazines at will (A) save him money and (B) remove the necessity of going to gun stores to purchase ammo.
 
Mister Ficser said:
I've actually been debating that one since I started writing these, as my initial plan was for Al to pick up Miss Militia's Omniweapon as his Blaster power of choice before everything else went the way it did.

This is actually a really hard one to answer because the Traits that Al might want in a shotgun, wouldn't be worth nearly as much in a long rifle or a pistol. That's not even getting into the kind of crazy stuff like using it to imitate a Mini-Nuke.

With that being said- Yes. I do believe that, if written as a discrete object that simply assumes a desired form, Omniweapon could be improved with Empowered Investor. Al's choices would specialize it, if he chose to do so, which might otherwise limit how he chooses to use it.

A knife with a major reduction in sound generation might be a useless trait, after all, but it doesn't detract from the fact that it's still a knife.
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i'm imagining Al using MM's Omniweapon as a tool as well.

wonder if an edged shield counts as a weapon?
 
Lycanthromancer said:
So, two days of dedicated effort results in basically nothing.

Why is he wasting his time on that, again?
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It's still 1680% better than it was before, right now. That's a smoother action, shoots farther, hits harder and has better grouping, better able to resist damage and it no longer functions properly for people that don't have the Investment power.

And it's still a copy of Dauntless's power. His improvements often start off small and take time to get bigger and more encompassing.

Krazyfan1 said:
i'm imagining Al using MM's Omniweapon as a tool as well.

wonder if an edged shield counts as a weapon?
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MM could use it to make a knife. As far as I understand it, the omniweapon was simply limited by the users perception of what a weapon was.

So even a normal shield would still count in Al's hands. He's used a tower shield to crush the toes of a god, before.
 
So with HP being an overshield, he can recover HP independently of his physical injuries right? That's a nice plausible deniability power tbh.

If his HP takes one more long rest to hit positive numbers, and his nose takes 3-5 weeks to finish healing. So clearly the goonion stole your van, after beating you up, right?

Though, in that case, why can it even go negative?
 
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tri2 said:
.....wait does MM count child soldiers as living weapons?
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I suppose I should have been a bit more clear-

MM's Omniweapon still has the limitation of being a hand-held weapon. So, guns, knives, rocket launchers, potentially some tinkertech and maybe the Davy Crocket.

She cannot, to my understanding, use it to make Tanks, APCs, Planes, Jets, Technicals or anything else of that nature.

In theory, Miss Militia could probably make a child soldier, though it would take at least nine months and her power hopefully wouldn't be involved -_- Considering she was a living bomb detector, I sincerely doubt she would consider doing so, however.
 
Mister Ficser said:
That should be at least partially covered by the general enhancement that comes from the investment, though admittedly a more focused trait could be willed into an item.

As an example, the .50 that Alec stole from Victor has been the sole focus of enhancements for nearly two days of skipped time and has picked up the minor traits of recoil reduction (5%) and sound reduction (5%). However, to max those out would eat a solid 20k points of investment each.

What would a .50 cal look like if it impacted with 400 times its original power? Honestly, aside from 'Big Numbers go Brrrrr' I just don't see the point in trying to figure out the math behind that. I'll probably cap out 'mundane' potential at 2k investment and require that Al focus on traits after that.
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from the wikipedia order of magnitude energy page

this gun: 8 megajoules, over half of the energy of the navy railgun

comparrison: 9 megajoules = Kinetic energy of a regulation baseball thrown at Earth's escape velocity (First cosmic velocity ≈ 11.186 km/s = 25,020 mph = 40,270 km/h).

so it can almost take shots at the simurgh from the ground, or render any cape in the bay into the past tense
 
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Mister Ficser said:
I suppose I should have been a bit more clear-

MM's Omniweapon still has the limitation of being a hand-held weapon. So, guns, knives, rocket launchers, potentially some tinkertech and maybe the Davy Crocket.

She cannot, to my understanding, use it to make Tanks, APCs, Planes, Jets, Technicals or anything else of that nature.

In theory, Miss Militia could probably make a child soldier, though it would take at least nine months and her power hopefully wouldn't be involved -_- Considering she was a living bomb detector, I sincerely doubt she would consider doing so, however.
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I dunno man, some of those child soldiers are hand-heldable and have less moving parts inside than some of those guns we have today. :V
 
prussiangrandier said:
from the wikipedia order of magnitude energy page

this gun: 8 megajoules, over half of the energy of the navy railgun

comparrison: 9 megajoules = Kinetic energy of a regulation baseball thrown at Earth's escape velocity (First cosmic velocity ≈ 11.186 km/s = 25,020 mph = 40,270 km/h).

so it can almost take shots at the simurgh from the ground, or render any cape in the bay into the past tense
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And it still has a bit of room to grow!

Funny you should mention a railgun, though...
 
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