Super Robot Quest

So Tyrannous is that special kind of crazy in that he is always looking for an excuse to subject extreme pain onto others but smart enough to hold it back most of the time?
 
Can we all agree that Tyrannous, no matter what he sounds like, gives off this dangerous, don't fuck with me feeling?
Given he's likely the final fight for the Kausen story-line for sure? Oh yeah we either want terminal velocity or even Sufficent Velocity cannon rounds to answer him, or something.
I reccomend some sort of Ballistic weapon rather then an energy-based one myself given the specialties of Kausen Plating.
 
Think of the scariest, pointiest torture implement you can think of.

Then wrap it with velvet.


That's Tyrannous.
You can clearly see the smoothness, but when you step back, the viciousness is apparent.
 
We will be needing a void capable warship, clearly. With Void Dragon inspired "impossible" weapons, particularly dragonflame (IE antimatter doped plasma).
 
Both Scrapheap and Bandit seemed to let go of a tension they didn't realize they were containing. It was short-lived. "However." Both looked up. "I want something for myself," Tyrannous continued casually, reaching for another shard. He sounded jovial now, but Bandit wasn't letting go of that stress again until after they left the bridge. "Find me something destructive," he said, as if he were asking them to simply pick up some chunks of ore from a nearby mining station. "I suppose I should give this 'configuration' business a try."

Translation: Find me something that matches my criteria, or you are getting impaled next. "You betcha, Boss," Bandit managed to say while maintaining a straight face. "And, uh, we'll just get started straight away." Scrapheap behind him nodded fiercely, to the point that Bandit was afraid the poor medic's head would get jettisoned like a spring.

"Good, good," Tyrannous purred. "You both can leave...just send in the next Drone, would you?" The Shard shattered in his hand again like it was just so much tin. "This one's done nothing wrong. I just need to break a mech right now."

I never commented on it before but I wonder if the Free Brothers appreciate that their boss is named Tyrannous...

He's gonna be awfly surprised whrn he runs into us now...

I wonder if Bandit is fond of surprises.
 
I never commented on it before but I wonder if the Free Brothers appreciate that their boss is named Tyrannous...
Why would they? Not like they know much about or even care about human stuff beyond what will get them rich.

Also pretty sure most only follow him out of fear/have the best chance for a payday by following his lead. Have to remember that he basically overthrew a legit union group and turned it into a criminal group that their race felt the need to send soldiers after.

Of course Tyrannous is arguably small time compared to other groups on their homeworld since they deal with subvertive groups all the time with varying degrees of how bad they are. Their council just sent a small part of Legion after Tyrannous' group and an unknown event knocked them all to Earth where they plan to cash in on the primitive mudball.
 
Why would they? Not like they know much about or even care about human stuff beyond what will get them rich.

Also pretty sure most only follow him out of fear/have the best chance for a payday by following his lead. Have to remember that he basically overthrew a legit union group and turned it into a criminal group that their race felt the need to send soldiers after.

Of course Tyrannous is arguably small time compared to other groups on their homeworld since they deal with subvertive groups all the time with varying degrees of how bad they are. Their council just sent a small part of Legion after Tyrannous' group and an unknown event knocked them all to Earth where they plan to cash in on the primitive mudball.

I figured as much Mass. I just find it amusing that's all.
 
My guess: the exact same thing, but there was no pal to cheer him up and invite him for pizza afterward. Remember, folk, making friends and talking with people is important! Not just for you - it prevents mad scientists going psychopathic.

Are you sure? *Glances at Sam Carlson*

How about a Magical Delinquent: Liberty☆Maji ? "Do you want to see your blood from deep beneath the ground?"

That's a thing somewhere, I bet. The other day I learned about what seemed to be an ultra-grimderp derivative of Madoka shit, with depressed girls using devices to kill people because GRIMDARK! Also, said devices kills them slowly because fuck you.

Damn it Japan.


With all the chassis you're about to develop this turn, and with all the spare resources, BG Peters is going to approach you about creating a dedicated Super Robot. Your 1.0 build, if you will. You will get the choice to either refit an existing design/model (such as the Beowulf and the Perseus), or to rebuild everything from the ground up, with all the lessons you've learned up until now.

Is that before or after the Kaiju attack? Don't forget about that people!

Free Action: The artifact is...doing something. You're not sure what yet, but you've ordered it back into the Xenotechnology Lab. This is something you want to be there for personally.

Transformation sequence incoming!


For a 'Core' unit, however, this is what you would get. This is something I'll post on the Information section once the turn wraps up:
CR-04 Steed-Custom (name pending)

It needs a red button that makes it move 3 times as fast. Also, as for a name:
What about Red Rider?

I wonder what would happen if fed a energy shard to a Kaiju stem cell? Would it just become an organic battery or would it use the energy to do something FUN?

Only one way to find out! Time to repurpose death-row criminals!

....Speaking of Guyver, has anyone made a Quest using that series yet?

Too obscure for most people to know about.

"It improves the ambiance, don't you agree?" a strong voice echoed from the end of the bridge. As Bandit and Scrapheap looked up, walking past the impaled remains of the luckless Drone, a figure slowly walked out of the shadows from the end of the bridge, with only a pair of blue glowing optics to indicate where he was. "This one failed to kill a single prisoner dirtside," t

Not-Megatron detected.

Bandit quickly sketched a salute towards the larger Kaus, as did Scrapheap. Bandit was always reminded of just how much powerful the leader of the Free Brothers was every time they made contact. Primarily red and white in color scheme, with the occasional yellow highlight,

Worse, with a wrong color scheme.

"Good, good," Tyrannous purred. "You both can leave...just send in the next Drone, would you?" The Shard shattered in his hand again like it was just so much tin. "This one's done nothing wrong. I just need to break a mech right now."

I expected a "YEEESS!" rant. Also, he does the equivalent of randomly killing puppies for the evil-lulz.


[X] Plan: Getting Out of Beta we're releasing on time!
 
That's a thing somewhere, I bet. The other day I learned about what seemed to be an ultra-grimderp derivative of Madoka shit, with depressed girls using devices to kill people because GRIMDARK! Also, said devices kills them slowly because fuck you.

Damn it Japan.
Magical girl series tended to be a little dark even before the edgy versions kicked in.

Mecha series tended to be as bad the closer they are to the Super end of the spectrum.
 
I wonder what would happen if fed a energy shard to a Kaiju stem cell? Would it just become an organic battery or would it use the energy to do something FUN?
It would become well-done, and quite delicious under Worcestershire Sauce + oregano.

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First: Is it me, or is their base located somewhere where moon shines on it? Second: I no longer believe it would be possible to hire the Free Brothers as a PMC, but I do believe it would be possible to hire some of the Free Brothers to take out Tyrannous.


That's a thing somewhere, I bet.
It's a fictional anime. From a very hilarious series.

Are you sure? *Glances at Sam Carlson*
Not only is Sam Carlson far from psychopathic, but having an actual friend would ground him even more. Just look at Adam SavaWilde and Jamies HyneHenry.

@Basarin , Speaking of those, they still aren't listed under the Dramatis Personae, nor is Max. I think it would be safe to wait for a bit before correcting that, because there's still one AI pilot in development. Also, by the way, Energy Shard Processing was "2 turns left" last turn, and the rolls weren't bad, so I'm thinking it should be "1 turn left" this turn?

I will call the vote sometime tomorrow. This is so people can vote and chime in as they wish, and so I can finalize the Super Robot construction page.
In that case:

[X] Plan Cavalry
-[X] Motor Pool - Additional Acquisitions (2 RP)
-[X] Pilot Training – Find New Talent (1 RP)
--[X] Diana's bonus
-[X] Muster for Battle: Steed (2 RP)
-[X] K-Class Materials Experiments - This Hand of Mine... (2 RP)
--[X] Katarina's bonus
-[X] Ivanna's bonus to Energy Shards Processing

Total used: 7 RP, banked: 7 RP. Because I don't want to drop Steeds, ain't hung up on the carrier, and don't want to waste Diana's bonus. Also, because, as I figure, the people will want to build a Megazord, and I (and probably somebody else) will want to build an Arm Slave squadron. Either way, more pilots will be useful. But no more than seven.
 
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@Not in Person

I'll fix that, it is due to finish this turn. It was already at "one turn remaining" so it's still good on that front. Good. I'm not going completely mad!

Voting will remain up for awhile longer today.
 
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Oh noes. Looks like we're going to have to deal with a Kaiju attack near the same time as a Kausen attack and probably the Westphalians are gonna try and take advantage of it somehow too. I hope we can get it all to come together before the clusterfuck arrives.
 
@Basarin, It's possible that @Not in Person confused it with Smart suits? Since on the previous turn it was advertised as taking 2 turn to finish and in the locked actions spoiler it still takes 2 turns.

Thanks! Fixed that.

Also, quick tally.
Adhoc vote count started by Basarin on Jun 11, 2018 at 7:40 AM, finished with 63 posts and 22 votes.

  • [X] Plan: Getting Out of Beta we're releasing on time!
    -[X] Motor Pool - Additional Acquisitions (2 RP)
    -[X] Aviation - What else can we do with this? (3 RP)
    --[X] Diana's Support
    -[X] K-Class Materials Experiments - This Hand of Mine... (2 RP)
    ---[X] Katarina's Support
    -[X] Ivanna's Support on Energy Shard Processing
    [X] Plan: Saving for something special
    -[X] Aviation - What else can we do with this? (3 RP)
    --[X] Diana's Support
    -[X] K-Class Materials Experiments - This Hand of Mine... (2 RP)
    --[X] Katarina's Support
    -[X] Ivanna's Support on Energy Shard Processing
    [X] Plan Cavalry
    -[X] Motor Pool - Additional Acquisitions (2 RP)
    -[X] Pilot Training – Find New Talent (1 RP)
    --[X] Diana's bonus
    -[X] Muster for Battle: Steed (2 RP)
    -[X] K-Class Materials Experiments - This Hand of Mine... (2 RP)
    --[X] Katarina's bonus
    -[X] Ivanna's bonus to Energy Shards Processing

Adhoc vote count started by Basarin on Jun 11, 2018 at 7:41 AM, finished with 63 posts and 22 votes.

  • [X] Plan: Getting Out of Beta we're releasing on time!
    -[X] Motor Pool - Additional Acquisitions (2 RP)
    -[X] Aviation - What else can we do with this? (3 RP)
    --[X] Diana's Support
    -[X] K-Class Materials Experiments - This Hand of Mine... (2 RP)
    ---[X] Katarina's Support
    -[X] Ivanna's Support on Energy Shard Processing
    [X] Plan: Saving for something special
    -[X] Aviation - What else can we do with this? (3 RP)
    --[X] Diana's Support
    -[X] K-Class Materials Experiments - This Hand of Mine... (2 RP)
    --[X] Katarina's Support
    -[X] Ivanna's Support on Energy Shard Processing
    [X] Plan Cavalry
    -[X] Motor Pool - Additional Acquisitions (2 RP)
    -[X] Pilot Training – Find New Talent (1 RP)
    --[X] Diana's bonus
    -[X] Muster for Battle: Steed (2 RP)
    -[X] K-Class Materials Experiments - This Hand of Mine... (2 RP)
    --[X] Katarina's bonus
    -[X] Ivanna's bonus to Energy Shards Processing
 
[X] Plan Cavalry

I wish to have the Steed support sooner than latter.

Magical girl series tended to be a little dark even before the edgy versions kicked in.

It's okay if they're dark. The problem IMO is when they try too hard for the sake of being edgy, different or even "realistic", somehow.

Mecha series tended to be as bad the closer they are to the Super end of the spectrum.

Again, if they're grim it's acceptable, practically every anime from the 80s was, but that doesn't mean one should wallow in self-pity and cry one-self to death. Then Evangelion came and many tried to ape it, making the problem worse.


Well, almost. Still, I half-expected that anime to be real.

Oh noes. Looks like we're going to have to deal with a Kaiju attack near the same time as a Kausen attack and probably the Westphalians are gonna try and take advantage of it somehow too. I hope we can get it all to come together before the clusterfuck arrives.

Didn't Devin predict that all three factions would attack at once? Chances are that they will.
Best scenario is a kaiju attack where our current prototypes delay until Mercury V arrives/force the monster to retreat. Worst case scenario is that we have to employ a half-finished Super Robot to battle all three factions at once, or at least some of them while our prototypes are somewher else.

On the plus side, if we recycle our prototypes to make the Super Robot, wouldn't the end result be fearsome? Seeing that SRs are powerful prototypes, a prototype SR made of prototypes should be allmighty, right?
 
Last tally, but the frontrunner is pretty much winning out. I'm calling it here.

Rolls will come during a (hopefully quiet) lunchtime.
Adhoc vote count started by Basarin on Jun 11, 2018 at 11:07 AM, finished with 65 posts and 22 votes.

  • [X] Plan: Getting Out of Beta we're releasing on time!
    -[X] Motor Pool - Additional Acquisitions (2 RP)
    -[X] Aviation - What else can we do with this? (3 RP)
    --[X] Diana's Support
    -[X] K-Class Materials Experiments - This Hand of Mine... (2 RP)
    ---[X] Katarina's Support
    -[X] Ivanna's Support on Energy Shard Processing
    [X] Plan: Saving for something special
    -[X] Aviation - What else can we do with this? (3 RP)
    --[X] Diana's Support
    -[X] K-Class Materials Experiments - This Hand of Mine... (2 RP)
    --[X] Katarina's Support
    -[X] Ivanna's Support on Energy Shard Processing
    [X] Plan Cavalry
    -[X] Motor Pool - Additional Acquisitions (2 RP)
    -[X] Pilot Training – Find New Talent (1 RP)
    --[X] Diana's bonus
    -[X] Muster for Battle: Steed (2 RP)
    -[X] K-Class Materials Experiments - This Hand of Mine... (2 RP)
    --[X] Katarina's bonus
    -[X] Ivanna's bonus to Energy Shards Processing
 
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