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Evaunit02mark1 said:
It's being used in a war that involves ghosts. Not putting in an anti possession measure would be like leaving an armored car on with the doors unlocked.

The only reason I would see to not to put in anti possession protocols in is because there is a self destruct measure used for exactly the same purpose.
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It could also simply be prohibitively expensive, or these drones could be expendable enough that the cost is still high enough to not be worth it.
 
Called it! Although even if we had stepped back, he probably would've just taken a step forward and then stabbed us. Darned tricksy robot.

On the one hand, figuring out what exactly (if anything) is special about the scythe might be a good idea. On the other hand, its special abilities probably have something to do with souls or memories, which probably won't do anything to a robot. Hmmm... Well, this'll give us a chance at least to see if there's any difference between matter-molded weapons and others. If it does display some powers, then we'll know for sure that weapons can be unique, but if it doesn't, we still won't know whether it's just this one that isn't special in this situation, or if that's a general rule.
For scientific investigation:

[X] Equip the EISHALON'S scythe for greater range when we need it
[X] MOVE to SHT range
[X]Act: Attack with Scythe
 
[X] Equip the EISHALON'S scythe for greater range when we need it
[X] MOVE to SHT range
[X]Act: Attack with Scythe
 
Xyzarach said:
or the fact that we have only 1 hp in ghost form might mean that trying to possess an anti-ghost robot mid-combat is a bad idea.
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We've got lives. I say we risk the one to see if we can snag that shiny new sleeve. If we die, hey, at least we can see if the respawn is any different and maybe glean something from that.
 
cB557 said:
We've got lives. I say we risk the one to see if we can snag that shiny new sleeve. If we die, hey, at least we can see if the respawn is any different and maybe glean something from that.
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so you're willing to take an action guaranteed to kill us (it takes an action to de-possess, and then another on the next turn to possess, by which time we'll have been hit at least once), for an unknown gain (who says it's even possible to possess robots and similarly active things/creatures), and when we know that dying while not permanent can have lasting consequences (including insanity and the loss of all hope).

tell me again why you think this is a good idea?
 
Xyzarach said:
(it takes an action to de-possess, and then another on the next turn to possess, by which time we'll have been hit at least once)
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Now this, I did miss.

However I do wish to point out the flaws in some of your other points:
Xyzarach said:
(who says it's even possible to possess robots and similarly active things/creatures)
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Then we learn that rather critical aspect of our own powers when there's not too much at stake.

Xyzarach said:
and when we know that dying while not permanent can have lasting consequences (including insanity and the loss of all hope)
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First off, we have little in the way of evidence that dying incurs a direct SAN loss. We've got a guy who had apparently died at least a few times before who had lost all hope, but there's, like
a lot of different ways to lose all hope. It's not really something that takes magical mind muckery to do. So there's not actually much evidence that it's going to drive us a even bit crazy. If it does, incur a small san loss, whatever. There's a decent possible gain, several chances to learn important things even if we fail, so I'd say possibly taking a small san loss is acceptable at this juncture.

I'm gonna take a look at the action stuff tomorrow morning and see if I can think of a good way to depossess our current sleeve and try to possess the robot without getting killed midway.
 
I was looking over few updates ago, and I thought the image where the robots were "talking" by staring at each other was interesting. Their eyes might have just been blinking randomly, but I wouldn't put it past Dex to have done something awesomely detailed like creating an unspoken robot language via eye-blinks. I separated and cropped the frames for anyone who wants to look and see if there's any sort of pattern in them:
 
[x] Act: Reclaim Naginata Move: SHT Range

Can I also just say that this animation just makes me so HAPPY!

"Engage whirligig mode! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmrmrmrmrmrmrmrmr!"
 
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Raguna-Blade said:
Kinda looks like braille.
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That was my immediate thought (got excited, grabbed Saphire brail sheet) - Braille's two lines of three, not four.
The blue just looks like a pretty pattern (descending pairs, all left, all right and then even left/right). The red one, on the other hand, looks pretty random.
Anyway, tentative vote:
[X] ACT: Matter Mold Shield and spear.
[X] MOVE to SHT.

Since we'd take an action to pick up our naginata anyway, why not try out a nice shield to protect us from stabbing instead?
 
Welp, looks like friendly option doesn't work.......
Oh well, may as well as testing our new scythe in battle
 
Wait, why do people think that the scythe will extend our range? The Eishalon wielded the scythe the with a long, whiplike appendage. That's why it could use the scythe in MED range. We just have the blade and handle.
 
I don't suppose we can matter mold ourselves a nice red body suit? This thing doesn't seem too intelligent. If we turn red, we might no longer need to be dead, right? ;)
 
Racist communist robots? Ok.

[X] Equip the EISHALON'S scythe for greater range when we need it
[X] MOVE to SHT range
[X]Act: Attack with Scythe
 
We tried - and failed - to equip the scythe already. Best stick to what we know works when facing hostiles.

[X]MOVE: To MED Range.
[X]ACT: Launch Starshards.

Hostiles inbound. Terminate at once.
 
No One said:
That was my immediate thought (got excited, grabbed Saphire brail sheet) - Braille's two lines of three, not four.
The blue just looks like a pretty pattern (descending pairs, all left, all right and then even left/right). The red one, on the other hand, looks pretty random.
Anyway, tentative vote:
[X] ACT: Matter Mold Shield and spear.
[X] MOVE to SHT.

Since we'd take an action to pick up our naginata anyway, why not try out a nice shield to protect us from stabbing instead?
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Isn't matter molded stuff a part of us though? I mean whats to say it can actually take a hit?
 
Radek said:
We tried - and failed - to equip the scythe already. Best stick to what we know works when facing hostiles.

[X]MOVE: To MED Range.
[X]ACT: Launch Starshards.

Hostiles inbound. Terminate at once.
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I don't think we did ever attempt to equip the scythe. In Part 24-b, we only attempted to matter-mold it as a part of ourself, not actually wield it. Did we try to use it at any point after that?
 
[X]Move: SHT range
[X]Act: Attack with Scythe

This lets us attack in our first turn, which will probably be important, given our stunning lack of might/physical offense ability. Also, we now have a full tank for Starshards, which means exorcising our self and then repossessing our crystal body may fill it up again, although that probably wouldn't be useful in a combat situation.
 
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