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Voting closed: April 07, 2013, 10:34:35 am

[GreatWyrmGold]

>No. Bad Xan. Bad.

((I approve of this debriefing.))

The doctor jams a syringe of yellowish brown, bile looking fluid into your neck and when you wake up you've changed quite a bit.
Your skin has become black, scaly and slimy. Glowing bioluminescence nodules line your spine, arms, face, and other sections of your body. Gills have sprouted on your neck, but you seem to be able to breathe normal air without much difficulty. Electrical discharge constantly leaps between your fingers if you bring them close together and there's a low electric buzz in the air around you. Your jaw and face have warped and distended until they resemble those of a Viper fish more then a human.

((Don't trick-or-treat at the Doctor's house.))

>I wouldn't do that if I were you. Throwing off the yoke of the UWM though we may be, I'm keeping that particular rule in place. You saw what those things can do when used normally. I'm not letting you let the genie out of the lamp all over the inside of the ship.

((...Which part is that in response to? I'm guessing either 2 or 3? And what rule is Steve referring to?))

[Lenglon]

((...Which part is that in response to? I'm guessing either 2 or 3? And what rule is Steve referring to?))

((no opening amps/manipulators in tinker))

[Knight Otu]

((Green hexagons included Simus' phase armor and Morul's goggles of seeing weird stuff.
Gold hexagons we haven't had yet.))

Just see if there is more on the general instructions.

Spoiler: Gorat 'Chin' Ivanos (click to show/hide)

Str 3; Dex 3; End 3; Cha 5; Int 4; Wil 12//Spe 0; Int 1; Han 0 (-1); Con 1; Unc 0; Exo 8; Aux 1 (+1); Med 0
2 tokens; Mk II Suit; Microwave PK Amp; normal cigarettes; blue smokes; datapad (with platformer shooter); nanoghosts
Appearance: 5'11'', 170 pounds in a rather unmuscular frame, shoulder-long brown hair, short goatee, brown eyes, a rather long chin that earned him his nickname. Age 32
Half a robot foot. Robot right arm.

[GreatWyrmGold]

((...Which part is that in response to? I'm guessing either 2 or 3? And what rule is Steve referring to?))

((no opening amps/manipulators in tinker))

((Oh...good to know...do you mean "opening" as in "summoning" or as in "opening to see how they work?))

1. Did Equaterina show up? Just curious.
2. Try to see if that putting-a-kinetic-amp-in-a-gun-barrel-to-enhance-stuff plan would work.*
3. Concoct a large cannon, wheeled and with a barrel about 30-40 cm wide. It has a hole in the back and a large, dense hammer-like thing with a kinetic amp on it. Summon a chunk of metal small enough to put in the barrel but still pretty big; put it down the barrel and drop the amp-enhanced hammer. Observe results.
4. Fiddle with a program to create a simple AI. Ideally, well-trained-dog level?

[Kriellya]

((...Which part is that in response to? I'm guessing either 2 or 3? And what rule is Steve referring to?))

((no opening amps/manipulators in tinker))

((Oh...good to know...do you mean "opening" as in "summoning" or as in "opening to see how they work?))

(( The latter, 'opening to see how they work'. You can tack them onto stuff as much as you'd like. ))

[PyroDesu]

Discard the pistol and spawn two more civilian rifles. On the new ones, remove and discard all but the barrels themselves, the coils, firing circuits, generators, etc., then graft the barrels and coils onto the end of the original, with the firing circuits and generators wired to the back next to the original's.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Jim gives up on talking to Feyri and heads back to the rec room to watch TV.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Anton gets a feel for his new leg, finding it a curious experience. "Risking life and limb just isn't what it used to be nowadays, isn't it?" -he asks the nearest nurse jokingly, before heading off to the Armory.

"Good day, ma'am," he addresses the Armory Master, "I would like to purchase one of the famed Microwave Field Manipulators, and inquire on the price of some miscellanea. Namely, I'd like to price-check a set of three eighteen-inch motorcycle wheels, with offroad traction if available, a telescopic fork with suspension, and a generator/battery unit such as found in an MPV like the one our planetoid mission brought back. Just check, not purchase yet - I doubt I'll be needing a combat trike soon. Although that does remind me..."

Purchase the MFM, inquire on parts prices, then go find the MPV we brought back and dismantle the mapping drone RCS system I installed on it. I put it there, therefore I can take it back - and drones are one thing I can actually work with in the meantime.

((You missed me, PW. D:))

[Xantalos]

To be fair, Steve, it was the old guy that doomed us. What I did could've happened to anyone.

[Zako]

You forgot my action!

[Devastator]

Go to the rec room, and use one of the computers there to write a simplified UI for scout-eyes, such as having an off button, and a hover mode, along with simple directional controls and distances, and a speed limiter, so that people with limited aux skills would find it easier to use without destroying it.  If they have accelerometers built-in it should be possible, if not easy.

Ask the big robot guy (Jim) how many missions he's been on.

[Sean Mirrsen]

((Well, since the outcome isn't particularly important to my next actual action, unless I somehow fail to reacquire the mapping drines, I might as well continue and hope PW gives me that price estimate later. I still don't rightly know what I'll end up doing with it, even. ))

Anton heads into the Rec Room, and opens up the long-missed Tinker.

Spoiler: Tinkery Actions (click to show/hide)

((Reference: "Gungnir" - electrolaser rifle))

   Open the Gungnir project.
   Redesign the weapon to not incorporate a tesla saber, using the same spark-gap principle as the Red Hand. Make the spark gap comprised of two large, sharp, very sturdy metal pieces, arranged vertically and making an effective melee slashing and piercing weapon.

   Install a breaker/capacitor circuit into the laser and spark-gap power systems, linked to enable to weapon to fire in rapid pulses, removing most of the detrimental effect of firing long sweeping arcs in atmosphere. The result of the circuit engaging would be a series of rapid-fire lightning bolts instead of one continuous stream. Make this circuit engage only if the laser and the spark gap are fired together - allow the laser itself to sweep. Stick a switch on the circuit as well, to allow the user to turn it off entirely.

   Remove the laser rifle's battery-based power input, prepare it for generator power.
   Experiment with different generator setups to minimize the weight and bulkiness of the resulting weapon. See if several less powerful generators can be arranged into a more balanced setup than a single large one, as well as if it's possible to overcharge a slightly smaller than required generator - similarly to what was done for the Red Hand.

   If none of the generator setups produce a weapon that can be reasonably carried and fired like a rifle (by a human), try a different approach. Include only a generator powerful enough to fire the laser rifle, and add a capacitor/battery bank that would be charged whenever the laser is not being fired. The capacitor bank would power the spark gap. See how long of an electrolaser burst can be gotten without making the weapon unwieldy.

Perform standard efficiency tests against unarmed targets in MkI, MkII, and MkIII suits, as well as a group of targets standing in a conductive environment - i.e. a metal corridor.

Tinker!

Spoiler: Anton "Blackeye" Chernozorov (click to show/hide)

Name: Anton "Blackeye" Chernozorov

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Appearance: 5'2", stout, somewhat overweight man with a mess of short, very dark brown (nearly black) hair and a faceful of stubble that never seems to want to grow any longer. Left side of body and face thoroughly covered in remnants of poorly healed burns.

Personal information: Anton was mostly an average guy quietly working his way through life. He kept to his books and tools, preferring working with machines to working with people. Always alone, always distanced from others. All his spare time was devoted to working on his magnum opus, an experimental high-energy device of uncertain capabilities that, as he thought, would change his life. He turned out to be right. Upon activation, the device discharged a vast quantity of energy into the superstructure of a nearby apartment building, collapsing it, and subsequently exploded, leaving Anton with severe burns and buried in debris. He survived. Three hundred seventy four inhabitants of the destroyed building, among them twenty-six children, did not.

Reason assigned to HMRC: Mass Murder

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Stats

STR: 6(1/3)
DEX: 3
END: 5(1/3)
CHA: 1    (-1)
INT: 12(2/3)
WIL: 3

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Skills

Speech: 1
Intuition: 1
Handiwork: 4(1/3) (+1)
Conventional Weapons: 1
Unconventional Weapons: 1
Exotic weapons: 0(-1) (-1)
Auxiliary systems: 3(1/3)
Medical tech: 0(-1)

Profession: Technician (Handiwork +1, Exotic Weapons -1)

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Equipment

- 7 token

- MkI suit.
- Standard Robotic Left and Right Hand.
- Standard Robotic Right Leg.

- Microwave Field Manipulator (20/20)

- "Red Hand" electrolaser
--- Gauntlet-shaped
--- Works off built-in generator
--- Standard Hand Laser
--- High-Voltage Shock Prod
--- Electrolaser - ranged delivery of electric shock
---- Taser mode, nonlethal.
--- Works as a cutting tool, and as a welding tool with supplies present - though neither works too fast.

- Standard Datapad

- Standard Gauss Rifle (8/10 rounds)
--- Marked not refundable

- Standard Gauss Rifle Magazine x2
--- Marked not refundable

- Motorized Wheelchair (?)
--- Powerful motor attached, but no power source - feeds off any portable generator or battery.

- Mapping Drone x4 (partially spent fuel)

[Toaster]

PW:  Lars is listed as 2 tokens in one place (Men) and 1 token in the other (Idiots).  Which is correct?  Also, my inventory is a bit different, though I think the Men one is correct since it has the body armor on there.

Brother Lars felt energized, being back on the ship with Glorious Steve.  His studies in the wilds of the planetoid had done him good, though.  All the carting around of gear and traipsing around the place had toughened him physically.  All that injury- and treatment from Mesk- had inured him a bit to taking hits.  Experience with mental invasion- and the conviction that the gods were on his side- had toughed his well.  He felt the great Ingram had blessed him with more knowledge of firearms (and studying Lukas's weaponry didn't help.)  Even Vo-Nos had ensured he knew the basics of fighting in melee.  It was a good day to be in the ascendant HMRC Pantheon.

Speaking of Mesk, he should make sure his chest still worked right.


Level up!
+5 Con
+1 Uncon

+3 Str
+2 End
+5 Will

Go to the infirmity and get checked out.

[PyroDesu]

((And so the mad dash for Tinker has begun.))

[Grunhill]

Yes, the flesh is very limited.

Send message. Go to Doc have the alterations made.