Use the mechanist gauntlet to analyze Grate's Alien Power Source since he's right in front of me anyway. Dynamic Will and stuff. Superficial analysis of the Pill Machine too in case we manage to get that in time.
After that, just head to stasis already.
((Any transactions with GWG will be retroactively made due to the fact he spent a lot of time offline/unresponsive.))
Your attempt to analyze the power source goes quite well. You rolled a 6, down to a 5 after the bonus, so you only get a massive headache, nose bleed and distinct impression that the powersource isn't happy with you. And I mean that in the most literal way. The powersource, which you now understand is powered via a confluence of...god, there aren't fucking words for it. Math? Thats not right. You can't really even grasp it; it's too abstract. The thing is fucking
cheating and whats worse is that it is very clearly sentient and very clearly not happy with you. You, in particular.
Do we even need to act if we're going to stasis? Stasis anyway because Steve said so and bat man hurts.
Brother Lars sings hymns of praise as he preps for stasis, which can be heard until he can talk no more.
It's basically just a way for me to tell everyone to stop fucking around, it's mission time.
Also in universe stuff.
Last action before leaving Hephaestus: gather a load of rocks and dirt and stuff to use as raw material for conversions with the manip.
Then go say goodbye to the people staying behind.
Since you seemed to have missed this, do these please. Then stasis. With the Avatar. How does that work, anyways?
Also:You won't be able to use them on yourself, at least none of the physical boosting ones. Mental ones, sure, but you can't feed the stims into the avatar.
I don't understand. I bought the will boosting pills from Pancaek. Do those not count as mental boosting ones? Why not? Either way, I confirm the purchase of those 3 pills for 2 tokens.
((PW, did you see what I posted in the OOC thread? It's about the newbie token fund stuff. If not, here it is:
This is the Newbie fund total:
3 laser rifles + 3 gauss rifles from defence
gauss sidearms and advances Mk.I from Flint
rocket launcher + 1 frag and 1 seeker rocket from Dudly
machete, civvy exosuit, 5 laser batteries and all sidearms from auron
I asked PW in the movie chat, he said auron could get that token for the magazine.
This is the list of applicable newbs and the amount of tokens they get:
Steve Saint 3 tokens
Thaddeus 3 tokens
Hasala Nabin/Felix Grant 3 tokens
Magilla 3 tokens
Dubley Steptimus 3 tokens
Jack/Theodore Catar 3 tokens
Lerman 3 tokens
That leaves us with 1 token left. I think I'll let the first no-mission newbie that wants it have it. You guys can work it out among each other who gets it, I'll roll dice if you can't decide.
PW, this is how the dividing goes. Would you please update people's character sheets accordingly?
Next to that, final token goes the phoenix' character, Angel.
I did that action. It's the second to last post in the last turn.
I didn't see the "Will" part. I just saw pills, so I wasn't sure if you were buying strength ones or something. I just didn't want you buying things and not being able to use them later. You've got them now.
Magilla heads to the armory and buys a Mark 2 suit with his 5 tokens.
You only have 2 tokens. At least that I see.
((HEY! You forgto about the damn newbie fund I got 3 tokens from.))
Get mark 2 with the 3 additional tokens I got from the fund, then go to stasis.
I didn't forget about them so much as they were an in character action that was for some reason documented in the OOC thread which I only skim.
Stasis it is
(( Question PW, have you done the levelups on Idiots yet, or should we just add them all to the wiki? ))
I'll do it today. I was giving everyone time to post their level ups since I despise doing them and wanted to get them all done at once.
Going to ask muh question before getting stasis'd, because I obviously want that new body before we leave on mission
"Hmm, so, basically..."
Questions: How exactly does the camo work? Does it only work when the body is naked, or does it also work with clothes/armour on?
And the only difference with a standard body is no str and end bonus? That is the only downside? Nothing that isn't related to stats?
After asking these and getting wonderful answers: staaaaaaassiiiiiiis
Light manipulating cells in the "skin" of the body.
Naked.
Not really. I mean, if you get injured the camo isn't going to be complete (Hey bob, is that a floating bullet wound wandering around over there?) but otherwise, no.
((Scrub welfare = the 3 newbie support tokens))
Acquire the horizontal line small purple hexagon package in the noob fund, palm it off to the doctor for analysis, then go into stasis!
Did simus put them in the newbie fund? I thought she bought them for herself and hasn't put them anywhere yet.
Also the doc won't do it for you.
If it's safe to be on the surface when the sword leaves, go to some rooftip with good visibility and watch it take off. Then go and search for VR machines, and open my box.
Also, charge an AUX bonus.
EDIT: Before I do any of that, if Leo is restrained in the command center, go find some duct tape and tape his mouth, eyes, and ears. Be very liberal with the duct tape. Very very liberal. If anyone tries to stop me, point out that if he's mind controlled by a UE he's a major security risk while he has his senses, but don't resist if the person gets violent.
((Will we be getting a Hephaestus thread?))
Wait for Hephaestus based actions, you'll get your own thread and a small tour of facilities before hand.
You apply duct tape so liberal that it votes for ron paul.
"You make some good points. I rather like my head, and the hair on it, but I will consider upgrading. For now though, synth-arms please!"
Buy synth arms, then head to stasis.
The price in the armory is for a single arm. You want to buy two?
Leave the following in the Newbie Fund Q-Space:
- The horizontal line small purple hexagon package (leave a note on it reading: Small unknown insect (alive) - show the Doctor?).
- Loaner silenced gauss pistol and associated ammunition (return this to the Armoury).
- X3 Gauss Rifle and the associated 2 full magazines, 10 rounds each (put a note - not compatible with standard gauss magazines).
- Civilian Police Body Armour.
- Generator-modded Laser Rifle (taken back from Flint during awkwardhug).
- The remaining 3 tokens.
And head down into the Command Centre.
Guess smurf is just grabbing stuff from the future. Alright, I hope someone is keeping track of the newbie fund, cause I deleted them from your inventory.
Talk to the Doc about whether or not it would be possible to move my -1 on exotic to medical and what that would cost and what dangers it would entail.
"Hello. I was talking to Steve the other day about AIs and I was thinking about how in my age it's hard for me to learn new things and I had a bit of a... crazy idea. You know how you erase and rewrite the minds of humans for use in AIs, right? I was wondering whether or not it would be possible to erase my knowledge of medicine with knowledge of how to use those weird alien stuff, since it seems inevitable that I'll have to use some in the coming conflict. Plus they seem to be able to help me save the lives of my teammates and the lives of my enemies and... well... that's important to me. It doesn't feel right to me to take another human's life. Do you think you could help me with that?"
Won't level up yet.
"Some rather radical electroshock therapy and brain chemistry reprogramming."
Flint didn't really get what all that meant. He's a doctor, I'm certain he means well.
"Great! And how much would that cost?"
Talk to Doc. Go to stasis if I have to.
"Eh. 5 tokens."
Claim Body Armor and a Gauss Mag, then?
Also Stasis.
Try to combine posts when you can, since you had an earlier post. When people post an action, and then post another action later in the thread, in response to something happening, it can be very annoying because it can force me to go back and change or delete their first post which can completely change other people's posts as well, if they're acting in response to or being effected by that original action.
As such, I tend to be rather harsh when a post forces me to rewrite a chunk of the turn because someone was being reactionary.
You didn't do that here, but just a heads up for later.
Hasala Nabin
((Hey, piecewise; you missed me again. I think I'll start prefacing all of my posts with my bolded character name, and not just the mission ones.))
Receive tokens and artifact from Newbie Fund. Open my green square.
((All token counts on the wiki have been updated a few days ago, except for the 3 tokens the newbies just received. I'd update that, as well, but my Internet's down.))
Remind Universe that I exist. Do stuff I was trying to do. Claim that generator-modded laser rifle from Simus. Then stasis.
You get what looks to be a silver anklet.
"Is anyone in-charge around here? and where are they?"
ask question find incharge person
We can probably dispense with the in character searching. You've died enough and you're staying on planet, like this turn, so you might as well just act like all this is understood.
((YOU ARE A GOD AND I WORSHIP THEE OH GLORIOUS PIECEWISE))
"Might as well get on with my job"
get off ship ready for simus to yell at me or something
That was a bit more of a response then I expected.
Off the ship we go.
Head to Armory.
I have 10 tokens, Armory Master. If I buy a 10-token decompensator and use it on missions, will I be able to sell it back to you for 10 tokens later?
If I'll be able to sell it back to her for full price, buy a 10-token Exotic decomp and get it installed. If not, don't buy it because cheapskate.
You remember the clone I bequeathed to you? Keep it secret and keep it safe. The organic amp overload is still on Hephaestus, so you may need it to fight it off.
Send message, then head to stasis. Idly wonder if it'll affect me as a giant octopus.
Yeah, you're cheapskate-ing it up.
Intrigued by it, Vincent decided to put the cloth mask on and head for stasis
You put on the cloth mask. You don't bother to look in a mirror or anything, but hey, at least it doesn't kill you.
"Residual side effects? But I have to tell someone what the seven-horned, seven-eyed sheep told me about Phobetor. I hope it isn't too urgent to wait until I get out of stasis. But just invade, please take this message to Steve." Jason responds to the Doctor before looking around for a writing utensil and something to write with.
Write down a message. "Doctor injected me with something. Saw a seven-eyed, seven-horned sheep. It had a warning. 17.3 degrees, 18th radian. Danger. Cloud-covered planet will be the first contact. Phobetor, the Herald. Was wondering if Phobetor is an actual asteroid, or if I'm just losing my mind. Signed, Jason Caldwell"
Ask the Doctor to deliver the message to Steve, then go get into stasis. Don't want to be the victim of Nyars.
((Yep, Jason sounds crazy.))
Welcome to the long line of prophetic crazy people around here.
Ok, this post is gonna take a bit because I'm gonna do our take off, and give a briefing about the three missions in one post to save time. So give me a while and try not to post here unless absolutely necessary.