"Father! Brugo!! Food-Bot 3000?!" Charro runs madly along, desperately calling the names of various family members. (Including the robot cook)
"Where are you?! Hello? WHY IS IT SO DARK HELLO THIS IS NOT NICE help!!!"
>Keep running, start shouting madly in a panic. As you do.
YAAAARGHHHAAAA! YARRGAAAAHHAAAA! OHHHHGAHHHHHRAAAA!
You go screaming and running into the darkness before suddenly returning to reality as you run head first into the doorframe of the armory.
((I have the paralysis gas still installed in my helmet, by the way.))
Milno checks if there is any auto-response system with motion and speed sensors he could install in his armor so that every time he is approaching a hard surface too fast, the pods may instantly kick into action in reverse to dampen the shock. If there isn't anything like that, he sends a request to the techies, since he still has some tokens to spend and he can buy that one. If they don't accept, VR machine it is. If it is outside his budget, he stays in the shuttle.
((I'm trying to prevent Milno from dislocating his shoulder or even worse every time he overshoots when dodging.))
Such a thing is possible, but you'd need some proximity sensors for that to work. And there's the minor problem that if, say, someone falls into you, you're going to fly back at 80 miles an hour or so. So it will work but it will have some minor issues.
((Survive a nuke eh? That sounds about right to me. Time for design!))
Bring up the MK 3 helmet and look at the shape. How is it formed exactly? How much head room is there inside it so to fit as many general sizes of head as possible? Is there any reinforcing frames inside it and if so, what is their design? How is the neck iris designed and where abouts are the mechanisms for it? Where is the computer in the helmet? Where are the lamps, light amps and cameras positioned on the helmet? What is the display inside the thing and how does it work in terms of power, design and linking to the amps and such?
Dissect the damn thing basically. Find out as much as possible about it's design and functionality.
The shape of the helmet is somewhat like a upside bucket with a rounded bottom. It's a straight walled cylinder from the neck to above the head at which point it slopes dramatically into rounded top. The inside is basically exactly what you would expect out of a bucket shaped helmet, mildly padded on the inside and with enough space to fit most peoples' heads. There is in fact a framework inside the helmet; the helmet is basically a sheet of metal, ether-gel, the framework space in which all the electronics are stored, and then the inner metal sheet. The framework itself seems to be based on triangular spaces made by metal rods.
The iris system is a self contained system at the base of the helmet, with all the actuators and individual metal plates that make up the iris hidden in the space of the helmet. The lamps are placed on the upper part of the helmet, pretty much on the left and right extremes of the forehead. The camera that feeds to the inner display, is set in the center of the faceplate, and the light amplification is just a program loaded into the computer of the suit. The display itself is basically a flat screen display on the inside of the faceplate.
"Didn't know this would work." A coilgun/guassgun had different principles from a railgun.
Hybrid time!
"What if the Tesla Sabre battery worked as a reserve power supply? And the main one would be...a Tesla Arc? No.
Hm, what if I derive the power supply from the Plasma Projector? Would that be feasible?"
Ask Computer
((I love how everyone follows the rules and switches threads accordingly or waits for the rest before mission starts.
Also, I love Bay12 for the nth time!))
> You could...but you've have to have capacitors to hold the needed charge. As per all the rest, that kinda depends on a lot of things. The size of the gun, for instance. (( What do the prosthetic limbs look like? I was imagining them to be metal robot parts, but knowing me I'm probably wrong.
Also, it's a good thing Renen isn't on ship anymore. I think May turning into a sex goddess would be a bit to much for him.))
"Do you guys have any devices for mammary support? I mean, I don't want to break my spine everytime I run." May looks up at the ceiling. "Hey Steve, where did the H.opeless M.orons R.aiding C.rap go this mission?"
>I'm sure you can get a roll of duct tape from the armory master.
As per where they went, they went to capture a serial killer.(( What do the prosthetic limbs look like? I was imagining them to be metal robot parts, but knowing me I'm probably wrong.
Also, it's a good thing Renen isn't on ship anymore. I think May turning into a sex goddess would be a bit to much for him.))
"Do you guys have any devices for mammary support? I mean, I don't want to break my spine everytime I run." May looks up at the ceiling. "Hey Steve, where did the H.opeless M.orons R.aiding C.rap go this mission?"
((I'm not sure, when I recall how Jim looked like a geth from Mass Effect, with black muscle bundles and metal bones underneath, then thats how I imagine prosthetic limbs look like, with the exception of Synth limb replacements which I think would have a skin layer over the top.
Also, love what you did there with HMRC there. Cracked me up. ))
Yeah, they're a lot like if you took someone's skin off and replaced the muscle with black synthetic muscle and the bone with metal. And synth-flesh is something else entirely, it's a grown substance, not a manufactured substance like the normal prosthetic.
((Finally done catching up in both threads. You guys are all nuts.))
Thrak shakes his head.
"No no, I mean get them wasted drunk! Aren't the booze and shit free? Lemme go get some!"
Thrak runs out of the shuttle to the armory, collects as much of the extra-strength liquor as he can carry, and runs back to the shuttle with it.
You head to the armory and get yourself a 100 gallon steel drum of standard HMRC booze. You roll the drum back to the shuttle and sit down, resting your feet on the drum and snapping your fingers at people.
"Radical"
VR Jim: Go on a rampage with the MM Amp and just fling shit around for the hell of it.
Real Jim, on the other hand, set his device to broadcast a unique signal like Milno suggested.
(Good thing I actually do have a MM Amp. It might make this mission a slight bit easier, assuming I can use it to fling the chucklefuck we're chasing around once we identify him.)
Vr Jim immediately picks up the corpse of the unknown bot man and hurls it into feyri before he picks himself up and flies around with milno while making goose noises.
VR Milno: Snark at Feyri, fly around nonchalantly.
Milno bot flies around above feyri's head.
"Yeah, throwing a tesla sabre? Great idea, next you can beat a man to death with a rifle."
"Thanks Doc!"
Thomas walked down to the Armory Master, where he gets a Mark II, and gets a price check on the longbow and crossbow he was designing before the mission.
You buy that MK II, leaving you with 1 token.
As per that crossbow, did you ever actually finish it? I remember you playing around with it, but not finalizing it.
"What do you mean, roughly? Roughly as in inside a specific house, or within a 5ft by 5ft area?"
Travis finishes his questioning and waits in the shuttle
Travis thought for a bit.
Jim is going to be easy to control. If this assassin breaks his mind, he'll pretty much be the same person, which is a robotic voice and virtual face...thing. He doesn't need to do anything complex to appear to be in the same state of mind. Thankfully, we can shut him down whenever. Which brings up a point.
"Yo Steve. Beetle man over there. Do you have the ability to shut him down?"
>Depends on how many people are around and how skillful the user is. As per that guy, he's the Doctor's play toy, not mine. "Something a bit sturdier than these ones. Maybe quadripedal, for some extra stability, plus if one gets broken I have three others. How much would something like that cost?"
The doctor strokes a stubbly beard and sniffs. "You want it to have legs or would treads work?"