DROP THE HAMMER
You press the red button and watch as the rod disappears from view. The resulting impact isn't as large as you'd imagine though; It looks like the hypothetical squared power isn't living up to expectations.
Drink heavily. Avoid crying.
[end:2]
You upend the bottle and chug until your eyes water. You let the bottle drop to the ground and spill out it's contents as you pass slowly into unconsciousness.
Travis let out a sigh of relief, and a calm came over him. For the first time since he was dumped on this ship, he felt safe, at least as safe as one can be when surrounded by homicidal team mates.
"Good. Thanks. Another question. Buckler over here comes with 50 rounds of Gauss. I assume the rifle is still semi-automatic? If so, he won't need that many rounds for a long time. Could I sell 30 of those rounds for a 3 token refund?
Ask
"It's full auto." The armory master says, "But I guess I could still buy'em back if you want."
Discard that idea for now, then, and open up a laser rifle. See both what frequency of the EM spectrum it's on and if it's possible to change that.
It's on UV and you don't think you could change that without changing most of the important parts of he rifle.
"Why not? Would make for a wonderful weapon and/or manipulation tool for people. Anti-UWM rebels, for one. I promise not to use it against my teammates, and I take promises very seriously."
Upon receiving an answer, get my gauss rifle if I haven't already, then leave for VR.
Upload images to VR in a publically-viewable folder called "DO NOT OPEN". Protect them with ingenious original password ("password").
Perfect! I can think of no way people could bypass this security system.
The armory master gives you a rifle but doesn't pay any heed to the rest of your requests. You grumble but head to the vr and upload your pictures.
((@GM: Yeah, high energy projector, and I meant "sweep", my bad.))
[dummy con:4+3]
The Dummy takes aim as you charge forward and squeezes off a single shot. You feel your suit being lifted into the air as the outer layer of armor glows white hot and melts away, crumbling as you are hurled a dozen feet backwards and land flat on your back.
Open VR sex simulator. View options
The program seems to be nothing more then a subprogram of the Duel system. It allows for the same complete freedom of scenario and ai action. The only difference is that everyone starts off naked.
Jim looked at Feyri with some concern; she was quite pink in the cheeks, for some reason. After a moment she revealed why: no one had ever treated her like that. It was a bit of a surprise for the transhuman. "Really? You're an attractive, likeable woman." Then she dropped a hammer on him, metaphorically speaking. He blinked. "Are... are you sure? This is me you're talking about... I care for you too, Fey, and I want to make you happy, but I'm not sure if I can." He looked at her hands in his, running his thumbs across her knuckles. "Out there, in the real world, I'm just steel and metal, a killing machine. It's only in here that I can show you my face, touch you without having to worry about accidentally hurting you."
He stepped closer, so they were almost touching. "I mean it when I say that I think I love you too, if that word means what I believe it does. I wish I could do more to protect you, but we're not always going to be deployed on missions together... but I can guarantee you that any time you want to see me or talk to me, anything at all, we can come here and spend as much time as you'd like together." He raised his eyes to meet hers again. "...I've thought about saving up for a synthflesh body. I, ah, thought you might prefer it if I had one..." he said, laughing quietly at himself. "Do you want me to? And if you do, do you want anything specific?" Hell, he didn't care what gender he was; he'd get a female synthbody if that's what she asked for.
Incidentally, Jim bans any possible VR Milno 'bots from this particular simulation. And password protects it so only he and Feyri can access it.
Your private time in pg 13 land is secure.
"Stuffs me. I'll go look. By-the-way, if you try and hug me again, I'll smash your head through that dishwasher there."
Go to armoury. Decide that there's enough weirdos on this ship and I need a weapon. Ask how much a sledgehammer costs. Buy a Kinetic Amp.
Say: "Thanks. Say, does the HMRC sell it's weapons to the combat regiments? The big ones? I might have a way to make a kinetic amp be a bit more kinetic. It'll have to be a bit bigger than it is now, but it explodes people pretty well. Doors and walls too. Even exploded me when I swung it in VR. I've got to finish off the design, but it might be handy. Do you know who I should talk to about something like that?"
Smile politely while putting Kinetic Amp on hand.
Ask person at counter: "By the way, does this thing have a manual? Or even an on/off switch?"
Say "Thanks" after they've answered.
(( Oh god, please no speech roll, please no speech roll,........))
"I have no idea what you're talking about. Here's the Kinetic amp and hammer." She hands you the hammer and kinetic amp, "As per manual, I don't think so, but the on off button is right there on the side. "
"Sounds good to me. What's the muscle for? It gonna put me down if shit goes down? Oh, and what're the bits for."
Comply with the Doc.
"Oh, nothing. He's just helping me with a few things." He says, opening one of he containers. "And these are the samples from which we will be deriving what we need." He pulls a bit of the flesh off one of the samples, and pulls it out into the air beyond the gel. It immediately seems to reanimate, twitching and sending out thin tendrils.
"This is going to be rather extensive and unpleasant. Lay on the table."
Examine surroundings.
(I meant in the game but i guess i can roll with it.)
pause game for later. get a snack of dessert #1.
Oh, sorry, lost track of ya for a second. You want to go back into the game or actually go get a snack?
Log into VR, make a tinker file named "Microwave Field Manipulator Experiments". Program said file to be a trojan that spawns a Milno-bot to haunt the VR simulation of whoever opens it. Make said Milno-bots deletable by entering the password Omega732 into the VR, just in case.
[aux:4+1]
You successfully set up your trap, giggling to yourself as you do.
Search VR for any propulsion methods that run on electricity and work in a vacuum.
Does that include ones that just use Field manipulators?
((Interesting, never thought of that before. Yeah, include the field manipulators.))
"Hey, listen!"
It looks like electrically powered space flight never got beyond Ion Thrusters, though the use of Field manipulators to manipulate the kinetic energy of objects has been used successfully in smaller crafts.
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