Before he's out of sight...
"Wait! How long will it take? If I leave, when should I be back here by?"
Already gone. Dang it. Well, maybe he'll give you a message when it's done.
(Fair enough. I'll list the weapons here for the participants, keep in mind there's two of each:
Longsword
Dagger
Mace
Two-Handed Sword
Spear
Knuckledusters)
Done and done.
Faith frowned. That was clearly a fluke.
Try again.
[dex:5+1]
You punch the bag at lightning speed, your fists nothing but a blur of movement as they strike the bag.
"Huh. Nice, but , uh... Kinda weird." Floki squinted at the screen, then at the remote. Clearly something was wrong here...
>Adjust the colour/saturation controls on the remote until the nude lady on screen takes on a healthier, more attractive tone!
>Also keep an eye out for when this tournament's getting underway.
You attempt to change the color on the screen to fix what must be some kind of distortion in the image when a man, a man who is unmistakably Thomas, walks up behind her and...oh..oh my...
"Hi there," Feyri said to [PROSPERUS] before replying to the Doctor, "Are the bodies or body parts recycled into...food for- perhaps, people? Are they used in making...constructs made for our benefits? What about that Basilisk named Piecewise I saw earlier? How'd you get it?"
ASK
"Food? Wouldn't know about that myself. As per that Basilisk, I believe your discarded organs played a large part in it's creation. "
Just walk around the room, getting in and out of the hyper-mode. Then walk around the ship and change mode everytime I see someone and go back to normal.
Yes, but physically how do you want to try and activate it? He never did tell you how you control it, how you enter or exit that mode. You have to figure that out on your own.
Can do, I'll be hanging out in VR anyways, once I get back from the Armory.
Thanks for the access to what's still there. I'll see if I can do anything with them.
Go to the Rec Room and hook up, pay Jim a token for the tourny.
You head to the Rec room and find jim, paying him a token to join the Tournament.
((Lars isn't officially in- just moved to the area. Right now he's more interested in the holy book he found.))
Fascinating. This is a true treasure of holy knowledge.
Keep reading!
"Cog-azaon: God of Knowledge. Also known as Cog-azaon the wise, Cog-azaon of secrets and Cog-azaon the whisperer."
The picture on the opposing page shows a god depicted as a “ball and stick” representation of a Buckminsterfullerene molecule with a brilliant glowing corona in the shape of the “Mandelbrot Set” fractal. The symbol beneath it is a hexagon.
"Cog-azaon knows all things that are or shall be, save for the machinations of Pathmas, which no being is privy to. Cog-azaon Was birthed of Pathmas and so he gave life to Hal-mon, God of Machines and father of the Engineer's pantheon. Prayers to him are always requests for information and his symbol may be placed upon what the worshiper wishes to understand, or upon the forehead of the worshiper to grant him greater knowledge as a whole.
Prayers to Cog-azaon are considered safe however being marked with his symbol is a different story. Those marked with his symbol are said to gifted with increased knowledge and intuition but is slowly driven mad by the constant whispering of information the god is said to enact on those with his mark."
Thomas seeks out Jim!
"Excuse me, Feyri said to seek you out if I wanted to help with your tournament. I can't participate, I don't have any money, but I'd like to help you guys out. Got nothin' better to do."
You find Jim and offer him your services.
Well, I don't think I should purchase a Gauss Rifle. I'm not sure I'd know how to use it, to be honest.
Go back to armory.
"Excuse me, would you happen to have some glass I could have and a bag? And instant fruity drink mix, if you have any. And a mortar and pestle."
Get all those things, if possible. Go to the Rec Room and sit down.
You get a small sheet of glass, a mortar and pestle, a bag of instant drink mix, awesome atomic apple flavor, and a very solid feeling bag made of some sort of plastic from the armory master. You return to the rec room and sit at one of the tables on the mess hall side.
"Yeah, no. I draw the line at that."
Headlock guy with remote, and take it from him. If I get it, start flipping channels.
"Watch porn on your own time."
((Where did those five tokens come from? I was pretty sure that I had no tokens left, before I sold the sheet.))
(maybe, I lost some data in a computer crash a while back so I might be remembering wrong. Fixed it.)
You grab the remote out of the other guy's hands and start frantically flipping away.
"...Food shortage in...."
"...Haebi sporeworld spotted..."
"...Samuel Hardlin Memorial Library under quarantine..."
As long as he's not participating. That might...
... damage the weapons.
Go find Jim.
You find Jim standing around in the rec room, Doing rec room things.
((Oh now i feel like an idiot, i thought that was just the listing number thingy, O.k. that makes a lot more sense now.))
Give Jim my entry fee, then back to the ORA.....ing
[dex:6]
ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!
Check if the system could be modified to add a new feature: lock on a target like a true missile - move towards it at high speeds, correcting the flight if necessary, then brake right in front of it.
Well, to do that is possible but it would require some much more enhanced software because you'd need to be able to not only have the program differentiate a target from the background or anything else running around at the time but also for it to recognize things in the way and how to maneuver around them effectively. Also, breaking is a bit of a problem: The main rockets are on your back so normally to stop you flip so you're flying feet first and use the reverse thrust to slow yourself. Doing that in this case would make using a normal weapon difficult, though you could have some pretty nasty flying kicks.
Also the problem is that normally you break rather slowly, slowing down gradually, where as it seems you want to break very quickly here which would cause anything from black outs to just straight death by being crushed by g-forces.
Jim put away the remaining scrap metal and picked up his large amount of weapons, then took them to the rec room, where he was approached by several different people and took tokens as necessary.
@Mason: "Thanks for participating. Preparations are almost complete; we should be starting up soon."
@Thomas: "We have four positions we need filled. There's the play-by-play announcer, who sticks to the facts about what's going on; there's the color commentator, who often provides background on the fighters in the ring and tries to liven up the broadcast with more opinionated comments; there's the referee, although I'm thinking of taking that role myself since they might get hit by a stray blow; and then there's the ring announcer, who introduces both fighters before the bout begins. Normally we wouldn't need anything but the referee, but since this is being broadcast I figured we might as well go the whole way. What are you interested in?" (I figure Steve is going to want to be color commentary, though. He snarks so well, he might as well be the heel of the announce team. XD)
@Gorat: "Nah, I'm not in the tournament. It's for people who still have at least 50% of their natural bodies, since someone like myself would have an unfair advantage. Thanks for signing up."
You take your weapons to the rec room and begin gathering money from the participants.
(remember, need that list of participants whenever you get started.)