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

[Knight Otu]

((Well, between the panacea and Jim's pill, I'm quite certain that blue is medical, the nature of my sphere being the only uncertainty. Likewise, red almost certainly has to be weapons as we know them, as we haven't seen any of those, and no red capsules have been opened yet. I also considered Kisame's idea that the colors correspond to the armory categories, but I have a hard time seeing the purple and gold items to really fit into the unconventional/exotic slots yet. But green fits well with Auxiliary so far, or could simply be wearable.. I also thought that the six shapes might correspond to the six abilities in some fashion, but what little we have doesn't quite seem to fit.))

"Well, thanks anyway. Steve, sir, I don't suppose you'd be willing to share that info?"

Regardless of answer, go to the rec room and enter VR in an empty duel, with all my equipment. Check if Nyars' stuff is among it.

((A man can dream, right? ))

[Toaster]

((This might be helpful.  Meta knowledge, certainly, but helpful.

I fully agree that red must be some flavor of weaponry.

I like the skill correspondence idea.  My other idea is that red is weapon, blue is medical, green is wearable, purple is nonwearable gadgets, and gold is... exotic, for lack of a better word.

For the record, here's a list of things no one has tried:

Medium size
Red
Triangle))

[Parsely]

**With guns! The stadium breaks out into a firefight!

[Grunhill]

Deactivate the mode.

I would love to have a spar sometime without killing anyone. But for now, I have to master this modification. Maybe later, when I get some more control over it.

While resting, Renen walks around, find Nyars, takes a look at the boxes and asks Steve:

Hey, Steve, do the lab guys have some kind of color system? You know, for differentiating between boxes if they don't want to put a name on it, lab stuff.

[Nikitian]

(( ...Aaand you all made me want to try my hand at Nyars Artifact Roulette.
Without metaing, of course (probably will stick to blue as I thought), and likely not too soon, but still. Dammit. ))

Sure, as you wish. Good luck with your training! :- )

[Harry Baldman]

((Go all in on gold pentagons and hexagons. You won't regret it! Well, not for very long, anyway!))

[Toaster]

((Or go steal the Panacea-ish from the giant mutant freak- I'm sure he won't mind.))

[Tavik Toth]

((The laser rifle with 3 seconds on firing left. Come to think of it jacks chat sheet only has his long coat or something and still says 2 tokens.))

[IronyOwl]

((Go all in on gold pentagons and hexagons. You won't regret it! Well, not for very long, anyway!))

((Ooh, this!))

((I have an idea about Nyars box. From my own intuition and various facts, I have guessed that red is conventional, blue is medical, purple is unconventional, green is auxillary, and gold is exotic.

((Hm. Normally I'd say this makes perfect sense, but Mesk's Ultraregen was Purple. Wouldn't repairbots be Medical, not Unconventional? I guess they're not meant to be used in the field, so you could make a case for something else, but even then Uncon seems like an odd choice. Maybe because it's not wearable/doesn't require any real technical knowhow, but isn't point-and-click enough to be a gun nor bizarre enough to be Exotic?

Hm...))

Lines are the dangerousity(That's a word right?) of the object. All of this is purely guesses, but it gives a framework to my choices.))

((I'm leaning more towards general purpose or something at this point, especially since having separate categories for danger and power seems odd (and far too easy). Maybe attack, defense, utility, other/undefined? Mesk's treatment is the only thing we've confirmed as "defensive," though you could argue utility for it as well, but the shifting armor has it as well, as does a potentially medical ball.

Diagonal and Vertical are impossible to say based on just what we have, of course, though you could argue weapon or utility for the deathcube and Timmy's Ball is hard to define; it gives you psychic powers, so I guess that'd make the most sense as Utility also.

Meanwhile, a lot of stuff is unmarked, like Simus' Phase Armor, which I'd assume would go under Utility.

So, maybe not. I guess Origin is still feasible, but I'm not sure that'd be explicitly worth mentioning, especially since I wouldn't think Quiet World or Extraplanar stuff would be all that common.))

[Knight Otu]

((I have an idea about Nyars box. From my own intuition and various facts, I have guessed that red is conventional, blue is medical, purple is unconventional, green is auxillary, and gold is exotic.

((Hm. Normally I'd say this makes perfect sense, but Mesk's Ultraregen was Purple. Wouldn't repairbots be Medical, not Unconventional? I guess they're not meant to be used in the field, so you could make a case for something else, but even then Uncon seems like an odd choice. Maybe because it's not wearable/doesn't require any real technical knowhow, but isn't point-and-click enough to be a gun nor bizarre enough to be Exotic?

Hm...))

((Aaactually, I looked at the armory list, and noticed that the various therapies, synthflesh stuff, and implants, which Mesk's repairbots could be said to be related to, are all in Exotic. If we go by that, and the colors correspond to the list, then that would leave gold for unconventional? Humm. That has melee weapons, explosives, and field manipulators...))

[Toaster]

((Okay, we need to buy a purple heptagon and a gold square or something to sort this out.))

[IronyOwl]

((I have an idea about Nyars box. From my own intuition and various facts, I have guessed that red is conventional, blue is medical, purple is unconventional, green is auxillary, and gold is exotic.

((Hm. Normally I'd say this makes perfect sense, but Mesk's Ultraregen was Purple. Wouldn't repairbots be Medical, not Unconventional? I guess they're not meant to be used in the field, so you could make a case for something else, but even then Uncon seems like an odd choice. Maybe because it's not wearable/doesn't require any real technical knowhow, but isn't point-and-click enough to be a gun nor bizarre enough to be Exotic?

Hm...))

((Aaactually, I looked at the armory list, and noticed that the various therapies, synthflesh stuff, and implants, which Mesk's repairbots could be said to be related to, are all in Exotic. If we go by that, and the colors correspond to the list, then that would leave gold for unconventional? Humm. That has melee weapons, explosives, and field manipulators...))

((True... and the cube, at least, might fit under Uncon if it's activated using the buttons rather than something completely bizarre like amps or Timmy powers. Timmy's ball though... I have a hard time believing Timmy's ball could be considered anything but Exotic, given that, as far as we could tell, it enhanced the user to be psychic. And, you know, infested them with a horror from beyond the stars.

Though just for clarity, based on the list:

Conventional is exclusively guns, or at PW described it, tube-death devices. If red is Conventional, it's hard to believe we'd get anything out of it but a vaguely tube-shaped object that you point one end towards something and then it dies or is somehow inconvenienced.

Unconventional is sort of a catchall category for death or inconvenience dispensing devices that aren't tube-shaped or psychic. Magic calculators, melee weapons, and explosives all fall under Uncon, so it might be safe to say we could get anything that doesn't fit better in Conventional or Exotic.

Exotic is amps and, as you say, all sorts of therapies and synthetics. It also, from experience, covers most alien artifacts, so the riding theme appears to be "weird," I guess? In any case, it seems likely that if you want weird shit, this is the category for you. If you want psychic powers, shiny new limbs, or death rays made by aliens who weren't familiar with the supremacy of the tube, this could also be your category.

Auxiliary is basically anything you wear, ride in, or pilot, as well as tools and robots. This might reinforce the notion that Green is Aux, since Aux really does mean "wearables" to some extent. So, if you're looking for shiny new duds, an alien go-kart, a new robot companion, or a fancy welding torch, Aux might have what you need.

Medical is anything that helps you help wounded people not die or be more comfortable, as well as, to some extent, mechanical equivalents in the medkits. Strictly speaking, the permanent painkiller breaks this trend, since it's a permanent treatment, not something you apply in the field as a response to something, but the spirit is very much there. If you want to help people, possibly including yourself, be less dead or inconvenienced via injury (or possibly disease, if the panacea can be judged on its name), Medical might possibly have something relevant to that.


So with that all in mind, both Golds match Exotic in terms of being Fucking Weird, but we don't know enough about the cube to say exactly what it does or how it works.

All three Greens match Aux in terms of being something you wear, though the goggles' functions might go beyond that and we have almost no idea how the shapeshifting armor works.

Two of our three Blues seem "medically" related (ie being drugs), with the third being completely unknown. It might or might not be worth noting that all three could potentially be limited-use, however.

One Purple is a bunch of genelocked internal robots that repair injuries, the other is completely unknown.

In short, Green seems to match, Blue seems to match, Gold seems to match, Purple seems like it might buck the trend and Red is completely unknown. Swapping Purple and Gold could make Purple match but Gold seem like it might not.))

[piecewise]

"Oh. I suppose that makes sense. Maybe if I just close the good eye, it'll stay normal."

Don goggles, closing my right eye before doing so, and keeping it closed as long as the goggles are on. Observe Doc. Will it let me see the layers like it did with my hand?

((I have an idea about Nyars box. From my own intuition and various facts, I have guessed that red is conventional, blue is medical, purple is unconventional, green is auxillary, and gold is exotic. Shapes are potency, from triangle being weakest, to heptagon being strongest. Lines are the dangerousity(That's a word right?) of the object. All of this is purely guesses, but it gives a framework to my choices.))

You keep your good eye closed while keeping the bad one open. Nothing seems to happen and you can't see anything like you would when you had your bad eye closed.

(( Ah, stupid me, missing the previous update
Also, I'm sorry for my wording - what I actually meant was 'way out of our weight class for now and at least quite a few missions more' ))
Put on my suit and weapon belt with the Instrument. Go to the armory.
Finally. I've had enough resting and thinking and planning time.

((@kisame12794 Do you understand that you're about to see what is under that mask and if he has the slightest idea of that..? Well, I'd just suggest looking any other way. Even looking at the Armory Master might be safer, I believe. At most she'd space you out like that poor chap from before the first mission.
Also, seriously: I like your theory. How do you think, what does the circle mean? Even weaker than a triangle, or absolutely all-powerful?))

You get all dressed up and then head to the armory.

((Well, between the panacea and Jim's pill, I'm quite certain that blue is medical, the nature of my sphere being the only uncertainty. Likewise, red almost certainly has to be weapons as we know them, as we haven't seen any of those, and no red capsules have been opened yet. I also considered Kisame's idea that the colors correspond to the armory categories, but I have a hard time seeing the purple and gold items to really fit into the unconventional/exotic slots yet. But green fits well with Auxiliary so far, or could simply be wearable.. I also thought that the six shapes might correspond to the six abilities in some fashion, but what little we have doesn't quite seem to fit.))

"Well, thanks anyway. Steve, sir, I don't suppose you'd be willing to share that info?"

Regardless of answer, go to the rec room and enter VR in an empty duel, with all my equipment. Check if Nyars' stuff is among it.

((A man can dream, right? ))

>Nope.

You go to the VR machine and try to load up a duel with your new artifacts but the machine doesn't have them on record.

 

**With guns! The stadium breaks out into a firefight!

Uh...

Deactivate the mode.

I would love to have a spar sometime without killing anyone. But for now, I have to master this modification. Maybe later, when I get some more control over it.

While resting, Renen walks around, find Nyars, takes a look at the boxes and asks Steve:

Hey, Steve, do the lab guys have some kind of color system? You know, for differentiating between boxes if they don't want to put a name on it, lab stuff.

>Oh, they do. But they won't tell you. Nor will I. No fun in that.

[kisame12794]

"Uhh. Maybe if I close the bad eye?"

Close both eyes.

((Figures. Boys in the coats tell the men on deck jack shit.))

[Tavik Toth]

Get new battery for laser rifle and four clips for Bolt action rifle. Also borrow a book on katanas if possible.