Okay, seriously, what the hell? These people are crazier than I thought.
Charles enters the armory and looks around.
((Was the [speech: 1] my speech roll or the speech roll of the people answering me?))
(For you.)
You head to the armory and look around.Looks like there's a million guys here asking for weapons.Other then that, normal armory.
The reason I allow speech actions like I do is many because speech rolls always really bug me in RPG's, since they restrict character development based on a number. And while I understand the necessity in a computer RPG, the fact that we're not restricted by such things here makes me more inclined to allow characters to express what they want to express. It's not like their own words are foolproof anyways. Besides, speech rolls are relatively rare so it's not a balance problem so far. Maybe if they begin to get more common I'll use the points system more often, but as it is, I prefer to put story and characters over stats.
((Well, I dunno. There's character development, and then there's negotiating. You can have the best ideas at heart, but what kind of person you are does not matter one bit if you can't think fast and clearly. Does not really harm character development. Kind of like if a good hearted person does not know anything about medicine, but tries to be a doctor: he will probably fail miserably and do more bad than good. Same with negotiating. And I like mechanics and gameplay to reflect each other. The thing when a person with a negative two to speech negotiates something without a hitch... Well, you're the DM I suppose. No need to drag out this argument.))
Geez man, didn't know you had such a big bike fetish. I'll make sure yours has a special seat so it can share the love.
((You didn't actually read it in it's entirety, did you? I kind said I personally prefer bicycles without a seat. Or maybe that's just the AM.
And it's less about me liking massive multipart posts, and more about not having a lot of turns to fit a lot of stuff in. It should get better.))
About my "low resolution, hard to read schematic" the picture itself was actually only to illustrate the text below. I suppose I should have been clearer, but I meant to actually design a bicycle in the VR. Here, reposting it to do it this turn:
Design a bicycle in VR:Basically, take a bike.
Remove a seat.
Make three different varieties of wheels.
"Alaskan" ones for very bad terrain, like snow.
A type a little thicker than a normal mountain bike.
And a type for good terrain, signicantly thinner wheeles than a mountain bike.
Find some material to use for tires. It should be able to withstand simple things like riding on rubble or shards of glass and pins, but it doesn't have to be any sort of bulletproof. Of course, it still has to roll.
I'm thinking 27 speeds.
A casket at the back to carry stuff.
Fine some place on the bike where it would be possible to put on a bucket of weights, or some other way to stick them on. (The purple "squares" and black "lasso" things in my illustration.) Have them be removable.
Check if my bike can be used by robots (like Jim), or synthflesh abominations. If not, try to adjust it so it can be used by everyone, or failing that, make different designs for humans, cyborgs, and whoever else.
Try it out. If it works, ask for a prototype. If it doesn't, proceed with my other actions.
Buy and install Microwave Psychokinetic Amplifier.
My actual Character stats I will be using:
Strength: 0 [+5 from exo] (+1/3)
Dexterity: 3 (0)
Endurance: 0 [+5 from exo] (+1/3)
Charisma: 4 (0)
Intelligence: 3 (0)
Willpower: 10 (+2/3)
Speech: 3 [+1] (+1 , +1/3)
Intuition: 1 (0)
Handiwork: 0 (-1)
Conventional Weapons: 0 [-1] (-2)
Unconventional Weapons:0 (-1)
Exotic weapons: 1 [+2/3 from Will] (+2/3)
Auxiliary systems: 0 (-1)
Medical tech: 0 (-1)
((Oh well, it's as ugly as it can get. At least it can't get any worse.))
You don't have the tokens to buy an amp, unless someone gave you an extra at some point. Also You don't get (2/3) to exotic from your will. Not sure why you'd think that, but you don't.
And no, not gonna get a prototype on a bike. Even if it's really tricked out. Good news is that it's only gonna cost a single token though. It is just a bike after all.
((Damn I keep missing stuff))
"So steve did I make that mission"
The list of people on the mission are:
Leader:Miyamoto
Simus
Flint
Lars
Mesk
Denzel
Jack
Vich
Morul
Anton
Auron
Zephyris
Michael
Lukas
Bishop
So if you're on there. Yes. So yes.
Jobasio, totally not in the briefing room like that other Jack guy and in fact still in an infirmary bed with a healing spine, will call piteously for a kindly nurse who can inform him as to whether it is safe for him to stand yet, and also whether or not his valiant comrades such as Flint and Miyamoto survived their recent grave and terrible escapades.
Damn jacks. Too many jacks. Need more Melvins.
"You'll be fully healed by the time the first mission people get dropped off." The nurse advises you, "Stay in bed till then."
"Yes they did. In fact they're on one of the current missions I believe."
((Awesome))
Ask steve about base supplies "Hey steve what is at the base?"
Message to doctor
So I heard that you offer special services, do you have time to offer such services?
go to the VR and bring up the list of battle suit variants and what they are armed with
>There's that selective hearing again. It has a small lab, a garage with vehicles, a med bay, a planning room, a control room, an onsite AI, a small armory. It has everything you'll need. The doctor isn't answering is messages.
In all honesty you don't really have time for that. I'm kicking you all into stasis after the next post and you have no where near enough tokens to do anything with the information. Also battle suits tend not to come with weapons, besides the heavy blade on the melee type.
Ah damn, you never actually said i bought the pulse rifle so i thought i still had the tokens...
jump in my pod and cry
You get podded.
((Haha oh ye gods. XD))((Why did this make me laugh so hard? I don't know why, but I cracked up.))
((Maybe it's just funny? 
))
"Ow! I heard of digital warfare, but this is ridiculous!"
Anton restrains his mutinous digits, quietly glad the hand laser is no longer finger-mounted and has a safety, and stuffs the datapad in his pack. "Okay now, I guess the... team we got will be moving out next. Hm. Gotta make some final preparations."
Leaving the Briefing Room, Anton considers his options for the upcoming mission, speaking his thoughts to himself out of habit. "On one hand, having a continuously-powered weapon is a good idea when you're going away for a year. On the other, having more protection than this meager suit would improve survival chances. And I would still need a weapon. Not... quite a good situation." He looks at his custom lightning gauntlet. "Well, there's one way to try and solve this."
Anton raises his head and his voice, addressing Steve. "Steve, is there a defined way to announce the sale of an item to the Corps? Besides just standing in the Rec Room and shouting out loud, I mean. With so many crafty people onboard, and tokens in short supply, there should have been some kind of Trader's Board established here long ago."
Restrain fingers. Address Steve.
If there is such an announcement board, or one is created at the suggestion, list the Red Hand prototype as being available for sale, for 6 token, using the text below.
If no such board exists and none is created, broadcast a wristpad text message to all Corps recipients in range:
[TRADE]: Red Hand Electrolaser Gauntlet - 6 token
Item is an experimental weapon prototype. In presence of an atmosphere, is able to deliver lethal levels of electric current
to targets at up to medium range. In lack of atmosphere, or in normal conditions at user discretion, can be used as a normal
Hand Laser or as a melee weapon, delivering lethal current by contact.
Requires no reloads, generator-powered. Fits right hand.
Reason for sale: Need a MkII suit and a replacement Hand Laser for upcoming mission.
((I wonder if anyone would actually be interested in buying the thing. But it makes sense to Anton to try, and whether it works or not either option makes sense for the year-long mission. I'll likely spend no more than a turn waiting for a response, then go and get podded.))
You broadcast your willingness to sell your weapon to anyone in range. Which is everyone.
((Oh my, things are moving too quickly for me to catch up with. I hope I have all the important information on the mission. 
))
Lukas gathers all his belongings and prepares for departure to the AP.
You go get in your giant robot pod or whatever ill-defined method you use to get ready for a jump.
((I probably should have expected that, I've got 2-1 odds on him holding a grudge!))
Sleep.....
You have no idea.
((As an afterthought: Irony, if Faith's body would be regrown from scratch, one way to protect the all-important brain from permanent destruction would be to literally make a metal head. Or a ceramic one, or whichever material would be safe to have that's still much stronger than bone. Have a polyalloy cast made out of her skull, and have her brain be placed into it. I mean, naturally it's easier to heal bone fractures than repair dents in a metal dome, but if you have a skull fracture, chances are you're not going to be around long enough for it to heal anyway.))
((I was thinking more along the lines of spreading redundant nervous tissue throughout the body cockroach (or apparently Ivan) style (I did mention my ideas were getting crazier the more I thought about them, right?), but yeah, that's an option too. I was also thinking about some kind of extra reinforced ribcage or capsule if I was going synthflesh, but it hadn't really occurred to me for pure organic.
Also I'm pleasantly surprised at how cheap getting your body back is. I was expecting it to be hideously expensive for some reason. Didn't the nurse say it'd be expensive or something? I guess you could consider 10 tokens to be pretty expensive for the privilege of dying when exposed to vacuum, disease, and dismemberment again.))
"So... you'd recommend I do regenerate it? How easy is it to modify each? I mean, I know you can modify pure organics pretty easily..." Faith said, the last part coming out a bit warily.
"Uh, but supposing I wanted to remain essentially human, just better. How hard would it be to give me Mesk-style regeneration? What about... um..."
Her expression turned to ... as she remembered the AM's warning.
"...nevermind. But assuming I went either way, would you have any recommendations for me?"
Doc talk.
"I wouldn't recommend anything in particular. Synth-flesh more like machinery. Extensive modification is difficult, sometimes simply easier to create new from scratch. But it is more powerful after all."
"Mesk's regeneration is mechanical.And dangerous. If ever caught in vacuum it will eat him attempting to keep him alive. High speed regeneration is possible, but difficult. Requires extensive modification. Have to completely rework way body functions. Yes...extensive..."
"oh. Depends. synthflesh more general, modified flesh more specific. Depends on role."
While waiting for the Doc, Renen goes to the VR machines, enters Tinker and tries to combine Nikitian's Sub-Exoskeleton Model A "Hope" with his standart MK II suit. Make tests of Strength, Endurance and Dex and Speed. Than, he uploads one Pulse Rifle MK I and tries it from different distances.
It would give 1/3 chance to str and end. Also the pulse rifle pretty much just a laser rifle, not really anymore powerful.
Read the first god chapter of the Engineer's Pantheon from the original source if there's time. Otherwise, go give Saint Milno a hug for good luck, wish him well, and get podded.
Gonna get you podded for now. Story time later, ok?
"Sorry to bother you while you are busy, but do you have an entrenching tool? Never know when it may come in handy."
Aquire E-Tool if possible, then head to the medbay and grab that cube.
You acquire the rare and mysterious Shovel. And then you go get the Cube from the Infirmary.
"I'm sure this thing won't fuck me over! NOPE!"
>How much thicker are we talking here? Numbers, please.
>See if there is any material stronger than steel, but still in approximately the same price range (a maximum price of 4 tokens allowed for the telescoping legs).
>Try making the telescoping bits thick enough to handle a height of ten feet on one leg. Test all capabilities, including climbing on walls.
Well, when you talk about telescoping parts, I think something like this:
The thickness of the piece is going to be related to how many there are. If you want a 15 foot length that is 3 feet tall to start with, you'll need 5 sections and that means they're gonna be individually thinner then if you just had 3 sections of 5 feet each or similar. The problem I'm seeing is that when you have telescoping parts they inherently get smaller as you go down and they also inherently have to be hollow, meaning they've not very structurally sound. I'm not aware of a real way to make them that much more structurally sound, especially if they have lots of sections.
And it's less about handling standing, or even just normal running. It's more that if they're fully extended and something hits them they might crumple.
((Good, I'm back, now to check those- Hey! That gauss gun was never used and that monorazor was only slightly used! You ripped me off! I'm going to sue you and your entire armory!
Just joking.))
Buy the jump rockets and have them installed in the exosuit. Pay extra tokens if I have to.
Return the civilian gauss rifle and a pistol (after unloading the pistol) for one token.
If those aren't enough to get one token, start giving pistol rounds until I get to one token.
Give the other two pistols and the pistol magazine to Therapox's character.
Ask the armory master:
"If I return one of those eighth kiloton charges unused and functional do I get two tokens for it?"
If the answer is yes, buy as many of them as I can afford.
Flint Westwood's emporium™ limited time offer™!
Just for the next few minutes we are offering three slightly used gauss pistols and one slightly used gauss rifle for only two tokens. That's right folks! Four weapons for the price of one!
We are also offering a loan of two or four tokens, interest free! You heard that right. Tokens, in your pocket, no questions asked, as long as they are returned upon completion of your next mission.
Come to the armory master's kiosk as quickly as possible to capitalize on this grand offer or else someone may beat you to it.
Note: By taking the Flint Westwood's emporium™ limited time offer™ loan you acknowledge that if you do not complete the mission successfully (that is, if you die) Flint Westwood's emporium™ and its affiliates have full rights to loot your belongings and your corpse for reimbursement. Flint Westwood's emporium™ is not responsible for lack of customer satisfaction, faulty products and any injury or death that may come from use of its products.
You sell those civ guns but now you only have 5 tokens. You can't afford a jump pack. (costs 7). You give the two pistols to the bike fetishist.
"Depends the state they're in. If they're still brand new, no damage, no muss, you can sell them back for full price."
((Pareidolia?))
((Actually, as I thought of it again, no, pareidolia is but a case of what I'm talking about; it is, uhh, the habit of humans to believe in things (in the most general sense) coupled with their tendency to jump to conclusions. In short, that which differs humans as intelligent subjects from mindless sensors with memory capacity in terms of registering and processing information.
I'm sure that modern science and/or philosophy have a name for what I'm talking about, but unfortunately I don't know it.))
Summon more doors.
Think about the role of belief (in the most general sense) in human history. Compare my findings to the words of 'Feyri'.
[will:1]
A new door appears in front of you.
As per your metaphyiscal conundrum, your brain is stumped for the moment and recommends calling back later.
From the 3 gauss pistols I have, take the one that's in best shape and put it in my backpack. Take all off the other gauss pistol ammo out off their cartridges and keep them with me too.
Then go to the AM and ask her what she would give for the remaining 2 gauss pistols and the civ gaus rifle.
Then confirm my request for building the cameyes into Gilgamesh and pay the nice lady who is drowning in men by now.
"2 tokens" she shouts over the mob.
You throw 5 tokens over to her for the cameyes. They will be installed while you are podded.
((Apophenia?))
look at the area the door that started to appear and then faded back away was in, attempt to make it show itself
if the door does not show itself, attempt to make a door back to the VERY start point of this maze, the room with only one door.
if the door shows itself (either one), stand to one side of it, open it without framing myself in the doorway, and see what is on the other side without going through it.
((edit: nah, that's probably not what you meant.))
((edit2: adding an extra action after an if : then))
[will:1]
You summon a door.
"Thank you~!"
Take Pizza stuffs. Go to kitchen. Make pizza.
You take the pizza fixings and go the the kitchen to make a pizza. You attempt to make a pizza.
[handi:pizza]
You make a pizza.
"Oh god, now even this program has gotten boring. Jim, please send me on a suicide mission and relieve me of this boredom!" pancaek exclaimed to nobody in particular. "Ahem, aren't we forgetting something?" "Right, sorry. But no missions with shivabot, robo-godess of death." "much better, now find something entertaining."
Flip trough channels, some more. Find something about amps. If nothing about amps is to be found, stop on something random. munch on snack
"Curse this Ennui! I am so dreadfully bored. Save me, magic television cube."
You find a program about training rocks to sit still. This is not helpful.
NEXT POST IS THE LAST POST BEFORE YOU ARE FORCEFULLY PODDED, LONG MISSION TEAM! I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR MASSIVE 50 PART POSTS. ATTEMPTS TO ENTER THE VR MACHINES AND BUILD GIANT DEATH MACHINES AT THE LAST SECOND WILL BE MET WITH BLOWS TO THE SHIN AND DERISIVE LAUGHTER. Also jim, any idea of a team yet?
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