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

[Knight Otu]

Get a Nyars box, then - large, green triangle, vertical line. Try to figure out what it is without activating it. Train efficient and effective amp use. Try to get a better rapport with my ghosts, try to find out if and how they can help me, and thus themselves.

[swordsmith04]

Felix spends the year training his body and mind. He'll be using the Dexterity and Endurance exercise machines, mostly, although he'll use the Strength machine, as well. He'll exercise one machine at a time, and in-between, while he's resting, he'll be in VR, practicing his marksmanship and hand-to-hand fighting (Con and Uncon training).

Also he searches up 'Man-nip' on the Internet.

[Lenglon]

Master my cat-instincts, senses, and abilities, over the course of the time-skip.

[kisame12794]

Practice manipulating things with my amp, and shuttle piloting.

((Chill out Radio. A battle plan never survives first contact with an enemy. And besides, we're far more likely to fail from our own ineptitude in following your plans.))

[Toaster]

((Time for me to get over my procrastination and get Lars working on propheteering!))


Do the below.  Not bolded for sake of eyesight.  TL;DR Lars works on setting up Steve's propaganda machine.  Charles is welcome to assist.

Core vision:  Steve, his three Generals (Miyamoto, Jim, and Milno), and the ARM as a whole will be the saviors of the world, bringing in a new age of peace, prosperity, and happiness while the gross, bloated, corrupted, and now evil UWM is kicked to the curb.  There might be a quasi-religious vibe to the work, but it's never stated that these people are anything more than mortal.

If Lars never did fix the picture of Steve Sophos to not have an enormous package, do so now; keep a copy of the original.  The Generals will use images of their original appearances (that is, before any battle scars or Doc shenanigans), except for Milno- after surely being chastised by the AM for wanting to plaster the face of our secret ops leader everywhere, Milno's face is replaced by a much more generic looking one- think classic James Bond style- UNLESS Milno The Snark works better as-is.  His role as a covert-ops leader is never explicitly stated- his pictured role is more that of a daring adventurer who rescues women tied to railroad tracks, etc etc.  Miyamoto, of course, is a brilliant strategist who is at the top of the armies, while Jim is an incredible field commander who anyone would die for.

Design several series of posters- Steve standing on a rocky outcropping looking out onto a saved prosperous world with messages such as "He is leading the ARM to free us all" and some such.  Most posters will feature the Steve design, but not all.  Some are more generalized ARM-is-awesome posters, with them liberating women and children, kissing babies, and all that.  There are also the UWM IS THE SUCK posters, with them eating babies and pillaging women and suchlike.

Lars will interview any willing inmate, crewmember, or local on how the UWM has screwed them over.  Truthfulness is optional, and wholesale fiction is okay too.  Take the best bits and edit them into a video documentary that would make Michael Moore cry.  Include footage of atrocities- ideally done by UWM.  Let's not include China-9 and Ice-9.  Any good leftover bits (or those that for whatever reason no visual will work) can be made into an audio-only version.  Flint will be tapped for his acting past.

Get someone with an impressive booming voice (or a human-sounding facsimile- (think the "In a world..." movie trailer guy) to record announcements to blast at civilians, decrying the atrocities of the UWM and how they make life crappy.  They should go on to say how the ARM is coming to right the wrongs and put humanity back on the path of all that is well and good and puppies and sunshiny roses.

All materials will be submitted to Steve for distribution- he knows what needs to go where and can get it there in a timely manner.  If he has any accounts that can be added to the documentary, so much the better.

**In all cases** the AM is considered the editor, and her opinions will generally be taken into account.  Be willing to take suggestion and input from teammates, as long as they don't seriously conflict with the core vision outlined here.  If possible, request space on the ship to act as the Propaganda Office.

Also create a shrine to reverently store the Arm of Steve.  Enshrine it near the Bust of St. Milno.

Oh yeah, and finish reading the HMRC Pantheon.

_{If we're doing stat-buffing work this is probably handiwork or charisma}


((All:  Am I missing anything obvious?  I'll probably edit this a few times to make sure it's good to go.))

[Radio Controlled]

Practice manipulating things with my amp, and shuttle piloting.

((Chill out Radio. A battle plan never survives first contact with an enemy. And besides, we're far more likely to fail from our own ineptitude in following your plans.))

((I was kidding, no worries. I know we're doomed anyway 

[Dorsidwarf]

Whatsisface spends the year wandering around going "huh", buying a Gauss rifle and Kinetic Amp Glove, and training with them.

[Pancaek]

Attempt to get extra amp training from the AM during the year time skip. If this isn't possible or I have free time outside of this, run the Amp defence course over and over

[Alarith]

Theodore gets healed, debriefed,and figures out what happened to the tear of Timmy and his other belongings.  He also takes the black pills to the doctor to see if the doctor can identify them.  Anything else important, like volunteering for defense and boarding.  He then devotes his time to practicing with all forms of conventional weaponry, that he can use safely that is.
For leveling up from the defense mission, we still get 5 stat points and three skill points, right?
Stats: +2 strength, +2 endurance, +1 intelligence
Skills:+2 Con, +1 Int
Potentially get a 1 token bonus for defending the sword.

[Caellath]

Something I can carry without losing the MkIII's speed bonus (losing the strength one being a secondary concern) and capable of withstanding around as much punishment as battlesuit armor.

Spoiler: Updated Timeskip Quote (click to show/hide)

During the timeskip period, assume Milno talks to the AM and keeps trying to understand both sharkmist symbiosis and alien glove in his free time - like discovering what exactly he can use as fuel for bodily transformations and regeneration, how much the glove is capable of changing and if it also needs matter or fuel to transform into larger objects. He also does it very carefully.

Some extra specific points of research (Symbiosis):
1 - Whether it has the same weaknesses as Mesk's bots (weakness to fire and vacuum) and what could be done to fix that;
2 - Whether it can also vibrate violently like back at the mission;
3 - Whether projectiles can be created from the material;
4 - Whether the body's capability - speed, strength, resilience - can be enhanced through them and, in case of success, if those changes can be performed discreetly;
5 - Whether Milno can control other sharkmist-based growths or buildings.

Some extra specific points of research (Glove):
1 - If the glove's simulated version of the rifle it absorbed can fire;
2 - If it needs ammo, if it still has the (partially-filled, 20/75) magazine that was within the gun, and if it can accept the fresh magazine previously bought;
3 - If it can turn normal metal into ammo;
4 - If it has all the features the rifle had (burst fire, overcharge, etc);
5 - If the knowledge gained from touching objects and perfectly understanding them is enough to find weaknesses;
6 - If the knowledge gained from touching objects and perfectly understanding them is enough to build or dismantle them, given the right tools or using the glove's power;
7 - If the glove can force-crush tech objects like it was accidentally done to Simus' old prosthetic arm;
8 - Poke other tech objects to amass more information. Nothing sexual. Nothing exploitable by the GM for shits and giggles.

Other points (General Stuff):
1 - Milno spends time with the AM when he's not training nor researching;
2 - Physical, mental and martial arts training, and do VR training in the case of anything indicated by the AM for spec ops stuff;
3 - Check whether the research people can create one of those tuning forks used by the alien in the Samsonite Abyss mission (I'm curious).

[Yoink]

TIMESKIP ACTIONS

>Write a series of racy romance novels involving space pirates, scary weird-ass aliens and dashing revolutionaries like myself, self-publish and distribute them to the poor fucks who we're liberating. Well, some of them- the rest I will sell. FIRST ONE'S FREE, KIDS

>Practice speaking to/passionately kissing a mirror. In private.

>Get Whig various attachments, like a fancy scope, extended clip, an ergonomic stock/grip and an amusing crosshair shaped like a smiley face. I dunno basically whatever I can get for her, m'lady deserves only the very best attachments after all.

>Get some metal from somewhere and attempt to make a rough prototype of that whole 'gauss rifle shield' idea I had ages ago. You know, it's like a riot shield that clips on over the front of a rifle, allowing a prone person to aim and make shots whilst shielded from incoming fire.

>Finally, and most importantly, grow a luxurious moustache worthy of any brave and charismatic leader.
I'm aiming for a kind of Wyatt Earp look with the 'stache.

EDIT: >Rent out my porno mag to uncouth, sleazy types for the low, low price of a token per day-- after sampling it first myself, of course.

[Unholy_Pariah]

repeatedly charge a dynamic bonus and attempt to combine the 3 broken gauss rifles into a single powerful gauss barrel integrated into my heavy pulse laser.

Remove the superfluous magnesium coating from my thermic lance rounds (gau-8 + ap tip), check price.

Wear "green boxing gloves" (preferably over the exosuit gloves if it wont tear them), test punch a wall.

Spend the rest of the timeskip tinkering with my exosuit in order to get the +1 end bonus of combat exosuits and trying to increase the number of times i can use a manipulator before resting.

Oh and make sure to give NAV his items back if i havent already.

[Tack]

((So, am I returning the Namite thrower to Miya?))

Teal returns to the ship along with the rest of the biohorror team. Nothing really to show except some singed boots and minor goo spatters.

Bedebriefed

[Remalle]

Over the period of one year: Practice doctoring.  Can I get better to the point where routine operations don't require a roll or overshots are less likely?  Also practice flying (the shuttle and the suit), shooting the pyramid, and doing aux stuff.  Just get better at everything, basically.

[syvarris]

In order of priority, Steve Saint will spend the year:

• Trying to familiarize himself with as much UWM technology as possible, with an emphasis on computer systems and other AUX stuff.  This is both operation (how to fly shuttles) and general knowledge on how stuff works.
• Trying to meet and get to know as many ARM people as possible.
• Helping Anton Chernozorov out with writing the software needed for his robot horse.
• Trying to improve suit to suit comms, particularly encryption.  Make our comms impossible to hack.
• Using that movement recording program he wrote for the exoskeleton to build up a massive library of movements.

If this is just increasing stats, and not getting any new abilities like piloting, increase will and AUX.