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

[GreatWyrmGold]

((Link's broken.))

[Kriellya]

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[GreatWyrmGold]

((That's not the link, that's the URL.))

[Radio Controlled]

Moya

Whenever something like that slips through, it's because I had to hurredly post from a phone and didn't have time to spellcheck.

"It is percentage based. 100%-0% filtering. Nothing beyond self control and appeasing the desires of the avatar."

And 'appeasing' means destroying or killing things, I guess? So giving it a little of what it wants helps to prevent it from taking control itself by force?
Secondly, if I were to go in VR, spawn in my own suit, and release the dampeners to get an idea of the effect, is there a chance of this 'bleeding through' to the real me, thereby unleashing a synthflesh monster in the hangar?

"Avatars are more complete. Have centralized brain. Follow original configuration of organic matter more closely. Titans have diffused nervous system. Structure more altered to accommodate needs. Both have symbiosis, which helps, but isn't required. Useful because of parallels but only minor."

Ask if there have been attempts to create synthflesh organisms that had intelligence beyond mindless destruction. Ask him if he has an idea where that behavior stems from, and if it could be altered (even if in theory).

[Beirus]

Leave the doctor and giant guy to talk and go see if there is a database I can access to get more info on Dead Man Running. If not, Go play VR Megaman.

[piecewise]

Moya

Whenever something like that slips through, it's because I had to hurredly post from a phone and didn't have time to spellcheck.

"It is percentage based. 100%-0% filtering. Nothing beyond self control and appeasing the desires of the avatar."

And 'appeasing' means destroying or killing things, I guess? So giving it a little of what it wants helps to prevent it from taking control itself by force?
Secondly, if I were to go in VR, spawn in my own suit, and release the dampeners to get an idea of the effect, is there a chance of this 'bleeding through' to the real me, thereby unleashing a synthflesh monster in the hangar?

"Avatars are more complete. Have centralized brain. Follow original configuration of organic matter more closely. Titans have diffused nervous system. Structure more altered to accommodate needs. Both have symbiosis, which helps, but isn't required. Useful because of parallels but only minor."

Ask if there have been attempts to create synthflesh organisms that had intelligence beyond mindless destruction. Ask him if he has an idea where that behavior stems from, and if it could be altered (even if in theory).

"Avatars don't seek pure destruction. Their motives are difficult to comprehend, but they move with purpose. Their purpose is what you must discover. It is difficult to say. The VR probably would not be able to simulate it, to begin with. But it shouldn't bleed over into the real body. The restraints switch neural circuits.

"The first I can't tell you. Altering behavior is difficult, if not impossible while keeping the creature whole. Emphatic link or chemical programming, difficult to say. Maybe both. "

Leave the doctor and giant guy to talk and go see if there is a database I can access to get more info on Dead Man Running. If not, Go play VR Megaman.

There's not a lot of info on the show, much of it was deemed unfit for viewing a few hundred years ago due to "romanticizing the use of harmful xeno-technological devices."

[Radio Controlled]

Converse with the Doctor.

"Avatars don't seek pure destruction. Their motives are difficult to comprehend, but they move with purpose. Their purpose is what you must discover.

"Yes, I think you're right, learning to understand the Avatar will be the key to getting to the next level. I wonder if I'll be able to wrap my mind around something so... alien. Maybe it's an instinctive thing? A 'mindset' rather than any particular piece of knowledge? I'll have to find that out myself I guess."

It is difficult to say. The VR probably would not be able to simulate it, to begin with. But it shouldn't bleed over into the real body. The restraints switch neural circuits.

"That's a relief, although not being able to use the VR machine to test it is unfortunate. It'll have to be trial by fire then."

"The first I can't tell you. Altering behavior is difficult, if not impossible while keeping the creature whole. Emphatic link or chemical programming, difficult to say. Maybe both."

Ask him if he has piloted/used synthflesh himself before (like an avatar or having a full robobody). Inquire if synthflesh creatures have something resembling an individual personality when born/created, and if these can change over time (like how a regular human changes throughout his life). So basically, nature versus nurture for synthflesh beings.

[Beirus]

Curse censorship. Go play VR Megaman.

[kj1225]

Spoiler: New player here (click to show/hide)

 Name:  Kyle Johnson
Age:  23
Gender:  Male
Appearance:  Brown hair and eyes. Kind of chubby, looks bored at all times.
Personal information:  Kyle was an honest business man. He worked slums doing work for cheap no matter who it is he was working on. He eventually fell for a woman he worked on... She was a thug in one of the local gangs. It went great for a while, about a year before tragically she was killed in a fight with some UWM peace keepers. He worked through the pain of the loss as he slowly built up a rep with some friends that could get him a reasonable chance of getting out of jail. He had known that the leader of the group that killed her would need to go in for an operation. The doctor who was originally going to do it went on vacation and Kyle stepped in for him. The leader went on to die during the operation, for all intents and purposes it would seem like it was a simple mistake that could have been avoided. In actuality it was a carefully planned murder. The charge for it had been life in jail but an associate of his got him changed to being put on to the HMRC instead. It will remain to be seen if that was a definite improvement.
Reason assigned to HMRC: Man slaughter.
Stats:
Strength:    3
Dexterity:  3
Endurance:  3
Charisma:  3
Intelligence:  3
Willpower:   5

Skills:
Speech: 1
Intuition: 1
Handiwork:
Conventional Weapons:
Unconventional Weapons:
Exotic Weapons:  1
Auxiliary systems: 1
Medical tech:1

Profession:  Fleshtech

[GreatWyrmGold]

((Hm. Pretty heavy stasis issues.
Shame May's on-mission.))

[Toaster]

Spoiler: New player here (click to show/hide)

 Name:  Kyle Johnson
Age:  23
Gender:  Male
Appearance:  Brown hair and eyes. Kind of chubby, looks bored at all times.
Personal information:  He accidentally killed a guy and then he got sent to this ship at some point. He forgets.
Reason assigned to HMRC: Man slaughter.
Stats:
Strength:    3
Dexterity:  3
Endurance:  3
Charisma:  3
Intelligence:  3
Willpower:   4

Skills:
Speech: 1
Intuition: 1
Handiwork:
Conventional Weapons:
Unconventional Weapons: 1
Auxiliary systems: 1
Medical tech:1

Profession:  Fleshtech

((You get one more stat point; you only added 19.))

[kj1225]

((Thanks, I wasn't sure if you rounded up if one was going for completely evenly divided stats.))

[syvarris]

((Have you read the wiki's newbie guide yet?  You will probably want to.

Also, ah, would you like a power gamer's opinion on ways you could optimize that sheet with practically no loss?))

[kj1225]

((I actually have. That's why I chose what I did.

And sure I guess.))

[syvarris]

Spoiler: @kj1225 (click to show/hide)

((Oh, good!  If there's anything unclear/missing, please mention it so that someone can fix it.  The wiki is perpetually a work in progress, so feedback is always nice.

As far as optimizing, make charisma and speech zeros.  I can count the number of times either stat has been rolled in this whole game, on one hand.  It's entirely possible to completely avoid using either of those, without losing any functionality except in very specific circumstances.

Next, I suggest you go with Exotic weapons instead of Unconventional.  As far as space magic, Exo is entirely better; the only advantage of uncon is that you can also use advanced melee weapons like kinetic amps and monofilament blades.  If you do this, drop Intelligence to zero as well; the only uses for int are qualifying for manips, and having your character think for you.

Those are the basic suggestions that cost basically nothing.  Here's more risky/costly stuff.

If you buy a sub-exoskeleton model C, for two tokens, you get +3 to strength and endurance rolls.  That's six points to spend elsewhere.  Further, it allows you to use AUX rolls to control your exoskeleton like a puppet, meaning you can use aux in place of dex and strength for stuff like dodging and melee combat.  It's possible that it can even let you circumvent the CON penalty of a fleshtech by using AUX for shooting conventional weapons.

The problems with that are that those require specialty programs to be written.  You could get them from my char, Steve Saint, but his programs haven't been tested, and he's dead at the moment.

There's probably more that I forgot, but I'm tired.  Sorry.))