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[Beirus]

I just had a good idea.

Somebody shock him! Shock him now!


So does it involve glands to organically produce poisonous, incendiary, and explosive coatings for the darts or arrows?

[renegadelobster]

Is that why I have a sudden sense of dread?

[Unholy_Pariah]

Nonononono

Go to haphaestus and stick a small metal statue and a horseshoe crab in the pill machine.

Because you know... armor, immunity to disease and blood loss, ability to quite happily run aroind with half your face blown off, ability to conduct electricity around your internal organs instead of through them, cool blue blood, extra limbs, maybe some nice pincers...

[Beirus]

Nonononono

Go to haphaestus and stick a small metal statue and a horseshoe crab in the pill machine.

Because you know... armor, immunity to disease and blood loss, ability to quite happily run aroind with half your face blown off, ability to conduct electricity around your internal organs instead of through them, cool blue blood, extra limbs, maybe some nice pincers...

Speaking of pill machine, I was kinda hoping we would be getting pills in this next shipment. It's a shame there hasn't been more testing of it yet.

[Unholy_Pariah]

Yet another reason why we need entanglement relay droids.

[Xantalos]

My idea'll have to wait a while, but if it works I could make a tidy profit.

[Harry Baldman]

Nonononono

Go to haphaestus and stick a small metal statue and a horseshoe crab in the pill machine.

Because you know... armor, immunity to disease and blood loss, ability to quite happily run aroind with half your face blown off, ability to conduct electricity around your internal organs instead of through them, cool blue blood, extra limbs, maybe some nice pincers...

Or maybe it just turns your pinky metallic and your head into a horseshoe crab, which honestly seems far more likely and desirable.

Speaking of pill machine, I was kinda hoping we would be getting pills in this next shipment. It's a shame there hasn't been more testing of it yet.

I think "it's a shame there hasn't been more X" and "we were hoping we would have Y by now" are very common sentiments in relation to the whole Hephaestus thing.

[Radio Controlled]

My idea'll have to wait a while, but if it works I could make a tidy profit.

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((I solemnly swear that I won't eat you until I've devoured my first planet.))

((Oh god, I helped create a monster. Then again, it's just too much fun not to really.

By the way, if you ever find out what your capabilities are exactly, be sure to look into custom-growing equipment for teammates. Like a bug that attaches to a person and pumps 'em full of drugs when needed. Or grow form-fitting chitin-bone-keratin armor with shock-absorbing soft tissue material underneath, add custom features (Claws, specific protection against certain damage types (heat, electric etc.) as needed.
Or hell, go for a whole suit, basically a new organism that lives in symbiosis with its wearer, providing protection/armor, a sort of powered exoskeleton (due to the suit/organism having muscle of itself to support its wearer's strength), mk.II style self-sealing properties and drug injection systems, with added bio-weapons (bonesword, acidsprayer, boneshard launcher, serrated claws, ...) as requested by the buyer (you might be able to ask some tokens for custom-growing equipment of course, then use these tokens to upgrade your capabilities).
And if done right, it may be able to self-repair too. The suit, in turn, interfaces with and is slaved to the wearer's nervous system and gains nourishment from either the user or internally stored biomass reserves.

And while we're at it, maybe try to grow a large battlesuit-style organism that is controlled by a pilot and has all of the above, coupled with whatever else you want to add (think pilotable Carnifex or Hive Tyrant (or go for a Hierophant if you're feeling silly).

Or, to think smaller again, weapons that create their own ammo as long as they're kept fed, like that boneshard launcher or maggot cannon from before, but without it integrated with a suit. Or hell, if you can bio-engineer virii then you can become a second Doc and create specific gene treatments to transform peeps into weird horrorspawns with abilities as you like it. Or just give people increased physical perfection and free gene therapies, whatever really.

Oh, and if GWG one day figures out how his pill machine works, and the effects are combinable with your stuff, then the options grow even more expansive. Think bio-computer hybrids, organisms that have AoW-like skin, whatever you can think of.

Really, the more I think about it, the more I realize the awesome possibilities are truly

endless...



(I'm starting to think PW, if he read all these rants, will be nerfing your powers greatly to keep game balance, otherwise we'll have an army of monsters runnin' round without the usual Doc Highlander-style thinning occurring).

And yes, I know all of this is very implausible from a hard sci-fi standpoint, but really, seeing how Xan's powers are already ridiculous and impossible to begin with, I'm willing to suspend my disbelief if it lets me experiment and think of new and creative xenohorrors.

*reads own post*
... Dammit, it happened again!))


((@ Ironyowl: you are with Jim's team, in this thread, and you're hunting for an Amp specialist (think X-men Professor X with amps). Read here for more info and correct thread.))

You better try these out dammit. Though if you say you saved all my previous posts on the subject, then I guess you'll have a lot of stuff to try out still.

[Parisbre56]

Four people and a shield trying to get through the gunner port of the APC... Who bets they get stuck and can't get out?

@U_P: Since the gravity manipulator essentially manipulates spacetime, you could use it to create a pocket space where time goes slower and is bigger on the inside. Of course, it would probably be very expensive. You're probably better off searching for an alien artifact that does the same. Maybe that bag that has things moving in it and a note that says I'm not coming back?

[Unholy_Pariah]

I doubt using a manipulator would work at all, magic batteries only have so many uses and using constant effect magic drains uses constantly.

Bag of crazy old cat ladies might be the best bet, unless its a vieled warning.

[Parisbre56]

Just wanted to remind that Piecewise has said that large enough automanipulators (like the ones found on spaceships) can run indefinitely, but that would probably be too large and expensive for what you want.

[Nikitian]

Maybe that bag that has things moving in it and a note that says I'm not coming back?

Bag of crazy old cat ladies might be the best bet, unless its a vieled warning.

Speaking of which, I am perfectly happy to sell it to anyone willing.
Though I must point that its Nyars capsule bears a vertical line, which means either 'lots of danger to the user' or 'weird fleshy eldritch tech', according to my preferred theories. Then again, it's only a triangle-stamped capsule, so maybe I'm overestimating the danger.

[Hapah]

Four people and a shield trying to get through the gunner port of the APC... Who bets they get stuck and can't get out?

Sir, I shall not take that wager! It's not unlikely, though.

[PyroDesu]

Speaking of pill machine, I was kinda hoping we would be getting pills in this next shipment. It's a shame there hasn't been more testing of it yet.

I think "it's a shame there hasn't been more X" and "we were hoping we would have Y by now" are very common sentiments in relation to the whole Hephaestus thing.

We have three people that actually design things and do science (PW forbade using science crews on Nyartefacts, I believe). Give us a break.

[Harry Baldman]

We have three people that actually design things and do science (PW forbade using science crews on Nyartefacts, I believe). Give us a break.

Oh, I wasn't blaming you. I mostly just meant that people have slightly... inflated expectations in terms of what a crew of ~6 (or, according to you, ~3) people can do, especially given the rather loose organization of things and strange timeframes that one encounters.