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[GreatWyrmGold]

GWG, here's how you pick it up without hallucinations:

It's a grabbing stick. Simple enough.

Is it even solid?

Also, I think charged bonuses should only act as negative modifiers to reduce overshoots. Because the game will run faster if people don't wait a billion turns to act.

Because people who weren't stuck waiting in the antechamber of a fleshorror were doing that.

Uhm, the system is not limited to +/-1.  There's no cap, as has been pretty well demonstrated by various people in various threads.  Unless I missed a memo from PW.  I'm pretty sure Saint has never rolled anything aside from AUX:5's.

And yes, almost every fleshtech has significant medical training in their backstory.  Previously, a fleshtech's... variable performance was usually handwaved as "You're in a panicked, stressful situation, rather than a nice clean surgical operating room with several helpers and plenty of time.  You'll make mistakes."  It doesn't make sense that a doctor with plenty of time to prepare can't get a guaranteed five.  Or a sniper.  Or a mechanic.  It makes even less sense that the person only has a one in six chance of not making some form of mistake.

Wasn't your comment about people without training?

Also, why would Xan/whoever being able to get guaranteed fives on uncon rolls be bad?  He could buy two freaking Avatars of War for the tokens he'd need...

If he did that, no problem. If he did it just by building dynamic bonuses for free...

[NAV]

The artifact is not solid. Milno poked it with his rifle in mission 1 and it passed right through.
Guess my solution was a dumb one.

It either requires something alive, or sentient to pick it up. Ask Xan or the Doc to make a living tool to manipulate the artifact? Or find some way to become hallucination proof.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Yay. I can invoke hallucination in enemies I can hit with my lack of combat skills, at close range.

By the way, did anyone ever figure out how to use it as a power thingy?

[NAV]

No ones seen that thing since mission 1. At least none of the players have. You could ask the guys in the research labs.

[Xantalos]

Wait, am I in team D?

[Toaster]

You're in F under Morul.


This link has all the information we have right now.

[Xantalos]

Ah, didn't think of that.

[Parisbre56]

Last ditch defense. If something tries to eat you, use that to make it throw you up.

I can't even touch it without hallucinating. And the hallucinations probably don't get better the longer you touch it...

When something is in the process of eating you, I don't think getting it to touch the thing would be such a big problem.

Worst come to worst, use it for a drinking game. Touch the alien thing or drink a shot of HMRC standard. In game terms, it would be Will rolls VS End rolls, with the added bonus that failing End rolls would make failing Will rolls easier.

[Phoenix Flame]

Gah... I can't seem to find what team I'm supposed to be on... I think I'm in assault somewhere but Angel doesn't show up in the wiki entry and I can't find the post with everyone on right now, can anyone help?

[swordsmith04]

Part of your character's name is 'Berach'. You're in Team D.

[Phoenix Flame]

Part of your character's name is 'Berach'. You're in Team D.

Ha! You know I'd completely forgotton I'd given his pre-aug name... Serves me right for putting too much thought into the background

[GreatWyrmGold]

No ones seen that thing since mission 1. At least none of the players have. You could ask the guys in the research labs.

I tried to retroactively do that.

When something is in the process of eating you, I don't think getting it to touch the thing would be such a big problem.

The problem isn't getting it to touch the enemy, it's getting it to the enemy without crippling hallucinations.

Worst come to worst, use it for a drinking game. Touch the alien thing or drink a shot of HMRC standard. In game terms, it would be Will rolls VS End rolls, with the added bonus that failing End rolls would make failing Will rolls easier.

Eh.

[Parisbre56]

There are many ways to solve that problem, if you just think for a moment.

How was it held in the capsule? How are you carrying it now? You can ask Xan to make something living to carry it or use some living crystal to make a spear to stab it. If all else fails, you can use the capsule it was in to make a tool to hold it.

Plus, you are carrying that thing and something eats you. It is impossible for whatever has eaten you to not touch it.

[Empiricist]

else go to rally point and gather throw-able rocks

...Please tell me that you have a manipulator or amp and that Team A's first line of defense doesn't half consist of someone throwing stones at people.

[GreatWyrmGold]

How was it held in the capsule?

Hell if I know.

How are you carrying it now?

With my locker. And the box it came in.

You can ask Xan to make something living to carry it or use some living crystal to make a spear to stab it. If all else fails, you can use the capsule it was in to make a tool to hold it.

"Living crystal"?

Plus, you are carrying that thing and something eats you. It is impossible for whatever has eaten you to not touch it.

Unless the carrying device gets in the way.

Overall, I'm highly disappointed with what I got. Neat, it's from an old mission, but 5 tokens could have gotten me cameyes, or a Mk. II suit, or a tesla saber, or a crystalline projector. Previous Nyars medium boxes...the wiki's acting up, but I'm damn sure they were more than a some-assembly-required short-range hallucination inducer. I think I got gipped, unless there's some hidden use I can't see.
Goddammit.