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Author Topic: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC and NEW PLAYER INFO  (Read 2546410 times)

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« Reply #10980 on: November 12, 2014, 03:04:53 pm »

Dammit guys, stop letting my amp luck transfer over to you.
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« Reply #10981 on: November 12, 2014, 03:06:16 pm »

@Piecewise Out of curiosity, is it within the realm of practically possible for us to stop such overloads with counter-effect space magic, like the amp specialist did? Or is it something out of our weight class entirely? Actually, would he be able to cope with an overload at all?
And then, can an overload be canceled out (mostly) with another overload of opposite effect?


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Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« Reply #10982 on: November 12, 2014, 03:09:15 pm »

Now see I could, but I don't have an amp right now.
Ah well.
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« Reply #10983 on: November 12, 2014, 03:12:17 pm »

Dammit guys, stop letting my amp luck transfer over to you.

It might help if one didn't specifically design characters to create incidents like this..  ;-)
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« Reply #10984 on: November 12, 2014, 03:20:04 pm »

Sorry, mission folks. I'm about to blow up the ship I guess.

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« Reply #10985 on: November 12, 2014, 03:22:51 pm »

I have armor and a jetpack, im probably safe.... ish...

Ima just watch this newbie get sucked into vacuum... maybe steal his tokens...
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Clearly running multiple missions at the same time is a terrible idea.  The epic battle to see which team can cock it up worse has escalated again.

And Larry kinda gets blueballed in all this; just left with a raging bone spear and no where to put it.

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« Reply #10986 on: November 12, 2014, 03:34:41 pm »

When this kicks in just keep in mind that if not for Steve this would have happened at least 3 times on board thanks to me.
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« Reply #10987 on: November 12, 2014, 03:48:09 pm »

When this kicks in just keep in mind that if not for Steve this would have happened at least 3 times on board thanks to me.

But you're a flesh horror, not a heat-bomb. Flesh-horrors have a little bit longer until they hit their critical point (unless it's a STAN event).

I guess microwave amps just go "boom". Always.

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« Reply #10988 on: November 12, 2014, 03:48:28 pm »

Unless they go "Brrrr."
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« Reply #10989 on: November 12, 2014, 03:49:34 pm »

Yeah, but back when I was a regular human I overloaded all the goddamn time too.
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« Reply #10990 on: November 12, 2014, 03:55:37 pm »

Unless they go "Brrrr."

...Is that how ICE9 happened?

Also, if this goes off as big as I think it will, being a microwave amp, then I will have caused two events in a month. Sorry folks. I am bad at the ER.

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« Reply #10991 on: November 12, 2014, 04:02:45 pm »

Werent Ice-9 and China-9 errors though?
As in they tried doing something outside the scope of manipulator capability?
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Clearly running multiple missions at the same time is a terrible idea.  The epic battle to see which team can cock it up worse has escalated again.

And Larry kinda gets blueballed in all this; just left with a raging bone spear and no where to put it.

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« Reply #10992 on: November 12, 2014, 04:07:09 pm »

Heh. Maybe. But Denzel overshot an STAN and became a star himself. So.

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« Reply #10993 on: November 12, 2014, 04:09:55 pm »

@Unholy: I think the stasis tubes have disappeared and turned into a wall. Unless you mean you want to try punching through the wall.

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette OOC
« Reply #10994 on: November 12, 2014, 04:15:04 pm »

Werent Ice-9 and China-9 errors though?
As in they tried doing something outside the scope of manipulator capability?

Indeed. People are really being overly dramatic about these 6+2 rolls. They're not even a fraction of the danger of a proper overload.

For instance, a 6+2 by Stacy during the hunt for the amp specialist caused a fun explosion and dropped several tons of concrete on Grate. Somewhat alarming, but nothing too terrible, you understand. On the other hand, a 6+1 or something similar by Xan right before Ice-9 set an entire city neighborhood on fire at once, though that technically should be simpler to do than create sudden violent explosions by the application of heat alone, at least if one considers the temperature differences probably involved.

Most of you are probably going to be just fine, all things considered. The ship's got quite a lot of plot armor on it, don't you know, and plot armor (as in, how much piecewise feels like hurting you and the surrounding area to a ruinous degree) is the important factor when considering space magic overshooting, now that I think about it.
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