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[Shaporia]

(Thanks.)

[Radio Controlled]

Oh, and Lyra has those medic teeth, she could be a medic.

Yeah, but she's up as 'maybe' until she either fully decides or the time limit for volunteering is up. Which is in... eh, couple (3-4) days or so.

@RC: I am interested in the mission, it's just that between university projects and doing the various wiki and calculator stuff I haven't found the time to respec and see what I will end up having. And I still have to take some time to fix the wiki template to allow it to represent Lyra's stats. So I'll finish that and decide what to respec later because I want to see if I can get enough points to use my amp or if I have to change my build into a Con master.
Just one question, would you be willing to take Beirus' debt from me and give me two tokens from the fund so I can buy a stim?

When do you think you'll be ready to give a final answer? So I know when pw can expect final rosters.

and I'd be 'willing', but a) again, first blops stuff, then rest, and b) would like to check if people are ok with team fund taking over debts. Might be better to just loan you 2, seems more straightforward.

[Dorsidwarf]

What's the PEW prototype?

[Nikitian]

Focused HEP. Wait, did you expect meaningful in-depth answer?


((Piercing-Energy Weapon; all the energy blast of High-Energy Projector taken together and focused into small section. Can burn through battlesuits and other stuff; overheats like hell, though, so cooling systems included. Quite heavy, I recall, so might require more-than-human strength, I think. Exoskeleton or higher, probably.
Sean should be able to answer more, of course.))

[Radio Controlled]

Info about how brains for manips work:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

23:55   <Radio_Controlled>: Can I ask about the brains?
23:55   <Piecewise>: sure radio
23:56   <Radio_Controlled>: First, how big are the differences between the different kinds, roughly speaking? The different kinds of brains, for manips?
00:06   <Radio_Controlled>: Just a rough idea of what, for example, a 13 token one can handle.
00:06   <Piecewise>: The differences between the kinds are levels
00:06   <Piecewise>: 0,+1, +2,+3,+4
00:06   <Piecewise>: HOWEVER
00:07   <Piecewise>: Mind points are calculated by the number of points put into mind, NOT the pure +1, +2 stuff
00:07   <Piecewise>: so +1 is actually 5 mind points, +2 is 15 total, etc
00:08   <Piecewise>: You know how you get 5 points every level up?
00:09   <Piecewise>: And how it takes 5 points to reach level 1, then 10 more to reach 2?
00:09   <Piecewise>: That means that at +2, you have 15 points in that stat?
00:09   <Piecewise>: THose points are what I'm counting
00:09   <Piecewise>: So if you have 14 points total in a stat, you'll still only be at +1
00:09   <Piecewise>: BUT
00:10   <Piecewise>: You'll have more mind points then someone also at +1, but only with 5 points invested
00:10   <Piecewise>: The brains in the armory have  AT LEAST the number of points needed to reach the level they're at
00:10   <Piecewise>: the +1 brain will have at least 5
00:11   <Piecewise>: But it could actually have anywhere from 5 to 14, which is chosen at random for each brain
00:11   <Piecewise>: Which I hinted at saying they each have different capacities, even in the same level
00:11   <Piecewise>: Alright?
00:12   <Radio_Controlled>: Yes, that was very helpful, thank you.
00:12   <pancaeks>: So, if you get +2 mind at chargen, then put 15 points in to get to +3, you still only have 15 mind points? for amps, I mean
00:12   <tryrar>: huh, soulds actually easy to understand once you explain it that ways
00:12   <Radio_Controlled>: Is there an upper limit for the +4 13 token one?
00:12   <tryrar>: no, you start with how many point it would take you to level up to +2 from what I understand
00:13   <Piecewise>: No pancake
00:13   <Piecewise>: If you're at +2 you're already at 15
00:13   <tryrar>: 5+10
00:13   <Piecewise>: to get to 15 it's implied that you're spending those points
00:13   <tryrar>: otherwise using amps at all would be hilarious carnage
00:13   <pancaeks>: oh. okay, I though the ones at chargen didn't count because you didn't really put in points. my bad
00:15   <Piecewise>: Radio: the +4 one...lets see, it takes 20 points to reach 4 from 3
00:15   <Radio_Controlled>: 50 points to get to +4.
00:15   <Piecewise>: So the +4 one could probably vary upward from the low of 50 to a high of 75
00:16   <Radio_Controlled>: Ooh, interesting.
00:16   <Radio_Controlled>: You said there would be a way to gauge their stress. Any news on that?
00:17   <Piecewise>: I'm thinking it will be an EKG sort of thing you can read with Med
00:17   <Piecewise>: or, I should say
00:17   <Piecewise>: It will give you data, which you can learn to read
00:17   <Piecewise>: or just roll med to get a straight answer
00:17   <Radio_Controlled>: ... Darn.
00:17   <Radio_Controlled>: Goddamn med.
00:17   <Piecewise>: Not gonna make it easy for you
00:18   <Radio_Controlled>: Didn't think you would.
00:18   <Piecewise>: You could always just ask the medic
00:18   <Nikitian>: Can a brain be trained to gain extra points (even if just very few at a time)? For 5-point there's not much possible, but for a 14-point it could mean transition into full new category, for example
00:18   <Radio_Controlled>: Wait, I can? I though the manip was inside the avatar?
00:18   <Piecewise>: "Hey, is dis guy ok? He's doing a lot of brain screaming"
00:18   <Radio_Controlled>: Or does that change as well?
00:19   <Piecewise>: I assume you can send the readout to them
00:19   <Nikitian>: @RC Well, you could probably give the data feeds to medics on the team, if anything
00:19   <Radio_Controlled>: Sure, but it's also for changing brains and such.
00:20   <Piecewise>: Brains are gonna be locked, I think. Otherwise it might be a bit unbalanced. People will be asking for their rifles to level up via use and this is gonna turn into some kind of weird pokemon with high powered space weapons
00:20   <Radio_Controlled>: Gotta torture them all.
00:20   <Radio_Controlled>: Pokemon!
00:27   <Nikitian>: By the way, do the brains no longer come with the manipulators (as per original "1 magazine of ammo" rule) and have to be bought separately? Effectively doubling the manipulators cost?
00:27   <Piecewise>: Yep

[Dorsidwarf]

PEW sounds like something it would be fun to stick on a turret kit and mount on a team fund jeep.

[Parisbre56]

@RC: I meant taking the debt as extra collateral. If I survive, I pay the debt. If I die, Beirus pays. If we all die, then things are probably so fucked up you don't really need to care about two tokens.

My stats should be ready by the weekend, so you can decide if I should be on a team and on which team I should be then. But I'll definitely have >=+2 in Con and Aux, for the cannon and Battlesuit. Don't know about anything else.

[Gentlefish]

You forgot me, Radio. I volunteered for mission.

[Radio Controlled]

You forgot me, Radio. I volunteered for mission.

I'm sorry, I looked at the wiki. I'll add you.

Now that paris and puffer are also coming, we are at our maximum.

Problem is that we don't have a medic for one team. We can take lyra, but that would mean one other person has to go. Anyone (that is not a vet please, we'll need some firepower) who doesn't feel like really going after all, now you can say so. But don't feel obliged!

[Xantalos]

Ever wonders what Xan would be like with more points in Charisma? What's that, you really didn't want to? Well now you can!

Spoiler: Xan Talks With the Doctor (click to show/hide)

-Sometime after the current moment-

The Doctor looked up from a jar containing something unpleasant when Xan entered the room.  The inmate (for among all the members of ARM, Xan would almost certainly be the one least willing to be there) stood in the doorway of the white room for several minutes, staring at the post human thing before him. His eyes roved over every detail of the Doctor, from his immaculate white labcoat to his rebreather that covered most of his mouth and the bottom of his jaw to his solid black eyes. As he stared into his solid black orbs, the Doctor noticed Xan's breathing become subtly faster and more ragged.

Finally Xan spoke. "As time goes, I've lived less than a year, do you know that? I haven't even lived a month in this body, accounting for all the time I've spent in stasis. I have memories of my life before I was born, but for all intents and purposes the being I am now has been in existence for less time than a mature fetus."
Tears begin to slowly trail out of Xan's wide eyes and down his cheeks.
"And all that time I have wondered why. Why were my gifts taken away from me? They were what I was. The sum total of my existence was wrapped up in my change of form."
Xan pulls off his shirt, his face going red as the Doctor glances at his thin, bony chest. "Without that I am weak and lesser. I know the reasons why the leaders of Steve's movement decided to take away your gift. But I need to know yours."
Xan's voice breaks, but he stands there still, trembling slightly, tear streaks running down his face. "Why did you punish me."

After a moment's silence, the Doctor spoke. "You couldn't handle it. Willpower wasn't enough to restrain flesh. Becoming a pattern. Degeneration too."

Xan stands there a while, processing the revelations the Doctor's statement has given him.
"I was unworthy."
He shucks off his pants and walks forward a few steps, standing naked with his hands balled into fists, his scrawny arms shaking.
"The blessing you bestowed upon me was the greatest thing to ever happen to me, and I was unworthy of it."
He sinks down to one knee in a sudden, jerky motion, his knees buckling to get him there.
"I was but a foolish child not fully comprehending what you had given me."
He bows his head and puts his other knee down, bending forward in an utterly subservient position. His exposed skin is drawn tight with goosebumps.
"I beg forgiveness for misusing your blessing. For asking for it when I was nowhere near ready to properly receive it. For believing myself above other beings when without control I was less even than I was before. For all this and more, I beg your forgiveness."
Xan looks up at the Doctor from his position at his feet, eyes pleading.
"You are the only being I could place with any amount of importance to me in my life. My mother was a corpse and I was a fool. But you became my father, and more than that, when you lifted me up from my cage of inadequate flesh. I hope to one day earn that right back, so that I may cast off this cocoon I wear and aspire to greater heights. But only when you decree it so, Doctor. You are my father and my god."
Xan's eyes retain their pleading desperation, but a strange hunger enters them.
"Let me worship you."

The Doctor stands looking down at the frankly pathetic childman grovelling at his feet. At last he slowly reaches to his respirator and pulls it off. Xan's face brightens as it clatters to the ground, and he looks up in a state of rapture.

It's unsure if the sounds emanating from that back room are of ecstasy, horror, or both.

I blame PW for mentioning slash fiction in the Talk.
Don't worry, it's as SFW as Xan gets.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Ever wonders what Xan would be like with more points in Charisma? What's that, you really didn't want to? Well now you can!

Spoiler: Xan Talks With the Doctor (click to show/hide)

-Sometime after the current moment-

The Doctor looked up from a jar containing something unpleasant when Xan entered the room.  The inmate (for among all the members of ARM, Xan would almost certainly be the one least willing to be there) stood in the doorway of the white room for several minutes, staring at the post human thing before him. His eyes roved over every detail of the Doctor, from his immaculate white labcoat to his rebreather that covered most of his mouth and the bottom of his jaw to his solid black eyes. As he stared into his solid black orbs, the Doctor noticed Xan's breathing become subtly faster and more ragged.

Finally Xan spoke. "As time goes, I've lived less than a year, do you know that? I haven't even lived a month in this body, accounting for all the time I've spent in stasis. I have memories of my life before I was born, but for all intents and purposes the being I am now has been in existence for less time than a mature fetus."
Tears begin to slowly trail out of Xan's wide eyes and down his cheeks.
"And all that time I have wondered why. Why were my gifts taken away from me? They were what I was. The sum total of my existence was wrapped up in my change of form."
Xan pulls off his shirt, his face going red as the Doctor glances at his thin, bony chest. "Without that I am weak and lesser. I know the reasons why the leaders of Steve's movement decided to take away your gift. But I need to know yours."
Xan's voice breaks, but he stands there still, trembling slightly, tear streaks running down his face. "Why did you punish me."

After a moment's silence, the Doctor spoke. "You couldn't handle it. Willpower wasn't enough to restrain flesh. Becoming a pattern. Degeneration too."

Xan stands there a while, processing the revelations the Doctor's statement has given him.
"I was unworthy."
He shucks off his pants and walks forward a few steps, standing naked with his hands balled into fists, his scrawny arms shaking.
"The blessing you bestowed upon me was the greatest thing to ever happen to me, and I was unworthy of it."
He sinks down to one knee in a sudden, jerky motion, his knees buckling to get him there.
"I was but a foolish child not fully comprehending what you had given me."
He bows his head and puts his other knee down, bending forward in an utterly subservient position. His exposed skin is drawn tight with goosebumps.
"I beg forgiveness for misusing your blessing. For asking for it when I was nowhere near ready to properly receive it. For believing myself above other beings when without control I was less even than I was before. For all this and more, I beg your forgiveness."
Xan looks up at the Doctor from his position at his feet, eyes pleading.
"You are the only being I could place with any amount of importance to me in my life. My mother was a corpse and I was a fool. But you became my father, and more than that, when you lifted me up from my cage of inadequate flesh. I hope to one day earn that right back, so that I may cast off this cocoon I wear and aspire to greater heights. But only when you decree it so, Doctor. You are my father and my god."
Xan's eyes retain their pleading desperation, but a strange hunger enters them.
"Let me worship you."

The Doctor stands looking down at the frankly pathetic childman grovelling at his feet. At last he slowly reaches to his respirator and pulls it off. Xan's face brightens as it clatters to the ground, and he looks up in a state of rapture.

It's unsure if the sounds emanating from that back room are of ecstasy, horror, or both.

I blame PW for mentioning slash fiction in the Talk.
Don't worry, it's as SFW as Xan gets.

No Xan, with this, the only blame is to be laid on you.
You monster.

[Xantalos]

I tried to make it funny but then Xan's various issues kicked in.

[Radio Controlled]

Irling volunteers for the mission, and then proceeds to gear up.

Purchase the Microwave Psychokinetic Amplifier (2 tokens) and the changeling mask (3 tokens) from the player store. Have both installed.

I asked pw, I could let you in as extra. Count yourself lucky (?)


Could a wiki person please look and make the changes for the purchase? I'm off to bed now.

[Hapah]

If we've got fresh meat that wants to be fed into the grinder I could potentially sit out. I might already be dead anyway!

[Xantalos]

Hmm. Hasala's going on mission, then?