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Author Topic: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC and NEW PLAYER INFO  (Read 2523907 times)

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC
« Reply #15555 on: April 10, 2015, 05:05:11 pm »

Hey, in a way I'm in a category below even Dishonored Dead; I've died twice now and I'm not even on the wall :P

I just... poked in to see what was going on, and holy crap, new system and
You have a 3 token brain correct? Anyone who had a manip from before is considered to have the cheapest brain unless they specially buy one.
...are we buying brains now? Is this the future of space magic?
The manips were always brains, it's just more explicit now.

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC
« Reply #15556 on: April 10, 2015, 05:06:01 pm »

I just... poked in to see what was going on, and holy crap, new system and
You have a 3 token brain correct? Anyone who had a manip from before is considered to have the cheapest brain unless they specially buy one.
...are we buying brains now? Is this the future of space magic?

Hey Irony! Feel up to respeccing faith? We need more somewhat competent medics so we don't get stuck with Mesk as senior medic!
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No. I suppose there are similarities, but I'm fairly certain angry birds doesn't let me charge into a battalion of knights with a car made of circular saws.

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC
« Reply #15557 on: April 10, 2015, 05:09:45 pm »

You can trust me over that dastardly Mesk!
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC
« Reply #15558 on: April 10, 2015, 05:13:35 pm »

Mesk has the blessing of Mistress Medicine now! He shall not ineptly injure or kill anyone anymore!
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC
« Reply #15559 on: April 10, 2015, 05:15:35 pm »

Mesk has the blessing of Mistress Medicine now! He shall not ineptly injure or kill anyone anymore!
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC
« Reply #15560 on: April 10, 2015, 05:16:49 pm »

Hey, in a way I'm in a category below even Dishonored Dead; I've died twice now and I'm not even on the wall :P

I think there was a proposal to give those who'd be Dishonored an Unperson treatment instead.

Oh hey IronyOwl. Are you returning? Most of our rare veterans these days seem to be suffering from terminal cases of stasis dementia.
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC
« Reply #15561 on: April 10, 2015, 05:18:46 pm »

What would I be then, double unpersoned?
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC
« Reply #15562 on: April 10, 2015, 05:24:35 pm »

Hey, would it be possible to pick an unpicked potion, or is that whole thing closed now?

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC
« Reply #15563 on: April 10, 2015, 05:34:57 pm »

The manips were always brains, it's just more explicit now.
Of course. We figure out anything else about them?


What would I be then, double unpersoned?
You were never a person to begin with and we all know it.


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Hey Irony! Feel up to respeccing faith? We need more somewhat competent medics so we don't get stuck with Mesk as senior medic!
Oh hey IronyOwl. Are you returning? Most of our rare veterans these days seem to be suffering from terminal cases of stasis dementia.
I dunno, but I guess I should give it a try!

What's been happening while I've been drooling on myself? We get the... TRON thing worked out? How'd the missions go? I hear EXTREME PING PONG is the hip new thing amongst newbies?
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC
« Reply #15564 on: April 10, 2015, 05:39:35 pm »

TRON's been fixed, but it kinda trashed the ship a little. Missions went all pretty ok, even 18 which looked for a second like it was going to be the first teamwipe, and yeah, that was a pretty epic fail attempting to play ping pong :P
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This fort really does sit on the event horizon of madness and catastrophe
No. I suppose there are similarities, but I'm fairly certain angry birds doesn't let me charge into a battalion of knights with a car made of circular saws.

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC
« Reply #15565 on: April 10, 2015, 05:40:11 pm »

What's been happening while I've been drooling on myself? We get the... TRON thing worked out? How'd the missions go? I hear EXTREME PING PONG is the hip new thing amongst newbies?

Ping-pong has become a blood sport, Zayne broke his arm, nose and knocked out his front teeth by it.

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC
« Reply #15566 on: April 10, 2015, 05:48:06 pm »

Xan died again during the TRON thing and got his powers removed. He's not the happiest about this.
Uh. Manips were always accessing your brain, that's why they gave you headaches, the math was just to get you thinking the way you needed to be.
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC
« Reply #15567 on: April 10, 2015, 05:49:09 pm »

The manips were always brains, it's just more explicit now.
Of course. We figure out anything else about them?
They're safer to use under the new system. Amplifiers are less precise and more dangerous. And that's besides the ominous fact piecewise has the wiki tracking every amp use from this point on.

What's been happening while I've been drooling on myself? We get the... TRON thing worked out? How'd the missions go? I hear EXTREME PING PONG is the hip new thing amongst newbies?

Missions 16-18 have finished up. The diplomacy mission was hypercompetent, for once, and that planet is now our ally. The other two were more mixed bags, with almost half a dozen permadeaths on one and only a partial success on the other, due to someone building a manipulator-like computer from spare parts and then frying a lot of electronics, including some of the data they were trying to retrieve.

The on-ship event is indeed over, leaving the ship in quite a mess. We're getting a completely redesigned section. Piecewise took votes for it, and was on IRC talking to us while he was working on the new section, so we influenced it then, too.


The next set of missions is about to leave. One is to take over an automated UWM ship with a ton of gunnerbot-likes on-board that could potentially blow up from a single stray shot, the other is a meat grinder a visit to a world taken over entirely by the Haebi. We're going to try to cut a nerve cluster out of it. The ship mission has to succeed for survivors to even get off the planet again. Oh, and the planetside mission is ~80% zero mission newbies, because all of the veterans seem to have wandered off somewhere.

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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC
« Reply #15568 on: April 10, 2015, 05:52:37 pm »

The ship mission has to succeed for survivors to even get off the planet again. Oh, and the planetside mission is ~80% zero mission newbies, because all of the veterans seem to have wandered off somewhere.

Ave, veteranos, mortituri te salutant.
Death or glory for us rookies now. Mostly death.
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Re: Einsteinian Roulette: OOC
« Reply #15569 on: April 10, 2015, 05:53:16 pm »

The manips were always brains, it's just more explicit now.
Of course. We figure out anything else about them?
Well, there was this big debate about the usefulness of manipulators at all, as compared to amps; and it was uncovered that our old manips just "used" our brains to do stuff like the amps did, but with math calculations (just as one of the old theories suggested).

Now, however, the old field manips are being phased out, and new ones are replacing them. These work off pre-packaged brains (to be purchased separately) but they are really safe-ish in the sense of not screwing with your own brains, only the packaged ones.

So, yeah, explicitly run off brains. Because there is something in the Space-God that all manips and amps strive to impersonate, that mere mortal sentient brains are close to (not just human, some xenos too), and by manipulating that "something" in our meat-think-space, amps and manipulators do their magic.
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