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[Caellath]

You do need Mind rolls to control the lightning. It seems the roll failed, likely catastrophically.

Edit: And piecewise apparently has breasts.

((I understand that piecewise is busty...

[Unholy_Pariah]

You do need Mind rolls to control the lightning. It seems the roll failed, likely catastrophically.

I would agree with you there, but the usual "lets see how well you control your power... oh dear..." comment was missing which leads me back to the conclusion he simply went straight to endurance rolls.

[Egan_BW]

You do need Mind rolls to control the lightning. It seems the roll failed, likely catastrophically.

Edit: And piecewise apparently has breasts.

((I understand that piecewise is busty...

PW is pretty confirmed to be a dude at this point. that doesn't mean you're wrong though.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Oh, I see, it makes sense now.
The attempted shanking did happen, the doom arm just went way over the top.

You do need Mind rolls to control the lightning. It seems the roll failed, likely catastrophically.

I would agree with you there, but the usual "lets see how well you control your power... oh dear..." comment was missing which leads me back to the conclusion he simply went straight to endurance rolls.

Okay, stop there, why would PW do that? He must have had a reason, right? Perhaps it was that the doom arms were set to 90% doom beforehand? He did say specifically that "People keep underestimating the Doom Arm, it has DOOM in the name for god's sake." So perhaps the doom arm doesn't act like a conductive wire and instead it just sprays electricity everywhere when activated?

[Caellath]

PW is pretty confirmed to be a dude at this point. that doesn't mean you're wrong though.

I know he's a dude, yet he might have undergone moob enhancement surgery and not told us. Paris seems to be the only person with that info.

[Yoink]

Dang, you beat me to it.

Also, Comrade, I know how you feel- my second character died before his first mission, and I had a fairly detailed backstory for him. He was also quite fun to play... hopefully "third time's the charm" turns out to be the case for you as well.

[Unholy_Pariah]

Oh, I see, it makes sense now.
The attempted shanking did happen, the doom arm just went way over the top.

You do need Mind rolls to control the lightning. It seems the roll failed, likely catastrophically.

I would agree with you there, but the usual "lets see how well you control your power... oh dear..." comment was missing which leads me back to the conclusion he simply went straight to endurance rolls.

Okay, stop there, why would PW do that? He must have had a reason, right? Perhaps it was that the doom arms were set to 90% doom beforehand? He did say specifically that "People keep underestimating the Doom Arm, it has DOOM in the name for god's sake." So perhaps the doom arm doesn't act like a conductive wire and instead it just sprays electricity everywhere when activated?

no, no shanking happened at all.
I had like 5 targets and none of them got shanked in any form.

Theoretical possibilities of what could have happened are not proof of occurance.
posted results are proof of occurance.

and as far as the doom arms, they are arms not speakers. just because he went 90% doom last time doesn't mean he is stuck on that setting.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

But you only have a theoretical possibility.

[Unholy_Pariah]

I was meant to shank multiple people then wolf was meant to retaliate when I attempted to shank him.

nobody got shanked at all.

how is this theoretical?
im not using what piecewise might have done, im using what he posted.

[Urist McCoder]

I understand that piecewise is busty,

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

I was meant to shank multiple people then wolf was meant to retaliate when I attempted to shank him.

nobody got shanked at all.

how is this theoretical?
im not using what piecewise might have done, im using what he posted.

I mean the whole 'PW didn't roll End' thing, you based that on the fact that he didn't say that one throwaway sentence.

Anyway, on the shanking, perhaps PW rolled and you targeted the man with the doom arm?
Actually, screw it, I'm gonna ask PW.
HEY PW, DID YOU ROLL FOR MIND OR NOT AND WHY?

[piecewise]

I am thoroughly dissatisfied with the results and handling of this event.

the whole explosion thing is meant to take place in response to my shanking him.

where were the initiative rolls?
where was my knife throw?
or even my shank roll if you ignore my updated action?
where were the opposed combat rolls?

I dont mind being tempdeath exploded fairly, but giving doom arms the instawin is highly unfair.
especially to comrades character.

I'm going to agree with Unholy here. I agree with all of his logic, and also it would be helpful to know how the intent to destroy a knife via a touch ability turned into telsa the room.

Not that I'm complaining about the ability to force end rolls on everyone in the room, I'd just like a bit more control over it and also for it to not come off as an instawin button, because that's not fun for anyone.

The lack of description is because I was working on the turn in the last 10 minutes before I had to go to class. I'll take responsibility for that. However, the reason why I didn't give you actions is because the doom arms are already going. The rolls happened the turn before that. The doom arms effect isn't the sort of thing you can just run away from or stab through. I mean, the discharges are moving at 224,000 mph. Thats almost 300 times the speed of sound. You ain't outrunning it, you ain't dodging it.

Secondly, the doom arms throwing shit around isn't a conscious action. them NOT throwing shit around is the conscious action. We kind of abstract this a lot of the time, so it's understandable, but the idea here is that he is keeping them in place via mental ability. He "uses" it by letting it leak out a bit. It's essentially an inverse Amp; the less mental effort you put in, the more powerful it is, and if you completely let go, you'll get an overload.

So the second he tried to do something with them and fucked up (Rolled very poorly) His arms went off like electric grenades. And unfortunately there were no powerful amp users with good intuition in the room who managed to see it coming and pull a Pancaek. So thats why you guys didn't do your actions in that room. Because you had no time to do them.

As per why I skipped the shank command in the original action, two reasons.

1. Because I do turns in order and he had already started the electric hoedown before I got to you
2. If you stab him, there is a chance that he will die. If he dies, even temporarily, his arms are no longer restrained. If they are not restrained we have an AMP. OVERLOAD. LEVEL. INCIDENT. on our hands. In the middle of the ship. In a room of people.  Now the ship will probably survive. There's a reason we Keep the AM around; she's good about preventing those kind of accidents from going too far. But you and everyone else in the room would be PERMADEAD. And I'm trying to get a mission started here; so as much as I would kinda like to murder 10 people in a horrible pizza argument gone reality break, I opted for the option that lets us get a mission started sooner rather than 2 weeks from now.


I understand the frustration because you guys don't know this, you can't see it from my perspective and understand why or how something is happening.  But It's one of those situations where, even if I played out every action of the turn before, including the stabbing, I don't think it would have greatly effected anything. At least not positively. I'm sorry it wasn't well explained.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

*Cough*Toldyouso*cough*
Also, hands up if you want a Doom arms genetic mod in the armoury.
*Puts hand up*

[SkyMarshal]

If that happens, I'll jump ship at Hephaestus.  I'd feel safer around the tinkers

[Xantalos]

Why would you need a gene mod? Just go stick your arms into the poles outside the R&D lab.
...
arms.
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