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[Xantalos]

Looks like M21 won the war of the "biggest mission cockup" contest.  I don't think unleashing Space Cthulhu can be topped.

Xan's just going back on a mission. My holy duty of fucking everything up must be preserved.

[TheBiggerFish]

Well, only those guns mounted on a hardpoint. Are those even listed in the armory?

The turret conversion kit also supports it. But someone will have to write an actual program to allow it to do so.

You have a programmer...

[Empiricist]

Well yes, we do have at least three AUX specialists. Issue is, while it is possible to program it to use AUX, I have no idea what sort of program would make it act like that. Since it normally uses CON when in turret mode, and there's no way in hell to automate it (short of purchasing additional, expensive parts) either.

[Moopli]

Well yes, we do have at least three AUX specialists. Issue is, while it is possible to program it to use AUX, I have no idea what sort of program would make it act like that. Since it normally uses CON when in turret mode, and there's no way in hell to automate it (short of purchasing additional, expensive parts) either.

Jury-rig the control cables of the hardpoint (if it's motorized, anyway...) to connect to a spare port on the suit. Assuming you know how to program drivers for the suit ports, understand control theory, and have all the tools you need to do development on your wristpad (actually, the wires could be attached to the wristpad instead), you could spend a few hours writing something very basic, or a few weeks making something that's well-engineered. Idk what programming is like in this future, we might get all sorts of tools to greatly reduce the amount of work a programmer must do, we might be able to work in extremely high-level languages that use things like concept diagrams to structure code, for example, or automated test generation. Programming might be substantially easier then, which might allow for the kind of on-mission code wizardry that you only see in movies.

[AoshimaMichio]

NAV, please do not divide by zero while you are anywhere near Sword.

[Nikitian]

Well, we have a working plan. And time running out. SNAFU, nothing new.

[Pancaek]

Once again, Pan is a braincase. Assuming that he makes it out of this, I feel like I should put his braincase in a rolling metal ball or something. He loses his limbs all the time anyway, might as well cut out the middle man.

[Radio Controlled]

Well lets see if she goes nuts on the xeno spit.
[5]
She takes a drink of the xeno-spit and seems completely unaffected.

You still wanna try to decap her?

((She's not affected by xeno-spit? That's never happened before. She's a witch! Burn her!

Nah, let's leave it at that. I thought this would be a quick RP thing I could finish in one turn. I don't want to set a bad precedent by being in two threads at once for more than one turn and I don't want to delay people on ship more. Let's say I figured out she calmed down enough to not be a threat or at least so that the others can get someone to stealthily incapacitate her or otherwise deal with her. Let other people on ship have their fun.))

((Sounds more like "My excuse to butcher newb pointlessly without any danger of being suddenly turned into gibs faded due to their luck"))

C'mon people, why can't we let people play their chars without ooc consternation? He did have a sort of ic justification, and there's nothing saying anyone has to take such behaviour lying down ic, but let's not judge people for it ooc as long as no blatant meta or such is going on. Mind, I get why you'd balk at this particular action, but still. Imagine someone ever played a real cold-blooded criminal!

[TheBiggerFish]

He could just sort of bonk her on the head or something...

[Parisbre56]

Once again, Pan is a braincase. Assuming that he makes it out of this, I feel like I should put his braincase in a rolling metal ball or something. He loses his limbs all the time anyway, might as well cut out the middle man.

Or get the braincase mobility system. I've got a variant that has rockets ready for approval. There's also the normal one that has the wall climbing legs.

[Nikitian]

Once again, Pan is a braincase. Assuming that he makes it out of this, I feel like I should put his braincase in a rolling metal ball or something. He loses his limbs all the time anyway, might as well cut out the middle man.

Oh, right, completely forgot about picking up Pancaek, too! (Sorry.)

Does the braincase (ejectable part, at least) have proper life-support mechanism in-built? Because if not, I can put Pancaek into the cooler for what it's worth.

Also, you might want to look into that "Braincase Mobility System". It requires +1 Aux, you have +0, assuming full levelup (yeeeeeah ) you could get there after the mission.

-snip- Imagine someone ever played a real cold-blooded criminal!

For ex-penal unit, we are really low on real cold-blooded criminals. Not that it'd be very fun for everyone around... but hey, immersion! Still planning to try and create one if Maurice buys a farm on that rapidly-turning-alien soil.

On topic: Let's close the issue, shall we? (Addressed more to those who don't want to, rather than RC-Paris-etc.) The initial event (xeno-spit intoxication) never happened, we got a minor wonder on our hands instead (first character ever to resist xeno-spit!), let's leave it at that and never revisit the matter. After all, Random Numbers God clearly wills so, apparently. You could even say... Mistress wills so.
((Dammit, Maurice! ))

[TheBiggerFish]

I could totally rig up a primitive robot-joystick-thing...With brainput...  Hm.  This requires thinking.

[Nikitian]

((Well, I wanted to let that go because it felt like the right thing to do (and it would avoid paradoxes/retcons in case she or the others manages to hurt me), but I can't accept such insults to my honour. I cannot stand idly while people call me a liar or someone who wants to kill people for no resin. So to protect my honor with something more than cheap words, I am forced to proceed with my backup action.))

I should now be close to her after giving her the bottle. Use one hand to push her hand and splash the xeno-spit on her face and then try to holds her still with it (choke hold if I can manage). The other hand goes for beheading.

Why, Flint, why? The gods of dice has shown that they don't want you to proceed! They even gave you a clear way out of the situation!..

(And, for the record, aborting assassination attempt if the chances have gone down and "safe abort" is possible is a perfectly valid technique. We're not going for a duel here, are we?..)

[NJW2000]

((Well, I wanted to let that go because it felt like the right thing to do (and it would avoid paradoxes/retcons in case she or the others manages to hurt me), but I can't accept such insults to my honour. I cannot stand idly while people call me a liar or someone who wants to kill people for no resin. So to protect my honor with something more than cheap words, I am forced to proceed with my backup action.))

But it would be a terrible thing, Nikitian, to attempt to kill a man for not even the smallest quantity of resin

[Ozarck]

Well lets see if she goes nuts on the xeno spit.
[5]
She takes a drink of the xeno-spit and seems completely unaffected.

You still wanna try to decap her?

((She's not affected by xeno-spit? That's never happened before. She's a witch! Burn her!

Nah, let's leave it at that. I thought this would be a quick RP thing I could finish in one turn. I don't want to set a bad precedent by being in two threads at once for more than one turn and I don't want to delay people on ship more. Let's say I figured out she calmed down enough to not be a threat or at least so that the others can get someone to stealthily incapacitate her or otherwise deal with her. Let other people on ship have their fun.))

((Sounds more like "My excuse to butcher newb pointlessly without any danger of being suddenly turned into gibs faded due to their luck"))

I think you're being a little harsh on Parisbre56 here. I don't think it was about butchering a newb, but about neutralizing an apparent threat. Pancaek decapitating spazyak's character had no ingame consequences for that character, after all.