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[Xantalos]

Yknow something that would be useful given how often we're incapacitated? A device that connects to a brain and essentially lets the person transplant their own brain into a body, or lift the brain into safety.

Because performing a brain transplant on yourself is something we should be able to do here in ARM.

[IronyOwl]

Anyways, Irony, doesn't faith have tokens still? I was thinking you'd likely want to grab some medic gear as well as maybe a Force Monosword-you did have that shockwave club right? Well the forcefield monosword isn't quite as brute-strength as that, but the statline should be up faith's alley IIRC.

But yeah, buy something

22 tokens, according to the wiki. Which makes sense, as I was saving up for a universal manipulator. I'm... not sure if I still want to do that any more! Especially because the Uncon requirement is pretty brutal and now I need to harvest brains for it. Though I do have the skillset for brain swapping and evaluation...

Man, medic gear. That takes me back. A quick glance at the wiki armory suggests our medtech has not advanced much beyond realizing medifoam is the answer to all of life's problems.

I could also get an organo-manip, assuming those exist, to simply warp teammates' flesh back into position. Still need a brain for it and it'd only be "safe" for 3 shots/mission; at 15+X for 3/mission vs 0.5/shot, I'm probably better off buying the medifoam unless I want to actually repair allies and get them back into action. Though speaking of medicry in general, half our team is robots anyway, so I'm wondering how cost efficient patching squishies is...

Monosword sounds super neat, though, I should definitely get one of those.

Current stats are Dex +2, everything else +1; +3 Uncon, +2 Med, +1 Aux, -1 Con. I've also got a levelup waiting, and could get Mind back to +2 with it if I so chose.

That reminds me, why don't we have more pointlessly overcomplicated medical tools? We have those for most other categories.

where's the overly long laser scalpel?

I was just thinking this. We've got guns out the ass, weird-ass doohickies out the ass, and alien fuckery out the ass, but no inhumane medical tech?! I should go suggest some things in Tinker, or something!

The obvious problem being that most of the things you'd want to do to injured teammates most certainly does not count as a valid medical procedure.

Yknow something that would be useful given how often we're incapacitated? A device that connects to a brain and essentially lets the person transplant their own brain into a body, or lift the brain into safety.

Because performing a brain transplant on yourself is something we should be able to do here in ARM.

This has come up at least once before. I do not remember the results of inquiring about escape pod braincases with backup robobodies, but now I want to investigate it.

[AoshimaMichio]

Too bad nobody has xenospit in Limbo. I wonder what kind of effects it would have now.

Good thing I brought some dank bluesmokes for you guys! 

Oh, I also have some. And HMRC standard,if you wish. But you are welcome to do the testing as I'm a bit busy at the moment.


I wonder, if we crash into whatever that object is, and all die, what would that make of M25? I mean, they'd have no IC way to learn that we all died; nor Steve would. This could be wiggled one way or another, but now that he has committed to this mission, it's unlikely that he can 'suddenly' back out 'because they're probably all dead'.
Maybe Piecewise would withhold knowledge of our ultimate fate until M25 decides to leave the place, it's rescue mission objective failed?

This growing planet might be one of the consequences pw mentioned. And remember we are in Limbo, whatever happens there may not be real.

So was Xenospit made from Origin tech?


I've been meaning to let Lars go on a spiritual journey, but he never seems to have any free time.

There was some hints indicating it was made from synthflesh, but I don't know. It is possible.

[Toaster]

Just buy a large drum of HMRC standard and challenge your foes to a drinking contest.
Bonus points if said foe is an insane alien space god.

Taking a page from the Thrak playbook, I see.

22 tokens, according to the wiki. Which makes sense, as I was saving up for a universal manipulator. I'm... not sure if I still want to do that any more! Especially because the Uncon requirement is pretty brutal and now I need to harvest brains for it. Though I do have the skillset for brain swapping and evaluation...

Save up for some of the new crazy tech coming out!

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

You could always become a medic/close quarters expert helped along by minor Exo gear, grab some grenades (Electronades seem pretty efficient for price), a force monosword, monomolecular blade/machete or tesla sabre (If you don't mind friendly fire), crowd-wire gloves, for group control, if you want, you can splurge 16 tokens on a Kin shunt, which, while it's defensive properties may have gotten even more spotty, should still protect you on a good roll, for Exo weapons to round out your repertoire, a force infuser could help, cheap, efficient and can be used for precision spine breaking, an elemental infuser, perhaps, while it has limited ammo, it's cartridges are useful for a variety of purposes or even the pimp cane, for when you really need a morphing weapon without the silly restrictions of the sandbag.

Though from what the armoury reads, there isn't a manip version of a fleshwarper.

[Nikitian]

Spoiler: @IronyOwl (click to show/hide)

Well, there is also the fleshknitter, which is even better than medifoam, except expensive! (It never got the "mass production discount", so the armory lists the initial "prototype" cost... I guess I should look into it one of these lives.)

As for organo-manipulators - yes, they exist (I've asked Piecewise because I had the exact same idea ), and moreover the requirements are based on Med, not Cha (Cha probably goes for 'instinctual understanding of chemistry and biology', where manips are full-conscious in that regard). However, now with the trouble of using manipulators&amps, it limits you to just a few 'spells' (in case of organo-manips used for medicine, 'operations' - but then again, how many serious operations would you expect in a typical mission? Anything else a can of medi-foam can cover). So now amps are more of a side-arm - extremely powerful, but not "the final answer" to every problem.

Mono-sword doesn't nearly rely on user's strength as usual melee weapons do (it 'cuts into' without effort because of 'monoatomic' edge, the effort is to 'push apart' the cut halves as the swing of the blade continues) - but it does rely on it a little bit (unlike, say, the monofilament weapons from before). Also, it's recommended not to parry too powerful blows with it (slicing the enemy weapon/limb as it attacks you is always perfectly fine, of course).

As for 'what would be needed' - dunno. It strikes me as a 'ghostship' mission all over again, perhaps with a dash of 'spaaaace rescue' (hehehe, Piecewise mentioned Event Horizon for a reason, I guess). Though, to think of it, I can suggest buying a Mk III - as counter-intuitive as it sounds, it offers flight and extra strength (bonus to which the acrobatic synth-body lacks, if my memory serves me correctly). Don't know how it would interact with your berserker button, though. (Or you could go Simus route and buy a flight pack detached from Mk III - with a minor to moderate discount. Also, check out with Caellath, he has been working on a continious-flight jump pack variant lately.)

(Now that I think of it, the Armory clearly lacks a separate flight-pack option for our robotic overlords... That is something that should be dealt with.)

Spoiler: @AoshimaMichio (click to show/hide)

Well, I don't think "isn't real because in Limbo" is accurate for what is happening to us right now. I'd think we were stuffed into Limbo mainly because we had nowhere else to go, and Piecewise didn't want to create M25 mission thread yet. Although he could have kept the original thread open, I guess, so yes, this evidence isn't as concrete as I would like.

Also, just IF we're indeed hallucinating (half-hallucinating, half-acting?) because of being inside the Lurker's influence range... well, I guess it's a huge change to how it should be perceived. ICly, I am safe and certain everything is real because it isn't nearly as phantasmagoric as the previous experience indicates (falling into the pyramid, weird dancing rings, man wreathed in black flame, etc.). It's far too mundane for an alien extrauniversal entity. But if, indeed, it's illusory - it means that the side effects of living under Lurker's influence aren't as bad as one could have imagined. Humanity could live there.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

We've been inside the lurker for like five minutes, hold your horses.

[AoshimaMichio]

Spoiler: @AoshimaMichio (click to show/hide)

Well, I don't think "isn't real because in Limbo" is accurate for what is happening to us right now. I'd think we were stuffed into Limbo mainly because we had nowhere else to go, and Piecewise didn't want to create M25 mission thread yet. Although he could have kept the original thread open, I guess, so yes, this evidence isn't as concrete as I would like.

Also, just IF we're indeed hallucinating (half-hallucinating, half-acting?) because of being inside the Lurker's influence range... well, I guess it's a huge change to how it should be perceived. ICly, I am safe and certain everything is real because it isn't nearly as phantasmagoric as the previous experience indicates (falling into the pyramid, weird dancing rings, man wreathed in black flame, etc.). It's far too mundane for an alien extrauniversal entity. But if, indeed, it's illusory - it means that the side effects of living under Lurker's influence aren't as bad as one could have imagined. Humanity could live there.

I would say a rapidly growing/moving planet popping into existance is on the same scale with dancing albino nudists bleeding black smoke from eyes and mouth and falling black pyramid size of universe.

It is possible pw is running the limbo as a placeholder for M21 continuum, but Limbo is still Limbo. And we are in limbo because I decided to chill some time there while waiting for rescue. It might be real, it might be just usual semireal/hallucination Limbo things. Only piecewise knows.

[Parisbre56]

@IronyOwl: Why not a melee battlesuit, trading the I-beam sword it comes with with a giant monoatomic forcefield sword? We need more giant robots and the strength, speed and agility of the melee battlesuit is unmatched. You just need to get a level in Aux, which you could easily do if you get someone to lend you 2 tokens for an enhanced capacity mod, which you can sell later if you want to put it in another skill like Uncon. Or you can just use 5 tokens (or get piecewise to do it for free if he is feeling nice) so you can get +1 Med for -1 Exo or -1 Gen.Knowledge and take 5 points from Med and put them in Aux. Plus your levelup, that will bring you to +2, if you want something cheaper but slightly less efficient.

[Yoink]

Paris, your minmaxing skills are pretty impressive, I have to say.
Also... what does your username actually mean?

[The Lupanian]

1 lead sir Jackson II to the testing room
2 give him Pill 1 and tell him to take it once I leave the room
3 leave the room before he takes it

put pill in mouth, do not swallow though, head to drop pods for mission with draco in tow.
Thank you! I promise i will make sure you know the results

Lock the door and tell don't let him out until he takes the pill I'm not going to let him risk the mission, especially since I'm on the mission.

This is metagaming.

Can I at least tell spazyak to just take the damn pill?

[TheBiggerFish]

FWIW, that door probably locks automatically...

[The Lupanian]

But my character would be watching, so I could see what happens, when he tried to leave before transforming I would realize he tried to keep the pill, so in a ways it's not really meta gaming

[Unholy_Pariah]

metagaming police are being a bit trigger happy.

locking a door on someone who isnt cooperating is a perfectly valid reaction.
Pulling a gun on someone because they are intending to detonate a bomb or use an amp is metagaming.

[TheBiggerFish]

metagaming police are being a bit trigger happy.

locking a door on someone who isnt cooperating is a perfectly valid reaction.
Pulling a gun on someone because they are intending to detonate a bomb or use an amp is metagaming.

That, and it makes sense that the door on a testing room autolocks.