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[Caellath]

I think I posted a question already since the last talk, but here's more.

1. With the older system I could pump Milno with stims and dynamic bonus his +2 to Willpower in order to avoid having his brain turned into a pulp when trying to talk to the energy source. What would I need to prevent brain-mushing with the current system?

2. Is reasoning with it even effective? Can it actually have its opinion changed via a good talk of how we were forced to do that by the UWM and we're fighting them now or would that be a waste of time?.

[Xantalos]

Is ... nah, I think I know the answer to that one.

You mentioned last Talk that depending on how things go there could be a variety of endings to the game, good or bad. How d'you think we're progressing so far?

Would the machine AI Denzel and I accidentally STAN'd have been useful for tech development, or strategy, or would it just have been really mysterious? Just so we can regret what happened even more

[Hapah]

How do you handle it when players seize on some minor detail or program that was supposed to be mostly inconsequential? What's your process for handling those? Is there an example that sticks out in your mind that you could share?

[Nikitian]

What were your inspirations for the recent missions?
Do you have the missions right after these planned already?
Will the missions paradigm remain as is? Or will the missions actually get shorter and more frequent? Will there be 5-man missions (non-black-ops) in the future?

What would have happened, should M17 failed the negotiations?
...If Eater of Cold was brought to the voidspace  and then left there?
...If the Sword barraged the "male" Space Wasp with gauss slugs?

What is the skill level of the Doctor, of the Armory Master in this new system?
Will Nyars ever evolve into the full eldritch being his is named after?
How is Dr.Clark special? What is cool about him? What is outstanding about him?

The new Nyartifact system: can you divulge more about it? What were your inspirations, how it should work now (is it, for example, impossible anymore to gamble in a lot more valuable and useful item than you paid in tokens for)? An in-universe backstory for this system, perhaps?
The reworked Armory and your ideas of automated Tinker: can we hope to see Tinkering (designing) to be more streamlined, varied and fun? Maybe get a more varied assortment of already known anomalies and retrieved artifacts to create our own non-mundane equipment? In general, do you expect it to be possible to actually design and create Exo weapons from now on?
What will be the story for old-style manipulators phased out and new ones replacing them? Or was it that "we've always been at war with Eurasia"? How will that affect certain aspects of backlog, like - will that mean Anton mercilessly smashed a brain under his heel when he publicly denounced manipulators after the Grate incident?

How do the brains in the manipulators feel? What can they feel? Are they still human, still sentient?
Doesn't actually requiring a human brain for space magic to work contradict that humans cannot do magic and are not special in any way?
What is your interpretation (if we set the stasis dementia argument aside) of Jim's proficiency and skill with amps in contrast to him being a clone?

What is Azoth of the Paracelsus's Sword?
Who is Steve?
How can people actually speak in colors?

[Pancaek]

Will you go over the active character list (or your pick of characters) and give Steve's/AM's/doc's thoughts of them? Alternatively, your perosnal thoughts about them?

Is Timmy still out there?

What books would you reccomend to your players?

[tryrar]

What's the current plans for the Sword remodel?

[Xantalos]

Would the Doc still lend that Divine Comedy book to me if I asked nicely?

[swordsmith04]

How do the brains in the manipulators feel? What can they feel? Are they still human, still sentient?

To expand on this, if a brain intended for manipulator usage just happened to end up in a robobody, how would it (re)act? How is the answer different if they've already been used for a manipulator?

Was the exclusion of the universal amplifier from the new armory list intentional, or did you forget it like you did the Cutting Torch? ()

[Parisbre56]

Can you throw a con master onto a moving truck and tell him to snipe a guy moving perpendicular to him on a train car and expect him to have good odds of success?

[Kriellya]

Can you throw a con master onto a moving truck and tell him to snipe a guy moving perpendicular to him on a train car and expect him to have good odds of success?

Nope, but ssssshhhh, we want them to all spec into master something before they figure that out.

[piecewise]

Can you throw a con master onto a moving truck and tell him to snipe a guy moving perpendicular to him on a train car and expect him to have good odds of success?

How do the brains in the manipulators feel? What can they feel? Are they still human, still sentient?

To expand on this, if a brain intended for manipulator usage just happened to end up in a robobody, how would it (re)act? How is the answer different if they've already been used for a manipulator?





Was the exclusion of the universal amplifier from the new armory list intentional, or did you forget it like you did the Cutting Torch? ()

Too late, save it for next time!

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/w471whwdwvchm0u/er_talk.mp3

[NAV]

How's Fred doing?

[Hapah]

You skipped me, you wanker!

[Xantalos]

That was a pretty good chat.
Slash fiction included.

EDIT: wait

try harder. I want better slash fiction

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE PIECEWISE I FEEL A SNIPPET ORIGINATING IN MY MIND

[Nikitian]

@ Piecewise
Always happy to oblige with a semi-structured wall of questions for an ER Talk! 
Also, in the sources I saw Azoth was a demon which Paracelsus kept in the pommel of his sword and which was the source of ultimate healing - so both the panacea and the haunting you mentioned, plus the whole concept of binding an eldritch entity to do your bidding. It fit far too well with the scheme you/Steve/UWM use for naming the scary secret projects with terrifyingly deep names (and fondness for harnessing powers beyond understanding), that I could not ignore it.
Thanks for all the answers!

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE PIECEWISE I FEEL A SNIPPET ORIGINATING IN MY MIND

Go for it! You know we all want it!