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[flame99]

Should anyone care, Tear Asunder is basically a ton of psionic blasts slamming against the target. Scourge of the Fluxx is basically a huge burst of force radiating from a central point.

[Eric Blank]

OK, I corrected the mass on the defense drones and evac cars as well. Again, apologies for faffing that up. Was there anything else that needs to be handled tonight?

[Aklyon]

I thought we were supposed to round down.

As far as I can tell, the only thing that explicitly rounds in only one way is damage reduction, which rounds to the lower whole number.

Spoiler: Other things I forgot to do before this post (click to show/hide)

Aerial Torpedoes x2 vs PD Lasers: 14+20 (34) vs 17+20 (37), reroll miss
ClF^3 Torpedoes x4 vs PD Lasers: 3+14 (17) vs 1+20 (21), reroll miss

Turn 8

Event roll: 10!
A volcano erupting on the surface hurls a number of massive rocks skywards, and both Fluxxstone and the Devastator Airship are hit by two rocks each, the first one shattering to pieces on impact. The rest of the rocks and debris and ash just go up, and then back down without hitting anything. 4 Castle Integrity damage to each, you also gain 1 Massive Volcanic Rock as an item.

The Laputa chicken siege, like most sieges has gotten to that point where while they could rush in, it'd be costly. So instead, they wait outside the walls of the inner castle. Laputa 1.5 news continues to ramble throughout the radio waves in the meantime as the sun rises and the wind stays the same. As predicted earlier, the evil doom clouds leave as soon as the sun arrives.

Krarkkus, apparent master of distance vision, manages to pick out a few details about the fighters. The slower, red one seems to highly favor projectile weaponry, as well as fire. The other one appears to have more variety, but seems to favor guided projectiles only somewhat less than the red one. Both could be deflected or tanked with armor.

The Fluxxstone looks down at the wreckage of Castle Arrip as it slowly and floatily sinks towards the surface (except for the engine, which straight up falls), but theres not a whole lot to scavenge from it unless you want rope. So instead, the Fluxx is queried about image projection. Eventually, after several failed attempts (and a few explosions, but not enough to impact the place as a whole), a large projector is constructed somewhere onboard, and is given a large-scale sad face to project in the general direction of Dr. Coggington. The skything then ponderously and slowly makes its way towards the southern shenanigans, not approving of the wind's direction at all but eventually making it to L7.

The inhabitant of Kolima work on implementing hammer time as the sun rises. The mirror is quite a bit more notable in the sunlight, so some more covers are added to make sure nothing catches on fire accidentally, and from the looks of things it seems like you could land on the neighboring skycastle now pretty stably. Safely, on the other hand...

Dr. Coggington is exceptionally magnificent now. Also huge! He promptly moves south with his newly expanded everything, reaching P5-R7. The few idle cogs available attempt to estimate the location of the comet arrival, but end up with a rather useless estimate and need additional data. The best they've done so far is 'Not likely to be in the top left quadrant of the map.'

Hive Cruiser Aeros Beta sets down on the island, and picks up...something. A very odd transmission from below (but not directly under) the ship is about all you can figure out of it before it fades away, and work is started regardless. A much less cryptic and quickly read message from the Devastator Airship is also received. A Forager squad is formed and sent out, Burrow and Assimilation Crystals are formed. +1 new growth, 10/13 Growth used this turn.

Spoiler: In case you missed it in his several posts (click to show/hide)

Message to Unit location E14. Your behavior matched heuristic analysis for infection. Major matching traits : Rapid Changes/Adaption , Infection of surroundings. Failed Match: Hostility to cleansing operation. Please confirm you're not infected.

The Devastator Airship, after arguing with a spacial flux for awhile while Alzeran passed by it, manages to finish its argument without exploding from the flux effects, and looks a bit better in fact. So instead, it FIRES ZE MISSILES, and the poison canisters, and the blink drive, and even prepares the flamethrowers just in case.
Heaven's Acropolis takes the new hostile signatures as a sign there will be no surrender, and prepares accordingly while targeting recalibrates post-blinkswap. The capacitor is engaged in engines and structural repair as well. Theres also an unusual signal sitting beneath the flying fortress that bears investigation after battle.
Castle Zipworld has an interesting object show up on its laborious quest to fight the wind and head east: A Gigantic Fan. It is quite possibly big enough to shove the entire place forward, but no one is strong enough to swing it, let alone pick it up. A crane is brought over to pull it off the ground (another warp crystal was hidden under the fan!), and the castle struggles into C17 before the warp decides otherwise and warps to E18 instead, which puts it in range of the Airship!

Spoiler: Threeway dice, oh dear (click to show/hide)

Note: Any further away and you start getting long distance penalties that actually would effect the outcomes significantly.
---Hit---
Aerial Torpedoes x2 vs PD Lasers: 17+20 (37) vs 16+20 (36), hit!
ClF^3 Torpedoes x4 vs PD Lasers: 9+14 (23) vs 19+20 (39), miss.
Drone Squadrons x4 vs Blaze Protocols: 18+15 (33) vs 2+16 (18), hit!
Artillery x4 vs Blaze Protocols: 13+18 (31) vs 19+16 (35), miss.
Warp Cannon vs Retribution Capacitors: 17+10+6 (Crystal boost) (33) vs 13+20 (33), tie.
Tiebreaker: 20 vs 16, Attack succeeds.

---Speed---
Aerial Torpedoes (2+20, 22) vs Drone Squadrons (13+10, 23) vs Warp Cannon (16+10, 26)
Warp Cannon hits first, Aerial Torps are last.

---Crit---
Warp Cannon: 9, no crit
Drone Squadrons: 15, Crit!
Aerial Torpedoes: 7, no crit

---Damage---
Warp Cannon: 10 damage minus 2/3rds from retribution capacitors = 3 integrity damage to retribution capacitor via WAR ROOM!
Drone Squadrons x4: 12,14,12,1 x2 = 78 damage minus 2/3rds from blaze protocols = 26 damage! 8 integrity damage to blaze protocols destroys them, 16 castle integrity damage, and 2 castle structural damage!
Aerial Torpedoes x2: 7,2 = 9 damage minus 2/3rds from PD lasers = 3 integrity damage to the point defense!

---Other---
Poison Gas Specialization vs Damage Control Drones: 3+16 (19) vs 14+5 (19), Gas mostly contained. -1 pop to Acropolis.

Castle Zipworld powers up the Warp cannon, and with a thunderous boom and a crack of warp energy, punch the Devastator Airship with an entire War room! As impressive (and unexpected) as getting hit with a building is however, Heaven's Acropolis' attack is no slouch either. As the artillery deals with miscalculated targeting and slams, the drones are under no such issues! Using secondary targeting systems while the systems link back up, they lock back on to the Devastator Airship, and the machineguns they're equipped with tear through the fire and the flames and carrying on to the fuel lines powering them, blowing them up for heavy damage to the Devastator Airship!

...meanwhile, the aerial torpedoes get revenge on the PD lasers, but don't destroy them. What does cause damage is the poison cloud the airship left behind, but thats eventually contained and purified by capacitor-boosted damage control, and their related drones.

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Color Legend (click to show/hide)

Krarkkus: #555555, a gray
Laputa: Purple
Castle Zipworld: #7F0000, dark red
Dr. Coggington: Purple, yellow trim
The Fluxxstone: #0f6e63, greenish
Heaven's Acropolis: #FFCC00, yellow
The Devastator Airship: Red
Kolima: #40824C, earthy green
Hive Cruiser Aeros Beta: #FF7F50, coral

I didn't know what to use for the bonus for adding the crystals Shadestyle, so I added 2 per crystal. Too low/high?
Also, I will sort out your increased stats later when I'm not so tired, RAM. Feel free to suggest ideas about that if you want though, since you're the first to try and succeed in eating an entire island.
Note that one cannot consume the entirety of the biggest island. (for reasons no one has found yet. )

[Eric Blank]

Orders:
Get back in the game: put our artillery back in range and fire again.

Continue damage control; neutralize gas as best possible, recover wounded and deceased.

(Take one of the drone squadrons off the damage rolls now: dead operators don't operate, drone ai cannot fire without operator input, the one remaining pop point is crew necessary for other roles: they can't go operate the drones. Affected drones should return to hangar.)

[flame99]

((You didn't add any raw fluxx))
Continue going SW. Try to assimilate the Massive Volcanic Rock into a new Oribting Fluxx Stone.

[Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum]

Hello ship below! Would you be willing to consider an alliance?

I could root on your ship for travel, and help defend you from anyone who tries to attack?
If he agrees, attempt to carefully land on his island ship. (I will take no response to mean yes...)

[RAM]

Dr. Coggington remains in the cloud and dedicates the entirety of their efforts to analysing the comet and assessing the possibility of capturing it.

I have been in a creative pit myself, so I applaud your seemingly heroic efforts to keep this game running so well. Hrmm, an increase in the massiveness limit seems eminently sensible, except for the minor detail of most likely being horrifyingly overpowered, so that is probably out. It could be added as a great big defensive system, that loses mass as it takes damage. Or maybe one system per tile... Meh, I am not really getting any inspiration, sorry...

[10ebbor10]

Don't poison gas clouds remain for 3 turns?

Edit: Considering Castle Zipworld is just barely in range, how did Heaven's Acropolis fire at me? Retribution capacitor shenanigans should work in my favor right, otherwise the system is completely useless. So either they should get range penalties, or the weaponry should have missed in it's entirity.

[Shadestyle]

((Eh, seems fair, but if you wanted to make it interesting, each one could add anywhere from 0-3 to a roll each, to fit with the randomness theme.))

Castle Zipworld hangs back until further notice, drifting with the wind, and using the Fan as a rudder or sail if possible to perform evasive maneuvers.

"Let us see what the clearing smoke brings..."

[10ebbor10]

Devastator Airship

Engage Blink Drive: Jump to E16 (-2 charge). Move towards D15. (This should definitively put me out of range of the Heaven's acropolis, right?)

"Notice to vessel at E18. You have been designated as a threat. For security purposes, you and your vessel will be cleansed."

Fire:

Incinerators*10 at Zipworld
Poison Gas Launchers*14 at Zipworld
Aerial Torpedoes at drones
ClF³ Torpedoes against the Acropolis, if it manages to come within range, otherwise at Zipworld

Spoiler: The odds are in my favour (click to show/hide)

Note: Analysis assumes that the torpedoes do not fire for some reason.
Chance of one missing : 0.0025% 
Minimum damage if both hit : 24 damage*1.5= 32 damage
Enemy Vessel health : 15 (5 structure+10 integrity)
Chances of survival: 0,000%

Meanwhile, inside the vessel work progressed rapidly. Though the crew would never admit it, the vessel had been hit heavily by the attack. Streaming fuel from the many holes that perforated it's armor, and with the entire vessel flexing and bending in the wind due to the heavy damage the central structure had sustained, it was unlikely that the vessel could take another hit like the many ones it had already recieved. So, the crew set to their repairs, with the materials they had available.

Firing up the forges on the inner levels, robotic crews start to gather the materials they can. Loose armor plates, bend and dented by enemy attacks, parts of the war room, lodged into the front of the ship, the bladed fire duck (if that one is still around) all disappear into the fire. A few crewmembers are also send to investigate the volcanic rock that impacted the ship, and are ordered to break it open from the distance to see what's inside. Depending on their findings, the rock might dissappear into the furnaces as well.

Repair procedures are Integrity&Structure, next the blaze protocols*, and then the armor**.

*Including upgrading them to have 12 integrity
**Upgrading it to have 5 specialization

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Devastator Airship
Color: Red
Theme/Background: A massive airship, equipped with flamethrowers, chemical weaponry and other nastiness.
 
Starting present: Infernium Core
Starting grid location: N 18


Propulsion: 5
Structure: 6 / Integrity: 0
Shield: 0
Population: 5
Luck: 10
Power: 7 [Retribution Capacitor]
     - Positively affected : Vessel being hit by energy weapons of any kind (Energy can be taken very broad here)
     - Negatively affected: Damage to engines and/or the capacitor itself
     - Usage: Can be used to instantly teleport the vessel a number of tiles. If another vessel is occupying the destination, locations of vessels are switched.


Weaponry : 

"Incinerator"*10
5 destructiveness
4 massiveness
10 speed
20 stability
20 specialization "Damage over time"

"Dual Flamethrowers capable of lighting up the skies, and all nearby vessels. "

Poison Gas Launcher*14

2 destructiveness
2 massiveness
20 speed
20 stability
16 specialization "Area Denial/Damage over time"


"Poison Gas launchers intended not so much as to fire directly at the enemy vessel, but rather to strategically deny enemy tactics by coating entire areas in poisonous gas."

"Aerial Torpedo"*2

8 destructiveness
6 massiveness
20 speed
20 stability
6 specialization "Aerial Target elimination"

An airborne torpedo, little more than an explosive charge attached to small gas bag and turbine engine. Slow, yet moderately deadly.

"ClF3-Torpedo"*4

20 destructiveness
5 massiveness
1 speed
14 stability
20 specialization "Releases a deadly poison gas cloud on impact, as well as igniting the enemy vessel"

"An aerial torpedo (effectively a micro-airship), loaded to the brim with Chlorine Tri-Fluoride. It's highly destructive even for it's small size, but that comes at a serious cost. Being inherently unstable, any hit to the weapon system is likely to set it off, and will necessitate dumping the weapon system, as well as abrupt movement to evacuate the poison gas."

Defenses:

Retribution Capacitor*2
     - Integrity: 5
     - Massiveness: 15
     - Specialization : 20

"The retribution capacitor absorbs all energy weaponry used against it, using it to charge the Devastor's blink drive.

"Blaze" Protocol: *2 [Destroyed]
    - Specialization : 16
    - Integrity: 4
    - Massiveness : 12

"By diverting and venting the fuel channels from the primary flamethrowers, the vessel is coated in a protective layer of flame, heavily distorting kinetic projectiles and prematurely detonating missiles."

Armor slabs*3 [Destroyed]
    - Specialization : 0
    - Integrity: 16
    - Massiveness: 12

"Armor of last resort."

[Aklyon]

You both were able to fire at each other because, while yes it is technically out of range, two things were sorta relevant:
1. The Airship fired /before/ warping, so it was in range then. Now it is not.
2. The drones can fly. They do not have unlimited combat range, but its luck they even hit anyway, much less critically hit; and since eric has (reasonably) not detailed every little thing about them, if I need to add something like backup sensors to make the text fit the roll well enough, then they can be.
3. Zipworld hadn't actually fired yet until that turn, and thus was not a valid target unless you were aiming for them specifically.

Either way the capacitor worked in your favor, ebbor: The gas got to skip hitting and go straight to killing things, and its taken you out of range again with most of you still intact.

As to the gas on the map, yes. Like the raw fluxx (+4), I didn't forget it on purpose. I'll add it to the map later.

[RAM]

To clarify, I do not really have any preferences for being huge, I just wanted to strip-excavate the ruins and get some nice architecture in the process. So the hugeness is all bonus.

[Eric Blank]

((You moved the airship, not the drones: they only had to travel to catch up to your ship. The drones can operate at this distance: its shorter than the same distance as was used when scouting previoisly, which aklyon permitted.))

Orders:

Dump the last two capacitor charge into engines and attempt to move into range.

Have the drones attempt to disable the enemy's weapons systems. One squadron each focus on: CIF torpedoes, flamethrowers, aerial torpedoes.

((It's been three turns since I used the first capacitor charge, so end of next turn it will regain a charge. First charge used: interval between turns 5 and 6. Current: interval between 8 and 9.
Aklyon, what were the rolls you got for the capacitor charge I'd used previously, including both that went into the engines and the one used in the structure?))

[Rolepgeek]

((I've been rather busy lately, so I still can't post fluff, or update my sheet, really, though I'll try to get around to it sometime after Friday, which is my birthday))

((In the meantime, have a translated response, and some actions!))

Adaptation is not bad. Adaptation is good; if you don't adapt to new situations, you die. You change tactics, after all, Devastator Airship, do you not, when circumstances demand it? We realize the importance of flexibility. We specialize in it, similar to how you seem to specialize in fire and toxins.

Also...if you could describe the disease in more detail, we would be glad to help you cleanse it however we can.

Create another Forager Team.
Burrow Crystals are to dig in the airship, Assimilation Vessels are to begin processing minerals and rocks(mining, basically), and Forager teams are to begin exploration and bringing back Biomatter to be converted into Growth.
Recycle all but 1 point of Propulsion(I think that's 3 points of Growth); we could be here for a while.
Put the last point of Growth for the turn into Structure.

[10ebbor10]

Seeing a sheet woud be really nice, you know.