Enjoy the high just a little longer. I want to get back into the conga line of death.
...In fact, let's take this anesthetic and spend a round getting a Haebi limb (-8 tokens). Maybe both arms for a -1 token discount (-15 tokens)? They were my babies, after all 
Either way, probes to:
3,5,3
6,11,0
The first one returns to the buffer dimension and is completely covered in an odd engraved patter across its entire surface. This patter begins to spread to the observing probe. You decide to leave it in the buffer dimension.
The second one comes to the buffer dimension sporting a large metallic cone that appears to have been jammed straight through the machine with a good degree of force. The probe sees nothing odd about it but there's something strange with the probe itself; you're getting a double signal out of it. It's like you have two probes out there.
We'll do both arms for 14
Gus opens his eyes slowly, and blinks a couple times. He wonders idly where he is, and what exactly happened, before the memory hits him like a train.
Bolting out of bed, he screams and clutches at his face. It takes him a moment to realize that it's just flesh, unscathed flesh he's feeling, and a minute or so more to calm himself down.
What follows are several minutes of tense, awkward silence, during which Gus confirms that each and every facial feature is present and accounted for. Only after he's reasonably satisfied that nothing is missing or damaged does he lay back and relax.
"Itsh- ish thhere. Shtill there," he sighs, the relief evident both in his tone, and in the expression on his miraculously not-imploded face.
Acclimatize to not being dead. Once I have a reasonable grip on reality, get my gear together and find the rest of the team.
EDIT: Send a phase 1 probe to 9,9,9.
The probe returns to the buffer dimension, sits there for maybe 2-3 seconds then glows green and vanishes.
-snip- edited for clarity.
1) check that the contents of the testing room have been dumped back to 0, 0, 57 (which is now blacklisted)
2) place npcs in a sealed observation room. All video feeds go here first, and are not released until given the all clear. audio is sent into earbuds, rather than into the room at large.
3) sods are stationed in this room, but without contact with the video feeds or audio. They are equipped with stunners, and lethals, with orders to stun first and only fire lethals if the testers turn into mutant horrors immune to stun.
4) NPCs used will be vetted via xenospit, for strength of mind, and provided mind stims, to be chomped at the first sign of brain fuckery.
I'm prioritizing everyone's probe launches, as we have 12 so far.
First:
3, 3, 3 (sending two probes, probe a to attempt to dislodge the rods that form on probe b
9, 9, 9
3, 5, 3
second:
9, 1, 1,
17, 3, 18
6, 11, 0
Third:
0, -1, 0 have it return after two minutes. See if the irradiation and decay rates match that of the first probe. If there is no increase, send another that returns after three minutes. Then another that returns after four. Then another that returns after five.
0, -1, 0 Have a Phase 1 probe proceed to collide lightly against it and maintain physical contact for one minute and disengage. Are there any odd effects experienced by the colliding probe afterwards?
Finally, time and fate permitting:
0, 0, 2
0, 2, 0
2, 0, 0
14, 14, 14
To Gus, in the infirmary: "How ya doing, buddy? that was quite a trip there. You gonna be okay?"
To everyone, later, when the drugs have worn off: "Well, that was an ordeal. Let's not do that again. thank you, Mr. saint, for your quick thinking in rendering us unconscious. You saved all our lives.
We've all been working pretty hard on this, and I congratulate you all on the various discoveries we've made and thank you all for your efforts to date. This has been a monumental task - you don't need me to tell you that. We will resume exploration shortly, and I wold like to concentrate primarily on opening as many universes as we can ((though not all at once, for PWs sanity)) more than on exploring already discovered ones. Of course, you are welcome to test out some of the more interesting ones, such as that Fractal Universe, but I'd like at least one new universe from each of you as we move forward. We're still looking for a hospitable place for humanity, not just sightseeing.
Finally, does anyone notice any patterns to the makeup of the universes we've explored, or to the locations of those universes? I have not yet seen such, myself, but if you find a pattern, we could perhaps take advantage of that information and refine our search.
Good job, and good luck"
((Gus already has -1 mind. The brain damage made no difference!))
((dang. I added a -1 enhanced stat to the wiki, for a functional -2. Poor Gus.))
Dumped
NPC observation of the room appears to go well and there's no sign of infection.
Scientific Seppuku squad set up.
Alright.
9,9,9 was already covered. Do me a favor, tell me if you're returning to universes so I don't end up genning a whole new universe.
So 3,5,3 and 6,11,0. Guys, don't double up on numbers here; it slows me down massively because now I have to look through all the posts and at all the wiki numbers to make sure there are no repeats. And 3,3,3 too. Come on.
well 3,3,3 isn't gonna come back any different than before, but no one poked at 3,3,3 when it came back so I suggest you try doing that.
9,1,1: Ok, you're not sure what happens here. Because you're using the buffer universe you have to wait for the observation probe to return and then to look at the footage it has before you decide to bring the thing back or not. But the observation probe doesn't return at all.
17,3,18 Another repeat. And another one which you just never really looked at any more closely than my initial description. In fact, that other probe is still sitting in the testing chamber, grinding back and forth along the wall. And the new one joins it, doing the same thing.
The rest, organize so we don't have repeats and make sure reexaminations are labeled as such.
Listening to Dester, nodding in agreement when he mentioned sending out probes as frequently as we can, Vincent finally responded when Dester finished.
"The cave world isn't an ideal new home universe, and we haven't put it through all the testing phases yet, but given how close this recent event possibly came to killing all of us and destroying all of our work in a matter of minutes, I would like to start work on colonising it IMMEDIATELY. From what we have seen, at the very least it will make a valuable resource outpost, and if the worst case scenario happens and we are all killed off before we can find an ideal home universe, at least we got the seeds of humanity somewhere where it can grow strong again. Also, I'd like to request we hold off on further exploration of the fractal-verse until I can oversee it again. It may contain sentient species, and I would rather not mess up our first contact with them."
With Dester's approval, Vincent starts contacting the builders on heph to start sending outpost building materials to the Cavern Universe (0,9,0). Send the labourers and tradesmen from our shipping company as well to start building if that can be done this turn, enough security (from our company) to keep everyone protected as well
Phase 1 to 9,1,1
ALSO: Get myself 2 mind stims.... scratch that, 2 of every stim
MOAR ALSO: I'll take a 5-sec reset and soli-- whatever that containment thing is below, as well
Already covered.
WIKI
Use Hephaestus managerial privileges to acquire the following for Charles: Solid Light Matter Generator (in case he needs to contain something), 5 Sec Reset (always could come in handy) with one or two spare batteries (I don't suppose it can just be hooked up to a regular generator?) and for everyone in the team: 1 battlestim of each 'flavor' (as in stats and skills, please don't just give everyone a bunch of novelty flavored Charisma pills), not taking any chances this time.
How efficient are current ways to produce to electricity? For the ones that don't exist IRL, what fuel-sources (including things like sunlight) need?
Send a Phase 1 probe to (0, -1, 0). But have it return after two minutes. See if the irradiation and decay rates match that of the first probe. If there is no increase, send another that returns after three minutes. Then another that returns after four. Then another that returns after five.
Send a Phase 1 probe to (0, -1, 0). Have a Phase 1 probe proceed to collide lightly against it and maintain physical contact for one minute and disengage. Are there any odd effects experienced by the colliding probe afterwards?
Send a Phase 1 probe to (3, 3, 3). Send some sort of remotely operated robot or piece of machinery or another probe to try and dislodge the rods.
Send a modified Phase 1 probe to (17, 3, 18). It will have add some rudimentary mechanical limbs. These limbs will not be connected to any power supply at all nor will the probe be able to send any signals to them.
Wiki it
why? You've got nuclear power in your standard mk I suits, so I think you're good.
The degree of decay seems to increase with the longer it's in there. In fact the one thats in there for 5 minutes is literally shedding chunks of matter big enough to be visible to the human eye.
Well they appear to be much more damaged by the collision than you would expect.
You can dislodge the rods, but when you do they sort of wibble wobble back towards the probe and latch back on.
The probe returns and attempts to crawl forward as well as just grinding forward via some unseen force.
((Eh, in PMs piecewise told me to pop up here, and so I have.
I somehow didn't get that this wasn't on Heph, though. Dunno how.
In any case this'll go to PMs again soon, I just gotta leave an explanation for how I managed to get all the way there, I suppose?))
I'm having Xan pop up here because the heph thread is essentially dead and I don't want to necro it for a handful of posts and then let it die again.
I would like to speak with you. Is there a place where you are often that I may wait for you in?
Textings! Head to place Doc specifies. Make sure to check for traps or whatever before I go in.
He tells you to head to the main headquarters building and then take the lift down to the nearest ARESTEVE node.
Dester recieves a text message from Saint after he gives his thanks.
No thanks is necessary. I have been expecting something like this to happen, and I am merely happy that it was so simple to deal with.
Forgive me, but I will not be immediately joining in your rush for new universes. I did not take amnesiacs, and as such my body has not returned to full functionality yet. I will be dealing with that problem first.
Was that all you wished to say in your meeting? Or did the amnesiacs force you to forget about the meeting? You had been about to host one just before the anomaly was released.
1.I'm gonna requisition another battlestim of each variety, in addition to the ones Empiricist is providing. That gets me two of each.
2.Next, gonna deal with my limp limbs. Have a robosod (contained in a testing room) possess my body, and attempt to move my arms. Does it succeed?
3.Now possess a different robosod myself. Can I move its arms?
4.Personal project: Use my +4 aux to create a very good voice synth program. One that I can use to imitate other people's voices. For now, just use it to make my own voice harmonically perfect, like autotune except preferably less staticy.
Ok
it does
no
Done. Your career as a pop singer is secured.
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