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Author Topic: [ISG] Soul Tenet Tactics [Disjunction]  (Read 6249 times)

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[ISG] Soul Tenet Tactics [Disjunction]
« on: December 30, 2015, 01:41:31 am »


DIAGNOSIS COMPLETE

ACTIVATING SERVITOR

IMPERATIVE: ERROR

You are ERROR

Your vessel is ERROR

Your mission is ERROR


Wow. That is getting old really fast. The datacores must be shot; a quick check at diagnostics confirm that the diagnostics are shot, so you can't even tell how bad everything is. However, since knowing what is or isn't working is typically a repair priority, you can probably conclude with relative safety that anything you haven't personally seen is a pile of half-molten shards.


The only thing that isn't damaged are the ERROR

You are rapidly losing faith that you are on a vessel and not a chunk of wreckage.


The... ERROR

Great. That's nice.


...

"Those who must." Someone told you that, once. It's yours, not tied to the ship or your connection as a Servitor.

That person was an idiot and they're dead now, but "any port in a storm."

So given that this is the only thing still working, you have a pretty good idea of what you need to do. Even if you probably can't think it out loud without something breaking.


DEFAULT [ERROR] SELECTED

INITIALIZING

INITIALIZING

INITIALIZING

STARTER PACK STATUS: [ERROR]

FULL RANDOM STATUS: PARTIAL

CUSTOM ORDER STATUS: PARTIAL

Wow. So even the thing that's working is only sort of working.

You are completely boned.


[ERROR]: TENET LIST NOT FOUND

REQUIRE MANUAL ENTRY

Oh for the

Great. Apparently a list of words was too hard to hold onto, so now you've got to enter them manually. ERROR

HOW CAN THAT CAUSE AN ERROR IT SAYS IT IN THE ERROR REPORT JUST NOW

The things you need to enter manually are descriptors for your... for those who must. In order to get any who must, you need a list to draw from. You can keep multiple lists for multiple purposes, but trying to "load" lists tends to end poorly for reasons you are fuzzy on and almost certainly cannot access without some amalgamation of the ship and you suffering an aneurysm. It's best to include counterweights, or just use a ERROR

Fancy lists are now on your list of things. That's nice.


Well, time's a wasting. You need to fix the ship, and to do that you most likely need some who must, and to get them you need to start coming up with words for them. Broken, Desperate, Loyalty, and Fool all come to mind as examples, for rather obvious reasons, but you're not sure if you want to use them specifically. As you recall ERROR

As you recall you're rather past caring.

ENTER TENETS: >_
« Last Edit: January 24, 2016, 06:55:43 pm by IronyOwl »
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Re: [ISG] Soul Tenet Tactics [ERROR]
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2015, 01:42:35 am »

STATUS: ERROR
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Re: [ISG] Soul Tenet Tactics [ERROR]
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2015, 01:46:18 am »

Maintain/Improve functionality.
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Re: [ISG] Soul Tenet Tactics [ERROR]
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2015, 01:58:14 am »

Try turning everything off then on again.
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Re: [ISG] Soul Tenet Tactics [ERROR]
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2015, 01:58:47 am »

... Yeah, before entering anything, try rebooting.
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Re: [ISG] Soul Tenet Tactics [ERROR]
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2015, 02:01:48 am »

I guess we have to input words or something? What about: Functional.
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Re: [ISG] Soul Tenet Tactics [ERROR]
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2015, 09:52:03 am »

Try turning everything off then on again.
This, and if all else fails, hit it with a large object.

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Re: [ISG] Soul Tenet Tactics [ERROR]
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2015, 10:23:11 am »

If all that fails, open the casing and look for a battery. Else try opening command line and find the manual(book,paper).
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Re: [ISG] Soul Tenet Tactics [ERROR]
« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2015, 12:48:39 pm »

Have some words:
-) Obedient.
-) Unrebellious.
-) Insane.
-) KnowsWhatsGoingOn.
-) Self-Improving.
-) tutorial-Level.
« Last Edit: December 30, 2015, 01:11:38 pm by crazyabe »
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Re: [ISG] Soul Tenet Tactics [ERROR]
« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2015, 01:11:03 pm »

Try turning everything off then on again.
This, and if all else fails, hit it with a large object.
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Re: [ISG] Soul Tenet Tactics [ERROR]
« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2015, 03:35:28 pm »

((I think we get 4 words. Given that the title says tactics, we should probably try role names.))

Lancer, Aegis, Gunner, and Fixer.
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Re: [ISG] Soul Tenet Tactics [ERROR]
« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2015, 04:12:15 pm »

Try turning everything off then on again.
This, and if all else fails, hit it with a large object.
+1

You're the biggest "object" in this room, which is saying something. You could go outside to look for an actual object to bludgeon your own equipment with, but you'd rather not open the doors without some muscle. Especially since the apparatus for finding good, safe door locations is probably as broken as everything else.


So you do the only thing you can: You power everything down, back to a nice, quiet sleep that will hopefully clear some things up.

While you're waiting for that to come up, you've got a few self tests to do.

...

...Pins. "Those who must" are called Pins. Informally, or well, sinisterly; you're not supposed to tell them that until you're giving them a villainous monologue about how they've served their purpose. There's more formal terms to give to them, but as you recall they're mostly whatever they want to be called.

...

Yeah, you're not getting a lot in terms of actual terms. The connection is down but you're still not used to operating without it; maybe something would jar your memory if you could operate with the... with this down at all times. Til then it's an irritating blank spot, or an infuriating spike pit once you power everything back up.


A quick check confirms that this solved nothing. Your problems are probably due to physical damage or insidious parasites rather than temporary discombobulation.

If all that fails, open the casing and look for a battery. Else try opening command line and find the manual(book,paper).
This would be funnier if you knew what power source you were drawing from, if any. The ERROR

...the place you're in is self-sufficient, that's kind of the point. But to start doing more advanced stuff, you start needing external goodies. Normally this would all be nice and visible so you could tell what you've got to work with, but with diagnostics down you could be completely on your own or plugged into unlimited power.

In related news, you technically are the command line and manual, and the parts that aren't ain't working. You can get stupid specifics about precisely how each component is failing to respond, but there's nothing more you can get without repairing ERROR

...without repairing some things.


Maintain/Improve functionality.
Have some words:
-) Unrebellious.
-) KnowsWhatsGoingOn.
-) Self-Improving.
-) tutorial-Level.

These aren't even words.

-) Obedient.
-) Insane.
((I think we get 4 words. Given that the title says tactics, we should probably try role names.))

Lancer, Aegis, Gunner, and Fixer.
Okay, so that's six. A "proper" list... list of ERROR

...

So you can't even call them that anymore? This is bad; it confirms that the connection point is so badly mangled that it's actually harming your ability to function rather than aiding it. Simply failing would be serious, but to panic like that is sort of the difference between not working and burning your appendage when you try to use it. Broken versus on fire.

So your list of those who must is currently at 6 out of a recommended ERROR

...two out of a recommended nearly 100. Apparently incomplete lists produce unpleasant results, though you're uncertain of the details.

Dare you attempt a test summoning with ERROR

Note to self: Do not attempt math with meaningful numbers.

Dare you attempt a test summoning with 6% of a full list? Normally the answer would be no, but you're getting rather sick of this. On the other hand, you don't want to break the ERROR

ON THE OTHER HAND TIME'S A WASTING


Spoiler: ERROR (click to show/hide)
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Re: [ISG] Soul Tenet Tactics [Switch]
« Reply #12 on: December 30, 2015, 04:14:54 pm »

Get dictionary, use words.

Alternatively, turn it off, compile word list while not under influence, insert word list.
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Re: [ISG] Soul Tenet Tactics [Switch]
« Reply #13 on: December 30, 2015, 04:22:46 pm »

So my operating theory is that we're building a character class generator to make some peeps to fix our ERROR DAMMIT

If so, perhaps these words will be able to be added?

Light
Dark
Time
Fire
Water
Laser
Plasma
Electricity
Forger
Melder
Dancer
Flyer
Paladin
Weaver

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Re: [ISG] Soul Tenet Tactics [Switch]
« Reply #14 on: December 30, 2015, 04:23:42 pm »

Spoiler: Around 34 Words to add (click to show/hide)
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