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15 (53.6%)

Total Members Voted: 21

[Rockeater]

Fair, but if we go with your suggestion it's reasonable to assume Farnsworth isn't coming back so we need to ask if we need him.

[blueturtle1134]

Gonna need votes.

[blueturtle1134]

Last chance, everyone. Please post your final votes. Rockeater has proposed a plan but nobody has voted for or against it, which you should do if you have an opinion. If I get no new votes in 48 hours I'm randomly combining all your suggestions and letting you handle the results of that.

Actually, that went pretty well last time so it may not be the best threat.

We're going to end up here eventually, I just know it.

I feel like you already have. Why did the Secondborn teleport away?

[Doubloon-Seven]

ABCB

Edited to better reflect my thoughts upon conversation about the info available with the GM in discord.

[blueturtle1134]

BBAB

I like omada's idea here.

Try thinking about what Fansworth will do if he finds the rebels.

I mean, actually think about it. I haven't thought about it myself, I'm not guiding you to a particular conclusion.

[omada]

ABCB

Edited to better reflect my thoughts upon conversation about the info available with the GM in discord.

I got curious

I am gonna vote ABCB too

[blueturtle1134]

Waiting on Glass to post his vote...

In other news, SPAMOVERLORD is now one year old.

[omada]

Holy fuck

what I did this entire year with my life?

[blueturtle1134]

So yeah, it’s now been more than a year since I threw this idea out there and hoped for the best. I’ve changed a lot, and it’s changed a lot, and I honestly didn’t expect it to become what it is today. (Although most of it was just Glass and me trying to out-trope each other)

And to celebrate, I got you… a search event!



Same rules as the last one. Some pointers you have to remember:

• When you search an area, you search all the areas around it too. You get one result for the area itself, and one combined result for the areas around it
• Some areas are harder to search than others. There are two different definitions of hard; sensitivity controls false negatives, where you may miss something, while specificity controls false positives, where you find something suspicious but it may just be a red herring
• The information on areas around it is “routed through” the same Sensitivity and Specificity as the area itself. Think about the area you searched “testifying” as to whether the rebels are next to it, or “tracking them passing through” that area.
• The faster you find the rebels, the weaker they’ll be when you fight them. Leave them too long and they will get away.

Except this time we’re not going with a simple square graph, I generated this map using Voronoi diagrams. It obviously isn’t to scale, just take it as a topology thing, showing how different places intersect with one another. I also didn’t take as much care to balance the values as neatly as before; there are clearly superior places to search, but I think I balanced them out by having those adjacent to fewer places. Post suggestions on where to search.

[FallacyofUrist]

Let's start by searching the Andes Mountains.

[Rockeater]

Let's start by searching the Andes Mountains.

Yea, that a good idea

[omada]

mountains, plains and city of montevideo, all of these has 4 adjacent lands that will be another roll giving us a broader search rate

let's start with the Andes mountains

[blueturtle1134]

Before I continue the search thing, I’ll evaluate your other free actions. I think that everyone that actually voted voted ABCB right? So that’s Have Celling search for the rebels, send all the Visionaries (Julia, Angela and Carlos) to contact the Protinam

Spoiler: Rolls (click to show/hide)

Meet with Fansworth

Roll 2d6+1 (political, onetime bonus) for convincing Fansworth that Padelheb is behind the plague, where:

2 to 4 = He refuses to believe that the plague is even a thing.
5 to 6 = He is unsure of what to do and leaves to think it over
7 = He believes you about the plague, but refuses to believe that Padelheb is behind it
8 to 10 = He believes that Padelheb is a bad guy, but he’s unwilling to go to open rebellion
11+ = He’s willing to aid you against Padelheb

Results: 5 + 2 + 1 = 8 → The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil…

Send off the Wormhole

Roll 2d6+2 (borderline scientific) where,

2 = Wormhole detonates
3 = Ship sinks
4 = Wormhole opens. This is actually terrible, as it allows Padelheb to resume communication with his forces in Brazil
5 to 6= It's found that mounting it is actually quite difficult; some compromises must be made to make it work
7 to 9 = It isn't done yet and will take a few days to finish
10 to 11 = You have the option to rush it, in exchange for… something
12 = It's done

Results: 1 + 3 + 2 = 6 → Someone screwed up

Celling springs into action. “Julia, Angela, and - what’s your name again?”

“I’m Carlos Nennark,” the middle-aged, coat-wearing man says.

“Yeah, Carlos, well… you three go to the site of the Protinam Citadel. Check up on them. Warn them about what’s happened to David, and try to help them if you can. Julia, they might be able to help you better control your powers. You’ll be escorted by a squad of guardsmen. I’ll be heading the search for the rebels. They could be anywhere on the continent, so we’ll start where they’d be easiest to deal with - the Andes Mountains”

“And what about me?” asks Fansworth. “I should be doing something!”

“You’re going to stay here, and watch for any more threats,” says Fansworth.

“Look,” growls Fansworth, stepping closer to Celling, “I’m not under you. You’re not ordering around. I’m here on Sir Padelheb’s orders, and he said-”

“What Sir Padelheb said may not be something you wish to take stock in, Fansworth,” Celling cautions. He leans in closer and lowers his voice. “David Eborrenial discovered evidence of a plague about to grip Brazil. A bioweapon. One designed to kill all of those related to South Americans while leaving only those of Antarctican descent alive.”

Fansworth looks shocked. “And you think Padelheb had something to do with this?” he hisses.

“I highly suspect, Fansworth. Who else do you know with the resources and motivation to pull off any such thing?”

“And you… you’re sure of this?”

“David was. He also determined that whatever the source of the plague was, it wasn’t from Brazil. It is perfectly lethal and airborne. Those that have only Antarctican blood are resistant to it, but continue to spread it. Tell me, Fansworth. You may be Antarctican. But do you know anyone who’s not? Anyone whose ancestry can trace back to the native peoples of Brazil or Argentina? Do you love anyone that isn’t pure Antarctican? Because they’re all going to die. And if you keep helping Padelheb, you’re helping to do it.”

Fansworth gapes for a few moments. “Do you… do you have proof of this?”

“As I’ve said, David said it, and I have no reason to doubt him.”

“It’s true… that’s something Padelheb would do. I mean… it would help him to do it.”

“Oh?” asks Celling.

“He derived his support and base… off Antarctican superiority. And if you can’t make more people for you…”

“...get rid of people that are against you,” Celling finishes.

“But that’s genocide, Celling. That’s the fall of an entire nation! Just for one man!”

“Fansworth, you know our friend Padelheb better than I do. If he could bring down a nation to suit his ends, would he do it?”

“In a heartbeat,” Fansworth answers instantly.

“Then I think my position is clear, Fansworth,”

“You… we can’t just stage a coup! This won’t hold up in any court of law. The ravings of a prophetic madman? Who, it seems, has gone totally mad and now vanished? I’ve been meaning to ask you about that too, Celling. You seem to put much stock in David Eborrenial’s reason. What really happened back there on the dock, Celling?”

What do you tell Fansworth of the Secondborn crisis?

A: “What I’m about to tell you will change your entire world. There is this thing called the fourth wall…” !!CAUTION!! REVEALING THE FOURTH WALL TO AN INDIVIDUAL THAT HAS NOT ARRIVED AT IT OF HIS/HER OWN WILL IS FORBIDDEN UNDER THE CONVENTIONS OF THIS MEDIUM! DO NOT DO THIS!
B: “An extradimensional entity called a Cisharni has possessed his body. They are an obscure legend in…” (Make up an “in-universe” explanation for why Celling knows about Cisharni)
C: “He’s been possessed by the Secondborn, a refugee from another dimension.” (Give information on the Cisharni but don’t explain why you know it.”
D: “The Protinam warned us about this. He’s been possessed in some way and the invading entity’s capacities are unknown and dangerous.” (Don’t mention Cisharni at all)
E: “I’m clueless as you are”
F: Something else…

And what do you tell the other Protinam? (same options, vote again)

And what do you tell the media and make public? (same options, vote again, added one option)

G: Don’t reveal the Protinam at all.

[Glass]

To everyone:
"Listen: David was, at the docks, possessed by a Cisharni, specifically the one known as the Secondborn. They're a powerful - god-like - entity, from a completely separate reality, and one extremely skilled in psionics. I would tell you more if I could, but I'm straining what I'm allowed to say about the subject as-is. I think you'd need Erin if you wanted more information. Regardless, they are exceedingly dangerous, far more than anything else we may be up against.
Now, Fansworth. Part of the reason that the Secondborn was able to invade David's mind is because he - David - was already psychic. Not nearly to the degree of... that, but enough to have limited precognition. I can brief you more on the subject later, but for now, we have some big problems that need to be taken care of."

[omada]

Maybe we can talk about 4th wall in a way that don't talks about the 4th wall

say that "It's gonna get weird, but it's the best way I can explain without retaliation, some higher members of our world has access to higher beings that control universes, altough to their existence they can be not be important in their own society they tend to create and use ours and others dimensions as playground, they comunicate with some of us, it begins like a schizophrenia, but then you begin to see that EVERYTHING that they talk about is truth, and you manage to know some others peoples with the same power before meeting them in person, David was possessed by a being rented or copied from one of these being to another, so the one that makes rules to our world could have a more interesting story to tell. That's why the protinan has a hard time around Quill, he talked so much with a bunch of these beings that adopted the republic as their own, and the fabric of reality is constantly being shaped by then, using humans as intermediaries. YES, I am omitting info, but it can only be discovered by yourself"

we can give tips later, talk amicably about tropes and stuff until they figure it out