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[SamSpeeds]

Glamour Hat

These notes have a lot on em', but one thing has caught the eye of our design team. Cosmetics. Glamour. Fashion! Sounds fresh. We've used these principles - eyeliner, eye shadow, blush, etc, to create a useful ability for our inklings. The Glamour Hat utilizes a weave of these chemicals and a healthy helping of super sea snail extract to create a sort of psychic meld with the wearer. This is a subtle and conscious connection between the two, and it is used to control the effect. Basically, when the user is sufficiently focused and intent, they can disguise their face and the area immediately around it as something else. They could disguise themselves as an enemy octoling to perform infiltration or sabotage or disguise themselves as benign foliage or environmental objects to aid in an ambush/snipe.

Hoping to use the human pseudo science here. Have no idea what that really means so I'm probably off the mark again. I'm trying!

Long Range Inkshell Blotta

Utilizing incoherent yet so enlightening human ballistics and physics notes, we've created our first step into real fixed artillery. The Long Range Inkshell Blotta is a long nosed cannon with a bulbous base and cycling shell system mounted on a rotary platform that can raise and lower the cannon to fire shorter or farther. It fires Inkshells, cylindrical pointed shells packed with ink. These shells could crash through an enemy balloon to destroy it, puncture the side of the massive Zephyr, or slam explosively down on enemy positions to cause kinetic damage and spray friendly ink everywhere. It fires by cycling a freshly inked shell into the bulbous base, where ink is flooded in to build explosive pressure until the shell is squeezed out at incredible speed.

I just realized we still can't really compete with their air advantage at all. If we don't try to enter the air ourselves to compete we should at least try something like this (that can actually hit their balloons maybe) soon. Like now. They have an uncontested advantage and keep winning because of it.

Long Range Inkshell Spraygun

A heavy weapon based on the "machine gun" inventions we see in our collected human notes. It is a boxy contraption of hardened plastic with a pair of differently sized inktanks and generators to perform the firing process. It fires thin plastic shells packed dense with ink, using pressurized ink as a propellant to fire many times in mere seconds. These shells serve a number of purposes - they can fly farther and straighter and serve as a ballistic threat on impact as well as delivering ink - they could help take down an enemy balloon, for example. The weapon can be mounted on a tripod or carried in two hands by stronger infantry. The firing process involves filling blank shells from one tank/inkerator and filling the chamber from another, building the pressure. When the weapon reaches a sufficient charge the shells are dropped down into the pressurized chamber and launched out super fast one after another.

Long Range Inkshell Spraygun (1): SamSpeeds
Long Range Inkshell Blotta
Glamour Hat
Chain Inkstrike
Agent Sparks
Ability: Blue Jet Shoes
Ikamechshi IK0: Ganglia - Superweapon
Firefly - Hero

[TricMagic]

Spark, noun, Definition 2. a trace of a specified quality or intense feeling.

Ability: Hyper Intuition-Super Seashell Tentacle Ornaments

A piece of headgear made up of Super Sea Shells with Spiral Shell Geometry, this piece of headgear utilizes Certainty Principle.

Hyper Intuition. The Certainly Principle allows you to be certain, so data is processed instinctively. This is useful for a number of reasons, since it allows quite a few intuitive leaps, be it danger, battle, or events.



**Posting revision idea.

Mark 2 Ink Tank:

Using our new knowledge of Spiral Shell Geometry, we've refitted the gearing to include the Super Sea Snail Filters in harmony with the new Geometries. The Plastic parts are sleeker, with less wasted area, and the pipes can be changed out to better connect to different weapons as needed, boosting pressure and efficiency all round.

This also means we've upgrade the other systems to go along with it. Kinda looks like a seashell.


2.0-Bamboozler Bolt

Integrating recharging Compression Tanks into the weapon, the Bamboozler Bolt makes use of the 3D-Scope's system in a line of 4 tanks filled with compressed ink. The ink is flushed with a blast of compressed air from a separate tank system mounted atop in a rectangular box, where the Spiral Barrel helps to focus the shot, sending the ink downrange with great force and accuracy.

This weapon effectively takes the previous upgrades into one gun, allowing for four shots in a row at the beginning of combat before you have to rely on the charge system.

One Chamber is ready, and when fired, it will close, while opening the next in the sequence. Once the last one is empty, that tank acts as a regular weapon's charge chamber. When combat ends, you need to close all four tanks and reload them for the next engagement, but the attached pump is more than capable of that. Takes about one minute to fill each Tank.

Still sadly not a Hammer. Looks more like a Mace, but you still shouldn't hit people over the head with it.


The Party Barge

A giant balloon powered through wind, hot air, and a Zapfish in the middle, the circular platform underneath has some kick'n music boomboxes, refreshments, and some Ink Energy generators on board for our Inklings. It doesn't actually have any weapons, though it can generate it's own wind for movement. What it does have is a well balanced platform for setting up our 3D-Scopes and Big Air Ink Bombs to go to town on any enemies they wish.

In addition, we have jury-rigged some Respawn Pads and installed a Prototype Launch Pad for re/deploying Inklings as needed.

With the Light of the Zapfish casting lights about like a giant lightbulb in the sky. Let the Music loose below. Let the Party commence!

Spoiler: Image (click to show/hide)

Supporting structure, wind creation unit is on the bottom acting as a center for the weight. Zapfish is in the middle. Accompanying machinry for the creation of hot and cold air as needed. 2 Decks, with stairs connecting them. Respawn and Launch Pads located up top in a Diamond formation around the central Ink Energy Conversion Generator. This Pillar dips down through the decks and is the main control unit.[/url]

Spoiler: 2, Ion Wind Movement (click to show/hide)

As we are, at the end of the day, a hot air ballon, we need wind to move. Ionic Wind is how we create wind. The Zapfish powers it, and with this we move. A bit slow to start, but once we get going, helpful.

For the record, the Hot and Cold Air is generated in the balloon by machines around the Zapfish, exciting or calming the air.

Long Range Inkshell Spraygun (1): SamSpeeds
Long Range Inkshell Blotta
Glamour Hat
Chain Inkstrike
Agent Sparks
Ability: Hyper Intuition
Ikamechshi IK0: Ganglia - Superweapon
Firefly - Hero
2.0-Bamboozler Bolt(1): TricMagic
The Party Barge(1): TricMagic

[NUKE9.13]

Thunderbird:
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's- wait, no, you were right, it's a plane.
The Thunderbird is a big ol' hunk of plastic, crammed full of ink, Inklings, and a Zapfish, with four propellers on its great big wings. Said propellers are driven by Zap-powered motors, controlled from the cockpit at the front of the plane, where a daunting array of buttons, levers, and joysticks give the pilot and co-pilot plenty to play with whilst they barrel through the sky. The design was drawn up based on old human blueprints, and we're 95% positive that it will be able to fly.
The Thunderbird comes with a stockpile of balloons with which to drop ink from the sky, but also parachutes with which to drop inklings from the sky. About a dozen Inkantry (or specialists) can fit on board, and can leave through a large door at the rear at any time, though preferably when over their designated drop location.
But that's not all! The Zapfish in the heart of this monstrous aircraft isn't the only thing giving off sparks. The Thunderbird's titular weapons are the 'inverted lightning rods' mounted on the wingtips, which, combined with a capacitor bank that can be charged with Zapfish-energy, allow for the Thunderbird to call down blasts of lightning at will. But no ordinary lightning this- by charging the inverted lightning rods with friendly Ink Energy, the generated electricity will be drawn towards the opposite energy- in other words, Octoling energy. Dropping ink bombs from a fast-moving plane might not be the most accurate, but the lightning can be activated when in the rough vicinity of an Octoling camp, and it will seek it out and make fried calamari of the lot of them.

So, I think we need to work on our air power, but I'd rather not do so with a balloon- that ain't fresh, that's stale. I'm not sure how hard this would be, but with the Spark bonus, I would hope it wouldn't be too difficult. (To be clear, the thing about using human blueprints is fluff, not intended to have a mechanical effect)

Long Range Inkshell Spraygun (1): SamSpeeds
Long Range Inkshell Blotta
Glamour Hat
Chain Inkstrike
Agent Sparks
Ability: Hyper Intuition
Ikamechshi IK0: Ganglia - Superweapon
Firefly - Hero
2.0-Bamboozler Bolt(1): TricMagic
The Party Barge(1): TricMagic
Thunderbird: (1) NUKE9.13

[SamSpeeds]

Long Range Inkshell Spraygun (1): SamSpeeds
Long Range Inkshell Blotta
Glamour Hat
Chain Inkstrike
Agent Sparks
Ability: Hyper Intuition
Ikamechshi IK0: Ganglia - Superweapon
Firefly - Hero
2.0-Bamboozler Bolt(1): TricMagic
The Party Barge(1): TricMagic
Thunderbird: (3) NUKE9.13, SamSpeeds, TheFantasticFox

Looks pretty cool, and we could try downsized fighter versions in the future maybe.

[TricMagic]

Ability: Inner Spirit
A cool black cape with a silver-grey logo woven into the center, this piece of torso gear grants the wearer Recovery from Enemy Ink. This basically makes the wearer far harder to take out over time, and lesser shots will fade from the body in seconds when not fired upon. Made entirely of SSS infused cloth.

Effect: Recovery Boost
Idea from the Inner Agent fight.

Long Range Inkshell Spraygun (1): SamSpeeds
Long Range Inkshell Blotta
Glamour Hat
Chain Inkstrike
Agent Sparks
Ability: Hyper Intuition
Ikamechshi IK0: Ganglia - Superweapon
Firefly - Hero
2.0-Bamboozler Bolt(0):
The Party Barge(1): TricMagic
Thunderbird: (3) NUKE9.13, SamSpeeds, TheFantasticFox
Ability: Inner Spirit:(1) TricMagic

[testmen]

To push for the next phase

Long Range Inkshell Spraygun (1): SamSpeeds
Long Range Inkshell Blotta
Glamour Hat
Chain Inkstrike
Agent Sparks
Ability: Hyper Intuition
Ikamechshi IK0: Ganglia - Superweapon
Firefly - Hero
2.0-Bamboozler Bolt(0):
The Party Barge(1): TricMagic
Thunderbird: (4) NUKE9.13, SamSpeeds, TheFantasticFox, testmen
Ability: Inner Spirit:(1) TricMagic

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[Happerry]

Design : Thunderbird (Average Difficulty)
1+3+1 = 5: Average

The day when the Thunderbird takes its first flight is a bright sunny day, not a cloud in sight. Which makes the sight of the giant lightning-wreathed airplane taking off even more breath-taking. Equipped with hordes upon hordes of Inkdiscs to serve as mass deployed bombs, and new special inka-chutes for the deployment of Inkantry from the sky, it would serve as a perfectly acceptable instrument of war of the designers had just stopped there.

Of course, they did not just stop there.

The greatest, coolest, most superb thing about piloting the Thunderbird, at least according to the pilots, is the plane's ability to call down the thunder. It's almost like commanding the lightning's hand, one pilot enthusiastically explains to anyone who'll stand still long enough for her to rant at them. To make this work, each wingtip, powered by a zapfish within each wing, has a special lightning energy generator, while more accumulators are built into the four propellers. This results in the entire plan soon liking like it is made out of lightning, which everyone considers exceedingly cool. There is some minor issues with Inklings jumping out of the plane being zapped by said lightning as they jump out, but that's solved by giving them surge protectors. You know, to protect them from lightning surges.

There is, however, another more concerning issue. Targeting the lightning. While attempts were made to charge the lightning with friendly ink energy to cause it to seek out unfriendly ink energy... what actually happens is that the lightning seeks to dump the ink energy into un-inked earth, which isn't very useful. But that's why the designers added a lightning rod launching cannon to the ship's nose! Now pilots, or co-pilots, can fire said lightning rods down into the enemy as they fly by, and then the lightning will fall down, hit the rod, and then be re-emitted in all directions frying everyone around it! This does admittedly cause some electronic feedback, but it's nothing too worrying according to the designers. And despite what certain alarmists claim, what are the chances that the enemy will manage to hamper this system? Not much, that's what the theories say. After all, you'd have to be crazy to run up to a just hit lightning rod and turf it with ink in the short amount of time between the lightning rod gets hit and emits the lightning. That's the sort of thing an Inkling would do, not a 'saner' Octoling. Right?

Nothing to worry about, they're sure.

Costs 2 Zapfish to operate.

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Basic Resources
Plastics : 2
Super Sea Snails : 1

Advanced Resources
Zapfish : 2

Spoiler: Inkling Armory (click to show/hide)

Primary Weapon

• Bamboozler : A compression powered ink gun that was recently invented before the Great Turf War. It charges somewhat slowly, is hard to charge on the move, can not store a charge, has limited maximum range, has low ink usage efficiency hampering repeated use before one must refill their ink tank, and can not be fired while uncharged. In other words, a revolutionary improvement over all that came before. Despite being shaped somewhat like a hammer, it is not advisable to use it in melee to hit someone over the head with.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
  
  • Bamboozler Quickcharge Cartridges : A modification of the Bamboozler that adds a socket for a pre-filled and pressurized cartridge of ink. A simple lever allows the user to switch between normal firing mode and using the cartridge to fire an instant and fully charged shot, if one at only around 85% the range and power of a normal charged shot. Takes a little bit to unscrew the old cartridge and then screw another one in, limiting their ability to be used more then once in an exchange.
  • Spiral Barrel Refit : A modification of the Bamboozler that adds a new barrel as well as an air compression tank, thusly resulting in enhanced firing range, shot damage, and ink efficiency. While improved noticeably over the original model, this is still inferior to the second generation Bamboozler the Octolings have in production, among other things being around 15% shorter ranged then the enemy model. Produced in enough numbers to allow for mass deployment by way of hiring some Urchins to do the needed carving of Super Sea Snail shell.
    Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Inkerial Blotter : An ink shell launching gun powered by super sea snail homeopathy and applied anti-logic. It fires blobs of ink that burst upon contact with a target, splattering a small area around said target with ink. It is hampered by its relatively short range, but uses a triple firing chamber array to permit an acceptable rate of fire. It's ink shells are also fired in an arc, instead of having a straight trajectory like other inkarms, permitting a limited amount of indirect fire. The recent addition of a proper pressurization chamber has both increased the AOE of the shells to a more average radius, and also has somewhat increased the range of fire to 'below average'. Also has snazzy new stone triggers.
  Expensive - Cost : 3 Plastic, 2 Super Sea Snails.
• ⑨-Scope : A powerful charger that uses eight Quickcharge Cartridges arranged around the primary compression chamber to achieve the forces needed for long ranged fire. The necessity to replace all the Cartridges between shots as well as re-compress the ink in the primary chamber ensure the ⑨-Scope has an absurdly low firing speed as well as a ferocious amount of recoil when fired. On the other hand, with a normal compression chamber and eight cartridges powering the shot, at least it hits hard. Also, the designers ran out of time and never got around to designing a scope for the gun, hindering its accuracy at its maximum range.
  Very Expensive - Cost : 4 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails, Complex.
• 3D-Scope : A powerful charger that uses three secondary compression chambers around the primary chamber to power its shots. Using all three of the secondary chambers requires more charging time then using fewer of them for a weaker shot, but only when all chambers are used does the 3D-Scope gain its true power and range. Comes with a simple scope for accurate fire out into the long range bracket, but uses up lots and lots of ink when being fired out to its full range and power. Unlike the ⑨-Scope, using it will no longer cover your entire shoulder and or arms in bruises from the recoil.
  Expensive - Cost : 4 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Rapid Shooter : A short ranged triple chambered gun, the Rapid Shooter is the first proper Shooter to be put into production in the Great Turf War. It's short ranged and has minor accuracy issues at the edge of its range, but it is also light, handy, and can recharge its compression chamber on the go. As such, as long as one doesn't literally hold the trigger down until the compression chamber is empty, it can maintain a continual stream of fire no other gun in the turf war can yet match.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

Sub Weapon

• Inkdisc-A Bomb/Mine : A disk shaped plastic casing for ink filled balloons that can be used as a thrown projectile detonated upon impact with a needle of hardened ink, or with the flip of a lever the needle may remain unused to allow for the deployment of the Inkdisc as a sort of non-stealthy mine. While limited in range, despite and because of its frisbee like shape, by the muscle power and throwing ability of its user one good direct hit within its range can splat the average target. Takes a few seconds to inflate though.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• "Big Smoke" Smoke Bomb : A shell shaped throwing weapon that emits aerosolized ink from three separate ports, providing concealment, soothing friendly Inkantry, and serving as a low level ablative defense verses enemy shots. Enemies moving through a cloud will feel like they're moving through a cloud of itching powder, and the cloud is pretty effective at blocking line of sight. Of course, like other smoke weapons, that includes friendly line of sight...
  Expensive - Cost : 2 Plastic, 3 Super Sea Snails.
• Ink-Missile : A weapon based equally off the Inkdisc and the Big Air Ink Bomb, the Ink-Missile is a plastic disk with an almost frictionless bottom, allowing it to be sent skating into enemy lines where an ink signature detecting sensor causes it to explode as soon as it gets close enough to an enemy. Or sufficiently inked enemy turf, for that matter. It also has a motion sensor to cause it to explode when it finally comes to a halt if it manages to find no targets at all during its long skid. Has a somewhat smaller explosion radius then the Inkdisc due to the space taken up by the sensors and special bottom.
  Expensive - Cost : 3 Plastic, 1 Super Sea Snails.

Specials

• Vortex Armor : A defensive special that generates a vortex of ink around the user. Its immense energy expenses prevent it from lasting beyond four to six seconds, with its time falling to half of that while being heavily used. While the vortex lasts it will cover anything nearby in friendly ink, turf or foe, as well as intercept enemy shots with its own ink. Its defensive coverage isn't perfect though, and well aimed, sufficiently lucky, or singularly powerful enough shots can penetrate its defensive shroud.
  Cheap - Cost 1 Plastic, 1 Super Sea Snail
• Big Air Ink Bomb : A special that allows the user to fire a glowing artillery shot of ink up into the sky, to then fall back down and land on an unfortunate Octoling's head. Has some minor issues aiming, but has decent range, enough damage to splat basically anyone directly hit, good splash radius, and leaves a five second cloud of aerosolized ink floating around the impact site. Was immediately co-opted by tactical officers for use as a signal flare. It's simplicity allows it to be charged faster then normal for a special.
  Cheap - Cost 1 Plastic, 1 Super Sea Snail

Ability
No Abilities start out designed.

Personnel

• Inkantry : Brave Inklings, run through basic training and drilled repeatedly in weapon use and other skills needed on the modern battlefield. The Inkantry not only know how to use a gun, but also hold a basic understanding of the concepts of planning, crossfires, flanking maneuvers, and actually communicating with each other, and have superior running and swimming speed from all those athletic drills. They're still fairly basic soldiers, but they actually are soldiers now.
• Markslings: Inklings whom have powered through the frequent and blatant distractions and misuse of the Firink Field to maximize their accuracy, snapshot skills, and ability to assess cover to as high as the Firink Field could take them. While few are dedicated enough to become known as a Marksling, those whom are are rightfully known for their skills.
  Uncommon Specialist.
• Inkrunners: Inklings trained in Camp Booyah for speed, agility, and the arcane are of the Dodge Roll. Not actually better in direct combat then a normal Inkantry, but harder to hit and able to get to the fight, or any other location of interest, faster then a normal Inkantry. They need to use a light and easy to use weapon to be able to properly employ their skills however, preventing them from using most of the current armory.

Cultural Artifacts

• The Inkspire : A vast and continual open air market and cultural festival without end that has grown around Inkopolis Tower, better known as the Inkspire in those times. While of little direct military use, it's presence as a sign of what all Inklings fought for had noticeable effects on their overall morale. And besides, I found the cutest pair of booties there last time I went! Must visit again soon. And this time, I'll avoid drinking that homemade fire-water.

Other Gear

• Mark 1 Ink Tank : A basic ink tank, invented by the same inventor that invented the Bamboozler, and designed to work with the Bamboozler. A quarter of its mass is taken up with the complicated gearing that connects it to a Lings primary weapon and the generator for the subweapon, limiting how much ink it can store. Still better then having to produce ink manually whenever you need a refill though.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
  
  • Super Sea Snail Filters: The heavy valves that controlled ink flow in the Mark 1 Ink Tank have been replaced with a system of Super Sea Snail derived filters, which control the flow of ink without any jams or needed maintenance. The decreased size of the filters, in comparison to the original valve system, allows the non-tank part of the Ink Tank to decrease to taking up only around 15% of its mass instead of 25%. This does, however, mean that the Ink Tank now needs Super Sea Snails for construction.
    +1 Super Sea Snails (Cheap)
• Military Inkline Camp : A camp that teaches a two month course on the basics of military skills, with plenty of athletic and accuracy drills, as well as a new standardized basic training program to teach students how to be proper soldiers whom actually have basic military skills. Doesn't stand out as being awesome, but grants all students whom are put through its training a solid foundation for their new roll as Inkantry.
• Firink Range : An expanded weapons testing and training field with automatic targets that do things such as move and shoot back, as well as a multitude of different firing positions to practice from. For some reason the Inkantry have taken to using the place as a tournament ground, hindering attempts to train within it. Still, for those whom persist and fail to be distracted by the team verses team playfights, a noticeable level of skill can emerge. Markslings may not be common, but they have learned the lessons of the Firink Range well and full-heartedly.
• Camp Booyah : An alternate training area, Camp Booyah is an obstacle course that specializes in training Inkrunners instead of long ranged combatants. Unlike earlier obstacle courses it is far less likely to traumatize and splat it's victim-, er, trainees. On the other tentacle, it also produces far less lawsuits.
• Spike Covered Crevasses : It turns out that these are illegal to drop Inklings into, and do not in fact make good obstacle courses.

Superweapons

• Thunderbird Lightning Plane: A giant plastic airplane with four propellers, two wing mounted zapfish, a dump bay for air deployed Inkantry or masses of Inkdisks, and a lightning rod cannon on the nose. Accumulates lightning from the wing tips and the propellers and then fires lightning rods down to guide said lightning down and fry everything in an area. Totally not at risk of something crazy attacking a charged lightning rod and sending the lightning crashing back up into the airplane. Who'd be stupid enough to try that, after all?
  Needs 2 Zapfish to be deployed.

Heroes

• Commander Cauldo : A former instructor of the Inkantry Brevetted to Commander and deployed to battle. Armed with a refined Inkerial Blotter using lighter materials and a five-firing chamber arrangement for greater firing speed and usability, as well as experimental ink energy batteries that are no longer mildly explosive when things go wrong. Commander Cauldo is known for his tactical skill and ability at small scale unit command, skills which seem to come from his days as an instructor, and unlike most heroes works closely with an attached squad of Inkantry. His presence is inspiring to said squad and any other Inklings around, and he can use his reputation to get other squads to listen to him, increasing local coordination.
• Aoi the Painter: A former security guard and self employed manga artist, Aoi has been recruited into the ranks of the special Inkling Agents as Agent 2. She's armed with a self designed giant paintbrush weapon able to really paint some turf as long as the enemy is at point blank range, and uses compressed air to let her throw the ink off the brush farther when she swings it around. Even if the compressed air capsule has to be replaces every few minutes as it runs out of air, it still gives her a bit of extra range. Aoi is pretty fast on her feet and nimble, if not unreasonably so. Lastly, her glowing facepaint makes her look extra fresh.

The Revision Phase of Winter, Year 2 has begun.

[testmen]

Let's see what people want to vote on.

Pocket Spray –  Subweapon Upgrade

   Looking through the records, the researchers note weird claims about the smoke from the “Big Smoke” bombs have some sort of healing abilities. However, testing hasn’t been rigorous enough to prove these claims… at least not until now.  The smoke is relaxing in relaxing in the state it is in now, but a more ink concentrated formula may be what it needs to fully bring this ability out.  First off, we swapped the old casing for new casing with a flip-up spray can nozzle.  This allows an Inkling with the spray to touch up the wounds of their nearby friends, helping them recover to full faster then on their own.  And since the ink has been made more concentrated, the negative effects on the bad men should be just as boosted as the positive effect on the good boys.  Plus, once the user is done spraying, they can toss the can to have it smoke like the normal smoke bomb, but obviously the less ink left in the can, the weaker it is.


Wanted Posters – Inkspire addition
   
   The never-do-wells of that threaten Inkling society beware, there be a bounty on your heads, and hopefully some of the Inklings will try to claim it.  A bounty board is set in the Inkspire market with the people deemed a threat to society.  Some actual criminals, but mostly Octoling officers and Agents are draw and displayed so that any Inkling solider that comes to the Inkpire on their time off will be able to more easily recognize them and have more of a incentive to try to beat them up.  Or at the very least, notice them on the street and not just let a obvious enemy agent walk by.

[SamSpeeds]

My contribution, to increase the survivability of our inkantry.

Umbrella Armor

An alternate, refined version of the Vortex Armor. This version of the special instead focuses the whirling inkshield in one curved circular place near the user, usually above, concentrated and intensified. It spins fast. It can be used to brutally splat enemy inkantry like a buzzsaw, or more practically used to shield heavier fire than before, like from one of them splatling cannon the enemy uses. Properly angled, it could even fling a dropped bomb from an enemy balloon safely away from the user.

I like the Pocket Spray. And the Wanted Posters actually. Both are good. Hm.

Close Air Panic Bomb

Stop slicing us with your Krakenblades and stuff! Using the Big Air Ink Bomb's quick charge up to our advantage, we design a new special technique from it that focuses on basically blasting everything in a few feet of the user with a big bunch of ink. Intended as a possible panic button against dashing Krakenbladers or guys WE sneak up on, haha!

[TricMagic]

Mark 2 Ink Tank:

Using our new knowledge of Spiral Shell Geometry, we've refitted the gearing to include the Super Sea Snail Filters in harmony with the new Geometries. The Plastic parts are sleeker, with less wasted area, and the pipes can be changed out to better connect to different weapons as needed, boosting pressure and efficiency all round.

This also means we've upgrade the other systems to go along with it. Kinda looks like a seashell.

Inkantry : Brave Inklings, run through basic training and drilled repeatedly in weapon use and other skills needed on the modern battlefield. The Inkantry not only know how to use a gun, but also hold a basic understanding of the concepts of planning, crossfires, flanking maneuvers, and actually communicating with each other, and have superior running and swimming speed from all those athletic drills. They're still fairly basic soldiers, but they actually are soldiers now.

Inkantry Revision: Bravely Inkantry
A revamp of the training program to outperform the solo-ist Octoling Agents, Commander Cauldro is once more seeking to improve the instructors knowledge. Better programs to train new Inkantry and Old beyond their previous abilities. Go Beyond Limits, Bravely Inkantry.

Spoiler: Previous Attempt, Retry, refer to as base revision (click to show/hide)

Commander Cauldo, when he's not busy, likes to train others at the Military Inkline Camp.. He and his Squad run a week-long training exercise to make our Inkantry faster over land and in ink, more accurate, and more able to use the turf to their advantage. And when he's not there, the Instructors themselves pass down his teaching to any Inkantry that wants to take the course.

In theory, this ups our own Base Inkanty to the next level of combat. Being able to hide in trees, swim up walls and ceilings on the fly, Dipping into friendly ink to doge an attack and then counter, and generally being faster and better shooting in skirmishes, even if they are still stuck using a bamboozler. Of course, there are rumors that a new version of this weapon will be coming next season.


One more thing that should come of this is better group tactics, something our Inkantry are already known for. Hopefully it will also trickle down to the rest of our specialists.

Ink Tank to improve our weapons' charge/effeciency. Or a revision to the Inkantry Training Program to improve the base unit.

Either Way, I vote for both, since they both increase our units abilities to fight, rather than even more specialist gear. Over-specialization is a thing, so we need to keep up.

Bravely Inkantry: (1) TricMagic
Mark 2 Ink tank: (1) TricMagic
Pocket Spray: (0)
Wanted Posters: (0)
Umbrella Armor: (0)
Close Air Panic Bomb (0)

Also, Specials aren't always going to be ready, so something that's not always ready isn't the best.(Just a note)
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[NUKE9.13]

I like the idea of the Pocket Spray, or the Close Air Panic Bomb. I think the latter especially might be useful in the port, if I understand its nature correctly. The Wanted Posters are a good idea, but they should probably wait until next turn, when their hero is active again. Regarding the Pocket Spray, I think the question is, how often are we in situations where they injure but do not instantly splat us?
I'm not sure how effective an improved ink tank would be. Like, how much more ink do you imagine we'd be able to carry?
The Bravely Inkantry revision is... not great. If I were the GM, I'd pretty much refuse to roll for a revision that essentially just says "Do better". We need to specify how.

So, I'm going to think about this more, but I'm leaning towards the panic bomb right now.

[TricMagic]

We actually already tried one before. It kinda bombed with a low roll.

Better programs to train new Inkantry and Old.


We are trying to improve mental and athletics. Hence Commander Cauldro here seeking to improve the quality of instruction.


As for the Ink Tank, most of it is in an improved ink efficiency, and better pressure. That means less ink wasted, meaning more shots. And better pressure means faster charge/range, depending on the weapon.

[testmen]

Alot of their firepower comes from the splatling guns, aka low damage extreme rate of fire.  I think it's unlikely that either of their Bamboozlers kill in one hit, either, so if they manage to pull out of line of sight with either of them that would give them a chance to recover.  The smoke also had a irritating effect on people of the wrong ink color right now, so boosting the strength of the smoke would also let it act as a sort of pepper spray.

[SamSpeeds]

Bravely Inkantry: (1) TricMagic
Mark 2 Ink tank: (1) TricMagic
Pocket Spray (1): SamSpeeds
Wanted Posters: (0)
Umbrella Armor: (0)
Close Air Panic Bomb (1): SamSpeeds

Double voting? Don't mind if I do!

Anyone know how to make this full of links? Haven't quite figured that out.

[NUKE9.13]

Is there really a need for double voting? There are some edge cases where it sort of makes sense, but right out the gate?

Anyway, I'm going with the spray. I changed my mind about the Panic Bomb; I'm not sure it'd be practical to have it do enough damage to insta-splat an enemy, and if someone's charging you with their ink sword thing, if you don't get them in one hit, you're outta luck.

Bravely Inkantry: (1) TricMagic
Mark 2 Ink tank: (1) TricMagic
Pocket Spray (2): SamSpeeds, NUKE9.13
Wanted Posters: (0)
Umbrella Armor: (0)
Close Air Panic Bomb: (1) SamSpeeds