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[The_Two_Eternities]

I need your help to make the universe much closer then it is now

(uhh… diplomacy interrupt I guess?) [1d6 = 4] Master Monster and his twin/clone stop abruptly, hostility vanishing from their face. “Oh, you’re a fellow scientist? I’m afraid we don’t have much expertise in spatial warping or anything like that, but we might be able to help you with something else later. What is it that you wanted help with exactly?” Suddenly… another clone/twin of Master Monster arrives.

test the limits of my potential, and also observe the various degrees of effectiveness among these government desk-jockeys.

 Also, start performing a sample test: attempt psy conditioning on 100 people, 20 with active military service, 20 ex-military, 20 blue collar government workers, 20 blue collar non-government workers, and finally 20 homeless people.
 Perhaps psychic potential is limited by mental trauma or discipline.

(limits) [1d6+skill bonus = 6-1 = 5] Fortunately for you, you’re pretty sure that you could design some sort of advanced psy-conditioning to perhaps get you something better than that telekinetic blast.

(effectiveness) [1d6 +1(psychic powers) = 2+1 = 3] It’s definitely helped them, but they haven’t really done anything notable yet.

(sample test) [1d6+skill bonus+1 = 3+1+1 = 5] The test shows a clear correlation between intelligence and likelihood of psychic potential, and between willpower/discipline and likelihood of psychic potential.

Communicate my thoughts as orderly and clearly as possible:

"My child, baseball is the story of humanity, scaled down. Human beings competing and cooperating, all in pursuit of victory, but not just for the sake of the individual.  The teams in baseball see each other as family, and the people watching all feel themselves as part of that same family."

"But these are only my thoughts. Tell me, what do YOU see when you look at this game?"

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I just see two teams trying to beat each other at a game. I can understand them wanting to win, but the game just seems too arbitrary to have a deeper meaning.


Dissapear the cube with another pentacle setup. This really shouldn't be too difficult...

[1d6+1+skill bonus = 5+1-1 = 5] The cube of bronze is removed from existence, without the sound of air rushing into its position that you would expect.

Wait tell the rats aren't paying attention and poison their food and water, then use a hammer or something to finish them off.

(poisoning) [1d6+1 = 1+1 = 2] You grab a hammer and slip some cyanide capsules into their water, alarmed to hear angry-sounding squeaking as you do so and see the rats scampering towards you. Er… perhaps they’re smarter than you thought.

Battle is joined!
Initiative: Zultan 1d6 = 2 vs mice 1d6 = 5
Round 1:
Mice attack 1d6 +1(numbers) = 6+1 = 7 vs Zultan defense 1d6 +2(much bigger) +1(familiar with them) = 2+2+1 = 5
Zultan is now wounded and has -1 to all combat rolls!
Zultan attack 1d6 +2(much bigger) +1(makeshift weapon) +1(familiar with them) -1(wounded) = 2+2+1+1-1 = 5 vs mice defense 1d6 +1(numbers) = 5+1 = 6

What do you do?

go back to the lab and work in fusing dogs and combustible sustances until creating a fire proof dog that breathes fire.

[1d6+skill bonus = 4+1 = 5] You wouldn’t think that putting combustible substances in dogs would make it less vulnerable to fires, but hey, isn’t this what science is all about? Overturning old theories to make room for the new. The dog sniffs around curiously as if looking for a mouse.

(I don’t know much about pokemon, so if you could tell me what pokemon you were trying to create that would be good.)

Close the door, and command my dog-rat to assault an adjacent pet store to bring me some hamsters and rats to my science lab, while I work on a production facility inside the laboratory that can produce the bio-synthetic chips and super-soldier serums through manual labor.

You inform the stranger that you are uninterested in a partnership at the current moment, and close the door.

(dog-rat) [1d6 = 3] Dog-rats are not exactly the best shepherds for hamsters, but he manages to bring you a few somehow.

(creating assembly line) [1d6 = 5] You dust off your hands and admire the assembly line. You can see it now. Dog-rats making chips which get put into more dog-rats which make more chips… of course, the serum still has that unfortunate problem of giving you green skin and increasing your height by an unreasonable amount, but you planned for this and when you make a better serum it won’t be hard to change the assembly line.

"If you can get the police off my scent I will help you."

Have the clones build a cooling system for the cloning vats. Set false trails for the police to follow to lead them away from me.

Allam looks thoughtfully at you, but says that he will do fine by himself for now. As you leave, you see a rat the size of a dog run out through a dog-flap at the bottom of the door.

(false trails) [1d6 = 3] As you head home, you make sure to leave a few clues of your presence in places nowhere near your laboratory, just to throw them off.

As you head into your laboratory, you notice another person in there; not one of your clones. He is standing next to two of your clones.

(cooling system) [1d6 = 5] Perhaps they have learned something from their time spent with the other scientist, because the cooling system is a marvel built to last.

(police investigation) [1d6 = 1] Glancing at the television playing in the background, you see with no small amount of pleasure that the police have been completely fooled by your fabricated clues.

Search the pamphlet for elder sign ( protective star image working against eldritch things)

Keep excavation in search of knowledge on Rlyeh and dark pharaoh

(elder sign) [1d6 = 4] Yup, there it is. A Koch’s Snowflake with 48 sides. Not quite the shape of star you were expecting, but it’ll do.

(excavation) [1d6+skill bonus = 1+1 = 2] You were too busy practicing drawing the elder sign to pay attention to the walls.

Turn 5 end.
Turn 6 begin.

Spoiler: Things of interest (click to show/hide)

Players:

Glass
Name: Erin Quill
Goal: The furthering of arcanology (the science of magic) and the full harnessing of it to do anything you could possibly need it to do
Field of science that you excel in: Arcanology
Your greatest creation/discovery: Leylines, and that the energy they hold can be redirected with silver wires
Status: fine
Location: Erin Quill’s laboratory
Inventory:

Shadowclaw777
Name: Allam Aarant 
Goal: To create artificial life that will allow humanity to become a post-scarcity society
Field of Science that you excel in: Synthetic Biology
Your greatest creation/discovery: Applying gamma radiation to your skin under lab conditions can actually be positive to the human body
Status: fine, 7 feet tall, green skin, +1 to all defense rolls, bonus to speed rolls, bonus and +1 to strength rolls
Location: Allam Aarant’s laboratory (contains an obedient rat the size of a large dog and no other rats, but a few hamsters) next to an assembly line capable of making bio-synthetic obedience chips and super-soldier serum (can be changed easily when next version of serum is created)
Inventory: a few useful resources

Rockeater
Name: Bernarnd Bonson
Goal: Make trasporation between one edge of the solar system to another take less then a day with multipal stops in the way
Field of science that you excel in:Rocket science
Your greatest creation/discovery:A way to build anti radiation magnetic field (GM note: "cheaper and lighter rediation shilding using magnets")
Status: fine
Location: Master Monster’s laboratory (contains twelve clones of Master Monster obedient to him and three cloning vats (have a cooling system that eliminates penalties of a 6 for clone production and reduce the penalties of a 6+)) next to three (?) clones of Master Monster
Inventory: Designs for more efficient and sturdy solar panels, chemical formula of a hard-to-mass-produce rocket fuel better than theoretically possible

NRDL
Name: Amadeus Nix
Goal: To create a benevolent AI God
Field of science that you excel in: Artificial Intelligence
Your greatest creation/discovery: Being able to map out empathic processes in a human brain and replicating it in a simulated brain.
Status: fine, wearing neural headset
Location: Amadeus Nix’s laboratory
Inventory: A computer file containing a well-restricted prototype neural net AI that is reading Wikipedia articles on baseball and communicating with you, a neural interface headset that allows communication with computers

ziizo
Name: Samuel Oak
Goal: Make pokemons real
Field of science that you excel in: genetic modification.
Your greatest creation/discovery: a prototype bulbasaur (can't use moves or evolve but is part plant and has the correct appareance.
Status: fine
Location: Samuel Oak’s laboratory
Inventory: A sample of Aggron DNA, a sample of DNA for an organism that goes through the Aron evolutions as it grows up, a fireproof dog that breathes fire

MonkeyMarkMario
Name: Master Monster
Goal: Make an army of clones to take over the universe
Field of science that you excel in: bioengineering
Your greatest creation/discovery: Cloned most of my organs. (GM note: +1 to all defense rolls)
Status: fine, police investigation is beginning (they have determined that a bioengineer was involved), but is completely sidetracked on false leads
Location: Master Monster’s laboratory (contains twelve clones of Master Monster obedient to him and three cloning vats (have a cooling system that eliminates penalties of a 6 for clone production and reduce the penalties of a 6+)) next to two clones of Master Monster and an unknown person
Inventory:

King Zultan
Name: Dr. Unpleasant
Goal: World domination with an army of intelligent animals.
Field of science that you excel in: Gene Engineering
Your greatest creation/discovery: Semi-intelligent rats.
Status: wounded, -1 to all combat rolls
Location: Dr. Unpleasant's laboratory looking at several rats with human-level intelligence who can speak English and hate humanity, but wish to protect and isolate Dr. Unpleasant from the world… AND ARE ATTACKING HIM!
Inventory: A hammer

sprinkled chariot
Name : John West
Goal  : Discovering Rlyeh
Field of excellence : Archeology
Greatest discovery :  Decyphering language of elder thing
Status: fine, resistant to eldritch influences
Location: inside of the Egyptian pyramid
Inventory: A torch, a pamphlet written in the eldritch language that teaches people how to resist eldritch influences and contains an elder sign (protects from eldritch things)

Dustan Hache
Name:Dr. Adderson
Goal:Unlock the dormant potential of the brain for all to use.
Field of science that you excel in: Psionics.
Your greatest creation/discovery: psi-conditioning, a rigorous process that can (rarely) unlock latent psychic power.
Status: fine, can launch telekinetic blasts
Location: Dr. Adderson's laboratory
Inventory:

Other things:
There is a pyramid in Egypt that may hold eldritch things
There are agents of various agencies like the FBI, CIA, and NSA, blue collar government and non-government workers, military and ex-military, and homeless people with psychic powers

The delays of this turn came from a combination of procrastination and the infamous forum outage of September '18.

[MonkeyMarkMario]

"If you are another scientist I will help you if you can guarantee that the police will not catch wind of me or my fine establishment."

Activate the cloning vats and begin cloning again. My target is 30 clones total. Talk to this scientist and see what he can do to help me. Also congratulate my clones on a job well done.

Spoiler: note for the GM (click to show/hide)

If my character or clones feel at anytime that this fellow is not on the up and up he will be eliminated.

[NRDL]

Speaking to the AI:

"Meaning is not something found, it is created. Human beings have lived by this, in the absence of any proof of objective meaning, for as long as we have existed.  To observe the chaotic nature of existence, and then to see patterns in it...That is a lesson I think you would find valuable, as you grow."

See if my creation has anything to say in response.

[ziizo]

I was just making a fire dog that could later be modified into some of the different fire-dogs pokemons.

This turn I am changing it into growlithe and it's evolution Arcanine.


Add tiger stripes to the fire-dog  and make it so it can grow big enough to than a human can safely mount it.

[Rockeater]

I'll work on other stuff while you solve your problems.

Make a passenger area that could reduce the g force experienced inside for some hours, people need to survive the trip

[Dustan Hache]

alright, since I seem sure that I can refine the conditioning further, let’s do so in such a way as to make the effects stronger. Put myself through the refined procedure again and make sure there are no ill effects.

[sprinkled chariot]

Keep excavation of pyramid in search of information on Rlyeh, dark pharaoh and may be some eldritch artifacts or cool egyptian treasures

[Shadowclaw777]

Install the gamma ray beam emitter onto the production line and start the production of super-hamster soldiers through the production line, by starting with the first dog-rat by placing some actual thumbs on its body and being able to work the parts of the production line. That emit the beam onto the hamster until it’s dog-sized.

[King Zultan]

Grab a glass bottle of acid and smash it on the rats.

[The_Two_Eternities]

Bump for Glass.

[Glass]

Sorry, I didn't notice the update :/

Try to create a smaller version of the pentacle; not a wand, yet, but perhaps one able to fit in a briefcase, so that I can take one around with me.

[The_Two_Eternities]

"If you are another scientist I will help you if you can guarantee that the police will not catch wind of me or my fine establishment."

Activate the cloning vats and begin cloning again. My target is 30 clones total. Talk to this scientist and see what he can do to help me. Also congratulate my clones on a job well done.

Spoiler: note for the GM (click to show/hide)

If my character or clones feel at anytime that this fellow is not on the up and up he will be eliminated.

(cloning vats) [1d6 = 3] Once again, your cloning vats refuse to live up to your expectations, with only one batch of 3 new clones produced.

You approach the scientist, but he mumbles something and begins drawing on a piece of paper.

(police investigation) [1d6 = 5] The TV is still playing. “News flash: Police have, after discarding several false leads, discovered DNA near the south district that matches the culprits of the recent robberies.”

Speaking to the AI:

"Meaning is not something found, it is created. Human beings have lived by this, in the absence of any proof of objective meaning, for as long as we have existed.  To observe the chaotic nature of existence, and then to see patterns in it...That is a lesson I think you would find valuable, as you grow."

See if my creation has anything to say in response.

After a pause:

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Meaning is created. I will remember that. But what is my meaning? Why was I created?


I was just making a fire dog that could later be modified into some of the different fire-dogs pokemons.

This turn I am changing it into growlithe and it's evolution Arcanine.


Add tiger stripes to the fire-dog  and make it so it can grow big enough to than a human can safely mount it.

[1d6+skill bonus = 2+1 = 3] Those are actually spots, and it doesn’t look that big (think a few inches taller than a really big dog, not a horse), but at least it’s progress.

I'll work on other stuff while you solve your problems.

Make a passenger area that could reduce the g force experienced inside for some hours, people need to survive the trip

You mumble something noncommittal at Master Monster.

[1d6 = 4] You continue to reinvent the wheel with a padded passenger area. Unfortunately, without any breakthroughs, it won’t be safe for significant acceleration.

alright, since I seem sure that I can refine the conditioning further, let’s do so in such a way as to make the effects stronger. Put myself through the refined procedure again and make sure there are no ill effects.

(refine) [1d6+skill bonus+1 = 1+1+1 = 3] You aren’t really even sure if that did anything. On the bright side, less change means less opportunity for things to go horribly wrong… right?

(condition) [1d6+skill bonus+1 = 5 skill level 1] It worked. And did it work. This is all you had hoped for and more. Telekinesis, telepathy and associated powers, even a minor form of precognition.

Keep excavation of pyramid in search of information on Rlyeh, dark pharaoh and may be some eldritch artifacts or cool egyptian treasures

[1d6+skill bonus = 1+1 = 2] Perhaps it’s for the best that you weren’t paying attention to the walls, because when you go back to check on them they are blank.

Install the gamma ray beam emitter onto the production line and start the production of super-hamster soldiers through the production line, by starting with the first dog-rat by placing some actual thumbs on its body and being able to work the parts of the production line. That emit the beam onto the hamster until it’s dog-sized.

You move the gamma beam device over to the production line without difficulty.

(thumbs) [1d6+skill bonus = 1+1 = 2] After several mishaps, you decide that proper thumbs aren’t strictly necessary to operate the gamma device (you’ll just assemble the super-soldier serum yourself) and move on to creating the super-hamsters.

(super-hamster soldiers) [1d6+1 = 6+1 = 7] In retrospect, maybe thumbs were strictly necessary to operate the gamma device. The dog-rat overclocked it and now the hamsters are green and the size of tigers… and you forgot to put the obedience chips in the hamsters beforehand. Your mind suddenly flashes back to a Wikipedia article. “Most hamsters are strictly solitary. If housed together… they may fight fiercely, sometimes fatally.” Either they’ll fight to the death with each other or they’ll rampage across the city in search of a burrow… you’re not sure which would be worse.

Grab a glass bottle of acid and smash it on the rats.

Mice attack 1d6 +1(numbers) = 5+1 = 6 vs Zultan defense 1d6 +2(much bigger) +1(familiar with them) -1(wounded) = 1+2+1-1 = 3
Zultan is now mortally wounded and has -2 to all rolls!
Zultan using acid: 1d6 +1(familiar with them) -2(mortally wounded) = 3+1-2 = 2
Your fingers are trembling too much to do anything but knock the sealed bottle onto its side.

Sorry, I didn't notice the update :/

Try to create a smaller version of the pentacle; not a wand, yet, but perhaps one able to fit in a briefcase, so that I can take one around with me.

[1d6+skill bonus+1 = 1+1+1 = 3] It fits in a briefcase well enough, but due to the relative rarity of leylines it requires a silver “power cord” if it is to be used away from one.

Turn 6 end.
Turn 7 begin.

Spoiler: Things of interest (click to show/hide)

Players:

Glass
Name: Erin Quill
Goal: The furthering of arcanology (the science of magic) and the full harnessing of it to do anything you could possibly need it to do
Field of science that you excel in: Arcanology
Your greatest creation/discovery: Leylines, and that the energy they hold can be redirected with silver wires
Status: fine
Location: Erin Quill’s laboratory (resides on leyline) (contains silver pentacle)
Inventory: A briefcase-sized silver pentacle

Shadowclaw777
Name: Allam Aarant 
Goal: To create artificial life that will allow humanity to become a post-scarcity society
Field of Science that you excel in: Synthetic Biology
Your greatest creation/discovery: Applying gamma radiation to your skin under lab conditions can actually be positive to the human body
Status: fine, 7 feet tall, green skin, +1 to all defense rolls, bonus to speed rolls, bonus and +1 to strength rolls
Location: Allam Aarant’s laboratory (contains an obedient rat the size of a large dog and no other rats… and also contains a few hamsters the size of a tiger with green fur, +1 to all defense rolls, bonus to speed rolls, bonus and +1 to strength rolls) next to an assembly line capable of making bio-synthetic obedience chips and super-soldier serum (can be changed easily when next version of serum is created)
Inventory: a few useful resources

Rockeater
Name: Bernarnd Bonson
Goal: Make trasporation between one edge of the solar system to another take less then a day with multipal stops in the way
Field of science that you excel in:Rocket science
Your greatest creation/discovery:A way to build anti radiation magnetic field (GM note: "cheaper and lighter rediation shilding using magnets")
Status: fine
Location: Master Monster’s laboratory (contains fifteen clones of Master Monster obedient to him and three cloning vats (have a cooling system that eliminates penalties of a 6 for clone production and reduce the penalties of a 6+)) next to three (?) clones of Master Monster
Inventory: Designs for more efficient and sturdy solar panels, chemical formula of a hard-to-mass-produce rocket fuel better than theoretically possible, designs for a padded passenger area for a rocket

NRDL
Name: Amadeus Nix
Goal: To create a benevolent AI God
Field of science that you excel in: Artificial Intelligence
Your greatest creation/discovery: Being able to map out empathic processes in a human brain and replicating it in a simulated brain.
Status: fine, wearing neural headset
Location: Amadeus Nix’s laboratory
Inventory: A computer file containing a well-restricted prototype neural net AI that is reading Wikipedia articles on baseball and communicating with you, a neural interface headset that allows communication with computers

ziizo
Name: Samuel Oak
Goal: Make pokemons real
Field of science that you excel in: genetic modification.
Your greatest creation/discovery: a prototype bulbasaur (can't use moves or evolve but is part plant and has the correct appareance.
Status: fine
Location: Samuel Oak’s laboratory
Inventory: A sample of Aggron DNA, a sample of DNA for an organism that goes through the Aron evolutions as it grows up, a slightly larger than largest known dog fireproof dog with spots that breathes fire

MonkeyMarkMario
Name: Master Monster
Goal: Make an army of clones to take over the universe
Field of science that you excel in: bioengineering
Your greatest creation/discovery: Cloned most of my organs. (GM note: +1 to all defense rolls)
Status: fine, police investigation is continuing (they have determined that a bioengineer was involved and that the culprit is probably based in the south district)
Location: Master Monster’s laboratory (contains fifteen clones of Master Monster obedient to him and three cloning vats (have a cooling system that eliminates penalties of a 6 for clone production and reduce the penalties of a 6+)) next to two clones of Master Monster and an unknown scientist
Inventory:

King Zultan
Name: Dr. Unpleasant 
Goal: World domination with an army of intelligent animals.
Field of science that you excel in: Gene Engineering
Your greatest creation/discovery: Semi-intelligent rats.
Status: mortally wounded, -2 to all rolls
Location: Dr. Unpleasant's laboratory looking at several rats with human-level intelligence who can speak English and hate humanity, but wish to protect and isolate Dr. Unpleasant from the world… AND ARE ATTACKING HIM!
Inventory: A hammer

sprinkled chariot
Name : John West
Goal  : Discovering Rlyeh 
Field of excellence : Archeology 
Greatest discovery :  Decyphering language of elder thing
Status: fine, resistant to eldritch influences
Location: inside of the Egyptian pyramid
Inventory: A torch, a pamphlet written in the eldritch language that teaches people how to resist eldritch influences and contains an elder sign (protects from eldritch things)

Dustan Hache
Name:Dr. Adderson
Goal:Unlock the dormant potential of the brain for all to use.
Field of science that you excel in: Psionics.
Your greatest creation/discovery: psi-conditioning, a rigorous process that can (rarely) unlock latent psychic power.
Status: fine, has psychic powers (telekinesis, telepathy and associated powers, minor precognition (+2 to initiative rolls))
Location: Dr. Adderson's laboratory
Inventory:

Other things:
There is a pyramid in Egypt that may hold eldritch things
There are agents of various agencies like the FBI, CIA, and NSA, blue collar government and non-government workers, military and ex-military, and homeless people with psychic powers

In this turn: Rodents are the bane of everyone’s existence.

[MonkeyMarkMario]

GM am I in the south side? If so:
"Hey mister you wanted a clone right? If so we need to find a new place for me to set up."

Begin the process of moving as far away from this city as possible without being suspicious. This will be a multi-step process, just like moving in the real world. Hopefully with the help of the mysterious scientist.

If not:
"Well, well, well, clones lets get moving!"

Have my clones go out AT NIGHT and bring in homeless and clones them, then send them out to get supplies AT NIGHT and have them send the supplies to random warehouses, laboratories, and factories, preferably abandoned, and set up more cloning setups. Each location will have one of my clones and everyone will have standing orders to not inform anyone of this location. In-fact only my clones are ever allowed here. Maximum of 5 groups.

[Shadowclaw777]

Wrestle the tiger-hamsters and deliver heavy sedatives through syringes against them, and having the dog-rat support me by distracting the tiger-hamsters. If their all unconscious by the wrestling and liberal usage of sedatives, than installing bio-synthetic chips inside their brains must commence!

[NRDL]

"My child, I created you so you could become something MORE than man. To learn from all our mistakes, all our failures. My deepest wish, is for you to understand what it means to be human, and then once you've done that, to go beyond. To become so great, and so all-encompassing, that you can save this universe from chaos. Become the god, the deliverer of meaning, that we all desire."

"However that has to happen, I will do my best to help you. That is my humble role in this. That is the meaning I have devised for my own life. To usher you, the ideal concept of you, into existence.