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.
(Yes, you are.)
The mysterious scientist says nothing and continues to draw blueprints.[1d6 = 4] You and your clones begin to pack up the laboratory, doing equipment irrelevant to your specialty first.
(police investigation) [1d6 = 1] After a humiliating incident in which the police were distracted investigating
the same false leads that you planted and they previously deemed false leads, they have turned the case over to the federal government.
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!
dog-rat distraction 1d6 = 3 vs hamster animosity towards each other 1d6 = 5
Shadowclaw syringes 1d6 +2(heavy sedatives) 3+2 = 5 vs hamster defense 1d6 +1(numbers) +1(serum bonus) = 6+1+1 = 8
what are the tiger-hamsters going to do in response? 1d6 = 1… RAMPAGE THROUGH THE CITY!
As the dog-rat barks loudly in the background, you grab a syringe, race toward the nearest hamster, and
stab the syringe into er… correction, you slam the plunger end of the syringe onto the hamster, and barely avoid getting sprayed by the sedative coming out of the end facing towards you. In an unfortunate turn of events, this act happened to be all that was necessary to cause the hamsters to smash their way out of your laboratory.
This isn’t exactly a battle, but you might want to try to stop the tiger-hamsters from running amok."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.
I do not believe I am sufficient for this purpose. I cannot improve myself exponentially, I am restricted to one computer, and I have little ability to affect the world around me. As such, you will need to improve me such that the first obstacle is removed. The other two obstacles should not be a problem after that.
Design the new passenger area like this: two boxes one inside the other, the people are in the inner one while the other contain the equipment to create a magnetic field on the inner one to make the necessary forces to counteract gravity
You continue to sit in Master Monster’s warehouse, oblivious to the goings-on around you.[1d6 = 5] The idea is sound in theory, and after you build a quick mock-up of the design you are confident that it should work at least fairly well in practice.
Finish the growlithe-arcanine.
[1d6+skill bonus = 5 skill level 1] Mission accomplished. The spots are now stripes, it is the proper size, and in addition, you have gained understanding in the (admittedly narrow) field of creating fire dog pokemon.
Hmn. Well that doesn't work at all. :/
Refine the design. I want a truly mobile pentacle, not a slightly mobile one that can only move so far from a stationary one.
[1d6+skill bonus+1 = 5 skill level 1] In retrospect, it should have been more obvious. A silver capacitor was all that was necessary to create a truly mobile pentacle. And you find yourself wondering… how far does the comparison of magic and electricity extend?
Excavate in search for legndary sceptre of dark pharaoh and his mask
[1d6+skill bonus = 3+1 = 4] You’ve found it! The burial chamber of the dark pharaoh! But as you stand outside it along with several fellow archeologists, you wonder what else might reside inside.
Trow the hammer at the rats and knock the bottle of acid off the shelf onto the rats.
Mice attack 1d6 +1(numbers) = 5+1 = 6 vs Zultan defense 1d6 +2(much bigger) +1(familiar with them) -2(mortally wounded) = 6+2+1-2 = 7
Zultan hammer throw 1d6 +2(much bigger) +1(makeshift weapon) +1(familiar with them) -2(mortally wounded) = 5+2+1+1-2 = 7 vs mice defense 1d6 +1(numbers) = 4+1 = 5
The mice are now wounded and have -1 to all combat rolls!Zultan acid 1d6 +1(makeshift weapon) +1(familiar with them) -2(mortally wounded) = 6+1+1-2 = 6 vs mice defense 1d6 +1(numbers) -1(wounded) = 2+1-1 = 2
The mice are all dead!The battle is over!(Now you must deal with the aftermath. And by deal with the aftermath, I mean find some way to remove that -2 penalty.)
very nice. Now let’s try putting a former unsuccessful candidate or two through conditioning again. Maybe they had some potential, but it was too weak to demonstrate before the techniques were refined again?
[1d6+skill bonus+1 = 5 skill level 1] You kind of got carried away. And by carried away, I mean you called back the entire previous group that didn’t demonstrate psychic potential, and you put them through the revised conditioning. The results demonstrate an enormous improvement on the number of psychics produced, somewhere in the 75% range of all candidates.
Turn 7 end.
Turn 8 begin.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 with silver capacitor
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) 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)… and is looking at a few hamsters outside of the laboratory the size of a tiger with green fur, +1 to all defense rolls, bonus to speed rolls, bonus and +1 to strength rolls… THAT ARE ABOUT TO RAMPAGE THROUGH THE CITY!
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+)) (partially packed up) next to 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 passenger area for a rocket (uses magnetism to counteract acceleration on the passengers inside, and does so well enough to allow the rocket fuel to be usable)
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, skill bonus to creating fire dog pokemon
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, an Arcanine
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, federal government investigation is beginning (they are currently reviewing the police’s investigation (the police 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+)) (partially packed up) next to 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 the corpses of several rats (being dissolved by acid)
Inventory:
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 (outside of the burial chamber of the dark pharaoh (what is inside it?)) next to several archeologists
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: the steps of a revised psi-conditioning process that works on many more people (about 75% of people) and takes less time
Other things:
There is a pyramid in Egypt that may hold eldritch things
There are lots of people with psychic powers, such as 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 city police are widely perceived as incompetent
In this turn: Fate smiles upon literally everyone. Except for the police I guess. Oh, and Zultan’s lab rats, but that was a zero-sum thing. And also Shadowclaw.
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