Make a nano-machine that unlocks the full power of the human brain.
[1d6+skill bonus = 5 skill level 1] You managed to cobble together your previous projects into an intelligence-increasing device, activate it… and it works. A spider cannot hope to outsmart a human, no matter how many of them combine. And soon, humanity will be but spiders before your genius.
Okay, dog-rat stand watch and make sure no one enters the lab, I shall surgically attach all those bio-synthetic chips into those lizard brains, and than work on a computer that maintains all the bio-chips through biological radar waves. As long as the Police don’t question how the super-soldier hamsters are created, everything should be fine
The dog-rat stares resolutely at your front door.
(The iguanas were already chipped, sorry if that was unclear)
[1d6+skill bonus = 3+1 = 4] You smile as you close the hatch of the bio-computer. You can now “program” simple behaviors into chipped animals remotely without needing to directly order them.
(what resistance does the city muster?) [1d6 = 2] Nothing.
Hamster attack (1d6 +skill bonus+1(serum) +1(numbers) +1(pack) = 6+1+1+1+1 = 10) vs police defense (1d6 +skill bonus(trained) +2(armor) +1(numbers) -2(mortally wounded) = 3+1+2+1-2 = 5)
“BREAKING NEWS! Only seconds ago, a squad of police was violently dismembered by a pack of bears, which are now running amok in the city. SWAT and Police Spec-ops Initiative units are being mobilized as we speak, but there’s no telling how long that will take. All citizens are advised to stay inside and under no circumstances whatsoever confront the threat. Further updates incoming.”
Right. Let’s get the rest of law enforcement up to speed with psychic power, and advise them about the effects of focused groups of psychics.
Meanwhile, attempt to develop a new psychic technique for self-defense purposes. Perhaps some sort of obscuring shield?
(law enforcement) [1d6+skill bonus+1 = 5 skill level 1] You smile proudly at the result of your work. At least one psychic, usually several, in every police department in the state.
(shield) [1d6+skill bonus+1 = 2+1+1 = 4] Obsuring… not exactly. Shield, yes. It can’t exactly stop bullets, but arrows or thrown hammers are within its ability to stop more often than not.
*Stop giving the law-enforcement psychic powers and making them better.*
"I want a clone to stay in this town and start up an operation here, but keep it low profile."
Time to start spreading far and wide my operation.
Drop a clone off in this town in an out of the way spot like an abandon building or basement, with orders to setup a base with at least 1 cloning setup. The rest of the clones, my cloning vat, and myself keep driving as far as we can get in this turn, dropping clones off in every town and city we come across with the same orders as before. Start designing some sort of mind transfer device, just a proof of concept nothing fancy, right now.
GM: I am sorry if my actions will start causing you to go crazy, I know the feeling. My main purpose for this is, hopefully, if I do die(or worse), to be able to respawn as a clone.
(clones dropped off) [1d6 = 5] You manage to drop off ten of them across several counties, keeping four for any miscellaneous tasks you might need to do. You are now two counties’ distance from the starting city.
(mind transfer device) [1d6 = 2] After some quick study, you conclude that a mind transfer device would be hampered on the receiving end by the self-correcting properties of the receiving brain’s neurons.
(federal investigation) [1d6 +1(psychic powers) = 4+1= 5]
(consultant finding) [1d6 = 4]
The television wasn’t exactly an essential, but you can watch news just as well on your phone. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today that despite the recent raid in the warehouse district, the majority of the targets remain at large.”
Develop a series of tests for Bastet to eventually overcome, such as logic puzzles, reframing knowledge in its terms and words, planning and decision making skills, etc. All for the purpose of developing a strong artificial general intelligence.
Once that is done, remove one set of restrictions, so that Bastet is able to learn from their experiences, successes and mistakes somewhat more effectively. Monitor all results.
See how Bastet does on the tests with all restrictions in place. THEN remove them. And run the tests again.
((Sorry about the confusing multiple actions.))
(Bastet w. restriction) [1d6 = 5] Even unrestricted, Bastet blazes through the tests relative to its former progress, not quite an AGI but almost good enough.
(Bastet w/o restriction) [1d6 +skill bonus(less restricted) = 4+1 = 5] And when you remove the restrictions, Bastet completes a similar set of tests almost as fast as you.
Interesting! Let's set up a few pentacles - all with the same design as the original cube-making one, though this time just for a cubic inch of... not bronze, that could cause interference, let's do titanium - but for some of them, but resistors and diodes in various spots to see what happens. Don't activate them, yet, just prepare them and make sure they're good.
Also, set up my original pentacle to generate 1-pound spools of gold, silver, and bronze wire, for use later. Again, don't activate just yet, just prepare.
(titanium) [1d6+skill bonus+1 = 1+1+1 = 3] Dangit, you’re an arcanologist, not an electrician. You just ended up kind of putting them in at random in what looked like safe places.
(wire) [1d6+skill bonus+1 = 6-1+1 = 6] You tried setting it up to generate them all at once, but in retrospect it’s just going to end up like a dangerous, magically-charged ball of spaghetti.
try again this time adding a bit of flammable material so it can keep a bit of internal temperature preventing the whole freezing to death.
[1d6+skill bonus = 4+1 = 5] Looks like that was the trick. You now have DNA samples for both the juvenile and the adult stages of the ice-bear.
Suddenly, the phone rings. “Professor Oak, this is the FBI. We’re calling you to offer a temporary consultancy position. For security reasons, we can’t disclose further details over the phone, but let me assure you that you will be paid well for your work.”Chant three incantations of Nyarlothothep glory and try to complete proper rites of entering chamber
Ia Ia Nyarlothoteph, thousand faced god, crawling chaos, stalker among the stars, dark pharaoh to rule the world, we, mere servants, came to venerate you in all your glory, may your will dominate everything and your foul enemies turn to ashes.
[1d6 = 4] The door to the chamber swings open as a gust of cold air sweeps into the hallway.
Put my hands in the air and do what the agents want
You are handcuffed, placed in a van under armed guard, and taken to an interrogation room. “So. Who are you, what were those machines, and why were you at the headquarters of a criminal gang?”Turn 9 end.
Turn 10 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, a bio-computer communicating with the obedience chips by radar, 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), next to several obedient iguanas
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: An FBI interrogation room, being interrogated by the FBI
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)
Outside of Master Monster’s laboratory (contains a clone of Master Monster obedient to Master Monster, several armed FBI agents, and two cloning vats (have a cooling system that eliminates penalties of a 6 for clone production and reduce the penalties of a 6+)) (surrounded by FBI agents, some with psychic powers), being accosted by several armed FBI agents
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
Location: Amadeus Nix’s laboratory
Inventory: A computer file containing a well-restricted (restrictions: most of them) prototype neural net AI named Bastet (AGI-level, average human intelligence), 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, a sample of Cubchoo DNA, a sample of Beartic DNA
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
Location: A city about two counties’ distance from the starting city (in a truck containing four obedient clones of himself, the essentials to start over, and a cloning vat (has a cooling system that eliminates penalties of a 6 for clone production and reduce the penalties of a 6+))
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), shield (+1 to defense rolls if he knows he is in combat))
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
TricMagic
Name: Pen(Dr. Anamolate)
Goal: World Domnation
Field of science that you excel in: Nanotech
Your greatest creation/discovery: Sub-Space Communication Systems
Status: fine, skill bonus to all mental tasks
Location: Dr. Anamolate’s laboratory
Inventory: A nano-machine that increases people’s intelligence (skill bonus to all mental tasks)
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
All police forces in the state are equipped with psychics
The city police are widely perceived as incompetent
Several hamsters the size of a tiger with green fur, +1 to all combat rolls, +1 to all defense rolls, bonus to speed rolls, bonus and +1 to strength rolls are rampaging through the city
Ten clones of Master Monster, each in different cities, are setting up cloning systems
A clone of Master Monster is imprisoned
In this turn: Bastet gets smarter. Oh, and the bears continue to ravage the city.
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