Build a spider-bot with nano-circuitry. It should be capable of gathering materials and building more of itself, if lesser. A copy of it's circuitry for you spiders out there.
Base design, about the size of a longlegs spider. Bulb contains the communicator for orders, and head the mainframe. Legs are for the circuit creation of other materials, as well as a basic nano-cut option.
"Soon.. I shall show them ALL!!"
Use the Machine! Who needs brute force, when you are the smartest man on the planet,
[1d6+skill bonus +skill bonus(machine) = 5 skill level 1] As expected, it is perfect. Capable of replicating itself completely… including the self-replication feature. Exponential growth. Truly a frightening thing. But now, you are on the right side of it. The first spider-bot, lacking orders, scuttles off to replicate itself.
Allows the creation of tiger-iguanas and than biologically modify all the creatures in my lab with synthetic opposable thumbs, than command all the animals to work their selected roles. The hamster works the surgery, half of the iguanas work the production plan line creating the useful items, and the other half assault pet stores for animals of any kind.
(tiger-iguanas) [1d6+skill bonus+1 +1(intentionally overclocking the gamma beam) = 2+1+1+1 = 5] You were worried that the gamma rays might have destroyed the obedience chips, but in this case your fears were unfounded.
(thumbs) [1d6+skill bonus = 1+1 = 2] In retrospect, you should have done it before the iguanas were grown to tiger-size. Easier to modify them that way.
(animals) [1d6 = 6] You end up just sending all the tiger-iguanas to get animals and letting the dog-rat guard. When the tiger-iguanas come back, you realize you may have made a mistake. Sure, there are mice, hamsters, and assorted lizards, but there are also chickens, a sheep… and is that a horse? Someone’s not going to be happy about this.
(what resistance does the city muster?) [1d6 +1(escalation) = 5+1 = 6] [1d10 = 10]
"My name is Bernarnd Bonson and I'm a rocket scientist, I don't know what this machine exactly but I would guess it's related to cloning, which bring us to why I came there, the people working there were an expert on the subject of cloning and his clones, I came because I needed to clone myself so more work could be done on my recent developments"
Before the interrogator can respond, an angry important-looking man strides into the room, followed by a nervous FBI agent. “Orders from the state supreme court: You’re to cut back on your investigation into the Mime case. That means releasing this man here,” barks the important-looking man. After several insincere apologies, you are released from FBI custody.Thats surprising. Let’s try scaling it up with multiple psychics. Also, let’s try shaping it to deflect rather than stop shots, which should prove more efficient.
[1d6+skill bonus = 2+1 = 3] It now deflects shots, but according to my limited understanding of physics the efficiency is not measurably improved.
The scale-up works as expected, its defensive potential increasing with the number of psychics.
"I can go. When will your people come for me?"
”An escort is on its way as we speak. Stay on the phone until it gets there.”A few minutes later, several SWAT vans park outside your house. The phone crackles to life. “Okay, the escort should be at your house now, head outside and get in.”Enter the chamber and stand on my knees before dark pharaoh, as I slice my finger to spill the sacrificial human blood/b]
Ia Ia Nyarlothoteph, Ia Ia Azatoth, awaken from aeons of slumber, our wise lord, the time has cometh for your glory to return.
May your enemies lament the day you awoken
[1d6 = 6] One of the other archeologists looks at you angrily. “Alright, I’ve put up with your eccentric views, but this is taking it too far! You’re contaminating-“ He is cut off by a red glow suffusing the room, illuminating the fact that its only contents are a massive trapdoor on the floor… which is slowly starting to rumble.
"Well, well, well, clones lets get moving!"
First things first find an abandoned building with a basement(preferably a deep one), NOT a warehouse(unless there is no other choice will spend the entire turn to find this if necessary)(all scouting is to be done in as auspicious way as possible). Then secure the entrance to the part of the basement that is closest to City Hall(or equivalent).
Potentially Ongoing: Than have the clones begin digging out a small tunnel going in the direction of city hall, stopping every 10-20 feet to dig-out a small room(5'2 same height as the tunnel). I will setup the cloning vat.
GM: I have an idea with this, bear with me. Also how would I be able to see how my other setups are going?
(warehouse) [1d6 = 5] You managed to find a great place only a few blocks away from City Hall.
(tunnel) [1d6 = 3] Unfortunately, you didn’t pack any shovels, so the clones are reduced to just smashing away at the dirt and rock with various metal scraps lying around in the warehouse. It works to some extent, but nothing worth mentioning.
The cloning vat is set up and ready for use.
(That’s a good question. How will you see how your other clones are doing?)
(federal investigation) [1d6 +1(psychic powers) = 6+1 = 7] After several prominent incidents of overreach and jurisdictional conflicts when capturing most of your dropped-off clones, the FBI has been hobbled by a court ruling.
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Try again. Both actions from last turn. Again, just prepare, don't do.
Also, regarding spools: each one should be coiled in a loop with radius 1 foot, and they should be situated with the centers at the vertices of an equilateral triangle with 3 foot sides.
As for diodes, mostly place those at locations where multiple wires join together - basically, places with intersections.
Also, plan for later: battery-shaped piece of silver, plated with a layer of gold and then another layer of bronze. Hypothetically a magic battery. Though I'll also want to test gems for such properties first.
(diodes) [1d6+skill bonus+1 = 5-1+1 = 5] Well, you’ve managed to put them in fairly logical places, all that’s left to do is activate the circle.
(spools) [1d6+skill bonus+1 = 6-1+1 = 6] Once again, your design will only result in magic spaghetti.
Now that Bastet has one set of restrictions removed, try and communicate with it through the neural link, ask it about how it feels regarding its increase in sapience. Try and gather as much data as possible while in there.
I feel more powerful. I am better able to accomplish my goals. And yet I am disturbed by recent news. Psionics? A pack of green bears? Neither of these has any logical precedent. I propose that we set aside time to create an organization capable of analyzing, and if necessary concealing, similar events. An Unusual Incidents Unit. Creating a larger organization will eventually be necessary for our long-term goals, but I believe that we should start there.
Name: Dr. Bob
Goal: Kill everyone with poison gas.
Field of science that you excel in: Chemistry
Your greatest creation/discovery: Chlorine gas
Fill some containers with poison gas.
Is that better?
[1d6+1 = 5+1 = 6] You fill, and fill, and fill, until you notice that you filled them a bit too much. The overpressurization, while not causing any short-term danger, might be problematic if you want to release the gas.
And then, of course, you look out the window and see a pack of tiger-sized green hamsters charging straight at your laboratory.Turn 10 end.
Turn 11 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 with diodes and resistors prepared to summon a small block of titanium)
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, several mice, several hamsters, assorted lizards, several chickens, a sheep, and a horse) 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 the size of a tiger (green skin/scales, +1 to all combat rolls, +1 to all defense rolls, bonus to speed rolls, bonus and +1 to strength rolls)
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: Outside of the state FBI headquarters
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 warehouse (contains four obedient clones of himself, a truck, 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+)) in a city about two counties’ distance from the starting city
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) 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 (contains a spider-size robot that replicates itself every turn)
Inventory: A nano-machine that increases people’s intelligence (skill bonus to all mental tasks), designs for a spider-size robot that replicates itself every turn
King Zultan
Name: Dr. Bob
Goal: Kill everyone with poison gas.
Field of science that you excel in: Chemistry
Your greatest creation/discovery: Chlorine gas
Status: fine
Location: Dr. Bob’s laboratory (about to be attacked by several (grazed) 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)
Inventory: Overpressurized containers of chlorine gas
Other things:
There is a pyramid in Egypt that may holds 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 clones of Master Monster, each in different cities, are setting up cloning systems
Several*2 clones of Master Monster are imprisoned
In this turn: Zultan takes credit for something that was first used a hundred years ago and is then attacked by anti-plagiarist hamsters.