then in the name of ethics and science, Refine my technique and continue to do so until even the portion of non-psychics that exist can do it in their sleep!
[1d6+skill bonus = 5 skill level 1] The technique is refined to the point of triviality. You weren’t expecting non-psychics to actually be able to do it in their sleep, but hey, science!
"Bob's lab has been destroyed, but Bob shall persevere and Bob shall build a new lab somewhere!"
Bob shall go back to the lab and retrieve Bob's car then Bob will go and look for an abandoned office building and make that Bob's new lab.
[1d6 = 2] After fifteen minutes or so of driving around, you conclude that there are actually very few unused warehouses lately.
Let's see how good it goes
Preform a test lunch to a stable orbit and measure the time and distance the rocket travels
[1d6 +1(powerful fuel) = 5+1 = 6] The rocket launches into orbit successfully. After about 1.5 hours, it passes over your position. Then after another hour and a half it does so again. You scribble down the data it transmits to you eagerly.
4 of them now.
Software set-up. Coding in the relay and connecting them to the hub.
Software determines location of spiders, as well as actions. I can set them up in groups to perform certain tasks, or send them to locations.
Remember to feed them.
As the software should be fairly easy with the Hub Program set-up, See about creating a Dragonfly bot. Nanotech makes for light works, and the fact that they also can change their color is built into the skin. They should also be capable of turning what the eat into Nano-material, which is defaulted to a string like substance that can be built up until a new Dragonfly bot is created, kinda like an egg.
Light like a dragonfly, and like one in most ways too.
(programming) [1d6+1 +skill bonus(machine) = 2+1+1 = 4] You successfully program the software into the robots.
The spider-bots duplicate themselves again.
(dragonfly) [1d6+skill bonus +skill bonus(machine) = 5 skill level 1] Flight as fast as a real dragonfly, changing colors to the point of invisibility, also capable of self-replication… truly a brilliant invention.
If I plate a silver wire with bismuth, will it weaken the current of magic going through it, or insulate it from outside magic? Test this by getting three wires, two just silver the other silver with bismuth plating - and leave one of the silver ones curved into a U-shape, while twisting the other two so that they have one side that's a loop, one side that's got the two ends of the wire, and between them, a section where the wires touch each other to cause a short circuit. Power the wires and have magic sensors monitoring the magic level in the loop area for both twisted wires and the end of the curve for the non-twisted wire (make sure the bismuth is removed in the monitoring area).
Aside from that, I'd like to check if I can design pentacles that allow for scrying. It's a relatively safe way to check for non-summoning functions of magic.
(bismuth) [1d6+skill bonus+1 = 1+1+1 = 3] Bismuth does not appear to conduct magic, explaining why a short circuit didn’t form.
(scrying) [1d6+skill bonus+1 = 5 skill level 1] Yes, you can definitely do so. You decide to use it to look around the city a little bit. Let’s see, there’s the bloodstains and police tape where the hamster-bears rampaged, there’s the path of destruction they left… wait, were those giant snakes or crocodiles lurking in the shadows? Oh no, they’re just giant iguanas… wait,
what?"Time to fix the cloning device."
Put my effort into seeing what is wrong with the cloning vat and seeing if I can make it more efficient with less of a magnetic footprint. Clones find me a hobo and carefully, without drawing attention, bring him back.
(cloning vat) [1d6+skill bonus = 5 skill level 1] You’ve managed to make the cloning vat better and make it run on gravity instead of electromagnetism… somehow.
(hobo) [1d6 = 6] Hobo? Check. Subtlety? Not check.
(federal preparations) [1d6 +1(psychic powers) -2(very hobbled) +skill bonus(narrow AI) = 5+1-2+1 = 5] No news about the FBI. But hey, no news is good news, right?
"Sure, thank you"
Travel with the FBI back to the lab and start experimenting in creating living rocks
You are dropped off at your lab safely.[1d6+skill bonus = 3+1 = 4] You conclude that a good way to do so would be to use silicon instead of carbon as the base element for their bodies.
Rah Nahizleth Jtavanag Fatuh
send Eldritch lightening bolt in nonbelievers
[1d6 = 3]
(1d6 = 5) vs (1d6 +1(numbers) = 3+1 = 4)
The lightning isn’t really that effective. It might not even be accurate to call it lightning.
Have I done anything illegal that would make the FBI want to pursue me? Regardless, try and hide any trace of my location online, ask Bastet for help regarding concealing our location and existence.
(you) [1d6 = 2] Sadly, without any particular hacking skills, you are unable to accomplish much.
(Bastet) [1d6 +1(digital) +skill bonus(less restricted) = 1+1+1 = 3] Bastet removes the most obvious references to you. At least that’s something.
Utilizing the metal of Quicksilver (Mercury) and incorporating it into the omega-serum, the creation of Omega-serum can be finalized, the ability to truly become a speedster. Increased skin protection, ability to mentally process information from going at high-speeds, and enchanted leg muscles and metabolism of Quicksilver through the veins to move at hyper sonic legs, the creation of this serum will happen through the genetic modification of physical bodies. The tiger-iguanas will assault warehouses for the usage of human “laborers” and mercury vials into mass-production.
(omega) [1d6 = 6] The serum definitely works! But the mice you tested it on died of mercury poisoning.
(iguanas) [1d6 = 2] The iguanas are unable to do anything with the various SWAT teams moving around the city.
(police investigation) [1d6 = 2] No leads… so far.
Turn 13 end.
Turn 14 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)
Inventory: A briefcase-sized silver pentacle with silver capacitor, an inch cubed of titanium, 1-pound spool of bronze wire, 1-pound spool of silver wire, 1-pound spool of gold wire
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 (police investigation is beginning)
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*2 of (mice, hamsters, assorted lizards, chickens), two sheep, two horses (all obedient and have opposable thumbs)) 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 with opposable thumbs 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, formula for a hyper-serum (bonus to speed rolls, +1 to initiative rolls), formula for an omega-serum (2 bonuses to speed rolls, +3 to initiative rolls, contains lethal dose of mercury)
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 (prototype rocket using rocket fuel, passenger area, and engine is in orbit)
Location: Bernarnd Bonson’s laboratory
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), designs for a rocket engine capable of using the rocket fuel
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, several computer files containing various well-programmed narrow AIs
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: The prototype bulbasaur, 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, a check from the U.S. government for several thousand dollars
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 wrapping up (hobbled*2, investigation will be cancelled if they roll 1- or 6+) (they know where you currently are)
Location: A warehouse (contains four obedient clones of himself well-equipped for making a tunnel, a hobo, a truck, the essentials to start over, a device capable of swapping the minds of two people strapped into it, and a cloning vat (+skill bonus to clone production, contains no electronics instead running on gravity, has a cooling system that eliminates penalties of a 6 for clone production and reduce the penalties of a 6+)) (contains a well-built tunnel stretching for about a block towards City Hall) (several blocks away from City Hall) 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), control animals, cannot be psychically mind-controlled by psychics strictly less than four tiers of power above him)
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 8 spider-like robots that replicate themselves every turn, a dragonfly-like robot (can fly and turn invisible) that replicates itself every turn, and a supercomputer (millions of TB of memory, hundreds of TB of RAM, tens of thousands of cores, modular, requires dozens of MW to work at full power, has subspace communication hub program))
Inventory: A nano-machine that increases people’s intelligence (skill bonus to all mental tasks), designs for a spider-like robot that replicates itself every turn, designs for a dragonfly-like robot (can fly and turn invisible) 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: several blocks away from Dr. Bob’s laboratory
Inventory:
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
Eleven clones of Master Monster are imprisoned
Most people cannot be mind-controlled by psychics