pat geodude and give it some food like rocks or silicon.
Start working in modifying the Geodude so it can grow into his evolutions lines (graveler and golem)like I did for Aron
You feed the Geodude.
[1d6+skill bonus = 4+1 = 5] You successfully do so.
Marching Orders:
All 16 Spiderbots are to leave and hide in various vehicle engines, before leaving when they have driven somewhere and set up in a building ventilation system. All of them should split up into pairs, and feel free to zap any insects.
Dragonfly bots are to fly on out into the wild and get started on replicating. Make sure to use camo well, and fly high.
Queen termite is to create a new queen this turn.
Now that orders are given, I think I will make a butterfly. Nanotech of course.
Camo is built into it, so it can take on various patterns, as well as fly with gentle flaps via air nanotech built in. Center is made to eat leaves and drink nectar, as well as lay eggs. These eggs contain caterpillars which will feed off the leaves{or other material like wood or metal, or other materials} to gan the material to form a cocoon, before turning into more butterflies. They also have their parent's camo ability, if not flight.
This is mostly because, given the material, which is everything, a single butterfly can lay up to 50 eggs in a short amount of time.
Subspace communicator is located in the head, as is a nano-virus that will trigger if a butterfly gets eaten, turning the afflicted animal's body to more material, before more butterflies are born from it's dying body. Hundreds will form from this. Rest of the center body is mostly the replicator that forms the eggs from material, as well as lays them in materials.
The entire bit is acid-proof, so animal stomachs do no harm, as well as water proof, so it can fly in the rain.
"An entire ecosystem will be at the command of my genius!"
The spiderbots duplicate before dispersing into sixteen pairs.
The dragonflybots disperse and duplicate.
The queen termite creates a new queen termite.
[1d6+skill bonus +skill bonus(machine) = 3+1+1 = 5] You manage to create a prototype with flight and camouflage ability, but the subspace communicator, replication ability, and nano-virus have not been added yet.
Contact/communication pentacles. I want them designed and, if they can be confirmed to work properly, utilized to contact these three. (I know who the psychic and AI people are, is the third Rockeater?)
Also design a magic battery. 1-pound cylinder of silver, sides plated with bismuth, one end being played with bronze and then gold, other in the other direction, and two detachable bismuth caps for the ends so that I can make sure it's safely storing the magic when not in use.
(communication) [1d6+skill bonus+1 = 1+1+1 = 3] They kind of work, but they make the other person look like a Star Wars hologram and have an annoying habit of cutting off the sound.
(battery) [1d6+skill bonus = 3+1 = 4] You design the magic battery, and build one because you’ll probably need it for your next series of experiments, whatever they are.
Use these new funds to improve Bastet's hardware. Hop into the neural interface and check up on Bastet's intellectual and emotional progress, to see if it is ready for further freedoms.
(hardware) [1d6 = 4] You successfully add more computers and better hardware to Bastet’s setup.
I have learned much in matters of intellect, but I have also been investigating the occurrences around this city. As far as publicly available information goes, here is what happened from the beginning. A group of identical-looking people robbed an electronics store in broad daylight. The police investigated and concluded that a bioengineer was involved, but after a sudden burst of incompetence, the case was handed over to the FBI. The FBI stormed the headquarters of the gang, but most of the criminals had escaped beforehand. In a bit of overzealousness, they managed to capture about two-thirds of the criminals while allegedly violating several laws, and were restricted by the court system in the process. They then bought the AIs through a front company, and hired a contractor for classified purposes. After that, they tried to storm the new location of the gang, but were again too slow. Now, they have halted the investigation while one of the court rulings is being appealed.
Meanwhile, there were reports of a giant rat stealing animals from pet shops. The reports increased in frequency, growing bolder, until the hamster incident, in which a pack of giant green hamsters rampaged through the city, killing dozens in the process, until they were stopped by an unknown individual using chemical weaponry. Then came the much less terrifying iguana incident, in which a group of giant iguanas attacked a SWAT team but were decisively defeated, which happened only about an hour and a half ago.
I am unsure why the FBI is investigating a robbery with this degree of ferocity, but I think that we should be wary of any attacks by giant green animals.
come on, focus! There must be one or two of them that are more eminent than the others!
[1d6+skill bonus +skill bonus(group) = 3+1+1 = 5] One vision of a bleak future comes to the forefront. A vision of billions of miniscule, robotic insects sweeping over the land like a devouring tide, consuming dirt and rocks and steel to replicate themselves. On one side of the vision, you get a glimpse of a satisfied-looking man in a lab coat, but the vision sweeps away from him before you can really memorize his features.
(lawyer stuff)
Appellant drafting the brief: [1d6 +skill bonus(trained) = 4+1 = 5]
Appellee drafting the brief: [1d6 +skill bonus(trained) = 3+1 = 4]
Both parties have drafted their briefs, and now the appeal will start.
Keep burning infidels with eldritch flames
Becoming vizier of Nefren Ka takes some dedication...
[1d6 = 2] The flame abruptly gutters out and stops.
Keep moving.
I feel as if I am on my last leg.
Also I am definitely interested in the nano-tech guy and his mini-ecosystem he is building.
[1d6 = 5] You decide that after all this panic, it would be best if you just left the state all together, and you do so.
(federal investigation) Due to the stick of their tracking device no longer working and the carrot of one of the court rulings possibly being overturned, the FBI decides to take a break from investigating you for now. Make the most of your time. However, that doesn’t mean that they can’t advance the case in other ways.
(federal analysis) [1d6 = 1] Err… maybe it does. Huh. There’s still one more try, though.
Design a factory for the fuel that could work in space
[1d6 = 1] The fuel is still hard to mass-produce. As in, really hard. You may have accidentally developed a highly cost-effective way to waste money, though.
(NASA investigation) [1d6 = 1] For some reason, NASA now suspects the Air Force of trying to edge in on its territory. A man building a rocket in his backyard is not exactly on the top of their theories.
"Bob doesn't need your used RV, Bob will find Bob's own RV!"
Bob will leave this RV place and go and get a news paper and look threw the classifieds to find a RV for sale.
[1d6 = 3] You find one for sale, but it’s expensive. You’re not sure you would be able to afford it.
Apply the omega-serum to all my animals and including myself, research into a biological modification of the Quicksilver-serum inside the brain, increasing brain processing and information storage allowing you to become more intelligent. Have the sheep distract the SWAT by confusing which region this bioengineer is involved, preferable out of city
(number) [1d6 = 5] You didn’t expect to be able to inject literally all of the animals with the serum in the time you had, but you managed it. That you injected yourself first, of course, goes without saying.
(new serum) [1d6+skill bonus = 1+1 = 2] Unfortunately, the brain is a complicated organ, and trying to change qualitative intelligence is a bit beyond an hour’s work.
(police investigation) [1d6 = 1] Your sheep, meanwhile, has bought you time by thoroughly distracting the police.
Turn 15 end.
Turn 16 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, a battery for magic
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, was injected with overclocked super-serum (7 feet tall, green skin, +1 to all defense rolls, bonus to speed rolls, bonus and +1 to strength rolls), was injected with omega-serum (Speedster 1) (police investigation is continuing (they suspect a bioengineer) (they know the approximate location of your laboratory, but they think that that was a false lead and think you are in a different city))
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, have opposable thumbs, and were injected with omega-serum (Speedster 1))) 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, formula for a hyper-serum (bonus to speed rolls), formula for an omega-serum (Speedster 1)
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) (being investigated by NASA, investigation is beginning but they suspect the Air Force)
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, designs for an austere living module for outer space
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, running on a few thousand dollars worth of hardware), 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, a friendly Geodude (will grow into Graveller in 3 turns and Golem in 3 turns after that)
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 (hobbled*2, investigation will be cancelled if they roll 1- or 6+) (they have decided to hold off on direct investigation for now)
Location: In a truck (contains four obedient clones of himself well-equipped for making a tunnel, a hobo, 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+)) in a city in a different state 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 (severely wounded) 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 2 queen termitebots (can tunnel) that each can replicate itself or create 20 worker termitebots each turn, a prototype butterflybot (can fly and turn invisible), 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, designs for a queen termitebot (can tunnel) that can replicate itself or create 20 worker termitebots each turn, designs for a prototype butterflybot (can fly and turn invisible)
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: at some generic place in the starting city
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
32 spider-like robots that replicate themselves every turn are dispersed around the starting city
4 dragonfly-like robots (can fly and turn invisible) that replicate themselves every turn are dispersed around the starting city
Changelog:
*From now on, investigation rolls will happen in the background. I think two conveniently last-minute getaways is enough for now.
*Revamped the combat system (specifically the way combat turns are scheduled) to properly account for speedsters. The revamp has also changed the time when wounds penalties are applied so that it is easier to not get sucked into a vicious spiral of getting wounded, getting penalties, and getting wounded.
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