Test safe landing of the rocket in a remote part in the area
[1d6 = 6] The rocket lands in a bit too remote of an area. You’ll probably want to get it eventually.
Suddenly, three blue holograms appear in front of you, each about a foot high. You did not expect this. In the middle, prominent above the other two, is a man wearing a shirt with a pentagram on it. To one side of him, there is a man wearing a shirt with a programming joke on it. To the other side, there is a man wearing a plain, unmarked lab coat.begin researching well known nano-robotisists that might be working to that goal, and attempt to locate them. Also, continue refining my psi-conditioning technique, I want EVERYONE to be capable of using psychic powers, and I won’t stop until I have achieved success in granting humanity a new tool!
(investigation) [1d6 +skill bonus(strong psychic powers) = 6-1 = 5] Let’s see… there was this one guy named, what, Pen Anamolate? Dr. Pen Anamolate? He had a laboratory somewhere on the west side of the city. He was always including little footnotes in his papers that were rants about his genius. I mean, the rants seem to have been true, but still. Or maybe the rants were a different guy.
(refining) [1d6+skill bonus+1 = 5 skill level 1] Your process now works on about 97.5% of people, but I’m betting that’s not enough for your purposes.
(lawyer stuff)
Appellant presenting the brief: [1d6 +skill bonus(trained)+skill bonus(good brief) = 3+1+1 = 5]
Appellee presenting the brief: [1d6 +skill bonus(trained) = 3]
The briefs have been presented, and now it’s all down to the judges.
Suddenly, three blue holograms appear in front of you, each about a foot high. You did not expect this. In the middle, prominent above the other two, is a man wearing a shirt with a pentagram on it. To one side of him, there is a man wearing a shirt with a programming joke on it. To the other side, there is a man wearing a soot-stained lab coat."The world is truly a strange place nowadays. If you're going to deal with this brave new world, you're going to need to improve. If you'd like, I'll be able to allow you to improve one aspect of yourself, at your choosing. If your neural stability holds, we can proceed from there."
Allow Bastet the choice between improving its data processing capability or its emotional empathic processing. Make upgrades to the AI software to remove any possibility of malignant bugs and errors affecting the integrity of Bastet as an AI.
Bastet hesitates noticably; you can literally see Bastet’s mind working through the neural interface.
The empathic processing. I need to understand humans in order to help them.
(upgrades) [1d6+skill bonus = 1+1 = 2] You exit the neural interface and are about to sit down to your computer, when…
Suddenly, three blue holograms appear in front of you, each about a foot high. You did not expect this. In the middle, prominent above the other two, is a man wearing a shirt with a pentagram on it. To one side of him, there is a man wearing a soot-stained lab coat. To the other side, there is a man wearing a plain, unmarked lab coat.Use the money the FBI gave me to hire assistants there are more than 800 Pokemon so I will need help to create them all.
[1d6 = 6] You wanted good assistants, but good assistants are kind of expensive. Suffice to say, you could only manage to hire two.
Try to finish them with violet ominious blobs of eldritch energy
Nihilakh Am Re Hazoret S,P*Hnglui
[1d6 = 6] Oh great, now there’s violet eldritch blobs
all over the room.(you) (1d6 +1(eldritch whims) = 4+1 = 5) vs (1d6 = 6)
(them) (1d6 -1(tied up) = 1-1 = 0) vs (1d6 = 6)
Fortunately, you manage to only escape with a few cuts and a bit of missing skin. They, however, are not so lucky, being sucked into
The Dark Pharoah’s realm.
Impressive. But there are many more in this pyramid."Time to start setting up again."
Set up just like the last time: 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).
I will always stay 1 step ahead of the FBI.
[1d6 = 4] Things go pretty much like they did before; you find an abandoned building with a basement, unpack, and secure the relevant part of the basement.
"Bob must have an RV for Bob's plan."
Bob will buy the RV even if Bob must sell Bob's car in order to afford it.
[1d6 = 6] Well, you did end up having to sell your car to afford it. Hopefully you have a good plan.
but the subspace communicator, replication ability, and nano-virus have not been added yet.
Finish up the Butterflybot.
Queens produce more Queens. Set this as standard for now.
[1d6+skill bonus+skill bonus = 2+1+1 = 4] You still only manage to install the subspace communicator.
You set the default orders for the queen termitebots to producing more queen termitebots.
Repair the voice part of the comms magic, at least; visual part, too, if possible in a timely fashion, but the voice part is more important. Once it's repaired (assuming it is), contact the people that had been determined to be worth contacting. In a group call, because that's more effective for my purposes.
And make some more batteries. It's always useful to have batteries.
(comms) [1d6+skill bonus+1 = 1+1+1 = 3] You repair the voice issue but don’t have time to fix the visuals, maybe it’ll look more serious this way?
(batteries) [1d6+skill bonus = 5 skill level 1] In retrospect, you may not have needed to put that much effort into that many batteries, but I suppose it is always useful to have some.
You activate the communication pentacles.
Three blue holograms, each about a foot high, appear in front of you. You expected this.
In the middle, prominent above the other two, is a man wearing a shirt with a programming joke on it. To one side of him, there is a man wearing a soot-stained lab coat. To the other side, there is a man wearing a plain, unmarked lab coat.Reintroduce the Quicksilver into the other animals to break the stop-gap to allow process information faster through biologically synthetic (artificial) mercury that allows the brain to process information faster and improves ability of information storage, notably an upgrade to the Omega-serum. Than have the speedster-sheep, find a location out of the city near a rural area where a rural laboratory collecting farmer’s animal can be located.
(quicksilver) [1d6+skill bonus = 3+1 = 4] You successfully design a serum upgrade to grant better memory and even faster information processing.
(location) [1d6 = 2] The sheep, being a sheep, has no idea where a good place for a laboratory would be. It basically just used the excursion as an excuse to eat grass.
Turn 16 end.
Turn 17 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, several^2 quality batteries 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), being investigated by the police
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), formula for an upgrade serum (better memory, faster information processing) for the omega-serum
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 a remote location), being investigated by NASA
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 (contains two assistants)
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 friendly Geodude (will grow into Graveller in 2 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, being investigated by the federal government
Location: In an abandoned building (has basement) (contains truck, 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: grazed, resistant to eldritch influences
Location: inside of the Egyptian pyramid (inside of the burial chamber of the dark pharaoh)
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 97.5% 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 4 queen termitebots (can tunnel) (default orders are to replicate themselves) 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 with his RV
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
64 spider-like robots that replicate themselves every turn are dispersed around the starting city in groups of 4
8 dragonfly-like robots (can fly and turn invisible) that replicate themselves every turn are dispersed around the starting city
Changelog:
*Removed notes on investigation from Things of interest.
*Also noted that I will not tell you if an investigation ends.
Edit: Looks like this was actually the end of Turn 16.
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