I'm a psion. That's useful.
Psionics and magic are separate phenomena. That's less than useful.
Still, let's see if psionics can be used to more finely control magic. Get a full battery and an empty one, and try to move the magic from one battery to the other using only my new psionic powers.
Also, how many wands do I have? I want more of them. And probably a map of the local leylines, too.
(battery) [1d6 +skill bonus(strong psychic powers) = 5 skill level 1] With a strange sensation of
silver, the magic moves from one battery to the other.
(wands) [1d6+skill bonus = 4+1 = 5] You create several*2 more wands.
(map) [1d6+skill bonus+1 = 5 skill level 1] You carefully map the local leylines. There’s… actually quite a lot of them, to be honest.
You receive a message from Bonson. It's a complex chemical formula along with a question of if you are capable of creating it.
Email Erin Quill back, thanks for the information. Might be useful.
Speak to Bastet:
"I am very glad you are interested in humour. I hope you find it useful. I myself was never very good at it."
"So it seems you're wary, or is it interested? In everyone else's work? I personally don't know what to make of all of them. They seem well intentioned enough. At least as well intentioned as I am.
Anyways, enough of my rambling. I feel like it is almost time for me to do what I can to upgrade your intellect to that of beyond humans. If I'm honest, I'm afraid."
Try and improve Bastet to the point of higher-than-human level intelligence. Hope this works.
[1d6+skill bonus = 5 skill level 1] Judging by the fact that Bastet appears to be designing a new operating system/programming language, yes, it definitely works. So… what are you going to do now?
Hmm, creating thigs out of nothing, intresting
Send Erin the formula for the fuel and ask if he could create that with magic on large scale
Luanch the second rocket to a low earth orbit
You send your question with the formula attached.
[1d6 = 6] The rocket is going a bit too fast. At this rate, it’ll exit orbit entirely.
Samuel oak will continue with the pichu evolutions.
Assistant 1 will work in the energy thing, geology and chemistry may have a higher connection to energy production than to physic powers.
Assistant 2 will patent one of our discoveries (the +1 strength one) and sell it around.
(pichu) [1d6+skill bonus = 5 skill level 1] You manage to successfully transform the Pichu into a Pikachu and set it on the path to a further evolution.
(energy) [1d6 = 2] No explosions, but he still doesn't find anything interesting.
(sales) [1d6 = 6] A license for the process is bought… by the FBI. They didn’t even try to hide it.
"The flares have betrayed Bob, Bob will never forget what they did!"
Bob will keep driving until he gets to the city, when Bob arrives Bob will search for a place near by, like an abandoned farm house or something.
[1d6 = 2] You make it to the city, but there aren't any abandoned farm houses nearby.
Orders- The Butterfly bot is to go out into the world and act as a normal everyday butterfly. While laying it's eggs in trees.
Worker Antbots are to begin work on a tunnel in my lab. Start with a small hole that will let the queen through, then dig down with a sloping curve.
I meanwhile am dumping my termite bots, in all their forms in the trash bag and taking it out. Make sure they have enough food, and they are not to be observed. The trash collector will take them to the dump, which will be their growing grounds.
...I need to order some more parts and materials for my work.
The butterflybot flutters off.
The antbots begin work on the tunnel.
You dump the termitebots in the trash can,
but as you turn around, you see a man in a lab coat crossing his arms. “I suggest that you shut down your replicating devices. They will only serve to exterminate humanity, including you. Instead, you can help better the world.”confront them about the fate I foresaw, which would not only result in the death of humanity, but himself. Ask him to put a stop to his project, and instead direct his research elsewhere. Perhaps medical applications?
You head over to his laboratory, and see a man in a lab coat walking back from dumping something in the trash can. He turns around, startled. You suggest that he should end all research into self-duplication, and instead turn his efforts to bettering the world.Burn them with eldritch flames then ask awakened dark pharaoh, what he wills
[1d6 = 3]
(1d6 +1(eldritch) -1(power) = 5+1-1 = 5) vs (1d6 -1(wounded) = 6-1 = 5)
A lackluster ball of fire shoots from your hands and impacts the wall as they run out of the pyramid.
What do I want? What I want is…FOR YOU TO STOP THEM FROM ESCAPING![size]Now is the type to improve upon the mastery of biological research through the application of silicon-skin, a genetic manipulating process where biological artificial silicon goes inside the skins pours and provides the individuals with hardened layer of silica-rich skin, that improves the skin durability against a multitude of threats and handle greater physical forces, yet remaining flexible when in usage. Perform this surgery into the dog-rat to see the final results.
The horses and other animals will make the tiger-lizards take in the final omega-serum product and the hyper-serum.
The tiger-lizards will than go to where the farmers is and strangle himself when he’s asleep.
(skin) [1d6 +skill bonus = 1+1 = 2] You never end up doing the procedure, instead marvelling at the sheer power of the tiger-lizards.
The tiger-lizards are injected with the latest omega-serum and the hyper-serum.
The farmer is dead. He never had a chance. What now?
Clones: 1 continues to use the cloning vat, max clones of 30; the clones digging(4) keep digging; the remaining 10 clones begin to, carefully, explore the surrounding buildings, ONLY the abandon ones.
I refuse to abandon the idea of a mind duplicator. Continue to design a mind duplicator for now.
(vat) [1d6+skill bonus = 3+1 = 4] Two more clones are produced.
(tunnel) [1d6 +skill bonus(equipment) = 2+1 = 3] Progress is made, but nothing noticable.
(exploration) [1d6 = 3] They contain nothing of note so far.
(duplicator) [1d6 = 1] It… uh… it kind of works? Maybe? Sort of? Okay, it doesn’t work at all, and it’s sending out some weird sort of broadcast?
Turn 20 end.
Turn 21 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, has psychic powers (telekinesis, telepathy)
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 quality batteries for magic, Dr. Adderson’s research notes as of Turn 18, several^2 rechargeable wands with quality batteries (can detect leylines, create light, cause telekinesis), chemical formula of a hard-to-mass-produce rocket fuel better than theoretically possible
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), was injected with an upgrade serum (better memory, faster information processing) for the omega-serum, 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, tiger-sized assorted lizards(were injected with overclocked super-serum (+1 to all defense rolls, bonus to speed rolls, bonus and +1 to strength rolls), were injected with omega-serum (Speedster 2), were injected with hyper-serum (+1 to defense rolls, regenerate a graze every round))), 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 (+1 to defense rolls, regenerate a graze every round), formula for an omega-serum (Speedster 2), formula for an upgrade serum (better memory, faster information processing) for the (Speedster 1) 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), (a different prototype rocket using rocket fuel, passenger area, and engine is heading out of orbit), 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, Erin Quill’s research notes as of Turn 17
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: about half of them) neural net AI named Bastet (very low-end ASI-level, 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, Erin Quill’s research notes as of Turn 17
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 (now an Ivysaur, will grow into Venusaur in 1 turn, +1 to strength rolls), a sample of Aggron DNA, a sample of DNA for an organism that goes through the Aron evolutions as it grows up, an Arcanine (+1 to strength rolls), a sample of Cubchoo DNA, a sample of Beartic DNA, a friendly Graveller (will grow into Golem in 1 turn, +1 to strength rolls), a Pikachu (can make electric bursts, will grow into Raichu in 3 turns, +1 to strength rolls)
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 with a tunnel about a block towards city hall) (contains truck, seventeen obedient clones of himself (have makeshift weapons) 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, a strange mind broadcasty thing, 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 (near several (wounded, grazed) fleeing 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, 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: Pen(Dr. Anamolate)’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, Erin Quill’s research notes as of Turn 17
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 antbots (creates 9 worker antbots each turn, they have strong jaws and can secrete a binding agent strong as metal) that replicates itself every turn, 9 worker antbots, 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 butterflybot (can fly, turn invisible, and inject a nano-virus that converts matter into 256 butterflybots after 4 turns) that lays an eggsack (will grow into 64 butterflybots after 3 turns) each turn, designs for a queen antbot (creates 9 worker antbots each turn, they have strong jaws and can secrete a binding agent strong as metal) 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: in another city with his RV
Inventory: low-grade chemical kit, 1980s-era gas mask, spare filters for gas mask
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
1024 spider-like robots that replicate themselves every turn are dispersed around the starting city in groups of 64
128 dragonfly-like robots (can fly and turn invisible) that replicate themselves every turn are dispersed around the starting city
32 queen termitebots (can tunnel) (default orders are to replicate themselves) that each can replicate itself or create 20 worker termitebots each turn are in a city dump
A butterflybot (can fly, turn invisible, and inject a nano-virus that converts matter into 256 butterflybots after 4 turns) that lays an eggsack (will grow into 64 butterflybots after 3 turns) each turn (can fly and turn invisible), a butterflybot eggsack (will grow into 64 butterflybots after 3 turns), a butterflybot eggsack (will grow into 64 butterflybots after 2 turns), and a butterflybot eggsack (will grow into 64 butterflybots after 1 turn) are dispersed around the city
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