In this turn: Shadowclaw makes a mistake.True, but not specific.
In this turn: Shadowclaw underestimates his opponents.But why was it an underestimate?
In this turn: The United States of America stops pulling its punches.Yup, that sounds about right.
Samuel Oak will go back to work into creating the Ekans
Assistant 1 will go back to working into the biological energy generation project
Assistant 2 will study birds and write notes about what he would do to create the pidgey line.
The caretaker was hired to be an in-universe excuse to why the pokemons seem to be in a limbo when not interacted with so I will not give it actions.
(ekans) [1d6+skill bonus = 2+1 = 3] You’re making progress, but a purple snake isn’t quite there yet.
(moves) [1d6 = 3] He thinks he’s got an idea, but nothing quite yet.
(pidgey) [1d6 = 6] He seems to have put too much effort into the notes and not enough into studying birds. An entire slideshow presentation… that calls a pidgeon “
Avia Avis”.
Dr. Adderson responds, saying that he would be willing to assist but first needs to check if psychic powers are unique to humans.
1. Try making a teleportation pentacle. Test it by teleporting stuff first to a designated location, then to a location directly next to a block, and if all that works, teleport the fuel to Bronson's location (plus a few feet to the left or something like that).
2. Figure out what the deal is with psionics magic and why it's exhausting me.
3. Cleab up that doc, I swear to god.
4. Maybe investigate other rumors of magic stuff? I wonder how much of that stuff was true.
(teleportation) [1d6+skill bonus+1 = 6-1+1 = 6] After several tests, you decide to just teleport the fuel to him directly since he isn’t answering the door to his lab, and you do so.
(research) [1d6+skill bonus = 4+1 = 5] Apparently, when you try to cast magic without a battery, the magic is drawn from… your body? You’re still not quite sure on that subject, but you know that you should probably save doing so for emergencies.
(*clean) [1d6 = 2] You “cleab” up the doc. It’s still got random unrelated things everywhere, but now they’re about the Cambridge Land Economy Advisory Board instead of complete nonsense.
(rumors) [1d6 = 3] You start investigating, but are quickly distracted by the sounds of explosions and massed gunfire in the distance. What is going on over there?!?
Do a backround check on this oak person, and respond that I would be willing to assist but need to do some testing to see if other creatures can in fact gain psychic power.
speaking of that, have some assistants purchase a few monkeys since they have brains closer to ours than most other animals. Oh, and do another group doom-scry.
(investigation) [1d6 +skill bonus(strong psychic powers) = 1+1 = 2] Your computer is suddenly commandeered by a monkey, who proceeds to start banging on the keyboard randomly.
You end up sending the message from your phone, wanting to respond quickly.
(monkeys) [1d6 = 6] Apparently the assistants purchased some monkeys, but then the monkeys escaped their cages and now there’s just monkeys everywhere.
(doom) [1d6+skill bonus +skill bonus(group) = 2+1+1 = 4] Surprisingly enough, the chances of an eschatological scenario are being… compressed, in a sense. All scenarios are growing less likely, except for one which is growing in likelyhood: Interdimensional invasion.
Fucking fine, you want a fight... well it’s time for some body bags.
Have the the tiger-lizards assault the SWAT teams with their improved speed and regenerative qualities, murdering all the infantry and taking out the armor, distracting time for the main forces.
The horses shall make sure all of the other mice’s and hamsters are injected with the super-soldier, hyper, and omega serums+gamma ray emitter and be prepared to murder the SWAT team for the following turn.
The dog-rat will inject himself with the hyper and omega serum, and the super-soldier serum. And get inside the semi-truck with its opposable thumbs and crash into the SWAT armored carriers.
Allam will inject himself with the hyper serum, and with the chaos of the animals rampaging against the SWAT. Will utilize his superior speed to leave the position and go to the ranch.
The tiger-lizards charge out the door, but are quickly destroyed by massed assault rifle and machine-gun fire.
The horses inject the mice with the hyper-serum, but accidentally kill a group of hamsters in their haste to administer the serums.
The dog-rat injects himself with the hyper-serum and omega-serum, but traps himself inside the super-soldier serum preparatory cage without turning on the gamma beam emitter.
And you? You make a run for it out the back exit, only to be deafened as half a dozen tanks shell the building. It doesn’t seem to have been damaged, but it still stuns you for a few precious seconds...
And when you look up, dozens of guns are pointed at you. They had the building surrounded.While Bastet is busy upgrading its code, design a narrow simulation AI, one that can calculate data and create a probability based prediction of the future.
[1d6+skill bonus = 5 skill level 1] You successfully do so, but although it may be a powerful AI, it can only predict from the data given.
Your will be done, My lord, your enemies were obliterated. I would humbly ask you to grant me greater eldritch power and knowledge, so I can be truly worthy of being your vizier.
Now, assuming, that pnacotic manuscript was right .....we move to bringing our master, elder god Nyarlothotep into this world and are going to ten thousands years reign of dark pharaoh part of prophecy?
[1d6 +1(eldritch whims) = 3+1 = 4] A rush of eldritch power flows into you.
Very well.
Yes. I do think we will do that. First, however, we must build up our forces.Close off the tunnel @ the warehouse. Have 6 clones dig a branching tunnel to the west(unless that is the direction of the City Hall go another direction). Continue to design a mind duplicator NOT BUILDING it just DESIGN it. Have the clones move everything 2 rooms away from the warehouse and set up a guard in the room between(5 clones will be in this guard).
(close) [1d6 = 4] They seal off the warehouse end of the tunnel.
(branching) [1d6 +skill bonus(equipment) = 6-1 = 5] They dig a branching tunnel to the west about two blocks.
(duplicator) [1d6 = 6] Yet another variant of the mind broadcasty thingy.
The clones move everything to that room and set up a guard.
Oh Right, this was an accident formed by miscalculation in the landing stage, it was suppose to land straight like another rocket that I landed somewhere in the area, which reminds me, I have something that might be of interest to some rocket scientists
1. Try making a teleportation pentacle. Test it by teleporting stuff first to a designated location, then to a location directly next to a block, and if all that works, teleport the fuel to Bronson's location (plus a few feet to the left or something like that).
If that goes well, the investigation is going to turn very interesting
One of the men leans forward at your last sentence, but is shushed by the man in the center. “So what, you decided to remotely pilot a rocket by yourself with no training when it could just as easily have crashed into a city?”
And then with a popping noise several tanks of fuel appear on the ground. Your guards, startled, aim their rifles at the tanks momentarily, but more importantly, the man in the center… well, if looks could kill."Crows talk to Bob, tell Bob things."
Bob should talk to the crows for a bit, then make more of the chemical that lets animals speak.
The crows… don’t actually say anything interesting. Maybe they don’t know English?
[1d6+skill bonus = 1+1 = 2] Maybe if you… no, that’s not it. No, that’s not it either. Ah, that’s- No! Bad crow! You don’t need to drink it again!
Have a discussion with the Mayor, and use my brainpower to bring him around to my way of thinking.
"This is only the start of it, and passing on Nano-tech patents to another will cause needless legal troubles."
"My main need right now is funding and prestige, I do not care much for money. I am willing to offer a flat rate for the city to make use of it however, a lump sum for 5 years of use. You can make and sell as many as you want, so long as the Patent remains in my name, and the jobs and manufacture is not outsourced too far in the first year."
"While this is a major development, I am currently working on more commercial ventures, medical and entertainment."
"Put simply, cleaner air and a base carbon as the byproduct will likely have many uses, and while the machine that makes it is mine, so long as none try to monopolize the base carbon itself, they can do what they will with it."
He seems to accept that line of reasoning, and the only thing left to do now is to haggle over the price.
Turn 24 end.
Turn 25 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 2), SURROUNDED BY HOSTILE NATIONAL GUARD
Location: outside of Allam Aarant’s laboratory (contains a semi-truck, an obedient rat the size of a large dog (injected with omega2 and hyper-serums, trapped in cage), a bio-computer communicating with the obedience chips by radar, several*2 mice (injected with hyper-serum), several hamsters, 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, being investigated by NASA
Location: A tent in a remote location (contains several fuel tanks full of the rocket fuel)
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 higly improved 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, very high quality narrow AI for extrapolating data to predict the future
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 a Venusaur, +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 Golem (+1 to strength rolls), a Pikachu (can make electric bursts, will grow into Raichu in 1 turn, +1 to strength rolls), formula for a nonlethal poison (takes 4 rounds to knock opponent unconscious, can be absorbed through the skin)
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 a tunnel under an abandoned building (building has basement with a tunnel about three blocks towards city hall (tunnel has branching tunnel stretching two blocks to the right two blocks in) (warehouse end of tunnel is sealed off)) (tunnel contains truck, twenty-two obedient clones of himself (have makeshift weapons) well-equipped for making a tunnel (five are guarding warehouse end of 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, eldritch power (+1 to eldritch rituals/spells)
Location: inside of the Egyptian pyramid
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 99.5% 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 16 queen antbots (capable of replicating itself every turn, capable of creating 9 worker antbots each turn, they have strong jaws and can secrete a binding agent strong as metal), 135 worker antbots, a nano-scrubber (highly efficient CO2 breakdown, slow replication via seeds), device for scanning and interpreting the user’s thoughts, 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, has firewall, has good killswitch for antbots))
Inventory: A nano-machine that increases people’s intelligence (skill bonus to all mental tasks), designs for a spider-like robot (capable of replicating itself every turn), designs for a dragonfly-like robot (can fly, turn invisible, capable of replicating itself every turn), designs for a queen termitebot (can tunnel, capable of replicating itself or creating 20 worker termitebots each turn), designs for a butterflybot (can fly, turn invisible, can inject a nano-virus that converts matter into 256 butterflybots after 4 turns, capable of laying an eggsack (will grow into 64 butterflybots after 3 turns) each turn), designs for a queen antbot (capable of replicating itself every turn, capable of creating 9 worker antbots each turn, they have strong jaws and can secrete a binding agent strong as metal), designs for a nano-scrubber (highly efficient CO2 breakdown, slow replication via seeds)
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, several quality smoke bombs, several smoke bombs, an M9 and lots of ammunition for it, formula for a chemical that makes animals able to talk
Other things:
There is a pyramid in Egypt that 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
128 dragonfly-like robots (can fly and turn invisible, capable of replicating themselves every turn) (shut down) are on a high roof in the starting city
32 queen termitebots (can tunnel, capable of replicating itself or creating 20 worker termitebots each turn) (shut down) are in a city dump
A butterflybot (can fly, turn invisible, can inject a nano-virus that converts matter into 256 butterflybots after 4 turns, capable of laying an eggsack (will grow into 64 butterflybots after 3 turns) each turn) (shut down), a butterflybot eggsack (will grow into 64 butterflybots after 3 turns) (shut down), a butterflybot eggsack (will grow into 64 butterflybots after 2 turns) (shut down), and a butterflybot eggsack (will grow into 64 butterflybots after 1 turn) (shut down) are on a different high roof in the starting city