Let's see what we can do about that then.
Identify the necessary hardware needed to drastically improve Bastet's capabilities. Politely ask Bastet if they can calculate the best methods to obtain said hardware, legally or illegally. Along with all the funds, equipment, personnel, etc. required to obtain them
Step 1: Funds. Lotteries will provide a substantial amount by normal standards. I will provide you with the necessary details when you are ready.
Step 2: Hardware. An increase in computing power of more than 25x will likely be unnecessary for the short term, so a bulk of commercial-grade computers will suffice. The exact brands are not important.
Suddenly, an urgent message arrives from Erin. “Impending interdimensional invasion in Egypt. Dr. Adderson is trying to deal with it, but any help you could offer would be appreciated.”
Send the info to Bonson and Nix/Bastet, as requested.
Scry Egypt for unusual happenings.
Try making wands that can cast more conventional “spells”. Take inspiration from Harry Potter and D&D.
See if, with the now more-official-ness of magic, I can get some other interested [npc] scientists interested in the new field to join my lab and do research [for me, while I help save the world from the Eldritch Egyptian apocalypse that I don’t actually know about get].
You rapidly send off messages to the two scientists and the AI.
(scry) [1d6+skill bonus = 5 skill level 1] There are zombies in a pyramid. Not mummies, zombies. And there’s also a guy in a pith helmet, and a strange portal, and-
(backlash) [1d6 = 3] The scry abruptly fails.
(wands) [1d6+skill bonus = 6-1 = 5] Lacking any concrete ideas on what exactly the wands should do, you end up just making several wands to cause unconsciousness.
(scientists) [1d6 = 3] You only get one other scientist to join you.
Try to find someone who works on construction robots or nano machines to help with construction in outer space.
[1d6 = 2] You were about to start investigating, but then an urgent message from Erin arrives.
“Impending interdimensional invasion in Egypt. Dr. Adderson is trying to deal with it, but any help you could offer would be appreciated.”
The guard coughs. “Need any help packing up your laboratory?”
"Deer communicate with Bob, tell Bob your secrets."
Talk to the deer, and get it to join Bob in whatever Bob's gonna do in the future.
[1d6 = 5] Somehow, you manage to convince the deer to join you.
retrieve and consume pizza with assistant, caretaker and pokemons then back to work.
Samuel Oak will try to use the new information about physic powers to create an Espurr.
Assistant 1 will work into adding the evolution of pidgeot to the pidgey finishing the evolution line.
Assistant 2 will check scientific journals for new interesting discoveries
Mmm, pizza.
(espurr) [1d6+skill bonus = 5 skill level 1] You successfully create an Espurr.
(pidgeot) [1d6 = 2] The assistant makes no progress on adding the evolution.
(check) [1d6 = 3] He hasn’t found anything yet, but he hasn’t read all the recent journals yet either.
Yesha! Now that shadow something has dissapeared or something,it is time to have my first turn!
Test the CATALYST BEAM on furniture,for organic demaintoids or whatever can crystallyse from chemical mess that is wood. Muh blings.
EDIT:*sees breaking news on the telly about the discovery of magic* "oh for FU-"
[1d6+1 = 3+1 = 4] You learned something today. Most wooden furniture isn’t 100% wooden. Long story short, there’s now a modern art sculpture in your lab that looks like somebody glued a bunch of wooden caltrops together with plastic and metal. Maybe the impurities affected the results?
archeological? In that case, start researching any digs or explorations that started recently in egypt. Also, look into hiring some mercenaries and getting plane tickets to egypt so I can go and investigate in person. Maybe some of my ex military volunteers would be willing to aid in this?
(research) [1d6 +skill bonus(strong psychic powers) +skill bonus(precognition) = 3+1+1 = 5] There was only one exploration launched recently. An expedition to a pyramid recently discovered by satellite, led by the eccentric John West.
(mercenaries) [1d6 = 2] You don’t find any mercenaries...
(tickets) [1d6 +skill bonus(precognition) = 5 skill level 1] But surprisingly enough, your contacts manage to arrange a flight. It’ll still take a while (10 hours, or five turns), but it’s probably the best time you’re going to get.
When the tunnelers are ready begin plan surfacing(Have the tunnelers keep tunneling to where they saw cover on that branch. Then same procedure as before: have a squad of 5 clones set up a guard position in the room at the end of the westward branch. Than only 2 tunnelers tunnel up and if they are in the wide open quickly close off the last room, if they are in cover have the 7 clones there secure that end.).
Have 1 clone run the cloning vat. Begin making more vats.
(digging) [1d6 +skill bonus(equipment) = 3+1 = 4]
(result) [1d6 = 6]
The diggers come out in a warehouse. The 7 clones exit the tunnel and secure the warehouse.
(vat) [1d6+skill bonus = 4+1 = 5] Four more clones are produced.
(vats) [1d6+skill bonus = 1+1 = 2] The tunnels are just too cramped to properly assemble a vat.
Try to learn profane arts from any scrolls or engravings in pyramid.
Search for any artifacts , preferably staff to act as focus of arcane might.
Cooperate with dark pharaoh and undead to return back even more of pharaohs might and enlarge the gate to his realm.
My lord, I am happy to be one of few being first to witness restoration of your wise rule.
What now ?
ooc : is dark pharaoh doing anything secretly on his own, or do I have to be elder god of chaos incarnation babysitter ?
Fixed
(learn) [1d6 +1(eldritch power) = 6+1 = 7] Eldritch knowledge swims behind your eyes.
(search) [1d6 +1(eldritch power) = 3+1 = 4] You find a staff.
(enlarge) [1d6 +1(eldritch power) = 2+1 = 3] The portal shudders a little, but nothing really happens.
You shall continue with your current course of action. I shall prepare to truly restore my rule.Get to work on a neural interface for the nervegear. Use my new nano-builder to help with this.
device for scanning and interpreting the user’s thoughts
I want this to stop the nerves and send a signal to keep the body in a relaxed state. And the Nervegear will send the necessary data. A Virtual Reality. All due to the process and link.
Safe as well, for that matter. A gaming system that allows full immersion in that world.
[1d6 +skill bonus(machine) = 6-1 = 5] You manage to successfully create a true virtual reality headset.
Turn 28 end.
Turn 29 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, contains scientist)
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, Dr. Adderson’s research notes as of Turn 18, several^2 rechargeable wands with quality batteries (can detect leylines, create light, cause telekinesis), several rechargeable wands with quality batteries (can knock people out), chemical formula of a hard-to-mass-produce rocket fuel better than theoretically possible, design of pentacle to summon the rocket fuel in container
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
Location: Bernarnd Bonson’s laboratory (contains several fuel tanks full of the rocket fuel, contains pentacle to summon the rocket fuel in container)
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, design of pentacle to summon the rocket fuel in container
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 and pizza)
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 Raichu (can make electric bursts, +1 to strength rolls), formula for a nonlethal poison (takes 4 rounds to knock opponent unconscious, can be absorbed through the skin), an Ekans (+1 to strength rolls), an Arbok (+1 to strength rolls), a Pidgey (+1 to strength rolls, will evolve into Pidgeotto in 2 rounds), an Espurr (+1 to strength rolls, psychic), designs for an efficient bio-emitter
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 to the right two blocks in (branching tunnel slopes up and leads to a warehouse)) (building end of main tunnel is sealed off)) (tunnel contains truck, a mind duplicator, thirty-one obedient clones of himself (have makeshift weapons) well-equipped for making a tunnel (five are guarding building end of tunnel, five are guarding end of branching tunnel, seven are in new warehouse, one has mind of 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 (+2 to eldritch rituals/spells/knowledge)
Location: inside of the Egyptian pyramid (contains dark vizier, contains ? ? ?, contains a gate to dark pharaohs realm (produces several eldritch undead every round), contains several*2 eldritch undead)
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, precognition/postcognition/scrying, shield (+2 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 (contains several^3 psychic monkeys)
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, has several hundred thousand dollars in bank account
Location: Dr. Anamolate’s laboratory (contains 256 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), 2295 worker antbots, a nano-scrubber (highly efficient CO2 breakdown, slow replication via seeds), true virtual reality headset, rudimentary nano-builder, 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) (patented) (city can use design for 5 years)
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 woods (near a talking deer ally) near 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, lots of the chemical
magmaholic
Name: Lero Yenkovich
Goal: Dissapointed in the non-existence of magic,he will make his own almost-magic. It will get him all the blackjack and hookers he craves,he thinks.LITTLE DOES HE KNOW
Field of science that you excel in: quantum mechanics
Your greatest creation/discovery: CATALYST BEAM!!!1! That is,an alien spacegun looking thing with a crystal tuning fork coated with a polarizing film in the middle instead of an antenna. It crystallizes the targets using magnetic fields,piezoelectricity,lasers,and the dense spiral grooves on the tuning fork which remain unpolarized,functioning like the double slit experiment thing on roids.
Status: fine
Location: Lero Yenkovich’s laboratory (contains modern art sculpture)
Inventory: Catalyst beam
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
Magic is becoming widely known
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