Magmaholic you can always apply to join my lab 
“The scry abruptly fails.” Yeah, cause that’s not ominous at all.
Have I researched teleportation? I should research teleportation. It should be able to get to Egypt.
Contact all of my mates about the scrying info, as well as the plans for the teleporter.
Have the new guy assist me with the teleportation thing.
See if I can get Bastet to troubleshoot my scrying error, if Nix permits it.
Turn Undead spells please? Let’s work on it.
Try to scry the pith helmet guy. Their history and intentions.
(glass) [1d6+skill bonus = 3+1 = 4]
(new guy) [1d6 = 3]
You both come up with the same general design, but it is your experience that allows you alone to design a working teleportation pentacle.
You send messages off to the three fellow scientists informing them of the new information.
(troubleshoot) You ask Bastet to troubleshoot the scrying error.
Based on the information you have given me, I suspect that the cause of the scrying failure was an uncontrolled discharge of magic near the place that the scry was viewing.
(turn) [1d6+skill bonus = 4+1 = 5] You successfully design a pentacle to “Turn” undead. It doesn’t literally turn them. You’ll probably need to miniaturize it.
(scry) [1d6+skill bonus = 1+1 = 2] The scry simply fails.
"Bastet, this might end up being a threat to us. Let's help them."
Ask Bastet to start acquiring as much information, from as many credible sources as possible, regarding this inter dimensional invasion. Have this information collated, and see what practical intel can be gained from it.
As for myself, start designing some narrow single purpose AI to start buying lottery tickets based on Bastet's calculations. Do it safely and as subtly as possible, to avoid any sort of detection by authorities.
There is precisely one source of this information: Dr. Adderson. I believe him, but there is simply not much to analyze.
(auto-tickets) [1d6+skill bonus = 4+1 = 5] You design a ticket-buying AI.
You receive a message from Glass. “The invasion appears to be originating from a pyramid. I observed zombies, a guy in a pith helmet, a strange portal, and then the scry abruptly failed due to an uncontrolled discharge of magic in the pyramid. Attached is a design for a teleportation pentacle.”
its a start regardless. Pull some strings with the US military and FBI since I got them psychic powers before most other people, and disclosed important information to them regarding how to increase the effectiveness of using such powers. Ask them to send forces to help secure the site before the situation becomes irreversible.
Finally, catch my flight and pray that it isnt too late to stop this impending doom.
(convince) [1d6 +skill bonus(trusted) +skill bonus(precognition) = 5 skill level 1]
(forces) [1d6 +1+skill bonus(convinced) = 5 skill level 1]
“We’ll see what we can do, Doctor.”
You receive a message from Glass. “The invasion appears to be originating from a pyramid. I observed zombies, a guy in a pith helmet, a strange portal, and then the scry abruptly failed due to an uncontrolled discharge of magic in the pyramid. Attached is a design for a teleportation pentacle.”
You receive a message from Samuel Oak. "Managed to create a highly modified Scottish Fold cat with physic powers.”
Lacking an understanding of how to make the pentacle teleport you to the right place, you decide to just catch your flight.
Turns until arrival: 5
Dispatch a squad(5) of clones to the warehouse. Have 1 squad explore the warehouse, the other squad begins fortifying the closest exit, the 2 tunnelers begin scavenging what is in this warehouse.
1 clone runs the vat. All the rest help me with building and setting up more cloning vats.
12(2 squads(1 is the hobo clone) + 2 tunnelers) at the warehouse
5(1 squad) guarding the sealed entrance to the first building
5(1 squad) guarding the warehouse branch exit
1 working the vat
8 helping me setup and building more vats
31 total
That was so it is easier for me to see where everyone is
(vat) [1d6+skill bonus = 2+1 = 3] One more clone is produced and goes off to guard the warehouse branch exit.
(vats) [1d6+skill bonus = 3+1 = 4] You create another cloning vat. It doesn’t have the special features of the other one, though.
(explore)
(fortify)
(scavenge)
Round 1:
(1d6 +2(numbers) +2(weapons) = 4+2+2 =
vs (1d6 +2(numbers) = 2+2 = 4)
(1d6 +2(numbers) +1(weapons) = 1+2+1 = 4) vs (1d6 +2(numbers) +2(armor) = 5+2+2 = 9)
(1d6 +2(numbers) +2(weapons) = 1+2+2 = 5) vs (1d6 +2(numbers) = 2+2 = 4)
Round 2:
(1d6 +2(numbers) +2(weapons) = 5+2+2 = 9) vs (1d6 +2(numbers) +1(weapons) -2(pepper spray) = 2+2+1-2 = 3)
(escape) (1d6 +2(numbers) -2(pepper spray) = 3+2-2 = 3) vs (1d6 +2(numbers) +2(weapons) = 2+2+2 = 6)
(awareness) [1d6 +2(obviousness) = 3+2 = 5]
One of the clones guarding the warehouse branch exit runs up to you. “The FBI- it was an ambush- they’ve got pepper spray- they could be coming down here any minute now!”
Hm… that spoiler thing is a good idea. I’ll just put it here because I’m not sure Bay12 can handle nested spoilers.
12(2 squads(1 is the hobo clone) + 2 tunnelers) at the warehouse
5(1 squad) guarding the sealed entrance to the first building
5(1 squad) guarding the warehouse branch exit
1 working the vat
9 helping you setup and building more vats
32 (20 active) total
Alhram Nahizlet Kar Azzet Quisshouguagh
Inscribe unholy runes around portal and use staff and wealth of eldritch knowledge to make gate GREAT
My lord, I am glad, that my service is found worthy
With second ritual try to cause madness inducing plague in U.S, Europe and China
(great) [1d6 +2(eldritchness) = 5+2 = 7] The portal explodes outward, increasing the number of eldritch undead arriving…
(1d6 +2(eldritchness) = 4+2 = 6) vs (1d6 +2(power) = 3+2 = 5)
...And you manage to dodge out of the way of the sudden stampede of eldritch undead.
(attempt) [1d6 +2(eldritchness) = 2+2 = 4] You cast your ritual…
(US) (1d6 +2(eldritchness) = 4+2 = 6) vs (1d6 +12(numbers) = 3+12 = 15)
(Europe) (1d6 +2(eldritchness) = 4+2 = 6) vs (1d6 +12(numbers) = 3+12 = 15)
(China) (1d6 +2(eldritchness) = 4+2 = 6) vs (1d6 +13(numbers) = 1+13 = 14)
And nothing happens.
(Note: I didn’t use the number 4 for all of the offensive rolls, I rolled three dice and they all came up 4.)
"I can't help this much, but you should inform someone on this, this one is trustworthy"
Build a rocket and use the pentacle in case that would be useful.
You receive a message from Glass. “The invasion appears to be originating from a pyramid. I observed zombies, a guy in a pith helmet, a strange portal, and then the scry abruptly failed due to an uncontrolled discharge of magic in the pyramid. Attached is a design for a teleportation pentacle.”
(build) [1d6 = 3] You manage to get part of a rocket built, but not a lot.
The guard stares blankly at you.
send message to Dr Adderson "Managed to create a highly modified Scottish Fold cat with physic powers.
Professor Oak will make so espurr can evolve into meowstic.
Assistant 1 will continue working to allow the pidgeot evolution.
Assistant 2 will continue reading scientific journals.
You send the message to Dr. Adderson.
(meowstic) [1d6+skill bonus = 2+1 = 3] You make a little progress, but not much.
(pidgeot) [1d6 = 6] The Pidgey somehow double-evolves into Pidgeot.
(journals) [1d6 = 2] Cheese farming? Skate users? Bloody minded? Wait, this isn’t a journal, it’s an encyclopedia.
"Come with Bob new deer friend, so Bob can teach you some things."
Bring the deer back to the RV and teach it proper English and some basic chemistry.
The deer heads back to your RV, but fails to learn anything from your efforts at teaching.
Take a few pictures of the modern art thing and put it on an auction at Ebay under the name "Totally not magic modern art piece (Uncomfortable Furniture-Yenkovich 2018)".
"That should make the auction go nuts,i bet."
Read up on the BRAND NEW magic papers,and try to create a corundum gemstone with silver impurities using aluminium oxide and silver.(like sapphires and rubies are corundum crystals with chrome manganese and other stuff)
Silver should be a magic conductor,so what about SILVER IN JEMS? I can make JEMS that do not occur naturally. And i doubt you can summon something that does not exist.
So what will it make? A focus?Amplifier? A lens if i cut it right?Or just an uncommon gemstone?
You put it up on Ebay.
(crystal) [1d6+1 = 3+1 = 4] You manage to create the corundum gemstone.
(leylines) [1d6 = 6] But when you do so…
(backlash) [1d6 = 6] The gemstone explodes.
Post a message on some of the secure sites on the net.
Looking for top notch A.I. Programers and Coders. Generous Salalry and a once in a Lifetime chance at being at the Forefront of VR
Next, check on my builders, how much have they managed to do?
Finally, work on upgrading the nano-builder to create gear on a macro scale.
(interwebs) [1d6 +skill bonus(machine) -1(typos) = 4+1-1 = 4] Fortunately, you manage to correct the typos before posting it. An internet user responds in an hour or two, saying he’s interested but wants to discuss what the “forefront” is and the exact salary.
They have made a tunnel network underneath your lab. Maybe you should have checked earlier?
(nano-builder) [1d6+skill bonus +skill bonus(machine) = 5 skill level 1] You successfully improve the quality of the nano-builder by a significant amount.
Turn 29 end.
Turn 30 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 Pidgeot (+1 to strength rolls), an Espurr (+1 to strength rolls, psychic), designs for an efficient bio-emitter, Dr. Adderson’s research notes as of Turn 29
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 two cloning vats (one has following bonuses: +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^2 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: On a plane to Egypt (arrives in 5 turns)
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 (ant-scale tunnel network underneath) (contains 512 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), 4599 worker antbots, a nano-scrubber (highly efficient CO2 breakdown, slow replication via seeds), true virtual reality headset, quality 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 another city with his RV (near a talking deer ally)
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
In this turn: Lero managed to avoid becoming the first casualty of uninformed magic usage.
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