Profesor Oak will create a fire dog (not a pokemon just a normal fire dog) with a bio-emiter (to test them)
Assistant 1 will make so the rattata can evolve into a raticate.
Assistant 2 will study physic powers specifically how to counter them (research into making dark types)
(fire-dog) [1d6 +skill bonus +skill bonus = 5 skill level 1] The fire-dog was designed and created without a hitch. The bio-emitter even allows for a primitive “Flamethrower” move.
(evolve) [1d6 = 4] The assistant sets the Rattata on the path to evolution.
(dark) [1d6 = 2] The only book he’s found on something like that is a disreputable journal from a tabloid.
Y’know what, I think he probably deserves that.
Polar coordinates? I... guess that works? So long as I know what direction θ=0 is that shouldn’t be a problem. I guess send it and the pentacle design to Bastet. They should be able to calculate how to send people to their destination more accurately than I can.
Identify non-Egypt centers of relatively high magic. Are there any trends to it?
Send Bastet the notes that Adderson sent me a while back and ask them if they think they could become psionic.
Also ask them to try simulating the result of my “magic computer” idea.
Make more of the wands of turn undead.
Send out a message to Bonson and Nix to see if they need me to conjure anything for them.
Have my hiree look into what any other scientists may be doing with magic.
You send the relevant information to Bastet.
As far as you can tell, there’s no pattern to the leylines, judging by the paradoxical fact that they are often clumped together. As for human magic usage, it seems to be mostly concentrated into developed cities.
I don’t know. Perhaps it requires an organic brain, something which is currently beyond my capabilities. Perhaps not. I have not paid much thought to the matter.
That is an interesting idea. I will have to think at length on the results.
(wands) [1d6+skill bonus = 2+1 = 3] You cobble together another wand, but nothing substantial.
You send the message to Bonson and Nix.
So far? Not a lot. Perhaps that’s for the best.
Spend approximately 200,000 dollars on new hardware, see if I can get Bastet to help direct me in integrating it into the current systems.
You purchase the new hardware, and Bastet directs you on the proper way to install it.
You also receive a message from Erin, asking you if you need him to conjure anything for you.
Wtf
Flash the paper with elder sign and then dominate the will of beast with eldritch incantation
Try to summon pharaoh back
As you show the paper, the beast stumbles back, wounded…
(1d6 = 5) vs (1d6 = 3)
And yet you too find the glyph repulsive and even damaging…
(1d6 = 5) vs (1d6 = 3)
In a staggering display of your inability to see the world as it is, you attempt to summon the Dark Pharaoh of five thousand years ago …
[1d6 +2(eldritch) = 6+2 = 8] And somehow you do so. There are now
two Dark Pharaohs in the pyramid.
Dozens more Hounds of Tindalos arrive, and they aren’t happy with any of you.
“WHAT DID YOU DO-” “YOU ABSOLUTE MORON-” “-WHO ARE YOU-” “YOU’VE ANGERED THE-” “-WHY AM I HERE-” “-COLLECTIVE OF THE HOUNDS-”
And then, in what is quite possibly the worst timing ever, two dozen military cargo planes fly over your head and off into the distance before anyone can react.
I only noticed now that there's no location to the teleportation pentacle, non the less, I'm sending my rocket there.
Build the pentacle around the rocket and activate it if possible.
(building) [1d6 = 6] You build the pentacle, but apparently there was a leyline near your lab, because…
(location) [1d6 = 5] The rocket abruptly teleports ten feet to the left.
You also receive a message from Erin, asking you if you need him to conjure anything for you.
Keep unsealing it and move out like said before.
So if I am reading the numbers, I was winning?
(unsealing) [1d6 +skill bonus(equipment) = 5 skill level 1] Out of fear of being caught, your tunnelers unseal the entrance in record time…
Only to be met by an absolutely gobsmacked team of FBI agents and an explosive breaching charge.
”I, er, um, uh, FBI hands in the air!”"Damn it deer learn something from Bob."
Teach the deer anything, I don't care what just something, then make more teargas grenades.
The deer still doesn’t seem to care about learning.
[1d6+skill bonus = 2+1 = 3] You try to make grenades, but your hands are too shaky from anger at the deer to really do much.
Why,why, WHY is it always explosions?
Check ebay again.
Same test as last time,but use graphite this time instead of aluminium oxide,for demantoids instead of sapphire things. Wear a hard hat for protection,too.
You can’t check Ebay because you’re still being logged out of your account.
(creating silver) [1d6+1 = 2+1 = 3]
(creating bismuth) [1d6+1 = 1+1 = 2]
(creating gold) [1d6+1 = 1+1 = 2]
(backlash) [1d6 +skill bonus = 1+1 = 2] Yet another spherical wave ripples into existence from the chunk of silver, expands to a less dramatic size, and vanishes, leaving nothing behind but another hole in your floor.
Only a tiny demantoid of silver appears, and the bismuth and gold ones don’t appear at all. Maybe you’ve been using the beam too much.
"Mostly because I need someone specialized in that field. However, it seems you are not quite capable enough. I did say I was capable of paying you. Any other profits, the bonuses if you will, would be based upon the success of such a product."
Message sent. Go about the red tape, power upgrade?
Set about creating a new nanobot.
This one can replicate itself endlessly as well, it's has the shape of a black pillbug, and acts as a data point and relay.
Make sure to put all the usual things in, from the subspace communicator, to the kill-switch. And add it's own Hub Program.
As for what this one does, it measures things such as water content, temperature and radiation, and acts as a telescopic sight due to a nano-crystal acting as a focus/recorder. It's meant to be released on the surface of an atmosphere-less body, and recording information that way through the subspace, all leading into storage on the network.
All in all, a great addition to spacefaring and information research. Though they can also act as somewhat regular cameras if need be.
I should also see about making one that can catch and record sound through a nano-crystal, but that should prove a seperate project later on.
Look, I don’t think this idea is going to work. Find another programmer to do your dirty work.
(bureaucracy) [1d6 +skill bonus(machine) = 3+1 = 4] You finally manage to have your electrical power increased at least somewhat.
(pillbot) [1d6+skill bonus +skill bonus(machine) = 5 skill level 2] You create the pillbug-bot, but you haven’t installed any of the measuring equipment yet, focusing instead on the basic features.
But mechanically, Glass has no such thing as an "aura of success".
Requesting permission to sig. :3
Permission granted.
Turn 31 end.
Turn 32 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), several rechargeable wands with quality batteries (anti-undead), 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, evolves into Meowstic in 2 turns), a Rattata (+1 to strength rolls, evolves into Raticate in 3 turns), a fire-dog (+1 to strength rolls, has bio-emitter flamethrower), 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 blocked by several FBI agents and a shaped charge)) (tunnel contains truck, a mind duplicator, twenty obedient clones of himself (have makeshift weapons) well-equipped for making a tunnel (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: wounded and grazed, -1 to all combat rolls, resistant to eldritch influences, eldritch power (+2 to eldritch rituals/spells/knowledge), he messed with time
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*3 eldritch undead, contains several^3 Hounds of Tindalos)
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 1024 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), 9207 worker antbots, a nano-scrubber (highly efficient CO2 breakdown, slow replication via seeds), true virtual reality headset, quality nano-builder (producing the VR headset), 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 pillbug-bot (capable of replicating itself every turn), 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, several quality tear-gas grenades
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
Twenty-three 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
Turns until arrival: 3
In this turn: I don’t know what to say anymore.
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