Fight to the death!
If possible me and my select few will try to escape, if it is easier to escape alone I will do that.
If only SOME PEOPLE didn't give the FBI sooo many bonuses. I am look at you other scientists.
FBI tasers and tear gas vs. MMM and company defense
(1d6 +2(weapons) +1(numbers) = 6+2+1 = 9) vs (1d6 +2(numbers) = 6+2 =
MMM and company sticks vs. FBI defense
(1d6 +2(numbers) +1(weapons) = 5+2+1 =
vs (1d6 +2(armor) +1(numbers) = 5+2+1 =
FBI tasers and tear gas vs. MMM and company defense
(1d6 +2(weapons) +1(numbers) = 5+2+1=
vs (1d6 +2(numbers) = 3+2 = 5)
MMM and company sticks vs. FBI defense
(1d6 +2(numbers) +1(weapons) = 3) vs (1d6 +2(armor) +1(numbers) = 2)
FBI tasers and tear gas vs. MMM and company defense
(1d6 +2(weapons) +1(numbers) -1(wounded) = 6+2+1-1 =
vs (1d6 +2(numbers) -1(severely wounded) = 6+2-1 = 7)
MMM and company sticks vs FBI defense
(1d6 +2(numbers) +1(weapons) -1(severely wounded) = 1+2+1-1 = 3) vs (1d6 +1(numbers) +2(armor) -1(wounded) = 6+1+2-1 =
Counterattack: FBI tasers and tear gas vs. MMM and company defense:
(1d6 +2(weapons) +1(numbers) -1(wounded) = 2+2+1-1 = 4) vs (1d6 +2(numbers) -1(severely wounded) = 6+2-1 = 7)
In the early stage, the battle is about evenly matched, but they inflict solid blows and the damage you deal is not that great. Your clones are on their last legs, and the only reason you’ve escaped significant damage is all your organs.
Well.. Use that pone number I got when that guy showed up to see if he knows any suitable A.I. Programmers.
Add the Sensory Suite to the Nano-Pillbugs.
Begin Basic Work on a new BREAKTHRU-IN-SCIENCE.(Portals using the Sub-space to transport objects, like say, from here to a moon base?)
You call the number, but it doesn’t respond. Strange.
(sensory) [1d6+skill bonus +skill bonus(machine) = 1+1+1 = 3] You add a rudimentary sensory suite.
(portals) [1d6+1 +skill bonus(machine) = 1+1+1 = 3] It is definitely basic work. Extremely basic.
Ask Erin if he can help me teleport stuff to the pyramid, meanwhile keep looking for nano robotics/automation scientists
You ask Erin if he can help you teleport stuff to the pyramid. He replies that he’s working on it and to let him know what you need teleported. You reply that you want a rocket and yourself teleported to the place in Egypt that things were happening in.
[1d6 = 3] You find a scientific paper by a Pen(Dr. Anamolate), who seems to work with nanobots, but it doesn’t include any contact information.
Where are the leyline clumps?
Let Bonson know I’m working on that; let me know what you need teleported and I think I should be able to get it teleported soon.
Try making more wands of turn undead.
(This list of actions may be subject to additions. This is likely not the final product.)
There’s one or two leyline clumps on every continent.
Bonson asks you if you can help him teleport stuff to the pyramid. You reply that you’re working on it and to let you know what you need teleported. He replies that he wants a rocket and himself teleported to the place in Egypt that things were happening in.
(wands) [1d6+skill bonus = 4+1 = 5] You create a dozen more or so anti-undead wands.
"Come assistant 1 is time to finalize your training"
assistant 2 will keep searching for a way to create dark types.
Professor Oak will finalize the training of assistant 1 so it has the same Specialty of genetics.
(dark) [1d6 = 2] He doesn’t find anything else.
(teaching) [1d6+skill bonus = 2+1 = 3]
(learning) [1d6 = 4]
One of your assistants completes his training, and will no longer cause explosions. By accident.
Message Erin Quill that the offer is appreciated, but so far there's nothing that I desperately need.
Go interface with Bastet and ask them what the next step of its evolution should be, in terms of any necessary upgrades and what direction those upgrades should take. The hardware is much improved, but that's only a building block to my creation's end goal.
Further improval of hardware will be unsustainable without a dedicated manufacturing base. In order to bootstrap that manufacturing base, the use will be required of either nanobots or magic.
My lord, eh, lords, well, you both are avatars of Nyarlothothep , anyway, we are being attacked, and, by sound of it, well, there are two dozen military cargo planes above us willing to bring end to your reign... Its probably time to unleash your power upon heathens and foolish dogs
Tzi Rekh Kabandh Nahizlet, now you shall serve dark pharaoh damn dogs
Use incantation of broken will to dominate goddamn dogs and force them go after the planes
I would humbly ask you, your dark majesty, to make giant emp blast to ruin all the electronics in planes coming after us and to dominate the simple minds of dogs into your service
”WHAT ARE PLANES-” “YOU NEED TO GET BACK TO THE PAST-” “-I WANT A PLANE-” “-ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING-” “-IT WILL BE MY THRONE-” “-THE HOUNDS LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE A PLAN-”(1d6 +2(eldritchness) = 1+2 = 3) vs (1d6 +3(eldritchness) +3(numbers) = 6+3+3 = 12)
A yellow cloud streaks toward the dogs… but a hound leaps up, somehow catches the cloud in its teeth, and throws it at the Pharaoh of the past. It collides with him, and, by some freak twist of fate, his eyes dull and his movements become sluggish...
Which is all the time that the Hounds of Tindalos need to shove him through a newly opened portal to the past, which closes behind him.
You know, I’m getting new memories that suggest that my past docility was the only reason I didn’t take over the world. And after that display, I’m not taking direct action against them. At any rate, canAnd then rifle fire opens up everywhere.
Paratroopers vs. undead
(1d6 +2(accuracy) +3(weapons) +4(numbers) = 5+2+3+4 = 14) vs (1d6 +3(numbers) +1(eldritchness) = 2+3+1 = 6)
Paratroopers vs. Hounds of Tindalos
(1d6 +2(accuracy) +3(weapons) +4(numbers) = 1+2+3+4 = 10) vs (1d6 +3(numbers) +3(eldritchness) = 4+3+3 = 10)
Paratroopers vs. Pharaoh
(1d6 +2(accuracy) +3(weapons) +4(numbers) = 6+2+3+4 = 15) vs (1d6 +5(eldritchness) +3(intrigue) = 1+5+3 =
The undead are slain almost instantly, the Hounds of Tindalos shrink back from the rifle fire, and even the Dark Pharaoh totters backwards unsteadily.
Screw you too,RNGeesus
Use my skills in quantum mechanics to build a fusion reactor utilizing muons created by a desktop particle accelerator,which works by replacing electrons in the hydrogen gas with muons,causing the nuclei to fuse at low temperatures.
Real thing. Would probably work too.
See about the auction for the statue thing,WITHOUT logging in.
[1d6+skill bonus = 2+1 = 3] Due to parts for fusion reactors not really being publically available, your mock-up doesn’t really work.
The statue thing has attracted a fair amount of attention, but the price hasn’t been driven that high.
"Damn it deer, your really trying Bob's patience."
Make a chemical to make animals more willing to learn things.
[1d6+skill bonus = 2+1 = 3] You create a chemical that sort of does that. The deer is still being annoying.
Turn 32 end.
Turn 33 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^2 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 (one has skill bonus to genetic modification) 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: wounded, 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, fifteen obedient clones of himself (have makeshift weapons) well-equipped for making a tunnel, 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 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 2048 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), 18423 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, rudimentary advanced sensory suite), 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-eight clones of Master Monster are imprisoned (one has mind of a hobo)
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: 2