Ask Bastet to absorb as much data and information that's available regarding nanotech and magic, if they haven't already, and then relay summaries of said information to me.
See if Bastet can get in touch with a mad scientist specialising in nanotech.
I'll make overtures to Erin Quill once I know what's actually necessary to start self-sufficient production means for Bastet's growth.
((I'm not entirely sure if TricMagic's character is one of the ones that made contact with me or if I'm misremembering))
Magic is a phenomenon previously unencountered by humankind. It consists of a globe-spanning leyline network that channels mana around the planet and produces new mana. When the mana is diverted (and absorbed) by silver, various effects occur, depending on the path that the mana takes. Gold and bronze together act as resistors or diodes to mana. A comparison to electricity was made by Erin Quill. (Now that I think about it, we’re going to have to find names for various units of magic when this is all over. A small concern, but it came up as an idle thought.)
Nanotechnology is the branch of engineering dealing with very small-scale engineering, with each individual creation usually no bigger than an ant. Sometimes up to the size of a mouse. One nanotech scientist recently created self-replicating robots, which were detected in a targeted precognitive vision by Dr. Adderson, who confronted the nanotechnician and, after some conversation, got him to shut down the robots. The nanotechnician has since gone on to create a nanotech plant (as in, animal vegetable mineral, not factory) that acts as a rather effective carbon filter. Due to the short timespan since then, they have not been distributed widely. I am unclear on the exact name of the scientist, with his name only being written in publications as Pen(Dr. Anamolate) and me being unsure whether that means his name is Dr. Pen Anamolate or not.
Start having the clones kill each other and destroy the equipment, making it seem as tho the are multiple people in charge fighting each other. In the chaos slip out undetected, failing that jump into the mind transfer device and turn it on.
This plan will go really, really good or really, really bad. Either way I am resigning myself to the futility of this.
FBI tasers and tear gas vs. MMM and company defense:
(1d6 +2(weapons) +1(numbers) = 6+2+1 = 9) vs. (1d6 +2(numbers) -2(mortally wounded) = 2+2-2 = 2)
MMM and company defense vs. MMM and company defense:
(1d6 +1(weapons) +1(numbers) = 2+1+1 = 4) vs. (1d6 +1(numbers) = 4+1 = 5)
Unfortunately, your clones were too few in number and too subdued to put up much resistance (even to each other), and any thoughts of escape are quickly dashed when a team in purple storms the room and you find yourself telekinetically restrained.
Contact the publisher of the paper and ask them about contact with Dr. Anamolate
You receive a design for a pentacle from Erin, as well as a message stating that it should be capable of teleporting oneself directly to the Egyptian anomaly.
[1d6 = 6] “Oh, certainly! He’s making a call now, let me just put you through… and, there!”
Professor Oak will study magic.
Assistant 1 (now Professor Elm) will work in improving the bio-emiter.
Assistant 2 (now just Assistant) will try to create an Bonsly
(study) [1d6 = 1] Note to self: “study” does not mean “make a random design and test it”. At least not at first.
(backlash) [1d6 = 4] Ah well, at least no harm done besides a minor explosion.
(improve) [1d6+skill bonus = 1+1 = 2] Professor Elm doesn’t make any progress, but the emitter is so advanced that improving it would pretty much be a waste of time anyway.
(create) [1d6 = 2] The plant-like nature of the creature, especially, trips him up, explaining how he didn’t even manage to start.
Espurr has evolved into Meowstic!
No parts? HERESY!
make a revolutionary quantum fusion reactor so simple a child could build it out of a pickle jar,some magnets and a spool of wire. Then restart compooter and check muh eebay.
Well, it is technically quantum, being that a dynamo produces quanta of energy. “Fusion” and “reactor”, not so much.
In a much smarter idea, you simply restart your computer, which removes the infinite logout error. The price still isn’t that high, but the bidding period is nowhere near over.
"Bob has something for you to drink deer."
Make the deer drink the chemical that'll make it more willing to learn, and teach it something, then make more teargas grenades.
The deer drinks the chemical and begins to learn proper English.
[1d6+skill bonus = 4+1 = 5] You make more tear gas grenades. How many are you going to need?
Know, oh despoilers,
This pyramid is of dark pharaoh,
Grave mistake your crime was,
And so your blood will boil,
Inside your skin scarabs will crawl,
Until you witness thousand sinister
Forms in which manifest his wrath
and glory
Read aloud curse enscribed on walls of pyramid to unleash it upon paratroopers
Channel energy from gate into dark pharaoh to empower him
(curse) [1d6 +2(eldritchness) = 5+2 = 7]
(1d6 +2(eldritchness) +2(power) = 1+2+2 = 5) vs. (1d6 +5(numbers) = 5+5 = 10)
(backlash) (1d6 +2(power) = 3+2 = 5) vs. (1d6 +2(eldritchness) = 6+2 =
You attempt to curse them, but their sheer numbers disrupt the spell, and only their complete ignorance of the eldritch arts prevent you from being hit by the backlash.
(channel) [1d6 +2(eldritchness) = 3+2 = 5] You channel the energy from the gate into Dark Pharaoh, but the gate disappears in the process, its energy used up.
Paratroopers vs. undead
(1d6 +2(accuracy) +3(weapons) +4(numbers) = 1+2+3+4 = 10) vs. (1d6 +2(numbers) +1(eldritchness) = 6+2+1 = 9)
Paratroopers vs. Hounds of Tindalos
(1d6 +2(accuracy) +3(weapons) +4(numbers) = 1+2+3+4 = 10) vs. (1d6 +3(numbers) +3(eldritchness) = 6+3+3 = 12)
Paratroopers vs. Pharaoh
(1d6 +2(accuracy) +3(weapons) +4(numbers) = 2+2+3+4 = 11) vs. (1d6 +5(eldritchness) +3(intrigue) +2(size) = 1+5+3+2 = 11)
Sniper team vs. John West
(1d6 +2(accuracy) +4(weapons) +1(numbers) = 1+2+4+1 =
vs. (1d6 +2(eldritchness) +3(intrigue) = 2+2+3 = 7)
In a shocking display of ineptness after their powerful initial assault, the paratroopers fail to do any noticeable damage to their targets. A sniper bullet does graze you, however, which exacerbates your untreated wounds from earlier.
In addition, the Hounds of Tindalos are stalking back towards you now that they are not interrupted by gunfire.
Have my workers expand the tunnel to human sized, so I can create my Teleport Ring down there.
Continue my work on this Nano Pillbug to upgrade it's sensory suite.
As well, use the work I did on the BREAKTHRU-IN-SCIENCE to create a working teleporter, with the base ring being in my new underground lab.. Use Gravity, starlight, and a special program for it. I can later work out a stable tunnel to take things through, but a simple teleporter will do for now to send nanobots through to start the projects.
See about another possible upgrade to the Power. I'm going to need flawless calculation for this.
You have the workers start expanding the tunnels.
(upgrade) [1d6+skill bonus +skill bonus(machine) = 2+1+1 = 4] You manage to remove the “rudimentary” part of the sensory suite.
(teleporter) [1d6+1 +skill bonus(machine) = 2+1+1 = 4] You manage to achieve a basic understanding of subspace teleportation, but construction of a teleporter temporarily escapes you.
You make a call to whatever bureaucracy office manages this, but are cut off to hear the noise of a man saying “-ut you through… and, there!”
I'll make overtures to Erin Quill once I know what's actually necessary to start self-sufficient production means for Bastet's growth.
Assuming Nix and/or Bastet contact me with their requirements, I’ll summon the equipment they need and send it to them.
Have I actually been able to make a teleporter that can go close enough to the Egyptian anaomaly site? If so, send it to Bonson; elsewise, make one.
What’s my stock of materials? If it’s running low, run the wire-conjuring pentacles again.
Start working on the magic computer.
Bastet contacts you with a very complicated schematic for a conjuration pentacle.
(assembly) [1d6+skill bonus = 4+1 = 5] You begin work on the conjuration pentacle, but don’t even get close to finishing it.
(teleporter) [1d6+skill bonus = 6-1 = 5] You manage to figure out the coordinate thing, and send schematics for the appropriate pentacle to Bonson.
So apparently, a pound of gold/silver/bronze does not actually take up a significant amount of space. You run the wire-conjuring pentacles a few times.
As it turns out, you don’t actually know how to make a computer. Magic-ifying an existing one might work, but you’re not sure how exactly to do that yet.
Turns until arrival: 1
An announcement comes over the intercom of the plane. “Excuse me, Doctor Adderson? There isn’t time to land due to the urgency of the situation, so you’ll have to exit by parachute. There’s one in the compartment under your seat, please follow the instructions printed on it.”
Turn 33 end.
Turn 34 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, contains conjuration pentacle 2/9 complete)
Inventory: A briefcase-sized silver pentacle with silver capacitor, an inch cubed of titanium, 10-pound spool of bronze wire, 10-pound spool of silver wire, 10-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), a Meowstic (+1 to strength rolls, psychic), a Rattata (+1 to strength rolls, evolves into Raticate in 1 turn), 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, -1 to all combat rolls, TELEKINETICALLY IMMOBILIZED, 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*2 (several have psychic powers) FBI agents and a shaped charge)) (tunnel contains truck, a mind duplicator, fifteen obedient clones of himself (about to be sent to prison) 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: severely wounded, -1 to all 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 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 4096 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), 36855 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, 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*2 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
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