With Raburn’s help, carefully prepare and activate the pentacle, making sure that nothing catastrophic will happen, we will have enough space for all the equipment, and we’ll be able to get it to Bastet.
Raburn activates the pentacle smoothly. The result is an unimpressive crate that rattles slightly as it drops a few millimeters to the floor. Probably full of assorted parts, which would explain the complexity of the pentacle.
There are wheels and handles on the crate, so Raburn extricates it from the conjuration pentacle without too much difficulty. Meanwhile, you have been assembling a teleportation pentacle to send the crate to Nix’s lab.
Go over the data while the Pillbug replicates itself. I want to see if I can throw a portal from an stable point to the space above the moon. Being able to do so in any kind of effectiveness means I can send my Nano-bots to build a starting base.
And perhaps food as well.. See about the design of a Bio-alchemy machine capable of producing food from materials.
Also build a Water Purifier system based off my Nano-alchemy dissembler. Salt water will go in, and the Nanotech takes everything other than plain H2O bonds from it as it passes. Another brilliant invention to sell, and on a commercial scale, should solve any water issues the world has.
Hmm… you’re already using relative distance for portals on Earth, you would need to compensate for the orbit of the moon but that shouldn’t be too hard. Power requirements will be a problem due to the fact that the portal will only be maintained from one side at first, but you can set up some solar panels or something with the nano-assembler and the portal only needs to be big enough to fit a nanobot through.
(cornucopia) [1d6+skill bonus +skill bonus(machine) = 3+1+1 = 5] It’s essentially an automated mini-kitchen and the tastes aren’t quite the same, but the variety in acceptable materials makes it rather useful.
(purifier) [1d6+skill bonus +skill bonus(machine) = 1+1+1 = 3] The nanobots of your first prototype abruptly shut down during testing. After doing analysis, the problem seems to be that you failed to create an exhaust port for the stuff that isn’t water.
"ROOOAAAD TRIIIIP"
How far away? I still have funds from selling the piece of junk thing,so getting there wont be an issue.Keep going maan. Also,radio news pls.
You keep driving towards the desert.
You turn on the radio, but none of the channels are playing anything other than music for the moment. Oh, hey, you’re coming up on the state line.
(luck) [1d6 = 2]
Traffic’s slowing down. An accident? Wow, must be really bad. They’ve set up concrete barriers and they only have one lane open. Strange that all the cars inside the barrier are vans.
Cars are being really slow to go through.
”I warned you.”
Rip the warlock’s blood from his wounds with my telekinetic power, then use it to fuel a new curse of docility by using it to form the elder sign. Cast the curse at the dark pharaoh, and then try to mind-control them one last time.
(1d6 +3(psychic) -1(wounded) = 3+3-1 = 5) vs (1d6 +2(eldritch) -1(wounded) = 4+2-1 = 5)
You only manage to gather the blood firmly outside of his body, which does not harm him.
(elder sign) [1d6 +2(eldritch) +skill bonus+skill bonus(anti-eldritch effect of the elder sign on the dark pharaoh) -2(anti-eldritch effect of the elder sign on the spell) = 5 skill level 2] Against all odds, you curse the Dark Pharaoh with docility. Remnants of his emotions begin bubbling to the forefront of his mind, trying to shake off the spell, but…
...you are forced to counter the effects of an extraordinarily powerful blood-boiling curse first.
(counter) (1d6 +2(eldritch) +3(power) -1(wounded) = 6+2+3-1 = 10) vs (1d6 +2(precognition) +2(eldritch) +2(anti-eldritch) -1(wounded) = 4+2+2+2-1 = 9)
It is too powerful for you to counteract entirely, but you manage to bring its effects down to the barest minimum… which is still too much.
(1d6 +3(psychic) +2(eldritch) -1(wounded) = 5+3+2-1 = 9) (1d6 +5(eldritch) -3(docile) = 1+5-3 = 3)
Somehow, you manage to do it. Even if it is temporary, an eldritch abomination stands before you, eyes vacant and unmoving.
Totally forgot
Check if I have psychic powers
After furiously squeezing your head in your hands and thinking really hard, you conclude that you do not currently have psychic powers.
Add a gate to the wall that's big enough for the RV to fit through, and teach the deer more chemistry stuff, then with the help of the deer build a cabin in the walled area.
(gate) [1d6 +1(deer allies) = 3+1 = 4] Fortunately, adding a gate proves not to be a problem.
You teach the deer more chemistry.
(cabin) [1d6 +1(deer allies) = 6+1 = 7] ...perhaps you got a little carried away. It started with you deciding to build a garage for the RV as well, and then you decided the garage would be connected to the cabin, and then you decided to cannibalize the wooden wall to fortify the house, and… somehow you ended up with a mobile wooden fortress/cabin/RV. It only moves at about five miles per hour, but still...
Professor Oak will finish assistant 2 training.
Professor Elm will try to create a Mankey.
(teaching) [1d6 +skill bonus = 1+1 = 2]
(learning) [1d6 = 3]
Unfortunately, he simply doesn’t yet understand enough about biology to be called a professor.
(mankey) [1d6+skill bonus = 4+1 = 5] Meanwhile, Professor Elm creates a Mankey with ease.
Make zombies loyal to pharaoh again
Try to disrupt foul uneducated unbeliever with making his blood boil from pyramids curse
Nobody will remember you, madman.
Try to assist pharaoh in whatever he is doing
(1d6 +2(eldritch) -1(wounded) = 2+2-1 = 3) vs (1d6 +3(psychic) +2(eldritch) -1(wounded) = 5+3+2-1 = 9)
The mental assault backfires on you, but the paratrooper does not attempt to capitalize on your sudden dizziness.
[1d6 +2(eldritch) +1(staff) = 6+2+1 = 9] The spell is cast with power formerly unknown to you… but it does not kill him like you would expect. It merely brings him one step closer to death.
[1d6 +2(eldritch) = 1+2 = 3] The Dark Pharaoh is, at the moment, trying to resist having his mind dominated by the paratrooper. You leap into the mental fray… and are slammed back into your body by an offhand attack of the paratrooper.
And the Dark Pharaoh fails to resist. He will surely break free, but even a few seconds of him suddenly wishing to counter his normal goals...
”that’s like the pot calling the teakettle black. Have you looked in a mirror recently? you’ve murdered hundreds and are going to murder Billions more if I don’t stop this. what person in their right mind summons eldritch invasions that will surely kill everyone, including themself?!
Did you hit your head so hard that you didn’t think about what it means to let an abomination control the world, or are you so brainwashed that you don’t realise once he’s done playing with you like a doll, he’ll cast you to the Hounds for meddling with time and disrupting his plans in the past?!”
No response necessary.
[spoiler]Minds of the gods are not for mortal understanding.They created all life on this globe of stone, they pushed our species to develop from apes just for us to be the toys in games of true demiurgs.
If you did read pnacotic manuscripts, you would know about the 7 great races before mankind, who ruled the earth just as we do now and about spiderlike men race, which is destined to perish with stone globe we own now in time, when our shiny skyscrapers would be mysterious god pillars for spideresque warrior kings of Tiqussekh.
The fate is already predetermined by beings BYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION
You can fight it, you can accept it, no matter what, you are just chess piece in greater game. And the winners were determined many turns ago.
And finally, Nyarlothotep is one of few creatures of true pantheon, who can be called at least somewhat benevolent. His Nefren Ka incarnate you know as Dark Pharaoh is just ruler unlike modern elite you want to protect. His thousand years long rule is going to be less catastrophic then 20th century.
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No response necessary.
”Then why exactly would they need their toys to open the door for them? Why not just push through on their own instead of relying on their brainwashed servants to do the work for them?
I don’t care about the manuscript you speak of, and if you’ve read it yourself then i’ll pull it from memory later.
Right now is what matters to me, and if spiders eventually rule the world, then hell if i’m to stop them. but I want humanity to last as long as bloody possible in the meantime. speaking of which, fate might be predetermined, but it’s flexible on how it gets there, as I have learned.
oh, and one more thing: I don’t give a damn about “the modern elite” I give a damn about what I forsaw, which is the world being wiped out via extradimensional invasion in the very near future because you thought it was a good idea to meddle with time AND space!”
No response necessary.
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> test under what conditions my beetle can mutate/evolve and how I can guide it's evolution to select certain forms.
[1d6+skill bonus+1 = 5 skill level 1] Apparently, it is always mutating. It normally focuses on all-around physical improvement, but can gain other mutations if the situation requires it. For example, if it needed to outrun a predator, it would gain speed, if it needed to survive a hit, it would gain durability, if it needed to dodge an unsurvivable blow, it would gain agility.
Turn 39 end.
Turn 40 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 (has skill bonus to arcanology), contains metal crate, contains teleport pentacle to NRDL’s lab)
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, design of a repair pentacle (works on anything as complex or less complex than a computer)
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, has skill bonus to all mental rolls
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 35, design of pentacle to summon the rocket fuel in container, generalized zoning plan for an asteroid living and manufacturing base, basic program for automatic rocket landing
NRDL (went into stasis for a few weeks on jan 5)
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: bedridden, does not have access to inventory
Location: a hospital bed (has access to his smartphone)
Inventory: A computer file containing a well-restricted (restrictions: only one set left) neural net AI named Bastet (higher-low-end ASI-level, running on a few hundred thousand dollars worth of highly 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 35, very high quality narrow AI for extrapolating data to predict the future, efficient and effective lottery-winning AI, quality financial manager AI
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: A treatment to increase physical strength (all Pokemon have it), the prototype bulbasaur (now a Venusaur), a sample of Aggron DNA, a sample of DNA for an organism that goes through the Aron evolutions as it grows up, an Arcanine, a sample of Cubchoo DNA, a sample of Beartic DNA, a friendly Golem, a Raichu (can make electric bursts), formula for a nonlethal poison (takes 4 rounds to knock opponent unconscious, can be absorbed through the skin), an Ekans, an Arbok, a Pidgeot, a Meowstic (psychic), a Raticate, a fire-dog (has bio-emitter flamethrower), a Sandslash, a Bonsly (evolves into Sudowoodo in 1 turn), a friendly Squirtle (evolves into Wartortle in 1 turn, evolves into Blastoise in 3 turns after that), a Mankey, designs for an efficient bio-emitter, Dr. Adderson’s research notes as of Turn 29
sprinkled chariot
Name : John West
Goal : Don’t mess with time. Also 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: outside of the Egyptian pyramid (nearby is dark vizier but not ? ? ?), facing Dr. Adderson.
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: severely wounded, -1 to all rolls, 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), eldritch knowledge/resistance (+2 to eldritch rituals/spells/knowledge/resistance), horror marked (attracting attention of astral horrors)
Location: facing John West (nearby is several^2 (wounded) eldritch undead)
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 35, several wands of turn undead, several wands of unconsciousness
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 rolls, has several hundred thousand dollars in bank account
Location: Dr. Anamolate’s laboratory (ant-scale tunnel network underneath) (contains two arch-shaped portals, 262144 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), 2359287 worker antbots, a nanoforge, 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 basic nanoalchemy machine, designs for a nanoalchemy kitchen, 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 a remote wood with his RV/wooden fortress/cabin (near several talking deer allies)
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, fairly large amount of gunpowder, formula for a chemical that makes animals slightly more willing to learn
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 car (contains near-completely ineffective teleporter, portal gun) (near state line)
Inventory: Catalyst beam
Outsider
Name: Excellen Young
Goal: to create the ultimate life form.
Field of science that you excel in: evolutionary biology
Your greatest creation/discovery: a simple beetle that can rapidly mutate and evolve to new forms, in order to surpass current limits.
Status: fine
Location: Excellen Young's laboratory
Inventory: the aforementioned beetle (hamster-sized)
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
Forty-three 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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