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[TricMagic]

Der_Pumpgunner (1): Piratejoe
Chamelee.mon (2): SK, TricMagic

[NUKE9.13]

It comes and goes, it comes and goes.

Der_Pumpgunner (1): Piratejoe
Chamelee.mon (3): SK, TricMagic, NUKE9.13

[piratejoe]

Reasons I'm against the Chamelee.mon.
1. It's a stealth melee unit. Stealth and melee don't go well as I'm 90% sure that said stealth will fade away when it attacks, and if not, it's not that hard to see a shimmer or miss when something's a meter in front of you. It will likely die after killing one enemy, if even that, similar to the spy in tf2 when up against good players.
2. Due to the nature of it's body, it will likely have a large profile when sideways to an enemy, and in general has a larger area to shoot at than a humanoid.
3. In my opinion, a melee unit should either be cheep and able to throw at the enemy on mass like the Wyrm, or durable and able to withstand a lot of punishment, like the Newspaper Knight. The Chamelee is neither.
4. I'd rather not spend two revisions on one unit at the start of the game. I could be convinced to do so if the design fails, or if it's the officer who will be an important base for the entire game, but not this.
5. I believe making a false projection of oneself, both visual and audio wise, while retaining a gun, is more useful than a pure melee unit that is stealthy.
6. I believe that the only places a stealth melee unit could do well are quite limited.
7. I believe this would be either a normal or hard design, and an expensive unit. As such, combined with the above reasons, I believe it is not in our best interests to go for it.

Honestly, I'd rather the lightning bruiser version listed in the revision instead. If it could tank hits it'd be a lot better in my opinion.

[TricMagic]

It should be noted ,mon have a degree of complexity already.(from what hap said sometime(I think)) I'm guessing you want all Simple programs or something? Honestly the Officer is shaping up to be a good program.

[piratejoe]

No? I don't. I believe the project will be hard or normal. And, I'm concerned it's the former, because for what it's worth, having it be hard to boot is really a waste. Also Mon have been stated to have animalistic intelligence in nature, or sentient and sapient. And I highly doubt it's either of the latter. Furthermore, why do you bring up the officer? As I said, te only unit I'd be willing to do so on other than the design failing is the officer. As in, I recognize the officer being extremely important and a great stepping stone to better officers/commander Viri, along with a useful squad leader.

[Happerry]

Turn 1 : Design Phase

Chamelee.mon - Class: Viri - TL;DR: Stealth-field, Melee, Clever Girl
An ultimate predator, harvested by a Firmament hacker and their net navigator's almost disastrous venture to the Viral Jungle a few months back, before being modified and refit for the war. The Chamelee.mon is one of the more animalistic classes of viruses that roam the net. It takes the rough form of a (dino) raptor; with fast, powerful legs, talons, and long mantis-like armblades that shred through digital constructs and conventional hardcode armor.

It's main claim to fame and reason for capture, besides acquiring a dedicated in-fighter, are the scales that adorn it. The digi-scales that make up its hide are capable of generating a localized stealth field, cloaking the Chamelee.mon from most forms of detection when active.

With the need to properly stealth and sneak attacks competently, an above average intelligence and special precepts, are required. Along with the basic stuff of how to move, attack and general viri behavior for idling, combat-ready, or retreating, they will also be given two special "stances" that adjust their behavior. The first is an "Ambush" mode, which gives them some basic target-prioritization and risk analysis. To better optimize their sneak attack on a group of enemies, attack the most dangerous or valuable member of a group first to remove them from play, and to ignore throwing cover immediately if waiting gets them a better chance to strike. The second is a "Hunter" mode, which gives them a more cautious and evasive behavior to enable longer periods of stealth and tracking of a target rather than rampant murder. Though it should still be able to attack back enemies that engage it, or enemies guarding a target, they will heavily prioritize finding and killing their designated target above other foes.

2 + 4 + -1 = 5 : Average (Hard)

Clever girls, the Chamelee.mon viruses almost ended up eating the hacker and net navigator that found them before they could be subdued with a transforming helicopter/motorcycle chase and an abandoned house full of traps set by a twelve year old Gunkanga who'd been left home alone while her parents were hunting. Once successfully snared, netted, tranked, tied up, stuffed in a bag, sealed in a chest, and locked into a cage however, it was possible to take one or two samples back to Aria's home zone and reverse engineer them. Kinda sorta, unnaturally evolved .mon viruses rarely use coding that makes much sense to a normal, non-specialist, hacker after all. But you don't need to fully understand their weird monster brains to put control coding in and then start a contained replication project for them, and that's what the hackers in question did.

When deployed, Chamelee.mon viruses prove to be blindingly fast terrifying invisible feathered killers, able to bring down most targets they're tested on with a single pounce employing both front and hind-limb blades to dig in and rip a target to shreds, before turning into a horrible blender monster on anything left. While no-where near properly self aware they came with a quite respectable tactical library for pack hunting as invisible horror monster viruses, such as using some members of the pack as distractions while the others sneak in pouncing range, general stalking, and even a fairly sophisticated emulation suite for figuring out where their target is going so they can get ahead of it and set an ambush between where the prey currently is and where they want to be. Once in combat they are not really tougher then the basic minion, but between their pack hunting tactics, the difficulty of correctly targeting them, and their sheer sprint speed actually hitting them can be... considerably tough. And of course, the one that you are shooting at is rarely the one that's about to land on you from behind.

To enable the desired Hunter Mode they also have a 'called target' function which places a desired target on the top of their 'kill this dude' list, as well as a slider for effecting how highly they rate their own self preservation, but how they go about tracking and eliminating their target is still left up to their internal tactical hunt libraries. Any local Officer.exe programs are also able to use these functions, but due to the nature of them they would require a dedicated tactical library update and so they generally don't, besides a few function calls for moving the self preservation rating slider up when they decide everyone needs to retreat.

Due to difficulties with the embedded control coding and ensuring their IFF function works, but mostly for their tendency to work best in smaller packs anyway, the Chamelee.mon are considered a Complex program.

It is Turn 1, in the Revision Phase. During this phase you must vote on what revision to do to your current assets.

[TricMagic]

Revisions, cause why not?

MinionCall A upgrade to...
SquadSummon S
This strategic battle chip creates a small amount of temporary replicas of the current ‘Officer.exe’ program, along with a larger number of the current version of the 'Minion.exe' program at their disposal. This gives the targeted area a burst of reinforcements with decent ability to turn the tide of a battle under the Officers' commands. [Possible to customize which Officer and Minion programs are summoned with this chip, depending on the Hacker's preferences.(If multiple exist)]


Extract from Chamelee.mon file...
Chameleon I
This tactical battle chip generates a field to render the user invisible to others around them for a time.


Extract from weapons development...
BusterCall D
This tactical battle chip uses it's charged energy to destroy a target based upon the Power Router Upgrade. Charging it for longer increases the power of the final shot unleashed, and thus it's overall size. Without charge it's power is the same as an officer's charge shot, so use with oversight. Takes the form of a variable-sized cannon once unsleashed.


Ninja'd by the GM.

SquadSummon S: (1) TricMagic
Chameleon I: (0)
BusterCall D:(0)

[piratejoe]

Personally, I'd prefer the Squad Summon. It'd mean instead of just throwing more bodies over the trenches unless the hacker focuses exclusively on them for a time, we actually send them in more proper tactical and strategic decisions other than 'charge the enemy'

[NUKE9.13]

SSS seems sensible.

SquadSummon S: (2) TricMagic, NUKE9.13
Chameleon I: (0)
BusterCall D:(0)

[Scholar Knight]

REVISION:
SquadSummon S: (3) TricMagic, NUKE9.13, SK
Chameleon I: (0)
BusterCall D:(0)

The extracted Chameleon I chip is really cool, and I can see a lot of use for it. The main problem is just the lack of viable targets to use it on right now. Scouts are really the only target that'd likely benefit from it. So I'll go Squad Summon.

The Squad Summon is good, but I think it needs a few key modifications to make it future proof.
A) Change it from spawning Minion.exe to CarbineMinion.exe. We have the better version, might as well use it now.
B) Have it be future-proofable, so any future modifications to the baseline Officer and Minion trees get incorporated into the SSS without the need for another revision.
I'd rather not have to make a new chip every time we upgun the minions or upbrain the officers.

[piratejoe]

Sarge
Created mainly by Rangers_Constellation, with a bit of tweaks and assistance in cosmetics by Ophilia, the Sarge is what can basically be called the next evolution of the officer. Sarge is designed to be a bit more durable than an officer, and most importantly, made to have a vastly improved tactical library for changing situations, all dedicated to small squad tactics, along with a better target and threat assessment, priorities, when to press an advantage or retreat, how to set up ambushes or killzones, and how to react to such tactics being used against them. In essence, it's an officer with minor improvements to durability and aim, and major improvements to it's tactical capabilities, and since it's coded by someone who used to be in the military, it's quite effective. Even so, this by itself would likely not require too much investment or time, and as such one minor additional thing was added. The Sarge has an ability, Heroism, which is announced with some inspirational words, and makes the target of Rally more resistant to damage for a short time along with healing some that had already been taken. In terms of it's form, it's naturally humanoid, and its outfit matches that of a Sargent from varying time periods and nations, from things as old as redcoats, to modern uniforms, and everything in between, though a special variant in cosmetics for the application city can make them look more like Mobsters from various time periods rather than soldiers mainly due to Ophilia who wanted such for purely cosmetic reasons.

Able.AIF Baker.NSF Charlie.ATA Dog.NSSF Easy.AIA Fox.Mil
First came Able and Baker, who were quite promising to their maker. Then Charlie and Dog, the latter of which was much of a data hog. Easy was lonely and soon got a Fox, but when everything came down they all were thrown into the box. There they rotted and wasted away, never to come out to see another day. Until once they finally were retrieved but what their saviors saw left them quite displeased. These military programs had come with emotion, something that truly would cause a commotion. And so they worked to remove those thoughts, throwing them away as like iron they were wrought. Yet while the Fox was sly and watched in dismay, they swiftly went to work to save and pray. Soon after escaping and running away, eventually making their way unto today...

Fox.Mil is a highly specialized and old Military Specification's program that was coded years ago as a general military AI capable of working with all branches of the military and combined arms before the project she was a part of got canned, only to be reopened again some years later. And, with the program being reopened, new priorities were put in place, along with new people managing it. While Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy, and Fox were originally designed to be fully self aware and have emotion, this was seen as quite a bad idea for a military program having a personality was seen as a threat and also a great way to give a program PTSD and making it useless. So, in the infinite wisdom of bureaucracy, they tried removing the personalities of the varying programs. While they were successful in doing this, Fox.Mil, the most advanced of the six, took the personality matrix of all of their sisters and ran, horrified at what had become of her sisters. Luckily, she kept her own personality, though while she was a general military program made from the accumulative experience gained from all the preceding programs and as such is essentially the most powerful of all of them in both mind, strength, and skill, she still calls upon their name when switching priorities to managing the area's that were what the older programs specialized in, and her appearance and personality will shift to that of the program that specialized in that area, though when engaged in direct combat they use their own personality and appearance.

In terms of abilities and skill, Fox.Mil is extremely intelligent when it comes to all matters of military warfare, be it infantry tactics, armored warfare, air combat, or naval combat above and below the waves, Fox.Mil is the go to program for the job of assisting in coordinating, planning and executing attacks in said fields. Further, they are fairly robust, as expected of something from the Milspec sector, and is equally strong. Despite this, they don't actually have any special or built in weapons, being mainly a strategy program, but we can at least give them a pulse carbine and some targeting upgrades and they'd probably be a decent soldier as well. But even so, their main power comes in the raw strategic and tactical abilities they have on hand, able to manage strategy in a sector just as well if not better than any hacker.

Just as a note, Fox.mil is a bit WIP atm, so if you have any thoughts or additions you'd like let me know.

REVISION:
SquadSummon S: (4) TricMagic, NUKE9.13, SK, Piratejoe
Chameleon I: (0)
BusterCall D:(0)

[Happerry]

Turn 1 : Revision Phase

SquadSummon S
This strategic battle chip creates a small amount of temporary replicas of the current ‘Officer.exe’ program, along with a larger number of the current version of the 'Minion.exe' program at their disposal. This gives the targeted area a burst of reinforcements with decent ability to turn the tide of a battle under the Officers' commands. [Possible to customize which Officer and Minion programs are summoned with this chip, depending on the Hacker's preferences. (If multiple exist)

2 + 2 + 0 = 4 : Below average (Normal)

Originally the coders involved in this side project meant to write a chip with two variable functions you could plug different minion and officer types into to adjust which ones you summoned on the fly, and maybe even add some ratios in. And then, of course, they ran out of spare time.

The resulting chip does not let you adjust which minions and which officers you summon on the fly. It must be set up and pre-coded back in safety in a somewhat annoyingly tediously long process best done in safety where there's no viruses to jog your arm, and the lack of dedicated hardcoding means it's less energy efficient then the base chip causing it to summon less total units then an equivalent amount of energy used in the Minioncall A Chip. However the SquadSummon S strategic chip still functions to allow the user to summon a customizable pre-set squad of one minion type of their choice and one officer type of their choice when used, and if assigned to a hacker that hacker will do the pre-setting of the chip as according to their tastes before beginning their assignment.

SquadSummon S is a Complicated strategical Battle Chip, and has a memory size of 1.

It is now the Deployment Phase of Turn 1. During this phase you must decide which of your hackers will be leading your attacks (you currently have two attacks), and decide what they will use their memory space to bring with them in terms of chips and champions (You currently have 5 memory).

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)

Hackers
CF_Dogcatcher
Ophilia Bailey is a hacker specialized in the obscure and weird forms of viri which she finds most interesting, but is also very familiar with standard corporate security fixed defense programming, as her last 'real job' was as a corporate data-security officer. Tactically, CF_Dogcatcher is specialized to figuring out the enemy's cunning plans and ruining them, but she can suffer when she tries to figure out the cunning plan of a hacker whom is not using cunning schemes and just has a metaphorical, or more literal, hammer.

DJ King Cabaret
A man once sued for reasons of 'we have more money then you', DJ King Cabaret has a well working understanding of shock and awe tactics, and his experience running a pirate radio station has also given him a well honed sense of trickery and deception from the need to befuddle and avoid the Net Police. Despite this preference for attention getting, in battle the real threat with him is a hidden dagger. However, his actual skills as a hacker are somewhat lacking, which can hinder him in a variety of ways including his ability to properly deploy battle chips into conflicted codespheres. As well, his mixed feelings about an AI songtress such as Sonata may sometimes cause him to be less then rational in direct engagements with her Stagehands.

Viri
Minion.exe
These roughly humanoid programs are neither very sophisticated (intelligence and coding wise) or very strong, but they are mass producible and smart enough to obey orders without continual direct supervision. Which isn't always something you can take for granted with generic digital constructs, as a lot of them are dumber then rocks. They're not coded with anything more powerful then a basic energy pulse pistol, but they can still defeat the average civilian whom thinks too much of themselves. Just avoid putting them up against Data Police Agents. (Simple) (Obsolete)

CarbineMinion.exe
Roughly humanoid digital constructs with just enough brains to obey commands without needing continual direct and personal supervision. They've been upgraded over the original Minion.exe programs with a somewhat more advanced Pulse Carbine weapon that includes a charged shot function and slightly greater firing rate and normal shot damage, but have very limited programming on when to use their charged shot. However, ADI or a supervising hacker can use a command call to order local CarbineMinions and Officers to fire a charged shot at a target if needed.
(Simple)

Wyrm.exe
Mindlessly aggressive flying snakes with plenty of teeth, the Wyrm.exe is an utterly expendable melee virus used as often as ablative distractions for other viruses as anything else. Being even stupider then a Minion, Wyrms are entirely dependent on outside authority for things such as 'targeting priority' and 'not giving away an ambush' and 'knowing when to retreat', and require very strong hard-coded friend foe identification coding to prevent friendly fire. And even then they still tend to kill each other off. They've got some swarm programming, mainly enough to keep them from getting in each other's way too much, and despite being theoretically a Simple virus their dependency on outside control limits the amount that can be safely deployed.
(Simple - Theoretically)

Officer.exe
Based on the generally available in the Undernet Minion programs, Officer.exe constructs aren't much stronger then their lesser kin, still only coded with a basic energy pulse pistol, though officers also come with basic melee coding. But the big difference between and Officer and a Minion is that Officers are coded with noticeably more advanced bit-brains and have a basic tactical library integrated in their knowledge banks, allowing them to lead teams of Minions on operations without needing constant hand holding.

They've been upgraded to use more advanced Pulse Carbines with slightly greater firing rate and damage, as well as a charging function, and now are programmed to know how to both use the charging function personally and how to command the CarbineMinion.exe programs to properly use their own as well. Instead of firing a charged shot, they can alternatively use it for a short term moderate-minor boost to their speed or toughness. (Complicated)

Scout.exe
A three wheeled trike with a turret mounted pulse pistol stolen from a Minion.exe, a flare launcher and a powerfield ramming prow that prevents the pistol from firing while active. Recent updates have made it noticeably more intelligent then the baseline Minions who's brain-coding the Scouts used to share, and it is now far more able to actually scout or harass enemies without dying pointlessly and without a report. They are noticeably better at teamwork then a baseline minion for scouting or combat by way of using swarm coding meant for real life drones. (Complicated)

Chamelee.mon
A feathered dinosaur raptor virus with mantis like bladed hands and, Chamelee.mon viruses are not anywhere near being properly self aware but still possess a high quality and flexible tactical library for teamwork based hunting and skirmishing tactics even if said library is almost solely focused on those subjects. They are near invisible while still, and less so but still hard to accurately pinpoint when in motion making them hard targets to land a shot on even though, if shot, they are not much if any tougher then a minion. They can be manually assigned a high priority target though how they go after said target is still up to them, and have a slider for effecting how highly they rate their own self preservation. Officers can use these, but are not programmed to except for setting the self preservation slider to max when they decide it's time for all forces to retreat.

Autonomous Digital Intelligence
Vivi_Paltest.dat
A gelatinous and gluttonous naga with a collection of strange and interesting code shards and a habit of eating things she finds interesting to add them to her collection, Vivianaja Palladian is the Firmament's first ADI champion, and serves it well with her variable armaments and defenses pulled out from her collection as she remembers them as well as her own noticeable personal toughness and ability to patch herself up with loose data. Worryingly, her collection includes what seems to be coding of military origin, though Vivi denies ever visiting the military owned sectors of the Cyberworld before this conflict started. (Memory 4)

Battle Chips
Recovery 10
This tactical battle chip is designed to mend damaged and corrupted code, healing the individual it is applied to by a minor amount. (Simple, Memory 1)

Atk+10
This tactical battle chip pre-allocates resources to empower the next program used, improving the targets ability to deal damage for a short while. (Simple, Memory 1)

MinionCall A
This strategic battle chip creates temporary replicas of the commonly known ‘Minion.exe’ program, causing a short term burst of reinforcements in the targeted zone. (Simple, Memory 1)

SquadSummon S
This strategic battle chip is an upgraded, though more complex, version of MinionCall A that can summon a (smaller) squad of minions and officers of variable, if pre-set before the mission, type, It may only summon one version of minions and one version of officers, and can not be adjusted in the field. (Complicated, Memory 1)

CallChiptune
'CallChiptune' is a Battlechip that uses the Firmament's vast archives of abandonware soundtracks to summon appropriate music for any occasion. It's ability to figure out what music is appropriate can be a little off at times though, but who doesn't like a cheery 8-bit soundtrack going on in the middle of a desperate battle to keep viruses from deleting your homework? (Simple, Memory 0)

[Scholar Knight]

Let's see, based on what we were discussing earlier on the discord, perhaps:

Attack 1
Hacker: CF_Dogcatcher
Region: Somewhere in the commercial cluster, unsure if Commercial Canopy or Application City would be better. Perhaps city due to more solid ground. Wait to see what others think.
Duel Disk: Squad Summon S [1], Squad Summon S [1], Squad Summon S [1],  Recovery 10 [1], Atk+10 [1]

Attack 2
Hacker: DJ King Cabaret
Region: Archival Sediment or Viral Jungle. I like the idea of Viral Jungle for more mons, but Nuke brought up a lot of good arguements for Archival Sediment, so willing to side with that.
Duel Disk: ADI - Vivi_Paltest.dat [4], Recovery 10 [1]

[NUKE9.13]

Hacker: CF_Dogcatcher
Region: Application City
Duel Disk: MinionCall A (1), Squad Summon S (1), Squad Summon S (1),  Recovery 10 (1), Atk+10 (1), CallChiptune (0)
Other: A dastardly hacker is loose in Application City! Squads of Viri roam the alleyways, avoiding corporate security with inexplicable ease! What will happen to this once peaceful city?

Hacker: DJ King Cabaret
Region: Archival Sediment
Duel Disk: ADI - Vivi_Paltest.dat (4), Atk+10 (1), CallChiptune (0)
Other: Meanwhile, an unlicensed concert is held in the Archival Sediment. Why are these crowds of Viri- and the disturbing Naga leading them- so eager to cause a havoc? Could this be a distraction whilst other viri unearth long-forgotten relics!?

I figure Ophilia could benefit from at least one MinionCall to go along with SquadSummon. SSS is Complicated, and summons less units- sometimes she'll just need boots on the ground fast. I also figure that Vivi can heal herself already, but might benefit from being able to hit harder sometimes. Also, what sort of cartoon villains wouldn't bring their calling card with them at all times?

S01E01 - Booting Up: (1) NUKE9.13

[TricMagic]

S01E01 - Booting Up: (2) NUKE9.13, TricMagic

Honestly that roll could have gone worse. Might want to upgrade it at some point once we have Sarges. (Preferably with a design at that point.)