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rty275

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Re: The API of the Gods V2.0! Less complicated! Hylemorphic dualism!
« Reply #45 on: October 01, 2011, 03:55:42 am »

What would happen if we injected souls into some other form? Could we make a phylactery? We should go to a pet store, get some guinea pigs and experiment with injecting the soul of one into a live creature, a dead creature, and something that was neither live nor dead. Also, try corrupting one, just because we can.
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« Reply #46 on: October 01, 2011, 01:56:03 pm »

> Try taking some random property (NOT position) of you eye and putting it in the laser pen.
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Re: The API of the Gods V2.0! Less complicated! Hylemorphic dualism!
« Reply #47 on: October 06, 2011, 05:59:09 pm »

NOT DEAD! Only busy!

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>PERFORM DARK EXPERIMENTS UPON SMALL FURRY ANIMALS

You could. It'd possibly send you further down the psychopath path.

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>PERFORM FURTHER DARK EXPERIMENTS UPON PENS, SUCH AS USING YOUR EYES.

You inject the laser pen data into another pen, so you have a backup. Then, you inject your eye data into it. What could possibly WOAH WOAH WOAH WHAT?

Several experiments later you replicate your result. You have found the "seeing" part of your eyes, such that you can inject it into other objects and see out of them. You may need to close your other eyes to fully concentrate*. Not exactly what you were initially intending, but cool none the less.

* No, seriously. There's a condition where the eyes aren't in sync, and the brain "disables" one so as not to give itself a headache. 

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You have power over Chaos and Twisting things in your favor.
In particular, you have the power to Inject(), Corrupt(), Teleport() and Banish(). You have additional powers over randomness and entropy, and possibly liquid volumes. You have done several unclean experiments on pens and have become able to see out of injected objects.

As your Stake in the battle to come, you lost your Conscience. You are currently trying not to be a psychopath.

In your mortal life, you were an Elite Hacker. You live in a Decent, middle class apartment. You have a standard divkit and the software thereof.

You have made several magical pens in various states, including a teleport-on-command endless ink pen, a LASER DEATH PEN, and a broken endless ink pen lying outside.
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Re: The API of the Gods V2.0! Less complicated! Hylemorphic dualism!
« Reply #48 on: October 06, 2011, 06:08:14 pm »

Find a bird and see if you can adapt your eye thing into controlling the entire bird.
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Re: The API of the Gods V2.0! Less complicated! Hylemorphic dualism!
« Reply #49 on: October 07, 2011, 03:42:30 am »

> Inject the "seeing thing" into your computer screen.

> See if you can find the "controlling thing" in your muscles and inject it into an RC car

> take a random tool with a metal head such as a shovel or something, and try giving it the shape, controllability, etc. of your hand.

> try to find size and make a giant insect
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Re: The API of the Gods V2.0! Less complicated! Hylemorphic dualism!
« Reply #50 on: October 13, 2011, 05:56:03 pm »

STILL NOT DEAD! JUST TAKING A CATNAP!

> Inject the "seeing thing" into your computer screen.

You get a spare monitor and inject the sight code into it. You know can see out of your monitor... That's not what you meant.

On second thought, you tape a mirror over the monitor. Now you can see your computer anywhere!

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> GAIN CONTROL OVER OBJECTS

You mess with Injecting senses into a toy RC car, until you find the thingy that controls other thingies. You can now move the RC car as if it was part of your body.
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> take a random tool with a metal head such as a shovel or something, and try giving it the shape, controllability, etc. of your hand.

You perform dark experiments upon shovels. It appears that as a less complex object, shovels have less "code" than your hand. Entirely injecting your hand into the shovel completely overwrites it, and presumably something else. 

Injecting parts of your hand produce different results, such as a shovel with five twisted metal fingers and a metal, shovels with controllable joints, a full but inert replica of your hand, and other, creepier, things. You're starting to freak yourself out a little.

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> try to find size and make a giant insect

Ah, how did you not think of that? First, you take some more pens and poke around until you find the size variable. With some rough calculations, you figure the right numbers to make a fly about the size of a dog. Then you go out and try to make a fly the size of a dog.

Unfortunately, catching an intact fly is more difficult than you anticipated, and you don't want to fire off injects in case you miss. On second thought, ants are also insects, and a valid horror trope. You collect an ant and deposit in your basement. You inject the insect.

Success! You now have a humungous, and also creepy giant ant crawling around in your basement. You let it be for now, and refrain from petting it on the globular faceted eyes. Look at the size of those mandibles, sheesh!

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You are the Crown Prince.
You have power over Chaos and Twisting things in your favor.
In particular, you have the power to Inject(), Corrupt(), Teleport() and Banish(). You have additional powers over randomness and entropy, and possibly liquid volumes. You have done several unclean experiments on pens and have become able to see out of injected objects, as well as control injected objects.

As your Stake in the battle to come, you lost your Conscience. You are currently trying not to be a psychopath. You have creeped yourself out with your dark experiments.

In your mortal life, you were an Elite Hacker. You live in a Decent, middle class apartment. You have a standard divkit and the software thereof. The computer running the divkit has a magical makeshift monitor, that you can see through from anywhere.

You have made several magical pens in various states, including a teleport-on-command endless ink pen, a LASER DEATH PEN, and a broken endless ink pen lying outside. You also have a collection of bizarre shovel-hand hybrids.

There is a giant ant crawling around in your basement. Look at those mandibles!
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Re: The API of the Gods V2.0! Less complicated! Hylemorphic dualism!
« Reply #51 on: October 13, 2011, 07:16:40 pm »

Make more giant ants, and try to control them all with a hivemind of sorts.  They'll make a nice army.
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Re: The API of the Gods V2.0! Less complicated! Hylemorphic dualism!
« Reply #52 on: October 13, 2011, 10:51:17 pm »

That's, uh. That's pretty fucked up.

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Re: The API of the Gods V2.0! Less complicated! Hylemorphic dualism!
« Reply #53 on: October 14, 2011, 12:11:56 am »

Find the "control thing" of your brain and inject it into the computer with the divkit, so you can use it from anywhere.
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Re: The API of the Gods V2.0! Less complicated! Hylemorphic dualism!
« Reply #54 on: October 14, 2011, 12:25:42 am »

DO NOT MESS WITH YOUR DIVKIT.

Attempt to Corrupt() the position of some air at least a kilometer above your house. I want to see what that does.
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« Reply #55 on: October 14, 2011, 01:07:11 am »

DO NOT MESS WITH YOUR DIVKIT.

Attempt to Corrupt() the position of some air at least a kilometer above your house. I want to see what that does.

Copy computer, make yourself able to control cloned computer, plug divkit into cloned computer.
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Re: The API of the Gods V2.0! Less complicated! Hylemorphic dualism!
« Reply #56 on: October 14, 2011, 05:34:19 am »

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« Reply #57 on: October 14, 2011, 05:35:30 am »

> Add the "controlling thing" from your hand into the giant ants brains, the metal material from whatever is the hardest metal thing you find lying around into the exoskeleton, and the part that made the shovel into twisted finders with controllable joints into the mandibles. Make a few in various different sizes and test what's the most practical for helping you8 out with random stuff.

> try making a keyboard and mouse controllable.

> take a chain, add features:
 - you can see out of the ends
 - you can control it like a snake/tentacle.
 - you can, controllably in a way that feels the same as the movement, add and remove links at any given link of the chain, or drop a link splitting it into two chains and adding the see-ability to the resulting two ends.
 - (implicit in previous if working properly) repeated splitting works as reproduction with exponential growth until you hit the limit of what you can control
 - (implicit in previous if working properly) can quickly be shrunk back into a single short piece of chain
 - (implicit in previous if working properly) by attaching one end to something, the other can be rapidly shoot out by creating new links, wrapped around something, and then reeled back with great force by deleting links. Sort of those unrealistic tentacle attacks in Japanese animes.

> Might as well try welding some of those chains onto the larger controlled metal ants as well.

> try adding the "controlling thing" to your neighbours brain.

> take a knife, do like you did with the shovel where it was controllable but with your entire body instead of just the hand. Wield a few pieces of the controlled chain stuff onto it in strategic places.

> try adding the controlling thing to a piece of code that's just in your computer. Maybe splice it into some open source game. Same with the seeing thing.

> You'll probably want to find the hearing thing and the feeling thing as well to complement your seeing thing. You also need to get better name for all these pieces of code.

> Find a spider, splice it in a few different ways with an (normal size, unmodified) ant, see what happens, possibly add cool features to the giant metal ant's you're controlling.

((I were wrong. THIS GAME RULES! It's well on it's way to getting even better than the abandoned one already!))
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« Reply #58 on: October 19, 2011, 01:28:16 pm »

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RENAME CODE FOR EASE OF REFERENCE.

You write Clone(), a simple copier, Resize(), for resizing, and name the seeing things and controlling things Seers and Controllers respectively.

While you're at it, you find Hearer and Feeler for completeness.

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ATTAIN CONTROL OVER DIVKIT-COMPUTER

You Inject() a Controller into (a clone of) your computer. You can now alter bits of memory.

Using your ELITE HACKER SKILLZ, you find the memory locations for mice and keyboards, and gain control over them. You can now control your computer from afar. In fact, there doesn't appear to be range limitation, so you could hide the divkit/computer somewhere, as long as there's power and cooling.

Say, what happens if you stick your Seer in? Just a little Inject() and WOAH WOAH WOAH

You now see AWESOME RETRO-CGI CYBERSPACE GRAPHICS. Woah. You're not sure if that's actually what's going on in this bizarre Machine world, or if it's just how your brain or Seer is interpreting what you're seeing, but it's still pretty awesome.

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FORM FORMIDABLE FORMICIDAE FORCE

You continue in your quest to create an army of giant ants.

To conserve space, you use normal sized ants while experimenting, but you can make them giant when you are ready.

Ant Mind Control: You Inject() a Controller into an ant's brain. You now have some crude control over the ant. Some. It still has a mind of its own, you know, and they're not too smart. If only you could use a computer...

A computer.

Insight strikes! Critical hit! You find a old laptop, clone it, shrink it, and Inject() it into the ant. With a few more careful Inject()s (and one lucky accident) you have created a CYBORG ANT! It still isn't that smart, but you can run programs on it, such as guard routines, simple assembly, etc. It may have other mysterious issues, but still, CYBORG ANT!

But why stop there? You go to your car, and mess with a clone of the engine block until you find the material portion. You inject it into the CYBORG ANT exoskeleton. Your ant is now covered in engine block steel. Or maybe it's aluminum. Whatever, it looks awesome anyway, and you can't think of a stronger material lying around your house.

You also try injecting shovel/finger parts into the ant. The Handibles look creepy, but they might help manual dexterity. Of course, anything you need hands for you could probably just put a controlled Fingershovel in place to operate.

You feel you have only scratched the surface of possible ant augmentation. What about a humungous ant controlled on the inside like a giant ant-mech? You decide not to try that just yet, on the basis that your neighbors might ask awkward questions, such as why you have a giant ant-mech in your backyard.

Speaking of neighbors.

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GAIN DOMINION OVER NEIGHBOR'S MIND

You probably could, but it strikes you as the kind of thing a psychopath would do. Not that you would feel bad about being a psychopath, but you're trying not to be one.

Or should you? This morality thing is getting kinda annoying. Do you really want to be a normal human being?

(I'm leaving this up for vote. It could go either way, but it might effect things in the future, such as interactions with other demigods.)

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CORRUPT THE HEAVENS ABOVE.

You figure the neighbors might notice, or complain. See ant battle mech above.

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GAIN POWER OVER CHAINS

While you're thinking about morality, you might as well work on other things, such as creepy chains. For once, it works just as expected. In fact you only need one, as when you divide it you have two functional As-you-will Dharma Chains. You attach knives to some of them, and attach some of them to an Cyborg AugAnt. The only way it could more metal would be if they could function as guitar strings.

Not that you need more firepower what with Corrupt(), but you carry several on hand at all times. They're bound to come in handy.

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Spiders.

EEEK! SPIDERS! Ants are creepy, but arachnids are right out.

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You are the Crown Prince.
You have power over Chaos and Twisting things in your favor.
In particular, you have the power to Inject(), Corrupt(), Teleport(), Resize(), Clone(), and Banish(). You have additional powers over randomness and entropy, and possibly liquid volumes. You have done several unclean experiments on pens, shovels, and ants. You can extend yourself with Controllers, Seers, Hearers, and Feelers.

As your Stake in the battle to come, you lost your Conscience. You are currently trying not to be a psychopath. You have creeped yourself out with your dark experiments, but SPIDERS are still too scary for your arachniphobia,

In your mortal life, you were an Elite Hacker. You live in a Decent, middle class apartment. You have a standard divkit and the software thereof. The computer running the divkit has a magical makeshift monitor, that you can see through from anywhere, and you can control it with your mind. You have AWESOME RETRO-CGI CYBERSPACE VISION inside it.

You have made several magical pens in various states, including a teleport-on-command endless ink pen, a LASER DEATH PEN, and a broken endless ink pen lying outside. You also have a collection of bizarre shovel-hand hybrids.

You have made METAL AS-YOU-WILL DHARMA CHAINS that you can control with your mind. Some of them have knives on the end.

There is a giant ant crawling around in your basement. Look at those mandibles! You also have normal sized (though easily growable) Cyborg AugAnts crawling around, with Engine Block Exoskeletons. Look at those handibles!

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« Reply #59 on: October 19, 2011, 02:02:40 pm »

> Inject a copy of your car with the shape of your entire body, Controlers, Seers, Feelers.

> Try to make it so that whenever a chain is stretched it sounds like a very loud and very awesome electric guitar. Add some arching lightning while you're at it.

> By experimenting on fruit, and later a copy of your beating hears since it's easy to see, figure out how to add and remove specific geometric sections of things in a way that changes any skin and infrastructure stuff to like it had grown that way, and keeps things alive/functional without being attached to something that usually need attached to in order to work.

> try to catch a dragonfly. They have very practical shape and are great fliers.

> Try to find a cat.

> Test what happens if you corrupt one of the ants just a little.

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