[CYOA] Prometheus Cycle: The Second War of Heaven

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Tomn: Aug 23, 2007; And the angel said unto him
"Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself."
But lo he could not. For the angel was hitting him with his own hands

LowellDND posted:

Bonemonkey has started reading our thread! And out of the kindness of his heart, he has made sketches of the Beast.

So, thoughts, impressions?

I realize that the hammerhead shape is a very common look for starships, but for all that the first thing I thought upon seeing these was "Shields up, weapons online...not equipped with shields? Well, then, buckle up!"

# ? Sep 10, 2015 00:34

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# ? May 30, 2024 21:11

Loel: Jun 4, 2012; "For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.

Tomn posted:

I realize that the hammerhead shape is a very common look for starships, but for all that the first thing I thought upon seeing these was "Shields up, weapons online...not equipped with shields? Well, then, buckle up!"

I said that too

It works out well because we have a nova cannon in the prow

I dunno how many of these can be seen, but here is the list of ship components:

quote:

Warp Drive: Miloslav H-616.b
Plasma Drive: Modified Saturnine pattern Class 5
Gellar Field: Emergency fields
Void shield: Poorly maintained Castellan Shield*
Bridge: Ship Master�s Bridge
Life support: poor craftsmanship M-1.r life sustainer
Crew Quarters: Bilge-rat quarters
Augur array: R-50 Multiband Auspex

Weapons:
Da 'ugest gun (Nova Cannon; Strength special; Damage 1d10+1d5; Crit Rating special; Range min 3 max 2d10+10)
Lathe grav-culverin broadside (Macrobattery; Strength 6; Damage 1d10+3; Crit Rating 6; Range 6)
Stygies-pattern Bombardment Cannon (Macrobattery; Strength 3; Damage 1d10+6; Crit Rating 2; range 4)
Sunsear las-broadside (Macrobattery; Strength 6; Damage 1d10+2; Crit Rating 4; Range 9)
Plasma-accelerated torpedo tubes (Torpedo tubes; Strength 4; Damage special; Crit Rating special; Range special)
2x Fortis-pattern torpedo tubes (Torpedo tubes; Strength 4; Damage special; Crit Rating special; Range special)
2x Zzzap kannon (Lance; Strength 2; Damage 1d10+4; Crit Rating 3; Range 6)
Railgun battery (Macrocannon; Strength 4; Damage 1d10+3; Crit Rating 5; Range 5)
Pulsar lance: (Lance; Strength 1; Damage 1d10+3; Crit Rating 3; Range 3; Pulsed Fire)
Grapple Cannon (Special)

Supplemental components:
Temple-Shrine to the God-Emperor
Barracks
Compartmentalised Cargo Holds
Cargo Hold and Lighter Bay
Luxury Passenger Quarters (alpha deck)
Main Cargo Hold
Xenos habitats
Astropathic Choir Chambers
Crew Reclamation Facility
Murder Servitors
Librarium Vault
Laboratorium
Munitorium
Trophy Room
Manufactorum
Grav Repulsors
Plasma Scoop
Ship�s Stores
Brig
Cogitator Interlink
Arboretum (out of control, currently jungle)
Micro laser defence grid
suspension chambers
Auto-stabilised logis targeter
Xenos librarium (Tau chartist logs)
Runecaster
Ramshackle (ork-made) Broadband Vox-caster
Peerlessly Elegant Augmented Retro-thrusters
Gravity Sails
Peerless Elegance Auxiliary Plasma Banks
Asteroid Mining Facility (currently entirely internal)
Hydraphuran Jamming system
Drop Pod Launch Bays
Pharmaceia
Power Ram (currently internal)
Melodium
Observation Dome
Good Craftsmanship Augmented Retro-thrusters

Upgrades:
Ostentatious Display of Wealth
Atomics (lots)
Cherubim Aerie
Starchart Collection
Distributed Cargo Hold

Loel fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Sep 10, 2015

# ? Sep 10, 2015 00:44

Loel: Jun 4, 2012; "For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.

Im in class, but the overall vote hasn't changed much.

remember it all
nyaa
paragon

remember, but filtered somehow
jt jag
randompaul
grognan
ark
ralith
outrail
paradigm
sheep-dodger
ghostwoods
van sandman
tran

forget
rockopolis
poor life choice

no surgery
lord cyra

So I might chomp this out later tonite.

Loel fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Sep 10, 2015

# ? Sep 10, 2015 00:56

Hot Dog Day 80: Jun 23, 2003

LowellDND posted:

Im in class, but the overall vote hasn't changed much.

remember it all
nyaa
paragon

remember, but filtered somehow
jt jag
randompaul
grognan
ark
ralith
outrail
paradigm
sheep-dodger
ghostwoods
van sandman
tran

forget
rockopolis
poor life choice

no surgery
lord cyra

So I might chomp this out later tonite.

Oh, Hey, I forgot to vote.

Can we ask Athena if there is anything she can do to help?

# ? Sep 10, 2015 01:35

Loel: Jun 4, 2012; "For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.

Hot Dog Day 80 posted:

Oh, Hey, I forgot to vote.

Can we ask Athena if there is anything she can do to help?

She has an ethical thing about messing with people's brains directly, but she can oversee Limosa to make sure he's being truthful/careful.

edit: Keep in mind she created a complete simulation of your brain in order to not scan it directly. Bit of effort there.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 01:37

Hot Dog Day 80: Jun 23, 2003

LowellDND posted:

She has an ethical thing about messing with people's brains directly, but she can oversee Limosa to make sure he's being truthful/careful.

edit: Keep in mind she created a complete simulation of your brain in order to not scan it directly. Bit of effort there.

What about the tumors we have? Would removing those help our sanity at all?

# ? Sep 10, 2015 01:57

Loel: Jun 4, 2012; "For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.

Hot Dog Day 80 posted:

What about the tumors we have? Would removing those help our sanity at all?

Who on this ship do you trust to do brain surgery on you?

# ? Sep 10, 2015 02:16

poor life choice: Jul 21, 2006

LowellDND posted:

Who on this ship do you trust to do brain surgery on you?

If they're good enough for spine transplants...

# ? Sep 10, 2015 02:18

Hot Dog Day 80: Jun 23, 2003

LowellDND posted:

Who on this ship do you trust to do brain surgery on you?

Athena! I mean its not really messing with the brain, just the tumors right?

# ? Sep 10, 2015 02:19

sullat: Jan 9, 2012

#3 is what I think looks closest to what the Beast looks like. It even has a big cannon stuck on the prow. Probably not so hot on moving targets, but works well enough on stationary targets, like space stations and planets.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 02:22

Ralith: Jan 12, 2011; I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today

Athena brain surgery sounds reasonable. It's not like she couldn't make us do whatever she wanted anyway.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 02:32

Loel: Jun 4, 2012; "For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.

Okay, so current trend is Athena does brain surgery, and Limosa gives you some memory filters. Correct?

# ? Sep 10, 2015 02:54

Hot Dog Day 80: Jun 23, 2003

LowellDND posted:

Okay, so current trend is Athena does brain surgery, and Limosa gives you some memory filters. Correct?

Works for me!

# ? Sep 10, 2015 02:57

VanSandman: Feb 16, 2011; SWAP.AVI EXCHANGER

Will this make us less insane?

# ? Sep 10, 2015 03:08

Hot Dog Day 80: Jun 23, 2003

VanSandman posted:

Will this make us less insane?

Probably. Or more insane.

Does it really matter at this point?

# ? Sep 10, 2015 03:10

Anticheese: Feb 13, 2008; $60,000,000 sexbot

Hot Dog Day 80 posted:

Probably. Or more insane.

Does it really matter at this point?

Yeah. We're going to want to keep our insanity and corruption below 100 as we raise our infamy to that level. :unsmigghh:

# ? Sep 10, 2015 03:22

Loel: Jun 4, 2012; "For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.

Anticheese posted:

Yeah. We're going to want to keep our insanity and corruption below 100 as we raise our infamy to that level.

Whats the Infamy of a starting BC character? I need to know for... reasons.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 03:50

Hot Dog Day 80: Jun 23, 2003

LowellDND posted:

Whats the Infamy of a starting BC character? I need to know for... reasons.

Everything is fine, nothing is broken.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 04:02

Loel: Jun 4, 2012; "For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.

Hot Dog Day 80 posted:

Everything is fine, nothing is broken.

Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts :3:

# ? Sep 10, 2015 04:11

poor life choice: Jul 21, 2006

Tim Curry corruption level: http://youtu.be/3yMy7JuGpJM

e: oh my god he's losing his poo poo, so good.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 04:15

wiegieman: Apr 22, 2010; Royalty is a continuous cutting motion

20s-30s usually.

e:That's BC scale, not normal people scale. It's on top of what it takes to become a BC character.

wiegieman fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Sep 10, 2015

# ? Sep 10, 2015 04:56

Outrail: Jan 4, 2009; www.sapphicrobotica.com

We have medicea mechadendrites and if we didn't perform our own surgery we wouldn't deserve the title of Magos.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 07:15

Loel: Jun 4, 2012; "For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.

Outrail posted:

We have medicea mechadendrites and if we didn't perform our own surgery we wouldn't deserve the title of Magos.

Annnnd now Im reading articles on self-trepanation.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 07:17

Outrail: Jan 4, 2009; www.sapphicrobotica.com

LowellDND posted:

Annnnd now Im reading articles on self-trepanation.

Ooh, do that too. Medically induced psychic potential (none of this psyker bullshit).

# ? Sep 10, 2015 07:20

Ralith: Jan 12, 2011; I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today

Outrail posted:

We have medicea mechadendrites and if we didn't perform our own surgery we wouldn't deserve the title of Magos.

We should of course use the best available robotic equipment to perform our surgery. Her name is Athena :colbert:

# ? Sep 10, 2015 07:39

JT Jag: Aug 30, 2009; #1 Jaguars Sunk Cost Fallacy-Haver

LowellDND posted:

Who on this ship do you trust to do brain surgery on you?

Ourselves. We'll control the surgery bot remotely.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 07:42

Ghostwoods: May 9, 2013; Say "Cheese!"

LowellDND posted:

Annnnd now Im reading articles on self-trepanation.

You must be on so many lists...

# ? Sep 10, 2015 08:08

Rockopolis: Dec 21, 2012; I MAKE FUN OF QUEER STORYGAMES BECAUSE I HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH MY LIFE THAN MAKE OTHER PEOPLE CRY

I can't understand these kinds of games, and not getting it bugs me almost as much as me being weird

Painboy.

I like #4. Very hierarchical with the Great buildings sticking up out of the common mass of the ship, like a Hive Spire.
The vaguely Greek look reminds me of Reign: the Conqueror. I don't know if that's a good thing :confused:

# ? Sep 10, 2015 08:12

Oasx: Oct 11, 2006; Freshly Squeezed

I am all for using the items and abilities we used experience on getting, but I am not sure if it is wise to use the medicea mechadendrites to perform brain surgery on ourselves, are we really skilled enough for that?
Better to leave it alone I think.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 08:29

Haystack: Jan 23, 2005

I'm not in favor of operating on ourselves.

I am, however, in favor of keeping the Statler and Waldorf mechendrites up and functional throughout the process.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 13:14

Rockopolis: Dec 21, 2012; I MAKE FUN OF QUEER STORYGAMES BECAUSE I HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH MY LIFE THAN MAKE OTHER PEOPLE CRY

I can't understand these kinds of games, and not getting it bugs me almost as much as me being weird

Just be sure Athena doesn't celebrate a successful operation with a football spike and an endzone dance.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 13:39

Swedish Thaumocracy: Jul 11, 2006; Strength of >800 Men
Honor of 0; Grimey Drawer

Obviously perform the surgery ourselves with Athena guiding us.

I mean, what kind of a tech-priest do you think we are?

# ? Sep 10, 2015 14:16

Xun: Apr 25, 2010

athena brain surgery!

# ? Sep 10, 2015 16:02

Loel: Jun 4, 2012; "For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.

Athena does surgery
Hot Dog
Ralith
Haystack
Xun

You do surgery
Outrail
JT Jag
Swedish

Iron Hands do surgery
PLC

# ? Sep 10, 2015 16:06

Arkanomen: May 6, 2007; All he wants is a hug

Split the difference, Athena and Ohone work together!

# ? Sep 10, 2015 16:08

Kinetica: Aug 16, 2011

Going with Athena

# ? Sep 10, 2015 16:09

poor life choice: Jul 21, 2006

Arkanomen posted:

Split the difference, Athena and Ohone work together!

This seems good and might give us the best post about it. changing vote to this

# ? Sep 10, 2015 16:11

Waci: May 30, 2011; A boy and his dog.

Athena does surgery, we're conscious to observe.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 16:15

Lord Cyrahzax: Oct 11, 2012

If there's going to be surgery, Ohone's going to do it.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 16:34

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# ? May 30, 2024 21:11

Oasx: Oct 11, 2006; Freshly Squeezed

Athena

# ? Sep 10, 2015 16:46

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