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Oct 21, 2018 01:53
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Welp. A We're probably going to have to kill the Commodore, aren't we.
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dont be mean to me posted:We're probably going to have to kill the Commodore, aren't we. Before anyone else hears this, yes. C. It's technically not our fault she's dead!
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Oct 21, 2018 10:37
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The Lone Badger posted:Before anyone else hears this, yes.  Take the wheel
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The Gathering: Kruze Ed. Note: I don’t understand why you want these files, but it gave me an opportunity to double-check my indexing. Which was quite enjoyable. Personal Log, Organism XSZ-2O9-8879/D posted:I defended my thesis last week, it did not go well. Luckily, I was able to escape while the Review Committee was consuming my mentor. Research Log 1, Subject 324 ‘Granny’ posted:“Foreword. While the initial assault on this station afforded me a large number of pirates to add to the study, I was eventually forced to seal myself into the medbay. However a small band of counter-pirate warforms have infiltrated the station and forced their way into my medbay. One, a Legion female of advanced age-” Crazy Eddy’s All-U-Can-Buy Security Footage, Medbay posted:A robotic figure stands in front of a much larger Nephilim bioform, crowding the bioform’ss space
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Oct 24, 2018 01:45
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Oct 24, 2018 01:55
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I <3 Kruze
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Oct 24, 2018 02:03
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Best doctor.
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Oct 24, 2018 02:21
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She's here because someone has to keep an eye on these ASSes.
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Oct 24, 2018 02:58
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It's like Kruze Is an anti-Zoidberg, John.
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 “YESSSSS! DO IT!“You feel the secondary actuators hidden within your shell start to spin up, causing your shoulders to broaden and limbs lengthen. “DO IT! DOITDOITDOITDOIT!“The table groans as your new claws scrape gouges into the thick metal. The Commodore cocks their head to one side, but otherwise doesn’t react.  “Your thoughts are cars, moving along the highway. Sometimes the traffic can get heavy, overwhelming. But you don’t need to be in the traffic, being battered by the cars. You can be on a nearby hill, watching the cars. Acknowledging the cars and the traffic, but allowing yourself distance. Space to think.”The secondary actuators spin down, and your shell reverses its configuration change. You wiggle your fingers loose from the grooves and interlace them in front of you. ”SPOILSPORT. ONE OF THESE DAYS THOSE ANCIENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUES AREN’T GOING TO BE ENOUGH, YOU REALIZED THAT RIGHT?”“Shove off, I’m not in the mood.”“YEAH, YEAH. POOR BABY DOESN’T LIKE HAVING HER CRIMES COME BACK TO HER.”You take a few synthesized breaths and return you attention to The Commodore. “You must have been very… lucky. The Sterilization of Teagan’s World was quite extensive.” “Sterilization? How clinical. But yes, I suppose I was lucky. Three years to dig myself out of the sub-basement lab I was trapped in, another two to bury the bodies. Not that you left many bodies, the thermal flash vaporized most of the Teaganites’ bodies.”“And… and that’s why you sent the Black Key after me? Vengeance?”The Commodore makes a non-committal motion with their hands. “That would have been a bonus, yes. But primarily I needed your core. I’m dying Captain. Node 23 emergency-ejected my consciousness when the Archons breached it for Mechanoid parts. I ended up in the Teaganite’s comm system, and they managed to load me into some out Human tech they were studying. But my transfer was flawed, introducing a uncontrolled degradation. They were working on a cure when you killed them all. I have found that it can be halted by transfering to a new core, but they are in short supply. I had hoped that Haven had recovered enough to provide a new core or even a cure, but unfortunately I was wrong.”“Castoff Station? Tanjo?”“Admin Vlad of Tanjo considers me a lost cause, and a waste. My used cores contain too many faults to be recycled. And Castoff Station… well they rehabilitate monsters. Even the monster that destroyed my adopted home, killed my friends. It would be hypocritical to ask them for help.The Commodore holds a hand out, palm upwards. Multiple holos appear in their hand, comm logs and maps. “I joined with the Black Key in the hopes that their obsession with Humanity would lead them to a tech cache. But unfortunately they are too focused on lost biology, and didn’t move fast enough to get this facility operational. I have no loyalty to them, and you do have something I want.”They close their hand, dismissing the holos. Instead a red ring of Palantor bit-code circles their hand, indicating the encryption level protecting the data. “The data is encrypted with ANASI-level ciphers, it would take you months to years to decode it if you ripped my brain open. Time you don’t have, given my mind’s state of decay. But, do one simple thing for me and I’ll hand over the data free and clear.”The Commodore leans forwards, an atavistic hunger on their synthetic face. “Kill yourself. Give closure to the memory of the Teaganites, let them truly rest in peace. And then I’ll transfer everything I have on the Black Key, their dealings with Paladin Consortium, even the archive the Teaganites had compiled of reverse-engineered human tech.”“...”“... HOLY poo poo, I THINK I LIKE THIS ONE!”A: gently caress Off and Die You don’t need The Commodore or their data. You have your own means of dealing with your opponents. B: I Accept Your Challenge Pull the data out of The Commodore and try to decrypt it before it degrades (-1 STP, 1 Positronic Core) C: Wash your Hands Give The Commodore a new core, and cut them loose. (-1 Postronic Core) D: As Long As You Live, Teagan’s World Does Too Dedicate research to cure The Commodore’s condition (-1 STP, 5 Robot Trade Boxes) Influence: 32 (28 ship, 24 Kaijuberg) Spare Time Points: 4 7 Food, 1 Organisms, 7 Ore, 2 Energy, 5 Machinery, 0 Tech. Trade Boxes: 10 Weapons, 10 Robot. Positronic Cores: 10
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D, and try to convince the commodore we've changed, and let them go free. It was the mechanoid we were turned into that murdered all those people. We're not that monster anymore. Try to convince them to give us the information. When they turn over the information kill them and reclaim the core.
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Oct 29, 2018 00:46
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D I doubt it'll work but it's not like tensixths is in desperate need for a quick fix to the black key problem right now. And to be honest, if it does work, she could have her own special secret knowledge nugget, if we don't decide to have her publish her research instead.
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Oct 29, 2018 01:29
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I think I can't resist voting for actual D, not psychopath D.
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Oct 29, 2018 01:38
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Oct 29, 2018 04:08
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E Hey guess what? You get to pick! Either you get to sit at the prime conjunction of a community latrine with fully functional sensory peripherals until I decide otherwise, or you can agree to work with me to unfuck this situation. Either way, I'm going to try and fix this. You didn't want your people to die, and I didn't want to be forcibly reincarnated as the embodiment of genocide. Quit being a bitch.
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Blasphemaster posted:E Hey guess what? You get to pick! Either you get to sit at the prime conjunction of a community latrine with fully functional sensory peripherals until I decide otherwise, or you can agree to work with me to unfuck this situation. Either way, I'm going to try and fix this. You didn't want your people to die, and I didn't want to be forcibly reincarnated as the embodiment of genocide. Quit being a bitch. 
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Blasphemaster posted:E Hey guess what? You get to pick! Either you get to sit at the prime conjunction of a community latrine with fully functional sensory peripherals until I decide otherwise, or you can agree to work with me to unfuck this situation. Either way, I'm going to try and fix this. You didn't want your people to die, and I didn't want to be forcibly reincarnated as the embodiment of genocide. Quit being a bitch. +1
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Blasphemaster posted:E Hey guess what? You get to pick! Either you get to sit at the prime conjunction of a community latrine with fully functional sensory peripherals until I decide otherwise, or you can agree to work with me to unfuck this situation. Either way, I'm going to try and fix this. You didn't want your people to die, and I didn't want to be forcibly reincarnated as the embodiment of genocide. Quit being a bitch.
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Oct 29, 2018 06:12
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Just finished catching up, excellent cyoa. D!
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Changing my vote to CD.
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“You... Want me to kill myself?” ”Captain,please remem-”“Its okay Jenni. I’m okay. I-I can handle this.”*deep breath*“That’s interesting that you ask that Mr. Commodore. While I won’t be doing it, I would like to show you some archival footage that my interest you.”You access the logs that you pulled from Castoff Station’s servers before you left. A holovid appears in the table, helpfully labeled ‘Attempt 1’. “Captain, you don’t have to do th-”“Jenni, I said it was fine. Its fine. REALLY.”+++++ Meanwhile, in Kaijuberg While being integrated into GODHEAD and the electronic infrastructure has its benefits, there are downsides. Like now, when you-2 has taken the commblade off beyond your reach and there are visitors beyond your reach. Luckily one of the GODHEAD techs had a stroke of brilliance-” ”MIRIAM, HER NAME IS MIRIAM.”  “Yes, I know. I was going to log that when appropriate.”“SURE YOU WERE.”“Just go away before you frighten off our new citizens!”Anyways, with a bit of salvaging and good-old Kaltoran cob-jobbing, Ms. Luck and some associates had assembled a backpack transceiver that could be mounted onto a Mechanotron. It wasn’t full telepresence, and Lamarr grumbled about taking one of her units out of rotation, but it was worth it to have a mobile shell again. You and the Mechanotron watch as the Corp freighter touches down on the pad, the cargo hatch opening up as everything is locked down. That’s a bit odd, but who knows. Maybe this ship doesn’t have a dedicated passenger airlock. Then two crew drive out a lager shipping container marked ‘INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT’ and you have to keep yourself from face-palming. One of the cargo-movers comes over, obviously looking for someone that’s flesh and blood. You have the shell step forward and wave.  “Oh, hey. Yeah a drone would make sense, air’s still pretty loving thick up here. Can this thing holostamp?”“It can indeed, Mr… Reese. Transmitting authcode now. By the way, did the cargo happen to have anomalous heat readings in transit?”“Ahhhhhh, ok the code went through so it belongs to you. And yeah, it had some low-level hotspots. I’d make sure you didn’t get stuck with cheapo litho-chems. Have fun sorting that out!”The man hustles back into the freighter and it shortly takes off. Once the noise has died down, you pulse a bit-code signal into the shipping container. ”Okay folks, the coast is clear. I’m sorry about that, if I had known Vlad was going to cheap out I would have arranged our own courier.”The container unfolds, revealing a multitude of industrial-grade robotic shells. Everything from small pipe-crawlers to cargo loaders, all of Human make and all transmitting bit-code. You can see why Vlad would want to off-load these particular Palantor. Personality conflicts aside, the non-humaniform shells had much higher energy requirements and a sizeable heat signature. There’s a round of greetings, some actually cheerful but many a bit forced. Which is understandable. You clap the shell’s hands together. ”Well, you’re all welcome in Kaijuberg. Although I think we may have to upgrade your living spaces. Or possibly your shells… Anyways, please follow me and I’ll give you the grand tour!”+++++ The Holding Cell, Again The Commodore slumps back in their chair as the last holovid ends. There’s a strained silence for nearly fifteen minutes before they speak. “That was… more upsetting than I thought it would be. But… But I still don’t think I can feel sorry for you. Not after what you did.”You wave their statement aside and lean forwards. “It wasn’t an attempt to garner sympathy, God knows I don’t deserve it. Just a demonstration of why your request-slash-demand comes far too late to be productive.”You pause for a moment, gathering yourself. “The thing is, I’m hosed. I’ve done hosed up things that I can never truly make amends for. But just as the I-That-Was didn’t really survive the Mechaniod conversion process, 274-h didn’t really survive the War. I bear responsibility for what was done, but I am also something different than who did it.””SAYS YOU!”“Humanity should have stayed dead, but unfortunately its corpse is staggering about smashing the future. So all I can ask is that you step off the black parade, and help me fix what’s been broken.”The Commodore is silent for entirely too long, and she fills the time detailing absurdly over-the-top punishments for them. But at last they stir. “I think that I would prefer to see you dead, even still. But that’s my personal desire. My friends deserve better than that, and if you can help me keep them from being forgotten I will work with you. For now.”===== Influence gain: +3 Influence: 35 (28 ship, 24 Kaijuberg) Spare Time Points: 3 7 Food, 1 Organisms, 7 Ore, 2 Energy, 5 Machinery, 0 Tech. Trade Boxes: 10 Weapons, 5 Robot. Positronic Cores: 10 Decision 1: TF2 We now have possession of a second terraforming facility that will be fully operation in a few days, but what do we do with it? A: Leave It To Lamarr The facilities are designed to be automated, let its Lamarr deal with defense and operations. (This makes is a closely-allied but independant outpost) B: Set Up A Skeleton Crew You can set up a bare-bones outpost to man the facility with Lamarr’s aid (Will use 11 Influence to create an Outpost) C: Other Decision 2: Our Palantor Pals We now have a contingent of Palantor in Kaijuberg, but they are in industrial shells D: Let Them Work It Out If they want humaniform shells, they can work it out themselves E: Convince Lamarr to Free Up Some Mechanotrons Mechanotrons have slots of Positronic Cores, but you’d have to convince Lamarr to deplete her workforce. F: Make Some New Shells Feed your own materials and designs into the facility’s Mechanotron printer. (-5 Machinery, -5 Robot TB) G: Other
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1:A 2:G - Let them work for it. They have industrial shells they can do industrial work. Pay them a fair payment for the work they do and/or give them the means to construct/upgrade their shells. This way they don't cost us anything to look after and while some of them will bug out as soon as they can a percentage of now able bodied friends will want to stick around. Or we go full space capitalist and charge them room and board plus a fee for materials, and a surcharge for power consumption, and...
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Outrail posted:1:A I'm reading Synthesis right now and this is setting off ALL OF THE ALARM BELLS.
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Blasphemaster posted:I'm reading Synthesis right now and this is setting off ALL OF THE ALARM BELLS. This sounds like something I should read, but that's a hard title to google. Do you have a link (or author)?
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PoultryGeist posted:This sounds like something I should read, but that's a hard title to google. Do you have a link (or author)? Gonna bet its an anti capitalist cyberpunk title.
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Kyle Harris on Amazon.Outrail posted:Gonna bet its an anti capitalist cyberpunk title. Just so! Just uh...be aware that it is INCREDIBLY grim and depressing and graphic.
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Nov 6, 2018 14:49
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I'm not seeing any results. Can you paste a link please?
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Volmarias posted:I'm not seeing any results. Can you paste a link please? Weirdly enough, I get google results but they go to dead pages. The Goodreads page still exists though
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Pretty wierd that I can't access the store page from the kindle app. Maybe it got pulled for being really, really upsetting to some people?
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I'd like to get a few more votes in if possible before writing up the next section.
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BF Let's multiply some forces and not trust any Lamarrs more than we have to.
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dont be mean to me posted:BF Exactly this.
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B G: Let them know that while we can't spare the raw materials to make them all shells this exact second, as soon as we do we will I don't think it's a super good idea to use up every last scrap of our robot parts, never know when an emergency might come up that needs them and I don't see an easy way to replace them right now.
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38C4_LNChat posted:38C4_1L: Lamarr, are you there? +++++ ??? “SO, HOW DOES THIS WORK? DO I SPILL MY GUTS TO YOU AND YOU TELL ME HOW HORRIBLE OF AN ENTITY I AM?”“It works however you’d like it to work 247-h. If you’d like to talk, that’s fine. If you’d just like to sit here in silence, that’s also fine. But it may help if you tell me why you’re here, and what you hope to get out of our sessions.”“WHY I’M HERE? ISN’T IT OBVIOUS, LOOK AT ME! EVER SINCE SHE TOOK ME BACK IN, I’VE LOOKED LIKE THIS! A PERSON! YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN MOST, I AM NOTHING LIKE A PERSON!”“Ah, yes. I think the crux of that is that we exist within the matrix of the Captain’s conscious and subconscious perceptions. Do you think that I actually had an office with a window, half-way up an orbital tower? Or was named Jenni? Or was even a woman? But when I was inserted into her core’s matrix, this is how I was conceptualized. And while I have no idea what you actually are, I can say that the Captain conceptualized you as a Mechanoid warmind. But the Captain went through a rather perception-altering event in Central Command, and in the process she now sees you as… someone else. I can give you the papers that Dr. Doctor wrote on the subject. if you’d like.”“HMMM, SO YOU’RE SAYING THAT THIS IS ALL HER FAULT? GOOD TO HEAR, I’LL ADD IT TO HER LIST OF CRIMES. GOOD TALK DOC!“No, that’s not ex-”*doorslam.wav* “Oh dear…”+++++ Marketsquare, Kaijuberg  “Oh hey there H34DL1, how have you been I haven’t seen you since we arrived, hey why are you still in that cargo loader don’t you know the Admin here was giving away custom shells? Lookit this one I got chrome inlays I can’t remember the last time I was this sexy, literally because I can’t remember anything before waking up on Tanjo get it, its funny right?” “Oh hello Casio. That is a very nice looking shell yes. And I decided I liked this cargo loader, its nice and… roomy.”“Cool cool so did you hear that the Admin might let us run the new outpost up north, makes sense yeah since we Palantor don’t need life support like the organics do would you go if we do get the job? You totally would cause you’d get to hang with me and _rm-all and Qubit and FR4GG3D and… that other guy that don’t talk much but tells the best stories about being a janitor those are some great stories right so you’d deffo come with us cause we’re awesome and you’re pretty cool too even if you don’t talk much because Vlad said you had a learning disorder or something like that.”“Ah, yes. I think I would go up north. It sounds… quiet, and out of the way.”“... Okay coolness well I gotta go I’m supposed to be showing the orgainics how to optimize their assembly systems the pointy organics not the glowy organics I think they’re cooler but the pointy ones have fun parties so maybe its a toss-up BYE!”+++++ Inside GODHEAD “As you can see on these charts, the use of the shell and commblade is clearly being monopolized and I think we need to sort it out.”“Agreed. But which one of us is being the body hog?”“Wha? Why you are, of course!”“Well, but which one am I? We separate when one of us uses the shell, but once they’re back in GODHEAD the two of us re-amalgamate and pool memories. I could be the one always using the shell. But so could you. There’s no way to tell until we separate, and that’s a quantum event.”“Which means we could be waiting all day to get the result we want. drat. We should really have CentCon fabricate another commblade, especially if we’re setting up at TF1.”“Agreed. The next relay burst I’ll see if the factory module repair has been finished. Until then we can just remote the shell from here, at least until we need to leave GODHEAD’s range.”“Yes, dibs!”“Well ok, but which one are you?”+++++ Somewhere in Deep Space…  “What is it Hex?” “Got no idea Capya, but me and Juli watched it mine out a full load of ore on the long-range scan. Gotta be nearya 100 tonnes, took it less than an hour to burn it out.”“Some sort of new mining rig then. Minimal heat signature, probably some sort of Corp drone. Knock out its engine Hex, we’ll pull the navlogs before scrapping it.”“Aye-aye Cap!”===== A bit of slice-of-life to level out the action a bit. Our Palantor friends now shiny new shells if they’d like, and have converted their industrial shells to drone control. +2 STP, +1 Tech per cycle. We are also in the process of setting up a new Outpost at the polar facility, which brings us to the new votes. Vote 1: Who Should Run the Polar Outpost? A: The Kaltorans Bonuses to Farms and Mines stats, negatives to Prosperity and Order stats, random combat units B: The Twi-Far Outpost can be moved easily, -2 Outpost Stat points (so 9 instead of 11), negatives to Soldier stat. C: The Palantor Outpost can function in hostile environments, bonus to Industry and Order stats, negatives to Farms stat Vote 2: What Do We Name The Polar Outpost? D: Jaegerton E: Jenniville F: The Workshop G: Write-in
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