According to Googles neutronium has a higher energy potential because it is just THAT much denser. But we don't have to pick. Antineutronium!
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Diogines posted:According to Googles neutronium has a higher energy potential because it is just THAT much denser. But we don't have to pick. Antineutronium! yeah, but, uh, a pound is a pound no matter the density. All that density changes is how much space that pound takes up. A pound X and a pound Y are fundamentally the same amount of really, truely fundamental particles, just packed closer or more spread out. i'm fairly sure nothing can or will result in more energy output than a pound of antimater because antimatter has perfect efficiency. A pound of anything is a set amount of energy, and antimatter perfectly converts into that.
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 06:20 |
I meant a measure of volume! That was dumb.
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Yeah if you want a liter of antimatter and a liter of neutronium, or even a liter of antineutronium, then things get fun.
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Are we measuring pounds in mass or weight? Coz if we can get ourselves into a weightless situation....
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 06:35 |
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Summoning a "pound" of antihydrogen while in microgravity/with our gravitational frame of reference set to like the Andromeda galaxy and vaporizing the solar system would be one hell of a way to smash all the local Infrastructure, if nothing else. It has to be able to fit in our bag/pocket, though.
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 06:41 |
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1. B 2.All life in this world has been shackled by the malevolent will of the godmachine and they must be freed 3. CD 4. AB Without a Trace Ambush Data Retrieval Animal Messenger Eavesdrop Loose Lips Anarchism Just Bruised Hush
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Crazycryodude posted:Summoning a "pound" of antihydrogen while in microgravity/with our gravitational frame of reference set to like the Andromeda galaxy and vaporizing the solar system would be one hell of a way to smash all the local Infrastructure, if nothing else. It has to be able to fit in our bag/pocket, though. I'm no physicsologist but I get the gist of it all. Voting we keep this option in our metaphorical back pocket. Within easy, easy reach.
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 09:10 |
Crazycryodude posted:Summoning a "pound" of antihydrogen while in microgravity/with our gravitational frame of reference set to like the Andromeda galaxy and vaporizing the solar system would be one hell of a way to smash all the local Infrastructure, if nothing else. It has to be able to fit in our bag/pocket, though.
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One could argue that antimatter is established as not being in our pocket because if it were in it pocket, it would have reacted with our pocket.
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piL posted:One could argue that antimatter is established as not being in our pocket because if it were in it pocket, it would have reacted with our pocket.
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All this talk about Antimatter is fascinating, but what we really need in our pocket is a picture of our butt that we can show at any time. Not our mortal vessel's butt- our demon butt.
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Disproportionate Orphan posted:All this talk about Antimatter is fascinating, but what we really need in our pocket is a picture of our butt that we can show at any time. Not our mortal vessel's butt- our demon butt. I'm not sure that Going Loud is the best option.
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Diogines posted:Some very, very, very sloppy math says that we would need like 400,000 kg of antimatter to destroy the planet. It is very volatile stuff, but the planet is also very big. Yeah, sure, I was just imagining what fuckery you could get up to by asking for weight instead of mass. If you ask for a "pound" of antimatter as weighed by the gravitational force exerted on it by a tiny speck of dust on the other side of the universe, for example, we're gonna get an IMMENSE amount of antimatter spewing out of our bag.
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Mary Poppins could have been truly amazing if they'd put a physicist on the writing team. Also it's now pretty clear she was some kind of demon.
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Outrail posted:Mary Poppins could have been truly amazing if they'd put a physicist on the writing team. Oh, absolutely. Clearly a patchwork cover, too-- no human identity is practically perfect in every way; she had to be cobbled together from lots of different identities. Wonder what exactly she was really charging the parents for her services...
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Ms. Ink
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 18:12 |
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Voting Closed
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# ? Feb 9, 2018 18:40 |
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Outrail posted:Mary Poppins could have been truly amazing if they'd put a physicist on the writing team. Supercalifragapazuzupazuzupazuzualidocious
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I have created Ms. Ink's character sheet and added it to the second post in the thread. Mabin is a Patchwork Cover. Hell to us to No Gods No Masters. Over all the game will be Gritty, but with some Loudness. Our Starting Embeds are In My Pocket Authorized Like I Built It Sabotage. And we start on Game Night I'll be writing a post to get up either late tonight or this weekend. Until I do, here are some things to keep you busy. We are to answer some Questions to better get a feel for our character. These are open ended and will not affect the first posts of the game, but will affect us eventually. Answer any and all you want to as detailed as you want to. I will choose from the top answers, or the ones I find most intriguing. • Who did you share part of yourself with when you first Fell? • Who doesn’t know, but suspects you’re not human? • Who could give you up to the angels right now, if they really wanted to? • Who would you trust the truest part of yourself with if you absolutely had to? • Who thinks they have something on you, when all they really have is smoke and mirrors?
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Chapter One: Cold Open. February 7th 2018, 9:53 pm “In a minute, I am going to pull some antimatter from my bag.” “Wait, you can do that?” “Why not? “It doesn’t seem like...I don’t know..realistic?” “Or fair.” “Yeah, or fair.” “Listen guys, can you find one actual reason that I can’t?” “Mabin..one sec........goddamnit.” “Nothing? Alright. I pull some antimatter from my bag.” “Fine, you have to roll for it.” Even in the dimness Mabin’s expression is easily read, and it’s a dangerous one, “Roll for it? What the hell Tim, you don’t make Ali roll when she uses Hammerspace.” Tim pulls nervously at his beard, he’s let it grow out for the winter and it seems to be bothering him. “Because she uses it to pull weapons out of it, simple weapons.” “Antimatter is a weapon,” Mabin groans, her leg swinging under the booth table in annoyance. “And she pulled a rocket launcher out once!” “That was thematically appropriate for the story.” Tim replies. “And it didn’t loving work anyways,” Nels grumbles. “Because you dipshits left your heavy weapon expert lying face down in the other room.” “Language,” Alison snaps between sips of her Cherry Coke. “Whatever.” Mabin grunts and dips her fries in her dwindling supply of ketchup. She hates when Tim tries to throw his weight around, he can never fully turn off the annoying professor act. Normally it’s not a big deal, Mabin learned long ago that you can get a white dude to do pretty much anything as long as he thinks it was his idea. Still, that sort of needless rules lawyering really ruins Game Night. You of course cannot wait for Game Night to be over. Right on time Darla comes over and picks up everyone’s plate. Mabin gives hers up only after frantically shoveling fries into her mouth. She manages a muffled “Uh-huh!” when Darla asks if anyone wants coffee or refills. Everyone does, like always. Once the drinks are brought to the table and everyone makes a show of rearranging their character sheets and dice - settling in for a long session - Tim nods to Alison. You feel a slight pressure against Mabin’s ears and you smell something similar to ozone, Ms. Kind has activated her Embed. Until she chooses otherwise, anyone will see four people clustered around a table, playing a game. Not totally unusual for the Broiler, but unique enough to leave them alone. It’s an odd assortment of people too, but weirdly enough this activities seemed in-character for all your Cover’s so, you all kept it up. Ms. Kind puts down her Cherry Coke and briefly sticks out her tongue. Like all Demon’s she has total control over nonverbals and body language like that, so you know it’s intentional and she is once again complaining about her Cover’s addiction. Mr. Tone pulls out his phone and starts to check his electronic dead drops, email accounts, message boards, Facebook groups, all communication for Demons disguised as things far more mundane. Unlike Nels, Mr. Tone is far more soft spoken and polite. You do not like Nels, you don’t think he does either. Mr. Ruin takes out a yellow legal pad and is flipping through it. You look at the writing and see he’s written in Icelandic. For your part you take out Mabin’s phone and go to Craigslist. For many Unchained in the Metro, information came in the form of coded messages and half-heard rumors. The two largest Agencies* in town spend a lot of time information-gathering and then ensuring only they have said information. In response to this near-monopoly many free agencies and solo demons had spent time creating and maintaining a network. That network was part information exchange, part social networking, part tactical planning. It was built on secret IRC rooms and long-forgotten Usenet servers in conjunction in more traditional printed correspondences. Two of the largest sources for Unchained print gossip, the Pioneer Press and City Pages had Unchained on staff somewhere in the layout department, who insured that messages, coded in phrases found in personal ads, or hidden in images, would make their way to the doorstep of every Unchained in the cities. Though the intel from these sources tended to be good, faster ways appeared. This day on Craigslist, the Missed Connections sublisting had two entries that you could puzzle through. My Guardian Angel (Northeast) posted:
I told you ‘there’s a reason for everything beautiful’ (Highland Park) posted:
“Okay, what does everyone have this week?” you ask. “Well I have nothing,” Kind says. “Alison has had a busy week. The twins have a Science Fair tomorrow and Jerry is back from business.” Ruin waves her off, annoyed, “Right, we get it. You sure you don’t want to offload any of that brood of yours? Maybe Ink’s Cover needs a little brother.” “No, I’m fine being the queen bee.” Kind says. “Tone, anything?” Tone looks up from his phone after a moment. “Sorry. So, apparently last night all the redheads in Uptown all contracted botulism.” There is a silence after that. “Any signs of Stigmata? New Infrastructure?” Ruin asks. “Not that I can see yet. I’d assume it’d be just some weird ghost in the Machine, but all the trees in Uptown also went into bloom last night too.” “In February?” “Yeah.” Kind considers this for a moment. “Major environmental impact, large scale, linked human impact... what do you think it is?” “Well, I’m not sure, but some of the other Watchers think something Fell.” There is a longer silence after that. “It’s almost been 24 hours.” you say. “We’d have heard of something Going Loud by now right?” Tone shrugs. “The Unchained population here has grown significantly over the past...80 years...we can’t all keep in touch, even with the network.” “Should we head out there?” Ruin asks. “See if there's anybody to be rescued. Or any body to be buried? TIm doesn’t have class tomorrow..” “Let’s see what our other intel is,” you say. “I pulled these messages off of Craigslist.” “A bad poem?” Ruin asks. “A bad code,” Tone says reading over the first message. “What does it say Ink?” “Well, based on previous messages, I am thinking someone had to Go Loud.” Tone reads over the message again. “Makes sense I guess...but why bother posting it?” “Because there still might be a danger,” Kind suggests. Ruin swears. “gently caress, an angel? Still active?” You nod. “Yeah. Maybe.” “Isn’t Northeast close to Mabin’s neck of the woods?” “Closer than I’d like yeah.” Kind stiffens. “Should we go after that, or let an Angency know? That’s Home Office’s turf right?” “There’s also the second message. I think it’s Infrastructure.” “Who is MW?” asks Tone, looking at the post. “Winter? No..it’s too creative. Wick?” “In Highland Park? It’s probably Ms. Watch,” you respond. “That bitch.” Ms. Kind says under her breath. After the three of you look at her she elaborates. “Her kid played the twins in soccer last year, talk about a literal loving soccer mom from hell.” “Okay,” Tone says thinking. “We have a possible Fall, which means a lot of activity Angelic and Demonic, in Uptown. Possible Angel hunting around in Northeast. And some new Infrastructure popping up in Highland Park.” “And more,” says Ruin. “Yesterday one of my dead drops had a message for us.” “Us?” “Yeah, all of us, by name. Said if we were interested in a job to stop by the IDS Center.” “Wait, that’s the Home Office,” Tone says. “What the hell do they want with us?” “No idea, why don’t you walk in and ask?” “After spending a decade trying to get some actual leverage at The Capitol? I’m not switching teams at the fourth inning.” “Fourth quarter,” Kind says. “Doesn’t Nels like sports?” “Just hockey.” “Anyway, add this job offer to the pile,” Ruin says, directing everyone back on task. “Any suggestions? Ink, age before beauty so what do you think?” 1. What lead should we follow up? Choose as many as you want. A. Recent Fallen. B. Angel Hunter C. New Infrastructure D. Job Offer. _____________________________________________________________________ We start our journey has beings of infinite power...talking in a diner. A few things. 1. I am attempting to make a clear line when you are Ms. Ink and when you are acting as Mabin. If this is confusing or doesn’t work, let me know! 2. With the leads above, we can try to do multiple, but the more divided our attention is, the trickier things might get. 3. I am throwing a lot of in-world terms here. Please reference the second post of this thread, or footnotes. I don’t have time to make a wiki, though I wish I did, for all of these references, so we’ll hope this works. 4. I am a big fan of a soundtrack for this game, so please feel free to suggest music. When I play Demon in person, the rule is the song needs to reference Heaven, God, Angels, Hell, the Devil, or Demons. Leads to some cool choices. 5. Our Ring probably needs reference images, so..do what you will. Again, feel free to answer these questions for character reference. • Who did you share part of yourself with when you first Fell? • Who doesn’t know, but suspects you’re not human? • Who could give you up to the angels right now, if they really wanted to? • Who would you trust the truest part of yourself with if you absolutely had to? • Who thinks they have something on you, when all they really have is smoke and mirrors? quote:*Larger groups of demons are called Agencies, and are viewed with suspicion by the majority of Unchained. Agencies are sources of power and influence for those demons who set them up, and high- value targets for angels looking to compromise demonic society. There are currently two large Agencies operating in the Metropolitan area. These agencies have become institutions onto themselves and they are well known to any Unchained in the area. NinjaPete fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Feb 18, 2018 |
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1. B Who would you trust the truest part of yourself with if you absolutely had to? That would Alex Hurli, our off-again/on-again partner, and roommate. They were formally a police officer but now works as an investigative reporter with a focus on police and city corruption.
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A D, potential new recruit and a job. • Who did you share part of yourself with when you first Fell? -Carl Skoglund, a labor organizer and pillar of the community that our original Cover happened to fall in with • Who doesn’t know, but suspects you’re not human? -Some creepy internet troll who frequents our comment sections that we know only as "Justler3001". They sound like a raving conspiracy theorist to anyone who's sane but, well, we really are a demon. Not in the traditional Christian way they seem to mean, of course, but still. • Who could give you up to the angels right now, if they really wanted to? -The ring, obviously. Better make sure we stay good friends. • Who thinks they have something on you, when all they really have is smoke and mirrors? -Sandie Gilchrist, our rear end in a top hat neighbor. She's somehow gotten it into her head that we're dealing drugs out of our apartment. Her dog is really nice, though.
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1. ABCD Do all the things! Why not? Better to fail by over-reaching than to fail at a single task we've devoted all our attention to - we don't really know the chance of success at any of these tasks so it is impossible to gauge whether allocating all our time a single task will be any more successful than allocating our attention all of the tasks. MinutePirateBug fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Feb 10, 2018 |
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A & C These seem the most urgent, and might be linked for all we know.
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# ? Feb 10, 2018 06:09 |
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A, C Time sensitive and new. The angel is being an angel and will have to be dealt with sometime. Don't trust the tone of the Home Office's invite.
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C
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# ? Feb 10, 2018 06:45 |
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Crazycryodude posted:• Who did you share part of yourself with when you first Fell? These are good. Seconded. B & C The angel is the most direct threat to us as it's in our neighborhood. Better to find it before it finds us. Our powers are focused on interacting with objects. I'd expect them to be well suited to messing with infrastructure.
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# ? Feb 10, 2018 07:37 |
Plan Cryo feels good to me.
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# ? Feb 10, 2018 07:42 |
Ms. Watch is mentioned both as the source of the gaming group illusion, and as a demon outside of our little group, specifically her kid has played against Ms. Kind's twins. Not ready to vote yet, though.
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vorebane posted:Ms. Watch is mentioned both as the source of the gaming group illusion, and as a demon outside of our little group, specifically her kid has played against Ms. Kind's twins. Nice catch, was still deciding on names
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# ? Feb 10, 2018 09:59 |
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Plan Cryo, except B for our choice. Let's be selfish and want to take out the threat closest to our home turf.
Task Manager fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Feb 10, 2018 |
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AC Angels are bad news, leave them for someone else.
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24ish hour notice. Assuming I can get some writing done tonight we'll move on tomorrow.
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• Who did you share part of yourself with when you first Fell? The first person we met, a native american woman, we traded our metaphorical privilege at the levers of creation for her heritage. She's left her past long behind, now. • Who doesn’t know, but suspects you’re not human? The Juggalos are onto us! • Who could give you up to the angels right now, if they really wanted to? Our circle could there's no way around that. • Who would you trust the truest part of yourself with if you absolutely had to? A few native american mortals, actually. The godmachine has been considerably less kind to them than it's been to us. • Who thinks they have something on you, when all they really have is smoke and mirrors? There's a little group of goths playing at magic that we got a few pieces of our cover from, for a song. They think they have a chance at leveraging a better deal out of us, but mostly they're just... predictably useful. Check out the new infrastructure first, but also investigate the newcomer and the angel, stay far away from the Home Office
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# ? Feb 11, 2018 01:31 |
AC. Build our numbers and our power, angels are to be avoided when possible, and the Home Office job sounds suspicious.
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AC Music suggestions are very up my alley, so here are a few favorites I could actually find on Youtube. Hopefully some of it is new to you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMSkC2PGyTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR_gcRp5v-k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv5kkI5X1QM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eropdxA_hj0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuZVHjIVPzM
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O appropriate music? Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil - welp... Rob Zombie - Dragula Massive Attack - Angel Primus - Devil Went Down to Georgia Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around Franz Schubert - Ave Maria Tupac - Hail Mary Woody Guthrie - Jesus Christ ( was thinking about this land is your land's alternate title God's Promise , but whatever Woody kind of fits the game) Edith Piaf - Mon Dieu Lilium Run Of S30Z - song about the trinity in an obscure racing game Eraserhead - In Heaven Jesus Christ Superstar - Superstar Megadeth - Holy wars... The Punishment Due --------- Eh kind of fits the spirit of the request, but not really? Would something like Sweeney Todd's Little Priest count? Wardruna - Helvegen, the way to hel Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy Modest Mussorgsky - On Bald Mountain Cyro Chamber - God Body Disconnect - Drowning with God MinutePirateBug fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Feb 11, 2018 |
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Savatage - St. Patrick's "Or don't You feel,? Are we unreal, to one who knows no peers? Ramstein - Engel "Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein. God knows I don't want to be an angel. Nick Cave and the Bad seeds: Red Right Hand. "You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan, designed and directed by his red right hand." Johnny Cash: God's Gonna Cut you down Coolio: Gangsta's Paradise Digital Daggers: The Devil Within "I made myself at home in the cobwebs and the lies. I'm learning all your tricks, I can hurt you from inside." Also A and C
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A&C • Who thinks they have something on you, when all they really have is smoke and mirrors? Robert Grant, an ex-soldier who was employed by TigerSwan to surveil and incite the activists when we were at Standing Rock. We got him kicked out of the camp. He has had a chip on his shoulder since then and has been investigating us, finding some criminals we've had deals with, and thinks that we're in with them.
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