PhoenixFlame Presents: Eclipse Phase - Page 11

Overcast · 05-22-2010, 05:40 PM

Alrighty he has gone from nothing to professional at free fall movement, reduced many expert level knowledge in other items down to professional to pull it off. Removing all earlier iterations.

Dracorion · 05-22-2010, 07:02 PM

Put some points in Freefall and a bit in Freerunning.

Geminex · 05-22-2010, 07:05 PM

Ok, done with the manual. I'll create my character in the course of the day, don't start without me.

One more question, how likely are we to die in the first few missions? I have the feeling that I might be investing rather a lot of points into buying morph, augmentations and gear, and it'd suck if I die halfway through mission 2, and everything's gone.

Krylo · 05-22-2010, 07:26 PM

Speaking of death likelihood: Gem, do me a favor and make a gunbunny.

Please?

We totally lack any kind of competent combatant as that Krogo insists on being a post singularity fencer.

Preferably a sneaky one as we also lack a thiefy character to the best of my knowledge.

PhoenixFlame · 05-22-2010, 07:32 PM

Probably not that likely. However since it's come up a lot that I am a sadistic vixen, yet a fair GM, the prospect of what might happen if someone attains the misfourtune of eating a railgun slug has been addressed by quite a few of you.

So without further ado, I dim the lights and play a Fallout style film reel.

Phoenixflame's dying 101 turtorial, or "How I learned to stop worrying and love the singularity."

A small, claptrap style Case rolls into view.

"Hello there, gentlemen and ladies! I hear that you, like Billy here have bought the latest in GetCo's full coverage death and dismemberment insurance!"

Billy, operating young neotenic with a baseball cap waves his hand.

"First off, you might be concerned, like Billy is, with the multitude of ways to horrifically meet your end in our fantastic universe! Fortunately, with a little saftey and preparation, you can avoid many of these painful experiences! Remember, we can rebuild your body, but not your brain!"

A small green circle appears over Billy's body, with a "Ding ding!" sound, while a red X covers his forehead, flickering with a "BAAAANP." sound.

"Billy's a smart boy! He knows not to walk into airlocks without properly deploying his vacsuit, nor operating at all on a space station without some form of emergency protection agaisnt the harsh unknown!"

Billy shows off his smartfabric clothing, which hastily deploys into a small, self-contained space suit. The wall behind Billy caves in, and the camera follows Billy and Claptrap as they careen off into the starry backdrop.

"Remember kids, dying of aspyhxiation is extremely painful! Secondly, you should be careful when operating near nanofabrication machines! Rogue nanoswarms aren't called 'smart acids' for nothing, after all! Billy here carries a small, GetCo brand nanodetector device to measure if nanite levels in his vicinity are safe for biomorphs!"

Billy shows off a small, shotgun-shell sized aerosol tube attached to his lapel. The camera pans down to a little sphere on his belt.

"Ooh, Billy! You're a naughty boy! Is that a plasmaburst microgrenade? Remember kids, nanites may be extremely vulnerable to liquid heat weapons, but most of those weapons are illegal in nine out of ten inner system habitats!"

A small disclaimer pops up in the corner, warning that outer system habitats are not part of this statistic. Billy blushes, and shyly surrenders the grenade to our friendly case.

"Billy's morph comes equipped with standard mesh inserts, allowing him instant and live access to the system-wide mesh! Additionally, they allow him to remotely operate robots and waldo units when jobs would be too dangerous for his own body!"

Billy is shown operating a waldo on the external part of a spaceship, which is hit with a micrometeroite and sent spinning off into space. Billy is unharmed.

"Last but not least, sometimes death is simply unavoidable!"

Billy's ex-wife walks into the room, yells incoherantly, pulls out a caseless machine gun and perforates his torso. She then exits the room.

"Never fear! Your brain may still be intact!" Claptrap spins around to face Billy, pulling out a small nanobandage and affixing it to the boy's forehead, before deploying a small buzzsaw appendage to cleanly sever his head from his torso. "Modern medical technology is capable of restoring the functionality of a morph that has been up to 95% destroyed in as little as seventy two hours!"

Claptrap can be seen tossing Billy's severed head into a Doctor Bot's onboard healing vat, and the lifeless head floats sadly in suspension while the video moves into a time-lapse reconstruction of the body. At the seventy two hour mark, Billy climbs out of the vat, apparrently good as new.

"Remember kids, saftey is YOUR number one priority! Nobody else is going to be safe for you!"

Aerozord · 05-22-2010, 07:42 PM

ah so basically, long as we got someone willing to take care of our disembodied head, and cash to get our morph and enhancements back, we are golden

There, that should be one fully completed character sheet

PhoenixFlame · 05-22-2010, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Aerozord

and cash to get our morph and enhancements back

Nope. Information on your enhancements is backed up in your brain, in the event they need to be reconstructed or maintenanced. That, and your morph's cost is almost entirely in the time it took to synthesise from birth (Since we can't fabricate brains), not the body. Dip it in a healing vat, wait for the timer to ding, pay a nominal fee for being reconstructed (probably nothing over HIGH, since that's what the vat itself costs), and you're back on your feet.

Energy costs are negligable, someone's got a silicon/iron asteroid, some carbon and a fusion reactor out there.

Synths are even easier. Someone with a CM could feasibly make themselves an army of morphs in as little as a week.

Disclaimer: OKAY, some things like reflex boosters do require some rare superconductive materials, so that might be one that needs some extra costage.

Edit: As for Krylo's earlier comment, I am hesitant to give you any NPC backup for fear of vastly overshadowing the exsisting characters by using weapons that are actually fluffed as highly effective.

Like kinetics.

@Zord: looks okay.
@Death fearers: I'm suprised this came up with the noticable lack of stonewall-built Furies or Reapers. We can't have a post singularity game without a catgirl death machine.
@Gemmmmmmm: I will love you forever if you are a catgirl death machine.

Geminex · 05-22-2010, 07:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Krylo

Speaking of death likelihood: Gem, do me a favor and make a gunbunny.

Please?

We totally lack any kind of competent combatant as that Krogo insists on being a post singularity fencer.

Preferably a sneaky one as we also lack a thiefy character to the best of my knowledge.

I was going to go infiltration-heavy anyway, so we'll definitely have the "thiefy character". Gunbunny? Infiltration, like ranged weapons, use COO, so sure, I can try. Probably no rapid-fire weapons, but I'll see what I have the credits for.

I'm really tempted to just start the game with a Flat morph and make up a convoluted backstory about how my character desperately wants to get the morph he's used to (ghost) back. It'd provide plot points and let me invest 70 more CP into various skills.
Hey, Phoenix, if I do that, how soon am I likely to get a Ghost morph?

And very nice tutorial, that. I could totally visualize it.

Krylo · 05-22-2010, 08:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Geminex

Probably no rapid-fire weapons, but I'll see what I have the credits for.

Get kinetic weapons as your weapon skill.

They're ALL rapid fire.

Just don't bring rail gun versions so you don't decompress the habitat.

Dracorion · 05-22-2010, 08:03 PM

Yeah man, a lot of us don't have vacsuits.

If there were some kinda "Cat Ears" implant I could totally make Ellen into a catgirl. Ideas, anyone?

05-22-2010, 05:40 PM	#101
Overcast Cinderella Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Trespassing in the graveyard Posts: 3,076	Alrighty he has gone from nothing to professional at free fall movement, reduced many expert level knowledge in other items down to professional to pull it off. Removing all earlier iterations. __________________ Time to bust out the glow sticks! Last edited by Overcast; 05-23-2010 at 12:50 PM.

05-22-2010, 07:02 PM	#102
Dracorion Moves Like Jagger, Kupo! Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: To the south, a little to the left... Or to the right. Posts: 4,910	Put some points in Freefall and a bit in Freerunning. __________________ Dracorion's dumbass color is Royal Blue. If you see that color, you better run the fuck away. Last edited by Dracorion; 05-22-2010 at 08:22 PM.

05-22-2010, 07:26 PM	#104
Krylo The Straightest Shota Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: It's a secret to everybody. Posts: 17,789	Speaking of death likelihood: Gem, do me a favor and make a gunbunny. Please? We totally lack any kind of competent combatant as that Krogo insists on being a post singularity fencer. Preferably a sneaky one as we also lack a thiefy character to the best of my knowledge. __________________ I am very tired.

05-22-2010, 07:32 PM	#105
PhoenixFlame ☢!CAUTION!☢ Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Beneath Gensokyo Posts: 3,668	Probably not that likely. However since it's come up a lot that I am a sadistic vixen, yet a fair GM, the prospect of what might happen if someone attains the misfourtune of eating a railgun slug has been addressed by quite a few of you. So without further ado, I dim the lights and play a Fallout style film reel. Phoenixflame's dying 101 turtorial, or "How I learned to stop worrying and love the singularity." A small, claptrap style Case rolls into view. "Hello there, gentlemen and ladies! I hear that you, like Billy here have bought the latest in GetCo's full coverage death and dismemberment insurance!" Billy, operating young neotenic with a baseball cap waves his hand. "First off, you might be concerned, like Billy is, with the multitude of ways to horrifically meet your end in our fantastic universe! Fortunately, with a little saftey and preparation, you can avoid many of these painful experiences! Remember, we can rebuild your body, but not your brain!" A small green circle appears over Billy's body, with a "Ding ding!" sound, while a red X covers his forehead, flickering with a "BAAAANP." sound. "Billy's a smart boy! He knows not to walk into airlocks without properly deploying his vacsuit, nor operating at all on a space station without some form of emergency protection agaisnt the harsh unknown!" Billy shows off his smartfabric clothing, which hastily deploys into a small, self-contained space suit. The wall behind Billy caves in, and the camera follows Billy and Claptrap as they careen off into the starry backdrop. "Remember kids, dying of aspyhxiation is extremely painful! Secondly, you should be careful when operating near nanofabrication machines! Rogue nanoswarms aren't called 'smart acids' for nothing, after all! Billy here carries a small, GetCo brand nanodetector device to measure if nanite levels in his vicinity are safe for biomorphs!" Billy shows off a small, shotgun-shell sized aerosol tube attached to his lapel. The camera pans down to a little sphere on his belt. "Ooh, Billy! You're a naughty boy! Is that a plasmaburst microgrenade? Remember kids, nanites may be extremely vulnerable to liquid heat weapons, but most of those weapons are illegal in nine out of ten inner system habitats!" A small disclaimer pops up in the corner, warning that outer system habitats are not part of this statistic. Billy blushes, and shyly surrenders the grenade to our friendly case. "Billy's morph comes equipped with standard mesh inserts, allowing him instant and live access to the system-wide mesh! Additionally, they allow him to remotely operate robots and waldo units when jobs would be too dangerous for his own body!" Billy is shown operating a waldo on the external part of a spaceship, which is hit with a micrometeroite and sent spinning off into space. Billy is unharmed. "Last but not least, sometimes death is simply unavoidable!" Billy's ex-wife walks into the room, yells incoherantly, pulls out a caseless machine gun and perforates his torso. She then exits the room. "Never fear! Your brain may still be intact!" Claptrap spins around to face Billy, pulling out a small nanobandage and affixing it to the boy's forehead, before deploying a small buzzsaw appendage to cleanly sever his head from his torso. "Modern medical technology is capable of restoring the functionality of a morph that has been up to 95% destroyed in as little as seventy two hours!" Claptrap can be seen tossing Billy's severed head into a Doctor Bot's onboard healing vat, and the lifeless head floats sadly in suspension while the video moves into a time-lapse reconstruction of the body. At the seventy two hour mark, Billy climbs out of the vat, apparrently good as new. "Remember kids, saftey is YOUR number one priority! Nobody else is going to be safe for you!" __________________ "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." -from The Sayings of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan Last edited by PhoenixFlame; 05-22-2010 at 07:36 PM.

05-22-2010, 07:42 PM	#106
Aerozord So we are clear Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Former murder capital of the world Posts: 13,824	ah so basically, long as we got someone willing to take care of our disembodied head, and cash to get our morph and enhancements back, we are golden There, that should be one fully completed character sheet __________________ "don't hate me for being a heterosexual white guy disparaging slacktivism, hate me for all those murders I've done."

05-22-2010, 07:05 PM	#103
Geminex SOM3WH3R3 Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 4,606	Ok, done with the manual. I'll create my character in the course of the day, don't start without me. One more question, how likely are we to die in the first few missions? I have the feeling that I might be investing rather a lot of points into buying morph, augmentations and gear, and it'd suck if I die halfway through mission 2, and everything's gone.

05-22-2010, 08:03 PM	#110
Dracorion Moves Like Jagger, Kupo! Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: To the south, a little to the left... Or to the right. Posts: 4,910	Yeah man, a lot of us don't have vacsuits. If there were some kinda "Cat Ears" implant I could totally make Ellen into a catgirl. Ideas, anyone? __________________ Dracorion's dumbass color is Royal Blue. If you see that color, you better run the fuck away.