PhoenixFlame Presents: Eclipse Phase

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Dracorion

Yeah yeah. But there's always controlling interest.

no, who told you that? even just 20 or 30 percent of company is considered unusually high. You become a corporation by selling off most of your control for capital to expand. I dont know of any actual corporation on the planet that has one person with controling interest.

[Geminex]

You forgot the bit where you get shot in the head because you roll a critical failure on a persuasion check and people realise that you're a manipulative bitch.


And yes, I will continue to refer to Ellen in the second person when talking to you.

[Dracorion]

Damnit, there's no psi sleight for rerolls!

[Geminex]

Better get a lot of Moxie, my friend. Because if I can screw you over utterly by spending a point, OH BOY, AM I GONNA BE SPENDIN' ME SOME MOXIE.

[Dracorion]

I'm flattered you'd be willing to spend one whole Moxie on me. You're a good friend, Geminex.

[Aerozord]

hmm hey is this like Paranoia and we can spend moxie to alter other people rolls?

[Geminex]

hmm hey is this like Paranoia and we can spend moxie to alter other people rolls?

I wish. Nah, we can't. But persuasion rolls are opposed rolls, and that means that I could, theoretically, spend a Moxie to turn a standard success (which would've let Spectre just resist Ellen's persuasion) into a critical success (which would've let him not just resist persuasion, but also benefit him in some other way. Exactly how would be up to PF, but immunity to persuasion for a while, or all-out suspicion seem fair).

So yeah, I can spend Moxie to modify my defensive roll, which in turn could hurt Drac quite a bit. Manipulating PCs is dangerous business. It might be better for Ellen just to stick to seducing NPCs.

I'm flattered you'd be willing to spend one whole Moxie on me. You're a good friend, Geminex.

Don't forget 20 rounds of AP ammo when spectre shoots Ellen in the face, or the scrapper's gel that he'll use to melt her cortical stack!
We're totally BFFs.

[Dracorion]

I'm pretty sure I could counter-Moxie you, though.

[rapter200]

Ok well since I feel a little left out here is Damian's backstory.

Damian was born as an uplifted octopus and starting at an early age he had a large interest in Human History. A history that was not his own. While growing up he spent most of his time studying Old Earth History learning about Earth's old Nations and Cultures.

This interest in history also turned him onto economics and political science. He didn't enjoy the hard sciences very much, they were to boring. Why learn science when you can learn about a story that was in play as your own people cruised the ocean. His love of history also gave him a love of old movies. Actions, Comedies, and all the rest.

His parents also made sure that he could defend himself and survive, hoping that he would never have to actually fight someone. Damian grew up to be one of the foremost minds on Old Earth History hoping to use his knowledge of economics, past events, and current political climates to make a fortune somehow and use it to get to his beloved earth and explore it ruined wonders.

[Krylo]

If you guys wanna PvP go play SoL. We're supposed to be on the same team here, and really none of us built perfect unstoppable juggernauts so the dick waving is kinda unnecessary. ESPECIALLY YOU DRAC YOU STARTED IT AND IT IS JUST GOING TO MAKE YOUR JOB HARDER IF YOU DO TRY TO SEDUCE/PERSUADE US BECAUSE THIS GAME ISN'T EXALTED AND DOESN'T HAVE SOCIAL COMBAT RULES.

THAT SAID:

Gem, I did your sheet. You were almost perfect, except for three things:

1: You don't list what armor you are wearing, and there is no armor in your gear section. You only have the armor values listed which tells me very little as far as cost etc. You also don't say whether you have light or heavy bioweave armor, I assumed light. P.S. Put your armor and weapons in your gear section, plz. It makes it easier on me when all the shit that costs money is in one place (well two, 'cause implants, but yeah).

2: You spent 19 too many creation points. Not bad.

3: You only spent 275 points on Knowledge skills. You need to spend 300 at least.


Also, random suggestions:

Instead of having 90 points in @-Rep, how about spreading it around? A single mercurial community keeping you as a secret hit squad would earn you rep with that single habitat's governance, but not with the autonomists at large (actually, probably quite the opposite, as they tend to look down on any kind of 'law' roaming the solar system and interfering with their societies). However, you'd have probably picked up some C-Rep by twisting corporate arms in the inner systems, and some G-Rep because spec. ops. can always use less than legal help from time to time.

Also, not sure how you'd get blacklisted with the gliterrati for being spec. ops. Seems like you're more likely to get blacklisted with pretty much anyone/everyone else unless your little commune was having you murder celebrities or something.

Remember, also (and this goes for everyone), that the 'theoretical ceiling' for rep is 80. Once you have 80 rep with some place, there's nothing you can't get. 80 rep signifies that people are willing to commit mass murder for you, dismember bodies for you, get a crew together and move entire asteroids for you, etc.

It's honestly pretty ridiculous/silly for any of us to have that much pull with any single organization without very good background reasons for such a group to trust us that much.

Really 40 is enough to get people to bend over backwards for you already, and note that just because you don't have 80 rep (what allows you to get expensive ranked items) that doesn't mean you CAN'T get them. You can either take a modifier to your roll (-10 if you have 60, -20 if you have 40 rep, etc.) you can still get those items.

It would be more sane, and more useful, to simply have a high networking skill. Remember, even if you have 99 Rep you've still gotta make the roll to get what you need. Further, Networking Autonomists is similar to networking Guanxi (Autonomist and Guanxi/Criminals tend to overlap, after all, especially on scum barges), and Guanxi contacts probably have hypercorp contacts, and basically you can argue that you should have (and will probably get) a bonus to networking ______ rolls just by having any networking skill high enough. Similar rolls give bonuses is an actual rule (though it's left up to GM discretion). High networking gives you a better chance to lean on your whatever contacts to get stuff from other circles that you maybe have less rep and contacts with.