AGWW Online - Log 2003/05/06
Mage - Adventures in the Digital Web
Session 1x18: Attacking the Nephandi Plant
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A.C.Newton (Sons of Ether) - played by Stayka Asmodai (Virtual Adepts) - played by Asmodai D.A.N. Primus (Orphan) - played by 'Top Hat' Jon Hannibal Golux (Virtual Adepts) - played by Nimrod Jones Agent Kevin Grey (NWO) - played by Stayka Dr.Marcello Keagan (OoH bani Thig) - played by Dingo Marvin Black (Hollow One) - played by Sven Moonchild Farstrider (Dreamspeaker) - played by Fuzzy Navi (Technofetish of MC's) - played by Asmodai Teora (AI of the Meteor) - played by Stayka ST - Stayka Session Start: Tue May 06 20:35:47 2003
<ST> Okay, we have the "Nova" all prepared for battle now...
Hannibal_Golux probably need a quick reminder of what happened. Non-eidetic memory of a player of eidetic char strikes again.
<ST> Asmo had the coordinates where we should go, and Hannibal put together a virtual army of AIs. So, Hanni, some words about your AIs? What can they do?
<Hannibal_Golux> (Yay my virtual ninjas AIs!)
MC_Farstrider stands guardover Marcello
KevinGrey was shortly disconnected from the Web, where he had a strange "dream", btw.
AC_Newton checked on Kev, but it seemed he was okay, as he woke up shortly after, seemingly somewhat shaken, but also very happy
<ST> (Hanni: So, any data on the AIs?)
<Hannibal_Golux> Um.... They fight. They are fighting machines. They have learned to do nothing else but fight. Not mindlessly though, they are versed in tactics, can anticipate strategies faster than a human... You seen those teasers for Reloaded... you got only a taster for what these guys are like in combat... :)
<ST> (Oh-oh...)
<Hannibal_Golux> Is that acceptable?
<Marvin_Black> (<--- Doesn't like this... Still got a System Shock shock ;) )
<Hannibal_Golux> They are fast, furious, cold, ruthless and relentless.
<ST> (Hanni: Ok. :-)
<ST> I should mention that Agent Grey suddenly disappeared from the Nova. When AC saw that, she disconnected, too. Only about 5-10 minutes later, they reconnected, and are on board the virtual Meteor again. Kev appears somewhat shaken, but shiny ^_^
Asm0dai heads to Kev and asks what happened...
<Marvin_Black> (Where's DAN? I need my gunner. What good is a good aim without a gunner?)
KevinGrey looks somewhat bewildered at Asmodai.
<KevinGrey> Well, it had some really wild dream...
Marvin_Black checks his spider armor and his Entropic Worm Launcher.
<Asm0dai> Dream? Dreams don't happen during Webtime... your mind is not capable of dreaming...
<ST> (Marv: Hopefully Dan will show up still - he was late the last games, too)
<KevinGrey> Well, I'm sorry, I can't describe what this was in other terms.
<Asm0dai> There is somethign to explain?
KevinGrey frowns and tries to make sense of the pictures.
<Asm0dai> Was it special? How did you feel after it?
<KevinGrey> Well, it was - amazing! In the end, that is... It started out somewhat like a nighmare, if you ask me...
<Asm0dai> Before that a nightmare?
<KevinGrey> Yeah. Something like that.
Asm0dai smirks and taps Kev on the back...
KevinGrey looks puzzled at Asmodai
<Asm0dai> It had to be something you had to do. I hope you can see more clearly on the subjects we discussed. - Now we need to head and blow up that hellhole. Shall we?
<KevinGrey> Well, yes... And yes. I mean... I think I did see some things ...
AC_Newton shudders at the sight of the spider armour
<Asm0dai> You will tell me the details when we finish here... we must focus on combat...
<KevinGrey> Yes, you are right...
KevinGrey is still somewhat bewildered.
<Marvin_Black> AC: If you look closely you will see, that they are partly mechanical, with tiny inscriptions and sigils on them. That makes them work.
<AC_Newton> I don't want to look to closely at those!
AC_Newton shivers
AC_Newton makes a slight deteour around Marv and goes to the command console.
<MC_Farstrider> NAVI: can you produce body armor (that would protect agaist webbased attacks)?
<Marcello> (back for a while)
<Marvin_Black> AC: I could hand you one over, so you can inspect it closely
Marvin_Black plugs a spider from his armor
<AC_Newton> (squeaks) Don't!
KevinGrey looks darkly at Marvin
<Marvin_Black> Kevin: You wanna look?
<KevinGrey> Marv, I would suggest you don't tease AC so cruelly!
Marvin_Black sighs and shrugs
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eye_onus is now known as DAN_Primus
<ST> (Hello Dan! We were worried already)
<DAN_Primus> (Sorry I'm late.)
<Marvin_Black> Always the same... Marv do this, Marv do that... ignore Marv... and so on... I know.. Everything I do is wrong...
<MC_Farstrider> NAVI: can you produce body armor (that would protect agaist webbased attacks)?
<ST> (Dan, Marv missed you as you have to man the cannon...)
<Marvin_Black> (At last my gunner and the other half of Team Cynism has arrived ;) )
<ST> (Asmo: Do you do NAVI again? Please?)
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<ST> (Marv: Hehe)
Marcello codes a piece of armor for MC. (And what do I roll for that ?)
<ST> (MArv: Int+Comp, diff 7)
<ST> (Marc)
<Asm0dai> (umkay as soon as he becomes necessary... just a warning he can stay only an hour more of gametime so he is stnadby so he can give MC weapons and armor when needed)
<DAN_Primus> (I refuse to be a laballed a cynic!)
<Marcello> !dice 5
<ST> (Asmo: Good advice ^_^)
<DAN_Primus> (I am so much more than that.)
<Marcello> >r 5 d7
suxbot --> Marcello rolled 5 dice, diff. 7, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (10,5,5,6,9) SUCCESS : 2 sux., 1 tens, 0 botches.
<Marvin_Black> (I said one half of Team Cynic, not the other pure cynic. ;) )
<ST> (Marc: Ok. Let's say that'll give +2 soak)
<Marcello> It looks like a nice medieval suit of armor. Plate and Chain, with a cool golden sheen over it
AC_Newton makes some movements with the hands, and the olographic controls appear
<AC_Newton> holo
Asm0dai uses the shirt he wears to get the qualities of the armory armour...
MC_Farstrider tries on armor
<Hannibal_Golux> (back)
AC_Newton uses her Force field if necessary
<Asm0dai> (not now MC... you will drain NAVI too soon...)
Marvin_Black still has his spider armor, that looks more alive than himself
<ST> #8
<ST> (LOL)
<MC_Farstrider> (this is the armor Marc just m,ade for me?)
<Marcello> yes
<Asm0dai> (Uhmmm how can marcello code armor without knowing anythign about the Web ?)
<Marvin_Black> (I explained the basics to him, you forgot?)
<Hannibal_Golux> (we can have armour?)
MC_Farstrider desn't know it, but there is armor in the stuff Asmo and co made
<ST> (Asmo: Well, we need to somehow get things going,and with a 10 and a 9 as sux, he should have managed something ^_^)
<ST> (Hanni: If you code it?)
<DAN_Primus> (It is possible to be a pure cynic and also be more than a cynic. I am a sweet, kind, happy-go-lucky pure cynic- minus the sweet part.)
<Asm0dai> (hehe :))
<Marcello> (Asmo, I had some lessons before)
<ST> (Asmo: Although, you are right, it should have an Arete roll, to - Forces/Prime)
<Asm0dai> (yes Han... but it requires warwere)
<Marcello> !dice 4
<Marcello> (difficulty ?)
<Hannibal_Golux> (can I code myself some "armour" then in the design of a Corr Effect that actually makes my body appear to be incorporeal to attacks? - that's just FX)
Marvin_Black has another look at his Entropic Worm Launcher
<Hannibal_Golux> (and warware is?)
<ST> (Marcello: 6)
<Marcello> >r d6
<suxbot> How am I going to roll 'd6' dice? I may be a bot, but I'm not an idiot!
MC_Farstrider there war were was a Crinos?
<Marcello> >r 4 d6
suxbot --> Marcello rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (4,4,8,8) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> (Hanni: Well, why not? Corr should befit you ^_^)
<Asm0dai> (Actualy you can... the classic blur efect with corr 3...)
<Marvin_Black> (Marv has an armor that consists of myriads of spiders crawling over his body, taking the damage and repairing what is damaged of the armor. ^_^)
AC_Newton finds this armour really distracting! (Marvs)
<Asm0dai> (khm Corr is my forte :))
<Hannibal_Golux> (Can I do it as a sustained effect?)
<AC_Newton> (Asmo: Hanni is VA, too)
DAN_Primus fires the Plague Cannon at a random tree, just to see what Marv's gun does (Going for one success in damage, do I need to roll it?)
<AC_Newton> (Hanni: With a little Prime, sure)
<Hannibal_Golux> (no probs then.... Arete? Comp+Int?)
<ST> (Dan: Naw. DEscribe it ^_^)
<MC_Farstrider> ST: so the aror is there?
<ST> (Hanni: Forget about Comp+Int with your dice, just Arete)
<ST> (MC: Yup)
<Hannibal_Golux> (heh-heh... ok)
<MC_Farstrider> THNX
<Hannibal_Golux> (ST: diff 7?)
<ST> (Hanni: Arete 6)
<Hannibal_Golux> (diff 6?)
<ST> (yup)
<Hannibal_Golux> (ok)
<Marvin_Black> (The Plague Cannon shoots a black bolt, that almost seems so dark it could be a rip in reality. For dam roll... ST?)
<Hannibal_Golux> >r 4 d6
suxbot --> Hannibal_Golux rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (6,9,8,2) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
KevinGrey should code himself some arour to - although he will go for a force shield,
<Hannibal_Golux> (3 sux should be enough for a decent enough effect)
<Hannibal_Golux> (will 3 sustain it for the duration of the raid?)
<ST> (Hanni: Yup. Soak +3, I'd say)
<ST> (Hanni: Yup)
<Hannibal_Golux> (ST: OK, cool)
<KevinGrey> >r 5 d6
suxbot --> KevinGrey rolled 5 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (9,7,8,6,3) 4 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marvin_Black> (ST: What about DANs random destruction of a web tree?)
KevinGrey thinks this should do nicely, too, then
<DAN_Primus> The cannon emits a sound strangely like that of a belch mixed with an explosion (think of those cartoons when the swallow a bomb, it blows up, and they belch out the smoke, except that the belch and the explosion coincide) and a sickly green-ish brown ball of darkness slams into the tree. At first it seems nothing is happening, but then the tree's bark turns a nasty gray, all of its leaves turn brown and black and fall off, and a bit of the grass
<ST> (Marv: Do you wanna describe it? I thought Dan wold do that *g*)
<DAN_Primus> (I just did. It just took me some time to think of and write all that.)
<ST> (Ok. Looks nicely icky, too :-)
<AC_Newton> THis cannon does not have any manners!
AC_Newton thinks this belch was somewhat ...strange
<Marvin_Black> (Yup.. But I imagined the bolt rather dark, almost like a rip in reality, or something like that. But that's just fine too and explains what's happening. Sweeeeeet.)
<DAN_Primus> (A greenish-brown ball of darkness, Marv. Not of light.)
<Marvin_Black> It serves it purpose and shows off what life is about and what wil happen to everything and everyone sooner or later
<Asm0dai> (i think that the resonance of a weapon like this is not welcome where we are going.. we can onyl mess ourselves with something like that...)
Hannibal_Golux sems solid enough when he stands still but as he moves there are slight traces.
<Marvin_Black> (Yup... As I said: Sweeeeeet. :) )
<AC_Newton> So, how do we go about the attack now?
<Hannibal_Golux> seems
<AC_Newton> I will fly the ship to our target, and then?
<Marvin_Black> Dan: You seem to get along with the Plague Cannon pretty well
<DAN_Primus> (It's kinda of when you take a picture of someone and do a negative of it on a computer- the dark colors on the picture's negative seem somehow unreal and disquieting- especially green, brown, and black. Try it and see.)
<DAN_Primus> I thinks it likes that I'm not human.
<Marvin_Black> (I know this effect. Cool.)
<Marvin_Black> Bringing destruction and suffering into a world of pain and torture isn't too hard it seems. I'll aim and you wreak havoc
AC_Newton sits at the holographic controls of the Nova and looks expectantly to Hannibal and Asmoday
<DAN_Primus> (Basically, I imagined the ball to emit a blast that inversed the colors around it- So if you were o look up at it from below, it would appear a diferent color- it would look like a negative of the sky from that point of view.)
Asm0dai seems to be too focused on some peice of code that is slipping over his screen in a flashy green font...
Hannibal_Golux looks back at Newton. "And?"
<DAN_Primus> That was the plan, Marv. I wonder if that trees still alive? I only fired a test shot, after all.
Marvin_Black looks at the tree.
<AC_Newton> Well, so when I steer the ship to the target,we just shoot down the Nephandi with the ship's cannons?
<Marvin_Black> If this tree is still alive... It wont be for long
<DAN_Primus> (Change 'ball to emit' in that post to 'cannon to emit'.)
<ST> (ok)
<Asm0dai> NO acy...
<Asm0dai> Hann's troops need to move in...
<Asm0dai> in the meantime i need to prepare a surprise for our target...
<AC_Newton> Okay. So we steer the ship into the vicinity of the target and let the AIs do the work?
<Asm0dai> When hann's troops are ready to striek we move in...
<Marvin_Black> This girl will one day get everyone killed she knows...
<AC_Newton> Hey, I'm just the pilot!
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<AC_Newton> I don't plan plans, well, mostly, I mean...
<Marvin_Black> You don't plan plans thinking of the others you mean...
<DAN_Primus> Hey, be easy on her. She got me off the most horrific rock in the Solar System, after all.
AC_Newton blushes
<Asm0dai> ... and you were let to walk...
<Asm0dai> that is not the idea...
<AC_Newton> Well, I only want to see things get done
<Marvin_Black> Dan: With a plan that sounded like 'fly there, kick ItX butts, get him, fly out..."
<Asm0dai> she is right...
<DAN_Primus> I seem to remember certain other people refusing to even try to come up with a better plan.
<Asm0dai> As i said Hann's AI's need to prep... while they are getting into position we preapare for assault
<Asm0dai> DAN you are really acting like a robot again...
<Asm0dai> you were let to go in and out...
<Asm0dai> almost every weapon system was disarmed...
<DAN_Primus> Well, wev'e tested both my Laser and Marv's Cannon, so we know they are ready.
<Asm0dai> if you try that again you are gonna die...
<AC_Newton> OKay, so when are the robots prepared, then?
<Asm0dai> AS for Ai's
<Asm0dai> Hann when will they be in placE?
<ST> (Uh, Hanni is disconnected)
<DAN_Primus> I am a robot, Asm0. It's difficult for me to not act like one. I do try, though.
<Marvin_Black> (Sudden Death by entropic ISPs...)
<ST> (Yeah... I hope T-Offline will behave)
<Marvin_Black> (Or the killer AIs got the better of him)
<Marvin_Black> (<--- pads his modem and begs it to behave)
<ST> (Well, I'd say the AIs are prepped)
Marcello (back for a short while again)
<ST> (Hm, where is MC by the way?)
<DAN_Primus> I think we might want to test the other, um, 'specialty' weapons, except for Grey's Mind Cannon- we don't have a suitable target for that one yet.
<KevinGrey> Well, the Mind Cannon does need some minds indeed...
<MC_Farstrider> MC is standing behind Marcello's chair with ehr staff and armor
<ST> (Ah good
<Asm0dai> (ok lets then put them into position... Zen would probably agree... as they come to the location we join in...)
Marvin_Black has his Entropic Worm Launcher in one hand, the never ending Tag Bag held by spiders so he can always reach it and one hand free to grap tags
<ST> (Yup)
<DAN_Primus> And we don't have any minds we can target, since the crew of this ship are supposedly not expendable.
<AC_Newton> Okay, I will fly the ship in the vicinity of the target sector
<Asm0dai> not too close...
AC_Newton waves her hands through the holo controls
<Asm0dai> i am gonna setup a scanner block...
<Asm0dai> in the meantime they will go there alone...
<Asm0dai> We jump in as they come in...
<AC_Newton> The ship takes flight and speeds over threads of energy
<Asm0dai> i will shield Nova...
<AC_Newton> (I have that pic of the sailing ship in Tron before my mind's eye ^_^)
<Marvin_Black> It seems there will be some KKND... Just on whose costs...
<Asm0dai> I need somone to protect them from detection...
<KevinGrey> Well, I could put a SEP field around them with a Mind effect
<Asm0dai> (ROTFL :))
<KevinGrey> *g*
<Asm0dai> Well i planned something similar with additional emmision masking...
<DAN_Primus> I can program a Force masker....
<Marvin_Black> What about an Entropic Scrambler sigil?
<DAN_Primus> (And no, not Star Wars Force!)
<Asm0dai> Great... you take care of emmision masking...
<KevinGrey> I can help with that. Mind and Forces are not my weekest Spheres after all
<Asm0dai> i'll take care of not noticing...
<Asm0dai> Grey you take care of hann's troops...
<DAN_Primus> Cool, get over here and help me out.
KevinGrey nods
<DAN_Primus> (What's the diff, Stayka?)
<DAN_Primus> (And the threshhold?)
KevinGrey goes down to the cargo room where he AIs are stacked
<Asm0dai> Dan do the emmision hiding (forces prime)
<DAN_Primus> Got it.
<ST> (Dan: For what exactly?)
<Asm0dai> I will take care of making Nova unnoticing...
<DAN_Primus> (See Asm0's last post.)
<Asm0dai> (forces 3 prime 2)
<Asm0dai> (i will use mind 2)
Marvin_Black sits down
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<Asm0dai> (extended)
<Marvin_Black> Me useless as usual
<ST> (Dan: Ok. Well, diff 6, Thresh 5)
<DAN_Primus> (Welcome back, Han.)
<Asm0dai> (hey nim...)
<DAN_Primus> Hey, Marv, get your butt over here and help me code this thing.
<Marvin_Black> (re Han)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Was it just me or had everyone gone real silent?)
<MC_Farstrider> no, marv, that's muy job, (being useless)
<DAN_Primus> (I'm going to do Int+Comp roll to lower the diff, if that's allright.)
KevinGrey will use Mind 3 to mask the AIs
Marvin_Black gets up and slowly strides towards Dan
<Asm0dai> (SEP is mind 2)
<Marvin_Black> (Hey MC, don't steal Marv's job ;) )
<ST> (Hanni: Grey will see to it that your AIs are shielded with a MInd effect from being spotted)
<MC_Farstrider> you are the commentator
Marcello will peek over Grey's shoulder
<ST> (Asmo: Yeah, I wanted to type that, but my fingers refused ^_^)
<Marvin_Black> (What Dif for adding Entropy to the effect thus making it harder to detect and helping to code?)
<DAN_Primus> >r 9 -Int+Comp roll, assuming normal diff.
<suxbot> You can't have a 'p' difficulty. Make it between 2 and 10, then we'll talk.
<DAN_Primus> >r 9
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 9 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (7,8,8,10,5,6,10,7,2) 7 sux. (2 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Hannibal_Golux> (Hmm. Not sure I trust Grey all that much, but in this case I agree that we're both on the same side with this.)
<ST> (Marv: AsmO#s or Grey's?)
Asm0dai starts to code a masking procedure to give Novaan unnoticeable sheen (comp + int to place a pattern on the nova... mind 2 to work...)
<Marvin_Black> (Dan's ^_^)
<ST> (Marv ok ^_^)
<DAN_Primus> (Can we say the diff is 3 now, than, AC?)
<ST> (Dan: With those sux -yeah)
<DAN_Primus> >r 4 d3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 4 dice, diff. 3, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (6,10,9,7) 4 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
KevinGrey meets Hanni in the cargo bay
<Asm0dai> (ok my turn)
<ST> (ok)
<DAN_Primus> (Need one more sux...)
<Marvin_Black> (What about adding the entropic scrambling sigil machine?)
<Asm0dai> (what is the diff for coding the pattern on the otiside of the nova ?)
<ST> (Marv: Add it right after ^_^)
Hannibal_Golux is busy "arming" his ninja squad... :)
<ST> (Asmo: 7 without Comp Apt, 5 with)
<DAN_Primus> (I'm coding the pattern disguiser, your coding your stuff on top.)
<DAN_Primus> (So do your roll, since I'm guaranteed to get the 1 sux I need next roll.)
<KevinGrey> Mr.Golux?
<Asm0dai> >r 8
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 8 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (6,5,4,6,6,6,5,8) 5 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marvin_Black> (first coding, then Arete?)
<Hannibal_Golux> Agent Grey.
<ST> (Marv Yup)
<Asm0dai> (diff goes down by one... then it is 4)
<Asm0dai> >r 4 4
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 4, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (3,9,5,6) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<KevinGrey> I'm here to aid you in adding a camouflage field for the AIs
<Marvin_Black> >r7 d7
<suxbot> How am I going to roll 'd7' dice? I may be a bot, but I'm not an idiot!
<DAN_Primus> '>r 7 d7'
<ST> (Asmo: Ok)
<Marvin_Black> >r 7 7
suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 7 dice, diff. 7, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (7,8,9,4,9,6,1) 3 sux. (0 tens, 1 botches ): SUCCESS
<Asm0dai> (okay this was 3 suxx to make Nova a SEP :))
<Hannibal_Golux> What kind of camouflage?
<DAN_Primus> >r 4 d3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 4 dice, diff. 3, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (6,3,7,10) 4 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<KevinGrey> Well, A SEP Field
KevinGrey grins
<Marvin_Black> r 7 7
<Marvin_Black> >r 7 7
suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 7 dice, diff. 7, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (9,2,8,3,10,6,4) 3 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<DAN_Primus> (11 sux on Marv and mine Effe3ct.)
<KevinGrey> I can add a Mind Procedure that lets people just not notice them
<DAN_Primus> (Plus three...)
<ST> (Dan: That should suffice)
<Hannibal_Golux> I don't like it when you grin, Agent Grey. It makes me suspect that you are up to something.... untoward.
<Marvin_Black> (Entropy 2 or 3?)
<DAN_Primus> (Wait! Take out two sux. i just realized I was rolling four dice with only three Arete.)
KevinGrey raises an eyebrow. Well, I definitely do only want to help in this
<KevinGrey> I'm as eager as you to eradicate those Nephandi
<DAN_Primus> (So, 12 total sux. for our Effect.)
<ST> (Dan: That's still absolutely enough)
<Marvin_Black> (Do I need Entropy 2 or 3 for the scrambling effect?)
<DAN_Primus> (I know, but I really do need to roll my Arete right- or get more arete, either way works.)
<ST> (Marv: Hm... I think 3)
<Marvin_Black> >r 4 6
suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (1,9,7,8) 2 sux. (0 tens, 1 botches ): SUCCESS
<Hannibal_Golux> Oh and here I was thinking you were going to give my army cool Predator-like invisibility... You *do* watch movies in the NWO don't you? Gathering all that information? Turning it around to mean what you want it to mean? Propagating your lies...
<ST> (Dan: Comes times, comes Seeking. But Asmo's is first)
<DAN_Primus> (Marv- if the diffs 6 you don't need to type it in- the bots does diff 6 by default.)
<KevinGrey> Well
KevinGrey ponders a moment
<Marvin_Black> (How many sux needed for scrambling?)
<DAN_Primus> Han- I'm doing the invisibility part.
<KevinGrey> Actually I could add a Forces Procedure for this kind of invisibility, too
<ST> (Marv: I'd say 5 should suffice)
<Marvin_Black> r 4
<Marvin_Black> >r 4
suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (5,9,2,9) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marvin_Black> (args.....)
<Marvin_Black> >r 4
suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (9,4,4,6) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marvin_Black> (I got 6 ^_^)
<ST> (Marv ok)
Hannibal_Golux sighs
<DAN_Primus> (Descriptor) Every single AI in the hold flickers out into invisible, becoming undetectable, then reappear, with Dan over the Comm, saying "Just testing the program, guys, don't worry.'
KevinGrey ignores Hannibal's pointed remark about the NWo...
<KevinGrey> WEll, so do you want me to help you or not?
Asm0dai keeps doing his masterwork of code...
Marcello grins at Grey and Golux sniping at eachother.
<Marvin_Black> Even more destruction... Someone will meet his ancestors today...
<DAN_Primus> (Descriptor) Then the whole ship- including the occupants, turn invisible, and everyone nows sees themselves flying through the air , except they can't even see their bodies.
<Hannibal_Golux> Well, I may not trust you Agent Grey in many respects, but I believe that you are sincere enough about helping to eradicate this Nephandi threat, so go ahead and add your patches... But touch my source code and you die regardless of Ms. Newton's affections for you.
<DAN_Primus> (Des) The ship reappears. Hmm, needs some fine tuning....
KevinGrey gives Hannibal a dark look.
<KevinGrey> I do not intend to steal your precious source code Mr.Golux
Hannibal_Golux turns his back on Grey and continues with some other work.
<DAN_Primus> (Thinks that both Han and Grey were both paying absolutely no attention to my (Desciptor) posts.)
<Hannibal_Golux> I'm not worried about you steal it. I'm worried about you corrupting it.
<DAN_Primus> (Thinks they might want to read said posts.)
KevinGrey starts with the setup of the Mind Procedure
<Marvin_Black> Now they'll rip each other apart before the Nephandi get theit chance to do so... I always said this so called love is a slow killing poison.
<Hannibal_Golux> Or... re-educating it.
<Marvin_Black> There is no good thing in this world...
<KevinGrey> >r 7
suxbot --> KevinGrey rolled 7 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (7,4,7,4,5,7,4) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<KevinGrey> (Oh, he has Comp Apt, that should be 4 sux at 5...)
<DAN_Primus> (HELLO? People? Do not you see that the AI already did the invisibility thing and the Grey is wasting his time?)
<KevinGrey> I don't intent to corrupt it.
<KevinGrey> I have other matters to attend to...
<ST> (Dan: Can you do a Mind Effect?)
<DAN_Primus> (No.)
<ST> (Dan: Grey sets up a Mind Effect additionally to the Forces)
<DAN_Primus> (Grey already did that.)
<Hannibal_Golux> (anyone who has DA:Mage: what would I need to duplicate that Ahl-i-Batin spell Fight As One?)
<ST> (Dan: No Arete roll yet.)
<DAN_Primus> (He's was working on the Forces 'patch', that I already set up.)
<Hannibal_Golux> (In other words... I want to replicate Han.... *eg*)
<ST> (Han: Ack, haven't read through DA Mage yet, sorry)
<ST> (Dan: Nope.)
<Marcello> (Correspondence 4, Mind 1 isn't it ?)
<ST> (Dan: Grey was workig on the Mind SEP field! rust me, I know what I'm doing)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Sweet... that means I can do that...)
<DAN_Primus> (Mind 1 is right, but I thought it was Corr 3.)
<Marcello> (Or Mind 3, if you are also in direct contact with your "copies")
<KevinGrey> >r 5 d5
<Marvin_Black> (ST.. We should rust you? Hmmm.. Entropy 4? *eg*)
suxbot --> KevinGrey rolled 5 dice, diff. 5, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (3,5,2,8,3) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> Marv: LOL
<KevinGrey> >r 5 d5
suxbot --> KevinGrey rolled 5 dice, diff. 5, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (10,7,8,7,2) 4 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<KevinGrey> (Ok. SEP Field in place, too)
<DAN_Primus> (No, it is Corr 4, because your doing Co-location. Then you need Mind 1 to enable your selves to think independently instead of all following the same movements- threshhold of the Mind is 1 per copy.)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Either way I can do it... Damn, although I could do with boosting my Mind... Um, any chance of buying Mind 3 before we go anywhere... I can't remember how many XP I have, though)
<KevinGrey> So, Mr.Golux - satisfied now?
KevinGrey folds his arms
<Hannibal_Golux> Your work is acceptable, I suppose.
<Hannibal_Golux> It will serve its purpose.
<ST> (Hanni: Hm... I think not right within the actionnow... After this)
<KevinGrey> That it will inded
<Hannibal_Golux> (That's what I thought... Oh well, I'll do a minor version of that when it comes to it)
<KevinGrey> (Hanni, I could teach you Mind Procedures...)
<Asm0dai> (so could asmo... :))
<Marcello> (so can I)
<KevinGrey> (But Kev would grate more on him :-)
<Marcello> (and yes, I can teach you Procedures)
<Hannibal_Golux> (um, not sure I want anything Grey has to offer... he'll probably try to re-program me)
<Asm0dai> (you cannot teach him procedures Marcello you could teach hi rotes)
<Marcello> (OOC: No, I can teach him Procedures, Asmo)
<Marvin_Black> (Asmo: And this comes from the person calling Primal Energy Quint? ;) )
KevinGrey tuts.
<KevinGrey> (Why should I want to reprogram you?)
<Asm0dai> (and people wonder why asmo doesn't trust marcello)
DAN_Primus says, "I'm testing the Pattern Scrambler again, it should work correctly this time- if it does, the AI will disappear, but the ship won't- to us. Last time the ship disappeared for us too, which doesn't help with trying to fly or shoot. 3...2...1..." The AI disappear in the hold for a few seconds then reappear, the ship merely flickers noticeably. "Allright, test complete, I've left the ships feild on, and Han, you have the trigger for th
<AC_Newton> This is weird!
<Marcello> (Asmo, I can also teach him how to cast spells)
<Marvin_Black> This is chance... Challenging chance once again
Asm0dai seems focused on the code he is writing...
<Hannibal_Golux> (trigger for th...?)
<DAN_Primus> (It's not flickering anymore, AC, it just flickered to let us no the Effect was established.)
<DAN_Primus> (The trigger to turn on the invisibility Effect.)
<Hannibal_Golux> Dan: OK
<Asm0dai> (marcello i think you may have mixed something up)
Marvin_Black sighs
DAN_Primus wants to use the Cannon again....
<Marvin_Black> Oh Death, again we walk on the verge to your doorstep... Morituri te salutant... once again
<Marcello> (Asmo, no I haven't *g*)
<DAN_Primus> (Now listening to Kittie- 'Run Like Hell'.)
<Marvin_Black> (Nice sig I just read in a forum. Befits Marv ;) Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.)
<DAN_Primus> (And in English that is?)
<Hannibal_Golux> (funnily enough, the tune playing on the TV right now has the lyrics "Why won't you kill me, I want you to kill me" Marv's battle cry, clearly)
<Asm0dai> ( Ia... Ia... Cthulhu Fhtagn...)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Marv TV on my TV)
<DAN_Primus> (I think the Nephandi are speking to us through our music. :) )
<Hannibal_Golux> (Dan: It's from the story "Call of Cthulhu")
<DAN_Primus> (So there is no English?)
<Marcello> Okay, everyone ready....lets blow things up.
<Asm0dai> (i thinkwe could go and fight something... we spent an hour and a half on NOTHING)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Yes, there is an English translation... but I encourage you to read the story.. :) )
<Marvin_Black> Ready to be blown up rather
AC_Newton waits for the command to fly...
<DAN_Primus> Marv, you dod realize you can place those tags on anything, right?
Asm0dai is still working franticaly on his code...
AC_Newton was supposed to wait for the AIs to be prepared, after all
<Marvin_Black> Yup
<DAN_Primus> With enough luck you put on of those tags on a bullet flying at your face, and Keagan or myself would obliterate it before it struck you.
KevinGrey returns to the command center of the ship
<Hannibal_Golux> Newton: The AIs are prepped and ready to go.
<AC_Newton> Great, Hanni!
<DAN_Primus> Of course, you'd need to be able to do Matirx-like speed....
<Marvin_Black> And chances are 0.000000000000001% it succeeds
<AC_Newton> Then I will land in an area in the vicinity of the target, and we can let themgo
<DAN_Primus> Hey, you know the probability? That means you coul use Entropy to raise it to closer to .001%, right?
<Hannibal_Golux> AC: Better make it quick, they're getting a little excited down here. (aside) Stop that! Save the violence for the enemy!!!
AC_Newton brings the ship down in a sector that seems to be idling right now, too
Hannibal_Golux activates the ship's cloack.
<Hannibal_Golux> cloak
<Marvin_Black> Just to be blown up by the vicinity of the blast... Great...
<Marvin_Black> We will die...
Marvin_Black sighs
<AC_Newton> The colours of the "ground" are a dark navy blue, and fractal trees form a strange forest
<DAN_Primus> My Laser does not affect anything in the vicinity of the target, Marv. Remember the test shot?
<DAN_Primus> Right in the command room?
<AC_Newton> Okay, I think you can get them out now
<Marvin_Black> Yup... But you know the drill...
<ST> The ship sits in a kind of clearing in an earies dark bluesh green fractal forest
<Marvin_Black> Bye bye cruel world
<Hannibal_Golux> (screaming) RELEASE THAT NINJA AI MONKEYS!
DAN_Primus does a systems check on both the Quantum Laser and the Plague Cannon, making sure all systems are operational.
Hannibal_Golux releases the AI army of fractal ninjas... :)
<ST> The Nephandic sector is still a bit away, but there seems to be an aminous greenish black glowing from that direction
<ST> ominous
<Hannibal_Golux> (OK... let's not release them.... just yet)
<Marcello> I still wonder why we don't just blow this area to smithereens and stay at a distance...why do you people have to go in the fray ?
<DAN_Primus> Oh yes, I had forgotten that you have to do the whole 'We're all gonna die bit' everytime. It's gotten a bit cliche, though, Marv.
<ST> The currents that lead out of this sector are shades of bluish green
<Hannibal_Golux> Dan: Doesn't make it any less true.
<Marvin_Black> Stuck between killer AIs a ship with a shitload of weaponary and Nephandi. What would you call it?
<ST> In the direction of the target sector, the clear colour dtuns dull and sickly
Asm0dai franitcaly coeds the final stuff in the procedure he is gonna use...
<DAN_Primus> Nor does it make it any more true- although it appears that Marv has thus far been absolutely wrong everytime.
<ST> turns dull
<Hannibal_Golux> Dan: Then fear the day he optimistically announces that we're all gonna live happily ever after.
<Marvin_Black> Challenge your chance one too many times and Death will gratefully open the door you knock on... Look at him, he's halfway through
Marvin_Black points at Marc
<Marvin_Black> (Han: lol)
<DAN_Primus> Marv, if you ever say "I think we'll live through this one' I will kill you.
AC_Newton put the ship into stand-bye mode, but she only needs to set some commands to have it ready again
<Marvin_Black> Dan: Could you please make up your mind what you would like to hear?
Marvin_Black sighs
<DAN_Primus> I'd rather hear you say 'Boo-yeah. It's time to unleash evil nastiness upon thee!'
<DAN_Primus> And then fire a bunch of shots at them with your Cannon.
<Hannibal_Golux> I would much rather hear "Ding dong the Nephandi are dead!"
<MC_Farstrider> hmms we have good nastiness to unleash on the EEEVIIL ppl ;)
<DAN_Primus> And not even speak of the probability of our livinvg through it.
<Marcello> (reboot)
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<Marvin_Black> I will teach them what true death and decay is about... Even though we will meet our ancestors today... I hope you will have more pleasant meetings than I will have
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<DAN_Primus> (Stupid bot.)
<DAN_Primus> Marv, I'm not even sure if I have ancestors to meet- unless you count toaters.
Asm0dai suddenly smiles widely...
<DAN_Primus> [Search "toaters"][Replace "toaters" "toasters"]
<Asm0dai> Ladies and gentlemen... let me show you something...
<Asm0dai> we are on the nova...
<Hannibal_Golux> (Dan: lol)
<Asm0dai> but the nova is also here...
Asm0dai point to the left viewscreen
Marvin_Black glances at the screen
<Asm0dai> And there are also two more additional novas on our right side...
<DAN_Primus> Interesting. The Nove now has Multiple Personality Syndrome.
<Asm0dai> (i used a Corr 4 effect to make 4 copies of the Nova that will serve as decoys...)
<DAN_Primus> [Search "Nove"][Replace "Nove" "Nova"]
<Hannibal_Golux> (hey, you stole my idea of replicating... good idea though)
<Asm0dai> hardly dan...
<Asm0dai> the only Nova that is really here is this one...
<Marvin_Black> Uhmmm.. What will reality say if she sees this?
<Asm0dai> but i CAN do is shift us among the 4 without nayone noticing...
<MC_Farstrider> 's/Nove/Nova/g' ?
<DAN_Primus> Nothing, Marv. We're in the DW, remember?
<AC_Newton> Asmo: Shift us? Cool
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<ST> (Re Marc)
DAN_Primus smiles wickedly. "Correspondence is such a wonderful Sphere."
<Marvin_Black> I hope she wont take a peek in there and see how we f*ck up with her...
AC_Newton definitely needs to learn some more about Correspondence!
<Asm0dai> Yep... though this really needed a wonder of code to work... sometimes i feel as if doing it in the real world may be easier...
<Asm0dai> atr least there wouldn't be this much compiling...
<DAN_Primus> (An old VA of mine had a mind reading effect that used Corr 3, Mind 1- he co-located his mind on someone else's to read there thoughts- it worked as well as a Mind 5 Effect.)
<DAN_Primus> (Depending on sux. of course.)
<ST> (Hm... Evil!)
<Marvin_Black> At least it would only be real pain and not doubled pain and dieing
Hannibal_Golux needs to learn Time so he can compile in a fraction of the time.
<KevinGrey> So are we going to start now?
<DAN_Primus> So, are we all ready now?
<MC_Farstrider> nope -- just do lots more preparing ;)
<KevinGrey> I want to see those Nephandi punished for what they did with those bracelets!
<Hannibal_Golux> Can I release my superstealth ninja attack monkeys now?
<DAN_Primus> (AHH!! It's true! The Union does brainwash it's members!)
<AC_Newton> Sre
<Marvin_Black> How can one be ready to die?
<AC_Newton> I landed the Nova
<Asm0dai> (be back in 5 mins or so continue as if i am coding something else)
<KevinGrey> (DAn: Naw, they don't. They *train* their members
<DAN_Primus> (Same difference, really.)
<Marvin_Black> (Trin not to think)
<Marvin_Black> (train)
<Hannibal_Golux> (They "indoctrinate" their members)
AC_Newton doesn't think Kev seems to be so horribly "indoctrinated"...
<DAN_Primus> (me goes to a patch of dirt and starts dumping it in his ear, to try to counteract the brain wash by getting a dirty mind.)
<ST> (LOL)
<Hannibal_Golux> (That's because AC has been "indoctrinated" to think that way - I'm beginning to think that her feelings for Grey may actually be a Mind effect)
<Marvin_Black> (Just buy yourself some "special" PPV channel to get your thoughts dirty ;) )
KevinGrey looks somewhat hurt.
<DAN_Primus> (This doesn't seem to work... All I can think of now is the word 'Booby'.)
<Marvin_Black> (Nope.. AC *is* that naive ;) )
<KevinGrey> (I don't need to use Mind Procedures to make a girl fall for me!)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Yeah... but one can but hope)
<DAN_Primus> (Sure. Right. We belive you, Kev.)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Grey: Taken a look in the mirror recently?)
<Marvin_Black> (Kev: You just tri her, to make her fall)
<Marvin_Black> (trip)
KevinGrey raises his eyebrows and puts on a seemingly innocent look
Hannibal_Golux wishes he'd written "Taken a look in your mirrorshades recently?" - It would have been so much cooler. Ho hum.
<DAN_Primus> (Cynicism at its best, Marv.)
<AC_Newton> (Hanni: He *does* look cute! You can't judge that, I guess)
<Marvin_Black> (sarcasm is for beginners only... Cynism is a way of life ^_^)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Cute in the eye of the beholder. beholder = Mind corrupted)
<DAN_Primus> (He only looks cute to you because you created him. He doesn't even exist outside of the mind of Stayka DevAmenta.)
<AC_Newton> (Hey, I thought he was cute when I first saw him already)
<Marvin_Black> (<--- Dances around "Kev is not real! Kev is not real!")
<ST> (*g* in the DW nothing is real)
<DAN_Primus> (Okay, Marv. Now that's just childish.)
<Hannibal_Golux> (me still thinks there is something mildly disturbing about an elaborate love affair taking place between two figments of Stayka's imagination)
<DAN_Primus> ("Kev is not real!")
<Marvin_Black> (Yup. Just that *I* do not fall victim to Marvinism. A little change ;) )
<ST> (Heh)
AC_Newton sulks.
<AC_Newton> Are we going to kill those baddies now or aren't we?
<DAN_Primus> (It just proves that Stayka has a vivid imagination. On a completely unrelated subject, did you guys know there's a porn company called 'Vivvid Video'?)
<Marvin_Black> Yup.. We are going to be killed by them now
<DAN_Primus> ('Vivid Video')
<ST> (Actually I would have liked if anyone would have taken over Kev as PC, but no one wanted to ^_^)
DAN_Primus begins charging up the Cannon, just beacuse he wants to see what this thing does at full power.
<DAN_Primus> (I would have if I didn't have DAN.)
<ST> (Yeah... *sighs*)
<ST> (I asked Shava, my long time co-author, but she didn't have time. Kev would have been just her kind of character...)
<ST> (Shavana)
<Asm0dai> (back)
<DAN_Primus> (Anyways, DAN is charging the Cannon- which means he's accumulating sux. for the next shot. Do you want me to roll the Arete, or do you want to allocate a '
<ST> (Ah, good. Then we can finally start the assault)
<DAN_Primus> so much per minute of RT' type thing?
<DAN_Primus> I'm not sure which one would be more sux, but I'm all for the rolling.)
<ST> (Dan: Hm... Well, I think Arete isbest)
<DAN_Primus> (I pushed enter on acciedent too often. That was supposed to be one post... Oh well. Rolling Arete now.)
Asm0dai notices that NAVI seems to be extremeley low on power... the final thing before he dissapears is to create a staff with runic etches in MC's hand and to add a armor mesh onto her icon... then he flickers and dissapears...
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,9,3) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (7,5,8) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<DAN_Primus> (Going once a min, btw.)
<Asm0dai> (i was just thinking... if this is mage... ihat if Kev is a figment of Acey's imagiantion ? :))
<ST> (ok)
<ST> (Hehe!)
<Marvin_Black> (hhmmm.. imaginative babys?)
<DAN_Primus> (What, Kev is one of AC's Effects?)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (10,5,9) 2 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Hannibal_Golux> (if we're ready to go Han is releasing the AIs who will all activate their most super stealth attack abilities and go charging off to wreak efficient havoc and efficient destruction most efficiently - :) )
<DAN_Primus> (Wait, that shoul be three sux...)
<ST> (Well, If I want to write AC out of the story, I just can have her settle down with Kev and found a family ^_^)
<ST> (Hanni: We are waiting for you ^_^
<Asm0dai> (no thanks :))
<Marvin_Black> I'd like to test my gun.. But no dummy targets available
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (2,2,4) 0 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): FAILURE
<ST> (Only fractal trees around)
<Hannibal_Golux> (What? I've released the ninja AI monkeys.)
<ST> (Hanni: Well, so they run towards the Nephy sector...)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,4,5) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<DAN_Primus> (I think 8 sux. is good. I'm assuming the Cannon does agg. Marv?)
<Hannibal_Golux> So go on everyone... do something. Start shooting stuff.
<ST> The conduits from the sector we are in to the Nephy sectore are more and more warped, the closer they get to it
<Marvin_Black> (What does these words tell you: Prime 4? ;) )
<DAN_Primus> (They tell me 'Nephandi are going to die, Dan. Don't worry your silly little head.' Why do you ask?)
Asm0dai prepares his secret weapon for activation...
<Marvin_Black> (Oh... I was just wondering, what they would tell you in addition to Entropy / Forces 4)
Asm0dai sets it in a quicklaunch and checks the guns he took from the armoury....
<DAN_Primus> (Could you tell them to shut up, please? They aren't listening to me.)
<DAN_Primus> (They tell me that 8 sux. translates to at least 16 agg. and probably more.)
<ST> The sector inwhich that plant is located, looks pretty battered, lotsof debris lying around
<ST> Probably fractal wastes from the Crash still
Marvin_Black walks to the ramp and aims at a fractal tree. He fires his Entropic Worm Launcher and a biomechanical weird looking worm with strange symbols flies from the weapon, hitting the tree and gnawing it's way through it
<AC_Newton> Hey! they can scan us if you shoot around like this!!
<Asm0dai> This place is a desert...
<Asm0dai> Hmmm maybe we could try dropping it and tryign to rehash it...
<DAN_Primus> (Any of you ever read the 'Xanth' series by Piers Anthony?)
<Asm0dai> after we blow these neffies
<ST> (Nope)
<MC_Farstrider> nods -- most of them
<Marvin_Black> (Nope)
<DAN_Primus> (I'm trying to remember what the little worm thingies are called....)
<AC_Newton> You mean reformat it?
<Asm0dai> (dan you need at least one suxx to make the damage aggavated... and then each suxx is two levels of damage)
<MC_Farstrider> nicklepedes (but they are big)
<DAN_Primus> (I have 8 sux. stocked up, Asm0.)
Marvin_Black walks back to the others...
<Marvin_Black> Yup... My gun wirks
<DAN_Primus> (No, not the 'pedes. The ones related to the voles, that hang in the air for a while, then suddenly zip! throught the air like a bullet.)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (2,5,2) 0 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): FAILURE
<Marcello> are they dead yet ?
<MC_Farstrider> me doesn't remember the valey of the voloes
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (9,7,8) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<DAN_Primus> (Do you remember the book when the Gap Dragon turns into a baby dragon and Ivy takes it in as a pet?)
<DAN_Primus> (I decided to charge it up some more, AC.)
<ST> (ok)
<Marvin_Black> What do you think of my Entropic Worm Launcher?
<ST> (Okay, how many AIs are there now? And how do they attack?)
<DAN_Primus> (In that book, they fight off a swarm of the little buggers, and the Gap Droganette drags a whorl from the broken forget-spell to the center of the worm's nest to make them forget how to do the zip ! thing.)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (6,2,2) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Asm0dai> (Okay i just noticed that Metal Gear Solid 2 has music from Speed)
<ST> (When they get through the debris field they see a huge wall that is "armed" with dozens and dozens of tentacles
<DAN_Primus> (Bad pun.)
<DAN_Primus> (Then again, their aren't any good puns...)
<ST> (sorry about the pun ^_^)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (1,1,9) 0 sux. (0 tens, 2 botches ): BOTCH
<ST> (Not good...)
<Marcello> (uh-oh)
<DAN_Primus> (Okay, I think the charging up just died on me.)
<Hannibal_Golux> (um.... well, there are as many AIs as you will have allowed me to accumulate since, well, Day One of my char and they attack like the most efficient army you have every seen, breaking into units of super-stealthy, highly trained fighters attacking any weak points they see and anything that comes to try to stop them, working to bring them down as quickly as possible)
<ST> (Yeah. And I fear you have overloaded the system, you need to repair it before you can use it again)
<Hannibal_Golux> (their actions are almost impossibly swift and fluid as they calculate strategies and possibilities and analyse the situation quicker than any human)
<ST> (Hanni: Well, say something ^_^)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Well, how's 100 grab ya?)
<Marcello> (Hanni, Dan has taught Marcello a trick. It doesn't matter how many you have....we can always make more appear...)
<ST> They face an organic wall of tentacles that are regrowing on attacks and try to grabs the AIs and suck their artificial life out of them...
<ST> (Ok)
<Hannibal_Golux> (how? They are all unique?)
DAN_Primus says "SHIT!" as a giant blob of greenish-brown darkness plops out of the end of the gun and oozes down the side of the ship, eventually falling hamlessly onto the ground below, and the console in front of him fizzles, sparks, and bleeds yellow blood.
<Hannibal_Golux> (well the ones that are not being grabbed will attack to free their comrades)
<Marcello> (well with the trick they won't all be unique...but still usefull enough)
<AC_Newton> Dan! What did you do??
<AC_Newton> The poor ship!
Marvin_Black looks at DAN
<Hannibal_Golux> (meanwhile, others will seek to utterly destroy the tentacles)
<DAN_Primus> I don't think it damaged the ship.
<DAN_Primus> I overcharged the Cannon.
<Marvin_Black> Not good... As I told we all will fail... But no one listens to me
<Asm0dai> Guys watch it it seems the army is in problems...
<Hannibal_Golux> How about giving them some more cover?
<ST> Well, the tentacles can be ripped apart, but they are disgustingly slimy, greenish grey and seem to regrow whenever they are torn
<DAN_Primus> Marv, I need you to help me fix the charge storage unit on your Cannon- and then I think we should install a grounding wire so this doesn't happen again.
<Marcello> The plague cannon...fire the darn plague cannon...if it's organic that should hurt em..
<Asm0dai> Okay this is our key... shoot that shit...
Marvin_Black walks over to Dan and checks the console, the inscriptions and sigils
<AC_Newton> I can try to shoot the variable radiation cannon at them!
Asm0dai prepares Forces/prime unweavinfg for the defenses
<Hannibal_Golux> (they AIs will quickly analyse the situation for weaknesses, if it makes more sense for them to back off and re-evaluate their attack they will... they are not mindless after all)
<Asm0dai> just shoot !
<DAN_Primus> Keagan, have Nove provide you with a lock on those tentecles for the Quantum Laser aand fire the thing.
<Asm0dai> give me a bit of time!
<ST> (Hanni: I think they should indeed try to regroup
<Marvin_Black> (What does the check up tell me?)
<DAN_Primus> (Going to do Int+Comp to repair the Cannon- diff?)
<Marcello> Nova..lock on 5 centimeters inside the tentacles.
<ST> (Hanni: They are not really damages, the tentacles just try to grab them and incorporate them into the wall
<Hannibal_Golux> (in that case they will, they will always take the wisest option, and very quickly, i.e. with the minimum of casualties to no casualties if they are quick enough to evaluate the threat factor)
Asm0dai makes an analysys of the patterns of the tentacles and prepares to remove them with a bit of countermagic...
Teora is now known as _NOVA_
<_NOVA_> Marcello: Locked
<Marcello> The after each shot move the targetting 10 centimeter.
<ST> (Dan: Ok)
Marcello starts firing
<Marcello> (Arete 4 right ?)
<DAN_Primus> (What's diff?)
<DAN_Primus> (Whatever your Arete is that you want to roll, Marc.)
<Marcello> (left or right)
<Asm0dai> (extended countermagic... two turns)
<Marcello> (not deeper)
<ST> Marv: Well, you can easily repair it. Dan obviously didn't see how much the max charge could take
<Marcello> >r 4 d6
suxbot --> Marcello rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (6,4,5,7) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marvin_Black> (Int+Comp? Dif?)
<ST> (Prime Countermagic is diff 7)
<DAN_Primus> (AC, what's the Int+Comp's diff?)
<ST> (Marv: Int+Comp diff 7 (or 5 with Comp Apt). 5 sux
<DAN_Primus> >r 9
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 9 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (3,8,1,7,9,8,6,4,9) 5 sux. (0 tens, 1 botches ): SUCCESS
<Asm0dai> (this is forces countermagic... every form in the web is forces :))
<Marvin_Black> >r 7 5
suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 7 dice, diff. 5, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (7,6,5,3,5,2,5) 5 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<DAN_Primus> (Got it)
<ST> (Dan: See reply to Marv)
<Marvin_Black> (5 sux in one roll ^_^)
<ST> (:-))
<DAN_Primus> (For both of us.)
<ST> (Saw that.)
<DAN_Primus> Thanks Marv. I'll try not to do that again.
<ST> (Asmo: Ok)
<Marvin_Black> Don't let chance get you...
<DAN_Primus> (Yeah, we've got a grounding wire on the Cannon now, in case I do that again!)
<Asm0dai> (ok can i try and use a viral bomb to counter that stuff :))
<ST> (Asmo: Ok)
<Marcello> (Okay, I have Nova retarget 5 centimeters behind the tentacles and then move 10 centimeters to the right (or left) after each shot. At the end of the tentacles up...and back teh other way again)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (2,8,7) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Asm0dai> Ok now lets see how will they respond to a bit of attack virii...
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (9,2,5) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
Marvin_Black walks to the ramp and aims at the wall with his EWL
<ST> (Marcello: Well, we are talking about a wall tha surrounds that sector
<Hannibal_Golux> (the AIs are seeking out weakpoints to attack)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (9,2,3) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (3,6,5) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marcello> (ST: Got that.. I just shoot down the wall from this side...to create an opening, firing as fast as possible so the AI's can enter..
DAN_Primus fires the Cannon into the tentecles.
<DAN_Primus> (5 sux.)
<ST> (Marcello: Ok. And which cannon is that you shoot?)
<Marcello> (Quantum Cannon)
Asm0dai starts a few butons starting a moving grenade that jumps out through the nova like it sin't there...
<ST> (Dan: It was Entr/Prim 4?)
<DAN_Primus> (Marc has my Quantum Laser, remember?)
<Asm0dai> >r 4
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (4,6,9,9) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Asm0dai> >r 4
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (4,2,3,6) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> (Dan: Ok,)
<Asm0dai> (4 suxx on the viral bomb)
<ST> Well, the Entropy Cannon wither an area of about 4 square meters of tentacles away
Marvin_Black shoots some loads of worms with his EWL
<DAN_Primus> (You have to ask Marv what the Plague Cannon's spheres are.)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (4,6,9) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marvin_Black> (Entropy / Prime / Forces 4, with Cor 3 Auto Aiming)
<DAN_Primus> (Charging.)
<ST> (Asmo: What did you target?)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,7,5) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marvin_Black> (extended roll, to launch multiple worms at once)
<Asm0dai> (The goddamn tentacles)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (4,4,7) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marvin_Black> >r 4
suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (4,9,7,8) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marvin_Black> >r 4
suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (2,8,10,6) 4 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (9,2,1) 0 sux. (0 tens, 1 botches ): FAILURE
<ST> (Asmo: Well, you hit a different spot, and inthat area you also managed to clear a 4 square metes area
<Hannibal_Golux> (afk a minute to make myself something to eat... never enter battle with Nephandic forces on an empty stomach)
DAN_Primus fires the Cannon into the tentecles. (5 ux.)
<ST> (Hanni :-)
<Marvin_Black> (6 sux enough to launch multiple worms at the wall?)
<ST> (Marc: How many sux did you have and what exactly did you target?)
<ST> (Marv: Ok.)
Asm0dai starts the good old Atom bomb virii... (Forces countermagic waiting for 5 turns... 5 rolls -3 diff)
<DAN_Primus> (Charging.)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (7,2,6) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
AC_Newton shoots her Forces cannon at the same spot that Marv targeted before
<AC_Newton> >r 4
suxbot --> AC_Newton rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,8,5,4) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marcello> (ST: I rolled only once, but I'm targetting a decent section of the wall (or actually 5 centimeters behind the front of the wall) and puncture it with a 10 centimeter spread. I'm intending to make a hole in it so the Ai's can get through.
Marvin_Black shoots at multiple worms at the wall that start eating into and through the wall
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
Asm0dai franticaly codes the Atom bomb... his screen has a small nuclear danger logo in the upper right corrner, and a progress bar showing that how he is doing...)
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,2,2) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> (Marc: Ok. Well, you discover that the parts where you hit are getting tentacle-free
<Asm0dai> Guys shoot a th that stuff i am going to blow up...
<ST> (Afk for 3 min - bathroom)
<Marcello> Keep shooting, this works
<DAN_Primus> (Marc got 2 sux. on said roll.)
<Asm0dai> Hann tel lthose AI's to regroup...
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (6,6,5) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
DAN_Primus fires the Cannon into the tentacles. (5 sux.)
<Asm0dai> Acey prepare to move when i srop this one...
<DAN_Primus> (/me presses the 'pause' button on the DW, since the ST is currently inconvienienced.)
Asm0dai contines working on the assault virus...
<Marvin_Black> (This should be an unpleasant sight.. Worms gnawing through the wall... Chuncs of wall withering away, blasted away and so on...)
<Asm0dai> (T-Offline ?)
<DAN_Primus> (ST bathroom.)
<Marcello> (no Stayka bathroom break)
<ST> Re
<ST> (Sorry)
<Hannibal_Golux> (back)
<Marvin_Black> (re)
<AC_Newton> Asmo: I'll do!!
<Hannibal_Golux> (oh, that was good timing on my part... :) )
<ST> (Marv: Icky!!)
<ST> (Hanni: Yeah ^_^)
<Marvin_Black> (Nope... Marv didn't watch one too many horror movie ;) )
<AC_Newton> Asmo: Tell me when I shall barge in!
Marvin_Black fires another round of worms at the wall
<Marvin_Black> >r 4
suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (6,8,7,8) 4 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marvin_Black> >r 4
suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (3,3,8,5) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> (BTW, where AC hit the wall, it only changed colour, but had not other apparent effect)
<Marvin_Black> >r 4
suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,9,10,6) 5 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (4,4,4) 0 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): FAILURE
<Hannibal_Golux> (heh-heh... that's almost comical... worms splattering at the wall)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (6,6,3) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> (Marv: For every sux, about 1 square meter of the tentacles is cleared away)
<DAN_Primus> (Even with the double damage effect of Forces?)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (4,2,5) 0 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): FAILURE
<Marvin_Black> (That makes 10 more squaremeters being fed to the worms)
<ST> (Dan: Well, thanks to that Effect they don't regrow...)
<Marvin_Black> (A worm virus gets a new meaning now)
<ST> (Dan: Otherwise they would simply regrow and fill the gaps again)
<DAN_Primus> (Ah, I would think the not regrowing would be due to the agg. effect of Prime.)
<Hannibal_Golux> (the Nephandi's got worms!)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (1,6,2) 0 sux. (0 tens, 1 botches ): FAILURE
<DAN_Primus> (Argh!!!)
<ST> (Well, Nephandi don't use normal Spheres...)
<Hannibal_Golux> (as the tentacles are cleared away, if they are now vulnerable spots the AIs will sweep in and keep attacking that spot)
<Marvin_Black> (Marv always said in the end you are worm food)
<DAN_Primus> (They use the same Spheres as us, just that they use the Ophlitic version, (Did I spell that right?))
<Hannibal_Golux> (with a Q)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (3,1,3) 0 sux. (0 tens, 1 botches ): BOTCH
<ST> Dan: Qlippothic
<DAN_Primus> (I botched 2 sux. charge.)
<ST> (Dan: Better luck next time... You managed to overcharge the system again, and it refuses to cooperate for about two turns)
<DAN_Primus> Yo, Marv, something wrong with the gharge unit- I don't we fixed it after all. It quit charging about 5 minutes ago, and now it just did another dump. (Good thing for the ground wire, eh?)
Marvin_Black uses a Cor 2 link to talk to DAN
<Marvin_Black> >r 4 5
suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 4 dice, diff. 5, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (1,4,4,9) 0 sux. (0 tens, 1 botches ): FAILURE
<DAN_Primus> ('charge unit' 'don't think we')
<Asm0dai> (okay can i drop the nuke now? :))
<DAN_Primus> (Oh yes, I had forgotten that you were outside the ship now...)
<Asm0dai> (diff 3, 5 rolls :))
<ST> (Okay, so far there is a breach in the tentacles now, but there is still a kind of solic wall that seems to stretch ad infinitum up and to both sides
<Hannibal_Golux> (um... wait for my AIs to get clear before any Nuke dropping)
<Marvin_Black> >r 4
suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (2,8,2,7) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> Obviously the geometry in this sector is as warped as the energies
<ST> (Asmo: Yeah)
<Asm0dai> Hann hurry up with them regrouping... Acey i have the mtargeted prepareto move away when the AI's move
<Hannibal_Golux> (methinks R'lyeh....)
<Marvin_Black> Dan: Let it cool down... Perhaps you just wanted to squeeze too much out of it...
<Asm0dai> I'll open them a portal leading to the meteor...
<Hannibal_Golux> (okay, I give the order to the AIs to get back to the Nova with all speed)
<AC_Newton> Asmo, how far away?
<Asm0dai> but we will need someoen to protect the portal from being entered by tentacles...
<Hannibal_Golux> (asmo: you mean, Nova, right ;) )
<Asm0dai> Grey, Han, Marv ?
<ST> (The AIs comply)
<DAN_Primus> Firing too quickly, you think? I'll put a delay into it so that won't happen. And here we thought the gun liked me....
Asm0dai prepares the portal to the Nova's hold...
<Asm0dai> Grey, Han MArv to the hold with guns... help the AI's hget inside...
<Marcello> wall eh ? Nova...target every second shot inside the wall.
KevinGrey runs to the cargo bay where aCorr gate opened
<DAN_Primus> (I'm going to assume that programming a delay into the Cannon is of low enough Diff that I don't need to roll- is that cool with you, AC?)
<_NOVA_> By your command, Marcello
Marvin_Black returns to the hold and checks what's there to do
<Marcello> >r 4 d6
<Hannibal_Golux> (the AIs are fast so they are back fairly quickly and awaiting further instructions...)
suxbot --> Marcello rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (2,6,5,4) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marcello> >r 4 d6
suxbot --> Marcello rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (7,4,6,6) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> (Dan: Sure)
<Marcello> >r 4 d6
suxbot --> Marcello rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (10,5,3,8) 3 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> (Dan: We roll often enough anyway :-)
<Marcello> (7 suxx on 3 shots)
Asm0dai opens a portal in the hold
<Marcello> >r 4 d6
<DAN_Primus> (Charging- hopefully the suxbot likes me again...)
suxbot --> Marcello rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (1,6,9,9) 2 sux. (0 tens, 1 botches ): SUCCESS
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (5,4,5) 0 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): FAILURE
<Asm0dai> (q willpower 1 quint)
<Asm0dai> >r 4
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (6,8,10,6) 5 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
KevinGrey shoots at one or the other tentacle that curiously peeks through the gate
<DAN_Primus> (Nope.)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (9,10,4) 3 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Asm0dai> Ok we have a portal i nth hold through wihcih th aI's are entering...
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (10,9,5) 3 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Asm0dai> Han, Marv, Grey WATCH THE HOLD we don't need stragglers!
<Asm0dai> i'll prepare the nuke!
DAN_Primus modifies target away from the tentacles and directly onto the largest patch of wall.
<KevinGrey> I'm doing my best!
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
<Asm0dai> HURRY!
suxbot --> (2,6,10) 3 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Asm0dai> Han tell those bos to hurry!
<Hannibal_Golux> Asmo: They're all in here, just launch.
DAN_Primus fires the Cannon into the tentacles. (9 sux.)
<Asm0dai> they will get slaughtered if we stay too long...
<ST> (Dan: Big area cleamed now)
<Asm0dai> okay.. ACEY go up and towards left
<DAN_Primus> (Right, I just fired 16 agg. into the wall.)
AC_Newton waves her hands through the holocontrols
Asm0dai launches the nuke towards the wall as Acey vewers with the Nova away...
<ST> The Nova banks away from the target area
<Asm0dai> (ok 6 rolls, diff 3)
<Asm0dai> >r 4
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
<Asm0dai> >r 4
suxbot --> (7,3,3,8) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Asm0dai> >r 4
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (2,6,2,10) 3 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
<Asm0dai> >r 4
suxbot --> (4,2,3,9) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Asm0dai> >r 4
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
<Asm0dai> >r 4
suxbot --> (2,4,6,8) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Asm0dai> >r 4
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (9,5,8,6) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (4,3,2,4) 0 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): FAILURE
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (5,3,4,2) 0 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): FAILURE
<Asm0dai> >r 4
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (6,5,4,2) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marcello> (and I fired 18 damage on and in the wall)
<DAN_Primus> (That's 8 rolls so far, Asm0.)
<Asm0dai> 23 suxx on the countermagic viral nuke :)
<Asm0dai> no, 6... wait...
<ST> (Ok.... Let's see what the Wall will soak)
<DAN_Primus> (Well, it's 6 if you don't count the two that you rolled 0 on.)
<ST> >r 20
suxbot --> ST rolled 20 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (6,6,5,6,8,9,6,3,3,9,8,7,8,8,9,9,2,10,5,2) 15 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Hannibal_Golux> (20!? Yikes!)
<Asm0dai> Ok what did the nice nuke do to the Wall?
<ST> Okay, Marcello: 3 got through from you...
<Asm0dai> (it is countermagic... not damage)
<ST> Hanni: That thingy is mean
<Hannibal_Golux> (You're telling me)
Asm0dai closes the portal towards the AI's
<ST> (Hanni: The Nova is heavily armoured after all)
<DAN_Primus> (BTW, AC: I upped the limit from 20 to 50 dice.)
<DAN_Primus> (What about my 16 damage?)
<ST> (Asmo: Macello did Damage I assume he his where the tentacles got cleared)
Asm0dai directs the copy Nova's to move away...
<ST> (Asmo: Now to you...)
<Asm0dai> (23 suxx...)
<Asm0dai> (i took time to roll extra dice, and had the benefit of lesser diff for takign time :)
<ST> Dan: Moment... You cleared another area, AFAIK (at least that's what I drew here on my sheet ^_^)
<ST> !dice 20
<ST> >r 20
suxbot --> ST rolled 20 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (2,2,10,4,4,4,8,7,3,2,1,7,7,2,7,6,2,8,7,2) 8 sux. (0 tens, 1 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> Dan: You got 8 through
<ST> Asmo: What exactly did you target?
<Marvin_Black> So where is the path to Death and damnation leading now?
<Asm0dai> (i dropped a viral countermagick atomic bomb on the thing... i think it now has a huge hole the size of Texas in it :))
<DAN_Primus> (Nice big hole in wall. Me likey.)
<ST> Asmo: Ok, as it is Countermagick, it unravelled the matrix somewhat
<ST> Asmo: Okay, put together we could move the Nova in
<DAN_Primus> This was not at all what I expected. I wonder what we'll be facing next?
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<ZenCadet> (gah! sneaky timeout)
<ST> The Wall has a huge gaping hole inside now
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<ST> You see torn tentacles writhing on the ground...
<ZenCadet> (um, this might be a cue to send in the ninja stealth monkeys)
<ST> The huge black mow that was burnt in leade into further darkness
ZenCadet is now known as Hannibal_Golux
<DAN_Primus> (So send them, then.)
<AC_Newton> Moment, let me scann what is in there!
<Marvin_Black> (Some tentacles should have fallen pray to the worms... Yummi. Tentacle grill)
<ST> (Yeah, worms writhe withing writhing tentacles... And ugly pucture
DAN_Primus grabs a tagger from Marv, sets it, and tosses it out the window.
Marvin_Black play the mp3 of Highway to Hell
<ST> picture
Marcello (is also watching The 13th Floor ... talking about the DW)
Marcello fires
<Marcello> >r 4 d6
suxbot --> Marcello rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,6,6,4) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
AC_Newton scans what is behind the hole
<AC_Newton> (Forces, Prime, Mind)
<AC_Newton> >r 4
suxbot --> AC_Newton rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (7,7,5,3) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
DAN_Primus starts working on a porter for the ship to the location of /that specific tagger/, just in case we need a quick out.
Asm0dai grins and sets the Novas to enter the hole in the wall...
<Marcello> Sorry Dan, I just shot that tagger...
<DAN_Primus> Arg.
<AC_Newton> Oh dear, I got a reading of primal energyx galore!
<AC_Newton> And there seem to be tons of minds there - or one strong mind? Or something inbetween
Marvin_Black puts up MarvTV and tunes in the Spheres forecast
<Marvin_Black> >r 4 4
suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 4 dice, diff. 4, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (9,4,5,7) 4 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<DAN_Primus> A hive mind, maybe?
MC_Farstrider attempts a all spheres scan of the space ahead (the hole)
<Hannibal_Golux> (heh-heh... what's the forecase? I bet it's overcast with an approaching storm)
<ST> (MC Ok.)
<Marvin_Black> (Full fledged scan. Cor / Mind / Entropy / Forces / Prime)
DAN_Primus grabs another tagger, alters the transmission freq, so Novew won't lock on to it, and starts the porter for /that/ tagger.
<MC_Farstrider> life/spirit/mind/prime/forces/corr
<ST> (Marv: Ok)
MC_Farstrider chants a bit and then sits and meditates
<Asm0dai> NEffies have problems with differing betwwen one and many... some of them eve nbeleive i nserving Elder GOds... as far as i go... we kill them all and count parts later...
<DAN_Primus> (Corr 3 hung portal for the ship, AC.)
Asm0dai looks really grim and determined...
<MC_Farstrider> >r 4
suxbot --> MC_Farstrider rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (3,2,4,6) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> (Marv: You get a horrible feeling, and ugly Mind seems to be lurking there, both beckoning you and repelling you
<Marvin_Black> (Another System Shock 2 reference: The Many)
<MC_Farstrider> >r 4
suxbot --> MC_Farstrider rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (7,3,2,5) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marvin_Black> (It's on MarvTv for everyone to see... Spheres forecast. ^_^)
<MC_Farstrider> >r 4
suxbot --> MC_Farstrider rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (6,4,8,8) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> MC: You get a reading on Prime/Mind/Forces
<Marcello> Mr. Grey...perhaps it's time for you to deploy your gun ?
<ST> MC: You have a feeling of doom, ugly, distoorted, twisted minds lurking
<Marvin_Black> Anyone still disagrees with Highway to Hell and impending doom?
Marvin_Black nods at MarvTV
<Hannibal_Golux> (OK... can I scan with all spheres? (Corr/Forces/Life/Mind/Prime/Matter) Might as well join the club.)
<KevinGrey> Marc: Yeah, you might be right...
<Hannibal_Golux> >r 4 d4
suxbot --> Hannibal_Golux rolled 4 dice, diff. 4, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (3,6,3,10) 3 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marvin_Black> (You all can see it right on MarvTV ;) )
MC_Farstrider stands and looks atMarv's TV
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (7,5,3) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,5,7) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<DAN_Primus> Allright guys, we got an out.
<ST> Well, what you see on MarvTV is definitely not very nice or inviting
<DAN_Primus> If things get sticky in there, we can still port out of there /before/ we get our skins taken off and put back on the wrong way.
<ST> Marv, MC: You both have the impressio this ugly feeling is another barrier
<Marvin_Black> We are not invited it seems and they want to keep us out... Not that I would mind
<KevinGrey> Hm... So shall I try to engage the Mind Blaster on that, whatever it is?
<DAN_Primus> AC, it's a hung Effect, so you give the word to get out of there and I'll release it, which will send us right back to here, okay?
<Marvin_Black> Another barrier ahead
KevinGrey looks somewhat doubtful
<AC_Newton> That sounds cool,, DAN
MC_Farstrider sets up a mind shield effect
<Marcello> Fire Mr. Grey.
<MC_Farstrider> >r 4
suxbot --> MC_Farstrider rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
<Hannibal_Golux> Not invited? What did you expect? "Oh, hi guys. You've just nuked the side of our stronghold, why don't you use the front door, come in and have a cup of tea?"
suxbot --> (9,4,4,5) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
KevinGrey looks to Asmodai.
<MC_Farstrider> >r 4
suxbot --> MC_Farstrider rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (3,7,4,2) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<MC_Farstrider> >r 4
suxbot --> MC_Farstrider rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (3,3,5,4) 0 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): FAILURE
<ST> (MC: Mind 1 or 2?)
Asm0dai preps the toy
<Marvin_Black> At least a sign "Assaultants and traveling merchants are not welcome".
<MC_Farstrider> (hmms not sure which does what?
<KevinGrey> Asmodai, what is your judgement on using the Mind Blaster on that?
<DAN_Primus> (Mind 1 is only sensory.)
<Marvin_Black> Why worry? I hope you all have put down your last will
<DAN_Primus> (Mind 2 allows you to get surface impressions.)
<ST> (Dan Mind 1 is basicshielding. Mind 2 is better shielding)
<MC_Farstrider> 2 I guess
<DAN_Primus> Marv, are you deaf? We have an out.
<ST> (MC: Ok)
<ST> (MC: I noted your 2 suxon shielding.)
<Marvin_Black> Yeah... Out of our lifes...
<Asm0dai> I wouldn't do it...
<MC_Farstrider> thnx
<DAN_Primus> (Oh yes, I had forgotten she was doing a shield. MC: You can shield yourself up to the level of Mind you use, so Mind 2 is better.)
<Asm0dai> i'd also skip using the plague cannon
KevinGrey thinks it might be sensible to put up a proper Mind Shield, too
<KevinGrey> >r 5
suxbot --> KevinGrey rolled 5 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,9,2,2,1) 1 sux. (0 tens, 1 botches ): SUCCESS
<KevinGrey> >r 5
suxbot --> KevinGrey rolled 5 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,6,5,5,2) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Hannibal_Golux> (Not effected by our PM, if there is a big nasty mind thing going on in there and with us attacking the domain of the guys that made those nice bracelets can I try to put a Mind shield up for my AIs?)
<Asm0dai> stuff liek this feeds on the stuf of wrongness...
<ST> (Hanni: It might be a good idea.)
Asm0dai blocks his mind by expending an additional willpower in his patented mind shield
Marvin_Black concentrates on a mind shield of his own
<Asm0dai> >r 4
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (9,3,3,9) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Asm0dai> >r 4
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,2,8,4) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marvin_Black> >r 4 5
suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 4 dice, diff. 5, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,2,6,2) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<DAN_Primus> Is there any way I can transfer my Effect to someone else? I'm not sure if i'll be able to do anything inthere.
<Hannibal_Golux> (spending 1 WP)
<Asm0dai> (6 Suxx on the mind shield for yours truely...)
<Hannibal_Golux> >r 4 d4
suxbot --> Hannibal_Golux rolled 4 dice, diff. 4, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (5,5,8,4) 4 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Hannibal_Golux> That's 5 sux (Mind shield is Mind 1, yes?)
<ST> (Dan: The hung effect? Or what?)
<KevinGrey> >r 5
suxbot --> KevinGrey rolled 5 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (2,8,5,9,9) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marcello> I'll shield everyone who isn't shielded (what do I need for that ?)
KevinGrey has sufficient sux, too ^_^
<DAN_Primus> (I mean, I do have natural Mind sheilding in that my Mind is completely alien (it'd be like a 5 on the corr range chart going by familiarity) but I don't have Mind, so I can still be affected.
<ST> (Asmo ok)
<Hannibal_Golux> (was that enough for all my AIs?)
<DAN_Primus> (The hung Effect to port the ship and occupants back out here when it's released.)
<ST> (Hanni: Yes.)
<Hannibal_Golux> (OK, Mind shield myself now)
<Hannibal_Golux> >r 4 d4
suxbot --> Hannibal_Golux rolled 4 dice, diff. 4, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (3,8,1,7) 1 sux. (0 tens, 1 botches ): SUCCESS
AC_Newton concentrates hard to ward off any Mind influence, too
<AC_Newton> >r 4
suxbot --> AC_Newton rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (4,4,5,4) 0 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): FAILURE
AC_Newton frowns.
<Asm0dai> (DAN... that doesn't matter... this thing is simply scary...)
<Marcello> (it seems everyone but Dan is shielded, I'll shield him too)
<Marcello> (just tell me how many successes I need for a decent shield)
<Marcello> >r 4 d6
suxbot --> Marcello rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (1,2,4,10) 0 sux. (0 tens, 1 botches ): FAILURE
<ST> (Marc: Diff 6, 4 sux)
<Marcello> (again, this time with a bit of quint and a willpower)
<ST> (Marc: Retry: +1 diff)
<Marcello> (I know)
AC_Newton concentrates harder
<AC_Newton> >r 4
suxbot --> AC_Newton rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (9,7,9,2) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marcello> (thats why I spend quintessence)
<Marcello> >r 4 d6
suxbot --> Marcello rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (3,9,7,7) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marcello> (4 suxx)
<Marvin_Black> AC: I could lend you some spiders to support your shielding
<Marcello> now myself
<AC_Newton> Marv: Thanks, but no thanks!
<Marcello> >r 4 d4
suxbot --> Marcello rolled 4 dice, diff. 4, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (6,4,2,6) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> (Marc: Ok)
<ST> (Marc: You put Quint in, too?)
<Marcello> Mr. Primus, you should be resonably safe from attacks on your mind now.
<Marcello> (Yes)
<ST> (Ok)
<AC_Newton> >r 4
suxbot --> AC_Newton rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (5,5,2,7) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marcello> (thats why I rolled diff 6, instead of 7)
AC_Newton has 6 sux with diff 5, too :-)
AC_Newton smiles happily
<DAN_Primus> Thank you, Dr. Keagan.
<Marvin_Black> Any last words before we go in there and have our souls ripped out?
<DAN_Primus> Yes.
<Asm0dai> NO...
<DAN_Primus> I would like a root beer.
<Asm0dai> GO!
<DAN_Primus> Are those good last words?
<Marcello> (Stayka: How many success do I need for that mind effect we talked about ?)
<ST> (Marc: Please refresh my mnd, there were so many effects now...)
<Marcello> (Stayka: Counterattack effect)
<Hannibal_Golux> Last words: Those Nephandi couldn't hit the broad side of a barn from th...
AC_Newton gets up, goes to Kev and kisses him for good luck
<ST> (Marc: Ah. Well. 5 sux here)
<Marvin_Black> My last words will be: I told you so...
<Marcello> (Spending quint and willpower again)
<Hannibal_Golux> (ZenCadet gets up, goes to Kev and kills him for good luck *eg*)
<Hannibal_Golux> (sorry, getting ahead of myself)
<Marcello> >r 4 d5
<MC_Farstrider> <here we go again?
suxbot --> Marcello rolled 4 dice, diff. 5, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (4,5,5,7) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Marcello> >r 4 d5
suxbot --> Marcello rolled 4 dice, diff. 5, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (2,5,4,6) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> (Hanni: Shame on you!)
<Marcello> (okay.. 2 willpower and 2 quint spent)
<Asm0dai> (marcello... do you know what we are against? you'd try counterattacking somethign that looks like this ?)
<Marcello> (this is protection *g*)
<ST> (Marc: Ok)
<Hannibal_Golux> (ST: :-p)
<Asm0dai> (that is saying: Eat my mind although i can die by you jsut touching me...)
<Asm0dai> (you are forgettign you ARE messed up...)
<Marcello> (exactly..so what is the most logical response ?? Do as you always did)
MC_Farstrider sits again and chants (a prayer and wish for success)
<Marvin_Black> I'll be seing you again in hell...
<ST> (Ok. Just so you know - the diff of the Mind attack for the attacker is your WP+3 now ^_^
<ST> (Thanks to the Mind shields ^_^)
DAN_Primus takes his seat back from Marc, and does a systems check on the Quantum Laser. "Since you're on board for this part, Marv, I think you should have you own Cannon."
<Asm0dai> (oh so he needs 11 to get to me :))
<ST> (Asmo: Diff 9, Threshold 2 is that
Marvin_Black walks over to the Plague Cannon and takes a pew
<Asm0dai> (and what about those with 6 suxx on theirt mind shields?)
<ST> Asmo: Modifiers don't go higher than +3
<Marvin_Black> Dan: So at least I will take some of them with me
<ST> Asmo: Or -3
<DAN_Primus> Exactly.
<Asm0dai> (yes but shields work as countermagic... they take suxx)
<Asm0dai> (...saxx away)
<Hannibal_Golux> (dear gods! They don't like saxophone music?)
<Asm0dai> ( :))
<ST> (Well, I think about everybody has the same amount in the end, if I checked... If I just do it that way, we don't need to rool too much)
<Asm0dai> (well i had 6... most had 2-3 :))
<Marvin_Black> (afk: Bathroom calls for me)
<ST> (Asmo: I will simply adjust the diff accordingly)
<ST> Asmo: AC and Grey also had 6
<DAN_Primus> (Which would you rather have, Asm0? 6 suxx. that get used up after one hit, or a +3 that lasts until the Effect dies? Consider that it /is/ a contested roll, and I would assume our rolls would be more likely to get sux.)
<Asm0dai> (si boss)
<Asm0dai> (no DAN i'd rather have 5 prtoectio nthat lasts a scene... thank you :))
<Asm0dai> (you know that you can extend duration simply? :))
<DAN_Primus> (Aye.)
<ST> (Asmo: I'd like to figure out how to minimize the rolling a bit.)
<ST> (Asmo: And I don't think the players here cancomplasin about being treated too harshly, hm?)
<Asm0dai> ( i agrree... i just don't want an elder horror in my head :))
<ST> (Asmo: If I *want* you to have that in your head, I could do it anyway...)
<MC_Farstrider> no, Cthulu likes to sit on Marv's shoulder ;)
<ST> (LOL)
<Marcello> (but I guess we continue next time ?)
DAN_Primus has decided to place an auto-shutdown if my programming detects outside interference.
<Hannibal_Golux> (well, we can dispense entirely with rolling and have one of two results. 1) we win 2) we are recruited to destroy the universe - Who's up for a bit of universicide?)
<ST> (*g*)
Asm0dai would kill all of us in that case...
<Marvin_Black> (bak)
<DAN_Primus> (Or 3) We all die. You gorgot that one, Han.)
<DAN_Primus> [Search "gorgot"][Replace "gorgot" "forgot"]
<Asm0dai> (besides Stayka i know you wouldn't want us all to turn into neffie playthings...)
<Marcello> (There was a reason I put up the special "mindshield"...a reason whose name start with an A)
Asm0dai suddenly has huge anime and looks pleadingly...
Asm0dai suddenly has huge anime eyes and looks pleadingly...
<Hannibal_Golux> (Hmm. Would the Nephandi waste the potential for resources when, after all, thats what they've been trying to do.)
<ST> (Asmo: Not really. Only if the players act really stupidly)
<Asm0dai> (hmmm then shall we stop talking and continue with the story ?)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Asmo: You are assuming that you won't be a mindless drone, too...)
<Asm0dai> (i am not assuming anything)
AC_Newton thinks the Nephandic evil would simply poof away on touching Acy's naivite ^_^)
<DAN_Primus> (Spork. Back to the game.)
<ST> (Okay. There is this hole and behind that a possible further barrier)
Marvin_Black thinks if any Nephandi touches his mind he / she / it will commit suicide
DAN_Primus thinks AC is extremely naive if she thinks that.
<Asm0dai> (must kill nephandi... must make a huge FORCES grenade and rop it... i actualyl planned to cause systems havoc when we got here... with the idiot of MArcello being strnaded we canot disconnect...)
<Hannibal_Golux> OK, do we know anything else about what is inside?
<ST> (Hanni: Well, There is only that image of the bracelet factory we got some sessions before)
<Asm0dai> Nope... but we need a better analysys... they can create digital bracletes... meaning that they need coders...
<DAN_Primus> (You could always have Marv drop the bomb like at the last place....)
<Asm0dai> we can at least kill the coders...
<ST> (Hanni: It seems very likely that this is in the center of this labyrinth)
<Asm0dai> well we have the added benefit of flying...
<Asm0dai> ..and correspondance magic :)
<Hannibal_Golux> (OK, let's re-release the AIs, and I am going to monitor their progress by viewing through their eyes with a Corr effect)
AC_Newton looks at Asmo
<AC_Newton> Asmo, and when they have Corr Science, too?
Asm0dai reopens a one way portal for the AI's to jump out...
<Asm0dai> Then we hope ours works better acey...
<Asm0dai> !dice 4
<Marvin_Black> AC: We are toast
<ST> (All the AIs?)
<Hannibal_Golux> (this will manifest by having the monitors view behind shades...)
<Asm0dai> >r 4
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (4,3,4,6) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Hannibal_Golux> (Um, let's send in a scouting party first and I'll see through their eyes)
<Hannibal_Golux> (send in a unit of 5)
<ST> (*g* Better ^_^)
<Asm0dai> (1 is enough... they have at least 30 secs to get out)
<ST> (ok)
<ST> (Hanni's AI scouting party goes through)
<Hannibal_Golux> (what level of corr would it be to see through their eyes?)
<DAN_Primus> (Why not 5 units of five, and have the leader of each one be the one you see through? That way you can have a larger area covered without too much risk to the AI.)
<DAN_Primus> (Coor 2.)
<ST> They materialize right between the hole and the suspected barrier
<DAN_Primus> (Plus Mind 1, I would think.)
<Hannibal_Golux> >r 4 d5
suxbot --> Hannibal_Golux rolled 4 dice, diff. 5, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (5,2,10,4) 3 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Hannibal_Golux> (OK, so I'm see through their eyes Aliens style)
<ST> (ok)
<DAN_Primus> (You need two more sux.- it's one sux per target, and you have five targets.)
<Hannibal_Golux> (I'm still aware of what else is going on around me becuase the images are superimposed inside my shades)
<ST> (Hanni: It is very dark outside. On infrared, you see that the floor seems to be warm...)
<ST> (DAN: 1 sux is ok)
<Asm0dai> Hann shunt the imaging on the viewscreen here...
<Hannibal_Golux> (Dan: 3 is enough for now unless they split up)
Marvin_Black checks the console of his plague Cannon
<ST> (DAN we want to get the show moving)
<DAN_Primus> (I guess. ST's decision, after all.)
<ST> (3 sux I meant)
<Hannibal_Golux> OK, give me a moment.
<Hannibal_Golux> >r 4 d5
suxbot --> Hannibal_Golux rolled 4 dice, diff. 5, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (1,3,8,2) 0 sux. (0 tens, 1 botches ): FAILURE
<Hannibal_Golux> Sorry... can't do that at the moment...
<Asm0dai> Can itry?
<Asm0dai> Can i try?
<ST> (I think it's sufficient to see through 1 Bot anyway)
DAN_Primus thinks it'd be a good idea to send them the tagger bag.
<ST> (Asmo: Sure, if Hanni gives you the access code)
<Hannibal_Golux> (tagger bag?)
<DAN_Primus> (The bag with the tags that the ships guns lock onto in order to shoot at stuff.)
<DAN_Primus> (And be guaranteed not to miss.)
<Marvin_Black> (The one that is held in place by Marvs Spider Armor
<Hannibal_Golux> (Oh well, they should have taken them anyway if I (player) had remembered them... Han would have)
<DAN_Primus> (So we're going to pretend that they did, or send it to them?)
<Marvin_Black> (But why taking the risk of losing the bag if I can hand out plenty of them to the AIs?)
<ST> (Han: Ok, let's say they have some)
<ST> (Hannhas Eidetic Memory after all)
<DAN_Primus> (Because I can easily make another bag?)
<Marvin_Black> (And you can easily botch trying so and then Marv stand right on the battlefield pulling out white rabbits. ;) )
<Hannibal_Golux> (ST: Can I try again to route the image through to the viewscreen?)
<Hannibal_Golux> (raised diff?)
<DAN_Primus> (Actually, give me about 20 bags, and 20 taggers, and in no time flat I can make 20 tagger bags.)
<ST> (Han: Please do so!)
<Hannibal_Golux> >r 4 d6
suxbot --> Hannibal_Golux rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,2,7,4) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> Fine!
<Hannibal_Golux> OK that time it worked.
<Hannibal_Golux> What are they up to in the meantime?
<DAN_Primus> (Marv- I don't botch making tagger bags- I don't even need to roll to make them.)
<ST> So now we can see on the big viewscreen what happens
<DAN_Primus> (Remember the auto-success rule if your die pool is higher than the diff?)
<ST> The picture is in wrong colours as the AIs can see only via IR
<DAN_Primus> (a tagger bag in the DW is Int+Comp diff 4.)
<ST> (Dan: That's when 1 sux suffices, yes)
<Marcello> (in this case it's just a matter of adding "const" before the integer of the quantity of items in the bag.
<Marcello> )
<DAN_Primus> (Actually, 'static const' would be better- and that's assuming your programming the tagger bag in C++.
<ST> The ground behind the wall seems to be slowly pulsating, as if it is alive
DAN_Primus gets to work making tagger bags for the crew.
<ST> (Behind the hole inthe wall, I mean)
Marvin_Black sits at his console, seeming ready to fire
<Hannibal_Golux> (is there nothing else apart from this, um, pulsating barrier?)
Asm0dai tries to see if any of this is familiar to either his konowledge or his "moderate ;))" library on stuff
<ST> As the AIs walk towards the invisible barrer, they slow down
<ST> Hanni: Currently you can see farther
<Asm0dai> Han why are they slowing down?
<DAN_Primus> Nova, if you would, do about 20 copy-pastes of the tagger bag Marv has. Actullay, copy-paste one for each humanoid icon on this ship, if you would. Materialize it in front of them also, please.
<ST> It is as if the light is sucked up only short distance away
<Hannibal_Golux> I'm not sure...
Asm0dai creates a small digital Raven
<_NOVA_> By your command, Dan
<Hannibal_Golux> (I'm going to remote scan the AIs for operational efficiency)
<Asm0dai> >r 4
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (10,10,2,3) 4 sux. (2 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Hannibal_Golux> >r 4 d4
DAN_Primus attaches his tagger bag to his waist.
suxbot --> Hannibal_Golux rolled 4 dice, diff. 4, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (6,10,2,5) 4 sux. (1 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
Asm0dai hold s the raven and connects to its senses with Corr 1...
<Asm0dai> >r 1
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 1 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (7) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Asm0dai> >r 4
suxbot --> Asm0dai rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (3,7,8,8) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Hannibal_Golux> (Ack... I think I did the diff too low for that.... I'm remote scanning, what level of Corr do I need?)
<ST> (Corr 2)
Asm0dai sends to raven worward being carefull to notice how it is acting and what happens to it...
<Hannibal_Golux> (OK, ignore my last roll then... unfortunately)
<Hannibal_Golux> >r 4 d5
suxbot --> Hannibal_Golux rolled 4 dice, diff. 5, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,6,5,6) 4 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> Now!
<Hannibal_Golux> (that's okay... exactly the same result, ultimately)
<ST> Asmo: The raven flies towards the invisible barrier, but after some meters, it lands and doesn't seem to want to continue
<Hannibal_Golux> (so what's happening with my scouts?)
<DAN_Primus> Lethargy.
<DAN_Primus> Induced lethargy.
<ST> (Hanni: They don't seem to want to continue going on)
<Asm0dai> i force it onwards... it doesn't have a mind of its own...
<DAN_Primus> I'm guessing here, of course, but it looks like that to me.
<ST> >r 6
suxbot --> ST rolled 6 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (9,2,5,7,3,5) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Asm0dai> Okay it seems that there is aforce field here that induces depression and loss of will to do anything...
<Asm0dai> We could try and crack it with a vira lbomb...
<Hannibal_Golux> (With Mind in the scan can I determine their reasons? i.e. is it an outside influence?)
<DAN_Primus> Did I not just say that?
<ST> Asmo: It continues, but you have the impression of resistance
<Marvin_Black> You mean it showas reality the real way?
<Asm0dai> Ok how far does that field stretch?
<ST> Asmo: As if something presses against your force of will
<ST> (Hanni: Yeah)
<Hannibal_Golux> (hmm, can I attempt to strengthen the Mind shield around them remotely Corr 2 / Mind 1, or just directly countermagic the effect)
<ST> (Asmo: You would say it beginns halfway between the hole and the scan results of the "barrier"
<Asm0dai> Ok this shit is quite large...
<ST> (Hanni: Yup)
<DAN_Primus> (I think direct countermagic would be best, especially if we all teamed up on it.)
Asm0dai makes the bird go upwards to see if the field extends in all three dimesnions...
<Hannibal_Golux> (ST: which one? The Mind shield strengthening?)
<Asm0dai> Wait a sec...
<ST> (You can try either. It is your decision)
<MC_Farstrider> I think he'ds talking about a countermagick effect (mind/prime?)
<Asm0dai> (mind)
Asm0dai makes the bird go upwards to see if the field extends in all three dimesnions...
<DAN_Primus> (I was thinking unweaving myself.)
KevinGrey looks at the result of the AIs progress
<DAN_Primus> (Which is just Prime.)
<Hannibal_Golux> (OK, yeah... countermagic the effect on them then... what's the diff?)
<Marcello> I was just thinking... most of us can attack people with their minds can we ?
<KevinGrey> I could try to outfit another scouttroop with a proper Mind shield instead of the SEP field
<MC_Farstrider> not me
<ST> (Asmo: It seems to go up high - the geometry here seems to be somewat distorted)
<Asm0dai> in what sort distorted?
<ST> (Hanni: Prime Count - diff 7)
<Hannibal_Golux> >r 4 d7
suxbot --> Hannibal_Golux rolled 4 dice, diff. 7, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (2,4,8,4) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<DAN_Primus> (I'll join the count, Han.)
<DAN_Primus> >r 3
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,4,5) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> Asmo: The wall we broke throgh also extended up ad infinitum, it seemed)
Marvin_Black leans back, but the spiders do not get squashed but get out of the way
MC_Farstrider too
<MC_Farstrider> >r 4
suxbot --> MC_Farstrider rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (5,6,7,4) 2 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<DAN_Primus> >r 3 d7
<Marvin_Black> >r 4 7
suxbot --> DAN_Primus rolled 3 dice, diff. 7, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,4,3) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
suxbot --> Marvin_Black rolled 4 dice, diff. 7, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (9,7,8,4) 3 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<Asm0dai> IT seems that this wall that is inducinfg depression extend in all three dimensions...here it may be the thinenst...
<Asm0dai> but we must watch it...
<Asm0dai> if we get cought in it we are messed up...
<DAN_Primus> (7 sux. on the counter- MC only got one.)
<Hannibal_Golux> (OK, I think that, collectively, is probably enough to counter the effects)
<Marcello> (prime 3 or 4 ?)
<ST> (Hanni: Ok. If need be, AC and Grey could counter, too ^_^)
<DAN_Primus> (Prime 2 minimum, I think.)
<DAN_Primus> (But go with P3.)
<Hannibal_Golux> (Well, is need be?)
<ST> (Normally Prime counter magick is the amount of dice you have dots in Proime)
<ST> (Diff 7)
<Marvin_Black> (3 Sux from Marv
<Hannibal_Golux> (is it? Oh, okay, in that case I rolled wrong....)
<ST> (I think it should suffice now ^_^)
<Marcello> (3 dots in the DW right ?)
<Marcello> (+1 dot I mean)
<DAN_Primus> (We've got 6 sux. total: 1 Han, 1 Dan, 1 MC, 3 Marv.)
<ST> (Marc: If you have 3 IRL, yes)
<AC_Newton> >r 4
suxbot --> AC_Newton rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (8,4,2,4) 1 sux. (0 tens, 0 botches ): SUCCESS
<KevinGrey> >r 4
suxbot --> KevinGrey rolled 4 dice, diff. 6, threshhold 0:
suxbot --> (1,5,8,9) 1 sux. (0 tens, 1 botches ): SUCCESS
<ST> (Ok, make that +2)
<DAN_Primus> (8 tot.)
<ST> (That should suffice then)
<Marcello> (DW adds +1 to prime right ?)
<ST> (The AIs continue walking)
<ST> (Marc: Yeah. )
<Hannibal_Golux> OK, that seems to have fixed the problem.
<DAN_Primus> Nice, we killed the field.
<ST> The ground is still organic, pulsating
<ST> Suddenly the front AI falls down
<MC_Farstrider> hmm knowing the Mind of of the Magick
<MC_Farstrider> organic? life scan returned nothing?
<Marvin_Black> Seems they don't like people sneaking into their home...
<ST> (MC: Nope. )
<ST> (MC: It is obviously programmed to look that way)
<Marvin_Black> (No "real" life in the web)
<Hannibal_Golux> (look through the other AIs' eyes that I've hooked up with to see what he fell down, and through the front AI's eyes to see where he is falling)
<Marcello> What are the rules about using electricity to counter a Nephandic stuff ?
<MC_Farstrider> (well only a few werewolves and worldwalkers
<ST> (Hanni: The AIs walkl on?)
<Hannibal_Golux> (what happened to the front one?)
<ST> (The front A seems to be falling down a hole that doesn't seem to have a ground.)
<Hannibal_Golux> (OK... can it not fly? It's the DW after all? Or is it being dragged down?)
<ST> (Well, the AI walked and suddenly there was no groun. If you say it can fly, then it will do that ^_^)
<ST> BTW,the second AI sees an AI appearing from above
<Hannibal_Golux> (Well, they are fast adapters so I see no reason why not...)
<Hannibal_Golux> (one of mine? or another?)
<MC_Farstrider> are really in the Dw in body and spirit as wellas mind)
<ST> It seems to be Nr.1 that just fell down ^_^
<Hannibal_Golux> (OK, I see where this is going...)
<DAN_Primus> (I am currently unhappy. I am now required to leave this and go to work. AC, please send me the transcript of the game after this point so at least I get to see what goes on after today. Oh, and I'm sending Marv the sux bot, so that he can load it up. Since the other bot doesn't seem to be here today...)
<ST> Hm...
<ST> Well, we might stop now
<MC_Farstrider> ok
<ST> I have to get up tomorrow morning, after all
<Hannibal_Golux> (I suspect I know what's going on with the AIs falling. He's just fallen *around* the thing, hasn't he...)
<ST> Hanni: Sort of, yes :-)
<ST> I think I mentioned distorted geometra...
<Hannibal_Golux> (yeah, I figured it was related)
Session Close: Wed May 07 00:44:33 2003
-- To Be Continued --
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