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Post by aspiredClockworks on Jun 11, 2012 22:13:37 GMT -5
Hey, I have this crazy plan involving blowing up all the meteors in the incipisphere in order to prevent the reckoning from having any actual effect. I need the advice of every Creative in this place, bombs. Big enough to blow up a meteor, cheap enough to build one for every meteor in this place.
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Post by casualUcalegon on Jun 11, 2012 22:25:47 GMT -5
I Used to be a Monk. Is that creative enoUgh? It's weird having a non-standard Native.
My advice is to not blow Up the ones that carry Ur ectobiological selves. That woUld be bad. What materials do U have on hand, anyway? Any plasma cannons or any other heavy artillery?
U might want to look into kinetic weaponry. The ammo woUld be really cheap, since anything fired at relativistic speeds will destroy a meteor.
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Post by ventricularPipefitter on Jun 11, 2012 22:52:38 GMT -5
You're a Muse right now, not a Smith, right?
Okay, this is a totally awesome idea, but you're going to need to convince some -other people- to do this, whether it gets done with bombs, nuclear fancy santas, or what.
Honestly, to take out the entire goddamn Veil (and holy shit there is a lot of Veil), I'd look into seeing if you can get something self-perpetuating. You can't possibly spend the time to mine every asteroid, and some of them are farther away than you think, and the blast radius just won't reach. You'll want like....nanotech gray goo and rocket boards or something.
Bear in mind that it takes meteors much smaller than the average Veiloid to completely ruin a planet's day. And that 'the destruction of human civilization' is a pretty goddamn strong Imperative in the timeline. If it won't be by meteors, it may another method.
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Post by aspiredClockworks on Jun 11, 2012 22:58:28 GMT -5
Um, our Bane of Time is doing the actual Bomb-Laying, the idea is he'll have the time to do it. And we know we can't save earth, what we're doing is preventing the Black King's reckoning from ruining our lands or Skaia.
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Post by casualUcalegon on Jun 11, 2012 23:17:00 GMT -5
Self-perpetUating stuff woUld be pretty risky. U don't want it spreading into anything U want intact, and the game is very good at springing Unintended conseqUences on U.
So no strangelet bombs, no grey goo, and no antimatter propagators. U jUst don't have the tech to pUt reliable limiters on them, especially when the game might decide to throw the debris cloUds at U and carry any loose tech along with them.
Get a coUple dozen kinetic laUnchers, pUt them on anything U want to keep intact, and give them both a pile of rocks and a radiUs to check. Any meteors that get within that radiUs get a relativistic missile. Rocks are cheap as fUck.
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Post by openMineral on Jun 15, 2012 17:11:51 GMT -5
I've never heard of anyone try this. If you're going to have your Time guy blow the meteors up, have him destroy some meteors, time travel back a bit, destroy more, time travel again, etc.
But knowing the game, they're probably made of Bedrock or something.
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Post by tungstenTinkerer on Jun 16, 2012 17:10:24 GMT -5
Nope. The meteors are perfectly destroyable. And of course the time player was going to do that, that went without saying!
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Post by genesisArtificer on Jun 16, 2012 17:59:24 GMT -5
Hey. Good news. Guys on Derse say that I am Smith of Time.
I like the Smith part.
I want to spare myself the trauma and lobotomize myself over Time part.
What would Smith of Time do? Like, expand the story with time shenanigans?
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Post by mislaidLullaby on Jun 16, 2012 18:58:09 GMT -5
I'm a little rough on extending the title of smith but I think for you it could pass as 'Extending things using time' or 'Creating Time'? So yeah, you get to drag things out.
You will also have the benefit of being able to make some really cool stuff which will tend towards including spikes and lasers.
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Post by tenaciousTheseus on Jun 16, 2012 22:40:37 GMT -5
Okay, see, the whole blowing up the meteors plan? Absolutely horrible idea. Instead of having meteors slam into the battlefield, you will now have a bunch of meteor shrapnel slam into Derse, all your planets, Prospit, and the battlefield. Nooooot a good move.
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Post by openMineral on Jun 16, 2012 22:43:54 GMT -5
Instead of having meteors slam into the battlefield, you will now have a bunch of meteor shrapnel slam into Derse, all your planets, Prospit, and the battlefield.
Perhaps the meteor bits going to Derse could be used to take out BQ? Do any of the members in the OP's session have shrapnelkind?
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Post by ExtropianDreamer on Jun 17, 2012 8:36:37 GMT -5
Yeah, that meteor plan? Bad idea.
I tried something like that once, when I was young and stupid. Got my Aggrievance on and tried to make the game just stop. Figured that even if I couldn't go home I could at least make something here, you know?
But if you actually manage to prevent the Reckoning, then Sburb will just compensate. Likely in the form of Noirjacking your session and having him [Red Miles] the fuck out of the Battlefield, along with everything else. It's sort of like how if your homeworld doesn't get destroyed by meteors, something else will show up to do the job. Psychotic glowing green asshole, alien invasion fleet, Jack Noir using [Red Miles] on the frog that is your universe. Doesn't matter, Sburb will find a way, and there is basically nothing you can do.
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Post by aspiredClockworks on Jun 18, 2012 19:23:07 GMT -5
As for how they'd rain over the battlefield, the point is to blow them to small enough chunks that they'll burn up. and I've been thinking about the chance of Wraiths or something. We're killing every Dersite agent. I already took care of HB as a matter of habit, just seeing how he kills people makes me berserk every time. The Black Queen's the harder part, but we're six God Tiers, we can manage.
As for blowing up the meteors, so far I have [Teslastein's Brainchild], which is this accelerator thing that shoots out whatever you shove into it at relativistic speeds and electrifies it. Anyone have suggestions for improvement?
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Post by ventricularPipefitter on Jun 19, 2012 11:35:35 GMT -5
Hey. Good news. Guys on Derse say that I am Smith of Time.
I like the Smith part.
I want to spare myself the trauma and lobotomize myself over Time part.
What would Smith of Time do? Like, expand the story with time shenanigans? When there are as many different time-loop iterations of yourself as you can stand to argue with, creating more shenanigans is easy. You'll want a good plot chart and a system to keep track of yourself if you'd like to avoid the corpse pile. If you can hear him/her, pay attention to your exile. Gleefully send shit back and forward in time and hand out future macguffins and jujus like you just don't care. Trust your Whisperings. Warm up your favorite Smug Bastard smile. Don't trust your future self. He's using you. But he also needs you alive.
Given the focus on shenanigans, a Smith is a bit like a Mage, and a bit like a Thief, with the freedom that you're allowed to be more interpersonally free in how you approach your co-players, but more constrained in your roleplaying requirement.
Like...there's only one timeline, Ultimately, only one way things have to, and -must- go. It may be your responsibility to ensure that your player-friends have as much illusion of free will as possible within that. Delay the Reckoning as long as possible.
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Post by musicalDecay on Jun 19, 2012 12:00:42 GMT -5
what about a prince/waste/grace of breath? they wouldn't even need to destroy the meteors. just continuously use their power to push those things into last week if their strong enough. since they wouldn't need to destroy the meteors. Hell, it may even trick sburb into thinking that the meteors are still working fine. If that works, as long as you have that one breath player to keep pushing them away, you can have a never ending reckoning. (this may also work with strong space players to keep on teleporting meteors away, but I think that it would tire them out pretty quickly. any thoughts for this idea?)
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