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Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on April 15, 2014, 08:54:09 pm

That's probably accurate, but still...

You were willing to do the apocalypse twice for some arbitrary reason. You lost the right to not be assumed to try and end the world.

"Arbitrary reason," huh? So I should ignore the source material and not let even the worst of rolls cause potential apocolyp...ses? Apocalypsises? Apocolypti?

ffs still gives insanity penalties for trying the same thing over and over.

And if kj hadn't been unable to complete his repetition, I would have assigned him insanity penalties. Well, more because of this:

You may as well just give it a five since I'm not going to stop until the stupid thing is fixed.

but still.

Well, we did only roll a 11+2 for that weapon, which is barely a success. If we try again we could get something better. That might get an insanity penalty though.

I'd say it's worth one more try.

The weapon was decent, just impractical. If we get a less impractical weapon, we might get a more useful one.
And it's described as the ultimate Bloodshaped weapon. Not sure if we can exceed that, but with the certain insanity penalty, I'm not willing to gamble.

Oh, speaking of insanity penalties...

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Or maybe it's something about trying to turn crystals into meat. I'm definitely getting too old for this stuff."
-Alfred Lichenstein

"But souls do exist! Look at ICARUS, even I can see that she's getting one. And I'm here, completely unable to get one." she says as her eyes begin to glow a deep blue color.

<Souls are nice, I guess. But what would you do with one if you had it?>

The party screen still shows the decoagulator and bloody Harry

Shh!

OK, let's try this.
Reabsorb Heartsbreak, but memorize it's blueprint for later. Hat-swap-shenanigans up health/mana again. Try shaping a modified Heartsbreak, but at 1/4 scale.
Considering Heartsbreak looks like it's 3x the size of a bastard sword, or hand-and-a-half sword, that's 4.5x a one-handed sword size. So at 1/4 that, it's only slightly longer than a simple "sword", maybe shorter than a longsword.
Also, at 1/4 scale, it should take less MHP and MMP, and the cost to use it should be reduced. I'd guess 4 MHP and 4 MSP, and the attack would use 4 SP, doing 2d4 damage. The ranged attack would similarly cost less and do less damage.

+1
Also resorb other Bloodshaped stuff.

When deorbiting always make sure that you have a good landing zone, away from mountains or the ocean before you deorbit. 
One thing that you could of possibly done is to actually aim for the ground and then turn your engines on to gain speed.  Risky, but you might be able to get enough speed to level out.  Not sure if you had the fuel for that thou.

I'll see if I can do that next time.
The problem is that I was spinning badly enough that I couldn't control which way I was facing. Also, I'm trying to figure out how to not spin out whenever I move too fast or too steep. (Well, with "too fast" and "too steep" being reasonable values.)

Wow that weapon has a big drawback. 8 SP for attacking people?

Indeed. "Ultimate Weapon"?

Look at the weapon and how it is currently, I'm betting its eight SP to activate it, free to deactivate, but another eight to activate. So its expensive to use, but you can chop til you drop afterwards, as long as you don't deactivate.

The bottom, however, only lasts for two turns but is a ranged attack.

Test it out somewhere safe but reachable by the fountain!

+1

Remember my barely-SSTO spaceplane fighter? Rather than fly it anywhere, I'm just gonna deorbit is and see how it functions under re-entry heat. I'm half a minute from apoapsis, so I just turn and burn. Shame, too. I had such a nice orbit.

I burn, bringing my periapsis to 26 kilometers, then turn prograde and wait. I still have almost 34 units of liquid fuel, enough to help power a flight to somewhere. I also test the weapon systems.



I...Macey's went faster. Did the engine turn off when I decoupled the node or something?

Anyways, we enter the atmosphere. As we drop below 30 km, various bits of the ship begin to get worrisomely warm. The cockpit temperature soared to nearly 350 degrees, other bits were closer to 900, the wings were nearly a thousand. But, nothing exploded, and that's what matters.
I tried to tilt up, to slow my descent, but that failed. I tested my engine, found that it worked. I burn my engine low for a while, before deciding to just glide for a while, save my fuel for later.



Like when I realize I'm about to hit the ocean, or a mountain. (My ion engines will be on, too, thanks to staging, but I don't think they'll help much.)
I tilt my nose up and start spinning. Not much tilt, not much spin, so I can regain control. I do gain an unstoppable tilt to the right, though. 7,600 meters or so up, I activate my engine, hoping to avoid hitting the ocean at extreme speed. I do reduce my vertical speed to little. Fiddling with attitude leads to one of this fighter's characteristic uncontrollable spins.



Everything I try to do to fix it makes it worse! One wing is pointing straight down, and I'm...pitching out of control! I'd say at something like a hertz? This knowledge in no way prevents the inevitable.



So...anyone know why my spaceplane did that or how to prevent it?