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GreatWyrmGold [If posts every couple days are fine OR I get a new charging cord]

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I just had a brilliant idea. Can we enslave the natives of the Galapagos islands without the UN noticing and train them to be commandos so I can take over a shipping company?

So many problems with that.

If you're wanting to become in charge of an area, go after a politically unstable area and make it stable, if only a small part.  That way, you're getting good publicity (at least until all these experiments you are trying to perform get out), likely a great deal of interest for development, and a greater amount of resources.

+1

Pearly Swine wish to establish peaceful relations with the Lakers and the Council of Trees.

I am open to such.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on March 07, 2014, 09:12:29 pm

Huh?
I haven't seen anything short of amps and Xan that can really make flesh warp to things more easily than synthflesh. And has anyone seen someone so much as have a chance to use a flesh amp on synth?

Both of which are good examples of its malleability, and in Xan's case, of its ability to modify itself without any outside assistance.

And neither of which is known to be impossible with synthflesh. Besides, Xan's a pretty obvious anomaly.

I'm not aware of anyone actually attempting to modify synthflesh, but in ancient times the Doctor mentioned that once a synthflesh's form was set, it was really, really hard to change, usually to the point where it was easier to start over. It was also confirmed that healing synthflesh in the field would require a bunch of near-perfect rolls from a variety of disciplines, which doesn't bode well for modifying it.

The question is: has anyone looked into making synthflesh more malleable? Can't be harder than making the Thing.

And yes the devastation was just bad luck, but pyro/simus designated the targets and fired without any skill or dynamic bonuses to mitigate possible damage even after seeing what happened when you fired it.
Calling it Simus' bombardment seems fairly accurate to me.
Oh and I distinctly recall you saying that i must take responsibility for all my thundertrons failures up to and including it exploding and killing a teammate. I think this meets the same criteria

The differences...
1. Simus's presence or lack of skill or dynamic bonuses matters not, because she wasn't firing the damn thing!
2. Simus didn't really have a choice in whether or not to fire the artillery, between her CO and the enemy.
3. "Giant un-prototyped barel-planned kludgebot malfunctions" is way more likely than "artillery hits our own position multiple times". The numbers don't lie--one 1 or even a 6 would be enough for the former, while the latter requires a 1 followed by a 1 or a 2 to happen, once.

Hell, when even the GM says we just had massive streak of bad luck, it's indicative it wasn't a structural fault but rather the torn of the RNG.

Conclusion: We must punch the RNG for this failure! Which might be tough if piecewise uses random.org, since their number generator is the atmosphere.

He defected, silly. And I'm telling you this so you won't believe me.

The reason I say that is largely that I doubt it's going to be more than an occasional bit of dialogue here and there once we get rollin'.