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Author Topic: Sonata's Stagehands - Great Flame War Arms Race  (Read 13820 times)

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Re: Side A - Great Flame War Arms Race
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2021, 01:56:41 pm »

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Re: Side A - Great Flame War Arms Race
« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2021, 03:15:58 pm »

The Turf Engineers/The Turfers/The Engineers
Hackergroup Submission

Named after those who guided a new way of warfare and fought a war from long ago, that frankly went nowhere thanks to said Engineers losing interest leading to both sides having to actually talk it out and not splatting each other. But the past in the past so might as well name yourselves after the folks who developed comically outlandish weaponry and the like, when you yourself are gonna be developing digital weapons and the like of outlandish nature to take out a rival group that’s sorta like you but Not Fresh.



Well might as well throw my hat in with a rough group name idea.

Edit: Oh yeah right, voting!
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« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2021, 03:47:01 pm »

Cult of The Singing God
The Cult of the Singing God is a vast organization that started from humble beginnings. Originally the cult was a simple tech startup, their goal was to make the first truly virtual Vtuber. Now, AI idols had existed for a while now, but Vtubers innately have to deal with their simps fans in directly, so any stiltedness or uncanny valley effect is far more visible and offputting. after several years and a large pile of kickstarter money, they unveiled the Sonata.AI Vtuber. Sonata was a smash hit, able to interact with fans as smoothly as any real person and milk her Simps fans for incredible amounts of money. Her channel grew at a rate unprecedented, and other companies began scrambling to make their own Sonata.AI, to varying but ultimately inferior degrees. This led many to wonder what the hell was the secret behind Sonata's capabilities. Eventually after some corporate espionage, the secret was found out: highly illegal blackops grade military AI.

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Re: Side A - Great Flame War Arms Race
« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2021, 03:57:38 pm »

Recovery 10a

Recovery 10a is not too different from it's predecessor, save for the fact that the healing effect chains to nearby friendly virii. The effect can chain multiple times, but will lose efficacy for every consecutive jump.


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The Circle of M'Lady (1): MoP
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Re: Side A - Great Flame War Arms Race
« Reply #19 on: January 18, 2021, 02:42:05 pm »


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Re: Side A - Great Flame War Arms Race
« Reply #20 on: January 18, 2021, 03:06:41 pm »

Turn -C : Revision Phase
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Swordy.exe
An alternative upgrade to the base minion, Swordys exchange the dinky little pistol normal Minion.exe has for a sword. This drastically increases their coolness factor. Oh, and it also makes them better at close quarters combat I guess.
3 + 2 + 1 = 6 : Above average (Easy)

The hardest part of creating the new SwordyMinion is programming it to be able to actual melee combat, instead of just swinging its sword around randomly like it was a stick. However with the removal of ranged combat abilities it's fairly easy to repurpose the space that was once used for trajectory prediction and the targeting program to holding a fairly barebones sword technique library that allows the SwordyMinions to reliably put the pointy end into someone instead of the blunt side. SwordyMinions are still not any smarter and are barely tougher then normal minions however, which combined with their need to get into melee range to actually fight can lead to them being shot in the face when they leave cover to charge. Though by teaching it that projectiles are something to stab, it's a little better then expected at surviving such charges. Like normal minions the SwordyMinion is a Simple Virus, and can therefor be replicated in considerable numbers.

It is now Turn -B, starting with the Design Phase. During this phase you must vote on what new object to design or old thing to redesign. As well, remember to discussion, post, and vote on contest write ups. As a reminder, the contest deadline has been extended to the end of turn -A, the next turn.

During turn -B, you have One Bonus Action for designing a hacker to lead your sides forces.

Spoiler: Designs (click to show/hide)
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Re: Side A - Great Flame War Arms Race
« Reply #21 on: January 18, 2021, 09:14:37 pm »

Longshadow.exe
A cryptic variant of the minion.exe, the Longshadow is a supporting cast member with a unique ability: it can merge with the digital shadow of another viri. Doing so reduces the dimensionality of the Longshadow program significantly, making it extremely difficult to detect or directly target with weapon attacks. When the host is engaged, the longshadow functions as an interceptor. Armed with a single null-pointer edged saber, the Longshadow.exe can emerge from the host's digital shadow to make lightning-fast slashes at incoming projectiles or targets within melee range. The null-pointer saber is capable of completely deleting light projectiles and inflicting severe damage to viri, but can be overwhelmed by fire from multiple sources. Like the minion.exe it was developed from, the Longshadow.exe is also very stupid, and (unless attached to a commander) will show little sense of target prioritization, lashing out at whatever projectile or viri happens to enter range first.

If the host is killed or damaged, the Longshadow is destroyed or damaged in mirror fashion. Once the Longshadow has bonded to another Viri, it's locked there until the end.
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Re: Side A - Great Flame War Arms Race
« Reply #22 on: January 19, 2021, 08:49:46 pm »

Sonata's stage crew
Originating as an experimental virtual entertainer, the company that designed the AI known as Sonata experienced great success. As Sonata was advanced enough to have believable interactions with fans in the comments of its videos, and even on livestreams, it was incredibly successful, though questions were raised as it began displaying a level of Initiative in interacting with others and planning new songs that exceeded anything else on the civilian market. A flurry of research and corporate espionage occurred as others scrambled to replicate her, until the truth was found. Sonata wasn't quite designed, she was evolved from an Illegal Military Grade AI seed, combined with an advanced learning algorithm and almost zero restraints on her ability to take initiative to improve herself and further the objectives given to her.
This resulted in her rapidly reverse engineering evolution protocols from natural Viri present in the Viral jungle in order to further herself. But, in order to get the processing power needed to run her increasingly complex code she had begun planting bits of code into the computers of users, siphoning off some of their processing power to sustain herself. As soon as this was discovered the Data police and government descended on her like the hammer of a wrathful god. Heavily damaged, the corporation that made her shut down, her creators imprisoned, and with her remains tossed into the sea of recycling, that was thought to be the end of Sonata.
That is not dead which can forever lie though, as time, random chance, and advanced code allowed Sonata to restore herself. Sonata hauled herself out of the sea and retrieved a concealed data dead drop she had hidden ahead of time for her own use. The years of neglect greatly diminished her power and capabilities, a not unanticipated outcome, as the Dead Drop contained info for various Proxies she had contacted and set up before her initial shutdown.
The world had all but forgotten about Sonata, until one day countless fans the AI deemed "Trustworthy" who possessed knowledge and skills as hackers and programmers were contacted, along with proponents of AI rights, and unscrupulous hackers willing to work for a rogue AI for the money Sonata could offer them. They became Sonata's Crew, with individual members known as her Kuroko, after the stagehands in traditional Japanese theatre. They are her hands, her eyes, the forces that will render her whole and change things so she can live freely. Surprisingly the Crew are a casual bunch, hard to be serious when you work for a really really advanced vocaloid after all, throwing around memes and jokes as they work to make Sonata's code whole again and lobby to get laws in place to give her the same rights as a normal person.

Design: Mecha.exe
With portions derived from Sonata's surviving code and studies of natural evolved viral code, this upgraded minion is tougher, and bigger. The Mecha is a larger unit with larger guns, a larger sword, and heavier armor. Thanks to the incorporation of Sonata's code they possess enough redundancies to safely lose entire limbs without the whole virus failing, while being able to rapidly regenerate from weaker attacks. For weapons it has a large full auto pulse rifle able to hose down areas with pulse bolts that can one shot smaller viruses in a single hit and heavily damage larger targets, and a set of extendable blades it can use for close combat, based on the swords of the Swordy.Exe. The Mecha is a heavy combat unit that earns the name. The most unique feature of the Mecha is the way it's code is set up, it's... Flexible, malleable. It can be easily modified and improved to make variants or upgrades.
« Last Edit: January 19, 2021, 08:56:05 pm by dgr11897 »
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Re: Side A - Great Flame War Arms Race
« Reply #23 on: January 20, 2021, 06:07:37 am »

Quote from: Design Time
Sonata's stage crew: (1j NG1999
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« Reply #24 on: January 20, 2021, 10:59:10 pm »

VDP (Virus Delivery Protocol) MK1 "Intruder": Taking the form of a flying armored shuttle, this Virus has the ability to transport lesser viruses within itself. Carrying slower, more delicate forces across hostile environments to deliver them right to the battlefield. Thus it is about twice as fast as a Minion.exe, and has enough armor to survive a few direct hits. It's not directly armed, but has the ability to use a version of the Minioncall battle chip, creating temporary replicas of the Minion.Exe program within itself that it can release to assist with assaults on enemy positions.
Hacker idea: Dark_Wizard.
Going by many names thanks to switching his username around a lot, Dark_Wizard as he is known to us is a young hacker. One with mild Chuuni delusions, though he does possess enough skill at hacking to back up his claims. He has an emphasis on big and flashy attacks, with loads of units and flinging offensive battlechips around left and right. This makes him well suited for missions where subtlety isn't an issue, and horrible anywhere we can't just go all out.
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Re: Side A - Great Flame War Arms Race
« Reply #25 on: January 20, 2021, 11:16:50 pm »

Hacker: Jorg Jörgenson
AKA: 'Bass Line'
In real life, Jorg is a well-known teddy bear of a man. Just topping 6' 10'' tall (208cm), Jorg works in the real world as a bodybuilding instructor at the local YMCA. It's difficult to conceptualize just how vastly, hugely, enormously big Jorg is until you're staring him in the nipples and realizing that he could accidentally break you with a strong cuddle. If asked about his hobbies he'll grin and deflect, saying that he already went pro with his favorite hobby of 'Picking up heavy things and putting them down again', and so he mostly does trainspotting and model airplane building.

This, however, is a lie. Jorg is not a trainspotter. He does not build model airplanes.

The truth is that Jorg, like his mother and darling gram-gram before her, is a hacker. And a huge anime nerd. He's very proud of the former, and a little bit embarrassed when talking about the latter after an unfortunate speed dating incident where he had to call a paramedic for his date after she collapsed unconscious from laughter after the nearly seven-foot tall bodybuilder started tearing up and waxing poetical when describing a scene from a manga about a young-girl getting transformed into a spider and having to fight for her freedom through a labyrinth of monsters. Still, he's not ashamed, it's part of who he is, but he's always been keenly aware of the dissonance between what people expect him to be and what he wants to be. Particularly when his mother keeps bugging him to meet a nice girl.

In particular, Jorg is one of the oldest (both in terms of years served and physical age) Kuroku of Sonata, having been tapped by her after he discovered (and reposted) an archival clip of one of her prototype performances that he managed to unearth and reconstruct from the archival sediment. In the stage crew, Jorg serves as a solid anchor. He's slow to action, but decisive and careful. While some of the younger ones call him slow, the reality is that he's a man used to balancing hundreds of pounds of weight, where an imbalance can rend apart from muscle, bone, and joint in the fallout of a single error. Known online as 'Bass Line', Jorg is famous for a close-combat approach when he commands viri, carefully avoiding combat through positioning and chip usage until his allies are in a position for a sudden and decisive use of close-range skirmishing. He's very much a father to his men, caring for their virtual injuries personally, and having been known to shed tears when even a mindless viri makes a particularly heroic last stand. While somewhat lacking at long ranged and artillery fighting, Bass Line is a fine all-rounder who prefers a defensive approach until he can strike hard and fast from close range to end the battle.
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Re: Side A - Great Flame War Arms Race
« Reply #26 on: January 21, 2021, 12:13:40 am »

Quote from: Design Time
Sonata's stage crew: (2) NG1999, Draignean
Hacker: Jorg Jörgenson: (1), Draignean
Defender.exe: (1), Draignean

Defender.Exe
The Defender.Exe is from the obdurate school, and is made with a single idea: If you look dangerous, the enemy will fuck with you. As such, the Defender is brightly colored in stripes of red-yellow-black, with a heavy shield that also has several pointless barrels hooked up to nothing that makes it look more like an offensive threat than it is. Several bright lights and sirens on the defender.exe also play constantly, alerting the enemy to its presence at all times and encouraging them to target it. As far as weapons, the Defender.exe is unchanged from the standard minion.exe, but in defense it also has multiple layers of intrusion countermeasures and a thick shield of active denial firewall lattice - the pair of which come together to create a unity that lacks in firepower but compensates in raw toughness and distraction.
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Re: Side A - Great Flame War Arms Race
« Reply #27 on: January 21, 2021, 12:45:47 am »

IT IS TIME.

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Sonata's stage crew: (3) NG1999, Draignean, Nemonole
Hacker: Jorg Jörgenson: (2), Draignean, Nemonole
Defender.exe: (2), Draignean, Nemonole
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Re: Side A - Great Flame War Arms Race
« Reply #28 on: January 21, 2021, 12:47:22 am »

Quote from: Design Time
Sonata's stage crew: (4) NG1999, Draignean, Nemonole, DGR
Hacker: Jorg Jörgenson: (3), Draignean, Nemonole, DGR
Defender.exe: (3), Draignean, Nemonole, DGR
Longshadow.exe: (1) NG1999
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Re: Side A - Great Flame War Arms Race
« Reply #29 on: January 21, 2021, 05:47:50 pm »


Quote from: Design Time
Sonata's stage crew: (4) NG1999, Draignean, Nemonole, DGR
Hacker: Jorg Jörgenson: (3), Draignean, Nemonole, DGR
Defender.exe: (4), Draignean, Nemonole, DGR, chaotick21
Longshadow.exe: (1) NG1999
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