A little too cliched for Eclipse Phase. That might as well be a sample adventure for you to run it's so standard.

>>5648250
It is more or less what the idea was. A sample idea to introduce players to the world and what all they might face.

A person was forked without their knowledge. The culprits have programmed the fork to kill the original and take their place, and act as a spy/saboteur.

one of the character's muses/companions is actually a AGI, hiding out from persecution.

A transport full of uplifts have escaped from the jovian junta - but there's no way the habitat could possibly provide for them - people want them gone, and the uplifts will fight to stay.

A famous media star is not content with fame, bio-sculpted looks or tailored pheromones. She releases a memetic virus designed to induce slavish devotion. Naturally, things fo horribly wrong.

>>5648428
The uplift idea could be interesting depends on the uplifts and the habitat though. If it was all of one type or a mix.

the players must play bodyguard for a notorious pornstar. the threats against his life are faked and troubles staged. It's just a new spin on reality tv, and the players are the unwitting stars.

one of the 'lost' who suffered extreme emotional trauma when being sleeved into the futara morph. She is utterly convinced her memories are false and were forcibly implanted/modified. She now wanders, looking for evidence of her 'real life' which never existed.

as a plot hook, the girl attaches herself to a PC or someone/something/some political cause the adventure involves, believing it to be an element from her past.

eclipse phase sucks shit.

>>5648653
Why do say as such?

Shitty multiple roll resolution system sucks.

Sage for viral marketing.

The players must find a dignitary who will be attending the martian corn harvest festival (or one of his Morphs carrying a Fork).

They must forcibly hack his memory, and implant the following: His parents forcibly sodomized him, several times, with a corn cob Then, they must make sure he gets a backup (or merge, in the case of a fork) prior to giving his speech at the Festival of Corn.

>>5648653
>>5648748

Ok.

>>5648903
Very...Corny.

>>5648936
Thank you, Lt. Horatio.

I'm playing an uplifted octopus and I think anyone that doesn't is nuts.
Lol @ humans I have evolved over countless aeons to maneuver effortlessly in microgravity environments in three dimensions plz suck my hectocotylus (arm/dong) kthxbai.

>>5648748
I'm confused how it can be viral marketing when the first threads that were on /tg/ were HAY GUIZ THIS PDF IS AVAILABLE FOR THEFT HERE.
But whatever.

Looking at the pdf, I can't seem to find out how you're supposed to determine muse stats. The listing under gear only shows their INT

>>5648995

Because it'll get us to buy the delicious hardback book.

>>5649091
Brilliant! Give us the book...And then we shall go buy it! Devilish indeed.

The players are hired to go to a research station, where they've been working on the repopulation problem. Roughly a year ago they Forked the same baby, 100 times, and put the individual baby-Egos into altered gender-specific Cybo-Doll toys fixed with dilated-time sense, given skill programming, in the hope of maturing them into adults in a short time (approximately 5 years) and one day implanting the Egos into living bodies.

Of course, things have gone wrong. The station is currently overrun with hypersmart children. Somehow, they've managed to resleeve themselves into different bots around the station, such as the spider-type maintenence bots and the security reapers used by the staff when they go on-duty. They've begun taking over staff member morphs.

Nobody knows what they do with the staff Egos.

Can be as fun (sugar-rush tachikomas!) or as grimNdark (killer babydolls wearing human skins) as you need for your group..

The players are tasked to track down the producers of a blackmarket child sex X-cast, but when the players finally track the producers down, they claim it's all perfectly legal and that the actors are all adults in neotenic morphs. The players have to investigate and decide whether to believe the X-casters or not.

>>5649108

Well, having a physical copy is pretty convenient if you're planning on running a game IRL as opposed to on IRC.

I might as well ask it here.

What the hell does it mean one can swap bodies at will here? How do you upload your mind in a (biological) brain?

Recently a series of X-casts have been transmitted from a Brinker hab out in the Oort Cloud. The X-casts depicts the brutal of the hab's population by freakish looking aliens. While some places on the mesh are calling it an elaborate hoax / work of digital art, the higher-ups have decided to send you guys anyway. And they're seemingly scared shitless by the X-casts as they've provided top-of-the-line hardware and morphs for your use during the mission.

>>5649232

>>5649268

So a wizard did/does it? Ok, not my piece of sci-fi, I'll stick to Transhuman Space.

>>5649232
>>5649284

Not exactly wizard did it. Your mind has been digitized. Meaning there is a hard copy of it. You can make a copy of it at nearly any time. So if your body dies that backup is downloaded into a new body. Being put into a new body takes about a day or more to get used to the new body. More or less.

You all decided it'd be a good idea to go gatecrashing. You were wrong.

Due to a gate malfunction, you've wound up on the wrong planet. The planet is inhabited by intelligent life, and the natives appear to be engaged in a massive world war. Oh, the the gate's busted.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to survive... and possibly subjugate the natives.

>>5649025
Unless otherwise noted, these AIs have aptitudes of 10.

>>5649284
>>5649284

No,SCIENCE! did it.

>>5649317

Is it kinda like when you're recovering from paralysis so they stick you in this Porcupine-A-Tor or someat which sticks needles in your flesh in order to stimulate the nerves again?

>>5649317

Why should humans do it en masse?

>>5649412
I think it depend on how used the morph was. Most often the morphs will be used depending on your wealth. And you will not always been in the same body. I think that is the most of it. The fact you are adapting to a completely different body.

>>5649357
That sounds awesome.

Players must infiltrate an Unreal Tournament-style illegal fight ring to get close to it's leader Jack and his fork, Tyler.

rolled 48 = 48

>>5649025

It says at the beginning of the section that muses have 10 in all aptitudes unless otherwise noted.

Your team egocasts onto Mars to check out rumors of an alleged exsurgent infection that's been popping up in the solar system, but when you come to after resleeving, you notice something wrong.

The walls, the floor, the furniture, everything looks like it was painted with the inside of an octomorph. What's stranger, and perhaps more unsettling, is that the mesh is dead. Your muses run search after search, but they can't find any activity on the mesh since you left the last hab. All the equipment is still online and active, but you're the only ones on the network. No people, no uplifts, no synths, not even a god damned infomorph.

After a while, something enters the room all of you are located in. It can really only be described by one word: hideous. Everything about it offends your senses, as though it were designed to be a cruel mockery of everything transhuman. Suddenly it starts howling at the top of its lungs as it shuffles towards you while gnashing its teeth menacingly.

A new pod morph has been created - one designed as an interplanetary transport. It's a huge step forwards technologically speaking, and everyone wants a piece.

Someone tries to steal it. Others step up to protect the designs who have uploaded themselves into the ship-pod. soon enough, everyone with the means to reach and fight over it are making a grab at it before it retreats back to the relative safety of the outer system.

>>5649473
The backstory has Earth getting fucked over by Singularity-borne warmechs, nanoplagues and assorted horrors. The people living in space (most of whom were tech-progressives who were all for uploading anyway, except for the Jovian Republic) tried to evacuating people the old-fashioned way for a while, but that was too slow so eventually they had to just transmit everybody's uploads. So the vast majority of the population (~80%) have already been uploaded once, and most of the rest are used to living in horribly dangerous circumstances where people who have trouble with uploading tend to die.

>>5649769
Don't forget that the horrors are still running around down on Earth and that it is totally inhospitable to life right now.

>>5649793

not totally. I believe the book mentions small groups of survivors.

Hook - a tight-beam distress signal is recieved by lunar listening stations. It originates on earth. you'd need some important reason to go on such a dangerous trip, and you have no idea what would really be waiting for you.

>>5649886

It mentions the possibility of survivors. Whether or not anyone is actually down there is left to the GM.

>>5649886
You would need a damn good reason or be damn well funded. Maybe a hypercorp sent you on the mission? Maybe Firewall?

>>5649284
>>5649412

UPLOADING-RESLEEVING CONTINUITY
In ideal circumstances, a person who is intentionally
resleeving (p. 271) can arrange for the uploading and
resleeving process to occur with any noticeable loss of
continuity. Though the experience of switching from
one morph to another is still a bit jarring, the transi-
tion itself can be made into a seamless process, with
no gaps in awareness or memory, which helps reduce
associated mental stress.
In this case, during the process of uploading, the
ego bridge is also connected to another ego bridge
and the new sleeve. This connection can even be made
wirelessly or by farcaster link (with a maximum dis-
tance of 10,000 kilometers).
As the mind is uploaded, the ego bridge builds a
virtual brain by copying the morph’s brain bit by bit,
using the data gained from the brain scan. At the same
time, this data is slowly copied to the new sleeve as
nanobots rewire the sleeve’s brain structure (a much
slower process). As the transfer occurs, the nanobots
in the brain sever individual neural connections and
re-route them to their duplicates in the virtual brain,
and then eventually to the new brain. Effectively, the
character’s ego is running partially on the meat brain
and partially on the virtual copy. By the time the nano-
bots sever the last of the neural connections in the
old brain, the ego is running completely on the virtual
brain and the new sleeve’s brain. Once the resleeving
is completed, the virtual brain is shut down.
In terms of perceptions, the character, who is awake
during this process, experiences a very gradual shift
from one morph to the other. As the process takes
hours, however (or even longer if done via farcaster),
the subject usually entertains themselves with some
AR media, VR, or even XP to pass the time.

This will also apply to uploading - but not cortical stack transfer.

Do you want eldritch horror? FUCK YEAH WE GOT ELDRITCH HORROR.
Do you want seedy underworld cyberpunk? FUCK YEAH WE GOT SEEDY UNDERWORLD CYBERPUNK.
Do you want space exploration and aliens? FUCK YEAH WE GOT SPACE EXPLORATION AND ALIENS.
Do you wish to be the little girl? FUCK YEAH WE GOT THE LITTLE GIRL.

>>5650025
Getting to Earth's tricky - all the kill-sats, don't'cha know - but not impossible. At the very least you could hack the killsats, or schedule your drop (and return) when they aren't overhead - and if you're just picking up survivors all you need to get them out is an Ego Bridge - you can get yourself out even simpler with a farcaster hooked up to your cortical stack.

Would somebody mind reposting the orbital habitat that's made almost entirely out of meat?

The idea i think im gonna push on my players is this, the pcs are all mostly normal people, work normal and boring jobs, but every week or so they have earned the right to participate in some of the best and most realistic AR games around, The Fall of Rome, First contact with an alien specie, etc. "Death" would be them failing in a game badly enough where they arnet invited back to the next one.

>>5650112

It'd be easier to sneak onto the Kilimanjaro space elevator.

>>5649762

That reminds me of the Edenist "telepathic" bioships.

Goddamn, was Latan ever the baddest of asses.

Bioships reminds me of Tyranids...

Well, that's Eclipse Phase over - the Exsurgent-infected Bioship-morph wins.

>>5650113

MEATHAB
The full name of this unique habitat is Turn Yourself
Into a Giant Mass of Space Meat for Art!, and as the
name implies, 90% of the habitat’s structure consists
of fast-cultured vat bacon, battened on the abun-
dant resources of the ring system. MeatHab started
out as someone’s art morph, but then, against all
expectations, squatters moved in. MeatHab now has
a population of 500. Similar to a Hamilton cylinder,
the kilometer-long habitat harvests and processes ring
material to grow itself. The outer surface is frozen
 esh ten meters thick whose surface resembles a cross
between a tree trunk and  ank steak. Past the axial
space dock is a warren of veinous, skin-covered cor-
ridors lit by bioluminescent panels and maintained by
small, reptilian symbiotes that eat away dead skin and
may have other immune functions as well. Gravity
inside is 0.5 g.
The nameless biodesigner who created the
place—and who may or may not still inhabit the
gigantic morph—was a genius. Although the habitat
is not by any stretch of the imagination a pleas-
ant locale, it appears healthy. Its full workings are
not understood, and the inhabitants range from
extreme  esh freaks who are fans of the artist to se-
rious biodesigners studying the place to learn more
about its construction.

>>5650135

There's even a handy walkthrough at the front of the book.

>>5650246

Yeah, it really gives a nice feel for things.

>>5650274
>>5650246
I quite enjoyed the intro story. Showed the setting fairly well.

>>5650135
>>5650246
Yes, but that only goes to the one place. Earth is kind of /big/, especially when you're trying to dodge psychotic nanoswarms and allah-knows-what.

>>5650311

Yeah, but space ships are in hard supply, and having hypercorps breathing down your neck when you're trying to decend isn't gonna help things.

>>5650183

that's...umm...I lol'ed, but...moving on.

Two AIs apparently break down. When the system is examined, the truth is seen that the AIs merged before fragmenting into smaller, less intellegent fragments that are slowly growing in complexity.

The AI had babies.

this makes alot of people very nervous. the technoconservatives throw a fit, AGIs appear and demand the 'babies' be turned over to them, hypercorps want to catch them and take them apart.

The small army of baby-brained AIs are currently wandering through the mesh, causing (mostly) harmless troubles.

>>5650153
Oh man quoted for truth.

Remember that scene when the Eden conciousness told the agents on Lalonde to trust Laton when he warned them about the xenoc energy virus? So fucking bad-ass.

an experiment in morph development goes awry, releasing the end result upon a unsuspecting habitat. (see pic)

It's big, it's bad, and has implants and upgrades out the wazoo. Fabricate a few pith helmets and get out there.

Sage for shitstem that players will die from being bored if they ever get shot at.

>>5650411
Here is the question...Who is in it? Or is it an uplift or just crazy monster?

>>5650038

10,000 km is'nt very far, solar system-wise. How do they cast from one planet to another planet?

>>5650183

CLETUS STOP EATING THAT, IT'S A RETAINING WALL

>>5650473

They use fancy quantum entangled neutrino whatsits.

>>5650523

Make sure to reverse the polarity on the flux capacitor.

>>5650495

I laughed way too hard at that.

>>5650546

And don't cross the beams.

>>5650473
Station wagon full of data tapes.

>>5650565
I am going to refer to all spaceships as staionwagons now.

>>5650311

Well, in my estimation one place is better than many - at the same time and in small pieces.

The elevator should be able to transport everything needed to make a fast, light aircraft.

Though I think the optimum tactic (or at least one worth trying) would be to ship a stealth jet with an unlimited nanofactory - have it break away from the cable before landfall, but below the interdiction height. Then it zips away to a previously examined clearzone and constructs a farcaster, gear and morphs for the team to pilot. It's important that it have a sizeable antimatter storage capacity and a healthy sense of paranoia.
It would be a good idea to divert an orbital bombardment to the target site before the operation as well. That's the only tricky part.

It might be possible to drop the nanofactory along with and disguised by the bombardment - that would be the most secure infiltration I can think of.

Success depends entirely upon how the GM is playing things though - if the dangers are along the lines of semi-autonomous thinktanks, fighting an eternal war Planetarian style then you're good. If they choose to play up the malevolent intelligence of the Exsurgents - then any Earth operations are going to be nasty brutish and short no matter the precautions.
The only way to hold any ground or just survive for a decent time is to find the Pandora Gate on earth and dial out to get heavy reinforcements (the Gates can't be destroyed, so if there is one on earth it needs to be found, before it's used by the remnants)

That might be a pretty cool reclamation campaign.

Hey, guys. I was in the original thread and I'm really surprised at how well it's taken off, but now I feel like some other people want to play more than me. How many people are going to be playing exactly?

>>5650748
You know I am not sure...I was also int he original thread. I think some where of five at the least...maybe 10-13 at the upper limit.

>>5650748

Ive been lurking these threads from the beginning too.

>>5650523

It's actually far easier than they make out - nanotechnology+fusion/antimatter/solar power means that you can just build and ship a continuous stream of Qcasters all over the system.

It doesn't even use all that much resources - because you build them out of the empties - though resources are practically unlimited in EP.

The economies in EP are basically make-believe.

>>5650794
If it gets that heavy, then I'll back down for a more serious player. I was looking forward to it, but I have other campaigns to go to if things don't work out.

>>5650814
>>5650833
The obvious answer is we need another GM....Not it.

>>5650815
>though resources are practically unlimited in EP.

Ehh... yes and no.

The nanofabs allow for damn near anyone to construct damn near anything, but you still need the proper raw materials (Carbon, Iron, Hydrogen, et cetera). There's still the issue of construction and installation time.

If everyone in transhumanity got their shit together and decided to do things right, then, yeah, they'd make the last step into post-scarcity, but the fractured nature of transhumanity is currently holding them back.

>>5650847
Not it. I'm already working on two different campaigns. Besides, I don't think /tg/ would like my method of GMing.

>>5650847
>>5650886

And thus begins the search for a GM.

>>5650886
What method would that be?

>>5650926
>>5650886

My guess is lots of sex and little girls.

So does this allow for multiple campaign types without being the cluster-fuck that is Cthulhutech?

>>5650919
Damn...

>>5650938
Sounds right up /tg/'s alley.

>>5650948

Well, if >>5650044 is to be believed, it does.

That said,I don't think anyone has actually gotten the chance to play it yet.

>>5650926
My notes and events are all guidelines. At least 3/4ths of my story and events come from player's actions and me pulling things out of my ass. I make up whatever would be appropriate to the setting/circumstance or on occasion whatever finds my fancy. I haven't had any complaints, but that doesn't mean people aren't.

>>5650976

I thought that was supposed to be the DMing style /tg/ liked

>>5650986
Really? I was under the impression that /tg/ likes a story that they can come back to after they're done fucking around. Not in my campaigns. Your fucking around IS the story.

>>5651019

/tg/ just kinda likes fucking.

>>5650976
I think >>5650986 has the gist of it. Or atleast I agree with them. Those can be the most fun styles of games to play in.

>>5651034
>>5651031
I am a crappy GM. Let's get that straight. But if there's not enough room for others in this one, I can GM for another. Though, it would take me some time to set it up.

Well, I'm not sure how wise it is to start saying who is gonna do what since I doubt all the interested parties are in this thread right now.

>>5651078
Hell that works. Even if you just glanced at the starter adventure and threw a few hooks out I am sure people would be more than willing to play.

>>5650867

Yeah - you're absolutely right there, I should have clarified that to mean Planetary Consortium, and largescale multi-Hypercorp initiatives. While any individual could potentially do the same - it'd take much more time to set up.

I think a stable Q-caster network counts as one of those few things every faction can agree to.

>>5651123

I dunno, the Jovians might not, and there's the possibility that the Morningstar and Lunar blocs might refuse out of a desire to gain concessions from the Planetary Consortium.

The @-team would be all over that shit, though.

>>5650976

That sounds right for a EP campaign, generally I think sci-fi needs a looser approach than fantasy.

>>5651099
You're right, we're just discussing.

>>5651117
Alright, but let's hope that the original GM has enough room, eh?

I think the best sample adventure for Eclipse Phase would be a copy of the story that takes place in the beginning of the book, with a twist.

So the characters have to break into the station on a beanstalk, get past the drones guarding the elevator, get down to the surface, then retrieve the data the courier had without being killed by TITAN nanoswarms or head-choppy-thingies.

The twist is that it's a VR program, so if someone dies they don't actually lose their character.

>>5651214
Thats an interesting idea. Kinda like a test mission of sorts?

>>5651243
>>5651214
It'd be great for getting used to the system.

>>5651178
Lets hope indeed.

>>5651152

Well, they'd be the ones to suffer from it - everyone stands to gain fro-

Okay okay, yeah - I'm assuming that they will act rationally in the knowledge that cooperative efforts where everyone profits are an excellent way to achieve much greater things.

But there is a history of cooperation where the Pandora Gates are concerned - even establishing independent Hypercorps to control them.

Sigh, I blame the Jovians (for everything) - creepy flatmeats.

>>5650886
>>5650833
What kind of characters are you guys going to run? Mostly out of curiosity. And to see what the whole party balance would be like.

>>5651302

The Pandora Gates are something of an extenuating circumstance given their TITAN background.

>>5651320

The character I've been toying with is a social/criminal hacker type.

Wait, this is licensed under CC and is free to distribute and modify?

Well at least my players won't have an excuse for not knowing and/or having the rules.

>>5651336
Right on. I have been toying around with a stealth centered 'man of many faces' type character.

>>5651320
Status man with an ability to take hits like a mother fucker. He will look and talk just like Guilbert Gottfried.

>>5651378

They'll think of something.

>>5651378
My players are rule lawyers, but without the "NUH UH" part.

>>5651214

Then at the end of it, after the TPK or narrow escape.

"Well, congratulations ladies - you've... completed the mission. What we didn't tell you before was that this simulation was constructed from the fragmented memories of the last sorry lot we activated - still wanna go down the beanstalk?"

If they say yes - then you could timeskip them forward to after they land. Then after they TPK, it turns out to be part of the simulation - cue recursive "Simulation of the group that last used this simulation of the last group..."

Or not.

>>5651403
While humorous, it might make some people rage.

>>5651403
>>5651428

Depends. If it stops and the party switches to something else after it's shown that the beanstalk thing is recursive, then it wouldn't be that bad.

Then again, depending on how many of the fa/tg/uys are also wee/a/boos, there mere hinting of recursion might trigger rage.

>>5651452
>then again, depending on how many of the fa/tg/uys are also wee/a/boos, there mere hinting of recursion might trigger rage.

Why is that? Do weeaboos not like it? I'm kind of lost on your reference.

Background: Infolife
Faction: Mercurial
Morph: Modified Slitheroid
Gender Identity: None
Actual Age: 7
Current Moxie: 3
Motivations: +AGI Rights, +Research (Security Systems), -Censorship

Aptitudes:
TOTAL: COG 25 / COO 25 / INT 15 / REF 15 / SAV 10 / SOM 25 / WIL 15

Stats:
Moxie: 3 / Trauma Threshold: 6 / Lucidity: 30 / Insanity Rating: 60 / Wound Threshold: 13 / Durability: 65 / Death Rating: 120 / Initiative: 90 / Speed: 1 / Damage Bonus: 2

Armor: 34/29

Melee Weapon: Cyberclaws / Skill: 55 / AP: -2 / DV: 2d10+10 / Notes: Pneumatic Limbs add +1d10, Damage Bonus +2, Synth +2
Ranged Weapon: Automatic Rifle / Skill: 75 / AP: -4 / DV: 3d10+6 / Modes: SA, BF, FA / Ammo: 500 Hollow Point, 30 Mag / Range: 150\250\500\900 / Notes: Mounted Right Arm, Smartlinked
Ranged Weapon: Seeker Rifle / Skill: 80 (90 Homing) / AP: -8 / DV: 3d10+12 / Modes: SA / Ammo: 50 HEAP\10Smoke, 6 Mag / Range: 5-150\300\1000\3000 / Notes: Mounted Left Arm, Smartlinked, HEAP [Homing Ammo]

@-REP: 50
Credits: 1,100cr

Traits: Real World Naiveté, Social Stigma (AGI), Edited Memories, On The Run (Exotech), Black Mark 1 (Exotech), Expert (InfoSec), Tough (Morph) 2, Situational Awareness, Right At Home (Synth)

An AGI hacker on the run from the Exotech corporation [pg. 71]. Its memories have been edited, so it doesn't know WHY it's staying away from Exotech, beyond the fact that they've been sending bounty hunters after it. The AGI has elicited some help from Autonomist friends to get a combat Synth.

I'm still trying to come up with a name/work the backstory to be more interesting and fitting.

>>5651484
You can play as AGI's? Do want.

>>5651484
I'm just going to call you Sliths McGee until you get a name for that thing.

>>5651483

One of the anime airing this summer is the second season of Harhuhi. One of the things they did was Endless Eight, which involved making multiple episodes of the exact same expisode (the story and everything was kept the same, but it was animated differently so the characters wore different clothing and crap).

/a/ was not amused.

>>5651483
It's this thing from the new season of haruhi, apparently, where they entered a time loop and the studio basically ended up airing the same episode with a few minor changes 8 times over.

When it finally ended, the reaction was so huge that the resulting storm of threads covered literally the whole front page of /a/ and quite a bit of /v/.

>>5651514
I am very much so.

>>5651484
>publisher Gamecock

>>5651492
Great thing about AGI's: You spend half the skill points on InfoSec, Interfacing, Programming, and Research. Which are all Cognitive skills. Which means you've got a lot more skillpoints available to put into other things.

On the downside: AGI really really suck at socializing and interacting with people. You've got to spend double skillpoints on social skills like Kinesics, which basically means it's easy to lie and manipulate you.

>>5651521

I found it kinda amusing too, but Harhuhi isn't on my watching list.

I still have a some left over CP to assign as well as equipment, but here's what I have so far.

Basically an arrogant smooth talking hacker. Originally from a small scum barge, she wound up signing on with the Nine Lives. In addition to being involved in the soul trade via Nine Lives, she's also engaged in drug trafficking and the underground X-casting scene. Extremely narcissistic, she utilizes a fork of herself as her muse, uses forks of herself for sexual pleasure, and ultimately aspires to create multiple alpha forks of herself to create an organization similar to Pax Familiae. Additionally, she's abnormally protective of her forks, as she views them as the only people equal to herself. Her love for her forks earned her the ire of the Jovians after she rescued a fork of herself that was undergoing aggressive interrogation (said fork is the one that would become her muse).

Background: Scumborn
Faction: Criminal
Motivations: +Forking, +Personal Development, +Hedonism
Morph: Neotenic
Base stats: COG 30 / COO 15 (20 with morph) / INT 15 (20 with morph) / REF 15 (20 with morph) / SAV 20 (25 with morph) / SOM 10 / WIL 20
Moxie 1 / TT 8 / LUC 40 / IR 80 / WT 6 / DUR 30 / DR 45 / INIT 80 / SPD 1 / DB 3

>>5651550

Active Skills: Fray (30), Hardware: Electronics (50), Infiltration (35), Infosec (60), Interfacing (60), Investigation (35), Kinesics (50), Networking: Criminal (60), Networking: Media (30), Networking: Autonomists (30), Perception (30), Persuasion (60), Programming (60), Protocol (40), Research (60), Scrounging (35), Spray Weapons (35)
Passive Skills: Academics: Computer Science (60), Academics: Cryptography (60), Art: Electronic Music (55), Art: Petal crafting (60), Interest: Black Market (60), Interest: X-casting (60), Interest: Hacker Mesh Forums (60), Language: Native English (85), Language: Russian (50), Profession: Smuggling (60)

Positive Traits: Right at Home (Neotenic biomorphs), Allies (Nine Lives), Fast Learner
Negative Traits: Addiction (Petals), Mental Disorder (Megalomania), On the Run (Jovians), Identity Crisis

>>5651452

Yeah, Groundhog Day was a great movie, but Phil *did* commit suicide many many times.

I think it could work - there need to be consequences to each TPK (a captive dies - etc), each time they die you skip the part where they repeat themselves, slap them with some stress damage and have them start from after the combat they lost before. But I'm not sure what the motivation is...

Maybe - they are all part of a massive hack against an Exsurgent Intelligence believed to know the location of the MacGuffin (Pandora Gate), fighting through it's overwhelmingly potent defenses via it's internal representation of the landscape, with allied hackers taking/buffering/negating the deaths for the PCs.

Even if they pull out (if they can) a rough location is very valuable - if they succeed they become legends.

>>5651514

Hah - it's funny, because I just watched that in one go last week. I kept wondering if I should feel sorry for the artists - whether it was easy or really tedious. It's still a little sigh worthy but you gotta give them credit for the sheer balls that must have taken.

>>5651564
>Active Skills: Fray (30)

Bro, you definitely want to bump that up. Fray helps determine whether or not you get shot. Which is important, especially for a Neotenic.

Because even if the attacker technically hits you, by rolling higher than him [but under your fray skill divided by 2] then he misses. If you roll a critical success [basically like snake eyes - 88, 11, 22, etc.] then the attacker's weapon jams, or breaks or malfunctions or he drops it, etc.]

>>5651613
>Hah - it's funny, because I just watched that in one go last week. I kept wondering if I should feel sorry for the artists - whether it was easy or really tedious. It's still a little sigh worthy but you gotta give them credit for the sheer balls that must have taken.

IIRC the original plan behind it was as a cost cutting device. They'd reair the same episode to save on money, but head animator guy decided to go ahead and animate all the episodes anyway out of spite or something.

>>5651635

Ahhh, that makes sense - kudos to the animator then, I can only imagine the rage if they'd done a cheapass job of a cheapass trick.

>>5651635
Didn't the voice actors re-record all their lines each time too?

>>5651666

If they did, did they do it all in one go or did they come back for each individual episode?

>>5651592
>one day son this will all be yours.

>>5651666

Well, watching it all in one go, I paid attention to it and I'm pretty sure it was recorded anew each time, (there were some different lines/circumstances as well) it may have been me - but I sensed a creeping fatigue in the voices.

>>5651627
I agree with this poster. As a tiny childlike morph not getting shot to hell is your bestfriend.

>>5651706
>watching it all in one go,
Why would you do that

>>5651627

Good point. Revised skill list:

Active Skills: Deception (35), Fray (60), Hardware: Electronics (50), Infiltration (35), Infosec (60), Interfacing (60), Investigation (35), Intimidation (25), Kinesics (50), Networking: Criminal (55), Networking: Media (30), Networking: Autonomists (30), Perception (30), Persuasion (60), Programming (60), Protocol (40), Research (60), Scrounging (35), Spray Weapons (35)

This also conveniently solves the extra CP problem.

>>5651484
Why not go through wikipedia and look for names of people who were historically on the run from teams of bounty hunters, and then steal their name for your AI?

>>5651773
>people who were historically on the run from teams of bounty hunters
>historically

wat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounty_hunter
>Bounty Hunting, and Bounty Hunters, are legal in only two nations, the United States and the Republic of the Philippines.

I never knew this.

>>5651789
Savages.

>>5651699

Explain.

>>5651742

I enjoy testing my patience?

I didn't know about it before hand and by the time I realized that they might actually do the whole thing it was like a game of chicken.

It was still better than Transformers 2.

>>5651816

She was a naughty girl who needs to be punished.

Her punishment is to be lit on fire while skydiving.

>>5651846

That is insufficient information.

>>5651856

That's all the information I have.

The rest is classified.

>>5651856
Battle angel Alita.

Alita used to be a Martian war criminal who killed 450,000 people by hijacking a bunch of antimatter powered colony ships.
She was caught and droped onto earth but she survived with amnesia and started a new life as a bounty hunter.

>>5651893
How in the hell does someone survive traveling through a vacuum and near vacuum for several minutes, being burnt to a crisp via friction with the atmosphere for several more minutes, and then finally crashing into the earth at several miles per second?

Goddamnit Japan.

>>5651903
Apparently being a cyborg helps.

>>5651903

You mean goddamnit Russia.

At least she was a cybernetic war machine. Jack was just a fucking hardcase.

Your group dicks with a derelict habitat. Inside, it's empty, no people, no items or objects, just empty rooms. As the party explores deeper and deeper into the habitat things start to get weird.

Paths shift and change, where there was a door ten minutes ago, is now a wall.

The party is trapped in a maze, and somewhere inside is a minotaur, who is hunting them.

>>5651956
>trapped in a maze, doors turning into walls

Solution: Make your own doors.

Someone should put together a demolitions character of some kind. High explosives are always fun.

>>5651903
Full Cyborg. Only a bit of the brain is organic.

The ship from Blindsight would make a great setting. It's a huge alien vessel with a violent magnetic field that fries machines and gives you pretty much every cognitive disorder at once.

It's (free) on the net at http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

>>5652021
Finally a proper use for the cthulhu type of "roll for entertaining mental disorders" table.

>>5651893

I know he asked for it - but I think that deserved a spoiler warning.

>>5651903

My pet theory is that, as Yoko is housed in a Berserker body (the one she gets as Alita belongs to a wounded fellow soldier she killed as a liability - IIRC) which is capable of generating and manipulating plasma - she controlled the plasma generated by atmospheric reentry, protecting her from most of the heat and friction and rode it down to earth using whatever was left of her batteries to decelerate, where either she or debris from her sabotage impacted the base of the Orbital Cable Dock, severing Tiphares from the Scrapyard and setting the scene for when she awoke 200 years later.

When Ido finds her, she's pretty much just a braincase and face. Later it's explained that her brain is rather heavily augmented with a heat and shock absorbing resin replacing her cranial fluid - which even Dr Nova finds impressive.

Her survival isn't a terribly huge stretch - the feats of plasma manipulation shown throughout the series replicate each stage needed. Her Imaginos body might even be able to survive unaided.

They only cut off her arms and legs after all.

>>5652021
Wonder what that magnetic field'll do to someone's cortical stack.

>>5651903
Asides from the full cyborgization, there wasn't much that was recovered of her afterwards.

>>5652112
Nothing. Magnetic fields have no effect on solid state, non-magnetic hardware.

>>5651484
>An AGI hacker on the run from the Exotech corporation [pg. 71]. Its memories have been edited, so it doesn't know WHY it's staying away from Exotech, beyond the fact that they've been sending bounty hunters after it. The AGI has elicited some help from Autonomist friends to get a combat Synth.

It's okay, but the character needs more defining traits/quirks.

>>5652166

Except indirectly - such as via the medium of a hypersonic rail slug.

>>5651968
Not anymore it ain't.

Someone gave me this idea.

I want to stat up Averna. The basic idea that I have got for her is a Lost Socialite or perhaps a Lost Criminal. A socio-psi-user, basically.

The problem is, I don't know what to choose. Part of me says that she should be a sylph but also, the futuras works as well. I guess when it comes down to it, the Futuras is more cost efficient. Primary motivations would probably be immortality and hedonism. Tentacles represented by multiple prehensile tails.

So, don't know if anyone's noticed or not, but railgun sniper rifles [and even normal sniper rifles] are "lol i win" overpowered.

I think someone made a bit of a mistake when they were filling out the weapon values. I mean... a sniper rifle, that can fire in full auto, and almost has more ammo than the settings' squad automatic weapon?

>>5652411
Where is she from?

>>5652443
srsly? That may need a housefix.

>>5652407

Shush you.

>>5652443

Well, weaponry really should be much more effective than armor - it's always easier to introduce a massive spike of energy into a system than to disperse it. But defense includes and requires information warfare - if you don't get hit, who cares that you have 35/35 armor on?

But I agree about the Sniper Cannon - while the Full Auto is explained by all guns being recoilless (which has awesome potential) it has way too much ammo.

I'm still going to make a character with high tech skills so I can build a recoilless gatling sniper cannon - who wouldn't?

>>5652569
>all guns being recoilless

Guns don't, and can't, work that way.

>>5652648
Plasma, dood.

>>5652721
Plasma doesn't work that way either.

Also, plasma weapons don't actually work unless you can bottle the plasma in a magnetic field, and then move that magnetic 'bottle' at a distance from what's making the magnetic field. Unfortunately, magnetic fields don't work that way.

>>5652648
We are talking about a setting set in space, with a colony on the sun and people with digital brains.

AND YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE RECOILLESS GUNS?

>>5652773
Yes, because every other part of the setting obeys the laws of physics, ignoring the stuff related to the exsurgent virus/singularity.

I saw a fix for the sniper somewhere... they said, remove full auto, 15 rounds in the magazine, and I think lowering the damage but increasing the AP a bit.

It's possible to make recoilless guns, there is still recoil, but it doesn't go into the gun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoilless_rifle

/k/ can probably tell you more.

>>5652761
The plasma is held inside a chamber of the gun, while the magnetic field is holding the plasma in place. Once you decide to fire, it will release a charge rapidly shifting the electric currents generating the field. Propelling the plasma forward just as a railgun would with a magnetic projectile.

>>5652847
Recoilless rifles can't be used for infantry small arms because the design simply does not work that way.

Recoilless rifles are basically just one shot anti-tank guns, and they DO still have recoil in the "I feel it pushing back into me" sense. The recoillless design just lessens it.

>>5652883
No. Plasma doesn't work that way. The second you 'release' it, is the same second it rapidly expands into the surrounding environment. At best you get a very short range flamethrower.

>>5652909
So anti armour flamethrower?

Cooooooooooooooooooooooool

>>5652411
>>5652499

Hugs!

>>5652919
Sure... until you realize you've got 5 million degrees of a hot expanding gas less than a meter in front of you.

Also, the armor penetration properties... dubious.

>>5652499
Someone's art project for his finals. It impressed a lot of people and well, the art's quality.

>>5652965

I don't get the appeal of playing Averna, I really don't..

>>5652985

>>5652997

The story is she's a demon who wants to kill/absorb the older of two sisters in order to gain her ability to see the future.

But there's this dude with a demonkilling sword who shows up to protect them.

>>5653027

Only he gets wounded in battle.

>>5653032

So the younger sister steps up to the plate.

>>5653019
Putting that into EP terms, a psychopathic Lost who is obsessed with "stealing knowledge" from her victims, perhaps certain knowledge from particular victims. In all honesty, it could turn out fun. Besides, Lost and mind-hacking doesn't appear to be popular so far.

>>5653044

Honestly my favourite concept so far (and admittedly I haven't read all or even most of the fluff yet) is a straight up Flat who uses gadgets and gizmos to make up for his lack of personal enhancement. I don't know how viable it is, but it just seems like a cool counter to the super-slick hackers and AIs everyone is playing..

The Lost are really cool though.

>>5652985
Mmm... aggravated demon lesbian tentacle soul/mind rape.

ETI comes. Everybody is raped.

>>5653089
There's something wrong with that, though.

If you've got the money to buy a bunch of efficient gadgets and gizmos, you've got all the credit in the world to purchase a highly-rated combat morph.

>>5653144
But of course that character might be one of those... fuck, what do you call em... they're people who're afraid of sleeving. He could even be one of the lucky few who left earth in their original morph.

Play as a natural born flat
advicecthulhu.jpg
See how long you last

>>5653197
Jovian - one of Saturn's hillbillies. That's the only excuse you really have to play a character like that.

>>5653293
Jovian = Jupiter.

>>5653293
>>5653327
Venus - venusian, or venereal?

The Titanian Commonwealth should be using this image as their flag.

Bonus is that it's a real photo.

>>5653336
Venereal Dreadnought?

>>5653144
what if he doesn't wanna 'surrender' his mind to a machine? what if he has a mental issue with being 'copied' ?!? Purist? Idiot? there are several reasons... even if none of them make sense....

>>5653378

And Nurgle smiled.

>>5652648
Not truly recoilless, but a very light projectile at very high speeds can deliver an enormous amount of energy to the target, while keeping the impulse delivered to the user (aka recoil) down to negligible.

>>5650044
Does this game really have all of this?

>>5653459
Yes, friend. It really does. Hence the hype.

>>5650867
The real currency is time, time to organize, time to gather the resources time to build the tech
considering its also time you could be spending in a virtual paradise you see where the problem lay
>>5649260
either your contractor is conservative or you're dealing with something far more serious like genuine child abuse XP which I get the feeling is one of the few things even jaded transhumanity balks at, the twist is that their using immature AGI or forks of consenting adults, it ought to broaden the players horizons if they can bust them for copyright infringement but not abuse

>>5653452
Recoil is the exact same force in both directions. How that force is spread out is the only difference.

When someone fires an M4, the same energy that went into the 5.56mm bullet also went into that shooters' shoulder. It doesn't matter if you move a small object at high speed or a big object at low speed.

>>5653482
Well, it sounds awesome so far.
Someone want to tell me a little bit else about the game?

>>5653547
Download it: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?kmiy2todznv

Read the story in the first few pages. That should give you a fairly good idea of what the setting is like.

>>5653547
This is why all the previous threads have contained a basic summary in the first three posts. If you've read the thread (which I will assume based on the post you cited) then I don't know what else you're wondering. Care to ask something a little specific?

>>5653556
Goddamn that was some delicious fluff. Nice and lengthy too, as far as RPG corebook fluff stories go.

>>5653561
I hadn't read the previous threads and was actually just looking for a summary.
I am reading the corebook fluff now, though. Thanks for the link, >>5653556

>>5653547

It's generic transhuman hearbreaker. Nobody will know it ever existed next summer.

the seed AI seems to have guessed what the exsurgent virus was up to and helpfully decided to save mankind by chopping their heads off

>>5653715
You shold not be reading that, because that is supposed to be HUGE FUCKING SUPRISE for the players. Well, all the scenarios are kinda generic, but transhumanists are stupid anywway, so they'll never see it coming...

a love story:
so this morph asks you to find out whose responsible for the death of their lover only to find out they faked it in order to get away from the clingy fucker, thus the slighted lover proceeds to create a illegal fork of the other from an outdated backup of the time things were still shiny, the other is appealed orders the fork euthanize and the lover arrested, naturally the fork has a few things to say about this and all the talk show hosts are frothing at the mouth

>>5653750
wut
probably the few who consider it seriously have stated the theory at least, I mean theres bound to be those who worship the god AI anyway and why else would they need the cords?
What they do with said cords is another matter, I could see a couple of interpretations of the word "save" that are quite harrowing

>>5653805
>wut

Eclipse Phase is badly designed...

what this setting needs is a risk factor like a life insurance policy that covers you as long as you pay your premiums

>>5652411

Averna is neat, but what are you gonna do when the tentacle sleeve dies or you have to egocast to another hab?

Viral marketing, etc.

>>5654817

Cool story bro.

So is it viral marketting when people start up Geist threads? Ones on the next book WoTC is putting out for 4E? When someone posts a wargame that isn't warham?

Are people calling these threads viral marketing just trolls?

It's on creative commons release, you don't have to pay for it..

>>5655133
>Are people calling these threads viral marketing just trolls?

Do you really need to ask that?

So, with all the talk of getting a /tg/ game going, is it really gonna happen?

>>5655281
Shhh don't jinx it.

I've just about finished with my attempt at Futureman statting.

Aptitudes: 15 15 30 15 20 10 15
Adjusted : 15 20 30 25 25 20 15
Morph : Olympian (previously Sylph)

Speed is 3, others have no noticable changes.

Skills
Beam Weapons 35 (spec. Lasers)
Deception 30
Fray 50
Freerunning 50
Impersonation 45 (spec. Voice)
Networks(In order) 60, 10, 0, 40, 10, 30, 0
Perception 50
Persuasion 60
Pilot:Groundcraft 10
Protocol 60
Research 30
Umarmed Combat 40

Academics: Pre-Fall Earth Music 40 (spec. House)
Art: Dance 50 (spec. Break)
Art: Music 60 (spec. House)
Interest: Music & Musicians 35
Language: English 100(80 I guess?)

Reputation in order
20 0 0 20 0 10 0

Morph Edits : Enhanced Hearing, Neurachem 1, Reflex Booster

Gear:
Armor Clothing with Refractive and Lotus coatings, 450 credits
Dazzler, 250
Micrograv Shoes, 50
Custom Specs, 375(+50% cost for Extremely Rare)
Laser Pulser, 1000
Medichines, 250
Shock Gloves, 250
Holograph Projector 250

This leaves me with 40CP and 1825 credits.

>>5655330
I have no idea why I am so amused.

Would an AGI character be able to asume control of a ship by uploading itself into it?

>>5655636

Any character could, really.

>>5655496

I think he needs more Beam Weapons and Rep, but I don't know for sure. I also wanted to give him some sort of extensive musical XP collection, possibly some that were saved from Earth during the Fall.

>>5655676
That would make sense, The XP collection that is. But where else would he have rep?

>>5655839

Big on media rep.

>>5655845

I got stuck between having him as a media icon (the original Sylph-sleeved version) and as someone who is less well-known and does mostly live shows and stuff. (Autonomists rep, with some Media, HC, and possibly Criminal)

As for the XP collection, I think such a collection would either be trivial or outrageously expensive, depending on if it was physical in any way, and when it was taken off Earth.

>>5655886
I'd say a mix really. Have some of them be outrageously priced while others are barley worth anything. Show the varied styles of music or some such.

Why is Dodge called Fray now? And Freerunning as a spearate, major skill? In a world where I can be a building-sized purple mastodon with rockets for arms, jumping over fences is a big deal? Wut?

>>5656936

Freerunning does seem a little out of place, not so much because of the space mastodon thing as much as because you're probably gonna be spending a lot of time in a space station where running is limited.

>>5656936
because you aren't jumping out of a bullets way you're avoiding getting into the line of fire and because parkoure is awesome and sounds better than climb

I just noticed that booting someone out of their AR (the equivalent of rebooting your PC) is as difficult as cutting off the safeties in an orbital habitat and ejecting everyone into space. Um. No wonder 93% of the population is dead if script kiddies can do that.

Or I'm reading it all wrong.

>>5656952
dude where else would you freerun?
>>5657001
getting to the safeties first is the problem

>>5657001

IIRC stuff like hab life support is kept off the mesh.

Been thinking over the weapons, decided to make some changes for [I think] better balance.

5.7mm Caseless Pistol
AP: -4 / DV: 2d10 / SA,BF,FA / Ammo: 20 / Range: 0-20\40\60\150

10mm Caseless Pistol
AP: -2 / DV: 2d10+4 / SA / Ammo: 15 / Range: 0-20\40\60\150

5.7mm Caseless Submachine Gun
AP: -4 / DV: 2d10 / SA,BF,FA / Ammo: 120 / Range: 0-30\80\125\230

8 Gauge Caseless Automatic Shotgun [Slugs Only]
AP: -2 / DV: 2d10+12 / SA,BF / Ammo: 12 / Range: 0-20\40\60\150

6.8mm Caseless Assault Rifle
AP: -6 / DV: 2d10+6 / SA,BF,FA / Ammo: 42 / Range: 0-150\250\400\700

6.8mm Caseless Squad Automatic Weapon
AP: -6 / DV: 2d10+6 / SA,BF,FA / Ammo: 260 / Range: 0-250\500\1000\2000

12.7mm Caseless Anti-Materiel Rifle
AP: -12 / DV: 2d10+8 / SA / Ammo: 10 / Range: 0-500\800\1200\2300

>>5657383
Hmmm... thinking it over, I think the SMG ammo probably ought to be reduced to 50 or 60, and the SAW to 200.

>>5657462
and probably reduce the rifle to 40 for easier ammo tracking

>>5657465
Nah, 42 still works. That's 2 rounds of suppressive fire, and one round of shooting [at the same target] on semi auto.

>>5657383

>caseless

Get ready to spend hours cleaning that thing

>>5657669
>pg. 335: Modern chemical firearms use caseless ammunition that is auto-loaded from a magazine.effectively recoilless (thanks to rheological smart fluid mechanisms) and electronically fired (an electric charge vaporizes the propellant, using the expanding steam and plasma to eject and accelerate the projectile).

The weapons in the setting are already caseless.

Also, for the discussion on recoil that happened earlier, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheological_fluids_based_firearms_mechanisms

Basically the recoil of the gun is dampened by a fluid that solidifes or something, acting like a spring. I'd imagine that it releases the energy from firing as heat, possibly re-using that heat to power itself.

>>5654534
>what this setting needs is a risk factor like a life insurance policy that covers you as long as you pay your premiums

That... that does exist. On pg. 330-331:

Backup: A single, one-time backup without insurance is sometimes all the poor can afford, hoping that they can buy backup insurance later or that someone that cared about them will see to a resleeving.

Backup Insurance: In the event of verifiable death, or after a set period of being missing, backup insurance will arrange for your cortical stack to be retrieved and your ego downloaded into another morph. If the cortical stack cannot be retrieved, your most recent backup is used. Most policies require that the holder provide a backup to be uploaded into secure storage at least twice a year. This industry works in a manner similar to insurance underwriting in terms of cost and individuals engaged in high risk professions can expect to pay a premium for the service. Additionally, attempts to retrieve a cortical stack are minimal unless one wants to pay for some extra effort (a thriving industry of paramilitary ego-repo operatives exists for this purpose).

From the Opposed Tests rules:

"If both succeed, the character who gets the highest
dice roll wins."

Why is this? It seems that for all other tests rolling a small number is favorable, so why is rolling under but closest to the target number favorable in this case? It seems like some backwards logic.

I want to play a poor-man Infomorph, who is saving up to buy a biomorph by working as a Morph-Trainer. Basically, he uploads himself into the biomorphs of wealthy people while they're away away-from-body for whatever reason, then runs fifty laps, benches a couple reps, and eats bland nutritional supplements, all so they can come home to a well-toned body. He could probably fit three or four full fitness regiments into a day.

>>5659229
It's still easy to see at a glance who wins the test, and it also gives the more skilled player a better chance of succeeding.