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>>27884010
last thread:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/27846610/

>Sadly I wont be able to run anymore cause life is busy fucking me over right now. Speaking from experience life especially loves kicking my ass when its down. So I am sorta scrabbling at the moment. . So this will be my last thread until who knows when.
>Really didn't want to end things like this but I knew problems were happening its just now that its decided to all come crumbling down.
You have my deepest condolences OP.

>Ah to think my record of finishing a civ may be marred
>Feel free to ask questions about the world and more.
You act like we don't have the patience to wait. . . Of all the people to want to preemptively end a quest, I'd never imagine it'd be you. You wouldn't be the only OP to take extended breaks when the circumstances called it.

Are you sure that when you get things back in order, you do not wish to continue this and keep your record pure?

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>>27884412
When I come back I will reboot this particular civ. Its just I know some anons wonder about the setting.

>>27884484
Well, as long as the setting remains.
Maybe we'll have some fun in this thread. Or maybe we'll encounter. . .whatever cuban pete's bandits will eventually decide to call themselves if they survive.

Personally, I love the mystery of your setting and feel like asking certain questions would just spoil it. Others would be no different than asking you to write a story about other factions or dr and heroes we've passed, or drawing a map of the world. I might have some good questions tho, and I know other anons will.

Rolled 77

SWH was a psionic/non-corporeal manifestation of zombies hunger right?
Is SWH the global hunger sum of the zombies hunger or is it more like a region by region phenomenon?
Is it only the hunger of zombies, or ghouls, monsters and everything else?
Was SWH sentient or was that. . .Jenny speaking through her?

Rolled 80

>>27884010
Aw, just when we were getting smarter at the game.

Anyway
>Basic 1
Give Pyro the resources and fuel he needs to look into snow dispersal furnances that can be carted on vechs or stationed at watchtowers. We might not end winter, but we can sure as hell at least see better through it.

Also adds as a bonus to warming our troops, so we can put those with Frost Body Armor to better use.

Rolled 44

>>27884727
If he can do this why not.

Rolled 15

>>27884640
yes
Depends
Only zombies.
Not sentient. Just the overwhelming all consuming hunger.

>>27884727
You know its full on I can't see shit level blizzard right? So what exactly would the furnaces be for?

Rolled 6

>>27884821
Not even just like a few feet away? If it's full on blizzard we shouldn't even be stepping outside.

Rolled 9

>>27884821
Only Zombies. Does this mean that only zombies is hunger more powerful than the rest (ghouls and monsters etc.) enough to create a SWH, or is it something inherent to a zombie itself.

So the voice that spoke through the huner, and the will enacting on the hivemind, was only Jenny's voice then?

Rolled 13

>>27884484

What was Giggles story?
What place did Aquam's portal open to?
Was Dr. Volk the only uber-scientist out there that assisted in the fall?
What's the goal of the Syn-User Consortium-illuminati group?

>Basic 1
Ambush tiem.

Send out a large-mediumish group to scout, then have them make a loop around where-ever they normally do, Cuban Pete should accompany this group.
When they start to get attacked, they should immediately retreat through the vehicle-depot area where we discovered evidence of rummaging about, Cuban Pete should entice as many enemies as possible to come along.

Shortly after the scouting group send out another group with Pyro in their midst (all sneaky like...gotsa be cunning, the brutal comes later). Strew the vehicle-depot area with remote-activated flame-traps and explosives, as well as containers of fuel at the 'entrance' (where the scouts will run through) to be knocked over and make a wall of flame to entrap the monsters. Everything should be hidden under shittons of snow where possible, otherwise more conventional camo works too.

Once the scouts come through, they should begin to fight at one end of the depot, while the ambushers (who've bunkered down under the snow) move around behind the pursuing monster force and knock down the fuel-barrels, then light'm up.

After that, opportunistically pick off anything we can see but by and large retreat like fuck to the bunkers/vehicle garage.

Oh, fluff incoming next post.

Rolled 72

>>27884727
Lookit, I know we're used to bending a few. . .rules here but that's just too much.
>>27884821
We're really at risk if we venture out there, but if we cramp ourselves in here bandits are gonna get testy. We had better keep them occupied.
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
Let's have a weapon improvisation "contest". See which one of our number has the brains to think of something interesting. That bandit that does get's promoted.

Rolled 3

>>27884998

Fluff:
Name: Bluecold Bandits
Formerly: Bloodsquad Deathsnow
Type: Outlaws, Military/Paramilitary Faction

Our forefathers were a paramilitary spec ops team, but none remember who they owed allegiance to, sent to check out a rumor of a faction within the Mueke Jungles. They entered through the tunnels and met a god. A dark god, its demesne turned into one of the most hellish places in the Post-Apoc over many centuries. A cloak of invisible vapor, tasting of death and cold enveloped it as it toyed with the men. None survived that it did not want to, and those that did had been broken long before their release.

Following the call of implants that proved more durable than their minds the men made a scrambling, mad return to their parent faction. The commanders of the Paramilitary division were in shock at the state of their most elite troops, but rather than kill them (though perhaps that would've been more merciful) they sent the troops to a former insane-asylum complex, in the hopes they might recover and be able to say something useful.

That was long ago, after a while the regular checkups ceased occurring, and shortly after that the supplies ran short. It was only the arrival of a man in a green mask, who had also glimpsed a god, that saved them from death in that cold prison.

This core of hardened (though admittedly crazy) elite soldiers form the center of the warband that’s become known as the “Bluecold Bandits”. Their efficiency and competency are undoubted, though it’s difficult to tell when they’ll get their grip on reality long enough to exercise those faculties (combat seems to be a good catalyst for it). The central warband has had the remnants of several bandit warbands, as well as a few zombies, coalesce around it and has every indication of becoming a major regional player in the future.
Oh, give me a hint on what about borgs/borgification reduces someone's psionic potential/ability...please?

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>>27884848
>If it's full on blizzard we shouldn't even be stepping outside.
That's what I'm wondering too.
Maybe we have thermal vision leftovers from being descended of paramilitary. Also the buddy system.

>>27884998
>(all sneaky like...gotsa be cunning, the brutal comes later)
Dat's un Morky like! You gots ta hit em HARDER when they see's ya
Anyway, voting this.

Rolled 61

>>27885058
>>27885026
>>27884998

Well, I certainly hope this cunning and brutal plan gets a better roll than these.

Rolled 30

>>27884998
Sounds like a plan
>should entice as many enemies as possible to come along.
ehhhh, still concerned about luring to our base or allied bases, but it worked the last time. Rollan

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>>27884821
>>27884484
>>27884278
>>27884010

EDE, it's been a great run. You should probably get a twitter though, because without these quests to look forward to I have no reason to come to /tg/ and I'm not going to search the catalog diligently for an indefinite period of time until you come back.

tl;dr Get a twitter so we can all know when you're coming back.

>>27885058
>Dat's un Morky like! You gots ta hit em HARDER when they see's ya
DATS GORK YA SNIVELIN GROT. I'LL KICK YER TEEF IN

Rolled 42

>>27884848
Sometimes is that bad like half the time.

>>27884895
Numbers combined with inherent effects. Zombies were a popular subject.

>>27884998
Giggles was very special type of monster as in it could do the what others could/would not. In other words it was the apex monster not because it was the strongest, fastest, or biggest but because it could do what the others could not and happily did so...while giggle was your only warning. I could go on but its bit long past.

Aquam's portal led to his home.

He was just one, so no he wasn't.

Ah someone figured out Syn. Their goal is that Syn MUST flow.


>>27885026
It has to do with the body.

>>27885134
Its burn us. I will see what I can do though.

>>27884821
What was that thing under Aduro Tower and how did it get there?
What was the fate of the volcanic desert?
If Paladins fight for the light, do they really have a habit of calling on the darkness and thriving on fighting it?
If SWH was a zombie thing, was she unrelated to the first fleshbrood released during the fall? What became of that first fleshbrood, was it the heart or something somewhere else?
The heart created the monsters of the deep swamp, is that the general origin of all these monsters? Are they all connected or did different things across different parts of the world spawn different types of monsters?

Rolled 49

>>27884998
>>27885026

Voting for both of these (and hoping for a good roll)

Rolled 54

>>27885212

Are you pulling the "metal/foreign objects disrupt the energy flow" card for psi-borgs? Are immunosuppressants or something similar necessary for borgs in this universe?

>>27884821
>>27885214
Did A.I. EDE, A.I. BUK, and A.I. EVE end up retreating together or separate and lost again?
If A.I. EDE lost his facility, what's left for him to do and what's his power? Burk said he had little to no power outside his base/blacklist protocols.

How many Governmental Remnants are there? A dozen or hundreds? Are the ones that originate from the same old world nation united, or is there governmental infighting even within the remnants of the same national ancestry? Are gov remnants entirely national or are there state and even mega city gov remnants?

For that matter, what kind of governments were there pre-fall? Capitalistic democracies? Communist Unions? Empires? Was there an attempt to make a hivemind nation before the fall?

Rolled 52

>>27884998
Our group with got hit HARD even with Cuban Pete around they only barely made it to the vehicle bay. Know idea how many enemies were actually enticed to much snow and crap in the way only know it was enough to inflict heavy casualties on us.

Meanwhile Pyro with some others stew the vehicle depot with flame traps, explosives, and cleverly placed fuel tanks. Once our scouts came through or tried to anyway we found the fuel tanks went up on our forces. Even worse the traps had either been disabled or even used against our forces. We never even got a look at the bastards responsible.

Lost 200
wounded 50

Turn 26
>>>>>A. Raid.
>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>G. Scavenge/pillage for raw materials.
>>>>>H. Your choice
1 resource point

Population: 750
Morale: Average
Food: Above Average
Water: Above Average
Fuel: Average
Armaments: Great
Infrastructure: Vault(Locked Down). Military Base(unsecured/infested)
Armor: Frosty Body Armor. Frost Hazard Power Armor(limited). Plagued body Armor. Raider Scale. Nomad Plate.
Weapons: Shotguns. SMGs. Hunting/assault Rifles. Knives. Molotov. Hatchets.
Technology: Jet packs(limited). Weapon Mod(Crude/basic). Ultra Bunker.
Materials:
Defenses: Vault Access. Plasma Flaming Containment Wall. Hazard Bunkers. Fortified Structures. Fire Wall. Ocean Aflame.
Power: Geothermal/ Nuclear

Rolled 50

>>27885446
>everytime we try something out there it ends up backfiring
That's it. We're holing up in here and holding down the fort until spring comes before we kill ourselves with losses.

Rolled 13

>>27885285
Immuno supressents were only necessary for cyborgs and even then it was way back. It hasn't been a requirement for quite some time. As for the first part kinda. Its bit more complicated then just that. They could of dealt with just that.

>>27885331
They retreated together. A.I. EDE is doing fine and as for is power what do you mean by that? He was just in control of the facility.

>>27885427
All the above. Reason why governments are not as powerful as you would normally expect is thanks to all the infighting, old rivals,and finally a twisted new world to contend with.

>>27885506
It was a good plan you just had REALLY bad rolls.

>>27885560
Well what I was asking is, are EDE and BURK up to anything after they lost both their facilities? Did they get control of another one, or are they just chilling at EVE's place?

Rolled 83

>>27885506
>>27885446

Ouch. I thought that was a good plan too.

Well. I don't think the answer is holing up, because then they get to loot OUR military base unmolested. That being said, we're obviously dealing with a force that's specialized in this shit, and very very good at it.

We need to try and capture one. Ideas?

>>27885602
You'res was very well thought out. They're onto us now so to try that again wouldn't work.
Lemme think of one.

Rolled 10

>>27885560

Is 'Fate' or something similar a thing in your world? Aside from you the QM, that is. Answer that and...I guess I'll set my mind to figuring out how your psi-borgs work.t

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>>27885650

Yeah. These EDE quests have the most adaptive A.I. ever, I swear.

>>27885602
>because then they get to loot OUR military base unmolested
Maybe that's not such a bad thing...hmmm, yes perhaps we 'should' let them loot our base 'unmolested' if you catch my drift.
how do we make a trap out of it?

Rolled 54

>>27885712

We keep >Basic 1 as "Trap the base for those dickwads" until we get a 100.

Problem solved!

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>>27885768
That or we keep getting ones and whittle ourselves to nothing.

Hmm, plans, plans, plans. Maybe?
They seem to be converging onto the autodepot for some strange reason.

We have our men carry some "boxes" betwix our base and the autodepot in the dead of night, act like we're trying to sneak something. When the monsters try to gnab the man, they drop the box out pops Cuban Pete Jack in the box and we HIT THE LIGHTS (that we so stealthily set up) and get them to do a polka dance.
. . .
I don't know.

Rolled 62

>>27885214
>>27885596
I'd like to know these.

Rolled 94

>>27885828

I'm not sure. Maybe.

Can we think of any way to get just a few of them alone?

I'm not sure that they're better armed/outclass our men, I think that they just can operate in this fuckbad blizzard with less penalties.

Maybe we should hole up for a turn, spend our resource and hope we can develop some way to see through the snow. You can't fight what you can't see.

Rolled 8

>>27885828
In theory something like that would be the proper use of Cuban Pete. And it'd be typical of us crazy bandits.
I'll roll for it unless someone thinks of a more grounded plan. . .but we're bandits we're supposed to do crazy.

Rolled 39

>>27885902

Can we vote for that/count it as an action?

Rolled 8

>>27885902
Well that's what I was advocating with the snow dispersal furnaces that our men can cart around to give them better sight.
As is, I don't think we have remotely the capability for developing thermal vision.

Or we can figure out a way to make them more visible in the snow.

Rolled 12

>>27885602
Great idea!

>basic 1: set up basic, tried And true traps. Pitfalls, land mines, trip wires, maybe fabricate a few bear traps or falling cage traps. Seeing as we are on a mountain side also make an avalanche trap or 2

Rolled 10

>>27885938

Hmm, there's an idea...how though, without having one of them to experiment on?

Also, if we built railguns (that are the exclusive super-secret guarded purview of military-government-swampbilly remnants) we ought to be able to build some thermal-visors.

How do soldiers in white-out conditions deal with that these days?

Rolled 31

>>27885975
Well, let's try that then. Except the avalanche potentially burrying our base part. . .

Rolled 15

>>27885999
We built them? Huh, I thought we found them already pre-built. Guess I was wrong.

> (that are the exclusive super-secret guarded purview of military-government-swampbilly remnants)
Oh silly, that's not the explanation. Everyone knows the truth about railguns. it's magic

Rolled 30

>>27885679
Kinda.

>>27885596
Their chilling at EVE's place. EDE and EVE are busy catching up while BURK is able to do what he was designed for without the usual hold ups and pesky limiters getting in the way.

>>27885214
...what thing? if you mean the fleshy spire monsters they burrowed their way there.

The Aduro Tower was looted and everything largely went back the way it was. Well besides the three way battle that happened during the looting between bandits, ghouls, and paladins.

Paladins thrive on being examples and major ass kickers(otherwise you don't live long even by post apoc standards). So yes this includes fighting the darkness.

>>27885214
She is indeed unrelated. The first brood got wiped out. It wasn't the heart.

The heart didn't create the monsters. Only modified and assimilated. The general origins is they were either created or wandered in. Some was connected some wasn't for the creation and wide spreadness of monsters.

Rolled 11

>>27886013
>>27885975

We can't go outside without getting attacked, the traps we just set were disabled or turned against our forces, so unattended traps are out of the question...and we can't have attended traps because they can sneak up on us before we can get a glimpse of them.

Rolled 75

>>27886013
More commonly known as a landslide trap, you set up boulders and shit held up by a small trigger and a tripwire, seems natural unless you know better. We aren't going to take down a whole side of a mountain here lol

Rolled 97

>>27886081
>>27885975

We're actually confined to the inside of a military base right now, everything outside it is horrifically infested with monsters (used to be zombies).

Can we ask the remains of the bandit bands we integrated what they were after when they attacked here, and what any of the more tactically minded of them suggest doing?

Rolled 93

>>27886046
How do we set up a science program

>>27886139
Raid them. We're bandits remember? We don't into science unless we take it like the ashbloods did.

Rolled 27

>>27886139
Research or Raiding usually.

>>27886111
Seems like they (wrongly belived) the zombie hives were weakened enough for a joint effort to wipe them out and ended up being wrong.
But yes, if there are any minds among them lets ask.

The Continental Crusade. Who/what launched it and why? Was it really like a crusade with a vast moving army as one, or was it more like a continent spanning "battle of the 4 armies" event with the war spreading outwards and everywhere?

When the great Crystal Machine from hell was activated and riled the monsters and zombies across the planet, did shitloads of tiny civs hanging on the balance get wiped out?

Rolled 99

>>27886111
>>27886217
Seconding inquiry and consultation.

Rolled 76

>>27886338

Well we ought to get something useful with that roll.

>>27886391
We should
but then we won't get exempt for 1's on discussion

Rolled 2

>>27886434

We asked the Dreamer Marauders if they were available for bombing runs and rolled a 100 on it once...they were willing to talk to us despite previously not being willing to.

Certain instances...you know?

>>27886474
Yeah but that was technically a diplomacy action not a consultation.
Next thing you know we be asking Pyro "hey, what do you think we should do?"
>Rolled 1
>Pyro burns down the warehouse to show what he thinks we should do

Rolled 59

>>27886560

I might laugh hard enough to make that worth it.

Rolled 90

>>27886111
"Loot, Tactics was the usual strike hard and fast then get out before the zombies could react with their full power. Too bad we were too slow."

>>27886271
It was launched between bandits(loot) and ghouls(food). It was a gigantic tide sweeping across the entire continent.

Not really.

Rolled 65

>>27886871
>Too bad we were too slow.
And these were the guys with the jets and jetpacks...still not a solution to our monster problem.

>>27885828
Anyone in the mood to try this for the heck of it?

Rolled 39

>>27886932
Why not? It's our last civ quest in a while, let's go all out and have some fun with it.

Rolling

Rolled 20

>>27885828
Our forces sneak some boxes to the auto depot in the dead of night....the monsters just ignored them besides taking a few swipes at snatching some of our guys. They completely ignored the boxes so when Cuban Pete popped out it proved ineffective. Cuban Pete has to know about them/where their at for his ability to take affect so it was for nothing. On the plus side though we didn't suffer any casualties.

Turn 27
>>>>>A. Raid.
>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>G. Scavenge/pillage for raw materials.
>>>>>H. Your choice
1 resource point

Population: 750
Morale: Average
Food: Above Average
Water: Above Average
Fuel: Average
Armaments: Great
Infrastructure: Vault(Locked Down). Military Base(unsecured/infested)
Armor: Frosty Body Armor. Frost Hazard Power Armor(limited). Plagued body Armor. Raider Scale. Nomad Plate.
Weapons: Shotguns. SMGs. Hunting/assault Rifles. Knives. Molotov. Hatchets.
Technology: Jet packs(limited). Weapon Mod(Crude/basic). Ultra Bunker.
Materials:
Defenses: Vault Access. Plasma Flaming Containment Wall. Hazard Bunkers. Fortified Structures. Fire Wall. Ocean Aflame.
Power: Geothermal/ Nuclear

>>27887150
> besides taking a few swipes at snatching some of our guys.
Okay, so it's not our supplies but our men they're interested in. This is evidence now. But how smart are these things if we try to use men or zombies as bait? We've done it too many times before. . .

Rolled 92

>>27887219

Hmm.
>Strange not-zombies taking corpses from the base for a long time
>Strange monsters killing our men

>>27887253
If we only had a way to see through this blasted snow we could use Cuban Pete, not even spotlights or shit can pierce this.

I don't recall the monsters killing our men, only stealing them.

Rolled 17

>>27887150

Before we leave, could you post the rudiments of your system and all the possible heroes for the civs and (maybe) a list of traits/characteristics for them? Because one of us might want to run something like this while you're gone.

Rolled 64

>>27887253
We could dress up Cuban Pete and some men to play dead and try his powers once more.
Or, using our bandit ingenuity, design a great trap involving tripropes, heavy weight on the roof, and dead corpses/living men.
Or we bunker down and work on our weapons till the spring.

Rolled 23

>>27887307
Do you have the wit and cleverness to be an A.I. EDE?

Rolled 80

>>27887307
>>27887349

...hm very well then it will be in a spoiler as I would be revealing some of my secrets. What exactly do you want?

>>27887332
>Or, using our bandit ingenuity, design a great trap involving tripropes, heavy weight on the roof, and dead corpses/living men.
How about that? If the monsters don't fall for it this time, we can at least find out that they are intelligent creatures.

Then again, we might need a net something stronger than rope or even chains.

Rolled 69

>>27887349
>Letting one of the few who knows how to dissect EDE's plots run a plot himself
>How to lose, the quest

Rolled 16

>>27887332

No facilities for weaponmaking or R&D. We have to capture some somehow.

Rolled 31

>>27887419
Only got a small part of it right at any one time. Even then interesting mistakes/conclusions were made.

Rolled 1

>>27887434
Do we need a facility and weaponmaking R&D to string some rope and chain, put a wheeled vehicle on the roof, and lay some corpses down? You'd think bandits would be good at that kind of improviso

>>27887464
Nothing as reliving as a one on a discussion.

Rolled 5

>>27887395

Aah, I don't want any spoilers. Just the rudiments of your system. How do you stat things and determine resources in an area, what does the mystery stat determine and etc.? Do you have any rules-of-thumb for your thick-as-fuck plots? Do you use dice rolls to determine the resources/hostility of neighboring regions? What do you use to tell how much someone discover when someone goes scouting/exploring?

You know, basic stuff like that. If it'll spoil something important...don't post it (but do post that you're leaving something out, so that whoever can know where they need to make up rules)

(don't post it until the end of the thread either way)

Rolled 40

>>27887456

Hey, I try. It's really, really not easy.

Rolled 40

>>27887332
>Basic 1
Using our bandit ingenuity, design a great trap involving tripropes, heavy weight/vehicle on the roof, chain nets, and dead corpses/living men.

Let's just get one of these suckers, c'mon. Even if it doesn't bait them, we KNOW they are smart enough not to fall for it.

Rolled 88

>>27887349

No, but I can start to try to learn. It's a goal to aspire to, you know?

Rolled 43

>>27887150
Seeing as we are basically up shits creak without a paddle as far as going outside is concerned, maybe we should check out the vault? It's the last thread anyways and ede probably put somethig cool in there

>basic 1: scout the vault

ede im sorry to hear that your life is going to shit and i hope that things get back on track for you soon enough. i have to say you are a terrific qm, honestly your threads are what i most looked forward to over these last couple months.
that said i would like to run a civ using your setting for some of my players and must ask (if its not too much trouble/secret) what is your formula? i have already copied down all the beginning options and i know that one set of rolls was for hazards/zombies/res/factions/mysteries ect. but you made quite a few rolls after that, were those for hidden variables or were they simply to throw us off? i know i should come up with my own modifications to it, and i will but i would rather KNOW what you are doing and go from there than going from what i THINK you are doing.
best of luck to you with your life kicking you in the shins.

Rolled 3

>>27887590
Why not.
Here's hoping for a 100

Rolled 70

>>27887590
>Something cool
Yeah! There's always something interesting going on right under our feet. It might not be good 9/10's, but it can be 1/10 of them (richard and clora).

Rolled 52

>>27887592

Yeah, this is basically what I want to. Sans setting-specific info how do you DO this and do it so well?

Also, I think we're all sorry for your life going to shit and hope it gets better soon. Your quests are brilliant and we all love them. Just pull through whatever's going on, it'll get better and when you're ready to come back you'll have a legion of adoring fans flock to whatever you do.

>>27887659
Seconded.
Things I've noticed is
>There's always behind the scene plots, and the world is not just your sphere or influence or even sight. But these are very much relevant
>There are other nations besides you, and they do things (get tech, make war, do alliances) at the same time you do
>But there is sometimes access to this, as hints or cues,
>Plot. Story. Fluff. And lot's of it, given in reasonable doses not just blocks of text (though they can also be appropriate for big events).

Rolled 4

>>27887590
Vote

Rolled 48

>>27887590

Good god, vote and hoping for a better roll.

Rolled 38

Just wait until he runs just a QUEST, guys. Holy shit, can you even go so far as to do look mire like?

>>27887833
We'll see.
I'd love to see it.

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>>27887850

>Dat faction conflict
>Those other heroes who lead warbands tens of thousands strong

>New players are more numerous
>"We go explore the ruin!"
>"A tentacle-covered eye reaches out of the ground and spits lightning at you, you die."
>"What? God-dammit!"
>"You didn't scout first."
>Ede's face when

>>27887951
>The men feel nervous underground
"Huh, weird"
>Strange rumblings were heard today undergruond
"Hmm, alright. So how we gonna assault that enemy fort. guys"
>Patrols have gone missing, underground
"I bet it;s our enemy! We must attack the fort now!"
>WARNING. A tide of flesh and eyeballs is pouring out of the tunnels
"OOOOMG WHERE DID THAT COME FROM. YOU'RE PULLING PUNCHES YOU TROLL OP THAT WAS FROM NOWHERE"

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>>27888041

Rolled 38

Oh geeze this is going to be a lot.

>Opens up word document in preparation

Rolled 87

>>27887590
hm people wanting to open the vault.
>cool
not lethal.

So our forces went trecked through the snow, fought off god knows what and found the vault up over near the Command Center. Despite being heavily assualted our forces cracked it open...then we lost contact.

Lost 50

Turn 29
>>>>>A. Raid.
>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>G. Scavenge/pillage for raw materials.
>>>>>H. Your choice
1 resource point

Population: 700
Morale: Low
Food: Average
Water: Average
Fuel: Below Average
Armaments: Good
Infrastructure: Vault(Locked Down). Military Base(unsecured/infested)
Armor: Frosty Body Armor. Frost Hazard Power Armor(limited). Plagued body Armor. Raider Scale. Nomad Plate.
Weapons: Shotguns. SMGs. Hunting/assault Rifles. Knives. Molotov. Hatchets.
Technology: Jet packs(limited). Weapon Mod(Crude/basic). Ultra Bunker.
Materials:
Defenses: Vault Access. Plasma Flaming Containment Wall. Hazard Bunkers. Fortified Structures. Fire Wall. Ocean Aflame.
Power: Geothermal/ Nuclear

>>27888292
But it's just not cool if it's not lethal.
Or is it the otherway around.
>Almost half a year of winter

Rolled 65

>>27887850
Mire like?

Rolled 6

>>27888292

Well, maybe whatever was in the Vault will fuck up these monsters a little bit. (implying the thing that drives these monsters out could be anything but worse than these monsters)

>Basic 1
Develop a means of seeing in the snow. Maybe some IR-sensors off the bunkers, maybe just some snowblind goggles, maybe infrasound detectors. Just some way for us to see our goddamn assailants.

Rolled 91

>>27888292
>Morale: Low
Construct 1v1 zombie fight cages and get an organized gambling ring going.

Rolled 52

>>27888292
>basic1:Set up a secure rout for our boys to get home, also send another scouting party to check on their status.
No matter what we can not lose the vault.

>>27888372
Not enough science m'lord.
Unless we ask Pyro for some pyrotechnical type things

>>27888392
>Implying we haven't already lost it by cracking it open
Now we just wait and see what was in Pandora's box this time

Rolled 59

>>27888383

No. We have sentient zombies in our number.

Rolled 25

>>27888392

They're either holed up in there, or something nasty got out. Either way, we're in no position to do anything about it.

>>27888401
Do they give a damn?
Well, we gotta do something about the morale. All this getting trapped in the snow, surrounded by enemies and getting picked off, wont be long before we get an extreme case of cabin fever (and compounded by our own craziness).

Rolled 87

>>27888372
We don't have the facilities or resources for any of that :(

Rolled 30

>>27888416
It's the only way out, we can't science our way out, we can't kill our way out, we can't build out. The only option is to raid our way out, that vault may just have the tools we need to survive. Even if it's a 1% chance, it's better than our current chances

Rolled 6

>>27888420
>>27888400

Damn bandit-archetype.

Not really though, it was fun until we got stuck in the blizzard of the century. (anyone think maybe something is perpetuating this storm...?)

Nova King

Rolled 63

>>27888499

Now that you put it that way...we don't have much to lose, do we? Because the only other real option is sitting inside, but stagnancy is death. Especially when there are shaggy-stealth monsters that we can't touch wandering outside our doors just waiting (and I'm sure, building)

>>27888420
>>27888506
2/2 times we picked the wrong thing for the wrong place
>Aduro
>Great tech, plenty o' resources, shit warfare and rep penalites
Look at all them factions designed to want a piece of us an
>Bandit
>Great warfare, moderate resources, shit science
Bandits wiped themselves out eh? Welp, time to hold up in this storm before the aboninable snowmonsters get us

Man, the Memor were the last all around flexible civ we had.

Rolled 68

Basic 1. Host an "Iz you a brainy git" contest to boost morale.
Whoever comes up with the most useful, wackiest, innovative weapons for our situation and wins field run tests gets a promotion

Rolled 93

>>27888548
And we cracked open the vault. so we're probably dead men anyway.
>Implying no release of end game monsters
>Or release of that necessary component to stop the end game monsters
>They're not even the planned end game monsters, just stuff too strong for us too early

Rolled 98

>>27888548
So do we scout the vault again or explore it?

Rolled 9

>>27887307
>>27887592
Hm I don't know these feels. People wants my setting and formula. Fine. Just fine. I will also make sure to create a twitter and post as my future trip so you can know what to look for next time.
>>27888569
You don't get very large research especially when it comes to killing/looting.

Rolled 30

>>27888596
If we're lucky we might find someone smart enough for an officer position.

>>27888646
Don't spoil your setting now. Just the basic gist.

Why don't whoever runs a quest that isn't EDE just run it on post fall terraformed moon that resembles the setting?

Rolled 39

>>27888569

Well, we didn't have any options aside from bandits this time. It was the right choice. The military-borg bandits would've been better.

Because we Crit-ed for bandit presence.

Rolled 91

>>27888596
They might come up with something interesting.
>>27888708
We also crit-ed for endless winter. Yeah, borgs would've been nice.

>>27888596
This >>27888723
with the roll

Rolled 82

>>27888646

We'd all love to know all the secrets of your setting...but we want to earn them through sweat, blood, and tears. Remember the Memor!

You've done that thing which GMs dream of, you've made your players want to indulge in your world on your rules. We don't want to just be handed out all your secrets, we want to beat them out of you using our wits and linked-100s.

>>27888820
Except when linked-100's choke us to death like a ton of water on a sprout.

But yes

Rolled 1 + 99

>>27888840

Is it just me who wonders what would happen if we got 3 linked 100s?

Rolled 1 + 99

>>27888878

Does it count?

>>27888878
>1+99
don't know how to feel about that roll

>3 linked 100s
Depends. If we suddenly 3 100's worth of resources with no infastructure to support or protect, we're beyond fucked. If we get three heroes that's another story

Rolled 1 + 99

>>27888896
>>27888878

I think it should count!

Rolled 68

>>27888878
>>27888896
>>27888928
You set your dice to 1d1+99

Rolled 71

>>27888596
Post after this will reveal my trip.

We held a contest to see who can come up with da best weapons. We had exploding bottles, shotcans, nailnades. And more but who really took the cake had to be the mad bastard known as Dakkchoma who somehow created a gun that shot spiked explosive balls and searing hot blades.

News
Winter is finally over.

Turn 30
>>>>>A. Raid.
>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>G. Scavenge/pillage for raw materials.
>>>>>H. Your choice
0 resource point

Population: 750
Morale: Average
Food: Above Average
Water: Above Average
Fuel: Average
Armaments: Great
Infrastructure: Vault(Locked Down). Military Base(unsecured/infested)
Armor: Frosty Body Armor. Frost Hazard Power Armor(limited). Plagued body Armor. Raider Scale. Nomad Plate.
Weapons: Shotguns. SMGs. Hunting/assault Rifles. Knives. Molotov. Hatchets.
Technology: Jet packs(limited). Weapon Mod(Crude/basic). Ultra Bunker.
Materials:
Defenses: Vault Access. Plasma Flaming Containment Wall. Hazard Bunkers. Fortified Structures. Fire Wall. Ocean Aflame.
Power: Geothermal/ Nuclear

>>27889020
Here comes the army.
Let's see what was waiting in the snow or what we unleashed in the vault.

Rolled 44

>>27888936

That'sthejoke.jpg

>>27888907
Let's see, when we rolled 2 linked-100s our actions were
>Scout tunnels
>Loot/scavenge
>Improve water synthesizer
>Research batteries

And we got
>Living Water
>Mr. Light
>Grandmaster Lootya
>Scoutmaster Gral
(And slightly later, but as a result of the roll)
>Archpaladin Badass McAwesome

As well as
>1 Mobile Fortress (pop. cap 25k, that's as big as the Memor's research facility or Burke's military base)
>4 Mobile Bases (pop. cap 5k each, as big as our Megatower was)
>A magic water generator
>Infini-batteries

>100 Res.
>1000 Loot
>+30k population

3-linked 100s would probably take us a couple of days to begin to start to respond to. The thread would have to end there, because no one would know what to do.

Rolled 93

>>27889020
Promote Dakkchoma to officer position in charge of (what could at least be called) weapons experimentation.

Rolled 30

>>27889020

>Basic 1
Scout/look for Ravager CrayCray. Send Dakkchoma out with his new gun on the team.

Rolled 2

>>27889020
>Basic 1: A)Raid the vault
With pyro at the helm.

Rolled 56

>>27889020
It shot both of them at once by the way.

>>27889092

I can dig it. Going on record as the first that can dig it.

Rolled 53

>>27889085
Let's see what he has to offer to us first
>>27889087
>Raid the vault
In Post Apoc quest, Vault raids you

>>27889117
Going on record as the guy that conceptualized and named Memor in the proto-thread

Rolled 35

>>27889123
If we don't reinforce our boys at the vault they will be lost(if they are not already)

Rolled 16

>>27889020
C'mon guys, let's be prudent first. There is a lot that could've gone on behind the snow or buried in it.

>Basic 1
Explore our immediate base and look for anything out of the ordinary, in need of repair, or hidden dangers left from the blizzard

Rolled 57

>>27889158
They're (likely) dead jim. But okay

Rolled 50

>>27889148

Based God, you ARE real!

>>27889158
Either they're already lost, or 1 turn won't make that much of a difference.

>>27889167
Voting this.

Rolled 99

>>27889167
Voting

>>27889195
I've done a lot of other things in the quest to.
Some I'm proud of. Other's, not so much.

Rolled 20

>>27889167
Fine.. Changing vote

Rolled 96

mfw twitter still isn't happy...anyone know what the other QMs call themselves? Damn setup is being a dick.

Rolled 14

>>27889241
why did it drop...

Rolled 38

>>27889262

Trips are finicky like that (might be a glitch lately with 4chan, but I've seen it happen to a lot of people lately)

You could just name the twitter "Post-Apoc-Civ Hivemind" as that's all the tags that I ever search for to find the archived threads.

Rolled 100

>>27889296
Its under Geniethetwisted using a made up name.

>>27889336
>100
Yay!

Rolled 12

>>27889336
Jack Wilson @Geniethetwisted?
https://twitter.com/Geniethetwisted

Rolled 7

>>27889336
HAH

anyone got a good twisted genie image?

Anyway

CHOOSE:
CC
Zombie Mal
Ghoul Roy
Crazy F
Mutant Jorha

That feel when I screwed up the damned twitter....FUCK.

>>27889421
>mfw I wrote some fluff for a hero
>mfw this is the last thread so don't really want to waste them. . .

Rolled 41

>>27889416
Yeah...

Rolled 20

>>27889442
and I fixed it. Ah. I have long since learned to never use your real name.

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>>27889421
Does this mean you'll be rp'ing as a genie next time you come around?

Rolled 67

>>27889442
>>27889462

>Look at your screen
>Now look at your hard-drive
>Now back to your screen!
>It's an LOIC, FBI's already been called!

We're going to ruin your life now! Muahaha!

Rolled 20

>>27889421
CC

Rolled 86

>>27889479
I am often compared to a very twisted one so who knows?

I am a genie who is playing a qm who is playing whatever is the most fitting for the quest/civ

>>27889507
Too bad I don't keep anything on it. That is why I got a encrypted flash drive and booby trap that will destroy it completely.

Rolled 46

>>27889421

Hmm, I wonder what trouble CC has gotten into over the winter. On the other hand, Mutant Jorha might be a good source of intel/reveal a plot that (as of now) would completely blindside us.

Voting Mutant Jorha, because CC will probably get chosen.

>>27889479
Loved that game.

>>27889543
Seriously? I thought I was the only one? That's awesome, still have it on my pc.
>mfw based the Saal on the game

Rolled 93

>>27889421
CC
>>27889440
Can you give us some details? Maybe even if we play this civ who knows, we might see them in another.

>>27889637
>We might see them in another.
Actually, based on how I wrote them that's entirely possible.

Rolled 62

>>27889602

I got that vibe, then you started posting pics of the Aztec-Faction and I knew.

Have you played: UFO Afterlight, Nexus the Jupiter Incident, Freelancer, or Sim-Ant?

Sorry, went off on a nostalgia tangent there. Just a few other great games that I think I'm alone in having ever played.

>>27889685
>>27889685
Hero Unit York and Hjork “The Brothers Grim”
“Names Hjork. Me ’n York’re tighter than bark on a tree we are. Been together in the crib since the day we was born, like pea’s in a pod.”
“You must forgive my brother’s lack of eloquence, the lad has the manners of a bandit (no offense). His mother was fond of him, but auntie was not at all fond of our father. But by jove can the man drive. As for me, I like to think take after father more than him. York, I go by, and I am nothing if not a hunter”

Apparently, their parents, or at least “York's ma n’ uncle V”, decided that as a rite of passage to kick all their children out and not let them return until they hunted something interesting.

Trait: Brother from another mother (literally)
>Must work as a team and cannot be separated (essentially can act only as 1 hero)

Yorkshire Didrikson the 2nd, the Gentlelizardman
>Sly serpent – Scales and eyes of a reptile, and a huntsman trained from birth.
>Forked tongue - Bonus to diplomacy behind enemy lines, esp with opposite gender (dad taught me well).

Hjork the Bandit Mechanic
“Well sooie! Ain’t this the most ornery shindig y’all ever derned seen, ain’t it York? Reckon I could get used ta living here like a gopher in soft dirt.”
>Repairman Prodigy/I CAN FIX IT – “Ma always needed a wrench hand for her ride.” No matter how broken or destroyed something may be or appear it WILL be fixed and it WILL work even better then BEFORE it was broken in the first place.
>Heart of a bandit – Morale will never drop past average. He can tell a mean story and play a meaner bandit. Gather around a fire and he can spin you a tale so good, you’ll forget you’re eating your own arm. “Valley forge? Sakes alive, I know a tale that’ll make it look like a trip to Carlson World. I ever tell you boyz ‘bout the glowy bandit and the one armed warlord?...”

>>27889718
Can't say I have, but I will soon.

Rolled 98

>>27889808
....wait a second. AHAHA oh gawd fuck that is hilarious. I feel sorry for the new players who wont get the joke.

>>27889808
Pet unit: Bessie the Jumper BorgST
“*schlop** snap* * groggle* * schlop*“
>Hjork and Yorks ride and pet. “Ma gave her to me as a pet, she did, fresh from the forest o spiders. Says long ago she trained ‘em herself back in the day with her own mind. I gotsa feed her n’ pet her n’ give her lotsa love and monsters to eat.”

Rolled 7

>>27889808
>>27889851
Oh god that is awesome. We have got to find those guys in the next civ.
>mfw only vets will understand the joke

Rolled 57

>>27889911
To think anon ol Didrikson finally pulled it off. Makes me tempted to drop Riza's stats. Shit I will even drop her story if its amusing enough.

Rolled 46

>>27889963
Storytime! I'm game.
I'd love to find out about Rizal, her dad, and the most unfortunate fleshworker's adventures.

Rolled 70

>>27889963

Yes! Do it!

>>27889421
Before we posts actions, let's see what CC has seen.

>>27889851

It should have the ability to evolve into an SST if fed enough, and have all the spewer types.

Rolled 61

>>27889808
>>27889911
So York hits you when you aren't looking, and Hjork hits you harder when you are (with Bessie).
>>27889963
Not only did he pull them off, but if they were born on the same day and we can infer who Hjorks ma is. . .Wilfred you magnificient bastard!

Rolled 43

>>27887592
The rolls I roll always have a use whether to throw you off or not. The only time your players should see your dice is if the group they are controlling would be aware of its effects. Then you post it under news or EVENT if it directly effects them. Remember to roll for different factions but only once they start getting involved with the players until then you should keep in mind the effects and side effects of different actions and how they will react.

Actions cap out at 5 heroics bonuses included.

5 basic actions
2 heroic actions(must be substitute for a basic if actions are maxed out)

Actions are limited for the sake of sanity. They should go up by a mixture of pop/threat range. The greater your pop the more actions you get(up to 3 for pop alone) after that you get extra if you become a regional threat and finally the final action if you become a continental threat.

also be aware that rolls be have side effects no matter how good or bad they may be. An example for good rolls having side effects is the duel 100s in the Mutant Civ. While an example for bad rolls is Death Trap and last thread. They should NOT cause this directly it should merely be a side effect.

Also for every 3 crits(1s and 100s included) then it so awesome that it either succeeds(for 1s) or fails(100s). I limit this to per a thread so across threads do not count. They should be broken up between your own personal rolls and the player rolls as in both are distinctly seperate. After all its possible to fail so hard that you succeed or vice versa. This represents that.


Setting wise its was all a GIGANTICALLY CATACLYSMIC series of things going horribly wrong all in unison/together/interlinked that caused the Fall. That gives you plenty of room to pull shit out of your ass as necessary. Just be aware that despite being centuries later its still beyond horrible in most places. Even so called 'civilization' is akin to your more familiar Post Apoc deals.

>>27890198
What were the pop criteria for increased basic actions?
How did you calculate pop increase?

>>27890198

Can you give an example of succeeding so hard you fail? (Torg exploding Richard's lab from all the awesome of all the BorgST spewer variants?)

Rolled 93

>>27890198
>Also for every 3 crits(1s and 100s included) then it so awesome that it either succeeds(for 1s) or fails(100s)
That explains a lot

Rolled 33

>>27887307
System is a dice pool of 3 for actions unless you sacrifice an action which adds 2 to the viable dice pool.
d100s are used higher is better.

Heroes are based upon civ and a typical type of class brought to a heroic extreme. So you got herioc scientists, soldiers, hunters, and adventurers ect which all have a heroic form. Basically if it exists there is hero version of it. Typically I make the players choose 1 of 5 heroes they can have at the beginning to start with. After that heroes must either be discovered or recovered somehow. Also remember for every hero the players know about there is double that they don't.

Characteristics are whatever I think is most amusing and base it of personality/experiences. heroes NEED a good back story you must know what they like and dislike. What will make them leave or activate unknown abilities/bonuses. Their personality and experiences(granting interesting info) are all explained in it.

Traits depend on the hero and what its based off of. I make them up as I go or reuse them.

>>27890351
Does the third option always exist? For every single turn?

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Rolled 30

>>27890272
Depends on the bonuses, background, penalties, environment, and so on. Really can't say for certain as its dependent on both your faction,fluff, and decisions directly influence it.

Setting info:

The world is gigantic clusterfuck because of everything that occurred during the Fall and the advanced tech involved among other things. Usual geography rules may not apply.

Wastelands tend to be rich in ruins, wrecks, and resources but are completely hostile to ordinary humans. Even with hi tech durations into a Waste should be limited as possible. Only mutants and worse can safely survive out in the Wastes.

There are very few 'civilized' areas and so much fewer that are considered 'safe'. As a rule of thumb these areas you should be wary about ESPECIALLY the 'safe' places.

Bandits are present everywhere same with many other groups.

As a rule of thumb the better the tech the more powerful, rare, paranoid and secretive a group is. Basically they tend to be like at least one of the above.

Hi-Tech makes you a target and there are entire ravagers groups devoted to tearing those groups a new asshole in order to ravage them and take the tech for their own.

The lower the tech the more common it is.

Corps may be able to mass produce higher techs but they tend to be dicks and they limit it quite a bit. So are limited and will lose out against think tank or other true remnants tech. Exactly why this is due to them both having the limited abilities to completely make it exact and to keep their customers dependent. Not to mention their the only ones who can easily replicate whatever it is(sadly it doesn't keep the same quality thus problems arise). You might be able to find better but it is VERY difficult.

Tech HAS advanced despite the Fall problem is it was very slowly going, but now things that were considered experimental or even in theory may very well have been confirmed and may be used

>>27890511
There are always many options.

>>27890351
How do you calculate the number of other factions, their power levels/tech levels, and their likes/dislikes as well as how many heroes they get?

>>27890619
Funny, we've never yet encountered a think tank. They're very isolationist aren't they?

Also if Corp warfareing capability is bad, what's think tanks like?

Rolled 28

>>27890619
Despite bandits seeming to be the majority there is actually MANY more other factions then they because of the usual rule of thumb of many more prey then predator. Only problem is there are few groups who can directly take them on without much problem. As bandits have become VERY good at what they do. If don't they simply don't survive.

Hi-Tech bandits are very rare mostly limited to the groups specialized in fucking over other hi-tech factions.

Moderate tech is much more common this alone puts them at the level or more commonly above many factions.

Low tech bandits are fewer in number and tend to either not last very long or climb up the ladder.


Despite the 'primitiveness' of some groups with higher tech groups best beware these ones. As how could one survive with lack of tech? Suffice to say these 'lesser' groups are more often then not the ones with the nastiest surprises.

Think tanks and some remnants are some of the only groups capable of churning out quality tech. It does take a good deal of effort and they can't easily mass produce it.

>>27890709
Dice

first roll is number of factions/density.

Other rolls dictate what type of group they are(beware that many factions like keeping a low profile)

Type of group dictates tech level roughly a few rolls more indicate how well their doing and with what. It can even boost or lower tech levels depending on how it all pans out.

Likes and dislikes are formed by looking at the above and their environment.

Heroes are dependent on how you would like to deal with the above.

>>27890733
Think Tanks tend to be quite paranoid and isolationist obviously. Think about it their own of the ONLY factions that have hi-tech and could have even have made new technological progress since the very Fall itself. Not to mention their trade capacity isn't the greatest thanks to the whole lack of mass production and more. War capability may not be bad depending on what they focused on.

Rolled 54

>>27890619
Does Bio-tech count as High Tech?
Memor had some amazing bio-tech, but ravagers sorta left us in peace for the most part.

Rolled 58

>>27890803

We were sorta terrifying and in the middle of a hellhole, and people would have to occupy the facility to make use of it. And we had a broodqueen with us there towards the end.

That aside, we still got attacked by huge bandit hordes on 3 separate occasions.

>>27890786

How do you stat units? What effect does veterancy have? How do you determine the difficulty/investment required for actions? How do you determine how significant a heroic bonus is with an action?

>>27891017
>What effect does veterancy have?
How do you know when units gain veterancy? We had some Memor scouts and soldiers there for years and years on all sorts of missions.

Rolled 1

>>27891069

And they still got assraped by everything too. (Except the Tectus...for instance, what are the Tectus stats?)

Rolled 12

>>27890786

And what bonuses did the BorgSTs get after Ramona tutored them for 3 turns?? You NEVER ANSWERED.

>>27891132
>And what bonuses did the BorgSTs get after Ramona tutored them for 3 turns
Find out next civ with York, Hjork, and Bessie

Goddamn I miss spiders. Maybe Vault 101 has good relations with Richard.

Rolled 62

>>27891157
We'll make ants this time.

Rolled 2

>>27891157

Umm...actually the primary scientist/leader of Vault 101 is one of Richard's Arch-Nemeses.

The reason the Vault ended up with such baller technology is that the Scientist responsible for all the advancements faked his death to throw Richard's assassins off his trail for a while. He was assigned a temporary position at the research facility the vault was responsible for while more permanent measures were prepared...then The Fall happened.

His brilliance was an unaccounted for variable, so it threw everything off. Didn't help that this particular Vault was special, and had far more facilities/resources than a normal one would, so the effects were amplified.[/spoiled]

By the way, after undergoing borg (or bioborg) modification you're immortal, right?

>>27891227
Fuckin awesome
>>27891218
So we make ants to CHALLENGE Richards spiderborg monopoly.

Rolled 16

>>27891157

But don't let this >>27891227 worry you because Vault 101 is SPECIALIZED in exactly the sort of research that brought about the spiders, because I thought that we always had the most fun/best ideas coming up with technology along that route.

Also, if I can figure out how Psi-Borgs work then I'm fairly sure EDE would allow me to add them into the fluff/capabilities of Vault 101 as a reward for figuring that and psionic-machines out with no/next to no information.

Rolled 44

>>27891157
The Mad Scientists hates Richard and thinks he is the one responsible for the assassination attempts

>>27891132
They got a bonus to attack, defense, and speed.

>>27891017
Depends on training basic (human) units all start of balanced but are separated by what they endured/grew up around. Vetency depends on how hard the fighting was and against what. If you keep going up against a certain threat your forces may not climb up the tree but will still get bonuses against repeat foes unless they changed.

difficulty/investment for actions is depending on what your trying to do. Basically the goal is the tip of pyramid the more blocks you have on the bottom dictates how long it will take to reach or may even prove impossible. So basically ask yourself what do the players have and what do they NEED. That should tell you.

heroic bonus depends on the hero/action. Choosing a soldier hero to fight the foe for example will go over a lot better then choosing the scientist.

>>27891100
The old scouts actually did really quite well.

>>27891227
As long as upkeep and maintenance is going on then yes. Just be aware serious overhauls for the neural networking/memory/brain needs major overhauling every 150 years or so other wise real bad things happen.

>>27891263
Specialization is limited. Spiders only happened thanks to Richard and Clora'Zel

>>27891263
Yes. We will do our part to mimic of the best of all worlds have to offer so far.
The bio-tech/automatons of Clora/Richard
Reverse engineer the lasers and shielding and energies of Aduro Corp
A sophistication of hive mind from Memor/Psi-tech

And our greatest, penultimate challenge as a think tank

Magical railguns

Rolled 6

Any other would be QMs want to mine my brain some more or any other questions?

Rolled 6

Hey so if this is the last thread for a while, and spring has come for the bandits. . .what now? Guess we'll just have to let them do their own thing.

Someday we might encounter the bandits led by the strange dancing musical man with the green face.

Rolled 28

>>27891288

Hmm, so a facility specializing in bioborg/borg tech would need a facility and/or hero specializing in biology to pull off self-replicating bioborg units?

I really need to get a junk email for you, because I have a shitload of ideas about Vault 101...but they can't be executed except by the GM and if the players knew then cheating would occur, and I am not as good a GM as you.

Rolled 60

>>27891361
Truth be told anon I wont have access to internet.

>>27891353
How do you make that world go round?

That is, how do you keep tract or plan out the actions of other nations outside the view of sight?

>>27891361
Can I get some insight on that? So I can replace you as the one to laugh and rage at the players stupidity?

Rolled 12

>>27891361

In my head, Vault 101+related facility is on par with the swamp for importance and danger. Maybe even more dangerous, but in a different way.

Rolled 19

>>27891376

Oh. I'm sorry dude. You don't happen to live anywhere near Memphis, TN do you? I might be able to lend you a helping hand with a job or something.

Rolled 49

>>27891418
That sounds. . . very thoughtful but kinda awkward (if it were me). Just my embeded paranoia of meeting people on the internet/4chan.
plus, you know his real name

Rolled 48

>>27891418
Not even close. As is I am already on my knees and that is always when life likes to pound on me the hardest. Really is being quite the clusterfuck for me. Even worse is that my past seems to be finally coming back to haunt be beyond just my memories. Basically though this is the last day I have internet access so WOO.

Rolled 8

>>27891379
If they are tied in with the players I roll for it beyond just thinking about how they would roughly be reacting with everything. Make sure to roll for random hit happening though either way.

>>27891462
Too bad that mentality is something many are trying to destroy. Makes me feel old.

Rolled 54

>>27891462

Aah, I see. He revealed his True Name and now refuses to meet because I could extract 3 wishes from him.

>>27891484
I'm sorry man. Good luck getting through it. Never give up. You weren't involved in any drug dealing and have *that* sort of past coming back to haunt you, do you?

Rolled 45

>>27891462
>>27891505

See, I could understand that paranoia back in the day...but the internet isn't a super-secret club of weird people anymore. Everyone and their brother knows about 4chan and spews may-mays from it almost every other sentence. The people on the internet are weird, and people who go on the internet a lot are weird, but I tend to think of that as more a result of being able to be uninhibited in their interactions than they usually could be than anything else.

Rolled 82

>>27891505

So if you roll a Crit, do you ever apply that to a non-PC civ, or do you just spawn an event with it?

Rolled 70

>>27891484
>Meanwhile, in yet another otherworld beyond ours
>Jack Wilson the Genie/QM Quest
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>Rolled 1
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Rolled 17

>>27891621

>Dammit you guys! Why the fuck did you launch those roman candles and scream that song right at our friend!! Seriously, doing that to A-N-Y-O-N-E ELSE would've been brilliant but you chose to do it to our ALLY!

Rolled 53

>>27891521
Fuck if I know I will admit that I did things. Only problem is I know I am being watched so I guess my time has about ran out. If I am 'lucky' its just a favor being called in or I am going to receive an 'offer'. Only problem is I am not a lucky person.

>>27891617
One or the other sometimes both.

>>27891621
Not my real name anon just something I made up. If my name was Jack I wouldn't have so many damned nicknames.


Any setting questions or something?

>>27891699
None that I can think of right now.
Have this very much setting and game related video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrWz9XVvls

>>27891656
How would you feel if the same person that brought the Memor into this world took them out of it? And regrets it deeply.

Rolled 53

>>27891699

Well, once again, good luck. And if there's a deity out there or you believe in one, then he should bless you...or fuck him.

Genie is Eric Snowden and that's why he's so good at intrigue/politics between groups and coming up with crazy world-ending shit and super-technology.

Rolled 97

>>27891766
and that makes you Julian Assange

You guys want me to archive this? It really wasn't much of a game but it's something we can look back on for any future QM's or posterity and fondness. Maybe it's best left for us.

Rolled 81

>>27891762

I wouldn't be too miffed about it, the wound has had time to scab over at this point. The worst part is just how brilliant the plan was...with only just the very slightest flaw that was tragically in the most important part.

Don't blame yourself, it was a typo and a slight mistake.

Fun thing though, I thought about checking my phone for the status of the thread at about the time that would've been opportune to correct the plan...but I was in moderate traffic and only like 5 minutes from home so I figured "Nah, it can wait."

>>27891813
With the treasure-trove of GM secrets that's been exposed? You'd better archive it.

>>27891840
>Don't blame yourself, it was a typo and a slight mistake.
Yeah it was.
The same typo that caused the crusade to go to far.
I'ma go cry now

Rolled 36

>>27891784

Not exactly, though I'm on more than my fair share of watchlists and know more than my fair share of things I shouldn't.

Rolled 44

>>27891866

Aww, it's okay buddy. You made up for it by being the progenitor of our most beloved and long-lasting civilization.

I'll probably finish revising and setting down my Vault 101 fluff...then I might try to run a civ, if my time/studies permit. Maybe not though, I'm considering practicing my skills by running a few of the shitty fantasy one-shot civs off of that one picture.

>>27891953
Yeah, I loved it too tried to nurture it and put as much input as I could
>Scouts with skin like chameleons
>Maybe we can borgify spiders? I have some desgin ideas
>Some good and bad tactical map strategies
>Aduro fluff

>>27891953
I shall be on the look for it always

Rolled 16

>>27891766
ah don't worry despite luck hating me I am amazingly good at getting myself in and out of interesting situations.

Rolled 48

>>27891840
best make sure to keep digging for more treasure troves and secrets don'tcha think?

Also what were the votes for the writefagging character?

Rolled 21

>>27892020

Thanks, maybe it'd be better to just jump in head-first and do a mediocre/bad Post-Apoc Civ. It'd probably get me acclimated quicker and I think I'm better at coming up with scientifically grounded fluff than fantasy.

On the other hand, I've never GM'd anything before and it's a lot more personal investment to come up with a setting for the Post-Apoc setting. (i'd burn through a lot of the fluff ideas I keep on the back-burner on the neighboring factions).

>>27892124
Just remember what is best in life, and that Crom enjoys Valor.

>>27892168
Which one? If you mean the game we wanted CC.
If you mean Rizals exploits that was a unanimous yes.

Rolled 28

>>27892184
Pick up a trip and try it out, while the master is here to critique you

>>27892168
>>27892184
And the five basic rules
1. Remember Ramona
2. Control your Hunger
3. Don't turn on the Crystal Machine
4. Save the Fireworks for Last
5. Fuck the lurklassholes

Rolled 29

>>27892168

So you just kind of intuit the difficulty of various tasks, assign an arbitrary number value as a bonus or penalty to the action attempt that's situationally based, and compare your roll to the players' roll(s)?

Do you come up with a stat-list for each unit and judge their efficiency at certain tasks by it? If so, do you use a base20 or base100 system for it?

>>27892226
>Implying the snow-beasts aren't the Lurklassholes AGAIN!!! MUAHAHAHA!!!!

Rolled 96

>>27892219

Nah, it's too late tonight and I want to finish up Vault 101 before I go writing fluff for other factions.

>>27892168

When you say "for every hero we know...there are two we don't." Do you mean in our ranks as well as the enemies? Do you apply their bonuses to our actions before they're discovered, or not?

Rolled 65

>>27892196
Both...figures.

Great I have no idea what do with Rizal...

>>27892258
Kinda.

Units come in these grades.
Green>Basic>Experienced>Veteran>Elite

Elite units have 1 ability or that mimics what a hero could have.
Badass units have 1 ability or trait that mimics what a hero could have.

Elite Badasses have the above benefits.

Heroes have at least three abilities/traits.

Units have their own strengths and weaknesses which I note. Otherwise its all the same. As for what I use it doesn't really matter as I usually throw it in with the action rolls.

Badass units only form due to a crit will spawn 1 badass unit.

Unit upgrades are based on what they experience. Training prevents downgrading and allows basic skills to be produced but doesn't offer experience that goes to upgrading.

Depending on how well a unit does and what they went up against creates XP which allows upgrading it goes like this.
Green>Basic>Experienced>Veteran>Elite
0>5>25>125>625

Suffice to veterans is HARD enough and an Elite unit is a complete nightmare.

1 XP is equivalent to one was easy task for that force.
2 is basic task.
3 is tough task.
4. Is hard task.
5. Nightmare task.

That is for tasks you also have to include environmental hazards and other threats which also correspond to the above, also remember just because a task may be easy for 1 unit doesn't mean it is for another unit even if their the same type they make have varying experience levels.

>>27892329
Both.

Their benefits do extend its just something you wont necessarily notice.

Rolled 34

>>27892428
Spawns for a formation of bad ass units occurs on a 1d20 that you should roll during conflict.

crit fail means that something went wrong with that unit.

Crit success means a badass unit formed.

That which lies inbetween is something I will let you come up with.

>>27892428
>Great I have no idea what do with Rizal...
Adventures in the old Memor forrest, riding a leaper spider, taking a trip down her families history and listening to Tabula talk about it
Taking a trip to the old megacity to see what lies there, and meeting a strange glowy figure and an old one armed man who seems fond of her
She her dad and surrogate uncle/butler fleshworker taking a trip (or rather being taken along by her) to Carlson World with Mr. Light
Exploits in Boom City, with her aunts, uncles, and cousins young York and Hjork

>>27892428
>>27892478
Sneaking about Umbra Corp in disguise, and talking to a nice little old lady about what one should fight for
A trip to the mysterious wastelands that only the old prophet Mommy used to talk about would visit

Rolled 90

>>27892428
Almost forgot something a doubles in a case of 11 or 64 and 64 means that it is doubled(as in as if two of them occurred). This is not a good thing if the rolls in question were low. This should only occur for the gm unless it is an unusual heroic action that suffers from something like MADNESS which is the only exception.

>>27892478
Don't worry I am going to write about the thing that taught Rizal the useful of appearing as the little girl and more. As in how they first met. I was going to use that bit later but considering I am going on hiatus for a while why not.

Rolled 70

>>27892478

So they sooo obviously used portals to get around. So Clora'Zel has access to portals. Fuck.

Rolled 54

>>27892521

Mmkay...so if the GM rolls an 11 or a 64 as the 'challenge' to the player action/roll then the player action/result is doubled.

Rolled 64

>>27892545
Nope, it mostly includes random event rolls and more. Also the GM roll should NEVER directly effect a player action/result unless the players are in direct conflict with non players.

>>27892478
"Uncle Tabula, why does everyone get mad at daddy around this point in time."
"Well you see child I-. . .um. . .er. . ."

Rolled 97

>>27892577
Rolls to figure out what was occuring in the wider world are not limited by this as it have some effect before and after the declared actions by the players.

Rolled 67

>>27892587
Poor Tabula is the only one who knows the truth of what actually happened. I am definitely going to have to writefag that situation one of these days.

Rolled 50

>>27892577

Hmm...okay I'm not sure I quite get it then.

So if the GM rolls an 11 or 64 then a double random event occurs? Or if the GM rolls an 11 or 64 for an offscreen npc action then the NPCs get a double-result for that action? Or...maybe an example would help.

Rolled 39

>>27892593

How do you come up with researchable items/research trees and bonuses from researchable items? Do you just let players come up with ideas for things to be made, and then judge whether or not what they've researched can serve as a base for it?

(Oh, and what did the Experimental Fluids in the Memor thread do? We never researched them.)

Rolled 80

>>27892622
Lets say the gm rolled a 88. That means that the roll would actually act as if TWO 88s were rolled. This also will occur if 45 was rolled twice. Depending on what the GM was rolling for dictates what may happen.

The only time players benefit from the above is if their using a heroic action that may also be effected by it. Mad Science included despite the first declared roll only.

Example

A.I. EDE rolled a 11 for random event.

Not only do the zombies get active they also acquired some reinforcements.

>>27892662
Its easier to let the players come up with it and think about what they already have roughly established will dictate how much effort they would have to spend if its even possible at all.

Experimental Fluids contained several things. Including something that could break down creature to its base components and DNA. Paralyzing agent and a mutagen or three.

Rolled 20

>>27892620

Do (more-or-less) human groups compose the majority of the remaining population? Do mutant groups tend to be small, vicious things? How often do remnants tend to be mutants?

How common is borg tech? How common is biotech? How common is psi-tech and psi-affinity?

Was Giggles being willing to giggle the thing that no other swamp monster was willing to do?

Rolled 61

>>27892737
Yes cause Giggles is giggles. The apex monster of monsters.

Humans do supposedly. Mutant factions like sticking to areas everyone else avoids so its hard to get factual feel for it correct. Mutant groups may be small or large. Remnants being mutants is...unusual. While augmentation may have been encouraged it was rather rare for mutagenic changes to occur. At least before the Fall some were exposed, others had no choice, while a few even chose to and ect.

borg tech was common at least cyberware was something that you could easily get on the streets. Biotech required specialized facilties so why it was known the basic stuff(such as treating cancer and genetic issues) was accessible the real good stuff was much harder to find.

Psi-Tech was something only commonly seen by supers. It was rare with anyone else.

Psi affinity before major genetic modification, Mad Science, and Syn among other drugs was very rare. Only known to be accessible by supers.

Giggles was always doing stuff no other monster wanted to do or thought possible. Funnily enough Giggles would of been considered an Elite BadAss Hero by the way.

>>27892825
Would neo-Kingdom/Imperial remnants fall under the purvue of govermental remnants?
How about ultra-religious extremists, like inquisition type stuff? I know I fluffed up the Saal, but is that also possible to have other (morally ambiguous/black) religious zealots of other faiths?
Do they have any bonuses or penalties?

Rolled 17

>>27892825

If I fluffed Vault 101 to have discovered a gene-set that allowed for bio-borg augments to be 'mass-produced' that would work specifically with the phenotypes expressed with that gene-set, would that be acceptable fluff-justification for "easy" bioborg mods for Vault citizens? Can humans have mutagens applied to them without becoming explicitly 'mutants'?