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BAM!

KRRRACK!

POW!

Okay, you can stop making the noises brain, you get it. These mafiosos were supposed to be a lot scarier than this, you remember hearing that the "Cosmafia", whose name sucks, is the most ruthless crime organization in the US. Really makes these guys feel like pushovers.

"Hey Wrench," the voice modulator in your helmet distorts your voice to a deep, rumbling baritone, "is it normally this easy?"

Wrench replies in much the same way, "No, sometimes they have a Super, but I've handled those on my own, so this is a cakewalk."

Always looking for a way to feel cool it seems, you've noticed that most Supers have an ego problem, but that must be par for the course. You're train of thought is interrupted by a large man running at you with a bat.

Good thing you practiced...

>SCARS (Focuses on causing the target to flinch into the next attack, extremely painful, but non-lethal)
>Boxing (Focuses on punching the opponent with a closed fist, pretty straight-forward, non-lethal)
>Judo (Focuses on throws and grabs, can take down much larger opponents, non-lethal)
>Krav Maga (Focuses on attacking weak points, highly aggressive, causes serious injury outside of the suit, but inside of the suit it is definitely lethal)

>>40779362
>Judo (Focuses on throws and grabs, can take down much larger opponents, non-lethal)

>>40779362
>>Boxing (Focuses on punching the opponent with a closed fist, pretty straight-forward, non-lethal)

>>40779362
>>SCARS (Focuses on causing the target to flinch into the next attack, extremely painful, but non-lethal)

>>40779362
>>Judo (Focuses on throws and grabs, can take down much larger opponents, non-lethal)

Writing, no need for rolls.

Judo.

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You flip the mafioso over your back and throw him across the alleyway where this drug deal was going down. He hits the wall with a thud and is out cold.

"Sir, there are reinforcements heading your way. It seems the mafia has an investment in that cargo they don't want to lose." RON has been monitoring all data for this part of town, so he can see through traffic cameras and the like. Makes you wonder what the mafia wants this cargo for.

"Hey, I think we're done here." Wrench has put the unconscious crooks in a pile next to a dumpster and called the police.

"So what exactly is this cargo? Why are they willing to bring reinforcements?"

"Beats me. We should get out of here though."

"Agreed."

The black van at the end of the alley is definitely shady, you picked up that it was criminals right away. Why is it always black or white vans? Why not something less suspicious? Anyway.

>Open up the back to see what the cargo is
>Just get in and drive
>Set up an ambush for the reinforcements
>Write-in

>>40779583
>>Set up an ambush for the reinforcements

why are they so persistent on this cargo

>>40779583
>Just get in and drive

>>40779583
>>Set up an ambush for the reinforcements

Weird, jets flying around, Writing

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"Wait, RON, how many vans are coming?"

"Two sir."

"We can take them."

You start setting up an ambush, this is a great time to test out a new invention of yours. Lightning bugs were an idea that you're rather proud of, make tasers the size of a grain of sand. In the lab they function perfectly, administering the exact voltage of a taser, but they need to be in a group so they can move.

The two vans pull into the alley on either side and they seem to be trying to block in anyone inside. Too bad that roofs exist. Out of the back of each steps a mafioso that is at least eight feet tall flanked by two normal thugs holding high-caliber rifles. Those would definitely pierce your suit, it isn't exactly meant to stop 50 cal. bullets.

The trap is set and the bear is walking the path of its doom. Whatever, you've thought weirder.

>Activate the Lightning Bugs on the gunners
>Stun Beam them
>Try to stealthily take out the gunners
>Write-in

>>40779859
>Activate the Lightning Bugs on the gunners

>>40779859
>>Activate the Lightning Bugs on the gunners

Rolled 58 (1d100)

Okay, I need 1d100
Don't mind me rolling here.

>>40779859
>>Activate the Lightning Bugs on the gunners

Rolled 80 (1d100)

>>40779980

Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>40779980

Still need a roll here. Isn't fair without the full set.

Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>40779980

Okay then, oddly slow right now, Writing

>>40780073
i think its due to your twitter posts

>>40780073
It's because of the jews

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The Lightning Bugs work like a charm and the four non-roided thugs are on the ground writhing in pain with their guns laying on the ground. They should be unconscious in a second. However, the Bugs seem to be having no effect on the two big ones besides causing them to twitch a bit. Finally one turns so you can see its face and...

That isn't supposed to look that way, is he cosplaying as Frankenstein's monster? Is this some kind of fear tactic? It looks real, at least from a distance.

The two hulking crooks seem to be idly wandering around, not even once looking at their compatriots' guns and instead just kind of grunting at each other. You have to admit, their commitment to the role is incredible, and they must have some kind of grounding mechanism to not be affected by the Bugs.

"Should we go down there?"

>Shoot Stun Beams at them
>Ignite your Plasma Blades and go for an aerial assault
>Jump down to their level
>Write-in

>>40780085
Yeah, I think instead of posting at the beginning of the week, I'll post the day before.

>>40780198
>>Ignite your Plasma Blades and go for an aerial assault

ohh great two Salomon Grundy like thugs

>>40780198
>>Ignite your Plasma Blades and go for an aerial assault
Zombie Grundys

>>40780198
>Ignite your Plasma Blades and go for an aerial assault

>>40780198
You should post the day of.

>>40780198
>>Ignite your Plasma Blades and go for an aerial assault

>>40780198
PUH-LAS-MUH

Rolled 31 (1d100)

Need 1d100+10

>>40780232
At least you didn't say Saruman Grundy, because it's a bit too soon for that joke.

Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>40780333
Top cuck

Rolled 85 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>40780333

Rolled 24 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>40780333
Rellon mate

Rolled 80 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>40780333

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Rolled 66 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>40780356
Nice

>>40780356
On a roll, writing.

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"Who said anything about going down there?" You smile, and ignite your blades. This is the first time that you get to use them outside of practice. If these guys are really zombies, no need to keep the kiddie gloves on. You activate your jetpack and take a running jump off the building. Swooping around back through the alleyway, you take a few slices at the two undead cretins. One of them is completely decapitated by a flying slash to the neck, while the other loses an arm to a flurry of cuts. The first thing you notice is that the headless one turns into ashes shortly after it's injury. The second thing you notice is that the one-armed thug is still moving and doesn't even seem fazed by the injury. You drop to the ground and get into a defensive stance.

It quickly whips it's dismembered arm at you, but it couldn't hit the broad side of a barn evidently. It seems to be getting ready to charge you.

>Do the Judo that you know
>Dodge and slash
>Fly over it
>Shoot it with a Stun Beam
>Write-in

>>40780499
>Dodge and slash

>>40780499
>>Do the Judo that you know
time to flip a bitch

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>>40780499
>Do the Judo that you know

I wonder if we can adapt them later into shape-changing plasma weapons.

>>40780499
>>Do the Judo that you know

>>40780499
>Do the Judo that you know

Rolled 76 (1d100)

1d100+5 for the Judo please

Rolled 73 + 5 (1d100 + 5)

>>40780625
FLIP

Rolled 10 + 5 (1d100 + 5)

>>40780625

Rolled 38 (1d100)

>>40780625

Rolled 30 + 5 (1d100 + 5)

>>40780625

Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>40780633
>>40780625
Pretty good

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>>40780633
Block, Chop, it's all in the mind.
From what I am writing, you'll see you're fine.

>>40780695
i blocked, choped, and i see im fine so i take on crime

>>40780712
YOU GOT TO BELIEVE

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You prepared for this, if this isn't what Judo is for, then fuck that teacher guy. Well, this isn't exactly training on that girl from Cooking who also does Judo, for one she didn't smell like a crematorium. But this should work.

The brute growls and scrapes the ground like a bull, like a stupid, undead, bull. How fitting that you're wearing red. Then he charges and you realize that you may have miscalculated your stance a bit. Instead of going for the shoulder wide stance that you use for class, you spread your legs a bit farther and shift to the side. This guy should be heavier than your normal sparring partner.

The hulking pile of gray flesh hits you like a steamroller, or at least it would have if you didn't take all that momentum and put it into a flip. You almost messed up your stance, any different and this guy would have sent you flying. The mountainous cadaver hits the ground behind you with a sickening crack.

It doesn't dissolve, so you start curbstomping it for a bit and soon enough it disappears into a cloud of ash.

"Sir, there was an anomaly in communications, cause unknown. Will investigate later, no evidence of reinforcements headed towards you."

>Leave the van for the proper authorities and fly out with Wrench
>Check the cargo van
>Wait for the proper authorities and give your account of the events
>Write-in

>>40780862
>Check the cargo van
>Wait for the proper authorities and give your account of the events
We have a voice shifter right?

>>40780862
>Check the cargo van

>>40780862
>>Check the cargo van

>>40780890
You do

>>40780890
Yep

>>40780862
>>Check the cargo van

Mystery box it is,
Writing

>>40780862
>Check the cargo van

>>40780987
Random encounter event?

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Now to see what those crooks were so interested in, you open the back of the van. Inside are crates filled with drugs of every kind. Depressants, stimulants, the works. But you've taken down these shipments before, and they never used this much force against you.

You start searching the van and find a secret compartment under the driver's seat. Inside the hole is a briefcase that has a 3-digit combination. Yeah, fuck that. You cut the lock with your blade and the case swings open. Inside is what looks like a totem of a crow with an exaggerated beak. It kind of looks like Gonzo from the Muppets, if he got into heroin.

"Hey man, wait for me next time. I want to kill zombies too." Wrench startled you and you almost dropped the case, you don't know what this does so that might not be a good thing.

"Whoa, what's that? Does the Cosmafia really like Muppets or something?"

The police should be here in a few minutes, and they will want this... thing.

>Take it with you and leave, it'll be stolen if the police take it
>Leave it and fly away
>Stay for the police and hide the thing
>Stay for the police and show them
>Write-in

>>40781106
>>Take it with you and leave, it'll be stolen if the police take it

>>40781106
>>Take it with you and leave, it'll be stolen if the police take it

>>40781106
"Wanna bet this is magic and we'll need to find the Magician Magnificent or somesuch to find out what it is?"

>>40781106
>Take it with you and leave, it'll be stolen if the police take it

Work out someplace to store it securely while we look up wtf it is.

Almost always a bad idea to have valuable weird items out in the open.

>>40781106
>>Stay for the police and hide the thing

i want the police to like us

>>40781106
Stay and hide it

>>40781126
>>40781131
>>40781146

Seconding this option. We can check with our Super contacts and have R.O.N. sweep the internet for anything related to it in the meanwhile.

Last option would be to take it to a regular historian or anthropologist to identify, although that may raise unwanted questions.

>>40781106

>Take it with you and leave, it'll be stolen if the police take it

>>40781192
>not finding a sassy hoodoo super

Okay, taking it with you.
Writening

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"How much you wanna bet that this is magic?"

"Well you did just fight zombies so..."

You take the briefcase and seal it up with duct tape. Every Super should have duct tape, never not useful and all that. You are once again flying after making sure Wrench had his ride covered, but this time you decided to fly high enough that nobody can see you. Don't want any rumors about your integrity.

"RON, query the picture of the item I recovered."

"Already did sir, I found an article on it. With its long beak, single eye, and oddly monkish hair, this cane handle, which could also be used as a pipe, has become a quick favorite in the New Media Department (we're calling it "vulture pelican thing"—lovingly, of course). We don't know much about the object's past—who made it, when they made it, or where it might have come from are all mysteries—which, if you ask us, makes the handle even creepier."

"That it RON?"

"Yes sir."

You fly to within a block of Uncle Wong's and take off the suit. One of your favorite things about it is that it folds neatly into the just a few parts, then it fits in your backpack. You do so and walk to Uncle Wong's for some chow mein or something, like you normally are wont to do on Saturdays. You get some noodles and beef to go, then walk to the lab. It takes just under an hour to get there and the door opens with a small beep.

>Try to find more about the handle online
>Call the Ex-villains to find more about it, they might know somebody
>Call Mr. Salvos, maybe he knows a guy
>Write-in

>>40781410
>>Call Mr. Salvos, maybe he knows a guy
lets see what the super friends know

>>40781410
>Call Mr. Salvos, maybe he knows a guy

>>40781410
>Call Mr. Salvos, maybe he knows a guy

Rolled 32 (1d100)

Writing and rolling and makin' my lunch.

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Maybe Mr. Salvos knows somebody that can examine this. He knows people right? And being a Super for a decade or so must mean he has encountered something similar at least once.

After about an hour of deliberation, it seems that neither Swordsman, Lady Liberty, or Wrench know anybody who could help who doesn't hate them or The Red Rider. Seems Dad rubbed mages the wrong way. International Heroes United is a huge organization, and not being a part of it closes a lot of doors, but they normally work for tax exemptions or privileges so many Supers are non-union.

On the bright side, Uncle Wong's still tastes delicious, the cane handle is safe, and you busted a bunch of crooks. So this mission wasn't a complete failure.

"Sir, after investigating the anomaly from earlier, it seems it was caused by an electrical disturbance, similar to a storm."

"So, anything about that kind of magic stuff, it seems impossible, but I fought a zombie."

"There are many Supers that claim their powers are magical, but this is un-quantifiable, so nobody can prove anything."

>It is 1PM on Saturday

>Call the Ex-villains, maybe they know a guy
>Scour the web
>Experiment on the handle
>Write-in

>>40781788
>Experiment on the handle

>>40781788

>Scout the web
>experiment on the handle

Let's just monitor the handle, no direct stimulation or hard scans. I don't want to let the evil souls escape or whatever by triggering it with a laser beam.

>>40781788
>Ask Grandpa?

>>40781788
>Scour the web
>Experiment on the handle

>>40781788
>>Scour the web

>>40781788
>>Call the Ex-villains, maybe they know a guy
This seems like a villain thing to know

>>40781827
He's part of the Ex-villains

Now how do you want RON to experiment on the handle while you scour?

>Scan it, density, material, the works, but no direct contact
>Take samples of the material and test them for odd properties
>Dissect this shit robot man
>Write-in

>>40781936
>>Scan it, density, material, the works, but no direct contact

>>40781936
>>Scan it, density, material, the works, but no direct contact

>>40781936
Yes

>>40781936
>>Scan it, density, material, the works, but no direct contact

Scan it is.
Writing

Rolled 2 (1d100)

I was too hasty to get food, need 1d100 +10

Rolled 52 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>40782176

Rolled 31 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>40782176

Rolled 98 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>40782176

Rolled 67 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>40782176
well just from passive scans like ultra sound cat scan mri all things I am sure we have in our lab we should be able to tell tones about this thing.

>>40782176
>>40782219
This has got to be a critical success

>>40782235
it is for crits in this quest it 1-5 and 95-100

>>40782176
>>40782219
Well...
Good news and bad news...
in a bit, writing

>>40782270
>bad news...
like this is what it is and represents bad news or we almost nuked the city again bad news

>>40782307
Grandpas a lich bad news?

>>40782307
a fungal parasite is taking over people and linking them into a hive mind?

>>40782307
grandpa hacked our lab tried our immorality research and is now a cold killer robot?

>>40782307
Spores from outer space turn men into zombies called by magic trinket .

>>40782270
>>40782307
>>40782346
I assume something really bad happened, but we handled it really well.

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You get into a rhythm with the whole internet thing, the interface works intuitively, the processors keep this going fast, and your fingers dance across the keyboard. Normal internet brought up nothing but articles about it, but the deep web sung like a bird. After filtering through all the hitman ads and other tripe, you come across a page about something that looks similar.

"Artifacts found, cheap, useful* to aspiring mages and novice magicians. *We are not responsible for injury caused by artifact use"

It goes on to list artifacts that look really creepy and esoteric, among them are things that look similar to the handle. Everything that looks like the handle is related to calling spirits or cursing people, all of which are made of elk antler and are styled after an animal. Then you come across a picture of the object you found.

"Necromantic Catalyst, use with Caution- Sold"

"Sir, the handle disappeared."

"You mean from view, right?"

"No, sir, it is no longer here"

...

>Should see if the Ex-villains have an expert to bring in
>Trace this webpage and beat the shit out of the owner until he tells you who bought it
>Investigate how the fuck it disappeared
>Write-in

>>40782636
>>Investigate how the fuck it disappeared

>>40782636
>>Should see if the Ex-villains have an expert to bring in

>>40782636
>Should see if the Ex-villains have an expert to bring in
>Trace this webpage and beat the shit out of the owner until he tells you who bought it
>Investigate how the fuck it disappeared

We can ask the old villians if they know any magic super hero we can hit up, tracing the page shouldnt be a problem with RON, even on the darknet, and we can run analysis on how it just up and vanished on the lab while we wait on both accounts.

>>40782636
>>Investigate how the fuck it disappeared

>>40782636
>>Trace this webpage and beat the shit out of the owner until he tells you who bought it
>>Investigate how the fuck it disappeared

>>40782636
>>Trace this webpage and beat the shit out of the owner until he tells you who bought it

>>40782636
>>Should see if the Ex-villains have an expert to bring in
>>Trace this webpage and beat the shit out of the owner until he tells you who bought it
>>Investigate how the fuck it disappeared

Rolled 35 (1d100)

Gonna need a roll. 1d100 please

Rolled 17 (1d100)

>>40782791

Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>40782791

Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>40782791

Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>40782791
smash his pimply face in with his keyboard

Hooray, mediocrity

Writing

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>40782791

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>40782791

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FUCK, time to check this out. You walk into the lab and the handle is just... gone. Not a trace of anything, it straight up vanished. All that you can see is an empty spot where it used to be. You pass your hand through where it was before and it seems colder than the other air, and thermal scans confirm this. This is impossible, stuff doesn't disappear.

"RON, trace the website!"

"Sir, there is no website on the computer."

"Bullshit, I- FUCK! GODDAMN WIZARDS AND SHIT!"

>Stress Level: Kind of rustled

Well then, all that leaves is the Ex-villains. You call up your Grandpa and his friends, and they do, in fact, know a guy. You give him the address of the lab as well as tell Grandpa to make sure that he's trustworthy. Apparently he is, so that settles it, he said the guy will be here by 4.

>It is 2PM on Saturday

>Have RON make milkshakes for later
>Clean up
>Investigate again
>Write-in

>>40783074
>>Clean up
>>Investigate again

>>40783074

>Have RON make milkshakes for later

There is no problem in the great wide world that cannot be made better via tactical milkshakes.

>>40783074

>Clean up

>>40783074
>>Have RON make milkshakes for later
>>Clean up

>>40783074
>>Have RON make milkshakes for later
>>Clean up
Milkshakes are boss

>>40783074
>>Have RON make milkshakes for later
>Clean up

>>40783074
>>Clean up
>Investigate again

>>40783074

>Have RON make milkshakes for later
>Clean up

>>40783074
>>Clean up
>>Investigate again

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Milkshakes and cleaning
Writing

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"RON, start on the agreement milkshakes"

"Yes sir."

You start cleaning up all of the parts and tools that are constantly laying around the lab, you even scrub the metal floors. You don't know why Dad went with metal floors, but it certainly has an aesthetic. You go to great lengths to make sure that nothing that doesn't look cool, sleek, and polished is out in the open. Then you set up two chairs in the front room so that there's more than one place to sit.

The doorbell rings and outside is a man in a dark green robe with gray hair and a leather-bound book.

"Hello, I'm Gerome Abnezer and I'm here about the thing." Professionalism at its finest.

"Come on in."

"So, what seems to be the problem?"

>"I need to know who you were first"
>"I had a thing and it sort of disappeared"
>Explain everything
>Write-in

>>40783528
>"I had a thing and it sort of disappeared"

>>40783528
>>"I had a thing and it sort of disappeared"
It was here then it wasnt, you know what I mean right?

>>40783528
>"I had a thing and it sort of disappeared"
>Ask him what kind of stuff he used to do, like we'd ask a science what field he studies/ed

>>40783528
>>"I need to know who you were first"
>Write-in
Then have RON display a picture of the item.

>>40783582
>>40783528
Oh yeah, visual AIDS are good

>>40783528
Compliment those robes.

>>40783582
Backing.

>>40783528
Compliment his garb!
>>"I had a thing and it sort of disappeared"
Display a picture of it.

>>40783528
>>Explain everything

Okay, give me a 1d100+20

>>40783648
This seems to cover it. Voting this.

Rolled 81 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>40783705

Rolled 55 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>40783705

Rolled 13 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>40783705

Rolled 46 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>40783705

gods for the dice dice

Good job, writing

Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>40783705

Yay cought this one! Damn comcast and it's bs.

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"I like the robe, very stylish."

"Thank you, it's so hard to find Supers who still appreciate that sort of thing. People running around dressed casually to rob a bank... what a joke."

"So, I had a thing and it kind of disappeared, and I was hoping you could help."

"What was it?" You bring up a picture to show him what you're missing.

He looks shocked for a moment."I'm going to take a wild guess and say that this wasn't yours, you don't strike me as the magic type."

"You are correct."

"Well then whoever this belonged to summoned it."

"What? And what is it if you mind me asking?"

"It is a Necromantic Catalyst, it enhances necromancy, and it seems whoever you took it from used a summoning spell to bring it to them. If you want to find the guy, check any place where corpses are. Always a safe bet."

He opens his book and flips through it a bit.

"Interesting, this catalyst is rather high-grade, no wonder he wanted it."

>Ask more questions (What?)
>"RON, bring out the milkshakes."
>Write-in

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>40783934

>"RON..."
>Milkshakes fix everything!
>Rolling for critically delicious milkshakes.

>>40783934
>Ask more questions (What?)
Tell him about the zombies we fought ask if he has any ideas where they would come from and who could do that.

>>40783934
>Ask more questions (What?)
"What should I expect of this necromancer?"
"Any measures I can take for protection?"
Also mention the zombies, ask if that is any indication of the necromancer's power.

OH AND MILKSHAKES

>>40783934
Ask about where we would find brutish cadavers.

>>40783934
>>"RON, bring out the milkshakes."
>Ask more questions (What?)
Tell me more about magic, where can I find out more about the subject?

>>40783934
>>Ask more questions (What?)
is there any way to track Necromancy

>>40783934
>"RON, bring out the milkshakes."
>Write-in
Bring up a list of morgues and cemetery's in the city. Also any execution centers, since criminal corpses are less likely to be missed.

Also list crematoriums and their like, no telling if folks bodies are being nicked on the sly and wood ash put in their place.
After that we need a list of known magical practitioners in the area to cross list against.

>>40783934
Does the number and phsyicality mean anything about his magical strength?

I think general consensus is asking for more information on magic and necromancy, while getting Ron to look up most probable places to steal bodies.

>>40783934
so can anyone do this magic stuff?
recommend any good books on the subject?
(we gotta find a way to protect ourselves from this bullshit)

>>40784108
Pretty much
Writing/checking shit

>>40783934
"The spot it was summoned from actually is still quite cold. I don't know shit about magic, but could someone like you figure out just WHERE it was summoned to?"

>>40784126
>Magitech armour
>Red Paladin

>>40783955
>>Milkshakes fix everything!
Until we roll a critfail on social roll and turns out somebody is lactose intolerant

>>40784134
Oh good question that

>>40784147
thats just another type of armor we will always be the Red Knight

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>>40784147

>literally gifted one of the finest scientific minds in generations
>acing every role to create awesome new tech
>GUISE LET'S PLAY WITH MAGIC

pic pretty much related

>>40784194
In the immortal words of Arthur C. Clarke

>"Any technology, if sufficiently advanced, would be utterly indistinguishable from magic."

Or, and this is what our plot point would be spent on,

"Magic is simply science that we don't understand yet."

>>40784194
Nah man, you forge an item of both tech and magic fused together. Something that breaks physics and then abuses that further with impossible tech.

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>>40784194
Magic is just science you don't understand yet, jesus christ stop being such a faggot.

>>40784258
i was about to say that

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>>40784194
please stop

>>40784262

Is there a concrete distinguishing factor at work here?

Is magic "HOLY FUCK THIS MAKES NO LOGICAL SENSE" or is it just highly advanced technology?

If it's the former, I see no reason why we would want to use it. We are excellent and deconstructing problems and building solutions. We are a tinkerer, inventory, engineering prodigy and future industrial-tech magnate.

>I'm going to ignore the fact that all this magic bullshit is pretty much antithetical to our character because MAGITECH GUYS SO COOL

>>40784194
Doctor Doom.

>>40784331
How is it opposite if you already proved you have absolutely no idea what it is or how it works and thus can make no claims about wheter it's incompatible or not?
And why would someone with an inquisitive mind not want to understand something about the universe he doesn't quite get yet?
Purist fag detected.

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"What should I expect of this necromancer?"

"Necromancers use curses and summon spirits to do their will, expect zombies and maybe a few spirits"

"Any measures I can take for protection?"

"Sage normally deals with curses, and burning or decapitating zombies kills them. Spirits can be affected by large amounts of energy or magic.

"Does the size and strength of the zombies indicate anything of the necromancer's power, because I fought two big ones that turned into ash when I killed them?"

"No. it's normally the numbers that determine skill."

"Is there a way that I could get into magic?"

"Not based on what I see now, in order to gain knowledge from the magical world, you must forsake knowledge of the physical world. I don't think that's your thing."

"The spot it was summoned from actually is still quite cold. I don't know shit about magic, but could someone like you figure out just WHERE it was summoned to?"

"Someplace cold. Summoning magic is very complex and almost impossible to track, but it's short range so he is in the city."

"Could I integrate magic into my technology?"

"It is really hard, and would probably cause one to mess up the other because the two are antithetical, but there are people who have done so with guns. I wouldn't recommend putting magic near digital stuff, it really messes with it."

>"RON, milkshakes."
>"I still kind of want to know the theory behind magic."
>"Who could I contact about this magical technology?"
>"Who were you?"
>Write-in

>>40784331
The defining features of a scientific mind is curiosity powered by imagination.

>>40784463
>"RON, milkshakes."

>>40784463
>"It is really hard, and would probably cause one to mess up the other because the two are antithetical, but there are people who have done so with guns. I wouldn't recommend putting magic near digital stuff, it really messes with it."

Based QM.

>"Who could I contact about this magical technology?"

>>40784463
>>"RON, milkshakes."
>"Who were you?"

>>40784463
>"Who were you?"
>"RON, milkshakes."

>>40784463
>"Don't underestimate me, man. Theoretical physics and tugging at the heartstrings of the universe is something I'm already profiting from. After all, Magic is simply science we don't understand yet." Give him a nice, wide smile as the milkshakes come out.

>>40784463
>>"RON, milkshakes."
>"Who were you?"

>>40784514
Hurr durr furr
QM just doesn't want Tom to be OP, you immense faggot.

Science is in the fucking method
Being really hard doesn't mean impossible either, jesus fuck

Pisoelectric actuators are really hard to make into actual functioning electric muscles, making some new element that gives off immense power is IMPOSSIBLY hard, but the character did it.
Don't sperg about Muh Magic x Science dichotomy in a fucking comic book quest.

>>40784463
>>"RON, milkshakes."
>"Who were you?"
Can we ask, if he knows any wards. To prevent anything to effect our lab.
Say A magic ward, who can make our lab magic resistent, making anything that goes in unable to be found while in here, and can't be summoned. As a way to keep the magic shit we earned off the street. Even if we just throw it in a vault, and forget about the magic shit. Our shit is still our shit.

>>40784463
>"RON, milkshakes."
>"Who could I contact about this magical technology?"
>"Is your cape custom made? Is there some specialized tailor that makes these?"

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Think of it this way guys, Magic and Science are two sides of a coin. Okay, and you can only use one at a time, but if you can somehow tilt the coin a bit then Magitech sort of works. Magic is not a major thing you can do because you are a scientist, using powerful magic requires a certain degree of miseducation about the universe. Pic related is advanced Magitech.

But anyways, captcha's showing me ice cream so time to write.

>>40784728
But, OP, those are all the same side of the coin!

>>40784752
>>40784752
The other side is hidden! Dun Dun Dun

>>40784728
so you're saying we need magnets to keep the coins standing up? fucking magnets

>>40784752
No sir, you just are constraining your viewpoint to the coins themselves and not the aura of their flow.
>>40784797
But the magnets are merely an esoteric symbol for the inner demons of the universe

...I really should start writing instead of fucking with you.

>>40784728
Sounds like if we ever tried it seriously it'd be a two person job.

e.g. we would have to date a magician.
Suppose we'll have to see if we have starks track record with GF's or not.

>>40784851
we hire a hick that thinks the earth is 4000 years old and flat then give him a magic tome

>>40784868

>bro-tier cleric

>>40784868
So your saying we need to go to the American south?

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>>40784914
>>40784910

>>40784833
sounds like something we would make a RON to learn attach the robot brain with magic knowledge on our shoulder to cast spells for us.

>>40785008
The dawn of Cyber Wizards is nigh.

>>40785008
>digital stuff doesn't work with magic
>thinks a robot can cast shit
Hah

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"If you don't mind me asking, who were you?" He smiles in a way that looks like he just remembered something beautiful.

"I was the Sanguine Sorcerer, I got out of that when I found out it was taking its toll on my family."

This is the guy who killed The Renegade! That was not what you expected, he doesn't even wear red!

"Any wards you can do on this place?"

"Sure, just give me a minute."

He closes his eyes and the lights go out, then a slow whistling noise bounces around you. It probes each wall and then migrates back to the chair across from you, the lights flash back on and Gerome is sitting comfortably in front of you.

"RON, Milkshakes please." The micro-actuators flood out of the back room carrying two platters with milkshakes on them.

"I have to admit, that's cooler than levitating them." He drinks his milkshake with a look of childlike wonder on his face.

"I remember the world's fair when they showed off the microwave, not even on par with this. But I have to go, thank you for the drink, and good luck with the whole necromancer thing."

He walks out the door and fades until you cannot see him.

Wizards, man.

>It is 5PM on Saturday.

>Look through different stories about morgues, cemeteries, and crematoriums
>Have RON do that and go out with Jeana for dinner
>Drop by Fabritzio's Pizza for dinner alone
>Write-in

>>40785146
>>Have RON do that and go out with Jeana for dinner

>>40785146
>Have RON do that and go out with Jeana for dinner

>>40785146
>Look through different stories about morgues, cemeteries, and crematoriums
Let's go full-Richards.

>>40785146
>>Have RON do that and go out with Jeana for dinner

this is why we have RON to do the simple tasks

>>40785146
>Have RON do that and go out with Jeana for dinner

Keeps our instability low, and she's a a qt nerd redhead.

>>40785146
>Have RON do that and go out with Jeana for dinner

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>>40784981
Prime wizard material
>>40785191
Oh shit why?

RON is a bro AI.

>>40785260
We should give him a girlfriend AI called NORA

>>40785232
We don't have a character flaw yet. This is supposed to be a gawd dayum super-hero, and we don't have a fatal flaw yet.

>>40785146
>Have RON do that and go out with Jeana for dinner

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>>40785280
That's what you think.

>>40785280
arrogance
we strait up made the theoretical physics teacher look like an idiot and called her out too.

>>40785299
Thats some fight club shit right there.

Rolled 12 (1d100)

Oh boy oh boy I get to roll the special thing!
Then writing.

>>40785280

It seems like if we SCIENCE too hard or roll low on stress checks we start to approach schizoid break levels.

>>40785299
You know, we have no way of knowing we haven't already fought Menace. We need to think of some way to know if and when we fought him.

>>40785300
That's not arrogance, he only did the theorem because he let it slip that it was wrong. It wasn't on purpose, and it wasn't to humiliate her, plus he didn't mock her or anything.

>>40785299
Science help us all..
>>40785300
That wasn't anything close to arrogant. That was us correcting a mistake. If we were arrogant we'd have taken credit for the Boombox fiasco.

>>40785280
Hyperactivity, easily distractible.

Really, someone could dangle a shiny piece of it might be tech in front of our face and we'd go for it.

>>40785342
Aha.
Ahahaha.

>>40785280
Breakdowns, hyperactivity, and very easily stressed.

>>40785359
I've never been so glad that my ex loved Dr. Who. We mark our arm with a permanent marker if we see him.

>>40785359
Mark our arm.
Maybe with something sharp.

See: The Silence.

Is the menace Creeper's evolution?

>>40785280
We kinda have that Instability and breakdowns thing...
Seriously we nearly murdered a random mugger with overwhelming force because we had a bad day.

I honestly feel those aren't things that actually plague him.
The supposed Hyperactivity is just him thinking quickly, it doesn't have any actual consequences so far.
The only time we've broken down was during an attempted mugging when we hadn't been in any real danger yet.
Stress is all dependent on the work load, so its not a real problem.

>>40785551
He is the definition of someone with a mental disorder. One step too far and he goes bonkers, and he's always close to the line specially seeing the way he thinks.

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Well, time for dinner, might as well call Jeana to see if she wants to come. She seems to have felt better about being intimate with you after Christmas Vacation. Not that kind of intimate, the one where she tells you things about herself. Her dad was a drunk and the family hated him for it. She always got to a point, then she started sobbing and you would hug her and tell her it was alright. Oh right, dinner.

"RON, call Jeana please."

"There is a strange electromagnetic anomaly blocking out the institute. Most likely magic sir."

Before he even finishes that sentence you have the suit on and by the time he finishes you are out the door. To hell with subtlety, this is important, luckily nobody is out on the streets right now. You take off at breakneck speed toward CCI.

When you arrive there is only one word to describe what is happening as a horde of ashen corpses swarm the campus.

Hell.

>That's it for sensational issue ten and the beginning of the Local arc! But stop right there! Points!

>You got no Plot Points, they gonna be hard to get now
>You got two Tech Points! No, they aren't magic.
>Congratulations! There is now a chance of terrible tragedy!

>Tech next post.

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>You have two Tech Points, they regenerate slowly over time, you get two per thread

Un-Researched:

>Nano-Limb: Makes a limb of attached Micro-Actuators, requires some way to interface with the nervous system

>CLOAK bots: A build of Micro-Actuators able to shift color, near invisible when employed, weaker than normal.

>Piercing Beam: Uses Plasma to cut through materials in a thin beam, useful against armored Supers.

>Increased Capacity: Increases the slots in one part of your armor by one.

>Hyper-Hydraulics: Use compounded Micro-Actuators to increase armor lifting capabilities to 2 tons.

>NerveJack: A thin cable that functions as a nerve and can be used as such.

>>40785582
Every genius has a mental disorder to some degree. He's a little spastic at worst.

>>40785652
>Increased Capacity: Increases the slots in one part of your armor by one.
>CLOAK bots: A build of Micro-Actuators able to shift color, near invisible when employed, weaker than normal.

>>40785652
>>Increased Capacity: Increases the slots in one part of your armor by one.
>>Hyper-Hydraulics: Use compounded Micro-Actuators to increase armor lifting capabilities to 2 tons.

>>40785652
>CLOAK bots: A build of Micro-Actuators able to shift color, near invisible when employed, weaker than normal.
>Piercing Beam: Uses Plasma to cut through materials in a thin beam, useful against armored Supers.

>>40785652
>Increased Capacity: Increases the slots in one part of your armor by one.
>Hyper-Hydraulics: Use compounded Micro-Actuators to increase armor lifting capabilities to 2 tons.

>>40785652

>Increased capacity
>NerveJack

>>40785652
>Increased Capacity: Increases the slots in one part of your armor by one.

>Hyper-Hydraulics: Use compounded Micro-Actuators to increase armor lifting capabilities to 2 tons.

>>40785652
>Increased Capacity: Increases the slots in one part of your armor by one.
Helmet, gotta get that sensor array plus the mind shield.

>Piercing Beam: Uses Plasma to cut through materials in a thin beam, useful against armored Supers.

>>40785551
See, I think it's a more subtle problem:
>stress is all dependent on the work load, so it's not a real problem.

I don't think we will ever diminish our work load. It doesn't feel in character. We believe that our hyperintelligence lets us do everything, so we WANT to do everything.

We're an engine we can't turn off.

And that's what's going to get us. It's like Tony making Ultron because he was trying to save the World. (or, comic universe, Pym making Ultron for roughly the same reason). We will keep pushing. we won't stop. Our suit already contains a dozen technologies that could revolutionize the world, and we're using them to beat up thugs in alleys because we are the only person we trust with our tech.

We're pretty clearly at least mildly megalomaniacal,

>>40785652
>Nerve Jack
>Increased Capacity

>>40785652
>>Hyper-Hydraulics: Use compounded Micro-Actuators to increase armor lifting capabilities to 2 tons.

>Piercing Beam: Uses Plasma to cut through materials in a thin beam, useful against armored Supers.

>>40785660
You do know that last thread you permanently crippled a guy.

And you succeeded the Breakdown check for that one.
>>40785705
To be completely honest, lessening the workload would probably be worse on Thomas since it helps him get the ideas out.

>>40785705

I am anon and I approve this message.

>>40785705
Except for the fact that we're patenting and releasing them.

>>40785703
>Helmet, gotta get that sensor array plus the mind shield.
i think you mean chest because all we got is a jet pack not the armor i dont want to get killed do you

>>40785731
He was asking for it.

>>40785731

>permanently crippled a guy

You know, maybe we can do something about that.

Maybe we can get him a free NanoLimb set-up when we get around to selling them?

>>40785782
he was a criminal that had Thomas's girlfriend at gun point fuck that guy

Tallying these votes.

>>40785805
>not rehabilitating criminals and getting them decent jobs where you can keep an eye on them
THE GREAT HYPERDIMENSIONAL CONQUEROR is now a clerk at our accounting department, and Bal'Ghoz Eater of Souls works in the RH department

>>40785652
Piercing Beam
NerveJack

Hey, when can we start makking stupidly good metals?

>>40785652
>>Increased Capacity: Increases the slots in one part of your armor by one.
>NerveJack: A thin cable that functions as a nerve and can be used as such.

>>40785731
True enough. That was part of the "engine we can't turn off" bit. We not only won't stop, it would actively hurt us to stop. We will keep pushing, and it WILL hurt people. There's nothing we can do to stop it.

It reminds me a little of the Godlike take on why HyperIntelligent Talents didn't change WW2 as much as they could have. Yes, they had the minds to invent better, more powerful weapons. They also had the minds capable of grasping the amount of pain and death those weapons would create.

>>40785741
I...may have only started reading with this thread. My bad.
I stand by the fact that with the SCALE of the tech we're making, using it to personally fight crime is a touch irresponsible.

Increased Capacity and Piercing Beam. Sorry for the people who missed the cutoff, But ten minutes is the vote.

Now... what slot should have Increased Capacity?

>Head
>Body
>Arms
>Legs
>Power

>>40785906
>Body
Wanna get both Jetpacks and Armour

>>40785906
>>Body
we can add the armor

>>40785805

Yeah, but legally his punishment would be imprisonment, not crippling.

We should probably try to fix it.

>>40785859
>I stand by the fact that with the SCALE of the tech we're making, using it to personally fight crime is a touch irresponsible.
Well, mundane crime is more like training for when the real super villainy shows up.
And I do not think readying to deal with THOSE is irresponsible.

>I...may have only started reading with this thread. My bad.
Also a short FYI, we have a faint trail of a very, very uncatchable mind- or time-fuckery BBEG left to us from dear old dad. Which got him killed.
So there's quite a personal reason to get ready to rumble.

>>40785906
>>Body

>>40785906
>>Body

>>40785906
>Body

>>40785906

>>40785911
>>40785916

Agreeing with these two anons.

>>40785906
>Body

>>40785838
By the way boss, what would it take to miniaturize the Psi-Nullifier to the point we can wear it unnoticed in civilian dress?

>>40785859
>A touch irresponsible
Kill count: 0
Maim Count(On-screen): 1
My guess is that other individuals would be a little less capable of using our machines to better society without lasting damages to families and communities. We're the best person to use it.
>>40785906
Body

>>40785918
Ah, ok. If we have a credible reason to assume we're going to encounter supervillain attacks, then our superheroics are essentially a form of self-defense training. That's perfectly acceptable.

>>40785960
I meant more the idea of risking ourselves, when our inventing ability is producing higher good for the world. But see above.

>>40785906
Body

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>>40785918
WHAT TRAIL!? WHERE!? WHERE IS HE!? IS IT YOU!?

>>40785948
Not much, it's less noise-cancelling headphones so much as a grounding rod. Anywhere on your person does, but it has to be near your head to really help.

>>40786014
This isn't a very long-running quest, you can read up at suptg if you want.
>>40785960
yes, the reason that you can use the Micro-Actuators and such so well is technomancy, specifically on digital electronics.

Pretty clear vote

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Armor customization!

Each slot except the Body holds one technology

>Head[Psionic Nullifying Waves] or Sensor Array

>Body[Jetpack] [Nano-armor]

>Arms[Plasma Blades] or Jetpack Punch

>Legs[Jetpack]

>Power[Cairnsium Core]

>>40786093

Head [Sensor Array]

>>40786093
Looks good.

>>40786093
This is good as it is

>>40786093
Keep it as is.

>>40786093
>>Head Sensor Array
>>Body[Jetpack] [Nano-armor]
>>Arms[Plasma Blades]
>>Legs[Jetpack]
>>Power[Cairnsium Core]

>>40786093
We get the ranged beheading laser for zero slots, right?

If so, keep as is.

>>40786093
looks good

>>40786093
keep it as is.

>>40786143
Yup, also going to say that beams have a range of 200 feet.

>>40786205
Christ if we go villain we're gonna be a fucking walking massacre.

Which would be a good name if we kept the red. Massacre.

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Keep it it is!

>That's the end of thread 10 folks!

I will be around to answer questions and such for a bit. Next thread will be Thursday I hope, but I will update my Twitter @xLostCowboyx an hour before the thread. The question I will pose this thread is...

>How did you enjoy the beginning of the Local arc?

>>40786328
I liked it.

>>40786320
To be honest all Supers are walking massacres, but the normal weakness is a megalomania that prevents them from being entirely practical.

>>40786328
Good so far!

>>40786352
Is there a chance for Thomas to turn into a villain?

I wanna go to the hospital and give the guy we beat a nanolimb and recruit him to our cause as a loyal henchma-ehr...employee.

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>>40786434
It has always been there.
>>40786445
Entirely possible.

>>40786470
Oh Lost that is delicious. What would grandpa say to that though? Would he be happy or sad?

>>40786328
Pretty great

>>40786445

I'm down for a little bit of emotional manipulation on a physically broken man in the hopes that he will one day come to see us as the big brother he never had in a shockingly brutal case of Stockholm Syndrome on steroids and crack.

>>40786496
Probably indifferent, if you go crazy he would be sad about it, but anything else... meh.

>>40786597
Aww. Was hoping for a small speech about following in his footsteps and making sure not to get too invested in minions as heroes tend to go through them like tissue paper.

>>40786597
When can we start making stupidly-strong materials? We're working in theoretical physics and already made cold fusion. It's not impossible that we could make a particle accelerator and synthesize some new metals to make armor out of.

>>40786628
Granpa wasn't really dedicated to the whole EVIL thing.

>>40786677
Yeah I know. But come on. Being a Legacy for both sides? He had to hope his grandkid would follow him a little ya know even if for nothing else than spite for his son in law.

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>>40786640
Okay, small tangent here, you didn't intentionally invent cold fusion, it just kind of happened when you almost nuked the city, don't be too proud of it or use it to justify new tech on the basis of inventing cold fusion. Secondly, particle accelerators separate materials into subatomic particles, not increase them in any respect. But to answer your real question, it will happen once you have more time to invest in metallurgy.

>>40786677
I went with a mix between old Lex Luthor and Dr. Horrible.

>>40786769
Sorry. I am REALLY high right now and probably shouldn't try to science.

That said, I'm watching Ultraviolet and it's got this 'Flatspace' bullshit which compresses and stores 3-dimensional objects in a two-dimensional space, letting a person carry like, hundreds of guns in their bracelets and swords and shit.

Odds of that happening down the theoretical physics path?

>>40787046
Roughly 0, that sounds cool in concept. Unfortunately that is not physically possible in our modern understanding of physic.

>>40787046
>>40787090
Pym Particles tier mad science?

>>40787128
That perk is still available...

>>40787090
What about dimensional travel?

Or a perk called "Magic is simply Science we don't understand yet." To open up magitech at a cost of Instability if we fail making it.

>>40787183
And now that perk has become mad science-tier stuff. Have fun with the possibilities!

>>40787090
That direct option isn't, but there is some potential for a related concept of, say, a Quantum Armory, where a bracelet or band serves as an anchor for quantum entanglement of certain items, which are stored in a similarly anchored containment unit, allowing us to quantum tunnel weapons to our position through the aforementioned entanglement.

So, we couldn't store the weapons inside the bracelet, but instead "teleport" them to our hand from their storage space. Which could, logically, be interrupted if the items weren't stored properly, or no longer in their vault.

>>40787299
Quantum mechanics would probably drive Tom insane due to the inability to accurately predict quantum movement. His brain would try to do it anyway.

Are there any Doctor Doom-esque Supers?

>>40787438
When International arc rolls around maybe.

>>40787454
Thanks for running mate. Do you watch/participate in other quests?

>>40787520
Absolutely, I am following all of the other Supers quests so far, as well as Sith Academy Quest and Feral Necromancer quest.

>>40787454
I had a brilliant idea.

Video games and movies. A whole new form of entertainment caused by being a part of memories instead of pretend.

We will become Abstergo

>>40787565
I have an idea for you.

Think Tank Inc.

Or

THInc. (with the T being slightly above the HInc. with ANK over the whole afair, and a K sharing the last spot with the c. in Inc. by being below it.)

Rules to follow.

>>40790115
Rules:
1. We do not discriminate. Anyone who can pass a test or write a compelling dissertation in their preferred field can join. They will be given their own lab and their own funds, and be allowed to do whatever they wish as though they were the emperor and that lab were their empire. Each lab would be a self-contained hotbed sealed air-tight and with oxygen, water, and food recyclers to ensure that anyone within would be able to, theoretically, survive an indefinite amount of time, ala Schrodinger's Box. Each lab would be a vault, the information within secured save for a single, heavily-protected landline linking up their computer with a central server. The vaults will be impenetrable, contained with advanced materials at least a foot thick capable of both surviving a thermonuclear explosion at point blank range (even from within), and safely containing a black hole, though nothing inside would be so lucky. Even potentially world-ending experiments (if approved) would be safe to perform as far as the outside world was concerned.

As for families, a community will be set up nearby, with information flow monitored and any "guests" screened. Within this community, any and all advancements that would potentially benefit the common man will be first implemented here. Plasma kitchen knives (with appropriate safety features), experimental medical procedures (that have been properly vetted), and entertainment unseen anywhere else (following a proper screening, review, and volunteer playtesting with thorough examination of content coding).

>>40790140
2. Plagiarism is a non-issue. All information is carefully guarded and contained on the local servers, with backups made hourly. Every lab has its own individual RON-based AI assistant, and the computers are all made on-site with the best technology that every egghead on the planet can produce. If someone wants to make money off of what's made in the Think Tank, it first gets approved by a committee, and then a third of the profits go right back into the Think Tank, to help pay for all the amazing science happening. Everyone's work will, unless the committee deems it unsafe, be shared with everyone at the Think Tank via a public server which is, again, accessible by a single heavily-secured landline. If you leave the Think Tank, you will be monitored, followed, and censored as the Think Tank sees fit, though noone is going to stop you from using your hard-earned cash (and possible shows of gratitude for their contribution to the sciences from the Tank) on whatever you may wish. Merely to keep you from introducing to the world things that were not approved. You may try, of course, but at your own risk, because you will be pissing off people who know all your tricks, all your tools, all your sciences, who are at least as smart as you and far more numerous, with far more resources, and all of them professional academics. Academia is a cut-throat business by nature.

3. Magic is bullshit. We are men of science. Math, Logic, and Rationale are our Holy Trinity. Magic is quite severely not tolerated. While we might glance the other way if you wish to try and put numbers to magitech, people who solely practice magic are not welcome. Namely because of the risk of magical exposure corrupting servers. As such, a team of trusted mages is always on hand to ensure that the entire zone is Magic-Free, save in approved areas.

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>>40790140
lol ok