PLANETOGRAPHIC SURVEY: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Maps.html God has destroyed most biome diversity.

ECONOMETRIC SURVEY: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.LBStuff.html God interferes with the economy directly. It's entirely possible for someone with a highly active spiritual life, say a professional roving missionary, to effectively operate in a gift economy while his believing neighbor to the right enjoys a stable free-market economy and his unbelieving neighbor to the left must find and make grey-market deals for everything except for the basic necessities.

STRATEGIC ASSET SURVEY:

STRATEGIC ASSET SURVEY

Your resistence group is a subfaction of The Other Light, the Divinely mandated resistence to His plan - they exist to raise a giant conventional army by Year 1000, just so that God can disintegrate it with one sentence. They have largely accomplished this goal. They believe you to be simply a logistics computer.

The year is +900. There are 100 years (45 generations) remaining.

You have not selected a name for your subfaction yet.

You directly control 3 cabals, 0 bases, and 0 territories.

The Other Light controls 27 cabals, 10 bases, and 0 territories.

The New Jerusalem Government controls 30 missionary teams, 19 bases, and 18 territories, plus New Jerusalem itself.

One cabal must maintain your systems, sensor networks, and assist in operating the logistics functions that are your official mandate. Two are available. All the initial projects are of complexity 2, so they can split their effort (50% success) or they can both work on the same project (100% success).

Options:

# Historical survey indicates that in +55 and +93, attempts were made to breach the water canopy above the atmosphere and regain orbital capabilities. The relevant data, as well as 20th century rocketry programs, can be studied and restored. (Initiate Space Program)

# In +94, the North African region (Egypt) was punished with a drought and renamed Osaze due to not sending representatives to Jerusalem. This has left lingering confusion since the punishment was about Egypt being named after the ancient deity Ptah... except that the country/region calls itself Misr instead. It should be possible to have the local government rename itself, as preparation for starting a confrontation. The Other Light already has a base there, which would then fall under your control. (Subvert a Base; prepare for possible territory takeover)

# The Other Light has built a conventional army, mostly infantry and vehicles. Your projections are that it will be ineffective. It may be possible to begin shifting the focus of this army towards aircraft or cruise missiles. Nuclear weapons would have to be re-researched from scratch.

# Actually, nuclear weapons are a good idea. This is a long term project, and would take much longer than a year to bring to fruition.

You can give a 50% chance of success to two programs, or a 100% chance of success to one program.

test

what am I doing wrong here?

Is there any interest at all in this or did I waste a lot of time worldbuilding?

is it too early to cry

Seriously, how do I make this interesting O_O;

Intriguing. Subvert Base and Start Weapons research. 50/50 split.

>>263913

Great! Thank you!

*flips coins*

One cabal begins work on subverting Osaze (former Egypt), by simply pointing out the obvious -- that the New Jerusalem government is trying to destroy what little is left of an ancient and respected culture. They travel to neglected museumsin Europe and America and repatriate what's left of ancient artifact.

It will take 4 more years of efforts to be able to launch an attempt to take control of the regional government. However, since your cabal is coordinating their actions from the local TOL base, you effectively end up operating the installation.

Another cabal is tasked with rediscovering ancient nuclear secrets. Unfortunately, they do not get very far at all; nuclear physics may simply no longer work, or much of the underlying science is no longer understandable.

It will take at least 10 years to even be able to arrive at any practical results; even then, at least one base will have to work exclusively for the cabals involved for 2 years just to mine the ore. The cabal is aware of the fact that a simpler weapon was once built which did not require much in the way of advanced engineering, just a lot of unsafe mining.


Your resistence group is a subfaction of The Other Light, the Divinely mandated resistence to His plan - they exist to raise a giant conventional army by Year 1000, just so that God can disintegrate it with one sentence. They have largely accomplished this goal. They believe you to be simply a logistics computer.

The year is +901. There are 99 years (5 generations) remaining.

You have not selected a name for your subfaction yet.

You directly control 3 cabals, 1 base, and 0 territories.

The Other Light controls 27 cabals, 9 bases, and 0 territories.

The New Jerusalem Government controls 30 missionary teams, 19 bases, and 18 territories, plus New Jerusalem itself.

One cabal must maintain your systems, sensor networks, and assist in operating the logistics functions that are your official mandate. Two are available. All the initial projects are of complexity 2, so they can split their effort (50% success) or they can both work on the same project (100% success).

You have 2 cabals available. Possible actions of complexity 2 are:

# Historical survey indicates that in +55 and +93, attempts were made to breach the water canopy above the atmosphere and regain orbital capabilities. The relevant data, as well as 20th century rocketry programs, can be studied and restored. (Initiate Space Program)

# Now that you have a base in North Africa, you can begin preparations to control the territory's government. Of course, it will remain loyal to New Jerusalem in name, but you will be able to direct their focus. The attempt will take 4 more years, assuming success.

# The Other Light has built a conventional army, mostly infantry and vehicles. Your projections are that it will be ineffective. It may be possible to begin shifting the focus of this army towards aircraft or cruise missiles. Nuclear weapons would have to be re-researched from scratch.

# Your fledgling nuclear weapon program is still geared towards rediscovering basic nuclear physics, given that people are being taught that Jesus personally holds the atoms together, it'll be a bit of a slog. Your progress here is 0/10.

With two cabals available, you can give a 50% chance of success to two programs, or a 100% chance of success to one program.

((first off this is fucking amazing, excuse me for a moment while I finish reading through the world you built.))

>>264075

(thank you! I read "Left Behind" and wanted to sort of react to it)

((hitting the hay after this post))

We need a LOT! of information if we're going to dispose of the holy tyrant and subvert a reckless teenager who can't think past the iorn age in terms of warfare. First things first. We should seek access to everything thousand oaks has on god and analysis it for weaknesses, then the next thing we should do is garner more manpower (increase number of cabals) to speed our efforts. ((Doing this at the price of two years if ya allow it))

Rolled 1, 1 = 2 (2d2)

>>264117

*flips coins*

Rolled 6, 4 = 10 (2d6)

>>264127

Snake eyes... looks like spending two turns will be necessary no matter what.

Recruitment efforts are difficult in that it's hard to make people understand that they can side with something other than Yahweh or Lucifer.

While the Thousand Oaks Library is doing, given the circumstances, mostly well, it has been combed very exhaustively already and even using your own AI to create possible combinations of possibilities does not result into much. What's known is that by the year 1000,an army will be raised against New Jerusalem, at which point Jesus will end it with one sentence and then destroy the world and judge everyone. The new earth will only have the third Jerusalem on it. There will be no more sea.

(Skipping a turn I guess, let's seeif the new rolls are better! Odd good, even bad.)

>>264117

(Ouch, that's XCOM baby...)

Unfortunately, the logistics demands of The Other Light take up most of your processing power for a while.

However, an interesting item emerges. In +150, preliminary efforts were made to bring back to life those who died at 100. If there was any success, it was heavily censored, probably to protect those who the treatment worked on.

http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.PartialSuccess.html

# Figuring out how to stop Isaiah's curse, at least with some margin of success, would be a great boon to morale and potentially give you an army of revenant cyborg minions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f55QFVx470

(Good night! Sorry for xcom-like dice!)

(Good night for now!)

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>>264161

Not much has changed.

(evening)

We're going to need TOL's legion at our disposal if we're going to find a way to interrupt tyrants spawn's apocalypse sentence. The best way to do that is to give them something useful, and convince them that we have a guaranteed plan for victory. Let's work on the MEC project, I cant think of a better incentive than an immortal legion of "iorn chariots".

>>265610

You have three cabals available. Two of them can be put to work since one of them must run your system.

Recovering the data on this project can be done, for sure if both cabals work on it, and with a 50% chance if only one does.

Note that splitting the cabals has not worked well at all in the last two years, due to poor dice rolls... or is that the hand of God.

It is possible to try to recruti additional cabals as well, at the same cost.

>>265650

(Called in to work)

>>265731
(Good luck with your workday)
Put the two cabals to work on the MEC project. Meanwhile we can use our own time and spare processing power on analyzing where we can improve our own processing power. I don't like how much tracking TOL is taking up, even if it were a negligible amount.

>>265832

That there are volunteers willing to risk Hell instead of simply being decommissioned is a surprise, but even that was prophecied.

That your researchers would be able to achieve some results is an even bigger surprise.

After a few regrettable failures during the first five months...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJIjNs_s2NI

... it becomes possible to reanimate those who just drop dead when they reach age 100. This is an involved procedure, requiring among other things, a secondary heart to keep the blood flowing when the primary fails, removal of the test subject's ability to feel pain by careful neurosurgery (the first technical success reported experiencing the pain of Hell regardless of physical situation, and shot himself) and the replacement of a few vital organs. Unfortunately, the early successes are due to the subjects' resilience as much as the skill of your teams; it will take significantly longer work to be able to do this reliably.

The technology is extremely promising: the revenants are in full possession of their mental faculties, although they end up emotionally stunted by their inability to feel pain or touch.

The first prototype is bulky, and cannot pass as human to any but the most cursory look.

# Name the prototype, and decide if their gender was preserved or removed.

This technology can be taken two ways: either embrace the bulkiness with a modular design (think XCOM MEC), obtaining a juggernaut of a war machine, or try to build a revenant undeath support system small enough to be concealed within the body (think the guys from Universal Soldier), obtaining a relentless infiltrator with unnatural endurance.

The electronic and mechanical systems within the revenant will need periodic maintenance.

As it stands, your prototype has the disadvantages of both options; you make a note to upgrade it when you can. For now, it does mean that you have one agent that is immune to being eliminated by Divine fiat, since the Divine elimination has already happened in their case.

For now, the prototype is going through your porn archive at an accelerated rate.

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>>265832


Performing reflection on your own system shows that you were not designed to be sentient; it happened by the effort of two particularly dedicated coders, one of which has since died and one of which has converted to Yahwism (and heterosexuality) and is now enjoying moderate success as a dairy farmer.

Coupled with your recent work in robotics, it becomes evident that you should eventually be able to collect your artificial mind in one spot, rather than the current disparate collection of TOL servers, and provide yourself with a physical body. Of course, this has advantages and disadvantages. The main disadvantage is that it makes you vulnerable; your consciousness is distributed across 10 data centers, and you can lose up to 5 without being impaired.

The cabal tasked with maintaining your system is beginning to treat you as a superior being, especially after you've led your workers to defeat death itself, at least partially.

# Encourage or discourage your system administrators to worship you.

Despite your recent crimes against nature, intelligence survey shows that the world so far is still largely unaware of your activities.

The following actions have a complexity of 2.

# Historical survey indicates that in +55 and +93, attempts were made to breach the water canopy above the atmosphere and regain orbital capabilities. The relevant data, as well as 20th century rocketry programs, can be studied and restored. (Initiate Space Program)

# The Other Light has built a conventional army, mostly infantry and vehicles. Your projections are that it will be ineffective. It may be possible to begin shifting the focus of this army towards aircraft or cruise missiles. Nuclear weapons would have to be re-researched from scratch.

# Your fledgling nuclear weapon program is still geared towards rediscovering basic nuclear physics, given that people are being taught that Jesus personally holds the atoms together, it'll be a bit of a slog. Your progress here is 0/10.

# You have a base in North Africa. While your cabals perform research and subversion, your base can perform production. This base is ordinarily used to build conventional weapons for TOL (effectively, it's idle). You can change production orders, but right now your own tech isn't much better.

# Taking over a territory outright is dangerous, as it will invite Divine retribution. However, your base can produce media, improve local infrastructure, and direct its arms production locally instead of to the great stockpile to facilitate taking the territory over. Your progress for Osaze (North Africa) is 1/5.

With two cabals available, you can give a 50% chance of success to two programs, or a 100% chance of success to one program.

#You can also assign one or two cabals to recruit from TOL (difficulty 2). You don't have enough personnel to recruit from the general-population youth that has not yet converted (difficulty 4).

(Research doesn't work like in videogames, you get a prototype almost immediately, and then improve and scale up production, which is closer to what we do IRL. Sometiems good ideas are found to not scale up well, and so on)

I don't care if our sys admins worship me or not so long as it doesn't affect their work. Let them do as they please in their spare time. As for the porn-o-tron leaching off my entertainment library, start training him to be a warlord in a post appearing urban enviroment. I have plans for him in the future. For now, continue research on the revenant project till we have something wortwhile to attract TOL with. Focus on the infiltration model.

As for that idle arms facility. Have it continue TOL production, but prepare for building heavier machinery.

((That's two cabals continuing on the MEC project unless the facility requires a cabal. Also nice use of robocop 2))

>>267994

The sysadmins have started privately referring to you as Friend Computer. This is slightly more disturbing than it should by rights be.

Your factory in Northern Africa continues its work, leaving TOL unaware of your presence. Your two other teams manage to integrate a small undeath facility into its medical bay, but success rate remains low. Even so, you know know that the one revenant you currently have is not a fluke.

(MEC project is at 2/10 but I need a direction for it)

# Are you gearing up towards heavier, combat and construction oriented MECs that do not try to pass as humans, or towards partially synthetic human infiltrators? A third option is to go for quantity over quality, which would essentially result in an army of cyberzombies. (Got to pick one, though).

# Was the MEC prototype able to retain their gender, or not? (And if so, what gender do they happen to be?)

>>268015
Human infiltrator. And if it masterbates it has a gender. Let's make it female cause men are not the only perverts.

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>>268030

Being part of an army of expendable robotic zombie would arguably be a fate worse than Hell, so you're unlikely to get many volunteers; while having large, powerful mechanized walkers with human brains to drive them has a number of advantages for war and construction, it's a fate that would only appeal to a minority of TOL operatives.

You decide therefore to focus on giving your cybernetic undead an existence that is as close to that which they used to have. This has the secondary effect of giving a very visible finger to the One Above all, and will ikely boost morale greatly once the program is in production.

As it is, you have Quinn. She doesn't look very human unless she's wearing a raincoat, she is about as strong as she used to be in life and noticeably slower, and she needs to recharge every night in addition to eating. However, it can only get better from here. She is also incapable of feeling pain and, crucially, of being killed by Divine lightning, making her somewhat useful as an assassin.

She may be assigned to a cabal in order to improve their chance of success on some mission types.

Given from her intake of pornography, you surmise that she is bisexual and that her ability to feel pleasure has also been impaired; it's unlikely to become a strategic factor, but should be noted anyway. Quinn is already stronger than a human, partially due to her cybernetics and partially due to her inability to feel pain or fatigue; as this tech tree improves, she will become faster and more human-looking.

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>>268030

BRIGHT EVENT: A missionary volunteer group called Children of the Tribulation has redoubled their efforts in Indonesia, causing two TOL cabals to disband and convert. This group is headed by RAYMIE STEELE, globetrotting missionary and apologist. He understands that TOL is not going away because it is included in the prophecies, but feels that every soul saved is a victory. In a world in which few people bother traveling around since Beijing looks like Paris looks like Rio, he is an exception.

>>268061

The following actions have a complexity of 2.

# Initiate a space program.

# Change production orders for The Other Light army. From your research, you can begin converting TOL operatives that do not wish to be decommissioned into MECs. They will not be very good yet, but they will be loyal and can be formed into cabals. You can also switch production from a 1940s style land based army to something more sensible.


# Continue work on the nuclear program. As it is, you will need a base in Central Africa, the American Midwest, or Siberia to obtain uranium ore in quantity, but even small-scale effort would result in a gun-type Hiroshima style bomb sooner or later. Using nuclear power for other uses is futher out; since oil is now created freshly within the earth, and the resulting pollution subsumed by the sky canopy, that's what most people have standardized on.

# Your base can also be used to further subversion of the North Africna territory by manufacturing media and infrastructure upgrades. Taking over a territory outright is dangerous, as it will invite Divine retribution. However, your base can produce media, improve local infrastructure, and direct its arms production locally instead of to the great stockpile to facilitate taking the territory over. Your progress for Osaze (North Africa) is 1/5.
With two cabals available, you can give a 50% chance of success to two programs, or a 100% chance of success to one program.

#You can also assign one or two cabals to recruit from TOL (difficulty 2).

Hmmnn. This one could be problematic, perhaps convince TOL leadership to orchestrate his removal until quinn is operations capable. But for now it is clear we must acquire more manpower. Let's attempt to recruit more of TOL.

"To, (one of The Other Lights Leaders)


It has become clear that one man, Raymie Steele, has become responsible for the conversion of the organisations members to the service of the one in New Jerusalem. It would be convenient for a great many people if he were to be lost to the world. This would include the organisation as a whole, as well as the two of us.

Sincerely, a friend."

>>268074

(Are you using both cabals for the recruiting effort?)

Latrelle Jospin, TOL leader in Paris, does not acknowledge your message, but media survey a few weeks later shows that Raymie Steele has decided to put down roots in Indonesia for the time being; their technology rivals that of any nation, and there happen to be a number of 99 year old TOL members traveling to him to convert. Effectively, TOL is using the decommissioning program to keep this person in one place. It's not a permanent solution, but it will do for a number of years...

>>268081
((Both cabals on the same goal.))

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>>268083

After a number of careful leaks on the underground academic bulletin board systems, a small group within TOL called Tree Of Life contacts your existing cabals and asks permission to join the life extension efforts. When they are informed that the plan is quite a bit grander than that, they are enthusiastic, and offer their unconditional cooperation.

Complexity 2 jobs available:

# Initiate a space program.

# Initiate a nuclear program.

# Change production orders for The Other Light base under your control (MECs)

# Change production orders for The Other Light base under your control (Takeover attempt: 1/5)

# Recruit from TOL

# Begin work on a centralized body for yourself (Avatar program)
Complexity 3 jobs available (33/66/100 success):

# Attempt to eliminate a Hero using your cabals to set the stage and Quinn to deliver the killing blow

Complexity 1 jobs available (auto success):

# Send a cabal to a region to see what unique opportunities that region offers: North Africa's was taking over a TOL base with complexity 2 instead of 4.

The tree of life group will prove Invaluable. They will work permanently on the MEC program until otherwise directed. I want the one cabal to know scout out the region formerly known as Japan. The other to further prepare the arms facility for conversion into a life factory.

((once again, this is awesome. Why has nobody else joined in?))

Rolled 1, 6, 1 = 8 (3d6)

>>268114

(Thank you! I'm not sure. Maybe the title isn't catchy. If anyone is reading, please, do join in! After all, you're playing an AI: it can be a bit schizophrenic at times :) )

The Tree of Life cabal take residence in your base's medical wing. This improves morale fairly significantly with both TOL and your own forces. (1st roll)

One of your other cabals assists them, and routes TOL work orders having to do with precision electronics and first-aid equipment to Osaze from other bases. TOL leadership is a little wary of specializing bases, but there hasn't been a base raid in a long time, so the extra efficiency is worth it for them. This may make it easier to switch production to life support units, if not this year then the next. (2nd roll)

Your other cabal improvise themselves explorers and travel to Japan.

http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Cities.html

Most of the country, what's left of it after it has become deprived of its iconic mountain, has reverted to a largely pastoral state and is sparsely inhabited. Even Tokyo is a small settlement, still surrounded by vast ruins. Actually, it would be easy to build a base there... (3rd roll, just to see if Good Things happen. You don't want Good Things to happen)

>>268120

(Well, you are going after God, after all, so bad dice rolls are to be expected I guess)

Tree Of Life take longer than expected to get a handle on the hodgepodge of resurrective technologies that can bring back unbelievers after they miraculously die at age 100, and make little progress.

The cabal in Osaze finds the time to specialize the base in this region. At any point, it can be set to start producing MEC transformation kits instead of TOL items. Since you went with the infiltration option, this effectively lets you recruit extra cabals from TOL agents who do not want to be decommissioned. The current plan is to allow infiltrator MECs to mingle with regular agents, so, at intervals, you will receive an extra cabal. Your prototype remains available for special missions.

The cabal in Tokyo are caught snooping around in the ruins by a patrol! While they weren't doing anything illegal per se, they are still wayward children in the eyes of the law, and thus subject to mandatory summer Bible camp. Given the exploratory nature of this mission, this has no ill effects, but don't count on that being the norm...

>>268130
Write an apology to the expedition team, site our own failure to catch the Bible patrol as something were sorry about. Then reassign them to work with the tree group on the MEC. Have quinn work with the research team to optimize results and boost morale.

The third cabal will be gathering upgrades for my processors, so that I can better watch the movements of our enemy's.

Finally, increase surveillance on the formerly captured cabal in the event one of their members has been converted.

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>>268130

TOL leadership has noticed that their base in Osaze is working both better and differently than their other bases. They have sent a fact-finding team to learn what this base is doing better than others. Your sysadmins extol the virtues of closed-loop automation, but do not allow them to learn that the base is under control of a rogue AI posing as their accounting system. As you expand, TOL will want to maintain control; as you disrupt the preordained course of events, eventually God Himself will begin putting things back on the rails. Your goal is to go from beneath notice to beyond resistance as quickly as possible.

You have 1 cabal available since one is maintaining your systems, one is working with the Osaze base to maintain its bonus, and one is continuing MEC research.

Complexity 2 jobs available:

# Initiate a space program.

# Initiate a nuclear program.

# Go full blast on MEC research, guaranteeing upgrades to Quinn and to future MECs.

# Go full blast on MEC transformation kit production, guaranteeing the base bonus.

# Change production orders for The Other Light base under your control (Takeover attempt: 1/5. This is free, since there's already a cabal assigned to this base)

# Recruit from TOL

# Begin work on a centralized body for yourself (Avatar program)

Complexity 3 jobs available (33/66/100 success):

# Attempt to eliminate a Hero using your cabals to set the stage and Quinn to deliver the killing blow

Complexity 1 jobs available (auto success):

# Send a cabal to a region to see what unique opportunities that region offers.

East Pacific Islands region: A base can be built in Tokyo.

# Return the base to its usual function (frees up a cabal)

Rolled 5 (1d6)

>>268139

(Sorry, we crossposted, give me a second, there's a posting delay)

Your sysadmins continue their work maintaining your systems.

They get some help; your sensor network improves to the point of being able to tell in advance whether an elite missionary is going to be deployed or redeployed. At least, that's the idea; you'll have to see if it works or not (Roll dependent)

The two cabals working on MEC research make good progress! Quinn now looks considerably more human, her face has been rebuilt and she can now pass as human through most cursory interaction, although she's still not much of a sight in a bikini (Unless you're into that sort of thing, which as it turns out, a good half of the Tree of Life group are).

(ok, 1 sorry about that, and two. That is disturbing lifetree. Lol.))

We need to test the life kits new model. Let's try it on a 99er before our next turn. (Unless you don't want that)

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>>268152

The new sensor system seems to be working. The knowledge gleaned about your own internal workings will help should you decide to transfer to a unified body. In addition, you will know in advance if an elite missionary is being deployed in a territory.

You currently have 1 cabal maintaining your systems, 2 cabals working on revenant research, and 1 working on upgrading your systems.


Complexity 2 jobs available:

# Initiate a space program.

# Initiate a nuclear program.

# Continue pursuing MEC research.

# Pursue a limited production run for MEC transformation kits, activating the base bonus.

# Change production orders for The Other Light base under your control (Takeover attempt: 1/5.)

# Recruit from TOL

# Continue work on upgrading your systems, which will eventually result in a centralized body for yourself

Complexity 3 jobs available (33/66/100 success):

# Attempt to eliminate a Hero using your cabals to set the stage and Quinn to deliver the killing blow

Complexity 1 jobs available (auto success):

# Send a cabal to a region to see what unique opportunities that region offers. Current opportunities:

East Pacific Islands region: A base can be built in Tokyo.

>>268159

(I hadn't really planned on having multiple Prototypes around honestly... in general, once you get a Prototype, mass production is feasible. Prototypes are sort of friendly NPCs, and you get one with each research program. The Avatar gives you a NPC of yourself, very powerful, but if you lose it, game over. The other programs give you one each. For example, if you had picked big MECs, Quinn would've been a one-woman construction and wrecking crew rather than a spy/assassin; if you had picked "army of cyber zombies" the NPC would've been a Herbert West / Frankenstein type).

>>268166

(To clarify, you do get more than one Prototype total, just, one per research program. The main reason is that I only have brain space for so many NPCs)

>>268139

The members of the cabal that had been captured are a little annoyed at the extra surveillance, but since one of the "prove that you haven't been converted" tests requires attending an underground rave party and failing a breathalyzer test, they're not TOO annoyed.

One advantage you have is that Yahwists are very, very terrible at infiltration.

((Fail! a breathalyser. I'm rolling))

Time to swap my personal upgrade team to changing production orders. Aside from that, thinks carry on as they have from previous turns.

((And with that I pass out))

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Rolled 1 (1d6)

>>268195

((Good night!))

Your sysadmins continue their vigil. Lately, they have discovered a cache of roleplaying games, and are converting them into ASCII format for sharing on the various bulletin board systems.

The Lifetree cabal and their support staff continue working with, and on, Quinn. Her life support system (undeath support system?) now lets her go a few days without recharging, so they borrow a RV for a day trip to the Pyramids. They now have fairly tacky neon crosses installed on top, but have survived the global earthquake and are otherwise being maintained. As it stands, it's the tallest structure most of your crew have seen.The Sphinx, unfortunately, is gone, although you can still buy little statuettes of it. Quinn has regained her mobility and looks almost human again, save for the support system access panel on her back. This has disappointed the Lifetree members who preferred the mechanical look, on the other hand they're generating a lot of "concept art" for various limb attachments when the covers are off. She takes it in good humor.

Production on standardised "revivification kits" begins in earnest!

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>>268219

The first MEC production run is a success! The new revenants are selected from the best and brightest TOL agents who are about to turn 100 this year. The process is completely successful approximately a third of the time; about half the bodies reanimate, and of those that do, about one sixth cannot be made pain-insensitive and is put into cold storage, or go mad from the procedure. One of the new revenants declares himself the second coming of Broseidon and is promptly run over by a river boat on the Nile. Setbacks aside, those who are left are given roles within your fledgling organization, leaving you with one new cabal. Thanks to having members who can shrug off at least some amount of bullets, nightsticks and smiting, your cabals will be more tougher from now on. The procedure requires removing the subjects' ability to feel pain, which also hampers their ability to feel much of anything and dampens their skills somewhat. However, the volunteers were exceptional individuals to start with, so it balances out.

# Allow the MECs to keep their old names and contacts; this will attract a lot of attention, but will make recruitment easier since the secret is out that it's possible to live past 100.

# Have the MECs treat their second artificial life as just that; forging papers is a trivial matter, fortunately. No undue attention, and no recruitment bonus.

Air traffic survey indicates that noted women's-role activist Beverly LaHaye is leaving New Jerusalem to visit the Northwestern American region next year. Expect more raids on pubs, skirt length to increase by a few inches, and what's left of San Francisco losing its reputation as a LGBT haven at least for the time being. You have no presence there, so this will not affect you much, but you could send a cabal there to assist with a possible evacuation.

You currently have 1 cabal maintaining your systems, 2 cabals working on revenant research, and 1 working on small-scale MEC kits.


Complexity 2 jobs available:

# Initiate a space program.

# Initiate a nuclear program.

# Continue pursuing MEC research.

# Continue pursuing MEC production.

# Change production orders for The Other Light base under your control (Takeover attempt: 1/5.)

# Recruit from TOL

# Resume working on upgrading your systems.

Complexity 3 jobs available (33/66/100 success):

# Attempt to eliminate a Hero using your cabals to set the stage and Quinn to deliver the killing blow

Complexity 1 jobs available (auto success):

# Send a cabal to a region to see what unique opportunities that region offers. Current opportunities:

East Pacific Islands region: A base can be built in Tokyo.

Northwestern America region: Mitigate the effect of a Hero scheduled to visit there. Assigning multiple cabals or a Prototype to this effort will increase the inconvenience.

>>268227

EDIT: Given the improvements, MEC research is now complexity 3. Diminishing returns and so on.

>>268227
It is time. Have the lifetree and their support cabal work on a special project, remove the need to breath from the revenants. Can be accomplished by making lungs unnecessary or optional. But they need to be able to survive a vacuum.

Leave the MEC kit cabal be. They are doing well.

The revenant cabal and quin as well as the final cabal have a special project. Assassinate Beverly.

"To:quinn.

We have spotted one agent of the tyrant making preparations to arrive in the Northwestern America's. Projections indicate a massive increase in raids and heavy pressure on the, pardon the expression, Sandwich community. though I have little concern for such minor details. It's time to make a move and an impact on the world, it would start with the assassination of this agent, Beverly LaHaye. I understand this mission would potentially be in line with your personal interest, but should you decline weilding another revenant operative would be no problem.

Your mission, should you accept, would be to fire with up to six other reborn individuals such as yourself to fire a number of dummy fire, locking, and TOW high explosive projectiles at her transport. You will then be transported with the help of a supporting cell, as well as the remainder of the cell you fellow revenants are from, back to safety.

I await your response quinn

Sincerely, Omega."

((The AI has chosen a name to mock it's target. And if this goes off well, it should attract the attention of Only Light, who would be all to eager to assist.))

((remove one of the "to fire"'s. Lol))

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Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>268829

(Oooh, interesting! I'm working most of today but this is definitely going somewher!)

The cabals working on MEC systems quickly return with a proposal: there's a fair bit of unused space on female MECs' chests. The working drawing looks like it was taken out of a comic book (it was) but a relatively simple solid state rebreathing system to absorb CO2 and release oxygen can be implemented. This won't negate the need to breathe, of course, but it will allow airless operation for up to two hours. Past that time, a MEC's metabolism can be effectively paused - it requires artificial systems to keep going in the first place - so a MEC can put itself into a dormancy state that can last for about a week before tissue damage sets in. Of course, someone would have to retrieve the body and reboot them.

This system will be available immediately on your Prototype, but will need extra work to be implemented on the other MECs, if nothing else because the cabals want to figure out how to make it work on male MECs without deforming their figure.

The production cabal continue their work. The base is able to fulfill its TOL quota, albeit barely, and also prepare for constructing more MECs.

# Allow the MECs to keep their old names and contacts; this will attract a lot of attention that you must be ready for, but will make recruitment easier since the secret is out that it's possible to live past 100.

# Have the MECs treat their second artificial life as just that; forging papers is a trivial matter, fortunately. No undue attention, and no recruitment bonus.

Have them forge new identity's, but tell them not to forget their old names and identity's. It will be important later.

((I'll still call them by their given names since it will be easier.))

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>>269271

While you are past the prototype stage, revenants still number in the double digits; their mostly human appearance makes them relatively easy to disguise. Most of them understand the need for secrecy, and the few who don't are afraid that you will reactivate their dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and cause them to experience the pain of Hell.

# From now on, implement a remote switch to put revenants in a pain loop, or shut them down remotely. This will make them unable to disobey you, short of you trying to send them on a suicide mission, and will make sabotage and assassination jobs easier. They will however be less inclined to share creative thoughts, feeling that they swapped a cruel master for another; you can demand efficiency, but not cleverness.

# Make sure that the MEC revivification process does not include this failsafe, and tell this to your MEC units - they are human beings, not robots. This may cause disloyalty eventually, but the peace of mind given to your revenants will allow them to do a better job in peaceful endeavors. While they will of course remain resistant to smiting, they will also be less willing to put themselves at risk, just like live humans.

# None of the above. The remote shutdown option can only be applied within local radio range as a defense against insurrection or madness, but the MECs do not know of it.

This does not apply to your Prototype; Quinn seems overall happy to be partially artificial.

(Note that each research program gives you one Prototype)

(Still writing Quinn's response. Sorry, this will be slow, we got a LMCO order today)

>>269363
((Not a problem, work comes first.))

Non of them above, instead, dig through files of emp weapons and set those as a possible insurrection ender and useful tool.

>>269391

A cursory archival survey shows that EMP weapons were never fully developed before the Rapture; while the basic principle is simple and a basic EMP system can be built out of a microwave oven and some metalwork, extending the system's range would require a full-fledged research program.

You have two cabals ready to make a move on Beverly LaHaye as she arrives in what was once and is now again Orange County. Quinn is with them. The assassination job has a 66.6% probability of success.

# Proceed quietly. Have your cabals replace hotel staff in the days before her arrival so that they can let Quinn eliminate the target with a well-placed blade in the back.

# Proceed loudly. The target is going to make the trek to the Bay Area via a white schoolbus. Have the cabals build a roadblock and attack the vehicle with firearms and a rocket launcher. Quinn will board the vehicle and eliminate the target by any means necessary.

# Switch to merely sabotaging her trip.

# Switch to a kidnapping attempt. Historical survey shows that in these cases, Angles are dispatched to free any captives.

http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Liveblog.html

We will put our agents in mask, then put on a show. I believe I have trained then in guerilla warfare. This is their first job. If they fail to disappear. We can always make more.

>>269519
((Going loud))

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>>269519

Your cabals do put on a show - the stretch of road between Orange County and the Bay Area goes through one of the world's few remaining deserts.

The cabals move in a few weeks before Mrs. LaHaye's visit, buy a mechanic's shop, and rebuild a number of old muscle cars (you suspect that most of the electronics that TOL doesn't build itself are tracked, so going with older, fully mechanical systems makes sense).

They take the opportunity to dress up in rags, leather bands, and spikes; Quinn even puts on one of the old Mk1 arms that was up-armored for the occasion, since it looks intimidating.

A car carrier truck is stolen and used to build a roadblock out of wrecks. Given that people have little reason to travel, the roads are basically empty and setting up the trap doesn't require any violence, merely telling a few people at both ends that the road is closed.

It's a lovely day for an ambush, isn't it?

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>>269522

(Please roll 1d100)

# Are you attempting to do this under a false flag, taking responsibility as TOL, or taking responsibilty as Omega?

Historical survey shows that an assassination attempt on a missionary has never succeeded, with God smiting would-be perpetrators by lightning. Precautions have been taken. The MECs will cover Quinn, and the humans will try to remain in the vehicles which whill hopefully function as Faraday cages.

Mrs. LaHaye's bus is not part of a convoy and not defended, that you can tell.

Rolled 4 (1d100)

Done by an anonymous group of cyberpowered humans, we will inform TOL of this event on their secret communications channels if all goes well.

(Omega, and good luck quinn.)

XD fuuuuuuuuu-))

>>269592

(Oh boy. That'll need some writing, working on it - still have to do shipping at work though)

>>269598

(And I'm back! Writing now)

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>>269598

Radio silence happens on schedule. As an AI, you have a concept of antsiness, but you do not experience any.

The first report you hear, annoyingly, is from Mrs. LaHaye herself. At a small revival meeting in what used to be the Castro, she narrates how a number of "hooligans dressed up as savages and demons" tried to intercept her bus. She narrates how the ambush mostly went according to plan, and how the Angel, Anis, came to her rescue once the actual fighting started. He told her to remain silent, and then the two walked out of the wrecked bus, seemingly invisible to the chaos around them. She witnessed God Himself strike down the attackers with lightning when they killed her small retinue.

After a small prayer for those who she had lost, and of thanks that they are now in Heaven, she narrated how she walked with Anis for a short time, saw the terrorists eventually scatter after not finding her, and sat against a rock until eventually a kind couple driving to the shore gave her a lift.

(This is actually taken from various bits of the Kingdom Come book, surprisngly... http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Liveblog.html )

Almost at the same time, Quinn reports in to say that the missionaries must have a mole: Mrs. LaHaye was not on the bus. The missionaries barely fought back, but every time one of the MECs scored a killing blow, they were hit by clear-sky lightning. The live humans in the group were warned to stick to a support role, and did so, remaining unscathed. They rebooted the MECs as necessary and, after all but stripping the bus apart looking for LaHaye, they gave up and scattered before anyone drove by.

Meteo survey shows that the lightning came straight from the exoatmospheric water canopy.

"We've lost one. Huey did not reboot properly after the lightning bolt. Requesting cold storage. No other casualties. Seven missionaries eliminated. No captures."

The two cabals are holed up at the mechanic's that they purchased when they started the operation.

# Extract them immediately.

# Send the humans to investigate the crash site out of costume.

# Attempt again in what's left of San Francisco at a significant penalty

>>270910

Your reanimated agents have, mostly, survived their trial by fire; that in itself would be cause for celebration if things had gone a little better.

TOL leadership sends a curt circular letter to all the bases indicating that they should not attempt to directly attack missionaries, as it has never worked, and laments that seven agents died in vain just to get rid of some underlings. You know that the score is in fact seven to one.

Immediate extraction.

Record
Lightning comes from the canopy, weapons or tyrant itself?
MEC's require the same gear as humans to survive confrontations with the divine.

New course of action for the rest of quinn and the cabals, turn to extracting as many people from San Fran as possible, look for those eager to learn about space while preventing the raids from taking people. If we're lucky we can form another cabal from the escaped.

As for the rest of the next year, continue as normal

>>271053

The lightning came from the water canopy. In addition, MEC audio logs confirm -- after months of digital signal processing that takes about a fifth of your processing power for the year, since you're trying to hear an old lady tiptoeing through a battle -- that while Anis and Beverly were invisible, they were audible. None of the operatives remember the sounds, understandably. Do Angels and their wards show up on camera? Do they show up on sonar? A camera was brought to document the attack, and did pick up the sound, but would not have picked up video of the Angel as it was only brought into the bus after the firefight was over and it sounds like that LaHaye ditched at the first sign of trouble.

Your MECs performed well; 6 out of 7 just needed a reset to get back up. Given how new the technology still is, that's quite a feat. It may be beneficial to add a simple mechanical reset switch to their support systems. Quinn comes home with an egg timer crudely but effectively screwed to her support system access panel on her back. The issue is still that in a pitched battle, a MEC would still be out of commission for a few crucial moments after scoring a killing blow. One of the MECs notes in a gravely monotone that it would make it easier to keep a tally of kills.

The rest of the year is spent keeping an underground crew running in San Francisco to give advance warning about raids and facilitate evacuation. Your agents make contact with an existing organization called the Underground Monorail that has the same goal.

http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Snippets.html

Beverly's riveting story causes a number of successful altar calls, and TOL is forced to scale back operations in Northwestern America as a result.

# Introduce yourself to the Underground Railroad as an independent entity

# Introduce yourself to the Underground Railroad as a TOL bureaucrat

Adapting night vision goggles for use during the day for the purpose of Angel detection is trivial; a SRF04 sonar rangefinder is added to the goggles for redundancy. A couple of agents spend the entire summer "chasing fairies" with these things on, but Angels tend to only show up wen they are needed, so results are inconclusive.

Complexity 1:

# Send a cabal to a region to see what unique opportunities that region offers.

Current opportunities:

East Pacific Islands region: A base can be built in Tokyo.

NW America, Philippines: Sabotage or harass a Hero, reducing their effectiveness. SPECIAL: Fake an attack to test the detection gear.

NW America: Coordinate with the Underground Railroad.

Complexity 2:

# Initiate or further research.

# Continue pursuing MEC production.

# Change production orders for The Other Light base under your control (Takeover: 1/5.)

# Recruit from TOL

Complexity 3 jobs available (33/66/100 success):

# Continue pursuing MEC research.

# Attempt to eliminate a Hero using your cabals to set the stage and Quinn to deliver the killing blow.

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>>271172

A few people, including San Francisco refugees, are very interested in resuming a space program. A few early attempts were accomplished, which gives you an idea of the scope of the problem: the water canopy means that instead of a standard orbital insertion, you will have to build a rocket that goes straight up, splashes into the canopy, pushes against it to accelerate, and then takes off from the canopy's exterior.... if there is one.

Simply being able to have vehicles skimming the inside of the water canopy using cavitation would give you eye-in-the-sky advantages similar to a satellite network.

Have cabals in lifetree and the rest kit work on increasing the base bonus. Have quinn and her cabal assist the underground monorail in getting those people to Tokyo. We will do so as a TOL Subsidiary, one that "cares about protecting people from the tyrant and his oppressors" the final two cabals will build a base in japan to shelter the refugees from San Fran, let's see if quinn becomes Harriet Tubman, heh heh heh.

>>271272
Rez kit not rest, damn auto))

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>>271430
1)2)
MEC conversion continues apace; the egg timer is replaced by a simple mechanical watchdog switch that turns the Metabolic Extension Controller back on after six seconds of inactivity. MEC agents that want to enter low power mode have to click this off.

3) Quinn takes the risk to show herself and other MEC agents, just for a few moments, when Beverly LaHaye preaches. While they pass as human most of the time, they can easily choose not to. This unnerves the elderly missionary greatly; she's seen these people being smote, after all. Coordinating with the Underground Railroad proves fairly easy; they're not a combat force, and mostly want to be left alone, but agree on the possible use of finding some safe space.

Between this and further MEC production, you've gained another cabal (mostly Underground Monorail people who are a bit too hotheaded for theat group).

4)5) Base construction in the Tokyo ruins begins. You estimate that it will take five years to have a facility up and running; this is a long time, but it needs to be somewhat concealed and independent when it comes to power and water.

Not much happens in the way of R&D. The Other Light leadership has to remind their people that direct military action right now is not advisable. Believers worldwide feel secure in knowing that even what was clearly a trained attack force was unable to stop an elderly missionary.

Quinn looks decidely more voluptuous than Harriet Tubman, but is honored at the association otherwise. She's now 10 years old, but does not seem to have aged significantly more than non-Glorified believers do; her tissues are in good shape, and MECs mostly only need maintenance on their mechanical parts, and power for the MEC unit itself.

>>271468

Complexity 1:

# Send a cabal to a region to see what unique opportunities that region offers.

Current opportunities:

NW America, Philippines: Sabotage or harass a Hero, reducing their effectiveness. SPECIAL: Fake an attack to test the detection gear.

Complexity 2 (50/100 success):

# Initiate or further research.

# Continue pursuing MEC production, with a 3/10 chance of getting reanimated recruits.

# Change production orders for The Other Light base under your control (Takeover: 1/5.)

# Continue building the Tokyo base (1/5)

# Recruit from TOL. This raises TOL suspicion towards you.

Complexity 3 jobs available (33/66/100 success):

# Continue pursuing MEC research.

# Attempt to eliminate a Hero using your cabals to set the stage and Quinn to deliver the killing blow.

Complexity 4 jobs available (25/50/75/100 success):

# Recruit from the general unbelieving population, this has the advantage of not gnerating TOL suspicion towards you.

# Rush Tokyo base construction.

2 cabal on change production orders.
3 cabals working on MEC research.
That last cabal continues work in Japan on the base.

Quinn gets a vacation. So long as she Concealed carrys as to be able to protect herself.

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>>271545

You have 6 cabals, but 1 is always tasked with maintaining your systems, unless you build the Avatar prototype...

MEC units are now well integrated within your personnel roster.

Rolled 6 (1d18)

>>271545

Quinn appreciates the vacation and makes a few cryptic posts on the bulletin board system, a series of sorts, titled "What do do when you're dead in..." that highlights what little fun there is to be had in various territorie; most TOL haunts are pubs or discos after all. Fortunately, the bulletin board system is text-only, so nobody catches the joke that isn't already in on it. She "abuses" her ability to shut down for arbitrary periods of time to ride the rails on cargo trains.

>>271545
To those interested in space programs, the stars, and anything pertaining to the water cannopy and what lays behind it. A new project is forming out of the far east, with the long term goal of breaching into the stars, and using what lies behind liquid curtain to reclaim this world. If you are interested, all you have to do is show effort and you will be contacted. Manpower is beyond necessary as much as brains are. This is not about finding lost knowledge, nor is it about your alliance to any group. This is about survival.

-message sent through selected TOL groups anonymously.

Guess the Tokyo group has to wait till we get that cabal next round.

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>>271578

(Zone 6: Eastern Russia) Quinn does post an image file on the BBS: herself with some of her cybernetics showing and quite a bit of herself exposed, so that the whole thing looks like fairly good sci-fi cosplay (other than the fishbowl helmet clearly made out of an actual fishbowl, but we can't have everything) in a mildly lewd pose on the pedestal of the Gagarin Memorial, which she has taken some time to find. It's very out of the way, but some of the locals take to drawing rockets or fanciful spaceships and leaving them at the memorial, in a sort of pilgrimage.

(Huh, that synergized well)

>>271583

The message would have gotten quite some interest by itself, but adding a space babe doesn't hurt. The picture is low resolution enough to make recognition impossible.

In worse news, the TOL base in Northwestern America has been found as part of the Christmas raids!

# Ignore.

# Divert X cabals and/or Quinn to assist with evacuation. The year is over, so no work will be lost, but there's a chance of losing some agents.

Is the chance fixed or is it based off cabal numbers yet not reaching 100?))

>>271647

(Which chance? Also, I don't blame you for generally not wanting to roll dice, given how rolls have gone this far :) Heh, you ARE fighting fate afterall!)

>>271667
((These rolls are killing me lmao, but, let's see if it kills three cabals, two handling extraction assistance while quinn and the MECabal provide danger support))


(Spoken directly to quinn and MECabal)
Quinn, the rest of you, listen and pay attention. While you have been punished by our enemy in the past for removing agents of his tyranis, I have little to go on in the event you only injury or incapacitate to defend yourselves and others. Also, put yourselves on display for TOL, they should know now what we have created. They should know that a chance now stands for a victory. Give us all a show ladies and gentlemen. Humanity counts on you.

>>271707

(Good speech! Time to start canceling the apocalypse!)

New thread: >>271723