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01:23:01 Devastator: oh god, the soviets do not do good airliners.
01:23:53 Devastator: the new tupolev "long range" jet, 3500 mile range, or 40 miles short of a flight to beijing.
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02:04:19 Topic for #einsteinianroulette: Fleshorrors dream of feline BASS
02:04:19 Topic set by syv [Saturday 22 May 2021, 04:44:55]
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03:09:45 Devastator: will be around in an hour.
03:44:34 Devastator: so how's it been,
MJ?
03:45:43 MidJag: I've been busy mostly, flying up to Chicago to do an interivew in a couple of days. Fraternity had a party on thursday.
03:46:21 Devastator: Only been to cow-town while in transit on planes.
03:46:39 Devastator: hope you get some time to look around.
03:46:54 MidJag: Yeah, I get like a half day to just look around the city.
03:52:52 MidJag: Not right now, I dunno why I've just been tired lately.
03:53:08 Devastator: well, could stream something.
03:55:29 Devastator: they're predicting an aurora tonight where I'm at.
03:57:42 MidJag: that's caused by like magnetic fields and such right
03:59:26 ER: at this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?
04:01:17 MidJag: Yeah I don't seen anything
dev
04:02:34 Devastator: fuck, overwrote my stream key.
04:02:38 Devastator: I have no idea what it is.
04:03:18 MidJag: Twitch I think reset everything when they got hacked
04:04:49 Devastator: well I'm fucked then, it wants 2fa to an e-mail I no longer have.
04:06:45 Devastator: anyway, just gonna sign up again.
04:10:06 Devastator: yup, looks like it's working.
04:10:11 Devastator: twitch.tv/kofiman21.
04:12:00 MidJag: Your streams up just so you know
dev
04:12:19 MidJag: Yeah I think you showed this ot me once
04:13:48 MidJag: Okay, and what's the thing directlly bewlow tht espinnign symbol?
04:14:11 MidJag: So this is like an RTS but you are allso the solider?
04:16:12 MidJag: This is a confusing game to be sure, which I suppose makes it a very toady game
04:18:26 MidJag: Grid elves sounds like something that would be in 90's cyberpunk novel
04:21:39 MidJag: I wonder if Toady knows what half this shit is these days
04:22:50 MidJag: Heh, the light color is the light division
04:25:00 MidJag: rush mechanics is a good name
04:26:37 MidJag: He was like running away and then was suddenly back in his base
04:30:35 MidJag: Perhaps they're a trasnfer mercancary~
04:30:52 ER: how do you know what things are called
04:31:32 MidJag: Heh, this is a very toady game.
04:31:45 MidJag: Well made intresting and inscrutable
04:33:10 MidJag: God it's like you got shoved in command of an alien army and got told fix this
04:33:14 ER: the only HP that's important is the last one
04:38:39 MidJag: So what level are you on?
04:42:05 MidJag: You must build sufficent pylons~
04:44:26 Devastator: that went pretty smooth.
04:44:38 Devastator: I'll be moving over to the fire weapon soon, because it's AoE.
04:46:17 ER: have you played all the b12 games?
04:46:30 Devastator: never played kobold quest.
04:46:43 Devastator: there's also sub-curses.
04:46:57 MidJag: Is liberal crime squad fun?
04:47:41 ER: they're not about submarines
04:49:13 ER: "religious content, DO NOT PLAY, NO REDEEMING FEATURES, requires directx"
04:49:57 Devastator: I've never played any of the sub-curses.
04:52:21 MidJag: Totally unrelated, but it's still crazy that OOTS is winding down
04:52:32 MidJag: and I think scholck mercancaries finished
04:56:42 Devastator: also, if I hit escape at any moment when playing CMM, the game exits.
04:56:55 Devastator: no prompt, nothing.
04:59:31 Devastator: 10 more minutes and I'll go again.
05:10:12 MidJag: So how do you tell between air units nad groun unit? is it the little accent mark on the letters?
05:12:53 MidJag: What are the case shifting "O"?
05:15:52 MidJag: Well I think I'm going to go to bed.
05:18:48 MidJag: So this is like a fantasy cyberpunk ish thing
05:19:48 Devastator: fairly typical game, really.
05:19:56 Devastator: didn't die early, didn't make it past level 3.
05:20:01 Devastator: making it past 3 is a good game.
05:20:55 Devastator: and yeah, air units have different icons than ground units. They also move differently.
05:21:12 MidJag: Just utter madness, but very intresting
05:21:48 Devastator: there's a good logo image.
05:22:21 Devastator: hey, it's right in the manual.
05:22:25 Devastator: mind a quick copy-paste?
05:22:39 Devastator: I will be Corin. I was. Never since the Technocalypse have we known such troubled times. Dark forces perverted by chaos have descended from behind the shifting plates that move throughout the grid, our last refuge. Yet our sanctuary has become the focal point of our fears since the generators became polluted by the corrupt electricity from beyond twilight's gleam. Indeed, the stars seem to...
05:22:41 Devastator: ...flicker now only to remind us of that loathed night they belched twisted and premature demise upon our cherished and childish dreams.
05:22:50 Devastator: Do not look confused, little ones. I have not lost hope. I was Corin, and might be again. A few of us yet stand against the multifarious host. Cover your faces and climb up to that window. From there you'll be able to see half of the grid. No, it's not a comforting sight, I agree. However, if others rise and show their true bravery as you have done, perhaps we can rebuild our society from...
05:22:51 Devastator: ...this ruined and charred system we once nurtured.
05:23:08 Devastator: In order for you to understand what we face, and how we may yet prevail, let me tell you how it all began. Do you see the smoldering wreck by the power circuit, near that partition wall? That was the tower Orocyclon 9, where the Great Conglomeration occurred seventy years ago. Representatives from the dominant groups in our system came, from the gray shrouded Knights of the Machine with...
05:23:10 Devastator: ...their high culture and sophisticated automatons, right down to the no-hussle gnomes in their brown overalls. Yes, Urdy, you're a gnome, now put your hands down. Now, together these great diplomats forged plans for a collective society where all of us were to get along in peace. Not that there were many problems back then. Those were simple times.
05:23:36 Devastator: It was on the third night, when the festivities were well underway, that the attacks began. Morally corrupted by whispers from the shimmering shadows of the Souls of Midnight that inhabit the stars, a few of the living mechanisms that operate the power generators for the grid began to soil the natural harmony of the electricity on the grid. Within hours, more than two thirds of the grid was...
05:23:37 Devastator: ...corrupted. The Pulse Engineers were in a half-drunken stupor and noticed nothing. We don't blame them... most were not at their most sober. In any case, the diplomats and their escorts were trapped in Orocyclon 9, surrounded by nefarious electrical ooze.
05:23:52 Devastator: The tower's weapons could keep the slime at bay, but the worst was yet to come. Indeed, the Souls of Midnight had been gathering chaos and darkness to them without the knowledge of our Hollow Seers. Venomous dragons and enormous steel war machines came. Angels damned, wearing white dresses like deceitful brides, descended from the poisonous and blighted skies, spiralling down locked in...
05:23:53 Devastator: ...vulgar embrace with demons from the Pit. Shimmering storms of red living sand blew through the tower and clouded our minds. Twin-headed serpents came, writhing up from holes they had bored in the circuits. Kobolds were even recruited to mock us as we cowered.
05:24:01 Devastator: We waited for death.
05:24:10 Devastator: Actually, as your barracks leader probably warned you before taking you to see me, we did die. Orocyclon 9 was destroyed. We didn't have a chance; this was before the Seers and our chemists developed the Crystallites. Fortunately, not all of our defiled carcasses were twisted into unlife by the Souls of Midnight or liquified into corrupted electricity. I owe the healers this second chance,...
05:24:12 Devastator: ...such as it is. Not many can say the same. However, I digress. Let me get back to the present.
05:24:20 Devastator: As you know, you are the pilots of the Crystallites. They can be navigated only by innocent and unsullied thoughts, which is why we turn to you. Yes, even you Urdy, although if you don't stop pinching your neighbor, we might have to send you to haul spare parts on the front instead. There, that's better. As pilots, it is your job to reclaim, place and operate generators on the grid. Once a...
05:24:22 Devastator: ...generator is in place, citizens of the Conglomeration will begin to harness electricity to manufacture what you need, as you direct them. Your duty is to reclaim your sector of the grid and defend the citizens under your charge from attack.
05:24:35 Devastator: My voice is strained, so I'll try to be concise. If your Crystallites are destroyed, they will miraculously reform at their birth areas through the power of your innocent minds, so do not be timid. Each generator belongs to a specific group in the Conglomeration, and the buildings and equipment it creates will be associated to that group. For instance, if you equip a soldier at a generator...
05:24:36 Devastator: ...owned by the Void Walkers, the soldier will drain nearby enemies of life. Adjacent generators often contribute to the projects you are directing, in the true spirit of the Great Conglomeration. You can also arm your Crystallite at a generator. Nearby generators will contribute some defensive modifications. If the enemy has established bases, use your soldiers or fliers to raze them......
05:24:38 Devastator: ...reclaim corrupted generators...
05:24:48 Devastator: [cough, wheeze] I apologize that the lesson was brief, but you are needed now, and I tire. Report to your barracks leader, and you'll be assigned a sector to defend. Go. We don't have much time, and the stars will be out all night.
05:26:32 Devastator: "The Comprehensive Manual: A Preulogy for My Dying Computer
05:27:02 MidJag: So your essentailly some random kid/bum they found and are ahvig you command an army to save the world against a suprising number of apocolypses
05:27:23 Devastator: hmm, didn't know the bit about defensive modifications. That would explain the box right above the weapon and health meters on the status screen.
05:27:37 Devastator: yes. Acutally, it's both more and less serious than that.
05:27:45 Devastator: there are millions of grids, all moving at varying time rates.
05:27:56 Devastator: losing, and winning, are both largely irrelevant in the large sceme of things.
05:30:26 MidJag: Anyway I'm going to bed
05:34:51 Devastator: no aurora at this time, and looking at the forecast, it's tomorrow that's likely for it.
05:34:58 Devastator: it's around today, just not over where I'm at.
05:36:55 Devastator: they're actually predicting it to be extremely aurora-heavy tomorrow night.
05:37:05 Devastator: like 'visible in Virginia' heavy.
05:37:22 ER: I'll have to look at the sky
05:38:26 Devastator: yeah. Dunno if it'll get down where you're at.
05:59:03 Devastator: and nah, being exaggerated. It's maybe where I'm at and not particularly far south.
06:46:29 Devastator: This guy probably gets +4 to combat.
06:48:04 Devastator:
syv's parkour probably just makes it impossible for his guy to get hurt here.
07:03:38 Devastator: yeah. He whiffed, but no wound check because parkour.
07:03:56 Devastator: You hit, but so did it. No serious damage yet.
07:04:41 Devastator: Trident's chained to your arm, right?
07:06:04 Devastator: yeah, that could have been bad, yes.
07:16:20 Devastator: did I talk to you about how wounds work?
07:20:42 ER: didn't I have another 3 from my weapon or something
07:23:41 Devastator: I also took away three for your opponent's abilities.
07:24:38 Devastator: I'm gonna say that you get +6 for fighting things that use weapons you understand, but lose points for their skills. For stuff you just attack, you don't get the extra +3, but their skills don't matter for your ability to land hits.
07:25:28 Devastator: Besides, if I did give you +6, it'd be the exact same result. You succeeded, did a wound, and the battle continues.
07:54:20 Devastator: so that's a fae creature, then, hmm.
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08:09:59 Devastator: mmm, more thinky time.
08:11:12 Devastator: yeah, I don't have a clue what to do.
08:16:56 Devastator: got a bunch of ideas, but i'unno.
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21:40:58 Topic for #einsteinianroulette: Fleshorrors dream of feline BASS
21:40:58 Topic set by syv [Saturday 22 May 2021, 04:44:55]
22:42:04 Devastator: decided on something.
22:42:11 Devastator: time to get punished for birb backstory! ;-p
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