Genni

The Treasure of Emily Gray

Man we really need a Co-GM!!!

@DeadDrop

Thanks for volunteering!

Your main responsibilities are to take all the blame when things go wrong, and to provide freshly baked muffins for the team whenever they attend a strategising session.

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But again... The feedback wouldn't matter that much, since she has her main augment 'turned off'.

@13org

I was thinking of it more that the central processor for the augment would just be working on the signals being relayed through the ThirdEyes, rather than the sensors in her body, but the system itself would still be fully functional and therefore susceptible to interference and feedback. Having said that, simply switching off her local system would prevent the feedback entirely, but would severely limit her local perception.

Is there any 'reboot delay' for switching between her systems at all? If she did shut down the core augment, how long would it take to get it back up and running again? Is there a period where it needs to 'warm up', giving a less clear reading or a more limited range as the system gets back upto speed, mapping and categorising the local area?

While focusing on the Third Eyes, the perception range on her augment is lowered to 7m. While under these specific circumstances, any Third Eye within a 45m area suffers severe interference from Anya's augment, rendering them useless.

@13org

That could be explained by the increased signal sources requiring greater processing power for Anya's augment to filter through all the data it's receiving, reducing the efficiency of the local scan.

You could even take it one step further, with the effect gradually scaling with each ThirdEye deployed. This would mean that one or two might only reduce her local perception range by a couple of meters, but by the time she's got five or six running at once her processor would be overloaded, reducing her local perception down by 10 or 20 meters.

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Anya slipped the Third Eye in the pocket of 2 different guys. If they walk by each other... You know?

@13org

You could either have it that the feedback from the smaller devices would be far less severe compared to her augment, for instance feeling like a prick with a needle rather than having a nail hammered through your hand, or you could have all the ThirdEyes on the same channel, so they wouldn't interefere with each other, but might interfere with Anya's main augment.

She'd then run into the problem of someone she'd tagged wandering in her direction, since she'd be at risk from feedback if they got too close to her, but this would just play into her need to keep her distance from targets so I'd see it as characterful for her design.

The Treasure of Emily Gray

@Kipsateking But where's his little sister? Did she already grow up?

Wait... ...is she behind me..?

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If that was used by anyone else, information overload would be a real problem. But Anya's augmentation also deals with that. Since Anya is usually away from where the conflict would happen, her main augment is something like an alert for her to GTFO of things get ugly.

@13org

That was kind of my point with avoiding making the ThirdEyes too OP. When she was using them she'd basically have to switch off her personal detection, meaning she'd be vulnerable to someone sneaking up on her with no 'GFTO warning' to rely on.

It would be rare that this would be a problem, given that Anya may be a couple of miles away from the action, but it could make for an interesting plot hook if she didn't take precautions, especially if she needed to stay 'on point' for an operation where the team were being cornered and she was providing them with valuable covering fire, but at the same time knew that someone was hunting her and she'd need to keep switching back to her local scan to make sure she hadn't been found.

Almost like playing Five Nights at Freddy's. :P

A slower bullet would not produce the characteristic Sonic boom that it does when passing by someone, but in the other hand, less speed means less range and penetrating power. In order to deal with this issue, heavier bullets would be needed to raise the projectile's penetration power at the cost of a heavily reduced range.

@13org

There's also the fact that supersonic bullets would reach their destination before the sound of the boom even reached the target, or their associates. In case of shots made at extreme range, the target's head might just explode several seconds before their associates heard the sound of the boom, and by then Anya could have already changed location to prevent being discovered, especially if she trusted her skill enough not to wait for visual confirmation of the kill before moving.

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In the Court of the High Queen

Well, it's incomplete due to still needing to come up with one last Weakness...

@Saltwater Thief

You could try 'Bastard', making the nature of his birth a point he'd have to work against in court, where some of the other Councilmembers would have problems working with someone who had no claim to be amongst them other than their Queen's word.

Not that Carmella would have a problem with him. She's found most bastards to be far more trustworthy than her fellow nobles, who had far more secrets to hide in their extended familes than a man alone could ever have to worry about.

Another option would be to make his continued existance a threat to his family's honour, and given their suppression of his father's will they're willing to use underhanded tactics to keep him out of sight. Have they gone as far as making arrangement to have his life shortened, to make sure he doesn't cause problems for them in future? Or would this mirror the 'Black Sheep' trait he already has?

Other than that, maybe something about his temperament, such as 'Hot-Heated', 'Brutal' or 'Blunt'? How would Sir Martin approach a situation, and how would his attitude to life affect the policies he would would put forth or support?

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Just an idea... though, if people would be interested, could I make him a sibling of one of the current characters?

@Wernher

I don't see why you'd need to make him someone's sibling, he's a strong enough character on his own.

In fact, giving him ties outside of the Church might dilute his zealotry a little, giving him an emotional weakness others could exploit. You could even take this to the extreme and make it that 'Samael' had found his own family guilty of heresy and had them all executed before taking control of their lands in the name of the Church.

Above a knight, an example for all knights...

@Wernher

This may be a little questionable.

Paladins were entitled by the Church while other knights had to undergo rigorous training and years of testing before being awarded their title by the Crown (since most knights were "landed" and so the titles were a scarse commodity, while the Church were only limited by how many suits of armour and sigils they could hand out.) This process required a vast amount of resources to achieve, usually making it the purview of only the nobility who could afford to dedicate their time to 'knightly pursuits' as someone else had to worry about where their meals came from.

Anyone could be named a Paladin though, with many 'lowborn' gaining their titles through acts of great piety and proof of their faith, rather than the usual manner of martial conduct and commitment to the code of chivalry (although usually the two overlapped a great deal.) Due to this most knights disliked the Paladins in general unless an individual could also prove their worth in battle or through some great valorous act, as the highborn nobles disliked having to rub shoulders with the gutter trash.

While the pious member of the public may see Samael as a virtuous hero, titled knights such as Ser Alistair and Sir Martin might instead see him as an upstart pretender, and the impious could see him as a blood crazed monster. Carmella really wouldn't get along with him at all, given that she and her people don't follow the teachings of the Church in any way.

It works perfectly fine if the profile is written from Samael's point of view however, since most monsters don't realise they're monsters and truly believe they're doing the right thing.

Nice choice on the name, by the way. Samael, the Angel of Death; the Venom, the Poison, and the Blindness of God.

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Yeah, my original idea was for it to be a bullet, so she could fire it from her rifle, but I thought that it would be too OP, wouldn't it?

@13org

One way to balance it out would be to make it so Anya had to switch between channels to view things through a ThirdEye, rather than giving her a single unified vision. That way not only would deploying too many of them simultaneously be a little overwhelming to keep track of, but while using one Anya would be functionally defenseless and reliant on someone literally watching her back until she switched back to her main augmentation.

Well... even though Anya's rifle is silenced, people nearby can still hear as the bullet hits the ground/wall/etc.

@13org

'Silenced' firearms are still surpringly load, and generally the term 'suppressed' is used instead. Most people would easily hear a silenced pistol firing either in the street outside their house or from a couple of rooms away inside the building. However, the sound tends to be significantly different from what most people associate with a gunshot, and such sounds tend to be disregarded as background noise and not reported or recorded.

Also it's a little easier to tag someone without them knowing when all you have to do is pull a pin and slip the ThirdEye into their pocket surreptitiously, rather than shooting them in the back.

Now the big question is: Would it be fair for the bullet type and the device to have exactly the same range and drawbacks?

@13org

I'd suggest that the bullet type would be a little smaller than the standard version you've described so far, since it would have to be able to fit into the 4x30mm rounds standardly used by her rifle. This would mean less refined sensors and reduced battery size. Overall that would make for a shorter life, smaller range unit which could be quickly and messily deployed at greater range, and would be inferior to the larger version which would require more planning and logistics to place.

Basically, if Anya has the time to get one of the other devices into place manually then it would be better to do that, but in a situation where she needs to quickly establish a sensor net in a hurry, the bullet type would allow her to get on point far faster.

Would the transmission range affect her augmentation in any way? Could Anya use the bullet types as a 'signal repeater' if she needed to relocate in a hurry and would be moving out of range of devices already in place?

PS: love ghost in the shell <3

@13org

Smelling lithium now... ;)

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