Field Guide to Iridia

[twilit ether]

Mhm, the new Exingency Nanites paired with Ionic Feedback are so good on White Witch

They shore up 2 of WW's biggest weaknesses, tech attacks and burn

[solemn crypt]

So I've started reading iridia, and I wanted to ask how you'd like me to structure my feedback for the field guide.

I've some thoughts already after reading the initial page, some minor, some major, but I wanna offer them to you in a way that is digestible @vocal ridge

My initial plan was to make a word doc and just record all of my feedback on the field guide as I went, colour coding each piece and numbering which page the feedback relates to.

[vocal ridge]

Being completely honest, I... just stopped trying to balance for the WW, because it's very much just min-maxed and frustrating. (Hence why the note on compatibility doesn't mentione KTB as something that things aren't guaranteed to break with.)

[vocal ridge]

However you'd like is fine! If it's a whole lot of feedback, though, perhaps something like a google doc'd be best, yeah.

[twilit ether]

Fair fair

[solemn crypt]

I'll do that then. It'll take me a while since I'm working with door keeper to make lore for his mechs for the mechanical brewery submission, and I'll likely end up helping others, but I'll try to give as comprehensive feedback as possible.

[vocal ridge]

Not a worry. I'm happy to receive whatever's given, but I'm sure not entitled to it. 😛

[vocal ridge]

Oh, I should ask whether you're reading the gdoc or the PDF, @solemn crypt. Since the former contains significantly more material. XP

(Since the PDF is currently just a preview version.)

[solemn crypt]

The 246 page Google doc I converted into a PDF so I can easily read on my phone 😛

[vocal ridge]

I seeeee. XD

[vocal ridge]

Oh, hey, we've passed 200 guide previews downloaded (and about the same number of lcps). Everyone who's done so has helped tell me that I'm not just making this thing for me. (Though, of course, 'me' is still the most important audience. )

So, here, have a Weird Fox Thing™️ art, because I'm in a good mood, since I know there have been requests after it. 😛

[vocal ridge]

...?

Oh, there's the gif. 😛

It wasn't playing.

[twilit ether]

Yeah lol Discord kinda sucks with gifs sometimes

[vocal ridge]

You seem overly excited. 😛

[twilit ether]

It's a cute fox!

(Though the excitement is slightly played up for humorous effect I admit)

[vocal ridge]

I can never read people. XP

[polar lotus]

It is a very cute fox

[twilit ether]

Clearly you just need to crack them open like a book and read their brain

[vocal ridge]

D:

[vocal ridge]

Xeeble does cute art, yes.

[twilit ether]

Indeed!

They did the other pet art right?

[vocal ridge]

And I guess I can throw the last of the Critters™️ here, too. (This one comes in 'regular' and 'invisible' colour variants. XP )

[vocal ridge]

Yeah, they did the bundle of pets.

[twilit ether]

Neato! Good stuff

[vocal ridge]

I can't pick favorites, though. Too many good ones. 😔

[arctic pawn]

the spider, ironically

(it is ironic because I have arachnophobia)

[vocal ridge]

...why is that ironic?

Ah.

[arctic pawn]

the snek is a close second tho

[vocal ridge]

I mean, it's not really that much of a spider.

It's a gemstone with legs, really. 😛

[arctic pawn]

oh yeah that that's why it's cute and not fearsome

[rustic thistle]

Pets...

[vocal ridge]

What's the point of having a Weird World without Cute Weird Animals? 😛

[vocal ridge]

More non-Iridia stuff, if anyone's curious about mechanics that I'm currently tossing around. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YMtlNIwZRnIwtKHFf1ntn6FtiCe0_jmNzmw6HQi7wpw/edit

[solemn crypt]

I finally started making my Iridia notes...
This may take a while, for good reasons (I wanted to highlight stuff I liked, and there is a lot to it, even within the first 10 pages, including formatting)

[solemn crypt]

I shouldn't be including rambles about big mac and ping pong diplomacy in these notes...

[twilit ether]

Why not

[solemn crypt]

IDK how benefitical it is mentioning that, in the past, previously isolationist, or otherwise stubborn nations were coaxed to the diplomacy table via unconventional means, which, for china, included ping pong.
Meanwhile 'big mac' diplomacy is just a way to describe using foreign imported foods and the like, typically in resturant form, as a way to do something similiar. With the capital of Iridia being heavily reliant on imports, as are other parts of the planet, it wouldn't be hard for me to believe ISP-N wouldn't take advantage of this and use food as a way to coax benefits for themselves out of Iridia.

[twilit ether]

Interesting indeed

[solemn crypt]

Another month added to my Jojo counter.

(When it hits zero, I watch Jojo....currently its at 5 years, 2 months)

[twilit ether]

[vocal ridge]

Oh boy. I'm scared. 😛

(I was impressed - and curious - that apparently you had comments from the first page before. XD )

(But also, make whatever notes you want. There's just a practical limit to what kind of stuff I can have the page space to explicitly spell out.)

[solemn crypt]

Ironically, one of the things I've been praising has been the use of page space 😛
Thus far, I've been pretty happy to see how you've condensed a lot of stuff. The first 3 pages alone gets across the themes and ideas of Iridia, and much of what comes after reinforces, expands upon and/or details the things referenced in those 3 pages. It's genuinely really good.

[vocal ridge]

I've definitely been trying for more of a... broad overview, with a few specifics getting put in for people to hook off of.

Since it's sometimes the little details. I know the ones that my players latched onto the most as I was writing stuff were the practice of figuring trading (from the Disciple religion) and the offhanded mention from one of the Places of Interest about the perceived relations between souls and violence.

[solemn crypt]

There was a small thing I noticed which I really appreciated as well; the small note on architecture. I was really happy to see that something so mundane got a mention.

there's a lot of that in here (I'd like to see more, but I'll save that for the notes), but it's good to see.

[vocal ridge]

When I can, I like putting those in (assuming I've even thought of them)... but also, you have to be careful about not being too lost in minutiae. I think the PDF version has a bit more, though. (I stopped putting every tiny tweak back into the google doc.)

I'm looking forwards to seeing what you've been writing, though. It feels like it'll be very in-depth. Which I'm always happy to see!

[solemn crypt]

To give you an idea of what I'm doing;

I'm making a bulletpoint list, colour coded, in page order of each thing I feel is mentioning.

My final thoughts, which are more 'overall' will be placed at the end and where I'll give my thoughts on the field guide in its totality.

The first 50-ish pages will likely be where I spend the most time, because once I get to the mechs, things should be faster.
However, with that said, I'll still be making bulletpoints about gear and lore descriptions for said gear.

I'll be doing this for the entire 200+ doc.

[vocal ridge]

Oh boy. Why have you set yourself to this? XD

[twilit ether]

Dear Lord

My mans is peer reviewing this

[vocal ridge]

You don't have to do that all, you know! 😛

[rustic thistle]

It's gonna be like defending a thesis!

[twilit ether]

Truly a person of focus, commitment, and sheer fucking will

[solemn crypt]

I mean...I used to read peoples fan fiction and novels for friends and stuff to provide feedback and such.

this is just that, but much easier.

and way less pornographic (thank Ra)

[vocal ridge]

Okay, yes, but please don't feel obliged if you find yourself not wanting to continue at any point.

[twilit ether]

What is homebrew but Lancer fanfiction anyways

[vocal ridge]

...I would like to hope so, yes. 😛

[vocal ridge]

It's just fiction, because all is true in the dreams of the choir.

[polar lotus]

You're onto something here

[twilit ether]

The choir are fans

Thus, fan fiction

[solemn crypt]

I'm having fun tbh. It's nice to do this after so long, and it gives me something to do this weekend since it's so hot out. Plus, Glastonbury means I can't go to the national trust properties I wanted to visit this weekend.

[vocal ridge]

But, also, yes, tabletop-being-fanfiction is a conversation I've had several times. It becomes especially moreso when you're playing a tabletop based on an external IP. 😛

[solemn crypt]

Fun fact: ttrpgs as a genre evolved out of people roleplaying as national leaders during the nepoleonic wars during alternative history situations.

[vocal ridge]

Yeah, I remember reading about that. But try telling people that they're writing historical fanfiction...

[solemn crypt]

Any who, I'll keep reading the guide while playing lancer, because a toku oracle SMG build with range 30 and crackshot is basically just me going "I'm gonna turn my brain off for two hours and kill everyone", so I've got the additional brain capacity.

[vocal ridge]

...oh geez.

[solemn crypt]

[ LICENSES ]
  HA Tokugawa 3, SSC Swallowtail 2, HA Genghis 1
[ CORE BONUSES ]
  Improved Armament, Mount Retrofitting
[ TALENTS ]
  Nuclear Cavalier 3, Crack Shot 3, Gunslinger 3
[ STATS ]
  HULL:2 AGI:2 SYS:0 ENGI:4
  STRUCTURE:4 HP:15 ARMOR:1
  STRESS:4 HEATCAP:12 REPAIR:5
  TECH ATK:-1 LIMITED:+2
  SPD:5 EVA:10 EDEF:6 SENSE:10 SAVE:14
[ WEAPONS ]
  FLEX MOUNT: Oracle LMG-I / Oracle LMG-I
  MAIN MOUNT: Oracle LMG-I / Oracle LMG-I // Mount Retrofitting
  MAIN MOUNT: Torch
[ SYSTEMS ]
  LUCIFER-Class NHP x4, External Batteries```

the build, for reference.

[solemn crypt]

Got through all the lore, now, for mechanics

[vocal ridge]

Well, uh... there's a lot of that, so have fun? XD

[vocal ridge]

And further sharing of non-Iridia stuff, to round out the Big 4 with the Bonny! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6xwTlNCiqmfCNjVmPI3aar1RdDWzBrlQr2uoQwKyuI/edit

[rustic thistle]

Ooooh

[vocal ridge]

Wheeeeee!

[rustic thistle]

I am also in middle of big plot revelations and Proper Nouns in my game as I ranted on the Legionnaire thread haha

[vocal ridge]

I saw that, yes. 😛

[rustic thistle]

'boy, we found a way to send data back in time to a spot we placed beforehand! NOTHING CAN GO WRONG.'

[vocal ridge]

https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a

Immediately makes me think of this short story. 😛

[rustic thistle]

ahahaha

[vocal ridge]

That lives in my head rent free.

[coral fern]

Go to the database
ask if the information is causal or anoriginary
“It’s good information sir”
it’s anoriginary

[rustic thistle]

And now they just got information on the project that created the characters that's a NHP shoved into a meat brain.

'we wanted to see if we could send it back in time since we can make NHP data but HEY LET'S SEE IF WE CAN MAKE THAT INTO AN ORGANIC BODY TOO'

also hahaha

[rustic thistle]

Huh! Never heard anoriginary as a term before.

[coral fern]

I learned the concept of anoriginary information from homestuck at a young age

[rustic thistle]

Ahhhhh!

gosh, homestuck is so old, I was in my early twenties when it was it's height,aaaaaaaaaaaaah

[rustic thistle]

Because I live dangerously, this is the boss of this mission.

Bosses.

They are aided by 4 NPCs.

[vocal ridge]

It's fiiiiiiine. I've done 2 Ultras before, and the players totally lived! They only lost 3 mechs, and were down to the wire on the last one.

[rustic thistle]

Also animated!

[vocal ridge]

Oh, incredibly impressive.

[twilit ether]

When's the IPS-N Read coming

Gotta have the powercouple complete

[vocal ridge]

I think I'm out of Fey Mood right now, I'm afraid. 😛

[twilit ether]

[vocal ridge]

I had one rough idea for each corp, so, I'm back to being tapped out.

Besides, I don't think I can surpass the Bonny. 😔

[twilit ether]

What are these btw? Your next field guide or are you just kinda making them for fun right now

[twilit ether]

Just make it the Bonny's alt-frame it'll be fine

[vocal ridge]

They're not belonging to anything right now. They're just "I have mechanical ideas that I need to get out of my head."

They might find a home in a project in the future, but right now they're just being made so I can stop thinking about them. XD

[twilit ether]

Lol

The call of the mines are loud and unceasing

[vocal ridge]

They've had good reactions to them, though, so I'll probably try and find somewhere to eventually slot them in that's not just isolated.

[twilit ether]

Uhm, Data?

[vocal ridge]

Ah, dang it. I'll figure out what messed up there.

[twilit ether]

Thanks

[vocal ridge]

Probably a copypaste with missing a 2 to a 3.

[modern schooner]

Chromatic Blade so strong it takes up the whole license level

[twilit ether]

TBH I'd believe it

[vocal ridge]

Okay, should be fixed now.

Little embarassing I didn't catch this myself, whoops. XD

[rustic thistle]

there was that time in an openxcom mod I contributed to I completely forgot to swap the sprites I made and I wondered for hours why my new sprites didn't show up in game

we all make that sort of stupid mistakes hahah

[vocal ridge]

Whoops. XD

[solemn crypt]

Ok, assessing each of the individual mechs is way easier than I initially thought it'd be. I'm close to half way done with the entire field guide because of this.

It also helps that the mechs are all really good.

[vocal ridge]

Oh, well, that's good. I felt bad about you feeling you had to wade through it all. XD

[solemn crypt]

TBH, not much to really say about any of them thus far. I can't see anything game breaking when paired with core (besides maybe reality pocket, because that, paired with skirmisher (the nelson trait or the talent) could lead to weirdness), and the fluff for the gear is substantially better than the exotic gear.

[vocal ridge]

Hmm? What do you mean by that last part?

[solemn crypt]

Some of the fluff in the exotic gear is...not that interesting. A big one is Knights Honour, which feels fairly rye, and doesn't really add much.
My note on it was that the fluff could be used to give an excerpt from the luminary knights code of conduct, specifically one that would best relate to the exotic gear itself, so as to give an idea of what was needed to be shown, to earn it from the knights.

[vocal ridge]

Ah, I see.

[solemn crypt]

Other bits were conceptually good, but could do with a second pass. The crystal sword for example, excellent idea, conceptually fantastic, the fluff needs a bit of a touch up.

Also, obligatory tokugawa warning; if the subsequent attacks can deal bonus damage, the toku is dealing alot of bonus damage to all targets on hit.

But these are, if I'm honest, the minority. Most of it is genuinely good and I'm enjoying it.

[vocal ridge]

I am aware - I've had the sword used. Range used to be longer on the target jumping. (And, since it's a multitarget attack, the bonus damage is halved with more than one target.)

But, yes, the Sword is probably the thing with the iffiest power budget overall.

[solemn crypt]

TBH, capping bonus damage to maybe the first two targets would be fine in my eyes? It's comparable to something like the Sharanga then.
Beyond that, I'm kinda happy with it as is as an exotic.

Also, to balance out the negetivity.

I want the Aetherlance, I'd do terrible, terrible things to use it.

Like...god, I want it so badly XD

[vocal ridge]

It is one of those things that makes peoples' eyes pop. 😛

[solemn crypt]

the fluff is perfect to XD

"We're considering just making it into a surface-to-space weapon." is just, such a baller line.

[polar lotus]

it's so good

[vocal ridge]

Definitely my favorite gear fluff I've managed to write.

"Sir, we have been stabbed from the planet's surface."

[solemn crypt]

The Hestia dialog stuff is up there as well. 10/10 stuff.

[vocal ridge]

Which bit are you thinking of?

[solemn crypt]

Like...all of it?

It's hard to name a specific one that's better than the others, it's just, overall, very good.

[vocal ridge]

Ah, the Ananke things.

[twilit ether]

Ah yeah the oversized Impact Lance

[vocal ridge]

Really, it's more a monologue.

[twilit ether]

Now we have two lances that aren't actually lances

[solemn crypt]

Ananke is a favourite thus far, to be sure. It's the Lich, but comprehensable.

[vocal ridge]

Hey, it's a lance! Not a ranged weapon!

[solemn crypt]

and about as existencially terrifying.

[twilit ether]

So is Impact Lance!

[vocal ridge]

Impact lance is a laser. It's a ranged weapon in all but mechanics. 😛

[vocal ridge]

Enjoy the Phane!

[twilit ether]

Mhm, hourglass mech

[solemn crypt]

Small peak at my notes XD

I don't know if you can guess my feelings towards the Astraea based on these XD

[vocal ridge]

Mech cape seems to be a very popular thing. 😛

[solemn crypt]

The frame itself is just...so nice.

It's so perfect, it hurts how good it is XD

[vocal ridge]

It was the first frame I ever made. And it really hasn't changed much since that iteration. Mostly just finagling the core power.

And tweaking the durability some.

[solemn crypt]

You shoulda seen my first frame, dear god XD

But yeah, it's nice. I need to dive back into the Iridia mines.

@vocal ridge I've got a question, since, uh, a reoccurring problem with some of these notes for the mechs is just 'I am praising this, I have no problems' but a bit longer.
Do you want me to keep detailing what I like about each frame individually, or just...focus on what I take issue with to cut down on the notes?

[vocal ridge]

Do whatever you want with this. Whatever makes you happy. 😛

I'll read it no matter how long it is, but this is your time, so you get to decide how you want to spend it. XD

[solemn crypt]

I will continue praising then, and maybe edit it down towards the end.

I am half way through anyway.

[vocal ridge]

Knowing what parts people enjoy does help, though, because I can go "ah, do more of that!"

[solemn crypt]

Page 105 of 240-ish pages, I'll continue throughout the rest of next week.

[vocal ridge]

Geez. You're sinking a lot of time into this.

[solemn crypt]

I've thoroughly read everyone elses 3rd party supplements. Might as well give this one the same level of attention, and hey, if my notes help, fantastic.

[vocal ridge]

...okay, but mine has way too many pages for its own good. XD

[solemn crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/no-nope-no-gif-gif-19888760

[vocal ridge]

There's a reason I never link it for review in #homebrew-design anymore. 😛

[twilit ether]

So.... Swarm Limiter Override Combat Drill.... Does it work?

Can I sacrifice all my structure and stress to deal 4000 damage?

[vocal ridge]

Strictly speaking, probably. It's kinda an... awkward thing. But if one wants to destroy oneself to destroy one's foe, I suppose that's acceptable.

[twilit ether]

Hahahahhahah

AHAHAHAHAHAH

BRB gonna kill RA real quick

[vocal ridge]

Can't kill something that doesn't have stats.

[modern schooner]

Not in the typical way, at least

[twilit ether]

Something something, insert Gurren Lagann quote here, just gotta believe or something

[vocal ridge]

I believe that it's futile.

[modern schooner]

I was mostly suggesting that the "killing" be handled narratively thanks to contextual items (e.g. "the anti-RA spear") but whatever floats your boats

[vocal ridge]

Yeah. Not with "A lot of damage."

[twilit ether]

C'mon humor me a little at least

Ah well I'll settle for destroying a moon I guess

[vocal ridge]

Sorry, I have no humour. Completely serious. 😛

[rustic thistle]

RA is like a mushroom, can't kill them in a way that matters

[solemn crypt]

But I can satue Ra and eat him to gain his power.

[vocal ridge]

Y'all're incorrigible.

[trail vapor]

kid named "A lot of damage" Spear

[twilit ether]

Puts Adjutant and Asura on Phane with Core activated
"MY TURN IS OVER WHEN I DECIDE IT'S OVER"

[solemn crypt]

I finally got through all the demonworks frames, just the core 4 ones, and I'm on the home stretch

[twilit ether]

Dear lord

Congrats though!

[solemn crypt]

Just the NPCs now, although...I've never homebrewed these, nor do I have I ever thought about homebrewing NPCs enough to really have some well developed ideas on how good ones look/function.

I know what I'd want to use as a DM, and I suffer from forever DMitis, so...maybe that's a handy perspective?

[solemn crypt]

ok, page 179, I'll finish this tomorrow.

[solemn crypt]

done. Datamoth has the notes.

I now condemn myself to sleep.

[vocal ridge]

Definitely some useful feedback in here. Some's already been addressed when it comes to the PDF version, but there's some other things I should probably look at.

[twilit ether]

Ohhh sweet sweet

[solemn crypt]

My notes could have been a lot cleaner. But I'm glad there was some good to come out of it.

[vocal ridge]

I've been getting some art commissions just to help set the character aesthetic for Iridia. First one's back, so I figure I might share here. (The artist is https://www.instagram.com/lucyypocket/.)

[twilit ether]

Oh dang sweet

[vocal ridge]

(None of these are going to be of any specific character, sorry, Psy! Since I know that was one comment. Just more to help people visualize aesthetics.)

[solemn crypt]

( tbh, its still a huge boon. It'll help people visualize what an iridian typically looks like, among other things and that is a net positive. )

[earnest prism]

ooooh. prebby,,,

[vocal ridge]

(I do have plans to hopefully commission a few character-specific ones in the future, but didn't want to be tied down to any sort of factional representation or whatnot to start off.)

[twilit ether]

Oh huh just realized that Overload Shielding is 1/scene

Oh phew I thought I was gonna have to take like 7 Shield systems to make the most out of it lol

[rustic thistle]

I just gave a Behemoth Hacking Auxiliary module Predatory Logic and Computer Glitch from Oracle.

[vocal ridge]

How'd that go?

[twilit ether]

Man Swarm Limiter Override is such a cool mod

Another question though, if you trigger it multiple times on a Lich, does Soul Vessel cancel all of the damage?

Oh wait Swarm Limiter can't be reduced even by Immunity, interesting

Nevermind then

[solemn crypt]

I'd also assume that it's like overkill, where its a seperate instance each time, and lich would only null one.

[twilit ether]

No Lich is Immune to all heat from overkill

Though it doesn't really matter since Swarm Limiter Override ignores Immunity

[solemn crypt]

it is?

huh.

[rustic thistle]

Will tell you this Saturday 😄

[vocal ridge]

Ah, gotcha. 😛

[solemn crypt]

I must ask; what was the most interesting bit of feedback I gave?

[vocal ridge]

The constant digs at the Sparri. They don't deserve to be done dirtly like that. 😛

[solemn crypt]

XD

My distain for the Sparri is well known.

[vocal ridge]

It wasn't well known to me before. XP

[solemn crypt]

Well now you've been infected with the knowledge of my hatred towards the samoan viking mandalorians. 😛

Any who, I'll hold true to my sentiment; I like Iridia and mfecane because they are what I wanted from the Sparri in very different ways.

Iridia, it's the aftermath and trauma and the question of 'what now'

With mfecane, it recontextualized the relationship as mutual to a degree, and created a positive feedback loop.

Iridia is the more introspective of the two, backed by excellent mechs and a lot of interpersonal drama, which is honey to me.

The Sparri are just...well, Mandalorians?
a small population of talented men and women who are vastly over-represented within the setting due to their mythologized status as warriors. When in actuality they were stuck on an awful planet and developed a fairly brutal culture to survive...except they were also guided by an NHP who proceeded to do jack diddly for thousands of years.

[vocal ridge]

Are they over-represented? I know that the Voladores hire them as guards (and who knows why the Vols do anything), but that's about everything that I can think of. Besides the KTB exoticization of Sparri culture.

[polar lotus]

there's also a difference between a vast corporate universe of merchandise and tie-in material and an RPG setting mostly written by two guys

[solemn crypt]

They have a surprising amount of the core rulebook dedicated to their lore when compared with some other factions.

And when you consider they amount to one ice clasped planet and some inter-planetary travelers with maybe a colony or two, kinda?

IDK, my distain is irrational I suppose.

[twilit ether]

If you use ECHO-Class and become Hidden, they automatically lose the action unless you stop being Hidden right?

[vocal ridge]

Ah, I do need to put in a clause about you needing to be a valid target.

I was usually pretty good about accounting for Hidden, but forgot in a few places.

[twilit ether]

Ah gotcha

[twilit ether]

Lmao the fact that Silver's Core makes it Intangible means that with Sekhmet on it can't draw LoS to character more than 3 spaces away

Turning on safe-mode for Sekhmet, the only way Sekhmet can tear apart characters now is through allies sending enemies towards the intangible hurricane of blades

Really just throwing enemies into the thunderdome

[vocal ridge]

I mean, sure, yeah, but it also means you're very much on a timer for the core (since you can't easily clear heat), you don't have a Heavy or bonus damage trait to really take advantage of it... and it's only 1 scene per mission (which is a lot of investment for one trick).

[twilit ether]

Oh no even regular Silver is damn great paired with Sekhmet

All of Silver's traits and its core passive work well with being a melee striker

Well, except Weak Computer, but we have Legionspace Static for that

I just find it funny how if things go south you can just "put a paper bag over the cat's head" with its Core Active

[rustic thistle]

I eyeballed my encounter for tonight and quietly added a few more stuff to the NPCs.

nothing like giving a short cycle lance to a controller unit.

Mainly, I'll be firing it on the NPC support to make them go 'OKAY THIS FIGHT DONT FUCK AROUND'.

[vocal ridge]

Pew pew!

[rustic thistle]

I've also splattered a few oracle techs on some units.

[stone seal]

hey, if anyone wants to run a campaign or smth with this thing, i'd be happy to be a part of it.

[vocal ridge]

I appreciate the enthusiasm, but I will note that it's considered rather rude to ask for people to run games.

[stone seal]

O, sorry😥

[twilit ether]

Hmm, UNCLEd Null Distortion...

[vocal ridge]

I mean, sure, knock yourself out. 😛

[twilit ether]

Would be really hard to hit anything that isn't Invisible, but at least you won't have to spend an action to do it anyways, and if they are Invisible, oh boy

[vocal ridge]

You only get the difficulty cancelling vs invisible stuff, and there's not a whole bunch of it.

It also means you can't use the License's NHP without shelling out for a specific CB.

[twilit ether]

True true

[vocal ridge]

(MNEMOSYNE has been extremely funny the few times I've seen it in play.)

[twilit ether]

Yeah, if you use it on the correct characters, that's a lot of utility

Especially since it doesn't even take an action to do

[vocal ridge]

It's basically Asura-level... except the actions don't come until the next round, and rely on a specific trigger.

[twilit ether]

Yeah, you're a bit limited on the actions you can do with it, but the actions you can do with it are quite strong(considering you'd probably want to use these on NPCs with cracked weapons/traits)

[vocal ridge]

The first time it ever got used was on a Bombard. ...it managed to take out 11 out of 12 NPCs it fired at, because the dice were on fire. And it managed to miss the one PC in the middle, which was pretty good. Because it would have one shot him.

[twilit ether]

Whew

[vocal ridge]

"Oops, accidentally killed my boyfriend."

[twilit ether]

For the greater good and all that lol

[vocal ridge]

Something like that.

...anyways, it was a reminder to me that, hey, the thing that punishes clumping up could be used on me, too. 😛

I was debating having it at 4 SP, but I think it's fine as a high 3 SP power.

[twilit ether]

Mhm fair fair

[vocal ridge]

Hey, so, little LCP update is live, plus, oh yeah, Kickstarter is launched. 😛
https://missdataninja.itch.io/field-guide-to-iridia/devlog/555815/update-0100-kickstarter

[polar lotus]

Woohoo!!

[vocal ridge]

Here's a link direct to the Kickstarter, which I'll also put in the first post: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/missdataninja/field-guide-to-iridia

[hollow vessel]

fuck yeah data

instabacked

[modern schooner]

Backed!

[vocal ridge]

[coral fern]

oh sick!!!! Congrats on doing this Data!!!

[vocal ridge]

Thanks! I'm definitely worried I've screwed up somewhere along the way. Mostly with the banking info. Doing KS from not-America is stressful. XD

[coral fern]

I know Iki had to do a lot of that with Liminal Space, I’m sure he’d be happy to help

but also I’m sure you did fine and you’re gonna kill it

[vocal ridge]

I'm sure it's fine, just... that nagging voice sure likes to nag. 😛

[glossy nacelle]

A third dragon frame!

I got confused for a second and thought you had fixed a problem with the other two

I install everything and I love having more options

Time for Triple Dragon! (I have no idea how bad that will be)

[vocal ridge]

Dragons are iconic, which is why there's so many. Though, ironically my Dragon isn't the dragon-shaped mech.

[twilit ether]

Great stuff!

Congrats chief, excited to see this thing done in the future

[modern schooner]

(off-topic for this thread, but definitely let the authors know, probably in #lcp-tech-support , and ideally have them use unique License IDs, perhaps through this script I wrote: #lcp-tech-support message)

[rustic thistle]

Heck yeah! Kickstarter!

Congrats!

[vocal ridge]

I've made sure to do unique license ids, yes. 😛

Also had to set up a shortcut to speed up changing things to Title Case because someone changed how those were formatted on me. 😛

[modern schooner]

It was for the greater good, I swear lol

[vocal ridge]

Grumble grumble grumble. XP

I am terrified as to what the NPC update is going to look like. Given how much stuff I have.

[rustic thistle]

yes please.

pledged by the way

[vocal ridge]

With even more NPC stuff if the stretch goals are reached.

[rustic thistle]

With GLOWING REVIEWS from my PLAYERS!

But also:

Long story short: this stuff rules, yo.

[vocal ridge]

The Paragons are nasty units. 😛

"What kind of complexity can we do if we're only allowed one of these things per fight, and they have to be at least Elite?"

[rustic thistle]

If I had the cash I'd fund to 75 to make a pet but alas

Instead, I've spread the word.

[vocal ridge]

All good! Put yourself first, after all.

The menagerie is less important. 😛

[rustic thistle]

Yeah, saving mollah for a brand new computer and setup, so that hopefully my renders don't take two hours to make to bake a damn texture slightly above 2k

[vocal ridge]

Makes a bunch of sense.

[rustic thistle]

But between this and Maximum Threat, this is a good day for my NPC class collectin'.

[vocal ridge]

Tbf, given your playtesting, you've already had access to all these. 😛

[rustic thistle]

I mean sure but!

Still gonna support!

[vocal ridge]

Now you get the fancy pages.

[rustic thistle]

with fancy art

[vocal ridge]

The NPCs, unfortunately, don't have art. 😔

That's what stretch goals are for, because I want NPC art.

[rustic thistle]

NPC arts are so useful to have.

It's always nice to have a visual on how something looks like.

[vocal ridge]

Also, hey, for people who're on the fence, there are also several random tables. Here's a snippet of the trinket one, for instance. 😛

[modern schooner]

I do love me a trinket table 😄

[vocal ridge]

You're the one to blame for this. And the Rumour tables. 😛

[modern schooner]

Good. 😈

[vocal ridge]

The "how do you get your mech" table was from before that, though. 😛

Reposting that from way early in the thread.

(There's a second, smaller table that gives some planet-specific options as well.)

[polar lotus]

out-Horusing Horus

[grim pasture]

I really wanted that Ephemeric though 😔

[vocal ridge]

Skill issue. 😔

Shoulda just bent reality to your whims.

[hoary geode]

it go time! Good luck!

[twilit ether]

Does Devout 3 require LoS to the Structured/Stressed ally?

[vocal ridge]

Everything needs LOS unless specified otherwise.

[twilit ether]

Gotcha

[vocal ridge]

I can't believe y'all funded, like, 15% of this in the first day.

(I'm just always astounded at all the support everyone always gives here.)

[celest flicker]

Just backed!!! Good luck on the rest of the kickstarter 😤 I'm super excited for this one.

[vocal ridge]

[rustic thistle]

^^^^

I've spread the word and backed, so!

[vocal ridge]

Well, when I wasn't looking, y'all basically doubled it to 30%. So... all can say is: aaaaaaaaaaaa.

[tawny ginkgo]

I just wanted to pop in and say I've backed too! You got something really neat. I can't wait to get my hands on it when it's done.

[cinder lion]

I’m probably going to back over the weekend, I’ve been tracking this project for at least a year now!

[vocal ridge]

Ah, so that's what the red dot on my chest was.

[vocal ridge]

Hey, have a look at what could be in the book - the IPS-N Endeavour, by Spiral_Joe. Lancaster: now with extra spaceship.

[twilit ether]

Yoooooo

Space dog

Ooooh pride flag

[vocal ridge]

Yes! She's a little late for pride month, but oh well. XP

[twilit ether]

Never too late to be proud of who you are 😤

[vocal ridge]

There's a lot of hull space, I made sure it got used.

[twilit ether]

So can you not choose to not teleport with Dimensional Key?

[vocal ridge]

Correct! If the swap is valid, you must do it.

[twilit ether]

I see I see

Thanks chief

[vocal ridge]

The Ananke stuff is Weird™️.

[rustic thistle]

now, for real.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/489490742318989363/1127384623941439549/image.png
Big fight.

GIMMICK: I also gave them control of some NPCs.

Oracle hacking Module will have fun.

[vocal ridge]

Let me know how those go. Tech stuff's always a little weird.

[rustic thistle]

Alas, they both missed right now hahah

[vocal ridge]

Figures. 😛

[rustic thistle]

also missed on Predatory Logic and Retort Loop.

good for them!

[vocal ridge]

Incredibly eventful fight, I see. XD

[rustic thistle]

Yeah haha.

I just went 'hey theses NPCs are with you, look at their stuff, you scanned them before anyway!'

[rustic thistle]

Fight went well! Felt bad in hindsight I atomized the Solomon's core bonus drone with short cycle lance in a misguided attempt of soft balling the attack

[vocal ridge]

Oopsies. Sometimes we misjudge things as GMs.

Any use out of the Oracle things?

[rustic thistle]

A few more attempts were made, one stuck on the said Solomon (the do tech attack and people get lock on) but she avoided it by using some drone stuff.

[vocal ridge]

Well, hey, if people're clever about it, good on them.

[rustic thistle]

Yup!

Also made me realize that short cyclelance is kind of a bad design thing and next time I'll probably make a weapon with that field work more like... do 8/12/16 damage that can't be reduced, agility for half.

structure or succeed for 1 hp just feels bad taste in my mouth.

[vocal ridge]

The funny thing is, Short Cycle is actually less scary than it probably would be if it was balanced around being a Recharge 6+ Superheavy, damage-wise. But I do get it, regarding game-feel.

[rustic thistle]

Yeah.

[vocal ridge]

It's like Sniper's Mark. It's rarely actually worth doing as an extra Full Action...but man does it feel scary to be able to have one structure plucked away.

[rustic thistle]

Specially for my game's White Witch, haha

[twilit ether]

Oh Luminary Aegis is on Attack not on Hit

Just noticed that

Sweet

[vocal ridge]

Yep.

It's like Exemplar.

[twilit ether]

I see I see

[vocal ridge]

You just declare that you're going to be making someone's life miserable. 😛

[hollow vessel]

Oh hey, a third of the way there already!

[vocal ridge]

Yep. It's... intimidating, tbh. 😛

[hollow vessel]

You've spent years on this you deserve our money lmao

Make sure to keep shouting out that this is happening around and about

or I shall be forced to do it for you

[vocal ridge]

I don't want to be annoying! Which is what I feel like excessive shilling absolutely does.

[twilit ether]

Doin my part lmao

[twilit ether]

Ah, well, if I ever shill a bit too hard, do tell me then

[rustic thistle]

I've been shouting about it wherever I can that has interest and been listening(without being annoying)

[modern schooner]

I make sure to bring it up when relevant to the conversation! 😄 I also mentioned it to my dnd server since they know some folks interested in Lancer

[vocal ridge]

Y'all're good judges of it, I'm sure, I just feel weird going "buy my book!" 😛

[twilit ether]

Well, thank you for having confidence in my judgement I guess lol

Though it'd be nice to hear a second opinion sometimes

But yeah, I mostly just bring it up when "Hey guys homebrew?" or "Damn mechs with (insert aesthetic that an Iridian mech has) are pretty cool wish we had some"

Art is certainly a pretty good hook for most homebrew

And Spiral_Joe and the others have done stellar jobs on that department

[vocal ridge]

I'm very excited for the one coming down the pipeline right now especially.

[twilit ether]

Oho?

[vocal ridge]

Space Dog wasn't the only thing I'm getting.

(I'm also working on yet more alt-frames, but we'll see what happens with those as they're mostly just half-complete at this stage.)

[twilit ether]

Damn even more??

[vocal ridge]

Sometimes you just get inspiration. Not quite as complete as my last set's, but... we'll see how things go.

[vocal ridge]

I've got some pictures back from the talented Lucía Varona (https://www.instagram.com/lucyypocket), depicting some aesthetic.

I know, not mech art this time, but... 😛

[twilit ether]

Yoooo sick

[modern schooner]

this could be worth a KS update to generate some hype haha

[twilit ether]

Love my historical scifi aesthetics

[vocal ridge]

I will probably do that once I get back the slightly tweaked images, because the one slightly differently backgrounded portrait is bugging me. XP

But, yes, it's very much going for a fantasy vibe. Without just going... "generic" fantasy. 😛

[polar lotus]

This is really strong

[vocal ridge]

I was eagerly awaiting getting these back. Not quite soon enough to put in the preview document, but, well worth the wait.

[rustic thistle]

Yoooooo

Are you gonna do an update to the kickstarter to show it or can I show that to people?

[vocal ridge]

As mentioned above, I'm going to do an update once I get the updated art to not have that one weirdly-tinted square. 😛

[rustic thistle]

Oh! Derp, sorry! I should learn to read. 😄

[vocal ridge]

All good.

(Anyways, people should hire the artist. She's extremely good at character art. Managed to make some very diverse stuff off the same general set of references.)

[rustic thistle]

That is some really cool style I agree. What is their rate usually?

[vocal ridge]

For the headshots like that, the posted rate was $25 for 1, $60 for 3 and $100 for 5. +50% for commercial use. Which... I did feel was far too low for everything, even converting into Canadibucks. So I hope they raise their prices. Don't know larger art prices, I didn't ask.

[rustic thistle]

Oh that's pretty solid.

[vocal ridge]

But, yeah, give them money. Really, do the same for all the artists on my project. Spiral_Joe especially has been instrumental for helping me work out a defined visual aesthetic.

[rustic thistle]

I've only comissioned one big character art for a character for a SRW MU* last year, it otherwise terrified me to do

[vocal ridge]

I know that feel. Even having worked with Joe for... over a year now at this point, it's still sometimes anxiety-inducing to figure out commissioning.

[rustic thistle]

Yeah, I feel you.

[twilit ether]

Really, just give money to all artists in general

Including me

But genuinely yeah, for some reason every time I hear someone has commissioned an artist there's something about how their prices are way too low

....Trying to write what I want to say when I'm on 5 hours of sleep is hard

[rustic thistle]

I certainly wanna learn 3d to be good enough to do cool comissions. 😮

[twilit ether]

Something something, support artists, they're cool

[vocal ridge]

It's often because it can be really hard to carve out a niche, from what I understand. So people will often start out underselling themselves, which is a bit of a vicious cycle.

This is why I do my best to make the artists I commission Known™️.

[twilit ether]

Don't worry guys if I open commissions I'll charge absurd rates to compensate for those artists 😎, of course I'm joking I don't think I'll ever be ready to do commissions anytime in the near future lol

[rustic thistle]

I've just started learning some more character animations and meshing, so.

[twilit ether]

Oh hell yeah

[rustic thistle]

spoilers, proportions are hard!

[twilit ether]

Oh hell yeah(2)

[rustic thistle]

(following a class: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1092912743004246136/1129122144853442641/image.png )

[twilit ether]

Me, 2 and a half hours into a drawing, still just fiddling around with proportions and posing

[twilit ether]

Ah, computerperson, a classic

[vocal ridge]

I am immensely terrible at actually conceptualizing anything, so I just give money to people who actually can. 😛

[rustic thistle]

learning artistry since ...a year and half now, mostly originally to make maps but I've been wanting to make characters too.
Really, my big problem is that I got a lot of basic skills, but actual artistic sense and actualy artistic aesthetic skills is a long darn thing to learn.

[twilit ether]

Oh you do 2d art too?

Do share!

[rustic thistle]

Oh, I tried a while ago but I should go back to it. I mostly do 3d.

[twilit ether]

Er- not sure if in this specific channel

[rustic thistle]

Haha yeah.

Sorry Data!

[twilit ether]

Ah I see

[vocal ridge]

...y'know, I think this is the first time this thread's gotten off-topic. Which, I'll consider that a milestone. 😛

[twilit ether]

Happy to be part of this momentous occasion lol

[rustic thistle]

I CAN shove my latest thing to you, I think I posted it above a while back, some meshes I did for some enemies a while back.

oh you saw it, too!

But yes, ambition's to learn to make characters and mechs.

[twilit ether]

Ablative Weaponry isn't Unique

Loads up 14 of them into my Wrathborn

[twilit ether]

I hope the alt-frames make it, can't wait to make an Endeavor Hippogriff for an Astolfo mech totally normal mechs with them

[twilit ether]

Also on Endeavour, "If the Endeavour is more than 3 spaces above the ground, allied characters transported in any way may not make ranged attacks against any character that is not flying." Aetherlance time

[vocal ridge]

Sure, enjoy... not having any active anything. 😛

[vocal ridge]

Alright, well, KS update is pushed.

[twilit ether]

Nice nice

[twilit ether]

Protective Matrix can only deal 2 AP once per character right?

[vocal ridge]

Yes, as it specifies the first time.

[twilit ether]

Gotcha

[vocal ridge]

Well, again in non-Guide news, more alt-frames for people to peruse. 😛 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fU_fdvbkMnAfJVmDM9R2mskL56MATot2olidhTFWGpA/edit

[twilit ether]

NICE

Can't wait for Iridia in two years to have 40 more alt-frames worth of extra content

[vocal ridge]

I mean, this isn't going to be for Iridia. 😛

[twilit ether]

A seperate thing in the future then?

[vocal ridge]

Maybe a thing compiling some of my stuff into one place? Idk, I don't really have concrete plans.

[polar lotus]

thank you for the Aun frames Data

[vocal ridge]

This was literally just made because I said to someone "I bet if Aun frames were a thing, they'd just be made alts for Big 4", and then I started thinking of one from each corpro that would be interesting.

[vocal ridge]

Not a problem. I mean, I did an Aun NPC template, so... 😛

[polar lotus]

Emperor alt is an excellent choice and has the benefit of almost certainly never having to compete with an official variant

[vocal ridge]

Didn't stop me with the Blackbeard.

Admittedly, I did try and avoid official alt-frames after that, but the Michael was the first one I thought up, and the first one I made.

[polar lotus]

Understandable
They all look great

[rustic thistle]

I desire more Aun actual officiel stuff. 😮

Hell, more Lancer is great.

[vocal ridge]

I can't give official stuff, sorry. XP

[rustic thistle]

Oh no!

[chilly jewel]

Would it be possible for Ward Shaper 1 to increase Shield lines by 2?

Also, though there are no cone shields in core, it should increase those by 1 for consistency.

[vocal ridge]

I didn't really want to mess around with weird-shaped stuff. (Not to mention increasing Cones by 1 would be incredibly awkward, since even cones don't work well on grids.)

It probably wouldn't break things for it to be able to increase lines, though.

I'll make a note to look at it, see if it would break anything to increase lines.

[vocal ridge]

Fresh from the depths of DHIYED, it's the Rosy Maple alt-Dusk Wing. Another art piece brought to life by the talents of Spiral_Joe.

[modern schooner]

Oh nice, love that

The “tech halo” is mesmerizing

[vocal ridge]

It's so good. I love the little details of parts of the hands being on the 'inside' of the gate, too.

[modern schooner]

Oh hell yeah, I missed that initially

[vocal ridge]

It's such a small thing, really easy to overlook. But Joe's extremely good at adding details like that. (Give him money.)

[vocal ridge]

Anyways, to scale with the other alt frame so far...

An Actual Spaceship is a little bit bigger than Size 3, but, shhhhhh.

[rustic thistle]

oooh

[vocal ridge]

Statistically Unlikely™️ to unexist your pilot before you exit.

[soft ledge]

Hello! I have a bit of a question to ask regarding something odd I noticed?

Namely, uh, is the Nexus built into the Psyche supposed to not be Smart?

[vocal ridge]

Correct!

It is an evasion-targeting Nexus.

[soft ledge]

Now that I'm looking a bit further, I'll ask that same question of the Concussion Nexus from the Castilla License; it feels a bit odd to see a Nexus that lacks the Smart tag, let alone to see two.

And huh, interesting.

[vocal ridge]

It is deliberate. Much in the same way that not all CQBs have extended threat, not all Nexuses need have Smart.

(Heck, you can have one in Core if you make the Engineer weapon a Nexus.)

[soft ledge]

Fair, though I'll admit that these are the very first ones I've seen lacking it, bar that, so I wanted to make sure it was an unusual-but-thought-provoking choice rather than a typo. =w=;

Heavens knows I've made some . . . rather bad omissions on accident on my own time. =x=;

[vocal ridge]

Fluffwise: In one case, it's the target dodging the created portal, in the other case the munitions are explicitly a lot less adaptable than most Nexus weapons.

Mechanics-wise: It gives the Psyche the ability to affect targets that its tech options might not, and the Concussion nexus gives a bit more variety in what nexus users can attack while still benefitting from Nexus hooks. After all, there's a lot of stuff that adds Smart, but it's a lot harder to remove it.

[soft ledge]

I see; thanks for takin' the time to answer, and for the look under the hood of 'why'. =w=

[vocal ridge]

No problem! I know that it's pretty much assumed that Nexus weapons will have smart, given every 1st party nexus does.

[rustic thistle]

I will make a nexus that is actually a hive of bees instead of just proverbialy bees.

[vocal ridge]

That's the Selene.

[twilit ether]

Hmm, I wonder if it'd be a good idea to post the alt-frame art as KS updates

[vocal ridge]

I've considered it, but, they're not actually part of the KS yet.

[twilit ether]

I mean, yet, and they might help with the "yet" part

[vocal ridge]

I dunno. I lost backers after my last update post, so... shrug

[twilit ether]

....Wait what?

You lost backers on the Iridian fashion art??

[vocal ridge]

Yep. Ah well. C'est la vie. Better for people to find out now they wouldn't be happy with the product, I suppose.

[rustic thistle]

amount seems to have went up a bit however.

Almost half way!

[vocal ridge]

Yep. Things may happen, they may not. At this point, I'm not stressing about it. 😛

[trail vapor]

this is badass fullstop

ion needa say anything more, it's banger content!!

[vocal ridge]

Oh, glad people're liking them.

[hexed narwhal]

Definitely, keep up the amazing work!

[trail vapor]

u just dropped like some of the most amazing stuff so ya we're gonna LOVE them

[rustic thistle]

Oh, yeah, meant to ask, are you planning to poke to get Iridia added to the Community LCps on Comp/con?

[coral fern]

(it’s very easy to do so for the record, Beef is very personable)

[rustic thistle]

(It's also very good advertisement)

[vocal ridge]

It's one of the things that I've been meaning to get around to, but the lcp always seems to be in a decent amount of flux. Even right now, there've been a few things brought up that might have some tweaks I need to make. My intention was to get it there once I got the 1.0.0 lcp pushed.

[rustic thistle]

Make sense!

[rustic thistle]

Oh yeah, where is the new Eidolon layer you made?

[vocal ridge]

It's at the very end of the book. It's not in comp/con, since, well, they aren't in Comp/Con.

[rustic thistle]

oh, fair

Wait, in the demo book?

[vocal ridge]

Oh, no, it's not in the demo. You need to get the full copy that you can download via the kickstarter. It's in the NPC section. Literally the last pages in the book.

[rustic thistle]

Ooooooooooh.

I can read I swear.

[vocal ridge]

Admittedly, it's probably the weakest of the NPC content, balance-wise. Because Eidolons are... weird.

[rustic thistle]

Yeah, I'm looking at options for having just Layers floating around during fights in the last few missions of the campaign.

[vocal ridge]

Yeah, that's what I've grown to prefer.

[twilit ether]

Was trying to think of a Lock On focused build that can make as much use of Rewrite Memory's free uses as possible before realizing I was just making a more expensive version of Ferrous Lash

It's kinda like when you realize Shatterhead cancels out UNCLE's difficulty before realizing you've just made a more expensive Autogun

[vocal ridge]

At least this one wouldn't use your AI slot, too. 😛

[chilly jewel]

A more expensive Autogun that lets you use your talents, though.

Free Stormbringer every turn is nothing to sneeze at.

[vocal ridge]

I... definitely wouldn't pay 4 SP and my AI slot for that.

[twilit ether]

Well for what it's worth it also works with NucCav and WalkingArmo

[vocal ridge]

I still wouldn't. 😛

[twilit ether]

Yup

[chilly jewel]

I could see it on a Tokugawa.

[celest ginkgo]

Just wanted to say am looking foward to this!

[vocal ridge]

Oh, thanks! Not sure if we're going to end up making the goal, but it'll be rejiggered and released in some format even if we don't.

[hollow vessel]

If you want to have the mods make another announcement for it as the funding period ends just let em know haha

[vocal ridge]

Don't worry, I know - Eld told me I got two. 😛
I'm going to do a 48 hour left announcement one.

[hollow vessel]

o7

[vocal ridge]

If things don't work out, though, c'est la vie.

[rustic thistle]

Aw.

I hope it does.

[vocal ridge]

Me too, but I'm also preparing for it to not. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. 😛

Better to set my expectations low enough they won't be dashed on the rocks if things don't work out. 😉

(Besides, it keeps the anxiety down!)

[twilit ether]

Don't worry we'll be anxious for you

[vocal ridge]

Eh, no need to do that.

[celest ginkgo]

I'm hoping so- your stuff looks good! Would put in more money if I could but... trying to save up atm.

[vocal ridge]

Not a worry. Always take care of yourself before taking care of me!

Never feel guilty for not contributing.

Even just saying "hey, this is cool" is support enough.

[rustic thistle]

I've shouted enough about it

[twilit ether]

Yeup

I can't do much either on the Kickstarter side since I'm a broke teenager but I've done my fair share of shilling Iridia everytime I get the chance lol

[chilly marsh]

Has anyone made the joke that the Retrieval Claws are basically Smash Melee Marth grab? No? Now I have

[vocal ridge]

Nope, that's the first time.

[twilit ether]

Huh wait, does becoming Engaged due to Retrieval Claws make you lose all remaining movement?

[vocal ridge]

Yep.

[twilit ether]

Damn 😔

[vocal ridge]

Same as if you did Vanguard + Skirmisher to slide into someone.

[twilit ether]

Just trying to see what I could use Retrieval Claws for

Since I'm not really sure what to do with em

[vocal ridge]

Reaching the top shelf.

[twilit ether]

Especially on Napoleon lmao

[vocal ridge]

The big thing is mostly they combo well with Duelist to pretty reliably yoink people into Threat 1.

Or use them with the Astraea's Thrown Mod.

(Which, incidentally, is why they are pull 1, and not pull adjacent.)

[cinder lion]

Oh shit, I forgot to back! Remind me in 2 hours or so please!

[hollow vessel]

@cinder lion badaboom?

[vocal ridge]

No need to rush, there's still a week left.

[cinder lion]

And backed

[rain hill]

Honestly this is super cool

[hollow vessel]

It is, Data does cool stuff

She's one of the people I'd consider like, old guard content creator giants of the Lancer community; its great to see Iridia come to fruition

[nimble reef]

I got ze money soon to support 😌

[vocal ridge]

See, the funny thing is... I wouldn't consider me an old guard creator. On account of me starting to homebrew stuff after Lancer's full release date. 😛

No indev weirdness for me.

[rustic thistle]

Players now know they shall be playtesting some npcs again!

They are happy about it.

[vocal ridge]

Oh, nice. Which ones are you looking at doign this time?

[rustic thistle]

The ones you requested a while back. Chameleon, Parafauna. Resonant and Symbiote. I'll find ways to make 'em fit.

well.

not requested, that I asked which ones had less testing.

[vocal ridge]

Nice, hope that goes well. And, as per usual, if things go wrong, blame me. 😛

Unrelatedly, here's a bit of the draft of the next project I'm working on... since apparently it's physically impossible for me to sit still for a month. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lrI06iJq2vcJnnFQzw4eZLMx72Q_pBYds3EZUNNLTew/edit

[rustic thistle]

Yeah, Chameleon's a Controller, Resonant an Artillery and Symbiote's a Support, Parafauna is a Weird One, and then slap, I dunno, some defenders and some strikers in the mix.

[vocal ridge]

Parafauna is basically a Controller to the Monstrosity's Striker.

[rustic thistle]

Hm, perfect, then.

(the idea was of the lore they are ambushing a research ship on the way back and we'll sure have some parafauna of Various Kinds in there and the Mechs They Made Studying Them.)

[vocal ridge]

Concerning™️.

[rustic thistle]

Also, hell yeah, more exotics.

I'm at the point I'm more interested in giving alternate rewards to my players than LLs.

Level 9-10 is like, perfect mechanically.

Annnd new Big Four mechs, ooh.

[vocal ridge]

These're all alt-frames that you've probably seen before.

Since I've shared all of them in here - it's just a handy collection.

I just need to figure out what to do for an SSC CB, since I wasn't happy with the one I originally had.

[rustic thistle]

What was it?

(also because I a merciful DM, I'll have one of the cute pets from Iridia be part of the ship looking at them through a glass tube with massive sad eyes if they have eyes.)

[vocal ridge]

It was being able to move between weapons in Skirmish/Barrages with your standard move.

[rustic thistle]

Ehn, yeah, that's kind of meh.

[vocal ridge]

How can you say no to this???

[rustic thistle]

yes, I'll use this one.

Friend bee.

wasp.

flying cute bug

[vocal ridge]

It just wants a hug. And some sugar. 😔

[rustic thistle]

It will love the after mission briefing and debrief.

It's been a running gag that their ship's captain has a sugar tooth and personally prepare sugary treats every debrief and briefings.

For himself and the PCs during debriefs.

[vocal ridge]

Hah.

"How did it beat us here?

[rustic thistle]

It will be happily buzzing over the plate of brownies.

[vocal ridge]

...now I want a brownie.

[rustic thistle]

one character also ran with it and created more and more sugar filled mixtures.

her last one was mulched cookies crammed with brownies into coffee and chocolate.

[hexed narwhal]

Do you have art for the other pets too? 👀

[rustic thistle]

Wanna boop snek snoot

[vocal ridge]

Which one?

[rustic thistle]

Yes!

Both!

[vocal ridge]

Very fair! 😛

From the looks on their faces, one snoot may appreciate it more than the other.

[hollow vessel]

Oh these are delightful

the crystal spider is pretty close to what I was thinking of for a pet idea when i got the xenobio tier lmao

[vocal ridge]

I'm pretty sure it's one of the ones displayed on the kickstarter page. 😛

Yep. XD

[hollow vessel]

I must've subconsciously ingrained it without realizing or some shit lmao

[vocal ridge]

In new mech news: The HA Jeanne is online now, courtesy once again of Spiral_Joe. A much more knightly Napoleon alt.

[twilit ether]

Oh damn

[vocal ridge]

She's there to make sure nobody messes with her family. 😛

[trail vapor]

banger after banger design...

u cant keep getting away with this!!!

[vocal ridge]

Hey, it's not really my design. I just throw, say, "HA Napoleon" "white and gold knight", and "trans flag ribbon" into a blender, and give it to @frail mountain. Who manages to make it into said bangers, and deserves to see the amount of praise they get. I'm really just the prompt machine. 😛

(Imo, the Jeanne is one of the absolute best designs yet - warring with the Nemesis for my actual favorite. It's just so good.)

(As evidenced by the fact that I've stopped wearing the Nemesis as my avatar for now, and started wearing the Jeanne.)

[trail vapor]

i mean it's super fucking cool so yeah spiral joe cant keep getting away with this...

THEY CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!!!

[vocal ridge]

Well, there's going to be at least two more coming. 😛

[trail vapor]

blurry eyes emogi

[i am very excited]

[vocal ridge]

As am I!

We'll see what comes after. Because I do have more stuff I'd like to commission, but I also wouldn't blame anyone for not wanting to put up with me after over a year of doing art. 😛

[trail vapor]

i think anyone would be delighted to work with u

[vocal ridge]

Flattered, but given some projects that I've worked on, I feel like I'm not the easiest when working in a group.

[barren holly]

I think most gig artists would be thrilled to have a consistent repeat customer for over a year lol

Even if they were difficult to work with which, in my experience at least, you aren't

[twilit ether]

SMH my head can't believe Data would do something like...checks notes...give an artist a consistent source of income

[vocal ridge]

Well, I'm very much not an artist, so I'll defer to professional opinions. 😛

[hollow vessel]

Fool, for writing and design is itself a form of art

[vocal ridge]

No, I don't come from the artist region of France. I'm just a sparkling content creator.

[rustic thistle]

Hm, looking for a good image for the Chameleon in the Chop Shop...

or I could shit post and just use Stinger Chameleon from Megaman X.

[nimble reef]

I think I gotcha maybe

[nimble reef]

how is this?

from chop shop

[nimble reef]

also fun idea

[rustic thistle]

oh that's a good one actually, great!

I'll probably use that one for the parafauna.

[twilit ether]

Ooh Multiphasic Rifle Dragon seems fun

[vocal ridge]

Why's that?

[twilit ether]

Multiphasic is also a CQB so benefits from the damage trait

[vocal ridge]

Yeah, but then you aren't getting in peoples' faces.

[twilit ether]

That's...basically it but y'know! Ranged damage traits are rare and Multiphasic can't even benefit from OPCal

[twilit ether]

I mean, you can, nothing's stopping you

[vocal ridge]

Y-yes, rare.

I definitely don't have at least three in Iridia.

[twilit ether]

...Wait wh-

Am I blanking out hard because I only remember Dragon because of the ranged damage trait

[vocal ridge]

Ersa 2 and Artemis.

[twilit ether]

OH RIGHT right

I did blank out hard

I totally forgot one of my builds was a dual Ghoul Nexus Multiphasic Rifle Artemis

[vocal ridge]

Well, 48 hours left. Now the anxiety's starting to hit. 😛

[hollow vessel]

begone brain goblins

[rustic thistle]

ooooh

Half way half way!

[hexed narwhal]

Hit back :3

[vocal ridge]

Pacifist. 😔

[hexed narwhal]

Respectable

[hollow vessel]

I will hit them back

[rustic thistle]

I've spread the news again to my usual circles non-annoyingly.

[vocal ridge]

I'm assuming that people have probably seen it already, but... well, it's the last chance and all. 😛

[twilit ether]

Well damn that second announcement seems to be the bump it needed

It's way past halfway now

[vocal ridge]

There was actually a large spike last night which pushed it over halfway.

[twilit ether]

Oh huh

Sweet

[rustic thistle]

I hope for more!

[vocal ridge]

We'll see what happens. I do have plans for if things end up not working out, though.

[twilit ether]

Always good to have backup plans yes

[celest ginkgo]

Bumped up my pledge.

[gritty totem]

Good luck

[vocal ridge]

Thanks, y'all.

[chilly jewel]

Backed.

[orchid beacon]

Can Iris's grav sling pull an immobilized character?

[little raptor]

Hi, just wanted to stop by and say I backed out as well. Good luck!

[vocal ridge]

Technically yes, since pushing is involuntary movement. However, I've been looking at cleaning it up and making it non-push movement. So, that's likely to change upon hitting the 1.0.0 release.

[vocal ridge]

And... that's the Kickstarter closed. Alas. Looks like I'll be having to do some re-evaluation. It's been wonderful to see all the support, though!

[rustic thistle]

Aw.

Yeah, I think it's a good exercise to learn from.

[vocal ridge]

I mean, I dunno if much learning occured. 😛

[rustic thistle]

I mean fair! But sad either way. I'll keep support in any case in the future!

[vocal ridge]

Yeah, I'm still going to release it, just need to scale back some stuff.

[celest ginkgo]

Yeah, am sad it didn't succed, but do hope you keep at it and try it again.

[little raptor]

Same! You've done a ton of great work.

[twilit ether]

Damn, that's a shame

Still very excited for Iridia and anything else you make Data!

[vocal ridge]

Well, I've got the preview of the thing I've been working on while this KS has been going on. ...because apparently I'm not able to have idle hands. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lrI06iJq2vcJnnFQzw4eZLMx72Q_pBYds3EZUNNLTew/edit

[twilit ether]

Oh yeah the Stellar Codex! Seen it a few times, looks sick as hell

The Core Bonuses in particular, love me more CBs for the core manufacturers

[vocal ridge]

They're hard to make!

[hollow vessel]

CBs are famously nightmares yeah

I think I made mine in some sort of stupor

[coral fern]

🫂 sorry it didn’t line up Data, I’m sure it took a lot of energy to put yourself out there like that

I’m still really excited about Iridia, glad you aren’t feeling too down about it

[vocal ridge]

To be honest, it's partially a relief, because I was starting to panic about the pressure, and if things went wrong, and all that. 😛

So, while it's on the one hand disappointing, on the other hand it has made the upcoming weekend a lot less stressful. XP

(I'm working to mine the silver linings here.)

[rustic thistle]

Good to look for them

Stress can be harsh

[vocal ridge]

Well, the good news is, with a bit of kerjiggering, the new less-art layout looks... adequate, at least. Need to fill in some awkward gaps with a bit more writing - and obviously is just a lot of text pagespace - but it's workable.

Also slowly in progress: Adding the Endeavour, Rosy Maple, Crysmal, Jeanne, and Aphrodite to the book. For fans of those.

[twilit ether]

LET'S GO

[vocal ridge]

I dunno if it's that exciting. 😛

[twilit ether]

Nay! More progress is always exciting

[vocal ridge]

Still have the Crysmal and Aphrodite to get art for, at least.

[rain hill]

I really like this module tbh and I'm worried about what will happen if it doesn't reach its goal

[vocal ridge]

a) it's not a module - just a setting and mechanics, 2) it didn't reach its goal, and iii) I'm still working on it to release, it'll just have less art. 😛

[rain hill]

Ah

I can see if i can make some pixel art sometime

But idk if I'd have the motivation because i honestly really struggle with that

[vocal ridge]

I mean, I always enjoy seeing peoples' art, but it's not something that I'd use for the book, if that's what you're thinking.

[rain hill]

Ah

[vocal ridge]

The reason for the kickstarter was so that I could pay people properly to have things in a commercial product. 😛

[vocal ridge]

Still missing the Crysmal, but, here's all the Big 4 frames scaled next to each other.

The endeavour might still be a little small, but, shh.

[celest ginkgo]

That is a BIg Ass mech.

[vocal ridge]

Size 3 Lancaster alt.

[vocal ridge]

Oh, I guess I should probably post these here, for people who haven't seen them before. The alt-frames and License that'll be added to the ones that existed in the book/LCP already:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A12LB2oO7aR4XALE1gRuqfMvjXhhrVlRJxBrLDNZfRs/edit#
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JR0ecBXQEufBwFuM2cd2OwZjNFhX2-9N9rbQm6qv59c/edit

[vocal ridge]

Also, I now have a sum total of player-side content.

[celest ginkgo]

God DAMN thats alot!

[vocal ridge]

Things have... expanded from my original plans. Which was just Licenses based off my Players' characters as gifts. 😛

(The Astraea, Enyo, Iris, and Ersa were those ones, with the Psyche and Nemesis being based off of important NPCs in that campaign. Coincidentally, they also are the Iridia frames with alt-frames, generally representing character development. Just some behind-the-scenes info.)

The Selene is the odd-one-out with alt-frames, and that was just because I had a spur of the moment idea for an alt-Nyx. 😛

[celest ginkgo]

Oh cool!

[vocal ridge]

The Frame names were originally titled after their character Callsigns (Chiron, Perseus, Narcissus and Muse, respectively), but they got changed to fit the more specific naming scheme the Demonworks eventually acquired. (Greek Goddesses, rather than just Greek Mythology.)

(You can find the first 3 surviving as small background references in the Guide, and then 'muse' gets obliquely referenced as a term in the Ersa's core.)

The things that happen when your Field Guide gets based off a campaign. 😛

[celest ginkgo]

nods nods! Sounds like a hell of a fun campaign.

[vocal ridge]

It was definitely an experience. I had no real idea what I was doing, but... apparently people wanted to see more of the setting!

[celest ginkgo]

That means you were doing something right! or at least entertaining 😛

[vocal ridge]

Allegedly!

[twilit ether]

Oh I didn't know Iridia was based off a campaign

Is this the one with Ru?

[vocal ridge]

I have run 3 with Ru. So, yes, but possibly not the one you're thinking of. 😛

[twilit ether]

Ah I see

[vocal ridge]

In this case, it's the setting *post-*campaign. (In that the campaign was concluded via killing Hestia and freeing the world.)

So this book is just "what now? Here's the premise, have fun." 😛

[twilit ether]

Wait your players were the ones responsible for Hestia's death

[vocal ridge]

Yes. That was the end goal for the campaign. It was not at all hidden that she would presumably end up being the final boss, even though the players were Iridians fighting against Union. 😛
(Taking inspiration from the Holy War hook in the core book.)

[twilit ether]

I

I see

[vocal ridge]

The journey was mostly in the characters realizing that's what they would have to do.

[twilit ether]

And the fact that all 4 alt-frames of the PCs are more destructive than their original counterparts probably has something to do with the character development

[vocal ridge]

Yep.

"Oh, hey, the populace is being emotion-locked into being non-confrontational. Well, time to stop what's causing this."

[twilit ether]

Retrofits their tools of war to be even more violent tools of war

[vocal ridge]

It's about right. 😛

The Enyo II, Iris II and Ersa II in particular are "wow, these are horrible." The Astrea II not quite so much, as the nominal person with positive character development from the conflict.

[twilit ether]

Hey, at least someone's character developed forwards right?

[vocal ridge]

Anyways, that's the behind-the-scenes on those mechs and alts.

[twilit ether]

Yeah, that's some interesting context to the frames I'll say that

[vocal ridge]

I've left things a lot more ambiguous in the Guide itself, because... well, A) they're not my characters, so I'd feel weird going into detail, even though I had permission to do more, and B) gives people more freedom to do what they want with stuff.

[twilit ether]

Oh btw, how do you visualize the Aetherlance? I mean, I know I can visualize it however I want, but what's your take on it? Is it like just a really long lightsaber or a comically oversized charged blade?

[vocal ridge]

My take on it is that it looks like a regular-sized lance that breaks perspective and hurts your brain if you try and reconcile it with the surroundings. 😛

[twilit ether]

Oh that's actually really cool

[vocal ridge]

(I always have Douglas Adams in my head, with the man that steps to the horizon and back, or the 3000 kilometer long spaceborne computer on top of the 6 foot therapists couch.)

[twilit ether]

I, I see

[vocal ridge]

It's mentioned in the fluff that it's based on Hemera tech, which has perspective-warping stuff.

So, yeah, in my head, it's like an average couple-foot-long lance that still skewers across the battlefield because you could look at it the right way to do that from one angle. 😛

Or something.

[twilit ether]

Ah, a trick of perspective

Yeah that's sick

No clue why it does Energy damage tho

[vocal ridge]

Because the Hemera's spacewarping weapon does.

[twilit ether]

Fair lol

My build that has it has it visualized as a pretty normal looking lance that opens up and folds out to form basically the hilt of a giant 100 meter long energy blade

Inspired by Gundam's many impractical-but-cool weapon designs

[vocal ridge]

I mean, that's just as valid!

[twilit ether]

Yeah, just wanted to know what the creator themselves thought about it

[vocal ridge]

A lot more obviously upscaleable to an orbital weapon.

[twilit ether]

Yup haha

[vocal ridge]

I think that's one of my personal favorite bits of fluff that I've written. "Oh, yeah, how ridiculous can we go with this basically-a-gun melee weapon?"

[twilit ether]

It's really silly and really cool

Also anime as hell lol

[vocal ridge]

"Practical" is not in this supplement's vocabulary.

"Aren't wings... supposed to be connected to help?" "Nope!"

Such trifles as "physics" and "how a pilot would fit into a mech" are deliberately irrelevant. 😛

[twilit ether]

I mean, at least the Ersas have a somewhat reasonable space to fit their pilot's legs lol

[vocal ridge]

Okay, yes, I did try and get the 1/2s to be reasonably feasible.

[twilit ether]

"Wow, this is a really uncomfortable position to pilot a mech in."
"Well yeah, it's the only way we could fit your legs in a centaur mech this small"
"Wait why does it even have to be a centaur??"
"Uhh-"

[vocal ridge]

Aesthetics~.

[polar lotus]

wisdom

[vocal ridge]

(Part of it's that very few of the mechs were built by a human mind.)

"This is perfectly fine for human pilots, right?"

[twilit ether]

Might as well just actually replace your lower half with a horse body and pilot it like a second hardsuit lmao

[vocal ridge]

Psh, now you're just being ridiculous.

[twilit ether]

Why do I feel like that's happened before now

[vocal ridge]

I dunno. Beats me. 😛

[twilit ether]

Now I'm thinking of Ersas with different leg configurations

Spider Ersas...

[vocal ridge]

Oh, unrelatedly - I just remembered, the Selene is going to be getting an integrated Drone come next (presumably full) release. Just because... all its Traits and its CP revolve around Drones. So it has one that it'll always have.

Tried to not hew too close to Hydra originally for either Nyx... but sometimes mechanics come first.

[twilit ether]

Oh neat

[vocal ridge]

Millipede. 😛

[twilit ether]

Line 15 Ersa lol

[vocal ridge]

(Fun fact: Millipede was the other big contender that I was debating for Persephone's shape. I eventually decided on spider because... I wanted a spider-bot.)

[twilit ether]

Spiders cool ye

[rustic thistle]

Myself, I hunger for the NPC stuff, for they are good.

[vocal ridge]

Well, you might be happy to know that I've got a few extremely rough ideas that I'm looking to develop for Stellar Codex. No guarantee they're any good yet, because I'm working on finishing up Iridia first. 😛

[rustic thistle]

oooooo

[vocal ridge]

Looking at adding to the pool of Paragons. So some more complex ideas.

[rustic thistle]

Paragons?

[vocal ridge]

Ah, right. That's the label that I've slapped on those "only have one in a fight, need to be templated" NPCs. So I have a shorthand.

[rustic thistle]

Oooh those

I knew them as centerpieces

Paragons is a better term

[vocal ridge]

Took me ages to try and figure out something that was useful... and in the end, I just shrugged and stole a term that eureka'd into my head remembered from 4e. 😛

[hexed narwhal]

The lore has lore
This stuff just keeps getting better
You're doing an awesome job!

[vocal ridge]

Well, glad people enjoy hearing about the ramble. I'm always open to answering questions about the setting, too.

[vocal ridge]

And, the Crysmal takes the stage, thanks again to the talents of Spiral_Joe. Kobold-alt with a bit more of a support lean.

(This leaves us with just one frame left!)

[coral fern]

ooooh, I love the eye-visor on that

[vocal ridge]

It is a very good design.

The Frame's almost as spikey as the standard Kobold.

[celest ginkgo]

Pretty sure you've been told this before, but that is Tiberium as hell and I love it.

[vocal ridge]

I have not been told this before, given it literally was just finished. 😛

The common trend from other people is "mmm... rock candy." XP

[celest ginkgo]

AH 😛 But yeah C&C is kinda old school now so not many people think og that. but heh yeah kinda rock candish.

[vocal ridge]

(Do not eat the Virally Replicating Crystals.)

[twilit ether]

What's the worst that could happen?

Transforms into a Kobold
Oh.

[vocal ridge]

The worst that could happen is gemwash turning you into a crystal statue.

[grim pasture]

Or you become one with an all-consuming murder swarm! Which rules

[vocal ridge]

Guess which faction Ru's responsible for. :v

[twilit ether]

I can hardly guess

[twilit ether]

Also baller art btw looks like an emerald mine grew legs and chose to revolt 10/10

Would also be cool to flavor the crystals as different gems for different builds

[vocal ridge]

Yep, there's a lot of stuff you can do with crystals. Was hard to pick just one. 😛

Remember to take your pet with you, too.

[twilit ether]

Have an army of prismarachs who are all different colored gems and crystals 😌

[vocal ridge]

If I had the money, I would have liked to get multiple gem colours of them. Same with more colours of Melpin. The artist based the one we got off the lesbian flag (entirely on their own, even!), so I do wish I could have gotten a pride ( 🥁 ) of them in different flag colours. 😛

[celest flicker]

love the ADY frames from the Stellar codex! Super interesting ideas 👀 I do wish the Onyx had two flex mounts so I could quad-wield catalyst pistols on it, as it's trait makes them actually somewhat viable haha but i'm just a gunslinger stan

[vocal ridge]

Oh, yeah, the Aun (and, I guess, really the Codex frames in general) frames got a bit more experimental with some of the mechanics than I usually do. And, sorry, it's not getting top mount billing. 😛

I'm glad people are excited for that project, though. Even if it'll probably be a bit before I get any proper work done on it. Still have an existing one to finish!

[soft ledge]

I'm gonna freely admit, reading the word 'gemwash' A) made my eyes light up like a kid's on Christmas morning and B) made the back of my mind stop for a moment and wonder how a gemwash Balor variant would look and function like.

[vocal ridge]

It's definitely one of the favorite things that I've written, tucked in the Crysmal's fluff text.

Just the image of a picturesque landscape... people, plants, buildings, all entirely immortalized in crystal.

For some reason, aesthetically pleasing horror is a lot more fun to write.

"This doesn't look evil... oh."

[soft ledge]

Did a quick search here for more info on the Crysmal and happened upon the V2 doc for the frame and I gotta say, it honestly sounds like something I might have fun running, so I'm really happy that stuff's still being done regarding it.

[vocal ridge]

Ah, yeah. That was a quick update the other day, because the CP was too close to another close-range-tech frame I had (and overshadowed by it).

It's definitely been the standout favorite of the Core Alts.

[soft ledge]

Tracking back to this a moment: I think the biggest thing about that sort of thing is that it's an added layer that adds some spice to the existing formula.

Instead of immediate revulsion, you're drawn in a step before -- or even as -- the horror of it all hits, and so you're left scrambling back just a bit further than you would've if it was just hideous or repulsive from the onset. Metaphorically speaking.

[vocal ridge]

Yeah. It takes a moment to process, before the switch is flipped. You can even have some appreciation before you register the truth.

Anyways, the moral of the story is crystals are cool, and there's no harm in becoming one.

Absolutely nobody who's had the process happen to them has submitted a complaint.

[soft ledge]

Also has the added benefit of not having to try to find that sweet spot of 'horrible/repulsive but not a total grossout', because half the point is not even aiming for that.

[vocal ridge]

Yeah.

[soft ledge]

. . . thinking about it, contemplating something like Balor along with gemwash, the mental image occurs to me of a party passing through a place that'd been crystallized, looking at all the statues of people, creatures, and mechs that had been around at the time . . .

. . . and then walking back through after securing their objective, wondering for a moment just why the sight's now starting to raise everyone's hackles until finally one of them realizes some of the mechs have moved.

[vocal ridge]

Ahhhh, the old classic. Always fun.

That sort of thing is definitely a concept I want to use at some point... but I've got a lot of things I want to use.

[soft ledge]

On the plus side, that means a wealth of things to pick from when one wants something to do next. : V

[vocal ridge]

And, the very last frame for the Iridia project: The Iridia Aphrodite, by Spiral_Joe.

[twilit ether]

DAMN

Looks sick as hell!!

[nimble reef]

Triangle powered gun!

[vocal ridge]

What other geometry is as painful to step on? Channeling that energy.

[hexed narwhal]

Cubes with cylinders on top. Yes, I mean legos

[twilit ether]

What kinda perfectly square legos-

[rain hill]

Maybe

Maybe there is a chance

Idk I'm stupid

[vocal ridge]

Drafting up something that may end up making it into the Guide. Because I can't be idle while waiting for art, I suppose. 😛
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ss-62Ivzunjys31otmQUvkqYQA044A3ThhY3Slgd1mA/edit

[rustic thistle]

oooh

exotic terrain features

Oh damn Gemwash Remnants is mean.

[vocal ridge]

It's very much a sometimes food. 😛

[rustic thistle]

Terrain features is a thing I need to use more in general.

[vocal ridge]

Ru made some stuff, and that inspired me to do this. Going to see how much I can write up. (Plus I have plans to do less setting-specific stuff in the Stellar Codex.)

[humble kayak]

Hi hello just wanted to say I love the designs in this LCP and the dragon variant is probably my favorite frame period

[vocal ridge]

Oh, why thanks! Means a lot to hear that!

[vocal ridge]

And, even more terrain. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ss-62Ivzunjys31otmQUvkqYQA044A3ThhY3Slgd1mA/edit

[earnest prism]

Some fun stuff in here.

What kind of dice do the PC and GM roll for Mobile though?

Presumably a d20, but it just says "a die" right now.

[vocal ridge]

I mean, it really doesn't matter at all, but, fine, I'll just codify it. 😛

[vocal ridge]

And, there we go. 20 terrain provisionally done. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ss-62Ivzunjys31otmQUvkqYQA044A3ThhY3Slgd1mA/edit?usp=sharing

[rustic thistle]

Tonight, Chameleon, Symbiote and Parafauna is gonna be tested.

[vocal ridge]

Oooh, I'm excited to see how those go.

[rustic thistle]

They are joined by a Lodestone and Ruiner from In Golden Flame.

And a Sentinel that got lost from the corebook.

[vocal ridge]

Pfft.

[rustic thistle]

Round one: Chameleon goes up to the Railegh and disables it's Bolt Thrower, with no sense of personal space.

[vocal ridge]

Personal space? Who needs it.

[rustic thistle]

Round two: Chameleon yeets Saladin into Intangible Land and Lockdown the Solomon.

also overwatches the railegh with heat

[vocal ridge]

"I heard you liked to do things off-turn, Mr. Saladin."

[rustic thistle]

The Chameleon being High Eva for a tech attackers is ruining them

'WHY IS THE NERD NOT FALLING TO BULLETS'

[vocal ridge]

Hahaha.

It was fully intentional to flip the traditional hacker formula for it.

[rustic thistle]

Monarch Infiltrate Whammies him with slowed so he can't teleport, so he walked up to it, and get vanguared.

[vocal ridge]

Oops! I take it you gave it Transmission Jump, then?

[rustic thistle]

Yep.

He can't use it!

Since he's slowed.

[vocal ridge]

Yeah. XD

Inflicting his computers with Internet Explorer.

[rustic thistle]

By wanting to get the hell out of Athena, he provoced a few AOes that structures him

[vocal ridge]

I'm sure the Raleigh's happy about that.

[rustic thistle]

and the monarch!

Parafauna comes in as reinforcement from stasis lab inside the ship.

[vocal ridge]

The Metroid is escaping. 😔

[rustic thistle]

Gave it out of focus, gaia tendrils and emanation singularity

[vocal ridge]

Ah, the out of sight, not out of mind build. 😛

[rustic thistle]

Yeah it left the lab, it's in sight, and it's going behind crates to teleport up to the cockpit.

and possibly do a carnage there.

[vocal ridge]

Delicious. Going full offscreen mayhem.

[rustic thistle]

Chameleon misses full round of tech attacking.

Dice .txt

[vocal ridge]

😔

[rustic thistle]

They are bogged down here
they COULD've used other exits!

[vocal ridge]

Who got ejected from the airlock? 😛

[rustic thistle]

Oh no, they came IN from the airlocks!

They're boarding this ship!

[vocal ridge]

Ah, okay. Wasn't sure if that was them or an NPC out in the Void™️. 😛

[rustic thistle]

That is the Ibeji NHP clone I think of one character.