#In Golden Flame
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yes i do
you want a woman with a wolf cut to beat you to death
get it twisted
i do not want to be beat to death that sounds painful
Wish granted, congratulations on your zero euro's an hour
you do not need a woman with a wolf cut to beat you to death you need universal basic income
yay
i wish i had them 
for my second wish i want people to be happy
NO ITS A MONKEYS PAW
maybe the monkey is nice and a friend
you fool, you absolute buffoon
i trust the monkey
... idk if much can change for my situation though š
Congrats, I'm happy now :>
i already am happy :joyous:
yay
can I wish to use this monkey's paw to beat leo to death?
Sure, here catch
(its called ssris you should try them chat)
fuck no lmao
SSRIs fucked me up hardcore
turns out that SSRIs and bipolar meds don't only cancel each other out, they make both worse
oh no im sorry
sir a second ||ultra|| has hit grandma squad
feel this
Yes
This pleases my gen z brain
|| Elite Breacher||
||Elite Ruiner||
||Veteran Priest||
||Pyro||
||Scout||
||Spacer Veteran Cataphract||
||Veteran Witch||
ch2 ||getting railroaded sitrep||
||again, after fighting BUFFED ANTI-CAPITAL||
man i feel sick AF today and i have an interview in an hour and a half
(mild CW) ||thrown up twice in the past few hours. once at 6AM and just now. probably a foodborne illness so i doubt they'd want me there anyways||
y'all got a full repair in-between though, right?
-# right?
(ch2) ||regular Anti-Capital often has civilian casualties too but it depends on the GM's discretion and how things play out. The book makes no specific mention of civilians getting hurt though.||
WE ARE OUT OF ALL OUR CORES
ALMOST ALL REPAIRS
I would hope so
especially (ch2 spoilers)(wertpq's players DO NOT LOOK)|| since there's normally another fight at the end of the line||
EVEN THE GILLY IS DOWN HALF ITS CHARGES
||they're getting a full repair after this fight but they are like. completely fine they're at full stress and structure and surprisingly decent overcharge. they're probably doing send in the clowns after||
||at this rate this is far more of a stress test to see just how nuts grandma squad is||
:< im sorry. i hope you feel well enough to go still
(emetophobia) ||throwing up|| is the worst. i haven't done it in a long time but the last time i did i felt like i could hardly open my eyes for the rest of the day
WE MAXED OUT OUR OVERCHARGE COUNTERS
don't think so. i can't go 30 mins without an upset tummy lol
i at least have a phone interview later in the day, that shouldn't change
oh nice! :3 where at
another cafe
me too. phone interviews suck though
luckily i used to live near this place so i kind of know what to expect
wish the other place would get back to me though :\ there's no way i can last an hour when i'm barely going 30 mins rn
oh is that what its called?
but yeah no the feeling afterwards is fucking horrible
especially when your upset stomach doesn't feel better
oh boy, we ch2 preppin
im pretty deathly afraid of that. even if afterwards i may feel better, i just hate doing it
in my experience, and a lot of it, its rare i actually feel better afterwards tbh
then again, i do have (tw: ED mention) ||bulimia|| so idk maybe im different in this case
he gave the priest Chronotorus
he HATES us
(full ch2 spoilers wert players keep out) || I'm just concerned because the loss result for powerhouse is really bad. Also, don't underestimate how quickly a team can fall apart when they're out of repairs. Full Stress and Structure can disappear in an instant, and CP / overcharge are vital parts of the equation. Lancer tends to be a game of "everything's going find, then we all die". Losing a PC mech (which can happen off just two structurings) puts them down in the action economy, and it snowballs fast. I totally get the appeal of running the train fight and the finale, but having the worst possible result (the laser fires) when they actually were supposed to have already run is devastating||
||A full repair before Powerhouse will be great, just make sure to still let them carry on if they lose Getting Railroaded. Maybe they lose time and have one less round to finish shutting down reactors. Bonus points though if you give them the regular rules and lie and claim that it was supposed to be eight rounds but due to their delay they have six. I just don't know how you plan to justify a full repair narratively in that time frame but that's up to you. ||
If we face consequences for losing this Iāll kill him
But itās fine
Cause no matter how joever it looks
GRANDMA SQUAD ALWAYS COMES BARACK
Canāt believe we (ch2) ||have a whole other mission after this. Goddamn missing harrison scientist||
||if that one also an ultra I will lose it||
Not looking at this, but I should clarify something for you cuz I think I know what youāre getting at
Ch2 ||Thereās two threads in this mission, we know. WE HAVE ONLY DONE ONE||
||heās just exacting cruelty upon us for not dying to BUFFED ANTI-CAPITAL||
ah. Well then I'm just confused and giving it all a thumbs up I'm sure it's gonna be great
benefit to living in tucson: the fangamer office is 15 minutes away from where i live
they do a popup shop every year around this time and i just went and got a citizen sleeper physical copy, a dwarf fortress soundtrack vinyl, balatro playing cards and a spamton "big shot" shotglass :3
you cant say that without showing us the sunglasses
small brain :(
still, HELL YEAH!!!
yea it was super cool
i was gonna get a pair of hollow knight lounge pants but even discounted for the popup shop they were $40 ššš
beautiful, amazing, glorious car
A veritable Furrari
interview complete. i never know how these things go but it was pleasant
i'm worried that the other place just isn't interested in me anymore even though they rescheduled first :\
good to hear? i think?
if it was pleasant then it's a good sign right
yeah, i'm just bad at gauging how i do in interviews
i think everyone is. they do a really good job of being vague the entire time lol
the way i've heard most people talk about interviews makes me think the opposite
yes
very tasty
have you ever had hot chocolate/mocha with cinnamon, nutmeg, and a lil cayenne pepper?
i made that recipe at work and customers loved it but they never made it official because they wanted to make insanely sweet drinks
cayenne pepper sounds kind of mad but i've been told i have some strange tastes so it probably fucks
its just a tiny bit
oooh some salted dark chocolate sounds so good right now
ouuggghh i had salted dark chocolate cupcakes one time with like big ass pieces of rock salt on top and ughahhahhh so fucking good
salt lick
my throat hurts from singing along to everything she wants by wham six times in a row btw . can't tell you why i do this but sometimes if i have a song in my head i'll listen to it like a dozen times in a row
when i was prepping for d&d every week i would sometimes just play a song i was gonna play during the session for hours on end
i do that too
i try to curate my music
its become a little hard because i'm running out of music lmao
yeah i do this all the time
when i find a banger i put it on loop until i hate it
you should send me some music you like and i can send you some of mine back
i love sharing music w people
good night calliope!!!!!!!
You should check out some of the ace combat soundtracks I think thereās some stuff in there you could use
Less for combat, but for non-combat stuff I rather like the OST for the video game Ixion
ace combat zero
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ACE COMBAT ZERO THE BELKAN WAR Original Soundtrack
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this song fucks
god i love ac:zero
one of the npcs in my last game had a spanish guitar signature motif every time he showed up the ac:zero ost was like half of the music that played when he was there
Act 2 ||investigation arcs|| got us like
Golly, I sure wonder if these people who (Ch2) || worship someone called The One Plumed in Golden Flame|| have anything to do with the underlying plot š¤
see thats why i actually think i'm not going to tell my eventual players ||that the villains are a "doomsday cult" nor tell them the name of the module until later in||
i know the book says to establish that before the game even starts but i think maybe allowing those lines to be connected organically may enhance the game
yeah eleonor didn't say shit lmao
(kind of ch2 spoilers) ||a player was like "what??? a death cult??? i didn't see that coming!" like did you NOT READ THE INTRO||
She didnāt even preface it with being a real religion in game was just like āyeah itās all a cultā which has led to some interesting in universe world views amongst the players lol
yeah now they hate serenity
Yeah but we get to go through character growth of learning to love and accept religious serenity
with the power of love and this cool gun i found
Exactly
is a box ok
yum
The square shape allows you to pack more of them! Efficient and economical
easier to rawdog?
ā¹ļø
gathered Lancer aficionados, I am working on a side story/mission set in Calliope, and require some opinions from people who have played more lancer than I: if I have a section of the mission where you're supposed to social engineer some info out of a freighter crew on leave on the Icebreaker, would you think it'd be better to have info available on all the crew and then you pick a target, or have the mission-giver only pick out one or two good targets from said crew?
Na, same to rawdog, easier to load up a ton of them and carry more of them to increase the amount you rawdog
I think I lean toward having a small selection of crew to pick from, maybe have Jerry or whoever the quest giver is give some bullet points if you want on each
What the hell are you people rawdogging
You could run parallel scenes while different squad members chat up different freighter crew members
soup
i personally think it would be the most fun if you gave the party the chance to research/background check them to gather information on them before approaching the one or two they think will be most useful
Soup
Haram
Evil Pirate Jerry in my case, but yeah
Oooooo thatās a good idea
lets them sorta live out those cowboy bebop gathering info on the bounty scenes
okay, I was probably going to be detailing each of the freighter crew already, but the extra exuberance for that option has probably solidified that
i primarily write 5e adventures but i want to write a lancer adventure (once i've actually played in a game lol) and i am very inspired by cowboy bebop lol
Heās exactly as tired and pathetic looking as normal jerry but he has an eyepatch, his Shelly has the avatar of a parrot, and instead of horrible ties he has a horrible hook hand
:ch_catnod:
its not a real hook hand, he just puts it on over his normal hand
i love bounty hunters as an archetype
I was thinking more the outright the reverse: Very confident, exuberant even, but doesn't trust other people, let alone NHPs
i love a woman that can just kill me
ok calliope
i need to go to bed to get up at 4 tomorrow please if i send a single message more chase me out of here
hits you with a broom
Grandma squad session yday
Didnāt do much
But our GM is EVIL
And CRUEL
and a MISOGYNIST
ch2 ||WEāRE FIGHTING A COMBAT AFTER BUFFED ANTI-CAPITAL||
Ads heās literally doing this just to see us blow up
||The Cult hates women confirmed||
omg the other place FINALLY got back to me
its 10PM. they close at 3. wtf they been doin
lmao
you know I played ||a woman in the cult|| right
||actually remembering how it went for Rose you might be on to something||
||oh, isn't that the lady who got fire gated here or something||
he wants his pound of flesh
but he's not getting mine without a goddamned fight
good heavens
||two of us have structured already||
||me and the goblin||
||as a reminder, we are literally down all of our repairs||
Decided that Calliope needed a rocker girl in a caliban so I guess that's the NPC I'm working on this weekend
sweet
OK, yea, I love her already
omg its elphelt
The Caliban's name will be (spoilering in case any of my players are lurking) ||Heartbreaker|| and her pilot is named ||Rose||
another ||rose?!||
||heartbreaker is a cunty name for sure, but i think it would also bee funny if the callsign was heartbreaker and the mech was backbreaker||
(noel's players no look)
Looong story that I would love to tell you all about... once you finish chapter 2. But yes, the NPC RosƩ Bottle is a version of my IGF character that got a cameo in the book
kewl
gup
cuddling is one of the best things that you can do ever
I do kinda agree tho, it's a better word.
As usual I am always right
Bonjour
Hey Leo
Bonjour Arimedea
guten morgen
in that weird half sleep state i thought of the phrase "Banana Heavy Machine Gun Stacks" which i dont know what that means
buenos dias gentecita en mi pantalla
good morning calliope
stacks of bananas that power a heavy machine gun
unethically sourced heavy machine gun
there's a case to be made that all machine guns are unethically sourced
this is somewhat true
Bwuh, Vermintide fucking consumed me...
I am finally out of Taal, back to Calliope shenanigans
my brother just sent me this pic of his cat, thought you guys would enjoy it
Tortie if im not mistaken?
nope just a black cat in the sun. both of us have black cats :>
not yet, heroe of ubersreik, there's still 2 days to farm XP
you guys have seen my cat freyja before many times
LET ME LEAVE TAAL YOU DEMON
fire how šš
Interesting i guess
yippe
goodnight again meow
meow again goodnight
again meow goodnight
meow goodnight again
finally
Mornin' Calliope
Afternoon
My body is asking for chips but my wallet keeps saying āfuck youā
How's been your day.
I woke up, I forgot today was fighting people day. I ate omelette, I left my house and fought people
Good day so far apart from the fact fighting people sapped my chores energy
why are you fighting people
they've made a lot of enemies
Why not?
It's fighting people day
i have a question for those of you who work customer facing jobs
do senior citizens usually reply to "have a good day" with "okay" or is it just the ones that live by me
depends on where you live for sure
and "how" senior they are
usually the 70s to 80s, particularly men, just wanna fucking get on with their day
they wanna go back home and do something boring like watch the tv or read their newspaper and then sleep
women, in my experience, are usually more likely to hold a conversation or respond positively
it is usually the men yeah. 80+ men don't usually seem too happy to be interacting with me anyhow. but i just think "is saying 'you too' or even 'i'll try!' that hard?"
-# idk usually i don't care but it was just that i was obviously in the middle of something and didn't notice the guy since im alone, he loudly clears his throat instead of saying "excuse me" or anything, then i say "how are you?" he replies "marlboro lights" and after i check him out i say have a good day and he hits me with ok šš sigh
oh yes that is just older men
they are just like that
they want their beer and a football game
honestly just men in general
i got whistled at like a dog once to get my attention and i almost leapt over the counter and strangled the guy
ooh boy
i'll never forget the first time i got catcalled
some oaf was clearly drunk as fuck at 5 fuckin pm (normal for britain really)
and my friend and I were walking to the park
and this lad looks me up and down and then goes, in the most gentlemanly voice possible
"excuse me my darling, but you look absolutely marvelous_!_"
and I looked to my friend like "damn that's probably the nicest catcall you've ever received"
and then she looked at me confused like "Ari... he was talking to you."
That's late to be drunk in britain
True true
Oh i just remembered
The first time a man approached me lmao
So hilarious
My friend and I were going to a sapphic social at the library (a pub. Not to be confused with the pub, which is a library) and Iāve got this sexy new number from urban outfitterd
And iām just about to reach for the door when some guy looking like a blond dorian gray approaches me and says āYou look really good in that dressā
And I just said āthank you*!*ā and walked in
And my friend (same one from the catcall incident) was staring at me slack jawed it was hilarious
She was like āAri a fucking greek god flirted with you and you just walked away*?*ā
And it just⦠had not hit me
Iconic
Tbh that dress was really cunty
Most expensive dress I own
But goddamn if it wasnāt worth it
Adaās gonna be aghast that I shared a pic when she wasnāt here lmao
oh it is extremely cunty i love it
Hello Calliope
I am now preping ch2 fights, and reinforcements! ||and allies :)|| my players no clickie
I forgot to say that unfortunately the best pun combo goes to my player's Ryder Cowboy and her mech Save a Horse
Ooh slay
My backup pilot, if iām going with a stortie or nelson, is callsign cowgirl lol
Her mechās name is Dancer
My favourite name I've come up with so far is for a ship that I christened Toward Journey's End
oooh fun
And I've got another npc here who is ||one of the arena fighters I've set up for players to meet, who is a fortune teller with the callsign Farseer and an Amber Phantom named Heaven's Gardener||
i think whhen it comes to the lancer campaign i'm in the best name i've got so far is Bartender mofo's special cannon
the margaritoss
it wasn't this bad for me but i did spend like
a good three hours talking to my now-girlfriend on our first time meeting each other before I realisd she was into me
mind you, i was so invested in our conversation that I literally forgot to get the drinks for my table
that I had been sent to get
Last time I dated I was fully on a date before I realized it was a date
And I was the one who asked
I was distracted by how pretty she was
hopeless
Hashtag UselessLesbian
We'll all been there not realizing the person interested in us was interested in us
Which uh, is an actual email address I have lmao
Nah i know they hate me
wish i had someone to cuddle rn
its cold i need to absorb body heat
Omw
good heavens
i take large amounts of psychic damage when the session is cancelled last minute
Suddenly Iām someone
i wish someone would use me until i cant be repaired
i actually get hit with Coreworm Rockets irl when this happens
oh speak of the FUCKING devil
-# hey
Bonjour
And Guten Morgen, Cat
wert plays a character inspired by bartender motherfucker in a minecraft rp server and he's named his primary weapon there the margaritoss
dont let him hide this from you
hey at least let us have a romantic dinner first
He has stolen my IP
Will you be on the menu*?*
ok actually, blades in the dark is actually required reading
i was joking at first, but it really helps fill in some of the shortcomings of the ktb ruleset
or at least understand them better
yes, if nothing else to see what inspired a lot of the choices in lancer
None for me*?* Iām affronted*!*
Ooh i have to start reading bitd
Signed up for a pbp
oh shiii
everything i've heard about blades makes me think i'd love it
Don't worry, I'm just still thinking of what to say after seeing that dress
but yeah, the whole discussion about positioning & effect is reaaally applicable to lancer
It's my favorite branch of the pbta tree
this has stunned me i dont even know how to reply lmao
Okay Iāll take it
oh so it is pbta. I really wasnt sure
Yeah itās a cyberpunk hack called runners in the shadow
i also know there's the whole Genesys tree
they are good at leaving one breathless
Oh I really am
served on a platter?
Based off, shocker, shadowrun
I think
I donāt actually know what shadowrun is
when you run shadowly
you could leave me breathless anytime, if you get what i mean
christ just kiss sloppily already
You think I wouldnāt*?*
thats the plan yes
also being real for a moment, if people are uncomfortable with me flirting in here please say it, i will stop, the last thing i want to do is make people feel bad
breaking kayfabe: I'm doing the spraying bit mostly as a joke, ya know
Some wrestling term
breaking keyfabe = Out of character
setting aside the illusion of the bit for a moment
Me 2 and all that
same
oh yeah that's pretty obvious, i think, its a good bit
uugghhh but i don't wannnaa
You canāt spray me!!! Iām the sprayer!!!
required reading means i ain't gonna
Even though you hardly know her??!?
Know her*?* I hardly know her*!*
i wish someone would, uhhh, idk finish the bit yourself
Huh
tbh i have really only read the important parts of the crb
and i just use a cheat sheet
||I can finish something for you alright||
and my favorite factions don't have that much lore lmao
[something]+er = I hardly know her joke
shoutout to the HA field guide never making it
One day IPS-N field guide will happen
Knower?
I feel like a wet cat by it XD
car meet
Car meet*?*
i did actually come up with some IPS-N lore for a lancer adventure Iām writing
Itās about a bunch of mech pilots working for an up and coming shipping business who come out of stasis near some bumfuck planet to find out thereās no clue or idea where or what the fuck the package is
š³
In my Lancer IPS-N is an incredibly decentralised āworkersā co-operativeā
would read
I do wish tom and miguel wouldn't actually make wf 2. I wanna see some field guides instead
ok fuck me i guess
i guess i'll kill myself
we already have some top tier authors for adventures
I have a little google doc if youāre interested*!*
?????
-# ok, if you say so
tbh wf act 2 has one of my favorite factions in all of lancer
We used to have those in twitter stories on the lancer account
I probably should update it soonā¦
I am
seconded
In Darkest Tide āAlright, letās get all our heads out of our asses.āāAbout 34 years ago, IPS-N Collective Bombay reached out to us about a pickup contract. Anonymous Client centered in Ghadabara, Diasporan world out in the Himalaya Line.āāNow, Boss Schenna was made aware that this client was...
i need to read more + i love supporting my friends' art
my adventure/module/setting takes place in an abandoned colony in the purview
Kewl*!*
i accidently made BARGEST from cyberpunk before playing the DLC with the antagonist lmao
they just left all of their weapons of war and the people were like... hehe... what if we.... you know
and its a few decades after all that
ANYWAYS
ANYWAYS??!?
subtle segue
the segway in question:
IM SORRY
igf has made me really enjoy the idea of (general igf plot i guess) ||things being out of their place in time||
No i'm sorry I'm just teasing
Ari this is excellent
The prose is great, but the worldbuilding? Fuck. This is pretty much already becoming my internal canon for the corp
Oh thanks angel*!*
i have a little extra lore on the collective concept if youāre interested
But itās very much subject to change
Iām always gonna be so grateful to ttrpgs for reawakening my creative spark tbh
I kinda just lost it for a while cuz of life and pandemic (and also not realising I was a fruit lol) and then these nerds showed up
Let me tell you
Balancing being a nerd and a whore is not for the faint of heart
no shit
my heart is very faint and fortunately(?) i tend towards the nerd side
90%+ of my free time is spent on making stuff for ttrpgs lol
funny enough i want to work on my setting but wallflower and depression have taken up all of it
they really got my ass writing act 2
-# I have the courage of a wet hampter so I'll just hang out at the nerrd end
I have found that since Iāve been unable to engage in whore stuff iāve been doing a lot more nerd stuff lol
i have the courage to NOT be a whore to save everyone else
what if we donāt wanna be saved
too bad
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and honestly generic flirting fucking sucks
it genuinely hurts me when all mfers say is "oh really~? haha.... SEX"
like good one man
-# I'm debating on doing a bit with this but i won't if you don't want me to
I'll be honest the nerd stuff is how and where I indulge the whore stuff lmao
I flirt more on this channel than I do almost anywhere else
Do people actually say that*?*
i'm gonna be honest though as much as i joke at my own expense about being lonely and shit i am thankful for having so much free time to devote to making shit
no but its the same shit
i just need the actual motivation to finish something
Me too but only because Iām not currently able to flirt anywhere else lmao
I donāt think I getcha
i know
Huh*?*
i just operate off of bits completely and most of the flirting in this channel just sounds like that
and its lowkey a little weird and thats coming from a freak lmao
i also have the courage of a wet hampter but the intelligence of one
Cāest la vie
what are you working on currently?
There is also another note on this i was considering exploring, that being how much I should lean into worker-owners kinda revering IPS-N like a deity in and of itself
But this adventureās original pitch wasnāt actually gonna be very IPS-N focused outside of the overarching antagonist, IPS-N Collective Bombay
-# Jen, does the eyeball mean I have clearance for my bit?
But since rereading lancer lore Iāve just really wanted to develop it more
i will never turn down a bit
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good job
perfect execution
Arenāt you studying chem
this is the funniest aspect of IPSN for me
What does the mouse pencil mean
Markiplier voice:
"What if I'm not afraid?"
"What if I want you to ruin me?"
"What if I want you to TRY"
Slay*!*
IPSN be like "we support the workers!"
"DO NOT ASK WHERE THE MAJORITY OF PIRATE FRAMES COME FROM"
taking notes
(ch1? spoiler) ||impact dynamics, obviously||
Oh kewl*!*
we create more pirates which means we need to create more frames which means we need to create new pirates which means we create new frames-
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19h13H4CqKmuVQQy24H-r9ra67ShWvM0lOQ4CdKGJvUk/edit?usp=drivesdk
added a little extra lore on collective bombay to this doc
In Darkest Tide āAlright, letās get all our heads out of our asses.āāAbout 34 years ago, IPS-N Collective Bombay reached out to us about a pickup contract. Anonymous Client centered in Ghadabara, Diasporan world out in the Himalaya Line.āāNow, Boss Schenna was made aware that this client was...
You know I do wish the whole āIPS-N funds piratesā thing was a little more uh, subtle
lancer is very unsubtle yet people still see NHPs as eldritch horrors so imagine if it was
i don't want to start the NHP conversation again but the book really is like "ITS SLAVERY" and then people still argue against it
EXACTLY
We showed this eldritch horror all of tiktok and it thought itself out of existence
This is also why Iāve never really felt comfortable with the whole thing about NHP romances and stuff tbh
Like to me it just feels like a very fucked up power dynamic
i think its fine provided the NHP get the choice
having an NHP co pilot just sent to you and then romancing them is... yuck
but i think that aspect of NHPs is REALLY outdated and just kind of sick
Ykw I should actually just go to bed
IGF does it best where your copilot NHPs are just characters chillin
honestly i kinda feel like the way nhps are apparently treated in calliope is kinduva copout
but alas iām too tired to do this topic justice
So adios calliope
i kind of think thats the point? but man as the pilot i do not like it
bye bye
still better than the alternative imo
goodnight!!!
wow are we talking about lancer in lancer???
sleep well!
no way
80% of the chat being flirting is igf lore accurate
i engage with the "haha sex" flirting mostly as a joke here my irl flirting is like "hhi you have nice eyes ,, uh :)"
i agree actually!
If I ever tried flirting, this would be the outcome
serenity core
you'll fit right in for my campaign
my understanding of NHPs is that they're 4th dimensional alien ghosts who are forced to act and look like humans for our sake and that's already sorta fucked up
readies the "Discussions about NHP's" clock to return to zero.
better than the alternative
and then we make them do our labor for us and that's doubly fucked up
Oh it gets worse
Those are the prime NHP's the ones we see normally in lancer are clone copies of them in caskets
and then we put them in a box that forces them to be happy about doing our work for us
RIGHT
but yeah all named NHPs (athena, asura, etc) are clones of an ORIGNAL version of that NHP
is like
i am still trying to figure this part out in my head
they're all clones
hhi you have nice eyes ,, uh :)
pretty much
i think the concept is cool but is it misunderstanding the intent to say that they're like copied off a named template and the only things that make them who they are is what happens to them afterwards
but they all start with a base mind and personality traits and stuff
so as intended with the narrative there's not really an alternative anymore. seccom just used them as tools but now there's no real way to NOT make NHPs like that, and otherwise they would just extinct. it's still fucked up how many of them are tools and i think the execution is a little lacking but i like the spirit
IT's a bit of both nature and nuture. Sure they have a base template to work off of, but their experiences also mold them into who they are at a given moment
yeah they have personality traits but it's not who they are
like for example most asuras would probably not be as organized as shelly
I think the reason that I engage with so much NHP talk is because I do genuinely find the idea of them fascinating and fresh in sci-fi
she just learned that and it became a part of her personality
Sure, two Athena models might have the same base template but one that has been working admin duty for over a decade is vastly different to say an Athena that works in a Swallowtail in constant combat
I think the whole rogue AI trope is really tired and boring and making them into something alien is far more interesting.
plenty of those in lancer
most antagonist in lancer are cascading/unshackled NHPs
its annoying lol
i want an NHP who is perfectly cycled and not cascading AND is just an asshole
NHPs are people and people are sometimes bad
i want human enemies
agreed!
cough, Siren Song, cough
i want to fight a bad guy
||lmao wallflower and igf||
in a game where corporations are just complete assholes and they make the computer people most of the bad guys
Which, isn't me digging at lancer, it's super useful to have a cosmic level threat motivate a party to stop the problem
i want a campaign where we just fuck over SSC because fuck SSC
the villain for that little seed of a module i have in my head i mentioned last night is not fully fleshed out at all but i wanted to write an antagonist whose motivations were just like
That's why for my campaign I made the antagonist a guy who was exploiting the god computer 
But small scale stories kick ass, this is why Jojo part 4 is my favorite
same bestie
I see you bestie
that mfer wasn't lying that diamond IS unbreakable
Okyasu, my favorite dumbass
extreme human greed and disregard for shit like the wellbeing of a planet
i LOVE jjba4
he is babygirl
you guys are all based and awesome
nuh uh
PErsonally, Okyasu is my favorite jojo character
me too :>
I love his moron ass locking in with his busted stand
and i also love mikitaka
I kept shouting "HE'S LITERALLY ME" when I first got into Sunzi not understanding my power level
i don't love rohan but
random genre deifying alien my beloved
thats so relatable
i just really like josuke even if its basic
he is precious
bro has unlimited bitches and he just does the leon kennedy "no thanks bro"
"no way friend"
thanks juli you get it
My brain's fried so I'll always get it
Every single person in jojo is freaky
steel ball run is my favorite and i am lowkey a little worried about the anime because the manga is just SO GORGEOUS
i just like morioh
my original username is FROM diego brando. i love that man
i feel like the main character of the part sort of is the town
mori- mori- mori- mori- mori-oh cho, raaaadioooo
can i be real with you meow
(act 1 spoilers) ||so IGF ch4 does go for the eidolon antag directly, with some flavoring that it was done deliberately by some fucked up people. But it's still "fight this unshackled NHP and it's cascading bodyguard". And then obviously there's Feather, leading the cult. BUT! She's not the antagonist in act 1! She's enabling the antagonists, and enabled by then in turn. She's not even in the story directly. We see her effects, and some of her actions, but it's always someone else that you're actually fighting.||
(act 2 vague spoilers) ||She's also not the antag of act 2. That's all people. There is a cascading NHP in one chapter but she's not the antagonist either unless certain conditions are met||
(act 3 even more vague spoilers) ||I can't say much for now, because a lot is subject to change this far out. But In the end I can make a solid argument that Feather STILL isn't the real antagonist of the story||
no
i need to be sold on sbr
disappear
yeah the manga is fucking beautiful
jesus is a jostar
i tried reading it and i just could not get into it
femboy president of the us
-# genuinely had a spit take when I saw you type this
diego can turn into a dinosaur and thats NOT a stand. he can just do that
what
i uh
i dont think
i can click
don't forget about the time he turned some people into dinosuar shaped lamps
naana noooo thats a directed anticognition hyperfractal
the thing that makes me not really care about i think is the fact that it's a separate universe which idk why in my head almost makes it hard to care like its non canon somehow
what
woah spoilers
i like that universe more
yeah no he can just do that
i remember thinking part 6 wrapped up really nicely and i was like yeah that was a good ending
and my friend goes "dude there's more and its so fucking sick its way better"
and i read like 4 volumes and was like oh
yeaaah probably not. Not till you've finished mission 5 at least, and then only the first bit
i have to admit though the art is gorgeous
and the character designs do fuck
yeah ada she doesn't even know about ||loki throwing it back quirked up white boy style||
meow im not sure is that canon
HOLY SHIT WHAT??? i love ||[chapter 3 spoiler]||
its canon in my game but thats not the point
it is vex told me in a dream
that was your nightmare
nightmare?!
-# almost had another spittake i gotta stop drinking right before reading your shitposts
thats a dream
I'm... not sure that it isn't
I look away for 5 minutes
bunny!
sorry mom
Hi naana
hiiiiiiii
we'll behave we won't
offers huggie

sorry, mr void hopper...


i love this emote
the autism creature
I'd like to add an inconsequential point to the nhp convo without reviving it
> Heroic Difficult
silence

bunbert has something to say
only sometimes?
NHPs enable blinkspace travel, but also are susceptible to "hallucinations" and stress related to blink exposure
uh oh... maybe serenity SHOULDN'T get an NHP
but its going to be a didymos anyways can they really have more hallucinations
what's the worse that can happen?
Holy shit ||joe rogen|| jumpscare
bro you CAN'T say that
cancelled
sikdbusiadjbvsauj
FLEEEN
STOONES!!!?!??!
I will say several of our IGF act 2 writers meetings have been derailed by the NHP topic. We've spent multiple sessions just discussing NHPs, how they work, how we want them to work, what sort of story we want to tell, what the metaphors are for it. And we haven't solved anything there either. There's still some debate and questions we're working out. It's a hard thing to deal with in Lancer and most stories in the setting will have to do all that work if they don't want to fall into one of the many traps and issues tehy can bring up.
remove NHPs
nOOOOOOOOOO
i'm pretty happy with what i've settled on for NHPs in my campaign which is ironic considering that wallflower paints them in a really bad light
smiles
I refuse
yeah, i dont super like how NHPs are written in wallflower, but thats the good part of campaigns, the DM can just put whatever they prefer, and that becomes canon for the table :D
(BIG WF SPOILERS)
||beggar- accepting that he's just a 'tool' but yearning for more
mendicant- lashing out against his purpose and deciding to conquer to prove that he is MORE than a tool
hierophant- accepting her purpose but moving past it for the greater good
wonder- despite being an eidolon they want to protect their family and planet
O/K- forced to relive every tragic moment in its life to find a way to 'win the war' in a time loop||
BROTHER SHEIS SO PRETTY

I personally think that NHP's are really interesting as a sort of vehicle for telling stories about humans playing god
now I need to see either Jerry or [CH3 spoiler] ||Ignatius|| in the befuddled joe rogan pose
how the fuck do you make a spoiler block you can click once to unblur. i have to spoil line by line. teach me this witchcraft
you press the enter key
like this
and put the brackets around the first and then last line
idk
whoooaaaa naana big spoilers
oidhsaudiobsagudiasbgdujsai
||hello
gay
I am
Juli||
thank you thank you
i thought you were Ace naana
hi juli wanna smooch
hang on, I got one more
this is actually an interesting thing to know
sometimes I wonder how it would be as a fly on the wall of the room IGF gets written in
lots of barking
sometimes i wonder how it would be as a fly
I wonder what it would be like to be fly
I would prefer to be a bird, if given the chance
not a bat?
ok
š¤
i wish. i were a birdo
i'm so glad that my microphone works
hey rood
hilarious for reasons you could not have known
that's my birth surname lol
oh lmao
more surface area to smooch
I'm sorry Naana
-# *shapes and elongates your snoot like molding clay
GUH SHE IS SAS DJSASA KOSADNASDNASOJKDB ASJHDASSVA TOO PRETTY

The fucking carrot in the ashtray is peak
also, who's the tanuki(?) there
im sure this is common knowledge bunzi but i'm new here forgive me
where does charlotte originate from
OH god, you are asking for the bun lore?
A body of mine's pc
should i not have
But, I'm happy to share if you want me to yap for a hot minute
no, you'll get loved and cherished now, you idiot
of course you can ask about the bnuuy lore
it's just that there's a lot of charlotte lore since she's been around since the beginning of Lancer
i dont have the nodding cat emote but yes we do
āļø
why her hair so spin
helicoper
ready for takeoff
holy shit its miles morales
Alright, did you want the Lancer origin or just the orgin of the character cause I can go into detail or give the TLDR
real answer: these 3 frames are actually the start of her moving forward towards the table not her excitedly bouncing in place
i imagined so haha, but i think the gif is funny
Well damn, I guess I got a large lore dump to drop
not wrong
also, no lancer, im taking 1d6 energy damage + 1 burn now
oh that's a bun I haven't see before i think!
and cant be used until repaired ofc
we gotta get you repaired quick then
at least it was a very valid reason for the guy not to show up but eh
im still a bit bummed but i'd feel genuinely worse making the guy participate knowing the context
So, Charlotte originally comes from a really, really old DnD Campaign I was a part of with an old group of friends back in my twenties. We were all really hype to be a part of a campaign that our good buddy wanted to run where he told us by the time we hit level 5 he had a big plot reveal for us. We were all stoked and we aksed the general vibe of the land and he said we were loving on what we were told was "A lush green version of Australia. Think Old Elder scrolls lore of marshes and swam lands with forests and mountains on a large island mass."
The gang all had a fun idea cause we had a player that wanted to play this new simion monkey race thing he found as part of some Unearthed arcana at the time. I remember he wanted to play it to do monkey man hijinks with boxing gloves. We thought that was rad and it gave us the idea of what if we did a theme of us all being animal coded or hybrids. So in general we had a monkey, a crocodile, an eagle and Char as the rabbit.
We had
Monkey Monk
Crocodile Barbarian
Eagle Ranger
Bunny Warlock pretending to be a cleric
My love for D&D god ilmater stems a long time
that's such a good piece of art btw

do you make the charlotte art or do you have an artist on payroll or something lmao
I have had periods in my life where I had a lot of disposable income and wanted to pay cool artists I found
Moving on, when I was listening to a lot of podcasts I listened to the super best friends cast a lot and Woolie had a segment of people shouting out the Lancer kickstarter back in the day about tabletop with mechs. I thought it was rad as shit so I decided why not take a look?
I joined pnet and noticed people in the oc cantina seemed alright so I plugged the idea of save importing Char into lancer and a lot of peeps were cool about it
So yes, you can blame this goof for being the reason bunny sunzi meme is a thing
I forget if it was the sbfc that introduced be to Lancer
but I can say for certain that those shitlord have irreparably damaged my sense of humor and hype (for the better)
i remember them talking about it but i just kind of ignored it since i had my own game to run lmao
and here i am...
Doing everything I can...
holding on to what I am...
-# (waiting until someone finishes the bit)
good morning hells gate
looks at clock
2:00pm pst
good morning to you too, Lamp
good 3pm lamp
good lamping
guys idk what to do i feel so sapped today
i got off work 2 hours ago and all i have done is sit in my car for 30 minutes and then lay in bed for an hour and a half
i had the urge to just write
not lancer, not ttrpg, just.... something
a short story
sappy yuri
-# goopy yuri...
creamy yuri

i cannot write romance for shit nor do i want to
savory yuri
you know what i like writing lmao
halo fanfic
Arbiter? I hardly kno-
sanghelussy
sloppy yuri
WHY ARE YOU SPRAYING ME HOW IS GOOPY YURI ANY BETTER
goo girl yuri
I'm spraying and wiping away your slop or something like that
woah hey
-# will you be sharing it
WHAT? WHERE?
omg women

what's the genre tho
Hey can someone share the misgendered fire text
I need to post it to #1216805351488356353
Thanks
I met a lovely trans girl at a con who goes by Mist Gendered.
now that's a calliopean name
estrogen mist
horror
that's what happend to me
you ok?
waow (basedbasedbasedbasedbased)
maybe
why would you want to dejuli anything i love juli shes awesome
waft the juli mist over me
Fascinating return
None of yāall being worth a damn at it IRL is also lore accurate
Chacun son truc*!*
Hello Calliope, we at the gym
Ooh slay
I have no idea how I am at flirting IRL
I'm rarely ever in a position to engage in flirting
I just say compliments and it's up to the recipient to consider it flirting
i can flirt but have no idea if someone is flirting back
and, if it wasn't obvious, when people come on too strong it just annoys me lol
neither. they are clearly lying to me
I never lie when I'm being kind
well i think its mean when you're kind
so therefore you are lying
you think I'm mean?...
people are captivated by my strange and unsettling demeanor irl
only to say you hate me, yes
There is a philosophical theory here
gn catliope
eep well
good catning meowlliope
ayo? you speak french?
bonne matinƩe
Oui
pretty funny that you ask that as I was about to greet June
Never too late to try again*!*
Bonjour
Salut*!*
I have to start learning Spanish
Cuz iām moving to spain
Itās funny i used to get mistaken for catalan a lot when I was on HRT
specifically on hrt? did that have some influence on it?
Oh my skin was kinda just getting lighter
- yk, being in vritain
It was glowing more
I was also like weighing a lot less
how is life in britain nowadays
I wouldnāt know, Iām not in it
I am. Iām not currently studying there
well this is an unexpected turn of events
My players ACTUALLY took (ch3) ||Ignatius's help|| in chapter 3
i assume this is an
I was entirely expecting them to tell them to fuck off but no




