#Omission of Terror

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quaint quartz
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In the Hyades Cluster, forgotten by most and backwater for all, a quiet revolution seethes. Remnants of the Second Committee, left canned up in slower-than-light-transit for a quiet eternity, have been arriving and thawing out- and acting with malice aforethought when their beloved vision of humanity has changed over the last five hundred years. Now, working with nationalist and fascist sentiments after the Union's initial bloodless victory, these dark echoes of Union's past have positioned themselves to cause massive violence and revolt by way of their mercenary proxies and ancient funds.

Omission of Terror is a third-party content pack consisting of a short story in the Lancer universe, a pair of Department Guides to help players and GMs run two of Lancer's many organizations in the context of a Hyades Cluster campaign (DoJ/HR & MSMC), a three-combat mission, as well as fully-developed and fully-illustrated new mech frame and license: the HORUS Rakshasa, a powerful melee fighter and frontline hacker.

The Kickstarter will be up soon, and until then please ping @quaint quartz or @distant rover for more information on this project.

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Rakshasa art, by @fickle flare

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and cover art by @sturdy quarry

quaint quartz
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incidentally, man do I hate Kickstarter. "Image must be 16:9" is a very, very pain in the neck rule

terse tartan
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oof

quaint quartz
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oh yeah no that's not even the worst

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WELCOME

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TO THE BACKGROUND STATIC

terse tartan
quaint quartz
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goooooooooood morning detroit Night City

terse tartan
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that'd be honestly a neat way to get like feedback on players action in the world

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have a radio host just discuss what happened after the players did something

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sort of like how radio new vegas did it

quaint quartz
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It works, but you gotta be careful not to overdo it

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like if you've ever played Metro Exodus you have a basic idea of what I mean, re the desert level

terse tartan
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never played it sooo shrugs

quaint quartz
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its a good game

quaint quartz
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AND WE'RE UP

terse tartan
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nice

lucid lynx
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Backed! Here’s hoping you reach all your stretch goals!!

quaint quartz
lucid lynx
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Will there be a #lancer-news announcement about it soon? I know that project visibility is improved now with the forums but I know those announcements are super helpful for getting backers

quaint quartz
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I already sent it in to the mod team

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which was about 11hr ago so they're probably still doing Mod Team things on it

warm quartz
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Backed at the +Artbook PDF instant I saw the notice in my inbox!

quaint quartz
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Nice! Remember to pass the plate around, since word of mouth is all I've got until mods aprove my pilot.net add

warm quartz
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Yep - I've emailed the folks I know that are Lancer-focused already!

exotic venture
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For that amazing Rakshasa art alone I'm gonna back this

old flume
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What’s the whole “Unions bloodless victory” thing referring to?

distant rover
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Greater lore regarding the Hyades cluster, where this (and also Al-Sorah) are set

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Which... Should be explained a bit in this book, seeing as it's directly relevant to subject

quaint quartz
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It's on the to-do list

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short version: the Hyades is basically Florida

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in the revolution, Union went "well we can just cut it off and move on" and that worked

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this didn't actually fix shit and the place kinda festered

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it's been 500 years now, shit's no longer festering and is going into issurectionary phases

trail fulcrum
quaint quartz
trail fulcrum
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Nice

quaint quartz
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Oh hey NWAS got an official mention

quaint quartz
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right, just about 2/3 done with the kickstarter goals, so I figure I should share some of the Field Guide

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In modern times, there’s four primary components to the DoJ/HR: Corpo-state divisions, Member State bureaus, Liberator Units, and Interstellar Coordination.

Corpo-State Divisions exist for one reason: to keep the megacorp states in line. The majority of this doesn’t involve prosecuting open-and-shut warfare or lawsuits on groups: rather, it involves consumer protection work and anti-monopoly interference. Hundreds of star systems own a GMS Model 81 Drydock because of these two factors as an example- both to allow them to perform necessary maintenance on inter-system vessels for consumer safety, and to chip away at the IPS-N space hauling monopoly one backwater star at a time. However, when the excrement hits the impeller, these are the same people who tell Smith-Shiano their latest experiments in human genetics fail ethical boards and to stop and get shot, or let Harrison Armories understand that terraforming a planet is unacceptable at gunpoint. 

Member State bureaus have a job just as hard, just in a totally different direction. Union, as a super-state, has hundreds of independent worlds and dozens of states that make up its component membership. Everything from tribal societies to burgeoning theocracies and even benevolent tyrannies must be assessed and have their laws and customs evaluated so as to ease their interactions with the rest of Union. Governments that at first blush look to be fair, representative, and democratic frequently turn out to be classist oligarchies under the hood- conversely, structures of absolute power concentration may be blessed with such bureaucratic and autonomous subsystems to as to create a great degree of freedom for their citizens. All of this must be analyzed, collimated, and then compared to what needs to be done to advance the Utopian Pillars and improve standards of living on the planet. Oftentimes, this is boring, routine number crunching- right until unforeseen factors drive a planet into chaos. Natural and manmade disasters happen every day, and it falls to these people whether to send in the aid money, an all-hands alert to pull in reinforcements, or even a detachment of Liberators to halt or intensify a revolution. 

Liberator Units are, put bluntly, the trigger-pullers of the DoJ/HR. While most paint them as an asset of last resort, the reality is they’re far more widely deployed than most people think. Small detachments of Liberators- generally referred to as “field troops” or “patrol squadrons” numbering roughly equivalent to a reinforced company are constantly deployed on Union frigates and carriers to serve as stopgap and damage control units wherever Union needs them. Thanks to the power of the armored chassis to serve as more than a weapon of war, patrol squadrons are potent engineering units as well as fighting forces: more than a few planets suffering issues have been saved by flash-printed and chassis-assembled bunkers patterned after parts of the Massif Vaults from Cradle. As much as they love the duty to preserve, though, the Liberator Unit’s reputation for bloodshed is well-deserved. Many, many situations untenable to the Utopian Pillars and the DoJ/HR have been found, and violently excised at the bayonet-point of Liberator Units. It is not a duty they enjoy, but a somber stare kills more selectively than a madcap smile. That selectiveness keeps civil casualties low, and making sure they save as many as possible is one of the few points of pride Liberators are afforded on hot deployments.
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yes the Intersteller Commision isn't posted here on purpose, it isn't finished yet

quaint quartz
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Hey hey folks

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First art delivery finally happened

quaint quartz
quaint quartz
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Top: "we got five minuets until the 'nothing gone wrong' sign changes quick hand me the blowtorch"
Bottom: "please let me go back to pondering the horrors within my comprehension on the orb, I see too much outside"

quaint quartz
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right, DoJ/HR and MSMC part of the field guide is done...

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now I just gotta find me one of these with the right copyright on it

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fun fact

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this is the star formation that @distant rover named the RDV's core power after

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the space between Taurus and Pleiades

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pictured here with Mars sitting in the middle going "doot de doot I have done NOTHING WRONG doot de doot"

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clean and pretty vers

quaint quartz
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Aaaaaand we're funded!

distant rover
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Woo!

quaint quartz
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Incidentally

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Probably need to ask a mod for Content Creator

quaint quartz
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right, starting to write the first Rosehip fight

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while not all Armories pilots are required to have an electric guitar blaring as they enter a simulation room for training exercises, Rosehip has not been an Armories pilot for a decade at this point

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that's a decade relative time, so probably closer to, eh, 40~ years nonrelative time

drifting trench
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and backed! just to be clear - MSMC is the antagonist for this module? I wasn't quite sure from the kickstarter description

quaint quartz
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Yep

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Although I'm including info on GMs for how to run them as an employer too, since nobody's really explained how to make people who do illegal things with mechs really work in lancer

drifting trench
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that's great! be sure to include an MSMC Legal talent for maximum Ace Attorney potential

quaint quartz
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Talents aren't planned at this time, and trust me: for most of the Lancers in MSMC, if Legal looks at you then the correct reaction is to act as if the Eye of Sauron was inspecting your location

drifting trench
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I just want to be able to yell OBJECTION at a mech and have it somehow give them the Impaired status, is that too much to ask

quaint quartz
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Yes.

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Lawyers are Lawyers and Lancers are Lancers and if they meet then it shall be the fault of a player and not mine

drifting trench
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now I just have a character idea for an "Ace Attorney" LANCER that uses the Ace talent

quaint quartz
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you are gonna love Flameback when FG: Marlowe drops

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@drifting trench take a looksie at this pac

drifting trench
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what's Tension?

quaint quartz
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the first half of the Core Passive

drifting trench
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so it's in addition to heat, and it resets at every player turn end? interesting.

quaint quartz
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Unless you do something to make it not reset

drifting trench
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think it might be a tossup between that and the SSC Comet from Suldan. Hard to resist Mecha But Literally A Jet

quaint quartz
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Listen it ain't called external combustion engine for nothing

drifting trench
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'looks at the ORCA from the Command and Conquer games' whelp that's another homebrew I should probably cook up

quaint quartz
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Honestly it's a tossup between Flameback and Gazami which of the Marlowe alt-frames has more weird mobility

distant rover
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Funny how those are both the ha alts

quaint quartz
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listen this entire company's schtick is GO FAST

distant rover
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No this entire company's shtick is being a bunch of dudes with a hot rod shop and too few sanity checks among them.

quaint quartz
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that's the same thing lost

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and like "a few" we established it was a pretty solid-sized company in local terms

distant rover
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those are not the same thing because, being generous here, only 3/8 are "go fast"

quaint quartz
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I disagree, they all beat what my personal line in the sand for slow versus fast mech

distant rover
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They don't have many slowboats, that doesn't make their thing "go fast"

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Also speed isn't a binary, there's space between slow and fast

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Like, you cannot tell me that the Golden Ghost's thing is "go fast"

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Its thing is "Be a Sekiro l character"

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The three "go fast" mechs from KM&M are the drag race Saladin, the rocket jump Barbarossa, and the Kool-aid Van

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Everyone else has other focuses

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Characterizing the whole manufacturer as "go fast" would be like doing the same with SSC.

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/rant end

quaint quartz
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like, yeah, speed isn't binary and tallents make a massive-ass difference in the stock speed versus actual speed-- example a, tortuga in a tortuga out-racing literally everyone else until the blackwitch kicked in-- but that doesn't mean that in a vacuum from HASE and tallents you still can't have a binary descriptor of "mechs that can cover significant distance without a boost versus those who can't". I draw that line at 50% of the most common weapon range (in this case, range 8), which spits out speed 4.

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Speed 4 is important because that's the point in time where you can safely control engagement based around MCWR. Under speed 4, you can't successfully disengage out of it, or guarentee entry into it since your Effective Threat Radius is only 12 before tallents

distant rover
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Speed 4 is basic bitch average speed

quaint quartz
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yes, which is why it isn't fast

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speed 5 is fast

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speed 4 is average, speed 3 is slow

distant rover
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You're not fast until you exceed it, and reducing the entire manufacturer to "go fast" just because they don't go below the average is not only just wrong, it's kind of offensive to me as the person who designed all of these

quaint quartz
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3/8 have speed traits, and off the top of my head 6/8 are faster than their base frames

distant rover
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No

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5 are faster than their base, and that's mostly because they're mostly alts of notably slow mechs

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Barbarossa

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But like the shtick of the entire manufacturer is not "go fast" any more than it is for SSC, or "has armor" is for HA

quaint quartz
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well then we can talk about the "be small" part, but that's the entire reason this manufacturer exists

distant rover
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Oh yeah "be small" is absolutely their shtick

quaint quartz
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well yeah considering there's only... what, 4 size 1/2 mechs in core?

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make that 2

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Gobbo and Nappy

distant rover
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Every mech they make is smaller than the original, and the only reason they're not all size 1/2 is vantuga wouldn't work as size 1/2

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3, Dusk Wing is core

quaint quartz
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well yeah b/c it basically has to synch with Mule Harness

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ah right floatyboy

distant rover
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No, if it was built for mule harness it would still be size 2

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It's because it's a car

quaint quartz
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thought we left it size 2

distant rover
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No it's size 1

quaint quartz
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whack

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I do not remember that

distant rover
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Also it occurs to me that we are off topic for Omission of Terror

quaint quartz
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well yeah no shit, but I don't really care too much and we're not liable to get a Stare of Mod for being a little off topic

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once we get FG: Marlowe out I'll ask if we can have a Circle Trigon General

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incidentally @distant rover have you taken a read on the short story recently

quaint quartz
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oh shit we're like $25 off of getting a Retrograde Mini

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@distant rover rally the minions we're within spitting distance of that computer paper token thing you wanted

distant rover
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hekkin sweet

quaint quartz
distant rover
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Heyyyy stretch goal get!

quaint quartz
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ah hell I have to talk to artsits again

distant rover
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By the by: if anyone has the desire and opportunity to playtest the Rakshasa and/or its license gear, shoot me a PM. Folks who can provide playtest feedback before I have to commit everything for the final run will be credited as testers in the book!

quaint quartz
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lost you gotta post that in the busy channels

distant rover
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yeah I did post in General as well

quaint quartz
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takers yet?

iron saddle
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This is very cool

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I have nothing else of substance to say sorry ItWillHappenAgain

quaint quartz
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hey it's something!

distant rover
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Which will make a pretty short credit line so more people should volunteer :V

distant rover
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stretch goal two, woo!

quaint quartz
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oh noh I must find more artists

quaint quartz
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hey hey

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we now have a logo

quaint quartz
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blame @distant rover

quaint quartz
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and now we have a cover

distant rover
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Technically we had a logo for a while, it just got officially put on the cover today :p

lucid lynx
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Oh hell yes, this is all coming together nicely haha

fickle flare
quaint quartz
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thank you

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the initial design was.... well

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I know exactly enough art theory to make stick figures do what I need them to do

quaint quartz
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why are all the artists I like commissioned out

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@distant rover hey you got any landscape artists you like?

distant rover
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nobody terribly useful for this

quaint quartz
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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now I must go back to braving the wilds of Twitter

distant rover
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I have like, all of two landscapes I've actually bothered to mark so I can find them later

quaint quartz
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well twitter got nothing

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it's officially the hour of boobs, cosplay, and gundam

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which means it is aproximately 4am

distant rover
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I mean I suppose I could link the artstation of the one who doesn't explicitly say they don't do comissions

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https://www.artstation.com/conway

ArtStation
Daniel Conway

Currently on the look out for full time work in and around London but also available for freelance.

past Clients :

SONY
Guerrilla games
Capcom
Activision
Square Enix
Ubisoft
ILM
GRIN
Splash Damage
Universal Records
Disney London
Future publishing

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but like, I get the feeling they might be out of our price range

quaint quartz
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that, ah, does not help

distant rover
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yeah then I can't help

lavish owl
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Commenting here to give me visibility to revisit later

distant rover
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heeey, welcome

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in other news, we're about $60 off the third stretch goal

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I am excited

lavish owl
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I saw msmc content and I went 🤔

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Planning on backing once I get paid this week

quaint quartz
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@distant rover we passed $1200 get fraction cracking on that exotic equipment

quaint quartz
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hey, some of the NPC art is coming in again!

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Normally, an Administrator's right-hand NHP is just as formal as the Administrator themselves. However, in cases of crash promotion, it is often desired to make the digital side of Union's interactions with the world a touch softer, to balance out many rookie Administrator's tendencies to clamp down in case of emergencies.

distant rover
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Right, barring any sudden epiphanies or feedback from the theoretical playtesters, OoT now has an LCP.

distant rover
quaint quartz
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reminder to everyone we're like $20 short of the next stretch goal

quaint quartz
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that reminds me I should download my own LCP

distant rover
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a note for people who have a copy of the test LCP: I advise deleting that before installing the official one above, because comp con seems to get confused on what it's supposed to delete if you wait until after

quaint quartz
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I look away for a week, and we blow through the last stretch goal and then end up $25 off the next stretch goal

quaint quartz
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I am once again $5 away from having to buy more art

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@distant rover can you do me a solid and go looking for character artists

distant rover
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tbh you'd probably have better luck checking the pinned doc in #the-gallery than asking me, this is once again one of those things I haven't looked into much.

quaint quartz
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well yes that's why I'm asking you to do it

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the more you do it the better you get

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and if you have trouble I can help out

lavish owl
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I have a weird story question

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My campaign is looking to be ll11, maybe 12 once I run through the official content coming in. I've been adapting missions into the framework of my interstellar macguffin hunt on behalf of the UIB to stop some powerful pre fall nhp from causing an extinction event.

Not having anything regarding this mission in my hands, so you feel any easy bridges for a team of UIB deniable assets to become embroiled into the mission while also sneaking in either clues or the presence of such a powerful nhp as a story element?

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By being uib I figure they can have any number of covers

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And their primary goal can often play second fiddle to the mission goal as they solve a problem at hand on order to further their goal

distant rover
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Speaking in extremely general terms, you could probably slip a connection to the MacGuffin into the hands of the module antagonists fairly easily

lavish owl
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yeah general is perfectly fine, and that works great!

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im at a point where im generally pretty comfortable loosely adapting or slipping in ties and connective tissue to my haphazard ongoing thing so knowing that theres a broad in is probably enough

quaint quartz
# lavish owl My campaign is looking to be ll11, maybe 12 once I run through the official cont...

As a whole, Síva in general and the capitol in specific are massive piles of old SecCom hardware, software, and wargear. The module antagonists, a bunch of fascist revaunchists, draw heavily from these stockpiles and could easily have either gotten this MacGuffin out of said stocks, gotten tools to work on said MacGuffin out of said stocks, or have full-sale armed the MacGuffin from said stocks and are planning to use it to hold another planet hostage for money

quaint quartz
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well there went the 1350 dollar goal

empty jackal
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Hope you hit the 1550 goal, too
And beyond
Battle maps could be nice, but I imagine they'd probably have to be a pretty high goal

quaint quartz
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Battle maps would be like $150 per map so: no

empty jackal
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Understandable

distant rover
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I would love having maps NGL, but yeah sadly this is no Solstice Rain

exotic venture
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time to hit 2550 to get those maps

quaint quartz
distant rover
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we are $105 off the final stretch goal with 8 days remaining

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We might actually hit that, which would be wild

quaint quartz
distant rover
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FTR guys I've seen the progress on the Retrograde mini, and holy shit Retro went ham on my boy

lucid lynx
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$75 more to the Retrograde Loza, too

distant rover
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if Rakshasa's mini drops before the kicktarter ends, there's a good chance we'll get those because whew

quaint quartz
quaint quartz
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where the hell are these backers coming from

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aaaaaa

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I'm not done yet damnit I lost power for a week, this is going to have Delays

tidal wadi
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$30 more for the last stretch goal blobgib

quaint quartz
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on one hand I kinda want it

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on the other hand that means I have to come up with another stretch goal in case I get another whale out of left field

distant rover
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Maps

quaint quartz
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no

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again

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maps are liek $120-150 each

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I could maybe spring for a city map?

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but that's it

tidal wadi
distant rover
quaint quartz
distant rover
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by that logic we shouldn't be adding any extra goals at all because there's 4 days to go and there's a good chance we hit the last one by the end

quaint quartz
distant rover
quaint quartz
lavish owl
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could maybe streetch goal for like one multi purpose map, or an asset pack for people to build maps themselves with themes?

tidal wadi
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yo, goal reached 🥳

runic crown
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Dang that cover art looks Schweet

lucid lynx
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Retrograde delivering some 11th hour signal boosting hahaha

distant rover
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and we've passed the final stretch goal by $80!

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nice

quaint quartz
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Oh crap more stretch goal hours

quaint quartz
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right

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no more stretch goals just pay staff more

quaint quartz
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there was a circle trigon vote

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they voted for getting art

distant rover
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I am strongly advocating we name the bote the MSMC Be On Your Way

quaint quartz
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if anyone asks I will happily give non-CCR music suggestions for when it shows up, so far my going suggestions are Riders on the Storm, Mannish Boy, and Stop! In The Name Of Love

distant rover
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C'mon tabac that's clearly a welcome to the jungle moment

quaint quartz
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listen, Wallflower already called all the meme 'nam music

lavish owl
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im all about the msmc thats what im here for

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what about have love will travel?

distant rover
quaint quartz
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so now my job is to get all the stuff from around then that nobody remembers because the only thing left in the public conciousness after Kubric's case of yellow fever made everyone think the songs of the era were the result of a bunch of sober white boys from atlanta

quaint quartz
lavish owl
distant rover
quaint quartz
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solid choice

quaint quartz
# distant rover bad taste confirmed

guns n roses exists purely as a vehicle to get slash onstage doing guitar things in front of an audience and like while I apreciate the purity of purpose you should know by now I'm a composition guy

lavish owl
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Tongue in cheek pick. Three Little Birds - Bob Marley & The Wailers

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give it the broadcast reverb

quaint quartz
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okay there's points where Bob Marley is a good choice

lavish owl
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heck, maybe even the played through a wall filter

quaint quartz
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tbh I'd actually say Buffalo Soldier would be better

distant rover
lavish owl
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oh i think its a clearer fit, three little birds was the irony pick

quaint quartz
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nah if you want irony picks, "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder

lavish owl
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the space mercs blasting everything is gonna be alright is funny from a like... criss crossed vibes view i think

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oooo

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i like the stevie wonder pick

distant rover
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Now the newer stuff from Slash

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that's a vehicle to get Slash on stage doing cool guitar things

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and ngl they still kick ass

quaint quartz
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union: plain gray suit with blue-white-blue tricolor
union doj man: 'yes this is a perfectly normal ralleigh with four arms its how I carry this many sword- I mean guns"

lavish owl
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This one feels like a hand out but War Pigs

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keep the long intro

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with the sirens

distant rover
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but seriously imagine the opening riff of Welcome to the jungle and this thing comes around the corner

quaint quartz
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I mean yeah that's a very no shit one

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but counterpoint, the most gimme of gimme songs here

lavish owl
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hahaha

quaint quartz
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there are a lot of Steve Earle references here

lavish owl
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honorable mention, short change hero - The Heavy

quaint quartz
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still need to work in a good Gary Moore reference tho

distant rover
lavish owl
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yeah i dont think its the pick for sure, more end credits

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or montage stuff

quaint quartz
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Out in the Fields is deffo going to be the Hot Landing encounter set

lavish owl
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here's one i ride on pure vibes, Intergalactic - Beastie Boyz

quaint quartz
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also known as the moment you better bring the mother of all crowd control

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although "wha'll be king but charlie" may also work

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although that could probably be the pro-síva tune, and that goes about as well for them as it did back in '45

lavish owl
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oo, more modern pick since im siftin, Highway Tune - Greta Van Fleet

distant rover
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GVF is a personal fave

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big led zep vibes

lavish owl
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First time I heard em I was like "I KNOW lz isn't coming out with new music"

distant rover
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lol yep

quaint quartz
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@distant rover we're at 70 hours and $55 to you getting to hold your vote on the boat

runic crown
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I just pledged 10$ so now it's 5 bucks away

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no one else pledge

distant rover
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lol

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also I just ftr, Tab wants the Cool Boat Art as much as the rest of us

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those cat pics were unrelated!

lucid lynx
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Looks like Cool Boat Art is on the menu!

distant rover
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now we have to find someone who's good at drawing cool boats

quaint quartz
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well I'm lighting the signal fires so

quaint quartz
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Right if I lose power again I'm gonna shoot for a may day release

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Fucken hell

distant rover
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26 hours left 👀

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wonder if we'll break 2k

quaint quartz
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and probably

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its only $75

distant rover
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Tabac I have exactly 0 twitter followers because I avoid that place like the plague, that ain't gon' help 😛

quaint quartz
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hell

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make Fusou shill it

distant rover
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I can do you a tumblr post

quaint quartz
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do me a tumblrpost

distant rover
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there, my two tumblr mutuals have now been informed of kickstarter

quaint quartz
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now comes the discord spammu

quaint quartz
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holy mother of fuck we're $5 off 2k in the kickstarter

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when did that happen

viscid spear
quaint quartz
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I gotchu fam

viscid spear
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Thanks

viscid spear
quaint quartz
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ayep

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and there we go

runic crown
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money

viscid spear
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Yeah, had been uming and ahing about getting it, but couldn't just let it not hit 2k when it was that close

quaint quartz
quaint quartz
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well

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this has been doing NUMBERS

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I might actually be able to jump on getting Automatic Girraffe to do an art or two for the next book

distant rover
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whomst?

quaint quartz
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4img

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while a little horny sometimes

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still one of my favorite picks for character art, and I did talk to them about getting comms for a lancer project in The Future (tm)

lusty magnet
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Yeah, um, honestly, this is a bit much for here

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re the horny

quaint quartz
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sorry 'bout that

quaint quartz
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AAAAAAND THAT'S A WRAP

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2,085 USD in the bin

distant rover
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nice

quaint quartz
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well that's part 1 of the short story done

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wooooo

distant rover
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update to the beta LCP, mostly backend stuff to ensure it works right with recent comp/con tweaks

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notable: this ended up changing the display name so c/c will register it as a whole new LCP, so beware duplicates folks.

quaint quartz
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woooo

distant rover
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version 0.3 will probably come with the itch.io page whenever that's ready, so I can ensure that it links to the right place instead of a completed kickstarter.

quaint quartz
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itch page

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that'll come when I, er, have anything set up

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we're not as far forward in the schedule as we were when NWAS was the gig

distant rover
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yeah I'm just saying, that's when I plan to put the next update, unless C/C drops another change to backend

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(fingers crossed for Dustgrave coming out alongside real support for multitype weapons)

quaint quartz
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that would be epic, yeah

viscid spear
# distant rover Figure I might as well post this publically:

There is a typo in the description for it in Comp/Con

Player-side content for Omission of Terror. Featuring a smattering of exotic gear as well as the all new HORUS Rakshasa, a deadly melee hacker who's digital blades just just as deep as their physical ones.

distant rover
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Whoops

lavish owl
distant rover
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Oh man, you've reminded me of this artist and now I need to figure out which future project I can use Shockwave City with

viscid spear
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Is the Flash option of Hunger Drivers for the Rakasha intended not to be able to benefit yourself? Given the melee hacker nature of the Rakasha it seems kinda odd that it is not

distant rover
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it is very specifically phrased so that you can benefit

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unless there's an LCP mistake

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One character of your choice adjacent to the target character

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it doesn't specify allied or hostile or anything, just "character" and "adjacent to target"; you are a character, so if you are adjacent to the target you are free to choose yourself.

viscid spear
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Ok, was thinking about the rule that stuff needs to specifically say you can target yourself, though thinking about it the same is true of Warp Grenades which can be used to move yourself too

lucid lynx
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Yeah usually the rule is that you need to explicitly say “including yourself”

distant rover
#

well alright, I can adjust that

distant rover
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so since we are now about a month out from when we're nominally aiming to have the book finished, I figure I should just drop a reminder in here that actual gameplay playtest feedback will get you a credit line in the book

lavish owl
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wait we can test things"

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?

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dont think ill end up having the time, but i had not realized

distant rover
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oh yes, we'd very much like people to test things, because sadly we can only do so much lancer in a day on our own.

lavish owl
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for sure, where might i at the very least take a look see? Itch?

distant rover
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itch page probably isn't going up until closer to release

quaint quartz
distant rover
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on the topic of testing, we could use some more folks to run through the actual mission module at some point, so if anyone would be interested in that let us know

quaint quartz
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right

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field test is Thursday

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now all I gotta do is find the lfg channel

quaint quartz
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first playtest went very well, hope to see more people when I do second playtest

quaint quartz
#

well the character art is finally in

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/979185818008686673/1096234739842699461/Screenshot_86.png
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/979185818008686673/1096234740106936351/Screenshot_76.png?width=542&height=676
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/979185818008686673/1096234740429901994/Screenshot_57.png?width=506&height=676
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/979185818008686673/1096234740715110441/Habibi2.png?width=478&height=676
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/979185818008686673/1096234741251985468/Ganesha.png?width=586&height=676
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/979185818008686673/1096234741855961108/Malachite.png?width=586&height=676

distant rover
hidden cargo
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Why thank you

lavish owl
#

on the list of interactions that are impossible to plan around, was thinking about rakshasha plus the legionnaire talent

distant rover
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Maybe a little redundant that, but

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Very funny

lavish owl
#

the meme "take all the hack related things" build

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Rakshasha with technophile, legionnaire, hacker, shadowcloaked

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hmm i think suldan has hacker gear too, matador has a knife

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i think

distant rover
#

Tbh my hope is that even if you don't wanna run the frame, the two invades on Rakshasa are still good for other hacky-types

lavish owl
#

alas i am at the whims of my players, but i've shilled it to them

distant rover
#

All I could ask, tbh 👍

viscid spear
distant rover
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Tbh I haven't checked because like, balancing homebrew against homebrew is ???

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But I wonder how well Rakshasa works with Pesilat's license, or vice versa

lavish owl
#

yep! its absolutely a "fat stack of different homebrew" thing that is amusing to play with but not at all a balance consideration

distant rover
#

I know the retrograde mini is damn near perfect for a Pesilat token if you need one tho

quaint quartz
#

I'm pretty sure @sinful forum did that on purpose mind

quaint quartz
lavish owl
#

Oh yeah for sure, what I'd said was not meant at all as a criticism

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I think a lot of how it shakes out is just the nature of 3rd party/ homebrew content landscape

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I'm also a mad person who uses lots of homebrew content and will invariably see some weird interactions

quaint quartz
#

I get that, but I gotta put it out there anyway

lavish owl
#

Makes perfect sense, just didn't want you to think I was coming in here to take shots at yalls work or anything like that.

quaint quartz
#

Yeah, I know, but we did get some of that 'shout at others work' on other servers so Disclaimer First Discussion Second

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which is really all the proof you need I'm falling into the corporate rat trap lol

lavish owl
#

check your closet, see if all your clothes are transforming into suits!

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disclaimer, the joke above requires a early 90's understanding of the corporate world

quaint quartz
#

okay you laugh but I own four good suits and two of them are tailored

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my style options swerve radically between "seventeenth century officer of the foot" and "international arms dealer" with little in-between

lavish owl
#

Hmm, so Rakshasha, I'm vibing a hacker/samurai esque space ronin character... I'm thinking the Rak might be a cool reflavor for like super hacker space ronin?

viscid spear
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It would, especially if you want to be able to hack them by stabbing them with the DEV-A Dagger

quaint quartz
#

TBH I was trying to lean hard away from samurai anything: Metalmark exists right over there you know?

lavish owl
#

its truuue, but its not really a hacker yknow? I could do a mm with rak license ranks tho

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i was struggling with how to make the archetypal space ronin less, well, generic

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and i thought to myself, hackermurai, with a data sword

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technophile nhp where the miniaturized casket IS the scabbard or sword

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and then i thought, what are my options as far as carrying that into a mech combat style

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rak popped up to the top of my list, then one or two from liminal

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and one from castor and pollux

distant rover
#

You can absolutely make a Rakshasa samurai, that is 100% cool

quaint quartz
#

not how I'd have done it, but my solution to "I wanna play a Samurai" in lancer would be like, Retiarius from Suldan for me, and then get my buddy to play Lanc so that way I can use the Lanc as a battle bus and there you go: guy on a horse with a bow, classic samurai stuff

quaint quartz
#

that reminds me

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@distant rover thoughts on how the Loza minis turned out?

distant rover
distant rover
quaint quartz
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haven't actually found that thread, tag me in next time

quaint quartz
#

bad news: artist delays
good news: artists having fun

lavish owl
#

hmm so the general basic turn for the rak is to basic invade, frag sig into a skirmish melee attack that also inflicts a new invade; possible something like puppet systems to trigger overwatch with the same melee weapon, that then allows you to pick another new invade?

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was/am trying to decide if the horus CB for unavoidable melee damage due to tech attack prior is worthwhile, since the data dagger's attack isn't a tech attack

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but otherwise this feels like a great place for what essentally becomes tech/melee combines arms

viscid spear
#

I think it would work really well as by alternating with melee attacks and tech attacks you can get constant accuracy on them, and nothing says that the melee attacks have to be with the dagger, plenty of other melee options, including a couple in its license

distant rover
#

Honestly, making another frame that explicitly likes that core bonus is one of the reasons I made Rakshasa in the first place.

quaint quartz
distant rover
distant rover
#

Update: apparently the comp/con change was a bug and not intentional, so updating your LCPs is not required at this time

quaint quartz
#

ah fuck

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next time we do this, someone remind me to install backerkit, there's been an issue

#

TO ALL BACKERS: PLEASE SEE YOUR REWARDS SURVEYS SENT OUT BY KICKSTARTER FOR A CODE TO MANUALLY MAIL ME TO GET YOUR REWARDS COPIES

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@muted sentinel can you or another mod please pin the above, I'd like it to be easily found since there are going to be delivery issues with this project

muted sentinel
quaint quartz
#

thank you

quaint quartz
#

100~ survey responses

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well

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guess my next day off is gonna be data entry yaaaaaay

viscid spear
#

Oh no, you are popular with lots of people wanting your stuff and tossing money at you

distant rover
#

I do enjoy being popular 🤔

quaint quartz
distant rover
#

I feel like that'd be privacy concerns still, even if I am part of the project team

quaint quartz
#

You wouldn't be accessing any confidential info

quaint quartz
#

Like

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Worst thing you could do is put me down on a Bad Dragon kickstarter or something

distant rover
#

Kek

distant rover
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#1119416630489923594 message
@quaint quartz no I haven't. Any LCP changes will wait until after the session tomorrow, cause I don't wanna change things mid mission

quaint quartz
#

ahh

distant rover
#

the GDOC has both the wording fix and the trishula nexus adjustment live, though.

quaint quartz
#

which Trishula Nexus adjustment, there's like five proposed

distant rover
#

No there aren't, there's like two and one of them I have flatly refused multiple times

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that said: slight heat cost for the explosive yeet, to balance it against using it as a melee weapon normally

quaint quartz
#

anyway in news: first round of playtesting is done!

distant rover
#

yep yep

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now we just need round 2, 2.5, and 3 :V

quaint quartz
#

now recruiting testers

quaint quartz
#

right first final draft of the story is finally through the presses, time to typeset and finish the world guide

quaint quartz
#

fun fact: if someone makes something and posts it to Wikipedia, you can mail them and get permission to use their stuff for free

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mmmmmm

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free reference stuff!

lucid lynx
#

Huh, usually I thought that stuff was licensed under CC BY SA (can’t remember if it’s noncommercial though)

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Nice that you snagged it for your work though!!

quaint quartz
#

so big thank you to Roberto Mura then

lucid lynx
#

Cool cool, it was the ShareAlike part that worried me but sounds like it’s sorted

quaint quartz
#

If my understanding of ShareAlike is correct, what it means is someone can pull that image from my work and then use it independantly of me asking

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which being honest

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is not a huge concern of mine

lucid lynx
#

Gotcha, my brain always just fixates on the ShareAlike and gets worried about what constitutes “derivative work” regarding that, so good for me to consider ShareAlike for the future tbh

quaint quartz
#

this is why I e-mailed the guy who made it yeah

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fortunately the other publically avalibale stuff I'm using at the minute is open source

quaint quartz
#

it says a lot tho that I'm writing the Revolution segement of the world guide to Swallowing Dust

quaint quartz
#

whelp, we're up to about 30k words finished and I still have mission 2 to write

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awheee

quaint quartz
#

right, playtesting round two is almost done

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good lord we overtuned this

lucid lynx
#

Were players having trouble with the playtest encounters, then? I can relate to that haha

quaint quartz
#

The combat was legitimately slightly overtuned, but they went 1:2 on the mission with two destroyed mechs because we had too many green players who didn't realize there are resources for this to help them out

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basically just a lot of very lethal poor communication excaberating existing issues

rare vortex
#

Is this where you would want some thoughts on the Rakshasa?

distant rover
#

sure!

rare vortex
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Just from an eyeball test I am very intrigued by it's combination of the space of nexus, thrown, and cqb

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So from a basic LL3 build, I went with this, my thoughts were as this build gets bigger, use vanguard and spaceborn to get freebie attacks with tech hits. Then build up to accurate centimane.

# 
[ LICENSES ]
  HORUS RAKSHASA 3
[ CORE BONUSES ]
  The Lesson of Thinking-Tomorrow’s-Thought
[ TALENTS ]
  Vanguard 2, Spaceborn 2, Centimane 1, Executioner 1
[ STATS ]
  HULL:2 AGI:2 SYS:1 ENGI:0
  STRUCTURE:4 HP:15 ARMOR:1
  STRESS:4 HEATCAP:5 REPAIR:5
  TECH ATK:+2 LIMITED:+0
  SPD:5 EVA:11 EDEF:11 SENSE:8 SAVE:13
[ WEAPONS ]
  FLEX MOUNT: DEV_A Dagger
  HEAVY MOUNT: Trishula Nexus
[ SYSTEMS ]
  Three Arrows Suite, HUNGER Drivers, Personalizations, Armament Redundancy```
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Like this? It seems to me you can make powerful use of zone control and it's unblockable damage

distant rover
#

how are you using Vanguard with no CQBs?

quaint quartz
rare vortex
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Oh shoot. The spear has threat but isn't cqb is it?

quaint quartz
#

Correct

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it's Melee/Nexus, no CQB

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very shocking to see someone sleeping on Ten Thousand Faces though

distant rover
#

it's not that shocking, the thing is 4 SP

quaint quartz
#

it's a free teleport and a one-off damage mitigation strat

tidal wadi
#

true, but the rakshasa’s base sp is also lower than average 😔

rare vortex
#

You gotta balance it somehow xD

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So then, thinking about it as a kind of assassin, using that Thousand faces to help dive enemies with executioner and spaceborn/centimane, would that help it with dealing damage?

distant rover
#

I think it would yeah

quaint quartz
#

Assassin isn't a bad way to think of it: the design is optimized around diving in, massive damage, and then hope the team can cut it a way out

quaint quartz
#

alright, artbook rough draft should be done

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when friday rolls around I'm pushing that down the e-mail list

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if anyone doesn't get it: LET ME KNOW

quaint quartz
#

Right! Artbook rough draft is out

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If you don't get it, PM ME.

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full text draft should be online by the 12th

tight nebula
#

Henlo

distant rover
#

Heyo

exotic venture
distant rover
#

What brings you around?

tight nebula
#

Was poking around Tabac's single mission module while doing research for my own

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Thought I'd drop in here as well because it looks neat

tight nebula
quaint quartz
#

Welcome to development hell then

tight nebula
#

Okay you and me both

quaint quartz
#

it is at this point we pass a hundred pages in the draft and my sanity continues to flee

worn epoch
quaint quartz
#

Nearly done

quaint quartz
#

okay this is frustrating as hell

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this entire damn week is a writeoff for getting shit done on the book

gaunt harbor
#

@distant rover hey, do we have an lcp for the Rakshasa

distant rover
#

Yep

lavish owl
#

i tried to get my teams hacker interested in it, but alas they did not find anything to latch on to sadcowboy

distant rover
lavish owl
#

it really did seem like perfect for what they said they'd like to do insofar as hacking and slashing

distant rover
#

ah, sho ga nai

gaunt harbor
#

Thank you!!!

quaint quartz
#

right yeah

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we're off to final review and then typeset

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hooooooooly shit it has been an adventure

worn epoch
#

Whoooo!

quaint quartz
#

first typeset version in review

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'ere we go

#

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PSFN2r6bXY

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We are also now on Twitter:
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As many of you have requested, here is our original composition of J.R....

▶ Play video
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@distant rover if you can't find me in an hour tell Shiro she can have my hard drives

distant rover
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I literally do not have her contact info you know

quaint quartz
#

you have her on discord

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she's in my server even

quaint quartz
#

...pdf finished

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we might ship today

quaint quartz
#

PDF NOT FINISHED PDF NOT FINISHED

quaint quartz
#

Kickstarter backers getting deliveries now. Full launch should go off tomorrow

vapid berry
#

The cover for this is 🔥

quaint quartz
#

I try

quaint quartz
sturdy quarry
warm quartz
#

I saw the Lancer News post on OoT - and bought immediately, though only at the basic level.

The bad news is I only realized I backed it on Kickstarter after I started reading the newly bought pdf....
at the "Full Release with Artbook PDF" Level.

This could be interesting when the KS backed links get sent out.

quaint quartz
topaz maple
#

Dumb question: would it be more accurate today this is a short story that ships with a setting primer and mission pack, or a setting primer and mission pack that ships with a short story?

quaint quartz
#

it is about 50/50 so whichever one you like more I guess

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okay 60/40 mission pack to story

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36/85 pages short story

topaz maple
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Gotcha, thanks!

distant rover
#

So what do folks think?

junior horizon
#

Ten thousand faces in pdf is 3SP
but in comp/con is 4sp
usodog

distant rover
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Feck

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Thought I fixed that

distant rover
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@quaint quartz please apply this to the itch page soon as yu get a chance

quaint quartz
quaint quartz
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and updated

drifting trench
#

I just want to say I would happily pay more to read about the continuing adventures of Ganesha and Pavo Real

quaint quartz
#

they come up in the next book some ish

lusty breach
#

Has the final release been pushed out on Kickstarter? I updated my email address but haven't gotten an email yet.

quaint quartz
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Yes; it's just KS has been a bit of a pain in the bollocks

quaint quartz
lusty breach
#

Backer 38

quaint quartz
#

...

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fucking hell

#

I think Kickstarter changed some of its backer systems

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words

#

cannot possibly express my dislike for Kickstarter

lusty breach
#

Appreciate you getting it sorted so quick

quaint quartz
#

that was half-luck, tbh; odds were I'd just pm you the link to the rewards drive

distant rover
#

We're now in the Community Content index! 🥳

spark pendant
#

Pog

marble fossil
#

readin thru this, is awesome Wiggle

#

can I ask is the bonus mission meant to be after the first mission?

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my players are interested in the hook

marble fossil
#

May I ask is there an official color scheme for the faction's mechs? Im gonna be making a whole lotta retrograde mini tokens to share here Nod

tawny sierra
#

I don't think the author is on the server anymore.

lucid lynx
#

Maybe @distant rover may know?

distant rover
#

Yes hi hello, sorry I've not been paying as much attention to this server as I should have.

distant rover
#

As far as color scheme goes, the quote unquote "official" color scheme for the Síva Resplendent units can be seen in the splash art at the top of the first mission. Yellow and black, white highlights, red energy colors. I'll also highlight in the same art the icon of that faction, which you can see on top of the Raleigh's hat, on the caliban's shoulder, and very small on the stock of the center soldier's gun; just in case that's also of use to you to know.

marble fossil
#

my party is excited to run, so I am curious and I wanna make some nice tokens

distant rover
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I wish you luck!

marble fossil
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mhm!

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gonna up the encounters with enhanced combat too!

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my players are really good so we starting at LL6 for a SUPER hard campaign

distant rover
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Lemme know how it goes, always interested in how people interact with the stuff once it's actually out

marble fossil
#

hmmmm so I should run the bonus mission first, then official mission? Or other way around?

distant rover
#

personally I'd run bonus mission first just for the lore reason that the bonus mission's driving impetus is "make them stop shooting all our stuff trying to land"

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and the main mission happens after you're on land

marble fossil
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got it

#

map making now

marble fossil
#

oh yuh for extra difficulty my players are starting off at LL6, any tips for upping the difficulty? Wiggle

distant rover
#

De-grunt some of the reinforcements in scene 1, generally either spice up or wholesale replace every instance of "sentinel" in there.

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OoT has a lot of baseline no-frills sentinels in there (because that's what the antagonists have a lot of), and they were consistently the least impactful units during playtesting

marble fossil
#

Got it

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Might spice some stuff up with the enhanced combat npcs too

distant rover
#

yeah those could be good

distant rover
#

outta curiosity @marble fossil , how'd your run go?

marble fossil
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Party too busy to play properly

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Reeee