Core Event: Day 259 [open]

[bastionpc]

Who: NPCs and you!
Open: Open
When: Day 259
Where: Starting in the Bastion, and continuing on the Skyway
What: A Core has been spotted! And....another Core? What is this?!
Format: action
Warnings: none

Starters are in the individual threads within the post. Important threads will be linked here.

IMPORTANT LINKS:

Start of the event

Continuing on

important metaplot things

Boss fight!

Comments

[canismetallusfamiliaris]

[Erek hesitates only briefly before volunteering. He not only can't commit violence, he can't help strategize violence. He shouldn't put himself into any situation where he's increasing the likelihood of harm being inflicted. Even so.

With a glance at Tobias, who does know the limits of Erek's programming, he speaks up.]

I can't fight, but I don't tend to need protection. I'll go wherever I'd be most useful. I'm strong, fast, and good with technology and camouflage, for others as well as myself. I can stage distractions, but only if they aren't used to enable violence.

Having already agreed to abide by the plans chosen by consensus, I'm not sure the additional power is worth loss of life. We have so few here as it is. I'd tend to lean toward the more cautious plan unless the need for power is truly dire.

[notduchess]

[ That's actually a good thought. ]

What sort of camouflage? If we can stop something else from sensing the core, would that stop the monsters from rushing a group?

[canismetallusfamiliaris]

Visual camouflage; Colin can see through it, but most people and creatures can't. I can generate corresponding force fields, but they've never been tested at blocking or containing this sort of energy.

[notduchess]

It would help a lot, if it did.

If it didn't, you could provide cover for anyone too injured to fight. Make a monster think that its heading toward a wall, or something?

[twinked_witch]

In other words, it's extremely risky, to say the least. It might be a good route to go if it can be pulled and if the camoflauge works.

I wonder if you could generate a decoy field that would make them think the core was elsewhere, though?