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Post by Reen on Aug 23, 2010 0:06:09 GMT -5
Oh ya! WELCOME BACK DEAD SIDEKICK!!!!!*Glomps* ;D Hope the move went well and the new place works out
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Aug 23, 2010 10:12:14 GMT -5
glomp?
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Post by Reen on Aug 23, 2010 10:38:38 GMT -5
GLOMP: A hug/ tackle to the head, immediately followed up with a cheesy anime grin, as the person tackled is either: a)Agitated b)Furious c)Neutral Basically.... FEEL DA LOVE! (painful love at that )
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Post by Vendetta on Aug 23, 2010 12:16:59 GMT -5
I've been thinking about a few upgrades for Vendetta's armor and guns, so here is what I have thought of Armor modifications - Small Units Tactics AI: Tracks movements of hostiles, innocents and teammembers, predicting routes and actions with Remarkable ability (dangersense)Something like the Beetle's battle computer?I was thinking more along the lines of the voice that Deathlock argues with. but either version would be cool or maybe both - HUD with holographic tagetting crosshairs, map overlays, ammo counters, and range finders, as well as lowlight- and infrared-vision enhancement, as well as anti-glare (all three with Exellent ability)Going Batman, eh? It was already on my drawingboard before you posted batman but yeah I guess you could say that - Air filtration: filters out both biological, and chemical contaminentsa rebreather of some sort.soemthing like that - might even include a mechgill - 2 Ammo racks holding 4 spare clips each- Two way radioforgot to add a police scanner included in the radio Gun modifications - UV lasersights: mainly used for the rangefinder, UV was chosen because it is much harder to spotSolo's holographic sights on his sniper rifle negates moving target penalties. A UV scope would simply negate darkness penalties, whereas IR would eliminate darkness penalties and illuminate heat sources.You missed what I was going for - its just your basic laserpointer/rangefinder laser. Thats all all the targetting info is transmitted to the hud sights so no need for anything fancy on the guns. The reason i went for UV is that it is almost impossible to spot compared to the usual red laser. Also UV light disperses less in fog/rain making it a lot more reliable, because it is in the blue/green spectrum. - Smartgun Link: Hardware for the holographic crosshairsVery doable with real world tech.- Vibranium Barrels: for added sound suppressionYou all are gonna have to make nice with the Black Panther or the government of Wakanda. Shockwave is also very reliant on vibranium. There does happen to be an encounter with the Wakandans in the After Midnight module itself... - Biopattern recognizer: switches the safety on making the gun useless unless it is held by Vendettaprobably better going with an RFID tag chipset. Gun can't be fired unless it establishes a "handshake" signal with a chip worn by / embedded in Vendetta. As with all things tech, watch out for strong EM radiation or magnets.Sounds good to me just want the guns to bew very hard to use against Vendetta himself - Semi Auto/Bustfire mode: added damageDoable.- Extended Clips: adds 4 more rounds for a total of 10Doable.- APEx ammo: Armor Piercing Exploding bullets for heavily armored foesAP rounds impose -2CS to armor protections. Exploding rounds are awesome...- Zapper ammo: works like a taser stunning the opponent with nonlethal damageAs long as it's not a "mercy bullet." The Living Tribunal of my game universes past had an unspoken rule - It takes Beyond-level Reason and 8 to the 20th power x 500 trillion years to build a single "mercy bullet."
Bullets, merciful? Naaaahh Nah I'm thinking soemthing along the lines of an actual taser round - possibly with a trailing wire, unless Vendetta can figure out how to store enough power in the bullet itself. Would limit the amount of bullets in the mag because of the powercell - I think about 4 shots to the mag
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Aug 24, 2010 0:17:17 GMT -5
oooooooh!
Deathlok is one of my favorite B-list heroes!
That "voice" he argues with is the computer half of his brain. He's a full cyborg.
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Aug 24, 2010 0:20:11 GMT -5
GLOMP: A hug/ tackle to the head, immediately followed up with a cheesy anime grin, as the person tackled is either: a)Agitated b)Furious c)Neutral Basically.... FEEL DA LOVE! (painful love at that ) Oh, right on! As long as it doesn't involve body fluid transfer LOL
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Post by Vendetta on Aug 26, 2010 12:22:15 GMT -5
oooooooh! Deathlok is one of my favorite B-list heroes! That "voice" he argues with is the computer half of his brain. He's a full cyborg. Yes he does have a certain resemblance to Eddie ;D
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Aug 26, 2010 22:12:59 GMT -5
One of my first "online" MSHRPG campaigns (back in the days of dial-up) had me judging a player that was running Deathlok. It's where I developed my "robot-speak" running the NPC-half of Deathlok, his computer... and putting the computer's dialogue in brackets... [Target designate: Spider-Man is locked. Awaiting authorization of combat mode.]
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Post by Vendetta on Aug 27, 2010 12:01:02 GMT -5
oooooooh! Deathlok is one of my favorite B-list heroes! That "voice" he argues with is the computer half of his brain. He's a full cyborg. Yes he does have a certain resemblance to Eddie ;D dug out some reference pics yep there is definetely a family resemblance
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Aug 28, 2010 0:55:14 GMT -5
You may be on to something, Vendetta! I've head rumors of a Deathlok movie in the works. It better have a Maiden song on the soundtrack.
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Aug 29, 2010 0:17:10 GMT -5
what happened to the Prelude and Chapter One threads? Ack! I think they may have been accidently deleted...
anyway... I think we recently passed the birthday of Task's MSHG forum and the 1st anniversary of the Gang Wars campaign within it. Take a bow everybody!
With TasK's new game, I hope this universe just gets bigger in the future.
Thanks to all for making it possible.
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Post by Reen on Aug 29, 2010 1:07:24 GMT -5
Whohoo! 1st anniversary!!!!
Oh, and those went onto the second page. Or at least the Chapter One did.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2010 2:46:39 GMT -5
JDSK this group wouldnt of happened without you and task! You are a great DM, balanced, not being a rulenazi neither being a weakling, basivly fair but strict, something very hard to achieve as a ST/DM/GM (or whatever else you call it) I know I have DM-ed in my life too, and know its hard. I also like this group alot and I hope we will see many other aniverseries. Its no easy feat to keep an online RPG group interested and motivated (I know I tried twice to make my own but it ultimately failed) and its something everybody has to work on. I see character development, real roleplaying and kickass fighting simulation going on here, which is great! Im happy for the return of Task as Oldschool and other characters. I can see this group will grow and flourish, keep up the good work people!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2010 2:54:46 GMT -5
Oh and by the way, JDSK that Dethlok VS Ghost Rider comic cover looks really METAL > . I loved both characters back in the day alot, because they were very in the marvel spirit (very progressive superheroes).
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Aug 29, 2010 12:43:19 GMT -5
Oh and by the way, JDSK that Dethlok VS Ghost Rider comic cover looks really METAL > . I loved both characters back in the day alot, because they were very in the marvel spirit (very progressive superheroes). Talk about progressive... Deathlok is a cyborg weapon system from an alternate future time-travelled into the past where its original "brain" - Luther Manning, was killed. Michael Collins' mind brain was bonded to it against his will by unscrupulous scientists trying to study the cyborg. It was Spawn before Spawn in the level of "dead man empowered" genre stories. Terminator: Salvation before Terminator: Salvation (instead of Skynet or OMAC's Brother Eye, the original Deathlok had a link to a larger satellite surveillance network in his alternate, dark future) It was an awesome story arc. Nightmare had ensnared Michael Collins' mind in the Dream Dimension, and thusly his nightmare was being run as a simulation in Deathlok's battle computer's mind in the waking world, and it was drawing its levels of destructive inspiration from its memories and custom programming from its previous attached brain, that of Luther Manning, aka "Deathlok the Demolisher." Michael Collins' nightmare is... losing control of the pleasantly eager killing machine his brain is permanently attached to. It's classic "evil robot" sci fi. Enter Ghost Rider, seeing Deathlok going apenuts destroying everything in his path in the waking world, and sensing the stench of evil and the blood of innocents on Deathlok (from his machine half) naturally a battle ensued. Ghost Rider tore Deathlok up but it kept on counter-attacking until GR nearly destroyed it. His penance stare revealed the soul of an innocent, that of Collins' bonded to an evil machine and found a kinship with him from his own experiences of being bound to Zarathros. "This body has done despicable things..."Well, we learn Deathlok's body retains some of it's alternate future technology from Manning's reality (think a Jack Kirby-esque Marvel version of his original DC One Man Army Corps "OMAC") including a molecular rearranging "soldering iron" and Adamantium strips for making quick repairs on the battlefield. Who knows what else is tucked away as subroutines in that cyborg...
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