Player Plots

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Player Plots

Player plots are plots that have a large enough reach to require some sort of sign up, or would be difficult for those not directly involved to ignore, or need some sort of NPC/mod involvement.

Examples of player plots include:

Actions that would negatively affect 4-or-more PCs.

Death of a PC.

Death of a named NPC.

Death of more than 1 unnamed NPC at the same time.

Significant property damage.

A PC gaining powers as a result of aligning with a patron Entity.

Anything that could potentially expose the supernatural to the wider world.

Please submit player plots at least a week or two in advance of when you'd like to run it. In the event something happens suddenly that would escalate to a player plot, please let us know as soon as possible.

<b>Player Name(s)</b>: <b>Character(s) Involved</b>: <b>Dates</b>: When you would like to run the plot. <b>Plot Type</b>: PERSONAL, PAIR, GROUP <b>Plot Summary</b>: Please let us know what you're doing! <b>Questions</b>: Do you have any specific questions for us?

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[apocalypsehowmods]

With the help she's already garnered, ADI would be willing to pick up the bill (with the aid of an interested benefactor). Cortana, and those helping to design the body, will find the resources they need made available while the time and expertise will largely be hers to provide. Any upkeep or additional upgrades needed going forward will have to be saved up for by Cortana unless a good argument for it can be made.

As for powering the body, something like a plug or docking station would work fine in the place of traditional needs and would be part of the resources available for the project.

[failedpromise]

Thinking about a three month timeline structured something like this, if that's alright:

Month 1 - These two months will mostly consist of testing Cortana's ideas, planning, gathering resources, and soliciting assistance.

She'll be doing a lot of 'joyriding' in various less advanced robotic bodies modified to host her. Basically a series of practice runs where she gets used to operating a robotic body and also tests the extent of the Eye's influence. She'll be forking over the money for these herself (she doesn't have human needs and hasn't bought much, so she can probably afford to burn some cash) and modifying them herself, so they won't be anything super expensive (no Boston Dynamics type shit, for instance), but a roomba and a small modular robot capable of multiple configurations ought to be obtainable.

She'll also be learning what she can about available technologies and working out what human capabilities she can keep. She'd like her eventual robot body to look at least somewhat human/like her avatar, but even more important are object manipulation and sensory capabilities-she doesn't want to go back to being cut off from the physical world, unable to even touch her friends and show them affection. Also, she really likes being able to feel and smell. This will be heavily emphasized to those working on the project-she doesn't need to be exactly like a human, but please don't take this away from her.

Months 2, 3 - After she's got the materials and expertise and design ideas all sorted out, actual work on constructing the robot will begin. Starting with just planning and building, Cortana will eventually move to testing components, limbs, and eventually incomplete but functional versions of the body itself. She'll be wanting to put the body through rigorous testing for everything from its reaction times, to sensory capabilities, to how it functions in different environments, to strength, to its range of movement. She may enlist friends to play games and do activities that require high levels of movement or coordination with her.

It's about this time that she'll start to notice that anything she can do that counts as an inhuman ability seems to be sustaining her connection to the eye. She'll start working on removing those capabilities and restricting what she can do. It'll start with the obvious add ons and eventually progress until she finally puts processing limitors on her software to make her function at more human timescales.

[apocalypsehowmods]

Apologies for the delay, this all looks great!

Cortana will find those ADI staff who are qualified to help her are very interested in doing so. She'll have some support through the various stages of testing as well as helping her to learn whatever she might need to know for what technology is available. They'll be happy to tell her there is touch-sensory technoloy that allows touch receptors in the fingerpads of her perspective new body as well as scent-receptory technology that will allow her to identify and pick out smells, though how much is in her head or not is a topic of debate.

For the later testing stages, the training grounds and some on-site tests will be available to her as well as any others she wants to enlist friends for! Actual fieldwork she will be encouraged to take slowly until she's certain she (and her prospective partner) aren't likely to run into any avoidable bugs in the system while dealing with threats.

Please let us know of any other questions or concerns that come up!

[failedpromise]

(I actually did a bit of research on touch sensitive robotics a while back it's pretty neat.)

Cortana will want to have feeling in more than just her fingers (she wants to try for full feeling in any area that's supposed to be sensitive in humans + a general sense that can like, at least let her pick up the pressure when she's being hugged), is she gonna have an issue with getting the money/materials for something like that?

[apocalypsehowmods]

It would be possible to get the equipment/materials for pressure-sensing and possibly temperature sensing for the rest of her, particularly as that will help with her navigating the world and not damaging her new body. The tech for things more advanced than those items just doesn't exist on a large-scale, yet, and would be prohibitively expensive, even for the resources that ADI is drawing on.

[failedpromise]

Makes sense. Giving up even a part of her ability to feel things would be huge for her so that actually works out really well.