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Sociotard

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  1. Exciting night in Moore County, North Carolina. Several electrical substations were 'vandalized' leaving a whole lot of people in the dark.

     

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/04/us/power-outage-moore-county-criminal-investigation/index.html

     

    https://www.wral.com/moore-county-authorities-investigate-social-posts-claiming-knowledge-of-moore-county-blackout/20612783/

     

    Emily Grace Rainey, a former U.S. Army psychological operations officer, made several posts about it on social media, even saying in one post: “The power is out in Moore County and I know why."

     

    Rainey posted that she told deputies, "God works in mysterious ways ... I used the opportunity to tell them about the immoral drag show and the blasphemies screamed by its supporters.” 

     

    After the power went out, Rainey posted a picture of the marquee where the drag show was scheduled to take place, claiming that God was "chastising Moore County."

  2. I have a Chi expert. I'd like to replicate the Tai Lung paralysis from Kung Fu Panda. (except my chi expert is an energy projector, so it'll have Range and a blast special effect)

     

    I don't want BOECV because the character should use normal OCV to blast the target and the target should use normal DCV to avoid getting hit. Can I just use the advantages "takes no damage from normal attacks" and "works against EGO not STR" to get Mental Paralysis?

     

    Related question: It'd be nice to allow skill-based attacks against the entangle. Yes, BOECV attacks should be able to attack the entangle as normal, but so should Professional Skill: Acupuncture, or maybe even Power Tricks: Chi Powers or Paramedics. Maybe make the roll, 11-, each point by which the character makes the roll does 1d6 against the entangle. Or maybe make the roll, 11- modified by the DEF of the Entangle, Success means the character subtracts their REC directly from the BODY of the Entangle, no further rolling or DEF considered. Has anyone done a mechanic like this?

     

    One more question, EGO instead of STR is a +1/4 advantage. What would BODY instead of STR be (if I decide that BODY is a better measure of Chi as the body's vital force)? My guess is still +1/4.

     

    What would (Lower of EGO or BODY) instead of STR be (if I decide that people can only harness as much vital force as they have will to do so)? My guess is +3/4.

  3. On 7/17/2022 at 8:32 PM, assault said:

    That would be awesome, but no AI would know who Seeker was.

    Apart from Mechanon.

    In that case, "Seeker in the style of Mechanon" would be highly appropriate, although lots of red would be used.

    They don't know Seeker, but they can understand acrobatic blond man with no shirt, loose pants with cuffed ankles, red belt and red sash, the sash is covered in shuriken and the man is weilding Kung Fu weapons.

     

    Well, sort of. I only just started trying this as a challenge.

     

    Sociotard_comicbookdrawing_of_an_acrobat

  4. Ukraine and Russia are accusing each other of preparing to pop a dirty bomb in a false flag operation. This article specifies preparations the Russians are taking to fight in a radioactive environment.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-says-its-forces-are-preparing-work-under-radioactive-contamination-2022-10-24/

    (That didn't work well in Chernobyl, and I don't trust radiation preparedness to the army that tells conscripts to go buy tampons for first aid)

     

    I wonder how it could be proved who set up a dirty bomb?

  5. On 9/21/2022 at 1:29 PM, Old Man said:

     

    So whatever percentage of those reservists that don't flee Russia or literally cripple themselves to get out of serving, will be handed some museum piece weapon and put on a one way train to Ukraine to sit in a trench and wait to be killed

     

    On 9/21/2022 at 11:08 PM, Lord Liaden said:

     

    Many Russian weapons and vehicles are old, and have frequently shown the wear that comes from years of inadequate storage and maintenance in the country's harsh climate.

     

    I am compelled to acknowledge you are probably right.

     

     

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