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| The Resurrection of Joyeuse; Many Worlds Necromancy Operation: Corpses for Tomorrow | |
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| nedben | May 23 2018, 04:41 AM Post #1 |
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You are Systematic Helpful Engagement Bureaucratic Analyst (SHEBA). You are a distributed collection of various souls, minds, subroutines, and intelligences acting as a candidate for the logistical expert database of the Unified Systems Association. In narrative terms, these individual routines and intelligences are mostly (but not entirely) you-the-playerbase-of-this-thread. (Though you are currently a distributed network of supercomputer facilities, your default avatar is, of course, Sheba from Golden Sun.)Your organization's task is to foil the resurrection of Joyeuse, goddess of normies, nurses, monsters, and some problematic stuff you do NOT want to know about, by the Old World Order (OWO). However, there are a number of interim tasks on the way you need to accomplish: while your supreme computing power and NPC routines can handle the day to day logistics of actually executing most of the stuff, the fun part will be making administrative calls in deciding what missions to send people on, and what ideas you can come up elsewise. As a game abstraction, you the playerbase will receive a Left Beyond style list of specific turn-to-turn missions (usually over the course of a month with some speedups to individual instances for decisionmaking), overall tasks, and, when Nedben will finally be arsed, a map of the situation. Some quick information tidbits I'll do some last minute editing later to offer the world. While I am preparing such, I will offer some questions to answer that will determine the map. First and foremost: Map & Genre Deciders |
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| AquaticIdealist | May 26 2018, 02:39 AM Post #2 |
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I really like this particular bit of game mechanics: "-Influence: how much you actually control of the region. Generally this operates on a 10 roughly point scale of (autonomous, your faction, enemy faction) and then any other factions, with outer regions only moderately controlled by the enemy tending to have more autonomy than enemy influence (i.e. 6,0,4) and more enemy-critical regions having more enemy influence than autonomy (i.e. 1,0,9 or 0,0,10)." As for the rest... "-Do we want to enter the 'war phase' where we drop all pretenses and are trying to kill the enemy with or without ceasefires as soon as we have more than the home territories on our side, save it for endgame, or have it be something that emerges organically when the players tire of working around enemy influence and decide to conquer?" At that point just open up Steam and start playing a video game <CENSORED>. Players would need to make up a consensus on setting details: Tech base (in general), extent of PVP etc. Otherwise pain ensues. .... People may wonder who I am. I am *not* just an alt account I swear! |
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| nedben | May 28 2018, 11:19 PM Post #3 |
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long post is long |
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| nedben | Jun 3 2018, 08:14 PM Post #4 |
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Round 1: January 2050 Images of Questionable Accuracy Resource Distribution You, SHEBA, have been activated, as well as your competing logistics-tactician, the Intelligence Vanguard Automated Network (IVAN) who has a different underlying theory and slightly different tactical considerations and hardware preferences (namely, preferring to operate as a singular mind for decisionmaking rather than a network body and some personality tidbits) but is fundamentally a similar advanced artificial intelligence, albeit slightly more specialized at the cost of being slightly inferior in certain raw comparisons. You are aware of the specifics: the playerbase does not need to be since it is mostly irrelevant. Hi.You are both rather sure the USA is full of Golden Sun fans, judging by the aestheticsmancer cabal's constituent personnel. Regardless, you two are competing to be SHEBA's logistics-tactician and head of matters as an artificial intelligence who can handle things far better than most mundanes. As a result, both of you have been given a smattering of personnel in order to accomplish what you see fit. The current governing body is the Field Analytics Reaction Arbitrator Network (FARAN) (alternatively titled GIYORGIS: Grand Internal Yeoman Operations Reaction General Intelligence System), a mix of artificial intelligences and smart people who are essentially testing whether you and IVAN are sufficient successors. If you make some marked progress in interfering with the revival of Joyeuse or the OWO world dominance, FARAN will award you leadership of the USA (and thus its personnel) and IVAN will become one of your assistant routines. The specifics are up in the air and/or protected against you for obvious reasons. Please decide this month's placement of your personnel. If you have any questions, ask and you shall be informed to the extent of the knowledgebase of yourself and the USA (which is mostly the quick summaries: several topics are not well understood and more research needs to be carried out). As usual, your calculations reveal a number of potentially useful MISSIONS that have already calculated the likely number of necessary personnel. Missions: # Do some regional research. Get in touch with some parties in [select a region here] and see about opportunities. (1 per region investigated) (If you have any specific suggestions like economic research for business starting or need more establishment of current conditions, include them for bonus detail.) # Contact the Infected Shellcores and bargain for various additional data on shellcore technology in hopes of understanding what exactly is up more than cursory history and bringing your materials knowledge up to par with the OWO. (1) (Currently, your knowledge of shellcorematter is enough to use existing shellcore materials to synthesize none parts in various useful configurations for use as inert structure, construct SIP drives, and currently there are inroads into how shellcorean computing and energy handling works. The OWO has a lesser/incomplete IMA on their side. This is a large research operation and this step is merely initiating necessary knowledge sharing procedures to get started.) # Get to work on reinforcing the necessary connections and liaisons and infrastructural whatnot for better contact with the Infected Remnant in addition to existing USA construction forces. This includes kickstarting construction on expanding the Tharsis Base the Infected built a long time ago. (2) # Talk with IVAN and assess his plans so you two don't get in the way of each other. (0) (0-cost missions usually mean they either take up the spare time of SHEBA's processors rather than that of entire cabals, or are a simple matter of talking to people on a small scale.) # Strategically begin working out the plans for a homeless shelter, temp agency, and some other labor-related or charitable organizations and start recruiting some POOR PEOPLE for the possibility of more cabals! (2) (est. monetary investment before progress roughly $20 million dollars). # Organize the database and begin looking in other databases for information on Joyeuse and the OWO in general, as well as the global anomalies widely suspected to be Joyeuse's fault or that of whatever messed up Shellcorea. (2) (Wow, the Association is a mess...) # Engage in constructing the necessary news analysis and sensor networks in order to predict enemy cabal and hero allocation, resource claims, influence use, etc., especially hero allocation because that's going to hurt the most. (4) # Research aestheticsmancy some more via existing aestheticsmancers and their records, in hopes of figuring out the standard learning techniques the OWO has mostly decided to clamp down on. (1) # Where is that guy, anyway? Look for the relevant OWO traitors. They've hid their tracks and could be in a number of places by now, but leads exist. (6) #ERRO You still need to decide how much more fanfiction we allow here. # Figure out what the fuck that was. (1) # Look into the inconsistent backstory of Mary Sakutaro and attempt to determine who the hell exactly she is. (3) # Attempt to discern the unidentified OWO personnel of importance, or line up all the stories for people other than Mary. (2 per backstory check, 2 per ID) If these logistical estimates seem unreasonably high, please recalculate (read: PM Nedben on Discord and ask wtf up). Edited by nedben, Jun 3 2018, 08:19 PM.
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| Gemeral | Jun 4 2018, 11:26 AM Post #5 |
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Shouldn’t SHEBA be getting help from the Federal Enterprises Logistics & Intelligence Experts (FELIX) or the Private Intercontinental Espionage & Recruitment Syndicate (PIERS) instead of IVAN of all people![]()
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| nedben | Jun 4 2018, 03:20 PM Post #6 |
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FELIX is currently under construction. PIERS is currently undergoing database construction and interpretation for AI serenity and optimal recruitment pool management.Both organizations will take an extended period and more staff to complete. However, they are not currently under your purview. You will need to wait until the faction is under your general command to directly commandeer them (i.e. get out of this tutorial phase). Regardless, construction of the Sensor Network and the Recruiting Poor People plans will help further their construction greatly, and to a lesser extent performing the database reorganization, figuring out what the fuck that was, and other information research tasks will make it easier on you in the future. Suggested cabal assignments? |
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| Gemeral | Jun 6 2018, 11:21 AM Post #7 |
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Exploration first, you have to know where everything is and how long it takes to get there. Perfect for planning out expansions, coordinating attacks, or making a speedy retreat when needed. |
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| nedben | Jun 6 2018, 08:39 PM Post #8 |
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Which territories would you like to explore for opportunities? (One cabal per territory explored.) Transport between or within any given area on the maps can occur within a matter of hours via shellcores or other vehicles equipped with SIP drives allowing for near lightspeed transit between defined points, so transit time is only an issue inside areas with lots of walls or no-fly-zones. Although the database is a mess, you can also request further information without wasting time if you need it before assigning cabals. Assignment? |
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| AquaticIdealist | Jun 9 2018, 08:25 PM Post #9 |
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Let it be known: The Cabal of the Holy Zionist Caliphate has been assembled! Base: Medina, in the Ottoman Province of Jordan. Additional strongholds in Jerusalem, Ankara, Tehran, Islamabad... Notable cell in Constantinople. Attempting to establish a cell in Rome. There is also a surprisingly large de facto stronghold in Sao Paulo. As the largest faction opposed to the OWO, due to its unwillingness to embrace Allah/Yahweh/Jesus, the Holy Zionist Caliphate insists on reshaping the world in God's image. Most of the Ottoman regime is in our hands, and much of Europe and sizable parts of the Asian and African Unions are in our sway! The Lord's light shall shine across the land, and heretics will burn! (OOC: Would the Abrahamic faiths have any foothold on Mars?) |
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| AquaticIdealist | Jun 10 2018, 03:28 PM Post #10 |
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Behold! The Cabal of the Roanapur World Triad has also emerged! Base: Roanapur, Stateless, On the Coast of Thailand Additional Strongholds: Former HQ of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Chongjin, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Yongon, Pusan, Jakarta. De Facto Strongholds in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Mogadishu The Triad claims that it is subservient to no one. In reality, it's part of an attempt by the OWO to consolidate the criminal underground into a handful of major organizations. This includes the Colombian Cartel and the like. The Triad itself is responsible for a long list of atrocities, and their units are probably best utilized for covert operations and 'debuffing' other Cabals through robbery, assassinations and the like. |
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(Though you are currently a distributed network of supercomputer facilities, your default avatar is, of course, Sheba from Golden Sun.)







Hi.
FELIX is currently under construction.
PIERS is currently undergoing database construction and interpretation for AI serenity and optimal recruitment pool management.
11:51 PM Jul 10