You are Alex Murphy, a 250 year old robot who can think, and the voice of your creator is inside your head.Last episode, we went on a date with Jane, had a one-sided chat with a Maneract Microsquid, and killed(?) the Conductor.Previous Threads:http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Prototype%20QuestPART 5 IS INCOMPLETE ON SUPTG. GO TO http://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/20032214 FOR THE FULL PART 5.
StatsIntellect: +++Defense: +Offense: +Speed: +AbilitiesRevolver User lv 3: Above average skill with revolver type weaponry.Fist User lv 2: Average skill with fists and fist weaponry.Knife User lv 1: Basic skill with knife weaponryImproved Sonar Ping lv 1: Detect objects within an okay radius around you using weak sonar. 5% Energy/useFeedback Pulse lv 3: Create a stunning whine of feedback that dazes nearby organic units. 7% Energy/useEnhanced Scan Unit lv 2: Passively gain information about units near you such as weak points and classifications. Detects weak points relatively quickly.Track Noise lv 2: Tracks the location and direction of noises better than normal.ItemsRevolver (+belt of bullets (20)): +++Damage, +Intimidate, --SpeedSheriff's Duster: +Charm, +CommandTattered Hat: +CharmScrap Gauntlet: ++Damage, +CommandLeather Satchel: Used ItemLighter: Used ItemPhone: Used ItemBatteries: Misc ItemAllies:Delia ?Pete ?Willie ConstaiceParty:Alex MurphyRatmuleRexWillie Constaice
UPGRADE CHOICE (choose three, can only upgrade a single choice twice)Upgrade StatORUpgrade StatORUpgrade StatORUpgrade AbilityORUpgrade AbilityOREvolve Ability (uses up two choices, alters an ability into a different and vastly more powerful form. Evolved abilities cannot be upgraded in the same upgrade)ABILITY CHOICEHeat Core lv 1: Passively causes your fist attacks to grant you +Speed for your next action. If next action is another fist attack, the +Speed bonus does not run out and stacks (up to 4 times).Firestarter lv 1: Allows you to create and expel small fires from your palms. 15% Energy/Use.You have 30 minutes to deliberate, or whenever you stop deliberating for a bit of time.
Evolve Scan, Upgrade Sonar, Firestarter.
>>20103213evolve fist!, learn heat corethink about it we're always melee
>>20103213seconded
>>20103191Upgrade offense and speed and evolve our sonic screech thing.Also, We must take Jane on another date in order to celebrate our victory.
>>20103272Evolving takes up two choices, so you could only upgrade one stat.
Evolve the fire starter or feedback if we can't do fire starterUpgrade offenseFire starter
>>20103251Thirded
>>20103162hmmm doesn't our gauntlet have that fire thing built into it now? should we rename it and definitely track that ability
>>20103351Firestarter is a weak flamethrower. The fire hand is just a fist that burns you when your punchedEvolve feedbackUpgrade offenseFirestarter
rolled 89, 22, 56, 27 = 194deliberation over.rolling Evolve Scan vs Evolve Feedback, also rolling Upgrade Offense vs Upgrade Sonar.
ABILITY EVOLVE!Instant Scan lv 3: Instantly scan the current target, revealing all of their stats and all but 2 abilities. 15% Energy/UseArea Scan lv 3: Instantly scan all targets near you, revealing all of their stats and one of their abilities. 15% Energy/UsePrecise Scan lv 3: Instantly scan the current target, revealing all of their stats and weak points. 15% Energy/Use.30 minutes to deliberate
rolled 77, 4 = 81Evolve feedback Upgrade offense
>>20103519Seconding this one, feedback is too useful.
>>20103548>>20103519You're a bit late, sorry.
Also, don't worry. We pretty much just finished the intro. You're going to get the chance to evolve more abilities.
>>20103570Oh, ok.>>20103507Also I assume you want us to choose one?If so, I vote for area scan
>>20103589Yes, choose one.
precise scan
>>20103507Precise scan, it's pretty much instant scan but better.
>>20103640i wouldn't nessicarily say that, it doesn't show abilities which could dick us. BUUUUT, if we manage to shove some tnt in his weak point then it doesn't matter what his abilities are since he's splattered on the walls
ABILITY GAINEDPrecise Scan lv 3You wake up in your bed, internal clock telling you it's a day from yesterday, at 9:00 in the morning. You haven't forgot about your meeting with Maneract.>ACTION?
Welp, let's go to our coffin.
You get up, pet Rex, say farewell to Willie for a short bit, and take off. You mount your Ratmule and head off into the sands.After about 7 hours or so of riding, you pass by Cropfield, and then you go south to find a single tree and a hole in the ground, and 3 figures near the tree.>ACTION?
>>20104627Approach the figures and find out what's up.
>>20104664This, also normal scan them.
You approach the figures. There is, as in your dream, one in a heavy suit of armor, another wearing a get-up that makes him look like an old gangster, and another wearing simply a long and tattered red cloak. The one in the middle wearing the cloak steps up and introduces himself. "You may call me Maneract Microsquid. This," He gestures to the one in the armor, "Is Shroud Coppercircuit. And this," He then gestures to the one in the gangster suit, "Is Radical Larry."You then notice the color of their singular eye cameras. Maneract's is a very bright yellow, Shroud's is a deep green, and Radical Larry's is a light blue, as opposed to your bright red.>ACTION?
>>20105034Would Radical Larry happen to have the ability to vibrate through objects?
>>20105034Hi there you three. I'm guessing we're brothers, or as close as we can get to them.Why did you call me out here?
>>20105034oh man, radical larry.... dat name... i may have to make a character called that.introduce ourselves and find out why we were summoned,
Yesss*steeple fingers* finally some minions.
>>20105100"Simply a meeting of brothers. I was awakened 5 years ago, Shroud 4, and Larry 2. You are the last and first of us, and you are the completed one, so to speak. The robots that sparked the war after our creator died dug you up and made three copies, those were us, but the humans disabled us and you and buried us together. I simply wished to meet you, the original, and brought the rest of us together." Maneract explains.>ACTION?
Make them our minions!
>>20105257Well it's lovely to meet all of you.I haven't seen that much of the world, just two towns and an awful lot of wormhosts. Do you know anything more about them?You already know what I've been doing in the short time I've been alive. Could you tell me a bit about what you three have been up to?Could you give me a brief summary of what's going on in the world around us? What factions are fighting over what?
>>20105307"No. They seem to be a problem confined to your area. I've been scouring the wastes for artifacts, Larry is a gambling gangster of much renown, and Shroud sells his services as a bodyguard. There isn't a whole lot going on in the desert. Life goes on." Maneract explains.>ACTOIN?
>>20105609Well, they were rather nasty. Maybe I killed the source of them.So how similar are we in this whole Artificial Intelligence thing? All of you evolve, grow and change with time as well, right?What do you know about the war? I kinda slept through it and I haven't gotten much more than rumor and hearsay about it.
>>20105051I would very much like to second this question.
>>20105679yeah seriously, like if they aren't complete, how and would they like to be?what's their reason for 'living' now
>>20105679"Yes. We are exact copies of you. My purpose in life is to simply live, and I know that Mr. Larry is to get money. Shroud's purpose according to him is to protect the innocent. How noble.">ACTION?
>>20105755then how am i the completed one, i don't understand
>>20105755How noble indeed.What can you tell me about the war? I really haven't found out much about it, and it seems like the sort of thing to know about.
"We know about as much as you, which is to say, not much." Maneract says. He ducks around the other question.>ACTION?
>>20106231That's lovely. What are the major factions around here nowadays? I'd like to know who to be careful of and who is connected to who.
>>20106391"Basically, it's the cityfolk, the Enforcers, and the assorted bands of bandits." Maneract says quite plainly.>ACTION?
>>20106651I'll keep that in mind.So this whole changing, improving and evolving thing we have. Could you tell me your experiences with it?
>>20106685"No." Maneract says. He seems to be doing an awful lot of speaking.>ACTION?
>>20106770Well, okay. So Radical Larry and Shroud Coppercircuit right? You haven't been talking much. Do any of you have any questions for me? Also we should probably exchange phone numbers, we're the closest thing we have to family.
>>20106827Shroud and Larry both say no. Shroud's voice is much deeper than yours in a soothing bass, while Larry's is droning and somewhat high-pitched.You agree to exchange phone numbers. Maneract says "We'll keep in touch, Alex Murphy." and walks to the south. Shroud, to the west, and Larry, to the east.>ACTION?
>>20107007Head back to New Scotsdale, it was nice to meet some family.
>>20107065You feed your Ratmule two apples that you brought with you and ride back to New Scotsdale. Nothing eventful happens on the ride there, but you do think that you catch a glimpse of The Conductor behind you as you leave where you woke up. He's smiling, and his suit is covered in dirt, and then he disappears. You must be hallucinating.You arrive back in New Scotsdale another 7 hours later. It's midnight.>ACTION?
>>20107177Visit Jane, she could still be up working on something and she might have been worried about us.
is there any way we could create a worm detector by retro-engineering our scanners?
>>20107230also is there an IRC for this and can i have a link?
>>20107238It's #prototypequest on server MagicStar. I use mibbit so I don't have a link, sorry.
You have a gut feeling that the rest of the worms left with The Conductor, whose state of living is being disputed in your mind. You decide to visit jane, but as you approach the store, the big neon lights are off, so you assume she's asleep.>ACTION?
Go to sleep. See if we can induce a dream.
You go back to your base of operations and lie in your bed, going into sleep mode.You do indeed manage to induce a dream. You (dream)awaken in a coffin. A very, very, very large coffin with more than enough room to move.>ACTION?
look around what light sources are there, what are the dimentions of the coffin, try to pry the lid off , are there any items in the coffin with us
>>20108394The lid is far too high up. The coffin is about the size of a large house. There's nothing in the coffin, and light seems to emanate from the walls.>ACTION?
can we climb the walls?, is our robo strength enough to make our own footholds? what is the stat of our inventory? can we %dream magic% our way out?
>>20108448No, no, there is nothing in there, and probably.
attempt to fly? try to make the room smaller?
>>20108505You attempt to make the coffin smaller and do so, to where you can easily push on the lid. You push it off and step out of the coffin. You are surrounded in dirt.(And that will be it for this thread for tonight, ladies and gentlemen. Sorry for ending early, remember to keep this bumped every couple of hours. Good night, /tg/.)
sure, have a nice sleep
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>>20108594(and i'm back. Let us continue, ladies and elegan/tg/entlemen.)
>>20115065awww yeah, lets do this!
>>20115073(well? Are you going to do anything?)
Dig through the dirt, see if we can get out of it.
>>20115073>>20115610>>20115871yeah actually this, lol sorry thought i typed a command and i left for a bit. orshorm firm,
You digAnd digAnd digAnd you arrive in a very large expanse of plains, standing next to a colossal tree.>ACTION?
Not finding any instruction from your mental conversations, you decide to scale the tree. You climb and climb and climb for what seems like hours, until you reach a single scrap of paper hanging off a branch at the very top. You grab the piece of paper as you fall off the tree.(cont.)
>MEMORY FILES ACCESSING>BEGIN MIND LINK>...>ACCESS GRANTED>WELCOME(go to this thread)>>20119056
rolled 14 = 14bump
You awake in your bed, somewhat baffled at what you just witnessed. It seems you had just accessed Father's memories. But from what happened in the very end... Does that mean you aren't a true AI?You mull this to yourself at around 3:00 in the morning, doing your best not to wake up anyone.Doc has some explaining to do.
>>20121395Ask father to do some 'splainin.
>>20121436"Father.""Yes?""You have some explaining to do." You say. "I just witnessed the last moments of your life in my dream. The part about the end. About me being your dead son. Tell me, what does that mean? And don't lie to me!"Doc sighs. "In the 2090's, there was a massive war between the US and China. I was young at the time. I was a soldier, fresh out of MIT with no combat experience, and so I was instead assigned to keep their machines in perfect condition. My wife was a medic. We got back from the war pretty beat up and we had a child. Then we had found out that my wife had an incredibly rare genetic defect that she was unaware about, but it was okay, the chances of my kid inheriting it were staggeringly low! How much of a fool I was at the time. My wife died during childbirth and my son died at the age of 18. In his dying moments, I had transferred his mind into a data disk, and I knew I must have brought him back somehow. I waited until I had the perfect opportunity. You are not a learning AI. You are half my son, half computer program. Welcome back, James. I missed you." Doc exposits.Your mind is reeling from all this sudden information. You have no idea what to do about it.>ACTION?
>>20121532No use sulking like a generic protagonist, now is there?Ask father if he can unlock the memories though.
>>20121676"I can... but I fear the consequences. Are you 100% sure you want to know about life as it used to be when you were a human?" Doc asks.
>>20121930We aren't exactly fully robot either. Info Get.
>>20121966You can almost hear Doc solemnly nod as about half of your encrypted files lose their encryption and fall apart.A storm, a veritable hurricane of moments come flooding back. You as a child, grasping your father's large finger. Elementary school, where you were rejected as an outcast. High school, where you found the love of your life, one miss Alyssa Parker. Your favorite summer camp, where you eventually got a job as a kitchen aide. You hated the job and it had shitty pay but you enjoyed being around the campers so much. You losing your virginity. Your graduation ceremony at high school. The summer in which you became very sick. You lying on the hospital bed as you faded into death. Almost dead, you recall your father crying as he pulled out a wire from his pocket. Your eyes shut for the last time.You remember all the little moments in between as well. The little joys and sorrows, the fine feeling of winning and the bittersweet taste of defeats. It all comes flooding back.You collapse and stare at the ceiling.>ACTION?
Our last name was Constaice. We must talk to Willie in the morning.Also the love of our life's last name was Parker. We must also talk to Graves in the morning.
You decide to sleep on it and talk to Willie in the morning.You wake up at 8:00 AM, just as Willie is walking out of the house to begin gambling for the day. You quickly catch up to him and prepare to ask him the question."Willie. I just opened up my memories. The person inside my head is Mitchell Constaice, and I am James Constaice. Or I was before I was uploaded into a machine shell. Your last name is Constaice. Care to explain?"Willie glares at you.>ACTION?
Press him.
>>20122729Seconded
>>20122729>>20122781"Don't hide anything from me, Willie. I can know. You can trust me." You say. Willie whips around and punches you in the face. He grabs you and holds you down with frankly ludicrous strength."Alex... James... Whoever you are. I don't know how you acquired information about who you are. But now that I know and the gnawing suspicion in my head is now a certainty. I'm the great-great-grandson of Mitchell Constaice. You're genetically my... I don't even know, you're a fucking robot. Let's call you my brother. And all this time I've been looking for a link into my past, to find out about why my great-great-grandfather just suddenly appeared in government records. Did you have a son, Alex? Your memories, what are they telling you! Did you have a son!?" Willie asks, his voice growing somewhat desperate. You are slightly confused as to why."No." You say. As far as you can remember, you didn't have a son. You would know.>ACTION?
>>20122857trip fucked up
>>20122905calm his shit
>>20122857"I shouldn't have a son, I died when I was 18 and unless my girlfriend was pregnant when I died."
>>20122925Seconded
>>20122925>>20122951>>20122972"I shouldn't have a son, I died when I was 18 and unless my girlfriend was pregnant when I died." You say, patting Willie on the back as you push him off. He stands up as you do, saying "Sorry for punching you. I just don't know what to feel right now." You ask Doc if you had a son some time near when you died. He replies in the negative.But then you hear him gasp, and you feel him thinking. He inserts an awful idea in your head."Willie. What if the Mitchell Constaice you think is your great-whatever is a clone of the original?" You say, suddenly at a loss for control of your sound generator. Willie looks up at you with a face of indescribable expression. But you think it's bad.>ACTION?
Berate Doc for putting that idea in your head.
>>20123206"It's the only thing that makes sense." Doc says inwardly. "I know for certain you didn't have a child, I kept tabs on every relationship you had like a good overprotective father. And I didn't have another son, and couldn't have after uploading my brain, after all, I saw my own corpse. Someone must've cloned me and that child grew up to be another Mitchell Constaice, who then became Willie's great-whatever it is. Otherwise, it doesn't make any sense. But who would do that?" You also say at the same time as Doc thinks it to himself, so Willie can understand your thought process.Willie's confused look becomes a look of clarity and disgust. "The Conductor." Willie says. "He's been around the block more than a couple of times. He told me my ancestry, after all. I think he'd be the type of person who would do that. just for the sake of science." Willie brainstorms.You and Father once again speak in synchronization. "Benjamin Crowe...">ACTION?
wait what?the conductor told willie what?let's go back over that statement
>>20123566"As I'm sure you're aware from when The Conductor was speaking to us, he mentioned we were old acquaintances. You might be able to say that. I used to work under him around 5 years ago, near the same time that the worms resurfaced. I went out killing for him in particular. Assassinating business rivals. He paid me in information about my past and the people I was interested in, in addition to learning the tricks of the trade. It's a chapter of my life I'd... rather not remember." Willie explains.>ACTION?
that's nice.we should leave this conversation and go talk to graves now.
>>20124247(I do believe it is time for me to take my leave tonight. You were a great audience today, fa/tg/uys, and you didn't complain all too hard when I stepped out of my comfort zone and tried something different. While I'm out, could you give me some feedback on the memory sequence? What did you like? What didn't you like? Would you like to see more? Etc.)(remember to bump every couple of hours)
>>20124341sure thing openjoy your sleep
>>20124341I liked this memory sequence. Good to go back to go forward.
>>20124247You leave your base of operations and go to Jane's, but not for Jane. Instead you're here to talk to Graves. He looks up at you as you walk in. "She's in the back," Graves says, but you wave him away."Graves. Do you have an ancestor named Alyssa?"He replies "Yeah. How'd you guess?">ACTION?
Explain the situation to him.
(alright ca/tg/irls and fa/tg/uys, I am very very sad and sorrow to announce that due to recent familial hospital shit, I won't be able to continue running prototype quest for the time being. I'll return in a couple of weeks time, guaranteed, but right now it will have to wait. Again, I'm quite sorry for dropping this all on your head so suddenly but it happened almost as suddenly to me. I wish you all good day and good luck in the rest of your endeavors.)
>>20130534i'm sorry to hear that, i hope thing turn out for the best
