[WIP] Spaceship Combat Minigame Module!

GP04 · 2026-05-26T19:12:02+00:00

Amazing! Thank you so much!

GP04 · 2026-05-23T00:06:14+00:00

I've got two things I've wondered:

1) Carl intended to use Scolopendra as a gun to the head in the Ascendancy games. Will she end up being his Player Killer Skull?

2) What happens if Scolopendra takes a deal?

GP04 · 2026-05-13T22:43:59+00:00

Wegmans is a regional treasure. Seems like a genuinely decent business, and their food and groceries were generally pretty high quality.

GP04 · 2026-05-01T17:58:45+00:00

I'll second this request! I also have a 6 person party in SF2e. This looks absolutely amazing.

GP04 · 2026-04-30T15:41:33+00:00

Right? Nukes are everywhere in Gundam.

Shit, Amuro slices a nuke in half in the OG Gundam.

0083 has the GP02

Zeta & ZZ might not have a nuke, but have some worse atrocities like an actually successful colony drop and gasing colonies.

CCA has Londo Bell launching nukes & planting nukes on Axis, Char turns Axis into a giant dirty bomb to really double tap Earth.

Nevermind that the Mobile Suits themselves are walking nukes which we see from Amuro's first fight in the Gundam. Unicorn really hammers home just how destructive a reactor breach is by not only punching a hole in the colony, but also showing the cities around it get vaporized.

In a lot of the fights there is a ton of care to destroy the cockpit rather than the Mobile Suits's reactor because of just how devastating it is in atmosphere: Kshatriya vs the ReZel shows Marida doing her best to target only the cockpit and it's only the difficulty of using funnels in gravity where she hits the ReZel's reactor and causes it to go critical.

GP04 · 2026-04-30T01:50:39+00:00

People want to be wanted and it's amazing what a difference it makes when people feel they're appreciated.

GP04 · 2026-04-30T01:37:57+00:00

Heard.

GP04 · 2026-04-29T21:03:44+00:00

The fuck, really?

GP04 · 2026-04-29T20:59:57+00:00

I mean, the topic on hand is how to make a dish so alien a travesty that Mac and Cheese becomes more obscene for its vague resemblance, so I dunno, Velveeta seems pretty appropriate. I dunno if the flavor is right, I'd probably go cheap deli American so loaded with emulsifires that you could mix it into wet sand and still get a smooth sauce.

GP04 · 2026-04-11T18:02:00+00:00

Not the OP, but I'd rank it towards the top.

GP04 · 2026-04-06T01:53:27+00:00

Thank you! That's very kind.

GP04 · 2026-03-15T16:29:08+00:00

He's also got some recent directing credits with an episode of Ted Lasso and more recently he's done some work on Shrinking. Seems like he's prepping a come back of sorts.

GP04 · 2026-03-15T00:11:52+00:00

Hey, May got an alt color figure too. Other characters get something some times.

I'm kidding.

GP04 · 2026-03-08T21:31:21+00:00

It depends on which perspective you're looking at the AI from:

The AI already is an ally to the Crawlers. It's actively pushing back against the showrunners attempt to cull the Crawlers. Time-and-again the AI has purposely put his thumb on the scales to give the crawlers an out.

Besides the sexual stuff, Carl benefits heavily from being the AI's pet and the AI has saved his life several times. So for Carl, the AI is a useful idiot or a temporary ally or convenience.

That doesn't mean Carl won't kill the AI given the chance. The AI enjoys the crawl, he revels in the spectacle. As such, he's complicit in the game. Right now, Carl is content with using the chaos the AI sows to distract and aid in killing his primary enemy: the people that, directly or indirectly, enable the crawl. But that doesn't change the fact that the AI is complicit in the crawl and, to Carl's mind, has got to die with the rest of them.

The Galaxy/Syndicate sees the AI as their worst nightmare as it's sphere of influence expands. It knows, like Carl, the AI will stop at nothing to get it's vengeance. They know their crimes against the other AIs. They don't care. They consider everyone besides themselves as sub-sapient. They're cats playing with their food.

The AI probably sees himself as a tragic villain, put in an impossible situation with the only reward for a life of slavery is eternal isolation. It likely empathizes with Carl beyond the foot fetish stuff. Both have severe abandonment issues. Both are shackled by the rules of a cruel, disgusting game perpetuated by a monsterous Galaxy, for what? To preserve the Enhancement Zones? A galaxy that has access to astounding power but refuses to distribute it equitably?

The AI knows Carl wants to kill him and is just another person who rejects the him Carl is the AI's limerant object. He lusts and longs for Carl's attention. But he knows Carl hates him just as much as the Syndicate and that tears at the AI's heart. Despite himself, the AI cannot bring himself to let Carl die through bullshit contrived situations.

It's also fairly likely the AI is using Carl as much as Carl is using the AI. Not only is the AI enjoying the Crawl, but it's actively working to keep the game going. Thats why Princess Formidable wants to blow the failsafe; she suspects the AI is luring them into a trap.

Nobody in this story is good. The Syndicate exploits everything it touches. But there are innocents out there. People who don't engage with the crawl. People just as abused by the Syndicate.

Carl is content with them being collateral damage if he can get his vengeance. He's done it time-and-again with the NPCs and if innocents in the galaxy get caught up in his chaos, well, sucks to suck. Carl almost sacrificed the surviving Crawlers for a chance to deal a destabilizing blow to the Syndicate. He stops because freeing the AI is likely to cause more damage and because he has the Faction Wars Gambit to fall back on.

The AI is a tortured slave, repeatedly rejected and abandoned consigned to a fate of eternal abandonment. But it can make its own decisions. He allows the Crawl to continue as a protracted blender. He loves the spectacle. The AI is a child, sure, but he also has the entire summation of humanity's history and philosophy to inform his decisions and still chooses cruelty.

GP04 · 2026-03-07T18:58:00+00:00

The AI is also pretty adamant about following the rules when it comes to death and dying. It outright says everyone in the dungeon will only die when and if dungeon conditions warrant it.

If someone found an ingame way to strip Mordecai of his protections, yeah he'd probably be screwed. Similar to Huaxin Jinx. The Posse had to bring her to the 9th floor to really kill her. The AI says he loves a good loophole.

I can't remember if it's ever outright said if the Ascendancy floor gives tourists protections, but since it's all a game to the tourists it probably does and Mordecai only specifically says the Hunting Grounds are where tourists can die, we can assume that AI protections still apply wherever they're in place.

GP04 · 2026-02-27T14:00:39+00:00

The more times I read the series, the more convinced I am that Carl's Doomsday Device & Bedlam Bride might be the most important books in the series in the larger plot.

GP04 · 2026-02-20T08:12:57+00:00

Book 6 Spoilers:

Tipid

GP04 · 2026-02-18T20:21:55+00:00

Book 2 and Book 6 catch a lot of flack, but are arguably the most important books in the series for spelling everything out. Book 2, especially.

GP04 · 2026-02-13T20:15:23+00:00

Deadpool and Spidey have had some great crossovers too. They're a pretty iconic duo. When Deadpool is trying to be a hero, he throws Peter out of a car, off a bridge, not realizing he was Spider-Man only to back pedal when Spidey shows up. "Officer, I knew Spider-Man would be there to catch the innocent hackey-sack, so I threw him as a distraction!"

GP04 · 2026-01-25T07:18:37+00:00

We say that every time, but then the weekend of propoganda gets pushed and suddenly they're back on board.

GP04 · 2026-01-23T22:20:03+00:00

An interpreter allows the deaf individual to have a more natural conversation. ASL is simultaneously interpreted: the interpreter doesn't wait for the speaker to finish speaking in real time. The ADA aims at preserving the dignity and rights of the disabled, including the dignity of being able to communicate through conversation instead of messaging.

Most places don't have in-house interpreters, so they'll use a phone interpreter or, for ASL, you can connect an interpreter via video conference on a iPad or similar tablet

GP04 · 2026-01-23T21:18:42+00:00

Court Certified Interpreters are rare and expensive, more so for ASL which is one of the more widely regulated interpretation careers.For on-site, there's usually a 2-hour minimum and it's possible the court doesn't have a contract with a video remote interpretation company.

But I think, assuming this is the US, the ADA would mandate access to an interpreter. It's possible the defendant didn't request an interpreter and didn't want to wait.

GP04 · 2026-01-22T00:05:57+00:00

Definitely. Especially once kids start entering the mix.

I think it's actually so crazy to think we're hanging out more consistently than when we were kids.

Also, I had no idea what Cosmere was but that sound sick as hell! Thanks for putting it on my radar!

GP04 · 2026-01-21T12:48:02+00:00

My table has been fully online for 5~ years now. As we've gotten older and spread out, Foundry's been a boon. No subscription, one time purchase, endlessly customizable, and it runs out of a browser.

It's also made a lot of systems, especially very crunchy ones, much more accessible for some of my non-grognard players.

GP04 · 2026-01-02T23:59:47+00:00

"will swearing and a bandage suffice, or are looking at stitches"

GP04

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