003: On the Road to Aki

[joertexas]

Your character sheets have been updated, but I need a few more choices from some of you about General Enhancements. The same one may be chosen multiple times.

• Increase any characteristic by +2
• Take 4 skill levels in any non-psionic skill or divide them between any non-psionic skills
• Increase any a psionic skill already possessed by +2 or gain level 1 in any new psionic skill
• Increase any special ability the Traveller possesses by +2
• Change paths

Jaelah: Need one General Enhancement!
Garvin: Need three General Enhancements!
William: Need one General Enhancement!
Arkar: Need one General Enhancement!
Spicoli: Need three General Enhancements!

'Jaelah will increase her Strength.

[terrymixon]

Your character sheets have been updated, but I need a few more choices from some of you about General Enhancements. The same one may be chosen multiple times.

• Increase any characteristic by +2
• Take 4 skill levels in any non-psionic skill or divide them between any non-psionic skills
• Increase any a psionic skill already possessed by +2 or gain level 1 in any new psionic skill
• Increase any special ability the Traveller possesses by +2
• Change paths

Jaelah: Need one General Enhancement!
Garvin: Need three General Enhancements!
William: Need one General Enhancement!
Arkar: Need one General Enhancement!
Spicoli: Need three General Enhancements!

'Jaelah will increase her Strength.

Done.

[Tiglath]

Garvin: General Enhancements

Interpret +2 (because he is determined to be the grit (or the new ghost) in the Ancient's machine).
Int +2
Gain: Telepathy

[terrymixon]

Garvin: General Enhancements

Interpret +2 (because he is determined to be the grit (or the new ghost) in the Ancient's machine).
Int +2
Gain: Telepathy

Done!

[helvorn]

Your character sheets have been updated, but I need a few more choices from some of you about General Enhancements. The same one may be chosen multiple times.

• Increase any characteristic by +2
• Take 4 skill levels in any non-psionic skill or divide them between any non-psionic skills
• Increase any a psionic skill already possessed by +2 or gain level 1 in any new psionic skill
• Increase any special ability the Traveller possesses by +2
• Change paths

William: Need one General Enhancement!
Arkar: Need one General Enhancement!
Spicoli: Need three General Enhancements!

I would like to increase my psionic strength by two

[terrymixon]

Your character sheets have been updated, but I need a few more choices from some of you about General Enhancements. The same one may be chosen multiple times.

• Increase any characteristic by +2
• Take 4 skill levels in any non-psionic skill or divide them between any non-psionic skills
• Increase any a psionic skill already possessed by +2 or gain level 1 in any new psionic skill
• Increase any special ability the Traveller possesses by +2
• Change paths

William: Need one General Enhancement!
Arkar: Need one General Enhancement!
Spicoli: Need three General Enhancements!

I would like to increase my psionic strength by two

Done!

[terrymixon]

Your character sheets have been updated, but I need a few more choices from some of you about General Enhancements. The same one may be chosen multiple times.

• Increase any characteristic by +2
• Take 4 skill levels in any non-psionic skill or divide them between any non-psionic skills
• Increase any a psionic skill already possessed by +2 or gain level 1 in any new psionic skill
• Increase any special ability the Traveller possesses by +2
• Change paths

Arkar: Need one General Enhancement!
Spicoli: Need three General Enhancements!

[ateno]

Your character sheets have been updated, but I need a few more choices from some of you about General Enhancements. The same one may be chosen multiple times.

• Increase any characteristic by +2
• Take 4 skill levels in any non-psionic skill or divide them between any non-psionic skills
• Increase any a psionic skill already possessed by +2 or gain level 1 in any new psionic skill
• Increase any special ability the Traveller possesses by +2
• Change paths

Arkar: Need one General Enhancement!

I am so sorry I missed this entirely. So If I am correct, I can gain the psionic skill - teleportation? If not I will rethink.

[terrymixon]

Your character sheets have been updated, but I need a few more choices from some of you about General Enhancements. The same one may be chosen multiple times.

• Increase any characteristic by +2
• Take 4 skill levels in any non-psionic skill or divide them between any non-psionic skills
• Increase any a psionic skill already possessed by +2 or gain level 1 in any new psionic skill
• Increase any special ability the Traveller possesses by +2
• Change paths

Arkar: Need one General Enhancement!

I am so sorry I missed this entirely. So If I am correct, I can gain the psionic skill - teleportation? If not I will rethink.

You can do it. Done.

[helvorn]

I think getting teleportation or awareness might be best.

[terrymixon]

I think getting teleportation or awareness might be best.

So, not increase psionic strength by two like you said earlier? Can do. Pick one: teleportation or awareness.

[terrymixon]

I figure I better kick off the last bit in this thread to close up the events back in the Ancients city. Then I can lock this thread down and we can be permanently in the present.

Once you get back to the ship and have something to settle your stomachs, Metz will look around the room at you all. "That was both amazing and terrible. I suspect we now know more about the Ancients than anyone in Charted Space. And then that last thing happened. It felt like the other time the ancients got in our heads. It had to of been part of the uplift process. I'm glad it didn't last as long but it was a bit more intense this time. Strangely, when it was over, I felt like I had a much better grasp on science than I had before, and I am no slouch in such matters. I'm not talking just about cybernetics and robotics, but everything. Biology, archaeology, social sciences, everything. I can't begin to explain how that feels.

"And I know for a fact that something changed inside my mind. I feel like I could read thoughts if I only just tried. I'm not going to without somebody saying that I can, but I feel like I could. Something else that I got made part of the dream sequence that we all experienced a lot clearer and seems to have assisted me in interpreting what I saw. I have a very good memory and I'm going to be making copious notes. In fact, I believe we all should. Also, I feel like I might have a better grasp of Ancients devices. How to use them and understand what they are. It was like an awakening."

He sighed and shook his head. "It feels like we've taken our first steps down the road to a destination that we can never return from. We are forever changed from what we were, and I don't know what we're going to become. I'm not ashamed to say that that frightens me a little. I'd like to know what everyone else experienced, if you don't mind my asking. It's for science. Also, because I'm a nosy scientist that just wants to know."

Roscoe cleared his throat. "I felt that same kind of awakening and the dream vision that we had became clearer once that last bit of uplift kicked in. I feel like it has seared into my brain and I'm not going to forget any part of it. As I'm not completely human--though it's difficult to explain exactly how that works--I'll be able to play it back as a video file. I guess I should take a moment to explain what I meant by not being completely human. After that device awakened us back on the base, it changed my body so that I could switch seamlessly between being mechanical and biological. Whatever I chose. I have the same abilities in both forms even though that seems that they would be incompatible.

"It upgraded a number of my robotic systems to give me capabilities that I hadn't had before that I still need to explore in more detail, but it also told me that as we all step further along this pathway, the same kind of options will be available to each of you. It told me that there really wasn't a difference between mechanical and biological in the Ancients world. The beings that lived there might have started as something biological or mechanical but by the time they were finished, they were very much alike and had many of the same capabilities. As difficult as it is for me to accept what's happening to my own body, I would imagine that's going to be very troublesome to you.

"I also feel as if I could read minds, and I have a strange awareness of my own body and the feeling that I could change it in some ways. In addition, I too feel that I've managed to interpret the psionic dream we all experienced and can better manipulate Ancients devices, but in addition to that, I feel as if I could design rituals that would assist others in using their own powers or make the use of them stronger. That's something I'm going to have to experiment with, I suppose.

"What about the rest of you?"

[helvorn]

I think getting teleportation or awareness might be best.

So, not increase psionic strength by two like you said earlier? Can do. Pick one: teleportation or awareness.

Teleport

[terrymixon]

I think getting teleportation or awareness might be best.

So, not increase psionic strength by two like you said earlier? Can do. Pick one: teleportation or awareness.

Teleport

Done.

[Tiglath]

"What about the rest of you?"

Garvin replies "I think we're all very deeply in the brown".

(OOC: There's a thread closer! )

[terrymixon]

"What about the rest of you?"

Garvin replies "I think we're all very deeply in the brown".

(OOC: There's a thread closer! )

“Obviously. What I meant is, how did you change? What psionic goodies did you get?”

[ateno]

"I think teleport, I need to work on it."

Arkar attempts to teleport just a step to the right.

If he fails, "It appears I can only do it when no one is watching."

Arkar

[terrymixon]

"I think teleport, I need to work on it."

Arkar attempts to teleport just a step to the right.

If he fails, "It appears I can only do it when no one is watching."

Arkar

Give me a PSI+ Teleportation roll.

[ateno]

"I think teleport, I need to work on it."

Arkar attempts to teleport just a step to the right.

If he fails, "It appears I can only do it when no one is watching."

Arkar

Give me a PSI+ Teleportation roll.

T-port [2d6+1]=11+1=12

Woot!

[terrymixon]

"I think teleport, I need to work on it."

Arkar attempts to teleport just a step to the right.

If he fails, "It appears I can only do it when no one is watching."

Arkar

Give me a PSI+ Teleportation roll.

T-port [2d6+1]=11+1=12

Woot!

Success! And you even took your clothes with you. That cost 4 PSI.

You won’t start regenerating until you’ve been 3 hours without spending PSI. The ship is set up to help you regenerate faster, too. I don’t have the book in front of me so I’ll add that to this post later.