If you were an Alien Intelligence of sorts.. ?
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:01 am
Ok here's the scenario, having passed through a Rift, your mind is swapped with that of an alien intelligence through a transdimensional accident, just when he happened to be looking into an enchanted mirror or something..
I rolled up one from Dark Conversions, so you have the following abilities:
IQ 24
MA 23
ME 22
PS 42
PP 27
PE 24
PB 20
Spd 70, fly 270 (whatever special effects you like, no damage auras or suchlike)
MDC 70,000; bioregen 1d6x10 MDC/melee, including limbs and you'll be reborn in 48 hrs, unless you or someone else magically potent enough (e.g. fellow God or AI), discovers the ritual or method for ending your existence (basically you get one or two freebies if you **** off the wrong 'people') - the method could include being impaled with a soul drinker for example..
Assuming you're level 12 in magic/psionics. Your skills are as they are this minute, with the potential to grow. You're level 1 as far as skills, but they don't add to your physical traits, sorry.
Awe factor/HF 17
Alignment - whatever you consider yourself to be now - evil however will show up for people with sense supernatural evil psionic and similar powers. Of course you show up on See Aura and dog boy/psi stalker radars..
Your innate abilities are as follows:
Constitutional - You don't eat, breathe or drink unless you remember to nor do you excrete when you do, which is mildly curious. You're impervious to possession, disease, drugs/poison, mind control, fatigue, charm or hypnotic suggestion.
Sensory - Nightvision 800m (assuming total darkness which is what it used to be, however counterintuitive that is), see invisible.
Utility - Possess animals only (SDC animals, but you're simply expelled from their bodies at a distance of up to 200m in a direction of your choice, should they die due to misadventure, rematerialising at the location you choose in that radius). You can metamorph into any humanoid or animal for an unlimited duration. Turn 1d6x100 dead at will for 24 hrs, animate and control 1d6x100 dead. Can summon 1d6 lesser elementals 2x/day. You can turn invisible, unlimited duration - assume it's invisibility simple (as per level 3 invocation) so you appear on infrared/thermal imaging, but with a not-human signature).
Travel - You can teleport yourself and a small group up to 480km/300 miles at will. No dimensional teleport at will (must use rifts).
Combat - 12 attacks or 3 for magic, can innately either shoot an energy bolt (you decide which type) or breathe fire for 6d6 MD up to 900m(3000ft) - up to the 12 attack limit. +4 initiative, saves - +12 vs HF, +2 to all saves, plus you'd need to factor in attribute bonuses and the like.
Vulnerabilities - 2x damage from fire - it hurts quite a bit, but you're not phobic..
Magic - You have restoration and remove curse at will as per the spell. You get all spells levels 1-6 from RUE invocations, and up to 4 spells each level from levels 7-15, chosen as follows:
7 - Agony, Constrain being, Dispel magic barriers, Light blade (sorry, no invis superior)
8 - Expel Demons, Force bonds, Luck curse, Negate magic
9 - Familiar link (can use with your supernatural minion/mount if you like), Mute, Protection circle:simple, Wall of defence.
10 - Banishment, Control and enslave entity, Mystic portal, Plane Skip
11 - Anti-Magic cloud, Firequake, Reopen Gateway
12 - Amulet, Calm Storms, Ensorcel, Summon and Control entity
13 - Protection circle superior and Sanctum (only 2 listed)
14 - Close rift, resurrection (only 2 listed)
15 - Dimensional portal, teleport superior (only 2 listed)
No other spells, including of other varieties and no innate abilities like a ley line walker's sense rifts, you're pretty much a mystic so this is all intuitive and basically acts similar to a mental block re learning new magic.
10,000 PPE, assume that it's recovered at a similar % rate to mortals.
Psionics - all healing psionics + 2 super psionics of your choice. (hey, it's what I rolled.. sue me if it's mostly pointless with the restoration at will ability ). 5000 ISP, assume that it's recovered at a similar % rate to mortals
Unfortunately, from the perspective of an Alien intelligence, you're locked into a humanoid form of your choice, not a tentacled monstrosity and are therefore no longer 'cool'. Like Thoth, you don't have the AI's memory, you're essentially a God, but you don't depend on worship. You can't split your essence to make witches or travel through rifts etc either. Protection circle superior will hold you at bay and exorcisms/banishment will force you to teleport away safely (no chance to save) and leave the exorcist and those under their protection alone for 100 years (effectively a phobia of them).
You also happen to have a vast selection of Rune weapons nearby and can choose either one greatest, two greater or 5 least rune weapons for personal use - the remaining choices fade away after you make your choice.
You get one supernatural mount or sidekick of your choice.. up to 1000 MDC. The rest have deserted you in your new form and personality. All they know is something happened to their master and then suddenly a stranger was around and they thought they'd get the hell out of dodge, either because they were enslaved or feared the unknown.
Unfortunately your old body is somewhere else, effectively unfindable, in the Multiverse babbling in tongues in some asylum or scheming to get his power back, but having lost most of his knowledge of magic and psionics - but with lots of lore:demon and monster, magic, psionics etc But don't worry, it's a long long shot..
So, give us answers to the following:
1. What name do you take
2. What's your true humanoid appearance (can resemble a god if you like, but beware of stepping on actual gods' toes)
3. When flying, what 'special effects' occur - are you silent, gliding in, or roaring around or glowing or what?
4. What would you consider your current alignment to be and what do you think would happen to it after a few years of this, a human lifetime and a thousand years with these new limits?
5. What kind of animals would you possess, describe two different humanoid metamorphoses and two different animal metamorphoses and their purpose.
6. Which of the four lesser elemental servant types would you favor? Would you treat them like a warlock would?
7. Are you more likely to turn the dead or animate and control them - when would you use the latter, if so.
8. You can create a sanctum via the spell and easily enter and leave it at will without anyone being able to track you, thanks to your teleport - what kind of sanctum would you have - you'd have to use power tools if you want something fancy.. or skilled servants - and no, an elemental couldn't build a nice home, unless you wanted something pretty primitive.
9. Would you visit or live in another dimension other than Rifts Earth, if so, which one and who with?
10. What rifts community would/could you hang out with? Would you visit Atlantis - if so, in what capacity and who would you interact with. What would you think of how they treat your previous fellow human beings? P.S. don't forget they make greatest rune weapons and you'd make a good battery...
11. What rune weapons would you take (1 greatest or 2 greater or 5 lesser)
12. What supernatural buddy or mount would you take?
13. Would you search out your former body (now occupied by the AI's mind - assumed to be diabolic in alignment) or leave well enough alone?
14. What would be your 2 super psionic powers and what would be your 3 favourite spells of levels 1-7 that spring to mind?
I rolled up one from Dark Conversions, so you have the following abilities:
IQ 24
MA 23
ME 22
PS 42
PP 27
PE 24
PB 20
Spd 70, fly 270 (whatever special effects you like, no damage auras or suchlike)
MDC 70,000; bioregen 1d6x10 MDC/melee, including limbs and you'll be reborn in 48 hrs, unless you or someone else magically potent enough (e.g. fellow God or AI), discovers the ritual or method for ending your existence (basically you get one or two freebies if you **** off the wrong 'people') - the method could include being impaled with a soul drinker for example..
Assuming you're level 12 in magic/psionics. Your skills are as they are this minute, with the potential to grow. You're level 1 as far as skills, but they don't add to your physical traits, sorry.
Awe factor/HF 17
Alignment - whatever you consider yourself to be now - evil however will show up for people with sense supernatural evil psionic and similar powers. Of course you show up on See Aura and dog boy/psi stalker radars..
Your innate abilities are as follows:
Constitutional - You don't eat, breathe or drink unless you remember to nor do you excrete when you do, which is mildly curious. You're impervious to possession, disease, drugs/poison, mind control, fatigue, charm or hypnotic suggestion.
Sensory - Nightvision 800m (assuming total darkness which is what it used to be, however counterintuitive that is), see invisible.
Utility - Possess animals only (SDC animals, but you're simply expelled from their bodies at a distance of up to 200m in a direction of your choice, should they die due to misadventure, rematerialising at the location you choose in that radius). You can metamorph into any humanoid or animal for an unlimited duration. Turn 1d6x100 dead at will for 24 hrs, animate and control 1d6x100 dead. Can summon 1d6 lesser elementals 2x/day. You can turn invisible, unlimited duration - assume it's invisibility simple (as per level 3 invocation) so you appear on infrared/thermal imaging, but with a not-human signature).
Travel - You can teleport yourself and a small group up to 480km/300 miles at will. No dimensional teleport at will (must use rifts).
Combat - 12 attacks or 3 for magic, can innately either shoot an energy bolt (you decide which type) or breathe fire for 6d6 MD up to 900m(3000ft) - up to the 12 attack limit. +4 initiative, saves - +12 vs HF, +2 to all saves, plus you'd need to factor in attribute bonuses and the like.
Vulnerabilities - 2x damage from fire - it hurts quite a bit, but you're not phobic..
Magic - You have restoration and remove curse at will as per the spell. You get all spells levels 1-6 from RUE invocations, and up to 4 spells each level from levels 7-15, chosen as follows:
7 - Agony, Constrain being, Dispel magic barriers, Light blade (sorry, no invis superior)
8 - Expel Demons, Force bonds, Luck curse, Negate magic
9 - Familiar link (can use with your supernatural minion/mount if you like), Mute, Protection circle:simple, Wall of defence.
10 - Banishment, Control and enslave entity, Mystic portal, Plane Skip
11 - Anti-Magic cloud, Firequake, Reopen Gateway
12 - Amulet, Calm Storms, Ensorcel, Summon and Control entity
13 - Protection circle superior and Sanctum (only 2 listed)
14 - Close rift, resurrection (only 2 listed)
15 - Dimensional portal, teleport superior (only 2 listed)
No other spells, including of other varieties and no innate abilities like a ley line walker's sense rifts, you're pretty much a mystic so this is all intuitive and basically acts similar to a mental block re learning new magic.
10,000 PPE, assume that it's recovered at a similar % rate to mortals.
Psionics - all healing psionics + 2 super psionics of your choice. (hey, it's what I rolled.. sue me if it's mostly pointless with the restoration at will ability ). 5000 ISP, assume that it's recovered at a similar % rate to mortals
Unfortunately, from the perspective of an Alien intelligence, you're locked into a humanoid form of your choice, not a tentacled monstrosity and are therefore no longer 'cool'. Like Thoth, you don't have the AI's memory, you're essentially a God, but you don't depend on worship. You can't split your essence to make witches or travel through rifts etc either. Protection circle superior will hold you at bay and exorcisms/banishment will force you to teleport away safely (no chance to save) and leave the exorcist and those under their protection alone for 100 years (effectively a phobia of them).
You also happen to have a vast selection of Rune weapons nearby and can choose either one greatest, two greater or 5 least rune weapons for personal use - the remaining choices fade away after you make your choice.
You get one supernatural mount or sidekick of your choice.. up to 1000 MDC. The rest have deserted you in your new form and personality. All they know is something happened to their master and then suddenly a stranger was around and they thought they'd get the hell out of dodge, either because they were enslaved or feared the unknown.
Unfortunately your old body is somewhere else, effectively unfindable, in the Multiverse babbling in tongues in some asylum or scheming to get his power back, but having lost most of his knowledge of magic and psionics - but with lots of lore:demon and monster, magic, psionics etc But don't worry, it's a long long shot..
So, give us answers to the following:
1. What name do you take
2. What's your true humanoid appearance (can resemble a god if you like, but beware of stepping on actual gods' toes)
3. When flying, what 'special effects' occur - are you silent, gliding in, or roaring around or glowing or what?
4. What would you consider your current alignment to be and what do you think would happen to it after a few years of this, a human lifetime and a thousand years with these new limits?
5. What kind of animals would you possess, describe two different humanoid metamorphoses and two different animal metamorphoses and their purpose.
6. Which of the four lesser elemental servant types would you favor? Would you treat them like a warlock would?
7. Are you more likely to turn the dead or animate and control them - when would you use the latter, if so.
8. You can create a sanctum via the spell and easily enter and leave it at will without anyone being able to track you, thanks to your teleport - what kind of sanctum would you have - you'd have to use power tools if you want something fancy.. or skilled servants - and no, an elemental couldn't build a nice home, unless you wanted something pretty primitive.
9. Would you visit or live in another dimension other than Rifts Earth, if so, which one and who with?
10. What rifts community would/could you hang out with? Would you visit Atlantis - if so, in what capacity and who would you interact with. What would you think of how they treat your previous fellow human beings? P.S. don't forget they make greatest rune weapons and you'd make a good battery...
11. What rune weapons would you take (1 greatest or 2 greater or 5 lesser)
12. What supernatural buddy or mount would you take?
13. Would you search out your former body (now occupied by the AI's mind - assumed to be diabolic in alignment) or leave well enough alone?
14. What would be your 2 super psionic powers and what would be your 3 favourite spells of levels 1-7 that spring to mind?