CombatWombat51
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That is all I have to say... oh, and
The Prometheus Effect (freebie hook for GM's)
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That is all I have to say... oh, and
mroberon1972
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The Goblin King said:
Hey! You can write too!
I kinda like the idea of using The Prometheus Effect to create a post-apocolyptic game setting. Would explain the heavy use of nukes and a fall back to older technology. Sounds like the bastard child of 'Virus" and 'Terminator'...
Anybody else want to write communications, recording, news broadcasts, or other documents of the fall of mankind?
Let's call it 'Prometheus Dawn'...
Hey, if we get enough information together, I might write up a d20 modern setting based on it...
The Goblin King
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Sorry, sometimes I just get a wild hair and have to write it down. Your post about reawakening Prometheus had me imagining some hapless researching opening a box in cold storage. The project had been abandoned when it was determined that it was too dangerous to continue. Everything was destroyed except for a small sample of P-matter kept at near absolute zero temperature. The whole things was classified and swept under the rug. All records were erased and after who knows how long it was forgotten. Until someone opened the box (shades of pandora here).
I was thinking about how humans could fight Prometheus. One way could be Psionics. Perhaps though genetic engineering or just harnessing latent ability some people could have enough power to make a difference.
Another way would be to turn Prometheus against itself. Techno-organic matter may behave in some ways like organic matter. To that end it would be possible to give P-matter cancer. These cancerous P-masses would have all the abilities of Prometheus but be inimical to its existance.
In the bleak future two major groups exist. One of them lives completely without technology any more complicated simple machines. They farm and live very much like thier ancestors did in ages past. The Psionic guardians of these lands style themselves as wizards. They are the keepers of ancient lore and it only through thier gifts that the terrible metal monsters which roam the wilds are kept at bay. Except for the highest levels of the Order no one even knows what happened. As far as peasants are concerned it has always been like this.
The other group lives among the wreckage of a great city. The scientist here have learned how to capture and turn Prometheus hunter-killers into defenders of humanity. The only downside is that these machines are wild. A human pilot is needed to keep them from running amok. Candidates are chosen carefully as they bond with the mecha for life. The mecha will take no other pilots and if the pilot dies it is neccesary to destroy the mecha. Pilots don't so much as control a mecha as they direct it. Mecha want to fight and kill but they do so with only animalistic instincts.
I was thinking about how humans could fight Prometheus. One way could be Psionics. Perhaps though genetic engineering or just harnessing latent ability some people could have enough power to make a difference.
Another way would be to turn Prometheus against itself. Techno-organic matter may behave in some ways like organic matter. To that end it would be possible to give P-matter cancer. These cancerous P-masses would have all the abilities of Prometheus but be inimical to its existance.
In the bleak future two major groups exist. One of them lives completely without technology any more complicated simple machines. They farm and live very much like thier ancestors did in ages past. The Psionic guardians of these lands style themselves as wizards. They are the keepers of ancient lore and it only through thier gifts that the terrible metal monsters which roam the wilds are kept at bay. Except for the highest levels of the Order no one even knows what happened. As far as peasants are concerned it has always been like this.
The other group lives among the wreckage of a great city. The scientist here have learned how to capture and turn Prometheus hunter-killers into defenders of humanity. The only downside is that these machines are wild. A human pilot is needed to keep them from running amok. Candidates are chosen carefully as they bond with the mecha for life. The mecha will take no other pilots and if the pilot dies it is neccesary to destroy the mecha. Pilots don't so much as control a mecha as they direct it. Mecha want to fight and kill but they do so with only animalistic instincts.
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