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Batias
Mar 6, 2012 7:04:26 GMT -5
Post by JRCameron on Mar 6, 2012 7:04:26 GMT -5
Looks like Bats has gone through the ringer. He's getting cooler, and your descriptions of his abilities are getting cooler, but it still feels like there's something missing. Maybe it's just because the two of us haven't actually rp'ed together as Bats and Adonis.
I like that you actually have a description for the wings now... But where does the dust come from? Why is there waste product? The crystal power is generated within your every cell, is probably fed through your blood, and flows out into your powered armor suit through what probably amounts to an I.V. in your right arm, like you said. Is the waste generated when the armor transforms the energy into a form that it can use?
Perhaps the arm I.V. is attached to a very small blood filtration device. The crystals are in your bones, where new blood is constantly being made (in every person, blood is constantly being made). Now, without any excess influence, the very tiny amount of crystal power in a cc of blood wouldn't be able to be manipulated consciously by you. That's why you don't have him as having any external powers, other than strength and speed. Those are caused by the crystal-infused blood leaving crystal in your muscles along with oxygen, which bonds to your muscles and results in increased capacity. The tiny amount of crystal that goes into the filtration device on your arm removes the crystal from your blood.
Huh. I think the crystals are just a separate form of Calcium Phosphate. Like, a separate combination of the two major elements that make up your bones in the first place, that make up anyone's bones in the first place.
Anyways. The crystal enters the filtration system, the crystal goes through a similarly small generator core in the same arm that transfers the crystal into energy, and then the waste is the crystal dust, and the energy is what was within the crystal. What do you think of that?
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Batias
Jun 29, 2012 12:09:17 GMT -5
Post by batias on Jun 29, 2012 12:09:17 GMT -5
I'm not sure if I should be calling it waste. It's just what came to mind at the time.
And yeah. The waste is generated after it's turned into energy. Also, I'm thinking about having the suit be able to manipulate the waste. Use that as a shield. Makes a lot more sense than hard light.
I love the I.V. thing. I'm thinking that a portion of waste could be shot at the opponents eyes if I'm ever in a tight spot. Hehehehe.
I've also been thinking about crystal golems. Say, what if the crystal that's being spliced into humans got a taste of human DNA? If there is enough influence, could it move? If so, I think there would be random organs the golem generated just swimming around in it's body. I'd like to assume that the crystal is transparent, too. You'd be able to just see the guts no problem.
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Batias
Jul 2, 2012 0:59:48 GMT -5
Post by JRCameron on Jul 2, 2012 0:59:48 GMT -5
If the crystal generates human-like organs because of cross-contamination between the crystal structure and Human DNA, then you're giving the crystal sentience.
Immediately after gaining sentience, the crystal is going to take most (if not all) of the characters that are influenced by the crystal and it's going to advance its own agenda. It would have a hard time creating a fully humanoid body (think Dr. Manhattan from the Watchmen), but once it did it would be nigh invincible.
Oh, and it would be creating human organs out of more crystal structure... So you would see the guts, but they would be just as transparent as the rest of the crystal.
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Batias
Jul 3, 2012 20:22:01 GMT -5
Post by batias on Jul 3, 2012 20:22:01 GMT -5
Crystals in their un-spliced or linked form reacts to the touch of a human by generating energy.
I wonder what should cause this. Should it be because of the life water that flows through their veins? Or maybe it reacts to sentience? Is there a material that can sense that kind of stuff?
I don't think so.
So maybe the crystal is already some kind of life form. Like a fungi. A bacterial life form that has the physical properties of steel. Except for the fact that it makes energy at the touch.
It's just... What happened that gave the crystal to want to serve humans and not ones that have been spliced? Was it found that way? Or maybe it was altered first? Given this, there could be a whole race a fungi type beings that the people of Charagin are unaware of. Maybe that Bullcrap character I'm working on could be a young version of them and even be used to introduce the race to the people of Charagin.
Anyways, getting back on track.
Given that the crystal has the want to obey orders given by humans and the fact the it doesn't listen to the user... could be that... Now that the crystal is part of the users body it listens to the users primal desires, rather then what comes out of the users mouth.
Hive mind creatures, often share information when it bumps into another of the same kind, right? Assuming the crystal is a hive mind creature and is able to understand the users thoughts, if the air is full of the crystals energy waste, the user and the golem should be able to achieve telepathic communication.
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Batias
Jul 7, 2012 16:51:16 GMT -5
Post by JRCameron on Jul 7, 2012 16:51:16 GMT -5
The crystal, in its natural and unadulterated state, reacts to Life. It reacts to heat, sweat, other chemical stimuli that show it that there is Life nearby. It responds to that by starting a symbiotic reaction, where it generates energy for the Host. It is not until it has been introduced into the Host's system that its energy generation is useful. Normally, it creates energy within its Host by devouring its host at the same time. The energy that the Host gains is a side-effect of the Crystal devouring it.
Now, this doesn't seem in line with what you've put already, and it would certainly put a time limit on the usefulness of our characters that are Linked with the Crystal. However, what I just described is the Crystal's natural interaction with Hosts. That is, introducing it to a Host body without Linking it to that Host. If you ingest a piece of Crystal, you're fucked.
Linking connects the Crystal Structure to the Host's DNA. It effectively makes the person Crystal themselves. The Crystal switches from a symbiotic relationship to one that it wasn't naturally designed for. It can't grow, because it designates its whole Host as a part of it. It cannot devour itself and turn itself to crystal, so it doesn't eat the Host. Instead, it consumes food and waste. However, there never is a large amount of Crystal in the Linked Host's body. Thus, the exponential growth rate of a Natural Crystal's symbiotic relationship never happens. There is just some Crystal in the excrement of a Linked Host, which is too small to even notice.
In its Natural form, the Crystal is incredibly dangerous to any living being. Animals know not to eat it, but it can still spread if animals that are still in the early stages of the Crystal's growth are eaten by other animals. Once Linked, the Crystal is only dangerous to creatures that either eat a Linked Host or a Linked Host's excrement.
The universal susceptibility to mind control isn't something that is inherent in the Crystal. The Crystal doesn't normally affect the mind of its Host. That comes from where the Crystal is Linked to the Host's DNA. The universal susceptibility is given to everyone by the people who do the Linking, as a man-made fail-safe to the man-made monstrous weapons that they are creating.
A Hive-Mind for the Crystal is even more dangerous than giving it sentience. The Crystal grows naturally on your planet, does it not? If it does, that means there are theoretically giant formations of Crystal deep within the planet. That means that there is a "Queen" of sorts, which means that it wouldn't immediately do bad things with regards to the Linking.
However, the Crystal within the Linked people would Link Humans to the Crystal Hive-Mind. The Queen may lay low at first, but it would only do so to gain knowledge of the world above. The thing is, the Linking has given the Crystal Queen the one thing it wouldn't have had before. It could jump from Host to Host, but it didn't have any stable symbiotic connections. The Linking has done that. Thus, the Crystals want to be Linked to as many people as possible. That way, it can grow its potential base of power atop the world. Eventually, it would want to be dug out of the Earth so that it could take over the entirety of the Human Race with linking.
In short: In trying to combat the perceived evil of the animals that are spliced with humans, the Untouched woke up a much more deadly evil from deep within the planet. Nice job breaking it, Hero.
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Batias
Jul 20, 2012 4:14:48 GMT -5
Post by batias on Jul 20, 2012 4:14:48 GMT -5
That's exactly what I want. Sure that energy comes at the cost of the user, but it's got a lotta mileage in return. Plus, having an ally completely MADE out of your power source helps.
Like you said, hive-minds will become a problem in the future, but I'd like to note that the crystal isn't sentient. It'll more or less be acting on the desires of a collected mind of human thought. And just what would humans be thinking about in unison? Just what can all humans agree on? I don't really want to think about it right now, but since it's only able to relieve intelligent thought from people who have been spliced with the Untouched... So, assuming no spies or people unassociated with the Untouched have been linked with the crystal, it'll probably be after the heads of the spliced too.
So... Yeah...
I do plan for there to be a little trouble with the slime, tho'.
I'm going to use the crystal to introduce a sentient version. I'll call them the Zehagrath. Rather then being a crystal, they'll be more of a slime, like BULLCRAP. I'll explain more of my ideas about the Zehagrath later.
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Batias
Jul 21, 2012 20:02:35 GMT -5
Post by JRCameron on Jul 21, 2012 20:02:35 GMT -5
If the crystal has the ability to generate crystalline organs, then why wouldn't it generate a brain - and in doing so, a sentient mind?
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Batias
Jul 24, 2012 6:18:28 GMT -5
Post by batias on Jul 24, 2012 6:18:28 GMT -5
Huh. Yeah. It's an iffy subject about whether it'd be a viable option or not.
Assuming memories can be transferred from human to a crystal, it would affect the crystal golems behavior. The way it goes about business. I do know that the way a brain is made can affect personality.
If left alone long enough, a golem could develop opinions of his/her own. Which can be troublesome, depending on how human you want the golem. Even more troublesome if the memories only encourage bad behavior.
So, I might be breaking into that "Only the pure of heart" thing, but that's the only way I can think of to prevent golems from going rouge and going off on an adventure to find themselves.
Even though I don't like it, this will put Batias out of the running for being a proud owner of his very own crystal-human hybrid. Might give him one anyway. >.>
On another note, should memories not be able to be sent telepathically to the golem, pretty much taking any the hive mind abilities, it would solve some problems, but create more.
1. No threats of a giant crystal in the ground rising up to splice all with it's own D.N.A.
2. The crystal golems would probably act more like people, having the hive mind thing taken away, and would probably be more willing to help the people who've raised them. Depending on the environment, of course.
3. Despite not having telepathic ability with others of the same race, it could still be a problem if the golems figure that they don't like the people of the Untouched.
Now, I'm not saying that I'm gonna take any the Crystals major attribute of a hive mind away immediately.
I think in the beginning, the will be crystal peeps, given to those of pure heart. Their combat abilities will be extraordinary because both the crystal user and the golem will be able to act as one.
Then, after further getting into the plot, a giant mother crystal will appear, wanting to mess stuff up for the entire world.
Untouched scientist fix this problem by doing SOME KIND OF WHATEVER that takes away the seemingly telepathic communication of the giant mother crystal.
The elite of the Untouched will suffer in combat due to the loss of their teammate until Untouched scientists are able to figure out how to restrict the hive mind usage to only between the golem and the user, so as not to wake up another queen crystal.
There it is, folk.
Awesome telepathic-like combat abilities -- > momentary downgrade --> Back to awesome.
Expect the untouched to be taken advantage on in their moment of weakness.
You might expect someone wanting to wreck the world by summoning crystal mothers all over the world.
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Batias
Jul 25, 2012 10:32:50 GMT -5
Post by JRCameron on Jul 25, 2012 10:32:50 GMT -5
Perhaps the story starts in the middle section there, the "momentary downgrade". The golems are there, but they can't be used very well because they don't have a telepathic connection to their handlers.
Some of the higher-level crystal users have them, and could even work with them to a great degree. Then, when they're losing, they talk to HQ and are allowed to use their telepathic abilities, something that is dangerous because it risks a queen but incredibly powerful because it allows them to work in tandem.
That kind of stuff is just classic, you know?
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