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magisteriaexe2024-06-02 05:08 pm
magisteriamods) wrote in magisteriaexe2024-06-02 05:08 pm
Magisteria Gift Log
OOC Notes: This post can be used by PCs to keep track of their inventory for Magisteria. This includes both the gifts that each character received on arrival, as well as other rewards, prizes, or bling collected throughout one's time in the game. For the arrival gifts, those will develop as characters continue their journeys in Magisteria. Please reply below with the following information:Your character's current gift:
What was your character's activity in Magisteria [since the last gift upgrade*]?
[Quests, event participation, completing Synthesis challenges, player plot stuff, etc. -- the more the better as far as gift upgrades.]
What kind of modifications would you like to see and/or what complementary gift would you like?* **
[ * because a gift growing can sometimes take the form of complementary offerings or something(s) to go with the OG gift.
** you can also say "Surprise me!" -- and, for that matter, it should be noted that PCs may get something that is mod's particular flair or spin on whatever upgrades they ask for. mod reserves the right to potentially put spins on requests, but will try to ensure that the results are satisfactory for everyone]
Gift Evolution: The Prismatic Synapse + Event Role
After this event, the Echo's power will be exhausted, but Lucy's ability with tech will grow exponentionally from having used it, leaving her with enhanced abilities.
Lucy will be assigned the role of directly challenging Phantom Cipher in the digital world. This will involve traveling to the source of the hack, the Central Control System, in High Rise Village, and accessing Vplane. Only, the hack will have corrupted this pocket of Vplane. When Lucy enters the digital realm, she will find herself standing in a vast, shimmering network landscape that morphs around her, fluctuating between glowing grids, cascading data streams, and towering algorithmic architectures.
The environment is Phantom Cipher's domain, which it reshapes at his will to reflect its power over Magisterian technology. Phantom Cipher will manifest as a spectral, amorphous figure made of shifting code, with various skull figures appearing on phantom screens all around, and cackling laughter, as well as various eerie musical numbers which will play in Lucy's mind throughout the encounter. She will also encounter encoded visions of her most intense fears/experiences. To overcome Phantom Cipher, she will have to battle "firewalls" of data spikes that threaten to disrupt her being, summoned whirlpools of corrupted data ("virus vortexes"), and finally, a full-system hack which will cause the virtual world to fragment and collapse into chaotic, shifting blocks of data.
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Finally, her bodysuit will upgrade so that, for fifteen minutes, she can activate a state called The Prismatic Synapse. The Prismatic Synapse will allow Lucy to transform into a purely digital form. When activated, her form can disperse into a shimmering network of nanoscale particles, enabling her to move through Magisterian tech systems, bypass firewalls, and access data banks beyond the capabilities of traditional netrunners. This allows her to blend into digital pathways or transport herself through connected technology, effectively “digitizing” herself to slip past obstacles, evade enemies, or navigate tech systems undetected for a limited period.
Lucy can temporarily dissolve into a digital cloud of nano-particles, allowing her to phase through tech-based barriers and slip into tech systems. When dispersed, her consciousness can navigate and manipulate Magisteria’s networks and digital landscapes at a near-instantaneous pace. This form also grants her limited stealth, rendering her undetectable to many scanning systems. The suit's integrated nanobots can repair minor suit damage in real-time and even self-generate temporary enhancements, such as creating a hardened surface layer for increased defense or condensing into a retractable short blade. The nanobots can also adapt to emit an EMP burst, disrupting surrounding tech fauna or hostile digital entities if she’s cornered.
By synthesizing the fragments of code Lucy collected from the Fractured, the suit can briefly simulate corrupted Bios signals, allowing her to “scramble” herself digitally to avoid detection by Phantom Cipher or other high-level netrunners. This mimicry bypasses traditional data defenses, permitting her to plant false data or disguise her digital presence entirely while inside a network. The Prismatic Synapse can scan and absorb coded data from fractured or corrupted entities, storing it within the suit’s core, known as The Archive. Through this, Lucy can continue her study of corrupted Bios, slowly unlocking hidden Magisterian secrets.
Lucy is encouraged to use the suit and the Echo together to create a Miracle, and to use the nanobots to restore the damage to the city occasioned by the hack, as well. The Prismatic Synapse will be an ability she will continue to be able to use in events or special occasions, giving her nano powers and a digital form at moments of great need, but for a limited time.
THE ONE CATCH is that such a level of augmentation, should Lucy accept this mission and these abilities, will now be sure to be of great Interest to whoever it is that Phantom Cipher answers to, meaning there will be no going back on being a Person of Interest to those who seek to dominate all of the technology of Magisteria. She will, in essense, be irrevocably Marked.