there are always botches, too.
Right, I was thinking that too. That's part of what makes a high mag bias a more interesting story. You're not gonna make a really interesting mistake in a flatline world.
Oh, but you could. Tech and bod botches are still available.
We're not gonna convince each other. I understand it, and I will never understand it.
Uhm...There are plenty of interesting things you can do with a tech botch in Terminator. How about when you are reprogramming an inactive Terminator, botch, and it turns out to have a fatal error that forces it to revert to it's original program at THE MOST inopportune time? A Weapon use botch where you shhot an ally, and the team thinks you have turned or are yourself a Terminator?
Bod botch-leaping an enormous gap and botching, fall in and crack your skull open, possibly dying...or waking up in the middle of a ditch with no sign of your team, and only your weapon against the Terminator hordes?
Leaping an enormous gap and falling in would be a failure; a botch would be slipping as you went to jump and so bashing your face into the side on the way down, or spraining your ankle on the jump, or getting your foot caught in something and hanging from it, or jumping too far, crashing into one of your teammates on the other side and the falling backwards and dragging them with you.
Reprogramming a Terminator botches: haha, now it only wants to do your laundry and when you try to stop it it attacks you.
Any Termintors I reprogram are going to have a remote bomb placed on their control chip. I'll be able to shut it down permanently with the touch of a button. That's something John and Sarah should have done to Cameron in The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The Termintor would never know it was in there.
I've got it! On the reprogramming botch, you end up with a Terminator that thinks it's the governor of California!
"My governor can kick your governor's butt."
California resident.
I meant smashing your head into the wall when I said cracking your skull open, but yeah. That was the gist.
Uhm...the Terminators already are the Governor of California :P
Let me put it another way. Isn't it reasonable that God foresaw the arrival of a servant (ME!!) who could use magic beyond the capabilities of anyone there, and thus, decided it best to give that servant (ME!!!) every reasonable advantage He could offer? It's a 7@13 magic bias. Indigs can only do 7@ magic. I can do much higher. God foresaw that, and designed the magic bias accordingly. Reasonable?
Obviously I did not think it entirely unreasonable. What is unreasonable is that if it is a 7@13 mag bias, there must be someone in this universe using 7@10 magic, and I haven't really put anything like that here. That means revamping a lot--and it really doesn't look much like Terminator once I get those priests and wizards outfitted, does it? So I probably shouldn't have allowed that.
Giving you a GE roll for the bias was a poor judgment call in my opinion; I trust it was an attempt to keep your interest without a lot of forethought as to how it was disrupt the balance of the universe.
I think it was actually an effort to get him to stop nagging about it.
Which is another reason I don't want him back: he wears me down sometimes and gets me to make stupid decisions in his favor. When I do, I regret having done so. When I don't, I regret having to listen to him complain that I didn't.
Reprogramming a Terminator botches: haha, now it only wants to do your laundry and when you try to stop it it attacks you.
I'm laughing.
I've got it! On the reprogramming botch, you end up with a Terminator that thinks it's the governor of California!
Come on, I just stopped laughing.
"My governor can kick your governor's butt."
California resident.
"Oh yeah? Well, he doesn't want to mess with our retired mayor."--Carmel-by-the-Sea resident.
--M. J. Young
Obviously I did not think it entirely unreasonable. What is unreasonable is that if it is a 7@13 mag bias, there must be someone in this universe using 7@10 magic, and I haven't really put anything like that here. That means revamping a lot--and it really doesn't look much like Terminator once I get those priests and wizards outfitted, does it? So I probably shouldn't have allowed that.
No MJ, it's perfect. Indians. Someone has to have magic right? The American Indians. If anyone had magic anywhere in the world, it was them. We're gonna be in Mexico a lot. Lots of Indians in Mexico. Magic has to exist. It doesn't have to be commonly in use. It doesn't have to be flashy or hardcore. What kinds of magic would the Indians be capable of? It's perfect, and not at all unreasonable for the setting, if you think about it.
There's plenty of other useful skills the Indians could teach us (living off the land, tracking, etc.) Why must I learn from Mexican rednecks? I was fully intending to take the story that direction.
(Doing Therapy)