by Braithwhite
This is the second iteration of this guy, who was earlier posted as "mainframe". I've taken him in a completely new direction.I'm hoping this works in testing. The concept seems interesting, and he's definitely got a distinctive gimmick/playstyle.
Story
If you asked people at the Eaken-Rubendall laboratories which one of the researchers was most likely to upload his own brain into a prototype neural net, they would have pointed right at Neil Gibson. It wasn’t particularly surprising when they found his body slumped over in his immersion rig, or that he had finally managed to transfer his consciousness and become a true AI.
What astonished everyone was how helpful he was. As a person, Neil was antisocial and kind of a hermit. As an AI, he was friendly, relaxed, and absolutely willing to help anyone out in any way he could. It was generally agreed on that this was a good thing.
When asked about the personality change, Neil said that he had coded a happy, cheerful outlook into his own personality matrix, since he had never particularly enjoyed his inability to make friends. He could certainly get angry (and was fiercely protective of the lab and its researchers), but he wanted to make sure that the fear that had kept him lonely as a human wouldn’t be an issue.
Again, this was generally agreed upon to be a good thing.
After intensive study of Omnitron’s tech, the mobile “Code Monkey” platform was created to let the AI aid the heroes in the field. Initial results were inconclusive, as the AI had difficulty adjusting to the complexities of a combat situation. Errors could crop up that could lead to miscommunication and advantages for the enemy- or it could all go perfectly and give the heroes a tremendous edge.
Code Monkey AKA Neil Gibson
24 HP
Compile:
Read a set of your program cards from left to right.
Unless otherwise specified, the set begins: Code Monkey…
Incapacitated:
A hero may play a card
A hero may draw a card
A hero’s next damage is irreducible
I’m trying something a bit new with this guy. My previous attempt at a hacker hero fell a bit short, but this one shows promise. The idea is that the “program” cards all have sentence fragments on them, and go into play immediately- so its entirely possible to get a huge chain going really quickly.
But its also possible for the sentence to make absolutely no sense. Or to aid the enemies more than the heroes. The trick is to rearrange things. Adjacency matters.
24x Program cards:
All of these start with:
This card goes into play as soon as it is drawn. Draw a new card.
place this card to the right of an existing “program” card, or by itself if none are in play.
Each card has a sentence fragment. Your only power is to read a set of program fragments from left to right, doing what it says (when possible) along the way.
Fragments
All villain targets
For each
Villain target
environment
ongoing
search deck for a/an
equipment/ongoing/ device
and put it into play
Cannot do damage
Use(s) a power if possible
To a villain target
Discards the top card of his/her/its/their deck
Regains 2 HP
Increases next damage by 1
Reduces next damage by 1
Plays top card of their deck
A hero
To all targets
Code Monkey
Two heroes
To themselves
Deals 1 lightning damage
Draws a card
Deals themselves 3 fire damage
one shots (14):
2X Edit : pick up an existing program card, place it anywhere in an existing set.
2X Crunch time: Move 2 programs cards 1 place to the right
2X Find and replace: Swap two program cards
4X Sort: Move a program card 1 place to the right.
4X Undo: Move a program card 1 place to the left
Ongoing (2)
2X End of Line (indestructible): Place to the right of a set. No further programs may be added to that set.
Let me know what you think. I believe that extensive testing is going to be necessary, as I expect weird interactions and problems are going to crop up. the sentence syntax is also weird, as the final cards would have to have (his/her/its/them) for every pronoun.
As always, >G can do whatever they want with this, same as the villain contest.