I am currently planning one adventure to my series of adventures. Now I need a nanovirus (nanobots, where is some minor programmed things), where are following things:
- Virus will go in four phases. First phase starts after one hour from contamination and new phase every hour after.
1. It shuts down Cranial Computer
2. It destroys Nanobots that save "data" to cortical stack.
3. It block Mesh Inserts. Virus takes over the control of Mesh Inserts so that nanobots will actively monitor possible active inserts that it can contaminate more persons).
4. It will drive person mad. Person will behave very aggressively (berserk) against any person who has active mesh inserts ( hiding or stealthing signals will give protection, but it will have atleast 20% chance to notice hidden mesh inserts too. 50% chance if signals are not hidden). It cannot notice blocked inserts).
Now I need proposals that how nanobots will spread. It should be dangerous for unwary persons, but it should not be too aggressive. Reason that is that PCs should not get contamination too fast, as they are investigating it.
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Creating Nanovirus to one adventure
Sun, 2014-09-07 14:09
#1
teroks
Creating Nanovirus to one adventure
Sun, 2014-09-07 14:30
#2
ShadowDragon8685
Here's one, stolen from Red
Here's one, stolen from Red Dwarf: the infected person attempts to manually subdue the target and then forcibly kiss or bite them, thus forcing nanite-infested saliva into the target. Against an unarmored biomorph, this might well be mistaken for a generic sexual or physical assault, and thus it wouldn't be immediately obvious what had transpired, but it would be all but impossible to infect someone who was wearing armor with a helmet and a full envriosuit. If the carrier can't break the skin and can't get a forcible lip-lock, but the target isn't envriosealed, infection should have a low but not nonexistent probability.* Of course, this vector would be very unlikely to work on synths and some biomorphs/pods (such as Novacrabs.) That's perfectly fine, it shouldn't be too perfect, or it would be a "nuke the hab from orbit. Only way to be sure" situation.
If the target has nanophages and/or implanted Guardian nanoswarms, infection should be almost impossible unless this is a TITAN nanovirus, in which case they should have a chance of helping.
If this nanovirus is not TITAN/Exsurgent in nature, then Nanophages or an implanted Guardian swarm should shut it down before it can do any damage. If it is TITAN/Exsurgent in nature, then depending on how strong you want it to be, it may actively attack the implanted Nanophages/Guardian Swarm as if it were another Guardian Swarm, or it may be resistant to damage, but it would still be subject to attack itself.
For reference, a Guardian swarm deals 1d10 ÷ 2 damage/turn to any nanoswarms it does not like the look of. Nanophages work identically to Guardian swarms when they encounter a nanovirus/nanoplauge they don't automatically shut down. The core book suggests that some exsurgent viruses should reduce the damage they take from Guardians/Nanophages by 2 (thus, the damage inflicted by the Guardians would be ((1d10 ÷ 2) -2), which stands a 40% chance of doing precisely no damage whatsoever,) and the hostile nanoswarm may actually attack the Guardians/Nanophages in return, dealing 1d10 ÷ 2.
(In my games, Firewall [i]strongly[/i] recommends the installation of redundant personal Nanophages [i]and[/i] personal Guardian nanoswarms for precisely this reason. Statistically speaking, a TITAN nanoswarm will handily defeat a single Guardian/Nanophage generator, but will lose, [i]badly[/i], to a double installation.)
*Alternatively, instead of turning the target into a frenzied attacker, it might leave them some semblance of their faculties, but drive them intensely to sexual behavior, spreading like an old-timey STD, something which modern transhumanity has virtually no preparations against.
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Sun, 2014-09-07 18:29
#3
godmoney
basic biomods???
don't basic biomods do this for them???
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Sun, 2014-09-07 22:24
#4
Darkening Kaos
Star Trek
Think more along the lines of the virus that infected the crew of the Enterprise which, to all intents and pruposes, presented itself as water, but created an uninhibited euphoria in everyone it infected. All those who were infected, managed to pass on the virus with physical contact. After some initial 'good vibes', the infected would lose the will to live and eventually die, without intervention that is.
Episode: The Naked Time (TOS)
Episode: The Naked Now (TNG)
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Mon, 2014-09-08 01:41
#5
ShadowDragon8685
godmoney wrote
Yeah. Which is why "Don't have sex with anyone you meet, you could get pregnant/catch something" is about as often spoken-of practical advice in 2143 as "don't try to hunt a mastadon alone" is in 2014.
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Mon, 2014-09-08 03:47
#6
UnitOmega
I'm stealing the last part of
I'm stealing the last part of that for any future "Transhumanity is normally past this problem, so they actually have no idea what to do now" analogy.
Perhaps that very idea, since I've always wanted to do something in EP based on Mr. Caleb Stokes' "Lover in the Ice" scenario.
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Mon, 2014-09-08 04:53
#7
teroks
Feel free to do that...
Feel free to do that...
I made some changes to time "Virus" needs to kick in. It will be 6 hours and then 1 hour after that.
Biting, open wounds, kissing and other similar things will spread "Virus" from victim to other.
If any gamer's from Finland read this, don't open spoiler...
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Virus is actually xeno based. It was found about half an year ago by Pandora gate exploration group. Group members were part of New Dawn hypercorporation (I added this corporation as minor Consortium member coporation). New Dawn hypercorporation is officially Terraforming corporation. Their status and place in consortium is in danger, because they aren't big enough to secure seat in consortium.
They decided to gain some advantage from xenotech and they started to research new technology. They got chance as, their team found and brought cylinder from exploration mission. Team kept this hidden and New Dawn established Terraforming habitat (about 100km east from Olympus). Terraforming habitat is public, but secretly they are investigating cylinder under one official building in that habitat.
One terrorist organization called Red Skull got information that New Dawn is researching new virus technology. They got four of their members inside the research team as assistants and they were trying to steal Virus. They succeeded in that pretty well, but they also contaminated the whole laboratory at the same time (they got contaminated too). They left from the habitat and headed to Noctis-Qianjiao where their headquarters are located. As Virus kicks in after 6 hours, they were unaware about contamination.
They took sample to their leader.
Mean while in habitat virus started to spread. In next 10 hours, it have taken control of over 50 people. It started to spread as panic did spread. Soon some security personnel were contaminated too, as security persons were the only ones who did have some weapons, started to use weapons against civilians. Officers did lock down whole facility. They did have strict instructions not to let anyone know about these things. They did send message to head quarters about situation, which did send one team to clear settlement. Team was taken down by localswho were frenzied to see any active mesh inserts. Second team was sent two weeks after the first one. It was taken down too. Some of the first team got contaminated too and are part of the frenzied people.
Settlement is basically dangerous place with psychotic and frenzied people. Locals have recycled killed people in their fabricator system and basically they eat their friends.
Now New Dawn thinks what to do with this situation. If it reveals information for some other corp, their place from consortium will be taken away.
Firewall has got information that something has happened, but they don't know what. They send their team to find out, bring evidences and possible samples and so on.
PCs will be at the middle of contaminated habitat, full of frenzied locals who kill all non-contaminated persons.
Thu, 2014-09-11 11:43
#8
Lilith
RE...
Hell, he did exactly that with the Know Evil infection in his Eclipse Phase campaign, which was basically a parallel to modern HIV/AIDs ... only with a transhuman-re-engineered TITAN nanovirus.
Thu, 2014-09-11 12:45
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ShadowDragon8685
Lilith wrote:UnitOmega wrote
I did what, where, now?
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Thu, 2014-09-11 14:05
#10
Lilith
RE...
I was referring to Mr. Stokes, not you.
Thu, 2014-09-11 15:55
#11
UnitOmega
Spoilers for anyone who hasn't Listened to Know Evil, I guess...
Well, the Know Evil nanovirus was of a similar "holy shit" scope as suddenly having a wifi-hunting zombie virus STD would, it doesn't really have the same kind of transmission effect. The dispersal on KE required DSMO and basically functioned like a very slow-moving bomb which also ate stacks and backups.
This situation would be a much more slower infection spread with more time to build up a panic rather than just drop the HSQ bomb and have the party of Sentinels go "The fuck IS this?"
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Thu, 2014-09-11 18:04
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Lilith
RE...
Well I didn't mean so much the nature of the infection as the end result of it. What made KE so terrifying was that you didn't know when it would finally "trigger" and go lethal. You could literally have been infected weeks or months before, only to suddenly end up irrecoverably insane with all your backups corrupted, effectively ego-killing you.
That's some pretty scary shit. Especially since the whole idea of a "slow kill" flies in the face of the whole purpose of a TITAN-designed virus.