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Continuity - stage 3 questions (spoilers)

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Mon, 2015-08-10 16:17

doublethink doublethink's picture

Continuity - stage 3 questions (spoilers)

Q1) When the Istari docks, does the nanoplague flow into the Kepler via the open airlock? Stage 3 (pg11) says:

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...you both feel and smell a gust of contaminated air that blows in from the direction of the machine shop. Something foul has arrived to the Kepler. ... Any characters present in the machine shop will witness the airlock being accessed and feel the gust of contaminated air that blows in from the Istari.

Is that the nanoplague from the Istari, flowing into the Kepler? I assume that's what "contaminated air" means. Therefore, if any PCs are wandering around the Kepler without any kind of protection, they would be infected? Q2) Regarding infection, does a standard vacsuit count for protection?

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These nanobots infect biological and synthetic bodies as well as electronics and other machinery.

Does that mean a vacsuit is useless against the nanoplague?

Tue, 2015-08-11 06:15

hyades

The author of Continuity

The author of Continuity talks about this here: http://eclipsephase.com/comment/13100#comment-13100 Personally, I'd see no problem with upping the ante even more. The scenario is quite the deathtrap anyways.

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The Istari’s cornucopia machine was infected via the ship’s mesh network and soon thereafter began producing a nanovirus to spread the exsurgent infection.

If the cornucopia machine maintains the exsurgent nanoswarms aboard the Istari and if these swarms are programmed accordingly, they could definitely enter the Kepler as soon as the airlock opens and start infecting everything. That would probably take some time though. Unless of course the swarms are programmed to seek out and infect morphs first... As for vacsuits I'd rule that they give at least temporary protection. Until they're subverted and start growing chrysacid spurs that is.

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Tue, 2015-08-11 07:07

doublethink doublethink's picture

thanks, hyades - appreciated