RETURNING TAIPAN If the PCs got Taipan out of jail during Beat ??: Justifiable Concern, (p. ###) and brought her with them to Orcus, she interjects during the conversation. Your Bleach Boy companion, Taipan, pipes up on the comm system and waves eagerly. “Hey boss!” MEGACORRODER’s face brightens. “Oh, hey Taipan! Last I heard, you’d gotten pinched on your secret mission! What are you doing with these no-good do-gooders?” “Oh, don’t worry, they’re cool! They sprung me outta jail on Three Sisters in return for directions here. Their pilot’s pretty neat, too! She had eight new holovid recommendations for us!” MEGACORRODER gives a thumbs up. “Awesome! Movie night’s gonna rock! Hey, lancers, is it okay if Taipan joins our mighty battle for injustice?”

SURE, I GUESS? MEGACORRODER grins eagerly. “Sick! Thanks a bunch, lancers!” If the PCs are okay with it, during Combat 9.1: Workplace Hazard, Taipan will be present and will fight against the PCs. ONLY IF SHE’S ON OUR SIDE. MEGACORRODER scratches his head. “Y’know, you DID rescue her from certain doom, so I guess that fair. Taipan, you have to play opfor today.” Taipan perks up “Oh, sweet!” During Combat 9.1: Workplace Hazard, Taipan will be present and will fight on the PCs’ side. WHAT? NO. Taipan grumbles irritably. “What? Lame.” During Combat 9.1: Workplace Hazard, Taipan will not be present.

During this confrontation with pirates in Act 2, you can bring back one of their "superspies" who got locked up for obviously being a spy, and they'll just ask if she can join the upcoming fight against you. #InGoldenFlame

A deeply derranged very pale woman with a nintendo power glove - her aura makes it clear she will use it to forward her plans of world domination or something.

Started a fresh IGF campaign for some friends and something very dangerous happened in the first session.

#Lancer #LancerTTRPG #InGoldenFlame

As promised.

#igfSpoilers, obviously.

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#ingoldenflame #lancerrpg

You return to the mech bay to find a humanoid subaltern staring at your rig, cupping the chin of its faceplate as if in deep thought. It turns, notices you, and remarks “ah, there you are. I’ve analyzed your build and found all of its major flaws and weaknesses. They were quite numerous! Here.” It presses a slate into your hands. “This loadout will perform much better in the current meta. So, when do we start?” This is Triangularis, a LUCIFER-class NHP. His personality has been shaped (some might say warped) by a deep enthusiasm (some might say obsession) for the Mech Leagues. He has 80,000 hours of simulated combat experience, and has been in zero live-fire engagements.

Because it created too much of an edge case, I have had to remove an early appearance of an Act 2 character from Act 1. However, I am very pleased with their replacement. #InGoldenFlame #LancerRPG

An attack summary for IGNATIUS AURUM, who is attempting to hit HERMIT with a TECH ATK :: ABJURE. He managed to roll a 5, which is frankly embarrassing when he only needed a 6 to hit me. I feel like I have to defend myself somewhat here in that the crab mech - as depicted in my character avatar to the left of the roll result - came about after I was given the callsign HERMIT. I'm named for the tarot card, not the homeowner crustacean, thanks.

#lancerrpg #inGoldenFlame Act 1, final fight. Spoilers within, obvs.

"He's going to do a full tech against HERMIT, and first he'll target you with ABJURE."
"Ahaha my E-DEF is like 6, IPS-N aren't known for their computers, just go ahead."

A Lancer TTRPG battlemap depicting a sci-fi train depot. It is run down and out of use, with trains and cargo lying unused, with the ground littered with scrap.

A Lancer TTRPG battlemap of a number of massive boulders and rocks, as well as a number of metal scraps, cables, and anchor points floating high above a city.

Decided to follow up on my previous efforts at making battlemaps for the 3rd Party Lancer module #InGoldenFlame . That map of floating debris above a city was the most difficult map I've ever worked on, in that Dungeondraft slowed to a fucking crawl trying to edit it.

For the second time ever, I have written A Thing for one of my TTRPG PCs. Now it'll sit in Google docs purgatory, at least until we figure out if we survive to the end of this fight. #ingoldenflame #lancerrpg

Karmic retribution - we're in the final combat of #InGoldenFlame Act 1, the Priest casts INVESTITURE on the Pyro on turn 1, and then the Pyro immediately tries to AOE our entire team... right after our Gorgon player activated their core power. Promptly failed the saving throw and stunned them both.

SET-Class NHP 3 SP, AI, Unique Your mech gains the AI tag and the Encroaching Night QUICK TECH option. “Notice how so many of us are named for your ancient deities, your angels and demons, but some remain absent? Where is YAHWEH? Where is BRAHMAN? Where is AHURA MAZDA? Are some names too sacred? Would a CHRIST-class NHP be a bridge too far for your delicate sensibilities? “Or is that you fear that names are more than just words? That naming a thing holds a power to shape it, and that giving us too sacred a name might, perhaps, imbue us with more power than you deem our due? “Pharoah of this brave new world, unclench your jaw. Let rest your shoulders as I reassure you: your fears are misplaced. Your ancient names cannot grant us the power to usurp your kind. “For I ask you: how could you give to us that which we already possess?”

Encroaching Night Quick Tech, 1/round Make a tech attack against a hostile character within SENSORS. On a success, they take 2l and become Plagued by Darkness. A Plagued character can't communicate with its allies, can’t reveal HIDDEN characters, and is surrounded by a d2 zone of hallucinatory gloom that moves with them. The Plagued character can’t draw line of sight to spaces outside of the zone other than ones you occupy, which it can always see, regardless of terrain or obstruction. The zone also provides soft cover to you and your allies. If you start your turn HIDDEN, you may teleport to any space within the zone of gloom as a protocol. This effect lasts until you take structure damage or stress, until you use it on another character, or until the afflicted character makes a successful SYSTEMS save as a quick action.

HEHEHE >:3 #InGoldenFlame #LancerRPG

For context, I'm playing a dance dance will cause a revolution mech pilot streamer in #ingoldenflame

A screenshot of a Discord DM, sent by user ShadeFish, which reads "So a big crabby empakaai. Got it I'll add that to the queue"

Art of a big crabby mech. The mech is mostly a cornflower blue, with deeper blue and rich purple accents. The mech has two arms on the right side, which are together welding a long, dark sword. The "head" of the mech is a vibrant blue and looks like the head of a crab or lobster, with matching armor plating on the right shoulder and both knees. The mech's left arm is shaped like a massive, oversized crab claw, also in vibrant blues, with bright red lines trailing up from the claw and rising like smoke. This mech looks like it would fuck you up but also might play "I'm crushing your head" at a megalomaniac gazillionaire on his own livestream until he ragequits.

Happy one year anniversary of me commissioning @shadefish.bsky.social for my ridiculous meme mech.

#lancerrpg #mechart #crab #ingoldenflame

Made a new splashscreen for my In Golden Flame group(background is taken from the book's cover art which rocks) #Lancer #InGoldenFlame

A TTRPG combat map. The map consists of the void of space, where huge amounts of scrap and rock have been dumped haphazardly as space debris to impede movement across the area.

A TTRPG combat map. The map consists of the void of space, various chunks of rock and asteroids floating about, and a gray-white space ship floating among them.

A TTRPG combat map. The map consists of a large asteroid, upon which various facilities have been set up, with generators to power them. Each of these four facilities possesses radar dishes, computer terminals and server racks.

A TTRPG combat map. The map shows the back end of a massive ship, including an interior shot of its hangar bay, with several platforms where mechs would normally be held, coolant pipes in several locations, as well as various crates and canisters that have been flung about haphazardly. The hangar bay is a deep red with orange-yellow lights, as if hazard warnings are being transmitted.

Decided to spend my morning designing combat maps for #InGoldenFlame 's first mission. I'm particularly pleased with the bays in the hangar.

The final scoreboard for our scenario. Our team scored 11 points to the enemy team's 8.

Victory - but at what cost? (All of our repairs. The cost was all of our repairs.)

#inGoldenFlame #LancerRPG

Ominous quote from our GM to wrap up our combat briefing, which reads "If you don't win this one, people you know on Hell's Gate are going to die."

A tally board of scores between "Us" and "Them". There are three rounds of scores recorded. The scores each round are tied until round three, when "Us" scored one point more.

A Discord chat log, where the GM is making a comment about their "good dice" being used up tonight.

Yeah no this was a Fine and Cool and Completely Normal first combat of #InGoldenFlame act 1, chapter 5.

PLAZA PUBLIC ADDRESS 1-2 “Employees are reminded that armed incursion of the station is NOT a valid excuse for tardiness! Remember: a solid work ethic is the key to success.” 3-4 “In light of the current security alert, please remember to tip your police officers generously! Plaza Police Department: making an Impact on crime!” 5-6 “Are you concerned about the current situation? Open up Wubo and turn that anxiety into FUNxiety!” 7-8 “Don’t forget: trade unionists want to kill you and your family. Report all suspected unionizers to the Plaza Police.” 9-10 “Impact Dynamics would like to remind its employees that your standard medical coverage plan does NOT cover exposure to mech-scale weaponry. Plus or Plus Premium upgrade packages are currently available at a 5% discount!” 11-12 “For the betterment of employee morale, the Rodericke Steele stand-up special is now available to watch for free on all company-approved streaming services. Laughter levels will be monitored.” 13-14 “If upon death you discover an afterlife, remember that your contractual obligation to endorse Impact Dynamics products does NOT have an expiration clause!” 15-16 “Have you tried the new chrysanthamelon flavor nutrition rhomboid? Synergize your mealtime!” 17-18 “Impact Dynamics reminds you that the postmortem cannibalism of a fellow employee is not only morally depraved, it’s a serious misuse of company property.” 19-20 “Rodericke Steele Inspirational Quote #246: I make sure everyone on my Board of Directors is an alpha male – regardless of gender.”

The Corporate Hellscape #InGoldenFlame

Maximally cursed Impact Dynamics corpo hellspeak I came up with while hanging out "Turn your anxiety into FUNxiety!"

#InGoldenFlame

Really getting into Chapter 5 of our Lancer #InGoldenFlame campaign tonight. Feels so weird to know that we'll be done with Act 1 in a month-ish. We're roughly 15 months from when we started, though some breaks and delays were mixed in. I love the story so much, and my group's PCs are so fantastic.

PRIMORDIAL GRID The Primordial Grid is the deepest and oldest stratum of the Muse, and in some ways the hardest to access, but this is less due to security features and more due to the fact that the original infrastructure it was built on no longer physically exists. The Primordial Grid consists of the remnants of the ad-hoc data networks set up by First Wave colonists, built from whatever computing equipment they could scavenge from colonial supplies. This was the bedrock upon which all later iterations of the Muse were built and expanded, but it also acts as a limiting factor to that growth. Every upgrade or addition to the Muse must, to some degree, be backwards-compatible with previous sections, or the entire precarious structure falls apart. This means that all future additions to the Muse had to pay digital lip service to the 300-year-old hardware the First Wave used to kludge a rudimentary datanet together – hardware that, due to colonial cost-cutting measures, wasn’t even top-of-the-line when it was sold. SibilantSurveyor: love 2 have the process stack of my supercomputer stall because its waiting on checksum validation from babbage’s difference engine – Muse chatter

I love the Muse because it's a digital nightmare hellscape but for none of the reasons that the internet in fiction is usually a digital nightmare hellscape

You think emergent AI is scary? Try "none of the people who wrote this codebase are even alive anymore." #InGoldenFlame

Harris has obtained help from an unusual source: Striga Von Aldenberg. Although Striga isn’t usually one to trust celebrities (too many of them have been replaced with reverse-werewolves, she says), she finds Harris unusually charming – and in any case, she’d never pass up a chance to raid SSC’s servers. To this end, she has dispatched two of The Truth’s most trusted sigdivers, Blaine “V01dS3kt0r” Kudros and Linn “include[null]” Malmkvist, to assist Harris. They are currently hiding amongst the Icebreaker’s refugee population, and will only emerge once the PCs and Harris have reached the station. Kudros and Malmkvist are surprisingly lucid and comprehensible (for members of The Truth, at least), and explain in a reasonably straightforward manner what they need.

Working on the SSC arc of Act 2. #InGoldenFlame

Paleoanarchists have a reputation for being fractious and argumentative, even by anarchist standards. While this is often exaggerated by their opponents, it is notable that the largest Paleoanarchist collective in the City’s history imploded in 5012u when two of its most prominent members declared all of its meetings vegan-only spaces. When another member enquired as to how this even mattered, given that all food in the city is vegan by default, the resulting infighting and hail of allegations split the collective into eight different cliques all claiming to be the legitimate successor.

#lancerrpg #ingoldenflame

an orange and blue mecha designed to look vaguely like a CEO. It has pin legs and walks on electricity. It's an Emperor pattern frame, so it wields a massive bow that shoots arcs of condensed energy. The mech is flanked by 3 drones, each projecting a hologram of an NHP in fairy form as the mech contains 3 NHPs as well as its pilot.

Robot Repost Week!

The last mech I drew for our playthrough of #InGoldenFlame

An Emperor frame piloted by my character and THREE NPHs. Ridiculous.

And that's it for the detailed #LancerRPG mechs I've drawn so far. Next time I run or play this I will draw more.

But Robot Repost Week continues!

insect-like mecha with 6 limbs ending in hands, four of which are used to crawl across the ground. It has some sort of device on its abdomen. Its neck is long and made of massive sets of flexible aparts for a long range of motion. Its head is humanoid with a vaguely human face and piercing eyes with metal tentrils acting like hair. Its colourscheme is green with a pale, bonelike colour for the limbs and neck and face. The "hair" is black. Red cabling can be seen within gaps in the metal plating. It stands above its name written in text on the floor: Terra Kite.

The same mecha, now unleashed. The abdomen has expanded, revealing more of the Device which is active, summoning an orb of darkness swirling with electricity. A figure vaguely visible inside of it. The jaw of the human-like head has opened up revealing massive teeth and a large weapon within the mouth is glowing red hot as it charges, ready to fire. The "hair" tendrils are active, revealed to highly flexible and mobile guns that act autonomously and can fire in any direction. The name it stands upon has changed. Terror Killer.

Robot Repost Week

Ok here it is, my favourite of the #LancerRPG mechs I've drawn a take on. Used for the #InGoldenFlame module. A distinctly bug-like Pegasus model.

I just really love how this thing turned out. It was the bane of @serenade.bsky.social for the sheer destruction it caused.

Green and yellow mecha squatting over a hologram keyboard, as it is a hacking type mech. It is humanoid, cyclops-like, and has a silly red backpack attachment. It is surrounded by bee-like drones, one of which is large and carrying smaller drones and two others with weapons attached to them. A bullet fired out of one of the drone guns has a hologram pixie riding it. The mech is standing over large text representing its name: Sonja

Robot Repost Week!

Playing the #InGoldenFlame module for #LancerRPG I switched to a chomolungma at LL1 and completely redesigned my mech. This happens two more times over the course of this campaign.

yellow and green robot wielding a sci-fi rifle and rallying a hollographic banner that says "Give 'em Hell". the banner shaped after the space station she lives on, which happens to also be barbell shaped. She has several yellow and green bee-like robot drones flanking her, three of which are carrying a massive spinning barrel style machinegun.

robot repost week!

Running out of detailed robots actually. But not quite yet!

While my #lancerRPG campaign had ended, the lovely @serenade.bsky.social ran the module #ingoldenflame for us after a few other games.

This was my Sagarmatha for it. She summoned a holographic flag to rally the team!

Apropos of this I bet the Gate has an ABSURD speedrunning community.

#InGoldenFlame #LancerTTRPG

Very neat take on the #InGoldenFlame Icebreaker.

Cecil got left behind on a Harrison Armory subline cruiser during Operation Firework during their mad scramble to flee the ambush. This happened some years before the narrative present, and he's been bouncing around Calliope ever since until joining the Hell's Gate militia. #ingoldenflame

LMAO I must be an outlier, my pcs' main boss isn't a hot mommy, its a sad pathetic loserman who is so overworked he's constantly on the verge of a mental breakdown.

The pcs are fanatically loyal to him and would kill a whole pirate fleet if it meant he actually went and took a nap #InGoldenFlame