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Post by meribson on Dec 6, 2017 22:56:39 GMT
So here me out, it is stated in multiple sources that a lich's phylactery can be anything. One of the new Starfinder classes is the technomancer. So why not a technomancer lich that used a computer program as it's phylactery?
Thoughts?
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Post by lasersniper on Dec 8, 2017 8:12:14 GMT
I feel like a phylactery needs to attached to something physical. Though I do like the idea of combining magic and programming to become a digital lich. Like turning yourself into a program and hoping around tech, leaving copies and backups of yourself behind.
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minerfinn1
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Post by minerfinn1 on Dec 12, 2017 5:20:11 GMT
This is certainly an interesting idea, i dont know much about starfinder, but assuming that it is like dnd in space, could you have the lich manage to board the player's ship and take control of it? you could let the lich lock the players in and prevent them from doing anything all 2001 style. you could even get crazy with it and have the lich start creating some sort of physical manifestation of corrupted code that seeps out of computer screens and attacks the players.
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Post by phos on Dec 30, 2017 22:26:43 GMT
This is going off a little off topic but I’m now imagining a massive Demi-Lich. Like the Death Star as the Demi-Lich, or for those of you old enough, Unicron from the animated transformers movie. I see an Ultron or Brianiac component here to. Send the players in to defeat the big bad in his base never realizing he is the base, and they’re just fighting a drone. Then blowing up the base only to find dozens of escape pods carrying copies of the virus have shot out to the far corners of space.
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Post by randosaurus on Jan 3, 2018 5:28:11 GMT
Your lich might not be a virus but an instantiation-- a concept I picked up from JAVA.
Class-Instance is some of the conceptual basis for JAVA programming language, so may be appropriate here.
A Class is any broad category of thing. SWORD is a class of weapons, ORC is a class of creature.
An Instance is any single example of the class. SWORD might have attributes (properties) such as +1 or an ORC might have behavior (method) such as Ranged Attack+5.
If I were a programmancer crafting a software phylactery, I could create a RANDOSAURUS class. There would be a discrete block of code installed on a particular span of memory in an actual hard drive somewhere. From that programmed class, I would create an instantiation wherever there is a suitable compiler or decoder. If the RANDOSAURUS class included all the relevant details of my personality, my attributes and behaviors, a compiler could use my phylactery code to create the exact lichiness I programmed. Destroying the code would be the equivalent of destroying the phylactery.
The plot hook in this case would be to find the hard drive-phylactery, and destroy it.
A lich virus, in your scenario, could be a class that creates instances of liches that could create additional instances-- infinite liches/viruses instead of one that keeps coming back. In this particular construction, the virus is actually a self-propagating code, or self-replicating machine. This is a different sort of challenge than a lich, more similar to Agent Smith by the events of 'Matrix: Revolution'.
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Post by dmdrowenforcer on Apr 20, 2018 0:43:43 GMT
Slightly off topic, but what if a demon lord was killed and his cult captured his spirit and trapped it inside a computer?
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Post by meribson on May 8, 2018 21:15:23 GMT
Slightly off topic, but what if a demon lord was killed and his cult captured his spirit and trapped it inside a computer? Something similar I did was a Balor that was heavily upgraded with cybernetics. Think half balrog from LotR and half Terminator |
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Post by zimthegoblin on Sept 4, 2018 10:55:37 GMT
So here me out, it is stated in multiple sources that a lich's phylactery can be anything. One of the new Starfinder classes is the technomancer. So why not a technomancer lich that used a computer program as it's phylactery? Thoughts? Sounds like brainiac from the superman cartoons in the 90's only needing one piece of his code to survive to have him come back he was a villion you love to hate and come back again and again |
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