Fun Thread: Try to stump your fellow Rifts fans!

csbioborg · Unread post by **csbioborg** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 5:56 pm

I am throwing one out since I really think you have stumpedthe board unless Apollo is lurking
What is the most automatons Dweonor could produce assuming unlimited resources and man power

cornholioprime · Thu Dec 09, 2010 6:12 pm

csbioborg wrote:I am throwing one out since I really think you have stumpedthe board unless Apollo is lurking
What is the most automatons Dweonor could produce assuming unlimited resources and man power

I'll answer your Question and answer mine.

In Rifts Dimension Book 11: Dyval, Apollo Okamura mistakenly draws the Deevil Queen Hel to look like the Asgardian Death Goddess Hel -namely, with one half of her face normal and beautiful, the other half inhuman and terrifying.

As to the Automatons -if the Three Lords of Magic so wished, they could put forth roughly 20,000 Automatons -they temporarily donate 1 MDC and 1 PPE per Automaton, and can recall that energy at any time. (compared to some other questions, this one was pretty easy.)

csbioborg · Unread post by **csbioborg** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:57 pm

okay I'll bring it back
name all the archie units in canon and their current location

cornholioprime · Fri Dec 10, 2010 4:07 pm

csbioborg wrote:okay I'll bring it back
name all the archie units in canon and their current location

Argent Goodson -Head of Titan Industries.

"Argent The Second" (MY designation) another Neural Net experiment that showed up in a recent World Book (I forget which). He is a regional director of a local Titan Industries branch.

"Sergeant Beta" -Spy for ARCHIE and current, trusted member of the Liberated Underground.

"James T" -effective full-conversion cyborg. Wandering the wilds of America with a traveling circus.

Untold numbers of Shemarrians.

Untold numbers of robotic denizens of the forests (disguised as animals).

Untold numbers of robotic Rhino-Buffalo.

ARCHIE-3 O.Z.

Unknown numbers of reprogrammed Skelebots in Chi-Town.

Unknown numbers of unwitting spies who buy and use Titan Industries Armor and its monitoring/memory storage crystals.

csbioborg · Unread post by **csbioborg** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 4:29 pm

I was talking about actual archie units
I give you one archie three
there are more

Jorel · Unread post by **Jorel** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 4:39 pm

There is one on the moon.

cornholioprime · Fri Dec 10, 2010 4:45 pm

csbioborg wrote:I was talking about actual archie units
I give you one archie three
there are more

Very well, then.

ARCHIE -Three
ARCHIE -Seven (In Australia; actually, IIRC, this might not be an actual ARCHIE unit, but modeled after him)
ARCHIE -Four (On the Moon)
ARCHIE -3-OZ (Fully functional Decoy)

The Beast · Unread post by **The Beast** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 5:09 pm

cornholioprime wrote:
csbioborg wrote:I was talking about actual archie units
I give you one archie three
there are more
Very well, then.

ARCHIE -Three
ARCHIE -Seven (In Australia; actually, IIRC, this might not be an actual ARCHIE unit, but modeled after him)
ARCHIE -Four (On the Moon)
ARCHIE -3-OZ (Fully functional Decoy)

Seven is on the Moon. It was originally 4, but has been upgraded 3 times since the CotR.

csbioborg · Unread post by **csbioborg** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:40 pm

missing one

cornholioprime · Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:53 pm

csbioborg wrote:missing one

Damn.

I got nothing.

Somebody help a Brutha out!

Shark_Force · Unread post by **Shark_Force** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:02 pm

isn't there one in NORAD or something like that?

csbioborg · Unread post by **csbioborg** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:39 pm

you know I was thinking their might be oe there but I think that is from a rifter
that is definitely the one I am thinking about

csbioborg · Unread post by **csbioborg** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:10 am

hintit is from one of the dino swamp books

Subjugator · Unread post by **Subjugator** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:04 am

Archie Five, though I don't remember where he is.

/Sub

csbioborg · Unread post by **csbioborg** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 3:16 am

I'll give it there is a Acrhie Zero in one of the adventure who is currently deactivated

some else post a question

The Beast · Unread post by **The Beast** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:56 am

csbioborg wrote:I'll give it there is a Acrhie Zero in one of the adventure who is currently deactivated

some else post a question

Question to you: What was the offical number and which books are they in?

Question for everyone else:

On page 133 of the RMB there is a picture of a Ley Line Walker. What does the writting on his sash hanging from his belt say?

Damian Magecraft · Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:14 am

The Beast wrote:
csbioborg wrote:I'll give it there is a Acrhie Zero in one of the adventure who is currently deactivated

some else post a question

Question to you: What was the offical number and which books are they in?

Question for everyone else:

On page 133 of the RMB there is a picture of a Ley Line Walker. What does the writting on his sash hanging from his belt say?

Lobotomize me

cornholioprime · Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:44 am

The Beast wrote:
csbioborg wrote:I'll give it there is a Acrhie Zero in one of the adventure who is currently deactivated

some else post a question

Question to you: What was the offical number and which books are they in?

Question for everyone else:

On page 133 of the RMB there is a picture of a Ley Line Walker. What does the writting on his sash hanging from his belt say?

Isn't that the piece of art that has Breaux's name on it?

(I swear by The Power Of Grayskull to you all that I haven't cracked open a book, I just remember some sort of adventurer's pic that has Breaux's signature built into the sash.)

Damian Magecraft · Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:48 am

cornholioprime wrote:
The Beast wrote:
csbioborg wrote:I'll give it there is a Acrhie Zero in one of the adventure who is currently deactivated

some else post a question

Question to you: What was the offical number and which books are they in?

Question for everyone else:

On page 133 of the RMB there is a picture of a Ley Line Walker. What does the writting on his sash hanging from his belt say?
Isn't that the piece of art that has Breaux's name on it?

(I swear by The Power Of Grayskull to you all that I haven't cracked open a book, I just remember some sort of adventurer's pic that has Breaux's signature built into the sash.)

The question refers to the color plate IIRC. and if that is the case then I Know the words are Lobotomize me they are written in the PF Runic alphabet. I made it a habit back in the day to translate any runic writing I found in the artwork (curiosity is the down fall of every mage).

csbioborg · Unread post by **csbioborg** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:43 am

The Beast wrote:
csbioborg wrote:I'll give it there is a Acrhie Zero in one of the adventure who is currently deactivated

some else post a question

Question to you: What was the offical number and which books are they in?

Question for everyone else:

On page 133 of the RMB there is a picture of a Ley Line Walker. What does the writting on his sash hanging from his belt say?

archie zero
page 142 dino swamp adventures
all others were covered by the above posters

Johnathan · Unread post by **Johnathan** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:35 am

The writing says "Lobotomize Me" in runic.

EDIT: Damien Magecraft beats me to the punch. I'll get you my pretty! AND YOUR LITTLE DOG TOO! :shock:

The Beast · Unread post by **The Beast** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 10:57 am

Johnathan wrote:The writing says "Lobotomize Me" in runic.

EDIT: Damien Magecraft beats me to the punch. I'll get you my pretty! AND YOUR LITTLE DOG TOO!

By like 5 hours... :lol:

Armorlord · Unread post by **Armorlord** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 11:33 am

The Beast wrote:
cornholioprime wrote:
The Beast wrote:ZK-12 was made by Zachary King.
What in blazes is it...and who is Zacahary King?!?

ZK-12 = Zachary King - formula 12. He created this bio-weapon to kill the Dunlith hive.

Allow me to throw in a related bonus question: What repercussions has the loss ZK-12 had on Lazlo that are unrelated to hostile insects?

Damian Magecraft · Sun Dec 12, 2010 3:11 pm

The Beast wrote:
Johnathan wrote:The writing says "Lobotomize Me" in runic.

EDIT: Damien Magecraft beats me to the punch. I'll get you my pretty! AND YOUR LITTLE DOG TOO!

By like 5 hours...

so that makes it my turn to ask yes?
ok here we go.

This particularly vile Ritual takes 6 hours to preform but will allow a mage to deliver upto 1000 MD to a supernatural creature. Name the spell; the type of magic; and its level.

Armorlord · Unread post by **Armorlord** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 4:33 pm

Damian Magecraft wrote:This particularly vile Ritual takes 6 hours to preform but will allow a mage to deliver upto 1000 MD to a supernatural creature. Name the spell; the type of magic; and its level.

Hm.. Desiccate the Supernatural is the name that comes to mind but I can't think of the level, I'd wager some sort of Necromancy though.

Shark_Force · Unread post by **Shark_Force** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 5:39 pm

Armorlord wrote:
Damian Magecraft wrote:This particularly vile Ritual takes 6 hours to preform but will allow a mage to deliver upto 1000 MD to a supernatural creature. Name the spell; the type of magic; and its level.
Hm.. Desiccate the Supernatural is the name that comes to mind but I can't think of the level, I'd wager some sort of Necromancy though.

iirc, dessicate the supernatural is regular invocation magic, does not require a ritual, and is not even all that high level (and also doesn't do anywhere near 1000 MD as i recall). it's also not particularly vile, from what i recall.

my best guess as to the nature of the ritual, personally, is something out of africa. possibly african witch magic?

as far as what negative effect the loss of ZK-12 has had on lazlo (not related to the bugs themselves), i seem to recall the CS getting their hands on it, and starting to develop bio-weapons. could be wrong though.

cornholioprime · Sun Dec 12, 2010 6:40 pm

Damian Magecraft wrote:
The Beast wrote:
Johnathan wrote:The writing says "Lobotomize Me" in runic.

EDIT: Damien Magecraft beats me to the punch. I'll get you my pretty! AND YOUR LITTLE DOG TOO!

By like 5 hours...

so that makes it my turn to ask yes?
ok here we go.

This particularly vile Ritual takes 6 hours to preform but will allow a mage to deliver upto 1000 MD to a supernatural creature. Name the spell; the type of magic; and its level.

Damian gave us a clue.

By saying the word "vile," he is probably referring to some of the Soulmancy Rituals in the back of the Dimensional Outbreak book. And by "vile," he almost certainly means that this is one of the "higher level" Soulmancy Spells where at the very least, a sentient being must be sacrificed; perhaps multiple sentients, and animals or other non-sentients simply won't do.

Unfortunately for ME.....I haven't yet memorized those Spells, not even partially.

Armorlord · Unread post by **Armorlord** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:39 am

Shark_Force wrote:iirc, dessicate the supernatural is regular invocation magic, does not require a ritual, and is not even all that high level (and also doesn't do anywhere near 1000 MD as i recall). it's also not particularly vile, from what i recall.

my best guess as to the nature of the ritual, personally, is something out of africa. possibly african witch magic?

as far as what negative effect the loss of ZK-12 has had on lazlo (not related to the bugs themselves), i seem to recall the CS getting their hands on it, and starting to develop bio-weapons. could be wrong though.

Perhaps I am thinking of the wrong name, but I'm thinking of the one that siphons off a creature's MDC and PPE to the caster for some amount of time.

As for ZK-12, at least canonly the bio-agent and all traces of it was destroyed by roughly 103 PA by a team of adventurers supported by Tolkeen and Lazlo.

Damian Magecraft · Mon Dec 13, 2010 1:05 am

Well one of you is in the right ball park.
I will leave you all this one last clue.
If the Target saves against the spell it could quite conceivably result in the death of the caster.

I am going leave it at that for now.
I will post the answers after I get back from work tomorrow afternoon.

cornholioprime · Mon Dec 13, 2010 1:22 am

Damian Magecraft wrote:Well one of you is in the right ball park.
I will leave you all this one last clue.
If the Target saves against the spell it could quite conceivably result in the death of the caster.

I am going leave it at that for now.
I will post the answers after I get back from work tomorrow afternoon.

Alright, youse guys.

Damian is going to leave us hanging in suspense until he gets back (or until someone with magical knowledge equal to or greater than his own comes in here and answers that question).

In the meantime, I'll post a Question:

Nxla is probably familiar to everyone here; but for the few uninformed, he is potentially one of the greatest threats to the Megaverse (which gives you some idea of just how badass the Old Ones were for this creature to have been deliberately skipped over as a relatively minor threat when they were imprisoned).

In any event, Nxla can semi-permanently add to his own MDC and PPE by containing souls within him (he never actually devours them, and the process can be reversed). As long as he keeps those essences within him, he keeps those tremendous bonuses; if the souls are never returned to their source, he'll never lose his bonus PPE and MDC.

Name at least one other Greater Supernatural Creature that has a similar capability of semi-permanently enhancing its stats by containing other beings.

HINT: Just to be clear, the Soul Catcher from Dimension Book 10: Hades does NOT gain extra PPE and/or MDC indefinitely from the souls it holds, only on a temporary basis by totally consuming them.

Tyranneix · Unread post by **Tyranneix** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 2:12 am

Damian Magecraft wrote:Well one of you is in the right ball park.
I will leave you all this one last clue.
If the Target saves against the spell it could quite conceivably result in the death of the caster.

I am going leave it at that for now.
I will post the answers after I get back from work tomorrow afternoon.

Death by 1,000 Cuts, Demon Magic, Level 14 ritual, pg 190 in Dimensional Outbreak. Truly a vile and nasty spell.

My turn...

Name all the members of Karl Prosek's immediate family.

Armorlord · Unread post by **Armorlord** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 4:38 am

Tyranneix wrote:Name all the members of Karl Prosek's immediate family.

Dang, I just can't think of the wife's name. Joseph we all know, and I can't recall the deceased son's name- Robert maybe?.

As for my old question further up, since no one seemed to bite, the answer is: Targeted attacks on Lazlo's merchant fleet.
A cookie to the person that remembers why.

Tyranneix · Unread post by **Tyranneix** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:38 am

Armorlord wrote:
Tyranneix wrote:Name all the members of Karl Prosek's immediate family.
Dang, I just can't think of the wife's name. Joseph we all know, and I can't recall the deceased son's name- Robert maybe?.

As for my old question further up, since no one seemed to bite, the answer is: Targeted attacks on Lazlo's merchant fleet.
A cookie to the person that remembers why.

definately close.

and as to the zk-12 question.. they royally pissed off the Duluth Hive and the queen sent retribution against humans in the area.

Damian Magecraft · Mon Dec 13, 2010 10:54 am

Tyranneix wrote:
Damian Magecraft wrote:Well one of you is in the right ball park.
I will leave you all this one last clue.
If the Target saves against the spell it could quite conceivably result in the death of the caster.

I am going leave it at that for now.
I will post the answers after I get back from work tomorrow afternoon.

Death by 1,000 Cuts, Demon Magic, Level 14 ritual, pg 190 in Dimensional Outbreak. Truly a vile and nasty spell.

we have a winner.
The name of the spell caught my eye so of course the spell would stand out in my head. good job Tyranneix.

Armorlord · Unread post by **Armorlord** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 10:57 am

Tyranneix wrote:
Armorlord wrote:
Tyranneix wrote:Name all the members of Karl Prosek's immediate family.
Dang, I just can't think of the wife's name. Joseph we all know, and I can't recall the deceased son's name- Robert maybe?.

As for my old question further up, since no one seemed to bite, the answer is: Targeted attacks on Lazlo's merchant fleet.
A cookie to the person that remembers why.

definately close.

and as to the zk-12 question.. they royally pissed off the Duluth Hive and the queen sent retribution against humans in the area.

Will you accept Mrs. Prosek?

You're also close, but my original question asks about repercussions unrelated to oversized insects.

Tyranneix · Unread post by **Tyranneix** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:27 am

Shinitenshi wrote:
Tyranneix wrote:
Damian Magecraft wrote:Well one of you is in the right ball park.
I will leave you all this one last clue.
If the Target saves against the spell it could quite conceivably result in the death of the caster.

I am going leave it at that for now.
I will post the answers after I get back from work tomorrow afternoon.

Death by 1,000 Cuts, Demon Magic, Level 14 ritual, pg 190 in Dimensional Outbreak. Truly a vile and nasty spell.

My turn...

Name all the members of Karl Prosek's immediate family.

Karl, Elisabeth, Joseph and Jason?

3 out of 4. I'll let you guess which one is wrong.

Here's the hint.. Lord Coake has something to do with the Prosek family member you got wrong.

Damian Magecraft wrote:
Tyranneix wrote:
Damian Magecraft wrote:Well one of you is in the right ball park.
I will leave you all this one last clue.
If the Target saves against the spell it could quite conceivably result in the death of the caster.

I am going leave it at that for now.
I will post the answers after I get back from work tomorrow afternoon.

Death by 1,000 Cuts, Demon Magic, Level 14 ritual, pg 190 in Dimensional Outbreak. Truly a vile and nasty spell.

we have a winner.
The name of the spell caught my eye so of course the spell would stand out in my head. good job Tyranneix.

Anytime!

Tyranneix · Unread post by **Tyranneix** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:42 pm

Shinitenshi wrote:Darn it...it's his wife isn't it?

maybe, maybe not.

ok here is another hint. Prosek's Arch-Nemesis is involved as well.. and if that doesn't give it away I don't know what will.

I'll post the answer tonight if no one hasn't gotten it yet.

Johnathan · Unread post by **Johnathan** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 3:32 pm

Jo-Anna Prosek is the final piece to THIS puzzle!

Tyranneix · Unread post by **Tyranneix** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 1:13 pm

You rock Johnathan..

Your turn!

Johnathan · Unread post by **Johnathan** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 1:45 pm

There is group of heroes on RIFTS Earth that is primarily composed of powerful beings (primarily creatures of magic, supernatural creatures, men of magic and psychics). Being led by a Demigod of no small power himself.

What's the group, the demigod and those Three Galaxy denizens?

Tyranneix · Unread post by **Tyranneix** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 9:18 pm

Shinitenshi wrote:
Tyranneix wrote:You rock Johnathan..

Your turn!

Why does he rock because he got 1 out of 4?

ok you rock more for getting 3 out of 4..

Johnathan · Unread post by **Johnathan** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:32 am

I rock because I got the obscure part of the question right. :3

Tyranneix · Unread post by **Tyranneix** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:39 am

So next questions....

Johnathan · Unread post by **Johnathan** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:43 am

Johnathan wrote:There is group of heroes on RIFTS Earth that is primarily composed of powerful beings (primarily creatures of magic, supernatural creatures, men of magic and psychics). Being led by a Demigod of no small power himself.

What's the group, the demigod and those Three Galaxy denizens?

Here it is. No answers yet...

Tyranneix · Unread post by **Tyranneix** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 1:00 am

Johnathan wrote:
Johnathan wrote:There is group of heroes on RIFTS Earth that is primarily composed of powerful beings (primarily creatures of magic, supernatural creatures, men of magic and psychics). Being led by a Demigod of no small power himself.

What's the group, the demigod and those Three Galaxy denizens?

Here it is. No answers yet...

I got nothing! I wouldn't even know where to begin with that one.

cornholioprime · Thu Dec 16, 2010 1:15 am

Johnathan wrote:
Johnathan wrote:There is group of heroes on RIFTS Earth that is primarily composed of powerful beings (primarily creatures of magic, supernatural creatures, men of magic and psychics). Being led by a Demigod of no small power himself.

What's the group, the demigod and those Three Galaxy denizens?

Here it is. No answers yet...

The only male Demigod NPC that I can think of at the moment is Annias Cearcy of the Collegiate Arcane.

Johnathan · Unread post by **Johnathan** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 2:00 am

Here's a hint: Southern Hemisphere.

Johnathan · Unread post by **Johnathan** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 8:31 pm

Okay, allow me to stand corrected! It is, in fact, NOT a Demigod that leads this group. But a Godling...

My bad...

Johnathan · Unread post by **Johnathan** » Sat Dec 18, 2010 9:05 pm

And it seems, I have yet again posed a stumping question - *sigh*

Well... I think I'm going to stop posting questions at this stage...

The Answers are as follows:

The Group: The Heroes of the Sun
The Godling: Manco Capac
The Three Galaxy references in the group: Cosmo-Knights. There are 4 in this group. Were 5, but he tried to leave RIFTS Earth's atmosphere and has not been heard from since.

cornholioprime · Sat Dec 18, 2010 9:09 pm

Johnathan wrote:And it seems, I have yet again posed a stumping question - *sigh*

Well... I think I'm going to stop posting questions at this stage...

The Answers are as follows:

The Group: The Heroes of the Sun
The Godling: Manco Capac
The Three Galaxy references in the group: Cosmo-Knights. There are 4 in this group. Were 5, but he tried to leave RIFTS Earth's atmosphere and has not been heard from since.

Dangit!!

I had COMPLETELY forgotten about him.......and I was in that Book not too long ago for my own Question early on in this Thread!