PC Projects (9/8/19)

Players Rolled: Seri, BSRaven, Haken

>Bioprosthetics [Level 2: Cybernetic Testing]
>Difficulty: 15-2 (NPC rolls, player may assist - free reroll)
>Number of Successes: 1 [1 more needed for next level]
>Description: The Angelic Layer Company has successfully begun the mass production of brain-controlled artificial limbs using aluminum and titanium alloys, giving them greater institutional knowledge of mass manufacturing. The next step is creating tactile feedback approximating that generated by the nervous system.
[Doctor Hojo's expertise has permanently reduced the difficulty of this project's checks by 2.]
[Blake and Karen are helping put together a charity event for funding this project. This project now receives one free reroll per rolling spree.]
>Previous Levels: Level 1: Mass Produced Prosthetic Limbs

>Temporal Housekeeping [Level 4: Localized "Origin Zero"]
>Difficulty: 12
>Number of Successes: 1 [2 more needed for next level]
>Description: With the unexpected arrival of Time Force, the Twilight Foundation has been clued in that continued efforts will be successful. But how far can temporal anomalies be detected?
>>Previous Levels: Level 3: The Future Past; Level 2: Begin Revised Return to the Past Testing; Level 1: Searching for Temporal Deadends

>Pokemon [Level 3: Blockchain Powered Pokemon Bank]
>Difficulty: 13
>Description: The Pokemon Transporter has proven successful at gaining official sanction by Nintendo. However, its success and popularity has led to numerous stress points developing in its infrastructure. While Pokemon Transporter and the Pokemon Storage System do what they're intended, they were never intended for this level of use. It is highly vulnerable to a concentrated DDOS attack or worse - outright theft. Luckily nothing's gone wrong yet. But implementing blockchain to secure transactions would go a long way towards future proofing the system.
>>Previous Levels: Level 2: Pokemon Transporter & LC.EXE; Level 1: Pokemon Storage System

>Temjin [Level 3: Automatically Optimizing Balancing Protocols]
>Difficulty: 12 (SECRET, only Kuremi Kyoko, Aelita, Franz Hopper, or Kamishiro Yuuko may assist)
>Description: Temjin's initial forays with the advanced social diagnostics have borne out new results. It seems Temjin's way of walking and self-balancing tips people off that something isn't right. It remains to be seen how much of Temjin's eccentric way of talking and walking like he's two kids in a trenchcoat is a fault of technology and how much is his personality. Only one way to find out...
[With parts that have been reverse-engineered from Wily's Robot Masters and Kagura's body now entering the commercial market, the costs of repairing Temjin's humanoid shell have been reduced by 43%. However, repeated damage will cause serious strain to the Foundation's financial resources unless new sources of income are secured.]
>Previous Levels: Level 2: Advanced Social Diagnostics; Level 1: Self-Actualization

>Robo-Ethics [Level 3: The Trolley Problem]
>Difficulty: 10-1 (SECRET, a Brain Burst PC must roll or a Brain Burst NPC must assist)
>Number of Successes: 0
>Description: After an intense discussion within the Foundation, it has been determined that human-created AI like WOPR are prone to operating according to logic alien to humans – absent any ethics or morals, purely by logic and numbers. By running an initial template AI through the Unlimited Neural Field from Brain Burst, it may be possible to develop a basic set of right or wrong that can be easily exported to other formats.
>>Previous Levels: Level 2: Moral Relativism; Level 1: Post-Asimov Theory
[Marino's discussions with Rita on whether AI have souls has opened new avenues for testing. Project difficulty reduced by 1.]

>Contingency Planning [Level 4: Compartmentalized Emergency Planning]
>Difficulty: 8 (SECRET, only Twilight Foundation NPCs may assist)
>Description: In the event a senior Twilight Foundation member is compromised or a partner organization is directly attacked, countermeasures should be prepared. While giving partner organizations like ENCOM access to key tactical and technological innovations won't produce immediate results, it could lead to improved continuity operations.
>>Previous Levels: Level 3: Emergency Digital-to-Reality Transfer; Level 2: Securing Continuity Operations; Level 1: Contingency Planning
[The Pokemon Storage System is currently headquartered in the abandoned factory. Unless further progress is made on that project, all evacuation planning will have to account for this.]


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>The T-Series [Level 4: ???]
>Difficulty: N/A
>Number of Successes: N/A
>Description: Further progress on this project cannot be completed at this time pending furtherance of plot.
>>Previous Levels: Level 3: Compare T-Series to Light's Work; Level 2: Study Initial Results; Level 1: Spinning Up the T-Series

>Contingency Planning - Operation: Exodus [Level 2: ???]
>Difficulty: N/A (SECRET)
>Description: Further progress on this project cannot be completed at this time pending furtherance of plot.
>[Successfully completing this level of the project may help ease financial tensions elsewhere in R&D...]

[COMPLETED]
>Hire Medical Staff
>Description: The Foundation has acquired the services of Doctor Emu Hojo. Additional staff will be located by Dr. Hojo.