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Post by albatross on Mar 9, 2010 20:44:32 GMT -5
These are all good questions.
I would say that Tiger, Kris, Jeckle, Dante, Strongbow and Aiko are present. And yes, we can post. I'll modify it to specify that.
As far as what happened in between - relaxing on the beach, then once the team returned to base - before the team could set out in search of Jeckle's brother, the events in South Korea unfolded.
-Albatross
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Post by shiivster on Mar 10, 2010 18:57:35 GMT -5
teehee .. other than Jeckle admitting to having a ... twin [here's hoping that he's not as strange as Jeckle] =p .. not much is known. i don't even have the char sheet made up for him. spose i should? .. hmmm ...... at least the GM knows what type of personality/job he has/d
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Post by albatross on Mar 15, 2010 21:29:14 GMT -5
Sorry about the post mess, my phone ain't exactly a laptop.
*Error. Error. Error. Checks thread - Hmm... the errors all "worked."*
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Post by dakota on Mar 16, 2010 8:29:15 GMT -5
heh, thought it was stereo posting...
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Post by albatross on Mar 16, 2010 20:02:37 GMT -5
Tiger's equipment and other items in the plane. The only thing missing from the equipment from the last mission is the hundreds of pounds of booze. In its place, Tiger brings along a workshop area for Jeckle, Dante and her to work on more aptitude testers.
Harrier PBY-5A Catalina
The plane has a sonar suite, black box capabilities, chaff-flare decoys, and is armed with rail guns.
*Sonar Suite
*Black Box Abilities: +3 Init. +1 strike, +2 dodge in addition to any other bonus. Identical to the Wild Weasel New West SAMAS Radar & Computer Tracking System Directional, narrow and wide band radio & laser communication Radio Scrambler & Encryption system Targeting Uplink - 24 ground troops or aircraft within 50 miles +1 on initiative, +1 to dodge Full Jamming Suite Communication Jamming Missile Jamming (two kinds) Must have skills: basic electronics, weapons systems, read sensory instruments, and radio scrambler (or electronic countermeasures instead of scrambler) Must roll at -10% to use.
*Chaff-Flare Decoys (24) each adds a cumulative 15% chance to decoying missles, ie 3 chaff equals 45% decoy.
Equipment in the plane:
SLR-60 Spike Launch Rods. Four launchers, 48 spikes, four 400ft spools. Grappling Hook & Line Parachutes - twelve Life raft Medical bag
Vibro knives - 12 (new) Custom Battle Armor and Armored Clothing - 5 (male or female) (new) Custom Battle Armor and Armored Clothing - 5 female NG "Range Rider"
Two Nose Guns: Twin Synchronized TX-50 Rail Guns 6D6 MD/6D6x10SDC per 20 rd burst, 1D6MD/1D6x10SDC per round. 4,000 feet. Twin 600 round drums can fire 30 twin bursts. These drums must be changed on the ground. The pilot is +1 to strike. There are 2 drums in the cargo bay.
One Tail Gun: TX-50 Rail Gun 4D6MD/4D6X10SDC per 20 rd burst, 1D4MD/1D4x10SDC per round. 4,000ft. 200 round drum can fire 10 bursts. The tail gunner can change a drum in 30 sec if trained (3min) The tail gunner is +1 to strike. This gun cannot be operated from anywhere but the tail. There are 4 drums in the cargo bay.
Two Waist Blister Guns: Right and Left TX-500 Rail Guns 6D6MD/6D6x10SDC per 30 rd burst, 3D6ND/3D6x10SDC per 15 rd burst, 1D4MD/1D4x10SDC per round. 4,000ft. 390 round belt (13 long bursts) The blister gunners can change a belt in 30 sec if trained (3min) These guns cannot be operated from anywhere else on the plane and each gun requires an operator. There are 6 belts in the cargo bay.
Cargo:
Small workshop, with some of Tiger's tools is set up in the bomb bay.
TIGER'S Equipment:
She will bring a small duffle bag filled with various military uniforms. She will carry cheap sunglasses, a AAA mini-maglite and spare battery, a pre-paid cell phone, a hundred dollars, and a couple credit cards and her chinese military id and security clearance. Also has the magic silver necklace her father gave her which enables her disguise. (as Captain Hua Ling)
In the Catalina:
CFT Ruger Old Army Twin Revolvers CFT E-6 .45 Long Colt 300rds .45 AP/HX Armor Piercing High-Explosive – 44rds .45 standard – 56rds
The Pilgrim's Harrier Custom Revolver .454 Casull, five speedloaders with 6 AP/HX rounds each on bandoleer- 30rds .454 Casull AP/HX Armor Piercing High-Explosive – 72rds .454 Casull standard – 24rds
Incendiary Hand Grenades AN-M14 TH3 - 48
Robinson Arms VEPR II “Double Dealer” six 7.62mm VEPR II 30 rd magazines six double dealer grenade magazines hold 6 each (36) 48 silver shotgun buckshot rounds 12 silver shotgun slug rounds
Vibro-Arm Claws (two pairs) Battle Armor Fatigues Armored Black Coat Gerber Utility Knife Toolbelt with six Gizmoteer Adaptable Tools.
Expensive Sunglasses Tactical Rappelling Harness Black Special Operations, H-Gear Shoulder Harness Six Belts with Holsters Weapon Cleaning Kit Small suitcase toolkit $120,000 cash
Ruger Twin Old Army Survivors spare cylinders Colt 1860 Army Custom Twin Revolvers spare cylinders Smith and Wesson Twin Custom Classic 9mm
Twin Heckler & Kock MP7s, eight 20rd mags 4.6 x 30
Dragunov Sniper 7.62mm Longshot (4 total) - 12 magazines
L-6 Super Tool Katana
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Post by albatross on Mar 16, 2010 21:12:42 GMT -5
Belated Experience:
Akane starts out level one.
Kris, Tiger, Dante, Jeckle and Strongbow get an additional 2,222 exp points for the last mission just completed.
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Post by Dome on Mar 17, 2010 21:05:31 GMT -5
Thanks for the XP.
As a side note, I have just added up all the XP i have received in this game, and realize I should have gone up a level a ways back. Woot level up ;D
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Post by albatross on Mar 18, 2010 22:33:00 GMT -5
Stats for Tiger's Custom Armor (Each member of the team has one, and she has ten spares)
Custom Battle Armor and Armored Clothing (10 of each)
Of the ten three layer armor systems, 5 of the Customized Body Armor were “male or female” style, and 5 were patterned after the “female” style NG “Range Rider” Riding Armor.
Tiger and each of her soldiers have camouflage armored battle fatigues as a uniform, customized body armor, and a black armored cloak which can be worn over the battle fatigues or the body armor. Each item is custom fitted to a particular soldier and will be -10% to prowl, and -5 to -10% to Speed if worn by anyone else. Camouflage Armored Battle Fatigues: A.R.: 20 with hat, gloves, and boots. MDC: 10, (SDC: 50) weighs 13 lbs. -3% Prowl penalty.
Customized Body Armor (Patchwork or Repaired).
When wearing the helmet: Complete environmental battle armor suitable for use in all environments, including space. Computer controlled, independent oxygen supply and purge system automatically engages in low oxygen or contaminated air environments. Three hour supply. Internal cooling and temperature control. Polarized visor. Built in radio headset (4 miles) and loudspeaker – 60 decibels. Female Soldiers wear rebuilt, modified suits resembling NG “Range Rider” Riding Armor. They have dull black leather hats and also the full Vaqueros helmet. Full helmets are required in combat situations for all mortal beings under Tiger’s command. The rest of the suit is also a dull, non-reflective black, although the styling is personalized and intricate, custom fit for each soldier. Weight: 11 lbs. No penalties, excellent mobility. M.D.C.: Hat – 10 (Helmet 35), Arms – 12 each, Legs – 15 each, Main Body – 30. (SDC:50) Male Soldiers wear rebuilt, modified suits resembling NG “Maverick” Riding Armor. They have dull black leather hats and also the full Vaqueros helmet. Full helmets are required in combat situations for all mortal beings under Tiger’s command. The rest of the suit is also a dull, non-reflective black, although the styling is personalized and intricate, custom fit for each soldier. Weight: 11 lbs. No penalties, excellent mobility. M.D.C.: Hat – 10 (Helmet 35), Arms – 12 each, Legs – 16 each, Main Body – 36. (SDC: 55)
Armored Black Cloak:
+8 MDC to arms, +10 MDC to Legs, +20 MDC to Main Body. No penalties for the person it was designed for. -10% to prowl, and -5 to -10% to Speed if worn by anyone else.
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Post by dakota on Mar 18, 2010 22:55:44 GMT -5
MDC? In an HU game?
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Post by albatross on Mar 18, 2010 22:59:37 GMT -5
I'm sure you can do the conversion. I originally designed it for an MD world.
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Post by albatross on Apr 20, 2010 18:19:54 GMT -5
The Tester:
The portable tester is composed of several parts, each part is a significant advancement on existing technology.
Here are parts, which can be determined by telemechanics or by reading the manuals Tiger provided.
Control Interface. The part you touch. This essentially interprets certain brain wave patterns by tracing back though the nerves in the hand up the arm to the brain. Kind of like telling someone how to repair a car over the phone. Building a control interface will take 12 hours, with a skill penalty of -60% to all skill rolls. Failure means a new 12 hours of work is required. (Jeckle only -50%).
Module. This controls the amount of shield generated, keeping the output constant instead of some kind of instanteous flash of light. This only requires 6 hours of work, and carried a -30% penalty. Failure requires a fresh six hours work. (Jeckle only -20%)
Circuit. This routes the power from the generate to the actuator. Its some kind of alloy, looks like a DNA double helix composed of interlocking "8"s or infinity signs. Nothing too difficult, requires 17 hours work, -40% skill penalty. Failure means only the faulty pieces need to be replaced, 5 hours of work additional.
Ambient Reactor. It isn't fusion, but it might be helpful to think of it as a fusion alternative. The Ambient Reactor is the most complicated piece of the portable tester. It requires 30 hours of work and carries a -70% penalty. Any failure and the whole thing needs to be built again from scratch. Fresh 30 hours. (Jeckle only -30%)
Ambient Reactor Regulator. This keeps the reactor steady. It is relatively simple, compared to the reactor and requires 13 hours of work and carries a -40% penalty. Failure means the regulator must be rebuilt, a fresh 13 hours spent. (Jeckle only -30%)
Actuator. This projects the light, or shield. It pretty complicated and requires 22 hours of work and carries a -60% penalty. Failure means it has to be adjusted, which will require a further 12 hours of work.
Box. To make the tester portable, Tiger crammed everything into a tiny box in a complicated tetris style arrangement. It will require at least 12 hours to assemble everything inside such a small space witha skill penalty of -20%. Failure means a new attempt, with at least four more hours added to the assembly time. Any adjustments or improvements to Tiger's design will require an additional roll to assemble for each change.
Oh, and this stuff is extraordinarily complicated, so working more than 12 hours on it in a day adds an additional -10% penalty for each hour beyond twelve.
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Post by albatross on May 26, 2010 20:21:13 GMT -5
Candidate Interview:
These are the interview questions Tiger gave to Kris:
INTERVIEW 1. Lincoln's Riddle: If you count the tail as a leg, how many legs does a dog have? (Four, a calling a tail a leg doesn't make it true). 2. You are right next to a river and have a 5 gallon container and a 3 gallon container. You need to measure out 4 gallons of water. How do you do it? (Fill the 5gal container, use the 5gal container to fill the 3gal container leaving 2 gallons in the 5gal container. Empty the 3gal container, then put the 2 gallons from the 5gal container into it. Refill the 5 gall container. Now top off the 3gal container. This will add 1 gallon to it, and leave 4 gallons in the 5gal container.) 3. How can you measure the size of the Earth (*see footnote at bottom) 4. You are driving a two-seat sports car. You pull up to a bus stop in the pouring rain and you see at the bus stop: your best friend, the woman of your dreams, and an old lady who needs to get to the hospital. What do you do? (Give the car to your best friend and have him take the old lady to the hospital, while you take the bus with the woman of your dreams).
Contract Information:
Successful candidates will receive a $1 million dollar salary and qualify for a $1 million dollar bonus if they qualify at the North America trials.
*How big is the Earth?
The first reasonably good measurement of the earth’s size was done by Eratosthenes, a Greek who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, in the third century B.C. He knew that far to the south, in the town of Syene (present-day Aswan, where there is now a huge dam on the Nile) there was a deep well and at midday on June 21, the sunlight reflected off the water far down in this well, something that happened on no other day of the year. The point was that the sun was exactly vertically overhead at that time, and at no other time in the year. Eratosthenes also knew that the sun was never vertically overhead in Alexandria, the closest it got was on June 21, when it was off by an angle he found to be about 7.2 degrees, by measuring the shadow of a vertical stick.
The distance from Alexandria to Syene was measured at 5,000 stades (a stade being 500 feet), almost exactly due south. From this, and the difference in the angle of sunlight at midday on June 21, Eratosthenes was able to figure out how far it would be to go completely around the earth.
Alexandria
If the Sun is directly overhead at Syene, and the angle between a vertical stick and its shadow is α at Alexandria, then α is also the angle between lines from Alexandria and Syene to the center of the Earth
Sunlight
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Syene
Of course, Eratosthenes fully recognized that the Earth is spherical in shape, and that “vertically downwards” anywhere on the surface just means the direction towards the center from that point. Thus two vertical sticks, one at Alexandria and one at Syene, were not really parallel. On the other hand, the rays of sunlight falling at the two places were parallel. Therefore, if the sun’s rays were parallel to a vertical stick at Syene (so it had no shadow) the angle they made with the stick at Alexandria was the same as how far around the Earth, in degrees, Alexandria was from Syene.
According to the Greek historian Cleomedes, Eratosthenes measured the angle between the sunlight and the stick at midday in midsummer in Alexandria to be 7.2 degrees, or one-fiftieth of a complete circle. It is evident on drawing a picture of this that this is the same angle as that between Alexandria and Syene as seen from the center of the earth, so the distance between them, the 5,000 stades, must be one-fiftieth of the distance around the earth, which is therefore equal to 250,000 stades, about 23,300 miles. The correct answer is about 25,000 miles, and in fact Eratosthenes may have been closer than we have stated here---we’re not quite sure how far a stade was, and some scholars claim it was about 520 feet, which would put him even closer.
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Post by dakota on May 31, 2010 19:08:03 GMT -5
Candidate Interview: These are the interview questions Tiger gave to Kris: INTERVIEW 1. Lincoln's Riddle: If you count the tail as a leg, how many legs does a dog have? (Four, a calling a tail a leg doesn't make it true). 2. You are right next to a river and have a 5 gallon container and a 3 gallon container. You need to measure out 4 gallons of water. How do you do it? (Fill the 5gal container, use the 5gal container to fill the 3gal container leaving 2 gallons in the 5gal container. Empty the 3gal container, then put the 2 gallons from the 5gal container into it. Refill the 5 gall container. Now top off the 3gal container. This will add 1 gallon to it, and leave 4 gallons in the 5gal container.) 3. How can you measure the size of the Earth (*see footnote at bottom) 4. You are driving a two-seat sports car. You pull up to a bus stop in the pouring rain and you see at the bus stop: your best friend, the woman of your dreams, and an old lady who needs to get to the hospital. What do you do? (Give the car to your best friend and have him take the old lady to the hospital, while you take the bus with the woman of your dreams). Contract Information: Successful candidates will receive a $1 million dollar salary and qualify for a $1 million dollar bonus if they qualify at the North America trials. *How big is the Earth? The first reasonably good measurement of the earth’s size was done by Eratosthenes, a Greek who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, in the third century B.C. He knew that far to the south, in the town of Syene (present-day Aswan, where there is now a huge dam on the Nile) there was a deep well and at midday on June 21, the sunlight reflected off the water far down in this well, something that happened on no other day of the year. The point was that the sun was exactly vertically overhead at that time, and at no other time in the year. Eratosthenes also knew that the sun was never vertically overhead in Alexandria, the closest it got was on June 21, when it was off by an angle he found to be about 7.2 degrees, by measuring the shadow of a vertical stick. The distance from Alexandria to Syene was measured at 5,000 stades (a stade being 500 feet), almost exactly due south. From this, and the difference in the angle of sunlight at midday on June 21, Eratosthenes was able to figure out how far it would be to go completely around the earth. Alexandria If the Sun is directly overhead at Syene, and the angle between a vertical stick and its shadow is α at Alexandria, then α is also the angle between lines from Alexandria and Syene to the center of the Earth Sunlight α Syene Of course, Eratosthenes fully recognized that the Earth is spherical in shape, and that “vertically downwards” anywhere on the surface just means the direction towards the center from that point. Thus two vertical sticks, one at Alexandria and one at Syene, were not really parallel. On the other hand, the rays of sunlight falling at the two places were parallel. Therefore, if the sun’s rays were parallel to a vertical stick at Syene (so it had no shadow) the angle they made with the stick at Alexandria was the same as how far around the Earth, in degrees, Alexandria was from Syene. According to the Greek historian Cleomedes, Eratosthenes measured the angle between the sunlight and the stick at midday in midsummer in Alexandria to be 7.2 degrees, or one-fiftieth of a complete circle. It is evident on drawing a picture of this that this is the same angle as that between Alexandria and Syene as seen from the center of the earth, so the distance between them, the 5,000 stades, must be one-fiftieth of the distance around the earth, which is therefore equal to 250,000 stades, about 23,300 miles. The correct answer is about 25,000 miles, and in fact Eratosthenes may have been closer than we have stated here---we’re not quite sure how far a stade was, and some scholars claim it was about 520 feet, which would put him even closer. Seriously? This is Khris you're talking about. He'd screw these up if he was stone sober...
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Post by albatross on Jun 1, 2010 19:24:38 GMT -5
I thought he'd write them on his hand. He could always text Tiger for the questions.... ha.
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Post by dakota on Jun 2, 2010 4:30:46 GMT -5
His hand isn't that big he probably thought Dante would help remember them
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