Task Force Vulture (Inactive)
Game Master ulgulanoth

post your paranoid speculations here!

Be advised, open source intelligence has turned up one of Stonegate's aliases, "Ron Fouchier" of the Erasmus Institute.

:D

heh

Just chiming in for a short notice that I am still there, I just wait for the possible new player(s) to join.

yea i was waiting for the new players... i think we might need to just move on...

@Travis: I think you did your attributes a bit different from the rest of us. STR/DEX/STA were supposed to be at 3 dots each for free, and it looks like you didn't add anything to them from the 3/4/5 dots during character creation. Also, your fighting style is supposed to be at 5 dots for free. It looks like you haven't spent your full 20 dots in military equipment, but maybe I'm missing something...

So... are we going in with a 3 man team? Do we need to adjust our skills to fill in any gaps?

I notice we don't have anyone with particular skill at vehicle operations, interrogations, or scientific inquiry.

Travis, if you update your character, you would have a chance to spend some of the points you 'get back' on some of the missing skills. If you rather would not have your character being a driver/interrogator, perhaps we could 'shuffle' skills a bit (only if necessary and if you don't mind, ulgulanoth)

well i was thinking of maybe putting an NPC ally or two to help out in the battles, thoughts?

I certainly wouldn't mind an NPC ally (or three)! I think a science officer would make a lot of sense, we would want someone on-site to analyze and evaluate any scientific data we capture. Make him Chilean and give him a School of the Americas background with a pilot's license and advanced vehicle operations training and that would all of our most glaring blindspots.

I would expect a team of at least 5 for something like this, and probably 12 or so more realistically. What if we're the 'tip of the spear', with a support team behind us to assist and perform overwatch?

I have no problem with one or two NPC allys, but I don't particularly dig the idea of a big support team...I'm not totally adverse to it, but have trouble imagining it work out(especially PbP) - still, if that is the way you would want to go, I will do my best to keep up ;-)

Vacation notice!

Pasting this to the discussion threads of all my games...

I'll be traveling halfway around the world starting tomorrow. I should have regular internet access the whole time, but I may miss a day while I'm in transit, and for the next month or so I'll be in the GMT-10 timezone instead of my usual late-evening GMT posts.

Thanks for the notice Shane
As for the NPC allies, I'm just going to introduce 2, a science officer and a communication expert

Sorry about the delay, travel was rough. I hope things are a bit easier going home!

Too little Time for the whole weekend, but I don't want to sign of without wishing you all a merry yule, christmas or other seasons holiday of your chosing.

Is it dead this early?

I've seen a few campaigns die off over the holiday, I'm not writing any of them off completely for another week or so...

i'll post to keep things moving

Fair warning, I'm traveling back home from vacation over the next few days and my posting rate might be affected... pasting this into the discussion thread of all my active games.

ok

I'm (finally) back home. My laptop died on the last leg of my trip and I just got a replacement computer and am catching up on my PbP games...

To help me keep everyone straight:

Wing Commander Shane Frazier: Comm/intel/infiltration specialist
Sergeant (?) Travis Murphy: Medic, infantry background, CQC specialist
Sergeant (?) Trevor MacAlistair: Counter-Revolutionary Warfare specialist, survival & CQC
Sergeant ___: (male) Chilean military
Sergeant ___: (female) Chilean military

Did we ever get the names for the NPCs, or which one was the science officer/comm specialist?

You didn’t get their names but here they are:
Carlos Bankarota – science specialist
Esmeralda Laguna – communications expert

Sorry for being that blunt, but I think it is better to voice my concerns.
I have some difficulties getting into play in this campaign, mainly because of the complete lack of - well getting something to play in.
I would be delighted if you could give us (me) some more details in your posts, like short descriptions of the places we get to, the things and people we encounter.
Please don't take this the wrong way - but it is a concern for me.

I'm having the same problem. The one line updates don't give us a lot to work with and can make it hard to get immersed in the game.

Ok, i'll try to put more detail in my posts

Thank you.

I regret that due to real life concerns I will need to withdraw from this PbP and several others to get my time back under control. My sincere apologies to those involved, but I felt it would be better posted now than just stop altogether.

Thanks for the heads up