This is information that everyone might know. Since clearly most of you don't play 'Take Back the Planet!!' <insert_wink> ;), I'll give you the hint that the information is within one of the two links to actual documents found in the Campaign Blurb at the top of the page ... ;)
Is it really? The only mention of a Fisk in either document is a dead Australian man.
Did you mean Austrian? If so, I don't believe I killed him off ...
Hard to access Google Docs on my phone so I can't double check, but pretty sure it says Australian.
And that all 200 subjects (with no exception for him) died.
Double-check when you get better access. ;)
Found it!
Sorry for the delay - mental disconnect on the game for a bit, expected other interaction. No excuse, really, except sheer stupidity and spending Sunday with the SO.
I couldn't resist a smash-cut. Sorry. I WILL get to the Commandant's Saturday Evening speech/greeting, though.
New stuff available on the Campaign Info tab, though - daily schedule, uniforms, and the student NPCs you'll be dealing with on a daily basis!!
:)
Aight, finally have proper time to post again. I've been somewhat avoiding the thread since a lot of my posting has been on the phone at work for the past week since I've been training new hires, and your posts are hard to read on a phone. Should be back to my regularly scheduled posting now.
Heya GM I need a reminder of distances, 5" in heros terms is how far in metres please?
1" = 2m.
WB, Sundakan. Get a compooter!! ;)
Thankyou
1" = 2m.
WB, Sundakan. Get a compooter!! ;)
I have a computer, I just can't use it at work.
Do we need to come up with an answer to all 12 parts of the course.? One at a time etc.. an example would be great.
The way Mei is doing it is fine, 'attacking' them one by one. If you want to gloss over something where you're not doing anything especially risky - fly up to the switch, pause to flip it, then fly on to the next one - that's good too.
The only time you really SHOULD pause for GM adjudication is if you're pushing at the edge of the possible - doing a switch-flip while moving at full speed, or trying to use a power on an obstacle in an unusual way (trying to fly through the Maze, for example).
Is "The Race" in section 8 specifically a swimming challenge, or can any movement be used?
'The Race' and 'The Raft' is a course-split; the raft part is for swimmers, the 'race' is for everyone else. You pick your direction, overland or water, and go. Or, short answer, any movement can be used on 'the race'.
BTW, everyone can post. Don't wait on anyone else. Even the 'slowest' of you (Bruce's 5" teleport - 5 END per turn, 6 REC per turn, so he doesn't have to slow down except for crawling and, in the water, swimming) can cover 2 x 12 x 5 x 5 = 600" = 1200m at the slowest - that'd be emerging from the maze and heading to the water at the very worst (i.e. slowing down to a 1"/phase crawl in the Woodpile).
So, a crit tumble on the walls...
The walls basically have ladders built-in; climbing tests aren't necessary. When you get to the Trees, you can make climbing tests with a +2 bonus to your skill to increase the baseline 2"/phase, but I'll give you a Dex roll to catch yourself on the way down, since you'd be hitting tree branches most of the way. (And there's ladders from the lowest branches down to the ground anyhow.)
8) The Raft/The Race: Options split for 300m of high-speed movement. In the pond (The Raft), there are 5 pilings painted red or yellow, curving along the shoreline, but deep enough for a swimmer to be able to move freely. The last piling is yellow to indicate the cadet needs to turn right, into the lake; the cadet then goes out to the red-painted raft, keeping it on their left, before returning to shore at a 6th piling painted blue, meeting back up with the land-based course. On the land-based course, after emerging from the Pier, the cadet follows a long arc around the far end of the pond.
. . . Levers: None.Obstacle Distance: 1000m.
Total Distance: 2320m.
'The Race' and 'The Raft' is a course-split; the raft part is for swimmers, the 'race' is for everyone else. You pick your direction, overland or water, and go. Or, short answer, any movement can be used on 'the race'.
You do not cover BOTH the Raft AND the Race; this part of the course is designed for you to pick the option that best highlights your high-speed movement.
Please let me know if Corwin is going to swim through the Raft portion (1 km of swimming), then go back and fly through the Race portion (another 2 km, one there, one back).
GM's Edit/Note: Yes, I messed up on the distance written in the fluff description; the 'Obstacle Distance' information is the correct portion.
Hey all I'm thinking I should drop from this game..
I've not got the inspiration and enthusiasm to get me to make the posts that the good gm and yourselves deserve.
You can all do with Bruce as you like.
Honestly, I think I'm there too. I play by post in large part because I can crank out a relatively short post and still have fun interacting with people, dialogue back and forth, etc. Looking at how long almost every single post here is drains me before I can even start thinking about writing one.
I really love the world building you've done here, and the effort you put into this game, but I don't think I'm able to keep up with it. I'd love to read along, but playing in it has become tiring for me especially as I close in on moving and new job hunting.
Fair enough.
And at this point I guess it's a question of whether or not to put it out of its misery. Neither Arcturas Advent nor Electric Monk have posted in almost a month, so we'd be down to 4 players at most.
I have enjoyed the game, but I can understand your frustration.
(I wouldn't mind a game with 3-4 players. I'd be unable to run more than that, myself ;) Just depends on if we are regular and interact well...)
I'm still game.
All right. Tired now, but will post/catch up tomorrow. Finish going through the course, up to the Plug, which you can push at.
All right. Tired now, but will post/catch up tomorrow. Finish going through the course, up to the Plug, which you can push at.
I'm still game too..
I'm till in. Don't give up on this!
Corwin's background is still a military-academy student, scion of a military family with a long history of service, and that his father is a Captain in the PDF, correct?
Sorry, Barrier, just trying to hear the voice with which Corwin is speaking, and understanding what attitude it is you're trying to get across. As it stands, what's coming across is that he's a snide, sarcastic a+&#+&&. If that's what you mean to portray, that's fine, I and the rest of the group will play off that, but if it isn't what you mean to put forward, please let us know so we can adjust.
Yep, his background hasn't changed at all. What you stated is correct.
As far as his attitude is concerned, generally Corwin is not snide, nor sarcastic, but he can come off as an a...h... without meaning to.
Corwin was attempting to show that he both accepted his punishment with a sense of humor. Humor has never ever been a strong suite for Corwin, but occasionally he tries.
In this most recent case, Corwin was also reacting to the story that he heard before about the cadet who killed other cadets during a training mistake in addition to WO Foucaut's comments about the same subject. He was sincerely attempting to reassure her that he would die alone if the circumstances she described occurred and to assure her that he believed that they would not happen.
One thing he has learned is to take WO Foucaut literally.
The WO said she doesn't want to hear his reasons so Corwin is going to obey her and not give his reasons in her presence.
If Corwin is sometimes perceived as an ass by his fellow cadets in the beginning, that's acceptable to he and I. I am hoping that his superiors especially the adults, are more perceptive and sympathetic.
Do note that he did express an willingness to talk about his reasons later.
No, saw all that; it's just that in this -
Corwin smiled and looked very sincere as he addressed the WO. "Thank you WO Foucaut for filling my weekends with things to do for the next" he paused to read from his PIT, "five point two five months. I appreciate your enabling me to set a record so eary in my time here. Before I was wondering what I was going to do with so much time on my hands."
- he comes across as a snotty little prick, what with thanking her, especially with the 'I was wondering what I was going to do' bit.
With this -
"However, given that I have proven otherwise for quite a long while, I expect that I will learn much while I am here, WO Foucaut."
- he comes through as clearly thinking she's a scum-sucking useless twit who is so inept she can't get past Warrant Officer, while he's been 'in the business' for, as he says himself, 'quite a long while' - which winds up with him coming across as an elitist, arrogant, @sshole know-it-all.
And this -
"I don't want to waste the WO's time with my reasoning as the WO has clearly stated that she does not care what my reasons were."
- is clearly taking her literally, but smacks highly of 'I'll f!*# with her by taking her with absolute literalness,' even when 'Foucaut is not the only one keen to hear Corwin's answer' and everyone ELSE who's there, meaning the other four ex-PC teammates as well as your seven senior enlisted cadets, are looking at you and waiting for it.
I dunno - everything I've read about military attitudes, especially the 'elite military', says what Richard Marcinko calls Commandment #6 of SpecWar - "Thou hast not to like it - thou hast just to do it." On the other hand, I suppose the brown-nosing suck-up 'thank you so much for punishment, sir, please give me more' attitude (as compared to a simple, perhaps resigned, 'yes sir', then go out and do the punishment detail with great diligence and attention to detail) might be what they taught Corwin in whatever military academy he went to? If that's how you want to run it (and I'm pretty sure you do, as this is very consistent with Corwin's actions on HC), that's fine, I just want to make sure there's not something I'm missing.
If Corwin is sometimes perceived as an ass by his fellow cadets in the beginning, that's acceptable to he and I. I am hoping that his superiors especially the adults, are more perceptive and sympathetic.
Chopped a response to this because I realized that I think I'm missing a key element, to wit 'perceptive and sympathetic to what, exactly?' Which, really, emerges as what's been my question all along. What is it about Corwin that they should perceive that I'm missing, and what should they be sympathetic to that I'm not seeing?
Only when he believes it is completely necessary does he attempt to interpret his orders rather than to follow them absolutely.
Corwin was prepared to accept some punishment for the way in which he followed the WO's orders. Yes, he does think he did follow her orders.
Corwin's second nature is to have great respect for his superior officers. This is due to a combination of home and academy training.
What I meant was that while sometimes Corwin can perceived to be an ass, his superiors should realize that there is no conscious intent in him to be so. His personally profile should show that he can be overly precise in an attempt to be efficient. His record should show that occasionally it has taken him a short while to integrate fully with a unit. However once he does so he is a team player and able to mesh well within those units he has been a part of.
That ... I don't think that last paragraph answers my question, so let me talk it out here to see if I get what you're meaning.
They should perceive that he's not intentionally an ass, it's just the way he is - that his personality and education have made him a by-the-book orders-executed-exactly-as-given* soldier.
They should sympathize with/that ... what? That in the long run he's a 'team player'? Or sympathize with the idea that he has great respect for his superior officers, even if his ability to display that respect is utterly offensive?
* - While I am willing to accept that he somehow thinks that stopping every twenty feet in the first part of the course was actually following the order to 'get through the course as quickly as possible', I hope that you the player know and acknowledge that in no way was it following her order. I expect I'll be fascinated to read Corwin's explanation a little further on in the gameplay thread, post-afternoon-classes. ;)
They should perceive that he's not intentionally an ass, it's just the way he is - that his personality and education have made him a by-the-book orders-executed-exactly-as-given* soldier.
Exactly.
They should sympathize with/that ... what? That in the long run he's a 'team player'? Or sympathize with the idea that he has great respect for his superior officers, even if his ability to display that respect is utterly offensive?
I apologize for using the whole sympathize idea. Disregard that train of thought.
What they should know from his record is that this recent displayed lack of respect for a superior is quite atypical of Corwin.
* - While I am willing to accept that he somehow thinks that stopping every twenty feet in the first part of the course was actually following the order to 'get through the course as quickly as possible', I hope that you the player know and acknowledge that in no way was it following her order. I expect I'll be fascinated to read Corwin's explanation a little further on in the gameplay thread, post-afternoon-classes. ;)
Acknowledged.
My 2 cents:
Corwin actually sounds like he's somewhere on the autism spectrum right now - around where Asperger's Syndrome used to be. That may be an extreme interpretation, but he really seems to lack the ability to understand how others perceive his behavior and act accordingly. He thinks that he is displaying respect for others, but he is the only one who observes him who thinks that.
Posting tonight - had a touch of brain-burn from other campaigns/experiences/RL. Gwaaah. But hey - school!!
Also, check the top of the page for a critical new link!! ;D
Okay, sorry, I lied - tomorrow. Brain isn't wrapping around this post quite right.
*mutters* Sorry for the delay. Still not wrapping. Keep RPing - Corwin could give his reasons, btw, while y'all are headed inside. ;)
This is a plague we all suffer. The lack of brainpower.
fluuuuuuuuuuu
hope to be back in the saddle tomorrow. this is awful.
Belated Merry Xmas and a very Happy New Year!
Happy merry day.
You too!
So are we going to pick back up again?
Still here.