Project Gatekeeper (Inactive)

Game Master Browman

Finesse

For Ease of Everyone. They are in order.

Sh*t, tried to flag as a "favourite", didn't realize it was a reporting mechanism. How does one "un-flag"?

Edit: VERY sorry, there was no cancel button. According to FAQs stray flags are no huge deal.

Dont worry about it the worse that will happen is I have to make it again.

Sooooo, what are we going to try and get from the QM for this?

Apart from loading up on explosives, that is.

Edit: if I could suggest ammo; on the off chance we are up against Lizardmen or lightly armored enemies, since our guns are already Pen 0, we could get Dumdum Rounds on our primary our sidearms if we can; or even Manstoppers for Pen 3. Shame we don't have Bleeder or Amputator Rounds yet.

I'll also say Tracer Rounds, for those of us with Full Auto guns, are totally worth at least thus far for me.

But yeah, fancy bullets might help a fair bit.

Besides resupplying our normal kits and inter-party comms Pete doesnt want anything.

Certain ammo and items are still an issue because of rarity limits, do not forget that. So far they havent had armor so it hasnt been a problem. For Pete he has a sword and a shotgun which usually will hit multiple times in the body. Avg of 6 successes.

I think I just need to hear from roger and mark to say they are good to go.

Mark already spent his Xp.

Yeah, I'm ready. I'm happy with my kit as is until we have more information, but I'd like the comms kit for the squad.

I'll buy awareness for 200xp and bank the rest

I agree with Mark, we need comms

In about 12 hours I'll need to make a 2 day trip where I'll be incommunicado. So just bot me while I'm gone.

If we arrive before there's an attack I'm hoping to lay tripwire grenades and have demo charges on any structure they might need to use, or one that would make good cover for them, then blow it up while they use it.

Otherwise it's the same as before, hide, shoot with silenced pistol if hidden, otherwise c-8, rush in with David the Bowie when I can.

Mostly mentioned staying a few days since I don't think we were given a set timeframe for when the attack would occur outside that the next one hit would be the one we're deploying to.

All I remember reading is "Yeah, these hamlets are getting hit at night and they all disappear in that timeframe." with no real indication at the interval between attacks if I'm not mistaken.

There were context clues actually. Our last mission we had the choice to help the people before and that ended with that village being raided and not 24 hours later it was predicted they would raid this village meaning this has been happening fairly daily. If only limited by the distance between said places.

Well, they obviously flew WAY off over my head then hahahaha

Thin men.

I had a feeling we'd run into these at some point.

Thankfully they wont be able to "XCOM" us as is typical with Thin Men and their BS :P

what do you have against thin men?

Being a literal thin man, nothing.

If we're talking Xcom Thin men, being headshot/instagibbed through a wall on a 2nd floor from a thin man on the ground floor out of Line of Sight is what I've got against them.

:P

If these are some sort of thin men I'm proposing the name "Slims Jims"

Skinwalkers is what Pete is thinking.

If these are some sort of thin men I'm proposing the name "Slims Jims"

The Power of Christ Compels you! Leave this poor mans body Randy Savage!

?.? I'm somewhat familiar with who Randy Savage is, but I gotta admit this went way over my head

YOU DONT KNOW MACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE??! OOOOHHH YEEEEEAAAHH!! SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM!

WWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

YOU MADE A SLIM JIM JOKE AND DONT KNOW WHO RANDY SAVAGE IS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH

MMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

GGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDD

Ahahahahahaha all in good fun but you really dont know!?!?!?! @_@

hahaha looks like I opened a can of worms there :D God you two :D

I know he's a wrestler, I don't know about his connection with slims jims

this might help hahahaha

Randy Savage

That was weird as hell. Then I watched more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhWjNFqr8jQ
...and now I want excitement by snapping into a Slim Jim XD

BTW anybody else feel like we should leave some cash for those people if we end up blowing up their houses? In probably wouldn't take too much to make it up for "jungle people", I doubt they're making a lot. ...or do we just World Police out of there?

Exerpt from Inglorious Basterds:

Col. Hans Landa: You'll be shot for this!
Lt. Aldo Raine: Nah, I don't think so. More like chewed out. I've been chewed out before.

We're blind as bats! Best case scenario Pete MIGHT notice something if they failed their stealth

...they're not making it easy for me to SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM!

All else fails, Suppressing Fire.

@Browman: To prevent campaign stagnation (I love the concept of this campaign and want to keep taking part as it unfolds), do we have an agreed upon "Auto act" for players that do not respond after a certain period? Life happens, and I get that, but I have noticed we have slowed down a little from our first mission.

If it happens to be our leader who is absent, I recommend designation of an in-game 2IC to keep the party going.

I welcome discussion on the matter! Cheers

I will be moving things along later today with or without mark posting. But jack brings up a good point, in your alias each of you should have some basic ideas of what I should do if I have to bot you.

Sure , I believe I brought this particular issue up before. We have slowed down, though this was a combination of Brow's Monday IRL game and the weekend it seems. I would place things Pete would do but Im so active and my actions so mutable thats hard to justify fully.

Jack's stats, info and automation algorithm is posted on his character page in the event he is inactive on his turn for more than six hours.

Sorry about the lack of posting guys. Been on holiday since Saturday, and only just got to a hotel with wifi. Didn't expect to not be able to get free wifi in NYC or Philadelphia, but things seem OK here in DC. Should be OK on posting for the next couple of days, then back to NYC to a different hotel which hopefully will have wifi. If not, then I'll be home on Monday.

Sorry again.

Dont worry about it dude! Just keep us in the loop :p

I just realized that our companions are:
middle-eastern woman
Asian woman
Latin woman
...and Bob the white male

with Pete in the mix I'd say we're about a firm handshake away from a University or a Big Four recruitment ad :D

So........

If their village winds up in shambles before we pack up and ship out of Mexico, I'm guessing Jack SHOULDN'T wish them a "Happy Cinco de Mayo!!!" Based on his piss poor fellowship score and penalties to interacting with essentially anybody other than his mother, at this point I'd say it's a coin toss.

Prooooobably not no.

@Bob: Bob good buddy, if you don't survive this siege just remember...... The Alamo.

I hope everyone had a good Mother's Day

Praise be unto our mothers who put up with our shit :P

They who have christen thou forms with the flame of life and can thusly snuff out said flame whenever appropriate.

Just to make sure I assume we arent waiting on anything. Mark informed us to move around, we did and kept moving. Jack is ready with the Launcher.

Yeah, I'm just waiting for something to happen since I didn't have much to actually add to what was currently happening :p

Do remember that Mondays are the day Browman has his IRL group matters. Whatever update will come later.

Sorry guys, I got a new laptop on Friday and have been distracted by computer games all weekend.

When I installed x-com on the new system I also picked up long war. A mod that adds a whole bunch of new stuff including giving each class 2 sub-classes, each sub-class having 3 option per rank, and making the game an order of magnitude more difficult. In other words, it is awesome. Also one of the quotes they have about the mod on their website is from one of the developers of X-com who said something to the effect of "it turns out our game is basically just a tutorial for X-com: long war, and that is ok."

X-com 1 or 2? Either way they are correct and Long War is quite fun. if you are doing so as long as it positively effects our campaign I am fine with that.

X-com 1 or 2? Either way they are correct and Long War is quite fun. if you are doing so as long as it positively effects our campaign I am fine with that.

1, I am waiting for 2 to get a bit cheaper on steam before I buy.

If I had extra money I would have bought you the Deluxe Edition like I did way back. Still waiting for Shen's Legacy... I hope it is what I think it is.

As for Long War, its sooooo good. Btw I like what you have been doing with the Aliens so far, they are distinct but familiar.