Again, likely slow posting from Grace in the near future.
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Commanding officer-- meaning Grace, or meaning Capt. Arpin?
Commanding officer-- meaning Grace, or meaning Capt. Arpin?
Grace.
Grace.Commanding officer-- meaning Grace, or meaning Capt. Arpin?
I'm going to go ahead and say yes, given that the doctor could have potentially been asked to deal with anything from unexplained gunshot wounds to Cerberus nanotech.
I am not dead (yet), but drowning.
Updating pbps is on my schedule for Thursday, 21 september. I will post at least something in all active pbps, and schedule an hour 4x/week to do pbps after that (sat/sun/tue/thu).
To my players: sorry for the delay, and thank you for your patience.
To gms and other players: feel free to bot me if I am holding up the game.
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Man, I haven't had a good eyeroll in months.
At least, not in this thread...
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"Really? You think some old leftover dude from an antique former Cerberus outpost has information pertinent to today? He probably a Hiroo or something. Didn't look like he was going to last that long. We should let him die peacefully and move on. What, you worried some dude with implanted puppies is going to take over the galaxy?" Hestia rolls her eyes.
Just to clarify, Hiroo = Hiroō Onoda, the last Japanese holdout from World War 2?
"Really? You think some old leftover dude from an antique former Cerberus outpost has information pertinent to today? He probably a Hiroo or something. Didn't look like he was going to last that long. We should let him die peacefully and move on. What, you worried some dude with implanted puppies is going to take over the galaxy?" Hestia rolls her eyes.Just to clarify, Hiroo = Hiroō Onoda, the last Japanese holdout from World War 2?
Roger that. I figure Hestia is smart and tosses off obscure stuff like that occasionally. Maybe intentionally obtuse, maybe not.
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Man, I haven't had a good eyeroll in months.At least, not in this thread...
^^ This. This is the level of snark to which we should all aspire.
Any progress on picking this game back up?
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Pleeeeze
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I've finally gotten around to starting Mass Effect: Andromeda (the patched version), and so far, other than a few wonky animations, lots and lots of confusing menu screens, and the fact that the controls are completely different from the first three games, it's actually pretty good.
I didn’t hate it. I think fans of the series should give it a try. When all was done, it didn’t give me the same sense of engagement as the original trilogy, and I don’t know if I will replay it at any point. But people made it sound like some giant turd, which it is not.
Honestly, nostalgia aside, I'd say it's on par. Mechanics and story are solid, and I even think that the Tempest crew has a dynamic just as good as the Normandy crew. My only real criticism other than the many bugs is that Fryda Wolff is no Jennifer Hale, but even then, she's still pretty good.
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Still holding onto hope that this will start again. Same goes for Z-Day.
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I STILL THINK ABOUT THIS GAME AND WANT TO PLAY.
That's a good idea, though I did quite like this FATE system, beyond its rough shape in some areas.
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I STILL THINK ABOUT THIS GAME AND WANT TO PLAY.
Every day. Sometimes reading the fan fiction just doesn't cut it.
I wonder if anyone has tried running Mass Effect with the Starfinder ruleset. It would take some adjustments, but the bones are all there.
Nah, too many rules to memorize. For me, any established fictional universe has to either have its own system written for its specific mechanics, or it needs to be be done with a universal rules-lite system. I'm all for sticking with Fate, or if people are desperate to switch, Savage Worlds. Or, just old-school text RP.
Looks like the gang's all still here. Anyone have FHDM's address? We can start a letter-writing campaign.
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Change.org petition?
Or we could just message him here :)
Change.org petition?
Or we could just message him here :)
Anyone want to try it? I've already got the reputation of being "that guy."
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Unrelated: I decided to go down a psychedelic rock rabbit hole, and discovered the song "Baby Night," off the 1970 album Just A Poke by the band Sweet Smoke. Part of the lyrics for the song read:
If you hear sounds of bitter weeping
To be sure the God of Night is sleeping
No time for mirth, much death and birth
Pain shakes the earth, you hope it never stops
Never never stops, never never never never stops
With the time your Illusive Man's gone
I feel as though I may have stumbled upon something important.
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We now return you to SPACE JESUS: MASS EFFECT FAWTL, already in progress.
Wooooooo! Yay, Freehold! This was nice to wake up to.
I will need to review the last mission and sort out some questions before I post, but will definitely be on that. I've got some work to do first today, though.
It's so good to be back, even with an obnoxious, mouthy prat for a character. <3
It's so good to be back, even with an obnoxious, mouthy prat for a character. <3
Feels weird being back on the other side of the Suicide Squad dynamic... I swear, I can play one of the good guys (you know, someone who isn't an undead vigilante or a murdering psychopath) if I try really hard. And this game makes me want to try that hard.
FHDM: I really appreciate you giving this one another chance, it means a lot. I know a ringing endorsement from someone like me might otherwise *ring* a few alarm bells, but I really mean it; thank you.
Going to do some catching up as to the plot (as well as some serious brushing up on the Fate Core rules), but I should be ready to go within the next day or two.
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Fate is a very weird, very confusing system. It intimidated me for a while there and then things kinda petered out. Then I remembered something really important.
I am the arbiter of the rules.
After that, it was easy to start things up again.
When we last saw our heroes...
They had been engaged by Barla Von, who claims to work for the Shadow Broker, and on behalf of the Asari Consort, to impersonate a C-Def Relay Inspection Team aboard the refitted Cerberus ship, Dolphin, reporting to Captain Arpin. They are charged with exploring a dozen planets which may house old Cerberus research or storage posts which may or may not still be active. Any safehouses they find need to have their intentions thwarted with extreme prejudice. Their cover is that they are inspecting or repairing out of whack relay stations.
They select Feros as their first target, finding an ancient skyscraper with some sections apparently still in use while others have fallen into disrepair. Advancing through the facility, they encounter a pack of varren, along with a varren pup which has obviously been fitted with a cybernetic camera eye. Inspection of the varren corpses reveals implants of unusual tech (Reaper? Collector? Cerberus? who knows) that seemed to be giving the varren orders remotely. It reminds Gir of husk tech. No VI or AI seem to be involved.
Following the varren pup, they destroy another pack of varren, then a group of mechs (which exhibit a strange kind of curiosity at the biotic field before being blown to bits.) The varren puppy seems to act as a speaker for a more robust intelligence, and they follow it to a control room, where they find a weeping octogenarian in a room full of tech - specificially, surveillence gear apparently linked to the varren. He claims "Site Atlas is compromised" and attempts to destroy the facility. He is distracted while the team tries to download the data from the facility, which causes an opera to play. The attempt apparently triggers the self-destruction of more nearby mechs and interference from local security forces. The team makes a hasty escape as the building is destroyed by the mech explosions. They manage to bring the old man, but he is in rough shape, physically.
Data download contents (Dern and Hestia have reviewed in detail, the rest have heard Dern's summary)
Possibly taking a cue from the Rachni, Cerberus researchers have decided that music is a universal language and have been trying to develop musical works to trigger various creatures: specifically, thresher maws and their nymphs. The intent seems to be to create a doomsday scenario of rampaging maws for the invading reapers, assuming the sentient races would fall to them. The effort was designated Operation Tartarus.
In the med bay, the turian doctor complains that his patient is extremely old and full of Cerberus tech - specifically, nanites, a distress beacon, and a wireless ewac suit. He has disabled the last two, but the old man's body is failing. He needs to be questioned now or not at all. Dern had some questions for him. Potential areas of interest are bolded in the summary.