Rappel then. And perhaps some trickshooting at the local wildlife! But first we'll have to deal with the current mess, probably : )
We have to understand why the aliens are here. I hope that they have a good reason for not landing right next to where we needed to go.
Vathan is a sniper and more than willing to kill from a distance. How much time to allow him a safari.
Maybe it was clear before, but it's not clear to me now that we have a time effective and productive game plan to collect food and stuff in the face of alien resistance.
Maybe as we bury our dead, we can make a better plan.
Part of it is talking, they don't have the ability to communicate except in limited fashion.
The other part of it is you guys are insanely huge. ANd your vehicle is as big as a major ship for them.
Suppressive Fire (rules addition)
Any personal weapon with a rate of fire greater than two may be used to produce covering and suppressive fire, in an attempt to get hostiles to keep their heads down. This is considered a full round action. Anything moving or taking an action that is not under 100% cover, is within a 5 block/hex (7.5 meters) arc of fire in front of the character’s weapon, and within the first range increment of the weapon using suppressive fire, may be hit.
Check only once per available target, up to a number of targets equal to one-half the normal rate of fire for the weapon. Roll to hit normally but with a -4 penalty due to the inaccuracy of this type of fire. If anything is actually hit, use Suppressive Fire Damage table. See the Damage rules (pg. 148) for more information on applying damage. Rate of Fire 10 or Greater: If the rate of fire of the weapon is 10 or greater, targets within the second range increment of the weapon, and an 8 block/hex arc (12 meters) may also be hit. Roll to hit normally but at a -8 penalty. If anything is actually hit, use Suppressive Fire Damage table below.
Anything beyond these ranges are unlikely to be hit, but if you do want to check, extend the possible area to be hit out to the range of the weapon, along a 8 block/hex wide (12 meters) path from the attacker. The to hit roll at these ranges will be at -10, and of course no more than a number of targets may be hit than have been rounds fired. This effect lasts until the character’s next round action
Suppressive Fire Damage
RoF - Extra Damage
3-4 rounds - none
10 rounds - +1 die of damage
20 rounds - +2 die of damage
100 rounds - +4 dice of damag
I'll also repost the Burst rules Holt were so kind to track down earlier : )
Weapons that fire a burst of 2, 3, 4, 10, 20, or 100 rounds may improve the attacker’s odds of hitting a target or inflict additional damage. The attacker must decide whether to spray the target, increasing the chances of scoring a hit, or to fire a precise, grouped burst in the hope of inflicting greater damage. Either sort of burst fire is considered a standard action. Characters with more than one attack per round may take this action for each attack. See the Damage rules (pg. 148) for more information on applying damage.
Burst Fire Effects
Burst Size | Attack Bonus | Extra Damages
1 round | +0 | +0 damage
3 round burst | +1 | +1 die of damage
4 round burst | +2 | +2 dice of damage
10 round burst | +3 | +3 dice of damage
20 round burst | +5 | +5 dice of damage
100 round burst | +10 | +10 dice of damage
Edit1: Turns out Holt linked these already in the gameplay thread. Oh well :P
Edit2: Turns out I didn't check my own notes well enough. There is a difference between 3 and 4 round burst, so all my damage rolls are one category off. Lets just say Ceres used 4 round bursts all the time : )
Who wants to pick up Ziirkaa for RP? Ceres? Vathan? I can if needed.
I'll bot him for now.
If we're going to recruit (which I think the decision was to do so), we probably ought to start now. It'll take a couple of weeks to get a player or two all statted out. Fortunately, the fleet allows new characters to be brought in.
I'm deciding how crazy Vathan is going to react to Holt splitting the party specifically after he and the captain ordered it together. He blames her for their injuries and death. That RP post will take me some time. Also, I know it was a player mistake, so it's not personal. At one extreme, he will take her into custody for court-martial.
I'll take any suggestions.
cheers
Court martial would be rather extreme.
Plus she's his superior officer, so short of Viktoria ordering him to do so, he'd probably end up on a court martial himself for mutiny and stepping outside the chain of command.
Almost certainly the most he could do is file a very strongly worded objection, or petition the Captain to punish her.
On the other hand, the natives would almost certainly have died if she and the marines hadn't been there, they'd have been overwhelmed. So to some extent, as the mission was to aid the natives, splitting up could be argued to have been required as soon as the natives split up.
Holt did disobey orders, but the captain didn't say anything when she did, which is tacit approval. Most likely, the worst that can happen to Holt is a strongly worded reprimand and a note in her service record.
@Vathan, Cool. Thanks for the heads up about it though!
@mdt/all, This will be played out in RP, but Holt will agree to punishment, and will end up making claims that ignoring Vathan and splitting the party wasn't intentional, just not hearing him/realizing what was going on what with the aliens on a new planet. She'll readily accept that what happened was her own fault and probably describe it as negligence.
Yep, the point I was making was, a good lawyer would make mince meat of any attempt to court martial. Had Viktoria ordered her and the marines to fall in, that would be different, but she didn't.
The marines would also be under the same threat, as they followed Holt, as much against orders as she went. So punishing Holt would also require posthumously punishing the dead one, and the female marine as well. Either posthumously or actual court martial, depending on whether she survives or not.
Oh, of course. I was just pointing out, for planning purposes, that it is unlikely that Holt would personally fight the accusations, or try to escape any form of punishment and/or repercussions.
I'm not sure how to deal with this yet, it feels a bit weird to give Holt a hard time for something that was essentially an OOC communication mistake.
And nice to see the recruitment thread already taking off : )
I'm not sure how to deal with this yet, it feels a bit weird to give Holt a hard time for something that was essentially an OOC communication mistake.
And nice to see the recruitment thread already taking off : )
+1
Good luck
cheers
Don't worry about it. It's the way RP goes. Things happened in character, so just react as the character would. No hard feelings here. : )
And yeah, I'm also glad to see the thread taking off. I wonder what new meat we'll get?
Is there someone in the APC and room to land in order an order to evac viable? Or do we have to carry the body to another location?
I was wondering the same thing.
As of three weeks time, I'll have a new job, more time and so far less stressed
If you would like me back around then let me know. :)
There is someone in the APC. However, there's no room to land, the APC is at the closest area it could land.
@Annara, will leave it up to the other players, as this is the third time you've vanished/reappeared. So figure it's up to them.
@Groups - I am un-splitting the exploration teams, since just 1 or 2 PCs are a tad bit short for each. Hopefully the NPCs will manage the mostly stationary Mylthani team.
@Annara - I see no harm in you comming back. We'll try and finish up our trip so that we can rejoin with you : )
@Annara - I can agree. Sorry if it has been kind of boring, waiting on us to return. : /
Not at all was snowed under with a C** job now changing that.
To enhance our melee prowess I suggest we look into things such as tasers, flame-throwers and shark-knives (wasp knives).
Anyone up to brainstorm other ways of turning hostile lifeforms into slurry if they get too close : )?
Hello. I am checking in.
LT(jg) Fendar Hig reporting for duty.
I will try to catch up on the gameplay tab.
A few questions:
Am I still in the Navy, or am I mustered out?
Is gear issued for the game, or should I buy some? Here I am mainly thinking sidearms, rifles, etc. (and tech is per the notes under the campaign tab?).
You should buy anything you want that's non-standard issue (Standard issue is based on what's in the armory).
Armor is issued by the military, all standard versions.
Each person is issued a set of Mesh armor (TL7), a Vacc Suit (TL9), and a set of Armored Clothing (TL7).
Main Ship's armoury has :
8 Daggers (Combat Knife)
4 Autopistols
4 Shotguns
4 Assault Rifles
4 SMGs
2 Laser Carbines
2 Grenade Launcher (Underbarrel attach to Assault Rifles, or standalone)
1 LMG with Tripod Base
10 Kilos of Plastique
4 Kilos of TDX
20 Flechette Grenades
20 HEAP grenades
40 Smoke grenades (Various colors)
20 Tranq Grenades
10 Aerosol Grenades
1000 rounds of Pistol Ammo
1000 rounds of Shotgun Ammo
4000 rounds of AR ammo
4000 rounds of SMG ammo
Anything other than the standard equipment, you'll want to buy as personal equipment.
OK.
Fendar will purchase:
set of mechanical tools
set of electronic tools
combi filter mask (for welding and other uses)
light intensification goggles
3 electric torches of various sizes (one with a headband, a small one to fit in a pocket, and a bigger hand held one)
binoculars.
An autopistol of his own.
If allowed, he will also purchase an electronic sight and a folding stock for a laser carbine, and outfit one of the ship's stores to suit his preference.
If not, he will just stick with an issued laser carbine.
Cr5060 for gear; extra Cr2100 if he modifies a laser carbine.
I need to update my character sheet for the right skills (for pathfinder).
All of that is fine. You have 150lbs of personal gear to take with you, so that should be less than 150.
Welcome! :)
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Jumping a little bit ahead is okay by me. I think we have some interesting things to do back home ("Oh look we found some psychic aliens. And we invited them over! Great eh?"). Besides, we need to consolidate the fleet and get on finding a suitable world to dump them on !
Also welcome!
And advancing is fine with me.
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I'm not exactly built for combat, and my proficiency are a bit limited, but anything that will help!
Working on our combat positioning would also be helpful, so we aren't in each others line of fire.
Hmm - perhaps something like consumables (grenades?) might be useful!
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In 'current time' - ie after about a month spent running supplies, Ceres is calling a crew meeting to discuss/brief about their journey home. What she'll say depends a bit on what mdt answers to my questions - and what we decide OOC to do with the Mylthani.
So what do we think - wanna ferry some aliens :)?
Fendar is sort of a jack of all trades. He has pilot and gunnery skills to aid with the ship, supplemented with leadership, astrogation and navigation skills. He also has some knowledge of ship's weapons and propulsion.
He knows how to use LAS weapons too. Also is a forward observer if we want to call in artillery or ship's weapons as support.
So I hope to fit in somewhere. I figured a flexible PC would be better than a specific one.
Ok Hi guys, not in any way lost just getting ready for a move, dropped out of some games to keep the best going.
I think the team would have a number of very long meetings about the implications of the information they have found out. A new colony race.
There tach and the ability to link to mind link to ships system. A ships scencoer system linked to a lining mind would make an incredible assets.
@Annara - Glad to see you are still with us :)
@Fendar - Good to know your skillset, I think we can put it to good use : )
@Holt - I tried settling things between you and Vathan. Good?
@Annara - I politely refused your offer to join Security, so you can focus on ambassadorial duties. He had no wish to attempt to order you around.
@MDT - I thought I read that Fender would join Security. If not, please advise what's the name of the redshirt replacement, as well as, Fender's position in the quasi chain of command. Again I thought that we weren't supposed to be military with ranks in case we find others in space, but we actually are. Vathan has been both military and non, so he doesn't care. Please advise how you imagine the PC crew structure, so I can RP accordingly.
@All - Can we put the great questions for the GM in Discussion?
cheers
@Vathan - Depends on what you mean by good. Holt was never really upset at Vathan, he just kind of started the chain reaction. So the two of them are fine (also, she would have shared some of her country moonshine that she stowed on board).
But Holt still feels responsible for what happened, and it's kind of weakened her already shaky confidence in her leadership abilities. Neither of those have changed.
You are and are not military. You have ranks, but they are ship ranks, not military ranks. One reason why you don't have military uniforms, just ship uniforms, like any good trade crew.
I had thought Fender was Marines for some reason, but he's Navy, so he'd be coming in as a navy person. Your new Marine (who's security) is :
Hector Alziana Montenegro Jesus Sierta Montoya, Rank Master Gunnery Sergeant. He's senior to your other marine, so will be taking over as second in command of security. He's a grizzled man in his 40's with a scar on his forehead, and a bionic replacement for his left eye (obvious replacement).
He is now my favorite redshirt.
@Holt Well, Vathan had an issue with Holt that is settled. Would you share the confidence thing with Vathan? He could help. He is a movie star after all! ;D
@MDT Another Montenegro? Is he related to the female marine? And for all his names, he will be called Gunny.
cheers
It's a common name, especially in the army. Lots of army people came over.
Not related, or at least, not closely. Just related by clan.
@Vathan - You said there was minimal talking when he came in with the drinks, so I doubt it would happen there. And she doesn't really consider Vathan the kind of friend she could approach about something like that. They have far more of a professional relationship in her mind.
@Holt - As you wish. There was minimal talking at that encounter, because Vathan needed it to put the death behind him. However, we've years in space, and he is a movie star ;D
As a newbie, I can easily roll up / create a marine instead of the Navy guy I did. No worries if that is what is wanted.
Let me know.
Expendable is a useful quality to have on your away team, so I am not entirely opposed to having some NPC grunts along for the ride.
AKA - don't let us 'make' you pick a role, make your crewmember the way you want : )
I like her style. I might invite her to go drinking when we get back home.
The only part about those portraits that worries me is the distinct lack of red. It is almost as if we can't throw them into the jaws of the first danger we meet without consequence :P
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@Mylthani - Should we just grab a few and head home, to make a case infront of our leaders?
We have some time-span to look for a suitable world instead of forcing the adults to die. Perhaps we can both find a world for them and let them inhabit the colony - that would both save the now living ones and give us a suitable workforce.
My only worry is that our government might not want to give away "our" colony to the aliens.
Thoughts ?