Laine Horatio's page

To my fellow players and gms

I will be updating my games at a slower pace for a while longer, you'd probably already noticed it's been slow from me the last weeks.
I might be going down with psychological stress from the new work I started after new years. I had barely worked a week before we were told our jobs were in jeopardy and could be lost at any moment. I tried to handle it but instead ended up bottling it untill I broke down last night after I got home.
I have an appointment with my doctor and union tomorrow and will take things from there.
I'll keep you informed and update the game when I have some good moments

"Can't say I have done that very much, I was more interested in taking electronics apart and see what made them tick. And then attempt to put them back together, not always to great success if it even worked again after I had my fingers in them."

"It would be a good distraction, do we have any boxes so they don't trace anything back to this area if we do it?" Laine says putting out his cigar.

"I've served in the army for most of my adult life, been almost 7 years before I retired and joined the Nevada SWAT team continueing my role as support sniper in diffecult situations, mostly hostage situations."

Laine takes a good pull on the cigar. "Indeed we have Genie, but these people haven't had that chance yet. It's taking a bit to get used to, but you have to find a balance you can live with and look the other way when people here act to medieval for you. When we are not here fighting anymore perhaps you can become the catalyst to spark the evolution here to a more civilized way like back home, but for now we have to content with this. Some places in Afrika isn't that much different then here perhaps that is why I have an easier time adapting to this world as I was stationed in some bad places before."

"I think we earthhumans were just like her not that many centuries ago, we might be better today, but we were no better when we were still knights and kingsmen if we listen to the history professors." Laine says light a cigar to relax a little.

"Sounds bad. Well let's get him to somewhere where you can examine him in peace." Laine says getting into position to help move Jacob out of here.

Seems I sometimes loose posts I made from my phone.

Laine heads over to where Scott is tending to Jacob "How's he doing doc? Do you have what you need to treat him or would we need to either get local aid or return to base?"

Realism is fine and all, but this being build on an anime I would probably look to the source material to determine if realism is better then cinematic, but I have never watch Gate so can't really say what is the best approach here to make me feel I'm part of the anime.

"Oh bugger" Laine says as he misses the shot with his pistol, he decides to take a better aim bracing his arm against the table. "I should maybe spendt a little more time on the range with other guns then my sniper"

Laine fires a few shots at the knights with his Beretta.

Gun skill rifle 15-2 for using the pistol.
Attack 13: 3d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 6) = 10
Attack 13: 3d6 ⇒ (3, 1, 6) = 10
Attack 13: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 3) = 12

possible hits?: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 2, 3) = 7 Right leg
possible hits?: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 6, 2) = 14 Left leg
possible hits?: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 1, 3) = 10 chest

Damage: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (5, 5) + 2 = 12
Damage: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (5, 5) + 2 = 12
Damage: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (4, 3) + 2 = 9

I hope I have done it right, still learning the game.

Laine draws his pistol and starts aiming at the knights.

Laine is keeping an eye on the situation, ready to spring into action when the signal is given.

I've seem to have lost a post in the Inn.

Perception 12-3: 3d6 ⇒ (4, 5, 4) = 13

"Someone always comes along to ruin the dinner, not that I could really eat any more anyway. I don't have an appetite like these people." Laine says looking around to see what the others and doing and also keep an eye on the two knights.

"Sounds good to me, but I prefer my baths a little on medium warm. And I'll have what ever you recommend for food, before some shut eye."

It's been quite bad most days I didn't notice I was logged out from the site and just thought nothing was happening.

It was just a reflex Laine did when he saw the arrows coming. Old habits die hard.

"I'll stay at the inn also, I like to see how the local cusine is." Laine adds in.

Sorry for my absense, I haven't noticed the site keeps logging me out when ever I close my browser down.

"Sheep and cow is standard meat back on earth but men is only eaten by crazy people and some tribe communities. What do we do?" Laine says as he duck from a arrow.

Laine lights a cigar while listen to Calia explain how the army of the empire is set up, blowing out smoke he says. "Sounds like in our current state we are in way over our head and it would be suicide to not run from most of these people if we encounter them in an unfavorable situation. But on the other hand we won't know if we can take them on untill we meet any of them, if our bullets can harm them I'm sure we can take them down in a combined effort. If not I think we have to learn some of the tools of the war from this world to improve our odds of winning this war."

"Perhaps I should stay on guard? I can see farther through my scope and keep a bigger area covered. But if you want me to help with the trading I won't disregard that order."

"I agree we might have to watch our steps carefully from here on untill we know how to treat the different people we meet as we explore more."

"Interresting these mistresses sounds like some of the old local myths I've heard traveling around the world, stories of ancient gods who could erase entire cities." Laine responds to Calia's story before thinking about it.

"Of course where is my manners, I offer you my apologies on that mistake to not introduce myself. My name is Laine Horatio, a private of the military since I left the army in farvor of a work in law enforcement as a specialist, but when war came to our world I was drafted back in per an old agreement to continue to serve my country in case of an emergency." He responds somewhat embarrassed of having forgotten his manner. "Sometimes I forget even the slightest things in times of war."

Laine bows to Alsaria as she addresses him and says "A plaesure to meet you mistress Alsaria, should I use your honorific when addressing you?" He pauses for a moment to think over her question "I'm not sure what you mean with a pretend warrior. I'm not sure if you use the term sniper in your armies? But I guess if I should translate my position to combat to a more common role here, I would consider me to be the assassin of the team, perfering to down my enemies from afar and hopefully without anyone realizing where I've made my hiding spot to shoot from."

"I see Calia is up and above again, how is she feeling?" Laine asks as he gets over to where the group is gathered. "I've been around learning a bit of the customs in this town and what kind of stuff we might be able to trade with them for gold or other useful stuff." He says to inform the others of what he has done while they followed Calia to the healing hall.

On the way back Laine tells Jacob of what he has seen studying the marketplace. "Sir. I don't know much about the value of gold and information here, but it seems they mostly trade with life necessities in the market. Clothes, foods and stuff like that, might be worth considering if we need to trade for something before we leave."

"Hmm seems they mostly trade in what they need mostly to survive, that is good to know if we come across stuff like that." Laine walks around a little lost in thought as he starts heading for the healer's hall to see what the others are up to.

Laine walks around the merchant area looking at what the different stores trades with to get an idea of what is important amoung the citizens of this town.

"I was just about to ask the same question Scott, I got curious aswell as to how the stone works."

Laine doesn't like to leave his weapons, but he has to trust them, since the others also leave their weapons. As they walk around town Laine puts down a few sketches of the buildings into his book.

Laine is intrigued by the runes appearing on the stone and walks over to also touch it.

"What would it take to get ot a point where we can discuss our allowance to stay in your country and perhaps later down the line talk about ferries to cross the river?" Laine asks in his basic local language, more out of curiosity.
"I understand we just come barging in on your town, and we want to show we can work together. We are no friends of the empire, we were dragged here by them after they attacked our world and we are looking for allies and others to teach us the way of the lands."

"I've always learnt not to get between two women 'working' things out, and I'm not really fond of going in between two who wields swords and can cast spells to make me a pile of ash." Laine says with a grin and adding "But I think it would be good to get some distance to the fight I don't think we have to many spare tires to keep loosing them here."

Laine is surprised when the woman in full plate drops down and Calia rushes to attack her. As the soldiers begin to form a ring he sticks his head up and takes a look around on them all, looking to Brona "Do you have any idea why they are fighting?"

After he has had his respodns Laine sits down again and says "It seems some of the soldiers is putting up bets on who is going to win the fight. What do you think we should do? prepare for any eventualities?" he says looking towards Jacob.

Option 3 sounds the most fun to me.

"Well sure everyone can within the law of the most countries own a firearm, and we do ahve some major cities where some districts of the town is kinda ruled by gangs of people even the lawenforcement would rather avoid dealing with. So I get your point, would have to keep the knife and small gun ready if we have to enter."

Turing to Jacob "Do you think it would work? I mean the guards have kinda always spotted us, I'm sure they might have made a call to ready for anyone from the LAV to approache the town."

"Well will we be able to move around unharmed inside or do we have to be ready to fight if we try to enter?"

Looking through the scope of his sniper Laine relies what he sees "I see some people around town, there are guards patrolling the walls and they have already spotted us. So I guess we have to announce ourselves to have a chance to get inside?" He takes his eye from the scope, puts the sniper down and turns to Calia "Do you think it save to enter this town?" He then returns to study the walls.

Laine stays a bit in the background letting the higher ranks decide on a course. "I should probably learn to read maps, but I'm better at finding my way without it on intuition once I'm out in the wilds."
"Mostly our vehicles ain't made to drive through water, they can handle shallow rivers, but if water gets into the engine they might break down. We have some vehicles able to go through water but they are often small and light and not able to carry alot of package."

"I agree while we look for locals we might aswell take note of the land on the otherside, maybe we can fine a stonequarry to help in building better bridges. And we can get a good feel of areas worth setting up outposts to keep track of things in this region."

This thing exploded after I went to sleep, trying to keep up, 15 posts is just a lot to sort through might have missed something.

"We still have a main objective, perhaps mark the location and investigate on the way back to base?" Laine asks not really wanting to go in against a people who can hide entire cities for his eyes.

Now you are just boring mdt the quickest way to become general is run the other generals over. But I'll wait till we are out in the open where with my skills I'll hit the only tree we come across :)

guess I can drive on the more flat terrain, but my skills is rather lacking, but would be a good opportunity to earn some points in it I can place next time we level up.

"It's code Brona, in our world we uses codename for combat units to confuse the enemy if they are listening in on our radioes. And sometimes the animalname resembles the squads mission or thier way of fighting." laine says with a smile at the young woman.

Turning to the leader "Should I take a stint at the wheels while we are still in relatively known area? My driving could use some finepolishing."

You guys are so far beyond my technical knowledge of combat weapons that I will leave it up to you. Genie will be happy as long as she can fly her little surveillance drone.

I can't follow them either, most I know is the name of weapons I've encountered in games like Resident Evil.

Think we should also leave room for bringing stuff back if we find anything interresting.

Well if I'm already using the Remington I think I'll stick with just the one. I'm no good with a pistol but I'll bring a Beretta for the close combat situation, I'd like to have a silencer for it if stealth is required at some point.

I like to try and use the Knight Armament M110 SASS and keep the colt.

Well I was thinking to stick with the weapons I have now, unless someone are recommending I change one of them.
Is it possible to request a scope with nightvision in it to use if we need to scout at night?

Might need some more training, I'm skilled at stealth but inflitration is a whole other matter

I'm realatively new to the tabletop rpg, I started with pathfinder in 2012 so I don't know anything about many of these older games.

"Indeed many Earth countries have their own language. As said english is the most spoken language it's easy to learn and most of the world understands it to some degree." Laine adds while listening to Jacob

"Sir I use a .338 sniper do you think that will be enough to get through the armor of those flying beasties?"