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Kate frowns. "True, that is odd. Then again, I've been doing this for 3 or 4 years now, if I had a buck for everytime there's been an odd coincidence, I'd be able to buy this plane out of pocket change." She shrugs. "If you try to think about it too paranoid, you go a bit crazy." She speaks with such authority, that it seems to imply that she's tried it, and speaks from personal experience. "Did you know that paranoia is contagious? A little is healthy, too much is a disease. Hard to treat too." Again she seems to speak with a bit too much authority. "The locals will take care of the refugees. We've got microwaves and frozen Trader Joe's microwave dinners." She points forward in the plane, where a small kitchenette can just be seen. The back of the plane begins to close up. "Sit first, once we're in the air, you can eat. There's even a small shower if you want one. We've agreed to move our plane out of the local's airspace ASAP, they're a bit paranoid, and we all know how that goes." She turns to Blaze. "Absolutely, if you want to help out. We have a cyber security working group, if you want to join in on it. I'll have 1337 contact you and get you enrolled in it."

First week I only worked 40 hours in 3 months. So let's see if we can get back up and going.

Note : Still working 60 hours a week, and had to work through my 3 day holiday

The snakes were taking out the radios, it's not a big stretch that they're using radar. On the other hand, it is mighty convenient... :P
*If* one were doing an experiment, then having an observer on the ground *would* be of use...

LOL! Shi speaks Celestial, Infernal, Auran, Terran, Aquan, and Ignan, which will be great if we run into any outsiders, but for now, he's not very good at mortal languages. So nice job Aleister!

GM has been putting in 70+ hours for the last 8 weeks (40+ at work, 25-30 per week doing home renovation). Last week I finally collapsed. Hopefully will be up again by the end of the week.

Erick has replaced his hip holster with a new holster designed for the six shooter on his hip. His original pistol is now strapped to the inside of his voluminous coat, in a concealed holster as a surprise weapon if need be. On his holster belt are rows of shiny brass cartridges, and two speed loaders, for easy access.

Kris's revolver rifle is even more ornate, as befits the hyperactive gnome's personality, and features a similar revolver cylinder as Erick's. The shoulder stock and rifle barrel are of course downsized for his slighter frame.

Zyrel's Revolver Rifle, built on a pistol cylinder designed for a troll, unlike the other two is matt black with no etchings, and built with dark stained wood. Erick had decided that the archer who preferred to hide would prefer a weapon that wouldn't reflect any light when he was hiding ready to snipe someone.

Both men also received a back harness to hold the rifles, similar to the sheaths used to hold bastard and great swords, as well as a bandolier for ammunition.

Erick and Kris can share ammo, as both are firing Medium pistol/Small rifle ammo. Zyrel's uses large pistol/medium rifle rounds instead

Erick touches the brim of his hat. "Sounds like you've been getting poor recruits then. Might want to change your background check protocol."

Long hours this week, I'll post something tomorrow or Saturday, sorry (started at 5AM and ended about 20 minutes ago at 9:30).

Erick adjusts his hat. "In reverse order. Firearms come in two styles, at least currently. Powder, and Cartridge. There's a third type, called Cap and Ball, that is inbetween the two, but it's about done with as far as usage goes." He tugs his own pistol out. "Powder refers to those that use loose powder." He taps his powder horn. "Every time you load it, you have to measure the powder, tamp down the ball with wadding, and then prime the pan." He touches the flash pan on the side of the barrel. "That means put more powder in the pan. The hammer..." He taps the hammer. "Hits the pan, creates a spark, and the powder in the pan ignites the powder in the barrel, which then explodes. The barrel forces the lead ball to be shot out by the explosion." He taps the tip of the barrel. "Good guns have bored barrels. Doesn't mean they're looking for things to do, means they've had grooves bored into them, in a spiral pattern, along the length. This forces the bullet to 'spin' as it travels down, so it's spinning rapidly when it leaves the barrel. A spinning bullet is much more accurate than a non-spinning bullet."

"A cartridge is a brass container, a bit like a cylinder, that fits in the back of the barrel. Think of it as a miniature barrel. The bullet is in the tip, and crimped in place, and the inside of the cartridge has the powder pre-measured and inside it. There's actually multiple types of cartridges, not just one type. You can have alchemical cartridges, or you can have silver bullets, or adamantine bullets, or mithral. When you use a hard metal like silver or adamantine or mithral, you have to coat it with lead, this is called a jacketed round. The lead squishes into the grooves in the barrel, and impart spin. When the metal bullet hits the target, the lead peels off and does additional damage to soft targets, or just creates a lead ring around the hole caused by the harder metal on hardened targets, like dragon scales."

"Paper packages are just pre-measured powder, to make it easier than powder horns, and a little faster. The cartridges have 'caps' on the back, little bits of metal and powder that explode if you hit them hard, and set off the powder inside the cartridge. It's cheaper to replace the powder, bullet, and cap for a cartridge than to make a whole new cartridge, which is why I said police your brass, which means always pick them up if you can."

"You can make ammunition in the same sizes for different classes of weapon, such as rifle vs pistol, but if you fire the same round in both of those types, either your pistol will crack your wrist and be more innaccurate due to too short a barrel, or your rifle won't have distance and stopping power. Now, we can use the same rounds for my pistols as Kris's rifle, because he'd be using a scaled down rifle round so he can handle it without breaking his shoulder. But your rifle would need to use different rounds, to maintain it's stopping power."

"I'd suggest 200 rounds to start with, you'll be surprised how fast you pick up a rifle. Especially a cartridge rifle. It's no harder than a cross-bow, just point and shoot. The skill comes in doing things it wasn't designed to do, like shoot something out of someone's hand, or shoot them in the kneecap, or stuff like that. As to another commission, you buy the parts, and I'll put it together for you. I can help you pick out what you'll need. We'll need a pistol cylinder for a large pistol to make your rifle, and then a good rifle barrel, and I'll have to modify a good quality rifle receiver to handle the large pistol cylinder. Nothing hard."

Same costs as for Kris

Rav shakes his head. "What's wrong with a little fire?" He grumbles under his breath as he continues to reload his crossbow. Then he frowns. "Why idiots shooting fire at boat? They want wood cargo yes? No make sense... unless not actually trying to steal cargo? Just wanting to destroy ship for some reason?" He mutters, then calls out in a loud voice.

"HEY, TRY KEEP ONE ALIVE BEAT ANSWERS OUT OF."

Jūs esate sveikintinas.

For those who havent' gotten them all already, you can get your library for about $18 via the humble bundle.

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Rav nods. "Rav not like most Gobbies." Then he looks thoughtful, and twists his head around in the almost owllike and unnatural way that goblins can do that most humanoid species can't. To make it worse, he tilts his head at the same time, to stare at Zinar. "Rav have questions though, what be Hobgoblin? What be docks?"

Being a deep goblin, Rav's been underground most of his life. He's got experience with hoomans (too tall, usually murderous, taste ok), elves (too tall, snooty and stuck up, taste ok), dwarves (drunk and greedy, taste gamey), drow (like elves but worse, and sometimes poisonous), and kobolds (right height, ornery, full of themselves, think they are dragons, stringy and tough). Since coming to the surface, he's encountered halflings (right height, kind of flighty, look like mini hoomans), gnomes (right height, really flighty, look like mini hoomans), and half-orcs (way too big, good skin color though, really angry all the time, more handsome than hoomans and elves). He can't say how halflings, gnomes, or half-orcs taste. He was told people on the surface don't eat dead people, so he doesn't anymore. Doesn't understand why surfacers waste good meat, but if it's the local customs, he'll go along with them (as long as he doesn't get too hungry). So he's not got Kn(Local) and doesn't know much about surface species like hobgoblins or catfolk or aasimar or tieflings yet. He spent most of his life on prisoner guard duty in the goblin town.

"Not easy like that. Merchant's who lose may be broke, but new merchants take place. Where someone want something and have gold, someone else gamble on getting there. ANd no goods sent without guards, guards probably dead, if not part of steal, maybe dead even if part of steal. Whole world one big risk. May get hit by lightning, eaten by grue in dark, choke on mushroom cap." Rav looks at Kelisa. "Kel risk life all time, right? Travel with cat could eat her, work for Paladin doing risky dumb things for coins. Some jobs Kel think, hey, easy coin, low risk. Other jobs, Kel no take, because stupid die for coin never spend. Most jobs in between, could get dead, but think risk worth coin. Same for everyone, Merchant, Guard, Blacksmith, Cook, Paladin, Stable Hand. All just have different idea on what risk is worth what coin."

"Barda Koxka, 'Place of Exchanges' in Dwarven. And your ship won't do you any good, unless it can fly through solid stone, the city is about 2 miles under ground." She waves a hand. "I'd suggest taking a Clockwork Carriage, the Gand Line travels down there every morning and back every evening. Used to travel a lot more often, when we were shipping ore." She produces a map of the Clockwork Carriage lines, pulling it out of her belt pouch, and points to the 'Gand Line' to the Gand Ranges, squiggling south east in a round about way. "We're still getting ore from the Felderdrofen, but they charge us twice as much now, and they don't sell us Mithral or Adamantine. Only the Ganderdwarven do." Another line reading 'Feld Line' heads northeast toward Dirchmirde. A third line goes a short distance nearly directly east, labeled 'Siro Line' toward a small town of Siro. "We do have our own mines, but it's low grade iron and decent copper only."

"As to their customs, they don't bargain, they drink a lot, they do gamble, and they like to have bar fights. Or regular fights, usually fisticuffs, until someone gets knocked out only. They have a persnickity sense of honor, so don't insult them, or you'll get one challenging you to a duel. And by Chordwrite's Impossible Top, don't kill anyone, or you'll have a whole clan in a blood feud with you and yours for the next 10000 years."

Gemstones By color (With Pictures!) :

Amethyst : Violet

Citrine : Orange Yellow

Diamond : Yellow Brown White Pink Black Blue

Emerald : Green

Garnet : Red Pink Violet Green Yellow Orange

Iolite : Violet

Jade : Green

Lapis Lazuli : Blue

Morganite : Pink

Opal : Pink Yellow Orange White Brown Blue

Pearl : Pink Black White

Peridot : Green

Ruby : Red

Sapphire : Pink Blue Blue Star Yellow Violet Orange White Black Star Green Orange Brown Black

Tanzanite : Blue

Topaz : Pink Blue White Yellow

Tourmaline : Pink Green Orange Yellow

Gemstones By color :

Clear : Diamond
Black : Diamond, Pearl
White : Opal, Moonstone, Pearl
Red : Ruby
Orange : Citrine
Yellow : Citrine, Topaz
Green : Emerald, Jade, Peridot
Blue : Alexandrite, Sapphire, Aquamarine, Tanzinite, Topaz
Indigo : Alexandrite, Tanzinite
Violet : Amethyst,
Pink : Tourmeline (Rubillite), Morganite
Brown : <See Below>

Sapphire and Tourmeline and Garnet can pretty much be found in any color except clear/white and black. Everyone thinks of blue for sapphire, but they literally come in a rainbow.

Diamonds also come in most colors, clear, white, black, yellow, pink, blue, and so on.

Jaspar, Tourmaline, and Opal also come in multicolor gems, that is, all the colors in one gem.

I've actually done something similar to this before. Each gem was associated with a class (White Diamond -> Paladin, Black Diamond -> Anti-Paladin, Ruby -> Sorcerer, Opal -> Wizard, and so on). I'd have to dig out the list to provide some examples. Basically each alignment was covered, from LG to CE, and the players started in a cave, and each picked a different gem (that had to match their pre-stated personalities).

Common misconception. Yes, Portuguese is the most common language in South America. However, it's only by a small margin. The second most common is SA Spanish (not to be confused with Spain Spanish). Wikipedia is your friend. In the area you are, there's a larger percentage of SA Spanish speakers.

Just a quick clarification regarding my intentions to use Discord. The reason I want to do that is so I can post pictures of the layout of encounters, NPCs, and other graphics that might enhance the experience.

If all that can be done over the campaign forums here, and someone would be kind enough to explain how, then we can go that way.

I post pictures/links all the time. No reason you can't do that here. You just use the URL tag. {URL=HTTP://Picture URL/Picture.JPG}Picture Description{/URL} (But replace the curly ques with brackets).

For example :

The massive platinum dragon raises up in the air, making the ground shudder for miles around. It's massive wings unfurl, and block out the sun as it roars in annoyance at the humans gathered off in the near distance.

I do maps in Google Drive, putting them in as images, and then add more on top, to layer them. This lets me put a map down, cover up sections with black objects then put a transparent square over the whole map, and then finally paste in tokens for the NPCs. (See the campaigns on my profile and take a look at the maps, especially the 'maze of the elements' on my #1 game I'm running, it has 4 massive maps, and tokens for all the PCs and NPCs involved.

To all my games,

I'd again like to apologize for the lack of posting in October/November. It was about 30% physical, 30% mental, and 40% situational. I don't want to go into all the details, but I really did need the two months to deal with life and recharge my batteries. I spent a lot of time running around doing job searching, a lot of which included driving for 6-8 hours a day doing job interviews in Houston, which is a 3 hour drive for me. I almost had to move to Houston to get work, as I was not finding anything in Austin.

I do have good news though, all the hard work was worth it. I had two job offers arrive within a 24 hour period right before Thanksgiving. I am happy to announce that as of yesterday, at 8AM EST, I am now gainfully employed again with an international company. Best of all though, I am not going to have to move to Houston for it, I can stay in Austin and travel as needed while working remotely.

My health, and the health of all my family, is also in a much better place as of this week (other than a really nasty chest cold that made the rounds in the house, and for which I'm still hacking up congestion from).

Thank you for your patience, and I hope life is going well for you also.

If you are not comfortable with my rejoining the game, please let me know, and I'll completely understand.

MDT

To all my games,

I'd again like to apologize for the lack of posting in October/November. It was about 30% physical, 30% mental, and 40% situational. I don't want to go into all the details, but I really did need the two months to deal with life and recharge my batteries. I spent a lot of time running around doing job searching, a lot of which included driving for 6-8 hours a day doing job interviews in Houston, which is a 3 hour drive for me. I almost had to move to Houston to get work, as I was not finding anything in Austin.

I do have good news though, all the hard work was worth it. I had two job offers arrive within a 24 hour period right before Thanksgiving. I am happy to announce that as of yesterday, at 8AM EST, I am now gainfully employed again with an international company. Best of all though, I am not going to have to move to Houston for it, I can stay in Austin and travel as needed while working remotely.

My health, and the health of all my family, is also in a much better place as of this week (other than a really nasty chest cold that made the rounds in the house, and for which I'm still hacking up congestion from).

Thank you for your patience, and I hope life is going well for you also.

If you are not comfortable with my rejoining the game, please let me know, and I'll completely understand.

MDT

To all my games,
I'd again like to apologize for the lack of posting in October/November. It was about 30% physical, 30% mental, and 40% situational. I don't want to go into all the details, but I really did need the two months to deal with life and recharge my batteries. I spent a lot of time running around doing job searching, a lot of which included driving for 6-8 hours a day doing job interviews in Houston, which is a 3 hour drive for me. I almost had to move to Houston to get work, as I was not finding anything in Austin.

I do have good news though, all the hard work was worth it. I had two job offers arrive within a 24 hour period right before Thanksgiving. I am happy to announce that as of yesterday, at 8AM EST, I am now gainfully employed again with an international company. Best of all though, I am not going to have to move to Houston for it, I can stay in Austin and travel as needed while working remotely.

My health, and the health of all my family, is also in a much better place as of this week (other than a really nasty chest cold that made the rounds in the house, and for which I'm still hacking up congestion from).

Thank you for your patience, and I hope life is going well for you also.

MDT

To all my games,
I'd again like to apologize for the lack of posting in October/November. It was about 30% physical, 30% mental, and 40% situational. I don't want to go into all the details, but I really did need the two months to deal with life and recharge my batteries. I spent a lot of time running around doing job searching, a lot of which included driving for 6-8 hours a day doing job interviews in Houston, which is a 3 hour drive for me. I almost had to move to Houston to get work, as I was not finding anything in Austin.

I do have good news though, all the hard work was worth it. I had two job offers arrive within a 24 hour period right before Thanksgiving. I am happy to announce that as of yesterday, at 8AM EST, I am now gainfully employed again with an international company. Best of all though, I am not going to have to move to Houston for it, I can stay in Austin and travel as needed while working remotely.

My health, and the health of all my family, is also in a much better place as of this week (other than a really nasty chest cold that made the rounds in the house, and for which I'm still hacking up congestion from).

Thank you for your patience, and I hope life is going well for you also.

MDT

To all my games,
I'd again like to apologize for the lack of posting in October/November. It was about 30% physical, 30% mental, and 40% situational. I don't want to go into all the details, but I really did need the two months to deal with life and recharge my batteries. I spent a lot of time running around doing job searching, a lot of which included driving for 6-8 hours a day doing job interviews in Houston, which is a 3 hour drive for me. I almost had to move to Houston to get work, as I was not finding anything in Austin.

I do have good news though, all the hard work was worth it. I had two job offers arrive within a 24 hour period right before Thanksgiving. I am happy to announce that as of yesterday, at 8AM EST, I am now gainfully employed again with an international company. Best of all though, I am not going to have to move to Houston for it, I can stay in Austin and travel as needed while working remotely.

My health, and the health of all my family, is also in a much better place as of this week (other than a really nasty chest cold that made the rounds in the house, and for which I'm still hacking up congestion from).

Thank you for your patience, and I hope life is going well for you also.

MDT

To all my games :

Apologies for the lack of posting. October was... not fun. Life sucker punched me, and while I was distracted with the bloody nose, Fate snuck up behind me and beat me with a baseball bat.

Things are clearing up, but it may be after the holidays before I have the energy to post regularly.

On the good side, it's looking like I may be employed before Christmas again, so yay.

Again, apologies for falling off the face of the earth, just... as I said, October was not a good month.

Rav alive, Rav think... Not sure, every time Rav wake up, stupid Ratfolk with weird clothes bonk Rav on head with 404 club...

Telv grabs his gem and makes his wish. The large field he picked is filled with a howling wind, like a massive tornado. As if it had picked up a house from another place (or another reality), the tornado slowly dies down, and a house slams into place on the land.

The house is complete with a fence around the property, brick and cold iron. A small plaque on the gate reads '1313 Mockinbird Lane'. The two chimney's smoke cheerfully, adding to the miasma from the city a few miles away.

A piece of paper flutters down to Telv, a land deed for the land and house...

As he watches, a dozen bats fly out of a hole in the eaves of the roof of the building and screech as they fly out to explore their new environment.

Appreciated, I'll try to give more info as well.

Skitter, you mostly just talked on your turn. That's not a surprise, given you're in a ship under water, so not much you can do currently, other than try to swim for the surface, but that would take more than the remainder of combat.

FYI : That last gameplay post was my 40,000th post on the forums.

God I have no life...

Apologies to my games. As most if not all of you know, I've been out of work since June 1st, and due to having to get a lawyer involved, it was difficult for me to really hit the pavement for a new job until nearly the end of June. So really I've been very active this month, and all the work earlier in the month is heating up finally. I was swamped this week with phone interviews, in person interviews (2.5 hours from home), and prep work for interviews. Next week is looking busy too. This is all a good thing, but it's left me absolutely exhausted (The whole missing the height on the entrance to the garage right before the interview and banging up my wife's truck cap on the parking garage entrance didn't help either). But things are looking good, I've got 2 really really good jobs and 2-3 other potentials, and the two good ones have asked me for 2nd follow up interviews next week (One 2 weeks after the initial, and the other literally 3-4 hours after the first one, yay!). Anyway, sorry for not being as proactive as I should be to keep the threads up, I'll try to push Sunday (my meat game is tomorrow) to get posts and push things forward.

Apologies to my games. As most if not all of you know, I've been out of work since June 1st, and due to having to get a lawyer involved, it was difficult for me to really hit the pavement for a new job until nearly the end of June. So really I've been very active this month, and all the work earlier in the month is heating up finally. I was swamped this week with phone interviews, in person interviews (2.5 hours from home), and prep work for interviews. Next week is looking busy too. This is all a good thing, but it's left me absolutely exhausted (The whole missing the height on the entrance to the garage right before the interview and banging up my wife's truck cap on the parking garage entrance didn't help either). But things are looking good, I've got 2 really really good jobs and 2-3 other potentials, and the two good ones have asked me for 2nd follow up interviews next week (One 2 weeks after the initial, and the other literally 3-4 hours after the first one, yay!). Anyway, sorry for not being as proactive as I should be to keep the threads up, I'll try to push Sunday (my meat game is tomorrow) to get posts and push things forward.

Sorry everyone, I've been hellaciously busy this week with interviews, prep for interviews, driving to Houston for interviews, dealing with a minor vehicle accident, and general life. I'll hopefully catch up this weekend.

As Rav moves forward, he counts off on his left hand, ticking the fingers with the thumb. Sure enough, on the pinky finger, there's a loud noise behind and some muffled cursing. Shaking his head, he makes sure his pocket watch is set to the right time, since he can set it by Palo's noises during stealthy parts of missions, and then sneaks forward some more after giving anything that heard her a chance to make itself known.

CB, being paranoid about Unicron, see's evidence of Unicron infestation everywhere. Chaos, Violence, and while driving past some sort of organic shop, he notices miniature Cybertronian's, no more than a hand span tall, all being held in some sort of phase field! There's images on the glass store front with obviously wanted Cybertronians! Apparently the locals call Cybertronian's 'Gundams' and then sell the capture super-microbot corpses as keepsakes!

Warhawk continues north, and finds a massive area without any signs of technology, just trees, quadrupedal organics, rocks, and frozen H20 scattered everywhere. The air is cold enough that he's having to burn more energon to keep his control surfaces from freezing over. While the cold itself doesn't bother his Cybertronian components, it is cold enough to induce stasis lock if one were to run low on energon. This planet is insanely cold.

Sense Motive: 1d20 ⇒ 8

The woman looks Flann and Connor over, carefully. "I would avoid such talk around here, Mr. McIntyre. Saying you found it in a cave, or stored in a well, or deep underground, or any of those types of statements is a wink wink nudge nudge way of saying it was stolen from the Dwarves, or a Dwarven Burial Chamber. Needless to say, that would be contraindictive of having peaceful relations with said Dwarves." She taps her clipboard. "I'll put it down to a difference in culture this time. Please be more careful of your phrasing in the future." She looks around the ship. "I'll need to put a couple of engineers on your ship to study your existing engines, and we'll need to wait for Altina to return, so she can do the final estimates. She's the head of research into mechanical engines." She tilts her head. "If I may suggest, you can leave a skeleton crew on the ship, nobody will bother it while it's tethered. I can suggest several inns in the meantime, if you like. If you want to see some examples of Mechwerx Engineering, I can suggest a ride on the Train. I think you'll find it indicative of the high quality of work we do." She gives an impish grin. "That way when we give you the estimate you won't think we're reaching down your throat and tearing out your bladder in exchange for a chicken coop." She turns to Vim. "Mr. tel'Gossamer, I assume you and I can make the arrangements for the engineers to come aboard? Should I also give you the information on the local inns you can stay at and not be robbed?"

Assuming someone comes and gets him and Relas

Once inside, Rav looks at the pit, and grins. "Tunnel diving... Like old times. Remember when we found that slime thing and Rav blew it up..." He trails off, and blinks. "Maybe that was weird dream. Sometimes things after Golarian kind of blurry. As long as we don't find crazy robots, all good." He didn't tell anyone he still had the strange scuttly robot from the compound in his pack. He was sure he'd fix it eventually. But not as a square one wheeled bot!

Once they drop a rope in, Rav scampers down the rope as quietly as possible, and begins scouting ahead.

Stealth: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (11) + 20 = 31
Perception: 1d20 + 21 ⇒ (6) + 21 = 27

The half-way point wasn't bad either to be honest. That's as far as I could get with automated software online. After that, I had to do the yellow(White) and dark red(black) by hand. The automated software couldn't handle changing white or black.

I'll give everyone else a chance to respond, and do another cut scene when everyone has or tomorrow, whichever comes first.

I had a nice page of text on scales, and the website ate it. #$*#$&*#&

Short version (I'll do up a long version later), anything short of large scale anti-vehicle weapons are Terran scale, and do 1/5th the damage to Cybertronians (large scale AV weapons are basically hellfires, TOW missiles, M1 Abrams main rounds, anything designed to sink a battle ship, blow up a main battle tank, or bust a bunker). Terran weapons are 1/5th Cybertronian. Cybertronian is the 'base' for characters. Ship scale is designed for things smaller than the Ark/Dreadnought and bigger than a Warrior. Capital scale is basically Ark/Dreadnought and bigger. Titans are Capital scale, Combiners are usually Ship Scale (unless they're made up of microbots). Ship Scale is 5x better than Cybertronian, and Capital is 5x better than Ship Scale. Armor stays constant regardless of scale. That is, if a Terran APC has 15 points of armor, it has 15 points of armor. However, that 15 points of armor isn't doing much good against a 3d6 Cybertronian weapon (which does 55 points on average per shot against a Terran scale vehicle). By the same token, that 5d6 20mm vulcan minigun isn't doing much to a Scout with 15 points of armor when it's average body damage is 17.5/5 = 4 body. And that Terran APC's 15 armor does nothing when a capital ship's 3d6 main gun fires and hits it (or near it) and does 1375 damage on average to it (That scout's 15 armor isn't doing much when the same shot does 275 body to it!). The only real difference is the Scout might leave some debris behind.

Rav looks at Relas. "Not joke, Rav speak truth." But he does the cross his heart sign he always does when he's intentionally lying.

Rav, bored, looks back at the monks baking in the sun, and grins. "Hey Relas, Rav tell you bout time Rav travel with ass-set-ic name Ap'e?" He asks, wiping a cloth on his gun barrel casually. "Three months, Rav travel with guy, he wear no armor, wear no weapons, just hit people with fist. Going to learn under great wise monk on mountain. Every year, Monk take five new apprentices, five old apprentices leave. Ap'e work hard when we get there, only four more apprentices better. When all stand in front of old wise monk, he say..." Rav clears his throat, and takes on a gruff old man voice. "You are now Monks. You will leave behind your old name, and will take on a new one."

"Then old man monk walk up to first disciple, a man with dark hair. He touch him on forehead, and say..." Again the old man voice. "You are now Aye."

"Then the old man monk step sideways to second disciple, a girl with a red ponytail." And again the old man voice. "You are now Bea."

"Old Ap'e turn and leave, stalking away. Rav race to catch up, and ask him why he no stay and be disciple." Rav says, and then pauses, for effect. "Old Ap'e say 'I been called an ape for years, I am not going to be a Monk E!'" Rav begins to chuckle under his breath.

Ulastron Bike Mode

Ulastron Cheetah Mode

Ulastron Drone Mode

Note : I just realized I forgot to fix the height/weight for the different modes. I'll do that later.

And triple changers are why I went with MF instead of power arrays with limitations, about the same cost, but easier to deal with once you have the base form done.

I mostly put them as KA's because while they rarely do damage to other Cybertronians (given the armor levels), they routinely tear through buildings and cars and even armored trucks of Earthlings. EB's wouldn't do that. KA's set so the level of armor of Terran stuff is less than Cybertronian however works well.

Basically, I intend to set 'armor' for Terran stuff at a fraction, so you're tearing through cars and buildings left and right. I figured that would give the best 'cartoon style physics' in the fights.

So an earth car might have 2 RPD, and an armored truck might have 8 RPD, while an APC would have 12 or 15, and a Tank would have 20 RPD. Also means that small arms fire from humans would be worthless against even microbots, although anti-vehicle weapons could hurt, and anti-tank rounds would be useful even against a Warrior.

Basically, I reset the defenses so that Cybertronian's are the standard, not Earth stuff. Makes it easier than giving microbots 30 pts of armor and Warriors 80 pts, and giving everyone 1000 points.

Completion pass at Ulastron.

I upped it to 550 to account for all the racial stuff.

Modified your hunted down by 5 points, because if you're working for both sides, they aren't looking to kill you, just punish you based on who you worked for last.

Added Flight, and 3rd vehicle mode (forgot was a quad changer).

Added the following Disads :

Rivalry (Laserbeak) 10 (He's only worth 10)
Reputation (Mercenary who works for both sides, Extreme, 11-) 15
Psych Lim (Overconfident, Common Moderate) 10
Psych Lim (Ignorant of Earth Culture) 10
Psych Lim (Stubborn, Common Strong) 15
Pyhsical Lim (Colorblind) 5 (Based on being a cheetah morph)

Violet's ego attacks are vs Human class of minds, not animals. So her power doesn't work on the snake...

I've already had two recruiters call me since Tuesday. :P

Oh, looks like you're going with evil goblins, rather than neutral ones. Since any chaotic evil campaign has to end with the players killing each other off, I think I'll bow out even though I expressed interest in the interest check thread. Good luck.

"Rav think everyone need let Rav see what Rav see first. Could be herd of scruffy nerfs stampeding." Rav responds, trying to focus. Mostly waiting for GM result of perception and dropping pop culture references.

"A lepard? Ain't never seen no lepard with buttersfly wings, have ye?" The man asks the woman.

"He said Lepoard Opera, probably one of those stage things from up north. He musta been an actor that Her Tricksyness made have the wings from his costume." The blonde says, looking thoughtful. "Guess she must 'ave had someone in the audience and didn't like somewhat you said, Flann."

The man blinks. "Oh! Yep, that'd 'splain it alrighty. Serves ye right for doing plays that make fun of Her Shadowyness."

When he offers money, both of them light up like lighthouses, and look at each other. "Well now, normally mind ye, we'd have to charge ye the outsider rate, which is 500 gold for a holy book. Gotta keep them holy books protected, ye know."

The blonde nods. "Yep, but I tell you know Wellsy, I feel sorry for him though, let's give him the Accolyte discount? We can sneak it on the books right?"

The man nods, rubbing his chin. "Yeah, Ah guess we could."

The woman nods. "We can set you up with an Accolyte's tome for 100 gold."

Bluff: 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (3) + 14 = 17
Bluff, Aid Another: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 14

Sense Motive DC 19 to notice they're scamming Flann, and they rolled horribly

Rav shakes his head. "Is not choice between working mine and returning desert, or closing mine and keeping moss. Is choice between keeping moss and having monsters spawn and babies born with extra limbs or missing limbs or extra heads and fixing or destroying or shielding crystal. Stuff coming out of crystal like poison, but take time to seep into local water supply, local rocks, plants. There be plenty poisons that be good to feed plants, but kill humans and other animals. This be like that. If keep leaking out, eventually people be having dead babies born, or losing hair, or developing sores, or having babies with deformed bodies. Things with short lifespans, like insects and small animals, they be hit first, develop weird. If you no sure you should fix it, should at least gather city council together and talk about it. See if any signs already here." He turns to everyone else. "We should go ahead and leave town, not safe stay here and eat food and drink water from here. Unless want to glow in dark." He looks at the unconscious gunslinger. "He probably already dead and not know it, drink that much contaminated booze." That last statement is probably an exageration of course. Probably.

We should head to St. Albat then, this town is a death trap

Also, Palo and Relas should be fairly taken aback at how clearly and precisely Rav is talking. He never takes the time to be articulate unless its really really really important, like life threatening but complicated important