FYI - I'm on my cellphone until the 14th and can't really draft substantive posts.  Please NPC Charlie and Lukas as needed.  Thanks!!

In reply to Lukas Fischer (msg # 881):

No problem. Thanks.

Who is the other PC (besides Ferro) with the radio tuned into the Monolith/Mad Dogs/Boats net?

Andropov.

But I guess that's buggered now that he's using his radio to talk to Janku. He should have been issued with two sets and wasn't.

Just to be clear, that's down to me, not Mark.

Tom came off the Monolith net a few turns ago when he started taking orders over the radio. JJ will switch to Monolith net. His next turn will be trying to establish contact.

Did Czerny get the AGS unjammed?

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He said he did. Then he said he was putting it back to together.

Mark, sorry if I added any confusion but Ferro is still monitoring the monolith channel. She radioed the Mad Dogs on her personal tac radio (not the manpack).

Last part of the turn is up.

Please note any ammunition fire last turn.

In reply to Fusilier (msg # 891):

Slightly edited Per's latest IC post to reflect results of completed GM post.

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Did the hostages that were interviewed say if there were any more hostages in the camp?

I'm trying to establish if the sick men are pirates or hostages. Can we establish that or is it just a judgement call.

The guy that the pirates released to deliver the ransom demand gave a specific number for the hostages - 15. Same number was confirmed as being released (IC 385). It's possible there were others the messenger didn't see but the way the pirates have been acting they don't appear to be the types to spare food / medicine for sick hostages. That's just an opinion though.

One thing I literally just thought of as I was making a cup of tea is that they might have caught radiation poisoning from the sub - I think Ferro raised that as a potential hazard a while ago. Anyone bring a Geiger counter?

Re: Tom's request for a map, Kessler does have one of Northern Poland but the scale is 1: 350,000. If Fuse rules that that's helpful Kessler will gladly hand it over.

That map scale wouldn't be very practical for a mortar fire mission. Also, now that I think of it, a map probably wouldn't help much anyway since the only landmarks here (the shipwrecks and shantytown) aren't on any map (occuring after the map was printed).

The compass is good enough.

Thanks for the intel.

I'm erring on the side of caution and having JJ shoot the occupants. If anyone objects on an OOC moral basis I will, of course, not do so. I just don't see any other way: the likelihood is that they are pirates and they may be infectious so leaving someone to secure them is doubly risky as they may be overwhelmed or get ill.

What do people think?

JJ will do it himself, he won't order anyone else to execute prisoners.

I've got no objections.

Also, is everyone happy to carry on pouring fire onto the trawler and the submarine or do you want to ease up in case we do accidentally trigger another Chernobyl?

In reply to Michael Kessler (msg # 897):

Realistically I think having engaged both vessels there would be no let up mid attack, but stranger things have happened. Someone might want to alert the ships off the coast that they may have some company.

Totally meta, but is anyone in assault carrying a Geiger counter? Might the "sick" pirates be suffering the effects of radiation poisoning?

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JJ has one.

Light them ALL up!  Keep pressing the attack...

Sometimes, I feel like no one reads my posts.

Did anyone consider that the "sick" men are victims of radiation, perhaps from the sub? Maybe I missed it and we know what class the sub is, but it can't burn meth or coal and there's not likely enough diesel around... it could be nuclear-powered.

Shooting them does not neutralize their radioactivity. It also deprives us of intel.

Is this summary justice or a mercy killing? Either way, the Mad Dogs are committing a war crime. This is not a heat-of-the-moment thing. This is murder.

As a character, Varis would probably look the other way- I'm not sure, though. Per, on the other hand...

I think I might be retiring a PC and that makes me sad.

I know this is only a game, and that I'm coming across as being rather judgmental but I'm not keen on colluding in war crimes, even fictional ones.

This isn't an ultimatum. It's a plea to the better angels of our nature. I'm open to discuss this with whoever feels moved to. I needed to say this.

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This message was last edited by the player at 22:59, Thu 11 Jan 2018.

Yes. I posted it about five hours before you did. Including the comment about the Geiger counter.


Mark also posted that if anyone had a moral objection he wouldn't do it.


Other than me, no one replied.


I feel that too sometimes.

I am guilty of post-skimming. I realize that complaining about others doing it is hypocritical. I apologize for being both a post-skimmer and a hypocrite.

Timing is an issue, here. I didn't have a chance to object OOC. I was waiting on a reply re the Geiger counter, before registering my official position re the prisoners. I can't check in to the game from work, except on my lunch break. By the time the reply was received/read, Mark was already shooting the prisoners IC.

For the record, I'm still not interesting in role-playing war crimes.

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I did reply, OOC, I hope this isn't a problem.

In reply to Francis 'Frank' Benucci (msg # 905):

Sorry, I misread that - I thought you were answering my question about the ships. My mistake.