Re: Ocean Depths: Earth and Not Earth, Present Day
I decided to generate Trav's rolls as stated and go ahead. Hope that's OK with everyone; I may get back to regular posting this week and I may not. :(
After Trav prepares her decoy, she deploys it off into the blackness. She's a little disappointed at the speed with which it departs, but as she has applied due foresight, the doll doesn't start pinging its signal until it is a fair distance away.
The results, to put it mildly, are dramatic. There is a great swirl of current around the travellers as the leviathan attracted by Trav's initial pulse changes direction and kicks up a turbulent storm in the ocean. In the beam of his cycle's searchlight, Stanley sees a graat fluked tentacle thick as a redwood sweep across his path in a spray of cavitation bubbles, but he manages to keep the vehicle stable.
Perhaps a minute later, there another deep THRUM cuts through the water, but this one is considerably muffled and does not evoke anything like the same spine-rattling vibration. It seems likely that the pulse was sent out in a different direction, probably after the departing decoy.
20:23, Today: The Guardian, on behalf of The Traveller, rolled 14 using 2d6+7 with rolls of 4,3. Coordination + Marksman + Turbopistol -2.
20:23, Today: The Guardian, on behalf of The Traveller, rolled 24 using 2d6+16 with rolls of 4,4. Fixing up the decoy: Ingenuity(8) + Technology(6) + Sonic.