In reply to Yardbird (msg # 940):

I don't want to be too meta about "who has the best Agility score" or whatever, but it seems like this is a case of "throw Karma at the problem so we can move forward"

In reply to Aviva (msg # 941):

Roger built a cropduster (aka "broadcast spreader") into the aircraft. How does that factor in?

In reply to Aviva (msg # 941):

you could not throw karma, and the only real cost is that you’ll move forward and downward at the same time.

Good point

The cropduster add-on is what lets you disperse the stuff instead of just lobbing the globule like a medicine ball and hoping for the best.

But I'll give you +2CS to the roll, too.

In reply to The Watcher (msg # 945):

I love that "Billy shoots himself in the face with a laser" is our best hope at diplomacy

In reply to Aviva (msg # 946):

If only more CEOs were brave enough to shoot themselves in the face for the good of mankind.

Amen brother!

In reply to Billy Laser Fist (msg # 947):

You need to tell Frank in character that you did this. She's going to lose it.

In reply to Penelope Franklin (msg # 949):

Now that's leadership

In reply to Yardbird (msg # 950):

Let's talk about the cropduster situation for a moment.

When you're driving (or piloting) a vehicle, there are a variety of things that can happen that might result in the vehicle going "out of control," which means it stops going where you want it to go and starts going where the whims of fate decree, instead.

The longer a vehicle remains out of control, the greater the chance that it'll crash into something.

You can restore control with a successful piloting check in most cases, though generally you'll suffer some penalties to the roll (and potentially lasting penalties to future rolls for a while) depending on what caused you to go out of control in the first place.

Example: You hit an oil slick and lose control. You roll piloting vs what the GM rules is a yellow difficulty and succeed. The car is brought back under control one round later and nothing bad happened in the meantime--and no lasting damage, so no further penalties. Onward!

Example 2: You hit an oil slick and lose control, but this time you fail the piloting check. You can't get the car back under control that round, and it spins around wildly. You don't quite crash into the car next to you, but you do bang against it and rebound back off at speed; this costs you the rearview mirror and headlight on that side and earns you a nasty dent (i.e., Body Damage to the vehicle). The next round, you make a second piloting check. This one's harder, -2CS to the roll. If you succeed on that check, you might still suffer a minor penalty to future piloting rolls for a while to account for the damage done to the car and to your own sensibilities. If you fail enough rolls, you might decide to bail even if the vehicle doesn't actually crash due to the accumulated penalties from the damage.

All that is to say that the crow-plane isn't likely to crash right now. You're out of control, but you have time to pull out of it.

For the first attempt, we'll need a successful manipulation roll or a successful piloting roll (green will suffice, with no penalties to the roll). Godspeed!
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:07, Mon 09 Oct 2023.

In reply to The Watcher (msg # 951):

Damn! Snake eyes!

In reply to Yardbird (msg # 952):

Just to make sure I follow what is happening (from Aviva's perspective)

-Aviva, Frank, Roger were in a not-spaceship flying over enemies.
-Frank then jumped out of the not-spaceship unexpectedly, crashed into the ground, and is bouncing at high speed
-Roger swooped toward her but it looks like he will crash the not-spaceship

Assuming that's all that's really going on, what's my roll to seize control of the not-spaceship from Roger and try to save us, because clearly Aviva is the only one not doing something insane right now

In reply to Aviva (msg # 953):

I mean I can throw karma at my next roll if we want.

In reply to Yardbird (msg # 954):

If Roger isn't opposing you, there's no roll needed.

If Roger IS opposing you, you both make a STR check to see who ends up with the controls (and/or if they break).

In reply to The Watcher (msg # 955):

You get the controls!

Darn tootin!

Now...

were we trying to land or to take off?

Also... WTF is with this dice roller!?
This message was last edited by the player at 15:21, Mon 16 Oct 2023.

In reply to Aviva (msg # 957):

I didn't expect flying a plane to be more challenging than fighting the mob, but here we are.

if there is anything this party is capable of it’s inventing new and exciting problems.

In reply to Billy Laser Fist (msg # 959):

This isn't the maneuver we'd planned all along?

In reply to Yardbird (msg # 960):

Aviva's got the wheel for team aerobatics.

In reply to The Watcher (msg # 958):

What a beautiful summary of Frank.

In reply to Penelope Franklin (msg # 962):

Brother Billy if you want filtered comms you might want to tell us we're on speaker. I absolutely responded assuming we had you on channel based on the line to the ship

Frank is impulsive, not dumb

In reply to Penelope Franklin (msg # 963):

I read your message to us as, if you tell me to say something to them, they'll be able to hear it when I say it.

We'd have had no way of knowing of open channel either way. It probably changes how id respond if id understood your intent but it's very in line for Frank so we ride on
This message was last edited by the player at 18:13, Thu 26 Oct 2023.

In reply to Penelope Franklin (msg # 964):

Billy definitely did not specify in his message, this is absolutely a case of “oh shit I have you on speaker!” on Billy’s part.  he was also expecting the ground crew to be the more likely respondents, which is awkward given that they’re all NPCs, but still not the safest assumption.  Usually his communications are as surreptitious as he needs them to be, so this fully transparent thing he’s doing for the Joss is genuinely kinda new to him.