It's totally gonna work, guys. As long as I don't keep rolling less than 22 like I have for every throw of the dice since August 2023.

If Frank wants to come over and bug Roger, she's totally welcome to.

In reply to Yardbird (msg # 40):

@Billy: GM clarified we were in an empty room and I edited my featherlight post after his ooc clarification.

Not sure if you want to amend but the post reflects that Frank has expressed it's unlikely that gun or bullets were used and it's intriguing the shots were fired in the dark .

Go off if you want but post was edited before both of your responses

I didn’t see featherlight edited out, but the rest of my point stands.  Billy doesn’t know shit about ballistics and Briggs has neither confirmed nor denied what the expected damage pattern of his gun is

for the record, Billy knows what gunshot residue is. he’s seen CSI & the Furious: Special Victims Unit

Um. Roger, if you just stabbed yourself in the BRAIN or SPINAL COLUMN, I'm gonna need a Reason check to see if you know how to do that (+2CS to the roll with all the help you have available), and then a yellow Agility check to see if you managed to hit the right spot in the back of your head. You'll get +2CS to the roll if your Reason was red, +1 CS if it was yellow, +0 CS if it was green, and -2CS if it was white).

You can stab yourself in the back of the head either way, of course. The roll determines the consequences.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:59, Fri 12 Jan.

In reply to The Watcher (msg # 44):

Yeah I guess you're right

Between me, Xander, and the way that post was phrased I just assumed he was pre-equipped for that move.  What a wild way to find out how much of this brain science is virgin territory.

It's not the first time Roger's stabbed himself in the brain. But he's never done it under duress before.

And this is why, when we first met, I didn't want you messing with my shield.

I'm not sure how relevant it is or how you want to handle, but Frank absolutely would have gone where Aviva suggested, as she is aware of her power suite and shares a mutual disdain for Briggs.

Sorry for being slow, as Aviva noted, real life stuff with the newborn!

No worries about a little bit of discontinuity! Let's take a moment to get all the pieces back on the board, so to speak.

Soon as Roger confirms what he wants to do, I'll be able to proceed with both bits of the story.

In reply to The Watcher (msg # 50):

Goodness this Briggs dude is punchable!

Roger, we won't hold it against you if you loose your cool...

In reply to Aviva (msg # 51):

The cage can get smaller.

In reply to Yardbird (msg # 52):

I know we joke a lot but seriously: did we sleep enough to recover any HP?

In reply to Aviva (msg # 53):

Yes. While at rest, you recover health equal to your Endurance rank per hour.

You slept for 4 hours, so you can recover health equal to (4 x Endurance).

In reply to The Watcher (msg # 54):

Cool, half HP isn't too bad!

Tomorrow night let's consider surrounding our bunks with claymores...

Gee Roger, how come your GM lets you have two experimental brain surgeries?

If this whole brain parasite surgery thing is really going to happen I just want to chime in that I feel like Rebecca at least might recognize that Briggs dying or also being rendered comatose would undermine the whole point of bringing him back.  Just want that out there in light of how Ibis’s operation went when it comes to risk assessment and maybe doing any kind of non-invasive scanning before resorting to a scalpel in a definitely not sterile environment now that we’re down one magical faith healer.

In reply to Billy Laser Fist (msg # 57):

I don't think Roger's gonna let Nightmare cut on him before imaging. Where we're at now, Roger assumes Nightmare will try another telepathic approach before they make any surgical decisions and the "rendering unconscious" thing was just to assess the nature of Briggs's resistance.

That's fair. I'll revise a bit.

Well THIS side of Roger is interesting.

::eating popcorn::

In reply to Aviva (msg # 60):

For a second there this was really looking like The Thing. Paranoia is so fun.

In reply to Yardbird (msg # 61):

Meanwhile, I keep hearing "Be very very quiet, we're hunting wasps" in Elmer Fudd voice

Assuming I actually get near them in stealth, Frank is waiting for one of you to pull and is smashing the slower of the two to turn

Maybe they'll be friendly this time