In reply to Evelyn Darque (msg # 743):

which conversation?

The "you have survivor's guilt" conversation

In reply to Evelyn Darque (msg # 745):

Oh.  Don't think Vonon is part of that one.

However, according to the American Psychological Association, if you feel you need to ask, then you do have Survivors Guilt.  Also, if asked 'do you feel guilty, having survived' if you answer 'No' then you are obviously repressing your guilt.  Either way, you need to acknowledge your undeniable feelings of guilt and schedule multiple sessions per week with a licensed Psychologist, who will guide you through the years and years and years of incredibly expensive therapy.  Basically it's recommended you just hand your checkbook over to the Psychologist...

^_^

I started to get back to Evelyn's conversation, but had a bad week.

As long as I didn't miss it and/or holding the scene up I can wait.

Posted! In the Aboard the Longshot thread...

Does the asteroid station have any restaurants?

In reply to Inderpal Kumar (msg # 750):

Imagine a large enclosed shopping Mall with several hotels, condominiums and business office buildings attached to it.  Everything that you would expect to find in a "regular" city is likely to be found here, too.  Just mostly built in or off the sides of tunnels.  Rockport is a LARGE asteroid complex, so a lot of effort and resources have gone into making most of the city have as "open" a look as the engineers can manage.

Smaller facilities might look like you were just inside a building, with no "open" spaces, just hallways and chambers.

Yes, there are several restaurants. Cassandra is a busy spaceport. There are ships and people coming and going all the time. Occasionally there might be lull. In those instances, everyone sighs and takes a deep breath in preparation for doing all again.

Just make up something that suits your interests, such as Tear Drop City that features ghost peppers in their dishes or The Spice Club with heavily spicy food.

Indeed, I've done that. :)

Happy New Year guys!

Same to you!

In reply to Samantha Kilgore (msg # 754):

     Sam, about Cassandra's Belt--I used the Traveller Map, at TravellerMap.com, and the Traveller Wiki that The Map links to when I was creating Vonon.  I've double checked and nothing significant appears to have changed in the data from either source--although the Wiki does have a caveat that the file is a work in progress, as they are updating the Wiki for the latest version of Traveller.

     So, there ya go.

Not sure how accurate the nobles listed in the Wiki is compared to this campaign.

"The Imperial nobility includes four Knights, one Baronet, no Barons, no Marquises, one Viscount, one Count, and no Dukes" With that in mind, the ship was carrying 2 of the 7 nobles in the subsector (out of 6 billion sophonts).

(I used it to have Walter start off at Outpost)

Just for clarification
As I understood it the dinner will be just before we leave the station after the ship is refit (if we do it here) and not now, or?

In reply to Kheaiftouaw (msg # 758):

That's what I understood, as well.

Correct, when we get ready to leave.

I'm not dead in case anyone assumed I crawled into the ships guts and died
This message was last edited by the player at 02:00, Sun 03 Feb 2019.

In reply to Evelyn Darque (msg # 761):

Actually, I had assumed that ... but if you now say you are not dead, then ... OMG!!  You must be UN-Dead!!!  Run!  Everybody run!

^_^

Sorry for being even less active than normal. I am dealing with some family heath drama which saps all motivation for posting.

Just continue and assume that Khea is still on her way back from the station to the bar.

Checking in.

No problem, Khea. RL has a way of sucking the gaming life out of you, even when you least expect it.

In reply to StarMaster (msg # 766):

Okay, just pulled my head out of my butt--so this is what fresh air smells like!--and managed to stay focused long enough to take a little look around this Board to see What's New.

Or at least what's ben happening behind the scenes while I wasn't paying attention...

Re: UPPs -- First, my 2-centicred opinion on the Format--Of the many ways you presented the character data, StarMaster, I think my preference is for the format you used on Kaengarr:
     Name of Skill     Level     (Specific Skill/Specialty)
Put that in boxes, or not, either way looks good to me.

Next, you use 5 notations, but I can only find where you explain what 2 of them are, so I ask:
        * = Background Skill
        + = Expert Program assist available
       ** = ?
        ^ = ?
   (soft) = ?
What do they meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaan?


Re: Swimming. I completely agree with this.  The only existing skill in the system that it would make any sense for Swimming to be part of would be Athletics, but I seem to recall there was something in the Skill Description for Athletics that implied (sorta) that Swimming was not part of this catch-all Skill.

     I do have one Swimming Specialty to suggest, though--Very Deep Diving using an Atmospheric Diving Suit (ADS).  Umbilical Diving suits are fine--they've been around since John Lethbridge constructed a "diving suit"--a wooden barrel about 6 feet (1.8 m) in length with two holes for the diver's arms sealed with leather cuffs, and a 4-inch (100 mm) viewport of thick glass.  It was reportedly used to dive as deep as 60 feet (18 m), and was used to salvage substantial quantities of silver from the wreck of the East Indiaman Vansittart, which sank in 1719 off the Cape Verde islands.

     But Umbilical suits have depth limits, and movement is difficult because of the umbilical hoses and cords.  An atmospheric diving suit (ADS) is a small one-person articulated anthropomorphic submersible which resembles a suit of armour, with elaborate pressure joints to allow articulation while maintaining an internal pressure of one atmosphere.  The ADS can be used for very deep dives of up to 2,300 feet (700 m) for many hours, and eliminates the majority of physiological dangers associated with deep diving; the occupant need not decompress, there is no need for special gas mixtures, and there is no danger of decompression sickness or nitrogen narcosis.  Divers do not even need to be skilled swimmers.

     Marc Miller, et al., were probably thinking of these "hardsuits" when they tossed out the rule that let's adventurers use their Spacesuits as "diving suits" and their Zero-G Skill (EVA skill?) to operate the suit in the underwater environ.

      ADS' are not on the end of an umbilical, "modern" ADS' even have thrusters and buoyancy tanks for independent underwater movement.  They are similar to Umbilical Diving Suits, but also very different.

Fixed. Except (soft). Have no idea what that indicates. Have to ask Serge, as that's only on his character.