Yep, but I'm noticing now. Vrryl is back in business.

So after reading through the posts from July, the 4 person recon team would be Sophes, Vrryl, Jessica and Mika, correct? Would be easy enough to change that up to just the 3 of us since Gabe's not around though.

I agree.

I have no issues with the character tagging around in the background, but I dunno if you want that headache Erik.

Marco?

Rubio?

Or Polo?

Polo preferably. Ok.

Good start Mike.

Anyone else have preparations to make?

Okay.  I want to get this going again and finish Africa off as we do so.  Can you guys review stuff and let me know if you have or don't have an idea of what's going on?  Happy to discuss here too. :)

So Mika had a vision from the Oracle spell with a bunch of components.  Currently, the group has been focusing on a settlement by a lake with mountains in the distance and Vrryl painted a picture of it by communicating mentally with Mika.

You were planning a recon with Mika, Sophes, Vrryl, and Jessica.

You are currently in eastern Uganda north of the big lake.

Yeah, definitely going to need some time to read through our posts to get caught up =D

Yep, I'm catching up on this stuff... going to need a full re-read of the house rules. I'm sort of familiar with Mika since I was adopting various Palladium Rifts stuff to Savage Rifts for a while and Demigods are top-tier difficult to translate due to their unbalancing nature.

Will be funny going back to Palladium Rifts though with all the massive attack numbers, bonuses and damages; like going from 5th Edition D&D to Pathfinder.

What time of year is it in game? I do not remember the month we're in. Not that it plays a big deal being we're pretty much on the equator but good to know.

Okay.  This took some work as I don't have notes on that.  I also can't find one of my books with some timeline info.  But....

I believe that you were recruited to go to Africa in latest 103PA and you went there in earliest 104 PA.

Three months to get to the Congo and defeat War, another month traveling south and east to Tanzania, another 2+ months to travel through Zambia into Botswana, 4 months traveling through Mozambique and into northern Uganda where you are now.

So... it is currently late 104 PA.
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So for next steps:

We need to find Sophes in here if we can.

And you guys need to pick methods of travel and directions for travel.  Jessica's power armor travels at 50mph.

All four of us can fly, and flying is the quickest method of travel, so... Vrryl flies at pretty silly speeds, I assume Sophes can as well, using Fly tattoo. Is Jess the slowest at 50mph? What's Mika's flight speed?

Yeah, we all have flight spells/capabilities. Mika's max speed with Winged Flight is 116mph and she can maintain that spell for 3 hours per cast. Alternatively she can cast Fly as an Eagle as well, 50mph for 3 hours, which uses up less PPE if we don't need the speed.

Also fairly certain Sophes has the flight tattoo as well.

Let's fly to Jess' speed, then.... 50mph. We can fly in a line, 1 mile spread between each other. Sophes and Vrryl on the outside wings, Jess and Mika flying on the inside. That way if anything happens to any of us, we have the best chance of getting everyone on site to help.

We can fly in large flower petal shape... so fly north for a day, rest, loop around (a few miles shifted from our previous path) and return to camp on the second day, so the path looks a bit like a flower petal with our camp at the centre. Fly out, rest, loop and return... rinse and repeat.

With our general direction having been north-eastwards, we can make our loops from straight north, clockwise. Flying 12 hour days... 4 shifts, 3 hours each, with rest/breaks 12 hours... covers 600 miles out from base camp.

Does that make sense?

Yes, Sophes has the flight tatoo. I can fly for 3 hours at a max speed of 110 mph at Sophes's current level.

I agree we should keep things as equal as possible regarding speeds.

I find it odd that someone in powered armor (or robot) has a max flying speed of 50 mph.... shouldin't it be like 500 mph?

Its TW armor.  Uses Fly as the Eagle.

Does that 12 hours include the breaks/rest? Otherwise it may be a bit much; we’ll need to eat at some point… and for Mika that means hunting something down.

Do we want to head out as far as possible or circle back in a pattern to cover a wide fan-like swath of territory in front of the main force?

Example:
For flight 1 we go out for 3 hours northeast in a wide search pattern 150miles from base, then stops for a rest.
On flight 2 we circle back (east or west) to cover the adjacent territories and end up back at base. Stop for a rest
Flight 3 repeat of 1 but at on a different trajectory
FLight 4 as per 2 but relative to the trajectory of flight 3

Example 2:
Flight 1 head NE for 3 hours then rest
Flight 2 change trajectory ENE or WNW and continue for 3 hours
Flight 3 Change trajectory again to begin circling back towards camp
Flight 4 head back towards camp

One question; how quickly does the Company of Heroes move? I do not remember how much ground the entire force could cover in a day. That may impact how far out we wish to recce at one time.

So from the Oracle spell, you guys are looking for a specific lake settlement in the mountainous region to the northeast. You believe Abkii is located there and under threat.  The indication is that this is related to or relevant to finding Famine.  Your previous plan was to try and find it relatively quickly.
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From what I understand, we have been running recons... 4 teams, 3 out, 1 in. And so far haven't found anything. Which suggests that we aren't going out far enough.

The idea is to keep the camp stationary for now, gather supplies/ allies/ ppe/ weapons/ short range recon/ whatever from local area, while the 4 of us go and do deep recon, using the images from Mika's vision. 12 Hours on, 12 hours rest... 12 hours gives us 600 miles of out range. Keeping the army stationary keeps it from wasting time drifting aimlessly, especially with the phoenix empire nearby, and puts only us 4 in danger, instead, rather than our whole army. But that's why it's us 4 doing it.

Once we find the horseman/evidence/the lake, we then have a direction to move in with the army.

At least, that's how I understood what was happening, and why I was making the suggested plan.
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To help things - on Map for Group 0, you are just below the 'D' in Uganda.  The mountainous region you are interested in starts about 300 miles to the Northeast and is about 600 miles across (basically most of Ethiopia).