I agree with Brett. Keep the group that isn't us stationary and we can do the recon. Seeing as we have a large area to cover could we keep Jessica back and fly at 110 mph?

Ok, I thought we were originally closer to Lake Victoria, but we're closer to modern-day Mbale, right?

I also forgot we sort of had a direction to search in, so yeah, going the long recces to the NE makes the most sense. I was originally thinking we had to look all over.

As per Rob I think leaving Jessica with the base camp makes more sense, from an IC and OOC standpoint. We can travel faster and not have to worry about an NPC. PPE cost difference for Mika is only 10 to go from 50mph (25PPE) to 116mph (35PPE), so going for speed is better. We could travel to the zone of interest in a single jaunt, and if we can see/find a leyline that could be even better/furhter.

In my head, I thought Gabe was still going to be playing, but that's right... Jessica is basically an npc. I totally agree then, leave her behind to do stuff, and the 3 of us will do the job. Much faster pace, too.

To Erik: I imagine we have not detected any ley lines or such near us/base camp area?

Mika can sense ley lines out to 90miles at this point, and Rifts up to 450miles.

Plus my flight on Sophes costs the same if I go min or max speed.

Yeah, same with Mika and her winged flight so better to go 100mph. We can really cover some ground then in a day. Since we're looking for a lake-side town by flying at a good altitude we should be able to see lakes easily enough. I'm not sure if their is an altitude limit on any of your spells, none for winged-flight.

I edited my last reply for the increased flight speed we're thinking of now.
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You would get a speed increase from a ley line if you fly on it.  Being within 2 miles increases range and duration 50%, on the ley line increases range, duration, and speed 100%.

Ley lines are typically 100-200 feet high.

You can sense ley line(s) at that range.  Is there a direction sense associated with that?

Yeah, there's a chance to locate. With Mika it is 74% at present; rolled in the log.

You can sense some ley line activity to the east.

As a reminder, you guys did set up protocols for detecting intruders.

I remember we set up protocols to confirm we are who we say we are... hand gesture with the thumb and working colour into the first sentence spoken, but this was just for the 3 of us. This is much harder for a wider army to maintain the same level of checks other than being vigilant and reporting anything suspicious.

For RP sake, I was just going to ignore emoting these things in to move things along (plus I'll forget with my not ridiculously high Vrryl-level IQ).

Yeah, agreed. Will take up a lot of time emoting the secret handshake, plus I don't even remember what it was lol.

I thought you set it up for more than just the 3 of you, but I am trying to remember how far you went.

I think it was just the 3 of us (+Jess). Doesn't make sense having the whole army doing it, it would eventually get slipped up and I'd rather know 100% that Mika is Mika, than random-knight01 is random-knight01. But it is important for the army to know that there is/are imposters trying to cause dissension and chaos, so they can report anything weird. I guess we could bring Erin into it, maybe one or two other key characters. But the smaller the group doing the finger/colour code thing, the better it will work. My thoughts on it, at least.

I thought it was something based on unknown information about the people involved, the whole revealed secrets thing.  Its totally up to you guys of course.  Though the conversation of setting it up did take place with others (Erin, Fang Lo, Thorpe, Katrina, Prrcival)

Yeah, I think it we had it amongst the core leadership of the group only.

I am cool with that. Keeps the dangerous people in the know.

Okay, so what's the exact methodology you have chosen for travel?

Head East by Northeast guided by the sense of where the ley line is at max speed. Once at the ley line Mika can do a quick sense to determine if there are any major events long its path and in which direction it goes. If it is heading in the right direction we can just follow along, otherwise I suppose we would follow it as long as possible before going directly NE.

Would be flying 2-mile spread formation with Mika in the middle; her typical position in a three-way :P

I imagine we would maintain a fairly high altitude to maximize our perspective, around 750ft. Aside from the usual visual and audio searching, Mika will be keeping an eye out for magic sources and such, her range is 1000ft on that.

Just to confirm how quickly can we fly? Mika can go about 116mph.

Sophes can do 110 mph

Did you guys convert from kph to mph? My notes show 208 kph. I guess that's 128 mph after converstion.

I am just basing it off the tattoo in the Atlantis book. It is in mph.

Good question in part; Mika's flight spell is PS and speed attribute based (spd = 5*PS). I guess we need to define if actual speed is Spd * 20 yards OR meters. In typical American fashion they think meters and yards are the same in the rules, but it would certainly result in different values.

I think I've been using meters for ease of scaling, but up to Erik on which one he wants to use.

For example, Mika's flight speed is 155, which would be either 3100yard or 3100meters per minute, which then converts to 105.7mph (169kph) or 186kph (116.25mph)

Ahh, the book has both mph and kph, I simply wrote down the kph part. So yeah, 130 mph according to the book's mph calculator.