New, unimproved OOC thread, for your viewing and chatting pleasure.

Just archiving stuff, so we can start on the new section of the game, and not worry about weird post limits.  Now seemed a good time, since we have the natural break in story to work with.
This message was last edited by the GM at 08:24, Mon 03 Jan 2011.

http://captainotter.today.com/...-lantern-batman1.jpg

I ... I have no words.  Why would Malfeas do that?!  Exalting Batman is the worst possible idea!

My compliments Phantasm, that's an awesome bit of fluff right there.
[edit]
Also, my agents job isn't to make me money and stuff, its to be so fumblingly inept that people leave me alone, as well as so good-naturedly likable that there's no way people would think she does it on purpose.

Of course, even Solitaire is unsure whether its affected or genuine, but is happy with the result either way. It keeps most people out of her hair.

Would've gone into a tad more detail, but have to dash [/edit]
This message was last edited by the player at 03:38, Fri 07 Aug 2009.

Just so we all know. Quentin has Inventive Genius as an enhancement now. If you all need something made, feel free to just have it done.

Hey everybody. I'm the player of Suzukaze one of the new peeps joining the game. I'm one of Zero's friends but not an oddball like him.

Welcome, welcome, its always good to have new blood.

Hey.  Glad to finally get you involved.  The last scene took a bit longer to resolve than I anticipated, and I've had kind of a busy week.

I intend our first interaction in current timeline to be in the social life thread, just an fyi for everyone.  That is where the newest team members will be introduced as well.

Hey!  Welcome aboard, Suzukaze.  Glad to have you with us.

Thanks alot. I'm really looking forward to the game. Just hope I don't screw something up as this is my first online RP experience.

Welcome aboard!  If it's not prying, or revealing too much, what kind of stuff does Suzukaze do?  Energy blasts?  Stealth?  Exudes pure unadulterated awesome?

You'll pick it up quickly I expect, its not all that difficult, and we don't bite.  Just be your character.

Tasm's constructs bite though, be very very careful not to provoke the 'Tasm. There was this psyker guy in Africa and, well, he got eaten by the gimp. Shudder...

Yes, that was rather creepy, I will admit.

/curtsey

Thank you, thank you.

And welcome aboard Suzukaze, I'm sure you'll be great.

Picture a cross between Gambit, Quiksilver and Deadpool.

Do you do your own narration?!

<3 Deadpool

Gambit, Quicksilver, and Deadpool ... that's a good flavor.

In celebration, I should take a moment to share this ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...&feature=channel ).  Can't remember if I posted it to the old OOC thread, but the love for Deadpool must be shared.

Excellent, sounds like our collection of misfits is still fitting together like a well oiled machine totally by accident.  A serious question, though, if some members of the party became members of the Terragen round table discussions, would you try to kill them?  if so, must buy more defensive powers...
This message was last edited by the player at 03:57, Sun 09 Aug 2009.

Ehehehe ... yeah, the ever present question.  When the time comes, will you pick a side?  Stick with your friends?  Fight for a cause?

It's one of the few things that really ought to be considered as we play.  We've deviated from the setting, but the war's an inevitability.

Didn't Splash get exploded Comstock? Might want to edit that.

Or perhaps its her GHOST!?

xD

I was just about to mention that, I do believe that the lovely and talented Splash did indeed get greased in the Iraq incident.  Poor girl, she was so nice...

Ah crud.  Slipped my brain in all this jumping around the calendar.  Thanks for the catch.

Edit: Fixed it.  Terrible thing is that I remember being so careful to remember that for the first post I made in the thread.  I guess she's the most sympathetic of the canon T2M members in my head.

I think I am going to make a current T2M roster somewhere so I don't make that sort of mistake again.  I'll put the random names I've made up so far on there (Sunflare and Maverick for example) and everyone can chip in with their own if they like.  Bonus: that way our ST has more names to work with when he needs Nova-level mooks.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:57, Sun 09 Aug 2009.

That would be nice.  I like lists.  We can even make a thread entirely composed of lists if you like.

It seems an ideal subject for the "Dawn of a New Era: Changes in the Nova Age" thread, actually.  Since that is where pertinent setting elements have gone.

So ... yeah.  I suppose I'll start with my Historian and Scribe duties by compiling the grand list.  I'll start with the Eon-Online Nova Census and then make sure to add the names we've invented.  If anyone has anyone they'd like added to the list, let me know.

Edit: Alright.  First drafts up now.  Let me clarify that the lists shouldn't make the game into more work for anyone.  They're for fun.  If we run into conflict with our own canon, I'm sure we'll figure it out.  I don't want the expanding pool of information to turn into a headache and part-time job for everyone.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:24, Mon 10 Aug 2009.

Thank you much.  And I don't really see the list becoming a problem, but rather is a solution to all the backtracking people would have to otherwise do.

I need to hunt down a full list of published novas at some point.

Oh, and I am waiting for one other new player to finish up background stuff, and then I will post a reply in the current thread.  Should be by the end of the day.

Just to echo what I said to Zero in a PM: If anyone else is interested in the dinner meeting with Orzaiz et al, feel free to jump in. I had not originally intended to add anything else to the first post, just illustrate that Quentin is trying to keep in touch with that crowd, but if we have a bunch of folks that want to bail out of Africa or wherever for a night to talk transhumanism, so much the better.

EON Online ( Linking again for redundancy's sake http://www.eononline.net/downloads/index.html ) has a Nova Census with page references for just about every canon Nova mentioned in the books.  Huge asset.  As I build out the list of NPC's I am sure I'll be referencing that a lot.

You might be able to drag Comstock to some meetings in the future, but right now I'm sure he'll be just fine punching Elites and doing garrison work.  Feel free to make a mockery of him though.

Solitaire tries to split the difference, bashing elites is fun, philosophy is interesting, though too much mega-intellect makes her head hurt. Not at this one, though she is at others, mainly to listen.

Imp is indeed there, I always thought Fong could do better than that poncy git Delorimier.

Greetings all this is Flare, and I am pleased to be joining this game.  This is my first time doing posting based roleplay, but I have gamed for many years.  Nice to meet everyone.

Welcome, welcome, happy to have you.

Ha! Ha! The irony stings.

In reply to Flare (msg #31):

It's a pleasure to have you.

Now get an avatar!
This message was last edited by the player at 11:56, Tue 11 Aug 2009.

Hey!  Welcome aboard, Flare.

Now that they are both here, I can move on with the party.  Sorry for the delay.

Welcome aboard Flare, I'm sure that having new people is going to make this game even better.
A question, for those of us at Raoul's villa, if we do join the terragen, are we comfortable with being public enemy number one?  The highest on T2M's hitlist?  Painted as traitors and turncoats and being hounded by both Pax and Proteus?

At present, there's no real animosity between the Terragen and Utopia.  But yeah, for the future that is a serious consideration.

A better question is how well would the team hold together in the event of a break in the team?  All of us going one way or the other would be easy.  Earlier in the OOC we'd talked about somehow rehabilitating the Terragen image and preventing it (as an organization at least) from becoming the refuge of the Nova-Supremacist terrors, too, so it might not be as difficult a matter.

For Comstock's part ... he'd probably follow you guys if you had good reasons.

I feel that would entirely depend on the timing.

[EDIT] It would be something of a Huge boon to them if a whole, well respected T2M team switched to their side.

[2nd EDIT] Course, we now have two new players to consider as well, I wonder their feeling on the matter.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:53, Wed 12 Aug 2009.

Is it possible to separate the monkey skinners from the less blood thirsty terats?  If the philosophy of teras maintains personal responsibility and novas answering to nothing but their own scruples, such as they are, I don't think you can take out the harvesters or Nova prime, that any nova no matter how malign is special and deserves the right to find their own path to ascension or wherever they are going...

Quite true, but if the Pantheon were more of the "do what you want, but keep it to yourself" variety, it might set a better example that you could do it without stomping on baselines for the fun of it. It would still be, say, technically allowed, but more frowned upon as catering to baser instincts and a block to true greatness.

[Edit]You just have to make it clear that Teras is not the excuse to just 'cut loose' so many seem to think it is, but a call that all must seek a personal path to enlightenment, free from baseline constraints. Even if morality is one of the things you abandon, why involve yourself with baselines at all? They would be beneath you the same way ants are, not even worth notice. How could they possibly 'oppress' you, as Nova Vigilance claims? Even the weakest nova is light years beyond any normal human. Even Nova's that do work with baselines will see Teras eventually, it is a universal call when you are so much better than those around you, as each Nova is unique, so is his or her Teras, you cannot force enlightenment, it will come in time.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:32, Wed 12 Aug 2009.

You're starting to sound like a terat Sol, be very quiet or pax will hear you.  Someone who we haven't met yet is Scripture, I'm wondering when he'll make an appearance, and will he have eyes before his chrysalis?  Or if he has entered one before meeting Raoul, Pedro and Caroline...

Oh, 'I' am quite the Terat, Solitaire on the other hand, is not quite yet.

Changing the direction of the Teragen as a whole really does rely on changing the direction of the Pantheon. Of course, once Scripture and Mal show up, they more or less dominate the whole ordeal through their extreme forces of personality and immense personal power.

Heh.  I have to admit, the speech is there for foreshadowing.  Hope today = Betrayal tomorrow when he finds out he's been sending Novas to Bahrain and Bahrain isn't what he thinks it is.  Unless the ST changes that bit of canon.  Which would be funny.  But somehow I don't think our PCs are going to change the shape of Utopia that much as members of T2M.

This is true, although I think we can do less to change its shape as Terats than we can as T2Mers.  What we really need to get things rolling is to have someone in Proteus.  Someone stealthy, mysterious and immune to mental probes.  Someone like Zero...
This message was last edited by the player at 01:44, Fri 14 Aug 2009.

In reply to Impetus (msg #45):

or harley... "oops, i know i was supposed to kill slider, but she was cute, and that soccer player was a dick anyway..."

True ... but if I am to believe what I read in the tabloids, Dr. Zero is a former Nazi responsible for the Galatea and strangling kittens.  That ... actually, that probably makes him a perfect candidate for Proteus.  At least the kittens and Nazis parts of the story.

Harley's a ... questionable choice.  Depends on a lot.  Does Proteus have mind-control technology somewhere?  Because if Harley decided to go off script or make a scene he'd go from perfect agent to worst agent ever.

Sorry about the delay in character set up, I now have an avatar and a description

harley as agent:
But that's what would make it soooo fun :)

Flare:
Vacations and airplanes do that to people.

I love Solitaire's rundown of all the characters. ;)
This message was last edited by the player at 02:44, Sun 16 Aug 2009.

Me too.  Glad to see the majority of my abilities are still an enigma too.

In reply to Phantasm (msg #51):

Enigmas are great.

BTW, love the addition of Slider to the team. Great description, too. Oh, the drama that can ensue. Will we meet Andrean Corban(sp)? [Private to Rydi: It would be so awesome if Pax is the killer. If that occurs.;)]
This message was last edited by the player at 15:46, Sun 16 Aug 2009.

Canon Andre doesn't erupt until 2004 if I remember correctly, so maybe.

Yeah, Corbin is planned.  Though it will be a while before his eruption.  Not sure if I want to do it a bit earlier or not though.  I wouldn't mind moving things a bit faster.  Lot more intensive quantum usage in the EW can justify a higher background quantum energy level, and thus more rapid eruption.  Dunno, still deciding.

School starts tomorrow, so I will be trying to adjust to the new schedule.  I'm going to try and get on a set posting schedule, with me logging in twice a day.  We'll see how it goes.  Just fyi.
This message was last edited by the GM at 04:15, Mon 17 Aug 2009.

Sure you've all noticed I've been rather busy lately, it'll probably stay that way for another week or two, but I'll check in when I can.

Am gonna be busy myself, moving in a couple days, papers due, new semester, ninjas to fight off and gangs to infiltrate, gonna be a hectic couple months.

It's ok to slow down a bit.  I too am busy.  I get to go to my TA class later tonight and see just how much grading i'm going to have to do.  Yuck.

Ah, grading, the bane of teachers everywhere.  A few years back I was teaching two intensive writing classes of about 45 kids each.  It was retarded, something like 16h of marking a week, so glad I'm not doing that any more.

Just got back from my own annual TA orientation shindig.  Add my understanding to the pile.

Just waiting on Grav to transport, and Imp to tell me where you guys are actually going.  Then I can take it from there.

Hey everybody, sorry for not posting in hte last couple dys, we moved(yesterday and our new pad is sadly lacking the interweb for another day or so.  My idea for this Little mexican shindig is to just set the stage for us to get together as a group again, without anybody else around and, well, talk.  It may just be me but it seems like we have been defining ourselves as individuals for quite a while now, and less like the group that we were when we started out, which is cool, but part of what we were raving about in the early days was how much group chemistry we had, something we may want to reaquire now that we have some new addtitions to teh team.  If this doesn't appeal to everyone, then by all means lets just drink tequilla until the sun comes up, leave Pax with the tab (zero, you did forge his credit card, yes?) and move on to the awesomeness that Rydi no doubt has in store for us.

In reply to Impetus (msg #61):

That sounds like a very good idea.  I just didn't want to progress to a location if you had something planned.  This works... Though I'm a bit dense right now.  Am I missing any references to locations/people in Aberrant continuity here? Or is this just a person Imp knows?

In other news, first week of school was survived, I even managed to keep up my workout schedule, so hopefully I will be back to regular posting quantity/quality (though I haven't actually started the bulk of the real work of course... but whatever, we'll deal with that when it comes around).

Sophia? As in Sophia Rosseau? Or however you spell it? Or just the same name?
This message was last edited by the player at 04:37, Sun 23 Aug 2009.

<3 Frostburn. She so interesting.

It hadn't even crossed my mind, but if you want Sophia the restaurateur to be Rousseau then go for it.  I figured that she was just a person that Imp knew, that it was a place he had found that he went to to relax when he had a free day and was in the Americas.

Rousseau is extremely allusive and not very personable, so I somehow doubt it's her.

Unless it's her in disguise...

Or someone disguised as her in disguise. O_O

Or her disguised as someone else disguised as her in disguise.  I'll stop...

Hey all, I'm trying to utilize the various text features, like quoting, so if my posts look a little crummy I apologize in advance.

don't worry about it, the colors and all that other jazz are just for show anyways, when I post drunk (which happens surprisingly often) my spelling and general posting accuracy/relevance go downhill fast.  Speaking of, where did that beer go...

Sooo.  I'm still around, and still thinking about the game.  I will be continuing to post, though as you can probably already tell, it will be a bit slower on some of the story elements.  Setting and fights should run at about the same rate, and the beautiful thing about you as players is that you will entertain yourselves when I'm not around, but my big plot developments will be slow for a little while.

My current semester includes several presentations, multiple papers requiring substantial research, two submissions to conferences that I'm going to try and make, TA work, and getting things in order to make applications to different grad/doc programs in the coming months (need to switch from general psych to counseling psych this semester, and start padding my vita to apply to doc programs in the spring, thus my need to submit those papers to conference).  I also am trying to maintain my summer exercise schedule and go to the gym at least an hour a day during weekdays.  And I need to keep the wife happy and the living area in some semblance of order.  Last but not least, I need to type up some campaign notes for the bi-weekly DD 3.5 campaign I've been saying I'll run for months now, though once its done I won't have a whole lot of work in that arena (just getting the setting notes in order up front is the real problem; lots of work in one spurt... though it will help a lot later, and save work then).

Anyway, just figured I'd let people know where I was at, and that if I'm not on as much its just 'cause I'm busy, not b/c I forgot about you.

I do have some plot elements I'm wanting to work in now btw.  Currently on the agenda.  Some of what I'm working on follows, just fyi and if anyone wants to take the initiative with any of this stuff:
a. The formation of the Directive
b. The formalization of the Terat philosophy, intro of Mal, and the Chrysalis (I'm especially eager to get to the chrysalis... I haven't decided how Imp's relationship will effect that.  Will it delay Caroline?  If she does go into chrysalis, will she still be kidnapped by Utopia?  Good stuff there...)
c. A more active roll for Frostburn in shaping the team, and Sol specifically
d. More space exploration
e. More nova politics
f. Introducing the darker elements of Utopia, and problems with the terraforming project.
g. Revealing more about Shadow Walker, probably in a vignette.
h. Revisiting old plot lines that got glossed over during the war.

I've got half formed ideas working on all of these, and I'm just trying to decide the right time/way to intro them.  And which to intro first, and how to pace the new plot lines, as flooding stuff like that just results in stuff getting missed or swept under the rug.

I'll be on more heavily tonight and tomorrow, and probably either Sat or Sunday too, so you should see some progress on at least a few of the above plot lines.

Finally (sorry for going on so long), since I haven't asked in a while, are there any specific requests for anything?  You guys have mostly figured out that if you want it, you can write it into your posts as long as its reasonable and plays off of everyone else well, but did you need anything from me specifically?  Or just want to explore a particular direction?  Just let me know.

Hey, looking to strengthen the CV here myself this semester.  I know the feeling.

I'd actually like to see some amount of effort by Utopia to turn us against one another as our ambitions diverge.  Order us to bring in Nova captives for detainment, that sort of thing.

Wow, and I thought just taking four classes at community college ate too much of my time. Guess I still have it easy...

Amen on the busy work/school stuff, doing a presentation (my first at an international conference) in october, have all new classes that i have to prep for this semester, and have two research papers due for the MA I'm doing, also, husbandly duties, so yeah, I totally understand you not logging on as often as you want to.  This is just coming from me, and I don't want to speak for anybody else, but I do not in any way associate your slowing down your post rates with losing interest in the game, I do have a couple plot lines bubbling around in my head that i will type up and send your way when i have a free afternoon.
As an aside, if anybody wants a paper copy edited let me know, it is something I am pretty good at, but please don't drop a 30 page paper on me 2 days before it's due and expect anything, or expect me to edit anything for content unless it's English/education related (pm me if you wanna send it my way).
AS to the game
Things I want(tm):
1) More stuff on the seamier side of living in the nova age, blacktech, kidnappings, stalkers, cults, antinova groups (church of the archangel Prodigal)...
2) Like Comstock said, orders that we may feel slightly squeamish about (taking down some of the people we met at the roundtable discussions, repressing freedom of speech.
3) Teragen, who are they (we?) what do they/we stand for? And yes, am very interested to see if you will have Utpoia capture Caroline and have Imp know/learn about it.  Or even if you'll have other PCs responsible for taking her down...
4) Space and the true insanity of tech development with people like Grav running around, not sleeping and thinking at a bazillion miles an hour 24/7/365.

Now, back to aforementioned research paper...

I posted stuff, though do note that in several threads I ended up double posting.  Just want to make sure stuff doesn't get lost in the shuffle.

I have a question.  I've been looking through the old posts and haven't found an answer to it yet.  We're T2M Americas in Nevada, but where does that leave Mexico?  And Utopia's relation to it?

You take care of Mexico too.  And will be down there a lot more in the coming months as you start busting cartels in the area.  Utopia will also still pay to help mexico improve its condition, but mexico city won't be quite the hub of activity it was in the primary setting. i don't know mexico, and i think vegas is a more compelling location, so I think we'll be keeping things there.  Maybe eventually put an auxiliary base in Mexico or something.

I'll post when I get back today, but if we're going to have multiple scenes going on in the same thread, perhaps we should start making more active use of the Subject header to note which scene the post is in, for those that don't cover both.

In reply to Solitaire (msg #79):

Good point.  i will endeavor to remember to do so.

Oh, I totally forgot that guy, I thought Zero was talking about 2 Directive agents. Haha.

[Edit] Guess Solitaire got it wrong too, lacking mega-int and all.
This message was last edited by the player at 04:38, Wed 02 Sept 2009.

I too totally missed the calling card of the psycher.  Also, please note, that there is absolutely no veiled hint at wanting to be included in the action on the beach in my last post, while Imp may feel like an idiot after, he is indeed enjoying the soak, if fighting breaks out, quantum discharges, Solitaires screaming by overhead, Comstock throwing buildings into the ocean, he will indeed perk up but for right now he's basking in oneness/gazing into the cosmic navel.

In reply to Impetus (msg #82):

It was very subtle. I loved it. Bang or bust, it is awesome how much trouble such an innocent little question can invoke. Bravo, Rydi!

(It did run a chill down my spine while I read it, too.;))
This message was last edited by the player at 16:09, Wed 02 Sept 2009.

I just had a totally random thought, what if the psycher is pax?  As in it's pax's evil subconscious that is trying to set those who might challenge his supremacy to fall, thus making Pax look all the mightier?  Maybe I haven't had enough coffee this morning...

In reply to Impetus (msg #84):

Personally, I like it. I like how we just keep seeing Pax in a villainous light. ;)

*grin*

Man.  Poor guy.  Everyone loves him except the people across the fourth wall.  Should I start a "Save Pax" club?

Oh wait.  That's right.  He's an ass and a thug.  Just a damn good one.

Not just us fourth wallers, iirc splash left for team asia to get away from his ego, that was in the other dimension when she wasn't crisped in Iraq.  Pax, I think, is a poster child for the ability of those with mega charisma to grab you by the throat and say "You fucking like me, got it?!" and to get a genuinely possitive response.  I'm guessing that there were some secret parties when pax got the beat down from mal by some of those he rubbed the wrong way.

Note to Flare: Nat Str 4 should give you a Quality, which would allow you to re-roll those 10's you rolled. Unless its crazily specific, it should usually apply. Just food for thought.

Thanks! I'm still working on the rules, so I didn't realize.

You leave my str quality alone, Sol!!  There's lots of ways Well Built can be useful!! Body building competitions, picking up chicks who like the bodybuilders, pretending to be a statue of a bodybuilder... Waitaminute, those rolls involve something not str, right?  Sigh.

Hmmm.  Strength+Athletics checks to pose for bodybuilding enhancement advertisements.  "Got Creatine?"

Yeah, that's about all i can think of too, but that's more of a style thing, which is app...

My Str is too low to have a Quality. :(

My everything has a quality.  Except appearance and charisma, since I don't use those.  Go go manipulation!

Grav, screw brute strength, you can bend time and space.  Can Stock or Sol do that?  I don't think so.  They can just bend things like I-beams, tanks and sissy stuff like that.

* Cries and goes back to his pile of bent I-beams to console himself *

The Gravitas Super-Science advantage has only barely been touched upon as of yet.  Speaking of which, Gravitas was the third in charge of training our new recruits.  What do you plan on doing to them?

What was that defense formula we were using to speed up fights?  We should probably be using it in the combat with Flare and Su, so they aren't surprised by it later.

To Rydi: You made words and I'm sure they meant things.

To the rest: I wish to bend things, but for the moment am consolidating myself with blowing them up a bit.  I was wondering, did anyone take the healing abilities, and if not would they be useful?

I don't really have any healing ability, not even Regeneration - though I'll probably pick that up at some point. That said, my soak for most attacks is usually high enough that I don't need to worry much about damage.

Err, I am? When did that happen?

Eeech ... I thought Mega-Strength 3 wouldn't be too much.  Overestimated your soak a bit, Flare, sorry.  We've got at least one NPC that's generally around the base capable of putting Flare back together.  And ... well, now Flare will know the full extent of Nova-strength.

No i'm editing, so dont reply to the training thing yet, i completly did my soak wrong.

Sorry about changing stuff after I posted.  I didn't understand how a few things went together and figured out my soak was much higher than I had origionally wrote.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:55, Mon 07 Sept 2009.

Since about post #8 of the Headquarters thread.



Kinda hidden in there, but yeah.  Unless something changed somewhere, but then I'm the one who missed the update.  There's a lot to go through, so I wouldn't be surprised.

Gnar, my mistake. Sometimes I skim if I'm trying to do too much at once, and it looks like this is one of those times I missed something. I'm going to re-read some stuff to get back on track.

Go go social beat down!

Interesting how the desire to protect the baselines will end up alientating you from them...

Yeah, this is setting Imp down the path of Teras quite firmly.  we are not human, we can endager them by our very presence, as responsible entities we should try to limit collateral damage to those around us.  Should make for a pretty angsty conflicted Imp, never saw that coming....

I know you're a busy dude, Rydi, and may have seen but not commented on the questions that Imp posed to Prof Bharati in the second half of my post responding to the tanker/sub thing, but it  may make it easier for us to post in the sandbox portions of the game if we knew:
1) How much power do we have as members of T2M?
2) Do we have full diplomatic immunity?
3) How much of what we promise will the Project follow through on?
4) How many of our resources can we commit without going to a higher up?
5) Who would these higher ups be?  I'm guessing Pax, Frosty, and maybe comstock?
thanks much
This message was last edited by the player at 01:51, Wed 09 Sept 2009.

In reply to Impetus (msg #107):

Yeah, sorry, meant to reply and then forgot.  And getting back to school after the holiday was busy...

Anyway:
1) How much power do we have as members of T2M?
Ultimately it depends on your role at the time (as to your power within the org that is).  If you get dispensation to act as a negotiator, you have a great deal of power, though within pre-set limits. Outside of the utopia hierarchy, you are considered diplomats of a sort, and have certain rights as law enforcement and inspectors... Countries can kick you out if they feel like it though, much as they can any other diplomats.  They'll just face sanctions and worldwide scorn/suspicion if they do.  Most 1st world countries treat you as something akin to federal investigators, if said investigators had the powers of a demi-god.  This doesn't mean they will let you leaf through their privat documents or step all over the rights of their people, but as long as you have reason to be there and its either an emergency or you cleared it with the gov, you are given a great deal of room.  2nd and 3rd world countries are more of a crapshoot however.

2) Do we have full diplomatic immunity?
No.  Specifically, many member nations of the UN don't trust you enough to give it to you.  You are immune from some things though (I am bad people, not up to snuff on international law... what are the common features of dip. immunity aside from immunity to prosecution?  Feel free to link me, I can read on my own and then give you an answer).

3) How much of what we promise will the Project follow through on?
If you just promise to do something on your own, Utopia will be annoyed but probably follow through on it, and make sure you don't put them in a tricky situation again.  But if you have dispensation to achieve a certain goal, Utopia will back you in most decisions... within pre-set limits as stated in 1 (for ex, you wouldn't get to just randomly decide that the arms treaty with iran lets them have all the nukes they want and a nice side helping of icbm's... you would be acting toward the overall goals of utopia).

4) How many of our resources can we commit without going to a higher up?
Depends on the resources you are talking about.  Shadow Walker is nominally in control of the base resources, though Frostburn does most of the work really.  Comstock has the right to requisition what he feels like, though frostburn and he have to attend oversight meetings quarterly, so you will be held accountable.  You are expected to avoid waste where possible, but they don't begrudge you resources.  The base should be able to respond to emergency situations at all times, and serve as both evacuation point, and house novas, so things that compromise this ability will not be tolerated for long periods.  Further resources beyond those on base require going through Pax, making a R&D request, or talking to one of the directors.

5) Who would these higher ups be?  I'm guessing Pax, Frosty, and maybe comstock?
I answered part of this already.  I need to go look up names for the directors, but they are the higher ups (or their secretaries are anyway).  And R&D (Anteaus).

Oh, and i'll get to all the nice posts that popped up today.  Just... not tonight.  Tired and i just got home not long ago.  Tomorrow sometime.

thanks much bossman!!  And yeah, Comstock, Imp speaks romance languages and geek languages as his linguistics picks.  They're right there on his character sheet.  I figure it's a nice touch having his prior and current past times reflected by the languages he knows.

Awesome.  I just had to have the big guy ask, though, since it occurred to me that my PC isn't a nerd and really would have no idea that it was even an option to speak Klingon.

No sweat on the delays.  I'm going to be up all night meeting some deadlines, myself, so don't expect rapid response on my side of things tomorrow.

While I am going to be lurking and posting here in a somewhat foolish attempt to put off working on this paper that I've gotta get done asap and fully expect everyone to be posting so I can rationalize spending time on stuff not academic.

I altered the first paragraph of post 227 of the social life thread, titled mexican meltdown, after i read through the first bit of project utopia book.  If it's not kosher for Imp to know the director of Public Relations i can change it again, but from her bio and Imp's extreme photogenic-ness/playboy personality i figured they'd swim in the same circles.
Something I am curious about, Mal doesn't make his Null Manifesto for 4 years yet, when the Terragen really hits the front page, so our less than party line attitudes about novas, humanity, and the relation between the two (well, Sol's, Zero's, Grav's, Imp's, and maybe one or two of the rest of us) may be ignored or overlooked for quite some time yet, then there will be a huge Proteus hit put on each of us, to try to stop so many of T2M from colluding with the enemy or soemsuch, could tear utopia to pieces...
Mind you, by that time I think Sol could tear Utopia to pieces with her bare hands, or at least be someone that they couldn't take down with anything short of an all out assault by Pax and his homies.

Oh, thats sweet.

xD

I'm around, but working on a paper that leaves little room in my brain for good interaction.  Should be back to normal tomorrow evening or so.

Good luck on the paper bossman, hope it's going well.  A quick question, in teh social life thread, and the vignettes, how far ahead of the current date can we go?  Speaking of, if i figure it right it's either just before or just after new year's yes?

It is around new years, and you can go up to a few months ahead if you have something you are interested in working on.

You can never have enough healers. Period.

Besides, the Storytelling system rewards shared efforts. People don't have to worry much about steeping on someone's theme, because it will just allow the group as a whole to work together and achieve amazing results, possibly far better then the NPCs (which is align with many stories).
This message was last edited by the player at 15:47, Mon 14 Sept 2009.

A thread on Divis from Rpg.net if you wanna peruse it.
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=472876

Two things:
1) I find it interesting how vehement the supposed "roleplaying" crowd is against suped up npc's and metaplot.  The realistic interactions they seem to be seeking, and criticize the "powergamers" and "metaplot experts" for supposedly not obtaining, are actually aided by such characters imo.  True, in real life we don't have ancient dead gods, antedilluvians, or Mal, but we have the CIA, China, various Militaries, and serial killers.  And a whole lot of meta-plot that we can't do a damned thing about.  In my eyes, meta-plot and scary untouchable characters that you have to work around rather than confront and beat the shit out of, are quite realistic.  Just try and beat up the IRS guy when he demands your taxes, and see how that goes over.

2) I have plot coming, I promise.

I only have a problem with it when it's overused. I had a couple groups where we practically had an Antediluvian around every corner.

I was a little annoyed Mal's weaknesses where not explained, because I think that would have added a lot to Mal. He's actually one of my favorite Aberrant characters. It's just that a guy with the Taint and Chrysalis he's had should have some serious Aberrations stated out along with his powers.




Yeah! Win.

The thread is full of exaggeration.  Divis Mal might be doing cool things, but then again your PCs might also be doing cool things.  I really never felt like the setting was strangled by the meta-plot.  Maybe it is just that I found it easy to ignore some of the more absurd things.  I also had no problem ignoring oWoD Vampire's worst meta-plot elements.  And L5R stopped for me just before the battle of Oblivion's Gate.

Seriously ... our PCs have no problem with Pax.  And it's not that Mal does everything in the Teragen, it's that Mal has a cult that does what he wants.  To paraphrase: "It's not about the XP ... it's about sending a message ..."

Really, I do think we should be more afraid of Pax than we are... But I quite like it this way.

Some of the stuff that has been suggested for that is that since he was so close to the Hammersmith device when it blew up he is basically a sort of super-nova, in the sense that he probably has Taint, but gets it considerably slower than everyone else does.

In reply to Comstock (msg #122):

L5R's story is full of craziness right now. Not looking like good times for the empire....  Damn the man! Save the Empire!

The theory I subscribe to is that Hammersmith, Mal and Mercer are the three "Prime" specimens of the different Inspired. Hammersmith, if he didn't die, probably become something like the Doyen, pure Psi.

Umm, 'stock, my pc has a problem with pax, big fat problem...
But yeah, RPOL.net does have a remarkable tendency to well, get carried away with itself.  Also, I'm guessing other than things like anima banner, abb eyes, and inhuman beauty he also has some mental aberrations, maybe more than some.

I'm not sure if you can call what he has megalomania or not... Probably...

Personal problem, sure.  But he doesn't seem to be politically savvy enough to do anything about us on his own.  So ... as long as you don't piss off his "betters" (heh) higher in the organization, he can't do anything about us.  See?  No problem.  If he just lashes out and attacks you because he doesn't like you, he's hosed.

At least that's my feeling.  I mean, sure he could probably break 'stock over his knee while spanking Imp and shooting lazer beams out his arse to keep the rest of the team at bay, but he can't use those powers to solve social issues.  Best he can do is shout "you people like me!" and pose for the camera.

I'm a horrible person. I went to sleep early, intending to wake up bright and early today, but instead slept through until it was almost time for more classes (yay for no sleep the previous night).  In between classes I may have time to post what I had planned, but if not, I will definitely get stuff up in the social thread, and the missions thread, later tonight.  Its about time I get you on that stuff.

Its all good, as you pointed out before, we can keep ourselves entertained.

In reply to Solitaire (msg #131):

I actually did post the social update, but didn't have time for the other.  alas.  Well, off to class/food.  Buhbye.

So, first time i read through Zero's post about digging the node out of psycher guy's head and getting some cake I read "coke" instead.  I thought for a minute Zero also wanted to be the inventor of Soma.  Don't get me wrong, eating cake with a hunk of brain in your hand is still creepy as hell....

In reply to Impetus (msg #133):

Actually, I DID forget Imp had powers other than speed/flight/charm.  Haha.  Go me.  But P' wouldn't have.  So she must have just been playing, right?

Grin.  iirc, Imp's only ever shot stuff in 5 posts: 1 in training (when enraged) 2 in Africa, and 2 vignettes.  Hopefully enemies will forget that kind of thing too, then i can blow the crap out of them when they least expect.  If it makes you feel better I have no idea what 'Tasm can do other than zombie teddybear monster trucks force fields that eat peoples' souls, massive int and manip and, umm resisting psyche attacks.  More focused on the first one, really.  Fixated, actually.

::After days of wallowing in pustulence Flare reemerges::

Hey guys, I am actually vaguely useful again.  I had the plague (some kind of flu) and have been mostly dead.

< red stripe >
Boo creepy plague!
Hurraaaaay Flare!
< / red stripe >

I might be coming down with something myself, actually, so my apologies if I miss something this weekend.

good to hear you're feeling better, it wasn't H1N1 was it?  Also, in my first post on the thread i said we had blueprints, was that overstepping things?  Should I rewrite it?
This message was last edited by the player at 04:50, Fri 18 Sept 2009.

In reply to Impetus (msg #138):

no, that's fine.  you would have pretty much anything you need to take the place out, in terms of intel and equipment.

I have no idea what amalgamation of flu I had, I work in a hospital so anything is possible.  I want to dub it Zoo flu, just to cover all my bases.

Starting Sunday I'll be on vacation. Girlfriend and I are driving out of town to stay at her aunt's place then mondaywe leave for Florida. We'll be there until the following monday the 28th. So the earliest I'll probally be posting again will be tuesday the 29th.

In reply to Suzukaze (msg #141):

Sounds nice.  I want a vacation...

Anyway, noted.  Tis a shame now that the fighting is starting that you won't be here.  But we'll probably still be going at it by the time you get back.

Did you want me to have you step out of the fight, or just run things for you?  Either is fine with me (arranging "personal business" for your character shouldn't be that hard... there was a meeting she was planning anyway)

In reply to Rydi (msg #142):

It's fine if you want to take her over so that any plans with her don't get ruined. So for a week about she'll be an npc I guess. Non combat typical stealth type ninja like stuff. I'm confident you won't get her killed in combat.

If no one has any objections, I'm going to move things forward in the various threads.

I will be renaming the social thread "off the clock", and will forward the freak plotline.

I will be moving things to the minutes before the club scene (and will take final request for equipment and such).

So, I was just looking through the original character write up I did for Imp and it's a little amusing how he's stayed totally true to my original concept in some aspects (animalistic lust and his quest to overcome it) and totally different in others (not so much a randy nerdy scientist).  Anybody else have a very different character 6 months in than they did at the beginning?

Yeah.  When I first envisioned Phantasm, she was driven and somewhat aggressive, while still secretive.  She was going to be much more focused on the mega-int/science angle, and was going to use her high ability scores to do stuff...

Then she turned into a quiet introspective character, torn by indecision, distracted by life and growing up, and generally living the life of a damaged and introverted teen demigod.  Weird, huh?

You know Doc, I would love to know what exactly that is. Haha.

A timeline of the Aeonverse, or at least the main timeline.  Things are already diverging significantly.

http://www.eononline.net/story/complete-timeline.html


Sorry I've been erratic lately, and will probably continue to be so (stuff going on, calm down by mid October hopefully... then go crazy again by the holidays of course).  I check every day of course, but am not always mentally "there" enough to make good replies to people (and I figure a somewhat decent reply is better than a half assed one).

Also of note, on the weekend of Oct 10th I will be out of town without computer.

If you get bored, feel free to partake of a game that will make you feel far better about ours :)
http://www.criticalmiss.co.uk/.../worstscenario2.html
This message was last edited by the GM at 10:47, Mon 21 Sept 2009.

It's cool.  A question, what is the date in the war room thread versus the date of the coke bust?

In reply to Impetus (msg #149):

war room = around new years, perhaps a little after.

bust = early april

orzaiz dinner = mid february
This message was last edited by the GM at 11:23, Mon 21 Sept 2009.

that article was great!  Reminds me of a time when my players, under orders to "Stealthily take control of the container of weapons coming into Vancouver harbour by ship" involved them brainwashing a local boat owner into giving them his boat, then forgetting that as soon as the preprogrammed instructions were finished that he'd come to, remember the whole thing, then call the cops; using disintegrate to melt the hull of the ship, sink it in the harbour and have the coastguard called, and getting the shit kicked out of them by a nova working for the other side since they thought that "We're in Project Utopia, he's just a scummy elite, any one of us can take him!"  I hate it when everybody takes stupid pills on game day...

In reply to Impetus (msg #151):

It reminds me of the time when my group was playing through Gehenna, we were in Berlin at the time, investigating where all the other vamps had gone, discovering they had been wiped out by that True Faith 10 uber Vampire Hunter who also ghouls himself with the blood of those he kills and probably hangs out with Sam Haight. That guy, you all know him.

Anyway, in the course of investigating the super-badass, we promptly run smack dab into him, and instead of running the hell away like we're supposed too, (and the rest of us did) the Gangrel proceeds to smack him in the head with a tire iron, and promptly get impaled by a flaming sword.

Then the Venture somehow gets picked up by the cops, I don't quite remember how, and proceeds to use Dominate as a 'reset' button during the interrogation, much to the confusion of the people on the other side of the mirrored glass. So he gets locked up, and the rest of us metagamingly suggest that he just punch his way out with potence, as the rest of us were busy running the hell away from Uber-hunter. But no, he thought it would be suspicious, then the sun comes up, he catches on fire, and theres no Camarilla left in the city to cover it up.

Things got worse from there, then the world ended. It was rather amusing.


Course, there was the other time that instead of investigating a Setite warehouse to see what they were doing, we decided to blow it up instead in the most confusing way possible. I was a Tremere with Conjuring at the time, and created a bunch of explosives, then the Gangrel summoned a horde of Raccoons that we strapped it to, then ran them inside and blew them up.

It was glorious.

Then we all moved away... :(

The look on their faces when a horde of raccoons with dynamite strapped to their backs came pouring through the door would have been priceless.  I do miss the wild days of university rollplaying, when you'd try something just to see the looks on everybody else's faces.  Now that I'm a bitter old man and my gaming group is similarly old and bitter it's a lot less amusing.  may have to start drinking more during game day to liven things up...

Raccoons and dynamite!  Joy!  Animalism 3 helped a PC of mine lead every rat under New Orleans through some "fortified" sewer tunnels.  The sheer terror of the description -- the magic abusing mortal hunters being pushed by hundreds of unusually large, desperately driven rats until they exhausted their ammunition and were devoured one by one in a sea of gnashing, squealing vermin teeth -- remains with me to this very day.

Mostly healthy again, and will keep more regular posting in the next day or so.

In the mission thread: I assumed Slider would be sending us in. Its been implied that she's somewhat more accurate than Grav is, and by nature Grav's shielding is expensive, so if I can get away with it, I'd like to save the quantum for fighting rather than portals.

Oh.  Yeah.  Sorry.  I was handing out duties so fast I didn't even think about that.

Lemme edit.

Edit: done.  See?  You're already keeping me in line when I miss stuff.  Though I guess it says something that when I think "portal" I automatically think of Gravitas.
This message was last edited by the player at 13:48, Wed 23 Sept 2009.

I'd just like to say that just when I think i have sussed out exactly how little i truly know about Zero's powers I once again am amazed.  Well done sir/ma'am.

PM
[Private to Rydi: In your last post to zero you mentioned things like "inspiration point" and "dramatic editing", things i think are from adventure.  i don't know if you or zero want everybody to know that he's got a whole different bag than the rest of us.  Not tryin to cause trouble, just sayin.]
This message was last edited by the player at 12:21, Thu 24 Sept 2009.

In reply to Impetus (msg #158):

Imp informed me that my post led him to believe Zero was actually a Daredevil from Adventure!; I was actually just being a smart ass when I was talking about Inspiration.  He's a nova, just like the rest of you... Well, probably not like the rest of you actually, but still a nova.  Unless he isn't of course; who knows what strange horrors lie in wait behind the mask...

I've actually toyed with the idea of using daredevils and psiads, but no one broached the topic with me in char creation, so it won't happen for some time (or likely ever).  Thought they both do exist within my universe (in small numbers at this point, since the high background quantum is triggering M-R nodes towards novas).  I also have worked out the majority of crossover rules, not that anyone cares.
This message was last edited by the GM at 15:09, Thu 24 Sept 2009.

As a note regarding the soak, Soak in Aberrant is always automatic, I don't think he'd have to roll under any circumstance. I remember the damage for it being sort of wonky, but I don't remember how. I leave it up to the GM, I just woke up. :P

In reply to Gravitas (msg #160):

I know, I'm gonna look it up later. I'm being lazy right now.

As a mechanical note, tickers on Maintenance duration powers shouldn't start until combat actually starts, since maintenance powers are scene-length except while combat is actually ongoing.

More posties tomorrow.  Tired tonight, and I have papers to grade.  Tomorrow I will post in the morning if I wake up early enough, but I have a suicide prevention workshop all day tomorrow, and I have to move a bunch of stuff around my in my home, so if it isn't in the morning, it will be later in the evening most likely.

Only you can prevent suicide.  Though why you want to I'll never understand. I wish people in my class would use that option.

So, he's not a daredevil, hunh?  Alright, my bad.  Was reading some adventure! in my down time this week and was actually kinda hyped to see a daredevil in our game.  note to self, gotta play some adventure.  A question, rydi, do you want sol and I to roll init as well, or wait until we become relevant, unless Grav, 'stock and the man eating sheep take em all down for us...
Awesome imagery on the sheep, btw, tasm.  Less so on it biting some guy's groin....

The problem there is that the suicidal ones are usually not the ones you would like to be suicidal.  The suicidal ones are more like me: driven over the edge by the crazy and idiotic people we wish were suicidal.

Hrm.  That is probably too close to a serious discussion that might offend people.  Probably best taken elsewhere.

Just to clarify Defense ... I believe that we settled on:

[(Dexterity + (Appropriate Skill) + (Defense buff from Equipment) ) /2] + Mega ------- Round Odd Half-Values Up

Though in general there are no defensive bonuses from equipment in these rules, there could hypothetically be.  I.e. "Solitaire picks up a dumpster to stop the hail of bullets."  So added Defense from scenery and equipment should probably just be an ST arbitrated appeal that might win you ties.

Something I'm not sure we settled: Was the Mega your choice of Mega-Wits and Mega-Dex?  Or was it the lower of Mega-Wits/Mega-Dex?  If it was your choice, having either would help you defend yourself, but it's all a little hazy in my memory.  I suspect it was the lower?  To require substantial investment if you wanted to be untouchable?

Relevant posts are #800-808 in the old OOC thread, plus post #825.

It was either wasn't it?

I recall my DV being 4 back when I had mega-dex 1, and I don't have mega-wits, but I plan on picking some up anyway.

Also @Flare

Init is 1d10+(dex+ Mdex+ wits+ Mwits+ Enhanced Init or similar) Unless you have something weird, its not a dice pool.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:06, Fri 25 Sept 2009.

yeah, rydi clarified that my role was dumb, and I edited it.  It now should be me rolling two dice and taking the lowest (flaws are fun) and adding 14 to it, not rolling 14 dice.

I just point things out as I notice them, I've got so many systems jumbled around in my head that I do even crazier things, like that time I confused Shadowrun with Warmachine... Still dont know how I worked that out, Warmachine isn't even an RPG.

[EDIT] And right, you did correct it. Missed that.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:13, Fri 25 Sept 2009.

Yes, do roll initiative, you will likely get involved, and it will be good to have you down.

The DV for now is the formula listed above, based off of dex only.  When you act, it reduces your dv by 1, and when you are attacked multiple times by the same attacker, it reduces your dv by 1... basically exalted rules.

I like DV, and for now it works.  It may see some changes after this fight however, as DV's will fast outpace successes with this system. Things I'm considering:
Counting down for multiple attackers (but not flurries)
Rounding down for the DV formula
Taking the lower of wits/dex

But like I said, we'll see how it goes.  The are kind of necessary for online play though, the double rolling would probably triple the time involved in the already time consuming online combat.

I've edited my post to include my DV before and after attacking.

In reply to Impetus (msg #165):

Thank you.  The best part of QC is just getting to make weird stuff happen :)

R.e. Tasm: Grin.  You never fail to make said weird stuff happen.

On another note entirely, something I've been wondering about, the big 5 novas (in terms of raw power) are mal, scripture, pax, antaeus, and either Melchior or Rousseau, according to canon.  The most lethal nova, if one goes by body count, is probably totentanz.  I'm not sure if he'd take Pax in a fight, but i think he'd have a pretty fair shot at it, after all, he's smarter, way more experienced in nova on nova combat, and his power suit seems specifically designed to incapacitate and kill other novas.  So, if the big 5 are the most powerful, who would be the most lethal?  Who would you be most scared of having gunning for you?  I know, Mal is the big boy, so let's ignore him and look at the other asskickers/combat monsters/fuck-with-your-powers-types in the series.  Someone I'll throw out, Montressor from the Bahrain facility.  Not only can he shut down your cool, but then he can make you do whatever he wants...

Dunno, pretty much anybody with Disrupt makes other Nova's have a Bad Day. And Solitaire would love to go a round with Totentanz, assuming it wasn't life or death, but even that would be interesting. Unfortunately, my Aberrant-fu is rather weak as compared to my Trinity-fu or Exalted-fu, so I'll need to dig through my books to find someone scary. But really, the only Nova's Solitaire is actively wary of are Psych's like Freak. Is there a canon Uber-mentalist that I'm forgetting? She'd be careful with him, but anybody else Solitaire would just punch in the face until it gave up or passed out.

In reply to Solitaire (msg #174):

In the Underworld book Pax gets possessed by some nova psycher.  The team shit itself in response.

In other news, my day wasn't bad, but it was long.  Sorry it took so long.  I didn't quite make it in before the midnight deadline.

If anything needs further clarification, let me know btw.

West coast time FTW, its only 11. xD

I too am confused, first, it's an it, second we deduce it's a boy, now the picture we get is either a girl or cousin to that lead singer from Hansen.  Since it's nekkid it should be pretty easy to figure out though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cizBRwETDwc

No one actually new for certain what it was.  they deduced from profile that it was male.  and it's form is always gender neutral when you've seen it.  But its natural body does in fact appear to be female... or to be a member of Hansen. Very similar really.
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:33, Sun 27 Sept 2009.

It would make more sense if it had crazy gender issues.

And one nova sold up the river to proteus...

Nice violin playing...

Your post also reminded me that I was supposed to be hosting a dinner over in that thread.  I completely forgot.  Will update it soon.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:23, Mon 28 Sept 2009.

Just received a msg from an rpol-er looking for an aberrant game.

"hi, is it still posisble to join this game?

I'll supply a character background/personality when i know if it's even remotely possible (basically, not fun to create an entire character and then find out that the gmae doesn't accept any new players at all)

I know the Looking for more isn't on this gmae, but it is one of two games i could find for the aberrant system, so i kind of hope it'll be possible."

Please vote on whether you want this individual to join, as it is your game, and I don't want to disrupt your enjoyment of it.  You can PM me if you don't want to state your opinion here.

Thanks,
Management

Am I right in assuming that, though my init was originally happening on 21, i had to wait until comstock gave me the ok and thus have moved to 15 (comstick's tick)?

In reply to Impetus (msg #184):

correct.

Also, is he/she/it still on Imp's back or has it released?  need to know so i can plan my action.

So, is it just me, or is the dice roller bipolar?

I'm not supposed to be that good at combat, but when given that many successes, well... yeah.  Oh well, I guess that's the fun of having a random power instead of something more dependable; sometimes the lasers cut you in half, other times you get to be a whirlwind of death.
This message was last edited by the player at 04:30, Tue 29 Sept 2009.

not just you.  I either get 10-20% sux or 70-90%, nothing in between, see my first use of tk when i got 200,000kg of force (7 sux on 9 dice), then 2 sux using the same pool.  Sadly, i rolled well on my aborted qbolt, so i'm gonna suck at whatever i do next...

It will still be on your back, but may be dead weight, depending on damage rolls and such, as Zero's hit connects.  But I'm going to bed shortly, so it will be morning before I respond.

So if I post on how imp pulls its head off using raw sex appeal, then takes over the world thanks to the unique pheromone cocktail produced by his armpits you won't be around to stop me, hey?  Perfect....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpCIYlRRw_o
for those of you who don't know the glory of husk musk...
This message was last edited by the player at 04:52, Tue 29 Sept 2009.

In reply to Impetus (msg #190):


Hey, wait just a...




Eh, sure, what the hell.  Night. :)
This message was last edited by the GM at 04:36, Tue 29 Sept 2009.

In reply to Rydi (msg #191):

There can always be horrid retribution in the morning.  An Nova level Std would crimp his uberhotness.

I dunno, another shot to the ribs and I'll get to test out my second character idea: a spiderman who has multiple extra limbs because his eruption caused his siamese twin and himself to merge into the same being, he's two faced (in actuality), has eight limbs, two anuses and two willies.  He has split personalities, one happy go lucky, the other brooding and dark, and has no luck with chicks, despite the two willies thing....


I am reminded of the smackdown that elites laid upon utopians in the equatorial wars, two of us badly wounded, one swarmed, our ginsu in hiding, and all hell breaking loose...

Just wanted to say I'm back from vacation. Now to get caught back up.

R.E. Sue:
Woot!  Welcome back!  Hope your trip was great.  Now, go go ginsumatic!!
Also
R.E. Rydi:  Imp's q bolt is bashing, not lethal, just in case that matters, although a potential 40 something bashing would still kill you....

Squish!

I'm hoping for a similar effect next round. He he he.

Trip was great. Came back sick however so that put a damper on things. I proposed to my girlfriend of 6 years so now we just have to set a date for the big day.

Most excellent, congrats.

Hope you get better too.

Congratulations!  And, having just recovered from my own nagging flu (non-swine) I wish you health.

Sidenote: man, does everyone have a way of getting to Mega-Strength 5?  Even Zero's managing it somehow.  Not that I mind too much, especially if it gets us out of this jam.

I have mega strength nothing, so it would be a while.  Luckily I am my own projectile weapon.

Wheee!  Fire everywhere!

I am very much liking the teamwork so far.  Suzukaze and Zero arrived just in time to turn the tables back in our favor, Solitaire is pulling off the one-on-one with Juan, and ... well, the rest of us are keeping the bad-guys busy long enough for Phantasm to have non-consensual intercourse with the die-roller and activate God-Mode.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:42, Wed 30 Sept 2009.

Actually, that first time was a typo. I have to absorb something before I kick it up from 3 to 5.

But yes, I do. And then some probably.

Nice.  I'll be maxing out at Mega-Strength 6 some day.  But that will probably be it.

Imp only has mega str 1, probably be going to 2 someday soonish (within a couple months or so) but I will probably never go beyond 3, unless this game runs for a very long time.
Edit: after reading zero's post it looks like its the [5] (autosux) from mega str, not the [25] that he'd get from mega str 5, I'm guessing.  Could be totally wrong.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:20, Wed 30 Sept 2009.

I don't think I'll be getting any mega strength. Dex works better for my powers, so I want that at 5.

Never under estimate how handy it is to be able to bitchslap somebody with an automobile...

Oh.  Heh.  Five auto-successes from Mega-Strength 1 would make more sense.  Tired brain reaches faulty conclusions.  Tired brain must be punished with caffeine or alcohol.  I'll flip a coin for that.

I think I've been conditioned to believe that anything Dr. Zero says he has he probably has.  Damn secretive unpredictable characters.

I wish I could be all secretive, but its hard when you are your own molotov cocktail.

Hmm I think I agree with you Imp, I'd like to bitchslap with vehicles...maybe mega str 1.

You'll never regret it.  I promise.  Hell, you can't find cinema about supers anymore without Mega-Strength.  Even the Watchmen seemed to give every single character Mega-Strength 1 just so they could "satisfy the base."

What base?  Who did they think was going to see the movie?  Damn it all.  < / rant>

I think they were pitching it to those who appreciated pendulous blue glowing penises.  Which is probably a surprisingly large niche market in places like japan....

MMMMM....pendulous glowing blue penises...drool...

That being said I loved watchmen, but did think it weird that even fad middle-aged ex-heros could punch people out.  I do think they overdid the mega strength.

Question: Would Mega-Strength apply to the resisted brawl/martial arts roll to maintain/escape a hold? I know M-Str doesn't apply to attack rolls, but as its resisted and I've already latched on to him... There isn't a clear precedent in the book that I've found or in game as of yet, and it could be argued either way.

Obviously, I'm in favor of counting the auto-sux, logic is thus. Strength is about brute force, Mega-Dex already has the advantage in this area (Grapple), as its the god-stat in every WW game, with its max dice pool of 15, 5 of which count as multiple successes. Mega-Str does nothing to enhance accuracy, but that isn't really a factor when Solitaire is already latched onto your back. My thoughts are if Mega-Strength puts you in a hold, you generally stay in it, if your a Mega-Dex char, you ought to be able to dodge a Str based char unless they roll absurdly well. If you have lots of both and MA, you win the game, as is normal.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:02, Thu 01 Oct 2009.

Isn't Elemental Blast rating x3 dice of damage? Not 2? Also mildly curious how at the 20 damage pool, sure you didn't mean 10[10]? Assuming a rating of 5 in Elemental Mastery, in which case it would be 15[10] damage anyway.

Unless of course you have some odd strengths/weaknesses. Soak also comes before rolling.

Also, damn, you can nuke things with that power.

In reply to Solitaire (msg #213):

it should be [10L]+10dL.  I'll correct for the damage when I get to posting.

It should be noted that people don't have to roll damage, I'm doing it since I have to subtract soak anyway.  Also note that the low damage you've been doing isn't just the dice roller hating you, its also that these novas have ALOT of soak.

Yes m.Str will help you in a grapple, it uses the m.att vs. m.att rules.  Comstock looked it up and sent it to me via pm since I wasn't able to find it under the clinch/hold rules.  And of course any damage that factors str into the equation will get the extra damage off of it.

I also want to be asleep right now.  Why can't I sleep?
This message was last edited by the GM at 07:52, Thu 01 Oct 2009.

Yeah ... maybe we should make a thread or a post somewhere about the games' House-Rules.

1) To save time in combat, calculate a Defense value.  Post this and your initiative at the beginning of any combat.
2) Declare the dice and auto-levels of damage your attack does and let the ST determine the results.  Likewise, keep your current soak posted for his benefit.
3) Use < spoiler > to hide OOC thoughts, actions, rules, etc.
4) By convention, the first 'X' dice on the die-roller are your 'X' Mega-Dice if you have Mega-Dice in your pool.  So, rolls will always be formatted (Mega + Att. + Ability) in order.

What else?


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In other news, I've updated the Nova roster a little.  If anyone sees mistakes when going through there, remember to bring them up so Rydi or I can make corrections.

Going over that list again, I think now is probably a good time to throw out one of my pet theories: anyone else think that the rarely seen but managerially inclined Max Walker and Shadow Walker are one and the same?  It'd be the sort of thing Utopia would do, and suggests more than one thing about the security of "our" base.  The 'stock, of course, wouldn't even think to make the connection.

Finally, the training-day and orientation with Suzukaze, Flare and Slider sort of died ... should we close out that scene with a summary post or finish it?  I'm cool for whatever.

Edit: I'll hold off on posting my actions for right now, since so many people are ahead of Comstock in initiative.  But rest assured, he's going to punch or grapple any of hostiles near enough to reach.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:09, Thu 01 Oct 2009.

This combat reminds me that Imp has sadly neglected his defensive capabilities.  Gonna have to do that sometime sorta soon.  A question, the warehouse sequence is months after the dinner meeting and freak capture sequences, yes?  so should we be tracing xp that we get from the diff threads so we don't apply xp to something happening in january that we earned by posting in something happening in April?  Seems needlessly complex, but gotta ask.

Don't track xp separately, it's too much of a pain for everyone. And it isn't really a big deal anyway.

And yeah, we should probably finish out the training thread, at least for now.  If people come up with interesting training scenarios, feel free to bring them into play.

edit:
I will be back on in the morning to reply to today's posts.
This message was last edited by the GM at 04:09, Fri 02 Oct 2009.

I've gotten feedback from imp/com/flare on the new player thing.  Could the rest of you give me your opinion?

I don't really care either way, but our characters have developed a rather unique worldview that should probably be explained so that any new player doesn't suffer Harley syndrome.

Imp's action for round 3 is already posted, firing at chalk, but probably missing, 2 sux on the roll.  was in post 61 in the missions thread.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:12, Sat 03 Oct 2009.

In reply to Impetus (msg #220):

Ah.  I missed it.  Will update.

Hmm.  Thought: what is the effect of a portal on signals?  I.e. radio waves.  Since passage through a portal requires sentience (I believe I read some errata on that subject in the Player's Guide ... which makes Slider's powers that much more impressive) does that cut communication off with Solitaire?  Then again, Slider is the one making that portal.

The implications go even further, actually.  Harnessing that technology could allow for laser transmitted information, power, just about anything that can be beamed through a window.  But yeah, the core question: will we be able to hear Solitaire if she calls for help?

Pfft, Solitaire? Call for help? Never.

But really, by my calculations, he's got to have Mega-Str 5 to one shot me like that. 11 Bashing cycles me all the way to Incap with 3 turned lethal. Which means I'm dead whenever Juan gets around to kicking me again. Will post after dinner.

Let's hope he's a sentimental soul and just leaves her on the ice once she goes slack.  Either that, or hope that the Doctor is a clever, clever non-gendered person with that teleporting and event horizon anti-thermodynamics magic.

He actually has kinetic absorption as part of his power suite.  Part of what makes him "invulnerable" and why he didn't mind getting beaten on.

Depending on how you react, he may actually think you are already dead, and he probably will want to run away as far and fast as he can in hopes of not getting caught by the rest of the team...

And yeah, her fields are permeable to a greater extent than most porters (when you've got nothing else going for you, your one power should be good on its own right?)
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:22, Sat 03 Oct 2009.

I think the rest of us would end him if he killed Solitaire.  He'd best run quickly.

And far...really far...
Not that it would help him.

Its sweet that you guys would wreck him.

*feels the love*


Really, I was expecting an electrical Immolate, but I can see the signs of kinetic absorption. Heh, Overconfidence finally comes into play in a practical way.

Sol, I thought you had absorption as well, or at least I thought you did...

Energy, not kinetic. Heh.

Aha!  I thinks I smells sol buying absorption kinetic as well, provided we live through this one...
After seeing how we're doing in combat with these elites i am slightly worried that some of our (ok, my) focus on social stuff is gonna get some of us (ok, me again) killed in combat sooner rather than later.  Rydi, should we assume that combat in the future is going to be as lethal as this, or moreso?  Should we (once again, me) buy up some combat abilities/powers sooner rather than later or are we (am I) just being paranoid?

In reply to Impetus (msg #231):

I'm torn. I don't want to force people to buy combat stuff, but at the same time, the novas focused on combat are real badasses most of the time, and would realistically rip the heads off of low defense characters if they went toe to toe.

One solution imo is just getting more health levels and defense.  Fairly cheap, and prevents one-shotting.

Though I will say that it's mainly only elites and criminal cartel novas that will be a major problem for you.  Most other novas are actually far less proficient than you guys are.  And as you saw, not all of them are that tough (Platoon's offense didn't come close to hurting anyone, despite a good defense, and Mystery was destroyed by Imp and Zero).  Sol would probably have torn up most of the guys there, she just went for the big guy, who was set up to not take damage from being knocked around.

So, I guess the summary is: Do what you like.

)))))))))))

I am sick. Just fyi on why posting has slowed again. Flue goodness. Not piggy flue, just normal flue. But still sucks, and a good half of the last several days have been spent in bed shiverring rather than on computer. Hopefully I'll be faster next week.

Sadness for flu.  Feel better, boss.

Comstock's combat-centric purchases have slowed as he diversifies his skills and rounds out.  I mention it because in my experience the biggest problem in games like this is the arms-race, where the combat centric players hone in on their talent and leave everything else in the dust.  We've all lived this story: ST has to either build more Juans and Ligiers to give the combat-monkey a challenge or the party kills their way through all opposition.  Not buying more armor for Comstock makes it possible for Rydi to threaten Comstock without making bad-guys that could one-shot the rest of you.

The health level purchase is fairly easy to get to and Force Field is an all around great soak builder.  Or maybe there could be a Mega-Wits/-Dex enhancement that costs an arm and a leg but buys you a second chance (to prevent the one-shot kill).

Yeah, I do think it was mostly bad targeting on my part, picking the guy who counters my skillset. Its good to get your ass kicked every once in a while, Solitaire will learn from it.

The arms race is indeed what i want to avoid, it also really really does bad things for people like flare and sue who (methinks) don't have as much xp as some of us, they can either specialize to keep up, or will be left in the dust in combat by us old timers.  Elites should always be a threat, they are still alive because they are either badass or lucky or both.
I am slightly concerned about what happens in say, a year's time (RL) when we all have between 200 and 300 more xp.  What will threaten those of us who's power suite lends itself very well to combat (Stock, Sol, Flare, Sue)?

Well, to be fair, we don't do all that much fighting, and by that time our characters reputation ought to prevent all the but the most determined/idiotic Nova's from picking fights with us.

You wouldn't pick a fight with Pax, Scripture or Mal or the other character/event Nova's in the normal setting. Just tack us onto that list. We'll be that level or better.

Or we could start scaling back the xp a bit, after 200, you don't really need 5-7 [EDIT]a week[/EDIT] anymore.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:41, Mon 05 Oct 2009.

In reply to Solitaire (msg #236):

That's a good idea, glad that it wasn't me suggesting it :)

After 200 I think we'll cut xp to a max of 1 per 2 days of posting. And keep sunday as a make-up day.  Which now that I think of it, I'm not sure the new players know that...

Sunday doesn't net you points unless you missed a post earlier in the week.  Basically, its just a make up day and a way of giving people a break on the weekend.

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Also, in other news, please note that mega-atts are the FIRST dice rolled, not the last, on any given roll.

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I am trying to keep the setting in mind when I design enemies, and you probably won't be facing many enemies more powerful than this fight.  More specialized in some cases, but roughly the same amount of xp.  So no worries about scaling enemies. As for you guys becoming 'Combat Gawds', well, if you are spending xp appropriately your main strengths will come from your versatility.  I haven't vetoed hardly any requests because people have been pretty reasonable in what they've been going for, but if people start buying a ton of uber combat abilities for no real reason... yeah, that's why I have people announce what they are spending their points on, so the extreme stuff gets vetoed.  Overall, I think you guys will be in good shape as time goes on.  If you want to focus on combat for a while, considering how you got hammered in the first few rounds, I'm fine with that.  But as time goes by you should probably go back to more story oriented purchases.

Sorry to hear you were all dead and stuff Rydi. I hate the flu.

Double sadness! No I didn't know that Sunday was makeup, and I also didn't know that the first dice were mega-atts rather than last dice.  I arbitrarily picked the last ones and marked it so in text, so hopefully the previous ones arent' a prob.  I'll do things legit now though.

Can anyone think of any other rules us noobs may not know?

In reply to Flare (msg #238):

Post 215 on this thread.

Pardon my critical fail at life there.  I missed that one, and my round 4 post will be edited to reflect it properly.

In reply to Flare (msg #240):

Read the update I just did first.  It may change your actions a bit.

crawled out of bed today.  went to school for three hours.  am now ridiculously tired, and i think fever is back.  will post eventually.  Sorry for sucking.

Get some rest buddy, we'll be here when you get back.

I think we can entertain ourselves.  Hang in there Rydi.

I was worried that I'd caught something from you, my throat was sore yesteday. Must have been nothing, I was fine today.

Rydi! Avilister! Don't leave us!

Hope you guys feel better soon.

Your not the only one that's busy or otherwise unable to post.

It helps that I'm out cold ingame. Heh

Now that's a thought.  Maybe we should try for a massive fight just before finals. Then we can post ::moans:: and ::bleeds:: while we suffer through tests

Final notice to anyone that wants to comment on the addition of a new player.  Now or never.

I'll give a decision tomorrow if I don't hear anything else.

No worries, I'm fine - he's still half-dead though.

Re: grav's post in the missions thread.
This was my intent as well, Unless he's got some gps he's probably just beyond, or just inside the leading edge of the storm and it's following him.  Option B is that he's gone to ground and hopes to ride us out, not sure how long he can make that storm last though, and we can almost guarantee that he is inside it somewhere, then all we do is wait.  Option C is that he's an idiot and is blundering around inside the storm just like the rest of us, which works for me too.
Imp will search until he's found, or until we get called off.

Well, I'm feeling almost well, just a terrible sounding but innocent cough remains.  But, as stated a while back, I'm out of town tonight through most of Sunday.  Feel free to develop things in whatever direction you like.  Gravitas is out as well (we're both going to candy mountain, our friends tell us it's wonderful there).http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPONTneuaF4

"Missions" is on wind down time and could possibly even transfer over to HQ if you want. "off the clock" is up to you guys (and I'll deal with Sue's conversation when I get back). "Vignettes" are always open of course, and I'll finally get around to introducing the big guy next week.  "HQ" is open as well if anyone has any interesting ideas there.

There isn't enough time.  Never. Enough. Time...

Have fun.  Be careful about the weird ass unicorns.  so irritating.

Candy Mountain was nice, though I had the strangest dream that someone stole my kidney...

Have one more test tomorrow, and then life returns to a normal pace.  Thanks for the patience.

Its not like you need your kidney, as long as they left your horn you'll be fine.  Just put a banana in your ear.

Yeah!  Wait, what?

Glad to see stuff happening here.  Luck and skill on your test, then reveal the Mal himself so we may mock his cape and possession of arms.

Because he has arms, you know.

In reply to Comstock (msg #256):

Hey, it takes a real man to wear a cape. And Mal is nothing if not a real man, in a transcendent superhuman sort of way.

I leave you with episode II.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFCSXr6qnv4

Until tomorrow.

These are awesome....ly strange.  Not really disturbing.  For that, just type random kanji into google without the filters on.  It's a form of seppuku, I think.

ugh.

Wife got sick yesterday.  Life irritates.

Anyway, thanks for keeping yourselves entertained without me.

Nice to see Suzukaze get some interaction time on screen.

And the vignette with Solitaire was great as usual (that series of vignettes has been one of the best bits of "lost love" I've seen played out in a game, or in most books for that matter).

If I forget to reply to something, just slap me with a reminder, kind of like Zero did.

Glad you like them, I'm never quite happy with anything I post, but that's just a fact of life. The praise makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. :D

I post those when I hit some writers block and need some additional insight into Solitaire. It's kinda funny how that works.


Also, MAL! Yay!

Hope your wife recovers quickly Rydi.  Also, I'm starting a new session at school, have 4 new courses to teach, and have a research paper and other shite to get done these days, will try to post regularly but it may be a little haphazard/low quality.  lower than usual i mean.
peace

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately.  I suck.  Will improve.

And Mal... Did anyone notice if he had ARMS?

I also suck on posting.  I was hit with a disgusting amount of homework.  Thankfully I have finished failing it all and can go back to wallowing in stupor. This leaves time for updates.

Mal does indeed have arms.  Two of them.  Girthy arms.
Speaking of arms, slapping each other?  Slapping 'Tasm?  You do know that she can harness the souls of those she kills and make them her slaves for all eternity, don't you.  Also hitting a fellow T2Mer over a name made for a psychopathic monster might make certain elements in Proteus stick you in a room in Bahrain...
This message was last edited by the player at 11:23, Sun 18 Oct 2009.

And all of this now.  Insanity and awesome!  I'm not even sure what Comstock will do in time.  Trying to call for calm isn't working ... manipulative characters have stepped in, so there's no way everything's going away now.  Also, his instinctual "damage control response" could drive a wedge between him and "little sis" Phantasm.  I'm stoked.

I'll need a little bit to come up with a proper response to all that.

In case anyone's missing the implicit subtext: kudos to new players.  Suzukaze, you're rocking the messed-up-Lancer archetype with a nice twist, and I can almost hear Flare's enthusiasm slapping into the wall of annoying reality.

That raises another point: if this kind of thing keeps up, inside a year Comstock's going to trade sleep for more work time, notably corresponding with some people to do whatever he can to help organize the 2004 Nova Olympics (special invitation only) and maybe even a bit of serious, comic-book style vigilantism (so he can feel like he's putting his powers to good use).  Just to keep the bureaucrat/legal/fate-of-the-world stuff from distancing him further from mortality and that elusive idea of "fun."  Anyone want to join in?  Should we get a separate thread for that or just make it a particular flavor of vignette?

Thanks for the props!

I like having separate threads for things. The vignettes seem to get saturated with lots of different things, so if it can be something we all interact with, I'd like it to be on a separate thread

I too vote for separating the threads a bit, it's a bit easier to keep track of things when there aren't two or more stories being playing twister with each other in a thread.

I had been wondering, for that 'beginning of an ending' vignette, is it assumed that we are all there if we want to be? I was thinking of adding my two bits, but wasn't sure if it would be okay.

So, what threads do we want split off? I don't mind adding some more at all, but i don't want to add more than two more for now.  I've found that when you add too many threads to a game like this, things get lost and people start ignoring some of them.

I think we are at a point where we could get a separate Terragen thread.  Any other requests?

That's what I would suggest. The Intro of Mal merits its own thread so we can pull Vignettes back to the snippets it should be.

Umm, if the garden party is going to continue then i think a new thread would be good.  A terragen thread also, for those of us who are going to walk down that path, would be beneficial.  Vingettes would be best, methinks, if it did what it originally was designed for, snapshots of us doing things either by ourselves, or with just 1 or 2 others.
<edit> Scooped by the lovely Sol...
This message was last edited by the player at 03:17, Mon 19 Oct 2009.

Let's say one new thread for the Teragen.

Logic:
- Teragen off-the-clock activity is decidedly different from the rest of our activity.
- Philosophical discussions have an ideal home there.  So does partying with Orzaiz, for that matter.
- Tech and innovation projects can be pooled under the Headquarters thread.
- Any vigilantism or the like could probably find a place in the Vignettes or Off The Clock threads.

Sound good?  I'm almost sad that Comstock isn't there to meet Mal.  Though he'd probably freak out as his brain starts blaring warning klaxons.

I'll be on a bit later tonight to reply to everyone's stuff.

This is fine with me, but ultimately depends on whether Grav/Imp/Zero/Sol brought you into the fold.  If so, you guys might want to do a little retcony goodness over in vignettes going over Flare walking in on a discussion and contributing her thoughts on the matter.

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As far as new threads go, I've put up the Teragen thread obviously (in which the current intro of Mal can be covered, and in which people can move on to other things afterwords).  I'm still up for another new thread, but I want it to be overarching enough to cover multiple topics.  A thread for tech stuff might not be bad, but people would need to be involved enough in it to actually make it a real thread, not just a wish list or a few posts, otherwise it would best be covered over in the HQ thread.

Let me know if you want a Tech thread, or some other, fairly broad topic thread.

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Stealth Edit: I also plan to show you what happened to Prodigal after he left.  Probably won't be a huge surprise, but it does reshape continuity a bit...
This message was last edited by the GM at 09:16, Tue 20 Oct 2009.

Imp and Pax dislike each other.  Well, the reason why they do other than myself and Rydi saying we do.  We are too much alike.  Think about it:  Powers of flight, telekinesis, and kinetic forces in general.  All the same.  Overweening arrogance.  Check.  Used to being the centre of attention?  Check.  Doing their best to forget that people named Shelby and Jason existed?  Check.
Imp dislikes Pax because he sees in pax powers he may one day attain, and it pisses him off to know that a wnaker like that got there first, and that Pax is that asshole from the football team who thinks he's better than everybody else who Imp dreamt of offing in some wildly implausible way.  For Pax he sees in Impetus someone who other people like and someone who can steal a crowd of reporters right out from under him.  That and Imp's pretier.  And his skin doesn't look like latex.  And he has hair.

I would love to do that. Could we assume Zero has been mentioning some of the directions of the meetings to those teammates interested? He'd especially like to include the newer members to this big event. I just think that would be a quick way to get her (and anyone else interested) in there while things are starting.

One thing I haven't had time to build on is Zero's concern over this big meeting. Scripture intrigues Zero, but the Doctor is very concerned that Scripture may have a concealed fanatical agenda, and would like to include others in the procedures. Zero also doesn't like all the people The Count invites, finding them picked with little concern to character, and would like to bring in people more morally grounded.

Sorry about my recent absence. I basically checked out of the Internet for about two weeks. Catching up now, posts coming from my phone; will edit for pretty later.

Shun the non-replier shun shhhhhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnn.

STONE HIM!!! STONE HIM!!! In all seriousness, grav, hope whatever it was that made you go offline for half a month wasn't too serious.

Works for me.  You might want to message people in regards to how you want to bleed that stuff into posting, but we can assume that whoever you guys want to be there is actually there.

Nothing serious at all, just a general absent-ness.

It happens.  Let he or she who is without internet cast the first stone.

There, more posts, still a bit of catching up to do. Edited the other one I made from my phone for pretty. Trying to tighten up Quentin's standing on Teras - ie: that he is clearly a Portent, and that he's extremely curious to know how this all plays out - both for his own sake and for that of novas in general.

Of note, I'm trying to show Phantasm's personal side a bit more.  I figure that there's only so long a kid can repress feelings/emotions/conflict and stay in control 24/7.  So, growing pains are finally kicking in.  That, and I've been ignoring interaction in favor of combat/plot progression only, and I want to get back to more entertaining stuff now that I have a bit more time.  And, last but not least, though the team doesn't know it, she is still the youngest member of the team.

Also, if anyone wants to play along, that would be dandy.  This thing with Suzukaze was fun, and more like it wouldn't be bad.  I'd love to have people pester me about background info, the weird variety of abilities that get displayed ("you hit awefully hard sometimes... and were those claws?"), or the conflict between the extreme maturity and occassional childishness/naivete she sometimes displays.

Actually, I wouldn't mind all of us getting up in each others business a bit more.  Add some drama and all that.  It seems like that's where we would be at this stage anyway.  Band/team/whatever hits the big time, clears out the initial obstacles, and suddenly the group dynamic changes, and the members grow into different people, leading to new conflicts as well as changes in the nature of old relationships.

There was bound to come a time when the Comstock-Phantasm relationship was going to deteriorate.  I was anticipating a good fight somewhere down the road.  Future animosity makes sense, given the inevitable rising responsibilities and escalating conflicts.

Comstock's slowly getting smarter, too, so expect his interest in materials chemistry and engineering to pick up.

Anyone else have character plot they want developed?  I kind of want to see another tour out of Zero's band.

Edit: updated the game calendar (in Dawn of a New Era: Changes in the Nova Age) with recent events.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:10, Wed 21 Oct 2009.

In reply to Comstock (msg #286):

Surprisingly I do have things I want to flesh out for my character. Currently its a 5 or 6 part vignette series that is mouldering on my scratchpad. I plan to start posting it shortly.

R.E. Phantasm
I'm more than happy to play along, but I don't know if Imp would be able to get close to 'tasm, or close enough anyway, without her getting freaked out by the baggage that she is dragging around.  Maybe a vignette of the two doing stuff in Thailand.  On a strange note, our gametime dates for going to Koh Samui  (early 2003) coincides almost exactly with my own dates for going there (New Year's day, 2003).  it was, my memory hazily recalls, something else.
For Imp's development, he's growing more and more unable to move in human circles, he's too obviously different, and has too many encounters when he's out and about with anything other than a totally nova crowd.  I figure that at mega app 4 he's one of the most alarmingly beautiful people in the world (circa 2003) and when he gets mega cha 4 (next weekish) he'll be similarly unable to just sit down and talk with people in any normal way, as was shown when he opened up and grabbed 10+sux on a slightly above average social roll.  Which is cool.
His animosity with Pax may be what finally causes him to leave T2M, he'll probably join the casablancas at that time.  I want to portray him as a Marvel, big, bold, larger than life, hopefully that's working...
This message was last edited by the player at 12:52, Wed 21 Oct 2009.

It's working.  Definitely.

On time-tables ... Rydi probably has at least one or two missions for us in 2003-2004.  Another time-jump covering 2005-2006?  Kashmir conflict?  I don't want to push things too far, too fast.

I just finished going through the Vignettes and other threads again instead of working on important things.  Made a list of about 24 posts or mini-threads I've wanted to write.  Just finished a somewhat innocuous vignette about space.  I'm hoping no one (in this case Gravitas and Impetus) objects to my using your character for a small post there.  For larger threads, I was thinking of posting back and forth in PM and then working the posts back into one of the main threads all at once to preserve continuity.  I don't know exactly how it would work.  This is just 4:00Am rambling.  More later when I don't have as much that I should be working on.

I have to say this: this is, without a doubt, the only online game I've ever played in that has consistently met and even exceeded my expectations.  It's everything that the core rulebook ever promised.  Thanks guys.  I know we were just through this same thing about 1000 posts ago, but we're still going strong.

Edit: I just noticed in the canon history that my vignette, which I set in March 2003, roughly corresponds with the March 9th meteor hit on the Space Shuttle Discovery.  I'm thinking a follow-up where half the team is already in a perfect position to save the day is in order, since canon "history" says Team Tomorrow stages a Dramatic Rescue.

Furthermore, "historically" there is a fusion-bomb terrorist attack on Sao Paulo, Brazil on September 25th of 2003.  T2M Americas shows up almost immediately to render aid.  Now, Rydi might pull a fast one on us with that one ... but I'd keep your calendar clear for that.

*grunt*  Real work.  *grunt*
This message was last edited by the player at 09:39, Wed 21 Oct 2009.

Heh, I like it. I certainly don't mind people using Grav that way - we've all been at this long enough that its fairly safe to assume accurate portrayals for bit parts like that.

Yeah, I've got no problem with Imp being written into things, let alone doing cool things in space.  Although after reading the books we (or, perhaps, I) jumped the gun a bit on going into space, as it was the shuttle rescue that really saw novas doing the space thing, and it's supposed to be years later that the space station becomes a reality.  Canon, being broken by PCs for as long as Canon has existed...
Your idea about doing longer vingettes that feature two or more of us, and having their internal consistency maintained via PMs has merit.  This group hardly ever uses PMs, or, at least, hardly ever PMs me...
Also, yeah, this game rocks and does so hard.  >group hug<
This message was last edited by the player at 12:54, Wed 21 Oct 2009.

Flare, do you still want to talk with the Divis Mal?

I just figured Impetus decided to make a speech along the lines of "we ought to have another space station" and somehow funding appeared for it.  Obviously if someone writes a follow-up vignette that makes Icarus station the launching point for an orbital rescue of the Discovery, that bit of canon remains more or less valid.  We just twisted it.

Also, Cyrus Katrak, the "Nova on station" that I dropped into my vignette, is the freshly erupted future founder of the Daedalus League.  I figured that he'd put his science degrees to good use and go up with the teams building the new station as his first Nova job.

Yeah, I'd like to jump in on that thread.  Since my character is pretty anti-public speaking, it'd be easy enough to say that she was around but attempting to be unnoticed as much as possible.

No posts in quite a while. Did I break the game?

Divide by Zero?  Oh shi-

Everyone was probally busy with school stuff... I know you were Zero. Am I the only one not in school... It's been lonely these past couple days. :(

Yeah, got a lab due Tuesday, been mildly busy with that, and then finishing up rebuilding my grandparents deck. Then my cousin's birthday, my brother is back in town... The list goes on.

School hates me, so does work.  The combination makes life suck lots.

Sooooo.  I forgot about a term paper that was due this week (thought it was due next week).  After finishing it off in a day of misery (not only was trying to do it in short time bad, the class/topic, "legal and ethical aspects of counseling/ethics of multicultural competency" was rather dull), I pretty much shut off my brain for a little while.  The idea of actually writing again this week made me want to break my computer.

But I'm back.  Though I will note that another term paper is coming due, my wife's birthday is coming up, and I have a presentation coming due, all at the beginning of November.  After Halloween I may have another short absence as I get all that taken care of.

It's kinda funny, everyone seems to be pretty busy of late.  School and work, and of course the holiday season coming up.  Did people have any requests for better time management?  The sunday thing seemed to work out well for xp and for generally letting people catch up on the weekend.  Any other suggestions for similar options will be welcome.

Thanks for keeping up with the historian gig btw.

And, as I keep saying over and over again, this is a great game.  Mostly because of you guys.  You are telling the story as much as I am, and you've all been doing a wonderful job at it.

I've been thinking it's about time to hit fast forward again. Some of the plot you've just engaged will take time to unravel a bit more, and there is just a lot more interesting stuff going on 2004-2005.  I don't want to rush people, but I would like to move things forward a bit.

Comstock, if you want to lead your team in a little excursion for the discovery rescue, you are welcome to it.  Semptember 2003 seems like a good point to fast forward to (and yes, I'll be working in Sao Paulo), followed by a skip to december of 2003 (I like christmas specials).

We should probably discuss how we want to move things forward for the game as a whole at some point soon.  In terms of pacing, and what details are important enough to get screen time.  The way we did the time advance was good last time, and the vignettes were great, but the transition felt a bit jerky to me.  Suggestions are welcome.

Oh, I've also thought more about an additional thread, as well as what goes in the threads, and I've settled on a "Team Vignettes" thread for all the stuff people have been talking about doing as a group, but have been having difficulty working into the existing threads.
So, to clarify what goes where:
If it's vacation or general off-time activities (be they hanging out, side investigations, research, or something else), they go in "Off the Clock".
Specific, Utopia related activities involving the team, or assignments for specific individuals, all go in "Missions".
Teragen related discussion, exploration, and experimentation goes in "Teragen".
"Vignettes" is for personal adventures, side activities, and general character development.  Also used for interactions where other members play bit parts in someone's larger story.  Vignettes are largely defined by their closed nature, having a short duration and/or limited scope.  More broad topics should be handled in other threads (as I learned the hard way with the Teragen conversations).
"Team Vignettes" will be for everyone to interact over a particular vignette.  Be careful to TITLE your posts in that thread, as we may end up with several things going on at once.  Which is fine, but best to avoid confusion where possible.
"About the Characters" is primarily for descriptive stuff.  May overlap with the Vignettes a bit, but the difference is that this thread is about better defining who/what a character is, while Vignettes is more about telling their story.
"Dawn of a New Era" is going to see some growth here shortly.  It is really just for setting descriptions, both book specific info that is restated for emphasis, and changes that we have made.  It should be noted that all of you CAN post here, but it needs to be descriptive of the setting, rather than character specific.  If there is something big that you feel needs describing, some element that you want to flesh out, or an important change you or another character has made to the setting, feel free to add it in.
And of course, we can't forget the xp thread.  It isn't required that you guys discuss expenditures of course, but it is helpful when making long term plans.  Keeps everyone unique and prevents weirdness.  I also think its a nice way to get perspective on powers, the way others see your character, and ways of interpreting some of the options available.
Oh, and Headquarters.  I'm not exactly sure what that's for anymore.  Hmm.  Training, tech, and downtime while working (so, for example, when you've just come back from a mission and go to your room to crash, or the medic to get patched up).

Anyway, hope that clarifies things.  I'll get a bit more up tomorrow and sunday, and as I hear a bit of time-skip input from you guys, I'll get that implemented (hopefully next week?) asap.

Oh, one last thing: where do you guys want to see things go, and what events are you excited to see in the primary timeline?  I want to put the focus where it needs to be to keep things exciting, and what I find interesting may not be for you... Also, I will say that I found the recent team drama very nice, and I would personally love to see more of that kind of interaction from people in the future.
This message was last edited by the GM at 12:03, Sat 24 Oct 2009.

I'm not currently, but I will be back in next semester. :P

I feel like we, or at least I, should expand a bit upon just what sort of tech is being created. I took the Inventive Genius enhancement, but I haven't actually used it all that much as of yet. Downtime is pretty key to using it as most such things will take a signficiant time investment, so prior to that downtime, we should probably start to hash out what Grav has made or will make.

Alright, sensational.  I've got a fair number of posts half-done or at least planned, so I'll get right on that.  Guys?  Anyone who wants to save a space-shuttle, I'll have an initial post up in a bit (need groceries first).

Thanks for the update.  And yeah, work and class.  That and I dislike overrunning other people, so if I look in a thread and there's been no activity and my post was the last one I instinctually avoid double-posting.  Bizarre behavior.

Edit: Alright, back.  In answer to the query "where do you guys want to see things go, and what events are you excited to see in the primary timeline?" here is a list:

1) September 25, 2003.  Nuclear attack on Sao Paulo
2) Some events emphasizing the New World Order-esque character of Project Utopia.  The June 15, 2004 UN decision to grant Project Utopia's Science and Technology Department authority to monitor and regulate new technologies should be a big one.
3) Summer 2004 Nova Olympics.  I have a vignette underway where Comstock actually helps plan the damn things.  Anyone else want to take part, let me know.
4) September 6th, 2004: the Bahrain Facility canonically opens.  I figure this is just the time when the smaller, place-holder facilities we've already hinted at are successfully replaced with larger, more secure facilities with better research labs.
5) October 31, 2005: Null Manifesto breaks.
6) August 30, 2006.  Kashmir Conflict.  Hell on earth becomes a real possibility.  The end of the 'honeymoon' for human-nova relations.

Those are the big ones.  Other, more vague events:

-- Do we add Andre Corbin to the team?  According to my EonOnline Nova Census, he erupts in 2004.  Alternately, does another character replace him?  I don't think Comstock would much like Corbin.  This also prompts the question of how does Slider distance herself from the team?  (Sidenote: I found one mention of Slider having friction reducing powers as well.  I -like- portal master Slider, but if we need to give her extra powers, friction influence seems fair.)

-- The April 19, 2005 unseating of Yaroslav Radocani is something best done by T2M Europe and Central, not us, but the impacts of it (greater tech regulation) might carry over.

-- The election of President Lauren Pendleton, Libertarian, in the United States probably deserves some mention.  I was thinking of a team vignette of an election watch-party.  Maybe events turn out differently.  Maybe the Libertarians still don't have their act together enough to challenge the two-party model.  Maybe the Libertarians only win because they have a clever Nova campaign manager working on retainer and there are allegations of fraud and escalation of "sphinx" paranoia.

-- It ain't my kettle of fish, but someone else might want to associate with the Triton Foundation and their successful eradication of hunger, AIDS, and several cancers.  Or work with (or to compete with) Tetsuo Yamato (I've always had a hunch that has to be a Nova-name ... it has the ring of cliche to it, like an American named "John Patriot") on the June 1st 2004 unveiling of the hypercombustion engine.  Or maybe we decide hypercombustion doesn't exist in this setting and the hypercombustion engine is just a ridiculously efficient hybrid car or alternate fuel source.




In various personal vignettes I am going to post here in the next three to four days, I plan on building on Comstock's growing personal/political awareness and increasing suspicion of his own organization.  By the time of the Kashmir conflict, I hope that there will be a lot of suspicion.

His own trust of his team will probably bring him under fire by the time the Null Manifesto breaks, since more than half of his own team appears to have Teragen sympathies and designs that put them among the Pantheon.  I can't say which way he'll jump as things continue developing, but if T2M splits Comstock will probably find ways to keep in touch regardless of the politics of the situation.

Let's see ... yeah, I think Kashmir will have to be the next big breaking point.  Past Kashmir, I don't know.  Wars have a great way of introducing the unexpected.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:28, Sat 24 Oct 2009.

Hey everybody,
sorry for the lack of posts in the last few days, I was at a conference up in Seoul and didn't have time or internet access to post here.
1) As to saving space stations/shuttles, I'm in.  Imp's something of an astronaut and he'd be one of the logical ones to respond to the emergency.
2) We should also do something with the So Paulo bombing.  It's one of the pivotal moments in canon and deserves attention.
3) The nova Olympics should, i think, be done in vignettes.  Some of us are well suited to the games, in a wide variety of events, others less so.  Speaking of, what events would be in the nova Olympics anyways?  Tank hammer throw?  2400 mile races?  Quantum fueled dodge ball?  I don't know how many team sports there'd be, nor how many participants would show.  I'm guessing it'd be small numbers, not so many events, and massive, massive hype and circuses...
4) We also need to discuss/hammer out rules for those of us who're in on the ground floor of the terragen movement and if we're going to deal with chrysalis/taint channeling weirdness.  We don't do a lot of dice rolling, and I'm not sure how/if the mechanics can be adapted to our normal dicelessness.  I foresee Imp doing it as the natural evolution of his on beyond human thing, i'm not sure about anybody else.
5) Corbin, i think, should be in Europe.  Also, does he join right after he erupts?  That seems unusual for me, especially because Pax has a hard on for only letting people in who have prodigious power levels.
6) Skew, methinks, should be in T2MA, but I don't think that Rydi should be forced to deal with another NPC in the team though.  He's got enough on his plate as is.
7) Imp would very definitely start screwing around with human politics, and he'd probably support the libbies, and be frighteningly good at it.  Which means that, unless he's following party line, Proteus would black bag him.  That'd suck.
8) Speaking of, when does Thetis start her downward slide towards crazy, and can the team do anything to ferret her out/gank the crazy biotch?  Zero would be the obvious choice for recruitment/investigation into the organization, if any of us are.
9) Slider might open up to us instead of corbin, he's not really that important in the setting, insnho.
10) Also, the abduction of Caroline Fong.  As was talked about months back, this could make for some fine drama.
gotta bounce, post in a bit.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:50, Mon 26 Oct 2009.

Some of the timeline events will get moved along more quickly (null manifesto might occur in 2004, and may or may not be different depending on whether you guys want to try and influence Mal), while others may not occur, or may occur very differently (Slider assassination).

Nova Olympics would likely be standard summer events, at least for the first one.  It adds a feel of respectability and tradition to the games, as well as highlighting just how much better novas are.

Teragen rules have bugged me for a while now.  Not sure how people would accrue taint, even in standard play it hardly ever is an issue unless you are just constantly using the fast recharge and maxing mechanics.  If people like, I will hand out group Taint for really long or stressful events (I mentioned that people should probably pick up a bit of taint for the E.Wars back when that was going on, for example).  As for chrysalis rules, I'm fine with what's printed, though I will probably want to take a closer look at the attribute splits they chose, as imo they should be a bit more free form than that.  And I'll probably be an xp nazi when it comes to chrysalis.  In a game like this, where half the party is unlikely to join, the xp discount is just... extreme.  So what I will probably do is ask people to include more extraneous purchases in their chrysalis: body mods, appropriate but weak extra power purchases, etc.  You will of course be able to get your badass stuff as well, but I want to encourage people to spend the points saved with chrysalis on things that won't directly up their power levels beyond that of the rest of the party.

I have plans for Corbin, though he will definitely be with Europe.  Slider will eventually leave, after the crap with organized crime is done, but the ties she's made to your team will remain.

The issues with proteus are pretty much the core of my upcoming plot for 2006 onward, and I'm quite anxious to get there.  Pretty much every character has already been or will be impacted by them, and how you guys react to their actions will determine the course of play for the rest of the story.

It's funny, I was discussing this with Comstock via PM.  I've been slamming into a brick wall trying to come up with cool plot for the 2003-2004 period, and Imp's post brought home exactly why: too much cool stuff happens after 2005 gets started.  I keep anticipating all the plot I've got planned, and all the major events coming up, but am having difficulty moving time along to get there.  I think I'm going to post some summary posts and then move on to september of 2003, after which we will quickly move on to christmas/new years.

Hum, I should make a post regarding what Grav's done as far as his endorsements and whatnots. I figure he probably spent much of his initial time with T2M finishing off his personal educational bits. I imagine him having several PhD's (Physics, Chemestry, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering) and probably an MD as well. This supports his high Mega-Int (which is about to get higher), and his numerous 5's in Int skills. It also gives him something to do with his time after he simply stops sleeping altogether. I figure this consumes much of the time from when he joined the team through the end of about 2002 or so.

After he'd finished that off, he'd have started in a bit more on the endorsements and lobbying and such. I'll need to work over what exactly he's done it for. I imagine space exploration is a big one (and will be greatly bolstered by the Discovery incident). I'll ramble here a bit simply to put ideas into words and get feedback if anyone feels like piping up with ideas and such.

Imp's already pushing the education thing pretty hard - while Grav is very big on education, he knows Imp will be better at pushing such an agenda with the students. He might instead lobby the government and help try to create scholarships and grants to help subsidize post-secondary educational costs, generally trying to convince the government and the people that education after high school should be more generally available (particularly since enrollment will probably spike after Imp brainwashes students into thinking school is cool).

I'd also sort of like to elaborate on exactly what sort of tech Grav's been busy working on. Presumably most of the stuff that was mentioned in recent posts in the Headquarters thread is fairly easily done. As it is now 2003 (and shortly will be much later) the OpNet is well underway and will be completed by early 2005. ViaSoft is also an entity now, the unholy merging of Microsoft and Viacom (a truly terrible prospect). Though the OpNet is a wired transmission medium, Grav may have tried to create faster-though-not-as-fast-as-OpNet wireless transmission methods. This would be a precursor towards improved communications devices and handy gadgets like HUDs, arm-mounted mini-terminals, and other such wireless wonders. I can also see him being heavily involved in space-tech - like  pushing to upgrade to next-generation shuttles (rather than cramming them full of pre-nova age 1980's tech) - and general space-exploration, pushing a Lunar or Martian colony.

Anyhow, those are some of my basic ideas for what he's been doing to keep busy. Any input is welcome. I'll probably be working at least some of that into a one-shot vignette post here before too long.

I should probably do the same.  I'm doing toys, and pop culture mainly.  T-shirts, backpacks, videogames, whatever someone wants to pay to put my face on.  And interviews with magazines, tv shows, and all that.  Selling myself as a brand, rather than selling other people's stuff.  And I should list where my money goes too...

Horray, I have time to post again

xD

Woot, Sol's back!!

This is the bulk of what’s going on.  I won’t move past September 1st for at least a week, possibly more depending on what you guys write.  I want to let you advance your characters, write some vignettes, and continue with current projects before I move on.  I also have two big projects on the 5th and 10th, and my wife’s grandmother went into the hospital for heart problems and will likely be going under the knife tomorrow, so my time is also a bit strained to start on a big new story (just writing the missions update took way longer than it should, as you are likely aware).  But the little vignettes and projects are really easy for me to respond to, so look for me to be a bit more involved now that I’ve got the time skip events out of the way.  As always, if I missed something or you have further questions, just let me know.
Oh, Comstock also has a potential new player, and post-timeskip is a good time for such intros.

Hope the Gmother in law has a speedy and trouble free recovery from the surgery, also, commiserations on the projects due.
Also, Imp being moved to a support role?  Me not gonna be a member of T2M no more?  Sniff, sniff... I can fight too boss, i promises, see, look at the size of my qbolt...
This message was last edited by the player at 08:59, Thu 29 Oct 2009.

For god sakes man, put that away. You'll scare the horses.

Hey, remember: Slider bites it while working through Nova Services International.  Going off the T2M official team is clearly a death threat from Rydi.

That's what you get for being the world's sex-icon.

NOOOOOOOOO!!!! I've been made a red shirt.  We've got Captain Comstock, First officer Solitaire, and all the other officers, and Impetus the poor replaceable crewman.  Curse you, Rydi, curse you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or, on the other hand, the higher ups only want to put Imp in a support role for as long as he lets them feel that way.  Just wait until i get an enhancement that works for mega cha the same way that almost live works for mega app.  That'll fix em...
And flare, you totally made me think of the Chuck Norris line about not being hung like a horse.  Well done.  I was drinking tea.  Now I have a moist keyboard.

Success!!!!

Does anyone else hate working on their vita?  I just got done applying for a program, and ended up spending more time updating the damned thing than on the application itself.  And my vita is short.

Anyway.
I should ::crosses fingers:: be much less distracted this coming week, all I've got is a presentation.

So what now?  Did people just want to skip forward to whatever interesting stuff is going on in September 2003?  Were there other vignette style things peoples wanted to cover?  Was there anything I missed in my recent distraction that needs to be dealt with?

Also, I know other people's stuff has been pretty erratic lately too (response to my delays probably, as well as everyone having their own time crunch issues), so when will people be more free for posting? For me, most of my school stuff will be done by the 10th of November; after that I've got some finals and that's it until January I think.

Oh, and just for a second notice, after the 200xp mark, people need to remember that we are doing a 1xp/2posts conversion.  And the fact that we're at 200xp is impressive btw.  Good job everybody.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:09, Sat 31 Oct 2009.

Yeah, vitaes suck.  How to be honest and not pompous but still impressive.  Gak.
Tasm and I have a thing happening in the vignettes, but I'm not sure if it has to be anchored in time or if it can be more nebulous.  there's some stuff we want to work on within the arc, stuff that may be helpful to have known sooner rather than later.  Dunno, 'Tasm, you wanna weigh in on it?
I posted an idea about teras and chrysalis in the xp thread that i don't know if you've read.

I have no problem advancing the timeline.  The shuttle probably only has a few good posts to go in it ... I don't want to draw it out too much.  Everything else I wanted to do is more or less back-date-able.

Stock, those articles in Dawn of the New Era were pure gold.  Very well done sir.

Also, Who is this gale person?  If Gale (i think Gale's a girl, may be totally wrong) is a real live person, and not some figment of Rydi's suddenly free time having imagination, welcome aboard.  Don't believe the things Crimson Dawn says about me, he's notoriously curmudgeonly.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:55, Sun 01 Nov 2009.

I figure it would occur either immediately after the infighting occurred, or in early August, your pick, though it seems like august would segue nicely into any September events, and have any new interpersonal stuff fresh enough to impact stuff that happens in September-December.

For chrysalis, I can see some merit to that setup, though I won't ever be likely to get any, unless someone convinces me of the merits of transhumanism.

That setup could work. Though, don't you start getting aberrations at Taint 4? Or would would you pick up taint immediately on that track?

You do indeed start getting aberrations at taint 4, however, by being able to chose your own mutations (of give the ST a shortlist of ones you think are suitable) you won't be as monstrously twisted as you could be otherwise.  Low level abs are pretty harmless, glow, halo, unearthly beauty.  None of those are really that bad.  Even things like permanent power isn't that bad as long as it's not something like immolate or dominate or st similar.  Unless that's your shtick.  The derangements however are bad juju all round.

I was looking at the Lifter enhancement for that last post, as a space shuttle is a little outside what Solitaire could lift easily. Am I correct in how crazy that gets since you double the weight you can lift for each Quantum spent. As in, since I have node 4, and can spend 15 Quantum a turn, I could lift 32,768 times my normal weight limit if I blew it all on that?


In response to above: Your example had you gaining aberrations at Taint 3
This message was last edited by the player at 02:37, Mon 02 Nov 2009.

Remember, we don't have to lift it, we have to provide enough thrust to get it moving.  I can push my (admittedly tiny) car from a stop to a run, and there's no way I could lift it.  Stopping it is harder, but still, doable.  And yeah, lifter lets you do stupendous things.

Ok, so I'm not crazy, that was just A Big Number.

In reply to Impetus (msg #319):

Hi!  Yes, I am a real person.  I'm a friend of Comstock's, and he encouraged me to join.  I'm currently working on getting my character up to Rydi's exacting standards. :)

Hey sol, you were looking at my post in the xp thread, yes?  Imp is at taint 3 now, 1 from node, 2 from buying Q5 tainted.  He'll start accruing taint on his next dot of taint (4).  Clearer?
edit: aha, i hit 3 when i should have hit 4 in that post.  fixed now.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:04, Mon 02 Nov 2009.

It is a pleasure to have you with us, Gale. :) I like the sig name.

I'm playing Dr. Zero, a boring eccentric who is addicted to mystery and adventure.

May I ask what character you are brewing for the game? :)

In reply to Gale (msg #326):

Greetings, its always good to have new blood. Feel free to post any questions you have, I'm sure any of us would be happy to help.