So speaks the voice of experience!

Hhhmmmm, no comment. ;-\

  I figured I'd better clarify this: Kaengarr's response was over the wire between him and Vonon, so until it gets conveyed to everyone else, you haven't heard it yet!

I was just thinking how odd it would be to see a situation like Pablo is in as just another day at the office. Given his background though, he's done this sort of thing a lot.

Also, I loved Sharik's idea about hooking into Pablo's commdots. I wonder if we could expand that to her having access, via HUD and computer links, to his various sensor inputs, sort of like they had in Aliens...that would be cool.

  I was under the impression that the plan was to keep silence as long as possible, which would have precluded a link like that until Pablo attacked. If we weren't doing that then everyone down below ought to have some idea of what's happening up top already and that would probably alter their dialogue and probably their actions a bit.

Yeah, I didn't mean at the current moment.

  Okay then...

  1) We're assuming that whatever cross-talk was necessary took place.

  2) Pablo's armor should absorb that damage if I understand the combat rules?

  3) How many rounds will Darrel/Kaengarr/Vonon take to get there in the elevator, or are we more or less there already?

I think he took the armor off on the front end, at 4 armor = 1d6 of damage. Unless they are shooting slingshots and harsh language. Hadn't seen that done before, but works for me.

Yes, the bad guys had horrible rolls. None of that damage should get through Pablo's tailored vaccsuit's 8 protection. And, no, he never posted that he took it off.


Kaengarr, Vonon and Darrel are in the lift when Pablo gets shot. It'll take one round to get up to the next level.

In reply to StarMaster (msg # 908):

Works for me.

I had my games mixed up. A character in Other Dust uses a laser pistol that does 1d6, and I'd recent made a post for those results.

The 'correct' damage should have been:

04:24, Today: StarMaster rolled 11,11,10 using 3d6-1,3d6-2,3d6 ((6,4,2,5,6,2,1,5,4)).

But we'll let it slide this time.

In reply to StarMaster (msg # 910):

Other Dust is a neat little game. I keep wanting to run a Stars Without Number game, especially now that Starvation Cheap is out. Maybe someday.

If it's all the same to you, GM, I'd rather go with the correct damage. That way, if Pablo does manage to pull out a win, or at least survive till the cavalry arrives, it'll be cooler.

  Hmm. 8 damage gets through then, but since Pablo's info isn't up in the UPP thread I have no idea if he's shrugging that off or proclaiming it to be 'just a flesh wound'!

  ... did Pablo just deliberately corner himself?

  How do you work out a character's speed? It has to be in the book somewhere...

In reply to Kaengarr Ruzokh (msg # 913):

Don't know about the new Beta, but in (original) Mongoose Traveller, all (Human-sized) characters have a Speed of 6 squares, or 9 meters (or 30 feet) per 6 second Action (10 Actions in a Turn), so... 60 squares per minute, or 90 meters per minute, or even 300 feet per minute.

In reply to Kaengarr Ruzokh (msg # 913):

To answer some of the questions/concerns:

The damage taken so far zeroes out Pablo's End, so he's hurt, but still fully functional, so far as I understand.

Tactically, his choices were staying place, with shooters in front and behind, and with only the corner of the corridor as cover, which would leave him open, at best, one way or the other.

He could try to assault one of the rooms the corridor shooters are in, which might work to deal out one of the shooters, but leaves his back open to at least one other. And leaves him stuck in a room with one way out barring blowing holes in walls.

Running back down the corridor didn't seem good either.

Anyway, if he gets where he wants to be, behind the comm chair, he'll have his enemies more or less in an arc in front of him, and a decent chance of using the weapons he carries from what has been proven to be good cover.

Are all decks 0-G with that adhesive floor or do some decks have gravity?

The lower deck is still Zero-Gee; the upper deck is .9-Gees.

  This may sound like a silly question, but how do you want us to count diagonals for movement or can we even do that in the case of the elevator and iris doors? For that matter, how long do one of those things take to slide open if a person tries to duck into them?

  Regardless of square-count I figure that Kaengarr and Vonon can manage to cover about half the distance if they take advantage of their Vargr sprinting (if Vonon wants to go that fast), which would get them to short range; It's just a matter of whether they can get any cover from those iris doors along the way.

  How much cover do those things actually provide for the various combatants? It'll affect our attack rolls, at least.

  And one other relevant Q: How heavily armored do those two in the hallway appear to be and do they have helmets and/or other obvious protection against various grenades?
This message was last edited by the player at 01:21, Wed 09 Dec 2015.

If we were doing this on a tabletop, I might count diagonals differently, but this way it's just one square.

Iris doors, if hand activated, take about 2 seconds to open fully, and the same to close. On automatic, it's about 6 seconds.

The doors themselves don't provide any cover unless they are closed, but if you step into the room, that's a lot of cover.

The two men that stepped out of the doorways at the end of the hallway are wearing vaccsuits but no helmets.

If I am reading the game right none of you guys is actually breaking radio silence and calling for help (or give a status report) so there is no reason for Sam and Khea to come to help (if they can even make it to the bridge in time).

In reply to Kheaiftouaw (msg # 920):

Correct. Up til now, we haven't broken radio silence -- because we didn't want to reveal our presence to the perps.

However, now that Vonon can see that Pablo has not only poked the hornets nest, but he also knocked it over, kicked it open, burned down their church, robbed their bank and walked on the grass in their park -- I think it's safe to assume the perps know we're here.

So yeah, you can expect a call from Vonon pretty soon ^_^

  GM, are either of the two in the hallway still moving? What would Kaengarr and Vonon be able to see in the bridge from their position?

  I'm not sure what shape Pablo is in or whether he'd be visible from the doorway so I'll wait for his response there.

In reply to Kaengarr Ruzokh (msg # 923):

Pablo at the moment has 0/8 End, 2/9 Dex, and 6 Str. Mechanically he's still able to act normally, but I can't imagine he feels especially spry.

He's had four suit breaches, but the sealing layer undersuit has those dealt with, though he'll need real repairs done to the suit eventually.