Thanks for the update and I'm truly sorry to hear about that. Life is a wild and crazy ride and it is perfectly natural for burdens to take a toll. I am but a random internet stranger with no judgement or ties to your real life so if you'd like to talk further feel free to chat here or send me a PM. Sometimes it helps just to talk about stuff and it can be hard IRL to be honest and open without making yourself vulnerable but here with the mask of anonymity it is something that can help.

When I was feeling down I was shared my burdens with a random internet stranger and I found it helpful. All I really needed was to put my thoughts into words and suddenly the way through was clear and my feelings didn't feel so overpowering and inscrutable. By talking about them I defined them and by defining them I regained my control over my thoughts and emotions. I cannot promise anything, of course, but know that I'm always here and willing to listen :)

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That being said I was referring more to John/Laila/Ylis/Cheng who haven't posted yet... I can post an update for the shuttle crew but I was hoping to run both plotlines at the same time.

I was kinda hoping for someone a bit more techy than me to head for the doors and I'd assist, but I'll go ahead and post.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:28, Wed 28 Aug 2019.

I could modify my post if you needed Ylis, but given my distraction from a few posts and then seeing that opening i inserted myself.  Sarah would likely know how to override a door to ensure it sealed even with its motors burnt out and such.  Being an engineer and all.

I'm fine with with that!

does anyone object to me modifying my post? T'Saen? John? etc?

Not 100% sure which post you're referring to but sure, go for it

the one of me following you T'Saen, it seems Ylis could use some help from someone who can work a door :P

Ah, yes that'd be great

Couple clarifications, por favor:

1) Where are the Romulans?  On our shuttle or heading to theirs?

2) Why is closing the door from the outside bad?  Can't it just be closed, we beam whomever did it on to the shuttle and we scoot out of here?

because the people inside are protected from the impact in theory by the reinforced tunnels.  However, once those projectiles start raining down the shock waves are probably gonna create alot of fissures in the area.  Which means those outer tunnels which as far as i can tell have no protection, will likely start collapsing.  plus the more material between you and the transporter the harder it is to get a lock last i checked. The people inside can run up to the landing area where nothing is going to be interfering, the person in the tunnel, will have to leave the tunnels. at this point we have less then 5 minutes.  Atleast that's the logic my character is going off.

I could be wrong, but if it has enough kinetic energy to go straight through a star ship's hull and out the back, it has more then enough energy to go through ice and snow.  Although i guess i never did consider the fact that there might be stone underneath, since most of the snow would have come from the atmospheric distortions, I can change my post if universe disagrees with this assessment.

1) Romulans are split. Half of them are in the shuttle, the other half being transported to the bottom of the tunnels on a cart because they were still knocked out.

2) Closing the door from the outside means that the shuttle has to save them or they are sacrificing themselves. It's not meant to be a mechanical challenge but a moral one. Saving the person that closes the door means dooming dozens of people on the periphery that can't get rescued.




So there is a really interesting bit of science that says that the speed of an object doesn't really matter after a certain point when determining impact depth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_depth


So Depth = Length of object * (Density of Impacting / Density of Target)
D = 20m * (19.6 / 2.5) replace with real numbers...
Depth = 154 meters



So even hitting soft rock the projectiles won't be able to penetrate down to the tunnels. Given how long the tunnels have survived some surface level explosions probably won't be enough to collapse them.

Of more concern is the thermal energy melting the surface bunker. A nuclear bomb briefly gets a temperature of over 100,000,000°C while the melting point of granite is 1260°C so the doors are probably not going to open again however that heat once blocked by the door will be absorbed by all the surface ruins and then have to heat up the surrounding air again so while the outside is going to be charred and melted once you go down a few stories the change will be minimal.

tl:dr - Tunnels should be perfectly safe due to math and science.

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So using this for the ship's hull let's see if I was actually right. IF the ship was made entirely of duranium (standing in for Osmium as a point of reference) it would have penetrated only 17m, or about 1/3 of the way through the ship HOWEVER as most of the ship is air or unarmored bulkheads dropping the average density considerably allow shots to penetrate the full hull if placed correctly.

I wasn't going to call the thermal energy aspect into count because i don't know the density of the atmosphere and thus how effective the transfer of thermal energy will be radiating from the impact site.  But yeah, T'Saen, effectively, anyone going outside is a taking on a suicide mission.  If the thermal energy doesn't kill them, the shock wave going through the crust (since nothing is dissipating the energy I.E. atmosphere, etc) would probably collapse the tunnels on them.  Either way we're looking at the energy equivalent of a massive impact so loads of fun.

It's a suicide mission...IF the shuttle doesn't transport them to safety...

Alright Sarah, it will be a Whatever you want + Engineering difficulty 3 roll to drop the blast door.

+1 difficulty for the alien ruins and +1 difficulty for missing tools (you don't have an alien tool kit handy).

However Ylis will be able to assist with a Control + Engineering roll as she follows your instructions.

Control + engineering makes the most sense for me

any details i need to know about the door or is this a BS it moment?

Also since when was I a LT? :P Did i get a field promotion without knowing?
This message was last edited by the player at 04:27, Sun 01 Sept 2019.

oops, fixed.

The way the door works is a form of hydraulics so while there is pressure in the line the door won't go down any further. Careful manipulation of the hydraulic lines will allow them to drain the fluid and thus close the door.

16:59, Today: Sarah Greene rolled 19 using 2d20 with rolls of 10,9.  Control + engineering .

two successes sir

Hey everyone, sorry for disappearing just after joining....work was hell last week.

Noted. Let's hope Ylis can pull out another success then.

I hope T'Saen can make it :) *lifts a drink in honor of Ylis*

Just as a word of warning be prepared for a HUUUUGE exposition dump. We're about ready to transition to the main part of the game so get ready for some big posts incoming.

I'll periodically pause for a break just in case there are some reactions or what not but I'll probably have a bunch of posts in a row so buckle up for some heavy exposition ahead.

Actually quick poll: Do you want me to just narrate to the conclusion of the adventure or are you all still engaged enough to want to complete the last act. There is still more stuff to do, namely what to do with the Romulans and helping repair the Belfast but judging by activity levels it feels like people are "done" with this mission and if the vote is to move on I'm fine with that. I can take some creative liberties, make some background rolls and just narrate the end of this one and into the next mission.

I'm fine with exposition unless everyone else wants to play it out.

I'm fine either way