In reply to Agent 9 (msg # 141):

Too funny, but I had never realized it about Manhattan before somehow. I even think I have seen game maps that lay it out as an island.

I lived in San Diego for years before I realized Coronado Island was in actually a long, long peninsula.

Kestrel, you must take care and defeat the evil virus!

heh, thanks! :)  and yup ;)

Huh, I thought that song always went: "Secret Agent Man."  Although not surprised I am wrong. :)

In reply to Kestrel (msg # 146):

You are correct as to the meaning, but hearing it as Secret Asian Man is a very common thing, and a bit of a running joke.

In reply to The Zenith (msg # 147):

Ahh!  okay! :D Whew! ;)

Did we just lose a player? Confused.

Not yet.  But we do need to discuss OOC how the group is going to operate.

I was hoping for a more democratic process of everyone getting to give their view.
This message was last edited by the player at 22:14, Fri 10 June 2022.

Fair enough, though I  usually just ignore the bossy players when I feel like it. To be fair, I'm not sure how much of the rush was the player, and how much was the GM wanting to move things along. It all happened so quickly. Hope we can find a happy medium somewhere.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:44, Fri 10 June 2022.

Guilty as charged, but also intending to point out the Dr. Apocalypse didn't leave a lot of time for anyone to react. The entire East Coast is still reeling from the mega-storm, and the heroes just happened to be the most 'rested' heroes close enough to be there at the deadline.

I dislike arguing with GMs, but I need to point out the physical realities of the scenario laid out:

That conversation could have taken from 1 minute to 30 minutes ingame time and have very little effect on whether they would arrive in time to help.

The average nonstop flight time between Tampa and New York is 2 hrs and 50 minutes.

The time frame that Dr Apocalypse left was tomorrow at Noon.  I imagine the video was played by the media as soon as they confirmed that it was real and not a hoax taking advantage of the current crisis. So they probably played the message before 6 pm.  That gives heroes a total of say 12 hours to get to New York, another 4 hours to plan out how they were going to coordinate the defense of New York, last 2 hours would be spent setting up defensive locations.

Anyone on the east coast could have arrived in New York, get a full nights sleep and be a part of any planning before the demonstration was going to happen.

So there was actually plenty of time for the team to talk about what they wanted to do before leaving.

He did say noon but if we wait it doesn’t leave time to get there ahead of any scouting he may have and then find our places. Yes I pushed some, I will do that if it seems clear where to go but we seem to bog down. But this is where we need to be and if we need to figure things out now we have plenty of time to do exactly that.

In reply to Kestrel (msg # 153):

Yes, there was plenty of time. I wouldn't want to dissuade anyone from continuing to roleplay that discussion in the "Mega-Storm" thread. The fact that a separate timeline beginning at a later date could play out in the other thread isn't an issue for me.

I figured Saber would hoof it quick, as it'd take 5 hours and change to get to New York under its own power.

Uh, I hope we're not having drama.  Not worth it guys!

Confused. What is going on? Why did we rush to New York again?

Technological demonstration by the bad guys.

In answer to a question asked elsewhere

This message was last edited by the GM at 12:39, Sun 12 June 2022.

In reply to Ajudicator (msg # 159):

Bangkok!

I see the boss logged in, but didn't post, are we waiting for something?

I'm waiting till Sunday to give as much chance as possible to post, then things move on.

Since we hadn't rolled for initiative, I assumed we were just queueing up for our position for when we do?

correct

I'll wait for these guys to have their combat, before posting Archer's arrival  (unless told otherwise)

You don’t want to be there to watch me get stomped?

I'm sorry, I am looking thru the rules and not seeing where it says how to roll initiative. I get that it is a d20 from the dice log, but what do I add?