Take the fastest anomaly-avoiding route possible.
"Guys, it's starting to glow, I'd get the hell away from that thing. Glowing is bad."
Continue watching.
[morul con:4+1+1 pirate vision-1 injuries]
The shuttle begins to lift off, hovering a few feet in the air as mesk lays out the directions. As he works, Morul drags himself to the edge of the roof and props his rifle against the edge of the roof.
"When normal negotiation fails, we move on to enhanced negotiation."
He closes his bad eye and the world becomes a swirling mass of incalculably complex data; everything torn apart and spread open, a universe dissected. He can see every inch of the shuttle, every inch of every man inside it, every whirling part, every wire, fuel pump and spring. He can see the trajectory of his shot before he even pulls the trigger. And he knows exactly where to shoot.
He squeezes the trigger and a sends a single metal down range toward the shuttle. In impacts just behind the cockpit and fragments. The largest chunk, nearly half the shell, shorn in half to form a razor's edge, cuts through a bundle of wires behind the cockpit. The wires that carry signals to the engines. Without a signal they automatically enter a descent and slowly, if not gently, put the ship down. The rest of the fragments slice through various backups and systems that might allow the ship to continue flying and render them all inoperable. The shuttle lands with a heavy, though inaudible in the vacuum, thud.
Morul rolls back and lays on the roof.
"I'm gonna get court marshaled for this. Or I would, if it was possible."
"Wish I had a cigarette."
Mesk, back on board, furrows his brow in confusion.
"Ok, I'm fairly certain that wasn't me."
"I fully agree on that point, glowing is bad in my experience."
What about the ground vehicles? How well could I modify the trailer to carry large amounts of stuff?
Well, the larger ones look like they could pull a larger trailer alright, but you're not really sure how powerful they are just from looking. They look pretty robust though. Hmm.
Modifying the trailer, well that depends. More wheels and a heavier frame would definitely help.
Go for it. As long as you don't have me sprain my wrist everytime I roll a 1 on Dex, or pass out when I get a 1 on End, I'm cool. Because that would mean about a 40% (?) of injury, which is more than a but ridiculous.
The important thing to remember about playing something like that, is that it might be very difficult with a lot of rolls, but it's consistent. So I shouldn't fluctuate between virtuoso and horrible, more like keeping myself at some baseline and slowly improving. But then it's not a game system built for that, so whatever.
[Flute roll:2]
You blow on the flute, sort of trying to suss out how anything works. You spend a few minutes trying to play it like a piccolo and then a few more trying to use it like a trumpet.
Try to make my hole a bit deeper and wider so that it can hopefully hide me and the others better if bad things start happening. Keep watching the thing, both with the drone and my own eyes. Keep watching the atmospheric and radiation sensors. Fire a tiny pulse (less then a second if possible) from cover and see if it has an effect on that thing. If it can cut it without causing strange things, try to cut a small piece of it off. ((Actually, now that I think about it, firing a laser might cause it to activate faster, like lighting a match. It's much safer to shoot it with a gauss rifle.)) Once Miyamoto gives me that gauss rifle, fire a round at that thing, if I think it will get there. (There's no atmosphere here, right?) Watch for what effect it has on the creature, where the piece falls if it falls and any reaction of the crystalthing after it's been shot (electrical discharge, change of colour, etc...)
You dig a bit deeper but something draws your attention away from that. The crystal is moving again. It's hundreds of root like legs are tearing themselves free and again it's traveling slowly eastward.
((Also, to PW: Your math was slightly off when you gave me the density again when I was testing it for armor properties, I found in the notes that you said it was 19g/cm2 during the autopsy (that's not even a correct density statement, the correct one that still gives 19g/cm2 would be 361g/cm3), which would equate to 2.0215lbs/in3, not .7lbs/in3, although a close number does crop up during the conversion step between grams to pounds. If I were to assume you meant 19g/cm3 the first time around, then it would end up at 0.106lbs/in3.))
Color me completely unsurprised that I fucked up the math somewhere along the line.
awaken from uselessness induced coma, assess status of other expedition members
((Ive been trying to get back into this for a week or so but i simply cant find anything worthwhile for my character to do so im giving up on that and just gonna dick around until an opportunity presents itself.))
Well...screwed and mutinous is probably the best way to put it.
And yeah, everyone on the ship who had things to do once you got over to Flint...yeah, I think you can understand why you're being skipped.
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