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[Lenglon]

Actually, if Gus tried to help Eli, he probably would not get tazed for it. Older doesn't equal more important, and Lyra is not within the command structure.

Look, you're trying to be logical about this, and about why beheading is the more efficient, logical choice.
Lyra isn't giving a damn about that. These are the people who showed bravery on mission with her and gave their bodies and lives to try to acomplish it. She isn't going to let you, some newcomer, maim them needlessly. This is part of her way of showing respect for the people she couldn't save. It's an emotional reasoning, and logic will do nothing to persuade her to change on that stance. Your best bet is to convince Hasala it's a good idea, and to get him to convince Lyra to back down. She isn't going to accept it coming from you.

@ planet inactivity
the planet chose to disconnect the brainworm from itself temporarilly. I think it stabilized itself before moving. which is why in snapdragon it is 100% idle right now. either that or the worm isn't dead, just regrowing its connections. either way the Snapdragon area hasn't been destabilized like Gyro's.

[piecewise]

Hey, roadtrip people? You might want to check the RTD board.

[AkumaKasai]

Actually, if Gus tried to help Eli, he probably would not get tazed for it. Older doesn't equal more important, and Lyra is not within the command structure.

There's not a 100% accurate connection between age and importance, but there certainly is a connection. Practically speaking, Lyra is more useful than Gus and Elias put together. They're both poorly equipped Level 0 newbies, and she's leveled up four times, unless she was on one of the missions that gives you extra points on top of a normal level up. She also has ten tokens worth of amps and I have no idea how many tokens worth of robo-cat body that's able to turn her invisible, make her move silently, and lets her inject meds. Not only is that body incredibly useful, it's also valuable because it's completely unique. Also, no offense towards the leaders, but I expect they'll be biased towards the older characters that have proven their worth over new characters who have yet to prove themselves useful. Anyway, it doesn't matter if Gus gets tazed or not. He's armed with a basic weapon he doesn't really have any skill with, against a foe that is better armed, more capable of using her weapons, able to turn invisible, and able to move silently.

Look, you're trying to be logical about this, and about why beheading is the more efficient, logical choice.
Lyra isn't giving a damn about that. These are the people who showed bravery on mission with her and gave their bodies and lives to try to acomplish it. She isn't going to let you, some newcomer, maim them needlessly. This is part of her way of showing respect for the people she couldn't save. It's an emotional reasoning, and logic will do nothing to persuade her to change on that stance. Your best bet is to convince Hasala it's a good idea, and to get him to convince Lyra to back down. She isn't going to accept it coming from you.

Elias will never convince Hasala of his position, or vice versa. If I understand Hasala's personality, they're actually pretty similar: both are convinced the other is an inexperienced idiot who has no idea what they're talking about, and both think that they're far more experienced, because they've both been through some terrible events. Because they don't know each other, neither has any respect for the other, and they're both too stubborn to even consider the other's position. Swordsmith, correct me if I'm wrong about Hasala, but that's the impression that I'm getting from him.

@ planet inactivity
the planet chose to disconnect the brainworm from itself temporarilly. I think it stabilized itself before moving. which is why in snapdragon it is 100% idle right now. either that or the worm isn't dead, just regrowing its connections. either way the Snapdragon area hasn't been destabilized like Gyro's.

Don't matter none to Elias. He done reckon they're in the calm b'fur the storm.

[Devastator]

I'll kill you!

Hmm..

[Empiricist]

Got my new char done. I will post it soon.

Yeah, that's the spirit!

hey can charisma be used to manipulate other players?

Depends on how high your skill is. Charisma can only convince people as effectively as a good speech can, plus players tend to not take kindly to just being told to do stuff by someone else's rolls.

[AkumaKasai]

Do you still get mission rewards if you temp-die, or do you have to survive the entire mission?

[Lenglon]

You still get them

[Caellath]

Did my -2 in fate affect my roll, or was piecewise finding me annoying? Is there any way I can tell?

Piecewise usually rolls for everyone in those case, though I do believe your extremely bad Fate made you the most likely to be hit.

[DoctorMcTaalik]

That fate stat is surprisingly important.

[Yoink]

I really think this whole 'beheading' argument should happen IC.
Come now people, losing your heads in the OOC thread doesn't help anything! It only causes headaches for everyone. If your character has a bone to pick with another one, you should do so in-character. No use crying over spilt cerebral fluid. Just put your heads together and I'm sure you'll come up with a solution that pleases all parts of all parties involved.

[Dutrius]

It suddenly occurs to me that I hope everyone's suits are intact, because the shuttle's hull's been breached. That will be a problem when we leave the atmosphere later. If we survive that far, anyway.

[Radio Controlled]

And if not, they die to be immediately revived on ship. It kinda takes the sting out of it.

[Parisbre56]

There is no breathable atmosphere on the planet, so if they can't survive space, they probably can't survive the planet. But I think all the new guys have MCPs so they should be fine. (Every time I write MCP I think Master Control Program).

About the beheading issue, how exactly is beheading faster? Do you have a monorazor? Because if you're using a simple knife, cutting through a (lightly) armoured suit and then cutting off someone's head in a non-breathable atmosphere will be neither pleasant nor quick. (MCPs, like MK1s, are lightly armoured. Not enough to stop a bullet but enough to make a knife or random rock piercing it harder.) Unless someone put an IRIS in the new MCP helmet.

[Beirus]

That needs to be a thing. Put an iris at the bottom of the helmet and a button someone can push to activate it that also makes a handle pop out for easier carrying. 

[Parisbre56]

Suddenly a helmet-travel bag combo.

Also, I imagine Lyra going through her contact list on her wristpad and renaming the guy's contact to murderer.