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[Dutrius]

Well, I somehow managed to watch the entire thing.

I think "Citation Needed" applies to pretty much everything in there.

[Radio Controlled]

Only once the next mission starts.

ANY DAY NOW!

Incidentally, anyone hear from Sean? Is he around and active lately? On IRC maybe? Cause the longer we wait for mission start, the more 'incidents' that can happen to the guys supposed to be going. Before long the entire mission team will be dead before they arrived! That'd be something, pre-mission TPK.

Oh, and now that Comrade voiced his (granted, ooc) intent to have his stuff go to the team fund, will we just go with that assumption, or do we wanna play things out IC?

[Nikitian]

Only once the next mission starts.

ANY DAY NOW!

Incidentally, anyone hear from Sean? Is he around and active lately? On IRC maybe? Cause the longer we wait for mission start, the more 'incidents' that can happen to the guys supposed to be going. Before long the entire mission team will be dead before they arrived! That'd be something, pre-mission TPK.

This is it. If Anton goes stasis-dementia-AWOL as well... It is terrifying to consider.

[Radio Controlled]

Only once the next mission starts.

ANY DAY NOW!

Incidentally, anyone hear from Sean? Is he around and active lately? On IRC maybe? Cause the longer we wait for mission start, the more 'incidents' that can happen to the guys supposed to be going. Before long the entire mission team will be dead before they arrived! That'd be something, pre-mission TPK.

This is it. If Anton goes stasis-dementia-AWOL as well... It is terrifying to consider.

Last online september 21, last post... september 10.

Mostly asking because, if he is indeed spirited away, it might not be a bad idea for someone to take over his mission prep so people can actually begin playing the mission and such. Waiting for long amounts of time leads to players dropping, for one, and leaves room for... shenanigans.

I mean, I don't wanna take his mission 'away' from him, but I also kinda don't wanna see it take so long to take off half the team goes braindead. PW has mentioned in the past he likes to keep on-ship faffing about to a minimum, for one, and to have people of actually doing stuff asap.

[Dutrius]

It has suddenly occurred to me. How am I going to use my Christmas potion when I'm in a robo-body?


Un-related: If the Mission 24 thingy is vulnerable to cold, could I acquire a large Dewar Jar of liquid helium/nitrogen, and modify a chemical thrower to fire it?

[Comrade P.]

Spoiler: See if backstory is alright, guys (click to show/hide)

Name: Vladimir Mikhailovich Fedorov
Age: 27
Gender: male
Appearance: Vladimir is a 6'4'' well built white fella, clean shaved, sporting a buzz cut.
Personal information: Vladimir was born in a family of traveling interstellar merchants on the outer rims of UWM, in one of them loosely governed subsectors. Planets mostly supplying raw materials. Private corporations have a lot of influence on the lives of citizens, and the impact they make is no good - pollution levels are going through the roof, taxation policies prevent people from moving to other sectors for work, so the factories work people with no other options to their graves. Very few have the privilege to choose an occupation - usually it is either 12 hour factory work day or criminal life - oh yeah, there are plenty of bandits and raiders on those half-deserted run down planets stripped of all their riches. He tried to do what his parents did - but that was no good. He tried applying for all sorts of jobs, and did mediocre - he clearly had no predisposition to anything, but the versatility was his strong side in any line of work. Tried pretty much everything - from paid escort to lab assistant. Jumped at opportunity to see something other than his home subsector when ARM showed up - that was a free ride over half a galaxy, after all! AND he used some of connections on Hephaestus of his own and of his parents to set him up with a place at ARM's flagship! They said they had to run it by some sort of top ARM brass man, and he approved, apparently.
Reason to join ARM: Bring his home subsection out of isolation - UWM lack of control over corporation rule made it virtually impossible for its citizens to move elsewhere. And to see places, do things, do something worthy with his life.
Stats and skills - all zeros.

[Unholy_Pariah]

I am thoroughly dissatisfied with the results and handling of this event.

the whole explosion thing is meant to take place in response to my shanking him.

where were the initiative rolls?
where was my knife throw?
or even my shank roll if you ignore my updated action?
where were the opposed combat rolls?

I dont mind being tempdeath exploded fairly, but giving doom arms the instawin is highly unfair.
especially to comrades character.

[Comrade P.]

Don't argue the word of God. Play with the hand you've got rather than complaining about what you've been dealt with.

Embrace the fact that shit happens.

[Yoink]

Oooh, so we finally got paid for the mission! I guess this means I can get those Enhanced Mobility Feet.

[Parisbre56]

@Comrade: Do a conspiracy theorist!

@Unholy: Let's see the turn of events here:
1. Several characters, including Auron and Wolfkit's char start fighting over the pizza.
2. Wolfkit uses doom arms. It's super effective.
3. The universe pauses at the exact moment of detonation while it checks who exactly is in the briefing room and what happens to them.
4. In the meantime, several people have anime-time conversations and submit actions to kill Wolfkit's char before he detonates. Unfortunately for them, since the detonation has already happened, it is impossible to stop it.
5. When the universe finishes his processing of the event, time resumes and the effects of the detonation become apparent.

[Comrade P.]

@Comrade: Do a conspiracy theorist!

I can't really see what to do about this. Can't build a character around that concept.

[Unholy_Pariah]

@Comrade: Do a conspiracy theorist!

@Unholy: Let's see the turn of events here:
1. Several characters, including Auron and Wolfkit's char start fighting over the pizza.
2. Wolfkit uses doom arms. It's super effective.
3. The universe pauses at the exact moment of detonation while it checks who exactly is in the briefing room and what happens to them.
4. In the meantime, several people have anime-time conversations and submit actions to kill Wolfkit's char before he detonates. Unfortunately for them, since the detonation has already happened, it is impossible to stop it.
5. When the universe finishes his processing of the event, time resumes and the effects of the detonation become apparent.

counter argument:
use of doom arms came in during stealth edit.
use of doom arms was in response to and dependant on auron attempting to shank him.
attempted shanking never took place.
ergo detonation should not have occured.

Follow Josabio to the briefing room. Protect/retrieve the pizza from Ian and Auron. Burninate Auron's knife via doom arm if I notice him trying to shank me with it.
"The pizza! We must protect the pizza or all is lost!"

this is his action.

as far as I can tell, what should have happened is I walk into the room and start shanking people.
when I reach wolf, he attempts to burn my knife and probably melts my arm off by flaring his power up and bitch slapping my hand.

instead I walk into the room and everything explodes without provocation... do you see the discrepency that upsets me so?

[Parisbre56]

So, if I understand correctly, what you're saying is that you wanted piecewise to take time and describe the events of the pizza fight and how everyone's actions failed in more detail?

[Unholy_Pariah]

So, if I understand correctly, what you're saying is that you wanted piecewise to take time and describe the events of the pizza fight and how everyone's actions failed in more detail?

something like that.

I wanted the fight to be run as a fight, not just a "fuck it wolf explodes time for endurance rolls"

[Wolfkit]

I'm going to agree with Unholy here. I agree with all of his logic, and also it would be helpful to know how the intent to destroy a knife via a touch ability turned into telsa the room.

Not that I'm complaining about the ability to force end rolls on everyone in the room, I'd just like a bit more control over it and also for it to not come off as an instawin button, because that's not fun for anyone.