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Total Members Voted: 6

Voting closed: August 31, 2016, 04:23:26 pm

[vkiNm]

I was very tempted to have the fragment arrow go off after it bursts out of Dexter inside the elevator with the equivalent of a Frag grenade.

Then I realize that this will be TPK at first ever engagement before anyone even get to do anything so I decided against it.

The GM In me screams for blood and death, but the Storyteller/Writer in me says no.

[somemildmanneredidiot]

We very much appreciate your erring on the side of story.

[Maegil]

Therefore, it's my recommendation that that agent training on memetic entities is reinforced, and that this case is used in said training as an example.

Grammar check. Otherwise, you may or may not want to mention Ratodx being high after being flash banged, but that's your call. Anything else I'll mention is basically word choice.

Thanks. By the way, that was a C&P editing error, not a grammar one. I try to avoid those, but if you guys spot one, please do tell me.

I added that Ratodx was dazed by the flashbangs, that'd have been normal.

Melnakos pleaded to be allowed to try to lead

Requested might work as well there and sounds slightly more professional, but it's not a necessary change.

The Ratodx in me wants to have the report edited slightly to make Amadou look more competent and rephrase the areas where mistakes were made to make them look less like mistakes, but being able to recognize mistakes and own up to them is a competency in and of itself which will hopefully be recognized.

"Requested" it is then.

One of the reasons for debriefing is precisely to spot errors and work on them, and while Amadou knows the bureaucratic attitude of deflecting blame (and has resorted to it when needed), he really dislikes it.

In retrospect, we're quite lucky that the apparent fragmentation effect didn't go off once it made contact with Dexter's back.

Thanks, vk! I justified it by noting that the arrow had not been fired.

[vkiNm]

Well, now the people who got crumpled in the elevator sans Khaiden who un-fucked himself gets to be cut open alive to have their cracked bones tended to.

[Maegil]

I forgot the part about trying to use the torches as anti-darkness weapons. I'll add that now.

[KaineFisher]

Well, now the people who got crumpled in the elevator sans Khaiden who un-fucked himself gets to be cut open alive to have their cracked bones tended to.

Unfucking himself is something Khaiden does. Others might be included in that if feasible and it helps him. Otherwise their lifeforce might be used to unfuck him.

[Insanegame27]

I was wondering why the arrow didn't go off. Guess I know, now.

[S34N1C]

I was very tempted to have the fragment arrow go off after it bursts out of Dexter inside the elevator with the equivalent of a Frag grenade.

Then I realize that this will be TPK at first ever engagement before anyone even get to do anything so I decided against it.

The GM In me screams for blood and death, but the Storyteller/Writer in me says no.

Sigged

[~Neri]

Honestly it makes sense icly for the arrow to be coded to go off after launching. Would save archers a whole lotta trouble if they hardcoded their spellbow projectiles to not go off at the slightest impact.

[somemildmanneredidiot]

@Do goblins have 14 fingers: Until stated otherwise by a GM, I'm operating as if they do because I wanted to make a joke post-microwave explosion (listed 7 reasons why shooting the microwave was a bad idea, said it was only a handful of reasons). I figured it was an unstated detail that I could mess around with. I like to think that they developed sort of like wisdom teeth in humans did, such that they have spares so they're still able to function when an amount are lost, most likely due to early experimentation with explosives and other limb removing !SCIENCE!. Thankfully amputation isn't a necessary procedure for multiple fingers.

[Prophet]

It would be kinda cool if they did.

[vkiNm]

Multiple fingers could be nice. Makes wearing gloves a bitch though.

[Prophet]

Also think about all the weird and horrible painful experiments that can be done on the squad as Arkas scientist try to learn if they can add extra fingers to other species hands. 

[somemildmanneredidiot]

Leaving this here so I don't have to try to remember things.

Spoiler: Some plans for the future (click to show/hide)

Short Term (As in within the next 5 to 10 missions) Equipment and Skill Goals:

Small Arms: 3
Electronic Operations>Sensors: 3
Knife: 3
Stealth: 3
Persuasion: 3
Oratory: 3
Machinist: 3
Arcanism>Whateveritis>VisSpec: 2
Acrobatics: 3
 
Rambling Combat Shotgun 20* Reloads 16 round drum for 10* (at 10* a drum, I'm hoping it'd do quite the bit of damage. It's also currently listed under Small Arms which may or may not be a mistake.)
Duster 9x19mm 10* Reloads 30 round 1* (Machine pistols for 8 Str are useful yo)
Trauma Plates 10* (Underneath the Frag Vest, Over the BDUs)
Rosetta Tablet PDA 10*
Advance Kit 15*

Knives. Everywhere. You name it, Ratodx will have at least three there. Knives are fantastically useful tools and if you say that all knives forever are free than you bet your ass I'm going to have as many as physically possible. If you give me a bottomless bag**, it will be filled to the brim with knives with the expectation that it will eventually be used as an improvised fragmentation explosive.

**Ask about bottomless bags. If such don't exist, see about getting that research project started.

Long Term (As in within 20 to 30 missions) Equipment and Skill Goals:

Ball Lightning Gun Operation: 3
Xenobiology: 3
Xeno-Paleontology: 3
Traps: 3
Tech>Whatever I need to customize a robo arm: 3
Tech> Whatever I need to make a Ball Lightning Gun: 3
Electronic Operations>I'm in: 3
Arcanism>Whateveritis>VisSpec: 5
Occultism>Enchantment>Warding: 3
Arcanism>Elementalism>Lightning: 3
Arcanism>Elementalism***>Light: 3

***I'm aware that there are other routes. My goal is to be able to say "Fuck you", with as much direct application of force as possible, to anything Darkness based.

Milspec Custom Arm 20*
     Adjustable Power Laser Pointer ??*
     Built In Mana Storage ??*
     Built In Electronics Suite ??*
     Custom Built Internal Ball Lightning Gun ??*
Custom Built External Ball Lightning Gun ??*
Personally Warded Tactical Armor ??*
Personally Warded Standard Clothes ??*
Personal Warding On Most Everything ??*

Epic Goals (50+ missions):
The rest of the energy manipulation tree: 7+
Most other skills: 5+
VisSpec: 10+
Drive>Power Armor: 5+
I am become Naruto>And his dad>M into E:

Custom Built And Warded Power Armor ??*

[Prophet]

So what do you guys hope happens to your characters before we all die torturous deaths? I hope Melnakos gets turned into some magical and biological abomination. Maybe descend into madness. Although turning into a horrible abomination doesn't really help someone stay sane so if it does happen going insane will probably follow shortly afterwards.