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Total Members Voted: 6

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

[somemildmanneredidiot]

You say that, but when I think 250 USD, I think maybe half of a single room's worth of monthly rent, if it's in a particularly run down area. You've stated that we aren't worrying about that as long as PCs are reasonably active, so I'm more than happy to let it drop and have a dream of the kind of income and low expenses that these guys are having.

Note to self: If an intern, learn to fly ASAP. The novelty might be enough to let the pun slide as well as escape internship intact.

I am significantly more interested in such research now, to the point that I'm somewhat regretting making a character who won't care in the least except in the sense of how to prevent himself from becoming component parts. It looks like I'm going to be living through KaineFisher on this one 


@KaineFisher: I'll concede the point. Just try to be prepared for worst case situations.

@TheBiggerFish: Entity 3 (previously designated Entity 4) is Bill from Gravity Falls.

[~Neri]

Gobbos are sorta designed for mad science technically. There's plenty of room and time for that to grow on him~

-Keep in mind how much Gate Teams tend to make. The first mission Foxhound ran before it was even called Foxhound was a complete and utter disaster, resulting in a Total Squad Wipe for the two other squads sent with them due to a complete lack of tactics mixed with Rocks Fall. Two Squaddie NPC's were left behind. Literally every survivor received nearly lethal wounds.

The squad hauled in if I recall 21C based on acquire data and samples alone.

The next mission was a resounding success. Which hauled in a Moderate Value Keep Artifact, later determined to be HL3 from an alternate plane of existence (50C) Around 10 or 15 different unique samples of the dirt, air, Imp Fog, Keep Stone (Varied between 1C and 5C each depending on potential uses and value), The Corpse of a Denizen, which led to the most effective armor plating Akras has, aka D001 Plates (30C), and as many Rusher and Imp corpses as we could tie to the APC. Also a Horror Knight's corpse. (Around 5C-10C total from Unique corpse samples.)

This trend continued and now Foxhound has 526C in the squad coffers that it doesn't know what to do with and all the members have between 30C and 60C in their personal funds.

The Gate Teams are paid for useful data. You get paid for data and samples, as well as accurate observations and you get a bonus for exceptional accomplishments. It doesn't really matter how you get the data and samples. Just so long as you acquire it. Tal making things for Vahlen to play with, if he actually gave any fucks about the money and logged it, would be netting him somewhere around 2C-3C per sample. More if he wrote down his observations in a concise manner. He frankly doesn't give much of a fuck about the money though. He's in it for the knowledge. Likewise. If I recall. Zander Has received payment for some of his alchemical solutions and they are in use by Akras. However he has not submitted recent ones for use. The only reason Foxhound isn't receiving money for the Heatsink stones is because nobody really Cares to cash in on them. However Foxhound still gets top of the line gear thrown at it regularly from the sheer value of those stones alone for tech development. Not even counting the other assorted accomplishments

You have plenty of room to research new shit. Long as Akras finds it neat. You can cash in on it. But frankly. Money is only a problem for the first two or so full missions. Hence Foxhound's general minimal fucks given about it.

[Insanegame27]

Hey, vkiNm, would I be allowed to retire Zach for one mission to try something new with a Foxhound rookie in regards to one of my suggestions on the catalog? No spoilers yet, but there's something I wanna try out and Zach has no skills for it. If I'm not aloud, can I PM you a couple of NPC sheets for next mission or add them to the doc floating around god-knows-where?

Also, what I have on the Bad Cops so far is here. https://docs.google.com/document/d/16bChicBkdjtrgQwKZ1tNUhe-AxtzzUHCBLJrMUT9dp4/edit?usp=sharing

[vkiNm]

Hey, vkiNm, would I be allowed to retire Zach for one mission to try something new with a Foxhound rookie in regards to one of my suggestions on the catalog? No spoilers yet, but there's something I wanna try out and Zach has no skills for it. If I'm not aloud, can I PM you a couple of NPC sheets for next mission or add them to the doc floating around god-knows-where?

Also, what I have on the Bad Cops so far is here. https://docs.google.com/document/d/16bChicBkdjtrgQwKZ1tNUhe-AxtzzUHCBLJrMUT9dp4/edit?usp=sharing

Sure. Not sure if they'll get to do anything, though. You know how Foxhound likes to roll.

[somemildmanneredidiot]

This game has about exactly the level of escalation and potential monetary gain for those who care about such things that I've hoped to have from a game. The biggest problem is probably going to be figuring out what tech advances are considered to be actually useful to Akras. So much potential. 

I think I'm starting to get a better idea about how exactly Foxhound is the biggest money making team Akras has ever had.

Do we have a post around with links to all of the related documentation and/or character sheets? I keep forgetting to pin the new catalog and tracking it down is time consuming.

Beginning to read Bad Cops now, opinions incoming.

[~Neri]

I'll repost the new catalog in here and plop it in the second OP of the newsquad thread. Zomara will have to plop it in the OP of the Foxhound thread.

Ere ya go.

[Insanegame27]

Spoiler: John 'Epsilon-Alpha' Faring (click to show/hide)

Name: John Faring
Age: 25 years old
Str:10
Dex:11
Con:9
Int:10

HP:15 (+5 from Player Character Bonus)
Per:10
Will:10
Vig:10

Skills: 15P/15P used
Weapons:
 Heavy Weapons 2 (6)
 Explosive arms 2 (6)
 Small Arms 3 (3)
Unarmed brawling 1 (Racial Skill)
Driving: Automobile 3 (Racial skill)
Electronics Operation: Sensors 1 (Racial Skill)
Social (Racial Skill choice)
  Coercion 2
  Persuasion 1

Available Skillpoints: 0

Equipment:43C/25C used
 100mm Shoulder-mounted recoilless coilcannon: 30C
   2 100mm APHE shells (1 free, 1 2C) (2C)
   Bucket of ball bearings
   Iron cans
 .45 ACP SMG (free)
 Duster 9x19mm (10C)
   1 spare clip (1C)
 Melot Honor Knife (Free on creation)
 Agent helm (Free on creation)
 Basic Medkit (Free on creation)

Remaining Credits: -18C

Background: John is the sole survivor and commander of the Epsilon Clone DeathSquad after a raid went horribly wrong. He was thrown violently from the back of a technical when it was hit by a truck (An actual truck, not another ute). The technical was being chased by gunmen on motorcycles, who shot the clones still stuck under the technical. John had been thrown sufficient distance to escape the rider's attention and managed to walk back to Akras through various back-alleys.His dossier is classified, and he technically didn't exist until he received word that he was being reassigned to Foxhound as the data for the Epsilon genome had been corrupted. His liquidation killswitch was handed over to Foxhound.

I know he went over the creation costs, but IDK what to do there. I tried hard to think of a unique background for him, I really did.
EDIT: forgot all about the racial skills. Editing now... And done.

[somemildmanneredidiot]

Something I've noticed is that Strength restrictions don't seem to be there anymore. Is this an error or do Ratodx and the elves have significantly more firearms options than before?

@John Faring: As Foxhound has SOOO much money, they might be willing to spare 18* to have their temp be somewhat properly armed. You could have Zach do some research while the mission is going on, as a reason for the absence.

@Bad Cops: Good start, I'm interested for the next update 

[Insanegame27]

Yeah. Zach wants to hang back with maybe a couple of the Magi attached to Foxhound and research into his wasp army.

[~Neri]

Foxhound has a history of purchasing extra gear for anticipated squaddies. Example Aria and the Gauss Rifle.

Tal specifically would be fine with adding a Coilgun and Wielder to the squad arsenal. All sorts of fun shit you can do with what is functionally a pneumatic Mortar. Specially when ya get into stuff like enchanting the projectiles.

Zach would have to convince a Magi to hang back with him. There are several Magi would would be as equally qualified as Tal to help with the experiments though. Specially cause they're primarily focusing on one to three schools. Rather than Tal's "Learn Everything."

Something I've noticed is that Strength restrictions don't seem to be there anymore. Is this an error or do Ratodx and the elves have significantly more firearms options than before?

@John Faring: As Foxhound has SOOO much money, they might be willing to spare 18* to have their temp be somewhat properly armed. You could have Zach do some research while the mission is going on, as a reason for the absence.

@Bad Cops: Good start, I'm interested for the next update 

It's been tweaked for actually quite a while now. Anyone can Try to fire a firearm. However those marked as "This has high recoil" or "This will snap your arm like a twig if you don't brace it" are quite serious in their side effects. It's a more organic way to handle guns. If you're a whimpy shrimpy you're gonna snap your spine trying to fire a rocket launcher and dislocate something it if you fire a Gauss Pistol even with a brace. If that makes sense.

[Insanegame27]

GodBill help the elf who picks up the coilcannon from John's limp body and sets it to the wrong recoil level.

[somemildmanneredidiot]

It makes sense. That just means that testing on the firing range is going to be all the more useful (and potentially youtubeable).

[~Neri]

Added Todo's to each of the catalog's sectionmarks. Boop in the comments section of the todo's with stuff you intend to do so I can keep track of it all and boop that again when it's ready for review.

[somemildmanneredidiot]

I will be attending a wedding in a few hours so I will likely be unavailable til later this evening (8pm forum time?) or tomorrow morning (8am forum time?). I'll try to have a post in before then.

[Prophet]

Today is my birthday and I'm out with my family so expect either a lack of posting from me or erratic posting today until maybe later tonight.