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Total Members Voted: 6

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

[~Neri]

Assault Suit covers more and is more armor.

[KaineFisher]

Khaiden is buying a fragmentation vest and an assault suit.

Adding it to character sheet and subtracting 15C

[Maegil]

Spoiler: Ratodx Tamoren (click to show/hide)

Name: Ratodx Tamoren
Race: Goblin of a Lightning Clan
Age: Young Adultish

Stats
Strength: 8
Dex: 12 (11+1=12)
Intelligence: 15
Constitution: 8
Health: 12 (9+5-2=12)
Perception: 9
Will: 9
Vigor: 8

Skills
Small Arms: Dex/E 1 Rank (1) (Explained in backstory. If insufficient I'll replace it with a rank of Knife.)
Acrobatics: Dex/A 1 Rank (2)
Stealth: Dex/A 2 Ranks (4)
Machinist: Int/A 2 Ranks (4)
Arcanism>Dynamancy>Visual_Spectrum: Wil/VH 1 Rank (4)
Oratory: Int/A 2 Ranks
Coercion:  Wil/A 1 Rank
Persuasion: Int/H 2 Ranks

Unspent XP: 2

Racial Abilities
-Some Goblins are Orcs: 1/3rd of Goblins are born as Orcs. This is a natural part of life. However obviously it’s painful for the Goblin mother birthing the Orc in question. A baby that size isn’t exactly fun to give birth to.
-Dreams of the Mad God: Goblins dream of many things. Of Contraptions. Of Fire. Of Lightning. Of Steam. Of spiraling towers filled with the mad tinkerings of their race. Most Goblins dream of one of these things. That is their Clan. A Goblin innately is skilled in that which their Clan is. (+4 to any roll relating to construction or activities relating to their Clan. This can involve abstract applications. This does not substitute for skill. Unskilled constructions will be [Unreliable] and on GM Discretion will malfunction in whatever way seems hilarious at the time. A skilled Goblin will have significantly more luck in preventing whatever the insane contraption they’re constructing from gaining [Unreliable] compared to an unskilled goblin.)

Equipment
Agent BDUs    All but head      2      All      5 lbs      Free
Agent Helm      Head         4      All      3 lbs      Free
Fragmentation Vest   Torso Only      5      Bal only      8 lbs      Free
Basic Machinist Toolkit Free
First Aid Kit Free
Knives Free
10mm PDW Free
1 x 15 PDW Mag Free
5.56 Bullpup Carbine Free
1 x 40 Bullpup Carbine Mag Free
.45 ACP SMG Free (Because goblins are smol)
1 x 25 .45 ACP SMG Mag Free

The below is for when Akras gives Ratodx the 25* that character gen said he'd have
2 x 15 Round Mag for the 10mm PDW 2*
2 x 25 .45 ACP SMG Mag 6*
G-1 Offensive Grenade Free
Trauma Plates   Torso Only      +10      All      +8 lbs      10*
Leftover *: 7

Personal Monetary Gains:
1st Entity Encounter: 2*
Total: 2*

Squad Funds:
1st Entity Encounter: 10*

Backstory:
The Gurbrak Clan of Lightning had survived these times of Clockwork and Fire dominance through a special sort of trade that most others would call theft and sabotage. When able to, the Gurbrak clan scouted for clans of Clockwork and Fire and "traded" with them before seeking their fortunes elsewhere in a hurried fashion, using their spoils to help develop their own works and to seek further "trade" with their Goblin and Orc brethren when not solely occupying other lands.

Ratodx is a "trader" of Gurbrak Clan who started life off decently enough in the Tamoren family. You fought for your food, you fought for your bed, and you fought for whatever you wanted to be yours. As Ratodx was not the strongest, he sought to be the sneakiest, allowing him to fight in his own ways. That his Gift From The Mad God helped in this endeavor was something he well appreciated, at least once the Shaman taught him enough control to stop himself from glowing as bright as the moon.

Though normally his Gift meant that he would be left to a life of hermitage and learning more about his Gift, far enough away so as to not blow up a significant part of the Clan, Gurbrak saw his potential for "trading" and threw him into the Merchant Caravan as soon as he had some control over his Gift. From there he was taught how to be a proper "trader" including how to try bluff oneself off as a Clockwork or Fire Clan Goblin, and was briefly trained and armed with a Clockwork Clan Pistol, which he used to decent effect in his first few "trading" runs.

When Akras first began setting up, Gurbrak sent a "trading" group to try to raid one of their patrols. Ratodx was part of that group. That they weren't all slaughtered at once is something that Ratodx still doesn't know the reason of, though he's more than glad to accept the offer of a position in Akras, especially considering that he was part of the third who survived the initial fire.

Personality:
Ratodx has about the standard goals of most goblins. Accumulating the influence and means necessary to be top dog, or at least as top a dog as possible without being seen as a threat to those who could crush him like an egg. Being a grunt for Akras looked to be better than a grunt for Gurbrak, and Ratodx is more than happy to help Akras exploit his former clan for any profit they can manage.

His recent encounter with E17 has left him rather raddled at the moment and will likely encourage more defensive decisions in the future.

I'll try to keep a record of Squad Funds in my sheet as well, just to keep more paper trails on it.

Ratodx would care significantly more about the ease of access of so many vital resources and comforts, but right now he's rather bothered by the ringing monkey screams that he hopes won't follow along into his dreams.

Amadou has his eye on Ratodx, he should be more careful lest he ends up promoted to 2IC.

[Prophet]

Going to be away from normal internet access for a couple of days starting tomorrow. I will have internet access through my phone so I will still post but expect slow to respond and erratic posting.

[KaineFisher]

Wait, Akras has ROGs?

Do they have any idea how stupid those are as weapons? Unless they have a way to prevent impact in case of an accident that's not only reckless, but the cost/gain for risk is extremely small.

[~Neri]

You can't have an 'accidental' deorbiting of an ROG. That's a Lot of mass.

[KaineFisher]

All it takes is one rod being dropped, a rod being dropped before or after it was supposed to be, a malfunction, a collision, etc.

Unless they have a plan for a rod dropping where they don't want it they might as well be paying impact roulette.

[~Neri]

..That's not how deorbiting works.

Detatching a rod from the superstructure would not deorbit. It would continue to orbit around the planet without drifting much if at all. To deorbit something you need to put significant Delta-V into it.

[KaineFisher]

I know that, I'm talking about the rods.

You can't stop the drop. If a rod falls when you didn't want it to, there's nothing you can do. It can't be shut off.

[vkiNm]

The chance of said rod hitting something that Akras cares is astronomically low.

[KaineFisher]

And in a decade? 50 years? A century?

That structure will be up there.

Can you stop a drop? If not, then what's stopping it hitting something they DO care about?

Even taking it apart is dangerous.

[vkiNm]

And in a decade? 50 years? A century?

That structure will be up there.

Can you stop a drop? If not, then what's stopping it hitting something they DO care about?

Even taking it apart is dangerous.

I dunno, 10 high-powered Defensive laser turrets array, maybe?

the rifle variant have the heat output equivalent to the surface of the sun, the defensive structure version is likely going to be more powerful and accurate. 10 of them should be enough to melt a Tungsten rod coming in from high orbit, that's enough time.

[KaineFisher]

OK, that might work.

But you can understand my concern until I learned that right?

What goes for magic also goes for technology:

"Don't bring up what you can't put down."

Or burn up before impact, but same thing.

[Maegil]

..That's not how deorbiting works.

Detatching a rod from the superstructure would not deorbit. It would continue to orbit around the planet without drifting much if at all. To deorbit something you need to put significant Delta-V into it.

^This

[~Neri]

Frankly even if one got launched on a deorbited course. It would take minimal effort for a drone to direct it somewhere Akras doesn't care about. Or just keep it up in orbit.