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[Aigre Excalibur]

Your Mission should you choose to accept it, is as follows:

You are being hired for a counter-assassination. The Chinese government has hired a local mob hitman named Ah Long to silence a Humanitarian activist named Ming Tai in Beijing. Your mission is to take out the hitman. The Safety of Ming Tai is not your direct concern, but there will be a bonus if he survives. Your actions will be just another move in The Game that will buy time for the powers that be to do whatever it is they want to do with Ming Tai.

You are offered a standard contract of $30,000. Half Upfront.

I accept.

Old thread edited to include playergamer and the new mission.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157198

[Aigre Excalibur]

I need a nap myself. Back in a bit, after I wake up.

[lawastooshort]

Could I take +1 Medical and -1 Melee please?

And accept the mission unless someone wants to team up, although hopefully this is a nice easy one for my non-snooty type person.

[NRDL]

Quick question, AE, as an aspiring GM, how in the actual hell are you keeping track of all these numbers without going insane? 

[Hawk132]

If someone wouldn't mind John tagging along for their mission, I'd join that. Otherwise, just sign me up for a level 0. And for the sake of expediency - I'll accept the contract without any changes or trying for a new one.

[Aigre Excalibur]

ack duble post.

[Aigre Excalibur]

Quick question, AE, as an aspiring GM, how in the actual hell are you keeping track of all these numbers without going insane?

Have you read the book Gamemastering by Brian Jamison? It's in the public domain, and a very good place to start.

Some gamemasters see a spectrum between storytelling and mechanical gameplay that devolves into board-gaming. Piecewise's ER strikes a very good middle ground where the numbers are important, but he doesn't let it get in the way of epic storytelling. The roleplaying in the nationstates and starwars combine forums are more extreme left, where the mechanics are more arbitrary but storytelling is emphasized and character development is rewarded. Dungeons and Dragons and other crawlers would be extreme right examples. I'm not experienced enough with stories, but I am very strong with numbers, so I'm leaning to the right with the modified ER system.

As for how I can pile on variables and still think it's the most beautiful thing in the world: I'm an accountancy student. A good accountant can juggle hundreds of spreadsheets in their head without a computer. I can also tell you how to clean money in completely legal ways...

Also, I like simulating reality. It's easy to visualize and quantify. Most the numbers I plucked are real, but I can make some small changes for gameplay and !fun!.

[lawastooshort]

Hawk 132 if you want to join my level 0 then go ahead (we'll be poor) or if you prefer take a level 1 contract and I'll join it no questions asked. My character is not a fighter, mind, so consider if we're compatible.

[Hawk132]

Let's do a level 1 then. I'll try to carry us in combat.

AE, one level 1 contract for me and Lawas, please.

[Pancaek]

If you level 0 people would want to team up to take on a level 1, it would be that much easier on me. The pay is also far more reasonable.

I accept my mission, but I'm more than willing to team up with someone else and take a level 1 mission, if anyone wants to team up with me?

[AzyWng]

Let's do a level 1 then. I'll try to carry us in combat.

AE, one level 1 contract for me and Lawas, please.

Do you think ya'll have room for one more?

[Hawk132]

Possibly. I wouldn't mind, but I don't know if Lawas won't.

[Pancaek]

Do you think ya'll have room for one more?

Psst, I'm still alone. We could team up if you want.

[syvarris]

Oh, cool, this is back.  I'm joining, but I want a few questions answered first:

1.Considering we're being offered silencers, we can get subsonic rounds, right?

2.Are we using the same hitpoints system as before, where humans have 100 hitpoints (multiplied by end), and bullets deal damage equal to joules divided by a hundred and rounded down?

3.If both of the above are true, can we get guns that are more lethal on a headshot?  The .22 HP does 2 damage when subsonic, so you'd need fifty shots, discounting crits.  Even the heaviest rifle we can buy does only 22 damage with subsonic HP ammo.  Crits can help, but even with the heaviest gun and the luckiest crits, you'd need two headshots to kill an end 0 target quickly, and quite a few more if they have high end.

Spoiler: Tempsheet, pending answers (click to show/hide)

Name:Lester D. Remrud
Description:A former scout sniper who joined ERRANT back when they were still a PMC unit.  After a nearly unsuccessful mission where he watched the deaths of almost everyone else on his team (which he blamed himself for), Lester just... shut down.  He just does what he's told, and doesn't care about much of anything anymore.

Strength:-1
Dexterity:+1
Endurance:-1
Charisma:+2
Mind:+0
Fate:-2
Intuition:+0

Engineering:-2
Shooting:+4
Melee:-2
Explosives:-2
Auxiliary:-1
Medical:-1
Science/Gen. Knowledge:-2

Spoiler: Probably more lethal, honestly (click to show/hide)

Name:Actual Assassin Donald J. Trump
Description:A famous reality TV star, business mogul, and presidential candidate, Trump defies description.  While he is already fabulously wealthy, he has decided that running for president is too easy for a man of his talents, so he joined up with ERRANT to have a little fun on the side.  And hey, if he makes the world great again by murdering one dirtbag at a time, it'll probably help his presidential run.

Strength:-2
Dexterity:-2
Endurance:-1
Charisma:+4
Mind:-1
Fate:-2
Intuition:-2

Engineering:-2
Shooting:-2
Melee:-2
Explosives:-2
Auxiliary:+4
Medical:-1
Science/Gen. Knowledge:-1

[AzyWng]

Do you think ya'll have room for one more?

Psst, I'm still alone. We could team up if you want.

All right, I'm down for that!