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[Aigre Excalibur]

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[renegadelobster]

((So, any takers on how long this particular incarnation will last? I'm guessing about five turns or so.))

Name: Thaddeus Mavet
Description: Dirty blonde hair, neatly trimmed van dyke beard, average height, kind of a heavier build. Happy, makes friends, kinda clumsy. His uh..."sixth sense" so to speak seems to have it out for him. If he ever says he has a weird feeling about a place, just run. Run and don't look back.

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

Engineering: +1
Shooting: +1
Melee: 0
Explosives: -2
Auxiliary: 0
Medical: -2
Science/Gen. Knowledge: +1

Inventory: $10,000

[Aigre Excalibur]

Vampire Faction... some ideas:

Juvenile Vampires / Vampire Neophytes: Born Again into Undeath, fueled by lust and rage, they are driven mad by the thirst. They lack the grace and élan seen in more mature vampires, but their animalistic fury is harnessed for assault fodder by their betters.

Vampire Adepts: More experienced vampires, tempered by age and the long watches of time. Neophytes who survive long enough to master their desires are eventually taken in and trained by other adepts to gain full control of their faculties.

Order of the Dragon: Mightiest of the followers of the Great Serpent throughout our history. These Draculas are proven warriors and masters of every human and superhuman art.

Lords of the Dark Face: Vampire Lords who have slept in the secret places of the earth since their last rebellion against the maker ended in the cataclysms of Atlantis. Their religion survived in one form or another to infiltrate subsequent civilizations. Now that their hour has come, they have risen to take what is theirs.

Strategic Modus Operandi:
Vampires start of extremely limited in number when Doomsday hits. Their first priority would be to grow their numbers, resorting to isolated attacks on humans to spawn more newborns. Their commanders will rise as they reach critical mass. Eventually they will orchestrate wholesale massacres of population centres for psychic fuel. It is a possibility that they will manage some human livestock carefully for a sustainable foodsource.

[Aigre Excalibur]

Here's what we'll do:

I can start with 4 players by tomorrow if we don't get more sign-ups, I'll double the starting money. Anyone who jumps on later will start with no money. That way team starting resources stay more or less constant.

I'm told the mix of dark and serious with ridiculous holistic spawn stuff is sending confusing signals... I'll work on the branding as we go along.

[Aigre Excalibur]

Some reactions/recipes for arms production:

Early percussion cap primers:
Mercury Fulminate:
Mercury + Nitric Acid + Ethanol

Nitric Acid Preperation:
Ostwald Process:
Ammonia + Oxygen -> Nitric Oxide + Water (exothermic)
Nitric Oxide + Oxygen -> Nitrogen Dioxide (exothermic)
Nitrogen Dioxide + Water -> Nitric Acid (exothermic)

Haber Process:
Nitrogen + Hydrogen -> Ammonia (endothermic)

Industrial Hydrogen Production:
Methane + Water -> Carbon Monoxide + Hydrogen (Endothermic)
Carbon Monoxide + Water -> Hydrogen + Carbon Dioxide (Exothermic)

Or Sulphur-Iodine Cycle for Hydrogen Production
Sulhuric Acid + Iodine + Water -> Sulphuric Acid + Iodine + Hydrogen + Oxygen
Net Reactant is water. Net Products are Hydrogen and Oxygen.

Modern NATO Primers: Lead styphnate + Barium nitrate + Antimony trisulfide + Tetrazene + Powdered Aluminium
Probably a bit too complicated to produce with random scrap.

Nitrocellulose: Main Component in modern propellants
Sir Frederick Abel's Formula:
cellulose (starch) + 2 parts sulphuric acid, 1 part nitric acid

Nitroglycerin:
Glycerol (tallow) + Pure Nitric Acid

British Cordite:
58% Nitroglycerin, 37% Nitrocellulose, 5% Petroleum Jelly, dissolved in Acetone

[Aigre Excalibur]

Alright let's get started:

You were all getting on with your lives when an anonymous tip from another realm gives you all the impression that the sun is about to go out within 7 days. Your goal is to survive, a best case scenario would be to find a way for life to continue without the sun... if the bad things don't get to you first.

You want to meet up and get prepping with those shopping lists. Pick a city/town. You might want to look through possible geothermal powerplants if you're thinking of that plan. Some possible complications with a geothermal plant is the extensive tunnels and underground machinery involved. Forgotten beasts along with just about any foe that is comfortable with subterranean warfare will be happy to attack you from that vector.

You also can't survive on your own. Maybe you can convert other humans to your cause BEFORE the doomsday actually comes. Extra pairs of hands to help rebuild civilization or to hold rifles will always come in handy.

Team funds: $80k total.

[AzyWng]

Got room for one more? Hold on, building Char sheet now...

[Egan_BW]

Action: pick a geothermal plant for me. What, you think I'm gonna do my own research?

[AzyWng]

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Ethan Upton
Description: Shaved black hair, no facial hair. Ethan's just a surgeon, he didn't want to be involved in this shit, but now that it's happened... He's got to use his skills to help, or, failing that, survive. He can be a bit of an asshole sometimes.

Stats:
Strength : -1
Dexterity :  1
Endurance: 0
Charisma : -1
Mind: 1
Fate: 0
Intuition: 0

Engineering: -1
Shooting: -1
Melee: 1
Explosives: -1
Auxiliary: -1
Medical: 2
Science/General Knowledge: 0

Inventory: Starting $10,000.

Action: pick a geothermal plant for me. What, you think I'm gonna do my own research?

You could always do the alternative: Use what you already know...

Starting City: Austin.

[Aigre Excalibur]

Got room for one more? Hold on, building Char sheet now...

Yub we still have room. Hop in.

[Aigre Excalibur]

https://www.google.com.sg/maps/place/Austin,+TX,+USA/@30.2374223,-97.7853069,12.67z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8644b599a0cc032f:0x5d9b464bd469d57a!8m2!3d30.267153!4d-97.7430608

Austin looks fun...

That lake is going to freeze over *eventually* though.

The Convention Center or some of the bigger churches might be defensible...

https://www.google.com.sg/maps/place/Austin+Convention+Center/@30.2633398,-97.739842,17.58z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x0:0x0!2zMzDCsDEwJzEzLjMiTiA5N8KwNDUnMjIuMiJX!3b1!8m2!3d30.170356!4d-97.756158!3m4!1s0x0000000000000000:0x3041433e6e0a9355!8m2!3d30.2635686!4d-97.739606

https://www.google.com.sg/maps/place/St.+David's+Episcopal+Church/@30.2683966,-97.7388388,18.33z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0000000000000000:0xbdac0f1c20b665e9!8m2!3d30.2684584!4d-97.7393934

Otherwise... here's a list for Egan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geothermal_power_stations

Also for ammunition production, it is probably easier to just stockpile modern primers for something like 30 bucks per thousand. Propellant is much easier to make than primers... But commercial gunpowder is sold at something like 25 bucks per pound if you want to stockpile that too.

[syvarris]

I want in, but I'll post a char sheet later today.  Somewhat busy ATM.

[renegadelobster]

((Could pick the Pacific Northwest. Go near the mountains. Lots of hot springs around there.))

[Egan_BW]

Iceland has a few, and might be a good place to hold up for the apocalypse.

EDIT: baby look at that power

[syvarris]

Character sheet!  I'm just gonna use the same one as last time, unless you want to use ER's actual system this time.

Spoiler: Most lethal character possible (click to show/hide)

Name:Donald J. Trump
Description:A famous reality TV star, business mogul, and republican presidential nominee, Trump defies description.

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

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