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[Glass]

This is not a matter of "how well can you shoot". I am well aware that evil minions couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. This is a question of "look where you're going, 二百五".

[Paxiecrunchle]

Is B, followed by A but with shotguns, an option we can take?

[Tyrant Leviathan]

Of course, since no one invested in military for now stuck with incompetent nooks. I say B for now.

[omada]

B

If there is no catch, can we still have the necklace so? That could make our political minions more attached for the cause, while we can still put propaganda and (try to, it never works) blame the rebels for the bombing "They even don't even know how to use bombs safely to make their own troops secure, they *cough* killed our negotiators"

[blueturtle1134]

Is B, followed by A but with shotguns, an option we can take?

It's implied that the engineers have shotgun backup, and the muscle has screwdriver backup. But the tunnel is kinda... small... and who you pick to lead the initial charge matters.

This is not a matter of "how well can you shoot". I am well aware that evil minions couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. This is a question of "look where you're going, 二百五".

It's the same idea. Evil minions must get minced by the simplest of traps in order to keep the plot moving. Also, it's dark and small and cramped and the traps are just holes in the wall at best, you can't really see them.

Plus, is there a reason you wrote "205" in Chinese?

If there is no catch, can we still have the necklace so? That could make our political minions more attached for the cause, while we can still put propaganda and (try to, it never works) blame the rebels for the bombing "They even don't even know how to use bombs safely to make their own troops secure, they *cough* killed our negotiators"

Well, no catch if you picked the necklace. It was supposed to be one of three things you could pick.

I have to admit, I didn't really think that one out, cause both the tunnel and crystal are fairly important to the plot. Let's just say that if you picked the necklace, you'd have gotten -1 on both the tunnel and crystal for wasting time on useless trinkets; that option is gone now.

By the way, I'm going to -2 political for sufficiently dumb propaganda.


In other news, it seems B is leading.

Spoiler: Dice (click to show/hide)

Roll 1d3, for "Rebel Trap", where:

1 = Trap was fatal and rebels have run.
2 = Trap was fatal and rebels are behind it, sniping.
3 = Trap was not fatal and rebels are behind it, collecting captives and covering their retreat.

Result: 3 --> Your people are alive! Just to get them.


Roll 2d6, for "Engineer Dismantling Traps", +2 for scientific, where:

2 to 4 = Don't find them (-4 to combat)
5 to 10 = Find them but then get shot (-2 to combat)
11 to 13 = Defused in time to step back and watch the battle

Result: 5 + 5 + 2 = 12 --> Traps, what traps?


Roll 2d6, for "Battle with Rebels", military, no chance, where:

2 to 4 = Everyone on our side is dead
5 to 7 = At least we have them on the run
8 = Wounded one
9 to 14 = Disabled/Killed them all

Result: 1 + 5 = 6 --> Mediocre battle


Roll 2d6 for "Return of information regarding rebel forces", intelligence, no change, where:
2 to 3 = Too chaotic to see anything
4 to 5 = Count returned that is within 2 of the real number
6 to 8 = Find out how many there are
9 to 14 = Find out how many there are and something more.

Result: 3 + 3 = 6 --> Congratulations! You can count!

Moving forward, the engineers rapidly identify the traps, a series of metal bars in the walls that swing down to kill or maim anyone underneath. With calm expertise, they find and jam the mechanism then step aside for an exchange of fire between the security detail with shotguns following behind, and the four remaining rebels hiding behind the trap and waiting for an opportunity to ambush.

Said exchange does not go well. Our forces appear unable to hit the broad side of a barn, even at this distance, and most of our shots go nowhere. The rebels, armed with pistols and knives, rapidly pick off around half our security force in the close quarters, but eventually are driven off by the sheer volume of fire.

After they run off into the darkness, a thorough inspection is made of the area and our first force is found battered but mostly unharmed, caged in a corner by an earlier trap.

Your forces begin searching the tunnel they ran down. It branches. To the left is a draft and the sound of rushing water, while to the right is the sound of many feet.

Direction of search:
A: The left
B: The right
C: Give up
D: Split (-4 to all combat, you explore both)

I also assume you want to analyze the green crystalline material... results for that next turn.

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[Glass]

Plus, is there a reason you wrote "205" in Chinese?

It's an expression. It means "halfwit".

[blueturtle1134]

Plus, is there a reason you wrote "205" in Chinese?

It's an expression. It means "halfwit".

I am Chinese, and I didn't know that. Wa.

[Glass]

*shrug*
My mandarin teacher told me that. Maybe you're just from different regions.

[neblime]

A: Go right
do we have the option to split up and send a token force left? (splitting up always works well against the heroes)

[blueturtle1134]

A: Go right
do we have the option to split up and send a token force left? (splitting up always works well against the heroes)

I refer you to option D. There's so few people that splitting would be a token force either way.

[Tyrant Leviathan]

A: Go right
do we have the option to split up and send a token force left? (splitting up always works well against the heroes)

Isn't A to go left?

I say B go right. Splitting up is never a good idea, less ground but more competences in everyone's part.

[blueturtle1134]

Shoot. Shoot. I was just about to post my thing for A.

Now you have to keep voting...


On second thought, you both voted right. So yeah...


The guards come to a section of the tunnel that is blocked by a grate. Behind the grate, many small pinpricks of light can be seen. There is no sign of the rebels.

What do you do? (I’ll take first suggestion)
A: Force the grate
B: Wait there
C: Try the other path
D: Leave and ignore it


The results from the analysis of the green crystalline material have also come in.

Spoiler: Dice (click to show/hide)

Roll 2d6, “Analysis Success”, +2 (scientific) where:

2 to 4 = Find out what it is
4 to 9 = Find out what it is and what it does
10 to 14 = Find out what it is, what it does, and how to stop it

Results: 2 + 6 + 2 = 10 → Countermeasures, yay!

The green substance is analyzed and turns out to be adantesite, a rare mineral that couples the electromagnetic and gravitational forces by a poorly-understood process. This mineral has the property that, when fed a electric current of the correct polarity and voltage, it converts polarized near-ultraviolet light into a linear resonant gravitational wave that destabilizes regions of negative gravitational mass, such as those used to hold open an Einstein-Rosen Bridge.

What this means is that all you have to do is power it, reflect sunlight onto it, and point it at Erin’s Oracle (the wormhole), and the wormhole will disconnect. Both sides, however, will instantly become black holes, which will suck in the matter around them before decaying and exploding with the force of a small nuclear bomb.

All you need is a mirror and a battery, and both the Capital in the South and the Military Base in the North become nice, big, smoldering craters in the ground.

As you might expect, this poses a bit of a security risk.


A countermeasure is developed that can repel the effects of such a destabilizing beam; a sort of gravitational shield that can be formed around a wormhole mouth and manipulated to cancel out outside influences. This, however, comes with its own problems. The shield requires your own adantesite to build; this can be more fragmented than the destabilizing chunk, so the shards you found count, but aren’t nearly enough.

The shield will also require an order of magnitude more power than the destabilizing beam requires. The infrastructure on the Northern Mouth can barely support it, and it likely will have to be cycled on and off several times a day to allow the batteries to recharge.

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[johiah]

A
There you go.

[blueturtle1134]

A
There you go.

Wow... This is getting really fast...

Doesn't matter anyway, the other two voted for right, but thanks for your interest!

[johiah]

Yeah I was apparently slow on that vote.
Edit: Keeping it on A