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Post by Mighty Darci on Feb 9, 2017 19:52:53 GMT -5
Marci joins them with the items previously noted.
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Post by brumbar on Feb 9, 2017 20:16:26 GMT -5
I will prep my laser carbine and auto pistol, 2 spare clips for both, knives, machete for clearing brush, 2 weeks rations, water etc. i will stick very close to Lady Leroux I can't seem to find my posted full equipment list. Sorry. I will try and recreate and finish my equipment list to store in the air raft Laser carbine For the laser Carbine - 10 magazines auto pistol For the auto pistol- 10 Magazines - Silencer Cloth Armor Radiation Counter Medscanner Hand Computer Long Range Communicator Light Intensifier Goggles - Cold Light Lantern Respirator(5) - Filter Mask(3) - Combo Mask(5) Cloth Heavy Protective TL 8 Heat Suit Cold Weather Clothing (10) - Medical Kit (7) - Mechanical Tool Set (5) Electronic Tool Set (7)
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Post by coffee on Feb 10, 2017 0:20:16 GMT -5
Corrigan will drive; that way, the others can look for what we're looking for (if you take my meaning).
He has Grav Vehicle 1.
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Post by makofan on Feb 10, 2017 16:40:31 GMT -5
So is Abigail coming along also? Leaves two people in the ship, should be okay...
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Post by ffilz on Feb 10, 2017 18:35:07 GMT -5
I took Brumbar's post as to indicate Abigail coming along.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2017 15:48:37 GMT -5
Lui takes a seat on the bridge, monitoring whatever passes for 'Far Future' Radar for incoming vessels or worse ...
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Post by Mighty Darci on Feb 11, 2017 16:05:07 GMT -5
Looks like things are under control here and we should be good for a while. Liu can contact us and vice versa if things change. Let's head out and see what we can find.
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Post by makofan on Feb 13, 2017 15:58:04 GMT -5
You head out in your uncomfortable heat suits, and lift the grav vehicle slowly into the air, using the river's course, finally getting above the canopy at about 300 feet. Myriads of avian-type species squawk deafeningly and flee from the vicinity of the intruder. The keen eyes of the vehicle's observers notice movement of large-bodied creatures in the high tree canopies. You fly over about 1 km of canopy straight toward the cliff, which stretches for about 2 km SW and 8 km NE of your position. The cliff rises is barely 10 meters above the canopy. You are disappointed to find no break in the canopy to get down to the floor, but the sparser trees near the cliff edge give you a chance to perhaps make a precarious landing on the cliff edge and descend down the cliff to the floor. Your other approach would be to slog along the jungle floor from the vicinity of the scout ship
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Post by Mighty Darci on Feb 13, 2017 20:55:43 GMT -5
You head out in your uncomfortable heat suits, and lift the grav vehicle slowly into the air, using the river's course, finally getting above the canopy at about 300 feet. Myriads of avian-type species squawk deafeningly and flee from the vicinity of the intruder. The keen eyes of the vehicle's observers notice movement of large-bodied creatures in the high tree canopies. You fly over about 1 km of canopy straight toward the cliff, which stretches for about 2 km SW and 8 km NE of your position. The cliff rises is barely 10 meters above the canopy. You are disappointed to find no break in the canopy to get down to the floor, but the sparser trees near the cliff edge give you a chance to perhaps make a precarious landing on the cliff edge and descend down the cliff to the floor. Your other approach would be to slog along the jungle floor from the vicinity of the scout ship I don't see any point in making a precarious landing and climbing down a cliff in these Sheltersuits. I propose that we map the points of interest, the best routes to those points and the distances involved. We can cut a group of trees down once we determine the most convenient place to do it. Also let pay a bit more attention to those large-bodied creatures and check to see if we have any info about them. If they are large and potentially hostile that could be a problem and we don't want any surprises. Have we been able to locate any caves or other promising locations? Is there a location where water is flowing over the cliff face? And/or a stream running from the cliff face or close to it and connecting down to the river?
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Post by coffee on Feb 14, 2017 9:21:24 GMT -5
Corrigan will take particular notice of any creatues, large bodied or not, that he sees. It's his job to deal with threats, after all...
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Post by ffilz on Feb 14, 2017 11:02:18 GMT -5
Corrigan will take particular notice of any creatues, large bodied or not, that he sees. It's his job to deal with threats, after all... Lady Marie will try and determine what role the large creatures play. She suspects they are predators.
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Post by makofan on Feb 14, 2017 13:21:01 GMT -5
You head out in your uncomfortable heat suits, and lift the grav vehicle slowly into the air, using the river's course, finally getting above the canopy at about 300 feet. Myriads of avian-type species squawk deafeningly and flee from the vicinity of the intruder. The keen eyes of the vehicle's observers notice movement of large-bodied creatures in the high tree canopies. You fly over about 1 km of canopy straight toward the cliff, which stretches for about 2 km SW and 8 km NE of your position. The cliff rises is barely 10 meters above the canopy. You are disappointed to find no break in the canopy to get down to the floor, but the sparser trees near the cliff edge give you a chance to perhaps make a precarious landing on the cliff edge and descend down the cliff to the floor. Your other approach would be to slog along the jungle floor from the vicinity of the scout ship I don't see any point in making a precarious landing and climbing down a cliff in these Sheltersuits. I propose that we map the points of interest, the best routes to those points and the distances involved. We can cut a group of trees down once we determine the most convenient place to do it. Also let pay a bit more attention to those large-bodied creatures and check to see if we have any info about them. If they are large and potentially hostile that could be a problem and we don't want any surprises. Have we been able to locate any caves or other promising locations? Is there a location where water is flowing over the cliff face? And/or a stream running from the cliff face or close to it and connecting down to the river? You can see plumes from a falls about 2 km to the NE. No caves are obvious from here, but if you were to take the scout ship slowly along the cliff top, just above the canopy trees, its scanners may detect some holes.
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Post by makofan on Feb 14, 2017 13:45:37 GMT -5
Corrigan will take particular notice of any creatues, large bodied or not, that he sees. It's his job to deal with threats, after all... Lady Marie will try and determine what role the large creatures play. She suspects they are predators. Lady Marie draws on her hunting experience as she focuses her binoculars on the mostly hidden creatures. They seem to be hairy, six-limbed gatherers, fairly hefty at probably around the 100 kilo class. This group looks to be 30-40 individuals distributed between five trees
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Post by makofan on Feb 14, 2017 13:47:04 GMT -5
Do you think there is any gear on the air/raft to penetrate through vegetation to look at rock contours? I figure that would be in the array of equipment built into the scout ship
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Post by ffilz on Feb 14, 2017 14:38:09 GMT -5
Do you think there is any gear on the air/raft to penetrate through vegetation to look at rock contours? I figure that would be in the array of equipment built into the scout ship I agree with that assessment. Might be something to look to adding to the Air/Raft down the line.
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Post by Mighty Darci on Feb 14, 2017 20:22:28 GMT -5
You can see plumes from a falls about 2 km to the NE. No caves are obvious from here, but if you were to take the scout ship slowly along the cliff top, just above the canopy trees, its scanners may detect some holes. Why don't we head back to the scout ship and use its scanners to map the cliff face for possible caves. We should check at the falls as a possible landing spot for the scout ship, since there could be a sizable pool of water there. We can map this and work out the best routes to the points that we want to inspect. If the falls is a landing spot then we would only need to work along the base of the cliff and less cross country work. Between Corrigan and Lady Marie we should not be caught napping by anything.
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Post by coffee on Feb 15, 2017 9:28:36 GMT -5
Good plan, I like it.
As far as getting to the cliff, we could get some machetes. An air/raft isn't very big, considering, so we wouldn't need a big gap to get through.
It'd be less visible to prying eyes, as well.
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Post by Mighty Darci on Feb 15, 2017 16:11:21 GMT -5
Good plan, I like it. As far as getting to the cliff, we could get some machetes. An air/raft isn't very big, considering, so we wouldn't need a big gap to get through. It'd be less visible to prying eyes, as well. If a stream runs from the falls to the river, we might be able to take the air/raft up the stream channel from the river to the falls depending on the width of the stream and the available clearance above the water. OOC: do we know if any of the plants, animals or "fish" are edible?
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Post by coffee on Feb 16, 2017 8:47:49 GMT -5
If we're going up a waterfall, we definitely want a roof on the air/raft! Spray from a waterfall goes everywhere.
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Post by Mighty Darci on Feb 16, 2017 11:34:30 GMT -5
If we're going up a waterfall, we definitely want a roof on the air/raft! Spray from a waterfall goes everywhere. OOC: Sorry, I reworded my post to clarify what I meant.
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Post by makofan on Feb 19, 2017 21:48:19 GMT -5
OOC: do we know if any of the plants, animals or "fish" are edible?
Not really much is known about this place, so you would have to guess, or experiment
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Post by makofan on Feb 19, 2017 21:48:37 GMT -5
Do we have a consensus to a plan?
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Post by Mighty Darci on Feb 20, 2017 11:38:51 GMT -5
Do we have a consensus to a plan? Unless someone has other options in mind, I purpose that we head back to the scout ship and use its scanners to map the cliff face for possible caves. We should check at the falls as a possible landing spot for the scout ship, since there could be a sizable pool of water there. We can map this and work out the best routes to the points that we want to inspect. If the falls is a landing spot then we would only need to work along the base of the cliff and would have less cross country work. If a stream runs from the falls to the river, we might be able to take the air/raft up the stream channel from the river to the falls depending on the width of the stream and the available clearance above the water.
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Post by ffilz on Feb 20, 2017 12:09:27 GMT -5
Do we have a consensus to a plan? Unless someone has other options in mind, I purpose that we head back to the scout ship and use its scanners to map the cliff face for possible caves. We should check at the falls as a possible landing spot for the scout ship, since there could be a sizable pool of water there. We can map this and work out the best routes to the points that we want to inspect. If the falls is a landing spot then we would only need to work along the base of the cliff and would have less cross country work. If a stream runs from the falls to the river, we might be able to take the air/raft up the stream channel from the river to the falls depending on the width of the stream and the available clearance above the water. Sounds like a good plan to me.
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Post by coffee on Feb 21, 2017 9:04:38 GMT -5
Yeah, me too.
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Post by makofan on Feb 21, 2017 15:04:18 GMT -5
You slowly fly above the jungle along the cliff tops, using your basic scouting sensors to probe for irregularities After a 20-minute survey, your plotting program produces a surveying map with the caves marked on it. The waterfall is the blue line near cave marked 3. You should be able to land your scout ship in the pool at the foot of the falls with no issues
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Post by coffee on Feb 22, 2017 9:09:34 GMT -5
So caves 3 and 4 are closest to the waterfall.
If it's obvious to us, it might be obvious to someone else. So if we spot any other place where we can get reasonably close in the air/raft, I think we should check that first. (Just in case anybody has beaten us to it.)
10 and 12 look like likely candidates, since with the ruggedness of the cliffs, the vegetation might be thinner there. (Or it might be wishful thinking on my part...)
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Post by brumbar on Feb 22, 2017 14:10:19 GMT -5
'Don't think we can fly into one of these caves, don't think we want to scale down to the ground and back up again. I would suggest landing in the pool, move as close to the brush as possible and camafloge the air raft as best we can.'
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Post by Mighty Darci on Feb 22, 2017 18:21:32 GMT -5
'Don't think we can fly into one of these caves, don't think we want to scale down to the ground and back up again. I would suggest landing in the pool, move as close to the brush as possible and camafloge the air raft as best we can.' I would suggest landing the scout ship in the pool since it is indicated that we can.
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Post by ffilz on Feb 22, 2017 19:01:43 GMT -5
Yea, I think the pool is the best idea.
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