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Post by erisred on Apr 14, 2020 17:43:38 GMT -5
FYI: I'm checking this site at least once every couple of days, just in case anything happens. Posts up! Raikenclw, another round of posts from those aboard the ship and Peng and Gil can chance running across the open tarmac to the ship. Getting inside might still be a problem though.  |
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Post by raikenclw on Apr 17, 2020 1:15:08 GMT -5
FYI: I'm checking this site at least once every couple of days, just in case anything happens. Posts up! Raikenclw, another round of posts from those aboard the ship and Peng and Gil can chance running across the open tarmac to the ship. Getting inside might still be a problem though. Ah! So . . . around the time the U.S. economy *may* begin to restart, Peng *might* get to do something . . . < sigh > |
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Post by joertexas on Apr 17, 2020 16:37:53 GMT -5
Here's a couple of pictures of a Type R with a full load of containers:   Eris, I can arrange the cargo bay however you'd like to help illustrate the story. |
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Post by raikenclw on Apr 17, 2020 20:20:09 GMT -5
If it's all containerized, yep. Makes it rather hard for anyone/anything to hide, though.
If it's breakbulk (e.g. lots and lots of smaller boxes, cases, barrels, sacks, etc), then it's rather more chaotic and the possibilities multiply . . .
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Post by joertexas on Apr 17, 2020 21:23:59 GMT -5
If it's all containerized, yep. Makes it rather hard for anyone/anything to hide, though. If it's breakbulk (e.g. lots and lots of smaller boxes, cases, barrels, sacks, etc), then it's rather more chaotic and the possibilities multiply . . . Loose items are a nightmare aboard starships. The cargo master would have to secure everything with nets or straps in case the gravity field failed. |
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Post by erisred on May 4, 2020 16:54:05 GMT -5
Here's a couple of pictures of a Type R with a full load of containers: Eris, I can arrange the cargo bay however you'd like to help illustrate the story. The first picture is how I have imagined it...with those mesh walkways extending between upper containers to help secure them in place and provide access. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on May 5, 2020 14:26:36 GMT -5
Here's a couple of pictures of a Type R with a full load of containers: Eris, I can arrange the cargo bay however you'd like to help illustrate the story. The first picture is how I have imagined it...with those mesh walkways extending between upper containers to help secure them in place and provide access. I really enjoy this game, a lot. Thank you all for keeping it going. We have a new member and he posted here with a Traveller question, please take a look and help him out. I think most of you can easily answer his question. Thanks in advance! |
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Post by joertexas on May 5, 2020 18:48:34 GMT -5
Here's a couple of pictures of a Type R with a full load of containers: Eris, I can arrange the cargo bay however you'd like to help illustrate the story. The first picture is how I have imagined it...with those mesh walkways extending between upper containers to help secure them in place and provide access. The cargo bay has a 6-meter overhead, and each container is 2.88m tall. There's not a lot of room between the containers and the deckhead. |
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Post by raikenclw on May 5, 2020 21:46:55 GMT -5
Here's a couple of pictures of a Type R with a full load of containers: Eris, I can arrange the cargo bay however you'd like to help illustrate the story. The first picture is how I have imagined it...with those mesh walkways extending between upper containers to help secure them in place and provide access. Sorry. I have no pics. But regarding mesh walkways: these were likely secured for landing (cranked up against the overhead?). Would they have been lowered back down since? |
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Post by raikenclw on May 5, 2020 21:53:11 GMT -5
The cargo bay has a 6-meter overhead, and each container is 2.88m tall. There's not a lot of room between the containers and the deckhead. Agreed. 0.24 meters equals just a shade over 9.4 inches. Allowing 1.4 inches for clamps between the layers, that's still enough room for a small/slim person to wiggle in . . . assuming he/she doesn't need to breath too deeply. |
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Post by erisred on May 6, 2020 13:17:14 GMT -5
The first picture is how I have imagined it...with those mesh walkways extending between upper containers to help secure them in place and provide access. Sorry. I have no pics. But regarding mesh walkways: these were likely secured for landing (cranked up against the overhead?). Would they have been lowered back down since? They are lowered, not retracted. This is not an indication that someone has been in here. |
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Post by joertexas on May 6, 2020 16:18:23 GMT -5
They are lowered, not retracted. This is not an indication that someone has been in here. [/quote] Here's the view looking aft on the walkway:  |
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Post by raikenclw on May 6, 2020 16:35:08 GMT -5
They are lowered, not retracted. This is not an indication that someone has been in here. Here's the view looking aft on the walkway: [Just FYI: pics aren't appearing when you Quote, at least not for me.] It strikes me that Peng and Charlie must have seen their fellow crewmembers at the far end of the hold while still below the mesh. Given that the mesh completely fills the horizontal space and must be fairly thick (in order to not sag under the depicted figure), there's no way they can see anyone below [or vice versa] unless/until the subjects concerned are almost on top of each other. |
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Post by joertexas on May 6, 2020 16:38:22 GMT -5
Here's the pic again:  |
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Post by raikenclw on May 6, 2020 17:08:29 GMT -5
Too bad it's so bloomin' straight. I was hoping for a thrilling chase scene like when Sean Connery first spots the drug deal in the worker dorm in Outland.
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Post by raikenclw on May 8, 2020 20:09:26 GMT -5
Maybe I'm confused, but . . .
Aren't our separate pairs of characters on opposite ends of the same dead-straight, second-level mesh gantry?
If so, we can't be more than - what? - twenty meters (sixty feet) from each other.
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Post by erisred on May 11, 2020 15:20:47 GMT -5
Maybe I'm confused, but . . . Aren't our separate pairs of characters on opposite ends of the same dead-straight, second-level mesh gantry? If so, we can't be more than - what? - twenty meters (sixty feet) from each other. Tol and Tak climbed up the ladder on the other side, so you're both up top. Now, I haven't said there is only 1 walkway across the ship. You either are, or soon will be on the same one though. So, you can act as a group of four. |
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Post by raikenclw on May 11, 2020 21:10:03 GMT -5
Maybe I'm confused, but . . . Aren't our separate pairs of characters on opposite ends of the same dead-straight, second-level mesh gantry? If so, we can't be more than - what? - twenty meters (sixty feet) from each other. Tol and Tak climbed up the ladder on the other side, so you're both up top. Now, I haven't said there is only 1 walkway across the ship. You either are, or soon will be on the same one though. So, you can act as a group of four. I'm confused. Earlier I'm pretty sure you said that the entire hold is filled with containers, laid out as the ones pictured but filling the hold. That doesn't leave room for anything but one central lane, right? Are there odd-length containers, maybe? |
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Post by raikenclw on May 11, 2020 21:18:28 GMT -5
FACEPALM! Such is the life of a PbP character! Sticky Spot and Scratched Lock are mere FEET apart. Our characters have been speaking into their comms while literally almost close enough to touch each other. Heck, we more than likely would have walked past each other while searching. I'm gonna definitely bring this one up, the next time that anybody claims they can handle mapping in-head with never a problem.  |
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Post by raikenclw on May 25, 2020 23:29:35 GMT -5
So . . . around the time the U.S. economy *may* begin to restart, Peng *might* get to do something . . . < sigh > You know, I really should play the lottery, with such prophetic powers at my disposal. |
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Post by raikenclw on May 25, 2020 23:31:50 GMT -5
On the subject of our much-shrunken active-PC crew . . . maybe we should trade in the Clear Sails for a Scout Courier? If so, I vote we name her "Ain't Misbehavin'" . . . using the purloined letter theory of naming. |
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Post by raikenclw on May 25, 2020 23:48:59 GMT -5
Not sure if this will work . . . (Deckplan from a pbp game I ran on another site, years ago)  |
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Post by raikenclw on May 25, 2020 23:51:46 GMT -5
[Gonna have to pay a ransom to photobucket to get that gray bar taken off . . .]
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Post by raikenclw on May 31, 2020 18:27:35 GMT -5
Regarding Peng's very reckless and incredibly brazen proposal in-game to commit blatant piracy (or is it technically grand theft since we're both grounded?) . . . Yeah, it's all of the above and more besides! But if "Kup-Tin" and his ilk are regarded poorly here, we *could* conceivably get away with it. [And with us being in the wilds of un-Charted Space, it's not like the Imperium or anybody else is likely to come after us once we lift off . . . ] And if Kup-Tin's ship is small enough that only four (4) PCs can easily crew it . . . why, that solves our too-many-NPCs problem right there, don't it? >:-)> __________________________________ Oh! And as to the current four representatives not having enough ship skills among them: I'd be perfectly content to switch to playing Mr. Wounded Vargr (and let Peng be unfortunately killed in the taking of Kup-Tin's ship) . . . because once he awakens, Mr. Vargr might well "just happen" to have among his repertoire the needful skills. |
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Post by erisred on Jun 2, 2020 0:51:04 GMT -5
Just a heads up to everyone.
I was planning to post Monday, but "things happened", then tonight my sister broke her wrist...things keep happening! So, I am up too late tonight with her at Urgent Care, and will be dealing with her getting a cast put on tomorrow, so I may not feel up to posting before Wednesday.
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Post by raikenclw on Jun 2, 2020 15:18:20 GMT -5
It's okay. Real life happens. I hope she's doing okay.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 4, 2020 18:07:37 GMT -5
Just a heads up to everyone. I was planning to post Monday, but "things happened", then tonight my sister broke her wrist...things keep happening! So, I am up too late tonight with her at Urgent Care, and will be dealing with her getting a cast put on tomorrow, so I may not feel up to posting before Wednesday. Sorry to hear about your sister erisred, I have had a broken leg and having been through it, I think a wrist would be worse. My prayers for your sisters quick and complete recovery! |
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Post by erisred on Jun 9, 2020 15:47:01 GMT -5
Just a heads up to everyone. I was planning to post Monday, but "things happened", then tonight my sister broke her wrist...things keep happening! So, I am up too late tonight with her at Urgent Care, and will be dealing with her getting a cast put on tomorrow, so I may not feel up to posting before Wednesday. Sorry to hear about your sister erisred , I have had a broken leg and having been through it, I think a wrist would be worse. My prayers for your sisters quick and complete recovery! Thanks, it's a hard knock life...sometimes. I'm clumsy and careless, I guess. Let's see, I broke my left foot in 1967 when I jumped out of the back of a pickup that hadn't quite stopped yet, my right wrist in 1970 when my bike skidded in gravel going down a hill and I went tumbling...picked gravel out of my knees and chin on that one, too. I've had bad sprains in either knee and both ankles since, as well as a frozen shoulder from bursitis. I cracked both right and left forearms in falls (once on ice and once being stupid with a garbage can), but I'm saying those were just *really* bad bruises as I didn't go see a doctor for either. Synde, OTOH, had never broken or sprained anything until now. Lucky her! Well, IAC, it took longer to clear things up with the wrist than we expected. Synde did the deed Sunday night, but didn't get a cast until late Wednesday afternoon...that wasn't fun for her! Then the pain meds the Doc prescribed did bad things to her! I thought I was going to have to take her back to Urgent Care for a while on Thursday because of them. Anyway, she switched to taking Tylenol and Advil and that has kept the pain mostly at bay. Mom, 99 with dementia, had a very bad weekend and Cristobol also came through to say "Hi!" So, one thing after another. Sorry to hear about your leg. |
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Post by erisred on Jun 9, 2020 15:49:58 GMT -5
It's okay. Real life happens. I hope she's doing okay. See below. Not to grumble, much, but now I'm stuck looking after two crotchety old women! But, both are currently in bed asleep, so I'm going to post something... |
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Post by erisred on Jun 9, 2020 16:39:24 GMT -5
Regarding Peng's very reckless and incredibly brazen proposal in-game to commit blatant piracy (or is it technically grand theft since we're both grounded?) . . . __________________________________ Oh! And as to the current four representatives not having enough ship skills among them: I'd be perfectly content to switch to playing Mr. Wounded Vargr (and let Peng be unfortunately killed in the taking of Kup-Tin's ship) . . . because once he awakens, Mr. Vargr might well "just happen" to have among his repertoire the needful skills. LOL! I'm not opposed to the active PC's moving to a new ship/game. Matt, JR, Terry, raikenclw, and can't leave out Oscar as he is posting (not often, but not completely absent) would be enough to crew a smaller ship. We could just leave Clear Sails in limbo, just in case, we ever wanted to come back to it... or keep it going and add a different ship.
I'm still looking to "explore the Mantan sub-sector", so you'd have to have a reason for doing that. Maybe you'd be Exploratory Traders, either independent or working for a Trading House, looking for trade opportunities/exploitations in a new region of space? The ship would be a 200 ton Far Trader, I've got deckplans for one we could use. You'd want PC's to cover the following functions: Pilot, Navigator, Sensors/Comm, Gunner, Steward, Doctor and Engineer. If you're exploring, you'd want someone with Survey/Science/Scout skills to determine/confirm UWP's for each system you visit. You'd probably also want a Trader/Broker type to determine import/export opportunities, as well. Of course, PC's could double/triple up on some of those functions, so four or five actual PC's should work. We could go with same or different PC's and do it in this forum, or in a different one, if we can get permission. Do you want to a) stay with Clear Sails only; b) drop Clear Sails and switch to a different ship; or c) keep Clear Sails going AND run another ship with same/different characters? |
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