Tophocles
Prospector
Last Guy in the Airlock
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Post by Tophocles on Aug 4, 2021 14:09:35 GMT -5
re: Ensemble/away team: I'll admit my preference would be for us not to multiply PCs, but that may be in part because I'm new and Casca still isn't really established. As is, he could be part of the away team (ships boat/cutlass) or the shipboard team (eng/vacc). If we do go ahead, I'll take the role assigned, and can make another character for the other position.
Of course, I'll do as required.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 4, 2021 14:17:47 GMT -5
Ensemble Play: I think I broached this subject earlier, but looking back I don't think it made it to the list. The idea of ensemble play is the players can run two PC's each. One would be mostly shipboard skilled crew and the other would be mostly non-shipboard skilled. The two PC's wouldn't directly interact much. If you're thinking about going pirate hunting then you might want to consider this idea. The shipboard PC's are the crew and mostly stay aboard flying and fighting from there (Navy/Scout/Merchant backgrounds), while the other PC the player runs would be boarding party, ground attack types (Army/Marines/Other backgrounds). If one of the player's PC's dies he's still in the game while he/she creates a replacement PC for the other role. The two roles wouldn't need to intersect all that much and it might help keep everyone involved in *some* action all the time. A ship's crew on a Q ship doing trading and trying to lure pirate/slaver/reavers to their doom, with a squad of marines in their own section of the ship, maybe, pretending to be passengers. The ship could still carry a few real passengers and some cargo to make themselves a target...but a target with real teeth. I don't know if you'd be interested, but think it over. If we're tweaking characters, Charlie can navigate but we need a backup pilot. Maybe get him some skill in that? As for the secondary character, I think an enlisted marine would be good. Not a senior guy as someone else needs to run that show as I'm acting as the shipside captain. Got to share the love! I have pm'd erisred two characters and one is a pilot, my first time creating characters, so I told him to do anything that needs done, like I missed something, or tweak them anyway he thinks they should be. |
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Post by joertexas on Aug 4, 2021 14:43:31 GMT -5
re: Ensemble/away team: I'll admit my preference would be for us not to multiply PCs, but that may be in part because I'm new and Casca still isn't really established. As is, he could be part of the away team (ships boat/cutlass) or the shipboard team (eng/vacc). If we do go ahead, I'll take the role assigned, and can make another character for the other position.
Of course, I'll do as required.
The only reason I'm running two characters is that the Aslan are much better as a pair - and Tokheletoi's player has gone walkabout. |
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Post by raikenclw on Aug 6, 2021 19:50:09 GMT -5
. . . but we need a backup pilot. Peng has Pilot-1. If the ship proposed keeps the fixed-forward-arc weapons, then he *could* fill two positions at once . . . by aiming the whole ship like a turret.  |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 6, 2021 19:56:42 GMT -5
. . . but we need a backup pilot. Peng has Pilot-1. If the ship proposed keeps the fixed-forward-arc weapons, then he *could* fill two positions at once . . . by aiming the whole ship like a turret. I don't know what erisred will do with the two characters I sent him, I don't care if I have one or two, either works for me and the one is a pilot. |
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Post by Terry Mixon on Aug 6, 2021 20:02:36 GMT -5
. . . but we need a backup pilot. Peng has Pilot-1. If the ship proposed keeps the fixed-forward-arc weapons, then he *could* fill two positions at once . . . by aiming the whole ship like a turret. Sounds like I don’t need to worry about the pilot skill but I think having Peng pilot and shoot at the same time is a bad idea.  |
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Post by raikenclw on Aug 6, 2021 20:41:39 GMT -5
. . .I think having Peng pilot and shoot at the same time is a bad idea. Probably. But I doubt it would be boring.  |
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Post by raikenclw on Aug 6, 2021 20:46:29 GMT -5
I don't know what erisred will do with the two characters I sent him, I don't care if I have one or two, either works for me and the one is a pilot I'm sure it will work out fine. For my own part, I'm content to let erisred create my proposed Minor Race Other character out of whole cloth. Optionally, I remain amenable to playing Miss Romanian Intelligence Agent as my Away Party PC, should erisred prove amenable to her becoming a PC. |
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Post by Terry Mixon on Aug 7, 2021 13:07:55 GMT -5
I don't know what erisred will do with the two characters I sent him, I don't care if I have one or two, either works for me and the one is a pilot I'm sure it will work out fine. For my own part, I'm content to let erisred create my proposed Minor Race Other character out of whole cloth. Optionally, I remain amenable to playing Miss Romanian Intelligence Agent as my Away Party PC, should erisred prove amenable to her becoming a PC. I'm also happy to let Eris create a gun bunny for me to have as a secondary PC. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 7, 2021 19:10:39 GMT -5
Hey guys, I just posted both of my characters in Working Passage after getting the go ahead from erisred . The ship board character is Captain, Sir Adam, de Graff, 676BAB, 46; Merchant-7(2); Gambling-1, Bribery-2, BladeCbt-1, Pilot-4, GunCmbt-1, Streetwise-2, Admin-3, Nav-1; 1 Ship Share (Corsair), 2 Low; Cutlass, Revolver; 120 Kcr.and the boarding party character is Colonel Otto Heinrich Wolfgang Berger, B98AA7, 48; Pirate-1(0), Army-7(2); Brawling-2, PoleCbt-1, BladeCbt-2, Vacc Suit-1, Zero G Cbt-1, GunCbt-5, Gambling-1, Tactics-2, Leader-2; Shotgun, Revolver; 70 Kcr.Both have interesting things in their background. |
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Post by raikenclw on Aug 7, 2021 19:15:42 GMT -5
Captain, Sir Adam, de Graff, 676BAB, 46; Merchant-7(2); Gambling-1, Bribery-2, BladeCbt-1, Pilot-4, GunCmbt-1, Streetwise-2, Admin-3, Nav-1; 1 Ship Share (Corsair), 2 Low; Cutlass, Revolver; 120 Kcr. Given his Bribery, Streetwise and Admin skills, his guy will definitely be useful off-ship as a Face character. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 7, 2021 21:07:20 GMT -5
Thanks to raikenclw for working this out.Captain, Sir Adam, de Graff enters the RNI headquarters and directed to a conference room to meet the crew of the Clear Sails and the other new crew. As he walks, he wonders if any of them are past acquaintances.
Just outside the room he spies a short muscular figure that looks familiar. Is it? Yes it is.
"Hi BP- er Mr Silva, staying out of trouble one hopes. Are you part of the Clear Sails crew?"
Catching himself saying BP for Bad Penny, Adam remembers Bad Penny as a gunner aboard a merchant vessel, that he Captained to discreetly transport some Romanian Troops before systems. Adam suspected that BP was involved in supplying some of the those troops with non-regulation "recreational substances" during the journey. But it could not be proved. Still this is one to keep an eye on.Now Adam is looking forward even more so to meeting the rest of the Clear Sails crew and the other new crew that was promised. Looking to be interesting times indeed.
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Post by raikenclw on Aug 7, 2021 21:32:48 GMT -5
Peng looks up from cleaning under his fingernails with a GINORMOUS Blade . . .  . . . which he then makes disappear behind his back as he straightens from leaning against the corridor wall and almost comes to attention. Squinting at the newcomer, Peng starts to say, "Do I know . . ." then with a growing look of unease continues, "uh . . . Cap'n Graft, ain't it?"[OOC: Peng does pronounce the name "Graft" - with the distinct "t" sound at the end - as he remembers this personage principally because said individual is the polar opposite of "graft."]Peng continues, "I'm doin' okay, I guess. And yeah, I was on the Sales. As to staying out of trouble, well . . . I'm thinking this coming job and the ship that goes wid it sorta requires gettin' INTO trouble, don't it?" |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 7, 2021 22:38:57 GMT -5
Peng looks up from cleaning under his fingernails with a GINORMOUS Blade . . . . . . which he then makes disappear behind his back as he straightens from leaning against the corridor wall and almost comes to attention. Squinting at the newcomer, Peng starts to say, "Do I know . . ." then with a growing look of unease continues, "uh . . . Cap'n Graft, ain't it?"[OOC: Peng does pronounce the name "Graft" - with the distinct "t" sound at the end - as he remembers this personage principally because said individual is the polar opposite of "graft."]Peng continues, "I'm doin' okay, I guess. And yeah, I was on the Sales. As to staying out of trouble, well . . . I'm thinking this coming job and the ship that goes wid it sorta requires gettin' INTO trouble, don't it?"Adam grins  saying, "That would be Captain de Graff to you and there is no T in my name, I am sure you remember. I had hopes you had changed, but Bad Penny's always turn up don't they, Mr Silvia." He pauses and says with a straight face, "Perhaps we can use you as bait, hmmm?" Then smiling again he says, "Why don't you tell me about your crew mates?" |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 7, 2021 23:11:49 GMT -5
Colonel Otto Heinrich Wolfgang Berger turns the corner and heads toward the conference room and sees two men entering. One is a lean man of medium height whom he recognizes as he disappears through the door, Captain de Graff. They had worked together a couple of times, a real straight shooter. The other man is short and squat, with a greasy appearance to him, probably an uncover operative, at least one would hope so. He strides confidently down the hall, unusually light on his feet for a man his age, compliments of the light (standard) gravity.
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Post by Terry Mixon on Aug 8, 2021 9:35:02 GMT -5
Just a heads up that this is the out of game thread. You might want to save this for when Eris makes a new post in the in game thread.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Aug 8, 2021 11:41:53 GMT -5
Just a heads up that this is the out of game thread. You might want to save this for when Eris makes a new post in the in game thread. Post him in the Working Passage sub-forum, please. Then please present him in the OOC thread where y'all can start discussing him and his background. I hope to get a Game Thread up where we can "play" out some of this, but I'm hoping in the OOC discussion y'all can create some common background for Adam and other PC's...known in past, etc. I think what erisred wanted was us to start and then he would move the posts to a thread when he gets time to create one. But I can hold up until then. I am good either way. I maybe should have posted this first. I sent him a message about a couple of other things that I am not sure if I should share or not. |
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Post by erisred on Aug 8, 2021 13:46:21 GMT -5
Just a heads up that this is the out of game thread. You might want to save this for when Eris makes a new post in the in game thread. Terry, I told Perilous Dreamer to go ahead and post his PC's in the OOC thread so everyone could see them and y'all could decide if any of you knew Adam de Graff from a past encounter. I'm putting the IG thread up now, actually just did , where we can all get playing again. Everyone!!! Please, post something in The Meeting thread, even if it's just "I'm there", so I can take a head count. |
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Post by Terry Mixon on Aug 8, 2021 13:59:58 GMT -5
Just a heads up that this is the out of game thread. You might want to save this for when Eris makes a new post in the in game thread. Terry, I told Perilous Dreamer to go ahead and post his PC's in the OOC thread so everyone could see them and y'all could decide if any of you knew Adam de Graff from a past encounter. I'm putting the IG thread up now, actually just did , where we can all get playing again. Everyone!!! Please, post something in The Meeting thread, even if it's just "I'm there", so I can take a head count. No worries. Whatever works. They were just starting in character stuff here so I said something. |
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Post by Terry Mixon on Aug 8, 2021 20:37:46 GMT -5
Boarding party character in your inbox (message here), Eris.
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Post by Terry Mixon on Aug 8, 2021 21:44:03 GMT -5
Boarding party character in your inbox (message here), Eris. One more question to you, Eris. |
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Post by Terry Mixon on Aug 8, 2021 23:02:29 GMT -5
My character is posted in working passage now.
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ateno
Traveler
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Post by ateno on Aug 9, 2021 5:09:41 GMT -5
I went online to a generator and made a ship character, so of course I left it on my home computer. I'll try and post it tomorrow.
Eric
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Post by erisred on Aug 9, 2021 14:56:05 GMT -5
I went online to a generator and made a ship character, so of course I left it on my home computer. I'll try and post it tomorrow. Eric No problem, Eric. If you have a name you can use that as a place holder as you're not going to need attributes or skills right away. |
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Post by Terry Mixon on Aug 9, 2021 21:33:54 GMT -5
I went online to a generator and made a ship character, so of course I left it on my home computer. I'll try and post it tomorrow. Eric I didn’t realize my new character had your name. That’s a coincidence. |
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ateno
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Post by ateno on Aug 10, 2021 5:37:18 GMT -5
I was able to post and have a background, so GM hows JOT-4 going to work? I hate online generators sometimes... |
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Post by erisred on Aug 10, 2021 8:55:57 GMT -5
I went online to a generator and made a ship character, so of course I left it on my home computer. I'll try and post it tomorrow. Eric I didn’t realize my new character had your name. That’s a coincidence. not quite, terry i am eris with an s , not eric with a c. its an old family name |
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Post by erisred on Aug 10, 2021 9:07:53 GMT -5
I was able to post and have a background, so GM hows JOT-4 going to work? I hate online generators sometimes... i saw that joat-4 It has come up before. As above, how does that sound to you? Eris |
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Post by erisred on Aug 10, 2021 9:33:31 GMT -5
I was able to post and have a background, so GM hows JOT-4 going to work? I hate online generators sometimes... I've been known to re-roll a time or two with online generators. IAC, Captain Jack Abelein, Navy-6 looks fine to me. Let's say he's at the table as well so you can join the discussion at "The Meeting."Only problem I foresee, so far, is we're collecting several "Indian Chiefs" here. There could be some head butting over chain of command that y'all need to work out. I think you're going to have to clearly define who is Captain, First Officer, Second Officer, etc. for the shipboard group, the same for the boarding ops group, and the relationship between the ship's command structure and the boarding ops command structure. IOW, who can give orders to whom and under what circumstances. |
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ateno
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Post by ateno on Aug 10, 2021 9:41:30 GMT -5
I was able to post and have a background, so GM hows JOT-4 going to work? I hate online generators sometimes... I've been known to re-roll a time or two with online generators. IAC, Captain Jack Abelein, Navy-6 looks fine to me. Let's say he's at the table as well so you can join the discussion at "The Meeting."Only problem I foresee, so far, is we're collecting several "Indian Chiefs" here. There could be some head butting over chain of command that y'all need to work out. I think you're going to have to clearly define who is Captain, First Officer, Second Officer, etc. for the shipboard group, the same for the boarding ops group, and the relationship between the ship's command structure and the boarding ops command structure. IOW, who can give orders to whom and under what circumstances. Captian Jack was the product of a few rerolls that met my requirements. Jack is not worried about being in the chain of command. Hes wasting time till he cant anymore. |
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saying, "That would be Captain de Graff to you and there is no T in my name, I am sure you remember. I had hopes you had changed, but Bad Penny's always turn up don't they, Mr Silvia." He pauses and says with a straight face, "Perhaps we can use you as bait, hmmm?" Then smiling again he says, "Why don't you tell me about your crew mates?"
