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[Karoline]

Sure they do, you just can't see it: it's concealed.

Was waiting for someone to say that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[MusicMan]

Yeah... I'm kinda on the Phoenix bandwagon myself.

[MusicMan]

Maybe we should just upgrade to an aircraft carrier (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Please?

Was waiting for someone to say that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Always happy to oblige.


@Penta:

What would it take to get a old-school P90?

[Penta]

Yeah, fair point. Okay, so we have our plans. Someone save the link. I'm going to post up the Ship History and stuff (originally done by Milk Ducks, then I ripped the guts open and redid it to taste) here, and then later on the OOC thread after all characters (incl BaronKen) have gone up.
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Name: MY Fedallah
Home Port: Newport, Rhode Island
Flag state: UCAS
Manufacturer: AH Donaldson Yachts, Inc. (Newport, RI)
Keel laid: 08/01/2071
Launched: 09/01/2071

History:

The Fedallah began life as just another yacht, the MY Golden Hecate, slated for the personal use of another up-and-coming executive with an A-rated corporation. That is, until said executive over-stepped his authority, showing the same leadership and decisiveness that made him a rising star. The only difference now was he had failed to deliver, and all the enemies he had stepped on to get that far up dragged the star back down.

Unknown to the company, the executive had ordered severe upgrades to his personal yacht that ballooned the pricetag to thrice that of a comparable Classique III. Unwilling to pay for the extravagances, the company simply ceased all contact. Eventually the half-built yacht would be sold off to the Internal Revenue Service by the shipyard to settle a tax debt on the part of the ordering customer; the IRS ordered finishing of the construction and attempted to auction off the yacht at a profit. The yacht instead was sold to a confidential client at a break-even point, especially after fees (to the auctioneer, the yard, etc) were paid.

In February, 2072, she was re-registered as the MY Fedallah, after being towed to a yard in Quincy, MA, for substantial modification.

[Penta]

MusicMan: As an operating firearm? At least 60k nuyen. At least.

(I am not going to stat one.)

[Marwynn]

Psst, Marwynn not Milk Ducks. Or maybe you hybridized our backgrounds.

[Penta]

No, my brain got the M-names confused.

[milk ducks]

Backstory on the Fedallah is really great.

-milk.

[MusicMan]

Happiness is a warm belt-fed machine gun.

Just make sure you don't melt the barrel. That's not happiness.

[Penta]

Okay, just to give a 0100 (EDT) update:

everybody is posted except BaronKen and KnightSaber.

KnightSaber is approved, she just needs to post it all up.

BaronKen was I think busy with work - ergo I'm not stressing.
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First post is done. Not posted, but done. Tomorrow (Sunday), I'll work on post 2.

The ship packet appears to be done. I'm going to declare that the sundeck on the Phoenix plans, when cleared of all furnishings, is big enough to launch up to Body 2 drones through VTOL. Unless someone wants to figure out how to fit a helipad within those basic dimensions.

I'll post the non-web elements of the packet (the ship history primarily, but also the final equipment list) along with the first post.

2 karma is available to the photoshop junky who manages to turn the phoenix plans into an "updated", campaign-ready set of floorplans. If you can figure out how to download them.
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For authenticity's sake, I want everyone to learn how to speak "Naval".(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) 2 karma to the person who produces the best vocabulary of maritime terms for use in the campaign.

Edit: I stand corrected. 1 minute after I post this, Knight Saber posts her character.

BaronKen, we're all waitin' on you.(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Whizbang]

http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/contents.html

http://www.termisti.refer.org/nauterm/dicten.htm

http://www.portmanatee.com/pdf/Maritime-Dictionary.pdf

[Penta]

Whizbang gets 2 karma.

[Marwynn]

Well, I managed to save the flash swf file, open that up and printscreen it. It's illegible of course even zoomed in but you can kinda sorta make it out.

Taking a cue from this gameworld I sent a request for a packet, as a potential buyer. Let's see if they'll give out the deckplans too.

[CollateralDynamo]

Good luck Marwynn! Or should I say, "Yarr, I wish fer you to be gettin' da plunder...." Wait...wrong type of maritime jargon...whatevs.


Its all coming together nicely...

[Karoline]

I just realized something. We were all very concerned how we were going to get cargo onto our ships from another ship, but I realized we must have some kind of way to get it on in.... crud, that would likely be a crane on the shore.... well anyway, my thought was that we could have a reinforced gangplank that can handle several tons on it, and we could use that to act as a bridge between our ship and theirs to get cargo across.

Also, KS, I think you gave yourself too few BP for 'records on file', it should be worth 10 BP, not just 5.

[Penta]

Doh, that's right, Karoline. It's my goof - I told Knight Saber I was giving her the flaw at what I thought was the correct BP amount, but did so without checking RC. You get a cookie.

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With that, I should make a note as to how I interpret that flaw.

Records on File, to me, does not necessarily mean you have derogatory records against you on file. It means that at some point, your real identity went through a security clearance investigation (including the required investigation to enter virtually any first-world military), some kind of reasonably-thorough background check, etc. It also includes, say, service jackets.

I really see this applying if you're formerly attached to a military, particularly if you're formerly-attached to any variety of special operations force (or have been an officer or officer-candidate); They keep tabs on you in a general sense, so they know where to send notices in case of recall (which usually means wartime, to be honest).

I make a note of who the records would be held by. Especially after the Crash of 2029, I don't see records being kept solely in digital form. Governments, militaries in particular, are too conservative for otherwise to be true (and for the CAS and UCAS (taking a leaf from their predecessor states), records storage is governed by extensive regulations basically mandating that the truly important digital files also get kept on paper where it is at all possible, or in copies in off-Matrix storage where it isn't. (This is based on RL government recordkeeping practices, which are scary in their detail and redundancy when applied properly.)).

Fret not: They are unlikely to share their records to any great degree. To pry a service record from the military for example, even a DD214, without the consent of the person being recorded is hard even when you're on the same team. Lord help you if you're another country (or a corp).

[Penta]

And now the news you've all been waiting for.

It is now 1000 EDT, on Sunday, 27 September 2009.

As of this moment, BaronKen has not gotten back to me with his sheet.

I'm heeding your calls, and I'm not holding up the train.

At 1000 EDT, tomorrow (Monday the 28th), all sheets will lock. BaronKen has until THEN to get his sheet in, or else he goes on reserve and will be waiting until you guys reach a port to join you - and will have to figure out for himself how he got there, though Roberts will make introductions. KnightSaber and anybody else who needs to correct errors in their sheets, you have until 1000 EDT tomorrow to do so. Please do not wait til the last minute.

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At 1000 EDT tomorrow, or close to then, the first post goes up. I can't lock this thread, but I request that as soon as that post goes up, conversation shift to the OOC thread.

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Karoline, please email me the FINALIZED group equipment sheet by tonight - spending all 500k. If you leave leftovers, I will apply them as I see fit so that the total equals 500k nuyen. If you go over, well, you'll be paying your employer the extra.

Once that is done, I will post the ship history and the group equipment list to the OOC thread.

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I leave you with this poetic interlude.

"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must go down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life.
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over."

- "Sea Fever", John Masefield OM, 1878-1967

[Karoline]

Oh, one question. Since we don't have lifestyles (Based on us living on a ship) how much money do we start with? I'm curious because this is usually based on what lifestyle you have.

[CollateralDynamo]

Well, there is nothing preventing you from starting with a lifestyle and a home in Miami, that would make that question easy to answer...
if you haven't purchased a regular lifestyle for yourself that would indicate to me that you have gotten rid of most of your funds or for some reason need to just get the drek out of Miami. But a street lifestyle is free and its starting nuyen is 1d6x10. Enough to buy a couple of soycaf lattes!

[Penta]

Oh, one question. Since we don't have lifestyles (Based on us living on a ship) how much money do we start with? I'm curious because this is usually based on what lifestyle you have.

Catching me on a day I'm feeling generous, so I'll say you start with 1d6x100 nuyen, representing liquidating whatever lifestyle you had in Miami, paying off minor debts, and getting ready for sea. This is if you did *not* start with a lifestyle.

[Karoline]

Ship equipment, final version. Complainers will be thrown overboard:

[ Spoiler ]

Purchases with the 500,000 Loan:

Classique III 225000
Aeronautics Shop 5000
Autosoft: Clearsight (3) 1500
Autosoft: Maneuver (3) 1500
Concealed Armour (20) 20000
Chameleon Coating 24000
Complete Skinlink 5000
Drone Rack (Small) 1000
ECM (6) 6000
Enhanced Image Screens 2400
Fuzzy Logic 2500
Improved Economy 4375
Improved Sensor Array 1000
Interior Cameras 2400
Lock-on Countermeasures 5000
Personal Armour (10) 5000
Pilot 3 3000
Rigger Adaptation 2500
Satellite Communication 500
Signature Masking (6) 12000
Smuggling Compartment(Sh) 6000
Winch (Std) 600
Total: 336275

Running Gear:
Autopicker Rtg 6 1200
Catalyst Stick x 4 480
Directional Jammer Rating 7 1400
Electric Still x 10 1500
Grappel Gun x 4 2000
Keycard Copier Rtg 6 1800
Light Sticks x 50 250
Med Station Rating 6 420
Mini-Welder x 3 750
Monofilament Chaisaw x 2 600
Plastic Restraint x 50 5
Rapelling Gloves x 10 700
Stealth Rope (800 meters) 680
Solar Still x 2 400
Survival Kit x 1 100
Tag Eraser x 5 750
White Noise Generator Rtg 6 300
Wire Clippers x 5 125
Total: 12460

Drones:
CrashCart 4000
Manservant 2500
Beaver 4000
Total: 10500


IDs and Permits:
Fake SIN Rating 4 x 10 40000
Fake Permits Rating 4 x 10 4000
- permit to own modified yacht
- permit for concealed armor
- permit for chameleon
- permit for fuzzy logic
- permit for interior cameras
- permit for lock-on countermeasures
- permit for personal armor
- permit to shoot footage
- permit to own "realistic replicas"
- permit to carry passengers
Total: 44000

Dakka:
Ingram White Knight x2 8800
- With tripods
- 2 belts of ex ex each
M79B1 LAW x 5 3750
- with external smartlink 2000
Foam Explosives (10) x 5 5000
5 Timer Detonators 175
5 Radio Detonators 200
2 Smart Firing Platforms 4000
Total: 23925

Other Vehicles:
Yamaha Growler x2 11000
- Autosoft: Maneuver (3) 600


Zodiac Boat 30000
- Autosoft: Covert Ops (3) 1500
- Ducted Waterjet 2000
- Manual Override (DrivexWire) 500
- Pilot 3 3000
- Smoke Projector 700
- Searchlight 1200

Total: 50500

Supplies:
Month of medium quality food x 10 5000
Month of low quality food x 10 2000
Fuel (l) x 110,000 free
Water (l) x 30,000 free
Total: 7000

Cover related gear:
“Fake� Colt Manhunter x 10 3000
- Clip of Paint Capsule Rounds x 20 960
“Fake� AK-97 x 10 5000
- Clip of Paint Capsule Rounds x 20 2280
Total: 11240

Other:
Month of full weather reports x 1 1100
Firewall 6 3000

Aggregated: 500000

No really, if you have any -vital- suggestions, please make them, but otherwise I think there has been enough tweaking.

[Whizbang]

Edited my sheet in the OOC thread. Anything else you guys can think of that I might need permits for?

[Penta]

Just thought of something - if anybody knows, how do most GMs here do dice rolls? I know of no PBP dice rollers.

[budoka05]

Just thought of something - if anybody knows, how do most GMs here do dice rolls? I know of no PBP dice rollers.

Several of the game use http://invisiblecastle.com/. The site stores dice rolls online for a period of time!

[milk ducks]

Here's a link to a pretty decent online dice roller. I know I've seen ones that post your results as URLs, but I can't seem to find it right now; I'll look around a bit more when I get home tonight.

-milk.