In Neptune's Realm - OOC thread, Chatter on the high seas Options

[Penta]

I think they'd let you keep the arm.(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Xahn Borealis]

Ooops. I'll just say that Jackson was playing a joke.

[Penta]

It's okay, I'll deal with it in my next post. (I'd really like to see more than Cherry and Aquaman posting before I do...)

Ordinarily, I would probably prefer you guys let me call for rolls unless they're obvious, but the way you did it was fine, Xahn.

[GrimWulf]

Sorry Penta, thought you'd been waiting for just DH, I'll get somethign in.

[Penta]

I'd like it if DH popped up sooner rather than later, but while the whole group is at breakfast, I'm not too worried about post order, because nobody yet has specific roles to play.

It'll be after breakfast when people start to get roles to play.

(That said: I've only heard from Minchandre about your quarters. If you guys want quarters gifts or the like, talk to me privately, I can't come up with it on my own. You guys know your characters better than I do, even if the UCAS may well know them better than they know themselves.)

[Penta]

Just a quick babble:

Because of how we handled the missing folks (and how I'm handling the reserve list generally) I feel it might be good for me to lay out how I plan on handling new folks:

From when you guys boarded the boat, there'll be nobody else coming aboard in Miami. However, Edana and I are working on her possible character, which will go through the same ringer you all did in regards to chargen. (I promise you that.) Grinder also responded to me that he's interested (unlike the other people who didn't appear, he logs on to DS regularly, so I didn't have to particularly hunt for him), so his character too will go on the reserve list.

ICly, these characters will be going through training on-land and off-camera - it can be lengthened for either character if they aren't finished by the time you guys exit Cape May.

Generally speaking, you'll get new people during Shore Periods, as I outlined a few posts ago - there's not a feasible way to deliver people while you're underway that I can think of. Any further new people after Cape May will also undergo training ICly, but also off-camera (unless there's a group larger than 2 or 3, in which case I might establish a thread for the newbies).

[Minchandre]

So, Aquaman should know: being an arrogant pilot is the last way to get into Cherry's good graces (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

EDIT: Also, I can't wait until the first time Malachi refers to Zion within Cherry's earshot. Is the good man Twelve Tribes, by any chance?

[GrimWulf]

Yeah, I think he most likely fits twelve tribes better then the other followings. Though in 60 years from now there's probably a few other followings now too.

[Faraday]

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, was a little overwhelmed Penta's big post. I'll have an IC post up tonight.

[Xahn Borealis]

So, Aquaman should know: being an arrogant pilot is the last way to get into Cherry's good graces (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

EDIT: Also, I can't wait until the first time Malachi refers to Zion within Cherry's earshot. Is the good man Twelve Tribes, by any chance?

But he is the best! Pilot Watercraft 6 (+2 Ship)! And that's just his skill dice!

[Faraday]

But he is the best! Pilot Watercraft 6 (+2 Ship)! And that's just his skill dice!

Aquaman's as good a Pilot as Jolly Roger is a Hacker. Hacking 6(9)+2 exploit >.>

[Xahn Borealis]

Well, he's certainly never met anyone better! Maybe he just doesn't keep the right company...

[Penta]

Okay...I knew this was gonna happen.

Fazzamar, the player behind Nik Koslov (the mage) has dropped out due to RL commitments.

I'll tell you guys what I told him: He'll have to make a new character, as I'll be writing Koslov out in a way that makes it difficult for a return to be justified (no, not killing him off), but besides that point he is completely, totally welcome back should he want to return in the future.

Edana or Grinder: If either of you want to swap out your current characters to fill the party's lack of a magic-user, talk to me.
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With that said, I'd like everybody to post at least once in the election/breakgast thread before I move things on. Currently, I think we're most notably waiting on Digital Heroin.

Failing that, I'll move the storyline on on Monday.

[Digital Heroin]

I am alive, despite the rumors... and balls for losing our mage... hope the commitments are of the good kind, and if not, Fazzamar, that all works out.

I'm working up a post as I type this... in my head... to transcribe into the text file I have next to me...

[Penta]

Yay. Thanks DH.

[Digital Heroin]

Sorry about the delay... things are still a bit out of whack... and damn I am looking forward to September... well, the later half... the first half is my training sail (well, workups), a perfect bookend to five seagoing years which have included three sets of workups and, amusingly enough, an anti-piracy deployment. When I get back from Mexico in September, I finally get a shore posting, with an actual schedule. Until then, because of the workups, things are gonna be a bit rough.

[Penta]

We can work around that. I'll contact you by PM later with my ideas on how.

[Digital Heroin]

Save during the worst of work-up times I should be able to scam a here-and-there moment of online time. More if I get slotted into the position I think I might be. But I do have to catch up in PM/e-mail about training and such for Salt as well.

[Xahn Borealis]

...amusingly enough, an anti-piracy deployment...

So are we likely to encounter you out there IC? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) You'll have to catch me, omae, I'm the best damn pilot in the CAS! (I'm gonna keep telling myself that, despite knowing nothing about either the Navy or the area that will become the CAS in SR)

[toturi]

Just keeping in practice, Eddie is taking note of what is happening, who said what to who, who sat where, what and how many much each person ate, anything that he can see, smell, hear, taste,...

If Penta wants Eddie to roll Perception, it is best that you do it yourself so I don't know how many hits Eddie gets. Eddie has 16 dice as base without adding in specific gear enhancements.

[Digital Heroin]

So are we likely to encounter you out there IC? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) You'll have to catch me, omae, I'm the best damn pilot in the CAS! (I'm gonna keep telling myself that, despite knowing nothing about either the Navy or the area that will become the CAS in SR)

Well, they do let me man the helm on occasion... which, given my narcolepsy, is kind of scary... but there is no feeling like being the man who is steering a near five thousand tonne warship through maneuvers at 30 knots... odd thing is, helms and throttleman are secondary duties, usually handled by engineering types (electrical and systems engineers)...

[Penta]

Helm with narcolepsy...Yeah okay I'm terrified now.

[Minchandre]

odd thing is, helms and throttleman are secondary duties, usually handled by engineering types (electrical and systems engineers)...

That is odd. I would really figure that there would be a dedicated helm on a vessel of that size.

[Digital Heroin]

Helm with narcolepsy...Yeah okay I'm terrified now.

Don't worry, I'm on amphetaminish drugs to counter the narcolepsy... heh....

It's really not that bad... I get tired, I doze off if I'm doing nothing at all, but otherwise I am fully functional awareness-wise.

That is odd. I would really figure that there would be a dedicated helm on a vessel of that size.

It seems so, but it is not entirely hard to operate the helm. I've seen ten year old kids do it, though not at anywhere near 30 knots. The key, though, it listening to the navigator/officer of the watch, and promptly responding to orders. In tight waters, you need to be reacting the moment he calls out a helm order.

[Xahn Borealis]

Don't worry, I'm on amphetaminish drugs to counter the narcolepsy... heh....

Betameth?