OOC: Bug City Options

[Sphynx]

This is your space guys. ;)

Sphynx

[Sandoval Smith]

Hey Sphynx, how much do we know about the operation going in? If nothing else I think that a certain level of disclosure would have to be given to the team as to why they are detonating a nuclear device within a populated city. If we don't know about bug spirits specifically, then perhaps the briefing merely described them as some sort of highly dangerous insect like spirits that have drawn a cult, and they must all be wiped out at once or else.

[Sphynx]

Debriefing didn't even include that the weapon was a nuke, just in case you would decide not to do it based on the danger.

All you knew going in was that you were to penetrate, activate the device, withdraw, wait for orders with a warning, be prepared for active hostiles of a magical or astral nature.

[Whizbang]

got 10, 10, 1 on my knowledge: insect spirits...so just how much do I recall about them? :)

[Ecclesiastes]

Wow... lots of reading to do...

[Shalimar]

I uh wanted to reiterate that Frost is actually a girl. Lily Coldfire is her more formal name, but both are valid and linked to the same SIN, its all part of the Rite of Passage that Elf nobles go through.

[Shalimar]

We straightened out the Glitch so I hope it was ok for me to post.

Not sure how you want the rolling to be handled

For my Armor Spell:
6 Sorcery dice + 4 Spell Pool Dice for the Sorcery test
10 dice @ TN #6

9 Willpower + 4 Spell Pool for Drain
13 dice @ TN #5


Also I'd like a knowledge Test to learn anything about insect spirits
6 dice for Knowledge Spirits

[Cthulhu449]

I assumed my two foci were primed and ready with the highest amount of mojo I could cram in them before the mission. Tell me if that is cool. The Levitate foci is off for now, regardless. Also, I am the only other person who has been referred to by a rank besides the Lt. Is my Sgt. rank the next down the line?

[Ecclesiastes]

Heh, is there anyone in this game that doesn't have astral sight?

[Sandoval Smith]

Well, I suppose when looking for spirits, you want to send in the team best able to find them in the first place.

[Sphynx]

Whizbang, your Knowledge roll was a 10, 4, 2 (I roll in my online games). Insect spirits come from a different metaplane than other spirits, and it takes a powerful shaman to perform the Astral Quest to gain control of them. He becomes a Queen Spirit who can then summon an indefinite number of insect spirits, most likely through the use of human sacrifices, since studies show that people always turn up missing during the summonings.

Shalimar, 4 successes, no drain.

Cthulhu, Sgts run a squad, Lt runs a platoon (which is 2 to 5 squads).

[Shalimar]

Did he want me and Leslie going into the building in Astral, or as normal? Radation being bad and all.

[Cthulhu449]

Right, I know what Sgts do, but am I the only one or is there another Sgt for our other small squad since we have two?

[Cthulhu449]

Also, what was the plan we were given (but of course isn't going to happen) for extraction after the blast?

What is our time frame for the recon, limits of engagement, how bad off is Chicago at this very moment, where is our recon taking us towards, etc? If I'm the sergeant of the squad I want this one by the proverbial and oh-so-cliched numbers.

This is addressed to the team: Do all of you use subvoc's or transducers to talk at all times? I couldn't really tell from some of the in character posts. You can assume I always talk with my transducer unless I specifically say otherwise.

[Sphynx]

The only Sgt, the 2 mages are not actually their own squad, you're all 1 small platoon that broke into pre-arranged teams at the beginning of the story. If you opt to go for squads or continue as a platoon is up to you guys. Right now you're the only Sgt (if there's a 2nd can also be left up to you guys), Lt is the leader (assuming he posts within the next 20ish hours, or the NPC dies in the first bug fight instead.), and the rest are team mates.

[Mr Hamster]

Hi Sphynx,

Any chance you could give us a quick briefing on what we're supposed to be doing in the game? So far all we know is we've detonated a nuke and we're supposed to do "recon."

Could you fill in the details of any mission briefing we may have had? how long we're supposed to be here, are we to engage or just observe, how are we leaving, any specific objective etc.

thanks

[Ecclesiastes]

I have a feeling this is going to be a more 'player driven' type of game.

[Sandoval Smith]

I do think we need to be given a little bit more background briefing so we have a better idea of what we need to do. Up until the Bug breakout, Chicago was a pretty normal city, so we should expect a police, fire, and other civil authority response to a nuclear detonation in the harbor district, so that would've been taken into account in the intial plan. As well as what we are supposed to do afterwards, even if the plan was 'throw all combat gear into Lake Michigan, get on a bus, and ride casually out of town.' I think we just need a bit of guidance to figure out what needs to be done next.

[Sphynx]

Another IC post from me in a few more hours, I wanted to give everyone a chance to post first (Lt still hasn't posted) before I get the ball fully in motion.

Sphynx

[Kremlin KOA]

if Sphynx is going by canon, then the concrete walls would have been up about a week

[Sandoval Smith]

I don't have Bug City or Burning Bright with me right now, but I thought the walls went up after nuking the big nest sent bugs spirits flying everywhere?

Before I post my next action, how are the two of them from Rupert?

[Sphynx]

Most of this is OOC Knowledge only ! ! !

Canon: August 22nd, Chicago closed to bugs. World (including you guys) believe there's a Vitaes plague going on. Though you are aware of the plague, you should have assumed your mission was dealing with that issue.

September 1st is today. You were sent inside the quarantined area and detonated a bomb which put alot of spirits in stasis. Things had quieted down on the streets of Chicago, and it was felt something major was about to happen. Mages scouted the area and made an assumption that decided where to put the bomb.

You are unaware of how long the problem has been going on, as far as you know, you just went into a quarantined vitaes area and placed a bomb somewhere that was unpopulated (old abandoned warehouse) for unknown reasons. The explosion seemed to have had a strange effect as astral entities are flung throughout the area, placed in a stasis form.

Hope that helps. (Sorry, I forget not everyone knows the history of Bug City, my apologies for not being more detailed on the account)

Sphynx

[Sandoval Smith]

Ah, I thought the problem started with the nuke. My bad. I guess Rupert will up his guess about civil response time then. :grinbig:

[Sphynx]

It is strongly recommended that you include at the bottom of every post (in the OOC area) dice allocations such as combat pool and spell pool. Declaration of actions should include complete dice allocations unless you're wanting me to guess how much effort you put into an action. ;)

Sphynx

[Shalimar]

Uh, question for you that wouldn't come up without your magic system so no clue how the base SR sytem would handle it. Are my Improved Reflexes active on the astral since they are magical in nature? If yes, then my reaction on the Astral is 10 instead of 6, just wanting to double check this.