Thanks. I realize this may sound like metagaming, but in all realism, considering how this isn't even a 2nd tier gang, let alone a professional team, I think it's reasonable to suggest they all would have stuck together. I highly doubt we would place a single, solitary member in a different building all by themselves.

Tinkergnome, unless you have any objections, I would like to vote to place Toy somewhere in the gang HQ, probably on the second floor somewhere, from what the IC posts seem to portray.

Toy Robot is NOT an inactive PC...whether TG has objections or not *I DO*. Where Toy is is up to Wounded Ronin really, and since Ronin *requested* to have TR elsewhere, I am offended that you are 'choosing' to arbitrarily change that for your own advantage.

You may not be intending to metagame, however you are ARE intentionally taking over someone else's ACTIVE PC...

IMO you now owe Ronin an apology.

What you are forgetting is that we didn't "place" anyone anywhere.

We just each did whatever the hell we wanted to. Perfect teenage gangers with no cohesive leadership.

err...Ronin WAS OOCly asking for GM approval to not merely ICly want to, but to ICly be able to...


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My apologies to you, Ronin, as I realize that for the second time I've jumped in on something about you, but the issues bother me so I post.

*hugs*
Kart
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OOCly: There was time to position someone in another building provided the gang (at least one member) had ever thought to do it before and had, in some way, made it possible. As the time was only five minues, if the gang had never been into said building, that's probably not enough tme to do it.

The above is simply an IC question (address it as you like). You have OOC approval for that postioning.

Felix's Fire Elemental (Force 6)

Now for the declared actions. Both Felix and his fire buddy are going after the Air spirit thats trying (or succeeding) to engulf Aziz. They'll spend all three IPs bashing him.

Felix's Astral Combat Rolls

Fire Elemental's Astral Combat Rolls:

Resist against 2S damage

Completely resisted the damage from the engulf, although I am engulfed.

Aziz's Initiative for round two

Initiative: 11

Check to break out of the engulf

Ok, looks like I broke out. Aziz is going to run for the garage/gym/place where the vehicles are/ on his action.

I do not really know what kind of accessible exits we have there, but the intent was to have the bike somewhere, where most likely no battles are fought directly, and from where it would be easy to retreat.

I only really checked back my own posts, and the only one where the bike was mentioned was the one, where I said, it is parked around the corner somewhere out of sight.

Bye
Thanee

No apology needed, and no harm done.

Well, I had said a window on the middle of the building. So she would be up on the second floor near a wall facing the direction that the enemies were coming in. I'm guessing that would be the top side of the map on the second floor. Maybe she's in the kitchen. Does that work out?

Ha, hey man, it's your character! Just tell me where she is and Shade will go get her. They've been through too much for him to abandon her now, so don't bleed to death on him before he gets there!

Tinkergnome - I need a ruling. What are your rules on speaking during combat?

Since Auran is being taken to the vehicles by China Doll, Wyrm, and 0day, Shade is going to want to ask Nurse to come with him to help Toy.

Can he just say something along the lines of, "Nurse, Toy's down. I need your help to get her out."

Don't think we ever hashed out in detail how much a person can say with a free action, so let me know if it's ok for him to speak or if I have to wait until pass 2.

hmmm... uh.... we're fighting the spikes currently... and trying to run away... so you missed basically round 1 of combat.. which was all gunshooting anyway... so just get yourself on the combat page of the wiki, and kick some troll butt....

Umm... WinterRat... since the HQ'd been compromised.... most of the gang's first order of business is to split up and regroup. Anyone staying in the HQ may not make it, and well, seeing as Nurse is not a full-fledged member of the gang, I can probably answer for Kartijan here in tell you that she'll be leaving with Wyrm.

I know Toy Robot is important to Shade's character, but the HQ is not safe right now. We all hope Toy will stabalize, in such case, you can retrieve her and get her to Nurse to heal... I'm actually shocked and a bit disappointed that you would risk her life, expecting her to stay behind. I was hoping Wyrm's warning that it's time to get out of there was clear...

If the first 10 minutes of Saving Private Ryan were exploding all around me that wouldn't stop me from screaming MEDIC even if I were in an unsafe area.

Actually, my point was more that it's perfectly acceptable to scream MEDIC when your friend's horribly mangled and bleeding everywhere. It's t3h in-characterness.

Um, I wasn't necessarily expecting Nurse to help. In fact, I think what you said makes perfect sense, and yes, Wyrm's warning was crystal clear.

All that said, the question I was asking was simply whether or not Shade could even ask the question. Whatever Nurse does is perfectly fine with me (the player). But to me, roleplaying should be done even in the midst of combat.

Shade would ask for Nurse's help, and he would go back for Toy. Nurse may refuse (or not) and either one is totally fine. I'm just trying to see:

1) What we will and will not be allowed to post (from a rules standpoint) during combat particularly for role-playing purposes. Kinda like how in the movies you always have these long conversations when people really should be shooting. How long do we have to interact? Of course, it helps that the bad guys couldn't hit the ground if it wasn't for gravity, but that's another story...

2) If we are allowed to post, then I want to try and see if we can get some role-playing and character development played out even in the midst of combat. I think that's a big part of the fun of the game is the interactions, and I don't like shutting the character interactions down during combat so we can just sit and roll dice and stick to strictly 'tactical' posts. So if I can get some good role-playing moments in during combat, I will. The only question is what I can and cannot fit in during combat to create those moments. Does that make sense?

And as far as you being 'shocked and a bit disappointed that you would risk her life, expecting her to stay behind', I have to ask, what gives? I can understand Kartijan's previous post regarding my bad post over Toy, I was out of line on that, and I apologized for it.

But here, I was very clear to state that Shade the character would ask Nurse the character a question in character and in game. At no point can it be construed there is an expectation of what Nurse would or would not do, and at no point did WinterRat the player ask Kartijan the player to risk Nurse the character's life.

The post was solely to feel out the limits of what could be said and done in game, in an in-character context. So I am not understanding exactly what the issue is here.

Are you shocked and disappointed with WinterRat the player, or Shade the character? If Wyrm the character has a problem with Shade for asking the question, no sweat, that's roleplaying and that's great! But if you (Dranem) have a problem with me (WinterRat) for the question, I'd like to know why so we can work it out. Thanks!

EDIT: I'm not upset/mad or anything negative like that, just confused and seeking some clarification. Hope no ill feelings from the attempt to clarify.

Initiative: 9 / 1IP

And Electrode's initiative

Initiative: 8 / 1IP

You can say approximately the same amount of words that you could say in real life in three seconds, which is really a fair amount (about 3-4 words per second, give it a try). These words are divided evenly between your passes. You can send approximately twice as many words via Matrix connections or telepathy.

This is exactly why I added a modifiers column in to the sheet. Include things like cover and camo on it. Also don't forget to take the penalty for firing from cover. Also, I've added a couple of new house rules to the Wiki for called shots and visibility. Note that most of the trolls you're fighting against are wearing helmets (and thus are subject to the house rules on called shots).

Modifiers which do not appear on the Wiki are not likely to be applied.

I rerolled the stunbolts to account for a -4 visibility penalty and came up with 1 hit and 4 hits. Still force 5.

Also, on the topic of orange text in the IC vs. spoilers... the problem with spoilers is that if you use more than one and go to edit your post, you lose everything after the first spoiler tag. Which is why I stopped using them.

For the sake of sanity, I'll allow Neo one pass worth of actions in the last pass of the turn, on a very low initiative. That way, whatever the results of his attacks, I don't have to go back to the very begining of the turn (as you'd better believe that a grenade lobbing troll would be high on the hitlist).

Also, there's a good online die roller here if you need one.

Armor counts, but 6S is still 6S and damage is damage, so it's not like it's not worthwhile.

For stuff like this, feel free to cascade link up coms to share information. That gives you a pretty much unlimited number of subscribers, though if certain nodes drop out, it can be a problem (though you can even have some redundancy built in with double linkages, if you want).

Actually I just edited in Raven's revised action a minute or so ago, after reading your IC post.

On the map, she's very close to Shade and Auran, so she will head over there and heal Auran.

Bye
Thanee

What I was thinking, but not reasonable to have hashed out IC yet. Just concentrating on the current team support.

The survivors of this little encounter will no doubt learn and have a couple base network topographical configurations we can switch to under various conditions.

Maybe Auran and Raven can go "shopping" for Raven's gift after she saves Auran's life..... Maybe the spikes got a gun store in their territory........