I'd prefer OOC but I'm fine with IC, still there is this kinesics and influence problem (I don't have them)

Because under Adept Powers on his character sheet it says:

Maybe?

I think he meant HE doesn't have them even though the character does, hence the preference for social stuff to be done OOC.

I meat that I don't have them but Martin will...

But still, lets see if i'm trying to get something out sir Edward them maybe there must be somekind High society roll, so Martin knows how to indtroduse his mission without too much huzzle and maybe some things what Martin just learned from Basil

And again we go with these: Cha 4+ Influence group 2+ Kinesics 3 is there anything else?

After all chit chat Martin will try to think was sir Edward loyal to him and was he talkin' truthfully (Judge intentions 8 + kinesics 3 = 11 die)

So why was Horace messing up when Lex botched his 'sort through the info' roll?
Should we have rolled Horace's Logic+Librarian Skill instead (apart from the minor fact that my contacts aren't statted)?
Or is the IC part really just Lex horribly misreading the correct information (but then it's not a matter of 'Horace finding the real stuff this time'...)?
Some clarification would be great. Some more IC with Horace is fine as well (and next stop would be calling Travis for a quick 'tour' around the target locations before driving home).


By the way:

Seems like you're really attached to that name, first trying to rename my librarian, now this...

Probably tank style.

As for coal and water, that would be part of lifestyle costs, no?

Functionality never factored into it for me, I made a purely aesthetic connection between the front of Vader's helmet and a gasmask.

Awesome picture by the way, Voorhees.

分�り���
It's true that Lex would never admit any kind of mistake when it comes to technical stuff, for less controversial (from his perspective) topics it's not as bad.
I honestly didn't imagine Horace to be as obsequious as you played him out, but the idea is really growing on me now, my geekish bookworm is a natural choice for that role, after all.
Besides, I never had a contact that I could push around much without risking to lose him/her (or worse) before, so: hell yeah, let's roll with it!
Good opportunity to play out Lex's ignorant side and a great way to deal with a critical glitch: blame somebody else and get away with it. I like.

Rerolling:


Posting question:
When writing about a longer period of time, should the Place/Time designation at the top of the IC post show the beginning or the end of this timespan?


@Voorhees:

Alas, too late.
Can't get rid of the mental picture with Bismarck and his trolley anymore.

I'd expect so. You need less food as well, with the absence of a lot of muscles and all. Does he remove his mask for eating or does he go for the blender/straw combo?


@Whom it may concern:
What's the IC activity status for everyone?
Critias seems to be waiting for legwork to finish, anyone else growing impatient with us slow folks?
I understand that DEBO is doing his part via PM (instead of, like, spoiler tags) - finished with that or still playing?
What's the Alex/fistan team up to? Still busy celebrating the extra Karma?



On a completely unrelated matter:

Definitely the best of your 3 concepts. Can't ignore the occasional "Grail Quest".

"whilst teaching a group of wayward students some real lessons about life" Says it all.

You might have noticed already, I really want to play in that game as well, but I have enough trouble keeping up my current 2...*sigh*


[Edit: What the...? Why does everyone suddenly have to post while I'm still writing on my own manifest?
Now TEBO stole my mental picture and fistan made the IC thread move again after a week of not answering Alex, thus rendering part of my activity question outdated. I hope you're all having fun...mischievous bastards.

But while I'm at it:

You're one to talk, playing the only other char with cyberlimbs...]

Another forum I use has a handy message that comes up to tell you that someone else has added to a thread since you pressed reply when you try to post, and gives you the chance to read that post and edit accordingly.

RE - Recruitment: Dunkelzahn Wants YOU!
What? 'Whilst' makes perfect sense there!

Yeah, I'd like to play (like different stuff, was going to play in that 'breaking the 4th wall' game that never started due to lack of interest and ofcourse there's THIS game), but read and post multiple times EVERY day? There's no way I can commit to that. Little odd to see that despite a call for decidely NONE Runner characters the number of characters that only differ from regular Runners in that their background ends 'and was then recruited by DIMR' rather than 'and then went into the Shadows', though the sample character being one of them is probably a good explanation. I too like Meriss' Gallahad, and the jinxed stuntdriver being followed by the accursed kitty.

I'm just chillin', waiting for a need to post, is all. Been busy lately with conventions and whatnot anyhow, so it's no biggie.

Oops. Guess I went a bit overboard there with all the 'strong language', but it was an 'intel gathering' critical glitch after all, so when you let me roll again for the info, I had to transform it into a 'social glitch' instead. Can't just let this opportunity to humiliate my own char pass by, after all.
I take it your IC means I get the bonus hit?
Oh, and 'breaking point' as in 'breaking down, crying' or as in 'breaking down, doing the berserk thing'?


Hate to repeat myself, but you forgot to address this:

Addendum: Or something like '9:00AM - 11:00AM' or several time designations in a post?



@Whom it may concern on the completely unrelated matter:

*nods* I know the feeling and I blame the abominable concept called RL.
And yes, 'Breaking the 4th Wall" sounded like a lot of mad fun, I read about it after recruitment had already died.
Would've been a bit confusing though, using 3rd Ed rules - since working my way through the 4th Ed ruleset, I can't seem to remember the old stuff at all (although I'm pretty sure most of my memory would return from its retirement when I flip through the old books again...).

Heh, yes. Guess it's harder to roleplay a 'normal' person than some ass-kicking outlaw (or just char creation habit working its repetitive magic).

Yeah, the kitty was cute, but it reminded me quite a lot at one of my own old chars, though in his case it was a cursed amulet he got stuck with (read: it stuck to his chest, literally growing on him).

Now that Alex and fistan got selected (unlike us woeful rejected or time-constrained bunch), what if we gang up on them and make their lives miserable?



@Critias:

Good to hear.
*calls out to everyone else* "Hear that, guys? No need to rush the next couple of months, let's all get really familiar with every last one of our contacts and minutely explore their personality, quirks and relationships."



@Voorhees:

No probs, that's what you got me for: to ask all the questions that are way too important for anyone else to imagine them.

Maybe he's just so incredibly handsome underneath that a pack of screaming groupies would follow him everywhere, blowing any chance of undercover work. Although the induced mass fainting might come in handy in certain situations...

Cracking several ECHELON servers produced the following questionnaire, short physical description and background on Wilhelm Herzog:




@IEBO:

Alright, looking forward to your fantastic show-off post then.

Although I still prefer the parallel posting approach, I mean, it's not like your phone-line tapping and whatever-else-you-wanted-to-do is any more out of sync than Lex blundering in the library or 'marck chugging around the warehouse, or is it?

On spoiler tags: despite their name, I don't hesitate opening them at all unless they're in a game I play in (and 1 click is hardly what I'd call 'too much trouble' when reading other games) and I always mark the ones with 'secret' gm discussions as such to discourage fellow players from spoiling potential surprises for themselves - you remember the puppies, don't you?

Umm, you mean 'not finished' like in 'hardly even started'? Well, let's see how much time it takes to get Critias really annoyed then...

While definitely a step in the right direction, what I really need is a handy lockdown of the whole thread from the moment I press 'reply' to the moment I 'submit', though (doesn't need to apply to other posters as well).

*evil chuckle* It certainly does.
Which is why I emphasized it.
And why I explicitly lauded the second (which did the job of turning your fun idea into a classic) part of your concept.
*even more evil chuckling*
Yet you interpret my acclaim as an attack.
That's most intriguing - this level of paranoia can only mean my sinister plan is inescapably nearing fruitition...my corruptive seeds have firmly taken root in your very being now.
*rubbing hands evil genius-style* Excellent. Now for Phase II...

Alright, that just calls for a translation:
advanced = has a flashy name and/or was seriously screwed up before, some minor fixes included now
automatic = quoting oxford dictionary: "adj. 1 (of a machine) working by itself without direct human control"
kinetic movement induced = needs to be kicked/pushed by someone to move
oscillating mass = it wobbles
To sum it up:
Your buggy limbs need to be shoved around and then wobble uncontrollably, but hey, they got a flashy name!

Way to go.
Consider me impressed.

For some reason, I had it in my head that this was a wealthy family. Oh well.

Thank you for noticing.

@Meriss: I'll think that Martin is just fishin' but maybe he will casually mention these two names mr. Brookes (and his other names Martin just find out from Basil) and this poor old Dursley, as baits. If sir Edward has heard something about them, or if he has ever worked with them... But nothin' too specific about them he's maybe doing some job to them, if they are trustfully coves...

Yep. No guts, no glory, you know?

No, 'not finished' does not mean 'hardly even started'. Arthur went straight to a contact's house after the meet, and was heading home AFTER that. All I need is confirmation from Meriss that Arthur got done what he wanted to do and what rolls I need to make, and I will be on the 16th, chatting to my next contact. Clicking a spoiler tag isn't too much trouble, but following several different interspliced conversations could be. I could post completed meetings as I go rather than 2 whole days - if you REALLY don't trust me working behind closed doors against yo... I mean... for the benefit of the whole team.

Though I did think the bolding was trying to imply there was something wrong with the use of the word 'whilst', I would have said it was more confusion than paranoia, you mutant commie traitor scum.

As you should be. Ofcourse, you'd think someone [playing a self acclaimed scientific genius and reader of 'Articles on the Application of the Clockwork Apparatus' would atleast recognise the big word name for an auto-winder. The system includes a slipping spring which is wound by a weight (mass) that moves back and forth (oscillating) whenever the subject moves (kinetic movement induced), recycling the energy of the limbs supplemented by energy harnessed from the subjects remaining natural limbs, without the subject manually winding the system (automatic). This version is precisely engineered for maximum efficiency and minimal impact on the subjects quality of life (advanced), a vast improvement on earlier models. Ofcourse such a system probably wouldn't work on someone like Bismark, though the idea of using the heart and blood pressure to supplement the system in the case of a full body replacement is an idea Arthur has been experimenting with, with limited success (it's messy and presents a number of complications). Steam does offers more power though, and Bismark's implants are quite impressive in this area, even if they are, in Arthur's expert opinion, somewhat innefficient and unsophisticated which in itself has it's advantages since "unsophisticated" machinery has less that can go wrong with it, increasing reliability, an important factor in all military hardware.

Or atleast, that's how I've imagined things working. The GM or Voorhees may disagree.

*bows politely* Thanks.
You know, if I started splitting those posts into average sized pieces, I'd actually be speeding up on the path of ruin we all have to follow here.
Honestly, I don't ever want to become a 'Great Dragon' - people get way too cautious about them (what with all the negative propaganda around...).
As for 'Immortal Elves'...yuck! Just ...ewww.
Nah, I'm happy being a 'Target' - more rebounds and ricochets possible this way.

Sure, want to give Horace some final (well, for this time at least) lines or should I just have Lex sneak out?

Do I see a carrot dangling on a stick in front of me? Quite a tempting offer you present...

Right. No major reason for edits then.

Curses, guess I'll have to switch to literary references then (Difficult, those. No way to know if the other person read that particular book as well...).



@Voorhees:

You're lucky that Bismarck still got his guts stuffed somewhere then. Not much else of him left, after all...

Did you find the part dedicated to you hidden in my rather ..oversized last post?



@DEBO:

That sounds like there's a story behind it. Care to share?

Pfft. Stop bothering me with your unreasonable theories, will you?

Guess it's just me and my plethora of personalities being used to following our disjointed discussions then.

*bashful* Why, you're quite the Don Juan, Mr. Duck, flattering me like this... *winks*


Regarding those limbs:

Fixed.

From his description, yes.
The problem being that he tries to apply auto-winder technology to Cyberlimbs (with superhuman strength 7, no less) instead of a small watch, where it only has to power a handful of small cogwheels and hands (as in 'pointing at a number on a dial', not 'grabbing/holding/crushing device at the end of your arm').

While most certainly possible (although achieving the necessary gear ratios to allow for fine control as well as troll strength would result in a rather complicated and heavy construction with gears alone, compared to the lightweight and flexible possibilities steam valves offer), the result would be limbs that could be used for a very brief amount of time before needing to be 'rewound' again.

So don't be surprised about Prof. Pendington breaking into a frenzied tap dance several times during a run.

A 'number of complications' and 'messy' indeed.
It's not especially useful when you knock yourself out every time you punch somebody.
Quite hard to maintain the oxygen supply of your brain when diverting the blood pressure for other uses, after all (it's not like the amount of energy you can gather from there would be very impressive neither...).

So while having your artificial limbs powered by steam has its drawbacks as well (all this scalding steam in/on your body, not to mention the coal fire), I would definitely not agree with Arthur's 'expert opinion' and call it 'inefficient' considering the other solutions.

Ah no, I seem to have missed it, unless you are talking about your recovery of his background info, in which case I am appreciative.

Thats mostly how I figured it would be. Very obviously mechanical, but indestructible and frighteningly strong. He doesn't have a physical stat under 7, and his total armor is 14/14 when he wears his coat and helmet.

Yeah, but noone cares about that entity's opinion.

A boiler and steam power makes sense for a full body replacement, but not for individual limbs, when I picture it in my head. I won't argue the mechanics (much), as it was predomintably a style thing. With a cyber torso and limbs having a single boiler as part of that powering everything is easy to visualise, but clock-work feels better for individual limbs - to me. Otherwise each limb needs it's own boiler that is unaffected by relatively high movement of a limb compared to a torso, unless you go the 'steam ball' route which is even sillier, and thus only available to NPC's. And if using clock-work, why not have it auto-wound? Admittedly the Strength 7 (which is merely exceptional human strength, not super human) doesn't really go with it, but I honestly forgot Arthur had it. I knew the leg had no enhancements and I thought I'd dropped strength on the arm in favour of assorted gadgetry. Again, it's a style thing and I think clockwork "works" better for Arthur in an aesthetic sense, not to mention adds a little variety and colour to the setting next to the steam powered behemoth that is Bismarck.

Now seeing as Arthur has Cybertechnology and is meant to be an expert in the field, though I personally know little about the technology and it could not really have exsisted in the setting anyway, my options become - continue to make up stuff that sounds good so long as no one examines it too closely that hopefully the GM will approve of -OR- not explore a potential flavour packed aspect of the setting just to avoid conflicted with someone else's idea of how things should/shouldn't work. I choose the former, or to paraphrase, Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nah, I don't care what you think. Ofcourse that's not to say things can't work other ways ASWELL, and I figure anything that adds to the setting is welcome.

As for the 'mechanics' I will argue, since arguing the mechanics of imaginary technology is fun despite, if not because of, how ridiculous it is - Arthur's comment about Bismark being inefficient was not so much about using steam as it was about the way he uses it. Venting steam and losing pressure (even when standing still) instead of recycling it is definitely inefficient. But, much like locomotives and as already ceded by Arthur, steam engines that DO recycle steam and pressure are less powerful, more complicated and less reliable. This is ofcourse as Voorhees pointed out is NOT what Bismarck is about, he's an unstoppable juggernaut of awe inspiring power, using slightly more fuel and water or being 'unsophisticated' aren't really things that concern him or the german military scientists that built him. And yes someone probably would pass out if you were foolish enough to try and harness blood pressure directly. This is why the proposed sytem simply uses plood pressure to wind a spring, at it's own pace placing little extra exertion on the circulatory system, and then the spring provides the power when required. It can run down, but the springs will continue to be wound when the subject is at rest so under normal use complimented by an autowinder, should be efficient enough to maintain the required energy levels. Messy and complicated because it does place extra pressure on the circulatory system, attaching arteries to brass valves isn't easy and blood is hardly an ideal hydraulic fluid for mechanical applications, among other things.

Hmmm... This either means you totally got my reference to the game Paranoia, and like the game, or had no clue what I was talking about and fell back on the tactic of attempting to unsettle the other party with your feminine wiles.

Not really, an interesting story, that is. Just a small local con, there are public play areas were a variety of bordgames set up, miniatures tournaments (WarHammer 40K and WarMachine/Hordes) and a buch of 3 hour session RPGs. I foolishly volunteered to run an SR 3E game, having the experience of 3 WHOLE sessions of a campaign I started running behind me - and long story short, 3 of the 6 players in the first session walked out about 5 minutes in - the only walkout of the ENTIRE CONVENTION. Oddly enough, as far I as I can tell, my regular group campaign sessions have actually gone fairly well as did the second session I ran at the convention. Those were somewhat more interesting as is the D&D for Beginners game I played in at the convention. Maybe I'kll post a con report thread somewhere else on Dumpshock for laughs.

@Voorhees:

I figured as much from your wonderful IC posts, but our holy spirit of blessed accelleration, I hadn't realised just how high his stats were! No wonder you're walking into what might be a trap... it doesn't really matter.

Good job, Mola Ram...
Now, would you mind stuffing the black, decaying mass of pulsating muscle that is supposed to be my heart back inside the ribcage you ripped it from?



@Voorhees:

Well, umm, kinda, yes. Was just wondering because you didn't react to it or the other comments about 'marck at all.

By the way, as I checked Bismarck's sheet to see if his helmet was a Pickelhaube or something less conspicuous (strangely I couldn't find a helmet listed at all), I stumbled on a 'Philosophy: 3' knowledge skill.
Quite a surprise, that, really.
I can hardly wait when you'll put that skill to use as I'm sure most of our chars will be dumbstruck when 'Za Maschine' abandons his one-liners for some insightful speech.
Or does 'Philosophy: 3' stand for his 3 tiered personal philosophy of: "I shoot, I fight, and I know my way around explosives." ?



@DEBO:

Ouch. Yet, that's like, really short...what about some details?
I'm sure we all want to know more about your misery.

Are you really sure that those are the only 2 options?

Damn, I'm so envious of your dramatically sophisticated and ultimately superior demagogic skills now.
*prostrating* Master! Will you accept my humble self as your unworthy apprentice?



@DEBO & whoever (Seconding the Egg on the general invitation here. Actually: feel free to chime in to any discussion between me and the current unlucky bloke)

Alright, let's start off with the point we actually agree on:

True, that. Yet I still prefer to keep imaginary technology as reasonably close to the laws of physics as possible (magic, on the other hand, is a different matter altogether - glad we're not trying to discuss this here yet).

I see.

Not only 'more complicated', but considerably bigger as well with those low pressure cylinders.
And I'm reasonably sure we agree that size is a really important factor in cybertech.

Now that that's been taken care of, on to the controversial stuff:

Allllriiiight...
Of course, considering that the option of taking the 20 BP positive quality 'Exceptional Attribute' (yes, I did notice the term 'exceptional' here) and bleeding another 15 BP extra for that maxed-out strength (at the same time keeping you from maxing any other attribute) exists, it's viable to call it "merely exceptional human strength".
But with even rating 5 attributes described as 'Superior' (p.62, BBB) and rating 6 being 'Maximum Unmodified Human', I still stand by my choice of words with 'superhuman' (as in 'exceeding what humans are capable of'), knowing full well that there were and always will be some freaks of nature that can do a bit better (game-mechanically speaking: those with the expensive build detailed above).

While it's hard to diagree with your personal feelings, I hope you visualize as well that a cyber torso is actually just a shell offering very few room for tech, because all those innards and other organs need to be stashed somewhere, making it a very bad place for the bigger, all-powering boiler.

Steam ball, eh? I guess you're not talking about the Aeolipile that Wikipedia redirects you to, right? (Although certainly very silly for cyberlimb propulsion...)
Could it be that you're referring to the physical-law-defying steamball of Steamboy 'fame'? After refreshing my memory on that one, it dawned on me that Pendington actually shares quite some similarities with Edward Steam...
Better start up your Steam Castle now and pre-emptively defend yourself, otherwise prepare for some serious mockage.

I already answered that one, but I guess I'll elaborate a bit more:
The first law of thermodynamics doesn't like to be broken and thus when you want your limb to perform work, you need to put even more (as you inevitably 'lose' some in the process - friction, radiation, whatnot) energy than that inside, beforehand.

Now you got your cyberleg equipped with your "advanced automatic kinetic movement induced oscillating mass system" or auto-winder, fine.
I hope you're somehow switching it off while swinging your leg, otherwise you're actually losing energy, because all the energy reclaimed by your auto-winder is lost to the movement of your leg and thus has to be compensated by increased input from the spring powering your leg.
Factoring in the usual 'loss' of energy, you're ending up worse than if your leg wasn't equipped with an auto-winder mechanism (I'm not even factoring in the additional weight of this system), if that wasn't the case: congratulations, you just created the first functioning perpetuum mobile, showing conventional laws of physics The Finger™.

That leaves us with rewinding your cyberleg with force not coming from its own engine: that works just fine, no law of physics slaps it around as a stupid idea, but you should consider several things:
There's considerably less movement to your leg when you ignore its own (most of it coming from your remaining natural one).
The sliding spring of your system will only ever get a fraction of the energy your oscillating mass absorbs and this energy will have to be provided by something, read:
It's going to be more exhausting dragging your cyberleg around when you're repowering it with your biological one.

That's the problem with the Eco Drive/automatic watch comparison: because the forces involved with them are so small, it's easy not to realize them at all and thus ignore them when you scale things up to cyberlimb size.
Automatic watches are actually slowing your arm, syphoning some of the kinetic energy away to rewind themselves, but it's such a small amount of energy that we don't notice.
When you're scaling the energy using side up by going from watch to cyberlimb, you can either leave the energy absorbing side as small as it was before: you still won't notice it, but you'd have to recharge your limb for ages just to use it a minute, or you're scaling it up as well, and then you will notice the effects (as stated above).

Which brings us full circle to the "frenzied tap dance" and the "need to be shoved around" I mentioned.

All this considered, Arthur might be better off with a giant key to regularly rewind his limbs instead of using his AAKMIOMS (as he seems to insist on clockwork powered cyber).


Regarding your blood magic ..err, powered cyberlimbs:

Alright, that clarification takes it from 'really stupid' to 'problematic and inefficient'.

I still disagree with the amount of power you seem to expect can be drawn from such an eccentric technology.

The human circulatory system is working with rather low pressure (cut your wrists open and you'll see what I mean).
Being designed for long-time, uninterrupted supply/distribution purposes, the blood just got a bit more than the necessary power to make its round (wouldn't even make its way back from your feet against gravity without those biological valves in your veins).
Apart from filling certain erectile tissues from time to time, blood doesn't need to do any kind of mechanical work, so the cardiovascular system isn't optimized for this purpose.
It can work with slightly increased pressure during times of stress (although the important aspect is the increased bloodflow, not the pressure), but you most certainly don't want to be in this state 24/7 just to get a wee bit more power to rewind your limb.

"Using blood pressure to wind a spring" ...of your watch to power it?
-might actually work, although why anyone would want such an invasive and risky technology for such a small gain is beyond me.

"Using blood pressure to wind a spring" ...of your cyberlimb to power it:
wind a week to use it a minute? - maybe, but hardly worth the effort and risk.
wind a day to use several hours? - no fraggin' way!

I mean, honestly, did you ever feel your pulse? Did you get the impression that there are forces at work which are strong enough to make syphoning them a viable strategy?
Ever noticed how few power it takes to cut off a blood vessel by pressing a finger on it?
And cyberlimbs certainly need a good amount of energy, even average str 2-3 ones, they're still able to get a full grown human running, after all.

Among other things, indeed. I wouldn't worry so much about the less-than-ideal properties of blood as an hydraulic fluid, but more about the hardly ideal effect your brass valves would have on the blood itself: blood getting damaged and clotting on synthetic surfaces has always been an issue with artificial heart construction - and thromboembolisms are often quite lethal.
Add to that a complicated surgical procedure, contamination issues (lubrication fluids for the machinery, material shaved off from wear and tear of all those moving parts etc. - you really don't want those in your blood), bloodflow issues at the organs the technoleeched arteries connect to (might even get necrotic after a while), possibly messed up vasoconstrictive regulation - not too pretty I'd say.
So: messy and complicated? Hell, yes.
If Arthur had human test subjects, then I expect a decent bodycount.



[Wee, my posts just seem to keep getting longer...anyone else notice the trend?]

Yeah, noticed. Discussing (arguing about even) imaginary technology is one thing, but I don't see the point in arguing that one completely unrealistic technology is obviously more realistic than another completely unrealistic technology.

On Steam Balls - both are silly, but I was refering to the VERY silly ones from Steamboy. I didn't conciously base my character on Edward Steam, even had to check the wikipedia entry to see how he was similar, but the similarities are certainly there, and interesting considering Professor Pendington sort of developed in the reverse direction.

Not really much more to tell, aside from how hard it was NOT to belt the little snot who kept muttering to his friend how 'pissed off' he was before he walked out. The players complained they had "no idea what was going on" and decided to walk out rather than wait for me to explain what was going on. When that sort of thing happens it usually gets back to me how horrible I was and that it was all my fault, not so here oddly enough, where people walked up to and told me they heard some stupid jerks walked out on my session - someone even congratulated me for 'breaking players'. Like I said, the earlier playtest and second session seemed to go just fine.

Glad you don't see the point in that, saves my fingers quite some pain:
Either by typing a manifest so long that it'd leave bloodstains on my keyboard and make even the ones dedicated/mad enough to mentally wrestle themselves through my last posts surrender and skip it entirely (or be driven to madness ...or both).
Or by digging myself Down Under to punch through your windows and slap you (which I might do regardless, because it sounds like appropriate fun).

And I wouldn't actually call (more or less giant)-key wound automatons/limbs (or steampowered ones, for that matter) 'completely unrealistic technology'. Just some moderate suspension of disbelief needed there.

Alright, no serious mockage then ...this time.

Yeah, sadly. Giant steam castles can be fun, you know?

*the usual evil hand rubbing and mad grin*
Excellent.
Keep up the good work, my corrupted disciple.



@Mola Ram
As much as I like your IC post (mushroom men ), would you mind letting Lex actually read the info that Horace brought him before making him leave?



@anyone interested in commenting

Well, well...
Someone seems to suffer from a serious case of CSP addiction here...

That one was for my own amusement, not CSP. I like subtle humor as I find it much more interesting.

@Meriss: Back in business. I'm not givin' up but Martin does not want that Sir Edward knows too much about his new mission...
Martin will small talk and drops a word or two that he wants to know (this star of africa, those companies, ,