I'm thinking he has quickened spells...

Ah... yeah, that's gotta suck. I take it he doesn't have Masking so as to even try and deliberately mask 'em and synchronize with the ward?

Lime!! Outstanding! Glad you're back!

I hear what you said about women. I had a girfriend. Once.

So, lets light some fires and kick the tires! Hoo-yah!

Kinda waiting on Shadow it seems.

Just because patience is a virtue, doesn't make impatience a vice.

Without revealing too much...

Ghost Dragon has foci that are physically attached to his body. He'd rather not remove them. For example, the focus that is always on is a force 1 that sustains an improved reflexes +3 spell. That one is a 24k gold nipple ring. He could take it off, but he would have to take off all of his armor just to get to it. Then, he'd probably lose it when the wind blew and put some sand on top of it.

And no, he doesn't have masking - yet.

You don't have to take a focus off to deactivate it, man.

@ BGMFH: You know the italics are for thoughts, right?

1> I am enjoying this OOC, just so you know.
2> When you guys learn to read minds or cast a "Read thoughts" spell, I'll tell you what James thinks ~
3> Speak Twice, Think Once. Thats James' MO

That burst is aimed to arc over and beyond the far side of the structure.

09 TN (Extreme Range)
-1 Target Stationary
+3 Burst Fire
-3 Gyromount
=8

SMG Skill is 5
Dice rolled =9 9 4 2 2
Dice rolled by Dashifen's DCRS roller thingy

I need to find my copy of M&M to see whether the cyber SMG is just SA/BF or SA/BF/FA.

Out of curiosity why are you rolling for an intentional miss? Is there something on the far side of the building you expect to hit?

Also does anybody else feel like we need to work on our decision making process? This feels like it's taking forever.

What process? James decides. We gripe. Then we do it. Seems to be working fine.

Wonder Twin Powers... activate! Form of... a dice bot!

LinguaSofts (Identify Glyphs): 2 4 4 1 1 7
LinguaSofts (Read Glyphs; 3 Task Pool): 5 1 3 5 2 17 8 5 3

Just to clarify, the first roll is to see if Cosmo recognizes any of the runes while cross-referencing them with all the ancient runic languages on his clustersoft. The second is to actually read any of them that he does recognize.

As for the decision-making bit, yeah, it seems to be doing all right so far. I'm sure if things turn sour, we'll actually start respecting the militant guy. But for now, we're pretty sticking to our guns in reference to our specialties. Especially with some of the odd suggestions going around. Yanno, like blowing up a huge crystal before knowing exactly what it is or, more importantly, what the reprecussions will be by doing so.

boo. hoo.

Astral Perception Test, Observe the crystal in Detail: 1, 3, 1, 4, 1, 1

Astral Perception Test, Observe the ward in Detail: 3, 2, 2, 4, 5, 2

sooo... are we in the shadow of the zig, or is it on the other side?

I think we're in the entryway.

While Cosmo's waiting for the others to figure out what they're going to do after checking to see if the disturbance occurs again when he approaches the door, he's going to back off and start fiddling with his Personal Comm Unit behind the safety of Chase (and don't worry, man, he's going to work on that Troll sign for your back soon enough). Basically, he's setting it up to quickly scan through a huge array of radio signals to see if any of them trigger anything on the door. Dunno what to roll if anything, but here's an Electronics Test with Theoretical Cryptography as a Complimentary Skill if it helps any, just in case...

Electronics (Task Pool 3): 5 1 3 4 3 5 11 3 1
Advanced Mathematics (Theoretical Cryptography): 2 9 5 5 5 1 1 3

Not to be a pain, Shadow, but I don't think you ever responded about Cosmo's calculations and stuff with the timestamps on the drones and why they never saw nightfall. Was it another PM that got lost or something?

Sorry Clock, I am getting a diluge of PM's recently and it is hard to keep up with them.

You guys are in the entry way. It is in the Zig a little (about 4 meters) so it provides shelter.

No worries, man. Part of the fun in playing back a slow fella like Cosmo is that I get to rationalize all kinds of epiphanies and stuff that happen well after the fact.

Perception (to see if anything is in there): 2, 2, 4, 5

Chase is not "cowering." He has taken a more "tactically defensive posture." Thank you very much.

Okay, okay, I'll change it just for you. <pinches your cheek>

Aww, shucks...Its cool. I'm not offended. I believe it would be easy to mistake the too unless you were student of the martial arts. Its also part feign. You know, to lull to opposition into a false sense of security.

"I never run away. I... strategically maneuver." --Dominar Rygel XVI, Farscape

Yeah, dude. That's what I meant. And "Descretion is the better part of valor..." and all that jazz.

RL's a bitch .. but I'll be here all week. *groans and bangs her head repeatedly against the computer desk*

I'm confused by your PM, Shadow. On page 14 of the IC thread, you said,

Chase will switch over to Low Light or needs be, will swap the tinted goggles for the thermo ones. Depends on the light available.

As the possiblity of combat rapidily increases, I've noticed that several of our characters have Small Unit Tactics. Anyone plan on using them? I believe that Whisper (oddly enough) has the highest rating...

...I wonder where she got that training? Perhaps the shy demolitionist did a brief stint with the Star? Or mayhaps it was the Feds? Military? We may never know...

[(sigh) Once again, sly witt doesn't translate well into text. I'm not busting on you, M. Just trying to lighten the mood.]

Smiles appreciatively and winks at Kevyn.

Are you saying that I'm old, my dear?

Hmm, I'm a little confused (ooh, there's a shock). Did Cosmo's triggering of the door also drop the ward that was there? I thought Ghost Dragon was stuck outside 'cause he couldn't get past it.

Dammit, now I am confused. Sorry Leo I mistyped. The crystal does anchor the ward.

Opening the door does not remove the ward, it just opens the door.

2 people have SUT4 and one has rating 5... Realistically, we should have a few turns of conflicting orders, per the rules till someone establishes their place as the tactician... and not necessarily the person with the 5... better results = better tactician of course.

While my character has SUT I don't think Torque can use it in combat with the others to do anything but add to his combat pool for dodging, he doesn't have any reflex augmentations so he'd never managed to get any orders out before the others had already finished, even if he wanted to.

How many turns do you think combat will take BGMFH? In games I've played before 3 turns was a long battle, most were finished within an init-pass or 2.

Depends on whether people say "hah, a Light pistol does at most 9L" and stand around, or whether the character says "holy crap, a bullet" and realistically takes cover.

SR combat tends to be quick with the former, exhautive with the latter.

Here's the rolls for Cosmo's info sortilage of the glyphs. It'll take about four hours assuming base times, so it's not going to be a sudden revelation. Just something he's sort of working on in the back of his mind, so feel free to adjust as usual. Assuming, of course, whether or not this would even work here.

Data Mining Time: 1 hour, base TN 4
Simple Data Mining of the Glyphs (Task Pool 3): 9 1 2 5 3 8 1 1 5 5 5 5 3
Info Sortilage (Complimentary): 5 8 3 5 7 1 2 9 1 9

Relevant Modifiers: Effectively using terminal mode (+2), appropriate Channel 6 or higher (-1), not sure if the Ancient Languages clustersoft counts as an appropriate knowledge skill, but if it does (-2).

If five successes were obtained, continue. If not, no insight is gained.

Info Sortilage Time: (5 1) hours divided by 2 = 3 hours
Info Sortilage Results: 4 2 2 11 2 1 2 3 3 1

Woulda done this in a PM, but psychotic reprecussions from such things in another game recently has scarred me to the point where I refuse to hide rolls anymore.

I thought we were playing the "Insert your fav movie lines Here" game.

LoL...

Nah, I wouldve used "Nuke the site from orbit" line from "BGMFH, the movie." The main character, a ships captain, solves most of the galaxies problems with that order.

Hmm, I don't watch that many movies so I'll have to insert quotes from other things.

"I'm going to hurt you. Go ahead and resist. I'll enjoy it more that way."

Also a Perception Check for anything mildly interesting on the way:

04 02 04 10 21 04

Why is it that I always get 21s on my Perception checks and never on my open tests?

Well, if the ward is still up, then I'm assuming it will have to be brought down before Ghost Dragon can enter. Maybe he should stay outside?

Ok I know it's not canon, but I ma going to say when the door opened, the ward came down.

Score!

The shield is down! Commence attack on the Pyramid's main reactor!

Targeting computer off.

James is switching on his WR3 now. He will palm his weapons and check ammo counts and turn off the safeties.