Ok hold the boat here. After watching another thread completly break down from personal attacks I am calling the GM rule. This discussion ends now.

this was originally going to be a pm to Leo, but Shadow asked me to put it up OOC.. so here goes..

@ leowulf

you're completely right.. I was kind of looking for a fight.
I have a long standing dislike of a certain breed of roleplayers who consider "roleplaying" being as pissy and unlikeable as they possibly can simply because it serves their ego to cause a stir.
having said that.. I unfairly lumped you in with that group, without really observing you playing any other character.
so.. I concede and offer all apologies..

damn smileys.

[insert witty comment about "getting along" here]

Hmmm, James' last instruction just made me think of something: what are we going to do about Whisper? Can we have her NPC'd?

I know we just let Cougar kind of slide of the show, as it were (hindsight: we should've had an IC post that he didn't make it through and the Gate got him).

The heck? My IC post in which Torque examines the Gems is gone. It must not have processed somehow. I'll have to repost it.

Since Whisper's an NPC Shadow can make her the Goa'uld without ticking off any player by destroying his/her character.

Of course now that I've said it that kind of ruins things. . .

I don't really want to play Whisper, and I was kind of hoping I could convince Morg to come back. But she hasn't responded to my emails...

For now she will go along with whatever James said.

Everyone give me a quickness check to stay on your feet.

Here's to hoping a low center of gravity has its perks...

Quickness: 3 4 5 1
Reaction Test (to summon his skyboard inside just before the shit hit the fan): 5 2 2 2 5 2 2 2 1 11

Quickness: 2, 3, 3, 4, 15, 17

04 04 05 04 05 01
Here's figuring I just fell on my butt unless the TN is 5 or less.

After the last time you fell, I'd have thought you burn some karma to not do it again.

Are there any columns in the main room? Doorways? Any cover?

Small Unit Tactics: 1, 3, 8, 10

There is very little cover. The main entrance way though is a corridor, and from the entrance you cannot see into the temple itself.

When we get the results back, and assuming Cosmo managed to stay afoot, these are the rolls for his two quick actions if/when he gets the chance.

Command to send Skyboard to the shadows at the top of the temple and wait on stand-by with Sensors on passive (Task Pool +3 dice): 1 4 7 3 2 4 1 3 3

Disappear into the closest shadow-filled nook (Stealth, Karma Pool +4 dice): 13 3 1 4 5 6 10

And there he'll stay, watching the scene unfold from his brave, bold position cowering in the GM's namesake.

Greaaat

15 10 09 04 03 03 03 02 02

Quickness: 23, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2

Quickness Test: 1, 5, 4, 5, 2, 3, 5
Astral Perception Test: 3, 3, 2, 4, 4

Quickness 10 05 02 02 02

Hey guys, I don't want to start anything now and then have it hang over the weekend... so I am going to hold it here. Feel free to post, or get ready in whatever way you feel is appropriate.


See you all bright and early Monday morning.

Well whatever works I guess.

@Tziluthi: What do the Goa'uld have to do with spines? I saw the movie Stargate and Ra looked a lot like The Thing, kind of rock-like with sharp teeth when he wasn't in human form.

For all intents and purposes, the movie is completely different from the series.

The Go'ould in the series are actually parasitic sybiotes. They look like snakes and take over a body by wrapping thier bodies around the spine and lodging its head in the lower brain stem of the "host". Hence "Snake-Heads"

The host is powerless but apparently remains aware of its surroundings and actions. Like being on a hitcher jack with a decker. Talk about nightmare...

Cosmo's performing a full-spectrum passive sensor as well as looking through the datastreams he had the drone recording before he summoned it inside.

Passive Sensor Test (Karma Pool +3 dice if it's refreshed): 1 5 5 9 4 1 2 2 5 1 14 3 (3 3 9)

Come on then, Shadow, it's already Monday over here.

Sorry to dump that on you, BGMFH, but Spider has a point. We should try to talk to whoever shows up. It could be the Asgaard (crosses fingers), I really dont wanna piss them off. Either way, we are supposed to make contact out here. Unfortunately ol' Alex forgot to get us a Face when he was selecting his "Navy SEALs Fire Team."

If you choose to attack these people, your intiative will be as follows,

Ran 21
Chase 20
GD 20
James 17
Cosmo 11
Os 10
Torque 8

For now they don't see you. They are about 10 meters from everyone.

I'm voting it's not the Asgaard ;)

Dump it on me?
Ever seen Fifth Element?

"We;re sending in a negotiator!"
*Bang*
"Anyone else want to negotiate"

Personally I was hoping it was Domino's delivery.

Ancient Languages (Task Pool 3) to see if the LinguaSoft understood a word from ol' goldenseal: 5 4 4 4 4 3 4 3 8

And where's my sensor data?

Dang, dead last. Figures.

Anyway Torque's going to cycle through his linguasoft chips and see if he can find one that matches their language.
Linguasoft rolls:
Russian
09 04 03 01 05 05

Sperethiel
03 02 04 03 01 09

Spanish
01 03 02 05 05 03

Japanese
04 01 02 03 02 02

Arabic
01 03 02 11 04 04

Languages:

None match.

Sensor Data:

What exactly is your board capable of picking up, and what are you looking for.

It has Rating 5 Sensors onboard, and I'm particularly interested in any EM signals in use (particularly when the transporter-thing kicks in) as well as trying to get any readings of whatever it was that landed on our heads while the board was outside.

I vote that we slaughter them all, steal the pyramid ship, and go for a joy ride. I got shotgun.

Well, at least you didn't say, "we come in peace."

Initiative starts now, Ran goes first.

@ Torque,

Ressist a 10S and a 10D.

Ballistic armor applies, but is halved.

That's going to leave a mark.

I think it would be good if we could get a rough idea of where everything and everyone is in reference to the three mean guys. I'm spoiled by your drawings, Shadow. They are literally great for being illustrative. A quick rundown of positions would suffice if you don't have time to do a drawing. Basically, if Ghost Dragon is in the corner behind them, are they still visible, and are they still in the room or in the hallway leading up? You said they took some steps toward the pool.

Also, does the beam of light mean the commander is leaving, or is it some kind of shield?

The beam of light is probably his personal shield. We'll know in a minute...

"All unists: Irene. I say again, all units: Irene."

Free Action: called shot to the head of the First Prime.
Simple Action: Aim
Simple Action: 3 round burst

SMGs (TN's: +1 for uncompensated recoil, -2 for SL2, -2 for Aim, called shot penalty negated by SL2): 3, 3, 5, 5, 7, 9

HK base dmg: 8M. I don't know what range, final TN, or final damage I'm looking at. Hopefully a lot

It just occured to me how tactically screwed we are. A Go'oul Mother Ship just (probably) set down on top of the Pyramid. We have no where to retreat to. We have to way to escape. We're outmaned and outgunned.

Edit: So, my first thought when Torque got shot was to say IC:

"Torque's down!! Medi- ...Aw crap."



On the brightside, they probably have a Sarcophagus (sp?)

Don't wait for everyone to post before posting your actions. I will resolve them in the correct order. Still waiting on the rest of the team, and some rolls from Torque.

here's a quick map of the temple, based on my understanding of where everyone is..

Temple Map

Burst at the Jaffa's legs, burst at the Jaffa's ring-control device. Smartlink-2, assault rifle ranges, 5 recoil comp. 3 combat pool on each burst, which totals up to 10 on each burst, right?

First burst: 11, 9, 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 1, 1

Second Burst: 7, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2

up to 15 Meters this turn, up to 7.5m on each pass. James will not cross into the circle.

SMG Ranges, Burst Fire, 3 Bullets

Medium Range (TN5)
Stationary Target -1
Attacker Running +4
Smartlink 2 -2
Recoil +0 (+3-5)
TN (6)?

5 Dice from SMG Skill + 5 Combat pool dice
(10 08 07 04 04 04 03 03 02 02 ) 3 Successes?

@ Tziluthi, and BGMFH, your rolls and numbers look good. I'll reolve it shortly.

For all intents and purposes, Cosmo is just delaying his actions. If they get wasted, so be it.

I've got 10 ballistic right? Yeah, 10.

Okay, so rolling against a 5S (Plus 4 Combat Pool)
05 19 03 09 04 05 01 01 04
5 Successes, stage down to L.
Rolling against 5D (Plus 5 Combat pool)
01 03 07 10 05 01 10 07 02 04
5 Successes, stage down to an M. I guess I'll have to live with 4 Boxes of damage until I have time to biotech it.

Anyway Torque will use aim once and fire on the nearest Guy with a staff, if they're still here when his initiative pass comes.
Rolling against a 4 (No combat Pool):
01 02 04 10 02 04
3 Successes, goody I stage it up to 9D.

Ghost Dragon is going to try and sneak up behind the remaining Jaffa while maintaining his spell. Even if the guy hears him, he'll have a blind fire modifier and a lighting modifier to overcome for any attack roll.

Stealth Roll: 4, 4, 2