darn my sense of professionalism... oh, wait, that was you.

Yeah, I remembered we had talked about that, but I had forgotten what the decision had been. Now that you remind me it makes sense.

which won't stop me trying to hit on you again

After seeing the expression on James' face the next morning he might take her up on it, but not if he thought it would cause conflict.

"Smug but wasted"?

And this would be a good time to pump James about what was what, I put a post on top of my other post because a few hours later I realized I was being slow and really should ask Fox something.

Question about Preston, does he have any aberrations or is that social thing a flaw and not taint?

The social thing is the 1 pt version of the flaw "Bad Vibe"
It's basically the same feeling you get when you're standing next to a Force Recon Sniper. Someone who has undergone a change upstairs to become a human predator. Their thought processes change, their mannerisms change. Not to the point that they stand out or aren't human, it's subtle. I don't know how to describe it better than that.

That's pretty good. I've always felt that was a pretty grim flaw.

Just out of curiosity.... Has anyone here besides me actually stood next to a Force Recon Sniper? Just so I know who actually has a first hand understanding of what I'm talking about here.

Hard to tell. Not to my knowledge, without the context how would I know? But your reasoning and flaw appear pretty good if that's what you're asking.

Edited Jillian's character entry slightly with the following: 7 Style Dice against men (i.e. App 4, Style 1, Sexy Merit). She also has 6 dice in Might.

For those of you who are looking for some sort of mechanical representation of Preston's "first impression"

-- App 2 (He calls it Rugged)

-- Style 3 ("You know what the difference is between you and me? I make this look good")

-- Bad Vibe 1 (Human Predator)

-- Sexy (Girls like men in uniform...)

Total of 6 Style Dice.

Bad Vibe doesn't take away dice. Bad Vibe grants +1 Diff.

That's 5/7 (men/women) with a +1 Diff.

Excellent, it works out better that way -- I likeses it

Guys, feel free to move the story forward. I'm just sidetracking with Jennifer, since Violet won't come with you unless someone asks her to.

James is under the impression that V isn't functional right now. Not only isn't he going to ask but he's going to make excuses to others.

I think its absolutely allright if you go without her since I can spent the meantime with JoAnna and the other leftbehinds at the base. Unless Alex thinks its better to stick together?

JoAnna will get her act together... literally. I guess Fox and James will be gone? Are we leaving right now?

Will Fox and James be flying/leaping this time, or will vechiles be used?

I think we pretty much *have* to take a truck back. There's too much stuff and it's too heavy to just pick up and carry.

It's only been like 6 months. In theory we could fly over there with a battery jumper and gas stabilizer and a few tools and fix a cargo truck for the way back. That'd be quickest I think and we could scout out for good roads on the way there.

I'm thinking that Priest, who has a semi and has to use the roads, already knows the good roadways and places to stop along the way. His people are pretty nomadic.

He also has a female nova named Leo with his team who is an ace mechanic, basically insuring that any truck they find will be able to get their supplies home.

Ok I managed to have Dan go back to the primary base finally, so what's the score. I'm gathering that he's probably the only one back at the base at the moment.

Well, Jennifer is on her way back to were the other Novas had been. I think they're about to leave for another mission. I'm not sure when, though.

Bah, I was awol 1 day and everyone decides to return and post all at once! *grumbles* j/k

Drew, do you want to run the expedition to pick up the military hardware? If not then we can just say it happened and pick up with Ch 2, having jumped the story ahead 2 weeks. Also, if you do run the expedtion, do you want to make that into a new chapter or keep it under ch 1?

Let's do it and keep it under Ch 1.

so just where are you guys? back at the original base (where I had Dan Hawkins return to) or some other one? I've read everything and I must have missed it.

I think the original one... which I also assume has been expanding with more and more people showing up.

We are back at Fox's base. Currently, we are about to set out on an expedition to pick up a few weapons to better defend the base, and which might be useful if we need them against that group that destroyed the nearby settlement.

Yes, it is expanding. We currently have two projects going on. We are building some outer defenses that zombies should not be able to get through and the characters are about to go out on an expedition to acquire some more weapons.

After that, we know about a government facility in Virginia that was doing research on 'Portals'. That sounds interesting and they just killed everyone but two survivors at a nearby settlement to prevent them from doing their own research, which has also been said to be research into curing the zombie plague.

Ok. Where is Fox at the moment, because Dan's going to go look for him after he showers to report in on the bust on the tip he'd gotten. And pretty much see if there's something else he needs to do.

Fox is with a loose collection of novas at the moment, organizing that trip to go get more weapons... specifically ground to air stuff. There'll be two crews that go, a flying scout group and a vehicular group. The apparent consensus is that the new gear is too much to fly back.

Ok even though he can fly, He'd probably go on the ground, to provide security for the convoy. A military issue HumVee should be of help there I'd imagine.

Wait, what time is it? Shouldn't it be around noon in that thread? I'd thought we were going today (although granted, it's not a problem if we don't).

It should be around noon, and the mission will leave at dawn the next morning.

Re: Friday Night Frolic

I'm pretty sure Seductive Looks and Appearance Alteration would counteract each other since Seductive Looks changes you to be whatever they want to see, and Appearance Alteration changes you to be whatever you want to be... but whatever, it's your story. Go for broke

Thats a good question, Hyo. I always read S-Looks as something more psychological - it makes the other perceive you the way they want you to be. In conjunction with Appearance Alteration you can actually make those changes for real (within the limits of App. Alt. of course).

The description is a bit fuzzy imho - and I'm not a native speaker. Anyways - Violet will use whichever enhancement suitable to get what she wants

(Violet activates the M-App enhancements of ultra-sexiness. Got it :P)

Let's let the posting in Ch. 1 taper off for a clean break, please.

OK... I think I'll post something about James going off and coming back a few hours later with a Striper Bar and a Jukebox.


A question about the setting:
Every now and then someone posts something about exterminating all the zombies in an area. Too what extent is that possible?

I mean, any local area that has any development is also going to have hundreds of thousands of zombies (or even a lot more). 1000 boxes of ammo, where each box has 20 bullets, doesn't even put a dent in that but it's probably a lot more than the typical gun store has.