I kow the scene has been advanced a bit but I am still waiting for Lily to post a response to Jack since Sam and Jack were still talking prior. Once she responds and we wrap upour little vignette I can "catch up" to the current moment. Sometimes online play can sort of flow on without you!

Good looking naked woman? Of course Cherub is all over her...

I'm sorry about that, Jack. I hope it's ok with you nonetheless.

Well nevermind! Looks like Lily just advanced to the scene. I will react accordingly.

Check me on this, Didn't we have a warper with us?

Tom can attune one person and carry another. If Grey Goo shapeshifts into something small that could be three people.

Sean has Teleport now too and can take one other. we can also make multiple trips if necessary.

The Fool has enough Attunement to Teleport him and another pretty much anywhere in the world. However he obviously can't do that while dormed. To be honest I am enjoying the human side of him coming out and don't want to prematurely nip that dramatic hook in the bud. Basically I want to wait as long as possible or until a suitably dramatic moment comes to undorm him again.

And as an asnser to Samantha's wondering it isn't a real multiple personality disorder. he still has all his memories of being the Fool and when he undorms he will remember being Jack. His perceptions are so skewed however that it really does make a difference. I suppose given the way the Fool "talks" it could be seen in that light but I am still exploring that and what it means.

Oh yeah and we *did* have a wraper: Vid, who has been awol since before we entered the Northern Sea. She never left OC HQ with us...

Arr, Sam has access to less info than I do. She is reaching the conclusion that it's not split, since Jack seems to remember himself as the Fool...

That was Void - but he/she is AWOL for more than 3 weeks

Here's to hoping that we as a group had some sort of private communications protocol setup ...

OK, as I understand it… we have:
Sean/Wraith (teleport and attune 5)
Cherub
Grey Goo
Jack/The Fool
Mysterious Woman
Nosferatu

Callum (who already teleported out)
Shiva (who also teleported out)

For Sean to attune someone and teleport take 4 juice (I'm assuming you have an extra on T-port). Going back takes 3.
Total: 4 MW- 4
Total: 7 back- 3
Total: 11 Jack- 4
Total: 14 back- 3
Total: 18 Nos- 4
Total: 21 back- 3
Total: 25 GG- 4
Leaving one person on site.

However if Sean has Teleport, or Teleport + RQC, then he can take everyone with 9 long range T-ports and 18 rounds (or roughly one minute). This assumes he has a full pool.

Another menu option is for two people to go hide. This reduces the number of teleports needed by 4.

Where are we teleporting to?

If it's not too far, Gray could Shapeshift some Flight and follow that way.

I'm assuming he has a full pool of quantum as well.

He does not have an extra on T-port. However, if we have lost the warper, I could switch teleport to warp instead I have an extra 2 np that is unaccounted for thanks to our 10xp drop from the prelude.

Otherwise, if I stick with Teleport, can one person shrink themselves, if so I could attune them and someone else and take them in one trip saving several quantum points.

Joani, what do you think?

France. It's 4000 miles away... that's about 6600 km and a 7 hour flight for Hypermove 2.

The only people who have anything close to shrinking are Grey Goo (who already said she can't reduce her mass) and *maybe* Cherub.

If his current form has DD, then you might be able to take him and one of the women.

You're idea is ok, but I just got an interesting PM with someone who would take over the Warper part. I need to get that sorted out. So I guess you gotta stick with what you have, which is maybe a bit more difficult but not impossible. I'd like to keep the scene a bit more under suspense.

If you need me to update, then tell me - as of now I'm waiting for you to decide what to do.

@Callum - I'm under the impression that you want to know some specifics - tell me if I'm right?

Joani - short answer - yes

Long Answer - I'm assuming that there is some amount of time jump between my posts that will make it impossible to get ahold of the other by radio even once I return to NY. As such Malcolm is going to go on the opnet, I figure that the team must have some protocols in place for secur communication methods.

In the meantime his Dad probably has some sources and info that wouldn't be common knowledge plus he can read the news feeds for more info as well.

@ Callum - bingo - it shouldn't be that difficult to set that up. I'll be updating that part for you.

In that case, I think Cherub is the only one who can reduce his weight... and the only people he could be paired with would be either Grey Goo or the mystery woman. Presumably we want to get the unconscious woman out of here first so I suggest that we do that.

That drops the number of needed teleports to 7, or 14 rounds.

Thanks for the info - I'll keep that in mind.

I had a tough day today. I'm about to move into a larger apartment and we did half of the paint job yesterday and tomorrow we'll finish the rest (4 1/2 rooms about 102 squaremeters in total). I will make a large update between today and tomorrow. Feel free to debate your situation assuming that Nosferatu finds an entrance to the sub.

@ Joani.. While talking with Hyoseph, he said that having Backing 5 allowed him to take three free power-gadgets. If that is true then the Fool would have had a seperate teleporter...to save his combat port for actual combat rather than drain juice. I know I paid for my custom gadget seperately but is that still true about Backing providing gadgets?

And on a related note...If we end up *not* being backed by the OC anymore, would we be allowed to redistribute those Backing points?

It'd take a lot for them to walk away from 7+ nova agents.

Granted, nuking NY is a lot, but still.

Nothing is set in stone yet. I can't tell at this moment where the story will head, since very much is dependant on your own decisions (I've got a plan, but I always take player driven plots into focus - so if you all decide to go rogue, so be it)

And thats the other side of having Backing...at level 5 they have you by the short hairs!

Double edged sword no doubt!

If Tom's accidental puns didn't confuse people, I think he could attune the heavier of the two women and then with both of their masses reduced they could go with the lighter one.

Good luck getting one of them to admit she's the heavier one!

Hee hee

Most likely Gray is heavier. I imagine her 'flesh' is denser than it used to be.

Can Gray Dorm?

Or maybe a better question is how much she weighs?

Assume Grey weighs 150 pounds. That would make her and Tom 75 together. That would mean that if the mystery woman weighs less than 145 all three of us could go.

150 is a fair guess. I hadn't really thought in that detail about her... She can -look- as heavy or light as she wants, generally.

If we need a few pounds shaved, we can always blast off a chunk of Gray and have her regrow it after we get to France.

Good stuff. That drops the number of teleports needed to 5, or 10 full rounds. It will only take 13 juice too.

Mystery woman weighs less than 145 pounds

One of the fun parts of Attunement+Flight is that whoever you're with gets the power to fly... but controlling that power remains in the original nova.

ok, I'm going to split my update in two parts. One for Callum and one for the party. I hope this should give you a chance to reunite.

Uh...did Cherub (or Goo, or Nos or whomever it might matter to) miss that Jack just asked them if he should undorm? If Jack undorms we have another teleporter with 5 attune.

Also Joani did you get my question about Backing = 3 "free" devices?

Yes and yes to answer that question... buuuut the device is acting up, since it uses the OC-Network to localize its position and the position you want to teleport to. It may need some engineering to fix that.

Another question regarding the update for Callum: Is the detailed description of Jack a descrip of him as the Fool or dormed? I know Im not there in that scene but OOC Im curious. Also given my characters cipher (which is even more potent though Proteus IIRC) would I then be described as a "previousnly unknown" Nova?

EDIT: Okay forgive me because I post questions as Im in the middle of reading but I gu