I'll post tomorrow.

I'll be back to posting normally on Wed.

take whatever time you need

I'd like to point out that maybe Raider or Courier would be better suited to getting Anna to the surface ...

Hee

No one else seemed to be in a hurry to do something.

Er...admittedly, I'm fuzzy on how exactly to get out. Is there a way out? I could use the Move function of my EA to expedite the matter.

One question btw - its a feeding requirement, but I'm unsure how severe it is, if I miss out one or two days? Don't want to make it more or less extreme than it actual is? Its been 2 days now, if I'm not mistaken. How lang can I go on without?

Sorry to ask these questions here, but I've never played a character with feeding requirement before and don't have any experience with it.

Follow the tunnel and it goes back up to the surface - however it does pass by and apparently active station/enterence that is gaurded. To move yourself and Anna with your EA might make a mess - lots of water ...

You've been in completely artificial light for 2 days straight and using your powers to boot so yeah you do need to feed, I'll check on the specifics and get back to you on how long you could go under the best of conditions


BTW - Courier & Seven - are you waiting for something from me or one of the other PCs?

Far as I know the only one of us who can lead her back into Sunlight is Raider. And I'm kind of slammed at work today.

Ok, I'm back guys.

yay!

So does Anna have any oddities about her physical appearance other that her large size? Need to know before I write Raider's reaction to her undressing.

Joani - you may want to put up a character description into the Characters thread for the others to refer to as needed.

She is immensly large and hugely muscled (bulging muscles aberration). Her skin is usually a healthy green tint with a mapleleave like structure. Her eyes are like liquid amber without iris. You can tell by the way she moves and behaves that she is very selfconscious about her appearance and tries to somewhat hide her extreme bulk by hunching.

Once she has put on her clothes she appears more confident.

Ok, just wondering if Raider would be ogling her. He is a young guy after all. What are her Appearance/Charisma scores?

2's in all socials for Anna

We should wait for Bradford to return, because I have sent him a PM concerning the scouting that Gregory did. I want to be able to give you guys information about the surroundings, if possible.

I won't post this yet but after Raider gets Anna & Doug out he'll fly them somewhere where he can "harvest" something that will stain the skin... assuming we don't have something like that with us.

Umm ... hmm,

well being that it's winter any of your usual plant-based dyes/pigments will be out of season. Your best bet would be something like an old tatoo parlour or craft store but that stuff would have rotted years ago. I think you might be SOL on this one. I'll do some research and try and figure out if there is anything else commonly known that might work.

Glad to see your surgery went well Gregory!!

same here! I hope you do fine.

Aside from two holes in my back/spine, I am doing well. They say I will be stiff and in pain for another week or so. The worst part is that I can't get the dressing's wet, so no showers or baths.

So you finally will adopt Gregorys natural body odor?

I make the wife give me a sponge bath.

Welcome Back Gregory!

OK so to clarify before my next update:

Anna and Courier - attempting to infiltrate the city as aberrants?

Raider - continued exploration of the computer systems within the Tower

Gregory - Continued scouting for information, tech, food, etc

Caly & Seven - ??

Speaking of Seven is she still around? Anybody know if she's active in any other games?

I'll be following Courier until he tells me otherwise.

Don't know about Seven or Caly

Seven has been scarce for a bit in the other game. Doug is doing what you said. I'm assuming his soak doesn't apply to his hair so that part will be easy.

well superman had to use his heat vision to "shave" in the comics if I remember correctly

Only because the writers didn't want to take the idea of a skin tight force field to it's natural conclusion. I.e. that he either needs to wear a mask or live with the consiquences. When supes gets hit by a nuke (or whatever) he should get a hair cut over his entire body down to the distance of the forcefield.

If Doug gets hit by a big fire blast it should leave him bald... which we can (and have) so far ignored because of Eufiber. Eufiber gets all the subject's powers so it gets any forcefields. Thus anything inside the eufiber is also protected.

Superman wants it both ways, wavy hair that looks good and flows outside the forcefield, and fireblasts that don't remove it.

I'm not sure the whole "force field" idea is an old one too. It seems really new to me. It's rather elegant, I admit...plugs neatly into the solar power thing as well as how he keeps losing and regaining his invulnerability. But originally it was just his body that was indestructible, wasn't it?

Oh...and as for what Calypso is doing...um. Wishing she had different powers?

I dunno. She seems like she's not really working out to me. It's hard for me to post as her lately...I have to force myself.

Lily drop me a PM and let me know what it is you want to do to resolve this. If I have a better idea of what you want out of the character I can try to work that into the game more. IF you need to re-work your PC or even create a new one I have a couple of ways I can do that for you as well.

Let me try and help you on this, I'd rather not lose yet another PC.

It would be a pity if you left, Lily. I thought Anna and Calypso could be a good team once we get to know eachother a little better. (like nature spirits of different aspects - the whole group has that flavour)

And your powers are quite awesome from what I've read so far. Whats bugging you? I'm with Bradford, let us help you!

Ah! I should clarify.

I didn't mean to imply I wanted to leave the game. Not at all. It's just that for quite awhile now, there hasn't been anything important or interesting for Calypso to do. Aside from some largely narrated "flavor" things, like bringing drinking water and so on, she's contributed absolutely nothing since the rocket storm...and even that was with an NPC's help, and had horrific consequences.

I like to feel useful when I play, and I don't think she IS. Further, the things she's useful for...largely combat...could be done better with other powers.

This may be one of those concepts that looks cool on paper, but in play sort of...isn't. Or maybe it's me. I admit, I get the feeling that I'm just not being imaginative enough. That she COULD be useful if I could just think of HOW...but even if that's true, she's not really inspiring me to get into her and be clever with her.

All that said, I don't want out of the game. And it's always hard for me to just ditch a character. It sounds silly, but I feel a sense of responsibility for them. I made Calypso...it feels wrong to just throw her away.

Bah! I'll think of something.

* addendum - And I'm not trying to imply or suggest that I've somehow been shortchanged either. Calypso's powers are great, but narrowly focused. I do not and would not expect the GM to serve up special circumstances that are targeted specifically at her specialty. Just making sure there's no misunderstanding about my expectations.

Rebuild and/or revamp time?

I dunno. That kind of retcon might help the mechanics of the situation, but it would wreck continuity...and continuity isn't unimportant. Plus, the problem is only partly the powers. Calypso herself, as a personality, never really solidified in my head.

folks - I'm going to create a wrap-up post and then start a new chapter. This beast has gone on long enough and the way things are shaping up I think we are about due to start a new chapter (thematically and hopefully narritively).

Expect that stuff over the course of the day today or at worst first thing tomorrow.