Hey all, Was wondering if you all wanted to continue apace or if I should update? If nothing else maybe you all can go say hi to Raider so that Fox can jump back in on the fun, otherwise I can update you a day forward to the next morning back in your hole ... err hideout

Hah!

I've no objection

We can assume the various tests are taking place "on the move," as it were, so we're getting closer to Raider as we go.

agreed

Careful Courier, there a lot of supposition and assumption in that post of yours...

Far as I can tell it's all IC. Yes, Doug is putting the worst possible spin on everything he knows, but far as he can tell it's also the most likely case, not just the worst case.

It is *possible* that James is a decent guy and his father was the root cause of most of this... but KB's treatment makes that unlikely.

Treatment of the baselines also.

OK just so that we're clear on that

OK I'm out for the weekend, have a good 4th all you americans and have a normal 4th for the rest of you!

If you guys want to involve raider we're going to have to skip time ahead a few hours. Raider was planning to sleep 6 hours then have a big breakfast. He's in the hideout. Why don't you guys head back there.

That works. Is the hideout in James' place?

it is underground in off one of the old subway tunnels inside the city. James doesn't know about it unless he has read someones mind.

Keen

I'm good to fast forward there, or arrive there in a post.

Anna will have to make us a back door... or she may have already. I vaguely remember that being a plan but I don't recall if we implemented it.

She can do it in several ways and I think there is one but we haven't said how and Doc Bradford doesn't like to retcon stuff. However it may be we've got a secret hideout - lets get there and get Raider involved in the talk.

Anna did make the backdoor just before this all happened. It would only have been a day or two at most ago in IC time.

Yes there is a backdoor that empties out into a basement nearby. I'll update right now...

I think we're far enough that Raider could make an appearance.

Thank you Fox I would have been disappointed had nobody bit on that one!

hehe, couldn't resist.

ladies and gents (or I think just gents)

The current chapter will be closing up soon (maybe another week or two). When the next chapter opens it will be ~3 months out and close to the do or die moment for the missiles. Please think about how you want to cover the interim both IC and from EXP spending and let me know...

I'll be handing out exp in the next few days as well to help the transition move along smoothly ... butter me up while you can

ok folks ... big exp drop this time given the 3 months downtime coupled with the prior 3 months downtime ... 20 exp for all ...

Per the usual drop me a line with your expenditures and what that does to your total accounting please.

Any chance Raider can get Q6 and Mastery with Gravity Manip with this?

Doug has *no* chance BTW. Not enough Q.

I think that might be just a hair out of reach, but a good idea.

regarding Mastery ... I'm leaning heavily toward not using it in this game

Regarding power development ... remember folks ... keep it in your theme...

OK, Doc, what's the difference between "Trickster" and "Persuader"?

w/o a book in front of me I cannot answer but I believe that one is Mega Manip and the other is Mega Cha.

I raised Healing from 2 to 3 and Animal/Plant Mastery from 1 to 2. I think that's in theme

(Impersonating John Wayne)

"Only one nova has Trickster 'round here."

BTW: Both Persuader and Trickster are Mega-Manip

Fair enough.

You can get Trickster if you want. I was just letting you know that one of us already has it. In fact, pretend I didn't even inform you of it.

Telling super human lies isn't really in theme for Doug.

Please continue in the current chapter folks ... unless you are waiting for me at this point ... I'll update tomorrow for sure ...

I used 21 exp to raise my Elemental Mastery from 3 to 4 dots.

1 exp was leftover from when I created, I added that to the award of 20.

EM: Light?

EDIT: And Whoa, EM. Impressive.

EM: Force, actually. It's just glowy force.

Re: Mastery

I will allow mastery only on powers that are already at 5 dots ...

4 dots. Thus the Storm technique does 8 *levels* of damage, which is a maintenance effect so juice isn't an issue. So...

In theory, if you had Adapt, you could zap the entire rock. Maybe Doug could fly you around.

Speaking of Doug, I increased his Flight Speed.

Since the others have done so:

-I raised Gregory's Mega-Stamina to 3

-He has also learned a new power: Quantum Bolt: shards of force-an offshoot of his ff