Bahahaha

And she'll have Psi-Shield too!

yeah, I had thought of taking them there at the very beginning of all this but we don't have a warper and the stuff would all be too heavy for Raider to carry. See the movie Armageddon for the issues of being on the surface of a comet. It wouldn't be a very stable platform on which to be doing delicate things like building a nuke. Plus, tunneling would take lots of time. Besides, if the missiles miss and we can find a warper, we can always retrieve them and use the warper to re-deploy them. Problem is that Raider doesn't trust Squiddy at all and believes he will take any opportunity to get his hands on a nuke and any warper we got right now would be on Squiddy's payroll. So, until Ash erupts, that's something that Raider would only do as a last resort if the missiles miss.

any warper we got right now would be on Squiddy's payroll.

Doug purchased Adam as an ally.

I should point out that I was kidding about Ash being a grav/warper with Psi-Shield.

As awesome as that'd be, it's a bit too tailored to the specific problems we're having right now to be valid.

I thought Adam was unavailable to us at the moment, or has that situation passed now?

"At the moment" meant hours or days. How long would it take you to re-build the nuke into something that would fit through the gate, A week?

For that matter even if Adam is busy for two weeks (an absurd amount of time considering what he's doing) we'd *still* be better off just getting the nuke ready and then warping up there.

That's true. Up to Bradford then. I don't know how long it would take to dismantle them and reassemble or even if he would deem that it is possible. If so I'm willing to edit my last post.

wait ... what? What do you want to do?

Save a nuke and take it apart to make it into something that would fit though once of Adam's gates.

So you want to to retroactively not launch all of the missiles then?

*grumbles* You folks need to use TT less and IC chatter more.

I'll allow it for 1 missile, though don't edit your post Fox, I'll take care of it during my next update...

Sounds good. I think Raider would still launch most of the missiles now even if the option was available to monkey with them. Too much chance of something going wrong and not working on arrival. This way if they impact, they will detonate, and if they don't we'll still have time to consider other options like retrieving them and trying the direct deployment approach. He will do one though.

In the interests of full disclosure, I wish to make the following statement:

The scenario currently taking place in the game with Doug, Anna, Gregory and Ashley is the trigger event for Ash's eruption. Dr Bradford has, as such, handed me the reins for this event...which is not really a combat so much as a narrative device.

The events that take place, which I will shortly post, are an eruption event, and in no way indicative of the powerlevel (though are indicative of the powers) that Ash will exhibit once she's done popping.

Sorry to spoil a little, but I didn't want any misunderstandings or for anyone to think I was godmodding here.

go Ashley, go Ashley, go Ashley +play cheerleaderroutine.mp4+

Feel free to thump the hounds for dramatic effect.

Hehe...hopefully that worked okay for y'all. Anna, I didn't have you participating in the festivities once blows started flying because I wasn't sure how far her pacifism went, and I didn't want to take liberties. I hope that's okay.

that was intense and absolutely ok. Anna would've been shocked by the time combar really started. It was perfect as you did. She has pacifism and combat paralysis as flaws... so that pretty much was what she was capable of doing. I liked it.

Wow, that was pretty damned cool. I had figured to come back to dozens of individually posted actions but I think that actually made for a better read as it was. Very nice. I'll let you folks play with the newb for a while.

Fox I'll try to get an update for you out either today or tomorrow morning.

Doug is suggesting that he pick up Gregory and Anna (Anna will keep Ash), and leave. Even with Anna expanded all of you together should still be less than his casual strength.

Anna weighs about 900 pounds atm.

900? There's errata that says one level of growth should increase your mass by 8x, not 2.

So if Anna normally weighs 450 pounds she'd weigh 3,600. Gregory & Ash I'll assume both weigh 150, so combined they weigh 3,900. Converted into Kilos that's 1800 kg.

See? Casual strength.

Heee

I guess I'll have to make one more update, since y'all aren't gonna help the baselines out. Heartless aberrants! (^_^)

yeah, heartless aberrants

for shame!

Anna's base weight is 440 pounds. If it's 8x mass increase than your calculation is closer to the truth.

About the other baselines - I thought they were all dead?

Nope. They had killed the guards at the actual building and were getting started on the recuperating wounded...but they hadn't gotten through them all yet.

Sorry...in hindsight I realize that wasn't clear.

Whoops, simutanious post.

Hee hee

and this concludes my brief stint as pseudo-storyteller. Thanks, and I hope you enjoyed the ride.

I have a thought about those headaches; Maybe Healing would help with them?

They're just eruption headaches.

She's not suffering any disease or condition.

I don't think healing would help as they are being caused by her node growing, only a lobotomy may have a chance at curing that

I leave for work and when I get home, I am already 15 posts behind.

Does Doug know if Raider can read Q-sigs?

Nope, no Q-sigs.

Hee...I don't want to be too annoying about this, so I'll just say OOC that Ash has many dots of Dormancy, reflecting that on some level she 'rejects' these abilities.

That said, I won't make it a big plot point or anything. She'll be able to undorm at will.

Other than some Level 4+ powers, the only thing I know that can detect what a person's powers are is Quantum Attunement. With a hefty dose of Medicine added to the mix.

Since Gregory has one dot of intelligence and is 'Uneducated', his medical skills are nil.

Arr...Ash's question is an ignorant one.

And even QA can only identify powers that are being used, I believe...or that are permanant. When Ash is dormed, she's not channeling quantum energy, so I dunno if even QA would work then.

Would someone with dorm be able to suggest that she might be dormed? She is obviously not showing any aberrations.

she might not have any, and she wouldn't yet be showing the Abby health glow either

I'm not the GM of course, but given the lightshow when she erupted, and the total lack of any quantum "effects" now, it might be a reasonable line of inquiry.

IMHO...

If Gregory has QA and uses it, QA wouldn't work... i.e. it'd show she's either a baselin