Arr...I thankye. She's got enough juice that if there's no combat brewing, success would come sooner or later.

And on the end of a chapter note, let me lavish praise all around! I slop over with freshets of free-flowing praise! Praise to the GM for providing good hookage for new PC's! Praise to my fellow new PC's for taking said hookage and being cool! Praise to the old PC's for gutsily infiltrating a city of the damned and also being cool!

Praise to me, for...for...praising!

Heee. Seriously though, great job all, and I look forward to meeting up!

OK everyone, I'm back.

ok I'm preparing the start of Chapter 4. Courier and Raider. If you have anything you'd like to do in York please post accordingly, otherwise sometime this afternoon (around 4 ish EST) I'll post your return to Newborough and the start of Chapter 4.

I've also sent you all PMs with your Experience gains... enjoy!

Doug intends to go back... but he also considers Raider to more or less be in charge 'cause of his superior Int.

Chapter 4 has begun. Raider and Courier please note that you have used 10 Quantum during your exploration of York, Lily assume that you have had to activate EA:Water twice today.

Looks like we need to talk to the new folks and question Robert before we head back out.

Can we identify Doug's suit as being made of Eufiber automatically upon seeing it?

Yes, Doug is being sneaky about asking someone to allow the link. And although we're not touching the initial link creation doesn't actually say it needs physical contact, just permission.

Only if he uses it or has designed it to look like something other than normal clothes

You're right it doesn't say touch is needed, I would say proximity would be though (irrelevant now but maybe later)

Hey folks sorry about the blackout I had an unexpected house guest and was unable to break away to post. I'm back and will be posting shortly

for the new folks ... Billy's NPC entry is in the NPCs thread, second from the last post.

I think by now Seven will be getting the idea Doug was serious about communication enablization.

I'm going to start reposting Gregory's part of the story into a Chapter 3.5 thread. Nobody post there, I'll just have to delete it.

Well nevermind that didn't take nearly as much time as I thought it would.

You haven't asked Seven again, Courier.

I know, but he's been busy... and it's about to get worse.

Fox, I struck out your extra actions for two reasons:

1) I want to keep the group on the same timing
2) As events unfold you may want to react to things

For the rest of you, as you post your actions please keep in mind the following:

1) Clarity is key, I'll try to be a clear as possible about what is going on an who is doing what but I need you to be clear in your actions
2) The more detailed the description of your action the more entertaining for all of us and the more likely I will give you a bonus
3) Try not to get too far ahead of things, give yourself a chance to react to others actions and help me keep everything in the same round for timing.

Thanks

No problem... That was so you what have an idea of what Fox intends. But like they say, battle plans rarely survive the first engagement with the enemy.

In just under the wire Sebastian - I'll be updating sometime this morning, sooner rather than later if I can find the time.

OK folks, luckily for you all Adam was off the mark by a few meters and most of you either stayed at the gate or moved off so only Gregory and Courier (the two best equipped for massive damage) were near the blast center.

Go ahead and post your next actions. For a layout of the scene use the following:

basically if Gregory in the center we have the following:
- Courier is above James' group about 15 meters out from Gregory
- Sebastian and Calypso are about 12 meters behind Gergory opposite James/Courier
- Seven is about 15 meters from Gregory at about 4:30 (if James/courier is 12:00)
- Raider is about 12 meters from Gregory at 9:00

Oh an Gregory's monster is heading off at about 10:30 and is probably 6 meters out.

edit again:
Fox I wasn't sure how you would want to react to the blast so you can post two actions, one for the reaction to the blast (when everybody else was getting up and/or activating powers) and a second for the "first turn".

Hmm.... How high up am I?

RE: Adam
The good news is he's (I think) almost out of juice. The bad news is "almost" isn't the same as "empty".

Hmm I wasn't intending to be deceptive on this part so let me clarify. The case gregory grabbed exploded, The explosion was NOT Adam turning on you folks. While a great, evil idea, I cannot claim it to be MY great evil idea. Adam opened the warp and that is that.

Courier since I am at work I have no clue what your 1 dot of flight gives you for speed in combat. We can assume the following:
- you were at an altitude of about 12 meters after you covered from the blast,
- your strafing run would have used about half of your movement giving you half to climb (vertically or otherwise a little trig goes a long way )

Looking at courier's stats he has no mega perception so his best possible range without assisstance would be a few hundred feet. Since you actually want to hit the target you'll want to be close to eliminate penalties and avoid giving the target a good chance to dodge. Realistically, against novas who are trying to not get killed, maybe 100' effective range, Feel free to argue this point, you may change my mind.

RE: Explosion
Ah. And better still, it looks like the "rush him" idea is pretty good.

RE: One dot in flight.
Power rating x 4 + 40 meters per action; So that's 44m per action.

I'll PM you with the rest.

Gregory,

If you want to use the psi-link, go ahead. It can't be switched in combat without taking an action (which means it won't be), but it was on you right before we entered.

bit of an odd request here but do any of you recall any particularly good lines of Squiddy's/James'? I'd like to give me a signature for when I post as him, just a little something extra to add flavor

everybody else stunned into silence? I woulda thought that the replies would have been rapid fire!

Sorry, sorry! I've been without internet for a week now! Getting DSL at my new place was bizarrely complicated and involved...and thankfully, FINALLY, over.

So I'm back. And by the look of things I have a lot of catching up to do. :-0

No worries, it's been a slow week at work is all ... I need something to do

Well I'd been hoping Sebastian would post but in the intrest of getting the story moving again I'm going to move ahead regardless ... expect an update sometime this morning

Just got back, I'll post tomorrow (Sunday).

Posted, I didn't play up the pain from Squid's attack because it appears it didn't do any damage (I assume with injury penalties & split action penalties Doug was probably able to resist it).

Not every attack does immediate damage <eg>

:Glup:

I'll be away for the next few days on buisness travel. I'll be back this weekend and will update then, if you haven't posted please do so by then.

Morning all, I'm back. Sorry I didn't post this weekend but a late flight delayed my return and I saw people still hadn't posted. I'll try and update sometime today.

D'oh! sorry guys Work was busy and I wasn't feeling well last night. Updating now.

Just to be clear, Doug isn't planning on making a bee line for the ship but will circle around (mostly upwards) as much as he can.