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Just a quick warning, I don't receive emails from this site. I don't know why I'm subscribed and everything to everything so the only way I know a post has been made is to actually come here and look at the site. Having said that I'm neurotic about missing something so I check a lot...

I've never heard of anyone getting e:mails from this site. I've never received any. But then, I check the site two or three times a day simply because I have the time. Perhaps, you don't have so much time, Ember.

You can subscribe go threads which "should" send out alerts. Even when signing up to the site I had to talk to the mod’s directly because the site wouldn’t / couldn’t sent me emails to verify my ID.

It’s like there’s a black hole between the server and me that only eats email. Although isn’t everything falling into a black hole little more than a stream of electrons falling through the event horizon and disappearing from our universe forever?

Yeah there is the possibility to get email notifications but many email providers recognize them as spam as far as I know.
I created a Discord server for easier communication. I will announce new posts there and I'm also available for questions there.

https://discord.gg/959j6q

That Funds chart is a bit confusing. Let's disregard the business skill for this discussion. So you're only looking at Perception and Knowledge to determine your Funds bonus. If you have given 4d to either one it seems you can add +1d to your Funds total but if you have only 1d in either you have to subtract 1d. What do you get or give up if you have 2d or 3d in either ability? I hate making assumptions.

I think 2 or 3d is ignored and you just start with base cash... that's how I read it.

If you have only 1D in Perception you get 1D less funds. Same for knowledge.
So if you have a very oblivious character she has less money.
If you have more than 4D in Perception you get +1D in your funds. Same for knowledge again.
If you have 2D or 3D in those attributes you stay the same.

So a character with 2D in Perception and 4D in knowledge gets 4D funds in total.
A character with 5D in Perception but only 1D in knowledge gets +1D from the high perception and -1D from knowledge so it stays at 3D Funds

Thanks for the explanation. There are certain leaps I can no longer make due to age and weight. That was one of them. The way I see things if something is not explained explicitly, you have to make a leap.

Hey guys. I do want to play this, but this is my 7th fourteen hour day in a row with no end in sight. would it be okay if my character was on standby until this situation is under control? I understand if not.

Ouch... that sucks. Keep hoping for rain, especially for you all, we’ve not had much of a fire season this year.

That's alright. Your character is on standby and as soon as you have time just send me a message and I'll insert it into the story

Can you mark on the map where Jerry's body is behind the bar? I know I have to hold my action until after the thugs act (that roll was so in character).

I'm sorry; things have been a little nuts but I'll have time after work today to let Raven jump in.

Hey guys. I'd say i'm back, but I was never really here. Anyways, i'm not on fire anymore, so if you guys still want me, I'd be happy to play a curious/surly robot.

I'm going to start reading the story, but a quick summary would be helpful.

We avoided a bar fight with a bunch of thugs by convincing them it was a no win situation. Got hired by a greasy guy to bring a satellite to a world they lost coms with.

Loaner ship is a wreck, satellite is stolen and filled with military parts. Ship has very non-OEM sensor package.

I'm caught up. Would it be weird if on this junk ship you guys had there was a random robot with no memory of how he got there?

You mean the sexbot in the ships locker? Lol...

Welcome back. Glad to hear that your situation has improved
Hehehe... Unfortunately the locker room has already been checked for bots of any profession.
But the aft airlock wasn't checked. So either your character just exits from there or someone finds you.
Maybe your character has attached itself to the outside of the ship and you could also wait until the ship is in flight and then bump against the door of the airlock from the outside for a little shocking moment. The ship should take off soon.

Choose what you want and I'll organise your glorious entry

Could be powered down in the aft lock.

I like the idea that K3V1N was just discarded in the ship somewhere. Put him wherever someone missed.

In this case maybe @Emberskyes will do me the honour to discover the deactivated robot in the airlock and activate it

Hi. My sister, Candice, is sick and will be off line for a while. She wanted me to let you know and to apologize on her behalf.

I wish her all the best and I hope she will get well soon.
I'll take good care of her character while she's recovering

Hope she gets better fast.

Hey guys. This probably wont come as a surprise to anyone given how i've been posting, but I don't really have time to participate in this. Sorry for the drop and I hope you guys have a good time.

Sorry to see you leave but I think all who play by post understand how real life and lack of time can pull us away.

Sorry to hear this.

So do we have K3vn with us as an npc until we leave the outpost or does he simply disappear into thin air?

Ok just wanted you to know that this next week will be hard for me to post. I work for a pharmacy and we just found out we will be doing covid vaccinations. To prepare, we have to do a lot of work this next week. So as of right now I am working 6 days this week and possibly all 7 next week. I will try to keep up and post but until things settle down and we are unsure when that will be, I cannot be sure. I will do my best to keep up.

You are doing good things and maybe before Christmas the world will be straightened out.

I was hoping that we would be several steps along that route by the time baseball season started. You all do realize that this is never going to go away. If you remember the last great pandemic was the Spanish Flu in 1918. And the flu is still with us. I've had a flu shot every year for the last 30 years. By next Christmas people will be starting to think about getting their second annual shot for Covid. I still haven't had my first one although I'm in the tier right behind medical professionals. Over 70 and more than one underlying condition. At least here in the LA area there are a lot of sites being set up even though the distribution of doses is a very weak stream at the moment. The pharmacy at the grocery store where I do most of my shopping is now giving shots but they only get about 20-30 doses at a time and you have to be on top of things in order to get an appointment.

I have heard a good way to get it if you’re not in line yet is to hang out end of the day where you know they’re handing it out. Because it’s very time limited stuff they’ll often hand out the unused doses rather than letting it spoil.

Jep Covid is here to stay. But I'm optimistic that we get it under control over the course of this year.
Although I don't live in the US, I've heard the same about left over vaccine doses. Five doses are calculated per vial but sometimes they are slightly overfilled so that you can actually administer six or seven doses. Maybe there's a service line where you can register for a spontanious vaccine, we have something here

There was a story the other day about a group of nurses who were coming back from a clinic that got stuck in a snowstorm in Grant's Pass Oregon, rather than let the dose spoil they when car to car inoculating anyone who wanted a shot. There was also a university in california that had a freezer fail, so they sent out a notification in the middle of the night and inoculated hundreds of people before 5am.

Sadly yes, this is going to become a part of life now. I'd be unsurprised if masks are going to become much more of a thing too here in the West.

Hey all. I'll be pulling out of the game, it was a blast. :)

looks like we just lost our engineer.

Oh my. That's a pity. I hope you had fun.
Take care
What would you think about trying to recruitment one to three new players?
I could easily include them at this point in the story

Right in the middle of a ship to ship battle? Or were you thinking of after the battle, assuming we survived. And we could find some recruits at the mining station. I have the opinion that we would be more successful if we had a couple more players. I've never felt very comfortable with such a small group.

After the battle of course :D
Yes, the research station on the planet would be a suitable place for new crew members to join the crew

Though I am not against small groups (I have found groups of 3-5 work best in PBP otherwise it tends to bog down a bit) , I agree that we probably need one player at least to cover the engineering/mechanical needs of the ship.

BTW I should be able to post again though my schedule is in flux still.

Excellent glad to hear that.


BTW. If you have any kind of issue with my style of GM'ing the game just contact me and I'll try to resolve it.
This is the first game that I lead in PbP style so there can be some ways that I can improve myself.

I'm gonna bump my initial post tomorrow so that I'll maybe find some players

Hi all. Thanks for invitation! Is the "engineer" position taken? I am huge ST Scotty fan ;)

Looking forward to meeting the crew :)

Did you accept my character? I can post as character yet

Oh. My bad. Forgot to approve you character. Corrected it now

I am getting a bit confused with what we are trying to do here, maybe a bit of ooc discussion would help me.

The way I see it we have 3 options.

1- We go all together for talking and either strike a deal or fight them.

2- We split up. One group talk to distract, the other free the hostage. Once/if the alarm, we either fight or escape.

3-We sneak together, ideally at night, to free the hostages or subdue enough of them before they realise we are there.

ChiHiRu is up for any of them, ideally one that bring a bit of fighting ;)
He is specialised in grappling so he can take out a few guys easily if he can reach them.
He is not stealthy, but he can see in the dark if we sneak.
He is also equipped with a hunting rifle for long range but the slow firing rate would let the other bandits time to react.

Whatever the plan, let's not hesitate to throw ChiHiRu in range of the gun wielding bandits. He is tough and that is probably or best bet of taking them out quickly.

What do you think?

I think the plan would me something like pt 2

I find that especially true with the first adventure of new players/characters. Until some kind of group dynamic is established, nobody wants to go over anybody else so it can become an endless wait for confirmation :p

What about we send the NPCs as distracted and we make the players party the infiltration group?

I am find by that, We were going to have a distraction anyway that seems to work best for what we want to do.

Dotty already volunteered to be the distraction. She is small and looks pretty harmless.

Past the end of the term for my son so I finally have a moment to relax. I’ll post today after Costco and grocery shopping.

I'm going to let you figure out if the deadly neuro toxin does anything to this guy I'm shaking hands with because I don't know how this part works.

Usually you'd have to make a brawling attack to hit but as he's willingly shaking your head he'll just become as stiff as a board and fall over.
I'm gonna wait for the others before resolving the action

We can assume Scotty does not show that he knows much about Dorotty so we can continue this part

Test Roll. I had some issues with modifier beeing removed from the roll but it looks that it works now.

So no space

I keep forgetting the sides after the d. Roll 3d+1 ... Nothing... WTF???

I knew what I wanted, for some odd reason the site didn't.

So, I needed to dedicate an action to dodging (an additional -1d6) to replace the basic 10 with my dodge roll for the turn?

Also, ChiHiRu got 1d6 armor, how does that factor in?

Exactly. If you are not good in dodging it's better to rely on the basic defense as you have to take your dodge roll even if it's lower.

Oh crap the armor 😅. Yes you can roll your armor die and deduct the result from the damage roll. Sorry forgot about that

You may have noticed that I have not been posting much. Real life issues have made me have less time to be able to keep up with my games here. I hoped that things would have slowed down and allowed me to pick up my gaming but alas it has not.

Therefore I need to back away from some of the games I am running and playing in. This unfortunately is one I am going to have to let go of. I hope the game goes well for you.

FYI it was nothing personal and I was enjoying the game but I had to cut where I could. Some games I have been in a long time or have been running a long time just took precedent.

Thanks for the opportunity and fun while I was here.

Sorry to hear that but I can understand it that real life comes first. Glad that you joined and thank you for your contribution

test roll3

for some reason I can't post roll

did you remember to add the 6 to 3d6? I forget that all the time

Oh