The game thread

It was a typical mech piloting training day. Your piloting instructor gave you individual tasks and departed to the capital for formal meetings with government representatives. Suddenly you are all instructed to immediately return to the base due to emergency


Once back in the base your instructor (Let's call him Snake) contact you with following information:
Pirates are attacking your planet. A particular pirate party is heading your way. They are obviously to acquire mechs available in your training base.
Snake: Government request you to blow up all mechs immediately and retreat! Mechanics are setting up explosives already. he suggest you a different strategy though: You are the best pilots I've trained! I believe you could hold out long for me to I arrive and help you to repeal the attack. Besides you could initiate self destruction of a mech should anything go wrong. Are you up to the risk?

You have a choice: follow the government orders and allow to blow up your training mechs and effectively end your pilot training and loose your dream of becoming the Lancer.
Or you could go against the orders take risk of dying in the battle field, but become the Lancer if you win the combat. An easy choice, right?

Now you only have a single problem: half dozen engineers in the base are setting up explosives. They have their orders and don't want to get into jail for not following the orders. You need to stop them. How will you do that?

They'd been given their tasks for the day before the instructor headed back to the Capital and all was fairly standard so far. Not long after they left new orders came in for them to return to base to respond to an emergency. She looked to her fellow trainees before turning her mech around and leading them back to the base with all haste.

Once there they received communications from Snake she got on the radio and responded, "I'll do my best to keep them at bay until you arrive boss!" Sasha hoped other trainee's would join her in fending off the incoming pirates, "Anyone else with me?"

She looked down and saw the mechanic's already strapping explosives to her mech. She 'DISMOUNTED' her mech and dropped to the ground, appearing to be following orders and helping with the explosives. As two of the mechanics working on her mech bent down to connect more explosives she reached down, a hand aimed for each of them and attempted to apply a nerve pinch to both of them to knock them out at the same time. [using the 'Take Someone Out' Skill Talent]

OOC: I'll let GM walk me through this action; what to roll, etc

Quote:

Take Someone Out: Kill or disable someone quickly and quietly, from up close and personal or from a distance, probably before they even notice. This is probably a single person but could be two people relatively close together (any more is sort of stretching it and definitely risky). If you’re looking down a sniper scope at a target, preparing to nerve pinch a guard to knock them out instantly, quick-drawing during a gun duel, or dropping from a ceiling to slit a throat, this is the action to use.

ooc: I have changed her background to Law Enforcement, as I am using the same character in Falconloft's game and Law Enforcement fits his game better than Soldier.

So, as Law Enforcement, she would have had training in such tactics.

Rolling to Vulcan neck pinch a couple a dudes!

Failed by 1 (Looks like the dice roller wants me to learn about 'pushing it' from the get go!

So if I understand it right I can try a reroll but need to make 20 or better as it has now become 'Risky' meaning worse circumstances on a failure.

would @Drgwen get any background bonus if it applied?

OK whoa, this is moving way too fast for me. I don't have a character, I don't know how to make one, I don't know how to play. I thought this was a Learn to Play...? I know there is a link to a generator, but it is all nonsense to me; I've looked at the book, but I had trouble wrapping my head around it.

Can we slow down and walk through character creation? Or is the expectation that I have read the book and understand it? Because I haven't and I don't. If that means this game isn't a good fit for me, that's fine; I can leave.

I'm sorry. Wrong assumpion here. I red you write
I’ll make a pilot tonight!
Some time ago and assumed...

I will created a thread for q&a tomorrow

Apologies. I went to the generator and was overwhelmed.

Apologies, I worked all day. Will be able to sort this tomorrow!

OK! So, my background is Merc, and relevant triggers might include Apply Fists to Faces, or Take Control. So either she would punch some dudes or take control of the area where they are trying to work?

So I'd roll 1d20+1d6+2?

First you describe your goal.

I remind half dozen your felloe engineers in the base are following your government orders and setting up explosives. You may try to use your force to insist they stop doing that. Beat some so that others are afraid - is that your desire?

Gotcha. Ok, Lane jumps down from her mesh and approach a group of engineers. She says, "Oi."

When one turns, she lays him out with a punch to the jaw. Then she turns to the rear and growls, "Who’s next? Or maybe you lot scram? You get me?"

@Drgwen I still need to know your goal of the punch. Break the nose? Kick out some some tooth ? Would that be right?

In my opinion Mercenarry background will give minus bonus for controlling civilians.

Oh I see. Knock him old cold is my goal. And that's fine, I was going more for scaring them than controlling them. Even without the bonus I did roll a 16, tho...

Scare them. Good. That's certainly + for background

PM to GM

Pilots split. Sasha moves to the systems printing and storing building where to mechanics are working together.
Lane goes tot he central building where she find 4 mechanics and delivers a well planned punch to the biggest of the mechanics - sufficient to scare everyone, but not too hard to do too much damage to the man.
One woman start screaming, but the rest calm her down, mechanics run away and get into the transportation vehicle and leave the base. As they do so you hear they whispering about Lane gone mad or most probably corrupt - she is working for pirates.

Meanwhile Sasha and the 3rd pilot ... TO BE CONTINUED based on player's posts

Your base visual representation - there is a central building for mechs and smaller for systems, weapons and workshops for printing spare parst and installing them of the mechs.

ooc:

Push attempt = 11 = Success

No... prolly my bad... miss read a prior post on push and couldn't find it in the manual.

Push attempt = success!!

This is the post that made me think I just needed to roll another d6

Meanwhile Sasha takes out the the two mechanics - not without some struggle, but eventually. When Sasha and Lane join each other they realize two more mechanics are somewhere in the base and most probably received warning message from the four mechanics who left base in terror. You can see that most of the equipment in the central building are set with explosives except mechs (mechs have self destruction system installed by default that could be triggered from the inside).

Minimal damage to a mech and not granted to do any. Just a minor annoyance

And Everest can't fly as much as I remember. You can board your Everest and move toward enemy
Although you don't know where they come from just yet I want you to ged direct communication with Snake once you are inside your mech - that's when we will start combat first stage - briefing.