Admin, OOC, and Launch Discussion

Thanks. Trying to get us out with as many as we walk in with. Busy, but J's points on using the krekutil for combat are worth another look.

I'm concerned about the fluid running out of oxygen in the middle of combat. Suddenly we're drowning and we have to spend an action removing the thing and then who knows how long puking. Just long enough to get killed, that's how long.

Hinka, hearing some of the quick conversation and pointing to krekutils watches with interests. Let's say Kray asks (or someone else prompts him to ask) Hinka how long estimated time can krekutils work out of water.

Hinka understands the question and has a decently precise answer: about 8-10 minutes. As the time comes to and end, the last minute or so may give the wearer some stress as the oxygenation levels of the fluid begin to reduce gradually.

Ivor (or was it Jabes ;) ) is right to guess that the krekutils are intended to work in water, or at least have an option to submerge periodically. Their system filters/oxygenates a dose of water for a time, but in the long run depends on a gradual replenishment and flow of new water (salt or fresh) that it can use to oxygenate.

Now the krekutils have a bladder in their body structure that has a sufficient amount of water within to start a new fluid breathing program. They retain and recapture some water in each purge (removal from host), but some of it is lost. If that fluid that is in there now is used and then purged, or if it was used entirely out of water until it was no longer breathable, then remember that in the future there would likely be a time when they would NOT work again above water. Because either they did not have enough remaining volume or in the instance where the fluid they have is all burned out and they can't oxygenate it anymore. At that point, they would need to be dunked in the water for about 30-60 seconds to get a fresh dose of water and then about a minute to process it for first use.

8-10 minutes seems like enough time to kill something. If there are multiple engagements that could be a different story. Cool scene with the lot of us wearing kreks into the LSD fog.

So holding our breath gives us 1/3 RAW in time (1-2 minutes) then we start tripping. Or the kreks give us 8-10 minutes then we start hacking up spent lung water (and then maybe start tripping if we're still in the dope haze).

Kreks sound like a better bet for the simple reason that we dont know how long we'll be in the dope haze.

Yeah 8-10 minutes should be enough. So is that trippy haze colored purple? Are you experienced? ;-D

Nice. Let's make sure we don't let the Foxy Lady die.

Hey Joe

Where you goin' with that gun in yo hand?

Im all for alien monster heads Half-Life style

Dead men dont get laid. Besides, coin will buy wenches who haven't been raped by fish mongrels.

What, you don't like when it smells like fish?

Makes Ivor wish he'd agreed to one last roll in the hay with Cuixtia back at the longhouse.

That feels like a lifetime ago.

It was. It was two life times ago. RIP

Nicely played CB.

J, putting on a krekutil would take a turn, right? Since we're all pretty experienced with wearing them and breathing liquid I'd like to think we can also skip the checks to equip them?

That's totally what I was going for.

There are two hive members that need to be killed before they can RIP.

Ya, Ez. The LUBA team has ample experience with normal donning/flooding/intake procedures now to be able to complete that procedure successfully with no check required. (Only Checks that would be required now would be with donning completely underwater with no air or with all burned-out fluid. Something never really practiced and ends up being a little more difficult.)

Even with normal procedures though, the time requirement is a bit longer than a turn though? Krekutil load is in a few short phases. Usually we paper over these, but I'm going on record now since seconds may matter in action scenes.

All of these are written generally as "end of round" accomplishments, so the specifics are in process during that round and fully realized by the end of it.
Round 1: Neck seal complete, flooding begins, inner tentacles begin placing membrane "contacts" over eyes.
Round 2: Flooding continues, eye contact membranes in place (vision restricted until end of this round).
Round 3: Flooding complete. Wearer begins liquid intake techniques.
Round 4: Wearer stabilizing and completing fluid breathing normalization.
Round 5: Fluid breathing completely stabilized.

So it's about a 30 second process.

Weirdo...

As I think more about this, I suppose the intake of liquid into the lungs could be delayed. A wearer could hold breath for a time in the flooded mask and then later begin the fluid intake procedures. The above is assuming the wearer is trying to complete the transfer at the earliest possible opportunity. I guess you could audible some gap time between Round 3 (Flood Complete) and beyond (Breathe-In Rounds).

Jesus, 30 seconds. Battle could be over by then if we just held our breath. Do we really see a battle taking 2 minutes (aka 20 rounds?) Could we start the battle in the smoke and kind of draw the enemy back out into breathable air?

I wonder if that smoke is flammable haha!