Dice Robotech - Southern Cross Adventure - OOC

[Sherwood]

Well, in my mind, the 4+ Regults or 2 Glaug make me think that the bigger threat are the Regults. More guns to shoot back at us.

 

[Purr]

That, and along with Gabi and Ryuko, we should be able to splash them all before they can even get out of the tunnel.

Precisely. =)

 

[Rykon]

Bare with me, been a little under the weather and my retention of details is slipping.

If I am understanding everything correctly, we are in a large engineering bay. The surviving engineers are currently in the room with us.

There are two groups/types of battle pods headed down a mecha-sized corridor that leads to the engineering bay.

A. Roughly how far down the corridor are they and which units are upfront?

B. How much time do we have before they open fire?

C. How wide is the corridor in battle pods? (1-3? more?)

 

[Purr]

Hope you feel better soon, Rykon.

 

[Psychie]

A. Roughly how far down the corridor are they and which units are upfront?

There are two Glaug Officer Battle Pods just out of the opening of the corridor with a large bonfire going off in front of them. They are blocking a number of Regult Battle Pods, probably 4-6 of them or more.

B. How much time do we have before they open fire?

Now that they are no longer distracted by the explosion, once their initiative comes up, which is right after yours for the Glaugs.

27 - Marlon [2]
24 - Ryuko [2]
18 - Alan [1] <====
16 - Officer Pods 2-3 [2]
15 - Gabi [1]
13 - Deunan [1]
12 - Male soldiers 5-8 [1]
11 - Neo [1]
8 - Battle Pods 1-? [2]

C. How wide is the corridor in battle pods? (1-3? more?)

The corridor is no wider than two pods wide.

 

[D. Rex]

Hurried put the post so forgot to mention it, but great job on them kills! Purr

 

[Purr]

D. Rex Thanks, D.! I bet Marlon will do an even better job than Gabi with that new cannon he's got! =)

 

[D. Rex]

D. Rex Thanks, D.! I bet Marlon will do an even better job than Gabi with that new cannon he's got! =)

Thanks for the vote of confidence! Lol but your wrong. Lol there was a reason he mention when getting the cannon that the others were a better shot. I get an improbable amount of poor rolls.

 

[Rykon]

I just want to run over some Zeek pedestrians and now I have cause. Suffice to say, I'm excited.

 

[Purr]

Thanks for the vote of confidence! Lol but your wrong. Lol there was a reason he mention when getting the cannon that the others were a better shot. I get an improbable amount of poor rolls.

If the RP Nation dice roller treats you badly, you might want to ask Psychie if she will roll for you. =)

 

[Purr]

And, uh oh, but I think Ryuko's pretty red Ajax is about to get lit up...

 

[D. Rex]

If the RP Nation dice roller treats you badly, you might want to ask Psychie if she will roll for you. =)

No. I must take the dice as they fall such is the spirit of Dice rp. But by golly you better believe, that I'm gonna ham up my good rolls to make up for it :p

 

[Psychie]

Just remember, the offer for me to make the rolls is open to all.

 

[Sherwood]

Thanks, but there is something satisfying about being able to make my own rolls, good or bad, that I like. Most of the time. There are days that I feel that this dice bot has it out for me.

 

[D. Rex]

Agreed. As tempting as it is. All the bad rolls make the good ones all the sweeter. Got to embrace the chance!

 

[Sherwood]

Zipping around the last turn, you see a large number of Zentraedi, probably over two hundred, about half of them in light and heavy infantry armor and carrying rifles, with eight suits of Female Powered Armor standing next to a tall, statuesque woman as she looks out over the assembled soldiers.

Well now. I guess it was a good thing that we didn't just go running in there.

 

[D. Rex]

Psychie

If they left now. Would there be enough time to arm a crate of the mines and leave them by the entrance, so can denote them as they start coming out?

 

[Psychie]

You don't have much time, so probably not.

 

[Purr]

Deunan says, "Its my guess that they have another exit somewhere, far enough out that we just haven't seen it yet. Gabi and Ryuko, spread out. Find that exit."

(bold mine)

Gabi immediately switched to the squadron-only channel. "Hey! This isn't right! Maybe this is a decoy force, you know?"

Gabi used the Ajax's advanced radar and sensors for signs of movement outside of the kill zone. It made no sense for Low-life Jerkia High Lord Zerkia to send in a force like that just to get them massacred. If there was a ruse here, Gabi wanted eagerly to find it.

(bold mine)

Psychie In case my writing was unclear, Gabi was already searching. I don't want to hold up the game due to a miscommunication. =)

 

[Psychie]

Got it. Thank you!

 

[Rykon]

How do I roll for this?

Detect Concealment is a d100 (compare to your skill rating) and Perception is a d20 (add the perception bonus from intelligence and any extra from skills like Demolition). That's assuming I'm remembering correctly. Hope that helps.

 

[Purr]

You're right as rain, Rykon . =)

This assumes the charracter has the Detect Concealment skill. Unlike Perception (which is basically a free passive trait), one must select Detect Concealment.

 

[Rykon]

I just checked, you're right. She doesn't have Detect Concealment, which is silly considering that the Scout Recon MOS doesn't have Detect Concealment but it has pilot skills and electronics warfare.

I'm legitimately curious now... Who designs a Scout's training curriculum and forgets Detect Concealment, Detect Ambush, and Camouflage? [Just to clarify, this isn't intended to be critical of the character, but questioning the design of the MOS that is in the book.]

 

[Purr]

In my own Palladium game, I have allowed for some skill respeccing just because of odd cases like these. Sometimes, Palladium nails an M.O.S. and other times, their conclusions baffle me as they have you.

 

[Purr]

I apologize for the brief post, but I don't want to hold the game up. =)