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[HK Fifty]

HK Fifty so what exactly did Argent do? She threw a rock from inside the cave to hit the droid in the back of the formation's, head?

No , not from inside the cave. She threw one straight from the other side of the canyon towards them , and shifted a bunch more on that same side to make it appear as if she (or some form of Organic Life) were over there instead of where she was.

 

[Proletariat]

No , not from inside the cave. She threw one straight from the other side of the canyon towards them , and shifted a bunch more on that same side to make it appear as if she (or some form of Organic Life) were over there instead of where she was.

I guess I'm still confused, what canyon? Nothing but foothills all around.

 

[HK Fifty]

I guess I'm still confused, what canyon? Nothing but foothills all around.

The canyon/crevasse she's in right now. The other side of it , or at least on the extreme west of her relative to her current position , assuming ahead of her is considered 'north' and behind her is considered 'south'.

 

[Proletariat]

At best there is one droid in the entrance, the rest are waiting outside the entrance, I'm confused as to how she got rocks to come from behind the droids outside of the crevice. HK Fifty

 

[HK Fifty]

She threw one of the rocks actually in the canyon on the western side from her directly into the westward facing side of the droid's skull , as if it had been thrown from that direction by an actual organic hand.. therefore suggesting , along with the shifting rocks , that the figure the sentry saw is in that direction. It would also draw the attention of the whole squad over there , thinking they were being attacked. Or something to that effect.

And how far back can the rearmost droid really be for her to simply accelerate a rock into it's skull , it's path a simple straight line? I listed Force Telekenisis (read:move stuff) as one of her absolute best powers , if she can't throw a palm-sized rock 30-35 feet (10-12 feet for the canyon , with maybe the rearemost droid ~20 feet away from that canyon) with it.. well , this may be a very short trip.

If need be I can change it to be the droid approaching her , or the droid closest to the canyon asides from it.

 

[HK Fifty]

I also just realized I inadvertently typed 'eastwards' , sorry. I meant westwards , because she was pressed against the west wall of the cave (and therefore the east side of he mountainous foothills are facing her). That error has been fixed.

 

[Proletariat]

It's not that she couldn't throw the rock, I just think we are envisioning a different physical setting. In my head, throwing a rock from the mouth of the crevice into any droid's head would only alert the droids that there was someone in the crevice. If she is all the way in there, her body is basically getting squeezed by the rocks and she would have to turn sideways, so ahead of her would be rock wall, and behind her would be rock wall, to one side would be the end of the cave, to the other side would be the entrance to the cave. Is that how you imagine her to be positioned?

 

[HK Fifty]

Didn't we say the crevice she's in is part of a larger fissure? I meant the western most portion of the larger fissure. Which , didn't you say it's rather long? So if this crevice/cave she's in is closer eastward (as I imagined it) , making it appear something's on the extreme westward position would divert them at least a dozen feet or so from where she is. Right? If she threw a rock from directly in front of her in an attempt to distract it , she'd be awfully stupid. And she definitely isn't stupid - fanaticism and stupidity aren't the same thing.

And yes , her being squeezed in there as you say is how I imagined her - but she is facing eastward. She can't see the eastward foothills from her current position , wedged into the cave/crevice , but as she swiftly squeezed herself into the crevice/cave she's in she saw those foothills in front (eastwards) of her. That's where she's trying to quickly Force-Speed to , and from there better cover in the rising mountain ridge. Cover she can duck in and out of to avoid another squad being called to look for her. Or at last not leave her as exposed to fire in a fripping valley shadowed by a large mountain.

 

[Proletariat]

Grim Wraithe Stjerna sorry that took so long.. I was unsure about how much I wanted to guide your character through that. I did the best I could with what you provided in the CS. Basically where I have left you now, the control of your character is 95% up to you. I urge you to try not to metagame, and to make the decision that your character would make.

 

[Proletariat]

Didn't we say the crevice she's in is part of a larger fissure? I meant the western most portion of the larger fissure. Which , didn't you say it's rather long? So if this crevice/cave she's in is closer eastward (as I imagined it) , making it appear something's on the extreme westward position would divert them at least a dozen feet or so from where she is. Right? If she threw a rock from directly in front of her in an attempt to distract it , she'd be awfully stupid. And she definitely isn't stupid - fanaticism and stupidity aren't the same thing.

And yes , her being squeezed in there as you say is how I imagined her - but she is facing eastward. She can't see the eastward foothills from her current position , wedged into the cave/crevice , but as she swiftly squeezed herself into the crevice/cave she's in she saw those foothills in front (eastwards) of her. That's where she's trying to quickly Force-Speed to , and from there better cover in the rising mountain ridge. Cover she can duck in and out of to avoid another squad being called to look for her. Or at last not leave her as exposed to fire in a fripping valley shadowed by a large mountain.

Okay we are on the same page about her position and her intentions now. However, the geography of her immediate location is something we differ on. I specified the size and depth of the crevice, but I never intended for it to be part of a larger fissure, it's basically a small cavern in the hillside with one entrance. I might have misled you on that and I will go back and check what I actually typed. Enjoy this high quality resolution image of the situation.

 

[Scavenger]

Proletariat Please could you describe the landscape around phantom at the moment, I'm slightly confused.

 

[Proletariat]

i figured so i made it. I have a feeling I'm going to be making a lot of these high quality satellite pictures

 

[Scavenger]

So Phantom was trying to make the illusion on the flat bit on the droid route

 

[HK Fifty]

See , I took you saying

From its high altitude it could see the humanoid quite easily, only when it dipped into the divets between foothills did the droid lose sight of it.

to mean that she was in a six-foot high (or thereabouts) fissure of some varied length , splitting what I was kind of assuming to be a valley (with foothills on either side of the length of the fissure) in two. So when I asked that question about how long it was , and you responded with

The crevice is initially wide enough for two people to stand with their arms out, each person touches the opposite wall from the other and their hands meet in the middle. every ten feet into the crevice it gets narrower until it closes off with the walls meeting. The area to the south of the mountain chain - everything accessible to you- is a giant downward sloping landscape that has short foothills and a flat downhill gradient in the immediate area of the base of the mountain. In every direction is more of the same, except North, where the mountain is.

I assumed you were saying that yes , she (and the small cave she's in) is in a fissure , and it's roughly ~15-30 feet long. Not that you were talking about the actual cave she was in.. which does make that cave a lot wider than I expected , and longer , but still not long enough for her to throw a rock from inside it. That would be awfully stupid of her.

In truth I'm just terrible with geography and geographic terms , so I misunderstood your verbal layout of the surroundings entirely.

If I changed it to a group of rocks laying on the foothill westwards of her (or awfully close to it) would that still work to achieve the same goal as she intended with the incorrect geography?

Also , I had no idea the cave was so bloody long. I figured 15 feet long or so at the very most.

 

[Grim Wraithe Stjerna]

No worries. I kinda figured it was something to do with life balancing. I promise not to rocket jump the shark. But it looks like Reaver is pretty much heading towards Argent to assist anyways. But I will use the context as you've provided.

 

[Proletariat]

So Phantom was trying to make the illusion on the flat bit on the droid route

Phantom was trying to make the illusion upwards (ahead of him) on the plateau which is not visible on the image I provided.

See , I took you saying
to mean that she was in a six-foot high (or thereabouts) fissure of some varied length , splitting what I was kind of assuming to be a valley (with foothills on either side of the length of the fissure) in two. So when I asked that question about how long it was , and you responded with I assumed you were saying that yes , she (and the small cave she's in) is in a fissure , and it's roughly ~15-30 feet long. Not that you were talking about the actual cave she was in.. which does make that cave a lot wider than I expected , and longer , but still not long enough for her to throw a rock from inside it. That would be awfully stupid of her.

In truth I'm just terrible with geography and geographic terms , so I misunderstood your verbal layout of the surroundings entirely.

If I changed it to a group of rocks laying on the foothill westwards of her (or awfully close to it) would that still work to achieve the same goal as she intended with the incorrect geography?

Also , I had no idea the cave was so bloody long. I figured 15 feet long or so at the very most.

You now understand what I've been thinking this whole time, and yes you can do it from outside of the cave. Also it is just difficult to describe such a specific visual, at least for me anyway.

 

[Proletariat]

No worries. I kinda figured it was something to do with life balancing. I promise not to rocket jump the shark. But it looks like Reaver is pretty much heading towards Argent to assist anyways. But I will use the context as you've provided.

Just provide some internal context into his decision making. Besides Force insight, it isn't necessarily apparent that he should divert himself into open ground to investigate something he has very little information on.

 

[HK Fifty]

Phantom was trying to make the illusion upwards (ahead of him) on the plateau which is not visible on the image I provided.



You now understand what I've been thinking this whole time, and yes you can do it from outside of the cave. Also it is just difficult to describe such a specific visual, at least for me anyway.

Don't worry , I have a hard time describing physical features too (appearance-related or geographical). At least we did clear it up , right?

And I'll make sure to edit that in soon. It'll be a simply wording change anyway , the way I see it.

 

[HK Fifty]

Edit made. I also changed the part implying the cave is very shallow , as I now know it definitely isn't.

 

[Segue]

I want a map too!

Of course right now it would be a map of this conversational web we're weaving, but eventually we'll get somewhere we don't have blasters aimed at us.

 

[Proletariat]

I want a map too!

Of course right now it would be a map of this conversational web we're weaving, but eventually we'll get somewhere we don't have blasters aimed at us.

The only map you need is a map of your lies.

 

[HK Fifty]

The only map you need is a map of your lies.

Nooo , no , no , YOU are the liar!

 

[Proletariat]

Nooo , no , no , YOU are the liar!

 

[HK Fifty]

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[Grim Wraithe Stjerna]

Will do. *tries to climb inside Reaver's head*