<span style='color:purple'>*gives khan a wary eye* "Hey if thats your kinda fun, so be it, to each his own so they say... Just don't do that with my fingers." *slides a 20 over the table to take the bet Vragnor placed*</span>
<span style='color:blue'><b> *Takes a pack of q-tips from pocket, removes a stick and puts pack back* *twirls q-tip in fingers* *looks toward Boggle* "So the interigators are **** then?" *listens to the expected reply* "Well good, my efforts not waisted. I bribed a techie to put 'Can kill a man twice his weight in 8 differnt ways before he hits the ground using only a q-tip' on my transcript. If I start getting annoyed I'm guna start fiddlin with this one." *looks at hand, smiles* "I'll see your 20 and raise ya 10."</b></span>
<b>so how we guna figure out our hands here, or will we all jsut have a royal flush? Something simalar happend to me once, i got a pinnucle deck instead of a normal one, everyon one playing had a three aces</b>
<b>I think it would just be safe for Xect to say: and you all played cards for a while then went to sleep, trying to work out cards in a forum rp would be hard.</b>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:blue'>*sits down at a nearby table, places kit on it*
"right, time to get some rest"
*feels a lump in pocket, pulls out the old welder*
"Hey, i'd forgotten about this"
*sees an official walking past the mess hall, shoves welder under his bag*
"better not let anybody know about this. we are supposed to turn in everything. looks like they overlooked it. still, it could come in useful"</span></span></span>
<b>ok, xect. that's my story of how i can get an lmg, a pistol and a welder all at once</b>
<span style='color:orange'>*takes out deck of fifty cards, the top one displaying a picture of a blueish-white, three headed dragon. The picture is framed by a purple border, starts flipping through cards, examining each one as they display a different monster each* "I don't care much for Poker, I'll just watch. Besides, I don't have any money on me." *holds up deck* "'Course, this deck'll sell for about $80 back in Australia."</span>
<b><span style='color:purple'> " Well Dark, you won't be going back to Australia some time soon." *Looks through his cards, choosing what to do.*</span></b>
<span style='color:blue'> *me examines Dark's card designs* "Oi, now that's pretty for yeh. Must be hand crafted or what? Very pretty and 'spiritual' kinda <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->." *me sees Frosty raised it 10* "Err, that looks like it'll be taking out some people <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->." </span>
<b>Ok, I'll try again. I'll let wynona pass because Ed hasnt recieved basic weapons training yet (and wynona has it's own place in the story now). I'll let the P229 pass too because it arrived with Ed (and because it was already in the story before I stopped it). Anyone else has standard weaponry, no welders, no shotguns, nothing at all. We're in the NS universe, frontiersmen in the NS universe fight with the weaponry that the frontiersmen give them!
And regarding your desire to get into the action. You have to realize that we're at a forum, it's simply not possible to get action. We're simply forced to run the "deep-immersion" style of roleplay, because "kick-in-the-door" won't work when battles takes real-life days. So even when we enter action, it won't be very action-ish with the system I'm using here, because that's what I thought would be the best way of doing it on a forum.
That's not an irevesable decision though. We could start using a round-based combat system. It'll mean taking a day for each round (to allow everyone to make their move), but it'll get you real action with real fights, and if that's what you prefer I'll happily put together some numbers that makes it possible. After all you can just spend the time inbetween moves to talk like you're doing already. Might not even make them take longer in the end, I seem to recall spending a week chasing you away from an onos anyway.
So what do you say, are we going for some real combat or sticking to the story-telling?</b>
<i>Time passes with the cards, now there's only 8:30 hours left 'till your shift starts.</i>
<span style='color:red'>"Well, I'm done." *Walks out of messhall $100 poorer. Decides to go to take a very warm shower.* "Thats great..." *Gets out of shower, dresses in field uniform and cleans armor. Sees a little box on dresser.* "Heh, I forgot i brought my Magic cards" *Looks at skulk card* "I can't believe they're making kids think these are harmless!" *Looks at onos* "This one! I've won many a battle with this." *Puts box in bag and heads to weight room*</span>
<span style='color:purple'>"Well I'm out too, I think i'll stop while i still have no losses." *leaves the mess hall, after breaking even in the cards, and goes off to his room to catch some shut-eye before his watch* </span><b>Xect I think people meant something more like: lets please just start advancing the plot/lets get off this friggin station <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> rather than lets actualy have a ton of battles, because (at least IMHO) trying to do stuff like actual battles in a forum rp doesn't realy work, too slow etc.</b>
<span style='color:white'> "I feel like a sad ninja.." *Ed says under his breath s he exits the Armory, The techie took one look at the armband and then the repressed angst began flowing, "lift your arm, Siggie" "we're out of HD-101s, your gonna have to use this HD-25, Siggie" Piece of crap helmet, doenst even have an intergrated HUD, luckly i still got my glasses. "Your a Pilot or somthing right? your gonna have to use this, erm, "Pilot Armor" " I've seen better armor on Cosplayers, looks like someone repainted traditionl football pads and then let it rust, gonna have to go at it with a cleaning pad, Pilots armor my rear, I've seen Alpha Shift's pilot, regular armor, probably 20 years old and left in a storage locker near an Atmo reconditioner. Stupid "Forced Enlistment", Probably would have joined anyway, got no where else to go. "Only Enlisted can use the public access terminals, Siggie.", "you get this bunk, Siggie" "You cant carry a NyJack capible firearm anywhere except for the range and a variable atmospheric location, that way if you pierce the hull, we con contain it, you idjit Siggie" Im starting to miss being called civvie. Ed turns a corner and enters through a set of aged double doors with "03" written on them, entering the little used launch bay 03. Obsolete dropships sit along the left wall of the room, crates sit against the right wall, except for a small clearing near the main door, there sits 3 new, yet slightly charred dropships, damage seems to be merely cosmetic. Ed looks up the ships* "Sorry girls, gotta fix this tin can they call armor first, then i'll clean you." *Ed takes off the armor, grabs some cleaning supplies and begins scrubbing away the filth and rust, or was it the previous owner?* </span>
<b>Story telling. If I can't roll my own dice, story telling <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--></b> <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>*walking back from the med lab, spots Ed in the launch bay out of the corner of his eye and heads in* "Hey Ed. What's happening?" *finds a convenient crate and sits down, pulling off his pack and rearranging the contents*</span></span>
<span style='color:white'> *Ed looks up from buffing the, so called "Armor"* "Nothing much, trying to get this.." *Ed points at the armor* "looking like armor, rather than scrap." *Ed notices Night looking at the 3 ships* "They Barely survived the W.T.Hell, a few dings, scratches, and a damage RCS thruster is all that's keeping my mini-fleet out of the sky." *Ed pets the side of the Ferrin*</span>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"Jeez. You'd think the TSA would take better care of their equipment. God knows we haven't got enough." *looks at the pile of rust Ed's trying to clean up* "That doesn't even look like it'll stop FF rounds. Let me check. Stand back." *pulls out his pistol and fires one round, drilling a hole straight through the so-called armour* "Thought so. Come on, let's go complain to the quartermaster. He shouldn't be stocking anything of this poor quality, this should've been recycled a long time ago."</span></span>
<span style='color:white'> *Ed looks at the fresh hole drilled through the armor.* "... did you know it wasn't "on"?" * Ed leans over the armor and pushes a button, a hummimg sound is heard, followed by sparking out of the fresh bullethole.* "Great, looks like its time to complain." *Ed picks up the Armor and heads for the exit.* "You coming, Night? Im gonna need you to complain,*in a voice mocking the Brass* "Siggies should be happy with what they can get." </span>
<b>I thought FF was nanites embedded in the armour, and an always-on effect. (reply to below) good point.</b> <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"Yep, gimme a sec." *zips up pack, puts it on and follows Ed to the quartermaster's office* "That 'siggie' crap really bites. It's a shame some people are too blind to see past the orange stripe."</span></span>
" Well good games guys, i'm going for a rest." *Collects cards and leaves the mess hall, walks along the corridors finds his quarters, slips his boots of and fall asleep.</b></span>
<b>yall should be a bunch of old men for the amount of sleep you get <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--></b>
<b>Ed, sorry, but you're getting real far out here. You send me a message asking if you could jack an NPC to outfit you, and I reply that NO, you can approach him and let ME handle the storytelling. Not only did you ignore that and go on anyway, you also decided to make up your own little story about how the NPC you hi-jacked gave you crap armor.
You're allowed to keep Wynona, but ONLY as an exception from the rules. Don't take that as a sign that you can just ignore the rules and walk your own path, because it's not. Start acting according to the rules and play only your character, or stop acting at all. You're going too far, too often.</b>
<i>8 hours to shift begins, other people from your shift start moving towards the sleeping areas.</i>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:blue'>"Sounds like a good idea, i think i'll get some rest too."
<span style='color:blue'> *decides to take a stroll around on the purdy walkway* *sees the large viewing windows on the side of the walkway show off the stars and space* *keeps on walking around, pondering about random stuff* *picks up a soda en route* *continues walking, sipping soda occasionally* </span> <b>Well, I've already napped, and no one else is awake really <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->. Time to wander around alone <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->.</b>
<span style='color:gray'><span style='font-family:Courier'>*I notice delta walking along by himself so i run over to him but then slip on a half-melted 3 fronteirsman bar and fall flat on my but.*</span></span>
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"Hey if thats your kinda fun, so be it, to each his own so they say... Just don't do that with my fingers."
*slides a 20 over the table to take the bet Vragnor placed*</span>
*Takes a pack of q-tips from pocket, removes a stick and puts pack back*
*twirls q-tip in fingers*
*looks toward Boggle*
"So the interigators are **** then?"
*listens to the expected reply*
"Well good, my efforts not waisted. I bribed a techie to put 'Can kill a man twice his weight in 8 differnt ways before he hits the ground using only a q-tip' on my transcript. If I start getting annoyed I'm guna start fiddlin with this one."
*looks at hand, smiles*
"I'll see your 20 and raise ya 10."</b></span>
<b>so how we guna figure out our hands here, or will we all jsut have a royal flush? Something simalar happend to me once, i got a pinnucle deck instead of a normal one, everyon one playing had a three aces</b>
"right, time to get some rest"
*feels a lump in pocket, pulls out the old welder*
"Hey, i'd forgotten about this"
*sees an official walking past the mess hall, shoves welder under his bag*
"better not let anybody know about this. we are supposed to turn in everything. looks like they overlooked it. still, it could come in useful"</span></span></span>
<b>ok, xect. that's my story of how i can get an lmg, a pistol and a welder all at once</b>
"I don't care much for Poker, I'll just watch. Besides, I don't have any money on me."
*holds up deck*
"'Course, this deck'll sell for about $80 back in Australia."</span>
" Well Dark, you won't be going back to Australia some time soon."
*Looks through his cards, choosing what to do.*</span></b>
*me examines Dark's card designs*
"Oi, now that's pretty for yeh. Must be hand crafted or what? Very pretty and 'spiritual' kinda <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->."
*me sees Frosty raised it 10*
"Err, that looks like it'll be taking out some people <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->."
</span>
"Hey Terran, i'll split the winnings with ya if you tell me everyones card."
*Chuckles to himself.*</b></span>
And regarding your desire to get into the action. You have to realize that we're at a forum, it's simply not possible to get action. We're simply forced to run the "deep-immersion" style of roleplay, because "kick-in-the-door" won't work when battles takes real-life days. So even when we enter action, it won't be very action-ish with the system I'm using here, because that's what I thought would be the best way of doing it on a forum.
That's not an irevesable decision though. We could start using a round-based combat system. It'll mean taking a day for each round (to allow everyone to make their move), but it'll get you real action with real fights, and if that's what you prefer I'll happily put together some numbers that makes it possible. After all you can just spend the time inbetween moves to talk like you're doing already. Might not even make them take longer in the end, I seem to recall spending a week chasing you away from an onos anyway.
So what do you say, are we going for some real combat or sticking to the story-telling?</b>
<i>Time passes with the cards, now there's only 8:30 hours left 'till your shift starts.</i>
*Walks out of messhall $100 poorer. Decides to go to take a very warm shower.*
"Thats great..."
*Gets out of shower, dresses in field uniform and cleans armor. Sees a little box on dresser.*
"Heh, I forgot i brought my Magic cards"
*Looks at skulk card*
"I can't believe they're making kids think these are harmless!"
*Looks at onos*
"This one! I've won many a battle with this."
*Puts box in bag and heads to weight room*</span>
*leaves the mess hall, after breaking even in the cards, and goes off to his room to catch some shut-eye before his watch*
</span><b>Xect I think people meant something more like: lets please just start advancing the plot/lets get off this friggin station <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> rather than lets actualy have a ton of battles, because (at least IMHO) trying to do stuff like actual battles in a forum rp doesn't realy work, too slow etc.</b>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>*walking back from the med lab, spots Ed in the launch bay out of the corner of his eye and heads in*
"Hey Ed. What's happening?"
*finds a convenient crate and sits down, pulling off his pack and rearranging the contents*</span></span>
"Nothing much, trying to get this.." *Ed points at the armor* "looking like armor, rather than scrap."
*Ed notices Night looking at the 3 ships*
"They Barely survived the W.T.Hell, a few dings, scratches, and a damage RCS thruster is all that's keeping my mini-fleet out of the sky." *Ed pets the side of the Ferrin*</span>
*looks at the pile of rust Ed's trying to clean up*
"That doesn't even look like it'll stop FF rounds. Let me check. Stand back."
*pulls out his pistol and fires one round, drilling a hole straight through the so-called armour*
"Thought so. Come on, let's go complain to the quartermaster. He shouldn't be stocking anything of this poor quality, this should've been recycled a long time ago."</span></span>
"... did you know it wasn't "on"?"
* Ed leans over the armor and pushes a button, a hummimg sound is heard, followed by sparking out of the fresh bullethole.*
"Great, looks like its time to complain."
*Ed picks up the Armor and heads for the exit.*
"You coming, Night? Im gonna need you to complain,*in a voice mocking the Brass* "Siggies should be happy with what they can get." </span>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"Yep, gimme a sec."
*zips up pack, puts it on and follows Ed to the quartermaster's office*
"That 'siggie' crap really bites. It's a shame some people are too blind to see past the orange stripe."</span></span>
*After useless time musing about nothing at all, I decide to go to sleep until the call for the shift.*
</span></i>
" Well good games guys, i'm going for a rest."
*Collects cards and leaves the mess hall, walks along the corridors finds his quarters, slips his boots of and fall asleep.</b></span>
You're allowed to keep Wynona, but ONLY as an exception from the rules. Don't take that as a sign that you can just ignore the rules and walk your own path, because it's not. Start acting according to the rules and play only your character, or stop acting at all. You're going too far, too often.</b>
<i>8 hours to shift begins, other people from your shift start moving towards the sleeping areas.</i>
*wanders off*</span></span></span>
<span style='font-family:Arial'><span style='color:gray'>*goes and sleeps*</span></span>
*decides to take a stroll around on the purdy walkway*
*sees the large viewing windows on the side of the walkway show off the stars and space*
*keeps on walking around, pondering about random stuff*
*picks up a soda en route*
*continues walking, sipping soda occasionally*
</span>
<b>Well, I've already napped, and no one else is awake really <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->. Time to wander around alone <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->.</b>
<span style='color:gray'><span style='font-family:Courier'>*I notice delta walking along by himself so i run over to him but then slip on a half-melted 3 fronteirsman bar and fall flat on my but.*</span></span>
*Wakes up from the noise outside, walks out to see paper on the floor.*
" Dude what you doing down there ?"</b></span>