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FoE: Meadow's Ford

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Post by OneMoreDaySK Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:37 am

Still no headway for getting around the block. At best Skype weirdness allows me to stay hooked on a call as long as it is not dropped, but I would have no visuals or roll capability, severely limiting my options. Not even sure were Alouette is on the timeline. Apologies for making this so difficult.
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Post by Cptadder Fri Jul 25, 2014 4:11 pm

OneMoreDaySK wrote:Still no headway for getting around the block. At best Skype weirdness allows me to stay hooked on a call as long as it is not dropped, but I would have no visuals or roll capability, severely limiting my options. Not even sure were Alouette is on the timeline. Apologies for making this so difficult.
I want to test something this weekend SK, you get blocked the same time on a Sunday right?
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Post by Cptadder Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:37 pm

XP list as of Session 23

XP List Session 21
Level 7 is 21,000 xp



Akapesh (Zebra Alchemist)= 18,800 xp
Made his momma proud 1000xp
Second to game the System 500xp
Got the band back together 1000xp
Got Flashpoint put back together again 300xp
RP 300xp


Gravel Sky (Throwback Pegasus) = 18,050xp
Swam the Rivers of Office Politics 500xp
Made a favorable impression 150xp
Managed his personal assistant 200xp
Missed two chances to ask what happened to Meadow's Ford 0xp
RP 300xp

Alouette (Mute Unicorn Musician)= 21,031xp
Welcome to Pinnacle 1000xp
Activated my Trap Card 1xp
Failed Theta Negotiations 100xp
Plan failed x4 400xp
RP 300xp
Gained a level!

Flashpoint (Anti-social Earth Pony Mercenary) = 18,450xp
Had a plan! 20xp
Plan Fail 2x 200xp
Had a bit of character development 200xp
Back to normal at the end of the episode -200xp
Missed four chances to ask what happened to Meadow's Ford 0xp
RP 300xp

Draz (Zebra Shaman)= 21,500xp
Became the Zebra they needed 500xp
Has a plan! (A good plan!) 200xp
Acquired a Patron 500xp
Gearing up 1000xp
RP 300xp
Gained a level!

Smooth Tongue (Unicorn Merchant)= 26,160xp
First to seriously game the system 1000xp
Uncovered what happen to Meadow's Ford 5000xp
RP 300xp

Gained a level!

XP List Session 22

Level 7 is 21,000 xp
Level 8 is 28,000


Akapesh (Zebra Alchemist)= 25,700 xp
Set Condition 1 x4 6400xp
Calmed down the assistant bot 200xp
RP 300xp
Gained a level!

Gravel Sky (Throwback Pegasus) = 19,800xp
Security Class Frame 1x 400xp
Maintenance Class Frame 1x 200xp
Technical Class Frame 1x 850xp
RP 300xp

Alouette (Mute Unicorn Musician)= 21,031xp
Explored her surroundings 100xp
Trapped in solitary......

Flashpoint (Anti-social Earth Pony Mercenary) = 20,200xp
Security Class Frame 1x 400xp
Maintenance Class Frame 1x 200xp
Technical Class Frame 1x 850xp
RP 300xp

Draz (Zebra Shaman)= 24,300xp
Security Class Frame 1x 400xp
Maintenance Class Frame 1x 200xp
Technical Class Frame 1x 850xp
Lost and found box got! 250xp
Kept his appointment 100xp
Acquired a certain set of tools.... 200xp
Successfully got his allowance increased 500xp
RP 300xp

Smooth Tongue (Unicorn Merchant)= 28,230xp[/b]
Security Class Frame 1x 400xp
Maintenance Class Frame 1x 200xp
Technical Class Frame 1x 850xp
Got a new suit 10xp
Almost had a plan fail 110xp
Has a plan 200xp
RP xp 300xp
Gained a level!
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Post by Cptadder Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:51 pm

XP List Session 23
Level 7 is 21,000 xp
Level 8 is 28,000
Level 9 is 36,000


Akapesh (Zebra Alchemist)= 25,700 xp
Missing in action

Gravel Sky (Throwback Pegasus) = 21,500xp
Met a TC bot 100xp
Escaped the TC bot without initiating combat or blowing his CEO cover. 500xp
Settled down his assistant robot 100xp
Used his assistant to assist him! 400xp
Started a plan 100xp
Has a plan! (200xp)
RP 300xp
Gained a level!

Alouette (Mute Unicorn Musician)= 21,031xp
Trapped in solitary......

Flashpoint (Anti-social Earth Pony Mercenary) = 21,100xp
Armed and equipped! 200xp
Spent time on the inside 50xp
Gained street cred 50xp
Has a plan 200xp
RP 300xp

Gained a level!
Draz (Zebra Shaman)= 27,100xp
Arranged for a weapons delivery 1000xp
The plan was abandon 100xp
RP 300xp

Smooth Tongue (Unicorn Merchant)= 29,330xp[/b]
Learned the layout 300xp
Lead the way 200xp
Found Flashpoint a battle saddle 300xp
RP 300xp

Current levels are Smooth at 8, everyone else at 7 but Draz and Akapesh are almost to 8.
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Post by OneMoreDaySK Sun Jul 27, 2014 12:10 pm

*sighs*

Still no luck on my end. T.T
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Post by Cptadder Sun Jul 27, 2014 2:37 pm

At the moment it does not matter, but it will matter more and more as time goes on.
My biggest worry is once we get you out you'll be institutionalized and unable to relate to the rest of the party who've not done time..
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Post by Moodyman90 Sun Jul 27, 2014 4:18 pm

We're gonna get Alouette back, and she'll be changed. Like actually able to speak or something but all she ever says is "Whatever."
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Post by Cptadder Sun Jul 27, 2014 4:53 pm

Moodyman90 wrote:We're gonna get Alouette back, and she'll be changed. Like actually able to speak or something but all she ever says is "Whatever."
And she will have gotten inked... the first time Flashpoint steps out of line Alouette is going to shank her.
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Post by Cptadder Sun Jul 27, 2014 7:54 pm

I'll be online in twenty minutes
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Post by Cptadder Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:39 pm

The session had some hilarious high marks, Smooth Tongue almost died when a wild shot from Flashpoint did 100% of Smooth Tongues heath and 47.8% of his total heath left over if it had done -50% it would have been instant death for Smooth Tongue.

Seriously we went from they almost won to Tyler nearly dieing in a single shotgun attack.
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Post by OneMoreDaySK Mon Jul 28, 2014 8:01 am

Something about repeating history with a single party member carrying all the healing items leading to high AP costs to heal. Something about attacking the 'Tank' of the enemies first for some odd reason. Something hilarious about the near noncombatant doing melee crits.

<i>*Attempting to breach time prison*
*Current Time Distortion: 1/2 to 1/3 of a day*
We will escape.</i>
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Post by Cptadder Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:08 am

Session 23:Technical Victory
The Players (PC)
Aonee as Akapesh (Zebra Alchemist) - The dependable one
Moodyman90 as Gravel Sky (Throwback Pegasus) - The one with the acting career
OneMoreDaySK as Alouette (Mute Unicorn Musician) - The strong silent type
Obs as Flashpoint (Anti-social Earth Pony Mercenary) -The bad girl
Stone as Draz (Zebra Shaman) - The responsible one
Tylertoon as Smooth Tongue (Unicorn Merchant) -The cute one


When the last fight had ended most of the party was shot to hell and back but no one had gone down.  All in all it was an easy fight that became difficult because the unique mechanics of the bots were unknown to them.  The concept of regenerating shields and focusing fire was unknown to them so lots was of resources were expended to blast down the enemy shields only for them to recharge a turn later and the process start again.  By shear grit, determination and explosives they had gotten their way through things.   After the fight had finished up they took turns gathering themselves up.

Elsewhere Alouette had been in the cells and awake for about an hour at this point keep that in mind Alouette.

Back up top while still keyed up on all sorts of drugs Flashpoint had charged off and gotten herself captured after she had tried going 3 on 1 VS some Sentry frames only to find out another crucial fact that close combat was their strong suit as they pony piled her and put her down inside of twelve seconds.  Wisely the rest of the party held off and decided now was the time to let Flashpoint detox in a containment cell and worry about getting her out later.  Until one Dr Flashpoint had come down to give Prisoner 15 named Flashpoint a psych evaluation, there was no way to spring Flashpoint that they knew of... more on that later.  

A quick stop by the security office on this floor later the party had filled Akapesh in on everything that had happened (Also Aonee was out this week) and continued on to start scouting additional floors.  Unlike earlier when Smooth Tongue and Gravel had tried to get around the security seem to ignore them.  The decision tree nature of the machines worked against them as even a vauge excuse once accepted would be accepted fully.  So Dr Smooth would be asking Gravel medical questions while Mr Gravel went on an inspection tour.  Where he was inspecting did not much matter in that he had a reason to be out and about and Smooth had a reason to follow him.  Together Smooth, Gravel and Draz worked their way around the Holding Floor checking passageways and rooms.  After sometime they went back to check on the TC bot only to find the body of all the damaged machines missing except the ones who's parts they had stripped.  Flumixed and a little worried by this they searched the room and found an access hatch leaning down and took it to find themselves on the administration level, near Smooth Tongues office to be exact.

Elsewhere Alouette plotted

Meanwhile Flashpoint started coming down off her drugs

A good hour was spent reviewing the floorplan but they were looking for and failing to find either the security office or the TC bot for the floor when Gravel literally stumbled across TC-5 inside an interior greenhouse and small scale hydroponics facility.  Luck was with him and a convincing lie let him get out of the room  without to much trouble.  He left quickly but noted down the rooms outlines and layout as well as the number of Security bots near the TC bot (Three, two more than the last one).  With another target found the three of them spent time hunting around for a terminal for Draz to report in on.  After a bit of trouble they figured out whoever Draz was speaking to would not talk or possibly monitor any rooms with more than one pony inside so while the other two hung around a corner he reported in.  The terminal ignored most of his questions and asked half a dozen of it's own but one thing was forthcoming, it could provide ammo and weaponry with time... much to much time for the party.  However it could do something a touch fast and risky.  It spoke of manipulating readyness reports, inventing fake security forces and assigning them ammunition.    With a bit of terminal magic a construction bot was soon headed to the nearest depot two floors down with a box of ammunition and supplies for a day on the range for twelve security ponies.  It was not hard for them to simply follow the construction bot in, swipe the contents of the box and get out before sentry bots took charge of it to move the the empty box to the shooting range.  Within an hour an auto generated report would be send indicating the non-existant security detailed had failed to show up for range time and be noted as truant and and a write up would be placed in their permanent file.  It would matter little in the long run.  There would be other instances in the near future of a similar nature.

While they sorted out the inventory of what was taken a quick search of a nearby storeroom turned up a few useful odds and ends including a pre-war military battle saddle with rifles still attached and an Equestrian Army uniform in a crate.  Overjoyed with their finds they made their way back to Akapesh to report in an plan.

At which they were reminded Flashpoint was still in jail.

Deciding to go spring him Draz find a free terminal and asked for help.  The other side of the terminal conversation asked if he had tried opening up the cell door and letting Flashpoint out.  Draz admitted sucha  dumb idea had no occurred to him.  Worse it worked as the sentry bots ignored a Zebra walking into their midest and gently pushing one aside to get to the door release controls and dragging a thoroughly crashing Flashpoint back to the rest of the party.  It was at this point that Draz (Who failed multiple perception checks with many 8's,9's and 10st) noticed that the robots seem to be ignoring him.  Oh at a distant they stared but get close?  And they ignored him utterly as if he were part of the wall.

With yet one more mystery tossed onto the pile of mysterious mystery's the session ended with the gang all back together!

Meanwhile Alouette....
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Post by Cptadder Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:14 am

24 was written part way then saved. More tomorrow
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Post by Cptadder Sun Aug 03, 2014 7:45 pm

We are down two people atm, Obs and SK, any lateness will result in a session being postponed.
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Post by Cptadder Sun Aug 03, 2014 8:03 pm

Session has been called, we are down Obs, SK and Moody, and Tyler.
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Post by Cptadder Mon Aug 04, 2014 10:55 pm

Session 24:Garden Warfare
The Players (PC)
Aonee as Akapesh (Zebra Alchemist) - John Smith
Moodyman90 as Gravel Sky (Throwback Pegasus) - Roderick Decker
OneMoreDaySK as Alouette (Mute Unicorn Musician) - Amy Allen
Obs as Flashpoint (Anti-social Earth Pony Mercenary) -Howling Mad Murdok
Stone as Draz (Zebra Shaman) - Bosco Albert Baracus
Tylertoon as Smooth Tongue (Unicorn Merchant) -Templeton Peck


Alouette still missing in action and with six or seven robots left to put out of commission they had a plan.  That plan was hope for the best and send a pony to bluff his way into the hydroponics garden to see if a TC robot was indeed in there as they suspected.  They would need their best talker, the smoothest operator buoyed up by both equipment and access rights to walk into a garden used to grow herbs and scope out the layout of the area before the fight.  Here was a chance to scout the location for the fight, look for things to turn to their advantage and perhaps if he was feeling lucky to try his hoof at pulling some intel from the TC bot itself.

Instead they sent Gravel in almost on accident who at the first site of the TC bot turned tail and made for the door checking nothing.  The layout of the room beyond a brief glance was unknwon to him, the status of the bots or the terrain they would fight on were glances at most.  The TC bot in question went unquestioned and Gravel left.  At this point they decided to gather together and do a tiny little bit of planning before rushing in.  Naturally they left the door to the garden unwatched meaning when they finally went in it would be almost as blind as the first fight against the TC robot.  A fight which had almost gone to hell only to have a few lucky breaks keep them solid.  Now they were planning to do it again, what's worse is unlike the previous fight they made no plan to deal with the alarms.  In the previous fight Akapesh had successfully prevented any reinforcements from entering the fight.  In this upcoming fight not knowing where the security systems were and doing as little planning as before... things were not looking good.

I'll interject now as the DM to detail their plan as follows

1. Walk in the door in a tightly packed group
2. ?????
3. Get the drop on the TC bot and alpha it down before it can teleport away
4. ?????
5.  Mob up the remaining security bots and do the celebration pose in freeze frame
6. ?????
7. ????

They had exactly two backups plans which consisted of A. Running away (Thus plan A) and plan S (Something some freaky zebra shit and pray) in case the primary plan did not go well.  

After doing no last minutes checks and not seeking out the security office (After what are the chances this pre-war military instillation for the testing of esoteric Equestrian military technology hidden underneath a mountain range has an alarm system on every level?) they went in.... and things instantly went wrong.  In the time between planning and activation a war frame bot was in the room for some reason and facing the TC bot which was no longer wandering around checking individual plants but instead hearing a report of some sort from the military bot.  At this single complication the party switched to Plan A and started trying to run unobserved but where instantly detected by the Warframe because of the small problem of Flashpoints battle saddles and the draw plasma pistols that Akapesh had.  Any attempts at stealth or diversion failed, the concentrated blow that should have fallen onto the TC bot because a touch ragged and it was able to duck into cover at which point mistake two happened.  With the TC bot out of line of sight the party instantly fragmented half going after the sentry bots half after the warframe.  Thanks to the regen shields of both they were far more durable than otherwise would be as they stood the group would do just enough damage to break the shield and chip the paint only to swap targets and the shields to regen back up to full in a round or two.  

Two rounds later they were badly hurt and the warframe bot was almost down.  It's ability to eat punishment had let the other sentry bots keep up the damage.  While it had very high damage of it's own, luck was on their side for most of it's attacks.  Meanwhile the TC bot was busy repairing itself and calling in reinforcements from every part of it's floor while the alarms kept up the blaring warning.

Two rounds later the TC bot re-entered the fight by being grenaded and nearly frying Akapesh and Flashpoint.  Even as it went down the first of it's on station sentries entered the fray as Smooth Tongue was nearly blown in half from a wild shot by Flashpoints battle saddle.  A few more points of damage, a bit better of a roll on Flashpoints part and Smooth Tongue would have been KIA right there.  Without the little bit of DT provided by Smooth Tongue armor he would have been dead.  The fight sputtered to a halt as the last sentry bot went down with the entire party sans draz under 30% and two of them having gone down (And without magical healing on hand Smooth Tongue would have bleed out).

And the alarms kept ringing because there was no pony there in the security office to turn them off and no loyal robots or pipbuck wearing ponies to remotely turn them off.  
Outside more and more robots were showing up outside the closed doors and there the session ended.

Wondering where the XP tables are?
XP is for living ponies.  It's been almost a year now and little has been learned, the house might be calling that check next session.  Stayed tuned for "The lucky ones"


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Post by Cptadder Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:49 pm

Correction post 990 is when the auto-split hits, so... yeah 380 odd posts to go.
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Post by Cptadder Mon Aug 11, 2014 12:13 am

So lets see quick summary of this evening.
The party got into another avoidable fight. They learned about the true meaning of Xmas, they found out Theta was Rho oh and they got drunk while sniffing funeral incense.

No seriously they ended the last fight with the alarms still going and Flashpoint yoloed into two WC bots and got knocked out for his troubles, then they remembered oh hey the Zebra get ignored so they found and turned off the alarms but not before a Benny hill skit of Flashpoint getting chased.
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Post by Cptadder Mon Aug 11, 2014 11:34 pm

I am working on the recap but it will be in the morning since English is failing me now.
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Post by Cptadder Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:16 pm

Session 25:The Lucky ones
The Players (PC)
Aonee as Akapesh (Zebra Alchemist) - Wedge Antilles
Moodyman90 as Gravel Sky (Throwback Pegasus) - Giancarlo
OneMoreDaySK as Alouette (Mute Unicorn Musician) -Tymora
Obs as Flashpoint (Anti-social Earth Pony Mercenary) -Tsutomu Yamaguchi
Stone as Draz (Zebra Shaman) - Lance White
Tylertoon as Smooth Tongue (Unicorn Merchant) -Gladstone Gander


The battle was down with the second TC bot, the alarms will still going off.  Once again planning was not their strong suit.  The problem was twofold, one they were a room full of smashed robots without unknown numbers of enemies outside and no clue what to do first.  After some talked they hit on the idea of at least getting their heath back up to full before opening the door.  A few quick potions and some bandages later they even had a plan of sorts.  Flashpoint and Draz would take point in opening the door while the rest hid in the cover of the plants in the growing room.  If worse came to worse they could charge forward or fall back as circumstance dictated while the rest would provide support either racing after or covering fire.

Outside the door in plan sight and unaware of them were two WC bots, 15mm back mounted cannons able to engage power armor equipped ponies or gryphons of which they had none.  Failing that they had armor, flamethrowers and hoof lasers to add into the mix some sort of grenade system which did not seem to be mounted on these two examples of Warfare class robots.   A quick conference was held and Flashpoint decided she would go first.  Had it occurred to Draz or Akapesh that they tended to be ignored by machines in the Facility they might have changed their tactics.  As it was Flashpoint got two steps inside the far room before being smashed into by both WC bots at the same time as they dropped 80% of her heath in stun damage on her head.  It could have easily been them caving in her skull had she fired first but by trying to run past it made this a escaping criminal situation as opposed to an armored intruder.  Draz moved up in support and together with the rest of the party they beat one WC bot into submission and Flashpoint ran for it with the WC bot in hot pursuit.  Two CC bots followed in support as every Sentry bot in the area converged on Flashpoint.  She got about two hundred feet down one hallway then back another before being corned and knocked out.

At this point the rest of the group was in the hallways as the local security forces were focusing on Flashpoint.  Between Gravel status as Senior Facility Leadership and Draz and Akapesh all but invisibility to the robots when not in the presence of a TC bot they were able to sort things out relativity quickly.  After some hijinks and a Benny Hill moment or three they got the alarms off and Flashpoint back on her feet along with her equipment back.  While she went to work reassembling the gear the robots had taken apart while the rest of the party was busy the rest explored the level.  In short order they found where a pony in a room had hacked a terminal into the floor network and used it to shut off most of the alarms.  Aonee went to find a terminal to consult with their person on the inside.  From Theta Aonee learned that the bots ignored him only because he was assigned an ultra low priority.  If the robot had literally anything else to do it would ignore Aonee until last.  Such programing tricks only lasted an hour at most and Theta was limited to manually uploading each robot with the same trick making Aonee ability to walk around be restricted to where Theta knew he was going and had time to get it in.  Take to long or run across a robot who was actively guarding a doorway or some bit of machinery and it would fail.  Theta was personable, complementary and provided what information he could.  He could only be so helpful but he clearly wanted Aonee to succeed.  When Aonee asked to be able to directed to someplace to resupply or rearm Theta had no ideas only urging Aonee to continue his efforts to finish off more TC bots to open up new avenue for Theta to access.  More access more ability to help.

Elsewhere Smooth Tongue was restocking his drug supply and consulting with Gravel about their next plans.

In Flashpoints office Draz went to check for spare change in the couch cushions or to see if anything had been missed or changed between visits.  As before once by himself his unknown associate contacted him by the simple method of turning on every monitoring and locking the door to ensure them privacy.  The talk was terse and to the point.  Because of the party bungling the alarms had been taken for in the work area as a sign to rebel and the Meadow Ford Residents had rioted.  Seven ponies had died in the resulting fighting and the rest locked in their quarters after being driven there.  Further information was forthcoming, yes they could get into the Armory on the second floor except TC-6 was nearly always present there making a fight likely and a time crunch because once the Armory alarms went off the facility would swap to either Condition 7 or Condition 8 which could not be disabled without direct authorization from the other TC bots or the head of the facility if the TC bots were removed from command.  Then Draz finally asked the question he should have asked two months ago.  What is your name?

I am Theta I am the First.

Draz knew Aonee has been talking to what he had thought was the same entity on other terminals but he had called himself not just Theta but the first.  When Draz put this question to Theta it clarified.  There was another AI in the system, named Rho it was Father's greatest failure according to Theta.  Draz asked, if he was a failure what are you?   I am Father's first success, I was to be the future to the Stabletech. At this point Theta cut off further questions telling Draz only that Rho was a failure and to ignore it. That accessing the armory would require removing TC-6 shortly before or right after accessing the armory itself. Making one last request Draz asked after Alouette who had not been seen in some time. The news was good and bad. Alouette was alive and Theta told Draz the location... right after stating that she would die in the cell for impersonating Father. Pretending to be one of the long dead researchers for stable-tech to his self aware possibly greatest creation. Theta was a machine but it was not emotionless on the subject of it's creator. Clearly Theta may let the party go and Meadow's Ford go but it would never consent to releasing Alouette.

Gathering together resources were shared, information was pooled and the group decided they could not fight another TC bot without serious firepower. The armory would be their next stop, first Gravel and Flashpoint would put their heads together to see if they could whip up a few surprises in the workshop they found inside the Security office. Failing that their course was set, get to the second floor and take or at least raid the armory. Quietly if possible but it that proved impossible as loud and a fast as could be managed. They needed bigger guns.
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Post by Cptadder Wed Aug 13, 2014 12:18 am

XP List Session 24&25
Level 8 is 28,000 xp
Level 9 is 36,000 xp


2800
Akapesh (Zebra Alchemist)= 29,400 xp
Had a plan 200xp
Hacked a terminal 100xp
Cut the alarms 100xp
Talked with "Theta" 100xp
Security Class Frame 3x 1200xp
Technical Class Frame 1x 850xp
Warfare Class Frame 1x 750xp
RP x2 600xp
Gained a level

Gravel Sky (Throwback Pegasus) = 25,000xp
Security Class Frame 3x 1200xp
Technical Class Frame 1x 850xp
Warfare Class Frame 1x 750xp
Defused a situation 400xp
RP 300xp

Alouette (Mute Unicorn Musician)= 21,031xp
Trapped in solitary......

Flashpoint (Anti-social Earth Pony Mercenary) = 25,150xp
Security Class Frame 3x 1200xp
Technical Class Frame 1x 850xp
Warfare Class Frame 2x 1500xp
Put a workbench to use 200xp
RP 300xp

Gained a level!
Draz (Zebra Shaman)= 32,850xp
Talked with Theta 200xp
Found Rho 400xp
Found Alouette 1000xp
Security Class Frame 3x 1200xp
Technical Class Frame 1x 850xp
Warfare Class Frame 2x 1500xp
RP x2 600xp
Gained a level

Smooth Tongue (Unicorn Merchant)= 32,630xp[/b]
Had a plan 200xp
Security Class Frame 3x 1200xp
Technical Class Frame 1x 850xp
Warfare Class Frame 1x 750xp
RP 300xp

Loot Found
Hunting Revolver
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Post by OneMoreDaySK Wed Aug 13, 2014 8:24 am

Just had to use "that" card, did I not? Well, at least due to time flux I do have some options. For all you know Alouette could be dead, or somewhere else in the facility.
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Post by Cptadder Sun Aug 24, 2014 7:11 pm

No session tonight due to real life concerns on the DM's part. Call it a mix between a prosecution, inquisition and RL issues.
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Post by Moodyman90 Sun Aug 24, 2014 7:36 pm

Hope everything turns out alright for you Adder.

Since tonight's session has been called off, I want to mention that I will not be here next weekend as I will be at Dragon Con. Even if I had access to a computer, or the unthinkable happens and we head home early instead of staying till Monday, I probably wouldn't be in any condition to play.
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Post by OneMoreDaySK Sun Aug 24, 2014 8:30 pm

Have fun next week, Moody.
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Post by Cptadder Sun Aug 31, 2014 6:38 pm

Our CEO is out this week so are we having a session tonight?
If yes don't plan on it being more than three hours
If no I'll spend the time having the Alouette and Gang show (Featuring sidequest Rum)
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Post by tylertoon2 Sun Aug 31, 2014 6:42 pm

I'd rather have everyone together. But if the others are on board I will join.
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Post by Admiral Stoic Rum Mon Sep 01, 2014 12:01 am

Moodyman90 wrote:Hope everything turns out alright for you Adder.

Since tonight's session has been called off, I want to mention that I will not be here next weekend as I will be at Dragon Con. Even if I had access to a computer, or the unthinkable happens and we head home early instead of staying till Monday, I probably wouldn't be in any condition to play.

I played Gravel... we now have two WC bots under our control
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Post by StoneSlinger88 Mon Sep 01, 2014 5:58 pm

Admiral Stoic Rum wrote:
Moodyman90 wrote:Hope everything turns out alright for you Adder.

Since tonight's session has been called off, I want to mention that I will not be here next weekend as I will be at Dragon Con. Even if I had access to a computer, or the unthinkable happens and we head home early instead of staying till Monday, I probably wouldn't be in any condition to play.

I played Gravel... we now have two WC bots under our control
Draz can apparently identify electronics by tasting them, as well.
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Post by Admiral Stoic Rum Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:10 pm

StoneSlinger88 wrote:
Admiral Stoic Rum wrote:
Moodyman90 wrote:Hope everything turns out alright for you Adder.

Since tonight's session has been called off, I want to mention that I will not be here next weekend as I will be at Dragon Con. Even if I had access to a computer, or the unthinkable happens and we head home early instead of staying till Monday, I probably wouldn't be in any condition to play.

I played Gravel... we now have two WC bots under our control
Draz can apparently identify electronics by tasting them, as well.
fucker rolls a 5 on a science check
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