I toyed with the idea of Thom seeing the Scorpion air walking for a bit, but decided against it in the end. Maybe on my next post.
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Posted 16 June 2014 - 05:50 PM
Love what you did there with the 'Stones.
Funny though, now I cant help but think of Mick Jagger when I envisage Thom in my mind's eye. Will be hard to shake
So glad to see posts up across the board and our getting back in on the RPs. I'll have a response up shortly.
Funny though, now I cant help but think of Mick Jagger when I envisage Thom in my mind's eye. Will be hard to shake
So glad to see posts up across the board and our getting back in on the RPs. I'll have a response up shortly.
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Posted 17 June 2014 - 08:08 PM
AHHHH! EXCITEMENT! more posts!
Mine's up too. Have sorely missed writing combat scenes. Apologies, am probably quite rusty
P.S. If Thom is now Avocado, then Li is now Skipper... or Gilligan. Not sure. I'm taking votes.
Mine's up too. Have sorely missed writing combat scenes. Apologies, am probably quite rusty
P.S. If Thom is now Avocado, then Li is now Skipper... or Gilligan. Not sure. I'm taking votes.
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Posted 17 June 2014 - 08:15 PM
The Shepherd, on 16 June 2014 - 05:50 PM, said:
Love what you did there with the 'Stones.
Funny though, now I cant help but think of Mick Jagger when I envisage Thom in my mind's eye. Will be hard to shake
So glad to see posts up across the board and our getting back in on the RPs. I'll have a response up shortly.
Funny though, now I cant help but think of Mick Jagger when I envisage Thom in my mind's eye. Will be hard to shake
So glad to see posts up across the board and our getting back in on the RPs. I'll have a response up shortly.
LOL I'm loving the posts! Also, Thom's physical features kinda look like Malcolm McDowell's circa A Clockwork Orange. But by S&S he's bulked up a bit. He even has one of those goofy hats that Alex wore in the movie.
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Posted 18 June 2014 - 07:22 PM
My intro post has been posted (replaced the "Placeholder text," so it won't look like there has been a new post.) Will get a combat post up tomorrow sparring with Juri, Li, and then fully engaging Sparks.
Fun times again!
Fun times again!
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Posted 22 June 2014 - 07:21 PM
Hey super friends!
So I have an idea for a post, but I need to clear it with others since it involves them so here goes.
So right now there is a big kerfuffle in the city, and sparks just ran for the hills (with everyone running in the general same direction I assume). Mac and I are working on a sequence that needs Thom so what I propose is:
Adrianna pops to the outskirts of the city and stumbles upon Wheeler field testing the mad cat. He fires a few shots her way, she peels off and bails. Cees wants to engage but realizes its not the right time or place (not advantageous timing and too many combatants - just a thought). He chases Adriana and adman follows suit. Thom on the other hand breaks in the opposite direction and disappears back in the city. Wheeler gives chase to Thom and then he runs smack into Mac and the rest of the sequence plays out.
I didn't want to screw up what sparks and shep were doing but kinda need to steal thom. What do you guys think? Thoughts?
Also spokes needs to join the fun somehow but I'm not sure how she wants to jump in.
So I have an idea for a post, but I need to clear it with others since it involves them so here goes.
So right now there is a big kerfuffle in the city, and sparks just ran for the hills (with everyone running in the general same direction I assume). Mac and I are working on a sequence that needs Thom so what I propose is:
Adrianna pops to the outskirts of the city and stumbles upon Wheeler field testing the mad cat. He fires a few shots her way, she peels off and bails. Cees wants to engage but realizes its not the right time or place (not advantageous timing and too many combatants - just a thought). He chases Adriana and adman follows suit. Thom on the other hand breaks in the opposite direction and disappears back in the city. Wheeler gives chase to Thom and then he runs smack into Mac and the rest of the sequence plays out.
I didn't want to screw up what sparks and shep were doing but kinda need to steal thom. What do you guys think? Thoughts?
Also spokes needs to join the fun somehow but I'm not sure how she wants to jump in.
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Posted 22 June 2014 - 07:47 PM
My understanding is that Li is involved in Mac's opener. Rather finally, at that.
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Posted 22 June 2014 - 11:18 PM
Listless Nomad, on 22 June 2014 - 07:21 PM, said:
Hey super friends!
So I have an idea for a post, but I need to clear it with others since it involves them so here goes.
So right now there is a big kerfuffle in the city, and sparks just ran for the hills (with everyone running in the general same direction I assume). Mac and I are working on a sequence that needs Thom so what I propose is:
Adrianna pops to the outskirts of the city and stumbles upon Wheeler field testing the mad cat. He fires a few shots her way, she peels off and bails. Cees wants to engage but realizes its not the right time or place (not advantageous timing and too many combatants - just a thought). He chases Adriana and adman follows suit. Thom on the other hand breaks in the opposite direction and disappears back in the city. Wheeler gives chase to Thom and then he runs smack into Mac and the rest of the sequence plays out.
I didn't want to screw up what sparks and shep were doing but kinda need to steal thom. What do you guys think? Thoughts?
Also spokes needs to join the fun somehow but I'm not sure how she wants to jump in.
So I have an idea for a post, but I need to clear it with others since it involves them so here goes.
So right now there is a big kerfuffle in the city, and sparks just ran for the hills (with everyone running in the general same direction I assume). Mac and I are working on a sequence that needs Thom so what I propose is:
Adrianna pops to the outskirts of the city and stumbles upon Wheeler field testing the mad cat. He fires a few shots her way, she peels off and bails. Cees wants to engage but realizes its not the right time or place (not advantageous timing and too many combatants - just a thought). He chases Adriana and adman follows suit. Thom on the other hand breaks in the opposite direction and disappears back in the city. Wheeler gives chase to Thom and then he runs smack into Mac and the rest of the sequence plays out.
I didn't want to screw up what sparks and shep were doing but kinda need to steal thom. What do you guys think? Thoughts?
Also spokes needs to join the fun somehow but I'm not sure how she wants to jump in.
I'm fine with that if Sparks and Thom are. Can work a bit of ".........YOU!!!" into it. He wont like bailing on the MAD CAT, but the smart thing to do would be to watch Wheeler fight, not directly engage him. Would skew his performance otherwise if he knew the big bad XO was facing him. Heisenberg and all that
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Posted 24 June 2014 - 04:04 PM
Spokes, on 22 June 2014 - 07:47 PM, said:
My understanding is that Li is involved in Mac's opener. Rather finally, at that.
Listless Nomad, on 22 June 2014 - 07:21 PM, said:
Hey super friends!
So I have an idea for a post, but I need to clear it with others since it involves them so here goes.
So right now there is a big kerfuffle in the city, and sparks just ran for the hills (with everyone running in the general same direction I assume). Mac and I are working on a sequence that needs Thom so what I propose is:
Adrianna pops to the outskirts of the city and stumbles upon Wheeler field testing the mad cat. He fires a few shots her way, she peels off and bails. Cees wants to engage but realizes its not the right time or place (not advantageous timing and too many combatants - just a thought). He chases Adriana and adman follows suit. Thom on the other hand breaks in the opposite direction and disappears back in the city. Wheeler gives chase to Thom and then he runs smack into Mac and the rest of the sequence plays out.
I didn't want to screw up what sparks and shep were doing but kinda need to steal thom. What do you guys think? Thoughts?
Also spokes needs to join the fun somehow but I'm not sure how she wants to jump in.
So I have an idea for a post, but I need to clear it with others since it involves them so here goes.
So right now there is a big kerfuffle in the city, and sparks just ran for the hills (with everyone running in the general same direction I assume). Mac and I are working on a sequence that needs Thom so what I propose is:
Adrianna pops to the outskirts of the city and stumbles upon Wheeler field testing the mad cat. He fires a few shots her way, she peels off and bails. Cees wants to engage but realizes its not the right time or place (not advantageous timing and too many combatants - just a thought). He chases Adriana and adman follows suit. Thom on the other hand breaks in the opposite direction and disappears back in the city. Wheeler gives chase to Thom and then he runs smack into Mac and the rest of the sequence plays out.
I didn't want to screw up what sparks and shep were doing but kinda need to steal thom. What do you guys think? Thoughts?
Also spokes needs to join the fun somehow but I'm not sure how she wants to jump in.
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Posted 24 June 2014 - 09:08 PM
Tried to involve a few archs, though I am really pleased with what is beginning to rear its head 
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Posted 25 June 2014 - 06:27 PM
Really enjoying the new posts guys, this is perfect. Exactly what I had planned ^^
Hurry up and crank 'em out so I can join in
Hurry up and crank 'em out so I can join in
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Posted 28 June 2014 - 09:40 PM
Will try to get something up tomorrow at sometime. Only day off this week so I'm not too sure on how willing the wife will be to leave me alone long enough to write something.
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Nomad and I were hashing out a brief encounter tonight on Skype, but my lead in involves Adrianna and Cees so I'd like to run the following past you two before I post it. In particular, I realized as I was writing it that the Uziel carries an active probe and Li may or may not be out of the probe's range, depending on what rule set one happens to be looking at. But I figure Li doesn't know about the probe (I don't think it's been mentioned?) and Cees is shrewd enough to ignore her and use this as a way to "clear his six", as it were. Let me know what you all think-- I can always swap Cees for Thom if his Wraith is still kicking.
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"The Ballroom", RAIV Drunkard’s Walk
Sigvald’s Light
Lyran Space
7 April, 3061-- 13:26 Hrs
Fifteen minutes of slinking around the fringes of the battle had given Li a chance to shake out some of the rust and get a better feel for the simulator controls. The combatants in the city center were going at each other like wet cats in a bag and, more by luck than design, Li had managed to get out in front of them without being spotted. Her virtual Scorpion was parked low in among a mess of pipelines and girders, its reactor in a low power state, crosshairs lined up on an intersection that was just inside her PPC's comfort zone. She didn't need her sensors at the moment. . .the external pickups could hear the multi-ton conga line rumbling up the street just fine.
Li leaned forward in her seat as a Dragon came pounding through the intersection right under her guns. She let it go.
"First guy wakes the snake up. . ."
Ten seconds later another machine came trotting up the road-- looked like Cees' screwball chicken-walker. Li held her fire, reached down to slowly dial the reactor back up to full power as the Uziel passed out of view down the street.
"Second guy pisses the snake off. . ."
Her seismic sensors tentatively identified the next approaching target as a medium weight BattleMech. Li adjusted the crosshairs ever so slightly to settle where she figured the 'Mech's center of mass would be.
"Third guy gets bit. . ." She squeezed the right hand trigger just as the target bounced into view.
The emaciated Vulcan twisted up onto the side of its left foot, slid out of her beam before it could do any real damage and answered with the ultra autocannon mounted in its chest. High explosive shells splashed into the girders and plucked at the Scorpion's glacis plate.
"Wow, really?" Li's left index finger twitched up towards the SRM trigger, but the Vulcan shot out from under her crosshairs on its ion jets, just as the asphalt where it had been standing burned away under the mega-joule touch of a pair of emerald laser beams. The Vulcan's jump wash cleared quickly, unmasking the Mad Cat that was suddenly bounding up the cross street behind it.
"Oh hello!" The armored boxes mounted high on the OmniMech's torso erupted in a ripple of fire and smoke, and the sim pod filled with curses as Li reflexively hammered her right knee up into a pedal that wasn't there. The Scorpion had only managed to partially disentangle itself from the damaged pipes before the missiles started raining down. . .
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"The Ballroom", RAIV Drunkard’s Walk
Sigvald’s Light
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7 April, 3061-- 13:26 Hrs
Fifteen minutes of slinking around the fringes of the battle had given Li a chance to shake out some of the rust and get a better feel for the simulator controls. The combatants in the city center were going at each other like wet cats in a bag and, more by luck than design, Li had managed to get out in front of them without being spotted. Her virtual Scorpion was parked low in among a mess of pipelines and girders, its reactor in a low power state, crosshairs lined up on an intersection that was just inside her PPC's comfort zone. She didn't need her sensors at the moment. . .the external pickups could hear the multi-ton conga line rumbling up the street just fine.
Li leaned forward in her seat as a Dragon came pounding through the intersection right under her guns. She let it go.
"First guy wakes the snake up. . ."
Ten seconds later another machine came trotting up the road-- looked like Cees' screwball chicken-walker. Li held her fire, reached down to slowly dial the reactor back up to full power as the Uziel passed out of view down the street.
"Second guy pisses the snake off. . ."
Her seismic sensors tentatively identified the next approaching target as a medium weight BattleMech. Li adjusted the crosshairs ever so slightly to settle where she figured the 'Mech's center of mass would be.
"Third guy gets bit. . ." She squeezed the right hand trigger just as the target bounced into view.
The emaciated Vulcan twisted up onto the side of its left foot, slid out of her beam before it could do any real damage and answered with the ultra autocannon mounted in its chest. High explosive shells splashed into the girders and plucked at the Scorpion's glacis plate.
"Wow, really?" Li's left index finger twitched up towards the SRM trigger, but the Vulcan shot out from under her crosshairs on its ion jets, just as the asphalt where it had been standing burned away under the mega-joule touch of a pair of emerald laser beams. The Vulcan's jump wash cleared quickly, unmasking the Mad Cat that was suddenly bounding up the cross street behind it.
"Oh hello!" The armored boxes mounted high on the OmniMech's torso erupted in a ripple of fire and smoke, and the sim pod filled with curses as Li reflexively hammered her right knee up into a pedal that wasn't there. The Scorpion had only managed to partially disentangle itself from the damaged pipes before the missiles started raining down. . .
#334
Posted 16 July 2014 - 03:14 PM
I think that's fantastic, Spokes. I'd also like to say that it's awesome that Player Azman isn't with us, but his character is being such a badass in this sim run. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up winning this dooky-shoot.
As for T being out of the fight, I'm still up in the air. I'm planning on him loosing, but not sure if I want to do it just yet.
As for T being out of the fight, I'm still up in the air. I'm planning on him loosing, but not sure if I want to do it just yet.
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Posted 16 July 2014 - 03:48 PM
Agree with Thom 100%, good stuff Spokes and I was going to mention how awesome Azman/not Azman is in that skinny thing. Think it would be fitting if he did in fact win the bout overall. We'll see I guess...
While that's very much Cees' style, he wouldn't have been able to detect Li at the range alluded to, despite:
The PPC's "Comfort Zone" I would have thought would be between 200m and 400m, just outside of the BAP's 180m passive systems tracking capability. Perfectly fine to use Cees there, especially as he'd be first of those on the Dragon's tail.
Curious to see Wheeler's PoV on the engagement and how he feels about raining LURMS on a broad, flat, practically immobile target from his Clan Death Machine
Will work on a post for Cees once Adrianna has made her next move. Sorry to hear about the computer Sparks, hopefully it's running with all systems nominal soon
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But I figure Li doesn't know about the probe (I don't think it's been mentioned?) and Cees is shrewd enough to ignore her and use this as a way to "clear his six", as it were.
While that's very much Cees' style, he wouldn't have been able to detect Li at the range alluded to, despite:
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Circling the urban jungle and looking to climb the nearby mountain, he wasn't surprised to see the Dragon’s scorched rear torso retreating in that direction already. His simulated Beagle Active Probe quickly popped brackets up to frame it, and indicated a distance of 750m.
The PPC's "Comfort Zone" I would have thought would be between 200m and 400m, just outside of the BAP's 180m passive systems tracking capability. Perfectly fine to use Cees there, especially as he'd be first of those on the Dragon's tail.
Curious to see Wheeler's PoV on the engagement and how he feels about raining LURMS on a broad, flat, practically immobile target from his Clan Death Machine
Will work on a post for Cees once Adrianna has made her next move. Sorry to hear about the computer Sparks, hopefully it's running with all systems nominal soon
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Posted 22 July 2014 - 03:41 PM
Hey folks, this week has been a bit crazy, but I should have the time/energy to side down and pound out something this upcoming week at the latest. Hopefully sooner though, I have ideas...
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Posted 02 August 2014 - 08:44 PM
Sorry for the delay. Things are still...bleh on my end. Computer is acting weird, Had day and night classes this whole pass week and work has been doing six days a week and long hours. I think it's because Sun-Edison is lighting a fire under the contractor I work for's ass and they're trying to meet a deadline. *shrugs* I'll try to get something up tonight.
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Posted 05 August 2014 - 02:00 PM
Well I finally posted. I apologize for the roughness of it. I didn't quite get across what I'd like to, but I really couldn't wait longer to be "inspired." Hopefully repeated posts will get me over the hump, but for now I can't wait to see what the rest of you have in store.
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Posted 09 August 2014 - 01:56 PM
Alright Nomad, Put Juri Down
Spokes, if you can come up with anything that would build up or sell your part in this that I can revise I would appreciate the ideas, I feel really badly that you got taken out in one shot, even if it is by an assault mech.
Spokes, if you can come up with anything that would build up or sell your part in this that I can revise I would appreciate the ideas, I feel really badly that you got taken out in one shot, even if it is by an assault mech.
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Posted 09 August 2014 - 07:41 PM
No worries Mac. . .the SCP-1N only has 11 points of armor over the left torso, and it had already taken some hits. The SRM ammunition bay is the only thing in the left torso, so the 'Mech has a bit of a reputation for turning into a walking fireworks display if you hit it just right. The Scorpion can't torso twist either, so there's no good way to shield that side from incoming fire.
Li's rebuilt SCP-2O is a significantly more dangerous animal.
Li's rebuilt SCP-2O is a significantly more dangerous animal.
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