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The Lion's Roar: New Order

Just for clarification, the Sundancer would be nearly vertical right now right? Because the Harpoons would make it pivot around The Hunter?

Images for clarity.

Pre-killing engines by Sundancer


Post-killing engines by Sundancer


This also means that the Sundancer would hit the ground first right? Afterall, The Hunter still has it's engines running so while it's being dragged down, it's above the Sundancer

Lastly, I don't believe anyone on The Hunter ship can do anything about The Harpoons except give it more slack so that the Sundancer hits the ground a greater time before The Hunter. The harpoons themselves have to be removed from the Sundancer which no one from The Hunter ship is on.

The Lion's Roar: New Order

Shuda stood at the ship's helm. His black leather gloves fit tightly to his hands as he worked the ship's controls. He was dressed in leather armor, it was light but hard. That heavy full plate that was typical of many Imperial Officers didn't suit him. It was too heavy, too bulky. Shuda needed to be able to move quickly, turn on a dime. His fighting style was one of speed, precision, and fluidity- not simply swinging until he hit something. Speaking of hitting something, Shuda saw the Red Hood's ship up ahead. The two ships were relatively close together. But as he watched, his prey started to turn. Likely noticing his own ship getting close. Well, it was too late now. They were close enough

Shuda had three men manning the ship's harpoon guns at all times. He pushed a button on his control panel, and at once all of the ship's speakers started to hum. It was a quiet yet blaring sound, a type of screech really. It couldn't be heard by anyone not on the ship. It was the call to battle. And the signal to fire. The denizens of his ship that were below the hull would know to come on deck immediately and to be ready to fight. The ones on deck would know to use their grappling hooks and take the battle to the other ship. But, most importantly, his three harpoon gunmen would know to fire and reel in their prey.

Shuda flicked on the ship's autopilot, all it really had to do now was stay abreast the other ship as the harpoon winches reeled them in. Shuda was proud of those harpoon guns, they were the best Imperial Money could buy. The Grand Marshall had said Shuda was to "do anything he deemed necessary" to bring the pirate in. Spending a bunch of money was a good way to start. The guns themselves were bolted to the floor of his ship. The harpoons were made of reinforced titanium and kept in the best conditions. The ropes the harpoons were normally attached to had been replaced with steel chains. Shuda wasn't taking any chances.

He stripped off his gloves, and moved each hand to rest on the pommels of his twin longswords. He had one on each hip, sharpened to perfection. He liked to feel the hilt in his hands when he fought, for that the gloves just got in the way. Shuda strode onto deck, turning to make sure the harpoons had fired.

The mercenaries he had hired knew their tasks. They knew the mission. They would see it done. Shuda had had enough of leading and delegating, now it was finally time to fight.

A resounding crunch cut through the air, the sound of harpoons finding their target. Shuda smiled in satisfaction. Now for the hard part.

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The Lion's Roar: New Order

I have to be honest, I'm not quite sure how I'm going to make my character, an Imperial Commander, have a run-in with any other PC. Any ideas as to how we could form a group? And what that group would do?

Btw, @Medjedovic are you going to make a PC?

Dehumanized

Zin

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Zin surveyed the remnants of the City of New York from atop one of the tallest structures remaining. It was little more than the frame of a once great building that had been filled with ash from the nuclear fallout. Zin lay flat on his belly on one of the steel girders, his black clothing doing a decent job of blending him in with the ashen metal. He had his sniper rifle before him, he didn't foresee firing it today but he was using the telescopic sight to peer over the city. He heard gunshots and jumped slightly in shock, his brain scrambling as he shifted to find the source. Finally, he realized that the sound was coming from too far away to be directed at him. He exhaled in relief, but kept wary, his muscles tense.

More gunshots rang out. The city was unnaturally busy this morning. There were firefights almost every day, but there were far more than usual this particular morning. Probably new people straggling into the city. People came from all over the east coast, expecting to find something in New York City. As if it's pre-war immensity, financial dominance, and power meant there would be something here. A safe haven, an underground food cache. One and all, they were disappointed. There was nothing. Zin knew. New York had been one of the heaviest targets during the war, nuclear missiles rained on it constantly. Almost everything was destroyed. Mere alleys and rooms survived. What little resources made it through had been scavenged in the first few years of the fallout. There was almost nothing left now. Nothing. Nothing but Zin.

He survived it all. Moving like a cockroach from place to place, finding shelter, scavenging food, stealing weapons and...yes, killing when he had too. Zin turned, rolling off the girder with grace. His rifle finding it's way into the holster on his back. He pulled out a knife, holding it in his right hand. He always kept at least one weapon in hand, the city was too dangerous to go without. He had a sense of where the firefights had occurred, luckily none were too close to him. They were all at least a fifteen minute walk. But if fights had occurred, it was probably over some resource or another. Food or weapons, most commonly. Zin was in need of more of both. He started walking.

Dehumanized

Sorry for not posting guys. I've been having some Internet Issues. Should be all fixed now. Will be posting IC shortly.

The Lion's Roar: New Order

That's the way percentages work. For example if there are 100 bottle caps and you said you had 99.999% of bottle caps, you really have 99 bottle caps and MOST of the 100th. But you could say you have 100 bottle caps just cus.

In the same way, is the above. You're not REALLY better than 99.whatever percent of the population because you can't be better than MOST of a person like you can have MOST of a bottle cap. But if you take (X-1) and divide it by X where X is how rare your skill is as a representation of 1 in X then multiply by 100 that's the percentage you get. In reality, it's irrelevant past a certain point because the decimals become negligible due to how small of a difference they make as a proportion of the population.

EDIT: My point is that the percentage above are mathematically sound(if I got my decimals right) but it doesn't really matter

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Level 0 = 1 in 1 (kind of) AVERAGE
Level 1 = 1 in 100 (*100) BETTER THAN 99% OF THE POPULATION
Level 2 = 1 in 1,000 (*10) BETTER THAN 99.9% OF THE POPULATION
Level 3 = 1 in 100,000 (*100) BETTER THAN 99.999% OF THE POPULATION
Level 4 = 1 in 1,000,000 (*10) BETTER THAN 99.9999% OF THE POPULATION
Level 5 = 1 in 100,000,000 (*100) BETTER THAN 99.999999% OF THE POPULATION
Level 6 = 1 in 1,000,000,000 (*10) BETTER THAN 99.9999999% OF THE POPULATION
Level 7 = 1 in 100,000,000,000 (*100) BETTER THAN 99.999999999% OF THE POPULATION
Level 8 = 1 in 1,000,000,000,000 (*10) BETTER THAN 99.9999999999% OF THE POPULATION
Level 9 = 1 in 100,000,000,000,000 (*100) BETTER THAN 99.999999999999% OF THE POPULATION
Level 10 = 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 (*10) BETTER THAN 99.9999999999999% OF THE POPULATION

It gets less and less worth it to level up as you go.

EDIT: If this proves anything it's that @Medjedovic shouldn't leave us on our own for too long

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I understood, I was just looking at the numbers a different way. I like percentages.