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STATUS: A roleplay not for the timid: "The quest to restore the abandoned Waffle House" 15 days ago
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A roleplay not for the timid: "The quest to restore the abandoned Waffle House"
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1 mo ago
I do agree with Yandere's sentiment that words not wording workingly do be a problem this time of year.
1 mo ago
Scratch that, place your bets on polymarket.
2 mos ago
Looks like I'll be working on memorial day weekend. And no, this does not mean place any bets on polymarket.
3 mos ago
due to a typo on my part I was nearly convinced I owed the IRS nearly $3000 in excess taxes this year.
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-There will be delays in replies. Largely due to working overtime, voluntary obligations; other RPs and online-things may compete for my attention.
'Bout me:
Started RPing (badly) back in '05, mostly doing nation-RPs with an emphasis on technology and strategy, later edging out to character-espionage and military-tactics before doing "less serious" character roleplays that were outside of the 2005-2008 continuity.
That's when I went to Dead-Frontier, and found the RP community there, joined a clan, did some pretty good roleplays and pretty much loosened-up my online-personality. When the clan-leader decided to move her RPs here, most of the clan followed.
Took a course in technical-writing back in '08, so now I may sometimes use the semicolon correctly.
In 2010 I dusted off the old nation-RP continuity I had, doing a few hetelia-esque RP-shenanigans there..
RP-Habbits: I tend to geek-out on little technical-details, and sometimes infer how those details would impact the background of the roleplay. Great for world-building, not so great when you had a perfectly good plotline and I just MacGyver it off the rails (though I usually er to the side of amusement, sometimes it creates very grim side-stories).
'Bout me:
Started RPing (badly) back in '05, mostly doing nation-RPs with an emphasis on technology and strategy, later edging out to character-espionage and military-tactics before doing "less serious" character roleplays that were outside of the 2005-2008 continuity.
That's when I went to Dead-Frontier, and found the RP community there, joined a clan, did some pretty good roleplays and pretty much loosened-up my online-personality. When the clan-leader decided to move her RPs here, most of the clan followed.
Took a course in technical-writing back in '08, so now I may sometimes use the semicolon correctly.
In 2010 I dusted off the old nation-RP continuity I had, doing a few hetelia-esque RP-shenanigans there..
RP-Habbits: I tend to geek-out on little technical-details, and sometimes infer how those details would impact the background of the roleplay. Great for world-building, not so great when you had a perfectly good plotline and I just MacGyver it off the rails (though I usually er to the side of amusement, sometimes it creates very grim side-stories).
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[Foster:](http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/68347/posts/ooc#post-2122585)
>I'm considering two combatants becoming stranded in a remote location (not necessarily an island, just someplace where getting recued is unlikely), although the level of sci-fi/fantasy is debatable (aliens/angels... experiment & retrieval-team? Likewise, Princess and enemy knight trying to ransom her for a bounty)
PM still valid.
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Danger close = Don't miss.
Don't Miss-ing.
Larger concern is that the Salveshi group is in the open and at ease because they have flank-protection.
-this is of course assuming we didn't catch them making a mistake. [Because Logic](http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=1513&v=more&s=8)
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BTW, [this is what happens when you leave your go-pro downrange of a live-fire-exercise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TBl9cwanbI)
Felt like pointing-out that if the wind is blowing towards us from the enemy, and we're poking our heads up to eye-level from a reverse-slope, we're probably going to get face-loads of sand.
And yes I realize she's acting a bit out of turn.
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Marlena heard the sitrep, but Despite requiring orders from Brian before doing anything, she just had to get a look for herself before the bullets started to fly; she bounded along the defilades in the reverse-slope of the ridge until coming to a similar vantage-point. They had hostiles, but she wasn't sure what he'd meant by 'ten hostiles' which *could* have meant anything on this alien conflict. Although the situation leaned towards their newest foe of the week, mostly Salveshi slavers.
Still, what weapon to use; Rifles or Rockets? 350 meters is on the fringe of 'danger close' with artillery [even if the Grathnik *could* shoot straight in a timely manner](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHUfQX837qc), but still a feasible means of softening them up, still a bit too far for any serious small-arms engagement since 5.56 didn't appear too effective against walking tanks and they didn't have enough rockets to waste on pot-shots, but that's why they were issued bait.
The wind kicked some sand up into her face, getting caught in her shmagh; at least it kept her from flinching as she eased her rifle forward. It wasn't an AUG or Kalashnikov, but it handled a bit calmer in her hands than either one in any case. Probably due to the massive buffer-tube in the stock. Still the ease at which the enemy was advancing seemed to disturb her somewhat; this race had been rumored to be exceptional pack-hunters, and surely they weren't so daft as to let a thing like being upwind of their own line of advance go unnoticed.
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11 yrs ago
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**Name:** Marlena Abdelkadaar **Age:** 26 **Gender:** F **Ethnicity:** Algerian
**Former Unit:** Algerian Special Intervention Group (GIS)
**Role:** Rifleman (cross-trained: Medic)
**Physical Description:**
Short and sturdy build for a light frame. Dark long hair bound at the back and tucked, olive skin and fair features with hints of fatigue. Often wears a face-cover of some sort, citing either modesty or as a measure to keep the debris out of her eyes depending on who is doing the asking.
**Skillset:**
Precision-Driving (off-road and in congested streets)
Interrogation
Small-unit raids
Radar-Survaillence
Hand to Hand
Parachuting/rigging
Mountaineering
**History:**
Joined the Algerian National Police in June of '08 and had the luck to quickly find herself more often behind the wheel of an armored personnel carrier than a desk. And managed to distinguish herself when after her gunner was struck down by a sniper's bullet at the start of a firefight, she chose to man the vehicle's gun to cover her squad's evacuation atop another APC rather than seek shelter herself even as her own APC began to burn from several rocket-attacks. This put her on-track to their newly-formed counter-terrorist unit.
Helped train Mali soldiers in counter-insurgency operations sometime in early 2012 and later took part on a follow-up raid of the 2013 Amenas hostage rescue attempt which ended poorly. Due to the massive political backlash of so many of the hostages dying and insinuations that the GIS was actively executing any survivors, Marlena was dropped from the program.
**Equipment:**
Head/Face: Pressed-fiberglass copy of SPECTRA-helmet, shmagh
Body/attire: Grey-green Densin-smock.
*Initial Load Bearing Equipment:* Ex-Soviet 'Lifchik' or 'chest-rig' to hold a spare magazines for her Saiga and four spare mags for the HK-416. One grenade-pouch hold two TK-2 tourniquets and an iFAK while the others carry their respective grenades and flares, 50 loose shotgun shells in wrap-around VOG-25 pouches. One flare-loop is utilized to hold bayonet. behind the Lifchick there have been pouches sewn-in to hold AR-500 plate (curved), a back-plate may also be fastened to the rear.
*Load Bearing Equipment (Dune):*
*Belt:* Infantry-shovel and canteen/mess-kit, also present are drum-mags for the Saiga and/or HK416, 20 and 50 rds respectively. On rear of belt is a Infantry Shovel, light, a 50cm long weapon of glorious mission.
-Pack: 500 rounds of 5.56x45mm on stripper-clips and bundled to prevent rattling, 100 shotgun rounds of various sorts (buck, slug, frag [bounding] and HEI), Extra socks and foot-wraps, spare BDU-smock, rations (three two-kilogram UAE style ration-packets, stripped down from their 12 component meals and re-packaged back into 6 ziplock-bags).
-Primary Weapon - Scoped (4x32, sun-shade/IR-lens option) HK-416, 14.6" barrel (suppressed) with IR laser pointer/illuminator and flashlight.
-Sidearm - Siaga 12K, bayonet lug retained.
-Grenades - Two RGD-5 frags, two 37mm flares, a Stun-grenade, and two M72A7 rockets.
**Optional:** Squad medkit.
I'd offer a crash-pad, but I'm pretty sure you live in a different region that probably doesn't even involve snow.
Or Canadian terrorists.
-Dern [Canadians](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0R5DTHcmGU).
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I'm going to take some time to digest that we aren't RPing boot-camp.
-Not that I'm complaining.
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Meta-refresh.
Also wondering if the grenadier should carry a Gustav instead of a 'nader (iirc, a grenade-launcher munition weighs a third of' an actual rifle/hand-grenade, or that is where one reaches the break-even point in terms of mass carried).
It really depends on whether or not we expect to be overmatched with hard targets that are LAW-worthy since IIRC an 84mm shell is lighter and more capable than an all-up LAW.
*checks*
Nope (LAW is 2.5kg), but the shells do each weigh half an AT-4 (3.1kg vs ~6.5kg).
Launcher weighs about 8.5 kg so break-even point of AT-4s and a Carl is about 4 shells.
-Although the 5 kg LRAC F1 is just balls-crazy light when it fires 2.2kg shells. But would have a mass-per-shell break-even point of about 15-20 shells against a LAW. Meaning each person in the team would have to carry at least two shells or more to make it worthwhile to bring one along.
A stripped-down RPG-7 (no scope) has similar problem.
The decidedly French solution appears to have been to issue spigot-mortars, although I reckon hey're shifting to 40mm grenade-launchers.
Meanwhile the numbers on the SMAW look pretty bad as a weapon to carry. 12kg tube plus ~7 kg per round (the Confined-space shells weigh 9 kg). When the ammo-canister weighs nearly or more than the weight of a disposable launcher of same caliber and range, with sights, it better deliver in terms of capability.
Also wondering if the grenadier should carry a Gustav instead of a 'nader (iirc, a grenade-launcher munition weighs a third of' an actual rifle/hand-grenade, or that is where one reaches the break-even point in terms of mass carried).
It really depends on whether or not we expect to be overmatched with hard targets that are LAW-worthy since IIRC an 84mm shell is lighter and more capable than an all-up LAW.
*checks*
Nope (LAW is 2.5kg), but the shells do each weigh half an AT-4 (3.1kg vs ~6.5kg).
Launcher weighs about 8.5 kg so break-even point of AT-4s and a Carl is about 4 shells.
-Although the 5 kg LRAC F1 is just balls-crazy light when it fires 2.2kg shells. But would have a mass-per-shell break-even point of about 15-20 shells against a LAW. Meaning each person in the team would have to carry at least two shells or more to make it worthwhile to bring one along.
A stripped-down RPG-7 (no scope) has similar problem.
The decidedly French solution appears to have been to issue spigot-mortars, although I reckon hey're shifting to 40mm grenade-launchers.
Meanwhile the numbers on the SMAW look pretty bad as a weapon to carry. 12kg tube plus ~7 kg per round (the Confined-space shells weigh 9 kg). When the ammo-canister weighs nearly or more than the weight of a disposable launcher of same caliber and range, with sights, it better deliver in terms of capability.
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^Is aware of the basics, the field-manuals are also pretty public knowledge.
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Gunther said
It is 0 degrees Fahrenheit (-18C) here in Southeastern Massachusetts this morning, but feels like -18F (-28C) with the wind. I'm heading out for a run. Will probably only do a mile. The key ingredient is the masque over the face.
I prefer a scarf wrapped once over forehead and then locked in place with a wrap around the face. Add hat or a third wrap for top.
-Downside: either makes turning your head a bit stiff, or eventually comes undone; may leave an exposed space at back of head.
-Upside: Covers ears, face, neck, and everything between the brim of your hat and your eyebrows, will not fog-up glasses.
News claims -40 windchill here.
*Walking 3 miles in this sort of blizzard (it just dumped a foot of snow) usually results in frost accumulating on scarf, seems to make some people nervous when I walk in as-such as they're preparing to leave.
It's only -10. The news reporters should learn to wear a hat. I showed-up to work in a windbreaker and a sweater. Removed sweater.
-The important thing to counter windchill is to cover all exposed areas with something that cannot be ever described as 'breezy'.
Oh, and I'll be sure to get Marlena some training on the M72 so she can bring two to the fight.
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