Ollumhammersong

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Name: Corporal Jayne Marigold
Sex: Female
Age: 28
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 125lbs

Speciality: Heavy Weapons Specialist

Weapon Skill: 33
Ballistic Skill: 31+5+3+5
Strength: 33
Toughness: 35+5+5
Agility: 24+3
Intelligence: 34
Perception: 30+5+5
Willpower: 31+3
Fellowship: 32-3

Wounds: 11
Fate Points: 2
Insanity: 0/100
Corruption: 0/100

Skills: Common Lore (Imperial Creed), Common Lore (Imperium), Linguistics (Low Gothic), Operate (Aeronautica). Athletics, Common Lore (Imperial Guard, War), Intimidate

Talents: Catfall, Die Hard, Hatred (Mutants). Iron Jaw, Weapon Training ( Heavy), Hatred(mutants)

Aptitudes: Willpower, Ballistic Skill, Defence, Fellowship, Offence, Perception, Toughness.

Blessed Ignorance: Elysians know that the proper ways of living are those tried and tested by the generations that have gone before. Horror, pain and death are the just rewards of curiosity, for those who look too deeply into the mysteries of the universe are all too likely to find malefic beings looking back at them. Their wise blindness imposes a –5 penalty on all Forbidden Lore (Int) Tests.

Demolitions Doctrine: Elysians gain a +10 bonus on all Logistics Tests made to obtain grenades, missiles, explosives and special tank ammunition.

Equipment:

Common Craftsmanship Shotgun, 4 clips of ammunition, Common Craftsmanship Heavy stubber, 3 ammo boxes (75 rounds each), 1 knife, flak armour, 1 respirator, 1 grav-chute, 3 frag grenades, 3 smoke grenades, uniform, poor weather gear, rucksack, basic toolkit, mess kit and water canteen, blanket and sleep bag, rechargeable lamp-pack, grooming kit, dog tags, Imperial Infantryman’s Uplifting Primer, 4 weeks’ rations, survival suit, micro-bead, photo-visor

Appearance:

Hider

Demeanor:

Loose Cannon- This character is always on the edge of behaving in ways that others deem “rash” or “unpredictable” in the name of success, and frequently ignores protocol in his pursuit of results.

Background:

XP purchases:

Ballistics skill (basic) -250xp

Perception skill (basic) -250XP

Toughness skill (basic) -100xp

Comrade
Name: Trooper Geralt

Sex: Male

Age: 22

Appearance: Standing 5'9" Geralt is a young lad, handsome enough with a square jaw and a hardy physique that built itself thanks to working as part of a heavy weapons team. Lugging what is often the heaviest man-portable items and weapons in the entire imperial armoury, coupled with the regular rigours of training and combat, would be enough to harden any man or woman into a proper athlete.

Personality/Demeanor: Geralt is a little more reserved than Jayne. He is young for a guardsman and has only been working as Jayne's teammate for a few months. So her more impulsive habits and decisions still have a tendency to worry or outright frighten him. But little by little these habits are also rubbing off on him and he has much less reservations about following Jayne when she takes off to carry out one of her infamous 'tactical maneuvers'

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@AdvancedJ3lly

Well my sheet is done. I don't have a background but I can work on it. Can I post what I have in the characters tab?

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True.

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I was under the assumption this rp would start us off as already inside the hive? with the fighting already starting

The grav chutes would be an admitted necessity if we were starting the rp with a combat jump. But my main point with those is after the jump is complete it's battery only lasts for an hour and it's just deadweight. it is like a parachute. Once you land, you have little further need for it other than to hand it back in and wait for the next drop.

Jumping into a hive seems highly suicidal with all the defence turrets and pointy spires and random building corners and ledges. Unless we were dropping outside the city and moving in.

And yes I know how a machine gun can be carried. its just a colossal pain in the ****. I also need to requisition a bipod as soon as I can.

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A. we aren't playing astartes.

B. the visibility of the backpack itself doesn't negate the fact that the wingspan is wider than a human's shoulder width.

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@Nohbdy

i'm sorry but that still doesn't make sense to me. A grave chute isn't the size of a seat cushion. each one has these two little wings that jut out to the sides.



which would make it incredibly difficult to move any part of its arms without these backpack units clashing with each other. Also I said 10 chutes because comrades exist. Maybe it isn't 10, but it is still probably 6-8 total.

and again, total weight of objects is not my concern. it is physical dimensions of everything. Does no one else see how I find the idea of a servitor with a half dozen grav chutes strapped to him ridiculous?

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@Nohbdy

As I mentioned, nothing against you, but I just find the 'put everything on the servitor' solution a lazy workaround. because again I question how this servitor is physically carrying all of the stuff being asked of him. It's just.... not possible. Its not a matter of weight as much as it is a matter of dimensions. Just because one can physically lift a certain amount of weight still doesn't mean he is capable of carrying anything that is equivalent to that weight.

First ten grave chutes, plus a heavy stubber? What else are we putting on this guy? and where exactly on his body is it being stored?

its like D&D, when players just say 'well I put in in my backpack' in regards to anything from a 10,000 coins to a ten foot pole to an entire suit of platemail. its just a 'wave of the hand' kind of explanation that has always bothered me with rpgs.

If it was just the heavy stubber and a few minor things it was carrying, than I would say 'awesome'. Either that or I will have my character and her comrade tag team the weapon and carry it at the same time. Which now that I think about it is probably what should happen anyway.

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I added the shotgun.

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@AdvancedJ3lly

yes, obviously I can't hipfire it. but at the same time I still have to carry it around. if i'm not actively using it or bringing it along, what is the point of playing a heavy? only getting to use it 20% of the time? that's lame and boring.

and at the same time I can't carry the shotgun and the ammo, and the stubber plus my kit(even if we trimmed down the useless stuff like the bedroll, that is still a notable amount of weight between the armour, uniform, resperator, etc. Something like 12-15 kg total ontop of 30.... I just can't carry the shotgun. And again, if I abandon the stubber, why am I even playing a heavy?

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Carrying around a heavy weapon does actually limit you a lot in this system. especially at the earlier stages when you can't up your attributes all that much