SimplyJohn

Lone Star (Sci-Fi/Space Exploration/Criminal) - Party Full

Sevyn is using the location of where they entered to open the closest door that would presumably lead them to the bow of the ship.

@TTwoThumbsUp

Are you sure she wants to do that? The hangar doors are still open two meters and so the main deck would be exposed to space.

The Fog

@SimplyJohn

I'm getting a strong urge to corrupt my character now. heheh

@em

I thought the entire point of having sweet,. innocent characters was seeing how much you could corrupt them by the end of the adventure. I'm sure Kis could help stitch together a nice little leather outfit for her once she embraces the dark side.

Lone Star (Sci-Fi/Space Exploration/Criminal) - Party Full

@TTwoThumbsUp Glad you picked up on the fact that it may not necessarily have been the firepower that managed to get the door to open. :)

Just to check, which of the four doors is Sevyn trying to open at the moment? There's a larger, heavy bulkhead either end of the corridor and two small personnel hatches across from the airlock.

Note to Mez: Try not to shoot errythang.

@Kalas

Yeah, Marga has some explosives you could use too.

The Fog

Constructive necromancy had never occurred to me before this. This sounds like a neat side quest.

@em

It's a bit like using robots in factories. Except instead of using metal and wires, necromancers use bones and... whatever else necromancers use (Kis's a ranger, not a magic-user, so I don't need to know about undeathly reagents.)

Both still involve binding the living souls of the damned into unresting bodies though. :p

Operation Shadow Sabre

The best way to screw her over would be to abandon her behind enemy lines, since then their hands would be clean of her murder. Recovering her wristcomp from her at that point would be an outrageous risk for them, and if she died before getting back then the wristcomp would do her no good anyway. The same goes for if they simply decided to shoot her in the back of the head, once she's dead all her problems go away.

Also since her wristcomp is part of her standard gear they'd have no reason to take it from her before she left for the mission, unless they want to come out and blatantly admit what they're doing is wrong.

Omnipocalypse [open]

"The necklace has too much value, sentimental and monetary, for me to even consider using it as collateral on something like this. I'll put up the hundred Valn and my shield generator, provided you let me wear it until we verify that there aren't any automated defenses before turning it over to you. If you get at least their value worth of salvage from the automated defenses, then you give them back. If not, you're up one hundred Valn and a working shield generator for, at most, two days worth of work. I doubt you'll get a better deal than that for protecting anyone else." True, he didn't have much to put up for collateral, but for most guard types that would be more than enough to hire them.

@TheUnknowable

Harry rubbed his chin thoughtfully for a moment. His interest was really in the control boards he might be able to salvage from the automated defenses, and if there turned out not to be any then his trip would've been wasted. It reflected well on the stranger that he knew the value of the hyper-crystals hanging around his neck though, so the guy probably knew what he was talking about with the defenses.

"How about a compromise?" Harry said, smiling at the stranger if a friendly manner, "You pay the hundred up front and if we don't find any decent salvage I get the shield generator, as you said, but you also agree in front of the lovely lady here that I get first call on the necklace should anything happen to you. And just so you know there's no foul play intended on my part I agree that you'll be the first to recover any of my gear should I not be needing it anymore."

The Fog

There's a word for using things your character shouldn't know, but I don't remember it. Power-playing maybe? I don't see it much, though.

@TheUnknowable

Meta-gaming

It's a bit tricky sometimes knowing what information your character should or shouldn't know. The simple rule is that if no-one has mentioned it to them directly then they don't know it, unless they would've been able to learn it at some time in the past through reasonable means.

For instance, Kismet's abilities let her know something odd was under Adamar's robes, but since she's never encountered a lich before (at least no reasonable opportunity to have met one was mentioned in her bio) then all she can say is that he feels wrong in some way. However if at some point in the past she had encountered a lich she could've gone "This feeling reminds me of that time. He must be a Lich, or something similar."

Having a random stranger blurting out unknown information is a little bit of a cheat, especially as no details as to who he was or how he could've discovered the information wasn't presented.

"...Sleep lightly, or you might wake up with a skeletal dog humping your leg."

@TheUnknowable

_{...I should be so lucky...}

Operation Shadow Sabre

Fidgeting in her seat Saf began to really worry about this new assignment. A loose-knit group of specialists working for someone who refused to even properly identify themselves to their subordinates screamed black ops, and whenever they were involved the mission was sure to be something morally questionable. She hadn't even been given an explanation for the invasive surgeries she'd been forced to undergo before accepting this posting.

Quickly glancing at the doctor sitting next to her Saf reached down and tapped her wristcomp, activating its video record function. If these people were upto something questionable she wanted to make sure they didn't leave her out to dry once the work was done.

The Fog

She'll mention that the old man at the farm uses a skeletal horse to plow with, but can't animate it for more than three or four hours because he doesn't have much skill with necromancy.

@TheUnknowable

Maybe Adamar can help out with that while he's staying at the farm? Teach the farmer a more powerful incantation, or provide him with some alchemical supplies with which to bind the horse more permanently perhaps?

Just because you're a mystically animated skeleton doesn't mean you can't do a few good deeds while passing through. :)

The Fog

Obviously the fat guy was a Cleric of the Order of Fab'stard and could spot the undead with his own holy powers. The whole reason he walked away from the party was that he couldn't stand being in the same room as the undead monster (his words, not mine.)