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Topic: Destiny Flight - QnA
Subject: Calling it done


I have now lost two players in ths game and I am struggling to keep up with my own post with the issues we are having with my son and the lack of school. I am calling the game done. Thank you for everyone's effort but I think this will be it for me and play by post gaming,


 


 



Posted on 2020-06-02 at 14:03:20.

Topic: Zoom Meetings
Subject: Zoom Meetings


Hello RDI members,


With the change in the world today and the isolation/quarantine that is happening, I have been using Zoom a lot for work and pleasure, We have had a couple of small test Zoom meetings with the staff so far, and it is time to open it up.


Would you be interested in meeting other members from around the world for a social chat? it would be like the chat room but with video, If you are interested, let me know and I will see about arranging one soon.


Note: Due to time zones, it is impossible to get everyone who may wish to join. We will be varying the times to try to accomodate as many as possible. I will be posting them for EST (cause that is where I live). 


Hope to see a bunch of you soon.


Alacrity


 


 


 


 



Posted on 2020-05-12 at 16:39:28.

Topic: Destiny Flight - QnA
Subject: chessic


Hey Chessic, 


Fully understand and you have to take care of the immediate matters in life. I hope things get better for you soon. 


 



Posted on 2020-05-06 at 15:16:13.

Topic: Destiny Flight - QnA
Subject: answers


Questions:



  1. What are the dimensions of the pressurized mechanism container in the coffin?

  2. What's the bite radius on Quincy Morris' throat?

  3. Are the bite radiuses of the other victims is the same size as Morris'?

  4. How much ammo is in the Captain's gun and would Wyatt be able to tell if the caliber of round used in the Captain's gun is approximately the same as the wound in Lucy's head?

  5. What does the note say?


1 about the size of one of the portable flamethowers in the movie Aliens


2. about 3-4 cm


3. yes


4. There was only one round in the captain's gun and it is spent. Really hard to say calibre to wound especially since bodies have been frozen and now thawing but considering it is the only gun in the room ....


5. I will post the note in the main thread.



Posted on 2020-05-06 at 15:09:28.

Topic: Destiny Flight - QnA
Subject: and posted


Now it gets serious



Posted on 2020-04-29 at 13:30:05.

Topic: Destiny's Flight - A Serenity RPG
Subject: All the ship


OOC: I am making a couple of assumptions. One is that Gravity would not be flipping a switch on or off, but gradually re-established. The second is you are not taking off your EVA Suits until the ship is at least mostly pressurized. I am also gonna assume you will keep going from room to room until you reach the bridge.


Demeter Day 3, 11:30 pm Ship Time (ST) – Time spent on Demeter: 4.0 hrs


Power began to return to the ship and the familiar hums of a ship once more filled this now floating coffin. The air would take a while to fill the ship and the heat to reach the bulkhead, but the familiar pull of gravity began to pull on the team in Demeter. The gravity did not come on strong, it started slowly as the gravity bubble grew and established itself around the boat. One tenth G at first and then slowly upwards. So that items and dead bodies would fall slowly and gradually. No one wanted to clean up a broken thawing body from the deck.


Deck to Deck Search


Notes from Previous Search: The Teddy Bear was in the Engineers (Holmwood) room. The Stakes, mallets and dreamdoze was in the captain’s quarters (Harker). The catbox was in the doctor’s (Seward) quarters.


Room Search from the Lift. (Please note that by the time you finish the search, gravity will be on full on the ship will be mostly pressurized.


Weapons Control Room


This room contains a monitoring station for the main cannon mounted in the forward fuselage.


Storage (the dented door)


Steel storage crates house small arms and other equipment including survival packs, environmental


suits, food stores and medical supplies. What is really really strange is that the object that dented the door is a coffin. A real hard wood coffin. The lid is closed but there is lots of that silver paint all through this room. There are a few pieces of metal on the ground as well that look like platinum ingots but they are not platinum but a grey metal with some of the silver paint still on it.


 


(I am going to assume you open the coffin) The coffin is filled with bars upon bars on the same grey metal with silver paint. The pieces beneath are fully painted silver and look like platinum ingots. The padding in the lid of the coffin has been torn, showing a mechanism that held something pressurized in it. An examination of the device shows it was designed to activate on a timer after the lid was open for the first time.


Hallway


Halfway down the corridor is a dead body. Uniform is marked with “Quincy Morris”. He has a vicious looking wound on his throat that looks like he was bitten by something.


Environmental Control


All air and water/waste recycling is processed through this room. Most maintenance of these units can be done via this area, but some repairs require access from the exterior of the ship. Another dead crewmember is here, a woman with the label “Mina Murray”. She also has a neck wound and several bite marks on her arm.


 


Ion Energy Cannon Generator


This room is where the Ion Cannon gathers its energy to be fired. It is humming loudly


 Main Sensor Access


Access to Deck 3 is via a hatch in the floor of the room. Sensor power is regulated and routed through this room to the deck below. As this ship was originally a science exploration vessel, it has a powerful set of sensors.


(assuming you will go down the ladder to the 3 level)


 DECK 3


Sensors/Communications


All accessible equipment for sensor and communication control is in this room. Modifications and reprogramming can only be done from this location as these functions are not able to be modified from the bridge. 


Sensors/Communications


Monitoring stations for the main sensor array along with the four wave generators that are the heart of the ship’s massive sensor package is located here. A ladder leads upward to a hatch leading to room 2c on Deck 2. There are three dead alliance officers here (two men, on woman), tied up at the bottom of the ladder. Their uniforms are from the unification war. None of them have bite marks and their uniforms labels read, Stoker, Shelley and Stevenson.


 


Bridge


The bridge contains three massive view screens along the forward wall and two sides, three computerStations along the rear of the room, and a dropped station area for the four crew on duty at all times. A Captain’s chair sits on a pedestal in the center of the room.


In the captain’s chair is man’s body, strapped in with the full harness locked and with a thick blanket wrapped around him. In his right hand, trapped in a frozen grip, is an independence’s gun. On the side arm of the chair, is a note taped with duct tape, folded and labeled “To Lily”


On the floor of the bridge, about 6 feet away from the Captain is another dead crewmember. Her label says “Lucy Westena” and she was shot through the head, most likely before she was frozen. She does not have any bite marks that you can see.


Meanwhile in Engineering


Fenris watched the power flow, check the meters and worked the mechanical magic that he was good at to get the engines going and bring life back to the ship. The ship had plenty of fuel and he had no doubt that the engines had been shut off deliberately by the mechanic of Demeter. But why?  If they wanted to scuttle the ship, all they had to do was overload the Ion cannon generator. Why die in the cold of space? And why not use the lifepods or EVA suits that they had?


 Meanwhile in the Infirmary


Jonah and Alaxis worked on setting up the portable imaging machine. It was a high tech machine and the doctor could not but hope they would be able to liberate it for her use on Destiny. The battery was replaced and the machine hummed to life.


Alaxis quickly got an answer to what it was inside the case. It was a cat. A female cat, in a completely homemade stasis chamber inside the suitcase.


Alex was fiddling with the computers and the logs in the infirmary. As power was restored and life support was coming back on line, he was able to get the log application up. There was a brief surge and then a short, as power cables once frozen had too much energy go through them. Sparks fly and sputtered. Suddenly, the image of a man was on screen, an older man in a white lab coat. It is the Doctor from the ship. His eyes were a bit wild and he looked ragged and resigned. He is speaking by there is no audio. According to the menu, there are two files on the log that are not encrypted, marked as to be read.


 


A feminine voice intoned across the speakers: “Life support restored to breathable limits:” and then repeated the same in Cantonese.



Posted on 2020-04-29 at 13:28:46.

Topic: Destiny Flight - QnA
Subject: Good


I have most of the post written. Just need at a bit and check it over



Posted on 2020-04-28 at 17:41:22.

Topic: Destiny Flight - QnA
Subject: sorry about this


I have been balancing working from home with William going to online school. He is dealing with a lot of anxiety right now and I can not say I blamce him. Frankly so am I.


So I am sorry I have not updated this game at all. I have also neglected my own tabletop group and find myself just dealing with things on a day by day basis.


So I hope to get myself back together soon. Are you all still with me or did I lose you? I would understand either way.


 


 


 



Posted on 2020-04-15 at 10:39:21.

Topic: Bug Reports!
Subject: webcomics


None of the webcomics are loading. the page comes up, but the image/link is broken



Posted on 2020-03-29 at 15:25:09.

Topic: Destiny Flight - QnA
Subject: will post soon


We are back I hope



Posted on 2020-03-28 at 12:52:30.

Topic: Destiny Flight - QnA
Subject: The cannon


The Ion cannon is not new, it was spotted at the start, in fact Alex flew around the Demeter to avoid passing through it's sights. This was a warship, refreb from a science ship. Before someone asks, to try to remove it and retrofit it into Destiny would take days in a dry dock, let alone trying in in the black.


and


Putting a weapon on a Transport ship is a death sentence. If Alliance discovers it on your ship then you will be arrested for piracy, your ship confiscated and sold to pay for your legal fees. At best you will be imprisoned for life, at worst the alliance may just push all of you out the airlock and destroy the ship to save the time, efffort and money.There is a reason why Serenity has no weapons.


 



Posted on 2020-02-18 at 09:40:14.

Topic: Destiny Flight - QnA
Subject: hmm


I am trying not to railroad you into what you "should" be doing and what you want to try.


Alaxis/Jonah - Just a reminder there is a Xray imaging machine in the infirmary.


Wyatt/Alex/Fox - I am only givig you what you find on a quick search of the room.  Futher investigation might deteremine crew names, who belongs to what, more things. etc.  Depnds on if you want to take the time.


Apollo - you are workin on the re-start and I have given you an idea of the steps you have to take. See my PM for more details.


Power is coming as is gravity and life support.



Posted on 2020-02-13 at 09:43:40.

Topic: Mutant and Masterminds 2nd Edition Game interest check
Subject: Mr. Nobody


I had a Power level 10 Powerhouse named Mr. Nobody I enjoyed playing. If you wanted to play lower I would need help adjusting.


 



Posted on 2020-02-12 at 08:56:01.

Topic: Destiny's Flight - A Serenity RPG
Subject: da da


Demeter Day 3, 10:30 pm Ship Time (ST) – Time spent on Demeter: 2.5 hrs


Room to room search (See map, level 1 that you are on, starting from top of page, (left)


1a: This room in the forward end of deck one is a workshop and a storage room. There is a small metal lathe, a 3d plastic resin printer and several other crafting equipment. There are 4 EVA suits hanging here with two full cylinders of air each


1b: This small facility contains two sinks, three toilets and a shower area.


1c: The crew quarters (4) - Each of these small rooms contain two beds (each containing a small storage area underneath them), a small table and a large storage locker.  (Assuming you are not doing a hard search) One room there is a stuffed bear with a tag labelled “Pooky” floating around. Another room a ruck sack with three sharpen wooden stakes and a mallet and a bottle of “DD’s” or Dreamdoze, a highly illegal drug (20 tabs with a street value of 20 credits a pop).  Another room has a litterbox for a cat with a cover and doorway.


1d: The Infirmary


1e: The Mess Hall (room with large round table) - All food preparation is done here, with a small oven and refrigeration unit. It looks like there was a celebration going on here before whatever happened. A couple of empty bottles of booze float around the room, glasses and frozen pieces of bao.


1g: Room was check out, the trashed back up generators


1h: Systems 2 contains the primary computer core for the entire ship. The room contains three large servers hard-wired into all ship systems. All of these are shut down intentionally (powered off). By the time the three of you reach here, power is starting to come on in the ship, slowly. Emergency lights activating, fans turning etc.


Engineering


Apollo start to work on the generator. Cold cold cold, everything was gorram cold.  His initial efforts to start the generator failed but he kept trying, heating parts of the generator very carefully with his torch at a distance. Then it finally caught and the generator stayed on. He wanted to rush but there was no way to push a fusion reactor to work faster. He flipped a few of the breaker into the on position, to get emergency lighting on in the ship and the fans moving. No air to blow but the movement would be good for the systems. He watched the temperature gauge on the reactor, it was moving up slowly. He be able to start it soon and then get the engines turning again.


Infirmary


Alaxis started to revival process on the case. She had to work with what she had and luckily, whoever set this up, set it up to make revival easy. The Medcomp reported that the internal temperature inside the case was going up slowly. Vital signs began to pick up slightly. All seemed to be going well, but it was not a quick process.


Destiny


“Ivy, do me a favor and run a couple o' sensor sweeps jus' t' set my mind at ease.”


“Sure thing Captain.” Ivy responded and did what she was told. “I am getting a heat signal in the engineering. Otherwise not much has changed.” She thought about mentioning the radiation but dismissed the thought. Didn’t want to worry the Captain for nothing and did not want him to think she was jumping at anything.  “Everything’s shiny Captain. Find anything yet?”


OOC: I will stop there so you can communicate and decide if you want to continue. Fenris will be activating the power on the ship which will start life support and gravity. LS will take some time to pressurize the ship but gravity may be rather sudden.


 


Apollo



Posted on 2020-01-26 at 13:38:24.

Topic: Destiny Flight - QnA
Subject: not yet


No, Ivy has not told the crew about the radiation yet. Prehaps she doesn't want to worry you? 


Life pods? Interesting idea. 


Can you pull it from the launcher - yes. It would be a difficult task as lifepods are not meant to be removed, but since you are not worried about damage to the ship, it can be done. It would be a complex action (a series of rolls over time to reach a target DC, with a faliure causing setbacks).


You could also dismantle the launcher and then eject the lifepod and catch it in the black with the shuttle Agan, a complex action.


Note these life pod is made for a purpose - to fire and get the pod as far away from the launch point as quickly as possible. So it has a fuel supply it uses up completely (unless you disable), a small fusion generator to control life support and a transponder that will start sending a "mayday" signal as soon as it is launched. There is a few days worth of tubed food, a oxygen mask with an embedded tank and a set of pills that will put you into a deep sleep so you do not use up the air as fast.


So, Wyatt and Alex are checking the ship, Alaxis and Jonah are in the infirmary with the case and Fenris is in engineering? 


I am going to let the call to Fox from Wyatt stand so Fox is on his way to meet up with Wyatt and Alex. Mistakes happen especially in high stress situations. Wyatt called for him so here he comes.


Besides, I might have a reason to isolate Fenris alone in engineering .....or not.


I will be posting over the weekend.


 



Posted on 2020-01-24 at 07:45:59.

Topic: What is your favorite weapon for a fantasy game
Subject: Katana


I have admit I have a certain affection for the katana. Misty because it capacity for damage in any edition is usually quite high



Posted on 2020-01-18 at 04:30:22.

Topic: Destiny Flight - QnA
Subject: Resources


There are all sorts of resources available



Posted on 2020-01-18 at 04:27:29.

Topic: Destiny Flight - QnA
Subject: No


These are one man pods with a simple fire and launch system. No steering capacity. Basically a metal coffin with life support for 2-3 days. 



Posted on 2020-01-17 at 18:21:55.

Topic: Destiny Flight - QnA
Subject: Okay


Sorry about that. My last game post was ... well it was't a good one.


I have posted supplementary information.


So if I understand correctly, Wyatt wants Fox and him to do a room to room search of the ship to see what they missed? How do you want to run that? this floor, the first floor and then the third? Skipping engineering since Fenris and Fox have already been there? Is jonah going with you are staying in infirmary or heading to engineering.


What do you wish to do with the case? leave it now that you have a power supply and it is good for awhile? Start to revive what is inside? Start looting the lab for the expensive equipment you do not have in  Destiny?


Tann - to start the engines you will hve to start the generator, flip the breaker for the reactor only. get the reactor going and steady. Start the engine drive turning. hit the breakers for life support and ship power. Wait a bit for ship to pressurize and warm up. Turn on the rest of the systems. This is what a Complex action looks like and I will be rolling for each step.


 



Posted on 2020-01-17 at 12:52:18.

Topic: Destiny's Flight - A Serenity RPG
Subject: captain's log supple men show


Supplement - Infirmary


Alex inspected the cabinets in the infirmary. They were filled with the usual assortment of bandages, medical supplies and the first aid supplies one expects in a infirmary. The drugs and other liquid supplies were frozen solid, some of the containers now cracked from expansion. Some of the cabinets are very neat and tidy while others look like they were torn apart in a frantic search for something.


The body bags are tagged with Bio-hazard tags and the only information written on the tags is the names “Renfield” and “Helsing”. When Alex feels the body bags, he finds that they do not feel like bodies. Instead there is a lot of bumps and curved surfaces within, but the skeletal remains (ribcage, skull) are detectable.


Supplement – Engineering


Fenris looks over the check list and starts to think it through. Can’t start a fire without a spark. So the mechanic knows he need to get the fusion power plant running and the engine turning. To do so cold, you need a battery backup but the battery backup would be dead. So….


He moved around the engine room looking at the equipment and then saw the first good news since he got on the ship. The engine room has a generator hooked up to a fuel cell.


Wyatt comes over the radio, "Fox, meet me by the lift. Ivy, do me a favor and run a couple o' sensor sweeps jus' t' set my mind at ease."



Posted on 2020-01-17 at 12:43:32.
Edited on 2020-01-17 at 12:55:40 by Alacrity

Topic: Destiny Flight - QnA
Subject: hey


Hello all,


Sorry I ahve been absent for a bit, dealing with so health issues again. Getting old - don't do it if you can avoid it. I seemed to have thrown my hip out so lots of discomfort making it hard for me to concentrate and enjoy things in general.


I will go through the posts and answer any questions you have asked, but wanted to let you know I am back.


 


 



Posted on 2020-01-17 at 07:38:08.

Topic: Destiny Flight - QnA
Subject: It is in the header


You have been there 2 hours


you did not establish a protocol for calling the ship. You told Ivy to call if there was a problem. 



Posted on 2020-01-08 at 17:40:58.
Edited on 2020-01-08 at 17:41:33 by Alacrity

Topic: D&D with horror themes, revisited
Subject: curious


Does Olan PM the new players and ask them to betray the party or is that on a first come. first stabbed basis?


I have a Cidal thief named Eubeen Had. Likes to wear black and good with a knife.Carries a lead shield in case anyone casts detect alignment on him.


 


 



Posted on 2020-01-08 at 14:51:59.

Topic: Destiny Flight - QnA
Subject: posted


I have posted to the game


You have a battery to hook up the MedComp. With that you can start reviving the thing in the case if you wish. 


Restarting the engines is possible, it will just take time to reset all the breakers and reignite the burners and get the fusion reactor back up and running. once that is done, it will be a bit until the ship heats up and the air spreads around enough to be comfortable. It is a Formidable Complex action (75 total) with 15-minute increments.  Once activated, it will take 30 minutes for air to reach living conditions without a suit. 


 



Posted on 2020-01-08 at 14:45:49.

Topic: Destiny's Flight - A Serenity RPG
Subject: ding and a ping


Demeter  Day 3, 10:00 pm Ship Time (ST) – Time spent on Demeter: 2 hrs


Jonah moved through the ship to get a battery to the infirmary.  The silence of the ship was getting oppressive now and he missed the sound of engines humming and background noise.  Once he arrived at the Infirmary he looked around at the mess and realized whoever was in the generator room was the same person in here.


Fox and Wolf moved down the corridor that ran between the forward and aft sections of Deck 1. It is 300’ to the aft section through a circular tube with a metal corridor running down in. There is a movator (a escalator kinda thing similar to a thread mill running down the corridor to two directions) on both sides but they are off like the rest of the dead ship. After some time, the two reach the main engineering section. The first room is Engine control and maintenance. A dead man floats in here. His hand is frozen on a clipboard. The name tags on his uniform reads Arthur Holmwood. A pen floats by you, catching the light of your helmet cam as it passes.


The power breakers are all down. The drive is shut down. Assuming Arthur was the mechanic here, he must have shut the engines down by the numbers. A quick check of the clipboard in his hand confirms this. He intentionally shut the engines down while in the black.


The second room is for monitoring power distribution and shield modulation control. There is a small corridor here that leads to the emergency life pods. All 6 pods are still here.  


 


Destiny Day 3, 10:00 pm Ship Time (ST)


Ivy was in the pilot’s chair watching the monitors and wishing someone would ping her or just let her know if everything was okay. She thought of calling on the radio, picked it up several times now, but didn’t want to sound like the scared little girl that she felt like at the moment.


*Ping*


Ivy looked up. She looked at the monitors but they were showing nothing. I heard a ping. What ping?


Nothing on the screens or scanners. Ivy made a face. She pulled up the auto-log of the system and searched through the code until she found her ping. She then looked up what the code meant.


 “High levels of radiation detected” on long range scanner. Less than a second, not enough to set off an alarm but enough for the LR’s to detect. She shook her head. That could be anything out here.



Posted on 2020-01-08 at 14:35:02.
Edited on 2020-01-08 at 14:35:56 by Alacrity

 
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