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by EarthScorpion
Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:12 pm
Forum: The Kitchen Table
Topic: Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 93
Views: 30630

Aigou slowly advances into the village, using as much cover as possible. It isn't even eerily quiet; there is the noise of birds, from within the high walls. Nature is very slowly reclaiming this enclave of humanity in the south of Ireland. The inside remains the same; the occasional patch of bullet...
by EarthScorpion
Sat Jun 13, 2009 6:57 am
Forum: The Kitchen Table
Topic: Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 93
Views: 30630

The area around the truck is clear. No ravenous monsters or cunning Dagonite ambushes wait around it, as far as can be seen. Now that you get close enough to see the wheels on the right hand side, the side which it rolled onto, you can see that two of the wheels (and wheel mountings) are completely ...
by EarthScorpion
Sat Jun 13, 2009 6:26 am
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: [Recruitment] Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 198
Views: 39080

And now the exams are over, which means I can get back to posting regularly.

Sorry about the sort of dead (well, not dead, as more eternal lying) status of the game; that should be remedied. :sad:
by EarthScorpion
Fri May 22, 2009 12:06 pm
Forum: The Kitchen Table
Topic: Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 93
Views: 30630

The overturned truck, now that you get closer, has a tight cluster of bullet holes, right through the windscreen in front of the driver. They continue through, into the seat, the dark red-brown of dried blood soaked into the padding. There's no body, though. Aiguo is the only one who notices the blo...
by EarthScorpion
Tue May 19, 2009 5:35 pm
Forum: The Kitchen Table
Topic: Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 93
Views: 30630

There is a conspicuous lack of return fire or ravening extra-dimensional monstrosities. Whether this is considered a good thing or not largely depends upon an individual's level of paranoia. However, the point is that the three infantry and the powered armour are the only large lifeforms about. That...
by EarthScorpion
Mon May 11, 2009 1:56 pm
Forum: The Kitchen Table
Topic: Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 93
Views: 30630

Henna stares at the map. "Both EWS-7W and EWS-6W are roughly equidistant, but 7W is right by the coast, so we'd have to run parallel to it, and if the Cork airbase is under attack, that's the first place they'd target. 6W it is, then. 30 odd kilometres, but we're going to have to keep below 45 kmph ...
by EarthScorpion
Mon May 11, 2009 1:16 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: [Recruitment] Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 198
Views: 39080

Apologies for not posting; I had my first set of end of term tests at the start of this month, and then just sort of forgot about it in the aftermath. :sad: There will be another quiet time, as the second set of exams starts on the 8th of June, but I'll try to keep this going until about a week befo...
by EarthScorpion
Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:20 am
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: [Recruitment] Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 198
Views: 39080

The early warning stations? Should I be thinking field recon posts or the trip wire bases in Germany set up during the Cold War? Huh... Let me explain. Field Recon Posts are gonna be a couple of guys and a sensor system. No real medical help. The trip wire bases were forward positions basically des...
by EarthScorpion
Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:47 pm
Forum: The Kitchen Table
Topic: Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 93
Views: 30630

Henna sucks in her breath. "Nearest non-compromised? Hmm." She brings up an Augmented Reality display . "We're the red point in the centre; the system flags know hostile actions in red. We're about equidistant from two different Early Warning Stations. They're sensor outposts," she explains to the n...
by EarthScorpion
Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:56 am
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: [Recruitment] Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 198
Views: 39080

By no means. The closest base, well, I assembled this map in Google maps. It's really rather useful, you know, for making this kind of thing for RPG campaigns. Plus, it means I get to do more world building. And it's slightly worrying that I enjoy the world-building even more than I enjoy playing or...
by EarthScorpion
Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:51 pm
Forum: The Kitchen Table
Topic: Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 93
Views: 30630

With the death of the Dagonite scouting patrol, it would be best to vacate the area. This is promptly done, everyone piling into the Ranger IFV (although it is quite a cramped fit; with the addition of the stretchers for the injured and the powered armour, it's about as packed as your average arcolo...
by EarthScorpion
Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:42 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: [Recruitment] Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 198
Views: 39080

True enough. I expected them all to die fairly quickly (because, as Academia Nut puts it, I did just put the equivalent of militiamen in jeeps with guns on the back (seriously, they were worse equipped than a NEG SWAT-equivalent team) against a proper IFV), just... not that quickly. I though I'd get...
by EarthScorpion
Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:52 am
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: [Recruitment] Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 198
Views: 39080

Bertram (HF) uses a smoke grenade for cover. It's 50 m from the crash to the IFV, so to get it half way is range 25 Maximum range = S x 10 = 30 metres (I'd make a comment about how unusual it is for Strength to be the dump stat, but frankly that seems to be a running theme in Ctech, from other games...
by EarthScorpion
Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:51 am
Forum: The Kitchen Table
Topic: Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 93
Views: 30630

Bertram lobs the smoke grenade as far as he can, an overarm toss that uses all the strength he can muster. The grenade flies in the right direction, although not as far as he would have liked, and begins venting forth its smoke; dirty white with an odd, slightly reflective hint to it from the metal ...
by EarthScorpion
Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:21 am
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: [Recruitment] Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 198
Views: 39080

Initiative order is as follows: 16} Alex - Patrolling around the Werewolf 16} Henna - In the pilot seat of the IFV 15 Erik - In the hold of the IFV, with the patients 14 Group 2 - Coming in from the East 13 Bertram - Over by the Werewolf, just finished with the charges 11} Tyche - In the IFV 11} Dov...
by EarthScorpion
Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:01 am
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: [Recruitment] Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 198
Views: 39080

Tenacity check for Cultist driver - Challenging (TN 14) Tenacity Feat Roll - Tenacity Novice (2 dice) 6, 4 = Highest = 6 Tenacity = 4 Total = 10 Fails Roll 2d10 on Fear table = 15 = Terror Pilot Check to avoid going out of control from Terror - Challenging (TN 16) Pilot Roll - Pilot Novice (2 dice) ...
by EarthScorpion
Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:01 am
Forum: The Kitchen Table
Topic: Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 93
Views: 30630

The driver of the technical freezes up, red eyes fixed on the hole running through her vehicles and the smeared mess that remains of two of her comrades. Shaking her head, the horrible sight before her remains real. She screams then, jerking the wheel hard to the right in an attempt to turn to flee....
by EarthScorpion
Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:29 am
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: [Recruitment] Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 198
Views: 39080

Alex (AN) fires a Tiny Plasma Cannon at the nearest vehicle (Roll d10/5, 8, therefore Technical 2) To hit; Firearms roll - Firearms Adept + Focus: Power Armour (3+1 Dice) Range = Long (-2) 1, 3, 10, 2 = Highest = 10 Perception = 6 Total = 14 To dodge Dodge Roll (uses Pilot, as not in OSE compatible ...
by EarthScorpion
Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:29 am
Forum: The Kitchen Table
Topic: Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 93
Views: 30630

The plasma ball flies out faster than the eye can see, a burning white shard of a newborn sun that only leaves an afterimage in the eye, so rapid is its path. The driver of the lead technical had seen the suit of armour raise its gun, terror in her red eyes, and so had swerved just before the trigge...
by EarthScorpion
Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:57 pm
Forum: The Kitchen Table
Topic: Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 93
Views: 30630

"Contacts! Inbound. from the East! Two land vehicles, look car sized. Smaller than IFVs, certainly," calls Henna, over the radio from the IFV, where she's been monitoring the equipment. "Look like... I think they've land vehicles; I'm not getting the triple-pip of hover. Through... must be a road in...
by EarthScorpion
Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:47 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: [Recruitment] Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 198
Views: 39080

Radar-Range Observation - Average (TN 12) Alex (Academia Nut) Observation Roll - Observation untrained 4 = /2 - 2 Per - 6 Total = 8 Fails Henna Sakhreet (NPC) (In IFV) Observation Roll - Observation Novice 4, 6 = Highest - 6 Per - 7 Total = 13 Succeeds, alert raised to other characters. It looks lik...
by EarthScorpion
Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:57 am
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: [Recruitment] Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 198
Views: 39080

Bertram Gregory (Hotfoot), Roll 3 ( 1 Drama Point Spent ) Demolitions Roll - Demolitions Student (1 dice + 1 ) 7, 9 = Highest - 9 Int - 8 Total = 17 Suceeds. Right, now that's a success, you've accumulated the three successes with no failures in the allotted time. That means you can get a charge rig...
by EarthScorpion
Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:52 am
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: [Recruitment] Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 198
Views: 39080

Aiguo Yu (frigidmagi), Roll 3 (1 drama point spent)
Demolitions Roll - Demolitions Novice (2 + 1 dice)
6, 7, 2 = Highest - 7
Int - 5
Total = 12
Still Fails
by EarthScorpion
Fri Mar 27, 2009 2:09 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: [Recruitment] Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 198
Views: 39080

Yeah, actually, that's a good point. I completely forgot about them; by Rules as Written, they're spent after the roll, too, so you can just retcon then in as having been spent, as I haven't put up an IC post yet.

So where do the concerned players want to spend theirs?
by EarthScorpion
Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:29 pm
Forum: Out of Character
Topic: [Recruitment] Cthulhutech: The Borderlines of the World
Replies: 198
Views: 39080

I'm just going to have the two players who have any demolitions perform it as a joint Extended Task, 5 minutes per roll, 3 successes with no rolls which neither player succeeds. Aiguo Yu (frigidmagi), Roll 1 Demolitions Roll - Demolitions Novice (2 dice) 4, 10 = Highest - 10 Int - 5 Total = 15 Fails...