I'll have to think very carefully about this, but I'll have an answer before I go to sleep.

In reply to Riley (msg # 14):

Sure, let's say the capsule meets with a slightly large module. You still have no privacy, but you can float around in microgravity without bumping into each other.

Just a note on posting rates; I'm fine with it taking a few days for everybody to respond, but in a situation like combat I'll give players 24 hours before skipping their turns - not counting weekends.

That probably won't come up anytime soon, but just as an FYI.

GURPS does have an initiative system based on speed, but I'll just simplify it to "opponents faster than the PCs, the PCs, then opponents slower than the PCs" and you guys can act in posting order.

Sorry, RL threw stuff at me. I plan to post tomorrow

RL happens, no worries.

That was longer than I wanted, on a personal note. I am far too easily distracted. But it is done.

gonna give the other PCs a chance to ask questions or react to any of this before moving on

Re msg #36: When Riley says,  "That's going to be awkward.  I didn't bring anything to pass the time that's not electronic," Charlie replies, "You can use mine."

If nobody has any additional questions I'll move the game along tomorrow.

Does the music play once we're inside?

No. It's silent, aside from the atmospheric sound you'd expect from a large space.

thought it might be anechoic which is eery.

I had to look that word up. Makes complete sense with the context.

Yes, the complete absesnse of reflcted sound is really weird. Unsettling

There are echoes as appropriate for the space you're in. You can talk, etc. There just aren't any other sounds coming from the place itself.

How about odor? What does this place... smell like?

There are echoes. Acoustics work normally. The room tone you'd expect from a space of this size. There is just no music, or sounds of music, or machine sounds, or the sound of the place settling.



The Perception stat defaults to IQ. You can raise (or lower) it from this base for 5 points per level if your character is more (or less) perceptive than average.

Do you want to do this, or take any levels of the Acute Smell advantage? For 2/level it gives you a bonus to rolls to smell things.

Alternatively you can choose to be anosmic, with no sense of taste or smell, which is a disadvantage worth -5 points.

(Same question for the other senses; Acute Vision or hearing or touch is also 2/level.)

If any of you want any of these traits, let me know now, or you don't have them.
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:32, Fri 04 Aug 2023.

Dash - while it's something you might not want to toss in a pipe, we all have headsets with cameras and headlamps

And well, we also have a bunch of rope if you really want to.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:04, Tue 08 Aug 2023.

He's also wanting to see how it moves first, like if it gets pulled around. Think of it like dropping a flare in advance, an option he really wishes he had.

Anyone participating in the #RPGaDay2023?

First I've heard of it but sounds fun.

Looks like GM hasn't logged in in two weeks.  Is this still going?

In reply to Riley (msg # 36):

I don't know.
But sometimes folks get hit by RL, illness, family stuff, PC failure or connections interupted etc. (One GM on here had his cables chopped up by incompetant guys using a digger).
On the other hand, most games on here start with a GM full of enthusiasm who then disappears a few hundred posts in.

Maybe it's leaning towards the latter.

About 7 weeks now since GM logged on, so I think this one isn't going to recover