"... so you get the gist of things pretty quick around here," claimed Vic, having volunteered to give Moreau and Tallens 'the tour' of the Avenger. "Back there's some of the labs, and the 'cold storage', that's where we keep aliens on ice. Smells terrible, you wouldn't like it. Around here's the way up to the Operations deck, that's where they fly the thing and tell us what's up... and you'll likely be spending most time up here at the range and the armslockers - hey Sven - which are right here."
"Up there's the Skyranger, that's what gets us to where we need to go, don't piss off Firebrand if you want an easy ride... here's the barracks, this is where I live! And chances are there's some of Alpha Team in here already... yep, here we go."
Vic opened the door and peered in, catching the tail-end of what Bo was talking about. "I agree!" He calls in, seemingly without knowing what's going on. "So this is pretty standard, we got bunks, lockers, coffee machine, let us know if you find any coffee out there... that's Jess, she's not as angry as she seems, that's Bo - you remember Bo - Henderson, John, Stan... Daud, is Daud in here? Huh. Hey, y'all remember these two?"
***
So let's see...
Research:
1) Improved Skulljack! It's top of the list. We need that thing. I fear a game-over.
2) The Psi Amp, as people want to do mind tricks
3) Wraith Suit, finish that up, get us some decent armour options
4) Beam Rifles, why are we not developing plasma people let's develop plasma
Manufacturing:
1) Ok fine Psi Lab Expansion
2) Psi Efficiency I guess
3) More Beam Pistols for our pistoleers
Vic is working on keeping the morale of the ship up with bartending and radio showing! Persuade +11 go go
X-COM 2 - 2019 Campaign Thread
#14252524 Nov 21, 2019 at 06:58 PM | |
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![]() 78 Posts | What was it with bureaucracies? Stanley had specifically stated his willingness to work on whatever they needed but psionics related projects and that's exactly what they had tasked him to work on during the last period of downtime. Well, from here on out, he was going to work on what struck his interest and steer clear of their mind mucking stuff. He could do with better armor and this wraith armor project looked like it could use some further work, so he wandered over to that corner of the lab and picked up a status report and began to peruse it. //research 15 wraith armor |
#14252532 Nov 21, 2019 at 07:28 PM · Edited 1 year ago | |
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![]() 92 Posts | As JD suspected, the "man in the suit" was indeed Cat's old friend. Although that fact had been confirmed and the man awaken, JD was not sure what to make of that. Was he compromised? Was is intel reliable? The man spoke of "nuclear trap" placed in some site(s) to destroy Alpha team once and for all. The team went for a prison break mission. The mission went well. JD was not sure who grabbed the new pistol and how efficient it was. He was eager to get a better rifle or even some kind of heavy weapon. They were so many projects to pick it could be overwhelming at times. RESEARCH 1. Plasma Rifle (using the 1d6 bonus) 2. Wraith suit 3. Psi Amp MANUFACTURING 1. Plasma Ammo 2. Mag Ammo 3. Nanoscale Vest JD (with craft mech 10) will make plasma ammo for the beam pistol/rifle IF skills is appropriate otherwise Mag ammo |
#14252877 Nov 22, 2019 at 09:17 AM · Edited 1 year ago | |
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![]() 70 Posts | Jesse looked up from her seat with a grunt of acknowledgement as Vic and the new recruits entered the barracks. "I'm more angry than I seem, actually," she said, darkly. "S'just that I'm really, really good at keeping it all in, y'see. Lucky for you guys. Anyway, uh, welcome to the crew, I guess. You've met Nancy in the flesh by now, I guess, so... yeah, that's all of us for the field crew." She tapped her fingers against the back of her tablet; zoned out for a bit. "Life expectancy for the job wasn't great before we came around. Probably still isn't, in all. We've had some lucky breaks. Figure you should know that." ((Research: Psi Amp, Skulljack Upgrade, Plasma Rifle. Wraith armor beyond that, I guess, but I doubt we'll have enough left over for a 4th project. Manufacturing: Psi Efficiency seems like one we'll want to get done quickly. Also agree with setting aside some amount of points for mag ammo. Jesse will help out with manufacturing using... I think +15 in craft (manufacturing)? As I'm assuming repair doesn't really apply to R&D.)) |
#14252917 Nov 22, 2019 at 11:05 AM | |
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![]() 72 Posts | No dreams this week, or were they memories, actually? Yes, no new memories this week came to him. Maybe it was because he wasn’t doing his training in that lab anymore. That familiar setting of lab equipment and experimentation. But he actually got some good rest this week. Which was a pity. He wanted the grief. He needed that despair. He had to know who he really was, and what the fact that he worded it that way meant. But until then, he would just chug away at work. It was close though, he could feel it. (Research, Psi Amp, Skulljack, then plasma rifle. Manufacturing, the one that lets 6 people psi train, then psi efficiency. And Henderson will concentrate on doing psi training and helping on purifier autopsy.) |
#14252920 Nov 22, 2019 at 11:09 AM · Edited 1 year ago | |
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![]() Veteran DM 209 Posts | EDIT: Klasa posted while I was editing the session post. Remember to get those posts in 24 hours before game time in the future, and please post your skill modifier so I don't have to search the entire thread. * * * Session 32 +900xp to everyone for IC posting. +500xp to Bo, John, Jesse, and Daud for critical successes on skill rolls. The d20 was on fire this week; the d6, not so much. * * * FROM: MARY RANMA, X-COM MEDICAL LEAD Base rolls: X-COM Research Capacity (3d10+8+1d6): rolls 5, 10, 5, +2 (Darius Singh) +2 (Greta Kanem) +4 (Permanent Upgrades) +4 (Skulljacked Officer) (15/15 in Improved Skulljack [completed, existing device upgraded], 15/15 in Psi Amp [completed, prototype available], 20/20 in Wraith Suit [completed, prototype available], 1/10 in Gauss Weapons, 5/5 on Purifier Autopsy [completed], 1/20 in Plasma Rifle).
X-COM Manufacturing Capacity (3d10+4): rolls 3, 8, 9, +1 (Mendoza), +2 (Tieffendahl), +1 (Johnson). (2/10 on a Nanoscale Vest, 6 boxes of Mag Ammunition completed, 15/15 in Psi Lab Expansion [completed], 12/15 in Psionic Efficiency).
X-COM Medical Capacity (3d6): rolls 1, 1, 1 (3 new medikits produced this week) Psi Training: Daud: +2 to Psi Potential score. New score: 90 Bo: +1 to Psi Potential score. New score: 111 Henderson: +10 to Psi Potential score. New score: 79 (leveled up) Victor: morale support on Avenger: +11 vs. DC20, roll 11 (Success). Shipboard morale boosted (+1 applied to Research). |
#14253016 Nov 22, 2019 at 02:42 PM | |
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![]() Veteran DM 209 Posts | I just uploaded a new version of the mod to Box. |
#14253486 Nov 23, 2019 at 09:30 AM | |
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![]() Veteran DM 155 Posts | ((Got it! And server up a little early as I'm somewhere until game time.)) Old enough to know better, too old to care. |
#14253575 Nov 23, 2019 at 12:56 PM | |
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![]() Veteran DM 209 Posts | November 23, 2019 Post-Session Post Your tablets ping as the latest email from Central arrives (see below). Anyone who wants to can now do Psionic Training and also complete project skill rolls. Remember when you post to include your skill modifier. Unfortunately, the skulljacked sectoids do not provide any valuable research data. * * * * * We’re moving the Avenger out of populated areas for a while to avoid enhanced alien patrols. But we’ll be back soon enough to take another look at the mission options we discussed today. Until then we should expedite progress on our existing research and manufacturing priorities. * * * Research Projects MC costs in this list are for subsequent copies of an item once it is researched. Initial research just uses X-COM Research Capacity. Base production is 3d10+2 (Singh) +2 (Kanem) +4 Permanent Upgrade
Manufacturing Projects Base production is 3d10+1 (Mendoza) +2 (Tieffendahl) +1 (Johnson)
Remember to get your recommendations in by Friday. |
#14256383 Nov 27, 2019 at 06:34 PM · Edited 1 year ago | |
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![]() 92 Posts | The gang went downtown to locate a device messing up with people's brain. After wandering around a street with a few shops including a music store, a restaurant and an nearly empty underground parking the group got interested in a kind of clinic. JD first got in pretending he urgently needed a dentist but he got booted and so where his friends even the more persuasive ones. That was enough to trigger a "forced entry" into the facility which was indeed hiding the "device of doom" and that was that. Back at the base it was time for more talk, more research, more manufacturing stuff and more training. Everyone insisting on doing the Psi training. JD was reluctant to be near any stuff messing up with his head. This time he was not sure. He remembered seeing people's head blown up remotely or something similar and he did not want that to happen to any member of the team or any civilian for that matter. He decided to take a shower, meditate for one hour and perhaps decide after if he would do the Psi training or not. He did not really expect the others to chase him around to sell him the "training package" - "Don't be a fool, it's for your own good!" - "So what? You want your head to explode? Or you want to start shooting at us when they make you think we are Aliens?" - "Come on JD, you're no chicken are you?" - "it's painless, you just need to wear this when you go to sleep." // RESEARCH 1. Plasma Rifle 2. Something Medikit (Improved Medikit makes sense) 3. Bio Grenade 4. Whatever (Armor? Autopsy?) MANUFACTURING JD makes Mag Ammo (Craft Mech 10) 1. Plasma Ammo and Mag Ammo 2. Nanoscale Vest 3. Medikit/Experimental Surgical Kit 4. Beam Pistol/Wraith Suit Psi Training? Can we Roll a will save (not sure about the number but he's like a fighter with 8 wisdom)? Failing the save JD will join the Psi training program. |
#14256997 Nov 28, 2019 at 04:26 PM · Edited 1 year ago | |
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![]() 97 Posts | Daud hoped they made some kind of difference by taking out that psi emitter. Truthfully, he felt like they didn't. He was relieved that the coin hadn't gotten anyone killed, but what did they have to show? As far as Daud could see, there were no leads on what exactly they were doing with those little corner street emitters. What does taking them out actually do? Would ADVENT just place another one somewhere else like nothing had happened? Are they even that valuable to ADVENT? No one seemed to have those answers. The best they could say about it was that nobody actually died. Also, maybe, that this operation was so low scale that ADVENT wouldn't figure out that they really hoped to draw out a CODEX and thus wouldn't increase security on more likely, subsequent targets. So far, they hadn't even retaliated. Daud couldn't figure if that was good or bad. -------------------- RESEARCH 1. Plasma Rifle 2. WAR suit. 3. Archon autopsy. 4. Extra into reinforced underlay MANUFACTURING 1.Finish Psi Efficiency 2. Set aside 3 or 6 points for plasma ammo. (We're going to need to build up stocks if more people plan to use plasma. Daud probably doesn't have the skill to help with this like he does with mag ammo.) 3. A vest for John? 4. Beam Pistol Daud will manufacture mag ammo with +8 craft mech and of course do psi training |
#14257052 Nov 28, 2019 at 08:38 PM | |
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![]() 90 Posts | "Heck if I know what it was doing there," Vic said, polishing a glass as he kept the bar at the X-Cafe, chatting to whoever was there. Behind him, music continued quietly over the comms - Life on Mars, by some crooning cat named Bowie - as Johnson manned the radio booth in his absence. The rough sailor didn't have to talk much, at least, the talkshow segments weren't for hours yet. "That street, that whole district was a mess. Not the kind of place I'd have thought any interest to ADVENT, or the Aliens." He thought. "Maybe it HAD been a rowdy place at some point, and that's why they put the device in. Quell trouble with a couple of sectoids and a glowing ball." "Kinda puts more of a lie to their ideas, though, don't it?" Vic inspected the glass for smears. "All that 'we cured the ills of the Old World'. That stuff's still there. I mean, we always knew they pressed it down with ADVENT, but it's another thing to know they just might be painting over it with their psionics." Vic considered. "I tell you one thing, though. Creepiest damn thing when those people in the office just recognised me. That's the future, ain't it, the future they want. Everyone's head is an open book, every thought starts and ends with them, and wherever you are, they know who you are. I'll drink to burning that future down. Can't wait til we do." *** Projects! Research: 1) Plasma Rifle. Prep some firepower. 2) The WAR Suit. Heavy Armour ftw. 3) Ok the Archon Autopsy - if our guns can't make a dent, maybe the sword can Manufacturing: 1) Psi Efficiency, finish that off 2) As many Wraith Suits as we can kick out 3) Plasma Ammo, building up that stock Vic's carrying on keeping morale high, with that mighty Perusade +11. |
#14257150 Nov 29, 2019 at 01:56 AM | |
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![]() 78 Posts | Stanley had gone along on the downtown raid to provide his usual tech support. He checked several computers in the ADVENT outpost but didn't turn up anything very useful other than it was just a staged look, no actuall working or valuable data. Back at the ship, he decided to lend a hand with researching Gauss weaponry. He reviewed the photos they'd taken of the alien weopons and worked on schematic ideas on his tablet. It seemed like it might take a bit to unlock the secrets though. //research 15 |
#14257415 Nov 29, 2019 at 09:14 AM | |
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![]() Veteran DM 155 Posts | "They appear to have our number, yes," Bo added to Vic's comment as she sat at the end of the bar. A drink of the 'local brew' was in one hand but the ever present datapad was in the other. Her head moved subconsciously from time to time as input came from the new psi-training headgear. "Big Brother is watching you," she continued. "Was a thing in my late teens when the surveillance age really started to cut in. Comes from some book, though I never read it - or watched the movies made in the light of it. I often wonder if the law enforcement agencies from back then would have come to be this way eventually." "Come to think of it, I wonder if Bradford or Tygan already does." The doctor grinned a little and drank the last of the drink. "Either way I should get back to work." ((Bo will use Treat Injury of 18 on the Archon Autopsy if that's okay, of it's no good as a skill she'll work on the Psi Efficiency with Sense Motive - as a secondary skill if necessary. Lets get one or the other done. Research: 1) Plasma Rifle. 2) The WAR Suit. 3) Archon Autopsy. Manufacturing. 1) Psi Efficiency 2) 6 points for Plasma ammo if no one helps, 3 points if others do, 2) Wraith Suit, and on to the next if we've enough points. Old enough to know better, too old to care. |
#14257426 Nov 29, 2019 at 09:49 AM | |
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![]() 70 Posts | Jesse was visibly nervous walking back into the psi lab. Bo's words echoed through her head, telling her that this was the best way - maybe the only way - to defend themselves against what the forces behind ADVENT were capable of. The argument made sense. You can't beat an enemy armed with plasma rifles and powered armour using nothing better than sticks and stones, after all, so why should the battlefield of the mind be any different? Still, she had her doubts. All the concerns she'd talked to Bo about - about where the path they were on would lead, and just what kind of future they were building - hadn't gone anywhere. But something about the last mission - Bo's calming psychic touch on her mind, banishing the terror induced by the alien presence - had left her with a certain... clarity. Much as all of this disturbed her, there was no going back now. They were committed, and they knew what they were up against. For a long while, she hadn't dared believe that victory might actually be possible. Somewhere along the line, that started changing. But it would be so easy to just... watch it all slip away while they paused to catch their breath. Hope, she'd learned, was a valuable thing. Maybe even indispensable. But it could also be a narcotic. A path towards complacency and, ultimately, defeat. Victory, at any cost. That, she decided, would have to be her guiding principle from now on. And for it to mean a damn thing, she had to be willing to put everything she valued on the line. Body and mind. ((Research: Plasma Weapons, War Suit Manufacturing: Psi Efficiency, Wraith Suit. Extras into mag and plasma ammo if we got it. Say at a 2:1 ratio at this point? Jesse will be partaking of psi training and using +19 repair to hopefully help with psi efficiency, idea being she can help with the hardware/power requirements for the psi facilities.)) |
#14257443 Nov 29, 2019 at 10:39 AM | |
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![]() 72 Posts | ((Researchwise, Plasma Rifle then WAR Suit. Manufacturing-wise, Psi Effenciency. Henderson will aid at Archon Autopsy with his Concentration of 11. He will also do Psi Training.)) The last mission went off almost without a hitch. No one was seriously injured, none of the public got injured, and there was one less creepy, fake mental hospital in the world. But despite that Henderson wasn't as pleased as he thought he would be. He had been hoping to learn something new from that PSI device, but nothing was there for him. Perhaps he just had to accept that there was nothing else left for him to learn, but he couldn't accept that. He /knew/ there was still more to unlock, to remember. The girl, Jesse, had said he was back to being his 'old self', but what did that mean, exactly? It almost felt like something important. |
#14257473 Nov 29, 2019 at 11:17 AM | |
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![]() Veteran DM 209 Posts | Session 34 +900xp to everyone for IC posting. +500xp to Bo, Stan, and John for critical successes on skill rolls. * * * FROM: LILY SHEN, X-COM ENGINEERING LEAD Base rolls: X-COM Research Capacity (3d10+8): rolls 8, 10, 5, +2 (Darius Singh) +2 (Greta Kanem) +4 (Permanent Upgrades) (20/20 in Plasma Rifle [completed, prototype available], 11/20 in WAR Suit, 4/10 in Gauss Weapons, 4/10 on Archon Autopsy).
X-COM Manufacturing Capacity (3d10+4): rolls 10, 9, 6, +1 (Mendoza), +2 (Tieffendahl), +1 (Johnson). (Nanoscale Vest completed, 4 boxes of Mag Ammunition completed, 4 boxes of Plasma Ammo completed, 15/15 in Psionic Efficiency [completed], 1 Wraith Suit completed, second suit at 2/10).
X-COM Medical Capacity (3d6): rolls 4, 4, 3 (11 new medikits produced this week) Psi Training: Daud: +4 to Psi Potential score. New score: 94 Bo: +6 to Psi Potential score. New score: 117 Henderson: +9 to Psi Potential score. New score: 88 Vic: +7 to Psi Potential score. New score: 26 Jesse: +1 to Psi Potential score. New score: 76 (Psi Training 2) John: we’ll make a Will save in game. Victor: morale support on Avenger: +11 vs. DC20, roll 4 (No result). Everyone cries in their beer this week. |
#14257877 Nov 30, 2019 at 05:22 AM · Edited 1 year ago | |
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![]() Veteran DM 155 Posts | ((Apparently Bo has to help out with the counselling as a result of Vic's failure. Change of plans as we are going away for Himself's birthday before rather than after the game. 😞 Sorry guys but at least the medkit rolls were good. Server will be up and the lads are at home in case there are issues. Edit: Connection details should be the same as usual.)) Old enough to know better, too old to care. |
#14257991 Nov 30, 2019 at 10:11 AM · Edited 1 year ago | |
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![]() Veteran DM 209 Posts | Server is up but no module is currently loaded. EDIT: Okay, we're good! |