One Giant Leap: Exodus Quest(Dropped)

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[X] fall back (this action will likely or not provoke them and some team members not surviving)

Absolutely not going to have this even potentially turn into a hostage scenario especially when we bailed their sorry behinds, if this somehow provokes them as they are approaching with weapons in hand so be it.
 
CounterGuard said:
[X] fall back (this action will likely or not provoke them and some team members not surviving)

Absolutely not going to have this even potentially turn into a hostage scenario especially when we bailed their sorry behinds, if this somehow provokes them as they are approaching with weapons in hand so be it.
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I can't really see this becoming a hostage situation. If it does, it will become a very short lived one. Like, I really doubt the locals are going to be idiots, especially the village leader.
 
I know people really hate characters being taken captive, but standing by is the least escalatory option and we don't have reason to believe they would abuse prisoners. We'd still have room to negotiate and follow up - and it looks like there's probably social rolls on the retreat and hold options to avoid problems, and I'd guess the one that doesn't freak them out is an easier roll.
 
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Potato Anarchy said:
I know people really hate characters being taken captive, but standing by is the least escalatory option and we don't have reason to believe they would abuse prisoners. We'd still have room to negotiate and follow up - and it's gotta be an easier social roll to make, given that it's the way that doesn't freak them out.
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Your telling me trivals wouldn't abuse prisoners when tribals don't have Geneva convention.

If their anything like IRL tribals, expect to get speared to death or eaten.
 
Wait a moment, I just realized something. It's our faces, isn't it? More specifically, our lack of it. They might think we're not even living people because all they're seeing is a smooth, glassy surface. Nothing else.
 
Crafter of War said:
I can't really see this becoming a hostage situation. If it does, it will become a very short lived one. Like, I really doubt the locals are going to be idiots, especially the village leader.
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Whether or not it'll be a short captivity, I dislike the idea of the team even being held as a bargaining chip. At that point, it'll require another team to come in and bail Shield-1 and that might end with actual casualties. No, better to slip away now and have a diplomatic envoy do the talking instead.
 
there is no stage or style or zone of human development at which people are all psychotically violent or consistently cannibals, and there is also no stage or style or zone of human development at which people aren't freaked out and nervous by the arrival in your hometown of faceless unspeaking people from the sky who have weird, powerful weapons you've never seen before. Barbarians are just people and they do things besides fight. The Civilization games lied to you.

Freaking them out less right now is our best chance at no more losses for any side.
 
Potato Anarchy said:
The Civilization games lied to you.
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Dude, what the fuck? What do you mean they lied to me? Next you'll say Santa ain't real.

Potato Anarchy said:
Freaking them out less right now is our best chance at no more losses for any side.
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And bailing would also give us an excellent chance of not taking any losses as well, specially when we got this fancy smancy gunship right there to help with the bailing. Obviously.
It totally won't be used if things go hot.
 
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CounterGuard said:
Whether or not it'll be a short captivity, I dislike the idea of the team even being held as a bargaining chip. At that point, it'll require another team to come in and bail Shield-1 and that might end with actual casualties. No, better to slip away now and have a diplomatic envoy do the talking instead.
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We really can't slip away easily. Train is way past that station. Conflict from us pulling out early and spooking the local will leave any further diplomacy on rocky grounds. We will have better odds of diplomatic talking actually succeeding if they calm down.
 
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Keep your thoughts to yourself and let's see if we can talk to them." You replied as you walked over to the villager… warrior.

It looked at you as you knelt down. You nodded to it, and then it did the same, before it sat down, cross-legged.

"Okay cap, we're getting somewhere?" Shepherd stated. "What do we-"

You saw the glow from its horns, as you saw its eyes. "Wait… I just saw something? See the glowing?" YOu stated.

Shepherd had the creeps. "Yeah, what the hell is it doing?"

"Something I saw Jace do, claimed that he had psychic episodes during prolonged cryo?" you replied. "Said that it was possible to give a signal to others."

"Yeah, after Cryo, prolonged Cryo? We've been out for over six months! Even if we still had something latent, Jace was a special case because he was in Cryo for far too long than was safe." Shepherd replied. "You might get killed!"

"Just let me focus, and cover me." You locked eyes with the beast-man and concentrated.

And then you heard. "Hello." in your mind.

You scampered back as you… heard the voice.

"You can hear me?" It asked. "I thought it was only the other Shamans that could speak in the Mind?"

You nodded. "It just means we don't know everything." You paused and stood up, and the Warrior…or shamans joined to stand up.

"Jace was right, seems even after that, we can give a signal." You replied.

"Oh fuck me, don't tell, they're psychic. We should have brought the dogs for that?" Shepherd stated.

"Can it Shepherd, lets's get the team back together, see if we can't try to communicate before someone gets killed." You stated. "or failing that, get the fuck out of here before they think we are the bad guys."

AN: A Little Post Battle Meet and greet.

Perhaps we are special and they are too.

@ProjectUnidad here it is.
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You know you had me until this point…I can dm for details but this will be considered non-canon but still eligible for reward
 
Potato Anarchy said:
If we roll good! But the downside risk it bailing is explicitly violence and the downside risk of holding is explicitly not violence. The former is absolutely a faster path to casualties.
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If we don't roll good, I really don't mind that fact either. If they attack when we are clearly retreating, it proves they never had good intention for the people jumping in to support them.

Crafter of War said:
We really can't slip away easily. Train is way past that station. Conflict from us pulling out early and spooking the local will leave any further diplomacy on rocky ground. We will have better odds of diplomacy taling actually succeeding if they calm down.
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And I do believe we can slip away quite easy with a gunship being able to pick up some if not all of the team if they let us leave. If they don't, we can slip into the woods and have HQ track us (The team probably has transponders, it's the future) who will direct the gunship to pick us up if we don't want to open fire.

At the end of the day, I don't like imprisonment. This is how much I don't like imprisonment, especially when we're doing good Samaritan things.
 
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Just Some Guy said:
I still don't expect them to treat prisoners well.
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Based on what? Cause I can just say "I expect them to treat prisoners well" and it will be just as baseless as your statement.

Listen, they just saw us jump to kicking the Wendigos out. I really doubt that the locals that at most comes up to 5 feet will be willing to push around us and find out at what point we get pissed off.
 
CounterGuard said:
If we don't roll good, I really don't mind that fact either. If they attack when we are clearly retreating, it proves they never had good intention for the people jumping in to support them.
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They're scared that they were just on the sidelines of Alien vs. Predator and we're gonna fuck them over. They don't know who we are. They're thinking that if we won't back down or talk it proves we never had good intentions.

We get to decide whether we make that easier or harder for them to figure out, and whether rolling badly means people die or we have to keep working on it. There is no outcome of imprisonment that is worse than death.
 
Potato Anarchy said:
They're scared that they were just on the sidelines of Alien vs. Predator and we're gonna fuck them over. They don't know who we are. They're thinking that if we won't back down or talk it proves we never had good intentions.

We get to decide whether we make that easier or harder for them to figure out, and whether rolling badly means people die or we have to keep working on it. There is no outcome of imprisonment that is worse than death.
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Running away is now a provocation? If so, then that's news to me as last I checked we never provoked them in any way, shape, or form for them to fall under the category of even self-defence. And let's not say there is no outcome of imprisonment that is worse than death, just take a look at our own world history.
 
CounterGuard said:
Running away is now a provocation? If so, then that's news to me as last I checked we never provoked them in any way, shape, or form for them to fall under the category of even self-defence. And let's not say there is no outcome of imprisonment that is worse than death, just take a look at our own world history.
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Yes! This is what's laid out in the post: they are nervous about us and in response we (re) drew weapons, and we have a choice between a provocative response that risks losses (retreat), a conciliatory response that risks imprisonment (holding), and an insane response that no one wants (massacre). You don't need to like their analysis but it is what we are dealing with. It is the choice that risks violence. You really hate imprisonment and think it's worth the risk, okay, but this is the provocative choice, and you can't avoid that.
 
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Just Some Guy said:
The dice will decide it.
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That's not a reason. I can just as well point out how the dice can fuck over us retreating and end up with everyone captured by very miffed locals that now has a reason to treat us badly just as you described.
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Running away is now a provocation? If so, then that's news to me as last I checked we never provoked them in any way, shape, or form for them to fall under the category of even self-defence. And let's not say there is no outcome of imprisonment that is worse than death, just take a look at our own world history.
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...the grenade over at Zone D? Hello? Also, combat survival require you to react even to the slightest twitch. Even more so in modern society with the risks of guns and explosives. I personally can't complain for them being twitchy when a couple of them are close to death.

Lastly, if you react to everything like it could end up in the worst possible way of what you remember, you'll just end up going in a downward spiral.
 
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