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oilworker said:
But that is the thing her traits should not let her, she is humble and eye of the storm. Also she was a trained soldier she could have shot the mutants and took the guys leg off.
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SuperSonicSound said:
I'm sorry but it really doesn't make sense. Mirande is traited up to the eye balls to resist this kind of pull at the very least it should have taken failling some kind of anger related willpower roll. Declaring she just fiat derped and went leeroy because of it given her utterly inhuman levels of willpower is kind of jarring.

But what ever, whining about it won't change anything so I'ma just wait for the conclusion to this turn and see what happens.

This logically though is going to be very very painful. This is pretty much straight up critical failure territory.

Apprehension intensifies etc.
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Thinking about, true, she shouldn't have done this with the traits she has.

Still, unless this Bad End's us, it shouldn't be too much trouble. if it does directly cause a Bad End we have grounds to call for a rewrite.
 
George said:
lol so much salt and hindsight here.
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Foresight our character is precognitive and there is no way i'd have voted to engage in melee with something that could rend carapace like paper. We even voted to inflitrate earlier instead of the bold knock down the door shit with the train.

Not only does this contradict character traits and previous behaviour it even kind of contradicts the intent of the previous vote to infiltrate.

Ridiculously Average Guy said:
Thinking about, true, she shouldn't have done this with the traits she has.

Still, unless this Bad End's us, it shouldn't be too much trouble. if it does directly cause a Bad End we have grounds to call for a rewrite.
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We've no cause to ask for a rewrite regardless. The GM does what the GM does.

*shrug*

Regardless of what else happens here bad end or not this is going to have large ramifications when the people on the war train don't have Mirande return.

We may have just lost the train and regardless of that situation we're probably about to get hit by corruption fodder.
 
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The thing is, Mirande knows that they only need to get lucky once, she needs to get lucky every time.

The way you stay alive isn't be taking risks. Even a 1% chance of dying in an encounter will get you killed before long, as eventually snake eyes come up.

She knows how important her staying alive is, and she knows her fate if she dies. Randomly charging into melee combat when she doesn't need to will get her killed.

It's not as if she doesn't have the skill to take someone down non-lethally with a sniper rifle.
 
ninjafish said:
this was the gm deciding to completely disregard established character traits to do something monumentally arrogant and stupid without anyone having voted too.

kinda of a shitty thing for him to do in all honesty.
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This is going a bit far for me. It seems clear the GM wanted to write a fight and thought it would be a cake walk so he decided to have fun after which things went wrong ectetera. If it had gone right as he thought and as the resultant pre-cog would have shown this would have been fine but pointlessly reckless (and potentially said something about the RP aspect of the game). This didn't though as such the scenario goes against Mirande's traits, her stats, her resistance to sorcery which is more tempting, her training as soldier, and her divination powers which is why it's OOC.

If this doesn't end up as particularly dramatic fluff which Mirande learns a lesson from then it's an issue, but before then leave it to the author.
 
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Neptune said:
This is going a bit far for me. It seems clear the GM wanted to write a fight and thought it would be a cake walk so he decided to have fun after which things went wrong ectetera. If it had gone right as he though and as the reultant pre-cog would have shown this would have been fine but incredibly reckless. This didn't though as such the scenario goes against Mirande's traits, her stats, her resistance to sorcery which is more tempting, her training as soldier, and her divination powers which is why it's OOC.

If this doesn't end up as particularly dramatic fluff which Mirande learns a lesson from then it's an issue, but before then leave it to the author.
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The thing is I don't know why AN thought it would be a cake walk a difference of 29 isn't nearly large enough for that to be the case.

I agree with everything else you've said though.
 
Honestly, if we were presented with "shoot the things in the head with our sniper" or "destroy their suffering souls with memento mori", I feel like the vast majority of voters would go for the second option anyway, even if we got warnings that they could do damage to us. As for Mirande doing it on her own anyway, she's apparently been building up a pretty serious anger brick in her head about all the horrible crap in the world, just from reading the first paragraph, and though she believes it's not affecting her, maybe she needs to actually stop and examine herself a little more deeply.
 
Versharl said:
Given the devastation you've described in the city, is it even possible to ride a train through it? Aren't the lines destroyed or at least covered in rubble? Seems really unlikely that they'd survive the hit by a startbomb.
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It is impossible to ride the train through the city, you have to back up and take the outer loop, which is why I said it would have been no use. It is a minimum of (500 + 1570 + 500)/200 = 12.9 hrs drive to get to that position, assuming you can go at max speed and take no breaks. Its more like a two or three day trip.

Da Boyz said:
She charged in against beings who could tear through her armor like tissue paper
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The plates were never penetrated, they got through at the joints or inflicted blunt force trauma. I even said that your injuries were being mitigated by the armour and the mutant took it to a grapple for a reason.

Also, I have updated the post to include more situational details to explain why Mirande thought this was her best bet to achieve what she wanted.
 
I have some faith in the voting base that we'd have voted to shoot them.

We could have knee-capped them with our anti-material rifle and then executed them with Momento Mori if that was the priority.
 
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Academia Nut said:
I just revealed this was impossible, the anti-materiel rifle is far too powerful for that.
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Because the guy would lose a leg and die of blood loss eventually but Mirande is a telepath and could rip the information she needs from the guys mind couldn't she?

It's not like she's all that terrible with that power either, Lesser mind reading is still fairly potent no?
 
Academia Nut said:
I just revealed this was impossible, the anti-materiel rifle is far too powerful for that.
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How? Even if we reduced their feet to fine red mist with the energy of the bullets they'd still be alive for the few minutes it would take for them to bleed out.

Bullets with that much energy would massively over penetrate. If it's that energetic we could also shoot the ground next to them and cripple them with the shrapnel.

Edit: said kill, meant cripple
 
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Now might be a good time to mention that I cracked the collapsible force-tentacle design. We know from the fact that a rapier was an option that force weapons can tolerate being flexible. That means that we can use helical band actuators to build it out of a single unbroken solid.
 
@Alratan Why do you think EM rifles are so effective against armored combat mechs and vehicles? Would probably turn all the flesh near the hit zone into gelatin, the bones too, and that could put them into enough of a state of shock to either kill them or knock them unconscious in seconds.
 
The impact of an EM anti-material rifle bullet in the foot would vaporize the entire lower leg and possibly part of the upper leg, opening up the femoral that they would bleed out in seconds. There is no safe place to shoot a human being with one of these things, they are far too squishy. They're competitive with 40mm cannons.
 
Academia Nut said:
You still make sure to light that room on fire as best as you can as you leave.

Rolled 1d3 -> 3
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What changed in the update here? I could of sworn the original number was a 1.
Alratan said:
I have some faith in the voting base that we'd have voted to shoot them.

We could have knee-capped them with our anti-material rifle and then executed them with Momento Mori if that was the priority.
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This depends on if you're thinking of the game as a movie, this is incredibly difficult and the weapon is capable of killing vehicles and mechs. It still could have been done with a pistol and pre-cog though, especially as we have enough time/skill to keep making shots with it should we miss the first one.
 
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Guys, seriously. He critted, we rolled low but not low enough to activate our reroll. Shit happens, don't complain when the dice go against you.
 
Academia Nut said:
The impact of an EM anti-material rifle bullet in the foot would vaporize the entire lower leg and possibly part of the upper leg, opening up the femoral that they would bleed out in seconds. There is no safe place to shoot a human being with one of these things, they are far too squishy. They're competitive with 40mm cannons.
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A 40mm canon wouldn't do that. Hell. A solid tank round wouldn't always. Flesh is just too squishy, and so the bullet over penetrates and most of the energy would be wasted. Particularly on something like a foot.

I'll drop it now, but that's just not how high energy projectiles work on people.
 
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