LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
In that case let's do that.
Tacit Ronin vs. The World
- Thread starter Fyrstorm
- Start date
Omake: A Day in the Life of the Council
Highwind
To Rise From The Ashes
- Location
- Brazil
In celebration of our victory and as an apology for those bad rolls I rolled just now, I deliver you all that Omake I promised. Its supposed to happen sometime in the last week, and I'm not sure what to title it. Maybe "A day in the lives of the High Councillors"? Or perhaps "A look into their routines"? I'm open to suggestions.
As the most senior member of the PPDC present when Seattle got its shit together and managed to find and reactivate a Jaeger, he was technically the Marshall in charge of the Shatterdrome and it was his duty to deal with the day to day operations and sign off on any papers that involved it or the Jaeger. He still refused to accept the title, though. It wasn't like he had done anything to deserve the promotion besides being in the right place at the right time and for now his old rank from before he requested the transfer to the PPDC was more than prestigious enough.
He was currently examining reports of Tacit's performance in the last battle, which were indeed as boring as one expected, but still held potentially critical information. For example, while the battle was too short for them to obtain accurate data, the new blades performed admirably and managed to cauterize the wounds perfectly. There were, however, some optimization problems in the fitting that were found after the battle, and some adjustments managed to reduce the wear of the joints that secured the blades to the Jaeger so their effective lifespan was back to predicted values. Some small optimizations to the control mechanisms also helped with minor improvements to the precision of movement, but nothing noteworthy or even noticeable without more effort and resources being invested to improve the systems.
Speaking of control, the reports from the substitute Rangers were next, and attached to them were graphs and technical data on their Drift.
Ashley Langley and Maria Vinerra reported that the controls felt somewhat sluggish at first, as if there was a delay in their link with Tacit's systems, but that was quickly compensated for and by the time they reached the combat zone said delay was almost gone.
The Drift analysis corroborated that, and added that there was a higher than usual amount of noise coming from Tacit's system, and that it decreased gradually before sharply dropping the moment the Kaiju was spotted and identified by Tacit's systems.
Curious, but not unusual. It was well known that the Jaeger side of the Drift was quirky sometimes, especially when older Jaegers were concerned. New pilots were slow to adapt to the machine interface. Or perhaps the Machine took a while to recognize and become familiar with the Rangers.
Indeed, Rangers often treated their Jaegers as if they were alive or had an awareness of some sort, some of the more superstitious even claimed they had a mind and a personality of their own. Highwind was inclined to believe them, but it didn't make much of a difference on his end.
He wrote a quick memo to whoever wrote the technical reports to warn them that they kept getting Ashley's name wrong in every page where she was referenced, often with a completely different name for each page, and that the report would have to be rewritten before it could be properly submitted. Probably some kind of joke, but paperwork was serious business and the historians would need clear documentation if they were to write books about them after they saved the world. That done, he moved on to the next report.
It was a bit of good news, at least. It seemed Alec and Noah were recovering as fast as could be expected and Noah was likely to recover fully and return to duty within a week, barring any further incidents. Alec's condition was improving as well. While the doctors didn't know when he was going to wake up, his vitals were strong and there was little muscle atrophy.
With this bit of good news to improve his mood, he decided to tackle possibly the worst part of his job. Requisition forms. He was sure that almost no one would believe how much was needed to keep a Jaeger operational, from fissionable material for the reactors to... Checkered paint? And attached was a file to prove that wasn't just a prank anymore because some bored scientist managed to figure out how to make the damned thing.
He sighed, put on a pair of headphones, turned on his sound system and set it to play some light jazz to help make the next hours a bit more bearable and started to sign those forms. Unfortunately, he was so focused on the music and on his work that he failed to notice the Phone on his desk had started to ring.
Admiral Jawa hummed a song as he surveyed his four brand new squads of gunboats. They weren't up to his standards at all, really.
Small, with limited ammo, hard to change loadouts, not as fast as he'd like and fairly expensive to boot. Entirely inadequate and there were already plans to improve them.
Still, they were a start. More, they were the first ships to be part of his navy since the EMP fried the electronics of modern ships and the Kaiju destroyed whatever could still work in the days after it.
Thanks to these boats he had a navy to command once more.
He boarded one of them, the creatively named USS Surprise!, and yes, the exclamation was indeed part of its name. Incidentally, it was docked between the USS Mightier Than the Pen and the USS It's One of Ours, Sir. He'd have to buy a beer to whoever came up with these names.
He began inspecting the interior of the ship. As expected it was small. Cramped, even. The size meant it would sway more because of the waves, which might compromise accuracy if the crew couldn't compensate for it. The construction seemed sturdy enough, however. Reliable.
He knocked the wood and steel of the hull a bit to get a feel of how sturdy it was and moved back to land. He'd have to start training the crews and go over the upgrades that were in the planning stages so there wouldn't be any issues, either with the plans or with training after the upgrades are implemented. Then he'd have to go over the documentation of the ships and their crew so everything would be archived properly, followed by a visit to the Research division to discuss the feasibility of the upgrades and new research ideas he had thought up before presenting them in the official meetings. So many things to do, so little time...
Still, it felt good to get back to his proper work, even if on a much smaller scale.
"Oh, I'm on a quest, a quest for ships, Sailing's how I get my kicks" He sang quietly "I'm on a quest, a quest for boats, I'm mad for anything that floats"
Soon enough his navy would be at full strength and he'd show the Kaiju just who ruled the oceans...
Devlin was feeling quite annoyed right now. Without a true Air Force to command, he was usually left training the Helicopter squads and liaising with the civilian council that currently ruled Seattle.
Dealing with the civvies was usually the most stressing part of his job, but the Scout Helicopter squad was trying his patience right now. They had too many bad habits.
Sure, part of it had been his fault. The first few weeks were hectic and confusing for everyone, and they had to struggle to get a true military force ready and reactivate Tacit. Then came the rapid expansion of the and the subsequent Kaiju attacks, so he hadn't been able to keep an eye on them, and now they were paying the price.
Simply put, Seattle's last Scout Helicopter squad was composed of extremely skilled pilots and gunners, but they were also prone to taking unnecessary risks and doing dangerous maneuvers, not to mention a tendency to insubordinate and self-destructive behavior.
Those engagements where they played bait took their toll. Seattle still had many psychologists and psychiatrists within it, so it wasn't like they weren't getting the help they needed, but that still left him to break their bad piloting habits.
To make matters worse, some of the Attack Helo crews were taking them as role models, trying to do the same stunts during training, but thankfully not in combat. Yet.
The new teams were still too green, too inexperienced. The few weeks they had to train and the few engagements they participated in were not nearly enough to make them truly proficient, not like the soldiers from before the EMP hit, even if they still had a good number of those spread among the Squads to help train the newbies.
He had a lot of work to do. For a moment he imagined how busy he'll be when they finally managed to get working planes. Sure, it was still far off according to the Research division, no jet engine managed to survive the atmospheric pollution higher in the sky and the prop engines need to have most of their internal components replaced after half an hour in the sky, but damn it all, if Jawa managed to get his boats working then he should be able to get at least some sort of Scout Plane or a small bomber.
But he'd have to leave his daydreams of covering the sky in bombers and blowing Kaiju to bits for later. Right now, he had a Helicopter crew to chew out.
General Aledeth was feeling fairly tired. He'd had to sign off on requisition orders for a new shipment of ammo for the Tanks and Arty, prepare the budget to build new tanks and choose who was to crew them in advance, file reports on everything from training results, expended ordnance, and psychological evaluations of the soldiers to how many rations they had used this week.
He sighed, and shot the report in front of him a glare. Months since they had organized the Seattle Defense Perimeter and the cobbled together the armed forces to defend it, weeks since Tacit had been reactivated, and they were still understaffed.
Not surprising, given the rapid expansion of... everything in this city. Everything but the hard defenses, apparently. And along with them, much of their Armed Forces' infrastructure. They had to house their vehicles inside the Shatterdrome, inside unused Jaeger and Carry-all bays, his office was fifteen minutes away from their actual, official base, which still consisted of a group of re-purposed buildings near the Shatterdrome that had the area outside them leveled to serve as training grounds for their forces.
Honestly, he should just write up a proposal to expand the Shatterdrome and merge the two bases completely. They'd have to do it sooner or later anyway, so why not get a head start? And it was well within their usual budget to boot.
Yes, he'd do that, as soon as he managed to finish going through these reports and gave Highwind a call so they could start working on this idea. Cellphones were still down because of the atmospheric interference, but they had already set up landlines so the main branches could communicate with one another.
Now the only real question was if he was in his office. Highwind hardly ever picked up the phone when they tried to get a hold of him, and it looked like he never did any actual work outside the weekly meetings and the combat operations much to his and the rest of the High Council's annoyance. He probably had a full staff to deal with most of the work for him, the bastard.
By the way, @jaiveer00 You have more than one hundred posts here as well, so if you want in on these shenanigans you're more than welcome to join. Just give me a character outline and I'll try to think of an excuse for why you haven't showed up yet. I'm thinking of a diplomatic mission to an outlying settlement or something of the sort.
-=-O-0-O-=-
General Highwind sat before his desk in his office doing the one thing nobody expected him to do. That is, Actual Work.
As the most senior member of the PPDC present when Seattle got its shit together and managed to find and reactivate a Jaeger, he was technically the Marshall in charge of the Shatterdrome and it was his duty to deal with the day to day operations and sign off on any papers that involved it or the Jaeger. He still refused to accept the title, though. It wasn't like he had done anything to deserve the promotion besides being in the right place at the right time and for now his old rank from before he requested the transfer to the PPDC was more than prestigious enough.
He was currently examining reports of Tacit's performance in the last battle, which were indeed as boring as one expected, but still held potentially critical information. For example, while the battle was too short for them to obtain accurate data, the new blades performed admirably and managed to cauterize the wounds perfectly. There were, however, some optimization problems in the fitting that were found after the battle, and some adjustments managed to reduce the wear of the joints that secured the blades to the Jaeger so their effective lifespan was back to predicted values. Some small optimizations to the control mechanisms also helped with minor improvements to the precision of movement, but nothing noteworthy or even noticeable without more effort and resources being invested to improve the systems.
Speaking of control, the reports from the substitute Rangers were next, and attached to them were graphs and technical data on their Drift.
Ashley Langley and Maria Vinerra reported that the controls felt somewhat sluggish at first, as if there was a delay in their link with Tacit's systems, but that was quickly compensated for and by the time they reached the combat zone said delay was almost gone.
The Drift analysis corroborated that, and added that there was a higher than usual amount of noise coming from Tacit's system, and that it decreased gradually before sharply dropping the moment the Kaiju was spotted and identified by Tacit's systems.
Curious, but not unusual. It was well known that the Jaeger side of the Drift was quirky sometimes, especially when older Jaegers were concerned. New pilots were slow to adapt to the machine interface. Or perhaps the Machine took a while to recognize and become familiar with the Rangers.
Indeed, Rangers often treated their Jaegers as if they were alive or had an awareness of some sort, some of the more superstitious even claimed they had a mind and a personality of their own. Highwind was inclined to believe them, but it didn't make much of a difference on his end.
He wrote a quick memo to whoever wrote the technical reports to warn them that they kept getting Ashley's name wrong in every page where she was referenced, often with a completely different name for each page, and that the report would have to be rewritten before it could be properly submitted. Probably some kind of joke, but paperwork was serious business and the historians would need clear documentation if they were to write books about them after they saved the world. That done, he moved on to the next report.
It was a bit of good news, at least. It seemed Alec and Noah were recovering as fast as could be expected and Noah was likely to recover fully and return to duty within a week, barring any further incidents. Alec's condition was improving as well. While the doctors didn't know when he was going to wake up, his vitals were strong and there was little muscle atrophy.
With this bit of good news to improve his mood, he decided to tackle possibly the worst part of his job. Requisition forms. He was sure that almost no one would believe how much was needed to keep a Jaeger operational, from fissionable material for the reactors to... Checkered paint? And attached was a file to prove that wasn't just a prank anymore because some bored scientist managed to figure out how to make the damned thing.
He sighed, put on a pair of headphones, turned on his sound system and set it to play some light jazz to help make the next hours a bit more bearable and started to sign those forms. Unfortunately, he was so focused on the music and on his work that he failed to notice the Phone on his desk had started to ring.
=O-0-O=
Admiral Jawa hummed a song as he surveyed his four brand new squads of gunboats. They weren't up to his standards at all, really.
Small, with limited ammo, hard to change loadouts, not as fast as he'd like and fairly expensive to boot. Entirely inadequate and there were already plans to improve them.
Still, they were a start. More, they were the first ships to be part of his navy since the EMP fried the electronics of modern ships and the Kaiju destroyed whatever could still work in the days after it.
Thanks to these boats he had a navy to command once more.
He boarded one of them, the creatively named USS Surprise!, and yes, the exclamation was indeed part of its name. Incidentally, it was docked between the USS Mightier Than the Pen and the USS It's One of Ours, Sir. He'd have to buy a beer to whoever came up with these names.
He began inspecting the interior of the ship. As expected it was small. Cramped, even. The size meant it would sway more because of the waves, which might compromise accuracy if the crew couldn't compensate for it. The construction seemed sturdy enough, however. Reliable.
He knocked the wood and steel of the hull a bit to get a feel of how sturdy it was and moved back to land. He'd have to start training the crews and go over the upgrades that were in the planning stages so there wouldn't be any issues, either with the plans or with training after the upgrades are implemented. Then he'd have to go over the documentation of the ships and their crew so everything would be archived properly, followed by a visit to the Research division to discuss the feasibility of the upgrades and new research ideas he had thought up before presenting them in the official meetings. So many things to do, so little time...
Still, it felt good to get back to his proper work, even if on a much smaller scale.
"Oh, I'm on a quest, a quest for ships, Sailing's how I get my kicks" He sang quietly "I'm on a quest, a quest for boats, I'm mad for anything that floats"
Soon enough his navy would be at full strength and he'd show the Kaiju just who ruled the oceans...
=O-0-O=
Devlin was feeling quite annoyed right now. Without a true Air Force to command, he was usually left training the Helicopter squads and liaising with the civilian council that currently ruled Seattle.
Dealing with the civvies was usually the most stressing part of his job, but the Scout Helicopter squad was trying his patience right now. They had too many bad habits.
Sure, part of it had been his fault. The first few weeks were hectic and confusing for everyone, and they had to struggle to get a true military force ready and reactivate Tacit. Then came the rapid expansion of the and the subsequent Kaiju attacks, so he hadn't been able to keep an eye on them, and now they were paying the price.
Simply put, Seattle's last Scout Helicopter squad was composed of extremely skilled pilots and gunners, but they were also prone to taking unnecessary risks and doing dangerous maneuvers, not to mention a tendency to insubordinate and self-destructive behavior.
Those engagements where they played bait took their toll. Seattle still had many psychologists and psychiatrists within it, so it wasn't like they weren't getting the help they needed, but that still left him to break their bad piloting habits.
To make matters worse, some of the Attack Helo crews were taking them as role models, trying to do the same stunts during training, but thankfully not in combat. Yet.
The new teams were still too green, too inexperienced. The few weeks they had to train and the few engagements they participated in were not nearly enough to make them truly proficient, not like the soldiers from before the EMP hit, even if they still had a good number of those spread among the Squads to help train the newbies.
He had a lot of work to do. For a moment he imagined how busy he'll be when they finally managed to get working planes. Sure, it was still far off according to the Research division, no jet engine managed to survive the atmospheric pollution higher in the sky and the prop engines need to have most of their internal components replaced after half an hour in the sky, but damn it all, if Jawa managed to get his boats working then he should be able to get at least some sort of Scout Plane or a small bomber.
But he'd have to leave his daydreams of covering the sky in bombers and blowing Kaiju to bits for later. Right now, he had a Helicopter crew to chew out.
=O-0-O=
General Aledeth was feeling fairly tired. He'd had to sign off on requisition orders for a new shipment of ammo for the Tanks and Arty, prepare the budget to build new tanks and choose who was to crew them in advance, file reports on everything from training results, expended ordnance, and psychological evaluations of the soldiers to how many rations they had used this week.
He sighed, and shot the report in front of him a glare. Months since they had organized the Seattle Defense Perimeter and the cobbled together the armed forces to defend it, weeks since Tacit had been reactivated, and they were still understaffed.
Not surprising, given the rapid expansion of... everything in this city. Everything but the hard defenses, apparently. And along with them, much of their Armed Forces' infrastructure. They had to house their vehicles inside the Shatterdrome, inside unused Jaeger and Carry-all bays, his office was fifteen minutes away from their actual, official base, which still consisted of a group of re-purposed buildings near the Shatterdrome that had the area outside them leveled to serve as training grounds for their forces.
Honestly, he should just write up a proposal to expand the Shatterdrome and merge the two bases completely. They'd have to do it sooner or later anyway, so why not get a head start? And it was well within their usual budget to boot.
Yes, he'd do that, as soon as he managed to finish going through these reports and gave Highwind a call so they could start working on this idea. Cellphones were still down because of the atmospheric interference, but they had already set up landlines so the main branches could communicate with one another.
Now the only real question was if he was in his office. Highwind hardly ever picked up the phone when they tried to get a hold of him, and it looked like he never did any actual work outside the weekly meetings and the combat operations much to his and the rest of the High Council's annoyance. He probably had a full staff to deal with most of the work for him, the bastard.
-=-O-0-O-=-
By the way, if You're wondering where the Commodore's part is, I've had a conversation with Ψυχή to ask for help on that section and he ended up writing an Omake of his own, which he should post shortly.By the way, @jaiveer00 You have more than one hundred posts here as well, so if you want in on these shenanigans you're more than welcome to join. Just give me a character outline and I'll try to think of an excuse for why you haven't showed up yet. I'm thinking of a diplomatic mission to an outlying settlement or something of the sort.
Ψυχή
Beyond my wingbeats lie the fate of all worlds...
- Location
- Void between SB and SV
@jaiveer00 as an example, I moved up after we got the Elite Tank Squad—they finally didn't need me anymore (and then this time around the Captain screwed the pooch)
HolyDragoon
Call Gespenst!
- Location
- Portugal
Hmm, agree with comm upgrade.
Also, slapping a better engine or whatever on a chopper sounds mighty attractive. Then again, weren't the Hellhounds a stopgap?
More knifery ability for TR is always a good thing, but a part of me is agreeing with the possiblity of a second unit later on... the second crew is going well enough on TR, and if both members of the first crew come back to active... well, no sense in wasting potential, unless there's any kind of bonus in having them as instructors for a replacement team.
Also, slapping a better engine or whatever on a chopper sounds mighty attractive. Then again, weren't the Hellhounds a stopgap?
More knifery ability for TR is always a good thing, but a part of me is agreeing with the possiblity of a second unit later on... the second crew is going well enough on TR, and if both members of the first crew come back to active... well, no sense in wasting potential, unless there's any kind of bonus in having them as instructors for a replacement team.
As long as it's 'my' Navy, I'd like to take this opportunity to name the fourth, unnamed Missile Gunship the USS Duck To Water.
A first step, at any rate. If nothing else they at least provide an immediate Areal support option and provide a basis upon which to build any future attack chopper designs.
A second Jaeger is a given, provided we survive long enough. It's just a matter of how we get it and how long it takes.
A first step, at any rate. If nothing else they at least provide an immediate Areal support option and provide a basis upon which to build any future attack chopper designs.
A second Jaeger is a given, provided we survive long enough. It's just a matter of how we get it and how long it takes.
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LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
While giant amorphous swarms of bombers is one of my favorite tactics in certain games, I honestly dream of an orbital kill-sat.
Don't we all?
Highwind
To Rise From The Ashes
- Location
- Brazil
Baby steps, Devlin. First we get some nice Helicopters, then we figure out how to make a plane that won't need a new engine (and everything else) after every flight, then comes the bigass missile we use to shoot the Kaiju, then we load the missile with people and equipment instead of a payload, aim it straight up amd pray that it gets into orbit.
And once we get that step done, the Killsat is within our reach.
HolyDragoon
Call Gespenst!
- Location
- Portugal
I'm guessing the simpler way would be another convoy to get one of the less-intact Jaegers. Would be a hit on resources, but if that hit meant we could try to refurbish it into a MkII from the ground up... not to mention it would probably be cheaper than 'Create your own' option, even if we had to install everything but the main frame.
Ψυχή
Beyond my wingbeats lie the fate of all worlds...
- Location
- Void between SB and SV
The Commodore is a simpler man, from a simpler time.
Be there when the enemy dies.
The weapon matters little if you cannot be sure within the moment when the life fades from their eyes.
For a relative definition of 'simple', since it would require a successful round trip down the coast past untold numbers of Kaiju.
Not an impossible plan, especially given the relatively close distance, but not an idea to be undertaken lightly. I know one Jaeger Quest (Horizon Brave, I think) opened with such an operation to get a Jaeger all the way to Alaska, and it half-sounded from the opening that the only reason it succeeded was thanks to the power of the plot.
Let's not take the plan off the table, but let's not try to carry it out as a 'Plan A' or without making sure we have the highest possible chance of actually pulling it off.
LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
"create your own" does have the option of design freedom, though.
aledeth
The Flesh is Weak
- Pronouns
- He/Him
That was Romeo Blue, not HB.
Right, my mistake. "Red, White, and Romeo Blue".
jaiveer00
Siding With Thanos
- Location
- The Beginning and The End
maybe a search and rescue person? also called the search and retrieval team, bringing back the bodies of the fallen.
Week 13: Combat End
Fyrstorm
Gun Waifu Extraordinaire
- Location
- 'Straya
- Pronouns
- He/Him
A few minutes after Hellwyrm's death, a jeep comes screaming up to the corpse, straight from the city. A very angry man, quickly identified as Council Member Devlin, runs out and kicks the monster in the nose, screaming about Hellwyrm wrecking his air-force and costing him good men. He is soon escorted back to the Command Centre.
Hellwyrm's corpse is taken in, and deconstructed down to its component parts. Seattle's scientists are astounded by the bio-electric weapon that it displayed-- the organ setup used to generate it only is half a year old, when the rest of the kaiju has been on Earth for more than a year! However, that's not all of it; the scientists believe that the setup could be used to boost the electrical conductivity of certain circuitry parts-- either of Tacit's OS, or of generalized conventional military tech.
Hellwyrm Token gained! (Electrical Improvement (Jaeger) or Electrical Improvement (Conventional))
Alright, that's a bit bullshit. But I didn't know what to give you.
Miraculously, Tacit hasn't suffered a single bit of damage, other than some frazzled chips in its shoulders from the overloaded torque. But that's easily fixable. Similarly, the multitude of small, burnt wounds of Hellwyrm means that no cleanup is needed.
Kaiju Stats:
It is now downtime.
Category IV Kaiju killed: +5000 Resources
Salvage Facility Bonus: +500 Resources
Manufacturing: +2500 Resources
Morale Bonus: +1250 Resources
Achievement Get! Death By A Thousand Cuts: +1000 Resources
Total Resources to Spend: 11950
Pick your six actions, and throw me a 1d10 for each recovering pilot.
If all goes well, perhaps I'll make a... wait, if it's the GM who's writing it, is it still an omake? Yes? Well, then perhaps I'll write an omake of my own.
Hellwyrm's corpse is taken in, and deconstructed down to its component parts. Seattle's scientists are astounded by the bio-electric weapon that it displayed-- the organ setup used to generate it only is half a year old, when the rest of the kaiju has been on Earth for more than a year! However, that's not all of it; the scientists believe that the setup could be used to boost the electrical conductivity of certain circuitry parts-- either of Tacit's OS, or of generalized conventional military tech.
Hellwyrm Token gained! (Electrical Improvement (Jaeger) or Electrical Improvement (Conventional))
Alright, that's a bit bullshit. But I didn't know what to give you.
Miraculously, Tacit hasn't suffered a single bit of damage, other than some frazzled chips in its shoulders from the overloaded torque. But that's easily fixable. Similarly, the multitude of small, burnt wounds of Hellwyrm means that no cleanup is needed.
Tacit Ronin's OS had to be replaced when it was recovered from Oblivion Bay. The new OS that is uses is intended to be generic and easy to use with any jaeger, rather than being specifically tuned to that particular jaeger from the start-- though the software can easily tune to one.
The current OS is the General-Usage Neurocranial-Drift Adaptive Module, or G.U.N.D.A.M. (technically G.U.N.D.A.M. v1.2, TR-Adaptation). The inventors of it (one Dr. Storm in particular) were complete nerds.
The current OS is the General-Usage Neurocranial-Drift Adaptive Module, or G.U.N.D.A.M. (technically G.U.N.D.A.M. v1.2, TR-Adaptation). The inventors of it (one Dr. Storm in particular) were complete nerds.
Kaiju Stats:
Hellwyrm
Class: Category IV Kaiju
Hellwyrm is massive, an elongated creature somewhere between a snake and a crocodile. Quills line its back, and the head resembles a skull, glowing blue flesh visible beneath the sockets and creases of the armour plating. The arms and legs are like paddles, the fingers stiff and edged with bone.
Stats:
HtH: 4/3
Ran: 2
Str: 4
Tou: 5
Agi: 3/4
Dex: 2
Structure:
Dura: 9
Stru: 14
Perks:
- Category IV: Has all the following rules:
-- Flat stun immunity
-- Universal, unbreakable AV of 1 on all locations
-- +5 to all the instant death thresholds
- Underwater Adaptation: +1 Agility while submerged.
- Mode Shift: As a standard action every 2 rounds, the kaiju player may shift Hellwyrm from its Attack Mode into its Defense Mode, or vice versa.
-- Attack Mode: May only use Weapons or Armours with the 'AM' or 'All' suffix. Use the first set of values for HtH and Agility.
-- Defense Mode: May only use Weapons or Armours with the 'DM' or 'All' suffix. Use the second set of values for HtH and Agility.
- Veteran: Hellwyrm can reroll any one die per battle, adding a bonus +1 to the re-roll. The second result must be taken, even if it is worse.
Weapons:
Claws (x2) (All)
Built-In Melee Weapons
Attack Dice: 2x 1d10
Parry Dice: 1d10-1
Block Dice: 1d10-1
Armour Penetration: 1
Grappling Bonus: +2
Damage Type: Blunt
Damage Bonus: Strength
Inner Maw (AM)
Built-In Melee Weapon
Attack Dice: 1d10+1
Armour Penetration: 3
Grappling Bonus: +0
Damage Type: Edged, Acid
Damage Bonus: Strength x2
Special:
A Major Wound to a limb removes it.
Electric Beam (AM)
Built-In Ranged Weapon
Attack Dice: 1d10
Armour Penetration: 0
Damage Type: Electric
Damage Bonus: 1d5+1
Range: 4/7/10
Armour:
Iron Skin (All)
Coverage: All but Eyes, Head, Neck
Armor Value: 3/1
Resilience: All, +1 Impact
Durability: 10
Cranial Shield (DM)
Coverage: Head, Neck
Armor Value: 4/1
Resilience: All, +1 Edged, -1 Blunt
Durability: 8
Class: Category IV Kaiju
Hellwyrm is massive, an elongated creature somewhere between a snake and a crocodile. Quills line its back, and the head resembles a skull, glowing blue flesh visible beneath the sockets and creases of the armour plating. The arms and legs are like paddles, the fingers stiff and edged with bone.
Stats:
HtH: 4/3
Ran: 2
Str: 4
Tou: 5
Agi: 3/4
Dex: 2
Structure:
Dura: 9
Stru: 14
Perks:
- Category IV: Has all the following rules:
-- Flat stun immunity
-- Universal, unbreakable AV of 1 on all locations
-- +5 to all the instant death thresholds
- Underwater Adaptation: +1 Agility while submerged.
- Mode Shift: As a standard action every 2 rounds, the kaiju player may shift Hellwyrm from its Attack Mode into its Defense Mode, or vice versa.
-- Attack Mode: May only use Weapons or Armours with the 'AM' or 'All' suffix. Use the first set of values for HtH and Agility.
-- Defense Mode: May only use Weapons or Armours with the 'DM' or 'All' suffix. Use the second set of values for HtH and Agility.
- Veteran: Hellwyrm can reroll any one die per battle, adding a bonus +1 to the re-roll. The second result must be taken, even if it is worse.
Weapons:
Claws (x2) (All)
Built-In Melee Weapons
Attack Dice: 2x 1d10
Parry Dice: 1d10-1
Block Dice: 1d10-1
Armour Penetration: 1
Grappling Bonus: +2
Damage Type: Blunt
Damage Bonus: Strength
Inner Maw (AM)
Built-In Melee Weapon
Attack Dice: 1d10+1
Armour Penetration: 3
Grappling Bonus: +0
Damage Type: Edged, Acid
Damage Bonus: Strength x2
Special:
A Major Wound to a limb removes it.
Electric Beam (AM)
Built-In Ranged Weapon
Attack Dice: 1d10
Armour Penetration: 0
Damage Type: Electric
Damage Bonus: 1d5+1
Range: 4/7/10
Armour:
Iron Skin (All)
Coverage: All but Eyes, Head, Neck
Armor Value: 3/1
Resilience: All, +1 Impact
Durability: 10
Cranial Shield (DM)
Coverage: Head, Neck
Armor Value: 4/1
Resilience: All, +1 Edged, -1 Blunt
Durability: 8
It is now downtime.
Category IV Kaiju killed: +5000 Resources
Salvage Facility Bonus: +500 Resources
Manufacturing: +2500 Resources
Morale Bonus: +1250 Resources
Achievement Get! Death By A Thousand Cuts: +1000 Resources
Total Resources to Spend: 11950
Pick your six actions, and throw me a 1d10 for each recovering pilot.
If all goes well, perhaps I'll make a... wait, if it's the GM who's writing it, is it still an omake? Yes? Well, then perhaps I'll write an omake of my own.
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LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
I would've suggested something to do with how it could shoot a coherent, aimable beam of lightning. Which is really hard to manage because of the way lightning normally behaves.
(I want lightning cannons damnit..)
Fyrstorm
Gun Waifu Extraordinaire
- Location
- 'Straya
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Luckily, your science dudes have this covered.
The shell surrounding its head directed microwaves towards the target, ionizing the air. The energy was then discharged orally.
jaiveer00
Siding With Thanos
- Location
- The Beginning and The End
we can research anything right? what about a chainsword that for each point of grapple won, you make an attack with it?
[X] Plan Research & Development
-[X] Upgrade Population to 7 (-3500 Resources)
-[X] Research Tacit Stat Upgrades: Hand to Hand*15 (-300 Resources)
-[X] Research Jaegrenades
-[X] Research Improvements to Helicopter Speed & Maneuverability to increase their survivability in combat
-[X] Research an upgrade for Tacit to improve it's chances and effectiveness of successfully parrying attacks
-[X] Research the Theoretical Foundations of Magic(!)
(3800 Resources Spent, 8150 Remain)
Honestly, with this kind of windfall, I really think Population is our best bet this turn, it'll give us more room to upgrade multiple things (including Communications, possibly even twice(!) in a single turn if that's not against the rules) during future turns.
If anyone wants to offer more specific ideas on upgrading for Tacit's parry skills, I'm open to hearing them and using those ideas instead.
-[X] Upgrade Population to 7 (-3500 Resources)
-[X] Research Tacit Stat Upgrades: Hand to Hand*15 (-300 Resources)
-[X] Research Jaegrenades
-[X] Research Improvements to Helicopter Speed & Maneuverability to increase their survivability in combat
-[X] Research an upgrade for Tacit to improve it's chances and effectiveness of successfully parrying attacks
-[X] Research the Theoretical Foundations of Magic(!)
(3800 Resources Spent, 8150 Remain)
Honestly, with this kind of windfall, I really think Population is our best bet this turn, it'll give us more room to upgrade multiple things (including Communications, possibly even twice(!) in a single turn if that's not against the rules) during future turns.
If anyone wants to offer more specific ideas on upgrading for Tacit's parry skills, I'm open to hearing them and using those ideas instead.
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jaiveer00
Siding With Thanos
- Location
- The Beginning and The End
i think you mean 3800 resources spent.
LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
Any specific reason to research Magic now instead of sometime later?
Fyrstorm
Gun Waifu Extraordinaire
- Location
- 'Straya
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Other than to get started on it and because we can?
Honestly? No, not really...
We could consider it a celebratory research action after killing a veteran Class IV Kaiju with no damage to Tacit, if we wanted to.
LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
- Location
- The glorious Pacific Northwest
- Pronouns
- Any
Hmmm...
The dice have spoken. We should research lightning cannons instead of magic.
The dice have spoken. We should research lightning cannons instead of magic.
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