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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #140 on: August 05, 2009, 10:59:05 PM »
ok thanks for that Jace i thought the first aid kit did allow for HP as well.

So is it assumed that i can keep restocking my medical kit with what we find, ie it doesn't run out. Or will i have to track the number of uses and at a certain point it is empty.
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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #141 on: August 05, 2009, 11:14:35 PM »
ok thanks for that Jace i thought the first aid kit did allow for HP as well.

So is it assumed that i can keep restocking my medical kit with what we find, ie it doesn't run out. Or will i have to track the number of uses and at a certain point it is empty.

The rules do not govern that it will ever run out. Feel free to role-play that you re-stock it when you get opportunities too, but it will never run out.
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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #142 on: August 05, 2009, 11:27:15 PM »
Looking up from fiddling with the blade to eye the high liaison, All this intel, and you all don't know what else might be going down on this island? All these scientists and possible weapons development on this island, they haven't been heard from in a month. I just do not want to walk into a lab leaking some next generation nerve gas or super plague and not be prepared for it.

[spoiler] IC seems to be down atm when I clicked it to roll 2 Streetwise checks. When it comes back up I will see if it rolled them and mod this post with them.[/spoiler]
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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #143 on: August 05, 2009, 11:32:08 PM »
Looking up from fiddling with the blade to eye the high liason, All this intel, and you all don't know what else might be going down on this island? All these scientists and possible weapons development on this island, they haven't been heard from in a month. I just do not want to walk into a lab leaking some next generation nerve gas or super plague and not be prepared for it.

[spoiler] IC seems to be down atm when I clicked it to roll 2 Streetwise checks. When it comes back up I will see if it rolled them and mod this post with them.[/spoiler]

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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #144 on: August 06, 2009, 12:55:51 AM »
Buddy, relax. The lady was just trying to make sure we don't accidentally end up in a horror film. Remember if we all die because we didn't know something, your company ends up waiting all that much longer to get the Angel Light. I don't think your boss would appreciate wasting money and time because you forgot to tell us something.

While you might not know what is going on there I'm sure some of your intel guys must have some good guesses and that is all that we really want. Why don't you go get someone to bring us some drinks and while your out you can see if the intel guys are willing to give you some educated guesses.


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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #145 on: August 06, 2009, 01:32:49 AM »
"Any info that my people have is strictly external. The reason we know Angel Light is there is because Edison is interested in it. We know that they probably do animal testing because of informants telling us that monkeys and dogs have been shipped to Isle Noir from Tahiti. They have had bee hives sent to the island... to make honey? They receive tons of fertilizer in a year, so it is likely that they cultivate plants there. Probably have their own farm for produce. Employees go to the island and stay there for 6 months at a time, and they don't leave until that time is done.

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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #146 on: August 06, 2009, 03:34:59 AM »
"So basically, you have no idea what we are to find for you." A deep, Russian-accented voice speaks from beneath the popped collar of a leather coat, grey fur inside covering the Spec-Ops uniform the large man was wearing. A glass of clear liquid, and you could make a fair guess that the drinking glass wasn't filled with water, swung gently between the middle finger and thumb of the man in question, as if he was playing with it. The man seemed tired. Or bored. Or both. With the handgun he had easily visible from his left underarm, it didn't really matter; noone was going to call him on it. All in all, he seemed relaxed, though probably not yet drunk. "Sounds like basic animal-tested product of some kind. A weapon? Maybe. Super-soldier serum, ala Captain America? Maybe? Which would your company be more interested in, would you say?" It almost seemed like he was toying with the liason, simultaneously bullshitting and trying to get relevant information. After a quick gulp (gulp?) from his drink, he seemed to take it more seriously. He sighed, "So, you want us to leave in few days, or immediately?"
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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #147 on: August 06, 2009, 03:57:02 AM »
Could a Knowledge: Business help me learn things about our hiring company?

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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #148 on: August 06, 2009, 03:58:19 AM »
A fit-looking man in a short-sleeved shirt and BDU pants sitting next to Dove smirks humorlessly at her snide comment and listens to the others' comments before speaking up.  "Monkeys, dogs, and bees...  The monkeys are undoubtedly for testing, dogs for security.  Bees?  No practical application that I can think of.  Missing extraction team doesn't sound good either.  Did they go in as unprepared as we are?  I mean, how much of the layout of the island do we know?  How many buildings, what are the sight lines like between the buildings, what are the conditions on the ground?  You're sending us in blind after another team went in and is MIA."

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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #149 on: August 06, 2009, 11:22:38 AM »
looks to the Russian and the guy who only knows how to wear half a BDU. Hands each of them a First Aid Kit. Here you go guys. So what are your names? I'm fine with just your call sign if you want to be secretive. Alright, 007 and 008. What kinds of things do you do? I need to know how often your going to need to be patched up.

Oh and thanks for letting us know what more you could Buddy.
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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #150 on: August 06, 2009, 11:47:14 AM »
"My company wants the Angel Light. This is the project that you each being  paid 6 figures for. I don't have more intel about other projects, because Angel Light is your team's primary objective. If you find anything that your team feels is worth extra, grab it and bring it back with you.

"You want to know what you're in for. I wish I could tell you. Edison didn't supply me with more data. It seems that CielCorp is either VERY good at obscuring information about that island, or Edison is not very good at finding information. People and resources are vanishing on this island. That should be enough to indicate that this will be a dangerous job.

"You're all welcome to look into CielCorp of Isle Noir on your own through whatever channels you have available to you. I can submit a request to my employers at Edison to see if they can be more specific about these "other projects" they've mentioned you grabbing up-- I'm with you, if they want something else they should tell you what they want. Perhaps they didn't want the Angel Light to be overshadowed."
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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #151 on: August 06, 2009, 12:01:23 PM »
"Do we at least have maps of the island and the facilities there?"
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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #152 on: August 06, 2009, 12:55:28 PM »
"I'm looking through my packet... and it looks like only the location of the island itself is provided. Either you work some magic before hand, or else you make do once you're there."
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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #153 on: August 06, 2009, 01:36:54 PM »
Also, would a Knowledge: Business check possibly tell me anything about our employer?

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Edison got its start with Thomas Edison himself. Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large teamwork to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.

These days ETL is run by a backstabbing, infighting Board of Directors. As a company they are petty, and cruel. They don't just try to do something better, but they will also try to take their competitors legs out from under them while doing it. They are strong in the market of developing new technologies.

Lead Competition: OdinCorp, TeslaTechnologies Inc, Nibelung Engineering, and CielCorp.
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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #154 on: August 06, 2009, 01:43:24 PM »
An unassuming man that's been sitting in the back of the room pipes up.  "Here's a question that no one else seems to think is important.  What is the Angel Light?"  He seems almost out of place in this room full of hardened soldiers, he is obviously a scientist.
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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #155 on: August 06, 2009, 01:54:53 PM »
Well as usual the labcoat sifts through the crap and asks the right question that we all should have been asking.

[spoiler]I just looked at your sheet to get an idea of your focus Nanshork and holy crap your skills are insane. I thought it was bad with having a 14 in my focus, a little overkill, but yours make me bow to you sir. And to think I was concerned you were spreading yourself too thin.[/spoiler]
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« Reply #156 on: August 06, 2009, 02:00:13 PM »
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I'm not spread too thin, I had so many skillpoints that I had to broaden my focus a little.  :p Oh, and I'm thinking about taking out Weapon Focus and replacing it with the feat that lets me add +1 to a stat from Modern Player's Companion giving me an Int of 20.  Thoughts?

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« Reply #157 on: August 06, 2009, 02:04:08 PM »
An unassuming man that's been sitting in the back of the room pipes up.  "Here's a question that no one else seems to think is important.  What is the Angel Light?"  He seems almost out of place in this room full of hardened soldiers, he is obviously a scientist.


Angel Light is a device created by Troy Hurtubise. It is believed to be some sort of X-Ray machine, making walls, and even flesh transparent. Hurtubise as an inventor is rarely taken seriously, but the French found something of worth in the project. It is now officially declared a hoax, thus allowing CielCorp to re-engineer it to their hearts desire without public interference.
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Re: The Safehouse (OOC)
« Reply #158 on: August 06, 2009, 02:08:57 PM »
flipping through the folder of information we were given. (mission Dossier thread)

Ok, should have taken the time to actually read this thing, you know. Angel Light looks like some kind of a weapon. Hey Buddy any ideas on how big this thing is? Looks like we have to steal the prototype and the information on it, I'm guessing that falls to you lab man. I sure as hell don't know how to unhook this thing from whatever it is going to be connected to.

Well Dove we have some better ideas as to what else might be going on there. Looks like they have some notable sci. guys in the fields of: genes, bugs, plants, and some kind of engineering. I hope it is structural and not some other weird or dangerous field. But no plauge guys that I see so that looks positive.

Flips some more pages in the file
Hey lab man are you capable of trashing their computers like our instructions say? Oh yeah, I'm just going to make up shit to call you guys until you tell me different. Here, merry Christmas. Tosses a first aid kit to Dr. Tim.
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« Reply #159 on: August 06, 2009, 03:08:53 PM »
The doctor snorts softly.  "I did read it.  It doesn't give specifics.  I want facts, not speculation, and if you think that the ability to make things transparent is a weapon you have some very odd opinions.  I am a hax0r as well as a sci-type.  If you want something I can probably build it, except for explosives.  I've never had much of a use for such crude tools.  My specialty is engineering, mostly mechanical though I have branched out into other areas of the field.  I am Dr. Timothy Lowry if you feel the need to call me something.  Given the nature of our relationship, Tim will be fine."  He carefully stows the first aid kit in with the rest of his belongings.
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