r/PvMvT • u/carlos821 • Mar 28 '16
5 Man Test Post: carlos821's gang.
You have been contacted out of the blue with an offer;
“A ship has washed ashore on an unassuming small island about 50 miles northwest of Puerto Rico. There is something inside that belongs to us. It is in a box about 3 meters long, 1 meter wide, and 1 meter tall. You will know it when you see it. We wish you to retrieve it for us. We have contacted you along with a number of other individuals due to your unique skills. You will be working alongside them to retrieve the box. For this, you will be paid one million dollars.”
Along with this message came a time and a place. You have decided to accept, for your own reasons. At the meeting spot, you found a gaggle of strange characters, none of whom you know. You didn’t have much time to acquaint yourself with your new teammates before being ushered into a helicopter.
Some Mechanics
In addition to testing GM coordination, this quest will be using and testing the turn system proposed by CobaltMonkey after the end of the 3-Man quest, which should hopefully allow players to interact more freely and also make the timeline of events easier to follow. Turns will go like this:
I will make a top-level comment to set the stage, and number it so that people can follow along at a later date.
Each player will respond to that comment. If they want to react to something another player did, they will respond to that player's comment instead and tag me.
I make a new top-level comment, number it, and let all the players know.
Repeat 2 and 3 until we're done.
As an example, a turn might look something like:
carlos821:
[1]
Stuff happens.
Player 1:
I do A.
Player 2:
I do B.
Player 3:
I notice player 2 doing B, and do C in response.
Player 4:
I do D.
Player 5:
I do E.
To begin, respond to the comment I have made on this post.
Players for this test are as follows:
/u/liono69—Chance "The Lion" Danyon
[0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17]
2
u/carlos821 Apr 12 '16 edited Apr 12 '16
[16]
Chatterbox, you activate your heat vision and the ship blurs into outlines of blue and orange. Well, mostly blue. This ship, as it turns out, is very cold. The only sources of heat you see in the immediate vicinity are what appear to be generators of some kind a floor beneath and in front of you. Even they aren’t terribly hot.
Raymond, you grimace, trying your best to put some sort of tourniquet on your side. Your trembling hands can barely attempt the task, when you feel a hand on your shoulder. Jim comes up beside you, taking the bits of cloth you’d torn up. He might be saying something, you can’t quite tell over the ringing. It’s starting to recede, but the splitting headache remains. You manage to give Jim enough guidance as to how to bandage the wound that the two of you are able to stop the bleeding, for the moment. Might want to be careful with that side, but you’re able to pull yourself to your feet.
Sol, you first look up at Chatterbox. There’s a bit of blood on his shoulder, but he doesn’t seem to notice at all, and it doesn’t seem to be coming out particularly hard. Looking at yourself, you reach up, taking a bit of shirt and applying pressure to your wound. After a minute, the blood flow slacks before cutting off completely. You’re at least not leaking anymore.
As the team patches up their wounds, the torrent of water streaming out of the newly-formed hole in the wall slows to a trickle, before stopping entirely. The now-exposed room appears to be some kind of antechamber between the hanger and the elevator. Looking back, you can see something that might at one point have been an elevator. Now, it’s just a shaft, dimly lit by a single flickering red emergency light. The bottom of the shaft is still filled with water. A rusted ladder attaches to the wall to one side of the elevator doors. A waterlogged corpse has flowed with the current out of the elevator shaft, stuck on some point of metal. It’s dressed in military fatigues, similar to the ones the Lieutenant and his men were wearing, although in much worse condition.
What do you do?
/u/nkonrad, /u/Lanugo1984, /u/Tenyo