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:

  1. I will make a top-level comment to set the stage, and number it so that people can follow along at a later date.

  2. 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.

  3. I make a new top-level comment, number it, and let all the players know.

  4. 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:

[/u/carlos821]

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/raabr—"The Alkalite"

/u/nkonrad—"Chatterbox"

/u/Lanugo1984—"Turtle Tamer"

/u/Tenyo—Solomon Duke

/u/liono69—Chance "The Lion" Danyon

[0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17]

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u/nkonrad Apr 12 '16

I jump down into the elevator shaft.

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u/Tenyo Apr 13 '16

[Wooooooooooow. Completely given up?]

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u/nkonrad Apr 13 '16 edited Apr 13 '16

There was nothing else I wanted to do. I've also been busy with a birthday celebration for a family member all day and didn't want to hold you guys up by not posting something. Better to give a short answer and move things along than ignore it completely.

I didn't know how much free time I'd have, or when I'd have it, so I wanted to get it out of the way quickly to let you guys move on ASAP. Sorry if my answer wasn't up to par this time, I'll try to do better in future.

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u/Tenyo Apr 13 '16

[It's not the short answer. It's the action you took. With no shortage investigation already, jumping into the elevator shaft just screamed "fuck all this" to me. I suppose I got the wrong impression.]

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u/nkonrad Apr 13 '16 edited Apr 13 '16

I'm wearing a suit that can take repeated hits from helicopter mounted autocannons if I want it to, or run fast enough to keep up with residential traffic. I'm not afraid of jumping into some water at the bottom of an elevator. In the source material, someone wearing a nanosuit fell about 75-100 feet from a skyscraper after being knocked off by a helicopter gunship firing rockets at him. He proceeded to rip the .50 from a nearby APC and use it to gun down the helicopter, unhurt.

The gear I have makes me essentially a budget Spartan or cheap knockoff Space Marine, since I was one of the furthest along in the original PvMvT game and earned some new stuff.