Sorry guys. I've been thrown outta my dads place (well... Technically i left but it has been made clear I am not welcome back) and then struck by what i beleive to be a stress induced illness in the same two days I got a full time (temp) job. The time I haven't spent working has been primarily spent sleeping off the illness I am afraid. I'll get a post done now if it is appropriate.

Hope you are all well!

EDIT:

Ugh. I can tell i am out of practice. Forgive the nasty, blocky paragraph in the middle of that post. I figured it was a good way to explain her silence and simultaneously do a little character building.

I hope things settle down for you. I'm guessing you've managed to find stable housing, since you're now here? If not, I wish you luck in finding it.

As for the RP, I can do a timeskip to the meeting if everyone is done with the conversation. I understand conversations can grow stale if they don't move quickly, and most of us seem rather busy. With all the classes I'm taking this semester, I know I am.

I'm happy to chat seeing as ashley just started up a convo but not too bothered if everyone is desperate to move along to mission brief and combat. I quite enjoy the social side of things but I know not everyone is that way inclined.

Nice to see you back Hailfire. I hope things get better for you.

I'm fine with skipping along if everyone else is.

Could probably just go ahead and skip to the day of the briefing in the morning. Just to give a quick summary of where everyone ended up.

if you guys feel that it's time to move forward to the briefing, I'm totally okay with that, too.

Thanks for welcoming me back guys and for the snappy reply from you baskets. I'm glad I'm not going to have to miss out on the conversations entirely.

Edit:
Random note for the technologically minded. Suppressors as we know them wouldn't work in this setting. At least not on their own. A modern suppressor works by A. Capturing excess gas from the weapon to reduce the sound created by the gas outside of the barrel and B. Slowing down the bullet as much as possible (ideally to subsonic speeds) to reduce the volume of the sonic boom created by the bullet. Seeing as in the setting bullets travel many many times the velocity of our current ones (which i assume means guns require a form of advanced recoil compensation to be safe to operate) slowing the bullet down isn't as much of an option. A suppressor could still be employed for excess gas however the likely solution for the sonic boom would be altering the bullet shape to modify aerodynamics and thus reduce the sonic boom that way. The modified bullets would likely be lighter as a result and so have less force on impact with targets though and be more prone to drifting. Sorry for the "rant" just got thinking about it and rambled.

That does make sense (not quite sure what prompted it, but it makes sense). The rounds human weapons use do not need to be as large as today due to the speed at which they travel, so they could be shaped in a way to make them at least a bit quieter. Energy weapons like those the sovereignty and Rothians use tend to be much quieter than ballistic weapons. Although, since the bullets are not made of glowing balls of energy, they are much more difficult to track back to their source visually. Overall, it would be easier to tell if someone is firing a human weapon in the area, but an energy weapon can more easily give away your exact location.

Lol. Glad it makes sense and I actually had the thought "damn that'll be loud" ages ago when i first read the new content on human weaponry as I like to think I am a bit of a guns nerd. I only thought to mention it reading through all the posts about kickass guns and explosives though. I quite enjoy thinking about the mechanics of such things even if. I am no good at making them myself.

I can see coin having a lot of fun with all the variants of weaponry. Imagine the potential of a hybrid energy and kinetic energy weapon or the fun that could be had working together Bit's explosives knowledge for heavy weapons (which the hummingbird might need at some point hint hint nudge nudge.). If we add their combined mechanical skills and Ashley's programming ability we have almost the complete package for creating effective things that go boom.

with the amount of mechanical/technical ability we've got in the team, our capacity for boom is pretty damn high right about now. Coin's thesis paper for her doctorate explored the integration of magic with weaponry, so I'm sure she'd be more than happy to explore hybrid weaponry.

thanks for the tech note, btw Hail! that wasn't something I had considered but that's kind of a big deal.

Ooooo.... Magic. I hadn't thought of that (which is silly considering my character literally uses magic to manipulate tech). I can definitely see that having potential although (as I am sure Coins thesis surmised) it would be difficult to achieve the magic side of things through technology considering (if I am right in my thinking) magic tends to be although is not exclusively sourced from people. I'm actually really looking forwards to perhaps having some in character multi-character build projects going on between missions.

P.S. I don't see doors being a problem between Bit and Ashley. If its techy she can open it, if it is mechanical he can blow it up.

I'd be okay with things moving along to the briefing. Work kinda makes it difficult to write on the weekends.

Hailfire said
If its techy she can open it, if it is mechanical he can blow it up.

How bout this instead; if it's techy, bit can blow it up. if it's mechanical, Bit can also blow it up. The more boom the better.

Edit: ps: for the record, I know not every door would be wise to blow up.

Hailfire said
Ooooo.... Magic. I hadn't thought of that (which is silly considering my character literally uses magic to manipulate tech). I can definitely see that having potential although (as I am sure Coins thesis surmised) it would be difficult to achieve the magic side of things through technology considering (if I am right in my thinking) magic tends to be although is not exclusively sourced from people. I'm actually really looking forwards to perhaps having some in character multi-character build projects going on between missions. P.S. I don't see doors being a problem between Bit and Ashley. If its techy she can open it, if it is mechanical he can blow it up.

Heh, doors. With Rareth, it doesn't matter what it is. She'll leave it closed, then get through anyway.

EliteCommander said
Heh, doors. With Rareth, it doesn't matter what it is. She'll leave it closed, then get through anyway.

Op. Rito plis nerf.

In that awkward space in which i wanna post but I dunno whether baskets is working on a post...

LOL yeah I'm working on one right now!

Thanks for warning me :) I'll wait until you get your post done. Kinda makes sense to do it cyclicly too.

cqbexpt said
Op. Rito plis nerf.

Rito pls...

I'll probably make a post moving us on once the posting dies down for the night. Everyone seems to be enjoying doing what they're doing. Don't want to interrupt. Besides, mutton should be getting back on in a few hours.