dun posted my character with a mask. As an aside, I'd advise against propping up a second thread just because running two games at one can get tiresome and make you less excited for both. Focus on the one with whatever people you want in, and whoever didn't get in can get a message to join whenever there's room.

Oh yeah. Focus on one. Make one game great rather than two average games.

If people miss out, then so be it. It happens a lot.

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Alexis's Impressions

• Ashur: The gentle masochist beneath an outer layer of control and power.
• Mira: Our resident 'doc'. Gonna need her skills on a regular basis.
• John: Thank christ he's on our side...
• Kian: Someone we can rely on to keep is safe (keep an eye out for everyone xD)
• Maximilian: A monster of a man and a beast.

Hopefully that's ok. Bit hard to make an impression as of yet. xD

@NuttsnBolts Ok then I get ya guys. I will make an IC by Friday. Keep updated tho, I will surely do some updates.

@6slyboy6
Sounds good. I look forward to it.

@RhineQueen Sure hope so!

I am hyped AF, but school prevents me from long posts. But don't worry, I'll put up the IC in time, and you'll ba amazed.

@Zero Hex You mean the myraid of functions in your helmet, that the EMP blast fried? Yeah good luck with that XD

@Zero Hex You mean the myraid of functions in your helmet, that the EMP blast fried? Yeah good luck with that XD

An EMP blast is an electrical discharge that goes across a large spectrum so it has the chance to blow many circuits, so any electronics with wiring will burn up like a fuse because of the sudden increase in voltage within the air around it. This, however will only affect items with a closed electrical current; so laptops, cars, radios, white goods, etc; and will not affect an item like a flashlight (assuming that the wires aren't close enough to create an induced arc).

One of the main ways to protect against such a blast of energy is a Faraday Cage, which is basically a wire cage that disperses the energy into the cage itself and shields the inside electronics. A crude example would be to imagine you have a flyscreen and spray a hose of water at it. Chances are that the water will hit the screen and disperse onto the screen rather than through.

Bringing this up because it would be reasonable to assume that Maximilian would have a Faraday cage for his mask based on his home-world being Quent and the gas mask being of that planet's origin. In order to travel through space many electronics would have to be purposely protected or sealed by Faraday Cage devices in order to protect them from the naturally occurring radiation from the Sun and other cosmic energies. It was probably left in the cage for many, many years until the Enoh disaster, to which all he had to do was open his cage and pull out the protected electronic mask.

(Also bringing this up to help bring up a topical discussion on how Plasma weapons and lasers would work in this desolate future as well. )

@NuttsnBolts I know how an EMP works. A Faraday Cage is not rquired for spaceships, unless you tend to travel around a lot, without the shielding on your ship, or the whole fuselage, so to say. Especially with Jump Gates that means you can do quick travle without being exposed to much radiation. I am just angry because thagbeautiful face would be lost behind that mask. And cause I didn'z really want actual armot and hazard gear until later. Cuz yk. But sure, your argument is on point, and I like that. So Max will have that. But then again, where would he charge it, if the central power systems are fried on the planet.

@Zero Hex You mean the myraid of functions in your helmet, that the EMP blast fried? Yeah good luck with that XD

@NuttsnBolts I know how an EMP works. A Faraday Cage is not rquired for spaceships, unless you tend to travel around a lot, without the shielding on your ship, or the whole fuselage, so to say. Especially with Jump Gates that means you can do quick travle without being exposed to much radiation. I am just angry because thagbeautiful face would be lost behind that mask. And cause I didn'z really want actual armot and hazard gear until later. Cuz yk. But sure, your argument is on point, and I like that. So Max will have that. But then again, where would he charge it, if the central power systems are fried on the planet.

If you're nixing a spacefuture helmet you might as well nix all those implants people are using including your own character or the medic's HUD that tracks the vital signs of the team and aids in diagnoses n whatnot. If you don't want an actual helmet just say so and I'll turn it into a mask but consider that the character is already armored by design and the thing is a helmet primarily because it makes him seem less human than a mask. You can still tell a mask is strapped, a full helmet in these situations, with hair-like attachments? Extra freaky. If it's the visual aids that bother you out of a sense of my character having too much already I can just get rid of those no problem.

Also if there's now enough activity to have both scavengers with mechanical augs and a re-activation of an organized spacefuture mob, one powerful enough to have once acted as its own paramilitary unit, it feels silly to assume they haven't managed to jury rig enough equipment on stronghold positions to run maintenance and whatnot. It would give them an undeniable advantage and establish their powerbase so that people are pretty much forced to rely on them and can't fight back. These would also likely be situated someplace with access to food and water, giving them a good control of vital resources all around and making things worse for anyone not associated with them.

@6slyboy6
To weigh in here, I'm gonna agree with @Zero Hex. To suggest that there's a future where there's a variety of fairly readily available body implants and enhancements, but not a helmet that could be resistant to an EMP when that technology exists today is, quite frankly, ludicrous.
Now on the other hand you could argue that the implants use the body as a source of power (blood-driven turbines or using the body heat) and are therefor not affected by the EMP.
But in all honesty, that's a stretch. If it's balance you're worried about, don't. The mask is not any more over powered than my own HUD implants, or the Eagle Eye implants.
In summary, the tech makes sense in world, and the balance is fine so I really don't see the problem with the mask.

Yeah I agree with @RhineQueen and @Zero Hex, it should be fine

@6slyboy6
To weigh in here, I'm gonna agree with @Zero Hex. To suggest that there's a future where there's a variety of fairly readily available body implants and enhancements, but not a helmet that could be resistant to an EMP when that technology exists today is, quite frankly, ludicrous.
Now on the other hand you could argue that the implants use the body as a source of power (blood-driven turbines or using the body heat) and are therefor not affected by the EMP.
But in all honesty, that's a stretch. If it's balance you're worried about, don't. The mask is not any more over powered than my own HUD implants, or the Eagle Eye implants.
In summary, the tech makes sense in world, and the balance is fine so I really don't see the problem with the mask.

Yeah I agree with @RhineQueen and @Zero Hex, it should be fine

Meh I guess. I will however count you on your words! I am not exactly worried about the balance, but I am also not entirely sure how that would affect it. The thing is that I had only small amounts of time to simulate a combat lately, and most have been very simple. I don't want to go into further details, but I just don't havea a clue whether that helmet could shift the balance. But for right now it seems fair enough. Thought I still insist that I don't like the look of it, but that shan't concern you.

@6slyboy6
You mean you don't like the aesthetic? Cause if so, then you could ask that the appearance be changed. If that was your problem first off it would have been less argumentative to simply say so. Otherwise you wind up with the Kessel Run problem where you try to explain away something with flimsy, convoluted lore instead of just saying what you mean.

@RhineQueen Nah man, i had the problem with all that I said. I don't make crap out of my mouth. If Zero likes the look of that helmet as it is, I don't object, but that doesn't mean I have to liek it. And that will be reflected in Loki's actions too. That's all :P

@6slyboy6 I dig how that helmet looks.

@Helperbot 9000 Yeah as long as it goes agains my own liking! Thanks Helperbot, real champ you are!

@6slyboy6 Of course. What else did you expect. I was created perfect.

@6slyboy6 There's always going to be aspects that people don't like. The super villain RP I entered has one character that I looked at and thought, "ergh. That is so crap, over the top and even the pic had a political person in it that made it feel even worse", but you know what, it actually turned out to be the funniest, most bat shit insane character that constantly screams out "for motherland Korea" when she thinks that taking over a convenience store is going to expand her country's grasp in the world.

@NuttsnBolts That RP sounds ummmm..... Which words would describe it the best. Ludicrous, Batshit Insane, and many other words, but definetly something I miss from my life XD

@NuttsnBolts Tell me more

@NuttsnBolts Dude ya always try to educate me and say stuff. So weird XD

I am an experienced GM IRL, and I have a firm grasp on things as a GM. I could be less friendlier, or try to have more control but thats not my style. So yeah, you don't have to tell me these things every time. It's like movement tutorial in games.