[OOC] Thunderbolt Black (Fighter Pilot Mercenaries)

[Foster]

It was only a logistics-concern. A minor detail in an RP _{which if exploited properly in a sandbox-RP can give one player quite the advantage over others}. Plus it would give excuse enough to divvy the unit up and have the patrol-units operate in shifts (or sit together on-alert and shoot pool with other pilots that are waiting for their jets to get refueled).

But as always it's probably a good idea to check with the GM before getting carried away drafting charts and graphs and pulling up maps of secret forest installations in French New Guinea...

*Goes back to find info on non-NATO brevity codes of the former USSR and China*

So far, it seems we are on an express ferry-flight to a new Forward Airstrip inland of F. N. Guinea, and upon arrival do... something that keeps a building from getting explodey...

How we do the underlined part, I'm still not sure. so for me it'll be a surprise.

Also.. I may.. have an issue with obsessive-compulsive OOC posting.

[The Mage]

not alone, Foster

I'm freaking tired...that's why I posted the thing

to let you know that I MAY not get a reply up until tomorrow morning, or around the afternoon for Herr Silver.

how am I awake?

I got a personal alarm clock that wails, meows and scratches you until you awake....

[Foster]

Same, with the cat thing... putting a twenty pound (formerly stray) kitty on a diet is not fun.
-Fecking tigers.

Well, so long as we've got somebody crunching the maths and graphs behind the posts I'm fine. Those technical details usually don't get into the IC unless relevant for advancing plot or in order to predict to the best of our ability the path of the RP.
-Such as: knowing what planes can carry additional weapons, and by roughly how much.

I mean, even though I know how the Chinese mechanical-capstan Partial-Pressure G-suits work, and the limits of the early helmets made bubble-canopies a moot point up until the mid-90's (the visor/helmet would not turn with your head, it just stared straight-ahead: always) none of that made its way into my IC-post.

Anyways, I've made something like 3 OOC posts here today. So here.. have a video, I guess.

[urukhai]

Post will be up today, this I promise

[The Mage]

^^^^

[Rhona W]

Well, it's 6 days since the last GM post, so anyone who's not posted yet has a day. If you all get your posts up today, then it'll be fine.

[The Mage]

It may be like midnight- 6 AM your time until I get a post up.

I'm relatively busy atm.

[urukhai]

The problem I had was that I got two closing shifts in a row, and so progress was slow because of that

[Foster]

Well, it's 6 days since the last GM post, so anyone who's not posted yet has a day. If you all get your posts up today, then it'll be fine.

@Silverwind Blade

Speaking of which, I'm not sure we've dealt with how to let-go of Swiftalon's character with a flair for the dramatic.

Her F-2A was out for her first post due to 'repairs', possibly engine trouble.
-There was mention of a 'mole'. Sabotage is also possible

Equally possible, is the engine was fixed, but has a higher than rated specific fuel consumption (it burns too much fuel/bad mileage), leading to fuel-starvation en-route and becoming lost at sea.
-Also possible: Problems making the in-air refueling (IAR) in time.

I'm also wondering if the cultural media influences would have turned-out differently. Particularly if the enemies in HALO weren't portrayed as religious zealots.

WAVE 2: FIGHT!

-Too much time to think. Rampancy ensues.

Edit:
...

I think I'll go take a walk for a bit.

[Rhona W]

I'll come up with something sneaky - I'll just edit a few of my earlier posts to explain Misaki's absence as her aircraft still being down, and her being reassigned to a new unit or something. Minimal fuss that way, and there's no need to go out of the way and include anything in the upcoming post about it, allowing us to move on.

Esailia has been in touch and said she's temporarily unable to post, so her character will have a temporary case of being mute and ghost-like, but still with us otherwise.

Post will probably be up tonight when I'm back from work, depending on how the other chores I have this evening go.

[The Mage]

I think ias slept at the computer again.....

eghhh.

Working on my post

Will attempt to make it long.

I need to start working on these mid-week....

[The Mage]

[Rhona W]

Post is up, took me way longer to write it than expected. A lot going on in there to react to though - bad weather, a new place, new allies and the tactical situation laid out. I thought it was prudent our characters get to rest for a while - after all, their home base got all blown up earlier, and they've been on the go since then. Probably a good idea to take a load off before throwing us into battle right away. And I've already got plans for that first battle.
In the meantime, a chance for your characters to all react to the flight and all the info drops, and to chat to each other and hang loose a little before anything happens. Next GM post will be the pre-mission briefing (including specifics on the targets I have in mind, courtesy of our handy NPC friends) and then us winging into action once more.

I also already know exactly who the hostile aircraft are too - Thunderbolt Black aren't the only PMC in the game world, after all.

[Foster]

Clarification Please:

Overhead Pattern Recovery Method?
-Spinning down in close formation and rapidly landing by breaking-off either single-ship or in pairs.
-The only person who gets a Hollywood-style top-gun landing is the flight-leader who gets to land on initial approach, everyone else is stuck circling in front of the runway like a squadron of dive-bombers.

[Rhona W]

Sorry, I should have made that clearer.

An overhead recovery is also known as an overhead break. In essence, each aircraft performs a sharp, flat break (usually to the left) over the runway - or ship, if at sea - at precise intervals. This allows the aircraft to land quickly on the runway only a short distance apart, spending the minimum amount of time in the air for landing in a hostile environment. Ideally, the first few aircraft should be landing as the last are breaking into the pattern.

[Foster]

K, posted, and if someone wants my character's attention, all you have to do is ask.

[The Mage]

My only friend I know in person is coming over tomorrow.

so I'll be posting sometime around sunday-monday. After that I MAY be gone for a bit. permanent late due date and I'm really behind in school, If I don't get caught up before it I'm not going on to 10th grade.

After that it's SPRING BREAK!

also, unrelated, but whenever I smile I look chinese....

as I'm told by my sister

[Foster]

Huh, a Black Chinese Viking.

[The Mage]

that is weird....

[The Mage]

todays my lucky day

If I don't skin the cat for knocking down the modem for the chords every few minutes, then I can get done with about a weeks worth of Math and History today, along with maybe science and something else.

if I can get that done before 8 PM my time, then I'll have a post up before you wake up!