The board was being twitchy so... yeah I dunno. Doesn't usually happen to me.
Also, Posted - @RoadRash Dodge had a question for Ryan.
Also, Posted - @RoadRash Dodge had a question for Ryan.
- Last Seen: 12 days ago
- Old Guild Username: Tearstone
- Joined: 11 yrs ago
- Posts: 828 (0.21 / day)
- VMs: 3
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12 days ago
Current
Hoping for a good turkey-day...
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5 mos ago
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bs
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8 mos ago
Driving a sandworm through a pre-school...
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1 yr ago
Remember, punishable by fine means legal for a price.
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3 yrs ago
♪♫♪ Don't climb up the rope. Dont haul up the mast. And if ya see a sailin' ship it might'n be yer last...♪♫♪
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Bio
Tearstone
Summary
Name: Tearstone
Aliases: Tearstone
Age: 33
Birthday: March 13th
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Location: Resides in western Oklahoma
Gender:
Major/Minor: Associates degree in Occupational Studies - Massage Therapy
Occupation: Unemployed/Under-employed Cert. Massage Therapist, freelance writer
Languages: Fluent in English, Bad English/Profanity. Knowledgeable of Japanese, Spanish, and Latin.
Current Bio Theme: None
Years Rping: 20 years
Preferred Rp Section: Typically casual or advanced.
Rp Level: High casual to advanced.
Dedication Level: I don't know what yardstick to measure this with. It all depends on my interest, if I'm enjoying the writing and my partners.
Biggest Rp Pet Peeve: If you one-line me and use chatspeak where it doesn't belong, I will CUT you. Pay attention to lore and genre conventions. DO NOT fall silent on me. IF you're bored, say so. If something happens, freaking tell me. I want to get to know my partners out of character too.
Teach New Rpers Or Coach New GM's: Yes. Very much so. I love teaching and doing what I can to improve people's skills, and challenge their ability. I love fostering growth.
Appearance
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: Overweight
Build: Ectomorphic, athletic. Built like a tank... or a tall dwarf
Eyes: Hazel-gray, but color shift with light and mood.
Hair: Chocolate brown, collar length currently. May grow out again.
Skin Tone: Light, tan decently in summer, but I live like basement cat.
Tattoos/Scars/Piercings: No tats or piercings. Scar, right wrist (1 cun (3 finger widths), medial from hand crease.) Sits across radial bone on anterior, 45° angle, looks self inflicted, but is actually from fending off an attacker in middle school. Burn scar left knee, the size of a quarter. Stuck knee against hot muffler of lawn mower on accident around 2004. Burn scar torso lower right quadrant inferior to navel and one inch lateral, spilled hot-ass ramen on self last winter. Some of the liquid got lodged in waist band of shorts and caused burn.
Personal Style:
Psychology
Intelligent * Procrastinator * Intuitive * Apathetic * Flexible/Adaptable * Cynical
Sexuality: Kinsey 2
Relationship Status: Semi-open longterm relationship/domestic partnership
Personality: INTJ/P, Turbulent quality. Swings to INFJ/P at times. Born a Pisces, much of Tearston's personality has been altered by their experiences, bu thtey still posses a deep emotional reservoir. Highly creative, great with abstract reasoning and special reasoning, Tear spends much time considering many problems. The overall personality has lead to a life of creative and intellectual pursuits.
Habits:
Hobbies: Reading, writing/RPing, PC gaming especially MMORPG's, graphic design work. Trained in martial arts from the age of 7. Is a firearms and explosives enthusiast. Is enthusiastic about all things militaria, and has a keep interest in law enforcement as well. Music - listening, spinning records and live mixing, writing music and producing in digital audio workspaces such as FL Studio (Fruity Loops). Tear has been a musician since the sixth grade, and is self-taught on a few instruments not learned in school. Singing is another hobby band while somewhat skilled, they are terribly self-conscious about singing for others. Hiking, bushcraft and survival skills. Cooking is a joy and passion, and is considered to be an art form.
Fears: Tearstone has arachnaphobia to a moderate degree. Blame watching the movie by the same name when they were little. Fears physical trauma especially surgery. This gives them the heebie-jeebies. They don't care for needles but will endure some poking and prodding. Tearstone fears leaving behind a negative legacy for their loved ones.
Dislikes:
Cards On The Table
Rp's Currently Gming: None on RPG
Rp's Currently Enjoying: None on RPG. Play by post Tabletop game on FB for Storm King's Thunder though.
Past RP's Enjoyed:
Other Places Of Interest:
Favorite Posts: Stay tuned.
Upcoming Works: The Raptor Company (a fantasy novel), Crucible, (a sci-fi novel)
History
What Brings You To Role Player Guild: Roleplay
Life Before You Came To Role Player Guild: Tearstone was a member of several play by post, forum RP's and chat RP's as well as in-game RP groups in various MMO's including World of Warcraft, Eve Online, Neverwinter Nights, Champions Online, and so on.
Life Since You Came To Role Player Guild: See above, not much has changed. Tearstone has made it through two major site crashes, but is still confident in Mahz.
Extras
Quotes or Sayings:
Theme Song: Really?
Advice To The World: Stop. Think about what you're doing. Think about the consequences and repercussions. Love each other.
Anything Else: - Nothing right now.
Most Recent Posts
“Derricks, get that pig up! Suppressing fire on the right side, rapid rate! Dodgers, put a forty-mike just in front of them on the left flank!”
“I want controlled, aimed rounds on the center. Pick your targets and drop ‘em.”
"Hooah," Dodgers said, peering through the haze of humidity underbrush and all the visual garbage. He could make out the black pajamas and conical coolie hats. Raising Thumper he sighted in the approximate range. One of the VC raised up and had began to charge out there on the left side. -You-. It was his only thought as Dodgers triggered the grenade launcher. It bucked slightly with it's customary th00mp! A forty millimeter grenade shot across the distance so fast that it was nigh invisible. Being directly behind it's flight path Dodge could see it though. It arced gently, rising a little, and then coming down to hit the VC in the chest. A bright orange-white flash of the explosion threw human hamburger in all directions, adding to the shrapnel with human bone fragments and teeth.
Two other VC went down, one of them with a spurt of blood from the neck, the next one over... blood leaking from his ears, a side effect of the pressure wave and concussion. Dead or dying? Dodge wasn't sure, maybe just got his eardrums ruptured, but still... The firing stopped for a few moments in surprise and shock, at least from the VC boys. The poor Cong had exploded like he'd been hit by an angry god.
Dodge simply slipped another grenade from his bandolier and put it in Thumper. "Ya want another Sarge, I only have four left, one in the tube," he said in between ripples of gunfire.
At the moment he was crouched down by a tree that was almost three feet thick. Had he had time to really marvel at it he would have. For the moment it was his shelter in the rain of metal death, but most of the fire hadn't been directed his way. Now though, bark began to explode off the sides of the tree, while the dirt rippled around, and the bush was torn up, some of it beginning to fall.
double post?
Another one to look at is MOS 68W.
While I never served in the military, I have a fair bit of working knowledge bouncing around in my head as well. I enjoy helping people, as well as doing research and the like. If I don't know something, I can usually find it, or I can direct others where to find out that information. @HeySeuss is a great source of knowledge, and he's a mod for the site. He's pretty awesome sauce when I've hung around him. @RoadRash is a great source of knowledge and experience as well, and I'm happy he's on board and is running the unit.
I'm pretty sure everybody is willing to help and provide information. And I know of Rare from other RP's and friends of mine. I hear fairly positive things, and I have heard that he/she (not sure on that lol) has a lot of good qualities, so don't feel like you're under attack or anything. I've been enjoying this RP immensely so far, both IC and OOC. I know this is true for the others, and everybody wants to keep it healthy and strong, well written and make it something that others are going to want to check out and read. We already have at least one stalker. :D
Anyway, carry on.
While I never served in the military, I have a fair bit of working knowledge bouncing around in my head as well. I enjoy helping people, as well as doing research and the like. If I don't know something, I can usually find it, or I can direct others where to find out that information. @HeySeuss is a great source of knowledge, and he's a mod for the site. He's pretty awesome sauce when I've hung around him. @RoadRash is a great source of knowledge and experience as well, and I'm happy he's on board and is running the unit.
I'm pretty sure everybody is willing to help and provide information. And I know of Rare from other RP's and friends of mine. I hear fairly positive things, and I have heard that he/she (not sure on that lol) has a lot of good qualities, so don't feel like you're under attack or anything. I've been enjoying this RP immensely so far, both IC and OOC. I know this is true for the others, and everybody wants to keep it healthy and strong, well written and make it something that others are going to want to check out and read. We already have at least one stalker. :D
Anyway, carry on.
Oops, I forgot we weren't over the North... still...
Here's a primer on helicopter crashes.
The main rotor puts out a lot of torque. If it weren't for the tail rotor spinning 3x faster or greater the Huey wouldn't fly. The tail blades help prevent the spin, stabilize the helicopter, and acts as a rudder by applying more or less power to counter the rotational torque from the main rotor. A helicopter is basically 2000 moving parts flying in close formation. And in this case if the wings are moving faster than the body, you're on a helicopter.
If you take out the tail, then the chopper begins to spin, and the rotor stops, or spins slowly. It still provides some downward force, which helps slow the fall. If the main rotor is damaged, it's going to spin as well, but slower, and it's probably going to maneuver and wallow like a drunken sailor or a bovine with Mad Cow Disease.
In our case the cockpit took a direct hit, so the whirlybird is a dead stick. No control, and linkages and hydraulics are damaged. It's not going to fall like a rock. Instead it's going to spin like a top and come to the ground at about forty-five degrees almost like a glide angle, though what position and orientation it actually is when it hits God only knows. From there, the real bad things happen.
In the meantime as it's coming down, physics are your enemy. Being flung from the chopper by it's rotation out the door is probably what's really going to be bad. If you're hundreds of feet up... sucks to be you. Over jungle you might have a chance to survive.
A helicopter's bread and butter is staying low to the deck and below radar. If they fly too high, Charlie has SAM (surface to air missile) sites around the region that can reach out and touch, not to mention anti-aircraft. Being high up gives long lines of sight, but if they stay low to mid range they can use the terrain, and maneuver, and also have more of an element of surprise. It just depends on the situation. For something like this, I believe the 1st Cav was not too far above the trees and got caught with their panties down.
As such it wasn't that far of a drop, and it is likely that a person could have been thrown from the falling Huey. One thing that might alter things in the crash is that it slammed into a tree with enough force to break it in half. Another chance to be thrown out. Rotor blades would have snapped off against it, depending on how much speed and rotation force they had, I'm going to assume they might have. That would throw the broken pieces around, but this means that it's safer for those able to ride the wreck to the ground. When it hits, it's probably going to do on a shearing/shallow angle from the rebound or drop almost straight down, and possibly roll.
Based on these factors the crash is pretty survivable. A lot of chopper crashes seem to be that way from the accounts of them that I have heard. It's a combination of how they fall out of the sky, and that they aren't usually as high altitude, and how they often 'land' and with what speed and force. Not everybody makes it out, no... but it's not instant death all the time either.
Just my two cents. Not sure why this is hard to understand.
The main rotor puts out a lot of torque. If it weren't for the tail rotor spinning 3x faster or greater the Huey wouldn't fly. The tail blades help prevent the spin, stabilize the helicopter, and acts as a rudder by applying more or less power to counter the rotational torque from the main rotor. A helicopter is basically 2000 moving parts flying in close formation. And in this case if the wings are moving faster than the body, you're on a helicopter.
If you take out the tail, then the chopper begins to spin, and the rotor stops, or spins slowly. It still provides some downward force, which helps slow the fall. If the main rotor is damaged, it's going to spin as well, but slower, and it's probably going to maneuver and wallow like a drunken sailor or a bovine with Mad Cow Disease.
In our case the cockpit took a direct hit, so the whirlybird is a dead stick. No control, and linkages and hydraulics are damaged. It's not going to fall like a rock. Instead it's going to spin like a top and come to the ground at about forty-five degrees almost like a glide angle, though what position and orientation it actually is when it hits God only knows. From there, the real bad things happen.
In the meantime as it's coming down, physics are your enemy. Being flung from the chopper by it's rotation out the door is probably what's really going to be bad. If you're hundreds of feet up... sucks to be you. Over jungle you might have a chance to survive.
A helicopter's bread and butter is staying low to the deck and below radar. If they fly too high, Charlie has SAM (surface to air missile) sites around the region that can reach out and touch, not to mention anti-aircraft. Being high up gives long lines of sight, but if they stay low to mid range they can use the terrain, and maneuver, and also have more of an element of surprise. It just depends on the situation. For something like this, I believe the 1st Cav was not too far above the trees and got caught with their panties down.
As such it wasn't that far of a drop, and it is likely that a person could have been thrown from the falling Huey. One thing that might alter things in the crash is that it slammed into a tree with enough force to break it in half. Another chance to be thrown out. Rotor blades would have snapped off against it, depending on how much speed and rotation force they had, I'm going to assume they might have. That would throw the broken pieces around, but this means that it's safer for those able to ride the wreck to the ground. When it hits, it's probably going to do on a shearing/shallow angle from the rebound or drop almost straight down, and possibly roll.
Based on these factors the crash is pretty survivable. A lot of chopper crashes seem to be that way from the accounts of them that I have heard. It's a combination of how they fall out of the sky, and that they aren't usually as high altitude, and how they often 'land' and with what speed and force. Not everybody makes it out, no... but it's not instant death all the time either.
Just my two cents. Not sure why this is hard to understand.
If you'd prefer they were all using bamboo spears, then that's cool but I might drop the third Huey right on top of your heads.
Chuck Norris is throwing bears.
And I agree it's easier for me to stay up late than it is to get up early.
And I agree it's easier for me to stay up late than it is to get up early.
No. There were like three choppers that got knocked down, I believe.
TomeBinder will likely be using one of them. Stick around, he should be waking up soon. We will probably know more then. Gotta love people in the UK. Makes it nice for us night owls.
TomeBinder will likely be using one of them. Stick around, he should be waking up soon. We will probably know more then. Gotta love people in the UK. Makes it nice for us night owls.
Seems we're all inspired, and SFC Davis is part of it. There's been a couple times I've been like 'Hell yeah' after reading what he had to do and say. That's a very good thing. XD
RoadRash - You rock.
RoadRash - You rock.
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