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Title: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 20, 2016, 08:07:42 pm
Today is your first day on the job as a Railgun operator. as a proud member of the [blank] species, your duty is to prep the railgun, and fire it when the commander orders you, at the coordinates they also give you. in front of you, you see your trustworthy Railgun loader and your little shelf filled with Rail Pellets. You are pretty sure you're going to need to fire the gun soon...

What do you do, who are you, and what species do you belong too?

This is a free suggestion game, with not much in the way of planning to get me more adjusted for responding in what I might post in the future.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Kassire on October 20, 2016, 08:44:21 pm
We are Thomas Mathews, a proud Human member of the Marine Corps, and we are going to load that Railgun with the pellets!
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: vkiNm on October 20, 2016, 08:46:43 pm
We are Thomas Mathews, a proud Human member of the Marine Corps, and we are going to load that Railgun with the pellets!
+1 *Space Marine Corps

Humanity, fuck yea!
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 20, 2016, 08:54:11 pm
Raingun Fired!

Loading the pellets of molybdenum steel, you carefully slot it into the loader, and the gun happily gorges itself on the glorious weaponized metal ball bearings. The coils begin to charge up, and with a crack, the ludicrously dangerous weapon fires its payload into the dangerous depths of space. Over your comms, you hear the local section commander scream over the radio "FIRE, FIRE! DON'T LET THEM THROUGH!"

Just as the railgun cools down, however, you distinctly notice that the left coil of the railgun is almost entirely ripped out of its mounting...

You're pretty sure you can fix this, but how?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 20, 2016, 08:56:32 pm
Spit, duct tape and a good kick. Insult it just for good measure.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 20, 2016, 09:00:15 pm
((Sorry, not gonna be able to post again today, I kind of realized it is way too late for me to be posting these kinds of things.))
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Kassire on October 20, 2016, 09:02:55 pm
Spit, duct tape and a good kick. Insult it just for good measure.
+1
What could go wrong?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: vkiNm on October 20, 2016, 09:06:12 pm
Spit, duct tape and a good kick. Insult it just for good measure.
+1
What could go wrong?
+1 Yes, Russian Engineering so stronk.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 20, 2016, 09:09:15 pm
With enough duct tape you could fix anything. In Mother Russia duct tape fixes YOU!
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: helmacon on October 20, 2016, 09:20:43 pm
With enough duct tape you could fix build anything. In Mother Russia duct tape fixes YOU!
+1
Make a coozie out of duct tape to hold our beer while we are at it.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: S34N1C on October 20, 2016, 10:02:42 pm
Spit, duct tape and a good kick. Insult it just for good measure.
Don't insult our gun! It's our partner in life, our best friend, our sexual partner uh, best friend! We've gotta treat it right, or it will break down constantly.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on October 20, 2016, 10:49:52 pm
Spit, duct tape and a good kick. Insult it just for good measure.
Don't insult our gun! It's our partner in life, our best friend, our sexual partner uh, best friend! We've gotta treat it right, or it will break down constantly.


YEAH! don't spit on it christ.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: vkiNm on October 20, 2016, 10:56:31 pm
Maybe our gun likes it rough?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Prophet on October 20, 2016, 10:58:43 pm
Hug the railgun and then whisper soft loving things into it's ears ???coils???
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 21, 2016, 05:13:57 am
Putting it back together.

For a brief moment you think of coddling your very important rail gun. you think otherwise and  go at it with duct tape,  steel toed boots, and a single lemon. after just five minutes, the entire assembly is now re-attached to the mounting and has a lemon somewhere. But just as you finish, the section leader walks in and begins screaming at you for a split moment in the various insults befitting a private in the infantry rather then a Space marine. then he sees your imtprved railgun, nods, and leaves.

Oh, it looks like you can choose who you fire at now.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 21, 2016, 05:35:47 am
We're not supposed to shoot the section leader, so what are the permissible targets in sight?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 21, 2016, 08:03:02 am
Looking at the target lock computer.

Casually glancing down at your target lock computer, you note three very interesting possible targets.

The first of which is a fellow human hospitaller ship that is within range and the firing arc of your rail gun. the second is a large boarding craft heading rather close to your ship, and the third ship is the heavy enemy warship, filled with various insurgents, unshackled AI's, and hostile Xenos fit for only being put down, and is your recommended target.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: S34N1C on October 21, 2016, 08:57:11 am
I feel like the second target is the biggest concern.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 21, 2016, 09:43:42 am
^+1
Fire upon it.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: stabbymcstabstab on October 21, 2016, 09:46:26 am
Yeah that one is a bigger concern. +1
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: The Froggy Ninja on October 21, 2016, 11:12:59 am
I feel like the second target is the biggest concern.
+1
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Prophet on October 21, 2016, 07:50:58 pm
+1 to second target.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 21, 2016, 08:46:24 pm
Shooting and shooting.

Due to the miracle of railguns, you don't have to do nearly as tense of a reload then before, the autoloaders did all the work for you and you just have to replace the one ball bearing that went into the target. And then you slam the big red button and fire the big angry railgun. Come to think of it, you briefly wonder why you are here before you look at your targeting computer and distinctly noted that you only just ripped the front of the boarding ship off, and there seems to be a very angry marine on the boarding ship, sword forward. Like concrete block hitting the ocean, your brain feels the telepathic message of "GET ME CLOSER, I WANT TO HIT THEM WITH MY SWORD." Also, you notice there is a rat on the floor. it looks disturbing.

What do you even do in this situation?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: ShadowHammer on October 21, 2016, 11:37:52 pm
Decide you don't want to be a railgun operator anymore. Leave railgun station.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: vkiNm on October 21, 2016, 11:44:22 pm
Load the rat into the railgun and shoot it at the boarders.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Prophet on October 22, 2016, 12:00:17 am
Load the rat into the railgun and shoot it at the boarders.
+1
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: ATHATH on October 22, 2016, 01:34:58 am
Load the rat into the railgun and shoot it at the boarders.
+1
+1
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 22, 2016, 01:43:42 am
Load the rat into the railgun and shoot it at the boarders.
+1
+1
+1 but load a pellet behind it, rats are known to be notoriously non-magnetic.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 22, 2016, 10:38:32 am
Rat gun
p
Staring at the rat, and then at the boarding shuttle, you quickly pick up the rat(Biting you in the process, ow!) and tape its behind to the back of a magnetic ball bearing, and then reload the rail un with the rat pellet as the main weapons pellet. slamming the fire button, a rather large amount of gore sprays all over the room, but after cleaning the targeting screen, you notice that there is a singular rat  on the sword marine, and he is twitching and screaming erratically, the marine is also covered in gore. your not quite sure where all the gore came from, unless rat trails contain extremely large amounts of matter.

The shuttle is going to collide next turn, and it is going to land near you. you wont be able to load another shot in time.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 22, 2016, 10:55:03 am
"BANZAI!"
Board them when they hit us!
"¡NO PASARÁN!"
While he's struggling with the rat, punch the marine and take the sword from him, and shoot hit him with the sword.
"HAKKAA PÄÄLLE!"
Hack down anyone coming behind him, kill them all dead.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Kassire on October 22, 2016, 12:49:24 pm
"BANZAI!"
Board them when they hit us!
"¡NO PASARÁN!"
While he's struggling with the rat, punch the marine and take the sword from him, and shoot hit him with the sword.
"HAKKA PÄÄLLE!"
Hack down anyone coming behind him, kill them all dead.
+1, as they say, God has a hard-on for Marines because they kill everything we see.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Prophet on October 22, 2016, 01:30:20 pm
"BANZAI!"
Board them when they hit us!
"¡NO PASARÁN!"
While he's struggling with the rat, punch the marine and take the sword from him, and shoot hit him with the sword.
"HAKKA PÄÄLLE!"
Hack down anyone coming behind him, kill them all dead.
+1, as they say, God has a hard-on for Marines because they kill everything we see.
+1
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 22, 2016, 06:03:41 pm
RAK-BUL MAIMS

As they approach your starship, you grab another rat from the floor, and begin rushing towards there estimated breaching location, past the cloning bay and the armory, and straight in. you wait patiently, holding the rat in such away that instead of biting you, it will bite the wall. Thuum emanates from the wall ahead of you, and you get ready! Finally, the wall is breached and you see the *Space marine* in their space grade powered armor, and you throw your second rat at him, he screeches in tower and drops his sword, attempting to run away, to no avail. You pick up the sword.

"¡NO PASARÁN!"

You Charge and barge, cleaving into the first sentient you see, in this case, a severely knocked out marine on the floor, with a distinct lack of  rat bites. He is cleaved into two.  After a full thirty minutes of killing the entire fifty man team of boarding shuttle, you come to a stop. your mechanists coveralls are drenched in three various shades of blood, and you note that your comm headset is screaming as to why your not manning your demined rail gun. You also note the fact that there is a cowering space suited technician, likely a cowardly alien, who also has a tailless rat  in his hands.  You think the other rat is probably eating a corpse.

What should you do about the two rats, the fact that the counter boarding team (good guys) should arrive soon, the massive amounts of loot around the place, your blood drenched unpowered clothing, and of course, your unattended railgun?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Kassire on October 22, 2016, 06:10:47 pm
Let the rats do what rats do, and walk back to our rail gun like a good little marine, stating to our officer over comms with the following "Sir, there was a threat close to me and it was dealt with sir!"

Never was a glorious job
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 22, 2016, 06:13:40 pm
The tailless rat is taking mercy to the cowering alien, as the alien is administering pettings.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 22, 2016, 06:35:31 pm
Let the rats do what rats do, and walk back to our rail gun like a good little marine, stating to our officer over comms with the following "Sir, there was a threat close to me and it was dealt with sir!"

Never was a glorious job
+1
Tell them that we've killed the shuttle's entire complement except for a prisoner that we're taking with us until someone collects it, and where the hell is the counter-boarding team that never showed up - Sir?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: helmacon on October 22, 2016, 07:01:30 pm
Let the rats do what rats do, and walk back to our rail gun like a good little marine, stating to our officer over comms with the following "Sir, there was a threat close to me and it was dealt with sir!"

Never was a glorious job
+1
Tell them that we've killed the shuttle's entire complement except for a prisoner that we're taking with us until someone collects it, and where the hell is the counter-boarding team that never showed up - Sir?
+1
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 23, 2016, 12:05:47 pm
Getting back to the railgun.

Casually hauling the poor shivering alien out of the compartment, you adventure back to your railgun room, on the way, finding the Counter boarding team, when you ask why they haven't cleared that specific pod, they said that some maniac was clearing it out for them. You comm to your deck leader and tell them that you were dealing with the alien boarders, about two hallways down. the leader stutters for a bit, and then asks your "crazy murderous ass" to get back to your railgun room. by the time you get back, your pretty sure the alien has soiled himself, can't really tell because of the EVA suit and all, and the railgun seems to be already primed for priming, for some reason.

What do you do now?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Kassire on October 23, 2016, 12:11:02 pm
Attempt to place the alien into the railgun, load a pellet behind them, and fire it at the warship.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: vkiNm on October 23, 2016, 12:14:53 pm
Guys,

what if..

What if we load lots of pellets into the gun and shoot it at the warship like a long-ranged rail buckshot?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Dustan Hache on October 23, 2016, 12:34:57 pm
Guys,

what if..

What if we load lots of pellets into the gun and shoot it at the warship like a long-ranged rail buckshot?
Attempt to place the alien into the railgun, load a pellet behind them, and fire it at the warship.
guys, lets not be overly brutal/stupid here. The rats survived the trip because space rats are like cockroaches. they just don't die no matter what you do to them. The alien is definitely not a space rat. they would die before impact, wasting a perfectly good captive.
Meanwhile, loading multiple pellets at one time would rip the railgun to shreds. We could load something akin to a shotgun shell (a cluster of smaller pellets and a explosive charge in a casing) launch that, and then detonate the charge once it is close to/hits the enemy battleship. Speaking of that, lets not waste time targeting it and agree that's the next biggest problem.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 23, 2016, 12:38:22 pm
^This
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: helmacon on October 23, 2016, 01:34:42 pm
Quote
We could load something akin to a shotgun shell (a cluster of smaller pellets and a explosive charge in a casing)
Force the alien to eat multiple rail gun pellets and then fire him from the rail gun.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Kassire on October 23, 2016, 01:42:01 pm
Quote
We could load something akin to a shotgun shell (a cluster of smaller pellets and a explosive charge in a casing)
Force the alien to eat multiple rail gun pellets and then fire him from the rail gun.
Yeah, this
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 23, 2016, 01:56:34 pm
No, it's a prisoner.

It has more value for the intelligence people than as ammunition - and if it hasn't, we can suggest it to them in front of it, which I believe would make information retrieval so much easier... ;)
Anyway, no.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: S34N1C on October 23, 2016, 02:01:06 pm
No, it's a prisoner.

It has more value for the intelligence people than as ammunition - and if it hasn't, we can suggest it to them in front of it, which I believe would make information retrieval so much easier... ;)
Anyway, no.
This.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Gwolfski on October 23, 2016, 03:53:57 pm
Fire the gun at closets target
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 23, 2016, 03:59:43 pm
Fire at the designated target. Finally.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 23, 2016, 06:06:28 pm
Briefly maybe considering to put an alien into a rail gun

Thinking long and hard about stuffing a alien into a rail gun, you instead resolve to pull out your trustworthy welder and duct tape and weld and duct tape him to the wall, they look only slightly alarmed, but overall it is a good day. Finally, you put attention to your rail gun, load another shot into it, reset it, and then fire at the big bad alien mother ship.

This was the last shot needed to cause its reactor to blow up, and it blows up massively.. the boom is so powerful, not a couple seconds later the shockwave hits the ship, and you are launched at the bulwark of the bulkhead and knocked out.

You wake up some amount of time later, in a very different space ship. for one, although your in the same room, the rail gun was ripped completely out of its mooring and is now man-portable. Second, the alien is loose, and third, your pretty sure that where there was once a exit out of the room, is not the bulkhead and airlock of another ship.

your pretty sure you have a concussion, What do you do?

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Dustan Hache on October 23, 2016, 06:10:22 pm
Briefly maybe considering to put an alien into a rail gun

Thinking long and hard about stuffing a alien into a rail gun, you instead resolve to pull out your trustworthy welder and duct tape and weld and duct tape him to the wall, they look only slightly alarmed, but overall it is a good day. Finally, you put attention to your rail gun, load another shot into it, reset it, and then fire at the big bad alien mother ship.

This was the last shot needed to cause its reactor to blow up, and it blows up massively.. the boom is so powerful, not a couple seconds later the shockwave hits the ship, and you are launched at the bulwark of the bulkhead and knocked out.

You wake up some amount of time later, in a very different space ship. for one, although your in the same room, the rail gun was ripped completely out of its mooring and is now man-portable. Second, the alien is loose, and third, your pretty sure that where there was once a exit out of the room, is not the bulkhead and airlock of another ship.

your pretty sure you have a concussion, What do you do?

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)
Re-secure the alien to the wall, and then repair our railgun.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: S34N1C on October 23, 2016, 06:12:58 pm
Repair railgun.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 23, 2016, 06:31:59 pm
More accurately, the alien is missing.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 23, 2016, 06:37:25 pm
Duct tape time, the fixing powers of duct tape are limitless! Use it to fix the rail gun again, and then to fix the concussion. If necessary apply spit, boot and/or liberal insults to either or both.

Since we're at it check if the lemon is all right and apply some duct tape to it too, just for good measure.

Obviously the alien was rescued and is no longer a prisoner, thus eligible for rail gun ammunition.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: helmacon on October 23, 2016, 09:04:21 pm
I told you guys we should have shot him from the rail gun.

Tape things, kick things, insult liberals. A general +1 to the previous.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Gwolfski on October 24, 2016, 10:47:37 am
Duct tape time, the fixing powers of duct tape are limitless! Use it to fix the rail gun again, and then to fix the concussion. If necessary apply spit, boot and/or liberal insults to either or both.

Since we're at it check if the lemon is all right and apply some duct tape to it too, just for good measure.

Obviously the alien was rescued and is no longer a prisoner, thus eligible for rail gun ammunition.
+1
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 24, 2016, 01:02:42 pm
Applying engineering magic.

Looking at your rail gun, its quite clear it got really fucked up. You weld the coils more firmly together, take out the auto loader entirely, as its shredded to bits, and cannibalize it for whatever shiny bits you can. The lemon, however, was completely broken. you will need a lemon for it to fire at its 100% capacity, or a similar object. finally, you deem your rail gun "good 'nuff". you weld through the bulkhead, and come into a alien hallway, and to your left is a sleeping orc-like alien, standing upright was simultaneous sleeping. you note its dangerous looking and basic slug thrower. It smells like a mixture of boot camp and a hippies van left one to may days out in the sun.

Spoiler: inventory (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Prophet on October 24, 2016, 09:24:06 pm
Attempt to steal the slug thrower.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Gwolfski on October 25, 2016, 02:00:48 am
Attempt to steal the slug thrower.
So we can use it as ammo!
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: QuakeIV on October 25, 2016, 03:26:09 am
I'm just saying, but we have a man portable ship-class railgun, and when you have that every problem starts to look like an enemy warship.

Do the obvious thing, and shoot the orc with the railgun!
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 25, 2016, 03:39:57 am
I'm just saying, but we have a man portable ship-class railgun, and when you have that every problem starts to look like an enemy warship.

Do the obvious thing, and shoot the orc with the railgun!
+1
Let's redecorate the place, use the orc as a doorway.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 25, 2016, 07:09:09 pm
Explosive personality

The orc wakes up to being exploded, and you are flung back, landing on your ass, the railgun smoking as you realize it lit the air on fire briefly. You pick up his various loot items, including TWO GOLDEN SPACE ARMY RATIONS, likely looted from the dead, they are incredibly rare to come by, and are probably filled with prizes. you pocket it for later and move down the corridor.

as you move down the hallway, you hear sounds of a heavy battle going on, before coming to a door, which opens automatically. it reveals a rather large cafeteria, currently being fought in. on one side, humans and aliens similar to the one you captured, all wearing the wimpy void suits fighting against the space orcs, who are using a mixture of slug throwers, pears, and angry, starved rats. the humans and the "good" aliens are on the opposite side of the "cafeteria", and the orcs are surrounding them, however, it seems they have a severe lack of railguns to assist them. you not that none of the occupants of the room has noticed you, and you can probably leave for another section of the ship if you would so want.

How do you get to the opposite side?

Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Kassire on October 25, 2016, 07:10:56 pm
Open fire on all those dirty orcs! With the railgun, naturally.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Yottawhat on October 25, 2016, 08:44:09 pm
How big is railgun anyways? I thought it was a big gun emplacement.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Vivalas on October 25, 2016, 10:45:49 pm
Shoot the railgun up at the ceiling and hope for the best, in the hopes that there is more spaceship above and not just void.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 26, 2016, 03:06:23 am
If we can see both sides like that, I suppose we've got them all nicely enfiladed. Fire one shot at the orcs, turning as many as possible into make-up for everyone else.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 26, 2016, 08:11:10 am
Rain of Red

You take a good look at your rail gun, noting how the barrel ends at three meters, instead of the full six. three of those meters had to be removed, and your not quite sure how you can even lift it up in the first place, but regardless, you pull the trigger. you are pushed back as the shot guts a full line of orcs, and temporarily deafens you. Several of the orcs turn to you looking insurmountably angry, and they each pull out war clubs. your not quite sure you can win in a fight against them with a unloaded rail-gun, but you do not a line of area with no orcs that lead straight to the human front line, however your gonna have to do something drastic before the orcs catch up to you if your gonna sprint all the way there, or else it is gonna devolve to melee combat.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 26, 2016, 08:32:06 am
Reload while we speak: "Oi, gitz, I 'ave da most biggest dakka so I iz ya new boss! Now, kill dose filfy 'eretic 'ummmies afore I hafta plug ya wi' anoda one!" Wait for the old boss to show himself trying to deny our claim, and shoot him.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 26, 2016, 09:03:05 am
These orcs are distinctly different then Warhammer 40k orcs, in the fact that they are distinctly murderous ot any other of there non-kin, atleast, to the point where omnicide is there intended goal.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: helmacon on October 26, 2016, 01:31:30 pm
We have created a breach in the front lines! rally the humans! In the meantime, pretend like our railgun is still loaded and point it at the orcs . It's a bluff... but they are orcs. They might actualy fall for it.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 26, 2016, 03:30:29 pm
^That.
If it doesn't work, run into a corridor while reloading (preferably a long, straight and narrow one) turn around, and see how many our dakka can punch through.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: QuakeIV on October 26, 2016, 03:47:22 pm
Hangon, so the orcs and the wimpy rebel humalien alliance guys are fighting eachother?

The enemy of my enemy is my other enemy, as they say.

I suggest we reload, fire on the orcs charging us, and then fire on the rebels next.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Gwolfski on October 26, 2016, 04:37:55 pm
How about hitting them with the railgun?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 26, 2016, 04:46:42 pm
One human against a whole lot of rushing orcs? Even with most being busy with the humalians, one on one an orc is a bit too much for a normal human (not that we're one, but still...). If we've done well in the shuttle, it's because the GM was caught unaware with that mad charge and we had both rule of cool (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool) and rule of fun (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfFun)/ny (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfFunny) going for us, but this time he stacked it against us.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 28, 2016, 08:03:05 am
It's not running away, it is a tactical diversion.

You point your massive rail gun at the nearest, meanest looking ork, and it dives into its friend, knocking the rushing hoard back for a single moment, enough for you to tactically retreat into the hallway, full sprint, while reloading your rail gun. by the time your a quarter the way down to your rail gun room, your rail gun is primed and readied, and you turn around, and realize just how close the orcs are, namely, the one in front of you is swinging down what appears to be a massive ball pean hammer at you. Or at least, was swinging. the railgun pellet that bisected him and killed the a vast majority of the orcan conga line stopped such trivial attacks. marching back to the original line, you note that quite a few of the orcs are still alive, and you give them the peace of humans pride. Namely, by slamming the heavy-non delicate end of the rail gun onto the back of their skulls. by the time you get back to the cafeteria of despair, it appears the human alliance members and the weird looking xenos have won, and your section leader, bereft of both of his arms greets you.

"Marine, as you may have known, it turns out that theREAL enemy is these stars-damned  green scum. These... "fine" looking fellows ot the side of me," he points to the one particular alien that seems to be the leader, still wearing a hardsuit "Are actually incredibly pacifistic nature, and really regret this entire situation happening. Also, apparently these monsters eat babies, so the... Yorans... are totally cool with us killing the foul green-skinned Xeno scum."

Your incredibly archaic mind processes this for a full second, before your murder-or-not vision finally decides that these humans and these particular xenos are not okay to kill, and you ask your commander who should die.

"Your going on a suicide mission to kill the Orc Leader, by all means needed, so we can take over this ship and get back to Earth and warn them before reinforcements arrive."

Looking around, this ship does seem a tad strange, and you ask how this ship came to be.

"Well, the orcs take the parts of the ship they destroy and weld it to their ship, usually in a makeshift manner, as with the case of the SS Starfarer, /our/ ship."

nodding once as if you knew what he was talking about, you trudge off, wondering where the captain is, and looking down the hallways.

What do you do?


Edit: fix spelling errors.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 28, 2016, 09:15:58 am
Look for a still living wounded orc and ask for directions*. Failing that, find an orc, shoot his legs off and ask for directions*.


*"Oi, git, ya boss iz a pussy. Were is dat snivellin' wimperin' coward 'idin' fra' me? Imma gonna kick 'is ass an' mak'im me bitch wen I find 'im."
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 29, 2016, 04:21:20 pm
Asking for directions.

You walk around, looking for some living orcs, before you find exactly that, a single orc, sawing off the leg of a dead Yoran, you note the purple-blue blood, and you fire at the Orc, near its legs. although the shot missed, its legs hit by the blast, and it is punted into the air, hitting hte ceiling and flying back down.you walk right up to the poor Xeno, and begin interrogating it. it really doesn't understand you, and vice versa, but after a small amount of interrogative slamming into a wall and some correlative sign languages, it points down a hallway, noting that either it is the bridge of the ship, or where their orc god himself sits.

before you begin to trudge along the murder path the Yoran you had duct taped to the wall catches up to you, and graciously thanks you for saving him from eternal enslavement etc, and offers to work in your service, he shows off his energy pistol, with eight battery-clips.

You quietly note that you are around half-way out of ammo.

What do you do about this situation?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Kassire on October 29, 2016, 05:42:01 pm
Have them join us, combined arms and all that jazz
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on October 29, 2016, 08:22:57 pm
Have them join us, combined arms and all that jazz
+1
Anyway, we did keep the sword, so we can save some ammo.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: helmacon on October 30, 2016, 12:51:49 am
Have them join us, combined arms and all that jazz
+1
Anyway, we did keep the sword, so we can save some ammo.
That sounds good. +1
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on October 31, 2016, 03:19:08 pm
Unfettered Access

Accepting the aliens offer with a single affirmative grunt, you move on, while holding you sword in a ready position. For a full hour you travel through the ship slaying orcs and their nefarious beasts. Then, as you walk into a section of hull that seems to have come from a human ship, you note a corpse on the floor, manning a rail gun similar to yours, however there is crude explosives wired to it. It is likely that the explosive will detonate if the ammunition is taken off, and although you are very much sure you can handle the xenos primitives explosives going off, the presumed horde of orcs would rush into the area following the noise, and if you leave it behind, it will likely be used for anti ship warfare anyways. The Yoran mutters to him(it?)self while going through the electronics panels of the room, as if he was looking for something.

You of course ask what it was doing, and it responds. "Trying to get the power heading to the rail gun to overload, so the rail gun would explode if it were fired." Glancing back at the rail gun, you do note that its fusion batteries are missing, replaced by a reactor tap, so you will still need another power source in the long term.

What do you do?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on November 01, 2016, 09:59:33 am
...Just gonna bump my /own/ forum game. yeah.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on November 01, 2016, 11:19:02 am
Sorry, it seems this one went unnoticed...

Stare pointedly at the explosive, to see if the detonator cowers and faints before our withering gaze. When it's done, tell the xeno techie to remove the reactor tap and put our own barrel on the less damaged one. Take our gun's battery and ammo, and put them on the other one.
Discard our old gun with a salute. There - the trap is rendered moot.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on November 03, 2016, 10:34:50 am
Theft at its finest.
Deciding that although your railgun is slightly more advanced in terms of acceleration power, the undamaged railgun is almost completely more safer then the damaged, sparking railgun. you throw a withering stare at the detonator, for a full five minutes, before the Xeno Techie pulls out a hammer and crushes it. with that done, you cut the barrel off your rail gun, and jury rig it so that the shortened barrel is on the aged railgun. form there, you loot all the magnetic pellets and pull out the fusion cartridge and dump your old railgun onto the floor. you kerb stomp it to the ground, while saluting it with tears of savage sadness. your shoes are covered in lemon juice and duct tape.

An orc walks in, looking terrified, and yelps in fear.

the xeno techie panics and throws a grenade, blowing them to bits.

That probably made enough noise to attract an orcen horde nearby...

What do you do with this situation?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on November 03, 2016, 02:51:24 pm
Let them come! Yeah! Come get sum!

On the other hand, we shouldn't waste ammo taking only a couple of them at a time... I know!
Wait by the door for them to come and see you, and raise the alarm. Lock and block the door before they get to it, let their reinforcements pile up while they're trying to open it, and let rip with the railgun through the door.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on November 04, 2016, 05:14:39 am
Tactical Murdering

Promptly getting to work  by smashing the doors upper actuator in, the door falls to the ground. shortly after, more nad more pounding is heard followed by a welding of hthe door. just when the door falls, you send a pellet at the orcen horde that assembled in front of the door. they are knocked back, and the techie keeps htem at bay while you reload. this happens for  asecond, third, and fourth time until the vast majority are missing limbs or are bleeding out. generic looting reveals that one of them had a map of the ship. although it looks crudely drawn, it shows a path right clear to the captain, however it seems that most of the paths mean going through a part of the ship called the "Orcen Psyis", which honestly frightens you a tiny bit, but you can of course take a the long way through the "Techbay" instead.

What do you do?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on November 04, 2016, 05:27:00 am
Think hard. Try not to dribble while waiting for more players to make suggestions.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Gwolfski on November 04, 2016, 05:37:00 am
Tech bay. Ammo
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Maegil on November 04, 2016, 10:39:25 am
Tech bay. Ammo
Hell yeah!
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on April 18, 2017, 04:54:40 pm
Ressurection

Drooling a little bit must've fucked up your brain real hard. you look around and note that your real nice railgun is bent a little when you fell and started drooling. Thinking it's fine, you spit on it and continue on your day. trudging along the way, you load some beads in from before, and ponder slightly at just how horrifically stupid it is to use a ship based railgun as an anti-personal weapon, but before you could think about it too hard,  the xeno technologist tripped on his own two left feet, and you called him a pudgy nerd.

You get to one of the tech bays, open the door, and note two things happening in the Ammo bay.
1. They set up a fighting ring in the middle of the bay, where an absolute scrapheap of a robot is dooking it out with an absurdly HUGE Orcen. you're not sure who is winning si9nce there both so utterly broken/mutilated that there probably gonna both die. there are seven other orcs, one that is absurdly tiny sitting in a corner. he seems to be messing around with explosives and muttering to himself, but whenever another orc comes by to bug him, tiny knives stick into their hide and they leave him alone again.

You're pretty sure your Marine Pride can handle them all, but what will be your personal cost?

What do you do?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: StrawBarrel on April 21, 2017, 10:09:58 pm
Stow our pride away for now. Humbly sneak through the ammo bay. If we or the xeno are detected, then get ready to rumble.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on April 21, 2017, 10:53:26 pm
Tactics and Dogma

Deciding that clobbering every single one of them was not worth your time. You moved on, moving without a trace, as silent as a marine in combat armor could be, which is very quiet compared to these aliens whooping and hollering like amatuers.

as you roofed pass the ammo bay a single box gets your attention and you open it with a loud clack.

Inside is bits and pieces, obviously for a railgun. such valuable equipment would make a ship mounted three-meter molybdenum Steel Bearing accelerator a semi-auto weapon. Such glorious equipment is perhaps one of the most valuable things a Railgun Operator could ask for, as it turns their job from manually setting each and every pellet to loading the internal magazine with clips and calling it a day. You dool a little with marine pride.

You leave the room, the orc'n'bot smash over, both are alive, missing limbs. You move away, far far away from the hell hole camp.

You tinker with the equipment, attaching it to the Mark 1.1 Railgun with adapt hands, experience guiding your aged hands, you idly note through one of the mirror-polished surfaces of your weapon that you have large eyes and a cute button nose.

the Xeno was sleeping in a cubby hole while you tinkered for the six hours it took, and you heard a gruff voice just as you finished, speak.
It was a harsh and gurgly voice, exactly like an Orc.
"Yersh duh diemone?"

Your blood boils a to a low simmering rage, and you turn around with the railgun in hand, the autoloader already primed a shot to fire, and the Orc in front of you was the same one that brooded in the corner, his pack filled to the brim with enough explosives to most likely cause a hole in the ship and kill at least a tenth of everyone onboard, Not you of course. your too much for weak sauce explosives to kill.

What do?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Aseaheru on April 22, 2017, 07:49:04 pm
Alliance time?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on April 22, 2017, 09:22:46 pm
Allaince time.

You go up to him, and in the nicest of words possible, try and recruit him to your cause, of killing the biggest of the orcians who hold this land.

I hate ddat orcie, lets kill 'em.

He joins your merry band and you move forward. it took a long and relatively short time of a couple hours before you make it to the end of the line.

the beginning of the bridge area.

through the blast door less the army of orcs that you are ready to kill, but how will you never the area?

the ugly tall xeno says that we can sneak in through the vents while you think you can cut the door open with a rail gun shot. the Orc who is in your party wants to blow a hole through the wall.

What do you do?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: StrawBarrel on April 22, 2017, 09:47:29 pm
Blow a hole in the wall. The orc probably has the most knowledge about this place.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Aseaheru on April 23, 2017, 02:11:53 am
+1 from me.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on April 23, 2017, 09:57:36 am
Blow a hole in the wall

the charges are set, and the wall blows apart, and the crates that were behind the wall which of course survived the detonation fall over, providing convenient cover. you were the first into the room, and the first bolt lands straight into the biggest orc there was, who was barechested. as you turn to fire the next shot, you nail another orc. and another. when you look back at the orc who you shot first, the metal bead was between his abs, glowing hot as the orc's monstrous pecs appear to be charging up to fire the beat back at you.

Your not sure you can handle that much power coming towards you if it hits...
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Aseaheru on April 23, 2017, 02:08:00 pm
Shoot the pellet as it is launched at you. If that fails, bravely run away.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: StrawBarrel on April 23, 2017, 08:51:46 pm
Shoot the pellet as it is launched at you. If that fails, bravely run away.
+1
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Mardent23 on April 23, 2017, 10:43:08 pm

Shoot the pellet as it is launched at you. If that fails, bravely run away rush it.
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: wer6 on May 12, 2017, 10:49:29 am
Shoot the pellet as it is launched at you. If that fails, bravely run away.

Just as the pellet reaches critical muscleage, it is launched and it is caught by your own railgun bolt. the kinetic force of the collision causes fusion, briefly. You are launched back by the explosion and land on a rod of metal.

You look around you and notice that although your still in the room, everybody else that was inside it is dead, your brave allies had the common sense to let you take lead and had let you cleared them out. the conents of the room is the various chunks of meat of fallen orc, a headless muscle wizard orc, and a barrel fire.

Your starting to feel a little hungry.
What do you do?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: Aseaheru on May 12, 2017, 11:21:41 am
Eat a golden spacearmy ration.

Afterall, who knows where that meat has been?
Title: Re: You are Railgun operator
Post by: StrawBarrel on June 09, 2017, 10:22:34 pm
Eat a golden spacearmy ration.

Afterall, who knows where that meat has been?
+1