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I'd have one player as both legs. Unless you're going for slapstick.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on October 16, 2013, 06:33:50 am

Angel keeps looking for Nikki.
((Hey rag, you still running this?))

((Yes, though it's difficult for me to post during the week.))

((As noted elsewhere, that's fine. Might I request that you let someone else control Nikki and other major NPCs, probably not including the Headmistress, when you can't be online?))

Selina pulls out Harry Potter: The Philosephers Stone.

((Philosopher's. And interesting, somehow I thought it was only called that in Europe.))

With a sudden cry of 'SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE', Darnos goes back to his room. He only pokes his head back in to say 'HEADWIG DIES TOO' before vanishing.

((How would Darnos know?))

If I had to hazard a guess, most people are putting the priority on combat, since I'm guessing a lot of that will happen.

Yes, but it makes it harder for Angel to be unusually strong and stuff. I had to drop my Combat Claw!
Which actually wasn't that terrible. +1 to damage for 2 points, versus +1 to damage AND attack for 3 points? Especially since I wasn't using that one point of Ninja Magic? But still.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on October 16, 2013, 06:30:38 am

Why does everyone have Combat 2?

Because triffids in my case at least.

*checks sheet*
...Do you mean "In case of triffids"?

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on October 16, 2013, 10:04:59 am

Quote from: BFEL on October 16, 2013, 09:58:30 am

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on October 16, 2013, 09:13:06 am

((Who, me? Grate doesn't know Xan is dead and wouldn't really care. Xan left a bad impression with Grate...))

((What impression is STEPHEN HAWKING leaving with Grate? ))

(("Annoying/Disturbing but harmless."))

What about Jack? For all the single minute he has met grate.

(("Who's Jack?"))

(Youtube video of Bolin crying)

((I don't suppose that those two were saying highly traumatizing and confusing things? Also where do you get these videos? And please don't just say Youtube.))

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Grate, back at the ship, kicks a wall.
"Ow. That was dumb...almost as dumb as going out with Miss Feyri. What can I do? Glare them to death?"
He formalizes his wandering into a path for the dormitory.
"I'm useless. I can't do anything, unless maybe something gets broken and I need to fix it. And when something breaks...everything always breaks.

"Stupid omnicidal maniacs. Stupid out-of-control space magic stuff."

Before long, Grate reaches the dormitory. He sits on a bed, thinking.

What am I good at? What makes me not dead weight?
Well, I guess I could be a bullet sponge, but I'm not big or threatening enough for anyone to intentionally shoot at me when other people are around, so that's even stupider than it sounded a minute ago.
I guess I could use some kind of techy stuff... Grate checks his pockets to see how many tokens he has. (I've forgotten, and I don't trust the Morons In Space doc to be up-to-date.)
"I could get what, a Scout Eye? Medicine? Maybe some better armor? There's tons of eyes already, and they're not that useful really. Medicine? I'm no medic. It's better than nothing, but I can't do anything. Especially when people get stabbed in the back with chunks of frozen air or exploded by their own magic sand or blown apart with layshow rifles or something. I guess I could take heads back, maybe get a monorazor, but Head Recovery Guy isn't very useful."

Grate lay on the bed for several minutes, thinking. Then his head turned towards his locker.

"...I could try that. But last time someone played with that, it made things...worse. I need to test it. And for that, I need subjects. Ideally pretty similar, to minimize error and stuff. And I don't think that the others would take a bunch of dangerous pills just to see what happens...maybe I should look into getting lab rats. Like, literal ones. Or maybe guinea pigs, those are cute. Pretty big, though, mice might be better. Lizards don't eat much, though."

"...Who am I kidding, I'll take what I can get."

Head to the AM and Doctor, figuring out the theoretical prices of rats, guinea pigs, mice, lizards, rabbits, zebrafish, octopi, fruit flies, or whatever lab animals are available on the Sword. See if I can figure out some sort of deal to get a bunch for free, or a lifetime supply for a few tokens, or something--maybe I promise the Doc I'll let him have my test subjects after I'm done with them?

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on October 16, 2013, 09:13:06 am

((Who, me? Grate doesn't know Xan is dead and wouldn't really care. Xan left a bad impression with Grate...))

((What impression is STEPHEN HAWKING leaving with Grate? ))

(("Annoying/Disturbing but harmless."))

I'd rather have 7 Wealth, or at least goods approximately worth such.

Point.

Still not sure what I'd do with the machine, though.

String-Em-Up is inside. You are outside.