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>They trust her not to blow everything up.<

More impressive is that they trust her to stop anyone else from blowing everything up.

What, your parents won't mind?

Maria's asked me to ask you for permission to hold the meeting at her house. Okay with you?

Quote from: From Stella to Will

Hey, there appears to be another pressing issue that since I am here anyway I'm gonna help. Bartimaeus has gone to New York and is in trouble

((and now i need to go to bed damn, the action will probably start before I get up))

((How did Stella contact Will? Phone call? Text?))

Oh, lovely. Well, if you meet anyone else over there, let them know that there's a meeting in Australia, okay?

Did you catch that the old group's going to be meeting tonight? I was wondering if you'd be willing to host them; if not, I'll see if we can fit them in here. Let us know soon, okay?

Hmm just on the topic of conspiracies (and their resources)  what about characters who are themselves wealthy, I always had in the back of my mind that Stella had quite a few long term investments, still they are in the Superhero world and currency would be difficult to quickly move across that border

Indeed.
As mentioned, Will has accrued a fortune, albeit mostly not in his name. He's probably not going to be lending anyone a few million any time soon, though; his cash is tied up in his Make the World Better from Behind the Scenes plots.

Among their members are...tiger fuckers...

Actually, only one, and she's dead now.

...OR, have the guy who just punched a 3 foot thick slab of concrete in half shoot them in the stomach and then pump them full of memory erasing drugs so that they forget being afraid of the ARM, and possibly their childhood.

I don't remember that option coming up...

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Dear piecewise's sister:

Have you read your brother's background-information document? It gives a nice overview of the history of ER. Also helpful is the wiki, notably the New Player Guide but also other pages.

Still, let's assume you can't read those. Here's an overview:
Mankind reached the stars and discovered that there was a lot of weird stuff out there. Anomalies. Things like jump points (which teleport people and things between two points in space), alien technologies, and what is colloquially referred to as space magic.
Mankind spread, and grew proud. No major alien races were found, so we assumed the stars were safe. Then...the Altered came. Imagine a cross between John Carpenter's Thing and Games Workshop's tyrannids, and throw in some physics-screwing for good measure. To combat this threat, the disparate worlds which humanity had settled united in the creatively-named United Worlds of Man, or UWM. Through advanced technology, space magic, and great sacrifice, the Altered were fought back.
Steve is a sentient wetware supercomputer. He watched the end of the Altered wars, if I recall correctly, and he certainly saw what happened next. The UWM started out nice; it was a bit totalitarian, but the polite, necessary kind. But when the need for strong leadership and a bit of sacrifice from every human passed, the UWM didn't let go. Some planets drifted into obscurity; others were strangled by totalitarian laws. Steve saw this, and prepared to fix it.
He was put in charge of a group called the Hazardous Materials Recovery Corps, composed of felons from across the galaxy who are sent on missions where you wouldn't want to send even robots. They check out alien anomalies, deal with the occasional serial killer/assassin (RIP, people on China-9), and occasionally talk with some local leader before accidentally causing a riot and then overloading a manipulator forcing an evacuation of that part of the planet. (That was my first mission. I saved someone's head!) If you die, no problem; as long as they have your brain intact enough, they'll replace everything else with neat cyborg bits, or possibly "synthflesh" (a type of material that has all sorts of fun properties vaguely reminiscent of the Altered, such as physics-warping, durability, and--in large enough quantities--violent rage). Theoretically, if you complete ten missions successfully, you get to go free; in practice, you'll lose your brain before then and if you dont you'll lose it to wetware. It's this band of thieves, whores, and the occasional accidentally-convicted innocent person who gets sent to some of the most dangerous places known to man with some of the most dangerous people known to man which Steve intends to use to revolutionize the UWM.
The HMRC, rechristened the Allied Resistance Movement (?), or ARM, invaded a planet called Hephaestus, one of the biggest manufacturing worlds in the UWM. Simultaneously, other ships invaded other such strategic UWM worlds. Once they did, we prepared, repaired, and fought off a UWM attempt to reclaim their world(s) from what they thought was worker rebellion. Then we went out, with ARM's agents (the old HMRC) being sent on various special-forces missions to recover ancient artifacts, assassinate people who know too much, check out cults, and other things which will be seen in the future, as elsewhere we foster alliances among the downtrodden and research the next wave of technology.

(("Pointing out that the GM did something no GM should do" =/= "Picking fights with the GM". Besides, he is no longer a GM of mine.))

Fairly certain if it's revealed they did that shit would be stirred.

If people noticed, definitely. However, having magic in a muggle's world can stop that pretty easily.

Did anyone tell you that you take the fun out of things?

Only if your fun requires game-breaking illogical organizations that give your character tons of resources because he happens to be part of the ruling family.

Mostly because the VAST majority of the family are indoctrinated to live by the simple rule that anything and everything is an acceptable sacrifice for the good of the family.
Those are the ones that tend to get the important positions.

Oh, brainwashing.

It still needs a complete explanation of how many points she gets per absorbed damage...

1:1

Who wants nightmares?

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I don't get it.

Hmm. I sorta want SERT to drop in and play whack-a-mole with a few wraiths (which will hopefully get michael more or less roped in) until the PC's arrive.

What does SERT stand for, anyways?

Quote from: Kyle>Ashley

Okay, I'm going to park on the edge of the town border and then ride in a get stuff for a, well it's not a road trip more of a zeppelin trip than anything.

Kyle does just that.

Which town?

Quote from: Projeck37 on June 09, 2014, 12:47:23 am

Well then she obviously teleports inside and does as I said. Unless somehow that's stopped.

Oh right, Ashley was white listed for the Ryan's field, forgot about that.

Also, wouldn't anti-magic only stop teleports initiated from within the field?