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I wrote up a backstory with an extra hook. It's on my MythWeavers character sheet.

It's the GM's choice is Friedrick is precognitive or just lucky.

HEXTUPLE mugception!

"Victor"
Hand Jaime her swords back and then tear a piece off my top under the armor and wrap it around Gretchens wrist as a basic support and keep heading towards the university

Victor gets a bit chilly from ripping off some of his shirt after taking off armor and coat, but he'll be fine after a bit of walking.
The three make it to the university's barriers without incident.

"Mom, stop the car, I'll go check it out."

Jessica gets out of the car and walks over to the nearest car to ask about the situation.

Jessica gets out and goes to a car. It looks like it was hastily abandoned, the keys still in the ignition, a few boxes of granola bars and a lost stuffed turtle still in the trunk. All the cars are like that--no one inside. Weird, and rather hard to get through. Jessica returns to the car and say, "Mom, the cars are empty. Like, completely."
Jessica's mother thinks a moment, then says, "Jess, get out of the car. If it was worth walking to them, it is to us."

(Sorry, busy busyness over here)

An entire quarantine of Chicago, enough to scare them into stopping the metro? That's crazy. But if it's serious, there's absolutely no way I'm going to be stuck here til' I die. I'd rather get crushed than starve out in this city. There's probably hordes of people trying to get out, but no one's desperate enough to take the tracks. No one but me.

Eric Romani: Continue along the tracks, head to the end of the line before exiting.

[2] Eric continues along the tracks. With his limited supplies and knowledge of his more limited time, he moves quickly. Soon, he sees some sort of barricade being erected near the city limits and goes to chat with the cops near it.
"Excuse me, officer, I need to--"
[5] "Erm, citizen, is that a handgun?"
Eric has to admit it. "Yes, sir, it is."
"You are aware that those are illegal in the city of Chicago, aren't you?"
"Damn it, sir, there's less than an hour, surely you have better things to do than--"
"Sorry, I tend to be a by-the-book guy who has orders not to let criminals out. My boss isn't a fan of crooks."
"Just let me out! I don't even have any bul--"
"I'm also not a fan of people who swear at me..."
Eric leaves, dejected. On the bright side, he wasn't arrested, but on the downside, he needs to find a better place to escape. And ideally conceal his gun better.

"Robert"
Go up onto the barricade and look down at what remains of the mob that tried to get out.

Robert tries to stagger up on his broken leg, [2] but fails. It hurts a hell of a lot. An officer comes over. "You guys okay?"
"Yeah..." [5] Robert comes up with a story. "We were in our apartments and discovered we weren't able to get out. We heard that Chicago was going to be quarantined soon, and so wanted to get out."
"Understandable, but that building is in the currently-quarantined area."
[1] "We aren't sick, although a few of us have broken--"
One of the girls, an Asian who jumped too far coughs.
"Yeah, not sick...I'll tell you what, I'll have you driven to the hospital. It's in-town, but you'll be helped until you all die of the plague they cooked up."
"The plague they--"
"I've said too much. Do you want to go to the hospital or not?"

Phillip does what the captain says and waits for...well...he wasn't exactly sure, yet...

[4] A single kid tries to be all sneaky and get to the barricade, but a single warning shot scares him off. He checks his watch...

There are 25 minutes left this turn. What do the five do?

/create Bonnie Tyler

[5] You stop creating Bonnie Tyler. I didn't know you had started.
Or who Bonnie Tyler is, for that matter.

We just need Phillip's actions now...

Why couldn't I use my welding glove to throw it?

Because I have a lot of characters and some other FGaR threads I'm running, and you didn't mention it.
[4] You successfully retcon your throw to have thrown the Baconception with the welding glove,

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on September 23, 2012, 09:21:53 am

Quote from: muzzz on September 23, 2012, 08:56:33 am

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on September 23, 2012, 06:42:48 am

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The general idea is sound. Why should individual atoms work differently than whole scads of atoms?

Issues of scale. For example: I have no issues with individual atoms, or even small compounds, entering my bloodstream. I would not, however, like to find out what happens if an entire cat made it's way in there.

If your bloodstream was big enough, it wouldn't matter. Besides, the analogy is faulty--a better analogy might be comparing what happens if some weird quantum effect happens to an electron and asking why that couldn't happen to or affect a person.

But my bloodstream isn't big enough, that's the point. Quantum effects don't scale up to our everyday, classical-mechanics scale. And we should be thankful for that. 9 out 10 times, the answer to "what would happen if X did scale up like that?" is "the universe as we know it wouldn't exist".

And even if I accept your premise, what about when the effects of quantum thingies affect the macroscopic world, a la the exact thought experiment we were talking about?

You don't have any shifts until next Monday, day 15, but after that it's a commute [1] every Monday.
[1] You explode the heat ray in the middle of a barbeque. Everyone gets burns except The Sprint and Sin. Everyone is hospitalized.

END OF DAY 9 OF VILLAINY

You wake up feeling terrible and contemplating the wisdom of heat rays. You are in a hospital bed, covered in bandages. You note a form on your bedside table. Your mechanical left arm and right leg are fine. What do you do?