Anarchy in Atlantis (IC)

[Dalillama]

Cascabel brews a cup of coffee, slips on her headphones, and starts working on a dubstep version of the Internationale until the others get up again

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by jwalton99

Jack looks at the group, then points to the ceiling
“Metal”.
Points to the wall.
“Metal”
Points to the floor.
“Metal”.

He shakes his head.
“We are in an archeology. This is a man made place, designed to house a lot of people. Digging traps, barbed wire and such is right out. Security in this place is what we make it. I can get us into some of the back ways, but even there, other people are around.”

“We need some kind of decision. And Papa and I need to sleep.”

Originally Posted by Kalzazz

"Why can't we do barbed wire and land mines if we can find any?

Maybe caltrops.

We need to try to sell the guns anyway"

Originally Posted by jwalton99

Jack sighs.

“How are you going to attach the barbed wire? Where are you going to GET barbed wire? Usually around for keeping animals in place… the walls here tend to do that.”

He shrugs. “Admittedly, I could probably solder the ends of the wire to the wall, but the makes it difficult for anybody, specifically including US to get in and out.”

“And Land mines are usually buried. Hard to do in a metal floor. And, again, where are you going to get a land mine? I might could make some, but I don’t plan to. Land mines in an enclosed space like this are pretty dangerous.”

He yawns.

“And if you are going to go sell the guns now, have a good trip. I’m tired, Papa is tired, we both need to sleep.”

"The lights are on. That means there is wire all over the place, it hasn't been stripped by looters yet. We can make barbed wire if we need to."


"The metal walls are an asset: they stop people and make them go through some very specific routes. Though... are these walls actually metal? You can punch through dry-wall pretty easily."


"Built up urban areas are considered the ultimate defensible terrain. We can't dig, but we already have a bunch of choke points, and we can build barricades out of furniture, and even out of appliances. I can wire up a bunch of cameras and noise traps to identify people coming towards us. We can certainly fortify this area."

[TGLS]

Originally Posted by ericthered

"We can certainly fortify this area."

We can, but should we? Somebody wants this area. Is it really that hard to find a different place to live?

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by TGLS

We can, but should we? Somebody wants this area. Is it really that hard to find a different place to live?

"We can fortify some area. And we ought to. I can see some argument that this is the wrong area to fortify, but I don't think we need to go particuarly far. It'd be nice if we could figure out who this "Bad Hound" was."


"How far do you think would be safe? Anyone know of a similarly empty neighborhood?"



OCC: I the player know the reason is that someone is after Aleph. But Aleph is saying we should move because "Someone wants this area".

[TGLS]

Originally Posted by ericthered

"How far do you think would be safe?"

"Well, off this map would probably do. But if there's any good reason to stick around here then maybe we should stay."

[ericthered]

"I can't think of a good reason. We can find another spot. I can load all my stuff on the cart."

[Kalzazz]

"It sounds an awful lot of work, we should try to find a spot first to make sure it's an improvement before we actually move"

[ericthered]

"Yes, scout it first."


How far can I fly a drone down a stairwell before being stopped by a door? Does any such door have a glass pane in it to look through?

[ajardoor]

Originally Posted by ericthered

"Yes, scout it first."

How far can I fly a drone down a stairwell before being stopped by a door? Does any such door have a glass pane in it to look through?

The stairs in the slums feature no doors. Maybe if you leave the area, there’ll be obstacles to travel. No doors in the slums are made of glass.

The other PCs can rest while you scout.

[ericthered]

Voice sets a drone on the ground and then starts piloting it using its camera from the comfort of the couch. He'll see how high each (2 at each end of the hall) stairwell goes, how low each stairwell goes, and what each of them connect to: I asumming we're in a big stack of like 10 floors of apartments, but there should be that laundromat somewhere, and even if the stacks next to us are just more stacks of apartments, that would be useful information.