DreadStormers [IC]

[GnomesofZurich]

Originally Posted by TGLS

Well I think we can kill a bunch of time with the meeting and perhaps with sabotage. Maybe if other stuff happens too. So maybe it would matter? A 20% chance of unrecoverable failure is a bit high for me.

Fair enough, we'll call it good with 10.

[ericthered]

1st shift starts 102 hours after dropping out of hyperspace: Pacficia and Daymar should be asleep, Hua will be assigned work around the hyperdrive core.

The meeting is in about 18 hours, during third shift.

anything to do this shift? Or the next shift, for that matter?

[Hide]

Once Pacifica is dimissed (done talking to Vinobi), she gets to work and carries on as usual, then she goes to Zybo.

Sir, how may I help you?

[GnomesofZurich]

Originally Posted by ericthered

1st shift starts 102 hours after dropping out of hyperspace: Pacficia and Daymar should be asleep, Hua will be assigned work around the hyperdrive core.

The meeting is in about 18 hours, during third shift.

anything to do this shift? Or the next shift, for that matter?

Daymar is going to try to push the drive repairs back. During his shift, he's going to try to identify a crewman working on the repairs and use the Independent Suggestion technique to provide the worker some instructions on how to damage the drive.

Here is a Mechanic (Stardrive) roll to determine the best suggestion to give to the crewman in question.

[653] 21-09-30 23:48:35 CEST

Mechanic (Stardrive)

3d6 <= 14
1 + 6 + 2 = 9 ... success

He will spend 5 FP to use the technique (2 base + 3 to reduce the skill penalty):

[654] 21-09-30 23:50:07 CEST

Suggestion (Independent)

3d6 <= 16
6 + 2 + 5 = 13 ... success

It will only last minutes equal to my margin of success (so it will also depend how well the crewman passes or fails his Will roll).

[TGLS]

Originally Posted by ericthered

1st shift starts 102 hours after dropping out of hyperspace: Pacficia and Daymar should be asleep, Hua will be assigned work around the hyperdrive core.

The meeting is in about 18 hours, during third shift.

anything to do this shift? Or the next shift, for that matter?

I forgot to say anything about the roll I made earlier. I'd like to get a feel for how well the drive repairs are going.

[652] 21-09-29 16:43:13 CEST
Observation
3d6 <= 13
1 + 4 + 4 = 9 ... success

Would it be possible to mess up the drive repairs clandestinely? Perhaps by messing with a forklift so it would drop one of the discs?

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by TGLS

I forgot to say anything about the roll I made earlier. I'd like to get a feel for how well the drive repairs are going.

Would it be possible to mess up the drive repairs clandestinely? Perhaps by messing with a forklift so it would drop one of the discs?

And I forgot to address it as well.



You can mess with the forklifts if you want, but targeting a breakdown to effect a specific delicate piece of machinery is going to require more than a simple mechanics roll. You can cause general forklift issues: how many do you want to cause, and how long of a repair time do you want? Your orders include getting this ship into battle after you take it...

Originally Posted by Hide

Once Pacifica is dimissed (done talking to Vinobi), she gets to work and carries on as usual, then she goes to Zybo.

Sir, how may I help you?

Zybo: "Are we wrapping up on all of the logistics reports? I suppose we are."*


Zybo: "We suspect that the dreadstormers are trying to sabotage the repair of the hyperdrive core. We're trying to come up with anti-sabotage measures. Could you come up with a few ideas for me?"



*OCC: administration job roll succeeded by 6.

Originally Posted by GnomesofZurich

Daymar is going to try to push the drive repairs back. During his shift, he's going to try to identify a crewman working on the repairs and use the Independent Suggestion technique to provide the worker some instructions on how to damage the drive.

Here is a Mechanic (Stardrive) roll to determine the best suggestion to give to the crewman in question.

[653] 21-09-30 23:48:35 CEST

Mechanic (Stardrive)

3d6 <= 14
1 + 6 + 2 = 9 ... success

He will spend 5 FP to use the technique (2 base + 3 to reduce the skill penalty):

[654] 21-09-30 23:50:07 CEST

Suggestion (Independent)

3d6 <= 16
6 + 2 + 5 = 13 ... success

It will only last minutes equal to my margin of success (so it will also depend how well the crewman passes or fails his Will roll).

the crew member rolls a 16... he has eight minutes to pull off his sabotage.


Will you be passing them in the hall or will you be giving the command from the engineering floor surrounding the hyperspace core?

[GnomesofZurich]

Originally Posted by ericthered

the crew member rolls a 16... he has eight minutes to pull off his sabotage.

Will you be passing them in the hall or will you be giving the command from the engineering floor surrounding the hyperspace core?

In the hall, I want to minimize the chance someone will connect "Nijothu" to the incident, even though the only connection is briefly being in proximity with each other.

[TGLS]

Originally Posted by ericthered

You can mess with the forklifts if you want, but targeting a breakdown to effect a specific delicate piece of machinery is going to require more than a simple mechanics roll.

Maybe I could do a mechanic roll with the confuse roll to cause a forklift to breakdown at some critical time, like with locks in the armory.

[Hide]

Originally Posted by ericthered

(...) Zybo: "We suspect that the dreadstormers are trying to sabotage the repair of the hyperdrive core. We're trying to come up with anti-sabotage measures. Could you come up with a few ideas for me?" (...)

Yes, my suggestion is to work with an infiltrate. We could take three approaches; (1) You could pick a man you trust (albeit qualified to work in the hyperdrive section) and send him “sabotage” the hyperdrive. You can feed the ship with rumors and let the rumors build rep for him. (2) You could free one of the prisoners and tail him. (3) You could break a deal with one of the prisoners and turn him into an infiltrate or use him as bait. I could help you checking the profiles and pick the most suitable crewman.

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by GnomesofZurich

Daymar is going to try to push the drive repairs back. During his shift, he's going to try to identify a crewman working on the repairs and use the Independent Suggestion technique to provide the worker some instructions on how to damage the drive.

The crewman he targets in the hall is an engineer on the hyper core. The largest and quickest movements of the core are over, so large movement sabotage won't work, and the parts aren't moving yet, but they are exposed, and some of them are delicate. The mechanic will try to scratch some of the more sensitive parts with a screwdriver, requiring the parts to be painstakingly repaired.


Daymar is not around to see how things fail

Originally Posted by Hide

Yes, my suggestion is to work with an infiltrate. We could take three approaches; (1) You could pick a man you trust (albeit qualified to work in the hyperdrive section) and send him “sabotage” the hyperdrive. You can feed the ship with rumors and let the rumors build rep for him. (2) You could free one of the prisoners and tail him. (3) You could break a deal with one of the prisoners and turn him into an infiltrate or use him as bait. I could help you checking the profiles and pick the most suitable crewman.

"Infiltration..." Zybo muses... "Your ideas all seem to rely on the dreadstormers making contact with their allies. So far, it seems that they avoid doing that. How could we make contact happen?"

Originally Posted by TGLS

Maybe I could do a mechanic roll with the confuse roll to cause a forklift to breakdown at some critical time, like with locks in the armory.

Confuse would work. Knocking that out requires Per-based freight handling at -2 to pick out the correct time. I also need to know your range, and you need to make the roll: you get -1 to skill per yard away you are.