http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/tags/james-marsh Gaming Outpost Discussions » Tag: James Marsh - Recent Posts en-US Thu, 24 May 2012 10:43:32 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/search.php http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-35684 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:28:31 +0000 WilliamTWodium 35684@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p><a href="http://gamingoutpost.com/groups/multiverser/forum/topic/dragons-welcome-continued">Continued</a> in the new forum. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-23464 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:52:34 +0000 JTM 23464@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>"Alright, sure." </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-23424 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:35:36 +0000 WilliamTWodium 23424@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>"Mmm! You're getting more interesting by the minute.</p> <p>"You know, I never got around to issuing that invitation, earlier. You remember - in your dream. Would you like to hear it now?" </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-22897 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:32:40 +0000 JTM 22897@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>"I'm pretty sure that's not dwarven work. It looks rather like the sort of shotgun made in our homeland, which only has legends of dwarves. My only direct experience with dwarven weaponry is that mysterious object the goblins have, but they seem to favor over-engineering." </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-22832 Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:52:24 +0000 WilliamTWodium 22832@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>She blinks, once, then smiles, cat-like.</p> <p>"Clever boy! If things were otherwise, that would be a very sound plan. But, I think you underestimate Robin Strange. Notice how easily he made an ally of your brother - and in how short a time. An ally, I might add, who either has friends among dwarves or the talent to wrest their weapons from them. I dealt with your brother easily enough, of course, but you see how the thing might go on. And you would have me allow him to <em>complete</em> his journey, gathering who-knows-who along the way, and reach Sparrowhome? So he can renege on the deal while surrounded by friends and family?</p> <p>"An understandable mistake; you've only just met him, after all. When you've a bit more experience, I think you'll make a <em>fine</em> witch." </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-22790 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:58:49 +0000 JTM 22790@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>"So what was the point of taking it from Robin while he was planning to take it to heal his family? Seems like it would have been simpler to make a deal where he got to try it on his family in the first place, then give it to you. Then you wouldn't need a follow-up test." </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-22690 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:11:32 +0000 WilliamTWodium 22690@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>You sit near the trunk of a sturdy maple, perhaps a story or two above the forest floor. Evelyn turns the stone over in her hand and smiles as she answers your question.</p> <p>"It's called the Crystal Tear. <em>Supposedly,</em> a dragon hatchling in pain began to cry, but before it could shed more than a single tear, its mother took pity on it and used her magic to suck all of the suffering out of the hatchling and put it in the tear instead. <em>Well,</em> the amount of pain it takes to make a <em>dragon cry</em> - even a baby dragon - was so great, it made the tear instantly solidify, hardening like an ancient tree. (That's this crystal.) And <em>supposedly</em>, whenever the Crystal Tear again comes into the presence of love and pain at once, it will draw that suffering into itself just like before, thus curing any ailment or malady imaginable.</p> <p>"Supposedly. I intend to discern the truth."</p> <p>Turning the stone over again, she adds, </p> <p>"Well, at least the last part, anyway. I'm not certain I care about its provenance." </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-22656 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:08:53 +0000 JTM 22656@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p><em> It turns out the witch actually got named Evelyn in the in-thread conversation and I forgot. </p> <p>Also, I'm pretty sure Robin did get left in the clearing.</em> </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-22610 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:48:46 +0000 WilliamTWodium 22610@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p><em>Do we remember what became of Robin Strange? Is he still in the clearing, under the care of the ensorceled Robert (who still considers him friend, but is in the awkward position of considering the witch a friend as well)?</p> <p>Did we ever name the witch? If we haven't, fine, but if we did and don't remember the name I'll just invent one now (or let you invent it).</p> <p>I'll post for this just as soon as I'm back up to speed with my own scenario. Probably that will be by tomorrow night sometime. Glad to have you back.</em> </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-22607 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:23:22 +0000 JTM 22607@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p><em>The remander of the summary is in <a href="http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/raptors-and-shotguns-robert-meets-turok"> Robert's thread</a>.</em></p> <p>I'm pretty sure the final question was me asking what the device did. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-16698 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:12:07 +0000 JTM 16698@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>She indicated that Grimalt was a dwarven spy, who decided that I was also a spy, possibly a dwarven spy. I'm not quite clear on the motive for his actions, but she said that he arranged to have me sent to The Well so I could get broken out. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-16696 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:27:01 +0000 WilliamTWodium 16696@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p><em>And unless I misremember, two of those attribute checks were critical failures. I know the cramp was (chaining a stamina check), but I have a vague notion that a persuasion check during the "I-am-not-a-spy" conversation went nova as well.</p> <p>I'll pop over to Robert's thread and check on how much he has to write; I think we left him still alive in Turok's world, poor dear. Tell him to email me if he's got questions or if he wants to make futile attempts to get me to write it for him.</em></p> <blockquote><p>At some point during the conversation, the dragon began talking to me . . . </p></blockquote> <p>I'll just mention for clarity that this was mind-to-mind, and all James/dragon communication was concurrent with his conversation with the goblins, as well as apparently undetected by them. Conversing with the dragon in this way was less like answering a mental cell phone call (selective two-way communication) and more like being addressed over the PA system by the man behind the two-way mirror (effectively two-way, but only one party is transmitting).</p> <p>The LED flashlight was thought to be Elvish make, which clouded the whole issue of "dwarvish spy" but raised more questions than it settled.</p> <p>There was a great deal of subtlety, detail, and tension in the scene, most of which is lost to time and wouldn't come through well in a summary anyway. Such is the way of things.</p> <blockquote><p>She implied that the whole situation was an elaborate ploy instigated by Grimalt, who was himself a dwarven spy.</p> </blockquote> <p>If you remember anything else on this point, it would help if you could recount it for me. If not, no worries. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-16688 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:50:17 +0000 JTM 16688@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p><em>Rather late on this, mostly because I got bored partway through writing it and then lost it before I got back to writing. There was an extended period of live play.</em></p> <p>I was generally evasive her. She turned out to be a witch, and perhaps inadvertently revealed that she knew about the device. At that point, I went with dead silence. She woke me up by turning into a snake.</p> <p>Later, Grimalt, the king, and a nameless, completely nondescript goblin showed up to talk to me. Grimalt was apparently convinced I was a dwarven spy. I attempted to persuade them otherwise by showing off my LED flashlight. At some point during the conversation, the dragon began talking to me. He suggested that I blame it on witches. I did so, which attracted a great deal of interest from all of the goblins. The dragon then gave a description of a clearing in which i could claim to have met them, but I decided to instead be vague. The dragon was disappointed and ended the conversation, while the king was persuaded to arrest me and put me in "The Well". I sprinted off but immediately got a cramp, and was caught by Grimalt and the king, at which point I surrendered.</p> <p>I was taken to The Well, which turned out to be a large number of cells with stout wooden doors with small windows, only accessable via a lift lowered from the top, dug into clay. A while later I got a sudden urge to escape, then was let out by a guard who seemed to be in a trance, then I walked off into the forest and met the witch in a clearing matching the dragon's description. She implied that the whole situation was an elaborate ploy instigated by Grimalt, who was himself a dwarven spy.</p> <p><em> The rest should probably wait on robert writing up his section of live play, as he showed up around this piont. On a side note, this session involved perhaps the worst rolling in my gaming history, counting nethack. I failed every single attribute check I attempted, and got high 20s on the GE roll for the dungeon</em> </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-12238 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:29:21 +0000 WilliamTWodium 12238@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>She pouts. &quot;I was <em>hoping</em> to extend you an invitation. If you&#39;re going to keep reacting to everything with such discourtesy and suspicion, I&#39;m not sure I should bother.</p> <p>&quot;Your turn, then. What is it <em>you</em> want?&quot; </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-12230 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:16:24 +0000 JTM 12230@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>&quot;No, I think we will continue it in here. What is it you want?&quot; </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-12082 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:41:00 +0000 WilliamTWodium 12082@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>&quot;Rest yourself easy, James. Your room hasn&#39;t gone anywhere. This isn&#39;t your room, any more than that out there is my garden. This is a dream of your room, and that is a dream of my garden. I am a dream of me, talking to a dream of you. I am a witch; we find visiting is simpler this way.</p> <p>&quot;Shall we?&quot; She motions to the door. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-12004 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:25:58 +0000 JTM 12004@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>&quot;First, explain how this room wound up on a ground floor adjacent to a garden.&quot; </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-11870 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:07:46 +0000 WilliamTWodium 11870@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Her smug expression drops away. &quot;Ah - wait, um, don&#39;t you - ?&quot;</p> <p>The view from the window is not your neighborhood. For one thing, your room had ought to be on the second story, and the view is at ground level. For another, there is nothing at all suburban about the lush vegetation you see through the window glass. Tall trees whose canopies are out of sight give a green cast to what daylight makes it down this far. The bushes, shrubs and grasses are all in bloom, and have a wild, uncultivated look to them; despite that, there seem to be well-kept paths winding through it all.</p> <p>&quot;Ahem. I was going to <em>ask</em> if you wanted to move this conversation to the garden . . .&quot;</p> <p>__<br /> <em>I figured impotent stuttering was far enough shy of yelling that you&#39;d go ahead with peaking out the window. Also, I made another roll. It was 17, a success.</em> </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-11565 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:50:07 +0000 JTM 11565@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>I will get up to look through them, and will be stopped by getting grabbed, yelled at, or attacked. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-11546 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:49:40 +0000 WilliamTWodium 11546@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p><em>They really are revoltingly bad. As for the PPCs, I&#39;m fonder of the concept than the stories (or at least the one I glanced though). They strike me as more fun to write than to read.</em></p> <p>The blinds are closed. Are you getting up to look out of them? (And if so, what would stop you?)</p> <p>_<br /> <em>I hate to use a whole post for that (especially since I might not post at all this weekend - out of town), but it occurred to me - very late in working on your post - that not only had I been completely remiss in my description of the window, you might wish to conceal your intent (a quick glance being okay, but getting out of bed and raising the blinds not okay). While usually I would push forward and let you rein me back in if I overstepped, information of this kind is very hard to take back. </em> </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-11530 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:57:41 +0000 JTM 11530@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>It stands for &quot;Protectors of the Plot Continuum&quot;. It&#39;s a giant shared project meta-fiction setting, in which the characters go into bad fan-fiction, stick around a while to make a list of affronts to the source materials, logic, laws of physics, and the English language. Then they destroy the blatant self-inserts and characters that act as accessories to said blatant self-inserts. It&#39;s a bit like mystery science theater, except that bad things happen to the annoying characters at the end.</p> <p>It&#39;s hard to feel sorry for the self-inserts, given just how bad things get in the fan-fiction stories. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome/page/2#post-11510 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:02:20 +0000 M. J. Young 11510@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>I&#39;m sorry for the interruption--for those of us among the unenlightened, what are the &quot;PPC&quot; stories? I&#39;m assuming it stands for something, but maybe I&#39;m wrong.</p> <p>--M. J. Young </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-11473 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:36:22 +0000 JTM 11473@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p><em>Recognition by V-me. I also find the PPC stories hilarious and outlandish, but i would rather not be standing next to anyone with purple hair in one of them.</em></p> <p>I look out the window to see if the room is in fact in my neighborhood. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-11471 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:58:29 +0000 WilliamTWodium 11471@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p><em>Do you mean &#39;recognition . . . by V-me&#39; or &#39;fanfiction by V-me&#39;? I&#39;m assuming the former, given your irritation.</em></p> <p>She frowns. &quot;No. But light bulbs are elf magic. Only, you&#39;re not an elf, are you? If this is what you&#39;re used to,&quot; she gestures vaguely at the room, &quot;you&#39;ll have <em>worlds</em> of fun living with the goblins. Except - no, you won&#39;t. I got &#39;fun&#39; mixed up with something else.&quot;</p> <p>__<br /> <em>Made a roll I&#39;m not revealing yet. If I haven&#39;t mentioned it again after a week, remind me. Incidentally, you made me look up PPC stories; I find the entire concept outlandish, and thus hilarious.</em> </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-11439 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:11:37 +0000 JTM 11439@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p><em>Now&#39;s probably a good time to point out that the Age/gender/hair color would actually cause recognition of a stock description for annoying and shallow self-inserts in fanfiction by V-me, and thus irritation. Just not associated fear from the PPC stories.</em></p> <p>I sit up and say, &quot;No, i have not encountered any elves. Are lightbulbs uncommon where you come from?&quot; </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-11400 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:26:05 +0000 WilliamTWodium 11400@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>She finally looks at you. &quot;Don&#39;t you think that&#39;s a bit of a personal question?&quot; She pouts a moment, then, &quot;Call me Evelyn. Is this where you used to live, James? I like your rug. And the electric light! Do you deal with elves, too?&quot;</p> <p>She&#39;s leaning down to your level, bracing against the foot of your bed. You&#39;re still half under the covers. Her new posture draws your attention to her eyes, which are a rare color of green; you catch yourself staring into them while groping for a name to put to the hue. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-11398 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:14:24 +0000 JTM 11398@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>I repeat the question, louder this time. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-11350 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:46:09 +0000 WilliamTWodium 11350@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>&quot;You <em>are</em> a strange one, aren&#39;t you?&quot; She sounds as though she&#39;s half talking to herself. &quot;What is this place? So many books . . . !&quot;</p> <p>She&#39;s taken a few steps further into your room and is running her finger along your dresser. You can&#39;t quite place her accent, nor can you help noticing she hasn&#39;t answered you. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-11338 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:37:22 +0000 JTM 11338@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p><em>Stock description to run away from really fast, though V-me never read the stories that make doing so seem particularly urgent. At least there aren&#39;t two random armed people standing around in the backround and grumbling about misuse of puncuation.</em></p> <p>&quot;Who are you?&quot; </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-11309 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:27:06 +0000 WilliamTWodium 11309@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>This is most definitely your bedroom. It&#39;s not precisely how you left it before the trip to Charlotte - it&#39;s been cleaned up a bit, apparently, looking more like how it usually does - but nothing is here that shouldn&#39;t be, nor as far as you can tell is anything missing.</p> <p>Except that there is a girl of about sixteen standing just in front of your closed door. She is wearing a white bed sheet, loosely wrapped and knotted, and is looking about your room with at least as much interest as you are. She is quite pretty, and her hair is the most vivid shade of purple you have ever seen on a real person.</p> <p>__<br /> <em>Simple intuition check (2d20): 32, failure; only reporting what I can&#39;t get away with neglecting, given your actions and the circumstances. (You do get credit for looking, for example, and you can rest easy that nothing obviously hospital-esque has been missed.)</em> </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-11295 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:51:41 +0000 JTM 11295@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>I&#39;m going to take a confused look around, searching for anything wildly out of place, especially if it would not look out of place in a hospital. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-11291 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:00:51 +0000 WilliamTWodium 11291@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p><em>Apologies for the badly-timed lapse. An essay ambushed me, followed by host duty.</em></p> <p>When you awaken, something seems different. After a moment, you realize that you are in your bed at home. The light is on, and you&#39;re dressed in your usual nightwear. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-11193 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:57:57 +0000 JTM 11193@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>No specific plans currently. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-11110 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:40:51 +0000 WilliamTWodium 11110@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>The King claps you on the shoulder, saying, &quot;You have experience with dwarfish work? It's better than I'd hoped. I'm convinced.&quot;</p> <p>Grimalt cuts in, &quot;But Sire, that's not what this device was reported to do! If he can't even identify its function - &quot;</p> <p>&quot;Gibbering gophers, Grimalt, don't ask him to work miracles in the dark! He obviously knows a thing or two, which is a thing or two more than we know without him. And besides, 'fine tools mark a fine craftsman' -- and I know a fine tool from a shoddy one.</p> <p>&quot;We can talk business in the morning. Grimalt will find you lodging for the night, and my guard will see to anything else you need, within reason. And I would appreciate it if you didn't mention this device to anyone outside of this room. With that, I'll bid you good night. Grimalt, I'll see you in the morning?&quot;</p> <p>&quot;Yes, Sire.&quot;</p> <p>&quot;Good night, then.&quot;</p> <p>Unless you've anything to say or do before the King leaves (or after), Grimalt will take you to an unoccupied one-room goblin house on the edge of town and leave you there with the guard, who will accommodate any reasonable requests. (If you have any unreasonable requests, he'll probably try.) If there's anything else you'd like to do or any specific plan you have for the morning, I'm listening. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-11080 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:55:40 +0000 JTM 11080@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>&quot;I've only seen pictures, and those were of a different design with less armor, but i tihnk it's a flamethrower. That's a device for launching a stream of burning liquid a short distance.&quot; </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-11078 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:07:36 +0000 WilliamTWodium 11078@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>&quot;Do you know its function, then? Have you seen one of these before?&quot; The King seems very interested, while Grimalt looks on with an air of reserving judgment. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-10976 Mon, 25 May 2009 08:15:14 +0000 JTM 10976@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>&quot;possibly internal damage or a blockage, or maybe it needs a certain amount of liquid in the backpack to work.&quot; </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-10974 Sun, 24 May 2009 23:05:03 +0000 WilliamTWodium 10974@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Grimalt says, &quot;Superficial? Then what has been interfering with its operation? We haven't been able to make it work at all.&quot;</p> <p>It takes a little time and some close inspection with the candle, but there don't seem to be any breaks in the hosing or the tank. You know more rigorous tests, but you can't apply them right here and now. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-10948 Sat, 23 May 2009 09:58:11 +0000 JTM 10948@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p><em> I'm going to look for any breaks in either </em> </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-10947 Sat, 23 May 2009 09:47:15 +0000 JTM 10947@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>&quot;Possibly, unless there is a hole in the hoses or tank i can't see. All the apparent damage looks superficial, but if either of those is breached, it will be rather hard to repair. If the hoses are damaged, they'll likely have to be entirely replaced.&quot; </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-10925 Fri, 22 May 2009 16:28:38 +0000 WilliamTWodium 10925@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p><em>Just checking. That means you're relying on your General Science background knowledge and your 1@5 SAL </em>Circus Repair Package<em>, which includes T2@X Wheels Package, T3@X Use Standard Hand Tools, T4@X Gears Package, T4@3 Non-Round Gears, T6@1 Defuse Explosives, and a T7@1 Pressure System Repair Package (Steam Blasting/Pressure Cleaning, Pressure Cooking, Vacuum Pumping, Repair Piston Engine, Repair Hydraulics, Repair Pneumatics). That's fine for what you've done so far; no checks required as yet.</em></p> <p>__</p> <p>&quot;So? What do you make of it? Do you think it can be repaired?&quot; </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-10922 Fri, 22 May 2009 15:03:48 +0000 JTM 10922@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p><em> none at all </em> </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-10893 Thu, 21 May 2009 18:42:22 +0000 WilliamTWodium 10893@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>There is what appears to be a mechanical gauge (currently displaying either minimum or maximum, depending on the convention in use). You know something about pressure systems, but of course you can't know exactly what sort of gauge this is without opening up the device.</p> <p>In the course of your examination you also come across a pull string, two triggers (or trigger-like apparatus), and one small toggle lever.</p> <p><em>How much hands-on experience do you have with modernish weapons systems?</em> </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-10887 Thu, 21 May 2009 06:42:32 +0000 JTM 10887@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>I'm expecting to find a pressure gauge of some sort. Presence would pretty much confirm my suspicions, while absence would not but wouldn't prove them wrong. Tempature gauge would be much the same. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/dragons-welcome#post-10885 Thu, 21 May 2009 05:42:34 +0000 WilliamTWodium 10885@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>The back's lower portion does appear to be a tank intended for liquid. The upper portion looks like an external frame backpack with armor plates. The hoses run from the tank into the front. Upon closer inspection, you notice that the unhooked chain dangling from the front is barbed in a way most bicycle chains aren't.</p> <p>None of the plates appear melted, although there are a few black marks in places that could be burns or could be something else. </p> <p>What sort of gauge(s) might you expect to find, and what information might you glean from the fact of their presence or absence? </p>