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General Chaos / Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« on: September 17, 2013, 02:43:51 PM »
I'm flogging myself to Misery 2.0 a mod for Stalker Call of Pripyat. It basically does to Stalker what New Vegas did to Fallout 3. The game also takes on more of a survival RPG than FPS RPG now too.

Also, Saints Row IV

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Francis Lewis (1850-)

His mom died in child birth, so Francis spent all of his early life with his father. At first the crew of The Stalker were not to keen on the baby/toddler on their ship (what true sailing man wants to be seen walking the deck with an infant?) As he grew a little older he was readily accepted, as much for his hard work as for his fearless stupidity; a drunk six year old is truly a funny sight. By the end of the Opium Wars, young Francis was as much a smuggler as anyone else on the ship.

He was also chasing the "Midnight Oil". It's not a good idea for a drug runner to get hooked on the product, but Francis was young, naive, and the other sailors were not above peer power; besides he wasn't an addict in any way, and you need someone to test the product. Everyone looked the other way when it came to this particular transgression, but the sailors all said they'd step in if Francis went too far.

With the end of the Opium Wars there wasn't as much of a need for smugglers in the Far East. The Stalker pulled odd jobs where it could; even honest work when it had too. It was a dull time punctuated only with the death of the senior Lewis. The death of his father sent Francis deeper down the rabbit hole than he'd ever been. Sober, he knew he didn't want to be in anywhere near the Far East, and The Stalker ended up in the Caribbean.

The Stalker's arrival in the Caribbean could not have been better timed. Cuba was fighting the Spanish for independence, and American civilians were supplying arms. There's lots of money in guns, and only half the risk with the U.S. Navy looking the other way. (Just like in the Opium Wars.) The money was pouring in, and his drug habit was well under control until the U.S.S. Maine blew sky high. With the Teddy Roosevelt getting his way, the Cubans wouldn't be needing Lewis' arms to fight the Spanish that much longer...


Staring fifty in the eyes, Francis thought retirement seemed like a grand idea; he'd saved up a fair amount of money, now it was time to enjoy life. Francis passed on command of The Stalker to his first mate Bernard, and settled in the North East U.S. It was a peaceful existence, an economic depression sure, but much better than the building tension over in Europe. A peaceful decade until some Serb shot an Archduke.

He tried to resist the call to adventure, he really did, but some "businessmen" found out about his past, and that left Francis with little choice. On the plus side his "partners" did get him a brand new ship. Christened Juliet, she was more than a match for anything on the seas except the most modern military vessels.

Unfortunately, there were plenty of modern military ships in the Atlantic, and the most dangerous of those were bellow the waves not cresting the waves. Germany's unrestricted U-boat warfare drove Francis off the deep end. The "Midnight Oil" became an ever more common ritual, as well as copious amounts of drinking; thanks to that instead of having made money, by the end of the war, Francis owed a fair amount to his partners.

He still owes them money, and tires to close the gap by making booze runs from Canada to New York. (He's making some progress. He's such a steady customer, and a good employee, that the mob has all but forgiven his interest payments [it'd be no good for Francis to off himself while still making them money]) When he's not at sea, he's baked out of his mind, still trying to forget the horror and stress of German U-Boats. It's been an interesting 75 years, but Francis Lewis is not ready for another adventure...

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General Chaos / Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« on: April 12, 2012, 07:14:10 PM »

I will drink a bottle of vodka in the hopes that STALKER 2 is not cancelled.

HERE HERE!

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General Chaos / Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« on: April 12, 2012, 01:24:08 PM »
Like many others, I read it as Grimlock, and then was just a bit disappointed.

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General Chaos / Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« on: April 11, 2012, 02:50:56 PM »
Sniper Elite V2 Demo is simply one of the best sniping games I have played. You should check it out its free on PSN Steam and Xbox live.

The demo is on steam?

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I've been thinking about using "A Dirty World" as a post apoc setting. The occasional environmental hazard would simply soak a dot the appropriate skill until the players could heal their mind and soul. I'd just free form equipment and food.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Episode 72: World of Darkness
« on: April 08, 2012, 06:30:05 PM »
uploading a nWoD game I ran Friday. 5 hours long. Shit got REAL. :D

SO REAL! (Not to hype it or anything.....)

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Fight just started for me [spoiler] RIP Shift you will be missed. [/spoiler] also I hope Raul makes it.

Aww Thanks. [spoiler]His replacement has far less color when he finally shows up in tier two...[/spoiler]

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We are going to use the quickest and most effective means to thwart an enemy.  If that means killing a villain in self-defense, then yeah we'll do it. 

I would disagree with this.

There was some death in the first session, but after that we reeled it in pretty hard.

Norm's just plain out of his element.
Shift's a stupid idealistic pretender who thinks he's a lot more powerful than he is, and can afford to just take people alive.
The Martyr's a kid, and still forming his morals, but even you never really bring out the fire demon all that often/ or at all.
Chirop's the ex-con trying to reform and coming to grips with his awesome power.

I can't speak for the Robot Assassin or Ghost Robot because I didn't meet up with them till the first climatic battle.

We were not doing what we could to thwart the enemy, we were a mickey mouse operation and we messed up a great deal. For me that's the fun part. Far better than this... http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/09/05

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General Chaos / Re: What Vidja games are you playing?
« on: October 12, 2011, 03:03:58 AM »
I'll second Metro and Stalker.

Right now I'm going through Just Cause 2.

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Rouge Trader being the lesser known cosmetics business based RPG


BTW, if you have an idea that I haven't mentioned, feel free to pitch it here. ESPECIALLY THE RPPR PLAYERS AKA THOSE LAZY BASTARDS THAT DONT POST ENOUGH

We're getting there, GOD.

Rogue Trader, or Zombie post apoc.

The only reason I don't want to do the Yak one is because we talked about doing  a silly one shot, with video and bad dubbing.

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I don't remember any extra rules, but Ross did okay each character concept. (To make sure they were street level and such.)

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That's why I always have a Beta Fork read my books for me. If I think he sounds like a prick afterwards than I don't reintrigrate him.

Awesome.

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I don't know that I'm ready for that...

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