Day 1 | Afternoon | Terra Incognita | Thopter #1

[Kannon]

Razar demonstated his piloting credentials by fully stabilising the thopter, and if they had much time and no manta rays trying to get them they could probably drift like this for miles until some more or less gentle touchdown. Alas, there was the cliff and the ocean and there were the flapping zappers, so it meant the need to take risks and either get it up or down before they would run out of landing options.

[You can now settle at the foot of the cliff, or try to fly up.]

[Kiran Alsahar]

Kiran wanted to seize the moment, following through with what Razar had prepared the thopter for. Alas, raising craft without propulsion up a cliff wall was a very tricky business. They sensed it was possible as the gusts kept coming from below, just not this time.

D1 Afternoon | To the Trees. Statement Upgade. 2 Boost (Pool). 4 Setback (Little Power, Overweight): 1eP+1eA+2eB+1eC+2eD+4eS 2 failures, 1 threat


[Manoeuvre to assist next crew-member or to make space at controls, whatever's needed.]

[Player Pool: 0; GM Pool: 1]

[Lydia Storm]

Lydia, assuming things were going well due to the ship being more stable, lined up another shot. A bunch more birbs fell from the sky.

(ooc shooting birbs.
D1 Thopter round 2 "Shoot at the them!" Ranged at average with upgrade. Boosts from hunter, gun, razar clearer shot,: 2eA+2eP+4eB+1eC+1eD 4 successes, 11 advantage

missed extra boost - D1 Thopter round 2 rolling missed boost: 1eB 0 successes, 2 advantage
2 more adv

Will use 3 to crit again so 12 damage with pierce 3, plus a crit for 3 birbs downed (3 boost to pilot). 10 advantages to the pool.

[Kannon]

Lydia mercilessly used thd fact that they were forming an echelon to attack and got three of them down in one go, dispersing the murder once again. How the roles had been flipping between the hunters and the hunted!

[End of Round #2]
[Player Pool: 10, GM Pool 1]
[3 Boost for Piloting]

This put them in a uniquely good position to touch down softly just over the cliff's edge if they claimed the moment. After that, things could easily go down and sideways, they could only count so much on the wind favouring them so close to the cliff...

[Round #3]

[Efren Lanville]

Seeing the pilots struggle to gain altitude to safely get them above the cliff, Efren's mind snapped into the training he had received on thopter crash emergencies.

"Everyone! We need as much of the weight directly under the wings as possible. Move to everything you can grab to the center and get low!"

He immediately did so himself and began praying for an opportune thermal draft to make the most of their efforts.

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D1 Thopter Field Commander Action "My Strength from my roots": 3eA+1eP+2eD 3 successes


4 Allies get a free maneuver for 1 strain. GM approval to use that to give 4 boosts from assist to piloting check. 1 maneuver from me for one more assist.

Total of 5 bonuses added to the piloting check from this action.

[Kannon]

[Up to 8 Boost for Razar from players' contributions alone. If Razar is to come up before the others manage to post their agreement and actions we can assume they have been ghosted - rank has been pulled. I think everyone's interested in moving forward.]

[Kiran Alsahar]

"Everyone! We need as much of the weight directly under the wings as possible. Move to everything you can grab to the center and get low!"

Kiran wasn't the strongest, but they grabbed, pushed, and dragged what they could to the center and hunkered down, grabbing the most solid thing they could to brace themselves.

[Also gonna spend that maneuver for an assist if I can.]

[Cuyler Gray]

Cuylef quickly moved herself and her gear as instructed.

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Taking Strain for additional manuever and using manuevers to assist.

[Eileen Marsh]

Since Eileen was already on a wing she just stayed there

''C'mon, land this old bird!''

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assist maneuvre

[Razar Lanville]

Razar said nothing for now, just resolved to do the job. All the crew had abused the laws of physics to let the steel thing climb up on the gust so once he felt it under the wings, he pulled the handles hard up, then into side-rotation with clockwork precision. He wasn't one to waste this effort.

Without flare or protest, the machine did his bidding. He put them down so gently they hardly felt it.

Afternoon 1. To the Trees! Statement: I'll get the most out of... Overweight. 12 Assist and 3 Pool Boosts.: 3eP+1eA+15eB+1eC+2eD+4eS 6 successes, 12 advantage


[Done! Advantages to regenerate personal strain and put the thing gently and precisely, without risk to the craft, with no equipment spilling out of the open hatch.]

[Kannon]

[No Hull Trauma]
[End of Thread]
[3 Advantage pass over]
[Everyone gets 10XP to keep or spend on Skills used by them in the event.]