Freelance Worrywart
And you know what type of dumpster has a variable distance?
Exactly. Robot dumpsters. One of my points still stands. 
Dreams of Revenge
I'm not sure whether to be impressed or unnerved.
Locking you up on radar since '09
Freelance Worrywart
Called it.
edited 31st Jul '12 11:30:25 AM by SlendidSuit
Gimme yer lunch money, dweeb.
Okay, I guess hobotrooper is taking a scrounge-ride in a walking dumpster, going down the street until some lady sees him.
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Even after a year of GM'ing one game and being involved in quite a few others, the creativity of player characters never fails to amaze me.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.
Freelance Worrywart
Just you wait until I weaponise the dumpster...
Gimme yer lunch money, dweeb.
Dreams of Revenge
@Sabre:
I know right? Remember: never underestimate the players' aptitude for taking things screeching off the rails. There's a reason why I keep my plans as fluid as possible.
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Oh aye. You lot won't be operating under a real authority, so I can't threaten you with administrative punishments. And I'm not the sort to conjure bolts of lightning when I'm displeased.
No, I prefer that my own players reap whatever whirlwind that they choose to sow.
(That said the idea of a weaponized robotic dumpster is bringing up memories of Dwarf Fortress.)
edited 31st Jul '12 3:02:32 PM by SabresEdge
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.
Just wait 'till we jerry rig the dumpster into a mobile artillery platform.
Dreams of Revenge
I know I've been banging on about this for a while now, but I firmly believe that we shall all bear witness to either the most unlikely of victories, or a glorious failure worthy of any given Dwarf Fortress run. We'll probably take down a few of the YV in the process, and (hopefully) our characters will be buddies, eh?
Of course, there's every chance we'll end up a historical footnote in some dusty historical archive in a small corner of Coruscant, if that, but fortune favours the bold and all that.
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Fun (fanon) fact: "Koganusan" is the Vong word for "the killing of ships".
Also, the things about successful insurgencies and counterinsurgencies is that they require a measure of sanity, of subtlety. Which is why I expect one left in the hands of PCs to be a gloriously hilarious trainwreck.
edited 31st Jul '12 3:37:23 PM by SabresEdge
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.
Board Certified Sorcerer
Mines? Little mines. No trouble at all for someone used to, you know, "real" mines.
Let God do His work, we will see to ours. Bring in the candles.
B-but they're the best mines! You can't say that about my mines!
Freelance Worrywart
Hmm... for a small fee I could make them the best mines... it involves killer bees, blasting gel and some sort of hologram.
Gimme yer lunch money, dweeb.
Board Certified Sorcerer
When you work on a minelayer for years, most things are pretty underwhelming. Which is why you have to make things better.
Let God do His work, we will see to ours. Bring in the candles.
I'm more picturing us hanging massive amounts of scrap or concrete in place and then dropping it on the Vong when they chase us into a trap.
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They get small bear-creatures to release them.
edited 1st Aug '12 6:47:42 PM by nman
I'm talking dropping about four tons of concrete and metal onto them from like five stories up. Crush em flat.
They're not jedi so they can't pull the Force hold and get out of the way trick ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
Just give 'em a thermal cutter and point them to the chain that's holding it up Then the Ewoks don't have to hold the four tons up.
Yub nub!
edited 1st Aug '12 6:58:50 PM by nman
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Oh christ. You know, it's too bad we don't have any Ewok players. Aside from the Kettch jokes, that method of traplaying is just what you'll need.
I'll have the first game posts up soon. What I'll do is lay out the general area, and you lot figure out how you got there/where you are.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.
You could quickly remedy that problem by letting anyone whose character looks like this 
◊ not have to be put in the waitlist.
edited 1st Aug '12 10:14:56 PM by nman
Freelance Worrywart
Huh? Four Tonnes of Ewok? I don't like where this is going...
Gimme yer lunch money, dweeb.
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The game thread is up!
The game's begun, and you're free to take your actions.
I will say to you what I said to HK: if you lot don't turn the district into the bastard child of Fallujah and Hue, raised by Boatmurdered, within six months of in-game time, I shall be sorely disappointed in the lot of you.
edited 2nd Aug '12 1:56:34 AM by SabresEdge
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.
It doesn't have to be the closest dumpster that's covered with mines, just close enough for her to notice a gray stormtrooper off in the distance, hiding behind it and talking to himself about calling in an airstrike on a sniper.
edited 31st Jul '12 10:54:39 AM by nman