Prison Blues OOC

[Phoenix]

Hey @Nor'baal just a heads up, you might want to switch out your armor since MMCA got archived because of the new TS rules. Much sad

Also OOC for everyone else, hopefully we won't really need it @Sreeya @Mirdala Priest @Alcmaeon

 

[Alcmaeon]

Armor is for sissies Get shot by small bullets to build up immunity to big bullets. Like vaccine. Grunt.

 

[Mirdala Priest]

 

[Nor'baal]

If life is relative, and all based on perception, if I do not percieve that this thread is real, is it?

 

[Alcmaeon]

I tried that argument with a disgruntled hornet once. It didn't pan out. But hey, my philosophy teacher thought it was a funny enough story to give me bonus credit on an assignment.

 

[Phoenix]

Hey there @Alcmaeon so I'll be as straight to the point as I can with this but I don't think that your post is really going to be okay.

Your character is slipping into a random semi-convenient alcove to avoid the attack. They're in a prison hallway, the cells are filled with prisoners so there's not going to be any alcoves to really jump into unless you're jumping into the cell that Norbs just jumped into (which is only open because Mirdala just came out of it). The problem with that is it's over 15 meters away and on the other side of our characters (@Sreeya).

So from there, if we look at what exactly Sidrin is doing, he's running forward toward the alcove which means parallel with the rocket (which was fired in front of him) which means even if there were an alcove, the blast is going to be going in there and Sidrin would still be eviscerated. Since he's only wearing a light combat vest his armor isn't really going to protect anything but his torso (his head, legs, arms, etc are all exposed).

Next, there's the issue of timing. You're 1) identifying Dak's attack, 2) grabbing Shaan, 3) moving both of you into an alcove in... well about 0.5-1 second. If we say the rocket travels the same speed as a blaster (which is in and of itself considerably slower than either RL or some of the approved rockets on the site) we're looking at a missile moving at 35 m/s. It's only going 15 meters so that's 1/3 of a second of travel time. So yeah you don't really have time for all that. In fact, even if going straight to a run (no teammate grabbing) and moving from a standstill and in mid-sentence (like Sidrin is doing) to a full sprint, he's still not going to be able to make it out of the blast radius that fast.

As a final note it was brought to my attention that that thermal detonator was edited into your profile after the fight started which is a huge no-go. You're not allowed to do that as per the rules (Section V: K sub I). So yeah I'm not going to lie, your post is going to need some heavy edits dude.

 

[Alcmaeon]

Regarding the profile thing, I already spoke with Arclight about it, long story short that was a mistake and miscommunication my end, so sorry about that. I will be doing a few edits accordingly.

As for the post issue, every Imperial cellblock I've ever seen in a movie or tv show has rows of heavily recessed doors into the cells, to the extent that people getting shot at tend to use them for cover. I wasn't attempting to close distance between our characters, just move perpendicular to the path of your fire into, what I apparently incorrectly assumed, a recessed doorway. Barring having anything convenient to use for cover then, and since your character has already fired these rockets at me, which means I have to react to that instead of trying to find a way to prevent your character firing them in the first place. I'll have to think of something but yeah, I'll pop a few edits out.

I'm happy to address any issues with my posts or clarify misunderstandings, do feel free to contact me directly in such a case.

 

[Phoenix]

Regarding the profile thing, I already spoke with Arclight about it, long story short that was a mistake and miscommunication my end, so sorry about that. I will be doing a few edits accordingly.

As for the post issue, every Imperial cellblock I've ever seen in a movie or tv show has rows of heavily recessed doors into the cells, to the extent that people getting shot at tend to use them for cover. I wasn't attempting to close distance between our characters, just move perpendicular to the path of your fire into, what I apparently incorrectly assumed, a recessed doorway. Barring having anything convenient to use for cover then, and since your character has already fired these rockets at me, which means I have to react to that instead of trying to find a way to prevent your character firing them in the first place. I'll have to think of something but yeah, I'll pop a few edits out.

I'm happy to address any issues with my posts or clarify misunderstandings, do feel free to contact me directly in such a case.

Apologies if that came across as overly harsh, probably shouldn't have worded all that that way. I know, accidents happen.

Anyway, I actually was wondering if those were the alcoves you were referring to but that would still put Sidrin parallel to the explosion and in the blast (unless I'm misunderstanding what's written) in addition to not really having the timeframe for that. It just doesn't seem very realistic that in the face of two explosions he would escape almost all damage apart from a little bit of pain in his arm. Not trying to be mean by saying that but it doesn't seem very fair either...

Let me know if you decide to make edits or if you feel very strongly, I suppose we could go to a ruling

I'm happy to address any issues with my posts or clarify misunderstandings, do feel free to contact me directly in such a case.

That's what I'm doing with this. If it's in PMs or whatnot it makes it very difficult in the event of a ruling for the staff to make an informed and whole decision that's why we have OOCs

 

[Alcmaeon]

Ah fair enough then. No apologies necessary friend.

Yar, them'd be the ones. My understanding of your post was that you'd fired the weapons both in front and behind us, not directly at our position. Regardless, I've made an edit that negates the whole issue of where I'm hiding.