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Re: [HOE] Radio Stations of the Apocalypse (Spoilers for my group. This means yo
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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:39:22 -0800 (PST)
From: damarshal1@yahoo.com
Subject: [HOE] Radio Stations of the Apocalypse (Spoilers for my group.
This means you, Lauren!)
Ok all, just my two centavos,
My wife, Lauren, happens to take this topic very seriously. She is a
producer of an afternoon talk show in RL. And her character is an aspiring
Junker with a computer browser who intends to travel around the west
setting up radio stations in survivor settlements. Once the station is
established, she plans to set up the relay towers as well. And if she gets
a sat uplink, who knows? We might see the reinvention of XM Radio if she
can convince ComSat to carry it. Now, I know, there are purists out there
who are fuming and figure I'm just letting her get away with murder cuz we
are married. Un-uh. She's having to work for it every step of the way.
Wow, I've created a monster! This hasn't happened since I suggested Female
Devil Bulls (Los Diablos to Los Diablas).
But that sounds like a right good idea, and she is to be commended for it!!!
SPOILER SPACE Marshals Only beyond this point
How about this? She and her posse unknowingly ripped off Sirocco, leader of
the Dust Devils. In addition, they pissed off someone and left them alive.
I plan to finish the road combat with the lead patrol of Dust Devils this
weekend. Then they are set up to take on the Speed Demons and there
soon-to-be a servitor leader. Following that is my updated version of the
Apocalypse Now adventure. Then, an encounter with the Syker Automaton Idea
that was presented on here. Finally a blizzard through Donner Pass and I'll
let them get to Sacramento. On the return trip, she is going to set up a
station at Elko, which is vastly different in my game from the CotA
adventure, unfortunately they will be under attack by the main body of Dust
Devils plus any other baddies from the trip to Sacramento. Why is all this
happening? She has a relic in her possession that lets her do double damage
in a ram collision but I added the taint of Monster Magnet. So you see,
everything is fair in love and war. BTW, any of you badge wearing types
that have ideas, comments, or gripes, I'd love to hear 'em. Shawn.
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Looks like you have things well thought out. I'd just suggest, rather than
not killing the pissed off someone, have them not kill him enough (They'll
then take to killing everyone *MESSILY* dead, and start causing fear in the
hearts of their enemies! Fear from Bad Guys is still Fear, and Fear is good
to eat!). Certainly worked for me when I brought back Disco Stu!
The only problem with a Radio Network in HoE is that there is heavy, and
moving, concentrations of radiation in the ionosphere, which inturrupts
radio communication over any real distance (See "The Wasted West" for the
rules on this), what this means is that even if you put Radio Repeaters at
even half the distance we have them in real life, there will still
constantly be breaks in the chain. All you need is one broken link, and you
got a huge dead zone.
Secondly: "Mmmmmmmmm... Radio Towers... Commander, requisition the
equipment from those towers." "Sargeant, requisition the equipment from
those towers." "Alright you maggots... LOOT!!!"
And communication with ComSat is tenuous at best... All he needs to hear is
"Black Magic Woman", and he'll probably cut the link (Remember, no
Supernatural stuff!), yes, it's a song, but ComSat is still a computer, and
very literal minded. And when someone calls up to yell at ComSat to work
again... "*Sniff* YOUR MEAN!!! *Transmission Terminated*".
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