From: "Colin J. Wynne"  <WYNNE.C@fs.sciences.WLU.EDU>
Subject:      Re:  Mission in the Nile Empire, the real version!
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:55:46 GMT

Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim) <jogle@aoc.nrao.edu> writes:
> Colin writes:
>
> [mostly deleted]
>
> > Ignoring his assailant, he locked eyes with the captain, and
> > smiled. Elspeth was thrown to the deck as the reality storm
> > sprang into
>
> I hope Elspeth kicked his butt for invoking a reality storm like
> that when she was right in the middle of it!

By the end, Elspeth was standing knee deep in water behind a
destroyed crate, shivering, and rolling stealth like you wouldn't
believe.  I rolled Find checks for the crew, with 'spot the naked
lady' bonuses, but she rolled a twenty-something stealth.  Anyway, if
Hannibal _hadn't_ invoked, the hole in the ship might not have been
big enough for Elspeth to crawl into, and she would have
retransformed -- right on deck, in front of God and everybody!


> > [...]
> >
> > Strange shapes and odd-coloured lightning danced around Brenden,
> > casting him into a bulkhead.  Consciousness slipped away, and he
> > slumped to the deck.  Kyushu saw this, and ran to help, but the
> > chaos of the storm battered him into oblivion, too, before he was
> > halfway there.
>
> I hope they helped Elspeth kick his butt!  Seemingly casual
> invoking of reality storms is a very dangerous thing (maybe the
> situation was more dire than it looks to me though and it was
> deemed justifiable).

Hannibal got a _sound_ thrashing from the captain, but no real
punishment duty.  After all, four naval issue GodFires could have let
his ship a lot worse than a small reality storm.

Then, of course, there's Viscount Brenden "Only a K 1?  Hah!  Oops,
where'd that O come from?" Llewelyn...

Actually, though the storm was not really necessary:  that's why I
gave the guy a 15 reality and 5 p-points.  On the first round, he
rolled a thirty-odd, and got a 4 Storm x5 result.  The look on
Hannibal's face -- oops, maybe ths was not such a good idea...

> > Suspended in midair, Hannibal focused all the power available to
> > him, and with a mighty surge of blue and red sparkling energy, the
> > maelstrom dissipated.  The helpless captain was caught in the
> > throws
>
> Once you start a reality storm you cannot stop it until
> someone is transformed.  Is that what happened, with the
> cyberpsychosis thrown in just to make sure the captain drowned?

I'll rewrite this description.  Yes, the storm was over, and the
Cyberpapacy ship captain under Nile Axioms in Core Earth was in a
stressful situation -- having just been transformed, so I rolled a
Cychosis check.  Rolled real well, too.  He sank like a rock.

Thanks for the comments.  Scenes 2 and 3 coming real soon.

CJW

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