From: Sean Michael Whipkey [highway@cstone.net] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 5:09 PM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Supplementary web site I saw some websites today that purport to be about the same time frame as BP. http://www.metropolitanlivinghomes.com Might make some good background info for your games - kind of a "magazine from back Earth". Meanwhile, it looks like its part of a murder mystery that's going on online... SeanMike *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Andrew Ragland [araglan@us.ibm.com] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 9:33 AM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Homeschool Update 4-8-01 Long time no update. I'll summarize. The boys went off to hike up the old logging road over Liberty Island's mountainous spine and down to the windward side, to visit the ghost town of Ballarat. They hoped to scrounge up some useful stuff there, recyclable gear and maybe some stuff that could be sold for cash. They never made it past the midpoint, getting ambushed by stick monkeys. Dave (NPC) shot one with his spear gun, killing it; Kiro caught one with a net gun, and Zeke knocked it unconscious with a big stick. Zeke knocked a monkey out of a tree, but it caught itself by one hind foot, ending up hanging in front of Zeke like a piņata. Zeke knocked the monkey out of the tree, broke its leg. Bink kicked it, and noticed its head was burned. Kiro beat it to death. The group took a few minutes for first aid and collecting themselves, and found they had two dead stick monkeys and one live one, all with suspicious linear burn marks, of recent origin. After some discussion, they decided that these were laser burns, which meant that somebody who didn't care about a stray shot setting the jungle on fire was mucking about up here. The group took the live monkey to the GEO sciences station in Newport, and the dead ones to the Native Patrol station. They got a substantial reward for the live specimen, and a token payment for the dead ones, encouraging live capture as a preferred method of dealing with wildlife. The GEO biologist and the Native Patrol detective both confirmed laser burns. The Native Patrol detective told the boys to stay out of the deep jungle until the Patrol rousted the smugglers, confirming that the gunfire the previous night that some of the boys had heard up in the hills had indeed been the Patrol engaging a group of suspected pharium smugglers. The big storm that has been coming for the past two days arrived, or at least the leading edge, so the boys went over to the school building, which doubles as a storm shelter, and called their parents. Zeke and Bink (severely injured, kidney damage secondary to getting pegged in the back with a rock by a stick monkey) and their parents went to see the native healer. Tyler, attempting to walk home, got picked up by Miguel and his father and given a lift out to Tyler's parents' farm. Max was picked up by his parents and taken home. Tarron was picked up by his parents, and they all went to the GEO Science Station to rid out the storm there. Kiro went home with his parents. This is a big storm, a Force 5, but Liberty Island is only catching the southern edge of it, so they'll be subjected to Force 4 winds at most. A tree fell on the car with Miguel and Tyler, and Miguel's father was injured, knocked unconscious, and pinned in the car. Miguel made a First Aid check and found that the best he could do was wrap a survival blanket around his father to assist with the shock, and that his father's shoulder was broken. Miguel and Tyler hiked back to Newport, a shorter distance than to Tyler's farm according to Tyler's orienteering skill. Miguel and Tyler met a Patrol officer, who called for assistance, then went off to check out Miguel's dad. The boys somehow missed that the Patrol officer did all his communication silently, implying some sort of headware. They were too busy being in awe of the officer's jumpbike. Tyler and Miguel got picked up by other officers in a riot control vehicle and taken to the school. One officer commented to the teacher that the riot control vehicle had never been used for its original purpose, but made a great way of hauling people out of a storm. Zeke and Bink, plus parents, arrived at the native healer's. The healer used a local critter looking like a cross between a sponge and a jellyfish, with a proboscis like a mosquito, to drain the bleeding from around Bink's kidney. She got the leech off him with a bit of hot wire. She then shot him up with medical nanites. These are expensive, and she and Bink's parents spent a few minutes working out the financial arrangements. The Coridos (Zeke, Bink and parents) then went back to the school, as the closest shelter. The anesthetic, whose effects were described as full-body novocaine, was a synthetic analogue of a Poseidon critter's venom, manufactured in New Jamaica in unlicensed competition with Lavender Organics, and much cheaper than the LavOrg version of the drug. I had lots of fun with the patchwork blend of technology in this sequence. Kiro and his parents had to walk to the school after their house was damaged in the storm. One of the storm shutters broke loose, smashed a window, and the incoming rain poured into an electrical outlet. Kiro and his father barely escaped being electrocuted while trying to board up the window. The power surge blew out a couple of safeties in the house circuitry, and fried their car, which was plugged into the house to recharge. They're going to regret having gone GEO with all the fancy tech, now that it's turned into a big expensive liability. So we pick up the next session having fast-forwarded through the next 36 hours, while the players are all stuck in storm shelters, and the characters get to deal with the aftermath. There's going to be lots of Damage Control rolls, lots of salvaging to be done, and a few things that happened during the storm to be discovered. Andrew Ragland Information Hunter/Gatherer: Explorer, Mapmaker, Guide araglan@us.ibm.com t/l 348-6665 ph (847) 240-6665 Skytel 1731111 "It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." -- A. Dumbledore *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Mantisking@aol.com Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 5:32 PM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Terrorist Campaigns Hello All; Christopher Gribbon wrote "There's also "Terror/Counterterror" for Millenium's End by Chameleon Games. Very good it is too... I would have mentioned it, had I owned it. Unfortunately, I'm still trying to find it. Ray *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.