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((Ok, my two cents.

First off I totally feel for team Weinberg here. They've been the brunt of every story "plot twist" since they decided to go after Squadron. The main problem I see here is the conflict between Squadron the robot that needs to die, and Lt. Grabowski, the PC that Arc wants to keep alive. Semantical reasons alone should prevent Grabowski from moving on to the finals, but at the same time give him defence against being killed. So the Squadron Core become a dead end and team Weinberg is hurting bad because of it.

At the same time, this is no reason to get crazy guys. Yesterday the thread moved because the attack on Squadron continued without you fellows there. It isn't like he decided to up and leave for no reason. I can't make a call on the helli, and I won't. Frankly that should have been brought up the minute they brought it here and not halfway through the battle.
Mind you, there was a dozen and one IC reasons you could have used rather than telling a Judge to "Deal with it". I give that one up to agrivation and annoyance rather than malicious intent though. Hopefuly it's will be cleared up now that we have a judge other than Arc making a call. No offence to Arc, I agreed with all of his calls, but an impartial opinion works.

There was also the fact I wasn't there to make calls on my building. But it was 4 am and I had to work at 8. So please understand why I left.

So it boils down to this. I would like Grabowski to stick around and interact with A~E post-BC. But I don't want the integrity of the event suffering because of it. I also don't want the event suffering because judges are ignored either.

All I know is I trust all you guys' RPing abilities enough to get us out of this semantic nightmare.))

((We'll pay for damages! I swear! sweatdrop ))

((I have a solution!



Also, I'll be very disappointed if anyone else shows up to continue this fight under Weinberg's noses. I know that there is at least one easier target than Squadron available right now, probably two. Let Weinberg get their shot. Mmkay?))

(I just want the core now. Really. That is all I care about at this point.

As far as the helicopter I am positive Kami was just tired and/or aggravated since it is truly rare that I ever see him snap at anyone like that. But I feel he was also trying to make a point. We went with the helicopter because well frankly we didn't spend all that much time reading the thread because we were pissed and were rushing to get the core before the event ended. There was no immediate argument against it, so we continued to use it. At this point it has been around so long that just suddenly making it broken would just royally ******** over everything that has occured.

Bringing it up at that point was just, well, pointless.)

((Okay... after talking with Lanceian, getting some questions answered, I'm here to clear up the ******** that was this battle.

Here's where we'll start. The round after the floor and EMP went off. Here are the status of combatants.

Cat, as near as I can tell, at the time you were in an elevator when the EMP went off. So I'd say you're stuck in there, this round, until power kicks back on. Next round the doors will open and you can step onto the floor. Fair?

Peter and Weinberg. You flew away so you wouldn't be in reach of the EMP. As I understand, A~E is a massive building, and your EMP had enough of a blast radius to hit the whole thing. Thus, Peter would be out of range for any paper abilities. Fair?

Gizmo, touched the bot, no way around that, he pulled it without a concern for safety or combat ability. He takes a shock. Not enough to incapacitate him, because I got such a low roll, but enough to stun him, maybe make him stumble back so he loses his next attack. Also, he's been using his abilities almost every round. Soon he better start showing signs of fatigue, etc, since he is creating things out of thin air. Fair?

Vincent just smashed through the wall. In the office next to the hallway where Squadron and Gizmo are. Fair?

Worker and Parasite were shut down by the EMP, and are currently going through their reboot sequence. They loose this round coming up while it gets back online. Fair?

Mozz, is currently haning out the window, held up by his (Vampiric) Moss. Tired, fatigued, might need a round or rest or so before he summons any moss, after the strain of lifting a whole lab and crushing it.

Squadron is legless, not immobile, as it is round, has arms, etc, could roll perhaps, if it gets room, or crawl.

I spent a lot of time trying to come up with comprimises, etc, fair rulings on this. I hope there are no complaints.

And as I told Lanceian, I will hold here til everyone is back online.))

((Team Weinberg & Assoc. is online, so we're ready to go.

Personally, I'm perfectly fine with the rulings regarding our team. However, about the EMP. Technically the EMP wouldn't just temporarily set back electronics. It would completely fry them. I'll give you a quote for this:



Now, I'm not looking for an instant kill here regarding Worker/Parasite, but I think one turn is probably too short, unless they have some reason to be resistant to an EMP. Honestly, anything less than death is technically a compromise. Our team is also pretty much incapacitated this turn, and I think given the known effects of an EMP, the robots should at least be out for 2 turns if not longer. After all, in game time, that's probably not even a full minute. For the robot to reboot in one turn would essentially mean that it instantly restarts the second after the EMP hits. I think it's fair that our team gets a full turn advantage as a result of the EMP due to its crippling effect on electronic things. It's not like we're going to be able to escape in one turn anyway. What do you think Arc? Fair?

(Ah, and keep in mind I'm not trying to overturn your rulings. Do what you think is fair.)

And as far as Squadron goes, I'd at least like an explanation why he not only shrugged off the EMP but actually absorbed it.

OH, and I'd be perfectly willing to go with Opaj's solution. So long as we qualify, I don't care what we have to do (assuming none of us die anyway). Is that something that makes sense for you to do IC, Arc?))

((Well, I'm not asking to kill W&P, so that point is irrelevant.

That's why I'm suggesting that your character is down for about a minute. Less than that actually. Two posts is not a long time IC or OOC, especially since we're basically done with that first round anyway.

But one of the key things you mentioned is a competant staff. It's not like its creator is actively turning W&P back on. It's rebooting itself. As such, I don't think 2 posts is an unreasonable amount of time. I'm only saying that I think our characters should have gained at least a slight time advantage over W&P, and as things stand right now, we don't.))

(...well nice. That'll put my quota of useful things I've done during this event up to two.

Acting as a living shield with my other character and opening a door with this one.

...god I love it when everyone decides to cripple me.)