Worse Than the Disease OOC

[Shoot Da Moon]

One night has been accounted for. The question is about today and this second night. We have not yet returned for a full night's stay, and I'm not sure if we will, but we have probably reserved some facilities and/or used them during the day. How much does it cost us?

The same as before, I believe.
$5 per person for a room?
I cannot remember what the price of storage was. Will need to look that up in the past pages of the thread.

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OC: Sean, you're still outside the gas station, right?

Yes. The idea is to have a corner to run around if they start to throw explosive stuff. I'm not yet sure about throwing more stuff in, so defense is like the only sensible thing to do at the moment.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Alright, that is a good idea.

Richard, we might be dropping out of combat time soon, what's your play? Orders for Bart and the militiamen?

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Sean's plan after the upcoming blast is to propose that Richard demands a surrender while Sean, Richard and Bart try to perceive any activity inside without themselves going too visible.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Sounds good...

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OC: Do you guys have any fire extinguishers in your gear? I believe you guys once found at least one scavenging.

Unfortunately, that one is back at base, along with Simone's flamethrower. Because. I guess the men will have to resort to what the raiders have in stock, including heavy bedsheets and what not.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Well, maybe if you tossed a bucket of water or two...

[Volthawk]

The snow's all melted by this point, right? Seem to remember that being mentioned a while back.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Yup.

Winter was over weeks if not months ago, IIRC.

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Well, maybe if you tossed a bucket of water or two...

We have 50 liters of water in a barrel and more bottled water ontop, so this is not problematic if the fire is prevented from spreading rapidly. Consider Sean going to fetch the pickup with the stuff.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Okay, we'll roll...

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The raiders spill the beans.

We'll want, at a minimum...
1. How to go from the lift to the lab.
2. The number of rooms in the lab.
3. The number of staff in the lab.
4. The number of guards anywhere in the lab and between here and there.
5. The armament and equipment of the guards and the site.
6. What they could be expected to do and have done already since the evening after our attack.

[Shoot Da Moon]

We'll want, at a minimum...
1. How to go from the lift to the lab.
2. The number of rooms in the lab.
3. The number of staff in the lab.
4. The number of guards anywhere in the lab and between here and there.
5. The armament and equipment of the guards and the site.
6. What they could be expected to do and have done already since the evening after our attack.

Alright, since I did not cover any of that in the IC thread, assume the raiders also tell you;

From the lift, it's a simple 30 yard walk through two security doors to the lab.
The lab has about ten to twenty rooms.
The lab has a small team of experts working at gunpoint - mostly captive mutants. About ten lab techs.
The lab is guarded by about twenty people below ground.
There is Old World security measures on the lab, including automated gun turrets. The human raiders guarding the area have the same equipment as the above ground raiders in the gas station.
He doesn't know what they're doing in response to the gas station attack.

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He spies on the people and takes in more details.

1. Now many raiders, total?
2. How dispersed they are? How many Sean and Richard can target with their opening bursts?
3. What range can be assumed when the action starts? Say, 20 yards would be fine.

[Shoot Da Moon]

1. Now many raiders, total?
2. How dispersed they are? How many Sean and Richard can target with their opening bursts?
3. What range can be assumed when the action starts? Say, 20 yards would be fine.

1) 14. Four on motorcycles.
2) Very dispersed. There is about two armed men watching over 5 or 6 prisoners at a time - consider one bad guy per 5 yards of the line. A burst fire has a good chance of hitting prisoners, but shooting two raiders that are near each other won't waste bullets between them and maybe avoid hurting the chained-up people.
3) Yeah, you can set the distance by sneaking, so 20 yards (and even cover!) is possible.

[Shoot Da Moon]

No Darkness penalty, it's early morning.
The motorcycles hover around the middle of the line, but they go up and down to the front and back on occasions.
The line is about 50 yards, yes, but sometimes prisoners clump together, shortening it.
Motorcycle guys do not have cover.

All 3 hit the motorcycle guys' hearts...All dead!

Bart shoots and hits the last motorcycle guy in the head...3 hits, DEAD.

Sean shoots guards in the vitals, kills both his targets.

Combat time starts.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Do you need specific game stats on the stuff you've found right now?

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Do you need specific game stats on the stuff you've found right now?

Well, not really need, but that'll have to get sorted sooner or later and I can as well do it now. Also see below.

OOC: there is 36 prisoners total. They all want at least 3 rations and 2 pints of water, do you have enough?

We have 63 out of needed 72 bottles of water if we don't tap into the individual allocations (the remaining 100 are likely left back at base, it is not specified), so I would rather distribute 9 bottles from the raiders. We do have plenty of food.

the cages

What are these things like and how are they transported?

[Shoot Da Moon]

Well, not really need, but that'll have to get sorted sooner or later and I can as well do it now. Also see below.

We have 63 out of needed 72 bottles of water if we don't tap into the individual allocations (the remaining 100 are likely left back at base, it is not specified), so I would rather distribute 9 bottles from the raiders. We do have plenty of food.

What are these things like and how are they transported?

Alright. There's more than nine bottles of water in the raiders' supplies.
The cages are metal square platforms on four wheels, towed by other people. They are locked (not padlocks, the doors have integral mechanisms).

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They ask how many bullets they have for the guns.

To simplify accounting, they'll have...

87 rifle bullets [from] the enemy guns

[Shoot Da Moon]

Did the image in my post work on your computer?
I did a map in Paint, did the host link work?

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Did the image in my post work on your computer?
I did a map in Paint, did the host link work?

It was completely invisible, but quoting the post I see the URL. It gives "502 Bad Gateway".

UPD: I've checked what works for me and https://postimages.org/ seemingly does.

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For reference, the map's working for me as-is.

And now for me too. It seems the site was having ittermittent problems. Saved to disk, so no need to re-upload it.

[Shoot Da Moon]

That's what I get for using the first result of a Google search, I guess.

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The lift is currently raised. It looks like both it and the ladder lead to an underground room bigger than the square area of the entire gas station.

Looking down the ladder hatch, the room immediately below looks empty.

My question #31 is really about the lift and the ladder, not about the vent. I'll explain what I want to be learning. Look at the picture below.

The purple arrangement of the doors of the lift and of the accompanied shaft is "bad" in a sense that it opens those descending to the fire of the two gun turrets (unless the lift is noticiably wider than the doors, which is possible). The orange arrangement is "good" in a sense that we can descend all the way down the ladder and relatively safely take a quick look around the corner at the turrets, exposing ourselves only as much as we want. Then again, the quote above talks about a large room, which does not seem to be on the picture. So...
36. Can we safely descend all the way down the ladder without being shot at (considering LoS to the turrets)?
37. If yes, what would be the minimum distance from a pair of adjacent hexes, one out of LoS of the turrets and the next one in LoS of the turrets, to the turrets themselves?

[Shoot Da Moon]

My question #31 is really about the lift and the ladder, not about the vent. I'll explain what I want to be learning. Look at the picture below.

The purple arrangement of the doors of the lift and of the accompanied shaft is "bad" in a sense that it opens those descending to the fire of the two gun turrets (unless the lift is noticiably wider than the doors, which is possible). The orange arrangement is "good" in a sense that we can descend all the way down the ladder and relatively safely take a quick look around the corner at the turrets, exposing ourselves only as much as we want. Then again, the quote above talks about a large room, which does not seem to be on the picture. So...
36. Can we safely descend all the way down the ladder without being shot at (considering LoS to the turrets)?
37. If yes, what would be the minimum distance from a pair of adjacent hexes, one out of LoS of the turrets and the next one in LoS of the turrets, to the turrets themselves?

36) Yes.
37) 5 yards distance.

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Might want to note Sean and Richard's ready gear and encumbrance levels as they enter the below ground area, just for easy reference.

I have updeted the doc's gear pages for Sean and Bart to reflect what they are taking. In short:
1. Sean goes in without his backpack, carrying 38.40 pounds for no encumbrance. This includes 6 loaded magazines (counding one attached to the rifle) and 1 grenade each of the 3 types we have. Notably, Sean does not expect much of shotguns or fragmentation, so he does not don limb armor.
2. Bart goes with his backpack, but that only contains what is necessary (M67 x12, stun x1 and a crash kit). He will have medium encumbrance (light if he drops the backpack). He loads the shotgun with multi-flechettes.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Good. Thank you.
Richard, make sure you are prepared.

[Volthawk]

Yeah, the doc reflects what Richard's going in with - his combat load, so nothing noted as carried but not equipped. Unlike Sean, he's going in heavier with his full armour and the gas mask (although that isn't actually being worn yet - he's bringing it along out of concern about what might be in the labs, so while they're moving in on the checkpoint and barracks he'll leave it off). He's got space for more grenades, but looking at the general gear list it looks like the ones we brought in the cars are all allocated.

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Since you've neither confirmed nor declined giving your steel plate to the volunteer, I've made the change with a comment, but feel free to reverse.