5punk

I enjoyed this as well, the creepy element of Dour and the smiling killer were really well done.

Also, I've made SCL 8! Win! I think I want to get a loan for the fancy armor I've been looking at.

Well unsurprisingly, since you're in tow with a Necanthrope, nothing bothers you on your journey back to the surface. True to his word Dour makes a phone call summoning a Kilcopter, and crediting you for the BPN. While waiting for the Kilcopter to arrive he suggests that you may want to edit the parts specific to Havoc from your cameras and sell the footage of the massacre of the Subterraneans.

Dour wrote:Such a show of strength against a feared gang would be useful to the company. It would be a shame to waste it. I hope you have a trusted media contact.

So, do we call Lloyd still, or go to Mina with combat footage?

Either, or Haynes. Mina's more of a reporter, but as a media Op has the contacts to get your footage published. She'd probably only give it to Langley though and take a small commission. Langley is probably your best media contact, but Haynes is also capable of getting stuff aired.

Maybe we should give Haynes the first crack at our footage, seeing as he's been a good financier for us, and stuck his neck out at least once.

Makes a change. Seeing as Dirk is comatose I'll give him a ring.

Yeah, Haynes can get it published for you. Who's submitting footage? The combat footage, trimmed to remove Smiler, is about 5 seconds. You can probably get another 10 seconds of before/after stuff spliced in there to pad it out, and he might be able to wangle you an interview too if the footage is any good (anyone got cinematography?).

Grimmie wrote:Hey Kt'rr, wanna be famous?

Kt'rr's great infront of the cameras, I seem to recall?

Hopefully deject will be able to send the video over with his oyster.

I believe that is doable.

What was the SCL boost for this one?

it's a .5 SCL increase.

Finally I get a characte off SCL 10 woot!

Grimmie wrote: Kt'rr's great infront of the cameras, I seem to recall?

Hopefully deject will be able to send the video over with his oyster.

I am indeed. Let me ferret out any relevant skills:

Telegenics (for looking awesome on camera, especially in the dual wielding assult rifles bit): 9,5,+7 = 21

Communique (for giving the interview, if they go for it): 6,7,+6 = 19

Dont have cinematography though. Im no video editor!

Both are good. I'll work out the extra moneh and XP later on. If you've not stated you're submitting footage by then you're too late.

Who's going to Join Eraser on the Carrion Hunting in downtime?

Ah yes. If anyone has anything interesting to do during downtime say so, and I might just turn it into uptime.

The Shutting Downs wrote:Who's going to Join Eraser on the Carrion Hunting in downtime?

That could be fun. I need to get my loan and buy my fancy new armor though. DP, should I work that out with you over xfire/pm or is it just a simple thing? I just need to borrow 2000c.

Details on the Carrien Hunt?

Blue BPN a day in Downtime.

50c profit and a .1 SCL increase.

Mr Pants has it in the Wiki

The loan is standard as per the house rules. The carrien hunt depends on how you want to do it. If you're taking a Blue then you might get lucky and get some Carriens or you might spend three days traipsing round the sewers.

For the BPN you all recieve .5 SCL and 300c. On top of that you get 5 XP.

I'm developing some guidelines for working out footage so I can give you constant figures. My current thinking is:

Combat footage time as dictated by reasonable length of combat, in seconds. Multiplied by an arbitrary amount between 20c and 50c (usually). Telegenics fits in by being specifically filmed by a cameraman, adding 5% to the sum per point rolled over 10, and cinematography on the part of the cameraman has the same (cumulative) effect.

Padding (scene setting etc) of 1 second for every point rolled over 10 on a cinematography roll, at 5c per second.

Interview time as 1 sec per point over 10 on the interviewee's communique roll, plus +5% on the price per point of interviewer's interview roll over 10.

On top of that a business administration roll by the broker will add or subtract 5% per point over or under 10 to the total for an NPC, or 10% for a player (NPCs take a cut but are less risky). Each part of the footage will only take the highest roll from the squad's footage - only one submission for each type.

So, using this BPN as an example;

Combat: 30c/sec * 5 sec = 150c +50% for Joose's telegenics = 225c
Padding: 5c/sec * 0 sec = 0c
Interview: 10c/sec * 9 sec = 90c for Joose's communique
Subtotal = 315c

Plus a roll of 20 for Haynes' business admin is another 50%, 158c

Total: 473c

Make sense?

If the Carrien Hunt is not something like televised or anything then I'll pass. I'm not in need of any SCL boosts or 50c so I'll pass.


Also, Go Jacob Haynes! Extra 50% for the win!