This sounds really fun, but I've never done this before, could anyone explain the rules to me please?
Hello! I’m not sure I have time to commit, but sounds mighty interesting. It far (far FAR) too long since I have played any RPGs.
Could you tell a bit more about how it works? I got what you said about describing your actions, but not that of other players. But who writes what happens around the characters? Like can anybody see something interesting, or have a storm descend upon the ship, or say “My-character opens the door, and a huge giant with at least seven heads jumps out”?
And if so, can the next player say “my-character casts fireball and the giant is not a threat any longer”?
EEEEE this sounds so cool!!!
(https://40.media.tumblr.com/be0e1d04ef09ea6d13dbff70e7d0744c/tumblr_inline_nlhgjuuVpW1r2g2kx_500.png)
Can I still join? I don´t have any experience in roleplaying, but I always wanted to do it! I don´t have discord though, is that a problem? If not, is there still a job that needs to be covered by a character?
Hello! I’m not sure I have time to commit, but sounds mighty interesting. It far (far FAR) too long since I have played any RPGs.
Could you tell a bit more about how it works? I got what you said about describing your actions, but not that of other players. But who writes what happens around the characters? Like can anybody see something interesting, or have a storm descend upon the ship, or say “My-character opens the door, and a huge giant with at least seven heads jumps out”?
And if so, can the next player say “my-character casts fireball and the giant is not a threat any longer”?
EEEEE this sounds so cool!!!
(https://40.media.tumblr.com/be0e1d04ef09ea6d13dbff70e7d0744c/tumblr_inline_nlhgjuuVpW1r2g2kx_500.png)
Can I still join? I don´t have any experience in roleplaying, but I always wanted to do it! I don´t have discord though, is that a problem? If not, is there still a job that needs to be covered by a character?
So we now have two and a half medics, and both proper ones are conspiracy theorists with very specific focuses.
Noice.
Can I just say I love reading your game as it unfolds :)
@Lallicat you asked about the recharge time of the engines. 1,5 hours seems like... like there have been extreme developments in either ship engines or photovoltaics. Or both. Which is fully possible, considering how the Cattank apparently ran on air??
1,5 hours in proper sun could be time when the ship can be moved some after it's been completely emptied, but full charging doesn't seem reasonable. On the other hand, when the weather is sunny (i.e. not during the night!) the solar panels keep recharging all the time, so it's not very likely to run completely empty if they are paying attention to it.
Also the rate at which the solar panels give electricity depends a lot on the weather but also the time of day and the position of the panels towards the sun. I guess we can assume the panels can be moved somewhat, but as they need to still be attached to the ship after a storm, they probably aren't mounted on fully rotating stands. So, the recharging time may vary a lot. Just so you know this might become an issue at some point.
(I hope nobody minds me barging in. I'm an engineer, I can't help it. I even majored in environmental and energy technology, although sadly we didn't have anything about propelling ships by solar panel driven electrical engine using post-apocalyptic improved technology).
considering how the Cattank apparently ran on air??The Cattank was spec'd to have its batteries recharged by some sort of all-fuel engine and generator. The kinds of fuel it was said to accept were all combustible liquids, though, so it's probably not a Stirling Engine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine).
1,5 hours in proper sun could be time when the ship can be moved some after it's been completely emptied, but full charging doesn't seem reasonable.Recent research results in battery technology have been interpreted as promising e-cars that can be 80% charged within 15 minutes, but that's with the typical total capacity of e-car batteries, which still falls way short of a large-ish gasoline reservoir; I'm not entirely sure, but I think that those 80% have been "translated" to a reach of 100 km or so.
Also the rate at which the solar panels give electricity depends a lot on the weather but also the time of day and the position of the panels towards the sun.Total solar irradiation on the planet surface, annual average and measured on a flat surface, is about 100 W/m² in the Nordics and 200 W/m² around the Mediterranean (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Insolation.png). Tilted panels and catching the hours of full summer sun gets you closer to the DNI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance#/media/File:Global_Map_of_Direct_Normal_Radiation_01.png), but short of magic, I see no way to sustainably get more than 1 kW/m² of actual battery charge out of a collector.
The Cattank was spec'd to have its batteries recharged by some sort of all-fuel engine and generator. The kinds of fuel it was said to accept were all combustible liquids, though, so it's probably not a Stirling Engine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine).
Recent research results in battery technology have been interpreted as promising e-cars that can be 80% charged within 15 minutes, but that's with the typical total capacity of e-car batteries, which still falls way short of a large-ish gasoline reservoir; I'm not entirely sure, but I think that those 80% have been "translated" to a reach of 100 km or so.
Which is to say, given powerful enough a source of electricity to recharge the batteries with and short enough a reach with "a full load", you can do such a "full load" faster than you can manually connect-and-disconnect-again the cable. ;)
Total solar irradiation on the planet surface, annual average and measured on a flat surface, is about 100 W/m² in the Nordics and 200 W/m² around the Mediterranean (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Insolation.png). Tilted panels and catching the hours of full summer sun gets you closer to the DNI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance#/media/File:Global_Map_of_Direct_Normal_Radiation_01.png), but short of magic, I see no way to sustainably get more than 1 kW/m² of actual battery charge out of a collector.
Of course, if your "collector" were something that you can let spread on the water surface like an oil slick, and scoop back up and put into a small tank when you're done, getting a heckuva surface would be a nonproblem ...
... anyway, how strong do you want your ship engines to be, compared to the prototype coal carrier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_propulsion#Electric) with its 2400 kWh battery capacity ... ?
If we go by the fact that the ship is around corvette size (it's a bit smaller), we can expect a speed of around 30 knots or about 55kmh if we're being optimistic about the engines
JoB, I think you are overdoing it :) I imagine the players don’t want engimeering specs, just something plausible taking into consideration the presumed advances. Although the floating solar panel would be good!
Also Lalli, JoB and Jitter, if you don't feel like figuring this all out I'm also cool with it just being like Astrid randomly popping in and saying "LOW POWER" from time to time, to up the stakes and all that, and ignoring it in betweenI presume that everyone's going to suspend disbelief to the point that the vessel's reasonably operational, and unless you plan to state in detail how many hours the panels have been charging at every stop (and how much battery charge has been drained by the crew perusing pinball machines etc.), things are unlikely to turn totally unbelievable ...
JoB, I think you are overdoing it :)Gee, did you read some of my older posts, perchance? :P
I'm not sure but this was said in Discord by RMErm, so, on par with actual corvettes of our oil-guzzlin' Ancients' military, about twice as fast as even their steamboat-era counterparts ... ? :-[QuoteIf we go by the fact that the ship is around corvette size (it's a bit smaller), we can expect a speed of around 30 knots or about 55kmh if we're being optimistic about the enginesSo uh, how strong would the engines be for that?
Erm, so, on par with actual corvettes of our oil-guzzlin' Ancients' military, about twice as fast as even their steamboat-era counterparts ... ? :-[
I'm sorry, I don't understand that sentence :'(30 knots is what a corvette of today (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunschweig-class_corvette) can do, with Megawatt diesel engines and <sarcasm>all the environment-friendlyness (read: economic use of energy) that a military can muster</sarcasm>.
30 knots is what a corvette of today (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunschweig-class_corvette) can do, with Megawatt diesel engines and <sarcasm>all the environment-friendlyness (read: economic use of energy) that a military can muster</sarcasm>.
The corvettes of the steamboat era (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_corvette_Dupleix) had a top speed of around 15 knots, and, in terms of speed, they were nonetheless considered a quantum leap from the original sail-powered corvettes ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohjanmaa-class_corvette
Here’s the link to the Finnish navy corvette I referenced. It’s more a question of how much and how efficient solar panels you decide to have :) The speeds seem good as suggested, Kitty!
I imagine we want the ship to be reasonably agile and reliable, with ample possibilities to cause surprise problems 😝
I am now taking suggestions on what to name the kitten.
I did expect shenanigans. I did not expect you to end up in a fight before you left the port :V... would your definition of "leaving port" include the Black Maria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_van#Black_Maria) as the vessel, or why do you seem so certain that they will? :P
I did expect shenanigans. I did not expect you to end up in a fight before you left the port :V
Leo stalks off now that the show at the fishmonger's has ended and heads for the boat to drop off his pack.
He hears the cat before he's even properly on the boat as he quietly stalks up the gang plank and peers down the hallway in the ship while dumping off his pack in his claimed berth. :fi: "Something up cat?"
What's new, pussycat? Woe, woe, woe...
I'll see meself out.
Is this still open? because I would like to join.
wanna be the group commander that Leif finds at the last second?Sure
Sure
Cool, make a sheet that makes sense for a commander found a day before we set out and you're in :>Thanks
"The cat has been fed, he is lying."Three weeks and a starved cat later,
bbbwaahaHAHAHAHA
Kudos to Solokov!
Three weeks and a starved cat later,Mikkelthe crew is officially forbidden to do that kind of thing unless they also put the date on the note. >:D
You can only apply certain sizes to the fonts.Note that said specific font sizes also remain unchanged when someone [quote]s your post, whereas unspecific text gets shrunk a bit in the quote. Occasionally, I see "small" text turn out larger in the quote.
[Dísa] decides to not warn the very excited-looking Oliver about the shark, since she´s still a bit mad at him.Remember, they say that the smell of hákarl is worse than the taste. I would assume that the average patron in a restaurant that does serve it can stand it being served the next table over, but ...
Y'all should just assume that Harald ain't gonna come out of the forge until night time btw. So consider that carte blanche to skip ahead to tomorrow morning on my part.
Just have to finish the cat-problem, then Dísa would have to find Astrid to get a blueprint of the ship so she can do the rest of the runes, but that doesn´t need a lot of explanation, she´ll just do that at night. (draw the rest of the runes, I mean.) At that point you can skip on my part.
Arriving there she [Dísa] starts searching. Quickly she finds a crate labled with ":is: emergency lighting". Half of it is filled with with candles (Of a quite peculiar brand. They have a cat circled by hearts on them.)
Oh, perfecto! Those candles have been in play for over 40 years. They have survived being shipped to the Silent World before, very dependable. They may even be famous after their first expedition? (*tinfoil hat on* Was it their first trip to the Silent World?)