Roll call next mission!

[taimdala]

Submitted character to GM. Waiting on green light.

[Dunny]

If possible, I would like to re-use my Bruce Murray character. I never got a chance to actually RP him.

[Morse]

I might recommend that all of those who are new join us in the 'mess hall' for some practice before we jump in. Just so you can get a short idea of how the game is played. - Its not canon story wise, unless you want it to be. Its really just a place where you can actually meet people to avoid awkward intros in the middle of everything.

[maxvale76]

I was about to suggest the same thing.....uh oh; I'm on the same mental wave-length as Morse.... now THAT is a scary thought!

[Quinn]

RUN

[Dunny]

You have 2 minutes to reach minimum safe distance.

[taimdala]

Before we're standing in a crater the size of Montana, yeah.

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[Sawblade]

Ding! Biscuits!

[Pale Rider]

2 More Slots Left. Everyone strap in once I get the final players in place I will PM Nick or Quinn with the Roster.

Medic and Rifleman Preferred.

[Duncan]

Some quick things I noticed with some of the new player character sheets:

Robert Larkins - I noticed you put yourself starting at a 2nd LT. I don't think this is kosher. In the movie, Ferro was a corporal and Spunkmeyer was a private. I realize that the LT rank makes sense based on current military practice for jets, but I think you'd start out as a private.

Edward Mersem - Unless this is an NPC, or Nick is playing and is being given an upgraded character (in which case, a fitting reward for a long career of GMing), you shouldn't start the game as a Master Gunnery Sergeant, you shouldn't have a nondescript "Heavy Submachine w/ Extended Clips", and you shouldn't have skill rankings that would dwarf our most senior PCs even if they succeeded on every learning roll ever. The first version of you character sheet is legal. The second version almost caused my ears to bleed.

[Quinn]

We've also sometimes had them as Warrant Officers, but that's just an in-game thing.

[Pale Rider]

According to my research Mr. Larkin cannot be any higher than Corporal. Since he is starting with us as a Pilot I think we can live with Lance Corporal or Aeroman First Class.

[Morse]

I gotta back Duncan here. A 2nd Lieutenant amounts to essentially overshadowing everyone, potentially even our commanding officer. - Now in the game that just came out their pilot is a 2nd Lieutenant... but I don't think anyone wants to use that as a source.
- In the mess hall he was already addressed as an officer - but thats why that is loosely cannon

As for the new M. Sergeant. My only issue really is with the weapon. I have no idea what a heavy SMG is, and I don't like equipment I have no reference for. But if we're needing a new head, its probably better to find some bias-less new guy that knows Aliens like the rest of us.

[Dunny]

Posted in the mess hall whilst I wait for a green light. Decided to assume my character's a new transfer from a dead-end garrison role to explain why he hasn't been assigned a squad (or, hell, a rank) yet.

[Robert Larkins]

Ok. I do not care what I'm slated for IC wise. From my posts in Mess hall, I am not playing on the rank or being over bearing to the well established player group. I did not slate myself as 2nd Lt.

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That is what I was put in when I originally joined. Like I said, I'm extremely flexible and the point of rank matters not to the RP for me. Want me as 1st Sputnik, I'll live with it.