[M&M 2e] Red Sands Chronicles. (OOC)

[Relique du Madde]

Would anyone be interested in getting a copy of my google Mars file?

 

[Binder Fred]

I would!

 

[Relique du Madde]

Alright, I'll upload it to my google docs and link the files as soon as I finish placing two overland trade routes on it (!etherton-Elysium-Setenza-Olympia and Aetherton-Elysium-Victoria Town)*. The current version does not include the approx location of various city walls (I haven't figured out the functionality to make 3d objects yet).

Since I'm using the map to keep track of the group's locating, this file will get updated as locations "pop up" I will post a link to updated the kml files as they appear.


* These trade route do include the usual cross road settlements, though they are not as large as the great cities.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Here is a link to the current Red Sands Mars kmz file. To view it, you will need to download google earth to view it.

Note: There is a spoiler of my next post on the map. Also, this map does not include the approx. trade routes to Olympia.

 

[Binder Fred]

I'll wait till after your next update to install it then, avoid temptation.

 

[Relique du Madde]

The "spoiler" was the patrol flyover.



On a side note, I discovered that multiple different martian calenders have been devised. Several of them tend to use leap days every other year and additional day every ten martian years.

One of the most interesring concepts I read about was the 'martian witching hour' (actually used in various martian sci fi novels). The idea is that since mars has a day that is about 40 minutes longer then the earth day, all clocks end up going offline at midnight for about 40 minutes before they go back on line. What makes this idea very interesting if its a floating witching hour that every time zone experiences at midnight time on mars ends up becoming very fluid and confusing since things are constantly out of sinc.

As a result of how that time slip would work, I imagine that some clocks might be based on the appearance of gears like the aztec or mayan calenders (the representations not based on the aztec sun disk). If so then maybe everytime the clovk its 12, it goes off line for 20 minutes. Or maybe the 12 o clock hour is 80 min long?

The more I think of it... having that "non-hour" occur at noon in a coopted union society like victoria town makes so much sense.

Just imagine the annoyance of walking into the victoria town's department of x and waiting in line for an hour before approaching the clerk at 11.58 while knowing that the clerk will go on a manditory 40 min lunch break at noon. Then making thinks more frustrating will be the fact that every city state observes the non-hour differently.

That situation is so exploitable that I have to revert to the real life martian time measures.


Btw, I will update after I get home from work.

 

[Relique du Madde]

The problem with characters that have lots of equipment points is that you eventually have to decide what they had on them (when they were captured).

This is what Lady Rasputina had: Baton (+2 damage), (Multi-functional Wrist Device), Handcuffs, Leather Duster (+1 toughness), Machine Pistol (+3 damage, autofire), Multitool, Service rifle (+6 damage).

The members of the watch each had heavy pistols, batons, and a service rifle or a shotgun (+6 slugs).

 

[Binder Fred]

Hello all,
I'll be going in the field on tuesday up until christmas. Expect slower posting from me for that length of time.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I did some editing to the last thing I posted.

I ended up take out all the OOC styling on the object desciption (since only the last lines should have really been ooc).

 

[Shayuri]

Relique, this unlabeled slider...is it currently slid "on" or slid "off?"