Salvage Operations (D4 EA-LA Szekeres Event)

[GM Yuusha]

(Optional for all characters)



With Szekeres and its surroundings conquered it was time to collect whatever valuable salvage could be found. There was a little at the site, but the majority would be found where combat had taken place. The sites had been secured by infantry and some initial assessment of available salvage had been carried out, but there was still a lot to bring back. Mechs with arms could carry things while others would have to drag it back, drivers could collect salvage and return it to the dropsite and technicians could identify it. That was after it was all located of course. All of this formed a very familiar activity to most mercenaries.

Those with time to spare are encouraged to take part, contributing however they best can. This event runs over two timeslots, but characters only need to allocate one timeslot of the two to participate. This should be made clear in the post.

Participants should choose how they wish to assist. There are three steps for this event. Finding salvage, identifying the worth and transporting it. Each step has different options. Participants should pick an option for each step, which will mean either an auto-pass or a roll for each step. At least one option with a roll must be taken. I.e. You can choose options that auto-pass twice, but not for all three steps. The choices picked, if successfully rolled for, will award Salvage Points. These grant bonuses as below. However, should you fail any roll you will not be able to contribute Salvage Points. If you avoid choosing option d) for any of the three steps then your final Salvage Points total will be doubled.

The three characters who contribute the most salvage points will gain 0.1 fame and a PC Token.

Step 1 - Finding salvage
a) I'll find some! - You look for salvage yourself, checking inside buildings, at battle sites and among wreckages. This is an Investigation [perception] roll TN15. This awards 2 Salvage Points and 1 per raise.
b) I'll check the logs! - You search the combat logs, reports and communications for information on where to find salvage. This is a Computers [intelligence] roll TN30. This awards 5 Salvage Points and 2 per raise.
c) I'll find out! - You speak to some of the captured crews and other prisoners to learn what salvage and supplies are nearby. This is an Interrogation [Perception] roll TN25. This awards 4 Salvage points and 2 per raise.
d) Leave it to others - You're not here to find it. Besides, isn't it everywhere? You auto-pass this step. Gain 1 Salvage Point.

Step 2 - Identifying the worth
a) I've seen this before! - You've been involved in ordering enough supplies and equipment that you can pinpoint the items the Angels need. This is an Administration [Intelligence] TN25 roll. This awards 4 Salvage Points and 2 per raise.
b) I know the value of things! - You've participated in enough business deals to know what's expensive and what's not. This is a Commerce [Awareness] roll TN20. This awards 3 Salvage Points and 1 per raise.
c) I have the technical know how! - You have enough expertise in your field that you simply know what's useful or how to repair damaged parts that have been found. This is a Technician: Any roll [Intelligence] TN20 or Medtech [Intelligence] roll TN15. This awards 2 Salvage Points and 1 per raise. Spit and Polish [technique] grants a free raise on this roll.
d) It looks fine - You don't know or don't care what it is worth. You think it's probably valuable. You auto-pass this step. Gain 1 Salvage Point.

Step 3 - Transporting
a) I'll do it - You will drive a vehicle or pilot a mech to help transport the salvage. This is a Piloting or Driving [Reflexes] roll TN20. This awards 2 Salvage Points and 1 per raise.
b) Let me persuade a driver - You can negotiate with the salvage crews and drivers to have some salvage transported back. This is a Negotiation [Awareness] roll TN20. This awards 2 Salvage Points and 1 per raise.
c) Let me navigate - You help get it back indirectly by pinpointing the fastest routes for various salvage teams. This is a Navigation [Intelligence] roll TN25. This awards 3 Salvage Points and 2 per raise.
d) Need assistance - You've found salvage. Just leaving it in a pile and letting someone else transport it is fine. You auto-pass this step. Gain 1 Salvage Point.

Salvage Points earn:
50 Salvage Points = +0.1 Strength
75 Salvage Points = +0.1 Strength, +0.1 Impact
100 Salvage Points = +0.2 Strength, +0.1 Impact
125 Salvage Points = +0.2 Strength, +0.2 Impact, successful participants receive 1xp
150 Salvage Points = +0.3 Strength, +0.2 Impact, successful participants receive 1xp
175 Salvage Points = +0.3 Strength, +0.3 Impact, successful participants receive 1xp or a single emphasis for free
200 Salvage Points = +0.4 Strength, +0.4 Impact, successful participants receive 2xp

(TNs already include the +5 TN penalty to Administration and Technician rolls from low Impact.)

[John Slaktare]

Butcher's mech comes in handy once again with moving stuff around in the Early Afternoon. Fingers are really useful on a mech. He doesn't do any searching or sorting, instead just helping other people that are better at it than him. But he is very effective at loading up his mech with salvage and moving it back to base camp. His balance is pretty amazing and he has no difficulties with that part of the mission.

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Step 1: Auto-success, 1 point
Step 2: Auto-success, 1 point
Step 3: D4 EA, Salvage Operations, Transporting, Piloting / Reflexes, 1 FR Inherited Mech, 2 Called Raises, Edge +1k1, TN 30: 10d10o10k5 40 +5 points

Total: 7 Salvage Points

[Tanaki]

Tanaki arrives and begins organizing things, taking a look around he picks out some choice pieces and prioritizes them for the drivers to begin taking back.



Find salvage inv/perc tn 15, edge: 5d10o10k4 37
4 Salvage Points!
Know Value. Commerce/Awareness TN 20: 6d10o10k4 27
3 Salvage Points!
Persuade Driver. Negotiate/Awareness TN 25, edge: 8d10o10k5 56
4 Salvage Points!

Option D x2

Total: 22
Team Total: 29

[Klaus von Zinzer]

Klaus looks over the site with a sigh. "I know we did not anticipate much, but this will take some work'

The computer terminal isn't in great shape so Klaus doesn't try anything fancy. He still finds a working machine that reports a storage house.

From there, practiced administration came into play. Klaus wanted general supplies, those meant to help with communications and he had an idea of where to look for them.

"Jackpot" Klaus looks over at a driver. "HEY! Rico, can you fit this on your truck? First pick is yours!"

The driver readily agrees and Klaus returns with a nice haul.

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D4 salvage-step 1-Computers/Intelligence TN 30, edge spent: 8d10o10k5 45 pass with exceptional success, +7 points

D4 salvage-step 2-Administration/Intelligence with 2 called raises, 1 free raise from school talent TN 35, edge spent: 8d10o10k5 40 pass with three raises, +10 salvage points

D4 salvage-step 3-negotiation/awareness TN 20: 6d10o10k3 31 pass plus exceptional success for +3 salvage points

Option D not taken for any steps, total points doubled
+40 Salvage points from Klaus
Team Total: 69 (nice!)

[Yoko Lee]

Yoko was out there too; She wasn't an expert on these kind of things, but she had a sharp set of eyes and knew a bit about value on certain things. Plus, she was glad for a chance to get out of camp and contribute.

After a while of searching around, she found some good medtech scrap: Med kits, respirators, stimulant packs, trauma kits, bandages, antibiotics, and assorted pain killers. Now, she just needed to see they got to the camp and the right people. Despite the cold and dampness, Yoko had dressed light in a bomber jacket, stockings, and booty shorts, and a little bit of sweet talking with the pilots hanging around, both male and female, and she had them practically fighting over getting them to the doctor's hands for her.

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Day 4, Early Afternoon, Salvage Operations, step 1: Finding Salvage, A) Investigation/Perception TN15: 4d10o10k3 19 - Success = 2 salvage points

Day 4, Early Afternoon, Salvage Operations, step 2: Identifying the Worth, C) Medtech/Intelligence TN15: 4d10o10k3 16 - Success = 2 salvage points

Day 4, Early Afternoon, Salvage Operations, step 3: Transporting, C) Negotiation/Awareness TN20, Edge spent for +1k1: 5d10o10k4 41 - Success + 2 Exceptional Success Raises = 4 salvage points

Total points = 8 salvage
Doubled for nothing skipped
Final total = 16 Salvage Points

Team Total: 85

[Yori Hakamada]

Yori looks down from her mech at the scrap.
The scrap looks up at Yori.

"You're coming with me."
The scrap doesn't deign to reply.

"..."
Yori's crusader reaches down and carefully pinches the metal before attempting to extract it. There's a horrible groaning sound and the scrap shears clean down the middle.
"Fine then...you are victorious this round."
The scrap is very smug.

Day 4 Salvage Operations, EA, option D picked for steps 1 & 2. Picking option A for step 3, transporting. Piloting/Reflexews TN 20 base, free raise from inherited mech, one normal raise, new TN 25. Spending an edge.: 8d10o10k4 17

((No points so still on 85 I think))

[Mei-Ling Zhou]

Mei wasted no time getting out to the battle sites, eager to see what all their hard work had been won them. Still not fully adjusted to her daytime schedule she picked through and kicked around rubble and slag. Half asleep she threw something big into a junk pile and moved on, taking a few steps away then stopped.

"What, what the fuck was that?"

She hurried back to the pile and took another look at it.

"Well I'll be damned."

STEP 1
D4 EQ Salvage Operations Step 1 Investigation [Perception] roll TN20 (Edge): 3d10 13
Two additional dice for D4 EQ Salvage Operations Step 1 Investigation [Perception] roll: 2d10 3
Explosion of 10 for D4 EQ Salvage Operations Step 1 Investigation [Perception] roll TN20 (Edge): 1d10o10k1 6
(Sloppy rolls made when tired, sorry again. Dice kept are 16, 2, 2 = 20. Roll passed with no raises, 2 points gained)

STEP 2
D4 EQ Salvage Operations Step 2 IMedtech [Intelligence] TN 15 (Edge): 3d10 17
(Roll passed with no raises, 2 points gained)

STEP 3
D4 EA Salvage Operation Step 3 Piloting[Reflexes] TN30 (2 called raises, 1 free raise, Human TRO): 10d10o10k5 33
(Roll passed with 2 called raises and 1 free raise, 5 points gained)

9 Points gained, points doubled for passing all three rolls and not picking option D.
18 total points gained.
Team Total: 103

[Richard Winter]

Richard kept his contribution simple: move stuff from A to B.
This triggered in him a little flashback to the old days on Hesperus II in the big factories where he did almost the same thing: piloting a mech and carrying things from A to B.

Until that fateful day, anyway, he thought to himself as he carried the remains of a tank through the area.

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Step 1
d) Leave it to others +1 Point

Step 2
d) It looks fine +1 Points

Step 3
a) I'll do it myself D4:LA:Salvage Operation; Step 3; A) Piloting / Reflexes, Edge +1k1, 2CR, TN30: 7d10ro1o10k4 46 +1 EXP Raise! +5 Points

Total 7 Points

Team Total: 110

[Catherine Maia Hayes]

(Early Afternoon)

Catherine will gladly accept any excuse to get out in her big Battlemech. Even if it just collecting trash.

She knows that all the good stuff has already been found, so she simply carries whatever is assigned to her. And she gives the materials a mostly cursory glance, as she lugs them back to the drop off point.

What she can do and actually takes personal interest in, is jumping into hard to reach places and collect the scrap from there. Jumping with several tons of extra weight in your arms can be a pretty fun challenge. Not enough though to go really all out, but a few simple tricks are natural routine for the young mech pilot.

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Step 1: d) +1pt
Step 2: d) +1pt
Step 3: [Piloting: Mech] - FR - 0R - TN 20: 10k4 30 - +4pts
Total: 6 pts
Team Total: 116 Salvage Points

[Alex Kovac]

Alex cracked the code and was able to see the logs in the computers. While searching for the the scraps the Penguin found something that may have been of use but who would understand such foreign piece of equipment? So the pilot put it aside. As Alex saw other scraps and took something useless back to base.

//D4 EA-LA Event Salvage ID Computers Int edge +1k1TN 30: 7d10o10k4 45 5 pts +2 from exceptional =7points

D4 EA-LA Event Salvage Technician Int TN 20: 8d10o10k3 19 failed by 1 T.T

D4 EA-LA Event Salvage lets get this piloting mech FR lower TN 15: 7d10o10k3 33 2 pts +1 pts from exceptional roll.

Failed 1 roll no points.

[Ezmeralda]

Ezmeralda helped find something and deciding it didn't look too banged up she got in her mech and began to lug it back to base. She tried to make good time but with the ground being a slush covered, muddy, untrustworthy mess she had one foot sink into a thawed patch of mud while the other skidded out on still frozen but slush coated ground. The machinery went flying down the hill bouncing and crashing into trees as hunks of metal flew off it. She sighed, "Hopefully that was just a mediocre sensor suite..."

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Step 1: a) I'll find some! - You look for salvage yourself, checking inside buildings, at battle sites and among wreckages. Investigation [perception] 39 Gain 3 Salvage Points.
Step 2: d) It looks fine - You don't know or don't care what it is worth. You think it's probably valuable. You auto-pass this step. Gain 1 Salvage Point.
Step 3: a) I'll do it - You will drive a vehicle or pilot a mech to help transport the salvage. Piloting-Mech [Reflexes] 29. Fail

[Eilonwy Ainsley]

The doctor had spent the morning tending to minor injuries. Thankfully, no one had been seriously wounded. After lunch, she joined everyone else in assessing what could be salvaged. Her focus was on medical supplies and equipment. At first, it seemed like there was little to find, then she got lucky.

There wasn't much equipment, but there were a lot of supplies and medicine. She didn't have much need for it, but a surplus was nice to have, especially if they came across civilians in need.

"Excuse me? Hello." Elle had quickly found a driver. "I need a little assistance getting these crates back. Could you help? I'll make you a nice pie."

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SALVAGE OPERATIONS (D4 EA-LA SZEKERES EVENT), Step 1, Investigation/Perception TN 15, Luck Reroll: 4d10o10k3 20

SALVAGE OPERATIONS (D4 EA-LA SZEKERES EVENT), Step 3, Medtech/Intelligence, 2 CR, TN 25, Specialist: 8d10o10k5 36 (Step 2, mislabeled as Step 3)

SALVAGE OPERATIONS (D4 EA-LA SZEKERES EVENT), Step 3, Negotiation/Awareness 1CR, TN 25, Edge: 6d10o10k5 30

( 2+4+3)×2 = 18 points

Running Total 134

[Samara Kinugawa]

Samara was out pitching in on the salvage!

Sure, she couldn't exactly determine brass from dross, but she knew what seemed like a good weapon or usable chunk of armor.

And at the end of the shift, she could even do her bit towards carting it away with a loader mech.

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Step 1:
D4 EA, Salvage Operations, Finding, Investigation/Perc, TN 15: 4d10o10k3 26
Exceptional success!
+3 Salvage Points

Step 2:
Auto-pass
+1 Salvage Point

Step 3:
D4 EA, Salvage Operations, Transporting, Piloting/Ref, TN 20: 7d10o10k4 25
+2 Salvage Points

Total: +6 Points

[Mary Macharu]

(Early Afternoon)

Salvaging was important. Not just because certain people wouldn't do anything unless they saw themselves becoming fabulously wealthy, but the Angels were going to need supplies to keep running. You couldn't exactly run out to the local hardware store to patch up your mech on a hostile planet.

Mary resolved to go out and see for herself what kind of goodies they could bring back to base:

Step 1) Per/Investigation 27 vs. 15, so 1 exceptional roll raise 3 points

She found what looked like some abandoned medical diagnostic equipment. She thought she'd seen a similar piece when she'd been injured, and keeping people was just as important as keeping people running, right?

Unfortunately for her, the reason it had been abandoned was because some vital and hard to replace circuitry had gotten fried.

Step 2) Int/Medtech 11 vs. 15, fail x0 points for the entire event.

Not realizing her error, Mary scooped it up with her Mech to transport back to base.

It was difficult and didn't really want to be transported that way, but Mary did manage to bring the broken and completely useless thing back to base.

Ref/Piloting 21 vs 20, Pass


0 points due to failing step 2.

Running total holds at 140

[Alison Rodríguez]

Alison spent her afternoon looking through the logs, but nothing jumped out at her as worthy salvage. Likely due to the fact she didn't know what would be worthy salvage to begin with.

In hindsight, not a good idea to ask her to check the logs!

D4EA salvage event roll1 - Computers/int+premium. TN30: 9d10o10k5 23 - fail and out

[Charlie Schroeder]

Charlie goes to work immediately. He goes through the logs and finds some choice pickings. He heads out to the salvage and evaluates the equipment's worth, quickly figuring out what could be useful for the company and what could be sent to the employers. He talks to the salvage teams, pointing to the way he came which he suspects is the quickest way back.

Salvage Event: Step 1 Computers/Int TN 30 EDGE: 9d10o10k5 36 5 Points

Salvage Event: Step 2 Tech (BattleMech)/Int 2 Raises 35TN 30 EDGE: 10d10o10k5 50 5 Points (2 Bases+ 2 Raises * 1 Exceptional Raise)

Salvage Event: Step 3 Navigation/Int TN 25 EDGE for Skill: 5d10o10k4 34 3 Points

Double for no auto successes

26 Points!

166 Total

[Hrafnhildur Ylfasdottir]

Now then, sorting through salvage was one of the things Hrafna loved to do. She had gotten good at spotting what was worth taking and what was useless, her years of making things run had given her a good eye for that sort of thing. But alas, when it came to actually getting the stuff back Hrafna played it safe and let someone else haul it. What she wouldn't give to have her motorized cart right about now.

D4 LA, Salvage Operations Step 1, Investigation/Perception TN 15(incorrectly labeled with free raise): 5d10o10k3 22
Success - 2 points

D4 LA, Salvage Operations Step 2, Tech/Intelligence (free raise) TN30 2 called raises: 10d10o10k4 51
Success - 2 points + 3 points from raises = 5 points

Step 3: auto-pass = 1 point

8 points total

174 group total

[Gianna Rains]

(EA)

Back from patrol and feeling like she wanted to stay active, Gianna was back out with Gorgeous George after only a short break. She wanted to find salvage from the mechs they'd battled the day before, but she knew that was unlikely and so tried to simply keep her eyes open for anything that might benefit the Angels' operations.

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Roll 1: Finding - a. I'll find some.
Investigation: success. 2 salvage points

Roll 2: Identifying - d. It looks fine. 1 salvage point.

Roll 3: Transporting - a. I'll do it.
Piloting: success and then some. 5 salvage points including raises.

Total: 8 salvage points from Gianna.

182 group total

[GM Yuusha]

Result:

Practically everything that could be salvaged was salvaged. Every working vehicle was taken back to the base. Those that weren't working were fully stripped for parts. Armour, weapons, ammunition. It was all whisked away. The few mech parts left after Gianna's lance had obliterated both mechs defending the site were taken too. Then came everything from the hangar, which thankfully included some mech replacement parts, and general supplies from the site itself. Much of the communications equipment was gutted. The AFFC wouldn't pay much for it, but they would pay something. It would overall be enough salvage work to slightly please their employers, but it only slightly contributed to making up for the mainland being reinforced. For the Angels, who could keep half the battlefield salvage or its value for themselves and a quarter of the rest they found, it was profitable work.

175+ Salvage Points -> An increase of +0.3 Strength and +0.3 Impact. All successful participants receive 1xp or a single emphasis for free. The participants below should express their preference in their PF Character Sheet thread:

John Slaktare
Tanaki
Klaus von Zinzer
Yoko Lee
Mei-Ling Zhou
Richard Winter
Catherine Maia Hayes
Eilonwy Ainsley
Samara Kinugawa
Charlie Schroeder
Hrafnhildur Ylfasdottir
Gianna Rains

The biggest contributors to the effort receive public praise from the senior leaders of the Obsidian Angels. It was no surprise one of them was a mechtech, but the efforts Klaus and Tanaki had put into making the salvage operation a success were especially worth acknowledging.

The following three characters receive 0.1 fame and a PC Token:
Charlie Schroeder
Klaus von Zinzer
Tanaki

[GM Yuusha]

Reminder

The following characters have not claimed their reward:

• Eilonwy Ainsley
• Samara Kinugawa