Warlock's wildcard.....

[mikeo80]

I just had a WONDERFUL Idea. One that fits into this thread.

With Universal Antidote and a Medibed, MP can cure advanced ALS. Other wise known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

One Name comes to mind.....

Stephen Hawking.....

Arguably the most intelligent human being on the planet at the time of the Big Bang. No matter what date you use.....

I can see a small group showing up at Stephen Hawking's house about 6 months before the meteor....."Dr. Hawking, we can help you....If you help us...."

My $0.02

Mike

[RandyT0001]

Since the 4th edition added 2017 EM9 asteroid to the doomsday mix and made it known that it would hit the planet a little over a year's advanced notice the bigger national governments are all going to protect their most important people. They will try to set up special survival arks like in the movie Deep Impact to save their culture, heritage, and way of life regardless of what the odds of survival are. The very best minds, art, etc. will be saved for future generations. Before, in 3rd edition, TEOTWAWKI was a suprise to everybody. TMP was preparing for it and the national governments in the US and Canada put some Special Forces in freeze tubes to maintain the democratic way of life just in case the fools were right. Otherwise, people lived their lives out as normal and the government continued to function cutting taxes, trickle down economics, etc. In 4th edition the asteroid changes all of that. There is foreknowledge of the disaster and people and governments will react differently. (Borrowing from the movie Deep Impact, the survivors in the ark in the limestone caverns in Missouri could morph over 150 years of time into the "Frozen Chosen". Another ark in the Rockies could have been the start of the "Breeders".)
IMO

And Sheldon Cooper is smarter than Stephen Hawking.

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by mikeo80

I just had a WONDERFUL Idea. One that fits into this thread.

With Universal Antidote and a Medibed, MP can cure advanced ALS. Other wise known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

One Name comes to mind.....

Stephen Hawking.....

Arguably the most intelligent human being on the planet at the time of the Big Bang. No matter what date you use.....

I can see a small group showing up at Stephen Hawking's house about 6 months before the meteor....."Dr. Hawking, we can help you....If you help us...."

My $0.02

Mike

I don't think it can. ALS isn't a virus or a bacteria. It is a genetic disorder.

[Gelrir]

A couple more points:

• What happened to "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Mission"?
• It would take a bold referee/PD indeed to role-play a group of people who are all far more intelligent and skilled than any player-character; AND require the player-characters to try and convince these Wise Ones of anything.*

--
Michael B.

* Without it sounding like, "Okay, you rolled well, so you talk to Mr. Hawking for a few hours, and convince him of the virtue and correctness of the Morrow Project concept."

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by Gelrir

A couple more points:

• What happened to "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Mission"?
• It would take a bold referee/PD indeed to role-play a group of people who are all far more intelligent and skilled than any player-character; AND require the player-characters to try and convince these Wise Ones of anything.*

--
Michael B.

* Without it sounding like, "Okay, you rolled well, so you talk to Mr. Hawking for a few hours, and convince him of the virtue and correctness of the Morrow Project concept."

Waking up 150 years after the apocalypse, I would hope they are smart enough to see the options.

Besides I have met some really smart people that come to work in mismatched shoes.

[Gelrir]

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

Waking up 150 years after the apocalypse, I would hope they are smart enough to see the options.

What if those are options that don't align with the teams'?

I can see, of course, LOTS of opportunity for drama and role-playing; but what's the Project's stated goal for Operation Paperclip? "We'll need to make sure the elite survive for the five or so years after the Atomic War."

Remember, a team won't have Bruce Morrow's "proof that the War is inevitable and inescapable" (whatever that is). You wake up a bunch of constitutional scholars, nuclear engineers, brain surgeons, Nobel laureates in biology, etc. five years after the Atomic War and tell them: "We kidnapped you a few weeks before an atomic war was predicted to occur without warning, and froze you in secret cryogenic bunkers. No, you can't go looking for your family, you have to do what we say -- the Project isn't a democracy. Your task is to assist us in rebuilding American civilization after the War."

Of course, the team will have a fusion-powered armored car, which is proof they aren't just escaped lunatics.

--
Michael B.

[Gelrir]

Stashing a bunch of kidnapped elites in a big, not-Recon-Team bunker gets more interesting when you consider that's also the kind of bunker the Project puts non-deployable personnel in: people who got injured during training, people who couldn't pass training, people who failed the psych/political evaluations too far into training, snoopy reporters and government investigators, the entire staff at the Morrow Industries reactor factory, the folk who kidnap the elites, etc.

--
Michael B.

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by Gelrir

Stashing a bunch of kidnapped elites in a big, not-Recon-Team bunker gets more interesting when you consider that's also the kind of bunker the Project puts non-deployable personnel in: people who got injured during training, people who couldn't pass training, people who failed the psych/political evaluations too far into training, snoopy reporters and government investigators, the entire staff at the Morrow Industries reactor factory, the folk who kidnap the elites, etc.

--
Michael B.

So I take it you have agreed to disagree then?

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by Gelrir

A couple more points:

• What happened to "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Mission"?
• It would take a bold referee/PD indeed to role-play a group of people who are all far more intelligent and skilled than any player-character; AND require the player-characters to try and convince these Wise Ones of anything.*

--
Michael B.

* Without it sounding like, "Okay, you rolled well, so you talk to Mr. Hawking for a few hours, and convince him of the virtue and correctness of the Morrow Project concept."

I stated from my perspective I would use them as Non Player Characters (NPCs) and build the PCs mission around them.

Whether that is to take them to Prime Base or Raven Rock. Have them wake up in a MP Regional base that was looted and burned by Warriors of Krell. (except the hidden non MP cryosleep bay).

The Team a combined Science / MARS is intended to safeguard these people and transition them assisting to the Morrow Project, the U.S. Government (FEMA), or return to academia.

If they don't want to......... Well they don't have to. The Morrow Project is the good guys. I don't see the Morrow Project squandering a resource like people with multiple PHDs or highest honors in their career fields.

It is at once unethical and at the same time holding the moral and ethical high ground.

You are saving them to save civilization.