Play@YSDC

Strength rolls,Mr. Handy - you know what to do.

OOC,I'm guessing we need to make a Resistance Table roll against the door's STR by combining our STR scores together. They add to 18, so with that roll we'll force open the door as long as its STR is 20 or less. If you meant for us to roll against STR x 5, that roll is a success.

Show,yup, you got it. Versus resistance!

OOC,Wait, WHAT?! :o I thought I was searching the room outside the door for a flashlight or something, and the Luck roll was to see if I found one. You mean that you thought I was in the room beyond the door, and I would have fallen down the shaft and died if I'd failed the Luck roll?

OOC,yep. You've killed folk for less... (like a failed basic take off and landing) :P You'd been walking down a corridor so I didn't think you'd search it for a flashlight when you knew Sarah was trapped somewhere inside. Permanently insane and all that.... It's all good. You made the roll.

OOC,But I specifically said in my post on August 9 (August 8 in the U.S.) that I was searching the room I was already in for a light source, in response to your post just below it. I repeated that I was searching in each of the posts that followed. I never went through the door into the corridor beyond, and I never suspected that you thought I had. You didn't describe going up the stairs that [b]Sarah[/b] was dragged up, which came before the shaft. I knew that a light source would be essential, especially when [b]Sarah[/b] warned [b]Lionel[/b] that there was a lift. I was also feeling my way along the wall, so I should have noticed that there was no wall there before stepping into the shaft anyway. I'm also only indefinitely insane, not permanently insane. My point is that I shouldn't risk death because I said I was doing one thing and the Keeper had me do something else instead. This sort of thing actually happened to me once in a roleplaying game in college, and my character died as a result. The GM had mixed me up with one of the other players who looked a lot like me (and whose first name also started with the same letter, which didn't help). When I pointed it out after the fact, he realized that he had made a mistake, but my character's death still stood. Luckily it was D&D, and death wasn't permanent. I did get resurrected, but it still cost me. The helicopter crash was more complicated than that. The landing conditions were far from ideal. It was dark, there were zombies known to be in the area, and while the ground was relatively flat, it wasn't perfectly so. Even so, a regular failure would not have resulted in a crash, but you got a critical failure on your Pilot Helicopter roll, and a 99 at that. Then you critically failed your Luck roll to see how badly hurt you'd be, but even then you were still highly likely to survive. However, the damage roll was abnormally high. The odds of dying there were miniscule, a far cry from the 30% chance in this instance. Most importantly, you made a choice to set down the chopper rather than lowering a ladder to let people aboard. It was a small risk, but the risk was there. You didn't say you were lowering the ladder and then have me think you were landing and proceed accordingly.

OOC,Can [b]Sarah[/b] try Psychoanalysis on herself?

OOC,Are there only two helmets, or are there three?

Show,Three.

Show,Potential sanity hit ahead!

OOC,Does it look like the person lost so much blood in those smears that whoever it is can't be alive?

They could live through it. It wouldn't be pretty or that likely,though. Smears are hard to be sure but they lost at least a pint or two of blood.

Show,1/1d4+1 SAN loss for coming face to face with proof of what's happened to everyone here.

Show,sorry, I meant to state that you two can now enter Ronald's thread but was in the middle of something and posted without thinking.