PaRARGdox 160
Action stations – confusion reigns!: I figure that everyone caught in Ambrosia’s time slip might have difficulty coming to terms with it, trying to understand it in particular ways based on past experience. Given we’ve seen Maya Applecross, for example, construct elaborate mindscapes that can seem to take hours within, in reality, only a few minutes… it makes sense for Charisma to think that a telepath might be the cause. Go!Anna’s found herself in a vision or two before, so she’s not sure what to believe. Kaycee and Rochelle though, while unsure what “went wrong” are right on the case! Olga, using her many more years of experience as Gola, is able to pick up the threads quickly!!
Smith-Smith: This is Ranger Bill’s last name (as per the Cast page)… likeliest explanation, his parents both had the last name Smith prior to marriage and decided to, y’know, become Smith-Smith… 😀
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Next update: July 21, 2022: Annie has some explaining to do!
Yay!
Yay! 🙂
If in doubt play it safe, in a possible emergency act on what you think you know and ask questions after. (Within reason, but definitely the first bit)
Called it! Yay, moon base, here they go!
also: I hope that Charisma keeps her powers long enough to a: get down to the ground, b: they take the boat, but with Charisma pushing instead of Kaycee rowing. It would cut their time down to a fraction of the first “groundhog day” run.
Good plan for Charisma and Kaycee, I was thinking the same. Maybe Kaycee has a better one though.
Also, Yay!, Annie did remember about the (hopefully true) possibility to go to the moon base.
Maybe fly away from the power sap ray initially? Even Largo Island wasn’t far enough away to keep Charisma’s powers.
Maybe use Ranger Bill’s portal to send the ship to the moon. That should buy the Magellan folks a few days to get organized.
It made it from Jupiter to Earth in less than a day. I don’t think the Luna is far enough away to buy us days.
Coms can’t get through to security… time to send a speedster! Too bad Nadine can’t carry Rochelle with her… unless Sionni can make all of them super light.
Well, given that it’s Rochelle, she might be able to hack the comms to force her way on to the loud-speaker in the room which the Force Magellan members are organized in. That way she can both overhear Go!Anna and offer her own take on things (and given that it’s Kwan; you KNOW she’s going to have her own opinion on things).
1) Olga after confirming the backstop, while Telepathy is still working, hotline key players who can contact others from distance, update some with instant briefing. Coordinate and direct people away from the ground zero kill zones, and better utilize the training of personnel she had been teamed with. Shakti and Yasmeen Magic Enhancing psychic powers call back, Sun Moon Magnetic shield and/or transmission booster, and Olaf Omega level sanction seems important Chekhov’s gun powers. “Brelvis go take a dump now over there rather than during the ground attack!”
Telepathically negotiate selling out the mutual enemy company in the USA, that was actually responsible for the Rarg nursery Deaths, even if it is aftermath of halting the mundicide assault.
Paz is going to do more, having more groundhog minutes of Rarg fighting than anyone, and can likely teach. I imagine she has a good setup to become a leader for her class, and eventually of a Magellan team.
2) Rochelle and Casey have had the longest to plan this scenario. Rochelle hacking control of the loud speaker system does seem like a good improvisation.
Rochelle has best analysis of enemy armor, and may share a plan to defeat more Rarg forces in mass, and where to find the tools she needs before it is destroyed.
Casey if back in time, can mobilize with the armory and organize a logistical deployment plan, working with Fraya and Bass. If protected, Nadine Turner could get gear to people who need it. If Rochelle can get Applecross to successfully trick key Rarg, she could turn them against one another. (Bloody results)
3) Charisma should be able to low fly push the boat over the water to shore. Any falling being no more hazardous than waterskiing. Traveling with Casey, to the armory, being power shielded while having another rematch confrontation with Sister Superior seems fated arch meeting. Casey being the one with a grenade launcher this time might be another bonding experience as she tilts the tables in favor of Charisma.
4) Annie has awareness of how to shield from the Rarg disabling weaponry. Potentially the moon base may be able to shield the whole island (unlikely in time, but saves most lives) or later arrive at the last moment to stop the world from ending.
And, of course, someone will hopefully figure out that they need to shut off the power suppressor in Sister Superior’s holding cell if the pulse is an inevitability.
Need to switch her with someone.
I wonder if Sun Moon and Sioni can team up to push the ship back into the low-pressure volume as soon as it breaks through the clouds, maybe shove it 8 light-minutes away into a local fusion reactor. That is if someone doesn’t figure out how to talk them down. Diplomacy is almost always better than violence.
Go!Anna ain’t got time to F around, and Ranger Bill found out
How will the rest of Magellan Academy react to the revelations of Paz and the others?!?
Ah… I live for the moments where Ranger Billy-Boy gets slapped around.
Impressive recovery and reaction speed from most of them. I suppose Rochelle and Kaycee being aware of the plan helps them, Annie is part of the top super team on the planet and Olga was a founding member so this wouldn’t be TOO shocking compared to what they’ve probably experienced before. And Charisma, who doesn’t fit any of those criteria, is very confused.
Just checked out the Cast page and noticed Judy originates from Canada.
In fact, all characters listed as from Canada in the Cast page are fem-presenting.
*strokes chin-analogue with entwined tentacles*
Curious . . .