On 05/30/02 at 04:25 PM, said:
>> >>>>>Ship time: 0997.261.1750
>> >>>>>Ranch time: 0997.261.1850
>> >>>>>Characters: Ricardo, Mira, Cory, Zeek, Ukanav
>> The ship's boat dips into the clouds and begins to descend. At first
>> you don't feel any difference as the inertial compensators deal with
>> all the turbulance, but as you get lower you begin to feel bumps and
>> slight shudders. At the helm, Ricardo is busy manually compensating
>> for the swirling winds that are buffeting the boat from first one
>> direction then another.
>> Mira watching the sensors on her gunnery screen, sees a hook appear 5
>> klicks dead ahead. From her Scout experience she knows that a hook
>> pattern in the doppler radar is a clear indication of a tornado.
>> Cory begins to pick up a steady beep, beep on an emergency channel. He
>> can't get an immediate fix on its location, but as the boat continues
>> forward he works to trianglate it. About 8 klick north, north west...
>Cory forwards an estimate to gunnery and follows it with a fix when
>he gets it.
>"Those are your's Mira. If you can get a gunnery lock on it, I'll try
>to get an idea of the terrain."
>Once done he begins to do pinpoint scans of the area near the
>transponder. If need be he'll drop the freq down to the shf range
>increasing granularity figuring he can compensate with extra pings
>and correlation with the maps he has.
The terrian is pretty flat. There are some low rolling hills near the
river, but on this side, the west side of the river the land is a flat
plain that slowly rises toward the north.
Eris
AKU GM
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