dark brandon wrote:I think you went a little easy on them.
I was a player, not the GM. But I'll do a little defending. Also keep in mind we were in high school and much craziness ensued in that game.
dark brandon wrote:1) CS has dog boys and psychics and generally speaking most (if not all have 6th sense). They would have known a minute in advance that his life was in danger
All they know is that there is danger, not where it is comign from. 12 missiles fired from 12 points around, from all directions. Plus they are not expecting trouble given the location the parade is taking place, so security was probably thinner than it would be if the parade was happening in, say, the Burbs.
dark brandon wrote:2) Second, is that a missle has a chance to be hit in the air, basically shooting it down. Since everyone at this point would have been at high alert and with the numbers of men (and high level men) I don't know if many of these missiles would have hit. Also, the driver being on alert would have had a chance to dodge the missiles.
Being medium range missiles, the GM ruled they had a fairly large blast radius, plus given the way parades usually go, there wouldn't be room to maneuver the car that easy. And missiles fly really fast, given the distance they are traveling, the soldiers have a split second to aim and fire, they're basically shooting wild if they really have any chance at all.
dark brandon wrote:3) Dog boys before the parade happen would probably have run up and down the street using their sniffers for just such things, and probably would have located the weapons.
I don't remember if we took that into account or not, however, if professionals, as these characters were, were attempting such a thing, the concealed cases would have been airtight and carefully cleaned beforehand to remove any trace of explosives from the outside of the case prior to being moved into position.
dark brandon wrote:4) CS has large amounts of counter-terrorism. There is a good chance the CS may have caught wind of the scheme before hand. This is a bit more iffy. I mean, just think of how rich and powerful someone could be if they expose an assassination plot on the leader of CS. With a merc group, it'd be kinda hard to resist turning your own in.
That is completely GM fiat on the counter-terrorism stuff the CS would have. However, as far as our merc group security, the only people that knew we even had this contract were the people going on the mission, and one of the PCs was a d-bee mind melter and checked them for thoughts of betrayal.
dark brandon wrote:5) The mage would have almost most definatly been caught. If the boss is in town, you can bet that there would be dog boy and psi-stalker patrols for a good distance, and being a few blocks away probably wouldn't have been safe for him.
He had a TW item that masked his PPE.
Yes we had fun, yes it is unlikely it could have been pulled off so easy, but we were kids from good neighborhoods who didn't have any real world experience. The same group later went on to reduce Lone Star to a radioactive crater by digging a tunnel miles long that went underneath lone star and leaving nuclear warheads. Again, unlikely, but fun.
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