Right, so we're playing post-apoc Universalis at The Source on 7 February 2010. We have no expectations about whether we'll play more than once -- but I hope so.

This game was planned with Shane, Paul, Erik, Steve and myself. Anyone else interested in getting some Uni on?

I'm fine with Garrett joining us.

I was wondering - I've got the second edition, but it looks like the latest edition is the revised edition - is there a place I can get the changes?

I don't have either edition, so I am fine with whichever.

No objections to Garrett playing.

Oh, and I will be leaving early on the 7th since the Super Bowl Party I thought I might be invited to, is ON thanks to the Vikings loss.

Well, another one of us had some sporting party for the Stanley Cup today and was going to have to leave early or something, right? Personally, waking up at the unwholesome hour of 11am (aka "the witching hour") to go biking out in -7C is something I can be persuaded to put off a week or more until it's a better time for you guys.

I'll check back when my alarm goes off and if there's nothing else here, though, I'll assume we're just going to go ahead and I'll be at the Source.

I'm ok with putting it off for a week or two

Okay! Let's put it off, then.

Well wishes to Cathy in this time of illness!

Feb 21st is bad for me - does this weekend work, or Saturday next weekend?

This Sunday does not work for me since I just scheduled a boardgame for tomorrow morning.

I might still be able to make it, but I won't know for sure for a couple of days. In any case, there's no reason to skip it just cause I can't make it. It's not like I'll need to create a character for it or anything.

I think I'm the only person this Sunday is bad for.
Steve

I left a table request for Sunday but don't expect to hear back from them until tomorrow. I'll post when I know what's up.

This sunday is bad for me, sorry! Arrrrrg.

So, new date?

7th works for me

"Sorry, we don't have a table for you, somebody else is already playing Universalis."

7th will work fine for me.

I'll be there. I may bring a boardgame, just in case.

I'll be there on sunday!

Will be there.

I have - the 21st works for me, but I haven't called the Source yet.

Thanks a bunch.

I did some not very rigorous research about meteor/comet strikes based on our conversation about the causal events for our game.

Looks like the average preatmospheric velocity of meteroids is 18 mi/s. Interstellar meteors are expected to be greater than 26 mi/s. Sungrazing commets are observed travelling at 300 mi/s. Shoemaker-Levy 9 was a bunch of rocks travelling around 37 mi/s -- the largest was at most 2 km across and whacked Jupiter with energy equivalent to 600 times the Earth's nuclear arsenal.

Also, it's hard to find anything solid, but based on what I'm reading, I'm not *at all* sure that humans would detect a large, dark rock with anything approaching real time to prepare.

So, given the variety of possible impact event scenarios (essentially no warning is equally plausible with several months of warning), the story-needs should dictate how much preparation the people made.

And I couldn't find any stats about the caloric volume of canned food on-hand in the US.

I found this neat link last week on an unrealated forum:

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/

Scene V (Chris)
-Time: Four weeks later
-Setting: Powder Mississippi
-Charlie is there
-Andy is there
-They have been there for a week
-Major and mounted patrol rid up outside palisade and hail fort
-Lars has been in contact with WFFS and has been ordered to keep notes on Major
-The gate guard unit is here
-The Attorney General of Powder is here
-Mounted patrol goes to hit the bars.
-Charlie is standing outside the Attorney's office window, mouth open, and takes off
-Geoff, High Electronicist is there
Conflict between Geoff and Lars
-- Lars grabs the Radio strap
-- Lars shoves Geoff back gently with the back of his hand
-Charlie and Andy barge into Attorney's office with rifle leveled at Major
-Lars barges in with temporarily broken radio
Conflict between Andy and Major
-- People see Andy threatning Major
-- They don't leave town
-- Andy and Major are isolated so they don't influence witnesses
-- A couple of men in the mounted patrol have been drinking too much and have confirmed Major's creepy behavior
-Lars manages to remain at liberty
-Lars manages to keep possession of radio
Four weeks later, the mounted patrol and shows up at the town of Powder Mississippi, asking that they be let in to apprehend Andy, who has murdered five people in Hampton and one in WFFS. The Attorney General of Powder takes the newcomers through the entrance ritual and takes Major and Lars to his office while the rest of the patrol goes to the bars in town. He explains to Major that Andy has become a part of this town by 'sharing their warmth' and he cannot be extradited so easily. He also speaks with Lars about the his radio (which Lars has been claiming is broken so that Major does not suspect that he is reporting on his actions to WFFS). It is mentioned that the Geoff High Electonicist would love to look at it. As this is happening, Charlie is seen looking in the window, shocked to see Major. He runs off.
Geoff looks at the radio and wants to start 'fixing' it, claiming authority because of his age and experience with electronics. Lars will not let Geoff touch the radio and has to forcefully take it away from him. Geoff goes back to the Attorney's office and tells Major that the radio has been working fine. Lars quickly breaks the radio and brings it back to the office.
Andy comes into the office and trys to provoke Major into doing something violent, so that Major would violate local mores. Major doesn't and the Attorney stops things from escalating because it is wrong to shed powder in town. The matter of the murders will be looked into, but Andy and Major are to be isolated so that they cannot influence witnesses. The people in town have seen Andy acting threatening toward Major, and the mounted patrol soldiers have been talking about Major's behavior.


Scene VI (Eric)
-Time: In the past (after Andy has entered Hampton)
-Setting: Hampton
-Elder Michaels is there
-Major is on trial for the murder of five Hamptonites
-The bodies are entered as evidence
-Major is there
-Lars is there to give evidence
-Andy is there
-Andy has been able to talk and vote with elders
Conflict: Andy is being convicted of stealing bullets
-- Charlie hits an elder with his sling
-- Andy misses and is shot
-- Andy manages to grab another bullet
-- Elders secure their bullets
-- Andy kills a mounted patrol soldier
-- Andy kills elder Michaels
-- Andy kills three other Elders
-- Andy and Charlie escape
-- Mjaor murders the remaining elder and takes his bullets
-- Lars saw Charlie's attack and didn't say anything
-Townspeople recover the bodies that have been shot
-Lars calls back info on what happened to WFFS
Eariler in Hampton, Major is on trial for the murder of five Hamptonites. Elder Michaels is presiding and Andy is standing with the elders voting. Major is tied up in the judgment pit while the elders are standing around, their bullets standing in front of them, each bullet a vote. Lars is testifying that the wounds could not have been done by Major because he never wields any weapon other than his maul, and the wounds are not consistent with that weapon. While being questioned, Major accuses Andy of stealing his bullets, which elicits a strong reaction from the elders, since stealing a bullet is taboo in this town. Andy sees how that will end and shoots his way out of town, killing a mountie, Elder Michaels, and three other elders in the confused gunfight, and getting hit himself. Major murders the last remaining elder and grabs some bullets. The townspeople carefully gather the bodies of those that have been shot.

Tonight we dine in Universalis!

Scene II (Shane)
Location: Keystone SD, on the south edge of the Dakota glacier.
Time: six weeks later.
Major is there
Andy is there.
They are being pursued by the Mounted Patrol.
Dagiel (town elder) is there.
Geoff is there.
Andy and Major have a wagon full of arms and powder.
They ride under a trapped overpass.
A band of Thetans is there (Keystone being run by a Church of Scientology offshoot).
Andy, Major, and Geoff are coming to warn Keystone of danger.
Complication, an ambush.
-- The caravan avoid the brunt of the main attack
-- They shoot several Thetans.
-- The Thetans recognize Geoff.
-- Geoff goes among the Thetans and meets Dagiel.
-- Geoff explains that the danger to keystone is bad (“There is a disease that only electricity can cure.”).
-- Geoff believes that all mankind has been infected, and he has already inoculated the caravan with electricity.
-- Dagiel agrees to take them in.
-- The batteries taken from Powder have been depleted.
-- The hunting rifle is (taken by the Thetans?).
-- Dagiel steals Martha.
The caravan has encountered one ghost town wiped out by “Lack of electrolytes.”
Complication: Thetans vs. the caravan.
-- Before violence breaks again, Dagiel talks them down.
-- Dagiel separated Geoff from the others.
-- Andy, Major, and Charlie do not kill anyone.
-- Weapons of the caravan are impounded.
-- Thetans take the horses.
-- Geoff gets to where Keystone generates their electricity.
-- He is allowed full access to the electricity.
-- Andy, Major, and Charlie are sent to other quarters.
-- Dagiel is convinced that the city needs to be innoculated.
One of the Thetans is starting to display symptoms.
The disease is carried by blood and is fast acting, similar to ebola.
Six weeks later, Andy, Major, Geoff, and Charlie are riding toward Keystone SD with a wagonload of arms taken from Powder. A band of Thetans from Keystone ambush them, but only do moderate damage before Geoff is recognized as being a former citizen of Keystone. Geoff explains to the town elder, Dagiel, that there is a dangerous disease that is spreading and that only electricity can cure it. Dagiel agrees to take Geoff to the place where electricity is generated, but the rest are disarmed and shunted away to other quarters.

Scene III (Chris)
Location: On the side of the road
Time: After Session 2, Scene I, as the return journey to WFFS is comencing
Lars is here.
Major is here, bound.
Geoff is here, looking on the situation but Lars and Major are not aware he is here.
They have a small cart.
Lars is apologetic with Major.
Complication: Lars vs. Major
-- (No facts beyond those written on cards were generated here)
Geoff is creeping into camp and trying to taze Lars.
Lars is knocked out.
Major is freed.
Andy arrives and tries to kill Major. (Or Lars?)
Whatever happens here, there are witnesses.
Complication:
-- Lars narrowly escapes being murdered.
-- Lars escapes the scene.
-- Andy yells to Major, “We agreed he wasn't going to die”.
-- Major to Andy, “The agreement was that you weren't going to follow us either”
Geoff flees back to Powder with the radio.
Major and Andy are planning the destruction of Powder and theft of their stocks.
The scene shifts back to when Lars and Major have been expelled from Powder. Lars is arguing with Major about his guilt and begins to pity Major. Geoff is looking on as this is happening, and sneaks into camp and tries to taze Lars. After Major is freed, Andy arrives and tries to kill Major. Lars escapes with a smashed arm and Andy and Major make plans to destroy Powder and take its stocks.