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Meteor Hits Russia!
« on: February 15, 2013, 11:08:36 AM »
HOLY CRAP!

Let me guess, next it's the zombies?
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Re: Meteor Hits Russia!
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2013, 11:09:48 AM »
... Am I a bad person to think "In Soviet Russia, Russia itself hits the meteor"?

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Re: Meteor Hits Russia!
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2013, 02:18:53 PM »
... Am I a bad person to think "In Soviet Russia, Russia itself hits the meteor"?

*SNORT*

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Re: Meteor Hits Russia!
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2013, 02:19:16 PM »
What a day for AsteroidS , eh ?!

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EDIT --- hey captnq check out my thread link to NASA !
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Re: Meteor Hits Russia!
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2013, 02:35:20 PM »
Not a whole lot of Russian footage has made it to youtube, just yet.

It looks awesome. 
I wanna get a Scale for how bright it got, like the Sun is a 1 and
the brightest moment of the asteroid blast is an X point something.


EDIT ---- here's a good one on youtube via Moxnews (english language Moscow tv with tricky name)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeHmDMt7uXY


EDIT2 --- so they're saying it exploded about 20+ miles up in the atmosphere.
If you remember from boyscouts  :rolleyes ... Lightning flashes and thunder
happens 5 seconds per mile later.  Asteroid blows up visual , 20*5 = >100
seconds later is the BOOM!  It isn't a sonic boom either (although that's also
happening) ... it's explosion + shock wave + atmosphere ripping.

I want Megatons and Brightness and db SPL readings.
I want Helicopter video of the most damaged area, like a tornado event.
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Re: Meteor Hits Russia!
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2013, 03:56:33 PM »
... Am I a bad person to think "In Soviet Russia, Russia itself hits the meteor"?

"In Soviet Russia, Space explores you!"
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Re: Meteor Hits Russia!
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2013, 04:55:18 PM »
Satellite pic ... the blue line is a section of the Russia / Kazakhstan border.

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Re: Meteor Hits Russia!
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Re: Meteor Hits Russia!
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2013, 01:35:34 AM »
I need to turn this into a campaign setting.  Wat do?
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Re: Meteor Hits Russia!
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2013, 02:42:21 PM »
 :-\ right my bad , over-enthusiasm.


Still, these things normally happen completely unobserved.
43 people were hospitalized via that link.  I do hope they get
well soon ... and they have one hell of a story to tell.

Flash to Boom at 6 minutes over here.
Flash to Boom at 2.5 minutes over there.
Easy math to figure where and when.

All those car alarms going off, in the videos.
They can make a map of that, and just need
to know what model of car alarm and what
the setting was = Minimum pressure levels.
Requires the cooperation of the manufacturer.
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Re: Meteor Hits Russia!
« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2013, 03:59:00 PM »
I need to turn this into a campaign setting.  Wat do?

Oddly enough, I already ran this one in oWoD about 10-15 years ago.

W:tA, big meteor drops down in Russia and the silver fangs put out a call for packs to investigate. Silver fang led pack shows up and lo-and-behold, Pentex is working on a big egg shaped rock with a wierd laser drill to crack it open.  Much player stupidity ensues and they start to get their ass handed to them.

So Glasswalker who had this wierd custom made fetish that was a supercharger leaps on the giant drill thingie and slaps his supercharger fetish on it and says, "I bet THIS will change things up!" I remember that line so well, and his fetish thingie got six successes. So the machine turbo charges up to 6 times max, the rock shatters in half, the machine explodes, and a mountain about a mile a way splits in half.

The players run away, lie to EVERYONE about what happened, the shadow lord did all the talking, and because there were dead bodies everywhere, called it a win.

The rock/egg hatched a primordial wyrm Star spirit. A very bored black hole.

Now, in order to "fit" on the planet, he had to give up mucho power, but he was still insanely powerful and he just... wandered off.

Enter next random pick up game a few months later. I drag out this spirit as an enemy for a bunch of mages. Long story short, instead of destroying the spirit, they help him, bind him into a body of some random guy they found, said, "Have fun!" and wandered off.

Again, a few months later, Said black hole bumps into some Vampires and they "take pity" on him and "take the diablerist" (his aura was pitch black, yet pale as he absorbed detecting magic) and he wandered about with them as a sidekick. He simply thought they were funny. And he did like them, because they fed him every supernatural they killed. He made bodies go away. They all assumed he was some wierd caitiff.

Only one player ever figured it out, just how scary powerful he was. The black hole once over heard the players complaining about an enemy Ventrue. He asked a bunch of questions then abruptly turned and wandered off. The nosferatu was the only one who cared and followed him. The naosferatu got to watch the black hole casually suck up all the gas and eletricity from every parked car he passed on his way to the ventrue's home. One tiny sphere of eletricity on one hand, one tiny sphere of gas in the other.

Upon getting to the estate of the Ventrue, he fired both spheres at it from the street, compressed the whole building inwards, then let everything explode in a massive fireball. After that, he just turned and walked away.

I still don't know why, but the nosferatu never told any of the other players, and for some reason everyone just thought it was the Toredor prince finally punishing the ventrue for something that never happened in the first place. But the prince took credit and Shimmy, that was his name, Shimmy the black hole never told anyone and the nosferatu never mentioned it to anyone. I liked Shimmy. I remember he'd just wander about combat, wouldn't do much, and the rest of the players would work so hard to "protect" him.
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