[pnpgm] Game Update #12 - File #140 - Ship Boredom ends - OOCUnit conversion

[Wout Broere]

OOC: Look up the sea dragon in the PnP V2 files on the 
www.powersandperils.org website. Scott uses PnP V2 as far as it is 
available.

OOC: Two dragons ia ctually better than one. Quarrels anyone?


John Stowman wrote:
> OOC:
>  
> Not that I want to be discouraging but I just had a discouraging thought 
> and wanted to share it with the rest of you.  The only thing I see in 
> the creature list that swims and fits this general description is a 
> Wyrm.  By my calculations 24 knots is about 48' in game terms.  Wyrm's 
> swim at 16' but they are chaos oriented and if they were aided by some 
> malicious chaos force and sent here to attack us with the addition of a 
> friendly current spell could be traveling at 56' or more.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Robert Maxwell <bioram at langate.gsu.edu 
> <mailto:bioram at langate.gsu.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Thanks for the information.
> 
>     Scott, could you give us an idea on how many rounds of prep time we
>     will have before the Dragons are within bow range?
> 
>      >>> "Murtha, Mark D (N-Resources)" <mark.d.murtha at ulalaunch.com
>     <mailto:mark.d.murtha at ulalaunch.com>> 6/1/2009 12:23 PM >>>
>     [OOC - Followup from John H post on speeds, etc.
> 
>     Dragon A 2 miles forward, sailing toward it.
>     Dragon B 2 miles aft, sailing away.
> 
>     24 knots = 24 * 1.15 = 27.6 MPH
>     2 miles / 27.6 MPH = 0.07 Hours = 4.35 minutes = 4 minutes, 21 seconds
>     This excludes the dragon's movement, so that will reduce contact
>     time depending on the dragon's speed and ship maneuvering, etc.
> 
>     Handy online converter, including Knots to whatever -->
>     http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/velocity-units-converter-d_1035.html
> 
>     end OOC]
> 
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>      > Subject: Re: [pnpgm] Game Update #12 - File #140 - Ship Boredom ends
>      >
>      > <24 knots is more like 40.5 feet per second? 800 feet per second is
>      > 545mph or 474 nautical miles and hour
>      > <26 knots would take 4 minutes to do 2 miles, so you may need to fix
>      > descriptions?
>      > <1 nautical mile is about 1.15 miles
>      >
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