Underwater Hotel

[Steve Long]

This struck me as something that might very well show up in a Star Hero game:

http://www.hydropolis.com/homepage.html

[ghost-angel]

neato

[Matt Frisbee]

This is a fantastic site. Keep this up, and I might have to dust off the Fuzion rules and fire up my science-fiction campaign again...

Matt "Too-many-irons-in-the-fire-already" Frisbee

[austenandrews]

Dubai is just out of hand in terms of wild construction projects. I'd like to visit there someday.

[Blue Jogger]

Underwater Hotel

DEF: 8 (Reinforced Concrete, 18 pts)
BODY: 5 (Reinforced Concrete, 3 pts)
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DEF: 13 (Armored Wall, 33 pts)
BODY: 7 (Armored Wall, 5 pts)

Size: 18,000 hexes (34 pts)
Location: Distant, Underwater (25 pts)

LS: Breathe while mostly underwater, (pumps fresh air to lower levels, recycles bad air out), Decentralized (No Foci) (5 pts)

Staff: 250 Noteworthy people (42 pts)


How's that for a start?

[ThothAmon]

Uh, there is an underwater hotel in Florida ;)

You can pick up a hydrophone and order a room service pizza :E

[Nyrath]

I live in Baltimore, along the bay.
A few years back, one of the local radio stations ran a cute hoax. It was a series of radio ads for a (fictional) shopping mall underwater in the bay. It was called "Loch Ness Mall".

Being the evil game master that I am, I immediately seized upon this idea, so that's where my stable of players found themselves at the next gaming session. It was a hoot, since everybody had heard the ads.

[AlHazred]

Sheer genius, Nyrath.

[CBikle]

And nothing could possibly go wrong...

[Outsider]

Especially in a Star Hero game where some fools (er, PCs) will start shooting off plasma rifles in the 40 watt range...

[Nyrath]

And nothing could possibly go wrong...
Oh, you should have seen the chaos of innocent bystanders screaming at the single bank of elevators as the water rose to their waists...

[Matt Frisbee]

One would presume there would be safeguards against that sort of problem built into the design of the structure, but yeah, chaotic weaponsfire is always more fun after the shooting is over. :)

Matt

[ghost-angel]

One would presume there would be safeguards against that sort of problem built into the design of the structure, but yeah, chaotic weaponsfire is always more fun after the shooting is over. :)

Matt
There aren't enough safeguards available, at any tech level, to make something safe from a group of PCs.

It's the only absolute you can count on; PCs can cause anything's structural intergrity to collapse, usually in the space of a 18 second combat. Or less.

[Michael Hopcroft]

For a long time, I have wanted to write a Doctor Who fan story set at The Shopping Mall at the South Pole. Colin Baker once joked that "the Doctor going to the shopping mall for four episodes wouldn't be very interesting" and I took it as a challenge. It is lack of time and suitable story development that has prevented me from completing the thing.

The problem with building a shopping mall at the South Pole, or anywhere in Antarctica, is that it's cold outside. Incredibly, mind-numbingly cold. Which means that if you're going to be doing any shoplifting, you don't want to get caught.