#NavSim

[maidenofanguish]

[Chat log streaming from ansible chat hosted on-board Fortune’s Favor] .>>spooling ansible node 47.8e: “FortunesFavor” .>>local node successfully established ... .>>channel name changed to “MiNIONS AND MaZES v.4.5” .>>channel topic has been set to “totally awesome adventure” .>>channel has been set to [Private] ... .>>client connection request: “Nova.1 - 1.34.89.6” .>>client connection request: “Nova.2 - 1.76.78.5” .>>client connection request: “ArcShipPRIM.4 - 5.03.00.1” |MAYZEMASTER has joined the channel |galilea has joined the channel |Eurydice has joined the channel |Phoebe.Hemsworth.IV has joined the channel MAYZEMASTER| alright losers, welcome back to Shayne’s MAZE of MADNESS! MAYZEMASTER| where’d we leave off? galilea| The Tower of the Severed Hand. Hecta had just cast “Nonagon of Respite”, which grants the benefits of a full night’s sleep to Hecta and up to 8 allies. MAYZEMASTER| yeah yeah, I know how NoR works, just needed a quick reminder, I just woke up Phoebe.Hemsworth.IV| Shayne!! Phoebe.Hemsworth.IV | !clock 17:36 (Coordinated Standard Time) Phoebe.Hemsworth.IV | What in the WORLD are you doing sleeping in this late? Wait, do the Rogues use CST? MAYZEMASTER| yeah I just sleep really late MAYZEMASTER| plus I was up til like 0530 on the navsim MAYZEMASTER| Reyna’s been letting me ride shotgun MAYZEMASTER| I’m pretty much the copilot, so I’m teaching myself to fly Eurydice| that’s awesome1 Eurydice| awesome!* Eurydice| stupid prosthesis Eurydice| we’ll have to call you “CAPTAIN Shayne” pretty soon .P galilea| You wouldn’t call her “Captain Shayne”, just like it’s not “Captain Trevor”. The rank is followed by the surname, so it would be Captain... Phoebe.Hemsworth.IV | ...? MAYZEMASTER| no idea. MAYZEMASTER| speaking of, where’s our Death-Jester? MAYZEMASTER| still can’t get over that name Phoebe.Hemsworth.IV| That reminds me, I need to change this bloody thing, I was in a meeting... a user (Phoebe.Hemsworth.IV) has changed their name (HULKULEEZ!) .>>client connection request: “Nova.3 - 1.88.24.3” |Mell has joined the channel Mell| sorry had to grab a drink Mell| what’s wrong with my name shrimp MAYZEMASTER| Half-Humans are supposed to have turbocool deed names, according to the book! Mell| Nelka IS my deed name I totally Nelka’d some poor bastard like twenty sessions ago remember Eurydice| haha that was great, awht was his name ahain? Eurydice| what* Eurydice| again* Eurydice| UGH this keyboard is nothing like the ones I’m used to. How do you type with your giant ckaw? Eurydice| ------ --- ------- --- user (Eurydice) has been muted for (1) minute Mell| typing’s for chumps I just kick my feet up and use text to speech Mell| also Shayne why do you have the default censors on I want to be able to say whatever the ---- I want user (Mell) has been muted for (1) minute MAYZEMASTER| Reyna won’t let me use the ansible without it...I think it’s a test or something Eurydice| My synthavox screws up the text-to-dpeech Eurydice| .( Eurydice| stupid Silent Sisters. Stupid surgeon. MAYZEMASTER| :frowning: sorry Beatrix MAYZEMASTER| let me know if we need to go slower galilea| If anything, we need to go faster. Are we going to play, or not? Hulkuleez!| Yes, let’s! HULKULEEZ WANT BREAK PUNY THINGS Mell| I’m with feebs let’s get to killing this guy MAYZEMASTER| alright, alright, keep your loincloth on a message has been pinned: “when we last left our heroes...” MAYZEMASTER| so, having fought your way through the Digi-lich’s lair, you arrive at last at the door to his chambers, a preponderance of grobblin corpses in your wake... Hulkuleez!| To say nothing of that poor Pixie door-guard. MAYZEMASTER| right galilea| I thought we spared him? galilea| I specifically recall Hecta using “Wreath of Shriving Shame” and rolling a critical success to get him to see the error of his ways. Mell| yeah while you were off doing your star knight ablutions or whatever I went back and killed that guy galilea| Oh. Mell| yeah I really wanted that pixie halberd galilea| Isn’t Nelka a Half-Human? Can she even wield it? Mell| I’ve been using it as a toothpick slash cheese knife galilea| We don’t even have any cheese! Mell| yet Mell| we’ll find someone that has cheese soon enough Mell| and I’ll kill them too MAYZEMASTER| ENOUGH! You’re at the door. MAYZEMASTER| What... Eurydice| ? MAYZEMASTER| ...do you do? MAYZEMASTER| ------ Trix, I’m trying to build suspense! user (MAYZEMASTER) has been muted for (1) minute Hulkuleez!| “HULKULEEZ WANT BREAK!” Hulkuleez!| I’m going to show this door what for! Eurydice| Phebe wait, as an Animancer, I can communicate with trees and wooden objects Eurydice| and alsp since I’m a Dryad, I get a bonus to diplomacy rolls with them MAYZEMASTER| okay I’m back MAYZEMASTER| sorry Eurydice, but those abilities only apply to natural, un-hewn targets. MAYZEMASTER| won’t work on a door. galilea| Hecta casts “Guileless Might” on Hulkuleez. MAYZEMASTER| nice! okay so as a Troglodon, Hulkuleez has a -3 intellect, so that’s +3 strength with Guileless Might. Hulkuleez!| Don’t forget my Berserker favored enemy! MAYZEMASTER| oh yeah. I forgot that Hulkuleez REALLY hates doors. MAYZEMASTER| that’s another +2 Hulkuleez!| His grandfather was killed by a faulty portcullis! This one’s for you, pop-pop! user (Hulkuleez!) rolled 1d19 (16) MAYZEMASTER| not bad! that's a modulated roll of 21 MAYZEMASTER| Hulkuleez flexes his mighty Troglodonian muscles, whirls his electric morningstar around and WHAM, bashes the door to splintereens! Eurydice| nooooo galilea| What does the party see? MAYZEMASTER| The air within the chamber hangs thick with a foul miasma that seems to choke the light out of the lone torch you can barely make out in the center of the room. Eurydice| I want to summin my shimmerwasps! MAYZEMASTER| good thinking. MAYZEMASTER| do you have the prerequisite chiminage? Eurydice| yes! I have...2 “dollops” of royal jelly from a glimmerbee queen MAYZEMASTER| so, drawn to the scent of the jelly, your shimmerwasps materialize! they cast light in a radius of 20 feet around the swarm Eurydice| I direct the swarm to the center of the room while cautiously following behind galilea| Hecta stands next to Eurydice, with her shield raised in case of danger Mell| I guess I’ll follow behind and pull out my ninja stars MAYZEMASTER| your Juggling Knives of Jocularity? Mell| sure Hulkuleez!| Hulkuleez will stand in the doorway, over the shattered remnants of the door. In case it tries to get back up. Hulkuleez!| HULKULEEZ NO FALL FOR DOOR TRICKS LIKE GRANDFATHER MAYZEMASTER| As you advance, the torch at the center of the room seem to grow in brightness until all too late, you realize it’s not a torch at all! Hulkuleez!| Oh dear. MAYZEMASTER| With a deafening roar, the Digi-lich’s DRAGON opens its maw and unleashes a gout of cyber-fire! Eurydice| nooooo Eurydice| Dryads are weak againsy fiiiire galilea| Hecta leaps in front of Eurydice to protect her! MAYZEMASTER| What’s Hecta’s Defense Rating? galilea| 17.5 user (MAYZEMASTER) made a concealed roll... MAYZEMASTER| You take 124 bits of fire damage! galilea| You mean Hecta? MAYZEMASTER| yeah I mean Hecta galilea| The Zomboid racial ability, “Renecrotize”, allows Hecta to desurrect after an unkilling blow. MAYZEMASTER| ugh, fine, anyway, as the cyber-fire dissipates, you see the Digi-lich standing just behind the dragon, cackling as he brandishes a glowing scepter about. MAYZEMASTER| (Digi-lich) “Fools! You’ll never defeat me! I know all your weaknesses, for you see, it is I,“ MAYZEMASTER| he removes his cowl, MAYZEMASTER| “Vextro, your old mentor and patron!” Mell| gimme a sec I’m finishing this drink but I got something awesome coming up Mell| spoiler it’s another drink gimme another sec Mell| alright I’m gonna straight up Nelka this guy into the next century Mell| I’m gonna attack him with my cheese knife MAYZEMASTER| you mean the pixie halberd? Mell| yeah that MAYZEMASTER| okayyy... user (Mell) rolled 1d19 (19!) MAYZEMASTER| Fine, you hit, roll 1d1.5 user (Mell) rolled 1d1.5 (1) MAYZEMASTER| You tickle him with the pixie halberd, dealing laughably small damage Mell| eh it’s enough Mell| he’s like deathly intolerant of any lactose right Mell| that’s what you said in the third session of the sintered soldier when we had to fight the iron golem twins who were terrorizing that dairy farm Mell| Vextro got some milk on him and nearly died or whatever Mell| need me to pull up the records MAYZEMASTER| ? you can’t save ansible data Mell| sure I can just not from a local rig Mell| gimme a sec gotta actually type .>>patching ansible node 12.1a: “Codex Regrowth” .>>establishing secure connection .>>biosecurity confirmed, user: RedObserver Mell| !customsearch:“that thing Shayne said about Vextro being lactose intolerant that one time” (1) result: “Vextro cries out in agony as the drop of milk lands on his arm. Wracked with pain, he tells you ‘Keep that stuff away from me, I’m DEATHLY ALLERGIC to anything containing lactose!’ through gritted teeth.” Mell| don’t test my codex fu kid MAYZEMASTER| ...okay, sure, but you don’t have any milk Mell| no but I do have cheese on the blade Mell| shrimp galilea| I thought you didn’t have any cheese? Mell| I lied Mell| killed that dairy farmer and took his cheese user (MAYZEMASTER) made a concealed roll... MAYZEMASTER| well ----. user (MAYZEMASTER) has been muted for (2) minutes Hulkuleez!| Drat, I was quite looking forward to giving that brute a thrashing! Eurydice| I’m gonna grab some fro-yo til Shaybe gets back galilea| Can you get me some? Eurydice| .D Eurydice| qe can shaaare! MAYZEMASTER| FINE. Vextro’s dead. “Oh no, cheese, my one weakness!” he cries. The orb of his scepter still gleams with palpable force. Mell| sweet Mell| I pick up the scepter MAYZEMASTER| Cool! So now you have the SCEPTER OF THE DRAGONARCH, so you can command his dragon and stuff. Shooould come in handy against the hordes of Deleterius the Unmaker! Eurydice| We should destroy it. MAYZEMASTER| What?? Mell| yeah what Eurydice| It binds the dragon against its will, right? Eurydice| Like a slave? MAYZEMASTER| Kind of? More like an ally Eurydice| So the dragon wants ti help us? MAYZEMASTER| Sure Eurydice| because if that’s the case then we don’t need the scepter in the first okace Eurydice| place* Eurydice| if we need the scepter to get the dragon’s help, then we should desrtoy it. galilea| Yes...if we subjugate this creature against its will, we’re no better than Deleterius himself! MAYZEMASTER| I feel like you guys are going a bit overboard Hulkuleez!| I agree with Shayne, I mean, do we even know that the dragon has free will for us to subjugate? Does it have true consciousness? Hulkuleez!| Come now, any Digi-lich worth his salt would have properly programmed the dragon to enjoy its work and know its station. MAYZEMASTER| Yeah, besides, you don’t have to command the dragon forever MAYZEMASTER| I just figured you’d use the scepter until you defeated Deleterius’ hordes and then let the dragon go. Eurydice| that goes agaijst pretty much every Animancer ideal I stand for Eurydice| we’re supposed to further society, slavery does more than bind the subjugated, it chains the slaver to an outmoded and untenable mentality, restricts the economy, and weakens the foundfation of civilization as a whole. Eurydice| what if the dragon rebels or breaks free? MAYZEMASTER| IT CAN’T, you have the scepter! Eurydice| what if we lose the scepter Eurydice| or someone TAKES it? MAYZEMASTER| I guess you’ll have to be careful, then! Eurydice| DESTROTYIN IT Eurydice| IS Eurydice| BEUJNFG CAREFYK!!! Eurydice| you know what I mean Hulkuleez!| You know, the more I think about the eventualities, however minute, the prospect of growing to rely upon this dragon seems less and less appealing... Mell| fine whatever I smash the stupid thing and loot Vextro’s corpse MAYZEMASTER| UGH now I’ve gotta rewrite part of my story! ------ I’ll let you know when I’m ready user (MAYZEMASTER) has been muted for (10) minutes https://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/t/battleplan-35-1-19-17/1554465

[hudsonespie]

Wärtsilä Upgrades USCG’s SCANTS Simulation Complex To Provide Advanced Training

The technology group Wärtsilä has completed the replacement of the Ship Analytics simulator solution at the United States Coast Guard Academy’s Ship Control and Navigation Training System (SCANTS) facility. The original simulator system was installed at the Academy in the 1990s, and the replacement work was carried out primarily by, and in partnership with, NavSim Services, Inc., the prime contractor.

The upgrade was accomplished in two stages to accommodate the operational training schedule of the Academy, and to fit within the academic breaks. The primary purpose of the USCGA SCANTS facility is bridge training for Academy cadets and officers preparing to take command of their own cutters.

The training emphasis is on navigation, piloting, and collision avoidance. However, the inclusion of specialty modules within the Wärtsilä simulator solution also enables highly advanced training in naval operations, search and rescue, and other operational activities unique to the mission of the US Coast Guard (USCG).

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The highly advanced Wärtsilä system consists of two Full Mission navigation and ship-handling bridges, three additional part task bridges and five separate yet interconnected instructor stations, designed to provide the instructors and operators with the maximum flexibility in accomplishing their training missions. Designed to provide trainees with a realistic perception of operating in a real-life shipboard environment, the simulator complex utilizes an advanced physics engine and high fidelity hydrodynamic vessel modelling capabilities to replicate the behavior of vessels in various sea states, and at all speeds and environmental conditions.

“The comprehensive and highly advanced Wärtsilä simulation system allows the US Coast Guard Academy to conduct extremely realistic exercises, pertinent to the various operations required now and for a long time into the future,” says Timothy Park, Sales Director, Wärtsilä Voyage Solutions.

The USCGA carries out more than 15,000 man-hours of training annually on the SCANTS complex. The SCANTS simulators are used for a wide variety of training: from teaching new cadets the basic Rules of the Road, to advanced maneuvering exercises for experienced officers. They needed a reliable, flexible, realistic, state-of-the-art simulator system to handle that amount and breadth of training. Upon completion of the project, we were told that the Academy was extremely pleased with the results”. explains Anthony Kunecki, President of NavSim Services.

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After a careful analysis of the missions performed by the USCG, several functionality modules were included within the deliverables. Furthermore, since the potential exists for underway replenishment at sea during operations, Wärtsilä’s high fidelity Naval UNREP training module, an advanced functionality, was included. This module will allow Coast Guard personnel to train for risky operations within the simulation environment. The Wärtsilä Model Wizard and Virtual Shipyard 2 programs were also included, allowing the USCG to not only modify area and vessel databases as needed, but enable the creation of new area and model databases as well when necessary.

With the inclusion of the Wartsila SAR training module, large scale search and rescue operations can be rehearsed, either on each bridge individually, or with all bridges participating in large scale, complex operations. This module provides the USCG Academy with the tools to train for emergency situations, including man overboard, lifeboat, fires and collisions.

Wärtsilä Simulation & Training solutions are built from the ground up to train and prepare seafarers of the future. They offer micro-learning, enabling education anytime from anywhere, personalized training and e-learning supported by remote tutoring. They offer gamification of training, drawn from real-life situations and virtually recreated, to make it more engaging for individual learning or for building team skills in multi-player mode. Furthermore, new content distribution technologies allow these solutions to reach seafarers on every platform, with options for virtual, augmented and mixed reality.

Wärtsilä Voyage radically transforms how vessels perform their voyage by leveraging the latest digital technologies, to deliver a step-change in safety, efficiency, reliability and emissions.

Reference: wartsila.com

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