JKR (Sep 17, 2011 10:49:46 PM)
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Keenan Murphy (Sep 17, 2011 10:50:11 PM)
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Keenan Murphy (Sep 17, 2011 10:50:17 PM)
I won't

Keenan Murphy (Sep 17, 2011 10:50:30 PM)
(whups, that was for the other window)

JKR (Sep 17, 2011 10:50:40 PM)
What's that?

Keenan Murphy (Sep 17, 2011 10:50:43 PM)
(ahh, it didn;t go through, nevermind :) )

JKR (Sep 17, 2011 10:50:48 PM)
>.>

JKR (Sep 17, 2011 10:51:04 PM)
Okay. I'm not running this like a scene since it was just solo research - but it may lead to a scene. :-D

Keenan Murphy (Sep 17, 2011 10:51:46 PM)
kk, cool by me

JKR (Sep 17, 2011 10:54:28 PM)
Piper Alpha. Keenan finds an old British Documentary on the oil platform. The documentary is very matter of fact, not very detailed in terms of how the Piper Alpha worked - but it broke it all down into manageable terms. it was an occidental oil platform in the North Sea - yes, the same North Sea that the Torrey Canyon Ran Aground although several hundreds of miles distant - that blew sky high and killed 168 men.

JKR (Sep 17, 2011 10:54:47 PM)
Now.

Keenan Murphy (Sep 17, 2011 10:55:10 PM)
*nod*

JKR (Sep 17, 2011 10:55:11 PM)
The official story is easy enough to get through, doesn't seem to be ANY sign of Endron or terrorism or intentional fucking up going on.

JKR (Sep 17, 2011 10:55:38 PM)
Now here's where it gets interesting. The fire was put out by a guy named Red Adair.

JKR (Sep 17, 2011 10:58:44 PM)
Red Adair was this guy from Texas who has put out some of the biggest oil well fires in history. He and his two lead men - Asger "Boots" Hansen and Ed "Coots" Matthews - account for just about any major well blow out or oil fire in history - and very interstingly - Boots & Coots IWC is still in existance - it's a division of another big company - Haliburton. A John Wayne movie was made about these guys.

JKR (Sep 17, 2011 10:58:57 PM)
(Do me a favor real quick and roll me int + investigation dif 8)

Keenan Murphy (Sep 17, 2011 11:00:07 PM)
( -.- 09/18/11 02:59:55 Keenan Murphy rolls 5 dice vs. diff of 8 to int/inves: 6, 7, 4, 1, 5 : Botch!)

JKR (Sep 17, 2011 11:02:38 PM)
Ouch. Hrm. well. The whole John Wayne movie thing kinda side tracks you - it was called Hellfighter and it was a good movie! This is all interesting, but you can't help but feel you're missing something here.

JKR (Sep 17, 2011 11:02:48 PM)
(Gonna have to try again next week and see if you can figure it out!)

Keenan Murphy (Sep 17, 2011 11:04:50 PM)
(got it. ty)

JKR (Sep 17, 2011 11:08:00 PM)
:-) Okay. The two things you DO realize - if it's not already obvious. 1. There was a huge fire and a big oil spill - but nothing about the banes have you heard... where were they? 2. There's not a lot in the media about HOW they put out the fire - it mentions explosives, but there just isn't a lot of details about how it was done.

Keenan Murphy (Sep 17, 2011 11:09:41 PM)
They did it... with Science! -.-

JKR (Sep 17, 2011 11:10:47 PM)
Damn skippy!

JKR (Sep 17, 2011 11:10:53 PM)
But... you aren't sure that's all...

Keenan Murphy (Sep 17, 2011 11:11:51 PM)
got it :)

JKR (Sep 17, 2011 11:12:23 PM)
catch me Monday or Tuesday and let's re-roll. By the way, if you like classic movies, Hellfighters *is* A good movie. :-)

JKR (Sep 17, 2011 11:12:28 PM)
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Keenan Murphy (Sep 17, 2011 11:14:15 PM)
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