Second playtest of DVV

Sefton: well, hey there. Not a lot of people yet
Nobody Important (GM): I'm patient.
Turnop: I'm observing.
Sefton: Taking the chance to say thanks for running these games, then. Serious work you're puttin in Nob, we appreciate
Is the character alright? I kinda made him up on the spot. Just had the concept in mind
Nobody Important (GM): I'm checking characters right now.
Chances are good we'll have a 15 minute delay before we actually start the game if I know players.
Sefton: That sounds familiar. I haven't played tabletop but I used to play freestyle on a MMO years ago and people never showed up on time
Turnop: On a totally unrelated note, I'm wondering whether I should swap one of Sverd's goals around to make 'Restore the Kingdom of Arrendelle' a hero-level goal.
Is it reasonable to get Elsa un-crazified at On-a-roll tier, provided I invest enough into Charm and Music/Persuade?
Or ever survive getting to the palace?
Sefton: Seems possible to me, but it's gonna be more of a whole-party thing, isn't it? Arrendelle always sounded mid-to-high level to me instead of full endgame
Hell, maybe even early on if the GM is nice enough, who knows
Turnop: It's definitely on-a-roll
Even with an 18 Sverd can't make a TN35 music challenge at the start.
I'd just probably put a point into Robustness and then focus on improving charisma stuff mostly until On-a-roll.
in an actual campaign that is
Sefton: I hope we end up getting more storytimes from this system
Nobody Important (GM): And we're officially started but nobody but you two is here. That's surprising.
Turnop: And I'm not even playing, kek.
Sefton: Did it have a delay last time?
Nobody Important (GM): Yeah, ~bout 10 minutes while people piled in and voted on stuff
Dread Cartographer .: fuck
who turned the camera on
Sefton: 'sup cartographer
Dread Cartographer .: Hey
Turnop: If no one else from last playtest joins do you want me to fill the last slot so we have that angle? I'd rather not, though.
@nob
Nobody Important (GM): I'd rather fill the last slot.
This is really set for five heroes, but I can hash it down to three if we need to.
Sefton: This is odd. Is the time really bad for most people in the US?
Turnop: Yes.
Sefton: Oh, okay. That explains
Nobody Important (GM): It's 4 in the afternoon here.
Sefton: Here in hueland it's already seven, so I got it mixed
Turnop: Eastcoastians like me just got off doing stuff and everyone west of louisiana is still there
Dread Cartographer .: Yeah, it's only three here in chicago
Turnop: because it's tuesday
Dread Cartographer .: and cold as balls
enjoy your tropics, sefton
Sefton: You wanna trade? I hate this heat
Can't peel off my skin
Dread Cartographer .: I've got 15f + wind chill
your call
Sefton: No snow?
Dread Cartographer .: A dusting
but it's too cold for snow
Sefton: Is that a thing? I thought that the colder it got, the more likely it was for snow to start
Dread Cartographer .: Yeah, but if it gets too cold, the humidity drops so snowclouds can't form
Nobody Important (GM): absolutely miserable weather
Sefton: Aaah. Right, I know what you mean now
Dread Cartographer .: Basically, either way you're screwed
Sefton: Luckly I live near the sea so I don't have to deal with dry weather often
Dread Cartographer .: I've only ever used roll20 once before
tried to organize a game over 4 different timezones
Sefton: Well, at least people seem to be making characters right now if the thread's any indication
Dread Cartographer .: it ended poorly
Turnop: Did it just crash for anyone else
Sefton: Fuck, got disconnected
Dread Cartographer .: yeah, me too
Nobody Important (GM): crashed for me, may have crashed all of you
Dread Cartographer .: that'd do it
Sefton: Does this happen often?
Dread Cartographer .: rolling 1d6
(5)
= 5
Nobody Important (GM): nah, it's hosted on my end and I just closed a lot of tabs at once
Turnop: Yeah it didn't crash once last session.
Sefton: Aye aye then. To roll4d6 drop the lowest, it's 4d6k, right?
Turnop: rd6k3
Sefton: rolling d6k3
(6)
= 6
Turnop: ''/roll 4d6k3
Nobody Important (GM): ./roll 4d6k3 or /roll 3d6
Sefton: rolling 4d6k3
(4+5+2+5)= 14
Turnop: you got it
Sefton: There we go. Thanks
Let me just get used to this
Mark C.: Hey, sorry I'm late. What did everyone else bring to the table?
Dread Cartographer .: rolling 4d6k3
(2+1+3+5)= 10
ah
better
Turnop: I'm observing.
I'll shut up when the game starts.
Sefton: rolling 4d6k3 + 10
(3+5+4+3)+10= 22
Nobody Important (GM): looks like a bog standard roll there.
Mosskin: I'm here! finally!
Nobody Important (GM): i'd assume 21.5 is your average roll on +10 4d6k3
Turnop: By the way if you wanna go the extra mile change your name to your character name in the tab
Sefton: Which means I'll get fucked up by the mooks, most likely. Oh well, that's why I'm not the strong guy
Dread Cartographer .: Hello!
Turnop: it helps dah immurshuns
Nobody Important (GM): Gratzi. So, what did everyone bring, and where can i examine your life choices?
Sefton: Oh yeah, sure
Cassio White: There
Dread Cartographer .: I got Laz, he's posted up in the thread
Cassio White: Got a Smart guy. I put him up in both thread
Dread Cartographer .: the roll20 threat, that is
Tlalec: Done.
Mark C.: Well I guess I better dig up the bear knight.
Tlalec: Everything's in the thread yes.
Dread Cartographer .: Haha fuck yeah, bear knight
I loved that character
Nobody Important (GM): Jeremiah is throwing together a character, which is good because it gives me time to make some calculations
Turnop: And someone said they wer emaking a nimble guy in the thread, probably Jeremiah
Cassio White: Next time I make a character, I'll try to make a charismatic monitor lizard
Turnop: which means you guys have everything but a charismatic
Cassio White: Because fuck yeah, comodo dragons
Mark C.: And now it's up fro everyone to see.
Nobody Important (GM): I hope one day to play COWBOYOSAURUS REX in a playtest.
Turnop: So that's pretty balanced as long as someone took some points in persusation/intimidation and music
Mark C.: Eh, the bear's pretty charismatic
Tlalec: Nordic Knight, Aztec Knight and Bear Knight, oh my...
Turnop: I'm not playing this time.
Dread Cartographer .: Lotta knights
Cassio White: The bear is the most charismatic of the lot
That is terrifying
Turnop: That'd overload the group and give three strong guys
nobody wants that
Dread Cartographer .: Laz is good at yelling at people
does that count?
Tlalec: Oh well, guess it's just the Eagle and the Bear then.
Cassio White: Yelling and explosions often solve most problems
Nobody Important (GM): Alright; Laz doesn't have a Class power but other than that it looks good.
Let's get started with a question here; Why on earth are you in this tiny little french town, besieged from four sides?
Dread Cartographer .: I figured the pride trait would be a class power
Nobody Important (GM): Well, we'll roll with it for now.
Turnop: Of Champange? Hey, I've been there.
Nobody Important (GM): It's Thionville, if anyone's interested. Part of Alsace-Lorraine
Dread Cartographer .: Laz is an itinerant philosopher, he's set up shop in a barrel in the market-place
Cassio White: Cassio would have pretty much just gotten shitty luck. He's escaping/leaving from the Mirror Kingdom, so I assume his sense of timing just decided to fuck with him
Nobody Important (GM): Oh, so a cynic?
Dread Cartographer .: he's spent his time scolding people for aravice
that's right
Nobody Important (GM): Excellent.
Cassio; Yeah, you're about to get attacked again for being too pretty.
Cassio White: He has a scar, doesn't that count?
Nobody Important (GM): True. You'll be spared when the face-hacking knives come out.
Cassio White: The image is not really representative, I just picked it
Noice
Nobody Important (GM): Then executed for trying to run away.
Such is life.
Cassio White: Fair enough
Dread Cartographer .: Damned if you do, damned if you don't
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne knows that knight errants wander the land looking for quests, so right now, he's looking for quests.
Cassio White: That's why improvisation is an art he wants to master, in any case
Dread Cartographer .: The real question is how tlalec got here
Nobody Important (GM): Alright. The strangely large and hunched man in armor is looking for a NOBLE QUEST
(tm)
And what's more noble than getting in a fight with SPOOKY SKELETONS, Inquisitors, Fae, and Mirror Kingdom soldiers?
Dread Cartographer .: Ah, skeletons, excellent
there's less squishy bits in the way of my fists
Nobody Important (GM): It's literally in a spot with borders on four territories. It may be entirely unique except for India.
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Dread, Dread, Dread....you want to hit the soft parts with your hard parts, and the hard parts with your soft parts. Knuckles are for the meaty, palm strikes are for the bony.
Dread Cartographer .: That's what the lead weighted gloves are fore
for*
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Oh, carry on then.
Nobody Important (GM): Make sure to vote on this poll if you haven't already: (STRAWPOLL REMOVED FOR POSTERITY'S SAKE)
Turnop: just realized it's probably for the best that I didn't join this one because sverd walking into the mirror kingdom would be like screaming 'PLEASE RAPE MY FACE' to everyone in the entire nation
Tlalec: Tlacel was just trying to get the hell out of dodge after becoming public enemy number one (maybe I should change his Zero goal by the way). He figured out Slim's territory was a no go since they're probably no stranger to aztec incursions and he would have been shot on sight. So he stowed awayon the first foreign merchant ship he found and end up on the french coast. After that... I dunno, wanderlust?
Nobody Important (GM): Well, cut out the /r.
Fair enough.
We're going to ignore obvious language problems for now because we don't care that much about linguistics.
Dread Cartographer .: ur too pretty sverd
Nobody Important (GM): I think that's everyone, so let's get started
Cassio White: Language barriers are only a thing for different species
Turnop: ^
Cassio White: Disney ain't got time for dialects
Nobody Important (GM): except in atlantis
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: So Tlalec is some aztec warrior, right?
Nobody Important (GM): but we don't talk about atlantis.
Dread Cartographer .: Shshshsh
if you speak a different language, you talk with a funny accent
Cassio White: Tell me about it. People make fun of my accent when I speak english one way or the other
Nobody Important (GM): Anyway, do your characters know each other or should I quickly come up with a reason for you guys to be in the same space?
I'm gonna take that as a 'why on earth would we know each other'
Cassio White: Kind of, yeah
Nobody Important (GM): Alright, fair enough.
Dread Cartographer .: I don't think laz would know any of them, but he's not the sort to shy away from strangers
Tlalec: Yup. Encounters on the road are always the best encounters
Cassio White: Roads and taverns, but anyway
Nobody Important (GM): It's roughly ten in the morning when the bells of the church ring, and everyone is ushered outside by 'good samaritans' who want to make sure everyone hears the noble words of the Just and Wise clergyman and his inquisitors.
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Need sparring partners/squires, these guys seem up to the game.
Nobody Important (GM): Everyone in the town is here to hear the speech, most people already about their day when they were taken away from work to come here.
Dread Cartographer .: Oh good, the crowd has come to me.
Cassio White: Cassio yawns, crossing his arms to wait the speech, not wanting to miss much information now that he is about to leave for good
Nobody Important (GM): It starts with a long and droning catholic prayer, which the townsfolk close their eyes and pray during while the travellers and heathens in town (you and some others) kind of just... stand there awkwardly waiting for the pries tto get on with it.
Eventually, they get to the point.
Dread Cartographer .: I watch them and eat some cheese
Tlalec: This strange foreign costumes intrigue me. I get close to the edge of the crowd.
Dread Cartographer .: This is coming from a guy with a feather jumpsuit
Nobody Important (GM): Paraphrasing long and flowery speech; The town may be suffering from raids by the Mirror Kingdom, looking to enslave and scar people, attacks from the Cauldronborn, and the foul magicks of the fae, but have no worries faithful catholics! The inquisition will be here in only ten days!
Cassio White: Cassio absent mindedly plays with a piece of string while waiting. He is trying to absorb everything, but eventually he simply starts letting his eyes wander
And....Is that a guy with feathers?
Nobody Important (GM): Oh, and the mirror kingdom may or may not have an army to kill and enslave everyone in the next four days.
Tlalec: *relatively strange*. Also, don't forget the fabulous feathered helmet, comically perching ove the heads of the crowd.
*over
Nobody Important (GM): But don't worry about that! God will slow them down and the inquisition will surely save us!
Dread Cartographer .: Once the sermon ends, Lazarus finds particularly wealthy looking people and begins to mock them
Nobody Important (GM): There is a mostly naked drunk greek man mocking rich people when the sermon ends.
He's wearing a barrel.
Cassio White: "...Well, damn." Cassio whispers to himself. "Great time to stop by."
Dread Cartographer .: I have become like the hermit crab
I take off the barrel, and wrap my cloak around myself
Nobody Important (GM): People look terrified. The Fae have been stopping much egress recently, and the Mirror Kingdom is known to be quite brutal to anyone who is even remotely attractive.
Tlalec: "Haha! a challenge worthy of my might!"
Dread Cartographer .: kind of covering up the important bits
Nobody Important (GM): The cauldronborn are pretty spooky too, but at least they don't put a big X mark on your face with a hot knife.
Cassio White: Cassio looks at the feathered and barrel men, entranced by the sheer weirdness of the scene and crosses his arms to watch it unfold for a bit
Dread Cartographer .: Beauty is nothing compared to virtue. I should find these people who are harmed and convince them that their looks are trifles
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "......hey feathery guy and barrel guy, I'm gonna go lay down some righteous fury upon the invaders. If you're going to lay some fury upon them as well, maybe we should collaborate."
Nobody Important (GM): furry fury.
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: BEASTMODE ENGAGED
(To Pirate Monkey Anon): Monkey Anon Here to spectate, or just chat?
Dread Cartographer .: "I find this to be an excellent plan,oh metal bear"
Tlalec: I look for a moment at what is obviously an armored bear "Do you perchance happen to be a ...knight of sort?"
(To Pirate Monkey Anon): Play or spectate, sorry. You can type /w Nobody to respond.
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "Metal bear? What, why that's ridiculous, I'm nothing of the sort! I am the noble knight-errant Sir Bruin Ourson of Champagne!"
Dread Cartographer .: "I am Lazarus, the watchdog of men!"
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: ".....okay,I'm a bear. But I'm a knight on the inside."
Dread Cartographer .: "Outside I am a man, but on the inside I am a dog"
Pirate Monkey Anon: w/Nobody I guess I'm spectating this time. Might as well see what one of these is like before playing.
Dread Cartographer .: "and a gadfly"
"It's complicated"
Cassio White: "Excuse me, but." Cassio approaches the party, with his eyebrows raised in a mixture of shock and surprise on the sheer bizarreness of the trio. "How are you going to take on the invaders? It's going to be a four way brawl."
But are not all men dogs?
Cassio White: "Too many people to take care of, even for a bear in armor"
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "Well, perhaps you will join us, and each of us can handle a way."
Tlalec: I immediately jump on Sir Bruin and hug him like a starved man would hug a roll of cheese "Finally a peer, a brother in arms! Nothing but peasants and sailors for MONTHS! It would be an honor, no, a privilege help you lay down some glorious and hyperviolent justice on these pale wretches!"
Dread Cartographer .: "Ah, perchance then, we may find the source of these evils?"
Cassio White: Cassio places one hand in his chin, slowly smirking. "Well, I was planning on just getting out before things get hot. But I do have a bone to pick with some of those." He runs one hand accross his scar. "I'm Cassio."
Dread Cartographer .: "The pleasure is mine, dear friend!"
Tlalec: And you too of course, oh wise... barrel guy and..... pretty guy?
Cassio White: "No flattery. Where are you from?" Cassio glances to the feathers again
"No birds like that around here"
Tlalec: I am Tlalec Yolotli, of the extinct order of the Eagle Warriors, and I come from what you white man call the Americas, more specifically the Kingdom of Gold, Eldorado. The pleasure is mine.
(To Pirate Monkey Anon): If you make a character quickly, I can still get you in here.
Dread Cartographer .: "Ah, you come from the land of Thule, do you?"
Cassio White: Cassio immediately grins upon hearing the answer
Dread Cartographer .: "Good place, very nice bitter brown drinks"
Nobody Important (GM): You're pretty sure you've heard of Americas. It's supposed to be across the sea to the west.
Dread Cartographer .: "Not a fan of the jaguars:
C V.: Sorry it took me so long
Nobody Important (GM): No worries.
If you have a character I can still get you in on this, we're at 4/5 at the moment.
Cassio White: "Well, some good luck, finally. I was trying to find out more about the Americas. Seems like a better deal than around here with all the kings at war"
Tlalec: Definitely. Expecially theten-feet-tall stone ones. I hope there is nothing of the sort around here?
Nobody Important (GM): Who wants to break the skellingtons to him/
Dread Cartographer .: "Nay sir, just the skeletons!"
Cassio White: "Well....Not stone, at least. I think Prydain has some bone ones."
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "And the fae....."
Dread Cartographer .: "Those too"
"Still, at least there are no Titans"
(From C V.): whats currently going on?
Dread Cartographer .: "They are harder to punch"
(To C V.): V. At the moment, they're just talking in the city square about the speech given by the priest saying bad stuff's about to go down.
Cassio White: "Oh, I'm sure you'd manage, somehow."
Tlalec: "By the gods, this new world keep getting better and better! I can't wait to start flexing my justice muscles!"
Dread Cartographer .: "Ah, you are a student of Justice!"
(From C V.): I'll check the log
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "I hear they are rather easy to punch.....it's just that punching them hurts you and not them."
Dread Cartographer .: "Good lad,"
"That remains to be seen!"
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, let's skip to the point; The fae are making it hard to leave and there's an army on it's way here.
Your characters should probably be at least a little concerned about this.
Cassio White: Cassio is grinning in a very bemused way. His thirst for knowledge and stories kinda dulls his common sense
(From C V.): Right. I'll introduce myself
Tlalec: "I know not of this "faes" the preacher was talking about, are they brigands of some sort?"
(To C V.): V: Okay.
Dread Cartographer .: "Ah, lad they are daimones
Cassio White: "In any case, I suppose you couldn't maybe help me out. I'm on a voyage, you see, and I need to get out of here sometime. Could put those muscles to work on punching some faeries so people can leave"
Dread Cartographer .: Spirits, but the tricky sort
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "Often the cruel sort as well."
Dread Cartographer .: "Well yes, those too"
Cassio White: "Spirits, evil, malicious. Very bad. Like to hunt people." Cassio shakes his head. "Or make them crazy. Or turn them into worms. Or pretty much anything unpleasant"
Nobody Important (GM): Someone want to make Occult for me?
C V.: Bourne closes his book, and looks up
Tlalec: Occult+Intellect?
Nobody Important (GM): Yep, or Occult+sensibility
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Well, here goes sensibility.
Dread Cartographer .: rolling 3d6+11+2
(2+2+2)+11+2
= 19
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: rolling 3d6+10
(6+6+3)+10= 25
Cassio White: (Do smart guys roll 4 drop lowest?)
C V.: rolling 3d6+6+3
(4+4+6)+6+3= 23
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: for int, yes
Nobody Important (GM): (Yep, you roll 4d6 drop lowest for your best stat.)
Cassio White: rolling 4d6k3 + 14
(4+6+1+3)+14= 27
Tlalec: What was the command again?
Dread Cartographer .: And with sensible guys, is it just with insight or all sensibility?
Nobody Important (GM): All sensibility!
It's fantastic!
Dread Cartographer .: oh let me roll again then
Nobody Important (GM): ./roll 3d6+whatever or /roll 4d6k3+whatever
Tlalec: rolling 3d6+10
(2+2+1)+10= 15
Dread Cartographer .: rolling 4d6k3+11+2
(4+1+6+5)+11+2= 28
I am very wise
Tlalec: argh
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, everyone but Tlalec: You know that the spirits of the Fae are capricious, and usually not very helpful. However, they are open to being persuaded if you wanted to try that.
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Hey, it makes sense, you're not from around here.
Nobody Important (GM): Lazarus; you know the fae that has the most control over this town is a spirit named Evelyn, a spider-witch.
Cassio White: (Is there any way to find out what the faes would want before confronting them?)
Dread Cartographer .: "Ah, friends. In my travels I have come across many a-daimon"
Nobody Important (GM): The forests are clogged with webs in the deepest part, and supposedly there are giant spiders out there.
Dread Cartographer .: "I know of an arachne, by the name of Evelyn"
Nobody Important (GM): (Yes, but that's occult+intellect and you need knowledge of the specific spirit.)
Cassio White: (Which I assume is more than just "Spider witch fae". Right.)
C V.: "Excuse me, I do not mean to be rude and interrupt your conversation, but I could not help but notice your talking about the fae problem?"
Cassio White: "Among a bunch, yeah"
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Alright we got our charming guy
Tlalec: "Yes indeed, and any help would be welcome, mr...?"
Nobody Important (GM): (Yep. If you had a list or a book on it, though...)
C V.: "Minister Bourne, if you will"
Cassio White: (Any libraries in town?)
Nobody Important (GM): (The church doubles as a library in this part of town. Coincidentally, you just acquired a priest.)
Cassio White: "Nice to meet you....father?" Cassio looks over Bourne, examining him
Dread Cartographer .: "I see friend, that you are garbed in the trifles of this town?"
"I would like to use your books to find a daimoness, that we might speak with her"
C V.: Bourne is dressed simply, but with a small air of pride
Tlalec: "Ah, a member of the local clergy. I pay my homages to you".
Dread Cartographer .: All clothes are trifles friend
Nobody Important (GM): It uh.
Gets a bit cold in the winter in northern france.
Dread Cartographer .: It's alright
I can fold over my cloak
Nobody Important (GM): Fair enough.
C V.: "Thank you child. And yes, I can lead you to the church. It may not be much, but its least I can do to help"
Cassio White: "Any help is welcome. Means we can start planning." Cassio rubs his palms together, with a glint in his eye
Dread Cartographer .: "Come then, there is still daylight. We can discuss virtue along the way!"
((Shall we go to the library?))
Cassio White: (Can we get a bat-signal transition?)
Nobody Important (GM): >weeeohweeeee
C V.: "Splendid, let us be on our way"
Cassio White: (Thank you, Nob)
Nobody Important (GM): You wish the church was a simple affair, but it is not.
Tlalec: Why doesn't this surprise me?
Nobody Important (GM): It's a massive structure mostly constructed of marble that dominates the local skyline, and you just know it's lavishly decorated on the inside.
If you had to take a common sense guess, most of the money in the town flows to the church.
Cassio White: "Smells like taxes, here"
Dread Cartographer .: "Ah, the big robbers lead the small away."
Nobody Important (GM): One of the Inquisitors, a stern-faced man named Jacques greets Bourne warmly. "Minister, I hope you're having a new day. Picked up a rather interesting flock, have you?"
good, not new. Sorry.
Tlalec: "Ah, a proper temple, just like home. It is good to see that even white men take good care of their places of worship".
Cassio White: Cassio tries to determine if the church men seem reasonable or likely to turn on them if they step out of line
Nobody Important (GM): Test me Insight.
+sensibility.
C V.: "Er, well yes. I saw these people discussing the fae problem and thought that they may be helpful in dealing with them"
Nobody Important (GM): "Do you need something, Minister? I can help you with it, or I can get one of the servant boys if it's not a pressing matter."
Tlalec: rolling 3d6+10
(3+1+2)+10= 16
Cassio White: That's gonna fail miserably. Alright
Tlalec: Aaaaw c'mon!
Cassio White: rolling 3d6 + 8
(2+5+5)+8= 20
Nobody Important (GM): They're probably going to be on you unless you stick close to Bourne -- you're heretics, one and all except for maybe Cassio and Bruin.
Not that they really care.
Cassio White: (Can I roll "How Did I Miss That?" to try and find something to exploit later if shit hits the fan?)
Dread Cartographer .: As a sign of respect for the temple, when we walk into the church, I cover my head with my robe
Cassio White: (Always have a plan and all)
Dread Cartographer .: It is not long enough to cover the lower portions though
C V.: "Actually, yes, they are in need of enlightenment in the form of knowledge. They wish to see the Church's archives, if it is possible"
Nobody Important (GM): The inquisitor nods conspiratorially. "Not to question the Almighty or His servants, but I don't think the rest of the Inquisitors are going to be here in time to help with the battle. We'll have to save the town ourselves, and that could be quite hard. If you do actually find a way to remove the Fae, we may be able to evacuate the town in time."
(You can roll for it, Cassio.)
Cassio White: (Any modifiers? It's 3d6 + inteligence, right? I made it on the spot(
Nobody Important (GM): The Inquisitor tries not to look at Lazarus. "Ah, the archives? Well, I'll send a servant boy to direct you and help you with locating the particular book."
(4d6k3, since you're smart.)
C V.: ((me?))
Cassio White: rolling 4d6k3 + 10
(2+1+2+6)+10= 20
C V.: ((oh wait, no))
Cassio White: (Damn)
Nobody Important (GM): ((I thought you were Charming. Cassius is Smart))
C V.: ((I am, i was just confused for a sec)
Nobody Important (GM): ((I mean, all you have to do is spend a Will point, cassio))
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: I wonder how shit would go down if I tried to get myself a baptism.....
Nobody Important (GM): Just mark it; There are multiple exits and entrances you could flee out of if you really need to.
Dread Cartographer .: If you do, I will help you
Cassio White: (I c ould, but I wanna save them for the bombs)
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: I mean, my bearness would be laid bear, but who would turn down a bear asking for a baptism?
Dread Cartographer .: Even bears need to be blessed
Nobody Important (GM): The Inquisitor calls out "Gaspard! Minister Bruno needs your help!"
Dread Cartographer .: #allbearsgotheaven
Cassio White: Cassio nods, finishing his examination and smiles at the people present again, but looks over to the shouting INquisitor
Nobody Important (GM): A small boy in comedically oversized vestments stumbles over, listens to your request, and leads you to the Library.
C V.: "Bourne, sir"
Tlalec: Dunno, the inquisitor could ge a little grizzly.
Nobody Important (GM): Shit.
Retconning that to say Bourne, he's known you for aw hile.
My bad.
Dread Cartographer .: It might give him paws
C V.: They might think your Bi-polar
Nobody Important (GM): goddamn it
it hurts
it's
unbearable
Cassio White: (How can you bear to type these puns with your bear hands)
C V.: We shall bear this load together
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: It's worse than Hannah
Dread Cartographer .: It's a group effort
Cassio White: ....I think I have a migraine all of a sudden
Tlalec: It could get fur worse (I'm sorry).
Nobody Important (GM): The boy (And he really is a boy, he can't be older than twelve) leads you to a quiet hall filled with rows of bookshelves. "Do you need a specific book, sir?" Gaspard asks.
C V.: "Hmm.."
He turns to the group
Dread Cartographer .: The one with the Arachine boy, don't you listen?
Cassio White: Something on the spider witch fairy
C V.: "Were you looking for anything particular?"
Dread Cartographer .: "Hop to it, or you'll taste the back of my hand"
Cassio White: And if you have anything with the other kinds of fey running around, those would be good too
Tlalec: Is there anything that could teach us a little more about these evil spirits they call "fae"?
Nobody Important (GM): "U-uh. If you're talking about faeries, there's a load of story books, but we're not supposed to read those. If you're looking for, um, local foul spirits sir you'd be wanting Row C."
"Third row on the left side" He adds helpfully.
Dread Cartographer .: I go to the bookshelf and ponder the books
Cassio White: "That works." Cassio goes to take a look. "You can't read stories, boy?"
Dread Cartographer .: I soon come to the conclusion that I can't read
Nobody Important (GM): He gives you an odd look. "Of course not, sir. I mean, we can read stories but not ones about the devil's creatures like faeries." He spits out the last word.
Also, CV appears to have disconnected.
Tlalec: Ditto, I don't think they teach french in the blood sacrifices capital of Central America.
Cassio White: Cassio raises one eyebrow at that, selecting one book. "Not my place to say, but maybe you could all learn a thing or two from those books. Better to know your enemy than to just fear it."
Dread Cartographer .: ((can I get an insight roll to see if I can find a particularly fairyish looking book?))
Nobody Important (GM): ((Go for it.))
Dread Cartographer .: fuck
Nobody Important (GM): "The ministers said that I'm not supposed to read them, so I won't read them. No offense, sir."
Dread Cartographer .: rolling 4d6k3+16
(6+4+4+5)+16= 31
bam
Nobody Important (GM): Well.
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: (Inisght roll to locate a book with lots of pictures in it)
Nobody Important (GM): There's a book with some silvery writing on the front that you feel really good about.
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: rolling 3d6+13
(2+1+5)+13= 21
Cassio White: "Whatever works for you, kid." He sighs
Dread Cartographer .: >goes to library
Cassio White: rolling 3d6 + 8
(2+2+1)+8= 13
Dread Cartographer .: >none of our party can read
Nobody Important (GM): This one's going in a storytime thread.
Tlalec: (Insight roll to find the simplest looking book)
Cassio White: (Cassio can read)
Tlalec: rolling 3d6+10
(4+6+1)+10= 21
Cassio White: (He's just too busy discussing fairy tales with the kid)
(Priorities are a thing m8)
Nobody Important (GM): Lazarus, you have a book that you feel really good about, Tlalec and Bruin have childrens tales with lots of pictures of knights killing demons and cauldronborn and fae.
Dread Cartographer .: I smack the book down on the table
"Friends, I have found a codex"
Cassio White: Cassio winces. "Don't slam books, you'll ruin them!"
Dread Cartographer .: "Books ruin men, I ruin books"
"Fair's fair."
Nobody Important (GM): Cassio, against all odds Lazarus has found "The Compleat Works of the foule Creatuyres known as the Fae."
Tlalec: "...Let's pretend I don't know the meaning of that word."
Nobody Important (GM): It's heavy.
There's a lot of pages in this thing.
Dread Cartographer .: I look at cassio
Cassio White: "Listen here......" Cassio stops arguing with Lazarus to look at the book
Nobody Important (GM): It'd probably kill a cat if you dropped it on it.
Dread Cartographer .: "Find Arachne, I wish to speak with her"
Cassio White: "....Well, I'll be damned."
Cassio opens the book, seeing if there's (What's the name of the first page in books that tells which parts/chapters are where?)
Nobody Important (GM): (table of contents)
What are you trying to do with the book?
There is a table of contents, but it's multiple pages long.
Cassio White: He looks for the spider-witch's name in particular
Nobody Important (GM): We're talking like 15 pages, this book is ~1800 pages long.
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Try alpabetically
Cassio White: (The name which I forgot. Let me scroll up)
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: That must have taken FOREVER to write.
Nobody Important (GM): Test me Occult+Intelligence.
Cassio White: rolling 4d6k3 + 14
(3+2+3+2)+14= 22
Nobody Important (GM): You suspect it's a group work, given that it has no listed author. More than ever, you are thankful for the printing press for the poor, poor hands of those scholars
Cassio White: (God damn it)
Nobody Important (GM): Good enough. It takes you about five minutes to find "Evelyn, Fae spirit of Northern France" in tiny print.
It takes ten minutes and both you and Laz to lift enough pages to get to the page itself.
Tlalec: For reasons I don't remember I have a 3 in Occult, may I try to help?
Nobody Important (GM): You could help, but you wouldn't be much use here as you can't read.
Tlalec: Oh, right.
Nobody Important (GM): Normally occult wouldn't require that, but in this case you're searching a book on magic, so i'm common-sensing this rule.
Cassio White: Well, story time. Cassio reads the info aloud
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: I don't know, it could be one of those books that appears in whatever language the beholder can read.
Nobody Important (GM): It's long and rambling, much like the priests you've heard. The important information is this;
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: The MAAAAAAGIC kind.
Nobody Important (GM): Evelyn is a tall, horned woman in a black dress made of spiders and eyes with black sclera. She appreciates crafts and music above all else, and hates invaders to her forest.
Her first appearance was in 1405 AD.
Dread Cartographer .: "Yes, that's ol' Arachne"
Cassio White: "Crafts, eh? Well, that's lucky."
Nobody Important (GM): (Note, her dress isn't actually made of eyes. She just has weird eyes in her head.)
Dread Cartographer .: "Chased me from a forest once"
Cassio White: (Does it say what kind of craft, or any kind of hand work/carving?)
Dread Cartographer .: "Good times were had by all"
Nobody Important (GM): Particularly she's interested in artwork of any sort. Carving, painting, sculpture, pottery, etc.
Tlalec: Maybe an exotic looking armor?
Nobody Important (GM): If it's fancy enough.
Tlalec: Or a fancy hat from a distant land?
Dread Cartographer .: Bear shaped armor, perhaps?
Nobody Important (GM): Supposedly she hoards it in a great big pile like a dragon of old.
Dread Cartographer .: Or a ragged old cloak
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "Oh......HER. Yeah, I remember her. Bad cubhood memories....."
Nobody Important (GM): Importantly, she has strong control over the forests of Thionville and the beasts within.
Cassio White: "Oh, please. Fae or not, she is clearly a woman. Women tend to like complicated and painfully complicated things, even if mostly useless."
(What)
(The fuck did I just type)
Nobody Important (GM): If you had to take a guess, she probably wouldn't like the Mirror Kingdom any more than you do.
(It's called roleplaying. Sometimes you say things you don't believe.)
Cassio White: (No, not that)
(I said complicated twice, it was supposed to be something else)
Dread Cartographer .: "We may convince her that the mirror kingdom might take her horde!"
hoard
Nobody Important (GM): (Eh. I didn't even notice till you pointed it out.)
Dread Cartographer .: It was a really complicated and painfully complicated sentince
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "She was always so protective of that pile of shinies...."
Dread Cartographer .: "So then, we have our plan!"
Cassio White: "How would we go about conving her Queen Grimhilde wants her hoard"? Cassio raises an eyebrow.
Dread Cartographer .: "The dear girl will send the scoundrels packing, Or else my name isn't Lazarus of the World!"
Nobody Important (GM): (I guess CV isn't coming back, so we'll just... let Minister Bourne stay in the church where it's safe.))
Dread Cartographer .: "Oh, don't worry, I know her."
"Good friends."
Cassio White: "Sure you do." Cassio looks him from head to toe, and shakes his head a bit. "In any case, I'll prepare a plan B"
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "....Grimhilde? The one that's obsessed with beauty and mirrors? I think Arachne has a few mirrors......"
Cassio White: (Would he know faeries don't like fire, or is that an occult roll?)
Tlalec: "Really? You never cease to surprise me, oh scantily clad speaker"
Dread Cartographer .: "Oh, yes we go far back!"
Cassio White: "Well, we're listening, then. Do tell"
Dread Cartographer .: "When you've been round the world like I have, old friends pop up everywhere"
Nobody Important (GM): (It's occult TN15.)
(Almost everyone knows Fae hate fire, and spiders hate it more than most.)
Cassio White: rolling 4d6k3 + 14
(3+2+6+1)+14= 25
Nobody Important (GM): You also know that Fae hate iron, and this one in particular hates all metal but gold.
Dread Cartographer .: "It was way back when, I don't remember the date, but my beard was still black."
Cassio White: Cassio rubs his chin and reaches into his Quiver full of crossbow bolts
Dread Cartographer .: "It was a lovely spring morning, and I had been making my way to look for this land called Arendelle"
Lazarus goes on for several minutes without saying anything particularly useful
except
hold on
Cassio White: "Is there a blacksmith in this place? If I c ould cover this with some iron, it would be better"
Tlalec: (should the rest of us roll too or can we assume Cassio warned us?)
Dread Cartographer .: goddamn it
Cassio White: (Yeah, he told ya)
Dread Cartographer .: rolling 4d6k3+12
(4+3+1+6)+12= 25
Nobody Important (GM): (well, I'm going to assume he told you.)
Dread Cartographer .: anything else about arachne from the insight+occult?
Nobody Important (GM): ((There is a blacksmit in town, btw)
Dread Cartographer .: sensibility*
Nobody Important (GM): Well, she doesn't like you very much, but you probably don't want to share that with your allies.
Additionally, she has command over some giant spiders and supposedly has had some trouble with Cauldronborn.
Tlalec: Rolling anyway, just because /roll 3d6+6
azz
rolling 3d6+6
(3+1+2)+6= 12
Nobody Important (GM): Nuthin.
You don't know shit about fae.
Cassio White: "Well, well well. Anything else we need to know, folks? Metal and fire, pretty straighforward stuff hmm?"
Dread Cartographer .: "And then she tells me about the skellingtons up north. She and her spider-lads said that they were real tough walnuts"
"We had a good laugh about it though, I shared some wine with her, and a curious meat that tasted like veal."
Tlalec: "Fire you say? Well well, I have a little trick that could come pretty in handy!"
Cassio White: "You and me both." Cassio rubs his hands together, content in letting Lazarus ramble on. He glances at the book again, rubbing his chin. It's handmade, right?
Nobody Important (GM): wait, are you planning to threaten her or make a deal with her?
Dread Cartographer .: Bit of both
Cassio White: (Yes)
Nobody Important (GM): Yes, the book is handmade. Some of it.
Cassio White: (Always have a Plan B.)
Tlalec: I'd say we try to reason but keep violence as a last resort.
Nobody Important (GM): Some of the pages look printed, particularly the table of contents, but the artwork is all handmade
Cassio White: "Do you folks think this is fancy enough to grab the eye of our fair lady?"
Nobody Important (GM): It's a fantastic folio, in case you were wondering, there's gotta be ~150 different pieces of artwork in here.
Cassio White: "I am very good with crafting, but it takes time we probably do not have"
Dread Cartographer .: "Oh, she loves pictures of herself, which is why she collects mirrors. And are those emeralds on the cover?"
Tlalec: "Trying won't hurt. Let's hope she is more bookworm than spider."
Dread Cartographer .: "I think she'd get a hoot out of it."
Cassio White: "Excellent-o. Now, one last questions."
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "Giving her the book seems like a poor idea. It could give us vital information about other fae that we or this town might need in the future."
Cassio White: "....Fair enough." He glances at the shelf, looking for something less precious but equaly fancy
Dread Cartographer .: I take the fanciest looking book I can find
"Perhaps this one?"
Nobody Important (GM): It's a bible.
Tlalec: "My ursine brother has a point. I say we should search for something else but keep the book as a little extra".
Nobody Important (GM): It's gilded entirely along the edges and there's a picture at every book start.
Dread Cartographer .: "What a wonderful present to give while dropping in!"
Cassio White: "That will do it. However, I don't suppose our dear clergymen will let us simply walk out of here with these."
Nobody Important (GM): The cover is encrusted with multiple gems, and golden lettering on the front.
Dread Cartographer .: "Ah, friend, that's what the cloak is for!"
Nobody Important (GM): I hope you guys realize that Gaspard is still here.
Dread Cartographer .: I wrap the book in the cloak
Nobody Important (GM): uh oh.
Cassio White: (Who?)
Nobody Important (GM): (the servant boy who brought you here.)
Dread Cartographer .: "See, now it's nothing!"
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "YOU FOOL!"
Cassio White: (Oh.)
Casio stops talking for a moment, frowning as if he had forgotten something slightly important.
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "PUt the book back, there must be some other treasure we can plunder from someone more deserving of robbery!"
Cassio White: And then he glances to the side and sees Gaspard, and then snaps his fingers with a little "Oh."
Tlalec: "I'm sure our dear priest will understand that a little book is a very small price to pay to save an entire town of devouts, yes?"
Dread Cartographer .: "Nonsense! they have plenty!"
Nobody Important (GM): Gaspard is looking at you all with an open mouth and an expression of horror. You just seriously debated stealing a bible and giving it to a Fae .
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "Personally, I question whether a fae would want a holy book, even if it is covered in gold."
Cassio White: "They do not make a lot of sense most of the time."
Dread Cartographer .: "Do you think she would prefer one with silver?"
Cassio White: He clears his throat. "Boy, I know this is probably not the best thing you've witnessed"
Nobody Important (GM): (remember that Cassio told you that she hates all metal but gold.)
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Oooooh boy, now we gotta think of someone else to murderhobo.....
Cassio White: "But it would probably let us traverse the forest with our lives, without setting the whole thing on fire"
Tlalec: Ask the priest if there's some work of art around here he's not particularly attached to?
Dread Cartographer .: "Nonsense! We must teach the boy to be generous to his hosts!"
"Boy, come here!"
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "Say.....wouldn't these mirror soldiers be carrying pretty stuff with them?"
Nobody Important (GM): Gaspard hesitates for a moment, then does as he's told, flinching like he's about to get slaughtervagranted.
Dread Cartographer .: I sit him on my lap, and begin telling him a longwinded tale about the importance of Xenia
Cassio White: Cassio looks at Lazarus with an expression that's between an implied facepalm and...No, that is pretty much it, really
Dread Cartographer .: I think it's safe to assume that lazarus has fogotten about the bible by this point
Nobody Important (GM): "S-sir, I'm not your host, so I'm not sure if that applies, sir."
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Seriously, would the mirror soldiers have any really pretty stuff on them?
Cassio White: (Would they? Cassio would know, he comes from the kingdom)
(Do I roll anything?)
Dread Cartographer .: "Well, lad when you grow older and you make your way in the world, you will come across many travelers and even become one yourself!"
Nobody Important (GM): (Well, some of them do, but by and large they dress in practical armor.)
Dread Cartographer .: "Travelers are sacred, and therefore, you must treat them respect!"
A second tale about Xenia
Nobody Important (GM): ((also, Ponderous Murderhobo wanted to know if he could drop in; do you guys want another player?))
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: General would totally have pimped out armor though
Nobody Important (GM): Of course.
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Eh, it wuld be kind of awkward at this point
Cassio White: "Soldiers usually don't carry pretty things as much as they do practical. Some of the higher ups have some trinkets."
Nobody Important (GM): His/her face would be heavily scarred as compensation.
Tlalec: (fine by me)
Dread Cartographer .: Ah! Perhaps an officer then?
They have much finery and other trifles!
Nobody Important (GM): Anyone want to test me Sensibility+insight?
Dread Cartographer .: sure
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "Perhaps we steal these trinkets from the invaders and offer them to the spider queen?
rolling 3d6+13
(1+4+1)+13= 19
Tlalec: rolling 3d6+10
(5+3+1)+10= 19
Dread Cartographer .: rolling 4d6k3+15
(6+5+1+6)+15= 32
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: ouch
EXCELLENT
Ponderous Murderhobo: (I'm here for whenever it works out to join)
Cassio White: rolling 3d6 + 8
(4+4+6)+8= 22
Nobody Important (GM): :Lazarus: You know that there's been invader outriders, led by one of their officers raiding outlying villages.
Cassio White: (He can join if it depends on me, just is a little awwkard right now)
Nobody Important (GM): ((I'd say have your character get press-ganged by them as they go off to do whatever))
Dread Cartographer .: "Friends, I met some soldiers on the way here"
((I can help with that))
Nobody Important (GM): Maybe twelve soldiers including their officer.
Dread Cartographer .: "They were garbed in wine-crimson tunics and were armed well"
"There were maybe 11 horsemen, and their officer"
((how decked out was he?))
Tlalec: "Winning trophies trough honourable combat and then presenting them to this fae as a proof of our strenght and valor? It's perfect, why didn't we think of it?"
Nobody Important (GM): Swagtastic. He covered himself in armor, yes, but the medals cover most of it so that you can't see it.
His face was hideously scarred, and he was a fierce fighter -- though it was hard to tell vs villagers.
Cassio White: "That does sound better"
Dread Cartographer .: "He was clad in trinkets and fineries of great luxury. He had as gnarly as the rest of them though."
"Perhaps, he can be persuaded to help us on our cause?"
I hold up my fists eagerly
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "Yeah.....
Cassio White: "I don't think the soldiers would be too keen on helping anyone near this v illage"
Tlalec: "They are, after all, an invading army from a hostile kingdom".
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Aaaaaaaand you just got critical failures on your 'Detect Euphemism' rolls.
Nobody Important (GM): You're starting to suspect that was a rhetorical question.
Or innuendo.
Dread Cartographer .: yes
Cassio White: "Well then. I'd rather piss off the guys that already want my head than add more to the list"
Nobody Important (GM): "S-so you won't take the book then, sirs?"
Dread Cartographer .: "No, lad. It's all yours. Don't read too much now, it corrupts the mind"
Tlalec: "No boy, yur holy book is safe. FOR NOW."
Nobody Important (GM): He gratefully takes the massive books and runs,nearly tripping over his own robe, to put them away.
Cassio White: "I suppose it's best not to.Don't, uh, tell the others, alright?"
Dread Cartographer .: ((goddamn it this kid's adorable))
Cassio White: "We might get in trouble, and we just want to get out-- Welp, there he goes."
Nobody Important (GM): He's putting them on the shelf as you file out.
Cassio White: Oh, duh
Nobody Important (GM): Where to next?
Dread Cartographer .: Outside! We must find some lunch!
Tlalec: "Do you remember very broadly where do you saw these outriders, friend?"
Nobody Important (GM): (To the north and east, roughly two miles)
Cassio White: "Getting some iron from the blacksmight oughta be good"
Tlalec: *did you see, derp
Dread Cartographer .: "Yes, they were in a tavern the way I came, I'll show you the way"
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "Oh, one last thing my boy.....this knight-errant has never been baptized. I believe this church is up to the job....."
Nobody Important (GM): You guys are going to the blacksmiths, then?
Tlalec: "On second thought, maybe getting some weapons of iron would be wise. Do any of you have any money?"
Dread Cartographer .: I forgot my promise to Ourson to help him be baptized!
Cassio White: "Only Mirror Kingdom coin."
Dread Cartographer .: I stay with the bear
Nobody Important (GM): Is...
Is the bear really getting baptised.
Dread Cartographer .: Of course!
I get a +5 to it too, because of my word is good as law trait!
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: IT'S HAPPENING
Ponderous Murderhobo: I walk by, picking up a pouch of coin from the ground
"Was this yours?"
Nobody Important (GM): I guess this would be the point where I ask Bruin to make Deceive to try and prevent people from somehow noticing he's a bear.
Tlalec: Yes.
Dread Cartographer .: Oh wait
Cassio White: "....Oh, how I wish I could see that. I do think I have my priorities straight however. I'll meet you afterwards"
Dread Cartographer .: I needed to spend a willpower point
Tlalec: Yes he is.
Nobody Important (GM): How convenient.
Where's your character sheet?
Dread Cartographer .: So we're just going to wing it, bear
what do I roll?
Ponderous Murderhobo: in the post
Nobody Important (GM): whoa, what was that.
It just crash for anyone else?
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: nope
Turnop: ((no))
Tlalec: nope
Nobody Important (GM): Ah, that's all on me then.
Dread Cartographer .: Yeah, it did for me for just a sec
Just a hiccup
Cassio White: (Nothing in here)
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, Bruin or Lazarus is rolling Deceit+Charisma or Deceit+Sensibility.
Ponderous Murderhobo: Also, you may not want to keep that out when the guards come by in a minute or two
Cassio White: (Wait, whose coin pouch did he pick up?)
(Also, weren't they all in the library still?)
Ponderous Murderhobo: (https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1355846/post-your-character-sheets#post-1356337)
Tlalec: I presume we filed out after telling the boy off.
Dread Cartographer .: rolling 4d6k3+10
(6+4+4+1)+10= 24
Nobody Important (GM): I was under the impression Cassio and Tlalec were going to the blacksmith?
Ponderous Murderhobo: (stolen coin from guards. you were going to the blacksmith
)
Nobody Important (GM): Spending a will point to increase that by 5, Dread?
Dread Cartographer .: brb going to the loo
Cassio White: (Oh yeah. Okay, sorry, moving on)
Nobody Important (GM): Well, oh dear.
(To GM) rolling 3d6+10
(1+5+1)+10= 17
Cassio White: "I...What?" Cassio turns and looks over to the newcomer
Nobody Important (GM): Congratulations. The priest clearly has heavy, heavy cataracts and takes your 'surprisingly hairy' head, baptising you as per the catholic church's instructions, Bruin.
Ponderous Murderhobo: nothing, I just... *ahem* found this and heard you asking about coin.
Nobody Important (GM): The rest of the inquisitors look on with awe and a little disbelief as the priest wonders how you managed to get such thick hair.
Tlalec: "Ah, a fellow foreigner! Well met to you!"
Cassio White: "It is not mine. What was that about guards?"
Nobody Important (GM): Nobody is... really going to stop you, though.
Cassio White: (Bears and crocodiles do what they want)
Dread Cartographer .: back
Ponderous Murderhobo: "Hello. Well, not so much guards as soldiers, and I just needed a group to blend into, so... here I am"
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Then I am officially anointed Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne!
Dread Cartographer .: "Praise be to the honorable Sir Ourson!"
Nobody Important (GM): "Praises be." The inquisitors say in a dull, unbelieving tone.
Cassio White: Cassio looks towards Tlacel, in a sort of "You know what, you take charge here"
Ponderous Murderhobo: "Malik, by the way"
"you?"
Tlalec: "Tlacel Yolotli, of Eldorado, of the lost order of the Eagle Warriors! and Cassio."
Dread Cartographer .: I stride proudly out of the church, beckoning ourson to follow
Cassio White: "Cassio White"
Dread Cartographer .: Lazarus of Everywhere!
Ponderous Murderhobo: "I've heard Everywhere is nice this time of year"
Tlalec: Me and my companions are on a perilious mission to save this entire town from both invading marauders and evil spirits! How about and adventure, my moorish friend?"
Dread Cartographer .: "It is nice in some parts, not so much in others."
Ponderous Murderhobo: "Fine by me"
"It's better than Nowhere, at there very least"
Nobody Important (GM): ((you're surprisingly easily roped into adventure. I guess you really, really want to get out of here. How much did you steal?!)
Dread Cartographer .: "Indeed, friend!"
Ponderous Murderhobo: (not much, this time)
(game most of it away)
Dread Cartographer .: ((probably a valuable gilded bible, the wretch))
Ponderous Murderhobo: (gave*)
Cassio White: Cassio ponders to himself, while securing his coin pouch, exactly just how they managed to suddenly become comrades with a runaway just like that. He remembers, however, that he was the one that first approached a half naked man, a bear in armor, and a guy with plumes, and so keeps it to himself.
Tlalec: "Very well! We were just going to the local blacksmith to get some proper demon-slaying implements, and you and you money of dubious provenience are most welcome!"
Cassio White: "Yeah, just....Don't walk behind me. I need this money."
Tlalec: "Follow my lead!"
Nobody Important (GM): Heading to the blacksmith, then?
Cassio White: Yup
Tlalec: I suddenly halt after a few steps. "The... blacksmith is that away, right?"
Ponderous Murderhobo: "So, what demon is this exactly that we're supposed to be slaying?"
Nobody Important (GM): I'm not gonna make you guys sit through haggling the price since it's not that important. After about fifteen minutes of finding your way, you arrive at the open-air forge.
Cassio White: "A fae-witch-spider queen"
Nobody Important (GM): The man behind the table who is currently working the bellows stops and turns to you. "Customers? How can I help you?"
Tlalec: may we at least try a little roll to befriend the blacksmith?
Dread Cartographer .: I'll scrounge around the garbage heap hereabouts for a couple of fist-sized plates of iron
Tlalec: Or at least flatter his fine wares?
Cassio White: "I'd just like to get some iron coating for a few of my bolts here." Cassio selects a handful of bolts from his Quiver
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Sing a song about the glorious things you're about to do with your weapons.
Ponderous Murderhobo: "Can I have some iron arrowheads, while you're plating things?"
Tlalec: I start browsing the shortswords and weighting them against my macuahuilt.
Nobody Important (GM): Someone test me Charisma+Persuasion to try and buy things at a reasonable price.
Tlalec: rolling 3d6+11
(4+4+4)+11= 23
Dread Cartographer .: Nice
Cassio White: (I have shit charisma and an actually penalty for persuasion, so I'm gonna let eagle-man handle it)
Tlalec: I added the bonus +3 from chivalry, is that okay?
Ponderous Murderhobo: rolling 3d6+12
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: As long as it's in your warrior culture's code.
Ponderous Murderhobo: (wow, fucked up the command)
Dread Cartographer .: ((need a / Pond))
Turnop: ((Is haggling for prices in the Eagle warrior code))
Nobody Important (GM): Tlalec, your masterful Aztec Swindling gets things done.
Dread Cartographer .: ((A warrior code to purchase things at a reasonable price)))
Ponderous Murderhobo: rolling 3d6+12
(5+4+5)+12= 26
Nobody Important (GM): He sells it to you at only 150% of the usual price!
You too, Pond.
Ponderous Murderhobo: (too late. oh well)
Dread Cartographer .: ((Any luck from the scrounging, Nobs?))
Ponderous Murderhobo: (never mind)
Tlalec: No, but leveraging on the fact that we are gonna use them for defending his town probably is.
I think.
Cassio White: (What the hell is that)
Ponderous Murderhobo: (I hear Bruin growling)
Nobody Important (GM): (Yep. You stow the two plates away in your cloak before he notices)
Dread Cartographer .: ((Perfect))
Nobody Important (GM): Hey, business has been tough recently but demand just spiked. He can't help it if he has to increase prices to compensate.
Cassio White: "....You know, I oughta learn haggling some day"
Nobody Important (GM): (BARTER IS A REAL SKILL GUYS)
Tlalec: "Truer words have never been spoken my friend".
Cassio White: "Let's just go, at least we got what we came here for"
Tlalec: Wait---
Dread Cartographer .: "Ah, you all are fools. While you have wasted away your money, I have increased my value two fold!"
Tlalec: What if we tried to impress him with our valour as fae-slayers? Put some fear into the old guy? WITH A MUSICAL NUMBER?
Ponderous Murderhobo: "Was your previous value one plate"
?
Tlalec: Wait, does anyone have points in music?
Nobody Important (GM): Nope.
Ponderous Murderhobo: I do
Nobody Important (GM): Well, nevermind!
Sing us a ditty!
Dread Cartographer .: "Aha, you're a clever boy, but you have yet to learn true wisdom!"
SING SING
Cassio White: (A song about haggling?)
Dread Cartographer .: A song about prices!
Ponderous Murderhobo: I lead the group in a song about our valorous quest, and the need for us to be well armed
Dread Cartographer .: Magical
Tlalec: Absolutely!
Turnop: ((Writing))
Ponderous Murderhobo: (Do I roll Charm + Music?)
Dread Cartographer .: ((I am playing prince ali in the background right now))
Nobody Important (GM): ((Yep.))
Tlalec: May I use my sunny power to make the entire number more impressive?
Nobody Important (GM): Go for it.
Dread Cartographer .: ((Seemed to be most appropriate))
Ponderous Murderhobo: rolling 3d6+12
(1+4+5)+12= 22
Nobody Important (GM): It's pretty goo!
good*!
The people passing by are dragged in to your three-minute song and dance about killing fey -- FOR JESUS.
Ponderous Murderhobo: (now I'm playing it too)
Nobody Important (GM): ((anyone know where our bear knight went?))
Tlalec: And if you don't give us those arms
Cassio White: (hibernate)
Dread Cartographer .: I remain thoroughly unconvinced about the utility of weapons, but I enjoy the tune never the the less
Tlalec: Good luck explaining your wife
Dread Cartographer .: ((Now that he's a knight, he had to swear his allegiance to a lord))
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Back
Nobody Important (GM): ((Oh, he's back!))
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Oh, this is hilarious
Dread Cartographer .: ((Hurrah, bear buddy!))
Nobody Important (GM): Shortest hibernation ever.
Tlalec: you sent us to our dooooooooom
Dread Cartographer .: We had a song
it was splendid
absolutely marvelous
Ponderous Murderhobo: We are majestic
Cassio White: Next time, freestyle it
We all make a verse and suck together
Tlalec: For a few Franks!
Ponderous Murderhobo: YES
Dread Cartographer .: ((My vote is that Evelyn has a dark reprise))
I am down with that
Nobody Important (GM): ((we'll see.))
Anyway, you manage to get the merchant in on it, and he sells stuff for you at 70%of market value -- but any less than that'd be "cutting me own throat."
Dread Cartographer .: iunderstoodthatreference.gif
Ponderous Murderhobo: I thank him for his contribution to saving his town
Nobody Important (GM): Now what?
Dread Cartographer .: "Let us go comrades! to the tavern!"
Tlalec: Off to do some murderho... I mean, trophy-winning!
Cassio White: Rumble time
Dread Cartographer .: I take the party to the tavern
Nobody Important (GM): Can't you literally conjure alcohol whenever you want?
Dread Cartographer .: Yes
the tavern with the soldiers
inn
Nobody Important (GM): Ah, okay
I was about to say...
Dread Cartographer .: I do conjour up a flask of wine though
Nobody Important (GM): It's roughly an hour long walk.
Ponderous Murderhobo: ((does alcohol have any mechanical effects?))
Nobody Important (GM): Normally it'd take a half hour but it's through wooded areas.
((not yet...)))
Dread Cartographer .: ((I had a power for it in the first iteration of Laz))
Cassio White: "All this weirdness is incredible." Cassio shakes his head when it finally dawns on him exactly the kind of crazy this whole thing is. "Usually that'd drive me away, but since I'm wanting to leave the old life behind....I wonder if it is like that everywhere"
Nobody Important (GM): You enter the town which Laz last saw the soldiers in.
The people look downtrodden and most of them are scarred in the face.
Dread Cartographer .: "More or less, lad. More or less"
Ponderous Murderhobo: ((I suggest a large bonus vs. Fear, but a small penalty to Agility and/or Int, if we eventually stat it out))
Nobody Important (GM): They go about their business but look scared and oppressed.
Dread Cartographer .: "Ah, man under law"
Cassio White: Cassio narrows his eyes upon seeing the expression. He recognizes it
Dread Cartographer .: "What a sight to see."
Cassio White: "....Fear keeping them in line, eh. I know the stink."
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Did any of you guys just hear my audio check?
Ponderous Murderhobo: "Just like old times"
Dread Cartographer .: no
Tlalec: yep
Dread Cartographer .: hold on
Nobody Important (GM): The one building that seems nearly completely trafficked is the tavern, but loud noises still come from it.
Tlalec: "Just like home..."
Nobody Important (GM): completely untrafficked*
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Well, I guess only some of you are going to appreciate my battle theme.
Nobody Important (GM): Twelve horses are tied up in the stable outside.
Dread Cartographer .: wrong button
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Oh, great. you can steal them and we can all ride together.
Dread Cartographer .: Try the noise again
Tlalec: (tfw you can't ride)
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Hear it this time?
Dread Cartographer .: ...
no
Cassio White: Is it a small "ping"?
Ponderous Murderhobo: no
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: I can ride. I took a power specifically so that I could ride anything capable of bearing my own weight.
Dread Cartographer .: That's the new message ping
Cassio White: Then no
Dread Cartographer .: I am getting an audio feed from pond though
Nobody Important (GM): Everyone can ride horses, if they want.
Dread Cartographer .: That's the spirit!
Nobody Important (GM): Even someone of such... statue of Bruin, thanks to his power.
Ponderous Murderhobo: ((did you take every power with "bear" in it's name? Just curious))
Nobody Important (GM): ((that power was originally developed for COWBOYOSAURUS REX, by the way.)
Ponderous Murderhobo: ((I respect that if you did))
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: No not enough of such traits and powers.
Cassio White: "As much as I'd like a ride, I think we should go get that gold." Cassio raises his eyebrow "There IS a spider fairy on the way out, anyway"
Tlalec: Well, no point in dilly-dallying. i say we barge in and get done with it.
Ponderous Murderhobo: both options are doable
Dread Cartographer .: "Yes! It would be quite rude to keep the old girl waiting"
"We need to get our gift first!"
Nobody Important (GM): Bursting in through the door in a five-man spread like something out of a comic book?
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Okay, pond, are you aware of the audio bit called 'Suddenly Bear'? I need you to bring that up, play it, stop it right before the bear roars, and then play the rest to us when combat begins.
Tlalec: (do you think the spider-fairy will let Bruin get a ride on her back?)
EXACTLY
Cassio White: "uh oh." Cassio looks at the band of men that came out
Tlalec: And we should also do some anatomically akward statuary poses
Nobody Important (GM): (She's just a human-looking fae, not a spider. She has a dress MADE of spiders...) It also depends on how charismatic she is.)
Tlalec: to let them know we mean business
Nobody Important (GM): Twelve men have walked out of the bar, still chuckling and drinking and led by an unsmiling man in a suit of armor.
Seems your surprise plan has been interrupted.
Cassio White: "Well, Lazarus, my good man. Would you introduce us?"
Nobody Important (GM): They stop and look at you, some of the ones who are drunk laughing and pointing with their swords.
"Ah. The beggar. I should have known."
The scarred man says that, his medals jangling on his armor
Dread Cartographer .: "Oh, the captain and I have already met"
"Hello friend! back for round 2?"
Nobody Important (GM): He frowns, and draws his sword. "Quiet your tongue, before I remove it from your mouth."
Dread Cartographer .: (where is bear?)
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: HERE
Nobody Important (GM): (Bruin's here, his icon isn't showing up.)
Cassio White: (They're the reason the city is scared, right?"
Ponderous Murderhobo: "holy shit, that guy isn't a guy! He's a bear!"
((just realized that I hadn't learned that yet))
Dread Cartographer .: "Now, friend, there is no need for niceties, I have a favor to ask of you"
Ponderous Murderhobo: "it's fine. Better a bear than a hyena"
Tlalec: "Did you already have a fight with this "gentleman", my philosophical companion?"
Nobody Important (GM): ((of course. They came through and scarred everyone in honor of their queen.))
The drunkards turn to Bruin, and shrug. "Looks like a man to me."
Cassio White: Cassio narrows his eyes, and pays attention
(I roll "How Did I Miss That")
Nobody Important (GM): The scarred man's lips purse. "Speak, beggar."
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: *Duke Nukem style* "Look outriders, there are two ways this can end, and in both of them we get your medals" ROBUSTNESS BASED INTIMIDATE
rolling 4d6k3+17
(5+2+2+6)+17= 30
Cassio White: 1roll 4d6k3 + 10
Dread Cartographer .: "I have need of all your gold and trinkets."
Ponderous Murderhobo: "I think what my friend is trying to say here, is that we would very much appreciate it if you would let us help you with all of those excessive worldly possessions you own"
Nobody Important (GM): (His armor is too heavy for him to properly defend himself in it.)
Cassio White: rolling 4d6k3 + 10
(2+4+4+6)+10= 24
Nobody Important (GM): Also, that was a fantastic intimidate.
Dread Cartographer .: "In return, I will free you of your desires for them"
Tlalec: Can I roll Intimidate too, with a +3 from my power?
Dread Cartographer .: "Honestly I'm doing you a favor, really"
Nobody Important (GM): He looks heavily shaken (1 strike) but stands his ground. "Well then, I see it's settled. Charge, men!"
Roll initiative!
Tlalec: rolling 3d6+8
(5+4+4)+8
= 21
That was the initiative roll
Dread Cartographer .: rolling 3d6+7
(5+4+2)+7= 18
Nobody Important (GM): k
Cassio White: rolling 3d6 + 9
(4+6+3)+9= 22
(3d6 plus agility, aye?)
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: rolling 3d6+5
(2+5+6)+5= 18
Nobody Important (GM): ayep
rolling 3d6+7
(6+4+2)+7= 19
Ponderous Murderhobo: rolling 4d6k3+11
(5+5+6+)+11= 27
Dread Cartographer .: (playing Gaston in the background. Dis gonna b gud)
Cassio White: (I was gonna play Magus' theme, but that's better)
Nobody Important (GM): rolling 3d6+8
(4+2+6)+8= 20
Malik is up!
Ponderous Murderhobo: I shoot the captain with my shortbow
Tlalec: Here's the plan: me, sir Bruin and Lazarus pick a straw to decide who gets to challenge the leader to GLORIOUS SINGLE COMBAT. The other two divide the 12 mooks among themselves. The others can offer moral support.
Nobody Important (GM): Roll Ranged, then.
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: I'll take the mooks
Ponderous Murderhobo: rolling 4d6k5+15
(2+4+5+6)+15= 32
Nobody Important (GM): Hit!
Ponderous Murderhobo: oops
Dread Cartographer .: I gotta match up for round 2
Nobody Important (GM): Drop lowest, but strike successful!
Ponderous Murderhobo: should have been k3 not k5
Dread Cartographer .: or you could just shoot him
Nobody Important (GM): You get another action, i'm pretty sure, but you can't fire another shot since it takes an action to reload.
Ponderous Murderhobo: could I use my pistol?
Dread Cartographer .: (Pond, if the captain's down, you're in for a scolding)
Nobody Important (GM): He barely dodges the crossbow bolt, flying into the wall.
Ponderous Murderhobo: Shortbow, not crossbow
Nobody Important (GM): Well, then you're free to take another shot.
Ponderous Murderhobo: I will
also, I forgot the +2 from the bow
rolling 4d6k3+17
(2+3+3+2)+17= 25
Nobody Important (GM): Miss.
It clangs off his armor.
(You were only off by 1. I gave him +1 armor to account for heavy plate rather than medium)
Ponderous Murderhobo: ((fair enough))
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, next up is Cassio!
((I'm sure some raging faggot will complain in the thread that I modified lackeys though))
Cassio White: Any particular weak spots I could find with the skill?
Nobody Important (GM): His armor is too heavy for him to easily dodge in it, and the under-arm armor is weak.
Cassio White: Cassio aims his crossbow, and pulls the trigger aiming for the under arm. Then he retreats
Nobody Important (GM): Roll ranged.
Cassio White: rolling 3d6 + 15
(5+3+5)+15= 28
Nobody Important (GM): Hit.
He takes the crossbow bolt stoically, then collapses after a moment on his face, clutching the bolt embedded in his side.
Cassio White: (Are there any people watching?)
Nobody Important (GM): Yeah, some people have stopped to watch.
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: The other riders probably have some shinies too, they're next.
Dread Cartographer .: I look at the captain bemusedly.
Cassio White: Cassio smiles perhaps a little to widely as he retreats when he sees that he fell the guy. He makes sure that whoever's watching can see, probably trying to inspire the fear out of them
Dread Cartographer .: "That's not in the rules. Are you trying to trick me, chum?"
Nobody Important (GM): Duly noted.
He spits something out, his words feeble and incomprehensible through his agony and mouth of dirt
Tlalec!
Dread Cartographer .: "Just like you, always trying to get hte underhand"
Nobody Important (GM): You're up!
Tlalec: Uhm, could I try to intimidate the mooks or are area social attacks an exclusive of charismatic guys?
Ponderous Murderhobo: ((are the 12 soldiers ready to fight, or are they running?))
Nobody Important (GM): Area socials are at higher levels.
((there's 11, and now they just look pissed))
Area attacks are something we said would happen at tiers.
On-a-roll hits 5, Hero hits -- 10? 15? I forget.
Tlalec: Then I guess I simply bullrush into the fight with an incomprehensible warcry and start wailing away with both sword and shield bashes (two melee attacks) also, do activating a power count as an action?
Nobody Important (GM): Unless it states otherwise, activating a power is a free action or whatever we're calling it.
Tlalec: Alrighty, then i activate Glory of the Five Suns for a +2(+3 if it's day) to both attacks
Nobody Important (GM): It's daytime.
Cassio White: (Just realized. I could combo powers with Lazarus)
Nobody Important (GM): Roll melee+robustness
Cassio White: (He produces alcohol, I make a bomb out of it)
Dread Cartographer .: (Plan C?)
Tlalec: Robustness 10 + melee 5 +2 for weapon +2 for trait +3 for the power means a total +22 right?
Nobody Important (GM): ((You'll find yourself in that boom.))
Yes, that's right.
Also, wow, +22.
Tlalec: oook
Dread Cartographer .: jesus
Nobody Important (GM): You literally can't miss.
Tlalec: rolling 4d6k3+22
(1+3+4+5)+22= 34
Nobody Important (GM): We may have to do something about bonuses stacking like that, or maybe it's okay that you can build a character to be heavily combat focused and never miss.
Not like he's done much else other than a song and dance number so far.
Dread Cartographer .: (Hey I was thinking, should we add crits of some sort?)
Tlalec: rolling 4d6k3+22
(5+2+6+2)+22= 35
Nobody Important (GM): If we add crits, it'd have to be as a power or talent.
Dread Cartographer .: (Like three sixes is a crit, and three ones is a crit fail?)
Nobody Important (GM): Generally what we consider 'crit's is to be 10 over the TN, which causes bonus strikes in combat.
Ponderous Murderhobo: ((I am okay with that))
Nobody Important (GM): case in point; Tlalec just twostruck both of them and nearly took their heads off.
They fall to the ground, bleeding and screaming.
Dread Cartographer .: (Just a thought, since the whole "can't fail" may get old quickly)
Tlalec: My storm of feathers and obsidian just ripped to shreds two arseholes! Cool!
Guess that's it for me.
Nobody Important (GM): ((true, maybe we should add something that makes all 1s a miss.))
Dread Cartographer .: "Tsk, This isn't proper boxing at all"
Nobody Important (GM): There's nothing wrong with an optimized character being good at what they do, though.
Cassio White: You're welcome to bash some heads in the proper way
Ponderous Murderhobo: ((seeing as three ones has a 0.46% chance of happening, if may not apply often))
Nobody Important (GM): the captain would go, but he's currently on the ground.
((well, it's something we're going to have to work out, but it's not like fighting heroes in disney ever fucked up hitting mooks often.
Turnop: ((I think our TN increases were pretty justified based off this fight))
Nobody Important (GM): ((Yep. I agree now.))
Tlalec: "What about a challenge then, oh barrel bruiser? Let's see who can fell mmore before we run out of targets! Sir Bruin, the challenge obviously extends to you as well!"
Nobody Important (GM): ((Think we should keep them where they are because not all characters get fucking +22 to hit.))
Dread Cartographer .: (yeah, the targets seem appropriate)
Cassio White: (Yeah, that sounds pretty good)
Nobody Important (GM): The mooks look at each other, draw their swords and charge in a disorganized mob.
There are nine left, so everyone still in range gets hit twice and Bruin gets hit 3 times.
Cassio is unhurt.
Get ready to roll defense! Lazarus first!
Dread Cartographer .: ok
hold on
Nobody Important (GM): rolling 3d6+10
(6+6+2)+10= 24
Ponderous Murderhobo: was I in range? I shot him with a bow
Nobody Important (GM): rolling 3d6+10
(3+2+5)+10= 20
Dread Cartographer .: rolling 3d6+15
(1+3+2)+15= 21
Nobody Important (GM): 24 and 20
One strike as a sword nearly clips you. Bad form! Pink card!
roll the second one, please.
Dread Cartographer .: Oh, both on me?
Nobody Important (GM): Yep. there are 9 of them.
Dread Cartographer .: rolling 3d6+15
(4+5+2)+15= 26
Nobody Important (GM): Two hitting you.
Not a chance. You gracefully float like a butterfly away from the next's clumsy, drunken stabs.
Tlalec;
Get read
ready*
Dread Cartographer .: (gotta up my withstand_
Nobody Important (GM): rolling 3d6+10
(3+2+1)+10= 16
rolling 3d6+10
(6+5+5)+10= 26
Tlalec: Wait, light armor was +1 or +2?
Nobody Important (GM): ((I think it's called Prevent Harm now, but I forget)
+1.
Dread Cartographer .: (Whatever it's called)
Tlalec: rolling 4d6k3+17
(5+2+1+6)+17= 30
Second roll?
Nobody Important (GM): Yep.
Tlalec: rolling 4d6k3+17
(2+5+1+5)+17= 29
Nobody Important (GM): Dodge and dodge.
Combat monsters doin' work!
Ponderous Murderhobo: ((we should put what skills use what abilities on 1d4chan))
Nobody Important (GM): ((It's dependent on how you're using the skill.))
Ponderous Murderhobo: okay
Tlalec: More like parry and parry, but whatever.
Nobody Important (GM): I remember the earliest example was using robustness or agility for Dodge.
Which is now Prevent Harm.
Ponderous Murderhobo: rolling 1d4k3+14
(2)+14= 16
Nobody Important (GM): Anyway, Malik is up! Roll Prevent Harm (using agility or robustness)!
rolling 3d6+10(4+4+5)+10= 23
rolling 3d6+10
(1+6+5)+10= 22
Ponderous Murderhobo: rolling 1d4k3+14
(1)+14= 15
Nobody Important (GM): (3d6k3)
Ponderous Murderhobo: wow
Nobody Important (GM): (4d6, sorry)
Ponderous Murderhobo: rolling 4d6k3+14
(6+1+6+2)+14= 28
rolling 4d6k3+14(3+4+5+2)+14= 26
((dodge and dodge?))
Nobody Important (GM): No hits!
Sir not-a-bear!
(yep.)
rolling 3d6+10
(4+6+2)+10= 22
rolling 3d6+10(3+2+4)+10= 19
rolling 3d6+10(2+2+4)+10= 18
Nobody Important (GM): Roll to avoid harm!
(Did.. did he disconnect again? Sir bruin?)
Cassio White: (2fast)
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: back
Nobody Important (GM): WB
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: my internet connection HATES roll20
Nobody Important (GM): Roll to Prevent Harm 3 attacks.
Dread Cartographer .: Pond I can hear you
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: rolling 4d6k3+21
(1+6+3+5)+21= 35
rolling 4d6k3+21
(5+6+5+2)+21= 37
rolling 4d6k3+21
(1+6+1+1)+21= 29
Nobody Important (GM): Three dodges!
So mighty is he!
Cassio White: (HOW CAN THEY MISS A BEAR)
(IN ARMOR)
Nobody Important (GM): they aren't missing it.
Cassio White: (Oh yeah, true)
Nobody Important (GM): He's just tanking them like a boss.
With a look like a disappointed father on his face.
Bruin and Laz are both up.
Ponderous Murderhobo: He is flexing, and that makes their swords just bounce off
Nobody Important (GM): Who's got higher agility?
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Lazrus
Nobody Important (GM): Laz is up then!
Dread Cartographer .: Right
So the first action, this fellow who's stabbinig at me
I knock him in the face
rolling 3d6+17
(3+2+3)+17= 25
Nobody Important (GM): Go for it!
Hit! The mook is knocked unconscious!
A solid blow to the face.
Dread Cartographer .: The one who cut me I scold profusely about following the rules of boxing
(Sensability insight right?)
Nobody Important (GM): I'd say intimidate, but sure.
Dread Cartographer .: Ok
rolling 3d6k3+15
(4+5+2)+15=26
oop
well that works fine
Nobody Important (GM): He cowers, drops his sword, apologizes, and runs away but trips and falls over before passing out.
Dread Cartographer .: "Serves him right. Rules are rules."
Nobody Important (GM): Mooks, man.
Bruin is up!
Cassio White: How many are left?
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Hold on, I got to think up a cool line.
Ponderous Murderhobo: (("none can bear my mighty assault"?))
Nobody Important (GM): Let's see; You've taken out two and then two more, so seven.
((bear witness to the might of my bare arms!)
Tlalec: Uh... YOU ARE GOING TO GET MAULED BY A BEAR!
Dread Cartographer .: (Your cowardice is unbearable)
Cassio White: Get ready for some beary serious consequences
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "I WILL NO LONGER BEAR YOUR INSOLENCE!"
rolling 4d6k3+24
(3+5+6+6)+24= 41
Nobody Important (GM): (heh.)
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: rolling 4d6k3+24
(5+1+3+1)+24= 33
Nobody Important (GM): Two mighty bare bear arms clobber them head over heels, sending them flying into the walls of the inn before they slowly slide down, almost as if they were stuck.
Cassio White: (Surely you meant bearfore they slowly slide down)
Nobody Important (GM): ((god damn it i can't believe i missed that.))
next up: Malik, again!
There's 5 left.
Ponderous Murderhobo: I use my shortbow and quickly snipe two more
rolling 4d6k3+17
(5+5+5+5)+17= 32
rolling 4d6k3+17
(4+4+5+2)+17= 30
Nobody Important (GM): Comedic injuries!
Cassio White: (Holy crap)
Nobody Important (GM): Dancing while pulling at the arrows in their legs!
Dread Cartographer .: Flesh wounds! Hilarious!
Nobody Important (GM): ((Yeah, characters should be able to peel through mooks. Inner Circle and Villains are gonna need to be a lot tougher than my earlier estimate, though.))
Ponderous Murderhobo: ((I'm looking forward to a fight where we have to use tactics or get rekt))
Nobody Important (GM): Cassio is up.
Cassio White: How many still up?
Nobody Important (GM): Three.
Jeremiah Tombill: (Okay, im back))
Cassio White: Are they near each other?
Nobody Important (GM): Relatively.
They're, like, on top of your allies.
Jeremiah Tombill: ((Forgive my absence, my pc is made is basically made of dusty old rocks))
Cassio White: Hmm. Cassio reloads his crossbow, but ties one end of sturdy string on the bolt. He firest it low to the ground, trying to make it pass by as many mooks as he can
And then he grabs the string, runs, and pulls. Trying to trip them.
Nobody Important (GM): ((Eh, no worries.))
Cassio White: Or is that too bulshitty?
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, that's inventive.
Um, we'll go with it this time but normally I wouldn't.
Test me, oh, Craft+Agility.
Cassio White: rolling 3d6 + 14
(3+1+5)+14= 23
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, you manage to get them to fall into an absolutely hilarious pile of twisted legs.
Two down.
One remaining. He looks around, and flees into the forest.
Cassio White: "See? Falling like apples."
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: And now we loot them.
Dread Cartographer: Wait!
Ponderous Murderhobo: I loot EVERYTHING. I leave them all in their underwear
Tlalec: "Guess we can call it a draw".
Ponderous Murderhobo: what?
Dread Cartographer: Can I use travel for a healing check?
Ponderous Murderhobo: how?
Nobody Important (GM): Um, usually it's attached to science, so i don't think so.
Dread Cartographer: (Like, first aid)
(Ok, just checking)
Nobody Important (GM): You could try Science+sensibility untrained, though.
Dread Cartographer: Ok
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: or occult
Dread Cartographer: rolling 4d6k3
(1+4+2+6)= 12
Nobody Important (GM): What's your sensibility?
Dread Cartographer: fuck right
22
(sense 10)
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, you can heal one strike after about five minutes.
The townspeoople cheer you when the surviving mooks drag themselves away.
The captain's body is just sort of... lying there.
You feel a bit guilty, but not really because he was kind of a douche.
Cassio White: As the party loots the bodies, Cassio looks around and smiles. "You just need to know how to fight back. Just because they're strong, doesn't mean they can beat cunning. Don't live in fear!"
"I have been there before, it is not a worthy life!"
Nobody Important (GM): Test me Persuasion.
Dread Cartographer: I lecture the captain's corpse about arivice aand boxing rules
Cassio White: Damn it.
Can I roll for a song instead?
Nobody Important (GM): Go for it.
Tlalec: My warrior code prevents me from looting the corpse of an honourable enemy.
Nobody Important (GM): Songs are good for everything.
Cassio White: What's the roll, again?
Nobody Important (GM): Music+Charisma+dice
Charm, not charisma.
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: But you can totally take the body as loot, right?
Tlalec: I just cut their heads and take their skulls as trophies.
Ponderous Murderhobo: I have no such code
Nobody Important (GM): I bet you were hatched from a murderhobo egg.
Ponderous Murderhobo: I was
Nobody Important (GM): Such is life for the poor and desperate PCs.
Cassio White: (Well, boogus. The roll is gonna be shit. It's part of his ideals, can I burn a will point in order to make it go slightly less than terrible?)
rolling 3d6 + 6
(6+3+3)+6= 18
Dread Cartographer: I worry that Arachne might not like the blood on her present
Ponderous Murderhobo: rolling 3d6+12
(2+5+5)+12= 24
Dread Cartographer: 'We ought to wash this off"
Ponderous Murderhobo: my song roll
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: "......really? You collect skulls?"
Oh what the hell.
Dread Cartographer: "Skulls are trifles"
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: rolling 3d6+10
(3+4+6)+10=23
Nobody Important (GM): Malik leads you in a song and dance number while Lazarus and Bruin loot the corpse conspicuously.
Tlalec: "Of course, if I didn't how could I steal their cunning and courage for myself?"
Ponderous Murderhobo: can I loot to the song?
Nobody Important (GM): If you want to sing it out, feel free, but you succeeded enough to get a good dance out of the townsfolk.
Cassio White: (JOLLY CO-OPERATION)
Ponderous Murderhobo: can there be choreographed looting?
Nobody Important (GM): Choreographed looting for undeserved medals!
Dread Cartographer: (My parts of the song are about getting a good hostess gift)
Ponderous Murderhobo: I have to go for just a bit, I'll be back in 20 minutes or so
Nobody Important (GM): K.
Dread Cartographer: So, what now?
Nobody Important (GM): Well, you've got the medals and the villagefolk are beating the now stripped body.
There's probably a moral here somewhere.
Cassio White: Cassio looks incredibly satisfied with the results.
Dread Cartographer: (I think sverd is getting bored)
Cassio White: He rolls his string back and puts it on his toolbox
Nobody Important (GM): Not a lot of disney deaths in this one, i apologize.
Sir Bruin Ourson the Mighty of Champagne: Don't be a jerk or a bear with armor will wreck your shit.
Turnop: ((what i'm not even playing))
Nobody Important (GM): Anyway, weren't you getting those medals for a purpose?
Tlalec: "Might I borrow a bit of that string?"
Dread Cartographer: (You're certainly drawing a lot though)
Turnop: ((that's not me))
Jeremiah Tombill: ((uh, is my character still alive?))
Dread Cartographer: huh
Nobody Important (GM): ((Who?))
Jeremiah Tombill: ((The minister guy))
Dread Cartographer: (Oh, hey!)
(We left you in the church)
Nobody Important (GM): ((Minister Bourne? He's back in the church. You're deflecting questions about the others trying to steal an important book.))
Cassio White: "What do you need it for?" Cassio looks over to the medals. "Also, should we go bargain with the fae now?"
Dread Cartographer: "It's not a bargain! It's a present!"
Tlalec: "Trophy belt. Duh. Can't fight with my hands full of souvenirs, can I?"
Dread Cartographer: "But play our cards right, she'll give us a present too!"
Cassio White: "Can be both!"
Jeremiah Tombill: ((Ah, cool. I'll hop back in once you guys get back))
Cassio White: (I might need to leave soon, actually. Or maybe my computer will crash, it's making weird noises. If I do feel free to proceed)
Jeremiah Tombill: ((You too?))
Nobody Important (GM): ((can do. You guys need to head back to town anyway, since it's on the way to the Fae's last known location. If you want, Cassio, you can drop out and let Minister Bourne take your place.))
Jeremiah Tombill: ((I bet the wizards are behind this))
Cassio White: (That would be fairly good. It's just getting fairly late around here)
(Why did I type fairly twice, I do not know)
Dread Cartographer: "Well, then we mustn't keep Arachne waiting!"
Nobody Important (GM): ((yep, we'll be cutting off the second mook fight.))
Dread Cartographer: (sounds fair to me)
Nobody Important (GM): Heading back to town before moving to Evelyn's lair, eh?
Dread Cartographer: Yeah, that's about right
Cassio White: Yeah
Tlalec: Okay.
Nobody Important (GM): Alright.
It's around one when you get back, and people give you odd looks when you walk in with an armful of jangle.
Minister Bourne is reading on another park bench on your way past. You're not sure how you got separated.
Dread Cartographer: "Trifle fellow! Welcome back!"
Ponderous Murderhobo: back
Cassio White: "Hello, father"
Dread Cartographer: "You have not missed much"
Tlalec: "What ho, priest! We come back with the perfect bargain chip!"
Dread Cartographer: "A couple of fellows who did not know how to box"
Jeremiah Tombill: "Oh, its nice to see you all! How did things proceed? I hope the book was helpful
Cassio White: (Party member switch. Smarts for Charm, seems legit)
"It was"
Dread Cartographer: "My dear Cassio, a moment if you please"
"If I know Arachne, and mind you I do"
"I expect she will not be too pleased about that scar on your face"
Jeremiah Tombill: "Glad to hear it. So now where shall you venture to?"
Dread Cartographer: "She's a very picky sort. Close minded all that"
Cassio White: "...She's not the only one." Cassio runs a finger through his scar, raising one eyebrow, unamused. "Are you saying she'll pick a fight because of this?"
"That....Sounds like a fairy, actually."
"Damn."
Dread Cartographer: "She could. It's unseemly you see"
"Daimones are very fond of, what shall we say, beautiful things"
"I don't think your face is one of them"
Nobody Important (GM): (OOOOO)))
Cassio White: Cassio looks at Lazarus, and very very slowly facepalms, pinching his nose bridge
Turnop: ((DAYUM))
Pirate Monkey Anon: ((I thought your face jokes were ded like 5 years ago))
Dread Cartographer: "Therefore, lad. I would ask that you look after the boy in the bookery"
Cassio White: "I swear, if that didn't actually make sense...."
Dread Cartographer: "I don't think he's being raised right in there"
"Don't worry lad, your secret's safe with me"
Lazarus winks conspiratorially
Jeremiah Tombill: "Hes getting a catholic education..."
Dread Cartographer: "That's exactly what I mean"
Cassio White: "Fine. Fine. Fair enough, just shut your trap." Cassio throws his hands upwards. "Just make sure to get the way open."
"As for the boy, I'm not about to play babysitter. I'll look around."
Dread Cartographer: "Suit yourself. I'll bring you something nice back."
Jeremiah Tombill: "Fair enough, I suppose"
Cassio White: "....Whatever you say." He looks to the rest of the party. "It has been fun, you all. Good luck."
Jeremiah Tombill: "Farewell"
Tlalec: "See you later then, friend. But before we leave, I have a gift for you: the head of the captain. You gave the killing blow it is your right. No need to say anything: I can read in your face you are speechless from gratitude."
Ponderous Murderhobo: "Goodbye"
Dread Cartographer: "Cheerio, lad! We'll be back by sunrise!"
Cassio White: (Just in time. Thanks for the game guys, it was fun)
Ponderous Murderhobo: "You're lucky, I, was *ahem* really looking forward to getting that head"
Nobody Important (GM): ((Great having ya. Expect to see the transcript in the thread later.))
Dread Cartographer: (Cheers, man. Good to have you round)
Cassio White: (....I have no suitable response for the head offering)
Tlalec: (Thank you for playing so far. Goodnight.)
Cassio White: (So I won't say anything. Good night ya'll)
Ponderous Murderhobo: ((Good night))
Dread Cartographer: (Shall we get this show on the road, then?)
Nobody Important (GM): ((alright. Heading to the Fae?))
Tlalec: Let's do this!
Yeah.
Dread Cartographer: (Yiss let's have a tea party!)
Ponderous Murderhobo: I will sneak in ahead of time and be there if something goes wrong
Nobody Important (GM): Okay, not sure how given that you're all navigating your way there.
Jeremiah Tombill: "Hmm...you know, since your party will be one more person short, perhaps I shall join you in your quest?"
Ponderous Murderhobo: (I'm telling the party this so once we get there I can get a bit of time to do so)
Tlalec: "That would be most convenient! Your knowledge of these daemons and your wordy, unchivalrious ways will be of great help!"
Ponderous Murderhobo: (sorry, I was unclear)
Nobody Important (GM): ((it's good.))
Jeremiah Tombill: "Simply dev- wait, what? Oh never mind, beats sitting around being harassed by jacques"
Nobody Important (GM): ((You guys heading out, then?))
Dread Cartographer: "Oh, come come, there is no need to be uncivil! Evelyn is a good ol' girl."
Ponderous Murderhobo: "Let's go"
Dread Cartographer: "I can't imagine we'd be anything less than welcome."
Tlalec: "Don't worry priest, the Eagle, the Bear and the...Crab shall protect you! On the march!"
Jeremiah Tombill: "If God wills it. Lead on"
Ponderous Murderhobo: "The Crab?"
Nobody Important (GM): He is sort of crabby.
Dread Cartographer: And I was in a barrel at the beginning of the game
Ponderous Murderhobo: "Why don't I get a cool name?"
Nobody Important (GM): Though the Dog would work better, if only because he's called a cynic.
Dread Cartographer: Yes
Nobody Important (GM): ((aanyway, you guys heading out to the forest, then?))
Ponderous Murderhobo: "I could be The Monkey!"
Dread Cartographer: (Yes let's go)
Turnop: ((But Dogs are loyal and kind and stupid. He's either a cat or a crab))
Ponderous Murderhobo: ((yes))
Tlalec: "The Eagle, the Bear and the Dog then! With such fine beasts at your side, what do you have to fear?"
Dread Cartographer: The dog-crab
Nobody Important (GM): The woods are dangerous, dark and deep. Despite the fact that's it's one in the afternoon at latest, you can barely see the sun.
Dread Cartographer: crab-dog
Tlalec: "...and the nimble Monkey of course!"
Nobody Important (GM): Spiderwebs, enormous ones, hang from every tree and the wood itself is nearly dead silent save for distant scuttling and the creaking of wood.
Ponderous Murderhobo: ((http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Crab_5d06db_787546.jpg))
Nobody Important (GM): You feel watched as you pass through these unhallowed woods, wandering nearly at random until!
Dread Cartographer: "Ah, here's the right place, once you get to the spiders, it's just a shot walk to her place"
Tlalec: (By the way, where is Knightfag?)
Nobody Important (GM): A light in the distance, green and unearthly. ((dunno. Where's the bear?))
Jeremiah Tombill: "These are some huge webs. What ever could they be for?"
Nobody Important (GM): In a small copse of trees, you can see a clearing from which the green light is streaming.
Dread Cartographer: "Ah! Fantastic! We've arrived"
Ponderous Murderhobo: I sneak up ahead, careful not to touch the webs
Dread Cartographer: "The spiders of course!"
Nobody Important (GM): Are you looking into the circle?
Because otherwise what you see is a lot of trees.
Dread Cartographer: I give a knock on one of the circle trees
Tlalec: Yes, of course.
Ponderous Murderhobo: and position myself in one of the circle trees
Dread Cartographer: "Evelyn, dear, are you in? It's your favorite philosopher, come to visit!"
Jeremiah Tombill: "What exactly did you all find out?"
Nobody Important (GM): Inside the circle is a woman -- tall, powerfully built but slender like a sapling. Maybe eight feet tall?
Her horns rise another foot above her, and her gray skin and black eyes give testament to her unearthly origins.
Between the horns, and indeed between her fingers webs are spun.
Ponderous Murderhobo: I look around for the hoard
Nobody Important (GM): The pictures didn't do her justice - her dress is literally made of living spiders, writhing and scuttling in a constantly shifting pattern.
Dread Cartographer: "Ah, aren't you a sight to see! Gorgeous as ever. Are those new webs?"
Nobody Important (GM): She's currently sorting through a hoard of artwork, carefully organized into different piles of stuff.
She turns to face Lazarus, and hisses.
Tlalec: Whispering: "Our crabby yet dogged friend apparently is on a first name basis with the lady. She likes gold and shiny trinkets, so we'll try to turn her against the mirror kingdom army".
Nobody Important (GM): "You. Why are you back here, Lazarus?"
Ponderous Murderhobo: ((playing Tale As Old As Time))
Dread Cartographer: "Oh, can't an old friend drop in to say hello"
(I ship it)
Nobody Important (GM): "I told you that I wanted to never see you again! Don't you know how to listen to a lady?"
Tlalec: (Glares daggers at Lazarus).
Dread Cartographer: "Oh, words in anger, dearest. I've brought some friends, won't you introduce yourself, comrades?"
Ponderous Murderhobo: I position myself closer to the hoard, still hiding in the trees
Nobody Important (GM): She perks up a bit from her highly hostile posture, some spiders being flung from her shoulders in the process. "But, I see one of your... friends, if you can call them that, have brought gifts! Isn't that right?"
Jeremiah Tombill: "I am Father Bourne Capri, it is a delight to meet you"
Dread Cartographer: "Tut tut, dear. Musn't be too hasty. Won't you have a nice cup of wine?"
Tlalec: I ruffle my feathers for effect and declare: "I am Tlalec Yolotli, f Eldorado, of the lost militant order of the Eagle Warriors! It is a pleasure to make you acquaitance, m'lady".
Dread Cartographer: I pull out a jar of ferisian wine
Nobody Important (GM): "Finally, some manners! You'd do well to teach your friend" she says, spitting out the last word "some of them."
She visibly considers the offer, before holding up a long-nailed hand. "No, who knows where that's been."
Tlalec: (ruffling intensifies)
Dread Cartographer: "Oh, all business then? Alright."
"My dear, you know it's customary to exchange gifts to visitors."
"As you can see, we've brought you a lovely collection of fine medals"
"What we ask for in return is just a trifle, really."
Nobody Important (GM): She glares daggers at you, but turns to look at the pile.
"My my... These really are gold. I'd have thought for sure they'd be brass or tin. You've got an eye for what makes a lady happy, no doubt about that."
She turns to Lazarus and Bourne. "What do you want. Humans don't give gifts, they give bargains."
Dread Cartographer: "Gift, bargain, it's all just trifles, dearest. What we would like is for you to deal with a little... upset in the local village"
"There's been a little spat, and those ugly fellows to the east have been quite rude to the poor villagers."
Nobody Important (GM): She draws back to her full height. "That little hamlet? Why do you care about it so much? The spiders need to eat too, you know."
Jeremiah Tombill: "Ah"
Dread Cartographer: "Ah, yes dearest. But I am afraid that the hamlet is in a bit of trouble."
"How might you eat if the hamlet is destroyed?"
"I know we've had our differences, but really, I'm doing you a favor here."
Nobody Important (GM): Test Sensibility+Persuasion.
Dread Cartographer: k
rolling 4d6k3+13
(5+6+1+5)+13
= 29
Nobody Important (GM): She taps her chin, fingers audibly clicking against the bone. "Hmm."
"I can understand a trick when I see one, but you may have a point..."
"Those wretched sacks of meat and blood despise beauty in all it's forms, and while I COULD defeat them, it'd be much easier if I didn't have to...
Dread Cartographer: "No trick, dearest. I am an honest man."
Nobody Important (GM): And the spiders are so hungry this time of year.."
"Fine .Give me those medals, and we have a deal. Some gold for some death, isn't that how you humans do it?"
Jeremiah Tombill: "What better than easily preyed upon humans, heh?"
Dread Cartographer: "Beauty is on the inside, insofar as taste is concerned"
Nobody Important (GM): ((someone's going to give her the medals, yes?))
Dread Cartographer: "You are wise and fair, dearest. A just bargain if I've ever seen one."
I nudge Bourne
Jeremiah Tombill: "A divine being. Here, May i present you our small tokens of appreciation"
Nobody Important (GM): She points at the correct pile for you to pour them on.
Jeremiah Tombill: He gently places them on the pile, then backs up quickly
Nobody Important (GM): "Such lovely manners. Do come back sometime. But now, I need to appreciate my new acquisitions. But don't worry! The spiders will be out just in time for the march from the west." She gives a deep, worrying laugh.
Dread Cartographer: "Farewell, dearest! Say hello to the in-laws for me!"
Nobody Important (GM): Murderous stare #217.
((so tsundere.))
Jeremiah Tombill: "Until we meet again, may your ventures be blessed"
Ponderous Murderhobo: I come down from the tree and sneak back to the horses
Tlalec: "Don't you have the creeping suspicion we've just made a horrible miscalculation?"
Dread Cartographer: "Oh, she's a bit direct, at times, but I'm sure nothing will go wrong."
Nobody Important (GM): ((WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG))
But, believe it or not, that's all we've got for the session.
Dread Cartographer: Fuckin hell, what a ride
Jeremiah Tombill: Fair enough
Dread Cartographer: wait till they get a load of this
Nobody Important (GM): Thoughts?
Ponderous Murderhobo: I was so ready to kill her
Tlalec: "I trust your judgement, friend. Also, if it comes to the worst, we know where she lives."
Jeremiah Tombill: I am truly sorry i didn't get to play through most it
Nobody Important (GM): (on the adventure, my personal skills, and the game itself))
Dread Cartographer: Adventure was great
sorry I spoiled the boss fight, everyone
Ponderous Murderhobo: I almost wanted to steal from the hoard
Tlalec: I had fun. Too bad I was pretty useless most of the times (except for comic relief I guess).
Dread Cartographer: It was a pretty combat light session
Ponderous Murderhobo: any idea when the next playtest is?
Dread Cartographer: I heard thursday
Ponderous Murderhobo: ok
Dread Cartographer: I won't be able to attend that time, though
Nobody Important (GM): Thursday, probably.
Tlalec: Will try to be here.
Nobody Important (GM): I'm not entirely sure when; i'll put it up to the thread as to what time.
Ponderous Murderhobo: as will I
Nobody Important (GM): Also, the boss fight was supposed to be the captain but I downgraded him to lackey so we'd get to try it out.
Turnop: So wait a seconde here amigos, what can we learn from this session today
Nobody Important (GM): Well, Mooks still die like a cat in a blender.
Turnop: Which is good
Nobody Important (GM): But that's because everyone is a combat monster in this session.
Dread Cartographer: That sensible characters are fucking beast in narrative?
Ponderous Murderhobo: Songs are great and fun?
Nobody Important (GM): Lackeys aren't as dangerous as I thought, social characters are fantastic for narrative, and music is good.
Turnop: Sounds fine to me.
Nobody Important (GM): Skills are doing okay, but we may be stacking bonuses on combat stuff too much.
Ponderous Murderhobo: I'm actually going to slightly change my character for Thursday to be more social
Nobody Important (GM): We should come up with more traits that aren't combat skill related.
Ponderous Murderhobo: Also, I have a suggestion
Nobody Important (GM): Shoot.
Ponderous Murderhobo: we can make a half-attack of some sort
Nobody Important (GM): half-attack?
Ponderous Murderhobo: that is really only good for taking out the wimpiest of mooks, but you can use 3 instead of 2 per turn
Tlalec: You mean multi-attack? Like, multiple attacks per action with a penalty?
Ponderous Murderhobo: exactly
Nobody Important (GM): We should definitely include a power that lets you take like -5 or something to get another hit attempt on mooks.
Ponderous Murderhobo: The 12-mook fight got a little slow just because there were so many
Nobody Important (GM): It'd allow a character to take -10 and try to hit four mooks while still at risk of failing.
Turnop: Maybe we should refrain from including so many mooks for zeroes
Dread Cartographer: Okay, I gotta go. The dining hall closes in 20 minutes and I haven't eaten since breakfast
Nobody Important (GM): Later, dread.
Turnop: just because when they aren't taking out 5 at a time it can get slow
Ponderous Murderhobo: later
Jeremiah Tombill: Good day guys
Nobody Important (GM): Yeah, mooks don't need to have massive numbers.
Dread Cartographer: Thanks a bunch, Nobs, your're a great gm
I'll see you on the thread
Nobody Important (GM): at least not in the low tiers.
Turnop: By the way it's 15 for Heroes
Ponderous Murderhobo: yes
Nobody Important (GM): Right.
So I'd say no more than ~8 mooks at a time for Zero-tier characters?
Turnop: Sounds about right.
Ponderous Murderhobo: Also, I'd like to see a combat situation that we really have to run from
Turnop: Careful with that
solid way to have everyone die
Ponderous Murderhobo: or go around, or sneak
Turnop: especially with a brave retard like sverd in the group
Nobody Important (GM): That's the idea for Villains and Inner Circle. This session you only saw Mooks and Lackeys because we just changed them.
Tlalec: Or at least use a little strategy.
Nobody Important (GM): Also, it's not particularly disney-ey?
Tlalec: I can't wait for the first puzzle boss.
Nobody Important (GM): ehh, it's a product of the grimdark world.
Ponderous Murderhobo: I'm thinking something like One Jump Ahead
when Aladdin runs from all the guards
Nobody Important (GM): Yeah, we didn't really have an opportunity to do that. But how would we get people to run away from stuff when they cut through mooks so easily? Maybe have like ~20 mooks come after them?
Ponderous Murderhobo: I'm not sure
buffed up mooks? take away their armor/weapons?
Tlalec: Don't know, even if there were 30 a smart party will simply lure them to a bottleneck or start using the environment.
Nobody Important (GM): wouldn't that be using strategy, then?
Fleeing from authorities would likely happen in more authoritarian states.
Ponderous Murderhobo: maybe just use lackeys instead of mooks for that situation, so you can't just insta-kill them
Nobody Important (GM): The Wild West/far shadowlands and the middle of bumfuck nowhere aren't particularly authoritarian.
Yeah, i'm changing my assessment of lackeys. I think we can use multiple of them at a time.
Turnop: I'm thinking more in Rome or Paris
you'd have to train up that athetlic and acrobatic
Tlalec: Yup, that captain went down like a little bitch before we could even start swinging.
Ponderous Murderhobo: that's honestly what I'm built for
Nobody Important (GM): Well, I underestimated the bonuses of dedicated combat characters. Inner Circle should probably start out at an average defense of 30, and villains higher than that.
Ponderous Murderhobo: I think lackeys are good up to 1/person at Zero
Turnop: The average combat bonus for a combat character will be 16ish without weapons and 18ish with.
Ponderous Murderhobo: as long as there isn't a sea of mooks
Turnop: 22 is after special bonuses are applied
Nobody Important (GM): Yeah, I agree with both of you. Now, I'm gonna 'bin this and throw it in the thread when we're done here.
Tlalec: Yeah, on that one tur i was overbuffed like an hog.
And Sir Bruin is a freaking bear.
Nobody Important (GM): Beasts are almost always going to be horrifying in Brawl. It's the social disadvantages that get ya.
Ponderous Murderhobo: Sir Bruid just wrecked everything in front of him
Nobody Important (GM): Well, I'm gonna 'bin this. See y'all in the thread!
Ponderous Murderhobo: See ya