GM Niles Rippers Campaign

Game Master nilesr

Victorian Etiquette
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Dramatis Personae
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Status and Favor rules
Lodge Rules
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Ah man, concur with the sentiments beforehand here. I hope we might have a chance to pick up again at a later date, it's been fun getting the chance to interact with you all. Perhaps we'll see each other in a future game, yes?


Wounds: 0/3 | Bennies: 2/3 | Parry: 6 | Toughness: 5 | Charisma: +0 | Pace: 6 | Status: 3 | Power Points: 10/10

I really can't add much else to the discussion at this point. It's a shame to lose you and this game has been a great deal of fun, but hopefully we'll have a chance to try again at some point.


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You never know what you'll get unless you ask...

TL/DR: The new IT guy is a gamer and gladly unblocked the Paizo site for me, and invited me to game with them on the weekends.

Game is back on.


Wounds: 0/3 | Bennies: 2/3 | Parry: 6 | Toughness: 5 | Charisma: +0 | Pace: 6 | Status: 3 | Power Points: 10/10

Wow... I keep trying to come up with a snappy comment, but I'm so surprised by the sheer luck of the situation that I can't.

Sweet.


Inactive

Well how about that? That's great to hear!


M Russian Human Bennies: 0/3| Wounds: 3/3

Amazing! I have no such hope for my work, since we have an entire IT support division and a process in place for requesting exceptions to the block list--as far as I know, there's no one person I can talk to.

I've caught up, and made a couple of purchases--cold iron & silver pistol ammunition and daggers. Any chance of getting a spring-loaded dagger sheath for a quick draw?

Shall I just have Andrej return from the last setback to his recovery, finally having been convinced that he shouldn't get up as soon as he feels a little better?


Nice!

It just goes to show what you can get if you just ask someone nicely. I look forward to continuing our wonderful, bizarre adventure at your leisure.


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Right now I'm just waiting on you guys to let me know what's your nexdt move.


Male Human | 0 Wounds | Parry 8, Toughness 5 | Status 4, Favors 2 | 2/3 Bennies
GM Niles wrote:
The new IT guy is a gamer

I'm honestly not that surprised. A lot of IT people I know/know of are on the geeky/nerdy/your-word-of-choice end of the spectrum, so it's not that odd to me to hear that you had a stroke of good luck there. That said, it is indeed good luck and happy times, and I'm very glad we can continue this! (And glad that you got an invite to a group, which is always a nice deal!)

Grand Lodge

Strength d6 Agility d6 Spirit d8 Smarts d6 Vigor d8 Wounds: 0 Toughness: 6(1) Parry: 7 Pace: 6 Charisma: 0 Bennies: 2/3 PowerPoints: 9/10 Status: 5 Reason: 2 // Throwing: d6 Fighting: d10 Notice: d6 Knowledge(Occult): d6 Knowledge(Religion): d4 Faith: d10 Persuasion: d8

I will post later todqy, as this was one of the dots I lost during the recent Paizo breakdown.

It was a work of luck that I even discovered the good news, as mobile layout for Paizo is awful and I missclicked in here.

Also, as an IT monkey I can totally confirm that we usually fall on the nerd spectrum. Which is nice because you never run out of geek buddies if you swap jobs.

Also echoing the joy of your invitation to a new group, but heed my advice: tread carefully, as IT monkeys are strange creatures. Don't make loud noises if they aren't aware of your presence, don't bring bright lightsources as our eyes are accostumed to the brightness of Lord C'omp Uth Er and never ever mention the Dreaded Assembly, three times damned be his bones!

Also bring snacks, we love snacks.


M Russian Human Bennies: 0/3| Wounds: 3/3

I'll be scarce Saturday and most of Sunday--we have a bunch of people coming over late afternoon, and I'm going to be cooking a lot. Right now the house smells of chilies; I roasted ten poblanos in the oven, skinned and seeded them as best I could, roasted a couple of pounds of tomatilloes, and made a bunch of salsa verde. More different kinds of chili tomorrow, along with lentils, feijoada, macquechoux, and cold sesame noodles (for Lunar New Year).


Inactive

I just realized I didn't have to go on the stakeout after rereading Nile's post, but I've already thrown my dice. Crap. Sorry Andrej, Victoria.


M Russian Human Bennies: 0/3| Wounds: 3/3
GM Niles wrote:
Ok. If you are Breaking and Entering we will treat that as a Dramatic Task. It's Stealth, Agility and Streetwise rolls at-2.

Victoria, are we up for this? Andrej would be making d8-2 (Agility), d6-2 (Stealth), and d4-2-2 (Streetwise) checks, and the downside of failure seems high given our Statuses.


I've got a d8 in Agility and Stealth, with a d6 in Streetwise... if you want, Victoria can handle the breaking and entering, Andrej could function as a lookout of some sort for police or anyone else that might be coming by? I dunno if Niles would want you to roll something separate to do that, though. If you'd rather plan out an alternative course of action, I'm all ears.


M Russian Human Bennies: 0/3| Wounds: 3/3

I suspect that Streetwise is of use in knowing what to look out for. Eh, let's give it a go. Worst that can happen is that Tristan will have to bail us out, right?

ETA: GM N, is there anyone at the Lodge that we can ask for advice?


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Sure. There's usually several Rippers available at any given time that are staying in the Lodge.

PS: I'd like to get this wrapped up soon because everyone else is waiting on it.


Why don't we head back to the Lodge and ask for advice, we can break in the next night or something like that? That lets the other part of the party move along where they're at, and we can talk with some fellow Rippers and see if they have any ideas. That seems like a potentially better solution for the moment.


M Russian Human Bennies: 0/3| Wounds: 3/3

Amazing coincidence, there.


Andrej, have you been tracking your favors? I believe I have three but I'm going to double-check just in case when I get out of class later today. If we have enough combined I'd suggest we at least spend enough to negate our penalties. Also, I think we can only spend 2 at a time due to our Status, but that may be waived here? Not sure.

Also, Niles, I'm a little confused on something. 2 Favors negates a -1, but you said we can spend four to get a +2? I'm assuming you're referring to each of us spending four for a total of eight, I just want to make sure I'm understanding that right.


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Each 2 spent by either party gives a +1 to the roll.

Example:

Victoria spends 4
Andrej spends 2

Total=+1


M Russian Human Bennies: 0/3| Wounds: 3/3

I count three favors as well.


Do you want to spend two favors and negate our penalty, or spring for all three and get ourselves a bonus?


M Russian Human Bennies: 0/3| Wounds: 3/3

Let's take the bonus.

Grand Lodge

Strength d6 Agility d6 Spirit d8 Smarts d6 Vigor d8 Wounds: 0 Toughness: 6(1) Parry: 7 Pace: 6 Charisma: 0 Bennies: 2/3 PowerPoints: 9/10 Status: 5 Reason: 2 // Throwing: d6 Fighting: d10 Notice: d6 Knowledge(Occult): d6 Knowledge(Religion): d4 Faith: d10 Persuasion: d8

Oi Niles!
First I apologize beforehand if Rasheed using romani words and 'customs' what a bit too much.

I thought from the start to give him small knowledge of varied cultures gained during his travel from India to London, mostly tidbits and customs so he remains polite and formal throughout the countries he visit.

That said, I ave just realised it could have involved some kind of knowledge roll, and for that I apologize.


Inactive

Just to let everyone know I'm still here even thoufh Mei's been very silent in game. Niles and Inhave ralked though, and feel that perhaps bringing in a new character could do some good. You'll have to wait and see who it is though. ;P

Grand Lodge

Strength d6 Agility d6 Spirit d8 Smarts d6 Vigor d8 Wounds: 0 Toughness: 6(1) Parry: 7 Pace: 6 Charisma: 0 Bennies: 2/3 PowerPoints: 9/10 Status: 5 Reason: 2 // Throwing: d6 Fighting: d10 Notice: d6 Knowledge(Occult): d6 Knowledge(Religion): d4 Faith: d10 Persuasion: d8

@Mei: I am a defender of retiring characters if the need arise or the amusement dwindles. That's why I will only say: I am excited to know what's next!

@The rest: Had to trust the crone... I'm a loser for wise elders in a position of leadership, and Rasheed is quite the optimistic. But I apologize for doing it unilaterally.

That said, let's start the bets!

5 pounds say I have just told who we are to an evil witch.


Hi, I'm JDPhipps's girlfriend. He's in the hospital right now and has no access to a computer, but he will be out sometime tomorrow and can post then.

Grand Lodge

Strength d6 Agility d6 Spirit d8 Smarts d6 Vigor d8 Wounds: 0 Toughness: 6(1) Parry: 7 Pace: 6 Charisma: 0 Bennies: 2/3 PowerPoints: 9/10 Status: 5 Reason: 2 // Throwing: d6 Fighting: d10 Notice: d6 Knowledge(Occult): d6 Knowledge(Religion): d4 Faith: d10 Persuasion: d8

Gotta say, Tristan, I didn't knew about Sardar but I do like the sound of it.

Good catch. Also, Rasheed smiles and waits for Watt's response in case I can't get to post later today.


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Hello everyone,

I'm taking my family to Disney World from Feb 24th to March 4th. During that time my posting may be sparse, I'll try to post from the hotel at night but I can make no promises. If this is a game in which I am a player do not hesitate to bot me if you need to. If this is a game in which I am the GM, please bear with me for the next couple weeks.

Thanks,
Niles


Wounds: 0/3 | Bennies: 2/3 | Parry: 6 | Toughness: 5 | Charisma: +0 | Pace: 6 | Status: 3 | Power Points: 10/10

Sounds like fun. I hope you have a good trip.


M Russian Human Bennies: 0/3| Wounds: 3/3

Enjoy! Don't worry about us; you concentrate on having fun.


Male Human | 0 Wounds | Parry 8, Toughness 5 | Status 4, Favors 2 | 2/3 Bennies

Hey, I was just at Disney with family back in early January. Enjoy the trip, and don't worry about us--we can wait while the memories are made.


Inactive

Hmm... I can't seem to recall, but did we ask the secretary or anyone at the lodge if they'd heard of the poet? Was considering the possibility he might actually be a ripper too, or was, but that might not have any real weight.


M Russian Human Bennies: 0/3| Wounds: 3/3

We did, and it was only as a poet that he was known.


Inactive

Alright, just wanted to be sure.


Does everyone else think it's a good plan to head over there and try to talk with Swineburne? We know he's there and we've spoken with Master Watts, so we can probably make our way in and figure out what's going on. I'm cool with that if everyone else is. That way we can wrap up this plot point and move on to the real juicy stuff that is the main plot.


Wounds: 0/3 | Bennies: 2/3 | Parry: 6 | Toughness: 5 | Charisma: +0 | Pace: 6 | Status: 3 | Power Points: 10/10

I'm fine with going to talk to the guy. We don't have much else to do right now honestly.


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Yeah, that's probably the best option we have right now.


I dunno if people will see this at all, but I've noticed that both myself and some other players in games I'm running have lost their dots on... pretty much every game they're in. I'm not sure why it happened, but I recommend checking all the games you're in and potentially shooting a message to your players if you don't hear from them at all. I figured I'd throw this out there to make people aware if they missed this or something like that.


M Russian Human Bennies: 0/3| Wounds: 3/3

I'm still seeing dots, but the unread posts indicator has gone from all forums.


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Yeah, I don't see the little (6 Unread Posts) thing anymore. I still have dots, and I can still see which threads have new posts due to shading.


M Russian Human Bennies: 0/3| Wounds: 3/3

I'm using Oladon's campaign management tool in Firefox, and am not seeing shading.


Inactive

I'm relying on shading to see which ones are new myself. No clue what prompted them to make this change, or why they thought it was a good idea.


Evidently this is a caching error, they're putting up a fix for it when the office opens tomorrow. They didn't want to throw up code overnight.


My apologies for the... escalation here, but I feel like Victoria would interpret this as a slight by Swineburne. Given her already somewhat violent temper and her Vengeful hindrance, I didn't see how Victoria would stand idly by and just give up on Swineburne when he dismissed the diplomatic option. I know this could potentially cause us some problems in the future, but if I hadn't done it I'd feel like I wasn't playing to her hindrance.

Grand Lodge

Strength d6 Agility d6 Spirit d8 Smarts d6 Vigor d8 Wounds: 0 Toughness: 6(1) Parry: 7 Pace: 6 Charisma: 0 Bennies: 2/3 PowerPoints: 9/10 Status: 5 Reason: 2 // Throwing: d6 Fighting: d10 Notice: d6 Knowledge(Occult): d6 Knowledge(Religion): d4 Faith: d10 Persuasion: d8

Hey guys, I need to apologize.

I've been absent for more than two weeks and 51 posts and it's noone's fault but me.

As some of you may know if you are in ajy of the other games I'm in, I had a roigh time because I got kicked out of home and had to aolve it, and it took me the best part of two weeks to catch up with every game.

That coupled with Paizo's recent mo updates failure made me completely overlook this game and that has no excuse as I should have put more effort and attention.

I can only offer you my most sincere apologies and start reading the posts so I can at least get back on track.

Once again, sorry.


M Russian Human Bennies: 0/3| Wounds: 3/3

I have a major audit this week at work, so after this posting will generally be scarce. Andrej is looking for Rasheed or Carl to do some magic to convince Swinburne, if it isn't obvious.


Tristan and I are going to work on a co-written adventure for our characters to find some artifact. It may be easier for us to throw it up on one post, we'll have to see, but we're both working on it. Victoria is going to take Tristan slumming. We haven't decided what to find, though. In terms of some sort of weapon or what have you, how powerful should/could we make it? You mention not game breaking, but I guess I'd just like a but more direction with that.

Also, is there enough time that Victoria can talk with Carl again and regain her last missing point of Reason?


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Ideally the "treasure" would be something along the lines of

-A seasoned extra that tags along with a Ripper and gives them help
-An item that grants benefits similar to a published Edge(of seasoned rank).
-Rippertech to the tune of ~2 Reason
-A Weird Science item that grants novice/seasoned powers
-An Artifact (Holy or otherwise) that grants novice/seasoned powers


M Russian Human Bennies: 0/3| Wounds: 3/3

Still working on it, but it's been a busy week. So far I figure this will involve a relapse and an encounter with one of his important people, possibly accompanied by a flashback.

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