Here's to hoping Richard's post doesn't get flagged! Katherine, I believe you were about to use Inception to make him believe the pledge?
If you are content with the current state of the scene, I can wrap up and go to the confrontation.
I'm good to move on.
Disclaimer: in the first parts of the campaigns I had a rather different plan for how things were supposed to go, also because I hadn't studied the history of the operation well enough.
I feel that I currently have an interesting climax, but I'm going to have to undo the plan I had for the hanging on the 15th, and the time that you placed a bomb in the woods. I dropped the ball on that, and I'm sorry for those two threads left hanging.
No worries! Having recently taken the plunge into DMing myself, I sympathize
Not a problem.
I need to apologise: I recently returned to university, and my first assignment is proving an unpleasant surprise. I know I'm slipping, but I'm hoping to have the **** thing done soon!
*Sagely* No plan survives contact with the players.
Well, that was easy. Good game all!
...waht du yu meen role to disbalief du lussions?
Yeah, this is somehow the most ominous post I've seen in a very long time.
I can tell you in all sincerity that it's not an illusion.
I figured it was mind control, implanting memories of success where no success was had.
In my little mental movie of everything that's happening, the whole world has gone black and white.
...agreed, with maybe splashes of red for lipstick, fire and blood.
very nice!
Oooh, very Schindler's List! I love that aesthetic.
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...yes, I was definitely thinking of the critically acclaimed World War II classic and not Sin City...
Just in case you are wondering: the reason why you had no save for that shared hallucination was that it was not a hallucination. Heydrich's custom ENIGMA machine was running an algorithm shunting you into a parallel universe. Therefore, everything you experienced was real, although guided by Heydrich. Going in places unfamiliar to him (as you did) and causing enough damage to the world to break plausibility were the two ways to cause the program to become unstable and unpredictable.
I'm rebuilding his stats, I believe I'll roll initiative tomorrow.
I'm honestly expecting him to no-sell Tomasz attack,it just felt out of character not to at least try
(Also, I'm sorry that I kinda overrode Katherine)
Not a problem. I was happy to play for time, but if we wanna jump down his throat - possibly literally, given some of the odder abilities out there - I'm happy to do so. Plus it plays into my character's abilities. When the shooting starts she can pretend to be horrified by the violence and backaway while setting fire to his insides.
Just in case you are wondering: the reason why you had no save for that shared hallucination was that it was not a hallucination. Heydrich's custom ENIGMA machine was running an algorithm shunting you into a parallel universe. Therefore, everything you experienced was real, although guided by Heydrich. Going in places unfamiliar to him (as you did) and causing enough damage to the world to break plausibility were the two ways to cause the program to become unstable and unpredictable.
I'm rebuilding his stats, I believe I'll roll initiative tomorrow.
I loved that idea :)
I have realised I did not declare Ada's loadout. I was going to go with her standard 'trouble' loadout - is that okay? I will post it here first.
Thinking about it, it is probably fairer to use the loadout she had in adventure 1
0 4 - Detect Magic, Oath of Anonymity, Vacuous Vessel, Ray of Frost
1 6 - Arcane Pocket, Ears of the City, Stone Fist, Heightened Awareness, Pierce Facade, Mage Armor
2 5 - Protection from Arrows, False Life, Bull’s Strength, Bullet Shield, BLANK
3 3 - Fearsome Duplicate, Blood Rage, Siphon Might
4 2 - Assume Appearance, BLANK
Ideally with
* Assume Appearance (that is a fortnightly cast) replaced with Communal Nondetection
* the BLANK 4th replaced with Night Armour.
She'd leave at least 1 slot open.
Given her everyday all-day duration spells are pretty easy to cast, I think she'd have cast them.
Ada takes 1 to 15 minutes to prep spells, and then time to ritualistically cast her all day spells.
At a minimum Mage Armor, False Life, Protection From Arrows and Arcane Pocket. At 10 minutes each that's a little under an hour.
Happy that she held off casting anything else, though also happy to have burned Communal Nondetection on herself if that doesn't affect anything (given its huge cost she is reluctant to use it, and can only afford to cast it on 1 person).
It's a good loadout for a frontal assault on guys with guns, not so much for hunting down a wizard, but she assumed there'd be guns going.
@GM Sappy: is that okay?
Edit: will need to reroll for false life, I guess.
It looks OK and it's reasonable to have pre-cast day-and hour-long buffs, just please reroll False Life.
To the games I'm GM-ing: I'm starting my holidays, which involve juggling myself between several family houses and a trip. I'll be more spotty (even more than I've been lately) until the first weeks of January.
You have cold resistance 5, Katherine, it should not knock you out straightaway.
Oh, so I do. It doesn't matter too much, since I've taken four non-lethal damage too - I'm still unconscious. But I'm not dead yet!
Currently sick - will get a post up when I can.
This post is long overdue. You've most likely noticed that my posting rate has taken a downfall recently. I've been through some changes in my life recently, and I hoped that once the situation stabilized I would go back as before. But it's not happening, and I feel more and more tired whenever I open the latest posts of one of the campaigns I'm GM-ing. At this point it feels evident that I'm going through some GM burnout.
I like this campaign a lot, and I want to give it the attention that it deserves. I had planned to bring it to the end of the current module before taking a break, but I don't think I have it in me right now to deal with an escape from a city (your last round was enough to kill Heydrich). Therefore, I think that I'll write a sum-up of the aftermath, iron out with you any details you'd like (e.g. Ada's mission) and then placing it on hold for a while. Please let me know what you think about it.
In any case, I'm going to keep on these boards as a player, and I have every intention of coming back to GM-ing with a fresh mind and ideas at a later time, hopefully not further than a few months. However, if you'd prefer to keep playing, feel free to look for another GM on the boards (or someone with Laundry knowledge could take over, or you could rotate, how you prefer). I'd rather see this campaign fly free than take it down with me.
Sad news, but an aftermath and putting it on hold until you are re-energised makes sense.
I had envisioned that Ada's mission would end up with her grabbing the violin, then being convinced to give it into 'safer hands' - presumably the persuasive Ms Anderson, who would send it back to the Laundry. To that end I've included some words, if everyone is okay with them.
This would then give a reason for Ada to be included in the next mission.
Ada holds the violin by the neck, much as one might hold a poisonous snake. Blood oozes from her hands as frozen red crystals thaw. "Well. Success. You got your target and I got mine." Despite the victory in her sentence, there is no joy in the young woman's tone. Worry leaks from every word like the bloody tears from her glowing and bloodshot eyes.
She sighs "This thing... I'm not sure I trust my Client with it. There is no good use I can think of for something like this - especially if it is what I suspect." She sighs again "Oh well. Hopefully they just want to..." she trails off, then picks up "lock it up."
That sucks, but it happens to everyone.
Katherine has no special wrap up required, I think. Her job was to kill the Nazi and get away with it, so welding his teeth to his car and fleeing is what she intended to do.
She absolutely would try and keep the violin out of the hands of folks, and would try and talk Ada out of keeping it (and possibly bringing it to the Laundry herself, if Ada wanted) but otherwise dead Nazi's are the thing.
I'm most available on Discord. If you'd like to restart later, you can reach me there much faster. ^^/ Do you want to join one of the servers I'm on?
I'm sorry to hear it, but I'd much rather you put things on hold than keep slogging. I'll be ready and waiting when you get back.
Thank you, everyone. I'll write a conclusion soonish.
@Rednal: I'm already on the Spheres of Power one :)