Skull and Shackles++ (Inactive)
Game Master acecipher

In the list of rooms on board ship, some have dashes and some have ">" in front. Does that indicate which rooms we have free access to, and which we haven't seen yet?

Kestryl is eyeing an exploratory mission, and trying to choose a destination.

The dashes indicate floors of the. Ship. The >s indicate actual rooms. It helps me organise stuff.

--Ace

Sorry for not posting today, I'm exhausted from work and I helped 3 different people move out (2 of whom had to put stuff in my apartment for various reasons) and get some important financial matters settled today. But to answer your question, Sharice: Yes, it is possible. Also whoever wanted to: You may take your ship action and talk to someone else casually, yes, especially if they are other PCs.

However, I must go to bed now, as I must get up very early tomorrow for work. Goodnight!

--Ace

I'm very sorry guys, my internet got shut off due to me torrenting Game of Thrones, and I haven't been much online since then... X________X; still here though, and back now!

Hey guys wanted to apologize for the MIA, I've been in the process of moving and haven't had the free time i had hoped. If its alright for me to jump back in I would love that. Just let me know.

Things have slowed a tad. I think the Dm is having a congested life atm as well.

Much cheer sand very best wishes to every one. (^_^)

Hey? Be there a position amongst the crew as maybe a 'Moral person'? (^_~)

Lol, so everyone else has been having a slow life, wonderful! I feel nowhere near as bad now.

But again, sorry for my absence, Just had a con over the weekend, one of two I'll be working at, so that did kinda take up all my time. And at work, we've been hurriedly moving around heavy boxes so that now I'm rather sore (And to think I have to walk to the market later...), AND am having to help my roomates move out. As if I didn't have enough already, my best friend's birthday is tomorrow evening, and my roomate needs me out of our room to exercise for some reason (even though I take up almost no more space than the furniture already does). So... its gonna be a while, but AFTER July 2nd, most of these shouldn't be an issue. :D

I'll try to post later tonight. Not feeling up for it right now, but did want to let you guys know I'm still here.

I understand. I just hope we can pick this up soon. I think this sounds like a fun AP.

Aye, glad I am fer ye're renewed input.

I un'er stand how life c'n get at ye an' stuffs.

Lookin' forwards t' things. (^_^)

hoping for things to move forward as well.

Still here as well.

Kinda waiting for rulings on my search attempts. Hard to move forward without being sure I'm still, you know, breathing.

Its ok tho' boss. You said it would be slow until July.

Turniphead finds a nice quite hidden place to wait until the crew discovers him. Maybe they'll assume he fell overboard.

Take your time, DAC. We'll be here.

Skippy-skip, Bumpy-bump! (^_^)

Weird. This is the only campaign that doesn't show up as such in my main profile. I have to go through Aliases and Taize.

Aye, that is interesting. Shows up on my PbP page okay.

Maybe drop the folks at the Paizo central a question?

I Hope we see our DM back some time soon.

maybe you have too many taize, who knows. And yes i hope Dac makes it back soon, and all is well with him.

Fixed. Turns out I accidentally hid it.

I contacted DAc and he said he is working a con.

@Brendan--- I presume you mean con as in "convention?" Not con as in "confidence heist"? Cuz if its the second one, you totally snitched on him.

@Brendan--- I presume you mean con as in "convention?" Not con as in "confidence heist"? Cuz if its the second one, you totally snitched on him.

As long as we're not the ones being conned. ;)

Oh...I dun' know. Have ye seen who it was whut got us on't this boat? :P

If our DM is at a certain Paizo CON then more power to him/her/them/wibble. (^_^)

Ah yes, I return. And I was at a convention, but one not for RPGs. At Anime Expo we did get 115,000 people, however, which is really fun when you're the guy who controls all the lines.

Owch! *Hugz* Gald ye're back an' lookin' forwards t' things gettin' under way agin! (^_^)

I've worked a call center for a certain well-known satelite TV service. You have all my sympathy.

woot woot. Looking forward to getting this on the road again.

Taize I feel your pain... some people in this world...

Red Five, standing by...

(^_~)

Believe it or not, still here and still waiting to resume.

Still here and good to go.

EDIT: Quick question -- what is the benefit of "shirking" ? You get a penalty to your work roll /and/ risk getting caught, but what is the upside?

I would assume you don't get worked into a haggard mess?

Or, like Tom Sawyer, at the end of the adventure you get to say what a wonderful/lovely time you had on your holiday cruise on the Wyrmwood. :P

I think it is/was just the module creators covering every eventuality.

Much cheers to all! (^_^)

Yay, DM Ace is back! Let the indentured servitude continue!

Still here and good to go.

EDIT: Quick question -- what is the benefit of "shirking" ? You get a penalty to your work roll /and/ risk getting caught, but what is the upside?

You can take 10 on the check to search a room.

And yes I am! Everyone ready for day 2?

Yep.

Aye! Though knowing how th' lass responded t'me respondin' t'her would be a boon. (^_^)

Sharice will try to guide the smalltalk with Ratline to cover his observations of the ship and his impressions of the other longer-time crewmates.

Of course, with that flubbed con check she'll be pretty cranky tomorrow morning...

Polite bumpin'.

Alright, yeah. Sorry, life's major backlogs are being rather uncooperative with regards to their resolution. Unfortunately my time online right now is... uncertain, so sadly I can't quite write the next post right now but I'll do my best to get it done later tonight.

--Ace

Hi there,

I've been out for some time as I somehow lost my dots on the whole thread and thought it was dead. Nevertheless, I see that the number of PCs is not helping you run the game, so I think it's better for me to bow out and let you run the game with one less PC.

Thanks for your efforts for running such a game.

Hi there,

I've been out for some time as I somehow lost my dots on the whole thread and thought it was dead. Nevertheless, I see that the number of PCs is not helping you run the game, so I think it's better for me to bow out and let you run the game with one less PC.

Thanks for your efforts for running such a game.

No no, please don't. I'm more having time to be online and update myself with what's going on; more or less players won't have that big an effect upon that, and *most* of you have special skills that the others don't (which is why I selected you all). Moreso, my distractions ARE being worked out, it just isn't able to be done as fast as I had thought, which I do apologise for. Please, if you can still post, don't go away prematurely.

Aula Heartpiercer wrote:

Hi there,

I've been out for some time as I somehow lost my dots on the whole thread and thought it was dead. Nevertheless, I see that the number of PCs is not helping you run the game, so I think it's better for me to bow out and let you run the game with one less PC.

Thanks for your efforts for running such a game.

No no, please don't. I'm more having time to be online and update myself with what's going on; more or less players won't have that big an effect upon that, and *most* of you have special skills that the others don't (which is why I selected you all). Moreso, my distractions ARE being worked out, it just isn't able to be done as fast as I had thought, which I do apologise for. Please, if you can still post, don't go away prematurely.

Ok, I just did not want to be a bother and delay the game. I'll jump back right in.

Ok, I just did not want to be a bother and delay the game. I'll jump back right in.

Yay! Who else could I have shared my love of your big brother with?

So... lots of things to answer, and since I'll have to make a long enough IC Post. Also, needless to say I rolled several things in the physical world, as it is my preferred thing to do, so long as you guys don't mind; otherwise I'll reroll them on invisible castle and provide the links here.

EVERYONE (except Sharice)

I should note to remind you that you're on a STAIRWELL. there are no dark corners for you to hide in. Its crampt, tiny, and there is just barely room for all 8 of you. The agressive guys are standing in close enough formation that you'd need to make a tumble check to squeeze past them. Slipping to the side is fine, but it won't let you escape (again, you need a tumble check for that).

Sunny
There are several; you can see the one leading into the captain's quarters from where you are standing. For your acrobatics check there are two problems: 1) one of the people at the bottom of the stairs can just come and start wailing on you from behind, and 2) You can't take 10 in this situation, since you kind of don't have the time.

Sharice
Would you mind if I delayed your intervention until the pirates actually would attack the party? It... otherwise denies possible RP opportunities. Also, NO ONE in the pirates has visible weapons.

Ok, I think that's all.

--Ace

Fair enough, delaying.

Um...we're on a boat, right? I seem to remember the first 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie and the depiction of the stairs between decks there. The things are open sided and 'free floating'.

I didn't think those threatening us were at the bottom of the stairs, I thought they were at the top?

As the last one of you steps onto the stairs, four bodies appear at the head.

See, technically, Sunny is 'behind' or 'under' the stairs, y'ken? So even if'n the bad guys were t'be down in the room with all us lot, Sunny can still use the physicality of the stairs to limit those who would try and flank her, y'see? (^_^)

Um...we're on a boat, right? I seem to remember the first 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie and the depiction of the stairs between decks there. The things are open sided and 'free floating'.

I didn't think those threatening us were at the bottom of the stairs, I thought they were at the top?

:dragon: DAC GM wrote:

As the last one of you steps onto the stairs, four bodies appear at the head.

See, technically, Sunny is 'behind' or 'under' the stairs, y'ken? So even if'n the bad guys were t'be down in the room with all us lot, Sunny can still use the physicality of the stairs to limit those who would try and flank her, y'see? (^_^)

There are pirates BEHIND you too. And also on various sailing ships Ive been on that are, you know, real ships.... the stairs had a wall divider on the side. Its the only way I can see to make sense of the challenge, so even though its not explicitly there.... it is now, because I want there to be, and there is precedent for the feature.

Okeys, cool. (^_^)

So there be rapscallions ahead of us an na'er do wells behind us, as in we's surrounded?

Great! They can't get away from us now! (^_^)

Agin, how many 'enemy' bods are we talkin' about? Do I need another Perception check to sort who from who?

Okeys, cool. (^_^)

So there be rapscallions ahead of us an na'er do wells behind us, as in we's surrounded?

Great! They can't get away from us now! (^_^)

Agin, how many 'enemy' bods are we talkin' about? Do I need another Perception check to sort who from who?

Eight, and I listed them in the initial post in that long OOC paragraph.

Also:

Everyone

The stairwell is 20ft by 10 feet (so that all 8 of you can fit on it without taking squeezing penalties). The ends of the staircase are where the pirates are lining up. So to diagram it out, where PCs are Os, Pirates are Xs and walls are Vs:

XVVVVX
XOOOOX
XOOOOX
XVVVVX

I hope this clears everything up.

Huzzah! We IS surrounded! Lets get 'EM! (^_^)

Well you did just say that you would bribe them, kinda. So if peoppe dont want to fight, they had better cough up money.