Skulls and Scallywags - The Changing Tide Team 2

Game Master DarkestHeart

I love the use of animate rope in preventing their escape. They don't stand a chance!

Also, I'll give Lucien until tomorrow and then bot.

Whoops, sorry guys. A got way behind when the forum quit showing updates for a while.

I'm going to be out of town with my wife and daughter for the rest of the week. I'll try to keep up by my posting might be more sporadic than usual. I'll be back by Sunday night
Fell free to 'bot me if necessary.

With the Fog Cloud still hanging around I'm not sure how you want to adjudicate the others being able to actually see me.

Should be fine, RAW says This ability applies only to allies who can see or hear the freebooter and who are within 30 feet.

Never mind, then. My inner monologue read that has see and hear.

I might not survive this action! Besmara save the little green suicidal ones! My HP is draining quiiiiick :-0

I hope not, Bleepos is awesome. Crazy little goblin.

Your AC is decently high, at least!

Sasha, what's your preference for your actions this round?

Again I apologize about the constant mist, it's basically a high level casting of fog cloud, however, you guys are well on your way to victory... and perhaps loot... :)

Sasha has no actions for this round. just maintain control of the ship (as per Harrigan's orders)

Is that 340 gp each or 340 gp to be divided among ourselves (or 68 gp each)?

340 gp each.

As Bleepos pointed out, I need to add a slide in with what parts of the Wormwood were explored and what weren't. I'll copy the info from Tide's profile and get that setup.

What about were we stand on influencing people? Not sure who we are friend with and who want to rip our guts out.

Good point. I posted Bleepos' relations before (probably a little better now with the Cabin Girl as well) but we should all post our current relations so Red can update the spreadsheet. For the new people, maybe he can just run a little randomizer using the Charisma/Skills just so no one is left behind in an unfair way. :)

That's a pretty good idea, Bleepos. I'll roll a few dice and see who likes you and who doesn't, however, some crew members are predisposed to hating the party while others are pretty easy to persuade, so I'll also keep that in mind when I do this.

I've built the relationship spreadsheet. This was no easy task, but I tried to apply some reasoning where I could:

* For Bleepos and Sasha, who fought five of the riggers/swabs, they're hostile, and for the new party they're unfriendly by association.

* Rosie is intended to become helpful with the party by default, and almost everyone in the original party were friends with her, therefore I think it fair to have her be helpful to Kragor, Jaska, and Lucien.

* Most of the ship's officers will hate you and you'll find it very difficult to get on their good side generally, so I've defaulted all of these to either hostile or unfriendly.

* Of the remaining influencible officers, swabs, and riggers, I will roll a d20 + Diplomacy for each new PC.

Still working on the exploration sheet but should have that completed shortly.

Great job, Red!

So, I take that the work I did on "Caulky" Tarroon (cabin girl / last night) didn't work much at all?

Sort of. There are certain officers who won't form a strong relationship with you no matter how much you butter them up, and for good reason, but I don't want to ruin any of the adventure. :)

Ok guys, exploration sheet is up, same spreadsheet (second sheet). I put the daytime and nighttime actions on there too. I'll add the link to my header bar.

Before I post my nightime action, what are the odds that Kragor managed to keep his thieves' tools?

I think you can always coax Grok into getting them back. She already likes most of you... :)

@Kragor: Bleepos has an extra set of thieves tools, if you don't manage to get yours back somehow. It should be easy to talk to him, since he considers Kragor a friend already (assuming it for all players - I think that's the intent of having us all be captured together on the beginning of the mod).

Ahh, more bookkeeping.. I've forgotten the vital task of tracking your experience gained. I'll get to it. :)

Ok, so how do we do this influencing stuff? CHA check, maybe?

It depends on the NPC. Diplomacy is usually a safe bet, but often listening to the NPC or overhearing something they've said can you provide you with some insight on what their interests are. Of course, influencing NPCs is one of your options for an action, you can always do something else (as in the spreadsheet).

I have a little way too much fun with Bleepos, even when he's screwing up or almost dying. Which is pretty much all of the time. Not sure who had the brilliant idea to bring along the Goblin too when we were captured at the Formidable Maid...

Hey guys!

I think we have a good group here so far and Red is doing a terrific job hosting the game (that he got on his lap, saving our scallywag souls! Tide was a good GM as well, but ran out of time).

I'd love, however, to see us going with more rhythm! Even if weekends are a little slower, if we could have at least one post every weekday, we'd be able to get our adventure going and fresher.

For the people not posting that frequently: are you unmotivated, or just busy? Should/can we bot you to keep things moving? Is anyone looking to step out and be replaced, if too busy/can't keep up?

Again, I'd rather we keep the people we have now, as I feel we have a good group going on - "Captain" Bleepos loves you all, but we need to get back to the daily rate (at least - better if more).

Cheers!

Hey Bleepos. I see you are still wounded from the fight. Jaska is looking for someone to heal before heading to bed. Where did you park you little green...?

Oh, you'll find me passed out drunk on rum over my usual spot! ;) Any heals you throw my way are appreciated. Thanks

I think we're just stuck in the doldrums right now. We need GM Red to advance the story and I think we've lost Sasha as well (she hasn't posted in a couple weeks).

Yes, there is a purpose to the pause that you will all soon find out. Sorry for the wait. We will be moving along very soon, I'm sure.

Hi. I have been working 72 hours a week. Barely keeping up with my pfs games. I will try to get going again

Good to see you back tides. Since Aq escaped during the night and is a new game, could you make him a previous character?

Just that way I don't mix the updates with other game. Happy gaming and see you in storytellers vampire game.

Thanks Aq. And I'll do that just as soon as I figure how. Sorry I haven't done it earlier

Go to Campaign Info, then click Edit this Campaign on the right. Scroll down to the Players and Characters section and uncheck 'active' for each of them.

Hey don't worry about it mate, busy with life and school. At least we're playing now.

Hi guys sorry been quiet ... will catch up soon

Sorry for the thread derail but an Iron Gods game I'm in just lost one of our players and we're looking for a replacement. The current party consists of a Human Gunslinger (pistolero) (myself), a Ratfolk Investigator (empiricist), a Android Fighter, and a Half-elf Inquisitor (sacred beastmaster).
We're looking for an arcane caster who can bring some healing to the table as well (our Inquisitor didn't take CLW as a spell known). Thinking either a Witch with the Healing hex or a Bard with CLW (not trying to pigeonhole anyone, though).
You can find the Discussion thread here (Link) and the Gameplay thread here (Link).
If you're interested please leave a concept/build in the Discussion thread.
Thanks,
Mike

Oh! For sure I'd love to get into this game. Galahad (your android) is a good friend of mine (when I lived in FL, we used to play on the same table - many times he was the GM, and I GM'd for him as well). Let me see what I can put together.

I'd been traveling on vacation the past week and completely forgot to post a notification of this in this game. Apologies. I'm back now and getting caught up.

Tap, tap, tap. "Is this thing on?"

Okay so here is the situation. I got in to a bad place and got struck by the business / technical bug. And then my anxiety kicked in because I owe so many people posts. And then it got worse and worse. So I am working my way through my backlog and am just just getting to the top. I feel awful but I can't do anything but say sorry again. I'll get a post up when I get home in two hours.

I'm a bad DM, sorry guys. You have my deepest apologies.

Real life problem is understandable. Don't worry too much about it. This is and will remain a game. It shouldn't affect your personal life if you fall behind on it. The only thing that I would like is that you try to at least post in the discussion thread once a week to let us know you are still there. A simple "Hello still there, will post soon!" in the discussion thread would do.

So take your time to heal and relax. Have fun reading the gameplay, and when you are ready, make your post to move the story forward.

You are not a bad GM, just a busy human being.

It happens, no big deal.

Hi,

I'm posting this on all my PbPs, as player or GM - I had a family emergency last Monday, due to an accident, and had not been able to post or even communicate of my absence. In parallel, as a consequence of the situation not improving, my undivided attention on such matter will be required on the months to follow and, therefore, I'm stepping out of most of my activity online. I apologize for the inconveniences it might cause and I wish you all the best, and fun on your games. Thanks all for the understanding and for the opportunity to play with you.

The Chess / adsapiens

Sorry to hear that, Chess. I hope that everything works out alright and that you can rejoin us whenever you can.

My apologies, things are a little crazy right now. Last week my Father in Law was admitted to the hospital for an infection and dehydration. Yesterday we received the test results from the hospital and it's been determined he has colon cancer. Given his age and state of health we are consulting with his doctors on the best course of treatment. Surgery, while an option, is risky and he may not survive the operation.
Needless to say things are quite up in the air right now so if need be please feel free to bot me until such time as I can devote more attention to the game.
Thanks.

It's been a while since anyone posted... Who is still here?

I'm still here but I assumed that the campaign is more or less dead with two missing players and a missing GM. It's too bad, I was looking forward to playing with you guys.

I've still got my eye on it, but I was figuring the same.