It's unlikely that the priest is actually an avatar (and thus has an eatable stone), but if he is...
Korbran is also the god of healing and mercy. He gets downplayed far more than the other two in the pantheon, but I get the feeling that he's on our side at least a little.
I am considering adding a sixth game I'm running, now that my work life has settled down with my new job (And my jaw is no longer stabbing pain into my brain). If you are interested in GURPS, you can look here and if interested, let me know in the thread.
Rather than do a public recruitment, I'm just going to ask people I'm playing with already first.
It sounds interesting, but I think I'm about at capacity for games right now. Thanks for the invite though!
Also, for dealing with this guy, I do have memory lapse (both regular and mythic), but that basically only makes him forget ~2 rounds IIRC. It would probably still be kind of odd from his point of view. Also, there may be other people around.
Sorry a minor injury and classes have kept me from posting, I'm hoping to get caught up with everything tomorrow, sorry for the delay.
Mm I've heard about that Gate anime, been meaning to watch it sometimes, but I have never tried GURPS. I'll take a look in the weekend, but I think I'll settle for observing the whole thing instead : )
Been a long time since I played any GURPS. I may check out the recruitment .
Kong's just staying in the back hoping this doesn't go bad and ready to sleep the guy.
Re: English: Neri's English was overwritten by the native tongue of the land. :)
Re: Foreigners are suspicious: Possible. But it's better to be a foreigner than a religious extremist. :)
We've got a lot of secret languages! Like German or something.
Lina and Liisa got both Swedish and (hey! Impressive!) Finish in common. And you have German with Kong; just need to find the other links in the chain ... : )
But!
I seem to recall us being able to speak 'properly' by concentrating really really hard or did I just dream that?
@Current predicament - We could simply go towards the church and set up camp outside and pretend to silklander a bit. I mean this guy seems to think they are a bit daft so we could probably get away with some dumb things. Then hopefully as the priest passes by/comes out he'll settle for simply checking us up then and there as opposed to trying to drag us into the church. Thoughts?
My big worry is if we tip them off that the demons are in town, they're gonna send a whole lot of forces here, and we'll have to go to ground. The times we survived, it was because we fought only a few agents, and they had been camped out for a long enough time to maybe not have a huge force.
Murdering a guy and leaving his body in the woods—it's probably against our moral code, but it's also going to raise a lot less suspicion that running out of a church screaming.
I kind of doubt the priest won't ask us to enter the church. My guess is that that's their main way of identifying us. The other being casting magic on us since when that guy in raptor land cast a healing spell on me, I had to make a Will save not to transform.
I'm admittedly also a bit worried now that this is also going to be required of us in a larger city, where it'll probably be harder for us to get around going in.
But in a larger city they'll have a much harder time checking everyone. It is easier to hide in the crowd then try to visit a small village unnoticed.
But you are probably right about the "go inside church" protocol...
Yeah. The big worry as I see it is, if we set off a high alert, we might not have a path to *get* to that city.
Other than death, there's no real loss at this venture, though.
If we tip them off that we're out here, they get -really confused- and start swarming like ants. That's just good for us, as an enemy in high alert will expend resources much more quickly - assuming they can't get to us. And the more places they have to divide their forces to keep us from being in the open world, the less we have to worry about things like them having two avatars waiting for us at the edge of the woods.
Okay, but if we tip them off, we know from experience that A) they'll instantly communicate it to headquarters, leaving every nearby town on high alert, and B) they'll comb all the surrounding areas harder than anywhere else.
As far as I can tell, if we tip them off, our only options are to either head straight back underground, or steal a boat and find a crew for it. If we *don't* tip them off, we can safely go further into their territory.
Sure, but at this point, we can't do anything but go to the church. If we avoid the church, we get flagged as suspicious and will either have to fight our way out, be forced ot the church, or run.
I'd suggest just hanging out outside the church 'enjoying the last days before winter'. It seems like the only play we have.
My player suggestion was "knock the guy out, make it look like a mugging, then run" but Lina will follow the group.
I think, given the size of the village, that there are probably other people around too that would notice things we did. But on the other hand, they'd certainly notice if we were smitten by lightning bolts too ...
My stance though, is that if we don't go inside, it's not a problem. If we try to leave without going in, there is a problem, and if we get forced inside, it's a problem. The only problem-less option is to have a reason to stick around outside in one of the last days of warmth for the year. Something the Barathiel priest might like to hear. :P
Eh, if you wanna try it? Go ahead I guess.
Poke poke!
If someone is gonna pull the trigger on running, I'm cool with running with everyone, but otherwise, I'm also happy to pull the trigger on just sitting in the sun outside the church.
The GM is good with either, but needs someone to pick something. :) Otherwise shortly I'm going to start rolling for random encounters. :)
I vote volcano in the confession booth. :)
If no one says otherwise, assume Neri plops down on his back outside the church.
Johnny's plan is fine by me. Let's see what happens : )
Yup, I'll go along with it. :) The idea was 'if no one says otherwise by tomorrow' but that the 'by tomorrow' got left off.
Redotting, website seems to have removed all my dots sorry.
Redotting, website seems to have removed all my dots sorry.
Yah it has been really weird these last few days!
Important to me: If it seems like I'm cutting our legs out from under us by saying 'that's a bad idea' all the time, I can cut it out. I know it's not fun to be the person saying that so much while offering so little in the way of other ideas... at least in the wake of not having -better- ones.
Sooooo.... wacha gonna doooooo?
@Ideas - Eh no worries here. I mean many of our options *are* bad ideas - we just need to figure out which one is the least bad one with the most to be salvaged from :P
@mdt - call ghost busters ^^?
Also sorry for my slow posting - been getting those website goblins the last few days . /
Ah, I was expecting much more shallow, but it also doesn't make sense to have them below the surface, or close to the surface, as that's a recipe for a bad ending for a boat. :(
Have we noticed a lot of crazy waves from the water when we were near it, or has it mostly been placid?
You've noticed waves, but not tide. And no, they look designed to break waves up so they don't hit the community.
I'm thinking those wave breakers might be somewhat reasonable, if there is just open sea out there. Magical insane open sea :P
Liisa has Animal Shape I from her Domain so she could maybe sneak in that way - though getting just one person in doesn't seem that fun.
We could just observe how it works when someone else attempt to enter - that might give us some insight in how rigorous the control at the gate is. Observing unseen would probably be for the best - yeah it is really a shame we don't have a spyglass or something.
Luna can pretty much invis at will, Liisa can animal shape, Kong has a bird, that really only leaves 3 of us outside of scoutmode. :)
I can sneak well enough while invisible'd via spell, but yeah, not sure yet if we want to take that route.
Given that adept level magic at least seems possible for non-avatars/divine I suspect they are at least aware of the possibility of Invisibility. Though I'm not sure if they would have countermeasures ...
Johnny is not great at stealthing. I could disguise us, but that seems not very useful unless they actually know what we look like. I can cast invisibility, but that'll only last for around 7 minutes.
I would suggest that half of us could scout while the other half look for smuggling tunnels, but a) that sounds like we're screwed if we get into combat and b) finding smuggling tunnels without Luna (or even with) sounds like looking for a needle in a haystack. I'm personally fine with just sitting out while others scout with the rest of the group near-ish by in case they need to rush in to help.
Yeah, my thoughts were 'send in the group with clandestine skills', while we stay outside and get a feel for how everything works.
If we see lightning from the heavens, or hear celestial bugzappers, we'll know something went horribly wrong.
I'll be traveling for most of the next week with uncertain internet, feel free to bot me as needed.
So - everyone on board with the "lets spy on the gate procedures and then decide how/if we slip in" plan?
Sure. Are you against people looking for other ways to sneak in since you didn't mention that?
I'm good with this plan. Johnny will likely look around his general area while waiting for sneaking people, but not stray too far less they need help.
Sorry for the silence - this weekend turned out much more draining then anticipated! I still have some stuff to catch up on but I should be able to be a productive poster soonish.
Cheers! //Lessah
@Other ways - Yeah always. If we can figure out a good one : )
I've been thinking of swim speed granting spells myself but they are all a bit short on the duration at the moment. Not to mention swimming across open sea and past the barriers might not be too funny since we know nothing about the currents and such.
I've considered Beast Shape into a bird which might be easier. But that also feels like it lasts too shortly - I mean you really want to find a nice and quite spot to change from bird -> human unless we want to raise all the alarms :P
@Spying - Clairaudiance/clairvoyance should be accessible by now right? That's almost as good as an spyglass ... : )
Just a heads up that I'm going to be traveling from Saturday through Tuesday, so bot me if necessary.
Also, in terms of clair* spying, I don't get 3rd level spells until next level.
OooOOOOoooOOOoooOOOooOOo right sorcerer+arcanist!
Anyhow have fun on your trip : )
Sorry about the break guys, I got slammed hard by work last week and things are just getting back to normal. I have worked about 90 hours since last Monday. When I do get some time off I'm exhausted.
I hope to get things back again tomorrow or Saturday.