I think I handed out lvls 2 and 3 like candy so let's have our new players all start at level 3
On the one hand, this isn't the first time we've tried to kill this guy. On the other, I want Delshick to die once every mission.
You killed Delshick ... You bastards!
2BR, have you really only earned 4 XP the whole game? That can't be right, can it?
I'm pretty sure I've been keeping track. And most of those XP have been in the last few rolls.
2BR, I figured out the source of my confusion here on your level. I think you are actually level 4 with XP 4. Can you update your profile to show level 4?
I handed out 8xp off the bat because I wanted you all to reach level 2. Then you earned 9 from the post-pizza end of session move and your failed rolls to that point (that was Dec 12). That brought you to level 3. Then on Christmas I gave all the players another level.
It actually looks like you have 3 advanced moves (corresponding to level 4), but that you didn't add an extra stat point for level 4.
The +8 to start and the Christmas level are the free levels 2 and 3 that I'm giving to our new players.
Ah, that would be right. I've modified my stat line. If I add 1 to my 15 Con does that become a +3?
That becomes a +2. +3 isn't until 18.
Typo! +2 to Con it is.
Hi, I am a person who exists.
It looks like I need to raise myself a couple of levels, but my crunch should be done otherwise.
I have a whole mess of posts to comb through to get up to speed on where things are at, so I'll be doing that and tossing together a background over the next day or so. (Luckily, tomorrow is a holiday)
Excited to play with you all!
Kobolds and Driders and Owlbears, oh my!
Yay, owlbears! The cutest of apex predators. :D
Aaand I'm all caught up! More or less; 800 posts was a smidge intimidating, so I just started at the planetside landing so I could be in the loop with how the mining base clusterfun went.
Crunch is done, pending a couple questions:
1) How should I fill in Bonds? I'm a new arrival, so most of the Survivor Bonds don't make much sense unless someone would like to offer up their past to Retconnicus and say that by wild coincidence we've met before.
2) Should I use the same starting Standing rules as in the Recruitment thread, or do something else since stuff's been going for a while?
I will put together a bit of proper backstory later, but I think you've got the highlights already; first bombardment was about five years ago, for timeline purposes. And my sleep-deprived mind cannot immediately conjure up a way to jump in to the current scene, so I will rejoin you all after I've had my forty winks. Looking forward to this. ^.^
You can either save your bonds and form them later or base them on how the crew acted towards the survivors in the mine.
I think standing system still works. Choose one faction for good standing and either 1 terrible or two bad.
I saw the Sixes as a Firefly situation. I'm not sure how many personal credits you each have, but Sona has consistently described the Sixes as a bucket of bolts held together by madness and a prayer.
You had cargo worth an abstracted value of 2, but half of that was vented into space during the last fight.
Does that answer the question?
Indeed it does. Vengeance is expensive, making peace is lucrative.
Perhaps we could meet in the middle and keep Grellick alive long enough to turn him over to the Association of Silence? I'm not sure how much Fillion Crystals (heh) are worth, but I imagine it would be enough to keep the ship flying for a while, and give us some interesting problems to deal with.
I'm good with whatever transpires, though! Firefly and Game of Space Thrones both sound fun, though I profess a slight preference for the former.
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So, I'm reading through the faction information, and I'm inclined to ask: how destroyed was planet Reno? Are we talking glassed-surface or new-asteroid-field level? Because I'm thinking Reno could've been Picket's home world, for conservation of catastrophe reasons and to tie in with the established fiction a bit. And surviving something like that would probably attract the Association of Silence's interest, I'd think; he's gotta have some serious magical mojo to still be breathing.
Barely clinging to life on a chunk of planetary debris until war scavengers or someone picked him up might be stretching credibility a smidge, though.
One of the few escape ships that took off after the preliminary strikes (i.e. to industrial areas, emplacements, military installations), AND made it through the quarantine. Nothing survives the cleanup bombardments. Nothing.
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Reno has been destroyed to a narratively convenient degree.
The best kind of destruction!
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Set phasers to narratively convenient.
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Affirmative, sir. Setting light-based weaponry to 'easily dodged' and turning high-tech power-armor to 'useless'.
Happy Government-mandated Easter Holiday!
I keep forgetting about that holiday! I do hope y'all enjoy it!
Also: updated faction standings and wrote up a background (thanks for the direction on Reno, Tuber!). The latter went a bit afield from the original concept, but original concept was "guy who just wants to stick his head in the sand" and I was having trouble convincing that concept to join a crew of freewheeling mercenaries.
Bonds-wise: Sona, I saw that you've done business with the Polite Group in the past. Maybe we know (or know of) one another through that route?
Sona has been doing some less polite things on behalf of the PGLMI. I think they were meant to be her most recent owners. Mostly her holdover from that has been a few espionage instructions. If you'd like to have a hand in fleshing out that scenario, I think the implication was that the Sixes was sold to Buckanero with Sona pre-installed.
M'kay, relationship/bond thoughts!
Sona has been doing some less polite things on behalf of the PGLMI. I think they were meant to be her most recent owners. Mostly her holdover from that has been a few espionage instructions. If you'd like to have a hand in fleshing out that scenario, I think the implication was that the Sixes was sold to Buckanero with Sona pre-installed.
That sounds ripe with potential; Picket's jobs for them have been (so far as he knows) fairly benign by covert standards, so we probably have quite different views on the organization if Sona's been doing shadier work. Maybe just say that we've heard one another's names and maybe had brief dealings before, and save highlighting that contrast for when those holdover instructions come up?
Jamee: We come from the same star system and it sounds like we were both caught up in the war. I'm guessing we don't know one another, but there's some potential history there.
Tuber: I'm thinking there's some interesting personality clashes in the works, since we've spent a lot of time on the opposite ends of war. Also, mutually exclusive alignments; always exciting!
Kejal: Not sure what your story is, but if you're another one of the miners we would probably be acquainted that way.
Retzack: First, let me know if I'm pushing too hard! Not aiming to undermine your plays, just trying to take care of the few that made it off the planet in one piece. For the future, maybe we can get to a point of mutual respect even if we disagree on a lot of stuff? We've both got a bad rep with the Association of Silence, too, and mutual enemies can go a long way.
You are prey.
I respect prey.
It's all good. That's the best part of play-by-post. Nobody has to get all dressed up or buy snacks, and if you miss a day, there's always tomorrow.
I know, I just try to keep it to one post a (work)day for every campaign I'm in, regardless if I'm the player or DM. Keeps me honest. :)
Yeah, Picket's like an oyster; prey with a really tough shell. :P
I would also be very keen to help investigate the bombardment, if I knew the investigation was happening.
Am I right in thinking T.E.R.R.A. has an office in Shan City and that's why we're landing, or do we have business with Grellick? I haven't gone back and read anything before the Sixes landed at the outpost, still.
The T.E.R.R.A. contact that gave the job to investigate the mining stations was based in Shan City. Grellick's entire organization also happens to be based there because of a 6- roll going through customs the first time.
If we're being honest, Grellick exists because of a series of 6- rolls.
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If we're being honest, Grellick exists because of a series of 6- rolls.
Don't we all?
I owe you all an action post and I'll try to get to it in the morning. I spent the evening drafting a discussion post in Moosh's kobold game about DW GMing theory and got carried away and lost track of time.
The posts were quite meaty! Check them out if you're interested in discussion about GMing and Dungeon World in general, guys, they're very interesting reads.
Just gave 'em a read. Super solid stuff! Especially that "you don't always have to be interesting" line. I plan myself to death when I try to run PbP; that's really good advice.
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Sona feels like an iPhone developer on Google Glass launch day.
How dare biology attempt to reach singularity before technology.
Envy fueled rage and indignation.
That could be a pretty cool sci-fi story, actually. Focusing on AIs that got left behind after humanity reached singularity and ascended. Kind of a mashup of WALL-E and Casshern: Sins.
Giant robot orgy. All the time. I would also read this.
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Picket, your answer on "Tanard" was just perfect. So perfect that everyone gets 3 XP.
Dang, that's generous! Truly, Tanard is upon us.
New players: the terra contact is named Horvus. If you search that name you can find the scene where you got this job.