No worries, enjoy your weekends.
What distances are the rest of the team from the thing? And are there any other modifiers to hit, such as size?
No bonus for it's size, but it's either close or point blank (you can move to either).
The downside of point-blank being that you're in its range. And this thing hits like a truck. Among the other downsides to point blank.
Okay, cheers
Going to post tomorrow, unless Hierynmous beats me to it.
Cool. Another weekend of low availability for me.
Back again team, and I am sorry. More real life issues and our dog left us.
Should be back to regular posting now, and apologies for not giving more notice.
I'm sorry to hear about your dog. I hope things have improved for you since.
That's unfortunate to hear, but glad to have you back.
Thanks friends, appreciate it.
Sorry for your loss.
OK, folks, roll call - who survived the site outage, and whose aware that things are working again?
I mean, for now. At least while I'm typing.
Present, Reporting for duty
*shakes off dust*
Present!
For the Emperor!
Cool. Hopefully Erkan can post and Hieronymous dodge (don't worry, you aren't dead even if it hits, but you're not having a good day) and we can continue this murder spree. I mean game.
Alive and ready!
I'll give Erkan a few more hours and then continue onwards and upwards.
Good morning ladies & gentlemen,
I would like to apologize for my extended absence. Play-by-post games are a communal storytelling endeavor, and when one member disappears, it can adversely affect the flow of game. I hope you can all appreciate that was never my intention. A couple weeks ago before my posting stopped, you may remember it got a bit sporadic. As mentioned at the time, this was because of working long hours during restaurant week while battling a bad chest cough. I thought I had “toughed my way” through it, and was starting to feel a bit better. It turned into pneumonia instead, with severe complications because of my asthma. As such, I have spent the past two weeks in the hospital, on a heavy dose of several medications. I am happy to say I am back out and feeling much better, with functioning lungs. I am truly sorry for detracting from everyone’s gaming experience, and hope you still have a place for me at the gaming table, as I would most certainly like to rejoin the game. If not, I totally understand and wish you all the best.
- C
As I've said elsewhere, I'm glad that you have recovered. Welcome back!
I agree, welcome back. You did not miss much, as the servers have been effected by the taint of Chaos.
It is good that you are feeling better.
I wouldn't worry about it at all. As Praetus mentioned, the website has been down (and will probably be down again shortly) so it hasn't been you holding up the game, I assure you. And your health always comes first.
OK, we've had two days of the site not dying...so if folks could post I would appreciate it.
Checking in but I was the last one to post so steering clear of the gameplay thread for now.
Similar reasoning here.
Catching up on everything now, posting momentarily.
Should I post or am I a gurgling pile of metal, oil, sparks and blood on the ground?
You're at zero hit points, which is badly wounded but not dead. Each time you get hurt now you'll get rolled on the infamous critical hit table, with the amount of damage below zero you've taken added to whatever you roll. An eight is death, a nine is a messy death, and a ten turns your skull into a grenade that rains shrapnel into your friends
Pro-tip: try not to get critically injured. The results get bad very quickly.
My apologies to the GM and fellow players
During the site outage life got busier, and this campaign fell off my radar
It was wrong to ghost the way I did, hence, my apologies
No worries, when the site goes through repeated outages, it can be frustrating. Glad to have you back!
Life happens. For now the waiting list must continue to wait.
No hard feelings here. Welcome back.
It seems the techpriest shall be best purified with holy las technology.
...well, not the choice I was expecting - to try and fight hundreds of mechanical arms - but certainly an interesting one.
Is everyone standing and fighting?
The frag grenades and exterminator should hit many of them packed tightly as they are... +20 agility to avoid the flamer as Lother isn't trained but it'll be against a lot of them. Then catching fire as well as the base damage. They can't bring all their numbers to bare either... it wont be easy but running isn't guaranteed to be safe either!
Oh, I agree running isn't safe, hence the suggestion of grenades to cover our retreat. And the flamer would help.
@JonGarrett please confirm, but I am envisioning literally hundreds of these daemonic arms, given the amount necessary to fill up a hallway floor to ceiling. Is this correct?
Yes. It's literally a wave of demonically possessed prosthetics numbering somewhere in the triple digits.
Ouch. The main reason Vasyl hasn't already run is that abandoning ye now isn't good for his medium-to-long term prospects of survival. He's not a short-sighted man, our Vasyl!
@JonGarrett: I approve of how you are handling our tactical withdrawal / flight. It beats micromanaging the fight.
Glad you like it.
OK, once Hierynmous has seen to whether his character survived or not, I'll give Praetus and Aenarius a little longer before posting the resolution to this section.
Once we're done we'll call this a 'session', handing out a bit of XP for you guys and restoring spent Fate Points (Hierynmous might wanna spend or burn one to help him survive) before heading into part two - the rear of the Sigilite's Grace.
Good to know!
Sorry for going dark, life got alot bigger, I needed to re-prioritize. This is a great game and I am moving some things that are less good to make room for it
Glad to see you return!
@JonGarrett Was just looking at the plight of our techpriest and had a couple queries. I know how complex this system can be with all the modifiers, and so often people forget to take them into account when considering their options.
As you stated in the escaping set of rolls you could not do the same action twice in a row, could one of Hieronymous's two strength checks be swapped to a ballistic skill as he wildly blasts his assault lasgun on full auto? With autofire (+20) and at least short range (+10), he'd be looking at a +30 to the attempt (nevermind if you rule it point blank as the limbs are about to overwhelm him). If the worse of the two attempts (the 25) were counted as such, he's be comparing against a BS 59, yielding the initial success + 3 degrees (4 total). Add his roll on the Str check, which was success + 2 degrees (3 total), and he actually succeeds.
If you are not comfortable with the above proposal or feel Hieronymous needs a bit more support, my actions yielded a surplus of 6 successes, all from damage to the swarm. Lothar did the same, as his 8 degrees of success did not include his 3 initial successes on the rolls (11 total), or short range (+10) or semi auto (+10) on his lasgun work (+2 more, 13 total).
Call me nostalgic, but I want to keep our techpriest around...
@Everyone Just a friendly reminder that JonGarrett put an extensive quick reference guide for actions and modifiers on the campaign page. I have been using that and it has been incredibly helpful.
@Erkan, I think that those are fair proposals. I would also like our tech-priest not to get snuffed. And cheers for the reminder, it is a complex system and it's no joke to absorb.
If Hieronymous is happy to tweak things, I'm fine with letting him.
Safe to say I'd be very happy with those changes! Thanks Erkan for thinking outside the box!
What do we do moving forward?