ok I'm home, anyone want loot? lol
who can say no to loot, and horses... mounts are always useful.. sorry Ravboom not all horses are food.
I love loot. We should take the horses.
weeeeee exposition and drama!
Aaaand Ravboom set's off a thermal detonator in the fecal processing center.
Any ponies? :D
No....? Okay. :(
Wait, what was the halfling riding?
nothing, the only ones mounted were the captain and his two lieutenants, guess how dead those 2 are :P
Man, eventually the short one will ride.
Or I'll hit level 11 and my thylacine will finally get bigger :p
Ravboom plans on searching for a Giant Gecko. Then asking Wolf to train it. :)
I um, I hate to nitpick, Ravvy old sport, but I don't think we're in initiative anymore. Consequently I don't think you can measure your rage in rounds? But maybe I'm wrong.
Any time you use rage, you have to use at least a round. What happens is, free action enter rage, attack, free action leave rage, pant pant pant.
Okay! I thought it was like maintaining a bardic performance. I've never played a barbarian :p
You can do the same thing with Bardic Performance, but it's not as useful as rage.
For example, if someone's making a skill check to pick a lock, you can start up the performance for the round it takes to make the check (assuming it only takes a round). If it takes one minute to make the check, you can use 10 rounds of performance (1 minute) to keep up the bonus. But that's a huge chunk of usage.
LOL!
Ok, that is hilarious. :) Ravboom's slicing people's heads off, and scaring people spitless.
Then Arilyth comes along, soft voiced, having killed no one, and scares them even more spitless. :)
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but Arilyth's words will FREAKING KILL ME."
"Goblins with Swords may kill Hoardes, but Arilyth will FREAKING DESTROY THEM!" :)
lol I didn't except someone to cast "Teleport to plot location" so quickly :P no ones even read the velum or identified the potion :P
@Hella
Ravboom may not understand a lot of things, but he understands killing. If he was in charge of the bandits, he'd have a spy inside the outpost, and so he's asking the prisoners to ID the spy so it can be killed.
lol I didn't except someone to cast "Teleport to plot location" so quickly :P no ones even read the velum or identified the potion :P
Note that Ravboom never read his writ either. :) He just took it and waved it at people.
No way he would read Velum, nor taste strange potions. That's for stupid big people to do.
It was a fast Teleport. I just rolled with it even though Hella would have strongly dissagreed with putting bodies on a horse.
Also, I could see the pressing matter of getting there weighing on people more than the velum and the potions. Though Im sure someone in the wagon can go through that and identify it.
Rodric would rather just get there and sort through loot at that time. I don't think the time to itemize our findings is out on the path where we were just ambushed.
I was surprised by the speed at which people moved on, but I think it's what's expected when you post the stuff for the next spot already. If it's not too baby-sitter-eqsue, perhaps you could post a list of what needs to be address before we get to the next spot?
Like,
Also, I think a lot of people are somewhat relieved at a fast-paced campaign. I'm in one (*won't name any names*) where the DM hardly posts and when he does, he's rarely informative.
hmm not a bad idea, thanks. Didn't exactly consider the ramifications of posting the next map, though in my defense it was before 7am lol
Yeah, sorry, didn't mean to ramrod anything, I just saw the post and figured I was supposed to get moving, figured anything was better than nothing.
It's all good heh the velum was just some closure for that initial plot point, the potion is just phat lewt :P
>.< Sorry, i just saw an opening after the Ravboom post and went with it. Anywho @hella, it would be strange to take the bodies sure, i just rolled with it because in a way it makes slight tactical sense to not leave them behind. I dont think the baddie on the horse got enough of a glance to count our numbers, nor count his wounded, so the less information he has the better. I mean did we kill all his bandits? half? did any of us fall? not leaving behind bodies to examine tells him nothing much other than his bandits ran. but yeah, carrion dangling from the walls bad. I can understand why Ravboom likes the idea though.
prisoners
I know Cerian would certainly have voted, (if it came to that) that we at least keep them tied up/shackled til the immediate threat of this bandit attack was dealt with. I mean after that (assuming we all win yay winning) letting them go with keeping a decent eye on them seems acceptible. I mean they could be used to dig graves for their comrades, could be used to help Oleg make these repairs, farming, etc. They sounded as if they were pressganged into banditry, giving them a chance to do the right thing would be my vote. Not saying we should watch them, over even make them sleep say in the same spot so whoever has watch at night can keep an 'eye' on them slightly isnt a bad thing. For a bandit hunting trained finder of stolen/lost things Cerian is pretty Niave about the ways of the wicked world.
Ravboom would like to note that for all of recorded history, hanging the dead bodies of bandits out for public notice was perfectly acceptable, especially showing heads on spikes.
It's also listed as being fairly normal within Golarion, based on what I have heard of various APs.
Honestly I'd be shocked if Oleg was opposed to at least displaying the heads of the bandit officers on pikes. Especially in a wild lawless area, it's a sure warning to bandits that it's unhealthy to be them.
As recently as the 1880's this was still happening in the US as ranchers would leave the hung bodies of rustlers hanging from trees as warnings.
actually he does it himself in the AP if no one else thinks of it, though I don't necessarily play the npc's by the book heh
Ravboom stands vindicated!
heh I've run the AP so many times that I've started changed the npc's behaviors just because they start to feel contrived XD
Sorry Farin, I missed your post yesterday. :(
Holy #$##! I am way behind again. Sorry folks, New Years Eve is kind of 'Christmas part 2' with friends (As opposed to family) so I am way behind on posting (And will be busy again later tonight)
*lawls* to be further clear good Ravboom, I am not disagreeing with the idea of the gibbets at all, just the timing. No sense parading our bandit destroying ways till we get a better lay of the land is the perspective i am coming from. No sense flipping off who ever this bandit lord is, if he has the troops to come roll over us. I am perfectly okay with him sending his forces at us peice meal for the time being.
I might be able to post again tonight, but I'm off for a bit. Gotta spend time with the wife before she goes out with friends.
So in the event that a PC kicks the bucket are they out? Or can the roll in later with someone else?
Sorry Farin, I missed your post yesterday. :(
No worries. I'm a bit sad we didn't hack the bandits into coyote bait tho. Thieving and banditry is not something that has historically been taken lightly. Just being horse thieves in the US at one time would get you hung no questions asked.
So how are we going to deal with the bandits?
So how are we going to deal with the bandits?
CHOP CHOP CHOP!
I agree. Perhaps with the exception of the one with family being held hostage. The boy is still a criminal. He could have tried to escape or any of a billion scenarios. It's only dumb luck he still alive anyway.
As for displaying the bandits, Im thinking about it from a tactical point of view. Don't tip your hand that you are there just in case the captain didn't get to warn them in time.
Depends on how old the boy is. If he's 12 or 13, then no. If he's 15 or 16, then yeah.
Ravboom apologize to the GM, but his player adjusted all the icon sizes to get them uniform. Ravboom's player is unfortunately OCD and was slowly going insane from icon size mismatch.
Ravboom player also put all icons in fort for talky talk, and Ravboom apologize in advance for player lunacy.
Happy new year! looks like it was my turn to be quiet for a day lol
yes, may your 2014 not be filled with apocolypses or killer robots and perhaps just good things and all that
Well today my car slid on the ice in my driveway and smashed up my garage door. So welcome to the new year...
That stinks :( sorry to hear that!!
Thanks. I'm never home so the 3 ft of snow melted then froze then melted again and refrozen then again. So there's about 1" of solid ice in my inclined driveway. Grrr!
Sorry about the Car and garage door, Farin