Korvosa Unchained - CotCT playtesting new rules (Inactive)

Game Master Darkness Rising

I'm traveling today. Can get caught up tonight, but don't let me hold anyone up. Juliet will go along for the ride, so to speak.

Lorick just wants to check in on his new shop keeper friends. Maybe spend some gold before Moonday. Maybe we could do that in parallel?

So Lorick's heading off for some shopping, Juliet's bugging out - the rest of you?

Tyenar will spend the next days doing his usual information gathering for Lamm, and in the meantime looking for some info on Blackjack's last two heists: he's currently a suspect, knowing what actually happened could help.

Evelyn will begin looking for information on the necromancer (I've forgotten his name) that we clashed with after Vaen died. Might not have time to post before we jump to Moonday. Recently lost 50% of my staff at work so things are a little busy.

Sorry I am a little behind, life has been hectic. Will try to get caught up tonight. Going to a local Con this weekend.

Read up on what everyone else is doing. Xenia will return to her home. Not sure what else is going on that she could do. Don't have time to read way back at this point. Will be mostly out for the weekend at a Con as mentioned before.

Sorry for the delay; I misplaced my notes and it took a while to locate them.

Evelyn: I confess I'm not up to speed with the occultist stuff; can you give me (or link me to) the rules on Automatic Writing, please?

EDIT: Found them

So is Sir DeGrey no longer with us? Lorick really liked Sir DeGrey.

Hopefully he'll be back around 8th level or so.

Apologies. Somehow I got dropped from this game - it doesn't show up on my campaigns tab, nor on my 'my campaigns' tab. Hopefully another post in gameplay will 'redot' me - I'll get caught up ASAP.

EDIT: Nope, wierd. Off to customer service I go...

If the DM removes you from the campaign and then reads you, I have seen this "not showing up in the Campaigns tab" problem solved like this before.

Juliet - I've re-marked you as "active" in the campaign tab. Hope that does the trick.

Hmmm - that last post should have said re-adds, but apparently the spell checker didn't like that word. Fortunately DMU understands Apple speak.

^ Ha! It took me a second, but I figured it out.

No luck on the active marking on the game, sadly. Thanks for trying, though!

I've got an email into customer service, so hopefully it is resolved soon. In the meantime, manual checking for me.

Lorick is worried about getting sent back to the docks. Not the ducks. I'm the one afraid of ducks. *shudder*

^ There could always be ducks at the docks.

At the last university I worked at, there were hundreds of Canada geese that hung out on campus year round, despite the hot summers. I suppose the living was easy.

At any rate, those are some mean bastards. I saw two of them charge our library windows repeatedly, crashing into them, honking and flapping aggressively at students nearby. Terrifying animals.

OK, I've updated the Loot spreadsheet. In the process, I've slashed and burned the formulae (which I didn't understand anyway and which I'm not convinced were helpful).

The only thing to look at is "current wealth" which is based on the value of the loot and gold you've acquired.

At the moment, each of you has 866.8 gp, minus any expenditures you have made - which you'll have to track yourselves, unless your ability to use the spreadsheet is better than mine.

^ Sweet! Thanks, DMU!

Thanks DMU! Do Xenia and me have to detract from our gold the money we used in character creation?

Cool. I'll track my gold here so I don't get confused with my character sheet if you don't mind

Lorick had 12 gold
He go 866.8 gold
He spent 150 gold on consumables
He has 728.8 gold now.

Tyenar - honestly, I can't remember that far back. What starting wealth did I give you two?

I don't think that we had much more than the normal starting gold. I only have a crossbow and other normal starting gear at this point.

That sounds about right - so this is the loot you have in addition to your starting gold.

If anyone needs to do any shopping before Moonday, please do so asap. I'm about to move things on.

(If any of the personal interaction stuff is still outstanding - Lorick, most likely - then let's finish that off; it can be spoilered if necessary so as not to entangle the main plot.)

Nope, ready to go!

Lorick Is Done.

Hey DM. Maybe have us punch some dragons or something rather than write sappy novellas? :p

Patience, Grasshopper - this is the Build Up before the Grand Finale

Just creating some tension to exploit later on :)

Lorick Is Done.

Hey DM. Maybe have us punch some dragons or something rather than write sappy novellas? :p

I enjoy reading your sappy novellas!

Apologies for the disjointed posting over the last week - I know it left some of you non-involved - but there were a few things that needed wrapping up.

Anyway, welcome to the Grand Finale! The Overture is playing, and - somewhere in the background - the fat lady is warming up...

Hahahaha,that's brilliant, DR! I'm going to have to think a bit about how Jules will react to this turn of events.

Nicely done!

An an FYI, I am here, but really busy this weekend. Will try to get through everything this evening, but it might not be until tomorrow evening.

Apologies for the disjointed posting over the last week - I know it left some of you non-involved - but there were a few things that needed wrapping up.

Anyway, welcome to the Grand Finale! The Overture is playing, and - somewhere in the background - the fat lady is warming up...

Wow, I wasn't expecting us to go take down Lamm after 2 in-character days. Tyenar is having an hearth attack D:

Heh - yeah, you and Xenia are getting it lucky; I've been tormenting the other poor PCs for over 12 months of real-time, and you two waltz in at the last minute.

That said, Tyenar's heart attack is preventing him from counting: his first post was on 20 Gozran and it's now 26 Gozran, so slightly more than 2 in-character days.[/pedantry]

Patience, Grasshopper - this is the Build Up before the Grand Finale

Just creating some tension to exploit later on :)

Ah I'm just kidding. I think I rely too much on dialogue on my writing so it's good to get stretched and try to put some actual description and narration in my prose. I really like the way the game is going.

Oh and Lorick dropped 200 on a night on the town. He has 528.8 gold now.

Travelling today, will post tomorrow.

Sorry for any holdup.

How do we want to approach this? I'm not certain Evelyn will be able to maintain her normal sassy self in this situation.

Should Lorick be okay with not going after Miyoto first?

Should Lorick be okay with not going after Miyoto first?

Is this addressed to me, or is it part of the discussion with Evelyn?

To you. Lorick kinda wanted to get a sense from Soldado about what's going on. Will Miyoto be safe while the confrontation at Eel's End is happening?

Edit: Basically Lorick might ask the others to take a detour and spring Miyoto first. He's got the worry that Lamm might send a Message to off Miyoto when (if?) things go south at the meeting.

She looks - for the first time - at Soldado. "Acting-captain, I hereby temporarily suspend the rule of law within Eel's End. Please ensure than the Guard under your command are stationed close enough to contain any trouble - detain anyone who tries to leave Eel's End."

Lamm's messenger won't get out of Eel's End to deliver a "Message." But if you want to have a word with Soldado, be my guest - that's what RP is for, after all.

Busy day today and all my games updated at once. I'll get a post in tomorrow.

How do we want to approach this? I'm not certain Evelyn will be able to maintain her normal sassy self in this situation.

Juliet's realized that this has to end in violence. This is our PCs out - even if they walk out the door with the evidence needed, but leave with Lamm still alive... the PCs are still his puppets, and dead PCs walking to boot.

So her plan is to pick a fight, and find the evidence after Lamm's fed to his sarlac pit.

But, I'm down with trying something more subtle. As long as Lamm ends up in the pit.

This is our PCs out

Yup. Now is the time.

Alright let me put Lorick's RP doubts to ease and then get ready to bust some heads.

Speaking of head busting, what's the plan? Jumping in there gun blazing isn't a good idea probably. Actually getting an audience with Lamm doesn't sound that good either: like we've seen before, when he does that he's usually with a room fool of lackeys. Any ideas?

We could go in separately. Risky but less suspicious than all of us showing up en masse. We're all known lackeys and I think all welcome at Eel's End. Or am I wrong and we only get in when summoned?

Lorick can go in looking for Sia, Juliet can maybe pretend that she's looking for a fix?

Yep, Juliet can pretend to have fallen off the wagon. Once we get close, we can jump Lamm.

Another option would be to fess up as the long arm of the law, let everyone know that Lamm's protection has been lowered, and try to scatter as many of his folks with threats before the fighting starts as possible.

You would know from previous experiences that Lamm likes an audience; you are unlikely to get to see him in private. That goes double for visitors not specifically invited (you).

Honestly, my plan - once you're done with the current RP - was just to whisk you into the next scene; but I'm open to any clever ideas for getting the drop on him.

I'm not sure I can do subtle.

Juliet, can you get access the Eel's End elicitly by pressing that scumbag that wants to bed you?

I can drop a Mind Fear early on and then get a skeleton out and about.

Sorry I have not been posting. RL has picked up and I am falling behind on several games. Xenia will go along with most plans.

Xenia, your color spray could be really useful coming up.