Action 1
"Maybe they didn't leave per-say, maybe they were taken... Those Nobles from the Inn (tavern?) seemed pretty pleased with all this going on, not concerned at all. If they found out that the Priests found a way to stop what ever is happening here, they might have done something about it.. but that doesn't answer the question how.. that Journal must have an answer or two.."
Driven by his need for knowledge, he passed all the trinkets and headed straight for the top level.
Action 2
"So they left in the dead of night for some dome? Well considering how long it has been since that last entry, I'd say that the problem must have indeed been there." he looked around, the weight of all that has happened coming down on him all once. "I agree with Agia, we need to show the guard the Journal, and tell her to keep it underwraps until we return with the Priests, or what is left of them."
He took a deep breath. "I think we should leave tonight. The sooner we sort this out, the sooner we can get out of this place. Even if the Priests are dead, we will find out what happened.." It's been so long since I've spoken to one of the Ranks...
Past my bedtime here; I'll move this along tomorrow.
Game on!
"At least they didn't go rogue." Jetto idly lifted the canned veggies and rolled them between his hands. Setting one down in the light as he received the powder Agia handed him.
"Yea, lets secure a guide or at least a look at a map then head out this evening. After a respite" His eyes fell onto the guard. "When will she wake up Dreithik, she will wake up won't she? Does she ever get what you took back?"
The guard is awake, bound, gagged, and being watched by Antar.
You can take time to recover before heading out. Just let me know who wants to make recovery rolls and how many.
What about Deymish? Will you let him know what you going to do?
So, I'll assume you will head out this night then?
Game on!
This is something I wanted to point out. The game really encourages the use of cyphers so don't be stingy. :)
Will you be looting the control panel?
Turn 021 is up.
Read the OOC.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions?
Game on!
Action 1
She rudely shoved the final entry of the journal into the bound woman's face. "Read it, and know that we were justified. Your precious priests have wandered off and likely gotten themselves in a heap of trouble, and all your fussing just delayed their rescue. We're going after them, but the people here need to think the priests are still at it. Can you play along for at least a day?"
...
It wouldn't do to make a long journey with a untreated wound. After finding a private space Agia peeled back the bloodsoaked part of her clothing and checked the cut.
Thankfully it wasn't deep, and the guardswoman kept a clean weapon. It should be cleaned before they carried onwards, however. Agia winced as she rinsed the injury with salt water to ward off infection, then applied a fresh piece of cloth to keep further dirt from getting in.
Feeling refreshed, Agia set off to rejoin the others.
Wherever you want. In town somewhere, in the tower, other? Just set up a scene or just let me know about it.
We can go back and deal with the guard as Agia stated.
Remember that I make some assumptions for the sake of moving things along if I don't clear instructions from you guys but we can always 'fix things', especially if I leave a break in the narrative with an 'Actions?'.
BTW, the recovery rolls are 1d6+tier.
Questions?
Game on!
BTW, the recovery rolls are 1d6+tier.
Action 2
As they approached the dome, Agia flung out her hands to stop her companions. She surveyed the area with the eyes of an expert tracker, circling around to avoid disturbing the trail. She picked up a shredded piece of fabric and sniffed it, detecting the faint odours of chemicals and numenera reminiscent of the lab.
"This is from the priests, alright. They walked the same trail as we did, but when they got here they got into trouble. A large group came from the east, possibly with a herd? Scratch that, it was mounts, the formation is too clean for a herd. They left westward. It seems likely that they took the priests with them.
Stopping short near a section of the churned drit, Agia paused.
"Now this is a bit weird. Somebody etched some symbols all around this area. Do ya figure the priests were trying to leave a message, maybe? Or it could be the other group, warding off evil or thanking their gods. Why don't you guys have a look at this?"
"We should probably give the dome a solid once over while we're here, but after that we should follow these tracks. Those people will either have the priests or know where we can find them."
Not able to hold it back any longer, she yawned widely. "This day just keeps getting longer."
I actually took a look at the character sheets last night and noticed you already have an Inquisitive character. I was also eyeing the Empathic Descriptor so I'll take that instead. I went ahead and did up the character sheet already as well, Altha Kein in my aliases.
The only thing I'm not sure about is rolling - I've poked around at the Discussion area where the play's taking place but I don't see any actual rolls, just recording of results. I'm assuming that's what the dice tag looks like in use, am I correct?
And I'm really glad it's more about the story. The few other table top RPGs I've encountered have been sullied by GMs that like killing PCs. =3
Feel free to take a look and give feedback if necessary!
Ok, I see no red flags from a quick look at your PC sheet; I'll take a closer look tonight and let you know if I find anything.
The only thing I would consider is the 'erase memories' esotery since we already have a nano (Dreithik) with that particular esotery. It's up to you of course but I think it would be redundant and not used that often so I would select another one.
I'll also roll for your cyphers/oddities later as well.
The dice is rolled by the 'script' that is shown when you click 'how to format your text'. If you know the difficulty that you have to beat and you are NOT sing effort on your roll, you may roll the dice, preview the results and post accordingly. If not, then tell me what to roll, provide a 'success' and 'failure' post and I'll roll for you and describe the results in the turn recap.
If you are ready to start playing, I have an idea to introduce you in the very next turn.
Welcome aboard! (other children, be nice) :)
The only thing I would consider is the 'erase memories' esotery since we already have a nano (Dreithik) with that particular esotery. It's up to you of course but I think it would be redundant and not used that often so I would select another one.
If you are ready to start playing, I have an idea to introduce you in the very next turn.
Welcome aboard! (other children, be nice) :)
((Excellent! I've adjusted the Erase Memories to become Onslaught with the thought that Empathy would be an asset to targeted mental attacks when possible.
And I'm ready to start!
Also, hello everyone!))
The only thing I would consider is the 'erase memories' esotery since we already have a nano (Dreithik) with that particular esotery. It's up to you of course but I think it would be redundant and not used that often so I would select another one.
If you are ready to start playing, I have an idea to introduce you in the very next turn.
Welcome aboard! (other children, be nice) :)
((Excellent! I've adjusted the Erase Memories to become Onslaught with the thought that Empathy would be an asset to targeted mental attacks when possible.
And I'm ready to start!
Also, hello everyone!))
OK, great then.
Do you feel like writing your own intro scene? This could anywhere from a couple of paragraphs to however long you want to write. We don't limit people's creativity here. :)
If so, I can give you some guidelines and let you write it. You then send it to me via PM, and I'll insert it in tomorrow's turn recap.
If that sounded too daunting to start with, I can write the scene.
But sometimes it's good to jump into the deep end of the pool. :)
Just let me know.
Questions?
Game on!
PS: start posting with your alias (below in the 'Post As' drop down box.
((I can write my own intro scene. :3 Guidelines would be helpful, however. Elsewise, I think I'm good to go! I'll ask as questions come up.))
((I can write my own intro scene. :3 Guidelines would be helpful, however. Elsewise, I think I'm good to go! I'll ask as questions come up.))
Excellent, love the enthusiasm!
I sent a PM with some guidelines.
Questions?
Game on!
Dreithik? Jetto?
We don't want to keep the new player waiting too long... :)
Game on!
for Altha Kein
, list B
Flying Cap (anoetic)
Wearable: Hat, helmet
Effect: Three metal poles extend out from the top of the device, which clamps onto the user’s head and cannot be removed for the duration. Two poles fold down on either side of the user’s head, while the third rises straight up and sprouts four blades that begin spinning. The blades function as a propeller and lift the user into the air. She can control the direction of the movement by using the poles to either side. The device allows her to fly by making a Speed roll (level 2) each round.
She can fly a short distance each round in combat or about 1 mile (2 km) each minute.
The device operates for 3d20 minutes before breaking up and deactivating. If the user is still in the air when it stops working, she falls.
, list E
Teleport Seal (occultic)
Usable: Handheld device or crystal shard
Effect: When activated, this device prevents all teleportation within 1 mile (2 km). No extradimensional gates function, and no phasing is possible in this area. The seal lasts for 28 hours.
, table core
Semicircular device of metal and glass that projects a harmless, thin red beam up to 50 feet (15 m) when activated
, table core
Lightning bug in a glass globe
Please individualize your 'stuff' and add it to your PC sheet.
Questions?
Game on!
Action 1
Attempting to tred lightly on the subject seemingly useless, Dreithik answered Jetto's concern. "Can somebody get something back if they never know they lost it? What I took from her is forever etched into my mind, she will wake up as if from a dream of darkness. Only seeing the light now that it's finished... It also didn't help that Agia knocked her out cold after the fact, but nothing we can do about that now. There shouldn't be any lasting side effects, it was only 5 minutes."
He brushed his hood back and rubbed his eyes. "We should head out before we think of something better to do than charge into the fray head first.."
Turn 022 is up.
Read the OOC.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions?
Game on!
PS: Welcome aboard Altha!
, pass
helllo Altha.
Action one:
Laughing gruffly at Dreithik "No, no it didn't help."
in town Jetto hastily searches out a arms dealer "Ill meet you in the tavern!' he dashed off in an attempt to snag something a bit sturdier, perhaps a suit of chain armor. He had ready to trade his own well kept armor and some fascinating slippers. Well worth a shirt of chain and a few water skins..perhaps
Getting back to the tavern Jetto hangs his equipment on a chair next to himself and gets a meal.
Taking a rest he contemplates the situation up to now, Jetto feels slightly better physically, but more worried the more he thought about it.
He shakes off the stiffness returning the speed to his limbs.
Looking up he sees the others clearly they were ready too. Hefting the pack he got ready to go. As we leave Jetto turns to Agia, "did you ever take apart that panel? I mean we are pursuing and probably rescuing them, it seems appropriate we should collect an advance, doesn't it?"
Action Two:
leaning down Jetto inspected the mounts tracks looking to identify the creature trained
Jetto, recognizing the tracks, It told him a great deal about the raiders, trained but he kept this quite unsure of its accuracy. were these raiders and the meeting was chance? Why did the priests come to this space?
He asked the rest of the group to stand back and away and looked over the zone of struggle he could see if the priests were taken alive. He pointed out the runic markings around the perimeter and asked the others if they recognized the runes.
Laughing gruffly at Dreithik "No, no it didn't help."
in town Jetto hastily searches...
So Jetto... all this stuff is great but a little too late since you are posting stuff for Turn 021 when Turn 022 is already out.
I'll try to incorporate some of this stuff into the next turn, certainly the recovery and the buying of equipment but some of the other stuff just 'passed'.
Concentrate on posting for the current turn, specifically the areas where I leave it open-ended with an 'Actions x?'
Questions?
Game on!
Action 1: Round 1
Pulling his eyes away from the dome, Dreithik looked to the direction of the calls. "Was wondering how long it would take, it's been hours since there was someone trying to kill us." His eyes narrowed and he pulled up his mask."And there's survivors leading it them to us" Is it even worth it still to hide from the living?.. best not to chance it, only my blade sees action..
Round 2
Dreithik looked at the woman and her wounded mount. "I certainly hope you fight better than you run, Girl." His forearm blade at the ready, he waited for the bloodshed to initiate.
Action 1 – 200ft away
Altha's mount stumbled to a stop, hip-checking the tower as it groaned and huffed, head lolling in fear as she slid off the mount. The aneen turned, it's back against the wall and its attention focused on the approach of the predators. Spittle clung to its jaw as it panted, tiny arms flailing uselessly as it shifted from foot to foot, tail lashing. It wasn't much of a combatant but it also wasn't going to die without a fight.
“Hope you guys like bug-lizards!” She called, her expression apologetic as she pulled her whip out, “These things move weirdly, like they read your minds. Buggered the aneen.” Introductions would come later... for now, she just wanted to make sure they didn't get caught unawares. She grasped the crystal at her throat, activating the strange device. Couldn't hurt to make sure they stayed tangible could it?
The crystal seemed to come alive in her hand, a bright light growing from within to peak with a flash that arced out and dissipated quickly, as if a perimeter were being defined. There was no visible shield but it left Altha's skin tingling as it something was keeping her centered on the ground. It was an odd sensation but not terribly unpleasant. She only hoped the crystal wouldn't break – it would make a good bartering chip. I really hope this helps more than it hurts... she thought, I need to remember to tinker with this more...
Action 2 – 100ft away
After the crystal's glow faded, Altha drew her whip and snapped it in a great arc. The weapon didn't look particularly deadly but the narrow tip slashed neatly through the air, biting into a rock and cracking it. “I'd rather they not take down my aneen, he was expensive and he's actually quite good natured.” She smiled at the fearful mount, but didn't promise it anything. She'd rather save it, if truth be told, but she had no reason to believe the folks she'd stumbled into would do anything other than save their own skin (and in the process, make it easier to survive this dance).
Whip in one hand, she stepped before the aneen and glanced at the others, “There's at least two of them. Nasty buggers. Sorry!” She shrugged her shoulders, her expression earnestly apologetic. She frowned at the man who addressed her, “I can certainly fight better than I run. It's not my fault the aneen's slow! And don't call me girl. I'm no child.” She waggled her whip at the man.
Round 1
Straining her eyes in the dim morning light, Agia tried to make out the details of the jumping shapes kicking up the cloud of dust across the plain.
"Weird buggers, that's for sure. Smart enough to work together by the looks of it, so I guess we'd better do the same."
Round 2
The desert air was almost entirely lacking in moisture of any kind, but Agia had anticipated this. Discarding her heavy cloak, she pulled out an extra canteen she had brought for this explicit purpose and upended it upon herself. The water struck her skin and froze instantly as she channeled her inner frost, with the excess liquid flowing until it formed a unified sheen. Reaching ever deeper into her inner well of power, Agia grew the rough edges of her armour out into a series of sharp crystals.
Drawing her rough-hewn stronglass knife, she stepped up beside the newcomer and waited for the creatures to close the distance.
Not a problem with the change of powers and I like the description.
Remember that one of the strengths of this system is the 'reskinning' of 'everything'. While other systems allow it, this one encourages this so an onslaught from one nano looks nothing like an onslaught from another nano.
I'll give Jetto a few more hours and then move this along.
Questions?
Game on!
Setting down his bag full of water Jetto hastily prepared his sheild and adjusted his coif.
pulling a bola from his belt he shouted to the aneen driver
this way!
then he prepared for the beasts to come into range.
While watching the Tachyons purse the aneen and its rider, Jetto tried to identify the alpha of the pack.
trained
instead he sighed deeply thinking about how much an aneen cost on the market.
Turn 023 is up.
Read the OOC.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions?
Game on!
Target to Beat 10 (30), don't despair only in initiative :)
Action 1
Altha nodded to her peers as they stepped up. One, a woman, seemed to be covered in ice. Before her eyes the sheen thickened into spikes. She blinked and leaned over to peer at the woman curiously, “That's neat! You'll have to show me what you use to do that. Must be useful in the heat!” The defensive implications reminded her that she should probably prepare as well and grinned as she turned back to the incoming creatures.
Drawing on her inner well of power, she manifested her own defenses. There was a shimmering in the air, like oil on water, that spread down her body to surround her in a multicoloured shimmer only half visible in the light. If anyone stepped close to her, they would feel an emotional weight settle on them, a wall of unfeeling that, if pushed against would push back mentally, emphasizing doubts and fears, curling in the dark corners of their mind, distracting and sometimes even inflicting wounds to those with nefarious intent.
Striding sideways while never taking her eyes off the predators, Agia put herself between the incoming pack and the wounded aneen. "No free meals tonight, buzzers! I'm gonna make you earn it!"
Her fingers twitched and her eyes danced from target to target. Her knife wouldn't do much to those hides, but all she had to do was drive them off. "No hope of them leaving if they get their teeth into that aneen... she reflected, "keeping 'em back is priority one"
Action 1
Looking at the hard carapaces and back to his blade, Dreithik let out a sigh. Nothing ever goes how I want... He drops his arm and shoots his other had forward towards the Creature in the center of the pack.
Jetto bellowed as he let loose the bola attempting to take down the beast behind the one just hit by Dreithik's mental onslaught.
Turn 024 is up.
Read the OOC.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions?
Game on!
EDIT: Guys, this may be a pretty tough fight so use your resources available...
I even ignored Dreithik's 1.
, miss
, pass
, fail
, fail
, fail
Agia sat dumbfounded for a moment. The tachyron she blocked had anticipated her, bunching itself up so that it could easily spring free soon after she grabbed it. "Did that crackin' bug just let me grab it? Why? Did it... know it wasn't going to get past?" she reflected, "Something's off. Tumblin' and rumblin' alone ain't gonna beat these buzzers. We need to slow 'em down."
Reaching into her pouch, she dug out a piece of dried meat and stuck it in her mouth to begin softening it up. As she chewed, she felt around for the sleeping serum she had picked up back at the lab and popped the stopper. Spitting the meat into her chilling palms, she poured the dark liquid onto the meat. There wasn't time to let the liquid seep in, so she leaned forward and gently blew frosty breath on the whole mess.
Gary, flying high to stay away from the battle but always interested in any mention of dinner, flew down to investigate. Agia waved the drakka off, "Not you, bug-butt!".
Action
Altha grunted as the Tachryons hit them. One sliced through her, close enough she could poke it in the eye... which, given the depth the wound it just inflicted, she figured wouldn't be terribly useful. "Damned bugger!" She instinctively reached out to pierce the mind of the creature, disorient it, scramble its senses.
Behind her, the aneen bucked and keened, terrified.
@Agia:
I assume normal stuff like bringing food for a trip would be done by experienced adventures such as yourselves so no worries there.
Regarding your roll, I think it still counts as 'intrusion material'. If you would have said, it's an automatic success action and not rolled then that would have been OK but since you rolled...
Let me think on that '1' you rolled and see what I do there.
Don't worry because I'm feeling guilty because I think the lizard-bugs I chose for this encounter may be too hard for this group so I won't be too mean. :)
Uhm, did Agia lean too far forward and accidentally sampled the serum...
@Altha:
I think you subtract edge only one time per roll so it would still cost 3 points if you use effort with the mindslice. Also, I will do the rolling in any roll in which you use effort so your '2' doesn't count, which is good for you. :)
We'll have the aneen cower for now.
Also using int defense rolls vs using speed defense rolls is the same thing UNLESS you are using effort on those rolls (your effort could be offset by edge and goes to a different pool). But let me remind you that I actually roll your defense rolls when I do the turn recap so if you want me to use effort, you have to tell me. Default is that I do not use effort on defense rolls unless the negative result will take you down the damage track.
Questions?
Game on!
The Tachyron launched itself past Jetto its whip like tail lashed out and caught him across the his thigh. Devils
Jetto, using his shield, body checked the next incoming tachyron attempting to throw it to the ground, he really threw his shoulder behind the blow thinking about the rest of the pack moving past him.
The Tachyron launched itself past Jetto its whip like tail lashed out and caught him across the his thigh. Devils
Jetto, using his shield, body checked the next incoming tachyron attempting to throw it to the ground, he really threw his shoulder behind the blow thinking about the rest of the pack moving past him.
So what exactly are you trying to do here? Throw it off balance so it will lose its attack? other?
Turn 025 is up.
Read the OOC.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions?
Game on!
, fail
, pass
, runs away
, fail
, fail
, fail
Round 5
Snapping out of his daze as the teeth sunk into his side, Dreithik let out a cry and coughed up some blood. "Damnit! Gods Damned bugs!"
He grabs his Matter Converter pill and attempts to shove it down the bugs throat and it is latched to his side.
The pill is swallowed and almost immediately, the bug is converted from carapace into solid synth, leaving it too rigid to move.
Agia ruefully stuck the disgusting meatsicle in her bag. "No animal is going to be tempted by that, but maybe one of us can choke it down later if we need to", she thought.
Turning back to her aggressor, she snarled back at it and dove, arms spread wide.
She grinned as the Tachryon turned tail and ran, though the grin eased as the emotional feedback hit her and an echo of its fear reminded her of her sensitivities. “Please, don't come back,” she murmured turning as the frozen figure beside her cried out and tried to jump on the beast. She'll just get eaten that way, she thought as she shouted loud enough to, hopefully, be heard “Attack their minds, not just their bodies if you can!” She was too far to help the cloaked person right now... Maybe if she could
Freed from her attacker, permanently she hoped, Altha flung a hand out as if throwing something, this time reaching for the mind of the Tachyron Agia was trying to subdue. There was more force in it this time, a surge of confidence she still rode from rebuffing the other Tachryon.
Edge is only used per roll so using onslaught (1 INT) with effort (3 points) with EDGE =1 costs a total of 3 points.
Why/how are you considering that empathy and prior experience is an asset?
And I'm not asking just to be an ass, I'm trying to learn here. :)
On that note, we all seem to want to do 'cool stuff' (grab a tachyron by the tail, shove a pill down its throat, etc.) and I think the creativity is great, part of the benefits for this game. All I'm using so far is the creature's difficulty rating to figure out a number to beat. So in this instance, the tachyrons attack/defend physical stuff as level 6 so target number of 18.
Am I doing this right? I thought I read somewhere that to do certain things, you trade damage for it. For example to knock back or knock prone, you would have to do damage and 'trade' that damage for the effect.
Do any of you remember any of this?
I obviously need to go back and read some things. :)
Game on!
Ok, read some of that and it needs changing.
You basically trade damage for effects by adding the level of the creature to the table below:
Damage Reduction Effect
1 Hinder/Distract
2 Specific body part
3 Knock back
3 Move past
3 Strike held object
4 Knock down
7 Disarm
7 Impair
8 Stun
So to disarm a level 5 creature, you would need to trade 12 (5+7) points of damage when the creature may only have 15 health to begin with. Not that easy to score 12 points of damage unless you're a glaive attacking with a heavy weapon...
How about you take negative assets (or assets to the defender) to do stuff like:
Assett Effect
1 Hinder/Distract, or Specific body part or Knock back or Move past
2 Strike held object or Knock down or Disarm
3 Impair or Stun
So now to disarm a level 5 creature you would need to hit it as if it were a level 7 (5+2) creature?
I guess the table of effects and how much they cost is debatable but tat least this gives a jack attacking with a rapier a chance to disarm someone.
Thoughts?
I only considered them assets because you didn't say they wouldn't be, actually. Again, apologies. Feel free to ignore things like that if they don't apply (but I'd like to know if they don't). =3 It's me trying to think of things that would be advantageous for the combat and might apply as assets that reduce the difficulty.
The prior experience I considered an asset since there's 4 of them and she didn't die in the immediate combat where it was 1 vs 4. So perhaps, due to the briefness of the contact, it's not enough exposure to be considered an asset - that's your call. =3
The empathy would be an asset in that she knows the general 'type' of mind attack for them. Again, she's still only Tier 1 so it might not be an asset until later. Unless I roll a skill check to establish the empathic sensitivity? Whatever works!
And, provided the tail gets grabbed, I thought the distraction would be advantageous to Altha given the stated reason for the grab is to slow it down for other attacks.
As for trading effort for effects... I remember reading that you can trade a level of effort for 3 pts damage per lvl of effort. The bit about trading damage rings a bell but I couldn't find it in the corebook. I didn't reread everything though.
Edit: That affects table works for me. :3