OutPost 1: GM Kate's Sanctuary of Drowned Delight, Table 2 (Inactive)

Game Master Kate Baker

I'll buy that. Can you roll me a Profession (mercenary) check?

My goodness! Who's not sleeping! ;)

Yeah, both Bret and I were up really late last night. We had to pick up my son from a theater event at his school, and then take home one of his friends who happened to live in another town, and then we got back to our games. We both realized that we were up way too late, but then Bret pushed the filk button!

When the filk button is pushed, my brain goes romping off its leash and I have to finish the song...

Kate is a few hours behind us all in California. She was still posting at a reasonable hour!

Yup, I'm on the West Coast!

Mercenaries often need to be familiar with laws, especially those involving salvage. :)

As a journalist, Antoine knows thé boundery of law.

Kate, this was a great post. Thank you for expressing so much of our feelings of grief during the transition!

+1

Aw, thanks! Your post right beforehand was excellent. I've had that rattling around in my head for a little while.

Technically, we're doing the 'Dwarven Door Technique' rather than splitting the party: opening all the doors at once.

They said feel free to explore and please take your Society's stuff but don't go through this door. That leaves us with two doors to choose, one of which is the kitchen. Hawthorne has no reason to go to the kitchen. Hawthorne has no reason to expect trouble.

He did consider the door might be locked/trapped by the SFS all those years ago, which is why he turned on his Starfinder subdermal implant on his hand before activating the door.

Narratively, I'd prefer that we focus on one room at a time. And you might want to confer with the rest of the party before you open the door marked "Do not enter."

Go ahead and do the kitchen first. I can wait. That wasn't the relic room was it? I thought the relic room was the one with the morlamaw in the way.

That tape is left over from long ago clearly. The morlamaw surely do not produce yellow caution tape written in Common.

I understand wanting to describe one room at a time. I'm running the First Mandate while running TotW2, and conducting six different conversations in each scenario at the same time nearly exploded my brain. However, I would prefer to not need to explain every RP choice my character makes. They don't always make the wisest choices (ask anyone whose played with Pig), they take Perception and Sense Motive checks at face value, and sometimes they just believe the wrong thing, and they don't necessarily treat a temple of friendly walruses that they were invited to collect their equipment from as a dungeon.

EDIT: In short, I'm an RP-purist.

If his companions don't want him opening it, then they can say something. If the oodles of morlamaw don't want him opening it, they can say something. He's not making a secret of his path.

But feel free to do the kitchen first. Hawthorne just has no reason to go there.

I must have missed something in the description, what relic room?

The Society had left behind workshops and other supplies, I’m sure.

As for who put up the tape, I disagree. If I learned a new language along with most of my group and then something went wrong, I would grab the supplies at hand. The tape may have been in storage a long time and just recently used.

Now to go read over all the text, because I must have missed a lot of clues.

We did ask, but they didn't answer.

Hawthorne, have you GMed this one already? It seems like you're using some information that I haven't presented yet.

And I realize that keeping the party together is a bit of metagaming, but it's a bit that makes the GM's life easier!

Unfortnately, I'm prepping it now. Did I conflate my information? Looks like the relic room.

If that's the case, he definitely would have tried to open A6 as the nearest door.

This is always tricky when you as a player have information that your character doesn't have, and it would be advisable to let the rest of the group take point on decision-making. For example, no one has mentioned a relic room in the game yet, so none of the PCs should be considering such a thing.

I am aware of the courtesy offered to our fellow players.

To be fair to myself, I posted Hawthorne's actions before I was asked to prep this on short notice today and only became confused (in the OOC Discussion thread) when forced to justify my character actions. I do apologize for spilling the beans about the existence of the library and its contents early.

I have now run this scenario.

However, if you or any of my fellow players feel that my participating in the scenario will interfere with your ability to have fun, I will step down from the table, with much sadness.

Charli wants you to stay. We all make errors. Besides this way maybe Charli can learn what is going on with Sophia.

I would rather you stay. I have had fun playing alongside your character, both in Incident at Absalom Station (where I had a different character) and here.

I know how the call to GM can interfere with playing. It can get really tough, especially when you are called to run something you were really looking forward to discovering in play. It has happened on more than one occasion for me, and I expect it will continue to happen at times.

Thank you for GMing when called to. Please try to avoid spoilers.

Oh, there's no need to leave the game! Nor do you need to be silent and roll dice. Just make sure that you aren't revealing information that the other PCs don't have yet, and let other folks take the lead on decisions. It's not like this is an unusual situation!

No! Stay!

Definitely stay! Sorry for my lack of posting over the weekend, I didn't get a chance to check the boards.

I'm happy to wait for those interested in the Kitchen and further interaction with our new friends before we proceed into the more dangerous room.

I just realised Who could be the weaping Knight. But not Antoine.

Right now I’m wondering if it may be Zon Kuthon.

My character would have no clue, other than it doesn’t sound like Damoritosh.

You too? The chains and the term weaping.

The poison could be a form of torture.

There is still the possibility it is an unknown god. New gods do pop up, and there are some gods that have almost no following outside a specific race.

GM whistles innocently.

It is technically only reducing DCs for your own religion. Pharasma for Keskodai and Triune for Hawthorne.

Oh yes, you're right! Thanks for pointing that out!

I feel it should be the other way... but that’s just me.

I'm not the only one thinking a team of Starfinders that goes missing after encountering a cult of Zon-Kuthon is suspicious, right?

No, you aren’t.

We still have to do our two primary missions. Making contact was very much a secondary mission.

I have to admit, I’m amused to find out the psychedelic walruses are goths!

Maybe we should have played them some Abysshead instead of the Machine Cake?

You cannot go wrong with gnome metal bands.

It amuses me that despite the fact that you need to have a boon to play a gnome in the society, gnomes are UBIQUITOUS in these early SFS episodes. We’re appearing more than some of the core races.

I’m getting my gnome on!

Hmm

Maybe we should have played them some Abysshead instead of the Machine Cake? [/QUOTE

Abysshead is a gnome band?

Shoot, I just discovered that it’s not.... Sorry for the confusion, folks. Mixed up my sources.

Hmm

So.... Where is the workshop??? Can you direct us idiots to the right room?

Hmm

Since getting shot at was mentioned, I assumed it was A3, the door with the Caution tape over it.

I am suggesting to create a distration effect. Does the Cameras Works also?

I have a death in the family, and a memorial service to attend. Can you bot me if needed?

Hmm

Very sorry to hear this, Hmm. My condolences to you and your family.

Condolences. :(

So sorry to hear that, Hilary. I don't think botting will be necessary, but I'll go ahead if it's needed.

Sorry for your loss HMM

I’m okay. The memorial service was nice, and though the death was a surprise, Ralph was old and had started a very sudden decline. It was good that it happened fast rather than lingering.

Y’all are an awesome group, and I love you.
Hmm

Yeah. I have also lost someone this year. My sympathies.

Honest rules question: wouldn't the starknives as piercing weapons already work underwater without penalty?

They would take a -2 penalty to attack rolls, but would deal full damage.