Skyfall - Colonies of the Shining Sea

Game Master Corerue

Thanks, Cori! I'm definitely feeling a little better about myself. Looking forward to the PM :-)

I'm going to remove a Hero Point from my sheet for this DM guidance on behalf of myself, Ael and Mir. 4 => 3

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Aelessaer & Mirrianissa

Do you guys want to brainstorm our options really quick before continuing in game? We're navigating the servitor paths right now so [SPECULATION:] we can probably get around a decent chunk of the facility. Which do you think is the higher priority: destroying or incapacitating The Shadow or stabilizing the Temple Core?

GM - Is Sil still holding off the self destruct countdown?

the self destruct was halted due to emergency power stabilizing the systems in he temple. so long as that holds out the self destruct will remain halted. at least thats what Sil was saying before she ghosted out on you. ;)

Cassian: Are you asking for dm guidance or removing the Hp because of something i said?

I removed one because I thought that last post was GM Guidance. I'm not very used to Hero Points. In my experience, I'd start crying like a child or threaten to seduce my GM's sister (totally could have, Tyrn) whenever I was stuck.

Question is do we actually have a ghost of a chance of pulling it off.

We won't know unless we try, right?

No need to remove the Hp unless your asking for guidance. As for the reason my post was more pointed and informative is because one of your rolls in particular was a critical. As Tyrn learned a Critical is subject to more abundant information, primarily based off your characters background, skills and such. Since you were meled with Mog, however briefly, she has a lot more knowledge than you do and hence allows for more detail recovery. >:)

I wish you the best of luck~ ;) You've done a bang up job so far~

AS for Mir and Ael, since I am such a slow a$$ poster lately I was merely reminding you of past posts/events and making sure the information wasn't forgotten. Other than that you've all done great so far! And besides I tend to forget posts as well, especially at the beginning of a game lol. I have one character with a thousand+ posts and I had to take notes just to remember pertinent details. I used Google docs and made an excel page~

Anyone get the feeling Coreue is just going to beat me and Aurora down until we finally die? Also I have HORRIBLE attack rolls....why did I just forget I knew how to fight?

You don't always have to stand and fight, you could run away. >:) Besides my rolls suck too lol. :P

Cool cool. I'll wait to hear back from Ael. If the three of us can't work out a game plan together then I'll go about buying one from you :-)

I have to say that the MoG/Cassian meld is such a great tool for situations like these. In a way, it reminds me a little of a less obnoxious Deus Ex Machina you can pull whenever you need to get info out that would be impossible to get otherwise. This is just how I see it. Not sure what you had in mind when you introduced it.

Anyone get the feeling Coreue is just going to beat me and Aurora down until we finally die?

I felt the same way when he pitted me against the two 'Mutation!?' baddies outside of MoG's workshop but I (barely) managed to get out. You've got twice the manpower so you should be juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine.

Fiiiine, just fine.

What would I roll to realize that the war witch is bringing these guys back as I kill them? At least that what's I'm suspecting....

You could always ask her politely :-p

Barring that, maybe Spellcraft or Knowledge (Arcana/Planes/Religion). Might be a longshot but Sense Motive??? It's the only one in the bunch I see that you have ranks in so if you're lucky...

Of course, I just throw out a handful of random knowledge checks every time I'm not sure of the specifics. Sooo happy I'm playing a Lore Warden. Knowledge checks have been fundamental so far.

Crosses

Make an intelligence check +4 for having been born in Cryx. ;)

Cassian, Mir, Ael

I'm not ignoring you all just waiting for your plan and if there is one kindly remind me as apparently I cannot find it. >.<;

Di

Your up as well, new post and welcome to have you back again :)

Not sure if you sent that PM for my critical knowledge check yet. I was kinda waiting on that to formulate a more specific plan. Besides that, I'm hoping to hear back from the rest of the team so I don't feel like a slave driver/"Diva" (to use the parlance of the game).

I guess I could be a bit more specific. Our choices right now are:

1.) Continue on towards the Temple Core and all the wonderful things surrounding it.

2.) Follow the lead left in the cryptogram and try to find and destroy the mystery heart in what I would prematurely assume is Ael's containment room.

If that PM gives me any useful info on our current situation, rest assured that I will share it. Hell, I encourage you to read it if it comes into the IC under a spoiler!

Also,
Where my Stormwin at!?

So, I went on holiday last week and it turned out they didn't have wi-fi after all... but I'm back now.

Sorry about that, will post soon.

no problem glad to see your back :)

I'm here too, been busy but I'm back

Yeah! Errbody's here and I have the hunch that we're all going to meet soon in game. EXCITEMENT!

So I've been wondering....this ability of the wuxia

Healing Chi (Su): The youxia can use his ki power to heal himself or others. He gains the lay on hands ability as if the youxia were a paladin, using his youxia level as his paladin level. The youxia gains mercies as a paladin of the same level. Rather than having access to lay on hands a set number of times per day, the youxia must spend one ki point each time he uses the ability.

Does this work the same way as a paladins, as in damage undead....because I've always assumed in this case it just means the healing since its using your own energy rather than positive. Because I wanted this ability instead of Ki stance first, but wasn't sure if I could use of on myself or Aurora....

Any opinions on this?

No opinions on this ^? Is it my new avatar is it to scary?

Hmmm.... I'm not sure. If you do negative energy, we lose you as a healer, but then you get a sick damage dealing touch attack. I think negative energy is just fitting as well, considering you're LE, so you'd probably only want to heal yourself and your wife. Let the living suffer under your spell!

Well since it uses Ki to activate I'd like to say it is focusing your inner strenght to heal the wounds...that way I can heal anyone in the party occasionally.

Also opinions on my new avatar? I like it more since the hair style and color is much closer to Leon's.

Yeah, I like that avatar better.

Man, I was looking through my old campaigns...I miss some of those characters...especially my Elven scimitar/kukri wielding barbarian. To bad he only got played to level two. I might have to retry him one day.

Sooooo... I was digging through some old posts looking for helpful info I might have forgotten and I came across this:

"A Soul Node. Where did you get this!?" ... "Wilssean! That item is extremely important, do not let it be damaged and by all means do not remove it from that holder for any long then you need too. If the light fades completely it'll die."

*Source*

Hmmmm... Think this could be helpful with our Shadow problem?

O! and btw: nice pic, Leon.

sorry for the silence been traveling to and from work and its been a brutal audit we just went through. posts coming in the next day. Leon that ability would definitely cure negative damage if it was your inner kind since your a creature mad with negative energy in a sense. I wouldn't penalize you guys on an ability that could potentially hurt you when it should heal you. sometimes we just have to gk by the rule of cool. :)

Awesome! So....can I add that to my movement for LoH: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 2) = 7?

Still here! Just really busy. Will post within a couple days

I like the new look, and definitely think it should do negative energy. All healing uses either negative or positive so since you're full of negative energy it would make sense.

So here is Cyra's Deviant Art she wants me to warn you that Some pieces are NSFW. Or as she put it. "Some have boobies."*
Do let us know what you think.
Disclaimer *: Those are her words not mine.

Those owls are awesome.

I'm still hoping that the sword I found is considered a katana and that I can figure out what all the mechanical parts do because it just seems so cool sounding.

flying too work, posts coming before tomorrow morning. thanks again for your patience. Things may get way spotty at the end of the month as my second boy will be born on July 1st. It is a crazy hectic time! So again apologies~

You guys are still posting really well, if there is any questions you want answered in private feel free to PM me. I don't mind one bit. I feel bad leaving anyone feeling frustrated so consider this a freebee to ask me a question and I will answer in as timely a fashion as I can manage. :)

Hmmm, why does moonlight stalker require combat expertise? I'm treated as having combat expertise with exotic weapons...but that pesky int 13 for moonlight stalker which carries over from expertise...very annoying. Comeld the int requirement be "canceled" out hy means off meeting the feat it comes from? I'm guessing no hut it can't hurt to ask ;)

Stalker is just a perfect feat for an assassin. +2 attack and damage when I have concealment...

Camping all week with little to no signal. Please dmpc Di as necessary. C ya later!

Have fun Di!

Dear Mr. DM Coreue,

I have sent you a couple PMs don't know if you saw them could you check your inbox please.

Signed
HavocXIII

The Background Skill Points rule gives every character 2 additional skill points at each character level regardless of the character’s class. These skill points may only be used for Craft, Knowledge, Perform, and Profession skills. While this does make characters more fexible (especially bards), and produces a slight increase in the overall power level of the PCs, the increase is modest enough to not require any adjustment to encounters they face.

Coreue wanted me to go on and put this up. We are adding this to our characters.

Who am I to refuse a gift?

Thank you, Cori, for your continuing adjustments to make our characters more powerful than they have any right to be! My horrifying ego and I appreciate it :-)

Hmmm trying to decide...when we level again should I put 1 more level into ninja to unlock ninja tricks and get ALOT more Ki points or should I just stick to shadow assassin? I can't decide....I want both! ;( Guess that means we just need to add Gestalt to the game. Absolutely kidding about Gestalt we've got plenty of stuff already

Well when he presented it to me it made sense, it's a pet peeve of mine that you have to spend skill points on a profession. I mean seriously if you spend a bunch on K-skills and none on P-Scholar. Your awesome at researching stuff but sadly your not a scholar.

Or Acrobatics and Stealth but none on P-thief or whatever. Granted do some of the above examples come into play, most of the time no. BUt one day you run into a DM who says your not a soldier because yo have no P-Soldier skill... lol!

Anywho posts coming shortly driving into camp now~

Most definitely. But now that we're given these extra ranks for the purpose of rounding our character's backgrounds I'm sure you'll bring it up more often.

The way I see this option is now I have ranks dedicated to Craft (clockwork) and Profession (airship pilot) at every level so that my other ranks are freed up for fun stuff.

Hmm... Is 'airship pilot' too specific for Profession? Just realized I might have dug myself into a hole there. Maybe: Airship Captain, Soldier, Engineer, Pirate... Idk. Help!

Also, at this point the thought of going Gestalt is giving me anxiety. Too much pressure. I could buy some lunch bags to hyperventilate but so far the conversation has been mostly ignored so I can save myself the $2.50. Huh, maybe I'll get some coffee instead. Yum!

Edit: I also put that Hero Point back on my sheet while I was in there futzing around. 3 => 4

Posts will be in a couple of days. my schedule is being changed sorry everyone.

NOOOOOoooooooo.....

So wish I had 110,000 go to spend.... Gauntlets of the Weaponmaster freaking awesome for a character with a lot of weapons.

Also I still can't wait till everyone meets it's going to be awesome. Cassian and Leon should talk shop seeing as we are both carrying a small arsenal with us.

Hmmm...what other weapons does Leon "need"? Not use just have...I like the idea of having all these weapons hidden...I'm thinking of some kind of belt buckle knife....anything else?