Thanks for the reminder Beckett. I believe we can do it, except if some drop out over the holiday week for longer time. I´ll try to hurry it a bit.
No problem.
You get some hours to come up with a solution.
If not i´m gonna hurry it a bit^^
Since i guess many won´t be here in the christmas week, i´ll hurry this a bit further, so we can eventually finish before christmas.
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To resume the situation.
We came to Sauerton to find the missing daughter of Consul Andares in hope to gain financial help for the 5th Crusade and our expedition to the lost Sky City.
The Consul don't want to help us find his missing daughter in fear of the captors retribution.
But in Thalia's room we found papers incriminating her father in some political plot against the "Common Rules" of the Republic.
Thanks to Wystorn Telfyr "visions" and Captain Demrik we found the building where Thalias was held captive. After a short fight, we found that his captor was a Galtan man believing Thalia is an escaping noble woman from Galt. After speaking to him and free Thalia he gave us some informations and a stained piece of paper where his partner tell him what and how to do the capture.
Thalia looked at the paper and found some stained mark from alchemical element. As there is only one Alchemical shop we go there. After a short fight against dogs we are welcome by a young man named Barnabas then by an ederly half-elf Koriana.
Well most PbP go 1-2 posts a day. So the pace isn´t that bad. Sorry if you feel otherwise.
This encounter can be solved totally peacefully if you wish and i run it as written. The majority of the information comes at the end.
Don´t forget freeing Thalia is actually just your second goal there.
Just to add, this isn´t necessarily your typical mission. Season 5 changed a lot, missions are more dramatic and plots and ongoings in the surroundings play a much larger role. I tried my best to bring the story up without spoilering it or making it too obvious.
Maxime´s approach is quite good, Sherlock would be proud of her. Yet you want to think this through again, there might be points missing.
It´s actually about the way scenarios are written too.
I like the change, but it needs to change further.
It´s just written like before, which is not suitable for this kind of scenario. The informations about the underlying plot are cut in pieces all over the book in small sentences and it´s actually quite some work to get it straight. It falls and stands with some little hints.
There are surely better ways to do this scenario than i did so far and next time i would do some little things different, but that´s difficult to know when you run it for the first time.
I think it needs more scripting, because Thalia for example, which containts important information, is just up to GM´s roleplaying.
You are right with some points Thor, Glass river rescue is really difficult to play. One needs to be able to summarize really good and still keep tension. Then at the same time you need to communicate the needs and threats of that scenario while not spoilering it.
Some players might get it, others not. Which will then either lead to boredom or a fail.
Then there is the growing discrepancy between classes.
Either you fight or you talk. Being good at both is difficult, so most times someone feels like the fifth wheel.
But what i really like is the world background taking on a greater role. You can´t just go anywhere and kill everything now, it has consequences. You need to think when or whom to fight and why. The story becomes more than just combat after combat and players participate more. That is a good developement i think.
I´m sure there will be more scenarios with cobat versus demons later.
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I agree with you Maxime, from what I've seen, season 5 is great. I enjoyed playing through the Glass River Rescue (though our party wasn't too good at diplomacy), and the Confirmation is an amazing scenario. This one is also a great one, as I sense a moral conflict coming up. What I like most is the level of complexity rising, as well as more roleplay.
My only disappointment is about the rythm of posting, which makes it hard to remember all the elements of an investigation (all the PbPs I took part in had a rhythm of about 1 post per day per player/GM). That being said, I think you're doing a good job GM Farmagnuðr, looking forward to see this through!
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Again, just an opinion, but have you notice that it is pretty much the Maxine and Rysalius show for most of this one? Anyway, I didn't really want to get into that, :) or give the impression I'm hating the game, so I'll drop it.
What I was trying to say is that I'm checking in multiple times a day most days, I just don't really have much I can do to contribute to what is going on, (especially without dipping into what I think is out of character knowledge or metagaming), so it's not that, (for me at least) slow posting as waiting for a chance for something to do.
Roleplaying is always a solution and a strong contribution Thor!
Also you don´t need to be able to solve things alone.
Just imagine the dwarf standing behind or next to someone and saying:
"Yeah listen to her/him, she´s got a point" and nodding.
That´s a great aid another ;)
This is a group and team game and that´s very important. Also for this scenario, seems like your characters will need to discuss out a solution^^
Take a close look at your characters and play them according to what´s written there hehe.
You can still ask Thalia and Koriana more questions regarding the outcomes if you wish, trying to make the best deal for yourself and the Society.
I provided all information given in the scenario now.
We can either roleplay on or you come to a conclusion what to do soon.
Note i probably won´t be able to post from 24.-26./27..
Pro Thalia= turning in the father.
Pro Tercio (father)= hand over Thalia.
Decide for one please.
Anyone wanna formulate that into roleplay?
Have some stuff to do, but there will be a bigger post later.
Please roleplay your conclusion by telling or showing it somehow.
I most probably won´t be able to check or post here in the next 3-4 days, so please excuse me. Leaving tomorrow UMT -1 noon.
Christian or not,Merry Christmas to you all, have a nice time with your family and friends and remember what this celebration is really about.
Unfortunately i had no internet and could not conclude it earlier, sorry for that.
PFS numbers and dayjob roles please.
Congratulations on earning all available points and faction missions!
Chronicles will then go out soon.
Still finishing the thesis. Got 4 weeks left, so lenty to do.
The scenario depends on you finding several things, but with your Perception skills and taking ten it´s no deal. Also you have Thalia alive and cooperative, found the hidden stuff in the old house and got Koriana.
Handing in Thalia is nearly the same. If you would not have found some stuff and not hand her in, Tercio would not be in prison, but free and give you trouble later on. There is room for improving that.
My guess is this will have influence in later scenarios.
Uh sorry to be disruptive, but the Game Day report sheet asks for your real names etc.
Could you please all do a post with:
-PFS #
-player name
- clear faction (if not there)
That would be supercool-
thanks a lot.
Yeah that´s good too of course.