Vampire: The Danse Macabre (The Final Nights of Pendros)

Game Master Goblins Eighty-Five

Vacation notice!

Pasting this to the discussion threads of all my games...

I'll be traveling halfway around the world starting tomorrow. I should have regular internet access the whole time, but I may miss a day while I'm in transit, and for the next month or so I'll be in the GMT-10 timezone instead of my usual late-evening GMT posts.

*does some google-fu*

Tahiti, eh? Not shabby!

Hawaii actually, I have family in Honolulu and try to make it out there every year or two.

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Fo real!

You da kine?

You know, da kine? Na dat kine, but da odda kine?

My mudda is potagee, my fadda is a haole.

You?

That had me chuckling for quite a while. My wife facepalmed.

She grew up with pidgin and speaks it fluently... my inlaws are from Hawaii and live in downtown Waikiki, about as haole as they come.

Oh!

My family lives all over the island, but my mother grew up in Waimanalo. This might be revealing too much about myself, but my family is Gouvea, of the Gouvea sausage company. Oh, they used to be SO good, but my aunts sold the company, and my grandfather refused to give up the family recipe, so the company sells it under the name, but it doesn't taste very good anymore.

Don't know if that means anything to either of you though.

Well, my google fu failed.

Also, the rest meant exactly nothing to me. lol

Alright, I need to review everything, but expect a response tomorrow; lot's of stuff to process.

*Sigh*

Okay,expect a response TOMORROW. I had to deal with silly things today.

Okay, I'm doing anything until I have answers and responses for you all. Gimme a bit, and it'll be done!

Done!

Also, Richard, in the next week I'll have paragraphs for your contacts; who knows, it might happen tonight!

Not the best luck in traveling- the plane broke and had to divert to Gander airport in Canada. Intermittent internet access, I'll try to keep up...

@Natasha: I'm fine with that, if it's something small! Like a knife or handgun. Do you need me to give it stats?

@Richard: Oh boy, lots to process.

The problem I have is defining a non-dramatic process. I'd like to stick to dice rolls for the time being.

Sam is a hacker like that. I'll have a response to that in the 'morrow. I'll also make sure I get Sam up first.

I'd also like it if we could keep OOC only posts here in discussion.

Would you be fine with a standard issue military sidearm?

What is standard issue in this time period?

(I have no idea what standard issue is in our current time period!)

A laser gun?

Unless the futuristic weapons in armory reloaded makes sense to you, just treat a traditional firearm as a laser gun. Normal damage to vamps!

We have those in the 2050s? What kind of stats does it have?

In the modern day, it's usually a 9mm semiautomatic, but only a few people are actually issued them. Everybody trains with one, but, unlike what you see in video games, the average rifleman/woman doesn't carry one. A medic like Natasha would carry either a sidearm or a carbine, depending on her unit assignment. In the future, I'd lean heavily towards carbine, to tell the truth. Pistols are on the way out when it comes to military service.

...So, some sort of pistol. She probably carried a carbine and not a pistol in the military, but she isn't carrying one of those right now. No way. Uh-uh. You don't want to be seen walking down the street in modern America with one of those, you sure as hell aren't concealing it, and it isn't going to be any more accepted in 50 years unless the government completely collapses.

Well, I said something small, like a handgun or knife.

When it comes to things like guns, cars, football, I know nothing about them. I'm glad you do, that means someone can tell me when I'm wrong about something.

Just realized that made me sound like an ass; I was being sincere.

The gun issue sounds about right. Watching the war documentaries now, it looks like the medics carry the same weapon as the rest (M4??). Would Natasha conceal carry to protect herself? Thomas might, just based on his job.

As for laser guns, are those really all that popular yet? I mean, one of the most popular pistols was originally released 100yrs ago. I'm just musing, obv its your choice.

And, lol, I can help w/ the football and cars.

So, are ya'll waitin' on me? 'Course, it is the holiday season.

Edit:Just to let ya'll know, I will not be posting 23rd-25th, for the obvious reasons.

I think we're waiting on Natasha's response right now. Her part happened on the first night, so we can get to the actions on the 2nd and 3rd night after we find out what happened to her on the way home...

I'm with ^^. Cant do too much right now, since we're supposed to meet up later.

That's me as well. Normally, I'd be a bit put off, but since it's the holiday season, I'm surprised that I can even find the time to keep posting.

Alright. I'm out of contact until the 1st. Have a good holiday everyone!

My wife got me started watching True Blood, and I'm a little surprised that I'm liking it so much. The advertisements I saw for it didn't leave much of an impression when it first came out but I'm enjoying catching up on it.

Back in the real world. internet again!

true blood is... fun but gets frustrating. try to ignore the plot holes and inconsistencies.

Oh, love that show! But, I don't get whatever channel it's on, so until they release the complete series, I won't be seeing it.

Alright! Let us wait till the end of the 2nd for Natasha, and then, keep moving on!

Wait. you actually pay for your TV shows? *mind blown* ;) Anyone heard from Kelsey? She was wicked active before the holidays.

[edit]Some internet sleuthing in the coffeeshop and I can't find any posts from her post the 24th. hope everything's ok.

I'm back. I got temporarily banned from the site (I deserved it).

I'm pretty new to storyteller. How do I resolve combat actions?

Wow. Hi google reader! Want to tell me when people ACTUALLY respond? Because I'm blaming you for my slow post rate, it has NOTHING to do with the copy of Skyrim I got for Xmas.

Nope.

Not Skyrim.

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@Natasha:

Well, first, for initiative, roll a d10+5 (because your initiative is a 5).

Then...

Well, for melee, I KNOW you roll like this:

(Attack Skill Dice) + (Relevant Attribute Dice) + (Weapon's Dice) - (Target's defense score)

The number of resulting successes is the damage you do.

Uh...however, I forget if you subtract the opponent's Defense when attacking with a firearm.

Their defense, incidentally, is 2.

@Thomas:

Uh, yes, yes I do. The only thing I 'pirate' are RPG books, and even then, it is only because I lack the means to view such books before I purchase them; since Attactix (my local gaming store) closed and White Wolf stopped publishing books in a physical form, I can't flip through the book first to think about my purchase; I tend to still spend probably over 500 dollars a year on gaming materials, give or take 100 dollars. Otherwise, if a series is something I like, I want to show my support, and until I can do that with a ratings system that make sense, the only way I can do so I with a purchase of a DVD.

The only thing I purchase 'blind' is Paizo's work.

Incidentally, if any of you are in the Denver metro area, I'm trying to get another player for either a Pathfinder or WOD game, ever other friday at 5. First game is this week.

In the case of Firearms attacks, however, a target’s Defense does not usually apply. It’s not subtracted from the attacker’s pool. People don’t try to avoid arrows or bullets like they do punches or sword swings. They run and look for protection, instead (see “Avoiding Getting Shot,” p. 164). The exception is if Firearms-based attacks are staged within close-combat range; within a yard or two (see “Firearms and Close Combat,” p. 162). A target’s armor does apply against ranged attacks.

So firearm attacks are not modified by the attacker's defense unless you are within close combat range. Armor removes dice from both pools, but these guys don't seem to be wearing any.

Am I in close combat range?

I think I'll pull out. I have a Pathfinder project that's sucking up all my time.

Well pewp. Thanks for letting us know. Good luck with your other game!

Should we reopen recruitment? I know I'm still interested, damnit.

I'm still interested too, I hope we can find another player or two to keep the game going...

Okay, I did some edits, keep it going guys! Vampire is one of those few games that works fine with even one player!

Well, ya'll were waiting on Natasha (I think) so without her, you could just keep going...

Hoping that Phillip has managed to present himself to the Queen and discover the location of at least one Elysium in his brief time here, Richard's dot in Covenant Status could get his name to Phillip's ears. In Invictus profession terms, Phillip has been trained as an Interpreter, making his support of Richard a natural fit. Some investigation could turn up the name of one of his retainers and I could make contact that way.

Alternatively, Phillip could get the name of the Black Ale Tavern in an anonymous note one night and see the new-fledged coterie there, with the details as to who put Phillip onto them and why left as a mystery for the ST to abuse.

Alternatively, Phillip could get the name of the Black Ale Tavern in an anonymous note one night and see the new-fledged coterie there, with the details as to who put Phillip onto them and why left as a mystery for the ST to abuse.

The dude abides

My Lebowski-fu is not strong. Is that an endorsement or criticism?

You're good I think. Also, will be updating soon. Today was nuts. Trying to plan a wedding...

Fair warning, I'm traveling back home from vacation over the next few days and my posting rate might be affected... pasting this into the discussion thread of all my active games.

@Phillip: It twas an endorsement. You may hop in at anytime with that one.
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*laughs*

Wow. I remember reading somewhere in The Blood about 'The Poor, Lonely Storyteller' because most of the time, players can play without a storyteller, but the storyteller can't play without the players. Um...what do you need me to do next, I suppose is my question?

Also, Volty, I would ask that you rolled for feeding. *Feels like he asked this before...*

Yep. I'm looking at the mechanics now. Any suggestions for what dice to roll? Just gonna muse here for a minute, bear with me.

He's feeding alone, on already injured people. So the amount of blood he can take is reduced. For each success on a dice roll, I can always do a roll (1d7) to see how much blood the person still has.

Anyway, to see how successful he is at actually finding someone to feed on, I'm thinking... Wits, to know when its appropriate, Streetwise, to know if its safe, and maybe... Manipulation, to hide it from others? Also, how do you feel about like a +1 modifier, since they're injured already?

For an average night, that adds up to a dice pool of 7. Also, without feeding, Thomas has a vitae of 6 when they meet at the park.

Almost every roll in the Storyteller system will use two pools, generally skill+attribute but occasionally attribute+attribute.

A few possibilities: Since your feeding is directly related to treating injured people and determining whether they can survive losing more blood, how about Intelligence + Medicine? That's 7 dice with an extra since your specialty would definitely apply. A failed roll would probably mean that you misjudged and killed/seriously injured someone accidentally, since you have no trouble finding food in your line of work...

^I agree with this line of thinking.

Um...what do you need me to do next, I suppose is my question?

Only a few things left hanging for game day 2... if Sam has any information for me then I could act on that, and it would be useful to know if I've ever heard of Phillip. Other than that, I could jump to dinner with Zack.