and Madness Followed (Inactive)

Game Master Dennis Harry

I'll give Phoebe one more day to chime in then move us along.

In the meantime, each of you can make an IDEA roll in the thread.

So sorry! It was a busy day and the bank ate up my free time, stupid bank and my need for money.

Alphonso waits to be left alone with this idiot... to use some not so gentle persuasion bwa ha ha

I will update this thread tomorrow folks.

Life's been kicking my ass the last few weeks. Updates now.

I'll push this forward tomorrow night!

My my Alphonso is going to dark places...

The boards have been a mess since last Wednesday night. As a result I have fallen behind in all games. I'll get to this one within the next few nights if not tonight.

Definite update tomorrow.

Freaking cursed spot hidden! They are evil I just know it and Pheobe knows nothing :(

Hopefully the boards are stable again (they have been this morning) and I can get out updates over the next two days.

The boards are making my fun very difficult!

One more round of interactions for Phoebe and Alphonso and I'll get the gang back together. :-)

Just an FYI I will be taking 2 DM board breaks in the month of July:

1. July 2 through July 4 and
2. July 8 through July 11.

During this time I will be working on plot for some of the Campaigns as well as updating Campaign Information tabs for all Campaigns.

Not a problem.

Sorry I thought I'd posted already!

DM break over. I am slowly getting my games off of the ground again. Hopefully by mid this week I'll be posting on the regular once more!

My weekend has ended waiting in Emergency... I'll try to get a post up while I wait with my daughter.

My weekend has ended waiting in Emergency... I'll try to get a post up while I wait with my daughter.

Hope everything is ok!

I hope things get better.

Oh yeah, just a broken thumb :) I didn't even think it was broken because she hardly complained of pain...

My sons birthday today, so no time to post. I'll be back tomorrow :)

Yay update!

do you mean roll five checks?

do you mean roll five checks?

Multiple your Dexterity score x5 and that is the target number on the 1d100 % dice. ;-)

GM Kip wrote:

My weekend has ended waiting in Emergency... I'll try to get a post up while I wait with my daughter.

Hope everything is ok!

She broke her thumb on her dominant hand, it's healing well and her teacher sent her home with an award today for how well she's coping with her school work. As it turns out she may be ambidextrous...

Storyteller Shadow wrote:

GM Kip wrote:

My weekend has ended waiting in Emergency... I'll try to get a post up while I wait with my daughter.

Hope everything is ok!

She broke her thumb on her dominant hand, it's healing well and her teacher sent her home with an award today for how well she's coping with her school work. As it turns out she may be ambidextrous...

Not the best way to find out but at least when she grows up she can be a two weapon fighter! :-)

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Check out the song "Murder by number."

Playing in 20+ games and running 26 (soon to be 27) is time consuming. Outside of the boards I have a fairly busy work schedule and of course a life!

Often I find that if I fall behind in updates, I need to make time to simply update a Discussion Thread to inform the PCs of a particular game that I am either going to be posting later in the day or week or will be on a break form the boards for one reason or another.

To save time updating so many damn threads I am going to open this thread and link all of my DM aliases (and PC aliases) to this thread to inform people as to status.

Of course if people feel the need to ask other questions outside of PbP feel free to do so but mainly this will be a thread dedicated to ensuring that my PCs know my status and to assure everyone that even though I may have some absences away from the boards (or particular games) that new thread will always be up to date with my status.

I'll move us along here a bit quicker to get to the next sequence of events post discovery of the saboteur.

Alright, we are now going to move past Panama and to Australia.

That means a new Chapter and new Skill checks for the PC!

Remember, to advance you have to FAIL the skill check and can only make one attempt per skill check.

IN addition, all of the skills you pick up while ON the ship in lessons, you may double as you will continue to take such lessons between the end of the action in Panama and the arrival in Australia.

Arnault it seems has had his work schedule change. Hopefully he will be able to continue to post but I am considering Recruiting one more just in case he cannot as I don't want to be down to only 3 PCs.

The Australia update is coming in a few minutes!

Electrical Repair 84: 1d100 ⇒ 33 no help there

The only other skill I passed is already maxed out :P

Just checking, but by double do you mean literally multiply the current amount by 2, or do you mean roll the percentages (like last time) again?

[dice=Electrical Repair 84]1d100 no help there

The only other skill I passed is already maxed out :P

Just checking, but by double do you mean literally multiply the current amount by 2, or do you mean roll the percentages (like last time) again?

Multiply the current amount by two!

They are skill that may well be needed so I'd rather have you all building them up and be useful than fail all the damn time but they are skills you would not have had before coming on board so we had to RP a justification for them.

I have Mechanical Repair and Spot Hidden marked... Here goes.

Mechanical Repair : 1d100 ⇒ 79 21 %

Spot Hidden: 1d100 ⇒ 1550 %

No, Why spot hidden Why!!!!

So My Mechanical repair goes up to 42?

library use: 1d100 ⇒ 92

club: 1d100 ⇒ 4

persuade: 1d100 ⇒ 52

psych: 1d100 ⇒ 61

spot hidden: 1d100 ⇒ 80

It all goes up except club lol

Sorry let me clarify:

Double scores in the following Skills:

Polar Survival 5% +1d8
Radio Operator 3% +1d6
Meteorology 3% + 1d10
Drive Dog Sled 10% +1d20
Operate Heavy Machinery 3% +1d8

Then, add the following bonuses to already existing skills:

Mechanical Repair +1d4
Navigate +1d4
Geology +1d8
Natural History +1d10
Electrical Repair +1d4
Anthropology +1d10
Archaeology +1d15

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Plus of course, if you made a successful roll, add the typical 2d5 to your Skill.

Phoebe, you still with us? :-)

Ah, didn't do the second bunch. Thanks for the clarification.

Mechanical repair already maxed out
Navigate: 1d4 ⇒ 2
Geology: 1d8 ⇒ 4
Natural History: 1d10 ⇒ 1
Electrical Repair: 1d4 ⇒ 4
Anthropology: 1d10 ⇒ 7
Archaeology: 1d15 ⇒ 15

library use: 2d5 ⇒ (4, 3) = 7

persuade: 2d5 ⇒ (2, 2) = 4

pysch: 2d5 ⇒ (1, 4) = 5

spot hidden: 2d5 ⇒ (5, 1) = 6

polar survival: 1d8 ⇒ 1

radio operator: 1d6 ⇒ 6

meteor: 1d10 ⇒ 4

dog sled: 1d20 ⇒ 2

heavy: 1d8 ⇒ 3

I am here and still confused about the skills but I am working on figuring out what I should do. Sorry about not posting.
First aid(60): 1d100 ⇒ 63
Library use(70): 1d100 ⇒ 53
Spot Hidden(35): 1d100 ⇒ 80

so the only one is library use?

Mechanical Repair: 1d4 ⇒ 1
Navigate: 1d4 ⇒ 1
Geology: 1d8 ⇒ 2
Natural History: 1d10 ⇒ 3
Electrical Repair: 1d4 ⇒ 2
Anthropology: 1d10 ⇒ 4
Archaeology: 1d15 ⇒ 11

So with these ones do I double what I get from the dice?

Polar Survival 5%: 1d8 ⇒ 1
Radio Operator 3%: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Meteorology 3%: 1d10 ⇒ 7
Drive Dog Sled 10%: 1d20 ⇒ 16
Operate Heavy Machinery 3%: 1d8 ⇒ 8

I am here and still confused about the skills but I am working on figuring out what I should do. Sorry about not posting.

[dice=First aid(60)]1d100
[dice=Library use(70)]1d100
[dice=Spot Hidden(35)]1d100

so the only one is library use?

[dice=Mechanical Repair] +1d4
[dice=Navigate] +1d4
[dice=Geology] +1d8
[dice=Natural History] +1d10
[dice=Electrical Repair] +1d4
[dice=Anthropology] +1d10
[dice=Archaeology] +1d15

So with these ones do I double what I get from the dice?

[dice=Polar Survival 5%] +1d8
[dice=Radio Operator 3%] +1d6
[dice=Meteorology 3%] + 1d10
[dice=Drive Dog Sled 10%] +1d20
[dice=Operate Heavy Machinery 3%] +1d8

Sorry, I can see why there is some confusion here.

Let me clarify:

1. For these skills, no need to roll, just double your CURRENT scores in the following Skills.

Polar Survival
Radio Operator
Meteorology
Drive Dog Sled
Operate Heavy Machinery

Then, roll the dice below and add THAT result to already existing skills.

Mechanical Repair +1d4
Navigate +1d4
Geology +1d8
Natural History +1d10
Electrical Repair +1d4
Anthropology +1d10
Archaeology +1d15

I have to stop posting complicated ideas half asleep!

2. For already existing skills, when rolling a check to increase the skill, you need to FAIL the skill check to increase the current skill.

Therefore, Phoebe's First Aid AND Spot Hidden increase by 2d5 each and Library Use remains the same.

Clear? :-)

Also, I have found a few new PCs who I will be introducing upon my return from vacation post Labor Day.

Brilliant! I am so easily confused but I get to level up the precious spot hidden.

Spot Hidden: 2d5 ⇒ (3, 3) = 6
First Aid: 2d5 ⇒ (2, 3) = 5

I think I did things right. Sorry for the delay. My posting is a little sporadic. I live with an infant again and she is a screamer who is teething.

I look forward to some new blood.

Folks, posts are about to go up tonight. The two new PCs will be introduced as well.

New PCs ONLY, please take the following Skill increases as permanent increases:

+5% to Spot Hidden,
+5% to Jump,
+5% to Psychology.

Welcome aboard new peoples! There's been a bit of a rotating cast so far, but it's been fun. I'm looking forward to gaming with you. Please observe that there is a moratorium on successful spot hidden rolls in this game. hands out complimentary blinders :D

I'm excited to take part :) I'll have my first gameplay post up in the morning.

Welcome indeed!

Ill get a GP post up tonight.

Remember the less you spot the saner you stay XD

Not quite sure I got Arnault's flavor right but I figured I'd keep the ball rolling and get the PCs together quickly. :-)

So being an Australian is actually making this harder because I have to consciously stop myself using 2017 Aussie slang and sayings XD

So being an Australian is actually making this harder because I have to consciously stop myself using 2017 Aussie slang and sayings XD

Heh, sometimes I try and use the slang terminology of the day but it makes already wordy posts take that much longer so I just capitulated and stopped doing that.

This is actually the shortest part of the adventure so you will all be out of the Country relatively soon.

Sorry for the lack of posting I apparently have a bit to read and I am really tired.

As an FYI I doubt I will post anything this weekend. I get to test my stage fright at a friends wedding since I am officiating it. I hate talking in-front of people I do not know. After that I am watching children then I am getting really drunk. Cause I am due that. So bot me if need be.

But I will get caught up. I have fallen behind in a few games.

And welcome new people!

Apologies from me as well on my posting rate - it appears I managed to accidentally turn off the notifications for new posts in the gameplay thread on my campaigns page.