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No opposition here!
(And I'll get caught up and get a post in soon, hopefully.)
I've also got no problems with taking a break during the week you'll be out on your cruise - huzzah for you! It works out fine for me since I've got plans for Saturday the 22nd and will likely be out of pocket most of that day anyway.
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I am also not opposed to a break. As some of you know, my random and unforeseeable flying/sleeping schedule means I often end up missing a day or two here and there. I certainly can't complain when others have to do the same.
Enjoy the cruise! Will there be giant crabs? And skeletons? And gun-toting monkeys? And talking plants? And whatever awaits us in the depths of the ship? Cause if not, well pfffft, you call that a cruise?
Will move us along towards the cave tomorrow! Traveled back to the states today and the time change is kicking my butt. Barely made it through my player posts. Oof.
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Happy Father's Day to all you dads, grandpas, step-dads, godfathers, and father-figures out there! Hope you have a fantabulous day today!
If you (general you) have reason to find today sad rather than joyful, I hope you're able to have a good day today just the same. Hang in there, okay?
For everyone else, Happy Sunday :)
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With Father's Day being yesterday and this being a little important, I will update us again tomorrow morning! I'll bot it up if I have to then!
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I'm stuck too. Chhat doesn't really have anything to offer in this arena. Souja's a ranger and has wild empathy, so she might be able to calm it down. I've been holding out on posting to see what she does.
Healing might work. It was noted that we're all considered adjacent to the critter, so a healer should be able to touch it or use a wand without going swimming.
Souja's wild empathy (and with that killer roll) is a great start! Hopefully my next post will help y'all out.
I will be on vacation with limited to no internet access. I'll post if I can, but otherwise regular posting will resume on July 2nd.
Is Poblano still around? I saw on the Lodge board that someone pinged them on facebook, but I haven't heard heads or tails if that worked or not.
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The only follow-up to the FB ping that I saw was this post. So it sounds like he's okay but quite possibly pretty busy IRL at the moment.
Ok, well I hope Poblano is doing well! Being so close to the end, I think we will have to just keep pushing through. I will operate as though we were at four players unless they post again and will change back to five (wouldn't have made a difference thus far, they were present during the combat!).
Thanks! :D It was a lot of fun and I am sort of tan again! Hooray! It was very relaxing :) Glad to be back though!
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Glad you had a good time and hooray for being kinda-tan again!
Happy 4th of July to my fellow Americans and Happy Thursday/Friday to the rest of the world! Remember kids, it's not a proper rendition of the 1812 Overture unless it has the chimes and the cannons :)
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Howdy folks! Updates to follow later as I've got to get ready to go play some Starfinder shortly but if you're GMing for the upcoming Gameday VIII don't forget that GM Courtesty Signups will be opening soon, depending on your time zone! This means that GMs will be allowed to sign up, as a player, for 1 game early before player signups open to the general public. So if there's a table that you're really eyeballing, that'll be your chance to grab a spot :)
I'm really sorry Chhat, I do still want to read about your Matrix move! Perhaps in another dimension, with this exact same series of events, Souja knocked the dragon down to 1 hp and Chhat gets to steal the show! :D I'd like to see how that alternate dimension plays out.
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In an alternate universe….
Souja slams the dragon with her earthbreaker, sending dragon scales and bits of bone and gore flying into the sea and the vortex. Chhat knows she needs to get a clear shot, and there’s nowhere better than from above. She calls upon her personal reserves of guts and sprints toward the wall at the back of the cave, her feet churning across the sand, running supernaturally fast for such a small being. As she nears the wall, she leaps straight up while also bringing her feet up in front of her body. When her feet make contact with the back wall over 9 feet off the ground, she caroms off across the back of the cave, soaring just behind and over Willow. She flips in midair, again bringing her feet to the fore, and lands safely and cleanly atop the edge of the back wall another 7 feet above where she last touched the stone. Looking down at the top of the mangled dragon’s head from 16 feet above, she draws her pistol and begins to line up a shot….
Using one of the main features of the new Black Powder Vaulter archetype:
Daring Vault (Ex): A black powder vaulter can spend 1 grit point as a swift action to increase her land speed by 20 feet (gaining the appropriate bonus on Acrobatics checks to jump) until the end of her turn. If the black powder vaulter jumps while affected by this deed, she can make a second jump while midair if she is adjacent to a wall, column, or other solid, permanent structure. The second jump counts as having a running start even if the direction is different from the first jump. This deed replaces the gunslinger’s dodge deed.
Adding +8 for the increased land speed to her existing +12 Acrobatics skill means she taps long jumps up to 20’. And she can tap two 20’ long jumps in a double move. She can even reload as part of one of those jumps (different class ability.) Next level she gets Shot on the Run that works with both of those features. Draw, move, fire, move, and be reloading while caroming off walls, all in one round. Very Matrix!
That's so cool! Haha shame on you Souja ;) Control those dice of yours next time!
The tactics for the dragon are actually pretty solid IMO. They are explicitly required to fly away and use their breath weapon from 40ft up as often as possible, otherwise full-attack. The routine would have looked something like:
R1 - Withdraw 40ft into the air (150ft of flight and a decent fly mod, easy peasy)
R2 - 3d6 of acid in a line (so likely two of y'all)
R3 - Melee until breath weapon recharge
Repeat.
Not unstoppable by any means, but way better than some of the dragons I've seen where they just sit there and full-attack (lol or "it spreads it's attacks across as many foes as possible).
As far as fitting the dragon into the boat, you could totally do that if y'all wanted!
Any thoughts Chhat? Right now hauling the Monarch back is the winning plan.
Oh, come on Perrine, you don't want to hang out with crazy cultist people? ;)
If you want to try to convince them to join the PFS Concordance, hit them up with a diplomacy check! We will loiter here for one more day, then I'll wrap this bad boy up.
We are technically done here! I'll get the sheets up soon (hopefully tonight).
I hope you all had a good time, I know that last bit was slow and for that I apologize. While the scenario tries to squeeze a little too much into the last third, I was also a little slow on the draw some days.
Feel free to RP with the VC as you wish (I'll keep updating the thread), but otherwise your characters are free to go on their way! Full prestige and gold, y'all did really well! There were some easy to miss items and relatively random (or at least not obvious) secondary conditions that y'all sailed right through!
If you have any questions about the scenario, what I did, how/why I did something, feedback, etc. feel free to post here or send me a PM! I love talking about this sort of thing, so don't be shy if you've got something to say! :D
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No worries GM! I've really enjoyed the scenario and look forward to running it myself someday - thank you for running it for us! And thank you to all the other players; it's been a ton of fun and I enjoyed getting to bounce Willow off of the other characters and solidify her personality a bit.
All three of my vine leshies are/have been in active play and it's been AWESOME :D
*edit* As for GM feedback I'll try and get my thoughts to you soon, once I have a good chance to sit down and collect them. Having lamented (from the GM side of things) that it can be like pulling teeth to get genuine, useful feedback or constructive criticism from players, I've resolved to put my money where my mouth is when I'm on the player side of things and someone asks for feedback.
Please let me know if there are any details you would like me to amend. If you ever lose it, don't fret, I keep them all digitally! It takes like two minutes to send it to you again :)
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So apparently vanara were totally a real thing in Hindu mythology.
I was at the Batu Caves complex outside Kuala Lumpur today. Inside one cave there's all these life-size dioramas of Rama's life. One of them had these monkey-people standing in the group in front of his throne.
I don't usually take pics on my travels, but I had to have a picture of the vanara and needed to share it with someone. (I'm not on Facebook, so no "sharing" of every little detail of my life.)
There's also a pic of one of the monkeys that inhabit the caves and the shrines. The stupid tourists (the ones that are stupid, I mean, not all of them by any means) feed them, or the monkeys steal food from your bags.
Unfortunately, the vanara didn't have a gun, too. I guess that would have been asking too much.
We can't have matrix monkeys in real life, ok? Then we'd be screwed! :P
That's so cool! :D
Just FYI y'all, I will mark the thread as inactive this coming Monday!
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Thanks for running this. I had fun with it, even if I was sorta quiet for alot of the run. (Sorta the way I am socially all around though)
Did I miss the faction boon? It's crossed out on my sheet.
Oh, and Chhat? I loved the adoration you had for Souja. I just didn't have a good way to respond to it. Sorry if that upset you.
Gah! No, you should have earned it. I’m traveling right now, but I will get you the amended sheet on Sunday!
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Oh, and Chhat? I loved the adoration you had for Souja. I just didn't have a good way to respond to it. Sorry if that upset you.
Not upset at all! Not even in the slightest.
Actually, I think you responded exactly correctly. Souja seems like the big, strong, quiet type, so her lack of verbal response was completely in character.
In character, Chhat is a happy, sweet, friendly person and would not be upset with how Souja handled it. She's modeled off an amalgam of several of the young ladies I've dated in Asia. She's bi, but she's also fully aware that not everyone she likes is interested in her nor tolerant of her ways. And she's not offended by other people's attitudes or preferences. In fact the opposite - she celebrates diversity, variety and their discovery. She'd be upset if someone tried to force her to be someone she's not. She'd also be truly upset if someone felt like she was pressuring them to be someone they're not.
If anything, perhaps I owe you an apology if the situation made you, Blue Moose, uncomfortable. My limiting her to thoughts and gushing words which she shyly and self-consciously cut off, without trying to take it any further, was intended to forestall any pressure on you to have Souja respond. I took Souja's silence or chuckles as her in-character response of amused tolerance, much like how a star handles the gushing praise of a fan. I do truly apologize if I made you feel awkward or uncomfortable.
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Yay for having players discuss character actions and considering how that may make other players feel! Yay!
Yay for the GM issuing Souja's chronicle correctly! Yay! (same link, same name, different sheet!)
EDIT: Souja, please let me know when you successfully download your sheet. If anyone has NOT downloaded their sheet, please speak up. Otherwise, I will mark this thread as inactive once I hear from Souja.