GM Cellion's Dawn of Flame AP

Game Master Cellion

Some spell gems, maybe? Anything that's too specific to be worth a spell known, but stuff you really want to have on hand?

Cryo grenades? I think we're going to back to fighting fire creatures.

I really want to make a catch-up post, but I also kind of want to go to bed...

Got a dirty catch-up post up. Sorry for the quality and sorry it took this long. T_T

Sammad is too much of a professional for this, but every time an interrogation comes up in something I think of this scene from The Other Guys: Bad Cop, Bad Cop.

I always think of Bad Cop, Worse Cop from Tango and Cash

Do ysoki have weird burps?

I don't think they CAN...normal rats can't.

That's probably why it's so weird, because nobody expects them.

Heads up for everyone: I'm going to traveling from the 23rd through August 6th. A lot of that is going to be me very bored while I ride in a car, so I'll probably still get some posts in.

A while back I'd asked about adding bonus languages from increasing my intelligence, but forgot to actually assign any. Would it be unreasonable to pick Anassan now, or should I just stick with ones that would have otherwise been available to me at the time? I completely forgot about it, otherwise I probably would have put a rank into Culture from, say, Piloting or something like that.

That's OK by me Mari. The more folks that end up learning Anassan th merrier.

Thanks!

Flint already spend the Culture point on the language, but he is still doing the practice.

Oh I forgot to mention-I'm working nights through this coming Tuesday (July 26), and therefore my posting frequency will be...lessened. Feel free to bot me as needed!

As always, the dice roller seems to hate this character in particular. T_T

Thank god for high modifiers saving my skill rolls from dooming us all.

Thank god for high modifiers saving my skill rolls from dooming us all.

Note that whomever makes the primary roll gets +2 from Popoko and +4 from our sensors (and now +2 from Bel’s Aid Another) on that Computers Check.

Obviously our characters have more immediately concerns, but Ordyt would want to know if the Anassan city looks like the Burning Archipelago, or like Noma, or like neither. I'm wondering if maybe we haven't discovered the original architects of the Archipelago!

Well...that was kind of decent?

Obviously our characters have more immediately concerns, but Ordyt would want to know if the Anassan city looks like the Burning Archipelago, or like Noma, or like neither. I'm wondering if maybe we haven't discovered the original architects of the Archipelago!

The bubble tech in the Burning Archipelago, Noma, Kahlannal and even Ezorod have had similarities. Of the four, all except for Ezorod are clearly working from the same basic tech, with tweaks and changes that make the bubbles suited for different environments and purposes. Hold onto that last thought; maybe you'll cross paths with someone who can answer it ;)

As a heads up, I'm traveling from tomorrow until the 17th of August. I should be able to get some updates in fairly frequently, but hang tight if you don't hear from me for a few days.

Oh, NOW I finally get a good attack roll!

Wait, flaming tail? Oh s***, we're fightin' a Charizard!

WELL AKSHULLY, since it has no wings it’s a Charmeleon!

So we have remained in combat rounds and pushing through the building makes sense, but several of us are pretty banged up. Narratively and mechanically, is healing feasible?

Not yet! See the post in gameplay.

So team, do we want to get inside the building? From a story perspective, getting inside under cover seems like a good play.

From a metagame perspective, it seems like a perfect way to trigger a third encounter since the building probably has something/someone inside it. I'm not sure we would survive three near-simultaneous encounters.

Whoops, posted before I checked discussion. I think that going inside the building is probably not a great idea, since we don't know what's in there and I think we have some cover from all the debris out here.

Ah dang. In my gameplay post I said Coordinated Shot applies to enemies I'm flanking. That's not correct, I only have to be threatening them in melee.

So if y'all take a shot at Blue you get +1, and I believe it stacks with Get 'Em

Yeah, Coordinated Shot is one of those incredibly rare untyped bonuses.

My damage against Blue Azer should be 2 higher thanks to Get 'Em, out of an abundance of caution I didn't include that.

How bad is this? We're already pretty wounded and they're almost at full health...

Not the one that Flint just hit…

I think we’re okay, I’m pretty sure Blue is joining Red in Death. If we just focus fire and kill 1+ per turn we’ll be fine

Hey everyone, really sorry but there's been a bunch of fairly time/brain intensive stuff at both work and school, so I'm needing to get that sorted out.

Tis cool! I had a busy weekend too, with the Minnesota State Fair and all!

I think I have mentioned this previously, but just in case: I will be flying to Europe for vacation with my spouse this Friday, and won't be back until 9/16. Please feel free to bot me as necessary during that period :)

Thanks for your patience! IRL chaos is back down to manageable levels.

Do you think "anassanois" is pronounced with a hard or soft "s" at the end, or do they go full French and end it with "nwah"?

Thank you for being patient with me too. It's my birthday today!

Happy Birthday Bel!

And Mari, clearly, all the Ss are silent. :)

Happy belated, Bel!

¡Feliz cumpleaños!

I’ll be back in the states this weekend! I don’t know if that’ll be fast enough to help with the data center raid but I hope so!

For infiltration, Ordyt has a holoskin and can cast Disguise Self and we already have the Azers’ armor

IRL, I think kicking down both doors at once would be the way to go, but in a TTRPG that just seems like a way to turn the entire map into one big combat encounter. ;)

But the map being one big encounter would be fun, right? ;)

Yes, in the same way that it's fun in Dwarf Fortress when your sculptor goes on a killing spree in the mess hall after being possessed by the vengeful ghost of a cat.

Do we want to try the disguised approach? It might make us less identifiable from a distance and cause more confusion about what’s going one even when we go loud.