Flash's Fire Starters

Game Master AFlashInTime

I'm good with running after them.

I just managed to make it back on the site.

Lucky I could still read the general forums and find out that I needed to delete Paizo site cookies to be able to sign back in...but I'm wondering why they don't put that on the front page. Took me 2 days to figure out how to do it.....I got real confused when I signed back in and it did nothing.

Since we are down to Nomyra's last resolve point I'm going to bring up part from the line weapon properties:
..if an attack fails to damage a creature or obstacle hit in the line (typically due to damage reduction or hardness), the path is stopped and the attack doesn’t damage creatures farther away..

It's a bit unclear from current positions on whom who would be the first to be hit, but it was my intention for Wyrd to be that person to act as a human (..well tiefling) shield to block attacks against Nomyra.

So what I'm asking is if the GM is ok with Wyrd taking the first hit and blocking the line from hitting people behind him.

On a related note, do you lose RP if you're hit while stable? I thought that just knocked you back to dying.

Well, it seems I mis-applied the line and damage while stable rules for this combat.

Revvy, thanks for pointing that out on the "line" weapon description. Since Wyrd didn't take damage, the line would have stopped and not damaged Nomyra/Kit. This would have allowed Nomyra to keep her last RP.

And Dennis, you're correct. I carried over the rules of taking damage resulting in RP loss from when the bleed happening before stabilization, but as you said, that only knocks somebody from stable to dying and doesn't burn an RP right away.

Since we've been playing the PC turns in basically any order instead of going in strict turn order when it comes to effects, I believe Nomyra had two RP when the grenade went off, but Vedrir's stabilizing would've prevented the loss of one because it stabilized Nomyra. Then, it turns out Nomyra didn't actually take damage from the line, so she would be at 5 HP and 2 RP remaining after Kit's serum.

Apologies for the errors on this one. Even after two and a half years of Starfinder, I really haven't used the death/dying/stabilize rules on very many occasions beyond buring RP to stabilize and get back in the fight. I think I've really had to use them five times or less, and between this fight and the end of book one, this AP counts for probably half of those times.

Thanks, Flash! I don't know these rules that well myself.

Yeah, me neither. I just happened to have looked that particular one up the other day. Those rules (thankfully, IMO) come up so rarely, it's hard to keep them straight. Thanks!

@GM no need to apologize. We all make mistakes.

Yeah dying rules in SFS are not known to me either. But in PF2 I know them inside out, especially after playing Fall of Plaguestone, as you fall in plaguestone multiple times:P hence the name.

I keep messing rules up between various systems all the time, no need to apologize on my account ;)

Party's up. I think HP are correct now.

Wyrd -3

I think this is for the current combat and is the damage from the cold grenade. Wyrd also has resist 5 cold thanks to him being a Tiefling.

I still have 8 damage from a previous fight, but so far Wyrd hasn't taken any damage during this fight.

Oops, I missed tieflings have cold damage resistance too! Nevermind, no damage taken this fight for Wyrd. :)

@Dennis I just finished the Q-7 Curious Claim and I liked it. It was engaging, had good skill checks and I liked the fight. Unfortunately, I played goblin cavalier, who relies upon mobility and throwing bombs :) And with the trap triggering at a short distance I could not play to his strengths but it was a fun game.

Thanks, @Dennis!

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

Lol, love the sign details (which I'm guessing you added, or at least embellished). Nice little easter egg for SFS players.

"The White Rat" was in the book, but the sign was inspired!

Congrats everybody! We've made it to the end of the Dawn of Flame AP's book 2! And while there are still some things to run down (Balto, for instance), I think we can take as a given your continued employment with the DCI as you continue trying to unravel these mysteries.

Since I want to ask everybody before each book, is everybody good with continuing into book 3?

And, out-of-character, I'd apprecaite your comments/thoughts on anything AP-related so far. What do you think of the story so far?

And (last thing for now), please give me your SFS character information (player name/character name/SFS #/faction/day job roll) for the character to which you want to apply book 2. This book can be applied to a character levels 3-4 (or a character that's level 1-2 if you don't mind waiting to level it up before it takes effect).

Once everybody responds with character info, I'll try to have the chronicles loaded up this weekend.

Player: Dennis Muldoon
Character: (unnamed)
SFS#: 215589-713
Faction: Second Seekers (Ehu Hadif)
No day job yet.

Since I want to ask everybody before each book, is everybody good with continuing into book 3?

And, out-of-character, I'd apprecaite your comments/thoughts on anything AP-related so far. What do you think of the story so far?

I'm having fun and am good to continue into book 3. I'm looking forward to where this takes us from here, and curious if we'll run into Jalusann again.

First chronicle info
Player: Farol
Character: Vecro
SFS#: 2359780-702
Faction: Wayfinders
No day job (yet, but he will be hired in DCI :P)

@GM - not much feedback to you. I like how we are progressing and I love the story arch. I am a bit let down that I can't connect better to Vedrir. I feel like I have the least amount of ideas for him as my PC (compared to the other tables that I play at). And it makes me sad, and I will try to change it before the end of the AP :D

With regards to book 2, I liked the additional encounters (the ones in the market). I think it had more of a dungeon crawl feel than the actual investigation, I think from the diversity of things to do I liked the first book more.

But yea still engaged and I like the fact of us hoarding resources: getting a new ship from part 1, getting a building and a car in part 2. Next to come to our own planet with a mining facility :D

Thanks GM Flash!

Still having a great time and absolutely on board for Book 3.

That was a pretty heavy slog through the Brass Dragon HQ - especially that last encounter. I wasn't sure that we were all going to make it. Bummed that Jalusann got away!

By the way, Dennis, I loved it when Kit picked up her weapon and then threw it away! I was like, "Why the he'll didn't I think of that?!"

Farol, Ha! Our own planet and mining facility! Love it.

Player: Supersuperlative
Character: Unnamed
SFS: 274536-704
Faction: SS (Ehu Hadif)
No day job

Yes, I definitely want to continue! Nomyra is seriously motivated to track down Jalusann.

Player: Kate
Character: Pamatea
SFS#: 215650-711
Faction: Second Seekers (Ehu Hadif)
Day Job: Profession (scientist): 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18

I've been a bit lax in posting this past week. Work got a bit nuts and I was able to keep up with reading but I was unable to sit down behind a keyboard and write a meaning full post till now.

I'd still like to continue with the next book. Looking forward to finding out how the story continues.

About the story so far..I'll admit I was hoping for a bit more about the ship we found that came out of the sun/portal. To me it feels a bit like 2 separate stories as opposed to one longer one. Maybe I'm just missing the overall connection and it will become more clear in the next book(s). But I realy enjoy our group and how we handle (or try to handle at least) the encounters we have.

Player: Eric
Character: Jahku
SFS: 13475-709
Faction: SS (Ehu Hadif)
No day job

And I think the answer is yes, but it's good to check...did we just level up ? ;)

To me it feels a bit like 2 separate stories as opposed to one longer one. Maybe I'm just missing the overall connection and it will become more clear in the next book(s).

I've been wondering about that as well... just thinking back over how the various elements of the story link together.

There has been the repeated links to the fire plane throughout the adventure - starting with the appearance of the ship through the portal, the types of creatures we've encountered and prevalence of Ignan language.

@GM Flash: speaking of which - did Puzzle glean anything from their cram session with the Ignan tomes?

And I think the answer is yes, but it's good to check...did we just level up ? ;)

Oooh, great question! *awaits reply with bated breath*

Yes, you're all level 5! Also I'll have notes on Puzzle's notes and some happenings around the Burning Archipelago before the next update (TBD) that might relate things back together.

One of the complaints that I've read others have had about the AP is that Dawn of Flame takes a little bit of time to get around to the "main story" of the AP (not that what you've been doing isn't the main story, but you're on the sun working for an organization interested in contacting cultures that live within the sun, so...).

I suspect this could feel especially long in a play-by-post that we've spent the past ~16 months on basically doing (comparatively) "normal" types of adventuring. We start off with a mysterious ship and a whale from the plane of fire for a month or so, and then we transition to civil unrest and gang politics for over a year.

Thanks for hanging in there!

I have Kit leveled up. Main changes at this level:

I probably need till Monday before I update Vedrir.

Ok Vedrir is updated. It turned out I forgot about extra skill points that biohacker gets so I have way more skills (well not way more, but more :)).

Either way, beside Ysoki spiel do we actually get some money with this level up?

Oh, yeah...things ;)

Do we do what we did last time with that basically you can start your equipment from 0 again?So I can go shopping for fun things? Or do we do something else this time around?

Puzzle is just about levelled. Just need to finalise the feat and update the offensive stats and botting on profile.

Hey folks, some things came up that I needed to take care of at work, so I spent a good part of the weekend on that and not, unfortunately, on Dawn of FLame, so it'll still be a few days before I have that update for you all.

In the meantime, enjoy 3,000 credits each from a combination of DCI payments and the cumultive selling of the gear found throughout the second half of the book!

Thanks GM Flash!

I can't remember, is that amount in lieu of any gear/items collected throughout the book?

ie. I picked up some graphite carbon skin from one of our foes. Has that now gone *poof* and I need to purchase some new armour using those creds?

Woo!

I had a big freelance project due yesterday, but I should be able to get Nomyra leveled tonight.

Puzzle - right, the "poof, have some money" system seemed easier for balance/accounting.

Thanks for the clarification. Will finish the level/purchases soon.

Nice. New weapon with a conserving fusion (almost mandatory for an overcharging mechanic), here I come.

I'm a touch confused: is 3,000 credits for the whole book or the second half? I don't think we had a payout between levels 3 and 4.

I have been looking at shopping items and am hard pressed to afford an on level piece of weapon or armour.

I was beginning to wonder if I'd missed something. Being my first AP, I was thinking that I'd been spoiled by SFS payouts.

Sorry! 3,000 credits was for the second half, the whole book total should be 5,000 credits.

Your total character wealth (purchase price of item + free credits - consumables used) should be about 9,000 credits or so once you finish leveling up. If that's substantially off, let me know and I will adjust going forward.

With that bump from 3000 to 5000, Kit's total wealth (gear + cash) is just over 9000cr, so I think we're at the right point.

That makes more sense, thank you!

Taking a quick look, it seems about 9000 for Puzzle too. Thanks, Flash.

Look, Chronicles!

Please let me know if anything looks off or if you have trouble accessing. Also, the game has been reported, so let me know if it isn't showing up for anybody.

The next update post from me should be in the next day or two. Anybody need any more time for character updating before we restart Gameplay?

Chronicle looks good, thank you! I will finish purchasing today.

Nomyra's all set! Bought the best armor I could afford!

Thank for the chronicle, Flash.

Puzzle's pretty much set. That was a difficult round of shopping - so many nice things, so little credits (relatively speaking).

I took the opposite approach and didn't upgrade armour, rolling the dice that something serviceable will turn up. Although Puzzle and Nomyra are practically polar opposites in terms of their risk of getting up close and personal and being punched in the face.

The major purchase was a new long arm for that bit of extra bite. Oh, and also tossed some credits in for a medkit - figured it was time to stop sponging from Vedrir.

Just FYI, Vedrir custom microlab turned this round into an advanced medkit. And yeah shopping for Vedrir was simple. The new weapon costs 4.5 k which eat all of Vedrir's budget :(

The advanced medkit is a nice upgrade.

Looking forward to seeing what everyone rolls out with when we kick off the next book.

I thought I had finalised my purchases, then second guessed myself and took a different route. Then, decided to change back again. Let's see how/if it pays off.

And we've started book 3! Thanks to everybody for your patience on me getting things going. Not to become a broken record at this point, but this has been a relatively eventful past few weeks for me in real life. I'm glad I was able to finally sit down for a bit and wrap up some of the book 2 story and get us on the road to book 3! Feel free to ask any questions of Nib in Gameplay before setting out to meet with the Corona Artifact Divers!

Well, when it rains, it pours. Sorry for dropping off the face of the earth, but now this week I had a family medical situation come up that's required a lot of time and energy, and I haven't been able to get around to getting a solid post together. Trying again "tomorrow" (aka later today, since it's now almost 1 am where I am) but thank you for your patience and understanding as I work through this.

Take your time, family and medical situations are more important then posting.

Well be here when you have more time.