Hey Flash,
All the best to you and your family. Don't you worry about the game for now. Take care of your personal life first, as it is the most important!
Take care Flash. Hope all is on the mend.
No rush here.
Yeah, no rush. If it would help to just set a break (a few days, two weeks, whatever) so you don't have to worry about it, that's fine too.
I can't remember if Puzzle had learned Auran last time we encountered Sky - I seem to recall that communicating was problematic? I'll have to check.
Puzzle now has access to all elemental languages, so hopefully that will pay dividends down the track.
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Hey folks!
I'm back, mostly. Expect an actual game play post from me in the next 24 hours, and I should be able to resume daily-ish posting for the foreseeable future (this also applies to any games I might be a player in - you know who you are).
I'm spoilering a few sentences below that contain a quick summary of what was going on in real life for me. Feel free to read; the spoilers aren't to keep anything private (otherwise I wouldn't post it), but I totally understand if people want to keep their "real life with crappy medical situations" and "Starfinder" spheres separate.
Last week my father received a very challenging and unexpected cancer diagnosis. Most of my "free time" outside of work over the past week has been researching various treatment plans/options and working through that situation. We now have the treatment plan figured out as much as we can for at least the next couple of months, but it became all consuming for a bit there.
Glad to have you back, Flash!
Hey Flash,
I am glad to see you back. All the best to you and your family!
Happy to have you back, and please take all the time you need for your family.
Welcome back Flash. As Kate has already said, it's great to have you back.
Take as much time as you need.
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Thanks, everyone.
Out of character, does the "where we are in the AP" make sense? In summary, based on the stolen DCI data and the cryptic communication between 'S' and 'J', it seems like some very likely nefarious organization out there is looking for something/someone inside the sun (at least, that's what Nib thinks). Maybe related to "Noma". Nib's proposal is that you find a way to borrow/use this new sun diving ship (hey look, it's the title of book 3 of the AP: "Sun Divers") to start exploring around inside the sun to find whatever it is the probably nefarious organization is looking for before they do, and before the Corona Artifact Divers can, too.
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I think I understand where in AP we are. And it make sense. The fact that I can't wrap my head around is:
How are we suppose to borrow that ship? I would imagine such technology would give the divers a competitive advantage, then can go deeper into the sun and collect stuff. DCI believes they hold a moral high-ground over the divers => they don't want to work together etc.
Why they would want us to take their ship?
To be creative with solutions: I can see us stealing the ship? But that could cost us our current position (building and all other assets),
I can see us applying for a position in the divers organization and as a part of our 'job' take the ship inside the sun and look for Noma.
But it could be that I am missing something.
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You're not missing anything; this is sort of as crazy as it sounds on the surface.
Is something else at play here?
Did Nib just hear about this super ship and is trusting you all to figure it out, because she doesn't actually have a plan to stop her life's work from being ruined and/or plundered by either pseduo-treasure hunters or a mysterious organization from who knows where, or both?
*Mysterious music plays in the background*
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And here comes the angle. We make sure that Lurian is drunk as a sun sailor and trick her into playing us cards.
It is like Ocean's 11, but instead of the casino we will try to beat Lurian, and there will be no crew of 11 but 5. And on top of that, we hold no moral high ground, and we lack Bratt Pitt. Bet besides all that, it is just like Ocean's 11... :P
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Without getting too spoilery or too ranty, this AP has been sort of funny for me to read and run. Like you thought you were signing up to play an AP involving strange alien technologies, maybe some planar travel, and delving deep into the mysteries of the sun, but it turns out you actually were signing up to play an AP that revolved around interacting with/against organized and semi-organized criminal groups!
Seriously, you've got the Sunrise Collective militia and the Brass Dragons in the first book; the Brass Dragons again, Mama Throsh's Bloodshots/Cryo-Gentics, and briefly the Sirocco gang in book 2; and now it looks like we're starting out book 3 with a casino that's (shockingly) actually a front for a criminal enterprise. And along the way you semi-legally came to occupy the burned out husk of an old athletics club on the literal edge of the most lawless of the bubble cities, made "friends" with an ikeshti gang leader who owns basically a dinosaur, and Kit's spending his spare time in a literal underground vehicle chop shop.
Who knew the Burning Archipelago was so lawless.
That is so true!
Reading over that, I now think we're going about this the wrong way - we've already moved in and taken over turf, set up a chopshop and rec club, now we need to establish a "protection scheme" for local businesses and get some of thevlocal law enforcement on our payroll.
Kit is completely on board with all of these ideas.
And here comes the angle. We make sure that Lurian is drunk as a sun sailor and trick her into playing us cards.
It is like Ocean's 11, but instead of the casino we will try to beat Lurian, and there will be no crew of 11 but 5. And on top of that, we hold no moral high ground, and we lack Bratt Pitt. Bet besides all that, it is just like Ocean's 11... :P
Did they really have any moral high ground in that movie? In the end they, acted out of greed, jealousy over an ex, and spite from a failed business rival.
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Did they really have any moral high ground in that movie? In the end they, acted out of greed, jealousy over an ex, and spite from a failed business rival.
And I always thought you are the romantic in our group. It was not jealousy over an ex, but a great and never extinguished love that moved them :D
And with regards to the AP, yeah I went with the idea to create a scientist and so far it did not prove useful :( Darn it!
Hope you don't mind, GM, I pulled in one of the templates I have handy for this sort of thing (and linked my spell templates deck).
Enjoy the vacation, Flash!
Just a quick post to help formulate a plan.
Puzzle has 3 rifles and a knife. Might be able to wear the knife openly and allowed entry? Possibly same for anyone else's pistol?
My thoughts for if we want to try and sneak a weapon in - Puzzle can use Bluff to create a diversion. Either to cover for someone else or themself as a weapon is concealed somehow or a checked weapon might not get lost in the fracas and not get checked in afterall?
Sorry to take a while between posts. I've been kept a little busy by RL happenings.
Looking forward to seeing what the casino will hold in store.
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No worries, Puzzle/Supersuperlative!
Since the party's checking their weapons and going into the casino through the front door, tomorrow I'll plan on posting about all of the ways to win wealth and fabulous prizes inside the casino. Maybe you'll even find that pilot you're looking for, too!
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Since the party's checking their weapons and going into the casino through the front door...
Ehh what? there were other options? You tricked us! by sending this nice clerk who asked us to give our weapons
:P
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Ok, chaps!
This is what we should do:
- We are looking for a woman with a gambling problem: Frankie Four Fingers
- We should follow her footsteps and get into a game betting our building :P
- Meet her in a dodgy alley beaten similarly to us when it turns out that we have no certificate of ownership of that building
Everyone is ok with the plan? :D
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Hey everyone. Sorry for delayed posting - this week has been flat out professionally and personally.
I don't want to rush the post, so to give you an idea, Puzzle intends to follow casino ettiquette and purchase some V$. They will play some small stakes games (to maybe help glean some extra info) as we search for the MIA.
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Kit has 39cr, and he's happy to contribute toward a chip buy in if we decide to go that way. I'm not really sure what playing the skimmer table gets us, though, since we don't see her here. If we're going to be limited in how many games we can play with our limited funds, it might be better to save them in case we need to buy in to a game she's playing in order to get her to listen.
Tomorrow I can provide a description quick walk around all of the currently accessible areas of the casino if that would help the party's decision making process. The post will be on the lengthier side so won't be finished tonight.
And you might just run into her in the third room! Wouldn't that be convenient...
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Since I don't think there's a perform skill anymore...how do you (pretend to) be a band in Starfinder? Other then actually having a profession that let's you do that...bluff? or diplomacy? pure charisma check?
If so, Charming Veneer's all around and we'll try to do something for 10 minutes without making too big of a fool of our selves? ;)
I do recommend 1 or 2 of us not being on stage btw..just in case we spot our "mark" and need to follow without leaping from the stage and drawing more attention to ourselves.
Probably best to keep Kit off the stage anyway, with his 8 charisma.
I will probably have trouble posting much during PaizoCon this weekend.
If you want to see me ramble on about Starfinder, though, I'll be on the Secrets of the Pact Worlds panel on Saturday at 5pm Pacific!
No problemo. Enjoy PaizoCon everyone who's attending!
Sadly, I'm not able to. Hopefully Know Direction will be recording panels again this year and I'll be able to catch the podcast version!
Speaking of podcasts, both you and Dennis featured indirectly on the most recent Digital Divination (John was discussing a particular scenario and mentioned a recent game he had played, along with some of the players at the table). I realise that I don't actually know either of you, but I got a buzz for you nonetheless!
Neat! It was fun to play with John, even if that scenario was....not my favorite.
@GM - the next week I will have a spontaneous vacation. I am not certain if I will be able to post on daily basis, I should, but I can't say for certain.
I will fill the botting section for Vedrir if you would have to bot me.
Sorry about the delay in posting. The past week has been crazy and it took me several days to chip away at a post (needing to rework it a number of times to reflect the posts of you all more timely folks!).
Also, boy, I'm sorry about those poor rolls... yeesh.
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I've been listening to the Know Direction episodes of the PaizoCon panels (Hi, Kate!) and having an absolutely grand time.
As I listened to the discussion of the various adventures, I was amused by the thought of Fly, Free or Die as a prequel for our current game - how we met, came into possession of the ACN-1, became a crew and subsequent shenanigans.
Given recent events, we also have a possibly delicious side quest to look into in Band on the Run, starring Wyrd.
;)
FYI, Kate and I will be away from our computers for the next few days, and may not be able to post between this evening and Tuesday evening. Feel free to bot Kit as needed.
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Vedrir wrote: Why don't we be owners of the casino ;)
I'm not against this...but how do you propose doing this? Killing all of the current owners and just saying it's ours now?
Shall we start with a computer search to find out more about the ownership structure of the casino and see how big the list is we need to work our way through?
Or do you want to pull an Oceans 2209 and steal the casino out from under them somehow?
Organizing a big concert with Wyrd headlining and earning millions by being our own recording studio and buying the casino after we've run propaganda on them dropping their price to an affordable level? Leaking rats and cockroaches into their kitchen, accusing them of cheating in a public forum, cheating ourselves to win more money, hacking computers so that their big spenders don't have rooms waiting for them / rebook their rooms to the most crappy ones available, just doing a straight up robbery so they don't have the cash to pay out their customers? Start a rival casino and just compete them out of business somehow?
Agreed. Kit being a smart-alec about Wyrd singing felt like the character move, but I agree that we're probably best off working with the casino in this case.
Yeah, I think we should definitely start to work with them. Then we will see. For us to 'own the cassino' would probably mean to be heads of that organization (eliminated whoever is there and make sure that we are chosen to replace them). We don't have such man power, and legally evern if we kill them all it will not be ours.
So let us start working with them and we will keep our eyes open.
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Hey folks,
My apologies for not keeping you updated; this is my first time logging onto Paizo's website since the last post almost two weeks ago. Since that time
After chemotherapy proved ineffective and after failing to be placed in a clinical trial, my father has decided to discontinue seeking treatment for his cancer. As I live less than 20 minutes from his house, I've been spending time with him, trying to help out, have met with hospice and planning for care to be provided for as much time as he has left. We're not sure how long that will be, but if I had to guess we're measuring time in weeks rather than months.
Most of my days have been somewhere on the scale of emotionally draining to exhausting.
To say I need a break is sort of stating the obvious, since I haven't been posting in over 10 days. I guess what I'd like to say is I need a planned break, which I guess what this post is announcing.
When I first started a six-part starfinder AP with you all back in late 2019 (wow), I knew going into it that it would be a multi-year endeavor. It pains me a little bit that we're just now almost to the part about the sun that the AP is actually about, unless you're just here for the semi-organized crime fighting, but I just haven't had the energy or inclination to make anything close to routine posts (as you might have noticed).
That being said, I do want to say that it is my intention for this to be a break from posting rather than an early conclusion to the AP shortly after the start of book 3. If or when we decide to call it a campaign (hopefully after the conclusion of book 6), I do not intend to leave you all hanging without a goodbye or a thank you (not to mention a chronicle sheet) after all this time.
I really have and do enjoy running for you all, but real life just is making that not feasible for me right now. Assuming you all are willing, I'd like to get back with you in the second half of July and just see how things go for me and my family in the interim. This is a totally made up date, but I'll plan on checking back in on or by July 20.
If you'd prefer to discontinue participating in the campaign or try to find another GM, honestly I understand. I think we have a really good group that deserves a better ending to the story than leaving off here.
I'll poke around here for a day or two to let everybody see this and respond (assuming you all aren't also in the middle of taking week+ breaks) and the probably take a break until that ~July 20 time frame when I'll plan on checking back in.
Thanks everyone.