@Paddy, Murillo, thanks!
As for the battle. I enjoyed it. (Just because I don’t want to play a murdering thief, doesn’t mean I didn’t have a good time.) Admittedly, Saph was going out of her way to brutalize one faction so the other faction would drop weapons. It would have been a tougher fight if we fought everyone on the ship, though I suspect only marginally so since the ones we didn’t kill were likely weaker than the guards.
But I liked that the GM treated the NPCs as people. We already killed two and weakened others, and the helmsman played possum so he could guzzle a healing potion while we seek other targets. It wouldn’t have made sense for the whole ship to band against us after the guards betrayed the crew (unless we killed people of both factions). Considering it seemed to be a test of what the crew (and officers…heh?) are willing and able to do, I think the raid served that purpose.
Not like you can know how tough a random ship will be, anyway. When you’re fishing for a barracuda, you might catch a guppy or a shark. (That sounds like something a monk would say! Or a fortune cookie… yeah.)
I should be able to make longer post in about 12 hours. I'm fine with either piracy or treasure, but if piracy I think we should research and pick a target, ie a specific ship, or type/nationality of ship, something along those lines, rather than just cruising a section of sea and waiting for whatever turns up.
So far I/Murillo haven't been too proactive in pushing the game forward, but with our return to port I plan to start trying to establish contacts and connections within the pirate community to assist with info gathering/plot hooks.
Let's get back to port. We can hunt down that captain that wants help recovering his cargo. On top of the money made for treasure hunting, it would get Murillo a contact. We can alternate between the two activities (peppering in saving princesses and defeating mad lost sea gods quests here and there)
:)
Any objections?
As of right now I have no internet please bot me as necessary.
Let's get back to port. We can hunt down that captain that wants help recovering his cargo. On top of the money made for treasure hunting, it would get Murillo a contact. We can alternate between the two activities (peppering in saving princesses and defeating mad lost sea gods quests here and there)
:)
Any objections?
Plus, the whole "Let's get rid of the juvie bulette we have in the ship" thing. :D
Woo-hoo! My internet is back!
Grats. I will likely lose mine later this week, as NJ is supposed to get hammered by the winter storm that's coming. Last forecast said 15ish inches. /wince
Alabama would cease to exist if we got a third of that... good luck!!!
Where I live (western NY) 15 inches doesn’t even guarantee a snow day for the kids. If it all fell in one night they almost definitely would, but if it’s spread out over like 36 hours they probably wouldn’t close anything at all. Although, I don’t mean that at all to diminish any concerns; we’re accustomed to that and have the infrastructure in place to handle it (without standing, experienced teams of plows and salters that’s going to be difficult to deal with for sure). Also, go Bills!
Kids here haven't had a snowday since the 1990s. I remember building snowmen and an igloo with my father and sister. Good times.
Blizzard of ’93—did running flip-jumps over the rail, landing sprawled on my back in the snow. Several times. Without hurting myself. The snow was that deep.
I think I’ll teach remotely the rest of the week. I can’t compare to upstate NY, but the phrase “ten to sixteen inches” don’t make me want to jump on the Mass Pike before dawn.
How many days out of port are we again?
Good question, we have diplomacy checks to make crew happy to make. And crafting of course thanks to our wizardress :)
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Uh, also, sooner or later someone's gonna have to feed that thing...
:: fails diplomacy check ::
Indifferent, eh? Let’s see how indifferent you are when we feed you to the beast! Devour this nihilist, Waffles! Sic ’im!
Uh, also, sooner or later someone's gonna have to feed that thing...
Lol, and figure out how to keep it unconscious...
I believe you were 5 or maybe 6 six days out of Port Peril? There are certainly closer ports though (Port Peril is actually pretty much the furthest major port from you in the Shackles).
Also, 16 new posts? You guys had a busy afternoon.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
waffles do that to people
I can picture Aersten in Mrs. Crabapple’s classroom.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
The way these INT checks are going, Waffles could beat the entire crew in a game of chess, then eat the ship!
The way these INT checks are going, Waffles could beat the entire crew in a game of chess, then eat the ship!
Lol! I’ll let Murillo take a stab at it before I start rolling for NPCs.
The way these INT checks are going, Waffles could beat the entire crew in a game of chess, then eat the ship!
(cut to Waffles beating the pants off all the officers at Trivial Pursuit)
Aersten glares at his game piece, totally devoid of wedges."It's no fair, I keep getting Arts & Literature!"
Mechanically speaking, Saph and others could just nonlethally punch it every hour.
But yeah… hoping Murillo will roll better (than all of us added together).
I got my internet back for this?
I got my internet back for this?
Oh! Was I promoting animal cruelty? Must be the nat.1 in INT doing the talking.
I knew I should’ve gone with my other idea to level-grind in shark-infested waters and get the Monstrous Companion feat.
I got my internet back for this?Oh! Was I promoting animal cruelty? Must be the nat.1 in INT doing the talking.
I knew I should’ve gone with my other idea to level-grind in shark-infested waters and get the Monstrous Companion feat.
I was actually referring to the Nat 1 I rolled in the game just before I posted that but yeah this game has taken a deliciously weird turn since we got Waffles.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
It’s quite a string of bad rolls. Was Paddy’s 10 the best roll?
If he uses that to aid another, I think we just drag him down into our pit of failure.
Death by waffles isn’t the worst way to go.
So, I couldn't find a map of the Shackles that had high enough definition to really be legible, but I did add one to my banner. Port Peril is pretty easy to read, and Hell Harbor isn't terrible (north of there). Drenchport you can kind of make out (northwest of Hell Harbor). Quent is the one that kind of looks like Ovent (west of Port Peril), and Ollo is sort of legible (further west of Quent).
The map on the Shackles wiki page is fairly useless but the geography section has links for the six main regions of the Shackles and those pages include notes or links for the settlements I mentioned plus more of the smaller ones.
If you all could give me a few items you would each like to have created I will make a list so that Aerin will have items to work on in her downtime.
If you all could give me a few items you would each like to have created I will make a list so that Aerin will have items to work on in her downtime.
First thing that comes to mind is an Amulet of Natural Armor, please & thanks! :)
Hedy, just curious, on the crew influence checks you just made, what're the +5s for that you threw on the end? I'm still ramping up on this and I want to make sure I don't miss anything.
focused scrutiny. One of the extracts she prepares daily.
For checks that represent a whole day's effort (like influencing the crew or building your infamy) I'll allow you to apply buffs that have an hour/level duration (or greater), but not 10 min/level or lower. Sorry, Hedy (although, it looks like you bumped them each a full level in one check even without it).
Also, I remember there being several items people were looking to have Aerin craft when we set out from Port Peril but now Aersten's amulet is the only thing that's been mentioned... is everyone else just letting him go first?
I knew it was a once a day thing but not an ALL day thing. While that is fine mechanically, can we please not treat it like Hedy is spending all day talking to a single crew member cause that is a tad ridiculous.
Is this the crafting been done from now to the port or from the peril to now? I thought the latter was already done.
We only had like 4-5 days for crafting from Port Peril to the fight, which I didn’t think was enough time for everything in Aerin’s queue. So, I was wondering what was still being waited for besides Aersten’s new request?
Also, I was picturing the influence check as representing a handful of strategic conversations scattered throughout the day, although now that you protest I think the idea of the captain just following someone around the entire day talking to them as they try to do their job is kind of hilarious.
:)
Hedy had asked for...
---
Aerin would you craft Hedy's cloak of resistance +1 to a cloak of resistance +2? 3000 total cost.
Also at one point, a talisman of beneficial winds, greater. 500 total cost.
---
Also, I was picturing the influence check as representing a handful of strategic conversations scattered throughout the day, although now that you protest I think the idea of the captain just following someone around the entire day talking to them as they try to do their job is kind of hilarious.
Having my boss that interested in what I'm doing generally sets my attitude to "Hostile-" for like the rest of the week. :)
I’m crazy busy this week so I ask your patience and forgiveness if/when my post are slow or sporadic.
No problem. All part of "'tis the season!"
No problem. All part of "'tis the season!"
No joke there. In addition to the holidays, I have my anniversary, and my older son's birthday. Kind of a full dance card here. :)
Happy Holidays to all for you, for any and all things you might celebrate.
Have a: Happy Holiday! / Amazing Anniversary! / Merry Christmas! / Fantastic Friday! / Great Nap Day!
:)
Yes, Happy Holidays to all! And, congrats Aersten! I wish mine was more fun stuff but on top of all the holiday preparations/gathering/etc I still have to do most of a normal week's work plus an extra week's work due on the 24th. I'll try to get us into port soon though so you all can at least drink and RP until I can get back to posting more regularly.
Happy anniversary and/or other holidays!
In my house, from the 23rd to 29th:
• My birthday
• Christmas
• My mother-in-law’s birthday
• My oldest daughter’s birthday
And so I end the year 2020 with a teenager in the house.
Grats!
And also, deepest sympathies! :D (The Boy in question is 11 going on 28, so I can relate a bit.)
Ouch! You all are going to be busy. I have 1 son with a birthday a week before Christmas, one right after New Year's, and my daughter and I share a month. However they're all grown so no obligations to do anything with them. But Happy/Merry Whatever-You've-Got-Going-On Day!
I’m not only busy, but way behind on cookie decorating!
First batch: Chun-Li, amazons, fairies, and a buck-toothed heart
/IDEA
It just can't be that hard to make a cookie cutter in the shape of a Sarenite holy symbol, can it?
The heart is my favorite.
I'm partial to the little dogs myself. :)
So Saph, are you heading out at this port?