[SFS/Shifty] Frozen Ambitions Arc (C) (Inactive)

Game Master Nik B.

This is the discussion thread for the ongoing Frozen Ambitions scenario arc.
As the characters will (likely!) remain the same for the remaining two instalments, we will just remain in this thread til the end of the series.

Please provide the following for your PC:
Name:
Character Name:
SFS ID and character number:
Faction:
Day job Roll:
Boons (Happy for this to occur after the briefing)

Name: Keith (phaeton_nz)
Character Name: Ayoka Quonx
SFS ID and character number: 124312-719
Faction: Dataphiles
Day job Roll: Vidgamer: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (5) + 15 = 20

Skittermander Mechanic(Exocortex) - 1 | Mystic(Star Shamen) - 1
Datajockey Archetype

Name: Farol
Character Name: Buddy Jabo
SFS ID: 2359780-711
Faction: Second Seeker (Ehu Hadif)
Day Job Roll (I will roll it after update to lvl 2 - need a day or two)

Boons: there are no boons :P

Name: Mjolbeard
Character Name: Szama
SFS ID and character number: 177216-707
Faction: Acquisitives
Day job Roll: N/A
Boons: TBD

Player name: Redelia
Character name: Squizzer
Number: 838-707
Faction: Dataphiles
no day job
Boons: to be decided

note: Squizzer needs to level up to 3. I will get that done as quickly as possible.

Name: Jim Crase
Character Name: Guiseppelia Ba'drys Olyvia Nandell Eve Shirley, or 'Joe Bones'
SFS ID and character number: 56565-11
Faction: Second Seeker Jadnura
Day job Roll: Profession (Surgeon): 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (13) + 16 = 29

And I am now 3.1 in level.....got to add skitter crash to my character finally.

Name: Agent Eclipse
Character Name: Mujina
SFS ID and character number: 54329-706
Faction: Acquisitives
Day job Roll: Profession: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17

Profession (drummer): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (1) + 11 = 12

Ok, Buddy is ready! Upgraded to level 2!

I have Joe upgraded on paper...will get her finalized and entered in today (when I have 10 minutes of downtime).

Edit: Joe is entered in.

Hey Fellow Skitters and skitter-GM

So it seems that within the next 2 scenarios (this and next) I need to GM 1 scenario to give credit to Buddy so that he hits lvl 3 to play together with the last scenario for the arch. Which is a long way of me saying within the next 2 weeks I will GM my first scenario.

I've decided to run 1-16 Dreaming of the Future which is 1-4 repeatable quest. From all of the repeatable scenarios, I saw this one only a few times.

Is there anyone willing to play at my table, as this will be my first attempt to GM please expect a bumpy ride (lowering expectations is my best way to surprise you with mediocre quality :P).

If any one of you would be interested and have the capacity I would appreciate it, as on my first table I prefer to have fewer random players and more familiar ones. Especially the ones that can provide feedback and spot my mistakes. Ideally, I would like to get a team of 4 known to me players before I announce the game.

@Shifty - sorry for advertising on your thread. Please let me know if any of you are interested.

No problem at all!

It's all pretty much family in here at the moment :p

On the road with work - so after this mornings posts I'll be offline til tomorrow night (~36 hours)

Important Twitter content for this crew: All-Six

OH MY!

Is that Vesk artwork in the scenario, or did you put it together....if it is in the scenario...I plan on stealing it!!!!!

Thats in the scenario :)

My brain is mushy, what do you want Squizzer to use diplomacy to ask/say?

I'm very sorry everyone, but I'm at a bad point of burnout with RPGs online right now. I need to take a long weekend off before it gets so bad I need a lot longer time off. As of now, I'm not going to check on this game again until Monday. Please bot Squizzer as needed; it's OK to use spells or consumables if needed.

All good - rest up!

@GM - DId Mujina dropped from this game? I saw n, that the only post that he did was in the discussion thread. He is not listed in the characters tab as he never posted in the gameplay.

But I do play with Agent Eclipse at two other tables (Pf2 and SFS). So either he never posted in gameplay and lost track of this game. Or he resigned. @Shifty did he? Or can I pull him back in?

Unsure where Muj went, but if they are jumping back in pretty soon would be good before we get too much further.

Ok, let me ping him. I am certain that he did not dot in the gameplay and forgot about us;).

No worries Buddy the sheep skitter will herd everyone back.

And this is why you make sure to dot your game. Thank you Farol!

Wow, I got myself a tough crowd, no fan of Friends, Sheepdogs, and all-around skitter friendliness.

I might reach out for knock-knock jokes.

Hey Mujina, good to have you back!

It's ok - I got called 'a smart version of Joey' last week.

It's ok - I got called 'a smart version of Joey' last week.

Haha, good one!

I only watched through Friends once and totally missed the link when I was catching up on the game, haha.

Never seen it

Friday afternoon here - heading into work and up into the mountains with a crew for a couple of days for some adventures with mud and chainsaws due to the 'rain bomb' that has hit the region. Back Sunday night my time (~48 hrs)

Will post if I can get comms up there but otherwise offline.

The Blue Mountains west of Sydney?

Good luck Shifty!

Yeah thats them - Lithgow region.

Things have gone bad with the weather though, so now looking to push 300 odd people and equipment to the north coast - the rains have gotten out of hand.

Current news - 700km of carnage at this point.

Floods done, flying to another state tomorrow morning for a fairly busy looking two weeks. Should still be able to maintain at least 1x daily posting.

The next scenario in this series is due at the end of this month #3-21: Frozen Ambitions: Renewal's Blight - Levels 3-6.

I'm tracking we will probably need to stick another scenario in to get people up a bit more xp. A quick and easy repeatable would probably be the go, but happy for thoughts and opinions.

How about this: 3-19: Rat's Repentance it is fairly new, so even if someone played it, it would be once ;)

Could do, I'm assuming we're just looking for 1xp for people?

I am short of 2 XP, but I am taking care of 1 of it ;)

Buddy will get his 4th XP on this scenario. But I am Gm'ing 1-16 (roughly 3-4 weeks away from the end) which will give him 5th XP.

So yeah, I think Mujina is in the same boat as Buddy but Agent Eclipse is also gm'ing some games so hopefully, he has that another XP covered

Yeah, I will need to GM something to get that other 1 xp.

Squizzer is fine; happy to play another scenario to get others the XP they need.

Ayoka levels up to three after this one so I'm fine with whatever folks decide.

Szama is good to go at level 3! Now if I could just get my crap together and post more regularly!

I am good if people need another 1 game....with the completion of this game and the one filler to get Buddy to level (And Mujina-chan 1 closer), Joe will be at level 4....which is fine.

Just an FYI, I am going to be doing something irresponsibly responsible for the first week of May. My wife and I are going to actually take a vacation....so I won't be able to post much (if anything) from the 2nd until the 10th of May. I might...if I have some downtime and a good wifi signal be able to post maybe every other day or so.

Good to know @Jim, Don't you worry. If needed Buddy will keep Joe out of trouble, we just need to find all you can eat bar and the six of us can lay low for a week :D

Actually, I'm really burned out right now; if no one minds, I may sit out the filler scenario and rejoin after that. It would give me a chance to rest.

"goes through them like Buddy through Akitonian Way bars" - loving that!

@Mujina and @Szama - from what I glance at the Vehicle chase rules:

There is this pilot action that allows you to do melee attacks: DC of that maneuver is the enemy car KAC

Engage Another Vehicle (Move)
You attempt a Piloting check (DC = the KAC of the enemy vehicle) to engage your vehicle with an enemy vehicle in the same zone. Two allied vehicles can engage freely; this is useful to allow people on one vehicle to board the other. In both cases, your vehicle then automatically becomes engaged with all other vehicles in the engagement. You can make melee attacks against those on another vehicle only if your vehicle is engaged with it; see the Engagement sidebar on page 284 for more information.

Yeah, I knew about the Engage option, but by the time we caught up to them, they moved into the combat phase and advanced into the next zone, so we needed to catch up again before I could have a chance to engage them.

Hey, message from Agent Eclipse AKA Mujina-chan. They're in one of my other games and let me know that they are having some medical issues. They have been having a difficult time accessing a computer, but are hoping to be back in a few days.

Cool, can someone bot them - and Squizzer if need be?

CHRONICLES

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SO did we end up needing that interim session to get people to L3?

Mujina would need another game but with my health issues at the moment, it is better that I do not get into anymore games. Its has been super fun though and maybe Mujina will catch up with the other skitters later down their careers.

Sorry about the absences.

I am not going to be available between the 1st and the 10th...after that I am good to go.

Otherwise I am fine with whenever and whatever scenario is ran ;-)

So... I am still in need of 1. I am in 3/4 of the scenario that I am GM'ing. It might be over mid-May, and definitely will be done before PaizoCon.

When I report that game Buddy will be lvl 3. So if we want to wait for Jim, we might be fine.

Chronicle looks good, I've downloaded it. THanks for running it Shifty, and thank you everyone for playing.