Oh yeah, Lolo's definitely a hunter and spends a lot of time looking at streets, buildings, entries, exits, etc. So I think that works.
OK, I'll get a post up ASAP, probably in a few hours, describing her action up to the partial success.
@Jonah/Lolo - I'm not sure what Jonah will find at Lolo's. My guess is taht Lolo sends Fi away to spend teh night with a friend rather than leave her home alone? In which case it's eeasey for Jonah to see taht the house is dark and nobody's home.
OK, thankful that Finraeth reminded me that we have room for more gear. Lolo's got another pistol on her. Gonna try and threaten with it.
So assuming Jonah, finds Lolo's place empty he'd start to back track into Grinder territory keeping to the shadows and as low of a profile as possible. Don't know if he's near enough or it the right spot to actually hear any of the gunshots. Spending stress to get a bonus die.
Lolo's place would be empty.
Tha'ts a fail on the Sway, so the complication is that she gets teh drop on you while you're talking. Luckly, Jonah arrives on the scene jsut in time :)
Damn, I thought the scene was done; if I'd known it was going to turn into the Director's Cut Extended Edition I'd have tried to have Finraeth stick around...
See? That's what happens when you see the movie before reading the book. You find out that there are all sorts of great scenes that were dropped to fit it into two hours.
Given tath Lolo's in trouble because she tried to talk her way out of it instead of jsut shooting, I'd say Fin is teher in spirit ;)
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So, Lolo often carries two guns, John Woo movie-style. The thing Lolo would do now would be just to take the gun with her other hand and shoot the lady. In keeping with the scene, she's going to go for the Grinder's leg.
LOL dice can't get any colder
Can I suggest a complication? She's been trying to get out of this situation without hurting anymore skovs, and without pissing the Grinders off any more. Instead, perhaps it is her nerves, perhaps it is not shooting with her dominant hand. But she shoots the woman dead just the same.
And that woman is Hutton's eldest child.
Brutal. i love it! I'll let youo write it up :)
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So, Lolo often carries two guns, John Woo movie-style. The thing Lolo would do now would be just to take the gun with her other hand and shoot the lady. In keeping with the scene, she's going to go for the Grinder's leg.
[dice=hunt]2d6 LOL dice can't get any colder
Can I suggest a complication? She's been trying to get out of this situation without hurting anymore skovs, and without pissing the Grinders off any more. Instead, perhaps it is her nerves, perhaps it is not shooting with her dominant hand. But she shoots the woman dead just the same.
And that woman is Hutton's eldest child.
My experience in GMing BitD is that players will gladly - joyfully, even - heap troubles upon themselves that even I as the GM might have hesitated to inflict upon them. It seems that holds true even in PbP, where you have time to reflect on what you are doing to yourself ;)
Another curse drifts across his throat. Fire was going to make it tough for the Wardens to reach the body. And even though, he couldn't see anything, that tingle between his shoulder blades was already rattling like a set of rusty chains on a prison wall. A new ghost was on the way.
Guys, you are spoiiling me with all these gifts :)
Onto dwontime again! Everyone needs to do their XP, i saw Jonah has done it already.
Rember you get 2 dwontime actions. I'm thinking of chaning it up a bit though becuase otherwise it's always going to be remove stress and heal up - especily Fin, as the cutter he's going to be the one getting into fights.
Let me know what you think of the following:
REMOVE STRESS: if you spend a downtime action to indulcge your vice, you clear all stress you built up. This isn't a horror type game where resources slowly die away and you have to make do. If you don't spend a downtime action to indulge your vice, you go down to 2 stress - that way you still have some capacity for your next score but you are not at full strenght. Obviously if you are at less than 2 stress (hahaha) you stay at whatever it was.
HEAL: You can take a downtime action to remove harm as per RAW. Otherwise you can heal normally and we jsut say that x amout of time has gone by before you are ready for your next score. That way you won't be doing as many scores per year, so less gold, but you will be nearer to full strength.
In this case, given all teh harm you have taken in this score I would say it's going to be 6 weeks before you're ready for your next score, but all your harm would be cleared. If you want it to go faster tahn that, you can use your downtime actions to heal up.
What do you think?
Jonah... what have you done?
Sounds good GM. one question about healing. What if some folks want to heal and others don't? Do only some folks go on the next score?
EDIT: OK, XP triggers:
Used her personal XP triggers (violence or hunting) a lot to resolve issues this score (2 xp)
Played up on her heritage (1 xp)
Total of 3 xp for the session.
Do we have to spend XP before the next score, I can I "bank" them for later?
Jonah... what have you done?
Hey, it was like that when I got there. ;)
GM: I'm good with the healing rules you've suggested. I'd probably just drop to the 2 stress since I'm only at 3.
So with 5 XP I've got just enough to add a new Special Ability. I'd like to go with Strange Methods. Could I make the design I know be the Obscuring Card Deck?
As for Downtime activities I would make another deck of cards just because I think they could come in handy no matter the job. And for a second activity I'll continue on the project for Naty. Not sure if that would be another Study roll or if you want something else for the next phase? Perhaps Attune or Tinker to try out some of the rituals or devices he studied in the library before?
Semester wrap-up almost complete should be back to posting tomorrow afternoon.
Hi all - sorry for not posting, there's a bug going round work and I've been really sick. I'm geting better and hipefully get back to posting tomorrow.
Oh no! Hope you feel better soon!
Get well soon!
My 2 pence on your proposed changes: bearing in mind they favour me as the person who's most likely to take harm from fights and/or take stress trying to avoid harm from said fights, I quite like that idea of trading time for healing. But I would echo Lolo's question : what happens if half the group don't want to wait for the cutter to heal up before getting back out there to earn coin?
I like your proposed fix to the stress thing, that really does free up a downtime action.
However, I would be inclined to keep healing from harm as per RAW, with the proviso that you need to be clear what harm actually needs healing (e.g. "Shaken/Frightened" is unlikely to need a doctor in order to clear up over the course of downtime). I think if you give us the ability to start each score with stress at zero (or 2) then it will be easier to Resist harm that comes our way. I get what you say about this not being a horror game; but if we automatically start each score with zero stress and zero harm, it feels a bit "sandboxy" (which is totally a word).
I have a nasty feeling I don't get much XP from the score we just did!
Personal XP triggers (violence/coercion): some. 1 XP
Heritage? It came up a bit. 1 XP
Struggled with issues from vice/trauma: not really. 0 XP
2 XP total. I'll put them towards a new special ability, now at 3/8.
EDIT: I was just about to post in gameplay to move us along a bit but I see the last post there was from me...
Got a bit of a bug myself (darn kiddo colds!). Hope to get caught up on things this weekend.
I'm good with whatever changes we decide to make.
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XP Stuff:
Stealth/Evasion: 2 XP
Vice/Trauma: 2 XP
For a total of 4 XP which she's banking all towards a new special ability.
Sounds good GM. one question about healing. What if some folks want to heal and others don't? Do only some folks go on the next score?
I hadn't thought of that :/
I can't do what you have with CotCT, and run a bunch of mini advnentures. I'm going to take Fin's suggestion and stick with RAW for healing, but keep my house rule on stress. If you put a downtime action into indulging yuour vice then you clear all stress, oetherwise you can reduce it back to 2.
In terms of natural healing:
*Fin's stab wouldn needs proper medical atention to heal, as does Cas.
*Teh 2-harm Electroplasmic shock will go down to 1-harm "electorplasmic burns" at the start of your next score, no action needed.
*Jonha's Dazed will clear completely, no action needed.
So with 5 XP I've got just enough to add a new Special Ability. I'd like to go with Strange Methods. Could I make the design I know be the Obscuring Card Deck?
Sure thing!
As for Downtime activities I would make another deck of cards just because I think they could come in handy no matter the job. And for a second activity I'll continue on the project for Naty. Not sure if that would be another Study roll or if you want something else for the next phase? Perhaps Attune or Tinker to try out some of the rituals or devices he studied in the library before?
That sounds good to me. Make a Study roll and we'll take it from there.
This downtime I will indulge myself in vice and luxury to reduce stress. (Finraeth will do the same.)
Not sure what to do with my second action, I will have a think about it.
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Casia's going to insist that both she and Fin seek out medical attention for their injuries.
Well ... She'll insist that he seek out medical attention for his stab wound and an argument will ensue wherein he'll point out that she still suffers tremors from the shock and should be treated as well. She'll deny it. He'll suggest that perhaps then the tremors are due to her drinking. She'll then concede to see a physician if he will.
Action 1) Heal Injury
Action 2) Indulge in her preferred recreational activity.
How much Coin did we get for the last job?
With that 6 for a study roll, I think that would give me three ticks against the 6-tick clock for the helping Naty project.
Been busy the last several days, but will try to get a GP post up tomorrow.
For downtime, Lolo will indulge in vice and I'm not sure what else yet.
I'm out of town and don't have my book with me. Can someone let me know how faulty my memory is? Do we roll 1d6 and subtract from the stress we have?
For downtime, Lolo will indulge in vice and I'm not sure what else yet.
I'm out of town and don't have my book with me. Can someone let me know how faulty my memory is? Do we roll 1d6 and subtract from the stress we have?
If we are using the GM's houserule, then all your stress clears automatically. No roll needed.
Question is, are we continuing on? Just checking because things have been quiet for a while.
Ah, thanks, Jonah!
Aaaaaaaaaah sory sorry sorry sorry - I've been swamped with life and wrok aand a bunch of other stuff but I'm sitll around!
@Lolo - yes, I changed the rules so if you spend a dwontime action to indulge your vice you clear *all* stress, otherwise you go back down to 2 stress.
That's right, thank you! I am a rather forgetful person.
Aaand we are live again! The last month+ has been horrible, but is over I hope.
1st things 1st, your crew gest XP as well for the last score
exacute a successful operation: yes, until Lolo went back and all hell broke loose but that'a another story. 1 XP
Challenges above your current station: the Grinders aren't the touhgest but I'll give you 1 xp for that
Bol;ster your crew's rep or gain a new one: yes, daring and "leave no one behind" mentality. 1 XP
Express goals/dives/conflict/inner nature of the crew. Lots of good RP there, 2 XP
5 XP total to do what you want with. Note this is *spearate* from your personal XP, it goes on the Crew sheet.
Next, payoff.
You get 1 Coin each, as per agreed with Lyssa. She's not that happy how it played out in teh end, but we'll get to that.
You get 3 Rep (added to the sheet). One more score and you'll be Tier 1!
The score weas low exposure apart from teh last bit, which techincally wasn't the score as such. You get 1 Heat for operating on hostile turf and another 2 heat for Lolo killing someone. That's enough to put you into WAnted level 1, but your Heat resets down to almost zero.
Rivals, this time, I think.
OK, I can work with that :)
GM: Just a quick clarifying question. Is Naty charging into the Duskmite's hideout or just Jonah's railcar hideout?
Fair question, I could haeve been clearer about that - it's the gang hideout, I want everoyne to have a chance to share in the fun :)
So I'm guessing it is Attune to find the Trace and understand what needs to be done to remove/disable it or if that is even an immediate option.
@Jonah/Casia - Sigh. Finraeth is (or aspires to be) a gentleman, which means among other things a certain amount of discretion in matters pertaining to the opposite sex. He'd (almost) certainly not do something as vulgar as PDA in company.
Besides, it's barely two days since he was stabbed - the only thing he's fingering right now are the fresh stitches in his side. Which reminds me, I need to look up how the rules work for healing in this game.
Casia wouldn't know whether he was engaging in a PDA or not because, as stated, she's very actively not watching him and Lolo. ;P ;)
For healing, we'll be doing a Recover action and we'll need to know the quality of the healer. Each fill of a Healing clock reduces the level of harm by one. (1-3: one segment, 4-5: two segments, 6: three segments, Crit: five segments)
*keyboard mash* oh come ON
tbf, I did laugh in a "oh no you didn't" kind of way - but there is a line. Pls don't cross it.
@Casia - unless you use a downtime acton to find a healer I'll say they're basic quality, someone who'll take money to stitch you up on teh DL and kep quiet about it. Good enough but nothing amazing.
Sorry if I overstepped, no offence meant.
Hi all, I've just heard from Sarah and she's back in hospital (complications from her accident last year). She should be fine but they've been keeping her in for observation to make sure she recovers. I'm not sure when she'll be back to posting.
Ouch.
Well, whether or not she returns to posting, I'm hoping she recovers without any more complications.
So sorry to hear that. I hope she recovers fully and quickly.
On a similar note, has anyone heard from Lolo lately?
Oh no! I hope Sarah feels better soon. Best of luck with your recovery, GM.
I'm here, Jonah! Just slow going with life and all that. Lolo's currently in a sniper's nest on the roof, waiting to scare away the bad guy.
Hello all
Well *that* turned out to be unpleaesant. One of the ribs I broke last yuear re-broke and punctured my lung, thankfully my bf was around and drove me straight to hosipital. Trhow in a post-op infecton, some stupid-powerful antibiotics and painkillers and I'm up and about again, but stil moving slowly.
Are you all still around? If you want to pick this up again, I'm happy with that, it will give me something to do. But I understand if it's died a death in my abscence.
So glad you're OK, I've been quite seriously worried. I'm definitely still around and good to continue if everyone else is.
I'll echo WW's sentiments in hearing that this is a trial that you're overcoming rather than a trial that's overcoming you.
Still here as well if you're up for it.
That sounds awful. So sorry, but glad to hear you're on the mend and going to be okay. I'm still around and can continue when/if you are ready.
I'll echo WW's sentiments in hearing that this is a trial that you're overcoming rather than a trial that's overcoming you.
that's a nice way of putting it! It's been a long few weeks. It loks like we have a majority in favouor of continuing so I will get us mving on Monday. One thing I fogot to say that might be importatnt is that Downtime is mostly about roleplaying the entanglements you run into, not about making action rolls.