I think I'll go with Finesse here just to try and get this done so we can all get out of here.
Dang, the dice roller is being real, real nice. Will try to get something written up tomorrow morning.
A hell of a good time for you to roll a pair of sixes!
What do you all think? Are you ready fro this score to be over or is there another twist beyond bugging out of here?
A hell of a good time for you to roll a pair of sixes!
What do you all think? Are you ready fro this score to be over or is there another twist beyond bugging out of here?
I know! Crazy lucky and way out of form for me and the dice roller. To be honest I almost marked a couple of stress just because it didn't feel right to not take any. But then I thought better just in case we do need to fight off/escape that ghost field leviathan. :)
I'm okay calling it good or continuing, but I'll leave it up to Fin and Casia since they're the ones still dealing directly with the ghost leviathan at the moment.
I'm really sorry, I've been travelling with work this week and even when I've had the time to post I haven't had the energy/focus. I'm back home tonight and I will refocus and post again tomorrow.
I think we're good to bug out, actually. I don't suppose Jonah can simply end the ritual that holds us in the ghost field, allowing us to re-materialise back at our HQ?
Taht's a good question and I'm going to let Jonah answer it becasue it's his ritual. At the very least I think it would need an Action roll, probly Attune.
Sure, Jonah can end the ritual at any time. However, how rough the transition is and where it drops us is anyone's guess unless he spends extra time really focusing and concentrating. Given the ongoing threat of the Leviathan and his already shaky state of mind, that's pretty much impossible, so he'll opp for just getting the heck out.
Just thought I'd check in here to see if we're still live. :)
Sorry, I got caught up with other tings inclugind a different game! This is live.
Jonah got a particla success so he manages to draw you all out of the gost field but the damage he does tears the leviathan from its moorings and it comes after you! It cant' follow you back inot reality but in the few seconds in between it grabs you all with its tentacles and tries to wring you like a dischloth. Everyone takes level 3 harm, you can use prowess to drop it down to level 2 harm.
So that's +3 Stress. And a 2 Harm.
Ha! Stress actually goes down by one.
[dice=Resist]3d6
Ha! Stress actually goes down by one.
Nice! Jonah has definitely passed on the title of 'One Who Rolls 6's.' ;)
Well, at least it's only a harm 2.
BTW, if anyone is feeling nostalgic about ye olden times of c.2007 then I am planning to run the Crown of the Kobold King (starting with Hollow's Last Hope) as my final attempt to get into PF2. It comes out as a pdf on Wednesday so I will need a couple days to get into it but I'd hope to get up and running next weekend.
Is anyone interested? I'd rather game with people I know than set up a recruitment.
No nostlalgia for 2007 - I was doing A level, worying about getting into uni and in a fight to the death with my acne. But if you're runing a game then I'm in :)
As for where you are, good question!
You guys :/
I might be up for at least trying PF2. I haven't really had much interest in the system as I've been trending away from rule heavy games especially as a GM. But I could give it a try as a player. I'd be coming at it totally new. I'll give the SRD a look and see how it feels.
Wait, landing in Scurlock's mansion is your idea of good fortune?!
You dropd in without an invitation and he didn't set the dogs on you so yes :-)
I'll giv Cas a bit longer to post before I move us forward.
I might be up for at least trying PF2. I haven't really had much interest in the system as I've been trending away from rule heavy games especially as a GM. But I could give it a try as a player. I'd be coming at it totally new. I'll give the SRD a look and see how it feels.
I do hear that and I've had reservations about PF2 for a while (the playtest nearly put me off completely - I never want to hear the word "Resonance" again unless you're talking physics) but I think I need to stop being an old fogey and at least try to embrace the future.
UPDATE: I'm currently reading through the adventure and will put a discussion thread up tomorrow.
@Itzi - are you interested? Do you think Brainiac and/or Nikolaus would be up for it? I think I'd need at least 3 PCs to make it viable.
I'm having a bit of a crazy tiem at work but I will post again tomorow.
OK, but if he does that whole "I never drink [significant pause] wine" thing, then we are O-U-T of there :P
Had a shocker of a day, but I have at least managed to read through the new CotKK adventure. I'll probably be changing it up some because that's just how I roll. I'll get the discussion thread up tomorrow.
On the offchance that Fin or Cas want to have some adventures in space, run by teh excelent Doug Muir, there's a Last Fleet game that has lost another player and needs a new recruit
Think BSG but with inteligent fungus instead of Cylons.
I was seriously intrigued when Doug first posted the recruitment thread, and I love PbtA games, but with my first foray back into GMing now up and running I don't want to over-commit; that was my failing last time.
You've finisehd this score! Well done on surviving. Feel free to RP the meeting with Quellyn if you liek, but otherwise he gives you the reward - whatever it was, 5 Coin I think, i'd need to go back and look - and you give him the ghost bottle.
Then we're into downtime. You get 2 actions for free and can have more by paying 1 Coin for each extra. Thanks to Scurlok, anyone who takes healing action this downtimme counts as having a Tier 3 doctor looking aftter tham. You're welcome :)
Cool. Looking at XP. I think Jonah would get 2XP for addressing a challenge with arcane power or knowledge. And 2XP for expressing beliefs, heritage, and background. 1XP for dealing with vice or trauma. (The whole mission was about protecting his sister.) It seemed like we had a bunch of Desperate rolls but not sure exactly how many. I marked 1 in Insight and 1 for Resolve, feel free to change if that doesn't seem right.
For the Crew XP:
2XP for contend with challenges above your station.
2XP for express goals, drive, essential nature of the crew.
1XP(?) for successful theft operation. Not sure about this one, but it does seem like we 'stole' the ghost from the Skov gang.
I'm not certain about bolstering our rep, since this all happened in the ghost field. Unless it is a new rep among those who are much more familiar with the ghost field and its denizens. (Lord Scarlock and whoever else who might have noticed 'stuff' happening.)
Downtime Activities:
1. Heal. Is 3d6 correct for a tier 3 healer? Looks like I'll still have those busted ribs unless we do the 'spend more time' healing.
2. Long Term Project (Keep Naty from Going Ferel). Bummer, but it does fill in the 6-clock. GM, let me know what comes next, another clock or something else.
Stress drops down to 2 per GM's rule.
Quellyn is not to be outdone. "With nothing but the *utmost* respect, Sir, I fear you are promising waht you cannot deliver. But I will let you prove yourself. The Sisters require their due for what used to be the Young Equinox, 22 March. If you can bring me that by March 20th, I shall pay you 4 Coin and my asurance that I will abandon my pursuit for the time being. If you fail, you agree to hand over the prize with no further delay."
I'd assume Fin would be the one to deal with Quellyn for any RP purposes, since he made the original deal and Jonah is likely to just try and shoot him.
Finraeth has no objection in principle to shooting Quellyn (if only for the sheer insolence of offering me his "utmost" respect); however, he's not certain that this would actually kill the man. It might just annoy him.
I'll think of what to do with my other downtime action later on.
In terms of XP:
2XP for addressing situation with violence/coercion
2XP for expressing beliefs, heritage, and background
1XP for dealing with vice/trauma (confrontation with dear old dad)
Not sure about desperate rolls but there must have been some!
As regards XP:
1XP for addressing situation with stealth/evasion
1XP for dealing with vice/trauma
Apologies for my lackluster posting as of late. Life's been demanding more than I've been able to give it lately. I'm still enjoying the game, though.
Oh, no problems. I'm sorry for the slow posting rate of this game, too! I'm goinng to keep it going but it's *not* going to be 1 post a day from me on this at least until after Xmas.
In terms of Desprate action rolls, there werne't that many, oddly. You started the engagement roll with a controlled position and it was a big help in stoping things from getting too out of control. Let's say yuou all made 2 desperate rolls which gets you 2 XP.
OK, so that makes 7 XP total. I kept over 3 XP from last time to go towards a special ability, so I will gain one (to be decided on) and put the remaining 2 XP into that as well.
My remaining downtime action will be to indulge in luxury and restore my stress level to zero; and I will pay 1 Coin to gain another action which will be looking at tracking down Desmona. I'd already made some progress on that with that flashback, so I will probably follow up there to see how it is going.
Hi Doug! Great to have you joining us.
I do have thoughts but I'm having a much busier weekend than I anticipated so I will post more tomorrow - I just wanted to drop in and say hi & welcome.
So, thoughts. My character is the only one with any "face" skills and I only have 1 dot in Command and Consort; we don't have anyone with Sway which might come in handy from time to time.
In terms of special abilities, Functioning Vice isn't going to be that useful: Sarah house-ruled that if we spend a downtime action on indulging vice, it goes back to zero and that otherwise it drops down to 2. I think her rationale was that we're playing these PCs all the way through the story, rather than mix/matching which is how we did it at the tabletop, so you can't have someone drop out via overindulgence.
Likewise we haven't played out the jail mini-game either, but that's possibly just because our numbers dropped too low to make it viable to have someone in prison.
Mastermind & Foresight are both really solid abilities, and what I like about Foresight is that you have to explain how you prepared, which allows for some interaction/flashbacks between your character and the person you're assisting. I think in the PbP format that could make for some great stories.
Not that I recall; Sarah mooted changing the rules on healing but ultimately nixed it and we stuck with RAW.
Welcome to the group, Doug. Glad to have you aboard.
With the extra two XP, Casia will take Expertise with Prowl.
Her Downtime activity will be to indulge her vice. Yes, yes, I know everyone is surprised by that.
Only one downtime activity? Are we at war?
Oh, no, her other activity will be to Train (Prowess). I forgot to note that.
We got a free Heal effect from the stay in the Mansion.
That's not quite right - if you take the healing action, it counts as Tier 3 this time round bcause of Scurlock's help. It's not a free action.
Hello Doug! I liek your character, if you're going noble then you should get on with Fin who has pretensions in taht direction ;)
Because everyone else has some XP already I'm going to sugest that you EITHER take 2 exrta 'dots' in something OR get 1 extrea special ability.
And yes, we arwe wraping up downtime and looking to move forward. I need to think about how to bring you in, unless you want to have a tie to someone already that makes sense to bring you in?