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A two-day-belated Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!! :D
It was a great time here, with our youngest home from college for a few days and our oldest, his wife, and one of their cats joining us for a quick overnight stay. (The cat usually stays home with the others, but is on a medicated food right now so had to travel.)
After they went home on Friday, we accidentally hosted a college game night for the youngest and their friends. It started as a 3:00 pm executive board meeting of the tabletop RPG club, but then we accumulated three more TTRPG club members and game night was suddenly a go!
I turned in around 1:45 am, and I think the evening officially ended around 45 minutes after that, although I was mentally prepared to find them all still gathered around the table when I wandered out this morning at 9. :)
I am a naughty, NAUGHTY GM.
I promise to get things back up and running within 48 hours.
Work and personal things are invading my valuable game time.
By the way, happy birthday to Thak!
Once again I want to check in with all of you. Obviously I have been busy to let this group go. I find that my household has six holiday event, 5 of which we are hosting! Three still to go.
In addition to this, work is rather busy for me.
My Mom is currently in the hospital, though I'm hopeful things will be sorted out tomorrow or the next day.
WITH THAT IN MIND, I think I would like to propose a short pause here. Let's all come back here and do some heavy posting beginning January 2nd.
I do apologize. I think my mind will be ready for more RPGing as December wanes.
Alan
GM Quirk, Wishing you resilience and tranquility in dealing with all those stressful things. Like everything else, time and energy for RPGs ebb and flow. A return to the game on January 2nd sounds good to me.
Happy Holidays everyone!
Sounds like a plan. Happy holidays to all.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you!
I wanted to let you all know that game play will begin here again on Friday evening, January 5th. You'll have all weekend to join in the posting. Following that, I plan on posting again Sunday or Monday night, then regularly after that. I'm really hoping to get things back on track so we can finish this game!
Happy New Year to you as well! I'm looking forward to continued posting and a finish to this game.
So many classes, so little time! I have such character indecision... It's a curse.
I'm available to post. I am only teaching on Tuesday and Thursday right now, and even on days I'm working, I've got some time in the afternoon.
Howdy gang!
I'm enjoying the Winter Fantasy game convention. Having a great time.
I'll try to get back to the posting Sunday night.
Howdy gang!
I'm enjoying the Winter Fantasy game convention. Having a great time.
I'll try to get back to the posting Sunday night.
...and now I have con crud. I'll find some time to update this game soon. I promise.
I'm neutral on starship combat. Either works for me.
My work schedule has changed. For the next five weeks, I'll be unable to post generally after 3 PM (same time zone as New York City) on Monday through Thursday. I'll check games in the morning and make what posts I can.
Also, I may be traveling on April 6-9. I should have some access to Wifi and a laptop, but if a post is needed in this period, please
'bot my character. It's possible the trip will not happen, in which case I'll let you know. (I'm hoping to see the total solar eclipse on April 8 in Ohio, USA.)
Howdy gang. We'll get this show on the road over the weekend. My Dad has once again been hospitalized. I have been busy handling his affairs.
Take your time.
I'm back from my eclipse trip (mission accomplished!). It will take some time to get caught up but should be able to resume posting when things pick up here.
Athletics +5
Bluff +8
Computers +12 (ranks 3)
Diplomacy +4
Engineering +11 (ranks 3)
Intimidate +8
Mysticism +4
Piloting +4 (ranks 0)
Gunnery +4Duncan would be best placed as Engineer or Science Officer, but could function as captain or gunner
Augrok at:
Athletics: +6
Computers
Engineering +5
Gunnery: +4
Piloting
Engineer, Chief Mate, or Gunner is where she shows aptitude, so there's some flexibility.
With just four PCs, we pretty much need someone at Piloting, Science Officer, Engineer, and gunner.
Thak is the only one with ranks in Piloting.
Duncan would be the only one with ranks in Computers so he would have to be science officer.
Which would put Augrok at Engineering and Yoromishtelli as the gunner.
Bare bones, but it would cover all the bases.
The science officer is most important on the first round for scanning the enemy ship to learn what can be learned about its capabilities. After that Duncan could shift to engineering to allow Augrok to move to gunner. And we could dispense with engineering as long as we have taken no serious damage to the shields, so Augrok could start at the second gunner port and Duncan could cover Engineering or Science Officer, whichever is needed more.
We have enough weapons that we should be able to get two attacks each round, one from the turret and the other from which ever gun port can target the enemy.
Hi all! Good news! I have another player joining this group. I have played with this person in two other games (one is just ending now, and the other is a long-running Threefold Conspiracy game we're smack dab in the middle of.
The name of this character is Locket, and he is another pahtra. We're still sorting out how he has arrived from the Pact Worlds to this corner of the galaxy.
I apologize for this delay. I do think this game will be more fun with a 5th player.
Everyone sit tight.
Great!
A new player will be very welcome.
The name of this character is Locket, and he is another pahtra. We're still sorting out how he has arrived from the Pact Worlds to this corner of the galaxy.
!! Aw, now I'm disappointed I didn't keep Goldenarms, they'd remember Locket.
Our new player will be joining us quite soon. Hoping he'll jump in here to say hello. After that, I'll set a scene in the cantina aboard Outpost Zed for all of you to get to know each other.
Hi everyone!
Thanks for the invite and link, GM Q. Nice to see a couple of familiar names - and exciting to see some that are not! :)
Thanks for having me along, everyone. As GM Q mentioned a few posts up, I'll be playing Locket. I need to finish levelling him, but will dot in so I'm ready to go as I can be now.
Thanks again!
GM Q - I dotted in Gameplay, but it seems I didn't delete it as I had thought.
Could you please remove the post?
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GM Q - I dotted in Gameplay, but it seems I didn't delete it as I had thought.
Could you please remove the post?
You'd think after all these years of running games here I would know how to do that.
I don't. Lol!
So I think we shall let this slight breach of etiquette slide with only this minor punishment: Locket opens his backpack to find that someone has stolen the best part of one of his RTE's--the small tube of Akitonian Pepper Spice cheese spread that tastes oh-so-good when squeezed upon the vac-packed shelf stable bread that is also in the R2E.
Welcome!
Sorry everyone. We had my wife's family over for Orthodox Easter last weekend and fell off the face of the world this week trying to recover and restore our place back to a semblance of order.
Hey Janosian! Good to see you again (or still) :)
I hadn't wanted to presume anything, and I couldn't tell from the interactions so far, does Thak remember Locket from the Absalom adventure (and for that matter, would Locket recognise Thak)?
I hadn't wanted to presume anything, and I couldn't tell from the interactions so far, does Thak remember Locket from the Absalom adventure (and for that matter, would Locket recognise Thak)?
Interesting! I had forgotten about that! I can't imagine any reason you two would not recognize each other. I'll let Thak respond though.
Let's work out Starship posts.
Characters - Possible posts
Duncan - was science officer (Computers +12) last time, could also do engineering (+11) ( 3 ranks in each)
Augrok (hasn't posted in over a month) - Gunner +5, Enginnering +5
Locket - Chief Mate (Acrobatics +10), Magic Officer (mysticism +5), Gunnery +7
Thak - Captain (did this previously), Pilot +6 (1 rank), science officer (computers +5, 2 ranks)
Yoro - Gunnery +4
So we need a pilot
Duncan +4 (0 ranks)
Augrok +1 (0 ranks)
Locket Piloting +3 (0 ranks)
Thak +6 (1 rank)
Yoro +1 (0 ranks)
Looks like Thak might have to be pilot instead of captain. Then we'd have Duncan as science officer, Augrok at Engineering, Locket and Yoro at Gunnery, although either could serve at Chief Mate or Magic officer if we did not need two gunners or Yoro could do Chief Mate. Chief Mate and Magic Officer are not essential, however.
...Augrok (hasn't posted in over a month) - Gunner +5, Enginnering +5...
Still here. The scene hasn't moved, and Augrok's contribution was the EMP weapon.
Given the steps, I amend my vote to Narrative Starship Combat. I believe I was neutral on the topic when it initially was brought up.
Glad you're still with us. Let's resolve this question and move on.
I like starship combat but understand that it can take time unless everyone is posting daily or multiple times daily.
Duncan, thanks for consolidating the possible positions for Starship posts. I wish Yoromishtali was a better gunner and could be a decent substitute for one other role. Oh well.
Locket, you were at Absalom too? Small world! Welcome back.
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Let's work out Starship posts.
Looks like Thak might have to be pilot instead of captain. Then we'd have Duncan as science officer, Augrok at Engineering, Locket and Yoro at Gunnery, although either could serve at Chief Mate or Magic officer if we did not need two gunners or Yoro could do Chief Mate. Chief Mate and Magic Officer are not essential, however.
Thak will look appropriately horrified at the prospect of piloting instead of supporting the team, but will bravely take the seat and do his best, even if he spends most of the time quietly repeating to himself, "I'm good enough, I'm clever enough, and doggone it, I fly like a leaf on the wind."
Locket, you were at Absalom too? Small world! Welcome back.
Sure was. Thanks!
And thanks for the efforts in working out the starship roles.
With regard to starship combat, I'm content to roll with whichever is the group consensus.
Sorry everyone. I'll have a post in soon. We have been without internet all weekend. Running this off of my phone's hotspot right now. My data has dwindled to nothing, so this is running very slow.
Tech will be out tomorrow. This is probably from the fiber line they left unburied in my yard for several weeks now. I bet it's damaged.
No problem. Good luck with having the issues rectified. I hope it's nothing too serious.
Howdy gang! Have you missed me? :)
I have been dealing with exhausting situations regarding my Father's health. I don't mind saying it has taken a lot out of me.
The good news is that I'll be taking a nice vacation beginning this weekend.
I believe we'll be able to resume things on or around July 8th.
I'm sorry to hear about your father's health. Take the time you need to recover as well. Around July 8th sounds fine to me.
Enjoy your vacation and only GM when you are up to it. I hope your father's health is improving.
Sure have, GM Q!
I hope that your father's health is stabilising and that he (and you) are feeling better soon.
Enjoy the vacation!