[SF] Fly Free or Die AP - GM Ewok

Game Master EwokBanshee

I don't recall: were our previous holoskin disguises blown during the white glove affair?

Yes. Eline could see through them. Eline was working with sinjin soon after.

Sorry I've been MIA - running into craziness at work as the year is coming to an end. May be a week or so before I have a chance to catch up.

Thanks for letting us know, Guess?!

You are confident that Eline could - and probably did - provide Sinjin with the disguises you previously took. And, with your enemies getting more advanced alongside you (deeply unfair, this) you have right to suspect that they would have access to the same anti-holo vision set that Akh now possesses. So holograms should help against most foes but are not as foolproof as they once seemed.

Okay, so it's time for a new identity

Maybe this one.

Or this one.

Or this one.

:O

Melissa Trying to get back into her room after a week of diner food.

Ah, Pippimi Mk 2! Good times.

I'm expecting posts to be a bit slower all around for the next two weeks. I'll plan on posting more around when we have a majority of players posted, rather than time-based for the remainder of the year.

Then I'll be travelling from January 2-10th so we'll likely have minimal posts during that period.

Hey guys, I'm aware that I continue to be delinquent with posting. I'm currently still snowed under with work. Just dropping a note to say I'm still around and apologies for the tardiness! Will get to posting again as soon as work pressures let up.

In the meantime, Happy Holidays to all of you!

Life happens to all of us. Don't sweat it (games shouldn't make it *worse*!). It's a slow time all around anyway.

Have a great and restful holiday!

Flails under a giant christmas tree trying to use a headlamp to navigate to the base and an axe to fit it into the giant tree stand....

Thanks for checking in, Guess?! Yes, especially with us heading into a combat... let's plan on taking the four days off PbP. Hopefully that helps everybody get through the holidays and catch up on things.

Have a wonderful few days with those you love!

Sounds OK! I'll be back from my travel in a couple days as well.

Then I'll be travelling from January 2-10th so we'll likely have minimal posts during that period.

Well, it's not great timing, but the time is here nonetheless. I'll be fairly AFK for the next week. Then we're back to normal! Book 6, we're so close to the grand finale!

Hi guys, just dropping a note to let you know that my workload has been lightening a bit but still been heavy. I anticipate things getting to a more normal pace in a couple month's time so I don't think my posting will come back to normal until towards the end of March.

I'm definitely committed and I miss posting as much as I did before this turn of events at work. Longer term, I know things will lighten up so I'll be back to previous frequency. It'll just take some time for me to get things back to normal.

Thanks for the update! No worries, glad to hear things are improving on your end.

We'll definitely be finishing up the AP this year. We'll finish strong and enjoy that grand finale!

I'm definitely committed and I miss posting as much as I did before this turn of events at work.

I've no doubt. Glad things are starting to lighten up for you!

This is an FYI that I'll be away in nature this coming weekend Sat. 2/1-Sun 2/2. I'll be unable to post during this time. I will return late Sunday and resume posting. Bot as needed, but I'm hoping that since it's the weekend disruption will be minimal.

I was in the hospital for a day or two without wifi. Or notice.

!! I hope everything is okay now!

BigNorseWolf wrote:

I was in the hospital for a day or two without wifi. Or notice.

!! I hope everything is okay now!

Yes, hope you're doing okay now!!

GM Ewok, I'm a little bit off and on at the moment... been on a plane every couple days for the past week and a half and it will continue for another week while I'm also trying to recover from a cold.

Uh-oh! Hope you are both doing ok and getting better soon! Thanks for the heads up.

In character, the reason to keep doing odd jobs is what Tarika said. You've cleared your names in public legal circles. So hypothetically your crew could go live out the rest of your lives in normal society. But, you've just learned that Sinjin has placed a rather large bounty on your heads. Will that follow your for the rest of your lives? Only way to know is to attempt to keep on living them. And, theoretically, y'all still think that you're "no heroes" and just space truckers so how could you storm a space gangster's fortress?

Out of character... Paizo had to fill the first third of the book. And there was a lot of feedback to the AP showrunner in the middle books of this AP that people didn't like feeling railroaded into a broader story arc. Lots of folks preferred the odd jobs and space trucker feel. So adding in some of those at the beginning of the book scratches the itch for those folks. BUT! That being said there is a box dedicated to "What if the players don't want to do the odd jobs and just want to go after Sinjin?" So it works either way!

Considering that every goon sent by Sinjin so far has been pretty unimpressive and we're fresh off taking down a different ultra-rich bigwig, I'm not sure why we wouldn't assume we could also deal with him and then be free from looking over our shoulders. Just a matter of working out how. (One of my gripes with prewritten Paizo adventures is that because threats are always doled out at your level, all our interaction with Golden League assailants was against ones that were weak several levels ago, so it doesn't feel like Sinjin is any kind of threat.)

@Rest of the party: How do you all feel - do you want to do the odd jobs first or go right for Sinjin?

Yeah... and this AP's ambushes are particularly unimpressive since they're usually the only encounter of that day. So they're extra unimpressive.

My reasoning for going for him now is: if we start doing odd jobs then what would change for our party later? Right now I don't believe Sinjin just disappears from the story if we choose to ignore him.

FYI I'll be away in nature this weekend, 3/1-3/2 without access to post. I'll return Sunday evening (US/Pacific time) to continue posting.

Guess? pretty much thinks we're a team of elite, special ops commandos at this point. He totally thinks we can find a way to take the hurt straight to Sinjin.

Guess? is also greedy. He doesn't see much profit in taking on Sinjin at the moment. If there are easy jobs to be done with decent payoffs, he wouldn't say no.

So Guess? would opt for jobs rather than going after Sinjin. If a bounty comes up for Sinjin, however, Guess? would change his mind in a flash.

Speaking of which, can Guess? check to see if there is any reward out there for Sinjin? If not from law enforcement, perhaps some rival gangsters who'd want Sinjin dead?

So two votes Sinjin first and one for odd jobs - Melissa what's your verdict? I guess we can let odd jobs win if we tie, since its more adventuring before the end. :)

Odd jobs. Basically Sin jin is getting to harass us for free just by putting the bounty out there. He should get tired of it in a year or two once everyone's got a null space ship right? If he really wanted us dead he'd pay someone that takes creds in advance.

Surviving desperate yahoos sounds more doable than assaulting sin jin in his paranoia palace. We're getting better at the disguise thing. And do we even know where his paranoia palace is? Going after him seems half a bucket short of a wing and a prayer.

Odd jobs it is!

And yeah, the Disguise skill really gets outflanked by the almighty Plot sometimes...

So I'm finally getting around to updating my character sheet.

Here's a feat that Guess? had picked up:

Comedic Timing Once per day, after you or an ally would fail a Bluff, Diplomacy, or Intimidate check outside of combat, you can reroll the check as you try to play off the previous statement as a joke. You must take the result of the reroll, even if it is worse.

If my imagination works half as well as Melissa's, we should get a couple good chuckles out of this one. ;-)

That is an excellent feat! It'll be useful and make some good situations. Great choice.

Sorry, y’all, I’ve got a big life event going on at the moment that is totally filling life at the moment! I’m going to try to get a couple posts in over the next week, but it’ll be less often than usual.

No worries. Hope things settle down for you soon.

Sorry, y’all, I’ve got a big life event going on at the moment that is totally filling life at the moment! I’m going to try to get a couple posts in over the next week, but it’ll be less often than usual.

Gotcha and no worries. Hope the big event is a big positive one!!

I'll be away in nature next weekend, Friday (4/25) evening to Sunday (4/26) late afternoon, US/Pacific time). I'll have signal but phone posting will be spotty. I'll catch up and resume regular posting Sunday evening.

Alas, it did not end up being a positive one. We've had a death in the family and I'm working through it at the moment. I'm not sure how often I'll be posting this week.

Sorry to hear that Ewok, take all the time you need. We'll be here when you get back.

Sorry for your loss. Take as much time as you need.

Ugh that always sucks. Sorry man.

Really sorry to hear. Our condolences and take your time.

Thanks, y'all! I'm trying to force myself back into the regular swing of things. I'll be posting more this week.

I'm so committed to finishing up this book (and AP now, wow!). Slowly but surely, we're doing it! I love what Jessica did with this book, it has some great scenes and is a nice ending to the series.

..."By the way, anyone else think Tarika shouldn't be blaming us for the outcome of a series of jobs she more or less orchestrated and we salvaged from utter disaster?"

The real big bad of the AP, Tarika's greed for consistently taking on jobs that are absurdly risky/dangerous.

Akh Xi wrote:

..."By the way, anyone else think Tarika shouldn't be blaming us for the outcome of a series of jobs she more or less orchestrated and we salvaged from utter disaster?"

The real big bad of the AP, Tarika's greed for consistently taking on jobs that are absurdly risky/dangerous.

At the park I worked with a prison crew. People in there for 20 years for armed robbery, murder, manslaughter...

Were less likely to get me killed than my bosses. They WANTED to keep me alive. They needed someone to hide behind from the wildlife...

Yikes!! Makes sense, I suppose.

FYI: I will be away in nature (specifically on a river and out of cell range) and unable to post starting Friday evening 5/23 through Monday evening 5/26 (US/Pacific time). Being a weekend, I hope this minimizes the disruption and I will resume posting that Monday evening (5/26).