Yeah, man! Go for it!
Well… Esh tried, but the ghost got violent.
The link to the battle maps now has an additional slide featuring an interactive version of the Danger Island hex map. I had to rotate it on its side to get it to fit, though. I'll put green check marks on each hex you've explored, and I'm using Hotcha's party illustration to mark your current location. You'll probably have to zoom in to see things better!
You can always scale down an image to fit in Google Slides (I use it a lot), but there's nothing wrong with a map on its side.
Please put the iron medallion talisman on your character sheet, so I can remove it from the group loot list.
Please put the greater holy prayer beads, ring of climbing and wand of remove curse on your character sheet, so I can remove them from the group loot list.
Done! The prayer beads add another +1D4 to my heals, which I shouldn't forget. So with the staff, that's 1D4+2 on top of whatever the spell heals.
Every little bit helps!
Is that all magic heals, or all healing including treat wounds?
To be fair, that's a surprising amount of damage for so little money! I can't justify spending more money on Yog's weapon, haha, because it really is more of a RP thing. His spells simply hit harder and better.
LINK: John Goodman in Hellfire Boots.
I think these are good to have, if not for the two-action activation, the 10 Fire Res is worth it. (As a find. The greater ring is cheaper of course.)
@Brainiac, speaking of the greater fire resist ring—I have the 245g Resist-5 version. To get the 975g Resist-10 version, do I just pay 730g for the upgrade?
Yes, you can just pay the difference to upgrade the ring.
Thanks, Brainiac. I added my resistance to my by-line. I may eventually vendor-trash fire Jump for a second resistance… but I’ll wait until I can afford that!
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On a goofier note, my brother was over with his Switch, so we played through Streets of Rage 4. It was only my second time playing through—love the art and music! The Chinatown stage seems to have a good look for Ruby Phoenix, particularly the dojo.
So who's taking the Hellfire boots?
EDIT: Totally appropriate that our most flamboyant member get those boots!
EDIT - how about instead of Hotcha taking them:
• I sell my 975g Fire Jump ring (starting equipment that I think might be useless), increasing my total gold to 763.
• I spend 730 of that to upgrade my Fire Res ring to Fire Res 10.
• We sell the boots and everyone gets 375!
(If I take the boots and sell my rings and split the sale, it’s 152.50 each. I really don’t care for the two-action move since I can do more damage with my Ki Storm.)
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EDIT - that reminds me: my ki storm is extra-painful with a 3-action casting. So as long as my wings are energized, you can always to-battle Hotcha so she can fly somewhere and nuke the enemies. She could hit a whole team! (As long as there’s a square she can reach where all enemies are within 20’ and none of the Three Men are.)
I'm okay with that. Also, just give me the word on To Battle.
You can keep exploring now or head back to rest. The prequalifier starts at 8 am the next day, so you have 4 hours to spare if you want to get a full 8 hours of rest.
@Xin, check out the interactive map. I plotted a course that gets us home by 11:30, and if we get delayed, we travel through the hex we were just at.
Proposed route:
• F2/J1 hex (9:00 when finished)
• C/Shop hex (10:00 when finished)
• I1 hex (11:00 when finished)
• B1 (home at 11:30!)
Understandably, treat wounds and refocus takes time… so we may need to retrace out steps through explores hexes to get to bed on time. …aaaand not go to bed wounded!
New drawing of Hotcha!
I plotted a course that gets us home by 11:30
Does our dad have us on curfew? :-p
EDIT - how about instead of Hotcha taking them:
• I sell my 975g Fire Jump ring (starting equipment that I think might be useless), increasing my total gold to 763.
• I spend 730 of that to upgrade my Fire Res ring to Fire Res 10.
• We sell the boots and everyone gets 375!(If I take the boots and sell my rings and split the sale, it’s 152.50 each. I really don’t care for the two-action move since I can do more damage with my Ki Storm.)
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EDIT - that reminds me: my ki storm is extra-painful with a 3-action casting. So as long as my wings are energized, you can always to-battle Hotcha so she can fly somewhere and nuke the enemies. She could hit a whole team! (As long as there’s a square she can reach where all enemies are within 20’ and none of the Three Men are.)
Done! We each have +375. (I have 408 total after selling, buying, and taking my quarter of the sale for the boots.)
I have Fire Res 10 now!
LINK: Blaze vs. Lotsa Guys
I don’t know if it’s because Twin is in the team name, or because my brother was playing as Shiva* in our Streets of Rage game, but I expect this is 4-on-4!
I must have been tired this morning, as I overlooked your exploration of one of the hexes (the one with C and G1 in it). This hex includes a fighting arena on a cliffside beach, as well as the den of a large black scorpion. We'll assume the scorpion was out hunting when you visited its den so there was no encounter! :)
Please put the iron medallion talisman on your character sheet, so I can remove it from the group loot list.
Please put the greater holy prayer beads, ring of climbing and wand of remove curse on your character sheet, so I can remove them from the group loot list.
Done. I'm back at work and hopefully my schedule should stabilize now, so I should be better at posting and keeping up with things.
I must have been tired this morning, as I overlooked your exploration of one of the hexes (the one with C and G1 in it). This hex includes a fighting arena on a cliffside beach, as well as the den of a large black scorpion. We'll assume the scorpion was out hunting when you visited its den so there was no encounter! :)
Easier than retconning!
Speaking of, I retconned my drawing.
Cute! This is her doing the Ki Storm?
Just flying and hurling fire.
The twins are in the arena where we fought Long-Neck. (A10)
Oh.
Thank yew!
I’m thinking it’s better to activate the wings this round. If I charge them and ki storm, they will beat me with those sticks!
But if you to-battle me, I can ready a flurry—there’s a chance I can stun to eat one of their actions (or three if she crit-fails!) One of my flurries will hit, which triggers stunning fist.
I definitely like to-battling Esh. He can do a lot of damage if they come to us!
Fair point. I was thinking in terms of getting to them.
The problem is that "To Battle!" requires the recipient to act "immediately". So I can't give Esh or anyone else the extra attack if they're not in contact with the enemy. I think I'll delay.
@Xin, Brainiac let me use my flurry rolls, which made me realize with only two actions, Wronged Monk is a waste. I hit harder from my flurry.
If you still to-battle me as planned, it will still be worth it!
I'm so confused. You just went. Do you still want me to give you a "To Battle!"? And one action or two?
I think she wants you to use the Two Action "To Battle!" so she can take another Strike.
Okay.
Sorry to roll first, then ask. It was a weird morning… I drove 70 miles with a resignation letter. “Just hurry up and do it” is where my mind is about a lot that I need to do today.
But I think I will wait for you to move next round, Xin. If you move into the fray, Esh and I get +1 to our attacks, I believe!
with only twoactions, Wronged Monk is a waste.
I meant to say “targets.”
Will post after work. Offline until then.
@Xin, whatever you think is your best move is fine with me. I’m just holding out to see if you get within 20 feet of Hotcha or not. She will delay for Xin to act before she attacks.
Correction: Xin-spired would add +1, and my roll would be 41. I typed my post in my notes app, anticipating Xin moving close, then copy-pasted in the car as I saw 3 new posts were up. But one of the three was Brainiac’s, and Xin had not yet posted, so I removed the +1 and edited in that I struck the blue twin after she was knocked prone, plus the blue-text comments. But I forgot to remove the “Xin-Spired” notation.
The roll is my normal attack of +23. The +1 for Marshall Inspiration is not included.
You have four silver feathers now.
Let me know which hex you want to go to next, and if you are looking for teams to challenge or just exploring in general.
I like Xin’s idea to explore and simply challenge teams that we meet.
Maybe at the end of active hours, we retrace our steps on a parallel path, able to detour through explored hexes if we feel like calling it a night.
— see interactive map for a proposed route. We may not be able to go that far, but that’s my thought. Feel free to disagree if the coast seems too far off the beaten path.
I was going to say a grid pattern, but honestly it doesn't matter. So long as we start knocking out some exploration and eventually move inland, too. With each hex being half a mile, Hotcha's proposed route is only five miles. Even on sand we should be able to easily get to that whole route in less than a day.
Remember, some hexes take more than 1 Travel action to traverse, and each travel action is 30 minutes.
“In open terrain, like a beach, plain, or open water, using 1 Travel activity allows you to move from one hex to an adjacent hex. Traversing a hex with difficult terrain (such as a typical forest or hilly region) requires 2 Travel activities, and hexes of greater difficult terrain (such as a steep mountain or typical swamp) require 3 Travel activities to traverse.”
I think it’s all good. Once we get to a certain time of day we can hop on blue. All (unexplored) hexes being unknown, the exact route doesn’t matter.
Alright, I’ll post in a bit. I’ll also add a tracker for remaining hexploration activities and for how many silver feathers you have gathered at the top of the campaign page.
Does the board support feather emojis?
I guess not. Well… it does support numbers.
Thanks. The trackers will help, as does the “clock.”
There’s no map for this fight, Xin. If it’s only you against one opponent, I generally won’t go through the trouble of making a map.
Esh is still up.
Guys, what can I do to get you to remember the +1 from Inspiring Marshal Stance? it's depressing to critically succeed and then watch it go unused.
I'm factoring it into the die rolls for those who forget to include it, don't worry!
I'll make a post it note on my computer!
Xin may still take his actions for this round.
Guys, what can I do to get you to remember the +1 from Inspiring Marshal Stance? it's depressing to critically succeed and then watch it go unused.
I remembered! My 24/20/16 was Xin-spired, and 25/21 is a Xin-spired Ki Flurry. Flanking to lower AC helps too!
For my 75-damage combo, Xin-spiration pushed my attack one point over the foe’s AC!
Keep yelling at me/us :'D