GM Jhaeman's "Dawn of Flame, Chapter 3: Sun Divers" (Inactive)

Game Master Jhaeman

@Hani: Ah, okay. It actually will target KAC because weapons that deal both physical damage (slashing, piercing, or bludgeoning) and energy damage (like sonic) always target KAC.

@Tulgram: Sorry, I overlooked that in your last post. Please assume you know the following.

1 damage every 4 rounds, so to get the 60 damage it would take 240 rounds.

240 rounds of 6 seconds = 1,440 seconds, or 24 minutes.

Considering Zharis spent an hour on the resting tables, I could take a couple of doors in the meantime...

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Definitely grabbing an adamantine pocket knife when we return!

I forget--did we already try to use engineering or computers on these doors? There's got to be a better way.

Can we get control of them from any of the computers back in the hologram area? I remember flubbing up a computer roll there.

Hologram area: Possibly, but if so, the roll is very high. When we were there I got a 25 on computers and a 27 on culture (which are the rolls he said would help us know about the consoles) and could control the door to the hologram room, but not the rooms to the whole complex.

For computers I think that was 3 away from my max, but culture I could do higher... I think I was 8 off max there, so max would be like 35, maybe. It would take a long time to roll that though. :)

We're definitely missing something really easy - perhaps the doors open only to robots, or maybe they'll open up for the mummmy. Did anyone say "Friend" in elvish in front of them?

I hurt my back so I'm not in great shape to posts. Here's some dice.. Xylian's carbine ignores half hardness because of the Ulrikka Duster.

Xylian, thanks for the rolls, and sorry about your back. Hope you feel better soon!

I'm sorry, I was overwhelmed with work and household chores... A whole week passed instantly. I'm coming back.

Holy cow.

I have some work to do on Hani!

(If you're wondering what I'm talking about, Hani will share as soon as he comes out of the temporary trance he was sent into when he handled one of the crystals).

I'm going to be travelling for the next 72 hours or so.

I haven't forgotten I owe you all some XP from that last encounter!

Depending on circumstances (and PC actions), we may be getting pretty close to the end of the chapter. If anyone would like SFS Chronicle sheets, please list in this thread the following:

Player Name (or Paizo Alias):
SFS Character Name:
SFS Character #:
Faction:

Player Name (or Paizo Alias): The Ragi
SFS Character Name: Monstruwacan
SFS Character #: 291669-707
Faction: Dataphiles

What levels? 3-5?

Sorry I have been MIA for a few days. I have been extra busy with work. It's actually a fun thing--I work at a library, and I am in charge of a special Dungeons and Dragons day this Saturday for adolescents and teens. I have been creating maps, writing adventures, and printing miniatures.

Hani...has changed...his consciousness has been expanded wildly.

Sounds pretty neat! I think the others are waiting for you to snap out of your trance, so please describe what happens when you do.

I will get a quick, but hopefully poignant, post written in just a bit here...

Experience Points (Instalment # 23)

GM Jhaeman, what levels is this SFS chronicle for? Which character number to give you depends on that. Thanks!

@Tulgram: Sorry, I knew I forgot something! The Chronicles for this chapter are for PCs levels 5-6.

Perfect! I have a dwarf of very gray morality who is just level 6. Tuglram's chronicles will suit him - they have a lot in common.

Player Name (or Paizo Alias): ‘Eκάτη
SFS Character Name: Verrek Stormarm
SFS Character #: 342384-706
Faction: Dataphiles

Tulgram, you did get your bonus--way back in XP Instalment # 20 (I think you may have been the first, actually).

If everyone got theirs, then let's just get back. I could be wrong, but the rest of the city just seems like random experiments, and I don't see any way to actually communicate with the AI.

I apologize, I was inattentive and/or forgot. Although I agreed with any option anyway .)) Thanks!

I don't think that there was a ship in-system, just we thought that they would show up to find out what happened to slave-collar salamander guy... so if they haven't shown up yet, nothing to fight... and would rather just go back (if possible) since we don't have a lot of Siccatite to use for repairs anymore.

Sorry, I meant that we should check out the ship they came on. It landed just outside, right?

Dey probably have siccatite onboard anyways.

Edit: And if there's no longer a time crunch and the immediate threat is dealt with, is there any reason not to explore the rest of the hexes? XP, is XP, right? And that is kinda our mission.

It looks like we have one suggestion from Zharis for the group to bug out now and one suggestion from Xylian to continue exploring hexes. A good role-playing opportunity! Hani, Tulgram, and Jin, would you like to weigh in?

@Xylian: That ship self-destructed when Sulphrax was killed (sorry, I could have been more descriptive when you emerged from The Core).

I'm good with exploring all the hexes if you guys want to. I was just going with the idea of going straight back because I thought that was the big event of the adventure, but if you all want more, I'm totally in.

Let's try two or three more hexes. We can head back in the general direction of our ship, but take a path just astride of the way we came. We can always cut back over to the familiar path if we need to move more quickly.

Yes, I will make a post in game play.

Could use some more xp - we are a tad underleveled for a book 4, though we have more PCs than the recommended.

A nice little clarification. I restored to you not 5 HP, but 10. I forgot that as an instinctive biohacker I use wisdom instead of intelligence for medicine - which means that additional HP comes from wisdom and not from intelligence too.

Howdy gang!

I would like everyone to know that I will be away at a game convention in the midwest U.S. this weekend (CinCity Con in Cincinnati, Ohio).

I might eat some GOETTA, a Cincinnati specialty.

I plan for this weekend to be a very analog experience. I'll be rolling REAL dice and I'll have an actual paper character sheet in front of me!

In other words, this analog experience precludes much posting here.

I do hope to make a couple of posts tonight and tomorrow night.

After that, it may be Sunday night.

Bot as needed.

Will post tomorrow—wife lost phone and cards, and it’s a headache.

Thanks so much for playing Chapter 3! You folks are a really fun bunch of players, and of the various games I run, I always look forward to this one the most. You've completed your term of service, and I can give you each an honourable discharge. But why not sign up for another tour of duty? After my usual two-week break, I'll be creating a thread for The Dawn of Flame, Chapter 4: The Blind City, and of course you all have priority.

(Jin and Tulgram, I'll post a link to your SFS Chronicles here in a day or so)

See you in chapter 4!

And many thanks for GMing!

Thanks as always for the great game. Looking forward to the next chapter. :)

Chronicles here. Any issues, just let me know and I'll fix them up!

:)

Hani will remain until the job is done! :)

I still have to apply that personal upgrade. I have been conflicted about where the bonus should go.

I was very lucky to be in this game, thank you!

Waiting for part 4!