Savage Firefly - want some "space western" adventures?

Game Master ZenFox42

Perry - personally, I find it hard to award a Bennie for being an a**hole, and as a GM while you are playing to your Hindrance, there's not been any negative consequences to your actions. For example, if you mouth off in a bar and start a fight and have to pay for damages, or blow a deal by being abrasive, that'd be worth a Benny.

That's a provocative statement, GM, since IC Perry is the *only* character demonstrating any concern for A)Mark's daughters and B)the ship. He's the f#+&ing captain, afterall. You asked for roleplaying; don't complain when you get it.

I asked what are the rules for intoxication because if there are any I intend to play to them. That's where the bennie comes in.

Perry is ready to go in.

Perry - it's not about that you *are* concerned, it's about how you're *expressing* that concern...

So, who's at the front of the conga line at the front door? How are you trying to get in?

Perry - it's not about that you *are* concerned, it's about how you're *expressing* that concern...

Let's stop litigating this. It's over.

Perry readies his uzi and waits for Harold to make his move.

Apparently there are no rules for intoxication short of Poison. I won't volunteer a house rule.

I made my last post before checking the Discussion and my PM's.
In an earlier post, I said : since your addiction is common and legal, I'm going to say that for a Major Hindrance, Smarts, Agility, and all linked skills suffer a −2 penalty while actively drinking, such as now.

I have to option to not drink more than once a day, so this could be fair. Although the penalty for the Major Hindrance Unlucky is a mere -1 to Notice and Common Knowledge checks. This seems harsh by comparison, and a practiced drunk is often high-functioning. I don't know a different way to do though.

Harold?

Yes, I am at the front of the conga line

Harold tries his damnedest to lead the group in a quiet route back to the front of the cabin.

Once at the front, he will stand off the side, and politely knock on the door, using the log or wood as a bullet stop in case its needed.

stealth: 1d6 ⇒ 3
wild: 1d6 ⇒ 2

You all hear a loud "boom" from inside, and a 6" diameter hole appears in the middle of the door.

From inside someone shouts "Leave now! If you're working for Harold, tell him she's with me now!"

Round 1
Daisy : AD
Harold :JC
Emma : 10H
Arabella : 10D
Able : 10C
Inside : 6S
(Did I miss anyone?...)

Everyone is up! Post in any order, and I'll resolve what happens afterwards...

At the shot, Harold raises his right leg and drives it at the door handle in an attempt to force open the door.

What kind of check would that be?

Watching from afar Daisy jumps a little at the shot and shout. She then starts that mental mantra that kept her scores high on the rifle team and concentrates on the back and sides of the building she can see, in case anyone exits.

Harold - Strength vs. some Target Number I'll make up for how well built and bolted the door is...

Click HERE for a map of the cabin. The bottom is the front door, with windows on either side. Of course, you have no idea what's on the inside. The differences between the map and reality are :
-There's no back door.
-There are curtains over all the windows.
-I question the wisdom in putting a window in the bathroom right next to the toilet...but then again...curtains.

Everyone else?

Strength: 1d6 ⇒ 5
wild: 1d6 ⇒ 1

Harold brings the sole of his boot against the jamb right by the handle with a smooth back kick.

Emma was right behind Harold.

"I'm going to use my glial cells increase my duration," she states stoically.

She screws up her eyes and seems to concentrate very hard.

Boost Self; Vigor: 1d8 ⇒ 7success. Vigor is now d6. Tou = +1
WILD Boost Self; Vigor: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Nothing happens but she opens her eyes and gives Harold a confident nod. She holds a cannister of pepper spray in one hand.

The door snaps open, swings all the way over to the wall, slaps it and swings partially back.

The voice from inside says "I'm warning you, we'll shoot the first person we see! She's mine now!"

Everyone else? If you're not going to take an Action, please post something to that effect, thanks!

Able stays crouched in his hidden position, his pistol in hand.

Arabella, waiting on you...

Sorry. I was waiting for an indication that she is with the group.

Arabella, being new to this group, is ready to take suggestions if anyone has any, but otherwise, she will stay to the back of the line, her pistol drawn.

Just in case, I'll roll a notice for her.

Notice: 1d6 ⇒ 6
Wild: 1d6 ⇒ 3
Notice, ace: 1d6 ⇒ 2
Result: 6 + 2 = 8

Arabella - sorry, you had introduced yourself at the ship, so to my mind you were automatically here...

From inside the cabin, a few shots are fired randomly out the door.

Round 2
Emma : AS
Inside : QH
Harold :9H
Arabella : 7H
Able : 5S
Daisy : 4D

Emma's up!

Emma had been standing behind Harold, which put her near the corner, near the window.

"And so the warriors stand,
some blessed some cursed,
make all the plans you want,
someone has to go first.'

-Me. Just now," she says.

Then she jumps through the window.

GM, what do I see? Do I take damage from the window?

Hearing the glass break, behind himself

Crap not what was intended

he takes a moment and plows through the door when the individual inside should be distracted by the busted window

Despite the TV and movies, you do take damage when going thru a window...

Shattered glass: 1d4 ⇒ 11d4 ⇒ 21d4 ⇒ 31d4 ⇒ 4 Heh-how linear...
ACE!: 1d4 ⇒ 3 = 7

Since it just meets your Toughness, you take some mild cuts and are Shaken.

The bad guys open fire on the body coming thru the window (-1 because of the unexpectedness) :

Shooting: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (4) - 1 = 3
Shooting: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (1) - 1 = 0
Shooting: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (5) - 1 = 4

Doing
Damage: 2d6 ⇒ (2, 4) = 6

Which bounces off your armor.

Everyone's up! Harold, you can make your move now.

Because its not the start of my turn I don't get a free Spirit roll, yeah? Then I use a benny to immediately recover from Shaken so I can finish my move and take an action.

Emma stoically brushes some glass from her overly-large coat and steps purposefully forward. Once her position in the space-time continuum has eclipsed the edge of the couch she raises her pepper spray and fires.

"You may commence as to firing!" she calls out the door toward the others.

By my count my pace is enough to take straight ahead and past the edge of the couch so they don't get cover. Also I can't access the pepper spray rules right now. I think it's a Vigor at -2 or be stunned?

Shooting!: 1d4 ⇒ 4
Shooting ACE!!: 1d4 ⇒ 3
WILD Shooting!: 1d6 ⇒ 6
When it rains it pours...: 1d6 ⇒ 5 = 11. Do we get some kind of bonus for a Raise? Maybe Vigor is at -4?

Arabella moves along the wall to the right of the front door (as she is looking at it) to the window. She listens near the window.

Notice (listening): 1d6 ⇒ 5
Ace: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Pause here for feedback. Meanwhile, a few questions about the house.

Is the house wall made of sturdy enough material to stop a bullet, does it appear? If Arabella wants to try to safely break the window using an elbow while wearing an armored coat, is a roll required, and if so, what to roll?

Emma - correct, the Free Spirit roll would come at the start of your next turn. So, Benny spent. And they are 5" away, so no Cover. Note that you can only target one of them. Since the rules don't say anything about something extra happening on a Raise for pepper spray (but they do for many other things), I'm going to say no extra benefit.

Vigor-2: 1d6 - 2 ⇒ (4) - 2 = 2

The guy falls to the ground, screaming and rubbing his eyes.

Notes for myself (I really *hate* the new named states in SWADE, and Stunned references *two other* states!).

Arabella hears a male voice inside screaming in acute pain. Actually, with one door and one window open, everyone can hear the screaming.

Arabella - the walls look thick enough to stop a bullet. Since Emma thru her entire body against the glass, she broke it automatically. With an elbow, make a Strength roll of 2 or better, and the window breaks.

Everyone else?

Hearing shouts and shots Daisy hesitates, keeping her attention on the windows she can see.
"Oh... should I stay or go..."

So the sounds that everyone can hear are: Window crashes, Gunshots, man screaming, Emma shouting that it's Go Time!

Once inside, Harold quickly assesses the situation and promptly fires his shotgun at the non screaming person behind the couch.

shotgun shooting: 1d8 ⇒ 3
wild: 1d6 ⇒ 1

Going to benny that one.
shotgun shooting: 1d8 ⇒ 3

The dice is varianble for shotguns, which would you say the damage would be due to me closing on them and firing at the last moment

I see the dice bot is trying to kill me in this game as well. :(

When Daisy hears Emma's "You may commence as to firing!" and a man's scream Daisy at first flinches and then the macabre humor hits her and she smiles and giggles and settles down again to watch the back of the building..

Arabella stands with her back to the wall next to the window and quickly thrusts her elbow at the window, trying to time it with a gunshot to reduce the chance of anyone elsewhere hearing it.

Target: 2
Strength: 1d4 ⇒ 1
Wild: 1d6 ⇒ 3
Elderly hindrance subtracts 1.
Result = 3 - 1 = 2
Success (barely)

Once the window breaks, she pulls a curtain aside while trying to keep the wall between herself an anyone who might aim a gun at the window.

Harold - you forgot to re-roll the Wild die on the Benny roll :
Wild: 1d6 ⇒ 5

For future reference, please read p. 105 in the SWADE rules. For simplicity, you need to declare a default type of ammo, either shot or slug. Shot gives you a +2 bonus on your Shooting roll, so your first roll would have made it, take your Benny back. Short-range (up to 12") damage is 3d6, you can roll that one.

Harold, please also give me a Notice-1 roll.

Arabella, just to be clear, Emma jumped thru the window to the left of the door, so you're breaking the one to the right side of the door? Once I know where you are, I'll describe what you see.

Able?

Arabella, just to be clear, Emma jumped thru the window to the left of the door, so you're breaking the one to the right side of the door? Once I know where you are, I'll describe what you see.

Able?

Arabella went to the window to the right of the door.

Harold - you forgot to re-roll the Wild die on the Benny roll :

Wild: 1d6 ⇒ 6

For future reference, please read p. 105 in the SWADE rules. For simplicity, you need to declare a default type of ammo, either shot or slug. Shot gives you a +2 bonus on your Shooting roll, so your first roll would have made it, take your Benny back. Short-range (up to 12") damage is 3d6, you can roll that one.

Harold, please also give me a Notice-1 roll.

I completely missed that part, thank you.

damage: 3d6 ⇒ (6, 5, 5) = 16

Notice: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (6) - 1 = 5
wild: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (6) - 1 = 5

Exploding Notice: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (3) - 1 = 2
Exploding wild: 1d6 - 1 ⇒ (5) - 1 = 4 9 so 1 raise

Able keeps his pistol handy, but stays in position outside, waiting to provide backup. He loved a good gunfight, but he preferred face to face challenges; a quickdraw at the poker table, or facing someone down across a street at high noon. In these kind of situations, chaotic and rushed, people got shot for stupid reasons, and he was more useful waiting out here, where he could stop anyone from getting away, or move in to patch up holes in anyone worth saving after the shooting was done.

Held action, which he will allow to expire if no runners appear or no one calls for his help.

Harold - you missed the Ace in your Damage roll :
Damage ACE!: 1d6 ⇒ 5 = 21
And please see my latest post in Discussion about Ace re-rolls and penalties.

Your shot hits the guy square in the chest, and blows a hole right thru it, splattering his companion with blood and gore. He starts to scream louder, saying "Don't kill me! Don't kill me!".

You catch some movement out of the corner of your eye, and turning around, see another guy in the hallway holding a gun. As he sees you seeing him, he holds his hands up in surrender. But he says "No! No, no, no, NO! She belongs to me!"

Racking a new shot shell into his shotgun, Harold yells to the guy in the hall.

DROP IT OR I DROP YOU

Emma picks up the dead man's gun then turns to the one that is screaming that he does not want to be killed. She points the newly found and still blood-splattered gun at him.

"Give unto me your weapon or your request to not be discontinued will be denied."

Harold - ummm...if the guy sees you're out of ammo, he's going to try and get a shot out on you since he's got a loaded gun in his hand. I'm not going to draw cards for this, and technically only you and he get to act on this new "round", but I'm bending the rules for drama and suspense. Make an Agility-2 roll (-2 because you're reloading) : highest roll shoots first. If the target isn't downed from it, they shoot second. Go ahead and roll Shooting and damage as well, so we can move this along faster.

The other guy drops his weapon and says to Emma "Take it, I can't see anything."

Arabella - we're technically out of combat now, so you can post whatever you want to do with the situation you've got.

As it is a pump, technically I am not out of ammo, I just had to rerack (pump) the shotgun to eject the empty and slide a new shell into the chamber. But for drama, and possibly to give the doc something to do. :)

Agility: 1d8 - 2 ⇒ (7) - 2 = 5

shotgun shot: 1d8 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
wild: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
double ought buckshot (+2)

shotgun damage: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 2, 6) = 10
damage explosion: 1d6 ⇒ 3
= 13

"Thank you for your compliance. There is only an 11% chance the sight loss is permanent."

She puts the second gun in her belt, then looks up to see the results of the cruel but inevitable gunshots.

Arabella peeks into the room beyond the broken front door. Seeing the wounded one surrender, she points to the room next to the front room and says, "A young'un's tied up in the next room."

After the gunshots stop and Daisy hears..relatively calm discussion from her party, she will go to join them.

Ok, here's my rolls :

Agility & Wild: 1d6 ⇒ 51d6 ⇒ 5 = 5

Ok, we both shoot simultaneously :

Shooting & Wild: 1d8 ⇒ 11d6 ⇒ 6
Wild ACE!: 1d6 ⇒ 3 = 9, Raise

Doing :

Damage,+1(gun): 2d6 + 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1, 2) + (3) + 1 = 7, AP 1

The guy takes 1 Wound, and his shot is stopped by the browncoat, but still does some concussion damage, so you are Shaken (which doesn't really matter, since the combat is over).

The guy drops his gun and clutches at his wound, and says "Ok, you got me - I give up!"

Harold - could you please change your Toughness notation in your tag line to "Toughness:7(2), TAL", thanks! Your natural Toughness is 5, and the browncoat provides 2 armor, not 4. SW convention is :
<total toughness>(<toughness from armor>)

We're out of combat, people can post what they do in any order.

Arabella cautiously enters and checks whether anyone is in need of immediate medical attention, although with a doctor in the group, she will let him take the lead and assists if needed.

She then goes to help the woman she saw through the window, untying her and asking, "You all right, kid?" She offers her water and asks if she needs food or medical care.

"I'm Arabella and these others were hired by yer pa."

Oh boy, this guy's a Wild Card!

Emma looks on dispassionately at the exchange of gunfire. She was about to intervene when she remembers what this situation is. She looks at Harold. "You have the Right." She nods once.

Of course she is referring to the Right of Retribution. When someone has been injured by another party, it is widely agreed that the impetus as to whether they get to surrender or be killed is held by the injured party. Afterall, what say does someone who has -not- been injured by someone have over the say of someone who has? It's not like their action is part of a uniformed military or held in sway by any agreed-upon rules convention.

Thusly Emma acknowledges that if Harold wants to take more gunshots at this perpetrator, that is entirely within his prerogative.

Also to shoot someone and then try to surrender is just rude.

Her part in the exchange wholly dispensed with she ensures the non-lethality of both blind-surrender guy and swiftly cooling corpse by relieving them of their bullets and gunbelts.

Then she puts one of the gunbelts on.

Whether the other PCs even acknowledge Emma's concept of Right of Retribution and whether they want to act on it is up to each PC.

What's everyone else doing? There's been no shooting for maybe 30-60 seconds now...

Daisy will start to approach the front door but then has a random thought and instead checks out the path towards this guy's main property to see if the shots have garnered any attention.
If she sees nothing for a minute or so she'll approach the door and talk to whoever is closest.
"We should probably vacate this area sooner rather than later..."

Arabella frowns at the young woman's response. "Interesting. Are you aware Fred told your father he's holding you hostage until he sells Fred a awful big part o' his ranch?"

"As fer who won the shootin' contest, Fred surrendered after a-gittin' plugged. We got a doc ta tend him. Let's get you ready to move on out, 'less ya wanta stay with Fred."

After securing her newfound guns and gunbelts, Emma hears Arabella talking and wanders over to her. "I see you have found the target in question," she states in a monotone. "We should remove the bounty from the premises and return for our reward."

"Ummm...no, I had no idea what Fred told my father. Maybe he knew dad would never sell, which would give him time to 'convince' me that I love him? Seriously, the man is obsessed with me."

Anyone else? Anyone want to talk with Fred? Or, like, heal his wound?

My post from yesterday seems to have been eaten. No worries, here it is again.

Once it is clear the shooting is over, Able holsters his wheelgun and takes his doctor's bag up in his off hand.

As he walks into the room, he takes a quick inventory of the silent and wounded.

Pointing at the conscious man on the floor he says, "If you please, someone put pressure on that until I can have a look at him."

Healing: 1d10 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 61d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

He checks the bodies in turn, checking to see if any still cling to life.

Looking at his shipmates he asks, "Were any of our number wounded?