As mentioned, you now have a mech. It is in bad condition now and can do little more than move slowly and awkwardly. You will be expected to repair it (and the other three) before the end of the adventure, but you have a choice when and how - there will be some roleplay about it, but you will be choosing whether to fix Flame Knight or find the other mechs first. I do have instructions for adjusting encounters based on whether you use mechs or not, so neither was will necessarily be easier; it's all a question of the group's preferences.
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Flame Knight is huge and has room for 1-2 characters in the cockpit.
As for combination, you will see later, but I will drop my favorite nerdcore song here.
Leveled up.
Added Force to Justifier.
Took Iron Will.
That is essentially all.
Yargnod is going to be obsessed with the mechs since he's from the wastelands of Daimalko. They're a symbol of wealth, power and safety to him.
As a powered armor user, Telirix sees the mech as a bigger and better version.
Will get him updated tonight. DM, can we just handwave our damage away, or are we still in dungeon mode?
Assuming you don't try to lumber off to Ayleth's lair in a broken mech, you have time to heal.
Just time. You'll have a better idea once you talk to people in town. Assuming there are people in town you want to tell.
No! No one must know about my Precious!
They'll wants it! It's mines! Mines!
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Since we leveled it seems a good time for the following:
cmlobue -- thanks for running this game. Good times.
Sefel (PaleDim) -- thanks for the force spheres. It's saved our butts a number of times.
Yargnod (EbonFist) -- I love what you've done with Justifier. That damage output! And cool flavor too.
Mordack (DoubleGold) -- I think you've built the best combat operative I've ever seen.
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Tel would probably vote to fix the mechs as we find them, just to increase firepower. He wouldn't put Yargnod in the first one, if it means losing Justifier's firepower.
My take on talking aobut this: Maybe we tell the top rebel about this, but that's all right now. If we need to we contact the scavenger we rescued.
The mech are scattered 'across the continent.' Does that mean the others are hundreds of miles away?
"Genrovis’s supercontinent isn’t large, so the player characters can reach the cairns relatively easily in a low-flying resistance transport vehicle."
Not sure about the module's use of 'supercontinent', but there you have it.
I should point out that splitting the party is very rarely a good idea and while I'm playing Yargnod as being obsessed with the mech both he and I know that him staying where he is alone is a bad idea.
It won't take too much convincing for him to hide the mech until we can get back to it.
None of the NPCs seem to have shared their comm frequencies with you. Maybe they still don't trust you. Maybe they are being tapped. Maybe the authors wanted yo to trudge back and forth to town.
We could set up camp here and work on it until it's fixed then use it for the rest of our quest.
That would probably be what Yargnod would vote for, actually.
Telirix would also vote to fix the mech first if possible.
Repairing the mech will take three days of successful work. Each day, you can make one DC 28 Engineering check (with as many Aid Anothers as the group can manage) to make progress. Failing by 5 or more adds a day to the needed repair time, while succeeding by at least 5 counts as 2 days repairs.
Engineering is where we live. We can knock out the repairs pretty quick.
Then it's a question of policy. A prize like that might be too much for the local rebels or scavengers to ignore.
None of the NPCs seem to have shared their comm frequencies with you. Maybe they still don't trust you. Maybe they are being tapped. Maybe the authors wanted yo to trudge back and forth to town.
Maybe we didn't think to ask. Might be good to get 2 new comm units and give one to however we trust most.
Engineering is where we live. We can knock out the repairs pretty quick.
I've got a 21, who can beat it?
While Yargnod is obsessed with mechs, both he and I realize he might not be the best choice to pilot, at the moment because Justifier may give him the one of the best DPSs out of the group.
So...who's gonna pilot?
Agreed we don't want to lose Justifiers firepower. I love watching you wield that gun.
Mordack previously said something about not wanting a mech because it would slow him down.
Assuming he can cast from inside the mech, I'd suggest Sefel for now. Keep our caster safe and boost his damage when he's not casting.
Or maybe Telirix, and he hands his ice cannon to Sefel. Not a perfect solution either.
Tomorrow I am leaving for a Dizzying World of dwarves, witches, princesses, fairies, pirates and flying elephants, so this will probably be my last post until at least next Wednesday.
Yargnod is pretty straightforward. Unless he has to move to see a target, he will use a move action to calibrate Justifier against it then shoot until it stops moving -
dice=Justifier (Doom Caller Desperation Cannon)]1d20 + 13[/dice] dice=Electricity and Fire]3d12+11+11[/dice]
If he hasn't calibrated, that 2nd +11 goes away.
Tel may be out of it, but I am enjoying this hugely. What will you all say?
Sorry I electrocuted your envoy, but someone is going to have to either talk to these guys or shoot at them to move things along.
Too bad EbonFist is gaming elsewhere. This is Yargnod's big chance to handle an encounter without the envoy getting in the way.
I'll be able to post tomorrow.
"Listen, that $%#@*ing thing shot down our ship, so now we're going around and collecting all these knights to that we can $%#@*ing. You can either help us, get out of our way, or get in our way. One of those is a very bad choice," Yargnod says.
[dice=Diplomacy]1d20
That's the post I've really been waiting for. I was expecting Yargnod to just open up with Justifier. Tel would be so proud that Yargnod tried to use his words first. :-0
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[dice=Timey Wimey Stuff]1d6
Time doesn't keep on slipping into the future and Yargnod finds himself unable to calibrate Justifier.
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I want to fly like an eagle.
Wow. You guys are winning the damage output war about 150 to 7.
I'm very impressed.
If these guardians keep regenerating, I might make it to consciousness.
Great fight,guys!
It probably would have been better if we had figured out how to deactivate their regenerating.
I assume it was connected to the time stuff.
They had resolve points. Nothing more complicated than that.
They had resolve points. Nothing more complicated than that.
What? Like actual people instead of fancy paper targets?
Weird.
I can easily see some party members voting with Yargnod.
I'd love to actively play again, but I'm ok waiting to play IRL if Yargnod can't wait that long. Personally I thought the suggestion to park Tel in the back seat was inspired