☠ Season of Ghosts w/ DM rainzax ☠

Game Master rainzax

Sigurd,
I'm realizing that instead of redoing only 3rd action, since you were out of range, you'd have to redo your whole turn.

Go ahead and do so, with new rolls, to keep consistent with other times folks have forgotten to check the map / tracker etc.

(Indeed, if you have rolled 20's I'd be making the same request to reroll - turns out to work in your favor this time most probably...)

=)

Right, I didn't realize the brain thing had moved. Welp, time to give chase and then strike once.

+1 Hero Points for everyone (even Lan)!

This will likely be the final Hero Point award for Book One - any unspent Hero Points will be lost at the beginning of Book Two (when we get there), and replaced with the standard starting amount (□□□□□)!

Also.
Happy Easter!
The Eternal Lantern is Risen!!!
=)

Whoa! 11 Posts!

Thanks for the Hero Point.

Happy Easter! (Or Pastel Halloween, if you prefer.)

Happy Ēostre!

Macros updated. We can get item bonuses to untrained skills, correct?

Yes.

My macros is updated. I put a "1" in the notes section of skills.

It's crunch time for me, btw. I pick up my moving van tomorrow morning and start packing for my move from Denver to Phoenix. I'm leaving either Wednesday or Thursday morning. I'm taking a long, scenic route and plan to stop every couple hours on my drive. There should be no need to bot me. I'll have plenty of time to keep an eye on the game and take 20 minutes or whatever to post my actions.

Good luck!

I hope the move goes smoothly!

As someone who recently relocated his entire life cross-country (1 year ago), I wish you luck in finding your things after you settle into your new destination!

Sigurd, others,
A house rule is that your Background Lore is Expert for “free” - also, I’ll go ahead and lower that Crafting DC by 2 for Art Lore…

Kazuki is good with going back to lumber camp.

Loosely seeing one vote for Stealth (despite major difficulty increase) and one vote for Direct approaches…

I've edited my post to include a vote on the approach, not just what to do once we're in.

I’m seeing a solid quorum for Sneaky despite the considerable difficulty increase (no “halfsies” here because the success of one team impacts that of the other).

I will cook something up tonight.

In any case, please do the following:

On the Map, place your token in 3 different places, representing your Final spot, your Intermediary spot, and your Starting spot.

I will use these positions as guidance for where to place your tokens depending on the outcome of the Second Heist!

I think I placed my tokens right. She's starting on the far corner and working her way in. I'm no tactical genius, so this may go very poorly.

I think I placed my tokens right. She's starting on the far corner and working her way in. I'm no tactical genius, so this may go very poorly.

I added arrows - did I get it right?

Based on your interpretation of Auntie Wu's path (assuming that's right), I suspect Vekka's placements make his path clear.

Auntie Wu wrote:

I think I placed my tokens right. She's starting on the far corner and working her way in. I'm no tactical genius, so this may go very poorly.

I added arrows - did I get it right?

Yes. :)

@GM rainzax: Did we Refocus?

Also, I am seeing a 20 minute rest break?

Nobody answered me, but I presume 20 minutes got everyone healed and refocused fully?

If this is incorrect, please give me the revised time (or revised HPs / focus points etc). 30 minutes? 1 hour?...

It will affect how much daylight we have for this skill challenge!

=)

Vekka certainly didn't need more time than that.

Kazuki will just stay behind the largest group to provide cover with his bow.

Or, he'll get on a roof, if possible.

I'm at a hotel in Cortez, CO right now. On way to Phoenix.

Thank you for bottong me. Worn out from driving and having difficulty concentrating.

Rest easy, Kazuki.

(and prepare to save us once the faceless ambush us from our stealth attempts)

Auntie Wu wrote:

@GM rainzax: Did we Refocus?

DM rainzax wrote:

Also, I am seeing a 20 minute rest break?

Nobody answered me, but I presume 20 minutes got everyone healed and refocused fully?

If this is incorrect, please give me the revised time (or revised HPs / focus points etc). 30 minutes? 1 hour?...

It will affect how much daylight we have for this skill challenge!

=)

20 minutes is perfect. Thanks!

or is it one roll for the entire camp?

1) Search the Camp (10-30 minutes per building)

Critical Successes between Auntie Wu and Kazuki on all three sets of tracks.

So, looks like the party is taking a half an hour to look around (each check is 10 minutes for Auntie Wu and Kazuki) - and then what?

Metagaming: My player reaction of the three sets of tracks: I think we get to do one good thing and sacrifice the other two.

- Rescue the remaining people before they are sacrificed
- Rescue a newly kidnapped person (Kazuki's mother?) before they are sacrificed
- Rescue Ugly Cute, who was defeated and dragged away for execution

I'm picking Ugly Cute, but it sounds like we will only have a chance to help one of them before nightfall.

@GM rainzax: How realistic do you intend to be about the consequences of unattended fire?

=)

Party has already spent 30 minutes searching.

Auntie Wu’s most recent post lays down another 20 minutes.

If you are all down, we can search the whole camp, eating up the remaining daylight, with every room rolling a single check (Just put your Token in the general area you’d like to search).

Or continue piecemail as we have been, hoping to “save” some daylight for your next lead, depending on what we find (in which case everyone pick your next Room by name).

I’m down either way.

Thoughts?

Sigurd feels we should follow the tracks that most likely lead to Ugly Cute. Assuming the enemy has abandoned this base we can come back later.

Apologies for posting without thinking. I am okay with retconning and using that roll for Auntie Wu's next check (probably Survival to follow tracks), if GM rainzax is okay with that.

Auntie Wu's first choice would be to follow the tracks that lead to the larger group of prisoners, but she could be persuaded to go after Ugly Cute if someone points out that the guardian can help save the other people too. It is only conjecture that the lone person dragged along the other set of tracks could be Kazuki's mom, so she's not prioritizing that one, despite how much her heart feels for him.

Vekka would share that choice ordering with Auntie Wu. More prisoner's first, ideally.

To be clear, which direction Sigurd / Auntie Wu / Vekka?

Northwest, Southwest, or East?

Sigurd would vote to go Southwest.

I suspect the prisoners are going East.

The single person was dragged Northwest.

Auntie Wu's priorities:

1) East (burial mound)
2) Southwest (heavy creature)
3) Northwest (single person dragged)

Hey gang,
Chased the Eclipse today - pretty tired going to turn in and check game tomorrow.
Cheers!

Edit: I'm seeing mixed ideas about what to do next: Lan wants to stay and search the camp, Sigurd and Auntie Wu both want to leave, but heading in different directions. So. Gunna need a second on one of these plans to move forward!

I got to see some eclipse action in Chicago. Fun!

I went to see the one in 2017, but didn't get to see today's (except for a brief glance through a pair of borrowed glasses).

To be clear, I thought that Sigurd, Auntie Wu, and Vekka had all decided to search the camp for another 30 min, so I went ahead and randomly picked something for Lan. Lan can't Perceive all that well, and can't Survival at all, so he's kind of following the crowd here. If we're following a trail, Lan's not attached to searching, and yes, I (player) agree we can always come back later.

Direction-wise, Vekka is following those better at tracking.

Sounds like we're stuck in indecision.

To tier break, I will agree with Auntie Wu. Let us travel East, towards the burial ground.

Going to accept the quorum of two for East (see Anchor Post - all spoilers are OPEN).

Q) Do folks want to Search for 30 minutes more per Lan's proposal, or use the remaining hour of daylight to head East instead?

We'll go quorum of two here as well, unless someone strongly objects!

Lan does not propose we Search for 30 min. Eastward ho!

In that case, one PC can make a Survival check to Track!

Kazuki or Auntie Wu?

First to post

Ran outta time yesterday - will move us along later today!

Note to self to remember to use Vekka's seasonal boon before the end of book 1 (unless I'm forgetting that it was already used).

Seasonal Boon [free-action] Trigger Someone in the party makes an NPC in Willowshore friendly; Effect Your reputation precedes you, even if you aren’t the one making the attempt to influence an NPC. The NPC is made helpful instead of friendly. Making an NPC helpful can unlock additional support from their location in Willowshore—your GM has more information about this mechanic.

Auntie Wu and Kazuki's initiative rolls reminded me these existed (usable once per season).

@ Vekka - maybe make a note to your self by your Diplomacy skill? That'll remind you to remind me when it comes up (say, for example, during a Skill Challenge)!

He draws his katana pre-emptively.

It is generally assumed that you guys have primary weapons drawn / loaded - especially for "exploring the wilderness" moments!

Although there are special circumstances in which an Encounter will begin before weapons can be drawn / loaded.

But those will be few, and I will let you know.

=)

Light Situation

I forgot to ask - which PCs have a free hand with which to carry a light source?

And what is that light source - mundane or magical?

=)