GM Erich's #6-99 Under The Eye Of The Mantis (7-8) for Gameday XIV (Inactive)

Game Master Thereus, Silver Crusader

This is the discussion thread.

Yarr.

4 Glyphs and a Campaign Coin here.

Hello,

1 glyph

Hello all,

We can't officially begin for a few days, but feel free to jump into gameplay and introduce your characters as you await the briefing. For this adventure, you will be meeting on a huge Pathfinder ship southbound in the Arcadian Ocean, within sight of Mediogalti Island and the Eye of Abendego.

Also, let me know here how many more GM glyphs we have at the table so we can award intial hero points.

1 Glyph

So you will all start out with 2 hero points (and a campaign coin, when needed).

I've included your default artwork on the game tokens, feel free to change them if you have a more appropriate picture.

Hello.
I just added myself onto the 6th slot.
There was someone still in the waitlist box, but they'd specified Discord, so I don't think I've jumped the queue.
If I have let me know and I'll keep out of the Gameplay thread.

I think you are good Nagaikaze

Thank you.
At the time of our introductions are we at sea?

Yes Nagaikaze

I've included your default artwork on the game tokens, feel free to change them if you have a more appropriate picture.

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Pics of all provided in the slideshow

I've only done the pbp thing a couple of times before, and not that recently, so am a little behind the curve.

Edit: Aah...It's in you're name bar.

GM if you'd be kind enough to add the link to the slides for this game to the brief campaign description that would be helpful. (Lets us pull it up without having to find your last post etc)

@Prof Done

Thanks <3

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Okay.
Only for the Gameplay side.
It seems to use the expected title for the Discussion side.

@Emdi I haven't run or played that adventure, but it would seem that there are some NPCs and events in common from it from what I've read about it (in addition to the overall Red Mantis focus)

We have four missions to choose from for Act 1. The first one is simple and makes sense thematically to do first. I will proceed with the first one now.

Please let me know the order your character would prefer the others.

1-The Mantis We Know Social
2-Tales of Woe Skill Challenge
3-Quite the Haul Skill Challenge
4-Dockside Brouhaha Combat

Although I'm best at combat, I would prefer doing them in numerical order.

I'm happy with numerical order.
Or reverse numerical if people are desperate for combat.
I (unhelpfully) don't really mind but like an orderly system.

Dockside Brouhaha, Quite the Haul, Tales of Woe, The Mantis We Know.

Just a preference though, happy with whatever we tackle.

Any preferences for the best four questions?
We could try to Aladdin her, and slip a " Tell us about X" or something similar in the middle of the 4 questions, it not being a question itself.

“This includes your own, Khione Thidos.”

Also, I have no idea who this is but feel as if it is expected that Nagaikaze ought to.

Nagaikaze has mentioned some of the fields he’d like to see questioned.
In the absence of further information I’m happy for someone else to actually ask the next question.

I referred to Khione as him in Gameplay. Do we even know if I got that much right?

I went ahead and asked one of our questions so we don't get stuck here forever.

Three of you were split going 1 to 4 vs 4 to 1, so to keep it simple, we will just go numerical for this act...

"I am Tesparisod but I must ask why my new friend Ciobanu is not with you..." his smile fades to a frown as the vicharamuni seems crestfallen, and starts to sink back down into the froth.

It will take another diplomacy check from someone to cheer him back up enough to continue.

By a different player or can it be the same player?

Nice immobilize. Hopefully we won’t have to haul him out of the water now.

While we are waiting, would the group like a social encounter or another combat for the next encounter on the island?

I'd vote for social.

Maybe social?
Don’t have a real preference, but suspect it’d be more likely to complete?

Well Dran'Tilt isn't very social, except if he can borrow a cigar.

But we can try this one for sure.

Yakuthiel votes for combat <<grin>>

I will be away Tuesday and Wednesday.

She begins counting them off on her fingers. “First was a contract on Dhrami Blakros, one of the prestigious Blakros roses. But there has been no movement on it, so I suspect the contract was vacated.”

Hmm

This character hasn’t met Nigel in a scenario.

Oh...Dhrami is his price...and she is not guarded.

When you get to the lair... you can choose to do the following (we will probably get through 1 or 2 of these with the remaining time for Act II)...

For the Right Price ---Social
Contractual Obligations ---Skill Challenge
The Downward Path ---Combat

Depending on pacing for this first part, we might sneak in the combat from earlier this week too.

I'd go with numerical...or order of print again, but they do keep getting listed with combat last it seems.

Am I not Frightened 2?

You are frightened 2, missed that.

For the purposes of clarity, is the difficult terrain the 3x3 square with Purple in the middle, or is it a 5x5 square?

Just the statue area, I'll mark in grey.

Ahh. Thank you.

As usual I have no strong opinion, so am happy with numerical order.

Perhaps a skill challenge

Sure. Mission 1 is fine

I agree with numerical order.

Numerical, it is.