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DMSBM - what exactly is the goal of this Dramatic Task?

Jingu?

The Dramatic Task was "to infiltrate". I assumed that meant get in good with the local underworld, not to get in good with the genpop.
I don't have any good ideas - Jingu???

Sorry for the holdup, work's been slamming me lately...

Who? Burgurk only, or both of us? I assume the -2 applies only to Burgurk?

"If I apologize, I will lose face, and word will quickly get around town that I'm a coward, and every wannabe will try to take me on. What if you step in and try to calm them down? Do you have any psionic abilities that might help you do that?"

Burgurk thinks at Jingu "I was hoping to intimidate them into leaving us alone. But my mojo must be off today. Will you help me fight them, or want to remain in the background, not associated with me?"

Burgurk will seek out those Psi-Stalkers in a public place (like a bar), walks up to them and says "There's no reason we can't get along in a town like this, right? Live and let live, I always say."

He smiles, showing all his sharp teeth, and growls just loud enough that only the Psi-Stalkers can hear. Then he activates his telekinesis and squeezes them gently around their throats.

Psionics & Wild,-2 situational: 1d12 - 2 ⇒ (3) - 2 = 11d6 - 2 ⇒ (1) - 2 = -1 Oh bother...

Sorry I've been gone so long, life got in the way...

Simvan are probably off-putting to humans, so I'll use my Greater Telekinesis to help out with any heavy lifting that's needed.

Psionics & Wild: 1d12 ⇒ 91d6 ⇒ 1 = Raise, I can lift 2000 pounds!

DMSBM - Rigor has been MIA in several other games we're in together since Jan 15. I know that's only a couple of weeks (I've been kept busy by life for that long myself before), but I sent him a PM yesterday asking what's up. No response so far...

Ping?

"I don't want to draw any attention to ourselves. I say we frequent some bars for a couple of days, without asking any questions, but making some acquaintances. Then we start asking questions. If Jinju thinks he has a *really* good chance of making it in and out of the CS office and hack the computer without being caught, that's an option, but still it's pretty risky."

Sorry for the blackout, but Burgurk doesn't have anything to add to the conversation anyway...

Why would we want to hide her? Is she likely to be stolen, or do we not want people to see her for some reason? Surely she has some kind of theft security measures built-in...

Assuming that Jingu passes this information on, Burgurk tells him "Let them know that at least one of us will be coming back as soon as we can to help them."

The trees let us go, so we can now continue heading towards the town, yes? Do we get there without further incidents?

"Ok, I hadn't thought of all that. So make your proposed course of action to the trees, and see what they think."

"How would the Coalition know that we wiped out a bunch of DeadBoys? If there's little to no risk of that, I say we attack them now. Otherwise, tell the trees that if they let us go, you promise to come back soon and at least disable their machines so they can't work for a while, and that we'll all come back as soon as we can to wipe them out."

Jingu - is there some page in Paizo that shows new posts in a game? That's why I check the actual GamePlay page of every game I'm in every day...

Burgurk, being a fighter by his nature, tries to resist the calmness :

Spirit & Wild: 1d10 ⇒ 41d6 ⇒ 2

"You're probably the only one of us who could do that. Go ahead, but keep your mental guard up in case whatever it is tries a mental attack..."

Or has he? Making a Smarts roll for Common Knowledge, apply modifiers as needed...

Smarts & Wild: 1d6 ⇒ 61d6 ⇒ 1
Smarts ACE!: 1d6 ⇒ 3 = 9

What if anything does he know about these things?

"Huh - never seen that before..."

Glad to hear you're better. More and more companies are blocking non-work-related web sites that get a lot of activity during work hours. They probably saw your activity and decided to nix it.

"I'd suggest we dress ourselves as vagabond mercenaries, wander thru the town talking to various merchants to make ourselves known, then after a day or two of that, decide on a plan of action."

Are you waiting for us to post our Advances? I've been too busy IRL to think about it yet, maybe we should continue with the game in the meantime...

Rigor - thanks for all the suggestions, I'll look into them!

I'm having problems with Advancements. Since most of his power comes from the RIFTS side, I can't seem to find any Advancements that would provide a tactical advantage. Any suggestions?

Just to be clear, is this the same town that has the black marketeers we were looking for to get info on the blue folk in our last assignment (I think that was the plan), or did we fail at that by bringing the refugees and equipment back?

We've been wearing Legion uniforms this whole time? No wonder everyone wants to shoot at us! ;) Seriously, in my mind we've always been wearing "regular" clothes...

Those numbers are good for me. Finally, I can *buy* something in RIFTS! :)

Ping? Who's waiting on who? :)

Going with the in-game assumption that the Legion will fairly reimburse us for the goods...

"I suggest that we take everything and everyone back to Castle Refuge as quickly as possible. But then take a box or two of the good stuff back out with us, so that Trent can work his magic in the Black Market. I suggest that he keep all the money he can make on the deal. What do others think?"

How much stuff do we have in terms of, say, RL moving boxes?

I don't know what middle ground you're thinking of, but one possibility would be to have Trent sell *half* the weapons, and return the other half to the Legion. I haven't figured out yet where Burgurk stands on this issue in general...
Do reputable banks exist in this setting? I'd think that the Coalition might have a banking system, but it would be kind of hard for a Legion member to get an account. And we can't put our money in a Legion bank anyway, if it's ill-gotten. It's not like we could each carry around hundreds of thousands of credits.
And why would we net 1M if Trent can sell it for 2M?

"I say we double-time it back to HQ, the Legion could really use this stuff."

I missed the Persuasion roll request above. Burgurk is much better at Intimidation, can I use that instead?

Intimidation & Wild: 1d6 ⇒ 11d6 ⇒ 4 = Success

Burgurk shouts and growls at the huddled masses to get them all within an LBT.

I'm a little confused as to who's waiting on what (IRL). Burgurk said he thought Jinju's plan was better, so we're going with that. How does a single-round Dramatic Task work? Who rolls what first?

Hope DMSBM doesn't mind me posting this, but there's a recruitment for a Savage Worlds RIFTS game...in Atlantis! I'm not the GM.

Click HERE.

If you have SWADE RIFTS, you only need one other manual, $10 in PDF form. It has new races and Frameworks, but I'm not really sure you'd even need it if you go with SWADE RIFTS races and Frameworks.

What I did in robot town was create multiple LBT areas of dust, only one of which actually had us in it. The more areas I can create lowers the chances of being hit. But if you can do an illusion that big, that'd be better.

Burgurk says to his comrades "It's probably best if we load all these weapons after we deal with the incoming threat".

He shouts to the huddled masses "Everyone bunch together, get as close as possible in a tight circle! I'll hide you from the incoming enemy!"

I figure it'll take a few minutes for everyone to organize and position themselves, with Burgurk shouting orders to get everyone in place. I'm going to raise dust clouds all around them, like with the robots at their shanty town.

Burgurk activates his goggles, giving him Darksight and Farsight.

DMSBM, the description just says it costs a SPP, but nothing about an activation roll.

The Hunters are *just* beyond Medium range, but Burgurk fires psychic bolts at them anyway, maybe that'll bring them closer...

Activate : Psionics & Wild: 1d12 ⇒ 121d6 ⇒ 5
Psionics ACE!: 1d12 ⇒ 2 = 14
-4 for Range still makes that a Raise. Are these guys bigger than human?

Doing
Damage: 6d8 + 1d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 6, 7, 4, 3) + (4) = 34

Then targets the other one...

And again :
Activate : Psionics & Wild: 1d12 ⇒ 121d6 ⇒ 4
Psionics ACE!: 1d12 ⇒ 2 = 14 Wow, what are the odds?

Doing
Damage: 6d8 + 1d6 ⇒ (7, 8, 5, 8, 1, 6) + (6) = 41
Damage ACE! ACE!: 2d8 + 1d6 ⇒ (8, 6) + (1) = 15 = 56

And again :
Activate : Psionics & Wild: 1d12 ⇒ 31d6 ⇒ 5

Could someone with a good Healing roll check to find out who's already severely dehydrated, and portion out our water to them? With only a day to get to the Castle, that should hold them over...

"Most humanoids can survive a week without food, and up to 3-4 days without water. If we push on, we can get to the Castle well before we hit those time limits.

Alternatively, Jingu could fly up very high and use his sensors to detect any settlements or signs of humanoid life. If it's closer than the Castle, we can go there. But if it's a small settlement, could they handle such a large influx of people?"

Same action :

Psionics & Wild: 1d12 ⇒ 21d6 ⇒ 3 I don't believe it! Spending another Benny...

Psionics & Wild: 1d12 ⇒ 41d6 ⇒ 3 = Success

Psionics & Wild: 1d12 ⇒ 21d6 ⇒ 2 Phooey. Spending a Bennie.

Psionics & Wild: 1d12 ⇒ 41d6 ⇒ 5 = Success

Burgurk uses his blasts to level a swath of trees that are in the path of the moving edge of fire, trying to create a firebreak.

"Do we have anything to stop a forest fire? I don't think my blasts would help..."

Are you sure my bolts don't need a roll to activate? In their description (based on a Burster), it says "Rolling a 1 on the Psionics die when using TK bolt does not result in Brainburn".

Continuing to fly (last round and this), Burgurk ends up 26" away from the creature (SO close to medium range!), and attacks again :

Activate : Psionics & Wild: 1d12 ⇒ 31d6 ⇒ 3 = no activation

Activate : Psionics & Wild: 1d12 ⇒ 91d6 ⇒ 1
With -4 Range and +4 Size, that's a 9, Raise

Doing
Damage: 6d8 + 1d6 ⇒ (6, 3, 3, 6, 8, 6) + (2) = 34
ACE!: 1d8 ⇒ 1 = 35

Activate : Psionics & Wild: 1d12 ⇒ 111d6 ⇒ 2
With -4 Range and +4 Size, that's an 11, Raise

Doing
Damage: 6d8 + 1d6 ⇒ (3, 2, 8, 5, 7, 1) + (6) = 32
ACE! ACE!: 1d8 + 1d6 ⇒ (7) + (5) = 12 = 44 WOW!

Damage: 6d8 ⇒ (5, 8, 3, 5, 5, 1) = 27
Damage ACE!: 1d8 ⇒ 1 = 28

Damage: 6d8 ⇒ (5, 6, 4, 4, 8, 7) = 34
Damage ACE!: 1d8 ⇒ 1 = 35

Burgurk fires up the jetpack and flies toward the creature. When he's within 48" of it (this turn), he attacks :

Psionics & Wild,-4 Range: 1d12 - 4 ⇒ (3) - 4 = -11d6 - 4 ⇒ (1) - 4 = -3

Psionics & Wild,-4 Range: 1d12 - 4 ⇒ (3) - 4 = -11d6 - 4 ⇒ (4) - 4 = 0

Psionics & Wild,-4 Range: 1d12 - 4 ⇒ (3) - 4 = -11d6 - 4 ⇒ (6) - 4 = 2
Wild ACE!: 1d6 ⇒ 1 = 3

"As tall as a tree" : does that mean his Scale is +2? Do we add that to our attack rolls to hit him (assuming they succeed in going off in the first place...?)

Random thought : shouldn't my Psionics rolls be without penalty, since I'm just seeing if they go off? Then apply the -4 Range penalty to see if they hit? Not that it matters much, since these cost no ISP, just checking if I'm understanding the rules correctly...

I am really wishing for a very-long range ability or weapon right now...

"Thanks, Josiah, hopefully this will let me get involved in large battles."

DMSBM - what kind of Fly speed does this give me?

Hope DMSBM doesn't mind me posting this, but in case anyone's interested, a new Recruitment is up for a Rise of the Runelords game using the new Pathfinder for Savage Worlds rule set (I'm not the GM)...