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Harcos looks at the reactions of the noble he went with. If his assumption is true, then the bandits will avoid their location when they go to gather the valuables. He only hopes that his warning got through in time, and that the young pair is safe, and that preparations have been made to counter something like this. Harcos, having a feeling that Dovan has his hand in this, decides not to act yet, as he really doesn't want a bullet or blade in his back.
GM: Harcos doesn't feel the situation as "right". Sure, the man may have a similar presence as he himself, but what if the strange sensation is due to something else?
He scribbles stuff into the newspaper as the group begins to move, and Harcos looks for someone, anyone he knows.
He plans to hand the newspaper over if he finds anyone, he hopes it may be Janus he spots. In the newspaper he wrote "The wedding may be targeted, I suggest to use doubles until the oath has to be said, disguising the fake bride should be easier than the spouse but replace both if possible. If nothing happens until the vows should be said then the real ones should come out."
"And what could that be? Some secret lover suddenly appears to come to the rescue of the damsel in distress?" Harcos smiles, or something. "There will be extra guards, mages, and sharpshooters on the roofs for the event as protection I imagine. Although something that would stir up the nation and wake the commoners up from slumber may be a good thing, advancement needs strife, and technology improves the best during conflicts and rivalry." Harcos folds the newspaper again. "The Morrison Company would greatly benefit from wars or riots, those increase demand for food and firearms, and fresh news. It would however weaken the nation on the bigger scale, and resources like manpower would be wasted. It is hard to plan a proper balance of supply and demand." He offers the newspaper to the man, now that Harcos has read it, it would be a waste to just throw it away. It was the freshest one after all. He thinks for a moment then nods. "Right, manners. Sorry I am not exactly one for the social events, I am Harcos Maverick Morrison, and you are mister Dovan... ?" Harcos didn't recall anyone by the name of Dovan, but maybe a family name would help.
Harcos nods. "Well this is something like an important wedding between nobles in something like a capital city so no surprise. Although I would rather prepare for the coming Science Fair, there is no efficiency in this whole event, and too much wasted gold and other resources. Too much politics for my tastes, if I were the spouse I would do a small ceremony then flee the mess with the bride." He then ponders. "I wonder if someone would gather up all the food and drinks from the after party, would selling it make him rich?"
Harcos feels strange to have met someone who gives him a similar sensation to what he is most likely to make others experience. He doesn't plan to disturb the man, but if people around shun and avoid that noble, then Harcos will go near him to the free spot with Snow. He knows how troubling it can be if people avoid one, so he will be a silent companion, unless the man himself wants to start a conversation. Harcos will nod at him if the man notices the young Morrison, and while the group waits for their time to get to the wedding Harcos takes out his newspaper and reads the other articles he skimmed over earlier.
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Harcos looks at the plan then nods as he turns back to him. "I don't care about that, it is better if I stay a bit behind anyway." The man must feel at unease but maybe he already knows that not the aura/strange feelings that he gets from Harcos are important but the actual words he speaks. Those who don't could consider his words as the exact opposite, that he doesn't like to be pushed after others. "So, you will be an entertainer then?" Looking at Erostil he ponders. "Then I wish you luck and hope you show a great performance." His words stab at Erostil as a curse, not sure why, as Harcos didn't use an offensive tone. He nods at Master Janus then leaves to get Snow and ride to his position.
Harcos nods as he follows the man into his office. "Is there a problem?"
Harcos replies to Erostil with a small nod before he turns to the guard. "No. I know. You didn't."
Harcos stands there silently, watching the events unfold. As Master Janus comes with something that may be the letter he handed earlier over he looks at Erostil. The look could be considered a silent threatening stare, but after a moment Harcos speaks up, addressing Erostil. "Thanks." He realizes that he got once again into rouble in a way that is so typical for him, another reason why he didn't think he would be a good representative for his family at any social event. "I thought my father sent a messenger already that I am to represent House Morrison, I wanted to avoid such a scene." He speaks to Janus as he turns towards the door. Then he looks at the guard. "I did tell you that I need to get the paperwork done, that I am a guest for the wedding. That keeping me out means trouble for the both of us. Why does no one ever listen?" His warm voice is tired and calm, but his presence is just as disturbing and maybe unnatural as it was before. Harcos turns to Master Janus again. "Don't fire or sack him, he tried to do his job." He was worried that the man may lose his job due to the event of acting like this against the Morrisons, little did he understand that his words may actually remind Janus that that would be a proper method to handle the diplomatic backslash and could in fact result in the guard losing its job. As twisted the reactions are due to his presence people may think he wants the man sacked. Often the worst is assumed from his words.
Harcos looks around and behind him surprised and confused from the event, awaiting that some enemy is charging at them behind him, but he sees no one there. "What? Where?"
Harcos sighs at the reaction. "Fine take it, but this requires my presence to be properly registered." He pats his revolver on his left after he hands the letter over to lose some stress and regain patience and composure. Of course, to the guard this simple act looked different once again thanks to the feeling he got from Harcos.
He looks at the guard with a raised eyebrow, then silently takes out the letter and shows the seal on it. "I need to get the paperwork done, I am a guest for the wedding. Keeping me out means trouble for the both of us." He tries to look calm and friendly, but in truth to observers he seems adamant and threatening.
"No, the attendant will do." Harcos nods at him then goes in to seek out this attendant so he can "present himself" to the Office of the Lord Mayor and get the paperwork about being a guest done with.
Harcos looks around, and goes to ask a guard if the Lord Mayor is in the office right now.
Harcos finished the maintenance of his guns and also with the glass of wine. He folded the newspaper and with it under his arm went upstairs to his room. He prepared for the visit to the Lord Mayor's office. Thankfully he was a practical man, and his armored linen and silken suit was proper enough for wearing at any time, even wedding ceremonies. Harcos went to the stall that he rented out for his stay and mounted his horse Snow. He felt no unease or hesitation from the white steed, Harcos had no bad effect on animals as he did on humans, Snow wasn't even worried over the foxes or wolves that appeared so often around the Morrison estate, and going through a city didn't seem to bother it either. Riding through the streets at a slow pace, Harcos silently considered how likely it would be that even without a horse due to his presence people would split before Harcos to let him pass. Or more correctly, to avoid him. He stopped at a flower shop, and on a quick idea bought a white rose. Harcos took the flower and fastened it on his chest, maybe it will have some positive effect on his appearance. After half a hour or so he was before the office.
Harcos wanted to get over with the whole ceremony quickly. Not that he had anything against the wedding or the people involved, he just didn't feel like fitting into the role of representing the Morrison family at the wedding properly. He also worried about the possible reactions to his presence, how strange it would be if the ceremony is postponed due to his "aura" that made so many feel unease in his presence. He was reading the latest issue of Restov Daily, more specifically skimming past the front page about the wedding, and avoiding the daily news Harcos was reading the article of Clockwork Weekly. Harcos tried one of the honeyed sweets but they were to sticky for him, so he just sipped some water as he read the article from his cup. There were many new interesting inventions and ideas in the article, he was especially interested in the idea about making guns able to shoot quicker and thus more often, or the experimental engine of a dwarf that is able to use steam as energy. He finished reading the article, he placed the Restov Daily beside, the newest issue of the newspaper his family owned was still fresh and "crispy", as Harcos took it from the print before he left for the city. He looked around in the inn, and ordered a glass of red wine. He didn't recall the name of any of the other guests he saw, so he took out "Ocean Torrent" and began to clean it after a moment of just looking at the great gun. He started with wiping the dust off his family crest on the gun, the Coat of Arms with the supporting fox and wolf sparkled in the light.
In case it matters
Harcos Equipment cost/list:
Gunslingers start out with 1 battered weapon, for a "Guns Everywhere" setting Pistolero this means a handgun (Revolver). In "Guns Everywhere" firearms cost 10% of their usual value. This means a revolver still costs 400 gold. Harcos has the Rich Parents trait and starts out with 900 gold on level 1. He is a dual wielder of handguns so I buy another revolver beside the free one for him too. Revolver Free
A total of: 882g, 7s, and 3c
Remaining cash: 17g, 2s, 7c EDIT: char sheet done I assume Harcos could go to represent his family at the event as his father and siblings are all busy to go themselves. He has a white horse called "Snow" and he called his two revolvers "Ocean Torrent" and "Magma Burst". Nothing is mastercraft or magical, so I think in future I will replace the guns for the same kind but made out of mithral, the names of them will be kept and magical enchantments will represent water/ice and fire/earth on them, fitting their names.
problem fixed, will soon be able to post again Sorry about the mess, had no ability to post from home, and at the job it was hectic and couldn't risk being caught hanging on the net Yes. Everyone got a Hero Point for backgrounds. new to these hero points stuff, do we all have the Hero's Fortune feat for free then?
I had electricity problems for a day, will be able to post today/tomorrow
honestly, I don't care much for roles, and I think I listed a bit more than just Warden earlier :) Here a new list:
I will go with TWF and Point-Blank Shot for starting Feats, as revolvers count as light weapon it is not a problem, and this sets up the prerequisites for Rapid Shot on level 3. Undecided yet if I take the Beastmaster level on level 2 or maybe decide upon something else, but that can wait anyway. Finishing up the stats today.
Rapid shot and TWF stacks, ALL the builds I looked into had both of them after level 12 or so such a char could attack 10+ times per turn, but this may only be with two-barreled pistol, which I won't use but yes, as you listed yourself, the stacking negatives from added attacks make the roll about as likely to hit with the gun as it is to hit with a bow against normal armor so: basically a "multishot gunner" give up his advantage of easier hitting targets in return for more attacks (and feats required) Also, Gun/Pistol Training becomes glaring if no Guns Everywhere setting. BAM, you get Dex x2 Damage. Am I right? Yep, but let me remind you what kind of damage Archers, Power Attack using fighters, or Mages can deal out. The extra damage from Dex seems much less even if doubled when you think about what all other classes can do, and for Pistolero that already focuses on just one type of weapon group it means it has to focus even more on a single weapon as a very specialized fighter In a low-gun/tech world that is usually an issue, guns can't be found everywhere, once one explodes or is stolen you may not be able to help the team at all for a whole campaign. Heck let it rain and the gunslinger is almost for sure doomed
yes, thanks, that is how i planned to do it, it is not that much of an issue and only at level 5 will the two both be active at once anyway (and level 5 becomes level 6 if I multiclass) strange that you got those results though, almost all my results except max 2 or maybe 3 were about how that works, and all pistolero builds (except 1) focused on that. I assume even if it were a mistake, the problems would only arise around level 11 so its not a problem here and yes, forgot about getting more feats after lvl 6 :) And, I wasn't helping folks to get a spot... I just like helping folks take a concept and make it "crunchy"(?) while maintaining enough style to make it RP friendly. Glad folks took me up on my offer, and I hope I was able to help. You guys better get in the game! thanks for the help, I don't usually ask for that but I needed to get used to the concept of a gunslinger, even though in head I saw the image of the char, stat-wise I had no clue what to do with it EDIT: GM, is my background fine?
so, Black Thom, I assume you are joining the game after all?
doesn't really matter, that ability comes only at level 5, plus I looked into other threads about it and seems even PFS uses it in addition and not as replacement. Exactly because of that it is worth taking 5 levels, and yes, other builds for Pistolero I found also count Dex bonus twice. :) It is now more than a a year ago that a few people asked an errata for it, but it was stated there is nothing to errata about it, the Pistolero was made this way to make it able for also taking the Mysterious Stranger archetype in addition to use it in combination with Pistolero, but that archetype doesn't interest me.
I never actually seen anyone caring about range increment unless someone is a sniper planning to snipe from "across a map". Usually when fight gets initialized the enemy is upon the party already. I don't mind 1-2 range increase modifiers anyway, sure the negatives stack up, but as I have to hit touch AC it is a smaller issue than otherwise, plus Advanced guns like the Revolver can work properly up to 5 range modifiers.
I misunderstood rapid shot, may be better to pick it over TWF then, hmm Pistol Training/Gun Training: they don't replace each other, they stack So what about feats then? point blank and rapid shot eat up two feats, meaning all level 1 feats are used up then I get one more at lvl 3, 4 (class), and 6 If I go the beastmaster way that would eat up 2 Companion Boon feats to get the animal up to char level (on hindsight this seems too much fuss, but it would on level 6 make me have a level 6 companion), otherwise level 3 seems to be the time to take TWF now I want to avoid taking levels in something that is not a full BAB class so no druid levels, if I would consider a non-full BAB class it would be monk instead. As it is, level 5 is where Pistolero gains most benefits from and the 6th level can be something else, so maybe fighter, if fey bloodline would allow it I would take a Eldritch Heritage feat to get a proper animal companion no, I am not an optimizer but I would like to make a char that can benefit the best from a concept idea (...or does this actually make me an optimizer? hm o.O)
rapid reload with a revolver is not that a bad idea as it makes reloading a free action, however, as you said it is less useful due to the gun having 6 bullets in it I plan to keep TWF on level 1, that gives me one more attack, and exactly because it is a touch attack the lower bonus won't be much of an issue. Huge advantage on low levels, plus I made Harcos a Pistolero for the very concept of a two pistol using cowboy. (Although he ended up feeling more like a char out of Fullmetal Alchemist) For the more warden/ranger/sheriff flavor is why I consider to take 1 level in Ranger, plus for the wolf companion of course.
I made the fine-tuning of the background, and choose my attributes, feats and traits in this Alias. Black Thom if you wouldn't mind, please tell me what you think of stats and feats. I plan to have Harcos place his +1 attribute point on Dexterity at level 4. I still have to do the actual character sheet, and due to the great cost of one revolver (not to mention I need 2) one of my traits was required to be Rich Parents. As for flavor, Harcos will wear an armored suit that is essentially a hide shirt as per stats but looks more like blue and black noble clothing with some golden lines. He basically looks exactly like the avatar. This is one of the rare cases I DID find a fitting image. I am considering to take one level of Beastmaster Ranger later to have a wolf companion. Making the whole 6 levels be as : Beastmaster 1 / Pistolero 5
PS: "Harcos" may sound/feel Hispanic to readers first, but it is in fact a Hungarian word what in ancient times was the name of a god of war (also often known as Hadúr which today means warlord), but for about a thousand years it means fighter/warrior. Pronouncing it is H (like Holy) A (like Award) R (like Rider) C (like Caesar) O (like Orion) S (like Shotgun) |
