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"Ye'. Good fight." Iteb congratulates triumphantly. She seems to encourage herself being fine despite the clear limp she displays as she goes to fetch all of her weapons... planning to walk it off most likely. Moving over to the Aurochs, she looks through her bag for tools. "Same suggestion as before, wait for others and take little time to clean meat. Give them chance to catch up."
Iteb screams back as she walks into the trample, all for the sake of a chance to hit the beast.
Afterwards, she drops the bow, stepping towards the large creature instead of away from it, as Bunko did (presuming as she's still using ranged), and quickly pulls a Bronze Light Pick at her side to her offhand. She attempts to get another pair of strikes on the beast.
Iteb looks at Bunko, then back to the unaware bull. "Aye, might be able to get a surprise on it, but still..." She shrugs, "I'd prefer to wait and see if others return. Maybe wait and see if it go away? If others return first we can try as group." She looks back to the Aurochs and then to her bow in consideration. It's clear her orcish nature wants the fight.
Iteb is somewhat interested, not knowing the bull's power but still, it's a chance for provisions. She won't risk it without everyone though, and so somewhat wants to wait to see if Aerel and Lysander catches up. That said, with Bunko's opposition... well maybe not. I'll make my post reflecting this.
I would like to just take this moment, to curse at the 1-hour rule. I read Shisumo talking about requiring a knowledge nature roll, and it was my intention to imply that Iteb was offering ignorance in the knowledge to see if others had it. And there it is... asking if anyone "new" about them. G#% d!$n "new" about 'em. I wanna edit :(
Iteb looks to both Bunko and Jeb, not expecting to make all decisions unilaterally. "We stay here, wait for large bulls to move on or move around them, or... we wait for other two and try to get more food?" Her own interest in getting more food become more clear only after she got that thought. Her initial inclinations being to everyone's safety in avoiding combat. "How strong?" she asked, if anyone else here new the general power the bulls possessed.
"Calm down and quit runnin'!" Iteb commands, trying to stop him from continuing in a panic at Aerel's request. She wasn't aware of anything until the man came barreling out of the woods, so she is acting mostly on instinct. She'll attempt to grab him on his way by if he continues running, but won't be aggressive with the man if he calms down.
"They're just a bit pissy. Wanted to stay in town and be turned to slaves." Iteb is ready to head out, after the morning preparations are made. She will join the rest, in eating only half-rations to show solidarity with the rest-- mostly so there's no grumbling over it. The hunger affects her throughout the day, but it's better than being questioned for getting more food.
It does sound like scouting brings our potential range down by 2 miles though, and with our supplies being limited in transit I would personally prefer to go as is. I think hunger-penalties won't be as bad, since we'll have more time before the end of the day (even after travel) to have those with survival to set up multiple shelters. In this way, half-provisions might be the best for the first two days. Also, i think we're still missing Jeb's introductory post? I checked back over, but i might have missed it if she'd made one far earlier.
"Originally was thinkin' to find a spot near the river. We may treck that way. We could get a good 16 miles of the way today, then tomorrow morning we head out to see what we can do about the caves. Might make setting up a long-term shelter a much easier solution, as you say." Iteb agrees, "We could even head East today, then more northward to that location since this way we might see some signs of rangers might be on the way."
I don't know if retraining is up for us, in regards to messing with the NPC skills. As you say, even if it were, we'd need to devote the time to train them and figure out how we could make do with the gold costs... I do agree, getting some warriors out of em' wouldn't be a bad idea though. If that were a possibility. For now, Iteb kind of wants to investigate the troglodytes, thinking they may be an issue.
If animal handlers with +4 go out and get animals to just butcher, they gets an animal 45% of the time, and gaining 2 provision points from it, meaning about 0.9 provision points per day.
If they choose, instead, to go out into the wilderness, untrained and -2 though they be, they'll get 1.25 provisions per day. I'm not actually trying to meta the system here, it's was just blaring to me out the gate when i saw that "1 provision point per 3 days" bit, and how difficult they are to get and maintain, that i decided to run the numbers. Until you drop bring in another new feature i don't have access to yet, or there's a typo in the Herding dc and benefits, untrained foragers are much better off than diverting their skill into animal husbandry. @Aerel, Until day Four, i assume we're generally helping things get settled, and really try to strategize what to do at the end of day three.
Noelan... she remembered hearing that name around town, and Bunko mentioned it around the shrine... ah right. She remembered. "Can't say i know how he died. Saw him being 'et by a wolf when we came across him." Iteb offered, very little sympathy and no real effort to ease Aerel into hearing how they found the man dead. "Then the male dwarf... uh..." She thought for a moment not remembering whether she'd heard his name during the fight. "Rammed the mongrel with a hammer, treated the head as a ball playin' ball and stick."
I checked and everyone has 5 trail rations except jeb (who i don't see a kit for either). That'll be another 25 provisions to add to the 83 for a total of 108. The trained survivalists earn 24/day by just themselves on a normal day of hunting and foraging. Those i listed in the second two groups above, with the -2, still come out to 12.5/day between the 10 of them. That alone ideally will take care of the 36/day necessary to keep us afloat. Other NPCs or even ourselves (since again, not considering PCs in getting things self-sufficient) can help bolster this number if we get less than a couple full-days worth of provisions, such as how we'll be low when we first get our camp set up. At the same time, i wanted at least a couple good scouts, and since the small people don't cut it with their -2, we may want to shift more untrained into survival so they can scout out and about. My new thoughts are below for after our shelters are set up, minus a lot of information to shorten clutter. . Foraging 5 Good Survivalists, for about 17.5/day
15 people into foraging, without survival (-2) for about 18.5/day
Scouting 2 scouts selected from the foraging group, for the sake of getting a lay of the land.
Standing Watch Decent perception, no survival
Support Team 4 in support, selected for their practicality of understanding magic, where we do not.
Unconsidered
. Summary:
Iteb awoke with an elbow to the face, apparently Mako had shifted around as people started stirring at the makeshift camp and caused her crude awakening. She smacked him lightly, causing him to also wake up in a startle, wondering what he did to deserve the treatment. Negan was already mostly up, and simply sighed at the Orcish bonding of the two. Everyone was collecting back what they could from the shelters to take with them for further travel of the day. Later, finding her way to regroup with the other three that had led their retreat from the town, the male dwarf under the weather. They were soon joined by the elf, that helped them cross the bridge. She'd seen Aerel before but honestly couldn't think of the name, but didn't care enough to try too hard anyway. "First things first," she began, "Don't know half your names. Some familiar faces, but don't know most of you or can't remember." She really needed to be able to talk to them without calling them female dwarf, gnome, etc. "I am Iteb Ral-gri, Negan Kusk is my husband, son is Mako Kusk. I run one of the two smithy in Phaendar... or ran, anyway. If we encounter a fight during travel, I respond with a flurry of weapons. Out here, i may help with survival in the wilderness as i still remember experiences from many years ago with my clan." . She would honestly not budge from going further with everyone without knowing who they were. Afterwards, though, she would continue with Aerel's logic, "I say first day we should eat normal, will need strength for full day of travel. Temporary shelter when we come across a large stream of river, and then set up for long-term survival near there following day. Those setting up shelter then get full meal only. Everyone else get half. Rest split between scouting area, watching for pursuers, or learn how to get food. Maybe those good with animals find some to bring back to butcher-- not worth trying to keep animals out here."
That sheet is for our convenience. Just create a short note on the side that you took it, and take it off. Everyone has the chance to look and put things in, order take things out. Just make a note if it's a high-ticket item so we know where it went-- until we figure out what to do with the rest of the stuff on there.
. I believe everyone (and NPCS) have only one thing they can do during the day, meaning long-term shelters, scavenging, scouting etc. Until the GM drops another tidbit changing the way I'm organizing these things in my head, like half-provisions. . Also, even though we're most likely going to be traveling all day, could we get the Adepts and Aubrin to each prepare detect magic and have a go at spellcrafting the items we don't know what are?
I only added the loot from the loot list the GM provided on the previous page. Anything he listed on RP text i think i might have missed. I did hear about the cold-iron stuff, but never added that so you're right about it not being on there for that reason. . As for food distribution, I'll have to take another look at the group. I didn't know half-serving provisions was on the table. Now that i do, i think it may be best for a full-day of travel (meaning no skill checks for food gathering the first day). Iteb will suggest that everyone (except for Gareth who apparently needs his strength) takes a half-provision the first day and will follow suit herself to show she's willing to follow her own restrictive diet regimen. Will make a post shortly.
Focused Shot loses a lot of opportunity later on since it doesn't play nice with multiple attacks. In addition, i think vital strike is better in most cases, anyway, if you're taking a single attack. For myself, nothing special. Just a glorified crit-fisher. I see a 20? My weapon breaks. I see a hit? They're going to start bleeding... and my weapon breaks. I roll really poorly? My weapon breaks.
Waking up out in the forest, Iteb recovers herself and stands up, seeing many others also licking their wounds. Wounds mostly mental now, as Aubrin seems to have offered them more of her divine energies. "Thanks again, for the strange trick." She offered, Aubrin having more than earned her gratitude by now. She could offer at least that much sincerely. She brings Mako close, offering an affection rarely given but under the circumstances, warranted. Looking amongst the more combat-viable of the group, and then back to the city she shrugs, "We ought get further into forest, at least couple hours, then camp. I suggest after, we travel another day and set-up for long-term survival."
That's how i understood it, and what i tried to clarify with him-- but i would love to hear that to be the case. It changes a lot if they get default racial scores, or size bonuses to stealth. We all have good survival, pretty much, and so I'm confident in our ability to provide enough provision points for everyone-- I'm just assuming that we won't always be able to devote our day and am trying to figure out the self-sustaining NPC organization. Guess i'll start to add Gareth to that NPC group. . Also, not posting in Game-play since I'm still unconscious.
Alright, so any NPC without a skill in something, has a -2 regardless of race and size. I'll have to look at the layout again with that in mind. . Hm. So if we had a decent Animal Handler to keep 5 or so animals consistently, he would be feeding a little less than himself and another person per day. With failure leading to loss of animals it'd become far more inconsistent than a day's simple lack of forage for a person. Taking ten, and it'd be decent to have, maybe if the animal handlers are allowed to split up the task so each had 5 or 4 animals and took ten... but the buildup to get the animals isn't worth it.
Even if we just butchered animals the animal handlers brought in, they'd barely be feeding themselves on average... . Better off to just shove everyone into foraging besides the few we want to keep in scouting, watching for us, and identifying/healing...
Again, assuming the hostiles start to play nice and non-trained NPCs can use generic skills, we almost meet our daily provisions (on a normal day of foraging) by devoting the following to it: Foraging, Good Survival
Foraging, +1 from Wisdom
And this is how i initially look at the rest, hopefully the lackluster herding will pull up the slack. Nothing but Handle Animal
Good Scouting (Stealth)
Standing Watch / Support
Healing / Identification of Gear
. I'm not considering ourselves (or Gareth) in this, and i know a good amount of us are good survivalists so it can be rearranged somewhat. I'm also not considering the first day of making shelters, or a need to repair them, or if we want my son to be crafting weapons, etc.
@GM Can NPCs take 10 on some of their checks, such as crafting?
Some distance wouldn't hurt, though i don't know about moving to another city. Thought we were sort of stranded in the wilderness to try and retake city type thing. Figure out what's going on, like you're saying, see where we can go from there. Maybe a day's travel away then set up a base of operations? Further if you'd like. We only have 2 full days worth of provisions though. I somewhat gave up on the google document, what i was trying to setup was more hassle than it was worth. After we decide make a camp, honestly, the provisions gained from herding is minuscule and other than having some NPCs with nothing they can do but handling animals there doesn't seem to be a reason to place any there. Most NPCs with a skill in survival can on average return enough provisions for themselves and two others. Optimistically, we would be able to make do with just 12 gatherers (buffered a bit by the animal keepers for possible poor days of foraging). I only count 7 though, if we can get those two hostiles to play along. The way dice work though, even non-trained survivalists could earn enough for them self and one other. The first day we actually set up a real camp, we'll probably want most of the survivalists getting a camp set up though, but we'll likely have enough provisions for this. |
