Kathrine 'Hellion' Mordonus's page

"Remember we're supposed to meet with the Merchant again in only two days time. And despite our bluff we don't actually have the money he wants. But he will sense something is up if we go in empty handed."

I'm good with Fortune's suggestions

"Seems like a plan, though I'd be careful doing the usual panhandling, if the area doesn't see any already It'll look especially suspicious."

Hellion works her neck a bit then heads over to the old school computer and clacks at the keys to bring up a request to call with the boss. "Can't believe this thing hasn't been updated. Kinda miss the professors gear heh."

"So long as it's functional enough to be a good show we can work on the sixty. I doubt someone as well armed as you casually explodes future customers with faulty equipment. Do we have a deal? Or are we gonna go over the options again?"

"We'll do the sixty deal. Gives us some time to get the funds together, gives you some time to get the goods sorted."

She almost steps away but stops at the last second, "I expect a showing that the goods are operational when we meet up next."

Hellion makes a show of making a face then nods, "Alright, we'll make it a deal then. Me n' the big man need to go grab our funds anyway. You know what they say about never bringing everything to the first dance. How long will it take to make everything functional?"

Yeah so it'll be next week probably lol

rumor is about 3 days starting sometime today, with the smarts roll from earlier do I get the feeling the seller is saying they need to be acquired/assembled/moved or what's up with that.

Cause one vibe was, he's onto us or gonna do something, the other is he literally just needs to get the wares first

Hellion swaggers for a bit at the asking price and gives Vee a tap to quiet him up as he's about to talk, leaning into the table and pressing a hand on it.

"Sixty huh? What's the catch there fish lips. Lemme guess, we do a job, prove our loyalty, then we get to actually buy up the goods?"

Smarts(exploded once): 2d6 ⇒ (6, 5) = 11
wild: 1d6 ⇒ 1
Smarts: 1d6 ⇒ 5
wild: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Hellion thumbed over to Vee, "Tell me which you think."

Hellion gives a sore suck in through the side of her teeth and looks at Vee, "Told ya we'd have to do small time deals first. How about this, two repulsor fields, a plasma launcher, and one of those heavy blasters they used to have to swat 'big' problems out of the sky with?"

Noetic can make the teleport-with-Fortune roll when he can. BTW - Noetic : from where and to where?

Since no one's specified, I'm assuming Hellion, VeeSix, and Big Dog go into the warehouse to wait for The Merchant.
Important question : are you holding your weapons or are they just hanging on your body?

Right at the appointed hour (to the minute), three people enter. Two of them are heavily armed and armored, the one in the middle is wearing an obviously expensive tailored business suit.

He says "You all know who I am, so I won't introduce myself. Now, what's this about a big purchase?"

Sorry it's been a truely messed up week since Thursday, and the rest of the month is gonna be equally forked(yay october being my GO month) Hellion always has her weapon on her, sheathed unless it needs to be drawn for combat. Meaning I get all the usual defensive stuff(except the extra parry because I'm not using it currently)

"The big blasters, Armor refits, Vehicles if you've got one. We obviously don't have to do the entire deal right now, but we're looking for the Big haul. Gotta get it while the gettin's good so that we don't fall behind when society decides to get it's feet back under itself proper."

Sounds right

"Plan was me and Vee go in." The crimson skinned half-demon says then casts a look at Bigdog. "And the dog shouldn't be present for the actual planning part of our conversation."

She looks at her wacth, "We need to get moving. Fortune can brief you on the plan on the way."

Hellion - please remind me why you have d8/d12 listed as your Fighting skill? Thanks!

D8 is raw skill, d12 is when using my trademark weapon, which also has super skill fighting

Sounds good, we can do a mini-recap to set the new scene if you want as well if the new player needs it.

Hey all i'll be out of town for this week so I probably won't post much as I'll be on vacation with the fam.

"So Vee and me through the front, we leave dog with the authorities. Fortune and Angel up top providing support?"

Oh like... an entire other character uhh.. hmm. Idk about that.

I'm not particularly worried about pacing, even though I've expressed some opinions about the way SW mechanics work in PBP. Most problems are solved if people check posts daily and post as soon as possible once it's their PCs turn.

A different kettle of fish: PC attrition seems to have left us as a group that, except of Fortune's super sorcery, is mostly tough combat types. While there are plenty of super heroes in that mold, it would add more of a comic book super hero vibe if we had maybe one more PC with some super powers not focused primarily on conventional combat.

Having opponents who have super powers would add some of that flavor. So far we've only been fighting relatively normal gang types just with superior weapons and armor. Combat's still fun, but somewhat predictable.

I'm not criticizing anyone here, just to be clear. Just musing about the tone of the campaign.

Maybe on our next advance, someone could take the sidekick edge (even though that's usually reserved for advanced PCs, just to add a character to the mix with some different powers.

I could.. maybe think of a sidekick(I assume the player also plays the sidekick it's not just like a gm pet thing) and also assuming it gets like powers and stuff. Hellion out of everyone except fortune, might have the best background to pull 'minions' from.

Hellion scowls, "And how has that worked out for us so far Angel?"

She motioned to herself and then Fortune, "They don't care. They'll hurt me, they'll hurt her, they'll hurt all of us. Kill us even, 'because' we're trying to stop them."

"I guess the real question is are we chopping heads immediately or not. I mean we walknin yhere, BD or no it's gonna be sus."

She folds her arms, "And I don't think he'll not fight us more and let us slide under the guise of we're just protection."

With a sigh she kicks one foot over the other shifting uncomfortably in the chair she'd taken while they healed up. "I'm good just charging in the ffront with you big guy. Fortune and Angel you should probably just enter from the high ground. But like.. angel, we've gotta talk about this non-violence thing. These people are Trying very hard to kill us. Stop pulling your punches to be 'nice'. "

Hellion will stick to Vee since they work well together, also she's got enough movement options to reposition with hardly any issues barring line of sight. Also some rp for drama regarding Angel's hindrancr

No wounds here

I think every 5 hours seems fine a day is 24hours and 5 hours is roughly a factor of 5 cut like with how the power tends to work normally. Haven't had a chance to look at natural healing rules which is why I'd been absent on that, thanks for the heal Fortune.

Hellion frowns a bit, "Thanks, Fortune. I uh.. well never knew my mom myself."

She waved her hand and spoke through a cough, "You know how netherspawn are." She quickly grabs her blade and stands after she moves away. "Don't even want to get into the my 'dads' situation. Heh."

Sliding the sword back into it's sheath she does some warm up stretches to make sure the flesh won't tear again. When that's all good she waits for the others to signal that they themselves are good to go.

Does anyone have the Healing Skill? How about the Healing Power? Those will determine how long it takes to get back to full health. Just curious, if it takes more than a few hours, what will you all do with Big Dog?

Kat has regen(2point) which means she rolls a heal every day instead of every 5 woof, but otherwise does not have 'healing'

Hellion finds a comfortable seat to plop into, lording over 'Big Dog' in the meantime with her sword easily at hand.

"Gonna need more than a few hours for this burn big guy."

She says lifting the burned through section of her shirt to reveal the smoldering wound from the plasma blast earlier.

Still sore, both literally and figuratively from her wound Hellion replies with some snark.
"At this rate I'm good with beheading them all and letting the nether beings sort out the rest."

seems fair, been a very stressful week and very strange weekend so sorry for the length between responses

Hellion looks to be struggling in her decision for several moments. Bites her lip enough to make it bleed and then sheathes her blade. "We need you alive more than dead right now, just know you'll be behind bars after this... or dead if you try to double cross us."

Fortune is right, there are other things with the system that slow it down that I hinted at with the Dynamism comment. I can't belt out all the things that make SW particularly bad on PbP.

Like Fortune stated there are just things that can't be assumed and simplified, such as soaking among other things. Which works only to further bog things down. Terrible luck with dice combined with having to redraw initiative every round can be handled much faster irl because something that would take 30-40 seconds to resolve there takes an entire post which depending on free tine for the gm could take a couple minutes or better than an hour/day etc.

I mentioned that SW is supposed to be fast-paced action combat oriented, and that's naturally going to struggle in pbp. Pf and such has that issue too, but like fast paced combat isn't the pull of the PF system for example. So despite both suffering slow-down on pbp one's vibes suffer far worse than the other.

Since PF's init doesn't reroll every round you can essentially condense things into baddies/party. Which for the most part you've done here as well, but since the order of things shifts every round it's not quote so clean cut.

I could likely write an essay on ither issues with SW as a whole but that's off in the weeds with thibgs that are mostly just personal gripes among other things.

Hellion - just curious - in what ways does it not work well in PbP?

It's supposed to be a fast-paced action game and well we just spent 3 months on a combat because the dice said so. Which would have been handled in like maybe 2 hours(if i'm going on the high end of generosity given how quick the system is typically). Like dice issues can still be a thing irl, but the back and forth can be resolved much quicker.

Not to mention the Month that it took before that to handle 2 grunts.

There's also a lot more dynamism that you can do irl with planning and such that just can't be performed well without more active conversations which again doesn't work well here on the forums.

Hellion seethes her own wounds burning as the adrenal burst begins to wear thin, though her own demonic flesh does seem to be responding well to the damage and the bleeding has mostly stopped.

I like the Idea of a weird west sort of vibe(if i'm understanding what Deadlands is supposed to be), but again SW just.. doesn't work well in pbp

Passing myself, partially because I'm not sure SW really hits right on PBP and the other part because I don't wanna get the deadlands books lol.

I'm hoping that SF2 is like a major improvement cause man SF1 has some really neat ideas but most of them flop because none of the 'cool stuff' unlocks till you're level 7 which on most paizo boards is a good 15 years of effort lmao

Fighting: 1d12 + 1 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 - 1 + 1 = 5
Wild: 1d6 + 1 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 - 1 + 1 = 4
Damage: 2d8 + 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1, 7) + (3) + 1 = 12

Fighting(Ganger2), Wounded 1, Gangup: 1d12 + 1 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 - 1 + 1 = 6
Wild(Ganger2), Wounded 1, Gangup: 1d6 + 1 - 1 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 - 1 + 1 = 6
Damage: 2d8 + 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (7, 1) + (3) + 1 = 12

gonna try to get something on the board tonight, if not tomorrow when i'm off work for sure.

I'm confused, Ganger 2 was shaken before I hit, you rolled to recover(because you forgot) it recovered, then I hit and shook it, then it acted without rolling for shaken again?

Sorry for the delay been a bit consumed by Foxhole and Darktide as brain bleach for the last 2 weeks of crapfest at work.

Not really sure how to extrapolate on your thoughts Zen, but I've been trying stuff beyond just normal attacks to try and help get this done with, my dice just hate me apparently lol.
It's one of those things that shows that the system really isn't built to handle Pbp speeds.

Fighting(ganger2), wounded 1, gangup+desperate attack: 1d12 + 1 - 1 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 1 - 1 + 1 + 4 = 9
Wild, wounded 1, gangup+desperate attack: 1d6 + 1 - 1 + 1 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 1 - 1 + 1 + 4 = 8
Damage-desperate attack: 2d8 + 1d6 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (5, 4) + (3) + 1 - 4 = 9
blegh the streak of bad luck continues, but hey any damage on the board will do at this rate.

Hellion lunges wildly at ganger 2 trying to peel them away from Angel. There seems to be some desperation in her strike as she lines up a weaker but more targeted blow.

Leaning further into the dodge away from the gang leader Hellion kicks off again continuing to move with unnatural speed towards the other gangers.
She skids to a halt behind Ganger 2 while Angel is dealing with the other and stabs at him.

Free attack from lead again, reminder when Hellion leaps(how she's skirting around the battlefield rn) she imposes a relative speed penalty of -1 on enemies

Fighting: 1d12 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Wild: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Damage: 2d8 + 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (4, 5) + (2) + 1 = 12
Benny that for 3/4
Fighting-wound(ganger2): 1d12 + 1 - 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 - 1 = 6
Wild-wound: 1d6 + 1 - 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 - 1 = 1
Damage: 2d8 + 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (5, 2) + (5) + 1 = 13

sorry very busy weekend, i'll try to get a proper post up tonight

Hellion backsteps the attack and calls back barely contained laughter tickling at the back of her throat. "Funny you say that Mr. Hides in the dark "

The demoness had a taste for blood now, and she was hungry for more.

Remember you can always choose nonlethal as well it just gives a -1. Not sure how that functions with ranged power attacks, but I almost bet there's a modifier or it could be flavored as more of a stunning effect than like. Shooting a beam of molten cosmic energy through someone.

Hellion - +2 to Damage as well.[/ooc]

19 if raise and 14 in that case

unshake(free): 1d8 + 2 - 1 ⇒ (7) + 2 - 1 = 8
unshaken, -1 due to wound

Hellion staggers back from the laser blast that managed to tear through her hell-infused body armor and scorch her red skin.

She coughs at the sudden heat and follows the shot back with a deadly calm. "Lucky shot."

In a flash she leaps towards the ganger, her oncoming blade searching for bone.

Free attack from the leader, but I feel like we need to chew through the chaff to gangup on the main man

Fighting(+joker+gangup(veesix)-wound): 1d12 + 1 + 2 + 1 - 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 + 2 + 1 - 1 = 11
Wild: 1d6 + 1 + 2 + 1 - 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 + 2 + 1 - 1 = 6
Damage: 2d8 + 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6, 2) + (3) + 1 = 12
incase of raise: 1d6 ⇒ 5
if raise that's 17 damage 12 if not to ganger 4, does joker go to damage as well or just trait rolls?

Hellion's Fighting Ace doesn't matter this time, since she got a Raise on the initial roll, and re-rolling the d12 wouldn't change anything. In addition, when Breaking Things, you don't get a d6 Raise die to damage. So that begs the question, is the d6 in your Damage roll a Raise die, or part of your normal damage? But please always try to remember to re-roll Aces.

The d6 is part of my normal damage, longsword does str+1d8, but my Melee Attack power(which is tied onto my sword) is Str+d6 and i get an additional +1 because it's my trademark weapon. So it combines into Str(1d8)+1d8+1d6+1 as per the writing in the Super powers book(strength doesn't get doubled up). So the total damage to the gauntlet is 13 which like Fortune said is enough to break anything listed in the core book so the fact that it only 'dented' the gauntlet is kind of insane.

Soak: 1d10 ⇒ 9 Raise, so soak 2 wounds leaving me with 1 and shaken, will wait for new round to do further

I didn't realize I got an ace(super tired yesterday still), but after looking at it, disarms don't get any ace/exploding benefits so the only thing it would change I believe is if it hit or not.

I know it's the weekend, but...Hellion, Angel?

I see my post in discussion got overlooked XD back in town now.

Hellion ducks under the swing attack turning with the blow and whipping her sword around her back in an acrobatic display before bringing the weapon up in an arc to strike at the now power-glove covered fist of the Gang leader hoping to get rid of the new problem out of the gate.

Fighting(Disarm-Hand): 1d12 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (12) + 1 - 4 = 9
Wild: 1d6 + 1 - 4 ⇒ (5) + 1 - 4 = 2
Damage: 2d8 + 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6, 1) + (5) + 1 = 13

A little confused on the disarm rules cause it says I can either hit the object or the limb and that all changes stuff. I'm not sure if it'd be hitting the object or the limb in this case, cause like.. disarming a limb sounds more like chopping off a claw of a monster or something rather than disarming a power fist. Either way rules are split between page 99 and 100 for reference.

Out of town till monday, will post when I get back