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Okay, DM Frogfoot here, my sorcerer is all crunched up. I don't have his backstory pinned down yet, though. Let me think on it.

Cool! I'll keep you in mind - anyone else who is interested PM me, since this thread is now inactive.

I'm already DMing two campaigns on these boards, but since I was also a player in Mog's two campaigns and they're closing, I have time opening up in my (very active) posting schedule. Who would be interested in hearing what I have to say? Considering rebooting my all-skinwalker campaign that I had to close before. (double posted to Mog's two campaign discussion threads)

Ah Mog, it happens, don't feel bad. Fun while it lasted.

Glancing over his shoulder to ensure that the crustacean isn't trying to follow him, the alchemist rushes around the ship to one of the cannon ports to look outside and try to see what just hit them.

That's definitely Plan A right now then.

Numeo skids to a stop just before colliding with the shield, and backs up rapidly. I need to get to a distance away from that monster before he disembowels me! Numeo thinks frantically. Is there access to the ship's hold below nearby on the deck? If so, Numeo jumps down it, trusting to the narrower spaces to afford him greater places to hide and ambush.

No worries Mog! I can easily DMPC Regos for the time being while you get your stuff straightened (though I'm sure his commentary would be pretty interesting right now), you focus on the games you're DMing first and foremost.

I wonder where Kale went, as well... :(

I'm still here, waiting for Mogthrasir to finish dealing with his RL concerns so he can get back to posting.

Numeo dashes for his hanging cutlass, trying to draw the rigging in so that he doesn't have to expose himself to danger to grab it.

Damage taken: 1d6 ⇒ 6 Naturally...

Numeo is half-on and half-off the ship, his head upside down as he looks "up" at the waves below. One eye is bulging slightly from its socket, bloodshot, as blood flows freely from his scalp. "Ooooogh..." he moans, clutching at his head for a moment.

Seeing the dark shape rising from the depths fills him with horror. "NOOOOOO!" he cries, as tentacles break the ocean's surface. His scream goes on unending as his blood drips into the water below. He struggles back onto the deck. "CAPTAIN!" he shouts, hoping to break through Kale's battle-rage...that he helped inspire. "WE'VE GOT TO CO-" his shouting is cut off by a hacking cough. Clutching his head, he looks about himself for his cutlass. Where did it go?

A frost-covered claw suddenly reaches around the conical shield from your left--the vice-like appendage ready to snip whatever's trying to stall its progress. What do you do?

Taken by surprise by the sudden counterattack, Numeo's only response is to swing his cutlass and try to deflect the blow, inflicting as serious an injury as he can with his clumsy attacks.

Hack and Slash: 2d6 - 1 ⇒ (1, 1) - 1 = 1

He...fails. He fails really hard. This is going to hurt...

You're doing fine Mog. Periods of slower posting are to be expected. Things'll pick up soon. :)

Oh jeez, then I'll defy danger by bracing myself against anything within reach and enduring the pain of the sudden weight pulling on the rope, and on me.

Defy Danger CON - Numeo is hot!!: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (3, 4) + 3 = 10

Numeo will attempt to yank the barb out of Grool's arm as quickly as possible without causing much further damage. Glaring at the other Crustacean that Quelthas is trying to strike, he grasps a cold blue potion from his bandolier chugs it before belching a cone of icy water at the foul Mer. -1 Ammo

BELCH: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (4, 3) + 3 = 10

Pick one: Belch forth a cone of volatilised mixture at something nearby - deal your damage to everything caught up in it.

Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 2 Tags: Freezing, Explosive

Numeo winces as his shouting causes Quelthas' shot to go wide. "Good shot, 'old sport'!" he shouts at him, trying out of the expressions he heard the elf use one time.

Numeo briefly clasps Quelthas' shoulder and nods squarely at him in thanks, before the rapidly yawing deck turns his attention back to the pitched battle.

The mad alchemist watches Kale squaring off against the two crustacean troopers, and becomes aware of the danger his captain is in. Rushing at the free Mer, Numeo will spend 1 Warp to emit a smoky, hallucinogenic cloud of bio-drugs from his fingertips into the crustacean's face. (2/3 Warp remains)

Hoping that the creature is now more susceptible to suggestion (similar to the way Scarecrow uses his fear gas), Numeo begins shouting and gibbering in fear. "THE KRAKEN IS HERE! WE'RE ALL DOOMED! ABANDON THE HUMANS AND FLEE!" he wiggles his arms over his head in an "ooga-booga-booga" motion.

I'm learning so many nautical terms!

Damn, damn damn! Numeo mutters as he scrambles up the small silver line, hoping it'll hold, with the captain's Tusk between his teeth.

Defy Danger: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (2, 6) + 1 = 9

Numeo looks about himself nervously, isolated as he is on the ice floe.

He glares up at the ship, trying to discern if anyone would be able to see or hear him if he shouted. Eh, worth a shot!

"AHOY LADS! MAN OVERBOARD, I NEED A ROPE! CUE BALL! CUEEEEE BALLLLLLL!" he shouts as loudly as he can, hoping to draw their attention.

Numeo will dive for the tusk to make sure the Captain's precious possession is not lost.

The thing is, the Alchemist class is in a state of pretty heavy flux at the moment. The whole Warp thing was added in this most recent revision, which makes me think of certain potions as being shapeshift-like in that you gain a specific Move to use. For example, Kale, for your teeth, you might gain the Tear Out Throat move, or something. Still waiting to hear what Mog's opinion is on this; we're dealing with a lot of new territory rules-wise in this game.

Is your Cassiopian Tusk on the ice platform near me? That's the one you're referring to, right?

Reminder that consuming a potion gives you monster moves related to the potion - that's what Kale can spend Warp on, besides Hack and Slashing...I think that's how it works anyway.

Sure, that's okay.

First, Numeo looks to his own personal safety:

What should I be on the lookout for?

Next, Numeo tries to see if he can spot some sort of ringleader, a head to cut off of this cobra so the entire snake dies:

Who’s really in control here?

And because Numeo has a spirit of irrepressible opportunism,

What here is useful or valuable to me?

Exuding smoke sounds like a cool mutation to make permanent. But I feel like that advanced move is worth house ruling. You can pick any mutation within your first 3 to make permanent. So if you like this one, keep it. If not, then you have two more chances to make one you think is cooler. (But if you pass up the second one, then the third is it without choice). Savvy?

Sounds very generous, thank you!

The act of imbibing something underwater is an usual process. Many sailors have lost healing potions at the very moment that they needed them most due to being beneath the waves. As soon as one uncorks the vial, the substance dissipates into the surrounding salt water. You're no rooky, however, and wouldn't make such a blunder. Tell me though, what's your trick?

Numeo wasn't popular among the local girls on the island for nothing. Putting the corked vial in his mouth, he works the cork free inside his mouth directly using a combination of firm suction and using his tongue as a tool. He uncorks the vial and swallows it greedily.

As the liquid slides down your gullet, slightly tainted by the bitter sting of salt-water, the ocean surrounding you grows black and murky. Like a squid retreating into its own inkcloud, you evaporate in a billowing mist of black water. As soon as you try to move, however, you find that one of the snaps on your jacket is caught on the reef. It only takes a moment to free it, but its the same moment that the Eye of the Storm uses to right itself on the back of the rolling wave. The railing that was once so close to the surface of the water now looms high above the waves.

But you are free, and that's what matters right? Now what do you do?

Good enough, the alchemist thinks to himself. I'll just tread water in the fog until the boat comes near me again, then take my chance on the next tide.

I assume grasping the railing as it sinks lower again would take...endurance? To resist the endless dragging of the water? I'll roll 2d6 and you tell me what modifier I should apply to it, I think it's probably CON, which is great for me, or maybe DEX, which is alright for me.

Get back aboard!: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 6) = 11

Guess it doesn't matter, I succeed even if I have to use my sucky STR modifier! Take me back home, Eye of the Storm!

I must escape the water before these damn Mers or worse drag me to my death, Numeo thinks, the shock of the water clearing his mind from his earlier fury. Time to hide.

One of the tags on my Potion of the Mysterious Mists is smoky. I'm going to try and Imbibe the potion to gain the ability to exude smoky occlusion from my skin's pores, creating a color cloud in the water that the marine animals can't find me in. That should give me the time I need to untangle myself.

My advanced move is Mutation - one of the advanced moves I gain from my Imbibe is permanent, able to be used again later at the cost of 1 HP. I gain 3 Warp, but am put in a spot, for my 7-9 Imbibe roll.

Imbibe a Potion of the Mysterious Mists: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (1, 5) + 3 = 9

Are my arms bound, or can I reach one of the flasks on my bandolier?

It seems we succeed or fail together!

Numeo glances up and looks at the net descending on him. Being entangled with this crustacean and his raging captain didn't sound like a good idea, so Numeo tries to dodge out of the way by jumping backward. He closes his jacket around him so the cloth doesn't catch on any hooks.

DD Dex!: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (1, 2) + 1 = 4

Uh oh..

Kale's battle rage also affects Numeo! With a howl of fury Numeo leaps into the fray as well, knocking the crustacean off-balance with his own body to make it easier for the beast-Kale to destroy him!

Aid Another: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (4, 4) + 2 = 10

Quelthas Greybreak wrote:

"Ohh... very clever.

Whatever you've got planned, forget it.
I'm the Greybreak.
I'm three hundred and four years old.
I'm from the Silver Shore in the Phoenix Realms.
I am the oncoming storm.
The bringer of darkness.
And you... are basically just a rabbit aren't you?
Ok, carry on, just a... general... warning..."

Soooo... am I the only Whovian here? 'Cause that was a brilliant reference. :P

Sorry, I was wrapped up in my question to the Captain. I am a Whovian, and that WAS a brilliant reference. :)

Numeo's maniacal laughter continues unabated, as he tosses his head back and cackles at the sky. This potion would be his most successful yet!

Numeo wrote:

Kale I think you missed my off-topic question due to Mog's filibuster and the thread switching pages.

If I had approached you and requested a few of your hairs for my experiments, would you have allowed it? I just have to know if I got my hairs from you with your permission or not; either way, I have some.

Whoops! I did see your question, but forgot to respond, my bad. Yes, Kale would give Nuemo his hair, though he would ask what it was for.

This plays well with Kale's current Bond with Numeo. The Captain is trying to figure out if he can trust the Alchemist, and what Nuemo does with the hair will certainly have a bearing on how that Bond resolves.

And Happy Birthday Quelthas! Mine is in one month tomorrow. :)

Numeo clutches his head as he stumbles backward. Blast! That would have taken my head clean off if not for the Captain's intervention...time to see what the subject of my prophecies is really capable of.

"Captain!" he yells. "I devised a..." he hesitates briefly. "a Strength potion to even the odds! Get ready to tear them apart!"

With a manic grin that flashes in the darkness of the islander's face, the alchemist whips open his coat. Darting one of his clever hands inside his bandolier, he grasps a Potion of the Monster (-1 Ammo). Uncorking it, he pockets the cork and withdraws a tiny vial, that he opens and upends over the Potion.

A small, white hair - from Everett Kale's head - slips into the potion. Numeo cackles in glee as he gulps the now-bubbling concoction down, forcing the difficult-to-drink liquid into his gullet from sheer force of will.

Voodoo!: 2d6 + 3 ⇒ (1, 4) + 3 = 8

Kale, the following effects are applied to you through weird voodoo magics:

Kale I think you missed my off-topic question due to Mog's filibuster and the thread switching pages.

If I had approached you and requested a few of your hairs for my experiments, would you have allowed it? I just have to know if I got my hairs from you with your permission or not; either way, I have some.

My vote's for the latter option - Cue Ball's a big lug, so feel free to describe him scrapping in the fiction as appropriate, but he shouldn't be providing a mechanical benefit unless he's skilled in that area. Keeps more of a distance between our characters and them. We're the crew, they're the redshirts. On a Star Trek show, you never see one of the background characters do anything they aren't trained in, because the focus of the drama isn't on them, it's on us, the main characters.

Off-topic...

Kale, if I were to approach you at some point during our travels together and ask for a hair, what would you say? I would have waited until after we left port, but before this trap was sprung on us.

I'll take the hit.

1d6 ⇒ 6 /2 = 3 Damage

Numeo acks and attempts to roll out of the way again! He knows his luck won't hold out forever...

Defy Danger Dex: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (4, 4) + 1 = 9

I rather like that, really. Much easier to keep track of 3 injury boxes and 1 stat.

I'll push toward the mysterious beasts. They're just bags of (really, really fresh) alchemical ingredients that haven't finished moving around yet, to me.

Numeo will attempt to dodge the spears! He rolls to the left and back, so as to not get immediately stepped on by the other pirates. Defy Danger Dexterity: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (4, 2) + 1 = 7

Numeo will aim for the nearest hole in the reefs that the mers are using and try to block it off with ice.

Our rolls are hot hot hot! The Eye of the Storm must be giving us the homefield advantage...

Ditto so much!

On my phone...

Darya: sounds like you have an idea. Run with it :)

Numeo: Sounds awesome. I've been looking over the play books too. I think there's ways to tweak biologicker that are very close to what you proposed, and imbue definitely needs a change and I have some thoughts there I'll share later. As for mutation , I think I'd be ok with it being taken twice, but we may have to agree on a modified version of what comes from it... Because I want to be really generous with imbibe, but more careful when it's permanent :). So really, when you use imbibe I picture the possibility of it being outlandish sometimes. But with the mutation, it will be more contained... But permanent!

Agreed

...He opens a window- Dex: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (6, 4) + 1 = 11

Changed my mind from Sanctuary to something else, since I liked what Kale provided for "When God Closes a Door"

Numeo's eyes narrow as he glares over the side of the ship, dodging a spear that flies past his head. Looking back up, he sees that the coral has surrounded the Eye, run it aground, and provided a perilous terrain to swim in. Fortunately for us, the mad prophet thinks to himself, a fish will always give you the hook to catch it with...

Looking down into the ocean, Numeo immediately notices that whomever crafted the coral-wall spell had made specially-sized gaps in the coral brambles for the mers to swim from. In these relatively closed-off areas the mers were able to maneuver and dodge freely. The key here is to drive them out of those safe zones, Numeo thinks, quickly. He opens up his robe and fumbles on his bandolier, grabbing one of his four concoctions at random. He glances at his crudely-scrawled homemade label - the symbol for "boom" and "ice". His Icy Grasp potions. Perfect...but he must act fast. The mers were in danger of overwhelming the ship before the potions would even have time to be thrown.

Immediately, he turns to the captain and bawls, "CAPTAAAAIN!! WE MUST FREEZE THE INVADERS OUT OF THEIR SAFE ZONES! DRIVE THEM INTO THEIR OWN CORAL!" he waves a potion over his head madly. (I would say he throws it down there immediately but Mog asked for no actions forward.)

Then on to your new advanced moves: Mutation I believe can only be taken once, my reasoning being that I think I recall it coming up a second time in the 6-10 advanced moves on the first playbook. If you're given a chance to get it a second time, then it was likely limited the first time.

I double-checked the original playbook and Mutation first appears as a 6-10 move, whereas in the new playbook Mutation is listed very early on in the advanced move section. Maybe the nerfed, new version of Mutation, where you retain a monster move for the cost of 1 HP, could be the 2-5 version, and the old, buff version of Mutation where the effects of your next Imbibe are permanent could be the 6-10 one. Just an idea. I love the idea of mutating my character over time, I loved the character creation section of the game Spore.

As for the Biologicker move, I will have to look at that when I get a chance before I make any calls. Clearly, as you pointed out, I think it should already make sense in the fiction that you could use monster components in your alchemical concoctions. But maybe Biologicker could be used to broaden that. I struggle with your proposal however as I foresee a slippery slope where you have built up a list of 97 potential tags, and I'm trying to come up with a new one for every monster you come across. Sometimes greater variety actually hinders it... so I'll come back to that one later.

That's a good point that I hadn't really thought of. Maybe I could use the body part of a monster to...replace a potion tag with a monster move? So a potion brewed with Biologicker could have only 1 tag, but a monster move associated with it. Maybe one of the monster moves you used for the original monster.