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Unfortunately the dramatic pause will have to continue. Stuff keeps piling up over here both in terms of university and personal life. I don't want to cancel any games but this might need to be a hiatus. I will let everyone know immediately when room clears up. My apologies for these problems.
I'm sorry but I need to take a few days off. It's been quite hectic at work and events have been piling off. I expect to return on Thursday with a clear schedule. On that note, I want to ask how we should proceed? Should we try and quicken the pace or keep a slow and steady progression?
Just direct me to whichever area you wish to search. Stephen, you come to the bulkhead of the ship. It is a solid, iron doorway, bent but most likely still usable.
Ayedan slips quietly into this second down ship. The destruction seems incredibly high, this building must have done considerable damage to the structure of the airship. Within the entrance of the ship though, you spy a few corpses of military officers and soldiers sprawled throughout this upper deck. The corridor appears to lead both aft and rear, with the pilot's chambers likely to be in the front, crushed section of the ship.
So here are your current options and objectives. You seem to be stuck who knows high up, with hurricane force winds circling around you. Getting off this place is definitely your number one task. As far as what's up here, there's you and perhaps the survivors of the other ship as far as you can tell. As to what to do: You can explore around the ruined city, trying to find supplies, or people. You can explore the crashed ship for a power source and survivors. You can delve beneath the city taking one of two directions. You can set up a base of sorts as a safe place.
Sorry for the unfortunate streams of delays, but something has come up today and I'll be away from the blessed Interwebs. I'll be back!
I'm perfectly ok with this.
Smoke billows forth from the steel doors as Red Jaw Jak steps inside. The enemy seems to have simply vanished and no sign of them can be found from outside. The interior of the building is something else however. It would appear that the enemy vessel punched not only through the roof but also through much of the floor. Surprisingly, there is no sky beneath but a series of corridors and passages. A brief exploration reveals two possible routes to Red Jaw. One, a strange glowing vertical passage punches straight down albeit at a slight angle, while a series of stone stairwells seem to curve further to the south. They likely descended through here... although through which one isn't evident.
The gap cleared, you continue to walk down deserted streets until you reach the column of smoke. The enemy ship seems to have crashed much like yours into another building. This one appears to have been a stone tower, most likely a defensive fortification judging from the battlements. The ship can be seen through the cracked roof and the smoke pouring out is a clear sign. No noise or activity can be heard within except for falling debris from time to time. You could either attempt to climb in through the hole, roughly a hundred feet up or through what appears to be a well fortified steel entrance.
I am currently at a 24h Board Game Event and will be back tomorrow to continue endangering your character's lives! See you soon!
Red Jaw Jak darts across the pipes like the godly mountain goat that he is.
Red Jaw and Ebran carry on, Jak having retrieved the source of the sound. It continues to make this sound as it merrily rests in your pocket. A few minutes behind them Stephen, Sunny and Unit 6 follow on their tail heading to the downed military ship. As you meander through the streets, you notice how unnaturally quite it all is. Not a single living resident, tangled buildings and a lot of silence. Soon though, you come across a slight obstacle... A large section of the pavement gives way to a gaping whole leading straight down to the ground below. The only way around it seems to be a tight balancing act across a series of pipes and railings leading off around the edge. Of course, you could always fly and attempt to fight the ever increasing wind speed. The military ship is ever closer.
Unobserved and gracefully you make your way towards the sound. You can't tell what it is at this point however. You reach the building and enter through the lower doorway entering into what was most likely a place of residence. Furniture lies sprawled in ruins, but no one is to be seen. The sound continues from upstairs, said staircase directly in front of you.
Red Jaw Jak is correct, currently we have two teams, each at a rather significant distance.
Yes, your ship is a right mess. And Unit 6's analysis is close to correct, a good 9 months of work "might" make her airborne. Meanwhile, Jak pushes on through the street level of this place. Gaps in the floors and roads let you see sky below you as well, and you quickly realize that missteps could be quite lethal here. As you walk through a promenade of entangled houses, a soft chiming noise can be heard from a nearby collapsed building, not 60 feet to your northwest.
Ebran leaves quickly enough to catch Jak climbing upwards to the second tier of buildings. He manages to catch up unless Jak does anything to shake him off. The second level of buildings seem almost pulled from a story-tale. Chiseled fountains dot the street while formerly quaint gardens now run rampant, vines and hedges grasping the faded marble of the buildings. The silence is almost unnerving, but a dreadful gale pulls at you. From this vantage point you can see that the smoke rises further than you originally expected. The bright blue sky slowly fades into a weeping grey as the roiling storm clouds that crashed you here slowly descend upon the city. With the amount of urban sprawl in your way, and the wind seeming to get stronger as you go up, the choices are either to try and do battle with the oncoming storm or maneuver through the seemingly abandoned streets.
About to update within the hour. Sorry for the weekend absence.
I've been super busy at work (local game store) in Montreal setting up for a Warmachine tournament this weekend. So no worries Tenro. Will post tomorrow morning (well, today technically) when I awake!
Jak moves quickly through the glass hallway, and the brilliant light at the end sees him outside on a large stone balcony. Sky and clouds above and below are all that you can see. And there, far far below lies the ground, a pale green and brown haze in the distance. The wind buffets you; luckily there are enough handholds and railings nearby. Looking back at the way you came, you see twin spires of smoke curling upwards. One from your own ship, another distant column from the navy vessel. From where you are, the balcony seems to curve around the greenhouse, retreating either to the east or west. Eastwards, the balcony vanishes into a stone tower, most likely a guard post. To the west, the balcony climbs stone stairs and joins a second level of buildings, perched above the greenhouse's mid-section.
The sky above continues below. Evidently you are still somewhere in the sky.
Let me know when we're ready to move past this first room. The wreck seems stable if albeit destroyed and as mentioned, this is a one-shot, you'll mainly be adventuring around this location, exploring the passages and hallways as well as fighting whatever creatures still live here. Keep me posted amigos.
I don't believe I've ever heard of that item. The "cutting blade" that is. Ebran: The passage is like the room. About 60 ft of simple glass walls and ceiling with marble flooring. The light seems to be natural light. Through the glass you can see sky and clouds.
Just the walls and ceiling. The floor is stone, some kind of marble as far as you can tell. Also, Unit_6, how are you cutting through the door?
Ayedan and whoever is with him makes their way quietly to the metal door. It is a simple but rugged affair, a bluish iron of some sort. It is slightly ajar, the door slightly off its hinges. Peering through, you can spy a glass hallway leading off into brightness.
You're way up at the ceiling at this point. Your eyes notice that the room is about the size of your crashed ship. The tip of what used to be the Pixie lies embedded in the northern wall while the tail end is smashed up against the southern wall, albeit a good 20 ft. off the ground. The ship itself is smashes at an odd, tilted angle, having dropped diagonally through the roof. Said roof appears to be made of some form of glass. The rest of the room's contents appear to be plants and trees albeit not ones you seem to recognize. Amid the rubble, you can faintly spy a large metallic door on the eastern side of the circular room. Smoke and debris cloud the remainder of this chamber.
As you converge on the voice, you find that it's one of the members of your crew, a young lad by the name of Garaud. As you gather around him he breathes a sigh of relief. "Oh god be blessed, most of you made it. The Seventh Sea seems to have crashed not too far from here and if most of us are fine, chances are they will too." He gazes around. You all noticed that your ship seems to have crashed through a glass roof of some kind and you seem to be in either an inner courtyard, garden or perhaps even a greenhouse. "Anyone know where we might be? Hmmm figures." He looks at you all. "So what's the plan bosses? We lying low or moving out?"
No rolls, feel free to choose where. The "ship" is unspecified so you may feel free to invent rooms and places.
Chapter I: Where in Blue Blazes Are We It was like a sign from god. It doesn't matter which one. People below swore it was a shooting star, or a descending angel. The reality? A badly damaged pirate/privateer airship (depending on your outlook and willingness to commit to your profession) fell like a flaming rock directly into a floating city at the heart of a storm. Even bards couldn't make things like this up. As the crew of the Belladonna Pixie prayed (again to which god doesn't matter), screamed, cried, wept or completely ignored the impending disaster, they were at least content in the thought that their opponent, the tremendous sky-galleon known as the Seventh Sea was suffering a same fate. Hopefully a worse one. Contact with the ground was like receiving a boulder composed of rock, masonry and cobblestone to the face at around a nice 200 km/h. That's no metaphor, that's actually what it felt like. Any of the crew not praying immediately did so. Though not to a god, but to the airship's gravitational absorbers. No chance they would ever be functional again, but hopefully, they wouldn't be falling out of the sky a second time today. The wreckage was great, the ship sprayed across the local area. From wherever our protagonists lay, rested or were buried, they all began to hear a shouting not too far away. "Ahoy! Anyone still breathin' follow my voice! Ahoy!"
We'll decide that in game, worry not.
Alright, gameplay will begin today! It's time we got going!
If anyone knows of Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky, we're the Dola Gang and the Navy is Colonel Muska so to speak. We're still technically the good guys.
Going to give another 24h and then we're a go.
I vote for particularly awesome pirate ship. That means your antagonist gets to be the Sky Navy.
Max at 1st level of course, and let's go with half+1 for simplicity.
Behold the "dot" page.
Now's the time for character creation: We will be 7th level and adventure until about 8th/9th. 20 Point Buy
Questions? Ask below.
LIST OF CHARACTERS SUBMITTED
I have made my selection and decided to go with eight crewmembers. I chose these characters because I not only enjoyed their character's proposals but also because of their continued discussing and presence. I have gone above my previous statement of a maximum of eight because I once again believe that finishing an adventure is more important than simply starting one. The more characters I have, the more chances that drop outs cause less of a disturbance. However, I will be planning on splitting the party into two groups, The chosen players are as follows, and are coincidentally the eight I put at the top of the list.
However, I hate to disappoint, and as such I will happily give front row seats to unselected players in case of drops. If you have any questions, please PM me or post below. As for the chosen crew, please report to Discussion thread for now.
All looking good, I'll make final selection tomorrow as promised.
Maybe. How about something like: Name of character; alignment gender race class (archetype) X
I can see us leveling say, once, twice maximum. 7th as a start and then reaching 8th and 9th seems like a decent progression. And I think that I'll select based solely on the basic information I asked. I haven't tried this approach yet and figure it's as good a time to try as any. I won't discourage anyone from making the character sheet/posting up character information but it won't give you an advantage.
Still gonna give more time the interested. I'm thinking this could be a "mid level" adventure, somewhere around 6th-7th level at this point. A good mix of strengths but nothing too wild quite yet. As a one shot, I will be choosing a minimum of four and a maximum of six players. I'm aiming at a diverse group of characters AND a good set of roleplayers. I have a feeling we can make this thing quite interesting.
To answer your questions: - Guns are part of the setting.
A pleasure to have a Sunny in the recruitment. I'm pretty sure I've seen that name around the boards before.
Would you allow the Savage Barbarian to work with Unchained Barbarian by switching 'throwing weapons' with 'ranged weapons' for the Unchained rage ability? I'm going to remain a stickler for the purpose of fluidity and balance and say no. I'm not at the point where I wish to change official rulings. Again my apologies.
Let's stick with official Paizo material for this one shot. As much as I would love to allow 3PP material at this time, I simply don't have the time to open up the option for it. If I allow on a case-by-case basis, others may feel slighted and if I simply allow 3PP material, the amount of new material I'd have to internalize would be too great. As well, without having read or playtested Path of War, it's sounding a lot like the Book of Nine Swords which has caused problems for me in the past. Perhaps another day. My apologies.
Let's stick with official Paizo material for this one shot.
So far I like all three characters, they're incredibly diverse.
I quite agree.
Well, if it's an airship, then I have to play the adventurous sky pirate. Brill is human and he'll go swashbuckler/bard. (especially if you allow gestalt!) I won't be allowing gestalt unfortunately. Maybe another time but not for this shot. And sky pirates are perfect! |
