Oh, and just to check, which terrain in the area (if any) would count as difficult/treacherous/etc?
The leafy trees provide cover/concealment and are difficult terrain, the big logs at K4 are essentially 5-foot walls (DC 10 climb), and the river is difficult terrain as well due to the flowing water. Also, the pile of logs near K1 is difficult. The watch-towers (K2 and K3) are 20 feet tall.
Was asking because it's exactly 30' to the nearest bandit, and wanted to know if I could charge or, if not, needed to make an acrobatics check.
Am I weird for actually timing myself saying what I'm having Ankova say each round to be sure it actually fits into 6 seconds?
Weird? No.
Unexpectedly appropriate? Yes.
Heck I need to start timing my words like that.
Can Laliytsa clearly see the bandits Ankova is fighting? At least enough that she can take a shot at one? I feel nervous having Ankova surrounded by so many mobs when she's by herself.
Sorry, there's branches and pine-needles in the way. It's quite possible that you'd hit something, but partial cover/concealment is rough.
On the other hand, Kressle is probably going to start hurting things soon. ...If I can manage to land a hit on one of you...
Sometimes I time my words as well, but I don't have a stopwatch or anything. Just guesstimate.
Shouldn't I take one more point of damage from that shot? Orange bandit is clearly within 30', and if he has Precise Shot, he also has Point Blank Shot.
Ehrm, actually...
you shouldn't have gotten hit at all. I totally forgot shooting into melee for that one. Apologies.
Oh, and here I was, assuming you'd forgotten to add extra damage!
Is Kressle still standing?
Daen's attack will down her.
I apologize so profusely for that last round. Lots of 20s...
Hey, it's part of the game. At least you didn't kill anyone off yet.
Would I have to roll perception to see Kressle getting back up?
Nah, she's not being subtle about it at all.
Will wait for Ankova before continuing.
Okay, so, whenever you'd like to return to Oleg's, our new party member will be waiting. I imagine it'll be a few days' realtime before we get back there, but just so you know, El Ronza should be ready to go.
Absolutely I will be! :-)
I'm looking forward to meeting the newbie!
Me too! Someone to hide behind, yay! ;)
Now I'm hoping AC 17 and 12 hit points will be enough to qualify me as a tank... Also, a horse may complicate things.
And 14 counts as 'high charisma', right...?
Well, excluding Maraia you've got the highest charisma of all of us, so yes!
My first game, I was the only one with a positive charisma modifier. Therefore, my character, by default, was the party leader. Tuns out that when said character is an implsive, pyromaniac, gnome sorceress with 7 wisdom, it doesn't always go well...
That's hilarious, Ronza.
Sooooo, I just realized that I posted in teh gameplay thread instead of discussion. Whoops.
So, if you'd like to execute the bandits, I'm fine with that. At least one of them isn't very repentant, and we can handwave the other's interrogation on the way back to Oleg's. I am going to railroad you back there, since we have a new player waiting, but after that, you'll be free to do what you'd like in the Stolen Lands.
As for you, El Ronza, if you'd like, I can post some stuff in spoilers for you with the NPCs currently at Oleg's. Or we can wait until the party shows up.
I think we'll try to get what info we can out of them. I'm also not opposed to bringing back the cooperative one if he won't be trouble. If we get similar info we got out of the one siege engineer back at Oleg's, I wouldn't be surprised.
Aside from that, I'm okay with you handwaving it so we can get our new party member.
Same. We can take back the repentant one. I don't think the other guy is trustworthy, plus he spit on me and that's not nice lol.
Have we found Svetlana's ring yet? I'm fine with us leaving the camp as long as we've got it. Railroading us back is good too, as long as we stop at the mushroom patch for Svetlana. Laliytsa's determined to have some of that soup ;)
As for you, El Ronza, if you'd like, I can post some stuff in spoilers for you with the NPCs currently at Oleg's. Or we can wait until the party shows up.
I'd like that! Give me a chance to get my feet wet, test out my character. :-)
You haven't yet found the ring, although the bandits may know what happened to it. As the the radish patch, we can stop there on the way back, or you can make it a priority once the party is together.
Alright, I'll have a post up for Kazimir in a bit. Hopefully Ankova will post something soonish. I gather it's been a rough week for her.
As an aside, I forgot how much I hate having only 2+INT skill points... When you need both Ride and Handle Animal for your concept, things get a little thin.
Cool backstory. Should be enough stuff to work with in the future. I like the characters as well, and will be looking for opportunities to use them.
Glad you like it. I just had things start coming to me, and I haven't really played the 'pulled to the plot by a mysterious dream' cliche before, so there's a first time for everything. ;-)
I haven't seen that cliche yet in any games I'm in, unless you count Tats's husband and father talking to her, which I think is more of an insanity, myself.
I really like his background. As I was reading it I started going hmm, follows Erastil and loves horses, sounds like Laliytsa's type, she might get a crush....oh whoops, that's going to be unrequited lol.
Funny story: I'm playing a medium in another Wrath of the Righteous game, who also has people speaking to her. Five so far, and she's only going to accumulate more as the game goes on. She's not coping with it as well as Tats... In fact, she's River Tam levels of bonkers.
Haha, Laliytsa! Sorry about that :P Crush away if you want, though; it could make for fun RP down the line. It's not something Kazimir tells a lot of people, after all.
Guh. Had a sizable post and my puter crashed. I'll post something in the morning.
No problem, Daen. I shot Ankova a PM to see how she's doing, since she's in a couple other games with me. Hopefully she's just getting hit hard with work or something.
Alright, I guess I need a decision. Which (if any) of the prisoners are you executing, and which are you keeping alive. Ankova's been MIA for five days, so we need to move ahead without her at this point. Given that we're down to two actual PCs and two that would be DMPC'd in combat, I'm for handwaving back to Oleg's and skipping the radish patch for now. It'll be there when you return.
Ah, just posted. Killing Drago and doing more diplomacy with Teodor when we get back is my vote. I might be gone for a couple days after Wednesday to help a friend move, just letting you know.
Thanks for the heads-up. Seems to be a pretty definitive post, there. I'll get to work on a going-back-to-Oleg's post, but it may not be until after the mega-maintenance.
Did we squeeze any info out of Teodor about that ring? Laliytsa would ask him about it.
Was working on at post when last night's 6 hour maintenance started. Will have it soon.
I hope Ankova comes back soon. Laliytsa as the group spokesperson is not a good idea lol
Okay, after two trips of 14 hours each, my friends is finally moved. Time to catch up.
....as Laliytsa flirted with the newcomers...
I laughed really hard at this. Laliytsa flirting...that would fun to write. Probably not much different than the 'Speak my mind but don't piss the nobleman off too much' attitude she's got going. Maybe some more talk about favorite weapons and the great outdoors.
I won't lie, now I kind of want to see Laliytsa flirting with a clueless/hopeless/hapless Kaz... The idea of it gives me the giggles.
Daen doesn't know. He assumes. Sometimes he's right, sometimes no.
I also think it would be fun to have her flirt with the paladin. I was a bit worried at the beginning because Daen was never really meant to have romantic interests and he was stuck with three ladies. At least he isn't Kaz's type. He's got a slight build with a scholar's hands.
Almost all my characters are up for a bit of romance. Maybe because I'm a bit of a hopeless romantic in real life. Most of my characters are straight, though, so Kaz is a bit of a new experience for me. And yeah, Daen's certainly not his type :p
Oh, it's going to happen. It's going to be awkward and clueless and fun. Laliytsa has very little experience with people outside of her family in general so I imagine she's got like minimal experience with flirting. It'll be a whole new kind of hunting for her. And she takes hunting verrryyyyy seriously :3