Here we go again...

What's the enc for the scale hauberk?

In reply to Ohanzee Shappa (msg # 2):

For lead  light scale it's 3pt's spread over chest and abdomen. 4AP. No % off your move silently.

Lead plate greaves are 2 enc per leg.

In reply to GM (msg # 3):

is that including the extra weight because they are lead?
2 Ravens, with only Bamled keeping any eye on them, what mischief can we get up to? :)

Yes.


So Ohanzee being lowered down by Bamled and Nixa, with Melock at the top of the hole looking down.

I shall get Kobal, Amara and Henal to investigate the stairs. With Tarnessh in reserve with Sand Fox, Indigo and Hue. Tarnessh's torch illuminates the whole basement room.

I'll be gone today and tomorrow cause I'm meeting with family out in a rural area with no internet. Do you know the notes for what Tarnessh generally does if you need to puppet him in that time, GM?

There'll be combat for the next day and some investigation, so I'm thinking stay in support and lend your aid without going toe to toe with soul sucking deamons. Magic and missiles.
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:23, Sat 24 Jan 2015.

Ohanzee is the central red dot, 9m up in the air, with a very deep pool below him.
Kobal, Amara and Henal on the stairs.

Yellow lines are roughly where torches illuminate

Bingo.

So the wife is out with her friend and the boys and I are sitting by the wood burning stove watching Trap Door on Amazon Prime, which the boys think is Epic! Oh Globbits!

love the show!

How many goes at disrupt will you go?

Melock will stay at the top of the rope, in case Ohanzee needs pulling up fast.

Hmmm... up to 10 with a review of the effect by then. Using Enapay's POW

Not even going to roll for this one. Free form it to your hearts content.

Ohanzee it takes one disrupt to blow one apart. Leave some for the others. They have POW of 1.

Those in the doorway a: hit to any body locations shatters the skeleton in to pieces. They've skills to match but you can have fun with them. Taking a wound from one will win my admiration and will be in your favour later on.

They have axes and swords and at best leather armour and either a medium or large shield or nothing.

Ohanzee you can try and swing to the side of the pool. Dex x 3 from both you and Melock to synchronise. At worse you fall in tied to a rope.

If you land safely the skeletons will all have been killed.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:07, Sat 24 Jan 2015.

So....What are you doing with that helmet you found? Are you wearing it?

OK cool, I assumed one hit would take out a location rather than the whole thing.

20:05, Today: Ohanzee Shappa rolled 35 using 1d100. DEX x3. No problem, will swing to the SW, the closest land. Then untie the rope Will disrupt at any coming towards him.

In reply to GM (msg # 16):

the pig poo one, as it is unenchanted iron, he'll leave it with his gear. His casting chance is bad enough as it is.
he failed his dex x3 but made his dex x8 :)

In reply to GM (msg # 14):

I'll catch up later with an IC post as I'm on my phone and its not easy to do anything decent from that.

You fall heavily on the ground due to Meock failing his dex roll.

You can disrupt some from above, but by the time you swing and land the skeletons will be killed by the others. You need to get a fair bit of momentum up to swing that far, back and forth.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:08, Sat 24 Jan 2015.

Yep it's usually the hit location that shatters but these are old, old, old.

What does Melock know about gargoyles? are they something any of us would have encountered before?

I think nothing. If you make a  Prax lore roll I reckon you heard a story of someone encountering gargoyles in the Rubble.

The Broo are 45m away from the Tower to the South.

Random encounter chart coming up trumps again (So is the next one ;) )

In reply to GM (msg # 23):

He knows nothing about them :)
am I right in thinking that you can't stack multi missile and speed dart?

I think that you can stack them, but the benefits of speadart only has an effect on the first (real) missile, not the magical copies that follow. Mind you it's been some time since I read those rules :)
This message was last edited by the player at 20:51, Sun 25 Jan 2015.

In reply to Ohanzee Shappa (msg # 25):

If thats the case its still worth doing. I think we should stay in the tower for as long as we can.

I'd wait for our GM to confirm one way or another, that's what I'm doing. Probably worth concentrating fire on the shaman to knock him out. Otherwise we could be facing spirits sent into the tower or all sorts

In reply to Ohanzee Shappa (msg # 27):

Yes we need to kill the shaman first and as soon as we can.

Edit: Just got home and check the spell write up, they cant be stacked. So speed dart it is, at least that way he might hit them :)
This message was last edited by the player at 22:45, Sun 25 Jan 2015.

Yep can't be stacked.

Sand Fox has multimissile 1 too.

So bows, xbows and a long range javelin throw.

Amara are you using your named javelin?

Melock you missed, others get a tick for the weapon/style used.

Actions? The Broo are momentarily stunned.

Those with javelins are out of range, unless Amara casts her Longfaring spell on them.

Henal will hold fire till the broo come in range. Glad we got the shaman.

In reply to GM (msg # 30):

Cant say I'm surprised, he'll reload and try again at the biggest one.

Assuming I'm at the windows with the rest (not seen my name come up over the weekend so I'm assuming I'm there or "choosing retrospectively" to have headed for the windows with the missile-death-to-the broo-dealing party), I'm with Henal on this: hold fire till sling range, then let fly with Speedart. Choice of target: toughest-looking one first.

Please confirm I've got myself in the right place before I post IC - don't want to stuff up the timeline/locations here.

What kind of armour is the leader in? If it's heavy then most missile damage will be absorbed, better to pick off the lesser/non-armoured ones as they should drop more easily. Also with the leader remaining they might be less likely to scatter so easier to mop up.

The nice surprise is they don't know we have bison and rhino (oh and an ostrich) unless they thought to track. Knock off some more and the charge should be satisfying >)

There's no way you can fire a sling whilst in a room and through a window. You can go up on the roof and sling away to your heart's content :)

Everyone is up in either the Main Hall, the front room overlooking the doors, or the Altar room




The leader is wearing a mixture of plate and leathers. He's not very big but looks tough. The rest are in furs and leather.

They look to be a mix of herd beast headed Broo, with the leader a Sable.

Amara gets the call from SBB that "It's them...It's them!"

Anyone firing out of a window has a (small) chance of being hit by a sling shot.

Whoops. Forgot the ceiling. Think I'll stay out of Gargoyle Central for now. Are they in disrupt range? Guessing they are if an arrow got home to them and they're slingshotting us - the range seems to be 80 on all these.

If they are in Disrupt range, anyone fancy "massed disrupts" (if Salen will let several folks touch his matrix at once)? I can cast it without a matrix, but if 5 or 6 of us are targeting the same broo at once...
...um...
...all we have to worry about is if they're spell reflectors.

In range of most spells as are you lot. Salen will help. He is in the room above the doors with Amara, Ohanzee and Melock.

Bamled, Ohanzee, Salen, Hoskar and Melock have disrupt.

Kobal will cast Binding if needs be.

Tarnessh will cast Demoralise

Henal can cast Befuddle

Just noticed that Kobal has no matrixes.

The Broo leader is currently armed with a composite bow. He looks to have a shield and two swords of different length.

Sand Fox, Nixa and Bamled will follow any player character who heads downstairs. I'll have Kobal join them as he has no missile weapon other than a javelin.
This message was last edited by the GM at 11:35, Mon 26 Jan 2015.

Melock only has a heal 2

That's cool. You need 2 castings to get him back to full health. He got hit with a crit in the head for only 4 pts. Lucky.

In reply to GM (msg # 42):

He is lucky, with a crit I would have been expecting to have to scoop his brains back in :)

Woops, just noticed the post that says that you can't fire a sling in there. How about Tarnessh says that stuff in the last post and THEN goes outside to use his sling on the roof, which SURELY will not backfire on him.

Okay....

Okay Melock isn't demoralised anymore.

Those going downstairs will wait for the word.

Just hope the gargoyles hate chaos too....

In reply to Henal Longgrass (msg # 48):


This message was last edited by the player at 14:23, Mon 26 Jan 2015.

Is there enough light to use Dazzle on the broo?

Somewherrrrrrrre over the rainbow, where birds flyyyyyyyy....

I have absolutely no idea where I am vis a vis the broo (or indeed anyone else in the tower) now. I assume close to Melock still given what I was doing before it all got messy.

Simple plan:

1) Cast Bludgeon and Strength
2) If I see a broo, hit it with the club. Often and hard.
3) Try and avoid getting isolated/split up from group.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:14, Mon 26 Jan 2015.

You are still in the room over looking the Door.

Will update IC in a bit, feeding the kids and bed time first.

Hoskar comes face to face with a fourth Broo coming the long way round the corridor.

In reply to GM (msg # 54):

I'll edit/augment my last IC to reflect that, then. Now I know where I am, it's easier. "Squeaky bum time", but easier. :)

My plan's even simpler than Hoskar's: see a Broo, run like buggery. Ideally behind someone who can fight it then straight on.

In reply to Four Paws (msg # 56):

Go downstairs get on the bison and let the ostrich fight them.

I don't fancy biting a broo, so I'll follow the fool who bound me, trying not to get under his feet :)

I imagine Rubble Runners to be quite resilient when it comes to disease and ferocious in nature. About three crazed pit bull fighting dogs rolled into one, encased in armour.

In reply to GM (msg # 59):

As they eat carrion, I guess they would have to be. Its just a shame shes not as strong as 3 pitbulls :)

It's a shame none of our mounts are awakened....a rhino or bison that can fight and be aware of what they are doing would be really helpful here lol

In reply to Amara Brightsky (msg # 61):

That would be quite a surprise for them.
If you run out of javelins before we charge out, feel free to borrow Melocks as he doesnt use it much. Its on Stinky

Won't Sky Blue Bone head up here now the broo are in? Wonder if we can get the wizard to help?

I would like to repeat my question about whether or not I have enough light to cast Dazzle.

Sorry missed your question.

Up on the roof or outside yes, but not inside. Sun is now over head.

Throwing dice and writing up an IC post now. If anyone has actions they want to add nows the time :)

I'll edit my post to tell the riders it's tune to c charge

Your new armour saved you from any damage, so you can pick yourself up from the floor. You, salem and most of the room are now covered in bits of shredded Broo.

Nice...

In reply to GM (msg # 67):

I was thinking it would have been funny if the broo shaman had had 'explodes on death' chaos feature as its always a fun one to see, though it would have spoilt a good fight.

I keep watching this over and over. Love it.

There's HUNDREDS of them out there.

I have to admit, this is one fight I'm not so sure we're going to win.

It ain't over till the fat broo swings :P

Casting demoralize on the broo racing to the door and then trying to go all stabby stabby with my knife.

In reply to Amara Brightsky (msg # 70):

at least we're not out in the open and we have the mighty Sky Bone Blue on our side, though I keep getting an image of daffy duck spoiling for a fight every time I think of him fighting the broo, I think he's either going to rip the broo to pieces or he's going to get stomp flat :)

If we lock the interior doors, it'll slow them down.
On the bright side we don't have to go looking for them now :)

Amara and Salen fighting at the windows in the room above the main doors.

Melock and Tarnessh tackling the Broo going downstairs.

Kobal, Henal, Ohanzee and Hoskar with the Broo Leader

SBB, Sand Fox, Nixa and Bamled about to Sally Forth to tackle those remaining outside.

Busy morning so will post my Lunchtime IC.

Time to make any last requests.

Those facing the war leader have time to cast two spells. Hoskar a few more as he's coming around the corridor.

Will Henal have already been able to do a healing 1 on himself?

If so befuddle on the broo leader and protection 1 on himself.

He wil hold back in the first round to put more healing into his abdomen and then join in fighting.

Yes all good.

You can all tell this Broo is well hard. Gang up on him if you can.

Assuming my uses of "Strength" and "Bludgeon" are still running (if not, re-cast them instead), there's only one useful attack spell I can use while closing, so Countermagic first then disrupt, disrupt and disrupt again. Unless the first one's reflected back and blows down my countrmagic, when I reckon Hoskar's bright enough not to persist.
Weigh in with club and shield thereafter, trying to circle the blighter so he's got enemies on all sides. Can't watch us all at once.

PS in edit: Nice thinking, Ohanzee - it'll save a lot of trouble if he's Harmonized.
This message was last edited by the player at 10:19, Tue 27 Jan 2015.

If the harmonise does work then Ohanzee will turn away and guard the stairs, thus turning the broo, you can then hack him apart from the sides and rear >)

Okay Broo leader is absorbing spells via a Rune spell.

He looks to have blade sharp and protection cast and possibly other spells.

SBB (currently outside pecking Broo to death) was called to come up stairs I'm a bit loath to have NPC's come and possibly do the dirty work and steal your thunder. That is unless you lot really want him to help.

I'd intended for you to run into these guys somewhere in the Bleak Hills on your way home, but a random encounter came up with Broos and it had to be them really.

In reply to GM (msg # 79):

Yes thats never fun. I seem to remember thats what happened to the walking cactus :)
Melock only call SSB, as I thought it might have been the leader who killed him.

Kaonu with a critical I think it was. Lucky shot and was from a gm's point of view a bit of a disappointment :D

No, let him have his fun outside.

Good.

Ohanzee will try shield pushing the broo facing him into the leader if that looks doable, otherwise tactics are simple attack parry.

If he gets his sword embedded in a broo he'll leave it and draw his axe.

Holy hell this guy's tough.

Desisting from disruptions (they're pointless given the observed effect), doing my best to form a bit of a formation in the hope E-G might augment us...

This is a real boss fight, but at least hardly any broo are left so we can concentrate on the leader.

Try putting bladesharp2 on the sword to help fight. Hopefully that won't be absorbed.

Don't forget that you can add pow to charms so that they punch through countermagics and other protective spells.

Amara you and Salen have no foes left so you can go join the others.

I think after this fight we can do an experience session. It's pointless giving you all ticks at the moment.
 and you've deserved it.

Only spells cast at the Broo leader will be absorbed (Up to a certain level of POW)

I already have ten combat style ticks :)

The question for me is...do I help people fighting the big bad? Or do I clear up the extras?

You lot never seem to remember that you have blade venom too. It's a great advantage in these kind of fights (Takes a bit to apply though, 5 rounds for a sword, 2 for a spear.) especially vs high CON Broo.

Just to keep you on your toes each of you can make a Con roll. Some of you have come in contact with disease carrying Broo.

No need to post roll I'll go find them.

Amara and Salen should be a bit worried as they were covered in the remains of the exploding Broo.

Disease, what disease?

13:58, Today: Ohanzee Shappa rolled 7 using 1d100. CON roll.

I can't remember, attempting to cast in combat and boosting it's INT sr + total number of POW in the spell plus boosting and if they hit you before you finish can you still complete the casting?

Busy arvo with the kids I'll post the next bout/finale my evening.

Just rolled for the knock backs for Melock(27%) and Tarnessh (17%), so you send your long legged Broo in amongst the rather angry Rhino and Bison.

Feel free to post his messy demise and your successes.

@Ohanzee if you're hit whilst casting, the spell is stopped. No POW is lost.

15:06, Today: Hoskar Feather rolled 47 using 1d100. CON roll.

At least the little bits of me they'll have to scoop up and dump in a hole later will be disease-free. Sigh of relief.

Assuming it's CON x 5 of course ;)

Amara, Ohanzee would be relaying that the leader and two other broo are upstairs through his spirit so you can make the decision based on all the knowledge at least ;)

I think Melock is about to lose at least 1 point of a stat, lets hope Indigo knows how to cure diseases :)
He's got to remember to fight with his mouth closed

10:45, Today: Amara Brightsky rolled 48 using 1d100. Con.
I......I......I might have made it!

In reply to Amara Brightsky (msg # 98):

cough.. cough... lucky you, whys my skin flaking off :)

You might get lucky. It might 'only' be Creeping Crudd. It certainly sounds like it. Stinky riding Stinky.

I told you you need to bathe occasionally... it's not optional

Passed the con check. Now just have to survive fighting the boss broo.

But.. but.. I only had one a couple of weeks ago, maybe I should have washed my clothes at the same time

You in fact have been fine as you've not combatted a disease carrying Broo, but with a roll like that I should strike you down with a disease or ten...

Consolidating dice rolls, writing out citations and alerting closest family members re IC.

Casting Protection and Bladesharp

He must of rolled a crit for his luck roll :)

Gotcha.

@everyone. Emesh-Ga'spowers have given you each +1d4 damage when fighting chaos.

Okay have to take a break, going to watch a show with my other half. That was a lot of dice...

I can only suggest that you cast some offensive spells with added power to get past his absorption rune magic.

Some of you have vigour spells and use that Str matrix,otherwise he's going to start killing some of you.

Tarnessh deserves a medal for going up against Broo with just a knife. He'll be fine after another healing spell.

cool, I take it that is just for this combat?

my biggest flaw....is that for a combat character, I'm actually rather weak. Amara is a smart fighter rather than a powerful one. I need to get a boost from the shield.....or train up str....after I complete dex training.

When ever you fight chaos and invoke your guardian's  anti chaos power.

Coordination  is a good spell to have.

Melock you have Vigour I think.

Henal i will get Hoskar to heal you, Tarnessh you too.

In reply to GM (msg # 113):

Casting Healing 2 this round and the next. How much do I need to regain my health enough to be able to fight decently?

Just editted the private line in my last post as it may make a difference

yes he does, but I'm hoping hitting harder will end it quicker, if he gets affected by the harmonise. Even though it doesn't say he'll snap out of it when attack in the spell write up, I'm guessing he will, otherwise its basically an instant death spell.

if needs be he can use it to temp heal someone, until they can be properly healed

I don't know if I've missed it, but how big is the broo, does he tower over most of us?

LOL, most things tower over Ohanzee

In reply to Ohanzee Shappa (msg # 118):

fairly true for most of the party except Kobal.
I have just been thinking of ways to use darkwall offensively, but like a successful use of harmonise it would probably only give us a round of better chances to hit, but it might be enough.
if he's a lot taller than us, a darkwall horizontally at his chest height, would mean he could see us with out stooping
even if he is similar height a bowl shaped darkwall at chest height would temporally blind him until he moves :)

I think it's just the leader left up here now isn't it? If that's the case and if the harmonise works then Ohanzee will get the leader to remove his helmet and bend over presenting it's head.

The dead Broo is encased in Bronze plate mail. He's SIZ 14.

He has a bronze Large Shield, a bronze Broadsword, a bronze Greatsword, a bronze Dagger and a Composite Bow.

About his hairy neck are two shards of crystal and wrapped around his waist an odd looking length of rope, perhaps five metres long. One end has a complicated set of knots.

Tarnessh and Henal are back to full health, I had Hoskar help with his Matrix, with you both using your POW too.

That Harmonise really worked I was thinking that we might have lost a character in there given how tough the broo leader was.

Got a busy day so won't be posting much till tonight.

I must admit Harmonise has very rarely made an appearance in my games as it's not a spell often picked by players. Few times I've  seen it used was to remove guards from their posts.

Combat wise it's a good one! I think it worked well in this case as there were no allies of his to help him and hinder Ohanzee casting it.

Amongst other things the Broo had an increased Con from a chaos trait, a vigour spell, protection 4, bladesharp 4 and an absorption 1 rune spell. His HP were 39! Armour on his head was 14 with armour and spell. Attack % were 90-100% before spells

IS anyone stripping the War leader of gear? He looks cleaner than the rest, is marked by Death Runes and not those of Malia.

His companions look stinky and feral.

Oh blimey: the leader's SIZ 14 - that armour's just a nice fit for me. Not sure I fancy a Broo's armour, though. Will have to think about that. Maybe if we get Indigo Hue's opinion on it - he might be able to tell if there's a disease risk since he seems to know almost everything...if he ever reappears from the crypt. In any case if anyone else wants to strip the leader for kit, you get in first - Hoskar's natural hesitancy will mean you beat him to it and meta-wise he's not primarily a combat character per se.

Harmonize is interesting. When I occasionally GM-ed "back in the day", I used to allow PCs to use Dispel Magic 2 on themselves if Harmonized to stop it being such a "death spell", taking my cue from the Jack O'Bear creature writeup. Rarely allowed my NPCs the same luxury - they had to rely on thier mates (if any). Does anyone know off-the-cuff if Harmonize remained the same in RQ3? Might tell us something about whether the designers thought it unbalanced anything in RQ2 when they came to revise the rules.
Hoskar's spell-set is essentially defensive plus a Disrupt, but I only have Dispel Magic 1 so far.
There's studiously no question to the GM in these observations - my character has no idea what the spell's limits are in this Glorantha.

Anyone showing any signs of disease? If so, shout up: Hoskar's potion emporium will be opening for business. :)

Harmoise and befuddle are awsome spells for sneaky types, for ambush and the like, but mid combat is indeed a rare use in my experience for exactly the reason that casting and .

Sure, we can take the gear from the leader. I think the priorities should be:

1. Burn the broo and tidy up
2. Clean up ourselves, our gear, including the broo leader's gear
3. Make sure that none are infected or if possible treat them. (I put this third as the process of cleaning up will cause more exposure).
4. Get Indigo Hue to ID the two crystals in case they are curse/chaotic

Yep I agree with posts about Harmonise.

Just a note Kobal has no matrixes whilst some of you have 4+. Henal and Tarnessh can do with some too. Plus Loot should be given to the npc's if you want them to stay.

Amara has just lost her familiar so should receive a  storage crystal if any are found.

Note on spirits and crystals.

You can have one Powered crystal and any number of Pow storage crystals.

You can have as many bound spirits/familiars as your CHA divided by 3.

Power storage crystals would be nice.

Agree with letting the NPC have a fair share of booty. So lets see if there is anything from the broo that they can have or other stuff from the Tower.

2 missions accomplished in one go now.

On the subject of matrixes, Ohanzee has an ironhand 2 knuckle duster double ring that no one else was particularly after but that does not really match his style.

He'll throw this into the pot, either for an PC, or an NPC, maybe Bamled, seems his style :)

I think harmonise in RQ3 is a 2 point divine spell, i'll look when i get home.
I think Melock can cast vigour on one more person before he doesnt have enough pow.

Let's give that to Kobal as he uses unarmed a fair bit and is big.

Don't forget to talk to SBB.

For those of you with Manul cats as familiars I respect their sense of self preservation during fights but don't forget cats' natural curiosity. So perhaps a bit of scouting and putting them at risk occasionally. Otherwise I shall have you plagued with snakes and dogs... ;)

Read Waha knots skill to work out what the rope has to say.

Here are some first aid rolls as I don’t have anything more specific for disease.

10:09, Today: Ohanzee Shappa rolled 502 using 10d100 with rolls of 32,68,70,92,19,38,22,91,38,32. First Aid (looking for disease).

Made 6 out of 10.

Kobal it is then.

If I remember right the rune version of Harmonise could be cast on more than one person at a time. It was a Donandar spell used to synchronise the dancing of their troops (though other less lawful uses can occur).

Harmonise vanished from RQ III, though may have appeared under specific gods as Ohanzee mentions. It's a powerful spell.

None of you have the ability to determine if something or someone is diseased. It's something you'll learn next year for those of you who are apprentices.

Here we go. I'm going to keep it as a 2 pt battle magic spell, but use the below. So Ohanzee don't worry about rolling damage, but can you edit falling over in great pain....In future I might increase the rolled damage in keeping with the type of death.


This message was last edited by the GM at 14:42, Wed 28 Jan 2015.

In reply to GM (msg # 135):

Thats a nasty side effect, I like. Its amazing how selective my memory is, I dont remember it doing damage :)

Those of you with Crystals will need to determine what they are. In the rules this takes a week, but I will allow a whole day spent in meditation. That means doing nothing else.

To be honest due to the fight and loss of POW I'd suggest spending tomorrow recuperating.

It is now mid afternoon and no one has seen Indigo since the Broo appeared.

Is Harmonise still a 2 point or a 1 point now, just for clarity?

2 pt battle magic spell.

A fire needs to be built out front to burn the bodies.

I thought so, but just wanted to check :)

In reply to GM (msg # 139):

Casting Ignite on the bodies.

failed pow gain roll, again. At this rate its going to be along time until he becomes a shaman, if ever :)
As he doesn't have any spare POW to attune his crystal Melock will be on guard duty tomorrow

You need 5 ticks for a gain roll, right?

I'm afraid I failed my POW gain roll too.
It happens, though I think I'd spend the pow in any case to tune the crystal I got.

No just one tick. The exception for that rule is Bison/Rhino Combat style. If you have 4 ticks against that you automatically go up 5% (in all weapons under the style). But No worries about that as I said you all go up 5% in your combat style.

If its a POW storage crystal(Salen hinted that it is one of those) it won't cost anything. If it's a powered crystal and you fail to attune it you then lose from 1-3pts permanently. You lose nothing if you attune it and gain a POW tick.

Melock you should have a Def tick too.

Remember to check the Health and Loot thread as you all have ticks against at least one of your Runes.

How do we advance runes?
does EXP bonus count?
or just a straight roll of 100- current rating?

In reply to GM (msg # 147):

thank you, I missed that.
I do have a rune ticks, I had presumed, for some unknown reason, that they hand to be made with our shamans. I'll roll them now then :)

Edit: he doesn't actually have any skill in defence
This message was last edited by the player at 18:41, Wed 28 Jan 2015.

Oh man that I've been really negligent. I've got like 5 ticks XD

Same as your skills, with exp bonus.



Is normally with the shamans, but I'm feeling generous and it's going to be ages real time before we get home to them.

No def? I had you down as having Def on my cheat sheet. Whoops. lucky you :)

I take it that means there was a few times it save him :)
how's it worked out and I'll double check

Rolled POW 5 times, and only got one roll under 40. Still, yaaaay...I got 21 POW now! (That one roll under 40 was a 3, so I get to go up 3)
This message was last edited by the player at 20:57, Wed 28 Jan 2015.

Melocks not claiming the last free bronze broadsword from the tusk riders, it was just an easy place to stash it.
the only thing from the loot he'd like is the bronze dagger, but first call on loot should go to the ones who killed the boss broo

I think you only get one role for POW, like other skills.

I had 5 POW ticks that I'd forgotten to roll.

You only roll once per skill and POW tick.

The only skill you collect multiple Ticks for is the combat style, collecting 4 meaning that no experience roll needs to be made. I do this because you all fight so much and I like the idea of you becoming competent in this as you are heroes.

In the IC thread i tell you when you get a tick for a skill, this might occur multiple times, the reason for this is that I have enough book keeping to look after to worry about checking if you already have a tick.

There are times I might send a PM to an individual player saying that they can go up in a certain skill without a roll, due to good role-play etc.

Unfortunately you failed the first roll, so no POW roll. Same goes for any skills you rolled twice and went up on the second roll.

On a success you then roll to see how much POW you go up.
This message was last edited by the GM at 09:59, Thu 29 Jan 2015.

Take the knife. The killing was a group thang. You all had you hand in killing something.

Hoskar do you want any of that armour?

I'll give the Great sword to Kobal if no one else claims it. Not sure his player will want it, but it seems a fitting weapon considering his Siz.

Cheers.
Kobal with a great sword and str up, now that will be an impressive sight :)

The Broo's bastard sword is quite impressive and up for grabs. Henal?

It is well made, is marked with the death rune and far superior than the jagged blades of the Tusk Riders. Needs a STR 13 and Dex 9, which Henal has.

Melock the dagger looks like a Kukri

In reply to GM (msg # 161):

Thats cool, its almost the same size as a short sword then :)

Yes indeed

Henal could take that sword though I have this vision of a huge sword with a tiny guy wielding it.

Need to find out what is happening with Indigo now and Henal will want to gt clean of blood.

Will try and do an IC later.

Am I right in remembering that you cant see through the eyes of a familiar?

Kobal with the greatsword sounds awesome.

Oh go on: I'll risk the armour since no-one else has shouted up for it. Just got to check my ENC limits: might need to restrict myself to the limb and head stuff (will post an edit after checking). Won't ditch my old stuff - bet a Humakti might want it "back" one day.

I have no ides if you're "evil" enough to remind me OOC to consider taking diseased armour, but the IC about the leader looking cleanish has convinced me. :)

It can be cleaned anyway, in fact very easy with plate. Tarnessh can flame it for you, that'll have it gleaming

As long as Tarnessh doesn't overdo it..


ok Henal will take the bastard sword, but what he really needs is spell matrices.

We haven't had that so far so lets keep it to verbal only. I think that would be too much of an advantage. Hadn't really thought of it to be honest.



Don't worry too much about enc, I just wanted folk to be aware of when they're walking around overloaded and to make their posts reflect that. You could wear like you say the limb and helmet and keep the rest for when there's combat. The Hemet is a closed one so probably quite claustrophobic for a Condor brave whilst wandering about.

Putting the armour through a cleansing fire from Tarnessh will be good. He needs to roll his Fire Rune.



You can use it one handed with your Combat style or two handed with a new skill at 05% before bonus.

In reply to GM (msg # 169):

It would be a big advantage :)

Melock, the matrix was given back after the Tusk Riders

In reply to Ohanzee Shappa (msg # 171):

He offered to lend it to you when you went down the rope, in case there was anyone with missile weapons below. but if you didn't take it that's fine, I'll edit my post.
just didn't want to catch anything from it :)

Oh then, no didn't take it then

I'll try the cleansing fire later, when we're inside and not near a bunch of flammable stuff. Also, am I still critically injured?
This message was last edited by the player at 16:04, Thu 29 Jan 2015.

Totally healed.

You could make the fire in one of the tower's fireplaces.

So back to the tower with the Storm Bulls? Is it okay they stay the night? Their Bison won't fit but there's enough people to keep the majority of mounts outside under guard.

Who is going looking for the Wizard? Some of you are low in POW.

In reply to GM (msg # 175):

I'll do that then. I could go help look too.

Thank you, guv.

Edit add: I'm currently busy with healing potions - not going to get sidetracked till the cure potion is in Ohanzee's hands, but if you need a trap detector wait up - I think I've got POW left for that (albeit not much for anything else).
This message was last edited by the player at 16:53, Thu 29 Jan 2015.

Ohanzee is OK for POW and could go below, but only if the potion is quick acting, and assuming others aren't going, might look strange if half the group vanish.

There isn't any point enchanting lead armour is there, weapons yes as the damage goes up +2, but no effect on armour?

Only if they buy us dinner and Salens mum doesn't disapprove :)

Not at the moment. Perhaps it makes it lighter?

lol

The armour will take a few hours to cleanse, in the meantime folks can go look for the wizard, whilst Bamled, Sand Fox, Nixa, Salen and Kobal keep the Storm Bulls company.

They'll take a tour of the tower, investigate the gargoyles and drink all your Kumiss. You can trust them totally.

Well until they're drunk that is.

Anyone taking the composite bow?

Busy night for me tonight so not much time to post IC.

what is the base skill with the x-bow, even though he didn't hit anything with it, I think it might be useful

light xbow 20%

bow 10%

is the bow better than the one I have?
If so, I'll nab it.

You are welcome to take it. There's 13 bolts left so we'll need to steal some soon or take a slave who can make them. I'll keep 7 and you can have 6

I meant the composite bow.
Crossbows are....icky.

In reply to Amara Brightsky (msg # 188):

I thought bows were sable weapons :)
Melock will take the x-bow

I think I was the first person to pick a bow up....

That's good cos I was talking to Melock :)

In reply to Amara Brightsky (msg # 190):

And your friends with some lunars, I'm starting to worry about you :)

Better range and damage. Hoskar  will recognise it as a Lunar bow. It will go with your Lunar helmet and Lunar hand....

Go Lunars!
At least the have womens rights....

I go with the compy.
I've said many times that I am secretly a reincarnation of Jar-Eel, but they STILL don't believe me.

15 arrows come with it. They are larger than the others.

oooo, nice, do I use my old skill with it....or do I need to start a new one?

Same skill. Damage 1d8+1 range 100. You need Str 13 dex 11.

Henal is pretty low on Pow now but I think he'll still head down to look for the wizard

Hmmm, that's a thought. Maybe a Darkness hero quest to discover the secret, it being the Darkness metal

dang...ok, well, Imma keep it for later.

does the +2 count if you punch, kick or even head-butt someone while wearing enchanted lead in the right location? if so stack it with iron hand and you may not want to carry a weapon anymore :)

In reply to Melock (msg # 201):

Punch - only if you have lead gloves
Headbutt - maybe, but difficult with an open helm to hit them with the metal

Either way not a good idea if they are parrying with a weapon

In reply to Ohanzee Shappa (msg # 202):

yeah, your right. Also it might need bludgeon not iron hand. A pair of lead knuckle dusters would be good

Mmm

I've always used Ironhand for cestus/gloves as they require the unarmed skill.

Talking of punching I'm going to import the CoC knock out rules. Hit to the head with blunt weapon (includes pommel of sword)/unarmed), roll damage and then use the resistance table vs the Targets hp's (armour added). Success is a knockout for 1/3rd damage for 1 game turn. Failure on th resistance means the target takes full dam.

Sound good?

In reply to GM (msg # 204):

That does give us more options when we are in a civilised area. But it also might come in handy with Indigo :)

Sounds good to me

I think Ohanzee will swap the bronze helm for the lead one. There may well be no advantage, in fact it's heavier than the bronze one so the opposite, but it matches the rest and looks better.

After all, it's associated with darkness and to him, a follower of Raven, an entertainer, looks are important ;)

In reply to Ohanzee Shappa (msg # 207):

all you need to do now is find some way of enchanting it.

Yep: I remember it distinctly. Hoskar had nicked a bow dropped by a Sable he clobbered in his backstory (quelle surprise) and handed the thing over (round about when we discovered Kaonu had handed in his lunch pail) 'cos there's no way I'm using a Sable weapon.

It's a Darkness metal, I'm sure a Darkness spirit worshipping shaman would have some ideas.

Just a note to all you armoured freaks. Riding on your mounts in the Summer sun is going to hurt.

In reply to GM (msg # 211):

Very true. Let's ride at night instead ;)

Touché.

Gm walks you all off a cliff.

So...Whatcha all gonna do?

Downstairs there seems to be an illusion in your way. The Door could be real or not.

@Ohanzee, go idea trying to talk to the gargoyles, I think they maybe darkness creatures. I keep picturing the weeping angles from Doctor Who when I think of gargoyles :)

In reply to GM (msg # 214):

Truth Rune?

Also, we should give the ostrich a name. It would be disrespectful to keep calling it Sky Bone Blue, since SBB has left it. Maybe...I dunno...Bitey?
This message was last edited by the player at 12:53, Fri 30 Jan 2015.

How about lunch? :)

Great idea! Will post IC in a sec.

Still some things to investigate loot wise

There's the Waha rope that the Broo had. Someone needs to read the knots at it's end.

There was a hollow bone with a scroll inside.

both involve reading....which I'm not so good at lol

Sorry for brevity: busy one today. Feel free to have me detect traps till available POW ends (GM knows).
Not sure if I'll be able to read the gubbins, but when I'm out (assuming we make it back) my next job's examining that armour and petitioning Tarnessh to cleanse it with fire (IC, that is - know you agreed OOC).

Ohanzee doesn't do reading yet, ropes or otherwise

Those of you downstairs, none of you have any adventuring gear on you, apart from a few torches. It's early evening.

I can't really be mad at those gargoyles, cause that was pretty funny. Oh man, maybe they could take the position of those two old Muppet dudes!

:D

Amara the illusion is likely old, like the one on the outside of the Tower.

The doorway and the mural described by Tarnessh wasn't visible when you, Henal and Ohanzee first entered this room, before Indigo Hue had arrived.

50m of rope is by the pit on the stairwell, easily picked up by either Kobal or Ohanzee.

Unless you mention IC bringing stuff with you, you don't have it...water, extra food, torches, weapons, shields, armour. You are all carrying your matrixes and at the least a satchel carrying a few personal belongings, any healing herbs you own and enough trail food for a day.

Salen can read Knots so will have a go at translating the Waha rope, Choppa can help him.

EDIT: 20:19, Today: GM, on behalf of Salen Dustchaser, rolled 6 using 1d100. read Waha knots. aced it.

Remaining upstairs in the Tower or with the mounts:

Salen, Balmled, Nixa, Sand Fox, Choppa and three of his warriors.
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:21, Fri 30 Jan 2015.

In reply to GM (msg # 227):

4 v 4, hopefully the storm bulls wont try anything.
Melock has his axe, shield and armour plus his darkwall matrix and that's it. no torches or water :)

They're 100% trustworthy. Yours and their clan are meeting as we speak. Balmled is a Ranger and you travelled with Long Cast a well respected and important Black Shield.

In reply to GM (msg # 229):

but as we've been burnt before, Melock isn't as trusting as he used to be and they are Stormbulls :)

That's what I like to hear....

The door is coming down slow enough that those at the back may attempt to dive out. It's massive and with a failed Dex roll you will get horribly squished.

At the Back: Four Storm Bulls, Ohanzee and then Kobal.

The stairwell allows two people to walk side by side.

Just seen the title of the new IC thread. Aieeeeeeeee! Repe Sorsa!

That'll be why you prompted about food and water. :)

That's OK, we'll drink the SB's blood and eat their flesh if things go bad >)

And the path to ghouldom started....

or initiation in to the cannibal cult :)

The order of march is not set in stone so feel free to move up and take the lead etc. It will be the default unless changed. Might want to put some tough nuts out front.

True!

You didn't bring Copperman did you. I'll allow a retcon and you could have him in a back pack if you make a POW x 5 roll.

In reply to GM (msg # 240):

Cheers, I didn't even think about it, as this was more of a spur of the moment thing.
But apparently Melock has decided to carry Copperman around with all the time :)

Well Ohanzee has some pretty good armour now, but I would't class him as a tough nut.

If Ohanzee goes in front, Melock will go behind him as Ohanzee is basically a walking shield :)
seriously though, I'm happy where Melock is.
Taya wont go out of sight and will be constantly checking with Hoskar that no traps have been detected

Rikki will be waiting for the trap checks and stay in sight dropping into the shadows if we encounter anything hostile

I will, of course, be walking safely behind the meat shie-tough and stalwart friends!

Also, can we assume that we've lit torches so we can see? First time I get the opportunity, I'm totally learning Light.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:49, Sat 31 Jan 2015.

OK, not too many sticking their hands up to take the lead. I'm guessing that The SB's and Kobal are the best meat shields, but they are (including Kobal?) NPCs so don't want them to take the glory :)

Ohanzee might not have the size or CON to be a traditional meat shield, but he has good armour. If no one else volenteers he'll take one of the lead slots. No torch, relying on the low lighting, shield and sword at the ready.

Henal does have the Con to go up front so I can do it in the IC.

Rather than assuming stuff i'd rather you post IC what you're doing so there's no chance of confusion later. But I got you covered



It's Fireday so your torch is twice as bright.






These roof lights follow you as you move, coming on a few metres ahead and going off a few metres behind the last person.

Hoskar is rather tough and has a big shield.

You'd want your best fighters near the front: Amara and Kobal for example.

Will get us going my lunchtime, busy weekend alone with the kids :)

Yellow line is the limit of Tarnessh's torch 24m radius. Indentations in corridor could be doorways.

Black arrows direction of scuffed dust.

I will let you know if your spirits detect other spirits so no need to ask :)


This message was last edited by the GM at 12:14, Sun 01 Feb 2015.

So lots of building with lego and playing in the snow?

Love the updates to the Loot thread :)

In reply to Ohanzee Shappa (msg # 253):

I hadn't noticed, but now I've seen the pics it does look good :)

 You got me...

Its what I'd do :)

Here's a question then, can Harmonise be used on undead if they have the same hit locations?

No. Needs to be a living creature. Jeez you guys, always looking fro a break...

:)

Time you lot ran into a Jack o Bear.

The foot prints, scuff marks all go from right to left. As far as you can work out no one has been to the Right.

As long as its not in a burning field of Harzia :)

It's a Raven thing ;)

Okay folks need you lot to push this whilst underground. Don't wait for total group agreement otherwise we'll be here for ever, just push on.

I'm "tough" [ish] for the group? Crikey. I know I've got some decent armour now (although i don't think I'm wearing the plate yet), and E-G's shield's a whopper and no mistake, but that actually surprises me given he's "talky the trader boy".

He'll go up front if pushed there, but remember: thanks to a couple of recent bad tunnel experiences I'm considering playing him a bit like Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers down here so he'll be a bit on the tentative side and unlikely to volunteer.

You can all attempt a POW roll for your Feathered rival spirit. Forgot to say.

@Hoskar you have the highest HP.

Currently the Storm Bulls and Kobal are just in the Passageway. I'm leaving it to player characters to lead.

That's me NPCing Amara to keep things rolling.

It's all pretty fluid who is where. Blue dots are familiars. Red blobs on walls are doors, red dots you lot. Storm Bull at the Back.


This message was last edited by the GM at 11:28, Mon 02 Feb 2015.

Are the 4 SB's in our away team wearing red armour? For some reason that would make Melock feel so much better :P

The equivalent yes :)

Your last post was 17000. That was a quick 1000! All since hitting the tower.

Wow, that's quick going. For some reason I said Melock I meant to say Ohanzee of course, but it might make Melock feel better too :)

Can Ohanzee try fooling it into thinking he is allowed in using his Disorder Rune skill? Or would that be more akin to the Illusion Rune, though of course he has no idea if his supposition is correct anyway.

Try away.

Roll your rune and post what you're doing.

Hard to tell but it looks like there's 20+ human skeletons down the passage.

Who is in the shield wall?

Ohanzee, Kobal, Henal and Amara.

Sound good?

Fine by me

In reply to GM (msg # 272):

Fine with that.

I'm good :-)

how do you work out the chance, its not the same as us is it?

Last time it was.
21- current pow x5 to get the rise.
then d100 for how many points.

Cheers :)
I thought it was different.

Edit: 2 points :)
This message was last edited by the player at 16:22, Mon 02 Feb 2015.

10:25, Today: Amara Brightsky rolled 98 using 1d100. {pow gain roll for kiwidinok.

This is the second time I failed for her....and I only need an 70 or less. ROFLMAO

I'd better back you up and keep an eye out for things behind us then.

All that Lunar interference going on....

You can replace Kobal if you want.

Amara....the razoress.....why do you think I wear red all the time.

In reply to GM (msg # 282):

Sounds good to me, unless Kobal objects. They're less eerie than what's in the other direction, that's for sure.

Amara, I don't think you ever said whether or not you were going to take those new greaves and if so, whether I could use your old Cuoirbolli greaves.

Okay folks we know the drill. Sorry to nag :)
As soon as you suspect there will be a fight give me the goodies.

Actions?

Spells?

The GM has already updated my sheet.

My greaves are free to be used by anyone who wishes.

Moving behind Amara and co, keeping the torch up so they can see, and not really any spells that can currently help that much. This situation plays to Tarnessh's weaknesses.

Spells - Protection
No others as we are all well down on power.

Using sword and shield as part of shieldwall

Shimmer

Aim attacks to try to take out head, chest, abdomen or weapon arm unless it becomes evident that they just disintergrate again.

Try to dodge if necessary

If they do just crumble then shield bash and weapon attack an rely on armour unless they carry a nasty weapon.

Pray to Raven!

Melock will hang back, ready to drag anyone who goes down out of the way, and either heal them or if Hoskars heals them, he will step in to the gap and fight.
while he hangs back he will keep glancing back, to check that the wild rubble runners aren't boxing them in.

Taya will carry on trying to talk to the wild ones to see if she can persuade them to leave us alone.

Tarnessh, even though we are in the dark, Melock has a similar problem. Darkwall wont work on these guys and he cant use his sling either.

I think we may have found what caused the footprints :)

Those with disrupts will find them useful.

Tarnessh lets say that before you came down Salen lent you his disrupt matrix. Its a silver ring with rubble runner bones.

MINE! *Yoink!*

Okay, then I'll use Disrupt

Disrupt until they close, but then concentrate on the melee

Melock wont use disrupt, he's saving his pow for healing :)

I fumbled.....again?

Yep,fFall and lose Parry this round, 1d3 rounds to get up. No damage though.

I've kept a record of ticks and the minor wounds taken, will update tomorrow.

I think you've got this, they're just swarming you all, but your high armours are giving you a huge edge. You've just got to worry about lucky crits or impales and bad parries on your part.

Melock we need to train you up on your combat.

Those with slings, the passage is wide and high enough to use them, but to dangerous firing into combat.

Hoskar i've given you a few disrupts in there too.

06:04, Today: Henal Longgrass rolled 56 using 1d100. spirit pow increase.
06:04, Today: Henal Longgrass rolled 59 using 1d100. spirit pow target 65.

Well it did say in the IC about characters falling:)

All of you have made experience rolls, please make sure you have updated, both your character sheet and the Health and POW thread. That includes your feathered rivals POW.

Thanks.

Just waiting to see if anyone else wants to post IC, I'll continue the fight my Lunch time.

Push the attack?
Retreat?
Help Amara?
Laugh at Kobal?

Just incase it's not obvious these skeletons are old school Lunars.

Thats the problem with using a new weapon :)

Melock will try and shield bash to clear a space around Amara.

Apart from those disrupts you did, I'm just going in bashing or I'll have no POW left to heal anything unfortunate that happens to comrades.

You could always swap back to your original weapon :)

Push forward so that two are sealing the single tunnel, I guess that's Ohanzee and Henal at the moment. That gives (hopefully) those behind a chance to deal with the overflow and to get up, get healed, etc.

We can then always fall back into the 2 + 2 formation if the others are ready or they can be ready to heal, those in front or is they go down then step over and plug the gap.

If he had with him he would :)

Minor wounds taken, which I'll heal using Hoskar's Matrix. Kobal took a nasty wound, but he's got the POW to heal it.

I'll use the pow of those hurt.

Combat style Ticks and Dodge Ticks. I'm not going to give any out for this adventure as by the end of it you'll have racked up loads. So put four against your Combat style and Tick your Dodge.

Melock you can tick your Axe.

Same goes for you Tarnessh, though avoiding much of this fight you still got several parries, a dodge and a dagger attack.

POW ticks for those using Disrupts.

Def tick for Amara, Kobal and Henal.

There's 8 salvageable bronze scimitars, 15 spears, 5 crescent shaped medium shields, 8 bronze open helms, similar to the one now worn by Amara.

1 set of bronze plate greaves Siz 13, I set Siz 16, 1 individual Siz 11, I individual  Siz 14. One Bronze cuirass Siz 15, Two mail skirts Siz: 11, Siz 9. One mail hauberk Siz 14.

Sewn on scraps of leathers and tattered cloaks can be found several small bronze moon brooches, red paint still partially covering them.

Melock, Taya will be keeping you informed.

What do you want her to do? Don't worry about double posting.

Henal will take a bronze spear up.

Think we should withdrawn onto the stairs as we can be attacked from two directions at the moment.

Does anyone have a light spell?

I'll take the siz 11 mail skirt, if no one minds. Also could I take a single bronze plate greave or would that throw off my balance?

The first mention of Repe Sorsa was in the Dwarf Tomb as the name of a second age bureaucrat from Pavis.



Should be fine

Your torch didn't go out, just contracted from the sudden incursion of darkness and spooky coldness.


Nope, Harrat had.

POW x 3 roll or pee your breeches.

08:45, Today: Tarnessh Listens-To-Silence rolled 50 using 1d100. Phew, just made it.
This message was last edited by the player at 13:48, Tue 03 Feb 2015.

Busy at eork, I'll post in an hour or so :)

14:24, Today: Hoskar Feather rolled 88 using 1d100. POW x 3 t36.

Oh dear. I seem to have soiled my armour. Appropriate really - he's edgy in the confined space to begin with. This is going to do his relationship with tunnels no good at all

Come to think of it, it's mythically right for Hoskar to be bricking it here as well: Issaries is edgy with darkness, Condor isn't good with enclosure.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:47, Tue 03 Feb 2015.