Argh.  I'm sorry.  I'm not actually waiting for people -- when this was shaping up, I thought, "OK, Talus has been pretty quick on things, I'll just keep up my end and we can move through this scene without holding things up!"  But I've been really busy.

I'll post for Calypte tomorrow, for sure, and will really try to move faster after that!

(I know... but, like 4328th time's the charm, right?  That's what they say, anyway.)

Quick Question: Talus has a social defense of 6, Calypte rolled a 6 to taunt. Who wins that? Is the general rule tie goes to defender or is this a world of greyness kind of thing where you have to meet the value not necessarily beat it?

An opponent's defense ratings are your Difficulty Number, eg., the minimum roll that will succeed.  That's true for all Difficulty Numbers -- the number is your goal, not one-under-your-goal.  So with a Social Defense of 6, a roll of 6 is an Average Success, just like if you had, say, a DN10 Climbing roll you would need to roll ten or higher to succeed.

In reply to Talia (msg # 51):

 For the record, +1. ^_^

And I have to admit that I also expected "First Touch" to go a lot faster, but the DR said noooo... grin  Which, for roleplaying purposes, is probably better; if Calypte had just tapped Talus on the chest in Round 1 before he had a chance to move, it would have been harder to explain why we were then bringing him along afterwards.

Anyway - as an aside, we realized that Taunt is one of the Talents that has changed a lot across the Editions that we use, so I clarified that in the "What Edition..." post.  I also moved that into its own thread, because I think it was too hard for people to find in the "Changes" thread -- I couldn't even always remember that that's where it was.  I'm keeping it all in one post, though, so that I can keep them alphabetical.

 Looks like a lot of work put in there. Well done. ^_^

I do appreciate not being 'tapped' on the first action as well. He would just be sad and have to go back to training and challenge you guys again later in the campaign.

I have a very distinct picture of the grisly Black drawing out the practice sword. With his dark and menacing aura testing the chosen sword out on some imaginary foes. Turning with a grim expression on his face towards the ring...... Then bouncing merrily into the ring like a child to their favorite playground, tail swinging and all.

His last statement about 'padding' just made him go chibi in my mind. I can't stop smiling about it.

In reply to Talus (msg # 60):

 I like to imagine Black walking as though someone's threaded a clothes hanger through the shoulders of his coat and it's hanging from a wire suspended between the points he's passing... His upper body barely moves, it's all hip and leg action kind of the way big cats do, mainly because where he grew up he needed every inch of height he could get. ^_^

I do not think that there is a healer in the group.... we more or less rely on our magical goodness to heal post impact.

So, survive the fight and heal later.

Well, that last bit is really always true in Earthdawn.  The only healing I can think of that's made to use "in battle", really in the whole game, is Fireblood.  Maybe Questors of Garlen get something?  But if anybody here wants to be a Questor of Garlen, they'll have to bring me cookies. grin

But the first part is... also true.  With Varessa leaving we don't even have an Elementalist anymore.  I think generally speaking, if we want to have much in the way of healing, we need to pick up some potions.  I suppose we do have money right now, and we are in Bartertown.  It'd probably be a good idea.

Luckily Adepts do tend to heal well anyway, though.  ...Everybody bought way up in Toughness, right? grin

 Shockingly, it is Black's second highest stat.

 Just... don't ask about Charisma. ^_^

 Oh, and the party healer?

 That's also Black, because he has ranks in Physician and isn't afraid to use them.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:11, Thu 14 Feb 2019.

My dad taught me you need to learn to fix what you break. Makes sense for Black to have physician to me.

My dad said "You break it. You buy it!" (scared the living daylights out of my first boyfriend. Fortunately dad was talking about his guitar the BF had mishandled).
Always made me very aware of my economy.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:49, Sat 16 Feb 2019.

OK, I'm sorry that took me so long to actually get done - and that it's taken away my attention from an actual update this last couple weeks to get that finished - but I just posted up what is hopefully a good summary of the game so far.  I at least skimmed through all the old threads while writing that, so I don't think I missed anything important, but I was trying to keep it brief, which, as you probably know, isn't my natural tendency. grin

I didn't bother noting all the various comings and goings of PCs, and really tried to stick to actual plot points - in particular, most everything in there are things that I keep in mind as potentially still active plot points.  Like, I know it's been forever, especially in RL, since we've seen Arkan and Narlinda, but they were interesting and might be useful to have show up again sometime.

If anybody has any questions or wants more detail on anything - even things you weren't there for IC - feel free to ask.  I hope this helps everyone get a little more re-connected with the game!  I will try to get an update post up sometime this week moving us on to the Library.

Thank you for the summary!

Found this link

http://time.com/4026473/ridiculous-science-studies/

Tried to use it for the post, unfortunately I was pressed for time so I couldn't get creative with the one about democracy or homelessness and try to fit that into the Barsaive setting. Please ignore the topic of the ridiculous research I posted. ^_^'

 That explanation is vastly more coherent than anything I remember happening at any point. ^_^

You're welcome, Talus!  I hope it helps everyone.


I thought that was hilarious.  Especially because I could imagine some junior librarian putting something about enemas into a section on `kaer exploration' and thinking that was hilarious.


I think like, each piece was more coherent at the time... grin

So, after an exciting foray into the rules on Barriers and Structures (ooooh!  Ahhhh!)...

To actually attack the door, if that's definitely what you want to do, you roll vs an effective PD of 7 to land the blow solidly enough to matter.  If you beat that, you roll damage as normal.  Armor Defeating Hits do not apply to inanimate objects, since there's no armor to "get through".

"Wood, 2+ inches thick" is normally Armor 9, with a Death Rating of 30.  This is really good wood, so I'm going to say it's Armor 10 and a Death Rating of 35.

So if you are going to pound your way through, you can just roll attacks until you accumulate 35 points of damage so that we see how long it takes, and then I will either let you know if something interrupts before that, or describe what happens when the door opens.

 Well, yes... But we're left to wonder whether the door opens in such a way as to block the corridor, or to sweep into the room (which is very much the rule in most structures).

 If the latter, then we can just use a knife to pry the pins out and put the door to one side, neatly and intactly. ^_^

So... I'm a little bit stuck.  I know Amalianna is having technical issues right now, which is of course totally OK.  Or rather, that sucks, but... you know what I mean.  And I agree with Talia that Calypte is easily the next most likely person to speak up here, but...  this feels like one of those scenes where if I just play Calypte, I'm basically playing both sides of the table and I don't like that for many reasons.

*sigh*  I know, I really do have to retire Calypte.  Maybe I can run her in another game someday.

Anyway, for the moment, what do you guys want to do?  I can just do that if people want; as I've said before, I have no trouble writing Calypte honestly, so it's not like she would just be saying all the right things (or all the wrong things, for that matter) -- I just start feeling like I'm just writing a scene in front of you guys, and I don't like that feeling.

I could transfer Calypte temporarily to someone else, maybe?  I'm sure you all do excellent and highly accurate Calypte impersonations and I bet I'd love to see them. eyes narrowing, hand resting lightly on the Instant Heart Attack button  Sorry, no, seriously that's an actual suggestion.

Or you guys could tell me here in OOC what you want to say, and I can put it in Calyptese for the IC thread.

Or somebody else can decide to speak up first.  Or if anybody has a better idea, then... we could... do that.

I vote Korentin explains this. Because Korentin. ^_^

 The problem with this, is that I happen to rather like Calypte, but I can't write Calypte... Korentin long ago made that deal with her wherein he'd handle all the tactical, combat-y stuff and she'd do the social.

 Also, I have absolutely no idea where we came by that number or what we're doing here in the library, because things have been pretty slow and involved lots of travelling in circles... This slightly inhibits my ability to explain things even if I was good at it. ^_^

In reply to Korentin Black (msg # 76):

Hah!
You're complaining?
I just posted while trying to ommit the fact that I cannot even remember who we are hunting.
The Night Kings? The Knight Witches? The Nigh Desirables? Some other 80ties poodle rock band?