Time to move on I think!

Amazingly you've managed to collect all three trinkets so I can move straight on to the scene at Brion's Bluff if people like. :)

er, what am I missing here..... ring, weathervane...oh! the medallion charm! :D

Awesome! :D

Eh, no, not the charm. :D

think carefully:

This sounds like a barrel/keg of Beer



Sounds like the Tower to me, what color is it anyhow.

Exactly... lucky you were given one earlier:

ROTFLMAO! :D

So not the Tower, but rather the Parrot in a Cage Inn.  Though I know not what the 'loophole' reference kicks in in.  Loopholes are the holes in a defensive stronghold that you shoot arrows out of.  Thus my thought it was the Tower.  Are also used as jails also.  Like the Tower of London.

We're not assembling a bomb are we and thus unknowingly blowing something up on behalf of the mad man in the cloak

Congratulations on finishing Act 1 all.  I'll hand out XP shortly (along with an explanation what you can spend it on) and of course begin Act 2.

I should warn you you that the next part of the story will take you out of the city so if anyone has something they have to take care off I'll assume a brief timeskip between leaving the school and going to Brion's Bluff.

Is there a chance for me to re-join for next act?

Okay I've posted a thread for experience points and what you can buy here (link to a message in this game). I'll get to the actual experience points giving out in a moment.

I'm trying to bring everyone's characters into line with the more advanced rules rather than the stripped down hybrid we've been playing with, which mostly means giving you special skills your characters always had but never used.

Elstarir: Add the following Special Skills to your character sheet with 1 point in each: Armour, Dodge, Forest Lore, Hunting, Languages: Elvish.

Mannath: Add the following Special Skills to your character sheet with 1 point in each: Armour, City Lore: Port Blacksand, Dodge, Lock Picking, World Lore.

Tarrian: Add the following Special Skills to your character sheet with 1 point in each: Armour, Dodge, Hunting, Plains Lore, Religion Lore.

Vithrain: Add the following Special Skills to your character sheet with 1 point in each: Forest Lore, Language: Elvish, Magic: Minor, Religion Lore, Second Sight..

Some of these Special Skills are self explanatory, but to clarify:


Armour: Allows you to wear armour without penalty.  The higher your Armour Special Skill the higher value armour you can wear.

City Lore: Is knowledge of one particular city - Port Blacksand or Kallamehr for instance.

Dodge: Is used to... well dodge things outside combat such as falling boulders or runaway horses.

Hunting: Catching or trapping food to eat in the wilderness.

Forest Lore: Basic woodland survival skills.

Language: Knowledge of an additional language (by default everyone already knows Language: Common Speech.)

Plains Lore: As Forest Lore but for plains.

Religion Lore: A grasp of the gods, mythology and religious ritual.

Second Sight: Allows the character to 'see' magical effects - the traces of a recently cast spell for instance.

World Lore:  Basically common knowledge - who is the current king of Chalice, where does the wizard Yatztromo live, etc, etc.

Any questions so far? :)

(Also we've just passed 1,000 posts - a first for one of my games!)

Cool! :)

No questions, all's clear :)

Where have you posted how many Experience Points our PC has earned?  I can not find anything about that, anywhere!
This message was last edited by the player at 16:16, Sun 16 Feb 2014.

Congratulations!

Sorry I should have been clearer.  I hadn't posted them yet.

Everyone gets 50 experience points.  These may be saved or spent at once including on the Special Skills I have retroactively added for everyone.

I'm assuming all of out Stats are going back to full, before we start this next Act, right?

Yes.

LUCK resets at the start of each Act, as (depending on the circumstances) does STAMINa. SKILL loss represents mental or physical trauma so needs to be treated 'in game'.

Tarrion is saving up her XP.  Provisions, what do they do and how much do they cost?
So Shields, do they have them, what do they do and what do they cost?

On this occasion we can take with us (well covered while we are in town) the shield of Rangor... can we?

Okay, a couple of things:

1-thanks for the extra skills. I already had lock picking so can I have that at level 2?
2-I will have a think about what to spend my XP on.
3-I know my amulet is magic, but not what it does. How can I find out?

A shield provides bonuses to your armour roll on top of the armour you are already wearing (in Tarrian's case a Leather Cuirass).

Small Shield Armour Roll: +0 +0 +0 +0 +1 +1
Large Shield Armour Roll: +0 +0 +0 +1 +1 +1

So Tarrian with her Leather Cuirass and a Large Shield would have the following Armour roll in combat: 0 0 0 1 2 2

A Large Shield costs 12 gold pieces and a Small Shield costs 5 gold pieces.



Ooh... that hadn't occurred to me to be honest. My initial reaction would be no - it is a priceless artefact of the city and even in the cause of avenging the Baron it would be hard to see the Kallemehrans easily letting it go to a group mostly composed of foreigners on a long expedition.



1-Sure
2-Cool. :)
3-Make a Religion Special Skill roll (or seek out a priestess of Mirala.)

Hmm, I'd planned to go straight into Act 2 but I can see I might need an Interlude to tie up loose ends.

You never did answer my question about Provisions.


Ok, Tarrian will take the Large Shield.  So your saying her Leather Cuirass and Large Shield stack, rather then having to make a roll for each seperately.  Ok, I guess if you say so.

Yes shields and worn armour stack.

Sorry I missed the question about provisions.  Provisions are an abstraction of the rations and drinking water you are carrying. In a wilderness/dungeon area you should be looking to consume a portion of provisions per day (in a city or village you can obviously find somewhere to eat.)  Eating provisions restores 2 STAMINA points and can be done up to twice a day.  Conversely going without provisions will cost you STAMINA (2 points per day.)

Aside from being purchased (4gp each - compare with a tavern meal that costs from 8sp to 2gp depending) you can also gain provisions via the following Special Skills:

Hunting
Desert Lore
Forest Lore
Mountain Lore
Plains Lore
Sea Lore

I would like to see a Preistess of Mirala to try to establish what my amulet does. Can we do that before we leave?

Also, did we receive any additional gold before we leave the city? I might want to do some shopping.