Agree with Ardenas... just a source of funds, no buy in by Oly

In reply to Oly (msg # 917):

The winecellars are a guild buy-in to start their mercantile activity, and with the deadwood out of the way, could proceed faster.  Ditto for the Ogrekin's expedition, although for another faction.
The big problem there was that no PC's invested in exotic weaponry; I think Gorgath was the only player (Haskell is a 3e npc conversion) to have started with a character based on signature magical gear. One of the hirelings who was on the original Monastery run had a silver weapon, but it was buried. I see now that using the next tier of undead above zombies (as converted) is a bit much without some prep. Anyone with Physiology Undead or Hidden Lore: Undead would know these weaknesses, but the only folks with yhose in play turn out to be Azrael who studied spirits instead, and Razakeel and Bertrand the sage. I should start all of the pitches with "There have been a variety of undead seen in the undercity, y'all best take precautions"

In reply to Narrator (msg # 918):
undead are why i invested in silver nunchaku, particularly to smash through skeletal undead nasties!

In reply to Chye Isuel (msg # 919):

Your preparations are good for more than a reaction bonus.

Jareth has both a Signature weapon* and all the Hidden Lore ever needed...  but... he's off on a milk run.

* But it's neither Silver nor Puissant.

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Though it does have Silver Inlay... at the x2 CF of Silver Coating.

Man, that almost seems prescient now.  Even though I know I only did that for the "makes it look spiffy" bonus.
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You could deal with the "needs Silver or Puissance" problem by also allowing a ritual cleansing to stop -10xHP damaged Undead to be kept down.

Or as Christine would prefer, "Fire solves all problems", and allow -10xHP damaged undead to be simply destroyed by any further truly destructive damage (fire, acid, freezing, etc).  Just don't allow those damage types to do extra damage and it's still a "must do 11xHP damage and have something extra*" to finish the creature off, instead of the easier "6xHP and Silver/Puissance".


* Again, fire, acid, freezing, steam, Divine/Folk ritual, etc.
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In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 921):

The current opinion on Unkillable I is that while dead and done at -HT performed with an Achilles heel substance, at -5HT from other sources, they go into torpor and heal atc1hp per day, reactivating at full HT, which can take a full moon of time for most such critters. Auto-restock of dungeon, but insertion of suitably inimical substances (holy wafers, sheets of paper with prayers/torn from a prayer bookgarlic cloves, hawthorn stakes or peachwood and roses, silver coins or meteroric iron (depending on the individual) can prevent such a resurgence, and for many, simply dragging them into sunlight can finish the job.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 897):

Unfortunately, none of the above.

I can have my characters correct as they get back to the guild...

So, I'm going to have to invest in silver heels for my boots?  And silver buttons for my gloves?  Silvered crossbow bolts cost 5x normal, right?  Won't even bother with silvering shuriken, they do too little damage and and aren't impaling.

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 925):

Heeling or toeing the boots would be good, as crushing damage is particularly good  (sticks and stones) but keep in mind the critters with secondary follow up attacks might still affect you (energy drain for example)

In reply to Narrator (msg # 926):

Crap the awards thread faded off my page. Can someone bump it?

You should perhaps pin this thread

I think there's a newer Awards thread than the one Brodak bumped -- newest message before his bump was 2014.  Let me go look...

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 929):

Thank you. Now I need to get Stat yourself bumped so I can make it a notice.

A far less skilled version of this is what I imagine Walter's dancing to look like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeaTn-o4gCY

In reply to Walter Goldman (msg # 931):

Crap lost in the halls of the necromancer  and in the ninjas lair- need to archive those.

I was beginning to get, eh, bored/frustrated (?) with Ulo... having trouble finding the voice of depressed teenager/young adult who just suffered all that tragedy...

... and then juicy politics reels me right back in!

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 933):

I was looking at Ulo as being more crone than maiden. Generally to be a troll mage, as soon as your magery is detected, you are fireballed to a cinder, and then resuscitated with healing potions, gaining the "unburnt" advantage. On a critical success you can increase your appearance upon rising from your own ashes, like Svetlana, but usually the burn scars make you hideous, helping pay for the lack of vulnerability to fire.
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As I mentioned in the PM detailing her write up*, she's young**, still trying to find her way.

She's a got a complex set of emotions... which isn't something I'm used to playing.  I tend to lean more towards the Jareth and Jednesa personality sets.  Simple folk who have either figured it all out and are chill with the world being crazy (Jareth) or who aren't deep thinkers and just take it as it comes (Jednesa).


A deep thinker brilliant but ditsy teen who isn't at all happy with the way life has doled out fates isn't something I usually play (or even understand).



Amendment:  Being unhappy with one thing, some sort of burning Obsession/Desire/Goal?  That I can do.  The rootless, not sure who to be angry at/drive towards/where to fall thing?  Not something I've played  (so she's a bit of a branching out, a stretching of the horizons if you will).



* Though now that I'm poking around in those threads I realize I never actually wrote up her background.  It's been a year... I should really get on that.

** She was beat with the ugly burning stick instead of becoming a Trollop like Svetlana, so mistaking her for being far, far older than she is (due to the warting, discoloration of her skin, hair loss, etc) is probably normal.  Also her voice box may have been damaged, giving her a raspier (but not disadvantaging) sounding voice (instead of a youthful sounding voice).

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 935):

Sadly, her circumstance is all too common. Trollwives who escaped the flames are feared and respected amongst their people, but are often lonely. She is only (!) Unattractive  to other trolls.  Typically they find relationships amongst the burned smiths, but one of the archers seemed to be warming to her...

where's our thread?

It's still there.  On a device with a small screen, you might not see it; it got pushed down by bumping some threads the GM couldn't see on his tablet.  With as many threads as we have, that's going to be an ongoing problem, and it'll get worse with a new group starting up.

At least on my browser (haven't checked from my tablet), there's a page advance at the bottom of the "game menu" page, click/tap the 2 there, and you'll see the second page of threads, which ought to include anything we've accessed within the past couple years.

In reply to Chou-Zhen Mou (msg # 938):

Thank you. That is the first time I saw it.

In reply to Chou-Zhen Mou (msg # 938):

Aha!

In reply to Chye Isuel (msg # 940):

Be back on tomorrow