So, what is happening at Westrel's?


[Private to GM: Is someone else controling Mythos at the moment?]

In reply to Shroud (msg # 310):

The Wastrel's Hope is a dive bar frequented by a league of amateur dart
throwing teams, oddsmen and floating card games. Known for some foul ale
and recently, good fortified wine. A group is forming now.

Over in the guild, Mythos Songau has, along with several dwarves and
kobolds, upgraded the winch descending into troll country into a semi
stable elevator platform on the anticipation of trade. There is further
talk of walling up a section of that area, so as to secure it and separate
it from the undersewers of little Shevnia, but that may require permits
and a bribe or three...

In reply to Narrator (msg # 311):

A group apparently with three mages!

I keep shaking my head at the Winecellars crew... they are Ogres.  Ogres.

Even if they agree to be decent and docile types... eventually one of them is going to decide one of Du Claire's servants (or an errant sewer maintenance worker) is tasty looking and decide no they really wanted take in for dinner... or they'll get it into their thick heads that they are strong enough to do whatever they please.  These guys will need a wrangler that is stronger or scarier than they are for any sort of long term deal to work.

I mean sure, we've a couple of decent Ogres in the Guild*, but those are the rare exceptions.



* Gorgath.  Strong Claire.  A few half-ogres.  Can't think of any others off the top of my head.

On the other side, Jareth, we've got an administrator, a leprechaun, a fairly half-ass martial artist (whose magic has turned out to be almost useless, so far), and a shadow skulker.  Unless I'm forgetting someone

I'm not even sure what made us think we could take on a single ogre, never mind more than one.  The ability to kick a nine-footer in the head didn't do all that much good, and now that I'm reading Power Blow correctly, it's virtually useless in combat unless you have an inhuman skill level.

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 314):

On the other hand, turning them into Tuna and feeding them to my pet python works wonderfully well! I think the long tern effects of that make them very peaceful...

Oh, don't get me wrong.  I don't envy your predicament at all.  The Juniors would be fighting a running away battle if we were down there in your place.

This is one of them there "If only the right crew were there this'd be an easy solve", but ya gotta work with what ya got.




I could be completely wrong of course, they might jsut go for some sort of deal...  And Jareth's inclination would also be to talk (but then he's 1/3 Agent and 2/3 Sage)... but yeah.  Aoife should just keep on fishin.  ;)

Now, don't give me that "running away battle" stuff.  You've seen me shoot.  And I don't much care how tough their skin is, their eyes are still soft.

Oh eye, you'da counted for one.  T'en Brodak, Mel, Joce, an Nodwin another... but in that scrum one o' us woulda dropped.  T'en t'ere'd be t'ree to four more Ogres deal with...

It'd be bad battle for us.  Just bad.

Less we got serious good tactics on our side an lotsa luck.  Lots of luck.  Like all of it.

In reply to Ardenas Barehand (msg # 314):

You missed the barbarian with the 2 handed sword...
I was expecting a full on battle, not successful intimidation by fright check!

In reply to Hilerno Orison (msg # 319):

Damn 13 active threads...

I'd be totally down for a full on battle.


Lets do this. I already got a squad together.
This message was last updated by the player at 17:13, Wed 06 Sept 2017.

In reply to Haveron Stormwal (msg # 321):

You have a healer, Haveron?

Dont think so.. but then, who needs healing? I'm not planning on getting cut up too badly.
:)

Healers are welcome of course... but mostly for their hangover cures :)

In reply to Haveron Stormwal (msg # 323):

Should just check, the group coming back from the pit...are they reforming at all, or is this where the remainder from them go?

Yep, I forgot the barbarian.  Sorry.  GM has 13 threads, I've only got three, but I declined adding another character for the new groups because three is enough for me.

Still, the list I gave, plus a barbarian, probably still wouldn't account for five ogres in a face-on battle, even if one is a youngling.  If you can't beat 'em in a fight, try not to get into a fight.

Yer own damn fault for running a good game... and starting so many quests!

Hear, hear!

A nifty video from a geochemist using his thermal camera in a mine.  It really gives a good example of the way thermals stand out underground and how thermal 'blindness' from sudden hotspots might look (the way the background rock darkens/washes out when he trains the camera on his girlfriend, who is way hotter than the mine walls).

Also I like the difference of how well the thermal can see through smoke versus the regular wavelength setting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opss9FWdi1M

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 328):

Yesterday I watched Chernobyl Diaries and
As Above So Below back to back. I have seen both before and it is why I have so many claustrophobicly narrow corridors.


Also shit day at work and heading out with fam means maybe no posting til tomorrow thanks!

I wasn't aware Cody was a geochemist.  I thought he was just one of the less suicidal YouTube chemistry folks -- he makes explosives, but he does it with reasonable precautions.

He's not finish his degrees yet, but that's what he's studying.  Geology, chemistry, and I think engineering.


And yeah, for someone who makes his own blackpowder explosives, he's remarkably still got all his original bits and pieces attached.

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 331):


Another shit day at work, promised to meet my mother for dinner, got delayed picking my kid up from the hospital (all goid, her procedure just took longer than planned), told my mother, she said she would wait , but the woman who prides herself on not carrying her cellphone decided she had waited and headedvto our neeting place and now I am trying to catch up. I was just as bad when I had no phone but damn.


(There is a quirk combo in there- tardy plus dislikes using tech?)

So I will catch up tomorrow:(

I am sure there is. My wife is often late and usually refuses to answer her phone when she is!

So Wastrel team, it looks like we have a team, now do we have any leads?