Welcome!

In reply to Cmdr. Petroka (msg # 531):

Glad to have you!

In reply to Laila Abdool (msg # 532):

Sorry this system is new to me even if the setting is not. I also did not find how to roll int in the quick start. Someone mind walking me through this?

As far as I know, there’s no initiative roll. One character - typically a player - goes first, and then it goes back and forth between sides.

Unless we’re using a house rule?

last i checked it was that way as well Ylis

In reply to Sarah Greene (msg # 535):

But the gm asked for an initiative roll...

so Delphina, how many sister wives do you have? :D

In reply to Sarah Greene (msg # 537):

4 ...I am going with 4 :-p and we really really like each other **wink**

You wanna be number 5? Muahahahaha
This message was last edited by the player at 17:48, Sun 12 Jan 2020.

That is correct, my bad. I run too many D&D games :P

So yeah, if you're going to shoot take a shot.

lol good try but no :P

So...away team...what's going on?

In reply to Universe (msg # 541):

My understanding of the situation is that an action has begun ( stunning a native with a phaser)

So i would guess that needs to be resolved first. Then the alternating turns as we play it out.

If for no other reason than my crewman being named “shot” , I will join our favorite Romulan in trying to stun the locals. Unless there is a countermand issued before his turn.

Ylis was giving Sebastian a chance to countermand her, but then T'ra decided to push the matter and... we're waiting on her shot, I guess!

Alright gang last call. Someone do something or else I’m just going to simulate the battle and we’ll jump straight to the aftermath. This game has stalled for weeks now. If people don’t like the plot or the game they should speak up and we can have a discussion but if everyone is just sitting around waiting for someone else to post then I will drag you forward kicking and screaming if I have to :D

In reply to Universe (msg # 544):

I’m sorry. I think we are confused about how this is going to proceed.

I thought you would narrate what happened with our first shot.

 Then have the first NPC respond. And then back to the PCs and so on.

Since this is Play By Post, we can do combat however, but I assumed we were following the combat procedures like a face
To face game.

Apologies for my recent silence. I've been dealing with an insane work schedule due to short-staffing, chronic health issues, and the recent death of a dear friend which I have not been handling well. I'll try and get back to posting as soon as possible.

In reply to Cmdr. Petroka (msg # 546):

I was confused as well a bit about the posting procedure as well as swamped at work. Delphina was all for stunning them...but those helicopters changed her mind to agree more with the commander.

The sudden explosion of violence though probably made her twitch. I take it from the GM's previous description of how action works that they are waiting on all our actions to happen simultaneously.

I am also not familiar with the mechanics enough to do all my rolls clearly so I will narrate the actions and see how to do rolls after.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:17, Fri 24 Jan 2020.

Apologies for the absence.  A friend and former coworker of mine died in a car wreck Tuesday.  Still picking up the pieces.

Holy cow that is a lot to deal with. First of all if you're dealing with personal stuff resulting in an extended absence please shoot me a PM and I can mark you down for NPCing until you're back in action.

As for posting, when in doubt post your action! I don't know if the opening shot is going to hit one, or if you'll generate effects to wide beam it and knock everyone out.

Here is a quick rundown of how combat works:


1) Decide your action. Typically this is attack but you can do other things like administer first aid or guard someone or assist someone else's actions. Make your roll assuming it's difficulty 1 or 2 as that is what most things are going to be. If it's higher I'll let you retroactively buy extra dice with momentum/threat as I would rather give you the advantage and not waste time by letting you roll your two dice for free and then deciding on adding more dice.

2) If you're making your attack it is either Daring + Security (Unarmed/Melee) or Control + Security. Melee attacks are difficulty 1 while ranged attacks are difficulty 2. Once people start diving for cover I'll note any modifiers to difficulty.

3) If you succeed roll "damage". That is d6 Challenge dice. I've listed out the translation of what each result means in the Important Info Thread. The important thing is to total up damage and effects.

4) Add on effects if applicable.


So you would post all that and when everyone or a majority of people have posted I'll post updates. I may do some retcons or followups to wiggle things around a bit but overall it should be pretty straight forward to do.

*poke*

i do believe we've lost some people buti 'm not usre sir

I will try to post tonight.  Apologies.

I'm here. I haven't been feeling well in some time so a lot of rest of late.

Okay all hands on deck. Please post here in OOC if you're going to be able to continue playing. Things were going so well for the first mission but it has ground to an absolute halt and I know I keep talking about dragging you guys forward kicking and screaming but I honestly don't know how many people are even left.

Everyone is popping in and looking at the game but nobody is posting so I'm asking three things from you guys this week

1) Are you still playing? Yes or no. Now is your time to drop out if you don't like the way the game is going, are burned out by PbP in general or just RL crazies got you for the forseeable future.

2) If you are still playing do you want to continue this mission? In a normal game if you don't like the mission it only takes a session or two to get through but here, if you're not into a mission and its going on and on and on I can understand. If people still want to play but don't like the current mission that is fine. I can sum things up get you back on the ship and roll up a new encounter no problem.

3) If you are still playing and like where this mission is going then why aren't you posting? I don't want to sound accusatory but just want to get a health check of my players. Its a reminder to me if you're dealing with some stuff in RL but think its going to clear up sometime. Just let me know and I'll temporarily just NPC you so the players who are still active aren't stuck in limbo because my notes on who is active and who is temporarily out haven't been properly organized.

The RL crazies have me and are putting in me in a bad space to write at this moment. Things will get better but when that will happen is a mystery at this moment.