In reply to Ben Altman (msg # 139):

Yeah, as the others said, they were rare and required effort. And you only put the effort in for the 60+ if you had a possible Glory. And the possibility for a Glory was more rare because (1) you could only play Glory in a dramatic scene and (2) it was harder to get your hands on Glory card because of the game mechanics (only having one deck as opposed to Eternity’s separates Drama and Destiny decks).

I recall having 1 in my years of running. But we maybe had two?

We never went for uprooting stelae. But that’s more my fault as a young GM. Torg was my first GMing game.

So..... yeah.  A little embarrassing.  Sapphire sent me a PM gently pointing out my mistake when I had Matthew say that the trip around the sun was slowing down and that what would really be happening is that the Earth's spin has slowed down.

I feel rather stupid, but also find it hilarious.  So, thank you to Sapphire for pointing out to me politely and in private.  But I wanted to open it up to the public so everybody has a chance to make fun of me and taunt me for the rest the game.  :)

I'm going to edit that post because while I'm daft enough to make that mistake, Matthew is not.

I noticed but I wasn’t going to say anything. We all know what you meant. :)

And there was me doing it to keep you from being embarressed :)

Mind you I have senior moment myself. When I was trying to work out what I thought would happen, I had to give up trying to work it out in my hand and get a torch (my phone) and a coffee cup..

Back to that 'naivety' comment that was made earlier... if the world actually stopped rotating (slowly) all the water would flow to the poles which would be under about 30km of water. Basically the 'centrifugal force' (in quotes because there isn't any such thing) that keeps the water where it is would go. The equator would be one big continent at least as far north as big parts of europe. I couldn't work out if the UK would be under water when the steady state happened, but it would probably be under a few kilometers of water during some of the transitional time. The giant tsunami (with tens of kilometer high 'waves') and chaotic weather conditions would cause an extinction event that would make the 'end of the dinosaurs' look like a firecracker. Maybe if you lived in the Alps or the Himalayas you might survive the innundation.... but I wouldn't bet money on it

If it stopped suddenly... it's a lot worse.

But since this is weird science / occult / reality magics we don't have any of that! Just a little bit warmer during the day

This message was last updated by the GM at 03:38, Mon 29 June 2020.

So...I rolled, not sure I did it right. =)

Btw, I don't see whatever picture you were trying to post there, DM.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:17, Mon 29 June 2020.

In reply to Jason Keller (msg # 147):

I can't get my Dropbox images to display :-(

If I right-click on it and click open image in new tab, I can see it.

"They're on the run!" it looks like? I could see it more clearly earlier. Now it's blurry.

In reply to Jason Keller (msg # 149):

I am playing with images for initiatives...this one is obviously not the next card, which is why I am using it. See if



works better.

It doesn't work better: I can't see it

If I copy the url I can open it in a separate window

In reply to Apeiros (msg # 150):

Can't see it in this thread. Is not blurry the way the previous one was in direct view.

Thank you,

I guess I know how I have to post Initiative when it comes up.

I use imageshack and it works OK.

I am quite puzzled why drop box is giving you problems

@Apeiros, does this count as day 1 of the adventure?  i.e. Exactly 3 months in?  I am asking for my Planet Chart.

Just a reminder to people about cards.

It feels a little like round by round play at the moment, so I've moved two cards from my hand to the pool, I hope that's OK. If not just let me know

In reply to Sapphire (msg # 156):

I think think some of that was pre-battle action... the "playing cards into pool" is dictated by flipping of the initiative card.

Also, just to point this out, the character has to do something (or try to do something) worthwhile to pool a card (unlike Torg Eternity).  So Matthew can't just sit there doing nothing and pool a card.

So, are there active animated plant targets?  If so, how many?

Well there are probably a lot of meadow flowers and small grass :) I cleared most of the stuff to clear the sight lines.

But being serious I couldn't have impacted any trees or anything like that with the spell I used. I was leaning against a tree for instance

Thanks Mathias: What you said sounded sensible. I'll edit to just one in the hand.

Yeah, we gots visible enemy?

Think I’ll wait for clarification about any visible targets or not before declaring actions.

I am a bit confused, some people posted their actions prior to the initiative card.

Are we now in round time?

Do we have a pre-initiative action? when can we move cards to our hand? before the conflict start or only afterwards?

and what the other asked, do we see anything to shoot at or are these just moving plants? (or both)

The round by round happens when he plays a card as far as I know (see Mathew's helpful comment above correcting me).

 The last post is the Gm initiating round by round combat.

The posts that might be confusing you happened before the combat began (no initiative card in play)

Hope that helps :)

Yeah. I'm not certain, but I think the breakdown of events so far has gone like this:

All occurring outside of combat rounds:
Tire blows
Sapphire casts plant-shaping spell
Pierre assists with fixing tire
Jason gets partway through fixing tire
Fraulein Breathless shows up
Plants around us start animating in a hostile way

Combat rounds begin. Round 1, so far:
Sapphire casts a sense life spell, which will take both of her Flurry actions. She pools a card.
Pierre casts his buff, taking up the first of his Flurry actions, and pools a card.

I see it slightly differently

Post 57
We hear noises. Sapphire starts casting sense life.pierre casts his spell. Most people react and do something
Post 61
Gm tells sapphire the result of the spell, the woman finishes running, talks a bit in German and hugs pierre then talks in English

The Gm initiates combat at the end of the speech

We all have a Flurry round and two options

If this is the case, than perhaps it would have been better to wait for all people to post actions before moving to Post 61?