Anybody?

This is the part where you guys jump in and post "I want to slay some vampires!" or something like that.

Who wants to slap some vampires? I do!

Liam will compliment them on how authentic their cosplay looks, but prefers the medieval period over the goth look.

How about *program* some vampires?  I'm sure I could eventually do a better job with those chips...

I guess you can consider this an official announcement:

I'm going to proceed with getting the game rolling again.  Stay tuned for some announcements in the next couple of days regarding the re-start.

Brittany Foster and Edward Hudson will be here since they are NPCs controlled by me.

Hey Brittany, ready to slay some vamps?

"Yeah, lets kick some vamp butts.  They won't stand a chance against us.  Billy's got a new gadget to use on them.  It's gonna be cool."

"Hey Billy, next can you build me a toe treatment gadget so I don't have to go to the mall to get a pedicure?"

"The vamp-weapon is just a proof-of-theory.  If the theory's right, it might do something to them... if not..." He grimaced.

Billy sputtered in geek for a moment before finding some actual words.  "To even start to do that, I'd need to know more about pedicures than I ever intend to."

Esperanza won't be rejoining us. That leaves us without a Slayer.

And that's absolutely no problem and won't keep us from restarting.

I've decided to change the cast structure of the game.  This will now be an all White Hat game.  Billy, Tori, and Liam are all White Hats.  As are Brittany and Edward.  No impact on any of you.  Any future players recruited will be White Hats as well.

I was inspired by watching some Buffy reruns. Remember at the end of Season 2, Buffy left Sunnydale.  At the start of Season 3 we learn she's working as a waitress in Los Angeles.  So who was taking care of the vampire problem in Sunnydale?  We learned that Cordelia, Willow, Xander, and Oz were fighting the vamps in Buffy's absence.  Just normal teenagers fighting vamps with no Slayer in town.

The first BTVS game I ever played on RPOL was an all White Hat game.  We had a lot of fun.  I think we can do it here too.

My plan is to pick up where we left off at the end of Episode 2.

You may want to read the last four pages of Episode 2 to refresh your memory on where we left off.

Here's the quick version:

*Edward was kidnapped by vampires.
*They left a note for the teens saying meet them at midnight at the Robinson Family Mausoleum or Edward dies.  The note was signed The Order of Raven.
*The teens made plans.  Brittany and Esperanza would show up early and get into ambush position. Billy, Liam, and Tori would show up at midnight to meet with the vampires in cosplay costumes Liam would provide.

That's about where we left things.  The difference now is Esperanza will never show up.  The White Hats will have to defeat the vampires with no Slayer.  Don't worry, it will be a winnable fight.

Now for the really good news!

Originally I said I wouldn't award Experience points until after Episode 5 where I would give you a lump sum for Eps 1 to 5. Changed my mind.  After we finish Ep 2 I will give you Ex points for Eps 1 and 2, then award Ex points at the end of each Episode onward.

Sounds good!

Reminder to everybody who's carrying swords to use against the vampires:

House rule from the Game rules thread-

*Slash/stab attacks against vampires will be divided by five, just like with bullets, unless the slash/stab attack is a wooden weapon to the heart or decapitation attack which will work normally as explained in the rules.

This rule has been there since the start of the game, nobody noticed in the first fight since no one had a sword.

The point of this rule is to more in line with the show.  I can't think of an episode where Buffy used a sword to slice and dice a vamp before finishing them off, but yet she pounded a vamp with punches and kicks before staking them nearly every episode.

Unless you're going for a decapitation move, swords won't damage vamps much.

Example 1- Billy with his strength of 3 slashes a vamp with a sword to the midsection and gets three success levels.  That's 3 points of damage.

Example 2-Billy with his strength of 3 punches a vamp with his bare fist and gets three success levels.  That's 9 points of damage.

Decapitation is a tough move to hit.  Dex plus Get Med -5.  Liam with a his Getting Medieval skill of 5 will likely hit a Decapitation move if he spends a DP.  But everyone else could fail a Decapitation attack even when they spend a DP.
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If nobody has any other questions, you can all start posting in character in the episode thread.


Billy has gotten the ball rolling by showing up at Liam's house.

Rough week so far.  Kid in the hospital.  I am slowly refreshing on where we left off.

Take your time.

Sorry to hear that.  Hope the youngster is now out of the hospital or will be soon.

Here's a fun Brittany fact that will be relevant when the fighting starts.

Brittany's Getting Medieval skill is zero.

She has Archery as a Wildcard skill at level 3.

What does that mean?

If you read the rules for the Bow Shot maneuver in the Core book, it's Dex + Get Medieval - 2.
The Through the heart maneuver is a -3 penalty, meaning a Bow Shot Through the Heart has a total of -5.

Archery is a specialty skill that applies to the Bow Shot only, but since it's a specific skill the -2 penalty doesn't apply.  I didn't invent it, one of the Archtypes in the Corebook has it.

Brittany is good with the bow, not so good with other weapons.

If you want to borrow her bow in the fight, you'll have the -2 penalty on top of everything else.

Any plans to post looking for new members?

Once we wrap up Episode 2 here, I'm going to see about getting some new players.

Billy and Liam are now changing into their costumes at the main cemetery entrance.

Hopefully Tori will join you soon and change into her costume as well.



You have two options on how to proceed after that.

*Head straight for the Mausoleum and wait for the vamps to arrive.

*Hide behind some trees and let the vamps arrive first at the Mausoleum before you show yourselves.

You can discuss it among yourselves on how to proceed.

Fight scene about to happen.

Don't post any combat moves yet.  I'm going to go over some combat reminders since we haven't done a fight scene in a while.

Happy New Year everyone!

Happy New Year!

This episode will be wrapping up shortly.  Once everyone's had a chance to react to the news of Esperanza's death, the group will head home and that will wrap up this episode.

Episode 3 will begin eight days after tonight to give the characters some time to deal with the grief before going up against their next supernatural enemy.

Anybody have anything to add regarding the news of Esperanza's death at this time?

If not, I'll wrap up this episode with everyone heading home while coping with the news.

I figure Liam would not know how to cope.  He'll skip school for the next week and mope around depressed trying to process that it happened.

And that's a wrap for episode 2.

Will pass out drama and experience points later.