DM themed play-by-post D&D game : OOC thread

[Ameena]

Ahh, I keep forgetting about the scent thing. I'll see about having her notice it next time I post. And thanks for the mention of mana having a scent - I can have her notice that too. Actually, since the trolls have moved and stuff since my last post, I suppose I can make another and have her notice, especially as one of the trolls is so much closer to her now.

[beowuuf]

Ameena, if you have knowledge (local), you can make a knowledge check...your odd memory might remember something....

[Ameena]

Well, I have three points in Knowledge (Local)...let's have a look-see, then shall we?
Woo, 14 - that's a bit better .

[money]

ok, not sure if this can work... or is allowed, but i'm going to try and confuse or daze Trolin 3 - Falkor rolls 1d20 and gets 3. Blast!

[beowuuf]

@money: For future reference, a 'permenant' confusion lasting several rounds would require magical items, etc. However, a brief distraction of confusion is well within your ability. You could even flavour it qith a physical, auditory or visual component (though that might be a higher DC). In this case, as you can see, whatever effect you are aiming for is clearly less than the amount of confusion the Trolin feels already!

To salvage this, give me a perception check...

@Ameena: I'll probably give the results in the update, but cool roll. Forgot you invested so much in the skill!

[oh_brother]

Westian is trying to use diplomacy on the trolins. He rolls a 19 + 10 (bonus) - 10 (rushed action) = 19. Hey, Westian gets good rolls when he needs them!

[Ameena]

I'm not sure how the whole working-out thing goes so that 14 is just the number I rolled on the die - I didn't bother to work out stuff by adding in skill points or whatever since I dunno if it's affected by my stats or anything else as well. The whole numbers thing I just tend to leave to other people to work out, lol - it's probably easier when actually doing it tabletop-style (which I will be tomorrow, yaaay) .


Edit - Something I've been meaning to ask for a while now - you said this takes place after the events of both DM and CSB, yes? How far apart were those two events (I know the backstory of DM but not for CSB, how Chaos came back etc), and how much time has elapsed between the end of CSB and now? I just want to see how familiar Ameena is likely to be with it, if it was several years ago, bearing in mind her age and the fact she was still a child just a few years ago - remember murafu age differently to humans and all that.

[beowuuf]

If memory serves, 13 moons - ie a year and a month. Need to check when back home

You get +4 to the roll, so it's pretty good! DC15 is pub quiz know-it all level

[Ameena]

I can't remember what "DC" stands for but i'm guessing the "D" is "di(c)e". So she got 18 then, 14 on the die and +4 from having 3 Knowledge skill? Groovy . Now what does she learn...

[money]

for perception check - i think! Falkor rolls 1d20 and gets 16. - I think the chat client just alternates between high and low!!!!!

[beowuuf]

@oh_brother: I was a little rushed earlier, so didn't get the chance to say pretty sweet roll! It also helps that Haynuus's initial intimidation luck means that even the leader is only rated as 'unfriendly' just now. So, you know, that 19 is even better than you might have hoped. Although your DM seems to be setting a trend in Westian's speaking providing the best and worst out of a senario simultaneously, as you will soon see.... *wahahahahah*

@Ameena - DC = difficultly class, it's the target number you need to achieve to do things. So an 18 will easily beats a DC 15 check for 'less than common knowledge'. Hopefully your character will remeember a couple of things to make sense of the current situation.

@money: 16 (with no bonuses I'm afraid) certainly beats a DC 15 check. Let's see if the result helps you in the final round...

Right, map already updated, so just need to post that and the round resolution. You guys are doing great, even though you have never been in more danger

[Ameena]

I think we've never been in more anger because we're about five minutes into the bloody game .

[beowuuf]

That was supposed to reassure you once you beat this danger. How am I supposed to be evil if you keep giving the game away with your clever observations!

Sorry, got distracted, update is being typed

[beowuuf]

Update up. Last round you had some great character beats, good descriptions, and some nice dice rolls where it counted. I look forward to nothing less from you lot in what may well be the final round this non-combat combat. Unless it goes horrible wrong, in which case I look forward to bashing Falkor on the head with a club.

I mean...good luck! *whistles*

Oh, and I'll add the Trolin's club on H4 nefore I forget...

[beowuuf]

Oh, here is the CSB manual story. I was right, it had been 13 months between DM and CSB.

http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/422

[Ameena]

Okay, 13 months 'tween DM and CSB (I'll read that backstory now), but how long 'tween CSB and now?

[beowuuf]

Well that's the question now, isn't it...

Certainly to your characters it feels like only a year or two afterwards. Remember while the Lord Chaos certainly influenced the world the first time, in CSB he was attempting to escape and so it would be possible only those directly around Mount anaias felt something unusual going on that day (or couple of days).

[Ameena]

Yeah, but what I meant is, while it was all going on, it'd still be current news and Ameena would be more likely to know about it. If this is all happening five years after CSB, she would have still been, in murafu terms, a child at the time, so if she's heard anything about any of this at all, it would be more likely to be half-substantiated rumours and exaggerated stories and such, which she will have heard here and there on her travels. If this had been happening more recently, news will have filtered through the Murafu race more easily, as more people would have been talking about it - murafu learn stuff by talking/listening to/overhearing other races, and then carry that news to other murafu they meet on their travels. For the most part, they keep to their own lives rather than getting involved in what other races are up to - they find them mostly rather too complicated.

[beowuuf]

Ah, I see. You are safe to assume it is recent enough you heard about it. Make of that what you will as a player

And, as you have spotted, this time you are perfectly hidden from evil eyes, no matter how darkvisioned they are. Can you roll me a stealth roll? You will only need this if the Trolin comes around the corner, to see if he detects you 'out of the corner of his eye'. I imagine the answer to that would be 'no'

In D&D there's a thing you can do called a 'ready action'. This means, for your standard action, you can state a standard action you will do later, if a certain condition is met. It's a gamble, as of course the condition you nominate may not happen. However, the good thing is that if the condition does happen, your standard action comes in as an interrupt.

So for example, you could say you will bite the Trolin if he comes near Westian. The good thing is normally (even if you delay) you could not interrupt the Trolin if he moved and thumped Westian. However, with a ready action, you could interrupt before an attack and attack the Trolin .

And of course, you could always nominate running away instead as the action (a move action can be used in place of a standard action)

Anyway, that's all!

[Ameena]

Bahhh, I don't think it likes me...I just rolled a 3, lol. I dunno what various skill/feat bonuses will do to that, though. I leave all that stuff to you to work out .
Ameena will probably launch herself at the Troll if she's absolutely certain he's definitely trying to attack one of her...hmm well she doesn't call them "friends" yet...not even quite "companions"...maybe "fellow prisoners" or something. Anyway, even if a fight kicks off, she can only attack if the beasty actually steps forward into her line of sight (well, presumably critters in this can see diagonally, but imagine she's standing on the back edge of her square (the right-hand edge on the map), and she's relatively tiny, so from an RP PoV, she needs to actually stick her head round the corner to see .
I think she's getting the easiest time of it so far, since this troll probably hasn't even noticed her yet and everyone else has probably forgotten. Hehehe it will probably be amusing (for me anyway) if she actually does scare the crap out of Westian in a bit, lol.

[beowuuf]

Well, you aren't moving, and you are hiding, so you have +13 to your roll. Being a sneaky small dexterous rogue has its advantages! (+3 dex +4 ranks stealth +2 stealth feat +4 small creature hiding = +13!)

You can see diagonally, as far as I'm concerned, remember the 5 foot square each character occupies also represents the space they need to fight, etc. So the Trolin would have to stick his head aroudn the corner to thump Westian. So you can attack into the square ahead of Westian, no worries

[Ameena]

Hehe cool...well, let's see what happens. Ameena's not gonna let loose with any violence unless the troll does, but hopefully we can avoid that. Maybe we can stall him until he poofs too or something - presumably he's dissipating as the other one just did (hence the fading smell, I presume - I did wonder if something like that was gonna happen).

[beowuuf]

I might reveal the mechanic (not the reason) after the battle. There's an odd mana smell when the other one 'poofed' so for the moment it's hard to tell if the remaining Trolin is still fading, fading faster / slower, etc.

[money]

Perhaps they are not really there... perhaps this is a test!

Edit: Right - updated my story and to perform the bluff i think i might need to roll? Assuming i do then Falkor rolls 1d20 and gets 13

[beowuuf]

Falkor closes his eyes and wills it all away? SWEET! I get to clu..

I mean, sounds sounds like a good idea.

[beowuuf]

Ballsy move money! I'll need a d20 roll (as always) for the bluff check on that. Ian, Haynuus grabbing the club will be a move action. As a standard action you could ready an attack, or help in money's bluff, or try some further intimidation.

Oh_brother, as you may notice the Trolin delayed past your inititative last round listening to you, so you have a full chance to do something. Whatever you do, at least you know Ameena's got your back, even if Westian doens't!

[oh_brother]

Hehehe it will probably be amusing (for me anyway) if she actually does scare the crap out of Westian in a bit, lol.

Hasn't Westian been scared enough already?

[oh_brother]

Westian is trying to talk his way out of it. Invisible Castle is not working at the moment (it did not work yesterday morning either) so I will post my roll when it is up again.

[money]

Hi Beowuuf, i ammended my earlier post with the roll - do you need another?

[beowuuf]

Nope, that one's fine. Well.... that one is there anyway