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[Ireth]

Right back atcha, Sparkie! I'm really enjoying this. And LS, I appreciate the thought of us getting XP for this even though we're not fighting. It was kinda inevitable that things would be a bit uneven with regards to XP shares when our party was divided like this. Hard for some of us to gain XP by battle if the enemies are all dead before we get to the fight!

 

[Steerpike]

I could also have the rest of you ambushed by vampires that no one knew were living in the tunnels!

 

[Ireth]

I could also have the rest of you ambushed by vampires that no one knew were living in the tunnels!

True, very true. XD You ARE the Almighty GM, after all.

 

[Ravana]

Algernon just rendered the question largely rhetorical.

And, incredible as it may sound, he actually does have a "plan B" working through his skull.…

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

…but he can't communicate it in 6 seconds, hence Baldy's reaction.

 

[Nihal]

...and Mauve is too busy doing striptease and using the knife to say to Baldhart that's okay to retreat (I only hope they don't waste the 10min of her transformation). :<

 

[Ravana]

…but he can't communicate it in 6 seconds, hence Baldy's reaction.

Nope. He won't even try until we're back, because it has nothing to do with staying where we are, and he's putting all his wind into getting us out of there at the moment. He isn't even singing. Though he'll start once we're back around the bend—in part because it's easier to time strokes that way, but mostly to let the people we left behind know we're coming back.

As mentioned on the action thread, a transformed Mauve is in no danger whatsoever from the trogs: she can simply swim along underwater. As for "wasted"… well, yeah, probably. Unless you consider the character with the worst AC becoming automatically immune to enemy action a "waste."

 

[Nihal]

The problem is the afterwards, it'll render her useless for a good while. If it's only about getting more AC she would rather take cover or cast a Shield spell—which may grant her a higher AC than she has transformed.

 

[Ireth]

Won't be able to post again until a bit later tonight -- got a banquet to attend that starts in twenty minutes. ^^

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

Well, at least 2 of us are in the fight. Let's take 'em Mauve!

 

[Steerpike]

Ok so Baldhart and Mauve are in the water. I'm going to wait for Severin to post, or for the 24 hour time period. I do need a STR check from Baldhart, though.

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

20 = STR check - editing my last post to include the roll

 

[Ireth]

Back from the banquet. ^^ I'm rather intrigued to see what'll happen with Cadell and Ankari.

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

The boat completes its turn in the dark, since anyone who could possibly have been holding a torch is now either firing a missile weapon or underwater.

You can make your character attempt that, but fast approach, turn the boat around, row the other way… I doubt the boat got very far in a single turn, but it's Steerpike's call as to what the laws of physics allowed your character to do.


EDIT - I misunderstood your post, thinking you said the boat already rounded the corner leaving the two ladies in the dark.

If we had a hooded lantern, it's there. If someone's holding a torch, it could be Nod, whose crossbow could have been ready to fire, or maybe Aliron was holding it since he didn't fire and he was at the front of the boat.

Anyway, Mauve and Baldhart wouldn't act selfishly and take light away from the entire party. So the boat has light (and arrows if you want to have a torch-bearing meat shield keeping archers safe while they give Baldy and Mauve covering fire).

 

[Steerpike]

A little longer until we hit the 24-hour mark, after which time I will make the next post.

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

Sooooo tempting to have Baldhart waste a turn's worth of air just to say,
"Hi-bl-i Aq-bl-qua-bl-Ma-bl-au-bl-ve!"

[1:13]

 

[Nihal]

"Hi, Baldhart!"
...

"Hi, Baldhart!"
...

"Hi, Baldhart!"

 

[SeverinR]

Aliron takes his first damage, of course it was in a place he couldn't dodge or sneak. Had he not leveled he would have 1 hp left, as it is the arrows took him down to half. 5/10

 

[Legendary Sidekick]

Note: I PM'd Phil before putting words in Nod's mouth, including for a few things that may or may not happen. Phil thinks those last couple of posts are true to Nod, so just wanted to share that. He's fun to write, so as long as Phil's cool with it I'll write an occasional Nod post when I think he's in a situation in which he wouldn't remain silent.

 

[Ravana]

You can make your character attempt that, but fast approach, turn the boat around, row the other way… I doubt the boat got very far in a single turn, but it's Steerpike's call as to what the laws of physics allowed your character to do.

I commented on the physics in my latest post (or series thereof). No, it couldn't get around the corner in the same round; but the "fast" approach only had a couple strokes to work up speed before we were attacked, given the position of the boat when we were; the way I was turning could have faced it about almost instantly, cancelling most or all of its momentum in the process (which wasn't exactly what I wanted: I wanted to carry the momentum through the turn, but I don't think the space we have would allow that). Where we ended up, and how facing, seems about right to me, even though what I said I was doing got ignored.

EDIT - I misunderstood your post, thinking you said the boat already rounded the corner leaving the two ladies in the dark.

If we had a hooded lantern, it's there. If someone's holding a torch, it could be Nod, whose crossbow could have been ready to fire, or maybe Aliron was holding it since he didn't fire and he was at the front of the boat.

Anyway, Mauve and Baldhart wouldn't act selfishly and take light away from the entire party. So the boat has light (and arrows if you want to have a torch-bearing meat shield keeping archers safe while they give Baldy and Mauve covering fire).

"If" we had any light source, it ought to have been specified. The only thing mentioned was that Baldhart was bringing a torch, and the means to light it: since no other light source was mentioned, and we needed one to navigate, and since the light from the torch shining on the ceiling was mentioned in the narrative, I can only assume that this is the one, and the only one, we had.

That being the case, yes, Mauve/Baldhart did indeed "act selfishly"—or at any rate thoughtlessly—and deprive those on the boat of light. Mauve and Baldhart still have light in any case, because there's light where they are.

Nod may have had his crossbow readied, but if he has the torch he could not have reloaded and taken his second shot. Aliron had mentioned previously that he had his bow readied. He could not have taken the torch at the time Baldhart attempted to give it to him.

Which, by the way, was her fourth action in the same round. First, she was going to try to give the berries to Aliron; then she spoke to Algernon, telling him that if he didn't take the boat in, she was going to jump—that action would have to have waited at least a couple seconds to see if he complied or not; then she dove in the water, which, due to the foregoing, should not have been able to take place until the following round; then she retroactively attempted to thrust a torch into the hand of someone who didn't have a hand to take it. All that took place in the course of a single round. Which I point out primarily to let people know there isn't the slightest chance in the universe that someone would be able to do something similar when I'm running: what Steerpike permits is his business.

If you'd stuck with your first action—or if the GM had cancelled your subsequent ones because of the one you'd already declared—we'd all be fine now. Just sayin'.