Current events
This page is for discussion of stuff related to the game coming up this week, no matter when that actually is. For instance, we can all assume Nate isnt coming for some lame reason and that Ed is sick of pizza and is bringing teriyaki or some other crap. They can post something here if that happens to be untrue.
Contents
Schedule
Date...........game................Location..........(Advanced attendance)
2/13/09.....OAAAA.........Ben's Condo.........Ed likely absent, Gabe absent
2/20/09.....???.........Ben's Condo.........Ben Absent, Matt absent
2/27/09.....OAAAA.........Ben's Condo.........
3/06/09.....OAAAA.......Ben's Condo.........
3/14/09.....OAAAA.......Ben's Condo.........moved to Sat.
3/20/09.....???.........Ben's Condo.........Dieter late or absent (BSG FINALE!!), Ben available, Gabe Absent
3/27/09.....???.........Ben's Condo.........
4/03/09.....???.........Ben's Condo.........Ed most likely absent
4/10/09.....???.........Ben's Condo.........Dieter maybe absent
4/17/09.....???.........Ben's Condo.........
4/24/09.....???.........Ben's Condo.........Dieter absent
5/01/09.....???.........Ben's Condo.........
Attendance and Food Preference
GABE: Whats on our plate this week?
BEN: Not sure. If we're doing supers, it'll be Matt, me...and Ed after 10. If we're doing OAAAA, it'll be Matt, me, and dieter...and Ed after 10pm. Either way, we're only at Quorum after 10, although I'm happy to do some OAAAA-ing with two players, I suppose. I'm good with either option.
GABE: Wow, right, I forgot I had plans, boy is my face red.
--Matts 12:16, 16 March 2009 (MST)Wow, we could do supers and finally get some quality time alone! I'll bring the candles, ben, you bring the wine... Elemental battles the high-concept villian Psychopomp in a wide-ranging exploration of the modern psyche through expository combat!
--Matts 12:59, 16 March 2009 (MST)You can translate the above as: "We can play OAAA if it means we get quorum"
ED: Sorry, plans altered. I will be on time, could even be early at 5pm or so. In for pizza again so long as it's not ridiculously expensive, what's the price of MAD za? not coming via pudge, i'm giving a talk at amgen downtown. ...forgot to pay you last time ben!!! iou $8. i think everyone else forgot as well.
Deiter, tape that shit and come be a nerd with your rpg buddies!
Matts -- Ok, lets do supers then.
GABE: Crap I'm gonna miss the big fight!
--Dieter the Bold 17:49, 16 March 2009 (MST) Sorry all, but I'm not taping the finale of the best show on TV in the last 10 years (humble opinion). I've taped it every other time, except once or twice, but not for the very last chance to see the Galactica.
GABE: Matt... I forgot your stuff... again... maybe I can just drop it off this weekend sometime? Anyway, I will be there for 6 o'clock magic, yayz.
Ranting and raving or other random comments
GABE: So I was just going through my old journal writtings and I found this gem, "Whatever, talk to the hand cause the ears are busy listening to your mother's sweet moans!"
This was from like 3 or 4 years ago, I gotta start to write all these down.
Quote(s) of the week
Elemental: (to police chief, who thanked them for their good work) That certainly isn't going to help Viho's colossal ego. (or something like that...)
CyberJesus: I'm so sick and tired of this bullshit Thomas Kinkaid police state!
Other RPG or Non-RPG or Monthly Board Gaming Day gaming Events
3/21 or 3/22
Edmiao cheryl and I are gonna see Watchmen at imax this second sunday. all invited.
Weekly Magic Whining/Complaining/Smack Talking
GABE: So now magic will be naming themselves like sports games, great, and rotate core sets every years. But besides that, why do I keep seeing these rumors there will be no more mana burn, anyone know if thats true?
I dunno, as I don't play any of the formats, I think it is pretty cool that they are getting back their their fantasy roots with the main sets. Silence is an insane card.
Next step in Super Heroes
--67.170.22.232 01:23, 21 March 2009 (MST)Everyone gets 12xp!
GABE: So what happened?
Edmiao a lot. First, Emir Abu Kaliq got his ass kicked. he started trying to kill stockbrokers, and luckily Elemental missed his flying block to protect one, so now we have Emir for cold blooded murder in addition to hostage taking. Then we investigated the thing that Elemental stole from the nuclear plant. It turned out to be Opperman, the father of the bomb, who is now a massively radioactive power source corpse. He was being used as a powerplant, but maybe also the government was weaponizing him. We tracked it to Aeres Industries, followed it to a boat, kicked some more ass and recovered it, then dropped the corpse in a concrete box into the deep sea for storage. Tracked his origin with the help of CyberJesus to Area 7, a small underground lab where Opperman lived and studied his transformation. there we met others on the trail of opperman, three people from "The Bureau" at least one of whom can do the shadowcat through walls. Parted ways with them but they may be allies in the future.
GABE: Holy crap, sounds like we actually did real supers stuff, instead of the usual crapping around and abusing our powers. Dang it I missed it!
Edmiao yeah, and that's the breif version. it was an eventful session. i think things move more quickly with two players.
GABE: Yeah, plus now it seems like maybe we have a bit more of a clear cut goal? I dunno. I'm actually still unsure of just what we are doing as a gorup and what our goal currently is. Seems we have a lot of things going on.
Edmiao we're saving NYC from bad people. Viho just achieved his life goal of putting Emir behind bars. does your character care about why those men in black wanted to kidnap him? we have clues from last session. something to do with opperman
GABE: Well yeah but we made deals with them last time remember? I told them to just come talk to me. I thought there was some over-all kinda thing we were going at? Like the Explorators or whatever they are called. Or did we stop caring about the 3 robo-knights that escaped?
Edmiao oh, yeah, we think about them from time to time. not quite sure where that plot line stands
GABE: I guess we don't give much thought to wussy ass knights that run away (note that they kicked our ass in group combat)! Maybe we should start out next game by listing off everything that is going on.
ED: or, list it off right here......
Things that are going on:
the juice and his son are at large, not seen since they helped with the battle vs Emir
Emir abu kaliq is in prison, captured for putting a virus into wall street, taking stock brokers hostage, demanding ransom and killing one of them.
Opperman, the radioactive power source corpse, is in an oceanic trench sealed in a concrete box. the feds want him back and they know we took him. we have been avoiding the feds.
The government was maybe using opperman to make some weapon, they seem to need "quicksilver" ie silver serpent, to make this weapon.
Next step in Of Amor, Armor, and Alchemy
Current OAAAA XP: 75 base + 215 XP
Plans to save Danny-Girl from the dragon
These are the ones i remember.....
Fight the dragon, kill it
Lyra told us where to find the freezing Tears of _____ so we can put out the dragon's breath, right before she extinguished the eternal forge flame in our temple (bitch) by sucking its soul out like a vampire. She will help us fight the dragon. In return we agreed to let her strike the killing blow IF we successfully obtain the Tears. Other allies could also be enlisted in the fight.
Swindle all around
Talk to Grundbad, get him to fight the dragon and kill it. Also, talk to Oryxis, pledge to deliver the ruby shield in return he frees Danny-girl. Dragon dies: Danny free. Grundbad dies, danny free. Win - Win.
Deal with the dragon
Give the dragon something he wants more than Danny. Say the Ruby shield or freeing Iximion.
Dragon vs Dragon
Free Iximion, tell him Oryxis is getting up in his magic shit and doens't he want to kick the shit out of Oryxix for learning magic?
ED: Aefra is buying you all a flying carpet. should have done it last time before she lost all that cashola! she figures Aeten will carry it around for us. what a chum.
GABE: OMG I know right? Just call him a knight or student and the guy will do anything.
Aetan Finn I will only carry this carpet if it is strong enough to carry me and the rest of the auspice-bound without any diminished efficacy. (Aetan's pretty heavy)
Aefra: it can hold you big boy, if you can hold it! (str 35 magic carpet has a lift of 3200kg which means it can fly with no penalty with 768kg on board, full speed of 53 mph. with up to 1568kg on board it can fly at 44 mph)
BEN: probably worth doing the math for how much the PCs weigh: Aetan without any of his gear is probably close to 200kg. 35 should be enough for all of you, I agree, but if tithe returns it'll be a close call...
--Dieter the Bold 12:10, 17 March 2009 (MST) You can certainly drop a lot of those weights down. 1kg = 2.2lbs. And I can assure you that Galen is not 310lbs!! I'd be shocked if Fantus was as well. And 220 seems a little high for Aefra.
Edmiao So, say with gear: Aeten 250kg, Fantus 90kg, Aefra 60kg, Galen 90kg = 490kg; no problem full speed ahead cap'n. plus Tithe 200kg = 690kg will not slow the thing down. these weights are a guestimate with armor and items
GABE: Also are we sure we want to save her if she is just gonna become the flame?
BEN: I'm going to have to ask y'all to take a step back for a second. a.) I don't remember actually saying a priestess sacrificed herself to start the flame...if i did, that still doesn't necessarily mean that such an act is absolutely necessary to rekindle it. Research of some sort would probably be warranted before assuming the irrefutable truth of such a thing, even in a largely stereotyped fantasy world such as this one. b.) Oryxys was going to have you guys free Ixymion...assuming that Ixymion will be easily convinced to fight Oryxys upon being freed is a very big jump, particularly since it relies on human motivations, and I've very clearly stated in the section on dragons that trying to assign human motivations to dragons is rarely accurate. c.) As a spoiler, Grundbad is not just going to jump at the opportunity to kill a dragon. They are not a particularly stealthy kind of creature, and the thought must surely have occurred to him, especially given that Oryxys is particularly fond of blood elves and ORCS. That doesn't mean you couldn't convince him, it will just take more than "hey, don't you want to fight this guy?".
--Brandon 20:39, 17 March 2009 (MST) Can someone put up some more detail about how Lyra put out the flame? That pisses me off from afar! Also, make sure you listen to Ben. He clearly said that you have to set Daenerys - along with twenty kittens - on fire in order to rekindle the flame. Start gathering kittens!
GABE:Well on the first point I'm 98% sure thats how the flame was lit, my character was very interested in that. She used some tears, the tears of whatever that we are going to go get right now... Not sure why we didn't just try to beat her up and take them, but whatever.
ED: Ben said something about the flame having a soul. Lyra is a vampire of sorts who sucks the souls of those she kills. she sucked the flames soul as she put it out with the tears of whatever. and then Galen and Fantus pretty much said, meh, fairs fair, i guess we asked you to do it so no matter that it didn't need to be done anymore. Aefra wasn't taking that shit and called the guards.
GABE: Well actually Fantus was thinking that if we did fight her right there and then, Fantus would be doing all the fighting. While he is pretty good in a fight, he would be just dodging most of the time. Since he was with an illunist, and I'm sure she has huge saves against them, and a healer, who she could take out... And if we fell there, then what? Nobody would save our fair blacksmith. (Meta-Game: Well yes our alts would haha!)
--Matts 13:22, 18 March 2009 (MST)I think it's pretty obvious what we need to re-start the flame, and that's Salazar's pet! NAAATE!
BEN: that's...hmmm, I didn't think of that. That's a really good idea, actually. Oh, I'd also like to add: along with good insight in the last session, the bonus XP was due to Aefra's exceptionally commendable moral decision, to stay loyal to Grendel despite no perceived benefit. I tried ot make it as easy as possible to cast off from that, and I was very pleasantly surprised when Aefra did the heroic thing and said "FU, crotchety old bigot! BFFs 4 life!" So, a tip o' the XP hat to Aefra this past session.
Edmiao ha, groovey. seemed like the only choice she could make, actually, she's very loyal.
Yeah, gabe, they would have gotten their asses kicked by Lyra, but again, had to play the character. Calling in the guards seemed like the next best option to fight her without getting our asses kicked. it is much more interesting with her still at large, though. It occurs to me that the original plan was to have the flame put out to retrieve Danny-girl before administering the cure anyway, so folks must not have been too concerned about putting the flame out.....?
I like the Salazar's pet idea. foom!
GABE: Calling guards is a good idea, it makes it so we look good. And yeah, lets use the pet, bonus points Aten!
--Dieter the Bold 12:42, 19 March 2009 (MST) Nice idea, Aeten. And I vote we cut ties w/ Lyra. Not because Galen's super-pissed about the forge, but because I'm not sure we want to get involved with a very mercenary slayer who goes after the souls (XP) of powerful beings/things. I just don't think she's good peoples.
Edmiao If we cut ties with her, then we owe her some LOOTZ. what was the deal we made?
GABE: Um, she is no worse then me, and she sticks to her word, to the T. If we don't do it, we can't get the tears. Tears are very needed, with them I could perhaps make something to dose the dragon's breath. (Meta-game, we are still most likely going to loose some characters, but what a fight, with a dragon! Speaking entirly outta game, I wanna fight a dragon.)
Edmiao Metagame: haven't we wanted to fight a dragon from the get go? So, i think those characters with pride should suck it up and we should stay with the deal with Lyra, we need as much help as possible. She'll help us fight the dragon, and if she dies, cest la vie.
