Author Topic: OOC thread (Read 62756 times)

oslecamo · « **on:** March 14, 2012, 05:20:29 PM »

Thread for out of character stuff.

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Long ago the two main mortal forces on existence where the Magedom of Akrabal and the United Cities of Bragal, each having conquered most of their own continent, being separated by a vast ocean. They had mostly ignored each other for some time untill Magedom spies sucessfully stole a powerfull artifact from the United Cities. An artifact some said the UCB based their power on.

War quickly broke out for that artifact. The Magedom focused on pure mages backed up by stealthy assassins and light infantry, moving quickly and silently to deliver cyrurgical strikes. The UCB had exceptional blacksmiths and artificers that forged superior weapons, armors and all kind of war machines for their troops. They even developed mass-produceable golems to bolster their ranks, the warforged.

The war lasted for decades whitout anyone managing to get an advantage, untill it became a cold stalemate, each side just digging in and launching the ocasional skirmish to test the enemy defenses. Neither side could any longer afford fullscale conflict.

Unnoticed by either side, a new cult started to form on the lands to the west of the magedom, the Order of Truth. Their priests claim that they don't follow any particular deity but reality itself. In particular they claim they can predict the future. More peculiar, they seem really good at it. The Order of Truth gained countless adepts on the basis that it would warn the people of earthquakes, storms, bad crops, plagues, bandit raids and other normally unpredictable events time and time again.

If they can actualy predict the future, or if they are just really good diviners or are somehow fabricating those events themselves it's not very clear. But the Order of Truth numbers quickly swelled. Their followers were quickly and effeciently organized into a clockwork society where the Order of Truth decides almost everything from what your job is to who you'll marry. Each village that acepted the Order of Truth quickly became a new cog on their machine.

More important, they rised a powerfull army of their own. They first used that army to defend their territorry, but recently they've been launching assaults against isolated villages and cities that don't acept their principles, forcingly incorporating them in the Order. Soon they started to directly threaten Magedom cities. Altough inferior in magic users, the Order of Truth scored major victories with the ability to predict (or cause, who knows) natural disasters that would strike the Magedom forces at the worst possible moments.

Rumors have that the Order of Truth has even managed to convince Giant tribes and other sentient beings to their side. They grow stronger every day, slowly swallowing other minor sides. The Magedom has made them their top priority. The UCB on the other hand has itself recently been losing territorry to Order of Truth missionaries that crossed the seas.

The Magedom and UCB aren't idle however. Word is that the first has been refining powerfull conjuring magic to conjure powerfull monsters for their war effort. The UCB re-started their warforged project and is field-testing new improved and deadly models.

The minor sides caught in the middle of this conflict are left wondering who they can join, or if they can weather this incoming storm by themselves. You'll begin as the minions of a powerful lich that has dwelled on the northern mountain ranges for too long, bidding his time and building up his power for quite some time. The time is now ripe for finally coming out, manipulate the war to your favor, and make sure yours is the winning side in the end.

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VennDygrem · « **Reply #1 on:** March 14, 2012, 06:16:30 PM »

I had the same access issues Flay had. To be precise, it seemed like the owners of plothook.net forgot to pay their domain fees or something. It's back now, but I obviously couldn't access this game or the other one you run that I'm in (the City of the Spider Queen game). Seems fine again, for now.

Flay Crimsonwind · « **Reply #2 on:** March 14, 2012, 07:10:55 PM »

Are we going to use this as a backup, or port it over here?

oslecamo · « **Reply #3 on:** March 14, 2012, 07:26:07 PM »

Hopefully port it.

McPoyo · « **Reply #4 on:** March 14, 2012, 07:32:51 PM »

GGlad people didn't just disappear.

oslecamo · « **Reply #5 on:** March 19, 2012, 06:54:15 PM »

So, nobody else has action for this round?

Rao can be assumed to be underground anywhere on the map.

phaedrusxy · « **Reply #6 on:** March 19, 2012, 09:34:15 PM »

Unfortunately dna1 has been MIA from all of the games I was in with him for some time now. His wife had a baby not long ago, and I expect he's just been too swamped to be involved in online gaming. So I'm not sure what we're going to do about that. We could recruit someone else to play Queeny, but it might be hard to reproduce his zeal for evil kitty pics to go along with it. Maybe we should ask bhu?

VennDygrem · « **Reply #7 on:** March 19, 2012, 09:54:45 PM »

As for me, I think I still need to act for the round. I think I got a bit confused with the thread moving. I'll post something tonight.

McPoyo · « **Reply #8 on:** March 20, 2012, 07:20:09 AM »

I had already posted an action before the game moved, and I believe it was translated across to the new board already.

Gnomeo · « **Reply #9 on:** March 20, 2012, 12:35:57 PM »

My action didn't post correctly, so I reposted it here.

oslecamo · « **Reply #10 on:** March 20, 2012, 01:24:56 PM »

Quote from: phaedrusxy on March 19, 2012, 09:34:15 PM

Unfortunately dna1 has been MIA from all of the games I was in with him for some time now. His wife had a baby not long ago, and I expect he's just been too swamped to be involved in online gaming. So I'm not sure what we're going to do about that. We could recruit someone else to play Queeny, but it might be hard to reproduce his zeal for evil kitty pics to go along with it. Maybe we should ask bhu?

I still count 5 players, so the party should be more than able to hold its own weight. Or you can try to ask around to see if anyone would be interested in taking over a tarrasque PC.

Speaking of which, VennDygrem was retconned into joining the forest ambush since it seemed he was the only player left from the group heading towards the city.

So what would you rather be done with Grimtooth that suposedly was waiting inside the Tarrasque's belly? Try to take on the city solo or be also retconned on being in the forest ambush all along?

oslecamo · « **Reply #11 on:** March 24, 2012, 10:10:01 PM »

Just to say net and book acess have been rather limited this weekend so I'll only be able to advance the turn sunday night or monday.

phaedrusxy · « **Reply #12 on:** March 25, 2012, 08:09:00 PM »

Quote from: oslecamo on March 20, 2012, 01:24:56 PM

Speaking of which, VennDygrem was retconned into joining the forest ambush since it seemed he was the only player left from the group heading towards the city.

So what would you rather be done with Grimtooth that suposedly was waiting inside the Tarrasque's belly? Try to take on the city solo or be also retconned on being in the forest ambush all along?

Hmm... sure, I guess. Maybe first I could try to dominate and create spawn to get us some "allies" to make an assault on the city easier later. His club can cast Disguise Self to let Grimtooth walk around in the city to "convert" some gate guards. Want to RP that out? It could have happened while Tenth and the rest of the soldiers were preparing to leave.

oslecamo · « **Reply #13 on:** March 26, 2012, 05:58:24 AM »

Quote from: phaedrusxy on March 25, 2012, 08:09:00 PM

Hmm... sure, I guess. Maybe first I could try to dominate and create spawn to get us some "allies" to make an assault on the city easier later. His club can cast Disguise Self to let Grimtooth walk around in the city to "convert" some gate guards. Want to RP that out? It could have happened while Tenth and the rest of the soldiers were preparing to leave.

Remember the vampire spawns need 1d4 days of "brewing" and also need a proper burial to be transformed.

Also you still can't use actual Dominate, just Charm, so you'll need some reasoning to convince them to take more drastic measures.

Finally, it's already morning. You can hide inside your weapon's darkness, but still a ball of darkness moving around the streets would definely atract unwanted atention (and also blocks your gaze attack against guards whitout darkvision).

So you can RP how you take care of the three above.

Ok, now let's give this dice roller a try

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oslecamo · « **Reply #14 on:** March 26, 2012, 06:28:14 AM »

More rolls

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oslecamo · « **Reply #15 on:** March 26, 2012, 06:52:51 AM »

Some more rolls

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McPoyo · « **Reply #16 on:** March 26, 2012, 07:33:36 AM »

I believe I'm at -16 after that last attack.

oslecamo · « **Reply #17 on:** March 26, 2012, 08:01:48 AM »

Hmm, how that's possible? Your character has 18 armor plus its natural 4 DR, even if you just had 1 HP left, you would just drop to -13.

EDIT: Also forgot to mention, you get an Aoo against the last cavalier unit as they had to move trough hard terrain and so couldn't 5-step.

McPoyo · « **Reply #18 on:** March 26, 2012, 08:37:15 AM »

Natural armor, unless that counts, in which case I have a whole lot more hp left.

oslecamo · « **Reply #19 on:** March 26, 2012, 09:12:57 AM »

Yes, nat armor is also suposed to count.

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