Okay, as a GM myself I am going to say this, so if someone wants to take issue, realize I have been there. Jack, I am enjoying the heck out of the game.

This kind of statement quoted above is not helpful, if you have a frustration with game rules not working in your favor or the way a GM might be running a game, take it up in private. Players are not all knowing, and they/we can forget that. GMs could be throwing a little something into an encounter to make it a little more interesting/challenging/exciting/fun, especially when players kind of take an encounter sideways like I am sure we just did.


We are in this together for a fun experience, try to remember that.

Why sideways?

What exactly are you talking about? Jack usually allows the players to roll and calculate the effects of their actions in order to speed things up. What's your issue?

Petrifing and smashing someone that was likely the biggest threat

That language seemed a bit aggressive. Might just be me having a flashback moment, if that is the case, my bad.

@Crossbow
Thanks for the support, but no need to worry, that wasn't anything but Volker's directness.

And no, that went as well as could be expected - you have two dead black mages and one unconscious mage as well as one of the hostages.

Actually it wasn't even me being direct as there was not a bit of anything personal in it. It was just me calculating the outcome of my character's attack and making sure I didn't get any rules or assumptions wrong. I couldn't be sure it actually would deal stun only, as, in the end, I don't know how the 29 soak dice are calculated. So I just wrote what I thought was the most likely outcome. Which happened to be correct, fortunately.
Anyway, no worries, there was no aggression or frustration or anything of that kind in the post, just calculations.

Haha! I actually thought about that, too, when speaking to the girl... but I think we are not atually speaking english, just using it in the forum.

I might be wrong, of course. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

I'd imagine us speaking German (I mean e.g., it would be strange to speak to the parents in English, and when Anna listens in on the conversation of the crazy mages why would it be in English, are they foreign too?. So I reasoned that we write in English because some of us are just not German speakers.

Yeah, this was merely a translation convention - not that it matters very much. If you talked English among yourself, the girl would have switched to that language as well

Ah, okay, sorry ^^ I didn't consider that, really, especially as at least Anna hardly speaks German (let alone the local dialect).

So, do we just ignore the language barriers for simplicity's sake? We don't have any language all team members speak above a level of 2.

@Gilga: Not sure you can send the spirit after the dwarf girl, don't you need to have assensed her for that?

We do have the hair, so there is something for ritual magic, but a spirit with Search won't suffice, AFAIK.

Bye
Thanee

You only need to have seen the girl to instruct a spirit to search for her, but yes, spirit search failed once already (or at least didn't resolve in time)

Is the picture good enough, then? We havn't actually seen her, yet.

Either way, guess good old tracking might work better, anyways. Unfortunately, Nova only has some Survival, but no Tracking.

Bye
Thanee

Anna can default tracking with 9 dice it might work.

Magic is just crazy ^^

I interpret your missing answers as a "yes", then.

Yes, we ignore translation issues - translations software is cheap and ubiquitous.

Also, good roll on tracking

okay, makes sense to me

I guess, I hope Taurus left something of the stream ^^ bnc's gonna need it, too

I only just realized that bnc is the only one left from Deep Black Sea... :-O

Yes, unfortuantely, forum rpg has a high atrition rate.

How did Taurus end up with Nova? He really can't have tea and watch a prisoner.



I have 2 from my original team of 8, but only 3 total now.

Yeah (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)
But on the other hand - I guess it comes closer to the reality of shadowrunning that a stable team. I guess, fellow runners come and go most of the time.


@Crossbow
They took prisoner and girl together, but you're right about the prisoner. I'd assume that maybe Nova went to talk to the parents while you stayed back with the prisoner?

@Gilga: Don't you want to check (and if so) mention to the parents of the dwarf girl, that she is awakened?


As for the prisoner... I expected for Nova and Taurus to split up at some point, he delivering the prisoner and her bringing back the girl.

Bye
Thanee

I don't see a reason why she would be awakened. It was the BGC that kept her hidden. But sure, check. It's free.

Anna assensed her for her medical state. if need be I'll roll.
assensing: 12d6t5 4