Run! Recruitment, 2075/6 Persistent Game World Thread Options

[Mercy]

Do we know yet how much damage Raferty took?

[Imladir]

"Rick" didn't get to attack since the spirit used its fear power on Cailin instead.
What's Sim doing by the way?

[Mercy]

Ahh, I see. Sim went with Pierre to see about helping them with their fire. I expect him to return soon.

[Imladir]

Damn... Ok, I'll have to think about that :o

[Beta]

1- I don't know if Sim went with Pierre (Pierre asked that he do something with the fire, but that doesn't mean he went right away). If he did, Sim and Pierre would have left just shortly before this happened, so probably are not all that far -- can try shouting for them. Will probably take many combat turns to return, but maybe can communicate about the need for a spirit faster than that?

2- Aria -- On a mostly different note, I have Pierre written up and ready to post on OP, except for one question: at this point in things, would it be OK to take a Run!ner NPC as a contact? (basically to show a new friendship) Was looking at taking Widget (connection 1, loyalty 3, to show friends but still new friends)

[Aria]

Absolutely fine! I've deliberately ignored contacts for this game but you can take them if you want to! Either way no D are getting rolled for contact rts etc

[Beta]

Great -- I have Pierre's character sheet up on OP, still working on the backgrounder (thought I had something written previously, but if so not positive where I saved it. Possibly I just through it through but never wrote it up)

ETA: I don't remember which game it was that gave some starting karma for character sheet, picture, background etc. That might have been JaydeMoon's game, and in this game karma is strictly (but generously) at 1 karma per two posts. Can someone confirm for me no set-up karma (it is hard to prove a negative, if I don't see anything is it not there, or was I looking in the wrong thread?)

ETA2: Backstory added to character sheet on OP. Still missing a picture. Shortage of public domain pictures of young, modern, dwarves!

[Aria]

Karma awards are the same, I'd just stipulate that you can't give karma for Pierre's sheet to Addie! Not that I think you would.

[Beta]

Of course not, they are each on their own. (and each needs all their karma! Apparently I need to post more prolifically .... )

Once they are in proximity I'll back-burner/retire one of them. Posting as Pierre was mostly to interact with what is going on with the rest of the group during Addie's current absence from a) the camp, b) the group, c) her senses. (and a little bit to finally do something with this vague character concept I've had for ages of a dwarf who is loyal to Cross Applied Technology and who hates Ares for what happened to them. Making that work in the setting of Run! was fun)

[Beta]

Nice one, Adam!

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I'm going to be offline Friday evening through Sunday afternoon -- right as I'm about to send Pierre into the thick of things. Aria, if you can give me an idea of how Sim will react when he looks back and sees Caitlin's spell floating Rick, I could roll that into a Pierre IC post tomorrow before I head off (or feel free to just write it out, but if it is quicker just give guidance). I'm not sure how obvious a possessing spirit is? Hopefully he'll also see that, and come to some reasonable conclusion. Pierre certainly won't know what to make of the situation, so he'll probably accept Sim's interpretation.

I posted the next final "Addie goes through a crisis of confidence" installment, and will leave her there until everything else has caught up. I'm thinking that most likely she'll get in touch with Aria (who is with Lindsey's group), then try to find her way to them. But will see what happens, who answers, etc.

[Imladir]

In the astral a possession is obvious.

[Beta]

Just checking, I think the timing of the conversation between Dana and Lindsey (and Aria) -- posts 884-887 -- is early night of day four? I've let Addie get a bit ahead of things, having written her into mid-morning of day 5, so it would be convenient if you could find a way not to find her just yet, else I have a lot of posts to ret-con! (sorry about not being more patient on posting -- it took longer (real time) to sort things out in camp than I'd expected, or else I would not have taken her so thoroughly out of the picture.

[Gilga]

Even if the spirit do find Addie Day four night, we will only approach her in the morning and by the time we get there... we can merge together afternoonnish of day 5? Will that be okay? There is a lot of ground to cover.

[Beta]

Absolutely -- if the spirit finds her but doesn't show itself, that would work fine. For that matter, during the night following day 4 she heard noises at some point and thought a large animal was approaching her, and she ran farther and apparently it didn't chase her -- if you wanted you could work in the spirit either chasing something off or guarding her in some way, even if she didn't realize it.

[Gilga]

Will build up some confidence with Lindsey if she plays along. Otherwise I assume that Dana would use her own lesser spirits for the tasks. she does F3 or so.

[Aria]

Are you dropping Rick in to the tent (or it's bag which is also bloody big)? If so who is doing it? I only ask as the spirit has energy aura (probably invisible) which is going to result in some nasty burns for anyone touching Rick (even through the tent) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)

[Mercy]

Well, that sort of sucks. I think that there are several people doing this, to include Maya and Raferty. Hopefully, we will be able to pull back from actually touching Rick through the canvas once we feel the energy.

[Imladir]

Are you dropping Rick in to the tent (or it's bag which is also bloody big)? If so who is doing it? I only ask as the spirit has energy aura (probably invisible) which is going to result in some nasty burns for anyone touching Rick (even through the tent) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)

Yep, I was waiting to see if you had anything to add.

[adamu]

Are you dropping Rick in to the tent (or it's bag which is also bloody big)? If so who is doing it? I only ask as the spirit has energy aura (probably invisible) which is going to result in some nasty burns for anyone touching Rick (even through the tent) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)

Hmmm, well, if the aura is invisible, then I guess I'd pretty much be cheating if I didn't do exactly what I was planning on doing before I knew about that....

[Imladir]

Good thing Dana is not the only one with Heal :o

[Gilga]

Ouch... Energy aura is a cool trick.

[adamu]

Not really sure how much damage the energy aura will do through a few layers of tent (largely because I don't know how tough the tent is - and if you leave it up to me then it's this badass fire-resistant stuff, since that one torch only put a modest hole in that other tent).
So, I'll wait to hear from Aria on how badly Raf and any other dog-pilers get burned.

Here's a fun question, though -

- I assume Rick himself is immune to the energy aura of the spirit that is possessing him

- I assume that in order to burn us on the outside of the tent, then the tent must combust

- I assume that Rick is not immune to secondary flames that happen to have been ignited by said energy aura

- hence Rick will be wrapped in a flaming tent and immolated??????

Could simplify the struggle for leadership, I suppose...

[Imladir]

Sadly, it's not fire, it's radiations. So the tent won't burn. And will probably be unusable, but Rick should be fine.
As for the others, they would need to resist a DV10 (AP -5) "attack".
Not sure what the tent would give as far as armour go, but since I don't think Raf', Maya nor Nim have anything much better than flats, it's kind of a moot point.

It won't kill anyone, but it will definitely hurt...

[Gilga]

If it is radiation then you are doubly screwed because it completely baypasses armor.

[Imladir]

Since they don't have armour or too little compared to the AP, it doesn't change anything anyway.
Though it's also counts as a toxin attack with a DV10, causing nausea (Body + Willpower [10], or wound modifiers are doubled. If the power of the toxin after resistance is higher than willpower, incapacitated with vomiting and dizziness for three turns)

That's... harsh :o