OOC-Chapter 7-The Morning After-General Discussion

[Dave Syrinx]

I believe the season of slow-mo has come upon us. Hopefully everyone will have a great summer / winter depending on where you´re at.

[Mr. Handy]

Part of that's my fault, as I haven't been able to update lately. It's been two weeks since the last time, and even then I missed a couple of threads. I'll get done what I can tonight, and if I miss anything I'll try to finish up during the week.

After this week, updates should be more frequent through July 4, as I'll be off from work. However, I'll be away at a convention from July 4-8, so I won't be able to post during that time.

[Mr. Handy]

There's a cool-looking zombie game on Kickstarter I'm backing called Dead State that should be very interesting. It's about much more than killing zombies, it's really about the humans. You have to lead a group of people and guide them so that the whole group survives, building up your shelter, scavenging for supplies, and coming into conflict with other survivors. In many ways it looks inspired by the original Fallout. If you want to get in on it, there's only three days left.

[ImpInTraining]

Tempting - but it sounds a lot like The Walking Dead - and I think I'd rather shoot myself in the foot than put up with that drama-fest.

[Mr. Handy]

I'm sorry, but it's taken me longer than expected to catch up. I'll try to update during the week if it's at all possible.

[Mr. Handy]

I'm sorry again, but I didn't have much sleep on Saturday and didn't have time on Sunday to update. I will do my best to get this moving again soon.

[ImpInTraining]

10 lashes!

[Mr. Handy]

Okay, I've now updated all of the active threads. Please feel free to post, and let's see if I can keep this game moving.

[Mr. Handy]

Welcome to Garrett, who will be playing Ryuu Kin in the Omaha section! Garrett, your thread (Rising Sun) is now up and I've sent you your secrets in a PM. Once you've read them, you may start posting any time you're ready.

We seem to have lost Quinch and Misfit, who haven't posted for their characters or even signed on to the board in weeks.

[Mr. Handy]

Unfortunately, I did not get to update this weekend. I was sick a couple of days ago, and I ran out of time due to having to eliminate a flood of spammers and the ridiculous lag that's slowing everything down tonight. I won't have time tomorrow either, but I'll try to update as soon as I can.

[Mr. Handy]

I'm sorry, but I ran out of time again. I'll try to update during the week if possible. Next weekend is a three-day weekend for me, so I should be able to get things moving again by then at the very latest.

[Mr. Handy]

I apologize again for the lengthy delay, but I've just updated all of the threads with active players and gotten the game moving. I should be able to keep it going at a decent pace over the next several weeks.

[ImpInTraining]

Yay!

[Garrett]

I hope you don't mind but I edited my character a bit, I thought since nothing has happened yet it would be okay.

[Mr. Handy]

What exactly did you change?

If you're looking for a river, you won't have to go far. There's one coming up ahead.

[Garrett]

I took away his skill in martial arts and kick to bring handgun to 50, persuade to 61, and katana to 75. On that note I was wondering, if I keep my katana in the sheath to protect the blade I still use the same skill right? Also katana weapon skill starts at 10% right?

[Mr. Handy]

The base skill in Katana is 15%, and you still use the same skill even if you keep it in a sheath. I'll allow you to adjust your skill points at this time, but the numbers for the adjustments don't quite add up. You get 74 points back from Martial Arts and 50 from Kick for a total of 124. You spent 15 to increase Handgun from 35 to 50, 46 to increase Persuade from 15 to 61, and 60 to increase Katana from 15 to 75 for a total of 121. That leaves you 3 more points to redistribute.

[Garrett]

alright thanks, I'll put those three in persuade. By the way how much damage will the katana do if it stays in the sheath?

[Mr. Handy]

No problem. If it's sheathed, I'll say it does the same damage as a large club (1d8+db). It also does not impale while in the sheath. When unsheathed, the katana does 1d10+1+db damage and can impale.

[Garrett]

was it impale or piercing that was bad against zombies?