[OOC]Prologue - Peru, March 1921

[Raiko]

I'll be able to make a new post tonight from home.

I fell asleep while preparing to post last night, sorry for the delay.

I'll make sure I've got a charger with me at work in future, just in case, although I sorted the battery drain out, so I shouldn't have the same problem (plus I'm quite a lot more familiar with most of the main adventure). I needed to check whether de Mendoza could even speak English at all.

I'll make another post tomorrow, after seeing whether anyone has anything else they'd like to ask Augustus Larkin.

[Zero]

Any chance that I could make an Occult roll to see if Atauchi has ever heard any oral Inca folktales passed down about a possible precursor civilization in the area? His primary tongue is the same that was spoken by the Inca, after all, I suspect some of the stories have survived.

[Raiko]

Any chance that I could make an Occult roll to see if Atauchi has ever heard any oral Inca folktales passed down about a possible precursor civilization in the area? His primary tongue is the same that was spoken by the Inca, after all, I suspect some of the stories have survived.

Yes of course. In future everyone, you may as well make the roll when you ask if it's okay to roll. I can always say no, but you may as well roll straight away to save time.

[Zero]

Cool. That's what we do in my other game, but I wasn't sure about your game's etiquette standards, so I figured I'd ask first.

[Zero]

Man... these dice have been brutal thus far. Let's hope that doesn't last.

[Raiko]

I'm not sure if anyone has medicine skill, but please make a single roll against spot hidden and medicine skill (you only need to be successful against one skill, not both, but only roll once).

Successful Spot Hidden or Medicine Roll,As well as sweating profusely, Larkin has also grown noticeably paler as the evening has worn on and his hands have a noticeable tremor. [i]If you passed against [b]medicine[/b], you additionally gain the following information:[/i] [spoiler]Medicine success: Larkin's symptoms are the same as those of opiate withdrawal.[/spoiler]

Edit: I stand corrected, John has pretty good medicine skill.

Man... these dice have been brutal thus far. Let's hope that doesn't last.

Better to get the bad rolls out of the way now, before Bad Things(TM) begin to occur.

[Raiko]

I'm not sure whether John was referring to the food?

But I'd forgotten to finish Larkin's description of his travel plans, so I took the opportunity.

Don't forget to roll for John, as above - he's the only one with a reasonable chance to pass the medicine skill roll.

[HelplessBystander]

Oh no worries, I was referring to his travel plans.

Going to roll for medicine now.

[Zero]

lol... with the drop of that bombshell, this is where I think most of the group will say "Eff this, I'm out."

[Raiko]

lol... with the drop of that bombshell, this is where I think most of the group will say "Eff this, I'm out."

Eek

Well, for the moment everyone's sat / stood in the bar in Lima. So we'll see where the future takes us.

[Zero]

I'm speaking from an IC perspective. OOC, the players are still interested in knowing which of them are full of it.

[Raiko]

I'm speaking from an IC perspective. OOC, the players are still interested in knowing which of them are full of it.

Oh I agree. This prologue works great though, because the kind of person who voluntarily sticks around IC is exactly the kind of person who'd be contacted at the start of the main adventure - which was one of the minor flaws with the original.

More sensible people would run for their lives.

[Mr. Handy]

If I'd known this was coming, I would have spent that point of Luck to succeed on the roll.

[HelplessBystander]

true, true

[Zero]

Man... at this rate none of us will increase in any of skills for the entirety of the campaign. xD

Oh, and FYI, qayqa translates as crazy.

[Raiko]

If your dice rolling luck doesn't change, you're all likely to be dead / insane long before the end of the campaign!

Regarding the kharisiri, while that particular name might be regional, it's very unlikely that Atauchi has never heard of them by the name pishtaco.

[Zero]

I'm rather fond of pistachios.

Oh... pishtaco. Gotcha. Nice, there's a even an entire writeup on them. Saving that to my campaign folder.

[Raiko]

Although it might look like I'm pushing you into waiting until the morning, that's just Jackson. If you want to do something during the night, then that's okay. I would like to move along though.

So assuming that the consensus is to go along with Jackson Elias for now, and assuming nothing goes bump in the night, then I'll move things along to Monday morning and the visit to Professor Sánchez at the University of San Marcos, rather than continuing to throw Jackson's exposition monologues at you.

[Silver Priest]

That's fine with me.

[Mallet]

I'm rather fond of pistachios.

Oh... pishtaco.

Isn't that a form of aviary disease ?