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Posted: **Mon Aug 06, 2018 12:19 am**

Out of character chat for the Peru chapter.

: Peru & Lima Map - 1921

This article and/or similarly worded adverts appear in newspapers and academic notices in several major US and European cities / universities:

Expedition Advert

Anyone who makes inquiries about joining Larkin's expedition quickly receives the following Telegram:

: Telegram from Augustus Larkin

Posted: **Mon Aug 06, 2018 12:37 am**

If you set yourself as Standard Moderator (the default) when you created the forum, that may be why you can't change posts' authors. Only Full Moderators (or custom settings with that ability selected) can do that.

Posted: **Mon Aug 06, 2018 12:46 am**

Thanks, I'll test it out again:

Post to test "change author again!"

Posted: **Mon Aug 06, 2018 12:57 am**

Nope!

I checked, and I'd already set myself with Full-Moderator (and I applied it again just in case), but I still can't change authors - I tried a random post in the pre-game thread as well, just in case it was only a problem with my own post.
The option's there, and it lets me select a new author, but doesn't actually switch it when I confirm.

No worries though, it's a minor thing and I think I've only ever used in on "cast-of-characters" posts before (to give away abandoned investigators). You'll all just have to re-post your investigators into the new thread yourselves.

Posted: **Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:13 am**

I've now tweaked the first post to include the initial three handouts.

IC Thread on it's way!

Posted: **Mon Aug 06, 2018 2:08 am**

I always make myself a Full Moderator for my own games, but I've never actually tried to change a post's author myself, so I don't when it stopped working. I just post and maintain everyone's character sheets rather than relying on players to do it. Whenever I need to make a change (Sanity and HP adjustments, skill checks, inventory updates, and the like), I do it myself and make sure that everything is up to date and correct. Of course, I never found the time to post character sheets for the non-TARDIS crew in The Brotherhood of Death, which was a problem, but I managed to get through it and made sure the sheets were done for the next adventure before it started.

Posted: **Mon Aug 06, 2018 2:17 am**

IC thread is up.

You can post as much or as little as you wish regarding how exactly you made your way to Lima. You can either be already checked into the Hotel Maury (of which I'll post details later), or can head directly to the bar.
If your character made enquiries before departure then post something here in the OOC thread, or PM me and I'll get back to you.

Assume that although you may have crossed paths in the hotel earlier today, you have not spoken to each other - apart from John and Marcus - prior to arriving at the bar to meet with Augustus Larkin.

Mr. Handy wrote:I always make myself a Full Moderator for my own games, but I've never actually tried to change a post's author myself, so I don't when it stopped working. I just post and maintain everyone's character sheets rather than relying on players to do it. Whenever I need to make a change (Sanity and HP adjustments, skill checks, inventory updates, and the like), I do it myself and make sure that everything is up to date and correct. Of course, I never found the time to post character sheets for the non-TARDIS crew in The Brotherhood of Death, which was a problem, but I managed to get through it and made sure the sheets were done for the next adventure before it started.

I've used it before (on the original Masks game and BtMoM), but I don't think it was working in our previous Masks game. No worries though, I'll let you all post your characters - I prefer player posted sheets, so we can both edit when needed.

Posted: **Tue Aug 07, 2018 2:33 am**

Amy - and anyone else as they arrive and meet the three strangers - can make the following rolls:

Psychology
Spot Hidden
English Language (Hard - ie half value)

Posted: **Tue Aug 07, 2018 1:07 pm**

Kabukiman has let me know that he's currently on holiday and so can't guarantee posting often, so I'll look after Anderson between kakukiman's posts. Try to avoid needing too many direct responses from Anderson/kabukiman until he's back from his hols.

I'll make Anderson's dice rolls later, and also give the results to those who've already rolled.

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:34 am**

For those who passed a spot hidden roll: For those who passed a psychology roll: For those who passed a Hard (half value) English language check:

Posted: **Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:38 am**

Rolls for Anderson:

Posted: **Thu Aug 09, 2018 12:05 am**

I'm going to wait a few hours and make my next post in the morning (it's midnight here) to give chance for those who've not posted yet to arrive.

If you're online in the meantime feel free to chat in character - don't queue up too many questions for the NPCs please.

I'll make at least a couple of IC posts tomorrow to get the three NPCs chatting with you about the expedition and answering your questions.

Anyone who's not joined in after tomorrow will need to try and catch up.

Posted: **Thu Aug 09, 2018 12:09 am**

If my character looks good, then I'll join in tonight. I was just kind of waiting for the go ahead from you.

Posted: **Thu Aug 09, 2018 12:33 am**

Zero wrote:If my character looks good, then I'll join in tonight. I was just kind of waiting for the go ahead from you.

Ah right, sorry yes. Everyone's characters are fine. I'll double check exact numbers over the next few days, before anything dramatic happens, but everyone's okay to post in character.

Posted: **Thu Aug 09, 2018 12:38 am**

Splendid.

I did the best I could to get my die rolls to suit the character I had in mind beforehand. Some of the numbers seem a bit odd, but it is what it is.

Posted: **Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:52 pm**

Now that we're going, please could everyone make sure that they have subscribed to this sub-forum and/or the IC and OOC threads? Although I feel slightly hypocritical, given that my previous game(s) stalled due to my own absences, I am determined to keep this game moving fast. I'm hoping to get the time per chapter down to six-eight months rather than one-two years, and to complete this prologue within about two months. So if we can keep a good pace we can hopefully complete the entire campaign in three-four years.

@Zero: Note that the Bar Cordano is a restaurant and is not a part of the Hotel Maury.

@Zero and Mallet: Feel free to make the same Spot Hidden, Psychology and HARD English Language checks as everyone else - the results of successful rolls are as given in the spoilers of my earlier post.

Going forward, I'm going to do my best to provide spoiler tag wrapped results for dice checks that I request, so that the game doesn't slow down by maybe another day or two while I ask a roll, you make the roll, I PM the information and then you make another post.

This isn't a campaign that hides vital evidence behind a skill roll, if you search the right desk or defeat the right bad-guy, then you'll collect the relevant handouts and all the vital clues are handouts. So skill rolls just provide extra details rather than key plot-essential information.

Regarding skill rolls, for anyone not familiar with 7e - take a look later at the rules n stuff thread. I'll add some notes about using luck points and pushing rolls. Those are the most significant changes from earlier editions, but they are rules that you need to make use of yourselves - I'll never ask you to push a roll or to spend luck points myself.

I'll add those notes later today.

Posted: **Thu Aug 09, 2018 2:00 pm**

For anyone who makes a successful Archaeology roll:

Posted: **Thu Aug 09, 2018 6:20 pm**

Oh, my bad. Not sure why I thought the bar was adjacent to the hotel lobby. Not to worry, I can adjust my previous post then. As for the rolls, it had gotten late, and I forgot all about them. I'll include the rolls in my follow up, thanks.

Posted: **Thu Aug 09, 2018 6:32 pm**

Zero wrote:Oh, my bad. Not sure why I thought the bar was adjacent to the hotel lobby. Not to worry, I can adjust my previous post then. As for the rolls, it had gotten late, and I forgot all about them. I'll include the rolls in my follow up, thanks.

No problem at all.

Posted: **Fri Aug 10, 2018 3:10 pm**

I've had some problems with battery drain on my phone today and unfortunately my phone is the only way I can access these forums or the book pdfs while at work. I had planned to make a lunchtime post, but can't do without checking some details in the adventure.

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

Posted: **Sat Aug 11, 2018 8:29 pm**

Raiko wrote: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.

Posted: **Sat Aug 11, 2018 9:16 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat Aug 11, 2018 11:23 pm**

Zero wrote: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.

Posted: **Sat Aug 11, 2018 11:38 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sun Aug 12, 2018 10:13 am**

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

Posted: **Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:09 am**

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

Zero wrote: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.

Posted: **Mon Aug 13, 2018 1:40 pm**

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.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 12:18 am**

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

Going to roll for medicine now.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 6:34 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 7:20 pm**

Zero wrote: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.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 7:27 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 7:38 pm**

Zero wrote: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.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2018 2:20 am**

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

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2018 5:02 am**

true, true

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2018 8:43 am**

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.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:19 am**

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.

Posted: **Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:23 am**

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.

Posted: **Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:21 pm**

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.

Posted: **Fri Aug 17, 2018 6:37 pm**

That's fine with me.

Posted: **Sat Aug 18, 2018 1:15 am**

Zero wrote:I'm rather fond of pistachios.

Oh... pishtaco.

Isn't that a form of aviary disease ?

Posted: **Sat Aug 18, 2018 4:24 am**

I'm ready to move on too, but that should be Saturday morning. Monday morning is when we're supposed to set out on the expedition.

Posted: **Sat Aug 18, 2018 11:07 am**

That's okay by me as well.

Posted: **Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:33 am**

Well, the good news is Atauchi will see anyone who may be surveilling he or the other investigators, the bad news is, they also will see him... lol. Let me know if I get to check that skill, Raiko.

Posted: **Sun Aug 19, 2018 4:53 pm**

I've got a half written post on my laptop from last night. Unfortunately I didn't have time to finish and have been busy with family stuff today.

Will finish the post this evening.

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2018 12:54 am**

Raiko wrote:I've got a half written post on my laptop from last night. Unfortunately I didn't have time to finish and have been busy with family stuff today.

Will finish the post this evening.

Done!

Sorry I didn't get it finished on Saturday. I sometimes get carried away looking for pictures and historic details when a change of scene happens - and I knew next to nothing about Peru before the new edition of Masks was released.

Posted: **Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:05 am**

Okay. HelplessBystander is on holiday this week, so John will remain upstairs for now.

Kabukiman's been on holiday for two weeks, I'm not sure if he's back, but I've PMed him.

So at the moment there are only three actively posting players.

Kabukiman, Mallet and VashShotFirst: if any of you are lurking and following the story without posting, please post in character within the next 24 hours if you want your investigator involved at the museum. After that I'll assume that they remained at the Hotel Maury, so that only John plus any investigators with active players are here with Jackson and Sánchez.

Posted: **Thu Aug 23, 2018 3:36 am**

I've got a day at the beach planned for tomorrow, but I should be able to get online once I get back in the evening.

Posted: **Thu Aug 23, 2018 9:52 am**

Okay, please could someone make me a group luck roll?

Any of you can make it, and regardless of whether it's just the three of you, or others join you need to use Atauchi's luck score of 40%, as that'll be the lowest.

I'll be writing an IC post a little later, so this group luck roll isn't holding anything up.

Whichever player whose investigator is down in yhe basement reads this first, please make the roll.

Posted: **Thu Aug 23, 2018 7:39 pm**

Oof, sorry guys. Well, at least I got an extreme on the listen roll.

Posted: **Fri Aug 24, 2018 4:54 pm**

Sorry, I was extremely tired when I finally did get home from my trip sometime after 10 PM. I was dead to the work within an hour. I'll catch myself up now.

Posted: **Sat Aug 25, 2018 12:05 am**

Zero wrote:Sorry, I was extremely tired when I finally did get home from my trip sometime after 10 PM. I was dead to the work within an hour. I'll catch myself up now.

No worries, I've fallen asleep writing posts at night a couple of times in this game already.

I'm aiming to make a post at least once per day that actually advances the plot, plus any "one liner" posts that are needed to keep npc conversations going without you needing to wait for my "daily post".

And then I want to move between "titled sections" of the adventure at least once per week if possible.

So far that's working out fine, which means we might get through everything, so thank you.

Posted: **Sat Aug 25, 2018 3:28 am**

@Raiko, Would Atauchi notice that the others (who heard the footsteps) are being more stealthy? Or will he be moving in normally?

Posted: **Sat Aug 25, 2018 7:29 pm**

I think it's quite reasonable that he would try to be stealthy in this situation regardless.

I'll update the in character thread in a couple of hours.

Sorry for the hold up, ive been figuring out how to setup a Roll20 game for my regular tabletop group.

Posted: **Mon Aug 27, 2018 12:44 am**

As HelplessBystander is back from his hols, and the IC thread at Sánchez's office is active, then I'm happy for anyone whose investigator isn't in the basement to be in the office with Sánchez and John - but you need to be able to post every day or two (and within a day if someone is waiting for you), otherwise it's easier for me if you're at the hotel for now.

Alternatively, if you're able to post regularly, but don't want to be at the museum, then just post that you're beginning another activity starting out from the Hotel Maury.

I've not heard back from kabukiman, so I assume he's still on holiday.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 5:17 am**

Argh, I feel like one of us needs to get this Spot Hidden roll to avoid losing the attacker. And unless Jackson gets a roll none of us seem to have made it.

Is there any way I could Push the roll to try and get a second shot at spotting our guy or gal? Also, if I push a roll, can I then spend luck on it if I miss it a second time?

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 5:41 am**

Silver Priest wrote:Argh, I feel like one of us needs to get this Spot Hidden roll to avoid losing the attacker. And unless Jackson gets a roll none of us seem to have made it.

Is there any way I could Push the roll to try and get a second shot at spotting our guy or gal? Also, if I push a roll, can I then spend luck on it if I miss it a second time?

Heh, I've never seen dice, tangible or otherwise behave in such a way. If this isn't proof that the mythos is real, then I don't know what is...

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 10:47 am**

Yes you can push your roll if you like.

In this case it is simply a case of slowing down and spending longer looking in every direction for someone, who you're sure must be there.

If you fail, then the consequences will likely just be that you are too late or too far away, eg to give first aid, or to catch the culprit if he/she/it breaks cover. Or you might end up being ambushed.

You are allowed spend luck to pass a failed pushed roll.

Since you're possibly pushing your roll, I'm going to roll now for Mallet/Antoine and also for Jackson and Professor Sánchez:

Antoine: Jackson Elias: Professor Sánchez:

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 10:54 am**

That's actually a success for Sánchez, so I'll make an IC post during my lunch (in an hour or two).

Jackson seems to share your luck.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 1:13 pm**

In the absence of an actual map of the museum / university I've grabbed a couple of extra modern photos of that side of the university and the park.

Note that the German Clock Tower that dominates the park in these images will only be constructed in 1923.

I'm assuming that the rest of the park then was roughly how it appears now, including statues / monuments being in the same place, even if they weren't the same ones!

The wounded lady is on the paved path that is on the left hand side of this first image - close to the location of the smaller statue (the one in front of the bell tower).
Luis de Mendoza is trying to use the trees as cover while making his way towards the right hand of the two doors (the two white painted bands each has an entrance). Professor Sánchez's office is to the left of that door - one of the windows facing the white statue.

Looking at the second image below, the "side entrance" that the investigators followed de Mendoza though opens onto the street on the left of the image. You have then run around to the side with the park, but you are still on the paved area that is between the park and the museum in the image above.
De Mendoza is now trying to run across the paved area towards the entrance. If you try to shoot him, you'll only have time for one shot, because of the cover from the statue right in the middle of that paved area.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 2:34 pm**

I've moved Kabukiman and Mallet's character sheet posts from the pre-game thread into the Investigators thread, with their skills now fixed.

They each need to lose 1d10+5 sanity as well, due to their wartime experiences.

Michael Anderson's SAN loss:
[dice]0[/dice]

Professor Antoine D’Estaing's SAN loss:
[dice]1[/dice]

Ouch! Sorry about that guys. You both really had it bad in the war.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 7:49 pm**

I do feel rather bad for the poor unfortunate woman. None of us seem all that concerned with helping her.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 7:51 pm**

Oops again.

One last thing that I should have added, de Mendoza is roughly 60 yards away from the Investigators who are pursuing him.

Which might have a considerable effect on the accuracy of handgun shots - I honestly need to look up the rules, I'm so used to gun fights being at really close range.

And yes, he poor lady!

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 7:59 pm**

Are we roughly the same distance apart still? As long as he's not put further distance between us I'll keep chasing him. Otherwise Marcus may need to risk taking that shot.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 8:11 pm**

He is running across your track in front of you, and has to run about 20 yards to reach the door.

So assuming you're roughly as fast as each other, you'll close to about 40 yards if you wait as long as possible (and fire while running), or about 50 yards if you stop to shoot.

Jackson also has a gun, but obviously you've no idea if he's a better or worse shot.

There's little chance of hitting a bystander fortunately, as the park is mostly empty and no one will be running forwards the guns or the knife.

Posted: **Wed Aug 29, 2018 10:05 pm**

Silver Priest wrote:Are we roughly the same distance apart still?

When you came around the corner I had you at about 50 yards from the wounded lady and about 80 yards or so from the museum entrance.

So you've got closer.

Looking at the rules though, it's likely to be a very long range shot if you fire.

Posted: **Thu Aug 30, 2018 3:53 am**

I would have stopped to help the woman if I had been up there, but I didn't know what was going to happen when I chose to stay in the basement. I was wondering if maybe I heard the scream from down there, so I took the liberty of rolling Listen, but I failed. Maybe it was loud enough that I heard it anyway, but that's up to you.

Posted: **Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:42 pm**

Unfortunately Jackson appears to only have default first aid skill. Also unfortunately, this is taking his .45 revolver out of the fight for now. But I think he'd stop to help, even if it guaranteed de Mendoza's escape.

As we're likely to be switching to the chase rules, here's a list of MOVs ranked by DEX.
I need everyone to make a CON roll, as this modifies MOV during a chase.

The chase is sort of two-in-one, because initially at least de Mendoza would like to try and reach John and the professors, before Atauchi and the others can reach him.

DEX 75 Atauchi: MOV 9
NPC 75 Luis de Mendoza: MOV 7
NPC 65 Professor Sánchez: MOV 8
NPC 65 Jackson Elias: MOV 6
DEX 50 Antoine: MOV 6
DEX 40 Marcus: MOV 7
DEX 35 John: MOV 7

Also:
DEX 60 Amy: MOV 8

The chase will begin with de Mendoza inside the door and "two locations" from the office. The second of the "locations" is the closed office door, which might be a "barrier" if John and Sánchez can block it. They have one round before the "chase" starts.

If Marcus shoots and disables/kills de Mendoza, then the chase in cancelled.

Please post what you are doing at least once every day until this combat encounter / chase is over. I have no intention of waiting days for everyone to post in initiative order, so just post IC what you're trying to do and use OOC tags to give a "Plan B" in case it's impossible to complete your original plan.

I'll make a post to try and sort everything into order. Whenever I post, I'll give everyone 24 hours before I post again (although I'll post earlier if possible, if I've seen an action from everyone).

If 24 hours goes by without a post from a player, then I reserve the right to have them do as I wish to keep the story going. These guidelines apply to all future combats, as far as possible I'll stick 100% to the rulebook, with a little tiny bit of leeway / dramatic licence to avoid a "boardgame" / "your turn now" feel. Eg if / when Atauchi catches de Mendoza it might be half way down the corridor, rather than teleporting 30 yards to the door.

Mr. Handy wrote:I would have stopped to help the woman if I had been up there, but I didn't know what was going to happen when I chose to stay in the basement. I was wondering if maybe I heard the scream from down there, so I took the liberty of rolling Listen, but I failed. Maybe it was loud enough that I heard it anyway, but that's up to you.

As the doors are open, I'd have let you hear the screaming if you'd rolled a hard success. The basement is pretty cut off sound wise, poor Trinidad Rizo screamed quite a lot earlier.

If anyone fires a gun, inside or outside the museum, then Amy can make a listen roll with a bonus die to hear the gunshot.

Posted: **Thu Aug 30, 2018 6:12 pm**

Well, good luck guys. Marcus just shot a bird out of the sky.

Posted: **Fri Aug 31, 2018 1:38 am**

HelplessBystander wrote:
OOC: Okay, Raiko, would you mind telling me how the chase rules work?

Firstly everyone's move stat is adjusted by +1/0/-1 by their CON roll.
Then if "hunted" is faster than "hunter" then I just need to describe how they get away.
Otherwise I just need to describe how we get to the point where the faster pursuer has almost caught their prey. The rules call this cutting to the chase.
Then for the final part where the prey will either be caught or pull off a dramatic escape, movement is abstracted into locations, hazards and barriers, hopefully with enough variety for the chase To not be a foregone conclusion.

I'm not sure how it'll work in practice, but it look okay for this.

OOC: As well as the CON rolls, I'll need climb rolls from Antoine and perhaps John as they try to get out of the window quickly, or if either of them helps Sánchez barricade the door I'll need a mechanical repair roll.

Posted: **Fri Aug 31, 2018 2:04 am**

I can usually post once per day, but it may not necessarily be within 24 hours, depending on what time I can get on and post. It's quite possible that I'll post 27 hours after the previous day's post or something like that. On weekends I can often get on multiple times per day, but during the week I'm at work, so I can only post at night.

Posted: **Fri Aug 31, 2018 12:51 pm**

I just need to make some CON rolls for Antoine and the three NPCs:

Antoine CON(60%):
[dice]0[/dice]

Jackson CON roll:
[dice]1[/dice]
Sánchez CON roll:
[dice]2[/dice]
De Mendoza CON roll:
[dice]3[/dice]

Incidentally, I was worried by all your dice rolls, so I made loads of test 1d100 rolls on the admin page, and it appears that you're all just unlucky!

Posted: **Fri Aug 31, 2018 12:58 pm**

For chases, an exceptional success on the CON roll increases MOV by 1 for the duration, while a failure reduced MOV by 1. So here's the modified list.

DEX 75 Atauchi: MOV 8
NPC 75 Luis de Mendoza: MOV 7
NPC 65 Professor Sánchez: MOV 9
NPC 65 Jackson Elias: MOV 6
DEX 50 Antoine: MOV 5
DEX 40 Marcus: MOV 7
DEX 35 John: MOV 7

Also:
DEX 60 Amy: MOV 8

Posted: **Fri Aug 31, 2018 2:09 pm**

Okay, turns out I'm not a fan of the chase rules.
Switching to narrative mode!

Mr. Handy wrote:I can usually post once per day, but it may not necessarily be within 24 hours, depending on what time I can get on and post. It's quite possible that I'll post 27 hours after the previous day's post or something like that. On weekends I can often get on multiple times per day, but during the week I'm at work, so I can only post at night.

I think that time zone differences will mean that, nobody will have trouble fitting in between two of my updates (mostly around midday UK in the week – mostly in the morning or evening at weekend).

I'm not going to ruthlessly slaughter characters if you miss a daily post anyway, I just want to get through a round of combat per day if possible.

I've been emailing anyone who's missed posting and may be in danger.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 1:02 am**

I kinda wish I dumped at least a few points into melee fighting, heh. I have a 1 in 4 chance at succeeding here.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 1:26 am**

Zero wrote:I kinda wish I dumped at least a few points into melee fighting, heh. I have a 1 in 4 chance at succeeding here.

Eek! Atauchi might be a little out of his depth here.
Hopefully Antoine can even the odds.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 1:28 am**

Yeah, it didn't help that Marcus abandoned the pursuit, heh. I was kind of counting on being able to overbear the guy. -.-

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 1:30 am**

Believe me, Marcus already has quite a lot of regrets about this encounter. Had he been sneakier or a better shot, this never would have happened.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 1:39 am**

I'm pretty sure the target is the professor, so if anyone should have been fleeing, I kind of expected it to be him. Right now, all that's going to save Atauchi is Antoine because de Mendoza is jacked up on some sort of super soldier serum. He could basically one shot my investigator, which is nuts.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 2:40 am**

Calculating Sanity Loss as per War Experience Package

Result
Verification Key:
4375493a-4965-40ec-81a0-ee24b9c5fc89
Verification URL:
http://www.dholeshouse.org/Tools/DiceVe ... 24b9c5fc89
Character Name: Antoine D'Estaing
Campaign/Game: Masks
Reason for the Roll/Details : Sanity Loss War Package
Dice Rolled: 1d10+5 rolled.
Target: Dice Roll Total: 7

Sanity Loss: 7

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 2:43 am**

Antoine D'Estaing updated per War Experience Package:

Character Sheet Antoine D’Estaing

Name : Antoine D’Estaing, PhD Linguistics
Player : Roger Hobden
Occupation : Doctor of Linguistics
Age : 43
Birthplace : Nancy, France
Residence : Paris, France
Height : 5' 11"
Weight : 162 lbs
Hair : Brown
Eyes : Brown

Characteristics & Rolls:
STR : 40
CON : 60
SIZ : 60
DEX : 50
APP : 45
SAN : 63
INT : 60
POW : 70
EDU : 85
Idea : 80
Luck : 50
Know : 70

Cthulhu Mythos : 00
Damage Bonus : +1d4

Sanity Points: 70
Magic Points: 14
Hit Points: 12

Investigator Skills:
340 occupation points spent: History 67, Library Use 66, Other Language(Greek) 69, Other Language(Latin) 69, Science (Cryptography) 69
120 personal interest points spent: Credit Rating 20, Persuasion 50, Psychology 50.
30 War Experience Package points: Fighting 25, Listen 20, Spot Hidden 25

( ) [10%] Accounting
( ) [01%] Anthropology
( ) [05%] Appraise
( ) [01%] Archaeology
( ) [05%] Art/Craft
( ) [01%] Astronomy
( ) [05%] Bargain
( ) [01%] Biology
( ) [15%] Charm
( ) [01%] Chemistry
( ) [40%] Climb
( ) [15%] Conceal
( ) [05%] Craft
( ) [70%] Credit Rating; Pers + 20 pts
( ) [00%] Cthulhu Mythos
( ) [01%] Disguise
( ) [25%] Dodge DEX / 2
( ) [20%] Drive Auto
( ) [10%] Electrical Repair
( ) [05%] Fast Talk
( ) [50%] Fighting (Brawl/ Sword) ; War + 25 pts
( ) [20%] Firearms(Handguns)
( ) [25%] Firearms(Rifle/Shotgun)
( ) [01%] Biology
( ) [30%] First Aid
( ) [01%] Geology
( ) [10%] Hide
( ) [87%] History; Occ + 67 pts
( ) [20%] Jump
( ) [70%] Language-Other (Greek); Occ + 69 pts
( ) [70%] Language-Other (Latin) ; Occ + 69 pts
( ) [85%] Language-Own (English)
( ) [85%] Language-Own (French)
( ) [05%] Law
( ) [86%] Library Use; Occ + 66pts
( ) [20%] Listen; War + 20 pts
( ) [01%] Locksmith
( ) [01%] Martial Arts
( ) [10%] Mechanical Repair
( ) [01%] Medicine
( ) [10%] Natural World
( ) [10%] Navigate
( ) [05%] Occult
( ) [01%] Operate Heavy Machine
( ) [60%] Persuade; Pers + 50 pts
( ) [01%] Pharmacy
( ) [10%] Photography
( ) [01%] Physics
( ) [01%] Pilot
( ) [01%] Psychoanalysis
( ) [60%] Psychology ; Pers + 50 pts
( ) [05%] Ride
( ) [20%] Running
( ) [70%] Science (Cryptography) ; Occ + 69 pts
( ) [10%] Sleight of Hand
( ) [10%] Sneak
( ) [50%] Spot Hidden ; War + 25 pts
( ) [20%] Stealth
( ) [20%] Swim
( ) [40%] Throw
( ) [10%] Track

Firearms:

( ) [20%] Handgun
( ) [15%] Machine Gun
( ) [25%] Rifle
( ) [30%] Shotgun
( ) [15%] SMG

Weapons:
Bare hands: 1d4
Sword cane : 1d6 +1+1d4
Revolver model 1892 (8 mm): 1d8 ; 15 yards; 1(3) ; 6 rounds.

Personal Description:
He dresses in the style of university teachers. Medium height and weight. Sports a beard. Non-smoker.

Ideology/ beliefs:
He believes that the goal of life is to acquire true knowledge through the use of a scientific method. He is very pragmatic, and will use whatever works. Rational thought is the epitome of human endeavour.

Significant people:
He is very devoted to his parents and brothers and sisters. A few people that he met during the war became true friends, notably Bernard De Grandeville.

Meaningful locations:
He is very attached to his home in Meudon.

Treasured possessions:
The watch of his grand-father.

Traits:
Jovial and bon vivant, he nevertheless never loses his natural seriousness. An officer during the Great War, he was injured and was transferred after that to the Deuxième Bureau (Military Intelligence), of which he never talks about.

Injuries and scars:
Has a slight limp in the right leg. Uses a walking stick. He has a minor scar on the right thigh.

Insanity Episodes :
None

Phobias and Manias:
None
Arcane tomes, spells and artifacts:
None

Encounters with strange entities:
None

Gear and equipment :
Sword cane
Revolver model 1892 8mm
One hundred bullets.
Pocket watch.
Pocket knife.
Pen.
Notepad.

War Experience Package:
Immune to sanity losses resulting from viewing a corpse or gross injury.
Income & Savings:

Income : 7,000 as a lecturer and research fellow
Cash In Hand : 2,000 in account
Savings : 4,000 in war bonds
Personal Property : 5,000 in scientific books. Citroen.
Real Estate : 20,000 as owner of family home.

Investigator History :

Born on January 31st 1879 in the city of Nantes, from a French father and a British mother, Antoine Marie-Francis D’Estaing is now a 43 year old bachelor and a well respected linguist .

He spent his childhood and teenage years in Nantes, and then went to Paris to earn his Diplôme en Lettres. He does his military service in 1900. After having spent a few years travelling across Europe as a tourist he resumes his academic career. After having earned his PhD in Linguistics, he travels to Switzerland and teaches in Geneva for a few years alongside such luminaries as Ferdinand de Saussure.

He returns to Paris in the early 1910s and teaches Linguistics at la Sorbonne in Paris, publishes many articles and book chapters that are very well regarded not only locally but at an International level. He has an active correspondance with linguists across the world. He is also heavily involved with the Société de Linguistique de Paris.

When the Great War breaks out, he is one of the first to enlist and serves as an officer but gets injured in the right thigh in 1914. Following his injury, he is reallocated to the Deuxième Bureau (military Intelligence), and rapidly the french army realized that his distinct skills can be put to greater use inside of this department. He rapidly rises through the hierarchy, but, having an instinctive distaste about the underlying political issues, is quite content to serve his country at an intermediary level of responsibilities.

Once the war is over, he returns to the passion of his life, linguistics. When asked about what he did during the war, he simple says “j’étais avec le Deuxième Bureau” and changes the subject.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 3:11 am**

Heh, and I thought my rolls have been bad. @Mallet Did I just see you roll two 1s?

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 3:12 am**

Yep ...

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 12:58 pm**

Mallet, I'm sorry, but as per my emails and PM's:

You only get one Language(own), regardless of your upbringing - not realistic, but balanced. If you wish to be bilingual, then your second language must be bought with skill points.
You must pay for your initial credit rating, with occupational skill points. I can't remember how it worked in 6th edition, but in 7e it begins at 00% - so you must spend at least 20 points of occupational skills on credit rating for a professor. You are okay increasing it with personal interest points, but must spend 20-50 points of occupational skills first.
As an officer during the great war I'm afraid you must pick from the officer wartime experience package, which doesn't include fighting(brawl).
Unforunately, fighting has specialisations and sword is one of them, it defaults to fighting(sword): 20%, so you need to spend 30 points of personal interest skills to get it up to 50%
Your skill list still includes some skills which no longer exist in 7e - eg: hide,sneak,various skills which are now science specialisations.
Some of your defaults also use 6e value rather than 7e - eg history default is now 5%
Sword canes do 1d6 damage, and Antoine doesn't have a damage bonus

At the start of this encounter, I had to post the tweaked character that I'd PMed to you earlier into the cast of characters thread. It is here.

I've tweaked that again to bring it more in line with your own edits, feel free to tweak yet again, but you must keep the 50% fighting skill now.

It is quoted below.

Mallet wrote:Character Sheet Antoine D’Estaing

Name : Antoine D’Estaing, PhD Linguistics
Player : Roger Hobden
Occupation : Doctor of Linguistics
Age : 43
Birthplace : Nancy, France
Residence : Paris, France
Height : 5' 11"
Weight : 162 lbs
Hair : Brown
Eyes : Brown

Characteristics & Rolls:
STR : 40
CON : 60
SIZ : 60
DEX : 50
APP : 45
SAN : 70
INT : 60
POW : 70
EDU : 85
Idea : 80
Luck : 55
Know : 85

Cthulhu Mythos : 00
Damage Bonus : 0

Starting Sanity: 70
Current Sanity: 63
Magic Points: 14
Hit Points: 12

[ ]Accounting(05%)
[ ]Anthropology(01%)
[ ]Appraise(05%)
[ ]Archaeology(01%)
[ ]Art/Craft(05%)
[ ]Charm(15%)
[ ]Climb(20%)
[ ]Credit Rating(00%): 54%
[ ]Cthulhu Mythos(00%)
[ ]Disguise(05%)
[ ]Dodge DEX / 2(25%)
[ ]Drive Auto(20%)
[ ]Electrical Repair(10%)
[ ]Fast Talk(05%)
[ ]Fighting (Brawl)(25%)
[ ]Fighting (Sword)(20%): 50%
[ ]Firearms(Handguns)(20%)
[ ]Firearms(Rifle/Shotgun)(25%)
[ ]First Aid(30%)
[ ]History(05%): 60%
[ ]Intimidate(15%)
[ ]Jump(20%)
[ ]Language-Other (Greek)(01%): 70%
[ ]Language-Other (Latin) (01%): 70%
[ ]Language-Other (English)(01%): 60%
[ ]Language-Own (French)(85%)
[ ]Law(05%)
[ ]Library Use(20%): 75%
[ ]Listen(20%): 30%
[ ]Locksmith(01%)
[ ]Mechanical Repair(10%)
[ ]Medicine(01%)
[ ]Natural World(10%)
[ ]Navigate(10%)
[ ]Occult(05%)
[ ]Operate Heavy Machine(01%)
[ ]Persuade (10%): 60%
[ ]Pilot(01%)
[ ]Psychoanalysis(01%)
[ ]Psychology (10%): 45%
[ ]Ride(05%)
[ ]Science (Cryptography) (01%): 35%
[ ]Sleight of Hand(10%)
[ ]Spot Hidden (25%): 45%
[ ]Stealth(20%)
[ ]Swim(20%)
[ ]Survival(10%)
[ ]Throw(20%)
[ ]Track(10%)

Occupational Skills,[u][b]Occupational Skills: 340pts[/b][/u] Credit Rating 43 History 55 Language-Other(English) 59 Language-Other(Greek) 69 Language-Other(Latin) 69 Library Use 55
Personal Interest Skills,[u][b]Personal Interest Skills: 120pts[/b][/u] Credit Rating 11 Fighting(Sword):30 Psychology 35 Science (Cryptography) 34 Spot Hidden 10
Wartime Experience Package,[u][b]Wartime Experience Package: 70pts[/b][/u] Persuade 50 Listen 10 Spot Hidden 10
Weapons:
Bare hands(25%): 1d3
Sword cane(50%) : 1d6
Revolver model 1892 (8 mm)(20%): 1d8 ; 15 yards; 1(3) ; 6 rounds.

Personal Description:
He dresses in the style of university teachers. Medium height and weight. Sports a beard. Non-smoker.

Ideology/ beliefs:
He believes that the goal of life is to acquire true knowledge through the use of a scientific method. He is very pragmatic, and will use whatever works. Rational thought is the epitome of human endeavour.

Significant people:
He is very devoted to his parents and brothers and sisters. A few people that he met during the war became true friends, notably Bernard De Grandeville.

Meaningful locations:
He is very attached to his home in Meudon.

Treasured possessions:
The watch of his grand-father.

Traits:
Jovial and bon vivant, he nevertheless never loses his natural seriousness. An officer during the Great War, he was injured and was transferred after that to the Deuxième Bureau (Military Intelligence), of which he never talks about.

Injuries and scars:
Has a slight limp in the right leg. Uses a walking stick. He has a minor scar on the right thigh.

Insanity Episodes :
None

Phobias and Manias:
None

Arcane tomes, spells and artifacts:
None

Encounters with strange entities:
None

Gear and equipment :
Sword cane
Revolver model 1892 8mm
One hundred bullets.
Pocket watch.
Pocket knife.
Pen.
Notepad.

Income & Savings:

Income : 7,000 as a lecturer and research fellow
Cash In Hand : 2,000 in account
Savings : 4,000 in war bonds
Personal Property : 5,000 in scientific books. Citroen.
Real Estate : 20,000 as owner of family home.

Investigator History :

Born on January 31st 1879 in the city of Nantes, from a French father and a British mother, Antoine Marie-Francis D’Estaing is now a 43 year old bachelor and a well respected linguist .

He spent his childhood and teenage years in Nantes, and then went to Paris to earn his Diplôme en Lettres. He does his military service in 1900. After having spent a few years travelling across Europe as a tourist he resumes his academic career. After having earned his PhD in Linguistics, he travels to Switzerland and teaches in Geneva for a few years alongside such luminaries as Ferdinand de Saussure.

He returns to Paris in the early 1910s and teaches Linguistics at la Sorbonne in Paris, publishes many articles and book chapters that are very well regarded not only locally but at an International level. He has an active correspondance with linguists across the world. He is also heavily involved with the Société de Linguistique de Paris.

When the Great War breaks out, he is one of the first to enlist and serves as an officer but gets injured in the right thigh in 1914. Following his injury, he is reallocated to the Deuxième Bureau (military Intelligence), and rapidly the french army realized that his distinct skills can be put to greater use inside of this department. He rapidly rises through the hierarchy, but, having an instinctive distaste about the underlying political issues, is quite content to serve his country at an intermediary level of responsibilities.

Once the war is over, he returns to the passion of his life, linguistics. When asked about what he did during the war, he simple says “j’étais avec le Deuxième Bureau” and changes the subject.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 2:33 pm**

I need to make a proper update post in the IC thread, but that'll be later today.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 5:17 pm**

Sorry for the multitude of short posts, I'm on my mobile phone. Next up Amy.

I really wanted Sánchez to shout "Marines! We are leaving!"

I'll add spoiler tags to hide away all the OOC sections later, when I get time on my laptop.

Atauchi, Antoine and Marcus can all now attack de Mendoza or run for their lives or do what they wish.

If Atauchi can hang in there for about three rounds then Jackson will arrive with his revolver.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 5:25 pm**

I'm not too confident in still being standing in three rounds, honestly. I got lucky twice here, and while Atauchi is brave, he's also not stupid by any means. He knows he doesn't have the skill in melee fighting to survive this without serious backup. I am giving consideration to running into a nearby room, maybe finding a rifle or bow just lying there.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 5:40 pm**

Heh, there are several doors from this corridor leading into the main exhibit rooms.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 6:55 pm**

If Marcus shoots into the window, besides the penalty dice is his shot at normal percentile?

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 7:07 pm**

Yes, it's at normal skill at this range, just with a single penalty die.

If you fumble though, Antoine needs to make a luck roll to avoid being hit.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 7:21 pm**

Raiko wrote:If you fumble though, Antoine needs to make a luck roll to avoid being hit.

lol... you're brutal. ;D

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 8:39 pm**

I edited the OOC text in my last post, as I got a little ahead of myself.

For Atauchi, Zero should hang fire to see if Mallet posts later.

From Marcus' perspective, the result of his gunshot will be the same regardless of whether Antoine hits de Mendoza, so you can post again if you like.

@Mr Handy, sorry I've not posted for Amy yet. I'll write a post for her next.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 8:54 pm**

Oh, alright. I'll hold my post, but I'm going into NYC in about an hour and won't be back until late this evening. If I do post again today, it'll probably be morning for you by the time that I do, Raiko, heh.

Doesn't the order of attack follow Dexterity from best to worst? Atauchi's limber with a 75, everyone else goes ahead of him?

(Also, I should have given him 5 more points into his Str or Con, then he'd have a Build +1 and a melee damage bonus. Oh well.) I've been rereading the rules on combat moves, specifically disarmament. I want that knife out of his hand, but I'd also like to KO him, if possible. That way we can at least interrogate him before we kill him. I'm not trusting the police to handle him properly, so he definitely has to die one way or another.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 9:05 pm**

Yes you should have gone immediately after de Mendoza, same initiative, but lower fighting skill.

However, since you were thinking of maybe running for it, I figured you could hold your action DnD style, to see if anyone else stopped de Mendoza.

Antoine goes before Marcus, but after de Mendoza due to a higher DEX, but only because Marcus had just helped John through the window. If Marcus had already readied his gun he would have recieved a +50 bonus and acted as DEX 90.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 9:13 pm**

Ah, alright then. Makes sense. Yeah, I did want to sort of see if Antoine was going to open the door and get into the scrum before I decided what I was going to do. Silly Atauchi brought a knife to a... err... knife fight, but lacked the skill with it to do any real damage. He carries it mostly as a last resort weapon or for skinning animals he hunts. Right now I'm thinking de Mendoza would make a nice jacket.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 9:44 pm**

Have a good time in NYC, we've got plenty of posts done today anyway - and I still need to post a reply for Mr Handy.

Sorry about the slightly chaotic way of handling the fight. In the past I've asked for OOC declarations and dice rolls and then I've written up a single IC summary once per round - but then it takes me two hours to write those posts sometimes (especially when I ran a DnD 3.5 game), this way, although I need to tidy up a little, at least you get to write your own IC part and we resolve the conflict quickly.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 10:10 pm**

I think Marcus will hold his fire. Like Atauchi, he wants De Mendoza alive if possible. His next action will probably be trying to climb through the window and help subdue him.

Posted: **Sat Sep 01, 2018 10:10 pm**

Hey, we're all learning here. Most of you are relatively new to 7e, and I've done very little combat in my time using the system. I've also never used the chase rules. I hear once you figure them out, people seem to really like them, but in a PBP format, perhaps sticking to the narrative approach is best. Alright, I'm off. BBL, and good luck on your roll Mallet. Atauchi's counting on you.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 12:44 am**

Raiko wrote:Have a good time in NYC, we've got plenty of posts done today anyway - and I still need to post a reply for Mr Handy.

Sorry about the slightly chaotic way of handling the fight. In the past I've asked for OOC declarations and dice rolls and then I've written up a single IC summary once per round - but then it takes me two hours to write those posts sometimes (especially when I ran a DnD 3.5 game), this way, although I need to tidy up a little, at least you get to write your own IC part and we resolve the conflict quickly.

Don't worry, I was out today anyway, so I wasn't able to post until this evening.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 1:26 am**

Zero wrote:Oh, alright. I'll hold my post, but I'm going into NYC in about an hour and won't be back until late this evening. If I do post again today, it'll probably be morning for you by the time that I do, Raiko, heh.

Doesn't the order of attack follow Dexterity from best to worst? Atauchi's limber with a 75, everyone else goes ahead of him? (Also, I should have given him 5 more points into his Str or Con, then he'd have a Build +1 and a melee damage bonus. Oh well.) I've been rereading the rules on combat moves, specifically disarmament. I want that knife out of his hand, but I'd also like to KO him, if possible. That way we can at least interrogate him before we kill him. I'm not trusting the police to handle him properly, so he definitely has to die one way or another.

If de Mendoza is still conscious after I've included the effects of Antoine's actions, then I'll grant Atauchi a bonus die for any attacks or manoeuvres you attempt while we Mendoza is downed.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 5:44 am**

INVESTIGATOR UPDATE [ I hope I get things right this time

]

Character Sheet Antoine D’Estaing

Name : Antoine D’Estaing, PhD Linguistics
Player : Roger Hobden
Occupation : Doctor of Linguistics
Age : 43
Birthplace : Nancy, France
Residence : Paris, France
Height : 5' 11"
Weight : 162 lbs
Hair : Brown
Eyes : Brown

Characteristics & Rolls:
STR : 40
CON : 60
SIZ : 60
DEX : 50
APP : 45
SAN : 63
INT : 60
POW : 70
EDU : 85
Idea : 80
Luck : 50
Know : 70

Cthulhu Mythos : 00
Damage Bonus : 00

Sanity Points: 63
Magic Points: 14
Hit Points: 12

Investigator Skills:
Occupation Points Spent (340): History 67, Library Use 66, Other Language (English) 64, Other Language (Latin) 69, Credit Rating 49 Sword 25
Personal Interest Points Spent (120): Credit Rating 20, Persuasion 50, Psychology 50.
War Experience Package Points Spent (70): Fighting 25, Listen 20, Spot Hidden 25

( ) [10%] Accounting
( ) [01%] Anthropology
( ) [05%] Appraise
( ) [01%] Archaeology
( ) [05%] Art/Craft
( ) [15%] Charm
( ) [01%] Chemistry
( ) [40%] Climb

( ) [69 %] Credit Rating; Occ + 49 ; Pers + 20 pts
( ) [00%] Cthulhu Mythos

( ) [01%] Disguise
( ) [25%] Dodge DEX / 2
( ) [20%] Drive Auto
( ) [10%] Electrical Repair
( ) [05%] Fast Talk
( ) [25%] Fighting (Brawl) ;
( ) [50%] Fighting (Sword) ; Occ + 25 ; War + 25 pts
( ) [20%] Firearms(Handguns)
( ) [25%] Firearms(Rifle/Shotgun)
( ) [30%] First Aid
( ) [72%] History; Occ + 67 pts
( ) (15%] Intimidate
( ) [20%] Jump
( ) [70%] Language-Other (Latin) ; Occ + 69 pts
( ) [65%] Language-Other (English) ; Occ + 64 pts
( ) [85%] Language-Own (French)
( ) [05%] Law
( ) [86%] Library Use; Occ + 66pts
( ) [40%] Listen; War + 20 pts
( ) [01%] Locksmith
( ) [10%] Mechanical Repair
( ) [01%] Medicine
( ) [10%] Natural World
( ) [10%] Navigate
( ) [05%] Occult
( ) [01%] Operate Heavy Machine
( ) [60%] Persuade; Pers + 50 pts
( ) [01%] Pilot
( ) [60%] Psychology ; Pers + 50 pts
( ) [01%] Psychoanalysis
( ) [05%] Ride
( ) [01%] Science
( ) [10%] Sleight of Hand
( ) [50%] Spot Hidden ; War + 25 pts
( ) [20%] Stealth
( ) (10%] Survival
( ) [20%] Swim
( ) [20%] Throw
( ) [10%] Track

Firearms:

( ) [20%] Handgun
( ) [15%] Machine Gun
( ) [25%] Rifle
( ) [30%] Shotgun
( ) [15%] SMG

Weapons:
Bare hands: 1d4
Sword cane : 1d6
Revolver model 1892 (8 mm): 1d8 ; 15 yards; 1(3) ; 6 rounds.

Personal Description:
He dresses in the style of university teachers. Medium height and weight. Sports a beard. Non-smoker.

Ideology/ beliefs:
He believes that the goal of life is to acquire true knowledge through the use of a scientific method. He is very pragmatic, and will use whatever works. Rational thought is the epitome of human endeavour.

Significant people:
He is very devoted to his parents and brothers and sisters. A few people that he met during the war became true friends, notably Bernard De Grandeville.

Meaningful locations:
He is very attached to his home in Meudon.

Treasured possessions:
The watch of his grand-father.

Traits:
Jovial and bon vivant, he nevertheless never loses his natural seriousness. An officer during the Great War, he was injured and was transferred after that to the Deuxième Bureau (Military Intelligence), of which he never talks about.

Injuries and scars:
Has a slight limp in the right leg. Uses a walking stick. He has a minor scar on the right thigh.

Insanity Episodes :
None

Phobias and Manias:
None
Arcane tomes, spells and artifacts:
None

Encounters with strange entities:
None

Gear and equipment :
Sword cane
Revolver model 1892 8mm
One hundred bullets.
Pocket watch.
Pocket knife.
Pen.
Notepad.

War Experience Package:
Immune to sanity losses resulting from viewing a corpse or gross injury.
Income & Savings:

Income : 7,000 as a lecturer and research fellow
Cash In Hand : 2,000 in account
Savings : 4,000 in war bonds
Personal Property : 5,000 in scientific books. Citroen.
Real Estate : 20,000 as owner of family home.

Investigator History :

Born on January 31st 1879 in the city of Nantes, from a French father and a British mother, Antoine Marie-Francis D’Estaing is now a 43 year old bachelor and a well respected linguist .

He spent his childhood and teenage years in Nantes, and then went to Paris to earn his Diplôme en Lettres. He does his military service in 1900. After having spent a few years travelling across Europe as a tourist he resumes his academic career. After having earned his PhD in Linguistics, he travels to Switzerland and teaches in Geneva for a few years alongside such luminaries as Ferdinand de Saussure.

He returns to Paris in the early 1910s and teaches Linguistics at la Sorbonne in Paris, publishes many articles and book chapters that are very well regarded not only locally but at an International level. He has an active correspondance with linguists across the world. He is also heavily involved with the Société de Linguistique de Paris.

When the Great War breaks out, he is one of the first to enlist and serves as an officer but gets injured in the right thigh in 1914. Following his injury, he is reallocated to the Deuxième Bureau (military Intelligence), and rapidly the french army realized that his distinct skills can be put to greater use inside of this department. He rapidly rises through the hierarchy, but, having an instinctive distaste about the underlying political issues, is quite content to serve his country at an intermediary level of responsibilities.

Once the war is over, he returns to the passion of his life, linguistics. When asked about what he did during the war, he simple says “j’étais avec le Deuxième Bureau” and changes the subject.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 6:05 am**

I had the same thing happen with the roller the other day. I'll wait until the Keeper sorts things out before posting my next action.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 6:50 am**

Good to know i am not the only one who has problems with the dice roller.

BTW, how would you roll something like "1d6+1d4+1" here on this forum ?

I couldn't figure it out, and had to use The Dhole's House, which as usual always works flawlessly.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 11:07 am**

Just a test
[dice]0[/dice]

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 11:13 am**

Did you by any chance preview your posts?

The dice code doesn't generate the roll when previewing, only when you submit.

I'll have to go with the first roll (the 99), which is just a miss as only 00 fumbles if you're rolling for at least 50% chance of success. This at least leaves everything already posted correct.

OOC: De Mendoza is now out of sight of everyone except Atauchi.

Your character is fine now, Mallet. Fighting isn't in the officers experience package, but persuade is, so the numbers work out fine.

The default for sword is 20% though, so you have a choice of 70% sword skill, or 20 points to spend elsewhere.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 11:27 am**

Mallet wrote:BTW, how would you roll something like "1d6+1d4+1" here on this forum ?

You can't do 1d6+1d4+1 with the forum roller, it only works with a single dice type and a single number modifier.

So you need to do eg:
1d6+1
and then
1d4

If you prefer to use the dholes house roller, that's fine as long as you fully link your roll to here, as you did for your Dholes House rolls before - and also use spoiler tags to hide away the wall of text.

Carnage_Lee runs both sites, so I'm confident that Dholes House will be around for as long as the forums. I can't say the same for other dice roller sites, so only forum rolls or Dholes House ones will do.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 3:06 pm**

Another test roll
[dice]0[/dice]

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 7:07 pm**

Raiko wrote:Did you by any chance preview your posts?

No, I clicked on submit, and all I got as a response was something that was written like "[dice=](o)[/dice )" , and no number at all.

So that's why I rolled a second time.

I realized afterwards that I had used the [dice=] [/dice ] entry, and not the [dice] [/dice ] entry.

I have no clue about when you should use one or the other.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 7:15 pm**

Just use the dice version, not the dice= version.

The dice= doesn't do much anyway, it would be nice if it could give the roll a title like Dholes House rolls, but it can't.

Lee found it as a plug-in for phpbb and it's pretty good, but not perfect.
Whereas I think he wrote the Dholes House roller himself.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 7:19 pm**

I've found that making all the rolls first, then editing the action afterwards based off the posted results is the best way to go. I had problems when I tried to insert rolls into an existing post

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 7:26 pm**

Raiko wrote:
Mallet wrote:BTW, how would you roll something like "1d6+1d4+1" here on this forum ?
You can't do 1d6+1d4+1 with the forum roller, it only works with a single dice type and a single number modifier.
So you need to do eg:
1d6+1
and then
1d4

Wow, that is so primitive ...

Apart from Masks and another RPG, all my Play by Forum games are on RPG Geek /BoardGameGeek, and the dice roller on that internet site is simply awesome. There is pretty much nothing that it cannot do.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 7:33 pm**

Well, if you can find a better plug-in for phpbb I'm sure that Lee would happily add it.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 7:41 pm**

I've played on forums with better dice rollers (usually vbulletin forums), but I've also played on forums where we've used trust and rolled actual dice.

Everyone here used to use invisible castle, which had a terrific roller and database, but it went buggy and then went offline.

That's why I'll only allow either the built in roller or Dholes House, because both sites are run by Lee, so if one goes offline, I expect both will.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 7:57 pm**

Raiko wrote:Well, if you can find a better plug-in for phpbb

phpbb ?

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 8:22 pm**

Mallet wrote:phpbb ?

The forum software is called phpbb (I think we're on phpbb v3), it's good open source software, and is free to use, but plug-ins are a little sparse, and unfortunately not many forums need a dice roller.

The plug-in that Lee added here, is as far as I'm aware the only fully functional roller available for phpbb.

Lots of big forums use vbulletin, which is better than phpbb and has excellent dice roller plug-ins, but it's expensive.

Let's be honest though, it's not like Call of Cthulhu needs an amazing dice roller.

Raiko rolls 1d100

I used to play Shadowrun a lot online, before playing here.

Feel free to use Dholes House if you prefer. My first Masks game and my BtMoM game both used invisible castle. I'd actually prefer a roller like those where I can look back at all the rolls from the campaign, but the built in roller is really convenient.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 8:25 pm**

Yeah, I'm not too bothered by having to make individual rolls. It's only slightly more time consuming.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 8:26 pm**

Speaking of rolls, what sort of bonuses would Atauchi receive if he attacked the prone de Mendoza?

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 8:27 pm**

Raiko wrote:
Mallet wrote:phpbb ?
Let's be honest though, it's not like Call of Cthulhu needs an amazing dice roller.

OK

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 8:33 pm**

Zero wrote:Speaking of rolls, what sort of bonuses would Atauchi receive if he attacked the prone de Mendoza?

You receive a bonus die.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 10:14 pm**

I think we're waiting on you Zero.

After you've had an action, Antoine and Marcus will be able to do whatever they plan, e.g. move to help you or run for their lives while de Mendoza is distracted.

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 11:04 pm**

Zero wrote:I've found that making all the rolls first, then editing the action afterwards based off the posted results is the best way to go. I had problems when I tried to insert rolls into an existing post

I always do the same, though I also may have to make a roll, then go back and make another roll depending on its results (such as a Sanity roll followed by Sanity loss).

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2018 11:44 pm**

I've been able to insert new rolls. As long as you don't disturb the existing rolls you should be fine.

As mentioned above, in reply to Mallet, the "dice=" version of the tags isn't a lot of use, and using that without something after the "=" appears to have caused the problem.

The things that the "=" can do is mostly to override how individual dice and the total are displayed, which isn't that useful in Call of Cthulhu anyway. I've set the default for this game to display each die as a string and the total: e.g. rolling 3d6 = 2,5,6 for a total of 13.

It's never going to be intrusive with our rolls, and we always need the total.

The roller mod is documented here: https://www.callofcthulhu.org.uk/pbp/vi ... 18#p166623

But I'd just avoid the "dice=" and use the normal "dice" version of the tags

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:04 am**

LOL, this is just like my tabletop group.

We're sat around discussing the dice instead of playing.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:10 am**

Testing the dice roller:

[dice]0[/dice]

Hmm ... I tried [dice] 3d6 [/dice ] and this is the result that I got. No total.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:11 am**

@VashShotFirst:

I've sent you a PM. If you're lurking on the forum without logging in, then please log in and reply to the PM or post something here, as I'm currently assuming that play-by-forum isn't for you.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:15 am**

Mallet wrote:Testing the dice roller:

[dice]211478:0[/dice]

Hmm ... I tried [dice] 3d6 [/dice ] and this is the result that I got. No total.

It says you got a total of 10, followed by the individual dice.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:18 am**

Raiko wrote:
Mallet wrote:Testing the dice roller:

[dice]211478:0[/dice]

Hmm ... I tried [dice] 3d6 [/dice ] and this is the result that I got. No total.

It says you got a total of 10, followed by the individual dice.

I am not currently seeing any total on my computer ...

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:31 am**

Whoa, he can fight back when lying on he ground?

I didn't think that was possible.

Edit: I guess he can. A flaw in the combat system in my opinion. I may need to mod that if I ever keep a game.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:33 am**

Okay.

I've looked at the (moderators version of) online users and it's saying you're using Safari?

That should work fine.

What does my it actually say for you?

For me your post says "Mallet rolled 3d6 and got a total of 10:
1, 3, 6"

I'm using Firefox (also available for Macs

)

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:37 am**

Zero wrote:Whoa, he can fight back when lying on he ground? I didn't think that was possible.

You got a bonus die.
And as he's fighting back you win a tie.

This ain't DnD.

He's laying on his back against the wall, still holding his knife.

And rather than stabbing you, he's trying to grab you and pull you down onto him.

Onto his mouth to be honest.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:41 am**

Yeah, that was unexpected. At least if he's staying there, Antoine will also get a bonus die next combat round. Tactical error, Senior de Mendoza.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:42 am**

BTW, did I just read correctly that Antoine D'Estaing has been shot in the chest on the IC thread ?

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:43 am**

Haha, no. de Mendoza was, by Marcus. You're now in great position to finish him off.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:45 am**

Sorry for any misunderstanding there Mallet.

De Mendoza got shot and fell out of Antoine's view behind the door.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 1:06 am**

Raiko wrote:Did you by any chance preview your posts?

The dice code doesn't generate the roll when previewing, only when you submit.

I'll have to go with the first roll (the 99), which is just a miss as only 00 fumbles if you're rolling for at least 50% chance of success. This at least leaves everything already posted correct.

OOC: De Mendoza is now out of sight of everyone except Atauchi.
Your character is fine now, Mallet. Fighting isn't in the officers experience package, but persuade is, so the numbers work out fine.

The default for sword is 20% though, so you have a choice of 70% sword skill, or 20 points to spend elsewhere.

I believe I will keep my sword skill at 70 %, it might come in handy.

I was wondering if I might have a Sword at 1d4+2 damage, instead of 1d6 ? The final total would be the same ... it's a pretty heavy cane ...

Naturally, you have the final word.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 1:18 am**

I'm absolutely fine with 1d4+2.

If the cane is noticeably heavy or bulky, then I'm also fine with the rapier damage of 1d6+1 (as per your original sheet), rather than foil 1d6 for a "normal" sword cane.

So I'll let you choose:
1d4+2
1d6
or 1d6+1

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 1:20 am**

Zero wrote:Yeah, that was unexpected. At least if he's staying there, Antoine will also get a bonus die next combat round. Tactical error, Senior de Mendoza.

Hmm...

about that.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 1:23 am**

Raiko wrote:I'm absolutely fine with 1d4+2.

If the cane is noticeably heavy or bulky, then I'm also fine with the rapier damage of 1d6+1 (as per your original sheet), rather than foil 1d6 for a "normal" sword cane.

So I'll let you choose:
1d4+2
1d6
or 1d6+1

Very cool ! Thanks.

I will go with 1d4+2.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 2:25 am**

I've always just rolled a separate d10 and considered it as being in the 10s place. I can add the multiplier though, in the future, if you prefer.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:50 am**

Mallet wrote:
Raiko wrote:
OOC: The bonus die should have been 1d10*10, so that you get 10,20,30,etc.
However I'm going to use the "tens" die of that second d100 which is correct I think, so your bonus die gave you a result of 03.
So you've impaled for an extra 8 damage, ie 14 total. This is enough to finish de Mendoza.

OOC: According to the rules, you absolutely are correct concerning the bonus die. Always played it as "OK, roll twice 1d100", though. My bad.

I am not sure about how you arrived at the extra 8 points of damage, though. The maximum damage my sword can deliver is 6.

Zero wrote:I've always just rolled a separate d10 and considered it as being in the 10s place. I can add the multiplier though, in the future, if you prefer.

I was being a bit pedantic, sorry.

I'm fine whichever way you roll bonus/penalty dice, as long as you're consistent in your own posts, it's easier for me if you label any extra dice as bonus / penalty dice though.

@Mallet: Regarding the damage, yes it should be 12 damage for the impale, max of 6 plus the 6 you rolled. I'd stayed up until after 1am, that's the only excuse I have.

Thanks for sending the screenshot of your 3d6 test roll. I'd changed the default for this game back to explicitly show the "string and total" (which is what Lee's documentation said the default was), I wonder if the default was changed, because it doesn't work in some browsers.

I'll switch the default mode to "total" as that's all we care about. So if you don't mind, could you do another 3d6 test roll and tell me what it displays?

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:53 am**

[dice]0[/dice]

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:57 am**

For me, the previous post says "Raiko rolled 3d6 and got a total of 13."

(It also says "[Make removable]", but I'd imagine that's an admin or moderator feature!

If anyone can't see the total in the above post, can you let me know - and also what browser you're using?

I'll let Lee know about the problems.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 11:01 am**

We'll try to move on quickly to get Amy back with everyone. John has run back to the hotel, where there is a phone, I'll post an update for him once things are moving along at the museum.

Hopefully we can get everybody back together at the Hotel Maury soon.

As it looks like we're a couple of players down, I'm considering taking on another player to play Professor Sánchez.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 11:09 am**

Raiko wrote:@VashShotFirst:

I've sent you a PM. If you're lurking on the forum without logging in, then please log in and reply to the PM or post something here, as I'm currently assuming that play-by-forum isn't for you.

@Kabukiman as well. You've not logged on for four weeks and haven't replied to my email, if you're still interested in playing then please let me know.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:07 pm**

I'm also going to give potential new players the chance to play the young lady whose life John has just saved.

Thanks to his great first aid roll, I've got some leeway to give her a few hit points back when she wakes up.

Perhaps she's another student of Professor Sánchez or a friend of Trinidad Rizo.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:50 pm**

Testing the dice roller by rolling 3d6:

[dice]0[/dice]

Even more interesting: Now it doesn't show anything at all ... no results ... absolutely nothing.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 6:56 pm**

Mallet wrote:Testing the dice roller by rolling 3d6:

[dice]211531:0[/dice]

Even more interesting: Now it doesn't show anything at all ... no results ... absolutely nothing.

Well that's no good. I knew the individual dice wouldn't show, but I thought it might kick the total into action.

I'll swap back now.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:15 pm**

Okay, it's swapped back now. So it should at least work how it used to.

I've not let Lee know about the problems yet. At least it's just about usable with the dice showing.

I don't suppose you have Firefox on your Mac?

I can see all your rolls, so it's something Safari isn't liking about the database query. Hopefully something Lee can fix?

Again, if it's too frustrating for you, and you don't fancy using Firefox, then you're welcome to make rolls on Dhole House instead.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:17 pm**

Testing the dice roller (3d6):

[dice]0[/dice]

OK, so I got " 5,4,2".

I can always do the totals myself.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:33 pm**

Thanks, sorry I've not been able to do anything better.

Just for the hell of it, try putting [dice=total]3d6[/dice]

It probably won't help, but it's worth trying.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:37 pm**

I've just had another thought.

Do you still have that broken 1d6 + 1d4 + 1 roll on here somewhere? I wonder if that's broken all of your totals?

Can you see the total for my roll here:

[dice]0[/dice]

Edit: nope forget that, I can see your totals, so it must be a browser problem.

Can anyone else see totals in Safari?

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:40 pm**

Mallet wrote:Testing the dice roller by rolling 3d6:

[dice]211531:0[/dice]

Even more interesting: Now it doesn't show anything at all ... no results ... absolutely nothing.

Now " 1, 4, 1" has just shown up. Problem fixed !

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:41 pm**

Raiko wrote:I've just had another thought.

Do you still have that broken 1d6 + 1d4 + 1 roll on here somewhere? I wonder if that's broken all of your totals?

Can you see the total for my roll here:

[dice]211538:0[/dice]

Edit: nope forget that, I can see your totals, so it must be a browser problem.

Can anyone else see totals in Safari?

I can only see "6, 4, 3". No totals.

Anyway, not a big deal.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:42 pm**

I have dyscalcula( basically dyslexia but with numbers) So dumb question: Why 1d10*10 rather than just a straight 1d100 roll?

As for the die rolls, it all shows up for me in firefox.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:43 pm**

Trying the dice roller with dice=total (3d6):

[dice=total]0[/dice]

Now, with dice=total, absolutely no numbers show up at all.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:51 pm**

Silver Priest wrote:I have dyscalcula( basically dyslexia but with numbers) So dumb question: Why 1d10*10 rather than just a straight 1d100 roll?

As for the die rolls, it all shows up for me in firefox.

Well, we're only trying to replace the tens place with the bonus die. It doesn't change the ones place. For example, you roll a 97 (2 d10s in actuality, a 9 and a 7), but your bonus die (d10) is a 5. The 5 replaces the 9 and your new result is 57. Our Keeper seems to prefer that we multiply the result by 10 so it comes out as a 50 rather than a 5. It makes it a bit easier to read at a glance, I imagine.

FYI: I've successfully used the roller in Chrome (mobile), Firefox (desktop PC), and Opera (desktop PC).

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:54 pm**

Silver Priest wrote:I have dyscalcula( basically dyslexia but with numbers) So dumb question: Why 1d10*10 rather than just a straight 1d100 roll?

Well, the rules say "use a third die as a bonus die for rolling the "tens" a second time and keep the lowest result".

In practice, I would agree that rolling twice 1d100 and using the best result is much simpler ...

We should follow the ruling of The Keeper on that matter, though.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:57 pm**

Silver Priest wrote:I have dyscalcula( basically dyslexia but with numbers) So dumb question: Why 1d10*10 rather than just a straight 1d100 roll?

As for the die rolls, it all shows up for me in firefox.

It's no biggie, I originally misunderstood Mallet's second roll (but it was very late at night).

Tiredness made me a little pedantic. Lol.

Sometimes it's best to ignore grumpy Raiko and carry on having fun.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:00 pm**

By the way new user jp1885 will be joining us and playing the student who John just saved.

I'll arrange for her to be in good enough condition to join you without waiting too long.

Hello jp1885 (Jon).

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:47 pm**

Ah, thanks guys. Makes more sense now.

And welcome to the game jp1885.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:55 pm**

For what it's worth, I agree that just rolling additional d100s for bonus/penalty dice is the easiest way online

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 9:02 pm**

As I've mentioned in the absence thread, I'll be going into London tomorrow and then meeting my daughter at Heathrow and driving back North on Wednesday.

I'll be able to post both days, but probably not complex posts - I'm so glad Antoine finished de Mendoza, because I was worried I'd have to slow down resolving that.

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 9:09 pm**

Silver Priest wrote:And welcome to the game jp1885.

Thanks

Posted: **Mon Sep 03, 2018 9:26 pm**

Raiko wrote:For what it's worth, I agree that just rolling additional d100s for bonus/penalty dice is the easiest way online

+ 1

Posted: **Wed Sep 05, 2018 6:23 pm**

I'm back from London now, I'll re-read all recent posts again in a little while, and I'll post anywhere that I'm needed.

Kabukiman is back, so I'll also PM him some details to get Michael Anderson back in the game.

Posted: **Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:33 pm**

@HelplessBystander, I assume you meant 'shaking her hand' rather than 'shaking her head', which would be a rather unpleasant thing to do to a person, wounded or not!

I've taken the liberty of altering that line in the quote in my reply.

Posted: **Thu Sep 06, 2018 3:38 pm**

Sorry about slowing down a little, I've been pretty tired since my London trip. "Yesterday's" posts were mainly written after I woke up on the sofa at 1:30am this morning, two hours after I'd fallen asleep writing them.

I'm hoping to get your groups back together by weekend.

Posted: **Thu Sep 06, 2018 3:43 pm**

Take it easy!

For my part, I might not be able to do much this weekend, as it's my birthday, followed by my eldest's the day after, so we'll all be pretty busy.

Spoiler:

If I do get time to write, I of course will.

Posted: **Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:19 pm**

Thanks.

And I'll see if I can sort that out for your birthday.

I don't worry too much about weekend posts, I kind of treat an entire weekend as a single day in terms of keeping the game moving. And although I still try to reply promptly to anyone that needs my input, I'm happy if the game ticks along once over the weekend.

So any time that the game has the chance to update twice at weekend is a bonus.

Posted: **Fri Sep 07, 2018 11:42 am**

dang! im back to the boards after a rather loong hiatus, and i miss the start of this EPIC game!
Raiko, consider me as alternate if in need.

Posted: **Fri Sep 07, 2018 1:47 pm**

Anatomist wrote:dang! im back to the boards after a rather loong hiatus, and i miss the start of this EPIC game!
Raiko, consider me as alternate if in need.

Hi, welcome back. I don't mind having 8 investigators in the party, as long as you run Professor Sánchez for now.

I suspect that Vashshotfirst has gone for good, and so Olivier won't be returning (I do have a way to bring her back if needed later in the chapter).

If you read through the IC thread, then Professor Sánchez is available as an investigator once he's dealt with the Republican Guard off stage.

As it stands he's probably going to travel with the investigators as an NPC, so you'd be doing me a favour if you ran him.

You'd have a relatively free hand to customise him, and could drop him at the end of the prologue if you wished.

All I need is that you can post once per day, most days, and you do your best not to leave another player waiting for a reply.

Eight is the most I can manage though. So it's bad luck for anyone else who asks.

Posted: **Fri Sep 07, 2018 2:04 pm**

That would make a party of eight with four archaeologists though!

Posted: **Fri Sep 07, 2018 2:19 pm**

If it helps, I could change Cynthia into a psychology student or something and swap a swap her skill points around a bit. I've not made any skill checks yet, so it's not as if it'd skew gameplay much. She could still have a fascination for history and archaeology, hence her friendship with Trinidad and Prof. Mendoza.

Posted: **Fri Sep 07, 2018 2:30 pm**

That would be great actually, if you don't mind.

(Ps, you're definitely friends with Sánchez, not Mendoza.

)

Posted: **Fri Sep 07, 2018 2:32 pm**

D'oh!
Stab buddies isn't a thing then?
Ok, I'll make the necessary changes.

Posted: **Fri Sep 07, 2018 2:59 pm**

Ok, I've reduced Cynthia's anthropology, archaeology and history skills, and also removed her language (Quechua) skill, as she would have used that when working with indigeonous labourers at digs.

I've spread the points between psychology, and intimidate and spot hidden (reflecting her street smart childhood more accurately)

Posted: **Fri Sep 07, 2018 3:31 pm**

Thank you, I've retconned a couple of my posts, and one of yours. Tweaked them very slightly, so that Cynthia is a friend of Trinidad's, who knows Sánchez, rather than being a student of Sánchez's.

Posted: **Fri Sep 07, 2018 3:54 pm**

Job's a good 'un.

Posted: **Fri Sep 07, 2018 10:43 pm**

Dropping a line to subscribe to thread.

Posted: **Sun Sep 09, 2018 1:17 pm**

Hello hello, I missed three days of posting. Sorry 'bout that, less and less time these days. Will try to post more frequently.

Posted: **Sun Sep 09, 2018 1:29 pm**

HelplessBystander wrote:Hello hello, I missed three days of posting. Sorry 'bout that, less and less time these days. Will try to post more frequently.

It's no problem at all. As long as you try to keep enough of an eye on the game that you're not personally hold the game up - and I'll email anyone we're waiting on.

One of the reasons that I've let the group get up to eight investigators is that everyone gets busy times in real life, but with eight players there should always be three or four keeping the adventure ticking along.

Posted: **Sun Sep 09, 2018 1:29 pm**

Also Happy Birthday Mallet!

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 2:04 am**

Mysteriously, I am getting regular updates from the OOC thread, but absolutely none from the IC thread, which is very annoying.

Does anyone know how to fix this ?

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 7:24 am**

I know it's a silly question (but I'm going to ask anyway

) are you definitely subscribed to the thread?
ie: Is there an "Unsubscribe topic" link at the bottom of that thread for you?

I've got to ask though, is a subscription email really necessary at the moment? Since the game began over a month ago there have been new posts in the IC thread every single day. So isn't it just as easy to have a quick look at the forum once a day, rather than waiting for an email notification that you know hasn't been working for you?

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 7:35 am**

Mallet, mine looks like this.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 7:48 am**

@Anatomist: I edited your post to put the image as an attachment, because it was too weird to look at on my phone

It was a thread within a thread!

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 8:11 am**

Raiko wrote:@Anatomist: I edited your post to put the image as an attachment, because it was too weird to look at on my phone

It was a thread within a thread!

INCEPTION!

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 8:13 am**

Btw, what are people using as image host now a days?

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 8:23 am**

Anatomist wrote:Btw, what are people using as image host now a days?

I've been using the forum's own attachment feature for all handouts and location images.

When I don't want the attachment text to appear, e.g. when I post my own investigator image in The Burnt Man, I use imgur.com - It's free, I've been using it for years to post 100s of images to a different forum, and it's always worked fine and includes clickable bb-code links to paste into the forum.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 1:42 pm**

In the Ic thread, is it late night? As far Sánchez go he rather push the investigation towards Larkins an de Menoza's room now rather then the next morning. Or shall we wait so Cynthia Vallier get a chanse ot heal a bit?

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 1:43 pm**

Anatomist wrote:In the Ic thread, is it late night? As far Sánchez go he rather push the investigation towards Larkins an de Menoza's room now rather then the next morning. Or shall we wait so Cynthia Vallier get a chanse ot heal a bit?

nvm i just saw jp1885 response.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 1:47 pm**

Cynthia definitely needs to sleep as she's got a major wound and is down to half hit points, having being stabbed by De Mendoza. However, depending on the time, I don't mind if anyone else wants to continue the investigation.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 1:51 pm**

I'm leaving it up to you guys, Cynthia would get a few hitpoints back (but doesn't necessarily need to visit Larkin with you).

I didn't anticipate anyone thinking it was evening. The visit to the museum was before noon, so I'd been planning to update the clock to early afternoon, 2pm or so, if you went straight to Larkin's hotel.

I don't post times during fights / chases, so that I can just put everyone back together later - like a movie.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 1:55 pm**

You could rest during the day, and risk delaying your visit to Larkin until tonight - always a good idea with vampires right?

Then Cynthia can have some hit points and Atauchi will recover from temporary insanity. Any delay is your choice though.

Edit: possibly ignore the insanity bit of the above, as it only lasts a few minutes, not hours I think.

EDIT AGAIN: Nope! I was correct the first time, Atauchi's insanity lasts for 7 hours.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 2:28 pm**

Atauchi can always stand guard over me if everyone else wants to investigate. We can rejoin the party at a suitable point once Cynthia has gained some HP and Atauchi recovers.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 2:47 pm**

Okay, so thanks to the help of both John and the "best doctor in all of Peru" I'm going to allow Cynthia to make her "weekly" recovery roll after she's rested - regardless of when you all decide to go visit Larkin (the earliest now I guess would be in another couple of hours when Nemesio Sánchez gets back).

Cynthia will get a bonus die on her CON roll due to the doctor treating her.

A single hit point recovered now will actually remove the major wound.

jp1885 wrote:Atauchi can always stand guard over me if everyone else wants to investigate. We can rejoin the party at a suitable point once Cynthia has gained some HP and Atauchi recovers.

It's probably a good idea not to leave Cynthia alone.

If you wait until evening, then Atauchi will be feeling much better.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 2:58 pm**

Ok cool. I'm new to CoC, so just so I'm doing it right... When Cynthia has rested I make a CON roll, with a bonus 1d10*10 and choose the lowest 10's score, and if successful add 1d3 HP (2d3 if extreme)?

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:06 pm**

That's right, but we had a chat about bonus and penalty dice earlier and agreed it's easiest to just roll a second d100 online.

So roll 1d100 twice and use the best result.

Normally you would need to wait for a week after a major wound.

Unfortunately if you fail, even being the kind Keeper that I am, you'll be in Puna by the time you can roll again.

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:15 pm**

Thanks.
If I do fail, Cynthia is still going to tag along - headstrong fool that she is!

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:34 pm**

I'd expect no less, after all she's from Chicago - what's the worst that can happen in a backwater place like this?

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2018 4:58 pm**

I'd prefer to move the game along tomorrow if possible.

So, as I see it there are several courses of action that Jackson will be happy to go along with:

Visit the Hotel España (Larkin's hotel) as soon as Nemesio Sánchez returns mid-afternoon, this means leaving Cynthia asleep, possibly Atauchi guarding, possibly waking up John from his beauty sleep.
Visit the Hotel España when Cynthia is rested and Atauchi has regained his composure / sanity. This would possibly allow everyone to join in, but would mean a delay and it would be after sunset.
Wait until the morning to visit the Hotel España - same as above, but a longer delay and no risky night time confrontation.
Forget about the Hotel España and head directly for Puna ASAP, to gain a surprise lead on Larkin.

I'd prefer this to be resolved in the IC thread, but I don't really want to spend days of real-time deciding, I'd rather get moving with the "next bit" in the next 24 hours.

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