Re: Warriors of Haunden (IC)
 

OCC

Here's a couple things.

1) The thread for Warriors of Haunden (not IC) seems to have vanished! What happened?

2) In Dicelog, I noticed Stripes rolled "Stunning spell." I believe we as players are restricted to things in GURPS Basic, while the Stun spell is in GURPS: Magic. But it's certainly possible we are restricted and the NPCs aren't; that's the GM's call. I've definitely run games where an NPC had something the PCs didn't!

But I bring it up because I'm confused on the order of events. And I certainly admit some of that was likely due to me misreading something. But hopefully I clarified where I'm coming from in my previous post here. If not, let me know!

ADDITION: I just reported to staff that the thread for Warriors of Haunden has disappeared

ADDITION 2: Thread not gone; probably an issue with my settings. I reported to staff I was wrong.

Re: Warriors of Haunden (IC)
 

No one seems to understand Cassandra. They move closer to the enemy, quickly. The enemy moves back, but only slowly.


Once they get within an 100 yards, the other archers get ready to shoot.

Re: Warriors of Haunden (IC)
 

Everyone is orthogonal to each other: its a big T, with Stripes and Anoras on the "Right" branch, "able-bodied" on the left branch, and the prisoners on the "stem", with the bedrolls in the middle.


I think that's were your assumption is wrong: Stripes has magic as advantages (I thought the group was going to do a lot more investigation as to what stripes actually had) and no penalty for spamming them. He's also a sadistic psychopath who enjoys inflicting pain and death, like most scorcerors (magic alters your mind)


I don't think you're confused about the order, I think you overestimated the ability of the prisoners to move around without being noticed, so the enemy is reacting before you planned on it. And to be fair, that was an absolutely horrible set of rolls not in your favor. (enemy rolled a 5 on per, prisoners rolled a 13 on stealth, and then the guards crushed their surprise rolls, when half of them should have failed)


Wings also has this spell and used it extensively against Thad (who had an amulet on and was thus mostly immune). I made mention of it "Can stun with a glance" in my first report on the sorcerers attacking.


I hope this clears your questions up. Feel free to get further clarification.


At the bottom you can control how long of a period to show threads from. Default is a month. I try to post in the OCC threads about that often to keep them at least visible.

Re: Warriors of Haunden (IC)
 

Cassandra is happy to shoot at 100 yards

Re: Warriors of Haunden (IC)
 

Thanks! That definitely helps me picture it.

Sorry but I'm not sure what "spamming" means here. The only meanings I know are sending a bunch of people messages online that they didn't ask for, or posting a bunch of messages, usually while trying to sell something.

And I admit I don't know how our group could have investigated Stripes. The first reference I saw to Stripes was after we were separated and Thad and Cassandra were both unconscious. That's:

Then as to "can stun with a glance":

Maybe I missed it in my online search. But the only reference I found to "stun" and "glance" was this:

You later helpfully corrected that in the Warriors of Haunden thread. You said it was not ShadowMask who had done that, but an earlier sorcerer:

And, honestly, even if I knew it was ShadowMask, "stun with a glance" is something I've both done and had done to me in real life.

Thanks that's it! I looked for the thread a month and two days after the last post.

With what I know now, I will need to go through things again and make sure I'm understanding the sequence of events. If I'm not sure, I'll post a question. If I believe I've got it, I'll post Anoras' planned actions. I'll try to post whichever one some time in the next 10 hours.

Thanks for your patience!

Re: Warriors of Haunden (IC)
 

Anoras' plan is to "protect" Stripes as long as a Haunden is not in danger of being attacked by magic. That's until a skilled and armed Haunden gets to her and Stripes. Then the plan is for both of us to attack the sorcerer.

Anoras, with Hidden Lore (Sorcery), apparently has a pretty good idea of what Stripes can do magically. I have almost no idea. (What spells the sorcerer has or is likely to have, how long they take to cast, etc.)

But in case there's something more obscure Anoras might or might not think of, I rolled on the Hidden Lore (Sorcery) sklll (made it by 5. And again, Anoras made Tactics by 6, so feel free to adjust the plan to fit Anoras' roll.)

Re: Warriors of Haunden (IC)
 

That's the reference. "Spamming" in this context means attacking again and again even when it has a very very small chance of succeeding.


That's when his name first shows up. The presence of a sorcerer(s) with new tricks shows up in the opening post:

This is from post 22... and apparently I named Shadowmask something else at one point.

Hah.


Of course, Players never do what you expect them to, and that's part of the fun. I just hope I'm communicating what I need to.


That's now: you're the only Haunden with weapons, and stripes is going to attack them next turn.


I've been mentally paying close attention to what Anoras should have figured out or has observed (I'm going to count things figured out in the battle Thad died, because While Anoras wasn't there, she got to talk about it and observe the results afterwards:

• He's wearing a lucky amulet (one use of luck, then it breaks)
• He can throw a fire ball every two seconds, 2d6 burning, the radius is probably 2 yards
• He can control at least a bird... it seems to require a lot of concentration to do so
• He can attempt to stun in a contest of wills with normal range penalties. The target must roll will to "snap out of it"
• He can place the mark and Kill/Sicken/Madden/Track the bearer, but not in combat time
• Someone on his team can make traps, but not in combat time
• Statistically speaking, he's got some sort of mystical defense, but that varies by sorcerer: some are unliving, some have mystic DR 3, and some have a vitality reserve (10 or 20, usually)
• all spells require concentration maneuvers, so can be interrupted by anything that interrupts a concentration maneuver.

Hope that helps, let me know what questions you have

Re: Warriors of Haunden (IC)
 

Reminder to self about the arrow sequence:
#1) Draw Arrow (can be skipped with fast draw)
#2) Knock Arrow
#3) Fire

OR

#3-5)Aim
#6) Fire


Skill 16 - 10 (range) + 2 (time) + 3 (Acc) +1 (SM)= 12

Cassandra takes five seconds to hit the giant skeleton! She does 6 damage, with becomes 3 injury. The other three archers score two hits, doing a total of 4 injury. The giant skeleton moves back a little faster. The other skeletons move back with it.

Re: Warriors of Haunden (IC)
 

Thanks and I agree it's fun! (Although I do remember a GURPS GM who didn't think so....) And thanks for the info on what Anoras would think Stripes might be able to do.

I appreciate that and your patience with me. I'm one of those people who sometimes gets the "hard" stuff quickly--and then gets stuck on the "easy" stuff.

OK. Then Anoras, looking in Stripes direction to the area behind Stripes (and thus looking away from where the Haunden are), will exclaim, "What's that?" Hopefully Stripes will turn to look, but even if not, Anoras holding the shield for protection, will attack Stripes with the sword. "Has it got me?"

Re: Warriors of Haunden (IC)
 

Ok, fast talk to distract opponent, and then an attack!


Bare success on the contest.



Stripes turns to look opposite the direction of Anoras, possibly expecting more enemy forces... she strikes.



Is this a typical torso hit? Telegraphed strike since his back is turned? All-out in some way or targeted? This is your one free attack.