Re: The Sun Sets OOC and info

Cardbo Wed Sep 23, 2015 10:43 pm

I'd like Friendship Never Dies. Not sure what everyone else wants.

**Paper Shadow** Fri Sep 25, 2015 9:55 pm

I don't really mind, none of them seems appealing to me. Assume Friendship Never Dies unless I say otherwise...

Jsser23 Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:36 pm

Sorry for being fashionably late, but here's my stuff finally. Been kind of busy with personal stuff. Also Friendship Never Dies is fine with me.

Added:
Ability- I’ve Read A Lot About it (2)
Choose a skill. You gain training in that skill. You may take this trait multiple times, choosing a different skill each time. Skill:History

Trait- Dangerously Talented
You gain an additional combat talent and may bring an additional combat talent into battle with you. You may take this trait multiple times.
[–3] Heartseeker - Standard Attack
Deal 2d12 damage to target creature

Trait- Seize the Initiative - Reaction
Trigger - You damage a creature that has not yet taken a turn in this battle.
Effect - You deal an additional 1d12 damage to that creature.

Bubblez Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:38 pm

Bubblez wrote:As people finish their levelups, could they post their new stuff here along with the changes to their char sheets. That way we can keep track who all has finished their level ups and which boon they voted for.

I'm voting for Spelltacular and Friendship Never Dies

Team fantastic and Brainstorm are runners up

A1C Bronymous Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:54 pm

Oh, awesome, I had just about resigned to losing Penned. Glad to see you're still with us.

Majority seems to be Friendship Never Dies, unless anyone has last minute campaigning to do for another option. In any case, between Koli and the pets, I believe we've seen that I don't do well at keeping track of extra stuff for the party, so it's going to be on you guys to remember that you have that available.

**Paper Shadow** Sat Oct 10, 2015 7:18 pm

For your eyes Cardbo:

[06:21:33] A1C Bronymous: I don't know how much I'm going to want to post this next week
[06:21:40] A1C Bronymous: a family matter has come up

A1C Bronymous Mon Oct 12, 2015 4:32 pm

https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t866p105-the-absence-thread#97809

Yeah, what he said^. I'll try to respond if possible, but for now I leave you with the puzzle of entering the caves.

EDIT: Bonus, here's an updated official map:

Map:

Probably has no impact on the game whatsoever.

A1C Bronymous Mon Oct 19, 2015 9:23 pm

So you guys can post again. Guess I didn't make that clear right away.

Cardbo Sun Oct 25, 2015 4:26 pm

@Bronymous.

Solid Clouds(Stepping Stones) – Enchantment [Created by Kajisora]
Preparation time: 5 seconds
You may summon up to eight magical stone discs anywhere within 100 feet of you that you can see. The discs can between 3 cm to 1 meter in diameter, and are 1 cm thick. You can keep them suspended in place so that they cannot be moved (including by gravity) except by 2000 lbs or more of force. You may end or resume the suspension effect at will. These disks vanish after 1 hour.

Says that I can keep them suspended in place, but can I move them? Also, just out of curiosity, can they be positioned vertically as well as horizontally?

A1C Bronymous Mon Oct 26, 2015 2:03 am

You may end or resume the suspension effect at will. These disks vanish after 1 hour.

Yes, you can move them- I assume the ability gives you some kind of telekinetic control over them, otherwise theyd be much less useful. However, as the IRL Horseshoe Falls at Niagara generate roughly 2500 lbs of force, the water can dislodge them. And yes, I don't see why they wouldn't be able to be placed vertically.

Cardbo Fri Nov 06, 2015 7:09 pm

I hadn't noticed we'd changed scenes. Can we have map drawn of the area? Where are we in relation to where we think the cave is?

A1C Bronymous Fri Nov 06, 2015 10:37 pm

I don't know how helpful of a map I can give, as it needs a 3d representation.

To the west of town hall is the overlook of the falls (this is where Holy Smokes started the game, and where Sunflower was found unconscious, if you remember that far back) just on the other side of the fence, a meter or two down the cliff, is a ledge that can be walked on, and accessed from near town hall. Following the ledge will bring you up to the side of the falls, though you will be about 1/3 of the way up, and the cave entrance is much higher, inaccessible to anyone not flying. If anyone cares to dig up the old map of the town I made (I no longer have quick access to it), then I can mark it for you.

Cardbo Sat Nov 07, 2015 1:50 am

A1C Bronymous wrote:I don't know how helpful of a map I can give, as it needs a 3d representation.

To the west of town hall is the overlook of the falls (this is where Holy Smokes started the game, and where Sunflower was found unconscious, if you remember that far back) just on the other side of the fence, a meter or two down the cliff, is a ledge that can be walked on, and accessed from near town hall. Following the ledge will bring you up to the side of the falls, though you will be about 1/3 of the way up, and the cave entrance is much higher, inaccessible to anyone not flying. If anyone cares to dig up the old map of the town I made (I no longer have quick access to it), then I can mark it for you.

The Sun Sets OOC and info - Page 36 Neighara_Falls_zpslikdhvrv

This map?

A1C Bronymous Sat Nov 07, 2015 3:56 pm

That's the one.

The Sun Sets OOC and info - Page 36 Falls_10

So on this map, the dark grey is essentially cliffside, separating the higher and lower sections of the town. The Scouts took you along the blue route, down a set of utility stairs built onto the side (usually authorized personnel only), to the lower over look which sits a few dozen feet over the bottom of the falls. The ledge path starts there, up along the cliffside facing the falls, to the Star, which is where it connects to the falls, a long way beneath the upper overlook and the cave entrance.

Clear enough? It's very difficult to explain.

Cardbo Sat Nov 07, 2015 8:08 pm

The Sun Sets OOC and info - Page 36 Falls_11_zpslnce2hqc

Is our current position at the red X?

A1C Bronymous Sat Nov 07, 2015 11:07 pm

Thats the top of the stairs. Your current position is the Star.

Cardbo Sat Nov 07, 2015 11:58 pm

So we're at the Star. The path continues behind the falls for some distance eventually coming to the cave, correct? And while traveling that path we would mostly be invisible from anyone looking at the falls from outside?

A1C Bronymous Sun Nov 08, 2015 2:20 am

The path does continue under the falls, but its very narrow, and it does not lead to the cave. Where you are, you're only visible to onlookers if they decide to look straight down, or are across the river, but once you go behind the falls, you would be hidden.

Cardbo Sun Nov 08, 2015 2:31 am

A1C Bronymous wrote:The path does continue under the falls, but its very narrow, and it does not lead to the cave. Where you are, you're only visible to onlookers if they decide to look straight down, or are across the river, but once you go behind the falls, you would be hidden.

Ok, the cave is under the falls and ledge is lower than the cave. Going on the ledge will take you beneath the cave, but you'll see need some way to get up to cave?

A1C Bronymous Sun Nov 08, 2015 2:37 am

Correct. But you also have only a few feet of clearance between the falls and the cliff face to worry about as well.

A1C Bronymous Thu Nov 26, 2015 4:43 pm

Alright, I think I'm gonna call it. It sucks that we got all the way to the home stretch before this died, but with only 2.5 players willing to respond and no one posting anything in 3 weeks, continuing is pointless. Even if I did retcon it so that two of you are going through the dungeon alone, I'd have to rescale the whole thing (probably), and most of the endgame revelations wouldn't make much sense.

So if any of you are interested in what was to come, let me know and I'll give you a rundown of what was to be discovered by the end of the game- final boss fights, revelatory exposition, cliffhangers, etc.

A1C Bronymous Fri Nov 27, 2015 5:02 pm

Ok, so at least one player has asked about what was planned for the endgame, so what I'm going to do is dump all of my campaign-relevant docs.

First, the general campaign notes:

Docs:

These next few docs are a bit random- you already had access to the Bestiary, I believe, and the other two better spell out the Chest Puzzle and the loot found in Figurehead's House- which you barely touched.

Random docs:

Finally, for anyone interested, here are all of my Enemy combat builds. A few of them are adapted from that old monster manual doc, the others are fairly nonstandard, and probably unbalanced- but all of my combats involved fluid mechanics, changing health and damage totals on the fly to make the combat more interesting (i.e., not too quick, nor too deadly.)

Combat Builds:

So those are all my notes. I also have some of the finer details still floating around my head, so if you'd like me to clarify any points or go into greater detail, go ahead and ask.

In any case, though, I wanna say thanks to you guys for letting me try this DM thing out. I don't know that I can call it a success by any measure, but at least I got the experience in. Thanks especially to Storm and Dodger for sticking it out all the way from the beginning- I feel like I'm ripping you two off, as you deserve a real ending for coming through this far. Maybe we can solo those, idk.

*Re: Timeline:

Cardbo Sat Nov 28, 2015 3:33 am

The one thing that still puzzles me, what was Juniper's and Quick-Fix's role in all this. What was that machine, and what was wrong(if anything) wrong with Juniper.

A1C Bronymous Sat Nov 28, 2015 5:00 pm

Quick-Fix was meant to be the moral heel-turn of the game. He was obviously an unethical little dick, but ultimately was the "lesser evil" doctor of the two, and one of the options for helping you develop the cure and saving the town. However, Juniper was a third cure development option.

After her skiing accident, Quick Fix took her in and treated her with some experimental drugs. Much like Sunburst, she was treated against her will and developed an addiction, which Quick Fix used to his advantage. The machine was a prototype model of the miracle medical machine she developed, which Quick Fix intended to get her to polish off and get really working, for a profit (like the cure with Storm). However, her drug treatments addled her mind, and in time, while under the effects she would be docile and obedient, and when they would wear off, she would be come increasingly angry, violent, and unpredictable.

The runaround that Sunburst, Gearick and Storm gave Quick Fix and Juniper got her just a little more off her meds than usual, and like Sunburst, she decided she needed to escape. So, she bashed Quick Fix over the head with something, grabbed her machine, and ran.

Quick Fix would have helped developed a cure for the price, or if you decided not to trust him, you would have found her in the act of trying to escape, and could have helped her, which would have led her to operate the machine and distribute the cure free of charge (and then that would have led to either letting her leave as is or trying to get her medical attention, but that was far enough ahead that those decisions weren't fleshed out).

**Paper Shadow** Sat Nov 28, 2015 5:07 pm

What was with the whole Silver Bells Pregnancy storyline?

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