[pnpgm] Game Update #269 - File #1566 - A disection....
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HT Aliaver/Player Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex
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R1.John Haight...........Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar Ma
??.Chris Wells...........Ben'dar...........Warrior.Normal/Human Ma
R4.Tom Corckett..........Caladan...........Wizard Normal/Human Ma
W2.Marcel Liberty........Chion.............Sailor..Normal/Human Ma
W3.Ryan Torres...........Farseeker.........Warrior.Normal/Human Ma
--.Tobie Bonahoom........Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry Fe
--.Floyd Mesler..........Jordan Malic......Warrior.Normal/Human Ma
R2.Mark Murtha...........Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human..Ma
R1.David Sanders.........Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human Ma
R4.J H Hooten............Raban.Usherwood...Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
W2.Robert Maxwell........Strie'bog.........Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
W4.Wout Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human Fe
R1 John.Stowman..........Will..............Hunter..Normal/Human..Ma
R4.Alex Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human Fe
R1 NPC...................Zhou Kiwat........Noble...Normal/Human..Ma
NPC...................Captain.Lin.......Warrior.Normal/Human..Ma
Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Tef'wo (Horse) Ben'dar,
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[Recap]
From Arawn: [Re: Actions]
The flood of knowledge, the insight gained through the...
"The Brain will help us and it knows time is short."
GM: Ack.
From Arawn: [Re: Actions]
Forgot to add:
As extraction of the Brain began Arawn called out to those
behind him.
"Get everyone ready. Zhou and Strie'bog are in trouble by
the forests edge."
GM: Ack.
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[New Stuff]
[Augado 10th, 1634TH]
[Location: Middle Katai Plains]
[ Mountains west of Pamau]
[Time: 3:30:30pm - 2:33:14pm]
On the western side of the mountain in the Throne Room
cave the group tends to wounds. Kiet and Caladan help get
Kell bandaged since Z'leyra is a bit busy. They do a decent
job but at least he has no serious bleeding.
Unali's brother comes from outside at the stair railing.
He looks the room over and shakes his head. This rag tag
team of people who clearly do not look Katai saved him?
Who are they? But then he realizes Unali is working with
them a new gleam of pride makes him grin. But then he does
not see Unali. He asks the group, "where is my sister? Unali."
Farseeker looks up above Raban being worked on. "On the
other side of the cavern. She should be safe..." But he
says this with his head lowered again so not to give eye
contact. He knows that the brain could wink them all dead
with a thought if it so desired. But being a military man
he knows his duty and does not shirk from it even at
certain death.
Raban looks up at Z'leyra and can read her face. Being
a Bard and a successful ladies man he can read all forms of
expressions on a female. This one shows that there is little
help she can do. He surmises that even with his great strength
there is a large chance of death from a new healing. He can
tell the bleeding in the liver is still profuse and he could
bleed out. Raban gives a wink and grabs her arm. "At least
I will die here under the arms of a woman."
Farseeker looks up at Z'leyra. "Can't you do something?
How about that hole thing? Didn't you use it once on Clima?
Popped the person in that hole area and called him back?"
Back on the other side some 1000 feet away in the Brain Cave.
The man who was rescued looks at Fremea, a very grateful look
on his face, extends his hand and says, "I owe you my life. My
name is Malic. Jordan Malic from Cerulean. If you hadn't come
along, the Vong would have.. well, I'd rather not think about
that!".
To Fremea though it is a strange language. She turns to stare
at the new man. Unali tilts her head. Arawn can hear the words
and understands him good enough but is too distracted to translate.
Chion isn't as fluent in Cerulean as Arawn though and does a rough
translation to the two females. Instead of "rather" he translates
it as "probably." But the gist is still there.
Unali turns to Arawn to ask the Brain. "What area to get away
from. How far is safe from the mountain if this explodes?"
Arawn asks the question but before he even finishes the
though the Brain reacts. He gives the answer word for word.
Though he isn't sure if it is the Brain speaking through him
forcing the words or he is consciously speaking the words. There
is no time to think on that. "The radiation will infect any
thing living in the cave the small caves and the big one. It
suggests to cover the ceiling to block it from the sky. I
can not control the volcano at this point. The process has
started. I do not feel it will erupt majorally for any direct
period of time. It may take weeks or days or hours. I can
not detect what is below in the lava chambers to tell what
the pressure is there. Those around in the forest will be
safe from the radiation. The walls are thick enough. If
the volcano does erupt then it depends on how much at that
point if miles is needed to get away. If I were to guess
the rate of lava now would suggest it will take 3.2 weeks
before any decent eruption of lava. Another 2 months before
enough is build up to possible leave the mountain unless the
ground quakes change that. These are only estimates. The
strange portal detected in your minds change the variables
quite a bit."
Unali nods and figures at least her homeland will be safe.
At least the Vong raided nearby villages for miles away. So
the villages should be safe. The forest though around here
might be destroyed. Maybe Strie'bog can get his friends in
the forest to flee. She keeps that in mind to tell him. She
turns and grabs the Vong masker that cloaked the outcast. She
stares to reach back to do a lurch as if to throw it over the
edge of the railing some distance away.
"Stop!" Omini yells and steps forward away from Arawn.
Unali turns to see what the issue is now.
"If I am to be...set free to my world...I will have to avoid
the warriors. They will surely kill me. It is my only chance
to find friends in the outcasts community. Maybe together we
can duplicate the Shaper device and use it to our advantage.
A outcast caught with such a device would be certain death by
the warriors and shapers. But if I return with no document
or person to escort me then it will be certain death. At least
that mask gives me a chance." Omini looks to Arawn to see if he
can plead his case to his comrade.
Unali stops and considers the benefits of keeping it here or
destroying it by throwing it to the ground lava.
Unali turns to Chion holding the Gnarish staff. "Can you get
the others to Shantou, Baron Ka's estate? Don't forget Zhou and
company. And those two at the top of the stairs."
Chion concentrates and asks the familiar watching the Kototh
portal how much time they have. "If I see the piles of bones
slide I will try to close the portal. Till then...I can
only sense. No more than 5 of your minutes. Time is different
through that portal. It may have already been days there." The
creepy familiar speaks to Chion through the staff telepathically.
Then Chion turns to Unali. "Max of 5 but it could be sooner if
things go bad. I'll hurry. I will come back for you two."
Then he realizes that Arawn can teleport as well. "Actually,
Arawn you can take them to the horses in the forest?"
Arawn tells Chion of what he saw below in the forest. "Get
everyone ready. Zhou and Strie'bog are in trouble by the forests
edge."
Chion turns to Unali. "Baron Ka? I thought he was helping the
Vong. Do you mean your family place or should we just go back
to Sivas? Sadly I will need to do multiple jumps maybe 3 or 4 just
to get all the horses and people."
Chion considers dropping the Gnarish staff. It is a strange
staff that lets others watch him. That is annoying and he doesn't
like his privacy tampered with. But then if the party has to flee
fast he may need to talk to the strange supernatural creature.
Walking past Arawn he taps his shoulder. "Good luck." Walking
past Unali he looks to Fremea. "Can you fly to the ceiling control
over there and close the ceiling like Arawn suggested?" He points
to the north wall where the balcony was they crossed and fought
the invisible Vong. Fremea recalls where the control was and if
she recalls it was a simple device. The "ceiling" is a animal
though and wonders if it dies from this radiation - whatever that
is - will the ceiling decay? Chion then points to the extreme
right side of that balcony where they left the 3 free humans there.
"Can you also tell them to double it fast down here to the cave
so when I return I can pick them up?"
With Fremea distracted Malic picks up the leather bag and pulls
out his trusty great sword. He felt so naked without it. Finding
the sheath he starts to put it on his belt. But then Chion winks
and the scene changes again. Malic and Chion are now back into
the Throne Room cave. Malic confused by all this teleporting
notices the party all around A large man and an assorted set of
fighters and other strange folks.
Chion claps his hands to draw the attention to him. "Time to
leave. The situation is being worked on but we have a new
threat. Gather your stuff and gather around." He begins to
do a count of heads. He counts 12 people. Two more than he
can get away with but that's an expensive spell just to leave
the mountain to go the forest. He notices Raban down. "Is he
dead?" Asking if he should be skipped. Then he realizes that
Raban turns to smile at him. "Ahh...Will can you teleport some
of them down? I will teleport everyone down to the horses. The
problem is we will need to do multiple jumps out of this area with
all the people and horses."
Chion can feel him already tapped badly by the magic of the day.
He hopes he can get the party home with their horses at least. But
he knows Ben'dar would kill him without Tef'wo.
Back in the Brain cave, Omini stares at the mask in Unali's hand.
Unali ignores the strange outcast. "Offer the Brain a choice.
Go back to his homeworld or die here. It has 10 seconds to decide."
The flood of knowledge, the insight gained through the
connection to the Brain was something beyond what mere words
could describe and in another place, another time Arawn would
have loved to learn it all and travel to the countless worlds
that flashed in his mind but, sadly, he knew that this was not
to be. The portals needed to be sealed if both worlds, and
perhaps more, were to be saved and time was now almost up.
In the back of his mind though he questions the ideas. To
his upbringing there are only 3 worlds to the True World. Some
consider the astral planes like the familiar nearby uses to be
only a pathway not a world. Yes this implies there are more than
what the gods created. There have been quiet rumors by those
in the various courts of the multiverse. But the gods refuse
to comment on such nonsense.
The Brain had agreed to let this world live and in the
process it offered a chance to save the Vong. Death at the
party's hands would have only saved the Middle World and the
Vong would be left to dark age which had fallen upon them but
the willing sacrifice of the Brain offered hope for change, for
healing, and the Alfar, though sad to see another creature die,
was glad for the hope this action offered to the Vong.
Even though Arawn feels sad there is hope. The Brain did say
they were all genetic made to remember. He doesn't understand
the concept. But this genetic memory seems to pass on from one
generation to the last. He knows that animals do this Strie'bog
tells of birds by instinct or maybe genetic memory find their
home after migration. Plants also seem to learn from their previous
generation and grow in the best places not the worst. So maybe
the part of the brain can still live to spread this hope to the
Vong.
He looked with sad eyes upon the Brain and then to Omini before
turning back to Unali.
"The Brain will help us and it knows time is short."
He turned back to Omini and the Brain. He motions for Omini
to grab the talisman. As he does he watches Unali to ensure
the mask is not thrown away. Then Omini feels the Brain contact
to him.
"Jacen was wise and now so are you," he sent to the Brain.
"how this one," Arawn said, indicating Omini, "where to take
the portion and how to grow it. Then when you are whole teach
him, help him bring peace to your world."
"Jacen Solo was a fool. But he did give a strange victory to
the outcasts caste." Omini simply thinks this and doesn't realize
that his thoughts are also relayed to Arawn. "The enemy thought
he was a hero."
Arawn wondered if there was any way to express his gratitude
but he felt that a simple 'thank you' would not suffice, if the
Brain understood. But then he thought of one thing, simple but
perhaps never experienced by the Brain before, and projected
all his thoughts of love and compassion for both the Brain and
Omini to experience, hoping it would be a gift they could
appreciate. With that done he stepped back to allow Omini to
take the portion of the Brain needed, helping him if possible.
The Brain relays his plan to Omini. The timid outcast gulps
and turns to face the Brain. Arawn offers a sword but the Brain
counters. A metal blade should not touch him. Arawn realizes
it is the Vong's world to deny non natural sources like metal
and devices. Omini is directed to a Coufee from one of the dead
warriors. Omini approaches and is reluctant to act.
"Now, please, shut down the gravity-generator," he said. "And
we will seal the other gate as well."
The Brain turns its attention to the starfish shaped creature
out in the forest some 3 miles away. It is in a open field.
The gray and black creature is huge that is with one "arm" going
about 15 feet long. The center area is another 10 feet or so making
the creature at least 40-50 feet wide. The creature has 5 arms
and below Arawn can sense the fleshy part where it can take in
nutrients from the ground. On top the implanted Dovin well allows
it to pull the moon or other things down. The Brain orders the
creature to sleep. It then shows where the location of the creature
is for the Katai military to kill. It warns that it is tough to
kill and the best way is through salt. This was discovered on
a world where a large salt plain was. The creature was eaten
as if by acid by the salt. Otherwise it would take a long time
to hack the creature. The salt should be used under the center
area fleshy area and to avoid the Dovin on top or they would
perish. Arawn makes a mental note to let Captain Lin know
assuming he doesn't arrest the party.
Arawn urges Omini forward. Omini hesitates but the Brain seems to
sense problem and commands his tentacles near the outcast to stop.
This in itself is a huge task as it is mostly by reflex. Omini
looks back and Arawn gives a nod. "Why can't he do this?" Omini
thinks to himself. Closing his eyes he steps forward now within
only a foot of the large meat that is the forward right lobe of
the Brain.
Arawn says stop which makes Omini jerk back in shock and in relief.
He looks back to the Alfar. Arawn through mental directions goes to
find a broken water barrel. He finds that is 90% smashed but it now
somewhat flat but with ledges. He then grabs his waterskin and pours
all his water onto the flat surface. He nodes to Omini to continue.
Arawn gives direction on where to slice as the best part of the
Brain is on the edge for rebirth. There is little blood if any
but mostly gray and white fluids. Omini considers taking this
brain segment to his people. If the Outcasts could grow their
own Brain they could be a force to be dealt with in equal terms.
Omini takes the slice which is as thick as a banana and as long
as a wrist. It isn't perfectly round but it will grow and reshape
itself with time.
Arawn guides Omini to place the segmented brain section onto the
barrel top. He yanks one of the dead Brigader capes to cover the
top and this should hide it from view.
Arawn turns to Unali to indicate the operation is over.
Omini looks to Unali. "Can I like leave now?"
Actions? Comments?
Next Update...Monday...
GM: Hope everyone had a good holiday. The Dwarves are adopting
the 12 days of christmas song as their inspiration to get
drunk each night instead of 1 mugs they add a mug each night.
So they are a bit out of it so hope things are running
in the office for the update. As some may have noticed
the end of the world was for the list that Wout has
exceptionally run for over a decade. RIP. But its
back up and NO change needs to be done on your end. It
was that seamless. But the last 2 updates may not have
gotten out. I know at least a few went to my game site
to check and found it. So if you check the update # above
and see missing 2 or 3 go to the archives or to the game
site and check them there. I suggest you do this as you
may have missed the IBT info I posted about in the last
update. Thanks to Wout for updating the list so no change
is needed as it was done automatically.
GM: Future plans - I wanted to start next adventure on a even
Keel 1/1. Course the update wouldn't be out till Friday
but if I can finish monday I'll do it then. So I hope
to evacuate everyone out of the dungeon. Then at least
start to leave Katai. That way we can start new and fresh
for new year.
Fremea - Do you go to do the ceiling thing? Get the 3
free humans and send them back down to the Brain cave
or teleport them yourself?
Unali/Arawn is left in the Brain cave. With the
supernatural creature and the Brain.
Everyone else is in the Throne room.
Folks to teleport outside the mountain
Arawn, Unali
Ben'dar, Caladan, Chion, Farseker, Malic, Kell, Kiet
Raban, Will, Z'leyra, Lin, Unnamed Wizard
Fremea, 3 Humans
Total: 18
Folks to teleport out of forest and somewhere
Arawn, Unali, Ben'dar, Caladan, Chion, Farseker, Malic,
Kell, Kiet, Raban, Will, Z'leyra, Fremea, Strie'bog, Zhou
Total: 15 plus 13 horses
Lin will stay and so will the villagers (3 humans) and
the wizard could go with you to another part of Katai
but will see when that comes. Chion can teleport only
11 at any one time. So we can see that at 13 horses
which are about 2 people size wise we are talking 4 trips
back and forth so 8 total trips for Chion. Will can
also teleport as well as Z'leyra and Arawn.
To figure out what the distances are:
From Mountain to Pamau almost due east - 100 miles
Mountain to Shantou - North east of mt.- 180 miles
Mountain directly to Sivas, Marentia - 960 miles
In fact Sivas is due west of the mountain so to
teleport to above would need:
To Pamau - EL 7
To Shantou - EL 8
To Sivas - EL10
Unali once outside the mountain in the forest do you
want to continue to Shantou as you posted? or go
due west right to Sivas? For Chion it would take
8 trips with everyone Will could help if he so wishes.
In order to say transmute the horses like before it
would need a new day (due to exhausted magic). If
this is the case the below timeline for IBT will be
upped 1 day. Chion can take 1 group to Sivas and back
but not to Sivas. Actually Arawn isn't a far leaper.
He can only do 76 miles or so at any one time So he
is out. Z'leyra could do 1 trip to Sivas and back to
the mountain then tapped out. So that's 3 can go back
to Sivas now. But sadly that leaves the horses.
So I think I already have the answer. All can return
but the horses would not today. So Unali want to
just go to your family grounds and rest till midnight
when new with mana? Though to do that. So to go from
Mountain to Shantou would be 14 mana I believe. That
means Chion could do that 2 Trips to take a group of 20.
Will could do that in 1 jump to take another 10 to the
city. Wow. This is more complicated than I thought.
Just too exhausted everyone. Arawn could take 5 in 2 jumps
to the city. Leaving if I get the estimate 5 left. Z'leyra
could take 3 of those but would take 12 jumps and not
enough energy for that. So based on this hard confusing
math I don't think the party can't escape! The party
is captured and slaughtered! Ok. End of the game. :)
So I guess the only recourse is to move west with the
horses. Camp out. You'd have 2-3 hours of daylight.
You could at least 5 miles from the mountain and the
military. So Unali let me know what you want to do.
Camp and teleport in the morning back to Sivas Or
try some complicated sequence to get everyone back
today. Unali I know you may want to say good bye to
folks so if you want Chion could take you and your
brother to your family grounds. The others could
camp out. Let me know what you want to do. Based
on the above the timeline for the IBT will be as stated
below or +1 day.
GM: Happy New Year to everyone!
GM: Clarification on IBT time:
It was 6 weeks. I know some folks were wanting more but
I just am not sure how long travel time will go. Who knows
Will, Z'leyra or Arawn could teleport the party to Donara
without no travel time. But if not then would have to
go by land or sea. That alone will be a additional mini IBT
for that period. Think when we did Clima some decade ago
it took the party 3-4 weeks by sea but I could be wrong.
We shall see once the adventure starts. But basically
plan on a solid 6 weeks for now. Just a reminder I would
prefer IBT done in the format in the document (see site).
But as a reminder:
Use this timeline for your info:
Augado (August) 10 - Return that night to Sivas, Marentia
Augado 10th - Night debriefing in Sivas Inn (upcoming)
Augado 11-31 - IBT time period [21 days]
Sepes [September] 1-24 - IBT time period [24 days]
So use the dates above OR just say day 1, 2, etc.
ALSO do not forget if you do not want the info posted on
what you did you must tell me in the email or for a certain
set of dates. Otherwise I'll do a summary of your ibt
not specifically but a generic view. Some may recall
how I've done this in the past.
So use 6 weeks. If you travel away from Sivas you should
plan time to return if you go to Dark Lands or another place.
If you are going by ship or horse plan that time. If you do
not know how long this will take ask and I can configure it
based on normal speeds. If your lucky to use the Express (Ie
Chion or a teleporter) then you will need to ensure that he
or the person picks you up.
Most characters have skills you could learn from. If you
want to be taught you will need to get with that person
to schedule those dates in conjunction. (if taught get
2 points per day so can figure out how many points needed
to learn the skill).
GM: Game Site errors:
Thanks to John there were rumors of a bad set of links
on the site (the dwarves!) IN fact all but 2 were case
sensitive. So Ps.txt file should have been ps.txt or a
.zip should not have been .ZIP. Ftp sites are funky
that way and I gotta check on these things. But I do
not upload the files till just before bed so rarely check
them so you guys need to check on links. All are fixed
now. I had to remove 2 links one on the Lake Oca Zip
archive which had info on what happened at Oca from last
adventure. The other was trip.txt which was the summary
of the Ship travel stuff. Both not needed. I actually
lost those files and not on the site. So not sure
if they were deleted awhile back. But all links are back
in order and tested. Top and bottom. The middle posts
and player posts there could be links there but I'm not
going to test over 1500 links. :) Regardless the next
adventure website will be cleared and cleaned.
GM: On Character sheets if you need to add something to your
sheet or change something let me know. I'd prefer if you
just send the snippet or the bit of info to add. This way
I can edit my master sheet here. I keep sheets with GM
notes that you guys never see. So if something is added
or changed I have to go line by line to figure out what
so its just easier to let me know what was changed. One
of these days (maybe next century) I'll get to do Excel
or such sheets. But since I use two computers for the
updates at this point (my old computer still has all
the pnp files I've yet transferred to new one) its easier
to use a simple quick text file to edit. For those who
can't read the ascii (though all computers should as it
was out in the '80s) the lines and such "graphics" in
the sheet can be edited if needed to *'s as some have done.
GM: Some found errors in their sheets. IT wasn't actually
errors though. P&P has weird rounding rules. Not sure
why Richard/Avalon Hill did it. But when I went to
school a 1.1-1.49 was a 1. A 1.5-1.99 was a 2. Course
they also came out with the "new math" in the '80s. Now
its probably "math 3.0" but who knows. So basically I
use my old rounding system that most in my generation use.
Also as a reminder I do not really edit Casting speeds as
they tend to be configured at play time. Also some Skill
Max ELs may not have been changed (mostly should have) but
I always check when at that max point to redo the formula.
GM: To Floyd welcome to the game! If your confused about
things like IBT or format of things let me know. Did
you add your email address to the subscription to
the mailing list? Well I guess if you did then you
get this update. If not. :< Will check later.
Unali - Odd. The Lang.txt file the language file that
we did using Z'leyra's language chain. It lists as you
having Cerulean but I do not see it on the sheet. Not
sure if this was my mistake or I deleted it on the sheet?
Will can take 1 group to Sivas directly. If it takes
4 groups at EL10 to get all including horses then that
leaves half the group only home. So that would depend
on Arawn and Z'leyra.
GM: Finally the improvements document is o the website in
the links section. It has actually been there a week.
But not sure if anyone noticed. I'll take comments
if need be public or private. It may still be tweaked
but to be honest I'm not too happy with it since I'm
a perfectionist. I think its still missing something.
I may tweak it during the next adventure if too much
abuse.
GM: CPs sent / Sheets updated
Player Status
Arawn Got Info / Work in progress
Ben'dar Completed
Caladan Completed
Chion Completed
Farseeker Completed
Fremea Completed
Kell Completed
Kiet Completed
Raban Completed
Strie'bog Completed
Unali Completed
Will Need info on CPs to use / Work in progress
Z'leyra Need info on CPs to use / Work in progress
Completed: 9 Need info: 3 Work in progress: 1
GM: Spells active
Will - Armor Transmutation, Mind Shield
Raban - Bless (OCV)
Farseeker - Bless (OCV)
Arawn - Bless (OCV)
Unali - Mind Shield
Kell - Elemental Powers/Pact, Summoning?
Fremea - Mind Shield,
Z'leyra - Mind Shield, Bless (Con), Clairvoyance
* = Soon to end (next update?]. I may NOT post this
info unless I remember to do so. :)
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