[OOC] Death & Taxes

Tronus is closing his eyes to give someone an opportunity to do stuff without actually being seen. I can't be concerned to hold their hand if they're off to 'use the bathroom in the night'.

Should've read this first. My plan was to head back to the hog-lady, see if there was anything to discover at this hour.

I shall update my character, will look through my options.

I believe this is true for everyone. You all should be due for another Heroic Ability upgrade. Let me know if anyone needs a refresher on the options.

Check the IC. We can abstract the recon run somewhat. It's pretty dangerous, but you're up to the challenge, right? :)

Okay, I suppose I shouldn't buy everything until after the session is "over".

Well after having such a hot streak of rolls I think a stealth upgrade is due:

XP to spend: 35

Stealth 2->3 (15xp)

Talent: Natural (Tier 3) - Stealth/PerceptionSave the 5xp, should save for a rank of discipline or cool.

I have 2 upgrade points I'll spend on upgrading paragon to the improved version.

I think I'll go with Dodge for -15XP I'm still banking 4

Excellent. Emsquared's out of town for the weekend, so no rush on moving into "action" IC yet. But please feel free to continue discussing the case so far. Hildar has some information to share, I recall.

Just realized I hadn't registered the end of season XP yet... 15 gives me 25. I... think I'm taking Dedication (Cunning)! Cool beans.

did we recover all strain? I still have 3 marked. Also, when do I get to heal wounds (i can't remember it anymore) ?

CESN, everyone should be back to full strain now, yes. If enough time passes, it makes sense to just reset it, although some GMs will ask you to roll every time. For Wounds, you heal one after a full night's sleep, but there's always magical healing (you and Bruv's doing) or health elixirs (which someone in the party may have?). Health elixirs heal 5 wounds on the first use in a day, then 4, then 3, etc.

Emsquared, does Bruv have two ranks of Dodge (Tier 3 and Tier 4)? Just checking over your pyramid and trying to visualize it.

ETA: I also think we may have gotten wires crossed somewhere on XP. I just revisited my calculations in this thread, and I think you should still be about 15 XP short of a Tier-5 talent. It's possible I gave you the wrong XP amount when you started, since you came in after 3/4 of a session had been played. But everyone should be at 160 earned XP. Getting a Tier 5 takes 175 XP, assuming you haven't spent anything on skill ranks.

Make sense?

I've tracked where I've spent all the XP on my character sheet at the bottom in the notes if you ever want to check. It's not readable in "tree-order", but an easy way to count Tiers (5:5 XP, 4:10 XP, so on...). And I spent 20 chargen XP on Talents, and 20 earned XP on skill ranks, so yea, at 175 earned I'll hit the Tier 5. Don't know how or when I ended up with +15 earned tho.

I've corrected my character sheet.

If you talk to Tronus in the morning and have some nice dwarven tea aka dirt water you can heal 2 a day. Legit not messing with you.

It's September! Everyone can add +5 XP. Please let me know if you buy anything with it.

I'll be away for the week. I'll try to keep up, but feel free to skip me if I'm not around

OK, thanks for letting us know. We're entering an encounter where you Catfolk are potentially going to be crucial (Fleet of Paw during a footrace), so if you do check in, that's great. But no worries!

Looks good. At first, I was thinking about using the "cold night" excuse for some temporary fatigue (like one of them is brething with difficulty and needs to catch his breath), but I wasn't sure if there would be enough advantages after the setbacks :D

Nekurr feels so inspired after Tronus rage-blaming :D

In the unlikely event Nekurr's in the thick of it Tronus does have his back. Afterwards he'll complain about the thin catman not being able to carry his own weight and Tronus is too old to be raising kids... but then slide him some supplements if he's injured while grumbling about not being able to take an ax to the shoulder... XD