[OOC] Death & Taxes

That could work, though we may need to use the last of our SP for that
I think having threats just adding to the fright difficulty could be a good default option as well. It would be 3 groups: the bird prayers, the tiger seers and the panic fleers

I'll up for CESN's suggestion since Nekurr is the center of all this chaos... in a good way.

Sounds like the answer to my question:

I'll add a bit more detail about the crowd in the IC thread. But as for trying to determine identities, that would be an action (or require enough advantages on a check you made). Say Perception vs. RPP for most of these folks, with a setback for darkness.

The advantage option would be to roll another check (say, an attack or Coercion or whatever) and use 3+ advantage to have the mask fall off.

Nekurr’s highly honed feline perception is ... 0/2 😱
I’ll just eat them and try to figure out from the taste 😅

Well Were-Catman licking the flesh off a man's fale face slowly in the pale moonlight in this situation while purring would probably be slightly unsettling for some.

Yes, yes, a thousand time yes. Nightmares! :D

Yeah, I just made something up on the fly, as there's virtually no chance she can get out with Brawn 1 and no combat skills—but she'd want to. Allowing a conjured item like this to be vehicle-scale in wounds and hull trauma threshold sounds logical, but I'm hesitant to allow a spell to do that. It would basically take any threat completely out of the encounter, as very few creatures can break through a tractor-trailer you drop on them.

I like the idea of basing it on a comparable elemental-type creature, though. Maybe the Dimora? It's the Terrinoth equivalent of an earth elemental. 18 Wounds, Soak 6. Pretty damn tough, but not impossible for someone to break through eventually.

but I only "gently" pushed them out of the way to help the dead one 😈

Yea, totally get that. And like I said, that sword when cutting both ways would be painful...

But was also just thinking of like, if it's something structural like a Conjured bridge that we were using to cross a chasm, it would make me really sad if an enemy could destroy it with one or two blows, which I think something like an Empowered attack spell or the right melee or range build could dish out at 10/3.

And the Sunder idea was just cuz that's about the only "damaging inanimate objects" model we have in the system.

The dimora basis seems like a good compromise tho.

Thanks for hearing me out.

Yeah, I think it's narratively dependent. Making a bridge that can resist enemy catapults makes sense and wouldn't be problematic. Your question makes me wonder if GMs have faced a player trying to conjure a giant boulder at medium range above a target's head or some such. Theoretically it's possible, but it would be nasty on a PC! :) A lot of this is similar to the possible uses and abuses of Move in Star Wars. Fun to kind of speculate.

An entire cosmology is being rewritten as we speak.... :D

CESN has indicated possibly letting these folks go. Another possibility might be a citizens' arrest? You have seven Night Creepers on their faces, giving up. The two rivals who have run off are another loose end, especially as running will eventually bring them back to the village proper, with all those sleeping villagers.

Tronus is probably closer to the person who fled eastward into the high grass. (It's just one person.) That's the one Hildar just shot at, but missed. I'd think Nekurr's utility may be more in keeping the seven other Night Creepers in the clearing complacent until they're all subdued.

Did you want to go first or me CESN?

no, go ahead. you're closest to the runaway man :D

By the way, Happy March! +5 XP all around.

That puts me at enough for a T5 talent so taking Dedication Presence.

OK, so as far as I see it, there's no need to play this encounter out any further. You have the Night Creepers in the clearing either dead or cowed, you have Jacey Tabbins captured, and you have two fleeing Rivals.

Maybe an opposed Athletics check of Tronus versus the guy fleeing east to see if he makes it to the center of town before he's apprehended? Difficulty would be PPPP.

The guy at the house is another loose end, but I don't know any of you can catch up to him at this point. Maybe if he makes his Discipline check to calm his fear?

OK, so let me do the two Discipline checks for the Rivals and at least see if they are able to act in their right minds yet. Then we can decide whether to continue or just say the encounter's been won.