IC Story Thread: The Call of Apollo

Whose making the first move? Sounds like a plan is in place, who's doing what?

Cap climbing up on the wall? Pagoni baiting?

Feel free to anticipate rolls, but if you want to, in this circumstance, probably just roll your party of the pool and I'll add Difficulty as needed... The boar's stats are kind of all over.

Sorry, I had missed this until now.

Generally, to create a strategic advantage for yourself in the arena/landscape, it would take the expenditure of a Story Point, or narrative symbols - a Trumph/Advantages, etc. But this is a small enough thing that, yes, such a gap or low-point in the wall can be found.

Sass, birdman, are you two waiting down by the spike then?

Alright, no check needed to attract it's attention.

So, we're gonna keep this in narrative play, for now, and what this thing does when it see Cap is it just kind of runs down the line, blasting the wall with it's tusks as it goes, and it's kind of just doing a "drive-by" blasting of the wall beneath Cap. It's not coming at the wall at the angle that would probably be necessary to make it want to charge through it.

Capaneus needs to roll an Easy Coordination check, with 1 Setback due to the trembling/unsteadiness of the wall (PBlk), to avoid having the wall destroyed as he stands atop it/time his jump if he's doing that. And if he is trying to land on and cling to the boar, roll an Athletics for that. Average dif, upgraded once due to the inherent hazard of such a move (RP).

If I can assist with that, make it a group check, If not, I was going to throw rocks at it in an attempt to make it angrier.

That sounds like at least a couple steps, but beginning with drawing it out... Depends on how you're gonna try to do it.

Could be as simple as a Ranged attack if you think shooting it with an arrow will get it's attention. Could be a social Skill, Deception or Coercion, if you think more human taunts might work? Could be Survival, as the "handle animal" Skill, if you think it's just a large boar? Or if there's other narratives that you can match up to a Skill, you can try those.

Daaang, nice rolls Eskaton.

No, that upgraded Difficulty on your Athletics was just based on the inherent and high level of danger of what you were doing.

Just as a reminder GM spends the Players' Threats/Despairs, but I will use it to Strain Cap. And that is if the Boost sounds fine.

Basically, that's just a warning that I can spend Threat to toss you Eskaton, on Skill checks made right now/until further notice.

Sass and birdman, got anything you want to do?

So, in a situation like this where it's already engaged, you'd probably have to either actually cause damage to get it's attention, OR have narrative symbols to spend to make it happen.

I'll spend your two Threat to create Difficult terrain out to Short Range around the boar
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Sass, no check possible to try to Charm it. It's not an appropriate or applicable Skill for the situation, sorry. "Charming" or coaxing an animal would fall under Survival, as it is the animal handling skill.

You could re-roll a different Skill under the same narrative if you wanted? Survival would be an Average Difficulty with two Setbacks due to Cap dominating it's attention... PPBlkBlk, OR you could give a Boost to Cap trying to steer it?
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Eskaton, sounded like Cap wanted to try to "steer" it to a position further away from the wall, in line with the spike?

Since you're more trying to "break" it really, rather than ride it, you're looking at a Hard Survival check, upgraded once (RPP).

birdman and Sass, keep going with your RP if you want, push for your next Action, broadcast to the others what you're thinking, or visualizing as the next step, ask for direction from your allies if you don't know how to for into the scheme, etc.

I reckon this isn't as good as tying it to its tusk, but can still work.
What would the difficulty of a, I'm guessing ranged light check, be to use my climbing gear to lasso one of the tusk?