[IC] Death & Taxes (Session 4)

No if you were working on the assumption they were gone I’m fine with that (I didn’t say I was keeping them around after they cleared the pile after all). Let’s try to clear the field a bit....

going for an Attack spell with the Empowered additional effect, 3 difficulty dice, +3 damage for using the wand...well.....that’s a tad disappointing lol. Will use 2 advantage to recover some strain and 2 to give bruv a boost on their next check...hold on, forgot about Natural....going to use it to reroll this (don’t think I’ve used it this ‘session’).

So assuming I’m right and I haven’t used Natural yet that’s 14 damage to the minion group and I’ll use the Triumpth to take one out

GM edit: Only correction is that the mayor's Counterspell upgrades all magic cast (but his own) within medium range. Replacing that first purple with a red:

Also, Hildar is still afraid from being near the dead body:

Rolls

OK, looks like Hildar is the only one who failed. Hildar's at 2 setbacks now, one for the scarecrow, one for the icky body. We'll use the 2 threat from Tronus to give the mayor a boost on his next check (assuming he's still alive).

Hildar can be rallied with a Leadership check by anyone else: Difficulty is us Discipline skill, RP, with a setback since there are two sources of fear.

2 PCs are up. Let me know if y'all want to let Nera take her turn; she'd probably shoot at the scarecrow, assuming Bruv and Tronus could take the mayor. Bruv is at medium distance (somewhere near the front door, while the mayor is somewhere near the doorway labeled K5 on the map below.

Tactically, it might make sense for Nekurr to take the last PC slot so he can keep the light spell going (and remove the two setbacks for darkness) as long as possible, but feel free to go now, CESN, if you would like.

I can be last yes! Is the scarecrow affected by holy magic?

You'll have to try it out and see! ;P

Day got away from me, folks. I'll have Nera go first thing tomorrow. Another PC gets to go, too--Bruv or Nekurr.

Nera will hit for 8 9 damage, then trigger Linked for an additional hit and 8 9 more damage. (Soak applies to each hit separately.)

Third advantage: Passing a boost to the next PC.

Go Bruv!!! ;)

Sounds good. I just rechecked the Encumbrance rules, and they get pretty mathy, so bear with me:

Bruv's Encumbrance Threshold = 12; he's carrying 8/12 Encumbrance-worth of gear; Skeeter is an Encumbrance 8 object, so that puts Bruv at 16/12 total Encumbrance for an excess of 4. The rules seem to suggest that you'd have to roll a Daunting (PPPP) Athletics check to do this, but that seems harsh -- maybe if you were trying to lift him over your shoulder or something. Alternatively, we make the movement automatic, but use the "encumbered" rules, which state that you lose your free maneuver this turn (for exceeding your ET+Brawn = 15), and you suffer 2 strain per maneuver (for 4 strain suffered this turn).

So, I'll leave it to you: Try that Daunting (PPPP) Athletics check and try to save the strain? Suffer the 4 strain, no roll, and move up to the kitchen door? Drop one item of at least Encumbrance 1, then move him up for no strain penalty?

Either way, once at the kitchen door, please do the Hard (PPP) Discipline check, but you can take 2 boosts (1 for some warning from the others, the second the passed boost from Nera).

Wow, that seems like a pretty severe interpretation, as I am not lifting or carrying him, which is what Encumbrance pretty explicitly pertains to.

But I'll just leave Skeeter on the porch, Maneuver into the kitchen (short range from combatants?), and Action to Engage with the Mayor (still using Heroic Recovery).

Using Advantage to recover Strain.

Just reread it, and you're right. Dragging seems not to be covered. Seems it should slow you down considerably, though, so why don't we say you can drag him inside and then bolt for the kitchen, but you can't also get an action in (which is pretty much what you suggested). That puts him inside and you at short range to the action. You can't engage with the mayor this turn, but Heroic Recovery is fine.

2 advantage on the fright check. Thoughts?

I had edited my post to state that I'll spend them on recovering Strain. It's tough work managing Strain, while sustaining spells and taking a bunch of maneuvers, and combat, etc...

I knew it would be, but this is really the first test of my build to try to do that... it's going... okay :P

Yeah, y'all are all getting pretty powerful, so strain is one of the few things keeping things interesting. I think it's a design feature of the system. :)

Nekurr!

Dropping the light spell. Am I buffed as well?
So thats YYYG (+ G) + P + fire + holy

Divine is 3, 2 successes... 4/6 damage? plus burn 1 and no

GM edit: Darkness applies, as you can't maintain both spells and cast, too...
+setback from Hildar's threat
+red from mayor's counter spell (replacing first purple)

Looks like on p. 16 Nekurr augmented Hildar and Tronus, but not himself. I was thinking it was Nera and Nekurr, but seems I was wrong. We treated Nera and Hildar as being augmented this round, so why don't we retcon and say those are the two benefitting from Nekurr's spell right now? That would make the roll above a success with 4 threat.

I'll try to be more meticulous about tracking buffs from here on out.

yeah, I should keep track of my buffs as well XD. 4 threat! ouch