[IC] Aqua Mortis (Session 1)

Could we swing by the guy who's doing the 'healing' on him?

Yeah, I think Hildar hitting the books could be useful, but perhaps after you've burned daylight first?

So, you only have a name for the guy treating the injured miners: Father Gettle. How do you want to go about tracking him down?

I agree checking some of those St Durvin's records may help like last time. But getting information on Father Gettle sounds a priority before talking to the miner.

Can't we just... ask the nice old lady?

Please give me a combined Hard Vigilance check. Looks like you're rolling YGGG+B. I'll upgrade with a Story Point, so difficulty is RPP+Black (for shadow).

We walk the shadowy streets when...

2 advantage - what'd y'all like to do with them?

How does everyone feel about Hildar trying to drop a Mask on us all as we round a bend and then waiting to see who is trying to follow us?

My mind translated that to you're going to make us look like the Teen Titans... that's not what you meant but works for me either way.

So what I was thinking is as follows:

Turn a corner and duck into a convenient alcove (spend a SP for this?)
Cast a Mask (1 base Diff) that covers the alcove (+1 diff for Size additional effect as base Mask only covers Sil 1), thinking making it looks the same as the rest of the wall (+1 diff for Realism additional effect).
There's nothing in the rules in the EPG that says one way or the other whether you can make the Mask see through from one side so could we add that for another +1 diff?

You the players do have all the Story Points at the moment, but none is required to find an alcove.

I think your difficulty (PPP) sounds right for a Mask that blocks off the alcove, but I think to be balanced, we should say that the illusion will block sight and sound from both sides (yours and theirs). You won't be able to see or hear them, nor will they be able to see or hear you (assuming they fail their Perception/Vigilance check).

If you want the three of you to be able to see and hear through the illusion, you're effectively doing a silhouette-1, character-focused mask with the additional target modifier. That difficulty would be base (P) + realism (+P) + additional illusion (+P) for a total of PPP. Same difficulty as making a fake wall, but it requires you to get 4 advantage (or 2 advantage and a triumph) to successfully mask all three of you. I think it would make sense for each of you to make some sort of check to remain still (maybe Cool?) if you remain masked longer than a minute or so), as I don't want us to shortchange the PPPPP needed for a true Invisibility spell on a single character that Mask allows.

Lets try for the see through option - rolling below.....will spend a SP to activate my Brilliant Casting talent which will add 2 x advantages, not enough to completely get us over the line but it gets rig of the Threat so can the two of us that the spell has worked on block sight of the third? Would be harder for them to be hidden but it's the best I can think of with the results of that roll.

I think what you're trying to do needs to be pretty tough—it's basically low-grade invisibility. So why don't we call it a boost to the unmasked person for a Stealth roll to dive behind the other two? Basically what you're suggesting, just we require the roll now rather than later. Whoever it is can roll Stealth vs. RP with a boost from the passed advantage.

Believe it or not, Hildar's actually our stealthiest character now that Nera's gone. :) So he masks Tronus and Nekurr and then dives behind them?

I got a bit lost tracking all the information in one morning... maybe when coffee kicks in... If we need, I can spread the curse around as well :D

LOL. In a nutshell, two of you are now magically camouflaged as pieces of castle wall. Which two and what the third person is going to do to hide are the questions up in the air. :)

A curse isn't a bad idea, as it will make it harder for these people to see through the illusion and/or find someone trying to hide. It'll be tough to hit all of them at range, but if you want to try, difficulty will be Average to start (PP) + Range short (+P) + Additional Target (+PP) + penalty for casting without talking (+2 Blk) = PPPPP + 2 Blk. No Component Casting, I think, unless you want to leave a card on the ground for them to find!