Obligatory OOC thread :D

Just opening one of these in case you need it :D

So, because the rules for the rolls actually "read" the roll name to get the information it needs, it's a bit easier to check the results if you guys use the character sheet. You should have your character name at the bottom of the page, just under Add new roll. If you press it you can click on the right 2d6 button on the character's skill table. Hopeful this will get all the colours and symbols right :D

I'm afraid I am actually lost. Did we initially get told we're travelling by foot and plans changed to ship travel, or are we still travelling by foot?

The ships is the name of the guild that controls the town. There is no actual boats

Ok, let me check this OOC first. @testlum can you tell me where did Emryn talk about sailing? I'm asking because it's the first time I'm using these many private messages and it looks a mess from my side. I'm just waiting for the post where this will all go wrong 😅

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I also checked the first post where the mission was introduced and I can see that wasn't very clear."The (other) dwarves are planning to follow directly to Fireshear by land, avoiding wasting time in Luskan, where they will have their goods shipped north by the Luskar Deliverers". I meant it as 'ship'-ed sorry 😅

So to clarify, the idea is indeed for you to travel by sea, which is faster than by land, while the caravan takes a short-cut (not wasting time in Luskan) and meets you later at the start of the Ten-Trail (where they will need a guide to cross the mountains to Icewind Dale).

Oh, I was referencing this bit:
I had the impression that we were travelling by land when it was mentioned Agna would be helping guide the caravan through Ten Trail in the opening post! It's actually fine if we end up getting there by sea, I'll just have Agna be a bit put-out in-character like she is now :P

Ah, after rereading I get the misunderstanding. I thought, and by extension Agna, that we'd go with the caravan all the way from the start instead of separately.

Oh yeah, I though it could be that. That was meant just as narration. I hope Emryn is be introduced just after that on your text.
Yeah that didn't end up as clear as I first thought xD You will definitely be doing the Ten Trails by land. And you're hired as guide to help crossing the mountains at the end of the trail. The Luskan bit is more of an extra favor you were asked (since you know how bad winters can get) so we can have you in Luskan to meet the others.
Cool! A bit of personality doesn't hurt :D I guess the dwarves are also famous for disliking water, it will be interesting to see how the others' play that given their secrets :D

For me it was this

Fizel has understood the "ships" Emryn is talking about, are not real ships, but the name of the pirate gangs that rule Luskan.

I thought that meant there was no sailing planned, we were going by land

So this is a bit of confusing Sword Coast lore but it's not that relevant for the story, just a little foreshadowing...

Luskan is traditionally supposed to be ruled by pirate factions, which are called Ships. Each faction has more than one ship, so it's "organized pirating", not each crew for themselves. Being from the City of Sails, it's would not be too strange the Luskar Deliverers would use ships (except for Agna who is probably a bit unaware of big city things)

In game, only Agna has actually seen any travel plan. Fizel and Izuhn have no information about how the travel is going to be, because they have not joined the Deliverers yet. This means that, because of the private messages I'm using, Eyes and RAAM didn't really see anything about how the party will go north yet. The plan to be revealed in character soon is the one here: Luskan to Fireshear by boat and then by land to Bryn Shander (the "capital" of Icewind Dale), so there's going to be a bit of both.

For the Search roll I was going for the clue and not the background so the way the roll went was great. I was just throwing my best guess out there though so feel free to offer alternative suggestions at any point.

oh yes, I noticed you wrote "looks around trying to figure out" just in time to assume it more of a paying attention thing. Hopefully that was good, but since I thought about it, I took the opportunity to clarify a bit what's the difference for the future :D

If Izuhn wants to answer Fizel's question, go ahead, since Emryn is not with you guys.

When you send private but don't post anything public

I know!! It looks a bit weird, but while the dwarves are chatting, I poked the orc just to keep myself from slacking and maintain the good pace :D

@CESN Ahh, I just wanted you to see, in case you were hoping the rest of us saw nothing at all

Thanks! It was actually super confusing when I saw it the first time 😅

I try to avoid happening since it looks so weird to have an empty post. I should have made at least some OOC comment but it was a bit rushed 😆

No worries

the day is not going well for Agna 🤣

I love channeling my inner grump.