Obligatory OOC thread :D

I noticed Agna's fatigue was at 1. Since you have been at sea for a few days, I put that as 0 as you'd have rested enough to heal.

Gotcha. I honestly forgot she even had the fatigue. I assume Agna has a physical wound now?

Not yet. The hands just managed to climb on you. Mechanistically, as long as you can "pay fatigue" you shouldn't be wounded. The idea is that you, being the hero, can always avoid an attack, but it may require a difficult dodge that puts stress on you. (maybe fatigues should be renamed stress 🤔 ). It's this fatigue/stress that will than lead you to make mistakes and get wounded.

Because wounds give you a -1 penalty, once you get them, you enter a dead spiral, so fatigue basically works as a buffer to balance that out.

ok. just read the new posts! Failing means Agna will be grappled and prone in d&D terms. Basically, they're trying to get you on the floor to restraining you. They are not attacking yet

Okay 2 questions then.

1). Would I be rolling at -2 for me or just -1? In other words, does the -1 on Agna effect my roll?

2). Would the fish man require just another hit to kill or would it be a crit to kill?

So this definitely not clear in the rules but, since the difficulty behind Agna's penalty still applies (you don't want to hit her!) I'd say it's -2 penalty to help. Having Str lv 4, -2 penalty gives you a modifier of 2, so that's 42% chances of helping!

Fizel actually can't help because he would have a negative modifier, but he can kill one hand (or the fish man) for free since he is part of the party (I have to set up his sheet again to roll for him)
the fish man dies with 1 hit, but since there's no actual difference between the enemies as far as the rules are concerned (they don't roll!), I switched it simply because it felt anti-climatic 😆 They are all basically the 'same enemy' in different 'skins' so I opted for what felt more cinematic if that's ok (you need one success per enemy here).

If you think its confusing or taking your agency away, let me know and I won't be doing that very subjective call. I'm going with the rule of cool, but this might not be cool for you 😆

Just a suggestion, but maybe it'd be easier for you to deal with Fizel using NPC rules instead of still considering him as a PC?

Nah, I'm cool with the change. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't some sort of 'boss' monster for the effects of the rolls. I also figured it was most dangerous and needed to be taken out quickly. We'll see how things play out though.

It would actually. I haven't given up the idea of replacing Eyes, so I'm still thinking about him as a PC 😅

That's the one-two punch, testlum. High five for the successes!

Hah, let's see whether the sailor actually makes it out :P

ahah with two successes the sailor is immortal now :D

She said to go, but not where 🤣 Agna may be in for a surprise.

well... from the map you don't know where the exits are yet (except going up the ladder again), so it would be a good assumption she is trying to find another way out. Though she might just as well be trying to get out of danger, or at least into a more advantageous position that a narrow room :D

Based on past experience, I don't hold much hope that she'd want to get away from danger :P

Any chance I could use my previous experience of seeing the horrors of the man damned inside out and realizing what was actually going on to add the +1 here?

You could but in this system is not the result that gets changed (this is the counter-intuitive bit of it). It would only extend your success range, which would have no effect on the roll since a 4 is always a miss.

You could use it for a raise, which could be dangerous, but could rescue your fail if you get a 5-8 (since there's one less PC, Fizel could help for another +1). That would be 56% chances of a last minute success vs 34% of messing pretty bad.

I always forget that lol! Old habits die hard. We'll keep the fail and I'll narrate that.

Since you were following her, she should be in the same room (though I only mentioned the reaction of one of the sailor to avoid cluttering the thread with NPC monologues xD). Though it is indeed very interesting if she were to have vanished without you noticing. I will totally go with that :D

ahah sorry, I slotted in a little "dungeon crawl" from Ghosts of Saltmarsh to have something happen for on the high sea for diversity