Heist the Colours (OOC)

Glad you're feeling better, Pedrop. Welcome back to the heist crew :)

Thanks. Pleasure to be here:)

@Airshark: Waiting on a Recon roll from Lio. Let us know if you don't intend to do one, else I will move us forward without it in a few hours anyway.

With my bad recon roll, I don't think Ronny would be the one taking initiative at this point. So, I'm good with anyone else taking action.

We might need to actually Roll for Initiative if no one want to take the initiative. I can kick that off in a few hours if I have not heard anything.

Raf will try to sneak on the guy in bushes and put the barrel of his laser pistol to the back of the guy. To use him as distraction for the woman in case the fight will broke.

RP coming in a moment.

But will that count as taking initiative? Probably not, as he will try not to show his intentions before having the guy at gunpoint.

If you succeed at sneaking up then you will be doing that before Initiative is rolled and get the drop on him, else you will need to start us off with rolling Initiative and we can then act in Initiative order (or decide we don't want to use Initiative order in our game, we will see).

OK, I meant "initiative" in general terms, not as "initiative" as part of mechanics.

OK, I will do that. If my roll will fail I will add initiative roll in the next post, with additional little RP.

I will us Stealth + END for the roll, as I think it all depend on how much Raf is tired ? Lucky if that should rather be DEX I have the same mod for it:)

What will be TN? :)

I referred to both. 'Initiative' with a capital 'I' is the mechanical term, while 'initiative' without the capital is just the word, it can get confusing when they use real words that would apply to the situation as mechanical terms. :(

'Initiative' is such a stupid word as well, when what we mean is 'Turn Order'. :(
Ya. I don't see that there is enough coordination going on for Lio's Tactics to factor into this, so this is a straight DEX or INT roll.
Really? Why EDU? How does your level of education help you with this? I would think it is DEX to sneak up on someone?
It is an Opposed Check, he will roll Recon (INT) and we compare the numbers.

I meant END - Endurance. But I sometimes also mix the two:) I have +0 both for DEX and END.
Great! Makes things more interesting:)

(still writing my RP, almost ended)

Doh!

That might make sense if your were mainly trying to control your breathing (while hiding?), but this probably entails yous walking around, so I would say DEX?

DEX it will be:)

"The wish of my GM is the order for me!" :)

About the result: LOL... I had the feeling it will go this way... I know what Raf will be training at the nearest available occasion... :)

Ok, I'm waiting for his roll, before my Initiative roll.

But I just realized that the guy can't have worse result than Raf... :D ! What would happen if the he would be the same result as Raf? (highly unlikely of course...)

I meant to say:

Everybody Roll Initiative!

In this case? It is a tricky one.

Depending on the fiction:

You might have to try again. It could make sense in this situation that you realise your approach is wrong and can come from a different angle?

You might be able to try something else. You might realise that you can't sneak up and give up, no harm, no foul (aside from a lost round, maybe?).

You could not succeed in sneaking up on him, but he also does not get to act before you can try something else? Not sure that one works here, though.
Though he could get a match. He could actually get worse if he was untrained in Recon, and if his INT was worse than 0. Both are somewhat true, making him roll at -2 and -1 (you can learn stuff about the NPCs from these rolls).

He beat you by 6, so it is not just him that gets to know you are there, his whole party knows. I figured this was better than giving him a bonus to Initiative (you are not surprised or anything), and definitely better than a free shot, right?

Yeah. I noticed it too:) A -1 INT and 1 Jack of All Trades... DEX +2... what a thug! ;) ;)
Most definitely! :)

Yep. :)

Lio wants to shout something like " you're outnumbered, put down the gun and you will not be harmed"
But I guess we will first see what Cat and Ronny are doing.

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We can find a style that suits us, but waiting for Initiative Order can be very slow in PbP.

Maybe we can say what our characters plan to do, then adjust anything that would not fit the order (you don't yet know each other well enough to always predict each others actions, so there may be some working at odds with each other?). Then we can resolve all the actions once we know what each character is doing.

All your actions are happening at the same time, you don't really get to wait and react to each other.

I will have the NPCs telegraph their actions.