Scene 2 - Seizure Day

Assuming you make your way out into the corridor, please let me know any precautions you might take to be sneaky (maybe strapping down metal so it doesn't clink so much?), what you plan to do about the lighting conditions, any other tactical stuff you might think of.

Rose, having sketched out the map that Baby D showed you of the facility, would know that turning left will be the quickest way to a stairwell and elevators that were shown going down to the public transit station i.e. where Baby D indicated Laughing Jack said he would be going towards.

Love your creativity there, Oscar/@microtheMacroBear! You now have two torches!

I went back to check the rules about 'basic' adventuring gear, and I think this is relevant:

"Your character starts the game with Ud6 worth of Supplies, that represents your overall traveling gear (food, water, rope, flashlights, etc.)."

So if other people want to roll their supply utility die, currently a d6, you can grab yourself e.g. one flashlight (you roll the d6 and if you get 1 or 2 your supply die is downgraded to a d4)

I think you're good to go out into the corridor now. @Adrasthea/Mattie can let us know when they post, any prep they did before heading out to join you (assuming Mattie does go out to join you.

To move things along, I'll also post here already what you see as you move out into the corridor, I am assuming as quietly and as stealthily as you can.

There's no "group roll" rule here - and I want you to roll to see how stealthy you can be in this situation, so that will be a DEX test. But it feels to me here too punishing to have you each make such a test - chances are fairly high that you'll fail that, and that's not the vibe I'd go for here.

AND you're up against a pretty big threat here. Hm.

I'm going to say you just need two DEX successes out of the four of you AND if someone rolls a natural 20 then it's a group fail.

I'm not going to adjust your roll based on the threat level of your opponent(s) - I'm going to say that your preparations negate that. For now.

AND this roll will cover you for some distance of moving through the Sanatorium. I'll ping you the next time I want you to make one.

I don't know how long we'll want to keep playing this game. I assume at least to the point where you'll have a chance to move a big step closer to the Tower, which you will have an opportunity to do depending on what happens in the sanatorium.

If you are interested in moving on and playing out some more locations, to continue the quest to the Tower, there are mechanics for how that works, and I have a map of the world and the spokes prepared for that.

When you move to a new location, the ease and danger of up-coming locations is effected depending on whether you managed to strike a significant blow against the forces of chaos, or if you suffered major losses to those forces. Thus you might want to consider trying to take out or disable major players/"bosses" you encounter here, to make your next steps towards the Tower easier.

You are currently on Sub-Level 3.

The transit station is six floors below you i.e. Sub-Level 9. The lowest level shown is Sub-Level 10.

Assuming you want to head directly to the transit station below you, the following locations on the map/plan/schematic seem of particular interest.

You're also each welcome to choose one additional location that one could imagine finding in such a futuristic-and-magic-aware sanatorium, and I'll add it to the description below.

Sub-Level 3: morgue and autopsy room (i.e. where you entered the sanatorium)

Sub-Level 4: a storage room (maybe you'd find some still-usable supplies there?)

Sub-Level 5: a security and observation office (maybe there are cameras around the sanatorium that you can use to find out what's going on there?)

Sub-Level 6: a cafeteria (a chance to see what the people who built this used to eat...?)

Sub-Level 7: a pharmacy (maybe some useful medication and drugs and devices?)

Sub-Level 8: central control room for IT and data-centre (if you wanted to try and do something about Davy B).

Sub-Level 9: Surgical teaching arena (who knows what might go on in here...?!) and transit station.

If you'd like there to be some other location e.g. an armory, a robotics workshop, a blood storage facility, something that fits the location, then you can let me know and I'll add it to the "map" as long as i feel its reasonable to have here.

If you'd like there to be some other location e.g. an armory, a robotics workshop, a blood storage facility, something that fits the location, then you can let me know and I'll add it to the "map" as long as i feel its reasonable to have here.

I have managed to confuse you. Sorry!

What I meant was...

In addition to the locations I put on that list, you can add each another one that's not on the list, that you make up yourself, and if I feel it's something that could be in the building, then I'll put it in there somewhere.


And for the rolls I meant for each of you to do one roll - and then we'd have a total of four rolls, and then as long as you didn't get a majority of failures, you'd have passed the test. I'm going to take the two rolls so far (from @SenorDeebs and @microtheMacroBear) as successes, as both rolled three successes, one failure.

@Adrasthea and @DragonDweller62 please just roll 1d20 each - as long as you don't roll a 20, then you've all passed the stealth test.

If you can think of a better way of doing a group stealth test, then please let me know - I find this clunky and still not very satisfying...

Ah, yes, @microtheMacroBear, I like that mechanic for the stealth. Thanks for the idea.

Next time, I'm going to use that with an adaptation i.e. one roll with advantage for the person with highest DEX, and one with the lowest, and then use the table you suggested to work with the results

Both save - pass
1 saves - pass with consequence
0 saves - fail

And maybe I'll adjust the target numbers based on the threat you're rolling against.

And I'll do the rolls for you, rather than waiting for those characters to do them, to speed things up, as there's no player agency involved in making the roll - it'll just be that I've decided it's time for another one based on the narrative.

And I love the idea of the area-style operating theatre! Editing my previous post to add that!

Ah, y'all are so creative! Makes me so happy :)