(OOC) General Discussion

Sweet.
I was thinking of slinging some meat towards the orcs when we got closer.

If they cause a problem at least.

I explained in character, but the primary concern with by passing them is they will hunt you guys down later, and by you guys I mean Wexley's Barge.

So! Summing up what's going on.

Three options before us:

1) Let Wexley talk to the patrol and bribe them (Ensures they don't follow)
2) Fight/kill the orc patrol. [Possible eel involvement] (Signed off on by Wexley)
3) Try and slip past orcs. (Likely sees the orcs pursue us later because we "snubbed them")

4) we sneak pass but fail and orc's attack.(I am hoping for this one truthfully)

The residential fighter’s player votes Option 2.

To be clear, so long as y'all remain hidden, the only ones the orcs would be pursuing is Wexley and Thaelin. They don't know you exist (yet).

Edit: Also, sneaking... Not really an option for the barge. You guys can very likely remain hidden. But there's no getting by them on the river without them seeing the barge.

Posting IC. :)

I assumed we couldn't sneak.
I was more wanting us to try and get pass and see how to orc act.
If they try to board we deal with them.
Or other options.

I would like to at least try bribing past the orcs, but that is out of. Party hands.

Rather fight as last resort.

I don't think this is likely to happen. They're more likely to heal up, report, and come after the group later.

The orcs will almost certainly take this to a fight if engaged. If they survive and report the barge, it'll be just as bad later. If however they are found with a billion eel bites... or not found much at all, I think we could get away with it... that said, magic needs to be super sparing. Like are those mirror things around?

There is also a huge part of me that wants to start this fight by hitting an orc with a jar of salt pork so he gets devoured... just sayin.

Sorry.
Just got home after driving for ~4+hrs today.
Will post tomorrow when I get the chance.

@Greemology: lol, salt pork bath


@everyone: I am sorry my last few posts in-game have not 'advanced' the action or roleplay or planning in any significant way other than signing off--through silent communication--on whatever was last said.

My only goal OOC or IC has been trying to make sure nobody is waiting on my response to build a consensus, because out of game I am more preoccupied than usual including some travel.

Conditions should be more favorable for being more proactive after Tuesday.

Working on getting the combat initiation post up. May take a bit longer. Having issues with generating decent content, as this is a pretty unique situation. Likely won't be up to the usual quality, shooting for viable at this point. Speaking of pictures/battlemaps of course. Hoping to have it live in the next couple hours.

Post is up. @WanderOne You're up.

Well, I doubt either of my barrels hit, but i do have all the stuff and they may be Flatfooted, idk. It's nearly max damage though if they do. lol I tried.

Posted for both rounds?

That was the idea. If you'd like to go one at a time, that's cool too.

No, makes sense now that I think about it. I'm cool with it. Saves some time, without the map it's a little more ambiguous anyhow.

Oh, okay. I can post my 'second round' now too, like Greemology.

Problem is, I had not considered that the orc with the horn is in melee (with a barbed eel)? So I did not add in the -4 to attack roll last time and I'm not sure whether to do so, this time. I can add a little note about that just in case.