Admin, OOC, and Launch Discussion

Sorry to hear things are going so rough, Xorthan, but glad I could brighten your day :)

This should be good, you got this X.

We just had Spider-Man, let’s make sure we don’t have someone turn into Batman.

Ivor's still holding his action til everybody's safely up the rope. In the meantime he is holding a defensive stance and keeping a sharp Lookout. Does he see any threats? Anything further from the figure with the Mace on the other side of the door?

Struggling with some deadlines, will be offline for 24 hours. Thanks for your understanding!

Players' Club,

I thought I was going to get free today, but can't get time. Will try to steal some moments tomorrow morning early, and then should be able to break free some at the end of the workday.

Sorry for the delay. Will catch up.

J

Maeriks and his new pal?

True. To Maeriks, the world is one big petting zoo.

I've been insanely busy at work, loads of hours. Will catch up tomorrow.

Sounds good.
Everyone else clear to act anytime. I'll incorporate Kray's entries in on the fly, accounting for developments.

Does Ivor have any awareness of what's going on with Trece and of the stirgenado coming down on top of him?

Players' Club,
Total loss for me yesterday on finding game time. Trying to catch up on boards today, but still struggling with mucho going on in el office. Bear with me if I'm slow, but I will get to updates and answering questions as soon as I can break free.

Nice touch Jabes.

Finally able to break free..

A lot going on in Ep 2 board, but we can still downshift to weekend casual time.
Take a break from a hard work week at deadly trap rooms as needed.
Don't ruin a nice weekend with family and friends to go make Saving Throws vs. Death Ray Magic.

Hmm. I would not have looked at it that way, but I'm up for hearing out the appeal. It has some merit.

Commitment to Contract assumes living a lifestyle of the Mercenary Code. The Ep 1 crowd here breached contract famously. Not meaning they can't do work for money again, but it might say that they work on some other set of codes beyond just money agreements and an ironclad commitment to their literal word.
Also, Sizhen and Trece I don't think are taking on a Mercenary Code life.
Plus some of the other criteria isn't quite there, like the payment up front.
BUT that meeting with Palla Ba at the secret room in the Tea Shop did seem like a heck of a conspiracy deal hire. I'd say if you guys are striving towards a true fulfillment of Palla Ba's goals (which is to kill Iz Jeddriss and by extension other menaces he employs to prey upon the city) and you have given your solemn mercenary agreement on that, I can see maybe you guys get some extra motivation here and there because you are intent on seeing it through.
We'll have to think it over in the long run to make sure we don't set it up like every time someone gives a lead on a place to raid, we call it CTC.

In the end though, these code boosts are meant to be a way to use mechanics in an fun way to convey some sort of culture threads that weave through the setting and the characters.

So that's a long talk to say "yes" with qualifications. The intent would be for you guys to be using the rerolls as an illustration of the characters' determination to get the job done, because they took on the employer's goals and mean to see it through. So if you guys pussy out at the end and don't follow through, you should feel guilty about using the rerolls. Haha!

Now Sizhen and Trece, they have done an outstanding job conveying to me their very serious intent on accomplishing this mission, but it is different than a Commitment to Contract under the Mercenary Code of Honor.
Sizhen has a commitment to his expertise of solving cases and a drive from his background to destroy demonics wherever he finds them.
Trece has a personal code that has him focused like a laser beam on fulfilling the request of Palla Ba come Hell or high water it seems, so no lack of motivation there.

So everyone, let's call it Commitment to Mission (CTM):
PC can choose to gain Advantage on an Attack Roll, Damage Roll, Ability Check, or Saving Throw of his choice once per day as long as the action taken is an effort of striving forward towards the completion of the Motivating Mission.
Upon reaching 5th Level, the PC can choose to enact the ability twice per day.

No one can use it until the current round though (mainly just meaning Ox has to make the hold-over CON save under the tough circumstance with no retries like everyone else did).

Ivor isn't moving til Crawler is dead unless he thinks it's a sure loss. He was holding for Trece but with no response Ivor's now starting to think he's dead.

Trece is Seetan, correct?

Oh, you're right! So am at 21 24/82hp.

But now I've failed my climb roll.

He was born Seetan, yes.
Also, got it in one, DM J.

Players' Club,
I've been reading your cool posts and want to send updates, but it's going to be tough for me to get on the boards today. Really sorry. Will see you when the smoke clears. (I thought I was in a deathtrap room with giant bugs and blood drinking bats and poison, but it turned out I'm just in the DC corporate world like normal).