A Time for Harvest Gameplay - Chapter Three

There are more than the two of them. They were attacking on the fourth floor as well. We need to clear this building slowly, methodically, and safely. I'm waiting to see if the attack us or just attempt to corner us, but either way we need to seize the innitiative here, and quickly.

Gotcha. Assuming they're clamoring at the door to the stairway, should we bust down the door in their faces and try and fight them down the stairs if we're trying to seize initiative? Go down the elevator and come up behind them? Also, I probably should have initiated this conversation in character. I was trying to get game master clarification but, since we're here...

Mathis can't answer you until I find out what he is hearing, answer will come as soon as possible.

Well, hopefully none of are gonna be fumbling rolls regardless. A successful hit is a successful hit, whether we're in line of each other or not...

Knifesedge, two questions:
1) Did the elevator seem safe to carry 6 people down at once?
2) Is the door to the 6th floor hinged to open towards the stairs or the landing? It would be awesome if we could bust the door open in their faces to push them down the stairs lolol.

sorry, military background makes me overthink rp combat alot. I'm game for however the group wants to attack this.

No worries, I'm down with logistics, but there's always a chance you're gonna shoot your teammates in CoC no matter how well you plan, aha.

Okay, now that I'm thinking about the elevator, my concern is that they hear the elevator going down and come around to meet us,
and then the elevator doors open and we're in a worse position than we are up here. My final vote would be to split into two teams to try and disorient the baddies and split their focus at the very least, if not be able to get a good drop on them. If friendly fire is really a concern, we could send a group down, attack them from the back, draw them down the stairs and into the hall, and then send the group down from the 6th floor for the double whammy surprise.

That's my vote, but I'm officially overthinking this as well, so I yield the rest of my time lol.

is there a system to slow down to increase rolls?

I don't have my core rulebook handy, but I don't think there's any explicit mechanic for like "taking aim" as you're describing in 7E. However, from p. 221 of the Investigator's Handbook: