Octagon - Another Purpose - Game Thread.

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Jun 26, 2015 5:49 pm
Catching one of the seeds in her piece of avatrol skin, Nyom falls in line behind the others but in front of Ronna, being sure to check back on her every so often as the party continues their trek. Heeding Zenobia's advice she keeps her right hand free, ready to grab one of her weapons if needed.
Jun 26, 2015 10:50 pm
Jax reaches out to catch one of the seeds in his segment of Avatrol skin. He wraps the seed up in the skin and stashes it in his pack before drawing his hammer and shield and jogging up to the front of the group. Better to be safe than sorry he says to himself to affirm his choice of having his weapon drawn
Jun 27, 2015 6:27 am
Party moves forward.

Ronna have almost all her attention on the membrane, but her perferal sight help her navigate following Nyom very close, and thus avoiding any contant with umbrella particles at edges of corridor

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Party members moved one after other, avoiding any collision with particles on the sides of the corridor.
Now the corridor widens, and it is clearly visible through membrane that the building have quite wide clearing around it without any particles. Without membrane the bunker and the clearing... are not there... are not visible.

When the party reached the clearing suddenly all the surroundings changed, and turned to be exactly same as they appeared to anyone who was observing surroundings through membrane. Now the "realities" match.

The figures noticed approach of the group and started to move slowly towards the group.
Those were three men, wearing some kind of synth-metal armor uniform, which was covering majority of their bodies.
They had long hair. They looked like... guards of sorts.
The second of the three, the one in the middle, raised his hand and started to say somthing to the party :
"Noruiyqimbdie Bas Quoioreaa Qieortir Bendooras - Avismsariquin Uroquin Maarnibas Roqari Orvinom. Sarionidraquin Marviniq Ragasrt."
The intonation of this sentence in unknown language was intimidating.
Then other two men raised their hands in same manner as the man who just said the sentence.
It was looking like the "stop" gesture, only that the men streched their arms up, to the sky.
Jun 27, 2015 7:10 am
Lucas halts and motions to the group to do the same. He looks back at Jax and motions for him to put his weapon away. "Please, at least for now but keep it a moment's notice away." He then looks at Nyom and shares, "In my vision, you reached to the top of the bunker with your spear. If I die, know this is what I saw and what I have seen has mostly come to pass." He turns back to the three guards, and puts his hands out and down in a non threatening gesture. Using his posture and by gauging that of the guards he tries, without talking how they got here. Using his index and middle finger of his left hand, he points to his eyes and then points with his index finger to the membrane in his right hand. Again to his eyes and then to the guards. He uses his finger to trace an octagon in the air and then using two fingers he makes a walking gesture and then points to where he stands. He tries to see if they understand.

Rolls

Communication through gesture (trained [all social interactions])(effort) - (1d20+6)

(11) + 6 = 17

Jun 27, 2015 10:15 am
Adding guard's action as separate character action in middle of the turn. Lucas done his turn already, others still need to do it.

The man in middle answered with series of gestures:
Gesture that traces X in the air,
Gesture that suggests to the party to move away - he waved his hands in direction opposite to the party's approach.
Gesture where the man waves with his hands to the north-west direction, towards larger hills on the horizon, and
gesture which suggests to party to move in that direction.

Then he adds: "Quialitirati Orvinom Zekt. Taraasiquin Maisquin Varladirit"
Jun 27, 2015 10:49 am
Ronna brings the membrane she is carrying closer to her face and whispers to it quickly: "Hush, now, for a moment."

She gently wraps the piece of avatrol skin around the membrane, careful not to damage or limit it too much. Then she slips around the group to front, where she can see the three guards better. Her eyes dart this way and that, as she looks for a way to avoid confrontation, in any way possible.
Jun 27, 2015 1:34 pm
Nyom is a bit taken aback by Lucas' vision. "What do I have to do with any of this?" she thinks to herself as she moves her hands slowly away from her weapons, trying to appear non-threatening to the guards.
Jun 27, 2015 1:58 pm
Mandoric smiles at the men and offers them a simple gift - a day's rations. Not much, but offered food is a universal sign of friendship. He also looks up in the direction the 'guards' hands point.

Rolls

Pleasant social interaction (trained) - (1d20+3)

(12) + 3 = 15

Perception - (1d20)

(8) = 8

Jun 30, 2015 2:10 am
Please check last posts in the Game Discussion thread.
I'll give it bit more time and then will skip JAx's turn in order to advance.
Jun 30, 2015 4:18 pm
Waiting 3 days is enough. I am skipping Jax's turn.


Guard refused to accept the food from Mandoric with dismissive gesture, and then made drilling gaze towards Jax who had his weapon out. Their hands up were kind of stopping hesture or salute. Their right hands were stretched to front and upwards.

He turned towards Lucas and said "Zamisiian Turnoquin. Barati.".
The guards approached the party, coming into immediate distance with the party.

He again made dismissive gesture hinting that the party should turn back and walk away.

"Taraasiquin Maisquin Varladirit" - he said again, pointing towards the distant hills.
"Na voquin."

Extented turn. 2 Actions allowed before the turn's end. Minimum 1 post/player required in order to end the turn. If 4/5 players will post, the last one will have 48 h to make a post from the time of 4ths player first post (in the scope of this turn). This is new rule so we will be able at least to keep with the shelude without big delays.
Jun 30, 2015 11:14 pm
The language that the guards are using almost seems like something that Nyom has heard in her past travels. Holding her current position she tries to remember if any of the words sounds familiar.

[OOC: May be a bit of a stretch with the recall, but I thought I'd throw it out there.]
Last edited June 30, 2015 11:14 pm

Rolls

Recall [trained] - (1d20)

(11) = 11

Jul 1, 2015 4:00 pm
Mandoric turns his blue monacle to the men, and examines them closely. Are they people of flesh and blood, constructs or maybe ephemeral projections of the numenera?

Using scan esotery, costing only 1 Intellect due to Edge.
Jul 1, 2015 5:18 pm
This is extended turn (2 posts/player) so i am posting results mid turn.

The guards noticed the scan from Mandoric but did not reacted. They moved their gaze on Mandoric, and repeated the same dismissal movement in unison.

Note towards Mandoric with results
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Jul 1, 2015 5:21 pm
Note towards Nyom with mid-trun results
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Jul 1, 2015 6:55 pm
Lucas looks past the men at the bunker trying to tell if it is indeed the same as from his vision or whether there might be another at the end of the other corridors. He looks towards the bunker and then over his shoulder towards the corridors.

Rolls

knowledge / noticing small details on bunker (effort) - (1d20+3)

(7) + 3 = 10

Perception on the other corridor leading off - (1d20)

(13) = 13

Jul 1, 2015 7:02 pm
Mid-turn results for Lucas.
The bunker had no visible entrances. It had thick line on its side, which was visible from here, and circle-shaped glass objects, perhaps windows.

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Jul 1, 2015 7:39 pm
"This is certainly the building from my visions and we must reach the box at its very top." Lucas gets ready to move quickly but once again tries to use his wild gesturing to communicate to the creatures. He points to the bunker and then to his hand which he has formed as a mound. He gestures with his secondhand taking something off the top. He points to his team and again points to the ground to signify they are supposed to be here and then mimics their raised hand to try to get them to move from the path. As he does this he starts to slowly move forward and leftwards trying to clear a path for Nyom. He will stop if they consider it threatening.

Rolls

Gestured persuasion (Trained) - (1d20+3)

(6) + 3 = 9

Jul 1, 2015 7:51 pm
Ronna stands tense, her eyes darting between Lucas and the guards, ready to react to any sign of hostility or aggression. She has a thousand stories ready at the tip of her tongue, but none of them useful as the creatures don't seem to understand Truth.
Jul 1, 2015 9:54 pm
Zinobia movend in front, covering with his back Ronna, and whispering her loudly "Those guys do not seem to be fond of our presence here. We should prepare ourselves."

Then he quickly pulls something out his pocket and does some swift manipulation, dropping that something to the ground.

It looks like he activated cypher.

Then he loudly says "Use yours, anyways we might find more"



Nyom, Ronna, Mandoric and Jax should roll for initiative in this turn.

Rolls

Initiative (Trained) - (1d20+3)

(17) + 3 = 20

Jul 2, 2015 1:16 am
Mandoric mutters loud enough for everyone to hear, "Organic guardian constructs - highly dangerous!" Nevertheless, seeing Zinobia's intention and hearing his words, he activates a thin mirrored tube in his left hand. Suddenly it is not clear exactly where Mandoric is - he flickers here and there, and sometimes there is more than one image of him.

Activating Visual Displacement Device cypher - 10 minutes

Rolls

Initiative - using one level of speed effort - (1d20+3)

(20) + 3 = 23

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