OOC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

[Bennosuke]

Initiative Order
Hound
Luis 8
Drimmle 5

PM'ed him, but going to give Wynward about a day to roll initiative and will otherwise roll for his character to keep things moving.

[Bennosuke]

Alright, rolling initiative for Arl to keep things moving.

(1d10)[6] +3

Initiative Order
Hound 9
Arl 9
Luis 8
Drimmle 5

EDIT: Alright. Let's get rolling. I will have Arl hang back and attack after Hound and Luis. I will wait for Hound to roll or declare an action before resolving Luis'. Thank you everyone for the patience.

[rax]

I think I covered Hound's actions for the first and possibly more rounds already.

Basically, I need to know what Hound sees to know if I'm going to be attacking someone. If there's no one but Drimmle, Hound's priority is to open the front door.

[Bennosuke]

Okay. See IC post. Sorry for the confusion.

[dojango]

I'm still planning on knocking him down, I rolled in the IC thread a few posts ago. He has to beat the DoS or he's knocked down and takes fatigue.

[Bennosuke]

Yep, Hound just had a higher initiative, so I wanted to give Rax the chance to declare actions first.

Drimmle's strength roll (1d100)[98](98) vs 27

[rax]

Re your question in the IC thread, I'm happy to wait a couple of days to see if Wyndeward wants to do anything special. Since Luis' tackle was so successful, Hound obviously isn't going to shoot anyone for now.

In the next round, Hound would either:

1. Find a way to open the front door for the rest of our crew, or

2. Help Luis by threatening Drimmle if he doesn't stop fighting and cooperate. This would be Hound's course of action if Luis seems to be having trouble subduing Drimmle.

Clearly, Arl acting could help finish this quicker, but unless Drimmle makes an amazing comeback or is desperate enough to take on three armed intruders by himself, it also feels like this might be a good time for Drimmle to surrender...

[Wyndeward]

Init roll (1d10+3)[4]

[dojango]

Yeah going to intimidate him into surrendering, if that doesn't work we can club him into unconsciousness. While I'm tempted to just drag him out for enhanced questioning back at the safehouse we should probably toss the manse for evidence so we can start tracking down the rest of the network. We don't need it for a trial since as far as Luis is concerned, he just had it.

(1d100)[94] v. 47 str intimidate.

[dojango]

Lol, not again. Going to fate point that. (1d100)[50] v. 47

[BananaPhone]

Let Marcella in and she can...

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[dojango]

I was thinking we could say Lord Durchess sent us and see what he starts blathering about. Should we just black-bag him and haul him off to the safehouse for interrogation, or should we toss the manse first? Might run into guards or servants if we toss the place.

[BananaPhone]

Who has the highest intimidation?

Cos Marcella can pull a little Psycher trick like levitate something, while the Intimidation guy threatens to take Drimmle to her buddies at the Telepathorium to rip the info out of his mind if he doesn't divulge it willingly?

[rax]

Sorry for not responding IC yet. Between work and family stuff my gaming has been suffering over the last few weeks. I expect to put up a reply tomorrow evening.

[Bennosuke]

No worries, I suspect you are not the only one we are waiting on.

@All: Is there some way people would like me to move things forward? I am assuming I am waiting for y'all.

[bramblefoot]

father milo has nothing to do, so i am waiting as well.

note: just cause i have nothing to do does not mean i want a daemon sprung on my ass.

[Bennosuke]

Why nothing to do? He's got the ability to join the main group and help out, or go off and start exploring Drimmle's house if he wants.

[bramblefoot]

oops. lemme post

[rax]

I was thinking we could say Lord Durchess sent us and see what he starts blathering about. Should we just black-bag him and haul him off to the safehouse for interrogation, or should we toss the manse first? Might run into guards or servants if we toss the place.

I don't think transporting Drimmle back to the safe house is going to work. It took a couple of hours to get here in two separate rail cars with guards at every station. There's way too much that can go wrong if we try and move him out of the house.

My vote is for tying him up and interrogating him on site. That shouldn't require more than two or three of us, freeing up the rest to search Drimmle's place for any other useful information.

[dojango]

Alright I guess I will be on team interrogation. What is Hound going to do?

[BananaPhone]

Hey Mr GM, Marcella's psychic power also allows her to now where said persons are within range, it's basically a radar that penetrates all materials.

Would that change the result of the roll? She knows there's 1 other person around and where they are?

[Bennosuke]

Hey Mr GM, Marcella's psychic power also allows her to now where said persons are within range, it's basically a radar that penetrates all materials.

Would that change the result of the roll? She knows there's 1 other person around and where they are?

That was not my interpretation from re-reading the rules for this power:

"Reaching out with your mind, you get a
vague inkling of other life forms within
range. You automatically detect all living
creatures in the area. Walls in excess of 1
metre thick block this power.

Overbleed: For every 5 points by which
you exceed the Threshold, you extend the
Range by an additional 10 metres."

pg 167 of my PDF copy

It specifically says a vague inkling and lists nothing about pinpointing location ect. Happy to discuss further if I'm missing something; this was just my interpretation of what is provided.

[rax]

Alright I guess I will be on team interrogation. What is Hound going to do?

Since Hound can make Interrogation tests as an Int test, I figure he's going to be on team interrogation as well.

Of note is that each use of the skill takes 1d5 hours, so we really need to be sure that there's no one else in the house to disturb us and we need to post a watch to prevent being interrupted.

@Bennosuke
Re the gag in the IC thread, it's just there to keep Drimmle quiet for now. Obviously we'll remove it when we want him to speak.

[BananaPhone]

Happy to discuss further if I'm missing something; this was just my interpretation of what is provided.

Nah I'm just a dumbass and misread. All good!

[rax]

Drimmle seems quite full of himself and might take a bit of convincing to spill the beans. All in favour of flashing the Inquisitorial rosette to help scare him into cooperating once we begin asking questions for real?

[BananaPhone]

That seems the most apt measure if he continues to be recalcitrant.

Btw Mr GM, do Milo and Marcella get a surprise round action given that they're essentially laying in waiting?

[Bennosuke]

Btw Mr GM, do Milo and Marcella get a surprise round action given that they're essentially laying in waiting?

I had posted this in the IC thread in my last post:

(OOC: No need to state the safety is off. However, either try to hide and roll appropriately, or roll initiative for when the servitor rounds the corner please... unless there is something else you wish to do, in which case please state it.)

Marcella succeeded on her Chamealeon power activation (nice roll on both psychic powers), so I'll need you to roll for concealment with your +30 to be actually hidden to get your surprise action.

I'll wait for you to roll and will in the meantime roll for the Servitor's initiative (1d10)[6] +2

Initiative Order
Servitor 8
Milo 6
Marcella 5

And for what it's worth my rolls have been terrible overall, so this might be very easy due to bad luck.

[BananaPhone]

I had posted this in the IC thread in my last post:

BP skimming through posts and missing important little details again, ftw.

Concealment: (1d100)[1] TN 64

[rax]

Alright then, Hound will be using the rosette to try and help the interrogation. In IC time, I'd suggest that we wait until the servitor has been dealth with until we start the interrogation proper. We don't want to be interrupted in the middle of things.

OOC, I'll try and get a post up tonight unless @Bennosuke prefers we wait until the servitor scene is done so as to be able to include any consequences from that.

[Bennosuke]

Jeez, somebody take Banana to Vegas stat!

Okay BP, Marcella gets her surprise attack, and for the natural 01, I'll give her an additional +20 on her surprise attack roll. Marcella's surprise attack will start off the combat.

@Rax: I don't think waiting is necessary. I'd especially prefer that we keep everyone engaged rather than waiting around for two players to get their combat on.