Final Fantasy - 2d6cussion

[Truce]

New discussion thread. RP threads are up.

So, let's get these parties started.

[Krylo]

Just gonna post group sheets for easy reference.

Group 1
Naqel (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showpost.php?p=993769&postcount=90)
Krogothwolf (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showpost.php?p=993181&postcount=46)
Menarker (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showpost.php?p=993657&postcount=82)
Overcast (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showpost.php?p=993267&postcount=50)
Teal (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showpost.php?p=994233&postcount=38)

Group 2
Krylo (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showpost.php?p=992908&postcount=33)
Phil (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showpost.php?p=993174&postcount=45)
Bard (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showpost.php?p=993438&postcount=58)
TAL (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showpost.php?p=993630&postcount=81)
Arhra (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showpost.php?p=994703&postcount=79)

ALL ALONE BECAUSE HE IS A LOSER
POS (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showpost.php?p=994578&postcount=69)

[POS Industries]

ALL ALONE BECAUSE HE IS A LOSER
POS (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showpost.php?p=994578&postcount=69)
:(

[Krylo]

Maybe if you'd bathe someone would let you into their group. No one wants to deal with month old moogle BO, though.

[Teal Mage]

Bleh, barely a round in and already the Paladin's thinking of murdering someone.

This is not starting well.

In other news, I've decided to nickname the cast! For now I've only got Blues for Overcast and Zieg for Krogothwolf. But many more will come!

[krogothwolf]

I was only going to teach him how to properly respect those who he is asking assistance from. Seriously, who hmphs at someones face he wants to get help from. Damn guards have no respect!

[POS Industries]

Maybe if you'd bathe someone would let you into their group. No one wants to deal with month old moogle BO, though.
Would you prefer wet moogle fur smell?

[krogothwolf]

Would you prefer wet moogle fur smell?

And have that nasty odor following us around everywhere? No thanks! If you're around us when it rains, we are putting a bag over you so you don't get wet!

[Krylo]

we are putting a bag over you so you don't get wet!

A plastic one.

[POS Industries]

This is not the level of respect I would expect be given to the one with the most guns.

[Krylo]

This is Final Fantasy. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M88tX0ch63Q)

Huge sword or GTFO.

[POS Industries]

Barret and Sazh are my homeys.

Because they gotta be somebody's homeys...

[Overcast]

One post in and it seems that Blues would like to permanently cripple their employer. While also contemplating not finishing the job. He is one productive fellow.

[Naqel]

Since my character will for the most time passively follow the group, I think I'll only be actually posting when something big happens.

[Menarker]

First Dice Roll!

^^ *Hope for a crit*

EDIT: Remember Sonic Adventures for the Gamecube? And having to raise a Chao for a pet? I'm getting total flashbacks to a very very happy one I raised when I roleplay the baby dragon. <3

[phil_]

So, are we expected to keep up with both threads, or just our group's thread?

Edit: Actually, I'll probably just do so anyway if Team Robo continues their minimum-wage-worker-like hatred of their clients and Menarker keeps up the robot voice.

[Menarker]

Unless we can be in two different places at once, I imagine we'll only need to keep ties on our group until perhaps much later on when the group unite or something, but then I would imagine a new thread specifically for that would be created then.

Still, reading the other side is interesting too. ^^

EDIT:



Keith had been looking back at Ark since the man had begun talking in Androidenese. "Uh," his head turned back toward the forest, "...right."


Ark was speaking in common. It just HOW he speaks it is broken up in pieces and halted. No manner of flow. Ark has 4 languages: Common, Ancient, Binary, Monster. If you want. I'll color code the languages in the future.

[POS Industries]

You're taking a figurative joke too literally, Menarker.

[Naqel]

Also: http://home2.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/

01010100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01101000 01101111 01110111 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101011 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100001

[krogothwolf]

What kind of Skill check would be needed to examine the tracks to see how fresh they are?

[Truce]

You'd use survival. I assume you're talking about the dragon's tracks?

[Menarker]

*Is the only member in the party without a single rank in survival*

>_> Thank goodness I already resolved to stick with the party...

[krogothwolf]

I learned to take things like that after a DnD session in which none of our party hand a skill like that and after killing a wild boar for meat we carved the thing up so bad trying to skin it and cook it that it we only got maybe 20% of the total edible parts on it. It was really sad but funny.

[Menarker]

>_> I would probably state that my android didn't need to eat, but the fact that my dragon companion does kinda cuts my point to pieces. But he could probably eat more variety of raw stuff than humans could.

I can only dread about how much food I'll have to feed it regularly once it gets to the level 25-30 range.

[POS Industries]

"AWWW WHATAYA MEAN WE CAN'T READ THE BOOOK?!"

Buncha nerds...

[phil_]

You think we're gonna tell him that we're gonna read the book? Of course we're gonna read the book. When has an RPG protagonist ever not read the book?

[Krylo]

Oh good.

And here I thought I was going to have to steal the book in the dead of night and stay up reading it by myself (looking for treasure information, obviously), but if the whole group is gonna decide to read the book, I won't have to.

[phil_]

Og course, reading the book is going to curse us or make the ruins collapse or something, but we're still gonna read it. If Truce thinks that such a "Tomb of Horrors" approach to killing us is cool, then we'll at least have gotten through one dungeon.

[Krylo]

Well obviously we should wait until we're outside of the doom infested dungeon to stop for library time.

Unless our ride is waiting right outside, with a servant waiting to be handed the book.

Then, I guess, you do what you have to.

[The Argent Lord]

And by "what you have to" you mean knock him out, read the book, then when he comes to tell him it was guarded by creatures that mimicked us?

[Krylo]

Well, I'm not evil. Just greedy.

So I was thinking either read it IN the dungeon, or steal it back from him long enough to read it while he's sleeping and then put it back.

Remember--4 stealth. I'm preeeeetty sneaky for a first level person. I oughta be able to steal a book on a multi-day trip from a single servant.

[Teal Mage]

Group two looks like a lot more fun. =(

Most of us in group one are all super serious and all that boring stuff. It's like, depressing. Still, our serious has us already in the field!

Oh, uh, Krogoth, little reminder that Overcast and Naqel are the fastest members of our group. Not sure if that matters right now, but, Menarker, you and me are all equally slow. There's a decent gap between us all, Dex wise, actually. Naqel's at 6 and Overcast's at 9, while the rest of us sit at 3.

Edit: Oh, and no questions. Keith's good to just start this dragon investigation!

[POS Industries]

Eh, I found your reactions toward that poor guard's clearly stroke-induced speech impediment and the inter-group bickering that followed amusing enough.

[krogothwolf]

I know, but I didn't say that everyone has to keep up to me. But I just wanted to give us all a task while we trot along. Besides I'm the meat shield so I should be first.

I think we have a good mix of seriousness and goofiness. :D The more we get to know each other the more goofy it will get.

[Menarker]

Group two looks like a lot more fun. =(

Most of us in group one are all super serious and all that boring stuff. It's like, depressing. Still, our serious has us already in the field!

Oh, uh, Krogoth, little reminder that Overcast and Naqel are the fastest members of our group. Not sure if that matters right now, but, Menarker, you and me are all equally slow. There's a decent gap between us all, Dex wise, actually. Naqel's at 6 and Overcast's at 9, while the rest of us sit at 3.

Edit: Oh, and no questions. Keith's good to just start this dragon investigation!

Guess you did not notice that my Dex is 3 MINUS 2. I got a Dex of 1.

[POS Industries]

Almost completely immobile and no personality whatsoever.

You are the best party member of all time.

[phil_]

Menarker's guy has a DEX of 1 and a CHA of 1...

http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Articles/20080725/300.robocop.072508.jpg

[POS Industries]

With 1 DEX, that gun is for decorative purposes only.

[Menarker]

Almost completely immobile and no personality whatsoever.

You are the best party member of all time.

... I got a personality... the crappiest one there is, but still got one!

And you two guys make me laugh. :3

[krogothwolf]

With 1 DEX, that gun is for decorative purposes only.

Yeah, he couldn't even hit someone with it if he threw it at them

[Overcast]

The current awareness scores for each of our characters.
Zeig: 1
Cas: 3
Ark: 3
Keith: 6
Seright: 7

I figure everyone under Keith needs an excuse. My excuse is that Caspin always has his head in the clouds and he cannot help but stop paying attention.

[Menarker]

Where are you guys reading my bio? I got an awareness of 5 after my graft.

[POS Industries]

They're going with your base stats rather than doing the necessary calculations based on other factors, I'm guessing.

EDIT: Or calculating wrong, in this case.

Or just accidentally clicking the wrong profile and reading that.

I dunno.

[Menarker]

But I have it all written down in my bio. They don't even have to do calculations...

Ah well. So long as the GM himself doesn't make the mistake, it can be forgiven. :3

[The Argent Lord]

The ruins are a series of chambers, following a straight line that gets progressively deeper. For most people, it would be impossible to get lost within its halls.
It's a straight run! A blind, mentally deficient monkey could've found his way!
We're fucked.

[Overcast]

Nah in this case it was just blindness. Passed by Awareness and thought it only had the base given by the intelligence stat. So with that means you switch off to tying with me to being the highest. All of it does nothing to the fact that they should probably have Zeig away from any of the flanks before we get ambushed from the front..

[Naqel]

We don't get a bonus to our skills from our stat ratings...

The roll is Skill+2d6 not Skill+Rating+2d6.

So Menarker's character has 5+2d6(7-17) and mine has 4+2d6(6-16). Though I have a higher level of Bionic Eye Graft, which lets me see through most walls and other things that obstruct line of sight.

[krogothwolf]

Sprry Naqel. For some weird reason I kept thinking your character spoke only in Binary. I think all your posting in Binary confused me :/ My bad!

[Overcast]

Hmm seems my ignorance is much bigger than I originally thought. That's embarrassing, ah well just cruise past it and post I guess.

[phil_]

How big are these death tiles, Truce? Krylo said something about making a quick leap and hoping he'd go eight feet. If these tiles are eight-feet across...

http://www.warofthering.net/quintessential/movieshots_ttt/etp_gimli_battleweary.jpg

I hope you get where I'm going with this.

[krogothwolf]

How big are these death tiles, Truce? Krylo said something about making a quick leap and hoping he'd go eight feet. If these tiles are eight-feet across...

http://www.warofthering.net/quintessential/movieshots_ttt/etp_gimli_battleweary.jpg

I hope you get where I'm going with this.

Don't be a baby, It'll be fine as long as no one tells the elf.

[Menarker]

Don't be a baby, It'll be fine as long as no one tells the elf.

Who is the elf in this extended metaphor?

[Naqel]

Some Elvaan?

[Overcast]

Well I figure it needs to be a member of the party. I give it to the red mage, for the androgyny.

[Truce]

How big are these death tiles, Truce? Krylo said something about making a quick leap and hoping he'd go eight feet. If these tiles are eight-feet across...

http://www.warofthering.net/quintessential/movieshots_ttt/etp_gimli_battleweary.jpg

I hope you get where I'm going with this.

They're two by two feet. Four tiles in a row, with a random one in each row being one you don't want to step on.

Of course, if you follow Jal, you'll make it across safely.

You can grab a torch - if you want to, that is.

[Naqel]

Group 1 is doing so many awareness and survival checks that I wouldn't be surprised if someone had a critical failure and poked his eye out.

If a critical fail on skill checks was even possible that is...

[Truce]

Oh, it's possible, though generally it won't be quite something like poking your eye out.

I'll wait for Krogothwolf to post before I make my next post.

[Krylo]

How big are these death tiles, Truce? Krylo said something about making a quick leap and hoping he'd go eight feet. If these tiles are eight-feet across...

http://www.warofthering.net/quintessential/movieshots_ttt/etp_gimli_battleweary.jpg

I hope you get where I'm going with this.

Yeah, the eight feet was the entire tiled floor, and the only reason I leaped one was so I wouldn't have to turn, as I was trying to make it across without stopping in hopes of out running the device if I set it off. You guys can make it across with no hopping.

[Naqel]

I'll wait for Krogothwolf to post before I make my next post.

Did he got his check results via PM or something? Cause right now it looks like he's(along with others) waiting for you to post, as we all have made at least one post since your last one...

:P

[Truce]

Yeah, that was a mistake on my part.

On a random note, critical hits are fun. Well, fun for everyone but the dragon.

Repost: 1 Medium Range = 2 Short ranges.

If you start at short range, you can either move a short range to do a melee attack, or move a short range into medium range.

However, if you're at medium range, the only way you can move in to melee range is to take a standard action.

[Overcast]

Alright then. It will be edited.

[Naqel]

There's a Charge attack mentioned here and there.

Polearms can attack and move a medium range on the same turn, and they get to deal a higher level of damage if they do so. No moving out and back in on the same turn though.

[krogothwolf]

Haha, I just sent a pm to you asking that as I didn't know you had answered it yet. Man I'm a slow reader sometimes

[Truce]

Medium Range movement is a standard action.

Polearms do not get a free attack when they move a medium range towards the enemy. However, the attack bonus will carry over from a previous round - but only if it's the first action taken since moving a medium range.

[krogothwolf]

I should have waited for Over to edit his post before using cover on him :/ lol. Oh well, It was either you or the ranger I was going to cover anyways. But i'll have to edit how mine reads now.

[Menarker]

Would the skill "Scan" tell how much hit points about a monster or foe would have about, like in the video games? Kinda like Peep and such?

[Teal Mage]

I gotta say, I am trying really hard to make descriptive posts, but it is so not easy.

For flavour, I've decided to make my character's eyes will change color when he invokes a Geotrance. The glow really shouldn't be noticeable unless the light's low, or a Maelstrom affect triggers. I’ll make the glow intensify or something when that happens.

All Geomancy will probably have a response from the terrain, because, you know, it’s the magic of the land.

Should be fun to throw some Elf-Fire at this thing. =D

[Naqel]

"Estimated fortitude of the beast to be half or less!"

A pessimist sees a glass half empty.
A optimist sees a glass half full.
A machine detects a container holding 50% of its maximum capacity.

[Menarker]

A pessimist sees a glass half empty.
A optimist sees a glass half full.
A machine detects a container holding 50% of its maximum capacity.

Your example is flawed because that quote is used when a full glass is better and a empty glass is something to be upset about.

In THIS example though, we're trying to get it EMPTY, so half or less is realistic/optimistic (Since Ark knows its max hitpoints and its current hitpoints percentage was around 60% or so at the time he started attacking after only a few hits... he could reasonably assume that his hit would bring it down to at least half if not more so.

[Naqel]

I was actually referring to the words selection.

"half or less" dosen't sound... "mechanical".

[Krylo]

And I have an ambush planned.

It probably won't go exactly as planned due to that atrocity of grace shit that's all over the walls. Someone should probably tell the rest of the party about that.

Bard?

Also, I'll spring the traps as soon as everyone is ready to go.

[phil_]

I am right in assuming that no one has any objections with stabbing these guys up without any negotiations after setting traps off on them, right? I mean, it's not like we're killing them; they can just stay at an inn to heal their contusions and lacerations and burns and frostbite.

[Menarker]

*Smirks about how the scholar might bitch and whine about the condition of the book if it was damaged by dozens or so traps you plan to spring if the group ahead tries to chase after you while holding the book.*

Not my problem however.:3

[The Argent Lord]

I'm fine with it, though I may bandage them up while they're unconscious just cause that's what I do.

[Bard The 5th LW]

I have no objections to slaughtering the people like cattle. What happens in the dungeon stays in the dungeon.

Ans while we're at it, we should rename our group 'Team Sociopath', as we all seem fairly amoral.

[Truce]

When you include your actions at the end of your post, it's best to include the actual roll that I'll be making for you. It'll save me some time having to go through the character sheets and rulebook.

Also? I definitely need to give my monsters more HP. e.e

[phil_]

I have no objections to slaughtering the people like cattle.No no no, this is Final Fantasy. Swords and sorcery only render people Unconscious. We'd have to actually gut them while they're down for them to die.

[Overcast]

I don't know if you necessarily need to give the monsters more health. I mean that guy took Ark down to half his life and damaged Zeig and made the mages of the group use up most of or all of the spells they had for that day. Give them two Drakes and they will be limping away and trying to keep who got knocked out alive and trying to get back home without any more battles or else they might get slaughtered.

[krogothwolf]

Yeah, and what would have happened if Ark had been overwhelmed. The fight was fairly fun, butif you do want more HP to drag the fight out, it would probably have to be offset with lesser damage to be dealt.

[Krylo]

No no no, this is Final Fantasy. Swords and sorcery only render people Unconscious. We'd have to actually gut them while they're down for them to die.

Which is why I don't see my plan as being particularly evil, just... cunning and probably dishonorable, but hey, thief.

I see myself as something of a true neutral alignment. I'm not gonna gut someone when they're down, but I will take every advantage for myself in any kind of threatening situation. Though I will say that if they had all seemed reasonable and non-violent I'd have probably forgone the whole ambush plan for 'steal it from them and walk away smelling like roses' plan.

On the other hand, given a thing you guys will be seeing soon, they'd probably not be too friendly to us for long, anyway. Most folks don't take kindly to using the corpses of their friends to disable traps.

[phil_]

I kinda figured that you used the Galka to keep some switch tripped. It took me a while to figure out that post, though.

Also, I'm sorta having Teal's problem with making descriptive posts, but I'm not too worried about it. I feel like, in most RPs, we spend too much time strategizing out-of-character, which robs us of time actually spent playing our characters. Plus, this way, I don't have to think too much about the writing, which lets me post when I'm not sober, which is a big plus for me.

[Krylo]

His corpse is hanging (by his waist) from a rope over the aforementioned pit, keeping it mostly filled. We might have to give you a little boost to get up on the other side, 'cause it's only mostly filled, and you're short.

Other than that, though, all taken care of.

Also, I want you to remember that the group ahead of us suffered a casualty to the stone warriors, and they were in a position as though they were chasing something when they stopped just past the center of the room heading toward the next. And that the next room, until the switch is pulled, has no floor.

Now I want you to imagine the hilarity of dashing madly away from two giant killer statues only to enter a room that has no floor at all.

[POS Industries]

Hell yeah, motherfucker.

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/5396/mooglesketch3.png

Mauve is awesome.

[Teal Mage]

No no no, this is Final Fantasy. Swords and sorcery only render people Unconscious. We'd have to actually gut them while they're down for them to die.

Oh, well, I'm asking for that.

And starting off after the black dog-who happens to be named Dragon-that we're looking for.

So apparently Devour can be done in a Standard Action? Keith's never seen it in action, so, until he does, he'll assume it takes a little longer. Hard to believe you can swallow it in one gulp, and a fairly disgusting image besides.

Edit: By the way, the reason Keith's asking for Zieg to come is partly because Androids creep him out still. Partly because the image of someone eating a monster grosses him out, probably won't bug the androids, but probably will bother the Paladin. Oh, and Ziegmund's also the least damaged tank in their group, so there's that too.

Pragmatism.

[krogothwolf]

What are you talking about? I healed Ark :D He's less damaged then I am right now.

[phil_]

Hey, POS. I've never hated you as much as right now.

[POS Industries]

Hey, POS. I've never hated you as much as right now.
Clearly, we haven't interacted enough. This is small time for me.

[phil_]

Well, I mean, I'm mad at Mauve, too, for not doing her comic she should have done a year ago, but I just didn't think she'd see that down here.

But, yeah, just you wait. I'll finish my research into Tarutaru and moé and making men confused about their sexuality and then I'll have a crappy sketch of Bello that I had to do myself and then you'll see!

[Overcast]

Devour can be done as a standard action, and he does know how to consume a monster like an eating contest, but he dragged this one out a bit. Mostly because I don't feel like the whole notoriety that comes from him eating a monster raw has been made clear yet.

[POS Industries]

Well, I mean, I'm mad at Mauve, too, for not doing her comic she should have done a year ago, but I just didn't think she'd see that down here.
Well, she wouldn't have if I hadn't PMed her a link.

But, yeah, just you wait. I'll finish my research into Tarutaru and moé and making men confused about their sexuality and then I'll have a crappy sketch of Bello that I had to do myself and then you'll see!
Or, I mean, you could probably just ask her, though I'd hate for her to get flooded with requests for such things, especially since she's just about to go on vacation, I believe.

[phil_]

Or, I mean, you could probably just ask her...It must be me!

Maybe I'll see what she does...

[Truce]

Okay, Group 2's ready to go with their plan, right?

Hide beside the walls, while Bello stand in front of the door and uses a lullaby.

Phil, if it's alright with you, mind if I go ahead with the thread?

[phil_]

I'm not sure if I'm the one to make the decision to go ahead with it, since Bard and Argent haven't posted yet, but go ahead if you think you should. Just know that I'll only post, like, once at the most in the morning, and then I'm away until that evening.

[Krylo]

I don't usually wake up until after 5, anyway.

Also Bard posted to go ahead with the plan (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showpost.php?p=996440&postcount=31). Argent and Arhra haven't, but they haven't posted much at all, so there's that.

[POS Industries]

There's not really any evidence to suggest that Arhra's even there. You may very well have left for the airship while Jade was in the can in Rios.

[Truce]

Yeah, in that case, I'll go ahead with this post.

I gotta say, this'll be fun.

[Krylo]

There's not really any evidence to suggest that Arhra's even there. You may very well have left for the airship while Jade was in the can in Rios.

Good think she's got Grand Entrance.

Jade's wherever Jade has to be to be the most dramatic. I'm sure during one of the battle rounds we'll hear the roar of a motorcycle just before it pummels one of our opponents.

[POS Industries]

I gotta say, this'll be fun.
Yes.

Yes it will.

[phil_]

Oh, it just got personal. :mad: I almost never use smilies, that's how personal this has become.

[Krylo]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/krylo/prasad_real_name.png

[Naqel]

Catching up with group 2 thread, I believe that this is the most awesome RP thing done since I joined NPF.

[POS Industries]

J.R. Kass is not amused.