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[Elephant Parade]

Yes, but they'll only do it once we reach a certain power level.

So we get as many people as possible to just below that power level, and then we attack.

1. We don't know what that power level is.
2. I never said we would attack them now, did I?

1. We'll know it once they attack someone. Well, we'll know roughly what it is.
2. No, but you also didn't specify that we would attack them later, and from the phrasing it sounded like you were planning to attack in the near future.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Yes, but they'll only do it once we reach a certain power level.

So we get as many people as possible to just below that power level, and then we attack.

1. We don't know what that power level is.

I can say that you will fight the bosses in roughly the same power level as them, though.

Which helps that problem...how?

Yes, but they'll only do it once we reach a certain power level.

So we get as many people as possible to just below that power level, and then we attack.

1. We don't know what that power level is.
2. I never said we would attack them now, did I?

1. We'll know it once they attack someone. Well, we'll know roughly what it is.
2. No, but you also didn't specify that we would attack them later, and from the phrasing it sounded like you were planning to attack in the near future.

1. And at that point we'd lose our strongest guy...unless we buff everyone up enough that, on the whole, we'll be able to deal with them.
2. My bad.

[Bigf00t]

Any chance I could add to my turn "investigate the vibrating chitin"? Standard fare, poke it, throw it at nearest wall, that kind of stuff.

My holidays just started (for 2 weeks) so I might just be able to respond that little bit faster

And regarding the bad-luck trio, has anyone considered overly elaborate plans and traps
Possibly introducing them to the bottom of the bottomless pit might work, providing they don't know how to fly (obviously we're going to need something else for the psychic chick)

[Elephant Parade]

Any chance I could add to my turn "investigate the vibrating chitin"? Standard fare, poke it, throw it at nearest wall, that kind of stuff.

My holidays just started (for 2 weeks) so I might just be able to respond that little bit faster

And regarding the bad-luck trio, has anyone considered overly elaborate plans and traps
Possibly introducing them to the bottom of the bottomless pit might work, providing they don't know how to fly (obviously we're going to need something else for the psychic chick)

I'd ask Toaster if you could be placed in limbo until you return. You could drop out, and the top waitlister could switch in.

[Toaster]

You have my permission!




But it's probably not worth much.

[Tomcost]

I'd ask Toaster if you could be placed in limbo until you return. You could drop out, and the top waitlister could switch in.
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The GM coughs politely.

Any chance I could add to my turn "investigate the vibrating chitin"? Standard fare, poke it, throw it at nearest wall, that kind of stuff.

I'm afraid that it will have to happen in next turn.

[GreatWyrmGold]

And regarding the bad-luck trio, has anyone considered overly elaborate plans and traps
Possibly introducing them to the bottom of the bottomless pit might work, providing they don't know how to fly (obviously we're going to need something else for the psychic chick)

I'm all for overly elaborate, but hoping they don't know how to fly seems pretty risky, especially since we know one of them can.
Still, if we knew enough about how she flew to make that work...we might have something.

One thing that's occurring to me is that we should try to find wherever each one is weakest and attack them there. The showy guy seems to be more melee-focused, we should hit him from range. The woman seems focused mainly on magic, we should consider close combat. Stuff like that. Thoughts?

[Elephant Parade]

I'd ask Toaster if you could be placed in limbo until you return. You could drop out, and the top waitlister could switch in.

The GM coughs politely.

Sorry. Your names start with the same two letters.

[Toaster]

And have the same number of letters, and both have the "st" combination...


We're practically brothers!

[GreatWyrmGold]

And your avatars are orange.

[darkpaladin109]

And your avatars are orange.

Nah, Tomcost's avatar is more red than orange.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Some orangey red, some orangey yellow. It balances out.

[Toaster]

If we REALLY wanted to screw with you, we'd swap avatars.

[darkpaladin109]

If we REALLY wanted to screw with you, we'd swap avatars.

DO EEET

[Toaster]

Gentlemen, we are currently waiting on Icerfire for the turn.

Meanwhile, I have noticed that there are still some things that haven't changed in the game, so I will be applying some balance changes starting on next turn:
Upcoming balance change:

Injuries and such

The current wound and injury system is a bit wordy and confusing.  To simplify matters, I'm making a slight change:

1)  All injuries (short of severing) tick down a level after three turns.  This way, you know exactly how long you have to suffer that burn.
2)  Status effects (paralysis etc) have a Magnitude.  This is their length in turns.

This should simply tracking.

Also, I'm giving everyone Hit Points.  These will be calculated by this simple formula:

Hit Points = 10 + EndModifier * 3 + StrModifier * 2 + WillModifier

Any final decimal places will be truncated.

For example, a character with 1 in the relevant stats will have 10 points (as their modifiers are 0).  A character with:

End 2
Str 3
Will 0

results in 10 + (3*1/2) + (2*1) + (1*-1) = 10 + 1.5 + 2 - 1 = 12 hit points.

This should make damage tracking more obvious, and is an extrapolation of the chest/head health status that already exists.

On Speed

Kind of a boring stat, isn't it?  I'm just going to combine it with Dexterity.  Take your existing stats and add them to get your final.  To make things more fair, I'm now going to use a D20 for initiative.

On the Arena

The Magic room will shortly be replaced by the Monster Room.  Here, a terminal will be placed that teleports you into a separate arena filled with NPCs of various descriptions.  By performing various tasks in the new arena, you will be awarded Capture Balls.  These will allow you to catch these monsters and keep them as pets!  The terminal will allow you to "duel" the pets of other players via a system that's still under development, but it's basically a cross between Battleship and Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock.