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[Rautherdir]

Try and get up the ladder

Spoiler: character (click to show/hide)

Character Name: Shade
Currently active effects:
Injuries: Minor chest wound (Hopefully minor)

Potency: d10
Memory: d8
Strength: d4
Dex: d2
Speed: d6
Vitality: d6
Endurance: d4
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d6

Currently active words (0/20):
Gang: Shadow Alliance

[piecewise]

"Here, Thag, use this!"

Slide my cavalry sword to Thag, then point my rifle at the enemy and order him to surrender. If he doesn't, well, shoot. Literally.

Pretty badass little spell. one shot, right? now that I've triggered it, it's expended?otherwise, I could wall the guy in pretty nicely.

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

 Delay, Dome
Darkness, Aura
 

Used:
Mark Whole Body, Amber, Shockwave
When inflicting damage, Distortion Dust
black biometal,  Feline

Spoiler:  Chu Sana'me (click to show/hide)

10 Potency
6  Memory (15 word deck)
2  Strength
6  Dex
8  Speed (8 tile movement)
4  Vitality
6  Endurance
8  Intelligence
4  Awareness

inventory:
cavalry sabre
rifle, ammo:[3/?] (3 ammo until I shoot this round, if i Ido. I forgot to reduce the ammo from last time I shot)
sundry items

You slide your blade over to thag and then take a shot at the man, because definitely is not giving up.

[6v5][4]
You hit him solidly in the gut, and he screams but doesn't fall.

Grab the sabre and stab the last man to death.  If this leaves Thag inside the flames, rock the last man instead and move inside the stone tower area.

You snap the blade up off the ground and charge forward, whipping it around over your head in a tight arc.
[9v1][6]

You bring the sabre around with your whole weight and all the momentum in your run. The blade sings down and catches the man just above the left ear. You hack a diagonal cut straight through his head, exiting out through his right cheek. The top of his head tumbles away and his body falls in the opposite direction.

Try and get up the ladder

Spoiler: character (click to show/hide)

Character Name: Shade
Currently active effects:
Injuries: Minor chest wound (Hopefully minor)

Potency: d10
Memory: d8
Strength: d4
Dex: d2
Speed: d6
Vitality: d6
Endurance: d4
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d6

Currently active words (0/20):
Gang: Shadow Alliance

You climb up right under Chu and repeatedly prod him in the butt, telling him to clear a path.




Alright, thats everyone except the half dead man upstairs. I'm willing to call that finished, if you are.

[Devastator]

Yup.  Thag got two kills with a rock, he's happy.

[piecewise]

So you guys are basically done here; there's only one overseer alive and the slaves are in full revolt. Unless there's anything you guys wanna do before ending this, I'm gonna call it done and we can move on.

Loot all of the weapons from the dead guards. Yes, ALL of them. Ask the rest of the team to help carry them if needed. Also request back the weapons given to those two slaves (gave them two rifles). 

Shit, maybe grab some of their uniforms as well, if possible. This is gonna be our main base, so store them somewhere in our brand spanking new crib.

Spoiler: Abu Hajaar (click to show/hide)

Name: Rifleman first class Abu Hajaar

Description: A scrawny enlistee of vaguely Middle Eastern descent. Permanently in over his head, slightly confused and wondering just how he got into this mess. Will reluctantly but reliably follow orders from his commanding officers and do his best however.

Somehow managed to end up far away from home in 'Nam to fight the commies. This left him confused. Then he got teleported to this world of mystery and magic. This did not help matters.


Gang: Ridiculous Rhomboid

Health: Fabulous.

Magic jazzhands: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Inventory
Guard's gun, 5 shots left
2 X Guard's knife, a big curvy slightly phallic thing
Guard's rifle, 4 shots left
Guard's rifle, 3 shots left given to slave
Guard's rifle, 4 shots left given to slave


Stats
Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dexterity: d8
Speed: d4
Vitality: d4
Endurance: d6
Intelligence: d6
Awareness: d8

Well, look on the map, count the number of dead guards and subtract the number of rifles already taken. Thats how many rifles you get. Multiply that number by 4 for the number of bullets for those rifles you get. You can also grab a number of uniforms equal to the overseer corpses if you want.

Yes, let's end this and hopefully give me some actually helpful words?

Kay

Help abu with looting the guards. Pay extra attention for ammo/valuables. after that I'm good to go

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Gunnery Sergeant James Murphy

Description: A big bull of a man, with a square jaw and a patriotic twinkle in his eye. He enjoys swearing and giving people under his command a hard time.

Somehow managed to catch the second plane to 'Nam to fight the commies, even though he was aiming to be on the first. This left him slightly bitter. Then he got teleported to this world of mystery and magic. This doesn't change matters much, Charlie just a look a little different 'round these parts.


Gang: Ridiculous Rhomboid

Health: Great.

Magic jazz hands: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Potency: d6
Memory: d4
Strength: d6
Dexterity: d10
Speed: d6
Vitality: d4
Endurance: d8
Intelligence: d2
Awareness: d8

Inventory:
1 Kraut rifle 2/5
4 Magazines for the rifle.
2 looted guard rifles 4/5
1 magazine 5/5

In terms of valuables, there's nothing beyond the weapons

Blood for the Blood God! Bodies at the Carrion-Tyrant's throne!..
We drink our fill together, not alone! ♪

Rage against the howling winds atop the watchtower. Crow at the carnage we caused. Celebrate the epicness of our victory and give those down below a worthy show.
Sing.

(Assist Corven's speechifying as appropriate.)

Spoiler: Kay Vagner, Space Marine (click to show/hide)

Name: Kay Vagner

Gang: Roncal-thol Rotheleaod

Health: Eyes restored, pretty good overall.

Hand (5/10): Cloud, Wall, Crow, Mark_Caster's_Eyes, Affect_User, Large_Firearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Marked spells: none. Eyeballs: both.

Inventory: Chain'Gram (clockwork monstrosity enchanted blade)

Stats:
Potency: d8
Memory: d4
Strength: d8
Dexterity: d2
Speed: d10
Vitality: d6
Endurance: d4
Intelligence: d6
Awareness: d6

Description: A grand-grand-grand-grandson of a forgotten composer of ages past, Kay thinks he is enamored with the music of his ancestor and that his legacy is to live up to those heroic stories of old. Sadly, he doesn't know that most of it is presently misattributed, and the rest is utterly mangled by vagaries of time, not to mention that he isn't really cut out for that kind of life. Still, he has one sick guitar solo.

Corven grabs Raven amd drags her into a bear hug.  After a moment, he holds her out at arms length and gives her a stern look "Are you crazy, girlie?  Why'd you go runnin ahead like that?!  You coulda died!  Don't do to me, let the mooks get 'emselves killed, it's what we got 'em for!  You are valuable!"

That said, he drags his daughter into another tight hug.

Yeah, end it.  Abu seems to be handling the looting, so Corven will handle the slaves.  He's going to try and gather them into a single area, then speechify them.  Basically, they're no longer slaves, they're workers, and they're free to leave and run off into the city if they like their chances better out there.  If they stay here, they'll have to continue working to earn their keep, but they'll be official junior members of Roncal-thol Rotheleaod, and subject to all the responsibilities and benefits that provides.  Namely, they listen to Corven and the other senior members, but are also protected and treated well.

...Corven's gonna drag his daughter along with him, less for assistance, more because he's worried about letting her out of his sight again.

So what words do we get?

Spoiler: Corven Feathra (click to show/hide)

Gang: Roncal Roth
Health: Shot in the left bicep; entire arm limp.  The pain is dull and half numb for the moment, but the bleeding has been bandaged.

Hand: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Vitality: d4
Endurance: d8
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d6

Description: An older man past his prime, Corven still carries himself with the intimidating aura you'd expect from a crime boss... except when he's dealing with his daughter, who he's completely incapable of saying "No" to.  That usually works out better than you'd expect, since he managed to get her the formal education he never had, though he still has wisdom on her.  Has something of an unhealthy obsession with birds, though not nearly as much so as his daughter.

We'll assume the slaves hang around for a while.



The words you get from your territory this round are

light source
white phosphorous
heavy
darkness
chisel

[Rautherdir]

Yeah, unless Ozarck takes exception I'll call that finished.

[Ozarck]

Oz is good, he created a temporary, independent, acid kitty, and made a wall of amber. And also loot.

[Radio Controlled]

Well, look on the map, count the number of dead guards and subtract the number of rifles already taken. Thats how many rifles you get. Multiply that number by 4 for the number of bullets for those rifles you get. You can also grab a number of uniforms equal to the overseer corpses if you want.

"Hey Sarge, look, I'm like Rifles McGee, our old quartermaster!" Abu said, cradeling a dozen guns, their ammo and some knives and uniforms. The muscle cramps from hauling all that shit around didn't even bother him, he felt like a kid holding up a candy store.

Could we outfit some of our slaves with some of our spare weapons and keep them as guards for our base or something?

The words you get from your territory this round are
light source
white phosphorous
heavy
darkness
chisel

Small question, the rules state the following:

Each area a gang controls gives them up to 5 random words from its word bank after each encounter they undertake. Think of these words like a hand of cards: 5 is the max. If someone takes a word from that group, it will be replenished to 5 at the end of the next encounter. If words aren’t taken or discarded, they will stay and new words won’t replace them.  If a gang loses control of an area, they keep the words they have from it but no new ones will replace any they use. In this way, controlling more territory means controlling more magical power. A gang’s first encounter is to take control of an area on the map. This area will act as their headquarters. Headquarters provide 10 words instead of the normal 5 for each encounter.

So why doesn't our first area generate 10 words? Or am I misunderstanding something here?

Spoiler: Abu Hajaar (click to show/hide)

Name: Rifleman first class Abu Hajaar

Description: A scrawny enlistee of vaguely Middle Eastern descent. Permanently in over his head, slightly confused and wondering just how he got into this mess. Will reluctantly but reliably follow orders from his commanding officers and do his best however.

Somehow managed to end up far away from home in 'Nam to fight the commies. This left him confused. Then he got teleported to this world of mystery and magic. This did not help matters.


Gang: Ridiculous Rhomboid

Health: Fabulous.

Magic jazzhands: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Inventory ARMORY
12 X Guard's rifle
48 X Rounds for guard's rifle

2 X Guard's knife, a big curvy slightly phallic thing

12 X guard's uniform

Stats
Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dexterity: d8
Speed: d4
Vitality: d4
Endurance: d6
Intelligence: d6
Awareness: d8

[Ozarck]

someone pm me the location we have.

[syvarris]

Spoiler: Kinda secret R&R Talk (click to show/hide)

Thank you, Radio, I'd entirely forgotten about that myself.

Anyway, our first five words seem fairly poor, aside from WP.  Darkness would be great if Cloud didn't already grant concealment.  Heavy might be nice for our melee specialist, or we could stick it on a largefirearm and hope for a grenade launcher rather than an anvil rifle.  LightSource is too niche, and Chisel is just junk.

For now, Corven will take WP, and use it to make incendiary bullets--unless someone has a better idea.  The other four are free to be taken by anyone with the memory for 'em, but please, one per person, and state why you want the word.  "Just 'cause" is fine, but if someone else has a better use, they'll get it instead.  You can take more than one word only if nobody else wants them, or you have a very good reason, as determined by me.

All words should be taken, because we want to get all five words refreshed.  Any that nobody wants will be added to Corven's list, and probably discarded at some later point--claim them now if you have distant future plans.


As for next area to attack, I can think of three options.

First, to the North, I believe either (16,11) or (16,12) is a metal scrapyard, which would probably be a good place to get more solid materials, our biggest hole. 

Alternatively, I think (10,10), (10,11), (10,12), and (11,12) are all various shops, which might provide us with nonmagical weapons, armor, or supplies.  The words would likely be less helpful, but permanent equipment makes words unnecessary.

Finally, (10,14) is the entrance to The Unreal, which is our best bet for the weirdest and most useful words.  I normally wouldn't consider going for it this early, but I don't want Shadow Alliance beating us there and blocking us out of the place.  We could just take it from them, of course, but if we go now that nips any conflict in the bud; I doubt they'll attack us directly so early.


Opinions?

[Nikitian]

Spoiler: Spoilered R&R Talk (click to show/hide)

Chisel still works fine as a throwaway offensive/destructive enchantment word (and quite safe at that - I am still not quite sure just how lucky I was that I rolled low on enchanting a metallic cloud into existence). I'd take it if no one else cares for destructive enchantments.

Darkness might actually be interesting in conjunction with Light_Source, I think. (Portable) Darkness Source? Glowing darkness? No idea!


Personally, I'd vote suggest taking one of the shop tiles, precisely for the equipment as you said. They are not likely to risk confrontation with us by beating us to a juicy tile like the third option, and from what we have seen, 'Clockwork' seems to work just fine as a solid material (one per person, sure, but still). And we can always enchant some actual on-site solid materials into what we need if we just have to.

Then again, if you really want to cut off other people's path to us, we can probably (not necessarily right now) attack (9,9) and hold it... likely against mounting NPC attacks as well... but it would allow us to bisect the city in two. And maybe make people pay us a toll if they want to pass.

@Piecewise

What happens to enchantments and unused marked spells after the mission ends? (The rules state that summoned items and effects disappear if not Permanent, but nothing on these.)

Also, now that the first mission batch is effectively over, have you decided on adding rules for character progression?

Edit: Oh, and when RC asked about ALL the weapons on dead guards, did you really mean that there was only one guard with a combat knife on the map (one that we looted early in the mission), or do we also get the corresponding number of melee sidearms for all other downed guards as well?

[piecewise]

Well, look on the map, count the number of dead guards and subtract the number of rifles already taken. Thats how many rifles you get. Multiply that number by 4 for the number of bullets for those rifles you get. You can also grab a number of uniforms equal to the overseer corpses if you want.

"Hey Sarge, look, I'm like Rifles McGee, our old quartermaster!" Abu said, cradeling a dozen guns, their ammo and some knives and uniforms. The muscle cramps from hauling all that shit around didn't even bother him, he felt like a kid holding up a candy store.

Could we outfit some of our slaves with some of our spare weapons and keep them as guards for our base or something?

The words you get from your territory this round are
light source
white phosphorous
heavy
darkness
chisel

Small question, the rules state the following:

Each area a gang controls gives them up to 5 random words from its word bank after each encounter they undertake. Think of these words like a hand of cards: 5 is the max. If someone takes a word from that group, it will be replenished to 5 at the end of the next encounter. If words aren’t taken or discarded, they will stay and new words won’t replace them.  If a gang loses control of an area, they keep the words they have from it but no new ones will replace any they use. In this way, controlling more territory means controlling more magical power. A gang’s first encounter is to take control of an area on the map. This area will act as their headquarters. Headquarters provide 10 words instead of the normal 5 for each encounter.

So why doesn't our first area generate 10 words? Or am I misunderstanding something here?

Spoiler: Abu Hajaar (click to show/hide)

Name: Rifleman first class Abu Hajaar

Description: A scrawny enlistee of vaguely Middle Eastern descent. Permanently in over his head, slightly confused and wondering just how he got into this mess. Will reluctantly but reliably follow orders from his commanding officers and do his best however.

Somehow managed to end up far away from home in 'Nam to fight the commies. This left him confused. Then he got teleported to this world of mystery and magic. This did not help matters.


Gang: Ridiculous Rhomboid

Health: Fabulous.

Magic jazzhands: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Inventory ARMORY
12 X Guard's rifle
48 X Rounds for guard's rifle

2 X Guard's knife, a big curvy slightly phallic thing

12 X guard's uniform

Stats
Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dexterity: d8
Speed: d4
Vitality: d4
Endurance: d6
Intelligence: d6
Awareness: d8

Ah yes, sorry. Lets see....
Coal
Pickax
Gold
Iron
Diamond

Spoiler: Spoilered R&R Talk (click to show/hide)

Chisel still works fine as a throwaway offensive/destructive enchantment word (and quite safe at that - I am still not quite sure just how lucky I was that I rolled low on enchanting a metallic cloud into existence). I'd take it if no one else cares for destructive enchantments.

Darkness might actually be interesting in conjunction with Light_Source, I think. (Portable) Darkness Source? Glowing darkness? No idea!


Personally, I'd vote suggest taking one of the shop tiles, precisely for the equipment as you said. They are not likely to risk confrontation with us by beating us to a juicy tile like the third option, and from what we have seen, 'Clockwork' seems to work just fine as a solid material (one per person, sure, but still). And we can always enchant some actual on-site solid materials into what we need if we just have to.

Then again, if you really want to cut off other people's path to us, we can probably (not necessarily right now) attack (9,9) and hold it... likely against mounting NPC attacks as well... but it would allow us to bisect the city in two. And maybe make people pay us a toll if they want to pass.

@Piecewise

What happens to enchantments and unused marked spells after the mission ends? (The rules state that summoned items and effects disappear if not Permanent, but nothing on these.)

Also, now that the first mission batch is effectively over, have you decided on adding rules for character progression?

Edit: Oh, and when RC asked about ALL the weapons on dead guards, did you really mean that there was only one guard with a combat knife on the map (one that we looted early in the mission), or do we also get the corresponding number of melee sidearms for all other downed guards as well?

The marks can say if you want, but they have to be removed to place another conflicting mark on. Enchanted items return to normal. Your knife becomes a knife again rather than a clockwork chainsaw.

Yeah. Everyone who lived through the fight can add one level to any of their stats. Ie going from d2 to d4 or d4 to d6 etc. d10 is still max.

Throw in 6 knives if ya want.

[Nikitian]

Great!

Then here comes the bad question... what about magical healing and/or damage? Are they also undone?
(I.e. aren't they technically enchantments/summoned effects as well?)

[piecewise]

Great!

Then here comes the bad question... what about magical healing and/or damage? Are they also undone?
(I.e. aren't they technically enchantments/summoned effects as well?)

No. What we'll assume is that the magical healing doesn't unform once the conflict ends. So half the team doesn't just die at the end.

[Egan_BW]

Wait, marks don't wear off at the end of the mission? How many marks can I cast between missions then?

[Rautherdir]

Alright, the Shadow Alliance has decided they are done taking their new headquarters. Ready to receive our new words.