[2025/04/16 14:15] Sapphire: /me stretchies
[2025/04/16 14:15] Mecha: watches
[2025/04/16 14:15] Sapphire: alright, we're at 15 past, should probably get started
[2025/04/16 14:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: we're punting these dingbats into space
[2025/04/16 14:17] Sapphire: or at least the upper Troposphere.
[2025/04/16 14:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: troposphere, space, same thing
[2025/04/16 14:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: wait a minute
[2025/04/16 14:19] Sapphire: yes?
[2025/04/16 14:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: can you knock up a simple character sheet for Martina?
[2025/04/16 14:19] Sapphire: I can :)
[2025/04/16 14:19] Sapphire: she interested?
[2025/04/16 14:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: I just sent her a TP...
[2025/04/16 14:20] Sapphire: hello!
[2025/04/16 14:20] Mecha: GReetings Martina
[2025/04/16 14:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: hey Martina! Grab a chair.
[2025/04/16 14:20] Martina: hi girls
[2025/04/16 14:21] Sapphire: /me flips through notes. "I was told to set up a character sheet real quick... I got... a couple questions for you and then a couple selections you can make."
[2025/04/16 14:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: Keep It Simple, Sapphire ;)
[2025/04/16 14:23] Sapphire: So firstly.... what sort of roleplaying games have you played before?
[2025/04/16 14:23] Sapphire: /me nods. "Sure, just want to calibrate -how- simple."
[2025/04/16 14:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: if any?
[2025/04/16 14:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me was ribbing Sapphire...
[2025/04/16 14:25] Martina: me? I've played WoW (still do) and done various RP things in SL
[2025/04/16 14:26] Sapphire: /me nods. "Ok, so mainly computer stuff and less the tabletop vibes. Would you rather do question and answer type building or just roll a few dice and I spin up a sheet really quick?"
[2025/04/16 14:26] Martina: Do I need the NK group for this?
[2025/04/16 14:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: No.
[2025/04/16 14:26] Sapphire: Nearby Chat is fine for this kinda thing
[2025/04/16 14:26] Martina: closest i've got to tabletop RP is Risk LOL
[2025/04/16 14:27] Martina: this is all completely new to me, total noob here
[2025/04/16 14:28] Sapphire: Cool Cool. Always fun to be someones first tabletop, I've got some notecards I'll send you in a bit...
[2025/04/16 14:29] Sapphire: chracter wise, would you prefer a 1:powerful warrior, a 2:mobile warrior, a 3:toxic rogue, or a 4:utility mage?
[2025/04/16 14:29] Sapphire: or just click a d4 there on the table if all of them sound good
[2025/04/16 14:30] Martina: hmmm I play a Shaman or Warlock in WoW so Mage would be best
[2025/04/16 14:30] Sapphire: Nice
[2025/04/16 14:31] Sapphire: And then a Descriptor... I got eight handy, would you like to hear them or just roll a d8 and get a random one?
[2025/04/16 14:31] Martina: i'll roll
[2025/04/16 14:31] D8: Martina rolls 5
[2025/04/16 14:31] Sapphire: /me checks sheet. "Rugged."
[2025/04/16 14:32] Sapphire: which adds some wilderness skills and a bow to your mage
[2025/04/16 14:33] Martina: a bow for a mage, thats novel
[2025/04/16 14:34] Sapphire: Arrow costs no mana to cast :)
[2025/04/16 14:34] Sapphire: /me tinkers sheet together
[2025/04/16 14:34] Martina: fair enough
[2025/04/16 14:36] Mecha: While you are doing character creation this one is gonna microwave some dinner be right back
[2025/04/16 14:36] Sapphire: And... here's a base sheet....
[2025/04/16 14:37] Sapphire: dang it, i forgot to prep apperance notes to go with that
[2025/04/16 14:40] Sapphire: /me sends some....
[2025/04/16 14:41] Sapphire: gear! knew I forgot something
[2025/04/16 14:44] Sapphire: And... can you roll a d10 three times?
[2025/04/16 14:44] Mecha: back
[2025/04/16 14:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: that's the blue cube, well, cyan cube
[2025/04/16 14:45] D10: Martina rolls 6
[2025/04/16 14:45] D10: Martina rolls 6
[2025/04/16 14:45] D10: Martina rolls 3
[2025/04/16 14:45] Martina: awww... wanted 666
[2025/04/16 14:46] Sapphire: /me ponders if to allow dupes or not
[2025/04/16 14:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: you're the DM... you decide :P
[2025/04/16 14:46] Mecha: /me nods
[2025/04/16 14:46] Sapphire: more fun to mix up
[2025/04/16 14:46] Martina: roll again?
[2025/04/16 14:47] Sapphire: I was gonna just grab the next item in the list
[2025/04/16 14:47] Martina: ok
[2025/04/16 14:47] Sapphire: to avoid indefinate rerolls
[2025/04/16 14:50] Sapphire: /me mentally checks through
[2025/04/16 14:50] Sapphire: Ok, so a short little bit to get horizon caught up, apologies for how long that took me
[2025/04/16 14:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: so, all sorted, and we're back to the duck punting?
[2025/04/16 14:58] Sapphire: yes, will start right now
[2025/04/16 14:58] Sapphire: was typing
[2025/04/16 14:58] Sapphire: --+-- --+-- --+--
[2025/04/16 14:58] Sapphire:
[ Start of new session: +1 XP to attendees ]
[2025/04/16 14:58] Sapphire: --o-- --o-- --o--
[2025/04/16 14:58] Sapphire: > Horizon, several minutes ago your resurrection casket finished extruding you. Memories are hazy, at some point an intruder managed to drive a metal lance into it and slow down your repairs. Things have put themselves back together again, and you were able to dress yourself and gather core equipment. Holograms in your eyeball report that the Central Intellect desires your assistance with supporting two allies, a wireframe map drawing itself out to guide you through the ladder tubes and off-kilter hallways. The entire structure is leaning right now.
[2025/04/16 14:58] Sonja Bikergrrl: XP for the masses!
[2025/04/16 14:58] Sapphire: --+-- --+-- --+--
[2025/04/16 14:58] Sapphire: > Novaya and Robin, Above in the Gyroscopic Structure, the horrible sonic detonation finally quiets, leaving the room filled with angry honking and a slashing, the eyeless lizard-birds recomposing themselves, taking flight and moving in wide circles through the room, trying to get out of easy fist fighting range. A crackle of strange energy decorates their wing tips, leached from the building.
[2025/04/16 14:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: They're not getting away that easy
[2025/04/16 15:00] Mecha: Robin is gonna try to throw something to see if she can ping one out of the sky
[2025/04/16 15:00] Sapphire: what sort of something?
[2025/04/16 15:01] Mecha: Whatever she could grab from any junk on the floor
[2025/04/16 15:02] Sapphire: sounds like an improvised light weapon. Roll better than a 9 to hit with a (Speed) based attack
[2025/04/16 15:03] D20: Mecha rolls 18
[2025/04/16 15:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: that's my girl!
[2025/04/16 15:05] Sapphire: 3 damage to one of the birds, knocking it out of the flock. Novaya, Horizon, what are you do doing?
[2025/04/16 15:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: Sounds like a plan, I'll find something to clock a duck with. Do I get +2 damage?
[2025/04/16 15:06] Martina: following the wireframe map to get to the others
[2025/04/16 15:06] Sapphire: from your Vicious trait? would do
[2025/04/16 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: Let's role!
[2025/04/16 15:07] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 9
[2025/04/16 15:07] Sonja Bikergrrl: A 9 is good?
[2025/04/16 15:08] Sapphire: > Horizon, the distance you'll have to travel will take about two rounds going normally, half that if you can succeed on a a Speed (Climbing) test of 12 or better.
[2025/04/16 15:09] Sapphire: > Novaya, your attack hits as well and knocks out another of the birds.
[2025/04/16 15:10] Martina: uses the speed boost to get there faster, thinking they need help quickly
[2025/04/16 15:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: We got dis!
[2025/04/16 15:10] Sapphire: > Currently there are perhaps eight of the lizard birds still interested in fighting... one is wounded but starts leaving out the chasm.
[2025/04/16 15:11] Mecha: The ones that fell are they alive?
[2025/04/16 15:13] Sapphire: > Just now? The one Novaya hit is properly dead, there are like three on the ground dead or close to, others are fleeting.
[2025/04/16 15:13] Sapphire: > Oh yes, Martina, spending for a speed boost, plus your skills... you'll only need a 6 on the d20 to get there next turn
[2025/04/16 15:13] Mecha: Might be a little evil here but they did want to kill us, so...
[2025/04/16 15:14] D20: Martina rolls 16
[2025/04/16 15:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me is lethal, Mwah hah ha!
[2025/04/16 15:14] Mecha: Robin steps on their wings to damage them and then throw them through the opening
[2025/04/16 15:14] Sonja Bikergrrl: We offered them a peaceful solution, they turned it down.
[2025/04/16 15:14] Mecha: If they arent dead, hard to fly with one really bad wing
[2025/04/16 15:15] Martina: phew, found them but they seem to have the situation under control
[2025/04/16 15:15] Sapphire: > Top of round, and the remaining birds honk in unison, channeling a powerful sonic attack at Novaya and Robin, dealing 4 damage to your might pools.
[2025/04/16 15:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: they can fly far enough to find the nearest planet
[2025/04/16 15:15] Sapphire: > At about this time, as Horizon comes up to the door, she's able to use it to only take 1 damage to her might pool.
[2025/04/16 15:16] Sonja Bikergrrl: I got Ward: +1 armour?
[2025/04/16 15:16] Sapphire: yes, reduces incoming damage by 1
[2025/04/16 15:17] Sapphire: > Novaya and Robin, another person has come down the hallways you traversed earlier. What do you look like to Horizon as they arrive?
[2025/04/16 15:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: Annoyed.
[2025/04/16 15:18] Mecha: *Just sending the pic so she knows what this one looks like
[2025/04/16 15:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me IMs it
[2025/04/16 15:18] Mecha: but yeah annoyed too
[2025/04/16 15:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: damned if they're honking at me like that and getting away with it
[2025/04/16 15:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'll honk back at them!
[2025/04/16 15:19] Sapphire: > Alright, and similarly, what does Horizon look like to the others?
[2025/04/16 15:19] Sapphire: > Furthermore, it's also your guys turn to respond to the ongoing crisis.
[2025/04/16 15:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: Grab some object and fuck it at them, while honking.
[2025/04/16 15:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: That'll learn 'em
[2025/04/16 15:20] Sapphire: Don't you have an attack spell?
[2025/04/16 15:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: moi?
[2025/04/16 15:20] Sapphire: yeah.
[2025/04/16 15:20] Sonja Bikergrrl: nnnnnnooooooooohhhhh....?
[2025/04/16 15:21] Sapphire: What about Chemical Onslaught? isn't that damage?
[2025/04/16 15:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: oh that
[2025/04/16 15:21] Sonja Bikergrrl: Eh. Fucking some random object at their heads works too?
[2025/04/16 15:22] Sapphire: I guess Novaya likes things up close and personal. Roll a 9 or better than
[2025/04/16 15:22] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 12
[2025/04/16 15:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: \o/ 12! \o/
[2025/04/16 15:22] Sapphire: takes another one of them down, right in the wing.
[2025/04/16 15:22] Sapphire: Also what are your healths at after the damage from this and last session?
[2025/04/16 15:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: and bloodthirsty is best enjoyed while in-yer-face
[2025/04/16 15:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: Might is now 7 (10-3)
[2025/04/16 15:23] Sapphire: Cool. Robin, Horizon?
[2025/04/16 15:23] Martina: sees the predicament of the other two and uses her Push Power to push one through the opening, breaking the sonic attack
[2025/04/16 15:24] Sapphire: Roll please, to overcome their strength to resist it
[2025/04/16 15:24] D20: Martina rolls 8
[2025/04/16 15:25] Martina: oops
[2025/04/16 15:25] Sapphire: It flaps and wobbles in it's path, kicking off the edge of the opening to get itself back into flight path.
[2025/04/16 15:25] Sapphire: Robin?
[2025/04/16 15:25] Sonja Bikergrrl: Well. It was a good try.
[2025/04/16 15:25] Mecha: one more rock to ping it
[2025/04/16 15:26] Sapphire: alright, roll
[2025/04/16 15:26] D20: Mecha rolls 14
[2025/04/16 15:26] Sapphire: you manage to tag the pushed one and wound it.
[2025/04/16 15:28] Sapphire: > The remaining lizard birds decide this fight is no longer worth it and swoop to bite into the few bodies still on the ground, one of them snagging a long cable out of something important. The flock all wing to head out the chasm while the going is good. perhaps they might decide to come back eventually.
[2025/04/16 15:28] Sonja Bikergrrl: Hey! Come back here with that damn cable!
[2025/04/16 15:29] Sapphire: it's unspooling! Are you just gonna yell at them?
[2025/04/16 15:30] Mecha: leap for the cable to try and yank it from the bird
[2025/04/16 15:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: I'm gonna yell, I'm gonna grab it, and then I'm gonna... yell some more!
[2025/04/16 15:30] Sapphire: Do you have any skills relevant to leaping and or grabbing?
[2025/04/16 15:30] Sonja Bikergrrl: I've got a book of the names of people who have wronged me. That seems relevant.
[2025/04/16 15:31] Sapphire: for your tracking skill as I recall, yes
[2025/04/16 15:31] Mecha: No but if I can grab it I can use the Density nodule to plant myself
[2025/04/16 15:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: well, they wronged me, I'm putting their name down in that book.
[2025/04/16 15:32] Sapphire: this is less about tracking and more about fast movement... roll at least a 12 to grab it.... ooh, popping the density nodule, interesting move. I feel like that would reduce the difficulty down to 3
[2025/04/16 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me writes in a neat Gothic serif font: "Spastic Ducks". They're on the list now!
[2025/04/16 15:32] D20: Sonja Bikergrrl rolls 18
[2025/04/16 15:32] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me rolls an.... eh, you can see it, right there
[2025/04/16 15:33] D20: Mecha rolls 2
[2025/04/16 15:33] Mecha: Using spend effort to lower the reduce difficulty by one
[2025/04/16 15:35] Sapphire: Alright, the two of you move to grab the cable, Novaya snagging the end before it comes free of your side, while the birds try to tug it away. Robin pushes herself, grabbing hold of Novaya and activating the Density Nodule to triple your own effective weight for a minute. The birds have no hope of winning that tug of war.
[2025/04/16 15:35] Sapphire: Soon, you can reel it back in, revealing a long cable of gold-plated steel with a black gooey coating around the outside, an important part of this chamber.
[2025/04/16 15:35] Martina: So sorry ladies but my time for sleep has come, need to log now
[2025/04/16 15:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: we can pull the bird back too?
[2025/04/16 15:35] Sapphire: > To repost for horizon: chamber is a massive spherical array of rotating rings, much like an armilarry sphere even larger than the chasm you passed earlier, a dozen of your body lengths across. The rings themselves gleam of pleasing gold etched with complicated circuitry and emitter nodules. Their connection points to the main crystals are a wet gel much like flows through your own bodies, lubricant and blood at once.
[2025/04/16 15:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: Actually, I'm up in four hours, so....
[2025/04/16 15:36] Sapphire: The bird seems to have abandoned tug of war.
[2025/04/16 15:36] Mecha: *Sleep well Martina*
[2025/04/16 15:36] Martina: Have to work tomorrow so need at least a few hours sleep tonight
[2025/04/16 15:36] Sapphire: Ok! next time... you can work on repairing the spaceship-grade stabilizing system
[2025/04/16 15:36] Martina: Friday starts the long easter weekend, 4 days off YAY
[2025/04/16 15:36] Sapphire: Rest well all, may your dreams be fun times.
[2025/04/16 15:36] Sapphire: You get Easter off? lucky
[2025/04/16 15:37] Martina: thanks all, g'night 💋
[2025/04/16 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: see you tomorrow
[2025/04/16 15:37] Mecha: Lucky
[2025/04/16 15:37] Sapphire: hope that was fun!
[2025/04/16 15:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: so, no ducks, and we got a cable to repair
[2025/04/16 15:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: ok, sorry to cut and run, but tomorrow is my 2nd day (of three) of 4AM starts
[2025/04/16 15:38] Mecha: So we call it there.