3.5e Batman Campaign (2.0) [2nd Thread]

[MrAbdiel]

Where can I buy the totally unnecessary and actively counterproductive armour spikes?

*Everyone looks at Kate.*

[Molan]

Where can I buy the totally unnecessary and actively counterproductive armour spikes?

*Everyone looks at Kate.*

Lmfao, I mean he has a point.

But this is Gotham, you can probably pick some up at a corner bodega.

EDIT: Shoot. Abdiel, I wrote that kind of wrong.

It wasn't the third door, it was the fourth. The third door was false, it led nowhere. ("But Molan, was it trapped?" "Oh hell yes of course it was trapped bwahahahahaha.")

Should we edit IC or.....?

[MrAbdiel]

Eh. *Flaps wrist* Same outcome.

But oooh, ahahaha.. Ah ha. Ha. Hee hee. Hoo.

This is good gossip.

I might... listen to this a little longer. Damien is waiting for a dramatic fragment of dialogue to announce his presence on. Do I recognize any of the voices?

[Molan]

Eh. *Flaps wrist* Same outcome.

But oooh, ahahaha.. Ah ha. Ha. Hee hee. Hoo.

This is good gossip.

I might... listen to this a little longer. Damien is waiting for a dramatic fragment of dialogue to announce his presence on. Do I recognize any of the voices?

Yes. Falcone, Velnire, and two others have spoken thus far.

[MrAbdiel]

Yes. Falcone, Velnire, and two others have spoken thus far.

Oh, shoot, it's the LT's!

This... may require a distraction. I hope you're ready, Kate!

[Molan]

I honestly didn't plan for this but it really does kind of seem like the perfect setup for Kate now lol.

[Molan]

Woooooow Monday really kicked me in the teeth aight guys well I'll try to post tomorrow, feather it can be your move.

[MrAbdiel]

Hope your Tuesday is a little friendlier!

[Molan]

Hope your Tuesday is a little friendlier!

It was! Great success.

Okay new post is up. Should be fun.

EDIT: Kate, are you using Amorpha? Just verifying since I didn't see it IC but it's about to become pretty relevant lol.

EDIT TO THE EDIT: Nevermind, I just reread "Defensive powers". Noted. So Amorpha and braced, anything else? Trying to figure out the miss chance and various AC bonuses/total for my rolls lol.

[Feathersnow]

With all defensive buffs up, I have an AC ofv25 and a miss chance of 20%, as noted in my character sheet. I can use the powers as a reaction, so they are assumed to always be in effect.

[Molan]

With all defensive buffs up, I have an AC ofv25 and a miss chance of 20%, as noted in my character sheet. I can use the powers as a reaction, so they are assumed to always be in effect.

Word. Sounds good!

[JbeJ275]

I just want to check, did the others plan on checking out the Chaarl? I don’t want to progress this scene too much if that’ll effect their timeline

[MrAbdiel]

Time permitting, sure; but it depends on how beat-up-and-hostage'd we get.

[Molan]

I just want to check, did the others plan on checking out the Chaarl? I don’t want to progress this scene too much if that’ll effect their timeline

This is a good point, but also, were you wanting the party (Kate and Damien, specifically) to find you here?

[JbeJ275]

No, but I don’t want to deny them the opportunity through cunning use of meta knowledge. I’ll probably talk to fox for a bit but I don’t want to finish the scene without them there unless they’re significantly delayed with their stuff

[Molan]

Yea....so........


...........



.....You might just wanna go ahead and finish the Chraal mission, lol.


....There's like....a tiny chance they won't make it back tonight.

[JbeJ275]

… … … Well, this is gonna be very awkward if the one going through the emotional breakdown is the only one that survives.

[Molan]

… … … Well, this is gonna be very awkward if the one going through the emotional breakdown is the only one that survives.

Right?? Talk about darkest timeline.

[MrAbdiel]

Well.

Ow.

Well, we can finesse this into a stylish retreat, I think. But I am required to make some minor objections, not as a bad sport but as my own best advocate!


We hadn't rolled initiative yet; and they are all likely to act first because they are the ones swinging first. But! I'm not sure they're entitled to a surprise round. Damien certainly knows how wildly hostile the room he was in happened to be - he put away the vial to free up his hand from the display, but his shurikens come to hand freely when needed, so he hasn't made the mistake of thinking he's not in a hostile environment with a spell and a crossbow trained on him. Likewise, Kate certainly doesn't see her opponents coming because they're invisible - but she's aware they're moving to engage her because she was explicitly warned about numbers and imminent threat.

There comes a question of what 'unaware' means. If it means invisible and unheard, then I'm going to want someone to cast silence on me every combat so I can trigger surprise rounds mid-combat. But if 'unaware' means 'unaware that they are involved in a fight right now', which I would suggest it does, I think it can't apply to Kate standing in the hallway, poleaxe ready, anticipating three vicious rogues to attack her from any angle perhaps unseen.

With this in mind, the likely scenario is 'roll initiative'. If the enemy goes first, then we're badly wounded and next; if we go first, then we are stuck in a holding pattern waiting for the enemy to attack or agree to terms. Then it's their turn, and they maul us, and we're next.

In conclusion your honor, I would like to say I think I've proven that the characters are sufficiently aware of danger that the enemy is entitled to one, but not two rounds of tearing us apart like soggy paper before we can act.

I rest my case.

[Molan]

The court has heard your request; does counsel motion that all parties involved roll for initiative in order to settle the dispute?

Kate is flanked either way, so assuming all rolls still allow at least two thieves in her room to go first, she still eats the sneak die.

Damien might have an opportunity to avoid getting shot; Kate has a shot to skeddadle if she changes her mind about the odds, though I might object to that depending on the circumstances.

How does counsel move?

[MrAbdiel]

We respectfully agree to your terms, your honor.

(1d20+7)[10] for Damien's initiative!

EDIT: *Murmurs to client.* When I set you up like this you can't just roll like that. You're blowing it, okay? You're blowing it.

[MrAbdiel]

Oh, and for my favorite sub-game-game, Guess Molan's Inspirations, I'm thinking Falcone's speech was half Falcone in Batman Begins ("So don't come down here with your anger; this is a world you'll never understand. And people always fear... what they don't understand.")

And half Nice Guy Eddie, in Reservoir dogs. ("...He kept his mouth shut. He did his time like a man. He did four years for us. You're telling me a good friend of mine, who did four years for my father, who in four years never made a deal no matter what was angled infront of him, you're telling me now that this man is free and we're making good on our commitment to him, he's just gonna DECIDE out of the BLUE to rip us off?")

How'd I do?

[Molan]

Oh, and for my favorite sub-game-game, Guess Molan's Inspirations, I'm thinking Falcone's speech was half Falcone in Batman Begins ("So don't come down here with your anger; this is a world you'll never understand. And people always fear... what they don't understand.")

And half Nice Guy Eddie, in Reservoir dogs. ("...He kept his mouth shut. He did his time like a man. He did four years for us. You're telling me a good friend of mine, who did four years for my father, who in four years never made a deal no matter what was angled infront of him, you're telling me now that this man is free and we're making good on our commitment to him, he's just gonna DECIDE out of the BLUE to rip us off?")

How'd I do?

Bwahahahaha. Damnit.

So, yes, although Falcone from the newest "The Batman" movie also had a similar vibe to Falcone from Batman Begins, sort of "Oh you think such and so was a saint? Guess what" kind of a vibe.

But yea that was pretty much it lol.

[Molan]

I'll wait for Feather's initiative before I rejigger the post.

[Feathersnow]

I use my power to skip initiative and run away

[Molan]

Okay. Lady knows what she wants. In that case, you can reverse your damage taken, you'll have denied the Thieves.

Now...let's see if Damien lives...lol.

EDIT: Nope our boy's in trouble lol.

J/K i'm sure he can just ki himself out of this sticky situation, there's always healing options out of combat. I'll edit things so Kate doesn't get skewered and Abdiel can go assuming that Alberto did in fact shoot him, but he is not in fact dead.

[Molan]

Aaaaayyyyyyeeeeeee I was gonna post tonight but I'm dead and I can't now lol. Post tomorrow though!

[Molan]

Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys. You guys. You guys.

I just wrote....a SUPER long...dialogue and plot heavy post.

Like....so...so long. Been at it for thirty minutes....

...my laptop just...selected it all....and it all got deleted!!!!!!!!

THEN IT AUTOSAVED IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS!!!!!

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I can't. I'm sorry. I had a huge post for you. Revealed cool stuff too. It's all dead now. Good night.

(I'll....I'll try to do this again tomorrow. Idk.)

[MrAbdiel]

Ahhhh! Noooo!

CTRL-z did not save you? Forsaken!

Sorry man. I know the feels. See you when you're up to it.

[Molan]

Nope. One extra keystroke, not sure what it was. Whole thing nuked. Devastated.