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quote:You burst out into the open to a cacophony of Quoku cries. In seconds, you realize your mistake: you have played into their hands. Poised on top of the overhanging rock is the largest Quoku you have ever seen. The huge monster rears up, its yellow eyes glaring with hatred, the poison glistening upon the warts of its slime-encrusted flesh. It leaps and swoops down on you. Shall we fight it or keep running?
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Guy Fawkes posted:Run like hell!
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Tiggum posted:I'm assuming that's a vote for attack. wait, did we lose our staff too? I don't remember that being possible. drat! So yeah, our offensive output is severely hampered along with everything else and that's all the more reason to continue running away
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Mister Perky posted:keep running from the giant flying poison frogs that outnumber us Grey Star the Wizard posted:Shan stands motionless, his body frozen with fear. With one hand he holds his sword shakily aloft, while he covers his eyes with the other, peeping through the gaps between his fingers as the Quoku rushes towards him.
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Mar 31, 2019 03:10
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Finish it off! Maybe the others will decide to eat their buddy instead of us.
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Tiggum posted:We've still got our staff but we have no Willpower points to spend so it's functionally an ordinary staff. Except when the book forces us to spend WP, then it still works fine. The rules don't always make a lot of sense. oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that provision. Anyway, we don't have the juice for a fight so let's continue to run away from the giant flying poison frogs that outnumber us and are also at minimum sentient enough to use stone tools
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Mister Perky posted:the giant flying poison frogs that outnumber us and are also at minimum sentient enough to use stone tools “You may think you’re smart Mr. Wizard, but your brains are no match for this large rock.”
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Mister Perky posted:let's continue to run away from the giant flying poison frogs that outnumber us and are also at minimum sentient enough to use stone tools
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Mister Perky posted:Anyway, we don't have the juice for a fight so let's continue to run away from the giant flying poison frogs that outnumber us and are also at minimum sentient enough to use stone tools
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Keep Running!
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Runcible Cat posted:run away Grey Star the Wizard posted:You decide to make another dash for it, and, turning in the direction of the Wall of Azakawa, you break into a run, Shan lagging at your heels.
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”Shan, you’re about to get eaten!”
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Who do we think we are, Lone Wolf? Run back to help!
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nelson posted:”Shan, you’re about to get eaten!”
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It's a pity there is no option to take a stone and using it to target the batrachian...nelson posted:”Shan, you’re about to get eaten!”
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Why can't we do both? Just shout "look out!" and run back. Or just run back I guess.
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Runcible Cat posted:”Shan, you’re about to get eaten!” Grey Star the Wizard posted:Urgently you call out to Shan. He looks down, and seeing the grotesque creature that is stalking him, he redoubles his efforts. With uncharacteristic speed he scrambles up the slope, dislodging clouds of dust and gravel with his scurrying feet. As he comes within reach he clutches at your outstretched hand, and you haul him over the edge.
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might as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwYN7mTi6HM
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Running hasn't failed us yet! Jump for it!
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Jump!
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Grey Star the Wizard posted:You take a few deep breaths and then run towards the ravine. You hurl yourself off the edge, high into space, and sail over the yawning chasm. With limbs flailing and hands reaching out desperately for the other side, you begin to descend. Death Count: 5.
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Guys, I hate to admit it but... maybe Van Halen was wrong?  Grey Star the Wizard posted:Standing your ground, you wait as the Quoku draws near, bracing yourself against attack. It stops a few yards away, regarding you with a baleful expression. Wounded Quoku: COMBAT SKILL 14 ENDURANCE 18 Combat Ratio: -9 We roll: 4 Grey Star: COMBAT SKILL 5 ENDURANCE 0 WILLPOWER: -4 Wounded Quoku: COMBAT SKILL 14 ENDURANCE 17 Death Count: 6. Tiggum fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Apr 2, 2019 |
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So we are actually hosed right now. And that's not likely to change going forward. We made some bad choices early on and basically we stand no chance of finishing the book without massively cheating. It's theoretically possible but it's almost a case of "make no wrong choices and roll all tens". There's some leeway on that, but not much. There are still unavoidable losses of Endurance in our future and situations where avoiding endurance loss relies on crazy luck. Oh, and there is no way to recover any Willpower or Endurance in the entire rest of the book (which we're probably still at least a week from finishing). So I'm putting the decision of how to proceed to the group. Do you want to
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Blatantly cheat then summarize the correct path at the end. This book hasn't been very fun so far and going through it twice doesn't sound very appealing.
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Blatantly cheat, then once we're past this show us the choices that could've gotten us past this bullshit.
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Reroll CS and show us the right choices up to this point. I figure our biggest mistake was staying too close to the river. Or did we make a bigger one somewhere? nelson fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Apr 2, 2019 |
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Mikl posted:Blatantly cheat, then once we're past this show us the choices that could've gotten us past this bullshit.
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Mikl posted:Blatantly cheat, then once we're past this show us the choices that could've gotten us past this bullshit.
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Mikl posted:Blatantly cheat, then once we're past this show us the choices that could've gotten us past this bullshit. Also, for the next book, can we up our CS to at least the median average? It seems like having almost the bare minimum possible is really loving us over.
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much as I want to reroll Combat Skill (and pick  Evocation this time) I don't think starting over would make for an especially entertaining read for the rest of the folks following this threadI'm gonna go with flagrant cheating, let us reroll new max CS WP and END and "restart" from from this last jump/fight scenario (or even the beginning of the Quoku section if people want). You can show us the Correct Path post-book along with the other "Things We Missed" bits.
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Yeah, let’s just cheat and get a run down afterwards. Poor Grey Star, we’ve been off the island for less than a week and we’ve run afoul of tons of things that want us dead.
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moosecow333 posted:Yeah, let’s just cheat and get a run down afterwards. Let's do this. It's become very clear to me why I didn't care for this series.
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Runcible Cat posted:Let's do this. the subsequent books are better balanced ("easier") than this one, but yeah Grey Star 1 is pretty brutal and I can't fault anyone who finds it off-puttingly so. That being said, CS 11 does us no favors and I don't think I've ever even bothered to attempt a LW or GS book with a score that low. Absolute re-roll territory, that. Especially given how combat steadily eats your Willpower, strong stat rolls are just about essential for Grey Star #1.
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Tiggum posted:So we are actually hosed right now. And that's not likely to change going forward. We made some bad choices early on and basically we stand no chance of finishing the book without massively cheating. It's theoretically possible but it's almost a case of "make no wrong choices and roll all tens". There's some leeway on that, but not much. There are still unavoidable losses of Endurance in our future and situations where avoiding endurance loss relies on crazy luck. Oh, and there is no way to recover any Willpower or Endurance in the entire rest of the book (which we're probably still at least a week from finishing). personally I'd go for 2, but in the economy of the thread it doesn't seem a good choiche. So: Restart.
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I'd say cheat to keep the story going, but maybe mention the 'proper' choices. At least some of that felt awfully railroaded, like when we said "let's be sneaky" and the book said, "Ok you were sneaky... but then decided for no reason to just start running because I guess you're probably about ten years old and can't be cautious to save your life".
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I would prefer a #1, but I don't think the slow pace of this thread could survive a #1, and #3 is like, why are you even bothering to LP the series at that point? So let's do a #2 where you restart, reroll our stats and/or whatever skills we might need, and catch up to where we are so we can move onto the good stuff in the next books. Jackard fucked around with this message at 10:25 on Apr 3, 2019 |
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It's pretty clear that the majority decision is to carry on from this point with 0 EP and get a synopsis of the correct choices at the end, so that's what I'll go with. In which case, we won that fight.Grey Star the Wizard posted:With an almighty blow, you cleave the skull of the Quoku in two. It emits a chilling shriek and falls back, writhing and twitching for a few seconds before finally expiring. But it is a hollow victory, for the lifeless body falls onto Shan’s prone form.
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