Also, the Destiny pool is 6 Light to 4 Dark.

Actually, I think Zik would urge the little one to run if she has a hiding spot somewhere. If there's any way a Leadership check would help her in some way, I'll do that, but if BB thinks it's better to just treat such a thing as an incidental bit of dialogue, I'll go with the stand up and Imbue approach instead.

2 minutes ago, SavageBob said:

Zik's no warrior; he'll hang back with the defenders and probably use Imbue on one of them (sounds like Kamoa and Takane at this point). He's still seated, so it'll take a maneuver to stand up and ready his weapon, as well.

If you can make it last a few rounds, I could use a boost to my Presence .

1 minute ago, Blackbird888 said:

Let's experiment: we'll try the first round of combat OOC first, then narrate the whole block IC at once. If that doesn't work, we'll try a different approach.

I'll leave it to the rest of you to decide how the PC slots are assigned. You can decide every round, or implement a rotating system, or something. Do it however.

Sounds good!

For the group, I do think that we should have out defenders buff up first. This is a tower-defense combat, so readying our defenses is best! Maybe Kamoa first, so that the Priestess has her defense boost from Body Guard, then some mid-liners take up a position so that the attackers have to go through them? Then maybe Takane and or Zik for our last slot before the baddies attack?

Kamoa would like to take at least 1 slot before any of the opponents do, just so he can trigger the Body Guard. It's a maneuver and he burns strain to trigger it for the turn. So having it in place before they actually start attacking the girl would be ideal. As for his action, if nobody comes within thumping range in the first rotation, he will trigger Sense's passive effect for defense.

Again, I'm fine with her running and hiding too. But if she does stay in the immediate area, i'd like for the above to happen.

I have a feeling she's not going to run. She might be a Hermit, or something similar, and Phoon is her bonded companion, so...

(just a guess; no need to confirm or deny it, Blackbird )

7 minutes ago, Absol197 said:

If you can make it last a few rounds, I could use a boost to my Presence .

Sounds good!

For the group, I do think that we should have out defenders buff up first. This is a tower-defense combat, so readying our defenses is best! Maybe Kamoa first, so that the Priestess has her defense boost from Body Guard, then some mid-liners take up a position so that the attackers have to go through them? Then maybe Takane and or Zik for our last slot before the baddies attack?

Don't have the Duration upgrade yet, so can't commit the Force die to Imbue quite yet. It might be better to save it for a round we know we'll be swinging at these guys! I'll go with Leadership for the maybe-Hermit little girl unless BB says it won't do any good (and would just be an incidental to urge her to run). In that case, I may trade an action for a maneuver to both stand up and take a Guarded Stance. Unless Guarded Stance doesn't stack with armor? That always confused me.

I'd probably not bother with the Leadership check.

Regardless of what the official ruling would be, guarded stance will stack with armor in my game.

From my understanding, Guarded Stance does not grant Defense, it simply adds a Setback to incoming melee attacks at the cost of a Setback to your melee attacks. So it should stack.

EDIT: Hey look! Ninja'd by the man himself !

I don't see this party as the type that would be the ones to shoot first. At the moment anyway. The Defensive folks might bulk up, and when we see what the baddies do let loose the giant bird and Bralane (and Chadrik ).

^^ I support this plan. ^^

8 minutes ago, SebastianArrow said:

I don't see this party as the type that would be the ones to shoot first.

Impossible...none of us have guns

22 minutes ago, SebastianArrow said:

I don't see this party as the type that would be the ones to shoot first.

As far as Kai is concerned, his life was forfeit when he tried to buy the girl.

Also:

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He raises a hand, and his fellows tense up.

This strikes me as offensive action.

Hi All,

At work right now, no access to Okros to roll my initiative. It will be several hours before I am free.

2 hours ago, Edgehawk said:

This strikes me as offensive action.

It's only offensive based on how many fingers he's holding up

Devil's advocate:

The preteen ran away to join (or has been brainwashed by) a cult, and her parents have the power to send a goon squad out to retrieve her, and offer a 10k reward for her safe return?

We have no intelligence regarding who the girl is, or the others.

Having said that, Kai is likely to swoop in with his saber, unless there is a strong voice against it.

Alternatively, he could whisk the girl into the trees with his rocket boots, and remove the reason for the confrontation? If she tried to resist, though, she might kick Kai's remaining tail feathers.

28 minutes ago, Edgehawk said:

We have no intelligence regarding who the girl is, or the others.

I wouldn't say we have no intel.

1. Our mentor, who is known (at least by the bio we were given) to help force sensitive people escape Imperial detection, told us to come out here.

2. She gave us her name, and that she's here as some form of apprenticeship.

3. The people were willing to pay us, total strangers, a giant stack of money for the girl. Without saying anything like "Princess Fluffy Bottom! Your father is very worried! We've been looking for you all night!" It was just "Give me the girl, and i"ll pay you money."

So, based on just given information, the likelihood they are nice people is low. Sure, it's not entirely implausible, just on the low end in my opinon.

Intiative (Vilgilence) : 2eA 2 successes, 1 advantage

So... I sort of channeled my inner Dirty Harry there... if I can make a coercion check to get these guys to back down I will. But if we need to go into structured time first, I can wait.

Final initiative order:

• PC
• NPC
• PC
• PC
• PC
• PC
• NPC or ADV
• NPC or ADV
• PC
• ADV
• ADV

Destiny pool is 6 Light, 4 Dark.

Wait for your turn, yeah. You could try it there.

So who is going first? We get to pick the rotation. I just want to go before the opponents, where in that order doesn't matter to me.

8 minutes ago, KungFuFerret said:

So who is going first? We get to pick the rotation. I just want to go before the opponents, where in that order doesn't matter to me.

Well the first NPC slot is right after the first PC slot, so if you want to act before the NPCs you need to take the first slot this round.

Just now, Magnus Arcanus said:

Well the first NPC slot is right after the first PC slot, so if you want to act before the NPCs you need to take the first slot this round.

NPC slots represent the child and the animal.

I took the translation of that, that the term NPC was being used to denote our allies, the girl and the dog. But that ADV was for the adversaries?

And the GM ninja'd me

So yeah, if I'm reading it right, almost the entire PC party gets to go before the bad guys, except for one person. Is that right BB888?

Correct.