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Knightmares of Khorvaire
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DarkMaster
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Korraled nods in agreement and follow the other making sure to free the horses.
Zook hustles past Kolarred and Luthal back to the path, as the paladin tries to determine what to do with the horses to give them the best chance of survival. The horses are not tied down to anything so they could walk off to look for food when they got really hungry... there just might be the chance that they'd walk cliffside and possibly fall. Kolarred and Luthal start walking back to the path after Zook, trying to determine what to do.
Zook meanwhile... in a rush to check out the tracks on the far side... steps out on the bridge and begins to cross. As he walks, he hears the ropes and wood start to creak, and it's when he's about halfway across when the *snap* and jerk of the first breaking rope on the far side begins to occur. Although he was walking carefully... he realizes he didn't specifically take the time to examine the safety of the bridge before he started bounding across. He curses to himself as the bridge LILTS to one side!
Zook maintains his balance ((Balance check success)) and grabs on to the other rope to keep from falling over the side... but he definitely can feel the unwinding of the second rope at the far end and he knows the bridge will be collapsing under his weight any second now! He has to act immediately or else he's plunging the fifty or sixty feet to the crevasse bottom below!!!
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OOC: Zook, please tell me what you will do in the next three seconds as the rope breaks from underneath you. You can either try and rush back to either side of the bridge in a regular move, or you can try and accomplish some action which will give you a positive modifier on your Reflex save that I will roll for you. This action should be something to protect you or help you maintain grip to keep you from falling when the bridge collapses out from underneath you.
If you choose to take an action to increase your Reflex save, the more specific and logical your action can be in those three seconds, the better modifier I will give you. If you choose to rush back to either cliffside... be aware that you are twenty feet away from either end and you have half a round. Your double move is 60 feet normally in one round, thus in half a round is 30 feet. However, because the bridge is lilting to one side because of the snapped rope, your movement is halved, meaning you can move 15 feet before the bridge collapses underneath you. You'll need something else to happen to help you on those last five feet. Again, the more descriptive and logical your action, the better chance you have of whatever you want to occur actually working out for you.
So please write out what Zook will do in these next three seconds.
Zook meanwhile... in a rush to check out the tracks on the far side... steps out on the bridge and begins to cross. As he walks, he hears the ropes and wood start to creak, and it's when he's about halfway across when the *snap* and jerk of the first breaking rope on the far side begins to occur. Although he was walking carefully... he realizes he didn't specifically take the time to examine the safety of the bridge before he started bounding across. He curses to himself as the bridge LILTS to one side!
Zook maintains his balance ((Balance check success)) and grabs on to the other rope to keep from falling over the side... but he definitely can feel the unwinding of the second rope at the far end and he knows the bridge will be collapsing under his weight any second now! He has to act immediately or else he's plunging the fifty or sixty feet to the crevasse bottom below!!!
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OOC: Zook, please tell me what you will do in the next three seconds as the rope breaks from underneath you. You can either try and rush back to either side of the bridge in a regular move, or you can try and accomplish some action which will give you a positive modifier on your Reflex save that I will roll for you. This action should be something to protect you or help you maintain grip to keep you from falling when the bridge collapses out from underneath you.
If you choose to take an action to increase your Reflex save, the more specific and logical your action can be in those three seconds, the better modifier I will give you. If you choose to rush back to either cliffside... be aware that you are twenty feet away from either end and you have half a round. Your double move is 60 feet normally in one round, thus in half a round is 30 feet. However, because the bridge is lilting to one side because of the snapped rope, your movement is halved, meaning you can move 15 feet before the bridge collapses underneath you. You'll need something else to happen to help you on those last five feet. Again, the more descriptive and logical your action, the better chance you have of whatever you want to occur actually working out for you.
So please write out what Zook will do in these next three seconds.
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DarkMaster
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OOC Didn't he said Zook would search the bridge before going on it?
Kolarred looks at Zook unable to do a thing to help him.
"I can't do a darn thing to help him"
Kolarred hates the idea of being unable to do anything.
Kolarred looks at Zook unable to do a thing to help him.
"I can't do a darn thing to help him"
Kolarred hates the idea of being unable to do anything.
OOC: I'm afraid he didn't, unfortunately. I checked everyone's wording very carefully.
"Carefully crossing the bridge" isn't the same as inspecting it for traps. Carefully crossing means he is walking carefully and lightly so as to avoid slipping and falling. As I've said previously, you need to state specifically what you are doing when you are making active choices (like Bobitron did when he said he was looking for tripwires and such around where the horses were, and even when Tor L'Tha did back on page 8 when he said he was walking up the tower staircase and searching to make sure it was in good shape and not going to make noises or was trapped.)
I knew the bridge was trapped to break, and made very sure to keep track of anyone stating they were inspecting the bridge and ropes, or if they just walked out over it. Sorry... but them's the breaks! (Pun intended).
Tor L'Tha said:
"Carefully crossing the bridge" isn't the same as inspecting it for traps. Carefully crossing means he is walking carefully and lightly so as to avoid slipping and falling. As I've said previously, you need to state specifically what you are doing when you are making active choices (like Bobitron did when he said he was looking for tripwires and such around where the horses were, and even when Tor L'Tha did back on page 8 when he said he was walking up the tower staircase and searching to make sure it was in good shape and not going to make noises or was trapped.)
I knew the bridge was trapped to break, and made very sure to keep track of anyone stating they were inspecting the bridge and ropes, or if they just walked out over it. Sorry... but them's the breaks! (Pun intended).
DarkMaster
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[sblock]I just mentioned that because he specifically wrote +8 search in the OOC part of his post. I agree with you on the other hand, that the IC part of the post wasn't clearly stating that he was searching for trap. But that misunderstanding might come from the fact that Tor L'tha first language isn't english.
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[sblock]I just mentioned that because he specifically wrote +8 search in the OOC part of his post. I agree with you on the other hand, that the IC part of the post wasn't clearly stating that he was searching for trap. But that misunderstanding might come from the fact that Tor L'tha first language isn't english.
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Tor L'Tha
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*snap*! the bridge had been a bit loud in its creak and not even his careful walk and trap sensing skills saved him from this one... as the bridge tilts he manage to scream “GET ME A ROPE” he then wraps his left arm in the rope that without doubt will snap in not to many seconds
Hope this damn bridge is not weakened in its 4 corners! He thinks while he crunches to take the blow when the other loose end snaps.
If Zook has the possibility he will try to grab his grappling hook from the backpack.
Ooc: I did include the +8 search in the post, to use it.
But as you say i got a lack of IC description and I understand and respects your decision.
I will be more careful with the IC from now on... if any chance ...
The most correct thing would be that any IC description must be followed with the correct skillname +X in the ooc description.
Hope this damn bridge is not weakened in its 4 corners! He thinks while he crunches to take the blow when the other loose end snaps.
If Zook has the possibility he will try to grab his grappling hook from the backpack.
Ooc: I did include the +8 search in the post, to use it.
But as you say i got a lack of IC description and I understand and respects your decision.
I will be more careful with the IC from now on... if any chance ...
The most correct thing would be that any IC description must be followed with the correct skillname +X in the ooc description.
As soon as the rope snaps at the far end, Zook's roguish instincts for avoiding danger kick in and his arm is out like a flash to twist itself up in the rope of the bridge. He drops flat to his stomach almost as quickly and his fingers grasp one of the planks when all of a sudden the second rope on the far side snaps as well, and the bridge begins it's long swing down...
Zook ((Reflex [9] + 7 save + 1 trapsense + 4 circumstance = 21 / DC 15)) *SUCCESS*
...and slams HARD against the cliff face on the side of Luthal and Kolarred. The jarring impact knocks the wind out of Zook, but he manages to maintain his grip on the bridge as it hangs off the side. Luthal... already reaching for his rope... pulls it off from his backpack and he and Kolarred drop it over the side quickly. Zook reaches for it and grabs it... untwists his arm from the remaining bridge rope, and then climbs hand-over-hand up the rope back to the top of the cliffside.
Zook ((Climb [14] + 3 = 17 / DC 10)) *SUCCESS*
He lies down on the ground and takes a few seconds to catch his breath as Luthal recoils his rope and Kolarred looks out over the crevasse... their most easy route to the other side now gone.
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OOC: I've actually mentioned this a couple times in the past about how I'm running skills, but I'll reiterate it just so we're all up to date. Any skills that are passive or reactive in nature (i.e. things you don't consciously make a decision to do, but either know it, notice it or accomplish it or you don't), I calculate and roll myself whenever they are applicable. This includes Listen and Spot checks, Knowledge checks, Handle Animal checks, Balance checks etc. This is why you'll notice occasionally see me mentioning in gray that checks are made (like Kolarred's knowledge that the horses were not left in a position to survive on their own a few posts back). If you don't notice / know things... I just don't mention that I've made rolls for you and you've failed.
It's all the active actions that I've said you need to describe in your posts specifically what you are doing (and can make your own rolls on for simple things.) However you do have to be ACTIVE in doing these things... you can't just put your stats up at the end of the post and assume you're doing all of it at the same time. If you were to Hide, Move Silently, and Search all at the same time (as often appears at the ends of many posts)... the group would be moving at quarter-speed and would probably still be on the road right now.
I've used common sense when determining when and how your skills come into play (like I never allowed Zook to Hide and Move Silently while the group was on horseback on the road, even if the numbers were found at the end of his posts).
So just to make it clear once more... if you want to do anything ACTIVE (like search for traps, climb, open locks, disable devices and traps, jump over things, etc. etc.) you have to write it in your post what you are doing and the reason why you are doing it or what you're trying to accomplish. If you also choose to write in your modifier after that in gray so I don't have to look your stats up myself... then so much the better and I thank you. And for anything PASSIVE that just occurs when it occurs (like hearing or spotting things, knowing specific bits of information, automatically reacting to changing enviroments etc.) you don't need to state you are doing so because I roll for these thing automatically. HOWEVER, if there are specific things you want to watch for above and beyond the normal paying of attention (like from a past event when you wanted to pay special attention to any wolf howls you might've heard after leaving the camp following the attack), then you can write that in and I'll give circumstance bonuses to any Listen/Spot checks specifically towards those things that you might need to make (but also possibly assessing circumstance penalties to other sounds since you are more intent on listening/spotting wolves and don't care as much for other ones that might be occuring).
Hope this makes things more clear. And please remember (especially for Zook) that many actions you have are just not feasible in certain situations, so you shouldn't bother writing them into your post. For example... it was impossible to Hide while crossing the bridge (since you were out in the open and there was nothing to hide behind), so I just ignored the fact Zook had his Hide skill written at the bottom of his post. Please use common sense when deciding which active actions you want to do, because doing them eats up a lot of time or also might not be physically possible or useful in certain situations. Thanx guys!
Zook ((Reflex [9] + 7 save + 1 trapsense + 4 circumstance = 21 / DC 15)) *SUCCESS*
...and slams HARD against the cliff face on the side of Luthal and Kolarred. The jarring impact knocks the wind out of Zook, but he manages to maintain his grip on the bridge as it hangs off the side. Luthal... already reaching for his rope... pulls it off from his backpack and he and Kolarred drop it over the side quickly. Zook reaches for it and grabs it... untwists his arm from the remaining bridge rope, and then climbs hand-over-hand up the rope back to the top of the cliffside.
Zook ((Climb [14] + 3 = 17 / DC 10)) *SUCCESS*
He lies down on the ground and takes a few seconds to catch his breath as Luthal recoils his rope and Kolarred looks out over the crevasse... their most easy route to the other side now gone.
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OOC: I've actually mentioned this a couple times in the past about how I'm running skills, but I'll reiterate it just so we're all up to date. Any skills that are passive or reactive in nature (i.e. things you don't consciously make a decision to do, but either know it, notice it or accomplish it or you don't), I calculate and roll myself whenever they are applicable. This includes Listen and Spot checks, Knowledge checks, Handle Animal checks, Balance checks etc. This is why you'll notice occasionally see me mentioning in gray that checks are made (like Kolarred's knowledge that the horses were not left in a position to survive on their own a few posts back). If you don't notice / know things... I just don't mention that I've made rolls for you and you've failed.
It's all the active actions that I've said you need to describe in your posts specifically what you are doing (and can make your own rolls on for simple things.) However you do have to be ACTIVE in doing these things... you can't just put your stats up at the end of the post and assume you're doing all of it at the same time. If you were to Hide, Move Silently, and Search all at the same time (as often appears at the ends of many posts)... the group would be moving at quarter-speed and would probably still be on the road right now.
I've used common sense when determining when and how your skills come into play (like I never allowed Zook to Hide and Move Silently while the group was on horseback on the road, even if the numbers were found at the end of his posts).So just to make it clear once more... if you want to do anything ACTIVE (like search for traps, climb, open locks, disable devices and traps, jump over things, etc. etc.) you have to write it in your post what you are doing and the reason why you are doing it or what you're trying to accomplish. If you also choose to write in your modifier after that in gray so I don't have to look your stats up myself... then so much the better and I thank you.
And for anything PASSIVE that just occurs when it occurs (like hearing or spotting things, knowing specific bits of information, automatically reacting to changing enviroments etc.) you don't need to state you are doing so because I roll for these thing automatically. HOWEVER, if there are specific things you want to watch for above and beyond the normal paying of attention (like from a past event when you wanted to pay special attention to any wolf howls you might've heard after leaving the camp following the attack), then you can write that in and I'll give circumstance bonuses to any Listen/Spot checks specifically towards those things that you might need to make (but also possibly assessing circumstance penalties to other sounds since you are more intent on listening/spotting wolves and don't care as much for other ones that might be occuring).Hope this makes things more clear. And please remember (especially for Zook) that many actions you have are just not feasible in certain situations, so you shouldn't bother writing them into your post. For example... it was impossible to Hide while crossing the bridge (since you were out in the open and there was nothing to hide behind), so I just ignored the fact Zook had his Hide skill written at the bottom of his post. Please use common sense when deciding which active actions you want to do, because doing them eats up a lot of time or also might not be physically possible or useful in certain situations. Thanx guys!
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