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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9405831" data-attributes="member: 27780">Mixed results again, but in a positive direction overall. 2 more people sent messages asking to join between sessions but not following through when it came to character creation. But thankfully 5 of the established players showed up so the session still went ahead. After finishing their first rehearsal, our band decided to hit the nearest open mic night. This allowed me to bring out the full spectrum of low level antagonists. The bored punters who talk loudly through the music. The impatient other musician who just wants to get to their turn. The heckler who picks up on every fluffed note. The annoying guy who jams along on harmonica to everything ... badly. The jaded sound guy who's seen it all before. Initially it seemed like they might be demoralised by this reception, but the mooks had few cool points and once a few of them were converted, the action economy soon tipped in the players favour, allowing them to gang up on the significant NPC's and use their guitar solo/sample combo to finish them off. After the fight, they talked to their new fans, sold some merch and found out that the famous Dr Roboticus would be playing in their home city in a few weeks time. Apparently one of the support bands had dropped out and the sound guy thought he could make a call to get them the slot. The one man band busker was suspicious about this, not being a fan of that new-fangled electronica stuff, but nearly everyone else they talked too was, which made them suspicious as well. This intensified when they rolled well on their investigation and found that all the online reviewers were using suspiciously similar wording in their reviews. They decided to take the gig, but poke around to find out what was going on while there. When they got to the arena, they easily got through security, but Roboticus himself was nowhere to be seen, leaving all the setting up to the suspiciously stiff looking roadies and his chief minion, Nurse Scratchit. Despite their attempts at being unobtrusive she easily spotted them and ordered them out until it was their time to soundcheck. No level of high intimidation roll can deter a PC, of course, and they decided to go around her to investigate backstage. She ordered two of the goons to chase them, which is where the session stalled, because the chase rules assume only one chaser and don't spell out what happens if there are more than one working together. Do they aid each other, or get in each other's way in a similar manner to the people being chased. Looks like I'll have to figure out how to houserule that by next week. And also figure out some more of the time-saving features of roll20, as the most experienced player in particular (12,000+ hours logged) grew very impatient with my struggles to manually change the scenes, scale the maps to the grid and set out all the new tokens instead of having that prepared beforehand. (in a tab I hadn't even noticed until he pointed it out.) It would be depressing to lose players for a basic reason like that.</blockquote>

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