D&D 5E [OOC] Uller's Out of the Abyss
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JustinCase
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Me too. I just want to make sure our captors don't know which way we're going, perhaps by going quickly when they're not watching or by going one way and at the last moment changing directions.
Uller
Adventurer
Just to carry on the discussion about misqueues a little more: it reminds me of something that happened to me years ago. One morning I was walking across a parking lot on my way into work and I noticed a .223 caliber rifle round lying on the ground. I picked it up, put it in my pocket and continued on as if nothing were out of the ordinary.
Out of context that probably seems to be a very odd (perhaps even insane or at least very negligent) reaction. But...in context....I was at the time deployed to Iraq and the parking lot was used as a staging area by my unit for loading vehicles prior to going out on combat missions. Soldiers often loaded ammo there. So it wasn't at all strange to find a bit of stray ammo lying about and since later that day I would be going outside the base I just put the round in one of my magazines that was short a couple rounds.
Your lack of reaction to the information I presented strikes me as being like that. So I figured I was miscommunicating something. Now I think I understand where i went wrong.
From now on, at least when you succeed at a check I will try to be more precise at what you succeeded in doing.
Out of context that probably seems to be a very odd (perhaps even insane or at least very negligent) reaction. But...in context....I was at the time deployed to Iraq and the parking lot was used as a staging area by my unit for loading vehicles prior to going out on combat missions. Soldiers often loaded ammo there. So it wasn't at all strange to find a bit of stray ammo lying about and since later that day I would be going outside the base I just put the round in one of my magazines that was short a couple rounds.
Your lack of reaction to the information I presented strikes me as being like that. So I figured I was miscommunicating something. Now I think I understand where i went wrong.
From now on, at least when you succeed at a check I will try to be more precise at what you succeeded in doing.
Uller
Adventurer
I know. I tend to allow active perception checks in the lead up to encounters for the side(s) that are aware of a possible encounter. My assumtion is that if you are moving about an adventure site you are always actively looking for threats. On a long march or if you are doing something else that might not be the case.
Example: when you got to the pool I assumed you were alll looking about for threats because what kind of crazy person would escape from slavery and then assume they were completely safe....now...once you strat doing things (like fighting or binding wounds or navigating or what have you) perception becomes passive.
Example: when you got to the pool I assumed you were alll looking about for threats because what kind of crazy person would escape from slavery and then assume they were completely safe....now...once you strat doing things (like fighting or binding wounds or navigating or what have you) perception becomes passive.
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