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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8739443" data-attributes="member: 6696971"><p>In the first iteration of the situation depicted above, they’ve overcome the initial obstacle of the intervening distance between the PC and the territory of the Ankheg, so now you’re framing new fiction to either locate or attract the Ankheg to you:</p><p></p><p>GM: “The earth flattens out before you, the deeply sunken wheel ruts of the overgrown path cross-cross a site of ruination beneath you; massive chunks of worked stone, jagged shards of prismatic Makerglass, buzzing and glowing Aetherium ingots, lay strewn everywhere for many square miles.</p><p></p><p>The signs of what look like a massive mole digging and locomoting beneath the ground…</p><p></p><p>This is the sight your friends told you about. The huge beast’s territory. The clock is ticking. What do you do?”</p><p></p><p>(a) Eagle’s Flight has a duration of 12 hours so it’s still running.</p><p></p><p>(b) The micro-objective is to draw the creature out (maybe with an Earth manipulation spell or knocking over a massive chunk of tower…the creature’s prey is big so, like a spider, it would be looking for the signature of Large + prey traversing it’s territory) or track down the subtle signs of its present location and maybe use Tread the Earth to burrow or something and invade its underground lair directly?</p><p></p><p>So, just like in any other form of play the answer to the obstacle before the players must attend to the present fiction/dilemma; some clever solution and made move. That’ll get you a success (or more) in the gamestate. That will move the fiction forward (to a new obstacle or adverse fiction on an adjacent complication and spiraling gamestate on a failure).</p><p></p><p>EDIT - If the player’s next move made (given the obstacle) is to surveil the area for the freshest moved earth using the bird’s eye view they have on Overland Flight, then they can have a +2 Circumstance Bonus to their Perception check given the advantageous fictional positioning. I would probably use the Hard DC that I have in my pocket here due to the huge area they’ll gave to trull aerially and due to the ticking clock.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 8739443, member: 6696971"] In the first iteration of the situation depicted above, they’ve overcome the initial obstacle of the intervening distance between the PC and the territory of the Ankheg, so now you’re framing new fiction to either locate or attract the Ankheg to you: GM: “The earth flattens out before you, the deeply sunken wheel ruts of the overgrown path cross-cross a site of ruination beneath you; massive chunks of worked stone, jagged shards of prismatic Makerglass, buzzing and glowing Aetherium ingots, lay strewn everywhere for many square miles. The signs of what look like a massive mole digging and locomoting beneath the ground… This is the sight your friends told you about. The huge beast’s territory. The clock is ticking. What do you do?” (a) Eagle’s Flight has a duration of 12 hours so it’s still running. (b) The micro-objective is to draw the creature out (maybe with an Earth manipulation spell or knocking over a massive chunk of tower…the creature’s prey is big so, like a spider, it would be looking for the signature of Large + prey traversing it’s territory) or track down the subtle signs of its present location and maybe use Tread the Earth to burrow or something and invade its underground lair directly? So, just like in any other form of play the answer to the obstacle before the players must attend to the present fiction/dilemma; some clever solution and made move. That’ll get you a success (or more) in the gamestate. That will move the fiction forward (to a new obstacle or adverse fiction on an adjacent complication and spiraling gamestate on a failure). EDIT - If the player’s next move made (given the obstacle) is to surveil the area for the freshest moved earth using the bird’s eye view they have on Overland Flight, then they can have a +2 Circumstance Bonus to their Perception check given the advantageous fictional positioning. I would probably use the Hard DC that I have in my pocket here due to the huge area they’ll gave to trull aerially and due to the ticking clock. [/QUOTE]
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