A Knocking Afar

[Mazer Rackham]

I have augury and mind link. I'll see if there's anything I can do....although I don't have pilot, so I'm essentially asking the GM if I can even help.

[Trokair]

12 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

I have augury and mind link. I'll see if there's anything I can do....although I don't have pilot, so I'm essentially asking the GM if I can even help.

 

Hmm... I don't think you have time for the proper preparations for Augury, and even if you did the not on the skein of fate nature of this adventure might limit what you could divine in any case.

 

Mind link on the other hand seems fine. I guess if you are linked you can perceive some of Kelman's sensory inputs and perhaps provide some additional focus or such.

 

 

 

If you successfully cast the Mind Link (as per the RT psychic rules*) then a successful (Challenging +0) Awareness Test will allow you to add +10 Assist to Akylas's pilot test, a fail on the awareness test will however distract Kelman  and impose an additional -10 on his pilot test. 

You can make one awareness test for every other pilot test being performed (on account of it all happening very quickly).

If you add any of the other passengers to the Mind Link then they can each add +5 to the awareness test, however a failed awareness test will impose a -10 to the pilot test for each added mind that provided a +5 (to many minds can be distracting).

 

I guess if you do mind link you may want to coordinate with Akylas Out of Character so that any + or - to his pilot test can be applied correctly. perhaps a little shared narrative.

 

Does that hat make sense to everybody?  I'll let you decide your risk verses reward choices. 

 

 

* As the Warlock powers are all designed with the Rouge Trader psychic rules and not necessarily the DH rules, for this game all psychic stuff will use RT rules. I don't think this will mechanically affect anybody other than Mazer, so hopefully not to confusing... (yes I can see the hole I have dug for myself, no I don't need a ladder, I hope). 

[A.T.]

I think it only respectful that a fellow Eldar would allow their pilot the grace of failing one or two of the rolls before bailing out on them lightening the load to improve performance.

[Akylas]

I can do the first roll tonight or hold off a bit while everyone decides what to do.

 

With the mind link being every other roll maybe start on test 2+ since test 1 should be the *easiest to pass?

 

*He says as if he won't roll a 94

Edited June 25 by Akylas

[Mazer Rackham]

23 minutes ago, A.T. said:

I think it only respectful that a fellow Eldar would allow their pilot the grace of failing one or two of the rolls before bailing out on them lightening the load to improve performance.

 

Absolutely.

 

19 minutes ago, Akylas said:

I can do the first roll tonight or hold off a bit while everyone decides what to do.

 

With the mind link being every other roll maybe start on test 2+ since test 1 should be the *easiest to pass?

 

*He says as if he won't roll a 94

 

You've been here before, haven't you...? 

 

@Akylas If you want to use AT's approach, and roll a few tests, no sweat, I've got to get my head around a couple of things first anyway.

 

EDIT:

 

I'm going to do some number crunching here, as this gets...complicated.

 

So, Focus Power test to Mind Link. RT Core says it has to be fettered, which is no problem, as I have Eldar Techniques. I cast Fettered, halving PR, (so 3/2 = 1.5, rd Up) = 2. Further, I count as gaining DoS equal to PR (3) - 1D5 (in this case 1) = 2.

 

My awareness isn't great, though. Even with HS (Sight) that only gives me 51. With the added caveats, I'm not sure that it's worth imposing further risks. I didn't take Enhance as a Warlock Power, but even if I did, it wouldn't help here.

 

Like a true Farseer, I don't like the odds. Eating the crash will liekly be safer, lol.

 

Edited June 25 by Mazer Rackham

[Trokair]

23 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

@Trokair GM, please give me a steer - SECRETS OF THE SEERS (TALENT), P124 Navis Primer. How does this interact with our vehicle?

 

 

I'll get back to you as soon as I have passed a Int (GM) test and a Forbidden Lore (FFG) test...

 

Edit: So having had a look I don't think that dose anything for you mechanically, as its primary purpose is to turn on  Witch-Edge weapon quality of the Singing Spear/Witchblade, and Featherflight is not either. 

 

However fluff wise I can see why it might be relevant of sort, as a deeper connection to the wraithbone might help in some way. hmm lets say...

 

if you can RP it well then instead of mind linking to Kelman you can mind link to Featherflights systems directly. However if you do so you cant include anybody else in the mind link. If you do this then your Awareness tests as described above will be difficult (-10) instead as you are not going to be familiar with the Eldar equivalent of computer tech/machine spirit etc interface for a flyer). On the flip side a fail on the awareness test is not going to impost a -10 penalty on Kelman pilot test as failour on the test will be you not understanding the Featherfligths system , not you distracting our pilot. 

 

How dose that sound?

 

 

 

Edited June 25 by Trokair

[Mazer Rackham]

5 minutes ago, Trokair said:

I'll get back to you as soon as I have passed a Int (GM) test and a Forbidden Lore (FFG) test...

 

Don't sweat it, I've decided to put faith in my helmet.

 

I had this idea of recalling her experience of the Pollineach, from the garden, but this time having more success because she was focused, which would incur precision telekenisis to re-grow parts of the wraithbone ship, which might help the pilot, etc etc.

 

With my GM hat on, that got a bit too complicated with the ability to auto-pass though...

 

Edited June 25 by Mazer Rackham

[Trokair]

Just saw your edit above after I finished my edit above - the skeins of fate are what they will

 

 

do what you think is right, and we can puzzle out afterwards what will happen. 

[Mazer Rackham]

No worries, I have faith in our pilot.

 

Deep, deep faith.

 

Maybe about six feet of it. 

[Akylas]

First 2 rolls made. Do I have it right that they get harder only for each fail and stay at starting difficulty until then?

Edited June 25 by Akylas

[Trokair]

7 hours ago, Akylas said:

First 2 rolls made. Do I have it right that they get harder only for each fail and stay at starting difficulty until then?

 

Correct, so far so good, though yest the trend of your rolls could be worrisome. Only two more passed to touchdown, are you feeling lucky?

 

Also for future In Character posts, could you turn out of character stuff, such as rolls green.

Edited June 26 by Trokair

[Akylas]

I will continue rolling after work. Hopefully the upward trend does not continue.

[Mazer Rackham]

1 hour ago, Akylas said:

Hopefully the upward trend does not continue.

 

Is this appropriate for a pilot...?

 

Edited June 26 by Mazer Rackham

[Akylas]

Rolls 3 and 4 passed!

[Trokair]

Remember that as Eldar you all have Unnatural Agility (x2) which doubles your Agility bonus, so for most of you that’s a +8 to your initiative roll (and Evil Eye’s Scorpion has an AG bonus of 10 if memory serves).

 

@Mike Zulu, for reasons I don’t recall now Ialathial has Lighting Reflexes, which doubles the Agility bonus specifically when making an initiative roll. So that is a +16 to your d10.     

[Trokair]

I am back(ish) and will try and get round up tomorrow.

[Mazer Rackham]

Splendid, looking forward to the update!

 

*Starts looking at splatbooks to roll up a new character.*

Edited July 3 by Mazer Rackham

[Trokair]

So ‘tomorrow’ actually was later today. Good luck.

 

 

Evil Eye sends his apologies, life has been life and he has to dip out of the game. For the moment I will treat Kemedra as unconscious and if Evil Eye can come back in the near future we work from there, if not then I’ll work it out with the next story progression.

[Akylas]

@Trokair

I didn't realize I could use a full action aiming but I'll do that. 

[Akylas]

Wondering if I should hold my aim for a turn or try to take shot now. The orange group is pretty far and we still don't know what we're looking at.

[Trokair]

 

Well, that is up to you, but if you were to take a shot with the Reaper Launcher at Orange it be something along the lines of:

 

BS:44 + 20(Full Aim) +10(Accurate +Aim) +20 (Full Auto Burst (as that is the only fire mode it can do)) - 10 (over  100m) -20 (Run) - 20 (Hard Target) = 44...

 

You would just miss out on +10 for short range (which for a reaper launcher is 137.5m!).

Each DoS is an extra hit, though no extra damage from accurate + Aim as that is only for single shots.  

[Akylas]

Should have taken the shot.

So for this round would I be looking at at 54? Same but with a +10 for short (for reaper launcher) range?
 

BS:44 + 20(Full Aim) +10(Accurate +Aim) +10 (short range) +20 (Full Auto Burst) - 10 (over  100m) -20 (Run) - 20 (Hard Target) = 54

[Akylas]

Not sure if it's related to the maintenance earlier but I tried to post here and the post is hidden pending approval. Just confirming that since they're under 137.5 meters this turn the calculation for hitting orange group would be the same except a +10 for short range (for reaper launcher). 54 to hit?

Edited July 6 by Akylas

[Mazer Rackham]

1 hour ago, Akylas said:

Not sure if it's related to the maintenance earlier but I tried to post here and the post is hidden pending approval. Just confirming that since they're under 137.5 meters this turn the calculation for hitting orange group would be the same except a +10 for short range (for reaper launcher). 54 to hit?

 

I had this happen to me before the update, and a kindly moderator explained - it's the swear filter, it's quite aggressive and is catching unintended stuff. It will get sorted, no worries. 

 

Otherwise, yup, your calcs are on the money.

[Trokair]

2 hours ago, Akylas said:

Not sure if it's related to the maintenance earlier but I tried to post here and the post is hidden pending approval. 

 

In fact my post above setting out the calculation was also cought, I had posted it before your turn 2 action but it did not apear until after. I Ithink it might be the apreviation of Ballisitic Skill that is being seen as something else, as i think that is the consitant element betwen the posts I have had be cought.