[pnpgm] Game Update #168 - File #1180 - Tight Spots

Scott Adams longshotgm at netzero.com
Wed Jun 1 09:14:31 CEST 2011


    
  HT Aliaver/Player          Character Name    Type    Status/Notes  Sex
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  R1.John Haight...........Arawn.............Druid  .Normal/Alfar  Ma
  ??.Chris Wells...........Ben'dar...........Warrior.Normal/Human  Ma
  R4.Tom Corckett..........Caladan...........Wizard  Normal/Human  Ma
  W2.Marcel Liberty........Chion.............Sailor..Normal/Human  Ma
  W3.Ryan Torres...........Farseeker.........Warrior.Normal/Human  Ma
  --.Tobie Bonahoom........Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry Fe
  R2.Mark Murtha...........Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human..Ma
  R1.David Sanders.........Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human  Ma
  R4.J H Hooten............Raban.Usherwood...Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
  W2.Robert Maxwell........Strie'bog.........Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
  W4.Wout Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human  Fe
  R1 John.Stowman..........Will..............Hunter..Normal/Human..Ma
  R4.Alex Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human  Fe
  R1 NPC...................Zhou Kiwat........Noble...Normal/Human..Ma
     Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Tef'wo (Horse) Ben'dar, 

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     Game Update #168 in sequence (file #1180)     
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     [Recap]

        From Kiet: [Re: Actions]                                
          Kiet looks at the gap, then glances at Raban.  That might...
        GM: Ack. 

        From Kell: [Re: Actions]
          [Hehe.  Love the Mind the gap!]

          Kell looks at Raban and the gap and just shakes his...

          [pause to allow response, hoping ppl agree to this and two ppl
          watch the captain.]

          [Scott, I did get the joke, that was my feeble attempt at a
          response. Lame I know.

          Happily he revised his date, now it's October.  So we have a
          few months. :)  ]
        GM: Ack. 

        From Will: [Re: Actions]
          Will gives a grim nod (for those who can see in the dark everyone
          else will just have to listen for the rocks rattling)
          OOC on another subject has anyone heard from Arawn lately I keep
          getting spam e-mails from his address but haven't seen anything
          else.
        GM: Ack. Arawn - I got a email from him on 19th but I've not
            replied to it yet. Will do so see how it reacts.  PS.  Got
            a new email couple days ago.  He is having some issues with
            virus scanner but seems to get the email.  So John is around
            more or less.  

        From Kell: [Re: Actions]
          OOC - I haven't heard anything from John/Arawn either.  Hope
          he is ok.
        GM: Ack. See above.

        From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions]
          Hearing the word that the enemy has been sighted Z'leyra
          whispers to the Katai captain as she readies her drum, "My...
                                                                        
          She them softly plays the drums and casts Orient Self at EL6.
          Then she puts the drum away and readies her warstaff.
        GM: Ack. 

        From Fremea: [Re: Actions]
          Fremea scans the vast cavern, using her telescope. She looks for

          If there are things flying around, she will look at the walls to
          see if there are any ways to climb out or move around to get a
          better view and allow others to come through too.
        GM: Ack. 

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     [New Stuff]

         [Augado 10th, 1634TH]
         [Location: Middle Katai Plains] 
         [          Mountains west of Pamau]                

         [Time: 12:40am]

           Unali reports her findings about the slit and the pond that
         lies ahead.

           Kiet looks at the gap, then glances at Raban.  That might make
         it tough for him to get through.  Kiet whispers, "maybe one of you
         that can go insubstantial can take Raban with you thruough the rock
         wall.  'Course, there won't be any retreat for him..."

           Kell looks at Raban and the gap and just shakes his head, with a
         wry grin.  Listening to Unali's report, then thinking for a
         moment, Kell bounces from one foot to the other.  Then he stands
         still, listening to Farseeker and Caladan.  Never one to be quiet,
         most people probably wish he's shut up more, he adds, "I agree,
         they don't know we are here.  Were I them, and I knew about us,
         I'd send a swarm of bug to eat us.  Yet that hasn't happened."

           "Any attack should wait!  Once they know we are here, it will
         become a continuous fight.  We still don't know where the world
         brain is, or where that portal is.  If we can find those, we can
         stop the invasion.  Those are the keys to stopping it.  Whilst
         attacking their amphistaff growth pond could very well be
         something we must do, lets wait to reveal ourselves as long as
         possible. Stealth is our best ally right now. They may be able to
         send hundreds of warriors against us."  Looking around in the
         dark cavern at the group, including everyone as he speaks.  Some
         are more relaxed, and some, like the Captain, are more tense.
         His vision is so much better than most, for which the half-elf
         is thankful.

           Fremea has taken position in the slit and tries to scan the
         area but the view is limited.  Fremea hears her name and comes
         back into the smaller cave.

           "Fremea can use her spyglass to get a complete view of that
         room.  Are there any of the leader Vong?  Any traps or hidden
         sentries, or do they Vong think their base is so secret they
         don't have any protections here?"

           "Where are the entrances?  There must be at least one into it.
         Possibly only one.  If so we can use that against them.  If there
         is more than one entrance, we need to plan for that.  Whatever we
         do, planning is key.  We need all the edges we can get in this
         fight.  It's our only shot." Switching to Marentian so the Captain
         hopefully doesn't understand, "The time for hiding our abilities
         and who we are has ended.  The Captain has no choice now but to
         trust us, or he'll die.  He knows this.  One or two of us can
         stay near him just in case he decides to act foolishly once he
         knows more about us.  But Fremea needs her wings back, and we'll
         be using magic again soon I foresee.  We can either tell him a
         bit, or just let him see it as things unfold," giving Fremea a
         hard and friendly look, a playful intonation at the last.

           Back in Katai, "Fremea, can you sneak through there and give
         as detailed a report as possible?  With another as escort possibly,
         and not alerting the Vong to our presence?"

           Hearing the word that the enemy has been sighted Z'leyra
         whispers to the Katai captain as she readies her drum, "My tribe
         has the tradition of calling to the spirits and gods before battle
         to let them know to watch and see our valor. I use a tambourine to
         do so. But since there is value in keeping surprise I don't call
         them very loudly."

           Fremea listens to the group talking about plans and she realizes
         the group talks and doesn't act much.  Faerry are so impulsive
         creatures talking is why humans are so disorganized.  She
         shakes her head and creeps into the slit along the way to
         see what else she can see.

           Fremea scans the vast cavern, using her telescope. She looks
         for anything that could be flying in there too. If she does not
         see anything that could be flying around or is flying around, she
         will say "Looks like I might be able to climb out a little bit and
         move around some to get a better look."

           Everyone watches Fremea and she realizes the talk of telling the
         Captain of their secret has been opened up.  Now is better than
         anything.  She unsnaps her dress and let it flow off her wings.

           At that instant Zhou has a stroke and can't believe she is
         doing in front of the Captain.  He's to cover Fremea and speak
         a distraction to the Captain.  But the mental shock of his urge
         to keep cover breaks his concentration.

           Farseeker with supernatural like swiftness grabs the Captain
         the half second Fremea pulls the dress down.  The Captain is
         turned around with Farseeker's speed and strength.  "We should
         probably..." Farseeker tries to distract the Captain as he tries
         to figure out what to say.  "Discuss the dangers again.  We covered
         the warrior caste with their tough armor.  Those Shaper females
         tend to have no armor but thick garments  The outcast or shamed
         ones have no armor.  So for those using bows likely only need to
         force those blows or throwing things to the Warriors. The
         others should be easy to handle with normal weapons..."

           Zhou panics and motions for Fremea to get going.  He can't
         believe to get this far and lose cover now.  He knows Kell
         and others have mentioned losing the cover but maybe this
         isn't the best time trapped inside a small cave with a
         dangerous foe.  Maybe once inside a thousand foot cave higher
         up with plenty of room to fight is better.

           Fremea hands her dress to Unali and smiles at Zhou with that
         smile Faerry do.  Fremea grabs her spyglass and adjusts her
         bow and weapons.  She slips through the slit and out of sight.

           Zhou glances at Unali as if to say it is up to her to lose
         cover but he seems to dread that as is one of his main goals
         in this mission.

           Farseeker breaths when Fremea leaves the small niche and
         allows the Captain to finally speak and turn around. "Where
         did the small one go?"

           Zhou grins and raises his hands as he blocks Unali while she
         stuffs the dress out of view.  "She is trained as a good scout.
         She is just outside and will give s some info on what to
         deal with."

           Captain Lin nods and turns to the others then toward Raban.
         "How do you plan getting past?"  He glances at Chion. "For
         that matter you as well?"

           Zhou lightly laughs but not so draw attention.  "He is a
         clever barbarian.  Once we get inside and are sure there are
         no one around we can clear a path.  Some have a shovel...
         and maybe a pitch or something.  Even if we can't ship it
         his hands are a destruction machine.  I've seen him crush
         a bear twice my size with his bare hands and crush the
         skull to dust."

           As if bored Raban grabs a large rock the twice the size of
         a hand fist.  For Raban though its like a small pebble in his
         hands.  He grins and grips both hands around it.  He pretends
         to grunt as if this is a hard thing. But in reality those
         barbarian strength things are what strong men do.  it
         takes Raban about 20 seconds and then rock begins to crumble
         around his fingers.  It begins to fall through his hands onto
         the ground.  

           Captain Lin looks at the giant as he dusts his hands clean.
         He nods as if happy by this result and looks back the way
         they came.  "If we get in a bind we'll need to get out fast.
         Sadly that will take time and if chased we are in trouble."

           Farseeker agrees, "Yes.  It will take maybe 20 minutes or
         longer but that's because we know the way now.  We don't
         know if they send bugs or those dog things after us as they
         chase us.  I'm afraid we are here till we get a better
         exit.  So stealth is good for now."

           Caladan waves over some of the folks who have mentioned
         Raban's problem.  He whispers so the Captain doesn't hear
         him in Marentian.  "Don't forget that he can move through
         rocks and doors.  This tiny bit shouldn't be a problem.
         Chion if has problem can do a spell or teleport.  But
         we can at least pretend to make a gap bigger for them once
         the Captain moves on."

           Kiet looks at Raban who seems not worried at all by the
         rock face in front of him. He does recall the strange giant
         can fly and go through some solid things.  He recalls that
         now from the flying castle.  He is still uncertain how the
         giant can do those things.

           Zhou cringes his hands as he can't believe Fremea's own
         name was mentioned.  He has to go over the protocol of
         keeping a cover with these folks.

           Fremea ducks out of the hidden slit.  She finds almost
         immediately the slit seems to be in one corner of the
         large cavern.  She notices the ceiling is about 20-25
         feet depending on overhung stalactites.  In fact for some
         cases the stalactites could be a good cover for Fremea she
         figures. They jut down as much as 5-6 feet from the ceiling
         and maybe 2-3 around.

           Fremea hops to the air and scans as much as she can in this
         corner of the area.  The main feature of the cave is the
         oversized pond or mini lake.  It seems to stretech about
         350 feet in some places and looks about 130 feet wide it seems.
         While there are torches along the wall the pond itself seems
         to glow a faint green or slight yellow hue.  It looks like
         the Vong is using Vong stuff or there is some natural lichen
         that glows.  The lichen seems to be from shore to shore and
         adds a added visual field a few feet away from the shore.   So
         in all the pond looks to be some almost ghost like thing
         except those who haven't seen glowing plants.  

            Fremea scans the center of the pond but it is hard to see
          at this angle and distance.  If there is some brown there
          like Arawn found in Lake Oca it isn't seen.  She isn't even
          clear how deep the thing is from the distance.  Those who
          are around the shore wade as thick as hip so it could be as
          deep as 3-4 feet but it is difficult to tell.

            The other main feature of the water are the large growths
          of Orbs and Amphistaves that seem to grow along the various
          shore areas.

            Fremea scans the walls and finds numerous torches along the
          walls but aside from the glowing plants the vast majority
          areas of the cave is in darkness.  This will help in stealth.
          Some those who are either walking about or along the shores
          seem to have torches as well.

            Actually as she inspects one Shaper along the south shore
          she notices a small glowing ball or orb.  its now fire so
          she figures them to be some Vong lighting animal.  It adds
          about 5-10 feet around the person.  Not all those around
          the shore have animal-orb lights but some do.

            Fremea notices many alcoves but can't tell if there is folks
          hiding there or not from this angle.  She notices on the
          north side several Shapers are dressed in their garments as
          well as a couple of Warriors.  But near them are other Vong
          that do not have the garment or likely armor.  she figures
          they could be Shamed Ones as helpers.

            For her report Fremea tries to figure out the direction. But
          the tunnels and twists have made that confusing.  She figures
          a compass might help.  But she marks the side they are on as the
          south wall and so the top should be the north.  Along the wall
          they are now much be east and the opposite wall the west.

            About 200 or so feet west of her position she notices the
          lake seems to head south in a 10 or 20 foot wide path to
          the south wall.  She figures this must be the source of
          the water and maybe the natural springs?  Nearby that area
          which crosses about 20 feet at one certain there is some
          structure that passes the water that could be a Vong bridge
          of some sort.  But it is dark to tell details.

            Fremea notices in the north west corner looks to be a area
          with some structure.  It looks animal or leather like.  She
          considers it to be some kind of door?  in fact that is the
          only place to move through likely unless there is something
          hidden in the darkness or rock.  But she has to assume it to
          be an entrance as there are two warriors by the structure
          that must be a door.

            Fremea figures there might be 15-16 Vong that she can see.
          But she can't tell if there might be others in the dark
          areas.  her eyes are good but the spyglass doesn't help
          at times her natural skills.  Either that or the glow of
          the lake seem to make it distracting like a fog in some
          forest distracting vision.

            Fremea glances west to one Shaper using a animal-light about
          270 feet away or so.  One torch of natural fire light is
          about 90 feet light field way. So should have plenty of
          place to spread out the full party.  

            One shaper is closeby about 90 odd feet north of Fremea's
          position.  If Fremea moves 20 feet west and 30 feet north
          there is a torch.   It looks like there will be a think 10
          feet area just outside the torch light field to move the
          party.

            Fremea figures it time to report back in to the others.

         [Time: 12:48am]

         Actions? Comments?

         Next Update....Friday...

         GM: Yep.  No update last fri and mon.  Friday ran out of time
             with minor issues. Monday had a toothache and couldn't
             concentrate.  But hopefully back on schedule.

         GM: Since this comes out Wednesday it gives short notice for
             replies for Thursday night.  If I get some though I will
             do a short update for Q&A if needed.  

         GM: Map of Growing Area

             1 Row    = 10 feet
             1 Column = 10 feet

         1         2         3         4         5         6
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%7   %%      %%%%%%%          %%%+%     %%%     %%%      %%% A
              %%%%                  B            %%%      %% B
%8              +%   C              5            %%%      %% C
%                 3 DE  4                         +%     %%% D
%%%      .......ssss....ooo.......ssss...........         %% E
%%+    oo.....sssss....oooo.....sssssss........ssss.      %% F
%     ooo.....................................sssss.      %% G
%%%  ................................................  +%%%% H
%%%%    ...sss.......................................   %%%% I
%       ...sss....................................sss    %%% J
%      ....sss...................................ssss6    %% K
%%%%+ 9   ........................................sss     %% L
%%%%     ooo.........................................      % M
%  %%    oo..sss..............ssss....ooooooo........     %% N
%         2 .sss..............ssss....oooooo........    +%%% O
%          ..................sssss.....ooooo......        %% P
%%+          .oooo A           1   ..                      % Q
%                     +%%%    +%%%  .      %%%+           F` R
%  %%%%            %%%%%%       %%% .   +%%%%%         %%% % S
%%%%%%%%%%+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%.%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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                                   /}\= Water source?
  % = Rock/cave wall
  ` = Party's inner cave = [R60]
  s = Amphistaff growth fields
  o = Orb growth fields
  . = Actual water/pond surface
  + \ Torches set along the wall

  Vong =
    Shaper  - #1 - [Q32]   #2 - [O22]
              #3 - [D29]   #4 - [D35]
              #5 - [C37]   #6 - [K54] 
    Warrior - #7 - [A2 ]   #8 - [C2 ]
              #9 - [L7 ]   #A - [Q20]
              #B - [B38]   #C - [C22]
              #D - [D22]   DE - [D23]

     Fremea - R59 in Air about 10 feet up


   Light by torches go as far as 30 feet but usually 20 feet around
   the torches.  Diameter wise or about 3 rows/columns.


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