[pnpgm] Game Update #42 - File #403 - Mermaid scares village

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    Character Name   Type       Player        tex           Notes
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..Arawn...........Druid...John.Haight........Ma..Alfar/Backup Navigator
..Dorhak..........Warrior.Kevin.Newark.......Ma..Captain/Leader/Dwarf
..Fremea..........Sidh....Tobie.Bonahoom.....Fe..Faerry/Archer/Magician
..Ix..............Shaman..Rachelle.Gauthier..Fe..Human
..Kiet............Acrobat.David.Sanders......Me..Human/Magician
..Maelorna........Dancer..Don.Kerr...........Fe..Human/Seductress
..Mournath........Sailor..Gibert.Isla........Ma..Human/Navigator
..Pyandalgor......Hunter..Panthera...........Ma..Human
..Raddok..........Miner...Bess Hadley........Ma..Human
..Unali...........Ninja...Wout.Broere........Fe..Human/Dagger Maiden
..Z'leyra.........Healer..Alex Koponen.......Fe..Human/Shaman/1st Mate
..Barbasa.........Warror..Npc................Ma..Dwarf/Outcast
..Brutto..........Sailor..Npc................Ma..Sailor #1
..Finn............Sailor..Npc................Ma..Sailor #2
..Ardrackle.......Sailor..Npc................Ma..Sailor #3
..Zepp............Sailor..Npc................Ma..Sailor #4
   Corona..........Eagle...Npc................Ma..Companion to Z'leyra
  .Zol.Zim.........Wolf....Npc................Ma..Zehani Wolf/Ix's Friend

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       [Recap]

         From Fremea: [Re: Actions]
           Fremea smiles at the thought of having some fun on a
           whole village. "Yes, I accept." She is pissed off that...
         GM: Ack.

         From Pyan: [Re: Actions]
           Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 05:32:35 +0000 (UTC) From: Hsingai
           Altaica

           Pyan practices his Eagle with Arawn and Corona, telling them a
           story in the bird's language. He asks Arawn fore help with the
           words he doesn't know yet. It's a dramatic tell of a hunt for a
           ferocious animal. He goes on about the terrible damage the beast
           was doing to the villages cultivations and the heated chases
           though he wilderness. It finally ends with the revealing that
           the beast was a over-sized rabbit. Corona seems to appreciate the
           tell of the terrible bunny more than Arawn does.

           More comments inlined with the reply below

           I was just gauging interests, so I know If I would be worth it
           converting Perilous lands stuff to YiffieMon.  I'm currently
           running a PBEM with my Fience who has a phobia about writing
           Emails. She says she'lll accept what ever actions I give her
            but It's hard not knowing How she would like her character
            to act. I have to base it on my pass no gaming emails with
            her and her Blog to figure out what she likes. Thou she does
            say I'm doing a good job at it when she does respond, I
            wonder if she's just being polite....

            Speaking of Fringeworthy where exactly are the damage tables
            you go on about/ Which edition and page? I can't find them in
            my collection but I didn't have time to reread the whole
            thing again.

            It funny I have no intrest in actual having sex but When ever
            I write I keep geting idea for interesting Romances and IF I
             don't write them out I get writers block. It disheartening
             when your novella turns into a 1 page short story because
             you had to remove the sex scenes.

             I like hard scifi is Fantasy 
garb.
             I like my technology sufficiently advanced that it is magic.
             That is like it when there is logical physics based reasons
             for the way magic works the way it does.

             For example how to do you fix a snorlax into pokeball.
             Changing his density isn't a problem but you still have
             conservation of mass/energy to deal with so How do you make i
             t light enough to carry? Well weight isn't based slowly on
             mass but also on how far down in a gravity well you are so to
             lighten it all you have to do is envest the energy to lift
             the object out of the gravity well until it's the desired
             weight. That leave you with just inertia but with out the
             drag heavy object are easy to move.

             I guess I'm just a math nerd. I find the bookwork relaxing
             and enjoyable.

             It's ether sex or deep philosophical issues with me and it's
              easier to find people that like thinking about new posible
               sexual experiences than it is to find people willing to
               question their core beliefs. :( ++++

               My SpellJammer campaign won't start until this PBEM
               ampaign ends. I don't have enough mental energy to try
               to come up with things for Pyan to do and run two PBEM c
               ampaigns of my own.

               I have noting specifically setup for the PBEM yet. But I
               have I Wiki for my Variant of PnP YiffieMon Wiki I've been
               active rejiggering the character advancement to be more in l
               ine with your house rules an my changes to the Vitality
               system.

               YiffieMon Wiki
               Gotta yiff a YiffieMon! Welcome to the unofficial home of
               the YiffieMon RPG system and Campaign settings. New to...
         GM: Ack. Corona enjoys the story and will add a D10 of experience
             for the effort.  Glad you'd share that with the eagle. For
             your Fiance I'd let her study other pbems.  Show its not
             a scary place.  If she doesn't like emails say what we
             say its a Post not a email.  A Post to a mailing list
             is technically NOT a email.  Email is implied to be private
             to private.  A mailing list or a forumn is public thus
             its a post like facebook.  So if she does FB she can handle it. :)
             Can explain it that way.  Just a suggestion.  As to tables
             I'd have to find.  Keep in mind this is the original 1980
             1st edition book.  There have been 3 more I believe.  The
             current is a d10 based system.  For the 1st ed I typed up
             the entire book - well 90%? 95%? of it up into a text
             file and did the entire set of tables into old programs
             I wrote.  Unsure if they work on modern pcs but I can
             find them if so desire.  I have files on this pc.  Looks like
             the document I did is 1000 lines.  Probably not the entire
             books like all the charts but the core stuff.  I've not
             read the file in a couple decades. :)  The programs still
             work on win98.  I'll see if I can test them on my win7
             machine when I can and do screen capture of the charts
             if I can.  Programs made in basic.  Way back in 80s.
             Stay tuned.  But yeah if you are looking at older versions
             it may be gone.  Dunno.  As to sex stuff most pbems do it
             hardly or ignore it.  In this pbem I actually have a budding
             romance going on.  Its behind scenes IBT stuff.  But it
             adds spice. Its hard to do such without lengthy round
             robin stuff.  Table top or voice chat is best for such like
             a recent Greyhawk game I listen to on Twitch had 2 folks
             in a simple romance scene.  It was very nice to watch te
             guy and gal on screen talking and speaking like a true
             movie.  Many players are too shy for such.  Other stuff
             are good points.  Scifi tech is fine but it can be like
             magic a easy way out.  I point my Super-Gadget and stop
             that asteroid from hitting the planet.  Ho hum.  Techno
             babble as they call it.  Just can bog it down if done
             poorly.  Write whatever suits you best.  Keep in mind not all
             players enjoy X or Y.  As to talk at table about some
             date/romance other players are bored to tears.  Its a hard
             balance.  As long as we delay things like this treasure
             hunt it will take longer.  This is a simple random
             encounter so if we react to such things it will increase
             the end date.  So when this ends who knows.  As I said
             though I'll put it for a vote then on the future next year.
             Wonder if I should add a Wiki.  I dunno.  Maybe one day.


         From Dorhak: [Re: Actions]
           Dorhak is somewhat concerned over the events after...
         GM: Ack.

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       [New Stuff]

           [Apris 10th, 1636TH]
           [Time: Earlier after Fremea is healed.]

             Dorhak is somewhat concerned over the events after the giant's
           rather warm demise.  Everybody trying to run off and get
           themselves killed. And then there was the other incident.  The
           one that had to be dealt with.

             Dorhak goes to Fremea after she gets back and tells her
           "Lass.  You're a creature of the air, not the sea. You almost
           ended up as fish food. Next time, maybe you should be a bit
           less impetuous.  Whatever treasure there might have been is a
           pittance compared to the treasure you are."

             After the work parties get started, Captain Dorhak sees
           about helping with any woodwork there is to be done.  His
           efforts won't look pretty, but maybe they will be enough to get
           this wounded tub to the next port.



           [Time: 6:28 pm]

             The mermaids stare at Fremea.  Waiting for an answer.

             Fremea glances over at the others and Arawn.  It is
           clear he is confused why he isn't asked for the favor.
           Letting her do this favor could actually be far more
           damage on a human's mind than helping these 2 mermaids.
           Unless there is a large population of them.  Then
           again a flying demong-thing, as humans tend to see
           Fremea, flying around works as well for a good scare.

             Fremea smiles at the thought of having some fun on a
           whole village. "Yes, I accept." She is pissed off that she
           could not quite reach the giant all the way, her swimming
           skills are not as well practiced and she will have to get
           better.

             Fremea asks for a few minutes to get ready.  THe
           mermaids agree  OF course the summoned creatures may
           go before then if the spell ends.  Unless they choose
           to be here until the favor is done then it will delay
           that duration.

             Fremea waves over Kiet and begins to whisper to him
           asking him a few questions.   Kiet chuckles at the
           comments and ideas.

             While Kiet and Fremea talk the second mermaid dives
           after getting a signal from the first.

           [Time: 6:35 pm]

             When Fremea leaves Dorhak figures this is the time
           to act on the situation.

             When the first mate has finished her rest from being
           'pronged' by the trident, Dorhak asks that she join him in his
           cabin.  "Shut the door" he tells her, then sits down.
           "Z'leyra.  I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and
           assume you were just confused after you near death.  But you
           cannot countermand the orders of your Captain on this ship.  I
           ordered the ship away from that monstrosity and you shouted out
           an order to stop.  It's not your place.  It's literal mutiny.
           Before we left port, you promised to follow my orders on this
           trip.  I was careful to make sure I  got that promise from you
           since you are the senior member of this crazy group."

             Dorhak sighs and shakes his head.  Then he looks at her
           with a very determined face and quietly says "Don't do it again.
           Or it will be considered mutiny and the penalty won't be
           withheld."

             Before she can get a word out he says "Dismissed!"

             After she leaves he sits there wondering how he would
           ever impose such a punishment, knowing in the end that it
           wasn't bloody likely.


           [Time: 6:38 pm]

             Kiet listens to the plan and agrees.  He casts a personal
           illusion on Fremea to change her into a mermaid.  Fremea
           wipes her hair away to display her assets to the men of
           the village.  While she is small for a mermaid she will
           look the part.

             Fremea then hovers over the last mermaid as the second
           is gone.  The mermaid stares at the hovering wingless
           sister.  She frowns and Fremea explains the short
           plan but suggests they move.  The mermaid nods and
           points in a direction and they both move in water and in
           air toward the bay.

             Eventually the mermaid listens to the plan and
           quietly agrees.  She rather not have a person of
           her kind involved but it may be a good way to scare the
           humans.  The second mermaid arrives with a leather
           bag and yells for Fremea to grab it.  Fremea grabs
           it and looks inside.  She frowns and smiles at the same
           time.

             The first mermaid explains her own plan parts.
           Fremea agrees and they move to the bay which is actually
           abut 2 miles east of ship.

             Flying high over the trees Fremea carries the bag
           and spots the village.  A very small sleepy fishing
           village at most the size of 100 or 150?  The docks
           are very small and at the exit of a small stream that
           goes inland.

             Fremea flies toward the single small boat and finds two
           men on board.  They are hauling in fish and placing in
           barrels.  Fremea flies further on toward a few buildings
           with folks around the street in a very small market.  Still
           hovering in mermaid form she yells out in Faerry a battle
           howl.

             A dozen or so folks, about 9 adults and 3 kids, turn
           and stare.  A female in her early 20s screams at seeing
           Fremea.  "Flying Fish lady!"  One male says or at least
           that is what Fremea thinks he said in Bhamotin as she
           doesn't know the language fully.

             Fremea speaks slow enough to ensure her Bhamotin words
           are understood.

             "You will hear me now!  You will all stop over fishing
           in this area.  You are too small a village to need more
           than you collect!!"

             "Get the hunters!  Shoot it down!"

             "Keep the kids safe!"

             Fremea continues, "you will also stop polluting the
           stream with your village wastes!"

             The villagers look confused.

             "Putting your wastes in the water!"  She figures the
           simple folk don't understand pollution.  It has the
           sea and the fish!"

              Fremea spots a older man raising a bow and reaching
           for a arrow in his quiver.  Fremea gets within 40
           feet of him and continues, "Otherwise you will be
           eating..." She speaks the words in her own native
           tongue and casts a spell on the old man.  Suddenly
           the man is transmuted into a large fish.  "..Until there
           is none of you left!"

             The females all begin to scream or scamper away hold`
           the kids.

             Fremea selects a second adult male in his 30s who is
           hiding behind a wagon.  She casts the spell on him and
           he becomes a large flapping fish out of water.

              "If you do not agree!  We will send our friend the
            large sea giant to this village and eat you all!"  With
            that she opens the bag and dumps the contents out. Two
            human male heads roll out and roll on the dirt ground.

              The females scream and run away one old lady forgets
            the two kids she was holding.

              Fremea was told the mermaid found them in the lair
            of the giant probably some recent kills.  One is
            in fair shape but the other looks to be half decayed
            of maybe 3-4 weeks.

              A man rushes to get the first fish to place it in
            a barrel of water to survive.
                           Someone exits a small building and yells out!
              "We agree!  Will slow down our fishing!"

               Fremea nods the plan wasn't to stop it all together
            but to simply slow it down.  The mermaids know if
            all fish is collected they'll be hunted.  So the
            fish is a good barrier.

             Fremea notices one boy around 8 stares at her but does not
           seem worried at all.  She flies toward him but the
           female holding him jerks the kid back.  "I like your
           wings."  The boy said and Fremea figures the boy sees
           through her illusion.

             Fremea flies to the old man who was the town spokesman.
           She stares at the man.  "Eyes up here!"  You better heed
           our words or no one will be alive here soon!"

             Even under threat of death why do men stare at the naked
           female body!  Fremea shakes her head as she takes to
           the air a flying mermaid.

             She soon finds the mermaids and tells the results.  "Fine.
           We shall see if it happens.  We could take the village
           but it would cause a avalanche of attacks on us."  They
           begin to swim away.  "We will show you the lair."

             The mermaids dive and swim fast but Fremea keeps watch.
           They pass the ship and head further out to sea a couple
           miles.  One mermaid surfaces and says, "below here is
           the lair.  Where we got the heads.  It is around 400 feet
           for you land walkers.  We said we'd show you where it was
           not how to get there."

             Fremea asks how they can find it again.  The mermaid
           says when the ship gets near she will send a water
           funnel to mark the spot.  Then they both submerge.  Fremea
           was always aware of the giant's body so returns to the
           ship.

           [Time: 6:55 pm]

             Fremea returns to the ship and explains her findings.
           Arawn frowns.  They won't help them get to the lair?
           I guess that is their problem now.

           Actions? Comments?

           Next Update...Thursday/Fri/Sat?

           GM:  I wanted to do the scaring of village far more than
                above.  But a storm is in area and wanted to end
                this update and not delay it another day.  So sorry
                its short and not so detailed.  I also messed up
                the alignment a bit but no time to fix.  I am unsure
                if off Fri yet so I may try next update Thur or Fri
                (if off) or Saturday.  But getting this out for now.
                Now what's the plan to get to the giant body (the
                sharks are still around) and the  lair?

                We have a storm in area so this may affect any
                future updates later this week.

           GM: Language Necklace Use: Roll W+EM or less
               Buff: +Em Mar 24th, +W Mar 29th

                 Character           Date         Learning       Notes
               Raddok              Mar 26th   Marentian          Success
               Pyan                Mar 29th   Eagle from Corona  Fail
               Pyan                Mar  30th  Eagle from Corona  Success
               Kiet                Apr  3rd   Bhamotin           Success
               Unali               Apr  4th   Bhamotin from Kiet Success
               Fremea              Apr  5th   Bhamotin from Kiet Success

           GM: Watch Assignments:

                 First  ( 7-10pm) - Dorhak, Raddok, Ix
                 Second (10- 1am) - Arawn, Mae, Pyan
                 Third  ( 1- 4am) - Fremea, Z'leyra, Mournath
                 Fourth ( 4- 7am) - Unali, Kiet, Barbasa



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