I'm inventing the map as we go. Splinters says, Hello, mighty deathless Master of Ursine Dunes, oh Medved the Munificent! We freed this honorable Princess from a glass prison where she lay entrapped by the wizard Drosselmeyer for eons. We, the honorable soldiers who managed to break his spells and ...

Map for the current situation.

Splinters looks back at the table, shrugs, and takes the remains of the Crooked Theodolite. He quickly fiddles with it, trying to reassemble it. As soon as it looks more or less OK, he shoves it in his backpack.

Splinters looks over the stuff on the table. The pole arm might come in handy! He takes it and shoulders the smoking musket. I wonder whether these flesh lumps can be used to fix holes in flesh people?

I can do some mapping using Gridmapper?

Wow, that takes kind words to a whole new level. Please feel free! Edit: From the gallery, you can download an album.zip which has the images in slightly higher resolution, e.g. IMG_0935 is 1600x1063 but in the album.zip it is 2048x1360. Whether that makes a difference depends on your monitor, obvio...

I've got 562 photos to show that it was great.

Splinters wants to help Jake break free. A quick dash and a wide swing with the musket, holding it by the barrel, using it as a long club, aiming for a knee-cap, perhaps? It seems to me that this might offer a better chance of getting Jake free than simply shooting Rose-and-Cucumber?

Splinter activates the Mirror Engine again. He mutters, We need to distract the Eld. We need to distract them. I don't want to die! I don't want to die!

Pulpatoon wrote:So, posting rates have been dropping off, to the point where I'm often NPC'ing more characters than not. Is this a sign that this game is winding down? Should we be thinking about bringing this game to a graceful close? Or is it just a lull?

Well, I'm back from my 6 week trip to Australia…

Splinters is at the door and says, Let's follow Jake! There might be more eld and apes coming.

He follows Jake.

In a bit more than a week I'll be off to Australia…

Splinters keeps his musket pointed at the door but slowly shuffles sideways towards Deet and Schroff. Are they dead, he wonders. He taps them with his foot. Hey, guys? Guys?

Splinter waits for targets… If there is a lull, if nobody needs a shootin', and I can see the princess lying there, I'll count to three and leave my cover behind the boat, rushing towards the princess, trying to help in any way I can (probably uselessly holding her head and crying for her not to le...

I think I'm not going to switch to extra aiming, since the d12 instead of the d8 isn't worth it: no aiming is 4.5/2 damage/round = 2.25 damage/round and with aiming it is 6.5/3 damage/round = 2.17 damage/round. Weird, I had never thought about that before. Elsewhere , you noted that firing into mele...

Splinter is turning into a master sniper. He just reloads, aims and shoots like a machine as long as he sees any enemies.

After the fight, I'm going to look for a pirate cutlass of some sort. Just in case my bullets run out.

Splinter tries to remain behind the boat, aiming his musket. Is the Eld coming back, is the ape separating from his three enemies? Splinters wants to shoot somebody.

Splinter is taking careful aim at the Eld. Careful... careful... BAM! (next round I guess).

Splinters finishes reloading the musket and slowly moves his aim to the pirate doing the pointing and shouting. No pointing and shouting at my friends, pirate! His wooden finger on the trigger, he waits like an enlarged wooden action figure, motionless. Should I get the feeling that any of my frien...

Regarding the current situation, I think my main goal would be to kill the shark man. That's the most important part. To lead him into every trap we've seen and hope he falls for it.

Splinters stands up and follows the crowd. His main objective will be to push ahead and move the party's boat out of the way, with the space suite hidden away in the boat. He really doesn't want to surrender that.