General/OOC

[Marullus]

Awesome. I will post again IC tomorrow.

Private forums are an admin request - you can't make them yourself.

So, knowing what we want to do (in my case, buy the painting then study it, magic theory, and the robot cores in my apartment), do you want us to post and set the scene ourselves or do you want to post and have us react? It felt weird setting myself up, and now that you rescripted anyway, it seems like we should do it an easier way.

[Faanku]

If you post here about what your aim is, I can make a thread to get things going.

[Faanku]

I'll have an update for you tomorrow Marru, I was out all night tonight.
Does anyone else have anything they want to do during this downtime? Or does anyone need help levelling up?

[ybn1197]

Hit Points: [2d6] = 3
Current Hit Points are already 3 so they advance to 4.

3 skill points; gain an extra bonus point to spend on a non-combat, non-psychic skill.

• 2 points for Shoot-1
• 1 point for Notice-0
• bonus point for Trade-0

Choose New Foci: Additional level in Hacker for Program-2

[Faanku]

Additional level in Hacker for Program-2

Only the first level of Hacker grants a skill point in Program, you don't get another one for taking level 2.

[ybn1197]

Additional level in Hacker for Program-2

Only the first level of Hacker grants a skill point in Program, you don't get another one for taking level 2.

If the focus is taken as part of advancement, however, it instead counts as three skill points spent toward increasing the skill. This is enough to raise a nonexistent skill to level-1, or boost a level-1 skill to level-2. Page 57 under Choose New Foci
Or did I misread it? Very possible since this is the first time playing this game.

[Faanku]

If this is the first level they’ve taken in the focus, they might be granted a skill as a free bonus pick, depending on the focus’ benefits. During character creation, this bonus skill pick is treated like any other skill pick. If the focus is taken as part of advancement, however, it instead counts as three skill points spent toward increasing the skill. This is enough to raise a nonexistent skill to level-1, or boost a level-1 skill to level-2

Emphasis mine. You're taking the second level of Hacker, which does not let you "Gain Program as a bonus skill"; that comes with the focus' first level, which you already have.
In general the first level of a focus will offer a bonus skill and an ability, and the second level of a focus will offer no skill, but a more powerful ability.

[eirei]

Sorry for the absence, I've been indisposed for a bit - back now though.

Here's my level up:
- 3 skill points spent on stats (1+2), both on DEX, 1 saved for later (partial expert bonus)
- [2d6+6] = 3+6 = 9 HP
- new focus: Specialist (Pilot) (lvl 1)

[Faanku]

I updated the Character Sheets first post to include your goals and assigned xp to them, for everyone except Benedict; not sure if I'm being blind or if you didn't choose any, but you're missing out on xp without goals!

[ybn1197]

I updated the Character Sheets first post to include your goals and assigned xp to them, for everyone except Benedict; not sure if I'm being blind or if you didn't choose any, but you're missing out on xp without goals!

No, I'm sure I didn't put any down. I will get that fixed today.

[Enoch]

Level 2 HP for Odo:

Lvl 2 HP: [2d6] = 6

As he already has 6 HP, he advances by 1 to 7. His BAB advances to 1. Saves go down by 1. I also get 3 skill points, and a bonus one for being a Partial Adventurer. Given that most of his attributes are solidly in the +0 range, and Charisma is at the bottom of +1 (and thus requires 3 advances to increase his bonus), I'll use them to advance skills. One of them has to be used on psychic skills.

• I'll save the psychic point.
• I'll spend 2 points to boost Talk-0 to Talk-1.
• With the last point, I'll open Shoot at Shoot-0.

I also get a free focus. I'm going to take the 2nd level of Diplomat, which lets me improve an intelligent NPC's reaction by 1 step with 30 seconds of conversation.

[Faanku]

Silas' race is taking place roughly a week after you returned from the Flowerbed, if anyone wants to jump in before it starts.

[Faanku]

and attend Silas' race, of course.

Odo's psychic powers are coming on well - Silas doesn't even get the call about the race for another 4 days

[Enoch]

Well...*pushes nerd glasses up on nose* technically Odo can see up to a week in the future, so...

And in true arrogant nerd fashion, that's incorrect. If I'd advanced Precognition with his level-up he would.

My bad!

[Faanku]

Apologies for the slow posting, I'm going to be preoccupied for the next week or so.
I have the next job ready for when I return, hopefully ghast has made a return by then.

[Liaozhai]

Hi all, I may be joining you very shortly! It's good to see some familiar faces here.

[Marullus]

Huzzah!

I hope you reprise your Yama King Lawyer.

[Liaozhai]

I'm not going to lie, I really loved that character and I would definitely bring him back if Faanku was cool with it. Otherwise, I'll roll some new space weirdo to hang with you guys.

[Faanku]

No problem here, all splats are allowed.
We should have one more player joining too at some point over the weekend.

[greyarea]

Howdy folks. I'll be joining soon. Just need to get my act together and roll up a character.

Nice to meet y'all.