RP: Mastermind Theater

Day 0

• Sneak back into city to magus keep
• Discretely/quickly meet with a few key people along the way to gauge the mood of the city and alert the rumor mill I'm back (1 hour)
• Return to keep and status update from Egg (8 hours?)
  • Already done

Comment

Want to bullet out what you learned here? It might make it an easy reference for the both of us, and give us a single point of reference for the final Battle of Wydmoor - whatever that ends up looking like. It'll also help me not repeat myself to you 100 times. Maybe only 50 this way.

--GM

• • Do we have any food supplies of our own?
    • Silverwalkers have some resource (cure disease, purify food/water, create water, and spooooon), although the silverwalkers are gone and their resources are a drop in the pail anyways
    • Wraiths are providing half-rations to refugees

Comment

When the histories are written, I fear the Silverwalkers will come off poorly here. All of the Cure Disease, Purify Food and Drink, and Create Water spells captured from the Odessan's Anti-Otyugh sleepers are in their holding, and who knows when they'll be back *cough* They also have Helen's spoon, although that's small potatoes from the refugee point of view. Food supplies are still being doled out by the Wraiths, so no one is starving, but it's at half ration - and usually on the short end of the half.

--GM

Comment

That cover it? I'm going to trash our talks when we get this to condense bullet list.

--Msallen

Comment

Hey, bringing back mattie's little talk box! Yeah, feel free to make my nonsense more concise. You ought to look at the spreadsheet, though, the wands are not necessarily "a drop in the bucket" : hundreds of charges of each of those spells. But, their loss just makes the tough a little tougher rather than the tough being impossible.

--GM

• Little sleep (2-4 hours?)

Comment

Alright, but you're going to overclock, you're going to spend the next day fatigued. If you do it again, you'll be exhausted and will be forced to sleep at the end. Every day extra you go on low sleep, we're adding +2 hours to the eventual sleep for your full night's rest.

--GM

Comment

Agree that overclocking should accrue fatigue. Have you factored in my ranger 3 Endurance feat? It seems like that is the right flavor to push it a bit hard and be resistaint to becomming exhausted.

--Msallen

Comment

Yah, endurance ought to help. My original idea was even more complicated, so I'll just double the length before the fatigue accrue, but NOT how many hours it takes to pay off the sleep debt. Endurance just makes you go longer, not need less rest.

--GM

Day 1

ANNOUNCEMENT: Germain will be holding a rally in the early afternoon at XXXXX (prefer city center?)

Comment

Wot? Oh, jeeze. Check the map and see what not ruined location you want to meet in. Or what ruined one for that matter. I doubt you're trying to pull a permit or whatever.

--GM

Comment

Sorry, I missed some content here. I'm intentionally making a public announcement with enough time to reach the Wraiths, but not enough time for them to careful plan a response. I want to see what (if anything) they do.

--Msallen

Comment

Gotcha. Germain's not a military strategist, and hopefully this won't poison your decision making (since any outcome is going to be FUN!) from Germain, but I'd like to point out that I estimate the amount of time a professional fighting force on high alert requires to respond to an incident in their base of operations is going to be razor thin. But, yes, they will almost certainly find out about it once word spreads. I mean, they're the active peacekeeping/LEO force in the camps ever since the riots. I mean, they're officially there to bolster the numbers of the City Watch, but it's not like Teodora is issuing their orders. And, if push comes to shove, a tough city watch guy is going to be armed with a cudgel, a Wraith peacekeeper is going to have some form of medium armor, some form of steel weapon, and a lot of training in killin' folk. It would probably take under a dozen to neutralize the entirety of the city guard as it stands.

--GM

• RP: Heart-to-heart with Mar (2 hours)
  • A lot to be learned here, I think.

• Make way to XXXXX discretely and assess the mood (1-3 hours?)
  • What sort of state are the people in?

Comment

Camp opinion is sharply divided at present. One group is still pretty happy to be back into the city and getting fed regularly, while other groups - especially the former partisans and militia - are angry about being stripped of their weapons and the clampdown on their camps. A smaller minority is vocally supportive of the Wrath crackdown, mostly made up of former craft artisans and guildsmen trapped outside of the walls by the fire and subsequent invasion and with strong ties to the not-refugee population.

--GM

• • Has anyone, namely Wraiths, tried to prevent organizing?

Comment

You don't have to oppose what no one is attempting to do. Egg could barely handle dealing with the go-nowhere, rubber stamp council meetings, much less organize anything resembling a resistance. He's a level 9 mage running level 16 equipment because of our old friend UMD coupled with magic hax. When you talk about how recalcitrant Egg is, remember he's trying to punch way above his weight class.

--GM

Comment

See above. I'm particularly interested in whether they'll be preventing my rally.

--Msallen

Comment

Answering as I come to these in edit. I think my answer adds light to this discussion. For most of the siege, the wraiths have seem content to let the city manage itself, keeping to the ramparts and towers. Since the food riots of y'all's folks, though, they've taken a pretty active role in LEO and Peacekeeping. So they definitely have the capability to respond with agility and force to any situation that arises. I'm not sure how Germain would know what that response would be, however. The response will be whatever Naprid or Ralth orders it to be, it's your job to try to decide what that call might be. Left to their own devices, I imagine Wraiths would show up and just sort of stand around making sure no new riots break out.

--GM

• Gladhand and schmooze before the main event (12 hours)

Comment

This will get you a "Take 20" Diplomacy role result, as opposed to the normal "take 10" results that I'll use as default.

--GM

Comment

Well, wait and see what I try to do first! I'm expecting to have to make a bunch of 10s/rolls, although one roll or an assumed 20 is fine with me ;)

--Msallen

Comment

OH, I thought that was general "raise my response level above neutral" sort of general bullshitting. Specific task items will require specific DCs and checks, yeah.

--GM

• • More to come...