The Eye of Anubis: OOC Thread

[steveflam]

Chicken Little....."The sky is falling ............ the sky is falling......" is that what you mean DocBeard?

[Rock of the Fraternity]

Not hole, but weakened area.

Okay, what does that mean for the rest of the room, then?

[NeoTiamat]

Not a damn thing.

[Rock of the Fraternity]

Wtf. o_o It occurs to me that Cavendish might be an interesting opponent for a game of chess, if he could be relied upon not to kill, torture and/or reanimate anyone during the match. Or cheat.

[Rock of the Fraternity]

I'm off to bed. If it becomes party consensus to run further into the tomb, feel free to shout to Lia and assume she'll come back and follow everyone's lead. See you later!

[DocBeard]

ACTING!

Let's see, PCs:
Andre: John C. McGinley, of Platoon and Scrubs fame. No one does 'jackass with a heart of gold-flavored taffy' better.

Charles: John Simm; he really does seem like he could talk a Hazlani apprentice into setting his master on fire.

Ishaq: The Rock. Yes, really. The dude does a Conan-esque barbarian really well, and knows how to act physically.

Lia: Nicole Sullivan; she's got a heck of a voice, while still being sprity enough to do physical comedy on Mad TV. Also: Hella sassy. Like, even when she was playing a granny.

Otto: Brendon Frasier; swashbucklery in Otto's particular slightly clueless, slightly explosive sort of way. Plays a great smart man of action type, with a side of innocent-but-wise that feels like Otto.

Kuzan: Ronny Jhutti; played a doomed character in 'The Impossible Planet' and 'The Satan Pit', really gets Kuzan's whole "Boyish innocence marred with guilt." angle.

Khalil: Oded Fehr; played Ardeth Bey in The Mummy. Khalil sears the picture of that character into my brain-responsible, relateable, but a little exotic while giving the feel that he's playing his cards close to his chest.

Tomas: David Tennant; a little old, I know, but he goes from 'zany' to 'serious' to 'zany again' really well, and that's a key part of Tomas's character.

Recurring Villains
Cavendish: Mark Hamil; ever see this guy play a villain? He's so intense he'd burn through the makeup. Seriously, dude's terrifing.

The Anubite: Caroline Chikezie; really does a beautiful job of portraying conflicted menace as the "Cyberwoman", the Anubite being a role that'd require saying pages with a look.

[The Whistler]

Okay, this is silly, so I'm going to broach it here rather than have my character look like an idiot.

Tie one end of the 200 foot rope to the tunnel outlet with the grappling hook. Tie the other end to a flying person, or a couple of flying people, and have them go down to the water's surface, stretching the rope out diagonally downward and outward as far as it can go. That should get around a 30-degree incline downward.

Boom: zipline.

If people had things to use for "handles" (scabbarded weapons?), they could just glide down the thing one by one to the water. Charles is last out of the passage, so he gets fly cast on him too, undoes the grappling hook at the top, and comes down to meet the rest of us.

Would this work at all? Is it needlessly complex? And what sort of checks would it involve?

[NeoTiamat]

Off-hand, I'd say you'd need some Strength checks for the people holding the rope at the far end, and some kind of middling-DC check for the zipline, though haven't the foggiest idea of what, just yet.

Balance? Climb? I'll need to hit my books to figure out.

[The Whistler]

The main thing is it takes care of the people who the fliers can't bring down on the first trip (3 or so?); multiple flights up and down the wall might take too much time. If the DC is too rough for the zipline option, then the leftover people could probably just climb a rope down with less hassle, though, unless it would take a significantly longer time to climb down than to slide down...

[Kaitou Kage]

Kuzan can take Loup and, at this point, probably Lia.

Ishaq has beastly strength. Guy is at least as strong as Kuzan (14). So maybe we should create a short list of who can carry what? Guy can probably carry two more on his own. Ishaq...no idea, but probably at least 3. And if Lia has a Fly scroll, we'll have at least one more flier who can probably carry a minimum of 2 people down.

That may cover us all, actually.

EDIT: Just counted. There's ten of us, including Loup.

Kuzan + Loup + Lia = 3
Guy + 2 more = 6
Ishaq + 3 more = 10

We should be set, though if Lia has a fourth Fly, I recommend it just to make sure we'll make it all safely.

[The Whistler]

Sweet! Okay, forget what I said, then. Plenty of time for improvised ziplines in the next eight books.

[NeoTiamat]

EDIT: Just counted. There's ten of us, including Loup.

Kuzan + Loup + Lia = 3
Guy + 2 more = 6
Ishaq + 3 more = 10

We should be set, though if Lia has a fourth Fly, I recommend it just to make sure we'll make it all safely.

*Cough*

Kuzan
Lia
Andre
Charles
Otto
Ishaq
Tomas
Khalil
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8

Michel
Guy
Loup
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3

8+3=11

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As a side note.... Loup has 15 Strength. Tough puppy.

[The Whistler]

Hah--I'm sorry, I just have this mental image of Loup with two other people tied to him, floating down to the water level...and then seeing a butterfly somewhere.

"No, Loup! Bad escape attempt! No biscuit!"

[NeoTiamat]

I'd like a Spot check.

[Rock of the Fraternity]

I'd like a white robe of the archmagi and a staff of the magi. o_o Spot check 9. Somebody else take a look, please ...