BSG (Helo)
Gently, the quorum is kind of sore.
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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Laga - Mar 11, 2015 9:21:32 am PDT #24102 of 26133
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
billytea - Mar 11, 2015 1:07:25 pm PDT #24103 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
BSG
Just quickly, Fifty Shades of Apollo plays Food Rationing. Possible interrupt: SP. Everyone, please pass or play.
Polter-Cow - Mar 11, 2015 1:58:46 pm PDT #24104 of 26133
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
BSG (Baltar)
Pass.
billytea - Mar 12, 2015 1:21:24 am PDT #24105 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
BSG
Everyone passes on interrupts. Will Apollo find the food stores to be as pliant as the Quorum?
Die roll: 1. Fail.
The people have spoken! With their mouths stuffed. Take that, liberals!
No, wait, better idea. Take this. Baltar's crisis card is:
Heavy Assault
Cylon Attack
And the first order of business is that both basestars immediately attack Galactica.
Basestar 1: 5. Hit!
Basestar 2: 2. Miss.
Citizen Baltar, as current player, it's your choice: does the basestar hit Galactica or Pegasus?
Polter-Cow - Mar 12, 2015 4:27:27 am PDT #24106 of 26133
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
BSG (Baltar)
Pegasus.
Wait, wait, let me hold on to everything.
holds on to everything
Okay, proceed.
billytea - Mar 12, 2015 10:19:44 am PDT #24107 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
BSG
Proceedings underway. Will the basestar send a certain floppy-haired citizen in search of an understanding nurse? It hits... Airlock. Gee, just as well no one was being executed just then, they might've been hurt.
That concludes Baltar's turn. Hoshi's cards are going out. Admiral Hoshi, when you're ready, please post your move and action.
billytea - Mar 12, 2015 10:23:23 am PDT #24108 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
BSG
End-of-turn summary:
Round 3.4 - Baltar
Locations and Hands
Hoshi: Command; 4 cards, 1 miracle token, 1 mutiny card
Helo: Research Lab; 7 cards, 1 miracle token, 1 mutiny card
Apollo: Quorum Chamber; 10 cards, 1 miracle token, 0 mutiny cards
Baltar: Pegasus CIC; 6 cards, 1 miracle token, 0 mutiny cards
Main Board Sectors
Sector 1: 1 Basestar
Sector 2: 1 Basestar
Sector 3: Empty
Sector 4: Civilian A
Sector 5: Civilian B
Sector 6: 1 RSV, Civilian C
Resources
Fuel: 6
Food: 6
Morale: 8
Population: 12
Viper Reserves: 6
Damaged Vipers: 1
Raptors: 4
Assault Raptors: 1
Boarding Party: 0
Other
Nukes: 2
Jump Track: 1 (Red)
Distance Travelled: 4
Galactica Damage: Airlock
billytea - Mar 12, 2015 10:24:34 am PDT #24109 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
BSG
Administrative note: Hoshi's card draw exhausted the Leadership deck. I've reshuffled the discards.
omnis_audis - Mar 12, 2015 11:44:55 am PDT #24110 of 26133
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
BSG (Admiral Hoshi)
Well crap in a bucket, ain't this a fine mess we have here. Our one pilot plays next, and final round of Loyalty cards just went out, and nobody has shown to be toasterly. So I have great apprehension to XO our pilot.
Any thoughts? I'm thinking my OPG, and activating CIC, Weapons, and Command.
Another thought would be a Nuke, but I think that would be best if they spit out some Raiders, in case we get lucky with the roll.
I'm open to other ideas. We need to minmize those Basestars! If they start spitting out Raiders, we are fracked!
billytea - Mar 12, 2015 1:43:32 pm PDT #24111 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Meanwhile, in not-BSG news, I've been playing Ryan through the D&D 5th ed adventure, Hoard of the Dragon Queen. His party is now 5th level. (He named them all after his classmates. The party leader is Ryan the dragonborn sorcerer, who is pretty thrilled that he now gets to toss around empowered fireballs. He rolls for the others in the party, and we work out together what they'll do.)
Anyway, over the weekend we had a fun gaming session. He couldn't get a long rest for a little while, and Ava the cleric was running low on spells. She was down to a single 3rd level slot when they found themselves fighting a shambling mound. Oh, and she won initiative.
First action, Ryan decided Ava would cast Inflict Wounds on it. Good choice against a shambler, they have a bunch of energy resistances and such, but not against necrotic. In 5th ed, Inflict Wounds does 3d10 damage. However, it's a 1st level spell, and she only had that 3rd level slot. If you cast it at a level above first, you add an extra d10 for each bump, so now she's going to do 5d10 on a hit. Not bad.
Ryan rolled a critical hit. I have now made the discovery that Ryan can hold 10d10 at one time if he uses both hands. Ryan has discovered that he really really really likes doing 55 points of damage in one hit.
So that was nice. (Oh, Ava is a nature cleric too, so when the shambler engulfed the party barbarian - a dwarf named Lachlan - she could charm it to make it give him back.)