[OOC Thread] The Lesser of Two Heresies.

[LuckyDee]

And Esther with you, likely...

You can have my 9 if you take my 4 wounds too...

[LuckyDee]

Is Lazerus still on the floor when his first action starts? And regardless, can I consider thumbing the RoF switch on the autogun as a free action?

[Silhar]

Remember that you have FPs, too.
Yes, he's still on the floor. Bear in mind, though, that you are not aware of the combat in its first round, so the only combatants on the move are HexaDoken and the spider.
And switching the switch is a free action, yes.

On the sheet - can you just copypaste it into a forum private message?

[LuckyDee]

I'll give it a try (later). About the FP, I'll try spending one to heal when I've taken at least 1 more damage - it'd be just my luck to have a 5 rolled when I've only taken 4 damage...

[LuckyDee]

@Sil, can you please draw a rough top-down diagram of our surroundings, our positions and the position of the spider? Oh, and please gimme an idea of what size spider we're dealing with here... Cat? Pony? Humvee?

[Silhar]

Rather a humvee one...

Dark Heresy: The Roguelike coming up!

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####..####
#.|.S....#
#.|...%.(#
#.|..#...#
#=|======#
#.K..X#.H#
#%|..%L..#
##########

(S)pider, (K)lear, (X)illa, (H)exaDoken and (L)azerus, the hole in the wall and some pipes, the "=" one hanging at four meters, the "|" one at around eleven meters,
while there's one on the ground, the "(". There's also various piping even higher. Webbing is all over the floor, but "%" are large concentrations of it,
probably with some corpses inside, too. "#" are walls and piles of random rubbish.

[Klear]

That looks... completely different to what I expected.

Just a few points I need clarified:

1) How far is the Spider? I (and HexaDoken) though it was 40 metres, though this looks much closer. Was it just its shadow that was so far away? He'll probably want to reconsider his two aim actions if the spider is already in range of his shotgun.
2) The "=" and "|" pipes - four and eleven metres refers to their respective heights? If so, this room has a much higher ceiling then I expected.
3) What and where exactly is the hole in the wall? At the same place as Lazerus?
4) I'm MkLear, not Klear =P

[Silhar]

1) It is at the end of the room. What I made up above is just an approximate view of the situation. It's equally hard to describe for you because it's dark and foggy in the room.
2) Yes, this hall has a very high ceiling. You can't see it through the fog, so it's equally probable that it has no ceiling at all, instead just being a tunnel opening several kilometers upward.
3) The hole is the break in the wall behind the spider.
4) I know. :P

[HexaDoken]

Small question about FPs. Out of the list of their possible uses, only the last one(the one where you use divine intervention and grow me a new arm/replace my shitty heart with a working one) burns the FP down forever, right?
Also, is this "divine intervention" like in rolebook - the near near CYDSTEPP which will save me from immediate death but will pretty much kill me if I happen to get hit one more time, or are you a bit more kind and allow us to use it as an all-powerful magic wand?

You still haven't answered me if I can magicswap my weapons pretending that I did that before combat start and it was fully legit. Altho I assumed that it won't happen, but I'll be grateful if it will. Magically, of course.

If it won't, turn is yours.

[Silhar]

Okay, since it's our first combat, do some magicswappin'.

On burning FPs - yes. The one and only case when a point is lost forever is when you try to save yourself from certain death or being severly crippled. How does it happen? You probably lose consciousness and are out of combat/other situation that would wreck you, then you wake up and it turns out that it was just a serious-looking flesh wound.

[LuckyDee]

Rather a humvee one...

What does this mean for the to hit chance? A blind person would have a hard time missing something this big...

[Silhar]

Unluckily, nothing. This bastard is also quick on the move, so hitting it is equally hard.

[LuckyDee]

Unluckily, nothing. This bastard is also quick on the move, so hitting it is equally hard.

Ok. I repeat my question, since, now that it's my turn, it's standing at point blank range and is busy tearing HD apart instead of running...

[Klear]

How could the spider charge HexaDoken if he was 40 metres away at the start of combat? Even if it ran (momvement rate X 6), it would only be able to cover 24 metres (assuming Agi 4 based on the initiative roll).

m not challenging that it happened, I'd just like to know which of my assumptions was wrong (its distance? speed?), so I won't make whatever mistake I may have made again.

[LuckyDee]

How could the spider charge HexaDoken if he was 40 metres away at the start of combat?

I was about to edit my post to include that exact same question...