[Betrayal at House on the Hill] PbP - Candle Jack is gonna have a Fieldday with the Expl

NotoriusBEN

@auralynx is up next then. Nothing to really dig my laptop out and upgrade the map yet.
you guys have uncovered the one little issue I have with this game, and that is simply pumping up your stats in these types of rooms. Not a big issue if one of.you turns traitor, since you're all still on a level play field,

go exploring or ill make you people draw omens in the gymnasium.

Greeper

Hey, I wasn't planning to but when you step into a mystic elevator and the only button you can press is 'gymnasium' well then... they're telling you something.

Auralynx

I'ma use my SPIRIT BOARD!

NotoriusBEN

The spirit board tells you thus:

The Top Tile on the deck is an Upper/Ground Floor Tile.

The Collapsed Room. You must attempt a speed roll of 5+ to avoid falling. If you fail the roll, draw a basement tile and put it in play. You fall there and take 1 die of physical damage.

Zombie Hero

What would happen if an explorer were to draw that tile while they were in the basement?

Auralynx

Tiles appear to be available only on certain floors; I think he's had to do a number of re-draws, actually.

NotoriusBEN

it would be discarded like the other eleven tiles i've discarded. (I've mentioned them at the top of my posts, but yea, it gets lost when looking at the big black text.) When the draw pile is exhausted, all discarded tiles go back in the draw pile to be redrawn. If there are no more tiles that can fit on a particular floor, that's it, you've found all the tiles that can be placed on that floor.

Auralynx

I will enter the nearest eligible room that will let me fall into the basement and fall into the basement.

Geth roll 6d6-6

6d6-6 21 [6d6=5, 3, 6, 2, 5, 6]

Auralynx

Whoops.

Geth roll 6d3-6 for Fall Down Go Boom

Fall:

6d3-6 7 [6d3=2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 1]

NotoriusBEN

you've managed to not fall, auralynx.
however, you can voluntarily use the room ability to get down into the basement, but you will take the 1 physical die of damage to get there.

what will you do? ( I feel like a newbie DM right now :P )

Auralynx

Oh, I thought the roll was to land cat-like on my feet. Should've read that a little more closely.

Yeah, what the hell, hit me. Let's go to the basement.

Auralynx

I mean in retrospect letting someone else fall and going and opening up a new room is probably the way to go but whatever, man. Flash got no time to think.

NotoriusBEN

Ground/Upper Discarded.

@Auralynx decides to jump down the Collapsed Room. Roll 1d3-1 to determine how much physical damage you take.



SPIDER

A spider the size of a fist lands on your shoulder . . . and crawls into your hair.

You must attempt a Speed roll to brush it away or a Sanity roll to stand still:

4+ It's gone. Gain 1 in the trait you used to attempt this roll.
1-3 It bites you. Take 1 die of physical damage.
0 It takes a chunk out of you. Take 2 dice of physical damage.

Finally some heebie jeebie creepy action. When all is said and done, Auralynx finds himself in the Game Room in the basement.



So then. Auralynx needs to make 1 die roll to determine the damage from his jump. Then the spider roll, and any applicable roll after that.

@Grunt's Ghosts is on deck as the little girl with a badass spear.

I'll update the stats and maps when I am not flying around. Today Im going to Louisville, KY. blegh.
The collapsed room is south of the upper landing.
The Game room is underneath the Collapsed Room. Don't ask how Darren didn't fall through the foyer first...
The Game room is to the left of the Basement Landing.
The Toy monkey is in the mystic elevator. To pick it up means to trigger the elevator's abilities...

Auralynx

Geth roll 1d3-1 for Ouch!
Geth roll 6d3-6 for Spider?!

Ouch!:

1d3-1 2 [1d3=3]

Spider?!:

6d3-6 5 [6d3=3, 1, 1, 1, 3, 2]

NotoriusBEN

Now then, since you took 2 physical damage, you must choose which stats are to be affected. The physical stats are might and speed. That stat will side to the left on you character card and you will use the new number there.

so with Darren, even if he only has 1 2 or 3 points left in speed, he will still roll 4dice for that stat.

if you take away from speed, you'll need to reroll the spider

Auralynx

Take it from Might unless that kills me.

Bedlam

Is the traitor descion random or the person who triggers the omen?

If random does it become public knowlege or is it hidden?

Zombie Hero

afaik, it's public knowledge who the betrayer is

Auralynx

Zombie Hero wrote: »

afaik, it's public knowledge who the betrayer is

I don't really know this game but my impression has been that if you end up being the Haunt you basically go into Boss Mode and get to laugh maniacally and be a dick, so sort of like being a Cylon in BSG but way more directly adversarial.

Grunt's Ghosts

Left one!

NotoriusBEN

Usually it is the person that starts the haunt, but there are scenarios that ask for specific characters above all others. And a couple rare ones were you must fight a 7th entity

Greeper

This house makes the hotel from the Shining look downright sensible

NotoriusBEN

@Grunt's Ghosts gets to move again because it was just a boring Creaky Hallway.



Even though Auralynx banged up his arm pretty good in the fall, he's on high alert as he batted that spider away.
Sorry for taking a bit, I was going to update this a couple days ago, but I just needed to get some sleep, then today I had to sit in airplanes for 7hours.
Anyways, all maps and stats have been updated.

Grunt's Ghosts

Down one!

NotoriusBEN

SOMETHING SLIMY

What's around your ankle? A bug? A tentacle? A dead hand clawing?

You must attempt a Speed roll:
4+ You break free. Gain 1 Speed.
1-3 Lose 1 Might.
0 Lose 1 Might and 1 Speed.

What are the odds that it's either a walking dead reference or the beginning of some sick japanese cartoon?
Regardless, Grunt's Ghosts is in the Graveyard.


@Grunt's Ghosts must make a speed roll. When he attempts to leave the Graveyard, he must also make a Sanity roll.
@Bedlam you are on deck. Things are starting to pick up in this demented domicile. Where you gonna go next?

Grunt's Ghosts

Just to make sure, with a speed of 4, the roll with be 4d3-4?

Bedlam

NotoriusBEN wrote: »

Grunt's Ghosts is in the Graveyard.

Jinkies! That sounds like either a cartoon refrence or the start of a horrorcore song.

@Bedlam you are on deck. Things are starting to pick up in this demented domicile. Where you gonna go next?

1UP!

Jennys going to explore the fuck out of this house.

EDIT:

NotoriusBEN wrote: »

Sorry for taking a bit, I was going to update this a couple days ago,

Just wanted to say Im fine with a couple days down time. Dont burn yourself out on this

NotoriusBEN

Grunt's Ghosts wrote: »

Just to make sure, with a speed of 4, the roll with be 4d3-4?

correct, your speed roll will be 4d3-4, and your subsequent sanity roll would be 5d3-5 when you want to leave the graveyard.

basement discarded, basement discarded, basement discarded, upper/basement discarded

SKULL

A skull, cracked and missing teeth.

If you take mental damage, you can take all of it as physical damage instead.

Make a haunt roll now.

Jenny's got some mad skillz finding that skull in the only bare spot in the junk room.


@Bedlam needs to make a haunt roll of 6d3-6. If you roll less than 3, the haunt begins.
@Zombie Hero is on deck. Where you gonna move?

edit** note for myself that all maps and stats updated to this post.

Grunt's Ghosts

Geth roll 4d3-4

4d3-4 1 [4d3=1, 1, 1, 2]

Zombie Hero

I should have enough speed to move to one space above the bloody room.

Bedlam

Geth roll 6d3-6 for hauntingness

hauntingness:

6d3-6 8 [6d3=3, 3, 2, 3, 2, 1]

Bedlam

How do you count the totals for rolls? Im not saying its wrong but I dont understand the logic behind the dice values.

Greeper

Bedlam wrote: »

How do you count the totals for rolls? Im not saying its wrong but I dont understand the logic behind the dice values.

They're fudge dice of a sort. 2 blank spots, 2 one-dot spots, and 2 two-dot spots. So they're really d3s that go from 0-2, hence the nd3-n.

I think.

Bedlam

Yeah so 1=0, 2=1, and 3=2 but the total at the begining is acurate of this.

So my 8 is an 8.

NotoriusBEN

yep, geth can only roll integers, not zeroes. So he puts up what was rolled, and the math of the roll takes over. so your roll is an 8 because he took in the values of all the dice you rolled and subtracted from that total.

discard Upper, discard basement, discard upper

SOMETHING HIDDEN

There's something odd about this room, but what? It's tickling the back of your mind.

If you want to try to figure out what's odd, attempt a Knowledge roll:

4+ A section of wall slides away, revealing an alcove. Draw an item card.
0-3 You can't figure it out, and that makes you a bit crazy. Lose 1 Sanity.



@Zombie Hero You have the option to attempt the roll, but you must accept the outcome, if you do.
@Stever777 you are on deck. Where you gonna go?

stever777

To Collapsed Room

Geth roll 5d3-5 to avoid falling

Location:
Speed: X 2 3 3 5 5 6 6 7
Might: X 2 3 3 4 5 5 5 6
Sanity: X 4 4 4 5 6 7 8 8
Knowledge: X 1 3 4 4 4 5 6 6

Items:SMELLING SALTS - If an explorer's Knowledge is below its starting value, and you're in the same room, you can raise the trait to its starting value by using the Smelling Salts. Discard this item after you use it.
Omens:

E - Continue - Move Right

to avoid falling:

5d3-5 7 [5d3=3, 2, 3, 1, 3]

Auralynx

Man, why am I the only one man enough to jump into the crazy hole in the floor / abandoned laundry chute?

Zombie Hero

Yeah, i'll do the roll.

Geth, roll 4d4-4 for Figuring Out What is Odd

Figuring Out What is Odd:

4d4-4 6 [4d4=1, 3, 3, 3]

NotoriusBEN

For Zombie Hero, who is able to be pretty math under mental pressure, he gets a

SKELETON KEY

The key to open any door.

You can open the Vault or Locked Safe without rolling dice. If a haunt says you can attempt to open the front door of the house, you can open it without rolling dice.

As for Madame Zostra she finds a

RING

A battered ring with an incomprehensible inscription.

If you attack an opponent that has a Sanity trait, you can attack with Sanity instead of Might. {Your opponent then defends with Sanity, and damage is mental instead of physical.}

Really? The best sanity peep in the house gets the sanity ring?

as for the Gallery, You can choose to fall in the Ballroom if you wish to. You just take 1 die of physical damage for it.

@stever777 you need to make a haunt roll. 6d3-6. a roll less than 4 will start the haunt. I also gotta say, this one is a doozy as well. At this moment, I'd say its 50/50 for who would win if this one pops up.
@Greeper is on deck as Professor Longfellow. I'm pretty sure you're going to pick up your toy monkey, but when you do, you gotta take the mystic elevator for a ride. lemme know where it ends up and i'll update the map and where you go to. tl;dr, just lump all your actions together.

edit** again for myself, maps, stats, loot has been updated to this post.

Auralynx

If you end up in the basement with me you have my permission to risk a monkey attack on my person if necessary.