Zin raises his hand in thanks to Cid for the potion, feeling stronger and more renewed, even as the badger takes another swipe at him.
He points out to the downed Rohan, a dark black mist forming around his hand and finger, which then extends around his companions body. "Rohan! Get up!"
He whips his hand around quickly, and the black mist forms a scythe shape that then flashes into the Badger.
Rescue on Rohan ( @Korror back up to full hp minus 25%)
Then, since I used Sow last turn, it's flipped to Reap
Reap on Megabadger.
Auto hit, d6+fray dmg
Geth, roll 1d6+3 for Reap Dmg
Following attack, both the Badger and the Toad take 2 piercing dmg from Mark of Tsumi.
So, I didn't realize Mark was singular. Technically I should be choosing who the mark stays on, as I can hit the Badger and leave the mark on the Toad, but I didn't declare that last time, so I guess the mark is on the Badger.
So, the Toad doesn't take the 2 piercing dmg, only the Badger does, as the toad isn't marked anymore.
Really confusing design here for Harvesters, as it basically wants me to use multiple different actions to mark multiple different characters.
Oh, and also, I missed on this one adding the Sow mark benefit, so Rohan also gets a bless because I hit the Badger with an attack (marked by Sow, ally within 3 gets a bless when hit with an attack)
Harvester is really confusing there, because you can stack multiple marks on the same target, but you can still only have one mark out per power, as far as I can tell
Yeah, that's what threw me. I read Gardener of Kin and assumed I could mark everyone twice. But it's still unique per power, so I'd have to mark with Sow and Mark with Rot to get two different marks, which, with combo moves, it 2 turns because I can't use those back to back.
I'm fine leaving the mark on the Badger. It's the biggest threat so more damage to it only helps.
Right, the Halitoad is the only enemy left, and well.... can't do much! Lightning walls are strong!
The Halitoad, barely clinging to life, attempts to pull Cidryn to it again. It shoots out its tongue and connects solidly!
As Cidryn is already poisoned, you fail the save automatically! You are... re-Poisoned! And shoved allll the way to the Halitoad, where you still can't reach. Cid also takes 4 Fray damage!
Right after that brush with death, Rohan is back in the fight and can take their turn now!
Knocked down by the massive badger, darkness clouds Rohan's eyes. The world fades away and all he can see is a haunting pair of red eyes, the eyes of the man he has been chasing since his sister mysteriously vanished. Rohan does not know where he is, he only knows that he must keep moving towards the eyes which never get any closer no matter how swiftly he pursues. The world begins to shake and he hears a voice, maybe the Man with Red Eyes laughing at him .... no it's Zin shaking him awake. Rohan groggily rises to his feet, the cuts from the badger's claws still paining him but he's back in the fight.
Rohan takes 1 Wound reducing his Max HP to 18.
Current Hp = 18/18. All statuses and marks are cleared except for the bless that happened after Rohan was rescued.
Tactically, I think it makes the most sense to finish off the toad. It's nearly dead and the badger probably is still near full HP.
With the snarling badger right in his face, Rohan rolls through the lightning wall which parts to let him through. He pulls himself atop the pilliar and sees the toad throwing itself at the rapidly fading lightning wall. "Git down, ya yellowbellied son of a gun" and Rohan opens fires with his pistols.
Use 1 action to teleport from C2 to F2.
Move from F2 to F3.
Use Run and Gun on the Hailtoad.
+1 Boon from Run and Gun, +1 Boon from the Hailtoad being marked, +1 boon from elevation. Bonus damage from attacking an electrified target. Bonus damage from Finishing Blow Vagabond ability. Not using the blessing from Zin since it seems the Hailtoad is almost dead.
Geth Roll 1d20+3d6k1 Attack Roll
Geth Roll 3d10k1+3 Damage.
After this attack Rohan gains Stealth (Can not be targeted except from adjacent space) because of finishing blow effect on Run and Gun.
I love the effect of direct shoulder training but man a full shoulder burn suuuucks. I tried a mechanical drop set where I had my incline bench the whole way up, pressed a set of ten, and then dropped the incline one notch and pressed another set of ten and tried to go the whole way down. I overshot the weight, I tried it with my 50s, and made it halfway before I burned out so next time I'm going to use 35s or 40s just to see if I can get all of the reps in.
I also tried some Tate presses and I really like them, I've had the dumbbells for a while and I don't know why I didn't try them sooner.
Went to the Decibel tour on Saturday. Cattle Decapitation really brought it, and the crowd went nuts. But Blackbraid really blew me away. So much energy and they sounded so great live.
Strongly recommend catching that tour if it comes by your town.
Because life is short and I had other lifts to do and other things in my day, and ten was a pretty arbitrary goal.
So no good reason really. If I feel like I'm closer next time I probably will but I was failing around 5 by the end, it's not like I was close and just needed to squeeze a few extra reps out.
I've not been doing a good job lately. Something happened with my lower back during my move at the start of the month and I'm only just now getting to the point where it isn't constantly aching all day long.
So I've been way looser with the amount of junk I'm eating and beer I'm drinking. So I feel huge. That said, I also feel weirdly stronger and solid? At least for my upper body. My chest, shoulders and arms all feel huge right now and I'm not sure what happened there. Kinda tanky as hell which is not necessarily a bad thing. Maybe I just need to start eating 3500 calories a day and stop trying to be lean.
Edit: this doesn't seem to have translated to more weight lifted but I do seem to be getting a better pump out of what I am lifting.
Because life is short and I had other lifts to do and other things in my day, and ten was a pretty arbitrary goal.
So no good reason really. If I feel like I'm closer next time I probably will but I was failing around 5 by the end, it's not like I was close and just needed to squeeze a few extra reps out.
Hell I’d just say stay at the 50’s and see if you can’t bump the reps up at each one then.
You’ve established the baseline for progression!
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Yeah that's what I think I'm going to do, in hindsight I should have warmed up better but I underestimated how challenging it would be. Warming up is pretty great it turns out, especially the older my bones get
Because life is short and I had other lifts to do and other things in my day, and ten was a pretty arbitrary goal.
So no good reason really. If I feel like I'm closer next time I probably will but I was failing around 5 by the end, it's not like I was close and just needed to squeeze a few extra reps out.
oh this seems like a good idea for a shoulder/chest day, I may steal this.
So I’ve been doing stronglifts 5x5 since Jan 22 and I’m much stronger but I find that I just don’t have the gas for 3x a week at nearly 45 years old. What has been working better for me is m/f/w 2 week cycle.
The perils of age I guess.
If it works, keep doing it until it stops working.
Looking at my workout log over the last month, it’s been two days back to back and then 3 - 5 days off then 2 on.
Even this week with school out, I’m more tired than normal because of full time toddler wrangling.
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Apologies for continuing to post Moose's stuff but this is the best and most thorough video on sandbag to shoulder technique that I've found. I've been doing more work with my sandbag (somewhere between 130 and 140lbs) for conditioning and getting it to waist height is easy peasy but the full clean to shoulder is hard!
So you can only have up to two boons at a time.
But a 6 hits anyway.
After Ronhan, it's the top of round 5.
Cid is now able to teleport anywhere.
So he could leg it, or someone else could have next.
Zin might be able to use Sow again and Brand the badger.
The integration of more strongman type implements into Crossfit has been cool to see, those folks really are ridiculously superb athletes.
Edit: The video in the spoiler is Dr. Mike from RP trying to murder Rich Froning and another high level crossfit guy with one of his bodybuilding workouts and getting really irritated and befuddled when they not only don't die but don't seem particularly bothered.
Edit: And here's their own little celebratory video from said opening night of the tour, with a good look at the typically outstanding stage production:
More Maiden from the vaults. "Caught Somewhere in Time", this time from Prague, Czech Republic, May 30th 2023. It hasn't been played since 1987 until this tour.
As someone who has always rated Somewhere in Time as either one of my favourite Maiden albums, if not my actual favourite, and who also really dug Senjutsu a whole lot (rather more than a lot of you guys if I remember right), I cannot wait for the Nottingham show. I'm taking my dad (these two albums also two of his faves from the band) and it'll be his first time ever seeing Maiden. Absolutely stoked.
All right, weekend was busy of course and I had to catch up on things tomorrow, but I think work has cleared up a bit for the next chunk of time. Should be able to get updates more readily during the weekdays, huzzah!
Slight clarification: I believe Rohan used Strafe Shot, not Run and Gun (Run and Gun is a trait )
Rohan's shot strikes squarely in the Halitoad's head, and it slumps down. Dead or unconscious, impossible to tell, but at least out of the fight.
As the Halitoad falls, the mighty walls of lightning which had so hindered it fade. The effects of Cidryn's GRAN LEVINCROSS are gone....
Round 5!
The map's cleared up a bunch haha. A player starts this round! You all gain another Resolve!
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He points out to the downed Rohan, a dark black mist forming around his hand and finger, which then extends around his companions body. "Rohan! Get up!"
He whips his hand around quickly, and the black mist forms a scythe shape that then flashes into the Badger.
Rescue on Rohan ( @Korror back up to full hp minus 25%)
Then, since I used Sow last turn, it's flipped to Reap
Reap on Megabadger.
Auto hit, d6+fray dmg
Geth, roll 1d6+3 for Reap Dmg
Following attack, both the Badger and the Toad take 2 piercing dmg from Mark of Tsumi.
So, the Toad doesn't take the 2 piercing dmg, only the Badger does, as the toad isn't marked anymore.
Really confusing design here for Harvesters, as it basically wants me to use multiple different actions to mark multiple different characters.
Oh, and also, I missed on this one adding the Sow mark benefit, so Rohan also gets a bless because I hit the Badger with an attack (marked by Sow, ally within 3 gets a bless when hit with an attack)
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I'm fine leaving the mark on the Badger. It's the biggest threat so more damage to it only helps.
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The Halitoad, barely clinging to life, attempts to pull Cidryn to it again. It shoots out its tongue and connects solidly!
As Cidryn is already poisoned, you fail the save automatically! You are... re-Poisoned!
Right after that brush with death, Rohan is back in the fight and can take their turn now!
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Rohan takes 1 Wound reducing his Max HP to 18.
Current Hp = 18/18. All statuses and marks are cleared except for the bless that happened after Rohan was rescued.
Tactically, I think it makes the most sense to finish off the toad. It's nearly dead and the badger probably is still near full HP.
With the snarling badger right in his face, Rohan rolls through the lightning wall which parts to let him through. He pulls himself atop the pilliar and sees the toad throwing itself at the rapidly fading lightning wall. "Git down, ya yellowbellied son of a gun" and Rohan opens fires with his pistols.
Use 1 action to teleport from C2 to F2.
Move from F2 to F3.
Use Run and Gun on the Hailtoad.
+1 Boon from Run and Gun, +1 Boon from the Hailtoad being marked, +1 boon from elevation. Bonus damage from attacking an electrified target. Bonus damage from Finishing Blow Vagabond ability. Not using the blessing from Zin since it seems the Hailtoad is almost dead.
Geth Roll 1d20+3d6k1 Attack Roll
Geth Roll 3d10k1+3 Damage.
After this attack Rohan gains Stealth (Can not be targeted except from adjacent space) because of finishing blow effect on Run and Gun.
I also tried some Tate presses and I really like them, I've had the dumbbells for a while and I don't know why I didn't try them sooner.
Strongly recommend catching that tour if it comes by your town.
So no good reason really. If I feel like I'm closer next time I probably will but I was failing around 5 by the end, it's not like I was close and just needed to squeeze a few extra reps out.
So I've been way looser with the amount of junk I'm eating and beer I'm drinking. So I feel huge. That said, I also feel weirdly stronger and solid? At least for my upper body. My chest, shoulders and arms all feel huge right now and I'm not sure what happened there. Kinda tanky as hell which is not necessarily a bad thing. Maybe I just need to start eating 3500 calories a day and stop trying to be lean.
Edit: this doesn't seem to have translated to more weight lifted but I do seem to be getting a better pump out of what I am lifting.
Hell I’d just say stay at the 50’s and see if you can’t bump the reps up at each one then.
You’ve established the baseline for progression!
oh this seems like a good idea for a shoulder/chest day, I may steal this.
If it works, keep doing it until it stops working.
Looking at my workout log over the last month, it’s been two days back to back and then 3 - 5 days off then 2 on.
Even this week with school out, I’m more tired than normal because of full time toddler wrangling.
But a 6 hits anyway.
After Ronhan, it's the top of round 5.
Cid is now able to teleport anywhere.
So he could leg it, or someone else could have next.
Zin might be able to use Sow again and Brand the badger.
Edit: The video in the spoiler is Dr. Mike from RP trying to murder Rich Froning and another high level crossfit guy with one of his bodybuilding workouts and getting really irritated and befuddled when they not only don't die but don't seem particularly bothered.
Iron Maiden's The Future Past tour has got going, and finally one of the big set list questions has been answered.
They did it. They only went and bloody did it. After 37 years, "Alexander the Great" finally gets a live airing:
Edit: And here's their own little celebratory video from said opening night of the tour, with a good look at the typically outstanding stage production:
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As someone who has always rated Somewhere in Time as either one of my favourite Maiden albums, if not my actual favourite, and who also really dug Senjutsu a whole lot (rather more than a lot of you guys if I remember right), I cannot wait for the Nottingham show. I'm taking my dad (these two albums also two of his faves from the band) and it'll be his first time ever seeing Maiden. Absolutely stoked.
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Slight clarification: I believe Rohan used Strafe Shot, not Run and Gun (Run and Gun is a trait
Rohan's shot strikes squarely in the Halitoad's head, and it slumps down. Dead or unconscious, impossible to tell, but at least out of the fight.
As the Halitoad falls, the mighty walls of lightning which had so hindered it fade. The effects of Cidryn's GRAN LEVINCROSS are gone....
Round 5!
The map's cleared up a bunch haha. A player starts this round! You all gain another Resolve!
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I dont know how you run in that heat down there. I did my workout at noon two days ago when it was 80 and sunny and I was wrecked the rest of the day