In Golden Flame

[twilit star]

||which makes sense they weren’t designed for v11 but at this point I’d have no idea how to preserve the work I’ve done if I went back a version||

[dense crescent]

deploying kudzu

[worthy root]

https://tenor.com/view/white-rat-white-nutria-big-rat-huge-rat-big-white-rat-gif-11991559707914163733

[fossil lion]

👀👀👀

wait, you've been doing your maps in inkarnate?

that's incredible

[ebon hatch]

Hey do you have their socials by any chance? A player of mine is now obsessed with Striga and comics like these might make her fall out of her chair (in a good way).

Also, gotta promo good art

[thorn hinge]

They're more active on bluesky from what I've seen. https://bsky.app/profile/guarda-veu.bsky.social/post/3l6lyu7xktc2m

[ebon hatch]

oh it's the same person as the other one?

excellent

[tame tide]

Yeah? Inkarnate is incredibly potent

[rustic seal]

yess, Branca is an amazing artist, the profile above is their alt profile for dragon age oversharing (and apparently now IGF fanfic? I'm the proudest GM), here's their main account as well: https://bsky.app/profile/raposabranca.bsky.social

[rustic seal]

one of my other players (same table) has also sent me their secondary character's art, in case theirs die... but he sounds... fishy

Dunno, sounds like something wrong there, but can't tell...

[halcyon swift]

My player tried to calculate the population density of Hell's gate, and based on an area of about 6 square kilometres for each hub ring, it comes out to about 160,000 people per square kilometre

This is a bit higher than the population density of Mongkok in Hong Kong, but not as high as the population density of Kowloon Walled City (1,269,230 people per square kilometre).

[shell bison]

What a regular looking Hell's Gate Resident!

[clever cloud]

pleeeease can I ask for permission to use this in my campaign? no commercial use of course

[rustic seal]

I'll ask my player, though I don't think they'd have a problem with that at all lol

(his socials: https://bsky.app/profile/jottafrost.bsky.social)

[rustic seal]

he mentioned he's be proud to know that's being used, please do

[thorn hinge]

I mean, this is the space you get as a militia pilot, and that's a luxury. Most people have to share.

[halcyon swift]

It's just that my players try to find similar environments in the real world for reference in order to imagine the living environment in Hell's gate.

Incidentally, I've added hub ring sectional view to the map

[ebon hatch]

Out of curiosity, do you have a setup page for what the terrain is supposed to look like on this map?

[tame tide]

Not yet

I'm very busy rn and I will make one in the future but I'm tied for free time

[ebon hatch]

no prob, just wondering

I won't be running this mission for a while

[tame tide]

||outer walls are size 4, dance platform is height 1, stairs are size 1 but cost no movement to climb. All 1x1 objects are size 1, all 2x2 triangles are size 2, the 1x2 bits are size 1, the cargo crates are size 2, bits down with the wires below the platform are at elevation 0 and are difficult terrain||

[wispy quail]

one of my prospective players had a question about character background that I was not quite able to answer

So, for in Golden Flames, I know using your birth name is seen as childish but could one of use use our character's birth name as either  a form of counter culture or because they genuinely just like their birth name?

my instinct was to go "yeah it's fine if you just get called w/ever you want" but i wanted to confirm that with chat first

[wild flame]

A: your game, what you say goes. Once the book is in your hands, so is the setting control.

B: yeah sure. The easiest way to sum up calliope naming culture is "people call you by whatever name you decide to use because nobody has the time or inclination to be shitty about that, now come help me change this air filter."

[amber viper]

Also can't remember where using a birth name was ever looked down on in setting

[shell bison]

Don't matter if you are a Jane/John Doe or call yourself Peach Trees. That's your name? That's your name.

[rustic seal]

Culture is complicated - some people may judge them for keeping it, some may respect it, some may think it's a cool move, and some may never care enough to even know that's their birth name or not, it's just what they're called

[amber viper]

It's certainly a thing in setting though, you're correct.

[shell bison]

I think we can chalk it up to a "It is what it is" moment

[rustic seal]

I fully forgot this was even a thing in the setting lol

[wispy quail]

i also forgot until the player brought it up

[dense crescent]

Power move: simply keep your birth name, but with a slightly different spelling

"So what did Ted end up going with?"
"Tedd."

[dire cloud]

So is that related to how children in Homestuck don't get names until they turn 13?

[rustic seal]

...I don't know how to feel if that is in fact a homestuck reference

but I guess I shouldn't be surprised

[runic viper]

odds on that its homestuck heheheh

[clever cloud]

Mission 1: ||Prepping to run Denial of Service||

[dire cloud]

||Brian87 isn't the guy's callsign. It's his real name.||

[wild flame]

I need to know ||Brain87's|| backstory

[clever cloud]

that's his email handle

classic john.smith92@aol dot com

[wispy quail]

are any of the maps in the golden flame resources spreadsheet square maps? roll20 really hates hexes, so i've been thinking of running my game on primarily squares if i can get away with it

[tame tide]

Mine are primarily hexes but I do upload gridless versions if that's better than nothing

[shell bison]

Benefits of having a bunny gf. Access to the bun tail. You can touch it. Pat pat pat pat
Anastasia and my PC Charlotte being funny little goobers

[compact aurora]

cute!

[shell bison]

[tame tide]

Does anyone have that video of someone pouring a kettle directly into instant coffee

I need to show how hard-core Jerry is to my players

[compact aurora]

L O L

[shell bison]

https://vxtwitter.com/i/status/1763533267041485094

I gotchu homie

[tame tide]

Tysm

[clever cloud]

chat do they know

[shell bison]

NOOO, JERRY YOU DESERVE NICE THINGS ;V;

[rustic seal]

jerry deserves the universe

and to suffer

both things are true

[runic viper]

my group seems to delight in making jerry suffer as they complete tasks with maximum collateral damage, jerry needs a promotion

and an actual paycheck

[balmy obsidian]

We are desperately trying to get jerry at least one day off

[clever cloud]

i think hell's gate would explode

[rustic seal]

either Hell's Gate explodes or Jerry dies (and then Hell's Gate explodes)

[balmy obsidian]

The objective is to get him a day off without the station exploding

preferably

[clever cloud]

reality breaking

[balmy obsidian]

We will make it happen
We have to

it is a moral imperative

[rustic seal]

if it were any other system, I wouldn't imagine that to be possible

but it being lancer... perhaps

[orchid wind]

has anyone here made like a landing page for their game

[maiden ferry]

I took assets from the folder and made one yeah

[clever cloud]

i made this. one for each mission/chapter

[maiden ferry]

this is mine (some spoilers on the quests)

[thorn hinge]

There's been a few like Eleonor's based on this popular figma: https://www.figma.com/community/file/983540597915480981/lancer-rpg-vtt-landing-page

I made my own and released it for others to use, like Lefarsi did, there's a link in the GM resources which is pinned in this channel. I included the photoshop files as well as breaking pieces out for people to use as components, and there's a guide there for how I set things up. I'm also more than willing to answer dms if you have any questions.

Athena has one here based off the halo 2 multiplayer UI that looks really sick too #1059603134504255528 message

Here's what my own looks like with the foundry sidebar closed

[tight pier]

I should probably add the H2 one to the resource hub but at the same time it's kind of a pain in the ass to work with

[hard falcon]

for the sake of not wanting to say ||'Question Mark Question Mark Question Mark'|| this combat, I have given this thing a new name, and because of recent anime;

||Its new name is Turbo Granny||

[iron lynx]

I referred to it as ||"this thing"||

[hard falcon]

Ha

||yeah, this sure to be a thing||

||Turbo granny is now getting turbo bullied||

[heady vale]

hold up wait this persons done something even worse

[heady vale]

may i raise you

https://youtube.com/shorts/-5rNEJ3hNTU?si=gzUY3Jtu9GXNp9O_

[hard falcon]

||They picked Four 😭 ||

||I have apparently invoked a full on in-character panic attack with the question of 'do you feel in control?'||

[past agate]

||4️⃣ ||

[shell bison]

Good heavens

[orchid wind]

we spent a significant amount of session time debating the duality

[floral glacier]

Playing the game correctly

[tight pier]

I agree with Xeans this is peak

[past agate]

✅

correct

[compact aurora]

my own dash

inspired by another user's here :)

[shell bison]

Siiiiick

[rustic seal]

Letsgoo, looking good

(I am indeed biased)

[thorn hinge]

Great stuff, I like the color choices. My pixel art hells gate diagram looks gorgeous in red :3

[runic viper]

oh very very nice

ive still mine as like, utter nailgun produce

[clever cloud]

My favorite part of IGF is the harmonious clashing of super serious with absurd comedy. We can have a heartwrenching conversation in the middle of the world's stupidest game of airhockey

[rustic seal]

absolutely

it's the type of comedy and drama that can only exist because it's absurdly horrifying and funny at the same time

I've been rewatching Dimension 20's Starstruck Odyssey and it's been a big inspiration on this line between serious and funny that IGF has and thrives on when I DM it

it's hard for me to imagine playing Lancer any other way

[clever cloud]

I took a lot of character design inspiration from Unsleeping City. I love how lived in those characters are in their magical environment.

[rustic seal]

Unsleeping City also has a lot of that energy of "God this place is awful but it's my awful place and I'll die for it"

that I think benefits Hell's Gate especially a lot

[dire shell]

honestly I hope so so so much I can do a good rendition of IGF when I finally start running it at the end of the month.

Especially as a friend I greatly admire actually accepted my invite to the game and it's gonna be her first time playing Lancer

(and it's someone who has played TTRPGs/etc since a loooong time)

[runic viper]

Oh thats sick, igf is actually a really nice campaign to get people in on

[hard falcon]

right, to my sadness, ||because we had such a low number picked, we didn't get the opportunity for someone to ask 'hey what gives with your evasiveness Crone'

Which is a shame, because while I do really love the answer given in the book... Nine Sols actually gave a really good response to use as well:||

[wispy quail]

i'm running IGF for a podcast (which i have mentioned here before) and we FINALLY got to do our Session 0 and think up all of our characters

[shell bison]

Ooooooh, any character concepts you are willing to share?

[wispy quail]

we have:

• a washed up ex celebrity who ran away from their past life to Calliope and joined up with the militia (and who i'm looking forward to pointing in the direction of Yelda Ergun)
• a former IPS-N space trucker who got a Calliope layover because he annoyed his coworkers and bosses one too many times, and then got his ride stolen
• a local space wizard and HORUS fan (their player's microphone quality was really bad so i'm still not 100% sure where they're going with this)
• and, last but not least, a twink femboy mechanic who got a badly beat-up Raleigh dropped on him by a former lancer who called him a homophobic slur, ditched his highly identifiable mech, and then ran off with the space trucker's ship in order to escape pursuit

they are a sniper build, a defender build, a hacker build, and a gunslinger build respectively

[wispy quail]

(see above! it's the four of them)

[shell bison]

By the Flame, what a cast

[hearty wave]

Bargo doodles from Session:

• Petr found out a UIB asset arrived.
• Drunk Jodi got a call from her missing wife
• Drunk Reman, our Space Marine, tackled a battered man

[shell bison]

I MISS MY WIFE

[hearty wave]

Followup: Union Runaway comforted by spectral NHP girlfriend

Bargo is the speediest doodler in the west

[mystic forge]

more of Petr having a Time, christ, Bargo's fast

[tame tide]

"Why did you retreat to Calliope?"
"Someone was homophobic to me"

[balmy obsidian]

m a n

[runic viper]

Finished my second session and oh boy do i regret allowing people to pick the streamer background, they had the genius idea mid fight to only use abilities when chat donated certain amounts of bits/viewer count got high (rng on the bits, the more damage and action that was in the view of the mech the higher the view count). Suffice to say, having a player get lucky with bits rolls and then start dumping every ability they had while speaking like a streamer was...... an experience.

[shell bison]

That...

Somehow kicks ass, not going to lie.

[runic viper]

it does, it was also funny when they were getting yelled at ic for not using their core power when overwhelmed for the "viewer experience"

[shell bison]

To be fair, that's very "PRESS Q" when you stream playing a hero shooter

[zenith galleon]

My group (that I am a player in) is a few sessions in and just arrived at (end of mission 1, I think(?) spoilers) ||the Weasel and the big-ass ship it's rammed into||

Session today is gonna start off with all of that

[shell bison]

Ooooooh, excited for you!

[signal canyon]

One of my players might do something similar when we get to our first session with combat. I'm excited honestly.

[zenith galleon]

So we're ||aboard the Tachyon and our party's former FFT scientist lady who's got some Event Horizon type stuff in her past (and mysteriously was resurrected from death at the end of the group's prior run of WF) somehow logged into a terminal aboard with professorial credentials.||

my GM is spooking me

oh.
oh no.
oh, the situation ||on the Tachyon is bad.||

(Our GM is using Dead Space Remake music)

[wild flame]

Godspeed

[signal canyon]

God I can't wait for my party to get to the ||Tachyon||

[ebon hatch]

o7

[zenith galleon]

ohhh this is hitting hard because we're in ||the Tachyon|| post-WF

alarm bells ringing immediately after ||we find logs talking about something wrong with the ship's NHP core and time discrepancy stuff||

[shell bison]

May the light of lights illuminate your path.

[zenith galleon]

Well, we're fighting ||Capella|| next week

we're going to beat them to death with hammers lasers

[fading wyvern]

Rodericke Steele found dead in the aftermath of hammer car explosion

[shell bison]

GO GET 'EM

[zenith galleon]

We've got a Ranger Swallowtail, a half-Emperor Gilgamesh, a Storte, an MOI Nimue (funny Liminal Space half-size swordsmech), and an Empakaai

fairly confident we'll handle 'em despite things being tuned up since T2-range party

[shell bison]

Oh jeez

[signal canyon]

I've got 2 players who have already decided what they want to run.
The streamer princess is going to pilot a Comet/Emperor, while the ex-Mirrorsmoke merc is dead set on a Störtebeker (which means I get to give her the ||golden hand||)

[runic viper]

OHHHHH

very nice

my players are just being a lil concerning

mainly that the barbarossa player is taking to the role of long range artillery concerningly fast

|| theyve only one ll so far but their loving the idea of firing snipes at long range.

weve yet to hit the satellite chapter.||

[shell bison]

Oh they are going to love the special move in that chapter

[runic viper]

im not

that is like speedrunning their ass getting blasted

[twilit star]

Spoiler tag that btw

[runic viper]

oh howd i do that?

nvm fixed

[thorn hinge]

I mean. It solves the problem. It just introduces whole new problems ||like BAD STAR. Though really getting to dunk on him should be considered a reward.||

[runic viper]

yea hes an asshole, the best kind tho

i mean more because 2 of my players are competent

in a max size squad

so uh, should be fun.

[halcyon swift]

Has anyone done a description of the bars in Hell's Gate?

My players need bars descriptions, and before I make them up myself, I'd like to ask if anyone else has.

[clever cloud]

pg 76, Daily Life has some tidbits you might want to read about

[halcyon swift]

We have the names of four bars

Aminata’s Saloon
GMS_GENERIC_BAR
On the Rocks
Sol’s Bar and Grille

Then we know that BARTENDER MOTHERFUCKER is in GMS_GENERIC_BAR.

I think that's all the information here.

[clever cloud]

yea basically, and their general vibe. the rest is up to the reader

[shell bison]

I beleive a good method to describe the GMS_GENERIC_BAR is view the splash art of it. confined, crowded, lots of patrons, plenty of space to offer cameos of other characters too

[halcyon swift]

One of my player character is going to be a stand-up comedian who's lost his memory.
He's just barely good enough to keep the bar from kicking him out.

I'm looking for a bar that would be suitable for him to perform in (initially considering GMS_GENERIC_BAR, but it may lack the space to do so, according to its illustration).

[shell bison]

Could move some tables about of have them do it off the catwalk

[thorn hinge]

Comedy could be more of a club thing.
"if you want to be miserable"

• La Porte De L'Enfer
• Never the Two Shall Meet
  "unless you’re, uh… into stuff."
• Transgressions
  "if you’re not depressed or kinky your options are limited but..."
• The Dockyard

All this is on page 75 btw

[rustic night]

[SPOILER - BBEG]

Another Low-effort Shitpost brought to the Wonderful IGF Community...

[fossil lion]

i appreciate the voicework

[fast parrot]

hey, so this is an oddly specific request that is a mild spoiler for chapter 2 but does anyone have a token for a || Crane?||

[tame tide]

||Thermopylae? I just built them into the map :P||

||Unless that's what you're trying to do... i can offer advice if you're using Inkarnate. Otherwise I cannae||

[fast parrot]

Unfortunately I am using inter Corp. However I found a suitable token on retrograde. Many thanks anyway

[shell bison]

Ch2 minor spoilers.

I am so proud of my players. After a long investigation and only part way through, Kat finally has a moment after ||Bondarchuk|| is captured, feels remorse and consider what I feel is a core theme in IGF. Redemption

||Bondarchuk is her mother in this timeline||

[amber viper]

That's a raw exchange right there

[shell bison]

I know ;v;

[signal canyon]

How do yall usually handle flight and elevation in IGF? I've heard some folks just use the simplified flight rules from Icon, but it seems like that wouldn't work for space.

[clever cloud]

i go the opposite route cuz foundry allows me to. I've been running reverse zero-g rules wherein Zero-g nobody is slowed and always flying, but require a flight system for 1G operations. I take advantage of Foundry's Terrain Height Tools module to do precise line of sight when doing floating objects/cover like asteroids in ||Snack Run and Shoo the Vultures||

[signal canyon]

Half my players wanted to take Spacer anyway, so we went with standard zero-g rules.

I'll have to look into the foundry terrain tools

But is there a tool or add-on for the vertical movement itself though?

[clever cloud]

foundry has built-in token elevation. it's that number on the top left of a token when you right click them.

[tight pier]

Mission 3 spoilers, made this for our game

||“Ah, Steele. If there’s one thing that brings endless joy to a pirate’s heart, it’s taking your toys from you.”||

[clever cloud]

with lancer's 1:1 diagonals and flight rules, here's the breakdown:

• your total movement is the max of your vertical and horizontal movement. E.g., 5 up and 3 left is 5 total movement.
• flight allows you to swerve/duck/fly over anything as long as:
  • you move in a straight line on the horizontal plane
  • the elevation difference between your starting point and the highest/lowest obstruction is equal or less than your flight speed. E.g., starting at elevation 3, and flight 5, you can fly over/under anything between elevation -2 and +8

also dont use negative elevation, do something like 0-10 elevation. terrain height tools doesnt support negative heights yet

[fast parrot]

@tawdry spindle :3

[thorn hinge]

HELL yes

[tawdry spindle]

so real

[signal canyon]

Thanks

[tight pier]

Hmm.

One of our players is (M2 spoilers?) ||cracking open the 29tb data drive they got from the Icebreaker.|| Any ideas for what's inside?

[fossil lion]

- ||out-of-context mangled chunk of source code for Mind||
- ||archive of sensor data from the original Coldwater scan||
- ||rodericke steele's porn stash||
- ||printcode for (insert HORUS frame of choice)||
- ||a mountain of feather's misc spooky prophecy bullshit||
- ||zip bomb. on a related note, the hell's gate printer just broke again||
- ||the instant they open it, it deletes itself and is replaced with a video clip of "Felicitations, comrades!" ...that was actually recorded by Thorn von Aldenberg||

[tight pier]

||OH THAT FIRST ONE.||

@lunar panther

ayo

[lunar panther]

ooh actually, yes

the character is very NHP-adjacent so that would be fun :)

[shell bison]

From what I know, ch4 is going to be VERY fun for that pc

[tight pier]

Yep. ||The plan right now is that as long as the players can de-escalate, CAUSTIC can untangle their NHP from Fennel's head.||

[shell bison]

Bun concern

[tight pier]

||Fennel is ex-Circuit and was, uh, forcibly integrated with one of their NHPs.||

||When Fennel escaped, they had to take the NHP, Buzzsaw, with.||

[shell bison]

Bigger Bun concern

[runic viper]

< _ <

Buzzsaw

The nhp is named buzzsaw

I do not think you could have a larger red flag

[fossil lion]

could be ||an ill-fated norse mythology name once odin shows up||

[lunar panther]

named after the transformer, not the shop tool

[ebon hatch]

bun-cern was right there!

[silver pumice]

ex ||circuit|| characters !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[runic viper]

Heheheheh, still a red flag

But for different reasons

[floral glacier]

Funny! One of my players has the exact same backstory - ||But the NHP they took with them is a fork of Caustic before it really went off the deep end, named System Archive Retrieved (Caustic) which got shortened into Sarcastic||

[thorn hinge]

One of Xenguin's players has the same backstory, but they're playing the ||ex-circuit NHP herself with the legionnaire rules, as well as her human wife using the player two interface. ||

[rustic seal]

My players made the three-vent-crabs-in-a-trenchcoat a mech

Now I can't not use it

[ebon hatch]

call them and their posse the ran-goons

[compact aurora]

Since the pcs are part of a special force of the militia, and one of them is a cop, of sorts

I am lowkey tempted to pair up two pcs and have each of them try and look into an issue

But lowkey, I am tempted to have them all work on the same issue xD

The idea is that during the rp introduction scene of their pcs, screams are heard outside the tavern
A kid runs in and tells them that one of the miners got murdered in broad daylight, kicking off a small mystery

Turns out he's not the first guy, and there's a pattern involved

[thorn hinge]

ooh, neat! I had a small investigation in session 2 for my bounty hunter turned community justice PC to look into. Though that was a break-in at Steeple's hydroponics lab, a gang stole some equipment to set up a drug farm. Murder is higher stakes, I like it.

[compact aurora]

My main idea rn is that the murderer is one of the Militia Medical team, who works as a general medic off duty

She is an SSC refugee, and she has pretty much mantis blade arms lol, meant for surgery

She specifically targets miners and other citizens who should be caring for children, but don't
Big John, the victim i mentioned, spent his money on drugs and journeys to the ice breaker, leaving his kid on hell's gate litterally to die

it's up to the PCs to track her down, using the skills from their day to day

The bodyguard knows the militia well
The miner knows everyone he works with, and can access rumors about the victims
The NHP can check the security cameras and other apparatuses
The engineer can tell what the weapons were
The explorer... I stil gotta decide that lol

[thorn hinge]

It's good that she has a proper motive. I'd be cautious falling into the tropes of serial killers, many of which are largely made up by cops to justify their jobs.

When I did my mystery, it was Pear doing the job of following the clues, but tapping each of his teammates for help at different points. Kraken did a search on the Muse for people who might be bragging and looked into server logs to see if whoever hacked the cameras outside the lab left a trail. Gabriel put feelers out with his blackmarket contacts to see if anybody was trying to fence the gear or had recently done a job and got a payday. Both of them got clues leading to the location of the gang's setup, and Calamity joined pear to go bust heads if needed and at the very least put some fear into the morons behind it all. So I certainly like the idea of having each SRT member's strengths help out.

If the NHP tracks the killer through the cameras but loses her in a older part of the station, consider the Explorer knowing that area and a few places she might be hiding.

[compact aurora]

good idea

[wispy quail]

one of my players wants to play as someone who's been handed a mech by a wanted man in an attempt to shake the people following after him; what would be some good enemies in the first couple of chapters to add the Mercenary template to?

[thorn hinge]

figure out who the wanted man is, and you'll not only get an answer for who's following him, but you'll get more plot hooks for later. One idea? ||He's The Thief||

[fading wyvern]

Well for starters, there's the bounty hunter in Right on Our Doorstep

(Also, wow. Hello again, small world, isn't it?)

[wispy quail]

oh wow it's AA

yeah sure is, huh

[fading wyvern]

mhmmmmm

I think any NPC that has the pirate template is a good fit for a mercenary

I'd go for one in chapter 3 though

||Chapter 2 is mostly cult members, chapter 4 is the eidolon||

||And of course chapter 5 is the finale||

[twilit star]

Spoiler tag that stuff

[wispy quail]

this character has almost certainly fled calliope and is also just generally a terrible person so i'm not sure it would make sense for them to be ||the Thief||, but I'm thinking of tying them into one of the pirate bands

[fading wyvern]

You could have the person who was after them be ||Andros Capella himself||

[fading wyvern]

(Sorry, thought this was the other thread)

[fading wyvern]

||That'd let you pull on that thread in any scene where there's hellhounds on the field. Including the final boss of mission 1 without stealing Andros' thunder||

[wispy quail]

this unidentified lancer / mech pilot having the equivalent of getting a 1 on Everyone's A Fan with a wide assortment of characters around Calliope seems like a great way to make the world seem more alive

[fading wyvern]

Actually cursed mech

People see it and are like. "Yeah, actually you're not getting served in this bar"

[thorn hinge]

Is the player intending to stick with the same frame for several LLs, or will they be free of the curse at some point (possible LL2?)

[wispy quail]

all i know about this guy story-wise so far is that he's a terrible person and veteran(?) mech pilot who showed up on Hell's Gate, called one of the mechanics (a PC) a homophobic slur, gave said PC his busted-up Raleigh in an attempt to mislead his many pursuers, stole a recently-fired IPS-N trucker's (another PC) space rig, and then fled the system

this player intends to stay with the mech through at least ll3, as far as I can tell (Everest -> Raleigh)

[fading wyvern]

So the majority of Act 1 then

Fair enough

Just have him have pissed off one major character from every chapter till it gets replaced

||Andros, Evelina or Rita, Lady Esk, and CAUSTIC somehow||

[wispy quail]

apparently, according to the player, the new owner hasn't even bothered to change the mech's ident/IFF signal, so it still broadcasts that it's owned by That Motherfucker whenever anyone pings it

[fading wyvern]

Fucking lol

Bartender motherfucker has refused to serve your PC ever since they got it

Just draws angry eyebrows on their face with a sharpie and stares at them until they go away

[wispy quail]

bad star really wants to fight him in order to repair his reputation by defeating That Motherfucker in pitched combat

i kind of want to include a little bit of complexity by making ||Ignatius Aurum|| one of the few people who immediately believes the player when he says he's not That Motherfucker

[fading wyvern]

Oooo, i like that

[tame tide]

Apart from a basic drake are there any good tokens for zin's mech?

[shadow scaffold]

for a slinger's deathmark

let's say there are multiple slingers in a scene

do they share the deathmark, or is it individual?

as in

Slinger A and Slinger B. Slinger A places deathmark, but then dies. does the deathmark last until Slinger B dies as well, or is it gone?

when slinger A places a deathmark, can Slinger B use said deathmark

[compact aurora]

this could cause some fun stuff regarding the pirates lol
cuz tbh i dun see the pirates liking the mercenaries, so it creates this fun hate triangle between the pcs, the pirates and the mercs XD

[main scaffold]

i’ve ran it as individual

[shell bison]

Technically the death mark can be cashed in by any slinger.
This is why the deathmark mechanic is completely unique to the slinger unless you custom make a scout or something to plant it and let the slinger cash that mark in but seems a little mean to do duos like that outside of a very specific optional fight

[tight pier]

^ Deathmark works with any Slinger

Don't abuse that fact though it'll void your warranty

That'd actually be a fun encounter. Two Slingers, one is focused on applying Deathmark and has Outlaw's Hand and Shouldna Aughta. The other is focused on using Deathmark and has Devil's Eye and Impossible Ricochet

||Reminds me of a certain pair of hand-cannon-wielding Raleigh pilots, hmm?||

[tame tide]

4 grunt slingers

[fast parrot]

|| no way, yuri combo||

[shell bison]

Optional secret boss, ||Yuri gunslingers||

[twilit star]

||could be a fun sort of “dream world fight” that takes place before claiming the Crimson Hand||

[thorn hinge]

now I'm thinking of flipping that on it's head. I'm already drawing two PC's into the weird shit there, since (SPOILER FOR MY PLAYERS)||one's a pirate and one's a bounty hunter. Pear has the golden hand and Calamity's been seeing some of the images too now. I'm thinking of throwing them into a fight where they control two Slingers (maybe elite merc and elite pirate?), a vision where they become the yuri.||

[tame tide]

||Double ultra||

||I wonder if you gave them both a custom "bonded" veteran trait that's basically rank discipline but only with eachother||

[tight pier]

I actually made a template for this

though not with the Bonded effect

[past agate]

unsure abt maps for face to a name

remember a progress report on imps version from a while ago

is it finished?

[tame tide]

No :(

I do have the old version still

I started making it and then wanted to start it from the top but then I couldn't be bothered

[hard falcon]

Mission 3 nonsense:
||Player in the Pegasus: "So, do we get anything for destroying the screens?"
Me: What do you mean
PiP: Well there's a lot, what do they do?
Me: They depict Steele's insufferable mugshot as he taunts you
PiP: Well yes, but what do they have to do with the objective?
Me:: Absolutely nothing
PiP: What?
Player in Metalmark: They're strictly cosmetic
PiP: what do they do in the book?
Me: THey're not in the book
PiP: But they have stats!
Me: Piss-poor stats that you could fart on and kill
PiP: What do we get if we destroy them all? Do we get a bonus?
Me: They are strictly. Cosmetic.
PiP: I think we should get something like an achievement for each screen we kill
Me: There isn't one
PiP: Well make one up!
Me: Fine - each screen you guys break or hack, i'll give you a smooch at a later time
PiP: Works for me||

[halcyon swift]

One of my players is an outlander from Asphodel, so I made a map of the area around Furnace City for him.

Since it's still pre-ch1, I'm assuming ||Steele Dome|| (ch3spoiler) is still under construction.

[compact aurora]

i like this but the text is a bit hard to catch

white on white

[balmy obsidian]

yoink
thank you

[halcyon swift]

Thanks for the suggestion ~ changed the text colours

and also put the textless version on the gm resource sheet

[dire shell]

Yoo

[shell bison]

As I have things I still need to prep ch3 for, this is a very powerful resource

[compact aurora]

this ,,,, actually looks a lot better yeah

xD

maybe i'd avoid the ???

location

tbh i like the idea of players seeing a building in a map and saying "What is that why isn't that marked? XD "

[dusky cradle]

FELICITATIONS, COMRADES!

(What I imagine Von Aldenberg must be doing all the time for Vex to let her appear in a suspiciously small space)

[shell bison]

I remember a game I ran where Striga would just....poke a small portion of her face through a grate to talk to the PC when they invoked her name.

Then she had to lean backa nd squeeze a comically sized device that should not fit through said grate out so they can use it on a mission

[dusky cradle]

MFW you become the conspiracy theory to spread conspiracy theories

"Invoke her name and she will appear, on the clock, moreso if you keep a pet ventcrab"

[shell bison]

If you're a good little boy or girl, Striga will push her hand through a grate to leave treats for your vent crab friends c:

[dusky cradle]

Gal's practically treating the entire station like a Minotaur cockpit

Treasure your players who can actually paint

[compact aurora]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6AOLg2EU84&pp=ygVPcGVyc29uYSAzIGFuaW1lIGFlZ2lzIGxvb2tpbmcgYXQgcnl1amkgd2l0aCBtYXNzIGRlc3RydWN0aW9uIGluIHRoZSBiYWNrZ3JvdW5kIA%3D%3D

[dusky cradle]

One of them did a whole-ass personnel file along with art for her Seccomm frozen clone, borrowed the emblem from a reddit post

[compact aurora]

"BABY BABY BABY AAAW YEEAH"

xD

[shell bison]

that's so good....

[dusky cradle]

"Political Assessment: Psyche-evaluation indicates lingering anthro-centric worldview from subliminal programming despite extensive brain damage"

And another PC came up with a Firstcomm bounty hunter who went straight Onanon and escaped to Calliope from the other side of the galaxy

Wish me luck, these two are going to be at each other's throats, would be fun if they ||meet Zinfandel, or learn about the Tachyon||

[dense crescent]

Heh
Reminds me of my PC in another (non-IGF) game
UIB agent who's been a UIB agent about as long as there has been a UIB
Was part of the "UIB shadow war" during the revolution that led to the UIB siding with ThirdComm
Still feels like shit about... letting SecComm happen in the first place

[regal comet]

I'm not supposed to go here but-

here y'all go, Mr. Masters✨

[shell bison]

IT HIM

ALSO SELE, SHOO, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE >:C

[regal comet]

🏃‍♂️ 💨

[dire cloud]

Jerry Masters! Now with more sad wet cat energy!

[fossil lion]

Jerry! 🙂

[zenith galleon]

Hell yeah
Finishing up my session for the week, my group ||just killed Capella, and wiped out most his boarding party on the Tachyon||

We're getting out now

One of our pilots is uh, ||getting very scared of something only he sees||

But ||the big man is very dead, and we made extra sure||

[clever cloud]

I really love Terrain Height Tools module

[twilit star]

Ooh good color choices

I personally made all the different size categories different but this is a good idea too

Also betraying your name I see (joke)

[clever cloud]

IGF being zero-g makes me need a good line of sight tool

[tame tide]

Wait what does that module do?

[twilit star]

Basically allows you to paint tiles and give them inherent heights and elevations, while also adding in a line of sight ruler so you can determine cover and line of sight better

[clever cloud]

Terrain Height Tools, my beloved. I cannot live without it.

[tame tide]

Wait does it work for foundry v10?

[clever cloud]

https://foundryvtt.com/packages/terrain-height-tools
it seems to have an older version for v10 but maybe that's something that could be worked on

[tame tide]

I updated to v11 when it came out and then went "there's a bunch of features I still want" so backported again and haven't upgraded het

[shell bison]

I love my players so much,

PC art doing anatomy practice

Left to right:

Striga Von Alderburg, IGF NPC
Charlotte Montaigne, ME (Our game IGF NPC)c:
Kat Tastro Phe, Player IGF PC
Carter, Little Sis IGF NPC
Calamaity Havok, IGF PC/NPC
Rose Bottle, IGF Co-Writer PC
Siren, IGF NHP NPC

[tame tide]

Damn, them are some height differences

[shell bison]

Calamity is very tall

[tame tide]

And siren but that's cheating, she's a hologram

[shell bison]

She's allowed.

[tame tide]

I also assumed was wearing closer to a pilots jacket so seeing her in a long coat... It throws me off but also makes a lot of sense looking back at the pic of her again

[shell bison]

Could also be formal wear.

[twilit star]

It does last I checked

[tame tide]

True true

[thorn hinge]

Calamity should be IGF PC/NPC :3

[shell bison]

You so right, fixed c:

[rustic seal]

Ch2 spoilers:
||My players are terrified of Send in the Clows which we'll play next week and I'm extremely excited, especially because I have made two additions to the combat in the form of two Slingers - The Golden Bandit and The Crimson Hunter - especially now that one of my players has access to The Golden Hand I thought it would be an interesting idea to add them as exposition on their mythical status||

||and yes, their build will be inspired by an earlier discussion about Slingers and Deathmarks - should be very fun to play around with and perhaps destroy their mechas||

[shell bison]

Yeehaw! :D

[fading wyvern]

This isn't the feedback thread

[ivory dune]

Aw god damn it, I'm an idiot

Sorry

[runic viper]

Does anyone know if act 2 has a release window?

[tame tide]

Draft is still in early pre-alpha phases and is pinned in https://discord.com/channels/426286410496999425/909574961931362365 Bare in mind this is a spoilered thread so, GM's only

It's still in early development and isn't in playtesting yet

[runic viper]

Oh thats super cool, ill try playtest that and give some feedback to help

[thorn hinge]

We appreciate it and love hearing how games go.

Still sticking with "it's done when it's done" for now, when it's closer to ready we should have a better idea of when the kickstarter will happen.

[runic viper]

Very fair, currently im just doing a read over before i try analise or try help

[wild flame]

IGF ACT 1 COMPLETE

bit over 1 year of mostly-weekly sessions

[floral glacier]

\o/

[wild flame]

9/29/2023-11/2/2024

[thorn hinge]

Congrats!

[shell bison]

WOOO!

[fallen geyser]

Yo this owns

[shell bison]

On today's Session of IGF:
Someone mentioned her origin and it's not going okay.

And Someone wants her egg back :)

[thorn hinge]

👀

Oh Plume...

[shell bison]

Little Plume, doing her best.

And a certain new burden for her co-pilot

The Ahsen One:
All cascade checks must be done with difficulty and the threshold would increase each time.

[fallen geyser]

Wait, Disastrous feline is part of YOUR playgroup? 😮

[twilit star]

Why would you wanna detransition? (Joke)

[shell bison]

Oh, no I wasked for their persmission to use their art because on of my players took ||A fragment of the tachyon|| \

[silver pumice]

yeah, my gm's @/sekiyo :] i love it when people use my art in their games

[tight pier]

Now that we hit LL3 our SRT has more NHPs than humans

Siren
Enlightenment-class + Sisyphus
Tlaloc
Student-class

for 4 players

[ebon hatch]

the Non-Human Party

[rustic seal]

that's very good

[tame tide]

My party is ll1 and is 1 NHP off having an equal amount of NHPs than humans 😎

(No technophiles, just NHP players)

Wair shit nvm siren counts

[wild flame]

Let's see... 3 PCs vs Siren, Mulligan (Lich pilot and Normal Human Person)'s 3 NHPs (Technophile, Unstable, and Didymos), Sisyphus' 1 NHP (Lucifer)...

There are more NHPs than humans in the SRT I run for

[shell bison]

Siren can take on 3 nhps

[fast parrot]

In a fight right?

[tame tide]

In a fight right?

[fast parrot]

ay

[tame tide]

😎

[shell bison]

[past agate]

the nhps are fighting alright

they're z fighting

[noble ivy]

How many people here have NHP players
I'm running the first session for my group this week and 2 of my players are NHP. and i fear that by LL3 the fleshy players are gonna be out numbered 10 to 1

[ebon hatch]

I don't have an NHP player, but I do have a Homunculus player and a player that married their Unstable NHP!

[noble ivy]

did they have a whole ceremony and everything?

[ebon hatch]

No idea!

But they do have rings!

One regular, one Everest finger-sized

[noble ivy]

well you know what you have to do during a downtime now
have a ceremony where they renew their vows

[ebon hatch]

most definitely, yes

[shell bison]

So far I have one player with a technophile NHP that might be a fragment of ||Feather||

One player thinking turning their little compcon buddy into an NHP

One player that is considering getting into a relationship with Siren

[ebon hatch]

oh my god

||what if Ignatius officiates?||

[shell bison]

Good heavens

[noble ivy]

I’m just imagining a mech with a big white tarp draped over it as a wedding dress

[shell bison]

Personalizations, mech scale wedding dress

[noble ivy]

I’m sure there’s a shop on the icebreaker that makes mech sized dresses

[shell bison]

Or subaltern sized if the PCs get the NHP buddies subalterns to use

One of the first downtimes my players did was to instead run to get some

[noble ivy]

That doesn’t mean there isn’t a seamstress specialized in figuring out how a tortuga would wear a dress

[shell bison]

I need to tell my Tortuga pilot on the campaign I play in to do that

[rustic seal]

||is having a Feather fragment NHP an IGF canon event? Same thing happened on mine||

[clever cloud]

for some reason, in my head, i would swap viceroy and enkidu

everything else? flawless

[shell bison]

Great minds think alike!

[hard falcon]

Mission 3:
||This squad has balls the size of space hoppers||

||THE MADLADS DID IT. THEY TOOK A STRUCTURE OFF THE BARBAROSSA||

[shell bison]

Huge balls

[thorn hinge]

None of my players directly, but I'm semi-partially-assistant GM'ing a game with a PC who's playing both an NHP and her human wife using the Player 2 Interface to effectively be one person.

[noble ivy]

i love that most NHP players know to get weird with it

In my group one of my players is an NHP that is underclocked so hard that he thinks he's just a comp/con

and another one pitched the idea of "what if i was a cat, piloting a android, that then pilots a mech

[wispy quail]

had my first real session today! jerry was Very Tired

one of the player characters wasn't actually a member of the SRT until Literally Right Now, Today so that's going to be interesting later (esp. ||VORSHUNGSMOTOR||)

he also signed a very vague contract to do some work for ID later in exchange for a discount on the food shipment, so i'm going to enjoy calling that in when he least expects it

[wild flame]

gets called up ||circa start-of-mission-3 like "hey so we need you to be part of this new venture we're going to be starting on asphodel-||

[ivory dune]

I encased one of my players in 4 metric tons of extrudite

[wild flame]

put that MF in the cube

[heady vale]

My partner is LL0 and we are already at 6:2, Player:NHP

[fast parrot]

Counting siren I believe our party is at 4:2

[floral glacier]

My party is atttt... 5 to 5 actually, evenly balanced

Though technophile Pearce is an outlier and should not be counted

[shell bison]

Party I play in, including Siren we are ....
4 NHPS to 5 Human PCS

[floral glacier]

Oh if we're counting Siren that's 6 to 5, though I always thought of her as a free agent who liked to hang out with the party, like Striga

[amber viper]

Siren and Catch party is 4 to 2 lol

[shell bison]

Lmao

[shell bison]

Catch being our NHP Boat is amazing

[twilit star]

How did you get a picture of my last combat?

(Also spoiler tag that thang, this is the spoiler free chat)

[wild flame]

The 10 million extrusion cubes serve as a spoiler, can't make anything out except The Cubes

[twilit star]

Fair

[worthy root]

I wish that was me. I was running ||Act 3: Roadblock|| on Sunday, and somehow the Barricade, over 8 rounds of combat, never managed to recharge mobile printer

[fading wyvern]

Fights do just be like that sometimes

[thorn hinge]

is that ||thermopylae? had almost the same happen in my game. The double-printing cubes build up fast and the Barricade just. Kept. Recharging. Spend the whole fight printing up a bunker on the control point. It looked like it was actually going to give the players some trouble until Pear used a B/B Breaching charge and nuked 2/3rds of the buildup off the map||

[rustic seal]

also, that map looks super cool

[rustic seal]

I'm very excited for this fight because I have a 100% rate of recharge on my NPCs for some ungodly reason, I am building Fort Kickass

[ivory dune]

||Yep, Thermopylae. Goddamn bastards wombo-comboed my sniper instantly from halfway across the map using the Everest core power. As penance, they got put in timeout inside the cube||

[ivory dune]

Thank Al- their maps are great. Al, I beg you for the rest of chapter 5's maps

[thorn hinge]

By the One

||The sniper met the same fate in mine. Came in as reinforcements, instantly deleted via antimat rifle||

[ivory dune]

They never let us have anything cool. Lancer GMs truly are the most oppressed underclass of gamers™️

[shell bison]

Ada, get excited because ||I may be running Therm this weekend >:)||

[tight pier]

Shit's about to go down

[floral glacier]

Oh that's really cool

[tight pier]

thank you!

[fossil lion]

...what's the deal with the vacant player slot?

[clever cloud]

i reaaaally love the Halo-themed landing page

[tight pier]

thank you! definitely a pain in the ass (i have to make and save a new image every single time i want to edit it) but i think its worth it

[zenith galleon]

yeah that Halo-themed landing page is great

stellar stuff

[tight pier]

everything except the background and the bars at the top and bottom (which were screenshotted) were traced over and remade completely in a paint.net

[lunar panther]

one of the player characters may or may not be getting kicked off the SRT for some bad stuff they did :3

||(their amygdala got fried when the NHP inside their skull cascaded, and their decision making has gotten worse and worse as time's gone on. it didn't help that this PC was already very apathetic and nihilistic)||

||but they'll likely be getting replaced by the NHP in a subaltern frame, so yippee||

[hearty wave]

My group is going ghost hunting.

[heavy comet]

"Ghost punching" you mean

[tame tide]

University and deadlines are hitting me like a truck 😭

• due to scheduling conflicts my furthest ahead group are only mission 4 first combat so I don't have motivation to create mission 5 maps too fast yet... As much as I want to I just have too much to do and not enough free time

[clever cloud]

Uploaded pixel's custom kitbashes for bespoke NPCs. As of time of writing: ||Capella in Ch1, and Capella in Ch5||. Let me know what you would like to see next! I need to reread ||Ch3|| cuz i think some bespoke tokens there would pop off

[shell bison]

Bespoke you say?

👀

[clever cloud]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1B9E3HSwaAFk51eBPVq31SvI5NTIz56J4?usp=sharing
This link. It's now on the IGF resource excel sheet too

[shell bison]

oh these are siiiiick

[clever cloud]

@prime terrace is so fucking good

[prime terrace]

:3c

I have my ways~

spoilered bc spoilers my bad

[modest hamlet]

Icky sticky balor

Has anyone here started In Golden Flame at a higher LL?

[tight pier]

I know there's a group here that did, but I can't for the life of me remember who

[modest hamlet]

Gotcha, I figure it's doable

[tight pier]

It's not recommended. But doable, yes. Definitely will mess with the balance of Mission 1, Mission 2, Mission 5, and other encounters

[shell bison]

Plus tier 2 enemies much easier in campaign

[hybrid flint]

God I love coming up with stupid call signs.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/248666054568443906/1304681525563887717/image.png?ex=673046db&is=672ef55b&hm=151668917138cdce8abb26c1fdb00a4e9a71b4c8e8d1b773a6e1b285f4a737b1&

(For the S1GN4L fight, naturally.)

[twilit star]

Ya know with the announcement of Far Field, I would imagine that Calliope is a not infrequent stop for Far Field teams heading in/past the Long Rim

[clever cloud]

I always phrase the Long Rim as a highway underpass. Yall are stuck right in between the most important locations in the Orion Arm, right on the most transited highway in the galaxy, but nobody wants to stop here

[clever cloud]

my players are theorizing about an artifical beach in Calliope called BEASH.

[runic viper]

i was very confused when my dyslexic ass read that with the p and f switched

[dire cloud]

What happened to the first 8 Princess Fussypants?

[balmy obsidian]

Overdosed

[runic viper]

what

on.. on what

[balmy obsidian]

Love

-# (meth)

[runic viper]

ah. yea ive been told that can make your heart flutter and then fucking stop

[tight pier]

Probably would be one on Impact Plaza

[quaint pebble]

I believe its been said before that as an O'Neill cylinder technically Impact Plaza can have a real ocean and real beach... but that doesnt disqualify it from having a fake one

[shell bison]

A player of mine thinks all the oceans on Asphodel should allow for a synth beach somehow in Furnace city

[floral glacier]

I like to imagine some enterprising soul on the gate tried to fix up an old water storage or sedimentation pool for that reason - it'd be cramped in reality but add some holographic projectors or something? Could work

[runic viper]

Probably could have it occasionaly flicker as a way to show its getting bad, and the pool doesnt have that many people inside

[floral glacier]

I think for folks who've lived their whole lives on ships or stations wouldn't have a lot of nostalgia about the ol' swimming hole but maybe someone from out of system did it for folks from livable planet surfaces.

[runic viper]

Probably, theyd likely have heard of it and thought it was cool, so opened a neice sort of "beachside bar"

[wispy quail]

does anyone have a Squad token that I can use for the Squad in Spitting Distance?

[floral glacier]

Retrograde minis has a pretty good one? Unless you wanted something different

[wispy quail]

ah that's probably fine

does retrograde have a size 4 ship token i could use for the escort target?

[clever cloud]

i think hot tubs would be way more common. like bath houses. there's plenty of sources of hot water on an industrial space station

[floral glacier]

Oh for sure - in the early days of the station someone probably set up a little sauna in the evaporative cooling/humidifier comanagement system in life support. (why waste perfectly good waste heat when you have water and bone dry air is bad for people). After that it probably turned into a tidy little industry

[fossil lion]

i made this thing with a random sprite from OpenGameArt (https://opengameart.org/content/space-cargo-hauler) a while back
feel free to do whatever with it

[wispy quail]

thank you!

[fossil lion]

🙂

happy to help

[amber viper]

It's the Luggage!

[thorn hinge]

I made my own editing retrograde. Colors for the Hellhounds and the Faith, and a larger number of troops so they look more filled out and really take up that size 4 area without having the people be mech-sized on the field. I made them for my use, hex-grid isometric, so they don't quite fill the space of say, square grid topdown, but I think it's better than the base squad tokens with only five giant dudes.

[wild flame]

Here's a retrograde recolor I did for hellhounds. I also have a 5-man ID one somewhere that i can go find if anyone wants it.

[fading wyvern]

I don't know if you still want/need a retrograde version of this but here's a shuttle I painted

...it's maybe a bit too fancy but c'est la vie.

[wispy quail]

waow

[hybrid salmon]

might start gm-ing a IGF campaign soon
have a party and timeslot, have some initial concepts, 3 of the 4 of them have Technophile 1.
...we may have an oops all NHPs party...

[hybrid salmon]

also an idea I want some feedback on. I don't feel like giving the players a free EVA module, but I want it to be there. Thinking about making an exotic gear Calliopean EVA Module that's exactly the same thing, but with +1 HP attached, as a little apology. What do people think?

[fading wyvern]

In my campaign we're using the books suggestion of an anti-EVA module

Which is to say that Calliopean mechs are built with EVA modules by default, but in order to fit them inside the mech they sacrifice some of the servos required to keep the meching moving properly under normal gravity

So players operate just fine in zero G, but need to install a gravity assist module to move in normal gravity or else they are slowed

[clever cloud]

yea im playing reverse zero-g too

makes for some fun flying shenags

[hybrid salmon]

I'll keep that in mind
Btw, I've read through Act 1, are these gravity/not distributions correct?
||Mission 1: All zero gravity, Mission 2: All gravity with one exception, Mission 3: All gravity, Mission 4: All low gravity, metavault is weird ig, Mission 5: All low gravity||

Point being, I'm thinking about whether I want the SP to be a problem (or perhaps opportunity?) in a minority or majority of missions

[fading wyvern]

||(Mission 4 isn't all low gravity because metavault is weird, it's all low gravity because it's on an asteroid that isn't big enough to have a decent gravitational field)||

[hybrid salmon]

||I meant the metavault breaks rules, its gravity isn't necessarily related to the surrounding gravity||

[fading wyvern]

||True||

||That's not quite right though. I think the last fight of mission one has gravity because the ship is under acceleration||

[hybrid salmon]

||So in the reverse EVA situation, it's possible the players find themselves Slowed in an arena they didn't prepare for? I guess the capital ship fight in chapter 2 is similar in the opposite direction||

[fading wyvern]

Indeed

[main scaffold]

GOD i wanna start on the igf tokens so bad but we haven't cleared acts 4 and 5 yet

GRAAAAAAAAAAAH

[runic viper]

im using that for ||"sunbird 2 electric boogaloo"||

thats really cool

[rustic seal]

does anyone have a turret token for (ch2 spoiler) ||the Faith of the One||? I'm doing prep for the ||Killer Sound|| combat and I wanted to know if anyone had one that looked cooler

I was working on one and my colors went negative so I think retrogrademinis is telling me to fuck off

(the negative thing was a joke, but if anyone does have a turret token for that faction that would be lovely)

[fading wyvern]

You may wish to use this one instead

(I added the missile pods back on)

[runic viper]

those are massive holy shit hehehe, they genuinely look like they could oneshot a size 2

suitably scary

[fading wyvern]

Mhhhm

||A lot more fun when you're not on the recieving end of them||

[rustic seal]

the players had their chance

they suffer willingly

[fading wyvern]

Indeed

My players are doing Anti Capital next monday

And guess who forgot to give them a full repair after they finished Killer Sound?

Thankfully a few of them still have core powers and reserve allies available

If not points of structure.

[hybrid salmon]

hm, who on Hell's Gate is most likely to have a vent crab fursona?

[shell bison]

Kraken, or Striga

[ebon hatch]

Striga feels like the person most likely to go full-Zoidberg, so I think a vent crab-sona fits.

[clever cloud]

In-case-of-sentient-vent-crab-takeover

[ebon hatch]

"Comrades! To survive the vent crab-pocalypse, you mustn't just think like a vent crab! You must become the vent crab!"

https://tenor.com/view/zoidberg-walking-zoidberg-futurama-walking-funny-gif-13167961

[fading wyvern]

Switch has one but not cause like

He chose to have one

His audience just kinda. Declared that it was the case

There's a lot of Vent-Crab Switch artwork out there

[runic viper]

vent crab fursona

what a cursed set of words

i really hope my players never go onto this discord as they would totally do that as a downtime

just have one go off and realise their a furry

[noble ivy]

"this better not awaken anything in me"

[clever cloud]

being a furry is pretty cool

[runic viper]

it is

[clever cloud]

<-- unbiased source

[runic viper]

truely unbiased, both of our opinions

however

my irl friends are not aware, so that would be a can of fucking worms

and considering the tonal whiplash would put you in the hospital, something id rather not happen, esspecially as one of them is eyeing the cosmetic mods already

[clever cloud]

everything is better with animal ears

[runic viper]

true

[shell bison]

As the bunny girl sona haver, yes

[twilit star]

Hey y’all should spoiler that stuff

[twilit star]

Wait shoot no you should spoiler that

The ship is fine

Ships appear in this module. That is common knowledge knowledge

[runic viper]

the name?

[twilit star]

Yes

[runic viper]

sure its /spoiler right

[twilit star]

||Sunbird 2 is an act 2 spoiler||

[runic viper]

what

[twilit star]

No you put || on both sides of the text

[runic viper]

i was making a custom encounter with that name woops

[twilit star]

OOPS

[runic viper]

yea hehehehhehe

[twilit star]

I mean. You’re a GM I hope.

,,, are you?

[runic viper]

yea i am dw dw

[twilit star]

Ok cool then you should know this lmao

[runic viper]

im reading the act 2 draft rn i just skimmed some of the parts

so no problem ehehhe

[dire shell]

I am very proud of this <.<

[wild flame]

Yo this is sick

[orchid wind]

What do I do about a player's mech being destroyed while the printer is still broken

[shell bison]

Back up GMS mech from someone in the militia, no core power but it still runs and does what they need, plus meet a cool new NPC in the militia maybe! :D

The player could just owe them a favor.
"Thanks for letting me borrow your Everest."
"Cool , buy me a martini at the bar later? "

[rustic seal]

THIS LOOKS SO GOOOOD

[shell bison]

I see you, Satyr.

Any chance to give my players more friends to hang out with/get invested into I will do so

[rustic seal]

my main purpose is to hype up everyone's ideas on this discord and then steal them for my own games and be called a genius

[shell bison]

LMAO

Same hat?

🎩

[rustic seal]

and also i love the roleplaying that comes from PCs asking NPCs for stuff

the sense of community that grows from interactions where people ask and give in return is super interesting, especially in a place like Hell's Gate

and the kind of "breaking" that comes from going from there to (ch2)||the Icebreaker|| and it being so different is super cool

and also if the pcs interact with more npcs then they can also kiss smooch muahmuah and be devastated by the consequences of future (in)actions and that's the essence of ttrpgs

[tight pier]

If the players have the repairs they can just restore it if they have access to the wreck. I also like void's idea of borrowing someone else's mech

[lunar panther]

we do this so much that our players respect and fear "the GM cabal"

[halcyon swift]

Because my player's impression of the environment inside Hell's Gate is a bit blurry.
I use Dystopika as material to create a picture of the Hell's Gate hub ring.

[shell bison]

It can also be cool if you ask an NPC you know if they know anybody that has a frame to spare and then suddenly.

"Gamer, I got you" and they pull a pro move and slap a saggy in front of you.

Why do they have it?
Cause :)

Meta reason, That NPC is your favorite and I as the GM want you attached to your favorite.

[orchid wind]

They got fuckin butchered by the signal fight but somehow still are pulling out a win lol

[rustic seal]

it's like I always say:
players fear me
fish respect me
pretty people scare me

[shell bison]

Satyr, do you know how many former players into IGF gm's I know now?

I know atleast....5?

[tight pier]

beware of the pipeline

[shell bison]

And they ask me questions and I'm just this little bunny on a computer like, "Gamer I'm just a bunny, what you want me to do?"

They also taunt me with threatening putting Charlotte(my IGF pc) in there as a guest star and I cry each time.

[rustic seal]

calling people "gamer" is such a power move I can't begin to describe it

[shell bison]

Fricc, I really also need to finish my NPC card project. Life busy....

[rustic seal]

I did have Striga pulling a mech out of an impossibly small compartment but I do say that not having her say "gamer" is now such a missed opportunity

[shell bison]

I have enabled many a player to become a GM as IGF is great starting method to GM lancer

[rustic seal]

honestly? yeah

[shell bison]

Striga says gamer like how millennial writers add swear words to casual dialogue. Prove me wrong.

[clever cloud]

Im not even done with ch1 and i have players engrossed in the world and the characters

[rustic seal]

I would never because I want it to be true

[shell bison]

You weren't here when I would call everyone, My Pilot as a gender neutral term for everyone. Now Gamer is my go to because not every person you meet in Calliope is a pilot.

[clever cloud]

The amount of emotional attachment they have with Jerry is astonishing. I've never seen anything like it

[shell bison]

Jerry, my beloved....

I think everyone in my party I get to play in would die for Jerry if needed. He is too pure. The sad wet cat sponge of a man.

My PC totally didn't have a crush on him before meeting Anastasia, nope. No Bi panic here.

[compact aurora]

me totally planning on putting Jerry back on his sherman

:)

[clever cloud]

||Im right before Face to a Name, and 3 of 5 players have asked me when is Jerry gonna die, so they can mentally prepared to cry all week||

[compact aurora]

:(((((

[shell bison]

||You know, you can threaten them with visions after they meet the crone in ch3 and then the pay off in the Boltzman mine in ch4||

[amber viper]

You're one of them : p

[shell bison]

You did this to me. You got me invested in this module.

[amber viper]

I brought the word of Vex from down off the mountain, and you've spread the good word in my stead lol

[tight pier]

||Boltzmann is gonna be fucked|| for our group

[shell bison]

Hugs you. Hoists you off the ground.

[compact aurora]

sekiro grab attack symbol noise

[shell bison]

Oh yeah, Athena you got to keep me in the loop on that one.

[shell bison]

Charlotte returned to her blackbeard days

[tight pier]

||Yeah that might genuinely be our party's lowest point||

[compact aurora]

Jerry to me is the only character in the book (as far as i got) who counts as a "mentor character that's out of the loop but will get back to fighting again sometime"

XD

[compact aurora]

CHARLOTTE WITH THE STEEL CHAIR

https://tenor.com/view/chair-gif-19425568

[shell bison]

To be fair, from what you and Block have told me your party is probably the most scuffed run I have heard an IGF game go. Not in a bad way mind you. I fucking love it.

Regular Calliope tragedy over there

[tight pier]

Listen it wasn't my fault one of our players ended up choosing to play as a ||direct relative of the one character who explicitly has a bio that states "All of the rest of her family is part of the Inner Cult"||

[shell bison]

I know, it's so kino.

so peak.

[compact aurora]

lol

[shell bison]

May the Good Flame be kinder to you, James.

[compact aurora]

my IFG gang did not have a game past session 0 yet

cuz we're all busy (and im running a game already))

[shell bison]

Oof

[wild flame]

The player went forth from the mountain, changed.
Within them, a power began to grow
A GM yet waits upon that highest mountain, though they do not speak with the same voice.

- Excerpt, the Parable of the GM upon the Mountain

[main scaffold]

this is so good wow

[shell bison]

Well, officially closing the book on my first ever IGF game I ever ran.

Shine on you crazy stars ✨

[tame tide]

🫡

[compact aurora]

RAAAAH nice work bunz

[shell bison]

Thank you ;v;

[compact aurora]

let us all praise a free-er schedule xD

im sure u did great

[past agate]

O7

[shell bison]

I try my absolute best and each player is happy the game happened and saddened that it ended ;v;

[past agate]

YOU DONEIT

[shell bison]

I deed it

[ebon hatch]

you diddeded it!

[zenith galleon]

We're starting mission 2 off in IGF in the group I'm playing in!

my pilot wound up rolling real damn good on Taking A Break in her downtime and finally got a good bit of rest, for once

[wild flame]

Congratulations!

[shell bison]

Now I got to get my other game to go even further >:)

[ebon hatch]

gotta fill the gap between now and Act 2 somehow

[fallen geyser]

Sneak peak at Act 2:

[noble ivy]

The Main character (AKA god's favorite punching bag)

[twilit star]

“I’m the narratives fav blah blah not a good thing yada yada”

[floral glacier]

"Some people say being the main character of reality is a curse; but with my sponsors - Calliope Cannibus That Just Kills You - I can do anything, even survive ironic consequences that are most certainly not coming to me"

[hybrid salmon]

I'm coming up with npc callsigns
enjoy this cursed S1GN4L renaming of a Hell Hounds mech by proximity and hacking
||WH1T3 W124RD ur M0M <formerly White Wizard>||

^ this is ||the Seeder in that encounter, which only makes it worse||

[shell bison]

....I'm replaying the entire campaign just to shoot his cowboy hat off

[zenith galleon]

when the group I'm playing in fought 'em recently every single PC wanted to just obliterate 'em

well

wanted to after they kept taunting the party

[rustic seal]

mine was kind of on the fence about it, but then they saw the art and me calling them "n00bz" really pushed them over the edge

[shell bison]

S1GN4L is 2000's era COD Lobby Vibes.

[ebon hatch]

minus the racism

which, as far as I remember, was a pretty significant portion of those vibes, sadly.

[zenith galleon]

S1GN4L in the run I'm in discovered how scary a core-active Emperor's arc beam (with Condemning going on) can be

"wait what do you mean I take 2 AP anyways"

[shell bison]

Oh good heavens

[balmy obsidian]

I like S1GN4L, S1GN4L is my friend

We eat noodles together with the boys

[fast parrot]

Signal exploded before he could go to the noodle bar

[balmy obsidian]

[fast parrot]

(we might have melted down a reactor in his face)

[wild flame]

you might legitimately be the first person to ever say that

[balmy obsidian]

Well, he didn't get exploded during combat on account of the invisibility being too annoying for us to bother and we didn't want to just execute the guy post conflict so we brought him back home and afterwards he got me a Goblin license so we're cool now

[wild flame]

understandable

My players were also unable to deal with him during the fight, resulting in him being a fucking menace the entire time ||including The Incident aka metafold shove > atlas missile true combo||. This resulted in my players holding a grudge for all time. Two of the PCs worked together to trace his muse traffic to find where he was hiding purely so they could threaten to leak his location to the entire system... unless he gave them the printcodes for his mech scale cowboy hat.

[runic viper]

you pokemoned the person with internet poisioning

im genuinely impressed

for us he was the first to die

the sniper was given a leadership die and had no idea that rolling a 20 was good (she was that new)

so suffice to say when he got structured he rolled snake eyes

[shell bison]

My players after the fight realized we have a LOT of coding errors on the Gate, so they used the reward from the ch1 food run fight to bribe him to come onto the station, under probation.

"Y0U C4N'T ST0P TH3 S1GN4L B4BY"

He is now dealing with the listof error codes Shelly doesn't have time for on Hell's Gate and constantly asked why the cowboy hat

[runic viper]

nah thats a sick redemption actually

hes just the code monkey in the background now

[clever cloud]

oh ho ho, my players are shaking in their boots inside the ||Tachyon||. Im in love with how this session is going

[compact aurora]

what the hell? switch villan arc??? XD (i only read the first chapter)

[clever cloud]

the amount of spoilers required to explain how on earth that fight happens would ruin like 6 chapters worth of spoilers

[fallen geyser]

It is a possible outcome if PCs make certain choices 🙂

[compact aurora]

gootcha xD

[shell bison]

Personally, I adore how the constant theme in this game I'm running is these gamers want redemption arcs for everyone around them.

Even if it is just, "We paid you to stop being a dick"

[clever cloud]

my players have started out with extremely black and white "all pirates bad and irredeemable." im excited to see how their characters evolve to be more understanding

[shell bison]

Show them former pirates trying to make good or wanting out of the hounds. Calamity Havok is an excellent venue for that along with using her as a medium to send hell hounds that surrender and taken prisoner. she has mama lion energy

[clever cloud]

oh Calamity is primed and ready trust!

there's a lot of Yuri between Calamity and (i shit you not) Serenity, one of my PCs

[shell bison]

I'll be sure to ping Ada and Xen that Calamity has, Once again, found a gf

I swear if it isn't Calamity its Siren as calliope's most Eligible Bachelorette

[clever cloud]

lmaoo

[shell bison]

In ch1 anyway

[clever cloud]

eyoo

i cannot wait for Ch3

[shell bison]

The Good Flame knows I should have skipped take out that week during the kickstarter to slide Char in the book.

Ah well, c’est la vie

[clever cloud]

im intrigued

[shell bison]

Oh? Do not give me reason to OC PC Post

[clever cloud]

well first, im curious if there's anyone in my party who would flirt with ||Loki|| considering they all seem to blanket hate ||Harrison Armory||

second, I adore how much character pops out of IGF. I love people talking about their characters endlessly

[fast parrot]

Act 2 may have one

[shell bison]

Oh, Oh I have a story to share in the campaign I play in about that loveable troublemaker

[shell bison]

You dare give me the green light to bnuy post

[clever cloud]

pls, i need bnuy

[tame tide]

Interaction I had yesterday's session

||Ok, we're splitting. Who's going to the strike and who's going to HA?

3 people with bad blood with HA in their BG: "I'm going to the strike"
2 Other players, who are NHP's: "We can go to HA"
Player who's wanted by HA to me: "What is HA's opinion on NHP's"
Me: "They view them more as tools and technology than people than most corpostates"
Player who's wanted by HA: "Fine, Guess I'll go"

1 Interaction with Loki later:
Player who's wanted by HA: "Loki is now my best friend, Once this is done I am using the Elysian Champagne (Jerry's Care package) with Loki"||

[shell bison]

Alright, Alright, if you insist.

[clever cloud]

BNUY

oh btw im so excited to introduce ||Rita||, im gonna curse so much

[shell bison]

Card is on my(sadly neglected because gf visit) share of the GM Resources for character cards of NPCs wit art. The non canon ones are just members of the game I get to play in.

[shell bison]

she is indeed, bnuy

Charlotte is the team mom, feisty latina, religious redemption arc, Sunzi Pilot, former Voladore(?)

[clever cloud]

oh shit

[shell bison]

she techncially isn't but she was a former epsada but the party has no idea the distinction in character so they just say she is for the street cred

which is very funny.

We are very deep into act 2 right now and the bun is about to do a very big pro gamer move in a coming boss fight

[dire cloud]

[thorn hinge]

hi yes excuse me hello 👀

void didn't even get a chance to summon me, you distracted him into bnuy char posting

[clever cloud]

Serenity & Calamity... That wasn't planned by the player nor by me

[shell bison]

You were asleep, I didn't want to ping you Ada ;v;

[clever cloud]

Serenity is a trauma surgeon in Hell's Gate. She was at the hospital bay when a large group of mining workers arrived after being ambushed by Hell Hounds. All's business as usual until Serenity notices that the next victim, Calamity, has a bunch of tattoos that would rank her pretty damn high up in the Hell Hounds.

[shell bison]

to be fair, the unexpected ship is always the best. Ana was a flashbang to Charlotte

[clever cloud]

from that, there's been a lot of Angst™️

Serenity is confronted with the necessity of combat and violence in ch1. and Calamity is soon to be confronted with "maybe it's nice to be nice" to put it simply. I'm characterizing her as "God i hope i dont develop attachments to these soon-to-be burn victims! I'm gonna stay in the mech hangar, there better not be any character development in store for me!!"

[thorn hinge]

OKAY I LOVE THAT

[clever cloud]

The way i phrased it:
Serenity is afraid of losing herself
Calamity is afraid of finding herself

[thorn hinge]

AGH

okay give me a sec I have gifts for you about this

[clever cloud]

im SCREAMING

[thorn hinge]

Okay I love all my PCs yeah but Calamity... I live for Calamity yuri

[balmy obsidian]

Our group really didn't have much interaction with Calamity so far. The only one I can remember is when she threatened an uncooperative Autopod with a big wrench.

[clever cloud]

Im so happy to be carrying that flag onwards

the tricky part im trying to figure out is how much would Calamity know about ||Ingatius and the Cult|| given that she was pretty high up on the Hell Hounds. A headache for tomorrow i guess

[thorn hinge]

that's fun too! And I've got three more PCs in the book so if you have any run-ins or stories with Kraken, Gabriel, or Pear I will absolutely demand to know more

[balmy obsidian]

nothing for now sorry

Will keep you up to date though

[thorn hinge]

when it comes to any of them, I'm always willing to chat and take DMs about how to use them or give more ideas on what they're like. With the eternal caveat: Once the book is in your hands, they're your NPCs. I can tell you what the PCs that inspired them are like, but the GMs have control and can take them where they like. Except the one group that misgendered kraken, they got a gentle "could you not" and in all fairness, they immediately corrected mid-livestream after several sessions of thinking kraken used she/her for some reason.

[shell bison]

Kraken, my beloved vent creature

[runic viper]

kraken?

[thorn hinge]

pg 74, option 7-8
They're a minor NPC in chapter 1. All of my PCs got added to the book as kickstarter rewards.

[runic viper]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

yea they're cool

[thorn hinge]

There's so much more to Kraken than can fit in that little blurb in the book, so most NPC Krakens are pretty wildly different from PC Kraken... but that's a part of the fun.

[runic viper]

hehhe, theyve got a paragraph giving the basics, hell i would have done them as a always moving teched-to-the-gills npc who sells cheap and weird custom prosthetics. its cool tho that other people went for really different interpretations

[thorn hinge]

I've seen Kraken as a secret underground DJ, a skateboard punk, a member of The Truth (the PC is actually more of a friendly rival with Striga and The Truth), and a paranoid anti-authoritarian cyberpunk with Moira riding in a badass spider-subaltern living in a web of cables in the roof space of Kraken's workshop

[thorn hinge]

Aaaaand now that I'm free of work aggro...

It's up to you and how you want your story to go. It's easy enough to say she got backstabbed before all of that (the PC went that route, was out of the Hounds for a good year before being picked for the SRT) or it could be really recent. Even if it's recent, you can decide what she knows based on what information you want the players to get from her. She could even have been ousted as a part of it, ||Ignatius turning Capella against her, playing elements of the hounds off each other to keep them unstable while he gains power, perhaps. Maybe she saw what the Speaker was doing and was trying to stop it when she got backstabbed.|| There's a lot that can be played with, when it comes to her getting stabbed and left for dead. She could have been fomenting a coup against Capella, or he could just have thought she was. She could be a part of ||Ignatius taking over||, be against it, or have no idea it's going on at all.

Even if she's out early though, she could still have contacts inside who know what's going on, if you want to set her timeline earlier but still have a way to leak that info to the players.

[clever cloud]

this is some good shit, thanks for the insight

[thorn hinge]

anytime! and please... let me know how things develop with Serenty/Calamity.

Damn, they even have complementary names

[clever cloud]

I KNOW!!

and it wasn't planned at all

[thorn hinge]

The PC in Void's game that's dating Calamity Havok is name Kat.
Kat Tastro Phe.

[shell bison]

Kat loves her soon to be former pirate wife

[tame tide]

Wait so Krakens a PC, Gabriel and Calamiry... who else are NPCified PCs?

[shell bison]

Pear in the Ch3 minor NPC list, also in Ada's game

[shell bison]

I love them, all of them.

[main scaffold]

hell yeah congrats! i assume you’re gonna do act 2 with them once its out?

i am assuming you wrapped at the end of act 1 since that most closely matches what people told me about their progression

and i think the odds of you speedrunning the entirety of the act 2 draft in like one month are rather slim

[shell bison]

Pretty much

[main scaffold]

fuck yeah

one hell of a milestone

[modest hamlet]

I may be misunderstanding the idea of being under 1g acceleration here, but on ships like the dragon's tooth, but is the ship designed in such a way that it can be sensibly traversed during both halves of the trip?

[maiden ferry]

it flips around

the thrusters are only on one side afaik

so the gravity is "down" for everybody inside both ways

now dont ask me what the centrifugal force of flipping around while going really fast would do to a human body

[modest hamlet]

Wait, right. Down is directly opposite from the destination, correct?

[maiden ferry]

depends on which leg of the journey

[modest hamlet]

Initially

[maiden ferry]

thats correct in the beginning, but halfway through downward becomes the destination, as we're applying thrust away from it to slow down

[maiden ferry]

and halfway through, the ship does a 180 and begins slowing down

yeah that

[modest hamlet]

Yeah

[noble ivy]

pizza tower movement:

[modest hamlet]

So like, ladders inside

[tame tide]

It fucked me over for a while as well then I went "wait a minute it flips direction... So it doesn't matter"

Kinda wack cos it would mean the dragons tooth interior is horizontal

[thorn hinge]

Yeah, it probably feels like living in a tower with the cockpit on top and the engines on the bottom. Might be some sort of elevator as well as ladders. It's supposed to also work in regular gravity though, in which case everything rotates 90 degrees, and the central shaft becomes the main hallway with each floor being a bulkhead.

[tame tide]

However many floors there will be

How tf would beds work?

Gimballed beds?

[thorn hinge]

I adore the way you depicted Hell's Gate and the Icebreaker here.

[tame tide]

10 sec doodle

[thorn hinge]

that's how I imagine it

[tame tide]

Needed to drive from somewhere to somewhere else

[noble ivy]

Probably just a twin mattress or even a sleeping bag that flops over whenever in space or actual gravity

[tame tide]

Probs more convenient

[thorn hinge]

try not to be sleeping when the ship transits downwell

FLOP

[tame tide]

I assume it's also just good etiquette in a ship to not leave things out and about, someone leaves a game controller in the common room then when the ship flips it gets hurled against the wall and suddenly you have 3 working controllers, 4 people who want to play games, a week of travel and no one stepping up with responsibility that they didn't put the controller in the dock

[thorn hinge]

Seriously, watch the Expanse. Everybody should, in general, but especially IGF players. You'll learn real quick what happens to unsecured items and people when a ship needs to maneuver.

[modest hamlet]

Yep

[tame tide]

My player mentioned on the ISS they put velcro on everything so IG on the dragon's tooth of in Calliope they'd do something similar

Just, throw a velcro pencil at the velcro table and that should survive the change in direction. But not the 5g hard burn maneuvers that Siren pulls

[wild flame]

hammocks, for a low-tech answer

[fading wyvern]

Depends how fast you do it but the answer is not much since you're supposed to cut acceleration while you turn around

If you're in the centre of the ship it feels like gravity cuts out for a moment, the ship rotates around you and then it cuts back in

If you're at an extremity you might feel something since the ship would essentially be under spin gravity for a moment, but that really depends how big your ship is and how fast the turn is

[hybrid salmon]

so my LL0 crew's heavy weapon mounts are filled with two anti-materiel rifles, a cyclone pulse rifle, and a tempest charge blade
this'll be fun

(also all of them took the 2000 HASE, which I'm mildly disappointed about, even though that's probably optimal)

[noble ivy]

Whats the 2000 HASE?

[clever cloud]

2 hull at LL0

[noble ivy]

ohh

i thought it was some system that was weirdly abbreviated

[worthy root]

Oh, Heyo Leo. You should post the Randsome note memes you made for the team here.

[balmy obsidian]

I am very shy But I will, even if I think like one or two of them were already posted.

There's also the one @hearty whale made

[tame tide]

Oof

They're gonna do so much burst damage all at once

And then everyone just moves i to close range and they're fucked

[runic viper]

i hate that you made the words "skibidi toilet" using the cut up method

[balmy obsidian]

I am entirely innocent of this crime

That one was Snicker's fault

[runic viper]

their thought crime is noted

[tame tide]

Opinions for layout for mission 5 battlemap ||CAPELLA TIME||

Leaning towards layout 5...

[clever cloud]

try a diagonal layout 👀

[ebon hatch]

40k actually does a lot of diagonal deployment layouts, I’m surprised I haven’t seen more of those in Lancer tbh.

The hex system certainly facilitates it.

[tame tide]

I think... That would break my brain...

[clever cloud]

look at league of legends map. It's square, but players are deployed from opposite corners and the big neutral objectives are on the diagonal line that is equidistant from both deployments

[tame tide]

Counter point, league of legends

I have played a fair amount of wargames with diagonal layouts, I'm not alien to it. I just don't know if it will be visually appealing as a map

It doesn't feel it in my mind

[clever cloud]

Here's a map i used for a one-shot recently

it's fine if it doesnt work. i was just throwing my hat in the ring

[tame tide]

Fair, it works there...

I think it can work but slightly feels like it fucks with the focal points a tad too much

IDK, in this instance it feels off and I cannot say why

Compared to something similar like this which is what 5 is like... IDK if ||12 tiles is too close considering Capella's surprising speed||

[tame tide]

WIP: Mission 5 ||Break the line||

||Built so it can be a gauntlet OR a breach and clear from L:EC||

Hmm

Book says ||"There are several ships docked in the hangar bay: large pieces of Size 3 cover much longer than they are wide.
Between them are the gangways used for loading or unloading, and PCs can use their mechs’ standardissue mag clamps to walk on them. This presents several narrow lanes of approach to hangar control, and it is these that the team must fight through."||

Which is making me think my ||Thermopylae map might be a better designed map for that ask ||

Should I just fill ||all the empty docking bays there with other ships or would it become too busy? They DO have low gravity :P||

Does it just become too busy?

[prime terrace]

Imma play with this Deluge >:)

looks fun

[hybrid salmon]

sometime you wanna do a session and one of your players is sick and another has a power outage... :(

[hearty whale]

:3

[runic viper]

you.

[keen socket]

ran the first two combats from mission 1 and my players love your maps @tame tide!

they had so much fun in ||denial of service|| hdkdjdks

[tame tide]

:D

[runic viper]

ah yes the fight with the bastard

"talk to me in brainrot again and im putting a cyclone pulse rifle into your cockpit"

[keen socket]

my head hurt whenever i typed in character istg

[shell bison]

Lmao

The numbers and letters is a bit rough in the moment

[fading wyvern]

533M5 345Y 3N0U9H 2 M3

[shell bison]

Ow, my eyes

Whoa, skirmish 4 times with ar upon ye

[fading wyvern]

5K1LL 155U3

S1GN4L D0 B3 0U7 H3R3 S3P4R4T1N9 TH3 H0M357UCK5 FR0M 3V3RY0N3 3L53

Okay I'll stop

[balmy obsidian]

Having knowldge of homestuck means every once in a while I get flashbanged

I'll see a picture of the icebreaker, spot a clown and then proceed to lose my mind

[thorn hinge]

That Is Not An Entirely Uncommon Occurrence

[balmy obsidian]

Why do you do this to me

This is persecution

[thorn hinge]

Hm

[tight pier]

I posted a bit in the Feedback thread but last session was.... a lot

[thorn hinge]

Well If Thats Your Reaction Perhaps Now Is Not The Best Time To Bring Up My Lancer Homestuck Crossover Fic
||Not To Mention The One Vex Wrote Slash Is Writing||

[balmy obsidian]

I'm playing it up for the theatrics

[tight pier]

i cant believe you broke kayfabe

[balmy obsidian]

I don't actually have a mental breakdown from seeing a homestuck reference I wouldn't be able to function on the internet

[thorn hinge]

I Had Presumed As Much

[balmy obsidian]

I'm sorry I lied to you 😔

[thorn hinge]

As A Certain Pastel Human Once Said
You Dont Always Have To Tip Your Hand

[balmy obsidian]

I like to tip my hand, I find it funny

It's how I play rock paper scissors everytime

[fading wyvern]

👀

I wanna read the Lancer Homestuck Crossover Fic

[thorn hinge]

Mine was published in the 2023 Rosemary Zine (I also did a pixel art piece in there). It puts the Beta Kids as a mercenary fireteam in Calliope (only relevant in that Three Sisters gets namedropped) and Kanaya as a survivor of a shipwreck that the team was sent to retrieve. https://funkmclovinofficial.itch.io/rosemary-zine-2023

Vex has been posting random snippets of her lancerstuck au on tumblr for a while, The plot there, broadly, is the Alternian Empire encountering Union for the first time and trying to do their usual massive force thing. They are not ready for Union. Several of the Alternian trolls defect and work against the empire. But also it's not quite a cohesive fic and more random bits written whenever the fancy strikes. https://www.tumblr.com/vexwerewolf/tagged/lancestuck

[dire cloud]

Vex Wrote Slash

[main cove]

Excuse me, where are the Act 2 drafts? Thx!

[clever cloud]

they're in the pins of https://discord.com/channels/426286410496999425/909574961931362365
spoilers beware

[tame tide]

Mission 5: ||GO GO GO GET THROUGH THE HANGGARS!!!!||

Made so it works for ||Gauntlet and L:EC Breach and clear||

AAaaand uploaded to the drive

[amber viper]

Amazing as always!

[hybrid flint]

Hey @tame tide , did you ever upload a gridless version of 'Face To a Name'? Don't see it in the folder.

[tame tide]

Done

[hybrid flint]

Glorious.

[past agate]

Speaking of

I saw some drafts of a remade face to a name map

How’s that going?

[tame tide]

Not

I staerted it before my players started getting close then I ran out of time

Like, the original map I made is ok... It's useable, It's still good and with little time to make maps I'd rather make new maps rather than remaster one that I'm not going to use

Like timeline at this point is:

||Act 1 finale -> Face to a name (maybe) -> Act 2 maps||

In act 2: ||IDK Where to start, probs HA cos it looks most developed combat wise||

[hybrid flint]

Gah, so excited! Running 1-1a tomorrow. Can’t wait to see my players’ mechs in action!

[shell bison]

Wooo! What mecha are they running?