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I had a power outage for several days

Trying to deal with the interesting times in which we find ourselves.

Thanks guys. Yes, at work we returned to full-time hours literally this week, with all the HR and HMRC paperwork that involved. And now the country's going into lockdown again.

Still, talk about your First World Problem! Important to keep perspective. Although we've made a big deal out of it in the West, coronavirus is a pretty minor inconvenience in the big scheme of things. It's hardly WW2 or something.

Right, I'll get us moving again.

Oh, and I have new colour-coded green and purple dice arriving this week.

Works for me. Been busy trying to get stuff done before the winter rains come in to stay.

We're back on track, guys, thank you.

What I've done is use your teams' decision on their initial approach as a general modus operandi.

Both teams are taking a middle way approach. Given the choice of going through the front door, finding a loop-hole or going through a side door, they chose a side door. This seems like a good compromise between speed and stealth.

In Smoke Team's latest round-up, we can also see how assistance works in the EotW system. For each character that can assist the character making the test, it adds a green dice.

Talking of dice, my new ones arrived. I'll be using these for CFH (I have been using the dice roller) and for the Shadow of the Demon Lord two-parter I'm running this month for Gypsy and co. It uses positive and negative d6, called "boons and banes".

Nice!

I do enjoy dice.

How loud is her gun?

Blaster loud, gunshot loud.

it sounds like this... pew pew pewpew pew

So would likey be heard a good distance off. Got it.

Yes, although they are in the vacinity of the shooting range so might get away with it.

Although blaster bolts are subsonic so they don't crack like gunshots, there's the muzzle blast when fired and the explosion on impact would be supersonic. So I think we can just assumed they're as noisy as real world guns, and that's the interpretation of the Star Wars RPGs that have been published.

Good gaming this weekend. Played with Gypsy and pchan and some others by Zoom. It's not the same as ftf but hey, it's better than nothing.

Next up in CFH then, AJ to post or I can ghost np for Mirror Team, and Smoke Team need to decide if they're going through the door with the (presumed) POW on the other side.

In this case, wings is the leader. What Winta decides is what she will do.

Thank you for your patience this week, guys! Especially after me jockeying us to raise the post-rate. Saturday's GMing ate up some spare time over the weekend and this week we're very short-staffed at work with so many parents at home looking after Corona-kids. By next week I could be filling in for 7 people!

The kids all seem to be loving it, mind you. Two weeks off school yet they feel fine, even if they have tested positive. The virus barely seems to have any effect on them at all. Much less than the head colds they carry around with them this time of year.

Well done Art. I hadn't seen that response in my head, but it totally works with the pantomime.

So, for our wild crawlers I think we're looking at something like Boris Kiselicki's unused concept art:



Pretty terrifying, though that's the largest they grow.

For mechanical purposes, I'll group the smaller ones into a mob or swarm.

OK, sorry about the delay on Mirror Team. This is my first large combat with this system so it's taken a while to resolve, but I got there in the end and I'm happy to say you're all still alive! I'll write it up tomorrow and post.

Looking forward to it.. now we know it is good!

So Phoenix Prime, did you get to visit Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge on your trip?

absolutely- we go for 7 days and we hit every park, and then go to MK twice- since there were small kids on this trip- we took Magic Kingdom slowly to make sure we did all the kid friendly rides- there's a lot there in that park. then, on the day we were leaving, my wife and i went back to hollywood studios to to that park again(where Galaxy's edge is located) On both days we got into the virtual queue for the new ride, Rise of the Resistance- in fact, back last february we were there and got on that ride then too.

the RotR requires a lottery style virtual queue that opens online at 7am for a chance to get on a boarding group. It's almost always filled up in a couple seconds- I read so many horror tales about people frustrated and angry they can't get on the ride- my wife and I have gotten on it every time, so i guess we are fortunate- plus there are a couple of tricks to raise your chances of a good quick connection. some say it's hogwash, others say it is essential- we have done it three times and gotten on all three times--- your mileage may vary.

a lot of fun.

Excellent. I was there with you in spirit. And you must've met Lieutenant Bek too!

we did- he was our pilot- great animatronic too.

OK, I'm back, I'm sobering up!

I'm also fully caught up on The Mandalorian. It ended nicely though I'm not sure there's a direction for a season 3 or even room if they're making a Boba Fett series too. Two Outer Rim bounty hunter series? Both in Mando armour?

And bringing back characters from the original trilogy does make it harder to ignore other characters from the original trilogy, which is a technical challenge that modern technology still isn't up to.

What did you all make of it?

Loved it! Want more!