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Quote from: Nerjin on September 08, 2014, 03:36:41 pm

Oh I'll just make some guys to get them from A to B... Ho hum, random NPCs that people probably... won't... Oh. Now there's a love story. Huh...

Right up 'til he gets uppity and we shank him.

I don't know, at this point we're more likely to shank her.

Quote from: Tawarochir on September 07, 2014, 03:13:47 pm

I thought that the idea was supposed to be that trail rations didn't spoil or something.

They don't, not easily. Food can spoil within a week, but if we go a week without seeing any villages to buy food from, we're fucked anyway.

And why does everyone else take 4? even with 3 mph walking speed, we aren't that far away. We can go faster than 15 miles a day.

Still had the original distance stuck in my head, apparently.  Ilandrinal does it in 2, rest of the party does it in 3.

Quote from: Nerjin on September 05, 2014, 07:58:55 pm

Much teasing was had at the expense of Ganron that day. Roughly eight hours later it was approaching night. Having decided that speed was key in this day the two commoners gave everyone a brief instruction on how to guide the raft while others were asleep. Whoever was at watch could easily pull this off and have enough time for nefarious purposes. The two commoners went to sleep before everyone else however. This left six south of neutral individuals unattended on the raft. Only one needed to keep the raft going throughout the night.

From the way Arsolf explained it, a raft could travel about four and a half miles on this river as its current was slightly faster than average. So long as somebody kept an eye on the boat the group could travel an additional 36 miles on top of the 36 already traveled. This would put the group at only 34 mile walk. Thus a week long journey could be cut into a two plus some day journey.

Still, that was for the morrow. For now, the commoners were asleep and the group was not.

For how far away we are.

We're about 65 or so miles from Lakeview; if we walk 10 hours a day(pretty easy, really; only able to walk for 8 hours a day is bullshit, but we can make the checks even so), hustle for an hour, with Ilandrinal doing his damnedest to make sure we have a good path/we follow a road, and if none of us have a heavy load(btw, average human walking speed IRL is 3.5 mph), we can get there in two days at best.

More likely, we'll get there in three, maybe four, with good roads/trails/Illandrinal getting good survival checks.

Ilandrinal has a terrible Survival check, only enough to feed himself when taking 10.  He also has 4mph walking speed, with high enough Constitution to do about 11 hours per day.  He's specialized in constant observing and stealth, so he's best in an urban location.

We also have to move at half speed while foraging (which, thankfully, most of us can do for ourselves.)  So we'll be covering at most 18 miles per day (for 12 hours of travel.)  Ilandrinal does have enough food for ~3 days of travel, so he could make the trip to Lakeview on his own.  Notably, Rikimaru doesn't have trail rations, and Dereth doesn't have enough trail rations, so those two would be left behind if we tried to force our way to Lakeview without foraging.

Rule 0.

Common courtesy to state house rules at the beginning if they conflict with existing rules.

The river is moving at 4 1/2 miles an hour. That's faster than your walking speed and constant. If it's poled that's faster. When Ganron hits t he water he starts drifting at 4 1/2 miles. Thus he was keeping abreast with the cart so long as it wasn't poled. I figured that you guys would stop poling it along once you knew he was in the water. Thus, he was right next to the raft.

So Riki, having jumped in, must make 2 consecutive DC 15 Swim checks (at a -2 penalty) for him to reach Ganron and get back without him.  In order to rescue Ganron, he'd have to make another DC 15 Swim check at a -8 penalty.  In other words, literally impossible.

Ganron would have to be swimming towards the Raft, making those same Swim checks every round in order to stay abreast of the raft.  Failure on /any/ of them means we pull away from him.  If he fails a check by 5 or more, not only has not maintained distance to us, but he goes under and the next round he automatically loses distance.  If he's panicking, then that means he's bad at swimming.  If he's not panicking, he's the second best swimmer in our group and anyone other than me jumping in to save him is literally meaningless.

Well, that was bad luck.

I don't know.  Rikimaru requiring 3 consecutive 17+'s to rescue the kid, which would arguably be beyond his ability (assuming the kid put Rikimaru into medium load (which is 21lbs) Rikimaru would have to roll 23 to actually do so.  (Armor Check penalties are doubled for the Swim skill, and Medium load is a -3 Armor Check penalty.))

How long've we been going for?