The Power of One - A WFRP2e Solo Experience (OOC Thread #2)

[BananaPhone]

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Those are actually pretty good!

Though yeah, looking too long...

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[BananaPhone]

Charm -20% is still 2 above Intimidate (untrained) lol.

Dun matter: (1d100)[32] vs TN 22 or 24.

Well...*thinks*

If you grant a +10% to intimidation because of Briant AND Taalia brandishing a gun at them while yelling in a foreign language and garbed in better armour than them? Then that'll make an intimidation roll.

Tell me if that's cool and I'll post accordingly lol.

[MrAbdiel]

Charm -20% is still 2 above Intimidate (untrained) lol.

Dun matter: [roll0] vs TN 22 or 24.

Well...*thinks*

If you grant a +10% to intimidation because of Briant AND Taalia brandishing a gun at them while yelling in a foreign language and garbed in better armour than them? Then that'll make an intimidation roll.

Tell me if that's cool and I'll post accordingly lol.

I accept these terms.

[BananaPhone]

Hmmm, going to make an Academic Knowledge (Magic): (1d100)[31] vs TN 49

[MrAbdiel]

Good roll, and a sensible one!

You know that the practitioners of the White Wind, Hysh, are those most associated with banishment and magical manipulation of daemons. Priests of all major faiths have their own rituals and practices around daemon identification and exorcism, but they are often... rough. Daemons are no laughing matter; cultures that give an inch will often find themselves surrendering a mile. You know of two separate superstitions common in Tilea for discerning unfortunates who are being afflicted with dark magic - one involves packing garlic under the tongue and binding the mouth shut, which should cause a daemon dwelling in the mouth to start suffocating and panicking while the human is able to breath through their nose. The other is that daemons, preferring the frosty lands to the north, cannot abided sustained heat, and trapping an afflicted or suspected individual in a steam bath will eventually cause a manifestation of daemonic outrage. Both of these, you think since your brief but formal education in magical matters, are false measures, and have likely gotten innocent people killed over the years.

Without a narrowly skilled magical specialist (like the damsels Donallo sent his knights to seek.. unless Donallo is a lying daemon, and did no such thing), or a magical item made for the purpose, you have no wait of forcing an inhabiting spirit to reveal itself.

That said, daemons are monstrous evil spirits, but not all-knowing. They range in power and threat, so you understand, and simpler daemons might well be as ignorant about the finer points of their own nature as humans are about the workings of their marrow, or their humors. Fundamentally, if there is a daemon in this scenario, you are dealing with a liar; and liars can be exposed if you can catch them in a lie or fool them into exposing themselves. You have only one magical tool, and that is the ghost-killing blade from Trantio; but that won't avail you here unless you are going to kill them both and let the gods sort them out. Simple human cunning might be your best angle.

[BananaPhone]

So, it's detective time - hit the music Johnny!

Taalia is going to:

- Search the Castle itself, going everywhere and inspecting things.

- Do a search of the castle grounds and surrounding area.

- Question the men-at-arms as best she can, trying to get their recollections of events.

- Question the surrounding townsfolk.

- Question the family members of the knights Donallo supposedly sent away.

- Get statements of events from Margot and Donallo themsleves.


She's going to commit things to paper as well, so luckily she has her writing kit.

Lots of rolls:

Search: (1d100)[33] vs TN 49
Search: (1d100)[95] vs TN 49
Search: (1d100)[30] vs TN 49

Perception: (1d100)[26] vs TN 59
Perception: (1d100)[16] vs TN 59
Perception: (1d100)[44] vs TN 59

Charm: (1d100)[72] vs TN 44
Charm: (1d100)[74] vs TN 44
Charm: (1d100)[11] vs TN 44

Gossip: (1d100)[30] vs TN 54
Gossip: (1d100)[98] vs TN 54
Gossip: (1d100)[53] vs TN 54

[BananaPhone]

Merry Christmas for the upcoming holiday mate!

[MrAbdiel]

BananaPhone! I return! Thank you for your patience. I guess you know my routine vanishings, by now. Boilerplate apology is the same as the one from the Warcraft OOC; forgive me, I'm doing a lot of apologizing.

All I can do is apologize again. I appreciate your toleration, guys. My excuse is lame - I sort of found myself the Admin for the Discord of Lava Lash, the main RP server in the current Season of Discovery expansion of WoW. I thought we'd get like 40 members and then I'd give it up and merge it with someone else's discord; but somehow there's like 600 people in there now and I'm anxious about trying to make it.. accommodating and helpful, and it stole much of my attention, and made it easy to rationalize neglecting my posts here. Sorry.

But those were some pretty dece investigation rolls. Now what, Taalia Trollslayer?

[BananaPhone]

Ahh, hehe, you got swept up in SoD huh?

Seems like 75% of my classic guild had the same thing happen to them on Shadowstrike.

Granted, I played it too. Got to 25 on a rogue, did BFD once and...kinda never went back lol. Parts of it were fun, but it didn't hold me as much. I'll come back for Phase 2 though. So I just went back and started replaying Cyberpunk 2077 now that the new expac is out, and Hogwarts Legacy.

I hope you have a good New Years!

[MrAbdiel]

Happy new year! The world has not dramatically worsened in this one, yet! Hooray!

Yeah, SoD ate me. I'm not playing it that much but I'm part of the RP community hub and I like helping people and I like good people, so when I can help a lot of good people it draws me in. Lava Lash rules!

Now gimme that +20 Perception.

[BananaPhone]

Perception: (1d100)[95] vs TN 79

[BananaPhone]

Yeah sod off lol. Over in my Dark Heresy game and this one, lots of 90s the past half a dozen roll.

FP'ing that: (1d100)[8] vs TN 79


Edit: There we go!

*Reads*


Hah, interesting. I actually had another little 'trap' devised for her. Taalia took what she knew of this land, that it was a deeply hierarchical society and applied her experience with the skaven (that someone higher up would find it utterly insulting that they'd be asked to do something that was a job for "the help") and applied it here.

She was basically seeing how the Lady of the castle would react to being asked to cook for peasants. Her experience and observation so far would tell her that this request is deeply insulting, like asking the First Lady of the US if she'd want to join in a mud wrestling competition, yet she made apologies for not being able to do so and even offered to help later.

Is this IC worthy, or am I reading too much into it?

[MrAbdiel]

An interesting plan. I thought it was something like that. You can expect nobles to run the gamut from cartoonish exaggeration of toffery to the rare embodiments of the virtues they espouse, and different DMs will populate their worlds with different ratios, you know? And Bretonnia's the perfect division of this, because depending on how much the gamerunner likes Bretonnia, they either get envisioned as sneering, cheese eating frenchmen from a british propaganda poster or as the very soul of Charlemagne rendered by romantic poets. I'm trying to be even keeled as much as possible; Taalia just lucked out into a very good Tilean community for her recovery from lucking into skavenhell, so her perception of how bad the rest of the world is compared to Tilea might be a little skewed. Tilea was, at that time, not presently consumed by interprovincial wars, which is the problem they tend to get instead of tyranny.

All that waffle aside, I think you're reading correctly. You would expect a noblewoman to typically be a little insulted or stunned by the suggestion she should be cooking for the peasants. A particularly kind one might not be so stunned, or not be stunned by a foreigner having that expectation. But you'd expect the class inappropriateness to have come up, rather than merely a deference to a more skilled member of staff. You are right to be suspicious.

[BananaPhone]

Heh yes, a foreigner, and a younger one at that, asking her to cook for peasants. I can imagine even the kinder of noblewomen gently, but firmly, commenting on how such an action would be inappropriate.

Lacking the memory/social reflexes of dressing decorum that should be muscle memory for a woman of her station.
Doesn't seem particularly hungry despite weeks of malnourishment.
Misses questions that should be deeply insulting for a woman on her station.

[MrAbdiel]

Also hey! Does Regine still exist, in Bramble's game? I'm out there trying to set up a sort of will-they-wont-they scenario but she's awful quiet.

[BananaPhone]

She does - I really should get back at it and start posting again. I've been rather busy IRL the past couple of months, only really posting to one game regularly.

If I remember correctly, she had to approach a supposed farm and retrieve something, so that she could bring it to a master archer to gain access to the next step towards assassin the guy-who-shoots-good career.

[BananaPhone]

Oh yeah, quick question mate, but how many wolf skins did we get from the Goblin Wolf Rider?

[BananaPhone]

Hmmm, Taalia will roll her academic knowledge (Magic) to see what she remembers on this topic, if anything: (1d100)[46] vs TN 49

[MrAbdiel]

Oh yeah, quick question mate, but how many wolf skins did we get from the Goblin Wolf Rider?

There were probably several, but any that were serviceable would have been carried off by the 'outlaws' for whom such hides have many practical applications as they filter back into the peasantry. You can have one, though; from the big one you killed. Bruk will have skinned it nice and clean for you.

Hmmm, Taalia will roll her academic knowledge (Magic) to see what she remembers on this topic, if anything: [roll0] vs TN 49

Which topic is this, perchance?

[BananaPhone]

There were probably several, but any that were serviceable would have been carried off by the 'outlaws' for whom such hides have many practical applications as they filter back into the peasantry. You can have one, though; from the big one you killed. Bruk will have skinned it nice and clean for you.

As tempting as it is to sell it for gold, let's have Bella turn it into a nice coat!

Which topic is this, perchance?

Briant's fear that the demon wants them to sing for secretly malign purposes.

[MrAbdiel]

Taalia has a pre-apprentice level of grasp of the formal study of the winds of magic; and there's nothing in what she has learned to suggest there is anything dangerous about singing to a daemon. There is no shortage of legends and old madre's tales about spirits and monsters that are variously soothed, repelled, or aroused by song. Witch women in the ocean who sing to hypnotize sailors; a tale of an oracle of the god the Imperials call Stromfels who stole the voice of a young duchess, for envy of her singing talent.

On the other hand, if this woman has a daemon indeed, any amount of cooperation with her whims might be playing into a scheme of one kind or another. Unless that's what it wants you to think. You're off the grid, here. Wariness seems wise, but you have seen what becomes of hunters of monsters who yield to every cruel pragmatism.

[BananaPhone]

Let's see now...

Animal Care: (1d100)[22] vs TN 59

Perform (Sing): (1d100)[86] vs TN 44

Perception (Smell): (1d100)[78] vs TN 59

[BananaPhone]

Hmm, let's FP those. She's got 4 FP's a day with her magic dwarf ring, so 2 left.

Perform (Sing): (1d100)[58] vs TN 44

Perception (Smell): (1d100)[85] vs TN 59


*Rolls eyes*

Four fifty percent rolls and failed all of them. Oh BP, think of where you'd be without your re-rolls.

[BananaPhone]

Three agility rolls, let's see:

Agility roll 1: (1d100)[19] vs TN 42

Agility roll 2: (1d100)[39] vs TN 42

Agility roll 3: (1d100)[61] vs TN 42


Hey, she did pretty well on her first two ones.

[MrAbdiel]

Alright, let's see what we can go. Go, Margot, Go! Margins of success may matter here.

AgiVs50 - (1d100)[44]
AgiVs50 - (1d100)[49]
AgiVs50 - (1d100)[85]

You beat both the first two by more than she did, and failed the last one by less. That looks like a run-down to me!

[BananaPhone]

That looks like a run-down to me!

Gotcha!

/char

[BananaPhone]

The damage rolls didn't come out mate .


Dodge Blow: (1d100)[94] vs TN 52

[MrAbdiel]

Oh, dang. She’s really working that right arm.

(1d10+4)[11]
(1d10+4)[9]

[BananaPhone]

Yeah, ouch heh. She takes 6 wounds and is down to 11/17

[BananaPhone]

Can Taalia use Quick Draw to quick draw her shield from her back and use it to "pin" Margot? Given that she tackled her to the ground and is kinda on top of her?