Soragakure OOC III - Why Do We Have 3 Of These? - Page 13

Overlord Rion · 10-10-2012, 12:15 PM

Different conclusion. Takuya just wants to kill them both and end this thing once and for all. I do like your plan though. Who says the Queens can't move and continue music?

TraceHyde · 10-10-2012, 12:16 PM

Any chance I can use my mechanical knowledge to gain better leverage (i.e. a bonus to the check)?

Can you take 20 on strength checks?

ZeroNumerous · 10-10-2012, 12:22 PM

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Any chance I can use my mechanical knowledge to gain better leverage (i.e. a bonus to the check)?

Can you take 20 on strength checks?

A) No.

B) No, but you can take 10.

TraceHyde · 10-10-2012, 12:24 PM

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B) No, but you can take 10.

Oh, well then. At least Houshi can just take 10 for this then. I knew kept him around for something (at least until I get a packmule puppet)

Edit: Sigh, looks like I'll have to wait until Bad or Zeone log on to find out what the hell I found. Ooh, let's do a cool thing and get in a tug of war with the ground - everyone grab Amon's hips and we'll all do it together (by which I of course mean Houshi will be doing all the work, but to a casual observer it will appear as though we're a team, doing team-stuff)

Edit Edit: Oh, hi Bad

Bad Situation · 10-10-2012, 12:28 PM

Woop, I didn't see that post. Let me roll now.

(1d20+1)[13]

If that's not enough I'll just Aid Another to help Houshi.

TraceHyde · 10-10-2012, 12:30 PM

Can you retry this check?

You could always try an action point.

Could I aid another with Yousuke for that extra +2? (or use... I dunno, Plan. Never mind, Plan would be stupid)

Bad Situation · 10-10-2012, 12:40 PM

I would find it very amusing to see three ninja hunched over a patch of dirt discussing a plan to dig a hole.

TraceHyde · 10-10-2012, 12:53 PM

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I would find it very amusing to see three ninja hunched over a patch of dirt discussing a plan to dig a hole.

...God damn, you're right, that's the funniest image I've had all day. if Zeone royally screws up (doesn't take 10 and thus auto-succeed), then I'll go for the plan. I was going to have Amon spend an action point if she was just two points higher, but NO, 'twas not to be. Guess we'll have to let Houshi blunder in and handle this

OOH, I've got one. Shanghai has a strength score. What if I animate Shanghai and use her to pull whatever-it-is out? Do I get to try another roll?

ZeroNumerous · 10-10-2012, 12:56 PM

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OOH, I've got one. Shanghai has a strength score. What if I animate Shanghai and use her to pull whatever-it-is out? Do I get to try another roll?

Yes, Shanghai would get her own strength check to pull it out.

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Could I aid another with Yousuke for that extra +2? (or use... I dunno, Plan. Never mind, Plan would be stupid)

Yes, you could Aid Another Yousuke. And yes, you can retry the check as often as you'd like.

TraceHyde · 10-10-2012, 01:04 PM

Oh, really - we can retry? From not being able to take 20 I figured we couldn't since taking 20 is just trying over and over again until you hit the big two-0 but without the rolling bogging down gameplay. What are we waiting for then! Pull, bad, pull! We can retcon in that Houshi was helping, but the suspense is killing me *hopes we don't pull out a random bit of catnip*

Aid Another on Yousuke's strength check by way of pulling him like a rope! (1d20)[20]

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OOOH, HELL YAH!

I aided the everloving HELL out of Yousuke there! Take that +2 to the result and put it to good use, because with that aid another from Amon, Yousuke just hit 15. Make with the 'loot', ZN. And by 'lute', I mean the greatest treasure of all: Hope *looks reverent*

TraceHyde · 10-10-2012, 01:25 PM

Did I do bad? (as in worse than normal. And not inreference to Yousuke's player, although...)

Bad Situation · 10-10-2012, 01:27 PM

Well, that 20 could have been used on the Strength Check itself...

TraceHyde · 10-10-2012, 01:55 PM

Eh, it all came together. This is a rather perplexing situation isn't it? If we leave the WAY higher level and tracking-specialised team to find Ueki we can head back to town right now. Another mission failed, but with all the crazy-strong people in this forest, it might be what's safest to do with Yousuke at fractional health, Amon as always low on chakra and Kaede apparently out of commission. Still though, Amon might be annoyed with herself for not getting to investigate the red eyes. This Sanagi-crossing paths thing sure messed us up. If she didn't exist we might have had a normal straightforward mission for once and actually completed it. I guess we just got cocky after that last one - we managed to leave something on a high note for once so we started thinking like we were cosmically entitled to some degree of success and/or resolution in our endeavours

Next time try not to get double-blasted, Bad. Blasts can screw us up bad as we've learned, even the dude with evasion

Bad Situation · 10-10-2012, 02:00 PM

Yeah, I kind of needlessly rushed in there and got focus fired in an instant. Though, to be fair I actually stood a decent shot at making that Reflex save. I just rolled terribly and failed both saves.

TraceHyde · 10-10-2012, 02:04 PM

Ha, yeah. I thought I was so dumb for wasting two whole initial techniques picking up that one medical technique that recovers ability damage, but who's laughing now that it saved Yousuke's ass? Next time though, let's save those ones for Amon - her sinature blast, the lightning bold, had a range far superior to their own after all, but enough of the blame game. Do try and roleplay Yousuke into learning some caution from today though. Part of that crying scene earlier was the reaction i'd been storing up for Amon ever since it seemed like a second that Yousuke was done for

there needs to be a saying... something like 'The best Reflex save is one you never have to roll' - the nuclear weapon argument. I think it applies well enough to Yousuke, don't you~?

ZeroNumerous · 10-10-2012, 02:20 PM

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Yeah, I kind of needlessly rushed in there and got focus fired in an instant. Though, to be fair I actually stood a decent shot at making that Reflex save. I just rolled terribly and failed both saves.

You should have succeeded on both, but luck was just against you in that one. Bad thing is: They only had enough chakra for two uses of those techniques, so if you had succeeded then they'd only have one more shot before devolving into trying to stab you with kunai.

TraceHyde · 10-10-2012, 02:29 PM

Ha ha, oh man. First rule of d20: never assume your players will survive to see your complex intrigue play out. It's kind of exciting to be on kind of level footing with the challenges of the world, but on the other hand you can get stupid situations like this where two failed saving throws against 'inferior' opponents basically ruined our whole day and probably rendered whatever notes you had on this mission. After all, you mentioned the Princess of the Garou and unless they attack Soragakure, show up in our next mission or confront us on our way out of the forest, we will never meet such a person, nor find out why the Garou are skin-stealers or whatever since the general consensus seems to be we should just go home. Even though I know it's not logical or safe, I REALLY want to get one last shot at the Garou

TraceHyde · 10-10-2012, 02:38 PM

Let's see... if Sanagi is on a tracking team and she couldn't find any trace of them, we really can't do anything. Well, maybe Kaede-cat can. ZN, does the cat have any response to Amon's scheming? If we can just find them en route, I can use my technique to possess one of them then investigating Ueki's whereabouts should be easy pickings. Well, not easy, but at least possible, you know?

ZeroNumerous · 10-10-2012, 02:45 PM

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Let's see... if Sanagi is on a tracking team and she couldn't find any trace of them, we really can't do anything.

Just because she's part of a tracking team doesn't mean she's a good tracker. Hinata, Shino, and Kiba are a tracking team but their jounin is a genjutsu master with no skills relevant to tracking at all.

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ZN, does the cat have any response to Amon's scheming?

It's a cat. It looks at you and meows.

TraceHyde · 10-10-2012, 02:50 PM

if we ever see Kaede again, I'm gonna make him teach me how to do that.

Hm. Maybe we could convince them to lend us Mako and/or Jun then. It would be pretty risky trying to do anything wth them nearby though, when they'd recognise the sharingan.

ZN, what strength of chakra does the cat have?

TraceHyde · 10-10-2012, 03:05 PM

Shall we put it to a vote how we progress?

Bad, zeone, where do you think we should go (and why)? Hell, if the people on teem Maaya have any advise to offer, go ahead

Hey, ZN, can I get a new description for Amon in the OP? She's 15 now, after all. Big difference, i know.

We should have an adventure involving the sky train at some point - I wrote in that's where Amon spent most of her free time the last year, even setting up her hideout there - she'd be plenty in her element there. ZN, can I make a technique that would allow me to use Art of Grinding with my puppets?

ZeroNumerous · 10-10-2012, 03:14 PM

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Hey, ZN, can I get a new description for Amon in the OP? She's 15 now, after all. Big difference, i know.

Sure, if you write it yourself.

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ZN, can I make a technique that would allow me to use Art of Grinding with my puppets?

Sure.

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ZN, what strength of chakra does the cat have?

Moderate.

Cespenar · 10-10-2012, 03:16 PM

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ZN, what strength of chakra does the cat have?

It almost equals that of the mighty gazebo.

TraceHyde · 10-10-2012, 04:18 PM

Well Amon petted the cat I just remembered. Does it become aggressive?

ZeroNumerous · 10-10-2012, 04:25 PM

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Well Amon petted the cat I just remembered. Does it become aggressive?

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It's a cat. It looks at you and meows.

I'll post when you guys decide on what course of action to take.

TraceHyde · 10-10-2012, 04:48 PM

I figured I'd wait until zeone posts to decide on a course of action, though that could leave me staying up all night (again). Bad never pitched in his preferred course of action/reasons beyond having Yousuke indicate we should head back to Soragakure. If this works like a normal summon technique, we may have as little time as an hour to get him back. But then why would... nah, it has to be a little different I guess.

ZN, did personally performing the technique offer me any insight into its operation? A normal summon degrades in chakra at 1 point/10 minutes and with moderate chakra the cat has between 6 and 15 chakra, meaning if this was the regular Kuchiyose no Jutsu (obviously not exact equivalent since such a technique is usually too high grade for the wild card) we'd only have 1-2.5 hours before the technique ends and the cat pops out,which i'm certain isn't enough to reach Soragakure without flying, and he assumed we'd make it so I'll assume it's very different

Edit: Oh, I just realised I was reading the wrong row on the table - Moderate is actually 11 to 50 chakra

ZeroNumerous · 10-10-2012, 05:08 PM

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ZN, did personally performing the technique offer me any insight into its operation?

No, because Amon never performed it. The technique in a Wild Card is already performed, and the user only needs to add chakra to finish it off.

TraceHyde · 10-10-2012, 05:53 PM

Does the Narutoverse have an afterlife? I think I saw this one scene out of context where everyone was dead, but I'm not sure. Ah I guess it's invalid in the context of this game - whether there's an afterlife or not comes down to your decision on the setring and (probably, barring some high theology knowledge or something) is unknowable by any of our characters by this point. I guess we'll know when we get there, as it were. Any volunteers to scout it out early?

Oh, there's a question. Are there any major religions or even local forms of worship in this universe?

I think I've asked both these quetsions before (twice even) but it was probably like 2 OOC months ago so who can keep track

Kai is supposed to be the sort of diplomat head honcho around here, right? Maybe she's pleasant.

ZeroNumerous · 10-10-2012, 06:38 PM

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Oh, there's a question. Are there any major religions or even local forms of worship in this universe?

Major? No. There's always local forms of religious activity, but there's no large-scale religion.

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Kai is supposed to be the sort of diplomat head honcho around here, right? Maybe she's pleasant.

Who knows?

TraceHyde · 10-10-2012, 06:44 PM

I suppose when you have people that can blow up ountries with a handseal, life is exciting enough without the additional complication of unseen spirits and stuff. On the other hand, I remember one scene where Naruto visited a Shinto shrine or something, I think it was when he was travelling with Jiraiya to find Tsunade, but whatevs I guess that may be a more Fire Country thing.

I made a joke when i had Amon rifling through her possessions for identification that she had so much clutter in her bag she literally had no knowledge of why some things would be in her possession - specifically, a photograph with her when she was younger and Kai (or someone she mistook for Kai). That was mostly a joke since the whole point of the thing was that Amon herself had no explanation of why she seemed to be posing with the jounin, but just thought I'd say. No canon-breaking intended.