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The Essence-Forging Art, requires 6 sucesses to make incendary bomb.
EDIT: It then means Fox made something ... like smoke bomb.
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Probably not worth a full post: as far as you can tell (and you can tell quite well), the sinkhole is about 30 yards down, with some water at the bottom - though not much.
Should I be worrying about participation, I wonder? Two people is better than none, but I'm not sure a dungeon crawl with no opportunities to show off to mortals and one another is what we signed up for.
Perhaps I'll try to abstract away some of the exploration bit, so as to get back to the interesting stuff.
Agreed, it's a little disappointing that the Ring has dwindled so much. Having a wide variety of personalities ranging from off-kilter to outright crazy, all bouncing off one another sounded like a fun feature. Even with just the three of us, though, I'm having a lot of fun.
And yeah, exploring a ruined manse isn't quite what I expected, but it could still be fun. We could forget that I haven't played a D&D dungeon crawl in... wow, over six years, highlight that this is my first Exalted game that's made it beyond the second scene, and pretend the scenario is a transition piece included partly for my benefit, if that helps. Or something less me-centric.
Regardless: aye, definitely still on board with this one. ^__^o Though I can imagine that might have been less clear, given my random-seeming delays. Sorry about those.
In the present case, the reason was... legitimate and then stupid, to speak generously. >.> I was too busy and/or tired to post for a few days (legitimate part), and then... meschlum, when I saw your post a coupla days ago, I was sure I hadn't said for Mani to jump down the sinkhole without providing rope for Canary (pretty much for the reason you suggested: spectacles need a mortal audience, no matter how small!). I proceeded to think longer than I should have about the appropriate response. Until I read over what I'd typed and... Yeah. Boy, did I drop the ball on the clarity front... ^_^o
Anyway, apologies for that utterly unnecessary delay. If I feel I have such a concern again, I will a) do the bare minimum 'is this concern reasonable?' fact-checking, and failing that, b) bring it up in here.
Gaius: I certainly didn't want to shut down your idea, but (un-Exalted)beings without a Grace are... unfortunate... at best when it comes to controlling the Wyld. My interpretation, sadly. Sorry!
That said, it still more or less worked out, I hope.
Oh, don't worry. It worked fine. Mani was certainly frustrated, but I wasn't, and I'm sorry if I gave that impression.
My line of logic had basically been, 'Lessee, a Fantasy lets people act in ways that don't make sense within it. Maybe a Fantasy that lets its participants create nearby visualizations of their thoughts could work...' If you think that's a little too much, then fair enough. Fantasies always seemed like one of the more interesting and flexible raksha concepts, but also one of the most in need of ST arbitration.
Also, though you decided against that precise method, you gave me the core of what I wanted from it, so thank you very much for that.
"Mage: The Towering" ... huh. Nice, nice Gaius. I just waited for Your post to write something on my own, too. And since my Fox isn't very nice, like in a other game where one misguided Abyssal decided to corrupt him to Oblivion's case.
Have at thee, mangy dog !
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Danke. I liked the idea, but ultimately feel my execution dragged too much. ^_^o Can't drop the 'brevity is the soul of wit' and 'omit needless words' mantras for an instant.
And ah, waiting on me. Fair enough. I was worried either life had swallowed you up, or that you'd followed suit with... er, every other player. Thanks for trying to be respectful of some kind of turn order, but feel free to go ahead of me if you'd like and are able, especially with each having a scene to himself.
Also, fun with dispensing abuse to the local mutts~ Even if it is like hearing an insult from a third-world citizen, and responding with an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Fair Folk are all about having fun with the weird powers you've got. That, or soul eating horrors, but there are enough taxmen and accountants in Real Life (tm) that we might as well not bother.
Sadly, dogs have no souls, and thus no willpower to consume (at least, in my game at this moment of my thought process - which goes "If Fair Folk can feed of chicken, why are they viewed as evil?"). Tragic, that.
More to the point, I'll be away from the internet from, say, Saturday to Saturday (inclusive), so posting will be even slower. Especially with the party splitting (somewhat inevitable, in retrospect).
Fair Folk are all about having fun with the weird powers you've got. That, or soul eating horrors, but there are enough taxmen and accountants in Real Life (tm) that we might as well not bother.
Preach it, meschlum!
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Sadly, dogs have no souls, and thus no willpower to consume (at least, in my game at this moment of my thought process - which goes "If Fair Folk can feed of chicken, why are they viewed as evil?"). Tragic, that.
To play Yozi's Advocate,* if Fair Folk can feed off livestock as easily as they do mortals, but keep going for mortals, anyway, the question of why they are viewed as evil is well-answered.
"Mr. Chang E. Ling, what have you done to my daughter!? What's wrong with my kid!?"
"Despite the obnoxiously omnipresent 'Shuck's, I find your daughter's clumsy avowals of love slightly more diverting and diverse than your kid's incessant bleating."
"Fiend!"
"Ah, thank you for reminding me: I shall have to get her to marry me, tie her rather poorly to railroad tracks I shall have to invent a train for, and plaster descriptions of my master plan all over town. I get to have an eventful day and rip off the Green Sun Princes' shtick!"
* This shall have to be a "suggestion" for the Divine Game.
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More to the point, I'll be away from the internet from, say, Saturday to Saturday (inclusive), so posting will be even slower. Especially with the party splitting (somewhat inevitable, in retrospect).
Aye, entirely understandable, on all fronts. ^_^ I hope you have a great time with whatever's got you from Christmas to New Year's Eve!
EDIT: ... O_O Wow. That's, uh... Didn't think that was into three-die stunt territory, but I'm not displeased. Thanks!
And ten successes? Madness!
Fair Folk are all about having fun with the weird powers you've got. That, or soul eating horrors, but there are enough taxmen and accountants in Real Life (tm) that we might as well not bother.
Hey ! Fox is a Hannya, he eats EVERYTHING. Must make some custom charms to eat other Raksha, too. *notes dilligently*
And asides from that, in the other game I mentioned few times, ST(neutral) was okay with my interpretations of certain FF stuff but ST3(passive dislike of Raksha and/or me) tends to read these as restrictively as humanely possible.
For example, Soul-Carving Artifice ... he decided that this one where You waltz in mortal's mind treating his dreamscape as Wyld, that it makes so that our Raksha is in the presence of said mortal. Slowing down Shaping considerably.
A question. Theoretically I can spend limitless time in someone's dream, right ? Does it mean I could heal there, recover motes etc ? Or spam minions like there is no tomorrow and make artifacts that will lead them outside to wreak havoc and/or help old grannies with their groceries ?
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Sadly, dogs have no souls, and thus no willpower to consume (at least, in my game at this moment of my thought process - which goes "If Fair Folk can feed of chicken, why are they viewed as evil?"). Tragic, that.
If I remember well, human minds are described as tastier. And to be honest Raksha can eat animals, wich count as ordinary mortals, but it is first time I heard that dogs don't have souls. Whatever, it still have least god of "This Dog who is now a meal" right ? Eating those should be as good as eating soul.
As if souls were anything more than least god of "This mortal".
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More to the point, I'll be away from the internet from, say, Saturday to Saturday (inclusive), so posting will be even slower. Especially with the party splitting (somewhat inevitable, in retrospect).
Have fun on the holidays, and remember to not ever accept food or drinks from the Fair Folk.
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Soul Carving artifice has incredible potential, given how badly it's been written.
As to time spent in the daydream, since the duration is one scene (in Creation), having the mortal set the pace means a single shaping action, which is unexpectedly short. There is no reason to mention the number of waypoints in the dream, as they can't be visited (or not all of them), for instance. That said, the mortal influencing the daydream and being an important presence within it seems plausible.
Since we're playing World Breaking, most SCA abuses work. Do note that there are limits.
Rules by the book
- You can use SCA to change your Assumption, if you have the gossamer to do so.
- Anything you create inside SCA vanishes at the end of the scene.
- You can spend any amount of subjective time within SCA for crafting purposes.
- You remain physical and outside the SCA as you direct the daydream, so using time to heal yourself or regain motes outside the SCA should not work. Chancel shenanigans get around this.
My calls, given the game
- The daydream has a narrative of sorts. When this is broken or reaches its conclusion, it ends, and so does the SCA. You can direct it, but must respect the tale.
* Someone daydreaming about setting the city on fire will let you spawn flame things until they break out of their musing - but will stop as soon as you try to create new buildings out of water.
* A daydream of delicious fruit will let you create lots of fruit - but if the daydreamer is fully satiated by the fruit, the daydream and effect end.
- Some people dream better than others. Extras barely manage to keep their wits together long enough for actual use, while Exalts could provide extended and complex daydreams. Of course, keeping your target daydreaming for an extended period may require some work...
I think that ravaging, for essence, said Dreamscape is also one nice way to regain motes ... and IMO should be usable to stave off Creation's calcifying influence, right ?
If You say that mortals set pace in SCA, shmucks ... it seriously limit my abilities without Wyld around the corner. I agree that poor writing of said charm make it difficult to figure tails and heads out of it. Being unable to heal and/or respire motes while in Dreamscape ?
Not very conclusive with Your argument, since IF You can change Assumptions without calcifying it means that only "shell" stays outside and Your "essence" is in Dreamscape for charm's duration. And since it counts as Wyld inside, mote respiration should be available. I think.
I really like the Dream Narrative thing, already have several cute tricks I wanna play next time Fox invades someone's dream.
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More sleep seems important right now, sadly (and I need to find a muse or two). I will do my best to post... ~48-72 hours from now, I suspect. The game has not been forgotten, never fear.
Glad to hear you had a great time, meschlum. ^__^ My own holidays also went well, and I hope the same can be said of Rik. And those who were once a part of the game or who never were, for that matter.
Take your time diving back into things, if you think you need the rest. I could do with more sleep myself, so I understand the feeling.
Hey meschlum. Just had a question I... probably should have asked earlier. ^_^o
According to the rules, with a 3-die stunt, one can forgo the mote/willpower reward to get an xp* award, if such stunts aren't intended to be very common. Could I opt to use that option for the Game-narrating stunt? All's well if you'd rather not, but I figured I'd ask. While on the topic, as a PbP game lacks sessions, how is xp/bp dispensing going to work?
* Which I guess would be a bonus point, since I think you said we'd be using those in lieu of experience?
Not sure about the xp thing, given the value of bp.
However!
It has been (nearly) one year, things have happened, bp should apply. Thanks for the reminder.
Hm.
4 bp each, reflecting OOC time and whatnot.
* Raising Virtues and Willpower costs 2bp / dot post chargen as they're horrible xp sinks.
* Raising Essence is still excessively expensive and gets worse (Essence 3 to 4 is 20 bp) as it's so boringly useful.
* Charms are 3 bp, as they are utterly cheap for Fair Folk post creation. Except Martial Arts / Sorcery, of course (which is more expensive).
Mani: you are free to pick which of your toys you just acquired. Causality is odd like that around Essence users.
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Or something less me-centric.
