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Fingers are crossed!
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I agree. Whatever system propels us from one scene (or job) to the next doesn't seem to be there. I also feel super reactive instead of proactive because of not really grokking what's supposed to go down. I want to play this when it's a complete …
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[Ring] "Muscle and protection -- not really our bag." "Not that we can't branch out here and there, but it does smell like a rat in a pipe. I'd pass if it's my call." But I shrug, showing that I don't feel strongly.
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[Ring] I walked across the ward. New pair of shoes needs some breaking in, don't you know? I nod to Frog for confirmation, but I'm obviously confident. "The 'Lamp's ours. It went as well as you could hope. We turned the two sashes, Scapa and C…
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Enjoy!
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[Ring] I continue to duck and bob, moving sideways out of Scapa's view and whispering into the ear on the opposite side of his head. "Your future, future, future. Your ffffuture is with the Well of Eyes." and then make sure to continue evading hi…
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Alchemy with help from Vauri and a bonus from Frog.(Rolled: 5d6. Rolls: 6, 5, 3, 2, 4. Total: 20)
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[From the diary of Ring] This last hour in the lab, working beside Vauri; getting back To It, was very nice. It is quite a pleasure having colleagues even when they are a bit odd. She knew the difference between Pick's Oil and Tincture of Human T…
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[Ring] I'm behind them, mostly out of their sight, occasionally entering the very edge of their peripheral vision, humming and mumbling, squeezing their shoulders -- forcing them to dedicate a big chunk of what's left of their attention to figuring…
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Sorry I was away so long. I was assuming we would make something that caused them to be programmable and then we would use that state to turn them. That seems like a hypnotic (or dissociated hypnopompic, or something) effect. And I'm not sure w…
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[Ring] "Very good!" I smile and nod true appreciation to Lenia and follow Vauri up the stairs. ... "Right, what do we know about them? Who should we convince first?"
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[Ring] It's a little funny to bump into someone as insightful as she, but we're discussing the relative cultural tells embedded in what people order to drink. I've dropped the pissy charade with Lenia, but I'll still make trouble with occasional p…
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[Ring] I'm there having a few drinks, obviously pissy because I can't afford companionship for the night. Occasionally pissing people off and then apologizing to avoid trouble. Hiding in plain sight, basically. I don't think I even have to be th…
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[Ring] I look up from the indecipherable notebook. "Too true, good man. The best possible result would be to turn them, of course. To have them retain their position, pretending to be Red Sashes, but actually working as our eyes. Perhaps we cou…
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re jobs: Even after watching it happen elsewhere in the game I'm not really certain I grok how the mechanical/systemic elements are supposed to tie to the fiction. Are we just inserting in-narrative circumstances that we've heard of (off-camera) p…
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Sure, I'm taking a fairly casual examination, but it's possible that I can piece through their cipher -- maybe it's a permutation of one that's been around a while. (Rolled: 2d6. Rolls: 3, 1. Total: 4)
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[Ring] I stay in the tower. In the basement, there's a laboratory of sorts, across from the Well of Eyes. I have a bed-roll under a workbench. I nod to Cinnamon Socks and let the others talk. I'm grabbing a bowl of stew from the common pot and …
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[Ring] I grabbed the notebook, but we decided to investigate it later, after we've cleared the scene. He's just a shimmer for now, heatwaves over the bread oven, only not where they ought to be. If he dodges danger long enough, could be he'll pic…
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So, Vauri; let it ride or push our luck?
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Leech (Rituals): (Rolled: 4d6. Rolls: 5, 3, 2, 1. Total: 11)
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So I'm not sure what's supposed to be happening. Are we negotiating (silently) or waiting for me to roll or something else?
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With the additional effect, do we pre-negotiate that because it flows from the fiction? That's how it seems it should work. Like maybe in this case, we can get the ritual over with (win or lose) quickly so we can bolt from the building before bein…
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OK, so Frog is described as helping with Channel, maybe? "This may improve their position (giving them +1d or a better roll type), increase the effect of their action, or add an additional effect." Who decides that?
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Rich, do the Teamwork rules apply to the roll I'm about to make or is that already rolled into your making it an easy roll?
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[Ring] We can start by building the pyre from the nicest looking stuff, stacking box on box, leaving an ignition chamber in place to kick things off. And we can stack extra boxes up in the corners as much as possible. And then we'll see what we h…
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[Ring] "This is so great. Usually the act of acquiring quicksilver, pearls, peacock feathers, etc is a boring and costly effort. But burning a hat-shop rolls that all into one operation. I can't believe I never thought of this before!" "You kno…
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[Ring] "This building isn't under our protection, is it?" I stuff the notebook into a pouch in my wrap and start considering. "Actually, this is perfect. I can see it clearly. We can move these boxes with their fancy hats into a great heap in t…
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[Ring] "Quite right; he was an above average student though easily distracted. From a mercantile family, I thought -- must have been a cover. It's been ten or fifteen years since I was providing his tutelage."
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[Ring] Oh, it's this guy?! "Blainbus!" As a child, he was studying all the subjects of course, but he ignored a lot of them to concentrate on Cyclic Poetry of early Imperial Akoros. It was remarkable for such a young man to develop the hypothesi…
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[Ring] I pat Frog on the shoulder pretty hard, relieved at not having to climb out the window. "Good job, my man! Can someone open the door, then?"