The Found Arcana - Sixth Interlude [OOC] Options

[Tecumseh]

Here’s what you currently know about your neighborhood: https://stormy-waters-2075.obsidianportal.c...is/touristville

Here’s our shared lifestyle: https://stormy-waters-2075.obsidianportal.c...gative-services

Chapter 1: Sunday, September 18, 2078
Chapter 2: Monday, September 26, 2078
First Interlude: Saturday, October 1, 2078
Chapter 3: Monday, October 10, 2078
Second Interlude: Sunday, October 16, 2078
Chapter 4: Sunday, November 6, 2078
Third Interlude: Wednesday, November 23, 2078
Chapter 5: Thursday, November 24, 2078
Fourth Interlude: Sunday, November 27, 2078
Chapter 6: Thursday, December 22, 2078
Fifth Interlude: Sunday, January 1, 2079
Chapter 7: Friday, January 20, 2079
Sixth Interlude: Wednesday, February 1, 2079

[Tecumseh]

Got the initial post up for the interlude. I have extra time available today and tomorrow before things get busier on Thursday (US Thanksgiving) and Friday (no school = dad duty) so I wanted to get things started while I could.

It's the beginning of the month so it's time for lifestyle payments. Let's do a round Charisma + Etiquette rolls to see how much we earned in January.

Mato: Charisma 4 + Etiquette 2: 6d6t5 2 hits, glitch!!

Let me think about what to do with that glitch, which is a bit complicated since it's part of a Teamwork roll. I'm open to suggestions. Maybe Mato did a job that earned some cred but pissed someone off in the process.

[Beta]

With Jawsey gone most of the month I think it makes sense for him not to roll?

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Improvement post section 6, interlude 5, and section 7 all rolled together
- buys off last point of in-debt (2 karma, 7500 nuyen)
- magic ->4 (20 karma)
- spellcasting and summoning ->5 (total of 18 karma, due to JoaT)
- buys off creature of comfort (20 karma)
- takes survival from 0 to 2 (4 karma due to JoaT)
- takes his first initiation, taking the Channeling meta-magic (13 karma)
- buys focused concentration 4 (for 32 karma)
- learns to summon water spirits
- (and maybe learns a spell? has 7 karma left but I've not come up with one that was an obvious pick, so maybe just save that for later)

[Tecumseh]

I certainly won't force you to roll. If you prefer, Jawsey could roll but not be the leader in the Teamwork test.

Upgrading Spellcasting and Summoning would be 28 karma with Jack of All Trades, not 18 as written, but I presume that's a typo.

Does Jawsey want Clairvoyance to go with Clairaudience?

Oo, channeling...

Congrats on retiring the debt!

[Gilga]

Charisma + ettique: 10d6t5 2 not the best roll this time.

[Jack_Spade]

Seems like Bobby is getting more civilized
Etiquette: 6d6t5 4

For the glitch I'd say we go for a vengeful spouse whose infidelity we uncovered

[Jack_Spade]

By the way: How did we decide to split up the 20k from the last job? Is it split 3 or 4 ways?

I'm going to raise my magic attribute from 7 to 8 for 40 karma, keeping 10 in reserve

I'm saving money for a qi focus tatoo

[Beta]

@Jack_Spade My memory Base money we've always been splitting 4 ways, with bonus items going just to the characters involved.

@Tecumseh Jawsey rolling, but not leading, makes sense. He may have contributed in one way or another
side business roll for January: 13d6t5 3

Also for each skill buying from 4 to 5 is a cost of 2x5=10, reduced by one for Jack of All Trades = 9, and 2x9=18. Am I missing something?
(and noting that to go higher the cost will start increasing by 1 instead of reducing)

Channeling is a lot less exciting for Jawsey than most characters, as his 'infirm' negative quality means that not only are his max physical attributes lowered by 1, but that none of them can ever exceed that lowered maximum. So no matter how big a spirit he channels, he caps at 5 for strength, body, and reactions, and 6 for agility. Still, 5, 5, 5, 6 is better than 2, 3, 4, 4 if he does have to do things physically, and the cancelling of wound penalties is also nice. And if he buys off infirm at some point (would need good story justification!), then it is much more potent.

[Tecumseh]

@Beta
Oh, I'm a dork. I was thinking of a 6E house rule where skills are New Rating * 3. Edition + house rule fog. Carry on; you're correct.

Infirm is pretty brutal. Probably should be worth more than 5 karma per rank.

Have you spent any time drafting a possible replacement character?

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@Jack
We always split 4 ways.

Not only is this fair OOCly - so that we all benefit equally, no matter who is GMing - it also has some real-world parallels where Sioux communities are more communal than Western (specifically, US) society as a whole. The US very much has a self-reliant "every person for themselves in this harsh, empty [except for the Natives and they don't count] frontier" worldview deeply embedded in our psyche. If you ever scratch your head at US politics, especially our social policies, you'll often find that mentality at the base of it.

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@All
AM is the team leader with 10 dice. She gets 2 hits, then we'll add 9 Teamwork dice from the rest of us:

January Teamwork: 11d6t5 3 hits

That's ¥3,000. A slow month outside the excitement with Brent. We pay ¥7,400/month so that leaves ¥4,400 to be divided between us, so ¥1,100 each for this month's Lifestyle expenses.

[Jack_Spade]

Alright, that means I did it right (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Gilga]

@Jack, so each of us got 5,000 from the run, and minus 1,100 for rent leaves 3900 for less debt. For the sake of roundness, I'll remove 100 Nguyen from her account and make it 4,000, so currently, AM owes Bobby 8k down from 12k.

@Beta These are interesting insights; I had the cooperate/capitalism interpretation - each of us holds 25% of the stocks in SIS so each of us deserves 25% of the profits.

[Jack_Spade]

Are you sure you want to pay that much at once? Bobby certainly isn't going after your kneecaps.

[Gilga]

Yes, sure. I mean I reckon that there is no stress by Bobby but I play AM as a neurotic person always looking for bad things to happen and she really wants to get out of debt.

[Tecumseh]

@gilga
There's a difference between being an owner (and thus entitled to 25% of the profits) and a worker (and thus entitled to compensation for labor). SIS blends the two together in a way that we've been sweeping under the rug for OOC convenience. I only mention this because my wife is currently on a long and winding odyssey that explores this very question. Lawyers are involved.

@All
Two IC posts are up: one that's more backward-looking (the previous week, including training and Mato's glitch) and one that's forward-looking (what's happening with Cutty).

I included a link in the IC post but I wanted to post it again here. Bobby had an interaction with these Halloweeners in Chapter 5 that's important to remember: https://www.rpgplayroom.net/rooms/the-found...r-5-ic/page/14/

Jack should refresh his memory on the matter. Beta and gilga are welcome to review it if they want, as Bobby mentioned the exchange to Jawsey and AM.

[Jack_Spade]

Thanks for posting the link, I knew I had a run in with them, but wasn't sure were.

[Beta]

summon spirit of man, force 5, optional power psychokinesis (not channeled)
summon F4+1=5 spirit of man: 11d6t5 5
spirit resist: 5d6t5 2
drain resist vs 4: 13d6t5 3
3 services, 1 stun

[Tecumseh]

Oh, before I forget, Sean Benton is from the Sprawl Sites book (from February 1990). He's been in my back pocket for 25+ years now.

[Tecumseh]

"I mean, this shithole is far from being like the Anytime Fitness downtown."

lololol that's the gym my wife goes to

[Jack_Spade]

Intimidation: 10d6t5 6

[Gilga]

lololol that's the gym my wife goes to

I actually googled to make a reference.

[Beta]

Oh, before I forget, Sean Benton is from the Sprawl Sites book (from February 1990). He's been in my back pocket for 25+ years now.

I'm missing something, who is Sean Benton? (I was going to go grab my copy of Sprawl Sites and go looking for him, but I'm not sure who you are referring to). And btw, the card from Bau Chou was on a card rather than a sheet of paper specifically so I could call out 'Happy Memories' that was a greeting-fax company in Sprawl Sites. Was such a well done book (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Tecumseh]

I did notice the 'Happy Memories' reference and I appreciated it.

Sean Benton is from p. 65 of Sprawl Sites (Rich Folks Encounters #4) where the players are attending one of his free-for-all parties.

Actually, now that I look, he's mentioned on p. 66 as well. (Which, as it happens, is the same page where Happy Memories is mentioned.) Although there's a bit of a mismatch between p. 65 - where Sean is described as a champion - and p. 66 where he's described as a "the hottest rookie". I suppose they could both be true, as p. 66 mentions that the championships are about to start in a couple days. So maybe he won the championship after p. 66 and then threw the party on p. 65.

I'll update my post to say that he won a championship in 2050.

[Gilga]

I appreciate the Shakespeare reference with Urubia. It is brilliant, sadly I doubt AM would appreciate it.

Wow I actually just now saw Jack's post, I guess I should have refreshed before typing. I'd probably give up the latter and let Bobby do his intimidation.

[Tecumseh]

I'm very pleased someone else caught the Shakespeare. Of all his plays, I find Julius Caesar to be one of the most quotable. (Yesterday my 6-year-old - who is learning to read - was going through my books and asked, "What does 'To Be or Not To Be' mean?" I said, "How much time do you have for me to answer?")

Definitely leave AM's post up. The tag-team of Bobby+AM - and their different approaches - amplified Bobby's Intimidation roll.

[Gilga]

He is fantastic; Sadly for me, I can't quote for shit despite studying most of his plays because I learned it all in Hebrew.