The Found Arcana - Chapter 8 [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
Chapter 8: Sunday, February 5, 2079

[Jack_Spade]

Link to Bobby's character sheet

[Gilga]

AM: https://stormy-waters-2075.obsidianportal.com/characters/am

[Tecumseh]

Composure checks are a good idea; I should have thought of that. The Battle Hardened quality applies, for those who have it.

Gilga is probably RPing this about right; AM is able to function but is pretty scattered.

I'll note that AM's hit came on the final die. So if she only had 9 dice she'd be a puddle on the floor right now, but luckily she has 10 and is still upright.

[Jack_Spade]

Oh right, totally forgot that I bought that in the second interlude (and somehow missed to transfer it to the quality list)

Just because, I'm rolling it now too Battlehardened bonus die: 1d6t5 0

[Gilga]

I'll give Jawsey have a chance to use his leadership skills or something, and one way or the other will post after Beta.

[Tecumseh]

Leadership (Direct) from Jawsey is a great idea.

[Beta]

Rolls:
Composure (includes battle hardened 1): composure: 14d6t5 5
Leadership: leadership: 13d6t5 5

About first aid: Jawsey has a skill of 1 (pool of 6), so with our first-aid kit might do Mato some good? But as I said IC, getting a heal spell on him quickly may be a more useful plan? Feel free to disagree.

[Gilga]

The medkit would give +6 if we have the good kind, and Jawsey can use edge while the kit does not, and he can get 1 more dice from teamwork, and four more dice from improved logic. So I think he is better than the kit.

[Jack_Spade]

First Aid will have a -4 mod due to bad condition (street) -2 and -1 per two full lost essence points.

Healing spell has to content with -6 due to Mato's extreme essence loss.

With those mods on your rolls, you lose 3 successes. But six successes is still nothing to sneeze at and should bring Mato out of overflow territory (Redliner quality reduces the number of health boxes Mato would normally gain from heaving artificial limbs)

[Gilga]

So assuming I already took -2 (wasn't near books), how many hits on the stabilize with first aid?

[Jack_Spade]

The stabilize test keeps all 5 successes as the last two rolls weren't hits anyway.

[Tecumseh]

Working against a deadline so I'll keep this short with an IC post later today.

Jack has it correct: the First Aid roll will stabilize Mato and the Heal casting will take care of his Overflow.

We'll skip Gilga's Edge reroll (so AM still has that point of Edge) because I'm going to rule - for narrative purposes - that there's damage that can't be repaired with Heal, including damage to Mato's cyber. Mato will require longer-term medical care.

Having lived with Mato, you know that his street doc - Heather Huxley - is reputable(ish). Her offices are nearby in Touristville and are where Mato gets his cyberware serviced.

[Gilga]

@Tecumesh Fair enough, though I was wondering, are you planning to retire Mato? Or is it just the way to have him occupied for the chapter?

[Jack_Spade]

Incidentally: Casting Heal at high force is never worth it - it takes longer to become permanent that way. It's far more economic to use reagents in that case (or spend a point of edge beforehand to remove the limit).

@Tecumseh
I assume this is Mato's out for this mission. As he is the one with the olfactory booster, Bobby would ask to get the data from his headware, so he can ask that one member of the Red Hot Nukes (met and exchanged numbers at the Funhouse) about the composition and who likely built the bomb.

Also, Bobby's bear form has Enhanced Senses (Smell), so he'll try to remember what it smelled like exactly:
Perception (Smell) enhanced: 15d6t5 5
so he might recognize the bomb maker later.

[Gilga]

Well, I figured the entire house was rocked so she is not going to search for the reagents while Mato is bleeding. I'll lower the force if Tec approves or just use the edge on the drain roll to not start with 2 physical (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Jack_Spade]

Bobby will gift AM a ring and an amulet for her birthday that hold a few drams of reagent for emergencies then (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

btw: Bobby's birthday is coming up, as I just noticed: 22.2 (the thirtiest part of the number of the beast (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) )

[Tecumseh]

This is just KOing Mato for the chapter and forcing some unexpected changes on him.

Lowering the Force retroactively is okay. Narratively, there's a limit to how much Mato can be healed. The critical step was to stabilize him, either with a medkit or a trauma patch. The Heal spell gives him a bit of breathing room so that he's not on the brink of death, but doesn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

Bobby gets a good whiff of what the explosives smell like and feels like he could identify this mixture again in the future.

Mato's olfactory boosters don't have wireless capabilities and so can't be hacked wirelessly. (This is curious; I thought they did have it so that scents could be compared to an online database, but that's not what the entry says.) I suppose a data cable could be stuck up his nose; he's in no position to object.

@gilga
Please roll Intuition + Demolitions. It is usually linked to Logic but I want Intuition in this case.

@All
This chapter is super sandbox-y. It could be very long or very short. There is no explicit job or mission; it's just to see how the PCs react to the events of the initial IC post.

[Jack_Spade]

Well, I have my mission statement - I'm toying with the idea of replacing my Impassive negative quality with the No-one Left Behind quality (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I'll leave the data cable thing up to the doctor (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Gilga]

Int + demolition: 6d6t5 2

[Tecumseh]

Well this the first time I've seen the Kiai power too.

Pedestrian resist: Willpower + Logic: 5d6t5 1 hit

Dude takes off running.

AM will need to resist the effects too, although her boosted Logic will make that easier.

I'll leave it up to Beta to decide if Jawsey is within 8 meters or not.

I'll put what AM finds via Demolitions in my next IC post. FYI, I am traveling Tuesday and probably won't be able to post much if at all.

[Gilga]

resist Kiai: 14d6t5 6 no effect.

[Beta]

Jawsey character sheet link https://brexbasicbackups.obsidianportal.com...aracters/jawsey

[Beta]

Adeline Peters is a contact with C2 L4, "KE Forensic Magician", based in Seattle proper.
Zwipe is C1 L5, Ganger/Technician (he was the contact that we helped from the Brain Eaters, a few episodes ago)

And sorry that I'm not on the same posting frequency at the moment. I tried to write Jawey's IC to explain why he wasn't outside helping sooner.

[Tecumseh]

As I said, I'm traveling almost all day Tuesday so I'll be taking a day off from posting unless I get one up very late in the evening.

Adeline: Available? 1-4 Yes, 5-6 No: 1d6 4

Zwipe: Available? 1-5 Yes, 6 No: 1d6 5

Both are available.