The Found Arcana - Chapter 9 [OOC] Options

[Thanee]

You need to overcome her manascape spell (8 hits) to truly assense her aura, but IC if you do not resist the spell you do not know that it is there.

Well, I can try... but not very likely. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Logic + Willpower 5 hits (not bad, but not enough)

Kinda funny, that Shadow Spells just directly contradicts the core rules. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Though mana-based illusions can be created on the astral plane, their magical auras give them away as illusions to anyone who makes a successful Assensing Test—illusions can’t fool Assensing and cannot be used to disguise or create auras.

So much for that... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Just randomly stumbled over that part, while looking for what is used to resist them. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Anyways... that spell cannot make auras go away, right? So all the spells (if there are others), including the Manascape itself will have auras on the astral, too (unless there is Extended Masking in place as well and she has at least 5 hits to resist the Assensing, which, obviously, I cannot know).

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

If I understood correctly the spell is kind of like a physical mask for auras. All the auras Raven sees are really there but they may look different than what they really are, and no extended masking I think it is more of a shadow people thing.

[Thanee]

Yep, that is my point. There should be at least one more aura then, right? The spell?

Bye
Thanee

[Jack_Spade]

Specific trumps general - and manascape is a very specific and special case.

From a game mechanics perspective, it's a very useful tool to prevent players from circumventing certain investigation storylines.

[Gilga]

By the way, I am not sure how clear it was. The Finnigans and the Casino are not the same entity.
E.g., your loan is from the Finnigans, but you are expected to spend a lot of money in the casino to get the suite. You have 70k credit from the Finnigans stored in the casino - but as far as the casino stuff knows it is your money (well Vala's but she'll approve you).

Tammie keeps the heavy rollers happy, and she has a certain authority due to the importance of such clients to the casino. She can get you perhaps more security, or inform you of stuff but she works for the Casino and is likely not a member of the Mafia. Vala suggested that you'll need to talk with the Finnigans directly if you are to endanger the casino, but that line of conversation got sort of dropped (I assume because I played her a bit antagonistic/volatile/annoying).

Fog of PbP so if that was obvious great, if not I am happy to clarify my intent.

[Tecumseh]

This is helpful, thank you.

The way it had been written up to this point it did sound like the casino and the Finnegans were interchangeable, but what you just described is more in-line with the canon.

[Jack_Spade]

Also, I was under the impression that the hotel part was heavily warded.
As you describe it now, there are no wards to speak of except for the one surrounding the building - is that correct?

[Thanee]

There is a ward in our suite, but it is not from the hotel. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Gilga]

Many wards protect the game floors (two bottom floors), and a single ward protects the entire building. Your apartment has additional wards which Tammie does not know about (she can't see them and is mundane). They are not made by the hotel - long story short Vala left a few wards in the apartment.

[Jack_Spade]

...and didn't key us in. Lovely

[Gilga]

She did not key you up on no wards; you also have five spirits in the apartment while we're at it Vala did not take them with her. The spirits did not change their position since Vala left, and the barriers in the apartment are not wards, but mana barrier spells likely cast in haste. So I am unsure if she can technically 'key you in them.

[Jack_Spade]

Ah, are those quickened or is she still sustaining them?

[Tecumseh]

How large is the box that contains the card? Is there anything notable or special about the box itself?

[Tecumseh]

Bumping the question above. How big is the box that contains the card? What's the box like?

[Gilga]

Not very big, a shoe box size. It is a generic cardboard box used to deliver packets nothing that hints at the treasure inside.

[Gilga]

@Thanee Rachel has been quiet for a while. (which is fine) but is there anything you are waiting on?

[Thanee]

I'm assuming, she is on her way to fetch stuff from the SIS HQ. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Tecumseh]

I don't think Rachel "officially" left ICly (by which I mean there wasn't a post to that effect and Mato was talking to her just a moment ago) so I would encourage Rachel to be involved in this astral interaction, since Mato is well out of his depth.

Tamarind has Magical Theory so she's well-equipped to engage with this conversation too.

[Thanee]

Sure, I guess that works. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Beta]

Sorry for being quiet. A mix of not sure what to say and being slammed at work with writing, so finding more words by the time I've been logging off work at night has been hard.

With 10 dice of magical theory I'm making the assumption that Tamarind is aware of spirit pacts. Other than the small detail of only having 1 karma available, she's pretty interested in getting a taste of magic so her aura will suddenly she be showing interest/excitement/desire.

[Gilga]

Hi, as of Monday, I'll be on vacation with no computer. Let's continue the week after.

[Thanee]

Have a nice trip! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bye
Thanee

[Tecumseh]

Checking in before we resume.

Gilga, are you back from your vacation? How did it go?

[Beta]

Sorry that I was quiet before GIlga's vacation and didn't chime in until now. I'm going to be pretty quiet through the end of the month, as I was already on a tight schedule for a major work project before the whole family got covid a couple of weeks ago, so that I had a week+ of working at half effectiveness instead of packing in long hours to get caught up. I will be reading and posting something as we start back up again, but likely not as lengthy as today's post for the next couple of weeks.

I'm wondering if we might need an OOC discussion to decide what to do? With IC it can be hard to sort player preference and character preference, and there are a couple of pretty key decisions that I hope we can all get aligned on as players, even if our characters don't all agree (stay in the 'bunker' in the room vs go mobile/elsewhere, try to sell to Nightmare vs. let Nightmare steal it from us, vs. try and get it to someone else (ideally selling it) and letting Nightmare take it from them. (I tried to address that first one in my IC, but ran out out of time/energy for addressing the 2nd question IC).

[Jack_Spade]

Crunch is the worst.

Sure, OCC, my priorities are in order:

- Surive and get paid
- Get paid extra
- Get some use out of the suite
- Get some Halloweeners killed
- Roomservice

Bobby will be hard to convince to let someone else take the heat from having the card. He had a bad time with seeing Mato splattered across the street.