Living in the Shadows: OOC, never relax... Options

[grendel]

[Sedna]

It seems to have been a bad 24 hours for Perception and CH-related tests all around: things overlooked, people just happening to be looking in exactly the wrong direction at critical moments. Let's hope we break that here.

bandit: need an appropriate CH-related test for Virgil's action, probably Etiquette. You're looking for 2 successes against a TN 4. I'll write up the results later.

Relieved to hear it, Sentinel. Was just asking because sometimes the IC reaction is the only hint that the player is feeling seriously jerked around by an incomprehensible world where things don't make sense; where the player is having difficulty imagining any possible reason for complications that have the potential to significantly impede progress toward the character's goals.

It can get into a vicious cycle very quickly:

1. When the player's feeling disconnected, the character doesn't take any initiative in interacting where there is a perception of less than total control over all elements of the situation (which is almost always).
   
2. Because most information can be gotten only by interacting, the character (and consequently the player) gets less and less information about the situation.
   
3. With less information, the player feels even more disconnected from the situation; and tends increasingly to let others take the lead in what is personally seen as an increasingly incomprehensible situation.

Since I know that an absolute not-knowing without any kind of speculation can be frustrating, and since I've tossed out a fair bit of IC information by now, any OOC guesses as to what's going on? :) (I'm willing to let others into the guessing game if you agree to it.)

[banditf50]

Sedna: I meant to post a preemptive etiquette roll, it just completely slipped my mind. The wonderful thing about the Irony Games dice roller is that I can make the test at work (very quickly) without drawing any strange looks :-P

etiquette (5): 05 04 03 02 01

*I kid you not. . .1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Although I put them in order, the dice roller still gave me successive numbers. Weird.

[WinterRat1]

Scrapheap, do the following three steps and post your response/results.
1. Pick three numbers
2. Roll 3D6. Post each die result separately, do not total them.
3. Call odd or even

[Scrapheap]

[WinterRat1]

Any non-decimal or fraction numbers.

[Scrapheap]

[WinterRat1]

Scrapheap:
My formula for this dumb luck test was: ax + by – cz = odd/even
You picked: 10, 25, 53, so 10x + 25y –53z = odd (which you called)
You rolled: 3, 4, 2, so 10*3+25*4-53*2 = 24, which does not equal odd.

Therefore you get the ‘bad’ luck, and will not be able to speak to Keira.

You may NOT arrive at The Respite Soup Kitchen until AFTER the events in Slipshade’s story. You MAY arrive while he is still present, which means you may arrive at any time after 10:45:38.

You can either write up your own reason why, or I can come up with something for you, just let me know in the OOC thread which option you prefer. In the meantime, you may continue playing, but for continuity’s sake, if you have nothing to do, I would recommend fast forwarding to the next day and The Respite Soup Kitchen. As I recall, John needs sleep badly, so this might not be a bad time to catch up on some of that, and/or work on some Strength training time, as you indicated you wanted to do earlier.

I did this because the two storylines proceeded a bit disjointly, so I couldn’t decide if it was fair or not to say you got there before the kidnapping or not, but obviously you could not be present during the kidnapping. For consistency purposes, I figured the fairest way was to roll for it and let the story work itself out from there. Let me know if you have any questions. And yes, the plot is thickening. :)

[Scrapheap]

WinterRat-
Sounds good. The only thing I was thinking was that I would swing by Finn's bar and see if he managed to come up with anything else (or, if he even continued to look). I'll write that post up tonight.

[banditf50]

Sedna and Winterrat:

Just FYI in case a flurry of posting starts up again, as it did last night. I am on the way out the door to make an end of the year dinner celebration. I do not know when I will be back to my computer tonight . . .. and the plot is thickening too.

[Sedna]

Understood -- I'm just back from a wine and cheese and the partial intent was to take full advantage, we'll see how coherent my posting is now :D

[Slipshade]

Scrapheap and WinterRat1 - Sorry I have been sick for the last week, I will post in the next couple of days, when I unbury myself at work.

Slip

[Sedna]

That's one of the more unfortunate reasons to be away. Hope you're feeling better, Slipshade :)

WinterRat, ronin: since bandit is gone for the nonce, I'll give it a bit of time before posting an answer, just in case either of you want to post an action. I'm far enough behind on coding in any case ...

[WinterRat1]

I have nothing to post and enough to catch up on myself, so go ahead and post if you got the time. Aren't we all behind? :)

[WinterRat1]

Public Service Announcement

Karma Pool Guidelines are up in the Guidelines thread. They are here below for skimming if you wish.

1. Karma pool is gained at a staggered rate per SR Comp, pg. 82
2. Karma pool refreshes at dawn.
3. Karma pool does not renew AT ALL during extended projects. Karma pool is available over the entirety of the project, but will not refresh until the time limit on the project is up, regardless of whether or not it was successful.
4. Metahumans gain 1 karma pool per 20 good karma, humans 1 karma pool per 10 good karma.
5. We’ll remind here that the points in the Karma Pool are transferred Good Karma: ie. that the point that appears in the Karma Pool has been lost from Good Karma.

More detail to be added as necessary.

[The_Eyes]

Might want to consider adding in:

5. We’ll remind here that the points in the Karma Pool are transferred Good Karma: ie. that the point that appears in the Karma Pool has been lost from Good Karma.

as that's sorta buried in the current guidelines. Regarding KP not refreshing during "extended projects," do you just mean the KP spent on that project, or all KP in general? Because Eyes had been working on a small program plan which could be called an extended project (he's about 8 hours into it, IIRC, and so has 14 hours to go), and at the rate he's going will probably be working on it for the rest of the week at least. Does that mean his pool isn't refreshing until that program plan is done, even though he didn't spend any Pool on it?

Heh, where the heck am I ever going to find the time to actually write the *program*, if just the plan's taken me... how long now? Two months and counting? :rotfl:

[Sedna]

Damn you, WinterRat!!!!! :D :grinbig: :D That's addictive! :D

Now I'm getting to that post :)

[Sedna]

ronin, just fyi, I'm not forgetting about the double-monitor you have going on :)

What WinterRat said holds good: even if it's a "back-post" because the action got a bit ahead of you, write it. It's my job to work out a way to make it work somehow. And rigging (like astral, like decking) is on a slightly different time flow in any case.

[WinterRat1]

Hey everyone, just a note, watch for PMs not getting sent again. Might be a good idea to save all important posts/correspondences for a while.

[Sedna]

WinterRat: this conversation isn't really happening in English, is it?

[WinterRat1]

It’s happening in your head, and can take place in any language you can speak. No matter what language you speak they respond in kind. You understand them just fine, and they understand you just fine.

[Sedna]

Noted. I'd just thought that in this context, a different language might have been more appropriate and/or instinctive.

[WinterRat1]

Heh…getting ideas and theories are you? Don’t worry, I’ve thought this out very carefully, and everything that happens is quite deliberate and planned. 8)

Scrapheap- Feel free to jump to tomorrow when you feel like it/can get around to it, but remember you cannot show up before 10:45.

[Sedna]

I've been speculating about this ever since they first showed up. (There really isn't an appropriate smiley for this.) So has Alleycat ... but I suspect her guesses are rather different than mine. What I'm writing for her, I'm writing straight, "cold".

Does it say that I trust you or that I take it for granted, that I never questioned that everything you're doing in this context is deliberate and planned? :spin:

[Scrapheap]

WinterRat-
Will do, I just wanted to get something up there. I'd have posted more, but I'm at work. Stupid work!