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

[banditf50]

Virgil has no negotiation skill, so here is a default to CHA . .

CHA 6 = 8, 5, 5, 4, 3, 3,

[WinterRat1]

Perception roll to find person(s) (-1 modifier): 01 04 03 02 07 17 17

Perception roll to scan perimeter (-1 mod): 04 02 03 04 05 11 17
Recon Principles (Complimentary Roll): 04 02 01

[Sedna]

SUNDAY KARMA

WinterRat: 3
Bandit: 2
Sentinel: 1 (wasn't really the quota number of posts for a week, but I liked it)

Due to the note below, I'm also giving out a small karma point advance of 2 points each to all three players. That's over and above what I'm assigning when I get back.


NOTE TO ALL

My PM box is temporarily full, so I can't get any more messages until I sort through everything and get things cleared out tomorrow.

I'm also going to be away from the Internet starting Monday until around October 10, with a small possibility I will be stopping in at the end of the month, so I won't be answering anything until then.

Sentinel: keep on as you have been going, and I'll be happy :)

WinterRat will be running Alleycat in Salvation, mostly minor things just so as not to delay player action.

Have fun, play hard, and Live in the Shadows! :D

[banditf50]

Sedna I sent this question in a PM, but due to your message I'll post it here as well . . .

What is the status of the rubble? Virgil needs to know if the site qualifies as a city domain or if it is still a hearth domain. This minor detail affects how he carries out the plan that he has formed. . . .

Have an outstanding trip where-ever you are going!

[Sedna]

Yours was the last one I (think I) got through before Dumpshock informed me that I couldn't save the sent message, because I didn't have the room.

For spirit purposes no enclosed form: city or sky spirits acceptable, but not hearth.

[banditf50]

Virgil summoned a force 6 city spirit. With wound modifiers the TN is 7 not counting what you deem the background count to be . . .

Conjuring 6 + 4 spell pool dice = 14, 11, 11, 9, 7, 4, 4, 3, 2, 2

I figure a background count of ~2, but let me know so I know how many services Virgil has to work with.

Drain resistance.

CHA 6 + 2 spell pool dice = 8, 5, 5, 5, 4, 2, 2, 1

I'm betting that is no successes once background count is added to the TN, so it looks like Virgil is now dealing with a M stun in addition to previous wounds.

Let's hope that no more elementals decide to jump Virgil, because no one has enough luck to overcome a -3 wound modifer :spin:

[Sedna]

Uhm -- spell pool as such doesn't add to conjuring in any way, shape or form. (Power foci are a bit of a special case.)

I took two off the bottom and two off the top: net 2 services after background count is figured in.

Same deal with drain: one off the top, one off the bottom -- but fortunately (or unfortunately) that wouldn't have made a difference anyway: you were right, no successes.

[Sedna]

She'll still have four points of physical damage. She's starting to regain consciousness, but it won't be a quick thing. You're all still concealed.

WinterRat -- maybe you could turn it into one of those "learning people skills" moments?

[WinterRat1]

OK, continuity problem here. Apparently you just beat me Sedna. I can edit mine, but quick question before I do about this section.

[Sedna]

I use "mage" exclusively for "hermetic mage", and "shaman" when I intend "shaman" specifically. Otherwise I use "magician" or "magically active". So here, "mage" refers to the Doc Wagon mage.

[Sedna]

All right, for continuity purposes --

The first paragraph of mine and the first paragraph of yours come simultaneously.

The tired smile stays. It's utterly appropriate in both posts exactly where it is -- and it might have different meanings depending on who is looking at it.

The bit of digging happens next, but they don't excavate her completely, for precisely the reasons Dragon gives.

The mage heals her and tries to stand up at the same time as Dragon says "Can you move her now and stabilize later" -- he catches him by sheer reflex, possibly half not realising it.

Then the rest of what Dragon says ... and then what the mage says at the end. (Obviously what he's caught was not what Virgil didn't say, but what Dragon did.

Heal is a time-consuming spell, so the wounds don't instantly close over -- and Dragon, with his attention elsewhere (scanning for threats) might not have realised immediately it had already been cast.

Does this work?

[WinterRat1]

Sounds good to me. So basically, the mage is saying to VIRGIL that I (Dragon) have almost forgotten who I am, and he (Virgil) is walking that same path. Got it.

Continuity is cool. Perhaps just to edit your post to clarify that particular part of confusion for easier reading later on? If not that's fine, I just know we'll be referring to this later.

[banditf50]

Virgil is going to cast a heal spell on the women. I'd roll it now, but I will not be back to my dice for a bit over an hour. Feel free to just improvise if you want . . . the spell is only force 4 so I do not expect it will help a whole lot.

You still had the idea to have that stree clinic set up in Pulyup right? I assumed so which I was I thought we could go pay visit to Juliette.

[Sedna]

I edited in and expanded the above continuity note into the IC thread.

Two Heals can't be cast on the same person (sorry!). You probably had the advantage of having the Doc Wagon mage cast it, at the higher Force and the D level drain.

Thanks for reminding me -- yes, that clinic very much exists.

And without changing or removing anything else I added a couple of phrases to my post from yours, WinterRat, because they worked and were beautiful.

[banditf50]

Thanks. This certainly has been a frantic few moments with all three of us online and posting at the same time. I starting typing my last IC post before your post about her regaining consciouness was up, so I assumed she was still greatly wounded . . .

[Sedna]

:D ... can you imagine this, tabletop? But why don't one or both of you two write her all the way into the Puyallup clinic -- there's certainly enough confusion around that you should have no problem getting through the Star lines now -- just let me write the description of the place? She could be on her feet but she's dragging, and you'd have very much to support her.

I'll be out of the way for an hour, while I get together next-week information. That should keep accidental post-crashes to a minimum.

[banditf50]

Sedna perhaps you could provide me with the ethnic background of Galina. I plan on doing some work to flesh out the clinic and it would help if I could imagine her accent.

[Sedna]

It's not so much accent as a poor grasp of English -- Galina has zero education (as the term is most commonly used). Ethnically, she's a mongrel. I'll e-mail you what I have of her and Bob before I leave.

[WinterRat1]

Apologies for lateness. Here you all go.

Kurukami- 2
Shev- 2
Paul- 2
Neophyte- 2
Sedna- 3
Digital- 1

Btw, I don't want to penliaze anyone's character for simply being the reserved type. If you don't want your character to say anything, that's fine, just post their thoughts or perceptions or internal monologue or something. And for those who are wondering, Sedna's extra was for her Shadowlnand posts. No secret backroom GM deals going on. Promise.

And great job role-playing by the way, I am enjoying watching the dialogue unfold. :)

[WinterRat1]

Sorry again about the lateness of karma. I was out of town for the weekend and didn't get a shot at the computer. Anyway, here you are.

Kurukami- 1
Shev- 1
Paul- 1
Neophyte- 1
Digital- 1

[Kurukami]

No worries... I know that I've been a bit tardy with posts myself.

[WinterRat1]

Since it was such a slow week last week and I was swamped, I will post two weeks worth of karma this sunday. Just an announcement.

[Sedna]

Back! :) and I'll follow up in about 12 hours with everyone I'm running. (Extremely tired. Thanks for all your patience.) At the moment I didn't see anything I can really add a post to in the LitS IC thread, but if that changes, I'll write it tomorrow.

I'll also catch up on e-mail then. At least I've cleared out a bit of my PMs, so that's accessible again.

[WinterRat1]

No, you're right about the LITS posts. Sorry I didn't write more, beyond being swamped I was waiting for your response to the email I sent you so I know exactly how many contacts I acutally can buy and I know which ones I have. Probably shouldn't write about contacts I don't have, eh? ;)

I think we're all a little tired, Dumpshock's seemed a bit slow lately. I'm certainly exhausted. Bleh. Anyway, now that you're back, promise to be more on the ball about getting stuff up. Glad you're back! Hope your trip went well, and we'll speak son, I'm sure. Take care and rest up! :)

[Sedna]

BELATED SUNDAY KARMA (this is for two weeks)

WinterRat: 3
Sentinel: 2

(That's over and above the small advance I mentioned earlier.)

Sentinel, if you want an easy way to double the karma you're earning, significantly expand on the details of the ritual. Make it full-sensory: how it looks, how it sounds, how it smells, how it feels when splatterings happen to make contact with your skin (sometimes burning through your clothing to do so). Give (al)chemical details: interactions, what melts, what burns, what's left behind, and when something accidentally blisters you.

Also, bring in astrological data (google an ephemerus), phases of the moon (any future makings will have to start either at new or full moon, this one's a bit of a unique exception because it's your First), possible incense or other herbal aspects in the background (even if it's just an herbal tea or a stick of frankencense -- nothing saying every aspect of this extended ritual has to involve radicals!), the feel of the mana flows and their manipulation, a few details of the magical rituals you're using to focus them. It's more than just Ye Olde High School Chemistry Experiment.

I know there's nothing canon about this. Make something up! That's the beauty of this type of roleplaying structure! :)