Jabes.plays.RPG says:
Diginus has just caused the elemental to attack the chimera while he distracts it. So that's my first free invoke on the elemental, right? If that hadn't been a freebie then I would now be subtracting a fate point from my character sheet. Is that how it works?
What about the elemental's attack? Do I make an attack roll for him? (possibly with a bonus as a result of my successfully distracting the monster?)
The way you have written that post you have not used any of your free invokes from the summoned elemental. Your result is a +3 and Chimera will be getting a reaction roll. But that's OK. In Fate you can Invoke aspects after your result, getting either a +2 or a re-roll. The way it seems you have written this post your action is an attempt to Create an Advantage (a temporary aspect) of "Distracted by Diginus" that you and other players could use. Your elemental does not have its own actions for attacking, its presence in the scene is to add to your description. If you want it to Attack (potentially doing damage to Chimera) that requires your action.
The fact Diginus is distracting him so the elemental can attack is fine, your character is "setting up" the attack. We can use the roll you made as an attack just as it is written. You can use a free invoke still to make it a +5 result, or re-roll (I don't recomment that though, a +5 is a pretty good result).
So just let me know if this is an Attack or Create Advantage roll and we will be fine. If you wish to use an invoke from the elemental put that in the Scene 1 thread, posting as the player so I know it is an OOC comment.
Jabes.plays.RPG says:
I have a few ideas for how to use some of the scene aspects. Is it possible to invoke more than one aspect in a single move?
Yes. You can invoke as many different Aspects as you want on any given roll as long as you can "pay" for them. Obviously, if they're free it doesn't cost any Fate Points. Think of Free Invokes as Fate Points tied directly to certain Aspects. Otherwialse if you have the Fate Point you can spend it how you wish. The only limit is you can only invoke an Aspect once per roll...unless you came up with a really creative reason.
It is usually frowned upon to allow multiple invokes, and I have always agreed until this scenario that we are playing. Chimera has four heads. If you used the roll we are talking about to Create an Advantage as I discussed above, and Chimera failed to Overcome that Advantage, you could, if you wanted, spend a Fate Point per head to get a bonus of +8 to your next Attack action on your next turn. It would cost the free invoke you might get if the Advantage sticks and three Fate Points for the additional invokes. I don't know if its a good idea...but it would be interesting. And actually if that "Distracted by Diginus" was created, you could pass the free invoke to another player and they could spend three Fate Points to do the same thing. Again...I leave it to you to decide, that would be a very cool, but costly, action.
I will respond to Fenwicks action, but that should not affect you in anyway since you acted first and he is simply trying to Create an Advantage by hiding.