[The Fool] Out-Of-Character & Pot Pourri

I think I'll throw up the initial post later today, the setup for the intro adventure, even before I finish reviewing the characters (also my plan for today). My goal is to get your feet wet, and then go from there.

I will be on a brief holiday Monday through Wednesday, and while I'll have access, I may not be very diligent about GP. After Wednesday, we can go as hard as you want.

Right. One success. Your stated goal of transmuting all of their bullets (of which there could easily be several hundred) doesn't mean that one success achieves your goal in entirety. After all you could have started all of the bullets in Las Vegas, or the building.

What wasn't clear to me was how much of your goal one success gets you. Was it enough to transmute all of the gunpowder in the universe to sand, or just one bullet? My cagey response was that you don't know how successful it was, which is Storyteller speak for "Let's move on, I'll look it up and make a determination later."

Now looking it up, there are no guidelines. Does the matter have to be connected? What mass is affected? Did you have to see, or touch, the material? This type of transmutation clearly falls within the scope of what you want to do, but how many, and which bullets are affected appears to be left to discretion.

Ruling: The police, should they fire, will have a misfire chance, which will represent a partial success.

Is that fair?

As a sand box game, I really just follow the characters interests for scene development, but the meta plot was as follows:

An Order of Hermes mage was secretly a Nephandi, but struggling with his own dissolution. Not yet fully committed to his fall from grace, he tried to do good but things would go awry.

Meanwhile, the Syndicate tried a bold new tactic, to lure potential reality deviants, identified through big data analysis (although that was imperfect, and often gave them only rough addresses). Then, they would be tested through sudden and shocking stress (I.e., police brutality). The true deviants would this be separated from the citizens.

So next the torn cloth would lead you to the Black Pyramid chantry, where you might figure out who your paradox causing rescuer was. I was going to use this as a wedge to bring you into chantry politics, and see what drew your attention, although I hadn't yet planned what sorts of Tradition-shenanigans you would uncover.

Once I had introduced you to that larger community, I was hoping to spring a larger conflict - I have no idea what that would be, but I was slowly leaning to Orphan-terrorists.