[IC] Graveyard Shift: Session 1

Can you roll a 2xGreen + 1xYellow + 2xBlue + 3xPurple with Star Wars FFG dice to find some clues?

Sounds like a Charm check with a boost for your former service and a second for Hildar's help. However, if you want to try to pull rank on someone and play it that way, we can go Leadership instead; same boosts, but add a setback to represent the fact that you're retired. Which approach would you prefer?

Keep in mind: Doing it with the dice essentially means we leave it to chance whether your former service makes a difference. If you would prefer, you can drop a Story Point and say you recognize the person at the desk as an old friend. In that case, you avoid the roll altogether. Totally up to you. The Story Point pool is currently 6/1 in the PCs' favor.

Please remember to propose uses for any advantages or triumphs you roll. You have 1 advantage to spend. What do you want to do with it, Mengus? You can get a small side benefit from your roll. For instance, maybe you recall a potentially useful fact about St. Durvin (the deity). Or maybe you remember that you have some small connection to the treasurer that might give you a boost die on a social check against them.

With this information, are you two planning to ask nicely (Charm)? Or do you want to use another strategy (like Coercion, or Leadership with Nekurr playing up his own priesthood, or Negotiation?

i would remember a useful fact

Sounds good for the advantages!

Let me know how you plan to approach Gorzo (if you indeed do).

Sure thing.

Beautiful. I'm going to use your post, Remnant, to explain to our newer players how Genesys uses Motivations. All characters have these, both short-term and long-term goals or traits that drive them. In this case, Tronus has guessed that the fence will probably want to hide out for a bit (a short-term desire, but a strong one), so offering to take him to an eatery is playing to that motivation. Tronus will thus get two boost dice on his first social check to influence the illicit merchant. (Desires and Fears grant two boosts each; playing to Strengths and Flaws grants one each).

(So, for those of you at the cathedral, the fact that the Priests of Saint Durvin feel inferior to the Priests of Kellos COULD be useful to you in a similar way. I leave it to you to figure out how you might work that into your own interaction with the treasurer!)

Tronus's approach sounds like a Charm check. Let's say in this case the difficulty is Average upgraded once (RP), but you get two boosts (B) since it will let him lie low for a bit. If Nera pipes in with some further incentive for the guy, that's worth a second boost. You also get a setback (Black) since he doesn't know either of you, so he doesn't totally trust you. Sum: BB(B for Nera) + RP + Bl

For the benefit of those of you learning the system, the difficulty here goes from Average (PP) to Average upgraded once (Red + Purple) because the fence has a Presence of 2 and 1 rank in Cool. When you roll a social check against someone, your difficulty is set by their own skills to resist you. In this case, Charm is resisted by Cool.

(These long GM rules explanations will fade as we keep playing! I just want to make sure those of you new to the system understand why you're rolling the dice you're rolling.)

I'd like to flip a story point to upgrade my check ability so GGY for me in addition for the dice pool

i won't be online for the next few days for medical reasons sorry

Thanks for the notification, Steef! I hope all's well, and await your return.

1 threat = the tavern is quite far from anywhere you want to be, so it adds about fifteen minutes to the time it will take you to get out of the Lower City and to your next destination. The other 1 threat is that the tavern he brought you to is more expensive than most, so the prices are about 50% higher than standard. That is 3 silvers for his meal, 2 silver for his ale. Triple these prices if you two want to eat, too, as it is actually lunchtime by now.

We don't need to fully RP this scene, since we're just doing background investigation at this point. So let's say your 4 successes allow you to ask 4 questions. Maybe each of you can pose a single question, then a single follow up once I give you his replies?

So, first -- thanks for the detailed setup of how you're approaching the guy. Some of that is going to play into what will probably be a Charm check. However, you've stumbled into some backstory here, so it's not time for the check just yet. I want to give you a chance to explain the situation a bit further (or lie about it if you prefer), since he seems to recognize the property you asked about, perhaps more intimately than you assumed he would.

As for the Story Point, I'll leave it up to you if you want to keep it for your next check. In a table-top game, you could have asked me to describe the office and then used my description in some way to play to his inferiority complex vs. the priests of Kellos. (Incidentally, the Cathedral of Kellos is in Vynelvale, another city.) For instance, if I'd described it as cluttered with books, you could have said, "Wow! Look at all these books! I've always loved how the priests of Saint Durvin value knowledge so much more than the Priests of Kellos!" In other words -- if you keep the Story Point, I'll let you upgrade your check, but it's not necessary for such a small narrative detail, since you could have spun any old description to fit your needs.