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No I have no reason to schrab (first time I even heard the expression) -- your comment was respectful -- my statement (which is not a redundant question) is in the same vein just disagreeing with the basic premise you put forth -- I am just looking at the base logic -- sort of like looking at a chess move -- and nothing more -- if what I stated is unclear I can outline it in more detail

The question on the other hand which came after the statement is not even directly related (indirectly yes as it includes the former sort-of) -- I am seriously asking what are all the potential points we can acquire by the end -- I know the Prize is 1 -- but what are the remaining points -- Secret ?? -- Additional Thing(s) ??

I was just joking, hence the emoji. I didn't think you were intentionally "schrabbing" me (it's a pretty obscure slang/jargon, but seemed relevant). At least, I hope not, I was assuming you just missed the hyper-link in my previous post. If you click on "scoring system" in my previous post, it takes you to saevikas's post that outlines the Merit points, which exactly answers the question you asked. Unless I'm not understanding your question.

Here it is again:
scoring system

Ah okay thanks -- yeah I always error on the side of caution when it comes to communication -- as sometimes things do not come across the same way as one might have intended

Now with the points most are fairly straight forward but I do have a question with this one

1 pt - Last Ninja Standing

Is there a situational that might cause one not to participate in the Climax Phase??

Ha ha, no problem, glad we cleared it up. Sorry for the confusion, I'll try to be more clear in the future.

Okay I have re-read the guidelines and would like a clarification
So if I am understanding this correctly -- we are going to have a total of 3 Cycles (Drama or Combat) for each Character for a total maximum Cycles of 12 then we have Climax which may happen sooner if all Secrets have been revealed.

Okay if that is correct what is meant by "if all Secrets have been revealed" -- does that mean:

At least one other person has learned each person secret such that at least one person knows at least one other person's secret
e.g. A knows B's secret who knows C's secret who knows D;s secret who knows A's secret
--or--
Everyone one has learned every other person's secret

DeJoker, how's your scene coming along? If you're busy, would you like to have ToDream go ahead instead?

Sorry trying to get it done this week -- contract ended -- holiday week -- so it slowed me down from what I was expecting should have it done tomorrow or the next will focus and do my best sorry for the delay

Just curious but Lacy's last post appears to be doing more than one thing within a single Drama Scene -- would not Lacy's stealing of the fake phoenix as well as perhaps determining that it was a fake phoenix without prior knowledge since it was made to resemble a phoenix require additional successful attempts??

I don't think that it's more than one action per scene, since they didn't get more than one benefit. I mean, Lacy got a featherless peacock for her troubles. Since nothing of benefit is at stake, no rolls are needed.

In addition, the others probably would've found out anyways about the phoenix being stolen, whether it be from a belated attempt to swipe the phoenix, or info gathering. Something like, "damn, i went there last night, and found a peacock. oh well, going to go find that other ninja".

I do think mixing scenes is a bit messy though, so I personally would've mentioned the incident in passing while playing the next scene instead of trying to extend a past scene more. It doesn't really hurt though.

I'm just trying to tie the story together a bit. Lacy's not gaining anything mechanically here. Just setting up drama, which is the purpose of the drama scenes. I'll need to follow-up with an investigation in a follow-up scene, I was just seeding this idea here to foreshadow and give you something to riff off of in follow-up scenes, like a cool description about how you evade the cops. But you can also just say they don't catch-up to you at all if you don't like that. But I think a big part of the game is to drop ideas for each other to build off. I was just trying to interact with your ideas a little. I'm assuming we're all very competent Shinobi, so Lacy might notice the bird is just a peacock. Like I said, it doesn't mechanically get me anywhere yet, I still need to follow-up with more investigation or something in the future to gain your location or secret, etc, so my drama scene only did one thing mechanically (trying to seduce Sumono).

But if you think it undercuts your scene too much, then I'm happy to remove that last paragraph.

Maybe it makes more sense as a suggestion to add to the conclusion of your drama scene. Players are allow to suggest being apart of other's scenes. If you don't like the suggestion, then I'll leave it out.

I edited my posts. Let me know if you like the addition, else I'll remove it.

Cross Posted -- yes that is fine it does no more than you could have done in a normal Drama Scene

Thank you

Ah this I was not aware of and had it been made as a suggestion perhaps we could have worked out a compromise that tied the loose ends together as you stated. Still perhaps one of the next Scenes will wrap this up nicely and/or we can do some kind of ending Cycle kind of wrap up of loose ends depending on what the the other ninjas do during their Scenes. Assuming there a loose ends that need wrapping up and the GM allows such a thing.

I thought my edit was clear? I have made it a suggestion. If you like it, then this seems like a good spot for it. Why wait? It's such a short-style of game with only 3 scenes each before the climax, we might as well try to make the most of each scene. Otherwise, I'm not going to force it into a scene later if you don't like this idea for some reason.

No sorry I did not understand that was a suggestion (will know going forward) but it is what it was and let us just leave it as it stands at this point no sense going back and rehashing it.

Although I am curious had your Drama Scene concluded without anyone else posting what would you have done to tie up your seemingly loose end as you would not have been able to steel the phoenix??

Do you mean if we had fully played out the extended part of my scene before you began your scene? If so, then I wanted to see how the interaction with Sumono was going to go. But if nothing arouse from our conversation, then what I had in mind was pretty much the same as what I did: Lacy noticing the late hour and running off into the night insinuating that she was headed towards the research facility to complete her mission. In doing so, I thought someone else might invite me into their scene if it was set at the facility or I might suggest to be apart of any scene that took place at the facility, or if nobody else tried to steal the phoenix this cycle, then I would start my next scene with Lacy arriving at the facility and trying to steal the phoenix next time. But I was open to other possibilities depending on where the conversation with Sumono went. For instance, if Sumono had suggested going somewhere together to foreshadow a scene ToDream was planning next, then I might have played into that instead.

Ah cool thanks for sharing would you mind in the future if anything like this occurs again sharing this information up front it might have been interesting to have you have dropped in while I was stealing the phoenix -- it just did not occur to me and Takezo had been delayed a bit on posting -- trying to figure out how to portray the "attention to detail" aspect of my character. I find the concept intriguing for a character but never having written for that mentality I am still walking in unfamiliar territory trying to get the right balance between describing the attention to details without creating a monologue of dry uninteresting minutia

Yes ToDream looking forward to seeing your Scene and hope all goes well at home RL is so much more important than GL ;)

I'm thinking about it. Hopefully I'll get to post tomorrow.

New Years Eve was a really bad night for me.