OOC

Alright, I got both of your plot values. If anybody wants to use a plot phase ninpo, go ahead.

No thanks.

Set here as well

Man Chalrytharendir why you pickin' on me I feel so unloved now ;)

Gotcha. I’ll update that last post soon.

Good catch.

Good fight.

Also take into consideration that it hit your Scheming column so maybe it missed your body but grazed your face or some other element that you might use in scheming based of those skills you do not have ;)

😆 I figured it was only fair since Takezo seems to have the Phoenix on his side. And I have a feeling later in the game Lacy will probably be on Takezo side given their earlier scene so I wanted to preemptively balance that out ... although, who knows? It will be an interesting internal conflict for Lacy ... Does her loyalty lie with her new found crush or her fellow clan member/rival?!?!?

Beside, those dodge rolls were the only ones I even had the chance to modify because you guys kept rolling before describing what you were doing. I have to apply my modifier before you roll, so the dodges were the only ones I could even go for.

Also, I thought a +1 to Aaron seems like I'm picking on Takezo less than a -1 to Takezo 😉

Looks like it didn't even help though 😔 Probably because I didn't add any flavour ... the dice gods were watching 😆

Its okay I smiled and winked we be good and yeah I am looking forward to seeing how this all plays out both short term and long term

The good news, for me, is that the defender for ranged attacks gets to pick where the damage is applied (pg 143-144). So I'll put it in stealth.

Oh yeah but why not Scheming you have no Skills there either just curious

Yeah, besides his 3 main skills, kek. Anyways, reminder that the winner of combat, in this case, being DeJoker, gets to choose a reward for winning. In this case, either you choose your Emobond towards Aaron, Aaron's Emobond towards you, learn his Secret, or learn his Location.

The EmoBond seems like the most organic but I think Takezo would be much more interested in the Secret as that may help in defense in future encounters which I am sure will occur ;) Still it would be nice if that is obtained in a more organic fashion but not knowing the secret makes it hard to determine how to render it organically

So do you want to go for the secret? I could see it as Takezo being able to deduce Aaron's goals, or Aaron letting Takezo know about his secret (without anybody else knowing).

Yes that is the correct cliff note version of what I said ;)

Yep when we are in our Ninja suits we dress in black ;) glad you caught the reference hope you enjoyed it

Remember that secrets are secret to anybody who doesn't know them.

Yep, I don't think this secret affects how Lacy will act, but if it does become relevant to Lacy, I'll try to make her act as though she doesn't know that info. In the future, feel free to censor the "secret" part of the post by surrounding it with note tags. Or censor the whole thing and just put a brief summary of what happened minus the secret underneath. Like "During tea, Aaron reveals his secret to Takezo."

I know that was expecting to see it disclosed in a Note and some vague reference to mentioning it in post -- but I am good with it as we all know the only folks currently that know that specific secret are Aaron and Takezo