Off the Beaten Track (OOC)

I'm with Rook - I don't think Cook can be trusted. It's OK if he gets pushed to the back a bit.

I am not sure anyone can be trusted...

Meht is also in the background until the 21st
So I think I'm the only one approaching the temple.

Is Albert leaving the party behind?
Else I will give a bit more time to see what Cook and Rook do, since the rolls might affect each other.

I'm guessing, since there's a pretty thick fog, that if I'm able to see the temple it's not _that_ far from the rest of the group. So I'm leaving the party but trying to stay within vision range at least.

Can I assume that it's starting to get pretty dark? I believe it was evening when we met up at the camp. Is that kind of thing something the GM decides, or does it automatically happen when a player references that it's dark? (I've never done a collaborative narrative like this before ^^)

If unsure, ask. (That is always good advice:)

I would assume it is dark by now, but there could still be some light if we want it.

If we want it to be sunset or something, we can say it is (though it feels a little later than that). If we just want enough light to be able to move around, the moon can illuminate fog quite a lot, or we can get out torches (this is not Torchbearer, I don't want to track rounds of light, a torch will last as long as the fiction needs it. (6-s can result in torches going out.))

Pay no attention...

That's not ominous at all :S

You wanna be shouting at a 'mysterious temple'... and more importantly: 'adventure site'. But a 5 is pretty good for you. :)

Adventuring without danger is just walking, right? :P

Added +WIS roll to my post

I hope we are OK with my skipping past the jump-scare and discovery that there is nothing there. It did not seem worth drawing out each player's learning this or making rolls.

Feel free to narrate your character's experience of that scare/relief.

Is there an moonlight right now? Or is the torch the only source of light?

I have no objections to moonlight. But note that a close-by-point-source of light tends to make the moon a bit useless (like a candle does not do anything to a room during the day, but at night it can have significant impact), so it might only help when you move a little way away, or if something is silhouetted against the orb.

What are you trying to do?

paladintodd: The problem with unsolicited rolls is that now we have to abide by the results. There is no provision in the rules for ignoring rolls after they have been made and it can cause all sort of problems (political or mechanical) trying to decide with prior-knowledge of the outcome.

Multiple rolls in one go are a problem as well, but we can work around them in this case. Often the later rolls depend on the outcome of the earlier ones, because the later actions depend on the earlier ones.

What we know:

Cook failed to 'shoulder Asha aside' despite the fact that there is plenty of space for him to go round. What happened? Did Cook fall on his ass (not very interesting and might preclude the later rolls in the fiction)? Or did he end up hurting Asha (problematic since it would tend to spawn PvP (Really CvC, but people tend not to know what that means without the PvP context))?

Is Albert going to try to stop Cook from taking the torch (there are more)? If so, then Cook does not have a torch, which is not a proper 6- outcome, it is a nothing, and one of the key parts of PbtA is that 'nothing never happens', so now we need to come up with consequences.

Is Cook still heading into the temple without light? Are the others letting him?

I think cook's bad rolls should result in all 3 of them (Cook, Albert and Asha ... and the torch) falling over. Maybe accidentally stumbling into something important?

I'm seeing it like this: Cook tried to shoulder Asha, not realizing she's a bit tougher than he expected. He starts to fall over and in his fall grabs for something to keep him up straight -> the torch. Albert however doesn't let go of the torch and tries to get Cook to let go. At this point Cook, does some sort of dodge, pulling all of them into a pile. The torch turns flame first towards Cook on their way down.

Just a suggestion :)

Yeah, that can happen. We could use some more details of the fiction first.

Seeing as we are new to this, I don't want to go too hard with this situation, and want to avoid harm where possible. I think I will deal with the first miss, and keep the second miss for after you have all dealt with that complication. The second one will probably be 'reveal an ugly truth' (or am I getting my PbtA and Burning Wheel terminology mixed up?:)

Given the 8 We can say that Cook can make it into the dark temple if he wants while we deal with the mess he created.

Should we play into the already rolled rolls, or just continue as if not knowing?

Are you asking me what happened with Asha or was that an example of the problem of unsolicited rolls?

Would Cook head in without a light? Sure. From your description of his new mental state, I think he would. Also, spending 4 days resolving who has a torch would be boring.