How do you know each other?

Happy New Merry?

Thanks! For you too.

Bright blessings and merry joys of the season to all. And if you choose not to celebrate at all, then may your weekend be peaceful.

Oh, only 2 per character? Sorry, I didn't know that. I thought connecting to everyone would be beneficial. In that case, WhtKnt's suggestion seems perfect. Just a vague "We have met"

A merry whatever-you-do-or-do-not-celebrate to all of you :)

Only two give you free Skills, the rest are just for flavour.

Ah, ok. So it would be allowed but doesn't give a mechanical benefit. Gotcha :)

The skill doesn't have to be mechanics.

Ha!

Raf - Ronny: know each other from their smuggling days
Ronny - Lio: Lio is Ronny's physician. Doing his implant check-ups
Raf - Lio: know each other from med- school

Just need 2 connections for Cat, it's not clear wether the suggested ones are those you will use. 😊

I see now I forgot to reply to this, sorry 'bout that.

Lio was forced by his parents (famous doctors) to start the medical career, as the years went by, he started to like it and became good at it (or the other way around).
I like the idea of Raf being a 'soundboard' (don't know if this a thing in English) for his problems and showing Lio a different way to try and solve them. It doesn't matter if it actually helped. But it does create a bond.

The usual term is 'sounding board', but it was obvious enough from your post what you meant. :)

Good point. It could be at the same time.
Good point, as 'mafia' can mean different things for each of us. What I think in context of this game when I write 'mafia':

"It's The Godfather the book flavor". But I think a movies are also a good representation of this, but they are more focused on Michael(the son), rather than on the father - Vito. And the Vito is an example for me here. And representation what I was thinking writing 'mafia'. He wasn't a guy that would kill someone unless he really had no other joice. He did some awful things in "normal" people terms, but it all comes from the thing that government and "official/public forces" never were able(or bothered) to provide well being or even safety for his family. No once it appeared to him that government -> politicians are even more corrupted and evil then most of the street "thugs". So one day - and it was reinforced by circumstances - he decided that he have to become powerful -> stron himself to provide safety and well being for his family. And it is his main and only motivation - protecting his family and the world as he see it. Of course many of his activities are simply illegal by official law. But he never wanted to sell drugs or participate in prostitution or such things. So he decided to become his own power in this twisted world, to make is own order. He helps the poor. Have honor values. Protects his people. But sometimes order assassinations and such things. But he didn't have seen other way for him. Yes, he is "above the law". But is the law constructed by and for the "elites" and politicians that is really for the people good? He orders to punish some rapist that were sons of some wealthy families and probably would come out of the situation without any penalty just at the behest of some grieving father of raped daughter. But he shots some thug in the mouth when he starts his "criminal" activities. Not so white or black person. He wasn't bad per se. But was he any good? Or it's just the laws of nature?

If course I wouldn't want any discussion to start now, abut my interpretation of this book or this character. Just wanted to paint what I was thinking when I wrote mafia - "above the law(in their minds), but with some moral code, but are they any worse then those that make this law and bend it for their official will, pretending that they are the good guys in the same time?"
Why not? You mean that we can't even go in that direction? As far as I think I understood other players they responded very well to the idea, didn't they? But let's see if they think about the mafia similar to me.

Ok, maybe being "in mafia" so early on is indeed "too much"... I agree.

I'm ok with Ronny, introducing Raf to the "underworld" :) Do we make any connection skills for that? Could Ronny teach Raf how to handle a gun or something other that could be "helpful" in those circles? :)
I hope I have answered those?

So it looks that Raf have confirmed:
"Raf - Lio: know each other from med- school "

So, GM - can I rise my Persuade from this?

Raf - Ronny: know each other from their smuggling days

Waiting for answers for the skill.

And @WhtKnt what you think about my proposition? :
https://gamersplane.com/forums/thread/26110/?p=1313479#p1313479

It might be 'what you learned from them', but it does not need to be so direct at having the other character 'teach' the skill, it is more what you learned from that whole experience.

[quote="Pedrop"]... can I rise my Persuade from this? ...[/ooc]

Sure, tell us how that came about.

I think we can arrange a connection through the civil war in the conspiracy collapse. She had some ship shares and decided to go in with Raf in order to get out.

I'm not entirely sure how the connection thing works. But gun skill seems like a good idea. Other options could be deception or streetwise.

I'm gonna check the book about it tomorrow.

Connections are fairly simple, if the book does not clear things up we can chat about them here.

So, as I understand it, we can each pick 1 skill that we'd like to have (not JoaT and no higher than level 3). It doesn't have to be that you learned this from the other person, but it could be something you learned because of the situation/event.
Did I get that right?

If so, I'd like to upgrade my persuade skill to level 2. Ronny learned a thing or 2 about making people "an offer they can't refuse". ;)

Yep. As I said, pretty simple --just a whole lot of caveats, which you covered. :)

'Learning Skills' takes weeks by all other rules, so I doubt it is too feasible to say 'they taught it to you', but we are welcome to say doing it with them or watching them do it 'helped it click', which is good enough to allow you to say "I learned it from them".

You each get two Skills from these two Connections. You do not need to get the same Skill the other person got. I am fine with us saying we got the Skills from different Events or Connections if that helps things line up. Just because Ronny learned Persuade from this one does not mean we have to say Raf learned one of his two Skills from the same Event.