Exam: Chamber 2 (OOC)

To be clear, I don't have a solution in mind (I just come up with problems:).

Alakassandra (just bearly) succeeded at this Hunch Spell, so she will learn a valid way forward that will let us finish this in a way we want.

We can decide here and now what that is, whatever we come up with will be 'correct', no matter how simple or illogical.

From the tone of this game so far, I did think about ways to have an 'official failure' turn out to be the 'better outcome', so if we decide we want to make that happen we can all do a Wild spell with little-to-no disguising it --which will bring us all up to 6-- and I will 'fail' you and we can see what happens. But if you want to do an official successful end, then we can come up as simple or complex a final move as you want to finish it.

Ahah I don’t think the characters would want to fail 🤣. If this is a fake challenge then something as simple as dispelling it could work 🤔 which is a spell we don’t have 😅

Well... this is an out of character discussion, so we might not care what they want. What do they know anyway. :)

If the players want to end it that way, all it would take is for each of you to do a Wild Spell and for the disguise to 'not be good enough' (because the judges have been watching you carefully?) and it would be done. Your characters could think they are trying their best.

Also, Abigail might have been hinting at something like that in character?

It is just an option.

I'm not a fan of the idea of just throwing the game. If we lose naturally, that's a fine outcome, but just failing on purpose would not be an enjoyable way to end the game.
I'm not asking for a solution. Not having a prepped solution is a perfectly valid way to run a game. I guess what I'm asking for is the problem. Because we are literally just in some vaguely defined space and have zero idea what we're even trying to achieve. We threw some rocks at one thing because that was at least doing something, but now that that was thrown out, I'm just standing there again not even knowing what to do.

Having a goal and not knowing how to achieve it can be fun. Just standing around and not even knowing what my goal is supposed to be is not.

I generally agree. It just seemed particularly apropos at this point when everyone was at 5 Wild, to add that at a possible 'good outcome', just in case people were worried and tying to avoid action to avoid 'losing'. I was uncomfortable mentioning it at all, it might seem more appropriate to let players 'fail' and then offer a life buoy... but the players had mentioned the idea already.
Good, good.
Yeah, sorry about that. I came up with ideas for the 'problem' for the previous room, but then the players did a much better job of coming up with something of their own. So I tried to leave this problem up to the players as well and it did not work.

The game's prompts were not very useful either. They don't care about 'the point', just the set decorations.
Agreed. I really should have fixed that a while ago when it became clear there was no goal to the room. It is my responsibility, not yours. Sorry.

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If anyone has a goal or problem they think would be cool to address in this, we can do that. Else I will make something up tomorrow and present it to the group.

maybe if we inactivate the hand... there's a button to turn off the illusion 🤔 it's magic, but also tech... very thematic 😂

Pretty much. You are not 'most people'. :)

What's that? A Hunch? A Wild Magic effect? Roll it and, if it was Wild and you disguise it, describe it.

Far enough to be a challenge, but close enough that you can get there with one 'move'?
Sure, you're tough.

That seems right.

Remember you can reduce your Wild back down to 2 by casting a Wizard Spell, or back to 5 by using your Props (if there is time and opportunity).
That would raise Ari's Wild by one, which then puts them at 6. This would be very useful if Alaks even has to raise her Wild again, though.

Distracting the hand might be useful, though, as it then won't have the 'brain-power' to also think about Abby?

I figured my attack would keep it busy to let Abby to her thing

I'll let Abby do her thing first. If she doesn't immediately get us through the force field, I'll have to cast a wizard spell, which... might bring me down to safe Wild levels again or end the game in failure 😅

Which Wizard Spell are you trying to use? You are not a Wizard (though still Definitely a Wizard!), by the rules you only know the Wizard Spells listed in the book, anything else is Wild Magic.

You can use Wild Magic and make it look like you are casting some other Wizard Spell if you are creative with how you cast it.

there's a wizard spell called dim sight that let's you see through dim light/darkness, I thought it might help.