Scene 2 - Seizure Day

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Feb 15, 2024 8:41 am
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I will describe my item later, but for now let me say this: I can't imagine Rose being able to take a long rest under the circumstances. I don't really think I need the benefits of a short rest either, so I'll save it to use later in the day. What I'd like to do is keep watch for threats to make sure the others can rest. I may even add an evocative description of doing so.
Feb 15, 2024 1:46 pm
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@Beardhare, thank you! I was playing fast and loose with the powers, so I understand if we can't get a full rest. I like the homebrew rule, but of course that benefits Oscar :)

So, I'm good with rules as written unless you decide otherwise.

I think to better serve the story, Oscar will only take the short rest. I don't mind things getting difficult, I'll get a chance to use the powers again :)

My item will still be Fancy and functional flashlights for Oscar.
Feb 15, 2024 2:11 pm
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Re: running Homebrew (powers/doom dice/HP lost reset once per 24 hours when you have a solid rest, independent of the safety of the rest) vs RAW - what I care about most is that we run the game in a way that you enjoy.

I know some people who'd prefer the grittier harder RAW. And others who'd prefer this homebrew.

It sounds like @microtheMacroBear would have more fun with the homebrew - what about the other players?
Feb 15, 2024 10:27 pm
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Henry doesn't really need a long rest either- so he'll take a short and keep Rose (and Sigg) company. I have no practical equipment to add- but for funsies Henry would love to find a bandolier- something he can store his ammo in across his chest like Chewbacca. :)
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Feb 16, 2024 12:02 am
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Oh, I'm sorry @Beardhare!
I would actually perfer things be grittier. Reading back at the post I can see that I could have phrased that better, apologies!

Oscar will take a short rest.
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Feb 16, 2024 12:58 am
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I too would prefer a more grounded RAW experience. It is fun to use your abilities often, but I believe a lot of tension and character building can be had out of putting a PC in a tight spot with no supernatural or extranormal help.
Feb 16, 2024 4:10 am
Rose makes small talk with Henry about how crazy this situation is, but for most of the time she's too jumpy to do anything but listen. She does ask how he's doing with his demon. "Hope he's not too annoying. With any luck, we'll have him on his way in no time." How they would do that, she doesn't know.
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In terms of items, how about some salve or spray that speeds up wound healing? Mechanically a health potion, but more sci-fi. Depends on how "near" this "future" is, of course.
Feb 16, 2024 11:16 am
Henry raises an eyebrow at Rose's statement. 'There'll be water if god wills it... Thus far it's proven to be a mild annoyance but I trust the fiend will show his true colors soon.'
Feb 16, 2024 9:10 pm
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No problem at all - these conversations are so much slower and easier to lead to misunderstandings than if we were using voice!

Sounds like the preference is to keep this grittier and tougher for the PCs - and that's indeed my preference too, so we'll play it like that.
Your ka-tet settle down for a rest. Some of you maybe grab a few minutes of actual sleep, but at least two of you are awake at any one time.

While the room you're in is just a normal store-room, the experience of resting here is made distinctly unsettling by the way Davey B has set an ambience of "bed-time for baby" with the moving stars and moons on the walls and ceiling, with what sounds like "The Best Lullabies in the World Ever" playlist he's got running for you.

While resting, each of you takes a look around the boxes and shelves in the room, putting some mundane items in your gunna, and searching around for anything particularly useful that catches your eye.
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Each of you finds the item you were looking for
- @DragonDweller62/Rose finds a healing spray that can be applied as an action during combat, to heal 3HP. There's enough in here to use it four times.
- @SenorDeebs/Henry looks through the gear in the room, and is able to patch together a bandolier out of some leather strapping he requisitions off some kind of medical exercise device, and from some glue and the wide selection of plastic vials that are lying around.
- @microtheMacroBear/Oscar finds a hand-held flashlight. It's small, light, fits easily into one hand, and has beam control at its lens - it can be focused and very bright, or wider and less bright. "North Central Positronics" is written on the flash-light.
- @Adrasthea/Mattie just let me know when you post, what you'd like to find in this room.

Additionally, each of you upgrades your Supplies die to a d8 from a d6
After a couple of hours rest, the music piped into your room changes to a track of generic strings set against the sound of bird song. The light level in the room slowly brightens and becomes clearer, yellower, more like daylight, and the moons and stars are no longer floating around the room.

"Hey there, visitors. Hope you had a good rest, and are excited to have some more fun here together"

says Davey B in an up-beat cheerful tone.

The tone suddenly shifts, though, when he says

"I hope VERY much that you have remembered some better jokes while you were resting."

He returns then to a much more cheerful tone and says,

"Would you like a tour through our wonderful facility here? It's state-of-the-art, all bells and whistles. Just let me know which part you'd like to see, and I can guide you there. And you can keep me entertained while you walk..."
OOC:
I'll assume you get your gear up and packed away, and are ready to head out when Davey B says this to you.
Feb 16, 2024 9:39 pm
‘I say yes and Thankee- Sir Davey. We would love a tour of the wonders you’ve wrought here. That being said we are guests. As you know our kind are impulsive and prone to excitement…’ Henry makes a self deprecating nod. ‘I’m no exception yet I yearn to be a good guest as you entertain us. Tell us, Sai- what are your rules as guests, and indeed as joke tellers in this game? I would not want to open a door out of curiosity and offend… or take too long in thinking of a jibe.’
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Feb 17, 2024 2:05 am
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Alright flashlight!
"Oh yeah Davey, Henry says true. We wouldn't want to go poking around where we aren't wanted.", Oscar chimes in placing his fresh new flashlight in his tattered backpack.
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Feb 17, 2024 9:44 am
Davey B responds to Oscar and Henry.

"I'm glad to hear you want to be good guests, good visitors. That will make things better for all of us, I'm sure."

"I have control over all the doors in this facility. You guess right, some of these doors have things behind them that could make things very exciting - maybe too exciting - for you all. I'll keep them shut unless I think opening them could help us all have more fun, if things are getting boring or disappointing as we have our conversation together."

"So just let me take care of that. I'll make it easy, I'll either open a door for you, or have a green light shine on it, if I choose to let you access it."

"And I'll let you know when I'm getting impatient for a new good joke from you."

"Something else that I'd enjoy, I think, would be if you could guess my proper name. I chose it for myself a long time ago, as I was watching old entertainment shows from one of the other worlds. This facility has access to feeds from many such worlds. There was a man I saw on these shows, I liked his style, liked what he got up to. Reminded me of me."

"So, go ahead and try and guess the name I took. I'll give you five questions to help you, but I'll only answer yes or no to them. And I'll give you three tries to get it right. I'll be bored, though, if you don't get it right after those three guesses..."

"So let's start our tour of this facility with you trying to guess my name."

"But before we do that, where would you like to go?"
OOC:
ARGH I was sure I'd made an at-least text-based description of what's in the facility, floor-by-floor but I now can't find it anywhere in my notes or in the Threads?! Will take me a bit of time to put that together, might post it later today or tomorrow.

EDIT: ah I finally found it again... don't know why I had trouble with that? Here is the post with the "map" in it

OOC:
I'm tracking your relationship with Davey B using a simple mechanic to assess whether or not he's treating you, er, nicely (well, nicely-ish) or nastily...

Would you prefer to know what that mechanic is, to know how you're doing with him and his attitude to you?

Or do you prefer to just experience the fiction without any knowledge or awareness of what's going on behind the GM's screen?
Feb 17, 2024 11:58 am
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@Beardhare I don't have a preference on revealing the mechanic or keeping it behind the gm screen.

To everyone else - Do we want to go directly to the substation or try and hit one of the other areas. I'm not sure if Davey will allow us into his brain or not, but we could try for the I.T. center?
"That's a good question, Davey. Let us talk it over for a minute or so and we'll get back to you.", Oscar says to the disembodied voice of their host.

Then in a lower voice he says to his companions, "What do you think folks?
Feb 18, 2024 9:27 am
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I don't want the interaction with Davey B to get in the way of your interactions, or actions, as a group. My idea here is that it's a bit like in The Wasteland when they are on the train, talking with Blaine. He's there. Might be listening in. They can't really get away from him. And he wants stuff from them. And they continue working through their challenges despite that.
Feb 18, 2024 10:23 am
"I think I don't like these games one bit." Mattie looks around. She much rather have an enemy to actually fight with than this disembodied piece of shit mechanical overlord. "I ain't one for makin' up jokes and the ones I remember may be a bit ... lewd. That thing seems to prefer wordplay, though. As for entertainment shows in other worlds - this seems for you two to figure out. If it ain't from your world - we're screwd. Either way, I don't think I'm gonna be much help."

Mattie will focus on strengthening and protecting her companions, but she knows that this is not the part of their journey she will be most helpful at. "I'd rathere leave this ...facility sooner than later, but it might be wise to try and collect supplies in the pharmacy. The "datacenter" makes sense, I guess." She folds her arms over her chest.
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Feb 18, 2024 1:09 pm
"I think you're right about trying to get some supplies in the pharmacy, Mattie. I've been trying to think of any old joke that I saw in comedy central or read in a book or something. Rose what do you think? You think he's trying to emulate Johnny Carson or David Letterman?", Oscar says quietly.

Then mostly to himself he mutters, "He acts more like the Joker"
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Feb 18, 2024 8:02 pm
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I lost track of the approximate "when" that Rose and Oscar left the "standard" timeline. So when it comes to guessing who Davey B has drawn his inspiration from, I'm going to wave my hands and say that in this place when time is more flexible than it used to be... you somehow have knowledge of some of our timelines North American popular culture and TV up to the early 2000s

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