Journey to Lands Far Far Away (OOC)

Maybe I interpreted the roll not right.
Thought vague was going to choose what it was for.
Do I need to specify? In that case it will be burning bees.

Gotcha.

Let's spare Daryl (already has 2) and give Roald 2 too

@vagueGM do you need to know the exact amount of stings everyone has? I think by now everyone will have at least one.

It will probably suffice to know who has been stung a lot, and who has not been stung. We probably only care about the extremes.

So maybe it's more interesting (story wise) to have 1 or 2 people without stings and 1 or 2 with many.
What do you all think? Seems more fun than everyone being (about) the same

So far I think only Theo and I have been spared. Would you like it to stay that way?

On one hand, I don’t want to miss out if you guys experience cool visions or something. On the other, I wouldn’t mind an opportunity to bond with Theo over trying to help you all and/or figure something out…

So if our new sting count goes like this:
Lille:2
Roald:2
We could add
Daryl:2
Albert:1
For a total of 7.

With old stings, that should make the count:
Lille:4
Roald:2
Daryl:4
Albert:2
Theo:0
Ezme:0
If we want to spread around the stings to everyone we could do a different distribution. Or swap Daryl and Albert? I feel bad for abusing Albert’s lungs. I’ll make things vague, and hopefully we can montage through the work a little.

Looks good. You can decide on final numbers once the work is done, we may have to add to the tally.

I ignored this the last time [ref], even though it worried me. Obviously, in this situation, you are trying to wake the bear in a calm way, so whatever you are doing to try to do that might seem like 'projecting into its mind' but this language is slipping over the edge into magical abilities that can be abused at range and in private.

We could work on learning to do such things, but that would be a new Special Ability.

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It is hard to define how you 'talk' to animals, and all your senses (and your Awareness) are involved, but this is not telepathy, you are not reading its mind or projecting into its mind. The Special Ability merely allows you to talk to and understand animals, it does not give you control over them or make them friendly or even willing to talk to you —so you need to treat it like any conversation with a simple person— and it does not let you place suggestions in the minds of animals while they are sleeping or if they are not paying attention to you, not any more than the ability to talk to humans would let you do such a thing.

Treat the bear like any other NPC and your Wild Ability like any other ability to converse. You obviously don't use normal language words, and it may seem like you are communication on another level, but it is not telepathic and does not work in situations where normal communications would not operate.

It is hard to describe it, but it is just 'talking'.

Yes I understand all that, and I think my desire for brevity here is the source of the confusion. If Lille were talking to a normal human, the way this would look is that she touches their shoulder, and when they show any sign of stirring or awakening, say out loud, "Hey, I think you should get moving." This is a suggestion, but not in any magical or telepathic way. That is all I was intending for Lille to be doing. I was just trying to avoid typing it all out since I had done so previously and don’t want to subject the group to longer (especially repetitive) text than necessary. If you prefer, I will always be specific about her exact "words" when speaking to animals.

No, no. Especially since you often will not be using 'words'. I just wanted to make sure we are all on the same page about things like 'suggesting in its mind'.
Exactly, and since it is sleeping, and we know from the first encounter that it does not communicate with 'words and sounds' [ref], there is not much communicating happening yet.

I'll accept that logic.

You rolled an 8, which of the options do you want to go with?

You can wake the bear and deal with it being unhappy, you can then try to corral it away from the fire area.
Of you can leave the bear, risk it waking with the fire blazing and have a bigger problem on your hands at a bad time, but maybe gamble on having it sleep through and not be a problem at all.

Your call.

I’ve been thinking that it might be useful to have a name for the way Lille speaks with animals when she’s not using actions or normal spoken language. So far the best I’ve come up with is Wildspeak. If there are no objections, I will use that henceforth to clarify, and add sensory details as appropriate.

That seems right.

If Lille and Roald want to add intimidation rolls to those posts (probably +CHA) we can see if you hold or scare the bear off.

Does Roald want to invoke some holy fire, or should we just light these normally?

Let's not use Raynor's power too freely 😉.
Roald will just use his electric lighter this time.

Does Albert want to bring the cleansing light of holy fire into play?

I wasn't planning on it. Regular fire will be Raynor-y enough :D Albert will do a prayer, but not in the way of asking for extra power.