Jul 30, 2024 6:57 pm
vagueGM (in RP) says:
"Medicine?" Sister Eutrapelia says, sounding suddenly fragile. "It is poison. Clouds my mind." Great minds... huh? :D
Stranger in a Strange Land (OOC)
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Is this something that you read in the forum? It's literally what karaboo was aiming for in our secret chat, but I don't think it was mentioned in this thread.
Great minds... huh? :D
Jul 30, 2024 7:02 pm
TheGenerator says:
... Great minds... huh? :DNo, I did not see you guys mention it, now I am suspecting there may be more truth to it, and the mind-clouding is not incidental to the medicine. None does not believe it is 'poison' per se.
Aug 6, 2024 7:48 pm
Is this game on a small break or are you both waiting on me? I'm not sure if I missed something.
Aug 6, 2024 10:42 pm
No. It is my fault. I actually opened this game in a tab late Sunday, with the intent of getting back to it, but that tab is still just sitting there, in the background.
One of the reasons I wanted to try this is that I struggle with solo games, and hope having other players in the form the volunteers will help keep me on track. I did not want to post a longer post than the last one, but then, with nothing happening between, there was little to draw me back, I do have an idea of the next step, but taking that step feels weird with nothing between.
Let's try make it work, I am enjoying what we have done so far, but I worry that the rule-book may let us down. I think I want to get to reading more of the book to see how it goes.
One of the reasons I wanted to try this is that I struggle with solo games, and hope having other players in the form the volunteers will help keep me on track. I did not want to post a longer post than the last one, but then, with nothing happening between, there was little to draw me back, I do have an idea of the next step, but taking that step feels weird with nothing between.
Let's try make it work, I am enjoying what we have done so far, but I worry that the rule-book may let us down. I think I want to get to reading more of the book to see how it goes.
Aug 6, 2024 10:49 pm
One Success on Exert Yourself Subtly [ref] should let me sneak out unnoticed. Unless you decide otherwise I will find myself in the town before dawn and rent that place mentioned in the book as my hovel. Then we will try to Study.
[ +- ] Exert yourself subtly, to pass through your environment unnoticed or take action unremarked.
Your rating is equal to your ambitious tally plus your cunning tally, but with a maximum of 4.
Tell your volunteers what you need to do, and ask them if anyone's going to notice you or care. If nobody is, cool, carry on. If somebody is, though, you'd better roll.
On any hits, you get a number of chances to escape attention, one chance per hit. A "chance" is something like:
• I could wait until they're distracted. Does anything distract them?
• You wouldn't believe how quick I am with my hands. Am I going to be quick enough?
• I can act casual, I'm in no hurry. Do you think I'll raise their suspicions anyway?
• I can get [x] to do it for me. Do I think they'll be able to trace it back to me?
You can invent your own chances. Take the first one that pans out.
On a miss, or if none of your chances work out for you, tell your volunteers that well, you go for it anyway. Ask them who catches you and how they react.
Tell your volunteers what you need to do, and ask them if anyone's going to notice you or care. If nobody is, cool, carry on. If somebody is, though, you'd better roll.
On any hits, you get a number of chances to escape attention, one chance per hit. A "chance" is something like:
• I could wait until they're distracted. Does anything distract them?
• You wouldn't believe how quick I am with my hands. Am I going to be quick enough?
• I can act casual, I'm in no hurry. Do you think I'll raise their suspicions anyway?
• I can get [x] to do it for me. Do I think they'll be able to trace it back to me?
You can invent your own chances. Take the first one that pans out.
On a miss, or if none of your chances work out for you, tell your volunteers that well, you go for it anyway. Ask them who catches you and how they react.
[ +- ] Studying a Grimoire
Tell your volunteers a few details about the environment in which you're undertaking your study, and the study methods you employ, then roll.
On any hits, tally a number of insights equal to your hits, up to the number required for the section you're studying, discarding any excess. Once you've tallied the required insights, you have a breakthrough and unlock the section.
On a miss, you become misled, befuddled, caught in false leads and false conclusions, and have wasted your time.
Hit or miss, if you're not satisfied with the outcome, choose 1:
• Tell your volunteers that you have a shortcut method to study this, to wit: [x] .
• Tell your volunteers that you can appeal to a tutor for help and guidance, namely: [x].
• Tell your volunteers that you're willing to forgo food and sleep and risk both health and wit for a breakthrough.
• Tell your volunteers that you're willing to isolate yourself behind locked doors and stern enjoinment, abandoning friendship and all company, for a breakthrough.
...And ask them to give you a free die to roll, a hit outright, or a better effect instead. If they grant it, take it. Otherwise, the result stands.
On any hits, tally a number of insights equal to your hits, up to the number required for the section you're studying, discarding any excess. Once you've tallied the required insights, you have a breakthrough and unlock the section.
On a miss, you become misled, befuddled, caught in false leads and false conclusions, and have wasted your time.
Hit or miss, if you're not satisfied with the outcome, choose 1:
• Tell your volunteers that you have a shortcut method to study this, to wit: [x] .
• Tell your volunteers that you can appeal to a tutor for help and guidance, namely: [x].
• Tell your volunteers that you're willing to forgo food and sleep and risk both health and wit for a breakthrough.
• Tell your volunteers that you're willing to isolate yourself behind locked doors and stern enjoinment, abandoning friendship and all company, for a breakthrough.
...And ask them to give you a free die to roll, a hit outright, or a better effect instead. If they grant it, take it. Otherwise, the result stands.
Aug 7, 2024 6:53 am
Are you automatically asking one of these questions because of the hit?
• You wouldn't believe how quick I am with my hands. Am I going to be quick enough?
• I can act casual, I'm in no hurry. Do you think I'll raise their suspicions anyway?
• I can get [x] to do it for me. Do I think they'll be able to trace it back to me?If so, I think the top one is most fitting. Or the 3rd perhaps.
Technically, we can't decide anything without there being a question to answer :D
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• I could wait until they're distracted. Does anything distract them?• You wouldn't believe how quick I am with my hands. Am I going to be quick enough?
• I can act casual, I'm in no hurry. Do you think I'll raise their suspicions anyway?
• I can get [x] to do it for me. Do I think they'll be able to trace it back to me?
vagueGM says:
Unless you decide otherwise I will find myself in the town before dawn and rent that place mentioned in the book as my hovel.Aug 7, 2024 7:00 am
vagueGM says:
One of the reasons I wanted to try this is that I struggle with solo gamesAug 7, 2024 9:39 am
TheGenerator says:
Are you automatically asking one of these questions because of the hit?vagueGM says:
Unless you decide otherwise I will find myself in the town before dawn and rent that place mentioned in the book as my hovel.I am asking you if you want to countermand my sneaking out. If so we turn the scene into dealing with that, else we continue with my proposed scene of finding a cheap place to hide and Study (the 'poor dwelling behind a sawyard, which I let for a pittance from the lumberwife' as the book's example of 'my home', but I am far from home, so this meets that need:).
• Do we need to see my finding someone to rent from, or, more likely at this hour, finding an abandoned place to squat, or do we assume that happens and skip to the Studying?
Aug 7, 2024 10:16 am
Understood :)
I don't find looking for a place to rent/squat particularly interesting or necessary for the story. So my thought is to skip it. How about you, Kara?
The interesting bit would come when you are discovered as a squatter.
I don't find looking for a place to rent/squat particularly interesting or necessary for the story. So my thought is to skip it. How about you, Kara?
The interesting bit would come when you are discovered as a squatter.