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But… but… (immediately stops self from stupidly arguing) —thanks!


Being serious now: I also like to keep new players caught up. In my current game, the new player started at Lv.1, but leveled twice as fast as the Lv.2 players, so they all reached Lv.3 together.

Honestly, this particular system don't penalizes players with less points so much, but anyway, Hibana already feels like she was with the party from the start!

🩷Aww…💕

I am an accountant (among other things) and it is the last day of tax season. This is my sixth consecutive day working 12 or more hours. I will post tomorrow. Thank you for your patience.

Please make sure to also take care of yourself!

Question: was Hibana designed so that no one but Sumeryu could hold her without burning themselves? I remember her concept being that she would be very inclined to sit on people's shoulders...

She’s supposed to be safe to touch, actually… but I didn’t want to discourage @Eltesla’s humorous accident. I suppose we could say she learns to control her temperature.

She introduced herself by saying she was dangerously hot, so I went with that.

She did say that… it just seemed like a thing she should say in the presence of giants.

Oh! Another thought is that she was in a bowl of spicy ice cream, so turning up her heat to compensate for the cold treat—or her fire being stoked by the spiciness? Yeah, she actually is meant to be safe to touch though.

Oh, ok!

She doesn't need to worry about being squished! Sumeryu will protect her! Even though she probably doesn't need protecting.

Was that roll Ling Jing made on 1.2 for her shyness? I didn't understand very well what she tried to do.

Yeah, it's to see if she can speak freely to a stranger this scene. I needed to roll a 4+ on one die (two minus one), right?

Oh, ok. That's right.

Remember she can spend Endurance, if she aims for using that extra effort on winning over her shyness.

Spending Endurance is overkill under many circumstances. Especially since the first level of Shyness is rather mild:
Though I'm not entirely sure whether we're on the same page regarding the interpretation, so I tend to overplay it from time to time just to stay safe.

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I'm still thinking about our previous discussion regarding the buyoff. Whether it's worthwhile/fun to try getting rid of the trait at all and all that. Depending on interpretation, maybe there isn't even a point in ever fully overcoming it. Though another random thought is replacing it with either a different trait, or having a low-level Personality Change that results in oscillating between shyness and a different trait (likely an overcompensatory one).

Well, any of those ideas are fair game for me.

@Moyreau - question.

My original design for the barrier buster attack is this:

[ +- ] 💥 Blaze of Morning Glory

Hibana shrinks to a violet spark and zips through a barrier, cutting it like the razor-sharp edge of a rainbow!
• No Damage (-20)
• Barrier Buster (5)
• Strike Through (5)
• Accurate x2 (10)

But would I technically need to use "damage" to break the barrier? (The intent was to break the barrier without hurting the person, but that doesn’t seem to actually work.)

And in that case, could I swap the No Damage with Open to Attack?

No necessarily, the perk's description just say that, if you surpass the Barrier roll with you Attack roll, it wouldn't let him reinforce the barrier and he'd be stunned. No need to do damage.

The thing is, in this particular situation, he isn't actively defending himself with a barrier, he formed a magical wall to not let you get close. It's not exactly a barrier as in the Barrier ability. It'd be more a construct made by him;

Could it be dispelled?

You could with witchcraft, spending the equivalent for a -3 weakness (as the barrier's ability is greater than that) and roll against it.