OOC chat

@Eltesla, we can frame your action as a contest: your prize is getting better at acting, compelled by your flaw. You can describe your tactic and roll. Since you don't have any ability that seems directly useful for this, you'll have to be creative =P

Hmm, well, maybe the Force of Personality breakout might help here, at a stretch. Maybe that passion and charisma gives her a lot of stage presence?

Okay, you can roll with that breakout at a -5 stretch.

Ok, Homura succeed with 0 degrees of Victory... A rough but still promising start!

About Shizuka's and Chimera's sparing, you could do a contest to see how serviceable the training is. The one with the higher ability being used can make the main roll, while the other one rolls to augment her partner. I presume the one making the primary roll would be Shizuka with her 5M wakizashi?

Finally, Hana could reword her action to make her 'focus' more clear, so she could take some benefit, something she'd strive to do now.

Edit: as for the sparing scene, I could see Chimera's flaws making her impulsive in the sparing, make it a bit riskier (and getting an XP). Though I can't see any specific flaw Shizuka would have for the same case, I could see her struggling to control her huge strength! This is just an idea though, don't feel forced to it.

I apologise, does 'with no just a hint' mean 'with no hint' or 'with more than a hint'? I think with Getting into Others' Heads, it might be possible to notice Abenanka's attitude if it's a troubled one.

Also, would you like to be 'randomly wandered into' to engage in some interactions, or would that just lead to two people talking without saying anything meaningful and then parting ways?

So "not just a hint" is a bit of a sarcastic way of saying "making it very obvious". I'm always happy to have interactions; Abenanka isn't super forthcoming (with most people) but she's also in a mood so she might be more likely to let something slip!

I didn't mean to have the little bit about Claude understanding Italian be criticising an overstep (although Abenanka does have Linguist as one of her skills) but more a bit of character in her letting her guard down / not being used to other multilingual people.

Ah, I forgot about the Linguist. That does increase the likely/plausible gap in understanding between the two characters. A shame, since I thought it was a rather cool hook to latch onto.

I'll just wait for a bit more prompts from Shizuka's and Chimera's sparring to narrate it all. As for your question, it's very credible that Claude would understand the Italian: 1. French has a lot of mutual vocabulary with it, 2. It would be expected of any western educated person to be familiar with Latin at that time and with Italian too, at least some decades prior, and 3. If Claude where from southern France (which is very feasible) she'd have lots of contact with the language.

Just a heads-up: it's everything the girls present at the theatre would mostly be in Japanese, though familiarity with the originals from Europe isn't far-fetched, of course.

Technically Armagnac is in the south, but on the western side of south, not eastern. Otherwise yeah.

Duh, it's right in her surname... Somehow I missed that =P

Posted with the sparring since I don't want to hold back the plot! I just did a normal roll, but I'm not sure if the +5 (Sword and Pistol) counts since Shizuka wore a bunch of pads and a shield to simulate being in her petalframe.

Hey, so I kinda want to raise a little issue @Moyreau, nothing significant but I feel like Abenanka is being a bit overlooked.

When making the roles for the play there were only 5, despite there being six player characters. I appreciate I was having a rough weekend so wasn't there at the time to weigh in on the decision making for who was cast as who though so no hard feelings, but I wanted to point it out.

Then with the most recent continuation; you've mentioned Homura's acting practice, Claude's bath, Shizuka and Chimera's sparring, and Hana's studying. Not only did your continuation with Claude not mention her conversation with Abenanka, but also the continuation fails to mention Abenanka at all. She's the only one not mentioned, in exactly the same way as with the roles.

Once, and at my own absence, is something I don't really have a problem with. Twice starts to look like a pattern, and I don't want to seem like I'm kicking up a fuss but I'd rather check in before it becomes an issue.

All of this said; I really like the characters, dynamic and relationships we've got going on here, and I enjoy playing with the players we have too!

Thank you for bringing your concern.

As for the play, I have intended to have less major roles than the amount of PCs, and that it would create some interesting dynamics (which pretty much happened, seeing Abenanka's interaction with Claude). There will be a bunch of plays throughout the campaign, with rotating actors as protagonists (and some may very well have less than 5 major roles, that's the case with many plays), and these will probably be chosen by me (I. e. the theatre management); I just gave everyone the choice in this one because I didn't yet know the characters very well.

About Abenanka's action in the free-time scene, I'm sorry if you felt overlooked. I thought her conversation with Claude was going well enough (and aren't sure if it is over yet), and thought that I didn't have anything to add to it on my part; but if you're bringing this up, it's probably was an error of judgement.

Oh, and the scene with Abenanka and Claude mustn't necessarily end now, you could continue it in the background as we go through the next one, no problem by my part.

Oops, I could swear I posted yesterday and not the day before... I'll post as soon as I can.

As for Eltesla suggestion, sure: everybody feel free to make side threads if they would like to linger on a particular interaction. I'll make a subforum soon.

@Tickettbror, do we need a thread to finish the dialogue, or do you think it can be wrapped up as part of one more post?

I wont be able to post for a couple days, working 12 hr shifts all weekend sorry! I just got home and am exhausted.

I don't mind. I'd say it depends how much you want Claude to press. Up to you!

Press? Probably not if Abenanka telegraphs avoidance of answers (e.g. avoids answering the last question or gives ambiguous answers), which is what I'm now assuming. But I (and perhaps others who are inclined towards long dialogues) should consider spinning off threads next time.

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I should also wonder whether I need an IC post to portray some moment when Claude asks Dominique to look into the sources of the rare camera.