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Ice Phisherman posted:Julie and Fuzzy were openly staring at him. He was glad that Saanvi was off to one side, because her poker face was crap. She didn’t look surprised at all and that was a problem since Julie and Fuzzy didn't know that she was a newbie shadowrunner. He needed to help her work on at least feigning surprise. Wait - Kenji did told Fuzzy and Sasha that Pink's in the army ; I'm assuming Julie know that as well, given that they know each other (and, IIRC, saw Pink at least one in uniform - at the meal in the ward). What's the surprise? Also, I'm trying to remember how much Kenji told Fuzzy about his job ; In particular, when she visited ACHE. Coming with a blank.
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Gun Jam posted:Wait - Kenji did told Fuzzy and Sasha that Pink's in the army ; I'm assuming Julie know that as well, given that they know each other (and, IIRC, saw Pink at least one in uniform - at the meal in the ward). What's the surprise? I think it's more that Saanvi isn't surprised that Kenji is a high school student and is calling in all sorts of military hardware. It's not that Fuzzy and Julie are surprised. It's that Saanvi isn't surprised and already knows.
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Well, now we have an elf sprinting through Touristville... Kenji, put on your goddamn game-face, will you? Min Yun isn't going to teleport, just get to the entrance before she does. gently caress, man. This is convert until you blow your wad sprinting around in a panic.
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Cannon_Fodder posted:Well, now we have an elf sprinting through Touristville... Yeah, isn't this easily solved by having Chip go around each of the entrances and telling the tour guides that we are expecting people and get them to escort them to 88 Tastes?
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jagadaishio posted:Chip trying to find her before Kenji can is a great idea, actually. Mr Apollo posted:Yeah, isn't this easily solved by having Chip go around each of the entrances and telling the tour guides that we are expecting people and get them to escort them to 88 Tastes? Yeah, this.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Chip is a known and respected factor in the Underground. Let's have him zip up and escort her in, that way nobody feels the need to sound the whisper alarm. Exactly min Yun would Believe a spirit was sent as a guide.
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Mr Apollo posted:Yeah, isn't this easily solved by having Chip go around each of the entrances and telling the tour guides that we are expecting people and get them to escort them to 88 Tastes? Yeah it’s a mid update break, I’m voting anyway
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Mr Apollo posted:Yeah, isn't this easily solved by having Chip go around each of the entrances and telling the tour guides that we are expecting people and get them to escort them to 88 Tastes? Oh yeah this is a way better idea than trying to get Ms Liu to send runners or call or w/e
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Ice Phisherman posted:Fuzzy didn’t say anything, but immediately went through her gym bag. Inside of it was the armored vest that her adoptive father, Diego, had made for her. Normally it went on under clothing, but she just slipped it over her head and cinched it tight. Nice. Getting her game face on because its killing time. Ice Phisherman posted:“You’re welcome. I don’t want to hang up, but I need to make some calls for help,” he said, “I’ll see you soon. Please stay safe.” Man, I hope Paige can get there in time. She'd rip Pinchy's head off with her bare hands. Her 'kids' are in danger, and 'she ain't gonna lose another one to a goram tox mage'. Ice Phisherman posted:Julie looked shocked. He’d told her about his past in broad strokes last summer. How he’d been a delver, how he’d even killed people, though most of those had been mercy killings to keep from leaving people in the Delve. Its nice to get this perspective too. She speaks for the rest of us 'norms' in a situation like this. Ice Phisherman posted:Kenji tried to call Min Yun, but it went straight to voice mail. Then it began to ring, but was the wrong number, probably Julian's, but he didn't stay to check. Ten minutes. It had been ten minutes. Without another word he fled out the room. Yes, let's do what the others have already stated, get Chip out to warn all the entrances. Ice Phisherman posted:Rolled some dice and the teens did not have time to warn everyone since Min Yun was able to get out of the ACHE ahead of schedule. It'll be part of a larger update. Did you roll all them dice for the encounter yet? Did you???
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Cannon_Fodder posted:I do think that Mother Bear would be super beneficial to our predicament, but how many school teachers do we want to bring to Touristville. People are going to get real loving sick of our poo poo down there at some point. "discovered a toxic shaman" is 300% understandable and it's not like we rang the fuzz
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Cannon_Fodder posted:I do think that Mother Bear would be super beneficial to our predicament, but how many school teachers do we want to bring to Touristville. People are going to get real loving sick of our poo poo down there at some point. Think of the post-credit scene for this one though, ala, Avengers: Age of Ultron eating shawarma. Except it would be the Blake Island kids, ACHE Delvers, Runners, and Faculty munching on dim sum at 88 Tastes. While Mrs. Liu sweeps up debris around them.
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CourValant posted:Its nice to get this perspective too. She speaks for the rest of us 'norms' in a situation like this. Yep. Julie isn't 100% normal, but she's not prepared to leap to violence like everyone else is. Her composure rolls for participating were lower though due to her being in violent situations and it's her community. Fuzzy is 100% ready to leap to violence. Kenji is more interested in quote:Did you roll all them dice for the encounter yet? Did you??? The write-up is 7000 words on its own. It took me an entire afternoon and an hour after dinner to make. And I tried to write it up as people acting intelligently with what information they had at the time. Butt Discussin posted:If Kenji panics and runs outside instead of sending Chip I guess that would be believable, if disappointing. When I rolled Kenji's composure, he got a zero. I used his second to last edge to reroll and then succeeded. Sometimes I do stuff like this on edge rolls where it's sometimes about gritting their teeth or dumb luck that helps steady them, though not always. He's going to remember himself rather than running out like an idiot. Kenji is a person and is prone to making mistakes as we've seen, but he's normally cool under fire. Ice Phisherman fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Nov 14, 2018 |
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Was he able to roll a zero because of pinchface's debuff spell?
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Toughy posted:Was he able to roll a zero because of pinchface's debuff spell? His buff for himself and his spirits and his debuff for everyone else actually only extends to his shop at the moment. Kenji has 10 dice for composure due to his -1 penalty. Sometimes you just don't roll any hits. Unlike say, D&D, there are no flat +1's in Shadowrun. You just get a chance to get more successes on dice. You could get 20 hits on 20 dice or 0 hits on 20 dice. Failure is always an option even for the hyper-competent. Shadowrun dice will screw you over at times or totally surprise you by giving you hits on every single die. It makes for interesting rolls.
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Ice Phisherman posted:When I rolled Kenji's composure, he got a zero. I used his second to last edge to reroll and then succeeded. Sometimes I do stuff like this on edge rolls where it's sometimes about gritting their teeth or dumb luck that helps steady them, though not always. He's going to remember himself rather than running out like an idiot. Kenji is a person and is prone to making mistakes as we've seen, but he's normally cool under fire. Make him run outside then run right back inside, red-faced! It fits both what happened in the thread and succeeding on a reroll.
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Ice Phisherman posted:The write-up is 7000 words on its own. It took me an entire afternoon and an hour after dinner to make. And I tried to write it up as people acting intelligently with what information they had at the time. 
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That's fair. I do have some concerns about him being almost out of rerolls though  but I'd rather have him throw one at "don't alert the toxic mage" than wait for something down the line Ice Phisherman posted:His buff for himself and his spirits and his debuff for everyone else actually only extends to his shop at the moment. Kenji has 10 dice for composure due to his -1 penalty. Sometimes you just don't roll any hits. Unlike say, D&D, there are no flat +1's in Shadowrun. You just get a chance to get more successes on dice. You could get 20 hits on 20 dice or 0 hits on 20 dice. Failure is always an option even for the hyper-competent. Shadowrun dice will screw you over at times or totally surprise you by giving you hits on every single die. It makes for interesting rolls. Ice Phisherman posted:His buff for himself and his spirits and his debuff for everyone else actually only extends to his shop at the moment. Ice Phisherman posted:at the moment. well, that's nice
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Ice Phisherman posted:...there are no flat +1's in Shadowrun. You just get a chance to get more successes on dice. You could get 20 hits on 20 dice or 0 hits on 20 dice. Failure is always an option even for the hyper-competent. So there is one way to guarantee hits, as far as I can remember it's the only way. You have to burn an Edge though. Burn as in reduce your Edge attribute permanently, same way you can survive what would normally kill you. It might only be useable for attacks, don't have the book right in front of me.
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I can think of two ways to absolutely guarantee hits. First, you can buy hits at the cost of 4 dice each when the GM allows it, which is normally recommended for times when the outcome of a roll isn't going to critically effect anything. Like if you're haggling over the exact price of a piece of gear or something, instead of rolling eight dice and trusting in luck the GM will probably allow you to just buy two hits straight up if you'd prefer. But no GM worth their salt will let you buy hits in a high-stakes situation. That's what the second case I can think of is for, where you can permanently burn off a point of your Edge to automatically succeed a test with +4 hits above whatever the threshold is.
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Crazycryodude posted:I can think of two ways to absolutely guarantee hits. First, you can buy hits at the cost of 4 dice each when the GM allows it, which is normally recommended for times when the outcome of a roll isn't going to critically effect anything. Like if you're haggling over the exact price of a piece of gear or something, instead of rolling eight dice and trusting in luck the GM will probably allow you to just buy two hits straight up if you'd prefer. But no GM worth their salt will let you buy hits in a high-stakes situation. That's what the second case I can think of is for, where you can permanently burn off a point of your Edge to automatically succeed a test with +4 hits above whatever the threshold is. Yep, forgot about that. Burning edge to succeed is something that I'll normally do with boss battles. This means that they're more likely to survive and escape, but will be far less prepared for a second round, or even just prolong the fight for dramatic purposes. Shadowrun isn't as fun if someone one shots your boss character straight out of the gate. When I GM I allow anyone to do it at any time. You're looking at a minimum of 10 karma to restore edge 1 to edge 2 which would take at least one successful shadowrun to complete if this were a normal game. Otherwise it takes months of posting and that's if they're in the correct book. Normally I'll give out 2-4 karma for succeeding at a challenge with a cost to failure, but they're not in danger and I'll give 8-10 karma for succeeding at a challenge in which they're in danger. Karma can be bought as well and the going rate is 1500 nuyen a pop which may have a minor narrative consequence, but essentially you're chucking money down a hole. I thought about allowing for automatic hits, but currently I only do that for language rolls which narratively tells me if someone has a basic command of the language, is fluent or can speak on esoteric/technical/academic subjects like religion or engineering. I view it as a time saving measure, but I roll everything else because I'm writing books here. I can afford to take time for some rolls. Plus I like the variance because interesting things happen when I allow rolls to hit large heights or horrible failures. -- I've been lazy lately and not editing or updating the website. I want to get it all done in one fell swoop but I doubt that's going to happen now by the deadline I set for myself. I'm just too far behind. Some of this has to do with the fact that my banner isn't ready yet, but also because editing is unfun. The plan is to update in big chunks come the future to get it all up at once and then do twice weekly updates on a schedule once I hit either book four or book five. I want to update, but without the banner or any artwork beyond that my reader retention is not going to be good on the website. -- On another note, I'm considering buying a rotating banner on SA to get more eyes on the thread. Lowtax needs money for his bones and I can shell out eight bucks to make that happen. If anyone would be interested in making a simple banner to drive eyes here I'd appreciate it since I'm not the greatest when it comes to art. Sometimes even simple art. If not, I'll figure it out on my own. Also I'm going to be taking a vacation come this Christmas. Since the holidays are when people tend to buy my old backlog and I'm changing my medical plan, I am finally able to get some breathing room. I seem to finally be recovering from my illness and maybe the recovery will stick this time instead of being temporary. Fingers crossed. I was actually able to go on a run for the first time in over a year today. I got moderately dizzy partway through it, but that was after a mile of interval running and I count that as progress. -- I pecked at the update a bit, but it's enormous and I lost a piece of it which made me lose momentum. I plan on breaking the mega-update into smaller chunks and hopefully that will motivate me to get going again. Currently, not including the outline, I have about 1k words written, but it's out of order because I wanted to do the fun part first in hopes that it would motivate me. -- I got some more work back from the artist I'm working with. He was a little busy this week so I didn't get the banner, but that's life. As requested, I got some neon and the title. Wanted to get input from everyone.   I'm torn on the covers. The first one doesn't look too awkward despite it being further upwards than I'd normally want. The second one is interesting, but I'd want to expand the capital A out a bit to make it more apparent that said letter is an A without causing the read to need to think about it. Also the corner of one level is covering the eye of the person in the signs and looks slightly awkward. I'd ask for something to be put in the other signs like some simple graphic, but otherwise I'm pretty pleased with how everything has turned out. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Ice Phisherman fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Nov 20, 2018 |
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Ice Phisherman posted:Also I'm going to be taking a vacation come this Christmas. Since the holidays are when people tend to buy my old backlog and I'm changing my medical plan, I am finally able to get some breathing room. I seem to finally be recovering from my illness and maybe the recovery will stick this time instead of being temporary. Fingers crossed. I was actually able to go on a run for the first time in over a year today. I got moderately dizzy partway through it, but that was after a mile of interval running and I count that as progress. Congratulations! Ice Phisherman posted:I'm torn on the covers. The first one doesn't look too awkward despite it being further upwards than I'd normally want. The second one is interesting, but I'd want to expand the capital A out a bit to make it more apparent that said letter is an A without causing the read to need to think about it. Also the corner of one level is covering the eye of the person in the signs and looks slightly awkward. I'd ask for something to be put in the other signs like some simple graphic, but otherwise I'm pretty pleased with how everything has turned out. I think the first one is fine. The second one kind of reminds me of a sign falling down, so I'm not sure if that's the way you should go.
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The second one is simply too forced and looks poor. The first one might be boring but looks better. The buildings in the background definitely need to be more riotously cyber punk though. E: the font color probably shouldn't match the background building colors if it's going to be in the same spot. It should either move, change color, or the background buildings should change color.
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Ice Phisherman posted:Karma can be bought as well and the going rate is 1500 nuyen a pop which may have a minor narrative consequence, but essentially you're chucking money down a hole. Curious. Does this scale with income,or something, or do the rules as written mean that any of the superrich can easily get completely maxed stats?
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Butt Discussin posted:Curious. Does this scale with income,or something, or do the rules as written mean that any of the superrich can easily get completely maxed stats? I don’t recall if there’s a stated limit, but every gm I know imposes a limit, I’m sure you can totally do that with a terrible or lazy gm
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Butt Discussin posted:Curious. Does this scale with income,or something, or do the rules as written mean that any of the superrich can easily get completely maxed stats? I have a cap of 10 karma purchased this way per year and it's going to scale with income. Money is also a limiting factor. In this game, it's actually not too hard to get a hold of, but Sasha needs tuition and so does Oli. Sasha's tuition is largely paid for, but she's going to need a soft landing once she leaves school and that is going to require attention, money and developing contacts which will require even more attention and money. Oli is currently learning how to be a better artist so she might one day pay her own way and be a solid investment for Kenji. Not Julie really, her motivation was more emotionally driven. Oli's purpose on the island is to create art which can better help give him access to the school's wealthy and to the art world in general, because those are two communities that can accept his very poor self. And in the process, Oli has a chance to break away from the cycle of poverty that she was otherwise probably doomed to be in before she had magic and now that she has it, she can potentially make money doing what she wants rather than get shunted directly into the military or military adjacent job as that's what most of the public schools for magic are for. At present, 10 karma would cost 15,000 nuyen for year two. That's actually not that bad, but year two is about change and investing in people will change the narrative. So for example, Diego's house is fixed and he can better provide for his kids, which means that they can process more food and create better armor. If we throw 80k at him for the next upgrade, The Club, his old, abandoned golf course clubhouse which he lives in, would turn into a minor settlement. Maybe some of the kids who left him as they got older come back to pitch in or he's taken in some of the former sex slaves from Carbonado after he killed the majority of those gang members in said town in book four. More kids get taken care of, Fuzzy has better access to gear and this signals to me what the thread cares about which means I'll explore this place in the story and I'll spotlight how it grows and changes. So in book six we'll see Fuzzy and maybe some others spend some time here in minor vignettes and she'll spend far more time there in book seven when it's her turn. Anyway, money is easy to come by, but the teens already have obligations they need to meet which currently puts them in debt. After that if they're smart and driven they should be able to make more at some point, but upgrading contacts costs a lot of money for higher levels which changes the story and magical gear definitely costs a lot too. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that resources are accessible, but finite. And by keeping said resources finite it lets me know who cares about what based on how those resources are allocated, which informs me about what people care about so I can write about that instead of what people don't care about. Ice Phisherman fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Nov 20, 2018 |
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Ice Phisherman posted:I've been lazy lately and not editing or updating the website. I want to get it all done in one fell swoop but I doubt that's going to happen now by the deadline I set for myself. I'm just too far behind. Some of this has to do with the fact that my banner isn't ready yet, but also because editing is unfun. Take your time and don’t burn out, although, I realize the impetus of the task and you’re trying to start another revenue stream. Ice Phisherman posted:Also I'm going to be taking a vacation come this Christmas. Since the holidays are when people tend to buy my old backlog and I'm changing my medical plan, I am finally able to get some breathing room. Post some photos of Blake Island when you get there! I like this one, except nudge ‘Initiation’ higher to balance out the spacing. Ice Phisherman posted:Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that resources are accessible, but finite. And by keeping said resources finite it lets me know who cares about what based on how those resources are allocated, which informs me about what people care about so I can write about that instead of what people don't care about. Just like real life, I like it. Definitely gives your setting a nice ring of truth.
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Hexenritter posted:Random idea: Bump the title upward and make it look like it's being projected into the night sky You never cease to amaze me, ya little pirate.  
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Hexenritter posted:Random idea: Bump the title upward and make it look like it's being projected into the night sky That's a good idea to try!
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Hexenritter posted:Random idea: Bump the title upward and make it look like it's being projected into the night sky Now that's a cool idea.
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Hey Folks, just wanted to wish people an early Happy Thanksgiving, whether you celebrate it or not. May your Turkey be hot, your beer cold, and the pies ever plentiful. Please don't get the gang killed over the holiday while I'm stuffing my face.
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Apologies for radio silence. Been depressed lately. Also had some writer's block. When this happens I don't force it. I recoil back into myself for a while and consider what to do. Nothing too major. Just been laying low. I've plotted out the rough plot from now until the ending in what I think is some very interesting and moving stuff. I want to have a satisfying ending and I think I got it. I've been talking to Max, the guy who does the artwork. I've decided that in lieu of space I'm going to take the advice I got from the thread and just project the title into the sky. It'll look a little awkward up there, but live and learn. I'll talk to him about making space for titles in the future as I wasn't explicit when talking about placement of titles. It has been a while since I've managed artwork. The banner is here though and I like it. I figure it'll be eye-catching on the website and at the top of the thread. Let me know what you think.  So when I have writer's block, I consume media. And I've been doing just that. I just burned through Cibola Burn and Nemesis Games. They're book four and five of the Expanse series of which I'm a big fan of both the books and the show. Burned through two books in four days and October marks the first time I've enjoyed a book in several years that wasn't audio. Reading was refreshing. Also it reminds me that I've definitely in need of improvement if I want to be up to that kind of caliber in terms of writing skill. Definitely suggest reading the books and watching the show if you're interested. The show closely follows the book, but honestly the writing is just so loving good in the book and the characters are just so loving good in the show. Do yourself a favor. You can't take the Razorback. I am gone and gone and gone and gone. That's all. Hopefully I'll be back to writing within the next few days.
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Worth mentioning to those that haven't watched the show, Detective Fedora gets acting lessons between season 1 and 2. So, just hang in there.
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Ice Phisherman posted:Nothing too major. Just been laying low.   Ice Phisherman posted:That's all. Hopefully I'll be back to writing within the next few days. Also, nice banner.
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