[Mean Streets, Cruel Towers]The Dive

[Silvertongued]

One more question, is Arc still up and about, and if he isn't, do I have to roll to coup-de-grace him?

 

[Grey]

No, he's dead and down.

 

[Action Replay]

Monitors all showing grinning faces....Grey did you just make Loki into Yes Man?

 

[Grey]

Only temporarily...

 

[Action Replay]

Should I assume Sawbones is getting paid by Jack for this call or am I putting the bill to Igo?

 

[Silvertongued]

His goddamn fault, but you get what you pay for, so I guess Igo'll pay for it.

 

[Grey]

Jack's paying.

 

[Silvertongued]

Oh, that's good.

 

[Action Replay]

Enjoy the workman's comp, Igo. Want me to send a roll your way Grey, and what if so?

 

[Grey]

Intellect/Medicine is the roll to diagnose. You get your Logos in bonus dice, for that.


Dexterity/Medicine is the roll to treat. You can instead roll Logos + Willpower at difficulty 8 if you want to treat it magically.

 

[Action Replay]

Sawbones is apparently a real doctor. Them successes.

 

[Grey]

I'm going to let that roll stand, for now, but it's ever-more obvious that the rolling mechanism isn't adequately explained in the book because no one ever gets it right first time.


In future, you roll only your Attribute in dice. In this case, that would've been 1 for Intellect. 4 if we add Logos.


The Difficulty is set by subtracting your Skill from the base Difficulty of 11. In this case 11 - 3 = 8.

 

[Action Replay]

Reading that first sentence made me feel a bit better about it. My apologies, won't let it happen again. So only 4 dice factoring in logos and the difficulty was subtracted by skill. Right.

 

[Grey]

It's cool. I just wish I could figure out what I'm doing wrong with the explanation.

 

[Action Replay]

In my case, it was carelessness. A hectic semester start coupled with logging on to see I had taken too long. Felt I should get something put out today at least. Only other reason would be that I'm too accustomed to the roll skill+attribute system. Need to break that habit.

 

[Silvertongued]

Wait, so has Igo just been looked over, or has Sawbones actually done anything for him?

 

[Grey]

I believe he patched the leg up, magically.

 

[Silvertongued]

Wait, so... no more damage, or what?

 

[Grey]

Blood loss'll take a day or so to recover, but the Condition is back up, yeah. I'll be more strict in future.

 

[Silvertongued]

Oh, okay, lemme amend my previous post then.


Also, yeah, strict is kinda better. I had nice ideas of Igo doing painkillers on his couch, talking to Henrietta, and generally going through recuperation.

 

[Grey]

Oh, well, if you want we can assume he just cleaned it, patched it, and you'll have to wait to recover over time. Also pay for a surgeon to do something about the ruined muscle unless you want him to limp ever-after.

 

[Silvertongued]

Sure, we can do that.


He'd probably get on it toot sweet, because nothing more identifiable than a limp.

 

[Action Replay]

I rolled the normal medicine approach, since it seemed to be what Silver wanted. Did I do something unwanted? I decided to err on the side of caution and avoided describing the whole process in detail. Given I have little knowledge on treating bullet wounds.


I suppose the fusion is something far out of the norm, so I'll have Saw react in an appropriate manner. Should we chalk off the augs as a loss? Mental image I get is that...there isn't anything for Saw to actually pull out. Nothing that isn't nerve tissue fused with metal.

 

[Grey]

You did nothing wrong. Just a slight misunderstanding.


The fusion is unheard of. But it may be possible to extract the core components and some of the fused tissues with a little time.

 

[Cirno]

Would an academics roll uncover any more information?