Fantasy Sidereals - New Beginnings OOC

[Random Word]

Optimistic Security Practice grants Sidereals Resistance + Essence Natural Agg Soak. That's why Euphemia has 9 Agg Soak and Renna has 12. It also makes you destroy your positive intimacies or spend WP for each attack. I didn't worry about destroying Vai's positive intimacies, since she's, y'know, dead.

 

[Psychie]

I will say that he's got a total of 10 Agg soak.

 

[Rykon]

Thanks everyone. Rolling 24 Post-Soak Agg.

 

[Sherwood]

Yikes. Remind me not to make Tien mad.

 

[Psychie]

Unless you totally nerf this roll, he should be toast.

 

[Rykon]

5 damage, doing it again, this time it's 25 post soak dice due to mounting onslaught.

 

[Rykon]

That's 15 levels of total Agg now, is Dex still breathing? I can try and cross the finish line with just bashing.

 

[Psychie]

If you stop with the first hit, it may be possible to let him recover. Keep rolling if you want him to turn into a red, pasty smear on the floor.

 

[Rykon]

Sounds good. Worst case, I can force healing through Scarlet Patterned Battlefield style I think.

 

[Random Word]

Doesn't Tien have that Charm that makes all your Awareness dice autosuccesses? You're the one most likely of all of us to actually spot whatever we might have noticed.

 

[Rykon]

Afraid not, he only has excellencies in Investigation rather than Awareness. If that's still sufficient for the roll I can do so one more time I think, but I'm basically running on fumes already. That and Tien already burned it once on Investigating the entire scene of the carnage once before. Without knowing the context of the roll it's hard for me to say.

Thoughts here Psychie ? Is the roll unrelated to something he could have fished out of the wreckage earlier?

 

[Random Word]

"That being said, there is the question for the four of you here. How is it possible for you to have survived this attack? I can see that Master Jontom is badly wounded, but as far as the rest? I have already gotten word from the Celestial Lions guarding the Calibration Gate that you three entered Yu-Shan together, just as the attack was taking place.

Can Mor'du actually perceive Euphemia? I know Jontom can't, so he's got to be a bit puzzled about why Mor'du keeps saying there are four of us. I assumed the Lions had some kind of Eye of the Unconquered Sun style effect to be able to perceive her, but if Mor'du is just an ordinary Dragon King he probably can't?

 

[Random Word]

Afraid not, he only has excellencies in Investigation rather than Awareness.

Ah, you have it, but you have Awareness 3 instead of 5! If you're a Sidereal taking Awareness, 5 dots is a massive breakpoint because of the super weird rider on this Charm you have:

Expected Pain
(pp. 173-174)
Cost: 2m (+2m); Type: Reflexive (Step 2)
Replace the text of this Charm with the following:
Vague premonitions of future sorrow drift through the mind
of a Sidereal who has mastered this Charm. As her fated suffer- ing impends, these visions crystallize into awareness. Expected Pain cancels the unexpected quality of any physical or social attack against the Sidereal. It costs an additional two motes when used to defend against creatures outside of fate.
With Awareness 5+, this Charm can be activated to en- hance any Awareness roll to notice a concealed threat to the Sidereal or her allies—a hidden assailant, a drop of poisonous lotus extract dissolved in a cup of tea, a venereal disease on a concubine. Doing so converts all dice on the roll to automatic successes.

If Psychie is willing, shuffling two dots around to get to Awareness 5 is really worth it.

 

[Psychie]

Can Mor'du actually perceive Euphemia? I know Jontom can't, so he's got to be a bit puzzled about why Mor'du keeps saying there are four of us. I assumed the Lions had some kind of Eye of the Unconquered Sun style effect to be able to perceive her, but if Mor'du is just an ordinary Dragon King he probably can't?

Dang it! I keep forgetting about that Charm of yours!

Hmmm. Not unless I have him with some custom hearthsone or something.

No, that is not right. You have the Charm, you get the benefits of it. I'll have to edit the posts to reflect that Mor'du does not see you.

 

[Rykon]

Ah, you have it, but you have Awareness 3 instead of 5! If you're a Sidereal taking Awareness, 5 dots is a massive breakpoint because of the super weird rider on this Charm you have:

If Psychie is willing, shuffling two dots around to get to Awareness 5 is really worth it.

if Psychie allows it, I could move Melee dots to Awareness for essentially an equivalent exchange.

 

[Psychie]

if Psychie allows it, I could move Melee dots to Awareness for essentially an equivalent exchange.

Eh, it makes little difference. Go ahead.

 

[Random Word]

It's also worth noting that Tien has Prior Warning, which technically means he would have learned we were about to be in danger ~twelve minutes before we fought the Akuma. STing for Sidereals can be a bit of a pain.

I don't think we would have done anything differently, though, so it doesn't matter here.

 

[Psychie]

It's also worth noting that Tien has Prior Warning, which technically means he would have learned we were about to be in danger ~twelve minutes before we fought the Akuma. STing for Sidereals can be a bit of a pain.

I don't think we would have done anything differently, though, so it doesn't matter here.

Prior Warning did not reveal this to you.

Also the perception roll I had asked for was for you to hear something in the room you are in, before Mor'du came in.

 

[Sherwood]

Prior Warning did not reveal this to you.

Oh, my! A mystery!

 

[Rykon]

Looks like there's going to be an abundance of interest in sending the Neverborn a new roommate.

 

[Random Word]

Hax. Must be TED loom shenanigans.

 

[Rykon]

All the more reason for us to acquire loyal and capable accomplices from outside the Sidereal host.

 

[Sherwood]

Are we holding on anything in particular?

 

[Psychie]

I was holding to make sure that everyone had a chance to post. I'll have something up tomorrow.

 

[Sherwood]

Sweet.