EF 011.2: In which a dragon interrupts a confusing set of discoveries started by Kirby falling over a cliff

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 13:41

Sindaria, you're up.

Cat

Is dropping to the ground free?

(in a controlled fashion)

trogdor

I think it would be interesting if you failed.

Cat

hahahha

BESW

I gotta agree.

doppelgreener

Sindaria almost slips and falls, then drops to the ground anyway to make it look deliberate?

Cat

Jun 3, 2013 13:43

Fair enough. Sin attempts to quickly get into a creeping position to approach the cliff face.

BESW

Don't forget that you have two stunt slots open.

Cat

So do I roll, or just choose the more interesting narrative?

BESW

Hmmm.

You should roll... but I'm going to compel Plaything of Shadows to make you use your shadowjumping stunt in front of Stellata.

trogdor

I think it's a compel if you just fall

or that

that's hilarious

Cat

Sorry, what does that mean?

I still roll?

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Jun 3, 2013 13:45

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BESW

If you do, I'll give you an FP. If you don't want to, you have to pay me an FP to avoid it.

No, you have the stunt: Because I am a shadowdancer, once per game session I can be exactly where I'm needed (a place I can see when I use this stunt) at exactly the right time.

Cat

If I roll (as I did)?

trogdor

you don't need to roll

BESW

It's an automatic success kind of thing.

I'm offering you a Fate point to do this in front of Stellata, because that will seriously complicate the rest of the scene.

trogdor

but you do use up your stunt for the session

and expose your identity to Stellata

doppelgreener

Jun 3, 2013 13:46

Oh wow.

trogdor

but you get tasty FP

Cat

OK, I will be a plaything of shadows - and use my stunt, I guess.

BESW

If you don't want to do it, you need to give me a Fate point to "buy out" of the complication.

trogdor

yeah

doppelgreener

What happens?

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 13:47

@Cat Do you want me to narrate it, or would you like to?

Cat

You can narrate it. I see it as rather random and beyond her control

doppelgreener

(I currently have mental images of Nightcrawler)

(bamf)

trogdor

lol

I actually,... thought more like they were creeping up to her, grabing her, and spitting her out somewhere

BESW

Sindaria moves toward the cave entrance, hoping to slide unnoticed down the cliff... but the dim light of the cave swallows her up and spits her out at the foot of the cliff, coming to her feet in the shadow of a big grey rock.

I just added a Fate point to Sindaria's total.

Cat

great :)

And my stunt is used?

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 13:50

(So far as I can tell, compels grant FP immediately, while invokes wait until the end of the scene.)

Yes.

doppelgreener

That one on the left side of the waterfall?

Cat

Super :P

BESW

@JonathanHobbs Yeah, sure.

trogdor

man that is creepy

BESW

Does Sindaria have anything non-mechanical to say or do as she finds herself in the clearing with a plant lady, a wizard, and a wet hobo?

Cat

Jun 3, 2013 13:51

Sin gasps.

doppelgreener

Kirby fell from that side. Stellata is currently facing it. She sees... what? Someone thrown out of blackness in front of a rock?

Cat

Does she see all of those things from behind the rock?

BESW

@JonathanHobbs I'm thinking a forced acrobat-roll.

@Cat Yeah, you're spat out into the clearing.

trogdor

well

Cat

OK

trogdor

Jun 3, 2013 13:52

Stellata isn't looking that way, but I assume the shadows spit sin out in front of her

BESW

Sort of a somersault out of the shadow onto the moss.

Stellata is still Completely In the Moment. She'll notice.

trogdor

that's what I am saying

BESW

Stellata, your turn.

trogdor

not seeing the top doesn't exclude noticing the bottom

doppelgreener

I... wow. I have not yet even worked out how Stellata would react to seeing this.

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 13:53

Think fast!

(Fate is also about dumping your characters into situations very quickly.)

trogdor

fastfastfastfastfast

Cat

Can I invoke "But I'm just a poor innocent looking girl" aspect?c ;)

trogdor

lol

Cat

(holding daggers, lol)

BESW

If there's something to invoke it on.

Cat

Jun 3, 2013 13:54

(I was jk)

doppelgreener

An old man is yelling at someone. Old men are wizards. Old men are also old men. There's a man climbing out of the water who obviously doesn't need her attention and wasn't doing a very good job of being dangerous. Stellata doesn't care about any of this: a woman just jumped out of shadows. She needs to be over there, right now.

What are her options?

I think she needs to jump over the pool (if possible) or move through it as quickly as possible.

BESW

That'd be an overcome, most likely.

doppelgreener

She's going to try to leap the pool.

BESW

You're trying to move through one zone to another one. The base difficulty is 1 for each zone after the first, but the pool is a pool, so let's make it worth an extra 1.

doppelgreener

Forceful leap:

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 13:57

So, difficulty of 2.

doppelgreener

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doppelgreener

+1. I... don't know if I can tag anything to do with that.

BESW

You can succeed at serious cost.

For example, I'll let you succeed if you take 1 stress for every point you needed but didn't get.

doppelgreener

She uses her last tag of Completely in the Moment to time her jump just right, and land just right. She's going to land... mostly well.

So, +3 vs +2.

(unless y'all think I should save that tag)

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 13:59

Okay, but I'm going to tag Startled. +3 vs +4.

It's hard to react to the sudden new threat when you're still figuring out the last two.

doppelgreener

Alright. If she succeeds at serious cost, that's a mild consequence right?

BESW

It's negotiable.

Examples include "suffering harm" and "losing something vital."

trogdor

I suggest taking the stress hit

doppelgreener

She lands badly and takes a stress hit?

trogdor

mild consequence is worth 2 stress

you would take one

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 14:02

Or lands beautifully but it takes effort she might need later.

trogdor

mild consequence is kinda a heavy cost

doppelgreener

Stellata's no longer startled, but she's not as in the zone as she was a moment ago. She's focused, and lands?

BESW

(Stress isn't damage, it's narrative oomph to avoid damage: the main character running through the haze of bullets and not getting hit is losing stress; when she gets hit by the last bullet at the end, that's a consequence.)

doppelgreener

and, yeah, takes effort she may need later.

BESW

Okay, sounds good.

Increment your tag appropriately, and is there anything she's like to say/do nonmechanically?

doppelgreener

Jun 3, 2013 14:05

She looks at Sindaria and shouts "Havada!"

Her voice bears urgency and alarm but I don't think it bears malice.

trogdor

does that mean "I want to be your friend, you are so cool" ?

doppelgreener

it totally means that, in every language

Cat

:P

trogdor

lol

doppelgreener

durr

whose turn is it now?

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 14:07

Henry calls to Sindaria, "Yer style needs work, but 'twas good thinkin'! Now 'member, the wizard's weakness is 'is staff!"

trogdor

lol

Cat

groan

BESW

He's Cleverly creating advantage by making sure Sin knows to Go For the Staff.

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Cat

Not that I don't appreciate the advice, but I've got a giant charging tree woman in front of me?

doppelgreener

Jun 3, 2013 14:08

(his staff, on which his self-esteem as a wizard is entirely dependent. the boy from the cottage with his thick books is, thankfully, completely unaware of all of this.)

Cat

So I roll to resist?

BESW

If you want to.

Cat

OK, rolling to be more careful...4d6

Huh?

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doppelgreener

You have to say it on its own

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 14:10

That's.... +3 vs his +6.

Cat

I am pwned.

trogdor

lol

doppelgreener

(does Henry have a sheet?)

BESW

Not at the moment. Brian didn't have one for me.

Cat

OK, do I have any action left?

Or was my resist my action?

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 14:11

@Cat it's not your turn yet. Your turn was shadowjumping.

doppelgreener

this man is superbly clever

Cat

Oh, ok

BESW

This is Henry's turn, and you tried to resist his advice.

Cat

sorry, lol

BESW

@JonathanHobbs Casting stat...

Mentors gotta have 'em.

doppelgreener

Jun 3, 2013 14:11

@BESW minmaxer!

BESW

Not that anyone's paying any attention at all, but Trouble books it out the cave and into the forest, heading downstream at a good clip. Conceding wuss-puss.

doppelgreener

@BESW I demand he concedes all his shillings and leaves them behind

Cat

lol

trogdor

lol

fraid he's a cat

and a fraidy cat at that

BESW

The wizard cackles theatrically and points his staff at Sindaria, sparks of power gathering around its tip.

doppelgreener

Jun 3, 2013 14:14

shouldn't be hard for him then, but if he is a cat who owns shillings, old men in caves need those shillings more than him. what's he even doing with them?

trogdor

my point is that he likely doesn't even have any to give up

BESW

Brute-force magic +2, attacking Sindaria.

doppelgreener

then it shouldn't be hard for him to leave them behind c(:

BESW

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doppelgreener

Jun 3, 2013 14:14

oh wow.

Cat

Sin tries to quickly evade

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BESW

...+1. Uses both his Menacing tags for a total of +5.

Cat

Ouch!

BESW

Sindaria's got... +2? vs his +5.

doppelgreener

Jun 3, 2013 14:16

I... could declare a natural aspect to help protect her.

Cat

I can invoke "you win the fights you avoid" for +2, I think?

BESW

Henry calls out "Use th' shaders to 'sorb 'is pow'r!", giving you both his I Have Good Advice tags.

If you want them.

Cat

Sure, I can try that

doppelgreener

O:

Cat

What does that put me at?

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 14:17

Puts you at +6 vs the wizard's +5.

Cat

So I can do so ...

BESW

The wizard's spell lashes out like a whip of sparkling lightning toward Sindaria...

Cat

Under the threat of imminent magical attack, Sin's strong survival instincts call her shadow powers to action ...

BESW

[Don't forget to narrate the Good Advice into it]

Cat

She hears Henry's advice just in time and the ground beneath her feet begins to smoke as if she were a witch tied to a pyre. The smoke wafts up in a protective coccoon around her as she shields her face with her arms.

The sparks of magic are carried up like sparks from a flaming bonfire, harmlessly into the air.

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 14:21

lovely.

Cat

lol

we'll see about that. NEXT!

BESW

Kirby!

trogdor

lol

good lord

what do I do now

BESW

You could try to remove one of your negative aspects.

trogdor

ok

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 14:23

They're both at +0 and have no reason to be actively defended.

doppelgreener

there's a wizard whose voice you might recognise yelling and casting spells nearby

trogdor

I guess Kirby will attempt to shake the water out of his ears

doppelgreener

(I'm guessing it's him at least)

trogdor

carefully

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trogdor

Jun 3, 2013 14:23

yeah pretty sure that's gone

BESW

Yup!

doppelgreener

does that mean he gets a boost?

BESW

Let's see, that's a +4?

trogdor

yeah

BESW

I invoke the waterlogged tag to bring it to 4 vs 2.

So it's not succeeding with style.

You just lose the aspect, that's all.

trogdor

Jun 3, 2013 14:25

lol

wasn't going for anything else

doppelgreener

(You can invoke the aspect he's trying to overcome?)

trogdor

Kirby slowly starts to get the water out of his ears, trying desperately to ignore the fact that it is the 3rd or 4th time people loudly started fighting where he has ended up

BESW

@JonathanHobbs It's still there until the roll resolves.

Kirby shook the water from his ears in time to hear a great thunder CRASHCRASHCRASHCRASH from the top of the cliff, and a roar like a thousand pots and pans being thrown into a furnace.

trogdor

"NOOOOOO!"

BESW

"THE SCONES WERE BURNT!" the dragon screams hungrily.

Cat

Jun 3, 2013 14:27

hahahahahaha

trogdor

lol

wildly appropriate

Cat

I obviously need to have been there...but lol nonetheless

doppelgreener

oh my god xD

trogdor

dragon time

this is very bad

BESW

It sneezes, incinerating the saplings along the top of the cliff, and glances about suspiciously. "A WIZARD?!"

The wizard nearly drops his staff in fear, but clings to it as the dragon's head shoots forward to direct a gout of flashy flame at the green-robed man.

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Jun 3, 2013 14:29

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BESW

That's +7.

vs...

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BESW

+2, +4 if I'm feeling generous and let him use Brute-force Magic to defend. Anyone have an opinion on that?

trogdor

we will miss you brave mook

Cat

hahaha

It is his life at stake

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 14:31

Mooks, by definition, don't get consequences.

Cat

oh

BESW

If he takes more than 1 stress, he's Taken Out.

doppelgreener

That was a mook!? O:

trogdor

I think he is done either way here

yeah

Cat

Agreed

trogdor

Jun 3, 2013 14:32

his name is wizard lackey

he is a mook

doppelgreener

Ok.

BESW

The wizard ignites instantly, his staff blazing like a firework. He screams and plunges into the pool.

trogdor

a nameless, and soon to be crispy and faceless, mook

BESW

Someone might want to check on him after the DRAGON is dealt with.

Cat

crispy? nice descriptor

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 14:33

...If anyone's still around to do so.

trogdor

lol

I have killed us all

doppelgreener

depends. there is a DRAGON here.

BESW

Sindaria, you're up.

trogdor

please line up to thank me

Cat

Is Sin surrounded in smoke/shadow as an aspect right now?

Or is that a temporary thing?

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 14:34

Did you get 3 or more than you needed on the defense roll?

Cat

I don't think so ...

BESW

(I think you only got 1 shift.)

Then no, the shadows only lasted for that action.

trogdor

yeah

one shift

Cat

OK. Sin is going to try to run!

trogdor

went back and checked

Cat

Jun 3, 2013 14:35

(quickly!)

BESW

Is she booking it from the conflict entirely?

Cat

(thanks @trogdor)

trogdor

lol

Cat

After she saw what happened to the wizard, yes!

BESW

(You remove yourself from the conflict mechanically, and get 1 FP for doing so, but you have to concede something important.)

Cat

Jun 3, 2013 14:36

? Like what?

trogdor

an item, maybe taking a consequence

Cat

(sorry, I didn't realize)

BESW

That's negotiable. Usually your enemy in the conflict gets what they wanted out of the conflict, but you get to narrate it.

Cat

Can she attempt to dive into the pool to hide then?

BESW

A brutal example is that if someone wants to kill you, you narrate getting pushed off a cliff.... into a river far below. It hurts, you lost what you wanted to accomplish, but you're alive.

If you want to stay in the scene, yeah, that's a good action.

That'd be a Create Advantage action.

Cat

Jun 3, 2013 14:38

OK, that's what I'll try.

Quickly!

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BESW

Looks like +4?

Cat

So that's +3 I think?

BESW

Oh, right.

Narrate the action, with the aspect you want to have.

Cat

Do I invoke extra aspects as well, or wait for the dragon's role?

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 14:40

Depends. Are you trying to make him not know where you are, or get to a safer position?

Cat

Trying to avoid detection, yeah.

BESW

The latter is just placing an aspect on yourself, and the dragon isn't in a position to try stopping you.

The former is vs his perception of you.

Cat

Hmm...maybe I reconsider for the char. SHe's just trying to get to safety. PRobably terrified right now.

BESW

Safely Underwater?

Cat

I'll say that she's not clever enough to attempt to be stealthy right n ow

Let's hope so!!!

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 14:41

Okay, so that's just vs +0, so you have +3.... for a second tag!

> Safely Underwater (+3, Sin, tag x2)

Cat

Yay Sin!

BESW

Narrate it, and then it's Stellata's turn.

Cat

Sin is visibly trembling despite the success of her shadow defense when the dragon's voice booms through the air. She watches the wizard incinerate before her and screams before fleeing to the safety of the water.

BESW

Stellata?

doppelgreener

Stellata thinks the water is a very good place to be right now. Sindaria's in there too. Uh...

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 14:45

So's the wizard!

doppelgreener

and, thinking out loud, Sindaria's flipping the heck out.

And... Stellata is going to flip her the heck out more by going right after her.

adfasdf

Cat

Is this pool big enough for the lot of us?

BESW

Sure.

Cat

phew

trogdor

lol

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 14:47

So, free action to move into the pool, and action....?

trogdor

it isn't big enough for Kirby's guilt

BESW

(By the way, Kirby, I gave you a tag on the dragon's Insulted aspect.)

trogdor

lol

I think I know how to use it

doppelgreener

Stellata leaps in beside her and... I don't know and my brain is whirring in circles.

BESW

[cackles]

trogdor

Jun 3, 2013 14:48

I give it odds of 50 50 he gets killed trying to fix things

doppelgreener

Stellata ducks underwater - right underwater - and tries to gesture flashily to Sindaria to calm the heck down. Can I compel her?

Cat

(just fyi, I need to go in 10 mins)

BESW

@JonathanHobbs Aspect: You Win the Fights You Avoid

And Aspect: Refuge in the green

You certainly count as the latter.

Cat

:)

BESW

In fact, that's actually a great way for both of you to duck out of the scene, since Cat has to go.

doppelgreener

Jun 3, 2013 14:50

I hope I don't need to invoke too much aaaa

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doppelgreener

I can either invoke both those tags or compel her.

I don't know if I actually can compel her so I'm rolling to speed this up if I can't

at present that's a -1

and I will invoke the heck out of things to make that a +3 or a +5

but I don't know if I should just be compelling her. Advise me?

trogdor

I would suggest a compel

BESW

Hmmm. Offer her a Fate point to complicate her life by taking refuge in the Green instead of staying with the mentor who can teach her to be a shadowdancer?

Cat

What's a compel from a PC?

You give an FP?

trogdor

Jun 3, 2013 14:52

the PC gives up a FP

Cat

got it

trogdor

and you get it

at the same time you normally would

BESW

Does that compel seem reasonable to you, Cat?

doppelgreener

I compel Sindaria, then, to follow Stellata downstream?

after Stellata gestures wildly with a lot of phosphoresce and glowing arms and eyes and stuff.

Cat

Sorry, does that add an overpowering aspect?

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 14:53

@Cat No, it's a behavioral thing.

@JonathanHobbs Aye. And might as well show off: use One With the Forest to cover your retreat?

Cat

OK, Sin will go along with it since she just wants out right now.

BESW

@Cat Sin, admirer of nature, just had a beautiful plant lady pull a "Come with me if you want to live" vs dragon.

Cat

Exactly.

Easy choice in the moment

doppelgreener

One with the Forest: thick reeds and grass spring up either side of the pool to grant cover. Or a ton of lilypads.

I think lilypads.

BESW

But it leaves Henry in danger: the only person she's ever met who's nice and might be able to help with her powers.

Cat

Jun 3, 2013 14:55

I like the lilypads

I don't think she's that worried about Henry just yet.

She's a survivalist.

doppelgreener

Lilypads spring up from the beds around them to grant Surface full o' lilypads.

Cat

He doesn't seem like he can offer much protection

Powers are no good if she's dead

doppelgreener

What can I do to make the wizard come with us?

BESW

@Cat He did keep her from taking 5 shifts of lightning to the face.

doppelgreener

(Sorry Kirby. You're on your own)

trogdor

Jun 3, 2013 14:56

(it is ok)

Cat

I don't know if Sin understands that completely.

doppelgreener

(I'm sure we'll meet again someday ;_; one day)

trogdor

(was actually thinking of attempting to fix it so that no one died or only I did)

Cat

(not to insult you)

BESW

Let's see. Henry's in the cave still. You guys are underwater and shooting away. Kirby's the dragon's primary target anyway.

....Invite Henry to come with.

Cat

Jun 3, 2013 14:57

Me?

BESW

Either you or Stellata.

trogdor

but how does that complicate for her?

BESW

@trogdor [tents fingers] Brian knows.

Cat

lol

trogdor

lol

works for me

Cat

Jun 3, 2013 14:59

Well, Sin's underwater at the moment.

BESW

Henry cries out, quaveringly, "Ye wouln't leave little old 'enry 'ere wit a dragon, would ye'?"

Cat

She needs to takea breath, and as she does, she screams out his name "Henry!"

doppelgreener

(I just transferred 1 FP from Stellata to Sindaria. Is that right?)

BESW

Yup!

~~Homing in on her voice, Henry steps through the dappled shadows at the bottom of the stream and grabs her hand, pulled along as they float downstream with the nice plant lady.~~

Cat

Can she forcefully pull him in?

OK. Good. Gotta go!

BESW

Jun 3, 2013 15:01

Oooh.

MaxPower

Guys is the code review website the right place to submit code that does not fully work and ask people to help you out with figuring out what is the problem?

doppelgreener

@MaxPower Bring that over to this other room

MaxPower

@Jonatha ok

BESW

@Cat Sindaria reaches out through the darkness and pulls Henry through the dappled shadows at the bottom of the stream, grabbing his hand as they are float downstream with the nice plant lady.

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