Trouble is torn!

@Cat seems to be a solid wooden ladder, the kind you'd expect to find anchored to any random cliff-face

"I'm coming up"

[what would I roll to bat the staff out of the cave?]

Sin doesn't quite trust the ladder.

@Cat "Watch your step, it can get kinda slippery" ... he says, though the ladder, to Sin's sure trained feet is better than stairs.

She sees if there are any rough parts she could climb rockclimbing style instead.

@BESW It would be very difficult to do, but overcome.

@Cat plenty. It is a generous cliff face

She tries to climb the rockface instead of the ladder.

do I need to roll?

@Cat you ascend with only some slight trouble (damned moss!)

but get to the top without even breaking a sweat.

The smell of the stoo is overpowering.

(It's maybe three paces tall? Nothing to worry about)

"that stoo smells awfully good"

"Oh! 'ello!"

Trouble is having a fit, hissing at the hermit, mrowing at Sin, drooling at the stew, and curled around the staff.

@Cat "Be welcome to some, if you can stomach playing some cribbage with me! and get your durned cat under control"

"Stitch does his own thing, I'm afraid. He's not quite tame." Sin is discomforted by the behavior of the cat, trusting animals more than people.

The stoo does smell tasty

[I would like to make a roll when she tries to pick me up: get her to touch the staff, and use my magical affinity to let her feel the magic I feel on it.]

She scans the area quickly to see if there is something to explain the cat's hissy fit

And the hermit motions to a pile of 3 rather chipped wooden bowls.

"Spoon some for me, too? I'd serve but..." He points to the Tom

Trouble focuses all his attention on Sin, mrowing distressfully.

Let me just move Stitch first.

(she says)

"Shoo, shoo, Stitch"

She doesn't want to get scratched up by the angry Tom.

So she doesn't quite have the guts to touch him yet.

Trouble is reduced to plaintive whines as she approaches.

@Cat The hermit's stomach gurgles, quite loudly.

"urp. 'scuse me."

Getting an idea, she goes to the stew to grab a bowl of stew to lure the cat.

"This will just take a second"

(she is cautious as she does so)

"Oh, sure, sure, feed the cat first..."

She doesn't approach the old man.

Trouble considers why in the world Morwen wants this idiot.

lol

Does Sin recognize the staff from her previous encounter with Zem?

(if this is Zem?)

@Cat mmm, roll, please :)

4d6

total of?

is that clever?

careful, I think.

Yeah, probably.

3

Ah, fair enough.

you're not thinking fast so much as double-cehcking details.

I'm fine with that

No, there's no "Wizzards staff of evil awesome!" about it.

It's a sensible walking staff, capped at one end so as to not splinter.

But it's still maaaaagical to me, right?

@BESW oh gods yes.

But this is a wizard's staff, considering what he just did.

@Cat maybe, but maybe he's not a wizard. There are an awful lot of shadows in the cave from the flickering fire...

@Cat There are many other kinds of caster... magician, witch, warlock, fire witch, whatever you are...

Oh, ok.

Trouble is impatient, and would like to Forcefully bring matters to a head.

@BESW how would you like to do that?

Is Trouble interested in the bowl of stew?

Or does he ignore it?

I'm not sure what kind of roll this is, but Trouble wants to leap at Sin as she puts the soup down, so that the staff falls into her while he's in her arms, and then give her a good dose of "being able to feel that magic" while they're all touching.

@BESW that means getting 'enry to let go of it.

But sure, we'll try one stupidly difficult roll for that.

4d6

sigh

[face/palm]

Fate Point to re-roll, because I'm a Witch's Cat.

4d6

Oh, and 'enry is going to compel Curious as a... to make you really interested in the stoo and the girl.

And going to compel hungry kitty.

:)

Compel, or invoke?

So these compel give him FP if he accepts?

@BESW compel is penalize, yes?

Compel is "constrict action in a complicating way."

hrmmm

There's no penalties in FATE.

If you want to do that, you'll have to instead have 'Enry roll and give him bonuses.

right, then he'll invoke both on his side of things, to cleverly arrange matters otherwise :)

4d6

I got a three.

I got... more :)

Free invoke on Familiar's Protection because that's what I'm trying to do, protect her, for 5, free invoke on There's a Cat On Your Staff for 7

What did you get?

6+2 invoke, +2 invoke.

Two FP, one on "nice" kitty and one on Don't Tell a Cat What to Do!

11.

okay.

(a bit iffy, but not worth stopping the game for.)

The cat... does something complicated around the base of the staff and leaps for the young girl.

Neatly breaking it free of 'enry's hands,

As it lands, a disturbed bowl hits it, and sends it rolling across the floor, where it brushes Sin's foot.

There's a rather dark "spark!" as it touches.

"err.."

What does Sin feel this time?

Aside from a shock?

@Cat you tell me. It's not bad, per se. Be novel :)

So I'm supposed to be feeling the "magic" in the staff?

Yes, please!

Ooo... (and, OOC, is this Zem's staff?)

@Cat oh, and I'm going to compel plaything of shadows, just for fun.

(I was going to invoke a shadowy aspect anyway)

@Cat (If it is, he's done a very good job of hiding/misdirecting it. I'm going to leave the 'ermit's identiy vague for this scene. This is someone playing the long game)

OK, here goes.

As the spark hits Sin, she gets a strong surge of energy that feels very disturbing because of it's familiarity - it is the same sensation she gets when she is sucked into shadows beyond her control, fused with a sensation of ill will, as if she is suddenly being watched by the eyes of her attackers from all this time ago.

"FSSSSST!" Trouble furballs on Sin's shoulder, spraying spittle at the "hermit."

I'll accept your compel.

She can disappear/etc at your discretion.

Compels restrict action, but don't define it.

@Cat She disappears... only to reappear in the same cave.

In the same spot?

(exact same)

Sure, why not?

...does Trouble fall to the ground, or go with her?

@BESW go with, it's very disconcerting.

"'Wot's that? You're one of us?"

(So that's why Morwen wants this idiot. Typical.)

Sin's heart races as she reappears.

She hates having her secret discovered.

"Us?"

The word raises Sin's hackles.

@Cat The man... taps the tabletop, and the shadows flicker out of proprtion to the tap.

Then he smiles.

"Us."

And scene.

Sin is horrified and mesmerized

Interesting.

It would figure that this is the guy she is looking for.

@Cat Or arranged to be such, yes.

Thanks Brian!! :)

In a meta-narrative sense, this is likely to be a mentor to turn on you.

But with someone as skittish as Sin, I play the looong game.

Good plan.

I'm also going to leave a lot of stuff undefined for the next dm.

Trouble doesn't like long games. He gets hungry.

I'll have to work on my cautious stuff.

@BESW yes. :)

I hope I was adequate?

(Also, he is going to have a good talking-to from his dignity soon.)

Most certainly for my part.

we'll reflect later, need to sleep.

Very nice. A bit too subtle on some of the cues for us who are used to IRL games, maybe.

good night!

ttfn

I like Trouble already.

@BESW you should see what magician has to suffer through.

(until I meet Morwen, I guess)

My simple plots run at 2-3 levels of recursion.

( haven't read anything about the previous adventures though, I know there was some kind of bargain struck, but since Sin is ignorant, I figure I can be)

Anyway, if you guys are logging out, so am I. Thanks for the fun session.

It was a lesson in stuff, though I'll need more time to learn.

ttfn

oh, fun

there was a cat, not being played by @Cat :p

Trouble was rather fun, though it took a while to settle into a good personality.

I like that animals can "communicate" via aspects

It was an interesting exercise.

(Naturally, only a witch can actually understand her familiars. If ever a witch discovers a spell to let her understand other witches' familiars, she'll either be set for life or quickly buried under a pile of assassins.)

(probably the latter, seeing how cheap piles of assassins are these days.)

Probably.

It's a good thing I'm asleep and not in general chat.

cough

I'd be tempted to engage with some of the broad fallacies and abusive dynamics on display there.

This is my "escape from rants and rages about D&D" channel

Heh, fair enough.

We're starting to collect quite the motley crew though, ain't we

Indeed!

We're at... nine, I think.

Ten if you count me.

And Brian's GMed, which is nice.

Has he? Missed that.

Few hours ago.

Excellent.

Cat and I ran as Sindaria and a witch's familiar named Trouble.

(See pin on the right.)

haha, I saw that, but didn't draw the connection

We also have Ross's Lord Northface and Sohum's Princess Thursday.

I think we need a little more structure now that our player list is so big

I want to run the first session as a solo for each player, to set the stage, but after that other people are welcome to GM.

What manner of structure?

It's just difficult to track who is playing when and make things flow well, especially considering how varied our time zones are

Yeah.

One of my speculative goals for this experiment is to see how much life it can take on without a central animator.

thunder, lightning, crackling electric noises

"It's aliiiiiiiiiive!"

Aye.

My primary goal is for it to be a comfortable low-pressure, low-commitment environment in which to become familiar with FAE.

After that, I'd like to see how much it can be a community endeavor rather than "BESW's Game."

Without a firm canon outside the play logs, and the opportunity to GM open to all...

yea, that's an interesting goal

I do want to see this happen

@Sohum When I first said I'd run a few sessions of FAE with a couple of guys on the chat, I kinda didn't expect this.

@BESW hahahahaha

oh dear

this has kinda snowballed beyond what you wanted, hasn't it...

The guy who set this chat up called it "BESW'S FAE Game Room" and subtitled it "BESW's FAE Game," or something like that.

@BESW RPG subculture movement, go!

I'm flattered, but it's not something I'm able to sustain on my own.

...or that I'm interested in sustaining on my own.

mmm

If it lives, it needs to be on the virtue of the community rather than the charisma of an individual.

as much as we love you, @BESW :p

(Actually, this whole thing started as a ruse to give Maurycy access to the Kickstarter pdf betas; if he was "a member of my playtesting group," I could email them to him legit so he could get a head start translating them.)

So I was gonna do a session or two for fun with him.

Not that I'm complaining; this is a pretty awesome thing that's happened. But I'm still blinking and going "Wait, wha?"

heee

@BESW never underestimate the power of something something...

@Sohum The "charisma" thing is largely a joke, but not entirely. I have always had a kind of... social updraft... which causes things to organize themselves around me whether I instigate them or not.

When I was five, games of tag with perfect strangers would materialize around me in public places.

oh, I wasn't making fun of you

it's just, yea, this is kiiiinda big now

Brian definitely snowballed it, but it was growing steadily before that.

Trogdor joined SE specifically for this.

(Trogdor and BenHardy are my IRL RPG buddies.)

well, SE chat just happens to be especially convenient

(ah!)

@BESW that reminds me: 4cxq.localtunnel.com/api/fractals/1/.json

It's Just Data, but it's getting there

Teeeeeeeext!

I was Googling "fate core" "web app" and found this:

ooh, django

@Sohum aye, my poison of choice

well I suppooose if you're going to use python...

(I kid, I kid)

@BESW I'll have to talk to him about it

Oop, too late to delete that URL.

Oh well, it's invalid now.

yea, I was wondering what was

From a comment by Fred Hicks: "Somebody's working on a web app to dynamically generate and export PDFs of a character sheet."

localtunnel looks nifty

kbednao.

I imagine there will be a few, but the project is interesting to me :)

@BESW night!

Yeah, I'm just trying to see if there are any wheels you can steal.

ttfn

Ciao.

I have a feeling that in 2014 i might be putting in a dice order to Good Games Brisbane...

?

so

what all has happened since I was asleep?