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BESW

13:00

Trouble is torn!

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

Cat

"I'm coming up"

BESW

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

Cat

Sin doesn't quite trust the ladder.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

Cat

13:01

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

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

@Cat plenty. It is a generous cliff face

Cat

She tries to climb the rockface instead of the ladder.

do I need to roll?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

but get to the top without even breaking a sweat.

Cat

The smell of the stoo is overpowering.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

Cat

13:02

"that stoo smells awfully good"

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

"Oh! 'ello!"

BESW

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

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

Cat

"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.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

The stoo does smell tasty

BESW

13:03

[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.]

Cat

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

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

BESW

Trouble focuses all his attention on Sin, mrowing distressfully.

Cat

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.

BESW

Trouble is reduced to plaintive whines as she approaches.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

13:06

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

"urp. 'scuse me."

Cat

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)

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

Cat

She doesn't approach the old man.

BESW

Trouble considers why in the world Morwen wants this idiot.

Cat

lol

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

(if this is Zem?)

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

13:08

@Cat mmm, roll, please :)

Cat

4d6

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Brian Ballsun-Stanton

total of?

Cat

is that clever?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

careful, I think.

BESW

13:08

Yeah, probably.

Cat

3

BESW

Ah, fair enough.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

Cat

I'm fine with that

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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.

BESW

13:09

But it's still maaaaagical to me, right?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

@BESW oh gods yes.

Cat

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

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

BESW

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

Cat

Oh, ok.

BESW

13:09

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

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

@BESW how would you like to do that?

Cat

Is Trouble interested in the bowl of stew?

Or does he ignore it?

BESW

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.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

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

BESW

4d6

Dice Service

13:11

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Cat

sigh

BESW

[face/palm]

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

4d6

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Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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.

:)

BESW

Compel, or invoke?

Cat

13:13

So these compel give him FP if he accepts?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

@BESW compel is penalize, yes?

BESW

Compel is "constrict action in a complicating way."

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

hrmmm

BESW

There's no penalties in FATE.

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

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

4d6

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13:14

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BESW

I got a three.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

I got... more :)

BESW

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?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

6+2 invoke, +2 invoke.

BESW

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

11.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

13:17

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.."

Cat

What does Sin feel this time?

Aside from a shock?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

Cat

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

BESW

Yes, please!

Cat

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

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

13:19

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

Cat

(I was going to invoke a shadowy aspect anyway)

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

@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)

Cat

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.

BESW

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

Cat

I'll accept your compel.

She can disappear/etc at your discretion.

BESW

13:22

Compels restrict action, but don't define it.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

Cat

In the same spot?

(exact same)

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

Sure, why not?

BESW

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

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

@BESW go with, it's very disconcerting.

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

BESW

13:23

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

Cat

Sin's heart races as she reappears.

She hates having her secret discovered.

"Us?"

The word raises Sin's hackles.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

Then he smiles.

"Us."

And scene.

Cat

Sin is horrified and mesmerized

Interesting.

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

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

@Cat Or arranged to be such, yes.

Cat

Thanks Brian!! :)

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

13:25

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.

Cat

Good plan.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

BESW

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

Cat

I'll have to work on my cautious stuff.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

@BESW yes. :)

I hope I was adequate?

BESW

13:26

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

Cat

Most certainly for my part.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

we'll reflect later, need to sleep.

BESW

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

Cat

good night!

BESW

ttfn

Cat

13:27

I like Trouble already.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

Cat

(until I meet Morwen, I guess)

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

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

Cat

( 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

Sohum

14:19

oh, fun

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

BESW

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

Sohum

I like that animals can "communicate" via aspects

BESW

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.)

Sohum

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

BESW

Probably.

BESW

15:53

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

Problematic

cough

BESW

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

Problematic

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

BESW

Heh, fair enough.

Problematic

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

BESW

16:01

Indeed!

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

Ten if you count me.

And Brian's GMed, which is nice.

Problematic

Has he? Missed that.

BESW

Few hours ago.

Problematic

Excellent.

BESW

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

(See pin on the right.)

Problematic

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

BESW

16:03

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

Problematic

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

BESW

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?

Problematic

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

BESW

Yeah.

BESW

16:18

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

Sohum

thunder, lightning, crackling electric noises

"It's aliiiiiiiiiive!"

BESW

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...

Sohum

yea, that's an interesting goal

I do want to see this happen

BESW

16:34

@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.

Sohum

@BESW hahahahaha

oh dear

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

BESW

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.

Problematic

@BESW RPG subculture movement, go!

BESW

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.

Sohum

mmm

BESW

16:36

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

Sohum

as much as we love you, @BESW :p

BESW

(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?"

Sohum

heee

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

BESW

@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.

Sohum

oh, I wasn't making fun of you

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

BESW

16:45

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.)

Sohum

well, SE chat just happens to be especially convenient

(ah!)

Problematic

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

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

BESW

Teeeeeeeext!

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

in RPG General Chat, Apr 5 at 0:05, by C. Ross

Not much. Things slowing down at work. Working on a web app to manage FATE Core games (skill lists, issues, characters).

Sohum

ooh, django

Problematic

@Sohum aye, my poison of choice

Sohum

16:54

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

(I kid, I kid)

Problematic

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

Oop, too late to delete that URL.

Oh well, it's invalid now.

Sohum

yea, I was wondering what was

BESW

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

Sohum

localtunnel looks nifty

BESW

kbednao.

Problematic

16:57

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

Sohum

@BESW night!

BESW

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

ttfn

Problematic

Ciao.

doppelgreener

23:00

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

BESW

23:51

?

trogdor

so

what all has happened since I was asleep?

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