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BESW

12:00

Okay, so! I can dedicate one to two hours to the Enchanted Forest starting now.

Cat

so, I hate to be the annoying mosquito in everyone's ear, but are we going to get a chance to game today? :)

Yay!

I'm here!!!

trogdor

@Cat lol

you said that at like, the exact same time

Cat

Almost

trogdor

yeah

right after

close enough

BESW

@BrianBallsun-Stanton [poke] Interested in playing or GMing?

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

12:02

still need to work

Cat

:( Too bad @BrianBallsun-Stanton

BESW

Okay.

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

... just a little tiny bit.

BESW

@JonathanHobbs Is your engagement showing signs of clearing?

doppelgreener

@BESW Nope. 8(

BESW

12:02

So it's @trogdor / Kirby and @Cat / Sin?

trogdor

lol

Cat

lol

Sounds about right

trogdor

strange way of putting it

my character and cats SE name

but yeah

seems like it

Cat

I forget who Kirby is ... I guess I'll find out as we game.

BESW

Kirby... is fleeing through the forest, and Sin... is in a cave with a suspiciously wizardy guy who claims to be a shadowmage.

trogdor

12:04

he is the blind Oracle

BESW

Correct?

trogdor

yep

Cat

Correct

trogdor

seems like it

Cat

Aha!

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

12:05

@BESW who is playing a long game, whatever it is.

Cat

Don't forget about Trouble.

trogdor

hmm?

Cat

(the cat)

trogdor

but that's BESW's character

BESW

@BrianBallsun-Stanton Got any stats on him to slip me?

trogdor

12:06

but not a PC anymore

Cat

can he be an NPC for this session? I'm relying on him to save my butt ;)

trogdor

so I guess that works

Cat

Oh, sorry I haven't been following completely all the developments in the game

trogdor

BESW is working on, or may be done with, another PC idea

OG

the short version is that he is a very large human on a quest from the father of the girl he wants to marry

Cat

Hmmm...

trogdor

12:08

large enough he may be mistaken for a giant, but he is definitly human in species

Cat

more forceful folk

trogdor

Forceful isn't his best skill

strangely enough

BESW

@trogdor It is, actually, but he hates using it.

Cat

Ah.

trogdor

oh

BESW

12:08

He'd rather be Careful and Clever.

trogdor

last I saw it was not

my bad

BESW

Anyway. Og will not be in this scene.

Cat

Sure.

trogdor

yeah

cause he is the GM's PC

that would be silly

BESW

Okay, putting together the tracking sheet.

Social initiative for turn order...

trogdor

12:14

that's ,... clever?

+2

BESW

Careful?

trogdor

oh

BESW

Let me double check.

trogdor

3 then

BESW

Yeah, Careful.

trogdor

12:14

mk

3 then

I think I have 5 FP

BESW

Does that look about right?

Cat

Think so

BESW

@trogdor I've got you with five, don't I?

trogdor

yeah

I was looking at refresh

I derped

carry on looks fine to me

oh

am I first?

BESW

Yeah, but let me set the scene.

Cat

12:18

:D

trogdor

mk

and,... it wasn't refresh, I was looking at my initiative

BESW

Okay.... So Sin just did a little in-place shadowjump.

trogdor

T.T

BESW

"'Wot's that? You're one of us?"
Sin's heart races as she reappears. She hates having her secret discovered.
"Us?" The word raises Sin's hackles. The man... taps the tabletop, and the shadows flicker out of proportion to the tap.
Then he smiles. "Us.

Now, Kirby, you're running from a dragon and hoping it won't follow.

trogdor

yep

I am guessing I run into this cave

probably by accident

BESW

12:20

Well, the cave is partway up a cliff.

trogdor

ah

Cat

Maybe he runs off the cliff and falls in the pool? ;)

trogdor

lol

I hope not, if it's the pool that was in last session

Cat

this one seemed harmless enough when I passed it

BESW

Fair enough.

trogdor

12:22

the pool I mean might look harmless,... but it depends how close you got I guess

Cat

Hmmm.well, I can't provide much info there. I think my pool had fish.

trogdor

there was a lion guarding the one I mean, and touching this pool would effectively kill you

Cat

Oh, I saw no lion :)

BESW

Kirby, you're running through the Forest and then the ground suddenly stops. I believe this is a defensive roll vs. +4 as you fall.

As you're running, I hereby summarily ban Careful as a viable approach to this defense.

trogdor

ah, I was expecting to need to think of something

I had an idea

BESW

12:24

My vision is that you fall off the cliff into the pool, as was suggested.

trogdor

but I guess,... I will go with forceful

BESW

...well, maybe not into the pool if you roll poorly enough.

4d6

Dice Service

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Cat

:S

trogdor

4d

Dice Service

12:24

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trogdor

FML

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

....

Cat

:O

doppelgreener

i saw that

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

I think that's accurate, really.

trogdor

12:24

the family curse

it hath claimed me

Cat

Sorry!!

trogdor

not your fault

BESW

That's, um.... -3 vs +5, I think.

8 shifts.

trogdor

goodness me

I see nothing I can invoke

in this situation

Cat

can you reroll?

trogdor

12:26

I would need an invoke

Cat

(for a FP?)

(Sorry, I don't understand the system yet)

trogdor

that's what invokes are for

BESW

@Cat Only if there's an aspect he can use to justify it.

trogdor

know what

BESW

Without an aspect to invoke, spending an FP can only give a +1.

trogdor

12:27

this is definitely a mess at least

I propose invoking my trouble

BESW

What does that look like?

How would you include it in narrating the event?

trogdor

desperate scrabbling at the ledge to at least slow the fall

BESW

@Cat Do you accept that?

Cat

Me?

trogdor

yeah

Cat

12:29

Sure ...

trogdor

your part of the session

BESW

(whether aspects are appropriate to invoke is a group decision.)

Cat

Oh, okay.

BESW

(The GM is first among equals.)

Okay, so @trogdor is that a +2 or a re-roll?

trogdor

lol

re roll

4d6

Dice Service

12:30

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trogdor

hahahahahahahahaha

Cat

better!

trogdor

my personal luck is stronger than the family curse,... for now

BESW

+4 vs +5.

Cat

(don't jinx yourself)

trogdor

12:31

yep

hey

sorry, but I already got a -4

Cat

lol

trogdor

I can't jinx worse than that in FATE

BESW

I'm going to invoke Big Grey Rocks for a +2.

trogdor

you hate me

Cat

Obviously ;)

BESW

12:32

You're a blind man running through the Enchanted Forest.

trogdor

I invoke mossy ground for +2, breaking my fall

BESW

Mossy Ground is in the Forest, not the Clearing.

trogdor

mm shallow pool then

BESW

Okay.

trogdor

mr I manipulate

BESW

12:33

Deduct your FP.

trogdor

mk

took 2 out

BESW

And take your 1 stress.

Cat

Sorry, what was the second FP for?

trogdor

huh

?

BESW

@Cat He invoked Shallow Pool to get a +2 to the roll.

trogdor

12:34

I invoked 2 different things

Cat

You said you took 2 out?

BESW

Now narrate the event.

Cat

Oh, ok

trogdor

ok

should I narrate how the Rocks fit in too?

I think I didn't win this roll did I? am I still narrating?

BESW

Yes, everything that was used mechanically needs to show up.

You didn't win, no, but I'd like you to narrate it for the practice.

trogdor

12:35

ah I wasn't taken out

mk, Kirby runs though the forest (like a blind idiot) and comes to a cliff.

Cat

bathroom, brb

trogdor

before he notices it, he is already starting to fall, he scrabbles at whatever he can, but he grabs some rocks, they are big enough to hold him, but they have no purchase, and he falls. luckily for him, he lands in the pool.

Cat

sigh

(of relief)

trogdor

lol

Cat

(for Kirby, of course)

trogdor

12:39

well, I can't say I know that feeling as well as you then

Cat

Kirby can't swim?

trogdor

so far the closest thing he has to relief is falling off a cliff instead of being eaten by a dragon

Cat

It is "shallow"

I'd call that progress ;)

trogdor

never said he can't swim

being blind might not help though,I dunno

BESW

As Kirby flails in the pool, he hears someone give a shout of surprise.

Sindaria hears a shout-thud-splash-groan/splutter outside the cave, followed by a shout of surprise from someone else outside the cave.

trogdor

12:41

lol

Cat

Huh?

BESW

Henry pauses, a look of surprise on his face: "Eh? Who's that, then?"

Cat

Sin has a second large startle response.

BESW

@Cat There is someone outside the cave, in the clearing, that nobody knew about until I said there was a shout of surprise.

Cat

She tries grabs one of her two daggers.

(assuming I'm allowed to have them)

BESW

12:43

It seems reasonable.

Cat

OK. So now I have the aspect "armed" correct?

trogdor

just daggers, I see no point in not letting you have some kinda weapon

you have to roll it if you want to make an aspect

Cat

OK, here goes nothing:

4d6

Dice Service

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BESW

Okay, so you're going to "Create Advantage" by placing the "armed" aspect on yourself.

Cat

12:44

I'm trying to do it quickly

trogdor

makes sense

especially as a response to being startled

BESW

So that's a -1, which would fail vs the target of 0.

No, sorry.

-1 +2 = +1. Success.

Cat

Why a -1?

OK, that makes sense

Yay! (that would be embarrassing)

trogdor

also, don't I actually get a FP for that invoke against me after this scene

?

BESW

@trogdor Right.

trogdor

12:46

mk

Cat

which invoke?

BESW

Sin now has the "Armed" aspect (+1, Sin, tag x1).

trogdor

but not yet, obv

Cat

(sorry, I'm slow following)

trogdor

he invoked the rocks against me

Cat

12:46

OK

trogdor

when I fell

BESW

@trogdor Actually you don't get it at all because it was a scene aspect.

trogdor

ah

BESW

If I'd invoked Blind then you'd get it.

trogdor

mk

Cat

12:46

:(

BESW

Argh.

Okay, the scene is very unclear.

pause.

Cat

Sure.

BESW

This is the clearing.

Halfway up the cliff is a cave.

trogdor

I would assume this at least got paid out of the NPC pool then.

BESW

Kirby just came running off the top of the cliff, bounced off the rocks, and into the pool.

Someone is in or near the pool in the clearing, and was startled to see a blind man run full-tilt off the cliff.

The interior of the cave is inspired by this.

Henry is a nearly-blind old man who the cat (currently curled around the man's staff) thinks is a wizard, but who just told Sin that he's a shadowmage like herself.

Sindaria just grabbed for her daggers, giving herself the aspect Armed. It takes a roll of +1 to disarm her unless she actively rolls to defend against that instead, and she has 1 free invoke on the aspect.

I'm going to change the aspect to Dagger In Hand.

Cat

12:51

Sure

BESW

"Armed" is a little vague.

Cat

Yup

BESW

(Do you become an amputee if someone removes the aspect?)

Cat

:S

trogdor

I hope not

that's one exspencive set of daggers

BESW

12:53

And now, it is Stellata's turn. @JonathanHobbs Please begin by describing yourself and your current situation.

Cat

(as an aside, is there a limit to the number of tags I can have?)

doppelgreener

Stellata's in the water. She's been sitting in there for a little while now, quite peacefully. Whether she was there when Sindaria and an old man were fussing about isn't material at the moment: what is material is that a brown(?) shape has made quite a noisy entrance quite nearby her. She is currently Startled, I think.

trogdor

lol

Brown works

though it may not be so brown now

BESW

@Cat [Free invokes are usually limited to two (1 for creating/discovering/manipulating an aspect, 1 for getting 3 more than you needed to do so).]

Cat

OK

BESW

12:57

[You can have as many as you like spread across multiple aspects, though.]

trogdor

@JonathanHobbs some of the brown may have washed off now, he has not had a chance to bathe for a while

BESW

@JonathanHobbs And what does Stellata look like, for the record?

trogdor

lol

as if anyone can see yet

BESW

This is a better time than forgetting to describe her later.

trogdor

but it is a good time to establish it

doppelgreener

12:59

Stellata is a plant lady. She's green and seven feet tall, and so is the armor she's wearing. Or the armor she's growing. It's hard to tell which it is and it's hard to tell where it ends and she begins. Her face is partially obscured by what may or may not be a helmet, though right now her head's pointed at the monk in the water.

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