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doppelgreener

13:00

So he'd have a clear look at her face, though he's blind, and I imagine submerged.

BESW

Is Stellata going to take an action this round, or move to an adjacent zone?

trogdor

yep

both

the second one doesn't hurt nearly as much as the first

doppelgreener

She's going to climb out of that pool pronto.

Preferably on a bank opposite the one the monk fell in from.

BESW

[I'm taking the tag on Startled for myself, by the way, but it's fragile.]

trogdor

"it's raining Peasants! RUUUUN!"

doppelgreener

13:01

[What do you mean you're taking it for yourself?]

trogdor

I see only one problem

doppelgreener

[You have a free invoke on it?]

trogdor

there was no roll.....

BESW

@JonathanHobbs Right.

trogdor

but he did say it is there

so I guess that works

BESW

13:02

Nothing in particular is in the way of Stellata getting out of the pool, so that's a free action to move a zone unless she wants to do it in a particularly interesting way.

trogdor

sounds like the idea is just to get out?

doppelgreener

@trogdor Yeah, it is at the moment!

trogdor

lol

BESW

Does she have a rolly action too?

trogdor

murder perhaps?

lol

doppelgreener

13:04

Stellata climbs out and turns to look at whatever thing it is that just fell into the pool. Moonbear? Regular bear!? Enlarged angry badly shaven hobo? What the heck is this thing?

Is that something she does now or later?

trogdor

free action to climb out

BESW

@JonathanHobbs Now, if she likes. Moving to an adjacent zone is free.

doppelgreener

Right now then. :)

I'll wait to hear what exactly the monk does next.

trogdor

so no other action?

doppelgreener

(I imagined him in a brown robe actually.)

I'm not sure what else I should/can do?

BESW

13:06

You could Create Advantage by placing an aspect on yourself (Ready for Trouble, maybe?).

trogdor

he may be in brown but not as strongly brown as the (hopefully) dirt he has not been washing off recently till now

BESW

(Or summon up some plants by placing a scene aspect?)

trogdor

I see no reason for him not to be wearing brownish robes

doppelgreener

@BESW I'll do that. Stellata is going to get herself Ready for Trouble. She doesn't know her opponent yet, or if there is an opponent.

BESW

Narrate, including the approach you'll use, roll (vs +0), and finish the narration based on the result.

doppelgreener

13:09

Stellata steadies herself on the balls of her feet. She's ready to either attack or run, but she doesn't appear to have any weapons in hand. The main thing here is she needs to think fast and focus, so she's going to try to cleverly Ready for Trouble.

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doppelgreener

Wow.

BESW

[blink]

Cat

:)

doppelgreener

4+2, 6 shifts.

Stellata is mentally in the zone.

Cat

13:10

Why do the shifts matter?

(or don't they)

doppelgreener

I succeeded with style I guess!

Cat

Oh, ok

trogdor

yeah

BESW

Shifts matter in this case for two reasons.

First, Stellata got three or more shifts above what she needed, so she gets a second tag.

Second, if anyone wants to remove the aspect, they have to get a +6 or better.

Cat

Oh, that's what you were saying before

Ouch!

BESW

13:12

@JonathanHobbs Conclude narration, and feel free to actually change the aspect from "Ready for Trouble" to something worth 6 shifts of awesome.

trogdor

yeah

doppelgreener

Oh goodness. I'm not sure what to change it to.

trogdor

Fully Prepared

doppelgreener

Prepared for Anything?

trogdor

that seems to be workable

BESW

13:13

Ready for Anything sounds good.

trogdor

it is 6 shifts

doppelgreener

or Completely in the Moment?

BESW

Oooh.

Do it!

Much better for her in particular.

Cat

...no sneaking by her now ...

trogdor

yeah,... like I am sneaking

Cat

13:14

lol

(I was being self-centered there)

trogdor

lol

maybe she will blow it all on me and you can escape

Cat

let's hope, lol

;)

trogdor

I am,... threatening,... as I fall down

threatening like a rock

doppelgreener

Ok. Stellata is Completely in the Moment. She's calmed, she's staring very wide-eyed at this thing in the water and her eyes are darting around her surroundings. Her senses are keen, her ears are metaphorically perked and so on for various other planty senses. She's watching, and waiting.

She's going to wait to know what's going on before she acts.

If she has a heart its beat is now steady, and she takes a deep breath.

(end narration?)

trogdor

works for me

BESW

13:16

Henry listens for a moment, then turns vaguely in Sin's direction. "Yer a good bit younger than I am, lass."

"Fancy a smattering of spying? I can give ye some pointers, and they'll ne'er ken ye were there."

Cat

Sin cringes at what seems like Henry's excessively loud voice, but nods silently.

BESW

He is attempting to Cleverly boost Sin's confidence. Is Sin going to defend, or take it?

Cat

She'll take it

BESW

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Cat

13:19

So I get a "confident" tag?

BESW

How about "I Have Good Advice"?

Cat

Hrmmm...this is going to bite me in the ass, but sure

trogdor

lol

doppelgreener

haha

BESW

Trouble paused mid-hiss at the sudden sounds, and his ears went straight up. Now he's straining to listen as hard as he can.

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13:21

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BESW

...Trouble has no idea what's out there, as the stew in front of him is far too tasty-smelling.

There is one last character, and I need Stellata and Kirby to make rolls against his attempt to hide.

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BESW

He's got +0.

doppelgreener

Do I pick any approach?

BESW

Anything you can justify for noticing someone who isn't very good at sneaking up.

trogdor

13:25

ok, I guess I am listening underwater,.... I think an invoke involving the pool might be in order

doppelgreener

Stellata will be Careful

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doppelgreener

-2 + 2 = 0. What's that mean?

Moderate success on the part of the sneak?

trogdor

this NPC has to beat 0 or not be sneaking past you

and you have tags on something that should help for keeping people from sneaking past around or behind you

BESW

Let's see what Kirby gets (as he is underwater, I will be giving a small bonus to the difficulty).

trogdor

13:27

ok

I will use careful to listen

seeing as sight isn't gonna help

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trogdor

0 not counting the penalty

BESW

Isn't that +1?

trogdor

err yeah

but penalty

which I don't know the number of, but I am assuming 1 or 2

BESW

So, you both tied with the target numbers. Because you're defending rather than actively rolling, the advantage goes to the instigator of the change.

So he'll place a boost on the two of you, something like "Doesn't Know I'm Here," unless you do something to increase your roll.

doppelgreener

13:29

I think I am currently obliged to use one of those tags on Stellata's Completely in the Moment. She just now achieved it - she should be using it now if ever.

BESW

Fair enough. Increment her tag from x2 to x1 and she'll notice the guy.

Kirby?

trogdor

lol

no

not spending FPs on this

Cat

So the tag is the number of times you can invoke the aspect?

(before losing it?)

BESW

For free, yes. But you only lose it afterward if it's fragile.

(Meaning you only just hit the target number.)

Cat

OK

BESW

13:32

So long as the aspect exists, you can spend FP on it.)

Stellata's keen senses pick up a clumsy stumbling in the bushes. A seed-covered man in a dark green robe uses his walking stick to clear the thorny branches away as he comes into the clearing.

doppelgreener

HE IS THE SHADOWS O_O

BESW

He pauses, straightens his robe, and clears his throat while making a fiddly sign with his fingers. "HENRY!" his voice booms supernaturally, "I KNOW YOU HAVE THE GIRL!"

trogdor

lol

that escalated quickly

BESW

Kirby, your turn.

Oh, wait.

He needs to roll to place the aspect, sorry.

trogdor

lol

BESW

13:35

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BESW

That's +3 to make himself Menacing.

Kirby, you're up for real now.

trogdor

ok

well, first Kirby gets up, and wants to climb out of the water

BESW

I think that being blind is going to make that an overcome check for him.

Any objections from the group?

trogdor

no

not from me anyway

Cat

13:37

He could use the voice?

Although I guess he doesn't know that's not int he water

trogdor

to climb out of water?

BESW

Right.

doppelgreener

No objections, I totally pictured him face-down splashing around.

BESW

Let's say... difficulty of +1.

Cat

overcome

BESW

13:38

It's shallow, there's a voice to move toward.

trogdor

I think careful can actually aply to this now

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BESW

Indeed.

trogdor

1

BESW

Narrate, please.

(It's a tie, so you need to succeed at minor cost.)

trogdor

13:40

Kirby flounders around in the water, and eventually starts feeling his way to any nearby edge of the pool

what can I make a cost? some kind of fragile aspect?

BESW

That'd work.

trogdor

mk

BESW

On All Fours, maybe.

trogdor

ok

BESW

And then I get the tag.

doppelgreener

13:40

or waterlogged?

trogdor

that is better

I like that

BESW

Okay, sounds good. Kirby gets to his feet on dry ground, but is waterlogged.

trogdor

Kirby finds his way to the edge by feel, and carefully climbs out, but he has splashed around so much that he is now waterlogged

BESW

Sindaria, you're up.

Cat

Is dropping to the ground free?

(in a controlled fashion)

trogdor

13:42

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

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

13:44

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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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

13:45

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

Oh wow.

trogdor

but you get tasty FP

Cat

13:46

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

@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

13:47

(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

(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

13:50

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

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

13:51

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

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

13:53

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

Think fast!

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

trogdor

fastfastfastfastfast

Cat

13:54

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

(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

13:56

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

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

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.

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