- Location
- Norway
[X] Plan: THE BOX BECKONS
Jin after failing his charm for Mo is already under immense social stress and now being called the "moth" which isn't flattering to say the least.
And I would also favor DangerKitty's proposition of advancing Siani's quest rather than two hunts.
I don't think it's just the judges we need to worry about.@Vesvius , are there any ways in construction that Kong Zhi can mark down or otherwise prove that the Charm we're about to build was his own work in a way that can't be trivially dismissed? Like a maker's mark or signature integrated into the Charm design? A way that he won't find innately repulsive? Or is this a trap we just have to take on the chin?
I don't think it's just the judges we need to worry about.
While we have set up decoys, my worry is that Jin might find one/more of our charms at some point, swipe them for the duel, and pass them off as his own work. We need some way to mark or protect them in case he tries that.
It's mainly the box and glove I'm worried about.Most of the Charms of our own design are kept on our person and attached in a way that'd be tricky to pinch from us, the only ones otherwise would be the one we're making for sail-boy and Shouxi's rod, but the latter is weak enough to not be a decisive factor.
Gotta say, it really encourages to shoot for the sky when crafting without a deadline. If you succeed, awesome, if not, drive boost until you succeed.Until you succeed at the thing, and yes, but there isn't really much Zhi has failed at thus far.
Luckily for you guys, the way the anam is infused into the charm serves as it's own maker's mark. As yours is infused with the Kong Family Cycling technique, you are in good in the authentication department. So sadly, even though that's a good trap, it's not one that's in the cards.@Vesvius , are there any ways in construction that Kong Zhi can mark down or otherwise prove that the Charm we're about to build was his own work in a way that can't be trivially dismissed? Like a maker's mark or signature integrated into the Charm design? A way that he won't find innately repulsive? Or is this a trap we just have to take on the chin?
Luckily for you guys, the way the anam is infused into the charm serves as it's own maker's mark. As yours is infused with the Kong Family Cycling technique, you are in good in the authentication department. So sadly, even though that's a good trap, it's not one that's in the cards.
Good to know that this is a risk that we don't have to be concerned about at this juncture.
I know Vesvius said this isn't an issue, but let's consider the a world where that wasn't the case and we lose because of that.
1. Our friends will definitely say that it is our charm, and have evidence for that.
2. Everyone knows that the charms we provided for the duel were goddamn terrifying.
3. We get a big drive bonus until we show up Jin Yazhou.
It would be straight up preferable to lose because of that sort of bullshit as it would minimize the negative consequences while still counting as a failure.
Let's be willing to take risks. Please.
For choosing a champion, do you have to add in who your going for in the plan? Or are we just picking from a list once a plan wins for picking a champion?
Okay, I'm all for taking risks, but come on. This is a trap that we might have been able to avoid without even taking another action (adding a maker's mark doesn't feel like an action). Besides, if someone sees a potential trap, I want to hear about it. Alectai did the right thing in bringing it to our attention. If we decided that it was a trap we didn't want to avoid, that would have been our decision. It's better to be informed.
I'm not in favor of deliberately failing in order to try to game the drive mechanic. Sounds like a great way to end up getting some negative traits. Keep in mind that there aren't any hard and fast rules for trait gain, so abusing the system could create one. We basically got our current trait because the QM wants us to take risks. Let's not prompt a trait to avoid deliberate failure.We should definitely not have anyone hold back information. However our trait basically adds 3 successes towards cycling towards a technique for every action we take. More dice will rapidly turn that to 4. Once our athletics improves to 6 it will become even more valuable.
Being able to have that for the foreseeable future for the mere price of likely some social stress? While everyone important knows the truth and we still get all the commissions we could ever want from curious onlookers? We should be actively looking for those kinds of opportunities.
I don't want us to lose opportunities to get that sort of free buff in the future. Ideally we would always be operating in the shadow of one failure or another.