After awhile of being distracted by meatspace, well, I'm gonna try to get back into the swing of things. Vote closed, update to come when it is written.
Adhoc vote count started by Terrabrand on Mar 5, 2022 at 8:21 AM, finished with 13 posts and 12 votes.
[X] Attack! Kill! This beast hurt you, you'll make it pay! (Test Fury: Success: Injure White Masked Beast. Failure: White Masked Beast acts unimpeded, causing unknown consequences. Repeat test Fury until Beast is dead or gone.)
[X] Spite! Defend! If it wants the goblin, you're not inclined to let it have it. Drive off the White Masked Beast without allowing it to hurt the intruder! (Test ???, Success: Injure and drive away White Masked Beast. Failure: Lose Soul and drive away White Masked Beast)
[X] Capture! Ensnare! You're not sure what the ephemeral thing that stopped you is precisely, but it seems pretty tough. Perhaps you can trap the beast to do something? (Test ??? Success: ???. Failure ???.)
Okay that's gonna take some getting used to, still not familiar with the current tally system.
Scheduled vote count started by Terrabrand on Nov 16, 2021 at 7:10 AM, finished with 14 posts and 12 votes.
[X] Attack! Kill! This beast hurt you, you'll make it pay! (Test Fury: Success: Injure White Masked Beast. Failure: White Masked Beast acts unimpeded, causing unknown consequences. Repeat test Fury until Beast is dead or gone.)
[X] Spite! Defend! If it wants the goblin, you're not inclined to let it have it. Drive off the White Masked Beast without allowing it to hurt the intruder! (Test ???, Success: Injure and drive away White Masked Beast. Failure: Lose Soul and drive away White Masked Beast)
[X] Capture! Ensnare! You're not sure what the ephemeral thing that stopped you is precisely, but it seems pretty tough. Perhaps you can trap the beast to do something? (Test ??? Success: ???. Failure ???.)
[X] Attack! Kill! This beast hurt you, you'll make it pay! (Test Fury: Success: Injure White Masked Beast. Failure: White Masked Beast acts unimpeded, causing unknown consequences. Repeat test Fury until Beast is dead or gone.) Unto Death
You have fury! The goblin intruded, this attacked! You won't stand for it, by the stones!
You lash out with furious intent at the White Masked Beast, but it darts aside from the blow with disconcerting ease, and strikes towards the goblin!
Fury Test: 7, failed.
Goblin makes Agility test: 5, success.
The goblin's motions are panicked, and it barely avoids the Beast, which subsequently smashes into the wall of your tomb! That's your tomb!
Fury +1
Fury Test: 2, success.
You strike with renewed anger, and dazed as it is the Beast does not escape this time! You slam the memory of a weapon into its armored hide, and rip into it!
Masked Beast: Life 4/5
Fury Test: 7, failed.
The Beast howls in equal anger and pain! It strikes back, and you feel pain!
Soul -1
Fury Test: 8, failed.
Your blindly continued assault glances off the Beast's surprisingly armored hide, and it bites hard into your spirit!
Soul -1
Fury +1
Fury Test: 1, success.
Your anger rises still higher, and you injure the beast further!
Masked Beast: Life 3/5
Fury Test: 6, success.
Another blow further injures the Beast, keeping it off balance! You continue your furious assault...
Fury Test: 3, success.
Your focus remains solely on the Beast and your own fury! Your assault continues to reap a toll on the foe...
Masked Beast: Life 2/5
Fury Test: 4, success.
Noise reaches you, but you care only for harming the hated Masked Beast!
Masked Beast: Life 1/5
Fury Test: 5, success
You're not sure how long you remain striking, but by the end, the Beast's only movement is to twitch in response to your impact, no more alive than you are.
Masked Beast: Life 0/5
Your fury doesn't abate... but your anger falls to a low simmer, no longer the rage of battle.
The goblin is staring at you, awkwardly making a gesture of some sort. You don't think it's other arm is okay at all. You stare...
Automatic Fury Test: 8, failed.
And pause, and listen as it tries to speak. Eventually, you understand some of its words.
"-er, dwarven trade speak?" it says.
You give the ghostly approximation of a nod. You rasp out "Under Trade." in unliving recognition of the language it speaks.
It awkwardly bows in some sort of gesture of submission an stumbles through words, clearly not particularly practiced at Under Trade. The goblin says "If it pleases honorable specter, please allow this one to take the corpse. Meat feed tribe for one... no, two weeks! Ghost doesn't even eat meat, promise tribe will bring offerings for nice tomb specter!"
You consider the goblins words...
[] Attack! Kill! All intruders must die! [Test Fury, success: Kill goblin, failure: Goblin escapes, gain Fury. Nameless Spirit becomes Raging Specter.)
[] Accept! Trade! Offerings would be pleasing, you haven't had grave offerings in so long. (Goblin leaves, removing Corpse of Masked Beast. Promise of offerings, Nameless Spirit waits)
[] Question! Demand! There shouldn't be any goblin tribes this close to your tomb, you... You don't remember why, but it's wrong! (Lose Fury, gain Awareness, demand answers from goblin)
[] Frighten! Chase Away! The Masked Beast is your trophy, the goblin must leave! (Drive off, but do not attempt to kill goblin. Nameless Spirit attempts to find some use for Masked Beast Corpse, unknown consequences)
[] Write-in (Unknown consequences or tests, based on proposed response. You can speak, but not very easily, and the goblin may not understand all concepts conveyable through Under Trade)
[X] Question! Demand! There shouldn't be any goblin tribes this close to your tomb, you... You don't remember why, but it's wrong! (Lose Fury, gain Awareness, demand answers from goblin)
[X] Accept! Trade! Offerings would be pleasing, you haven't had grave offerings in so long. (Goblin leaves, removing Corpse of Masked Beast. Promise of offerings, Nameless Spirit waits)
[X] Question! Demand! There shouldn't be any goblin tribes this close to your tomb, you... You don't remember why, but it's wrong! (Lose Fury, gain Awareness, demand answers from goblin)
[X] Accept! Trade! Offerings would be pleasing, you haven't had grave offerings in so long. (Goblin leaves, removing Corpse of Masked Beast. Promise of offerings, Nameless Spirit waits)
[X] Question! Demand! There shouldn't be any goblin tribes this close to your tomb, you... You don't remember why, but it's wrong! (Lose Fury, gain Awareness, demand answers from goblin)
[X] Question! Demand! There shouldn't be any goblin tribes this close to your tomb, you... You don't remember why, but it's wrong! (Lose Fury, gain Awareness, demand answers from goblin)
[X] Accept! Trade! Offerings would be pleasing, you haven't had grave offerings in so long. (Goblin leaves, removing Corpse of Masked Beast. Promise of offerings, Nameless Spirit waits)
[X] Question! Demand! There shouldn't be any goblin tribes this close to your tomb, you... You don't remember why, but it's wrong! (Lose Fury, gain Awareness, demand answers from goblin)
[X] Question! Demand! There shouldn't be any goblin tribes this close to your tomb, you... You don't remember why, but it's wrong! (Lose Fury, gain Awareness, demand answers from goblin)
[x] Accept! Trade! Offerings would be pleasing, you haven't had grave offerings in so long. (Goblin leaves, removing Corpse of Masked Beast. Promise of offerings, Nameless Spirit waits)
[X] Accept! Trade! Offerings would be pleasing, you haven't had grave offerings in so long. (Goblin leaves, removing Corpse of Masked Beast. Promise of offerings, Nameless Spirit waits)
I feel like that in time with goblins' offerings we can become goblins' guardian spirit and possibly bless the goblins with our strength or help them, depending on how our cards are played and if dice is in favour of that
The most valuable thing in choosing questions, in my opinion, is the loss of furious status. You know. the state in which the ghost can attack for no reason if the dice so desire.
[X] Accept! Trade! Offerings would be pleasing, you haven't had grave offerings in so long. (Goblin leaves, removing Corpse of Masked Beast. Promise of offerings, Nameless Spirit waits)
[X] Question! Demand! There shouldn't be any goblin tribes this close to your tomb, you... You don't remember why, but it's wrong! (Lose Fury, gain Awareness, demand answers from goblin)
I don't remember Watching this quest...
But the mechanics look really cool and I love ghosts, so I'm pretty hyped about it.
The most valuable thing in choosing questions, in my opinion, is the loss of furious status. You know. the state in which the ghost can attack for no reason if the dice so desire.
For clarity, that's only going to happen with things the Nameless Spirit already has reason to be angry with.
Mind, given the trend towards anger, I'm not going to say it's wrong to consider that a bad thing. I'm not going to say it's necessarily right, either, because I've been allowing multiple directions the protagonist could be taken, but it's a fair concern.
Thought:
Soul: how intact we are.
Fury: Anger meter. Keep low unless need to RIP AND TEAR!
Awareness: How much we're paying attention versus reminiscing.
Anchor: how tied we are to our location…May influence Soul recovery levels, maybe?
???: linked to unused Capture option. I can only guess, but thinking about ghost lore…Possibly Possession, may work off Anchor score, might not.
???: Potentially reward if Goblin isn't lying. And if he is, he'd best warn his tribe…Offerings? Reverence?
???: I dunno.
???:Linking this last one to curses, since that was also an option. I'd call this one Bitterness, less sudden flashes of Fury for RIP AND TEAR! More things like the unease one feels inside a haunted house….
[X] Accept! Trade! Offerings would be pleasing, you haven't had grave offerings in so long. (Goblin leaves, removing Corpse of Masked Beast. Promise of offerings, Nameless Spirit waits)
I'd like awareness, but this seems like a good way to become the guardian of a their tribe later on, which sounds fun.
[X] Accept! Trade! Offerings would be pleasing, you haven't had grave offerings in so long. (Goblin leaves, removing Corpse of Masked Beast. Promise of offerings, Nameless Spirit waits)
[X] Accept! Trade! Offerings would be pleasing, you haven't had grave offerings in so long. (Goblin leaves, removing Corpse of Masked Beast. Promise of offerings, Nameless Spirit waits
Haven't seen a ghost quest before. And offerings sound pretty nice after who knows how long we've been stuck here.
[X] Accept! Trade! Offerings would be pleasing, you haven't had grave offerings in so long. (Goblin leaves, removing Corpse of Masked Beast. Promise of offerings, Nameless Spirit waits
