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Get Jinxed: A Tale of Mental Instability and Poor Decisions (Arcane/League of Legends)

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[X][Mousers] Grenades For Everyone
[X][Willpower] Spend Zero

I feel this both the most interesting and makes the most sense IC.

Not sure if this was obvious to everyone but there's an implication here that the bombs are overperforming because the area were testing them in might have a higher concentration of natural gas or something else combustible already in the air (the 'rotten eggs' smell). Natural gas is normally odorless but given that smell for safety reasons, IIRC, but it's possible that was done when this was a mine or it's some sulfur compound.

I think given performance here them slightly underperforming what everyone expects is… probably fine? It means they're less likely to blow themselves up and hopefully they still have enough oomph that being at ground zero blows up whatever they wanted it to.
 
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[X][Mousers] Grenades For Everyone
[X][Willpower] Spend Zero

From a traumatic tactical genius perspective Grenades For Everyone will probably save one of Claggor or Mylo. It's going to hurt all the more if they're still alive as mental and physical cripples after we foolishly gave them tools they weren't ready for. Maybe one of them will kill Vander in this timeline!

Although... maybe they kill Vi too for extra trauma points. She is the 'responsible one' in this situation.
 
Chengar Qordath said:
Vi snorted. "Relax, Mylo. If any creepy undead things show up, I'll just punch 'em out. I could use something to smack after two weeks of dealing with that stuck-up Piltie girl. So glad I'm finally done with all that."
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In before a week later Vi is sneaking off to go see her posh girlfriend (or posh girlfriend starts sneaking down here).

Ranan said:
Giving them to everyone would be a tremendously stupid decision, if they mess up the responsibility would fall on Powder's shoulders and she can't handle any more stress
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I don't know if it would? "If you're a dummy and blow yourself up, that's on you, skill issue" seems like both the kind of way Powder/Jinx's brain would work and also kind of fit Zaun culturally (or at least pre-Arcane Zaun, where at least part of the distinction from Piltover is more mad science).

Arlawder said:
I mean thats a possiblity but thats like if I said nobody should get grenades because if we give them certainly something horrible will happen thats a possiblity but not a certainty
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Trying to be the responsible one when we're a preteen with a penchant for explosives just doesn't seem right. I mean, we're clearly okay with us having the bombs so why would them having ones be an issue?
 
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hailcapital said:
In before a week later Vi is sneaking off to go see her posh girlfriend (or posh girlfriend starts sneaking down here).



I don't know if it would? "If you're a dummy and blow yourself up, that's on you, skill issue" seems like both the kind of way Powder/Jinx's brain would work and also kind of fit Zaun culturally (or at least pre-Arcane Zaun, where at least part of the distinction from Piltover is more mad science).



Trying to be the responsible one when we're a preteen with a penchant for explosives just doesn't seem right. I mean, we're clearly okay with us having the bombs so why would them having ones be an issue?
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I mostly see this as a problem because I want Powder to avoid situations where our decision lead to something horrible plus even though shes a kid she understands the fact that decisions have consequences and she doesnt want to be the cause of some disaster
 
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hailcapital said:
I don't know if it would? "If you're a dummy and blow yourself up, that's on you, skill issue" seems like both the kind of way Powder/Jinx's brain would work and also kind of fit Zaun culturally (or at least pre-Arcane Zaun, where at least part of the distinction from Piltover is more mad science).
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You have a good point, i'm changing my vote

[X][Mousers] Grenades For Everyone
[X][Willpower] Spend Two for +3
 
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Out of the four of them I'd say only ekko has the requisite experience and knowledge to somewhat safely use it
That and the other 4's styles of operation are not really conductive to using explosives excluding Mylo and somewhat ekko but for mylo i'd be wary of giving on incase he later would use it to show off
Vi and claggor though seem to take after Vander's in your face fighting style so I'd recommend give ekko one grenade and if spend Willpower we only spend 1 of them
 
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[X][Mousers] Grenades For Everyone
[X][Willpower] Spend Zero

This just seems the most accurate, and also yeah consequences will almost certainly result from it, but part of the point of the quest is to become Jinx proper, and this grants the ability for the most variations in story making the potential transmutations more exciting. Is it smart, certainly not, but it makes sense and it comes with a mechanical bonus, it is literally feeding into "fixing" some of Powder's problems.
 
ComiTurtle said:
[X][Mousers] Grenades For Everyone
[X][Willpower] Spend Zero

This just seems the most accurate, and also yeah consequences will almost certainly result from it, but part of the point of the quest is to become Jinx proper, and this grants the ability for the most variations in story making the potential transmutations more exciting. Is it smart, certainly not, but it makes sense and it comes with a mechanical bonus, it is literally feeding into "fixing" some of Powder's problems.
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Fixing and possibly creating new ones and by the way the point of the quest is to fix our issues not add new ones
 
Arlawder said:
Fixing and possibly creating new ones and by the way the point of the quest is to fix our issues not add new ones
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Exactly and that is the best part. New problems are fun.

I disagree on your analysis of the point of the quest. If we were to resolve all our issues the game would be less interesting, but solving issues creating different types of issues is more narratively interesting. To me at least. And I'm not going to ask a child to make wise long-form decisions when the juicy treat of validation which has been outside of her ability to obtain is offered with excited fervor.
 
ComiTurtle said:
Exactly and that is the best part. New problems are fun.

I disagree on your analysis of the point of the quest. If we were to resolve all our issues the game would be less interesting, but solving issues creating different types of issues is more narratively interesting. To me at least. And I'm not going to ask a child to make wise long-form decisions when the juicy treat of validation which has been outside of her ability to obtain is offered with excited fervor.
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The author wrote that bringing her issues under control is one of long term goals
 
ComiTurtle said:
Exactly and that is the best part. New problems are fun.

I disagree on your analysis of the point of the quest. If we were to resolve all our issues the game would be less interesting, but solving issues creating different types of issues is more narratively interesting. To me at least. And I'm not going to ask a child to make wise long-form decisions when the juicy treat of validation which has been outside of her ability to obtain is offered with excited fervor.
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That is part of why I choose only to give ekko one instead of give none out that and he also stated he has handled similar explosives before thus able to to know when and where are best times to apply them :)
 
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[X][Mousers] Grenades For Everyone
[X][Willpower] Spend Zero

This seems entirely in keeping with how Powder would respond. She has perfected a long-term project she's been working on, and in so doing has received vindication in the form of her brothers recanting their distrust and expressing excitement and appreciation for her work. And Ekko, the other gearhead, is expressing appreciation and technical interest, which is vindication of another form as acknowledgement that she made something worth understanding and imitating. Only Vi seems to have some trepidation, but Powder has explained that she built these to be fail-safe instead of fail-deadly, so the only risks are from irresponsible usage and given this was the bombs over-performing due to environmental conditions but it's the only example the boys will have to go off of for now, even being irresponsibly close for an over-performance would probably still be a decently safe distance for the normal performance they'll actually have. And it's only one bomb each, so Powder can gatekeep the risk - until Ekko is able to reproduce them himself, anyway, but by then everyone should be more familiar with them.

That's the reasoning for my interest in if this is successful, but I think the potential for interesting narrative beats if we fail the roll for this option is also solid. If we fail the roll, Powder and Vi will argue and Vi will have to actually articulate her concerns about Powder so freely making and distributing such potent weapons. That opens up some potential character growth for Vi in addition to having Powder speak to defend herself in what she sees as her single and best area of expertise, engineering.
 
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[X][Mousers] Grenades For Everyone
[X][Willpower] Spend Zero

I'm down for everyone getting a grenade.



One for Ekko, one for Claggor, and one for... oh no! I'm all out! I guess Mylo doesn't get one... Sike! I guess you can have one too.

I was going to write more, but Dark Abstraction just beat me to my own thoughts and did it better that I probably would have, so read that post above me instead.
 
[X][Mousers] Grenades For Everyone

Dunno about WP rationing so I'll leave off on that but I am absolutely in favour of giving out explosives. Children should be encouraged.
 
Dark Abstraction said:
but Powder has explained that she built these to be fail-safe instead of fail-deadly, so the only risks are from irresponsible usage and given this was the bombs over-performing due to environmental conditions but it's the only example the boys will have to go off of for now, even being irresponsibly close for an over-performance would probably still be a decently safe distance for the normal performance they'll actually have. And it's only one bomb each, so Powder can gatekeep the risk - until Ekko is able to reproduce them himself, anyway, but by then everyone should be more familiar with them.
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one almost enough arguement for me to switch my vote on the mouser to be give everyone one
Dark Abstraction said:
That's the reasoning for my interest in if this is successful, but I think the potential for interesting narrative beats if we fail the roll for this option is also solid. If we fail the roll, Powder and Vi will argue and Vi will have to actually articulate her concerns about Powder so freely making and distributing such potent weapons. That opens up some potential character growth for Vi in addition to having Powder speak to defend herself in what she sees as her single and best area of expertise, engineering.
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i see the potential for character growth now ya this might be worth persuing maybe want to even put 1 willpower in it since since we're standing up against big sis directly on this.
 
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[X][Mousers] Grenades For Everyone
[X][Willpower] Spend Zero

its nice to have something close to friends. at least its only a -5 roll not like the others being -7
 
[X][Mousers] Only Give Ekko A Bomb
Issues Triggered: Violet (-2), Abandonment (-2), Jinx (-3)
Failure Consequences: Powder Argues with Vi, Mylo, and Claggor
[X][Willpower] Spend Two for +6
 
Randino Treviani said:
What I'm saying is they each need to get one or Mylo will just take one or three later. He's not a respect the word no kind of kid.
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But if mylo for example takes and injures himself when we said no to giving him one, that's on him and a lack of respect of our expertise. There is also why would powder give them out for free. But we could probably justify the one to ekko as a sample product.
 
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[X][Mousers] Only Give Ekko A Bomb
Issues Triggered: Violet (-2), Abandonment (-2), Jinx (-3)
Failure Consequences: Powder Argues with Vi, Mylo, and Claggor
[X][Willpower] Spend One for +3

I don't think it's much of an improvement, but what the hell, responsible Powder.

Spending two will is ridiculous. It's not like avoiding the argument avoids anything else.
 
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