How does everyone feel about spending 4 XP to purchase an additional dot in each of the Awareness(Swarms) and Investigation(Swarms) specialties? A substitute choice would be a second dot in the War(Swarms) specialty.
Alchemical Solutions [Worm/Exalted] Thread 5: Eye Eyes Eyes Eyeing Eye Eyeing Eyes
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Hmm? Does Dragon not count or something?GamingGeek said:Ah, ok. 'Twas wondering if they were doing better that the US.
Given it's a story written by an American, I'd have been shocked if ANYONE outside the US was really important in the long term. We tend to forget about the rest of the world sometimes. (Spoken as an American)
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
Communist Oversight:
[X] Get your Familiar to follow you in your activities, hoping that it will help with whatever you're doing. This is a free action by default, but still can be modified with Stunts to describe specific intended interactions.
-[X] Stunt: Introduce Iris to the Protectorate and Ward members in the base, to reduce the possibility of unfortunate accidents.
-[X] Stunt: Teach Iris English while we read to him, by reading the same sections in English and then translating the same phrase to Old Realm. Try to smooth over his natural outrage at the inconsistencies, redundancies and room for misperception in the language while we do so.
With A Little Help From My Friends:
[X] Spend time with a Protectorate member, maybe even some of the new ones like Rime, Mouse Protector, or Chevalier. (Stunt to say which, and what you want to do.)
-[X] Stunt: Meet up with Chevalier privately and get a feel for what he thinks about us. He saw something different about us, and it'd be important to find out what, especially when it comes to getting Iris to understand the physics differences. If he seems amendable to the idea, try to get a sample of his nonessential equipment for analysis.
-[X] Stunt: Share our incredibly good food and socialize with the Protectorate and Ward members on the base. Try to get over the...awkwardness that the boys' attempt to flirt over the past few days have produced. Show off the new outfits by getting Missy dolled up before hand.
Mind Over Matter:
[X] Meditate to recuperate your essence and speed up your healing. Read some books/CDs/flashdrives to buff up on a subject while you do so (Stunt to describe what topic you're reading/training).
-[X] Stunt: Read and translate any physics, chemistry and biology resources(in that order of priority) that we can find for Iris's understanding of local physics. Start with factors that we know to be the same in both Creation and Earth-Bet, and then work towards the underlying theories behind them.
[X] 4 XP - Awareness
[X] Get your Familiar to follow you in your activities, hoping that it will help with whatever you're doing. This is a free action by default, but still can be modified with Stunts to describe specific intended interactions.
-[X] Stunt: Introduce Iris to the Protectorate and Ward members in the base, to reduce the possibility of unfortunate accidents.
-[X] Stunt: Teach Iris English while we read to him, by reading the same sections in English and then translating the same phrase to Old Realm. Try to smooth over his natural outrage at the inconsistencies, redundancies and room for misperception in the language while we do so.
With A Little Help From My Friends:
[X] Spend time with a Protectorate member, maybe even some of the new ones like Rime, Mouse Protector, or Chevalier. (Stunt to say which, and what you want to do.)
-[X] Stunt: Meet up with Chevalier privately and get a feel for what he thinks about us. He saw something different about us, and it'd be important to find out what, especially when it comes to getting Iris to understand the physics differences. If he seems amendable to the idea, try to get a sample of his nonessential equipment for analysis.
-[X] Stunt: Share our incredibly good food and socialize with the Protectorate and Ward members on the base. Try to get over the...awkwardness that the boys' attempt to flirt over the past few days have produced. Show off the new outfits by getting Missy dolled up before hand.
Mind Over Matter:
[X] Meditate to recuperate your essence and speed up your healing. Read some books/CDs/flashdrives to buff up on a subject while you do so (Stunt to describe what topic you're reading/training).
-[X] Stunt: Read and translate any physics, chemistry and biology resources(in that order of priority) that we can find for Iris's understanding of local physics. Start with factors that we know to be the same in both Creation and Earth-Bet, and then work towards the underlying theories behind them.
[X] 4 XP - Awareness
Unless you're referring to the swarms specialty versions we can only afford one of those.Sinsystems said:
Can we please not do this? It's unlikely to accomplish anything constructive and we're already struggling with some mental trauma here.landcollector said:
Maybe later, then?Demonic Spoon said:
I think we'd be better off increasing our Lore and teaching it to Iris in turn.XenonPrime said:
For that matter, we should strongly consider using Hyperbenediction Appartatus on Iris, and giving him a set of the Rosetta Stone style programs and books to use over night.
There are far too many votes to soon again, with basically no discussion.
The xp miners shall deliver.landcollector said:
But seriously I have a mediocre fanart painting I've been meaning to take a photo of and upload. Will do tomorrow when the lighting is better.
Dwelling on the fact that our exaltation is messing with our head can only do bad things to our mental integrity.Jinnt said:
Switched my third vote block to this:Demonic Spoon said:
And added this to XP spending:
Original Vote Post:
landcollector said:
Yeah, lets do that when we're not neck deep in a crisis. There has to be some weeks of relative peace upcoming that we can dedicate to breaking down and rebuilding our headspace.Demonic Spoon said:
Can we please try that later when things are more settled and we've had a chance to talk with our therapist? Because frankly we've got better thing to do currently and this has a large chance of messing us up even worse.Jinnt said:
Do have any idea how mentally exhausting it would be to second guess your every action, wondering if it's your own idea or the influence of the exaltation?
And even worse, technically we are the EOA, with Taylor simply being our past life, iirc gromweld's comments on this correctly.
That strikes me as unlikely, given the calibre of enemies we've made.veekie said:
I would agree with you on this Veekie, but this is the Wormverse.veekie said:
FunkyEntropy
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I've got an idea for a stun blaster for us to craft. Hopefully we can get it done in just a few intervals so that we can have it approved by the time we're ready to go out into the city to investigate. I'll post that once I've narrowed down the mods/stats I'd like.
Ideas
Long Rifle: High Bashing damage, medium~low Rate, excellent Range
Sidearm: Medium~low Bashing dmg, high Rate, low Range.
Containment Foam Launcher: Damage n/a, Rate 1, AoE, med Range.
Tinker involvement: Armsmaster's miniaturization to reduce weight/add features, Kid Win modules to add anti-grav modules to increase stability and reduce weight.
Oh, and RE: xp - No more virtues for the time being. We're much better off buying something that will help us snowball such as Occult, Survival (Training Swarms), or Craft (Swarm)[1]. Either that or buy ability dots that will help our investigation such as Awareness, War, or their swarm specialties.
[1] I assume this is a craft (specialty) and not a craft (field). This would be really useful by making it easier to spontaneously create Exceptional-quality spider silk items.
Ideas
Long Rifle: High Bashing damage, medium~low Rate, excellent Range
Sidearm: Medium~low Bashing dmg, high Rate, low Range.
Containment Foam Launcher: Damage n/a, Rate 1, AoE, med Range.
Tinker involvement: Armsmaster's miniaturization to reduce weight/add features, Kid Win modules to add anti-grav modules to increase stability and reduce weight.
Oh, and RE: xp - No more virtues for the time being. We're much better off buying something that will help us snowball such as Occult, Survival (Training Swarms), or Craft (Swarm)[1]. Either that or buy ability dots that will help our investigation such as Awareness, War, or their swarm specialties.
[1] I assume this is a craft (specialty) and not a craft (field). This would be really useful by making it easier to spontaneously create Exceptional-quality spider silk items.
Gromweld
Learning By Mistake
Hello, and welcome to the Worm Universe. You must be new here.veekie said:
Taylor Hebert is a cold, dead corpse in the PRT Headquarter's Morgue. You are Enduring Order Administrator, who happens to work entirely off of the soul of Taylor Hebert and possesses an identical recollection of her memories. Whether that also makes you Taylor Hebert, her reincarnation, or something else entirely is... not something I'm going to spell out.Demonic Spoon said:
It's not festering. Focusing on it while we're in a bad headspace is simply asking for trouble. If you really want to confront this issue, we have therapist sessions, make use of them.Jinnt said:
I don recall any incidents of us having missing memories? Except for the stuff directly linked to our triggering and exaltation.
Consider the discussion before about Essence Ping. If we get that, very high Rate, low damage is what we need.FunkyEntropy said:
Or Backgrounds. They may open lots of very useful doors for us.FunkyEntropy said:
Hey, even Taylor had a few weeks of peace between the clusterfucks.landcollector said:
It just meant bigger clusterfucks.
Scaling backgrounds can be bought a point at a time I think.Elero said:
Only Artifact, Ally, Mentor and Familiar must be bought at one shot, and then there's some leeway if you meet them while they're still weak.
There was also the several month and several year timeskips. But we're on a auto-kun deathclock here. Gotta go fast.veekie said:
Gromweld
Learning By Mistake
VOTING CLOSES AT 11:59 PM PST (~13 hours from now)
Also, the "Craft (Swarms)" specialty is the ability to Craft with your Swarm without a penalty, as well as using your Swarm in Crafted objects (bug keyboards, bug drones, etc.).
As well, the Reputation background can be purchased one dot at a time - you don't have to buy it all in one go.
Also, the "Craft (Swarms)" specialty is the ability to Craft with your Swarm without a penalty, as well as using your Swarm in Crafted objects (bug keyboards, bug drones, etc.).
As well, the Reputation background can be purchased one dot at a time - you don't have to buy it all in one go.
Communist Oversight:
[X] Tell your familiar to recharge in Elsewhere while you Meditate to increase your essence flow and healing rate. Maybe it can improve itself with a less restricted flow of Autochthon's essence? (Familiar will remain outside unless you tell it to go rest.)
Mind Over Matter:
[X] Meditate to recuperate your essence and speed up your healing. Review your charms and how your essence helps shape their functions so that you have a more complete understanding of how they work.
With A Little Help From My Friends:
[X] Spend time with a Protectorate member, maybe even some of the new ones like Rime, Mouse Protector, or Chevalier. (Stunt to say which, and what you want to do.)
-[X] Stunt: Meet up with Chevalier privately and get a feel for what he thinks about us. He saw something different about us, and it'd be important to find out what, especially when it comes to getting Iris to understand the physics differences. If he seems amendable to the idea, try to get a sample of his nonessential equipment for analysis.
-[X] Stunt: Share our incredibly good food and socialize with the Protectorate and Ward members on the base. Try to get over the...awkwardness that the boys' attempt to flirt over the past few days have produced. Show off the new outfits by getting Missy dolled up before hand.
[X] 4xp - Awareness
[X] 3xp - Compassion
My reasoning:
We need to become able to investigate soon - Coil will know about the plan for us to look for him quickly, after all. Hence, some time to meditate, recuperate, and let Iris recharge elsewhere.
Chevlier noticed something, and I think it's best if we're the first one he tells about it.
Awareness will be vital in what's to come soon.
Compassion is a very good virtue to have at 4 as Taylor Hebert, especially when you're Alchemical. She'll have plenty of opportunities to channel it, and having at 4 means that Taylor will remain a highly compassionate person even when her Clarity starts kicking in. Good choice, I say.
[X] Tell your familiar to recharge in Elsewhere while you Meditate to increase your essence flow and healing rate. Maybe it can improve itself with a less restricted flow of Autochthon's essence? (Familiar will remain outside unless you tell it to go rest.)
Mind Over Matter:
[X] Meditate to recuperate your essence and speed up your healing. Review your charms and how your essence helps shape their functions so that you have a more complete understanding of how they work.
With A Little Help From My Friends:
[X] Spend time with a Protectorate member, maybe even some of the new ones like Rime, Mouse Protector, or Chevalier. (Stunt to say which, and what you want to do.)
-[X] Stunt: Meet up with Chevalier privately and get a feel for what he thinks about us. He saw something different about us, and it'd be important to find out what, especially when it comes to getting Iris to understand the physics differences. If he seems amendable to the idea, try to get a sample of his nonessential equipment for analysis.
-[X] Stunt: Share our incredibly good food and socialize with the Protectorate and Ward members on the base. Try to get over the...awkwardness that the boys' attempt to flirt over the past few days have produced. Show off the new outfits by getting Missy dolled up before hand.
[X] 4xp - Awareness
[X] 3xp - Compassion
My reasoning:
We need to become able to investigate soon - Coil will know about the plan for us to look for him quickly, after all. Hence, some time to meditate, recuperate, and let Iris recharge elsewhere.
Chevlier noticed something, and I think it's best if we're the first one he tells about it.
Awareness will be vital in what's to come soon.
Compassion is a very good virtue to have at 4 as Taylor Hebert, especially when you're Alchemical. She'll have plenty of opportunities to channel it, and having at 4 means that Taylor will remain a highly compassionate person even when her Clarity starts kicking in. Good choice, I say.
Does this seem like a good way to spend our xp to you guys?
If someone can scrounge up another XP (or more preferably), I would alter my XP vote to this.Demonic Spoon said:
Investigation followed by Awareness? Might not actually be an Investigation roll, and we might not need to make an Awareness check to locate our Familiar, so....
Sign we failed a roll last night. Maybe some Investigation here. Perception check to see the module slots on his new hoverboards?
Craft checks. And I find it amusing that we're apparently repairing our pillows and sheets every morning.
War (divebomb) and Presence (speech) checks, failed, probably absurd difficulty or equipment penalty.
Actually, from what Grom said about the Craft specialty, might this be a Craft check? Or penalties from lacking it?
Temperance failure. Bad Taylor!
Presence/Linguistics attempt, success.
Investigation.
Maybe Investigation.
Did we fail an Investigation check here to realise why he was so surprised/amazed, or is it just not explicitly called out?
Temperance, resisting an urge?
Occult check to realise we can just use our hand? Also a hint that we're not using our Charms to their maximum effectiveness.
Wits+Awareness check for reaction time, followed by Investigation and maybe Occult or Medicine for the fatigue and Charm interactions.
Craft (Wood) and Athletics (Feat of Strength).
Awareness (Swarm) to work out where they are.
SOPA multitasking! Possibly a Temperance check on the childrens books, or you just going "no, bad idea" to that stunt. Maybe some kind of check on "Teaching Dragon our language after discussing how we're not-entirely-honest in front of her in that language? Bad idea".
Might be a check we failed, might just be impossible.
Presence. Success. Ongoing social stuff with the other Protectorate members, including Investigation from Chevalier and such.
A failed (or low success) attempt on something like Read Motivation, or a sign that we're acting under a penalty for working through our Swarm.
Sounds like they get something like an Appearance bonus from their equipment.
Awareness, followed by Investigation?
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That doesn't seem to lessen Kathy's light snickers, but Miss Milita tenses briefly before relaxing - her shotgun returning to a holstered pistol at her side. You do your best to not give away the notion that you're not quite believing his admission as Chevalier continues, a strained smile prefacing a brief nod to you.
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Not quite believing him sounds like an Investigation roll. Again. Man, are we making this many rolls, or am I just very investigation-conscious?
Craft stuff.
Awareness.
Reminder of our wound penalties.
Investigation.
Investigation!
Investigation to check his motivation, or Awareness just to notice his subtle body language.
A check of some kind which we failed in the last sentence. Perhaps a high-difficulty Lore check?
Might be an Occult check.
Good luck with that (I don't even know what that will do).
Craft (Earth). Maybe Occult for understanding the terms.
Yes, you're Bullshit Magical Robot Jesus Girl. If you were in a proper, Essence-filled place you'd even grow stronger through prayer! Of course, actually doing so is completely unethical: those prayers should be directed to Autochthon, not lesser beings (nudge nudge Divine Ministers).
Not sure what this is. A Temperance or Conviction check, or a Presence check, or just flavouring.
Investigation.
This is hilarious and saddening, because it drives home that Taylor lacks a mother figure and has done for several years (although Dragon appears to be stepping up to the plate).
Dragon: Oh god, no wonder she gets along with Armsmaster.
Failed Presence check due to Dragon's bonuses from the lie detector. Also, Dragon probably thinks we're (understandably) a little paranoid after having been shot at.
Dragon: Yep, they're exactly alike. Right down to the trouble with social skills.
Followed by Craft.
Yowch. Start of Social Combat. Is Piggot jealous?
Not sure what this is here. Conviction? Integrity/MDV?
Investigation and Craft following.
And looks like we averted one of Coil's plans to make us focus on the wrong people. Good!
Why was Carver not surprised? Did he realise the implications of us seeing the snipers?
Actually, with that in mind, why is everyone else so surprised?
Not going to do references at the moment.