Gromweld
Learning By Mistake
And Taylor's mother was an English teacher, yet Old Realm was her default language after exaltation. See my signature.Odysseus2099 said:
landcollector said:
Alchemical Solutions [Worm/Exalted] Thread 8: Haggard Host Hopefully Homestead Hazardous Haven
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Sooo, by Botching I got the hose? What does that mean for me then?Gromweld said:
FunkyEntropy
Occasionally insightful, possibly grumpy
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Well, this update continues to show why altering the rate at which Clarity is gained and shed is a bad idea.
Int + Survival success for insect husbandry?Gromweld said:
Also just noticed the trees are now decorated with silk underwear. Between that and the Robot Nudist thing, Taylor is in for a lot of facepalm once she comes off Clarity high.
Pretty much automatic success on bug Perception + Awareness and Perception + Investigation to notice that they're coming our way, and why.
Oh cool, we're doing the automatic reading up now.
Charisma + Presence - Clarity + Reputation + Swarm. Failed? Or did we intend to intimidate for some reason? Also I think Velocity has a Problem with bugs.
Huh. That's strange.
Clarity says this is efficient
MDV failed?
Not sure if the open discussion is a sign of high clarity, low temperance or both. Charisma + Presence + Reputation fail against Armsmaster's MDV
Something going on here we didn't catch on to. Failed Perception + Investigation?
Briefly naked again, fulfilling the letter of the order but not the spirit. I'd almost say willful misinterpretation, except she really IS taking enough penalties to misread all context. Clarity is weird.
Gluttony now? Missy would throw a fit.
Perception + Investigation success to realize she's a parahuman.
Still no Temperance to keep from running her mouth.
Charisma + Socialize - Clarity botch. Major faux pas in 1) exposing Dinah as a parahuman in her civilian identity 2) clinical observation of the facts while she is in obvious pain. Not sure why Taylor didn't start up Loom Server Migration here, it's the efficient solution to a Thinker suffering incapacitation from Essence exposure.
Not quite sure how Triumph's attack works, but it looks like Dodge DV succeeds even against surprise, but it hits the tanks just fine.
The food not even drop.
Temperance finally?
So we just revealed our power to identify parahumans to an audience.
Probably another Charisma + Socialize - Clarity failure.
Uncertain outcome of social roll here. I think our intimacy with the wards let our Socialize attempt scrape through here.
Clockblocker saves the day!
Them feels. Some failed Perception + Investigation follows for trying to understand emotional context here.
Completely misreading the disgust/envy reactions to her pigging out on the food. Missy wishes she could eat that much without getting out of shape.
Dennis continues to save the day. Also nice rocket punch.
Pretty much nobody in the team is taking the Endbringer revelation well. Possibly another failed roll or extending from previous poor socialize.
Presence + Charisma now, without the Clarity penalty I think, due to being intimidation. Success.
As the powered armor comes online, you give a perfunctory nod to the stunned expressions around the table and then stride out of the tent.
Int + Lore(parahumans) success.
Charisma + Presence, success vs Dragon with Clarity actually helping.
Tattletale's planning ability > Perception + Awareness to find them.
Charisma + Presence + Swarms, no clarity penalty due to intimidation. Succeeds in securing cooperation.
Is Dragon actually being affected by Imp's stealth there? Incidentally with Optical Shroud we actually have a sneaking buddy now.
The helment's bonus helps clue in to Aisha running a distraction. Perception + Investigation + hat.
Manipulation + Presence - Clarity. Success.
Self esteem issues there.
We need more funny people! They handle Clarity Talk well!
Probably muttering about bullshit hax.
Intimidation. Works well too.
Perception + Investigation success
Makes sense here. They already got away clean and had no need or desire for Aisha running distraction. If she'd asked she'd have been forbidden to.
Charisma + Presence - Clarity, failure.
Intimidation succeeds in getting more info out of Aisha, and that Undersiders appear to be primarily motivated by Amy's mental health. Might be more agendas underlying that, but bullshitting Aisha about something like that is hard when you can't remember she's there to need to be bullshitted.
Looks like parry MDV didn't work out. Persuaded somewhat.
By the Great Maker, Taylor, you're almost as bad as QB about singleminded recruitment attempts.
Charisma Presence Clarity, Reputation, etc, etc. Success
Well now, this is going to be a fine explanation.
She needs to become a comedy duo with Dennis ASAP.
I am skeptical that Lisa's planning exceeds 10-13 dice, but whatever.veekie said:
No, I knew of Exalted's rules. I still don't think it's funny. That just sounds like "everybody else is just too unenlightened to get the humor and if only they were more knowledgeable they clearly would think the same things I do".kestrel404 said:
You know what else Taylor has gained really, really, really fast?
Appearance 5. It was, in fact, instant.
I think Taylor has noticed that she became much more beautiful -- one of her first actions was to go "Holy crap I am a beautiful deathmetal robot!" -- and if anything I think Taylor would be more unaware of her improving social skills. (Note: 'more unaware' by comparison. Not actually totally unaware.) She'd probably notice that she's better at talking to people and that things come easier to her. But it wouldn't be as quick, obvious, or blatant a change as her beauty upgrade was.
The social skills improve slowly -- over days and weeks.
The Appearance? Improved instantly.
I'm pretty sure that "getting 2 dots INSTANTLY" is far more noticeable and obvious than "get more dots over days and weeks".
Or maybe it's just not funny to people?
And all this doesn't address the fact that Appearance bonuses apply if you simply dress right. Or if people can see how beautiful you are.
Yeah, it's possible to find it funny either way. Or in a combination of ways. -- Or the opposite, to find it unfunny either way!1986ctcel said:
I was just saying that "Oh, I get it! You're just ignorant -- if you knew the rules behind this, you'd laugh too!" was a poor argument.
We've got five candidate slots, charity cases are not priority here.SilentStriker said:
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Well they WOULD fit the scorned ostracized and bullied part, look at Gully she was apparently denied promotions because she was a case 53 plus she's freaking strong and has earth manipulations, Weld's power as a charm would be phenomenally useful for healing lost limbs with just nearby metals and if you're willing to stand the pain free Magical Materials, Sveta for powerful extra limbs and such.landcollector said:
We'll likely have used up most if not all of our slots by the time most of them re-enter the plot, so...1986ctcel said:
[X] The Full Monty: You won't bring it up on your own, but you will lay out what you know if cornered, including what you believe the endgame is (summoning Autochthon). You will avoid going that far unless absolutely necessary, but you will be candid about what facts you do know.
[X] Alert the PRT that the Undersiders have left with Panacea and Parian in tow.
[X] I Spy: Provide time-consuming distractions during trip to keep mind of Wards off emotional traumas.
[X] Essence Reservoir-to-Heart: Provide counsel for a member of your caravan, getting to know them better as a mortal as well as evaluating them for Alchemical potential.
[X] Alert the PRT that the Undersiders have left with Panacea and Parian in tow.
[X] I Spy: Provide time-consuming distractions during trip to keep mind of Wards off emotional traumas.
[X] Essence Reservoir-to-Heart: Provide counsel for a member of your caravan, getting to know them better as a mortal as well as evaluating them for Alchemical potential.
Unfortunately, you are too late with your vote.Robotninja said:
Dennis and Aisha have the best reactions there.kestrel404 said:
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Thats also why I ship them here.veekie said:
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- Fabulously Rainbow Ireland
Like with the Judoon just hide on the building floor they already checked since they obviously confirmed no one was there.Chandra Magic said:
Really? I would expect a hyperintelligent extradimensional entity to roll very significantly more than what a peak human would.landcollector said:
I think you're really low balling shards here, if you expect them to be no better than the best possible human.
My personal metric would be that Lisa is as much better at induction than a normal person as Taylor is than a normal person at detecting and herding insects.
Neither uses conceptual effects in Worm, so think of the number of successes someone would have to roll on Charisma + Survival to do what Taylor does with insects, and apply those to induction. I'm personally going with 20+.
Not much of a Bullshit Magical Robot Girl, then, are we?Alratan said:
We're totally bullshit. On the other hand, so are shards. They just apply their bullshit in a different way. We can throw down Perfect effects via charms. They can throw down Culture mind+ levels of competence at tasks. Fortunately they're idiot savants. Unfortunately, our charms are special purpose as well.landcollector said:
It comes down to who applies their bullshit in the cleverest way. That's out challenge. We're not going to win just because we're Exalted. We're going against peer and above peer opponents here. When we put our B game against their A game, we're going to lose.
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Like it was said before at our current Clarity we are very efficient and therefore very predictable so TT just managed to figure out our super efficient predictable pattern to evade us.landcollector said:
Only if you realise that the possibility of them evading exists.Elero said:
FunkyEntropy
Occasionally insightful, possibly grumpy
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If that's the case this should have been a contested roll where Taylor is attempting to track the Undersiders vs the Undersiders attempts to evade Taylor's search.Chandra Magic said:
What should have happened is Taylor's Perception + Survival (Swarms +1) pool of 9 vs the Undersider's Wits + Survival (assuming they're moving as a group). Lisa could have provided circumstantial bonuses to that roll because, as you say, she's smart enough to ask the right questions.
On the other hand, Taylor could always just, y'know...buy successes thanks to her 2nd Perception Augmentation. The fact that Taylor has incredible field awareness thanks to her swarm sense ought to provide a rather hefty bonus as well. And lets not forget Taylor's other significant advantages - she can fly, can see with perfect clarity up to a mile away, can see through walls, and can tell if a person is a parahuman.
The deck was stacked in Taylor's favor, and all the griping about railroading is well deserved.
To be fair, the Dallon family was a poisonous environment for Amy to be in. TT does have a great deal of explanation to do though, and we WILL get it.Jinnt said: