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Alchemical Solutions [Worm/Exalted] Thread 9: Icon’s Idiosyncrasies Incite Irritating Inquisition

landcollector said:
You're making assumptions on what the level of Clarity to be considered high is, when the general thread consensus seems to be 3 as the breakpoint.
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That's even worse. Turning off SoPA before entering social situations at Clarity three wastes 3 Willpower for literally no reason. It just hurts us, and does nothing to help us.
ticktrick said:
Early teens who're each keeping a secret identity. They can keep a secret.
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It's not really a secret identity from anyone important who cares to find out. We want our nature to be an actual secret.
 
Alratan said:
That's even worse. Turning off SoPA before entering social situations at Clarity three wastes 3 Willpower for literally no reason. It just hurts us, and does nothing to help us.



It's not really a secret identity from anyone important who cares to find out. We want our nature to be an actual secret.
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And your idea of leaving SoPA on in social situations is counterproductive as well.
 
landcollector said:
And your idea of leaving SoPA on in social situations is counterproductive as well.
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How? Unless we're at Clarity 5 SoPA has no effect on social situations at all, and at Clarity 5, if we have it active, switiching it makes us very vulnerable in social combat.

It makes us gain Clarity, but whether that's a concern is based on our current Clarity level, less on what's happening around us.
 
landcollector said:
And your idea of leaving SoPA on in social situations is counterproductive as well.
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The charm has zero mechanical effect at lower Clarity levels. The problem with it is not the social interactions penalties, its the difficulty with Clarity. If our Clarity difficulty is getting cleared up soon then it's more beneficial to have it on than off in a whole number of ways.

Yeah, as much as I dislike the charm, if it is getting easier to remove Clarity then keeping it on is beneficial. Turning it off for just social encounters is really counterproductive since it either does nothing (if we're low clarity) or costs us massive amounts of willpower (if we're high clarity).

VOTE
[X] My Little Controller (Friendship Is OBEY): It wants to help! Keep it on all the time, because it loves us and wants to bring Order to the world.
[X] Mum's The Word: Keep this to your superiors only, and reinforce that this is not something you want spread around just yet as you are still figuring things out on your own.

[X] 4 XP - Performance ●○○○○
 
landcollector said:
And your idea of leaving SoPA on in social situations is counterproductive as well.
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Well it wouldn't REALLY matter when we get to lower clarity, screw our exaltation on straight and get some more social dice, since then we can lose clarity way easier than now.
 
landcollector said:
Regardless of Clarity level SoPA inflicts an additional -1 Social penalty.
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Unless you are referring to something Gromweld said that is not stated in the actual charm, no it doesn't.

Beyond that, we actually have specialties in swarm stuff that mostly negates that if it is true.
 
landcollector said:
Regardless of Clarity level SoPA inflicts an additional -1 Social penalty.
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Gromweld said:
At Clarity 5, the charm's mental influence over the wielder grows, instilling an additional -1 external penalty to all social rolls that do not involve administration, but yields a +1 to all mental and Conviction rolls that do. This penalty/bonus increases to -2 at Clarity 8 and -3 at Clarity 10.
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landcollector said:
I see. My mistake then. Not changing my vote though.
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Do you have a reason for this? I've seen a lot of people (myself included) strike their heels into the ground about 'their' votes in the past and it doesn't tend to turn out well. If you can't articulate why your vote is advantageous, you should really consider changing it, or at least spending the time to actually come up with that explanation.
 
Cytokinesis said:
Do you have a reason for this? I've seen a lot of people (myself included) strike their heels into the ground about 'their' votes in the past and it doesn't tend to turn out well. If you can't articulate why your vote is advantageous, you should really consider changing it.
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After thinking for a minute, switched to keeping SoPA on all the time.
 
Obviously we must work up to Clarity 10 then stunt everything to be based around Administration to get those sweet, sweet dice bonuses.

... why are you looking at me like that?!
 
Oh, hum, forgot to mention the Temperance rolls to keep SoPA off.

Eh, I'll add it when I wake up. Passing out now.
 
[x] My Little Controller (Friendship Is OBEY)
[x] What Word?: Now that Clarity's finally going away, play dumb unless we speak with Legend or Dragon.
 
[X] 4 XP - Performance ●○○○○
[X] 2 XP - Integrity (Mental Trauma ●○○)
 
landcollector said:
Shit Temperance would be 1, like Iris. We merely have human average level of Temperance.
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well 2 is below average right? Even without Clarity we subconsciously kept turning it back on so yeah we'd probably flub a lot of rolls and succeed on a few?
 
[X] My Little Controller (Friendship Is OBEY): It wants to help! Keep it on all the time, because it loves us and wants to bring Order to the world.
[X] Mum's The Word: Keep this to your superiors only, and reinforce that this is not something you want spread around just yet as you are still figuring things out on your own.

[X] 4 XP - Performance ●○○○○
[X] 2 XP - Integrity (Mental Trauma ●○○)
 
RCa said:
2 is average. On a basic 1-success Temperance check we'll succeed two-thirds of the time.
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We should be able to stunt Temperance rolls not to turn it back on by remembering all the various ways we were embarrassed by it, how that relates to the current situation we're in, and how acting inhuman like that might compromise our goals, to pretty reliably get three extra dice for that pool.
 
[x] Shard Training Observations: Get people you trust(namely the Wards we're closest to) to keep a record of any differences they notice in our behavior with SoPA on or off, to bring it to our attention so we can figure out a means of adapting to it's adjustments to our behavior or training the charm to be less intrusive, more acceptable. Establish a schedule of use where SoPA will remain offline for at least one whole day in every three and to keep it off for heavy social activities at higher Clarity. Ensure that it is active for patrols, or any high risk activities.

[X] Mum's The Word: Keep this to your superiors only, and reinforce that this is not something you want spread around just yet as you are still figuring things out on your own.
 
Would the people who voted for Mum's the word keep in mind that Spread the word means that ONLY our teammates will be told of our nature and NOT the general public and HOW many problems in Worm were cause by secrets? Missy and Aisha are also candidates we're considering for Exaltation.
uju32 said:
Can anyone voting for Beautiful explain WHY that is something that we need to acquire now?
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More bonuses to our social dice?
 
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