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Actually you just have to click on your name in the vote tally I posted and that will take you right to your vote.charysa said:
Alchemical Solutions [Worm/Exalted] Thread 9: Icon’s Idiosyncrasies Incite Irritating Inquisition
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We're at Clarity 4, and still talking like a robot at the end of the update. The last thing we said was:landcollector said:
"Clarification: jostle, shake, arrest. High probability of retaliation for open- or closed-hand strikes."
And after that we meditated, which wouldn't have reduced Clarity.He only wants to turn it off at high Clarity though, and when we're at Clarity 1/2 it's purely a waste of Willpower, as at that level SoPA has no effect on our socialising.Jinnt said:
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Ah don't worry about being new, IIRC MY first post was a vote in this quest (I joined up for it).Bear Templar said:
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[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] 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 ●○○○○
That's merely Stylistic, I would assume. Also, straight from the Alchemicals splat:Alratan said:
3–4: The Exalt grows notably colder, though not inhumanly
so. She seems faintly impatient with and disdainful
toward mortal failings. In general, she has less time for
people. All social rolls not pertaining to intimidation
suffer a -1 internal penalty, unless the Alchemical is
interacting with an Autochthonian spirit, automaton
or Alchemical of equal or greater Clarity. In those
instances, the Exalt enjoys a +1 situational bonus
die. Compassion rolls suffer a -1 internal penalty.
Note that it says NOT INHUMANLY COLDER.
The real benefit of SoPA is less about during combay but allowing us to anticipate it.Jinnt said:
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Mind switching to this?Qazplm said:
[] Positions of Trust: Tell only the Wards and superiors we trust without reservation. Vista, Chevalier, Miss Militia and Armsmaster come to mind.
it give the best middle ground between "Mum's the Word" and "Spread the Word".
Even if we actually have emotions, if we're still talking like that it will still trigger all Vista's fears about us being a robot, and probably smack us with a load of circumstantial external penalties, as on this precise subject it's much worse than on others.landcollector said:
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I think Mum's the word is better, we should find out IC what we know and can figure out before we spread it around.1986ctcel said:
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We have a big one-to-one dice pool and our appearance 5 and Reputation (Beautiful) should help give us even more of an edge in Social combat with Vista.Alratan said:
Agree to disagree, then. No further point in wasting posts.Alratan said:
Why would Reputation (Beautiful) help us convince Vista that we're a real person rather than an artificial construct doll rather than a real person? I think it probably won't apply at all, but, particularly if she's done some research on what we looked like before, it could even serve as a penalty rather than a bonus, as Reputations sometimes can. Taylor Herbert wasn't legendarily beautiful...1986ctcel said:
Appearance 5 helps, as normal.
Would they invite us along though. I don't think we know he would reactivate if we get close.Jinnt said:
The Simmurgh? Answer for any and all plot twists.Jinnt said:
I think you're mixing up Missy and Aisha here. Missy had primarily seen us in a no Clarity state in the weeks before Behemoth.uju32 said:
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Would you be willing to switch to this?Jouaint said:
[] Positions of Trust: Tell only the Wards and superiors we trust without reservation. Vista, Chevalier, Miss Militia and Armsmaster come to mind.
it seems the best middleground between Spread the Word and Mum's the Word.
That's uju's point.landcollector said:
I read that incorrectly, then.Alratan said:
I don't understand why people are voting for these. Can anyone explain?1986ctcel said:
"People are People, Bugs Are Bugs" gives as much Clarity as if we kept SoPA active 24/7, and we waste a fuckton of Willpower turning it off.
"My Little Controller" is what's been fucking us over for the past 6-7 updates. It means getting stuck in high Clarity for long periods of time. It will endanger our relationship with our fellow Wards. It will endanger any attempt at working with the Undersiders. It will make it extremely difficult to work with the PRT, which is something we would find challenging anyway. And it will make it nigh-impossible to sell potential Alchemical recruits on Glorious Robot Communism - I mean, would you accept to become a Bullshit Magical Robot, if the only Bullshit Magical Robot you knew spent most of her time being an emotionless machine?
"Bug Hunt" is suicidal. It means operating in a big new city without our biggest tactical asset, vulnerable to countless assassination attempts and more. It will divide our effectiveness in the field. It will kill us when the Slaughterhouse Nine show up.
If we want to be effective, we need SoPA, but we need to lose Clarity quickly once we accumulate enough of it to suffer social penalties. That means, we keep SoPA active, until Clarity becomes a problem. Then, barring clear and present danger, we take a break from it.
This one's a step in the right direction, but not quite it. Trying to schedule it with one SoPA-free day every free day? That's inefficient. Remember, we spent the first three arcs without Clarity ever becoming a problem, and SoPA was active all that time.
We don't need to turn SoPA off "every three days". We need to turn SoPA off when "Clarity is too high".
And with that in mind:
[x] Write-In: Administration Isn't Micro-Management: Keep the Shard of Perfect Administration on, unless Clarity is high. When we're starting to feel the effects of Clarity, and are not immediately threatened, turn the Shard off for a day or two, until we're back down to normal.
[x] Positions of Trust: Tell only the Wards and superiors we trust without reservation. Vista, Chevalier, Miss Militia and Armsmaster come to mind.
[X] 4 XP - Performance ●○○○○
Honestly, I don't think we should get the Reputation (at this juncture).Overmind said:
Consider our character sheet: We are one training interval away from being able to raise Investigation, Presence, and Stealth. Each of them is liable to be extremely useful to us. I think we should save those two XP points for the next update.
Much Ado About SoPA: Whoops!
[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.
The Word Is Out: Dragon and Legend know a lot more about us now, and the former is definitely going to be inquiring more soon - not to mention Chevalier and our new boss, Director Uriel. How do we want to handle things?
[X] Positions of Trust: Tell only the Wards and superiors we trust without reservation. Vista, Chevalier, Miss Militia and Armsmaster come to mind.
[X] 2 XP - Integrity (Mental Trauma ●○○)
[X] 4 XP - Performance ●○○○○
[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.
The Word Is Out: Dragon and Legend know a lot more about us now, and the former is definitely going to be inquiring more soon - not to mention Chevalier and our new boss, Director Uriel. How do we want to handle things?
[X] Positions of Trust: Tell only the Wards and superiors we trust without reservation. Vista, Chevalier, Miss Militia and Armsmaster come to mind.
[X] 2 XP - Integrity (Mental Trauma ●○○)
[X] 4 XP - Performance ●○○○○
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You seem to not get that what's been "fucking us over" for the past 6-7 updates has been that our Exaltation got Screwed up and can be fixed by simply meditating on it. There's also the fact that we will have to keep it on at all times or else Iris is going to get pissed that we keep turning him on and off whenever we get him back. We'll be able to fix our abnormal clarity gains and losses soonish.sun tzu said:
Actually the SoPA free days are for the purpose of research. We can hardly establish a baseline norm to compare if we're constantly under it's effect or some lingering effect because we never spend 24 hours without the thing being on all the time. Once Iris comes back into range I expect we'd be reevaluating the option, ideally with a more stablized Exaltation to work with.
Keep in mind, that even with SoPA off we have perfect vision for over a mile and can see through walls.Doomlord9 said:
Our bug recon radius is roughly 900 feet which is far less than a mile.Doomlord9 said: