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Dice Quest [Dice/Exalted]

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[X]Demand an explanation for this, and why now when we still have the Masked Dicer to deal with?
No. of votes: 1
NephyrisX

[X] ... Okay, I'm guessing you have a really good reason for that. Otherwise, I'm heading out before they arrive and a fight starts. What's your plan here?
No. of votes: 1
Archanist

[X] You expect me to listen to you after you JUST tried to brainwash me?!
-[X] Join Battle: Stop listening to him as you say that
--[X] You aim to hit him in the jaw, attempting to rendering him unable to speak. You drive him towards a overhang that is used by about every bird in the city as their spot. The birds have left but, their wwste hasn't you begin to corral Jeremy to fight over an particularly fresh batch.
No. of votes: 3
bloodshifter, Zen, mastigos2

[x] Remain silent and listen to whatever harebrained scheme Michael's hatched while watching what other people say. We'll decide what our next move is after he's made his.
No. of votes: 7
Zefferen, DarkLight140, Sol Zagato, Shadowward, pressea, tenchifew, Xkalibur

[X] Darklight140
No. of votes: 2
Valor, Ridiculously Average Guy

[X] Darklight140 when what mastigos2 said should be easily perceivable, is beyond me!
No. of votes: 1
Varano
 
You wish you could say the reaction was violent.

But no, it isn't. It's not even borderline violent.

It's not even eventful in any way. In fact, if you were someone that just somehow stumbled onto this meeting, you would say the reaction was bored.

It probably has something to do with the fact that you were the ones at to pick up the dice first, you muse. Someone that would take shiny stuff off a dead student probably has issues regarding their personality, but you didn't really expect everyone to pretty much sit down and think things through.

Even Gabriel, who you expected to start insulting people, is sitting down, chin resting on palm, brow furrowed.

Michael seems to be befuddled as well. "I... also didn't expect this," he says slowly.

"We didn't avoid fighting the Masked Dicer by being impulsive, though I expected Gabriel there to start throwing a tantrum," Jeremy says with a smirk.

Gabriel, for his part, doesn't respond at to the insult. "I expect that you have some kind of plan, yes? Do you want us to work together and resist them? But then, what about the Masked Dicer?"

"That's the plan," Michael says. "As for the Masked Dicer, I don't really hold any feelings against him or her. So if you - whoever you are - are willing to team up with us, I think we can all forget about that... series of actions, and put it behind us. We won't try to find out who you are."

"That's all very nice and all that," Lilith says, "but why should we work together with you, shitstain? Let's not forget you attacked us for no reason. And why don't we join the Order of Ridiculous Name ourselves? I'm sure they have very attractive incentives for powerful Dicers."

"I..." Michael seems to be at a loss for words.

"Joining them isn't an option," Jeremy says, slithering out of Lilith's grasp. He walks to the center of the field of discussion and does a cute little spin. "I'm sure the bosses don't like anyone being more powerful than them, so they'll treat you well, sure, at first, but they'll try to stunt your growth to ensure that they hold the power."

"You did ask for something in return for helping them this way, Michael?" Raphael says suddenly. "Dice, probably. That's the currency they use, if I'm guessing correctly."

"Yes," Clare says. "I was the one, despite what Michael might say-"

He actually looks a bit ashamed here.

"-to make the actual arrangements. He was just the one to talk to them, because the leader's of the Legacy are sexists."

"You hacked the school- no, that wouldn't work," Raphael muses. "No, probably... Will you go out with me?"

Nagase's jaw drops. Clare seems a bit taken back, though she recovers quickly. "Only if you guess how I did it-"

"ONE HUNDRED DICE," Nagase interrupts. Then she coughs. "One hundred dice. That's how much they gave us. Enough for more than ten for everybody, if we split it evenly-"

"But why don't we repay you the favor, and beat you up?" Jeremy says, almost immediately.

This alliance is quickly falling apart. And not in a good way, with Michael and co. paying the price, but with a schism between the most powerful Dicers in your section of school.

[] Oh god what the Christ now.
 
Oh yeah, also: How many of you are over at SV? I'm considering moving this over there, if only because they have functions over there that make it better for me to organize the character sheet.
 
Anondylar said:
Oh yeah, also: How many of you are over at SV? I'm considering moving this over there, if only because they have functions over there that make it better for me to organize the character sheet.
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Speaking of dice, can I use the modified system for my own gains?
 
Anondylar said:
Oh yeah, also: How many of you are over at SV? I'm considering moving this over there, if only because they have functions over there that make it better for me to organize the character sheet.
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I have a account there, so it makes no diff to me.
 
[x] There are now a hundred dice on the table, and we need to get as many of them as we can. Unfortunately, that probably isn't more than a fraction at the moment, but we'll take what we can get. Speak up again. "Jeremy and Lilith are right; you attacked us- why not just beat you up five on three, to take vengeance and dice both at once?" Smile like a shark. "But if I wasn't holding that against you, I'd be happy to talk out what the best way to handle the Lizard-Birds is. I'm sure that between us we could come up with something safe, profitable, and feasible." Hold out a hand expectantly. "My forgiveness is now on sale for twenty-one dice. Twenty deliverable to me immediately, and one to Emily in our class- you know her, Nagase- as soon as reasonably possible. Limited time offer, no refunds, all sales final."
-[x] Channel Get The Dice.


Extortion is a wonderful thing. I went for twenty-one dice because there are five dicers here who aren't part of the Michael/Nagase/Clare group; this is essentially proposing that each of them make the same demand and we split the hundred dice five ways, instead of giving the three who masterminded this any, and make them give us a small number of their personal dice to boot. Those three will be forced to pay out because if they don't, the five of us can still beat them up. The bit about delivering one to Emily in our class is because one, she was nice to us and that deserves reciprocation, and two, the cost of a single die is a small price to pay in order to put an apparent crack in our completely mercenary/mean demeanor. If they ask why, it's because she gave us a gift and Michael made us waste it on getting away from him.

Hopefully since we're offering to work with them as well as extorting their dice, we'll hit at least one useful Principle and lower their MDV. Combined with our effective Appearance of 3... well, based on the last set of social attacks we'll probably have our attempt bounce anyway, but I can hope. There's always a chance that they'll be cornered by our logic and decide to simply accept it instead of fighting tooth and nail, anyway.

I would love to steal all hundred dice- stalk Michael, Nagase, and Clare back to wherever they have them stashed, yoink them from under their noses, and roll them to become ridiculously powerful. However, I'm not sure how practical that is. Clare has Awareness charms and we know that there's a better stealth specialist than us in play who might pre-empt us.


Edit: It occurs to me that as written my suggestion might not be getting us a significant stunt bonus. Feel free to tweak it if that's what we need to get one, people.
 
DarkLight140 said:
[x] There are now a hundred dice on the table, and we need to get as many of them as we can. Unfortunately, that probably isn't more than a fraction at the moment, but we'll take what we can get. Speak up again. "Jeremy and Lilith are right; you attacked us- why not just beat you up five on three, to take vengeance and dice both at once?" Smile like a shark. "But if I wasn't holding that against you, I'd be happy to talk out what the best way to handle the Lizard-Birds is. I'm sure that between us we could come up with something safe, profitable, and feasible." Hold out a hand expectantly. "My forgiveness is now on sale for twenty-one dice. Twenty deliverable to me immediately, and one to Emily in our class- you know her, Nagase- as soon as reasonably possible. Limited time offer, no refunds, all sales final."
-[x] Channel Get The Dice.


Extortion is a wonderful thing. I went for twenty-one dice because there are five dicers here who aren't part of the Michael/Nagase/Clare group; this is essentially proposing that each of them make the same demand and we split the hundred dice five ways, instead of giving the three who masterminded this any, and make them give us a small number of their personal dice to boot. Those three will be forced to pay out because if they don't, the five of us can still beat them up. The bit about delivering one to Emily in our class is because one, she was nice to us and that deserves reciprocation, and two, the cost of a single die is a small price to pay in order to put an apparent crack in our completely mercenary/mean demeanor. If they ask why, it's because she gave us a gift and Michael made us waste it on getting away from him.

Hopefully since we're offering to work with them as well as extorting their dice, we'll hit at least one useful Principle and lower their MDV. Combined with our effective Appearance of 3... well, based on the last set of social attacks we'll probably have our attempt bounce anyway, but I can hope. There's always a chance that they'll be cornered by our logic and decide to simply accept it instead of fighting tooth and nail, anyway.

I would love to steal all hundred dice- stalk Michael, Nagase, and Clare back to wherever they have them stashed, yoink them from under their noses, and roll them to become ridiculously powerful. However, I'm not sure how practical that is. Clare has Awareness charms and we know that there's a better stealth specialist than us in play who might pre-empt us.


Edit: It occurs to me that as written my suggestion might not be getting us a significant stunt bonus. Feel free to tweak it if that's what we need to get one, people.
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I dunno. The guy that wants to go out with the pretty girl might take their side.
 
Guys. Please, think before you vote. Darklight's plan is 'greedy bastard'. That's fine, but it's so greedy they're going to refuse if they have any sense at all. Nor can we count on them having been dumb enough to bring the dice with them. And we still have the stealthy hidden guy who we haven't actually alerted anyone to yet.

Fighting is fine. But only an idiot fights when there's no potential payoff, and a good risk of getting beat down for jack and squat, in front of an audience who will use every demonstration of your ability against you later on.

[X] Move to block the exit. "Before anyone else decides to start a fight... I'd like to know just what you mean by 'resisting' the Order of The Ridiculous Name? Giving us dice is nice and all, but I assume there's a general plan in the works. Before you explain that though? I'm pretty sure there's someone hidden here, spying on us. Are they with you?"

"Because if not... Well, we might want to give this rooftop a little search before talking further."
 
[X] Move to block the exit. "Before anyone else decides to start a fight... I'd like to know just what you mean by 'resisting' the Order of The Ridiculous Name? Giving us dice is nice and all, but I assume there's a general plan in the works. Before you explain that though? I'm pretty sure there's someone hidden here, spying on us. Are they with you?"
-[X]"Because if not... Well, we might want to give this rooftop a little search before talking further."
This sounds good.
 
[X] Move to block the exit. "Before anyone else decides to start a fight... I'd like to know just what you mean by 'resisting' the Order of The Ridiculous Name? Giving us dice is nice and all, but I assume there's a general plan in the works. Before you explain that though? I'm pretty sure there's someone hidden here, spying on us. Are they with you?"
-[X]"Because if not... Well, we might want to give this rooftop a little search before talking further."
This sounds good.​
 
drake_azathoth said:
Guys. Please, think before you vote. Darklight's plan is 'greedy bastard'. That's fine, but it's so greedy they're going to refuse if they have any sense at all. Nor can we count on them having been dumb enough to bring the dice with them. And we still have the stealthy hidden guy who we haven't actually alerted anyone to yet.

Fighting is fine. But only an idiot fights when there's no potential payoff, and a good risk of getting beat down for jack and squat, in front of an audience who will use every demonstration of your ability against you later on.

[X] Move to block the exit. "Before anyone else decides to start a fight... I'd like to know just what you mean by 'resisting' the Order of The Ridiculous Name? Giving us dice is nice and all, but I assume there's a general plan in the works. Before you explain that though? I'm pretty sure there's someone hidden here, spying on us. Are they with you?"

"Because if not... Well, we might want to give this rooftop a little search before talking further."
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Nooooo. I was hoping we'd go this entire meeting without mentioning the ghost.

I suggest asking them to introduce themselves before going straight to WE WILL SEARCH FOR YOU.
 
drake_azathoth said:
Guys. Please, think before you vote. Darklight's plan is 'greedy bastard'. That's fine, but it's so greedy they're going to refuse if they have any sense at all. Nor can we count on them having been dumb enough to bring the dice with them.
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I don't agree. My plan is antagonistic but not overly greedy- they've already offered to split the hundred dice eight ways, meaning everyone gets 12-13. Splitting it five ways instead and going for 21 is asking for quite a bit, but it's not an irrationally huge demand compared to their initial bid, and we are offering to give them exactly what they asked for, if at a somewhat higher price than they wanted. They pay, they get our cooperation, everyone's happy. Stripped of its intentionally abrasive emotional overtones, the deal I laid out is far from unreasonable. At the very least it's us agreeing to come to the negotiating table, which is more than they've gotten from several others thus far.

That's not even bringing into consideration the fact that we don't have any reason to think that the bargain they struck didn't actually give them 150 or 200 dice, of which they've already divided up a significant fraction amongst themselves for use. For all we know, even my proposed deal still leaves us being cheated.

As for bringing the dice with them being dumb- leaving the dice somewhere else, unguarded, might be argued as even dumber when there are Investigation, Stealth, Larceny, and Awareness-type dicers around. At least if they have them in hand they can defend them with their own personal prowess instead of solely via secrecy that could be easily penetrated or circumvented. Michael clearly didn't expect to be attacked at this meeting, but since they're bringing up the dice there is the possibility that they expected to need bribes. There's a fair chance that they do have the dice on hand.
And we still have the stealthy hidden guy who we haven't actually alerted anyone to yet.

Fighting is fine. But only an idiot fights when there's no potential payoff, and a good risk of getting beat down for jack and squat, in front of an audience who will use every demonstration of your ability against you later on.

[X] Move to block the exit. "Before anyone else decides to start a fight... I'd like to know just what you mean by 'resisting' the Order of The Ridiculous Name? Giving us dice is nice and all, but I assume there's a general plan in the works. Before you explain that though? I'm pretty sure there's someone hidden here, spying on us. Are they with you?"

"Because if not... Well, we might want to give this rooftop a little search before talking further."
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Why are you inclined to share, or act on, this information?

The stealthy person chose to reveal their existence to us, but seemingly not to anyone else. To me, that seems like an overture of friendship; they certainly had nothing to gain from letting us know they were there unless they intended to establish a social connection with us, either to inspire fear or build a positive relationship upon. Given that, what gain do we have from publicizing knowledge of their existence? They're potentially an ally that no one else knows about.

Searching the roof for them only has a point if we can actually find them, which we very well might not be able to if they have a strong investment in Stealth and some of its charms. Otherwise we just generate paranoia- and can we exploit that paranoia constructively here? If we do manage to find them, will that achieve anything constructive?

Keeping quiet and letting whoever is here under stealth watch and listen, potentially reporting back to whomever they work for, isn't a bad thing. If they're spying for the Legacy of the Seven Dragons and Phoenixes, then they've already heard enough to know that Michael, Nagase, and Claire are backstabbing them. That's likely the most critical information that will come up here, except possibly the identity of the Masked Dicer but if we're outed here than it's likely that absolutely everyone will have the information soon enough. Not letting the others know about our sneakster lets stealth-dicer know that we're open to working with them, which is a potential in with another ally or group of allies, depending upon how things go.
 
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