Bakkasama
There is always a greater fool
- Location
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Pronouns
- He/his
Considering that it says so in the first post of the quest, that is indeed a good question.
Dragon Ball: After the End
Considering that it says so in the first post of the quest, that is indeed a good question.
- Location
- Australia
Questions.
Kakara doesn't have any aunts and uncles, right?
I assume her paternal grandfather is dead, but what about her maternal grandparents?
Is Lord Vegeta's mother still alive?
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Do the Saiyans mostly use names from Dragon Ball Earth, old Saiyan names or do they use both? How often do they name kids after Z fighters?
Doubleedit:
Has Kakara's parents met the Misfts? What do they think of them, and would they prefer Kakara spent time with Saiyan friends instead? Oh, and what about Mato, Fasha and Endivan?
Trippleedit:
How are Kakara's siblings relationships with each other, and how powerful is Fasha?
Kakara doesn't have any aunts and uncles, right?
I assume her paternal grandfather is dead, but what about her maternal grandparents?
Is Lord Vegeta's mother still alive?
Edit:
Do the Saiyans mostly use names from Dragon Ball Earth, old Saiyan names or do they use both? How often do they name kids after Z fighters?
Doubleedit:
Has Kakara's parents met the Misfts? What do they think of them, and would they prefer Kakara spent time with Saiyan friends instead? Oh, and what about Mato, Fasha and Endivan?
Trippleedit:
How are Kakara's siblings relationships with each other, and how powerful is Fasha?
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- Location
- Australia
"-and then the wrestler said, 'Like a vegetable!'" The Misfits broke out into laughter to Kakara's delight before it was cut off by a boy's scream in one of the hallways.
Quickly rushing over to see what happened, they found a boy lying on the ground next to a flight of stairs, crying bleeding from his knee with his friends in apparent shock not knowing what to do. The knee was bleeding pretty bad too.
"What happened!?", demanded Kakara, briefly breaking the boy's friends out of their reverie.
"He was just doing a backflip off the stairs like he's done before," one of the boys explained, "He slipped and his knee hit the corner of the stairs."
Thinking quickly, Kakara replied, "Ok, call a teacher and tell them what happened. I'll take him to the nurse's office."
"Wait what? But we'll get in-" started one of the other boys, but Kakara had already picked up the crying boy and started running to the nurse's office, carefully timing the movement of her arms and legs so it wasn't a bumpy ride for the injured kid. "Don't worry, we're nearly there," she reassured him.
The nurse probably heard the crying from the office, because the door opened a bit before Kakara actually got there with Nurse Thimbleton standing in the doorway ushering her in. "Another one? Put him on the bed there," she said, pointing to the one that wasn't occupied by Kyle, one of her classmates, holding his partially bandaged knee and looking a lot less hurt than the boy she just brought in. "What happened?" she asked while grabbing some medical supplies.
"His friends said he backflipped off some stairs and hit his knee on them," Kakara answered.
The nurse sighed before replying, "Typical boys. Thanks for bringing him here Karen, you can go."
"Um, I know how to do first aid. I can fix Kyle's bandage before I go," Kakara offered.
"Hm? Sure, I guess if you know how," said Nurse Thimbleton, now focused on tending to her new patient.
Kakara then proceeds to finish bandaging Kyle up, puts on the safety pin, and plants a traditional quick kiss on the injury before leaving the room with the crying child, pleased at her performance.
Outside where her friends were waiting for her, Kakara caps off what happened and glories in the resulting praise. On the way back to the playground she remembers another joke. "Hey, did I tell you guys the joke about the monkey and the robot?" At the Misfits' negatives, she continued "Well, there was this monkey playing in the jungle..."
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The Friendship Train Has No Brakes
- Location
- Rockford, USA
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] To High Priest Celeran's niece Fennella. No harm in playing along for now. Or maybe he actually is just referring you to somebody about your age.
-[X] Friendly, interested in meeting a new person. Talk about whatever she wants to discuss but switch to food if the conversation goes into something weird like politics.
-[X] Grab a couple of snacks from somewhere and share one with her.
[X] Do not use a cookie to boost Communications for this scene.
-[X] Friendly, interested in meeting a new person. Talk about whatever she wants to discuss but switch to food if the conversation goes into something weird like politics.
-[X] Grab a couple of snacks from somewhere and share one with her.
[X] Do not use a cookie to boost Communications for this scene.
The Friendship Train Has No Brakes
You nod to High Priest Celeran and step off into the crowd.
You imagine he must be greatly confused by the fact that you head straight for the concession stand.
You hover up until you come into sight of the attendant and smile brightly at him. "Hi! Two steaks-on-a-stick, please!"
He blinks and bows to you. "O- of course, Scion Kakara! Right away!" He bustles around and grabs a couple of steaks -- which are, indeed, on sticks -- off of a rotisserie in the stand, holding them out to you. "Please, enjoy," he says.
"Thanks!" you reply, licking your lips in anticipation. Two thirty-two ounce slabs of pure beef, dripping with juices and still sizzling from the fire. You nearly lunge forward and take a bite out of them, but hold back. Instead, you zip over to where Fennella is sitting.
Her head snaps up in surprise as you flash into place. "Hi!" you say, grinning at her. "I'm Kakara. Well, I guess you already know that. Your uncle sent me over!"
She gapes at you, leaping to her feet. She wavers, halfway sinking to her knees and then freezing, half-rising from there and then freezing before making it all the way up, ending up in a petrified hunch.
[Communication to recover this-->WHAT?!]
You look at her with an odd kind of horror. "I- um- please don't do that? I..."
She speaks. "Don'tdowhatohancestorsI'msorryIdidn'toffendyoudidIpleasedon'tbemadwithme-"
You rear back at the verbal onslaught, waving your arms frantically. "No, no, it's okay! I'm not...um...I'm not offended."
She cuts off with a panicked squeak, hiding behind her hands.
You fumble around for something to say. "I...um...hi?" Nailed it.
She blinks. Silence falls for a moment, and then she blinks again, her eyes widening. "OhhiI'msorryI-"
"No, it's fine!" you reply, stamping on that reaction. Despite yourself, you find yourself laughing a bit. "It's...take a breath!" You start grinning. "I'm not going to eat you."
She looks at you uncertainly. "I..."
You control your giggles and hold out one of your sticks, gaining confidence by the moment. "Steak on a stick?"
Nervous or not, Fennella is still a Saiyan. Her gaze snaps onto the food instantly.
* * *
Your snack passes quickly, and as the two of you lick the juices off of your hands, you start talking. "You don't have to feel nervous to talk to me," you say, eyeing Fennella. "I know that the Cul- Faith teaches that I'm almost a goddess, but that doesn't mean you have to worship me."
She gives you a look like you just announced that the sky had started bleeding. "I...kind of do? That's what it means."
You open your mouth, then close it. There's really no good answer to that. "Maybe," you say. "But...I mean, I'm not actually a goddess. That would be kind of obvious if I was. You could get as strong as me if it weren't illegal."
She blinks and then frowns, obviously thinking.
"I don't want people to worship me," you say. "It feels uncomfortable for everybody to bow when you go somewhere. I just want friends."
Fennella looks at you for a long moment, her mouth working.
"Do you..." she says, hesitating.
You cock your head. "Yes?"
She looks off into the crowd and back to you. "...are you hungry for another steak?"
You grin.
Acquaintance Acquired (Fennella Peat, Friendly)!
You sense Lady Vegeta, moving through the crowd and bouncing in between several groups.
Grandma is speaking to a small cluster of people. One of them has a weird power level that you don't quite know how to identify. If you were to go off of the face value, you'd say it's at nine million, but it's weird.
High Priest Celeran is...gone, actually. Where has he gone?
You sense one person nearby talking to nobody and feeling extremely frustrated.
* * *
Wherein we see the results of all the passive benefits an Exceptional Ki Sense talent gets you. You're not locally omniscient, but you certainly sense anything of significance in the Hall.
The Communication check to recover the situation was not a hidden check. It was the check I mentioned earlier, given that this girl is a Cultist and you are her demigoddess. She was always going to panic. Sad thing? Wasn't too high a DC. So you didn't need a one hundred! WHO BROUGHT THE DICE FROM MY OTHER QUEST HERE?!
The next update will feature the delicious social that you all seem to love. I'd have included it here, but I thought that this was just as many words as I needed to make the point, so the update ends here, with your discussion with Fennella to be continued along with your choice of actions next update.
Boldtext, give them the actions, please.
Certainly.
You have some time left to do a couple of things before the Council begins.
[ ] Continue talking to Fennella.
-[ ] Any topics?
[ ] Excuse yourself and go talk to someone else.
-[ ] Who, how, and why?
[ ] Wander the crowd.
[ ] Sit down and wait for the Council to start.
[ ] Leave Immediately (write in why).
[ ] Write-In
Update closes in twenty-four hours!
- Location
- Australia
@PoptartProdigy
Can traits that haven't been developed to the max like Pacifism has also be developed further through play without requiring the max to be achieved through The Examined Life first?
If we boost a check using cookies, does the amount of progress we get to the next rank lessen?
One of Vegeta Style's involved techniques is Basic Attacks, but I noticed that skill isn't in our stat sheet. Does it directly scale with Ki Projection or is it its own thing?
It ended up not mattering, but did the snack provide a bonus to the Communication check?
Can traits that haven't been developed to the max like Pacifism has also be developed further through play without requiring the max to be achieved through The Examined Life first?
If we boost a check using cookies, does the amount of progress we get to the next rank lessen?
One of Vegeta Style's involved techniques is Basic Attacks, but I noticed that skill isn't in our stat sheet. Does it directly scale with Ki Projection or is it its own thing?
It ended up not mattering, but did the snack provide a bonus to the Communication check?
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Macros
omnisciently vague councilman
- Location
- Dirac Sea
Flawless success.
Hmm, now, what to do, what to do...
[X] Continue talking to Fennella.
- [X] About herself, then about us. Let's get to know each other.
- [X] Don't forget to exchange phone numbers at the end so we can keep in touch.
Social link get?
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Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
So I was trying to do the political faction post, but I got stuck on one thing.
How the hell do the Saiyans hide their food consumption? Saiyans eat a lot of food, which needs to be hunted or grown or paid for, which will have an effect on the food market, and people would notice massive amounts of food disappearing or households buying so much more food than they "need". Even if the Masque makes our appetite human level there's still enough time spent as a Saiyan that the above applies.
How the hell do the Saiyans hide their food consumption? Saiyans eat a lot of food, which needs to be hunted or grown or paid for, which will have an effect on the food market, and people would notice massive amounts of food disappearing or households buying so much more food than they "need". Even if the Masque makes our appetite human level there's still enough time spent as a Saiyan that the above applies.
Sucal
The Devil’s Cut
- Location
- Bottom of the barrel
Magic Materialization is a fairly generic magical technique that could easily be adapted to create the 'extra' food needed to keep a Saiyan population going! Plus since the foods magical, it could easily be adapted to make a 'balanced' diet much easier, creating massive amounts of nutrient rich junk food
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Huh. I'm not sure how well that jives with the contempt the Sorcerers are generally held in tho'. People tend to like those who give them food.
Sucal
The Devil’s Cut
- Location
- Bottom of the barrel
Could be one of the 'dirty little secrets' that most governments have. The rich/nobles get the 'real food' everyone else gets magically created or replicated stuff.. Admittedly, I'm not the writer.
- Location
- Somewhere I shouldn't be
[X] Continue talking to Fennella.
- [X] About herself, then about us. Let's get to know each other.
- [X] Don't forget to exchange phone numbers at the end so we can keep in touch.
As an aside, is it practical to bump up our speed without raising our Ki significantly? Would it be practical to be fast enough to be unseen without having a hugely detectable ki signature?
It'd be nice to step into the bathroom, drop a multiform clone, and have them do some spying on conversations (or at least spotting who people like Grandma are talking to).
That said, it's probably not practical - being fast enough to be unseen would likely require a fairly high ki level, which couldn't be hidden well.
- [X] About herself, then about us. Let's get to know each other.
- [X] Don't forget to exchange phone numbers at the end so we can keep in touch.
As an aside, is it practical to bump up our speed without raising our Ki significantly? Would it be practical to be fast enough to be unseen without having a hugely detectable ki signature?
It'd be nice to step into the bathroom, drop a multiform clone, and have them do some spying on conversations (or at least spotting who people like Grandma are talking to).
That said, it's probably not practical - being fast enough to be unseen would likely require a fairly high ki level, which couldn't be hidden well.
Sucal
The Devil’s Cut
- Location
- Bottom of the barrel
Wouldn't it be a lot more practical to build up a network of contacts and allies so we don't HAVE to spy on every single little conversation of interest. I mean one of these days shes likely to get caught
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
I'd really rather not.
The Fourth Monado
S U B A R A S H I I
- Location
- Away
[X] Continue talking to Fennella.
- [X] About herself, then about us. Let's get to know each other.
- [X] Don't forget to exchange phone numbers at the end so we can keep in touch.
- [X] About herself, then about us. Let's get to know each other.
- [X] Don't forget to exchange phone numbers at the end so we can keep in touch.
- Location
- Rockford, USA
- Pronouns
- They/Them
In order:
That's right.
Still living, but quite reclusive. They'll come up eventually.
No.
The practice of Saiyan names took over a couple of decades into the Exile, as a way of distancing themselves from the (at-the-time) Dark-Age-tech-level Garenhulders. Legacy names from the Z Fighters are somewhat common, though.
Yes, in their capacity as Karen's parents. They like the girls (now plus one boy, not that that's come up yet) and are supportive. Your siblings tend to avoid them, though.
Mato and Fasha get on each other's nerves like nobody's business. Fasha has Endivan firmly under her arm, though, and the two boys like each other well enough. Fasha is only at 300. She has no real interest in training yet and is still young.
Yes, they can be. The Examined Life merely speeds the process along by a few years' time, on average.
Nope.
It's a direct application of Ki Projection, and thus uses that skill.
Slight one, yes.
The Sorcerers put up wards around the Exiles' farms. Still looked down upon, though, which isn't terribly surprising. Farmers make our food today, and people in the cities still make fun of them as hicks. People are ungrateful shits sometimes.
That's a matter of carefully suppressing your ki, which you are capable of.
Khona Moshr
Pink Flamingo Cabal Healer(they/them)
- Location
- Alabama
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] Continue talking to Fennella.
- [X] About herself, then about us. Let's get to know each other.
- [X] Don't forget to exchange phone numbers at the end so we can keep in touch.
- [X] About herself, then about us. Let's get to know each other.
- [X] Don't forget to exchange phone numbers at the end so we can keep in touch.
Is there a specific reason Mato and Fasha dislike each other, like with Kakara and Mato or do they just don't mesh well together?
Also, does Mato know any Ki Projection techniques?
Does Kakara know of any old Saiyans that aren't reclusive/live in the middle of nowhere?
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- Location
- Rockford, USA
- Pronouns
- They/Them
When Fasha is angry, she picks. When Mato is angry, he lights a half-inch fuse on the powder magazine.
He is trying to get into the Yamcha Style and is presently practicing the Spirit Ball.
Come to think...
...no.
Somehow I get the idea that Mato's not going to be particularly happy if Kakara tries to learn it too.
Also wondering why he choose to learn Yamcha Style, because with his temper, he sounds like he'd be more suited to Goku, Vegeta or possibly Trunks style.
Do most old Saiyans isolate themselves/somewhat retreat from society, or did Kakara just happen only to meet the hermits?
- Location
- Rockford, USA
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Good question.