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Dragon Ball: After the End

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    • [X] Opportunities

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    You nod up at Sensei, close your eyes, and focus.

    What do you want? You want a lot of things, really. What do you have? Well, also a lot, if by definition less.

    How do you use the one to secure the other? That's what you want to know.

    Show me opportunities.

    There is a sense of unbearable acceleration -- of the world twisting in space, the only fixed point Sensei's hand clenched in your own -- and then the same echoing stillness as before. You open your eyes again. You blink. "What the heck am I supposed to do with this?!"

    You wave your arms at the scout's spaceship in affront. "I already know the scouts are here. We've looked at their ship. If we missed something, I'm not going to find it."

    Sensei snickers, stepping towards the ship. "Well, the Sight is odd sometimes. What did you focus on?"

    "Opportunities,"     you say, folding your arms. "And it brought me here. What heck does that even mean? How are the scouts an opportunity?"

    "Could mean many things,"     says Sensei Carrick. "Could mean that the search teams did miss something, and that you stand to gain if you uncover what. Or it could mean that the scouts themselves present an opportunity in some way and this was simply a good conceptual representation of that. Or simply starting here could be the opportunity. I know you have somebody on the job of scrying the scouts out; maybe coming here is your Sight's way of saying that you should do it yourself, starting here." Then he shrugs. "Or it could be all of the above. The Sight's odd that way. But those are all steps you could take from here, and that's just off the top of my head. Be careful if you go haring off after the scouts, though; our Sight comes from aliens originally. These ones might have some abilities or technology that lets them see us." He takes a step back again. "What do you think? You're the one driving. Should we stay here and look around, or do you want to refine your search somewhat? Then again, you could just look for another Opportunity; I doubt the scouts are the only opportunity waiting around."


    What to do?

    [ ] Find another Opportunity.
    [ ] Look around; maybe there is something people missed.
    [ ] Go after the scouts directly. POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS TO AN UNKNOWN DEGREE.
    [ ] Cast yourself after Opportunities springing from the scouts'presence.
    [ ] Write-in.

    THIS VOTE IS NOW CLOSED.

    I did say that these would be short and fast. Once (if) you start turning up results, you'll get more detailed updates. But until then I'm allowing very fine-grained control of this search on your parts. Enjoy, everybody!

    AS ANOTHER AND FINAL REMINDER, VOTING FOR THE VISION QUEST WILL BE FAR FASTER-PACED THAN NORMAL. NO MORATORIUMS APPLY.​
     
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    • [ ] Find another Opportunity.
    Nah, the next one will probably be just as puzzling.
    [ ] Look around; maybe there is something people missed.
    Tempting, but seems a bit narrow in scope. Also moderately boring.
    [ ] Go after the scouts directly. POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS TO AN UNKNOWN DEGREE.
    Probably would do something, but nope. Not going for the fight vote.
    [X] Cast yourself after Opportunities springing from the scouts'presence.
    Going with this in part to see what we get, and because it's the most likely to lead to us eventually getting off planet for adventures and things.
     
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    I should be asleep now.

    We have a perfect one vote tie.
     
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    [X] Look around; maybe there is something people missed.

    @PoptartProdigy does Kakara know much about how/if her senses are changed in this form? Can she still use Ki Sense to about the same degree?
     
    Cast Yourself is tempting. We can examine the ship ourselves later in physical form, though our Seer powers might not guide us like they might do here.
     
    Actually that's a question for Poptart

    Could we potentially 'bank' an action or two when making plans to have a buffer period to react to unexpected events
     
    Sucal said:
    Actually that's a question for Poptart

    Could we potentially 'bank' an action or two when making plans to have a buffer period to react to unexpected events
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    Alternatively, since we ended up not taking too much time on patrols, can we repurpose that searching-for-scouts action towards clue-hunting?
     
    Langevin said:
    Alternatively, since we ended up not taking too much time on patrols, can we repurpose that searching-for-scouts action towards clue-hunting?
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    That action still cost points though.

    You also need to remember that points are a shorthand for the amount of time or effort we put into something. We will still need to keep an eye on the reports from our scout finders, so let's avoid things that might cause San checks!
     
    Sucal said:
    Actually that's a question for Poptart

    Could we potentially 'bank' an action or two when making plans to have a buffer period to react to unexpected events
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    You surely could. I'll go ahead and make an option for it next year.
    Langevin said:
    Alternatively, since we ended up not taking too much time on patrols, can we repurpose that searching-for-scouts action towards clue-hunting?
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    Partly it's as Sucal said; you're actively helping to coordinate the search even if you aren't personally involved. It's also, past a certain point, a matter of game balance. I need an action economy of some sort.
     
    Sucal said:
    Actually that's a question for Poptart

    Could we potentially 'bank' an action or two when making plans to have a buffer period to react to unexpected events
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    Do you mean that we don't fill one of our yearly action slots? And that we would choose what to fill it with during the year in order to react to recent events? Or that there would be like other actions that weren't on the list, like this one would be to physically conduct a thorough investigation of the stuff that our Vision Quest is showing us?

    Either way, I don't see the purpose of doing so, particularly in the latter case. I would definitely not sacrifice an action for some possibility of doing something important but time-consuming.
     
    Heh, maybe now we've almost run out of ways to get more actions we can look for ways to get "fake" actions - things like @fictionfan 's Better Living Through Ki, where it's not saving enough time to gain a "real" action but might work as a way to have enough time to follow up further on an already existing action, like here.
     
    ChronOblivion said:
    Do you mean that we don't fill one of our yearly action slots? And that we would choose what to fill it with during the year in order to react to recent events? Or that there would be like other actions that weren't on the list, like this one would be to physically conduct a thorough investigation of the stuff that our Vision Quest is showing us?

    Either way, I don't see the purpose of doing so, particularly in the latter case. I would definitely not sacrifice an action for some possibility of doing something important but time-consuming.
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    Because its an action Economy, and we've already seen there a times when an extra action would be useful.

    in Year 3 for example, if we had a spare action Banked we could have used it to start tracking the scouts immediately. An action when it counts is more useful then two planned ones when it doesn't, especially if it means we don't need to trigger any of the nasty side effects of trying to get a loan in this economy!
     
    [X] Go after the scouts directly. POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS TO AN UNKNOWN DEGREE.

    What's life without a little risk, huh?

    I mean, longer, yeah, but besides that?

    :V
     
    Sucal said:
    Because its an action Economy, and we've already seen there a times when an extra action would be useful.

    in Year 3 for example, if we had a spare action Banked we could have used it to start tracking the scouts immediately. An action when it counts is more useful then two planned ones when it doesn't, especially if it means we don't need to trigger any of the nasty side effects of trying to get a loan in this economy!
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    Not really that case, so much. Year 3 was over by the time the scouts landed. If you all wanted to be tracking the scouts immediately, that would've been an action to have chosen this year.
     
    Sucal said:
    Because its an action Economy, and we've already seen there a times when an extra action would be useful.

    in Year 3 for example, if we had a spare action Banked we could have used it to start tracking the scouts immediately. An action when it counts is more useful then two planned ones when it doesn't, especially if it means we don't need to trigger any of the nasty side effects of trying to get a loan in this economy!
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    What if we have a year where there aren't any follow-up actions that seem worth it? Or at least, none that would be worth more than the "planned" action?

    If it's really important, we can probably just ask Poptart to drop one of the actions we haven't already done that year.

    PoptartProdigy said:
    Not really that case, so much. Year 3 was over by the time the scouts landed. If you all wanted to be tracking the scouts immediately, that would've been an action to have chosen this year.
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    And we did! Sort of.
     
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