- Location
- Somewhere I shouldn't be
It is intended to be humorous, not hurtful. @Aranfan - if it is hurtful, let me know and I will remove it.
Dragon Ball: After the End
It is intended to be humorous, not hurtful. @Aranfan - if it is hurtful, let me know and I will remove it.
Bakkasama
There is always a greater fool
- Location
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Pronouns
- He/his
Well, he lives in Australia and its been over nine hours since he logged in so I am not sure he will even learn we need them on time. He is going to get a lot of alerts next time he does, that's for sure.
Bakkasama
There is always a greater fool
- Location
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Pronouns
- He/his
Wait. I can't believe we forgot.
@PoptartProdigy Endivan should still have his kid masque on. Was he evacuated to the Hall or is he still in the city like all our human friends? I mean, I doubt Berra would risk him but if he really wanted to sell us as humans to Maya it is not like he can have half our family disappearing.
Actually, would Dandeer be panicking now? Both her children are in the city and trapped in masques an her PL is kind of low too...
@PoptartProdigy Endivan should still have his kid masque on. Was he evacuated to the Hall or is he still in the city like all our human friends? I mean, I doubt Berra would risk him but if he really wanted to sell us as humans to Maya it is not like he can have half our family disappearing.
Actually, would Dandeer be panicking now? Both her children are in the city and trapped in masques an her PL is kind of low too...
We'd likely be only one or two cookies away, as the plan only had a 3% chance of failure, and less points of failure.
*raises hand* I would like to point out that I said that combat was riskier then people thought.
@Aranfan, I know I don't really have any say in how you use your cookies, but I'm going to add my voice to those asking politely if you wouldn't mind using them.
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- Location
- US
Reasoning a posteriori about a plan being better is useless. People made a choice based on what they believed was correct information, and acting otherwise isn't productive. For instance, I still believe that we would have encountered unwinnable diplomacy/deceit checks with our father who sees us repeatedly usurping his authority.
The better way to spend our time would be to figure out how we could have been convinced to better like your plan, or how we could have compromised on some points in order to get a plan everyone could have boarded on.
We're not erasing the past, but we can make the future better.
The better way to spend our time would be to figure out how we could have been convinced to better like your plan, or how we could have compromised on some points in order to get a plan everyone could have boarded on.
We're not erasing the past, but we can make the future better.
- Location
- United Kingdom
We currently have 2 cookies going into the Deceit roll. 1 more will save that one, 2 more on top of that will save the last HAPCON 1 roll, and then that leaves one less important roll, which only requires 1 cookie to save (though we can probably leave that one).
If you don't have enough cookies to ensure a success, do they still reduce the severity of the failure?
If you don't have enough cookies to ensure a success, do they still reduce the severity of the failure?
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- Pronouns
- He/Him
We have one pledged on the condition that we will get at least four, I believe. So two more cookies to stop HapCon 1, and one more to get the other roll.
You went a very strange way about that first point, and the third point was never an option.
Except I even offered a compromise, where we asked our father. No one was willing to consider it, and I wasn't willing to split the vote if there wasn't any support for it. And I couldn't think of any other way to go about this, but of course a possible compromise is suggested afterwards:
Well, you're assuming he and the other scouts would have surrendered/backed down without the offer of peace: they seem to come from a fairly brutal society. Offering a chance for peace and negotiation means they can risk it, if we don't, then it would be a better idea to risk fighting their way out. Or it might have been the other way around, and offering peace is something they innately view with suspicion. I have no idea, but I think offering peace had a better chance of success.
And there's a few problems with the whole idea of "Kakara had this in the bag" and "keep the other scouts in the dark". Firstly, as has been repeatedly stated by Poptart himself(which should have been a clue for you) is that Kakara is not a fighter. She's a talker, not a fighter, up against an experienced combat demonstrating at least good combat skills, all the while assuming they had no surprises up their sleeve. And keeping the other scouts in the dark? Even if we got the scouter, they have scouters to. Destroying the scouter means their comrade is in trouble, and even if this guy isn't capable of fighting up, they could dog-pile us.
This isn't going into the fact that I repeatedly pointed out that we're right next to a city, and we know that the sounds/shockwaves produced by the fight have reached it. And I've pointed out that threatening/destroying cities in retaliation was a real threat!
The thing that really gets to me? People constantly underestimating and downplaying the threat. "Oh, they'll never reach the planet, there's absolutely no threat." "Oh, the scouts aren't a problem, we can easily beat them." "Oh, there won't be any Masquarade breach." "Oh, we'll be easily able to destroy the fleet."
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...Sorry for the rant. I managed to cut it off, but I'm, well, obviously a bit upset about this. Honestly, if people were offering alternate plans, and we had a nice debate over the specifics of a diplomatic action, I would have been really happy. But no one did, instead objecting to the plan outright. 
- Location
- Rockford, USA
- Pronouns
- They/Them
*slaps table* Enough!
I didn't specifically call out that I would appreciate people not arguing back and forth on should-have-beens because I presumed that was obvious. I'm glad to see most people de-escalating, but come on. There is no productive end to this line of conversation. Let's scale it back, folks, and yes, I'm referring to people on both sides.
At least twenty-four hours after the update's post time. We have posters the world over, in a variety of time zones.
Dandeer's family took a sudden and unexpected vacation. Your family is still in your home, though. Your father has retained a Sorcerer to establish wards around it, and otherwise keeps you all under constant guard.
Depends on the roll. On the ones in question, they will make your failed rolls sting less on a personal level -- you will take lighter injuries than you are presently sustaining which to be fair are not that severe. But they will still knock it up to HAPCON 1.
I didn't specifically call out that I would appreciate people not arguing back and forth on should-have-beens because I presumed that was obvious. I'm glad to see most people de-escalating, but come on. There is no productive end to this line of conversation. Let's scale it back, folks, and yes, I'm referring to people on both sides.
At least twenty-four hours after the update's post time. We have posters the world over, in a variety of time zones.
Dandeer's family took a sudden and unexpected vacation. Your family is still in your home, though. Your father has retained a Sorcerer to establish wards around it, and otherwise keeps you all under constant guard.
Depends on the roll. On the ones in question, they will make your failed rolls sting less on a personal level -- you will take lighter injuries than you are presently sustaining which to be fair are not that severe. But they will still knock it up to HAPCON 1.
- Location
- Australia
I think I'm missing a cookie. The omake I made with Sophie, that seems to have been turned into a modern bonus, even though it was made in the age of cookies.
@PoptartProdigy, would an increase in power level rather than stats be better for combat? IIRC, a difference of 20% is considered to be an overwhelming one.
@PoptartProdigy, would an increase in power level rather than stats be better for combat? IIRC, a difference of 20% is considered to be an overwhelming one.
- Location
- Rockford, USA
- Pronouns
- They/Them
You already have that amount of difference at this point. Good idea, though! And yes, I did convert that into a bonus.
Bakkasama
There is always a greater fool
- Location
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Pronouns
- He/his
It is open warfare on the planet...
I mean, I get some people are not too attached to the masquerade but it is suposed to be one of the main aspects of our culture.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
It's pretty much the end of the world as the garenhulder's know it.
But I just find your summary dismissal of it hilarious.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
This is going to go down as the greatest failure of Kakara's life by far.
And that is why "following orders" is not always a great idea.
Of course, we cleared the plan with Cabba and Berra first, so they're liable to be under fire as well.
The Fourth Monado
S U B A R A S H I I
- Location
- Away
- Pronouns
- He/Him
And that is why "following orders" is not always a great idea.
Of course, we cleared the plan with Cabba and Berra first, so they're liable to be under fire as well.
As Poptart said, the winning plan was less likely to work because of how many points of failure it had. Now I just really wanna just go to 200k and fight him instead of all that other stuff, which Poptart said we judged as to take about 20 seconds to subdue him.
Actually, this is what he said:
More points of failure was just one reason. Another is likely that we've got a shit-ton of bonuses to communication checks, meaning that such actions are less likely to fail, if not impossible to do so.
Carrnage
Human
- Location
- New Zealand
Also Karkara will probably be blamed.
Or our father. Especially if we throw him under the bus.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
Perhaps by demanding an explanation for why he ordered our fighters to hobble themselves?