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Given how social Molly is, might there be worth calling and attempting to intimidate the bejeesus out of our foe? Molly can be very scary.
 
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[X] Call Izzy's phone, you know he is waiting, being the one to initiate contact might put him on the backfoot
 
Couldn't Clippy or another summoned digital daemon not locate the phones in question?
After all we know the numbers and the phones are on, Naagloshi expecting a call.
 
After all of this I'd really rather not go to Harvard and stay away from Chicago for so many set hours in the day without that teleporting charm that was discussed earlier.
 
XenonPrime said:
Given how social Molly is, might there be worth calling and attempting to intimidate the bejeesus out of our foe? Molly can be very scary.
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Well, let's consider this. Naagloshii is an incarna, so DPE almost certainly doesn't apply. That's 9 DC at base. We are almost certainly under both BSM and WHWH effects, but TLF probably doesn't trigger - a single naagloshii isn't an environmental hazard, at least not outside its home territory. We would need a legendary success for it to let them go, and it would probably have opposite roll. Intellectus probably models as X guaranteed successes about a given topic. I would probably model it as
Invincible Assertion (3 pt. Root Element)
This Splendor defines a rigid certainty and imposes it upon existence.
When used in an Adornment, define a specific roll of (Attribute) + (Ability) and a specialty that
it falls under. When the user makes such a roll, she cannot botch and cannot fail regardless of the
difficulty. No matter what, she always generates at least one success. If this roll is opposed by
another character, Invincible Assertion instead adds two bonus successes.
When used in a Fascination, define a specific roll of (Attribute) + (Ability) and a specialty that it
falls under. Under circumstances defined by the Splendor, such rolls cannot fail in its presence,
and always generate at least one success. If such a roll is opposed, it adds two bonus successes.
This Element may be incorporated into a Splendor more than once.
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splendor mechanic variant in order to keep the total amount of rules small. I think we might want to try etiquette (setting up some formal duel maybe?) or empathy (appealing to its sense of sadism to play it with maniuplation + empathy roll) than intimidation?

If we are going with intimidation, then "You are going to die the final death today. This is not in question, and nothing you do, be it torturing my people, or escaping into the deepest parts of NeverNever, will change this. For what you did, a tenth of your kind will die the final death in the next year and a day. This is also not in question. The only things that are in question, are the manner of your death, and the legacy you leave behind. Let my friends go and agree to an honorable duel, and I will see at least some of it preserved, and you remembered as the monster you were, a cautionary tale to those who come later, and a source of fear for your lessers. Refuse, and everything you have ever built or accomplished will be consigned to Oblivion, unmade so thoroughly that not even a trace of memory remains of your existence. The choice is yours. Choose quickly" might be an interesting approach.
 
Not a lot of votes.
Adhoc vote count started by Yzarc on Aug 2, 2023 at 2:46 AM, finished with 19 posts and 8 votes.
  • [X] Get some help on the line, your dad, Lydia, Harry
    [X] Go by your friends place, with the right question you you should be able to trace where they are and land right on top of it
    -[x] Have Clippy call Harry on your behalf well you are busy.
    [X] Call Izzy's phone, you know he is waiting, being the one to initiate contact might put him on the backfoot
    [X] Get some help on the line, your dad, Lyda Harry
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Ok. so, thought some more on what to do. We have used RVD to avoid naagloshii's detection. It certainly has Dresden and almost certainly has other our allies under surveillance. And it seemingly can't just scry us. I am disinclined to lose the element of surprise we might have.

Hmm... @DragonParadox can we use a photo of Hank's corpse (assuming we made one) as a focus? Or does it not count as a separate focus from Hank himself?

Anyway, for now.

So, let's see

[X] Plan Calling in help
-[X] Use Izzy's facebook page to locate where they are
-[X] Have Clippy appropriate photos / plans of where your friends are being held, including technical data on water supply to see if we could RVD in
-[X] Get some help on the line, your dad, Lydia, Harry
--[X] Instead of calling Harry, call Mouse
--[X] Warn everyone that they are likely under surveliance and it needs to be neutralized first
 
Yog said:
Ok. so, thought some more on what to do. We have used RVD to avoid naagloshii's detection. It certainly has Dresden and almost certainly has other our allies under surveillance. And it seemingly can't just scry us. I am disinclined to lose the element of surprise we might have.

Hmm... @DragonParadox can we use a photo of Hank's corpse (assuming we made one) as a focus? Or does it not count as a separate focus from Hank himself?

Anyway, for now.

So, let's see

[X] Plan Calling in help
-[X] Use Izzy's facebook page to locate where they are
-[X] Have Clippy appropriate photos / plans of where your friends are being held, including technical data on water supply to see if we could RVD in
-[X] Get some help on the line, your dad, Lydia, Harry
--[X] Instead of calling Harry, call Mouse
--[X] Warn everyone that they are likely under surveliance and it needs to be neutralized first
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You did not photograph his corpse unfortunetly, Molly was in a tearing hurry so it would have had to be in a vote to be done
 
[X] Plan Calling in help
-[X] Use Izzy's facebook page to locate where they are
-[X] Have Clippy appropriate photos / plans of where your friends are being held, including technical data on water supply to see if we could RVD in
-[X] Get some help on the line, your dad, Lydia, Harry
--[X] Instead of calling Harry, call Mouse
--[X] Warn everyone that they are likely under surveliance and it needs to be neutralized first
 
[X] Plan Calling in help
-[X] Use Izzy's facebook page to locate where they are
-[X] Have Clippy appropriate photos / plans of where your friends are being held, including technical data on water supply to see if we could RVD in
-[X] Get some help on the line, your dad, Lydia, Harry
--[X] Instead of calling Harry, call Mouse
--[X] Warn everyone that they are likely under surveliance and it needs to be neutralized first
 
Vote closed.
Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Aug 2, 2023 at 8:05 AM, finished with 29 posts and 11 votes.
  • [X] Plan Calling in help
    -[X] Use Izzy's facebook page to locate where they are
    -[X] Have Clippy appropriate photos / plans of where your friends are being held, including technical data on water supply to see if we could RVD in
    -[X] Get some help on the line, your dad, Lydia, Harry
    --[X] Instead of calling Harry, call Mouse
    --[X] Warn everyone that they are likely under surveliance and it needs to be neutralized first
    [X] Get some help on the line, your dad, Lydia, Harry
    [X] Go by your friends place, with the right question you you should be able to trace where they are and land right on top of it
    -[x] Have Clippy call Harry on your behalf well you are busy.
    [X] Get some help on the line, your dad, Lyda Harry
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    18th of November 2006 A.D.

    As Clippy takes advantage of her ability to multitask to call for help, as discretely as she can manage to deal with any surveillance her screen shifts to Izzy's MySpace page, willfully contrasted pastel and black alt rock band names and cheesy memes vying for space in a way that has never before failed to bring a smile to your face.

    Please be safe Izzy, please be safe, you pray and hope and though the the eyes upon your crown you look.

    You see it passing by the unselfconsciously named Piggery where you had eaten many a Cuban Sandwitch and Coke playing hooky, the same same van. It has faded red paint, maybe seven or eight years old, peeling bumper stickers showing the names of half dozen stales, along with the places where again as many may once have stuck, you would not have though that one of Broken Seeker's cultists would be able to hold down enough of a job and a life outside to have something like this, but there you have it. Through the windows you can see Izzy and Alec, still unconscious, two skinwalkers man and woman driving, another four in the back with their master in stolen wolf's hide makes six with the last six in winged form, hawks and vultures, waiting to be send out with a patience no natural-born bird would show.

    "Where are you going?" you ask under your breath as the vision fades... then you realize the trick, though it does not make you feel any better. it is not going anywhere, just driving around busy streets where any show of magic would have dozens, hundreds of witnesses, not to mention each and every one of those people could be a hostage in a pinch if Broken Seeker should choose to unleash his power or his servants. You can run down any one of them, Hank proved that much, but all of them?

    Unfortunately not all the news is good, Lydia is out of town arranging things with the future former Mrs Barrowill, Harry is with a client and it is going to take him at least ten minutes to clear him out get in the car and get here. Your father though... your father runs several red lights and from the look of his pickup racing down the street six minutes later he hasn't paid much mind to the speed limit on the way.

    "Where to Molly? The message just said they got your friends." As bad as things are it warms your heart a little to hear the certainty behind that question, he is sure you know where to go, he trusts your sight to lead the way even into the lair of a a Naagloshii. Too bad this one is too smart to have a lair, or at least to use it right now.

    As though to answer the question in your place Clippy lets out a synthetic chine: "Incoming Call tagged 'Izzy', possibility that it is the false-god designated 'Broken Seeker' approaches unity to within the twentieth decimal point. Hypothesis: After losing sight of us in the domain of the Cold Ones he has been sending calls out at regular intervals to check for our presence. I am capable of declining to send a signal back to the network tower which would indicate that we are still outside of network range"

    What do you do?

    [] Answer, lets see what this thing has to say for itself
    -[] Write in stunt

    [] Don't answer, keep him guessing until Harry gets here

    [] Write in

    OOC: A bit of a short one, but at least now you know one of the ways in which Broken Seeker plans to avoid being plaid like the Will of Kakuri, use the masquerade as cover.
     
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