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Revolution (RWBY Planeswalker Blake)

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Always remember to summon demons responsibly. Make sure you have something for them to vent their ominicidal rage on that you want destroyed. Make sure the target area is clear of things you care about. Have LOTS of anti-demon wards just in case.
 
(facepalm) All these people voting for the lulz option...

Has that ever gone well?

I reserve the right to say I told you so.
 
I mean, I'm really not holding the vote right now anyway. I briefly said I was considering stopping for a vote, and then I remembered why I wasn't originally going to stop after all. :p

SmolPasta said:
...or the demons(?) will become our best friends but still cause trouble. Not the best option still.
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'Strange voices lying in dreams distributing poems' is no basis for a system of friendship!
 
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Razzocnor said:
Always remember to summon demons responsibly. Make sure you have something for them to vent their ominicidal rage on that you want destroyed. Make sure the target area is clear of things you care about. Have LOTS of anti-demon wards just in case.
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This. I am anti-voting for praying right now. We don't have a good target.
 
Valmond said:
We got a super powerful AI mom in another quest by going for the lulz option, so i'm going to answer yes.
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IIRC I wrote that vote plan, and it was not "for the lulz," but "we don't know what the qualifications are for any of these and almost certainly don't have them, so go big or go home" - that was certainly my justification for voting that way if it was someone else. Except then the little blue dice confessed their love under the Millennium Tree and it turned out Jade did in fact have the one qualification that mattered for royal access, actual Agni royal heritage :)

Then again, if we're going by Ignition's standards, this is still earlier in the quest than that, more like when everyone was voting to have Jade suffer more so she could get more out of a wish from the Incubator, to the point Alivaril had to tell the thread to cut that out, Jade already had enough importance for anything a wish could grant.
 
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fictionfan said:
This. I am anti-voting for praying right now. We don't have a good target.
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I could argue that someone trying to mind whammy us makes them a decent target.
That said, realisticly speaking praying now is bit of an over reaction, not because we lack a target, but because we don't know how accurate it is, might take out a single person, might hit everyone inside a city block of that person.
I am still intrigued by our dream poet friends and want to work with them though. :V
 
The character sheet update is ready, and the update was sent to betas yesterday evening; probable posting time of tomorrow.

General show of hands: How would you guys like to handle choosing training priorities now that you have enough variety to start focusing on specific skills? Periodically voting to focus on general builds, individual skills, whatever is easiest for Blake at the time (current system), something else?
 
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I prefer whatever is easiest. I don't really want to get bogged down in voting for training, which can be very annoying from both sides of the coin.
 
I'd think it would mostly be inspired by whatever Blake felt most appropriate.

I can't really see her as written now focusing on any specific thing over exploring all of it. She's a deeply reactive rather than proactive character. I'd imagine that would resemble something more like X amount of her time spent specifically training combat abilities, Y amount of her time experimenting with new things, Z amount of her time spent shoring up whatever flavor of the week weakness she's experienced? (And then that reflects how many training dice out of the pool gets thrown in that direction, with each Skill rank up requiring more pips/numerical increase than the last?)

Like, she's not going to let her core Huntress abilities decline, and Aura doesn't really have specific techniques beyond Semblance.

But as to color mana skill development... I get the feeling that Blake as a character would not be the sort to ever develop anything like an "optimized build"; especially without a teacher or "trainer" to help her plan it out.
 
I agree, voting on actions to take and letting Blake train as she sees fit to suit what she wants to do seems like it's been working fine and will be easier both as players and for the QM, not having to micro-manage all the fiddly bits in detail.
 
Personally, every time I've been in a quest with training votes as a significant recurring element the main characters all sort of felt like the same person in the end. The focus on training and the natural bias towards voting for best numbers usually results in characterization as a very number-crunching results-oriented sort of person, and that characterization is kind of consistent between quests.

Not saying that can't be interesting, but personally I'd prefer less of it. Occasional votes for general direction, path of least resistance, something like that.
 
I tend to just vote for the most compelling plan either way, and while that's sometimes interesting, I'll feel like I have more agency the simpler it is to evaluate options and so on? So more basic directions work out for me.
 
Razzocnor said:
Always remember to summon demons responsibly. Make sure you have something for them to vent their ominicidal rage on that you want destroyed. Make sure the target area is clear of things you care about. Have LOTS of anti-demon wards just in case.
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We have a perfectly good smiting target in the Guild full of slavers. Only problem is the decent people haven't all left yet.
 
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