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The Way Forward: Helping a mortal navigate the Celestial Bureaucracy (Transmigration Quest)

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--[] You could use some assistance and resources. (Gain hints as to which actions have what results. But also: gain a slow trickle of resources.) (10 RP and 2 AP per turn, must be taken every turn till completed.) (1/4 Turns)

this is still here and i cant find where you noted the ressourcs points automatically allocated to it

15/3=5 5+5=10 fp

do the urgent times start at the end of this turn?
or at the start of next turn?
 
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i dont mean new ressources. i mean, if we do this
--[] You could use some assistance and resources. (Gain hints as to which actions have what results. But also: gain a slow trickle of resources.) (10 RP and 2 AP per turn, must be taken every turn till completed.) (1/4 Turns)

automatically , we should have 10 less rp
 
Narasan said:
i dont mean new ressources. i mean, if we do this
--[] You could use some assistance and resources. (Gain hints as to which actions have what results. But also: gain a slow trickle of resources.) (10 RP and 2 AP per turn, must be taken every turn till completed.) (1/4 Turns)

automatically , we should have 10 less rp
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Right, fixed. I was thinking it was just 2 AP. As for your other questions:

There is one more normal turn. Then Urgent Times. (Which I will post probably at about the same time!)
 
Right. I'm sorry to add this less than a day before voting ends, but there's actually a good chance Xiaomei will hit L10 *during Urgent Times* depending on your choices. (Which.. well, we'll see, right? :D)

As such, I want to add voting now for the next world

The choices are
[ ] A Marvel movie Universe, roughly 1989-1990. (Difficulty: Variable. You will need to establish structures to affect the world. Note that Marvel has god level deities that may not play well.)
[] (15) "This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5." (AU, 2258.) (Difficulty: You have always been here.)
[] (65) A fantasy world of magic and swords, the world of Golarion. (Pathfinder setting. Note, not Pathfinder mechanics, per se.) (Difficulty: Normal)
[] A world of Sith and Jedi, the time of the The Old Republic (SWTOR)
[] Write in; subject to QM Veto.

ETA: This is a precaution. It's just as possible she doesn't and the final MQ for this world doesn't trigger automatically if she's not in Urgent Times.
 
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so we put everyzhing into urgent times,aside from what helps us with urgent times. is my idea at least.

[X] (65) A fantasy world of magic and swords, the world of Golarion. (Pathfinder setting. Note, not Pathfinder mechanics, per se.) (Difficulty: Normal)



we havent finished researching godless worlds,so this should be our best bet. dont know if the force counts as a god, i know nothing about babylon,And we are not ready for marvel. any marvel. there are like 500+ people randomly going around who could kill her by looking at them. and most of them are easy to convince to kill someone,and even easier to bribe.
 
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As I understand it, this is a separate vote from the vote on the plan?

[X] A Marvel movie Universe, roughly 1989-1990. (Difficulty: Variable. You will need to establish structures to affect the world. Note that Marvel has god level deities that may not play well.)
[X] (65) A fantasy world of magic and swords, the world of Golarion. (Pathfinder setting. Note, not Pathfinder mechanics, per se.) (Difficulty: Normal)

I think both settings can work as a second world, albeit in different ways.
 
Narasan said:
so we put everyzhing into urgent times,aside from what helps us with urgent times. is my idea at least.

[] (65) A fantasy world of magic and swords, the world of Golarion. (Pathfinder setting. Note, not Pathfinder mechanics, per se.) (Difficulty: Normal)



we havent finished researching godless worlds,so this should be our best bet. dont know if the force counts as a god, i know nothing about babylon,And we are not ready for marvel. any marvel. there are like 500+ people randomly going around who could kill her by looking at them. and most of them are easy to convince to kill someone,and even easier to bribe.
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So as a note:
Marvel is easier than Babylon 5, because Xiaomei gets to keep her not-cultivator powers. Babylon 5 she's .. not going to have anything but her ability to wield a gun, diplomance, and solve problems.

(And, of course, the Vorlons and Shadows will be very interested in her, which is .. not great..)

That said, Babylon 5 is also a sci-fi setting. I omitted Cyberpunk, because it's always a possibility. (it's the "roll failed major failure" transmigration roll. Star Trek is the roll failed, minor failure. Critical Failure just results in a -10 loss to everything. Critical Success is +5 to everything.)

All of them are doable at her level. While I do believe you can get yourself into a no-win situation, rolls like this are always never like this.

(As a tangential note, I almost put up Elenium but.. as much as it's a guilty pleasure, the authors are rather yikes!)
 
if star wars isnt a godless world i would be interested. a lot of slaves to free, a lot of soulsearching to do,and hopefully some diplomancy. oh also swords
 
[Y] plan: bunker down, first draft

[X] (75 RP) and magically speed up defenses of Pheonix City + School Upgrades (Gain more healers and support units. Has follow on effects in Urgent Times Actions.)

-[X] Spend Point On:
--[X] Constitution

-[X] Spend Points On:
--[X]

--[X] Covertly Repair the Tree of the Heavens (2 FP 2 AP): This action is repeatable up to Xiaomei's level. (Current Times: 3/6), and can be repaired by approximately 3.65%.[QM Note: Do not take this more than once a turn unless you want negative consequences. Amount repairable is tied to Xiaomei. Also note the slowdown means the Tree will slowly take more damage.] [At 40%, Enemy loses one action permanently]

---[X] (Unlocked) Find the Hall of Histories (2 AP 20 RP)[Leads to ??? Event]

---[X] (Unlocked) Investigate the Labyrinth Oversight Office (2 AP 10 RP)[Leads to ??? Event]
--[X] What has Aphreal been doing (1 AP)

--[X] Bank RP for later-use. (Banked RP caps at the same cap as unspent.) (Cost: 65 RP) Bank for urgent times

we cant bank ap,right? so
--[X] Improve Your Sight.(5 AP), +5 to your rolls on Enemy Action, more Information on action results. Cost increases +1 AP each time.) (Current Roll: +12) (Level 2 Sight)

is this doable? :
---[X] Change the history of an organization (Base Cost: 2 FP. Please explain the change, and why.
Organisation: the magi working for phoenix city.
Change : the forgotten forgetful. many of the magi now helping phoenix city have been taught by a very old quite forgetful magi. they left to help and left him a letter. he just read it. she scried their location, saw that their defenses are very weak, and decides to teleport in and deploy his own defences wich he uses to protect him on expeditions.
she is ...very powerful. Their name is Micca. He was once known as the strongest battlemage of her generation.

can we do this? how many fp to do this?


edit: so i wanted to flesh them out more,if it bothers someone i can delete it

(so,made some edits to the he she they stuff. i think the best way for me to write someone with nonbinary gender is to just write a person, and then fill in the gendered parts. i dont know if thats sexist or anything. its how i started writing women. anyway,the idea is they got into a huge chaotic mess in a battle,making them forgetful, because of their magical power, when they think they remember stuff about themself they change according to it. they remember their gender,haircolour, species,clothing and if they are currently flying, many times a day. every time different. very good teacher though. they always remember that part. )
 
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That.. would work badly. May I make a recommendation?

I would make the School of Micca, which rotates every year. This year intrigued by the city,etc etc

The idea is not to directly state this would help but make something that logically must. More FP makes the organization larger and therefore more able to cast spells
 
yeah,lets do that,just wanted a random archmage with weird magic to show up, but i guess the school is better. its just,we need to change the history of something,and you didnt give a list. up to this point i wasnt aware there was a magic school in the setting and we cant just create the organisation that part we already did. it makes it difficult to use this option,which is sad,cause its my favourite one.

[X] plan: bunker down

[X] (75 RP) and magically speed up defenses of Pheonix City + School Upgrades (Gain more healers and support units. Has follow on effects in Urgent Times Actions.)

-[X] Spend Point On:
--[X] Constitution

-[X] Spend Points On:
--[X] 3 Spiritual Arts 3 Resistance

--[X] Covertly Repair the Tree of the Heavens (2 FP 2 AP): This action is repeatable up to Xiaomei's level. (Current Times: 3/6), and can be repaired by approximately 3.65%.[QM Note: Do not take this more than once a turn unless you want negative consequences. Amount repairable is tied to Xiaomei. Also note the slowdown means the Tree will slowly take more damage.] [At 40%, Enemy loses one action permanently]

---[X] (Unlocked) Find the Hall of Histories (2 AP 20 RP)[Leads to ??? Event]

---[X] (Unlocked) Investigate the Labyrinth Oversight Office (2 AP 10 RP)[Leads to ??? Event]
--[X] What has Aphreal been doing (1 AP)

--[X] Bank RP for later-use. (Banked RP caps at the same cap as unspent.) (Cost: 65 RP) Bank for urgent times

we cant bank ap,right? so
--[X] Improve Your Sight.(5 AP), +5 to your rolls on Enemy Action, more Information on action results. Cost increases +1 AP each time.) (Current Roll: +12) (Level 2 Sight)

is this doable? :
---[X] Change the history of an organization ( Cost: 5 FP. Please explain the change, and why.
Organisation: some magic school i didnt know about
change: the school of micca has a very eccentric headmaster. the others go along with whatever she says, because she taught most of the teachers and is very powerful. She has shown an interest in the stuff happening in phoenix city and has decided to teleport the campus diectly adjacent to the city use 5 fp for this

--[X] Set One Good Roll to ..(70/3 FP) (Specify if it's one of Xiaomei's rolls, or yours. Default: yours) Xiaomei
 
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There was none. The point is - don't directly state it's for x, build something that will do x.

It's like playing Chess - you build something that will do something for you a few moves down the road.

So having a rotating magic school is something I created out of thin air, and your option would. It's more about creating something that now always existed and had a legacy.
 
KNakamura said:
[] (15) "This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5." (AU, 2258.) (Difficulty: You have always been here.)
[] (65) A fantasy world of magic and swords, the world of Golarion. (Pathfinder setting. Note, not Pathfinder mechanics, per se.) (Difficulty: Normal)


ETA: This is a precaution. It's just as possible she doesn't and the final MQ for this world doesn't trigger automatically if she's not in Urgent Times.
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ok, im back and ready. Ive just got one question.... what are these numbers infront? (15) (65)

Did you roll a d100 or...?
 
i dont understend. we had an option to create an organisation. we did that. now we dont have that option. the option we have says to change the history of an already existing organisation. i thought this was a deliberate choice to nake us think more about the setting,and wherr we can tweak it to our advantage. if we can just insert whole new organisations without makkng them a subdevision of an existing one? thats great. makes this easier.
 
Crawkid said:
ok, im back and ready. Ive just got one question.... what are these numbers infront? (15) (65)

Did you roll a d100 or...?
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Yes

Narasan said:
i dont understend. we had an option to create an organisation. we did that. now we dont have that option. the option we have says to change the history of an already existing organisation. i thought this was a deliberate choice to nake us think more about the setting,and wherr we can tweak it to our advantage. if we can just insert whole new organisations without makkng them a subdevision of an existing one? thats great. makes this easier.
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I'll clarify but yes. I prefer existing tbh, but Keria doesn't have a setting bible so as long as it's plausible I'll allow it.
 
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How the Change a History option works
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    • So:

    First, the Organization. A good rule of thumb is that if it's something they could do but don't due to internal politics, it's somewhat cheap.
    e.g the Jedi Order running Outer Rim clinics and schools and using it to create a railroad and recruit? Cheap.

    The Jedi Order having a hidden order of assassins? *Very Difficult*

    Using extant organizations in unique ways will get better results, but if you come up with an organization that should exist that's fine too.

    Second, the circumstances. Is it internally consistent without a lot of rewriting? Cheaper.

    Thirdly, how obvious the goal is. The thing is, changing the fate of an organization shouldn't directly state what your goal is, but it should lead it to the goal. A lot of this is worldbuilding, because I might want to work out the ripple effects. (For example, that last one is uh.. well. I think the Hutts and Republic would be more upset. Which might mean the main temple has moved, etc.)
     
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    • So far, voting is:
    1 x Marvel
    1 x Pathfinder

    In the hopes of getting more votes (And because it's not relevant *right now*), I'm letting the voting on that stay open until Friday.

    (I'm going with first-choice unless we get a lot of votes, in which case I'll do the second-choice as well.)
     
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    • Scheduled vote count started by KNakamura on Jan 20, 2024 at 2:04 AM, finished with 27 posts and 2 votes.
    • [X] (65) A fantasy world of magic and swords, the world of Golarion. (Pathfinder setting. Note, not Pathfinder mechanics, per se.) (Difficulty: Normal)
      [X] A Marvel movie Universe, roughly 1989-1990. (Difficulty: Variable. You will need to establish structures to affect the world. Note that Marvel has god level deities that may not play well.)
      [X] plan: bunker down
      [X] (75 RP) and magically speed up defenses of Pheonix City + School Upgrades (Gain more healers and support units. Has follow on effects in Urgent Times Actions.)
      -[X] Spend Point On:
      --[X] Constitution
      -[X] Spend Points On:
      --[X] 3 Spiritual Arts 3 Resistance
      --[X] Covertly Repair the Tree of the Heavens (2 FP 2 AP): This action is repeatable up to Xiaomei's level. (Current Times: 3/6), and can be repaired by approximately 3.65%.[QM Note: Do not take this more than once a turn unless you want negative consequences. Amount repairable is tied to Xiaomei. Also note the slowdown means the Tree will slowly take more damage.] [At 40%, Enemy loses one action permanently]
      ---[X] (Unlocked) Find the Hall of Histories (2 AP 20 RP)[Leads to ??? Event]
      ---[X] (Unlocked) Investigate the Labyrinth Oversight Office (2 AP 10 RP)[Leads to ??? Event]
      --[X] What has Aphreal been doing (1 AP)
      --[X] Bank RP for later-use. (Banked RP caps at the same cap as unspent.) (Cost: 65 RP) Bank for urgent times
      --[X] Improve Your Sight.(5 AP), +5 to your rolls on Enemy Action, more Information on action results. Cost increases +1 AP each time.) (Current Roll: +12) (Level 2 Sight)
      ---[X] Change the history of an organization ( Cost: 5 FP. Please explain the change, and why.
      --[X] Set One Good Roll to ..(70/3 FP) (Specify if it's one of Xiaomei's rolls, or yours. Default: yours) Xiaomei
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