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Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)

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I'm sorry everyone :(

Well, unless Oliver beat me to the punch. I don't know who's dice landed first, but I do know I hesitated.
 
I do know I wasted time writing flavor text in my roll in an effort to back off from my Bad Idea, Oliver might very well have thrown their dice first.
 
I did not notice Oliver's post either, technically, he called dibs first.

I am super, super sorry though if I beat everyone.
 
But the vote had not been called yet.
While i would love a higher roll, i don't think we would be talking about it if Alectai had rolled 100 and Oliver a 1.
If Yrs wants to open this can, it's up to them.

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I guess my post was unnecessary.
Woot for 58+15
 
Now that I think about it, I don't think this is the first time there has been confusion over nearly simultaneous rolls.
Particularly because you have to post first and then roll to avoid treachery with the dice.
So the definition of "first" become ambiguous.

So, while I can understand being overeager, maybe from now on we should wait for Yrs to allow a specific user to roll?
It can be just someone who calls dibs on it, or it can be the winner plan's maker by default or something like that.
Just not a handful of people scrambling for doing it at the exact same time.
 
Using certain Arts granted to me by the Guiding Moon, I have determined with 100%* accuracy that a roll of 73 corresponds to a member of the White Sky armed forces challenging an Imperial sergeant to a dance off.
Cai Renxiang is of course one of the judges, while Ling Qi is tasked with providing suitable music.

*binary notation.
 
Ah. That was such a tense roll. This is the...second one now? That I remember. There was the Void roll too :p. It really makes everything more interesting. I'm sure a total of 3 would have been fine too. More problems mean more action and more opportunities for Ling Qi and Renxiang to show their wisdom and all that, but 73 is also nice.
Yrs has clarified (on Discord) that the event table is split into tens, with options going up to 120 because of the +15 modifier we got. So 72/120 is 7 degrees of success out of a possible 12? So a little over half of it. Seems good imo. He said the event table is still relevant to the summit, so we won't get to see the possible options until after the summit!

Lena27 said:
I suppose my fear is that for all that people say we'll do SNR later or it would be best done next turn, there'll be always something else that will take precedent in people's minds by the time next turn vote comes. There are some very vocal people here who are negative about SNR'S potential...anyone who thinks it's fine to push it off to next turn? Well don't get your hopes up.
I personally think the arguments for the Depths plan are equally strong to the Primacy plan. I wish I could get some assurances that SNR will actually be prioritized next turn.
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I was typing something for this, but I deleted it to do the event roll. That being said, I'm not sure if SNR will be picked during the summit turn (too many things colliding to be sure, apart from ToN and maybe FFS), but I know that I'll be voting for it and Cathedral of Winds immediately after the summit.
 
Leaving the dice roll controversy aside.

We got a 58+15=73.
As I understand it, that means that the construction of the shared has gone reasonably well.
They haven't constructed a new wonder of the world, but everything works adequately and there hasn't been any significant incidents or clashes between runes and formations.
Regarding the workers, they won't have became close friends; but they should have reached a sort of mutual professional appreciation as well as some tentatives friendships with just a bit of tension and mistrust remaining among some of them.

On the other hand, there is the roll of 15+15=30.
With that roll there would have been some form of technical incident or incompatibility which puts at risk finishing the meeting place on time.
Or maybe it would be a dispute between imperial and WS workers. Or a strong disagreement between the overseers of each side
Though no something truly unsalvageable, it would have hurt our political credit quite a bit, making the Summit more tense even if we managed to fix whatever problem arised. In particular, it would have given the MoI ammunition against us, as they were the ones to oppose the shared construction the most.

Those are the general lines of what I think each vote would have entailed.
Of course, those don't account for the specifics events assigned to each degree of success.
We ultimately got 7 degrees of success in a scale of 0 to 11, so we shouldn't have any problem even if we haven't earned any extra bonuses either. Just the ones from finishing the shared meeting place normally.
 
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So, Yrs gave us some insight into what could have happened with the low rolls.

you know for fun I can at least show the bottom of the table, things will shift a bit for summit proper anyway.

1-10: Major conflict between high realms, roll 1d2 for ministry/crow or general/tree
11-20: Major insult or conflict between mid realms roll for mil or infra
21-30: Major construction/ infrastructure related accident
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I'm kinda sad about it though. 1-10 sounds like it could have really cool (if super fucking stressful) scenes, especially with the general/tree option. It would have been perfect for Spirit Seeker, Godddammit!!!

I'm glad we avoided that 30 though. @Doramas , it looks like you were right :p
 
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Oliver_Twister said:
So, Yrs gave us some insight into what could have happened with the low rolls.

I'm kinda sad about it though. 1-10 sounds like it could have really cool (if super fucking stressful) scenes, especially with the general/tree option. It would have been perfect for Spirit Seeker, Godddammit!!!

I'm glad we avoided that 30 though. @Doramas , it looks like you were right :p
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On the other hand, I'm so glad that the chosen options and good rolls on Corcondance of Steel made it impossible to get 1-10 to begin with.
A direct clash between the General and the Tree wouldn't have been just an insta-fail of the Summit, but an actual full-fledged war would have broken between the WS and the Empire. The ministry vs crow would have been horrible as well, but nowhere so bloody and destructive.
It wouldn't just have been terrible for everyone, but it would have also shattered Ling Qi's nascent Way and any chance Renxiang had to ascend to the ES's throne.

Edit: Also notice how all those results have "Major" in them. Yikes
That tells me that results from 31 to 60 would still have had some minor conflicts of decreasing severity. So only starting at 61+, or even 71+, we would get some good events.
So it looks like we truly dodged a bullet and barely made into the zone (61-90) where we can get some decent benefits with a bit more of effort invested into it.
The truly great stuff would be locked after 91+, most surely.

Kinda makes sense to divide the results into 4 zones, each divided in 3 ranges:
1-30: Major Confict
31-60: Minor Conflict
61-90: Minor Benefit
91-120 (or 115 in this case): Major Benefit

So, in this hypothetical table, we would have landed in the second degree of Minor Benefit.
Not bad, especially since we were this close of suffering a Major Conflict, even if it was the most benign of them.
 
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