Romv
A Memory of TREES
@Powerofmind Why are our Shrine Extensions under Fear on our character sheet?
Time of the Gods: Into the Amber Age
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She might get legend by being there and trick the Crone though. Could we get Seski, the villagers and sea-pixies to collaborate?
Powerofmind
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Uhh... yes... I may have rushed my edit X(
That sounds compatible with Moon Boosted Trickery Inspiration? The Sea-pixies might pretend to be us and then she'd be chasing octopus all day.
A couple of remarks about stuff I noticed this turn:
I'm starting to suspect that our moonbeam enhancement may be broken...
EDIT: And this -
Wow. A 14 procs moonbeam now? That's 28% of the roll table, plus whatever we get from crits.
I'm starting to suspect that our moonbeam enhancement may be broken...
We can just force the population to make these sorts of checks for us!? Does that mean we kinda-sorta don't need crafting/art after all and can just rely on our mortals to do this? At least when working with cheap material, anyway.
And we STILL lost more DE from the Rite decreasing Fear than we gained from income. The losses are about double the gains, actually. On a turn where we literally had one negative action, which we rolled a 7 on. @veekie - I was willing to go with the rite largely because I thought it would boost growth this turn. But honestly, I want to turn it off and keep it off until we actually start getting turns when it would be at least net-positive DE wise. Even then, I'm skeptical - since I don't like reducing our apparently Fear on applicable rolls.
EDIT: And this -
Apparently the 14, 10 we rolled we enough to get us very useful info, here.
chocolote12
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No, we run away and take all of our fun stuff with us, and then go make a ridiculously huge Octopus monster to go walk over to her village and wreck it while she's away. Or shapeshift into a person (The giant octopus, that is) and seduce her villagers into ruin, one way or another.
Oh, hey, if smol octopi with mischief are sea pixies, would hueg octopi with mischief be sea fey?
I would also be moderately okay with a giant enemy crab.
Oh, hey, if smol octopi with mischief are sea pixies, would hueg octopi with mischief be sea fey?
I would also be moderately okay with a giant enemy crab.
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Mortals are making checks with a skill of 2(which is functionally a skill of 0 without the untrained bonus due to the tier gap), so it'd take a long time if we weren't abusing Harvest Moon to upclass the materials. I mean, look, their best roll was a double 8 sixteen, and it's only Good.
We could have Seski focus down that route however.
And Art is still needed for Magic(See what Attrouska is using on us, that's Art)
I'm convinced now anyways. We need the Fear spike to be able to run the quest.
Romv
A Memory of TREES
Forget Gaerig getting it, Attrouska has Greater Aspect of Mother-in-Law.
Powerofmind
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Because you unlock extensions through the fear score.
Really I just said fuck it when I noticed the error (I'd counted the wrong number of successes. I'd already edited the charsheet and marked it on the turn update. This was laziness, not actual easy rolls.
Yes you can, it's lightly growth negative, and never gets better than a +5 bonus to final value. It's okay, but trading or taking from other spirits is naturally more effective.
It nearly doubled your personal contribution to growth, netting you the third point that you wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
BUT THEN THEY WOULD ONLY NEED TO HIT IT'S WEAK POINT FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE!
Okay. That makes me happy. I was actually worried for a bit that the 18 -> remove sterility result for the cost of 1 sustenance was overblown; it seemed to be too massive a result given the dirt-cheap price per roll. In fact, on 30 rolls (3 Ambrosia), the highest will be around that roll range on average.
However, since the result is only "worth" 1 Ambrosia in the first place, the reward is definitely fitting in scale. We just got super lucky to roll it right off the bat.
Giant monsters cost Sustenance, which we're using to run away.
Also, seducing a large predator may have a dispersal/additional sustenance cost risk on failure, which would be very bad timing unless we maintain a 6 sustenance allowance.
We COULD however, breed Aspect of Human into the Sea Pixies. Which would allow them to take a better human form and troll Attrouska better.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
That's why we tie a villager to the weakpoint when nobody's looking! As long as Attrouska doesn't hit it the Giant Enemy Crab is invincible, but if she does then she now has to fight Saiga as well!
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She has Aspect of Motherhood and is clearly the Lawmaker origin...
Arithmetic doesn't check out.
I am not too confident in her chances to pull that off. She is only 4 after all.
So is the Crone coming by land or by the sea?
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
She's inland, so probably by walking.
Is the tier gap still just -2 to skills, @Powerofmind, or is it something more hefty - say a two-point STRONG bonus?
Anyway, rolling at 0 without the penalty would be totally fine; especially given how many rolls we get per decree. Obviously we wouldn't give them amber to craft or whatnot, but for any material we can get freely? It is free figurines.
Just... broadly speaking, it is a SUPER weak choice; I can see it making sense if you are stuck in Saiga-esc runt when you just can't do anything exciting, but for a healthy spirit I can't see it working out well.
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Well someone's a petty little ball of spite now aren't they?
BTW: Don't actually care now that I've taken some time off and gotten some sleep.
Good Game @PrimalShadow.
Powerofmind
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Stop hitting me! Please! Should be 2 moderates.
Powerofmind
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Mortals roll at 2.5 skill, approximately 2 less than the mortal maximum (you are assumed to take from people with actual talent).
In contested checks against mortals or higher tier gods, the penalty applied is a 2 point strong penalty, increasing randomness against the higher-tier being (which properly represents the occasional underdog hero story).
We did the fish action twice this turn and only got a 10% chance of getting the fish aspect.
She only needs to run to the village screaming that Gaerig is in the water. The Crone goes to the sea and see shapeshifted sea-pixie. But yeah it'll be hard to trick the Crone if she is buffed with astrology and omen reading. It'd probably be better to trick her another time. Then again trying to trick her should increase our chances of getting Spirit of Mischief and False Mortality.
Ah. I didn't get that it was growth negative. Yeah, that would balance things, at least if the malus is non-trivial (around what we would get as a bonus from 15 DE of growth blessings, basically).
Really? I didn't expect the effect on growth to be nearly as large. Well, that does make me feel better about it - though I wonder how it will scale if we were to sacrifice 4 fear instead of 2 before pumping growth...
Yeah, the 2 point strong penalty is much more hefty than just -2 skill. I'm quite happy with how it preserves the tier-gap mechanism at a significant level.
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Hey now, pointing out errors in the updates is my job, pack off everyone 
(First of all, i think you might have missed the strong bonus on astrology, since one of those astrology checks hit over 100, meaning we maxed out our astrology. Also, i didn't see the DE return from our non blessing faith actions? Either way, starting annotated update after i eat breakfast so i'll maybe catch more
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(First of all, i think you might have missed the strong bonus on astrology, since one of those astrology checks hit over 100, meaning we maxed out our astrology. Also, i didn't see the DE return from our non blessing faith actions? Either way, starting annotated update after i eat breakfast so i'll maybe catch more
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