Ok I'm looking into things that needed to be done.


Collapsible Kypris Astrolabe of Fate
* Made of Kypris it is fragile as copper and should be keep in it's case when not used.
* Points most often to where one is needed, but can be used to point ones way to nearly anything. (though the difficulty may be very high for many hard to find things or places)
* Used with other astrological tools, skills, and where the stars can be directly seen help reduce the difficulty of using it.

Was given to raven

and I believe Dev had a Siderite Shield made.  Other people had Siderite weapons made, if you keep them and they are not on your sheet let me know. I need to know though what kinda shield she got.

Also Dev still has the bomb in her head it's just safe, and she can have it removed by Sam or Huoshui in the med bay.

Also have to remove the star metal ignots from Ix being he had them made into a weapon.

Let me know if I have missed updating anything else.

AH YES!!!

Raven needs to make a shrine of sorts (subject to his interpretation of such =p) for or make some totem/idol for Clashing-Boom-Boom, Shouldn't be a useable weapon... making something out of broken weapons is a good option to go with.

Then he has to meditate to call on her presence and ask for her blessings to gain her blessings as his war totem.

Being that he forgot to take the opportunity to go do so in person after he meet her requirements of completing the challenge, naming his weapons, personalizing them, and clamming the misused weapons from mr trigger happy.

He's done everything she asked, but he's not gone to her to ask for her blessing.

Luckly he's got spirit magic and can dail up the bitch. lol

I think Huoshui's sheet is up to date. Bright steel and soul of lightening are the most recent things he has obtained. Though if I'm mistaken do share.

vaguely related, since we're having Gear Talk: Can the powerglove hold more procedures than it can run at once, storing them? Or do I have to swap them out somehow. Where do I get more procedures? What abilities are required to program them in?

It can only be loaded with what it can run, but you can carry as many as you want. And typically you buy them or get a techmage write them up for you.

something I made for people to use

link to another game

no you can not have any of those items =p  lol


well the Hermetic Point Defense Shields you already have.
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Dev's got a kite shield with this on it:



stats are

Siderite Kite Shield of Nerigal
<Diff to parry with 6, +1 difficultly enemy attacks, durability 10, structure 10/10>

New players will be getting 71 exp (only after accepted)

At the end of the interlude anyone not at 71 will have 71.

Ix, Devalanna, Raven, and sam will get +10 exp at the end of the interlude exp givings for there hard work and to help them out some

Huoshui has been here from the start and that is it's own reward =p hehe Seriously the exp, knowlage, and skill mister monk has built up he need to much more help =p

lol I will however give him a tinny bump along the way to his next free seeking ^.^ he is working awfully hard

In reply to Azraile (msg # 9):

Closer to a seeking, I'll take that. If my CS is anything to go by I've still got exp to spend anyway. xD

Question, Willpower/health/quin etc Meditation time and such would we have had it to recharge?

May be joining you folks soonish...looking forward to it :)

We look forward to thy joining anon!

You want to see why many celestial chorus people are seen as crazy... and the obsessive ones tend to actually go crazy quite often?

Watch this movie, or read the plot:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_%28film%29

This is the exact same kinda thing they deal with. lol

Gods unspeakable name is seen by some to be the same thing the celestial chorus is after, the one song of creation or the voice of the one.

Many are numerologist, math and music go hand in hand quite heavily. Paticuarly well with Phi and the Fibonacci sequence.

like that movie. the drill scene hurts. it does
tend to be a hard to fit the understanding of the
universe in a little human head. probably why
mages have to warp reality(^^). the director is
quite good at portraying crazy in a way you can
feel. although i don't know that i would recommend
any of his other movies.

It's not just the mind trying to comprehend something it can't even contain, it's the obsession to find it out.

The chorus is all fine and good, but the ones who get obsessive about there goal get wonky lol

obsession tends to have a warping effect all on
it's own. something about zealotry lends to
this. i wonder what insanity has been lost among
the hidden nature of the ahl-i-batin.

Finding them?

Praobly a good bit there not called the suble ones for no reason

Finding them may well be insanity(^^). With Mount
Quaf torn apart i wonder what they think of
reality. Along with the talk of the doctrine of
unity with its perversion through conversation with
the beast.
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"'sballs!* but those were  moments that I will ne'er have back!  See it?  Thou hast not the vast amount of coinage that could force me to see such a thing!  Indeed did I also get the same headache as the hero of this story -- and I use the name hero out of kindness alone -- and still doth mine own head ache and stomach roil.  Numina hath tossed her own victuals into a pail and is e;en now winging her way north to find the storyteller and poureth it onto his head!  Fear not O Azraile, for I did bespeak good sense into her reason to save the gragon donuts from her nether regions for the head of Ix's player an she can find him.

I find that music and poetry are far closer to Divinity than numbers ::draws sword:: and do ye not natter at me that these are numeric in nature as well lest I name the heretic nd witch and hand thee thy sit-upon into thy very hands!

Most of a human nature can count to twenty , save for Raven who did claim that he couldst count to thirty-one ... but an it please thee do not ask him for the demonstration of such lest he use it as an excuse to droppeth his breeks yet again!  Yea verily can I count higher for despite mine own blondness I am smarter than the average bruin; higher functions I can master with mine own calculator.

I bid all of thee lords and ladies to have a most pleasing end of week.

Peace and roses,
Dev who is only a bit bored

*short for God's balls, ie Medieval cussing.

They likely didn't have much to do with that stuff....

It just came up from the akashic record when they where trying to figure stuff out.

@devalanna: no math is not much in your sword or
poetry. music, unless it deviates from current
structure, kinda. math is but an abstraction and
only computers can pretend to create notes that
are equal. the question become if in reality you
can find two ones that are equal. for example is
one apple equal to another or are they all subtly
different? it's a question of precision that
reality will not match. even in two of ravens
fingers(^^). as math is an abstraction how much
can it relate to reality? all metaphores fail.

as far as pi goes isn't insanity fun?

@azraile: i had thought earth's(and everywhere
else's) correspondence point would be wrapped up
in mount quaf, as with the virtual web. so when it
imploded with a reality bomb i had assumed the
ahl-i-batin and virtual adepts would be pissed and
warped. of course observing a thing is different
from being part of it so confusion would make
sense.
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The Akashic record, one day I shall be able to fully read and comprehend it. Shame I can only glimpse now.

yah but the VA don't fully understand the mountain or prime correspondance points.... the idea that a planet has one point where all points flow through is understandable... but that it was... let alone can be destroied is a little much...

lol


and yah see the discriptions of stuff for earth....

The middle east is one masive death storm that no one that goes in ever comes back out.... and well ... yah it's just.... uglykinda like Jupiter red spot, only black

Oh no. Oh nooo. I adore computers sassily reading off lists. I love Raven's suit already. Oh dear.

So, being a special snowflake I had to take weird...I like weird, but weird takes time so it might be a little while longer;)

yah I whent with some what sassy based off his comments to it...

Raven wanted an interesting VI, and I figured the suit could analyze the way raven was acting and the fact he wanted a female voice and downloaded a new VI modal that is more fitting for him. Considering his kinda omg what a dumn computer responce a sassy computer bitching back was a good fit lol =p

He did say he knew nothing about computers and he wanted the suit to do as much for him as it could. lol

Heh :D

BEHOLD MY WALL OF TEXTING SKILL.

XD

lol

*flumps*  damn you people are good at making posts that require long ass responses from time to time.

earth from space...interesting. it does seem to be a
mess, but i hadn't even thought of spots. i had
kind of considered it a blur spot. are there any
satellites that have useful data? what do those
in space know of current conditions?

makes sense that the virtual adepts were playing
with toys they barely understand(^^). modern
computer science seems to be fostering a lack of
understanding at all levels. not that some don't
know(but how can you know). more that you can only
know so much and the rest drops into a black box.

at some point in robotech it becomes obvious that
the aliens cannot maintain their tech because it
is too complicated. for me this is an amusing
moment where science collapses. we got too smart
and can't keep up with our brilliance(^^).
progress is so easy, what do we even know of
maintenance?
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lol worse with rich people

some don't even know where food comes from let alone how to fix it, take away there servants there just kinda fucked

interesting how the most well to do, largely the
ones running society, are out of touch. they are a
total write off(^^), those who follow aren't that
far behind. pays to pay attention to the ecosystem
and sustainability.

Yah most people today wouldn't know how to hunt, fish, or farm

do you have a description of the hyperion wars as
it would appear on the interwebs of 'Space!'? i can
find some reference to it but not a good
description. sorry if i missed something here, a
lot going on that i find a some reference to(which is
awesome depth, but...(^^)) that is somewhat difficult
to reference.
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 03:33, Wed 11 Mar 2015.

It's a bit to type out....

sificide to say technocracy/traditions/marauders/nephirates and the like all fought like hell over the moons of jupiter from time to time

they got really uggly some times

In reply to Inks (msg # 22):

I personally enjoy my insanity as life seems so much more interesting, but I will not complain of boredon again for awhile!

And my mentor and hero-god professor (one of them) was actually reading a book that connected math to poetry.  Sheesh!

Peace and roses,
Dev's player

In reply to Devalanna (msg # 36):

best way to go with insanity(^^). i expect there
are some forms of poetry that lend to it more than
others. have you read cryptonomicon[1]? in it one
of the crytologysts starts using letter frequency
to break a set of codes. there was one person
creating one time pads. these, if truly random are
unbreakable. unfortunately the person tasked with
this was looking. there was a bowl of letters that
were supposed to be withdrawn without looking,
mostly random. the person was looking though and
was subconsciously picking letters in a way her
brain found acceptable. as an american z's and x's
were subconsciously rejected.

translating the world to models of math is doable,
but the books also goes on to point out that there
were many mental failure in those responsible for
discovering decryption methods(^^). although
sometimes that helped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon

I'm starting to move now, finaly, but if new people want to go ahead and start I'm making a place for them

Doh! Should I pose being near the group or looking for the drive? :D

I would far rather spend my time understtanding eliot and Yeats!  LOL

There started you off with something might make a discription and grab a picture

@azraile-hate moving, may it be swift. thanks for
the thread.

@devalanna-not sure about either of those options,
but there are many better things to break my brain
on(^^).

lol figured some one would wonder around some lunar back alley at some point, didn't think it would be the new girl.

Everyone say hi to smiling Jack, he/she is happy to see you.  :)
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(^^) smiling jack has been busy. inks should have
paid more attention to news casts, and probably
the time.
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well I don't have MY computer but I have A computer, least for now.

But point is i'm moved.

congrats on the move.

so what is a human soul, i've been thinking of it
as a spirit, since they end up in the realm of the
dead. although how they get off 'the wheel' and
into a body is interesting, but spirits can
possess. do we all posses ourselves(^^)?

humans are a little different that other creatures, there really kinda half or one third a soul..

why human souls can be mixed with so many other souls so easly lol

but the fact that doing so keeps them from being a mage should be a hint of sorts =p

But yah messing with human souls is like spirit 5 stuff
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Well the other books illuminate somewhat on the subject, Wraith and Demon. Even Vampire a bit. Though please do not mess with the soul of this monk, he is trying to awaken fully.

so what about animal souls, are they whole?

@huoshui - no worries i'm not super into bindings
and wasn't planning on doing anything like this
with spirit. maybe asking but not forcing. amusing
how quickly a situation comes up where i
care(^^). also fortunately i won't be tempted
since i don't have the power. yet.

In reply to Inks (msg # 49):

Well also Huoshui's soul and body isn't only his own, not sure how the dragon would like to any further invasion. Though I do hope we'll be allies so nothing of that sort should come up.

can you talk to the dragon through the tattoo or
is it more like a imbued blessing?

i think its fair to say we will. i've caught up on
most of historical posts and most of the teams
goals seem to align with inks'. stranger things
have happend though, so we will have to see what
azraile rolls out.

It is old and sleeping right now... it may die and be just a blessing or it may wake and be a spirit ridding his flesh with him

it is not inslaved ether, not all fetishes are prisons, the ink is something he could leave if he wished to.

Fetishes never need to be made into prisons they just can be, and the spirit is taped in them for a while no matter what because the prossess weakens them to the point they must spend a good time resting, and then need time after that before they have the strength to leave

But fetishes were never intended to be a prison, just some people force spirits into them and bind them there.

Most do NOT want to trap a foul spirit into a fetish.

A - if they use it the spirit will corrupt them
B - it will give a item of power to the enemy

But you can trap a spirit in just about anything and use the poower to bind it ... so its kinda like the power of the fetish is to trap the spirit better lol that's a propper way to bind something.... but thats very complicated and for powerfull spirits need people to watch over and maintain them

which is why so much fucked up shit happened in the wild west lol

the pure lands were pure and dark spirits were driven away or bound

then a bunch of Europeans come along with all sorts of dark spirits, kill the guardians, drive the people from the lands where they bound spirits, and half the time dug the fucking things up

The storm eater was in a silver mine

Ever wonder why Enron and Pentex is so tied together?  The Coruptor (and yes THE Coruptor, incarnation of the decay of the mind) was released from a Texas oil well.

i kinda liked your description of the extra ammo
spirits, where it was more like a trade of the
spirits powers for the items in the spell. it's
got me thinking.

also would i have awakened my toys? what does an
awakened computer do? can it influence it's
programs?

somewhat amazing how oblivious the werewolves can
be. they may have issues with the wyrm, but they
cause so many of their own problems.

might be a bit on the slow side to post

settling in and stuff

take your time i'll be aboot.

Heh, did Huoshui's answer displease the Raven?

Is it bad however that I kinda wish the dragon to awaken, I don't mean for any hope of that being more powerful but the narrative and possibilities that gives. Huoshui feeling he truly helped the dragon, not giving it a place to die but a place to reawaken. That and being an Akashic monk with a dragon spirit, that just has so much flavour to it.

Nope, the bird is all cool with his monk friend. He's just distracted.:)

I love poetry, especially if it is not only good and spiritual or good and funny ala Ogden Nash!

Sudden intake of large amounts of credits calling to be spent? Though that talk does remind me I might want Huoshui to visit a local Akashic master, see about cleansing his soul or something. Then again might be best to wait for that after visiting the Cat woman. Dark things are coming.

@devalanna - there is poetry i've liked, elliot
not so much although yeats has his
moments. recognize ogden will have to look
further.

@osman - nice. i had never thought of a pair of
pooka in conversation, but now your trying to use
this trebor's pookah-eese on him, oh the places
this can go go(^^). and now i can't even decide if
he's unseelie, can he put his real name in a
signature?

    Pooka - From old celtic mythology; A fairy
            spirit in animal form, always very
            large. The Pooka appears here and
            there, now and then, to this one and
            that one. A benign but mischievous
            creature. Very fond of rum pots, crack
            pots, and how are you Mr. Osman?

Pookas are fun they can turn into animals if no one sees them do it and they have to make willpower rolls to tell the truth the diff higher and higher the more important it is ( most unimportant stuff they can take an automatic success on it)

Most Pookas work out a system for the truth thing with there friends

For those that don't know if your dice pool is higher than the diff you can just take 1 success as the result with out rolling. I am tempted to do dice poll - diff for it if you take max time on things like taking a 10/20 in d20

So smiling Jack is back, we've got fairies who lie to their friends and a giant cube of robotic death. Now if we can keep all those things separate that would be wonderful. Also Raven running off with a ton of credits, can't forget about that. He could get up to a whole lot of trouble.

Am I missing anything?

Near sphere lol it hasn't been a cube for like 10,000 years or so, right now you need like duble scientific notation to exspress the number of sides it has.  lol

If you could make it a cube on the other hand you could be looking at knocking mankind back to the Stone Age ..... yay for complicated situations lol

Mage and werewolf have the tendancy to get into some situations where your best off letting the smart people figure things out and not think about it to much lol

Ah right, its growing sides and such I recall now. Right. We got any time mages around who think they could kick it back to the stone age? heh.

The plan is more to knock some less spherical sides into it lol

The closer it comes to a sphere the more advance it is the more power it has the more order it contains

Time fore some chaos you want to help work with spirit mage / fera to make some wyld talons or with some one with high enough prime to imbune as much wyld like quintessence as you can into Tass

Some moss frogs (forgot there name) are an awsome fetish you usaly can't make but with life magic helping and calling on some favors maybe you could get one or a few made they are devistating to technology but usaly they are created by wyld spirits and no one realy has any luck making them they just find them lol

But there little (usaly frogs) made of moss and must be keep wet/damp or they dry out and die, but when activated and thrown they will create a patch of moss/mold where they land that grows outward and into things (usaly for several feet) when into machines or mouths/noses this is particularly devastating and it comes to life hopping around doing this where ever it lands. How wide an area it affects and how many times it will jump usally depend on how strong the user is spiritually and/or how much power is pumped into it.

Bright steel or dragon fist isn't going to do it then? Shame might have been fun to jump at it with all of Huoshui's might. Maybe try to do that avatar form rote mixed in with some drunken fist xD

That reminds me you keep those weapons the marauder had that healed who ever they damaged didn't you? lol. Those things where kinda fucked up. But you keep them right, just couldn't figure out what to do with them? Or did you give them to the cops?
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Kept them near by, Wrapped up and such. Why they going to turn on me? xD

Just wondering don't think I ever wrote them down anywhere.

@azraile - in inks thread you mentioned awareness,
i had kinda assumed is was an extra-magical
skill. ie you just roll it in a vacuum to see if
someone walks over your grave. if i use sphere_x-1
does it come into play, whats the mechanic?
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 22:58, Tue 24 Mar 2015.

Magic can affect the diff of skills and skills  an affect the diff of magic

But awareness is kinda an alertness for reasonance and magic in general. It kinda is a weak version of prime 1 but helps you interprate what the level 1 spher senses give you. Here is kinda an idea

0 - what you sense is more something you just /know/ it don't translate very well into the 5 senses it's a raw 6th sense your brain dose not prossess well, in non-mages this means no 6th sense at all
1 - your brain is learning to make sense of the new senses you have and there not to clear but it makes perfect sense every now and again these things you /know/ you understand what it means
2 - your brain is use to your 6th sense and you understand it some
3 - you can see, smell and otherwise interprate your 6th sense in other senses better understanding what it is you feel
4 - this /knowing/ things becomes more clear along with your new merged senses and you are understanding some things on levels it's hard to put words to
5 - you simply /know/ things that can simply not be translated in any way but when you get those feeling you understand them even if you can't exsplain them to anyone

Welcome Inks and others. I'm working my way back in.

I'm reading through every thing I missed (SO MUCH) but are there any summaries you guys can provide so it'll help me keep it all together? I'm trying to see the best way to bring Ix back in.

@ix: thanks, if i recall you all returned from
mars colder areas and got on the ship. the main
group traveled on lucid to the moon. on the ship
the bastet revealed some details of her line to
houshui, who decided to help, but has been sworn
to secrecy. There is some background on develanna
and her baby dragon.  houshui and the metis were
about to leave the ship, perhaps with develanna.

raven got very involved with bang bang boom
boom. set up a shrine and got some visions. birdy
then got lucid to crack kairos' credit
chip. equipped with this he is off to see the town
and perhaps take advantage of local desperate
market conditions to acquire a vehicle.

osman and inks have been running around seeing the
sights. a pooka passing out magic toys the the
refugees from victoria station summoned osman from
he knows where to the moon. inks had a bloody
encounter with smiling jack and is currently being
interviewed by security.

sam has been poking around on lucid with puzzles
from the news feed and devices shes been equipped
with on the ship.

oh and the moon is a stop of to prepare to trim
the sides off an almost spherical avatar(?) of
technology, autochthina, before it awakens to
godhood and inflicts some devastation upon the
cosmos.

Not only does the bird have the credits and a brand new armored high tech suit, but he snagged Kairos' sword of Mars that can be very dangerous in the wrong hands especially if it could ever be restored to it's past glory and power. Oh, and he ripped off an old Earth revolver from the guy too he's currently trying to trade to someone desperate to leave the moon and has a transport they'd just leave behind anyway.:)

Hey Inks -- a warning about liot:  he is very spiritual which should not be read as religious, but he also uses alot of terms that make no sense to us today and only will make sense when the poem is reaad such as "hyacinth girl" whiich means hooker/prostitute if I remember correctly.  Try "The Hollow Man" which is about the soldiers who survived WWI.  xcellent!

Hey IX!  Devellana has now been declared a demi-goddess and you have to send her offerings of chocolate.

:heh"

No ... really.

Just because I love recalling such things here is a snippet of how Huoshui came to have green hair.



The monk got better, no more wooden sword or arms but he kept the hair colour as a reminder.

Thx inks n crew for the update. Ill be updating sooner than later.

Much thanks Huoshui for I was not then questing with thee when first this happened!  You need not send me chocolate with my gratitude! ::snicker::

Peace and roses,
Dev

Oh right, before I forget Huoshui has in his possession a magical staff. With his current use of his sword, if someone is in need of a melee weapon I am sure they could borrow it.

Divine Staff of Fortuitous Intervention.

Dam, you still here?  Ix?  Come my companions!  Let us sally forth and stir up adventure!

Yeah Ix, we've got discussion to make if you PM is still something you're interested in doing. Adventure!

Tye invite is open to anyone not busy at the moment!  Contact me here or privily and we plot!

What kind of adventure? :D

It seemeth goodly to take victuals to the starving people here abouts.  Who knows what we maun stir up?  Plus twould be a proud thing for a knight to do in upholding the chivalric code!

Taking food to starving people? Less of a teaching a man to fish solution but...sure :D  Sounds helpful :D

Ah, good gentle!  One canst not fish on the moon, nor can one learn to fish or aught else should that one starve first!  Plus mayhap we will catch the interest of foul- hearted folk that we can poke with sharp pointy things!

In the world of darkness? Oh I dont doubt it :D

Hey, Azraile. I was thinking for Huoshui and Amaphutha should we move to a different thread for the visit or keep it in with everyone else. Just thinking we could give our friends some room to do the wonderful things they seem to have brewing.

How should we handle Dev and Osman joining Raven? Leave it in the main thread, or move it to his Chapter 2 thread since it's already set up there?

I guess just move it over

Cool :D

Something I forgot to say. The CCG Dreadnoughts Zeus and Artemis are in orbit over New Boston though the CCG Eden hasn't got back from it's tests yet. However the two dreadnoughts in orbit are plenty big enough to help stave of compleat panic. After events like that it's rather reassuring to see some of the biggests ships there are out there orbiting overhead protecting you.... Even if the Vivo was bigger everyone roots for the home team, and it's a comfering sight.

They have sent crews to scower the ruins of both the city and the station to try and learn more about what happens, and of few navial officers can be seen in New Boston too helping local authorities.

Over all though there just there to protect the Central Collonial Goverment itself, the whole system working out of Neo New York having the whole place blown to hell has shaken things up as much as if D.C. got nuked by terrorist.... New Boston was a rather public fall back point and they are trying to quickly re-estaish a solid hold on things. So a big flashy show of power is something they need too.

It is like if, like I said, we lost DC they reastaished the Goverment out of the UN in New York and filled the bays with battle cruisers and carriers.

OOC Stuff happening, will post as I can but may be slower or faster depending.

In reply to Osman (msg # 94):

Out of town til Monday evening.

Finally got my hands on the 20th anniversary edition of Mage. :D

sweet, they are finally out. wasn't super paying attention (cause kickstarter and my bank account get along all too well). so I missed the campaign.

not sure how much background on old earth would be included in general knowledge. i kinda assumed world history, but not only is that some what country biased, but even continuity biased. especially since so much history is just technocracy bunk, or carefully hidden and guarded(^^).

how much would likely be known, and would there be much deviation from world history?

Oh there prity clear on what events went on.... but now that the cats out of the bag, everyone has lots of different views on what has REALLY been going on.

So like saying there was a world war 2 would be rather easy, saying it was was because Hitler was a botched hunter and turned into a wayward (Ravens OOC theory on the WoD Hitler) now that's something more to one group or another.

I thought I would take a moment to say a little something about my dear old bird that may not be fully clear currently. Though he Awoke to his Power many years ago, he is somewhat new at actually using it. Presently on his sheet, he possesses no skill that would aid him in his attempts, so he just throws stuff together to see what will happen pretty much without training and not an overly large amount of guidance. If it doesn't kill him, he continues on and if it does, oops. This maverick style of his is based off no recognized Order, so it came to my attention just today perhaps I should give it a name. So, officially, my splicer is a member of the Magical Order of:

"HEY YA'ALL, WATCH THIS!"

Sometimes its a matter of acting, rather than reacting. :D

I'm about at  a point where I feel assimilated enough to start acting.

Soon.

Osman, quick question for you about a recent post you made; are you on your ship looking out a hatch toward the building, or are you looking into the room Dev meet Raven in? I just want to make sure I got it straight in my head, because to get underground one of two doors has to be closed to form an airlock and they're below the sub-basement and it sounded like you were feeding people on your ship. It's easy to confuse me, just giving me gum and telling me to walk somewhere while I'm chewing will do it...:P

I was under the impression everyone was being fed in the building but even if that is the case, you are too far down for me to see.  So let's keep them in the ship.

i wasn't sure if there were actual errors so i
looked up amaphutha[1][2] twice. ouch, she really
doesn't get a break.

[1]:https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/amaphutha
[2]:http://www.wordhippo.com/what-...9145590c9050091.html

yah that's intended, though it was 'mistake' I went with not error

Moggie ; cats : mutt ; dogs

Ok changing things a little

(OCC talk )

~Telipathic communication ~

[comunication through/from a machine or device of any sort]

<translated by 3rd party or tech/magic of some sort*>

*translated from piglatin :p
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:32, Sat 13 June 2015.

In reply to Azraile (msg # 107):

Yeah sorry I made this needed, I was kinda hoping for something less horrific but it does seem I flew too high with this attempt.

The dice hated on yah was like 1125 I rolled

Somebody call a doctor?

Welcome back!

::Bows awkwardly::

Now when we cry medic, we might be able to get help!

*pokes the doc*

I'm a little lost.

Can anyone summarize?

Or gimme a cue / tell me where I can segue in?

@peter: if i recall everyone went to and returned
from mars colder areas and got on the ship. the
main group traveled on lucid to the moon. on the
ship the bastet revealed some details of her line
to houshui, who decided to help, but has been
sworn to secrecy.

raven got very involved with bang bang boom
boom. set up a shrine and got some visions. birdy
then got lucid to crack kairos' credit
chip. equipped with this he is off to see the town
and perhaps take advantage of local desperate
market conditions to acquire a vehicle. He then
went to an abandoned hospital and tried to help
the inhabitants and create a refuge for any other
poor survivors.

This involved awakening the building and drew in
osman and and devalanna. They worked for a bit but
have passed the torch to the local akashics and
others and are returning to lucid.

Houshui and Amaphutha, the bastet, retrieved a
weapon to use against autochonthia, the avatar of
technology, before it achieves godhood and
accomplishes some doom that nobody is quite sure
of but are worried will be very bad indeed.

After retrieving the weapon inks started tagging
along and has been discussing matters
spiritual. Huoshui and Amaphutha have been fairly
adamant about not bringing her along so inks has
been concocting a plan to stow away on Luci
anyway.

sam has been poking around on lucid with puzzles
from the news feed and devices shes been equipped
with on the ship.

Everyone appears to be converging on Luci on the
moon in preparation to take on the incarnation of
technology. I last recall you in training on
mars. Perhaps you stumbled back to Luci and
passed out for a bit. Allowing you to ramble about
for a bit on Lucid Nonsense?

I'm good at rambling

(^^) and bumbling. a rather endearing aspect of your character.

you could say you chose to help the refugies after the attack and ran into flowing water when he was on his way into the temple some time along the way

lol and it's Clashing boom boom, sorta a goddess of guns and explosions

She's the 'mother' of machines humans have made for war... and considering they haven't made much more advance than a trebuchet till a few hundred years ago, she didn't reach a 'godly' level of nature and when she became a totem of war people associated machines of war more with the sounds they made than anything else lol

Yah she might as well be called "Dakka dakka BOOM" XD but she's no joke.

But the monk and his kung fu magic did? Heh.

Proably won't help much till the bubble pops =p

With lucy there is no stealth roll to sneak onto the ship unless your doing it in a specialty lined crate or something.... might as well just walk right in.

So she's only getting the arcane dice for stealth roll and because of the -4 Lucy still missed her lol

Remind me to up awareness or such thing next time I'm able. Though if my CS is up to date I've some points to think about anyway.

what are the rules on the bubble? would awareness catch it? what is it versus? whats the difficulty?

shall we start a game of sneaking up on the monk and foiling his kung fu magic(^^)? or at the least attempting it.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:43, Wed 08 July 2015.

As you've seen my kung fu magic has been foiling itself as of late. So I would not be surprised if I would be unable to find you, even if I were to attempt to by making magic rolls.

Well problem is to find some one you have to be looking most the time =p

Bubble is just temporarily giving her an arcane of 4 people might sense the bubble with spirit or prime but they got to be looking or succeeded in an awareness roll

Doc failed

Doc we need to talk, you lack discipline and need more training!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkbzZakcVrg

i'm not familiar enough with this rote to say, but your magick has come in pretty handy. i think you may also be the one who uses magick most; so statistically is bound to blow up eventually. the dangers of power.

azraile and i discussed during character creation my lack of understanding of arcane and the world wide webs angst over it. azraile was very against me having a permanent arcane over 2. it is a little crazy kinda like arnold in your video. i don't know how i would do with no bathroom(^^).
This message was last edited by the player at 23:38, Wed 08 July 2015.

yah arcane over 2 is as broken as an uncursed, full power, sword of mars >.<

Those two things are stuff I just don't get what WoD was thinking


X Arcane = + X sleath dice and - X detection dice of opponate

Sword of mars? = gives -3 Diff to hit, +3 diff to block/doge/parry, and +3 diff to soak.

>.<

WTF!!!

hope its harder to get a sword of mars than arcane.

that barely even covers the fun part. arcane is off by default unless you Consciously will it off. so you go to sleep in a burning building nobody remembers you are there. at high enough levels your own mother forgets you exist. fun stuff(^^).

Yah that's the down part of over 2, but people close to you or around you along start to become immune to a digree

So mom remembers..... After a few months? Some details fade....a few years? Where's my daughter why can't I remember her name I'm horrible ..... Few more didn't I have a kid...was it a boy or girl?...... Decade or two?  I had a child?

Funny thing is recollection comes and goes as the power is turned off and switches back on

So there like oh god where's my baby my- *back to a king normal*
Are you ok?
Yah why?
Well you where just freaking out about you daughter?
No I wasn't I never even had kids

Yah arcane puts norms in the nut house
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:36, Thu 09 July 2015.

If you can share this it would help

http://www.gofundme.com/z3e7m8z

Hey Inks, considering my last IG post I thought I'd share this song with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKRfb_U-xRw

(^^) the game is afoot one way or another. are there any other unusual scents about? maybe on huoshui, the good doctor or with osman's merry cultists.

i thought we had hidden inks scent. what is arcane's interaction with scent?

unless this in another kind of "scent"?
This message was last edited by the player at 14:03, Tue 14 July 2015.

It's more of an instinct then he heightened his spiritual awareness

so it's a smell to him ?  lol

for those that are wondering she got help =p

she has correspondence, spirit, time, and prime.... but her correspondence and prime aren't quite high enough to do this herself, but the spirit helped out and wraped time,space, and reality around her to hide her

using all three.... thats why it's so freaking hard to find her lol

Lots of us have spirit help now in one way or another, and this is really well done by her. Humours even how we're having to run around after her blind.

and i almost got away with it, if it wasn't for the spoil sport(^^). ah the needs of security.

will need to learn this rote. 3 in each sphere?

actually you can squeak by with one more point of prime, but another point in correspondence would seal the deal, and 3 in everything would make it a lot easier... as it is quite hard to do

so you didn't need much help to pull it off, but it would have been very hard with just barely the stuff you need.

Pulling a membrane of time, space, and interdenominational rift around you into a bubble is.... complicated and you do not want it to go wrong

NASTY paradox potential there

Like to take my hat off to Raven just a bit for how good he's been doing, I would sware he was taking my notes on xp to heart and aiming to max out each category as much as he could, but he keeps pushing the good RP XP when he maxed that out LONG ago. lol XD

Not that our normal overachiever isn't doing bad. =p

If your curious if I gave xp right now everyone would get 15-25, huoshui would get 28, and Raven 36, and there has hardly been any combat .... Raven might be the first to snag 40 o.o

I don't mind you doing my rolls, esp...since I don't entirely understand all the factors involved :D

I only mind it when it comes out poor, then I'll have a cheeky moan but nothing more xD

Also hey look paradox problem friends, see everyone else you're missing out!

I should apologize, the paradox he got wasn't enough for a backlash, but it was a paradox with no game affect so up to you if you want it to last for a couple hours or make it ware off almost right away.

Sorry I was up late and sleepy.

Phsaw....it gave me the chance to do an awful pun....:D All is well.

Happy birthday Raven!

Peace and roses,
Dev

Happy belated birthday :D

Happy birthday :D

@raven I hope you had a good birthday(^^)

@osman "Homonymic Detour" nice(^^).

I did, thank you.:)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ns9djGa-7I

Oh and look at you sheets and figure out how much quintessence you are giving and to who, I'm not sure if anyone active can brake Tass down though. X.x

My bad

The bird don't have prime and can't hold more than 3 quintessence for long periods of time, I was letting the power he had from Mars bleed off slowly but I forgot lol so looks like he will have to let ozman hold the quintessence and weaken the wall with it before he punches the hole with him.

X.x

That and anyone with an avatar can meditate up to there avatar rating in quintessence, you have to have prime to hold more..... Im going to change that to your arete/avatar which ever is higher..... But that's still only 4 for the bird

Prime 1 can hold up to 20 queen unless you have paradox then paradox+1 is subtracted from your max (trying to hold more could be bad) and you can meditate to draw from a node
Prime 2 you can draw derectly from a node weakening it, and can draw from dram
Prime 3 you can draw from other kinds of Tass and anything with exstra "free" quintessence drifting about it

Yes, I mean to get Prime 3 soon since it also lets you do interesting things...:D

I'm giving 2 quint.

Just to go over things


and I think that raven bought some dram.... and we forgot about it... might have to look into that

ah you used them to fill your weapons up to full power, and Ix keep the rest being he paid for most of them.... he's got 8 dram on him

If needed I believe I have enough exp to raise prime, if as Amph says it would be good for Huoshui's training, maybe I could raise my prime. Should allow me to have that prime 3 effect you mentioned.

I have stuff thats going to tie me up IRL for a bit, RP for the time your traveling.... i'll see how much birds and stuffs are speeding things up

Gauntlet thinkness of shell 10~15...............

Lol that's what you get when two high incarnations of order tell you to fuck off and leave them alone. Lol
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:38, Sun 26 July 2015.

So....

I know rotes for almost anything can lower the diff by 3....can that stack?

If I'm helping someone else and not casting directly on the gauntlet does that adjust?

Three is the lowest you can raise or lower anything so no mater what likely You'll be rolling for 10s and might start with negative successes to boot lol

Lucky there are like five ships or so working together to bust it wide open and you can weaken it with raw quintessence and spirit/prime

Which is why I also said the bird needs to hang on to all his quintessence, because as soon as you get in patern spiders and structural geiodes will start repairing the damage, and you will need to bust out again

So...what you are say is...as dire as the situation is, if we don't find a node and juice ourselves up first we are setting ourselves up to fail....?

Your fine... lol

Though when this is over you all will need some juice

again... lol can you please go over here how much and to who your giving stuff there ben a bit more than once and I've got a lot going on

3 quintessence to huoshui.

I'll give two to raven...we will need to keep some in reserve to get out unless I can convert my tass into quint now in which case I will give all 3 :D

He already has as much as he can have

In reply to Azraile (msg # 166):

Can I feed it to him as he spends it?

And by he I presume you mean raven?

later yah

Urgh sorry, some things happened and I'm playing catch up here. So I'll be reading and catching up here and posting asap. :D

Damn!  Raven, that was an excellent post!  It had evewrything ... ok so "we few, we happy few" was not in there, but Develanna would just as soon not die for the Saxons anyway!

Well done!

Peace and roses,
Dev

In reply to Devellana (msg # 170):

Yeah Raven damn excellent post, and how on earth am I supposed to give words of wisdom that will in anyway match that piece of art xD

Yah raven summed up about all there was to say on the matter, it was quite the awsome post. I also have tk say Osmond 'prayer' was hilarious lol

In reply to Azraile (msg # 172):

:D

bah IRL is hell, keep forgeting things

If you will let me adjust my sheet a bit I am just fine with that...we don't seem to have an engineer per se and even though I have no matter I could helpish...


(moved as it wasn't quite the right place for it)

Pilot is fine, it just means your mechanic skills and stuff are limited to space ships, and in particular the ones you have worked with.

Having points in repair and technology just means you are better at it, and not limited to knowledge about ships.


some one with a drive of 5 might know how to change a transition out, but they couldn't fix a radio    while some one with repair could do both and some one with repair and drive could optamize his transmition and pobably tell whats wrong with his car by the way it feels and sounds.

In reply to Azraile (msg # 176):

Ah OK :D

Ok how's this

Bunnies aid is you know and can use the gifts leap of the kangaroo and cook: pound rice cakes. The later working much like cook but you pound the mix the way you do with rice cakes and the longer you do so the more filling and taistfull they are, standard is a poor twisting but editable parity mush that is just enough to survive on, but a few hours of pounding or help from others can improve on that greatly.

Ban - if you are able and have the time you must not let anyone go hungry.

Maden- you get three dots in archery if you do not already have three, +1 if you do, and +2 if you have five, and if you have three or more naturally you may ignore two 1's for the secondary/specialty instead of one. May use Moon maidens blessing: celestial arrow..

Moon maidens blessing: celestial arrow - may be used once a chapter but applies to an arrow and not there actions (so can bless another), applies the boons to damage. Also a number of rolls may be made on the accuracy roll and the best of them may be keep while the others dropped based off bellow:

Archery >3 : near new moon 1, near half 2, near full 3
Archery <3 : near new moon 2, near half 2, near full 3
Archery  4 : near new moon 2, near half 3, near full 3
Archery  5 : near new moon 3, near half 3, near full 4

Ban - think i already said that but if not ill figure out something

Well there 'poisoning' this being of order with a not so healthy dose of chaos

In reply to Azraile (msg # 179):

All the better :D

The discordian legion helps lol. Though there is a fair chance they will end up inadvertently damaging the ship or some one on it with paradox, part of the paradox...some times all or a fair chunk of there paradox just bounces off them and hits some one else

Heh, so I can make filling food and do archery now :D That is pretty damn good. Now I need a bow... think Amp is willing to lend?

no lol wouldn't work anyway

do you remember what I talked about?

I recall it being a gift from devil tigers, also correct me if I'm wrong but I'm no mutated fera so it wouldn't work... Maybe I'll have to find or make my own sometime. Heck for now I've still got the glove, throwing weapons shall be my weapon till I can come to a bow.

Well the glove i think can manifest arrows idk would have to read it

But i was asking more on the maidens part of the ban i can think of what i had just that it was easy for him

If the glove makes arrows that will be a help, would just need a bow to hand.

As for the maiden's ban... yeah I recall it would be easy and fit him but... it eludes me and I can't find the logs of our chat. Was it something like helping people when able if he saw them in need?

Well it could make some things you could substitute as arrows in a pinch but it says it only makes throwing weapons and you don't throw an arrow, though you could use a short spear for an arrow just not a good one lol oh well

Fair, then a bow and quiver of arrows shall have to be put on the list of things Huoshui needs. Would be bad to not practice and use the gifts the spirits gave him.

sorry irl has been x.x eh

rather not go into it.....

but anyway osman you can't make a mental shield but you can make yourself aware of any attemts to mess with your mind or any changes that are happening.

In reply to Azraile (msg # 189):

I will take what I can get.  Can I make it a lingering effect for this combat?

Hi all. In case anyone's confused, the GM told me I could go ahead and post what I was working on before we entered the barrier. Hope you enjoy.:)

Hehe nice, considering if you had botched it up it would have ben like flying into a brick wall >.<

Instead it was more like fling into a sea of drying wet cement or something lol

The impact still wasn't pleasent but it was far from "bug on a windshield" and more like belly flop from the high dive ^.^;;

In reply to Azraile (msg # 192): Is it possible to use entropy to pick the best possible path to counter what they intend to do?

In reply to Osman (msg # 193):

Specifically I mean direction

In future, feet and hand wraps of some kind. Might help against punching and kicking things like that. I think the monk might be out for a bit, healing and such.

Pilot us to safety Raven, you can do it!

All I got to say is if the dice keep loving me this much, it's off to Vegas baby!:)
This message was last edited by the player at 11:31, Tue 20 Oct 2015.

I can just see it, Raven convincing the whole group that the next clue of the coming darkness is in some sort of space vegas casino. Two or more women in his arms, saying that he just needs to go interrogate them about what they know. That said Huoshui would be happy in a bar, as long as he is convinced the next step is indeed around there.

Lol yah i can see that

And yah.... perhaps kicking spiky polygonal geometric shapes with razor sharp edges that can cut the pattern was not the wisest of ideas..... then again he is a drunken master

But yah generally if its spikey enough or the like hand to hand combat is going to Burt with out some sort of fist/foot wear/weapon tough enough to take that sort of abuse...alternatively some magics....also there some affects that can damage you just attacking with melee as well..generally some aura of fire or the like

Yeah was hoping to wake the dragon up to help with that, but maybe in future a use of magic from the monk might be good. Not high enough in forces quite yet for anything too flashy.

ah.... thought you where going to grab entropy 2 next though so you can use Kiaijutsu to do damage

oh that is still the plan. Just got to think about how to protect the feet in future also, as I said might try wrappings or some magic from the things I do have access too.

In reply to Huoshui  (msg # 201):

So....correct me if I am wrong....have we dropped the bomb yet? Are we going deeper into the planet or just bombs awaying?

Yah dropped and running

When I get home i will add exp to your sheet, and some of you are very close to or have your next free seeking, so can start working out how to take care of them

free seeking progress
~80% Huoshui
~77% Raven
~47% Devalanna
Ready  Ix
~23% Sam
~30%  Osman
~20% Inks

Note some will lower %s will get there faster though as they have arete 2 or 3 instead of 4 like half the crew..... the higher up you go the harder (and costlier it will be with exp) to raise your arete.

Looks like I'll be down and out for a bit, and won't be able to help Amp or anyone else. Haha, that will teach me... or not.

You won't be down and out magic wise to long, and you still have Do

All in all you where lucky like I said, the arrow generated something like 15~20 paradox, only 3 made it back to you.... just got very unlucky on the backlash roll >.<

or well kinda lucky if you wanted to get rid of most all your paradox? >.>

anyway he's still got medicine 2 so he can help make sure amp is ok, and tend to his legs.

Well a shame about the magics, Do will always stay but will be harmed with all the injuries just Huoshui's main concern is Amp, the dragon and the other spirits and people around. Best to get the paradox out, and 3 getting to me isn't so bad.

Just hoping this and the English nonspeaking clears up soonish.

oh yah, sorry, that stopped with the backlash

Great so he can not swear in English as well as Chinese. Or more accurately no more <> my speech through the Luci.

So all in all this battle hurt like hell. I'm torn to shreds, got no access to my avatar or any of the related stuff but hey at least exp and close to a new seeking. Though is the dragon ok?

it will pull through but he has no way of knowing

I will post soon.  I know you posted xp before...is that total xp we have or just for this story?

Thanks

this story, sorry made a mistake i think with yourse about not seeing what exp wasn't spent... your thing just had what exp was spent shouldn't have got rid of it >.<

you guys got 71 xp to catch up so your total is 81, I'll have to figure out how much you spent some how x.x

ok... that was interesting x.x lol

you have 13 exp total, you are down one mental attribute you need to add, and you didn't pick a specialty in attributes

Yeah but if Huoshui finds out it is harmed he'll be feeling very guilty for a while.

In reply to Azraile (msg # 213):
So one short of prime 3 :) I will wait.

Mental attributes like a dot of wits?

Will include details on specialty and long post soon

I would rather you put it i. Perception or intelligence... lol. His wits are high enough.

You can if you want would be cheeper exp wish dow. The line if you realy want 5.
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:36, Fri 23 Oct 2015.

The most witty person in space! No one can out him in wits, people will remember in him tales infront of fires.

Heya Raven!  Nice translation of the song Arlo!

Peace and roses,
Dev

I was beginning to wonder if anyone noticed, and after I worked to put all of us in it, too.:P

i didn't know that song.  nicely done. i took some stabs at looking for it earlier but didn't find it. was wondering how deep we were wondering into filk(^^).

In reply to Inks (msg # 220):

Not filk dear heart, but folk  And by the masterful son of the Master!  "The City of New Orleans" by Arlo Gutherie.  Here ya go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ

And in my personal defence having a personal totem IS like being that totems pet. LOL

Just seams the way raven makes sense of such relationships.

Please, somebody tell me they caught the 'eat him for lunch' line, and that it wasn't in vain.:P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMWi7CLoZ2Q

i did catch that(^^), but as long as the totems, spirits, entities, or whatever aren't antagonistic generally they aren't monogamous. even the gods are largely pagan in origin so one would think they are used to it. i guess you could make an exclusive worship, bargain, follower thing, but it would be interesting to see who cared.

Yah were at times will have a personal totem, a pack totem, and a totem for there whole local gathering

but it's all rather up to the player, I just put that you can have up to one in each catagory with out poblems to work out and you can only be resseving boons from one at a time.  (usaly anyway, anything is possable =p)

Generally though dedicating yourself to only one totem dose make your bond with that totem stronger

::pulls up a soap box and carefully climbs atop it::

This is going to be a minor bitch session of no real consequence, but if I do not get it out of my head, it will drive me nuts.  This is what I dislike about these overly rule-bound gaming systems:  if you do not have snot blowing down on your character sheet somewhere, then you must find a healer or cleric to clean out the nose!  I never took any classes in sewing really, but I can hem pants and sort of close up tears -- and I am mostly blind!  So if Dev who has working eyes can do cross-stitch, the old fashioned kind on tears and etc., of a certes she can do a half not-too-shitty job on a person!

Thanks you for letting me blow steam.

::steps off of the soap box and wanders away::

And it is posable Huoshui or dev may have had friends/famely in Neo Orleans

I'm going to say there is a chance Huoshui will be worried someone from his island was visiting there, in trade or something. He'll react with quite some fear when he finds out.

Ill leave if any was or how to determine if there was up to you

Our CSs are up-to-date right? I was just having a look at the costs to repair things, and well being the monk Huoshui is he'd be happy to cover the repairs himself. He will only be needed to get more of his wine so it would seem he has some credits the group could use.

In reply to Huoshui  (msg # 231):


Will be much slower at posts this month but will still be here.

Happy Samhain everyone!  Best of all New Years to everyone!  And Happy 12th Anniversary for Dev's player and her Significant Other!

Peace and roses,
Dev

In reply to Devellana (msg # 233):

Equally so in return!

busy day(^^). best wishes.

Is Osman in the same place as Raven and Inks? Dev posted that she found him alone, Raven and Inks were last in the Engineering area and neither posted they moved from the engines, and if either Osman or Dev said they were meeting up with the gear heads I missed it. Yet Osman is responding to Inks, so I'm confused.:(

In reply to Raven (msg # 236):


Answered inks.

Well done on the singing Huoshui!  I am impressed -- once Az told me what it was!  LOL

Peace and roses,
Dev

Thanks, felt Huoshui just needed something to try to pick him up, and well got to take inspiration from somewhere. His conversation and drink with Dev helped but he just needs to arrange what he has in order and get past what has happened.

So with chapter 3 beginning we should spend our exp now I guess?

you just got exp =p lol

I mean time to spend it, quite a rational in game time for improvement of my monk. Have him had read scrolls, meditate, or practice his arts. Magic might be difficult to rationalise as he can't use that but others are good.

yes ic learning is considered to be happening over the time you are getting the exp.... only matters if your trying to learn something like say sword skills when all your exp came from talking to people. lol

Happy all holidays!  Will be back after New Years!

Peace and roses,
Dev

Hi all.

Merry Christmas :D

Az, could you look at my pm and let me know if any of those will work?

Thanks

In reply to Azraile (msg # 243):

Uh... well check my PM... I might have to rethink where I spend then.

Happu New Year!  Boy is it good to be home!

Peace and roses,
Dev

Happy new year and I do hope all of the holidays were good to all of you.

Well let's see; I got chocolate covered cherries, an Xbox One, Gears of War, Fallout 4, and a giant bottle of wine that should accent the candies perfectly. If anyone wondered where I disappeared to, now you know.:D

Been reading the "How do you do that?" book for M20, quite a good guide on sphere magics. Then again I think when they came to redo Mage for a 20th edition they realised people might want more help with what they can do with magicks.

I can't afford that kinda book and I don't have anyone that can find me a copy for my computer. *shrugs* So I couldn't tell you how well they apply, but I am sure they are good. A lot of people had a hard time understanding spheres, paticuarly that advance/complicated magic requires them to work together and how to work with other mages to combine spheres. x.x

There are plently of spheres that are quite usefull and potent on there own, but some you almost have to combine.

Corespondance only lets you see distant places, stop people from seeing you from distant places, and make you move quicker to distant places on it's own. lol  You start adding other spheres in it gets interesting.   corespondance, time, entropy work paticuarly well together for seeing possable out comes of things in much grater detail than any of them could on there own.

Time has very few uses beyond giving you exstra turns and seeing the affects of time displacment. There are a few but most of the uses from time come from other spheres like talking about entropy before, and delaying the affects or stretching out the affects of other spheres.

Prime is almost made for feeding other spheres, particularly pattern spheres as it allows you to manifest pattern from prime.

and the groupings and affects of magic work together in other ways that arn't very well explained ether.

Dynamic - Correspondence, Mind, Time
Pattern - Forces, Life, Matter
Primordial - Entropy, Prime, Spirit

each group works with each-other a little better than others, it's not a big affect but it can be brought out in a ritual for a grater affect.

Same with the spheres having various afinites...

Strength - Life
Dexterity - Forces
Stamina - Matter

Charisma - Spirit
Manipulation - Entropy
Appearance - Prime

Perception - Correspondence
Intelligence - Mind
Wits - Time

And

Correspondence - Mercury
Life   -   Venus
Forces -   Mars
Mater  -   Jupiter
Time   -   Saturn
Spirit -   Uranus
Mind   -   Neptune
Entropy -  Pluto
Prime   -  ? Sun / Earth / Solar system itself ?   (it's earth =p)


The sphers also have a flow for the way the energy goes in nature and following it, using it is a grate boon:

It starts and ends at Prime by the way, another reason I say prime is important... lol

But just for an example there having seen what you are targeting with time/correspondence lowers the difficulty.  Perception -> time/correspondence

And even if you don't have mind/spirit Conseption -> Focus -> Form can help some with materializing a patern from prime.


There are also several materials and the like asosiated with each but they tend to be unique to each sphere....   MOST of these are focus' and are tradiltional and there power comes from that.... or are realated to the celestial avatar

PM'd stuff

I didn't do that ok? Good well then.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:47, Thu 28 Jan 2016.

ok now that i have books back seams i was to hard on Huoshui for the paradox that hit him....

The orginal amount of paradox was well over enough to cause agg.... what reached him not so much, and not as much as he got..

so as his magic comes back (and it is now, so now) his wounds reduice to 2 agg and 3 bashing...

and once he gets the metal out it's the 2 agg will be 2 leathal and he can heal it with magic....

Hey, does anyone want to volunteer in helping me remove the metal?

In reply to Huoshui  (msg # 254):

Hold still... *sharpens talons*

Well wouldn't turn you down so if you wouldn't mind trying.

Well, on a more serious note, Raven doesn't have formal medical training as such. But he probably learned required first aid decades ago, and with his lifestyle he's probably yanked some lead out of himself when there wasn't another option (or he was too high to feel pain, or too self destructive to mind if he killed himself, etc.) Plus, he does have scalpels attached to two hands.

I can't have him make the offer IG though I don't think, as he wasn't present when the monk took the damage that I can recall. Also, if you could refresh my memory as to the details of your injury (I've slept since then:P), it's be greatly appreciated. Here or PM works, take your pick.:)

Also, if someone has book learning on medicine and can talk him through it, that'd be great too.:)

He has basic field med training and exsperance treating wounds.... and this is similar to shrapnel wounds. So he can do it, he has plenty of exsperiance just not a lot of skill/training.

So... an eagle scout probably knows more about medicine, but don't have anywhere near the experience raven dose digging bullets and chunks of metal out of people.

Well I can bring it up IC, but yeah the damage is mostly shrapnel like from my understanding so I could see Raven being of help. Once the pieces are out I'm sure Huoshui can begin real treatment himself.

I would like to think that with some camera screen set up Huoshui might be able to help talk through it also.

Dear People of a game I love:


I should have told you all about this several days ago, but my presence in game is going to be spotty at best for the next couple of weeks.  A college for the blind is giving away three small business grants in a competition, and I am trying like crazy to snag me one of those.  It is taking far longer than I expected, even with the help of a sister-in-law and a hubby dearest who is trying to stay understanding of why I am not really here when I am here.  Wish me luck, and I promise better attendence in the near future.

Peace and roses,
Me

I am still here but unpacking has been slow due to insanity irl.

I will be making the new guy this week or next.  More likely next.

Well good luck to Dev, and looking forward to is Os!

Much thanks and ....

DEADLINE APPROACHING!  TIME TO PANIC...


AUUGH



Peas and rotisseries,
What'sername

Now waiting for physical mage 20th anniversary.  Or next week.  Whichever comes first.

Hey Huoshui, didn't you want Raven's help in getting the metal out of you? You said you were going to mention it IG but didn't, so I had Raven ask about your character's health and he mentioned nothing about it. If you don't want the help that's fine, but owing to past OOC thread chatter I'm a bit confused.:(

Oh right. I'll edit. Thanks.

Edited, :D asking for help now.

Totaly forgot about this so added it to the drug list.

Sublime -  Acts as a much much stronger version of bliss, this can leave people caring about nothing not even there own survival or doing anything. While the affects on the person are only dangerous in the lack of will to do anything that is required to keep themselves alive, the side affects of withdraw is what makes it universally highly illegal. While many of the affects of sublime contune well after it wares off, on the level of the drub bliss, the affects of withdraw add exstream aggression. With the affects of bliss with the need for more sublime and the heightened aggression turns users in voilent, fearless, and heartless killers that will do anything it takes to get more sublime caring nothing for the lives of others or themselves.



And for the hell of it.... reminder from music listed as kinda what sublime/bliss is like XD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omv3ozIT4jM

Should note though bliss dose nothing for the pain.... however like weed, it makes you not give a fuck about it... lol

So it dose help, just not by stopping the pain, it instead makes your mind just not pay attenuation like.... eh.... who cares.... XD

Bliss is kinda like weed in that aspect as it fills you full of "fuck-it" and you just don't care about your fears or pains or stuff..... like Raven pointed out though it dose TOO good a job and some people are like stoners and just want to stay like that not caring about anything

It was meant to help people in a lot of pain, stress, and fear. Sometime it's still used for that, but it has to be more exstream of a case than before now that they see how mentaly addictive it can be for some people.

>.>

hell just think of it as liquid weapon grade weed.  lol

After thinking about it you know.... but it was basically just thrown in as a much weaker form of that stuff off the Firefly movie that made everyone care so little they just sit in once place and died.  (wich is why the stronger version was going to be called Serinity >.> But desided agenst it lol)

Well its good Huoshui doesn't have any signs of an addicted personality.

Hey GM, does Raven have any idea how long this stuff will effect FW?

he likely been around it enough to know about how much to use, it's a liquid... clear, but it has a smell/taste

Remember to keep the shards and things for me Raven. I'd like to keep them.

Hey GM, how shiny are the shards?

Very shiny, but he can manage to resist grabbing one if he tries. Though it may be shiny enough to catch the attention of some high class raven spirits.

So he can fight the urge to snatch it but he may not want to enough... only one success win will vs instinct .. so that puts it in the territory of he can say no but dont realy want to... lol. Odds are if he dose say no and he dont at least ask if he could keep one it would bug him for a few days

Well the monk would share one if asked of course. You did save his life and are a friend after all.
This message was last edited by the player at 10:55, Wed 17 Feb 2016.

With it all removed and Huoshui needing to heal himself, is he limited to mundane healing arts? Or is it even safe for him to do otherwise.

he can magic now =p

Yeah but if that is wise is a whole other matter...

it's fine lol

Well here is hoping I get better through magic this time.

Hello everybody in Mage Land.:) I've been quiet for a while, and I don't know who might still be around but I wanted to sound off that I was present and accounted for. I've been involved in some RL matters, but I'm hoping I've gotten them balanced to allow for more posting here.:) Hopefully I'll be posting IG soon, and sorry about dropping out of sight on you.:(

It seems I spoke too soon; I was just notified of a death in my family, and will need to deal with RL issues regarding that for a while. I will return, as quickly as possible.

*hugs*

Thoughts are with you Raven.

Az, how would an extended roll work for this? Could I have Huoshui now go into a healing meditation?

yah I can take care of the rolls and say how long it takes or I can just say he spend the trip there healing

Ok I'll spend the trip there healing, unless anyone needs me.

Deb
....
Whats your girls obsession with her past life's balls?

She miss having them?

Hey everyone!

I'm the new guy in town. Can't wait to meet up with you guys IC.

Welcome, I too look forward to our IC meeting.

Hi all. I'm the other new player. I'm looking forward to gaming with you guys.

Greetings to you, I look forward to our meeting in game.

I guess I'll say Ix will be joining once again. Looking forward to meeting back with the misfits

Welcome newbies!


In reply to Ix (msg # 294):

Heya hon!  Glad to seeyou back!


Peaceand roses,
Dev

Welcome to the new blood, and a big time welcome for IX! Great to see you again.:)

Aww boo for the fixed font lol

Ill try and get the new peoples story's started up and finish there sheets be for i go but ill be going out of town soon and posting rate will drop

New people stories! Always looking forward to read and follow people's tales.

The Dr. is jelly of Donovan and can't wait to get his hands on some Venusian Sativa!

I'll be dropping a post in the next 24!

I'll be away from Thursday through Sunday night. I might be able to log on, but there are no guarantees.

With the GM's permission, I want to show you all the first of my creative efforts connected to my new shop.  Please let me know what you think of it!  My sister-in-law did the art and I supplied the slogan.

Peace and roses,
D



http://www.zazzle.com/politica...t-235787504523124309

This is your first one? It came out nice!

I shall be posting tomorrow cool cats

Nice!

thank you both for the feedback!

Peace and roses,
D

I did not intend to speak falsehood but I'm pulling OT at my job. So tomorrow it shall be.

I can dig it, mama!

In reply to Ix (msg # 307):

So more it be!  LOL  And thanks!

Peace nd roses,
D

Will be posting in the next 24 hours.

totaly forgot about this.... fixed and added:


Wisdom totem
Yùtù, the Jade Rabbit and Chang'e, the Lunar Maiden

Blessing - May use the gifts leap of the kangaroo and cook: pound rice cakes.

Cook: pound rice cakes -  like the gift cook but you pound the mix the way you do with rice cakes and the longer you do so the more filling and taistfull they are, standard is a poor twisting but editable parity mush that is just enough to survive on, but a few hours of pounding or help from others can improve on that greatly.

Ban - if you are able and have the time you must not let anyone go hungry.

Blessing - You have three dots in archery if you do not already have three, +1 if you do, and +2 if you have five, and if you have three or more naturally you may ignore two 1's for the secondary/specialty instead of one. May use Moon maidens blessing: celestial arrow

Moon maidens blessing: celestial arrow - may be used once a chapter but applies to an arrow and not there actions (so can bless another), applies the boons to damage. Also a number of rolls may be made on the accuracy roll and the best of them may be keep while the others dropped based off bellow:

Archery >3 : near new moon 1, near half 2, near full 3
Archery <3 : near new moon 2, near half 2, near full 3
Archery  4 : near new moon 2, near half 3, near full 3
Archery  5 : near new moon 3, near half 3, near full 4

Ban - If able, must not let anyone stand in the way of true love. On Mid-Autumn Day must present to her pastries on an alter bare to the moon.

Ok so I need to get a bow sometime, heh maybe see if the glove can just make arrows also... they count as throwing right? xD

As for the short term... I hope luci is as living as I believe, as Huoshui's magic doesn't extend too much to the not living. No Matter sphere here.

Hey cool cats, before I post:

Isn't the gravity on the ship knocked out?

Yes but space is the umbra so... you can just kinda walk on thin air if you wanted... or fly... lol it's all a mater of perception and belief.... stuff that when something like that happens tends to go wonky for a little bit. But Ix is trained well enough he should be able to get around by any means he see's fit with out artificial gravity telling him to do otherwise. (EI he can probably get around faster and easier with out the fake gravity telling him he has to walk lol)

Same goes for other chars who are use to zero G and open minded with the whole umbra/space thing to move how they want to move....

speed then becomes a matter of how much willpower you have.

Who needs air or gravity telling you what to do, with will working and power you can do without both and free yourself.

unless your in a true vacuum then you suffocate =p

space has eather... just another form of quintessence... and your breathing that

Umbra is confusing though, i think even the people who came up with the umbra are confused by it. lol

Humans just arn't designed to think outside three dementions and the physics we are use to, particularly when you get into 'rules/laws' of physics that change from place to place, time of day, no reason what so ever, or just because some one thought so (possibly some place that to you is very long ways away).

Man, it has been awhile. I'd completely forgot.

Thanks dudes.

So the rest of us are unaware of these space cuttlefish? OOC wise would these be spiritual in nature?

Yes they are rather good at staying hidden from detection both with the ability to sense them and see them....

you try seeing something like that agents the background of space, Ix has good eyes lol

Maybe we can speak with them... well when the rest of us can see them. Huoshui is a medium and "Reluctant Warrior" so if you guys are going to fight these things or anything in future, I warn you the monk can't fight just anything.

Reluctant Warrior - 2  (can't start fights, hard to join them unless to protect someone)

Gotta love flaws.

well they are attacking people =p

SOrry for delay in posting. Had a busy week.

Hey guys, I run a Changeling/Mage game on here that deals with Syrian Refugees. It has a Burbank, California side and a Homs, Syria side. I am looking for players. Please check it out.

Starlight Railroad
link to another game

Interesting thing...

The cuttlefish thing is part of something based of cathulu stuff and the theory that even though chulorviah don't have brains that they are very smart.

Turns out they have reasently found octoupuses are likely smarter than dolphins and some might be smarter than people.

People aren't served in Oriental restaurants.:D

But an octopus will and have date them. Lol

Some people arnt to agents eating sentient life

So all the cuttlefish are dead now?

no

there three outside with Ix and George, and at least one heading to the bridge.

I've got one order of blackened cuddle fish, extra crispy, ready for pickup!

Actually Luci ate that one, but I'm not feeding her any more of them since it gave her gas...:D

In reply to Raven (msg # 328):
Indeed!  An the sushi complain about being eaten howsomever, methinks that it is a bit too fresh!

Peace and roses,
D1`

Will be posting around noon tomorrow (today)

Leaving for NYC tomorrow, but will be able to post sporadically.

have fun

So I'm still in a fight yes?

And Ix as well?

no fights are over
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:06, Tue 14 June 2016.

oh and sorry to edith for being lazy about finding a name for the city... lol it's now named


Acraea

Yeah that might be difficult, if he means the main sword I use. It has a living soul and its own will, you'll have to ask it first and then there might still be complications.

I've returned from NYC!

Hey guys I'm still here. Sorry for the slowness bit with my new job there's little chance I can commit to the several a day rate. Don't mind me.

I'll catch up after work tonight.

Well at least Raven said stun...

I'm thankful for small favors.