So there is Inoue who may or may not like me and then there is this Roman guy who I never met before. Who definitely hates me.

Steve: How does he hate you? You just said you never met.

Exactly!

Interesting, given that your character knows exactly who this guy that you are convinced doesn't like you is like himself. Perception/What Actually Happened, although he's right in that Roman defaults to not liking him. There's a story here.

So, the new chart is as follows:

What they see----Inoue----Jade----Jioni----Roman----Poe
Inoue------------N/A------:D------XD-------:D-------:/ or :o (her choice)
Jade-------------:)-------N/A---->:(-------:/-------:D
Jioni------------:)-------:)------N/A------:)-------XD
Roman----------->:(-------:D------:/-------N/A-----D:<
Poe--------------:)-------XD------XD-------XD-------N/A

Inoue has ties to Jade and Jioni.
Jade has ties to Inoue, Jioni, and Poe.
Jioni has ties to Poe.
Roman has ties to Jade.
Poe has ties to everyone, although his tie to Inoue is indirect (she didn't actually meet him face-to-face prior to now).

I feel a good way to get a grasp on Jade is somewhere between her classes and skills. And I justify this with the note that her Guile is pathetic.

class (Aura Guardian, Chef, Skimisher, Researcher)

Skills

Acrobatics             Novice                 3D6
Combat                 Adept                4D6
Athletics                Untrained          2D6
Intuition                Adept                4D6
Medicine               Novice               3D6
Perception             Novice               3D6
General Ed            Novice               3D6
Intimidate             Pathetic             1D6
Stealth                  Untrained            2D6
Survival                Adept                  4D6
Occult Ed              Untrained             2D6
Pokemon Ed          Untrained            2D6
Tech Ed                 Untrained            2D6
Guile                    Pathetic             1D6
Charm                  Untrained            2D6
Command             Pathetic              1D6
Focus                    Novice               3D6
This message was last edited by the player at 22:15, Mon 08 July 2019.

But yeah! Everyone has Events that have happened with other people! In fact, all I need from Inoue is about ten names for her members (your group is pretty small - Short-Handed), and skills that reflect their spiritual, no-nonsense views of the world.

No, those traits are not mutually exclusive with being stoners. I lived on the edge of Mennonite territory - don't let those guys fool you: half of them were getting stoned privately. I learned everyone's dark side where I lived.

EDIT: But the names are higher priority. General Skills are optional.
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:34, Tue 09 July 2019.

So I'm guessing XD = "finds them amusing" and :\ = ambivalence?

Also, can I gain one weapon and upgrade another?
This message was last edited by the player at 02:59, Tue 09 July 2019.

The tier chart of positivity is " :)    :D     XD"

Of negativity, it is ">:(    D:<     DX"

No one got the last one on the negative chart. ":/" generally means "jury's still out."

"8D" and "I8<" were hypothetical.

So Jioni and Poe think very highly of each otherbut Jioni distrusts him?

It's how well you either "get" someone, or how well you think you "get" them. Usually, a positive relation means a positive disposition - you know them, or think you do, so you are actually either relaxed around them, or at least not fazed. It's mostly for my own references, really, and to help give everyone something to start from.

A negative disposition, on the other hand, usually means you don't "get" them, and think they are either weird or else kind of an asshole.

I feel like Jade's relationship to Inoue or Roman is already established/straight forward. I don't have any problem with Roman's story and Inoue and I working to save a life sounds straight forward enough unless we're looking for a more defined story there.


* Edit *
Giratina wants a name, and circumstances as to who we saved Inoue. So I guess I'll send you a PM momentarily.
This message was last edited by the player at 04:04, Tue 09 July 2019.

Alrighty thank you for the clarification! &#128513;

In reply to Giratina (msg # 30):

it's interesting that Roman defaults to not liking him. This must be a story that Roman must tell me. Wanna spill Roman?

Roman: No not really.

Well how about you tell me anyway?

Roman:Um nope.

Why the heck not?

Roman: Because I have no clue boss.

Ok well who does?

Roman: I'm putting money on the guy talking to himself

Ummmmmmm…………..Does that mean me/us?

Roman: Nope just YOU!

Oh *sigh* close call...……...

And that means I guessed correctly half the reason why. Because so far, Roman keeps to themselves and their crew. The other half is because Poe is Poe, and requires an Occult Education roll rather than Intuition to read intentions.

Okay, that last sentence's part after the comma isn't quite true. But it could be!

Oh, and Jioni! Have you chosen your zero, one or two backup weapons yet? You are armed to the teeth with some powerful alchemical weapons, all of Fine quality.

Inoue has ties to Jade and Jioni. Mostly done.
Jade has ties to Inoue, Jioni, and Poe. Mostly done, see above.
Jioni has ties to Poe. Done.
Roman has ties to Jade. I only require a few details to touch up. I will ask later.
Poe has ties to everyone, although his tie to Inoue is indirect (she didn't actually meet him face-to-face prior to now). Jade and Inoue are resolved. He's working on Jioni now, and how he knows Roman well enough to be convinced that Roman doesn't like him is up in the air...especially give the attachments from Roman's side are pretty loose. Was it a self-fulfilling prophecy?
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:11, Thu 11 July 2019.

Oh you never answered my question on the weapons, I thought you were talking it over with Yveltal

Upgrade one and get another? You can, and you get refunded for the mundane weapon's base cost.

No Legendary stuff though. You are not the bearer of Excalibur or Gae Bolg.

Lol well of course not.

Would it be possible to Upgrade my Honedge yo Fine without evolving it?

I'm going to go with no, on that one. It's already an awesome Mon in its own right. It does that when it becomes an Aegislash, anyways - which is admittedly some ways off.

A ranged weapon or two might serve you, or something that doesn't get -2 on all rolls when it goes down might serve you, though.

No plans on evolving it. And my Hand of Dreams is a ranged weapon.
Hmmm...I'll think on it though.

Also. What kind of move would a Master Hand of Dreams have?

That's annoying - I know I used to know what this item did, or where to find it, but I'm finding no data on it.

It's in my RTJ pm. Did you delete it?

Finally found it - wasn't where I thought it should have been.

It's Adept level move is probably something like Bash! or Wear Down, if I had to take a stab (again, not finding that part of it - the description of the weapon is spread out). So, the Master level move of a gauntlet would probably be Maul or Titanic Slam. The weapon does range as a built-in feature - the weapon ITSELF is quite literally designed as a back-up hand-to-hand option.

So, pretty much everyone is done.

Jade simply needs to divvy up $20000 worth of scrap Food and Medicine, and determine how she is transporting it. I suppose I could recommend a custom Rotom-F sworn to the pacifistic ideologies of the Celestine Pact.

Jioni just needs to build up his weapons, IF he decides to do so. He's got one (just needs elaboration), and he may have another if he wishes - Jioni is scary armed.

From Inoue, her faithful - names and brief descriptions. That's all.

Also, all character sheets on RPOL should be open for modification. Makes it easy for me to review what you have, can and can't do without digging through a million PMs and finding the data I need. Shorthand: Character sheets on RPOL lower the odds that I will kill your character on accident.

Once that's done, I am going to take a breather for about a week. Let my brain cool off while I try to determine how I'm going to start things. The beginnings are always the hard part.

I think I'm going to start everyone in the same place, and I think adventure one will be simply "Sunup to Sundown, A Day In The Life of a Mon Trainer"

Given what you are (protagonists of a tale), something screwed up WILL happen. Your days are never boring when I start "rolling the camera." Also, I need to coordinate with Yveltal to help me analyze your resources. While you have gaping holes here and there, for the most part, you guys are actually pretty well off, or can get that way quickly.

That's good. The more you have, the more I can target. That makes a better tale, I'd like to think.

Sorry about dropping off the face of the earth, Daughter had her tonsils removed and I'm about half as exhausted as she is. I'll try and get back to the backstory thing tomorrow if not tonight.

So, Siegfried is now the friend all of you always knew and that none of you particularly like, because he's always leaving after he does whatever, until now.

He's fought shoulder to shoulder with Jade, he considers Roman to be the smart one, and Poe bailed on him when he was trouble to go chasing butterflies or whatever Poe does.

So he sees this:

Jade     XD
Poe      D:<
Roman    :D

Because he remembers them,

And they see this:

Jade     ):
Poe      :)
Roman    ):

Mostly because they don't really know the guy.