Combat time was indeed around 10 minutes.  However, elapsed time since the first cup of tea has been about 1.5 hours.  (It's going to be an unpleasant day for anyone who has work tomorrow am...)

Duration of effect depends a fair bit on the nature of the compounds you're consuming, how fast the body processes them and how they interact with other stuff.  The impact we care about here isn't the halucinations so much as opening yourself up fully to the astral.  That requires the interplay of both substances.  What makes the second dose of the tea miserable is that several of the impacts the first dose *haven't* fully worn off.

I'll admit to not having much real-life experience here.  In any case, the impact shouldn't do much beyond roleplaying unless something unexpected happens.

Well, the impact is I originally passed my tests and now I failed it, haha. Any way I can butn a karma and just buy a success here? Pretty sure Ducky used up his pool.

I'd save your karma for the upcoming test :)

I thought that was the test?

Nah.  That's just for how miserable you feel :)  But we'll skip over your nasty halucinations this time because I expect everyone wants to get to the fun part.  Plus poor Hairy can't do much at the moment...

Well, Julia *did* say a blood sacrifice was required, so I suspect we won’t be hearing from Hairy for much longer.

Hell, maybe she was the one who hired Hairy through the bartender for just such an occasion. Surely bobody would miss some scumbag arsonist?
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Nice. I DID tell Deus I wanted to play a spirit character.

Sacrifices are generally valued based on their purity...  Not sure how much Hairy would be worth :)

Does WD want to say/do anything before we continue?  Noruas?

He's pure something...

Let me know the effects of the failed roll and I can animate em if you like- otherwise feel free to go ahead. Would just like to note that if Duck pukes, he’ll do so neatly into a trash bin.
This message was last edited by the player at 07:47, Wed 12 Sept 2018.

Hmm, so anyone that doesn’t make the group roll reduces our tn by 1?

Normally, I'd roll all the dice at once - so you wouldn't know if extra contributions were needed or not.  However, seeing as this feels "important", I'm letting you each roll your own dice.  If Noruas rolls first and succeeds, the rest of you'll know that extra karma dice aren't needed because as a group you've already succeeded.  The TN doesn't change though.

If we need to, I'm going to go ahead and spend 3 karma for an extra roll, if that's okay.  I don't remember what else I was going to spend it on anyway.  Let me know if it is needed.  Or if I can spend my karma reroll points instead/also.  I believe I have 4 of those right now.

I'm going to rule that you can't do a karma re-roll because it's a "group" thing and because this is always done during "downtime" and karma re-rolls would mean all of the rules around adding extra dice and taking extra months of preparation don't make any sense.

And yes, spending extra karma for an extra die is fine.  Do you want to roll or do you want me to roll for you?

You can go ahead and roll it with the others.  I'll subtract the 3 karma now.

Hmm, can I burn a kp for a success here?

If you want to...

I’ll do that then. Good for the goose and gander and all!

So let it be done.

You can mark it off your character sheet.

Well, Hairy’s got magic eh? This is gonna be interesting.

Should I heal Hairy?

Hmm, let’s see if he’s actually conscious before Cadeuces faces any more drain.

So is this bat scenario still during the intermittent stage between main missions? Or is it the main mission starting up?

I'm going to wrap this portion of things - so if there's any additional parting comments/actions you want to take IC before "time passes", post-em in the next 24 hours :)