This is the place for out of character chat.

Also, let us know if you're going on vacation, are swamped at work, or otherwise can't post for a bit. Life happens, and that's perfectly fine, but if you know ahead of time that you'll be AFK please post here to let us know.
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Hail!

Hi! I've got a name picked out, but that's about all I have so far. I'm envisioning a younger knight, eager to prove himself to his peers. And that's about it.

His name is taken from the first adventure game I beat as a child. The character of Gwydion was a clever young man who'd been kidnapped and raised by an evil wizard, who planned to kill him on his 18th birthday. Adventure ensues. I don't think any of that can be applied to the character backstory here.

I, too, only have a name so far.

I know I wanted to make a young Valkyrie, probably one who was brash and inexperienced and perhaps needs a bit of humbling in actual combat (where the rules of honor don't apply), and completely out of place in courtly intrigue.

Because I, myself, can't wrap my head around that stuff, so I'd rather not try to make a character who is good at it.  Much more fun to be a horrible diplomat and get pulled back by the rest of the party so someone else can apologize for my presence and smooth things out.

As the other two party members take me down with clorophorm.

Hi, I hope everyone is well. I'm posting here to inform the GM and fellow players that I must regrettably bow out of this game. I've been called back to work, and the nature of the job is such, that I won't be able to reliably post for much of the week. My apologies to all for any inconvenience, and I hope that this game will be as enjoyable as the premise seems capable of being.

Thanks for letting us know, Lex. I'm really sorry to lose you. Feel free to hang around and read along if you'd like. If your schedule permits you're always more than welcome to jump back in and play as well.

As for the rest of you, how goes things? Meara, any luck with finding time to work on your phase one?

Aw, that's no good. I hope you'll find a chance to relax and have a good time anyway. And yeah, once your time opens up, hop on back. :D We're friendly here.

I've been struggling to find time lately.  I've got an exam this evening (it's not quite 2:00AM for me as I write this) and before that, I have a job interview for a temp agency that's an hour away in just over 12 hours that I have to finish preparing for as well.  Then a 5 page paper due tomorrow for something else entirely.  And another exam this Saturday.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I'll try to find time this week to sit down and focus on this.

I'm starting to think it might've been easiest to start us with a High Concept and Trouble, peak Skills, a Stunt or two, and some Armour. Character creation's always been the slowest part of any Fate game I've seen. Still, I've got my Phase Three up now, though I haven't listed out example Invokes and Compels on my aspect for it. How's everyone else doing?

I think you're absolutely right Gwydion. Doing to phases bogged us down pretty hard, and at this point, I think I might actually start the play thread and let folks fill in the details of their character from that point.

What do you all think?

I am ready to roll, except I don't have an Armour on paper and as yet haven't taken the time to wrap my head around that bit. Was kinda focused on making Gwydion and tying him to the others. ^_^;

I think going strait to play would be a sound idea, if it works in this system.  I mean, I already know whose Phase Ones I'd be in, I'm just not sure HOW to be in them just yet.

I also need to design my armor.

I've got two finals this week, and my last one is next Wednesday.  I've also got two big projects to finish, one by this Saturday, and the other by next Tuesday.  So that's why I've been silent recently.  Once that's over, I'll have plenty of time to devote to games again.

I'm all done, so straight to starting is fine by me.

Ah. Hm. Another thing I'd like to point out right now is that all of my aspects are exactly the same. "Transparent Principles", "I Stand by Justice", "Louder Than Words", and "A Different Sort of Honour" are all so very close in function...I think I could keep Louder Than Words distinct, as it represents a brash sort of behavior. Impulsiveness rather than careful planning. But the others just reiterate each other.

If you don't mind me disconnecting my aspects from my phases, I think it'd be good to put down something like "Arthur's Nephew", which would fit my Phase Three anyway. Maybe an aspect that directly connects me to Meara, like Childhood Friends or some such. But having three of the same thing is just too much.

That sounds fine Gwydion. Whatever you think you'd have the most fun playing ;)

Pretty sure I'm done. Check out my Description, where my sheet is located. I didn't make as many changes to aspects as I thought I would, but it looks good to me. Also my Armour is done, and I think it's right, too. :D

I have an integrated system that gives me Great Vigour. Does that affect my Armour's stress boxes?

Alright! Gave myself a place to list Fate Points, introduced myself into the main game thread, and now just waitin' to see Meara drop in. :D

Boss, do you know if we still have Roland? I think we bored him away.

I actually realized I hadn't even designed the idea for my Armour, so I was at least trying to come up with its outer design and look.  Also, general purpose and specialty and such.  I think I've got a general idea, so I'm going to run with it while I try to come up with mechanics, but I won't be able to focus on anything much until next Wednesday when my last final is over.  Day before that, I've got a term paper due, and this Saturday morning I've got a group paper due followed by a final because I could only get that class on a Saturday this quarter.

So, I'm in crunch time, but I'll try to get SOMETHING up soon.

No worries. RL takes precedence.

The Armoury thread has a bunch of examples that might be of help. Beyond that, if you've got any questions or anything, Feel free to ask. That's exactly what I'm here for.

It's true. We're pretty patient people. Well, the boss and I are. Brun, you a patient people? :D

No.  I am a patient person. :)

Great posts guys. We're going to wait to keep moving until Meara and Roland get a chance to post. RL business and all. Feel free to keep going amongst yourselves if you'd like.

Alrighty!  My Armour, Brunhildr, is complete!

Now I just have to make a post IC so we can all do stuff.

Woohoo! :D

Might I say, that is an awesome giant robot.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:48, Sat 14 June 2014.

And now I have proven why I have an unfortunate reputation in the Court.

My poor, poor aide.  She doesn't even have a name yet and she just wants to put her face through a wall.

I'm gonna assume we don't have a Roland anymore. Hey Brun, any objection to me creating an advantage for you? :D

I'll check on Roland. He works nights so I'll shoot him a text. He might be too busy, he's been sick lately, but I want to give him a chance to post in case he's still interested.

Meanwhile, you three get Fate points for the great intro posts.

Meara, if you want I could make you a profile for your handmaiden. Just let me know her name. You're free to keep posting for her in your own posts if you want though.

Oh man, that's a dangerous path you're setting me on.

Now I wanna make the handmaiden COMPLETELY WITH STATS AND EVERYTHING.

There's no need for all that, unless you think she'll play a big role. We could stat her up as a supporting NPC should it become necessary.

I'm the kind of person to give a full backstory, history, motivations, etc to that extra who just walks by in the background and is onscreen for all of a second.

Extra #523 is the TRUE hero of so many stories, you don't even KNOW.

I like these humans, MerLN. Can we keep them?

Quick update guys. I let Roland know it was his turn on Friday night. I'm going to give him another 24 hours to post before moving on. From that point we'll assume it's just you three, unless he rejoins us.

I heard back from Roland guys. He said he's still interested in playing, but that his job isn't allowing him a lot of time to post. I told him to just jump in if/when he found time. So you guys should definitely assume it's just you three as players until Roland or even LX are able to able to post regularly again.

Oh.  Oh man.

Poor Freya.  Always having to apologize for Meara's complete disregard for courtly manners.  Honestly, she acts like a commoner sometimes!

I'll bet Arthur would personally find such behavior refreshing.  All these people giving lip service to one another in courtly manners, and then there's this girl over here who's all, "The hell's wrong with everyone?  We need action, not... not flowery language!"

And then she eats a turkey leg that she happened to be holding.  In the main court.

"What?  I'm hungry."

You should totally read the setup I gave Gwydion for the tournament. I'll leave it up to him if he wants to share it. But, yes, you're almost certainly right.

It's been a while, and I can't find something you sent me that the others can't see regarding the tournament. ^_^;

Should be the opening post.  We each have a line that only we can see.

Yea, Meara is right. Everybody's setup in the first post of the IC thread only shows up for them.

What's weird. It doesn't say it's private to me, yet it doesn't show up in Quote Post. Huh. Alright, cool. :D

Yes. The opening I got was awesome.

It's the <secret> tag.

If it's something you want to share and it's giving you trouble, let me know, and I'll post it up.

Ten years on RpoL and I've never heard of that tag. Now I have a new weapon in my GMing disposal. :D

It's a fairly new addition. It's definitely not been here all that long.

I suddenly realized I should probably change the Yes, Milady aspect.  I originally wanted to play up his Male venusian upbringing.....  But I think, based on what I have written so far, an aspect describing his almost crazed devotion to his Armor would be better....

Thoughts?

I was thinking...

-Euryleia is my Everything
Or more simply...

-Mad Love

I can totally see him clinging to Euryleia as a source of both his identity and his place in the world after what he ended up going through.

Also, I can't remember on how we'd planned out the connection between Meara and Brun.  Was it cousins or something?

I for one dig the idea, Brun.

Childhood friends?  Families were close.  My idea was that he was secretly on board Meara's family yacht during the attack to meet with his mother about his return from the Edge.

Meara might have been kept in the dark about his being there.  Perhaps, like many others, she believes Brun died with his sisters.  He definitely does not look like the handsomly dressed/coiffed Venusian debutant princeling that she knew.

I think Euryleia is my Everything fits best....  Can use to bolster defense and draw strength... But it can be used against if she is damaged, insulted, etc...

I'm very into that aspect, Brun. Very cool.

Do you think maybe he took the name Brun after his disappearance, then? Perhaps Meara wouldn't recognize him except by a different name.

Good to know, Brun!  And I also like Gwydion's idea that he took the name after the accident.  Just you wait until she finds out who he really is.  Hugs and kisses and tears - probably in the middle of a very important meeting of nobles, too.  Gotta live up to her reputation!

I also just looked up titles to see what Meara would be called using the good ol' UK heirarchy for royalty and nobility.

She's the daughter of Her Royal Highness, Grand Duchess of Tir Chonaill, younger sister of Her Royal Highness Queen Valerie La Guin, which puts her in the Royal category instead of the less title-heavy Noble category.

Her title is friggin' Princess.  She'd be addressed as Her Royal Highness, Princess Meara of Tir Chonaill, and thereafter as Ma'am.  Although in this situation, I think Dame Meara Chonaill is fitting.  Still!

This was entirely unintentional and I did not mean to make her a princess.

Mind you, the "of Tir Chonaill" is important because the Queen's daughter would be The Princess Royal or just Princess, so dropping the Grand Duchy from her title would, ah, say she's more important than she is.

why is nobility so convoluted and confusing oh my god

Hmmmmm...  How about Brun is short for his real given name.  Bruenor of Kotta.

His family did ask him to keep a low profile and not drag them into anything.

And ha! About the Princess title...  I went with Dame as its the feminine of Sir.  He really would know better.  Perhaps, especially amongst the warrior women of Venus, it's militarily respectful to refer to a Knight on the field as Dame?  Princess does not sound very Venusian....

I like that.  We'll see how long it takes her to catch on, what with her low lineage and her nonexistent lore.

Still, Princess is simply the counterpart to Prince.  It's only a lesser title if you want it to be one.

I'd imagine most courts would go, "oh, it's just a princess- Oh it's a VENUSIAN Princess oh well that's a different matter" the mutter something about crazy backwards Venusians while also trying to order Venusian Armour parts because they're so pretty.  People are silly that way.

But yes, Dame and Lady are the counterparts to Sir and Lord.  Although Britain apparently uses "Ma'am" instead of "Dame."

But I like Dame better, so to heck with "Ma'am."

ADVANCED FUSION REACTOR DYNAMICS?

I must befriend this woman immediately.

Brun, you rolled a -2 on your roll. Your Intrigue skill is +2, so your total is 0. That means you tie and get a boost. If you spend your Fate Point for a +2, you succeed, thus you'd create the Aspect you want and get one free invoke. Make sense?

Also, wasn't sure if I was clear from reading your post, there is a welcome banquet tonight, but the Ball isn't for two days, the night before the final match is scheduled.

Speaking of which, would everybody roll a d16 and post the results here? I've made up a little tournament bracket and I need to figure out where to seed you guys.

I noticed Meara is using one of her bio-lines to track Fate points. That's a really good idea, since you'll be spending them and gaining them pretty frequently, it doesn't hurt to have a spot to keep track.

Yeah, spotted the fate points mistake. Fixed it.

And for the rest...  I misread...so poop.  I'm now going to delete all my work and rethink.

11 on the d16

What you had would have worked with a little editing. You're welcome to rewrite if you wanted something different though.

I have you slotted into the bracket at position 11. Thanks.

Looks like I'm slot 9.  That means Brun and I would face off in the second or third matchups, possibly.  Assuming either of us get that far.

Correct. Assuming you and Brun win your initial matches, you'd face each other in the second round. This would have worked out better with an even number of PCs, but it's doable with three, it's just two of you would have to face each other earlier in the tournament assuming everyone wins their matches. That's why I'm having you guys roll it randomly, it seems most fair that way.

Sorry for the time...thingie. Been busy lately, but I'm here now. As for the roll, I give you...1d16!

22:02, Today: Gwydion rolled 1 using 1d16 with rolls of 1. Tourney Position.

Woo! We're number one! We're number one! :D

No worries, dude.

And with your roll, I've got the bracket set.

Now I just have to figure out what to post.

Brun, were you trying to create a scene aspect? If so, what exactly?

Gwydion, you're free to roll if you would like to do so.

Meara, you're up.

Same as before.  Tried to think of something else...and then got busy...  Ultimately decided I'd stick with it and just rewrite the post.  Updated new post with aspect specifics.

I threw this together if anybody is interested.

link to another game

Finally found a pic for Euryleia.  of course you have to imagine the pathwork nature and such.  Nobody draws salvage mechs....

She's gorgeous. Have a FATE point for diligently tracking down a picture.

Thanks, boss!

No, problem. Take 'em when they're free. The next one is probably going to have strings attached >=D.

Well I should hope so!

That is the purpose of the game.  Make the PCs life hell and pay the players for it. :)

Oh, you have no idea Gwydion...This is why I love FATE. All my machinations, and the players just do it to themselves.

I'm calling that a success. Name the aspect you created and you get one free invoke.

I gotta look up the mechanics of creating an advantage, why it would be done, and what I could use it for, but I should have a post up tonight.

The rules for it are in the Actions and Outcomes chapter, page 136 of the Fate Core rulebook. It's basically a catch all skill for "doing anything that makes things better for you in some way." It makes aspects in your favor.

Brun and I have both used Create an Advantage. Brun gave himself Sharp-Dressed Man, and I gave myself...I didn't name the aspect yet. How about "Iliza's Favor"? Each of us gets one free invoke on our aspect, which will do whatever is appropriate. I plan on using mine to maneuver the Baron towards Arthur's cause.

Out of curiosity, did my CA succeed?  No idea what it might have gone against to determine margin of success...

Shit, I didn't realize I didn't tell you. I'm sorry.

You succeeded with style so you get TWO free invokes.

Well, I spent last night looking at the rules and my skills, etc, and realized that I had absolutely nothing pertinent to the situation I could use to accomplish my goal of defending Irina and getting her back her dataslate.

It made me cry a small tear of joy to realize that this character with direct ties to royalty has absolutely no courtly social skills whatsoever.

Hey, I don't have anything pertinent to flirting with the baron's daughter, but that didn't stop me. I was actually looking forward to failing that roll so something interesting could happen. Not that it won't anyway, because I could see it in the GM's eyes that he has plans. :P

So just because you don't have any good skills for this, that's no reason not to make the roll and go for it. At worst you can Succeed at a Cost, which would likely be much more fun than just getting what you want the old fashioned way. I say make the roll. Caution to the wind!

Players like you three are such a blessing. "I'm so out of my element...This is so awesome!"

Just like Gwydion said, go for it. Just have fun with the narrative that's what this is about. I promise to do my very best to make both success and failure equally interesting equally enjoyable options. I'm just here to facilitate awesomeness.

I'm the type of player who takes a disadvantage because I want it to keep coming up.

"I have a phobia of butterflies, but that won't matter in SPACE!"

*two minutes later*

"Why does the nebula look like a butterfly WHY DO THE SOLAR PANELS MAKE THE STATION LOOK LIKE A BUTTERFLY"

Yes, but if you have the disadvantage and roll anyway, then you get to do things like embarrass the entire table at once in an epic display of having no etiquette. :D

That's the plan!

I just have to figure out how to do this as magnificently as possible.

Yep, and when you do I throw FATE points at you for the awesome.

*sits back and munches popcorn*  This should be fun!

Anything coming to mind Meara? It doesn't need to be perfect. Whatever happens we can roll with it.

I've just been really busy lately, and trying to narrow down my options for displaying my spectacular crash and burn amazing diplomatic skills has been troubling.

Gonna have a post up before I go to bed.

No worries. Life happens, it's perfectly fine. I just wanted to make sure you weren't stressing out over perfectionism or something.

Well, I thought that was a given.

I may have a bit of a problem with that sometimes.

I rolled well guys WHAT DO I DO I WAS SUPPOSED TO FAIL HORRIBLY.

You telegraph to the GM that you totally wanted to ruin everything forever, and then let him figure out how to make the magic happen. Don't worry, sooner or later the things that are supposed to go horribly wrong will, with or without help from the dice. That's what we've got Compels for. :D

EDIT: Also, how much further are we going with this scene? And did Meara get a free invoke on an aspect with her roll? Should I post another thing or allow the camera to cut away to the next narrative?
This message was last edited by the player at 18:12, Sat 28 June 2014.

This scene is there for set up and to inform what's to come. The scene has a point and it's coming up soon. I'm just giving you guys a chance to make friends and connections before that happens.

I treated Meara's roll as an overcome. Rest assured Meara, you're probably shaking things up more than you think you are, even if it doesn't look like it yet. Muwhahahahahahaha!

Yeah, I'm still figuring out how rolling and such works, but man, getting two successes when the odds were geared towards a failure kinda shocked me.

Now watch me roll nothing but -1s when I make an Armor roll.

And yes, I know that even if it is not overt, Meara just shook things up.  You don't make a request like that, no matter how diplomatic it may sound.  Not overtly.

Hey guys,

I went ahead and edited my last post just to keep us moving. Let me know if you want to respond IC, or if not, say so here, and we can move on to the beginning of the tournament.

I dunno about the others, but I'm ready to move on at a moment's notice. The new snippet of scene has been noted and logged, but I don't think any of Gwydion's reaction to it would be notable enough to warrant a post just yet. We'll see when it comes up again later.

All I can think of to post is Meara leaning over and whispering to Irina, "I don't have the slightest clue what you're reading about."  In a completely unsubtle manner, because this is Meara we're talking about.

Also, pretty sure she's not going to be touching the alcohol except when she's stared at by someone who is clearly waiting for her to take a sip.

I suspect Freyr is going to steal at least one bottle to help her deal with the rest of the socializing she'll have to do to save face for Meara's household.

By all means, if you want to post something, go for it! I'm not trying to hurry you, I'm just trying to make sure that when you're ready to move on you aren't waiting on me.

Oh, well, that was a fast banquet... Um, yes I'd like to do something to use my Advantage...  May I try to write it up tomorrow?

Don't feel terribly rushed. The GM and I were just talking, and I let him know I didn't have any idea if we were supposed to do more stuff now that we've done a bit of stuff. My advantage is specifically for use after the tournament, when I get around to talking to the Baron about joining Arthur. Now that I've gotten to show off my lack of courtly political prowess and apparent inability to not flirt with pretty ladies, I'm pretty much tapped out unless someone else starts a more engaging conversation with Gwydion. He's hit the highlight of his screentime here.

I honestly think this is Brun's time to shine.  I mean, he walked in, smiled, and got all the ladyfolk interested in him.  Also, probably pissed off a bunch of knights for dressing better than they did.

That'll teach 'em to underestimate Venusian nobility!

Yeah, Brun's the only one of us set up to nail a scene like this and really handle it. The rest of us are designed to be comic relief in scenes like this. :P

Speak for yourself.  I'm designed to be the comic relief when I'm the spotlight, too.

Going to fail every single one liner I can.

I can still speak for you. I didn't say you were designed /not/ to be comic relief except in scenes like this. Just that this is where you and I make all the stuffy types grumpy. :P

EDIT: (I am really looking forward to seeing Meara in the obligatory super-serious battle for the future of everything everywhere scene. That's gonna be twelve kinds of awesome.)
This message was last edited by the player at 07:38, Sun 29 June 2014.

She'll probably be all shouty and angry for the strangest of reasons.  We'll have to wait and see.

Of course!

If you guys are still interested in banqueting, keep going! That's perfectly fine. In talking to Gwydion I got the impression the scene was starting to drag.

I'll reedit my post and take out the end of the banquet and you guys continue to your hearts' content. When you're done, you just let me know here and then we'll move on, okay?

Comic Relief....

I am amused that the two "respectable" nobles are terrible at society....  Whilst the dishonored outcast former pirate seems quite at home.

Not what I had expected!

As for the sudden end, I am usually quite fine with pushing on...but I just set up this awesome Advantage and all....  Seemed such a waste....  I did it hoping for some Social Conflict to deflect gossipy jabs and riposte with some Cutting Remarks.

Which, now I see, is unfair as 2 out of 3 players aren't Social types!

It's also unfair to you to skip the social stuff though. I wasn't going to let sharp-dressed man go to waste, believe me. It'll pop up again too ;).

If you're still interested in the banquet then we'll definitely keep going.
This message was last edited by the GM at 15:03, Sun 29 June 2014.

I trust your plan then sir!  I'll just sneak my info and go. ;)

I replied to your post. By all means if you want to keep the fun rolling, go ahead. I definitely didn't mean to cut you off. Pacing is hard to get right in PbP and I can count plenty of times as both player and GM where I've been waiting on people to post while they were waiting on me. I tried to preempt the situation and ended up erring in the wrong direction. That's my fault. I'm sorry.

I think Meara wanted to say some stuff as well. Y'all have at it and when you're done and ready to move on just say that here and we'll switch scenes. Does that sound okay?

There will be plenty more social stuff too. Keep in mind there's a dance in two days game time as well.

Also, this is a good time to bring it up. If you guys think I'm handling something poorly or you just have feedback or comments, bring it up. I love feedback and I promise I can take criticism. I'm so far from perfect it's sad really, but I genuinely do want to do a good job and make sure everyone is having fun. So if I do something you don't like, something you do like, or you have suggestions on how to handle it better, please, please, please let me know.

Oh, just because Meara doesn't have social skills on her character sheet doesn't mean she isn't the social type!

She's just not the "proper high society noble lady" social type.  More the "Woman who hangs out with you at the pub and exchanges dirty jokes while laughing" type.  So, y'know, a hit with the king and the rank-and-file, and a horrible embarrassment at court.

Pubs and dirty jokes?  How..... Quaint...  And thank goodness someone likes that sort of thing.  The pirates never would let poor Brun join in such reindeer games.

And Boss!  I leave it to you to decide if Brun told the story or not.  :)

Let's just say Meara's influences weren't purely innocent and noble in their own right.

Freyr may or may not have played a part on Meara's current outlook on life.

She totally did and realized it too late.

Never let the heiress apparent hang out near the barracks, especially without clear ID of her position.  I bet you money those soldiers would have been more "polite and well mannered" had they known their Duchess' daughter was running around and hanging out with them instead of just assuming she's a soldier's kid.

Nice Meara! Fun details there. =)

In reply to Brun (msg # 107):
For this context, that was enough to get a Fate point. Sir Dennic only wants to know more about the competition, he doesn't care who you are, so leaving out those details isn't important to him.

Gwydion, Meara you're up.

I coulda sworn I'd posted here yesterday explaining why I hadn't posted yet: life poop. I am totally here, but not here enough to post anything coherent. I have been stewing posty stuff in my brain for a while, so something's starting to form. I'll make something awesome happen. I'll try to make it as inappropriate as I can, instead of accidentally being smooth.

No worries. Life happens. Just post when you can.

Meara & Gwydion: Noblz 4 Lyfe REPRESENT

In all the best ways.  Which is also all the wrong ways when in court.

Then Meara cutes her way out of trouble.  Not sure what Gwydion does.

I don't either, but it's starting to look like he flashes his Flynn Rider grin.

You guys are a riot. ;)

So they both cute their way out of trouble.  Its Super Effective!

I love this group.

"Hey, we need to make a bunch of knights who spend half the battle in the court of various nobles."

"Sweet.  We're gonna make a bunch of characters who have no goddamn idea how to follow etiquette.  I mean, all the skills for smashing things are more important, right?"

Darn right.  We play to win.... Err...  Put ourselves in difficult situations we aren't ready for and perform adequately.

I can't wait until we start fighting.

"Did... did that knight just headbutt the other one through the wall?"
"... Yes."

Gah. That wasn't awkward. That wasn't awkward at all!

No, it wasn't. That's okay though. It's going to play to your advantage. ;)

Meara: "What's up?"
Irina: *goose sounds*
Meara: "... Sure!"

In fairness to Irina, only the middle part was goose sounds. ;)

In my head, I imagined that Meara heard the noise adults make in the Peanuts cartoons.
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:49, Mon 07 July 2014.

Big words big words.  Technobabble.  Weapon.  Power.  Big word big words. Techno babble babble.

That's pretty much what it sounds like to her, yeah.

Think I'm done at the banquet.  Brun is turning out to be less of the outcast/social pariah that I had envisioned.  I kinda like it.

Meanwhile, Meara's turning out about how I expected.  Good to see that happening sometimes.

I also have nothing else to do.  And yes, Meara is totally going to let Irina into her family's prized Armour.

Her mother is going to be so pissed it is glorious

Gotta pity Freyr for having to deal with this.

Gwydion, you done? I assume you are, but I just want to make sure before moving on.

Done and ready to go. Also marked my shiny new Fate Point. Up to 6! Gonna have to start spending 'em on being awesome soon. :D

I'm just waiting for the time I can start blasting Rules of Nature during the tournament.  Or Guile's Theme.  Because they go with everything.

The main thread has been updated with the setup for the tournament. Each of your respective combat threads is up as well.

Rolled Initiative and go it a 1.  So, Bell goes first.

As for the ZZTop.... Ha!  I dig it.

Also, would Zimon's entrance music be "For Whom The Bell Tolls?"

Nice!

Sir Zimon has taken his action.

I have also adjusted the battlemap slightly for everyone.

I have learned something today.

Meara scares me when she's in combat.

FATE Rules Curiosity:

How do you hinder movement?  In this case, Euryleia is a melee Armour, while Bell's Armour is a blasting platform.  So, it would be to Brun's benefit to "stay on his tail".  But how to represent that in FATE?

Narratively?  Just express the intent when posting action?  Forcing the enemy to Overcome my stated Active Opposition to his movement?

As a Create Advantage?  Like On His 6, At Sword Point, etc, which then constraints their action till they get rid of the aspect.

Something else?

Still trying to figure the system!

Both are valid ways of doing it. Your choice. It'd probably be harder for an opponent to overcome your opposition than an aspect, but actively doing that takes your action for the exchange. It's probably a better choice in a group fight in all honesty.

Aspects from creating Advantages would work exactly as you stated. They'd have to overcome the aspect before they could act appropriately.

So it would use up your action to stay on him, even though movement is free?

Got it.

I'm still trying to figure out all that I can do in one action/round/whatever, so forgive me if I try to do things I can't or fail to do things I can.

That's perfectly fine Meara no worries. In general you can move one zone and take an action. Brunhildr can move two thanks to her thrusters, provided there are no aspects that would restrict movement.

I'm cookin' up an action. Just been spending the day making pizza with mom and cleaning the hair out of the wheels of my office chair. I got me an office chair, and now it goes WHEEEEEE again! :D

Bwahahaha! Ahem. Havin' too much fun with my chair. Also there's still pizza. Want some?

Gwydion, are you creating an Aspect on the SCENE or on your OPPONENT himself? That's an important distinction to make.

The idea was to put an aspect on my enemy, something to keep him off-balance.

Sounds good. The reason I asked is because there's a difference between the two, if it's on him he gets an active defense against it being applied, and he can't pay Fate points to invoke the aspect too, which he could if it was a scene aspect. Just wanted to be sure.

Sorry about the delay. I rolled my defense and started writing the post, then got a call from a friend to write up Shadowrun rules for Fate for a short campaign this weekend and next.

Hoo boy, was that the opposite of fun. I'll be running a Leverage version of Shadowrun at some point, and I will not be spending four hours writing up rules for spellcasting, summoning, adept powers, astral projection, cyberware, decking, technomancing, and rigging. This is exactly why I didn't want to use Shadowrun itself. Why does no one ever believe me?

Because that is your.... FATE.

Gwydion, are you trying to make the other guy explode violently in one slash?

Because that's what it looks like to me.

Whaaaat? Nooooooo.

Just gonna decapitate the armour a little and show way the hell off. :D Bonus points if I can take him out /and/ use my Duelist's Finesse stunt to gain another aspect with a free invoke to replace one of the ones I just used.

Also your own fight's going pretty well, too. For the record, success with style on a defense gives you a Boost. Because you're a badass.
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Everyone's thread is updated. Is it going well so far? Are you enjoying yourselves? Any questions, comments, critiques, or concerns?

I'm very much liking combat in FATE.  The back and forth of a duel makes it easier to get the hang of it.

I'm also thinking Euryleia is not a straight up match for either of these other two berserker Armour drivers.  SHEESH!

It's true, the system is fantastic when you can see how it all works and really get a feel for all the moving parts.

And no worries. It's just a matter of figuring out how long to keep building up assets and when to unleash 'em all. Really, Gwydion's not going berserk, he's just keeping the opponent on his toes while looking for an opening, then striking at the important bits to take away any advantages.

Oh no no, I was using berserker in the "hard charging, overwhelming offensive sense".  Euryleia is more of a battlefield skirmisher.

Oh, yeah. Well there's that. :P Speaking of, I wonder how many more hits like that can Sir Sturm take...

Brunhildr is a bit of a glass cannon.  All her systems are designed for mobility and applying damage as quickly as possible.  A solid hit on her drastically reduces her combat effectiveness.

What makes her truly fearsome at the moment is that she's got a pilot who is pretty much designed specifically around piloting and hitting things.

Also spending lots of money.

Boss, does shutting down a system count as accepting a consequence? If it does, I'd like to step down the severity of it by one (that is, choose to let him not shut down one of his systems, preferably the head since that lets him repair things in his off time) using my Quality of Mercy stunt. It'd be a gentlemanly thing to do, earns me back one of my Fate Points, and would be all around awesome.

Also I'd like to step back the severity of the hit itself by one to gain a boost, which I'll save for a later scene. That'd mean he wouldn't have to mark down stress, or he could leave another system active and mark the stress anyway.

All that doable? I'd end up with 3 Fate Points and a boost going into the next scene, and should anything terrible happen, Sir Sturm would still have one or two systems on his armour ready, including the system that lets him repair the other systems faster. Because I'm a nice guy when I'm not being a bad man.

In reply to Gwydion (msg # 153):

Yea, Armour systems absorb stress the same way consequences do. I did just realize you can only absorb stress onto armour once per hit. So you could let it take up to 6-stress, but no more, which I did on that last exchange. So he'd actually have one system up and his three stress box checked rather than his one stress box.

You can reduce the hit by one stress and get your boost (full scene aspect from your stunt) and Fate point, but the result is still mechanically the same as far as his stress goes. His repairs system will still be online, though. Either way, I'm pretty sure he'd concede at that point anyway. He's thoroughly beaten, then only thing that'll happen at this point is that he's guaranteed to get hurt.

Feel free to make a post about Gwydion's Chivalrous attitude. ;)

Oh dang. Alright, I started re-reading the Armour Damage rules on Worlds in Shadow page 234 and noticed this:



You can't mark stress boxes and shut down systems at the same time. Stress hits the character or the armour. You /can/ shut down systems and take consequences at the same time, though. That kinda makes armour combat a lot more dangerous than I thought, especially if we're tossing around +12 attacks.

Do we want to ignore that, or keep it in mind for the future? I mean, right now we're just doing play battles, after all. No one's really trying to kill anybody in the tournament. Also, real combat is expected to include Vassals to be used as an Armour's stress boxes. Those poor NPSs. (Non-Player Souls, you see.)

Also, I'd totally forgotten that Sturm's CROSSbow attack was his first attack of the conflict. That previous "attack" was actually Create an Advantage, and for some reason it keeps sitting in my head as an attack. I mean when I first wrote my failed defense against it, I started saying I was marking down his 1-shift hit to Mental Stress. :P

Also also, Page 234 also has a neat box about how Scale is irrelevant. I like it. Feels kinda like Mecha RPG's concept of scale. I shoulda read that before trying to convert this big shenanigan over to the Transformers setting.

That is neat to know about stepping effects down.

And I feel like I am missing something.  First, what was the effect of the 2 stress hit?  The total for the follow up attack was 6.  His looked like a 3...  Why is that just a boost this time?

Man i hate doing this on a phone

Brun, you mean your attack and Bell's defense? You rolled 0+2, then invoked two aspects for a +6 total. He rolled -1+3, for a +2 total. So you should have gotten a 4-shift hit on him, plus the 2-shift hit from your Disruption Foil system on the defense.

The boss marked Bell's second Stress box from the 2-shift hit, but didn't mention it directly. Just filled the box. With the 4-shift hit, I think he saw your roll (+0 dice, +2 Melee) rather than your total above it. S'why I usually put the rolls above the final totals, since we read from top to bottom and I keep thinking people will get confused if we put final totals up top and how we got there beneath them.

Though with a 4-shift hit, you have the opportunity to step it down by one shift to give yourself a boost. I call that good math, taking -1 now for +2 later.

EDIT: Lookit me here, all talking system like a pro. :P
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The two-stress hit was from your Disruption Foil system, because you succeeded with style on your defense.

Gwydion is absolutely right. I didn't see where you mentioned spending your Fate points above. I just looked at your roll line and saw that you used your +2 skill and rolled 0. My fault.  Choose one of his systems to shut down and then keep going as per the post.
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I think I'm being a bit mean to this poor guy I'm fighting.  Now he's got even less of a chance to defend against me.

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Don't forget your Fate Points! You've got plenty, I say use 'em. :D You can even roll first, then decide to invoke aspects after. I love it. It doesn't just have to be aspects made by Create an Advantage, either. You can invoke your own, or compel your enemy's, or even use the game's aspects. Wait, do we have game aspects on this one?
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Not currently, no, but we could if you guys want:



We could have them if you guys want. We can use issues like Fate Core suggests, themes we'd like to explore, whatever you guys want. Feel free to make suggestions.

Sorry that took so long and hope it made sense!

Rough long weekend

No worries, Brun. It makes perfect sense. I'll post up as soon as I am able to do so.

Hm. I like the idea of Issues, but not sure what we'd wanna use. So far I get the impression some sort of return of the Emergent would make a good Impending Issue, which could change to a Current Issue if we can't somehow prevent it. (Event Aspects would work really well for determining that part.)

As for Current Issues, I suppose the fractured nature of humanity would work well there. Then we'd be able to use the Changing The Setting ideas from the System Toolkit to start making real advancement toward gathering humanity up.

What do you guys think? This all makes for a pretty big game, very zoomed out scope. Do we wanna do things a bit more personal?

Without giving anything away what I've got planned so far does both. It gives you the opportunity to get involved in the setting and make those sorts of changes, if you want to, but it's also got heavy character focus too. So, to that end, either sort of Aspect would work--something with a bigger scope or something that addresses the PCs on a more personal level. I've got a few ideas in mind if you want to go with something like this, but if you guys wanted to propose them too that'd be great. You can never have too much buy-in.

To be perfectly honest....I was hoping for that anime style finish.  ;)

As for the Issues, I think I would like to stick with the basic outline, especially since MerLN seems to have cosmic-to-personal already in the plan.  but I will read up on Issues more.

I'm honestly fine with whatever, so long as it's fun for everyone.

Also, I've been busy, but I'll try to have a post up later today.  After I go to bed.

It's 4am.

Blargh.

I'm alive, thought I'd mention it. Somewhere in my head is stuff relating to the Issues idea, but it's all a little hazy right now. Maybe I can get my mind focused later.

Heh. I'm not sure quite what to say at this point. Struck me when I started typing that Gwydion would be keeping her favor until the end of the tournament, not just the end of the match. Go me. :P

One option I thought of was to invite Iliza over to meet Meara and Brun. Best case is a neat scene, worst case is hilarity ensuing. Unless it seems that scene has served its purpose, in which case I can post a little and let the boss cut the scene there.

It's completely up to you whether you keep going or not. It could definitely make for some good fun.

I will say that Iliza's intention was for Gwydion to keep the necklace for the tournament, not just the one match.

I shall ensure you have both the best and worst case scenarios happening, my friend.

If this does not end with someone holding Meara in a headlock, it hasn't gone properly.

There is no worst case scenario. There is only happily awarded FATE points.

I'm going to feel really, really bad for Sir Ein if he doesn't at least partially dodge the attack.  If I get a three step victory over him... he may not have a machine LEFT.

SHOULD HAVE YIELDED WHEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE BUDDY.

Well thanks to some lucky dice, he's still in there.

I think you forgot to note all his damaged systems.

Oops, the formatting didn't carry over when I copied the text. Fixed now. Thanks.

Man, he's bitter.

I suspect I just made an enemy.

SO HAPPY.  THE FIRST OF MANY.

Oh Noes!   A Venusian Princess!  Brun's kryptonite!

Not just a Venusian princess, but a cute one that doesn't acknowledge personal bubbles.

So, y'know, the kind that make anyone with active hormones go "shit shit shit she's touching me shit what do I do"

Oh, I've had a question for a while that I totally forgot to ask. What's the benefit of getting a bonus to Vigor from an armour system? It doesn't improve your stress track, so does it just let you do Overcome actions for stamina?

Meara,  there is that of course plus his culturally ingrained deferential attitude towards women.... Especially Venusian warrior women.  Everything he ever learned about women says they are just naturally more gifted than men at armor combat.

In reply to Gwydion (msg # 180):

Doesn't it? Does it say somewhere that it doesn't? Since Pilot and Armour share a stress-track and Vigour does up the pilot's stress track, why wouldn't an internal system boost the stress track for both Knight and Armour while the pilot is plugged in?

Ooooooh! I see now. I was reading the bit under Armour Damage where it states that you use your pilot's stress track while in the armour. Looking now I see that under Choose Systems it states that internal systems' skill levels apply to the pilot, and so apply to the consequences you have available. I think that also means stress tracks.

Yes, it does on my reading. Even if it doesn't we'll play it that way.

Sorry boss, almost missed the question.  I have no particular intention towards any particular plans.  If time permits, Brun would review the fight details and begin running tactical simulations, develop strategies, etc.  He's a planner and a studier.

Are we okay not having conversations after Meara and Brun's fights? I was thinking of saying something to each of them, but figured it might slow things down a bit since we've hit the end of Day One.

*Insert friendly banter*

I'm okay with it.  We can post our reactions to the later fights in the main thread where the feasting begins anew.

I wonder if someone's gonna try to poison anyone's food or drinks because they're sore losers?  Or, y'know, just spike the punch, as it were.

Just so everyone knows, I'm gonna be gone for the next two weeks due to road trip shenanigans.

Woo! Road trip! Have fun, tell us all about it, all that stuff. :D

As it happens, I had a thing I was gonna post and then forgot what it was, and then never got around to remembering. I haven't just up and disappeared, though it might look like it. ^_^;

Going to BronyCon with some friends.  I'll keep the Pony Geekery to a minimum in the stories of our con shenanigans, since not everyone cares about ponies, but everyone loves shenanigans.

No worries, guys. We can take it as slow as we need to until your RL obligations clear up. Have fun on the road trip Meara.

All those options seem great Gwydion. Let me know which you want to go with. Playing a scene would help us kill time while we wait for Meara to get back. Brun you want in on the after-party action?

Sorry..  Completey flaked here.  Dunno why!

I was thinking about having Brun concentrate on planning...but you make a very good point about needing a scene till Meara gets back.

A scene to ern some FPs in, I should think.

After party then?

Sounds like it. Gwydion, let me know which option you want to go with and I'll throw a scene up for you guys.

I'll take option #1, the compelling King Arthur's Nephew plan. I'll get at least one FP, and be dropped into whatever machinations the people around have set up. It'll be disastrous and great. :D

I'd like to call for some Trouble.  Based off the One Man's Junk Aspect.

What if someone there recognized some component of Euryleia as an experimental or one-of-a-kind device last held by a Knight going after pirates in the Edge....

Sold! One Fate point for the compel and one more if you make up exactly which piece of equipment it is that would be recognized.

So, I'm back!  Of all the shenanigans, one stands out best in my mind as the most memorable one.

See, one of the guys I was with is very, very knowledgeable about alcohol and mixed drinks and such.  Another was much more new to the whole thing and wanted to know what James Bond's drink tasted like.

Instead of asking the expert that, he instead asked how it was made so he could order it at the bar we went to.

The knowledgeable friend, not one to give unsought advice, replied with the ingredients and directions so it could be made by the bartender.  He did not, however, tell Friend 2 that this was a Very Bad Decision™.

So the drink was ordered, and it was tasted, and it was determined that yes, it very much tasted like drinking an alcoholic olive.  So, y'know, it tasted horrible.

We have thus dubbed the traditional drink of James Bond the "Bad Decision."

I also currently have a mason jar of honey bourbon gifted to me by Friend 1 (the one who knows all about about the alcohols), as well as the last few sips of the Honey Vodka he gave his girlfriend, who is our mutual good friend, and she left here because she couldn't take it home on the plane.

So now I have all this delicious alcohol and I'm kinda hesitant to drink it because it's gotta be savored and I wanna enjoy it but I also wanna remain coherent.

This is but ONE of the many shenanigans that we got up to during the trip.

Also, the Northern US Midwest is boring as shit and I don't wanna go back.  I've done the road trip thing now.  From now on, it's plane tickets.

Welcome back! Hooray for hilarious shenanigans! :D

That really is a pretty good shenanigan. The key is the witholding unsought advice part. :P Glad you had a good time and made it back safely. I'd totally offer to share the sippy stuff, what with it having honey right in the name, but I'm over here. Plus that'd be weird.

And yes, I've found that the only reasonable place in the country is California.

Wanna see Gwydion and Brun flub social stuff? We're being awesome.

I'll be spending today and tomorrow catching up on things like RPoL and Tumblr.

Wish me luck with the latter, because I'm probably something like 500 pages behind @_@

Welcome back Meara!  I like that..."not one to give unsought advice."  Learned many good lessons at the hands of such teachers.

As for my proposal, the Defense Matrix Energy Shield seems a very likely candidate.  Rather High-tech for an Edge Knight....where does one find such things....

Welcome back, Meara. Glad you enjoyed your trip.

I'll try and get a post up tonight, but I've got plans for the evening, so in all likelihood I probably won't have a post up until tomorrow afternoon.

Yay, I made a post thingy.

Back to the honey vodka.

I am an adult and make responsible adult decisions.

Gwydion, did you want to respond or shall I continue on?

Nah, at the moment I feel like Gwydion's more becoming part of the background while the real stuff happens over at Brun's table. :D

Okay then. I'll push us forward.

I am in agreement with ending it.  Does seem fitting.

Yeah, moving on is good.  I was kinda late to the party as it is, so all the fun happened earlier.

I'm good to move on, yeah. And I got that aspect I was hoping for after all. :D

I'll get us moved forward sometime today.

So I'd made my boost specifically to use it in the next match, but it looks like that's not a thing, which is cool. I'm not actually out anything. But in looking it up, I found /awesome/. I love articles like these. Here's the results of a discussion between Lenny Balsera and Ryan Macklin, two of the Fate Guys. Brilliant humans. Useful info.

http://ryanmacklin.com/2014/01/fate-boosts-revisited/

Awesome Gwydion. Thanks for posting that.

Gwydion, what'd you want the aspects you created to be called?

Sorry.  Busy day!  Meant to get this question out earlier, but couldn't manage it.

Would it be possible to just have Brun blow the initiative?  Compelling Renounced Prince?  He's facing an actual Venusian Princess in actual Venusian Armor.  Everything about his upbringing would likely make him feel completely outmatched.
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The Lore aspect will be Hatchet Scan, and the Melee aspect will be Field of Blades. I can't think of a better name for it: Gwydion's shooting blade beams into Liamont's zone to cut off his movement options and get away.

Also, I think Brun's idea would make for awesome fiction.

If you blow it, that's up to you.  I'll roll with whatever you decide, Brun.

In reply to Brun (msg # 215):

Absolutely. That compel will net you a fate point of course.

Meanwhile, my roll let me have some narrative fun of my own.

Despite the fact that I could have gotten up to a +10 on that roll and kind of done horrible things.  Horrible, horrible things.

What is self control.  Meara just doesn't know.

Yea, invoking the Reactor takes a Fate point, Meara. It always does if you've used up your free-invocations. I try to keep that marked so you know.

Also don't forget: you can invoke your aspects to reroll your dice instead of getting a +2. Since you rolled -3, it'd be mathematically in your best interest to do an outright reroll.

Well, probably, but I'm gonna go with it as it is.  More fun that way narratively.

On Meara.   Why blind himself?

I just realized that a smokescreen could be handy sometimes.   Information filed for the future.   Thanks GM.

Am I right in understanding that you are trying to compel that aspect to take a penalty on your roll so that you can earn a Fate Point? If so, I'll allow it.

Yep. Taking a -2 for a Fate Point that'll hopefully save my bacon later. Except I really think it's going to cook my bacon instead, considering that is the only -4 roll I've ever seen in a Fate game. Still, not gonna spend the FP I just got to reroll it, because that'd be counter productive. ...Actually, I could. First roll would be 4dF+2 (Lore), with -4 on the dice coming to -2 total. Compel the aspect for -2 to the next roll, spend an FP to reroll the dice, so the next roll would be 4dF+0 (Lore-Compel).

Nah. I'll leave it how it is. I'll need the FP either way.

I'm trying to think of ways to invoke my aspects in battle, and all I can think about is having Meara pilot in such wonderfully uncouth ways that she does things like wrap Brunhildr's legs around the head of the opponent from the front and gets people thinking impolite thoughts about what the Armors are doing.

Now, see, that's gonna be easier to do if they're on foot, because when it comes to battle, she doesn't care what anyone sees so long as she gets a victory.  Modesty comes AFTER victory.

Which probably drives her poor mother crazy.

"Stop doing that!"
"But mum, they're my natural weapons against men!"

I've been wondering what the connection is between Meara and Gwydion. Are they actually related, what with Gwydion's uncle being married to Queen Valerie? What's Meara's relation to the Queen, if any? Would Gwydion and Meara have grown up together, or at least known each other since childhood? Does their connection mean anything to the romance plot between Gwydion and Iliza? I'd rather not have something like that be totally disconnected from the others.

On top of that, do Gwydion and Brun know each other outside that one instance where they met, or is that the sum of their connection? How connected is he to Queen Valerie, and would that mean the two would know each other as well?

It strikes me now that it's entirely possible all three of them are family. Not sure if this has all already been addressed, but if it has, that was a while ago and I wouldn't know where to look.

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Hm. Any of those could easily be compelled to get you a bunch of Fate Points, but invoking them might be tough. Naive Valkyrie or Heir to a Duchy could represent her high-quality training. Naive Valkyrie and (Un)fortunate Reputation could also each represent unusual tactics; Naive being that she doesn't know certain tactics aren't combat viable, so they throw off the opponent just by being so weird, while the Reputation could be precisely what you suggested.

Also, you still have an empty slot for another aspect, if you wanted to make one a bit more directly battle-oriented.

Good Questions Gwydion. Most of the answers are up to your fellow players, but I can tell you that Meara and Gwydion are technically cousins through John Arthur and Valerie LaGuin being married. They aren't blood related though.

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Gwydion is right. You do have an aspect that you can add at any time. The sample invokes he gave for you existing ones are also really good ideas too. My advice is to be imaginative. If you're trying to create a good narrative, I rarely say no. Also keep in mind you don't have to wait for me to compel your aspects. You're free (and encouraged) to suggest compels of your own.

Gwydion have a Fate point for the post/being helpful.

I'm not sure if I explained it anywhere except to MerLN in a PM, but Meara is Queen Valerie's niece, as her mother is Valerie's sister (hence her title as PRINCESS Meara, being so directly tied to royalty and being a potential, but not direct, heir to the Venusian throne).  So she would probably be Gwydion's cousin of a sort.

When it comes to romance, Meara's been surprisingly aloof about such things, being much more focused on learning how to fight and pilot Brunhildr.  That hasn't stopped her from being interested in other people's business and relationships, but she hasn't really ever thought about herself in such a thing.

Also, I'm not sure what I'm defending against just yet, so I'm not sure what I'd wanna do with fate points should I roll poorly.

Brun is trying to Create an Advantage on you. If successful it'd give you an Aspect which he could invoke the get a bonus to actions he takes against you or reroll the dice in the event he gets a bad roll. The aspect can also be compelled to earn you fate points. It's functionally just like any other aspect, except that it only lasts for this scene or until you manage to Overcome it and remove it.

Ah, okay.  And I got an advantage from the previous contested roll as well, right?

Mostly right. You got a Boost which is identical to an Aspect except that it disappears after it is used one time.

Right.  The one-time bonus.

Okay, I think I can come up with something now.  I was mostly confused.  Still getting used to the game system.

No worries. It always takes a little time to get used to a new system. You're handling it great so far.

I totally got slammed by that attack roll.  Gonna take it as is!

That was too close.   I'm seeing a horrible doom filled pattern if I keep burning through FPs to dodge.

I was wondering how the audience might feel about all these tricks?  Is this All's Fair in Love and War?  Or would this style be dishonorable?   Just curious.

Good question, Brun. The answer is as varied as people are, though. Pretty everybody would see attacking an unarmed opponent as a violation of Chivalry of course, but beyond that interpretation very pretty heavily. Certainly there are really hardline knights who consider Electronic Warfare (and even Ranged attacks) to be Unchivalrous. They are in the clear minority, though. Something like faking a malfunction would be a lot more contentious. Some may view it as clever, others as dishonorable and cowardly.

I'll update your thread with the audience's reactions after you never exchange. I was just letting you guys get a few exchanges in before I did so, so they'd have stuff to react to.
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I love how the dice are making me fail so hard at anything defensive or strategic, but letting me at least attack well when it's being straightforward.

It's like the dice are telling me to play Meara exactly how I built her to behave.

Don't you just love it?

Hmm...  Let me run through my thinking to see where I might be missing something.

The purpose of taking a Compel is to put yourself in a bad position (You have _ aspect in _ situation, so it makes sense that you'd decide to _.  This goes wrong when _ happens.)  In this case, Meara is taking a compel on Naïve Valkyrie, so it would make sense that she'd decide to Back Off.  This goes wrong when...

That's where I am stuck.  The purpose of a feint is to draw someone in.  I know that mechanically Brun gets an extra free Invoke, but narratively, by Backing Off, she is not falling for the feint.  So the Advantage created is of no use against someone who will not attack the feigned weakness.  So, where is the downside for the compel?  How can I still make use of the Advantage?

In thinking about it, I also turned it around in my head.  Might another way of looking at it be to have Meara roll Chivalry, tagging Naïve Valkyrie for a +2?  Basically using Honor to defend against the Trick.  Her Honor and Naivety in this case would /help/ her avoid the trap?

OR

Take the compel on Naïve Valkyrie, forcing her to fall for the feint as she is to naïve to realize the trick.  Brun gains an extra Invoke as she dives right into the trap.

Sorry, I really want to understand FATE Core so I can run it for some people and this was a question that popped up for me.  It could be that I think too much.

That's a very good question, Brun. It's certainly not a case of you thinking too much.

It's all in the way you spin the narrative. It seems like you're thinking that a compel would cause her to dive right in and get hit, which certainly makes sense, but it can also work in the long term. In my mind, the way I saw the compel working based on Meara's narration is that Meara buys that Brun has damaged thrusters/propulsion and lets her guard down because of it. Her Nativity and Honor would overlook the fact that Brun might be playing a trick and she'd operate under the assumption that Euryleia's capabilities are reduced. That would leave her very open to retaliatory damage when Brun reveals that the system thought damaged is working just as it should.  So to use your example:

Meara is taking a compel on Naïve Valkyrie, so it would make sense that she'd decide to Back Off.  This goes wrong when Euryleia is not as damaged as she believes and Brun makes her pay for the mistake.

Does that make sense?
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Yeah, I was thinking that Meara would be holding back because she mistakenly believes that nobody would fake an injury in the middle of a duel.

While this definitely gives her a better reputation when it comes to being honorable, it puts her at a distinct disadvantage in actual combat because when you're fighting to the death, there are no rules, and a duel like this is a mock combat to the death unless someone yields.

All very excellent observations, Brun. The only element to then keep in mind for being a Fate pro is this: mechanics follow the narrative. Personally, I wouldn't put too much weight on the actual wording of a Created Advantage, so much as the intent to have given yourself some kind of benefit. If it turns out the benefit "works", but in a way that might look like it negates the aspect as named, ask the GM if you can still use it, perhaps renamed to reflect the ever-changing situation.

In this case, I agree with the others in that there's no real disconnect. You wanted to fake out Meara, and she's been properly faked out. She's not rushing in on you, but that's because that isn't how she handles that situation. Instead, she lets her guard down and is about to become a much wiser warrior the hard way. :P

Also, I'd like to say I am totally still here. Just been a little short of attention lately, been having a tough time getting a post written up. Gonna work on that.

I honestly fully expect Meara to lose the duel at this point from a strategic perspective, but possibly win on the "moral high ground."  Now, the latter won't get her further in the tourney, but it'll mean boatloads to her mom back home.

So that just means she'll have to make an embarrassment of herself later!

Gwydion go ahead and name your aspect. That roll is a standard success.

This is what dharma feels like. I'm gettin' poomelled.

Sorry it took so long.  This was the best response I could think of.

It's a good response.

And I could definitely see a compel on that Aspect Brun, if it disadvantaged you in some way. How do you think it'd make trouble for Brun?

Also Gwydion, you've still got an action to take.

Yeah, I've just been feeling the blahs for the last couple days. Trying to figure out what I want to do and how I want to type it, and trying to gather up the focus to actually get that done.

No hurry, take your time. I hope the blahs clear out. Anything I can do to help?

Meanwhile, I just had my extended "home alone" vacation end with my parents coming back from Peru, so all the distractions I didn't have are back, and I gotta adjust again.

Well,  I suppose the most obvious would be to give up that created advantage as he believes it failed?

Sure, that's perfectly fine. In that event, take two Fate points since you had those free invokes.

Everybody alive?

Kinda. Been having one of those weeks. Up and down, mostly down. Feeling pretty up today, which is kinda silly, but I hope that lasts through the weekend: got a Roll20 game to play tomorrow and one to /run/ on Monday. And since I've been super jazzed about running this story arc for the past four months or so (last story arc took a /long/ time), I really should be on top of my game for it.

Gonna try and kick myself into posting.

No hurry, Gwydion. With the rate we're moving you aren't holding the rest up or anything. Post when you can. Here's to you having more ups than downs. I hope your Roll20 arc goes well.

I'm pretty excited about it. :D We're doing Marvel Heroic set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, all original characters in a timeline mildly spiraling off after Iron Man 3. Right now the heroes are in Italy, the small county of Nefaria, working with Count Frost (Count Nefaria to comic fans) to remove AIM from his country. He's even given them access to one of his New Police, a former pro-wrestler called Unus the Untouchable. What they don't know yet is that they only have permission to take AIM personnel out of the country, but need to leave any gadgets and research they find. Unus is there to enforce that policy. :D SHIELD keeping secrets from them, their "host" hiding true intentions.

The goal is to bring my full Event to a close: ideally the heroes will put a stop to MODOK and the Cosmic Cube one way or another. Not-so-ideally, they may accidentally destroy Italy and make a few more supervillains while they're at it. My boys like lasting consequences of their actions, and after the last GM introduced the Beyonder, I don't feel the need to pull punches.

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On a totally unrelated note: Brun and Meara! I've recruited our boss for a game of Star Wars: Edge of the Empire. We're learning the system, and was hoping you two would be interested in joining as well. We'll just be taking the game for a spin, seeing how it works and whether we like it, both in general and for a forum-based game. I wouldn't intend to be sticking too close to any given canon (films or EU) unless something's requested. That's just a headache waiting to happen.

Mostly we're gonna use the existing framework of a setting to tell some (hopefully) exciting stories and figure out this funky dice system. MerLN's playing a robot with tasers for hands. We kinda need some humanoids to get anywhere. The plan is to first ask people I trust to handle the roleplaying while poking a new system before I start looking to total strangers. Interested in signing up? :D

If I had access to any of the books, I'd be more than happy to join up, but I've got none of the books, I'm not really interested in picking them up for one possible game (no offense, but RPoL's not the most reliable place for games even if I know everyone in a game personally).  If the basics are available online for free (like the d20SRD and Pathfinder SRD), however, I'd be happy to take a look.

Also, I'm still here, I'm just trying to figure out what to post.  I figure Meara's just going to wait until Brun does something, possibly requiring another roll for initiative.

Also, JESUS CHRIST GWYDION YOU BEAT HIM BY 10 STEPS

You're stealing my overkill mojo D:

Oh, uh. Bossman, can I have a Fate Point back? I just remembered that I had a Boost I should've been using, which we'll call Off Balance. Judging from how crazy that was and how I was saved purely by the die roller being controlled by Iliza, having that spare FP is gonna be really useful. ^_^;

Also, he can't technically concede after he rolls defense, so he'd have to take some Consequences, of which I'd like to step one down using Quality of Mercy to get a Fate Point. :P (That'll bring me up to two, which will be lifesavers if I keep this silliness up.)

Oh wow.  No wonder.  You burned all your fate points.

I burned all five to get him to check two stress boxes and shut down two systems, then another two to take him out entirely. That was a crazy hard fight, and it was awesome.

In reply to Gwydion (msg # 263):

Sorry if I wasn't clear. He definitely did take consequences, it was just late and I didn't feel like showing my work. His armour was completely wrecked and he took a Severe consequence which I reduced to Moderate as per your instructions. He now has Bruised Ribs.

So definitely have your two Fate Points.

I'm glad you like the fight, and I'm totally relieved it turned out the way it did. I think I built L1-4MNT too tough in all honesty. I wanted to give you a challenge, but I may have overdone it a bit. You guys were so evenly matched it basically came down to die rolls, which is not a good thing in my opinion, at least where PC vs. NPC is concerned.
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:43, Sun 07 Sept 2014.

Woohoo!

What really made him extra tough was the fact that his combat stats were higher than mine. That was all well and good until I ran out of Fate Points. Once that resource was out, I didn't have much that would let me get any kind of edge over him, since he could easily stop me from Creating Advantages for a while, and my attack just wasn't going to beat his without help.

I'd read an article where someone did the math for Fate, and I finally found it again: http://mechanteanemone.wordpre...ence-and-advantages/

Basically, having a +1 bonus over your opponent's combat skill gives you an absurd chance of winning, when Fate Points and free invokes aren't taken into consideration. I had a huge advantage at the start of that fight, but it went on so long that even having 5 FP wasn't going to save me. I really needed that die roller to back me up, which it did flawlessly at the end there. Spectacular.

That's good to know. I won't screw that up again. But, yes, you had a much higher Fate point total than he did at the beginning and that really helped, but what it came down to was the dice roller saving your bacon.

Edit: In fact, have another Fate point because your GM is a screw-up when it comes to NPC design.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:27, Sun 07 Sept 2014.

On the one hand, I don't think you screwed up, just got a learning experience. On the other hand, Fate Point! I'll take it! :D

Either way, I dun goofed, so have a Fate point for your patience and understanding.

Still here too!  Just, get busy at times...  I wish sometimes my life allowed a little more regularity to posting, but...  I am just gonna take what I can get and do what I can.  Between family, new schoolwork, blacksmith work, etc something is always coming up to attack my attention.

As for the Star Wars game, that does sound so awesome and I would love to look into SW again.  But, as I just mentioned, my time is limited and I fear stretching myself too much thinner than I am now...  But best of luck!

As for Gwydion's Alpha Strike.  Awesome.  Bravo.  That is the way mecha fights should end.

As for the other fight, well, shoot.  I dunno what to do then.  Brun started the fight feeling completely outclassed and off balance, tried a trick and it was immediately seen through (as far as he thinks)  Hmmm....  The only angle that's popping into my brain now to get the fight going is maybe Brun thinks the Princess finds him unworthy to actually fight so she's just not putting her all in it...

He could maybe accuse her of such over the comm?  Thoughts?

That angle sounds interesting, Brun. What do you think Meara?

I think it would be a GREAT angle.  And a great way to call her out and turn the crowd in your favor, as well as allowing me to use her aspects and high concept more (both for and against myself, because what fun is it to only use things for my own advantage?).

Meara's great at the physical aspects of combat.  Psychological warfare is, quite honestly, her real weakness in battle.

Don't you worry, Gwydion.  I'll be getting tons of fate points in my battle with Brun.
It'll be glorious.

Also, what order were the fights, anyways?  Was Gwydion's before ours or after?  Was there one between the two bouts?

Long as you're sure. I guess I just notice my own FP tally go up because it's mine. Didn't see that you're up at 5 until just now. ^_^;

I've been assuming the fights are still using numerical order, just removing the eliminated competitors. So Gwydion's match would still be the first of the day, being that he's in the #1 position. Either after or concurrently would be Sir Grouz and Dame Scipii. After would be Meara and Brun, either followed or concurrent with Sir Dennic vs Sir Veld.

After that set, we'll be able to determine who the second matchups of the day will be, and there'll be two fights there. Then on day 3 will be the final battle. Except to change it up, they'll be taking away the Armours and completely altering the conditions of the fight. The final match will be... JENGA! A true test of courage.

Boss, is that info correct? (Not counting the Jenga. I think we all know that's legit.) What were you envisioning?

Yep. That information is right, Gwydion. That's exactly how the matches are scheduled.

Instigate!

Would this reaction be a compel of his trouble: Adrift?   Feeling cutoff,  betrayed,  alone?

Sure, that seems reasonable, Brun. Causing trouble in your relationship with Meara when there really isn't anything wrong at all.

Are we going to be compelling ourselves back and forth instead of dueling?  Because that sounds like lots of fun!

Then we have to sit there and go "WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH ALL THESE FATE POINTS oh wait let's just increase the magnitude of the numbers for our dice rolls that sounds reasonable"

It's true, at some point you guys are going to have to come to blows again. Meara, I think the ball is in your court.

It is.

Also, I am missing drunken Iliza and I want her and Meara to hang out so baaaaaaaaaad

You can totally involve yourselves in that thread, since it takes place before your battle. :D

Oh man, you know the best aspect you can have in your next fight, Gwydion?

Hangover.

Can you not shoot missiles at me so loud? And turn off the visor lights, they're way too bright.

Probably gonna end up with something like "A Bit Tipsy". Definitely not enough time for it to become a hangover. That woulda been from the previous night. :P

Seriously, you totally could join that scene. I'm running it mostly to pass time for Gwydion while you two have it out, but you could definitely show up to congratulate Gwydion before you get ready for your own match. Then hanging out can ensue.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:04, Tue 09 Sept 2014.

"AAAAAAAAAUGH IT'S TOO BRIGHT wait that's just the missile lock notice WHY IS IT SO LOOOOOOOOOOUD" and your flailing in the cockpit to make all the noise and light go away gets you a flawless victory.

And stuck again...

So what to do next?

Brun is a tricky, defensive fighter who feels outmatched by Meara.   He would  not jump to the attack.  He fears her,  for what she represents and the skill she has already shown.  He tried the feint,  she backed away unexpectedly.   He confirmed his Armor's fitness when asked and went into a defensive stance to await the next exchange.  Which did not happen.

Then,  I suggested instigating action by having Brun make a paranoid assumption.   Which was responded to,  but still no action.  The instigation now only served to damage relations between Meara and Brun without moving the story forward.

I am feeling like my only option now to get this moving from my side is to have Brun go far out of character and just attack.   He has no motivation for doing so (other than the Duel Must Go On) and only puts himself at disadvantage by doing so.

Again,  sometimes I think too much. Thoughts?

Honestly, Meara still thinks his armor's broken, so she won't attack unless he does something like suddenly throw flak or a defensive screen or something, or maybe just insults her again out of panic.

I mean, clearly she's just being super-defensive because he's right and she doesn't want to admit it!

Well, somebody has to do something or else we'll never get anywhere.

I figured Meara would be the one to resume the duel since she's the one who stopped to wait on her opponent to recover. But if she wants to let Brun go first, that can happen too if Brun's okay with it. It'd actually negate the advantage of her stunt, which I'm sure would be helpful to Brun.

If you guys can't decide we'll roll a die and whoever gets highest goes first.

She has no reason to think his Armor is badly broken.  It was a feint.  A momentary opening.   The Armor equivalent of a stumble.  The Advantage has been negated so there should be nothing left to believe.

There was never a response to the CA: Predictive Algorithms.   Once I know the result of that,  Brun will attack.

Sorry Brun. Meara would need to roll to defend against the Predictive Algorithms CA. Also, the mechanical effect of Brun's feint attempt is still in place. Regardless of whether Meara dove in to attack or backed off to let you recover, you're still going to get those invokes. Since you're creating that other advantage as well, let's say Brun had the initiative.

Meara, roll to defend against the Predictive Algorithms aspect then take an action.

Okie dokie!  I've just been unsure of what to do because I'm still new to the ruleset and it's kinda difficult to clarify confusion when I can't just point at something face-to-face and say "That's what's got me confused."

So I'll work on getting a post up this weekend.  Hopefully Saturday.  Then we can get things moving.

If you've got questions, just ask. We'll work through them.

Victory on a defense by three steps means... what, again?  Do I get a boost to something?

Because I reread what Mark does and apparently Meara's not as unobservant as I first thought.

Right, Meara. Success with Style (by three or more) grants the defender a boost.

Everything okay, Meara? Any questions or just trying to find the time to compose?

It was the latter, but Brun saved the day with a Star Wars reference.

NO TALK TIME FIGHT NOW WOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Star Wars makes everything better. I was thoroughly pleased reading that post. :P

Same here. =)

Grand Moff Brun, have a Fate point for bringing joy to your fellows.

He's earned it.

He might need it, too.  Dang those are nice rolls.

Well, not the -1, but the boosts I was getting and that stacked nicely.

Also, thinking I might have figured out my final aspect.

Berserker.

Yea, Berserker, could make for an interesting aspect for sure, I can see plenty of possible invokes and compels for that one.

I'd like to take this moment to remind everyone of something that's been saving keisters left and right during my Roll20 group's Fate Sunday games: Decide what action you want to take, then decide what skill to use, then roll your dice and compare to the difficulty, then decide if you want to invoke aspects. This means that in combat, you can totally wait for your opponent's defense roll before invoking aspects to attack. I know it's kinda sucky on a forum game, adding an extra post to each player's end, but it suddenly gives you a huge advantage. If it turns out you don't need to spend free invokes, you can keep them for a little later. :D

...Oh, those were boosts. Sorry, forget everything I just said. Use 'em or lose 'em. But if you're thinking of spending Fate Points to invoke aspects, then yeah, you can totally wait to see if your opponent dodges before busting out FP and saying they don't. :P

EDIT: Waitaminute. Meara tied on defense vs Brun's attack, ya? That means Brun gets a boost, not Meara. For Meara to get the boost, her defense roll would have had to be 7 or higher.
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Also, I just realized we have a bunch of drunk and under-the-influence nobles including high level royalty in a bar with awkwardness and flirting in an age with interplanetary travel and space colonies.

There is NO WAY something like The Internet and YouTube/Twitter doesn't exist.

And yeah, I burned 'em because they were boosts.  There's not really a way I'm gonna win if we're neck and neck and we start burning Fate Points to see who wins, though.  It's pretty much up to dice (luck), strategy (not luck), and who wants to conserve fate points for later (because we're totally gonna have a "victor against Gwydion and his 8 fate points" thing going on).

Yeah. But it turns out you have one boost and Brun has the other.

Also, I was totally being careful about what I posted as Gwydion, since I am totally sure basically every one of their actions will be viewed by the entire station and Avaluna in a couple hours. :P

Why would he have the other boost?  I beat him by 3 both times.

Oh Fear not, there's PLENTY of time Narrative-wise for me to rain down Fate Points. Rest assured you guys will have an equally high mountain of Fate points.

Meara, handled her rolls properly Gwydion. She succeeded with Style on her defense rolls. She beat Brun by exactly three each time.

Shhhh! Meara, don't give away my devious GM secrets! ;)

I'm sorry, somehow I read his attack against you as being a +1 with a +3 skill, totalling 4 vs your 4 defense. Clearly I'm as drunk as Gwydion. @_@

I almost wish Meara was drunk, too.

Then she could call out, "NICE BUTT" without shame.

No worries, there is a formal ball coming up. What better time is there for an overly loud possibly inappropriate butt compliment?

I don't believe in the existence of inappropriate butt comments unless the comment is "your butt needs replacing".

ALL THE BUSTLE PADS

Those lovely Victorian era butt pillows under dresses that make them stick up and out.

They must make an appearance during the ball.

Also, Meara will finally discover champagne.  Gonna get me so many fate points.  So many invokes.

Poor Freyr is going to have an aneurysm.

Who's to say she's not gonna be drunk at the same time?

They just get back home and they both have to listen to Meara's mom going on a two hour rant.

"It's okay, mom. We brought you back some wine." "And chocolate!"

"And most people are focusing on my cousin and his new ladyfrie-"

"YOU THREW OFF YOUR DRESS AND DANCED ON THE BARON'S TABLE.  BOTH OF YOU."

"To be fair, he seemed to like it."

Sorry I have been so quiet.   Very busy RL.   Some of the few chances I get to post now are before class.

I have always felt a good Star Wars reference solves most anything.

I am a little sad no one mentioned my /other/ Star Wars reference.

Deciding on next maneuver.   Question: A maneuver designed to fool/juke a Pilot can be defended against by Armor?  What can't Armor Defend against?

You fired missiles at me.  I dodged.

I figured that was what was going on.

It was.  Not talking about Attacks.

But, say I fired a missle spread to force evasion as distraction for another followup move, like Covering Fire before a charge.  .

Sorry, Brun. I noticed the How Are You line and giggled a bit, but made no mention of it out loud. It was noticed and well-received. ^_^

As for feinting like that, you'll want to make it very clear what your intention is. I've been using tricks like that to start off both my fights so far, rolling Melee to Create an Advantage in an effort to get them dodging and off-balance for my approach. My opponents both defended using Armour. I probably could have used Cunning or Daunt to force them to use different skills to defend, but that's just how versatile Fate itself is. The same goal can be approached several ways.

You'll definitely want the player to know what your goal is so everyone's operating with the same story expectations. Even if the characters don't necessarily know what the others are doing, the players have to at all times. Start keeping your character's intended results secret, and no one will be able to sell your victory when you win.

Again.  No secrets being kept.  Not referring in any way to the previous attack, which was an attack.  I am thinking of the future.  Plans.

I completely agree that intent should be out in the open and have endeavored to do so.  I simply meant, can any CA be defended against by Armor?  I suppose Armor could make sense vs a missile salvo.  But, a Cunning maneuver should not be?

Gwydion is right here, I think. A lot of it has to do with the skill you use, but it also factors in what you're doing. Armour skill can defend against attacks while Piloting Armour, but it can also defend against Aspects applied directly to an Armour like Target Lock or False Sensor Readings.

In Gwydion's case I used Armour to defend, both because of the skills being used and the intent. The first time Gwydion did it as part of a setup which was cached as Battle Maneuvers which I felt avoiding would have been a function of the opponent's piloting ability. The second time, he was trying to scan his opponent, which I felt was clearly defended by Armour.

Armour should not be used as a catch all defense. Cunning is generally defended by Chivalry. You could use Cunning in the instance you gave to outsmart your opponent and it wouldn't matter how good of a pilot they were if they played right into the trap you set-up for them etc.
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:46, Thu 18 Sept 2014.

I would take a look at the skills in the Fate Core book, since they each say what they can defend against pretty clearly. Armour is the only new skill, and it states it can defend against Blast and Melee actions in armour. Zeal would be used for that outside the armour. Without looking in my Fate Core book (since these rules don't reiterate what the renamed skills cover), Chivalry would likely defend against Cunning, and Devotion against Daunt. And narratively all these actions could be firing a salvo of missiles to make the opponent dodge, but mechanically they'd represent different aspects of that one part of the conflict.

EDIT: Cunning is Deceive and Devotion is Will. Wouldn't Deceive usually be defended by Empathy (Chivalry)?

You're right. I got my renamed skills mixed up.

Yea, Armour is an unusual skill. Like I mentioned before, I heavily debated leaving it out, except that it is rather necessary for Creating and Defending against Armour-related Aspects, but if it does that alone, it just seems like bloat. So, I eventually decided to leave it as is.

Oh, phew!  I was just worried I messed up earlier!  Glad it's simply a mechanics question.

Fun being a demonstrating blacksmith fir a weekend...   But tiring...   Not to mention the prep leading up to...   Sheesh.   Getting back to it.

Y-you know blacksmithing?

I.

Am.

So.

Jealous.

EDIT: Also, how did you get a total of 6 on your defense, Brun?  I saw a total of 2 from the dice rolls.  Did you use some fate points or some free invokes with boosts or what?
This message was last edited by the player at 02:39, Tue 23 Sept 2014.

Yes!   Sorry...   Burned 2 fate.   Forgot to note.

For the record,  tagged Euryleia is my Everything and I Will Survive
This message was last edited by the player at 03:01, Tue 23 Sept 2014.

Alrighty.  I just wanted to know!

Everybody doing okay?

Kinda iffy on and off access to the family computer, moving like a maniac. Still checking in, but not much time to compose a post. Also, I kinda get the vibe that Gwydion's about done with the scene, but I've got a naggling feeling like there's still something to take care of with it.

No worries, Gwydion. Moving is always a pain. We'll be here when you get finished.

You can wrap up the scene with Iliza whenever you're ready. But, yes, you've still got the repair of your armor to take care of before your next match.

Again, school just started, and then other things happened, like well-meaning parents trying to schedule things for me to repair the back door of my car (because the part that you GRIP AND PULL TO OPEN THE BACK DOOR is apparently a SEPARATE COMPONENT ENTIRELY and it is purely ELECTRONIC COMPONENT so there's nothing mechanical so if it falls off completely the door will never ever open - who the fuck thought it was a good idea to make the part that gets all the force a SEPARATE COMPONENT augh) but not talking to me ahead of time so they schedule it for the next day when I'm meeting up with friends so it has to be rescheduled immediately and augh.

*pushes up his welder's helmet*  Yeah!   Sorry!   Still here,  just waiting on response.  Finding new ways to burn myself in the meanwhile

Please try not to burn yourself. As a Blacksmith you probably know better than most how unfun burns can be.

Oh I do.   But,  I have now found out its almost unavoidable when welding overhead.   And my welding jacket does nothing!   Need to upgrade my Armor....

Sounds like you need to get a ring of fire protection.

GAH.  Sorry it took me so long to make a post.  I've had the thread open in a browser tab ever since Brun's post, but I just never got around to writing a reply until now.

Happens to the best of us. I once had a tab open like that for about six months. Then I lost what I'd written when Windows decided to update without my permission, that uppity OS. Fortunately I only lost like a line of text, but it certainly reminded me to get my butt in gear. :P

Also, I have a computer again! Yay! Friend of mine sent me an old laptop and desktop, so now I have internet access without my phone. Which I'm about to lose if I don't pay its bill today, and as I can't do that, no phone. Still, back online. Aw yeah.

In reply to Meara (msg # 337):

Don't forget to take an action of your own in addition to your defense.

That was my attack.  He didn't attack me. he made an advantage for himself, I thought.

You thought rightly.

Responding now....

In reply to Meara (msg # 340):

You're right. Sorry. Lack of sleep was apparently having it's way with my reading comprehension.

Damn, son, you just made me go full defensive and burn lots of fate points to keep from taking additional damage.

Also, have a free invoke!

Appreciated.

No worries though,  the roller returned to its usual self again.   Dunno where that sudden fortune came from...

Dangit!  I was actually hoping you'd keep winning!  Meara needs to be humbled!

Doing my best.   Really.

I think the boost only comes with 3 shifts over the attack Total?

So,  your Attack Total is 5?

I seem to remember there was something if you tied, the defender got a boost or something.

Or was it the attacker?

I can't friggin' remember.