Here is my attempt at a poison for future use.

Candala's Whisper:  +2 Challenge.
Aspects:  Magical in Origin, Injected Poison, Subtle
Stress:  [ ] [ ] [ ]
Attack:  (Fair +2)  Once per day, this poison uses this skill to make an attack against the poisoned creature's Physique.  If it succeeds, the poisoned creature gains the Sedated Aspect with 1 free invoke.  Each attack by Candala's Whisper costs it one of its stress-tracks. 
Defend:  (Fair +2) Blocks attempts to cure or resist the poison.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:48, Mon 20 Apr 2020.

It looks pretty straight forward.
What I wonder is the relationship between the magical-effect roll and the poison.    I see two areas of impact... the challenge roll and the stress track.  A higher challenge-rating, obviously, makes it more difficult to overcome.  But the larger stress-track details how long it will last.  It's entirely narrative...  I'm okay with keeping the methodology of it kinda fuzzy...  unless you want to codify it somehow.

Re: Cara's Glyph of Alacrity




There's no real tension in the current situation that might impede this, and what Cara's doing isn't a particularly complex ritual... So, Lore(+4) is probably only an Average(+1) target... which means you succeed with style.

So.. That's two free invokes.

@Garland;

Garland rolled 4dF(-2) + Notice(+3) for Result(+1)
A NPC rolled Deceive(+1) to try to hide what he was doing...
Therefore, the result is a tie.
Garland succeeds but with a minor cost...

So... how about... there's a number of runners.  Approaching any one of them is likely to trigger a reaction from the others?  On it's own, it doesn't do anything, but it would add a shift to an attempt to isolate one...

Open to other suggestions.

@Etzagith
Etzagith rolled 1 using 4 Fudge dice.  Notice (+3) to defend against a pickpocket  for a result of 4
Etzagith rolled -4 using 4 Fudge dice.  Counter pickpocket (+3)  Oops!  For a result of -1

I understand the first line to mean:
You rolled 4dF(+1) + Notice(+3) for Result(+4)

I'm having difficulty parsing the second line.
You rolled 4dF(-4) + Counter Pickpocket(+3 for Result(-1)

"Counter Pickpocket" is Burglary, right?

Right.  I was trying to pick his pocket.  Burglary and Notice are both +3 skills for me.  Supposedly, I'm really good at it.  Just not this time.
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It'd make it a lot easier for me if you just put the skill name in your rolls...  means I won't have to go looking up your sheet.

I've got two things worth saying here...

First:
Please only roll when you can envision a dramatic result from both a success and a failure.   I may end up asking you what you'd envisioned might happen with the result you got (or didn't get).  Rolling really well or really poorly when nothing's happened is kind of a let-down.

Second:
"Magic" is the narrative excuse for your characters to be able to do things and learn things beyond normal human ken.   Lore is quite literally the knowledge and insight into magic.
If it's not a big production, extended ritual... (high magic?) then just roll the appropriate skill.

In the case of Cara creating the Glyph of Alacrity, Lore makes sense.

In the case of her inspecting the loaf of bread and ales for poisons or curses?  Honestly, I think Notice or Investigation would have better represented what she was doing.   Yes, she was doing it with magic, but the action was still noticing or inspecting.  I want to avoid having Lore becoming the default go-to skill to do everything.

That makes sense, let me adjust.

@Nathan

Nathan rolled 1 using 4 Fudge dice.  Investigate (+4)
Create An Advantage, vs Average.Succeed with Style
A Game Is Afoot


Nathan rolled 0 using 4 Fudge dice.  Investigate (+4)
Create An Advantage, vs Mediocre Succeed with Style
The Two Stooges

I'd given a difficulty target of Mediocre(+0) for identifying someone or some way into the Blue Sails Warehouse, because it makes sense given his background...  But Investigation rolls to create an aspect normally require some investigation.

You've rolled twice.   Once vs average to create A Game Is Afoot, and once vs mediocre to create The Two Stooges.  The Two Stooges seems more directly applicable.

I'm not sure how to apply A Game Is Afoot.   What does this advantage do?  How can he use it?


Nathan rolled 2 using 4 Fudge dice.  Notice (+3) - Initiative
While Fate Core doesn't actually have an initiative system, I figure initiative is going to be a very squishy soft mechanics type of thing...  a mix of rough order and order-of-posting...   Ultimately, it's mostly a guideline fr me to keep track.  I will be blatantly fudging the numbers if it suits me and the story.  But thanks for rolling it.

Indeed, once per the request in the thread and once per the PM. Apologies if I misunderstood, the kids distracted me a few times in pulling the post together :)

From what I thought was happening...

Nathan needed A Game Is Afoot, representing the stops he made to question folks, to find the back door into the warehouse and the need for speed to get there.

It was created (and used up) since I understood I needed to be there sharpish

Finding his way in through the back door and the timing was The Two Stooges, though it's a little bit of a stretch to call it an investigation... it was a long week, but I think I was thinking that his poking around and timing it might be sufficient. Happy to tweak, remove a free invoke or what have you

No need to change anything.  I just wanted to be clear I understood.

Choose an Action:  Feels like I'm seeking to Create an Advantage related to knowing who this person is, and what faction they represent.  But maybe this is just an old fashioned Overcome.  I'm not sure.

In my opinion, Create An Advantage which usually results in the creation of an Aspect also covers "Discover an Aspect"...  But it's opposed by it's very nature.

From a practical standpoint N cannot reveal a "true name" or identity from this attempt...  It's tenuous at best, and this is ritual magic with some preparation.  But, I can offer something...

You're familiar with the Dresden Files, so the best equivalent reference would be something similar to a soulgaze.  We're not actually crating an Aspect out of this.  Bu getting a metaphorical vision of some sort should provide something useful.
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@Etzagith
Etzagith rolled -2 using 4 Fudge dice.  Deceive (+4) to create an advantage for Garland, not that he needs it.

I'm going to push NPC Garland's action in a day or two.   But...  as a general rule, if you're trying to create an Advantage, I very much prefer that you give me some idea of what kind of Aspect you want to create.  There's a huge difference between Beguiling Stories of the High Seas and A Bunch of Trash on Fire, both of which could serve as an Aspect for distraction...

Sorry.  I was not clear.  Just a distraction, so that Garland can come up behind him and take him out silently.  I imagine that the only way it could matter is that it keep Garland from merely scaring the guy off, screaming, as opposed to just taking him out.  So, I don't know what you'd call it -- The world is upside-down from a dizzying combination of unexpected things happening.  With too much stimulus, he'll pick just one to focus on and won't have his usual (probably lax, anyway) attentiveness.
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@Etzagith
Re: The world is upside-down

from a dizzying combination of unexpected things happening. 

This is a direct interaction--so the kid needs to have a chance to defend.

Mechanically, you rolled 4dF(-2) + Deceive(+4) for a Result(+2) as per Message #19.  I'm just not clear on what the appropriate defence is here.  Notice?  Empathy?  So... What is Etzagith doing to bring this Aspect The world is upside-down into existence? for the boy?

I get that she's somehow bringing "a dizzying combination of unexpected things" into play...  but I'd like a little bit more detail... perhaps RP some of it?

@Arui
Finding medical tools & lack of a surgery attempt roll

So, you rolled to create the advantage "Found Medical Tools"... presumably inside the warehouse proper.   I"m okay with it, as it moves the story forward and I wasn't really planning on making any real conflict out of this...   But you haven't rolled to do the actual surgery...  Are you planning on doing so?   It's okay if not.  I just wanna know where things stand.

In reply to Control (msg # 29):

Sorry I realized that Arui doesn't have the skill needed for surgery so she's taking Mikel to a professional healer.  I should have posted in ooc

08:35, Today: Etzagith rolled -1 using 4 Fudge dice.  Bypass the "security" on the door.  Burglary +3 and Infiltrator stunt another +2

(Sorry, I had mis-typed burglary as +2 in the dice roller note.  It is correct above.)

I assume that a result of 4 is enough to get past the boarded up door?  Either the boarding up is a fake or there's a loose couple of boards I can pull off and squeeze through?

@Arui
That's entirely your call.  You could make up enough back-story from her time on the plains to suggest that she can do some field-triage.

On the other-hand, I definitely appreciate a player who's willing to say that their character isn't experienced in everything.

Don't worry about typos.  So long as i can understand it...  My typing has grown very sloppy over the years, so I'm okay reading typo.

I'm having trouble finding the narrative component to this.   Where did Etzagith attempt this?   Did he do any kind of assessment or did he just go right to ripping the boards off the door?

Yes, a boarded-up door is probably, at best, a Good(+3) target overcome.

Are you sure this is an action you wish to take at this time?

What do you envision are the dramatic tensions should he succeed?  what about if he fails?

OK.  Maybe I was confused.  My understanding as I approached this scene was that there was a boarded up entrance to the warehouse that the kid was standing in front of, as a guard, and Garland was approaching him from the other direction.  Garland has essentially removed the threat of the kid, so I was going to head into the warehouse through this boarded up entrance.  I had figured that there would be a guard on it if it were really boarded up, but then I learned that the kid didn't even work for the warehouse.  I'm guessing that I misinterpreted something, somewhere.

Your understanding of the scene is correct.

I simply can't seem to find the in-character text where Etzagith approaches the boarded-up door and attempts to enter into it.  I still dont' see it in Dockward. The last in-character post I saw had Liza going off on the kid for the Blue Sails having a fight.

I'm feeling kinda daft here.   Can you point me to the in-character post where Etzagith/Liza approaches the door?  As far as I know, she's still with Garland accosting the kid.

Oh, sorry.  I hadn't, yet.  I assumed I would get from mechanics what the result would be before I posted it.  This was to avoid the tiny posts of, "Etz looks at the boarded up door to see how to get through it." Then you post what it looks like; Then I post what I'll do and make a roll; then you post the result of the roll; etc.  I thought that was the whole point of this mechanics thread -- to work out the mechanics of an action before posting it.

:-)  Sorry, sometimes I still feel like I'm not sure how to use Fate mechanics at all.  I'm really not TRYING to be difficult.  (It just turns out that way.)

BTW, I'm hoping that it is dark on the other side of the door, so I'm going to attempt to help it stay that way.  If I have to pull off the boards, I'll try to leave them hanging by a top nail or two so that they will fall back into place.

You haven't done anything wrong with the mechanics.

I do not want to use this thread to map out the narrative of a scene before actually doing it.  It increases my workload and decreases my engagement... because we've already discussed it.  Why bother posting it again?

The point of the in-play mechanics thread is to discuss the mechanics (if necessary), once your character has committedto a specific course of action  (by posting in-character).

At the moment, I am waiting for you to write up Etz's actions in the Dockward thread.  I can't post the results until you post that Etz isn't still with Garland and the boy he's interrogating.

Once inside, I'll create another thread for the back rooms...