So I thunk I am ready to kick this thing in the ‘go’ button.

8: Describe your expressions (what's a thing or two you often say?), and your actions (what's a thing or two you often do?).


You have three stats: BODY, MIND, and WORDS.

BODY: all things purely physical.
MIND: insight, logic, noticing things, realizing things.
WORDS: persuasion, communication


NAMEDEALERS have -1 in Body. Then they either have +1 in Mind and 0 in Words, or vice-versa.

(9: Which will you be? Good at Thinking but just okay at Speaking? Or vice-versa?)

Yes, all done in the Private ‘Access to ...’ Thread where we were doing chargen

Okay then, here we go.

Dim, since you were here first:

DIM'S QUESTION: Where are you (and your Namedealer companion)?

--If you travel, is it in pursuit of something, or flight from something?

Examples:
--On the Great Road, traveling with a caravan west, toward the Deepest Well?
--In a wadi (a small canyon), hoping to remain unseen by the army marching above?
--Astride an akum (a large flightless bird, a bit larger than an ostrich), a flashing lance in one hand, singly charging the great hero of a city that quakes at the mention of your name?
--In the last place to which you fled?
--On a ship?


MUM-RA-LUD'S QUESTION: What are you (and your companion) doing there?

--Are you preparing, now, for a confrontation? or will you face whatever comes next with a shrug, without preparation, for life is unpredictable? Or do you not prepare because you will you aggressively face all possibilities?
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:52, Tue 18 Aug 2020.

So you're saying we already know each other, then? Okay.

--Helping refugees to escape the burning city of Timinit.

(Don't ask me why. It was the first thing that came to me. And 'Timinit' is the name of the girl who checks my recept as I leave the local Costco. I'm terrible with inventing names.)

Yes.





Mum-Ra-Lud, you and your companion Dim (who already know one another) are currently helping refugees to escape the burning city of Timinit.

Mum-Ra-Lud, what are you (and Dim) doing in/at Timinit? Which is to say, what were you two doing there in the first place, before Timinit started burning? (Or has the city of Timinit been burning in some way for a long while, and you're helping refugees escape the city for a reason not directly related to the burning?)
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:23, Tue 18 Aug 2020.

Oh no, it wasn’t burning when we arrived.
We set it alight!
In the name of Holy Sun, who sent us here to rescue the slaves.   The Sun will not tolerate the darkness of Timinit.
It once was a noble and bright city, a place of fortune and honour ... but these days, it harbours evil.  These days it is a city of corruption and selfishness ... a slave-trading gateway, whence poor souls are brought out of their cold cages and dark dungeons only long enough to be battered for on the stage of greed in the centre of town.

Great Sun, through dreams and pure thoughts, sent Mum-Ra-Lud and his companion to release the slaves and other refugees of Timinit, and bring them into the lands beyond.
Along the way, Mum-Ra-Lud thought it would do well to burn that place down ... starting with the auction stage.

DIM, the answer to "Who else is with you?" is immediately obvious, but tell of one individual amongst the refugees who stands out in some way, whether in looks, skills, or personality (or any combination of those).

(If and/or when you meet one from a people yet unknown, describe what the legends tell of one such. If you come to know any of them, they will both satisfy and defy expectations.)

With us is Zula, an escaped slave girl of exceptional beauty and courage, who claims to know the names of the three forgotten gods.

I'm gonna change that to "Zula, an escaped slave girl of exceptional beauty and courage, who claims to know the true names of three forgotten Great Names."

Finally:

Mum-Ra-Lud, there is someone (not necessarily a Great Name) present in the city of Timinit that wants something from you and/or Dim.

Who or what is this being, and what does he, she, or it want from y'all?

A name might be a stele, ancient when the sky was the face of a child and the moon was
as bright as the sun; a refugee who wants you to find his or her lost love; a fire, young and brash, with a wish to grow as large as the world, or almost anything else.

She appears, at first, a child ... but one never grown, but somehow aged as though 800 years old.
A very, very old, child.

Nobody present seems to know her, or where she came from ... and she doesn't know, herself, who she is.   In fact, she keeps asking, "Do you know who I am?" of others.
She seems harmless, and the kind among the crowd seem compassionate to, if freaked out by, her.
"Do YOU know who I am?"

Others, freaked out, find no compassion, and seem close to driving her out ... with rock or stick, if need be.
"DO you know who I am?"

But Mum-Ra-Lud suspects a truth:  this is not mortal human, but a Great Name.
A Great Name that has lost its identify.  "Do you KNOW who I am?"
He suspect that when he can divine her true Name, and return it to her, she will be revitalised ... returned to her true form.
"... but, do you know WHO I AM?" she asks, full of confusion and sadness.

Dig it.

I plan to start you guys off tomorrow.

If I don't in the next 15 hours, nudge me.

Okay, new thread posted.

Dim, remember that ONCE PER DAY you can use a +1 bonus from a trophy. (And you haven't used it yet today.)

Mum-Ra-Lud, remember that you can call on the sun for awesome favors... but this will also make the sun impatient with you sooner or later... (You start at the sun giving you +1 to a roll... if you want to call in a favor.)

Also remember that you each have special actions:

DIM:
--Coerce
--Lead
--Test Yourself
--Attempt to Gain a New Follower

Mum-Ra-Lud:
--Offer What They Desire
--Coerce
--Thieve
--Escape
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:41, Fri 21 Aug 2020.

Okay, the Old Child is safe... let's let Mum-Ra-Lud take a turn next...

Whoops. Sorry.

This is what happens when boredom overcomes common sense.


(Bored elsewhere, not here. Bored EVERYWHERE but here.)
This message was last edited by the player at 20:35, Mon 24 Aug 2020.

Hmmmmm. The way the consequence you chose from Test Yourself is written, I suppose you don't have to roll and use the Attempt to Gain a New Follower move in order to gain a new follower. (It might HELP, but then again there's a chance it might not.)

However, even if you choose not to roll for that move right now, I do need to know your intentions. I presume you're going to take one or more followers... but are you going to try to get one, or more than one?

Or am I wrong?

I don't really know. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the way this works.



How do I take followers? Do I just say 'Follow Me' and see who responds?

I have added a line to the end of Dim's last post.

...Dim, I'm gonna ask you to do a Words roll... But you can use your Follower bonus from your new Follower if you want, since he's standing right there...

Alternatively, you can wait and see if Mum-Ra-Lud might show up in the nick of time and Word something or Mind something or get a spirit to intervene or something...
This message was last edited by the GM at 15:04, Fri 28 Aug 2020.

Dim rolled 6 using 2d6+1 ((3,2)).

Darn.

Are you using that +1 you got earlier? Or are you using your Follower bonus? (because you're obviously not doing both):



I dunno why I said that would be +2 instead of +1. I've gone back and forth about it-- considering knocking it down to +1 like Trophies, considering raising Trophies to +2 like Followers, considering knocking them each down to +1 but letting one use each 3 times a day...

But I finally decided to just let it ride, trust past-me's judgement, and see what would happen.

So... tl;dr, your Follower bonus is +2.

If that's NOT what you were doing, I will also ALLOW you to do it now, if you wish...

Well, I was using the Follower bonus, but had forgotten it was a +2, instead of a +1. So I guess I really rolled a 7?

That's what I'm saying.

I will post accordingly...

Woot!

Hey GM, how are you handling healing in this game ... first aid, and patching up wounds?