OOC: This thread can be used for any exchanges using the Party Chat feature of Parties.

Please note that you have to speak the message verbally for Party Chat to pick up on it.

Also, Party Chat translates everything into text, so it will not capture nonverbal parts of communication, and may also miss some forms of exclamations, to the decision of the player writing.

Finally, if we ever have more than one party active at a given time, please ensure you don't mix up the way you share information. PCs can only use party chat on those in their party, not those in other parties.

OOC: In the future, also use this formatting. You can envision this screen as similar to a chatroom. In fact, all messages appear on this same window, unless you change parties. Lastly, anyone who has used party chat in a given party before will have it reopen for them whenever a new message is sent in that channel. The system doesn't spam you with a new alert screen each time.

As a ballpark, let's say about a dozen messages can fit on screen before your PCs have to scroll to find. This can be down with motion, verbal instruction or mental intent

Feel free to also choose a color for your messages, if you wish.

PLAYER {Arjun Gandhi}: Can you hear me?
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:58, Sat 15 Jan 2022.

In reply to Voice of The System (msg # 2):

Player {Vladislav Chigrakov}: Yes, am hearing.

The Miracle of Divine Perversity, The Miracle of Eternal Serenity, The Miracle of The Eternal Stage, The Miracle of Heavenly Mercy, The Miracle in Deepest Shadows Dwelling, The Miracle of Shining Valour, The Miracle of Him Who Chastens, The Miracle of Warlike Victory, The Miracle of Triumphant Devastation, The Miracle of Wisdom, Symbol of the Fire-Lord, The Radiance of Heaven, The Wondrous Rug of the Lady of Wisdom, The Bounty of the Hidden Arts, Catchblessing, Cornucopism, Cursehealing, Divinespicing, The Divine Tankard, Enflowering, Reflowering, Healthblessing, Lifegiving, Lightmaking, The Merciful Cure of Savage Bestiality, The Negation of Sinister Energies, Unintoxication, Venomhealing, Warmhealing

Player {Vladislav Chigrakov}: The Incomparable Hexagon of The Azure God
This message was last edited by the player at 04:28, Sat 15 Jan 2022.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: hey folks? this seems to keep a log. maybe let's reserve this for important info?

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: for example, it seems that classes don't necessarily have the skills you used to unlock them, at least not at the beginning.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}:so far all my skills have had levels at 600-1200-2400. i think i only gain them if I'm focused on the task. braiding the rope while fiddling with the System screens didn't give me skills, but 5 minutes focused on the task gave me the craft skill. that's obviously still just a theory.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: stat gains seem to work differently.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: also, I think once I gained the craft skill, I learned that I can craft a vibe bone. a v i n e b ow. not high enough level yet though.

Player {Vladislav Chigrakov}: Much sorry. Did not realize was still on.

Player {Vladislav Chigrakov}: What numbers meaning, Arjun? Which screen shows?

Player {Otto Bruckner}: Hey! Trippy. Had a feeling the Party thing would come in handy. Good to know we have this option.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: i only look at the expanded sheet. it might be somewhere else too. that's how much experience I've needed to get to higher levels of Body Language. 2nd level took 600 xp. 3rd level took 1200xp. 4th level will take 2400xp. to me about hour anna half of constant signing to get that far. very tiring, not like reality.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}:thought I saw a skill that only took 400 xp for next level. don't see it after classing. anybody got a skill that's not 600, 1200, etc?

Player{Emily Korashandi}I don't think that's a skill. I believe it's 400 xp to my next huntsman level
This message was last edited by the player at 18:06, Sat 15 Jan 2022.

Player {Dmitri Alvin Reslin}: If my latest ontology is correct, we will have to use objects to create "Regions" and then I can make Nodes in them. If my Soil Node works, we have a place to grow food once someone figures out how to make seeds. Water is another necessity, but I am willing to leave that to the mystical ones for now.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: Looks like I messed up the math before on skill levels. I think it's 600, 1200, 1800, 2400. And not every skill starts at 600, but that has been the most common for me so far.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: Post your preferred BASIC shadow weapon here, so I know what to make for people in a pinch.

Player {Otto Bruckner}: Ideally? A two handed axe, but I'll gladly take anything you think might qualify as a "Great Weapon", two handed club, etc..

Player{Emily Khorashandi}
I wonder whether the little hard things in the soil node are tubers of some kind?  I don't think they're stones so maybe.

I have my BASIC shadow weapon thank you, namely stones to go along with my sling.

Player {Vladislav Chigrakov}: Would preferring log, but is too big. So, sword?

PLAYER {Dmitri Alvin Reslin}: If there are shadow guns available, I'll take one. Otherwise, I guess I should get something like a dagger or machete.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:29, Mon 17 Jan 2022.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: what part of "BASIC WEAPONS" did you not understand?!!? I can't even make a bow yet, I'm too low level.

PLAYER {Dmitri Alvin Reslin}: Hence the dagger or machete. Sorry for doing to you what the System is doing to me.

PLAYER {Dmitri Alvin Reslin}: Otto, what are you up to?

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: Team, I finally got a chance to figure out what those Market Coins are for. We can access a Market, but we have to earn enough to access the thing. But you can can take on Tasks and sell crafted goods to earn the Market Coins to do it. The two tasks I've seen are pretty innocuous."
This message was last edited by the player at 06:22, Wed 19 Jan 2022.

Player {Emily Khorashandi} What tasks have you seen?  So far I haven't seen any.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: I'm going to get 5 Market Coins for sleeping through the night. Saleable goods seem to be priced based on Material Value, Effort, and Other factors. If it's not a Task, why are you dancing?

Player {Emily Khorashandi} I decided to craft a drum, to improve my crafting skill.  After that I decided to play the drum and to dance along with it because it seemed pointless to make it otherwise.  Finally, once I had the skill, I thought about why a shaman dances and thought I'd see if I could summon up a predator for the bugs, not by magic, which would be pointless with my level of mystic, but by entertaining the gods.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: Interesting idea. Could be a Huntress class ability. I might try to riff off that idea.

Player{Emily Khorashandi} It's not a class skill but one of the others I've picked up along the way.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: Kite is out of Shadow Essence, but it's apparently become available elsewhere. Please keep an eye out.

Player{Emily Khorashandi} Would it help if I made another kite?

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: "I appreciate the offer, Dancing Queen, but no. The Shadow in the kite's Shadow was a gift given in appreciation for sufficiently entertaining one of the Observers, from what I can tell. The message very clearly said that it was only ever meant to last until we made somewhere with real Shadow Essence, and we seem to have done that today."

OOC: Pretty sure either the Plums or the Ebony Reeds are sources of magical essences, possibly both.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: There's Shadow Essence in the Prolapsed Plums and Ebony Reeds. The Reeds aren't pure magic, though, so you should be able to make stuff out of them.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:56, Tue 01 Feb 2022.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: I just tried deconstructing some stuff. I got back about 90% of the material from a Lvl 1 craft recipe while at Craft 2. No idea if the levels are relevant.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: Found these in the Market!
ITEM: Bottled Water. Description: A plastic bottle filled with clean water that is just a little stale. Effect: N/A. Cost: 3 Market Coins
ITEM: Mineral Water. Description: A tin bottle filled with Garnesian Mineral Water. Effect: +1 Additional Health for one minute. Does not stack. Cost: 5 Market Coins

Player {Emily Khorashandi} I suggest that whichever you buy, you save a little to pour over the side when the time comes to make expansions.  If the only materials are water, perhaps we'd get a disc of pure water?

Player {Otto Bruckner} Going to save mine and give that a try tomorrow. I'm thirsty for sure, but think I can hold out.

In other news, the vines are technically edible. Only really useful for staving off hunger pains though. Would not recommend anything else at this point.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: Voice o' System says that the Investiture they announced "is greatly beneficial to The World."

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: Thoughts on Stats. I'm currently guessing that Health 3(2) means that it's supposed to be 2, but is currently 3.
This message was last edited by the player at 13:08, Tue 08 Feb 2022.

PLAYER {Dmitri Alvin Reslin}: Trying to make pen, ink, and paper here. And I thought I was the Dissident here.

PLAYER{Emily Khorashandi}  Arjun, I think it means you have a temporary increase in health above your usual maximum.  When I got permanent increases, both the numbers in and outside the parentheses went up.  This is interesting because it means that under some circumstances, my luck level may increase back to maximum.

Player {Otto Bruckner} You were asking about Titles Arjun? I think I was the first to get one, "Seeker of First Blood" , seems like it was awarded for being the first in this world to kill something.

PLAYER {Dmitri Alvin Reslin}: Mine was awarded for being the first to openly criticize the {SYSTEM} entities. Titles appear to be awarded for being the first to do something noteworthy.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: Seems likely, except that I didn't get any titles for being the first to pick a class, or for being first to convince a Guest to become a member. And wasn't Otto offered a title as a Quest reward? I think Dmitri is right, but there's more to it than just that. There's a narrow range of Firsts.

This message was last edited by the player at 02:51, Wed 09 Feb 2022.

PLAYER {Dmitri Alvin Reslin}: I don't mean this as an insult, but choosing a class and convincing Guests to become Members were probably expected behaviors, so didn't qualify for a title. Open dissent against the SYSTEM entities was not expected.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: None taken, dude. We're not gonna be able to figure this out if we worry about each other's feelings. I agree that choosing a class and generating Investiture are expected behaviors. But I'm pretty sure Otto's first quest was to find all the command windows or something, which also seems like expected behavior. And, honestly, rebelling against being kidnapped doesn't seem all that difficult to predict, either. Plus, how can they have a title ready for you if they weren't expecting it?

PLAYER {Dmitri Alvin Reslin}: I think we need more information to confirm or deny what's going on.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: Agreed. We need more information, which means we need to identify what information we need, and then figure out how we can try to acquire it.

Player {Otto Bruckner} Black plastic. Interesting, probably useful, do we have anything that can cut through this stuff yet?

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: I believe the current scores in the Expansion League are Dmitri 2, Arjun 2, Otto 1, Rockabilly 1, and Jerry 1, with bonus points to Otto for making the most useful island! Big round of applause to Otto everybody. For tomorrow's 3, do we want to come up with some kind of Plan(tm)?

PLAYER {Dmitri Alvin Reslin}: I think whatever plan we use should involve trying to create expansions by means other than throwing things off the edge. That seems to be the best way to try to get something we need rather than something odd.

PLAYER {Dmitri Alvin Reslin}: My latest meditations have been on this problem, and it seems that interaction with the edge may be enough. I was trying speak Nodes into existence as expansions, which did not work, but maybe speaking expansions into existence while interacting with the edge where they are to appear may work.

Oh, has anyone invited our new person into the Party? I'll try, but it may require our Party leader to do so.

Player {Arjun Gandhi}: random thought: maybe the mineral water made such a larger disc because it was an ITEM with a higher cost? The ball wasn't a true ITEM, and neither was the quiver full of Regular Dirt (although individually they were ITEMs, they stopped being so when I combined them).

PLAYER {Dmitri Alvin Reslin}: It is worth testing, once we get to do more expansion.