Ah, I see.

I confess I totally missed those; though as one of the two-hour-sleepers Verik may have had downtime to look at them?  Otherwise he will plan to do so but not gonna whip them out in public just in case.

Had an iffy few days. Assume Diata is listening but doesn't have much to say.

September, Verik, do the two of you have a plan of what you want to do? Or have you already told me, and I just missed it?

I have no plan that's why I'm going along with September because I'm assuming he does.

I do (granted, it's just "ask questions and look at stuff").  I'll have a post up later today.  My apologies for the silence.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:20, Sun 07 Aug 2022.

Wizard and Fighter teaming up is a classic, so looking forward to where that leads. :)

Say, are you keeping track of how many of the twelve tokens that open up a new locations did you acquired?

In reply to Supervisor of reality (msg # 893):

Cloud, Trumpet, Bullseye. Everyone else's tokens are on them.

And yes it is, even if the Wizard is the one member of the group with no magic powers whatsoever.

In reply to Supervisor of reality (msg # 893):

Which one of us is the wizard and which is the fighter?

I was going through and compiling a list of all the tokens we have and combinations we know.  Then I realized I should ask--  Has anyone already done that?  No sense reinventing the wheel!
This message was last edited by the player at 23:46, Mon 08 Aug 2022.

In reply to September (msg # 896):

I think, if somebody had, they would have said so. Don't forget that I gave you the list of collected tokens at one point and the list of combinations at another (post #816 in the main thread and post #810 in this thread), although the former is obviously only relevant up to that point in the thread, not anything you obtained afterwards.

I could have sworn that I did, but I can't find it. I do have my own collection:
13 Wheel tokens
7 Flame tokens
5 Rose tokens
4 Spear tokens
3 Lily tokens
3 Shield tokens
3 Paw tokens
3 Flag tokens
2 Leaf tokens
2 Bullseye tokens
2 Tree tokens
1 Crab token
1 Sun token
1 Mirror token
1 Crab token
1 Hammer token
1 Snake token
1 Book
1 Ingot
1 Cross
1 Quiver
1 Vortex
1 Feather
1 River
1 Mountain
1 Arrow
1 Anchor
1 Ivy
1 Coin

Will try to respond today, though I've got the sleepies for some reason.

In reply to Diata Yuari (msg # 899):

Take the time you need, we're in no great hurry.

In reply to Halasik (msg # 898):

Speaking of your list, you have two crabs there, which is a mistake - one of the two is supposed to be a claw. You'll see that this matches the list I mentioned above.

And just to be clear, September said, cleverly stalling for time, as far as we know tokens are handed out for contest victories only, and you can't request tokens of a particular type but they're often found at contests vaguely related?
(Ay did tell Halasik about the place where you could trade items for tokens, but do the rest of us know of it?)

Verik, you have any ideas?  I have a charge of Glory that burns out in 15mins, so I'm thinking I'll spend it trying to find the Clover contest.  We've seen at least one person with that token.

sounds good to me.

Alright, I can see the writing on the wall.  Many apologies, but work has gotten very hectic; I won't be able to post seriously except on Sundays/Mondays (I'll be sure to post each of those days).  This will hopefully only continue for two weeks.  Until then, assume September follows and assists whomever he's with.

In reply to September (msg # 903):

Thanks for letting us know, September - I hope your work situation settles soon, and in the meanwhile I wish you the best!

And I'm on and trying to post, but I think I'm in a huge funk energy wise this week. Going to assume it's got something to do with the weather and try to continue tomorrow.

"I cannot brain today, I has the dumb" is especially difficult when playing Diata for obvious reasons. :)

Makes sense. I have an intense weekend anyway, so for me it's not a problem if things slow down a bit.

Since we've got nineteen minutes of free quiz answers and Diata will not speak to the two behind her (because, y'know, she's in the game and busy showing off that she can compete with the divine and cheaters in a contest of knowledge) I'll let Hala and Kiz talk before I continue with the actually hard questions.

Does the judge's speech give me enough to work with to use Sense Motive and read his face? I may not be able to detect magic, but I can try to counterplay.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:24, Wed 17 Aug 2022.

In reply to Diata Yuari (msg # 908):

You can't see the judge's face because he's wearing a lot of veils and a hood that hides his every feature. You could try to make a call from body language alone, but that will carry a -5 penalty, and I'd also need you to tell me what exactly you're trying to figure out.

I'm trying to figure out his surface thoughts. :) Post to follow tomorrow.

Hmmm...

How heavily can I lean on Diplomacy as a skill rather than diplomacy as a real-life ability in this game?  In other words, how good of an IC argument do I need to design before my lovable-but-dim hammer can say, "September proposes some nearby outsiders pool tokens with him/invite him and his friends into the card house so that he can test the truth of the archon's claims about chance"?

As heavily as you want, mostly. The way I see it, when you're playing a character with monstrous Charisma and a huge Diplomacy bonus, the ability to get NPC to do what you want is one of the powers your build is providing you (alongside the highly effective ability to Gather Information you've already showed a lot), so in general, you'll be able to get anybody who doesn't have a specific reason to do otherwise to go along with your suggestions. They just need to make sense and not be against your target's nature or personal interests.

That said, the way you roleplay things matters; unless it's something that's tricky or difficult, if you can manage to approach an NPC from an angle they'd be receptive to, they'll go along with your ideas, although obviously when you're relying on yourself there's always a chance you could screw it up. But then, unless you had some mean to always figure it out exactly what somebody will and will not consider against their nature or interest, the chance for failure always exists with rolls as well.

Does any of that makes sense?