Board 8 > Endless World, Topic III: Living Shops, Keyboard Snakes and Love Bites [FATE]

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...Damn, son. I'm sorry I couldn't be there, my friend had a birthday party on Friday. Would definitely like to read logs sometime (the transfer earlier failed, CPU).

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Okay, I've made two possible characters that I may play now that Ren's gone. It will definitely be one of these two. Which one do you guys think is the best idea, in terms of how interesting they are, how they would interact with the group, and how they would fit the group's dynamic in combat?

http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=332191
http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=332357

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Resaul. You've manage to make a Paladin I don't immediately despise.

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Let's get this sorted out. 12 stunts = 5 refresh?

My impression was, we had 10 Refresh at base, each stunt cost 1 Refresh, if you used no powers you got +2 Refresh, and that over the course of the campaign we received an additional 3 Refresh total. Therefore, my sheet with 14 Stunts has 1 Refresh, and your sheet with 12 Stunts SHOULD have 3.


Oh, but I like the paladin more if I had to pick.

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Sceptilesolarbeam posted...
Let's get this sorted out. 12 stunts = 5 refresh?

My impression was, we had 10 Refresh at base, each stunt cost 1 Refresh, if you used no powers you got +2 Refresh, and that over the course of the campaign we received an additional 3 Refresh total. Therefore, my sheet with 14 Stunts has 1 Refresh, and your sheet with 12 Stunts SHOULD have 3.


Oh, but I like the paladin more if I had to pick.

I thought we had fifteen Refresh total, plus 2 if you have no powers, but I could be wrong. Guess we need Kanz to clear this up.

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Scep got it. It's 15 if you're Pure Mortal.

PS: Too early to comment on which character I like more, but I'd totally trim the first syllable off the paladin's name. Makes him all the more paladin-y if you use a biblical name.

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Blarg, okay, I fixed the paladin's sheet.

Thanks for the input, guys. I'm still not sure which I should play, though. I think I'll ask the reliquary of all knowledge: /tg/.

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Well, that was roughly as helpful as I should have expected it to be.



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From: Anagram | #208
Well, that was roughly as helpful as I should have expected it to be.

I endorse the duck too

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Hey, does August have a picture like Kirie and Ren?

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From: Anagram | #208
Well, that was roughly as helpful as I should have expected it to be.

yessss

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Anagram posted...
Hey, does August have a picture like Kirie and Ren?

Kirie has a picture?

Anyway, no, I don't. I didn't really give any thought to it.

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Sceptilesolarbeam posted...
Kirie has a picture?

Yeah, CPU has the link, I assume.

Anyway, no, I don't. I didn't really give any thought to it.

Well, what does he look like, generally?

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Actually, I guess I always envisioned him as casual-clothes Gil, so I'll go with that.

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This is what Kirie looked like at the start of this adventure.

http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=553884

Things have changed since. >_>'

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IhatethisCPU posted...
This is what Kirie looked like at the start of this adventure.

http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=553884

Things have changed since. >_>'

Yeah, that's a good question. What is she dressed as now? Does she still have a wrestler mask?

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...I'm not entirely sure which outfit she's wearing. She probably would've changed out of the luchadora outfit during one of the days before the Here There Be All The Dragons Incident. ...I'm still not entirely sure why Schira had that in her closet. Or the Shaco outfit, at that.

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From: IhatethisCPU | #217
...I'm not entirely sure which outfit she's wearing. She probably would've changed out of the luchadora outfit during one of the days before the Here There Be All The Dragons Incident. ...I'm still not entirely sure why Schira had that in her closet. Or the Shaco outfit, at that.

Same reasons Batman keeps villain mementos more or less. Granted that Schira doesn't have a rogues gallery.

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KanzarisKelshen posted...
Same reasons Batman keeps villain mementos more or less. Granted that Schira doesn't have a rogues gallery.

But she should.

... Wait, she's kiling her enemies and then stripping them to put their clothing in her collection?

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From: Anagram | #219
KanzarisKelshen posted...
Same reasons Batman keeps villain mementos more or less. Granted that Schira doesn't have a rogues gallery.

But she should.

... Wait, she's kiling her enemies and then stripping them to put their clothing in her collection?

Nah, he took an archdevil's scourge as a reminder of what his kin is capable of, got his swords from an incident in the far past, keeps shrunken tiki head around as a reminder of a particularly odd case, keeps outfits he's used for infiltrations and disguises, and so on. And of course, anything magical is kept or destroyed for obvious reasons.

Also, Arms/Schira doesn't have a rogues gallery because he/she tends to kill them very dead, with a few exceptions that got away. Not keen on the whole redeem-the-villain schtick, you could say.

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Alright then. That's significantly more logical, I suppose.

Still haven't decided on paladin versus mage. I really like both of them. I mean, we already have a "normal guy surrounded by weirdness" in August, but we also already have a mage in Kirie, so I can't really make a call.

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From: Anagram | #221
Alright then. That's significantly more logical, I suppose.

Still haven't decided on paladin versus mage. I really like both of them. I mean, we already have a "normal guy surrounded by weirdness" in August, but we also already have a mage in Kirie, so I can't really make a call.

Solution: In your dreams, you are the duck. It's you.

(Alternatively: Make the paladin an ex-Antilarean Holy Knight, who are basically classic paladins, except their abilities are all derived from believing in themselves and their zeal directly instead of dealing with deities)

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Don't believe in yourself, believe in me who believes in you!

...or something like that.

I need to try to find art for Tira sometime... in human form, anyway. Bear should be easy.

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From: Tirofog | #223
Don't believe in yourself, believe in me who believes in you!

...or something like that.

I need to try to find art for Tira sometime... in human form, anyway. Bear should be easy.

Almost. "Believe in your duty, in your zeal and in yourself." is a common greeitng amongst the Holy Knights.

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Oh man, in one of those links Kanz gave us, the Sword of the Revolution would be the perfect weapon for Resaul if he used swords.

Like, exactly the right weapon, though I don't really understand how items of power work in this game.

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Anagram posted...
Oh man, in one of those links Kanz gave us, the Sword of the Revolution would be the perfect weapon for Resaul if he used swords.

Like, exactly the right weapon, though I don't really understand how items of power work in this game.

They give you a discount for acquiring powers and have some extra properties, pretty much. In exchange, they can be lost or stolen, unlike normal powers and stunts.

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Well for Sword of the Revolution in particular,
http://dfrpg-resources.wikispaces.com/Items+Of+Power

Does that mean you spend 3 Refresh, or 7 Refresh?

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You mean 3 or 5. >_>

But 3.

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KanzarisKelshen posted...
You mean 3 or 5. >_>

But 3.

Thanks. Items of Power make you no longer pure mortal, right?

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Correct.

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Thanks Kanz.



On a completely unrelated note, I realized recently that I've never played a nature-themed character in any tabletop game. No druids, rangers, or anything. I guess the concept of harmony with nature doesn't really do it for me.

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So if I went with the artist mage, could I have like an item of power that grants her evocation, and she's not actually a proper mage, she just apes her power from an artifact, and she's virtually useless without it?

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Please answer when you can, Kanz. It may affect which character I choose.

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From: Anagram | #232
So if I went with the artist mage, could I have like an item of power that grants her evocation, and she's not actually a proper mage, she just apes her power from an artifact, and she's virtually useless without it?

Elaborate. Need more info before I make the call.

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KanzarisKelshen posted...
From: Anagram | #232
So if I went with the artist mage, could I have like an item of power that grants her evocation, and she's not actually a proper mage, she just apes her power from an artifact, and she's virtually useless without it?
Elaborate. Need more info before I make the call.

Okay, let's say this...

As in her sheet, Alais' ultimate goal is to create objective art rather than subjective art. As I said in her sheet, to do this, she wants to experience everything, everything she can think of from as many different perspectives as she can think of, so she can eliminate those sensations from her mind (the sensations having been thus identified) while she works.

To this end, she constantly roots around shops in every corner of [Faux-France] for any items that could add to her experiences, barely managing to finance everything with her painting. But she has often regretted that she lacks any kind of defensive or combat skill, as this denies her the ability to more actively adventure outside of a city's limits (the one time she paid an adventuring party to bring her along and let her stay in the back... ended poorly). But she also has no time to train any skill to a point where that would be a real option. She had managed to legitimately learn thaumaturgy, her parents had paid for her to attend a school as a teenager, but it wasn't practical enough on its own.

It was in one of these "I can't ever adventure" slumps that she entered a particularly unusual pawn shop on a whim, one that she'd never noticed before despite having passed it many times. Yes, it was, as TVTropes might put it,
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlelfhe09gi

In the shop, her eyes were immediately drawn to an all-black pair of gloves, gloves that were almost hard to look upon. They were inside of a glass case, magically sealed to protect them from thieves. She instantly identified them as magical, and knew, suddenly and absolutely, that she had to have them. Unfortunately, the shopkeeper, whom, oddly enough, she can't quite remember the features or even gender of, informed her that they were quite expensive, so much so that even our dear August couldn't just buy them on a whim.

Alais spent the entire rest of the week working on a thaumaturgic ritual, and, finally prepared, reentered the shop disguised as a foreign traveling warrior. As soon as the shopkeeper's (why can't she remember him or her?) back was turned, she placed a scrap of paper on the glass case, negating its enchantments, and replaced the magical gloves with mundane black gloves, not even of the right design but it was the best she could do. Stuffing them into her clothes, she quietly bought a cheap watch in an inane attempt to deflect future suspicion and hightailed it out of the store. And besides, really. Logically, she would have had to experience being a thief one day anyway, so she might as well have gotten it over with now.

When she reached her home, she placed the gloves on, and quickly learned their power: they let her work magic, much more easily and quickly than her thaumaturgy ever could. What it took a wizard a decade to learn she mastered in hours. The magic they shaped was unlike any other, and seemed almost like paint, though the effects dissipated quickly. She assumes they just tap into the wearer's soul or somesuch, and hers, unsurprisingly, is an artist's soul, so the effects seem like painting her desires on reality.

Her dream finally attainable, she spent a week trying to infuse magical energy into a set of her clothing to act as armor, bought a wrist-mounted crossbow, sold her apartment, and bought traveling supplies for an artist, and set out. The fact that she has a quite practical reason for wanting to leave the city has nothing to do with it, she tells herself.

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Kanzzzzz

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Alais' Sheet
http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=333546

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Oh, CPU, it occurs to me that you might not know that as a Weapon of Destiny, Ren's sword had three improvements: Craftsmanship, Rugged, and Special Effect (Fire).

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It's okay, guys, even though our campaign doesn't involve a Gary Gygax dice wizard ghost, I'll still keep playing, rest assured.

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