I used to be in Santa Barbara. People always used to comment about how nice the place was. I would imagine I would have liked it more if I actually like the beach. I like California in general. There's basically no humidity or pollen. By which I mean "People tell me these are things. But compared to Georgia, I don't even notice the humidity and the ground is never yellow with pollen, so clearly it's not really a thing."
In regards to health care, that's probably the big thing my mom wishes the US had (she's from England). At the same time, one of my grad school roommates was from Canada and hated the free healthcare because apparently it meant there were always crazy long waits for anything. Which apparently meant her grandfather had to live in pain for at least several months because he needed some surgery that wasn't life threatening.
And I guess Johnny is spending the first 5 days recrafting stuff. Which only leaves 27 days of time killing. :/ Is there anything we can retrain/do that takes time but not money?
I think the HP retraining counts?
We might be running low on cash for retraining HP potions, though... unless people can also work crafts for effective "wealth?" I know Luna used to do something with alchemy...
If there's nothing better to do, Johnny will go and harass Lina and Daichi at least once a day to ask if they're done sitting around. Occasionally this will be accompanied by singing and the snowball spell.
There's also actually looking around inside the walls, trying to find resources. :)
Luna doesn't have much to do I don't think so she'll likely just keep an eye on the new guy unless someone asks something of her, also reminder while it is pretty limited Luna does have Wood Shape which might be able to help gathering lumber?
There's also actually looking around inside the walls, trying to find resources. :)
I first read "walls" to mean, like, the walls of our compound. Which doesn't sound very fruitful for a wagon. But yeah, Johnny would be down for exploring our side of the wall more. Although one question is can Lina and Daichi do their stuff while on the road? Although depending on what we do/do not find, we might be able to time skip over much of the exploration.
That actually sounds inherently fruitful on a wagon. Where else do you hide the contraband than inside the hidey holes..?
Luna doesn't have much to do I don't think so she'll likely just keep an eye on the new guy unless someone asks something of her, also reminder while it is pretty limited Luna does have Wood Shape which might be able to help gathering lumber?
Right! Wood Shape. That's... like, one plank per casting, but better than nothing. (And Liisa can Mythic it like 9 times/day!)
Regular wood won't do... no magic in it. You need the builder compound to create the magical wood for the compounds. Liisa was told that by her gem, but I think she either missed it or misunderstood it.
@mdt: Would Lina/Daichi be able to train/meditate while on the road? If not, would we be able to fast-forward over exploration? Basically, I think we're interested in exploring this side of the wall while Lina and Daichi do their thing but don't want to exclude them if it involves lots of IC posting of stuff.
You can fast forward over exploration. You're smart enough to avoid the big herbivores, or powerful enough to kill the ones you can't at this point.
I'm mostly needing for eveyrone to say they are ready to go on, and what the next step is.
I'm ready. I -think- we're interested in going out on the offensive soon... though I'm not certain of how we'll want to do that.
I think so. Sneak out to Demonwatch?
(Also any luck on scribing scrolls on leaves or clay tablets or something similar : ) ?)
I thought we decided OOC to never split the party beyond the wall?
Yah I think we are on what we should do after the meditation/punching is done : )
(Before it is done we whom are not participating would try and explore our side of the wall really good!)
I'm up for whatever the group decides to do... just need to be put into the loop so to speak.. and know the outcome of the month's 'ordeal' lol.
On a somewhat non-related topic; look what I found!
A magical child's transformation between identities is assisted by magic.
This makes it faster than usual, but also more noticeable.
A magical child can normally transform between her identities in 5 rounds, though this improves to a standard action with the quick change social talent and a swift action with the immediate change social talent. However, the transformation is quite a spectacle, involving loud sounds or music, brilliant colorful energies, and swift motions.
Why I think Johnny needs to take a look at this virgilante archetype :P
that's awesome... I want to play one... I hope they are pfs legal.
Yeah, Lina pointed that out to me. There's also this magical girl semi-recruitment-ish thread.
Don't think Luna has anything else so ready to go.
I made a magical child for pfs play.... now to find a game or two! this is going to be fun...
*facepalm*
I've always thought if you wanted to play 'magical child' you should just use BESM.
Has anyone noticed that Daichi's player seems to say "lol" a lot more than Seth's player did even though they're theoretically the same person? I think Daichi is secretly a church spy. *nods*
shhhhhh
Any ideas on how to get a broken gem through the wall when they splode on touchy?
Oh, we used to play Maid RPG back in undergrad (mostly with the Combat Butlers expansion, though).
@Neri: Maybe we just meet him at the wall?
How long does it take to retrain levels? I'd like get get all my other levels as warrior.
Kong: NPC levels retrain faster; I believe it's 3 days/level to swap them for other NPC levels.
I feel like our armor protects us when we go through the wall, so maybe putting the gem in our armor would protect it as well (as it did Seth when we brought him through). On the other hand, if I'm wrong, it sounds like a fast way to kill ourselves.
Just a heads up, I'm going to be at a reunion from Friday until Sunday afternoon, so my posting might be sparse.
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. :)
Weekends are always slow anyway.
Meanwhile, I should probably edit my profile to reflect retraining. ^_^;;
(Changes: Ride-By>Power Attack, Qingong/Ki Mystic>Unchained)
(Ki Power is the same as before, 1 ki for a round of quick draw; Style Strike is Leg Sweep, which lets me offensive-trip more easily)
I don't really think Luna would speak up and suggest it, We agreed to head to the other Town to play offensive IIRC
yeah.... I think that was the plan anyway....
OK, nobody has been updating the map to show me what you're talking about. So I've put in what I think you are planning. Blue arrow where you are talking about possibly going?
My understanding of what's going on is 'We want to go to Lees's Shrine and have her use birds to scout the surrounding area, probably via spell. We'll decide what to do once we figure out things from there.'
Yeah! The plan just... seems to be getting endlessly rehashed by characters.
Goals:
1. If able, during the 'Mulan Reenactment', escort Jacob to getting a gem of his choice.
2. Either way, we're wanting to scout in a way that doesn't inherently risk our characters. I assume the plan is for Liisa to use Commune with Birds. If not, correct that.
3. Depending on how dangerous the area around her Shrine is will determine the next path we take from there.
1. If able, during the 'Mulan Reenactment', escort Jacob to getting a gem of his choice.
By which you mean "our choice," right? (I mean, Jacob would probably get along *okay* with the Builder...
You guys are killing me here. :)
This is why I put the map up there, so you could tell me what you're doing with arrows and stuff. :) So, if you're going back to the shrine, what path are you taking to the city?
good question... I don't have a lot of input to share here... Diachi doesn't really know the lay of the land out there.
Well, I've been dictating the plan for a while. I'll let someone else dictate the route. Maybe Neri, because he's proposed one.
You're killing me, Kitty! We don't want to go to a place and then go 'we're going this way!' and then all of a sudden 36 frost wolf dogs of doom going all 'hurr hurr hurr, spleen.'
From my understanding, the Shrine is the easiest direction to move from, as they've had decidedly less opportunities to shore up defenses near that space; they didn't have a reason to do so. But that doesn't mean they haven't amassed a large crowd there to make that option unattractive.
IF the spell says that the shrine is clear, then I vote Shrine then south, once again avoiding roads unless someone suggests otherwise. Otherwise, through the wall we go!
Also, I don't have edit access on the local area map. :)
Maybe if I go Mass Effect 3 on you and only give you 3 options it will help.
If you choose Purple, all organic life dies.
If you chose Blue, all non-organic life dies.
If you choose Brown, all organic and non-organic life dies.
Do I get a fourth option as DLC that lets me just hurl myself into a Volcano? And that actually do something? :P
:)
I had envisioned purple.... or close enough to purple. Hex wiggling!