Hey guys, the re-recruitment should be closing down tomorrow, so take a look here if you like. Though of course, since this is a public thread, you should probably PM any comments you have to Default :)
I feel like Bronwyn's arrival on the scene will likely put a damper on this if it hasn't already escalated, so I'd like to put you in charge of if/when she makes her appearance Thor Girl.
I totally want to see Marco choose Bran to be his second!
Ha! Perhaps. Regardless of who ends up as whose second, I'm very excited to see what Skuld has in store for the duel!
(And I know in theory as the challenged party, Marco would get to make most of the choices about how the duel goes, but in my experience, when someone you don't know very well challenges you to a duel over a matter of the heart, they've usually already got strong opinions for weapons and such...)
I'm enjoying this tet a tet immensely =D
I definitely didn't have an avatar picked out for Marco until I was putting together his first post, but I'm glad there was an appropriately complected guy with a sufficiently confused expression available!
And if I may, (if you want the duel to happen), whack him in the pride or something. At the moment he doesn't want to beat Skuld at anything, or see her as a romantic threat, so he is inclined to write this whole thing off as a super weird experience. But the pride of even a relatively level-headed teenage boy should be an easy enough target :p
I'm updating tonight. Deciding replacements might take an extra day, so me and my grades thank you for your patience.
I look forward to the exchange between Bronwyn and Marco where he explains this story.
I can definitely see a situation where both Skuld and Marco have completely different rumors about them being spread, what with this argument being taken the wrong way might look like a lover's spat.
Oh I've got something queued up for that conversation ;)
I think it works better as something Bronwyn's still chewing over as she and Skuld begin their infiltration though, so I'm saving it for that post.
As our two new players get settled in (I'll wait for them to post in before going into incorporation) everyone fine with me cutting off current scenes (you can finish them out in tandem to the main scene) and moving to finish up Wingblade's arc?
I think we're done (for now).
So who'dya pick? Saw the other post: Welcome Flux and Apex!
Hello everyone! I'm excited to be joining in. What I've read of the game so far has been intriguing and I'm looking forward to contributing.
Hey guys! Flux here! Thanks for having me! This really seems cool, and I love the superhero genre (who doesn't?), so I'm excited to get into a game like this.
Unfortunately, I'm heading out of town today and won't get back till tomorrow night; but I'll be on a regular posting schedule after that.
Welcome to Teen Angst Drama Squad! our group folks!
We very rarely turn evil or are replaced by clones!
I'll be getting a post up tonight, but as we have our two new players here, I plan to introduce them in this arc.
My idea is that Apex and Flux have been trying to work as a duo and have tracked down Scythe back to the Evil folks lair. Wanting to make a name for themselves, they sneak in to try and get some data to prove their worth while Thor Girl and Bran the Blessed intrude.
Sound good?
Should give Flux a pretty easy opportunity to figure out who he hurt when he lost control of his powers too ;)
That works for me!
That should be a fun surprise. Do you want me and Flux to have a lead-up to the lair infiltration, or should we show up in media res once Bran and Thor Girl bust in? (i.e. as captives or in hiding waiting to bust out, etc.)
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Hey, hey, Apex, we're a team! Due to this, I went and added you to my backstory- hope you don't mind! Maybe we can PM each other and figure out exactly how Flux and Apex know each other- right now, I just have high school acquientances, but feel free to message me if you have any better ideas.
Also, I'm back from vacation! Let's get the party started!
Flux, make sure to choose your flares before starting
Oh and Flux, I just noticed that you're not dotted in yet, so as a heads up, we are under way!
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Ok, guys, so I'm confused. I've read through the Moves and the Masks playbooks, but I'm missing something pretty vital, here. What am I rolling? How does this work? I'll admit to making a character before truly understanding the rules, so I apologize if this is obvious to everyone else; but I'm absolutely not prepared to play right now. I'm going to post a something, but there's a strong likelihood it's all wrong, so apologies.
It's easy enough. You always roll 2d6, plus whatever bonus or penalty that is listed in your five labels.
Danger is what you roll when you're Directly Engaging a Threat
Freak is when you're Unleashing Your Powers
Savior is when you're Defending someone or something
Superior is when you're Provoking Someone or Assessing the Situation
Mundane is when you're Piercing the Mask or Comforting or Supporting someone.
Those are your basic Moves. As a Nova, you also need to charge up your powers to generate Burn. That's 2d6 (as always), plus however many conditions you have marked. Your playbook tells you how much Burn you get, and what you can spend it on.
A "hit" is rolling a 7 or higher. That's a success. Rolling 6 or less is a failure, and you get to mark Potential (sort of the tracker toward advancement -- it's cool, you learn through failure). If you roll a 10 or higher whenever you roll something, you not only get a "hit", but you also generally get to do something else, or there's no downside to your success.
Hope this helps.
A scene is more of a narrative construct than any specific length of time. In general if you're in a new location, at a substantially different time, or undertaking an entirely different set of challenges, you're probably in a new scene, but there's certainly a fair amount of discretion associated.
For burn more specifically, I'd recommend the rule of thumb that if you've stopped to catch your breath after finishing something up, a scene has probably ended, and you're probably not holding burn anymore.
By the way, since the Beacon starts by giving influence to three characters, Bran, Flux and Thor Girl all have influence over Apex if you guys want to update your influence counters.
Noted. I assume this is from his study of local capes and seeing us (Bran and Thor Girl) as people "who have their heads on straight" or something similar?
A bit of that, but more he views them as having the level of power that he thinks society respects. In his mind, they are the people that he needs to prove he's better than, so who they are and what they think of him matters that much more, even though he will deny it all day long.
Cool, I was mainly just wondering if I should pencil it in for after we've met, or if you'd recognize us once we collide.
Hey Thor Girl, do you want Skuld to spotlight on this one since I got us in?
Nah, you're doing great!
As for the influence on Apex, I think it would be best if we marked it once we meet up.
Oh man, looks like we're in for a "Woman of Steel meets World of Cardboard" moment with the sensors :p
Also, roof-guys, is the plan still to trigger the alarm and jump whoever comes looking? Or is it to try to disable it and go vent-diving?
I was planning on jumping the guards. Looking back I realize I didn't really take an action with my last post. Default, should I roll a Provoke to get the guards to do what I want? They aren't physically there, so I'm not sure how best to handle what I'm attempting.
Makes sense as a provoke to me. My rule of thumb for "is this a provoke?" is "Would Batman be Better at this than Superman?"
And luring guards seems like a yes :)
As no guards have shown up yet, you shouldn't pre-emptively roll to act on them. That forces me to either go along with your fiction of introducing elements into the story, or ret-con your fiction which interrupts the flow. By hinting you'd like guards to appear, I can make them appear or have another event or occurrence take place.
But yes, getting someone to do what you want is a provoke.
Pull Phase Two out of storage
Looks like both Brett and Skuld are waiting to see how the other responds to the Provoke
So, GM, Bronwyn's going into this assuming that she'll probably lose her super strength, stamina etc. while she has the shackles on, but she's guessing that she'll still have her connection to Bran over in the Otherworld.
If she's wrong I could see that being something where as soon as she puts on the shackles, she can immediately feel that he's missing, or it could be something where it doesn't feel any different, but if/when she tries to transform while still in the shackles it's like there's a wall she can't break through.
So I guess I'm asking, does she immediately feel the interruption of their link, or do I get to find out if that has happened later?
Bronwyn and Thor Girl, I was reading the rules last night (since I just bought them) and came across something -- Directly Engage a Threat requires an actual threat. Default can correct me if I'm wrong, but unless the intern is an actual threat to you, then you don't have to roll. Just go ahead and say what you're going to do. If Brett is a normal kid like he appears, the two of you should have no risk of failure when you try to overpower him.
I guess when I picture the comic book, it depends how much narrative weight the shackles are being given. Cause I could see reading the version where the focus of that moment is on the 'betrayal,' but Brett is essentially a non-factor, or the version that emphasizes us being in a little over our heads, and having to struggle.
But, Default, if he's not meant to have been a Threat, I'm fine re-crunching my efforts as a Provoke (which I'm happy to do with a new roll, since otherwise I'm switching into a known success). Whether or not a roll is involved in kayoing Brett, I feel like the threat of Gae-Dearg being sealed away needs some kind of roll to counteract it.
I look at it as the threat here not being him, but us not permanently harming him.
Since we had no "You can feel the strength leech from you as you put on the shackles" there's still an outside chance that this power damping doesn't work on magical/mythic power sources and Brett's in for a really bad day...
Sorry for the delay, a bit of burnout hit me last week.
I agree with Wingblade's idea that Brett isn't really a threat per se, and though your powers are technically sealed, it makes sense for me that an athletic person such as Bronwyn can outpace a IT intern.
So yeah, we'll switch your move to a provoke to make Brett hesitate.
Anyone hear from Flux?