Hmmmmm….
Bleh, I feel like my last post was pretty mediocre. I'll blame it on Kichiro's nerves.
Satoshi, you needed at least a 15 to be able to discern anything from a non-invasive examination, at least. Any knowledge of herbs would help as well, but it's more the area of Arcana/Religion regarding specific.
Appraise does tell you that the set is impressively valuable, though. Just the set itself when it was porcelain, but the kintsugi raised the value tremendously.
Definitely don't want to step on your exchanges. Please let me know when the conversation is ended and you two are going to sleep.
Satoshi's player is traveling right now so our updates may be less frequent for a bit.
Yeah, I'll still be around, but may become erratic and disappear for a few days without warning.
It's fine. Life happens and takes precedence. Post coming tomorrow.
With the potential gap in posts die to travel, how do you want to handle this? Thus far, the two of you have stuck together, which is why I've refrained from posting.
I think it's okay if we have a bit of a gap here, though I think Satoshi will be posting before too long.
How's everyone feeling, how's everyone doing?
How's the pacing? What about the feel?
Thoughts?
Oh, wow, it's been almost a week since that last post, hasn't it? I figured I'd let Satoshi answer it first this time and forgot I'd done that... XD Feel free to post something in OOC like this if neither of us posts for a couple days, something like that has probably happened.
I'm curious to see where this is going to go. I feel like we're doing well at laying some groundwork, which will hopefully start paying off once we finish in town here.
Oh, I was going to write a response... then I got distracted and busy and forgot about it. Sorry!
Pacing is fine, I just sometimes need to nudge myself to remember to post and not just think about posting.
Well those rolls were less than inspiring. XD
Apologies for some of the post delays, crunch time hit with my unofficial second job, so a couple nights ran long. I should be back now.
It's fine, life's that way sometimes.
Yeah, don't worry too much. I sometimes miss on posting someplace just because I forgot/didn't realize it was my turn to do so. Not going to blame people with legitimate reasons to be late.
With your trek going quite literally off of the beaten path, and Kichiro's Survival score, are you looking for anything in particular?
Not really, just killing time since we kind of promised we'd be in town this evening. Otherwise we'd already be heading onwards. It might be a nice chance for a simple combat to see how our pair of brothers perform in danger.
I was going over things and discovered that Kichiro should actually have one more spell point--Addictive Casting counts as two drawbacks, so he has one drawback 'point' not spent on boons.
Also realized that Addictive Casting doesn't specify which type of save is needed to avoid the addiction. Looking through some examples it looks like Fortitude is the usual one, but I could see it being a second Will save, too. I went ahead and rolled Fortitude, but if we decide on Will his check would be 4 less.
The point is there, go ahead and use it.
It looks to be a factor of the source of the addiction, maybe?
In their example, the source is the magic draw and its effects on the caster. No outside influence.
In Kichiro's case the source is <external/integrated?/type??>. The roll you wish to use is up to you.
Fortitude would imply that the draw is originating from Kichiro himself, the effects of the influence he encountered integrated into his system.
Will would imply that the influence is a part of Kichiro's magic "system" for lack of a better term at present, but is not integrated, and only influencing, thus he has to resist.
I was considering the idea of allowing options to open up for Kichiro if he failed (or gave in) to the effects of the influence— you mentioned something similar, I believe– enough times, but from our exchanges early on, taking Kichiro in a different direction due to the influence/addiction was not something you were interested in.
Traits, Feats, etc... at enough points, it'd open up a new class levels.
That may alienate Satoshi, though...
I'm thinking the addiction is basically the temptation of the power itself--using his magic feels good because it makes him feel strong, feel powerful, and so it's hard to stop.
Ouch, Satoshi's first use of the Sniper Sphere is a painful one. Of course, he doesn't have any easy way of getting his focus back in combat right now.
So more "integrated influence" than "external influence", then?
Yeah, I'd say so.
I will admit to some surprise that no one has mentioned it yet. A great deal of pleasure, too. *grin*
I have been enjoying role-playing a character who's more of an in-over-his-head civilian instead of a professional adventurer or trained warrior. :D
Any other discussion to be had before you reach the gates of Miumi?
One of the two of us should probably train in some charisma-based skills... but hey, natural 20! :D That can be Diplomacy instead of Bluff if that would have been more appropriate, given either one is just a Charisma check for Kichiro.
Oh come on, being socially awkward is fun!
Fast-forward to evening and your meeting with the Red Courier?
Yeah, I think that's best now.
I don't have much of anything else to say at th emoment.
Would you like actual stories, or summaries from the extras?
I think just summaries is fine.
New Year felicitations!
Recovery day today. Post coming tomorrow.
Perfectly fine. Happy New Year to you as well!
I don't think Kichiro is going to interrupt this story. :D
Haha, gotcha. It's easier to get out in chunks to not give you a wall of text, as well as natural breaks for timing reasons.
Yeah, I figured that's why you were breaking it up, just wanted to make sure you knew I wasn't necessarily going to respond to each section.
Hmmmmm... how does a 'founding myth' for our characters' hometown sound?
That works. The finer details of such things often get lost, so the broad strokes are the only things many remember. Go for it.
I'm working on a post, just haven't been able to get into a real storytelling groove.
I understand. That's why I had to piece their story out the way I did.
Should we interact with these dreams?
You certainly may, these are indeed your dreams.
Hmmmm *thinks*
How're the two of you holding up?
Alright. I appear to have caught a minor cold that is annoying, but not terrible.
I've been doing all right. Keeping pretty busy, though.
It feels like a milestone(or the end of the tutorial).
Gain a level.