I suppose the other thing we need to do is sell off the wine and linen we got from the ogre. Kichiro could work on that.
Alright, let's take a bird's-eye abstracted view of the start of the day and we can zoom in as we run into issues.
As you arrived in the evening of the previous day, let's start with Gather Information rolls from each of you and what you're focusing on, if anything.
That scouting took two hours for Kichiro to get the general lay of the Inner Ring, with a couple of places earmarked for the both of you.
I feel like I should start tracking Kichiro's food budget more closely at this rate. :D
That's a bit more granular than I feel you need to get at present. Kichiro has money, food is plentiful(...), and there is nothing impeding his acquisition of it. You could count each meal as having twice the cost, if you want to represent the consumption.
That would mean that Survival successes would need to be enough to feed three people or Kichiro will have to mark off a ration to offset it, his eating habits are a bit distinctive, and when pressed it could be an option, but I'd also allow that to offset the hunger increase by 1 point bringing it to.. @15, I believe?
Just counting him as two people for how much he eats sounds like an easy and quick way of representing things. :)
The save DC for to avoid attacking randomly is 12 right now, and 10+the number of times he's cast in a day to avoid the addiction.
Thinking about things, darkleaf cloth leather lamellar armor would be more appropriate to the area we're in. :D Would that be available here? Otherwise Kichiro will probably just go for masterwork leather lamellar.
Around Hihibo, you're correct in that you'll find more metal applied to things than you might find in say, Miumi. They've got the availability and price to experiment with (or refine) ideas that would be too costly elsewhere. That armor idea works, though you'll find metal-exclusive items at ~5% cheaper, if that makes a difference.
Even with that the darkleaf cloth is cheaper. And I do feel like leather lamellar is more thematic than a chain shirt, so I'll probably go with that.
The shopping can be done in an abstract sense, as that is something that would be easily available. Interaction and exploration would require more focus. The (most immediate) notable points in your stay would be:
• Satoshi's Crafting
• Your presence as newcomers
There are a couple things that could become/are becoming available depending on how the two of you go about it, but those two are foremost. There are a couple of threads that the two of you have, but neither of you have tugged on them yet.
Yeah, kind of still debating on what hooks Kichiro would bite on still.
Satoshi is likely to zone out a bit as he gets into crafting.
His oddly rapid construction of a rickety but functional alchemically-propelled rickshaw might attract some attention though, which he will likely be oblivious to unless specifically pointed out.
There, actually updated Satoshi's sheet with stuff I've done so far. Need to decide if I want to do some more shopping, though.
Apologies. A bit under the weather. On the upswing, though.
Hope you feel better quickly!
I feel like Kichiro has been deliberately ignoring all possible plot hooks. XD Maybe I need to tweak how I'm writing him...
Satoshi, while preceptive, is surprisingly oblivious to plot hooks.
Or perhaps it's not all that surprising.
No worries about that. It is to be expected, really. The two of them have one goal in mind— figuring out what happened and how to deal with it. Investigating anything else that doesn't collide with them would be a distraction, and they've got enough. It doesn't mean that there aren't threads to pull, but there is no reason that you have to pull them.
Speaking of, there were a few other things that the Ogre had that have not been addressed, if I remember correctly?
I think we sold it all already? At least I don't have it on my sheet any more.
I suppose if we wanted a diversion here, Satoshi's invention getting stolen could keep us busy for a while. :D
Perhaps... (innocent expression)
Satoshi does not have the best security credentials. At least not yet. Give him a few more levels and he'll figure out 'cover it in traps' at least.
Right now his best defense is that Technicians fall more on the Mad Scientist as opposed to Practical Engineer side of inventing, and their Inventions are inevitably confusing to operate and terribly unergonomic for anyone who isn't a Technician.
That said, the existence of Insights that allow for overcoming those issues, and the fact that Inventions still count as non-magical, does prove that they are in fact using real (if soft) science, and they are theoretically replicable.
I'd say right now we could probably skip ahead to either leaving town or some complication that will prvent us from leaving town immediately. :D
Did you want to detail the tavern Kichiro found? I didn't know whether you were going to, or wanted me to do so.
Honestly I'd been planning on skipping the tavern entirely. I kind of want a break from the slice-of-life pace right now.
I don't think I've shown you this artwork I got of Kichiro yet. :)
That fits. I was wondering about the "terribly lean because of Hunger", and did not expect the "Chonk to keep the Hunger away". I like.
Yeah, I imagine that his metabolism *is* kind of crazy thanks to the Hunger... but he's overeating so massively he's still getting a bit chunky regardless. :D This picture is kind of a bit future for him, still--he's only got two tails right now (or two branches of his tail, given how it's working).
I think we're at a 'time for the next event' point now.
So the questions to be addressed are:
- How to proceed? Allow time to hunt or travel all day?
- Next destination?
- Would one of you roll a d10 to determine what occurs on this day?
To be honest I don't remember what the map said was next along our path.
Kichiro is voting to hunt along the way.
Question: How high can Kichiro jump in a move? The creature is along the branch of a tree.
Well, at present he'd have a +12 to Acrobatics for jumping, so taking 10 would get him five feet up, plus being Large so his body is longer.
Travelling direct or foraging along the way? Also, which direction?
Foraging along the way, and I'll admit I've completely forgotten what the next destination was. XD
...So have I!
We go wherever we're going!
So, as far as I understand things, the intent was leaving Morinoya to understand what was going on. Hihibo was the first notable stop, but is there still a grand destination?
Our eventual goal was to contact Guoten Shuma, head priest of the temple at Sakakabe, who was Chieko's teacher.
But, of course, that will be quite a ways away.
And the hoops we might have to jump through to even talk to someone that high ranking...
We *do* at least have a letter of introduction.
There is the opportunity to bolt on a Cooking subset if there is interest?
Rhythm has been off because of work, moving soon. I'll be posting tomorrow.
Travel safely!
At this point, the best I can provide is color, but I'm here.
I don't know, you could always have some ninjas burst through the door and attack. :D
(To be more serious, I would be interested in some kind of event in town here)
At the risk of giving a peek behind the curtain, there are a few here depending on where the two of you decide to focus your attention.
I'd guess that at least something will happen at those fancy baths if nothing else.
Poor Satoshi is cripplingly shy. Somewhat like myself!
Hmm... should we narrate ourselves along a little more in situations like this? Like go ahead and say we went up to the desk and paid for entry into the onsen?
That is a good suggestion, to be honest. It does facilitate the narrative flow as chunks of (non-combat)actions that typically don't necessarily have a visible [Event] trigger. I do have a few things set up, but I am working on simply posting without building up a block of text for the flow. You've got good timing though. There should be a post up near this time, and we can adapt going forward.
One point of clarification, when you say "the recent bruise with a trace of spirit" is spirit here a trace of alcoholic spirits or is Kichiro scenting a remnant of an incorporeal being?