JohnA1nut
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Osevens, it sounds like him and my father would have been really good friends. You see a 55 gallon barrel, a length of hose and an empty bleach bottle. My father sees a shower that he can put in the garage. (And yes, he built exactly that out of what I described)
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JohnA1nut
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Two Posts, 14 hours after last.
MJ, granted I know nothing about the layout of your office, but you could probably put that stopwatch somewhere so that you would never pick it up or put it down. Sticking a screwdriver in the wall is a bad idea perhaps, but a small hook from the hardware store. Or perhaps Duct tape it to the monitor. If you only use it for rolling dice here, why not? Start it, when you need a roll, reach over to the monitor and hit the button. Tape it to the arm of your chair. Hang it from the ceiling even. Lengthen the lanyard so that it hangs down somewhere. Tape it to your desk. You just hit the buttons when you need to roll dice. You haven't hardly exhausted all the easy options. Like I said earlier, you're just not thinking fourth dimensionally.
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O.K., thanks for all the really bad suggestions for what I can do with the stopwatch--and if I were thinking fourth-dimensionally, I would find a way to have the watch appear when I arrive at the forum and disappear into the future when I'm finished with it--and then I'd complain that I forgot to do a roll, and that the time on the watch was always wrong.
So let me see if I can hit the weekend traffic here, with Michael, Brock, Maxx, Harry, Nikolaj, and John 2.
Michael is dealing with a psionic computer; my recollection is that he has five minutes of contact before he has to roll to extend it.
We'll give Brock answers to his questions.
Maxx is not abandoning his efforts to build this force object, but he's using a sixteen-minute preparatory period of concentration before doing so. That gives him +50 on his chance of success, and the roll is 99, so I need to backtrack for what the other numbers are: 9@2 bias, 1@10 BRA, and 15@ world bias--a sum of 177 minus 101 is 76% chance of success, 24% chance of failure, and 2% chance to botch, this is not going well for him. I have the same botch list
1. Trapped in force cageHowever, if I use that, the probability of the same botch occurring twice in a row is a rather unlikely 12.5%; and if I take that item off the list, the chance of the same botch occurring twice falls to an equally improbable zero; so I'm going to see if I can expand the list a bit, with some help from a few contributors who were not here when I made that list. Let's go with
2. Explosion
3. Force object slices path ahead
4. Wall out of reach
5. Psionic Shock Wave
6. Neural Breakdown
7. Brain Burn
8. Pinned beneath force object
I was thinking that the place was empty, but Harry is conducting a search, and that suggests that he's interested in pursuing this aspect of the scenario--and besides, a bad GE roll now gives him the chance to fix a problem that might otherwise have appeared in a bad GE roll later. He gets a 22 on the roll, so we've got a problem.
Nikolaj has already successfully prayed that God would reveal himself to people in this meeting, so we'll just have to figure out how many he reaches. The roll is 15, which is that Not Unfavorable Result.
John 2 asks a question I don't think I'm permitted to answer; what I will tell him is that this is a very low probability survival scenario, that several points of how things are and what will happen make it unlikely that anyone will return alive from this mission--but that does not mean they will not be successful.
Because she's a powerful NPC and this is a plot device, Lauren will not roll for success on the two skills that matter--her psionic clairvoyance and her magical teleportation. Also, there will be a quick scene in this. But overall we're about to move to the big boss of the whole game, or at least of this stage of it.
--M. J. Young
The clock just struck one here, and it's probably too late for me seriously to address the threads from Michael, Maxx, Kurt (welcome back), Harry, Nikolaj, and John 2, but I'm going to try.
Michael needs to roll his skill check to extend the computer connection; 74 fails. That saves me time, so I'll try not to be too pleased with that roll.
The only question really that I have to answer with Maxx is whether there is anything within a reasonable distance that he can push with the force wall. A GE or 23 plays against that.
It looks like I gave Kurt a skill learning roll for repairing a pistol based on Mariska's demonstration, and so I should do the same now for her demonstrations of the rifle and shotgun--both of which are going to have lower bonuses, but let's roll and see what we get: 27, 58, that's 1@1 Repair Large Hand-carried Explosive Driven Slug Thrower (Rifle) T6@2 and 1@2 Repair Heavy Hand-carried Explosive Driven Slug Thrower T6@2 (Shotgun). Yes, the parentheticals are in different positions. "Large Hand-carried Explosive-driven Slug Thrower" means "rifle", but there are other types of "Heavy Hand-carried Explosive-driven Slug Throwers" besides shotguns, including the fifty caliber revolvers Lauren carries.
A 23 GE roll does not play terribly well for Harry, but it doesn't mean that everything is wrong--only that it's nearly as bad as anticipated.
The 96 Nikolaj rolls on his latest general protection skill means only that it's not going to have any effect, so I don't have to put too much time into figuring out the numbers. There's not enough in it to make it a sure deal, even with his 7@9 bias. There are just a few loose ends.
I always enjoy these conversations where people are talking about several different things at once, and so I'm going to throw one past John 2; but it also occurs to me that if he's weightless he's going to need a simple stamina check to keep from losing his lunch. He rolls 7+4=11, so he's all right.
--M. J. Young
He who laughs last is the slowest.
--M. J. Young
I am pushing everything as quickly forward as I can, because I have too many other obligations on my plate for tonight. However, it is perhaps to my benefit that only Maxx, Kurt, and John 2 managed to respond to threads since last night, and even if it means a bigger load tomorrow, it means I might get through this effectively today.
Maxx attempts the force wall again, so we need another skill learning roll: 68 is solid against his (previously calculated) 76% chance of success, so he's got 1@2 Create Force Object Fixed Stabilizing Wall P10@1 16:00 preparatory concentration RS minutes +50SM.
Kurt and Mariska are planning their trip; I must keep in mind Jeff with Kim, Nick with Sarah, who are about to reappear, but that's a complication I will have to consider carefully.
My impression of hotel and apartment hallways is that they are usually rather vacant, as people use them to get to their rooms, and do not congregate in them--but also that you can't see them from inside the room. A 16 GE roll tells me that that's the way it is when John 2 and the others are departing. I mention that he gets a new use for his 2@1 Walk at Walking Speeds B2@4, so he's got a skill mark on that. Lauren rolls 49 on her psionic flight, which is a good success for her in this bias, so she's following CW, who has magnetic boots.
--M. J. Young
JohnA1nut
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My impression of hotel and apartment hallways is that they are usually rather vacant, as people use them to get to their rooms, and do not congregate in them--but also that you can't see them from inside the room.
Actually, my impression is that it's not important enough to quibble over. My imagination of the scenario was that we were in a semi-public area. You probably said that we were in Derek's apartment, but since I'm not actually there, I didn't remember. My character is there. If he didn't think anyone could hear him, he wouldn't have done it. No need to rewrite it as you said in game. Like I said, it's not important enough to quibble over. Unless we do make it back alive, and the place is in chaos because of what I did, it's not likely to come up in game. So that's a 3 on us getting back alive, and a 30 on it causing the chaos I described. 1 in a million of it coming up in game, so why argue about it?
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JohnA1nut
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MJ, I'm not trying to sound like a smart alack here. It's not worth rewriting, I don't think. I was imagining this taking place in a semi-public place. I know there's no logical basis for this, but that vortex we went through sounds like it would need a large area to open. Probably got confused by that or something. You probably said Derek's apartment, you might even have said it more than once. I forgot. My character knows he's in Derek's apartment. If he was, he didn't do it. Sorry, I'm kind of making a big deal out of it myself. I'll let it go if you do.
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JohnA1nut
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I mention that he gets a new use for his 2@1 Walk at Walking Speeds B2@4
I only have 2@1 walking ability? Is that the norm? By the time you're 20, you probably have enough practice to qualify for 3@10, at least by the game rules. What's up?
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johnosevens
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John - Remember that 2@1 is "Below-Average Professional" which means "good enough to get by well in most circumstances." Considering what we use "walk at walking speeds" for in most cases - walking to a bus, meandering around the office, strolling through the woods - these aren't the kind of triple-triple difficulties that are going to get you into the uber-high degrees of Expert. 3@10 WaWS means you can walk at a normal pace across a glacier through a blizzard in full military gear while being hounded by velociraptors without having to roll to see if you slip. (Whether or not the raptors eat you depends on your Target Value, I suppose.)
Brock
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John-I think you still don't understand 3@10 very well.
3@10 is NOT the absolute limit of HUMAN ability-it is the absolute limit of ABILITY. For anyone and anything. It is perfection; there is no room for improvement in it except by improving things that contribute to the skill roll, like attributes and bias. Perfection means it is flawless; there is no mistake on the part of the person performing the action anymore. Only circumstance limiting their ability to perform the skill at all can stop them, or insane circumstances adding so much negative sit mod a god would frown at it. For 3@10 is the highest even a god can attain.
Ever hear of the "mall walkers"? people who walk through malls for hours every day? They are 2@5 and up. They have the practice needed to get there.
Thanks for explaining that so well, guys. The default human skill ability level for "Walk at Walking Speeds" is 2@1. If you think that you, specifically, have reason to be treated as having a higher SAL in walking than most other people, I'll gladly listen to arguments, and have in the past given people average and above professional skill ability levels in the skill. As Harry observes, though, expert level skill in walking would almost certainly mean that you had opportunity to practice under circumstances not often faced by ordinary people--different gravities, adverse surfaces, and so on.
It looks like a lot of people here until I start opening threads, and then it doesn't look like so many until I have them all open, and then it looks like a lot again. Not sure why Brock didn't post (unless he posted since I started opening threads, which is possible), but I do see Michael, Maxx, Kurt, Harry, Nikolaj, and John 2, so let's tackle those.
Michael needs a skill check to reactivate the psionic computer--a difficult task for an amateur in this world, whatever his psi bias. He rolls 61, and I don't have to do the math. I'm tempted to remind him of the advice he was given by Paul, but that's not my job.
Maxx has some questions about his latest new skill, but they're all fairly straightforward.
I was wondering whether Kurt would find secret passages in his castle blueprint, but a 21 GE roll suggests that these are at best not useful.
Harry rolls 86 on his first TK pulse attempt; I'm not certain how many rolls to give him, but he indicated a desire to move his target closer to him if possible after I expressed the complication that it would probably be some distance. Let me double check his math: 1@9 SAL+1@9 BRA=38% chance in a flatlined bias world. I continue to roll 23, 48, 55, 48, 23, 11, 48, 86, 14. Brandy will notice that the person she's watching moved.
We'll see what Nikolaj does with his conversation with Kathrine Kucher (if I have remembered the spellings aright again).
John 2 is inside a small cargo bay hatch; fire equipment would be built into the ceiling and such in such a place. That, though, does not necessarily mean that there are no fire extinguishers, or that they have no pressure--although it would be just his luck that the fire extinguishers aboard the ship are designed with minimal kick because if you've got an emergency you might lose the gravity. His GE roll is 15. We have another question, and that is which group encounters trouble first. I'm thinking that it would be better for John if it was Lauren, so I'll roll the GE and see what we get: 14, marginally better.
By this point, according to my story notes, Derek's hand/eye is 2@9 and his intuition is 2@3, which gives him a 2@6 RSV. His tech BRA is a 2@3 ed level, and his SAL with the laser rifle is 2@6. He's got a 12@ tech bias, which is covered by this world, so we sum his chance to hit as 99 minus the defenses of his target. I'm noting point blank to 30', but I've put the creature at 40' so there's no adjustment for range. I've described a forward target somewhere between 8" and 12" in diameter, which is -20 for a 10" diameter circle, we'll go with that. The creature has an above average agility and intuition, so its target value will be 1@8. That means 99-38=61% chance that he will hit. 42 means he does, the weapon is base lethal and he has +2DC (2@ SAL and 2@ RSV) for annihilating, 42 intensities of damage, which will take this one down--it's a little guy.
And with that, I'm done for the day.
--M. J. Young
Tadeusz
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MJ gave me a slightly higher walking speed skill because I and my brother used to walk very fast to get places. And then I have a friend who got into one of my books as The Walking Man who hiked thirty miles one way one day and thirty back the other day, and I think did this more than once. And yeah, I've given people boosts in walking skills when they 1)visited a low gravity planet. 2)visited a high gravity planet.
One character went on an archeology quest a la Lost in Space a la 'we lost the maps back to Earth ten thousand years ago, and now we really need to find it again' and the only planet he visited was low gravity. Another character went to Psyclone Station which has a rice paddy civ with high-grav. Probably the high-grav is good for a boost and if done enough the walking in the rice paddies would be too.
JohnA1nut
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OK MJ, would carrying that pack around all the time improve my walking skill? If he's going to have to take all of the penalties for it, then I want to make sure I get all of the bonuses as well. What all would I get, besides increases in strength and stamina?
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This time there really are quite a few players, including Michael, Brock, Maxx, Kurt, Harry, Nikolaj, and John.
Michael rolls 34 on attempting to contact the vacation sphere; it seems that I last calculated his chance of success on the previous page, so I'll do it again as the quicker way to get it: Psi BRA is 2@1, SAL for this skill is 1@1, and he's got a +5SM for closing his eyes, so his chance of success is 37%, and that's a solid roll, and a new use for a 1@2 SAL on the skill. I don't happen to know where this particular "vacation" goes, but a GE roll might be worth rolling: 15 is moderately favorable.
Given Brock's questions, I think Tom Titus needs to make an ed lev check. He's probably got a 1@10 ed lev (although I'll bet his official records list that and his intellect as considerably lower than that, thanks to some well-placed bribes). He rolls 13+16=29, well outside what might be successful.
I have to backtrack to find that Maxx learned this force wall skill with a roll of 68, and thus it will last as many minutes.
I like his reasoning to his father about practicing the telepathy, so I'll give him +3 intensities on his 1@8 persuasion to effectively 2@1 for the check; he rolls (2+10=)12; his father rolls (13+10=)23, and I'm sure that Morani does not have a 2@4 will power, so he's satisfied.
His chance of success on using the skill once learned is lower than it was, I think, but it still has that strong sit-mod, so a roll of 46 is solid. He wants to walk on the bar; that's going to require some discussion. I'm also uncertain about the density viewing skill.
Kurt pulls an 11 GE on the events of the night, which is very good, really, so he should have things go his way for a while.
I rolled the TK pulse rolls for Harry last time; he's continuing those attempts. he also gets a 19 GE on its effects, not thwarting but generally unfavorable. I give Brandy a simple strength check for lifting the waitress, but 15+17 is no good.
Nikolaj is revising his previous post because he intended quotes that he overlooked, and I interpreted them as not quoted; so let me rethink Kathrine Kucher's response. I think I'll invite him to open the entire can of worms, and see how many worms he releases. (Those are metaphors, Nikolaj--opening a can of worms is an expression for complicating things tremendously.)
The possibility of having to destroy the ship was always not only present but rather significant in the scenario in which John 2 is battling; that he has already suggested it is encouraging, from one perspective, as I would have expected him to object to it. But one problem at a time--he might want to hunt for a bomb, and that would mean that I would have to determine whether there is a bomb and how difficult it would be to find it.
--M. J. Young
JohnA1nut
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Not arguing, just explaining. To me, if you've been doing something all of your life, you certainly qualify for professional skill. You've been walking longer than you've been at any job you will ever have. I figure I walk as well as the guy next to me. That would make it average professional, or 2@5. Someone who walked with a limp, but could still get around unassisted, would be a 2@1. That just seems right to me. Then again, I know very little about gaming. I just felt the need to explain my position. Not arguing. Perhaps asking why it is only 2@1 though.
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Brock
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Two points
1: Some skills naturally take more time and effort to truly master than others, like inherent body skills. This is due to everyday use not counting as a training regimen, but you do it anyway. You cannot LEARN to walk calmly through a blizzard carrying a small Indonesian child on your back down a mountain with broken arms from walking to school. There is an upper limit to the skill it is possible to garner from everyday, unfocused use. As for as I can tell, that's 2@1.
2. The amount of time a person actually SPENDS walking each day varies greatly. Some, like myself, stay seated for some time each day, getting up only to go somewhere or to exercise on purpose to avoid getting fatter. There has to be a midpoint somewhere in order to call someone's walking ability 'average'.
The point really was to distinguish professional walkers from everyone else without pushing too many people into the realm of expert walkers. I want to be able to say that those Olympic speedwalkers have better SALs (in addition to having higher walking speeds and likely higher staminas) than the ordinary person, without making most people amateurs who have to check for walking under ordinary situations. Harry probably has an increase in his walking skill because he worked on a ship for a while (not sure if that was included off the top of my head)--I know that when you first try to walk in one of the Mary Piper scenarios you have to make a walking skill check to avoid falling. If most humans were amateur walkers, they would have to check for ordinary walking situations. People who have limps or other handicaps often do have to check for ordinary walking situations, as they experience pain or imbalance when they attempt to walk. People who have walked on many other worlds under different gravities, who have walked in places where the gravity fluctuates, who have dragged their legs through the muck of a swamp world, who have used magnetic boots and velcro socks and other aids to walking in weightless environments--these people might be experts at walking, because they know how to do it in situations most of us have never encountered.
Sure, you walk a lot; but you probably haven't really practiced walking since you were three years old and thought you had it down pretty well.
And on that note, let me turn my attention to game posts from Michael, Brock, Maxx, Kurt, Harry, and John 2.
I almost forgot an aspect of those psionic vacations that Michael would have noticed about now. We'll see how he responds to this.
Brock wants more information about this target, which tells me he's serious about putting forward ideas when the time comes.
Maxx has a 2@2 Bod Bias for his limb-assisted walking (I have just updated his sheet to include 1@5 Signal Generation, auditory B0@2, 1@5 Multi-legged Crawl B1@3, and 1@3 Arm-assisted Walking B2@2 among his skills) and a 1@8 Will Power for his BRA in a world with a 13@ bod bias, so his positives are 53 against a targeted B6@1 Balance Beam Walking skill, which he notes should be bonused because he can use the hand hold for support, so I'll give him +20 on that. He also indicates an average amateur ability at walking on fences, +15 for the example. That's 88-61=27% chance that he can do this, surprisingly high given the bias disparity. He rolls 90, and fails to manage it.
I won't roll for Kurt reloading the pistol because it appears to be practice and there is no stress on the situation. I feel a bit like I'm wasting his time talking about breakfast, but he didn't really give me much else.
Harry is going to help Brandy, using his belly crawl skill that I don't have listed.
John 2 doubles back to the cargo hold. I need to know what's happened to Lauren and CW, and 17 says it's pretty much going as expected--which means they are fighting bunches of these things, but holding their own. I also need a GE roll for what he finds when he opens one random cargo crate: 15 suggests he might be pleased with it, but it's not what he wants.
I believe that's a good day's game.
--M. J. Young
Yes, Nikolaj, you did just miss me; but I would not have spotted your post about walking had you not mentioned it afterward. I hesitate to give you much above average, but then, that's in part because I barely give myself much above average, and I've hiked through the Rocky Mountains with several days' gear and supplies doing eighty miles in about a week, plus portaged canoes on many several mile paths. I do note that my speed is a bit above average (which is separate from the SAL), about four miles per hour (not anymore, I think, but that's because in my old age my asthma has impacted by stamina). Thus I would need something akin to that kind of walking experience to be persuaded that anyone approached "average professional", and competitive walking for the higher professional levels.
I should probably mention for John's sake that in creating initial scores I am far more interested the level of ability displayed than in the amount of practice cited. Sure, if someone tells me that he has been practicing his martial arts style for twenty years I will consider that in setting his SAL, and on that basis might push him into the expert range at least on the base skills; but if he's not a black belt, that's not going to happen, no matter how long he has been practicing. After you are "in the verse" the only way I can assess your rate of improvement is by tracking your practice or, on occasion, recognizing that a new use indicates a better understanding or level of control of the skill. Thus the fact that you walked thousand of miles over thousands of hours over the course of your life means very little to me. For another example, most people who swim at all have probably swum many miles over the course of their lives, but that does not mean that they could all swim one mile without a break. I have twice accomplished that, swimming one mile, and am confident (even in my current condition) that I could do so again, and thus I feel with that plus my certifications in advanced swimming and lifesaving (both BSA and Red Cross) that I should be a low-level professional swimmer. I'm not much impressed that someone had a swimming pool in his back yard and played in it every day from March 1st to October 30th, and will probably give that person a top amateur rating absent any evidence of better. I am not persuaded that such a person could swim a mile. On the other hand, if he gets into a place where he can create a viable training program in a pool, and he does so and follows it, I will give him the benefit of assuming that he can become a 2@1 swimmer who could swim a mile even without evidence he has ever done so.
And that's why simply having walked a lot in your life does not make you a high level professional or expert walker.
Thanks for letting me clarify that. Now let me see what I can do with thread posts from Michael, Maxx, Nikolaj, and John 2.
Michael hopes to see his reflection in a babbling brook, which I know from experience is not so simple--one needs to find a smooth relatively calm corner with an adequate amount of sunlight. That means a general effects roll, for which the roll is 19. I'm also giving him an intuition check on the teeth question, because he probably can't see it but he could feel it. Rolls are 9+17=too high, so he's not going to learn anything that way.
Maxx rolls 96 on his latest chemical analysis variant, but it probably is not a botch and might even be a success, given the limitations and bonuses. Let me check the math. The skill bias is 9@1, but since it is limited to density we'll give it a +10SM. He also has included a 4-minute preparatory concentration, which is treated as three doublings, +30. That means the skill has an inherent +40 SM; his BRA is 1@10 and his bias 10@1 and the world bias is 15@, so he has 176-91 for his chance of success, which is not good enough for his roll at 85%. He also intends to try the supported balance beam walk again the next day, and rolls 43, which is still above his modified 27% chance of success. Oops--he has to recreate the bar to be able to walk on it, so I'll have to roll that first, which is 46, pretty likely given his 2x10@ bias+1@10 BRA plus any SAL, so he's good for that.
Nikolaj has suggested that I might be scheming something based on my presentation of Kathrine Kucher, and I object that I am not scheming. I know that he means nothing sinister by it, only that he sees machinations pushing in a particular direction. Let me say for clarification that I do not scheme. I create characters, and try to make them believable and interesting, and sometimes that means they might be attractive. I figure that the daughter of the wealthy owner of the ranch is going to be of a particular type with variations, and I attempt to communicate that. Some of the points here are that being wealthy she can afford to look good, and being the daughter of the head of the ranch she will be expected to maintain a pleasant but strong and possibly aloof appearance. She also has power, because of her family, and that gives her confidence. She is also quite accustomed even at her age to men showing particular interest in and courtesy toward her--it would be a real coup to become the son-in-law of the ranch owner, but a disaster to lose the job for overstepping a line. She thus has expectations about how she will be treated, and a strong sense of self that does not easily capitulate to the attentions of others. These are the points that matter in my mind to creating Kathrine Kucher; the rest flows from it.
He gets a 10 GE roll on what happens next in his conversation with the girl; that's going to play quite well for him for now.
Derek's 2@6 SAL is with a laser blaster, which is distinct from a laser pistol, so he's only 1@10 with that. That's still an example, and Derek does have a 1@8 teaching SAL and a 2@3 Tech BRA, so the numbers are 20+18+12+John's 12@1 tech bias +2@2 BRA+the 14@ world bias against a 12@1 target skill bias. We'll cancel the 12@1's against each other and that gives us 86% chance to learn this skill, he rolls 53, a 1@2 Use Laser Pistol T12@1.
I'm recalling information from a previous GE roll, 15 for whether there were fire extinguishers that he might use for propulsion.
--M. J. Young
Of course not. If you have learned how to do something, you know how to do it. I would allow someone to get an amateur level of ability from studying a book on Tae Kwon Do, on the assumption that they know what they have to do to do it and they are capable of doing that. It covers the fact that people have different learning styles. A listening learner or a reading learner ought not be penalized simply because a hands-on learner has immediate practical experience.
I had a tremendous overload of e-mail today, plus two sets of errands which ought to have been one but that the second came to me by phone after the first was completed, and it has left me short of time with five players to cover: Maxx, Kurt, Harry, Nikolaj, and John 2. Let's see what I can do in the time allotted.
Maxx is trying skills he's already failed, but giving time between to create new circumstances. The first is that density vision skill, for which he rolls 90, another failure. The second is walking on the bar assisted, for which he rolls 15, which it strikes me is a success--yes, we'll give him 1@1 Assisted Balance Beam Walking B6@1 +20SM on surfaces twice the width of the foot provided that there is stable support for one hand. This will make his other bod skills considerably easier. I'm sure he'd like to do the other skill again, but he didn't say so, and it will save me time to move to the next player.
I considered it very unlikely that there would be any problem with breakfast for Kurt, but a GE of 25 is pretty unlikely--Remarkably bad but not totally surprising. That fits the "Ziggy shows up" scenario.
Harry has listed a 1@7 Belly Crawl, which I'll accept, to which I add 2x7@ bias and 2@2 BRA to get 53% chance he can do it the way he wants. He rolls 83, so this is not going to work smoothly for him. Brandy will make a suggestion.
I'm adding +1 Mark to Nikolaj's 1@10 SAL religion skill; when he gets four he'll be a professional, and it seems that he's doing things now that are bringing him there rather quickly. This was inspired by his praise time, but is more for the overall practice and preaching in which he has been involved since his arrival here. He also prays that 1@2 Pray for Third Party Revelation M7@7 while walking, requires successful use of Prayer Tongues M7@1 40:00 TF asks God to reveal Himself to a specified other individual +38SM; he rolls 33 on the prayer tongues, 71 on the skill itself, with his +10 for his religion SAL, +10 for alliance, +1@9 BRA, and +2x7 bias, all of which comes to 103, something is happening there, but he won't know it until tomorrow.
John 2 is in a hot zone; the chance that he's going to have the opportunity to play around with just about anything is slim--and a 20 GE roll says this is not that chance.
--M. J. Young
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