That's cool. I'm sure everyone can appreciate that you came on to say it. Everyone gets burnt out here and again.
Ending a Decade Behind the Screens
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I knocked Kyler out of position yesterday when I accidentally posted to the wrong thread, so he'll be first, followed by Adam, Edgar, Eric 2, Michael, and Ahmetia. I think. I have all the mailboxes working again, but they all feed to the same folder, which is a bit confusing. I'll have to work out folder rules next, but at least I'm atop the e-mail. I think.
Kyler has begun a conversation with Icarus and Mariska.
Adam ducked one of my questions, but I won't hold up the game for it.
I'm thinking that minerals in the cave walls are interfering with communications for Eric 2, and if that's the case he'll have to be outside completely before transmat will work; the GE roll is 23, so that sounds right to me. That's not bad enough for something worse, I think.
I have no idea why Edgar asked Michael what he should do, but he's not going to get much of an answer.
Michael rolled 12 on making his omelets, so I'm comfortable that that's a successful check.
Maybe I can get Ahmetia to tell me some of her plans and expectations. It'll give me some direction for my GE rolls.
I think that is everyone.
--M. J. Young
Thu Dec 2 2010 5:32 am # -
I am surprised at the number of threads not showing new posts; but I am here a bit early today, and I think I was here late last night, and sometimes that's how it happens. Those who are here include Ahmetia, Kyler, Michael, and Katerina, and there is action on several other threads.
We'll see about wrapping up Ahmetia's conversation with a quick check on what's happening in Paris in 1894.
I'll see if I can wrap up Kyler's conversation with Icarus and move that story forward.
I'm introducing Michael to a laser pistol skill. We'll let him introduce himself and then roll for his learning next time, I think.
Katerina will be settling in to her new location for the present.
--M. J. Young
Thu Dec 2 2010 9:02 pm # -
I apologize (again) for missing Friday and for not compensating by posting Saturday. About six hours of my Friday went to transporting people to and from various jobs, about half of that in waiting for someone who was delayed at departure time and did not know in advance that it would take as long as it did to finish what had to be done. The fact that the e-mail is back in the loop had some impact on this as well. Hopefully I can catch up today on posts from Adam, Eric 2, Ahmetia, Edgar, Katerina, Michael, and Kyler.
Since I was rousted early today, I might just also catch up on those character sheets. Adam has a growing army of individuals. Let me see what I can catch up for him. The stopwatch has gone into hiding--it's buried here somewhere, I heard a muffled beep at three, but several minutes of searching have not uncovered it so unless the muffled beep at four is more informative I will have to wait until the alarm sounds at eleven. Meanwhile, I've found a Chessex dice case and think that I can risk putting 2d10 into it and using them for percentiles, black is tens green is ones, for the present. I need to make rolls for the skill learning of Adam's crew, whom I have listed in the order Liam, Duncan, Conner, Ian, Sean, Llewelyn of Cartiff, Waylon, Bandit Leader, 1@ Bandit (34), and I'll add the girls when we get there. He's teaching those first five his Immobilizer B7@5, "once they hit a 1@2 Steal Initiative", which three of the five had on first learning, so let's roll for those three: 46, 88, 67, and with Adam's training plus their 10@2 biases they've all got upward of 90% chance to learn this, so that's Duncan 1@1, Ian 1@3, and Sean 1@2.
I've put more time into this than I intended, but it will be all right.
Although Eric is next in the list, my recollection is that Katerina was at the table first at Ubercon, so that makes her a previous player. (It's complicated, because Eric played before with Harry, but he was starting with me at Ubercon, and since Kat also played before at Ubercon but was starting over, we're going by who restarted first.) That doesn't matter as much now, but I do list the character sheets in the order people started playing. So let's take a look at Katerina Nastasya Campbell. I've got her paper together, and I'm moving her forward in her story.
I've now got Eric 2's character paper mostly together. I'm not sure what happens to him next, but we'll save that roll for next time.
Ahmetia is next in line, and there's no good justification for bumping her again (she was bumped to put her sister in front of Eric), so let's hit her scenario. In a weird sort of parallelism, she is also headed to bed in a stranger's home (like her sister). I'm going to check what she's wearing to bed, because you never know what might happen in the night--even I don't know at this point.
I've got another character sheet to catch up, for Edgar. I'm beginning to feel my wife's pain when she gets multiple admissions to the nursing facility on the same night. But we'll get him in order, and bounce an answer to his question.
It strikes me that there should be updates here somewhere for Michael's sheet as well--yes, there they are, let me get that updated as well. With instruction from a professional teacher who is also a professional example, he's going to get a 1@2 Use Laser Pistol T12@1 from his roll of 68.
I think we're wrapping up the strange case of the jaywalking pursesnatcher (or perhaps that should be the pursesnatching jaywalker), and Kyler will move forward again.
--M. J. Young
Sun Dec 5 2010 11:35 pm # -
Tadeusz
MemberMark,
In Jhiaxus's game with moi, he wants to possess (psi) the villain Gutpunch. The hero Mechanoman has a fifty feet wide psi static bubble centered on himself that makes psi +30 harder. Gutpunch is inside the bubble, but Jhiaxus, as Midnite is not.Does the bubble affect Jhiaxus' attack or not?
And is there an excuse I can use to randomly Kylerize Midnite's life for my vicious and petty amusement? :)
Mon Dec 6 2010 7:05 pm # -
Jhiaxus
MemberYou already are making that world Kylerized, making my woman inaccessible, and making one of the heroes a villian, so that I can't stand to be around him or anyone that chooses to be around him.
Psionics are inner powers, I would say, if you cannot disrupt the source, the power goes through, because it originated at me, where there was no interference.
Mon Dec 6 2010 8:04 pm # -
If the psionic power is either originating within the static or attempting as psionic power to penetrate the static to reach a target, the static is a defense.
Obviously Gutpunch has the static defense raised so that no one can use psionics against him. It has the incidental effect that he cannot use psionics (without also overcoming the penalty he has created). If Adam were targeting Gutpunch, the penalty would apply because the psionic power gets dispersed in the static. Since Adam is targeting someone else within the static, the psionic power disperses the in the static.
It acts as a sort of area effect defense, with the caveat that one cannot send psionic attacks (or other skills) into it, use such skills point-to-point within, or send them out from it.
If Adam were psionically to create non-psionic energy, such as light or heat, radiating or emitting from a point outside the static and send that energy into the static area, that energy would penetrate unimpeded. The powerful nature of a defense like psionic static is that most psionic skills require the psionic energy to reach the target as psionics--telepathy, pyrogenesis, telekinesis, force objects, clairsentience, teleportation, all are examples of power that reaches a target point psionically and then becomes or does whatever is intended. Unless Adam can target a point outside the protected area and create an effect, such as an explosion at the edge of the static field or a high-speed hurled targeted projectile originating beyond it, his efforts to penetrate the field with psionics have to overcome the defense.
Someone may have answered that already; I've been away for longer than I intended. However, with the time that remains to me let me tackle games....
Tue Dec 7 2010 2:46 am # -
...games from Kyler, Adam, Eric 2, Edgar, Michael, Ahmetia, and Katerina.
Kyler raises an interesting question. I'll give him the answer I think I had in mind then, and also invite him to explore it further if he likes.
I'm getting my mind wrapped around the very large training program Adam is running at his castle--almost fifty people who have to be tracked at different levels in multiple skills and attributes. But I'm getting there.
I haven't actually decided yet whether Eric 2 and his company are going to be pursued, but I'm sort of hoping that I'll find the stopwatch tonight when it beeps in twenty minutes or so and won't have to use dice for the GE roll that will make that decision, and I can put in some explanation and get him in position while maintaining the suspense another day.
I have no idea what Edgar expects to find as "a place to stay" on a tropical island in an uninhabited world, but maybe he'll enlighten me.
It looks like I need a GE roll for Michael anyway, because he's checking for coursework. 9+1+3 is barely good enough, so I'd say that's a light load. Otherwise it's pretty straightforward.
I'm going to question whether Ahmetia really would sleep in a clean bed in dirty clothes, by giving her the list of clothing from her character sheet.
Found the stop watch. I'm a bit out of breath from digging for it.
Katerina gets a bit of help with her clothes, but they're not really that difficult in a modern setting.
--M. J. Young
Tue Dec 7 2010 4:04 am # -
Yes, that stopwatch, thank you.
Let's tackle game threads from Kyler, Adam, Eric 2, Ahmetia, Edgar, and Michael.
Kyler is going to do a bit of superhero work this weekend, once he sets the time and place with Icarus.
I'm putting time into getting Adam's character sheets correct and covering his training programs.
It's time to give Eric 2 his GE roll for the trap. I'm thinking ahead on what's behind, but the GE roll will tell me much: ooo, a 3--that's going to play quite well.
Ahmetia will get through to morning; we'll see what happens after that. This was, after all, a strongly favorable GE, as I recall.
I hear that Adam has started a pool for how long it will take Edgar to annoy Michael di Vars into shooting him. I'll have to think about that. It won't happen today, though.
My Internet service seems to have gone wonky--it tells me I've got a good strong signal, but even when I try to get the Comcast site I don't get more than the title of the page.
Regardless, there's one more player, so let me tackle Michael and move him into regular work. It will take a while before he gets noticed on the range, but it will happen.
--M. J. Young
Wed Dec 8 2010 4:03 am # -
Yes, thank you. No complaints. After all, as I learned from Paris of Troy, never look a wooden gift horse in the mouth.
Let me see how far I can get on threads from Kyler, Adam, Katerina, Eric 2, Michael, Ahmetia, and Edgar.
I neglected the part where Icarus extends the invitation to include Mariska, which he sort of has to do because he doesn't want to offend Kyler and Mariska either way. Actually, I kept thinking I have to include that, but the conversation hadn't gotten there yet.
I didn't want to hold up Adam's game for another record-keeping post, but I don't want to overlook Geneice' opportunity to train in something nor retrace the work once it's been done--and besides, I'm both tired and pressed for time tonight, so I'm rushing just a bit to cover as many people as possible.
Katerina is getting settled into her room.
We'll wrap up Eric 2's present adventure and start thinking about what happens next.
There's a 58 on a training skill roll for Michael, which will raise his cooking skill to 1@9 after twenty-five days. He then gets an 8 GE roll, which will put him on the bridge, which as I recall was his first choice.
Ahmetia isn't going to escape her hosts that quickly. There's breakfast.
Edgar apparently hasn't figured out di Vars' attitude, but it should be a bit clearer after this.
--M. J. Young
Thu Dec 9 2010 3:55 am # -
I'm trying to get through everything, and keep getting interrupted today (and there will be more interruptions to come), but I'm looking at posts from Kyler, Adam, Katerina, Eric 2, Ahmetia, Edgar, and Michael.
Kyler finishes his conversation with Icarus, I think, and will soon be returning home.
I have a lot to do to keep up notes on almost fifty people for Adam, so it's going to take a few days to do it all. But we'll keep moving forward.
Katerina is wondering about the world biases, which is a good start to discovering them, but not enough that I have to look them up.
For Eric 2 to get on Ishara's good side he'll have to make a difficult charisma check. I don't have a charisma for Eric--nor an an mag nor persuasion either--so it's time to fill in some numbers. I could guess at his an mag based on having met him, but I don't know him well enough to make any bets on the other two.
I don't think the French understand the concept of "plain" food, so Ahmetia may have to decide whether to take what they describe or modify it to her tastes.
Edgar is going to leave Michael and go--somewhere.
Michael is now on the bridge, and I've got to make that believable as well.
I think I'm done with the game threads.
--M. J. Young
Fri Dec 10 2010 4:31 am # -
I have someone at home sick, which has already used up some of my time and I think requires that I put more into it. So I am hopefully going to bounce today's forum work into tomorrow, and tend to my problems here.
Thanks for understanding.
--M. J. Young
Sat Dec 11 2010 2:01 am # -
I promised to attempt to tackle posts today, so here's my attempt. It doesn't appear that there was much more posting since yesterday, although I suppose there might have been--Kyler, Ahmetia, Eric 2, Adam, and Michael were all waiting yesterday, and no one else appears to be waiting today.
We need to get Kyler back to routine and moving forward. I was going to say that Sunday would be uneventful, but I've hit a 24 GE roll, so I'm going to have to think on that a bit.
Perhaps Ahmetia needs to learn a bit of French, if she's traveling the countryside in France. We'll see if she takes that direction.
Eric 2 has given me some thoughts on his missing attribute scores. We'll give him a 1@5 average An Mag, a 1@7 Charisma, and a 1@8 Persuasion. Now I need to figure out how he's going to do the asking, so I can place what kind of roll to make.
The sheer size of Adam's team makes keeping up on advancement a lot of work, but we're getting there.
Michael gets a 13 GE, barely good enough, on his situation on the bridge. We'll introduce another girl into his life. Hey, maybe he'll get that same philosophy for which Whisp was noted, although frankly I think he's been handling it much better to this point.
I think that's everyone.
--M. J. Young
Sat Dec 11 2010 11:57 pm # -
It appears that we have new software, and are going to be migrating to it.
I am not jumping all my players to the new software at once. For one thing, it's too much work to start all those new threads. For another, there's a reason I start new threads at critical breaks in the story: it enables me track back through the open thread to find things that are still relevant. Thus normally I start new threads if someone changes worlds, or on rare occasions when there is a significant shift in scenario circumstances within the world.
I am not going to keep everyone here until he (or she) verses out; but I am going to look for a good moment to make the move. I will post the new link on the old thread when the move is made. I've got a couple players very close to a good spot, so I'll be moving them relatively soon.
Meanwhile, I am going to move this Behind the Screens thread to the new software. I'd rather have waited until the new year, but that's really just my compulsive obsessions and I don't have to do it that way. So look for today's game, December 12, 2010, to be continued there in a thread entitled Toward Twenty Eleven Behind the Screens.
I'll have that linked before the night is over, Lord willing.
--M. J. Young
Sun Dec 12 2010 10:19 pm # -
The promised link is Toward Twenty Eleven Behind the Screens.
--M. J. Young
Sun Dec 12 2010 11:33 pm #
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