Re: Chapter 1 discussions

[Greebs]

It's kind of late to ask... but should the Autumns among us be aware of who this chap who keeps calling us 'rookie' is?

[ST McDude]

If you take a bit to think about it! Make an intelligence+investigation or politics. Anyone not autumn only gets raw intelligence. It's hearsay few people talk about, except in house.

[ST McDude]

Oh yeah, and for reference. After I applied his defense vs your grapple you missed, I wasn't ignoring you again. I'm not trying to be mean to you specifically, you are literally just interacting with the biggest asshole in that gathering atm. Sorry.

[Greebs]

No worries. I figured not even an NPC would have defence 2 - especially one happy to thug other characters, and saw where the suxx fell. It's why I left the narration where I did.

Besides, it was a sound opportunity to put Molly on the Motley's radar as 'a good egg'.

[InvertedMonkey]

As before, I think it's appropriate for Sylus and Molly to respond before Ramona.

(*Takes a moment to identify and fight residual EOD impulses regarding OOC conversation*)

So yeah, this guy didn't drop the knife and he's just walking away? Unless something alters the landscape in the interim, Ramona's next post is likely to involve getting out her stun-gun and tazing, then restraining this guy. He's demonstrated that he cannot be trusted to use a knife responsibly, and that needs correction.

[Greebs]

Hooray "diplomatic incidents"!

Hooray for not being sure where to stand on that particular line...

[ST McDude]

Which, amusingly, is likely what Molly would think as well.

[Greebs]

While we all hedge our bets and wait for Mav, chucked some dice that might inform Molly's actions.

She dun' have a clue!

[ST McDude]

For the record, you guys aren't scene locked. If you want to run a glimpse or two while we work through this main scene, go ahead.

[Mavspade]

Copy that.

Sorry for lack of posting on my end. Currently, given the scene not sure where to take Sylus so waiting to see where its going

[ST McDude]

No worries, I keep bottlenecking the activity. Everyone is currently watching the autumn camp.

[Saeyer]

Working on my post, and I have a question about tone: in the posts setting the scene and also with Gideon we see some casual violence that the rest of the courts/Freeholders don't seem to be responding to. Is this 'normal' and as players we aren't settled enough yet to know/see that? Is it new after the conflict with the true fae?

I also wanted to double check how we're keeping track of glamour before I potentially use some.

[ST McDude]

My takeaway is that the answer is yes and no.

For summer the answer for me is yes. Casual violence isn't a big deal, for a couple reasons. The first is that it's pretty much a military institution. The court is used to taking arms and training hard in the arts of killing and fighting. That said there is a point that is "too far" for polite company even in summer. So things like fistfights are ok, or playing with knives. It's not that some of the npcs aren't concerned with what he did, most did get weapons ready once they knew there was a problem. At the moment though, Ramona has him at gunpoint and he isn't aggressing.

The second reason counteracts one of the main reasons why we have such an aversion to casual violence. That's the threat of serious injury/death from even a fistfight. With ready access to goblin fruit, especially at an official event, the threat of lasting harm is low so people won't view it (in summer at least) as that big of a deal.

Mostly my takeaway from how I read summer stuff. If Gideon had done what he did at any other court he'd have been thrown in jail or out the door. It's only summer that has a relaxed attitude for casual violence. So those of you who aren't summer have had appropriate reactions since other courts are more reserved about it.

[Saeyer]

Alright, thanks for the clarification

[ST McDude]

You don't need to wait for Mav to respond, the thing I'm starting there isn't plot centric. Feel free to do w/e.

[ST McDude]

Just to clarify a few things.

This is the start of escalating the scene to an end. The sovs will get introduced but for the most part the only one that'll be accessible is Annette. Marcus for instance has too many hangers on that'll zone you out unless you are the most obnoxious (like Jill) or hostile changeling around.

Whisper's group isn't invisible per se. You can see them, but they "aren't interesting".

Remember that you can have 3 minor npcs that are under your control, so if you want to steal someone from a group or that shows up while this comes to a conclusion feel free.

[Hedgebound Heart]

Sorry, but I'm honestly not sure how to proceed. I had Kyle look at his card way back, but I never saw a reply describing what card he had and then the action of the scene seemed to shift over to the confrontation with Ramona, so I had him offer the card back to Kevin since it seemed like the game wasn't happening anymore. Can I edit my previous post to Kyle simply showing Kevin his card rather than handing it back to him?

[ST McDude]

You can edit since I forgot to pick up on what you saw. But that's exactly what you saw, Kyle can't recall seeing anything on the face of the card. Like something was there but it wasn't at the same time. Also your reaction to the game seemingly over was very in-character, but at this point you'd start to pick up that they haven't quit the game and bob is hinting heavily that you're both still in the game.

As for Saeyer's empathy roll. Nikki is making a reference to Ramona's standing in the court. The heavy inference is more towards official capacity vs inferred authority. Like no actual title was given and it was being used against her in a very rules lawyery political fashion.

[ST McDude]

sorry, didn't notice the questions here.

[Hedgebound Heart]

No sweat. It totally works for Kyle to be all... duh. What?

[ST McDude]

Sorry I keep getting sideswiped by stuff and forgetting. I'll get a post up soon!

[Hedgebound Heart]

I'm still interested in playing if anyone else is. I realize it's hard to get back into the swing of things after such a long hiatus.

[ST McDude]

RL is killing me. I keep trying to get something posted and it just doesn't happen.

[ST McDude]

Sorry for the delay, I didn't think I had it in me tonight. But there it is!

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