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[Taricus]

Would be Lillipad Weird.

[Weirdsound]

@WS: Minor Problem, the money you made me spend there put me into debt.

I suppose novelty stall Demons take credit cards?

The inventory update I read said you had enough. Lets just say you have $122 left.

Would be Lillipad Weird.

I know. What I posted was a direct paste from a Haika PM where he tried to figure out your mods Stream of Concious style. Since he read your turn before Lilli's he had to guess.

[Taricus]

1 Hour: Organize payment for the blood, in aura.
4 Hours: Coding experimentation
6 Hours: Grenade Enchantment/Improvement.
1 Hour: Take the cure.

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Inventory:
-One double-barrel shotgun (Laser sight attached (Modified with the laser app.), Etched lighting runes adorning the barrel, and a switch near the trigger depicting an extra two modes: Lighting and Chain Lightning.)
-Five sets of spare clothing.
-Two jumpers.
-Fifty (50) 12-gauge shells.
-One toolbox (Tools included.
1 large Claw Hammer
1 steel Wrench
2 dozen small roofing nails
1 dozen screws
1 large circular sawblade with serrated teeth)
-One smartphone (Nokia Lumia 900 with Laser app, and both Stealth and Overcharge applied to it.)
-Wallet with $2714 (??), 10 Infernal Dubloons and ID.
-One Mech sprite
-One Happiness sprite
-One Auto-repair program
-Five WWII Mk2 Grenades (One enchanted into a cryo grenade.)

[Dwarmin]

OOC: @WS: I spent everything on the Hell Rifle last session, got $600 pay for the Hell Prison escape, and $600 for the beach job. $-2500 puts me under. Thanks for the save.

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Kathryn watched Henry sleep-all those horrible wounds...they would pay.

She was scared for him. If they had killed Henry...

...still, she was also quite pissed. Her heart called for Revenge...but, she couldn't strike the smirking coward now, not while he was encircled with followers. The next best thing was taking out the informant. His time would come.

"...someone ratted us out." She told everyone that night, at dinner. "Ruffian wouldn't have gone after us unless he was sure. Might have been a Were, might have been something else...

I'm going to find them, and send a message back to Ruffian of our own. Anyone who wants to come with me, you're free to tag along."

3 Hours/Helping Henry with the pain-attend wounds, make him a good breakfast, keep him company, and talk to Kestrel about how to magically cure the brand mark on his forehead.

9 Hours/Taking Personal Job

Woman on Fire: Kathryn's looking for the slime who ratted on them and got Henry nabbed-using her PI experience and connections among the were-community. She'll send her own message back to Ruffian.

(+1 Were-connections, +1 Personal Revenge, +5 Time, +1 PI Experience, +4 Body, +2 Int)[/b]

3 Hours/Attending Beach Party, Surfing for  [exercise] (+4 Body, +1 Fun, +1 Time)

After the day, Kathryn really need to hit the waves, calm her nerves...maybe she could find some solace.

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Debts:Owe $1000 to Henry

Clothes
3xpairs of Business casual clothing (You know, for business. Would make one inconspicous-an invisible corporate drone.)
1xHunters Vest (Undamaged)
1xpair of 'going out' clothes (low rider jeans, assorted sexy stuff..etc, etc...)
2xpairs of standard clothes *being worn*
2xpairs of hiking gear
1x *dirty* Swimsuit (suitably curvaceous)
1x *dirty* Pair of standard clothes
 
Personal
Car Keys (Corroded and worn down with long years of use. If the keys are any clue...)
Notepad (for writing tips, getting numbers)
Pepper Spray Bottle (Hot pink)
3xSets of Flexcuffs/Keys
45. Colt, 6.7 clips ammunition, Holster (licensed to carry)
Hunting Rifle, 5 boxes of .308 bullets, 12 cartridges per box (Current box, 9/12 bullets)
Flashdrive
Wallet ($122 cash, cards, no family pictures...but she does have one of Henry here)
Zooming Binoculars
Canvas Backpack Bucket
Henry's Kathryn Statuette
Performance Manual - A small notebook detailing some performance magic.
1xSatans Rilfe ( (Accurate Gun that can be switched to Lava Mode. In lava mode the foe is at a bonus to resist, but successful hits do double damage to creatures that don’t resist fire)

Special
Fedora Hat of Tasteful Whipping - Gives the wearer inate mastery of whips and lashing weapons.
Crystal of False Impressions - While held the crystal will make anything you do appear more dramatic, impressive, and difficult to perform to any onlookers.
1xMagic Mirror shard ~Magic Item!~ This shard can be asked three questions the answer a yes or no. A cherub appears in the shard if the answer is yes, a devil if it is no. After three questions the mirror will shatter and turn to dust. Invoke the question by saying 'Mirror Mirror in my hand, <question>'.
1xKraken Tendril ~Magic Item!~ A strange blue-grey tentacle that is constantly squirming and trying to grab on to things. Roll vs faith to summon sea water. WARNING: amount of water is random, and flooding is quite possible. Use of this item is dangerous and not recommended.
1x Large Deep Blue Potions ~Magic Item!~ Odd potion that refills all lost HP.
2 Bubbling Red Potions ~Magic Item!~ Potion that lights Adrienne on fire.
1 Freezedried Strange Egg (Wonder what's inside? It needs more time, though. Kestrel identified it as a Shawrk)
1 Key to Magic Bookshelf (possibly inert? Something to ask Kestrel about...)
15xUnIDed tomes! (to be split up and loaned to Ariel for classification)
1xBlue Portal Key (Hanging around Kathryn's neck on a silver chain, she's keeping it close as a good luck charm.)
1xRod of Forced Flatulence (...good for detecting Ninjas?)

Trophies
2xTomato Demon Teeth
1xWater Imp Trident
1xGiant Zobbit Eye (Zombie Hobbit ^^)
1xSilver Pie Eating Trophy

Companions
1xApprentice Magelet (Shelly the Flutist, can be called to do 6hrs worth of mundane tasks per week. Like scrubbing floors or fetching stuff from the market, or other typical apprentice chore) *Healthy, Happy*

Misc
Long Surf Board (Well cared for-has her name, a winking, smiling Mermaid in her own image and the words "Siren", emblazoned on it. You get the feeling it was a personal gift.)
Bags of Cheezdos/Peanut Crackins/Bottled Water/Penksi Cola (for nomming. Not real food. Not even brand name food!)
Cosmetics (very little, though plenty of purple lipstick.)
Set of small lifting weights
Hand Sewing Kit (where did she learn...?)
Small, Folded American Flag
Cookware (mostly unused)
3 sticks of turkish incense (Very earthy smell)
1 large bag of birdseed
2 caged parakeets - Yellow with orange neck fringes (named Alera and Riva)
1 large plastic helmet - Roman style with red plume
Novelty Color Changing Luminescent Bong
Small Box of Magic Sparklers [25 Count]
Bottle of Bluish Black ‘Inferno Hell Sauce’
4xPleasure Potions for Her
2xMini Kegs of Genuine Valhalla Mead (save for Doomsday)
1xSet of Swearing Cuff Links ($#*#%^@#)

Personal Coin Collection
A bunch of mundane coins, including the 1943 triple Eagle and  Dogeral
Replica 666th edition Infernal Dubloon
Scholarship Coin (Collectible Magic Tooth Fairy Coin given only to volunteers that donate their time and mouths to the Nirvana School of Dental Feyology)

[Grek]

First, a personal request: Please don't hurt Piddles. I'd like to try to tame the little tyke. He's just rambunctious!

Second, a question to the GMs: Do I know what the strength of my own soul is?

Third, Turn:
1 hours: Get Kestrel to tell me about my new mystery condition and why I'm turning green.
4 hours: Sail down the Styx to visit the Styxian Crossing for a Hell Shopping Trip. Attempt to sell the astral dragon soul. Minimum acceptable offer is 20 dubloons, but ask for 40 initially and haggle from there. If I have enough after the sale, purchase an artifact blueprint. I'll also take requests from the other mages, if anyone wants me to pick something for them in Hell. +0 time, +2 Intutition, +1 focus bonus (Frankie knows what a soul's worth!) +2 "Good lord that's a big soul" bonus, -3 for difficulty. 1d100+2
1 hours: Attempt to convince Kestrel to let me borrow the that moving van we used to loot Jagen's place. Failing that, rent a moving van myself.
6 hours: Find Piddles; attempt to convince him to please get in the van with me. Repeatedly say that I'm not mad and that I forgive him for biting me. Use said van to transport him and the little bears to the seed shop. Hear what the owner has to say about all this. As before, buy what he suggests buying, up to 500$. If Piddles feels guilty for what he did and goes peacefully, the the mods are +2 time, +4 faith (to avoid showing fear to the bear) +1 guilt bonus, +1 van bonus and -5 "smuggling a bear across california is hard" penalty for a total of 1d100+5. If he's still hostile, then I'm using the Emerald Wand on him and it's +2 time, +4 connection, +1 van bonus and a -8 "oh shit a bear" penalty for a net of 1d100-1

Spoiler: Inventory Update (click to show/hide)

Clothing:
Bookbag
Shirts (3 black, 1 red, 1 white)
Jeans (3 blue, 2 black)
Assorted undergarments
Biniki
Beach hat
Sandals
Track shoes
Hiking boots
Motorcycle helmet & 2 jackets

Misc:
A black suzuki motorcylce
2 cans of cat food for Frankie
School supplies for children
2612$ cash
5 Infernal Dubloons
A chemistry set
A stolen chess set

Magic Items:
A gremlin coin
3 bottles labeled as Pheonix Tears
The Emerald Wand
Obsidian Fishing Pole (12 Slugs as bait)

Reagents:
A bottle of cold medicine
Starberry seeds (10 packs)
Salt, pepper & paprika (in novelty Blues Clues jars!)
Rubbing Alcohol
Sulfuric acid
Liquor
A Star of David pendant (worn)

Creatures:
Frankie
Seymour the Hell Tomato: Infused 3 days ago.
Audrey Jr. the Pixie Seedling: Planted 5 days ago.
Corpse of Rufus the Tomato Demon: Slain 4 days ago.
Pixie Seeds (9)
2 styxian mosquito corpses.
2 Naturia Assimilated Polar Bear Cubs, named Piddles, Sleepy and Grumbles.
1 Full Grown Naturia Assimilated Polar Bear named Piddles.

Souls:
Wild Chaotic Evil Soul - strength 1
Wild Chaotic Evil Soul - strength 2
Wild Chaotic Evil Soul - strength 2 (located within Seymour the Hell Tomato)
Tame Neutral Good Soul - strength 2 (Located within Audrey Jr the Pixie Seedling)
Wild Lawful Neutral Soul - strength 3
Wild Neutral Evil Soul - strength 1
Wild Neutral Good Soul - strength 8

Also, I'm assuming that I've been keeping the books in my room until we find a place to keep them? If so, here's the book list.

Spoiler: Books (click to show/hide)

Publicly Owned Books:
1: Meister Jagen's Personal Journal and Spell Log: 1997-2001 (Seems to have lots of information on multiplainar travel)
2: Meister Jagen's Personal Journal and Spell Log: 2006-2009 (Has information on the beasts within the portals and how to control them)
3: Meister Jagen's Personal Journal and Spell Log: 1969-1974 (Has some travel spells, and lots of information on the magical politics of the era)
4: Solo Adventures: 1 Player Voyeurism (Not a magic tome, but you can understand why Jagen kept it locked up)
5: Busty Blonde Balorgs (Same as above... but with more eeeewwww)
6: Subhuman Roster: 2006 (A slightly dated list of vampires, werebeings, and other such things living in Southern California and the surrounding areas)
7: The Neptune Affair (The personal story of a Magically Talented Southern Belle who dated the ancient god of the sea while her father and brothers were off fighting the union. Contains descriptions of some powerful spells.)
8: Werewolf in London (The story of a young werewolf who spent his highschool and college years away from his family, studying magic in the British Isles. Contains lots of spell used to blend in and play sophomoric pranks.)
9: The Carharn Wheel (A dossier listing some members of the Chaos Circle, starting from the fell god Carharn and working its way down. Includes some ritual spells)
10: The Clearsands Tribe (A book describing a clan of high elves living on the plains of valor. It discusses their customs, religion, language, and spells)
11: Spell Suggested for the 2013 Ban List by the Department of Subhuman Affairs (A half complete academic style report authored by Meister Jagen. It lists and describes in great detail spells which he thinks should be banned)
12: Soul of Ursula Jagen (A strange glowing book with nothing written in it)
13: March 1973 Issue of Magia Magazine (The cover shows a picture of Jagen captioned 'Putting the Furies in Their Place'. The magazine is full of articles discussing popular spells, mages, and controversies of the time)
14: Pimping Imps (A book listing and describing many common and less than common varieties of imp, as well as ways that one can torture and control them)
15: Jagen Family Necrominon (The 1844 edition of one of the worlds most infamous spell books. It is written in German. It is full of notes on the margins and back page, just like a family bible.)
Ariel's Books:
16: Journal of a Plant Mangus (Written in journal format. Contains info about magical plants.)
17: The Scholar’s Guide to Magia-Arthropodology, Volume 9: Western United States & Canada. The book seems to have few if any spells, focusing more on describing bugs, insects, and crustaceans with magical properties that can be found locally. The book seems to be sorted by longitude at which the bugs are most common as opposed to any sort of alphabetical order, which you find quite nonsensical.
18: The True Patriot’s Guide to Casting: Aiding Democracy Without Alerting the Mundane Government, is the title of the second tome. It seems to be a more recent work, full of tips and spells to help mages partake in cold war era spying!
19: The third tome is simply named Movie Magic. The book is full of spells designed to help the magically inclined producer or director enhance every aspect of the filmmaking process. A red note scribbled on the inside cover, ‘Quit using magic in the films. Edison might be catching on’, seems to date it back to the early era of American filmmaking.
20: The Tome of the Yellow Lich. Gotten from the Yellow Lich, said to contain spells mixing electricity and necromancy.

E: Corrected Piddles' gender.

[Taricus]

...You DID try and do a very stupid thing to it you know >.>

Not to mention it's likely not going to forgive you for kicking it's nuts as well.

[Grek]

Bears should be potty trained if they're going to live indoors. And he bit me first, so we're even.

[Weirdsound]

First, a personal request: Please don't hurt Piddles. I'd like to try to tame the little tyke. She's just rambunctious!

Second, a question to the GMs: Do I know what the strength of my own soul is?

You do not. You do however know that the standard for humans is the 2-3 range, with mages going up to 4 or very, very rarely 5.

[Lillipad]

I'm not trying to force anyone to show anyone how to heal. I'm trying to experiment with different things to see what does what. I am specifically aiming to find what I can use to heal through trial and error, primarily because I don't know how to go about studying it IC.
And I was trying to learn advanced comprehension and reading skills, that was my logic behind including the mundane skill.
Why does time add a mod to reading? Is it because I'm trying to develop a mundane skill? I can accept it if that's the reason, but I would otherwise like to know.

Turn post will be up later.

[Weirdsound]

I'm not trying to force anyone to show anyone how to heal. I'm trying to experiment with different things to see what does what. I am specifically aiming to find what I can use to heal through trial and error, primarily because I don't know how to go about studying it IC.
And I was trying to learn advanced comprehension and reading skills, that was my logic behind including the mundane skill.
Why does time add a mod to reading? Is it because I'm trying to develop a mundane skill? I can accept it if that's the reason, but I would otherwise like to know.

Turn post will be up later.

I think I figured out what you were doing with the learning and added those back in. I'd rather not nitpick difficulty mods. From here on out I'll let you guys decide what kind of difficulty mod is fair for your action. I think Haika has a guideline to use in the first post.

If Lilli and Crypt can get turns up, and Tar can calculate his mods, I can at least roll and perhaps even write another turn tonight.

Also, how would you guys feel about trying d80s for a turn or two? Smaller dice to go with our smaller mods. Crits on natural 1, 2, 79, 80 and any -3 down or 83 up.

[Taricus]

Well, the new system is too confusing for me to add in any mods so... :/

[Weirdsound]

It isn't that hard. Just look at the information on calculating Stat mods, Time mods, and Dificulty mods on Haika's second post. Then feel free to add +1 for any mundane skill, focus, or limitation involved. Then you may add 1's or 2's for any items, motivation, location, flavor, ect that could help you complete the task.

All there is to it.

[Lillipad]

I don't know, I think the new system is a bit too reliant on interpretation to be comfortable at this stage. You GMs have to interpret the rolls while interpreting our actions, and I think there's a bit of dissonance between player and GM with that.
For example, I succeeded in my roll by a very modest bit, but it was interpreted as me advancing Adrian's condition for some reason. All I was trying to do was give him a magic massage with the possible bonus of a temporary boost to the immune system. For some reason the difficulty was ramped to very hard, and it wasn't viewed as trying to cast a spell at all, and I can't understand why this is so. To me, this might as well have been a crit-fail, even though I succeeded.

[Grek]

Also, how would you guys feel about trying d80s for a turn or two? Smaller dice to go with our smaller mods. Crits on natural 1, 2, 79, 80 and any -3 down or 83 up.

Mathmatically speaking, this does the following to our rolls:
-Each modifer is worth 1.25 times as much as it is on a 1d100
-The base chance for criticals increases to 7.5% per roll from 6% per roll
-The value of a reroll decreases from 16.3 to 13.5 or so.
-The net modifer required to alter crit chances decreases from +/-8 to +/-6

None of which would translate to any significant change my strategy.

[Lillipad]

6 hours: Research own powers(knowledge/intution +2)(time +2)(mystery theater +1)(difficulty: hard -6)[-1]
I don't know much about my magic or how it works. Before I go turning people into vampires again, I should probably research it first. I at least want to know healing properties, and the different resistances to raw magic humans and elves can have.
4 hours: attempt to dispel the ward on sword(connection +4)(faith +4)(knowledge + intuition +2)(difficulty: hard -8)[+2]
I don't particularly care about the sword, but being able to dispel wards and seals, or anything similar could be incredibly useful.
2 hours: Continue learning them reading skills so you's can English good. Like what I do.(knowledge +4)(time -3)(difficulty: nil -1)[+/- 0]
Maybe reading in my recently flooded room was a bad idea... Too many floating things... I'll be doing all my reading outside my room from now on...
According to the job clock, we only have one more turn after this to get Carpetbaggers done. We should all devote the first six hours of our day after this to getting that done.

Spoiler: inventory (click to show/hide)

outfit described in appearance(9)
wallet($250, ID, passport, green card)
combat dagger(1)
ordinary sword magically sealed into sheath
sorted mundane books(5)
sorted board games(5)