((feeling a little better, though I'll probably have to keep an eye on myself for hours still. [...] but yeah, was on a hair-trigger and apparently felt like fighting anyone and everyone about anything and everything. sorry. I try to avoid posting while I'm out of control like that. messed up this time though. My comments were both illogical and out of line to be saying. so again, sorry. My blowing up here had nothing to do with Omega Legion, or Oz, or you Egan. Work ended on a particularly stressfull note today, and I failed to vent it in a safe manner.))
Huh. Firstly, props to you for catching yourself, and saying sorry. Unusual to see people do that, especially online. I have a lot of respect for anyone capable of admitting that they lost control.
((I currently have the problem of the smart thing to do and the IC thing to do are not the same thing. my previous bolded action for Valyrie is actually exactly what is in character for her to do. the problem is she's not had a chance to remove her -2's,
I disagree with this statement. It
is in-character for Valyrie to be terrible at medicine. -1 is knows nothing, but thinks they do; -2 is so bad that it's like a curse, and any attempt almost always results in bad consequences or death--success at -2 is only through sheer dumb luck, and usually comes with side effects too.
The fact that Valyrie's stats disagree with who she is doesn't mean that Oz obeying the stats is OOC for the character. It means that you've visualized a character who cannot exist in this system at her (already very high) level.
and as a result the obvious logical actions are not safe things to do. In point of fact there is literally nothing she CAN do safely right now (for anyone or in any situation at all)
From what's been said about Valyrie, this seems both untrue, and appropriate. Val
can do things, though perhaps not safely (does such a thing exist in RTD?), and is at increased risks most of the time
because it balances her mechanics being powerful. She's the equivalent of a munchkin taking fifteen flaws to start with a boon normally restricted to max level characters. You chose to do that, though perhaps you didn't think the GM would enforce the flaws as much as he does.
also that -2 meant that the slave was NORMALLY super-sick, as his normal status quo. it wasn't a recent thing, it's something that was part of the definition of his life, one of his defining characteristics.
Does it? We know that abilities can
grow over the course of a person's life--that's what levelups are--so why can't they diminish? It's actually supported by the system; we get five stat/skill points per level, despite improvements occuring only when multiples of five are reached, so that trauma can take only 20% of a level instead of a full one. Not that any of the GMs who use the system have done that.
But yeah, Val's IC desire to help Vlad and willingness to do so is OOC possibly going to get him killed. and I blame Oz for that, because I don't think a roll needed to be made in the first place for something this absurdly easy,
I made an action of "look for nearby shade" for Dar, and
that got a roll. Do you see me complaining? Oz has always rolled for trivial things, we have nobody to blame but ourselves. Unless you just dislike his GMing style, which would make me question why you're in his game.
and on a failure she should simply fail. a 4 is not a crit-fail, even with a -2. and crit-fail is suffocating the person you're trying to wipe down with a damp cloth. mixing those two up is stupid, and Val doesn't have a -2 int.))
Pretty much anything except a 5 is a critfail at -2 skill. Even a 5 is a monkey's paw success. Be happy; you got a 4, so Vlad isn't dead yet, and you can undo your action. Something else, and he might've been instakilled right there.
And hey, look on the bright side, Vlad will probably provide a much better kill bonus than some slave~
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