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[Devastator]

Could I get a refresher on the functions built into the bracelets?

[Redjive_Industries]

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[5 rolls (2 weeks + 1 roll(+1/5 Intelligence)] = 11 rolls.

Week 1: [2, 1, 4, 2, 3] = 20%
Week 2: [5, 2, 2, 2, 6] = 60%
Week 3: [2] = 0%

Total: Week 1 80% Completed

Results: 4 extra successes (Week 1)

Despite your best efforts, you failed to correctly integrate the songs into your music for your Psyche to use. Sure you almost had it but 'almost' is still subpar compared to actually getting it. Nevertheless, you intend to try again as soon as you have enough time again.

Toby received 4 extra successes(Week 1)!

Name: .50 BMG Barrel Mod
Type of action (Skill/recipe, crafting, research): Mod (Recipe)
Desired progress in weeks/levels: 1 week
Description: A mod that allows the Allin gun to fire .50 BMG shells.

Realizing that the Allin gun itself cannot be changed directly as it is a part of your soul, you decided to learn how to craft a barrel-shaped mod that will allow you to fire .50 Browning Machine Gun rounds. These rounds are more capable of punching through targets with armor and thicker skins than your typical Allin rounds. It will prove useful when fighting tougher Contorted.

[5 rolls(1 weeks) + 1 roll (+1/5 Intelligence)] = 6 rolls.

Week 1: [4, 3, 1, 3, 1] = 20% and the Exposed trait (-2 Stealth for two turns)
Week 2: [2] = 0%

Total: Week 1 20% completed.

That Melissa bitch must have cursed you somehow! Either that or your luck is really shitty today. Failing to produce even a workable recipe, you decided to give it a rest at least for the moment. Moreover, the fine bits of powder you experimented with were accidentally blown into the air, coating you with its particles. Though you managed to dust most of it off yourself, some stuck to your skin and to your clothing, becoming hard to wash away. The particles, which turned out to be highly reflective even in dim lighting, making it even harder to hide the tiny sparkles of light that now dotted your entire body, something that a potential hunter will have no trouble locating.

Toby receives 1 extra successes (Week 1) and the Exposed trait (-2 Stealth) for two turns)!

Name: Specialized .50 BMG Insight
Type of action (Skill/recipe, crafting, research): Research
Desired progress in weeks/levels: 1 week
Description: Learning about how to manufacture special .50 BMG rounds

Despite the fact that you fail to produce a workable mod that would allow your Allin to fire .50 BMG rounds, you see much promise in the field of ammo specialization and thus decided to go ahead and learn much about it.

[5 rolls(1 week) + 1(+1/5 Intelligence)] = 6 rolls

Week 1: [3, 2, 3, 6, 4] = 60%
Week 2: [4] = 20%

Total: Week 1 80% completed.

For the third time, you failed to produce completed results for yourself. Perhaps people should call you 'Toby the Thrice-Cursed'. Of course, those people would obviously not know that you still have plenty of time remaining in the day and one more chance to finish what you started. Now, if only Lady Luck would smile on you…

Toby receive 4 extra successes (Week 1)!

Name: .50 BMG Barrel Mod
Type of action (Skill/recipe, crafting, research): Mod (Recipe)
Desired progress in weeks/levels: 1 week
Description: A mod that allows the Allin gun to fire .50 BMG shells.

You decided to reattempt the .50 BMG Mod recipe. After all, you be damned if you don't get some sort of success out of this. Taking a deep breath, you threw yourself back into the problem at hand, hoping that you will succeed this time. Even if it's just a recipe for something you will have to actually build at a later date, at least it's a start.

[5 rolls(1 weeks) + 1 roll (+1/5 Intelligence)] = 6 rolls.

Week 1: [5, 1, 1, 1, 5] = 20% + 1 extra success and the Enfeebled trait (-4 Endurance) for two turns.
Week 2: [1] = 0

Total: Week 1 40% completed.

You throw your hands into the air like you just don't care, which you stopped doing anyway since Lady Luck has apparently went on vacation. Yet again has your progress been hampered by unforeseen circumstances. In addition, your strenuous attempts to correct your mistakes have make you very tired and weak, a deal breaker just in case you have to make use of your endurance. Oh well, you just going to have to cross that bridge when you get to it.

Toby received 2 extra successes (Week 1) for .50 BMG Mod Recipe and the Enfeebled (-4 Endurance) for two turns!

Toby failed to do anything useful, and in fact fucked himself over a fair amount. Oh well.
and the Exposed trait (-2 Stealth) for two turns)!
and the Enfeebled (-4 Endurance) for two turns!
Fuck. Could be worse I guess. Maybe i'll survive for two turns! Or maybe one of those turns was used in the Melissa encounter!
A man can dream, anyways. Welcome to fucking boatmurde- Altera Vita Academy.

[Redjive_Industries]

Y'know what, silver lining and all. I wasn't expecting to succeed necessarily (I just was hoping not to have a semi-critical failure) and at least I'm practically certain to complete it next progress action.

Also I feel that the Melissa encounter, if it counts as a turn, should count as one of my debuff turns, since none of my debuffs (as far as I know) would have changed the results of the turn. That is to say, since I theoretically did my progress actions before that event.
I'll stop whingeing now.

[Devastator]

Yes, you're going to have to deal with having only 21 more stat points than my guy, instead of 27.

[Redjive_Industries]

Yeah I realized halfway through typing that I didn't have any real reason to complain, the debuffs will wear off soon enough, and I did get 80% progress on 2 of my actions.
And I'm not Lemmy.

[Redjive_Industries]

Oh yeah, and (as far as I can tell) I'm not in Connecticut. As long as I'm not in Connecticut, things could always get worse.

[Devastator]

Besides, if you're hard up, you can always go back to base via teleport and finish something up or make something new.

I might be doing something like that, although with this level of disorganization, there should be significant gains to be made helping even three or four people work together instead of just making stuff.

Also, don't pity Lemmy.  One thing to remember to help with out of the box thinking is that there is no strength which is not a weakness and no weakness that is not a strength.  I'll be fine.  This situation seems fucked up in a way that leaves lots of room to improve it.

[Redjive_Industries]

Aye. As soon as you posted your action I was like 'Oh right, there's no standard gear, which means I need to make a spotting device myself.'
Bad habit of mine, assuming that if there's magic, then modern tech isn't allowed.

[Devastator]

Eh, you have the option of levelling up your Per.  I'm doing spotting for my own reasons.  Mostly because since we've arrived, nobody has said one word about the Contorted other than that they're ugly and don't like you.  Hooking up with someone doing spotting will add the potential to do something useful to others at the same time as I do something useful for myself... not that I have the stats to actually succeed in doing something useful, but even a failure will tell me the right questions to ask.

[Redjive_Industries]

Still, IRL I am a firm believer in the idea of having technology assist me in doing things I myself cannot yet do. I shall join you in your search for binos. Maybe we'll get lucky and find a rangefinder. Also the combo of binos and high perception will probably be useful.

[Devastator]

I don't want binos.  I'm not looking for binos.  I'm looking for a person.

I want someone who can tell me where I should be so my personal goal can contribute towards a group effort.  In this case it's scouting, because that'll lead to me either learning something or knowing a question to ask.

[Redjive_Industries]

Why go back and make it when I can just loot it/borrow it? On the off chance that it's here of course.
Besides, I want to fight and probably die horribly at least once before I RTB and start learning from my mistakes.

[Devastator]

Edited my post there.

Do what you like, but I'm not on any quest for binos.

[Sir Elventide]

Could I get a refresher on the functions built into the bracelets?

They are used for communication and can track your locator so that others can find you and/or respawn at your location.

Y'know what, silver lining and all. I wasn't expecting to succeed necessarily (I just was hoping not to have a semi-critical failure) and at least I'm practically certain to complete it next progress action.

Also I feel that the Melissa encounter, if it counts as a turn, should count as one of my debuff turns, since none of my debuffs (as far as I know) would have changed the results of the turn. That is to say, since I theoretically did my progress actions before that event.
I'll stop whingeing now.

The debuffs/buffs tick down per Aetherian day, which is a turn out of battle. They can still affect you while in the middle of battle as a battle can last seconds or minutes depending how un/lucky you are. Also, even with no debuffs to your Stealth, you would've still lost out to Melissa's Preception, [strike]It just too high![/strike] You are too fresh to resist her successfully.

Now I'm off to see what Contorted to throw your way...

[ragnarok97071]

well time to die almost immediately likely as my plan consists of 'take hits to the face and hope your stupid high defense stat keeps you from dying (and from the enemy just treating you as terrain due to your shit attack and just running around you)