@Ariamis I like considering Deni and Eli part of Mariette's character, and such don't want to make them complete. I don't like the idea of having a second character just to support the first. That said, I did wonder if they'll, like, have to have the same drawbacks/benefits or get to pick other ones or what. I don't necessarily want them to have Health Sapping just because Mariette has it, for instance.
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@Ariamis Okay. I've removed Marked, Takes One To Know One, Empty Pockets and Big Brother. I'd like to think there's still an eerie air around Mariette, but it won't cause lesser monsters to fear her anymore. Knowing others are Horror minions could be useful, but eh, I'll deal with that like any other girl. Asengav now has money and won't be interfering quite as much with my personal life. Yupp.
Edit: I had Marked be switched to Reasonable, for clarification.
By the way, I've been meaning to ask. How should patrons be handled with allies? I've kind of skipped counting anything patron with Deni and Eli, but how do you reckon it should be, if we're to completely follow the rules? It doesn't say anything concerning patrons on the Ally perk.
@Shifter_Master And, heh, thanks for also taking the time. It's appreciated. Haha.
Edit: I had Marked be switched to Reasonable, for clarification.
By the way, I've been meaning to ask. How should patrons be handled with allies? I've kind of skipped counting anything patron with Deni and Eli, but how do you reckon it should be, if we're to completely follow the rules? It doesn't say anything concerning patrons on the Ally perk.
@Shifter_Master And, heh, thanks for also taking the time. It's appreciated. Haha.
@Ariamis There's a few benefits/drawbacks I've taken that only applies to Asengav, as well. It's rather confusing to count when they're split up like that, I agree. Here's the full list.
Benefit - Drawback
Minions - Quick-Tempered
Marked - Insomnia
Creeping Doom - Bane
Takes One To Know One - Mind-Bent
Retrieval - Empty Pockets.
Mystic Might - Health Sapping
Mana Font - Big Brother
Reasonable
So, yeah. That's 8 Benefits and 7 Drawbacks.
Edit: ... So, is it just that everyone saw that and was like "yeah, that's alright" and didn't read on Asengav and so everyone missed it? ... Hahaha.
Benefit - Drawback
Minions - Quick-Tempered
Marked - Insomnia
Creeping Doom - Bane
Takes One To Know One - Mind-Bent
Retrieval - Empty Pockets.
Mystic Might - Health Sapping
Mana Font - Big Brother
Reasonable
So, yeah. That's 8 Benefits and 7 Drawbacks.
Edit: ... So, is it just that everyone saw that and was like "yeah, that's alright" and didn't read on Asengav and so everyone missed it? ... Hahaha.
Um. Excuse me, it has come to my attention that I've taken too many Benefit/Drawbacks, because I didn't understand that there was a limit.
"For categories representing a many different types of being or a loose organization, this base package may have benefits or drawbacks swapped with alternative options." - This implied to me that the base package, that is, the four things you get no matter if you want to or not, may be swapped.
"These categories may modify their base package with options. XXX - may take _ additional drawback(s)" - Is exceedingly weirdly worded, but it implied that one can modify the base package, which I assumed to be the four original things you get from any patron, by adding the amount of drawbacks mentioned. The meaning of this distinguished, this would then mean the line "After your initial package and benefit are chosen, you may gain an additional benefit for each additional drawback you take on" appears to have no limit.
However, having examined the character sheets of others, it has proven that one can pretty freely switch the two base benefits/drawbacks without any penalties whatsoever, which makes me seriously question why these four were forwarded like they were anything special if they can just be switched out whatever. Why not list them with the other options, then, rather than present them in any way? This realization meant, however, that the "may take _ additional drawback(s)" could not be referring to switching this. Meaning they're likely a limit, since "After your initial package and benefit are chosen, you may gain an additional benefit for each additional drawback you take on" implies one would freely take on drawbacks rather than benefits, which is exceedingly backwards but I seem to be the only person not to get it.
So, I seem to have bought too many benefits. Thing is, I WAS STILL ACCEPTED. This might just be because Western Robot didn't properly keep track of Benefits/Drawbacks of the players, but that's exceedingly weird because he once pointed out those that hadn't fully used their potential benefit/drawback situation. He even mentions "one free benefit from the Universal list, and can take extra drawbacks depending on their patron" thing, there, which I must have missed, but it implies he had that under check. So why didn't anyone mention I had gotten things wrong?
It makes me have to ask, HAVE I gotten things wrong? Or am I just confused? Is what I've taken somehow legal and I've just misunderstood everything?
I mean, I can pretty easily discard... let's say "Takes One To Know One", and "Marked" could have been switched to "Reasonable". Who needs a mark, anyway? Is that REALLY a Benefit? And knowing other Horror children isn't that important anyway. Knowing them isn't important to Asengav's goals. I'm pretty fond of all my Drawbacks, though. Do I need to discard two? Hmpgh. Suppose I could remove Big Brother, because I'm worried I might not properly roleplay it, anyway. And... hm. I could remove Empty Pockets. A multidimensional horror could probably get coins anywhere at any time. Not that Asengav's ever going to give Mariette money, anyway. Haha.
Anyways. Some clarification would be nice, because I'm confused as to why nobody has brought this up if I did this wrong. Thank you.
"For categories representing a many different types of being or a loose organization, this base package may have benefits or drawbacks swapped with alternative options." - This implied to me that the base package, that is, the four things you get no matter if you want to or not, may be swapped.
"These categories may modify their base package with options. XXX - may take _ additional drawback(s)" - Is exceedingly weirdly worded, but it implied that one can modify the base package, which I assumed to be the four original things you get from any patron, by adding the amount of drawbacks mentioned. The meaning of this distinguished, this would then mean the line "After your initial package and benefit are chosen, you may gain an additional benefit for each additional drawback you take on" appears to have no limit.
However, having examined the character sheets of others, it has proven that one can pretty freely switch the two base benefits/drawbacks without any penalties whatsoever, which makes me seriously question why these four were forwarded like they were anything special if they can just be switched out whatever. Why not list them with the other options, then, rather than present them in any way? This realization meant, however, that the "may take _ additional drawback(s)" could not be referring to switching this. Meaning they're likely a limit, since "After your initial package and benefit are chosen, you may gain an additional benefit for each additional drawback you take on" implies one would freely take on drawbacks rather than benefits, which is exceedingly backwards but I seem to be the only person not to get it.
So, I seem to have bought too many benefits. Thing is, I WAS STILL ACCEPTED. This might just be because Western Robot didn't properly keep track of Benefits/Drawbacks of the players, but that's exceedingly weird because he once pointed out those that hadn't fully used their potential benefit/drawback situation. He even mentions "one free benefit from the Universal list, and can take extra drawbacks depending on their patron" thing, there, which I must have missed, but it implies he had that under check. So why didn't anyone mention I had gotten things wrong?
It makes me have to ask, HAVE I gotten things wrong? Or am I just confused? Is what I've taken somehow legal and I've just misunderstood everything?
I mean, I can pretty easily discard... let's say "Takes One To Know One", and "Marked" could have been switched to "Reasonable". Who needs a mark, anyway? Is that REALLY a Benefit? And knowing other Horror children isn't that important anyway. Knowing them isn't important to Asengav's goals. I'm pretty fond of all my Drawbacks, though. Do I need to discard two? Hmpgh. Suppose I could remove Big Brother, because I'm worried I might not properly roleplay it, anyway. And... hm. I could remove Empty Pockets. A multidimensional horror could probably get coins anywhere at any time. Not that Asengav's ever going to give Mariette money, anyway. Haha.
Anyways. Some clarification would be nice, because I'm confused as to why nobody has brought this up if I did this wrong. Thank you.
Alright. Time to start working on a post. Hopefully in around 13 hours.
@Pyromaniacwolf? How's the situation?
@Delta44? How's life?
@Pyromaniacwolf? How's the situation?
@Delta44? How's life?
... Say, what time of the day is that meeting taking place, and how far would that loud Patron be able to be heard/seen by others in the city?
Very interesting post, though. Good luck, Penny and Beacon girls. Haha.
Very interesting post, though. Good luck, Penny and Beacon girls. Haha.
Huh. Posted the next part just as I was going to post. Well, that works fine with me, just had to add that little part towards the end. Heh.
So, now awaiting to see if Arex is going to let her do this. And, of course, I'll assume he dictates what she'd find within. I might need to have a PM conversation with him about how Lataniva searches assuming she's eventually allowed to search.
So, now awaiting to see if Arex is going to let her do this. And, of course, I'll assume he dictates what she'd find within. I might need to have a PM conversation with him about how Lataniva searches assuming she's eventually allowed to search.
@Silver Carrot
While Dalentian awareness was aware of a lot of things, it couldn’t predict sudden explosions rocking the ship. Lataniva found herself losing her balance and falling, needing to spin around to meet the wall with her hands and then quickly use her psionics to grab what she could of the baggage that was threatening to impact her lethally. Having neutralized that threat, she grunted and spent a moment to calm down. She was fairly easy to discomfort with this kind of thing. She heard Stryker say he needed her there. Where was that? The Dalentian grunted in mild irritation as she got her limbs moving and headed for the bridge. If not there, then to the War Room. Wherever.
@Crossfire
She then hung out with them, looking mildly annoyed in the background as she followed them around until her name got called again, now to examine Arex’s head. Well.
@Dark Light
‘Hm. Little sister. Very well.’
Lataniva made a mildly amused noise as she was on the way away to help out in the cargo bay, apparently. Did she know it was customary for Dalentian family and siblings to share everything by syncing their minds every evening so that they may all help one another out with any complications any of them might have? Would Taleste be okay with that? While it was exceedingly rare that this practice be used in space, Lataniva hadn’t done it since leaving her home planet, years ago… Nah. Lataniva would keep it to herself, and then used her psionics to help unload heavy things. And then it turned out she and Taleste had been heading in the same direction.‘So it is.’
Lataniva gave a brief response to the girl’s statement, briefly looking at her before continuing to unpack stuff. They would likely see a lot of each other in the future.While Dalentian awareness was aware of a lot of things, it couldn’t predict sudden explosions rocking the ship. Lataniva found herself losing her balance and falling, needing to spin around to meet the wall with her hands and then quickly use her psionics to grab what she could of the baggage that was threatening to impact her lethally. Having neutralized that threat, she grunted and spent a moment to calm down. She was fairly easy to discomfort with this kind of thing. She heard Stryker say he needed her there. Where was that? The Dalentian grunted in mild irritation as she got her limbs moving and headed for the bridge. If not there, then to the War Room. Wherever.
@Crossfire
She then hung out with them, looking mildly annoyed in the background as she followed them around until her name got called again, now to examine Arex’s head. Well.
@Dark Light
‘That’d be my pleasure.’
Lataniva said with an exceedingly dry tone, taking a step forward towards the man, her hand lifted with intention to place against his head, her eyes gazing at him with a focused look that asked if he was going to struggle or not.... *sigh*
Oh, well.
@Terminal Thank you for an awesome time facing your labours these past, heh, years. It's been a lot of fun, writing for your things. It's been a distinguished part of my life and I am very happy to have partaken. Good luck with all that you'll do in the future from here on out. Godspeed.
Oh, well.
@Terminal Thank you for an awesome time facing your labours these past, heh, years. It's been a lot of fun, writing for your things. It's been a distinguished part of my life and I am very happy to have partaken. Good luck with all that you'll do in the future from here on out. Godspeed.
Edit: Whops. I meant to edit.
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