This topic is for you to let me know what your characters are doing between sessions.
To start with, the current session ended on "Saturday around noon" and the next one will start "Monday morning"
So if your chars do anything of importance in the mean-time, post it here.
Well, between now and then, and especially given it's been a week or so, Mike would've gotten Sandy (if she replies)/Bill's emails and, hopefully, learned more about the Xav situation. Also would have sent an email off to Amelia.
This session ended Monday evening, and will pick back up Tuesday evening.
Anyone doing anything in the in-between?
Also, OK, I'll do a quick summary along with whatever the others are doing to explain your character's sudden dissapearance(nothing bad happened, just bad timing, got called away, etc.)
Late, but if there aren't any email replies Mike's sitting on his hands for now.
Mike
Mike mentioned at the end of the last session that he wanted to check into Mika's roommate, so...
Hatbot --> "Gatewalker rolls 2d8 and gets 8." [2d8=4, 4]
A bit of checkng around reveals that Mika has a roommate, but she's apparently not here right now. The rumor has it that she's staying with family in the city becuase she's afraid Mika will go crazy on her or that Mika's crazy is contagious, or basically any other number of reasons having to do with being afraid of Mika.
Please try to remember to post investigations and little stuff like that in this thread, I won't always remember stuff you wanted to do from the last session. That's what I made this thread for.
Val
While you were waiting for them to bring Mika back to the library, you got called by Akamatsu, saying that one of the other girls working there had an accident, one that meant he had to take her to the hospital, and needed you to come in and cover her shift. Also, you noticed when you got home that your phone had died and you had a message from Hikari waiting(see the last bit of the last session's log)
Three things:
Mike's presumably gonna try and hang out with Mika some more and try to do some ego boosting.
He's also got two quick projects; look up news reports of everyone going mad as well as obituaries of sudden deaths, and look into born-again Christian beliefs.
Similarly, Hikari will likely check in on Mistia if she doesn't hear anything encouraging about Mika. Don't have much else planned.
And as always, I will be doing nothing special. Besides watching movies, working, and looking hot.
Before we play next, let me know if you want to do any Social Link stuff or spend any of the CP you've picked up.
Right, apologies for lag response (think I told you in PM, but);
Saving points... but wouldn't mind trying to SLink Kyo.
TV News: Richard Bland(yes, that was seriously his name), a student from America attending Kanazawa University, was arrested on Friday evening after allegedly raping two young women who had considered him a freind. As police took him into custody, sources claim that he could be heard whimpering the phrase "Bad end, bad end, reload from save."
> roll Mind, peeps~
<Mykasi> roll 2d8 WITH THE POWER OF MY MIND, I AM THE DETECTIVE OF SOULS! COME TO ME, FORBIDDEN FRUIT OF RUMORS PAST! TRUTH SIGN [ENDLESS WHISPER]!
* Hatbot --> "Mykasi rolls 2d8 WITH THE POWER OF MY MIND, I AM THE DETECTIVE OF SOULS! COME TO ME, FORBIDDEN FRUIT OF RUMORS PAST! TRUTH SIGN [ENDLESS WHISPER]! and gets 10."12 [2d8=6, 4]
Mike's continual searches for Valeria Eun Hikari turn up more and more nothing. Until Sunday evening when he finds a webpage simply listing her name, along with a handfull of others, in a list that is labeled "May Their Sacrifce Save Us All". The author of the webpage is listed as "Endless Administrator". All searches for Endless Administrator turn up nothing.
<Hikari> roll 2d8 Hikari has no truck with this all-caps nonsense
* Hatbot --> "Hikari rolls 2d8 Hikari has no truck with this all-caps nonsense and gets 7."12 [2d8=2, 5]
Gossip around some of the ladies at the school turns up sightings of a strange, but handsome man almost lurking around campus at odd hours. Nobody can really put a finger on what makes him strange, aside from this 'air' about him. What's more disturbing is that aside from an impression of him being handsome, nobody can remember what he looks like enough to describe him.
> roll 2d8 sorry Snow I roll for you
* Hatbot --> "Gatewalker rolls 2d8 sorry Snow I roll for you and gets 5."12 [2d8=1, 4]
Rumor in the proffessors' lounge is that the Dean's wife has been seen going on bizzare shopping sprees at various pharmacies, grocery stores and even new age herbalist shops and such, while saying somethig about an 'elixer of immortality'. People are wondering if the poor woman hasn't finally just gone mad, considering her illness.
Mike sets up an auto-search for Endless Administrator and tracks IP changes (fully expecting it to be proxied and thus useless). He also records all the names and attempts to memorize them for future reference, searching for each one (again expecting fruitlessness here).
The IP is indeed proxied. Searches for Endless Administrator turn up a bunch of junk but nothing that seems to connect with what you want. Just alot of instances of the two words being used on the same page somewhere, like the admin list for a Breath of Fire 4 fansite forum.
And aside from commiting to memory, how do you record the names?
One copy, written by hand on paper and stored in binder.
One copy c+p'd onto file that is then turned to read-only.
Mike's email/PM to all sources and iterations of Endless Administrator he can think of:
"We have not met before, and yet I believe we share a mutual contact point, via the list you have and do attempt to proliferate. I would like to talk with you further regarding what you know of the disappearance of Valeriya Eun Hikari, as well as the others. Please contact me back at your earliest convenience so that information may be shared. Regards, Anansi"
Rabbit Hole signup info
Anansi
seeking help, advice and sanity checks
Persona? Means getting cryptic advice from a guy with a long nose, his cute assistant, and way too much tarot relevance to keep track of. I'd be a FOOL, myself, but do understand that I'd prefer we were definitely talking the same thing before rushing in where angels may or may not tread. My only other comment is that confronting your subconscious is tiring work, even if it is your other self.
Mike would take advantage of his new access to the Rabbit Hole to skim over the other recorded events, as much as he can, just to see what sort of other things (TM) have happened!
He'll also post a brief analysis of his own situation as it stands.
I'm... being vague here; there's actually some specific things he'd keep an eye out for but I figure I'll address those when I don't feel so out of it. So uh consider this placeholder until I can think straight 'nuff to resolve those?
After brushing aside Neimi's barrage of searching questions, Hikari is going to spend some time at her computer and with the day's newspapers to search for any mention of the names and incidents in her dream.
A local businessman, Kohai Kuwara, was apparently murdered in his bedroom last night. Sources say that the killer, a swordsman of all things, was killed in the fight as well, but his name has not yet been released by the police.
To Vandal the Beholder,
We seek a way to find someone who has become lost in the Dream. We know not where they have gone, or what may have happened to her. Her name is Noa Tachakara. We humbly request your aid in whatever regard it can be granted.
-Mykasi (& Hikari and Suiren)
SO I had a post completely worked up and then accidentally clicked something on my favorites bar which changed the page and I lost the entire fucking post. I'm kinda too pissed to redo it right now, but I'll try to tomorrow. SOrry about the delay.
Intermission stuffs! There's some for the group and for individuals, so I'm breaking it down into sections
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ALL CHARCTERS
Finals happen! Just breaking this down to some rolls, what you need to roll will be in your section. Just throw it in #personador at any point, I don't need to be actively around when you do. Just post in here with what you get, being tests and whatnot there are degrees of success and missing the stat+skill mod doesn't nessesarily mean failure.
At some point, someone checks up on Master Frost's place and discovers that Raiho has an update for you! Hee doesn't quite ho what's using the heat as energy, nor what they're using it for, but he thinks he's narrowed it down to some kind of magic but not demonic in origin at all. His next guess was that it's a particularly powerful Shadow, but signs are pointing to unlikely on that as well so he's confused on what it could be. He'll keep investigating though, Raiho does not give up!
Also, by the end of Finals Week, someone checks in on Okuninushi. He's passed your questions on to some of his more informationally inclined peers and is waiting for them to get back to him.
Taking a day off of studies for Dream exploration hijinx: sounds like a good subject for the next session. Any objections to this idea?
Finally, PP expenditures. Downtime is a great time to spend things to beef up, lemme know what you're interested in picking up.
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HIKARI
Finals Rolls: 1 Cultural Arts roll, 1 Domestic Arts roll, 2 Writing rolls
Is Hikari continuing to take lessons with Antara from time to time? If so, she is encouraged to continue improving her singing skills(and lessons with Antara is >>>> practicing with anyone else), and could begin to learn some very basic songmagic. Also note that all songmagic abilities are going to be Soul based.
Issa Okuro says that her brothers are doing much better. They've stopped fighting, thankfully, but are still rather distant from eachother...and everyone else, really. But at least they're not fighting anymore.
On the day before the last day of school....your sister arrives. She seems about as pleased with the idea as you are. (Are you wanting to RP out her arrival sometime?)
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MYKASI
Finals Rolls: 1 Computers roll, 1 Mechanics roll, 1 Electronics roll, 1 Foeriegn Culture roll
At one point, while Mike is out jogging(and wondering what possessed him to do so in this weather), he sees a stray dog chewing on a piece of paper. It looks...like a letter actually. And his name is on it. The dog sees Mike, drops the paper, and wanders off. When he opens it, it reads: "The girl lives, safe for now. Where cannot be explained nor reached. She will not stay there forever. For this service: feed six stray dogs for three days." Yes, this happened in the normal world, not the Dream.
Mike gets an email from Sandy! She's passing on that she heard your father looking into ticket prices to Japan sometime in Jan or Feb. He, uh, caught her evesdropping and made her promise to keep it to herself, but she knows how much you adore surprises so she figured she'd tell you anyway. Just don't tell him she told you, please? And she maaaaaay be looking into saving up enough to come visit at the same time if she can talk your dad into going along with the idea. Unless Amy gives her a more compelling reason to visit France over Japan.
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NAGARE
Finals Rolls(hey, you still have to make and grade the damn things): 2 Law rolls, 1 Writing roll, 1 Social Sciences roll
Word around the faculty is that the Dean's wife has been hospitalized(not at Kana Family, it's a physical illness not a mental one) and he's been absent quite a bit to be with her. The senior staff members are doing what they can to take care of things at the school for him to give him the time.
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I can't think of anything else to cover at the moment. Please let me know if I'm missing something.
Quote from: Gatewalker on March 02, 2011, 01:41:29 PMTaking a day off of studies for Dream exploration hijinx: sounds like a good subject for the next session. Any objections to this idea?
Splendiferous.
Quote from: Gatewalker on March 02, 2011, 01:41:29 PMFinally, PP expenditures. Downtime is a great time to spend things to beef up, lemme know what you're interested in picking up.
I just bought some stuff, I'm okay for a while unless I need to spend some on songmagic.
Quote from: Gatewalker on March 02, 2011, 01:41:29 PMFinals Rolls: 1 Cultural Arts roll, 1 Domestic Arts roll, 2 Writing rolls
QUESTION. Can I I cheat (I.E., use rerolls) on my tests.
Quote from: Gatewalker on March 02, 2011, 01:41:29 PMIs Hikari continuing to take lessons with Antara from time to time? If so, she is encouraged to continue improving her singing skills(and lessons with Antara is >>>> practicing with anyone else), and could begin to learn some very basic songmagic. Also note that all songmagic abilities are going to be Soul based.
Yes. And I did just boost soul and the performing arts skill. Does that get me in the door, so to speak? If not, I'll hold off on a while. It would seem weird to go up two skill ranks in like a week in-game.
Quote from: Gatewalker on March 02, 2011, 01:41:29 PMOn the day before the last day of school....your sister arrives. She seems about as pleased with the idea as you are. (Are you wanting to RP out her arrival sometime?)
It would seem appropriate.
Quote from: Gatewalker on March 02, 2011, 01:41:29 PM
Intermission stuffs! There's some for the group and for individuals, so I'm breaking it down into sections
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ALL CHARCTERS
Finals happen! Just breaking this down to some rolls, what you need to roll will+ be in your section. Just throw it in #personador at any point, I don't need to be actively around when you do. Just post in here with what you get, being tests and whatnot there are degrees of success and missing the stat+skill mod doesn't nessesarily mean failure.
At some point, someone checks up on Master Frost's place and discovers that Raiho has an update for you! Hee doesn't quite ho what's using the heat as energy, nor what they're using it for, but he thinks he's narrowed it down to some kind of magic but not demonic in origin at all. His next guess was that it's a particularly powerful Shadow, but signs are pointing to unlikely on that as well so he's confused on what it could be. He'll keep investigating though, Raiho does not give up!
Also, by the end of Finals Week, someone checks in on Okuninushi. He's passed your questions on to some of his more informationally inclined peers and is waiting for them to get back to him.
Mike would like to ask Raiho to check into human or Persona-user influences, as that seems the next logical step.
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Taking a day off of studies for Dream exploration hijinx: sounds like a good subject for the next session. Any objections to this idea?
Sounds good!
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Finally, PP expenditures. Downtime is a great time to spend things to beef up, lemme know what you're interested in picking up.
Alternate Fire (Bright Trap) (2 Ranks) (No Damage, tangle rank 1) | Linked: Projection (Light only, area 2) - 5 CP
Base Mind +1: 2 CP
7 CP spent.
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MYKASI
Finals Rolls: 1 Computers roll, 1 Mechanics roll, 1 Electronics roll, 1 Foeriegn Culture roll
[16:23] > Finals Rolls: 1 Computers roll, 1 Mechanics roll, 1 Electronics roll, 1 Foeriegn Culture roll
[16:24] > roll 2d8 Computers!
[16:24] * Hatbot --> "Mykasi rolls 2d8 Computers! and gets 12." [2d8=5, 7]
[16:24] > kch.
[16:24] > roll 2d8 Mechanics!
[16:24] * Hatbot --> "Mykasi rolls 2d8 Mechanics! and gets 8." [2d8=7, 1]
[16:24] > roll 2d8 Electronics!
[16:24] * Hatbot --> "Mykasi rolls 2d8 Electronics! and gets 14." [2d8=8, 6]
[16:24] > Ow, ow, ow. :/
[16:24] > roll 2d8 Foreign Culture (c'mon, I'm chummin' with Okuninushi, I should do okay here)
[16:24] * Hatbot --> "Mykasi rolls 2d8 Foreign Culture (c'mon, I'm chummin' with Okuninushi, I should do okay here) and gets 12." [2d8=5, 7]
In conclusion: fuck you Hatbot, fuck you saving the world. <_<
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At one point, while Mike is out jogging(and wondering what possessed him to do so in this weather), he sees a stray dog chewing on a piece of paper. It looks...like a letter actually. And his name is on it. The dog sees Mike, drops the paper, and wanders off. When he opens it, it reads: "The girl lives, safe for now. Where cannot be explained nor reached. She will not stay there forever. For this service: feed six stray dogs for three days." Yes, this happened in the normal world, not the Dream.
For that, Mike would feed twelve for a week! Which he proceeds to do, making him somewhat hungry during finals. At least it's relaxing?
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Mike gets an email from Sandy! She's passing on that she heard your father looking into ticket prices to Japan sometime in Jan or Feb. He, uh, caught her evesdropping and made her promise to keep it to herself, but she knows how much you adore surprises so she figured she'd tell you anyway. Just don't tell him she told you, please? And she maaaaaay be looking into saving up enough to come visit at the same time if she can talk your dad into going along with the idea. Unless Amy gives her a more compelling reason to visit France over Japan.
<Mykasi> ... fml.
Mike replies with the basic message of "I'd love to see you and my Dad both, but just remember, not only is it ass-fuck-balls cold here, there's been multiple... problems... around <with links to all the articles of Stuff Being Strange>. Not trying to deter you, but consider it best to keep you abreast of what's going on. I'll probably be decently busy, even with nights, but I know some people who can help entertain/give you guides around town if needed. Also give Xav a hug for me. -Mike"
<Hikari> Alright, let's do this thing.
<Hikari> roll 2d8 culture club
* Hatbot --> "Hikari rolls 2d8 culture club and gets 13."12 [2d8=8, 5]
<Hikari> roll 2d8 how about no
* Hatbot --> "Hikari rolls 2d8 how about no and gets 11."12 [2d8=3, 8]
<Hikari> I guess that's better.
<Gatewalker> Note!
<Hikari> This is off to a great start, I gotta say.
<Gatewalker> before you use any other rerolls
<Gatewalker> I will count these against your reroll uses for the next session
<Hikari> Noted.
<Gatewalker> to be somewhat fair
<Gatewalker> you can take that one back if you want
<Hikari> No, I might actually pass with an 11.
<Hikari> 13, ehhhh.
<Hikari> roll 2d8 I AM A DOMESTIC GODDESS
* Hatbot --> "Hikari rolls 2d8 I AM A DOMESTIC GODDESS and gets 8."12 [2d8=6, 2]
<Hikari> Good enough.
<Hikari> roll 2d8 writing the first
* Hatbot --> "Hikari rolls 2d8 writing the first and gets 3."12 [2d8=2, 1]
<Hikari> roll 2d8 more writing self-expression doesn't seem to be one of my problems
* Hatbot --> "Hikari rolls 2d8 more writing self-expression doesn't seem to be one of my problems and gets 9."12 [2d8=6, 3]
<Hikari> It'll do.
Quote from: Gatewalker on March 02, 2011, 01:41:29 PM
NAGARE
Finals Rolls(hey, you still have to make and grade the damn things): 2 Law rolls, 1 Writing roll, 1 Social Sciences roll
[12:35] * Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee munches on Gate.
[12:36] * Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee pokes Hatbot.
[12:37] <Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee> Huh, Hatbot is dead.
[12:37] <Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee> d999
[12:37] * Hatbot --> "Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee rolls d999 and gets 784." [d999=784]
[12:37] <Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee> Not really!
[12:37] <Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee> Okay, let's do the rolls.
[12:38] <Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee> First, the two law rolls. Rolling vs. 12 (8 Mind+4 Law).
[12:38] <Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee> roll 2d8
[12:38] * Hatbot --> "Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee rolls 2d8 and gets 13." [2d8=8, 5]
[12:38] <Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee> roll 2d8
[12:38] * Hatbot --> "Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee rolls 2d8 and gets 5." [2d8=4, 1]
[12:38] <Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee> ... >_>
[12:38] <Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee> At least the second roll went okay.
[12:39] <Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee> Now, for the writing roll. Vs. 11 (8+3)
[12:39] <Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee> roll 2d8 for scribbles
[12:39] * Hatbot --> "Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee rolls 2d8 for scribbles and gets 15." [2d8=8, 7]
[12:39] <Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee> ... oh ahahahaha wow i'm getting fired
[12:39] <Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee> Now, for the Social Sciences roll!
[12:40] <Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee> Which goes vs. 8. I'm going to hell.
[12:40] <Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee> roll 2d8
[12:40] * Hatbot --> "Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee rolls 2d8 and gets 9." [2d8=4, 5]
[12:40] <Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee> Oh come -on-, Hatbot.
I'm so getting fired. >_>
Anyhow, for my end, there's also a talk with Oda. Since I want to start an S. Link with him, I'd like to actually RP that out. Can we do that tonight or tomorrow, Gate?
FOR CP EXPENDITURES:
EDIT: 5 CP spent. Bought another level of universal Armor (3 CP) and raised Mark of a Golden Arrow by two ranks. Abartach now can proudly detect Arcana and Persona as well.
Logs posted. Too many at once, so I didn't format them like I ususally do. Apologies if that makes them hard to read.
Also...if you could all take a look over your sheets and make sure the things you've bought recently are on there? Once you confirm your sheets are current, I'll look trhem over and update Combat Stats thread.
Looks like you already updated combat for me.