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General Chaos / Re: Weirdest Scenario You have Ever Run
« on: May 09, 2016, 07:35:02 PM »
I'm not sure if this qualifies as weirdest but it sticks out in my mind.

It's Eclipse Phase. In New Shanghai the players are investigating their own murders and have traced found links to a series of apparent morph implant malfunctions that cause spontaneous human combustion. They have two leads, a local escort who knows too much and a young free-runner/parcel delivery person who lives with a pair of uplifts at the only legitimate message parlor in the city. My players decide to go with a subtle approach and use the party face, an async obsessed with the color white, to ferret out the leads. What I didn't know what that the ferreting out would involve two, protracted Tac-Netted dating shows A La 1990's Elimidate.

We RPed out a full escort contract negotiation scene, complete with suggestions from the teammates via text message. The team mates knew about the async's mind-powers so they were guiding them through the process of arranging for some casual BDSM. They negotiated for an interrogation scene which the async used to ask priming questions for throughtbrowsing. When that didn't work they knocked them out and did a full probe. They left a heavy tip behind.

Next up they had the async "date" the free runner. They intensely researched this freerunners social media profiles and discovered that they were into female-presenting morphs and were sorta adopted by a gorilla uplift masseuse. They arranged a chance encounter at the message parlor, literally scripting a meet-cute followed by a date to the freerunner's favorite noodle place (which they had already pulled from social media). The team fell into "date small talk suggestion mode" and ended up RPing an entire first date, forgetting their objective.
So they had to arrange for a second date.

The second date was overwatched by the gorilla who was lurking a block back because he didn't trust this strange, pale weird human with his adopted daughter. Half the team ended up trying to distract helicopter gorilla dad while the other team kept up the small talk advice while they strolled through the souks. Finally the two teams came to a head when gorilla dad ended up blundering through the date, triggering a panic attack from the free runner. The async picked up on the free runners nascent pyrokinesis as a wandering noodle-dispensing robot erupted in steam, filling the scene with clouds of chicken-scented mist.

Time and other commitments ended up killing the campaign but I wish I could go back and see how many more dates they would have ended up getting the async to go on.

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General Chaos / Re: Tell me, have you seen this Yellow Sign?
« on: May 09, 2016, 07:18:46 PM »
Whatever you do, don't go to any shows they send you tickets for.

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 So Elana and Perun were going to team up with our respective organizations to put the house in reasonable order for human habitation, gardening and maybe as a performance space (I may have invented that bit)? We want to make sure that we have a credible claim on the building that we've helped clear of horrible chaos magic, demons, undead and a weird haunting curse. Presumably there's some kind of precedent for people taking over abandoned buildings or taking over buildings that were ignored by the owners and relevant authorities for years. If necessary this can take the form of Elana using the "Small Horizons" feature of her organization to reduce the difficulty of the roll because she's someone who knows lots of people.

I have no idea what the roll would be. Or really how the Reign rules interact here (since I don't own Reign).

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A deaf person could make a living teaching sign language to takers.  A group of takers that know sign language would have a definite advantage of being able to communicate silently close to casualties without making them self a target.

Same with semaphore for long range communication.

Maybe an entire enclave was made out of a school for the deaf. The Casualties didn't hit it as bad because it was quiet.

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Shared this with Ross, Caleb and Tim on Twitter. Thought the rest of you deserved to see that this is an actual thing.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19557898-booty-call-of-cthulhu

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Joanne Lagrasse is a newly graduated college student living the life. Well, if the life is sitting in your apartment all day trying to research monsters for a novel.

When she decides to not heed her professor's warning and reads a chant out loud, she finds herself faced with a giant monster and its lewd tentacles, each one eager to fill her holes.

This sounds like awful one-shot material.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Dan's Patreon Ptolus Campaign
« on: February 28, 2016, 09:46:45 PM »
I think I actually need to talk to Dan about what his expectations are RE: warlock patron meddling. I can send him the sheet so far though, that and the org sheet.

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General Chaos / Re: What are you reading?
« on: February 26, 2016, 02:50:47 PM »
I just finished "The Grace of Kings" by Ken Lieu and it was fantastic. It's like Game of Thrones without the terrible prose set in some kind of multi-racial pseudo-China at the end of the Warring States Period. Highly recommend.

Seconded.

Also, how many of us are on GoodReads? Come friend me, I friend back: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/51856402-laura-briskin

Grace of Kings is so good that I can't imagine it not getting an adaptation to film or TV... hopefully a not-race-bent adaptation.

Unfortunately I'm not on GoodReads as of yet.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Dan's Patreon Ptolus Campaign
« on: February 26, 2016, 02:31:50 PM »
@Vivax

I did pick from the tables; it's a little too random for random rolls. After Dan approves my character sheet I presume we can post them here or in the Google Drive. My focus is to use the picks or rolls as touchstones for the overall character.


I need to send him mine but he didn't really reply to my request for a deadline? So I'm not sure if he's checking that email.

Incidentally I found my uncommon magic item, it's one of the Bardic Instruments. They give you some nifty spells you can cast once a day.

I haven't actually chosen which thing I want to make a pact with for the warlock bit. Great Old one is really interesting but not really in keeping with the theme I have going. Fae makes sense but mechanically there's not too much benefit for a bard. Demon is weirdly apropos if I want to get all "rock and roll is the devil's music" but Elana's goals aren't so much self aggrandisement as sociopolitical. IDK what do you think? 

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General Chaos / Re: What are you reading?
« on: February 25, 2016, 12:28:25 PM »
I just finished "The Grace of Kings" by Ken Lieu and it was fantastic. It's like Game of Thrones without the terrible prose set in some kind of multi-racial pseudo-China at the end of the Warring States Period. Highly recommend. 

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Dan's Patreon Ptolus Campaign
« on: February 25, 2016, 12:22:08 PM »
This campaign's gonna be crazy. I love it already.

My character is Wraqrin "Freezer" Turnuroth, a NG Dragonborn Sorcerer.

Is he called the Freezer because of his ice magic or because of his chilly stare?

One of the things in the 5th Ed book about naming Dragonborn is that they're supposed to have a nickname that is used by their fellow friends and siblings as a term of endearment. Since Wraqrin is a Silver dragon he has ice breath. I imagine an incident where he froze someone or something and it's an incident that he never lived down, so he uses that as his nickname. He'll let you use it once you get to know him.

Hell, get on Elana's good side she might even call him Snowball.

How are you on like, core personality traits? I know 5th Ed hands out options based on background but I feel like the characters aren't as super defined by them. It's more like background provides a quirk and advantage.

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I'm glad sympathy monsters are getting their fair share in the RPPR currency department.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Dan's Patreon Ptolus Campaign
« on: February 24, 2016, 11:21:57 AM »
This campaign's gonna be crazy. I love it already.

My character is Wraqrin "Freezer" Turnuroth, a NG Dragonborn Sorcerer.

Is he called the Freezer because of his ice magic or because of his chilly stare?

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Dan's Patreon Ptolus Campaign
« on: February 23, 2016, 03:19:11 PM »
Right so I'm super excited for this game. My character is Elana Sicari, a half-elf bard/warlock. She runs an orphanage in Midtown on  close to the border of the Warrens, called "The Sicari Home for Wayward Youth". The orphanage, while fully functional, is partially a front for her far-left, nationalist, pro-Ptolus independence party. Because when you're plotting some kind of revolution, bloodless or otherwise, it's always best to hide it behind the smiling faces of the parentless youth you're taking care of. Ignore the shady thugs, they're just there to hold the kids down during emotional outbursts. No we don't have a loansharking operation, but we do accept donations to help The Children.

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General Chaos / Re: Looking for Group: Any RPPR Fans Near San Jose?
« on: February 03, 2016, 01:01:52 PM »
Yes and no? There's a huge Magic and competitive Smash scene.

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General Chaos / Looking for Group: Any RPPR Fans Near San Jose?
« on: February 02, 2016, 01:56:33 PM »
So I just moved to the Bay Area and am looking for a good crew of nerds to play with. Meetup has been less than successful and my old players are busy with life and 3 timezones ahead of me. I've done a couple patreon games with Ross, most recently as Saber Antimoney in the Cosplay one-shot and was the suicidal octomorph assassin in an EP one-shot last year. If you guys have any leads that would be dandy.

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