Speaker4thesilent
Crazed Deplorable
You do not yet have a proper workshop. You have an improvised mess in the middle of a construction site. That said, I do need to update that blurb for next month.
Quest A Sword Through the Multiverse: Stabbing Space Whales[A FSN/Worm quest]
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Arlos
Sad Monarchist
Progress has been made with working with the police now it's time for you and saber to stay in contact to cement your reputation and help bolster the governments stance on these super-human powers, and since you’ve decided to help, you might as well go with some interesting things for your news partners, training regimen for normal people based to deal with the supernatural based on your personal experiences from both worlds you’ve lived in and the way you witnessed some normal people pull truly incredible feat in the Silver millenium (this one is for you Paul), it should be as exhaustive as possible even if somewhat basic due to time constraint, from spotting invisible enemies, to protecting themselves from people with the ability to beguile the mind, be it from direct control or simple misdirection, to add on to that would be physical training, basic know how in superpower security and how to use teamwork when fighting the supernatural, if they are interested, perhaps you can collaborte further on this.
Trying to add some stuff to the contact the government stuff, not sure if it’s ok?
Now, time to sleep...
Trying to add some stuff to the contact the government stuff, not sure if it’s ok?
Now, time to sleep...
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ConfusedCanadian
Well-known member
That works and something I honestly didn't think about training regular humans to better counter and stop parahuman ability's earlier on can be a huge boon for the British government years down the line. And better for us to bring this forward now so the government can at least discuss and debate about it now.
Also I agree with what your saying @Martenzo my thought process is after we finish pleasing the eye and working on our home we can turn towards completing and selling our patent design cause your right. More money for us is a boon even if we only use it to pay off our debts but a little extra money never hurts.
ConfusedCanadian
Well-known member
While something to think about I don't think it's an issue that's going to effect us anytime soon.
ConfusedCanadian
Well-known member
She's included in the stunt don't worry and your right she is far better at interacting with people.
werdZerg13
Member
You seem to be forgetting about this little number I don't have any ideas but I think the group should remember to give it a go.
ConfusedCanadian
Well-known member
Thank you I seem to have missed that! Now does anyone have an idea for the house then? Basement should probably be our gym First floor the living area/Kitchen and dinning room Second floor Office/Workshop guest bathroom and possible guest bedroom laundry room. And Finally the third floor should be Family room spare bedrooms for any children Master bathroom and Master Bedroom. Thoughts suggestion anyone?
Inverted Fallecy
Beware the Dialogue that Spews Forth!~
[X] Moving on with Life
Bear Templar
Active member
I don't disagree that basement would be fitting for gym, however a magecraft workshop (and I assume we will also use it for magecraft) would also want something like a workshop, (at least from fate rules).
Not sure how well that applies for this world but there is reason that Shirou's shed was the better place for a workshop (and that the rest of the house was unsuitable) and the Tohsaka manor had their main one in the basement... other than just secrecy. Not entirely sure that the second floor would work for an electronics workshop (guess it depends on how large or heavy the items we make are), I think ground floor and basement works better for a workshop... and the basement might handle a fire hazard better.
Hm it might help if we had an actual floor plan.
"Keeping your peace, you followed your wife and the guide inside, expecting the rooms to mostly branch off to the right.
Instead, the house was narrow and deep with nothing on the right half of the building. The first floor was an unspectacular living area with a fair-sized eat-in kitchen. The second floor had a bedroom and a family room, and the top floor had a second bedroom. Each floor had a WC, and the top floor had a rather nice, if dated, master bathroom."
So, living room and kitchen (which is eat in and fair sized, so basically a kitchen and dining room combined), and we can assume double the space per floor (give half has been bricked off), so basically enough room for four rooms on a floor. Each floor is set up with toilets...
We would also need to take into account the turret, which was on the right side.
We should probably expand the kitchen area a bit and try to update that to make it as modern as possible, Afterall we are now a chef and it makes sense for use to experiment
I think the Basement could probably handle both a small gym and workshop, if we take into account the upper floors are good for about four rooms (plus the turret). Hm, could we have a small almost dojo on the ground floor (basically just for sparring)
…
Okay my thoughts on a floor plan, assumes 4 rooms plus turret and wc for each floor.
Basement, workshop and gym, storage space if available. If we can a outside entrance to the storage or gym rooms… and escape to the sewers path
Ground floor, expand and update kitchen (1 room, should have storage), more of a divider between kitchen and dining area (so kitchen and dining as two rooms), living room (third room), maybe small laundry room, and for the turret a tea room so small table and few chairs just to look at the garden.
First/second depending on naming conventions, 2 office rooms… I feel these can actually be smaller than two full rooms, maybe expand the WC to include a shower, two bedrooms, not sure about turret, maybe a bit of a game room. edit: replace a bedroom for small library room
Top floor master bedroom, big bathroom, one more bedroom… and maybe additional storage room. Perhaps keep the turret as connected to the master bedroom
Edit: came to the conclusion that a dojo probably wouldn't work, dedicated dining room is good for entertaining guests... hm if we are willing to move things about we culd probably move most of the gym stuff around, or out of, the room if we want to spar
Edit: long term we might want to connect with a garage or something, so external location where we can make a larger workshop
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ConfusedCanadian
Well-known member
I like the floor plan @Bear Templar you wont mind if I steal it for the plan?
Bear Templar
Active member
Fine by me, we probably want to get @Speaker4thesilent approval for it, I made a few assumptions after all. Any alterations you would want to make, or that you think would make sense?
ConfusedCanadian
Well-known member
I cant think of anything else to add on or change and if speaker has a problem with it he can tell us and we can make adjustments to it accordingly.
Speaker4thesilent
Crazed Deplorable
Vote is closed. Tally program still isn't working, but it seems like we've only got the one plan this time, so it's a bit moot.
Bear Templar
Active member
So, some thoughts on future things for us to level up,
Survival: ***. for tracking, maybe a speciality like urban
Investigation: ***. for general information gathering
Bureaucracy: *. never a bad idea, also might be important for getting information and for the admin part of our jobs, maybe the next thing to spend xp on
Medicine: **. Well being able to do first aid better as a hero is fairly important
General social stat improvements although we are getting to decent
And Might be useful eventually
Drive: ***. maybe if we say get a motor bike, could help us chase someone
Larceny: *. for a better understanding of criminals
Further types of lore and craft (I'm thinking modern electronics) are useful to an extent. I wonder if we will develop occult parahumans
Also, something for us to make more practical, air bags, which even though they have been invented aren't that widespread or as safe as modern ones. I found a “15 Developments in cars” page which had various things Shirou might well have experience with, I’m thinking he can help these develop quicker
Electronically Controlled Torque Vectoring Differential
Headlamp improvements
Dual Clutch Transmission
On board diagnostics
Tire Pressure monitoring devices
And I'm sure there are other things that we could do to improve cars in general, and especially car safety. Plus, there are various British car companies so we can help with that section of the economy... Similar things should apply to motor bikes and we might know something about hybrids
Edit: would require a decent sized workshop and car for this to be properly done
Survival: ***. for tracking, maybe a speciality like urban
Investigation: ***. for general information gathering
Bureaucracy: *. never a bad idea, also might be important for getting information and for the admin part of our jobs, maybe the next thing to spend xp on
Medicine: **. Well being able to do first aid better as a hero is fairly important
General social stat improvements although we are getting to decent
And Might be useful eventually
Drive: ***. maybe if we say get a motor bike, could help us chase someone
Larceny: *. for a better understanding of criminals
Further types of lore and craft (I'm thinking modern electronics) are useful to an extent. I wonder if we will develop occult parahumans
Also, something for us to make more practical, air bags, which even though they have been invented aren't that widespread or as safe as modern ones. I found a “15 Developments in cars” page which had various things Shirou might well have experience with, I’m thinking he can help these develop quicker
Electronically Controlled Torque Vectoring Differential
Headlamp improvements
Dual Clutch Transmission
On board diagnostics
Tire Pressure monitoring devices
And I'm sure there are other things that we could do to improve cars in general, and especially car safety. Plus, there are various British car companies so we can help with that section of the economy... Similar things should apply to motor bikes and we might know something about hybrids
Edit: would require a decent sized workshop and car for this to be properly done
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ConfusedCanadian
Well-known member
I'm personally leaning towards improving our bureaucracy skill next it seems a lot of our work involves that in someway.
I think these are a bit to involved for us, important but too fussy.
Single items like the ipod, mobile phone and other such items are where we want to stay.
Each requires several developments to pull off, but we can ignore the fiddly bits.
A Brave New World 14
Speaker4thesilent
Crazed Deplorable
[X] Moving on with Life
-[X] - Hold down your job. You need to get paid, so this is sort of a requirement. Cost: 4 AP. Results: You do the minimum required to get paid. Your bosses are happy with the improvement you’ve made in the restaurant for the moment, so you could afford to cut back a touch. Continued improvement likely, but not guaranteed.- Now that you've improved the lunch and dinner menus perhaps it's time to start improving the brunch and tea options on the menu.
-[X] - Pleasing the Eye. Your original plans about plating went in an entirely unexpected direction, but if you want to have chefs other than yourself capable of the sort of casual excellence you envision, you’re going to need to put in the hours to train them up. Cost: 1 AP. Results: Chefs trained to cook well and look good doing it. Eventual synergy with restaurant update.
-Show your cooks downright unreal level of cooking using the peak of your skills, from the millimetres precision of your cut on ingredients, not only helped by your structural grasping telling you where to best do the cut, but also by your blade skills, honed finely by thousands of hours of training and battle and the knowledge and experiences of countless blade wielders recorded in your soul, to your cooking skills, using your endless experiences and supernatural grasp of the ingredients internal states at all time as they cook to achieve perfection beyond compare, and finishing by your presentation skills, developed through years and years of serving royalty and nobility in the Silver millennium and the studying of art throughout history for years on end. Hopefully, it will motivate your cook, even if they may never reach such a level.
[X] - Home Improvement. (Locked in due to purchase of the Run-Down Townhouse) You own a home now, or the bank owns it and you’re paying them interest for the pleasure of living in it, anyway. The problem is that it’s going to need to be a construction site for a while as you reopen the closed half of the house and reconfigure everything for your needs. Cost: 1 AP. Results: Access to and renovations and furnishing for the full floorplan of your new house. Home Equity. (Suggested stunts would include a finalized floorplan with what is on what level. Relevant details are in ABNW7. You may assume double the original described footprint, plus the turret room on each level. Fine details subject to QM approval.)
-Basement, workshop and gym, storage space if available. If we can a outside entrance to the storage or gym rooms… and escape to the sewers path
Ground floor, expand and update kitchen (1 room, should have storage), more of a divider between kitchen and dining area (so kitchen and dining as two rooms), living room (third room), maybe small laundry room, and for the turret a tea room so small table and few chairs just to look at the garden.
First/second depending on naming conventions, 2 office rooms… I feel these can actually be smaller than two full rooms, maybe expand the WC to include a shower, two bedrooms, not sure about turret, maybe a bit of a game room. edit: replace a bedroom for small library room
Top floor master bedroom, big bathroom, one more bedroom… and maybe additional storage room. Perhaps keep the turret as connected to the master bedroom
-[x] - Socialize with Arturia. Weekends are for dates, right? Cost: 1 AP. Results: Fluff, WAFF, happy Arturia.- You've been itching to take Arturia to the movies recently for a date perhaps go and see if Monty Python and the holy grail is available to watch it would be a good laugh for the both of you.
-[x] - Keep in contact. The police or even the government may have questions to ask or concerns to raise. Make time to keep in contact with them, just in case. Cost: 1 AP. Results: ???.
-Progress has been made with working with the police now it's time for you and saber to stay in contact to cement your reputation and help bolster the governments stance on these super-human powers, and since you’ve decided to help, you might as well go with some interesting things for your news partners, training regimen for normal people based to deal with the supernatural based on your personal experiences from both worlds you’ve lived in and the way you witnessed some normal people pull truly incredible feat in the Silver millennium (this one is for you Paul), it should be as exhaustive as possible even if somewhat basic due to time constraint, from spotting invisible enemies, to protecting themselves from people with the ability to beguile the mind, be it from direct control or simple misdirection, to add on to that would be physical training, basic know how in superpower security and how to use teamwork when fighting the supernatural, if they are interested, perhaps you can collaborate further on this.
-[x] - Gym Building. You’ve made contact with the super-inventor that runs a failing local gym. Now you just need to decide how much you’re willing to spend to have a home gym that will allow you and Arturia to get some exercise and training in. Cost: 1 AP. Variable amounts of money. Results: Gain a home gym/practice area in your basement. Training time for physical skills and attributes accumulates. Coordination penalties mitigated.- You have a home and a man willing to build your equipment sit down with Saber and find out what you need/want exactly for your home gym so you two can finally start training together.
You have 2 exp. Do you spend any?
-[x] - Spend it on Socialize
-[X] - Hold down your job. You need to get paid, so this is sort of a requirement. Cost: 4 AP. Results: You do the minimum required to get paid. Your bosses are happy with the improvement you’ve made in the restaurant for the moment, so you could afford to cut back a touch. Continued improvement likely, but not guaranteed.- Now that you've improved the lunch and dinner menus perhaps it's time to start improving the brunch and tea options on the menu.
-[X] - Pleasing the Eye. Your original plans about plating went in an entirely unexpected direction, but if you want to have chefs other than yourself capable of the sort of casual excellence you envision, you’re going to need to put in the hours to train them up. Cost: 1 AP. Results: Chefs trained to cook well and look good doing it. Eventual synergy with restaurant update.
-Show your cooks downright unreal level of cooking using the peak of your skills, from the millimetres precision of your cut on ingredients, not only helped by your structural grasping telling you where to best do the cut, but also by your blade skills, honed finely by thousands of hours of training and battle and the knowledge and experiences of countless blade wielders recorded in your soul, to your cooking skills, using your endless experiences and supernatural grasp of the ingredients internal states at all time as they cook to achieve perfection beyond compare, and finishing by your presentation skills, developed through years and years of serving royalty and nobility in the Silver millennium and the studying of art throughout history for years on end. Hopefully, it will motivate your cook, even if they may never reach such a level.
[X] - Home Improvement. (Locked in due to purchase of the Run-Down Townhouse) You own a home now, or the bank owns it and you’re paying them interest for the pleasure of living in it, anyway. The problem is that it’s going to need to be a construction site for a while as you reopen the closed half of the house and reconfigure everything for your needs. Cost: 1 AP. Results: Access to and renovations and furnishing for the full floorplan of your new house. Home Equity. (Suggested stunts would include a finalized floorplan with what is on what level. Relevant details are in ABNW7. You may assume double the original described footprint, plus the turret room on each level. Fine details subject to QM approval.)
-Basement, workshop and gym, storage space if available. If we can a outside entrance to the storage or gym rooms… and escape to the sewers path
Ground floor, expand and update kitchen (1 room, should have storage), more of a divider between kitchen and dining area (so kitchen and dining as two rooms), living room (third room), maybe small laundry room, and for the turret a tea room so small table and few chairs just to look at the garden.
First/second depending on naming conventions, 2 office rooms… I feel these can actually be smaller than two full rooms, maybe expand the WC to include a shower, two bedrooms, not sure about turret, maybe a bit of a game room. edit: replace a bedroom for small library room
Top floor master bedroom, big bathroom, one more bedroom… and maybe additional storage room. Perhaps keep the turret as connected to the master bedroom
-[x] - Socialize with Arturia. Weekends are for dates, right? Cost: 1 AP. Results: Fluff, WAFF, happy Arturia.- You've been itching to take Arturia to the movies recently for a date perhaps go and see if Monty Python and the holy grail is available to watch it would be a good laugh for the both of you.
-[x] - Keep in contact. The police or even the government may have questions to ask or concerns to raise. Make time to keep in contact with them, just in case. Cost: 1 AP. Results: ???.
-Progress has been made with working with the police now it's time for you and saber to stay in contact to cement your reputation and help bolster the governments stance on these super-human powers, and since you’ve decided to help, you might as well go with some interesting things for your news partners, training regimen for normal people based to deal with the supernatural based on your personal experiences from both worlds you’ve lived in and the way you witnessed some normal people pull truly incredible feat in the Silver millennium (this one is for you Paul), it should be as exhaustive as possible even if somewhat basic due to time constraint, from spotting invisible enemies, to protecting themselves from people with the ability to beguile the mind, be it from direct control or simple misdirection, to add on to that would be physical training, basic know how in superpower security and how to use teamwork when fighting the supernatural, if they are interested, perhaps you can collaborate further on this.
-[x] - Gym Building. You’ve made contact with the super-inventor that runs a failing local gym. Now you just need to decide how much you’re willing to spend to have a home gym that will allow you and Arturia to get some exercise and training in. Cost: 1 AP. Variable amounts of money. Results: Gain a home gym/practice area in your basement. Training time for physical skills and attributes accumulates. Coordination penalties mitigated.- You have a home and a man willing to build your equipment sit down with Saber and find out what you need/want exactly for your home gym so you two can finally start training together.
You have 2 exp. Do you spend any?
-[x] - Spend it on Socialize
A Brave New World 14
As the month of June kicked off, it was difficult for you to keep a spring out of your step. There was a certain level of decorum you expected out of yourself. Moreover, you had been raised in Japan, where people extended a certain degree of … deliberate social ignorance. England wasn’t like that at all, and it was no one’s business but your own and Arturia’s.
You hadn’t realized how much not having a space that was truly hers had been wearing on Arturia until the pressure was relieved. Even though the Townhouse was very definitely still a construction zone with all that implied, it was yours in a way the apartment hadn’t been.
The walls were also thick enough that she didn’t feel worried about privacy anymore.
Your efforts at work mostly focused on training your performance chefs. With the first crew finally getting up to speed about midway through the month, you were able to show off a little. The speed and precision you could achieve along with the casual air you utilized with your knife work was just the motivation they needed to take the last steps up to the level you wanted them to achieve.
That done, you could devote the remainder of the time to ensuring that you had enough people able to do one section of a complete performance to rotate in and out to fill in if one of your main crew was sick, injured, or quit. Better yet, you were able to demonstrate their skills to HR and secure them a raise.
Once that went around the kitchen, you discovered that several other chefs were practicing as they cooked. It looked like, in the future, the financial incentive would eliminate the need for you to spend your own time training replacements.
Not that there was a lot of free time or slow days in the Ritz’s kitchen. Even without any more new recipes, the improvement in the quality of the food had been noted, and the new style of cooking featuring traditional English meals with a twist continued to bring in the crowds. By the time June was winding to a close, July was booked and inroads were being made into August.
ASTtM
Course of action completed with distinction. Follow-up action unlocked. Restaurant continues to be an attraction for the Ritz.
ASTtM
The first phone call you made to the police to pitch your plan gets immediately derailed. They’ve already had a woman come forward about what’s already being called the Thatcher Initiative. There’s just one problem.
Her power matched up uncannily well with a recent mysterious death. A man was found electrocuted to death in an alley, and now a woman with the power to produce an electric shock on touch has stepped forward. You get the feeling that the police aren’t being fully transparent, but maybe they’re just sparing the details over the phone.
Either way, they’re asking for your assistance. You assure them that you’re happy to help, and hang up. Reaching down, you swap the small Mystic Code you’d made to conceal your new home phone from any attempts to trace your call when suddenly you break into a cold sweat.
“Shirou,” Arturia spoke from behind you. Instinctively, you froze, your lizard hindbrain and Eye of the Mind operating in concert to inform you that incredible danger surrounded you. “You weren’t about to go out and get shot at again without so much as a word, were you?”
“Of course not!” you tried to assure her. “The police just have a complicated situation that they wanted some advice about.” It seemed to be working. Saber’s expression had gone from thunderous to merely attentive.
“Oh?” she inquired leadingly.
“A woman who can produce an electric shock from her hands showed up in response to Prime Minister Thatcher’s speech,” you explained, “but her power seems to match up to a recent mysterious death in the area.”
“Shirou,” that dangerous feeling was back again, and Saber’s hand seemed to have formed a fist when you weren’t looking. “That’s worse than getting shot at.”
You were pretty sure she was overreacting, but you weren’t sure how to say that without setting off an eruption from Mount Arturia.
“I’m coming with you,” she declared. “It’s the only way to keep you out of trouble.”
You didn’t think that was precisely fair. On the other hand, more time with your wife. In the end, you decided to go with the response of men everywhere.
“Yes, dear.”
Happy wife. Happy life.
ASTtM
The situation had been more complicated that the police had wanted to get into over the phone. The woman was being held, but not technically placed under arrest because the man had been found with his pants around his ankles. While the site could have been staged after the fact, the woman would have needed to be one hell of an actress.
The situation had been so unstable because any time officers had tried to question the woman, she broke down in tears. Even the rape councilor they’d brought in hadn’t been able to get the woman to speak.
“And then?” Saber asked kindly, one gauntleted hand resting gently overtop where the woman, a brunette in her early twenties, had her fingers interlaced to keep her own hands from shaking.
“That’s w-when he s-started to … to pull his p-pants d-down,” the woman said, stumbling over her words and on the verge of tears. She was also suffering from full-body shakes that she was only barely keeping under control. Definitely a PTSD reaction.
You’d had to help clean up the messes left behind after everything from African warlords to space pirate raids. Different women reacted differently, so there were a lot of possible reactions to rape, but this was one of the worst you’d seen where the woman was still coherent at all.
“I-I must have fainted when he … when he started. All I remember is coming to and that he was … he was-”
You winced as she did break down into tears and sobs this time, shaking even as Saber pulled her into a hug. It was a bit more than five minutes before she was in a fit state to resume her story, and the observation room was an awkward place with a half-dozen deeply uncomfortable people in it by the time she did.
“I just … I just w-wanted him to stop! And then I just knew that if I touched him, I could stop him.” She stopped for a deep breath before continuing, “So I did, and I picked up my knickers and ran. I didn’t mean to kill him, I didn’t even know he was dead! I just …”
Once again, Arturia managed to calm her with a few words before departing to enter the observation room. I turned my back to give her at least the illusion of privacy. When Saber entered the observation room with yet another detective, I met her eyes through the visor of her helmet and gave her a slight smile.
“She appears to be telling the truth. At least, as she recalls it,” Saber announced.
“Agreed. It’s possible that she didn’t, in fact, pass out. She may have just repressed that bit of the event due to trauma,” you agreed, adding your own assessment to your wife’s.
“Surely you aren’t serious?” one of the suited men said. “It’s like something out of a bloody comic book! Something bad happens to her and she’s suddenly got just the thing to stop it? We’re supposed to believe that?”
“Eye motions, what I could see of them given her state, seem to back up her claims. Her body language also indicated truthfulness,” a second man, one of those in a nicer suit, said.
That seemed to lend the last bit of credence needed to what Arturia and you had said. Must be an expert that they’d worked with before.
“Shit, what a mess. The optics on this are gonna be …”
The guy trailed off, and you realized it was because Saber was giving him the Look of Royal Contempt from behind her helmet. Before she decided to eviscerate him, verbally or otherwise, you stepped in as peacemaker.
“Not really. It’s a pretty clear case of self defense, and if you let it be known that she came forward and sought assistance with her powers after accidentally killing her rapist with abilities gained as a response to a traumatic event…” you trailed off, hands spread.
There was silence for a moment before the political-types started nodding.
“That could work if we-”
“Maybe emphasize that the government is-”
Half the room’s occupants abruptly become very busy. The other half closed in a bit around you and Saber.
“You said ‘abilities,’ not ‘ability.’ That deliberate?” one of them inquired.
“Yes,” you stated, “She has at least two. Considering the rapist was, well,” you gestured uncomfortably, then moved on quickly, “in contact with her when she shocked him, she is at the least highly resistant to electricity. Otherwise, she would have been injured or killed by the shock as well. Much more likely, she’s immune to electricity entirely. If that’s the case, training her as a first responder to help deal with the aftermath of accidents where electrical lines are involved would make sense. Depending on precisely how her power works, she may be able to divert current or store it as well. Besides, with training she ought to be able to decrease the amperage of her shocks enough to merely incapacitate with a touch, rather than kill.”
Two of the men were taking notes by the time you finished speaking.
“Can you make yourselves available to help us figure out what she can do and how safe it will be for her to use her powers?” one of the others asked.
You turned and met Saber’s eyes. When she nodded, you answered.
“Certainly, we shall be at your disposal.”
ASTtM
You shook the inspector’s hand one final time as he departed and made a mental checkmark on your list. The electrical work was inspected and very much approved of. To the tune of I-wish-code-was-this-stringent. It was nice to have your hard work recognized.
Still, the seemingly unavoidable delay between scheduling the inspection and actually having it completed had cost you most of the week. Just as well that you’d been busy in the interim, even if you’d ended up being something of a third wheel.
Samantha Jasper, the tactile electrokinetic, had ended up really bonding with Arturia. Given the sheer Charisma your wife possessed, you could understand why. It had only taken her a few hours to rebuild the woman’s shattered confidence. It turned out that Samantha could indeed increase and decrease both the voltage and the amperage of her generated electrical shocks.
She was also a highly motivated student, and with Arturia providing encouragement and a multimeter to provide feedback on how ‘hot’ each shock was, she was able to dial down the current until she could generate a shock roughly equivalent to a stun gun consistently after only about four hours of trial and error.
That seemed to boost her confidence, and by the time she was too exhausted to continue, Saber had helped her lock down the appropriate voltage and amperage to act as a walking cardiac defibrillator.
With concrete evidence that her powers could be useful for saving lives rather than just ending them, both Samantha and the government officials had been considerably happier.
Just like you hoped to be once you were done getting the plumbing up to code. You were all set to begin when the telephone connected to your newest Mystic Code rang. Scrambling over to the receiver, you answered it.
“This is Guardian,” you said.
“Sir, we’ve got what looks like a reappearance of the stealth specialist that attempted to assassinate the Prime Minister-”
ASTtM
You and Saber had both come down to the government offices in London for a briefing after hearing about what had happened.
“As most of you have heard, the IRA terrorist who recently attacked the PM has taken responsibility for the attack.”
“How bad is it?” A man in uniform, a General if you were remembering correctly, interrupted the briefing almost before it could begin.
“Bad,” the presenter responded with pursed lips. “There was no Guardian to halt the attack this time, and the terrorist, who’s calling himself Tírghráthóir, Patriot when translated, managed to smuggle explosive devices into a petrol storage area and a maintenance depot in Northern Ireland. We’ve dozens dead or injured, a week’s worth of petrol burning, and a score of tanks destroyed.”
You didn’t know your British history as well as some, but it was probably the worst terrorist attack to ever hit the British Army. Once the specifics of the briefing concluded, you and Saber were drawn aside and a request was presented to you.
“Analysts think there’s a possibility of a follow-up attack. There’s also the chance that some of the technology this bastard uses could be recovered in the wreckage. Would you be willing to help?”
With a grimace hidden behind your helmet, you looked at Saber, then …
[ ] You agreed to assist. (You’ll be gone at least two days.)
-[ ] Try to recover technology.
-[ ] Stand by in case of another attack.
-[ ] Split up and do both.
[ ] Apologize, but defer. You can’t just disappear for two days with no notice.
Teaching the performance chefs, Charisma+Performance+stunt: 6d10*4=14 total successes. Action complete. Primary crew of performance chefs trained for dinner service with alternates able to fill in as needed.
Subtle interrogation. Saber tests Charisma+Socialize+stunt: 11d10=3 6 successes. She gets a cape to talk about their Trigger Event without creating more trauma or bad feelings.
Shirou as powers analyst, Int+Occult: 9d10=Double Botch 3 successes. No. Bad Rin, bad!
Shirou as Spin Doctor, Wits+Lore(Local Customs): 8d10=2 4 successes.
Home Improvement, Dex+Craft+stunt: 12d10*4=15 successes, fully half of them in week three. My that was a lot of ones. Good thing we’re playing by mostly Exalted rules instead of WoD. Shirou would have flooded the basement.
Arturia and improvised therapy, Charisma+Integrity: 12d10=6 Successes.
Subtle interrogation. Saber tests Charisma+Socialize+stunt: 11d10=
Shirou as powers analyst, Int+Occult: 9d10=
Shirou as Spin Doctor, Wits+Lore(Local Customs): 8d10=
Home Improvement, Dex+Craft+stunt: 12d10*4=15 successes, fully half of them in week three. My that was a lot of ones. Good thing we’re playing by mostly Exalted rules instead of WoD. Shirou would have flooded the basement.
Arturia and improvised therapy, Charisma+Integrity: 12d10=6 Successes.
Thanks to Seraviel for beta reading. Sorry this is late, got home and fell asleep before posting.
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ConfusedCanadian
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I say we agree to help and split off and do both actions at once. Like we help the government recover the tech and let Saber have a chance to shine by foiling another attack.