OOC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

[BananaPhone]

Yup. And PCR tests of hot chilli up my nose every 3 days.

But the hotel room is comfy. Internet is quick. There's a big screen TV I can cast my phone youtube to while using my gaming laptop.

I'm a bit of a homebody anyway, so it's not so bad.

[LairdMaon]

That sucks pretty hard, BP.

Virus is hitting us pretty hard here, too. I have 6 drivers out sick with it.

Please feel better.

[Bennosuke]

I'm in St. Louis, which is really interesting. I worked in NYC during the start of the pandemic and was pulled from my normal position to work the ICUs (I am a pediatric specialist very much not ideally trained for adult intensive care), but MO is currently one of the worst states in the US, and yet the numbers are tiny where we are. It's just basically sitting around waiting for the flood. Everyone's butt cheeks are so clenched in the hospital waiting for the outbreak which never seems to come, and yet the locals act like the whole thing isn't happening. Very surreal.

Sorry for venting.

IC post coming now.

[LairdMaon]

I'll get that Scrutiny test up when I wake up.

[rax]

@Bennosuke
If anyone can roll Scrutiny, is there anything stopping all of us doing it?

[Blindfolded Ape]

I mean, -Null doesn't have a reason to doubt the Magos' word. Plus he's outranked.

[Bennosuke]

@Bennosuke
If anyone can roll Scrutiny, is there anything stopping all of us doing it?

Nope, not really. It was an invitation to anyone who wanted to.

[BananaPhone]

I WILL!!!


*SLAMS DICE ON THE TABLE*

Scrutiny: (1d100)[19] vs 32

Whoops, I meant Scrutiny!

[LairdMaon]

Gods of Chaos, I call upon thee to bless this roll and keep it below my threshold of 33!

Scrutiny [r]1d100[/r]

[LairdMaon]

Gods of Chaos, I call upon thee to bless this roll and keep it below my threshold of 33!

Scrutiny [r]1d100[/r]

Er... See kids? This is what happens when you pray to Chaos!

Scrutiny (1d100)[2]

[rax]

Good things, apparently.

Hound's attempt: Scrutiny vs. 20 (Per 40/2) (1d100)[71]

Edit: Hound's going to keep quiet until the Magos and Marcella have finished their tiff. I'm also waiting to see if anyone has any suspicions to share from those Scrutiny rolls, though the Magos hasn't actually said anything concerning the hand that we didn't already suspect. Depending on how the next few posts go, Hound still wants to see if he can shake the Magos by mentioning Harl Kander and his story that he was sent by the Magos to investigate the skirmish.

[Bennosuke]

Wow, dem's some good rolls

EDIT: However, I don't see scrutiny as a trained skill for Marcella, which means she should be shooting for a goal of 16 or less, and missed with 19.

[BananaPhone]

Come'on.... lol

[Bennosuke]

I guess I'm waiting for Marcella and/or Mort here?

[LairdMaon]

I might be a couple minutes. Currently fighting for my job.

[rax]

Good luck with that. Try to avoid spilling any blood.

[Bennosuke]

I might be a couple minutes. Currently fighting for my job.

I'm sorry to hear that man, that really sucks! Best of luck!

[LairdMaon]

Well, it went poorly. But now I've got an investigation to shove down their throats.

Back to game!

[Bennosuke]

I'm sorry man. That sounds pretty rough!

[BananaPhone]

Yeah, that sounds crap mate :(.

Ben, Psyniscience roll?

[Bennosuke]

Sure, though I believe a success on a Psyscience roll will give you information regarding any psychic activity, daemons, warp abnormalities ect. Is there a specific Psychic Power you want to use?

[BananaPhone]

It's basically searching for the residue of the warp weapons.

So she wouldn't be expecting to feel the full-on strength they had last time she "sensed" them, but she would be expecting to sense the residue of the former weapons within that forge. It's basically just proof that they were indeed destroyed there.

I'll also use Sense Presence to do the exact same thing.

Psyniscience: (1d100)[74] vs 32
Minor Psychic Power: Sense Presence: (2d10)[7] + 5 = 12, beat the TN (7) by enough to get an overbleed effect. (which would be range, but if you're feeling GM fiat generous to have it effect sensing the residue of something as strong as those warp weapons)

[Bennosuke]

@All: Hey everyone, I'm so sorry it has taken me so long to reply. This work destroyed me at work. For what it is worth, I will be studying from home this upcoming week and will be able to post pretty much daily.

@Banana: I'm an idiot, or work melted my brain too much to think about it. You are correct and the psiscience roll should be useful.

[rax]

@Bennosuke
Is the "defensive" observation in the IC thread only for Mallory or something we're all hearing?

[Bennosuke]

Something the entire group might have heard.

[BananaPhone]

@All: Hey everyone, I'm so sorry it has taken me so long to reply. This work destroyed me at work. For what it is worth, I will be studying from home this upcoming week and will be able to post pretty much daily.

@Banana: I'm an idiot, or work melted my brain too much to think about it. You are correct and the psiscience roll should be useful.

Nah it's all good man, RL comes first .

I just realise that beginning Sanctioned Psykers have no bonus help from traits or tools for Psyniscience, which is odd. So if you're feeling generous, Marc can grip her psy focus within her coat and try a few more times.

I'll put another couple of rolls put:

Psyniscience 1: (1d100)[79] vs 22
Psyniscience 2: (1d100)[15] vs 22
Psyniscience 3: (1d100)[15] vs 22

[Bennosuke]

As per my IC post, I was gonna give Marcella one additional attempt but at -10, which for your roll of 79 would be a failure.

But here's the one kindness I'll offer you, you can spend a Fate point to reroll your first roll against 32. However, I'm going to have you roll again if you do this, since we know your rolls 2 and 3 were good and the whole point of a Fate roll is that you are gambling. Thoughts?

[BananaPhone]

Okay, I don't see much other option here hah. She makes this roll or the missions a failure.

Psyniscience: (1d100)[53]

Charmed fate point: (1d10)[3]

[BananaPhone]

Spend another fate point:

Psyniscience: (1d100)[99]

Charmed fate point: (1d10)[8]


*sigh* feels great spending all fate points to fail 4 rolls for which 1 of them should have statistically passed. Seriously FU forum roller.

[Bennosuke]

I mean, it's not really like the mission is over. "The Mission" is now to find out/confirm who is smuggling the xenos tech in and why. The group gave Petrovskii the crate of weapons they recovered to destroy, and are now here simply confirming that he did so. I would suggest it probably doesn't effect the main mission too heavily.

I would also suggest there are other ways of figuring things out regarding "this mission", and that the group has a good inkling that The Magos isn't being wholly up front with them, even if they don't have psychic proof of it.