IC Thread: Ch. 1 - The Quiet Place

No that was great! Just role-playing, emoting, showing us your inner dialogue, interacting with the world/scene, or your comrade are all helpful. Not everything has to be a roll.

Theta, I'm getting a kind of sonar vibe for some of what you're doing here, is that accurate? You interact with the world through sound, and through sound work magick. Accurate?

But... what are the nanobots about? What role do they play in the practice and Effect here?

I'm frankly not certain they're at all necessary for what you want to do. I thought you were just trying to see in detail over there?

Plus... I think there's a lot that could be talked about regarding "How many/what kind of nanobots can a person even have with just Resources 3? And the answer is my mind is... not a whole lot, especially not without a check. And... like how do they work? What do they do? You seem to imply a telepathic control over them and that... is magick in itself. Right? That I'm not sure you have the dots for.

This kind of all comes back around to what I mentioned earlier about needing to focus your paradigm, and more broadly, putting your "GM-hat" on and thinking a little critically about things.

And lastly if you are working a spell Effect, you will need to roll your Arete - TN 5 (3+highest Sphere/2). If you want to use an Ability check to make the casting easier, you will need to roll a check that I think pertain's more directly to your paradigm/instruments and practice.

I think John'll wait until Dominic finishes his spell before going/suggesting to go to check out the cars.

Or shall we head to check the smell first?

Let's proceed onward.

You've checked the smell. It's coming from an SUV that someone either tried to put gasoline into, or siphon it out.

@ThetaSigma if you'd like to proceed with us, we're going to need at a minimum an Arete roll for the casting of your magic, to try to gain more detail about the people beneath the highway.

Totally get it and no problem.

It is much harder to fluidly talk about and communicate this stuff in pbp format, and I don't want playing to be stressful, and I don't want you to HAVE to generate an essay, but particularly the nanobots thing contains the potential for a kind of power creep, it seemed.

And so for you to not have to write an essay, but me to be able to be comfortable with your paradigm/practice and tools? They need to be more straight forward and "obvious"/consistent and understandable. A "kitchen sink" tech approach I feel like could be causing you problems (as far as defining/describing your paradigm), a little constraining parameters may make it easier/help your creativity!

I think the sound-based magick is a good adaptable foundation, let's focus and build around that?

Also, I'm learning too.

I've played a Mage using a mashup of Sorcerer's Crusade and V20 rules. And I've had a couple Mages in mixed-splat groups when I was playing another splat, but I've never STed Mage until now.

So doesn't surprise me that there's some growing pains.

Also, I'm not sure where I see this becoming vulgar in absence if the nanobits (to observers you're just playing your keytar), but that doesn't really matter because you rolled hella-good!

Was there an additional Effect(s) you were going for? There was a good deal of IRL temporal separation between casting and outcome, so if I missed something, I'm happy to address it in retrospect.

The original intent was a Correspondence 2 (for range) Life 1 Matter 1 effect, trying to sense anything unusual much as John had done, but covering two of the Spheres he didn’t have. However in hindsight I was rather vague about what that angle was trying to achieve.