General Discussion

Quick check with @runekyndig before i continue to post, Myra is doing this in the canteen right, at the shared table among all seven of you? Or is this for later, when we get to the hall/gym, to track Emily?

Unlike V20 where you can't raise Backgrounds with xp, in M20 you can (refer the xp chart).

But if you, or anyone else, are thinking the starting ones you selected aren't really how you imagined your PC, let's talk about swapping if they haven't come to narrative play yet. I'm still open to that.

Quick on on this, if on campus, it can be one of the lesser used labs/workshops in the STEM building, maybe because it's not had the latest upgrades because it's too small or not worth upgrading. Even if it's on campus, it will still be a safe place as defined by the rules of Sanctum. Or if you don't imagine it needs to be a workshop-like place, it can be anywhere else in any of the buildings, but Kyle's managed to house things inside that allow him to tinker.

I think Torrance has Sanctum too. If the two of you want, you can metagame this if you want one to be in campus and one off campus. There might be useful in-town places for a sanctum.

Same goes for Myra and Joe with Library, The Library concept can be in school, not necessarily a home library. Think of it as having a 'Library power' worth x number of dots.

Just thinking aloud to make sure your Backgrounds are relevantly useable, rather than a number on your character sheet.

I can hint that there might've been some Gauntlet side stepping, but maybe it didn't happen in the hall/gym itself. ;)

We can treat each casting as separate. But it also seems inconvenient to roll once each for each of the Spheres you all have, that's potentially 4 to 6 rolls a player, multiplied by number of players, ie seems tedious and probably a bit draggy to keep rolling to sense something using different spheres until you hit upon something.

I think a more useful guiding principle is to ask what is it you want to find out, and then that'll determine which sphere will let you sense that, rather than to offer a bunch of rolls in the hope that one of them is relevant to see what stuff you can pick up.

Sounds like I really have to start the summary thread so that we don't lose the key details and clues spinning off from the main incidents.

But quick answer to the last question. You were thinking Torrance wanted to go back in because he wasn't done with searching through the archive room to see if there were other things to uncover. Also, Minsoo's perception of something dark and watching seems to be centred at the building. Finally, was it Myra who noted that the architecture of the building seemed off, like rooms and spaces have been shifted around.

But remember this game is part sandboxy, not a railroad, so you don't have to immediately explore the building, especially if there are more important or urgent threads to follow first.

Hmm, I could save some effort here. A general perception inside the hall amongst the students won't reveal much. Students are being efficient in packing up so they can all go home. The gossip is roughly the same as the canteen gossip, about the blackout. No one is behaving particularly suspiciously, apart from the incident that Minsoo is encountering now.

We came back to the hall/gym because some of you wanted to investigate further, and this did yield some insights for Myra, Joe, Wren, Kyle and Minsoo.

But it looks like most of you are done and beginning to split up, which is why I asked if anyone else wanted to do anything here.