Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:28:54 PM)
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Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:29:20 PM)
Ack, sorry. Got tunnel visiony. WB
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:29:28 PM)
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Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:29:33 PM)
wb
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:29:35 PM)
*grumbles* sorry
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:29:42 PM)
sokay.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:30:39 PM)
okay.. numbercrunching you
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:31:26 PM)
Okiedokie.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:31:50 PM)
brb right quick!
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:33:41 PM)
back
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:36:43 PM)
okay, for abilities, you can't get over 3 dots without spending freebies, so ignoring the fours you have 4/7/9 - which leaves you underspent by 2 in knowledges.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:37:51 PM)
i'll fix it, just let me know what you want to do
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:38:12 PM)
Ah, lemme look. I realized after I was done that Empathy wasn't on the mage sheet.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:38:20 PM)
*nod*
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:38:24 PM)
it's a secondary
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:42:00 PM)
I actually only see 1 underspent, but still need to fix that.. err... I guess kill the dot of Dodge? He can learn that the hard way. And bump Investigation to 2?
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:43:10 PM)
You can't get over 3 dots in abilities without spending freebies, so that 4th dot of science doesn't count for it.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:43:33 PM)
I'm at 11 dots of knowledges.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:43:40 PM)
The 4th not counting means 10
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:44:20 PM)
ah, nm, good catch. x_X
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:44:31 PM)
No worries.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:49:35 PM)
okay, the wild talent
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:50:28 PM)
You don't have telekenesis, so this makes it a touch more complicated.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:50:45 PM)
Basically meant to reflect his reluctance/lack of understanding of his psychicness, since the required WP roll works for that mechanically.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:51:14 PM)
Right, but you have no dice for telekenesis, so it does nothing.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:51:25 PM)
Did I put Telekinesis?
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:51:29 PM)
No.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:51:48 PM)
I meant in the flaw.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:51:55 PM)
yes
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:52:04 PM)
That was just a brainslip then.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:52:08 PM)
did you mean telepathy?
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:52:09 PM)
Should be Telepathy
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:52:11 PM)
ah, kk
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:56:03 PM)
*counts* okay, counting all the freebies, you've only spent 14, and you have 21.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:56:55 PM)
So you've 7 more freebies you can place.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:57:36 PM)
did you get the 7 freebies for the extra dot of numina?
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 8:58:02 PM)
*peers at it* ....apparently not. x_x ....my apologies, i must be having an off night
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:58:32 PM)
It's fine. Dotmath is dotmath.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 8:58:42 PM)
My demon was a terrible mess @.@
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:00:43 PM)
heh, you didn'
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:00:47 PM)
t do bad on the math
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:02:06 PM)
Okay, now before I can approve you, we've gotta sort out the background.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:03:04 PM)
It is well written, so i've no issues with that, i'm just concerned about the tech-involvement in the capacity it's in.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:05:11 PM)
Ack sorry. Phone -_-
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:05:16 PM)
no problems
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:05:21 PM)
Do you have any suggestions?
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:06:54 PM)
Well offhand, there's a few options. You don't have to do the whole steampunk mad scientist thing, one suggestion is you could have found an old computer somewhere in whatever organization, the legacy of some technomage with formulas and such in it.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:07:52 PM)
The original owner can have any paradigm but Technocracy, depending on what sort of thigns he's going to be making with Enchantment..
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:08:24 PM)
From the rituals you chose, that sounds VA.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:08:32 PM)
but it doesn't have to be.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:08:51 PM)
could be somewhere in between, without a tradition affiliation.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:09:46 PM)
The only issue I really have with that is that learning off a tradition source, even without affiiations... odds are it's based more on magic, yanno?
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:10:17 PM)
That's not true, as the SoE and VAs were both originally Technocracy conventions, they just defected.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:11:14 PM)
I guess I wouldn't have a problem with something like that then. The whole magic vs. science was more the issue I was having, given the paradigm I had for him.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:11:21 PM)
*nodnod*
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:11:45 PM)
Now.. thinking about it
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:12:02 PM)
without changing the background too much you can make it fit.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:12:18 PM)
I am all ears xD
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:12:27 PM)
A) Change Smith's name.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:13:19 PM)
you probably want to change his appearance too.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:13:41 PM)
That is easy enough
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:13:59 PM)
B) The RD alarm thing that was in there was the second tipoff I had, tweak that so it's more like a Scientist lab under a technocracy raid or something. ......trying to think of a good code for that. lol
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:14:34 PM)
Heh. I liked that allusion! but, yeah.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:15:04 PM)
I did too! :D If this were a different situation I'd be all for it.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:20:39 PM)
*hmm* ah, there was one other thing... your nature demeanor.. wasn't anything out of the mage book, and it needs to be. The short versions of the nature/demeanor archetypes are on page 87-88 of the Mage the Ascension book.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:21:39 PM)
Alright. I just updated the char history thread. Lemme go look.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:21:57 PM)
Ahah. I do have the Mage book
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:23:09 PM)
Child (though I hate that one xD)/Conformist, please.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:24:09 PM)
lol, kay.. you sure?
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:24:27 PM)
tell you what, you can change them later if you find they don't fit.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:24:39 PM)
i know how it is getting into a character.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:24:40 PM)
Yeah. Waif is kind of like a better version of Child.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:27:02 PM)
Alright, specialties for Intelligence are Book-smart, Creative, Analytical, Logical, Subject Authority, Good Memory
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:27:28 PM)
Let's go with Analytical
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:27:56 PM)
Technology is Electronics, Mechanics, Engines, Tinkering, Security, and Technomagic
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:28:29 PM)
I think I put Electronics, didn't I? Though Technomagic seems better lol
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:29:39 PM)
yeah, and science you put engineering, what kind of engineering?
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:30:10 PM)
Mechanical
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:32:38 PM)
That's... more a technology thing.. *ponders a sec* the examples are Chemistry, Biology, Geology, Aeronautic Engineering (Flight), Astronomy, Metallurgy, Physics....
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:32:55 PM)
but there's a million other feilds of science.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:33:20 PM)
Uhhhhh... let's just give him physics
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:33:37 PM)
Reflect his conventional education in the mix.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:33:44 PM)
works\
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:34:52 PM)
How much does he know about psychic abilities in general?
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:35:16 PM)
You get one free lore in parapsycology if you want.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:35:50 PM)
I would say he knows about as much as someone who avidly followed comic books and the like.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:36:17 PM)
He'd regard most of parapsychology as hokum.
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:36:18 PM)
he gets one then, lol
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:36:32 PM)
craziness aside, he's familiar with the material
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:36:36 PM)
Aight
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:37:18 PM)
alrighty
CowboyGhostie (Nov 10, 2011 9:37:26 PM)
log all the way out, and back in, you're good to go.
Zach Brandt (Nov 10, 2011 9:37:48 PM)
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