Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 5:37:32 PM)
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Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 5:37:38 PM)
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Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 5:38:37 PM)
there were some things I wasn't sure how you wanted them done so I just guessed with the sheet and can move them around if I need to

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 5:39:20 PM)
okay, theres a couple of things i'd like you to look at. Your abilities are a bit min-maxed right now, almost entirely 2s and 3s ... could you look at making her a more well rounded pc please? I'll let you do that. Also with the firearms, could you perhaps add a paragraph to your background about her martial training?

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 5:40:31 PM)
also, could you put a description of your allies? I have someone else with a trinary computer without dots to it, there is very little actually written about trinary computers in a modern setting short of a small mention in the core.

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 5:41:20 PM)
oh the ally was ment to be the one in her history that she made the bet with- I wanted him to be a bit more powerful so was going to pay 2 dots for him

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 5:41:31 PM)
as for skills, I'm not sure where to move things to

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 5:41:33 PM)
lastly, your paradigm looks like it has potential, but the way we do it with the mage venue right now is a different foci/style for different spheres, i'd like you to provide something for each sphere.

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 5:42:35 PM)
linguistics, expression, streetwise, subterfuge, etiquette, crafts, law and medicine all seem like potentials for your character

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 5:48:20 PM)
linguistics from my experience isn't that common for americans- especially ones that don't pay attention in high school, streetwise I figured I'd pick up after being in town for a bit, I don't really see her caring about ettiquette but I can put a point it it, not interested in medicine, I have too many healer characters already, havent' moved the points from trinary yet but changed other things around let me know how that works

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 5:50:10 PM)
in a multi-lingual location such as new orleans, or in an occupation which is becoming increasingly non-english, it'd be a crutch. There are a massive amount of chinese, japanese, spanish sights out there, thats without even looking at the european ones

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 5:51:07 PM)
yeah but she's not from new orleans- she's from somewhere else though I hadn't decided where yet though I was leaning toward Atlanta

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 5:51:44 PM)
*nods* the latter still applies, as a hacker these days you are limiting yourself by only knowing english

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 5:52:03 PM)
with the background I gave her I don't feel like it makes sense to give her a language anymore than it would makes sense to give her more than the 2 combat dots I picked out for her

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 5:54:27 PM)
you realise that expression is also written language right?

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 5:55:06 PM)
it's how well you write isn't it- like how well you would write a song, a poem, or a formal paper

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 5:56:07 PM)
its ability to express yourself in the written language. Blogging/forum posts etc would also count

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 5:56:19 PM)
1 or 2 i could also see

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 5:57:07 PM)
ok how is that?

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 5:58:47 PM)
why the dream 3? I see nothing about dream at all in your history. Your foci field looks weird now. Just a couple of words for each sphere, it actually seems like its cut off as you were c/p'ing or something

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 5:59:31 PM)
Forces focus: it’s electricity, it’s friction, strong and weak nuclear forces, it’s the stuff of the universe and she imagines what the atoms look like- their form and how they interact with each other and that little change that would make it flash out in the way she wants (science or meditation roll perhaps)

Corr: everything is connected, that’s how the robin’s navigate, that’s how quantum computing will work one day. She visualizes the atoms- the entanglement between them and how that will let her effect distant things by changing what is close, (mediatition or science roll?)

Entropy: decay, what is the chance that the vial will break and kill that cat- what is the chance of anything- it’s just simple math if you know the right forumala to use-

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 5:59:36 PM)
that's what I tried to put in there

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:00:40 PM)
the field is too small for anything like that

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:00:44 PM)
the reason for the dream is I thought it made sense with her paradigm- her paradigm is based on entanglement- so basically every person is a part of a larger computer in her mind so in theory if she concentrates she should be able to shift through the database and find something useful, as for why 3 I wasn't sure if it could be raised after creation or not so I picked what I thought would be a good number for it to stay at

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:01:01 PM)
instead put things like Forces: Electricity

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:01:36 PM)
but it's not actually electricity- it's meditation based on the different types of forces in the universe

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:02:25 PM)
I also added a bit to her history, though I'm really not sure how much to say about it- I can drop it to one if you think that would be better but since she's 22 now and he's been trainnig her since she was 18 I just figured 2 levels was a good amount

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:02:41 PM)
yeah, but you can't just meditate on every sphere, thats what i'm telling you, to create more diversity in your spheres, we require something different for each. And I can't fit a paragraph for each sphere. I need up to 4 words for each

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:03:13 PM)
I'm not sure what to use for foci then

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:04:26 PM)
mathmatical forumla's works for entropy, but I"m not sure how to differentiate what I'm thinking for the other 2 and how her paradigm works

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:05:01 PM)
then i'd suggest you look at her paradigm and develop/adjust it to allow it to be more varied. You don't use your trinary computer as a foci for anything?

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:05:35 PM)
she doesn't have a trinary computer- that's what I put in the notes- I was just trying to pay the points for it to be the prize when she survives a year in New Orleans and wins the bet

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:06:25 PM)
ahh, then her normal computer/laptop

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:08:29 PM)
the way I understood it reality hackers didn't normally use laptops but manipulated the world directly- more like neo than morpheus

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:10:07 PM)
I can move dots around how ever you want, but I"m very attached to the core idea that the world is a big quantum computer that she's feeding information and commands into to make her effects, can you help me figure out a way to make that work in how you envision the game?

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:11:07 PM)
some don't but your concept is still hacker and you talk about her seeing patterns within the web, it still seems to fit as a way for her to look in and see the web. Heck you could have her using google earth for correspondence, zoom into it and then seeing what is going on there currently. I'm just trying to help you find specifics for spheres

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:11:33 PM)
if you don't like the ideas, don't use them, but i do need the short description for each sphere :)

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:11:48 PM)
*nods* I could do that- maybe have her use various mapping programs on her smart phone for corr

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:13:12 PM)
corr: gps mapping software, entropy mathmatic probability forumlas, forces this one I keep coming back to strong and weak nuclear forces but I have no clue how to use that to make a focus

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:14:44 PM)
i'll allow meditation for one, but forces seems an odd choice, since a lot of players use forces as their aggressive sphere.

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:15:21 PM)
maybe movement for forces, concentrating on all the different forces used in even the action of lifting a finger- the more violent the effect she's going for the more violent the movement she has to make

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:16:56 PM)
those rotes, are they taken from a book or self made?

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:17:15 PM)
I might not be explaining that well, kinda like if she wanted to increase friction she would drag her foot accross the floor- or her finger over her arm to feel the friction it caused there and move that to the target- if she wanted to force bolt something she might make a sudden lunge and then stop letting the "movement" cary on with out her body

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:17:31 PM)
no they were just off the top of my head last ngiht when I was trying to get it all written down

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:19:28 PM)
okay, btw, i'm not touching your sheet, easier at this point to allow you to adjust and alter things, as soon as i touch it you can't

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:20:59 PM)
ok updated the foci

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:22:22 PM)
her mentor is outside of NO yes? Didn't come with her?

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:22:27 PM)
correct

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:22:52 PM)
so she would still have access to him via phone, computer, digiweb meetings, but he's not right there to hold her hand

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:26:18 PM)
okay, sanctioned. But I would request you provide me some details with your dream ... since theres things going on storyline wise with dreams lately.

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:26:42 PM)
ok what kind of details?

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:27:02 PM)
how it effects her, things shes normally more inclined to dream about, just give me some "hooks"

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:27:11 PM)
why shes such a dreamer etc

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:27:57 PM)
sure I see her's being very free form- kind of a wondering amongst the conciousness type of thing- almost like chanel surfing as she tries to understand the "computer" that she's part of

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:28:24 PM)
then provide some of that for me *smiles*

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:28:34 PM)
i just need more idea on how the character "ticks"

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:28:43 PM)
ok you just want me to write you up like a couple examples of what she's seen and how she's interacted with it?

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:29:06 PM)
that'd be awesome

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:29:28 PM)
ok- I can do that- I'm a bit drained tonight but I"ll try and get that added to her history thread in the next couple of days for you

Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:30:56 PM)
at your own pace, welcome to the venue

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:31:06 PM)
thanks

Jamie Emmerson (Feb 10, 2011 6:31:13 PM)
now to go test out that new icon

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Tohunga (Feb 10, 2011 6:33:04 PM)
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