thread: 2005-11-14 : Dangerousness
On 2005-11-18, Matt Schlotte wrote:
From my purely selfish PoV let me say I as well wanted to see where the scene was going to go. My interpretation is that dream magic is extremely rare and only those born with it are good at it or those who have extensive training in the use of Virginis In Litus' dream berries. How literal of me. This view is what I hold though as these events escalated over the scene for my own character who barged into the room to find out what was going on.
Okay, so my mage is Calvus, a military (Flambeau equivelant but as a house not so pyromaniac) mage whose magic is geared towards affecting large groups of people. Oh, and he has stats. As I was trying to think what his response to all this is what I came up with was a desire to find basic dream warding spells to cast upon himself when he goes to sleep, but that any true learning or deep understanding of dream magic is beyond his abilities now that he is a ~24 year mage and is set in how magic works and operates. His magic is mathematical working mostly with geometry, except that some of his magic is much more natural, is what I've been thinking, though we've see very little of his magic casting in game.
Since the game Charles had told me how the power unknown Monkey has caused him some concern and we discussed what would and wouldn't work against this powerful dream working Monkey. Again I dealt with this conversation through a selfish Calvus view, though I not once cared about Gerard's concerns in this. He isn't a mage and the Monkey can mess with him considerably.
Now with the Monkey I was worried he would come into Calvus' dream and what would happen. Calvus has good stats in what affects dreams, noun + verb wise, but in my view besides throwing raw power at him is not good with dreams. Instead if any stat I would rely upon his absurdly high Parma Magica which is a blanket defense against other worldly powers and dulls ones senses to colors, emotions and such. This I felt was his best defense in two directions, first that his dreams would be dull and probably lack the substance to be turned into anything too interesting or effective and secondly as the designed effect of being a good block against this unnatural magic.
As this plot is concerned I am less concerned as it involves my characters less then others. Sure Gerard, Heshi, Smelly or Calvus could be dragged in and actually two of those could be involved a good deal but I have so many other fish to fry. However setting of power levels is important to me as many of my fry fishing plots will involved different powered creatures, peoples and places and perhaps we should develop a mechanic which will deal with this to some extent or another. With most of my plot ideas though I have been running them past Charles since he is the "Creator" of Gaetan, however since this is a co-GMed (de-centralized GM?) game I guess I could pass things by with other people to get them involved in the plots. It is however how I play. Kim and Barry are better at creating their own plots without pestering others about their ideas.
I feel bad that one of Perdix's plots was pushed forward faster or in a slightly different direction then Kip was hoping for but I still think its a good plot line that does advance Sonata and Ilba's plots along.
There is more I want or should say but am busy right now so more later.
This makes KM go "Not so fast."
I don’t think it’s gone too far yet, but it could, and that’s what I’m worried about.
This makes CS go "Can you elaborate on "too far"?"
This makes MDS go "Here comes the balancing act"
And that is something we should discuss. I imagine its possible that Dylan, Barry and Charles want more from the Monkey interactions with those who have disturbed its sleep. If that is what your getting at Kip.
This makes KM go "Too far."
The Monkey is in their head. Not in a sly and subtle and easily-dismissed-until-it-is-too-late way, in but loudly and threateningly in-your-face and wake-up-screaming-if-you-can-which-you-can’t-because-he-won’t-let-you way. A nigh-omnipotent servitor of the theocratic demon-god of their childhood nightmares is leaving footprints in their brains and threatening their henchman and apprentice. Something must be done to secure this situation. But I do not want this thing to drive Perdix mad; disrupt (as opposed to discombobulate) their relationship with Ilba or Ishkin; immediately remove the Monkey as an antagonist or threat. Any of those would be too far. At least, now they would be too far. Later? That’s what I’m talking about.
This makes CS go "responded in main thread"
