It Fell Off the Back of a Caravan Player Coordination

[Yukikaze no Kasumi]

Depending on Ender's answer in the GM questions thread, I may have Kaoru roll the first Commerce roll instead of Kasumi (same pool, just not the technique allowing rerolls), to split things more evenly and avoid "losing" actions.

If so, following the same logic, some combinations might need to be rearranged.

Might as well attempt it anyhow, since it's "Round 1" and Kasumi's already gone- we have one more PC than there are Round 1 rolls

[Shosuro Kaoru]

Masaru also rolled and passed.

So, reorganizing what's to come so "everyone gets a turn":

TN 2 Culture (Air) -> Kitsuki Jun with (unskilled) assistance from Yukikaze no Kasumi [we're all uncultured here]
TN 2 Sentiment (Water) -> Kitsu Masaru with (skilled) assistance from Kitsuki Jun
TN 2 Skulduggery (Fire) -> Togashi Shinko with (skilled) assistance from Shosuro Kaoru [or the other way around, it's very disputable what's best here between bigger ring or bigger skill]

At this point, everyone should have acted twice exactly.

And then the finish:

TN 3 Government (Earth) -> Kitsuki Jun with (skilled) assistance from Shosuro Kaoru
TN 3 Commerce (Fire) -> Yukikaze no Kasum with (unskilled) assistance from either Togashi Shinko or Kitsu Masaru

[Togashi Shinko]

Masaru also rolled and passed.

So, reorganizing what's to come so "everyone gets a turn":

TN 2 Culture (Air) -> Kitsuki Jun with (unskilled) assistance from Yukikaze no Kasumi [we're all uncultured here]
TN 2 Sentiment (Water) -> Kitsu Masaru with (skilled) assistance from Kitsuki Jun
TN 2 Skulduggery (Fire) -> Togashi Shinko with (skilled) assistance from Shosuro Kaoru [or the other way around, it's very disputable what's best here between bigger ring or bigger skill]

At this point, everyone should have acted twice exactly.

And then the finish:

TN 3 Government (Earth) -> Kitsuki Jun with (skilled) assistance from Shosuro Kaoru
TN 3 Commerce (Fire) -> Yukikaze no Kasum with (unskilled) assistance from either Togashi Shinko or Kitsu Masaru

It sounds good to me. The only things that might tip the balance in the second round is that Shinko has the Quick distinction, which should allow two dice to be rerolled

If Ender says it applies

Also, I don't think we need to worry about the last stage. With Investigation points at 1+1+2+3, I think just passing the TN 2 stage hits our margin

[Shosuro Kaoru]

Going to bed, please roll assuming Kaoru provide assistance on the roll of your choice (likely the one selected for that in my previous list).

[Kitsuki Jun]

Place to coordinate our skills and who wants to tackle what rolls and such

Is your Skullduggery roll for the first stage good to go? I wanted to be sure before I throw dice at anything in Stage 2.

[Yukikaze no Kasumi]

Place to coordinate our skills and who wants to tackle what rolls and such

Is your Skullduggery roll for the first stage good to go? I wanted to be sure before I throw dice at anything in Stage 2.

And if you do, let me know so I can state I'm assisting (er... however that works in 5E)

[Kitsu Masaru]

Place to coordinate our skills and who wants to tackle what rolls and such

Is your Skullduggery roll for the first stage good to go? I wanted to be sure before I throw dice at anything in Stage 2.

Apologies was away with holiday plans. Post is up ready for the next round

[Kitsuki Jun]

Place to coordinate our skills and who wants to tackle what rolls and such

Is your Skullduggery roll for the first stage good to go? I wanted to be sure before I throw dice at anything in Stage 2.

And if you do, let me know so I can state I'm assisting (er... however that works in 5E)

I suppose you'd... hmm... narrate working together, then state you're assisting? The task I was going to roll on is:

TN 2 Culture (Air) - The opium has been in gaijin made wares. But they look like rough appromixation. Moving through the stalls that are still bringing in product, could you see the reproductions or forgeries that are covering things up?

Lots of ways Kasumi could help with that, narratively, especially since Jun hasn't had a ton of experience with wares from different foreign lands before this week.

[Yukikaze no Kasumi]

Done!

Figure (assuming success) you can transition into Assisting for your round 2 action in your post...

[Kitsuki Jun]

All right, mine is up. And Masaru has his assist for Sentiment!

I think he doesn't necessarily have to roll next, though. Whoever's online can go ahead, and he can use the assist when he's ready.

[Yukikaze no Kasumi]

So by the start of Round 2-

8 points(!)
No failures.

All round 1s passed
Sentiment and Skulduggery remain in phase two.

[Kitsuki Jun]

Even if we get to 10 early, I vote we keep going.
But for now, sleep!

[Yukikaze no Kasumi]

Points crushed by Masaru's latest.

NOW we just get to show off, I guess?

[Shosuro Kaoru]

Whatever floats your boat. With timezones and co, it will likely delay the resolution of that plot by one IRL day, but D6 is still live for about 20 hours anyway.

[Kitsuki Jun]

I surmise that this all is happening LN precisely so that any fallout happens on D7, anyway.

[Yukikaze no Kasumi]

So, who wants to give me an unskilled commerce assist... and what the hell does that do for my roll?

Throwing three ring dice and a skill die at a TN 3. Could explode my way to victory, or could get utterly hosed. YAY 5E!

[Shosuro Kaoru]

So, who wants to give me an unskilled commerce assist... and what the hell does that do for my roll?

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=460#p8858

The paragraph is also copy-pasted on Sakkaku itself.

At this point, I'm wondering if there isn't a hex on this bit of text rendering most people unable to truly see it.

But basically, an unskilled assist from a single person works exactly as a free void point.

[Yukikaze no Kasumi]

But basically, an unskilled assist from a single person works exactly as a free void point.

Having slept from LE to EN, I also have an actual Void point to use, if I don't care about using it in next day's Topaz event... which, let's be honest, i really don't

[Yukikaze no Kasumi]

Orrrrr we can either try a brave head-on confrontation....

Or just, you know,l tell the guy who asked us to look into it