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Re: Lost in Dreams II (OCC)

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Originally Posted by ericthered (Post 2429268)

Actually, your links are currently more up to date, and I was using them!

I realized, but I was a few hops behind before a few minutes ago ;)

Re: Lost in Dreams II (OCC)

I will be posting infrequently until next Thursday. I thank you for your patience.

Re: Lost in Dreams II (OCC)

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Originally Posted by ericthered (Post 2430927)

I will be posting infrequently until next Thursday. I thank you for your patience.

Take care.

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Originally Posted by ericthered (Post 2430498)

124 posts to get pants... that might be a record!

Because I apparently don't do anything by halves, here's a complete accounting of how many posts from arrival it took to for each character to get dressed. ? indicates questionable clothing times. F indicates the character failed to get dressed before hopping to another world or the thread ended.

The average of all of them is ~35.36. The average of the first goes excluding failures is ~45.89. Julian comes in at fourth most posts before getting dressed. Jordan appeared twice in the top five. Tereza appear four times in the bottom five.

Jordan #1278 - #1560F (283)
Jordan #1 - #197
Yolanda #1 - #181F
Julian #1 - #124
Jordan #285 - #407? (123) [It wasn't explicitly stated that he got dressed in camp, latest is 560]
Peter #1 - #84
Graham #890 - #970 (81)
Gabriel #1 - #69
Elijah #1 - #65 [#146 if you insist on more than a loincloth]
Tereza #1214 - #1266? (53) [I figure she got clothes around the same time she was sequestered]
Tereza #271 - #322 (52)
Edmund #1 - #47
Tereza #1 - #45 [Or 8, if you count the Wember]
Mellissa #1 - #43
Daniel Landvik #1 - #41F
Tereza #861 - #898F (38)
Stephen #1 - #38
Tereza #759 - #790 (32)
Michael #1 - #31? [Surely they clothed him after taking him aboard]
Graham #753 - #780 (28)
Koli #1 - #28
Jacob #1 - #27
Dr. Alan Parker #1 - #25? [I figure the Austrian police clothed him when they took him into custody]
Chandra #257 - #280 (24)
Graham #1110 - #1132 (23)
Tereza #899 - #918 (20)
Lucy #1 - #20
Vladimir #1 - #17? [Clothes were mentioned for the morning]
Peter #986 - #1000? (15) [An-Kona agrees to cover Peter up here]
Tereza #533 - #547 (15)
Koli #83 - #97 (15)
Peter #341 - #353? (13) [Not sure if he dressed in the hut or the underclothes count]
Peter #1014 - #1025 (12)
Koli #203 - #213F (11)
Jack Kilpatric #1 - #11F
Jordan #1561 - #1570 (10)
Bartholomew #1 - #10
Peter #876 - #884? (9) [He probably got dressed by the morning at the latest]
Peter #1078 - #1085? (8) [This is when Peter asks for clothes]
Jordan #936 - #943 (8)
Tereza #137 - #143? (7) [I assume the embassy gave her some clothes]
Paedrig #1 - #7
Chandra #1 - #6
Graham #1 - #6 [I couldn't find anything besides the big cloth on the first page, so…]
Jane Doe #1 - #6
Peter #1066 - #1070 (5)
Tereza #819 - #823 (5)
Tereza #671 - #675 (5)
Peter #902 - #905 (4)
Peter #595 - #598 (4)
Alexander #1 - #4
Tereza #1297 - #1299 (3)
Tereza #921 - #923 (3)
John Galley #1 - #3F [This isn't even tagged, why'd I include this?]
Tereza #1326 - #1327 (2)
Tereza #801 - #802 (2)
Koli #73 - #74 (2)
Tereza #1288 - #1288 (1) [She went exactly where she wanted to]

Re: Lost in Dreams II (OCC)

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Originally Posted by ericthered (Post 2430927)

I will be posting infrequently until next Thursday. I thank you for your patience.

Thanks for the heads up. I hope all is well.

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Originally Posted by TGLS (Post 2430943)

Because I apparently don't do anything by halves, here's a complete accounting of how many posts from arrival it took to for each character to get dressed.

That is an impressive bit of spontaneous research!

Re: Lost in Dreams II (OCC)

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Originally Posted by ericthered (Post 2443125)

Did you have a copy of all that work?

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Originally Posted by RedMattis (Post 2443135)

I improvise quite a lot so this is mostly for guidelines, but anyway, here you are:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

Peter thinks "Umn... Uh oh... Scary dream! Please don't hybridize my dog." and tries to dream of somewhere pet friendly...

Re: Lost in Dreams II (OCC)

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Originally Posted by the_matrix_walker (Post 2444042)

Peter thinks "Umn... Uh oh... Scary dream! Please don't hybridize my dog." and tries to dream of somewhere pet friendly...

Hah. I've got a number of games going. The Star Craft stuff is actually for a real-time game I just wrapped up.

Re: Lost in Dreams II (OCC)

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He has Diplomacy which is used for "negotiating, compromising, and getting along", but not Merchant for "buying, selling, and trading retail and wholesale goods."

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So a skill good at getting a fair deal but poor at getting a financial windfall.

Not sure that follows, Just MHO but...

Merchant evaluates a value for retail or wholesale products, while broader contracts, deals and arrangements involving non-material things are more Dimplomacy's wheelhouse.

A "windfall" seems possible in either case. I would think that it is up to the quality of your dealings and the perceived value of what you're offering. I think a diplomat should absolutely be able to make a very favorable deal based on the power of their position when they know they have an exclusive resource.

Knowing the retail value of things and being able to haggle become lesser points in the face of "you need this, and only I have it".

Re: Lost in Dreams II (OCC)

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Originally Posted by ericthered (Post 2449449)

How stealthy do you expect a cat girl in a hospital gown to be?

Depends, is this the clumsy and cute type that resembles cats from internet videos or is this the Pulveresque supersoldier that resembles apex predator big cats?

Re: Lost in Dreams II (OCC)

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Originally Posted by ericthered (Post 2449449)

The Cat Girl is less stealthy than he would have hoped... how stealthy do you expect a cat girl in a hospital gown to be?

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Originally Posted by the_matrix_walker (Post 2449472)

Truthfully? Really super stealthy actually!

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Originally Posted by TGLS (Post 2449469)

Depends, is this the clumsy and cute type that resembles cats from internet videos or is this the Pulveresque supersoldier that resembles apex predator big cats?

But she's in a hospital gown!

Yeah, its one of those things where you expect a decent amount of stealth. She's built to be cutesy, but still has quite a bit of grace. She's got an elevated DX, but is using stealth at default. Fortunately, in this case Peter is rolling stealth and she just adds a small penalty to him (-2 for numbers and lack of skill)

Re: Lost in Dreams II (OCC)

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Originally Posted by ericthered (Post 2449771)

Lost in dreams sees this a lot, and not just on kids. Its tagline is waking up someplace unfamiliar and naked, so having pitiable goes a long ways, since you know you'll be in a position of weakness.

Often players will have to remind me that they have pitiable, usually by asking if it counts in a given context. The +3 is a huge swing in their favor.

I considered it when I was building Peter but I felt it just wasn't right for him.