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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9295261" data-attributes="member: 6696971"><p><strong>THE BLACK STAGE (EASY)</strong></p><p>Complexity 1 SC, Level 12 (DCs 14/20)</p><p><strong>Goal</strong>: <em>Go to The Black Stage (Easy), where pantomime actors perform for the city's elite (and, occasionally, its underclasses), to sway public opinion on the matters of societal reordering in some grand way.</em></p><p><em>2/4 <strong>Successes</strong>/0 <strong>Failures</strong>/1 Secondary Skill Available</em></p><p></p><p>[HR][/HR]</p><p></p><p><em>Kosal does not look Chanvati in the eye. He considers the arm grasping his own and simply says:</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"Do you remember the words of that night? </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>* The horde will wash over Bantouk. A bloodless coup. We must ally with them.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>* The corrupt order of society will be undon...inverted. The low will be brought high...the laborers elevated...the slaves freed...society flattened."</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>He looks around, offering you to take inventory of the situation with him. The bladelings occupy, but those that suffer the brunt of this arrangement are still the low. While The Legions delivered them from Caiphon, little has changed for the meek in this post-conquered world.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"Well, as is the case with revolutions, only some aspirations are met. Only some prophecies born out. And...again, as is the case with so many revolutions, the leadership ascend in status and become unreachable, untouchable...corrupted by position. (invoking Bita-Bahlin)"</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>He pulls away to face you and now looks you in the eye.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"Tonight's festivities are bloodless on our end. We just stoked the fire. Tonight's brand of entertainment is ours. The missing Illusionist-mummer is also ours. Hells, tonight's sense-numbing swill was distilled by us. Now, we just wait and watch while the high-society fools galvanize themselves into a fury and bring Vezzuvu's wrath and the wrath of his/her/its horde upon them...at long last."</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>While the jeering of The Legion's occupation continues, grows, crescendos, the sounds of two things erupt:</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>* The march of the nearby Bladeling troops which will no doubt engage in "crowd-dispersing measures" here against the high-society folks herein...</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>suddenly...from below...</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>* A slow rumble...a shifting earth...a massive magma chamber in minor upheaval. The stone facade of The Black Stage features a huge overhang, protecting the actors and the audience from the rare rain that might intermittently douse Bantouk. If that were to fail, the death toll would be...dramatic.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The angry earth cracks the stone facade at its foundation...the fissure snakes up and spreads throughout...</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The crowd, none-the-wiser of the calamities that await them, continue their drunken chants as the highborn and high status do their typical act of pretending to suffer like the low:</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"Kick them out! Kick them out! Kick them out!"</em></p><p></p><p>[HR][/HR]</p><p></p><p>You have 2 x big problems? What do you do?</p><p></p><p>EDIT - Darkbard and I were having a conversation as to the dynamics of the situation and the situation reframe after he made the Streetwise action declaration that pretty fundamentally rewired the nameless young laborer's nature as an element of the scene. Figured I'd include some GM notes as to how I arrived at the situation-reframing above:</p><p></p><p>[SPOILER="GM stuff for those interested"]</p><p>My brain was thinking like this:</p><p></p><p>* Ok, I had just established the Bladeling-maimed mummer/street magician that was enormously popular. This + the booze are a perfect recipe for an operation whereby The Second Nation (2N) stokes the fires of a huge confrontation between the upper-class attendees at The Black Stage and the Bladeling Legion (LoR). </p><p></p><p>Maybe The Veil (the mummer/street magician I introduced) is actually a member of the 2N and their own maiming at the hands of the LoR was intentional. And, of course, the distillery supplying the booze were 2N. Now we have the recipe for a riot + riot police conflagration without even the tiniest signature of the 2N being in play. Post-massacre/beat-down, the upper-class becomes full-fledged member of the opposition to the LoR occupation.</p><p></p><p>Basically <strong>4d chess by the post Bita-Bahlin remnants/reformation of the 2N to secretly align the upper-class with the desperate needs of the proletariat...and generate a nice "loss" to the bourgeoise in the doing! </strong></p><p></p><p>That was the course of my brain's path after you brought in the 2N. The pivot started by reorienting and further fleshing out that mummer/street magician (The Veil) maiming that I had just introduced. <strong>Initially, this was just a "win hearts and minds conflict" and I was generating threats and opportunities in accords with that premise. When you generated this twist with your action declaration, I pivoted</strong> and my mind started at the above and went from there.</p><p></p><p>* The introduction of the fragile nature of the old stage with the stone-facade failing and the earthquakes was something I put in there as just a secondary point of duress/urgency that thematically engaged with stone (Stoneroot) vs the volatility and power of (primary and secondary effects) of volcanism/earth movement (The Burning Mountain). Another pressure point generally + thematic touchstone + if this turns to a combat with multiple win-cons, it makes for an awesome feature for the battlefield. We've got the threat of the Duchess and Vezzuvu lurking in the background and this is homage to that and interacting with the equivalent of the "soft move" I made with them well earlier.</p><p>[/SPOILER]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 9295261, member: 6696971"] [B]THE BLACK STAGE (EASY)[/B] Complexity 1 SC, Level 12 (DCs 14/20) [B]Goal[/B]: [I]Go to The Black Stage (Easy), where pantomime actors perform for the city's elite (and, occasionally, its underclasses), to sway public opinion on the matters of societal reordering in some grand way. 2/4 [B]Successes[/B]/0 [B]Failures[/B]/1 Secondary Skill Available[/I] [HR][/HR] [I]Kosal does not look Chanvati in the eye. He considers the arm grasping his own and simply says: "Do you remember the words of that night? * The horde will wash over Bantouk. A bloodless coup. We must ally with them. * The corrupt order of society will be undon...inverted. The low will be brought high...the laborers elevated...the slaves freed...society flattened." He looks around, offering you to take inventory of the situation with him. The bladelings occupy, but those that suffer the brunt of this arrangement are still the low. While The Legions delivered them from Caiphon, little has changed for the meek in this post-conquered world. "Well, as is the case with revolutions, only some aspirations are met. Only some prophecies born out. And...again, as is the case with so many revolutions, the leadership ascend in status and become unreachable, untouchable...corrupted by position. (invoking Bita-Bahlin)" He pulls away to face you and now looks you in the eye. "Tonight's festivities are bloodless on our end. We just stoked the fire. Tonight's brand of entertainment is ours. The missing Illusionist-mummer is also ours. Hells, tonight's sense-numbing swill was distilled by us. Now, we just wait and watch while the high-society fools galvanize themselves into a fury and bring Vezzuvu's wrath and the wrath of his/her/its horde upon them...at long last." While the jeering of The Legion's occupation continues, grows, crescendos, the sounds of two things erupt: * The march of the nearby Bladeling troops which will no doubt engage in "crowd-dispersing measures" here against the high-society folks herein... suddenly...from below... * A slow rumble...a shifting earth...a massive magma chamber in minor upheaval. The stone facade of The Black Stage features a huge overhang, protecting the actors and the audience from the rare rain that might intermittently douse Bantouk. If that were to fail, the death toll would be...dramatic. The angry earth cracks the stone facade at its foundation...the fissure snakes up and spreads throughout... The crowd, none-the-wiser of the calamities that await them, continue their drunken chants as the highborn and high status do their typical act of pretending to suffer like the low: "Kick them out! Kick them out! Kick them out!"[/I] [HR][/HR] You have 2 x big problems? What do you do? EDIT - Darkbard and I were having a conversation as to the dynamics of the situation and the situation reframe after he made the Streetwise action declaration that pretty fundamentally rewired the nameless young laborer's nature as an element of the scene. Figured I'd include some GM notes as to how I arrived at the situation-reframing above: [SPOILER="GM stuff for those interested"] My brain was thinking like this: * Ok, I had just established the Bladeling-maimed mummer/street magician that was enormously popular. This + the booze are a perfect recipe for an operation whereby The Second Nation (2N) stokes the fires of a huge confrontation between the upper-class attendees at The Black Stage and the Bladeling Legion (LoR). Maybe The Veil (the mummer/street magician I introduced) is actually a member of the 2N and their own maiming at the hands of the LoR was intentional. And, of course, the distillery supplying the booze were 2N. Now we have the recipe for a riot + riot police conflagration without even the tiniest signature of the 2N being in play. Post-massacre/beat-down, the upper-class becomes full-fledged member of the opposition to the LoR occupation. Basically [B]4d chess by the post Bita-Bahlin remnants/reformation of the 2N to secretly align the upper-class with the desperate needs of the proletariat...and generate a nice "loss" to the bourgeoise in the doing! [/B] That was the course of my brain's path after you brought in the 2N. The pivot started by reorienting and further fleshing out that mummer/street magician (The Veil) maiming that I had just introduced. [B]Initially, this was just a "win hearts and minds conflict" and I was generating threats and opportunities in accords with that premise. When you generated this twist with your action declaration, I pivoted[/B] and my mind started at the above and went from there. * The introduction of the fragile nature of the old stage with the stone-facade failing and the earthquakes was something I put in there as just a secondary point of duress/urgency that thematically engaged with stone (Stoneroot) vs the volatility and power of (primary and secondary effects) of volcanism/earth movement (The Burning Mountain). Another pressure point generally + thematic touchstone + if this turns to a combat with multiple win-cons, it makes for an awesome feature for the battlefield. We've got the threat of the Duchess and Vezzuvu lurking in the background and this is homage to that and interacting with the equivalent of the "soft move" I made with them well earlier. [/SPOILER] [/QUOTE]
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