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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8938572" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Quick, related anecdote seems relevant!Last night in our Stonetop game, the group is on a long and harrowing journey to the far north of The Great Wood with the goal being to prevent The Golden Oak, which has been untended for centuries due to an unfulfilled and forgotten Stonetop covenant, from fading from their world (and into the equivalent of The Feywild).While tracking (reverse engineering their charted course since they slew them last session) some fey giants to what they hope will be Danu's Causeway (the means to traverse this world to get to the fading tree), they encountered a large group of massive (as in size Large to Huge) magical bucks with prismatic antlers in full rut for the mating season.  One of those was corrupted by the putrefaction of The Darkness Underfoot.  All of the bucks occupied with their own clashes and giving this sickened buck a wide berth, the corrupted beast charged the group in an open, deforested area.This was a result of a 7-9 on their tracking move; they track the Fey Giants but a significant change in situation occurs to stall the tracking.They all attempted to haul ass, get to the treeline and get away from the blighted beast and this earth-quaking, tree-splintering rut.On their Struggle As One, they got a collective 7-9 result. They have a large group of NPCs with them (Wisent the Air Spirit, Henry, Cliff, Voistek, Tooth, the Blessed's two remaining wolf companions Finn and Thorn) including a pair of of trusty Draft Horses Delly and Hoss.  So we have Success with Consequence.  They get the slow NPCs on the horses and scatter and all of the other NPCs get away.However, The Blessed and The Heavy are stuck because of how much time it took to get the big, lumbering Tooth on the back of Hoss and get them out of danger.  The massive, corrupted buck is bearing down on them and is going to trample them without intervention.  Its still at Near range so The Blessed can act with his Far range Danu's Grasp (the equivalent of "Entangle" with some other stuff).The Blessed's player gets a 6-.  He marks xp and I make a hard move.  The vines are too slow, the creature too powerful, and the buck vomits a corruptive line of Scarlet Putrefaction at Gavin The Blessed.  This is a big damage, magic attack w/ No Armor Applies + Grabby tag (it entombs you in a putrefying cocoon that will infect you if you don't break out immediately; think Aliens).[USER=6785785]@hawkeyefan[/USER] (who plays The Judge; a Paladin of Knowledge, Harmony, Rebuker of Chaos), saw the trouble with Tooth, Hoss, Gavin, and Trys (the Heavy).  So instead of shepherding everyone to safety, he makes a beeline for his friends to try to protect them.Someone is taking this Scarlet Putrefaction attack.   Cullen ( [USER=6785785]@hawkeyefan[/USER] 's character) throws himself in front of the attack, interceding to save his (fragile compared to Cullen) friend. This could be a Defend move (of which Cullen has an array of moves to amplify it and broaden it) or it could be a Defy Danger; the Danger here being Scarlet Putrefaction to Gavin...the Defying it meaning "intercede to take the blow in Gavin's stead."[USER=6785785]@hawkeyefan[/USER] has a Defy Danger move (The Tower Eternal) that turns any 6- result against Magic/Supernatural into a 7-9.  So he elects to go with that instead of Defend.  He ends up getting his 7-9.  Gavin is safe as Cullen barrels into him, knocking him out of the way, taking the blow instead.  Cullen takes damage and is cocooned in a putrefying shell.  I let him decide on either worst of 2 dice for damage or to mitigate the putrefying shell (Grabby tag) effect.  He elects to go with worst of 2 dice for damage.I think Cullen took 4 of his 19 HP?  He's entombed in a putrefying cocoon (he has a thematic resource that can get him out of this automatically, but he's also very capable of bursting it with Defy Danger...but he has to or he'll become infected with the Scarlet Putrefaction) with the corrupted buck bearing down on him.But Gavin is safe.[USER=6785785]@hawkeyefan[/USER] , did that feel like "a failure?"  Did the Tracking move of 7-9 feek like "a failure?"  Did the Struggle As One (collective Defy Danger) move of 7-9 feel like "a failure?"Did the rest of the play of our evening feel like it was downstream of/a signature of "failure?"I'm confident some folks here would feel "failure" (all the way down).  But that is just an autobiographical idiosyncratic component of their mental orienting and processing.  Its not an objective outgrowth of the system or the play.</blockquote>

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