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Post by Roland Cordwayner on Sept 29, 2019 13:04:36 GMT 1
NPC participation: I nominate Alicent Yronwood, predictably. Let's see what she can do with her extra +1D and history of canny moves. Can nominate someone else if she's got plans already!
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Post by Addam Velaryon on Oct 1, 2019 16:26:30 GMT 1
NPC Participation: Ulbert Blackwood Refusing to Drink: 3d6+6 21King Daeron was no king of his, but Addam wasn't so classless as to spill his drink. No, the wine will be saved for those that deserve a toast. Quick wit, Garth the Grey, Friendly: 3d6+4 13Addam was quick to offer a friendly joke with one the Riverland's finest jousters. Feeding the Fire: 3d6+4 12 Didn't mark which side Feeding the Fire Brackens: 3d6+4 15 2 DoS Conflict was looming, and while Lord Reynald suggested he shouldn't get involved, their was little harm in steering up some support for the Brackens.
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Post by Father on Oct 2, 2019 22:12:01 GMT 1
Lady Alicent appears the very image of a proper Andal lady, but appearances can be very deceiving. She politely implies that it is quite clear that the Brackens are the those spoiling for a fight with the Blackwoods, and while her commentaries about the Vulture Hunt, and it's lack of results would very much seem the good natured jest, it accidentally must have stepped upon a wound Lord Walgrave sustained in the Red Mountains, real or imagined, his rage is barely contained and were she not a woman, he probably would have punched her with all his might. But a great many words are said about how she is a Dornish Viper in the guise of an Andal maid, though a maid he thinks it unlikely, for fidelity is not something her kind knows. Lord Walgrave suggests that he can understand why she wouldn't want *that* marriage, but considering how quickly she jumped into the arms of some second son with a long record of being seduced by the Rhoynar, including her aunt, all suggests that Lady Alicent must have opened up the portcullis in her sigil for some pretty stableboy of Highgarden. It would be a futile exercise to discern whether or not the look of shock and fury on her face is genuine or not, she stays silent throughout the tirade, not dignifying any of it with a response, her husband to be is well enough versed in the proper reply to such words to speak for the both of them. Some time after that unpleasantness has been properly dealt with, a little discussion with Ysilla about all this the meanie septon has to say about the cordwayners. And...that bitch is just horrible. Like, sure, it's just bad for lords to whore out their daughters for power, why should they expect forced promises to be upheld? But to lie about who the father is? Bitch! That's like...ugh, lying to one's children. You *are* married, have the decency to drink the moon tea if you need to go to someone else's bed for love and pleasure. Unsurprisingly, Ser Normyn demands of her to recant her words and apologize, which is unsurprisingly makes Ysilla offer a few choice words about how Lady Maegelle needs her lover to stand up for her, but Ysilla will satisfy Ser Normyn's need to prove that he isn't as old and useless as his performance in the joust and melee would suggest, gone before anyone really noticed. If she could just borrow a sword of course. It would not be a stretch to imagine that Ysilla truly enjoys acting the little girl that keeps asking "why" and refuse to let the adults get away with the variants of "because it is so" when almost everyone gets very much involved in the discussion as to why a lady must have a knight to stand for her. Her suggestion that if it is wrong of a man to fight a woman, then maybe Lady Maegelle should answer such insults herself? That suggestion is equally horrifying to most of the hall. While the Great Bastard herself is not the only one enjoying the sight of everyone getting riled up, Farman chuckles, no stranger to such antics, Lords Durwell and Mullendore exchanging knowing glances. Most share Ser Abelar Hightower's utter contempt for the idea that ladies should have any part in the honorable settlement of disputes with the sword. Feeding the Blackwood Fire: 8d6k6+1 28 4 DoS for +4% Blackwoods Stirring the nest, audience vs Ysilla: 5d6 14 Enough. Incite vs Maegelle: 8d6k5 +2 BoA 23 3 DoS for -5 disposition towards Maegelle from Ysilla and fun times. Deception with reverse QoLaB bonus: 7d6k4 21 Oh yes. Ysilla Taunts the Cordwayners: 6d6k4 21Twisted Taunt vs Walgrave Oakheart: 8d6k5 28 More than enough. Roland would obviously be expected to answer the insult to both himself and his wife to be, probably noble to go with a first blood, on foot with swords, given the beating both took in the melee.
Ysilla insults the Cordwayners, gets challenged by Normyn, left to the Butterwells to pick who gets to answer.
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Post by Father on Oct 7, 2019 10:57:05 GMT 1
Predictably, Ser Ulbert Blackwood has some choice words about House Bracken, and even worse for Lord Jon himself. Though very well articulated for one renowned for such violence, pointing out how it is The Brackens who clearly are the aggressors, but he really does go too far in his insinuations that Lord Bracken is either a weakling with no control over what transpires under his own roof or actively conspiring with criminal intent. Upping the Ante for House Blackwood: 4d6+2 21 +9% Blackwood Points. Aggressively taunt Lord Bracken: 4d6+2 19 Just the 1 DoS, so others can challenge him instead. Nemesis "bonus": Aggressively taunt Mikel: 4d6 11There will be no penalty to Mikel for ignoring the challenge due to low roll.
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Post by Father on Oct 8, 2019 11:42:13 GMT 1
Full list of those doing aggressive actions: Balon spills the wine during the king's toast. Rodrik Blackwood ups the ante for Blackwoods. Farman insults Jarmen Mandrake and is challenged in turn. (thus unavailable). Normyn Flowers challenges Ysilla (her champion more like, which is left to the Butterwells to pick as she asserts to deaf ears that she is perfectly capable of standing up for herself). Walgrave Oakheart insults Alicent. Ulbert Blackwood insults Lord Bracken and ups the ante for Blackwoods. Otho Bracken insults Mikel.
NPC's that might answer insults PC's doesn't step up to: Aubrey Ambrose Abelar Hightower Others might fill in if narrator feels like it.
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Post by Father on Oct 11, 2019 20:14:27 GMT 1
So I'm giving it a week for any insults to be answered. Rolls should be offered in new post (or reposted if already made). If someone insulted you, it's a free action to accept the challenge.
Of the above, Otho Bracken's challenge can really only be answered by Mikel, but there will be no penalty (socially or mechanically) for politely turning him down. He didn't roll high enough, and there's been a couple of recent clashes already.
Roland will automatically get first dibs on answering Walgrave's challenge, but Alicent can pick someone else.
Balon can technically answer whichever challenge he likes, but there'll be social pressure to accept the challenge of the "most worthy" opponent, some rewards might not apply if it looks like he picks that wet-behind-the-ears-nobody with his head so high up in the clouds that he can't see how outmatched he is rather than a proper challenge.
Anyone can lobby the Butterwells for being allowed to accept Normyn's challenge after Ysilla insulted her.
Anyone can challenge Lord Blackwood.
Anyone can challenge Ulbert Blackwood
(By anyone, it means whoever can legally perform the answer insult/stand for a lady option).
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Post by Mikel of Harroway on Oct 17, 2019 21:17:03 GMT 1
[2.5 The Feast of Champions] Self Control-Will (ded.) v. TN 15: 5d6k4 15 Success Mikel heard his insults and the thought that this was his chance to kill him, and was already opening his mouth to accept the challenge when better sense came in. Mikel might beat him, but the odds were in Otho's favor. And he knew that if he accepted only victory would see him surviving because even if he yielded Otho would kill him, and even if he won wounds might catch up to him and kill after days or weeks or even months after. If Mikel and Otho were to meet, shouldn't it be in a way which allowed Mikel the advantage? He certainly thought that living was worth it. "Such honorable contests are reserved for Knights Otho. Earn your spurs and perhaps it could be arranged." Insulting his nature and his status, that was a good one. His comment had him feeling better.
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Post by Roland Cordwayner on Oct 26, 2019 20:40:09 GMT 1
Lady Alicent appears the very image of a proper Andal lady, but appearances can be very deceiving. She politely implies that it is quite clear that the Brackens are the those spoiling for a fight with the Blackwoods, and while her commentaries about the Vulture Hunt, and it's lack of results would very much seem the good natured jest, it accidentally must have stepped upon a wound Lord Walgrave sustained in the Red Mountains, real or imagined, his rage is barely contained and were she not a woman, he probably would have punched her with all his might. But a great many words are said about how she is a Dornish Viper in the guise of an Andal maid, though a maid he thinks it unlikely, for fidelity is not something her kind knows. Lord Walgrave suggests that he can understand why she wouldn't want *that* marriage, but considering how quickly she jumped into the arms of some second son with a long record of being seduced by the Rhoynar, including her aunt, all suggests that Lady Alicent must have opened up the portcullis in her sigil for some pretty stableboy of Highgarden. It would be a futile exercise to discern whether or not the look of shock and fury on her face is genuine or not, she stays silent throughout the tirade, not dignifying any of it with a response, her husband to be is well enough versed in the proper reply to such words to speak for the both of them.
Feast answering Walgrave's challenge TN 15: 2#5d6+17 37 32None could doubt Roland's right to answer Lord Oakheart's challenge. [OOC: before I expand IC, isn't Lord Oakheart's display outrageous enough to provoke a more serious chastisement than first blood? Even without the bad blood between him and Walgrave Oakheart Roland is hardly likely to let this kind of talk pass at a mere cut. He's insulted both Alicent and Roland, alleging Roland has been seduced by two Dornish woman (he wishes!).]
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Post by Father on Oct 27, 2019 18:31:24 GMT 1
First Blood Mechanics is as much a narrative/mechanical choice as an IC one.
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Post by Roland Cordwayner on Oct 28, 2019 16:09:37 GMT 1
First Blood Mechanics is as much a narrative/mechanical choice as an IC one. [OOC: grand, happy to drive it from the mechanical side of things as I was struggling to justify merely a duel to First Blood based on IC events.]
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Post by Father on Oct 31, 2019 15:40:46 GMT 1
The feast to mark the end of the tourney is a mixture of attempts to bring forth the positive, like complimenting the strength of the foundations and walls of the house when the storm just took away the roof and fills the house with water. A number of challenges to duels are made, Ser Abelar Hightower overcomes Lord Blackwood in a close fought duel where a re-match surely could go either way. Ser Normyn Flowers finds little difficulty in improving the dismal record of duels involving the claims made against Lord Quentin's parentage, but Ser Willas Tyrell is ordinarily not considered a match for him, though he remains the heir to Highgarden, which should be a worrying signal, or an encouraging one, depending on one's allegiances. Some of those sharing Ser Balon's sentiments might silently frown at Ser Aubrey Ambrose being first in line to call him out on it, though much like his friend whose claim they desire to push, Ser Aubrey is a gallant knight first, and chivalry knows no dividing partisan lines.
Balon: +2 Disposition with 23 Status worth of Fire NPCs (narrator choice) -2 Disposition with 46 Status worth of NPCs (narrator choice) +2 Disposition with Preston Oakheart (cap 5) +1% Bracken +1 Fire contingent on duel. Roland: +1 Blood +2 Disposition with Redtusk (cap 5) Redtusk will feature in Rivers Run Red +2 chivalry Redtusk gains +1 Fire Trystane +2 Disposition with Redtusk (cap 5) Lynesse +1 Disposition with 4 ranks worth of status (cap 5) Raymun: -3 Disposition vs Eustace +2 Disposition with Daena Roxton. (cap 5) Daeron +1 Disposition with 4 ranks worth of status (cap 5) +2 Disposition with Quentin Cordwayner (cap 5) +1% Bracken Rodrik Blackwood +6% Blackwood Abelar Hightower -2% Blackwood/Brackwood Ryman Frey -1% Blackwood/Brackwood Mikel +2 Disposition with Ser Karyl Vance (cap 5) -2 Disposition with Blackwoods and Brackens (Critfail) Thaddeus +1 Disposition with 8 ranks worth of status (cap 5) Ser Willas -2 Disposition v Ser Normyn Abrose Butterwell -3% Blackwood/Brackwood Laena -Should be aware of what Lynesse was up to (except what she deliberately concealed and rolled better for), and whatever else the player sees fit to hint at. -Farman -3 Disposition vs Lord Jarmen or -1 vs all Mandrakes. +1 Disposition with 8 ranks worth of status (cap 5) Farman +9% to Brackens Addam +1 Disposition with 21 Status worth of Fire NPCs (narrator choice) -1 Disposition with 10.5 Status worth of NPCs (narrator choice) +1 Disposition with 4 ranks worth of status (cap 5) +2% to Brackens Alicent +4% Blackwood +1 Disposition with 12 NPC's Ysilla -5 vs Maegelle -2 from the Cordwayners Ulbert Blackwood +9% Blackwoods Duels: Roland vs Walgrave Balon vs Aubrey Ambrose Rodrik vs Abelar: Abelar: 1, Rodrik 2: 1d2 1Farman vs Jarmen (Farman won) Normyn vs Willas Tyrell: Willas=1, 10=Fun times: 1d10 8Ulbert vs Redtusk (Worth a separate scene) Total Bracken gains: +7% Total Blackwood gains: +11% Total Fire Points: 1 (potentially 2) Total Blood Points: 1 -Wine approval/disapproval to be figured out when reporting results. -Adding in a cap on how high dispositions can go on some parts where this was missed in the original. -Only disposition changes from NPC actions are updated, should report incitement results etc along with other results for accounting purposes. -Going with other weapons than tourney lances and bastard- or longswords in duels inflicts -1 chivalry unless opponent breaks Lord Butterwell's edict first (Walgrave and Aubrey respects it) -The choices of mounted vs foot and first blood mechanics or not (in particular as it relates to available injuries that can be taken) influences the difficulty level of duels and thus possibly whether or not glory may be won in them (The general rule of thumb being that there should be a non-trivial risk of defeat).
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Post by Roland Cordwayner on Dec 27, 2019 12:56:05 GMT 1
[OOC: one of my three actions ended up being Free as Roland answered a direct insult, so I've added in a third action, a successful Friendly taunt of Ser Aubrey Ambrose in an attempt to lift Roland's disposition with him!]
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Post by Father on Dec 28, 2019 1:32:20 GMT 1
Friendly taunt is 1 DoS for 4 status worth of +1 disposition.
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Post by Roland Cordwayner on Dec 28, 2019 12:52:24 GMT 1
Roland hoped the dare was taken in the intended spirit by the bold Ser Aubrey.
[OOC: Excellent, Ser Aubrey Ambrose is the preference please!]
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Post by Father on Dec 29, 2019 0:44:36 GMT 1
For spilling wine (or leaving it in the cup):
Balon: +2 Disposition with: Farman Flowers Maegelle Cordwayner Otho Bracken Olyvar Yronwood Jeyne Cuy -2 Disposition with: Ambrose Butterwell Daemon Blackfyre Roland Redwyne Aubrey Ambrose Reynald Florent Owen Roxton Robb Reyne Ysilla Flowers Falyse Blackbar Jasper Flowers Willem Starling
Addam: +1 Disposition with: Farman Flowers Maegelle Cordwayner Gormon Peake Fireball -1 Disposition with: Ambrose Butterwell Willem Starling
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