Speaker4thesilent
Crazed Deplorable
Nah, just need to get the emotional stuff right.
Quest A Sword Through the Multiverse: Stabbing Space Whales[A FSN/Worm quest]
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Nightlord256
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Finally tracked this quest down! Very happy to see that it is active again. This is just the sort of story I need in my life right now!
Looking forward to the next update @Speaker4thesilent
Looking forward to the next update @Speaker4thesilent
Speaker4thesilent
Crazed Deplorable
Glad to have you back! Hope to have the update done soon, but I have been building up to one scene for a while now, and it is just not cooperating yet.
Edit: update now out for beta reading.
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Arlos
Sad Monarchist
Now I am hyped.
A Brave New World 13
Speaker4thesilent
Crazed Deplorable
[X] Plan Social Butterfly.
2exp remain in the bank.
2exp remain in the bank.
A Brave New World 13
“Shirou. What. Did you do?”
“Ah, see, that’s an interesting story …”
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A return to more or less everyday life for the rest of May felt odd to you after thwarting an assassination attempt and advising out-of-their-depth government agents about how to handle literal superpowers. It had been a lot like being Serenity’s troubleshooter again. Still, you had a restaurant to run and, unfortunately, an irate Arturia to hide from.
Honestly, though, you were just glad that your teaching went a lot more smoothly the second time around. With a better idea of where your chefs were going wrong, you were able to give them a bit more advice, and the problems with overcooked or undercooked ginger vanished in the next attempts, replaced by satisfyingly uniform cuts and even doneness. Your dish was ready to debut as a chef’s special on Monday.
Turbot had been a staple of British cuisine for years, but the new spin on an old favorite definitely caught attention. Served with the visually appealing combination of vegetables and with a savory sauce, it was an instant hit. Between it and the Langostino Lobsters, suddenly seafood was pulling ahead of the more traditional red meat and potatoes dishes that the Ritz had depended on for years.
On Tuesday, columns were being run in the society section of the papers again about the new Fusion Cuisine sensation kicking off at the Ritz, and the free advertising had already caused a jump in reservations. Since the hotel also helped accommodate those staying there for meals, it was also resulting in increased overnight bookings.
Perhaps it was the positive atmosphere throughout the hotel, or maybe it was your own increased familiarity with teaching, but your work with the performance chefs really took off. You all hit your stride and your students made tremendous progress. By your best guess, a month or so of work should be sufficient to have a trained cadre ready and able to serve as a showpiece for the Ritz’s restaurant.
Now all you needed to do was secure a large enough budget from your bosses to get the aging layout and decor of the space remodeled and refurbished.
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The Ritz restaurant is not only reserved out until mid-June for lunch and dinner services, but is drawing in more customers for the hotel itself, since management is willing to help those staying at the hotel get reservations or access to the restaurant via room service.
Performance chefs have finished training their Performance(Cooking) specialty. They need to train one more dot in Performance, and they will be ready to go. Success above and beyond this total will result in additional trained chefs to help provide a cushion against poor random event rolls.
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The Thatcher government was able to sit on news of the attempted assassination for most of a week.
They used the time well, by your reckoning, laying the groundwork for the press release by gaining control of the sudden flare up of the Troubles in Ireland and arresting more than a dozen IRA members and fundraisers in London itself.
So when the news came out, they were able to say with a straight face that even though the assassin had escaped after murdering two members of Prime Minister Thatcher’s protection detail, the Prime Minister herself was never even in a position to see the attacker, and that significant parts of the support network the attack had relied upon had already been removed with the arrests made earlier in the week.
Afterward, Baroness Thatcher herself took the podium and made a short speech, thanking Guardian for being willing to consult with the government on measures that could be taken to help prevent further attacks, and thanking you for ‘efforts taken during the attempted assassination that prevented the loss of further lives and assisted in driving off the perpetrator.’
She then presented a request to any British subject who discovered that they possessed abilities beyond the current understanding of science to step forward so that such abilities could be studied that “the frontiers of the unknown might be pushed back even further,” before openly offering training and credentials for work with emergency services. The most popular pull quote had been, “If one man who chooses to be a habitual criminal can use beams of energy to cut down police, might not another man who chooses to be a paramedic use those same beams to cut injured motorists out of a crashed lorry? Might not a man like the American, Vikare, who can fly, not reach the scene of an accident more quickly and approach more closely than officers in helicopters? Such men or women, if treated with fear or distrust might very well conclude that crime is their only option. Instead, let us treat them with Christain charity and goodwill and instead have such abilities used to benefit the public good.”
The media ate it up, and you couldn’t help but be impressed with the position Thatcher had adopted and the stance she had struck. Two criminals with superpowers had already appeared in the UK. With one already behind bars, and a second labeled a failure in the press, defeated and forced to retreat by a hero and police with their support network arrested, the offer of guaranteed employment during tough economic times would be a strong lure. More than that, people liked to be on the winning side, and Margaret Thatcher had not only staked out the moral high ground, but also secured a perception that her government was both determined and effective in preventing the criminal use of powers.
You only knew of a single person with powers who hadn’t jumped straight into murder and mayhem, but the public, so far, knew that Guardian had twice defeated criminals with strange, more-than-human abilities. That there was at least one more hero, Saber, out there, and that the government seemed to have a handle on the situation.
It would take time to secure that perception, but it would also take time to change it. If the Thatcher government could continue to gain momentum, they could very well turn the current trend of people gaining powers and jumping straight into committing crimes around. In the end, that would likely save more lives then you could even if you spent all night, every night wandering the streets looking for crimes to stop.
No matter what, it was a good start.
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+5 to ??? and ??? rolls for next month. ???.
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With the initial round of inspections out of the way and permits obtained, it was finally time to start work on your new home. Demolition went quickly; knowing precisely where structural elements and power or water lines were made it far easier to get the tear-down done than most would find it. Thankfully, the half of the house that had been locked away for so many years was in surprisingly good condition. It appeared that whoever had done the exterior maintenance on the townhouse had done enough to keep water from getting in. Despite at least a century of being locked away and forgotten, there was little in the way of structural problems that would need to be fixed. One beam was starting to succumb to dry rot, but between you, Arturia, and a couple ladders, it could be -and was- replaced without much bother. Making a composite beam was easy, and turning the second floor into an open-concept living space was worth the effort.
Mostly it was a matter or pulling up old sun-damaged hardwood flooring and pulling down moth-eaten draperies. The old water closet would need some new fixtures, but the claw-foot bathing tub would have cost you a fortune if you’d had to buy it new: it was an antique in absolutely perfect condition. Better yet, the basement and foundations were sound and not in need of repair. Some genius appeared to have made the structure out of teak, which had contemptuously ignored the damp from the connection to the sewers you found. Smuggling seemed to be confirmed.
Within just a couple days you had everything opened up, and were hip deep in fixing the old knob and tube wiring.
Fire hazards were the enemy.
That was the last you were able to get done before the month was over. Well, aside from moving house before your rental agreement for the apartment expired at the end of the month.
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Moving day had finally arrived.
Well, okay, that was a little bit overdramatic. You’d been steadily moving things as you could, carrying things over when you stopped in to do some work after your job or before your job, or on a day off to hide from Arturia, or …
You’d spent a lot of time tinkering away with the electrical box in the house. It had taken you quite a while to be comfortable working on such a primitive setup again. That it allowed you to duck into the sewers and flee if Arturia showed up intent on expressing her displeasure at you for allowing yourself to be shot at was a fringe benefit. Thankfully, her temper had cooled after she made you sleep on the couch for a couple of nights.
Not least because moving things like the bed frame and mattress would have been immensely awkward with only you to haul them around. Not that the weight was too much, but the size was a bit much.
“Is it going to fit this time?” you asked Arturia as you held the disassembled section of bed frame away from you at a difficult angle to avoid damaging the crown molding.
“A moment,” she responded, “Ah, yes! Sorry, a gust of air had blown the door shut,” she explained.
“No problem, this really isn’t that heavy,” you said as you straightened from your half crouched position, “they’re just a pain in the ass thanks to their size.”
If pressed, you would admit that the large bed was nice. Even when you’d worked for a literal Empress, you’d slept on a twin-sized bed most of the time. You hadn’t needed more room than that, and it felt like a waste to your Japanese sensibilities.
You popped up the stairs, carefully placing the last bit of the bed frame on the floor.
“Alright, let me get this assembled, and all we have left is the mattress!” The moving truck you’d rented had long-since been returned, everything unloaded into the lower floors of the house, to make sure you didn’t have to pay for a second day if something threw off your schedule. The couch and other large bits of furniture had been placed in their temporary homes and mostly under dust cloths to keep the ongoing construction from damaging them.
The exception to the rule was the kitchen supplies, which did not at all fit into the rather lacking kitchen. Instead, they were stacked nearby for use at need. Or had been.
As you came down the final flight of stairs, you immediately noticed the sound of popping oil and the smell of frying food. You entered the kitchen cautiously and had to stare a little. Saber stood in front of the stove, armored in a cooking apron and bearing a pair of tongs as her weapon as she did battle with what appeared to be batter-fried fish and chips.
She immediately noticed you looking and flushed bright red. It was amazing how the look and the slightly hunched shoulders made her look so much like she had during the Grail War rather than the more adult form you’d gotten used to over the last month..
“I-I decided it wasn’t fair that you do all the cooking. If you’ll s-sit and wait, dinner will be ready shortly,” she said with great dignity, then flinched as the oil popped again.
You bit back on your instinctive desire to tell her to cut the heat a touch and instead took your place at the table. Even if it was a raised, Western version instead of the style you had grown up with, it was a vast improvement over the breakfast bar you’d been using at the apartment. Saber had already put out place settings for the both of you, and had a bottle of white wine on the table in a bucket of ice.
It quickly became evident to you that Arturia had been paying attention while you cooked for the last month. She gathered the last of the fish from the oil and set it on a rack on paper towels to wick away the excess liquid even as she moved the fish that had been there into the oven to keep warm. Then she carefully added the chips to the hot oil to fry. By the renewed snapping, you could tell that she hadn’t precooked them at all, so they likely wouldn’t have the crispness many people liked, but again you kept down your desire to be a backseat driver.
You could tell that for some reason, this was very important to Arturia, so you remained quiet and observed as she set the meal, displayed on plates covered in newspaper, on the table along with vinegar and salt. She set aside the apron, dimpled with splashed oil, and joined you.
She opened her mouth to speak, but eventually blushed, unable to find the words she wanted for once. Instead of pressing her, you simply announced, “Itadakimasu,” and seasoned your meal lightly with the offered vinegar in traditional British fashion.
You blinked as you tasted it. While the flavors lacked the complexity you usually preferred, the fish was cooked to perfection and had rested properly. The chips lacked a crisp texture, but the flavor was excellent, and she’d clearly soaked them in a saltwater brine before cooking, because the salt content was perfect.
In short, it was a simple meal, prepared extremely well. Especially for a novice.
Arturia, who’d been searching your expression, slumped in relief at your clear enjoyment before taking a bite herself, and nearly dropping her fork in surprise.
“It’s … good?” she said.
“It really is,” you agreed. You’d spare her a full culinary critique, but she needed to hear a bit more than just that. “An ambitious choice. Iconic dishes can be surprisingly difficult to get right,” you said as you met her eyes across the table, “I suppose I should have expected no less, though, given the source.”
Once again, Arturia’s eyes dropped, but this time there was a happy smile on her lips and a pleased blush on her cheeks.
After the meal was eaten and the dishes were washed, you teamed up one last time to cart the mattress for your bed up the stairs to the third floor where you’d set up your bedroom. You left Arturia the use of the master bathroom while you descended to the first floor to use the bathroom there. Honestly, it would probably end up being replaced by a simple toilet as a guest bathroom, since you didn’t need a true bathroom on the main floor like the previous owner had. Both existing second floor bathrooms had been gutted and would be reconsolidated, maybe even moved up a floor by the time everything was said and done. There was certainly enough room on the top floor to have the bedrooms concentrated there, but maybe a guest room on the second floor wouldn’t be a bad idea?
Thoughts about the eventual floorplan carried you through your shower. You dropped your clothes, sweaty and dirty after a day of hard work, beside the first floor laundry, again wondering if you should plan to move those to the second floor or all the way to the top before heading upstairs. You’d half expected Arturia to be dead to the world when you entered, so the light being on was a surprise.
But not as much of a surprise as your wife waiting for you in what was definitely lingerie. Your eyes hungrily traced curves that were definitely more generous than they had been the last time you’d seen them, long years ago. But then, this Arturia wasn’t stuck forever as a ‘holy youth.’
“Husband,” she said, and your eyes jumped back up to her face. Her cheeks were red, but she definitely looked pleased with your reaction, “it’s time to come to bed.”
Innovative Cuisine: Second teaching roll: 4d10=2 successes. Action complete. Recipe learned.
Pleasing the eye: Second roll: 5 successes. Yes, you read that right.
Home Improvement, Dexterity+Craft: 10d10=6/??? successes.
Arturia attempts to Wife, Dexterity+Craft(Cooking): 6d10=4 successes. Arturia Wife’s very successfully.
???: DC???=???
Pleasing the eye: Second roll: 5 successes. Yes, you read that right.
Home Improvement, Dexterity+Craft: 10d10=6/??? successes.
Arturia attempts to Wife, Dexterity+Craft(Cooking): 6d10=4 successes. Arturia Wife’s very successfully.
???: DC???=???
After the needs of your job and your current commitments, you have 3 AP for the month. What do?
[X] - Hold down your job. You need to get paid, so this is sort of a requirement. Cost: 4 AP. Results: You do the minimum required to get paid. Your bosses are happy with the improvement you’ve made in the restaurant for the moment, so you could afford to cut back a touch. Continued improvement likely, but not guaranteed.
[ ] - Innovative Cuisine. Now that you’ve got access to the proper grade and scope of ingredients, you can turn your attention to the fine details of tweaking the Ritz’s current recipes. As they are, they’re solid, but uninspired, with one notable exception. Cost: 1 AP. Results: Continued development of Fusion Cuisine. (Suggested stunts include what menu item to work on. Please consider combining traditional British and Japanese cooking.)
[X] - Pleasing the Eye. Your original plans about plating went in an entirely unexpected direction, but if you want to have chefs other than yourself capable of the sort of casual excellence you envision, you’re going to need to put in the hours to train them up. Cost: 1 AP. Results: Chefs trained to cook well and look good doing it. Eventual synergy with restaurant update.
[ ] - Socialize with Arturia. Weekends are for dates, right? Cost: 1 AP. Results: Fluff, WAFF, happy Arturia.
[ ] - Search around for crime to stop. Clearly, as an Ally of Justice, you should be patrolling the neighborhood looking for wrongs to right. That drug den/brothel is wearing away at your conscience. Cost: 1 AP. Results: Crimes thwarted? Justice upheld? Maybe just an annoyed Arturia.
[ ] - Keep in contact. The police or even the government may have questions to ask or concerns to raise. Make time to keep in contact with them, just in case. Cost: 1 AP. Results: ???.
[ ] - A patent pending. Your patent lawyer recommended that you contact Sony to license your patents to them. In order to do that, you’re going to need to demonstrate that they work. That means building examples, which means time and money. Cost: 2 AP. A 2-dot expense. Results: Working examples of your inventions. Probably annoyed neighbors, given your current living arrangements. You may want to find a home with a workshop first.
[X] - Home Improvement. (Locked in due to purchase of the Run-Down Townhouse) You own a home now, or the bank owns it and you’re paying them interest for the pleasure of living in it, anyway. The problem is that it’s going to need to be a construction site for a while as you reopen the closed half of the house and reconfigure everything for your needs. Cost: 1 AP. Results: Access to and renovations and furnishing for the full floorplan of your new house. Home Equity. (Suggested stunts would include a finalized floorplan with what is on what level. Relevant details are in ABNW7. You may assume double the original described footprint, plus the turret room on each level. Fine details subject to QM approval.)
[ ] - Gym Building. You’ve made contact with the super-inventor that runs a failing local gym. Now you just need to decide how much you’re willing to spend to have a home gym that will allow you and Arturia to get some exercise and training in. Cost: 1 AP. Variable amounts of money. Results: Gain a home gym/practice area in your basement. Training time for physical skills and attributes accumulates. Coordination penalties mitigated.
[ ] - Write in. Subject to QM approval.
You have 2 exp. Do you spend any?
[ ] - Write in.
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Thanks to Seraviel for beta reading. Sorry this was late, but the WAFF did not want to flow. Hope it was worth it. Let’s have a 2 hour moratorium on voting to allow for some discussion, and remember that stunts help you win.
ConfusedCanadian
Well-known member
Ah how cute Arturia was being a wife. And now there husband and wife properly now I guess they broke in there new home. Also an option for socializing with Arturia I would recommend going to see Monty Python and the holy grail would be a good laugh and something lighthearted.
Arlos
Sad Monarchist
Absolutely amazing and worth the wait.
Thatcher is doing great, and mysterious question mark are being mysterious, though hopefully good for Britain.
For this turn, I’d say Socialize with Arturia, Keep in touch with the government, and Gym building.
What do my fellow quester thinks?
Thatcher is doing great, and mysterious question mark are being mysterious, though hopefully good for Britain.
For this turn, I’d say Socialize with Arturia, Keep in touch with the government, and Gym building.
What do my fellow quester thinks?
ConfusedCanadian
Well-known member
I kind of want to focus on building a gym and working on our patent as well but that can all wait until we're done renovating our home. I also want to spend our 2 exp on socialize and bring that up 2 dots but beyond that I'm leaning to at least keeping in contact with the government and going on another date with Artoria.
Arlos
Sad Monarchist
I think we should go with Gym rather than Patent right now, since the Patent has no urgency whatsoever while we told the guy about building a Gym something like a month ago, and with the Thatcher stuff, it might be the best moment to firmly pull the guy on the side of good.
Also, Arturia and Shirou must be itching for a good workout
ConfusedCanadian
Well-known member
Yeah the patent can wait for now building the gym is more important since it would enable Shirou and Saber to relearn how to fight together. And it would be nice to have a tinker on the side of the law perhaps we can talk to him and convince him to step forward to the government.I think we should go with Gym rather than Patent right now, since the Patent has no urgency whatsoever while we told the guy about building a Gym something like a month ago, and with the Thatcher stuff, it might be the best moment to firmly pull the guy on the side of good.
Also, Arturia and Shirou must be itching for a good workout
ironforge
Active member
Way I see it, we should want to keep up the momentum Thatcher started here and keep in contact with the police and Gov, since that way we can keep pushing the better imagine for capes.
Besides that, spending time with our waifu is a must, as a happy waifu means happy laifu.
It's the 3rd action I'm iffy about, we can either go with the gym one and create another positive connection with a cape while getting tools that help us and Saber sooner or go do the Hero thing with Saber to both get her name out and further support the idea that Thatcher is going for. Since having more visible and constant examples this early will go a long way in cementing public support there.
Now here is a question though I want to ask since we just got a golden opportunity for in shaping the cape mindset. Do we want to take up Thatcher's offer of coming in and working with the gov as a person with "superpowers" or do we stay as is in our cape persona?
Because if one of the first ever good capes goes more for the people with "powers" that do good rather then stay a masked hero, we could have a HUGE impact on the future cape scene. Maybe even make it so it's less comic book style and more new age instead.
Besides that, spending time with our waifu is a must, as a happy waifu means happy laifu.
It's the 3rd action I'm iffy about, we can either go with the gym one and create another positive connection with a cape while getting tools that help us and Saber sooner or go do the Hero thing with Saber to both get her name out and further support the idea that Thatcher is going for. Since having more visible and constant examples this early will go a long way in cementing public support there.
Now here is a question though I want to ask since we just got a golden opportunity for in shaping the cape mindset. Do we want to take up Thatcher's offer of coming in and working with the gov as a person with "superpowers" or do we stay as is in our cape persona?
Because if one of the first ever good capes goes more for the people with "powers" that do good rather then stay a masked hero, we could have a HUGE impact on the future cape scene. Maybe even make it so it's less comic book style and more new age instead.
Arlos
Sad Monarchist
That’s basically my thoughts.
That’s just my personal opinion, but I think neither Shirou nor Arturia would be happy working as full time heroes with they’re identity revealed, they are quite happy with they current lives, and I think they deserve to keep it this way.
Now, on the other hand, I wouldn’t mind their Cape Persona working directly/closely with the government and being on call so to speak.
ironforge
Active member
I can get that, it's just something I think we should consider because of the massive effect it could have both good and bad. An while I agree that doing something like full time, would be not something that they would likely want to do at this time. I can also see them not being able to avoid it if stuff ends up like canon. Their both just to nice to allow such and just dabble.
So maybe go the middle ground then and take up Thatcher's call, but stay as capes willing to work with them, but want to keep their personal IDs to themselves?
Arlos
Sad Monarchist
Fine by me, I have no problem working with the government.
Maybe we’ll get to full time eventually, but let’s let them enjoy their peace while they can, also make a family perhaps? Who knows?
ironforge
Active member
Cool, I'll keep that in mind then when the vote opens up.
Though on the family thing, does any kid Archer and Saber have share their traits or will it just be a super healthy kid?
Arlos
Sad Monarchist
Good question, if it was the Nasuverse, the Kids would be extremely Powerful, being the Children of two very distinctly unique and powerful existences, but I am not sure how it work here, since this world seems to work on different metaphysics.
ConfusedCanadian
Well-known member
So here's the plan I've been thinking up on subject to change and revision of course.
[X] Moving on with Life
-[X] - Hold down your job. You need to get paid, so this is sort of a requirement. Cost: 4 AP. Results: You do the minimum required to get paid. Your bosses are happy with the improvement you’ve made in the restaurant for the moment, so you could afford to cut back a touch. Continued improvement likely, but not guaranteed.- Now that you've improved the lunch and dinner menus perhaps it's time to start improving the brunch and tea options on the menu.
-[X] - Pleasing the Eye. Your original plans about plating went in an entirely unexpected direction, but if you want to have chefs other than yourself capable of the sort of casual excellence you envision, you’re going to need to put in the hours to train them up. Cost: 1 AP. Results: Chefs trained to cook well and look good doing it. Eventual synergy with restaurant update.
-Show your cooks downright unreal level of cooking using the peak of your skills, from the millimetres precision of your cut on ingredients, not only helped by your structural grasping telling you where to best do the cut, but also by your blade skills, honed finely by thousands of hours of training and battle and the knowledge and experiences of countless blade wielders recorded in your soul, to your cooking skills, using your endless experiences and supernatural grasp of the ingredients internal states at all time as they cook to achieve perfection beyond compare, and finishing by your presentation skills, developed through years and years of serving royalty and nobility in the Silver millennium and the studying of art throughout history for years on end. Hopefully, it will motivate your cook, even if they may never reach such a level.
[X] - Home Improvement. (Locked in due to purchase of the Run-Down Townhouse) You own a home now, or the bank owns it and you’re paying them interest for the pleasure of living in it, anyway. The problem is that it’s going to need to be a construction site for a while as you reopen the closed half of the house and reconfigure everything for your needs. Cost: 1 AP. Results: Access to and renovations and furnishing for the full floorplan of your new house. Home Equity. (Suggested stunts would include a finalized floorplan with what is on what level. Relevant details are in ABNW7. You may assume double the original described footprint, plus the turret room on each level. Fine details subject to QM approval.)
-Basement, workshop and gym, storage space if available. If we can a outside entrance to the storage or gym rooms… and escape to the sewers path
Ground floor, expand and update kitchen (1 room, should have storage), more of a divider between kitchen and dining area (so kitchen and dining as two rooms), living room (third room), maybe small laundry room, and for the turret a tea room so small table and few chairs just to look at the garden.
First/second depending on naming conventions, 2 office rooms… I feel these can actually be smaller than two full rooms, maybe expand the WC to include a shower, two bedrooms, not sure about turret, maybe a bit of a game room. edit: replace a bedroom for small library room
Top floor master bedroom, big bathroom, one more bedroom… and maybe additional storage room. Perhaps keep the turret as connected to the master bedroom
-[x] - Socialize with Arturia. Weekends are for dates, right? Cost: 1 AP. Results: Fluff, WAFF, happy Arturia.- You've been itching to take Arturia to the movies recently for a date perhaps go and see if Monty Python and the holy grail is available to watch it would be a good laugh for the both of you.
-[x] - Keep in contact. The police or even the government may have questions to ask or concerns to raise. Make time to keep in contact with them, just in case. Cost: 1 AP. Results: ???.
-Progress has been made with working with the police now it's time for you and saber to stay in contact to cement your reputation and help bolster the governments stance on these super-human powers, and since you’ve decided to help, you might as well go with some interesting things for your news partners, training regimen for normal people based to deal with the supernatural based on your personal experiences from both worlds you’ve lived in and the way you witnessed some normal people pull truly incredible feat in the Silver millennium (this one is for you Paul), it should be as exhaustive as possible even if somewhat basic due to time constraint, from spotting invisible enemies, to protecting themselves from people with the ability to beguile the mind, be it from direct control or simple misdirection, to add on to that would be physical training, basic know how in superpower security and how to use teamwork when fighting the supernatural, if they are interested, perhaps you can collaborate further on this.
-[x] - Gym Building. You’ve made contact with the super-inventor that runs a failing local gym. Now you just need to decide how much you’re willing to spend to have a home gym that will allow you and Arturia to get some exercise and training in. Cost: 1 AP. Variable amounts of money. Results: Gain a home gym/practice area in your basement. Training time for physical skills and attributes accumulates. Coordination penalties mitigated.- You have a home and a man willing to build your equipment sit down with Saber and find out what you need/want exactly for your home gym so you two can finally start training together.
You have 2 exp. Do you spend any?
-[x] - Spend it on Socialize
Alright so this is what I've thought up so far for a plan. The first to are obvious they involve our job now for stunts there I don't really know what to add so if anyone has an idea feel free to recommend it and I'll add it on. For the rest it's pretty straight forward Keeping in contact is vital given whats happened we want to keep that momentum moving also thought to bring Saber along so she wouldn't be as mad with us! We have a house and a guy to build our training gear now just to figure out what we need exactly and we're good to go on that front. And final Movie Night with our wife seems like a wonderful idea especially if we go and see Monty Python and the holy grail a great comedy in my book. And finally use our 2 exp to gain an additional dot in Socialize one of our weakness currently. So thoughts any suggestions to change or improve on the stunts?
[X] Moving on with Life
-[X] - Hold down your job. You need to get paid, so this is sort of a requirement. Cost: 4 AP. Results: You do the minimum required to get paid. Your bosses are happy with the improvement you’ve made in the restaurant for the moment, so you could afford to cut back a touch. Continued improvement likely, but not guaranteed.- Now that you've improved the lunch and dinner menus perhaps it's time to start improving the brunch and tea options on the menu.
-[X] - Pleasing the Eye. Your original plans about plating went in an entirely unexpected direction, but if you want to have chefs other than yourself capable of the sort of casual excellence you envision, you’re going to need to put in the hours to train them up. Cost: 1 AP. Results: Chefs trained to cook well and look good doing it. Eventual synergy with restaurant update.
-Show your cooks downright unreal level of cooking using the peak of your skills, from the millimetres precision of your cut on ingredients, not only helped by your structural grasping telling you where to best do the cut, but also by your blade skills, honed finely by thousands of hours of training and battle and the knowledge and experiences of countless blade wielders recorded in your soul, to your cooking skills, using your endless experiences and supernatural grasp of the ingredients internal states at all time as they cook to achieve perfection beyond compare, and finishing by your presentation skills, developed through years and years of serving royalty and nobility in the Silver millennium and the studying of art throughout history for years on end. Hopefully, it will motivate your cook, even if they may never reach such a level.
[X] - Home Improvement. (Locked in due to purchase of the Run-Down Townhouse) You own a home now, or the bank owns it and you’re paying them interest for the pleasure of living in it, anyway. The problem is that it’s going to need to be a construction site for a while as you reopen the closed half of the house and reconfigure everything for your needs. Cost: 1 AP. Results: Access to and renovations and furnishing for the full floorplan of your new house. Home Equity. (Suggested stunts would include a finalized floorplan with what is on what level. Relevant details are in ABNW7. You may assume double the original described footprint, plus the turret room on each level. Fine details subject to QM approval.)
-Basement, workshop and gym, storage space if available. If we can a outside entrance to the storage or gym rooms… and escape to the sewers path
Ground floor, expand and update kitchen (1 room, should have storage), more of a divider between kitchen and dining area (so kitchen and dining as two rooms), living room (third room), maybe small laundry room, and for the turret a tea room so small table and few chairs just to look at the garden.
First/second depending on naming conventions, 2 office rooms… I feel these can actually be smaller than two full rooms, maybe expand the WC to include a shower, two bedrooms, not sure about turret, maybe a bit of a game room. edit: replace a bedroom for small library room
Top floor master bedroom, big bathroom, one more bedroom… and maybe additional storage room. Perhaps keep the turret as connected to the master bedroom
-[x] - Socialize with Arturia. Weekends are for dates, right? Cost: 1 AP. Results: Fluff, WAFF, happy Arturia.- You've been itching to take Arturia to the movies recently for a date perhaps go and see if Monty Python and the holy grail is available to watch it would be a good laugh for the both of you.
-[x] - Keep in contact. The police or even the government may have questions to ask or concerns to raise. Make time to keep in contact with them, just in case. Cost: 1 AP. Results: ???.
-Progress has been made with working with the police now it's time for you and saber to stay in contact to cement your reputation and help bolster the governments stance on these super-human powers, and since you’ve decided to help, you might as well go with some interesting things for your news partners, training regimen for normal people based to deal with the supernatural based on your personal experiences from both worlds you’ve lived in and the way you witnessed some normal people pull truly incredible feat in the Silver millennium (this one is for you Paul), it should be as exhaustive as possible even if somewhat basic due to time constraint, from spotting invisible enemies, to protecting themselves from people with the ability to beguile the mind, be it from direct control or simple misdirection, to add on to that would be physical training, basic know how in superpower security and how to use teamwork when fighting the supernatural, if they are interested, perhaps you can collaborate further on this.
-[x] - Gym Building. You’ve made contact with the super-inventor that runs a failing local gym. Now you just need to decide how much you’re willing to spend to have a home gym that will allow you and Arturia to get some exercise and training in. Cost: 1 AP. Variable amounts of money. Results: Gain a home gym/practice area in your basement. Training time for physical skills and attributes accumulates. Coordination penalties mitigated.- You have a home and a man willing to build your equipment sit down with Saber and find out what you need/want exactly for your home gym so you two can finally start training together.
You have 2 exp. Do you spend any?
-[x] - Spend it on Socialize
Alright so this is what I've thought up so far for a plan. The first to are obvious they involve our job now for stunts there I don't really know what to add so if anyone has an idea feel free to recommend it and I'll add it on. For the rest it's pretty straight forward Keeping in contact is vital given whats happened we want to keep that momentum moving also thought to bring Saber along so she wouldn't be as mad with us! We have a house and a guy to build our training gear now just to figure out what we need exactly and we're good to go on that front. And final Movie Night with our wife seems like a wonderful idea especially if we go and see Monty Python and the holy grail a great comedy in my book. And finally use our 2 exp to gain an additional dot in Socialize one of our weakness currently. So thoughts any suggestions to change or improve on the stunts?
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ConfusedCanadian
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Yes I have some basic stunts in place but they can use improvement and two of the options doesn't have stunts at all.