Excluding combat, is it possible for multiple characters to use the same Move against the same target at the same time for some increased odds of success? Couldn’t find anything about teaming up like that in the rules.

PCs working together on the same objective: one PC uses the move Fuck it up / Make it Rain to gain Hold for the action that can be applied to the roll or to damage.

An NPC working with a PC adds +1 to the roll before it is rolled.

Does the first PC’s Hold vary with the roll? Ie, 7-9 = Hold+1 and 10+ = Hold+2?

Edit: Or does the first PC even make a roll at all?
This message was last edited by the player at 14:59, Fri 08 Dec 2023.

I know it's not in character, but I soooooo wanna Fuck It Up at some point. Making It Rain is more Midori's style though. ;)

Is there any actual difference? The description is:

I guess it’s just hard to “make it rain” without a projectile weapon?

In reply to Sidewinder (msg # 431):

Make it Burn is Firebird's style

Or a sufficient amount of nuyen. ;)

Now that’s something I’d like to see!

Let's make it happen! :)

Let’s!
https://youtu.be/np02phdwrwk?si=LhHq6ngHOrNEsk8V

Fuck it up is to inhibit the action

Make it Rain is to aid the action.

Same mechanic. And it’s always +1 Hold but 7-9 comes with a complication.

What I'm hearing is Midori could literally Make It Rain to aid an action.

"You need a bigger bribe? Here you go." *makes it rain all over a yak and is probably killed for it*

Worth it.

Dunno if Natrixs can actually consume an astral being, but I cannot think of a more badass ability!

I believe in it! Goooo Natrixs! *shakes pompoms*

I think the pompoms should do the trick!

Though, fun fact: snakes don’t dislocate their jaws. Their mouths are simply constructed differently. Their mandibles aren’t fused together in the first place like ours, and only loosely connected to the skull with lotsa ligaments holding everything together, letting them stretch their mouths larger than their body. Teeth help living prey from escaping. Large enough prey can start to be digested faster than eaten, which is actually a bad thing as I understand it.

But pit vipers have a cheat code: proteolytic enzymes injected along with their venom start breaking up prey from the inside. A lot like a lesser version of how spiders’ digestive enzymes work.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:51, Thu 21 Dec 2023.

Enzymes are some of my favourite proteins! The lysozyme in our tears and saliva is fascinating stuff, for instance.

I don't know that proteolytic enzymes would help with an astral creature even if you did have a pit viper, but it would make a fun astral smoothie out of the creature if it did. :P

I'm fond of asps, but that's a Cleopatra thing. :P

Yeah, amylases in our saliva came to mind, but they’re bush league compared to pit vipers and they are nothing compared to spiders.

Pet peeve, the entire thing about Cleopatra committing suicide via asp could only have been written by someone who never saw one in the first place. Shakespeare, for example. It surely refers to an Egyptian cobra, which is a massive snake whose bite is excruciating.

But ancient texts getting biology wrong isn’t exactly unique. There are plenty of basic facts wrong in the Bible, but I will never forgive the ancient Jews. Kashrut has errors, but GRASSHOPPERS DO NOT HAVE 4 LEGS. FLYING INSECTS DO NOT HAVE 4 LEGS. CRICKETS DO NOT HAVE 4 LEGS. THEY HAVE 6. SIX. VAV. WAW. HEX. VI. 110. I RAN OUT OF NUMERALS. BUT NOT 4!!!

I’m a bit touchy when it comes to entomology. It’s subtle, so I should point it out.

lol I think the amylases in our saliva do sufficient work for the type of food we eat. Having to stuff something whole in my mouth is... a different story and usually something I'm not looking to dissolve. :x

I agree entirely and to be fair, am just a fan of venomous snakes. Not enough to have one, because like, while they're silky and smooth I don't want to die and I would cry every time I had to feed it.

I like that you threw some binary in there. I was gonna check hexadecimal but apparently it's just 6 in hexadecimal as well lmfao.

Yeah, there’s a reason constrictors are the most popular serpentine pets.

Though, unrelated, pit vipers aren’t the only snakes which can see into the infrared. Boas and pythons also evolved thermographic vision in a parallel and lesser degree.

The opposite happened at some point(s) in evolution where it diversified in both mechanism and delivery system, or lost altogether. Then there is a ridiculous amount of convergent evolution. Turn out venom is an awfully useful trait, even when metabolically expensive. Dry bites are common for a reason.

It's fascinating when you think about which selection pressures might have caused the evolution in such a fashion. I mean naturally, predation is usually the first concern, but with snakes I imagine that's less of a problem than say, a rabbit or a mouse.

I don't think I'd be able to handle a snake as a pet at all. I'd have to feed them little mousies and even seeing the frozen ones would hurt my heart lol. I am a total wimp when it comes to animals getting hurt.

I’m the exact opposite. Seeing predation in action is utterly fascinating. I even let a pet praying mantid take a few chomps off of a finger once (tiny ones till she went back in her terrarium.)

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I caught her in the wild and she turned out to be carrying some passengers. Died when the parasitoids were done munching on her insides and munched their way out. Couldn’t ID the larvae for the life of me. Not even to the order! Real bummer. And there was is no point in preserving an eviscerated mantid as an amateur, nor preserving animals that I couldn't ID in ethanol. I think they were beetles, but that was only a marginally educated guess. Wasps are more my deal.

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That's absolutely fascinating! From a scientific standpoint I totally get it, but I am a softie. I cried the first time I had to cook moules marinière in culinary school; I couldn't even eat it. My instructor said it was delicious though lol.

I dunno, I do like dead things and skulls and the like. I have had friends in the past send me vertebrae and rib bones they've picked up on their travels and they decorate my bookshelves, I think a preserved parasitised praying mantis would have been pretty neat.

The fact it looked like BEETLES is so fascinating! I see a lot of articles on horsehair worms but there is no way in hell anyone would mistake a worm for a beetle. I wonder what kind of bugs eat a praying mantis? That's pretty metal of them.

In reply to Midori (msg # 448):

Probably keep a brain in a jar in the bookcase too.

In reply to Mr. Johnson (msg # 449):

This one is my favourite.


This message was last edited by the player at 22:39, Thu 21 Dec 2023.

That’s fascinating! The only thing I can think of is a brood parasite’s eggs not making the cut, and the osprey got pissed and destroyed the eyrie.

I am far from an ornithologist, and the only useful sources I found that could be relevant are:

https://www.lookandlearn.com/b...ospreys-under-guard/
(Definitely Pandion haliaetus haliaetus)

https://www.theanimalfiles.com..._of_prey/osprey.html
(P haliaetus)

This is a NON-ORNITHOLOGIST’S speculation who DID NOT OBSERVE THE BEHAVIOR as to why an osprey might smash into a tree.

But sometimes animals just do weird things you’d never expect.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:58, Sat 23 Dec 2023.