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Kit
Question: 2, Successes: 1, Failures: 0

"So this is just a game to you? How can people trust you to protect them when you are just here "doing crazy stuff?"
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Skyguard

"Where do you come from and how did you get here?"
If you go with the truth, you actually need a Persuasion DC25 since you were an invader. If you choose Deception, the DC is 20. You also will also be taking on the Secret complication.
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Taheka
Question: 2, Successes: 1, Failures: 0

"Are you human? Where do your powers come from?"
DC15 Persuasion check, DC20 if you want to use Deception.
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Kit Ferryman
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"So this is just a game to you? How can people trust you to protect them when you are just here "doing crazy stuff?"
"Anyone who tells you being a hero isn't crazy is messing you.", begins Kit. He knew his reckless ways would come back and bite him. Still, he took it in stride. "I mean really, what sort of sane person would willing jump into danger when running is so much safer? When a fireman rushes into a burning building to save a kid, can you honestly tell me that isn't a crazy thing to do? Of course not, until you factor in the whole saving a kid thing. Every time a hero goes out to help someone or stop something bad form happening its crazy really. I'm just calling it what it is.", continues Kit.

Pausing to gauge the assembled press, he continues. "Hey look, you want to call it a game, great. I mean thats why I want to do what I do to keep everyone safe so they can keep calling it a game if you want. Just because my methods aren't the normal hero ways and sometimes go outside the box doesn't mean I don't take this seriously. Every hero has their style. Mine just happens to be the sort that jumps into the deep end to save as many lives as possible as quick as possible. So yeah, I am not asking you to trust what I say. I'm asking people to see it for their own eyes.", finishes Kit adding a bit of a flourish at the end.
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Sky Guard
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"I come from another sphere. It is not part of the same sky. We called it Home. Not dirt. It was different there. Home wasn't as crowded and we did not have all the machines that are so common here. Buildings were fewer and shorter. There was more sky."

Where he came from, while difficult to get across with any degree of accuracy, was the easy part. After giving the brief explanation he paused and tried to remember what it looked like. The idea of Home was easy to remember, but the details were hard. Ven realized he'd fallen silent after a minute, stuck in introspection too long. His vision focused back on the now, rather than memory, and he spoke concisely on the second half of the question.

"People from the dark came when I was young and took me away. Eventually these people came to Earth and I managed to escape. I am not going to talk about my time as a slave."

That last statement was made curtly. Perhaps more sharply than he really wanted to. Especially in a public address.
OOC wrote:Sky Guard is being honest, but withholding information. I'll roll a d20 and use whatever modifier you feel is fitting.

Question: 1d20 6 +6 (12) for Deception. +12 (18) for Persuasion. Neither hits their DC.

EDIT:
Kensiedo gave me 1 HP in the OOC thread … which I'll use to re-roll that Deception.

re-roll Deception: 1d20+6+2 20 The +2 is for the slavery circumstance bonus.
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Juno
Question: 2, Successes: 1, Failures: 0

"You have a history as a mercenary. How can the people in this area trust that you aren't going to sell out to the highest bidder?"
Juno

"Simple," Juno says, "I was NEVER that kind of mercenary. I used that term because I've realized how I'd perverted my profession in the past, and what I want to say about it isn't fit for this interview. I'm like Kit in that way, that when I was younger, I'd messed up, and now that I'm older and just a little wiser, I've realized there's more to life than money and 'thrills'..."

she deliberately makes the air quotes on that word.

"So any so-called highest bidder is going to realize very quickly that I'm not for sale, and neither are my team."
persuasion: 1d20+8 10

ah nuts.
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Tamati "Taheka" Stevens
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kenseido wrote: Taheka
Question: 2, Successes: 1, Failures: 0

"Are you human? Where do your powers come from?"
DC15 Persuasion check, DC20 if you want to use Deception.

"Human? Me?" Tamati couldn't help letting out a good natured chuckle at the question "Mate of course I'm bloody human, I'm a Kiwi after-all." then thinking for half a second Tamati quickly added

"Ahh there are no Australians here are there? I am sure they would say something different but that's Aussies for you."

"Now where do my powers come from .. that is a good question, I didn't develope them or they didn't appear until my mid teens and yeah turning into a pool of water was scary at the time. I swore off wee.. I mean it took some time before I tried using my powers deliberately rather than thinking it was some sort of weird dream."

"So I am not really sure where they come from just that I seem to have been born with them and they are a gift that I want to use to give back however I can."


Taheka Persuasion: 1d20+2 17
Pass either way :)

My current thoughts are that Tamati's ancestors had a history of having water powers that they believed was inherited from the spirit of the Waimakariri River back when their hapu or iwi first settled on the plains near the river. It was believed that the power or gift flowed through the female branch of the family as oral history seems to say only females had the gift in recent memory and it became accepted as fact.

Tamati's older sister grew up being told that she would have these amazing water powers and was horrified to say the least when Tamati exhibited them instead. She left soon after for places unknown.

So Tamati didn't want to mention any of the above as it still confuses him so his roll could be either persuasion or deception.
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kenseido wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2019 2:22 am Angela
Question: 2, Successes 1, Failures 0

"What kind of a role model do you think you will be dressed like that? Aren't you just setting back women's rights by 50 years?"
DC15 Persuasion check
"Angela?" Juno says with playful indignation, "Should I be offended she's just asking you when I'm an active rubberist?"

for emphasis, Juno adjusts her seating, emphasising her own curves and athletic swimsuit, letting that aspect of her sex life out there to
persuasion: 1d20+8 11. well, its over ten, at least...
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kenseido wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2019 2:31 am Arca-Knight
Question: 2, Successes: 1, Failures: 0

"Tell us about this group who taught you. Who are they? What are they like? Where are they? Are they releasing more mages into our world?"
DC15 Persuasion, DC20 Deception if you attempt to deceive. If you refuse to talk about them in any way, it is treated as a failure.

Arca-knight cleared her throat. "The ones that taught me were members of a group called the Ordo Arcanum, a pan-dimensional order of mages and magical warriors under the patronage of Arcanis, Master of Arcane Secrets. Eons ago Arcanis was a mortal mage who reached a level of power and knowledge that allowed them to ascend to a higher level of existence, however as a side effect of being able to existing on that larger scale it became more difficult to directly interact with things on a human level. So Arcanis sought out allies, agents, and students that could act on their behalf in mortal realms, chief among them being the Arcane Champions or Arca-knights. As a recent inductee into their ranks I received tutoring from several of my seniors, each from a different world or realm. Since the Ordo Arcanum operates across multiple parallel worlds and dimensions they try to avoid having too large a presence on any specific world. Individual Arca-knights will usually operate alone or in small groups, and so to address your last question there won't be a sudden flood of mages from the order arriving on this earth any time soon."
Persuasion 1d20+2: 12
Ugh the one time I make a character with no Persuasion skill I have to make so many checks with it.
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Angela

Angela smiles at Juno reassuringly before turning back to the reporter. "Yes. I hope to be a role model for a world where women's rights are not conditional on how they are dressed," she says simply.

Even as she speaks, the hoodie and jeans she wears over her costume feel itchy and scratchy, confining and stifling. Such sensations are essentially meaningless for a machine, and yet she struggles against them. She knows, intellectually, that her likes and dislikes are Doc Otaku's doing. Everything from her favorite flavor of ice cream to her taste in model robots was programmed into her, laid down in silicon at the chip foundry where she was made. Bryan had told her, soon after they met. At first she had recoiled at the idea, logical though it was. The thought that her deepest desires and wants were of his choosing and beyond her power to change had repulsed her at first. But Angela had eventually come round. After all, the result of all his meddling was that somewhere in the complex web of her A.I. matrix had arose a spark that recognized him as the utterly evil man he was, and if the way she was made had led to that, she would embrace her flawed self.

Sometimes the creations of humankind flourish and grow in ways unforeseen. Case in point, she rather doubted Doc Otaku had any great fondness for yaoi tentacle porn.

OOC
1d20+5: 10 [1d20=5] Whoops
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Kit
Question 3, Success 2, Failures 0

"Did you just suggest that all first responders have mental health disorders?"
DC20 Persuasion, or something else creative
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Skyguard
Question 3, Success 2, Failures 0

"You seem to be taking a leadership position. What kind of leadership experience does a former slave have?"
Obviously they are trying to get you to talk more about your past. Same rolls as before.
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Juno
Question 3, Success 1, Failures 1

"What about the claims that you think you are a literal God?"
This comes from tabloid stories that include things like "I married Bigfoot" and the like. While there is no basis for the question in reality, it does still touch on your Complications, so take an HP.

DC15 Persuasion
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Taheka
Question 3, Success 2, Failures 0

"Are you saying you're a mutant then? Have you been tested?"
Mutant mania isn't quite as bad as alien xenophobia right now, but it is a thing.
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Arca-Knight
Question 3, Success 1, Failures 1

"So, you belong to a cult whose leader is an alien who thinks he is an ascended God and sends out his worshippers to do his bidding across many worlds?"
DC15 Persuasion
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