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My thinking before reading any other votes is this:

All your discuss look like ramblings to me. How often do you actually sway another, rather than repeat your own points ad nauseam?

1B>C
2A>C>B

 

1 C>B

2 D>B

 

if we don't take the gun, i bet Sophie will - imagine how much better will she handle it than our guy

 

It's really not hard at all. Perhaps I had an advantage cause I'd been exposed to guns all my life through video games and popular media, but when my father was getting a license to carry for a security job I went with him for the three visits and shot all sorts of handguns and a shotgun or two. Within five minutes I was comfortable enough with each gun to be able to flick the safety off, fire some rounds, and then reload the weapon. Sure I was a little ham fisted, but it's not like we have to be Clint Eastwood with the gun to use it effectively. Just keep your finger off the trigger, point it towards the direction of whatever is rushing towards you, and unload. Assuming Wrinkly is intelligent, and he was given a little tutorial on how to use the gun as well as fiddling with it while we were looking for the shifters, there is nothing to suggest that he would fuck anything up. You yourself picked defending Sophie. There are no shape shifters around her at the moment, so she won't be in the line of fire.

 

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Nah, we wanted to come help hunt a changeling. Our role is defined by our Astra, which is how Liz got hers.

The initial plan did not have us participate beyond basic tracking, simply because we can't outrun the hag on foot. Even Tlalli can't without the orb.*

Wrinkly is a pragmatic a lot more than he is a glory seeker.

* Edit: which, incidentally, is causing my apprehension with E. We may spot the ambush, but can we react in time?

 

I don't have enough time to longpost right now, but I'd caution people to compare the effectiveness of firearms to that of our own world. From the lore update:

Not to draw too many Arcanum comparisons, but I wonder if melee weapons, especially if they're forged in some way, might lend themselves better to being Astra, or they won't hinder our abilities in that realm? Then again, I guess a revolver could become an Astra all the same too.

Nevertheless, while the revolver is nice, but I am a devotee of +1SWORDS. Plus an obsidian sword is too cool.

 

Don't do this. We don't have the skills to take on the shifter and protect Sophie. We can't really keep the new shifter from running off either. Sophie is easily safer off with just Tlalli and even that feels unsafe to us. This is just setting us up for disaster.

That's not the problem with a macuahuitl. Obsidian is crazy sharp, to the point of developing edges that are a single atom wide. A decent swing will cut.

And herein lies the problem. We don't have the skill to be swinging a thing like this, and the obsidian edges can very easily harm ourselves. I'm all for learning some melee weapons skill and picking up a macuahuitl on the way back, but right now we should stick with what we know. The revolver is probably a better pick than the slingshot imo. It has way better firepower and it's within our abilities to use, so unless we pick 1A or 2C where we're pressured to make difficult shots (or worse still, 2B where we'll end up in a melee), I'd take it.

I recommend 2D. Elizabeth has the support of Bernard, a special sphere to down the shapeshifter once it gets close, boots to escape if it gets hairy, and the shifter headed her way is injured. Sophie on the other hand has no boots, no sphere, no real ability to protect herself, and the shifter here is in top condition.

 

I am in favor of using the gun only in case of close quarter combat.

 

All right, edited my vote, having a long range weapon seems a good idea, with the caveat of using the gun only if the distance is minimal.

For whom to help, Sophie is a no brainer, conditionally Tlalli is the next most logical one.

By the way I realized now that Tlalli by the name, weapon and astra is Aztec, I am slow.

 

We joined a hunt to make ourselves useful. Now that the original plan went to shit, we need to adapt. I think that the best way to do so is to take down the wounded hag with Liz and Bernard and let Hunt3r Boi assess the situation from there. In addition, will get points with Elizabeth and, hopefully, convince Tlalli that we're a worthwhile apprentice.

That's rather the point of ambushing the ambusher. Standing like a jackass in the open, protecting the lone member isolated from combat, will leave us open to the ambush.

 

Still don't understand. How do you ambush someone who can see it coming?

You said it yourself, Sophie can spot an attacker ahead of time if there is one. What she can't do is fight it off.

Of course there is a chance that they would ambush other parties... but that is rather the point of 2D?

 

There's no real need to chase the wounded shifter. Elizabeth has a sphere from Tlalli designed to worsen its state, Bernard is there to fight it, she has boots to let her run, and the shifter headed her way is injured. It's Sophie who needs help right now. She has no sphere, no boots, and the shifter here is still in top condition. She can't protect herself. I'm fairly certain Tlalli can handle the shifter here, but I'm not sure she can simultaneously protect Sophie, so we should protect her.

Adding preference for second vote to D>A.

 

It's a shapeshifter. We have no idea what it can do, and we cannot assume Elizabeth is safe. She might freeze up, miss with the sphere or something similar. And the cat might not be able to take down even a slowed shifter.
We're assuming stuff. All the time.

My vote is tied to what I think/assume is the best course of action. How I see our character responding to the situation.

 

Look, the decision between guarding Sophie and trying to ambush any third shifter seems like an odd one to me. If Sophie can spot a third shifter, then she can call it out and we can intercept. Then why would we stand out in the open right by her? 2D doesn't make much sense to me, period.

There's no need to defend Sophie, unless one shifter or another somehow take down their current opponents and rush Sophie, or if there's a Shulgi third shifter hiding in the swamp. And if we're concerned about that one, why not try to strike at it, rather than letting it strike at us?

This is the key issue: we know nothing of the situation, all we can do right now is react. We can choose to react actively, or passively.

 

OK - I had forgotten the bit in the update where we picked the weapon in the morning, so at least we had a little bit of time to fiddle around with it.

I agree that Wrinkly can probably shoot something that's rushing him. I'm skeptical that if Wrinkly sees grandma being swarmed melee by the new enemy, that he can fire and not do friendly fire?

 

If Tlalli is being swarmed, than none of the weapons we have will be of much use. Either she has a handle on the situation or she doesn't, and us hitting these shapeshifters with slingshots, or brass knuckles, or even a club that we don't have much experience with. Revolver is the most powerful weapon and the easiest to handle. We've even got a skill point in ranged weapons!

 

If it's 2A I'd be more skeptical about how good the revolver is, but 2D puts us in a good position to aim and shoot when the thing comes our way.

 

1. B
I prefer the ranged weapon we have some experience with.
2. A>B
Not completely sure about this one yet tho.

 

Revolver has more firepower though. And it's easy enough to pick up, provided you have some understanding of revolvers and capability with ranged weapons. Also, asxetos, don't pick 2B. We're not good enough to take on the shifter and protect Sophie at the same time, that we'd send Tlalli away. We should really just focus on protecting Sophie imo.

 

The point about using it at longer range is salient. If we're in the back with Sophie, we might as well go with the slingshot to provide overwatch and long-range support.

I'm warming up to your idea of voting in packages, but it may already be too late to pitch it.

 

But baltika I thought you were squarely in the elizabeth faction how could you

 

===Early poll===

==1st choice==
A - 3 (2)
B - 6 (8)
C - 8 (9)
D - 1 (0)

==2nd choice==
A - 3 (2)
B - 2
C - 3 (5)
D - 9
E - 1 (0)

Votes (open) Votes (close)

Lambchop19 A>B D>B>C
ERYFKRAD A>D B>D
Esquilax A>B>D A

baud B>C C
Grimgravy B>C B
Life of the Party B D
Tigranes B D
Azira B>C A>C>B
asxetos B A>B

CappenVarra C C
ItsChon C>B D
Absinthe C>D D>A
Egosphere C D
Kz3r0 C>B D>B
hello friend C D
Nevill C D
Oscar C A

Baltika9 D>A>C E>C

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Well, she does have the curves... nah. And you're the one who wants to stick with her, ya lecher. I'm with Best Girl, 100%.

Which is why ya'll should vote CC: get a gun, shoot up a changeling with our girl, and then mop up whatever's left.

 

CD

 

AC

After reading the posts in the thread:
B > C
C