The algorithm for finding the longest path in a graph is NP-complete.
For you systems people, that means it's *real slow*.
-- Bart Miller
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This reverts commit 76b41d384bc2b4940ff03765497e04888cd22985
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This reverts commit 6f0e056c530f6c558fc15e0250ae064f6a62dd6e
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This reverts commit 7ad8b1de1d37ce2f95b5e3b919228d8dc878843b
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This reverts commit d65ceef7ec24aa110340c8145b00fbc564eaf415
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This reverts commit fbdf6ad62667b3dc568083438f022dd1ff121c83
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This reverts commit 4236322bebbd4bf5a7dd533872be4d995c06bd86
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diff --git a/dfrpg-nyc/themes/if-you-win-here/comment_1_8154cdaa1acac3ff12affb09773f06df._comment b/dfrpg-nyc/themes/if-you-win-here/comment_1_8154cdaa1acac3ff12affb09773f06df._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000..554d0af --- /dev/null +++ b/dfrpg-nyc/themes/if-you-win-here/comment_1_8154cdaa1acac3ff12affb09773f06df._comment @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + ip="67.91.232.226" + subject="Consumerism" + date="2010-08-09T21:50:39Z" + content=""" +Wall street is winning in finance. + +You could also say \"consumerism\" or \"advertising\" is winning here and spreading to the world. McDonalds is everywhere... Perhaps at some point we could have a Traditional Values coalition fighting them? Could be good guys or bad guys... +"""]] diff --git a/posts/Emi/comment_1_2a26e2255b918f8adde056be353c6b45._comment b/posts/Emi/comment_1_2a26e2255b918f8adde056be353c6b45._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee66b1a --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/Emi/comment_1_2a26e2255b918f8adde056be353c6b45._comment @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + ip="24.233.82.90" + subject="comment 1" + date="2010-06-06T02:33:22Z" + content=""" +YAAAAAAAY!!!!! +"""]] diff --git a/posts/Woburn_Carnival/comment_2_318dae23b8cc8dac34b7e8458d42b819._comment b/posts/Woburn_Carnival/comment_2_318dae23b8cc8dac34b7e8458d42b819._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000..46f2752 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/Woburn_Carnival/comment_2_318dae23b8cc8dac34b7e8458d42b819._comment @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="Kurgan" + subject="comment 2" + date="2010-05-08T17:34:54Z" + content=""" +Very cool! It's always too easy to forget all the amazing sights which are right around us. I have too much of a tendency to pull out the camera only when I travel. +"""]] diff --git a/posts/cosell/comment_1_0a0c8426c597a52a3ee53d474b501390._comment b/posts/cosell/comment_1_0a0c8426c597a52a3ee53d474b501390._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000..972626a --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/cosell/comment_1_0a0c8426c597a52a3ee53d474b501390._comment @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="idleroux" + subject="Yes but ..." + date="2010-05-29T13:53:42Z" + content=""" +I've always found that line of reasoning both convincing and uncomfortable, and I think you've just helped me understand why: + +1. The starting assumption is that we want (to be) craftsmen. Spending your off-hours learning about your craft (or finding a job where you get paid for what you spend your off-hours on) will undoubtedly make you better at it. It won't do much for your ability to handle anything outside your craft. Being too fascinated with the many shiny bits of life to devote all your time to any one of them puts you at a marked disadvantage as a craftsman, but gives you the kind of broad education which will help you when your job throws something unexpected your way (and who among us can be sure what their job will require a year from now?). + +2. On a related point: it dodges the question of what constitutes working on your craft. If your work is corporate websites in Java, does programming webapps in Python count as honing your craft? Writing games in Java? Hacking operating system kernels? Retrocomputing? Ham radio? Typographic design? Calligraphy? Watercolors? Writing or blogging? Poetry? Reading great literature? If the statement is to have any meaning, at some stage we must cease to call it \"learning about your job outside work\" and start referring to \"hobbies\". And yet I'm not at all sure where in that spectrum one ceases to learn ideas useful to one's work. + +3. It assumes that \"off-hours\" has a well-defined meaning independent of \"time you spend thinking about or working on your craft\". That may seem obvious in a corporate environment, but for students, academics, and the self-employed it certainly isn't. The clock does not send us home before we're tired of what we're doing. +"""]] diff --git a/posts/how-to-live-in-a-swamp/comment_1_c85ff685efdcbfef6acc4d9dbb7f3cc4._comment b/posts/how-to-live-in-a-swamp/comment_1_c85ff685efdcbfef6acc4d9dbb7f3cc4._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000..65cc609 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/how-to-live-in-a-swamp/comment_1_c85ff685efdcbfef6acc4d9dbb7f3cc4._comment @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://kevinr.free-dissociation.com/" + subject="distros for learning" + date="2010-05-29T03:07:42Z" + content=""" +I've been liking Ubuntu Server, and I've been installing it by default on new systems where I don't care about graphical whatsits. It's basically Debian with you the administrator added to sudoers by default and an update cycle that runs faster than a snail frozen in a glacier. Not that 'su -c' and building updated packages by hand aren't character-forming and all, but some people learn best by being eased in gradually rather than by being dropped in a shark tank and expected to swim. :-) +"""]] diff --git a/posts/how-to-live-in-a-swamp/comment_2_4c589067204dc528651760d9111924a3._comment b/posts/how-to-live-in-a-swamp/comment_2_4c589067204dc528651760d9111924a3._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000..07f4e47 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/how-to-live-in-a-swamp/comment_2_4c589067204dc528651760d9111924a3._comment @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="idleroux" + subject="This advice can be applied very broadly ..." + date="2010-05-29T14:05:14Z" + content=""" +At the risk of coming across as a complete raving Luddite. But a useful one. +"""]]
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diff --git a/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn b/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn
index 50be26d..6ae595b 100644
--- a/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn
+++ b/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn
@@ -20,19 +20,19 @@ lightning speed.
## ATTRIBUTES
* SPEED 4 (Crimson)
- * PRESENCE 5 (Gold)
+ * PRESENCE 6 (Gold)
* GENIUS 4 (White)
* MIGHT 1 (Jade)
* WU WEI 1 (Silver)
## SKILLS
-PRESENCE (5)
+PRESENCE (6)
* Confidence 3
* Grace 1 (When food is at stake 1)
* Inspire 1 (When food is at stake 1)
- * Persuade 3
+ * Persuade 4
SPEED (4)
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ GENIUS (4)
ADVANTAGES:
* Wealth 2 (comfortable)
+ * Mentor 4 (Grandpa)
LORES:
@@ -87,6 +88,8 @@ SECRET ARTS:
* 1: Inflame/soothe
* 1: stealth
* 3: Yin/yang technique
+ * 5: Paired inspiration technique
+ * 5: fast work
Equipment
@@ -99,15 +102,14 @@ Equipment
Deeds:
* 2 Kuan
- * 1 Yi
- * 1 Xia
+ * 2 Yi
+ * 2 Xia
* 1 Chan
+ * 1 Bao
+ * 1 Zhong,
+ * 1 Si
Destiny:
- * 66 (58 spent)
-
-Lore rolls:
-
- * Two successful rolls towards studying Confucianism!
+ * 78 (78 spent)
diff --git a/kung-food/session_seven.mdwn b/kung-food/session_seven.mdwn index b6655de..c294a0d 100644 --- a/kung-food/session_seven.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/session_seven.mdwn @@ -1,46 +1,43 @@ # Session 7: 21 April 2011 -((This is not the final session notes: this is just me transcribing my notes.)) *** -have partnered with grandpa: grandpa's ancestral jade pavilion +The life of a provincial cook will not suit an ambitious chef. No matter how delicious the foods he prepares, the ennui of cooking the locals their favorites day in and day out will lose its challenge, and rather than being master of all cuisines, he will become master of his own menu alone. To resist this, a true chef must never refuse a challenge! -still have foodcart +In the year after their victory over the Noxious Animals Gang, the Xia Food Heroes teamed up with Grandpa to merge their talents in the newly christened "Granpa's Ancestral Jade Pavillion!" Using their foodcard to drum up business around the city, they astounded all and sundry with their inspired concoctions. -tai li annoyed by chen's constant presumption +During that time, romance blossomed between the immaculate food-saint Chen Chawang and Grandpa's proper and filial granddaughter, Tai Li. On many occasions the great chef would condescend to share with her those of his simpler cooking techniques suitable for a girl of her years. This would delighter her her so greatly as to make her lose her grip on whatever knifes, cleavers, or pots of boiling oil she happened to be holding, flinging it across the room in feminine excitement, often in the general direction of chef Chen's head. -Wei Xuxeng invites us to palace: going on a trip! needs personal chefs! Only one month to prepare! (Surely no more exalted food found in any other kingdom", "Well, the 5 immortal food sages or the legendary mountain-dwelling sous-chef-eating food-critic, ... but yeah, I rock" It's a paying gig. +Late in that year, chief courtesan Wei Xuxeng bestowed an incomparable honor upon our heros: inviting them to serve as her personal chefs on her trip South! Chawang, unprepared as he was to claim equal standing with the Five Immortal Food Sages or to risk offending the Legendary Mountain-Dwelling Sous-Chef-Eating Food Critic with his hubris, knew better than to accept without argument her claim that he was the greatest chef in Shen Zhou, but readily admitted that he and his companions were the finest and humblest of chefs to be found in Thrashing Minister and thereabouts. That settled, the trip was ready to begin! -Get a list of ingredients. HO goes to great bear lu for help, storage advice. GB mentioned "scallop replacement techniqu" +(This was of course the expedition which culminated in the Terrible Clay Shards Battle of which the student may read numerous histories elsewhere. To be brief, the emperor had found himself a terracotta army, and not to be outdone, the lord of Thrashing Minister had determined to send the North's famous Terracotta Menagerie as a competing showpiece, with an actual zoo to demonstrate the accuracy of the terracotta creatures. The results were not quite as he expected.) -tai li annoyed by chen's constant presumption. Freaked out by our leaving. CC: "But you won't have to live in my shadow"! TL: "HATE HATE HATE" +During the month that they had to prepare, the heroes prepared for the travails of the road. Knowing that the dishes preferred by a refined palate such as Wei's would never withstand the heat of travel, Harmonious Ostrich solicited help from Great Bear Lu, who told him of the mysteries of the "Scallop Replacement Technique." -CC -- threatens tings, enlists xia warriors to threaten restaurant. +Meanwhile, Chao's mentor told him of the dangers of the South, where ambitious men used poison as if it were soy sauce, and soy sauce as if it were wine; where the unrighteous emperor would order men boiled in poisoned oil for knowledge of even a rumor of the Seven Sacred Jade Seals; and where intrigue lurked beneath every cooking pot. Gnomically, he explained, "Serve terracotta men only terracotta food!" -Chao's mentor tells him that they're escorting the terracotta zoo. the south is dangerous! poison all over! The emperor will do anything to get the seven sacred seals back! Serve terracotta men only terracotta food. +Through this time, Chen Chawang prepared for their absence. He enlisted local xia heroes to protect Grandpa's Ancestral Jade Pavilion while he was away, and passed a message to the Ting brothers that any protection racketeers attempting to muscle in on Grandpa's business would surely face in certain disadvantageous consequences most studiously to be avoided, not least of them a horrible kung-fu beat-down. -HO tells grandpa that we're leaving, and mentions CC's obvious infatuation with TL. +The lovely Tai Li was saddened by the great man's impending departure (in the retinue of a sophisticated lady, no less!), and his assurance that his time on the road would give her a chance to blossom outside of the shadow of his greatness did little to improve her mood. -CC to grandpa: "There's a woman! and an understanding!" G: KILL KILL CC: Yes, you and me making our last stand here ! WX will never. G: oh. nm. bye! +As a loyal servant, Harmonious Ostrich begged Grandpa's understanding concerning the matter of their (as yet unknown to Grandpa) departure, and Chawang's obvious infatuation with Tai Li. Shortly after, Chen Chawang informed Grandpa of Wei Xuxeng's demands for his services, offering instead to serve his mentor in all things even if it meant resisting the whole palace guard in a doomed last stand, if Grandpa so wished. Not unexpectedly, the food-sage wished his Chawang all the best on his long journey. -HO diagnoses curse on CC: loses breath in silver when patronizing TL. +It was around this time that Harmonious Ostrich noticed an eccentricity in Chawang's behavior -- clearly there was a curse at work! Chawang was unable to notice quite how Tai Li was offended by his presumptuous behavior because his very presumption interfered with his Silver Chi, blinding his senses to the subtle messages concealed in her feminine whirlwind of flying cutlery. -HO to mentor: "WX sent us off for aventure!" CM: "Unexpected. No. Really." +Finally, before the journey began, our heroes met with the quartermaster to ensure that they would have all the ingredients they'd need to please Wei Xuxeng and her retinue, and that he would be able to find some use for whatever leftovers were purchased in anticipation of greater needs than actually occurred. -Meet with harried quartermaster. Offer him leftoevers. "You trying to bribe me?" "No, trying to make sure you know how to use us" - -Off we go! Serve snacks at regular intervals. What WX doesn't want, give to others in her retinue. Use CUCTC on all kinds of folks. - -Chao gets shakedown: free northern banded pale ape? Gets note, threats.. They need constant singing to calm them down. They'd wreck terrible havoc if they got out. +And with that the journey had begun! Our heroes trailed out of the city in a long parade of courtiers, guards, terracotta, and animals. Many times each day, they'd bring their dimsum cart to the head of the procession, offering Wei Xuxeng and her courtiers a selections of delicious amuse-bouche . Whatever they declined, our heroes would share with others on the expedition. +Meanwhile, a figure Chao's shadowy past made itself known, in the form of threatening demands that he release the terribly violent and ill-tempered Northern Banded Pale Apes! What could the blackmailer's true purpose be? +(excerpt from *Manual of Righteous Culinary Excellence For The Proper Instruction of Filial Chefs* by "Inconceivable Food-God of Heaven and Earth" (poss. pseud. Chen Chawang?) ) *** Recipes: - + * Lots of snacks Destiny: @@ -51,8 +48,6 @@ Destiny: * 1 Loyalty to HO for helping CC * 1 individualism to CC for TL? -Notes: - People, places, and things:
diff --git a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn index 8fd32aa..3228abb 100644 --- a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn @@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ * [[Session three]], Sick Rat Broth * [[Session four]] and five, Nostalgic Mountain Dumplings * [[Session six]], All-Delicacies-Encompassing Smorgasbord -* [[Session seven]] (raw notes, nick must still edit) +* [[Session seven]], Amuse Bouche
Sort out attachment link nightmare
diff --git a/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn b/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn index 2d8c1ad..7c9db70 100644 --- a/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn +++ b/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ counts of most of the games in the archive (L5 is zipped, for example, so I didn't bother with it). This is a vary naive count: just the `wc -w` count of `.tex`, `.txt`., and `.mss` files. Games that have notes files with `.txt` extensions will include notes; games that have notes -files without extensions won't have their notes counted. +files without extensions won't have their notes counted. Get the raw +data from [`archive-word-counts.txt`](archive-word-counts.txt) <table> @@ -611,8 +612,8 @@ the workload to expect when writing a game. Anyone proposing to run a ten-day game of typical size and modern scale shorter than 200000 words is likely making a mistake. Some great stories are told about ten-days under 200000 words: Peace In Our Time, Moon Over Bourbon -Street, and Thebes^[I didn't count code, and I know Thebes had a fancy -computer-based element that went uncounted.] all seem to have gone +Street, and Thebes (I didn't count code, and I know Thebes had a fancy +computer-based element that went uncounted.) all seem to have gone well. But most of the ten-day games below that line didn't work, and most ten-days above that line did work. The big, blockbuster IAP tendays have been north of 250000 words. @@ -676,7 +677,21 @@ The most productive Potter GM peaked around fifty thousand words between January 1 and gamestart. All the data for these graphs, and the gnuplot scripts uses to build -them, are [available](attachments.html). +them, are available: + +#### Year 7 +[raw data file](potter-wc.data) +[gnuplot script](potter-wc.gnuplot) +[PDF output](potter-wc.pdf) +[PNG output](potter-wc.png) + +#### promises-wc.data +[raw data file](promises-wc.data) +[gnuplot script](promises-wc.gnuplot) +[PDF output](promises-wc.pdf) +[PNG output](promises-wc.png) + +### Questions Here's another tool for a Zampolit---not so useful for reports to the High Council, but perhaps useful for explaining to a GM team who is @@ -1056,7 +1071,11 @@ The *Potter* GM team didn't report any observed difference in fun between the top five and bottom five packet sizes. So perhaps this is barking up a blind alley. Either way, the tool -that produced those results is [also online](wc-char.sh). +that produced those results is [also online](wc-char.sh). In a GameTeX game, +make a new directory (say, "Wordcount"), copy `wc-char.sh` in there, +change its `GAME` variable to be the name of your game, and run +wc-char.sh. Just hit return through any LaTeX errors; you won't throw +counts off too far. ## Conclusions diff --git a/posts/counting-words-in-games/attachments.html b/posts/counting-words-in-games/attachments.html deleted file mode 100644 index 7871ba8..0000000 --- a/posts/counting-words-in-games/attachments.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,32 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> -<head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> - <meta name="generator" content="pandoc" /> - <title></title> -</head> -<body> -<h2 id="tools-and-data">Tools and data</h2> -<p><a href="archive-word-counts.txt">Word counts of every game in the archive</a></p> -<p><a href="wc-char.sh">Script for counting words-per-player</a>: in a GameTeX game, make a new directory (say, “Wordcount”), copy <code>wc-char.sh</code> in there, change its <code>GAME</code> variable to be the name of your game, and run wc-char.sh. Just hit return through any LaTeX errors; you won’t throw counts off too far.</p> -<h3 id="zampolit">Zampolit</h3> -<p>To run <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/zampolit"><code>Zampolit</code></a> and collect the data for these pretty graphs, you need a few things:</p> -<ul> -<li>The version control system <code>git</code>, with its svn extensions.<br /></li> -<li>Gnuplot.</li> -<li>Haskell.</li> -</ul> -<p>Athena and all modern operating systems have the first two, either installed by default or in a locker or easily installed package. But Haskell’s more of a pain. You can <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/">download it</a>, then run:</p> -<pre><code>cabal update -cabal install zampolit -git svn clone PATH/TO/YOUR/GAME # replace this -cd YOUR/GAME -zampolit -</code></pre> -<p>It will churn for a while through the entire history of your game, then deposit <code>GAME-wc.data</code> and <code>GAME-wc.gnuplot</code>. If you have Gnuplot installed, it will even run gnuplot for you to produce <code>GAME-wc.pdf</code>.</p> -<h2 id="year-7">Year 7</h2> -<p><a href="potter-wc.data">raw data file</a> <a href="potter-wc.gnuplot">gnuplot script</a> <a href="potter-wc.pdf">PDF output</a> <a href="potter-wc.png">PNG output</a></p> -<h2 id="promises-wc.data">promises-wc.data</h2> -<p><a href="promises-wc.data">raw data file</a> <a href="promises-wc.gnuplot">gnuplot script</a> <a href="promises-wc.pdf">PDF output</a> <a href="promises-wc.png">PNG output</a></p> -</body> -</html> diff --git a/posts/counting-words-in-games/attachments.text b/posts/counting-words-in-games/attachments.text deleted file mode 100644 index 8ae3435..0000000 --- a/posts/counting-words-in-games/attachments.text +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -## Tools and data - -<a href="archive-word-counts.txt">Word counts of every game in the -archive</a> - -[Script for counting words-per-player](wc-char.sh): in a GameTeX game, -make a new directory (say, "Wordcount"), copy `wc-char.sh` in there, -change its `GAME` variable to be the name of your game, and run -wc-char.sh. Just hit return through any LaTeX errors; you won't throw -counts off too far. - -### Zampolit - -To run [`Zampolit`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/zampolit) and -collect the data for these pretty graphs, you need a few things: - -* The version control system `git`, with its svn extensions. -* Gnuplot. -* Haskell. - -Athena and all modern operating systems have the first two, either -installed by default or in a locker or easily installed package. -But Haskell's more of a pain. You can [download -it](http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/), then run: - - cabal update - cabal install zampolit - git svn clone PATH/TO/YOUR/GAME # replace this - cd YOUR/GAME - zampolit - -It will churn for a while through the entire history of your game, -then deposit `GAME-wc.data` and `GAME-wc.gnuplot`. If you have Gnuplot -installed, it will even run gnuplot for you to produce `GAME-wc.pdf`. - -## Year 7 -[raw data file](potter-wc.data) -[gnuplot script](potter-wc.gnuplot) -[PDF output](potter-wc.pdf) -[PNG output](potter-wc.png) - -## promises-wc.data -[raw data file](promises-wc.data) -[gnuplot script](promises-wc.gnuplot) -[PDF output](promises-wc.pdf) -[PNG output](promises-wc.png)
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diff --git a/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn b/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn index 405ba80..2d8c1ad 100644 --- a/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn +++ b/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn @@ -703,6 +703,15 @@ rules, scenario, or wall signs. It also doesn't count Notebooks, because the TeX for those is awkward to work around. Patches to the script are welcome. +<table> +<caption><em>Promises</em> word counts per packet</caption> +<tr class="theader"> +<th>Character</th> +<th>Words</th> +</tr> +<tr class="odd"><td align="left">cStoriesPriest</td><td align="right">12415</td></tr> +<tr class="even"><td align="left">cWest</td><td align="right">10426</td></tr> +<tr class="odd"><td align="left">cLooterSpy</td><td align="right">9886</td></tr> <tr class="even"> <td align="left">cDealsPriest</td> <td align="right">9854</td>
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diff --git a/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn b/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn index a88f022..405ba80 100644 --- a/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn +++ b/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn @@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ The most productive Potter GM peaked around fifty thousand words between January 1 and gamestart. All the data for these graphs, and the gnuplot scripts uses to build -them, are [available](counting-words-in-games). +them, are [available](attachments.html). Here's another tool for a Zampolit---not so useful for reports to the High Council, but perhaps useful for explaining to a GM team who is @@ -1047,8 +1047,7 @@ The *Potter* GM team didn't report any observed difference in fun between the top five and bottom five packet sizes. So perhaps this is barking up a blind alley. Either way, the tool -that produced those results is [also -online](wc-char.sh). +that produced those results is [also online](wc-char.sh). ## Conclusions
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diff --git a/posts/counting-words-in-games/attachments.html b/posts/counting-words-in-games/attachments.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7871ba8 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/counting-words-in-games/attachments.html @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> +<head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> + <meta name="generator" content="pandoc" /> + <title></title> +</head> +<body> +<h2 id="tools-and-data">Tools and data</h2> +<p><a href="archive-word-counts.txt">Word counts of every game in the archive</a></p> +<p><a href="wc-char.sh">Script for counting words-per-player</a>: in a GameTeX game, make a new directory (say, “Wordcount”), copy <code>wc-char.sh</code> in there, change its <code>GAME</code> variable to be the name of your game, and run wc-char.sh. Just hit return through any LaTeX errors; you won’t throw counts off too far.</p> +<h3 id="zampolit">Zampolit</h3> +<p>To run <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/zampolit"><code>Zampolit</code></a> and collect the data for these pretty graphs, you need a few things:</p> +<ul> +<li>The version control system <code>git</code>, with its svn extensions.<br /></li> +<li>Gnuplot.</li> +<li>Haskell.</li> +</ul> +<p>Athena and all modern operating systems have the first two, either installed by default or in a locker or easily installed package. But Haskell’s more of a pain. You can <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/">download it</a>, then run:</p> +<pre><code>cabal update +cabal install zampolit +git svn clone PATH/TO/YOUR/GAME # replace this +cd YOUR/GAME +zampolit +</code></pre> +<p>It will churn for a while through the entire history of your game, then deposit <code>GAME-wc.data</code> and <code>GAME-wc.gnuplot</code>. If you have Gnuplot installed, it will even run gnuplot for you to produce <code>GAME-wc.pdf</code>.</p> +<h2 id="year-7">Year 7</h2> +<p><a href="potter-wc.data">raw data file</a> <a href="potter-wc.gnuplot">gnuplot script</a> <a href="potter-wc.pdf">PDF output</a> <a href="potter-wc.png">PNG output</a></p> +<h2 id="promises-wc.data">promises-wc.data</h2> +<p><a href="promises-wc.data">raw data file</a> <a href="promises-wc.gnuplot">gnuplot script</a> <a href="promises-wc.pdf">PDF output</a> <a href="promises-wc.png">PNG output</a></p> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/posts/counting-words-in-games/attachments.text b/posts/counting-words-in-games/attachments.text new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8ae3435 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/counting-words-in-games/attachments.text @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +## Tools and data + +<a href="archive-word-counts.txt">Word counts of every game in the +archive</a> + +[Script for counting words-per-player](wc-char.sh): in a GameTeX game, +make a new directory (say, "Wordcount"), copy `wc-char.sh` in there, +change its `GAME` variable to be the name of your game, and run +wc-char.sh. Just hit return through any LaTeX errors; you won't throw +counts off too far. + +### Zampolit + +To run [`Zampolit`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/zampolit) and +collect the data for these pretty graphs, you need a few things: + +* The version control system `git`, with its svn extensions. +* Gnuplot. +* Haskell. + +Athena and all modern operating systems have the first two, either +installed by default or in a locker or easily installed package. +But Haskell's more of a pain. You can [download +it](http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/), then run: + + cabal update + cabal install zampolit + git svn clone PATH/TO/YOUR/GAME # replace this + cd YOUR/GAME + zampolit + +It will churn for a while through the entire history of your game, +then deposit `GAME-wc.data` and `GAME-wc.gnuplot`. If you have Gnuplot +installed, it will even run gnuplot for you to produce `GAME-wc.pdf`. + +## Year 7 +[raw data file](potter-wc.data) +[gnuplot script](potter-wc.gnuplot) +[PDF output](potter-wc.pdf) +[PNG output](potter-wc.png) + +## promises-wc.data +[raw data file](promises-wc.data) +[gnuplot script](promises-wc.gnuplot) +[PDF output](promises-wc.pdf) +[PNG output](promises-wc.png)
diff --git a/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn b/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn index 76107ab..a88f022 100644 --- a/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn +++ b/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ files without extensions won't have their notes counted. <table> <caption>Word-counts of games</caption> -<tr class="header"> +<tr class="theader"> <th align="left">Name</th> <th align="right">Words</th> <th align="left">Remark</th> @@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ assigned to a character---I cleaned nothing. <table> <caption><em>Year 7</em> word counts per packet</caption> -<tr class="header"> +<tr class="theader"> <th align="left">Character</th> <th align="right">Words</th> </tr>
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diff --git a/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn b/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn index b058fe4..76107ab 100644 --- a/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn +++ b/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn @@ -637,8 +637,8 @@ editing and polishing? I wrote a tool called [`Zampolit`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/zampolit) for measuring this. It makes graphs like the following, for *Fistful of Promises*: -<a href="counting-words-in-games/promises-wc.pdf"><img -src="counting-words-in-games/promises-wc.png" alt="Promises +<a href="promises-wc.pdf"><img +src="promises-wc.png" alt="Promises wordcount"></a> Each dot is a commit to the repository. Each color represents one @@ -658,8 +658,8 @@ productive, we'd been producing about 10000 words/month. Here's another example, thanks to help from Ariel: -<a href="counting-words-in-games/potter-wc.pdf"><img -src="counting-words-in-games/potter-wc.png" alt=Potter +<a href="potter-wc.pdf"><img +src="potter-wc.png" alt=Potter wordcount"></a> They kept writing without the sort of pause we had. One GM wrote half @@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ between the top five and bottom five packet sizes. So perhaps this is barking up a blind alley. Either way, the tool that produced those results is [also -online](counting-words-in-games/wc-char.sh). +online](wc-char.sh). ## Conclusions
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diff --git a/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn b/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn index c273543..b058fe4 100644 --- a/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn +++ b/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn @@ -18,125 +18,584 @@ files with `.txt` extensions will include notes; games that have notes files without extensions won't have their notes counted. -Name Words Remark ------------------- ------ -------------- -Weird 939361 520k are script-generated Archeology Sites -Caer Phaedria 558000 count from GM team -Xiaolong 522181 -Shadows 478993 -Year7 468159 -Macondo 363054 -Conspiracy 343444 -Jersey 342067 -Die 340785 -Nexus 339810 -Terror 334393 -Tokyo 311476 -Catastrophe 299374 -Stage 293089 -Times 273985 -Deathwish 267243 100 players! -Calypso 256431 -Yendi 256051 -Centauri 254488 -Horrors 244692 -Midnight 238226 Five minutes, not Moscow -Storms 227963 -Promises 221025 3-days start here -Action 220024 -Siege 210818 -Peace 209436 -Planet 205326 -Cyber 202031 -Haven 193138 -Castles 190959 -Mystic 190610 -Generic 176479 -Zagreb 172797 -RC4 172618 1-nights start here -Shades 171758 -Thebes 171014 -Starwars 170661 -Winter 168118 -Tenchi 158153 -Bourbon 154327 Invented cinematic combat -Magic 154053 -Showdown 153566 -Cinarak 152771 -EIT 150714 -Kurita 149098 -Darkover 144202 -Trek 144111 -SanDiablo 140950 -B5 137967 -Moscow 137167 Only ten-day to run twice? -Rico 133879 -Nobody 133737 -Deryni 128794 -Candyland 128427 -Midwest 127041 -Rush2064 125675 -Hotel 122285 -Discworld 117315 -Epilogue 117309 -Levels 116665 -Ankara 113798 Shortest ten-day? -3EdgedSword 111538 -Buffy 108332 -BLRhetoric 108151 -Reality 106909 -Darcy 104123 -Shorttrek 103635 -Massacre 96253 -Convention 87949 A seven-day game. -London 84298 -Quazar 83599 -Derelict 81544 -Bladensburg 80063 -Orient 76872 -Faerie 75713 -Eilanmoor 72148 -Sciencetown 69406 -TFord 68868 -BattleRoyale 68183 -Starlight2 64159 -Starlight 63479 Most-often run game? -Athens 60766 -Starlight3 60636 -Dauntless 60312 -Berkley 53471 -JapanBeforeTime 48874 -CEB 47389 -Shorttrek2 45026 -Madlibs 42131 -Waunabaiaduk 41650 -PersephonesGift 41519 -Dune 40687 -X-files 40399 -Tabloid 40356 -CantSleep 39779 -HPMeanwhile 39187 -Pirate 37769 -Reindeer 35339 -Tea-unfinished 31439 -Daria 31163 -Prisoner 29132 -Equator 22167 -Opera 21438 -Trek-old 15216 -Caverns 14427 Plain text files only -Jamaharet 13643 -Hell 10118 -Asylum 10049 -Atlantis-II 8523 -Atlantis-I 7215 -Family-Business-SIK 6053 -Nesir 2176 -Talbot-Houses 1762 -Final-Bash 918 - -Table: Word-counts of games - +<table> +<caption>Word-counts of games</caption> +<tr class="header"> +<th align="left">Name</th> +<th align="right">Words</th> +<th align="left">Remark</th> +</tr> +<tr class="odd"> +<td align="left">Weird</td> +<td align="right">939361</td> +<td align="left">520k are script-generated Archeology Sites</td> +</tr> +<tr class="even"> +<td align="left">Caer Phaedria</td> +<td align="right">558000</td> +<td align="left">count from GM team</td> +</tr> +<tr class="odd"> +<td align="left">Xiaolong</td> +<td align="right">522181</td> +<td align="left"></td> +</tr> +<tr class="even"> +<td align="left">Shadows</td> +<td align="right">478993</td> +<td align="left"></td> +</tr> +<tr class="odd"> +<td align="left">Year7</td> +<td align="right">468159</td> +<td align="left"></td> +</tr> +<tr class="even"> +<td align="left">Macondo</td> +<td align="right">363054</td> +<td align="left"></td> +</tr> +<tr class="odd"> +<td align="left">Conspiracy</td> +<td align="right">343444</td> +<td align="left"></td> +</tr> +<tr class="even"> +<td align="left">Jersey</td> +<td align="right">342067</td> +<td align="left"></td> +</tr> +<tr class="odd"> +<td align="left">Die</td> +<td align="right">340785</td> +<td align="left"></td> +</tr> +<tr class="even"> +<td align="left">Nexus</td> +<td align="right">339810</td> +<td align="left"></td> +</tr> +<tr class="odd"> +<td align="left">Terror</td> +<td align="right">334393</td> +<td align="left"></td> +</tr> +<tr class="even"> +<td align="left">Tokyo</td> +<td align="right">311476</td> +<td align="left"></td> +</tr> +<tr class="odd"> +<td align="left">Catastrophe</td> +<td align="right">299374</td> +<td align="left"></td> +</tr> +<tr class="even"> (Diff truncated)
Counting words in games
diff --git a/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn b/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c273543 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/counting-words-in-games.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,365 @@ +[[!meta title="Counting words in games."]] +[[!meta date="2011-05-08 14:33:00"]] + +I've been thinking lately about game quality. What does it mean to be +"in a box"? How should Zampolits make their decision and report? Can +you tell if a game will be any good before it's run? Can you tell +automatically? I've made a little progress on these questions, so I'm +here to talk about the tools I've built, the data I've gathered, the +guesses I have, and the experiments that have failed to disprove them. + +## Total word count + +First, I wondered whether big games are better. Here's the word +counts of most of the games in the archive (L5 is zipped, for example, +so I didn't bother with it). This is a vary naive count: just the +`wc -w` count of `.tex`, `.txt`., and `.mss` files. Games that have notes +files with `.txt` extensions will include notes; games that have notes +files without extensions won't have their notes counted. + + +Name Words Remark +------------------ ------ -------------- +Weird 939361 520k are script-generated Archeology Sites +Caer Phaedria 558000 count from GM team +Xiaolong 522181 +Shadows 478993 +Year7 468159 +Macondo 363054 +Conspiracy 343444 +Jersey 342067 +Die 340785 +Nexus 339810 +Terror 334393 +Tokyo 311476 +Catastrophe 299374 +Stage 293089 +Times 273985 +Deathwish 267243 100 players! +Calypso 256431 +Yendi 256051 +Centauri 254488 +Horrors 244692 +Midnight 238226 Five minutes, not Moscow +Storms 227963 +Promises 221025 3-days start here +Action 220024 +Siege 210818 +Peace 209436 +Planet 205326 +Cyber 202031 +Haven 193138 +Castles 190959 +Mystic 190610 +Generic 176479 +Zagreb 172797 +RC4 172618 1-nights start here +Shades 171758 +Thebes 171014 +Starwars 170661 +Winter 168118 +Tenchi 158153 +Bourbon 154327 Invented cinematic combat +Magic 154053 +Showdown 153566 +Cinarak 152771 +EIT 150714 +Kurita 149098 +Darkover 144202 +Trek 144111 +SanDiablo 140950 +B5 137967 +Moscow 137167 Only ten-day to run twice? +Rico 133879 +Nobody 133737 +Deryni 128794 +Candyland 128427 +Midwest 127041 +Rush2064 125675 +Hotel 122285 +Discworld 117315 +Epilogue 117309 +Levels 116665 +Ankara 113798 Shortest ten-day? +3EdgedSword 111538 +Buffy 108332 +BLRhetoric 108151 +Reality 106909 +Darcy 104123 +Shorttrek 103635 +Massacre 96253 +Convention 87949 A seven-day game. +London 84298 +Quazar 83599 +Derelict 81544 +Bladensburg 80063 +Orient 76872 +Faerie 75713 +Eilanmoor 72148 +Sciencetown 69406 +TFord 68868 +BattleRoyale 68183 +Starlight2 64159 +Starlight 63479 Most-often run game? +Athens 60766 +Starlight3 60636 +Dauntless 60312 +Berkley 53471 +JapanBeforeTime 48874 +CEB 47389 +Shorttrek2 45026 +Madlibs 42131 +Waunabaiaduk 41650 +PersephonesGift 41519 +Dune 40687 +X-files 40399 +Tabloid 40356 +CantSleep 39779 +HPMeanwhile 39187 +Pirate 37769 +Reindeer 35339 +Tea-unfinished 31439 +Daria 31163 +Prisoner 29132 +Equator 22167 +Opera 21438 +Trek-old 15216 +Caverns 14427 Plain text files only +Jamaharet 13643 +Hell 10118 +Asylum 10049 +Atlantis-II 8523 +Atlantis-I 7215 +Family-Business-SIK 6053 +Nesir 2176 +Talbot-Houses 1762 +Final-Bash 918 + +Table: Word-counts of games + + +What's immediately visible from the data? First, ten days tend to be +longer than three days tend to be longer than one-nights. The +shortest games are the oldest games, though the oldest aren't +necessarily the shortest: some 20-year-old games are +near the top of the list. + +Certainly some of the best games rise to the top, and some of the +worst games are far down the list. + +All I can see is some ways to guess at a *bad* game, and perhaps at +the workload to expect when writing a game. Anyone proposing to run a +ten-day game of typical size and modern scale shorter than 200000 +words is likely making a mistake. Some great stories are told about +ten-days under 200000 words: Peace In Our Time, Moon Over Bourbon +Street, and Thebes^[I didn't count code, and I know Thebes had a fancy +computer-based element that went uncounted.] all seem to have gone +well. But most of the ten-day games below that line didn't work, and +most ten-days above that line did work. The big, blockbuster IAP +tendays have been north of 250000 words. + +Three-days that think they're ready to run while under 100000 words +ought to make the GM team and Zampolit nervous. One-nights have been +quite successful down to 40000 words, but what we call one-nights +include two-hour and eight-hour games, so that's awfully fuzzy. To +say anything more specific, we'd need to know something about game +duration---how many hours each player spends in game, maybe. + + +## Productivity + +So that's part of a Zampolit's job: if a GM team is writing a thousand +words per week, and they want to run in a year, they'll have either a +one-night or a broken quarter of a ten-day. What else can we tell? + +Well, how soon before runtime should a game cross that threshold? How +much creation should be happening in the last days, and how much +editing and polishing? I wrote a tool called +[`Zampolit`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/zampolit) for measuring +this. It makes graphs like the following, for *Fistful of Promises*: + +<a href="counting-words-in-games/wc-promises.pdf"><img +src="counting-words-in-games/wc-promises.png" alt="Promises +wordcount"></a> + +Each dot is a commit to the repository. Each color represents one +GM. This counts only *new* words. No credit is given for editing or +improvement. So some of those frantic clusters of dots are a GM +fixing broken TeX throughout the game, but since they aren't producing +words, they don't get credit for that work. Some of the early +vertical bits come from copying GameTeX template files to new names, +changing only one line, and checking that in. + +But overall, you can see trends: one GM wrote about half of the game. +We took a long break through Fall term. We went into crunch mode two (Diff truncated)
diff --git a/kung-food/session_seven.mdwn b/kung-food/session_seven.mdwn index c192ccf..b6655de 100644 --- a/kung-food/session_seven.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/session_seven.mdwn @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Meet with harried quartermaster. Offer him leftoevers. "You trying to bribe m Off we go! Serve snacks at regular intervals. What WX doesn't want, give to others in her retinue. Use CUCTC on all kinds of folks. -Chao gets shakedown: free northern banded pale ape? Gets note, threads. They need +Chao gets shakedown: free northern banded pale ape? Gets note, threats.. They need constant singing to calm them down. They'd wreck terrible havoc if they got out.
diff --git a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn index 1c97257..8fd32aa 100644 --- a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn @@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ * [[Session three]], Sick Rat Broth * [[Session four]] and five, Nostalgic Mountain Dumplings * [[Session six]], All-Delicacies-Encompassing Smorgasbord -* [[Session seven]] +* [[Session seven]] (raw notes, nick must still edit)
diff --git a/kung-food/session_seven.mdwn b/kung-food/session_seven.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c192ccf --- /dev/null +++ b/kung-food/session_seven.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +# Session 7: 21 April 2011 + +((This is not the final session notes: this is just me transcribing my notes.)) + +*** + +have partnered with grandpa: grandpa's ancestral jade pavilion + +still have foodcart + +tai li annoyed by chen's constant presumption + +Wei Xuxeng invites us to palace: going on a trip! needs personal chefs! Only one month to prepare! (Surely no more exalted food found in any other kingdom", "Well, the 5 immortal food sages or the legendary mountain-dwelling sous-chef-eating food-critic, ... but yeah, I rock" It's a paying gig. + +Get a list of ingredients. HO goes to great bear lu for help, storage advice. GB mentioned "scallop replacement techniqu" + +tai li annoyed by chen's constant presumption. Freaked out by our leaving. CC: "But you won't have to live in my shadow"! TL: "HATE HATE HATE" + +CC -- threatens tings, enlists xia warriors to threaten restaurant. + +Chao's mentor tells him that they're escorting the terracotta zoo. the south is dangerous! poison all over! The emperor will do anything to get the seven sacred seals back! Serve terracotta men only terracotta food. + +HO tells grandpa that we're leaving, and mentions CC's obvious infatuation with TL. + +CC to grandpa: "There's a woman! and an understanding!" G: KILL KILL CC: Yes, you and me making our last stand here ! WX will never. G: oh. nm. bye! + +HO diagnoses curse on CC: loses breath in silver when patronizing TL. + +HO to mentor: "WX sent us off for aventure!" CM: "Unexpected. No. Really." + +Meet with harried quartermaster. Offer him leftoevers. "You trying to bribe me?" "No, trying to make sure you know how to use us" + +Off we go! Serve snacks at regular intervals. What WX doesn't want, give to others in her retinue. Use CUCTC on all kinds of folks. + +Chao gets shakedown: free northern banded pale ape? Gets note, threads. They need + + + + +*** + +Recipes: + + +Destiny: + + * 1 destiny to everyone for showing up + * 1 destiny to Nick for writeup + * 1 Ferocity to Chen Chawang for threatening tings + * 1 Loyalty to CC for grandpa + * 1 Loyalty to HO for helping CC + * 1 individualism to CC for TL? + +Notes: + + +People, places, and things: + + * Grandpa + * Tai Li + * Wei Xuxeng + * All mentors + * the quartermaster + * the terracotta zoo + * the real zoo + * the apes + * the seals
diff --git a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn index b17f370..1c97257 100644 --- a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn @@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ * [[Session three]], Sick Rat Broth * [[Session four]] and five, Nostalgic Mountain Dumplings * [[Session six]], All-Delicacies-Encompassing Smorgasbord +* [[Session seven]]
diff --git a/kung-food/session_six.mdwn b/kung-food/session_six.mdwn index 6b0f451..3e30d26 100644 --- a/kung-food/session_six.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/session_six.mdwn @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ Destiny: * 1 Xia deed to everyone for smacking Stalwart Rat down. * 1 Kuan deed to HO for returning SW to life with epic ginseng * 1 Kuan deed to HO for butchering meat, giving better portion to Grandpa and Tai Li. + * 1 Ba deed to Chao for mid-air butchering of a songbird Notes:
diff --git a/kung-food/session_six.mdwn b/kung-food/session_six.mdwn index f4743c6..6b0f451 100644 --- a/kung-food/session_six.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/session_six.mdwn @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Meanwhile, Harmonious Ostrich began to butcher the mea in equal shares, and foun As concerned the songbird, Chao saved the day once again with his eagle eye and quick reflexes, and a single thrown blade. Shadows and light flashed through the air around the bird, which fell to the found neatly bisected, slightly glowing. -Remembering the fear that he had awakened in Stalwat Rat's heart during the fight at his restaurant, Chawang inflamed it further to draw him out, making him prone to start fights all the time, for fear of being thought weak! In doing so, Chawang hoped to expose the wicked chef as contemptible before the other judges, and perhaps give the honored Wu Xuxeng a chance to see a fight without having to lose face by starting one himself where others could see. Stalwart Rat tried to attack the Taoist Ostrich, but +Remembering the fear that he had awakened in Stalwat Rat's heart during the fight at his restaurant, Chawang inflamed it further to draw him out, making him prone to start fights all the time, for fear of being thought weak! In doing so, Chawang hoped to expose the wicked chef as contemptible before the other judges, and perhaps give the honored Wei Xuxeng a chance to see a fight without having to lose face by starting one himself where others could see. Stalwart Rat tried to attack the Taoist Ostrich, but > Harmonious Ostrich, always prepared, > prudently vanished from sight @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ The wicked chef lay dying. But it's not fair to win a competition by killing a And soon after that, the competition was over! -Our heroes' food was the more beautifully presented, and the more faithful to classical principles of cuisine. Grandpa's and Tai Li's was, however, the more delicious, perhaps of Grandpa's years of experience, or perhaps because they hadn't distracted themselves from their efforts in order to beat up an unrighteous judge. Wu Xuxeng was moved by the beautiful presentation, and voted for Chawang, Chao, and Ostrich! At first, Wandering Star did as well, out of loyalty... but when Stalwart Rat weakly voted for our heros out of appreciation for their attention to historical detail, she was moved by her native honesty to cast her vote for Grandpa's cuisine. When a Rat is honest, how can a Star remain partisan? Still, Chawang and his companions had won the contest two to one: they had permission to run a restaurant in the old city! +Our heroes' food was the more beautifully presented, and the more faithful to classical principles of cuisine. Grandpa's and Tai Li's was, however, the more delicious, perhaps of Grandpa's years of experience, or perhaps because they hadn't distracted themselves from their efforts in order to beat up an unrighteous judge. Wei Xuxeng was moved by the beautiful presentation, and voted for Chawang, Chao, and Ostrich! At first, Wandering Star did as well, out of loyalty... but when Stalwart Rat weakly voted for our heros out of appreciation for their attention to historical detail, she was moved by her native honesty to cast her vote for Grandpa's cuisine. When a Rat is honest, how can a Star remain partisan? Still, Chawang and his companions had won the contest two to one: they had permission to run a restaurant in the old city! Later, Chao bought the Mad Staff to his sifu as a gift, begging him to find some way to bestow it to a worthy party. Such an instrument of evil could scarcely be left in the hands of Hell Clan, yet none of the heroes wanted to wield the wicked, corrupt, and blatantly ineffective god-weapon.
diff --git a/kung-food/session_six.mdwn b/kung-food/session_six.mdwn index d08097d..f4743c6 100644 --- a/kung-food/session_six.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/session_six.mdwn @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Remembering the fear that he had awakened in Stalwat Rat's heart during the figh Meanwhile, the cooking continued apace, with the judges moving around the arena, and both sides striving to do their best! -For lack of other fights to pick, Rat eventually began to utter unforgivable insults, which this volume would never dare to repeat, to the person of Wei Xuxeng! Such an insult against a respectable concubine could not stand! Immediately, Chawang declared his intention to punish the wicked rat-cook! Though the brutal Rat swung his terrible staff around him with demonic ferocity, the righteous kung-fu of our heroes had him totally overmatched, and in the space of time it takes to toast a single grain of rice, the cuisine warriors had smashed his bones, knocked him into a mass of boiling cauldrons, forced a skewer of the meat he had poisoned meat down his throat, lit his garments on fire, but , and disarmed him. +For lack of other fights to pick, Rat eventually began to utter unforgivable insults, which this volume would never dare to repeat, to the person of Wei Xuxeng! Such an insult against a respectable concubine could not stand! Immediately, Chawang declared his intention to punish the wicked rat-cook! Though the brutal Rat swung his terrible staff around him with demonic ferocity, the righteous kung-fu of our heroes had him totally overmatched, and in the space of time it takes to toast a single grain of rice, the cuisine warriors had smashed his bones, knocked him into a mass of boiling cauldrons, forced a skewer of the meat he had poisoned down his throat, lit his garments on fire, and disarmed him. The wicked chef lay dying. But it's not fair to win a competition by killing a judge, even if he had it coming! So using the priceless ginseng that Chao had earlier liberated from Stalwart Rat's kitchen,
diff --git a/kung-food/session_six.mdwn b/kung-food/session_six.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d08097d --- /dev/null +++ b/kung-food/session_six.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +# Session 6: 24 March 2011 + +*** + +To present a meal, no less than in composing a poem or arranging a garden, you must learn to weave subtle strands of theme and meaning between each element. It is not sufficient to produce a collection of dishes beautiful on their own: each must serve a purpose in a greater whole. + +It is for this reason that you must learn to prepare the All-Things-Encompassing Smorgasbord. + +Ordinarily, when we speak of the All-Things-Encompassing Smorgasbord, we speak of the Smorgasbord that the master prepares a thousand times in his mind's eye. He imagines himself in the Celestial Kitchen, with all ingredients stretching before him. He imagines that he is to prepare the Smorgasbord for the Heavenly Emperor, preparing a harmonious feast to highlight the perfection and purity of all ingredients from Heaven and Earth, allowing none to rise to pre-eminence. Every day he rearranges his menu, asking himself: When shall I serve the truffled peacock? Is it better to serve Hell's vegetables in an iced dessert, or grilled until they begin to char? Should the phoenix dumplings be brought to the table on their own, or will a light broth made from a dragon's shed skin better enhance their delicacy? (And is it auspicious to begin *and* end a meal with a phoenix dish, or is that altogether too twee?) + +Thus, although only four recorded chefs in history and legend have ever had the opportunity to prepare such a feast, every master chef who has ever lived has surely prepared ten thousand All-Things-Encompassing Smorgasbords in his mind. + +But nobody can get full of imaginary rice! Though you may never encounter a ruler so secure in his rule that his court can spend the seven years required to consume the Smorgasbord, or so devoted to cuisine that he is willing to pauperize his kingdom in order to fetch you each of the Seventy-One Thousand And One necessary ingredients, you must still approach each feast as if it were a facet of the All-Things-Encompassing Smorgasbord. Only by testing your skills against lesser feasts can you stand in readiness for the greatest banquet of all. + +One such test that you will have heard of is the battle between the Righteous Culinary Heros and the appointed representatives of the Restaurant Guild. + +None of the Guild's wicked leaders, the notorious Noxious Animals Gang, were willing to test their skills against the xia warriors. Instead, they sent the chef we name as "Grandfather Of Culinary Perfection," who at that time was called "Grandpa" for short. Though he was no creature of the Guild's corrupt masters, he was more than willing to do battle as the embodiment of the honor that a true restaurant guild ought to have had. His granddaughter, Tai Li, came to assist him with her skills. + +Judging the contest were Wandering Star of the Nan clan, Wei Xuxeng of the Palace beautification committee, and Chef Stalwart Rat, wicked thug-cook of the Noxious Animals. + +The garden had been prepared with areas for roasting, boiling, vegetables, and desserts. As the competition began, Harmonious Ostrich altruistically declared that he would butcher meat not only for his own team, but for their competitors as well! The others ran to the vegetables, gathering the ones they needed for their dishes. Some minor misunderstanding was created concerning a spoiled jar of fish guts which Chawang had prepared in the eventuality that he would be facing corrupt opponents prone to smash his condiments. Alas, he was facing only a *playful* opponent, Tai Li, whose natural exuberance nearly led to all and sundry finding themselves splattered with rotten fish. Fortunately, thanks to Chao's quick thinking, the jar missed, and crisis was averted. + +Meanwhile, Harmonious Ostrich began to butcher the mea in equal shares, and found that only a single songbird had been provided, which he magnanimously released. But when he turned around, he found Stalwart Rat behind him, berating him about the poor creature. "You can't do without the songbird! It holds the whole feast together!" Stalwart Rat began to lay about himself with his god-weapon, the Mad Staff, poisoning meats with sickening green tendrils of corrupted chi. Harmonious Ostrich was forced to give the untainted food to his competitors, lest he dishonor himself by breaking his word. + +As concerned the songbird, Chao saved the day once again with his eagle eye and quick reflexes, and a single thrown blade. Shadows and light flashed through the air around the bird, which fell to the found neatly bisected, slightly glowing. + +Remembering the fear that he had awakened in Stalwat Rat's heart during the fight at his restaurant, Chawang inflamed it further to draw him out, making him prone to start fights all the time, for fear of being thought weak! In doing so, Chawang hoped to expose the wicked chef as contemptible before the other judges, and perhaps give the honored Wu Xuxeng a chance to see a fight without having to lose face by starting one himself where others could see. Stalwart Rat tried to attack the Taoist Ostrich, but + +> Harmonious Ostrich, always prepared, +> prudently vanished from sight +> and contemplated terrible curses + +Meanwhile, the cooking continued apace, with the judges moving around the arena, and both sides striving to do their best! + +For lack of other fights to pick, Rat eventually began to utter unforgivable insults, which this volume would never dare to repeat, to the person of Wei Xuxeng! Such an insult against a respectable concubine could not stand! Immediately, Chawang declared his intention to punish the wicked rat-cook! Though the brutal Rat swung his terrible staff around him with demonic ferocity, the righteous kung-fu of our heroes had him totally overmatched, and in the space of time it takes to toast a single grain of rice, the cuisine warriors had smashed his bones, knocked him into a mass of boiling cauldrons, forced a skewer of the meat he had poisoned meat down his throat, lit his garments on fire, but , and disarmed him. + +The wicked chef lay dying. But it's not fair to win a competition by killing a judge, even if he had it coming! So using the priceless ginseng that Chao had earlier liberated from Stalwart Rat's kitchen, + +> Harmonious Ostrich, always prepared, +> produced ginseng of sublime potency +> and brought the villain back from death's door. + +And soon after that, the competition was over! + +Our heroes' food was the more beautifully presented, and the more faithful to classical principles of cuisine. Grandpa's and Tai Li's was, however, the more delicious, perhaps of Grandpa's years of experience, or perhaps because they hadn't distracted themselves from their efforts in order to beat up an unrighteous judge. Wu Xuxeng was moved by the beautiful presentation, and voted for Chawang, Chao, and Ostrich! At first, Wandering Star did as well, out of loyalty... but when Stalwart Rat weakly voted for our heros out of appreciation for their attention to historical detail, she was moved by her native honesty to cast her vote for Grandpa's cuisine. When a Rat is honest, how can a Star remain partisan? Still, Chawang and his companions had won the contest two to one: they had permission to run a restaurant in the old city! + + +Later, Chao bought the Mad Staff to his sifu as a gift, begging him to find some way to bestow it to a worthy party. Such an instrument of evil could scarcely be left in the hands of Hell Clan, yet none of the heroes wanted to wield the wicked, corrupt, and blatantly ineffective god-weapon. + + +(excerpt from *Manual of Righteous Culinary Excellence For The Proper Instruction of Filial Chefs* by "Inconceivable Food-God of Heaven and Earth" (poss. pseud. Chen Chawang?) ) + +*** + +Recipes: + + * Sizzling Panoply + * Universal Unfolding Dumplings + * Feast of Seven Wonders (not ours) + * Quite-A-Few-Things-Encompassing Smorgasbord. + +Destiny: + + * 1 destiny to everyone for showing up + * 1 destiny to Nick for writeup + * 1 Yi deed to Chawang for defending Wei Suxang's honor + * 1 Xia deed to everyone for smacking Stalwart Rat down. + * 1 Kuan deed to HO for returning SW to life with epic ginseng + * 1 Kuan deed to HO for butchering meat, giving better portion to Grandpa and Tai Li. + +Notes: + + * The narrator deviates from his usual favoritism here in also bestowing excessive honors on Grandpa. This seems appropriate somehow. + * The mechanic for determining the winner was: each judge starts out with a bias in favor of a particular side; Wei Xuxeng starts neutral. Certain actions could make them like you more or less. SW liked: His guys only. WS liked: Seeing xia deeds. WX liked: Seeing fights, but NOT being seen to see fights. (It's nice to watch people battle, but not to be seen to enjoy it!) We kept Wandering Star's loyalty, and just barely failed to get Wei Xuxeng's. + * Tai Li has a minor loyalty inspiration toward Grandpa. Duh. (recovery difficulty 21) + * Chawang means to acquire Grandpa as a mentor. + +People, places, and things: + + * Grandpa + * Tai Li, his granddaughter + * Chef Stalwart Rat + * Wandering Star + * Wei Xuxeng + * The Four Virtues Sword + * The Mad Staff
diff --git a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn index e4e59cd..b17f370 100644 --- a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn @@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ * [[Session two]], Stolen Rubish Pork * [[Session three]], Sick Rat Broth * [[Session four]] and five, Nostalgic Mountain Dumplings -* [[Session six]], Many-Delicacies-Encompassing Smorgasbord +* [[Session six]], All-Delicacies-Encompassing Smorgasbord
diff --git a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn index 7f8e42f..e4e59cd 100644 --- a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn @@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ * [[Session two]], Stolen Rubish Pork * [[Session three]], Sick Rat Broth * [[Session four]] and five, Nostalgic Mountain Dumplings +* [[Session six]], Many-Delicacies-Encompassing Smorgasbord
diff --git a/kung-food/session_four.mdwn b/kung-food/session_four.mdwn index 3b3f02b..8c02f9b 100644 --- a/kung-food/session_four.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/session_four.mdwn @@ -116,11 +116,12 @@ Destiny and deeds: * One Obsession deed to Chawang for the booby-traps * One Loyalty deed to HO and Chao (for mentor interactions) * One destiny for Chao's Unwholesomeness disadvantaging him + * One destiny for HO rival disadvantage. Roll results: * Wei Xuxeng has a trivial individualism inspiration, recovery difficulty 22. - * Harmonious Ostrich has a complicated Chi condition. Andy, would you please fill this in? + * Harmonious Ostrich has a major white Chi recovery influence, diff 40, "when spouting obscure knowledge" People, places, and things:
diff --git a/kung-food/session_four.mdwn b/kung-food/session_four.mdwn
index 40d0cc6..3b3f02b 100644
--- a/kung-food/session_four.mdwn
+++ b/kung-food/session_four.mdwn
@@ -106,19 +106,24 @@ People, Places, and Things:
### Session 5 notes
Notes on form:
+
* I've done this session's notes as an append-only change to last session's notes, since we didn't really do much more than extend the interlude, so it makes sense to keep the same form.
Destiny and deeds:
+
* One destiny to Nick for writing the notes
* One destiny to everybody for showing up.
* One Obsession deed to Chawang for the booby-traps
- * One Loyalty deed to HO and Chao (for mentor interactions ?)
+ * One Loyalty deed to HO and Chao (for mentor interactions)
+ * One destiny for Chao's Unwholesomeness disadvantaging him
Roll results:
+
* Wei Xuxeng has a trivial individualism inspiration, recovery difficulty 22.
* Harmonious Ostrich has a complicated Chi condition. Andy, would you please fill this in?
People, places, and things:
+
* Wei Xuxeng, committee for palace beautification
* Grandpa's Restaurant
* Grandpa
diff --git a/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn b/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn
index ab7a95b..50be26d 100644
--- a/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn
+++ b/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ WU WEI (1)
GENIUS (4)
* Learning 2
- * Crafting 2 (Food 1)
+ * Crafting 3 (Food 1)
* Politics 1
* Tactics 1
@@ -67,7 +67,10 @@ ADVANTAGES:
LORES:
- * 2: Courtship
+ * 2: Courtship
+ * 1: Destiny: "My love interest is important to the story!" (p.149)
+ * (0): Confucianism
+ * 3: The Cordial, Upright, Courteous, Temperate, and Complaisant Technique. (p.146)
KUNG FU:
@@ -95,12 +98,14 @@ Equipment
Deeds:
- * 1 Kuan
+ * 2 Kuan
* 1 Yi
+ * 1 Xia
+ * 1 Chan
Destiny:
- * 57 (53 spent)
+ * 66 (58 spent)
Lore rolls:
diff --git a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn index 46bd27d..7f8e42f 100644 --- a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn @@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ * [[Session one]], Impossible Flavored Chicken * [[Session two]], Stolen Rubish Pork * [[Session three]], Sick Rat Broth -* [[Session four]], Nostalgic Mountain Dumplings +* [[Session four]] and five, Nostalgic Mountain Dumplings
diff --git a/kung-food/session_four.mdwn b/kung-food/session_four.mdwn
index 01cdbe1..40d0cc6 100644
--- a/kung-food/session_four.mdwn
+++ b/kung-food/session_four.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Session 4: 3 March 2011
+# Sessions 4 and 5: 3 March 2011 and 16 Mar 2011
***
@@ -37,9 +37,30 @@ Hear what people are saying about that hot new food cart, Traveling Ancestral Ja
> "Ming Feng thinks he's judging this, does he? That's interesting. So cuisine is competition, not art? How convenient for him. Next he'll be judging paintings and poetry. I wonder how much money he thinks he'll make off this little scheme. I ought to have a chat with these restauranteurs..." - Wei Xuxeng, Committee of Palace Beautification
+## The interlude continues
+
+> "Impudent, but potentially entertaining. Though judging a contest is a matter for others, I would be amused to judge their *bet*. That is to say, I had *better* be amused, or the consequences will be most regrettable. Also, I highly prefer spicy dishes of the south." -- Wei Xuxeng, Committee of Palace Beautification.
+
+> "Their knife expert guy keeps staring at me with those creepy creepy eyes. Could somebody please get him out of my office?" -- Ming Feng.
+
+> "Harmonious Ostrich seems hope I can help him politic up a sympathetic Hell-Clan judge so that he can win his contest and find himself tied down to a restaurant. Of course, I will help him, for as his master, I have no other ambitions than his happiness." -- Chef Chu Manfu.
+
+> "Thanks to Chao's diligence, I am sure that he can cook anything he might encounter during the contest, be it a mysterious western beast that Wandering Star will provide, or whether it be the impossible-to-prepare noxious animals that the Noxious Animals gang is bringing. I am also quite pleased with the quality of his lifelike marzipan scorpions, which of course he would not use during the contest." -- Michiba
+
+> "Hi. I'm Chef Stalwart Rat. If you've been to my restaurant, you may know me from when I smashed your table into kindling, lit my waiters on fire with my evil kung fu, and demanded to you how you liked your meal. As a completely impartial Hell-Clan-appointed observer to this contest that I proposed, I will of course judge these meddling cooks fairly, and my vote against them will be completely objective." -- Stalwart Rat.
+
+> "We at the Travelling Ancestral Jade Pavilion have been practicing new recipes with all our heart and soul, so our victory on the merits is assured. Of course, we don't expect our enemies to play fair, so we're prepared. Anybody who tries to wreck our operations as we cook will surely know humiliation and pain if they try to smash my Barrel of Mislabeled And Unspeakably Fermented Fish Guts, or if they try to interfere with my Precariously Woks Of Hot Oil. We're prepared . So whatever second-rate black-hearted chef the Stinking Animal gang picks to fight against us won't stand a chance. " -- Chen Chawang.
+
+> "Yes, boss. The finest ginseng. Whatever you say. We're totally going to use that in a cooking contest, and not replace it with some perfectly good non-epic ginseng. Now please excuse me: I am in the process of diagnosing myself with a truly complicated Chi influence that has been brought about by my excessive loyalty to you." -- Harmonious Ostrich, always resourceful.
+
+> "Looks like this is going to be fun! Grandpa and I are going to be in the cooking contest against the Travelling Ancestral Jade guys! Chef Chawang eats at our restaurant all the time, so I know he hasn't got any hard feelings. I've asked Chef Chawang about his preparations, and he's been more than happy to discuss them with me. I can't wait for the contest day!" -- The waitress/undercook at Grandpa's, whose name I do not believe has been yet established.
+
+> "Hey, boss! Remember how you're always complaining about how much that thing eats, and how we never actually get to use it in battle. Yeah, that one, with the big nose. I've got a great idea how we can finally get rid of it..." -- A Nan Clan mercenary
***
+### Session four notes
+
Notes on form:
* I'll probably go back to excerpts from *Manual of Righteous Culinary Excellence For The Proper Instruction of Filial Chefs* next time. I thought this would be fun for an Interlude, though.
@@ -78,4 +99,34 @@ People, Places, and Things:
* The minister for shouting heroes
* The shouting hero who wanted to get past us.
* Ming Feng, minister for civic competition
- * Wui Xuxeng, comittee for palace beautification.
+ * Wui Xuxeng, committee for palace beautification.
+
+***
+
+### Session 5 notes
+
+Notes on form:
+ * I've done this session's notes as an append-only change to last session's notes, since we didn't really do much more than extend the interlude, so it makes sense to keep the same form.
+
+Destiny and deeds:
+ * One destiny to Nick for writing the notes
+ * One destiny to everybody for showing up.
+ * One Obsession deed to Chawang for the booby-traps
+ * One Loyalty deed to HO and Chao (for mentor interactions ?)
+
+Roll results:
+ * Wei Xuxeng has a trivial individualism inspiration, recovery difficulty 22.
+ * Harmonious Ostrich has a complicated Chi condition. Andy, would you please fill this in?
+
+People, places, and things:
+ * Wei Xuxeng, committee for palace beautification
+ * Grandpa's Restaurant
+ * Grandpa
+ * That mysterious and irritating waitress/cook!
+ * Chu Manfu
+ * His brother, who might have pull with Hell Clan, and who might even exist.
+ * Chef Michiba
+ * Wandering Star
+ * The Palace Gardens
+ * Monkey Fungus Shrimp
+ * Marzipan Technique
diff --git a/kung-food/cuisines_of_the_four_cardinal_directions.mdwn b/kung-food/cuisines_of_the_four_cardinal_directions.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ea064ac --- /dev/null +++ b/kung-food/cuisines_of_the_four_cardinal_directions.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +## Cuisines of the Four Cardinal Directions + + Common White Chi Style + + A true master of cuisine knows no province or country; the world is + full of delicious things! With an appreciation of all the foods of + Shen Zhou comes an understanding of their proper place in relation + to one another. Like an experienced gourmet, a master of this style + is prepared for all circumstances and ready for all occasions. + + Signature: Practitioners of this style are analytical and + calculating. It has few signature movements of its own -- rather, + its practitioners seem to make exactly the moves that are worst + for their opponents. + + Type: Artful (edged cookware only) + + Default critical effect: ???, ??? + + 1. North is salty + + > The one who has tasted all things is prepared for every + > eventuality, and corrects his taste to his surroundings. He + > sees beyond the surface of his enemy's style to know the true + > essence within -- and knowing, he can adjust his own style to + > resist. + + *[maneuver points: 1+1] + * 0: Weapon draw + * III -10 Strike (color match) + + 2. East is spicy + + > The one who has tasted all things will scoff at poor technique + > concealed behind needless ornamentation as he would at spoiled + > meat concealed behind hot peppers and garlic. Smelling a flaw in + > his opponent's technique, he ignores his enemy's vain trickery, + > and strikes. + + * [maneuver points: 2+1] + * III: Perfect Pressure (-2 dice from defense roll) + * II: strike equalization (color match) + * Restriction point applied here + + 3. West is sour + + > The one who has tasted all things has experienced a vastness of + > acquired tastes, and knows that not every flavor suits every + > palate. He declines unwanted dishes with grace an alacrity, + > and offers them to those they better suit. + + [maneuver points: 3+1] + + II: weapon summons (color match) + IV Redirect on a standard success + * Restriction point applied here + + + 4. South is sweet + + > The one who has tasted all things understands delights beyond + > the ken of the uneducated palate. His joy and contentment + > bring him clarity of mind: and his clarify of mind brings him + > the grace to address urgent problems as though he had time to + > consider each one at leisure. + + * [maneuver points 4+1] + * I: Mastery: +1 die to athletics rolls + * II: Deflection + * II: Persistence: roundlong + * I: Elusive (color match) + + channel 2 gold chi: extend this technique for another round + + + 5. All-four-directions feast + + > The one who has tasted all things must continue to taste all + > things! His will is indomitable, his skill unanswerable. When + > he eats, his peerless criticism destroys all false cuisine-- + > and when he strikes, his peerless kung fu obliterates all + > resistance, in all the cardinal directions. + + [maneuver points: 5+1] + * 2-point flaw: spend one point of joss when this technique is activated + + * III: Area attack + * IV: Subtract favored chi modifier from strike (color match) + * II: Perfect penetration: -10 to armor +
diff --git a/kung-food/session_four.mdwn b/kung-food/session_four.mdwn index 33ccc8e..01cdbe1 100644 --- a/kung-food/session_four.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/session_four.mdwn @@ -41,10 +41,12 @@ Hear what people are saying about that hot new food cart, Traveling Ancestral Ja *** Notes on form: + * I'll probably go back to excerpts from *Manual of Righteous Culinary Excellence For The Proper Instruction of Filial Chefs* next time. I thought this would be fun for an Interlude, though. * I think I am missing some stuff from my notes. Please add in more above (if you want to get it to the right form) or below (if you're in a hurry). Deeds and Destiny: + * 1 destiny, everyone, showing up. * 1 Kuan deed: dumplings! (for all.) * 1 destiny for Chawang: obsession. (No, I won't be satisfied with a patsy judge! I must have somebody important! We must actually win, not cheat!) @@ -52,11 +54,13 @@ Deeds and Destiny: * 1 for everyone (putting characters on wiki) Recipes: + * Nostalgic Mountain Dumplings (36) * Fiery Bottomless Noodle Cauldron (28?) * Chao's Assortment Of Sliced Things (36) People, Places, and Things: + * Chawang's old restaurant now has a name: The Ancestral Jade Pavilion (formerly "The Jade Pavilion", formerly "Chen's Pavilion", formerly "Pop Chen's".) * The food cart now has a name: The Traveling Ancestral Jade Pavilion! * The Noxious Animals Gang
diff --git a/kung-food/session_four.mdwn b/kung-food/session_four.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..33ccc8e --- /dev/null +++ b/kung-food/session_four.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +# Session 4: 3 March 2011 + +*** + +## Interlude + +Hear what people are saying about that hot new food cart, Traveling Ancestral Jade Pavilion, featuring the the incomparable cuisine of Chef Chen Chawang, Harmonious Ostrich, and Mysterious Warrior Chao! + +*Some reviews may be edited for space and content, reconstructed from memory, or based on what people **would** be saying about the Traveling Ancestral Jade Pavilion if they were willing to talk about our amazing cuisine in public and say what we are sure they **really** feel. Tell your friends!* + + +> "Try the food right away, but don't let anybody see you! I hear that they're going up against the Noxious Animal Gang in a cooking contest, for permission to open a restaurant in Oldtown! They're doomed, but their food is so good!" -- A citizen of Thashing Minister. + +> "Look, you'd better not eat there, or we'll smash you flat. Whatever you might have heard about the time we fought with them, you should just forget it. Once they cross spatulas with the Restaurant Guild in a fair contest, they're history. Sure, they get to pick one of the judges, but Hell Clan gets to pick another, and the Palace gets to pick a third. Now think about that. They're going to have a hard time finding a judge who's stupid enough to vote against the Noxious Animals. And you can bet that no matter what you've heard about infighting, Hell Clan isn't going to vote against its own. And given the power and influence of the Restaurant Guild, I wouldn't be too surprised if the city judge saw things our way too. So it's a foregone conclusion that we're going to win. Then, once we're running Heaven and Earth District unopposed again, you'd better believe that we'll remember who our loyal customers were. Be smart: a plate of Stolen Rubbish Pork isn't worth having all your bones broken!" -- Gold Ting + +> "We at the Traveling Ancestral Jade Pavilion defy all unrighteous chefs with our unmistakably original cuisine! Though our food cart is modest, our dishes are glorious and incomparable! It would be **beneath us** to try to stack the competition with a patsy judge as our opponents are sure to do. Our food must be judged by trustworthy, upright, incorruptable, influential citizens of Thrashing Minister. When you see how such people judge us, you will know our deliciousness, and my all-things-preparing genius! Then, surely **my cuisine shall reign supreme!**" -- Shouting Chef Chen Chawang. + +> "I hear they're making trouble for Chef Scorpion's boys. That's bad for their business, but it might be good for some other people's business, if you take my meaning. Some of us, we've been talking about how stuff used to run before Scorpion and his Nasty Vermin Gang moved into town, and we don't think it ran too bad. Boss says that a xia warrior is trouble, but sometimes a xia warrior makes the right kind of trouble for the right kind of people, y'know?" -- A Hell Clan Member + +> "As a random employee of the Dong clan, who is absolutely loyal to the Dong clan and not somebody else, I can testify that the rice is pretty good, if a little yakky. Chef Chen promised me that it didn't taste that way because of butter cured in a yak's stomach, but now I'm not so sure. Also, I love my clan, and I would never spy for anybody, especially not the Xi clan." -- A Loyal Dong Clan Member + +> "They're polite, and they make good pastries. My boss is an important man, so it's good to remember what pastries I like." -- Great Bear Lu's secretary + +> "They showed up at my office with something they called the Fiery Bottomless Noodle Cauldron. It was pretty good; I don't see why more restaurants don't have one. There were also some real pretty sliced garnish things. Those were nice and crunchy. I kinda wish I could have told them 'yes' when they asked me to be a judge in their contest, but I've got business to think of. Warehouses are flammable, mercenaries are costly, and bandits are everywhere these days: It's expensive to tangle with Hell Clan! Maybe when the Dong heir visits, he'll want some Noodle Cauldron too. Don't say that in the review, it's a big secret." -- Great Bear Lu, head of the local Dong Clan. + +> "Their Nostalgic Mountain Dumplings with Yak-Like Butter tastes so good! It's just like when we were stationed in the West! Boss, you've gotta try some!" -- A Nan Clan Warrior + +> "Hi, I'm Wandering Star. If you're a western barbarian, you might remember me from when I quelled you with my deadly kung fu. If you live in Thrashing Minister, you know me as the boss of the Nan Clan here. Either way, you know I'm an upfront warrior. I say what I mean. Don't mess with us, don't mess with our employers, and we won't mess with you. So when the guys from the Traveling Ancestral Jade Pavilion told me that they were going to stand up to Hell Clan and asked me to be their judge, I was skeptical. I mean, I'm not scared of Hell Clan, right? But I'm not gonna judge food for just anybody. 'We understand', they said, 'Just have a bite!' And then I tried their Nostalgic Mountain Dumplings, and wow! I'm a believer. They combine the authenticity of the barbaric west with the harmony of civilized cuisine, and all at a reasonable price! Also, their Daoist guy tells fortunes. Remember, that's the Traveling Ancestral Jade Pavilion. Tell your friends! Also, the Restaurant Guild sucks. I hear they put sawdust in their dumplings." -- Wandering Star, head of the local Nan Clan + +> "It would be a task of boundless joy to allow you into the palace to discuss these matters with those august personages responsible. But alas, the affairs of state are complex and taxing, and everyone is so busy! Surely, you will be so generous and forbearing as to make an appointmement." -- A palace courtier + +> "You heard the man. No appointment, no entry." -- A palace guard + +> "I am sure that they have very good reasons for not asking me to be their judge. Chao is a dutiful student. His bladework is more than adequate. He knows better than to disappoint his sifu." -- Michiba, Chao's mentor. + +> "I am familiar with the Traveling Ancestral Jade Pavilion. It is possible that I will judge their contest, which would only be proper, given my role as minister of Civic Competions. Please understand that if I vote against them it will be because I genuinely prefer the food of their opponents, not because I am afraid of the Restaurant Guild burning down my house and killing my family. And please understand that if I vote *for* them it will be because I genuinely prefer *their* food, not because I am afraid of everybody thinking that I'm a corrupt official who takes bribes and doesn't know good cuisine from a pot of stale bean-paste. And finally, please understand that if I do not judge this competition, it will be because I was out of town at the time, tending to affairs at some importance, and not at all because I decided to pass the buck and let somebody else chose between lost property and lost face. Now, please go; I believe I must have a moment to think." -- Ming Feng, minister of Civic Competitions + +> "Ming Feng thinks he's judging this, does he? That's interesting. So cuisine is competition, not art? How convenient for him. Next he'll be judging paintings and poetry. I wonder how much money he thinks he'll make off this little scheme. I ought to have a chat with these restauranteurs..." - Wei Xuxeng, Committee of Palace Beautification + + +*** + +Notes on form: + * I'll probably go back to excerpts from *Manual of Righteous Culinary Excellence For The Proper Instruction of Filial Chefs* next time. I thought this would be fun for an Interlude, though. + * I think I am missing some stuff from my notes. Please add in more above (if you want to get it to the right form) or below (if you're in a hurry). + +Deeds and Destiny: + * 1 destiny, everyone, showing up. + * 1 Kuan deed: dumplings! (for all.) + * 1 destiny for Chawang: obsession. (No, I won't be satisfied with a patsy judge! I must have somebody important! We must actually win, not cheat!) + * 1 destiny for Chawang (nick's writeup.) + * 1 for everyone (putting characters on wiki) + +Recipes: + * Nostalgic Mountain Dumplings (36) + * Fiery Bottomless Noodle Cauldron (28?) + * Chao's Assortment Of Sliced Things (36) + +People, Places, and Things: + * Chawang's old restaurant now has a name: The Ancestral Jade Pavilion (formerly "The Jade Pavilion", formerly "Chen's Pavilion", formerly "Pop Chen's".) + * The food cart now has a name: The Traveling Ancestral Jade Pavilion! + * The Noxious Animals Gang + * Their leader, Chef Scorpion, who may someday rise to challenge Earth Lord or Sky Lord for a high position in Hell Clan! + * The Dong Clan + * The Dong Clan scion who's coming here to learn the ropes of the business (secret!) + * Great Bear Lu, the local Dong Clan Leader, whose appetites are nearly insatiable! He's in love with Wandering Star, or maybe he's not, but anyway, she infuriates him. + * His secretary + * A loyal member of the clan who is definitely not spying for the Xi + * Their headquarters + * Their shipping routes + * The Nan Clan + * Wandering Star (secret: She's still in love with Great Bear Lu, but her loyalty to her clan made her call of the relationship. She's responsible for negotiating with him, after all!) + * The Palace + * The minister for shouting heroes + * The shouting hero who wanted to get past us. + * Ming Feng, minister for civic competition + * Wui Xuxeng, comittee for palace beautification.
diff --git a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn index c8d69fa..46bd27d 100644 --- a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn @@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ * [[Session one]], Impossible Flavored Chicken * [[Session two]], Stolen Rubish Pork * [[Session three]], Sick Rat Broth -* [[Session four]], tbn +* [[Session four]], Nostalgic Mountain Dumplings
diff --git a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn index 292bccb..c8d69fa 100644 --- a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn @@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ * [[Session one]], Impossible Flavored Chicken * [[Session two]], Stolen Rubish Pork * [[Session three]], Sick Rat Broth +* [[Session four]], tbn
diff --git a/kung-food/chao.mdwn b/kung-food/chao.mdwn index 0cb7599..6f4827d 100644 --- a/kung-food/chao.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/chao.mdwn @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Chao is a tall, wiry man with long black hair. He dresses simply and inconspicu Chao is a man hiding from his past, and not sure how . He has a gap of several years in his memory. The first part of his adult life which he remembered was his strenuous training in Darkened Flying Edges kung fu, a process which absorbed a piece of his memory and replaced it with a piece of the Void. He was trained by a group of Liquid Metal Delegates as a spy and assassin, intended to infiltrate the kitchens of important targets. -Chao never knew exactly who the Delegates worked for, or what their ultimate goals were. Confused, he fled when he was given an order his conscience would not allow him to follow. Since that time he has been on the run, dodging the forces sent to re-capture him. Those forces seem not to have found him in Thrashing Minister, where he has been taken in by the wizened chef Michiba-san. Chao worked as a sous-chef in Michiba's restaurant until meeting up with his companions, and joining their food cart enterprise. +Chao never knew exactly who the Delegates worked for, or what their ultimate goals were. Confused, he fled when he was given an order his conscience would not allow him to follow. Since that time he has been on the run, dodging the forces sent to re-capture him. Those forces seem not to have found him in Thrashing Minister, where he has been taken in by the wizened chef Michiba. Chao worked as a sous-chef in Michiba's restaurant until meeting up with his companions, and joining their food cart enterprise. ## ATTRIBUTES @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ kidnap or pressure him rather than killing him outright. ADVANTAGES: * Wealth 2 (comfortable) - * Mentor 3: Old Michiba-san: A wizened and possibly-crazy old chef. He claims to come from a land across the sea, where chefs are honored as gods among men, and face each other in a holy arena of culinary skills. + * Mentor 3: Old Michiba: A wizened and possibly-crazy old chef. He claims to come from a land far to the North, where chefs are honored as gods among men, and face each other in a holy arena of culinary skills. * Entangled Destiny 2: Someone who Chao has forgotten. EQUIPMENT:
diff --git a/kung-food/sous_chef_preparation_paradigm.mdwn b/kung-food/sous_chef_preparation_paradigm.mdwn index 354c32b..4091c95 100644 --- a/kung-food/sous_chef_preparation_paradigm.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/sous_chef_preparation_paradigm.mdwn @@ -2,20 +2,29 @@ Sous Chef Preparation Paradigm While many schools of Kung Food focus on the flashy and flamboyant arts of sizzling, grilling, and sautéing food; it is the delicate and scientific art of preparing ingredients that ensures the greatest of dishes can even be prepared. -Artful, swords; Maim, Disarm +Artful, (swords only); Maim, Disarm **Sashimi Slicing Sutra** 1 White >The freshest fish are those served from the stream. With this technique, the sous chef can surprise the fish, and quickly portion it into bite sized pieces. * Draw weapon as a free action - * +white attack + * +white chimod attack * chilling damage (WP as one level higher) + * Build: + * Level 1, Common 1, Color match 1 = 3 + * 1 Silver Spiritual Attack: Chilling (successful hit Inflicts next higher level WP) + * 2 Colorless Strength of Chi: Attack (add chi bonus) + * 0 White Weapon Control: Weapon Draw **Lobster Loses his Limbs** 2 White > Some meals are known for fighting back! With this techique, the sous chef can quickly declaw even the most ferocious of arthropods! * enemy -10 strike - * -1 die defense + * -10 armor + * Build: + * Level 2, Common 1, Color match 1, Restriction (artful) 1 = 5 + * 3 White Strike Negation: -10 Strike + * 2 Silver Penetration: -10 Armor **Bountiful Buffet Build-Up** 3 White > Sometimes, the sous chef is not permitted time to prepare for a major feast! With this technique, the chef channels all of his speed in to one action, simultaneously preparing ingredients for many dishes! @@ -23,7 +32,14 @@ Artful, swords; Maim, Disarm * weapon draw * Area attack * secondary attack (limited) + * Double result dice vs. minions * stifled self air (crimson if available) + * Build: + * Level 3, Common 1, Color match 1, Flaw (Stifled Air) 1 = 6 + * 0 White Weapon Control: Weapon Draw + * 3 Gold Area Attack: Artful/Brutal + * 2 Colorless Ineffable Feats: Secondary Attack, Limited + * 1 Gold Minion Destroying: Double result dice **Calamari Circumvention** 4 White (Crimson 2 Channel) > While lobsters are thorny, ome of the worst tasks in the kitchen is dealing with piles of squid, that will wrap themselves around the chef's knives. With this technique, the chef commits his chi aura to holding the squid at bay while he reduces their number one at a time. @@ -33,4 +49,10 @@ Artful, swords; Maim, Disarm * + white strike. * -5 to enemy attacks. * +1 die damage, cumulative per round active. - + * Build: + * Level 4, Common 1, Flaw (invest 1 chi aura) 2, Restriction (swords) 1 = 9 + * 3 Colorless Strength of Chi: strike + * 2 Jade Persistence: Standard (one round) + * 2 White Move: Attack reduction (Note: there is a weird gap between strike negation and move that I'm aiming for: all inbound attacks affected). + * 0 Ineffable Chi Channel + * 2 Crimson Hideous Attacks: Rampage
diff --git a/kung-food/harmonious_ostrich.mdwn b/kung-food/harmonious_ostrich.mdwn index 9d23db6..879c41c 100644 --- a/kung-food/harmonious_ostrich.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/harmonious_ostrich.mdwn @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ Lores * Predictionism * Curse Spells * Influence Spells + * Story of Fortune Extraordinary Daoist Techniques @@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ Extraordinary Daoist Techniques Kung Fu -* Wisdom of Seven Gates 3 +* Wisdom of Seven Gates 1 * Sous Chef Preparation Method 3 * Lightfoot 2
diff --git a/kung-food/sous_chef_preparation_paradigm.mdwn b/kung-food/sous_chef_preparation_paradigm.mdwn index 8b8c7f9..354c32b 100644 --- a/kung-food/sous_chef_preparation_paradigm.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/sous_chef_preparation_paradigm.mdwn @@ -34,8 +34,3 @@ Artful, swords; Maim, Disarm * -5 to enemy attacks. * +1 die damage, cumulative per round active. -**Dicing the Dragon** 6 White + 4 Any ->For an imperial feast, only an imperial course will do! With this technique, the chef slows his target, binding their speed in ropes of chi until they are ready for the oven! - - * Weapon Entangle, - * Major Chi Condition, Speed -1 (cum to 5), if target ignores webbing tying him down.
diff --git a/kung-food/harmonious_ostrich.mdwn b/kung-food/harmonious_ostrich.mdwn
index 8309a3e..9d23db6 100644
--- a/kung-food/harmonious_ostrich.mdwn
+++ b/kung-food/harmonious_ostrich.mdwn
@@ -3,14 +3,16 @@ Harmonious Ostrich
Born in a small village, Harmonious Ostrich was identified by the herbalist as child of more intelligence than his village could handle. So he was sent off to the renowned School of Practical Medicine, I hopes that he could be trained as a physician. Unfortunately for Harmonus Ostrich, he was poor by the standards of his fellow pupils, so took a job as a prep cook in a local eatery to supplement his income. This led to him being expelled from the school, but not before he caught the eye of the experimenting doctor Chu Man Fu, who agreed to help the yung Ostrich out a bit. Unbeknownst to Harmonious Ostrich, Chu Man Fun is secretly the head of a sect of cannibal-chefs split off from Hell Clan, who sees in Harmonious Ostrich's desires to perfect his prep techniques someone who might recover the lost Kung Fu of Instant People Preparation.
SPEED 4
+
* Initiative 3
- * Dodge 3
- * Finesse
- * Melee 3
- * Swords
+ * Dodge 3
+ * Finesse
+ * Melee 3
+ * Swords
* Ride
PRESENCE 1
+
* Confidence
* Grace
* Inspire
@@ -18,6 +20,7 @@ PRESENCE 1
* Persuade
GENIUS 5
+
* Learning 3
* History
* Crafting 3
@@ -29,6 +32,7 @@ GENIUS 5
* Tactics
WU WEI 3
+
* Awareness 3
* Investigation 1
* Ranged
@@ -36,6 +40,7 @@ WU WEI 3
* Stealth
MIGHT 2
+
* Athletics 3
* Climb
* Fight
@@ -43,11 +48,37 @@ MIGHT 2
* Lift
Advantages
+
* Wealth 1
* Mentor 2
* Quality Long Sword ("Filleting knife")
Disadvantages
+
* Rival (also his mentor)
Lores
+
+ * Han Dynasty
+ * Celestial Goddess
+ * Daoist Magic
+ * Secrets of Diagnosis
+ * Daoist Techniques
+ * Predictionism
+ * Curse Spells
+ * Influence Spells
+
+Extraordinary Daoist Techniques
+
+ * Great Benison of Fire
+ * Grievous Act of Metal
+ * Instant Influence Technique
+ * Terrible Rising Water
+ * Sheltering Water Intercession
+
+Kung Fu
+
+* Wisdom of Seven Gates 3
+* Sous Chef Preparation Method 3
+* Lightfoot 2
+
diff --git a/kung-food/sous_chef_preparation_paradigm.mdwn b/kung-food/sous_chef_preparation_paradigm.mdwn index 6b64ef8..8b8c7f9 100644 --- a/kung-food/sous_chef_preparation_paradigm.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/sous_chef_preparation_paradigm.mdwn @@ -2,24 +2,40 @@ Sous Chef Preparation Paradigm While many schools of Kung Food focus on the flashy and flamboyant arts of sizzling, grilling, and sautéing food; it is the delicate and scientific art of preparing ingredients that ensures the greatest of dishes can even be prepared. -Artful, swords; Maim, Disaem +Artful, swords; Maim, Disarm -(I) Sashimi Slicing Sutra 1 White -The freshest fish are those served from the stream. With this technique, the sous chef can surprise the fish, and quickly portion it into bite sized pieces. -Draw weapon, +white attack, chilling damage +**Sashimi Slicing Sutra** 1 White +>The freshest fish are those served from the stream. With this technique, the sous chef can surprise the fish, and quickly portion it into bite sized pieces. -(II)Lobster Loses his Limbs 2 White -Some meals are know. For fighting back! With this techique, the sous chef can quickly declaw even the most ferocious of arthropods! -enemy -10 strike, -1 die defense + * Draw weapon as a free action + * +white attack + * chilling damage (WP as one level higher) -Bountiful Buffet Build-Up 3 White -Sometimes, the sous chef is not permitted time to prepare for a major feast! With this technique, the chef channels all of his speed i to one action, simultaneously preparing inherit TS for many dishes! -weapon draw, Area attack, secondary attack, limited, stifled self air (crimson if available) +**Lobster Loses his Limbs** 2 White +> Some meals are known for fighting back! With this techique, the sous chef can quickly declaw even the most ferocious of arthropods! -Calamari Circumvention 4 White -While lobsters are thorny, ome of the worst tasks in the kitchen is dealing with piles of squid, that will wrap themselves around the chef's knives. With this technique, the chef commits his chi aura to holding the squid at bay while he reduces their number one at a time. -Round, channel crimson -1 die of chi aura while active. + white strike. -5 to enemy attacks. +1 die damage, cumulative per round active. + * enemy -10 strike + * -1 die defense -Dicing the Dragon 6 White + 4 Any -For an imperial feast, only an imperial course will do! With this technique, the chef slows his target, binding their speed in ropes of chi until they are ready for the oven! - Weapon Entangle, Major Chi Condition, Speed -1 (cum to 5), if target ignores webbing tying him down. +**Bountiful Buffet Build-Up** 3 White +> Sometimes, the sous chef is not permitted time to prepare for a major feast! With this technique, the chef channels all of his speed in to one action, simultaneously preparing ingredients for many dishes! + + * weapon draw + * Area attack + * secondary attack (limited) + * stifled self air (crimson if available) + +**Calamari Circumvention** 4 White (Crimson 2 Channel) +> While lobsters are thorny, ome of the worst tasks in the kitchen is dealing with piles of squid, that will wrap themselves around the chef's knives. With this technique, the chef commits his chi aura to holding the squid at bay while he reduces their number one at a time. + + * Round, channel crimson + * -1 die of chi aura while active. + * + white strike. + * -5 to enemy attacks. + * +1 die damage, cumulative per round active. + +**Dicing the Dragon** 6 White + 4 Any +>For an imperial feast, only an imperial course will do! With this technique, the chef slows his target, binding their speed in ropes of chi until they are ready for the oven! + + * Weapon Entangle, + * Major Chi Condition, Speed -1 (cum to 5), if target ignores webbing tying him down.
diff --git a/kung-food/harmonious_ostrich.mdwn b/kung-food/harmonious_ostrich.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8309a3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kung-food/harmonious_ostrich.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+Harmonious Ostrich
+
+Born in a small village, Harmonious Ostrich was identified by the herbalist as child of more intelligence than his village could handle. So he was sent off to the renowned School of Practical Medicine, I hopes that he could be trained as a physician. Unfortunately for Harmonus Ostrich, he was poor by the standards of his fellow pupils, so took a job as a prep cook in a local eatery to supplement his income. This led to him being expelled from the school, but not before he caught the eye of the experimenting doctor Chu Man Fu, who agreed to help the yung Ostrich out a bit. Unbeknownst to Harmonious Ostrich, Chu Man Fun is secretly the head of a sect of cannibal-chefs split off from Hell Clan, who sees in Harmonious Ostrich's desires to perfect his prep techniques someone who might recover the lost Kung Fu of Instant People Preparation.
+
+SPEED 4
+ * Initiative 3
+ * Dodge 3
+ * Finesse
+ * Melee 3
+ * Swords
+ * Ride
+
+PRESENCE 1
+ * Confidence
+ * Grace
+ * Inspire
+ * Perform
+ * Persuade
+
+GENIUS 5
+ * Learning 3
+ * History
+ * Crafting 3
+ * Cooking
+ * Medicine 3
+ * Acupuncture
+ * Injuries
+ * Politics 3
+ * Tactics
+
+WU WEI 3
+ * Awareness 3
+ * Investigation 1
+ * Ranged
+ * Senses
+ * Stealth
+
+MIGHT 2
+ * Athletics 3
+ * Climb
+ * Fight
+ * Hardiness
+ * Lift
+
+Advantages
+ * Wealth 1
+ * Mentor 2
+ * Quality Long Sword ("Filleting knife")
+
+Disadvantages
+ * Rival (also his mentor)
+
+Lores
diff --git a/kung-food/sous_chef_preparation_paradigm.mdwn b/kung-food/sous_chef_preparation_paradigm.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b64ef8 --- /dev/null +++ b/kung-food/sous_chef_preparation_paradigm.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Sous Chef Preparation Paradigm + +While many schools of Kung Food focus on the flashy and flamboyant arts of sizzling, grilling, and sautéing food; it is the delicate and scientific art of preparing ingredients that ensures the greatest of dishes can even be prepared. + +Artful, swords; Maim, Disaem + +(I) Sashimi Slicing Sutra 1 White +The freshest fish are those served from the stream. With this technique, the sous chef can surprise the fish, and quickly portion it into bite sized pieces. +Draw weapon, +white attack, chilling damage + +(II)Lobster Loses his Limbs 2 White +Some meals are know. For fighting back! With this techique, the sous chef can quickly declaw even the most ferocious of arthropods! +enemy -10 strike, -1 die defense + +Bountiful Buffet Build-Up 3 White +Sometimes, the sous chef is not permitted time to prepare for a major feast! With this technique, the chef channels all of his speed i to one action, simultaneously preparing inherit TS for many dishes! +weapon draw, Area attack, secondary attack, limited, stifled self air (crimson if available) + +Calamari Circumvention 4 White +While lobsters are thorny, ome of the worst tasks in the kitchen is dealing with piles of squid, that will wrap themselves around the chef's knives. With this technique, the chef commits his chi aura to holding the squid at bay while he reduces their number one at a time. +Round, channel crimson -1 die of chi aura while active. + white strike. -5 to enemy attacks. +1 die damage, cumulative per round active. + +Dicing the Dragon 6 White + 4 Any +For an imperial feast, only an imperial course will do! With this technique, the chef slows his target, binding their speed in ropes of chi until they are ready for the oven! + Weapon Entangle, Major Chi Condition, Speed -1 (cum to 5), if target ignores webbing tying him down.
diff --git a/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn b/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn index e0b0b10..95ef28a 100644 --- a/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ * [[Cuisines of the Four Cardinal Directions]] (Common White Style) +* [[Sous Chef Preparation Paradigm]] (Common White Style) + * [[Unity-enhancing fund extraction]], the Uncommon technique of the Restraunteers Guild * [[Chef of Iron]] (Uncommon Gold Style)
diff --git a/kung-food/chef__39__s_disasters.mdwn b/kung-food/chef__39__s_disasters.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..962b610 --- /dev/null +++ b/kung-food/chef__39__s_disasters.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +*Note: Higher-level techniques in this style need some review and modifications.* + +# Chef's Disasters + +Common Silver Chi Form + +Every chef knows the anguish of a disaster in the kitchen. A small mistake can mean a ruined meal, an upset customer, an injury, a poisoning, or even a catastrophic fire. The master chef learns from these mistakes so that he may be prepared for them in the future. The warrior chef understands distills the essence of these incidents, so he may inflict the same anguish on his foes, even outside the kitchen. + +Signature: The warrior's weapons leave faint trails of smoke, his blows sound with the clatter of smashed plates, and he leaves behind him a faint smell of something burning. + + * Type: Artful/Brutal + * Critical Effects: Embarrass, Maim + +### 1 Lunchtime Rush (1 point) + +The unprepared chef is quickly overwhelmed. As each order is taken he falls farther behind, and a mistake becomes inevitable. + + * You may draw a weapon as a free action. + * You may make a secondary attack this round, which must be against the target of your primary action. + * -5 to your target's Armor if your secondary attack hits. + +### 2 Pot Boils Over (2 points) + +Starchy noodles or frothing soup, if not controlled they will spread across a whole stove, ruining the dishes of other chefs. + + * Your attack is a area attack, with a range of Kung Fu Skill yards. + * -5 to your target's armor if your attack hits. + * +1 damage die if you won initiative over your opponent. + +### 3 Too Much Salt (3 points) + +Nothing ruins a dish faster than incorrect seasoning. When it's too late to fix it, the chef can do nothing but cringe in anticipation of the customer's scorn. + + * -1 to your target's defense roll. + * -5 to your target's Strike. + * Target is Embarassed on a standard success + +### 4 The Knife Slips (4 points) + +A skilled chef is proud of his bladework, but a foolish chef overestimates his skills, and pays the price. + + * Add your Silver Chi modifier to damage. + * -15 to your target's armor. + * +1 damage die if you won initiative over your opponent. + * Target is Maimed on a standard success. + +### 5 Empty Pantry (5 points) + +The customer demands the specialty of the house, but the key ingredient has run dry. + + * -10 to yoru target's Strike. + * Target is Chilled on a standard success. + * Target suffers Chi Flow loss in all colors for 1 round. + * Flaw: you must spend a die of Chi Aura to activate this technique. + * Channel: 2 Jade to activate again next round + +### 6 You Can't Handle the Fugu (10 points) + +Given the risks, only the most skilled or most foolish of chefs tackles the most dangerous of ingredients. By the time it's clear which, it is too late for the hapless chef and his customers. + + * Your attack is a area attack, with a range of Favored Chi yards. + * Targets are Poisoned on a standard success. The poison behaves in the same way as Burning. + * Targets receive a Major Dying Condition (Details TBD) + * Flaw: You are a target of this technique, and defend normally. + * Flaw: You must spend a point of Fortune to activate this technique. + +<hr> + +# MSM Breakdown + +### 1 Lunchtime Rush + +1 level + 1 availability + 2 bonus + +3 Secondary Attack +-1 Flaw: Same Target +1 Quality Penetration (-5 Armor) [Color Match] +0 Draw Weapon + +### 2 Pot Boils Over + +2 level + 1 availability + 1 bonus + +3 Area Attack: Artful/Brutal +1 Quality Penetration (-5 Armor) [Color Match] +0 Lucky (+1 dmg if win init) + +### 3 Too Much Salt + +3 level + 1 availability + 1 bonus + +2 Combat Effect: Embarassing (Standard Success) +2 Quality Pressure (-1 defense) [Color Match] +1 Strike Negation (-5 Strike) + +### 4 The Knife Slips + +4 level + 1 availability + 1 Bonus + +2 Combat Effect: Maiming (Standard Success) +3 Flawless Penetration (-15 Armor) [Color Match] +1 Strength of Chi: +Silver Chi Mod to damage +0 Lucky (+1 dmg if win init) + +### 5 Empty Pantry + +5 level + 1 availability + 3 bonus + +4 Chi Flow Loss (all colors, 1 rnd) +4 Strike Negation: -10 Strike +1 Chilling (1 worse wound pentalty) [Color Match] +-2 Flaw: Weakened Protective Air (-1 Chi Aura) +Channel: 2 Jade to activate next round + +### 6 You Can't Handle the Fugu + +6 level + 1 availability + 6 bonus + +3 Area Attack: Artful/Brutal +4 Combat Effects: Poison (Standard Success - Burning-equivalent behavior) +6 Spiritual Attack: Major Dying Condition (TBD) [Color Match] +-4 Godly Disfavor (target self) +-1 Expend Fortune
diff --git a/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn b/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn index 2bf4c1a..e0b0b10 100644 --- a/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn @@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ * [[Unity-enhancing fund extraction]], the Uncommon technique of the Restraunteers Guild * [[Chef of Iron]] (Uncommon Gold Style) + +* [[Chef's Disasters]] (Common Silver Style)
diff --git a/kung-food/chao.mdwn b/kung-food/chao.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0cb7599 --- /dev/null +++ b/kung-food/chao.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +# Chao + +Chao is a tall, wiry man with long black hair. He dresses simply and inconspicuously, except for the selection of oversized chef's knives on his belt. He tends to watch silently rather than speaking, not wanting to be noticed. + +Chao is a man hiding from his past, and not sure how . He has a gap of several years in his memory. The first part of his adult life which he remembered was his strenuous training in Darkened Flying Edges kung fu, a process which absorbed a piece of his memory and replaced it with a piece of the Void. He was trained by a group of Liquid Metal Delegates as a spy and assassin, intended to infiltrate the kitchens of important targets. + +Chao never knew exactly who the Delegates worked for, or what their ultimate goals were. Confused, he fled when he was given an order his conscience would not allow him to follow. Since that time he has been on the run, dodging the forces sent to re-capture him. Those forces seem not to have found him in Thrashing Minister, where he has been taken in by the wizened chef Michiba-san. Chao worked as a sous-chef in Michiba's restaurant until meeting up with his companions, and joining their food cart enterprise. + +## ATTRIBUTES + + * MIGHT 4 (Jade) + * SPEED 4 (Crimson) + * PRESENCE 1 (Gold) + * GENIUS 2 (White) + * WU WEI 4 (Silver) + +## SKILLS + +MIGHT (1) + + * Athletics 1 + * Climb 0 + * Fight 2 + * Hardiness 1 + * Lift 2 + +SPEED (4) + + * Initiative 3 + * Dodge 3 + * Finesse 2 + * Melee 3 (Blades +1) + * Ride 0 + +PRESENCE (1) + + * Confidence 0 + * Grace 0 + * Inspire 0 (Intimidation +1) + * Perform 0 + * Persuade 0 + +GENIUS (2) + + * Learning 1 + * Crafting 1 (Cooking +1) + * Medicine 0 + * Politics 0 + * Tactics 1 + +WU WEI (4) + + * Awareness 2 + * Investigtion 0 + * Ranged 3 (Blades +1) + * Senses 2 + * Stealth 2 + +## KUNG FU + + * Chef's Disasters (Common): 1-2 + * Cloud Mastery (Common): 1-2 + * Darkened Flying Edges (Uncommon): 1-3 + * Holy Fire (Common): 1-2 + * Lightfoot (Common): 1-2 + +## DISADVANTAGES + + Unwholesome + Chao's eyes are unnaturally black. Looking into them too deeply makes you feel +like you're falling into them... toward a set of gleaming blades. + + Hunted 4 + Liquid Metal Delegates. They want Chao to come back, so they're more likely to +kidnap or pressure him rather than killing him outright. + +## OTHER STUFF: + +ADVANTAGES: + + * Wealth 2 (comfortable) + * Mentor 3: Old Michiba-san: A wizened and possibly-crazy old chef. He claims to come from a land across the sea, where chefs are honored as gods among men, and face each other in a holy arena of culinary skills. + * Entangled Destiny 2: Someone who Chao has forgotten. + +EQUIPMENT: + + * 2x Short Saber + * 2x Throwing Knife + * Light Armor + +DEEDS: + + * Righteous: + * Xia (Justice) 0 + * Kuan (Altruism) 0 + * Yi (Righteousness) 2 + * Zhong (Loyalty) 0 + * Ba (Force) 1 + * Corrupt: + * Chou (Revenge) 1 + * Si (Individualism) 0 + * Chan (Obsession) 0 + * Hen (Ruthlessness) 0 + * Bao (Ferocity) 1 + +DESTINY: + + * 58 (50 spent) + +LORES: + +Learned: + + * None + +Rolls: + + * Two successful rolls towards "Learning Kung Fu" + * One roll not assigned
diff --git a/kung-food/session_three.mdwn b/kung-food/session_three.mdwn
index 651d5c4..7c6f8ee 100644
--- a/kung-food/session_three.mdwn
+++ b/kung-food/session_three.mdwn
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ Deeds & Destiny:
* Chawang -- 1 destiny for last writeup.
* Everybody -- 1 destiny for attending
- * Everybody -- Xia deed for letting Stalwart Rat back out of the fight and not beating him to a pulp
+ * Everybody -- Yi (Righteousness) deed for letting Stalwart Rat back out of the fight and not beating him to a pulp
+ * Chao -- Bao (Ferocity) deed for "pulling no punches" against Stalwart Rat's minions
* Chawang -- disadvantage: overwhelming obsession ("MY CUISINE MUST REIGN SUPREME!")
Notes:
diff --git a/kung-food/session_three.mdwn b/kung-food/session_three.mdwn
index e2ff557..651d5c4 100644
--- a/kung-food/session_three.mdwn
+++ b/kung-food/session_three.mdwn
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ At this moment,
> prudently vanished from sight
> and contemplated terrible curses
-while Stalwart Rat finished his vigor broth ... and flung it boiling at the heroes! ("If this what you need to do to get your customers to taste your food," observed Chawang, "It's no wonder you settle your problems with violence!") Chao and Chawang wore down the Rat's ridiculously strong breath, while Chao vied with Stalwart Rat to see who could light more of the chef's undertrained waiter-minions on fire, and Ostrich's terrible daoist curses undermined Rat's already weak culinary and martial expertise. He flailed with his God-Staff with the power of a demon, yet aimed it with all the finesse of a plodding elephant. Aside from some slight inconvenience suffered by Harmonious Ostrich (never wrongfooted!), the flailing hell-chef was no match for our righteous warriors. Impatient of the fight and beginning to feel that his chi might better be spent on more refined pursuits, Chef Chawang mustered his energy for a single mighty blow to knock the Rat on his back, and send his weapon flying into the kitchen!
+while Stalwart Rat finished his vigor broth ... and flung it boiling at the heroes! ("If this what you need to do to get your customers to taste your food," observed Chawang, "It's no wonder you settle your problems with violence!") Chao and Chawang wore down the Rat's ridiculously strong breath, while Chao vied with Stalwart Rat to see who could light more of the chef's undertrained waiter-minions on fire, and Ostrich's terrible daoist curses undermined Rat's already weak culinary and martial expertise. He flailed with his God-Staff with the power of a demon, yet aimed it with all the finesse of a plodding buffalo. Aside from some slight inconvenience suffered by Harmonious Ostrich (never wrongfooted!), the flailing hell-chef was no match for our righteous warriors. Impatient of the fight and beginning to feel that his chi might better be spent on more refined pursuits, Chef Chawang mustered his energy for a single mighty blow to knock the Rat on his back, and send his weapon flying into the kitchen!
Disarmed and helpless, the desperate chef proposed that he and the righteous food-warriors settle their differences properly... at a cooking battle! Three judges would decide their fate: a victory would grant them permission to open a restaurant, while a loss would force them to leave the district! Rat would pick one judge, the heroes another, and the third would be selected by the local magistrate.
diff --git a/kung-food/session_three.mdwn b/kung-food/session_three.mdwn
index 121711e..e2ff557 100644
--- a/kung-food/session_three.mdwn
+++ b/kung-food/session_three.mdwn
@@ -18,11 +18,12 @@ The Intrepid Upholders of Xia Cuisine once encountered Vigor Broth made by the h
When Chawang sensibly began to instruct Chef Rat on the differences between their cuisines, and to speculate concerning some honorable reasons why a chef might rather bully another than to allow matters of cuisine to be decided by kitchen and palate, the dishonorable warrior became furious. "You'll taste my Broth of Vigor!" he shouted, and began to prepare the decoction on his personal brazier. Chao ran to the kitchen to bring equipment for the heroes to use.. but the dishonorable Stalwart Rat had violence in mind, not cooking!
At this moment,
->Harmonious Ostrich, always prepared,
->prudently vanished from sight
->and contemplated terrible curses
-while Stalwart Rat finished his vigor broth ... and flung it boiling at the heroes! ("If this what you need to do to get your customers to taste your food," observed Chawang, "It's no wonder you settle your problems with violence!") Chao and Chawang wore down the Rat's ridiculously strong breath, while Chao vied with Stalwart Rat to see who could light more of the chef's undertrained waiter-minions on fire, and Ostrich's terrible daoist curses undermined Rat's already week culinary and martial expertise. He flailed with his God-Staff with the power of a demon, yet aimed it with all the finesse of a plodding elephant. Aside from some slight inconvenience suffered by Harmonious Ostrich (never wrongfooted!), the flailing hell-chef was no match for our righteous warriors. Impatient of the fight and beginning to feel that his chi might better be spent on more refined pursuits, Chef Chawang mustered his energy for a single mighty blow to knock the Rat on his back, and send his weapon flying into the kitchen!
+> Harmonious Ostrich, always prepared,
+> prudently vanished from sight
+> and contemplated terrible curses
+
+while Stalwart Rat finished his vigor broth ... and flung it boiling at the heroes! ("If this what you need to do to get your customers to taste your food," observed Chawang, "It's no wonder you settle your problems with violence!") Chao and Chawang wore down the Rat's ridiculously strong breath, while Chao vied with Stalwart Rat to see who could light more of the chef's undertrained waiter-minions on fire, and Ostrich's terrible daoist curses undermined Rat's already weak culinary and martial expertise. He flailed with his God-Staff with the power of a demon, yet aimed it with all the finesse of a plodding elephant. Aside from some slight inconvenience suffered by Harmonious Ostrich (never wrongfooted!), the flailing hell-chef was no match for our righteous warriors. Impatient of the fight and beginning to feel that his chi might better be spent on more refined pursuits, Chef Chawang mustered his energy for a single mighty blow to knock the Rat on his back, and send his weapon flying into the kitchen!
Disarmed and helpless, the desperate chef proposed that he and the righteous food-warriors settle their differences properly... at a cooking battle! Three judges would decide their fate: a victory would grant them permission to open a restaurant, while a loss would force them to leave the district! Rat would pick one judge, the heroes another, and the third would be selected by the local magistrate.
diff --git a/kung-food/session_three.mdwn b/kung-food/session_three.mdwn index 4cac9b4..121711e 100644 --- a/kung-food/session_three.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/session_three.mdwn @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Yet you must study vigor broth. Its power --when prepared by the top chefs of H The Intrepid Upholders of Xia Cuisine once encountered Vigor Broth made by the hands of Chef Stalwart Rat. Soon after the adventure of Chef Chawang's famous Stolen Rubbish Pork, chef Rat invited them to his restaurant of vicious intent, Noodle Factory. A lesser hero's heart might have fallen to learn that here was the chef whose unrighteous kung fu and terrible god weapon had been described to them by Chao the night before, but our heroes knew no fear. A lesser chef might have given in to proper suggestions that he respect the order of things among the restaurants of Thrashing Minister... -...but Stalwart Rat demanded "respect" that no true could accept! He condescendingly suggested that the Righteous Culinary Trio might be forgiven their offenses against the restaurant guild, start working small jobs in the kitchen of a minor restaurant, and--perhaps--gain *permission* to cook in a matter of years! As soon tell the Celestial Goddess to enter your army as a pikeman! +...but Stalwart Rat demanded "respect" that no true chef could accept! He condescendingly suggested that the Righteous Culinary Trio might be forgiven their offenses against the restaurant guild, start working small jobs in the kitchen of a minor restaurant, and--perhaps--gain *permission* to cook in a matter of years! As soon tell the Celestial Goddess to enter your army as a pikeman! When Chawang sensibly began to instruct Chef Rat on the differences between their cuisines, and to speculate concerning some honorable reasons why a chef might rather bully another than to allow matters of cuisine to be decided by kitchen and palate, the dishonorable warrior became furious. "You'll taste my Broth of Vigor!" he shouted, and began to prepare the decoction on his personal brazier. Chao ran to the kitchen to bring equipment for the heroes to use.. but the dishonorable Stalwart Rat had violence in mind, not cooking!
diff --git a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn index 5ffa4e4..292bccb 100644 --- a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn @@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ * [[Session one]], Impossible Flavored Chicken * [[Session two]], Stolen Rubish Pork -* [[Session three]] +* [[Session three]], Sick Rat Broth
diff --git a/kung-food/session_three.mdwn b/kung-food/session_three.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4cac9b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kung-food/session_three.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+# Session 3: 10 February 2011
+
+***
+
+"To become master of all cuisines, the student cannot eschew the knowledge even of the failed and commonplace recipes. To learn where perfection lies, the student must survey the landscapes of failure.
+
+Such a failure is "Vigor Broth."
+
+It comes in as many flavors as there are corrupt chefs who prepare it. Their style is as flashy as their kung-fu: sweeping motions where simple ones would do, showy ingredients when simple ones would serve them better, and no respect for tradition, harmony, or balance. By sacrificing all for vigor, their food loses all *but* vigor: and so does their fighting!
+
+Yet you must study vigor broth. Its power --when prepared by the top chefs of Hell Clan-- has been compared to the strength of hot peppers, the audaciousness of the durian, the bite of distilled alcohol, the pungency of almost-rotten beef. It represents the heights to which a corrupt chef may climb on force alone, and it also represents the way that force untempered by wisdom and finesse will destroy cuisine,
+> like an unharnassed elephant / rampaging though a spice market!
+
+The Intrepid Upholders of Xia Cuisine once encountered Vigor Broth made by the hands of Chef Stalwart Rat. Soon after the adventure of Chef Chawang's famous Stolen Rubbish Pork, chef Rat invited them to his restaurant of vicious intent, Noodle Factory. A lesser hero's heart might have fallen to learn that here was the chef whose unrighteous kung fu and terrible god weapon had been described to them by Chao the night before, but our heroes knew no fear. A lesser chef might have given in to proper suggestions that he respect the order of things among the restaurants of Thrashing Minister...
+
+...but Stalwart Rat demanded "respect" that no true could accept! He condescendingly suggested that the Righteous Culinary Trio might be forgiven their offenses against the restaurant guild, start working small jobs in the kitchen of a minor restaurant, and--perhaps--gain *permission* to cook in a matter of years! As soon tell the Celestial Goddess to enter your army as a pikeman!
+
+When Chawang sensibly began to instruct Chef Rat on the differences between their cuisines, and to speculate concerning some honorable reasons why a chef might rather bully another than to allow matters of cuisine to be decided by kitchen and palate, the dishonorable warrior became furious. "You'll taste my Broth of Vigor!" he shouted, and began to prepare the decoction on his personal brazier. Chao ran to the kitchen to bring equipment for the heroes to use.. but the dishonorable Stalwart Rat had violence in mind, not cooking!
+
+At this moment,
+>Harmonious Ostrich, always prepared,
+>prudently vanished from sight
+>and contemplated terrible curses
+
+while Stalwart Rat finished his vigor broth ... and flung it boiling at the heroes! ("If this what you need to do to get your customers to taste your food," observed Chawang, "It's no wonder you settle your problems with violence!") Chao and Chawang wore down the Rat's ridiculously strong breath, while Chao vied with Stalwart Rat to see who could light more of the chef's undertrained waiter-minions on fire, and Ostrich's terrible daoist curses undermined Rat's already week culinary and martial expertise. He flailed with his God-Staff with the power of a demon, yet aimed it with all the finesse of a plodding elephant. Aside from some slight inconvenience suffered by Harmonious Ostrich (never wrongfooted!), the flailing hell-chef was no match for our righteous warriors. Impatient of the fight and beginning to feel that his chi might better be spent on more refined pursuits, Chef Chawang mustered his energy for a single mighty blow to knock the Rat on his back, and send his weapon flying into the kitchen!
+
+Disarmed and helpless, the desperate chef proposed that he and the righteous food-warriors settle their differences properly... at a cooking battle! Three judges would decide their fate: a victory would grant them permission to open a restaurant, while a loss would force them to leave the district! Rat would pick one judge, the heroes another, and the third would be selected by the local magistrate.
+
+A cook with more prudence than honor might have refused the offer and smashed Stalwart Rat on the spot. But a true master of cuisine would walk away from any battle of arms for a chance to retry his enemy in the kitchen of honor! Unhesitatingly, Chen Chawang accepted. But his compassion would not allow Stalwart Rat to lie broken on the floor. As a precaution against future injuries, Chawang advised him not to abuse his minions so: if you abuse your waiters, it's not safe to turn your back on them! Chawang also prepared him a simple dish, a bowl of recuperative soup prepared properly, harmoniously, its vigor in proportion to its flavors. This dish is now known as Sick Rat Broth. Though not the most frequently ordered of the master's dishes, there's nothing quite like it for the sick and injured. The filial student will study it carefully, in case his sifu calls for a bowl on some cold winter night.
+
+To begin, take three whole chickens, and smash them with a single mighty blow from the largest club you can find... "
+
+(excerpt from *Manual of Righteous Culinary Excellence For The Proper Instruction of Filial Chefs* by "Inconceivable Food-God of Heaven and Earth" (poss. pseud. Chen Chawang?) )
+
+***
+
+Recipes:
+
+ * Sick Rat Broth 30
+
+Deeds & Destiny:
+
+ * Chawang -- 1 destiny for last writeup.
+ * Everybody -- 1 destiny for attending
+ * Everybody -- Xia deed for letting Stalwart Rat back out of the fight and not beating him to a pulp
+ * Chawang -- disadvantage: overwhelming obsession ("MY CUISINE MUST REIGN SUPREME!")
+
+Notes:
+
+ * Chen Chawang found a trivial (??) ferocity inspiration in Chef Stalwart Rat (recovery 29), and yin-yanged it to a trivial fear passion ("Those you will oppress will rise against you!")
+ * I'm not so good at taking blow-by-blow notes about fight scenes. I'll try to get better.
+
+People, places, and things:
+
+ * The Noodle Factory
+ * Chef Stalwart Rat
+ * His God-Weapon
+ * His waiters
+ * His cooking brazier
+ * The upcoming cooking contest
+ * The judge chosen by Stalwart Rat
+ * The judge chosen by the magistrate (?)
+ * We need to choose a judge too!
+
+
diff --git a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn index a5f53ea..5ffa4e4 100644 --- a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn @@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ * [[Session one]], Impossible Flavored Chicken * [[Session two]], Stolen Rubish Pork +* [[Session three]]
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diff --git a/posts/he-ventured-forth-to-bring-light-to-the-world/comment_1_16685708d7c2198d920172d6d6baf367._comment b/posts/he-ventured-forth-to-bring-light-to-the-world/comment_1_16685708d7c2198d920172d6d6baf367._comment deleted file mode 100644 index 34d3bab..0000000 --- a/posts/he-ventured-forth-to-bring-light-to-the-world/comment_1_16685708d7c2198d920172d6d6baf367._comment +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ -[[!comment format=mdwn - ip="77.40.23.34" - subject="секс мать и сын видио " - date="2011-02-10T12:14:44Z" - content=""" -<a href=http://molekul.cz.cc>девушки по вызову оренбург</a> <a href=http://logenama.tk>порно груповуха инцест</a> <a href=http://buicourme.nm.ru>старая пизда видео</a> <a href=http://foxmax.ce.ms>девочку по вызову в смоленске</a> <a href=http://dezacou.newmail.ru>анкеты проституток новокузнецка</a> -красивое гей порно видео -<a href=http://timisaw.newmail.ru/anal/139.html>порно мать сын смотреть онлайн</a> <a href=http://geartcorne.pochtamt.ru/putana-6/page364.html>маленькие тёлочки</a> <a href=http://kalma.tk/video-13/251.php>порно с тинейджерами</a> <a href=http://malsilu.newmail.ru/devochki-2/individualki-novgorod.html>индивидуалки новгород</a> <a href=http://viemumi.krovatka.su/4/y-363.html>проститутки город шахты</a> -порно с девственицами онлайн -Look at me, you like it! -"""]]
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diff --git a/posts/he-ventured-forth-to-bring-light-to-the-world/comment_1_16685708d7c2198d920172d6d6baf367._comment b/posts/he-ventured-forth-to-bring-light-to-the-world/comment_1_16685708d7c2198d920172d6d6baf367._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000..34d3bab --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/he-ventured-forth-to-bring-light-to-the-world/comment_1_16685708d7c2198d920172d6d6baf367._comment @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + ip="77.40.23.34" + subject="секс мать и сын видио " + date="2011-02-10T12:14:44Z" + content=""" +<a href=http://molekul.cz.cc>девушки по вызову оренбург</a> <a href=http://logenama.tk>порно груповуха инцест</a> <a href=http://buicourme.nm.ru>старая пизда видео</a> <a href=http://foxmax.ce.ms>девочку по вызову в смоленске</a> <a href=http://dezacou.newmail.ru>анкеты проституток новокузнецка</a> +красивое гей порно видео +<a href=http://timisaw.newmail.ru/anal/139.html>порно мать сын смотреть онлайн</a> <a href=http://geartcorne.pochtamt.ru/putana-6/page364.html>маленькие тёлочки</a> <a href=http://kalma.tk/video-13/251.php>порно с тинейджерами</a> <a href=http://malsilu.newmail.ru/devochki-2/individualki-novgorod.html>индивидуалки новгород</a> <a href=http://viemumi.krovatka.su/4/y-363.html>проститутки город шахты</a> +порно с девственицами онлайн +Look at me, you like it! +"""]]
Add chef of iron style
diff --git a/kung-food/chef_of_iron.mdwn b/kung-food/chef_of_iron.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f6842f --- /dev/null +++ b/kung-food/chef_of_iron.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ +## Chef of Iron +(Destiny cost: 15) + +From [Mengtzu](http://thewulin.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24) + +Uncommon Gold Chi Style + +Three Dynasties ago, a man’s fantasy became reality in a form never +seen before: The Thrice-Glorious Kitchen Arena, a giant kung-fu +cooking school. The motivation to create the Arena was to use the +power of the Wulin to encounter new culinary delights through setting +chefs the fiercest of challenges, and use the unstoppable artistic +drive in the greatest of chefs to rule the martial arts world! To +realize his dream, he began to secretly recruit the finest martial +artists and finalist chefs of various styles; together, they created +an unstoppable cooking kung-fu. He named them his Chefs of Iron---the +invincible warriors of culinary skills! + +*Signature*: This is a profoundly flexible style---while the warrior’s +culinary skills are obvious in every movement, the techniques appear +different from battle to battle. Using all their senses, skill, +creativity, the Chefs of Iron prepare artistic manoeuvres never tasted +before. What inspiration will each new challenger bring? Only one +thing is for sure---the heat will be on! + +*Type*: Arful/Brutal (Cooking Implements) + +Default Critical *Success*: Embarrass or Stun. + + + 1. Revelation of the Ingredient (1 point) + + > A Chef of Iron, tested by thousands of cooking battles in + > Thrice-Glorious Kitchen Arena, cannot be caught off guard! To such + > a warrior, a shocking surprise is merely a new ingredient, filled + > with promise! + + Activate this technique when Surprised to cancel the + surprise. This technique functions even if you are asleep. + + Add a bonus dice to your next Craft roll this round for which the + Cooking specialty could apply. + + *Flaw*: Gathering the Ingredient: You must spend your next available + Free Action gathering ingredients, putting on an apron, locating + cooking tools, or otherwise indulging in the role of chef. If you + are using this technique in a cooking battle where such is a + given, you must attack someone with your next full action in order + to provoke kung-fu cooking battle. + + 2. Write the Menu (2 points) + + > The true Chef of Iron treats each battle as a carefully crafted + > meal---no matter how much improvisation is called for, they draw + > strength from preparing a masterful menu! With such an + > impeccable plan, who can trump their masterful sequence of + > courses? + + You automatically win initiative. Roll initiative normally against opponents using a similar technique. + + Add a bonus die to your next attack this round. + + *Flaw*: Calligraphy. You must spend your first Free Action this round inscribing your menu! + + 3. Broth of Vigour (3 points) + + > A proper dish should invigorate the soul---even an appetiser or + > soup should make the gourmet feel more alive! The Chefs of Iron + > have mastered an instant-preparation soup that enchants even the + > most jaded table of diners (though when ingredients are scarce, + > they have been known to substitute a course of pressure-point + > strikes). + + Your attack is an Area Attack with a radius equal to your Chef of + Iron Skill in yards. + + If you successfully hit a target, they contract a Minor Earth + System Weakness, with a recovery of 20, a duration of 5 and an + interval of one round. If they don’t spend two Free Actions each + round rubbing their bellies, complimenting the chef and expressing + a desire for more food (or similar behaviour), they lose their + breath in their Favoured Chi for the round. + + 4. Chef of Iron Stance(4 points) + + > A Chef of Iron is a master of both the kitchen and the martial + > arts world---drawing immense power from this synergy, they can’t + > be beaten by chef or warrior! They seem utterly in control, + > fighting and cooking with the same motion, and always seem to + > have time for another course! + + You may sacrifice result dice from Craft rolls for which the Cooking specialty would apply in order to add them to an attack roll later in the same round, and vice-versa. + + You gain a secondary attack each round, which you may enhance only with Chef of Iron techniques. + + Add a bonus die to any Craft roll for which the Cooking specialty would apply. + + Add your Gold Chi bonus as a modifier to the bonus added by any cooking tools you are using for Craft (Cooking) rolls. + + You may summon your weapon, cooking tools, or ingredients to your hand from up to your Favoured Chi in feet with a Free Action. + + *Duration*: Investment. This technique remains in effect as long as you reduce your Gold Chi rating by 2. + + *Flaw*: Weakened Protective Air: you have one less die of chi aura while this technique is in effect. + + + 5. Goose-Liver Overindulgence Strike (5 points) + + > As the Broth of Vigour begins a meal, awakening the appetite, so + > it is that rich food slows the diner, forcing them to savour + > each bite! + + Your attack is an Area Attack with a radius equal to your Chef of Iron Skill in yards. + + If you successfully hit a target, they contract a Major Earth System Weakness, with a recovery of 30, a duration of 5 and an interval of one scene. If they don’t spend their full action each round eating, they suffer a cumulative one point Presence reduction (maximum five points). + + + 6. Ultimate Judge-Pleasing Service (10 points: 6 Gold + 4 Any) + + > When most warriors make an area attack, it’s impersonal. When a + > true Chef of Iron attacks, it is as if he serves each person + > with a lovingly crafted meal of ultimate culinary accomplishment + >---they’re stunned with pleasure! Usually, this is literally + > true, though the Chefs of Iron are occasionally forced to attack + > pressure points to simulate the experience. + + Your attack is an Area Attack with a radius equal to your Favoured Chi + in yards. + + Your attack is considered a style roll. It cannot normally be defended + against, other than with techniques that explicitly defend against + attacks made as style rolls (also known as Unparalleled Attacks). + + You inflict the Stun combat effect on a standard success. + + If you successfully hit a target, they contract a Minor Drunk Weakness + affecting Crimson Breath, with a recovery of 20, a duration of 5 and + an interval of one scene. + + +### DESTINY COST + +* *Bonus*: you receive a free Chef of Iron skill level equal to the + highest technique level you’ve learned. + +* *Bonus*: You receive the advantage Mentor 5: The Chairman. + +* 2 *Discovery*: Having arranged a one-on-one duel with a rival, you + discover they are a closet chef, and will agree to a cooking kung-fu + battle! + +* 5 *Overwhelming Passion* (Contemplation: Cooking): You think about + everything in cooking terms---not a moment of your life goes by when + cooking isn’t on your mind! + + * -5: This is your first or second disadvantage. diff --git a/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn b/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn index 5e59a1a..2bf4c1a 100644 --- a/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn @@ -5,3 +5,5 @@ * [[Cuisines of the Four Cardinal Directions]] (Common White Style) * [[Unity-enhancing fund extraction]], the Uncommon technique of the Restraunteers Guild + +* [[Chef of Iron]] (Uncommon Gold Style)
calendar update
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diff --git a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn index ad53caf..a5f53ea 100644 --- a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ # Campaign log -* [[Session one]] -* [[Session two]] +* [[Session one]], Impossible Flavored Chicken +* [[Session two]], Stolen Rubish Pork
diff --git a/kung-food/session_two.mdwn b/kung-food/session_two.mdwn index ad12e0e..1430408 100644 --- a/kung-food/session_two.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/session_two.mdwn @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ Destiny & deeds: * HO -- benevolence for healing ST * Chawang -- obsession disad for refusing to join corrupt guild * Chawang -- become a charity-restaurant: Kuan deed! - * Chao -- Force (???) Revenge??? for taking ginseng + * Chao -- revenge for taking ginseng * HO -- ruthlessness ?? for replacing note * Everybody -- Yi: Deliver food to awaken the spirits of the chefs of the city!!
diff --git a/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn b/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn
index e77b181..ab7a95b 100644
--- a/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn
+++ b/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ ADVANTAGES:
LORES:
- * 2: Courtship
+ * 2: Courtship
KUNG FU:
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ SECRET ARTS:
* 5: Controlling inspirations (p.314)
* 1: Inflame/soothe
* 1: stealth
+ * 3: Yin/yang technique
Equipment
@@ -92,8 +93,16 @@ Equipment
* Collection of cleavers
* Light armor
-***
+Deeds:
+
+ * 1 Kuan
+ * 1 Yi
+
+Destiny:
+
+ * 57 (53 spent)
+
+Lore rolls:
+
+ * Two successful rolls towards studying Confucianism!
-PLAN FOR FIRST 4 ADDITIONAL DESTINY
- 3 for yin-yang technique
- 1 for destiny on courtship
diff --git a/kung-food/session_two.mdwn b/kung-food/session_two.mdwn index 155aa2c..ad12e0e 100644 --- a/kung-food/session_two.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/session_two.mdwn @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ pigs, unfit even to throw down a latrine! Sweet and sour pork--lying soggily in a effluence of cloying filth! Pork fried rice--pallid, greasy, unevenly cooked! And General's Chicken, lying in dead lumps like so many defeated soldiers after a battle, left to -rot in a muddy cornstarch field. +rot in a muddy starch-thickened field. Such misdeeds against cuisine could not go unanswered! @@ -245,6 +245,9 @@ Recipes: * Seven precious herbs fried rice 29 * Innocent Recruit's Chicken 30 +Notes: + + * Good thing that we agreed on having the cuisine be anachronistic! Destiny & deeds:
diff --git a/kung-food/session_two.mdwn b/kung-food/session_two.mdwn index 81e7351..155aa2c 100644 --- a/kung-food/session_two.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/session_two.mdwn @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ actually prepared from stolen rubbish.) Gold Ting then came to continue the arguments of his brother. He tried to persuade the unstoppable hero-chefs to submit before the evil power of the restaurant guild, lest they be destroyed. In -gratitude, our heroes allowed him to sample the pork. It was so +gratitude for his sincere (though misguided) efforts on their behalf, our heroes allowed him to sample the pork. It was so good! But Iron Ting came to pull Gold away from the food, saying, "The eyes of the Unwholesome are everywhere!" Gold Ting finally let slip that not only did the guild require restaurants to have a
diff --git a/kung-food/session_two.mdwn b/kung-food/session_two.mdwn index a82a430..81e7351 100644 --- a/kung-food/session_two.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/session_two.mdwn @@ -230,9 +230,11 @@ and speedy as the wind. Thus, the story of Stolen Rubbish Pork is truly the story of not one of the Master's great recipes, but of four! -*** -The next day, our heroes were to go to visit the unrighteous chef Stalwart Rat. As a present, they thought to bring him some of the Talismans of Joyous Digestive Harmony For The Deserving and Needy that they had made to ration their free cuisine, asking that he magnanimously distribute them among the poor ... because what wicked man can resist a chance to maltreat the wretched? And yet, what smug extortionist-chef could stand to admit the inferiority of his cuisine by stealing another's? +The next day, our heroes were to go to visit the unrighteous chef Stalwart Rat. As a present, they thought to bring him some of the Talismans of Joyous Digestive Harmony For The Deserving and Needy that they had made to ration their free cuisine, asking that he magnanimously distribute them among the poor ... because what wicked man can resist a chance to maltreat the wretched? And yet, what smug extortionist-chef could stand to admit the inferiority of his cuisine by stealing another's?" + +(excerpt from *Manual of Righteous Culinary Excellence For The Proper Instruction of Filial Chefs* by "Inconceivable Food-God of Heaven and Earth" (poss. pseud. Chen Chawang?) ) + ***
diff --git a/kung-food/session_two.mdwn b/kung-food/session_two.mdwn index 0c54960..a82a430 100644 --- a/kung-food/session_two.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/session_two.mdwn @@ -273,3 +273,7 @@ People, places, and things: * The old guy in the kitchen at Grandpa's House (Grandpa?) * The Ginseng Root * Thrashing Minister (yes, that's where we are) + +Still unnamed: + + * The food cart.
diff --git a/kung-food/session_two.mdwn b/kung-food/session_two.mdwn index 05788ea..0c54960 100644 --- a/kung-food/session_two.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/session_two.mdwn @@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ Recipes: Destiny & deeds: + * Chawang -- 1 destiny for me writing last session's notes * HO -- benevolence for healing ST * Chawang -- obsession disad for refusing to join corrupt guild @@ -255,6 +256,7 @@ Destiny & deeds: of the city!! People, places, and things: + * Gold Ting, Silver Ting, Iron Ting * The sword Gold Ting got back * The cooking knife Gold Ting returned
diff --git a/kung-food/session_two.mdwn b/kung-food/session_two.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..05788ea --- /dev/null +++ b/kung-food/session_two.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,273 @@ +# Session 2: 3 February 2011 + +*** + +"To begin your training, you must know that you fall short of what +is possible. You cannot reach for the heavens without knowing how +far above you they truly lie. + +Thus, the student must prepare Stolen Rubbish Pork. + +You have surely smelled your sifu's Stolen Rubbish Pork, and perhaps +if you have been virtuous and diligent you have even sampled a +piece. But the student's Stolen Rubbish Pork will not reach to such +perfection, much less to the perfection of the first Stolen Rubbish +Pork recipe originally prepared by Chen Chawang. + +To learn the true lesson of Stolen Rubbish Pork, the student *must +not follow the established recipe*! Instead, the technique is as +follows: Find a grocery that has suffered a calamity-- sacked by +thugs, smashed by powerful kung fu, burned down in a fire, or all +three. Steal their rubbish as fast as you can--and make sure you +get some pork! Imagine that you are Master Chen Chawang, ever +inventive, or Harmonious Ostrich preparing ingredients with finesse +and skill, or Chao, masterful Chao, ingenious warrior of cuisine! +Remind yourself that ingredients are no obstacle for the master +of all cuisines! Tell yourself that a true chef needs no recipe, no +rules, no laws but the law of Harmonious Cooking In All Things! + +Now: with ingredients of the worst quality and not of your own +choosing; with all your passion and knowledge, try to create +your own recipe to rival all gods and chefs! Try to rival the +Stolen Rubbish Pork of Chen Chawang! + +The student who tries this technique will invariably fail: his dish +will taste of spoiled meat and rotten vegetables. He must eat it, +as a lesson. The accomplished chef who tries this technique will +create a passable meal, harmonious but not delightful, -- a dish he +can serve to others without shaming his name. These will learn +humility, and learn how far they have to rise. Only a true master +will replicate the feat of Chen Chawang and create a delicious dish +that diners will request again having tried it the first time. And +of course, only Master Chen Chawang himself will ever create the +original recipe for Stolen Rubbish Pork, and perfect it over the +course of his life. + +And as much as the recipe itself inspires the student to +greater heights, so should the well-known story of Stolen Rubbish +Pork inspire the student to strive, as did the Heroic Cuisine +Heroes, for uncompromising excellence in all things! + + +Soon after their battle with the Dirty Ting Brothers (see recipe for +Four-Metals-Squashed-Flat Chicken), Harmonious Ostrich visited +Silver Ting in his convalescence to return the sword that Gold Ting +had careless dropped during their melee. As a further act of +benevolence, Harmonious Ostrich healed Silver Ting of his grievous +wounds. Silver Ting might have deserved getting set on fire and +smashed through a building-- but the doctor nobly considered that he +didn't deserve to suffer in bed! + +In gratitude, Silver Ting warned the imperturbable Ostrich that the +Restaurant Guild's influence spread widely through Thrashing +Minister: for their defiance, the Wulin Heroes would find themselves +shut out by all suppliers and all restaurateurs! All customers +would be turned against them, and any who stayed would be punished! + +The trio learned the truth of this warning when they visited their +grocer. His melons were smashed, and he was too terrified of +further repercussions to sell them groceries! Rather than put him at +risk of more brutality, Chen Chawang determined to cart off the +man's garbage, since what one man discards is free for the taking by +another. Harmonious Ostrich, ingenious in all things, demonstrated +one or two previously unnoticed flaws in pieces of the grocer's existing +merchandise that rendered those items fit for disposal. (*This* was +smashed as if by deadly kung fu, *that* was lit on fire as if by +secret Daoist arts...) +Naturally, +he left the grocer some slight compensation for those. + +Inspired by adversity, as Harmonious Ostrich paced the +constellations, and Chao assembled his vision into reality, Chef +Chawang poured his anger into a masterpiece: the first Stolen +Rubbish Pork of all time! (Not the *best*, mind you. Though its +inspiration was undeniable, and its delicious originality filled +customers with delight, Stolen Rubbish Pork is even better when not +actually prepared from stolen rubbish.) + +Gold Ting then came to continue the arguments of his brother. He +tried to persuade the unstoppable hero-chefs to submit before the +evil power of the restaurant guild, lest they be destroyed. In +gratitude, our heroes allowed him to sample the pork. It was so +good! But Iron Ting came to pull Gold away from the food, saying, +"The eyes of the Unwholesome are everywhere!" Gold Ting finally let +slip that not only did the guild require restaurants to have a +"permit" ... but also that they restricted their recipes to a +permissible list! + + +Master Chen Chawang could stand no more. "So," he said, "all who +sell food in this city are required join the restaurant guild?" +Then, he announced, the FOODWAGON would no longer sell its food! +The master swore that so long as "restaurants" of the city +dishonored themselves and debased their cuisine, his kitchen would +not be debased and dishonored by being a restaurant. Instead, he +would give away his food for free! + +> When there is nothing left in the law but wickedness +> The righteous man must become an outlaw-- +> When the wine is stinking, watery, and sour +> The righteous man must drink tea-- +> When the tiger has grown cruel and debauched +> The righteous warrior must study the kung fu of the dragon-- +> And when "Restaurant" means bad food, bad manners, bad behavior: +> The righteous warrior-chef will have no restaurant! + +The heroes served free Stolen Rubbish Pork while supplies lasted, +one bowl per supplicant. Before he left, Gold Ting begged for them +to meet with his master, Chef Stalwart Rat of the 7 Noxious +Ingredients Gang. They agreed. + + +Later that day, the wulin chef-warriors went to investigate the +state of cuisine in the city. Had things truly grown so bleak for +the restaurants of Thrashing Minister? + +Indeed, they had! Wrapped in their own masterful cuisine, Chao, +Ostrich, and Chawang had not seen the disgrace of the restaurants +around them. Sloppy dishes, everywhere the same, everywhere without +flavor, joylessly prepared, underspiced, oversalted, limply +glistening, artlessly sauced! It was unfit for dogs, unfit for +pigs, unfit even to throw down a latrine! Sweet and sour +pork--lying soggily in a effluence of cloying filth! Pork fried +rice--pallid, greasy, unevenly cooked! And General's Chicken, lying +in dead lumps like so many defeated soldiers after a battle, left to +rot in a muddy cornstarch field. + +Such misdeeds against cuisine could not go unanswered! + +At this point, it is said, the heroes went to investigate the city. + +Chef Chawang sampled food at dozens of restaurants, searching for +any signs of rebellion against the Guild's villainous regime. All +he could find was one restaurant, "Grandpa's House", where his +practiced eye noted that the ingredients, though prepared to the +Guild's nefariously low standards, were nonetheless prepared in a +proscribed order! Moreover, the garnish was arranged with concealed +artistry to resemble the character for "bored". + +Mighty Chao followed Silver Ting on his rounds to learn more about +the Guild's operation. He found him collecting cash from numerous +restaurants around the city, listening to complaints from a +restaurant whose business had suffered from competition by FOODCART, +and finally bringing his heaping money bag to "Noodle Factory" -- a +private dinner club. + +(Harmonious Ostrich, always just, purchased the rubbish from the +restaurant whose business had suffered--nobody would lose out, and +there would be plenty for the next day's Stolen Rubbish Pork.) + +Meanwhile, decisive Chao infiltrated the infamous headquarters of +iniquitous cuisine! He mercifully disguised himself as a neophyte +cook so as to avoid being discovered and having to thrash underlings +by the dozens. Using a simple ruse, he entered the dining room, +only to find it full of thugs and corrupt wulin devil-warriors! One +mighty warrior, clearly the master of the others, sat with a +horrible god-weapon and a personal grill at his side. When served +undercooked beef, he responded not as Confucius teaches (that is, +by gently remonstrating with the cook so as to correct his +behavior), but rather with terrible fury! "See? This is how you +cook beef!" he shouted, as it sizzled in his burning hands. And a +reminder, he burned up the cook's back as well! + +Chao recognized the man's kung fu as a corrupt technique practiced +by the mighty and wicked Hell Clan. Mind you, Chao was not yet as +you know him from the songs: the virtuous deadly cuisine fighter, +the bane of wicked chefs, the killing whirlwind of fire and blade. +This was only a younger Chao, Chao of the fourth rank, who knew that +his kung fu was no match alone for the full fury of Hell's Disasters +in the hands of a Hell Clan boss. Though his warrior's heart cried +out to avenge the innocent chef, he knew he had no choice but to +retreat to the kitchen, injustice unavenged, until he had +strengthened his kung fu. + +But then he saw another opportunity to strike a blow at the +unrighteous restaurant cartel, foiling an injustice still worse. +There in the kitchen, like an innocent child of the mountains, sat a +legendary ginseng root, surely awaiting its misuse in a recipe worse +than death! + +To take such a ginseng root would not be a theft so much as an act +of liberation! Chao shoved it in a padded trash bin when nobody was +looking, and smuggled it out the Noodle House's back door. + +The heroes then, with no final resolution, discussed plans for how (Diff truncated)
diff --git a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn index 6ff1866..ad53caf 100644 --- a/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/campaign_log.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ # Campaign log * [[Session one]] +* [[Session two]]
diff --git a/kung-food/sizzling_doom.mdwn b/kung-food/sizzling_doom.mdwn
index c93f532..0758a07 100644
--- a/kung-food/sizzling_doom.mdwn
+++ b/kung-food/sizzling_doom.mdwn
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
I: Minion destroying: double each result die
Channel: 2 gold chi -- Use this technique again next round
- 5. Hell of ten thousand red-hot skewers (5 points)
+ 5. Hell of ten thousand red-hot skewers (5 points)
[maneuver points: 5+1]
II: Add CCM to attack
diff --git a/kung-food/sizzling_doom.mdwn b/kung-food/sizzling_doom.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c93f532 --- /dev/null +++ b/kung-food/sizzling_doom.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +## Sizzling Doom + + Common Crimson Chi Style + + Troublemakers don't belong in a kitchen! It's a dangerous place, + full of fire and steam and heated metal. A bad accident could + happen -- and if the chef is angry, a bad accident is practically + guaranteed! This style is practiced in kitchens around Shen Zhou. + + Signature: When a warrior uses this style, his weapon makes puffs of + flame like fire touching vaporized oil, and sizzles like water in a + hot pan. + + Type: Artful (edged cookware only) + + Default critical effect: Burn, Disarm + + 1. Scalding like steam (1 point) + + > "Don't go near Chef today! His temper is hotter than the + > oven, and even faster than his knives!" + + * You may draw your weapon as a free action + * Make an attack, adding your Crimson Chi Modifier to your weapon's Strike. + * Add +2 damage dice to the result if you hit. + + 2. Searing like a metal pan (2 points) + + > "You couldn't get near him if you wanted to! He's grabbed + > that hot pan with his bare hands, and he's waving it around + > like he's some kind of horrible kitchen demon!" + + * For the rest of the round: + * Add your crimson chi modifier to your weapon's Damage + * Add your crimson chi modifier to blocks + * You can block barehanded without penalty + + 3. Burning like the cookfire (3 points) + + > "Don't even come in to work today! He moves with terrible + > purpose and ferocious speed. He stokes the fire higher and + > higher... but the fire in his eyes is even worse!" + + * Make an attack, adding your Crimson Chi Modifier to your weapon's Strike. + * Add +4 damage dice to the result if you hit. + * Subtract 5 from your enemy's armor if you hit. + + 4. Boiling like hot oil (4 points) + + > "Run away! His rage burns hotter by the minute! He knocks + > waiters and busboys aside by the dozens! Don't try to + > soothe him: it's like throwing water onto a grease fire!" + + * The first round that you use this technique, add one damage die to your results. Every consecutive round thereafter in which this technique is invoked, add an additional cumulative damage die. + * Make a secondary attack at the end of the round + * Double each result die when using this technique against minions + * **Channel** 2 gold chi -- Use this technique again next round. + + 5. Hell of ten thousand red-hot skewers (5 points) + + > "It's too late! A customer tried to send back his entree, + > and Chef turned into an unspeakably brutal customer- + > punishing Dharmapala! The kitchen has become the Avici + > Hell!" + + * Make an attack, adding your Crimson Chi Modifier to your weapon's Strike. + * If you hit, your enemy is Disoriented on a standard success + * If you hit, add +5 damage dice + * Flaw: this technique costs 1 joss to activate + +=== + +### MSM Breakdown + + 1. Scalding like steam (1 point) + + [maneuver points: 1+1] + 0: Weapon draw as free action + II: Add Crimson Chi modifier to an attack + I: Battering: +2 damage dice (color match) + + 2. Searing like a metal pan (2 points) + + [maneuver points: 2+1] + 0: Iron skin + II: Add crimson chi modifiers to blocks + II: persistence: roundlong + I: Add crimson chi modifier to damage + * Restriction point used here. + + 3. Burning like the cookfire (3 points) + + [maneuver points: 3+1] + III: wounding: +4 damage dice (color match) + II: Add CCM to attack + I: Quality Penetration: -5 to armor. + * Restriction point used here + + 4. Boiling like hot oil (4 points) + + [maneuver points: 4+1] + II: Rampage (color match) + III: Secondary attack + I: Minion destroying: double each result die + Channel: 2 gold chi -- Use this technique again next round + + 5. Hell of ten thousand red-hot skewers (5 points) + + [maneuver points: 5+1] + II: Add CCM to attack + IV: Disorienting an a standard success (color match) + IV: Staggering: +5 damage dice + * Flaw: costs 1 joss to activate (3 points) + +
why i like git
diff --git a/posts/why-i-like-git.mdwn b/posts/why-i-like-git.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..40ea4ad --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/why-i-like-git.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I think I realize why I've finally come to like and use git over Mercurial, Darcs, and other lovely distributed version control systems: the tool support is unparalleled, because *everybody* is using it. It's like the good old days of CVS, when cvs log-parsing, cvsweb, and editor support were showing up in every other piece of software.
test one
diff --git a/kung-food/test-one.mdwn b/kung-food/test-one.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29
test
diff --git a/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn b/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn index 009106c..5e59a1a 100644 --- a/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn @@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ * [[Cuisines of the Four Cardinal Directions]] (Common White Style) -* [[Unity-enhancing fund extraction]] +* [[Unity-enhancing fund extraction]], the Uncommon technique of the Restraunteers Guild
diff --git a/kung-food/session_one.mdwn b/kung-food/session_one.mdwn index c58552d..93108e7 100644 --- a/kung-food/session_one.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/session_one.mdwn @@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ Early in his career, before the fame had spread across Shen Zhou, the Master was running a small restaurant-cart along with his honored companions, Chao and Harmonious Ostrich. Audaciously, they sold their famous dishes of Enigmatic Flavor Chicken, Inscrutable Flavor Chicken, and Impossible Flavored Chicken directly across from the restaurant of General Gau, as if to challenge all the culinary world with the deliciousness of their cuisine. -But during the lunch rush, the burly warrior Silver Ting came to promote his brothers' pitiful protection racket to our wulin heros. They responded humbly when he asked about the success of their business, but when he asked them to join the "Restaurant Protection society (NAME?)" their patience was at an end. Chawang could easily tell that he was not merely an extortionist: he was a corrupt dog who *delighted* in extortion! As Ting went to draw his weapon, Chao pinned his sleeve to the restaurant cart with a legendary throw of a cooking knife! +But during the lunch rush, the burly warrior Silver Ting came to promote his brothers' pitiful protection racket to our wulin heros. They responded humbly when he asked about the success of their business, but when he asked them to join the "Restaurant Guild" their patience was at an end. Chawang could easily tell that he was not merely an extortionist: he was a corrupt dog who *delighted* in extortion! As Ting went to draw his weapon, Chao pinned his sleeve to the restaurant cart with a legendary throw of a cooking knife! > Harmonious Ostrich, always prepared, > prudently vanished from sight > and drew his terrible needles -Defeated before he could start, Silver Ting could do nothing but impotently threaten the three culinary legends. Because of Silver Ting's impudence, Chawang pronounced a terrible sentence upon him: he said that the extortionist had sown the seeds of his own undoing, and was doomed to go to his grave never having known the marvelous taste of Impossible Flavor Chicken! In spite of his growing despair, the villain shouted threats that the restaurant-cart would be smashed before the next day. Customers rushed in, fearful that they might miss their last chance to taste the heroes' food. +Defeated before he could start, Silver Ting could do nothing but impotently threaten the three culinary legends. Because of Silver Ting's impudence, Chawang pronounced a terrible sentence upon him: he said that the extortionist had sown the seeds of his own undoing, and was doomed to go to his grave never having known the marvelous taste of Impossible Flavor Chicken! In spite of his growing despair, the villain shouted threats that the restaurant-cart would be smashed before the next day. Customers rushed in, fearful that they might miss their last chance to taste the heroes' food, at which point Silver Ting's threats became mixed with entreaties for a sampling of the aforementioned chicken. These were not satisfied. When the lunch rush was done, the companions cut Silver Ting free. Chen Chawang threw him a single copper piece as payment for hawking the master's incomparable restaurant-cart, and magnanimously sent him on his way. Harmonious Ostrich prepared a talisman. @@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ Later, the travelling food-heroes rested at an inn. Chao and Chawang slept by t > prudently vanished from sight > and drew his terrible needles -and the scholar-warrior opened the door. As the Tings began smashing up the room, Harmonious Ostrich bedeviled them with his Wisdom of the Seven Gates style and notorious invisibility. They tried to crush him, but except for one trivial accident, he was too fast for them. He even used his Taoist magic to make Gold Ting and his sword hate one another, forcing them to opposite sides of the room! +and the scholar-warrior opened the door. As the Tings began smashing up the room, Harmonious Ostrich bedeviled them with his Wisdom of the Seven Gates style and notorious invisibility. They tried to crush him, but except for one trivial accident, he was too fast for them. He even used his Taoist magic to make Gold Ting and his sword hate one another, forcing them to opposite sides of the room! -The commotion at the inn woke Chao and Chawang, who sprang to their feet only to see that the Dirty Ting Brothers--in their insolently heedless violence-- had sent flying the sacred urn holding the ashes of Master Chawang's legendary teahouse! Ostrich saved it from hitting the ground as the Tings ran out after him... only to meet the unstoppable fury of the Fighting Cuisine Heroes! In short order, Silver Ting had been lit on fire and sent smashing fifty yards through nearby architecture, Gold Ting was limping away in retreat, and the other Tings had no choice but to withdraw before the might of our magnificent trio. +The commotion at the inn woke Chao and Chawang, who sprang to their feet only to see that the Dirty Ting Brothers -- in their insolently heedless violence -- had sent flying the sacred urn holding the ashes of Master Chawang's legendary teahouse! Ostrich saved it from hitting the ground as the Tings ran out after him... only to meet the unstoppable fury of the Fighting Cuisine Heroes! In short order, Silver Ting had been lit on fire and sent smashing fifty yards through nearby architecture, Gold Ting was limping away in retreat, and the other Tings had no choice but to withdraw before the might of our magnificent trio. After the battle, as Chao, Chen Chawang, and Harmonious Ostrich began to pull the food cart away into the night (lest the presence of such legends as they distract the poor innkeeper from some slight damage inflicted to his establishment) the famous restauranteur was seized with inspiration: @@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ I figure I'm walking a thin line doing campaign notes in an unreliable-narrator **Destiny:** * Deed: Chow pinning Silver Ting's arm to the restaurant cart! I believe this was Force. -* Deed: Ostrich saving the urn! (right?) I think this was Loyalty. +* Deed: Ostrich saving the urn! I think this was Loyalty. * Passion: Chawang's speech to Silver Ting about the terrible fate of dying without having tasted Impossible Flavor Chicken. * Disadvantage: Ostrich's cowardice in taking the room at the inn turned to his misfortune, as the Ting brothers attacked there first! -* (What else?) +* (What else? AT: Nothing I remember.) **People, places, thing, and recipes:** @@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ I figure I'm walking a thin line doing campaign notes in an unreliable-narrator * The inn where the warriors stayed * General Gau's restaurant * Chawang's urn -* The restaurant cart +* The restaurant cart, well stocked with ingredients and with blades of varying shapes and sizes * The sword that Gold Ting dropped -* The cooking knife that Gold Ting ran off with +* The cooking knife (Saber sized) that Gold Ting ran off with * Impossible/Mysterious/Ineffable/Inscrutable/Enigmatic Flavored Chicken. (not clear if these are separate dishes) **Stuff that needs a name:**
diff --git a/kung-food/session_one.mdwn b/kung-food/session_one.mdwn
index 2268b19..c58552d 100644
--- a/kung-food/session_one.mdwn
+++ b/kung-food/session_one.mdwn
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ I figure I'm walking a thin line doing campaign notes in an unreliable-narrator
**Notes:**
-* Silver Ting currently has a Recovery-24 Trivial Ruthlessness Inspiration ("It's fun to shake people down!") paired with a Trivial Grief condition ("It's sad that I'll never taste Impossible Flavor Chicken!") Duration 1, Interval 1 story. Chawang would have inflamed both of those had Silver Ting been on hand at the end of their fight.
+* Silver Ting currently has a Recovery-24 Trivial Ruthlessness Inspiration ("It's fun to shake people down!") paired with a Trivial Grief condition ("It's sad that I'll never taste Impossible Flavor Chicken!") Duration 1, Interval 1 story. Chawang would have inflamed both of those had Silver Ting been on hand at the end of their fight...
+* Or, wait, whoops! Nick messed up: Chen Chawang's writeup indicates that he doesn't actually have Yin-Yang Technique at chargen: he dropped it so he could save the points Secret Arts of Intrigue, then forgot that he dropped it. :(
* Chen Chawang got a 28 on his Recipe-making roll for Four-Metals-Squashed-Flat Chicken.
* It got ruled after the game that Harmonious Ostrich's use of Extraordinary Taoist Techniques to keep Gold Ting from getting close to his sword is not in fact a legal way to disarm people.
diff --git a/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn b/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn index c983376..e77b181 100644 --- a/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ ADVANTAGES: * Wealth 2 (comfortable) LORES: + * 2: Courtship KUNG FU:
diff --git a/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn b/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c983376 --- /dev/null +++ b/kung-food/chen_chawang.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +# Chen Chawang + +Chawang lost his prosperous tea-house to a series of +scenery-destroying showdowns among rival kung fu schools, martial +arts clans, xia and corrupt warriors, and general wulin +troublemakers. Now he has sworn revenge! But hard as it will be to +see them all beat up, that's not enough! Chawang will not be +satisfied until he has rebuilt his restaurant business and honed his +cooking talents to a level so unspeakably refined that brawling +gangs and high-ranked wulin warriors would sooner lose a fight than +dare to smash up his kitchen. Then, and only then, will his cuisine +truly reign supreme! + +Chen Chawang is a 4th-rank courtier and kung-fu restaurateur. +fights with a set of meat cleavers (re-skinned axes) that he keeps +in his food truck. He's grown portly from tasting every new cuisine +he can get his hands on, but still darts around his kitchen with +lightning speed. + +## ATTRIBUTES + + * SPEED 4 (Crimson) + * PRESENCE 5 (Gold) + * GENIUS 4 (White) + * MIGHT 1 (Jade) + * WU WEI 1 (Silver) + +## SKILLS + +PRESENCE (5) + + * Confidence 3 + * Grace 1 (When food is at stake 1) + * Inspire 1 (When food is at stake 1) + * Persuade 3 + +SPEED (4) + + * Initiative 3 (In combat 1) + * Dodge 1 (Ranged attacks 1) + * Melee 3 (Cleavers/axes 1) + +MIGHT (1) + +WU WEI (1) + + * Awareness 3 (Secret arts 1) + * Stealth 2 (Secret arts 1) + +GENIUS (4) + + * Learning 2 + * Crafting 2 (Food 1) + * Politics 1 + * Tactics 1 + +## DISADVANTAGES + + Rival + Overwhelming passion: "My cuisine will reign supreme!" + +## LORES + STUFF: + +ADVANTAGES: + + * Wealth 2 (comfortable) + +LORES: + * 2: Courtship + +KUNG FU: + + * 11: "Discoureous Tea Ceremony" (common gold style, first 3 levels) + * 2: Lightfoot 2 + * 8: "Sizzling Doom" (common crimson style, first 2 levels) + * 8: "Cuisines of the Four Cardinal Directions" (common white style, first 2 levels) + +SECRET ARTS: + + * 5: Story of the self (p.301) + * 5: Secret arts of intrigue (p.305) + * 5: Controlling inspirations (p.314) + * 1: Inflame/soothe + * 1: stealth + +Equipment + + * Food cart + * Draft animal(s) to pull food cart + * Cooking gear and supplies + * Collection of cleavers + * Light armor + +*** + +PLAN FOR FIRST 4 ADDITIONAL DESTINY + 3 for yin-yang technique + 1 for destiny on courtship
diff --git a/kung-food/character_sheets.mdwn b/kung-food/character_sheets.mdwn index 3cdf58c..bd17bde 100644 --- a/kung-food/character_sheets.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/character_sheets.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -* [[Chen Chawen]], whose Impossible Flavor Chicken shall bestride the world -* [[Virtuous Ostrich]], Doctor, Butcher, and Daoist -* [[Chow]], on the run and cooking hard +* [[Chen Chawang]], whose Impossible Flavor Chicken shall bestride the world +* [[Harmonious Ostrich]], Doctor, Butcher, and Daoist +* [[Chao]], on the run and cooking hard
diff --git a/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn b/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn index 32a5a43..009106c 100644 --- a/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn +++ b/kung-food/kung_fu.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ -* [[Disreputable tea ceremony]] +* [[Discourteous Tea Ceremony]] (Common Gold Style) + +* [[Sizzling Doom]] (Common Crimson Style) + +* [[Cuisines of the Four Cardinal Directions]] (Common White Style) * [[Unity-enhancing fund extraction]]
diff --git a/kung-food/session_one.mdwn b/kung-food/session_one.mdwn
index f4f615c..2268b19 100644
--- a/kung-food/session_one.mdwn
+++ b/kung-food/session_one.mdwn
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ But during the lunch rush, the burly warrior Silver Ting came to promote his bro
> prudently vanished from sight
> and drew his terrible needles
-Defeated before he could start, Silver Ting could do nothing but impudently threaten the three culinary legends. Because of Silver Ting's evil impudence, Chawang pronounced a terrible sentence upon him: he said that the extortionist had sown the seeds of his own undoing, and was doomed to go to his grave never having known the marvelous taste of Impossible Flavor Chicken! In spite of his growing despair, the villain shouted threats that the restaurant-cart would be smashed before the next day. Customers rushed in, fearful that they might miss their last chance to taste the heroes' food.
+Defeated before he could start, Silver Ting could do nothing but impotently threaten the three culinary legends. Because of Silver Ting's impudence, Chawang pronounced a terrible sentence upon him: he said that the extortionist had sown the seeds of his own undoing, and was doomed to go to his grave never having known the marvelous taste of Impossible Flavor Chicken! In spite of his growing despair, the villain shouted threats that the restaurant-cart would be smashed before the next day. Customers rushed in, fearful that they might miss their last chance to taste the heroes' food.
When the lunch rush was done, the companions cut Silver Ting free. Chen Chawang threw him a single copper piece as payment for hawking the master's incomparable restaurant-cart, and magnanimously sent him on his way. Harmonious Ostrich prepared a talisman.
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ and the scholar-warrior opened the door. As the Tings began smashing up the roo
The commotion at the inn woke Chao and Chawang, who sprang to their feet only to see that the Dirty Ting Brothers--in their insolently heedless violence-- had sent flying the sacred urn holding the ashes of Master Chawang's legendary teahouse! Ostrich saved it from hitting the ground as the Tings ran out after him... only to meet the unstoppable fury of the Fighting Cuisine Heroes! In short order, Silver Ting had been lit on fire and sent smashing fifty yards through nearby architecture, Gold Ting was limping away in retreat, and the other Tings had no choice but to withdraw before the might of our magnificent trio.
-After the battle, as Chao, Chen Chawang, and Harmonious Ostrich began to pull the food cart away into the night, (lest the presence of such legends as they distract the poor innkeeper from some slight damage inflicted to his establishment), the famous restauranteur was seized with inspiration:
+After the battle, as Chao, Chen Chawang, and Harmonious Ostrich began to pull the food cart away into the night (lest the presence of such legends as they distract the poor innkeeper from some slight damage inflicted to his establishment) the famous restauranteur was seized with inspiration:
> Break its bones, cut it up!
> Squash it flat, light it on fire!
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ I figure I'm walking a thin line doing campaign notes in an unreliable-narrator
* The narrator doesn't add or delete events: if Chawang gets beaten up by a gang of untrained schoolgirls, the narrator will say so, and unless Harmonious Ostrich actually defeats Earth Lord, the narrator will not say that he did.
* The narrator *does* editorialize heavily about people's motives and character. He thinks the best of our heroes: their virtues are exemplary, and their mistakes are momentary lapses in an otherwise flawless character.
- * The narrator editorializes especially heavily when our protagonists do something unheroic. If Chawang gets beaten up by a gang of untrained schoolgirls, he deliberately threw the fight in order to teach an instructive moral lesson, or he was weakened from cooking an amazing meal, or something like that. If Chow assassinates a blameless magistrate, then Chow did it because he knew a terrible secret about the Magistrate's doubtlessly wicked character which history alas does not record. I'm trying to telegraph these points blatantly. (Examples above are Ostrich's Cowardly trait, and the heroes leaving the inn at the middle of the night.)
+ * The narrator editorializes especially heavily when our protagonists do something unheroic. If Chawang gets beaten up by a gang of untrained schoolgirls, he deliberately threw the fight in order to teach an instructive moral lesson, or he was weakened from cooking an amazing meal, or something like that. If Chao assassinates a blameless magistrate, then Chao did it because he knew a terrible secret about the Magistrate's doubtlessly wicked character which history alas does not record. I'm trying to telegraph these points blatantly. (Examples above are Ostrich's Cowardly trait, and the heroes leaving the inn at the middle of the night.)
* The narrator may or may not be Chen Chawang or one of his disciples writing at a later date. At the time of his writing, our heroes and their recipes may or may not have gained the fame and prominence that he says they have.
* The recipes are not meant to work.