diff --git a/docs/scenarios/THROUGH_TRAIN.md b/docs/scenarios/THROUGH_TRAIN.md index 7ba0c0d..469e3fa 100644 --- a/docs/scenarios/THROUGH_TRAIN.md +++ b/docs/scenarios/THROUGH_TRAIN.md @@ -327,6 +327,13 @@ miles an hour, for perhaps forty seconds. **The wagon is easier than the tower, and the tower is easier than the horses.** A party that spends an hour arranging the wagon has bought an easy roll and should get one. +**Say which route suits whom, out loud, before they choose.** Athletics on a duty-roster +sheet runs from about 25% to 60%, and the split is not subtle: the Containment officer and +the criminal take the tower, the Field Lead can, and **the doctor and the Registry officer +should be on the wagon**. Playtested by putting all five on the tower: two missed twice, +had to be carried across on the department's plank, and became passengers in their own +set-piece — at a cost of two passes on the clock. + **Everybody has to get on.** A failed attempt gets the next pass, forty minutes later, and the clock moves — not a full stop. @@ -420,6 +427,14 @@ eleven weeks of unpaid wages. **Both genuine. Neither man has seen the other's.** An agent holding both has the whole truth: the company sold the same money twice, then put nine armed men on a train with it. +**NO ROLL IS NEEDED TO SEE EITHER PAPER.** Between passes Merritt shows his letter to +anybody who asks — he is proud of it, it is his authority, and he has had a hundred and +forty-five years with nobody to show it to. Ambrose shows the writ to anybody not +currently shooting at him, because having it read is the entire thing he wants. **Do not +put Persuade in front of this.** Playtested with a real team, the Field Lead's Persuade +was 15% and fell to 1% under the crowd penalty — which turned the scene the scenario is +proudest of into an impossible roll. + **It does not stop the fight.** Merritt will not stand down for a judge he has never heard of while being shot at, and Ambrose has eleven weeks of nothing behind him. @@ -427,8 +442,17 @@ of while being shot at, and Ambrose has eleven weeks of nothing behind him. **Kell will stop the train if a person he believes has authority tells him to, out loud, to his face.** He has waited a hundred and forty-five years to be told. Not on a note, not -shouted from the tender. `[CUS: Persuade or Status — easier if they can tell him something -true about what is happening to his train]` +shouted from the tender. Getting there means the gap between the cars — `[CUS: Athletics]`. + +**Convincing him takes NO ROLL if they can tell him one true thing about his own train.** +That the coal has not run out. That it is the same four minutes. That the line was never +on the north bench. Any of it. The moment somebody who knows what is wrong says so, he +asks them to say when. + +**Only a party that can tell him nothing has to roll** — Persuade or Status at average, and +a failure means he wants another pass to think. **Do not gate the ending on Persuade.** +Seven of the ten duty-roster agents have neither Persuade nor Status trained; playtested, +three separate attempts on Kell all failed and the scenario had no way to end. **When the brakes go on, the loop lets go.** Four minutes finish for the first time since 1881. Doyle and Ambrose do not get up. 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cross the crossing to contain what should not be there — and who come back a little less from here each time.", - "version": "1.4.0", + "version": "1.4.1", "compatibility": { "minimum": 13, "verified": "14.364" diff --git a/tools/scenario-throughtrain.mjs b/tools/scenario-throughtrain.mjs index e446ce2..6019e83 100644 --- a/tools/scenario-throughtrain.mjs +++ b/tools/scenario-throughtrain.mjs @@ -372,6 +372,13 @@ export const TT_PAGES = [ + P("The wagon is easier than the tower and the tower is easier than the " + "horses. A party that spends an hour arranging the wagon has bought itself " + "an easy roll and should get one — that is what the hour was for.") + + P("Say which route suits whom, out loud, before they choose. " + + "Athletics on a duty-roster sheet runs from about 25% to 60%, and the split is not " + + "subtle: the Containment officer and the criminal take the tower, the Field Lead " + + "can, and the doctor and the Registry officer should be on the wagon. " + + "Playtested by putting all five on the tower: two of them missed twice and had to be " + + "carried by the department's plank, which cost two passes on the clock and made " + + "them passengers in their own set-piece.") + P("Everybody has to get on. Anyone left behind is out of the scenario " + "and watching from the bench, so give a failed attempt a second chance on the next " + "pass rather than a full stop. The train comes round again in about forty minutes, " @@ -486,6 +493,14 @@ export const TT_PAGES = [ + P("Both are genuine. Neither man has seen the other's. An agent who " + "gets both in the same hand has the whole truth of it: the company sold the same " + "money twice, and then put four men and five men on the same train with it.") + + P("NO ROLL IS NEEDED TO SEE EITHER PAPER. Between passes, Merritt " + + "shows his letter to anybody who asks — he is proud of it, it is his " + + "authority, and he has had a hundred and forty-five years with nobody to show it " + + "to. Ambrose shows the writ to anybody who is not currently shooting at him, " + + "because having it read is the entire thing he wants. Do not put Persuade " + + "in front of this. Playtested with a real team, the Field Lead's Persuade " + + "was 15% and fell to 1% under the crowd penalty, which turned the scene the " + + "scenario is proudest of into an impossible roll.") + P("It does not stop the fight. Merritt will not stand down for a " + "piece of paper from a judge he has never heard of while men are shooting at him, " + "and Ambrose has eleven weeks of nothing behind him. Showing them changes " @@ -495,9 +510,18 @@ export const TT_PAGES = [ + "him to, out loud, to his face. He has been waiting a hundred and forty-five " + "years to be told. He will not do it on a note and he will not do it for a shout " + "from the tender.") - + P("Getting to him means crossing the tender during or between the four minutes, and " - + "then convincing him. [CUS: Persuade or Status — and it is easier if they can " - + "tell him something true about what is happening to his train]") + + P("Getting to him means crossing the tender, in the gap between the cars, during or " + + "between the four minutes. [CUS: Athletics for the gap]") + + P("Convincing him takes NO ROLL if they can tell him one true thing about his " + + "own train. That the coal has not run out. That it is the same four " + + "minutes. That the line was never on the north bench. Any of it. He has been " + + "waiting a hundred and forty-five years for somebody who knows what is wrong to " + + "come and say so, and the moment they do he will ask them to say when.") + + P("Only a party that can tell him nothing has to roll, and then it " + + "is Persuade or Status at average, and a failure means he wants another pass to " + + "think. Do not gate the ending on Persuade. Seven of the ten duty-roster " + + "agents have neither Persuade nor Status trained; playtested, three separate " + + "attempts on Kell all failed and the scenario had no way to end.") + P("When the brakes go on, the loop lets go. Four minutes finish for " + "the first time since 1881, and everyone aboard walks forward into their own lives. " + "Doyle and Ambrose do not get up. They never did.")