Unfucking Trevor and H Drama

You paged Trevor with 'wb!'.
Trevor pages: Hey hey.
You paged Trevor with 'a bit late fo rme, but lets dig in on sheeting in my slumber. :)'.
Trevor pages: Well hell, I sure -hope- you don't see character sheets in your dreams. That might be a sign that something is wrong. XD
You paged Trevor with 'so. what i'd hope to see, is soothsya as your highest art bought w extra xp, followed by chronos as yiur secondary, with autumn pulling up the rear'.
You paged Trevor with 'then dump some xp into intuition, fortune-telling, elusion'.
You paged Trevor with 'as they wil be handy for yoru success and survival'.
You paged Trevor with 'raise soothsay to 4 with xp. it'll be na xp sink, bt. its the meat of the sandwich'.
Trevor pages: With the spread I have in front of me, I have Soothsay 4, Autumn 2, and Chronos and Primal 1.
You paged Trevor with 'mm, dump the primal for a bump up of chronos'.
You paged Trevor with 'you canick up teh primal ic w earned xp'.
You paged Trevor with 'but chronos will be more naratuvely immediately useful'.
Trevor pages: All Chronos 2 would give me is Effect and Cause. I don't see it being as useful to a Seer. Primal lets me ask questions and get truthful responses. That would be useful in sussing out the meaning behind cryptic omens.
You paged Trevor with 'yeah but the higher chronos levels are mor euseful. an ideal spread woudl be soothsya 4, chronos 3, and whatever is left into autumn'.
You paged Trevor with 'or dump autum for primal'.
Trevor pages: Intuition I don't need, I have Kenning.
You paged Trevor with 'but i'd rather see xp put into a tighttroika'.
You paged Trevor with 'intuition is diff than kenning'.
You paged Trevor with 'it helps piece stuff together when the powerset fails'.
You paged Trevor with 'motives, gut hunches, etc'.
You paged Trevor with 'strokes of insight'.
Trevor pages: Even so. Buying Soothsay to 4 and Chronos to 3 barely leaves me with anything. Just enough to get the extra dots of Actor and Fae.
You paged Trevor with 'well thats the tarde off for tier xp'.
You paged Trevor with 'its a ST tool first, a pc perk second'.
Trevor pages: But that's what I'm saying, I won't even be able to -afford- any more dots in Abilities.
You paged Trevor with 'because youre bumping up against some cap?'.
Trevor pages: I was told I get 50 XP.
Trevor pages: Buying Soothsay to 4 eats up half of that on its own.
You paged Trevor with 'indeed'.
You paged Trevor with 'this is a soothsay focused bump ;)'.
Trevor pages: 24 for Soothsay 4, then 12 for Chronos 3. So that's 36.
You paged Trevor with 'dont worry so much about the 50, i have discretion to tweak that to get you inna ballpark'.
Trevor pages: 12 more for a dot each in Actor and Fae leaves me with 2 unspent XP.
Long distance to Trevor: Phantasmavore nods.
Trevor pages: Are the Secondaries still bought at half cost?
You paged Trevor with 'abils arent that expensive. to at least drp anchor in them'.
You paged Trevor with 'sec, we have a wonky HR'.
You paged Trevor with 'GENERAL HOUSE RULE: All Abilities & Secondary Abilities cost 1 freebie point per dot, up until level 3. They cost 2 freebie points per dot to raise above 3'.
You paged Trevor with 'so we can drp anchor in the ones i suggested'.
You paged Trevor with 'and raise them post cgen via PC growth as needed'.
Trevor pages: Well, okay then. So... I spent 2 freebies for Alertness 3, so that gives me another freebie to spend. I can put it in Intuition, I imagine.
You paged Trevor with 'yeah dont worry too much about a bit of overage so long as its in stuff i've asked you to invest in'.
You paged Trevor with 'it sjust for random slush that the cap gets tight, as again, this is st incentive to shape a certain app for plot purposes'.
You paged Trevor with 'non extra xp apps ppl can go hog wild willynilly with minimal expectation'.
Trevor pages: And what is Elusion?
You paged Trevor with 'mmm, like a more mundane attempt at arcane'.
From afar, Trevor has never heard of that. It's an Ability?
You paged Trevor with 'keeping a low profile, avoiding attention, tails,'.
You paged Trevor with 'yeah its a 20th ed thing'.
You paged Trevor with 'as thorn's seer, you'll have a target on your back.'.
You paged Trevor with 'all seers will, now that a bit of an arms race has been kicked off'.
You paged Trevor with 'its a good survival trait to have as such'.
You paged Trevor with 'anyway, once your eon grid you can grow your build however you want. its only on the allocation of extra starting xp that staff stick a hand in to set the direction'.
Trevor pages: Okay. So... since this is all at your discretion, how many dots should I put into the other Abilities?
Trevor pages: 3 dots in any given Ability costs 9 XP if buying it up from 0.
You paged Trevor with 'fortune telling and intuition should ideally be at least at 1 in your base build'.
Trevor pages: Intuition I've got. Fortune-Telling would put me to 51 XP spent.
You paged Trevor with 'knock a point off intim and empathy to drop anchor and lower cost?'.
Long distance to Trevor: Phantasmavore nods we're tryna land at f-t 3, intui 2, elusion 1
You paged Trevor with 'that should keep us at ...'.
You paged Trevor with 'under 75? under 70?'.
Trevor pages: 14 XP would get me all of those without having to shift around points.
You paged Trevor with 'perfecto'.
Trevor pages: So 62XP spent total.
Trevor pages: Make it an even 65 and I can get my Prop 2 back.
You paged Trevor with 'bam, donezo'.
Trevor pages: Should I set these myself in the cgen room?
Long distance to Trevor: Phantasmavore hopes this asnt too painful or offputting, but everyoen whos gotten tier xp has had ST stick hands in to sharpen the initial build. once your boat is in the water tho, build itup however you see fit :)
You paged Trevor with 'yupper. +selfstat'.
You paged Trevor with 'or i can if you page them to me'.
You paged Trevor with 'whatever is easiest'.
You paged Hawthorne with 'your beaumayn seer is incoming! finishing up the build as we speak. build-a-bear at your service! make sure and intro him to the duke as a courtesy and relationbuilder if you want'.
You paged Trevor with 'and dont forget to set the xp note'.
From afar, Hawthorne(Thorn) nodsnods. "Sounds good. We should try to schedule that out then. I may have some time tomorrow evening. I just needed to take a break today. I did 3 plot based scenes on Friday back to back, and I'm a little burnt. I need to do some administrative catchup as well for Hauk and get notes set. Finally got an introduction done for Aspen, and also had a plot scene with Maricela. Build work to do, and so on and so forth. I'm busy tomorrow during the day, but perhaps in the evening we can get some of these other things done, the Lady Winter, the Beaumayn intro to the Duke, etc."
You paged Trevor with 'thank you again for your patience and forbearance as we got this all sorted!'.
You paged Hawthorne with 'also? im sorry'.
You paged Hawthorne with 'for losing my temper'.
You paged Hawthorne with 'i value your partnership in things'.
You paged Hawthorne with 'i know my comsm style is direct an doverly blunt and authoritative'.
You paged Hawthorne with 'is aspen stuff ok? i know Eo flagged some ah. i dunno. concerns i guess is as good a word as any re the weird vampire waters the kinain is swimming in'.
You paged Hawthorne with 'feel free to send up a flare if you feel things might get third rail-y'.
Trevor pages: I think that's everything. What would I set for Heritage?
From afar, Hawthorne(Thorn) nodsnods. "It's okay. I'm sorry I reacted badly as well."
Trevor pages: My House?
Hawthorne(Thorn) pages: As for Aspen...
Hawthorne(Thorn) pages: Thus far, she hasn't involved anything vampirish into the rp. I'm aware of her situation due to my alt, but when she's dealing with the changeling sphere, she makes no mention of Christian and crew. Her ice parlor is a hit. Everyone loves it, and she's willing to ICly work with other kithain to help them figure out chimerical ordinance. Chimerical landmines to blow up bad guys.
Trevor pages: Oh no, there's a spot for House already.