Convo with Trevor re Seer and XP

 ============================== Trevor's Sheet ===============================
 Full Name:                             Sphere:        Changeling
 Birthdate:                             Concept:
 Heritage:                              Legacy:
 Seeming:                               Splat:         Kithain
 Kith:          Sidhe (Autumn)          Type:          Kithain
 Court:         Seelie                  House:         Beaumayn
 ================================ Attributes =================================
        Physical         |         Social          |         Mental
 Strength: ........... 3 | Charisma: ........... 2 | Perception: ......... 5
 Dexterity: .......... 2 | Manipulation: ....... 2 | Intelligence: ....... 3
 Stamina: ............ 3 | Appearance: ......... 2 | Wits: ............... 3
 ================================= Abilities =================================
         Talents         |         Skills          |       Knowledges
 Alertness: .......... 3 | Animal Ken: ......... 0 | Academics: .......... 0
 Athletics: .......... 1 | Crafts: ............. 0 | Bureaucracy: ........ 0
 Brawl: .............. 1 | Drive: .............. 1 | Computer: ........... 0
 Empathy: ............ 2 | Etiquette: .......... 0 | Enigmas: ............ 3
 Expression: ......... 0 | Firearms: ........... 2 | Finance: ............ 0
 Intimidation: ....... 2 | Larceny: ............ 0 | Gremayre: ........... 2
 Kenning: ............ 3 | Melee: .............. 0 | Investigation: ...... 4
 Leadership: ......... 0 | Performance: ........ 0 | Law: ................ 1
 Stealth: ............ 0 | Security: ........... 2 | Medicine: ........... 0
 Streetwise: ......... 1 | Survival: ........... 0 | Occult: ............. 0
 Subterfuge: ......... 0 | Technology: ......... 0 | Politics: ........... 0
                         |                         | Science: ............ 0
 ============================ Secondary Abilities ============================
         Talents         |         Skills          |       Knowledges
 Artistry: ........... 0 | Acrobatics: ......... 0 | Area Knowledge: ..... 0
 Cooking: ............ 0 | Archery: ............ 0 | Covert Culture: ..... 0
 Diplomacy: .......... 0 | Demolitions: ........ 0 | Cryptography: ....... 0
 Fortune-Telling: .... 0 | Elusion: ............ 0 | Esoterica: .......... 0
 Instruction: ........ 0 | Fencing: ............ 0 | Herbalism: .......... 0
 Intrigue: ........... 0 | Gambling: ........... 0 | Media: .............. 0
 Intuition: .......... 0 | Martial Arts: ....... 0 | Military Science: ... 0
 Scrounging: ......... 0 | Meditation: ......... 0 | Poisons: ............ 0
 Seduction: .......... 0 | Networking: ......... 0 | Power-Brokering: .... 0
 Style: .............. 0 | Pilot: .............. 0 | Vice: ............... 0
 ================================== Powers ===================================
                                     Arts
 Autumn: ............. 2   Chronos: ............ 1   Oneiromancy: ........ 1
 Primal: ............. 1   Soothsay: ........... 3
                                    Realms
 Actor: .............. 3   Fae: ................ 3   Prop: ............... 2
 =========== Advantages =================== Pools ============== Health ======
             Backgrounds           | Banality: ........ 3 | Bruised    0 [ ]
 Contacts: ..................... 3 | Blood: .......... 10 | Hurt      -1 [ ]
 Holdings: ..................... 1 | Glamour: ......... 5 | Injured   -1 [ ]
 Remembrance: .................. 4 | Nightmare: ....... 0 | Wounded   -2 [ ]
 Resources: .................... 2 | Willpower: ....... 6 | Mauled    -2 [ ]
 Title: ........................ 2 |                      | Crippled  -5 [ ]
               Merits              |                      | Incap.   -99 [ ]
 Eidetic Memory: ............... 2 |                      |
 Good Listener: ................ 1 |                      |
 Faerie Eternity: .............. 1 |                      |
 Danger Sense: ................. 3 |                      |
                Flaws              |                      |
 Ward: ......................... 3 |                      |
 Impediment: ................... 1 |                      |
 Bard's Tongue (changeling):.... 1 |                      |
 Enemy: ........................ 2 |                      |
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Long distance to Trevor: Phantasmavore greets
You paged Trevor with 'freebies and tier xp need to be separate dout. also, who approved tier xp?'.
Trevor pages: Eochaid did. And they are separate--I listed freebies first then tier XP second. :)
You paged Trevor with 'he cant do that'.
Trevor pages: I'm just following what he told me. O.O
Long distance to Trevor: Phantasmavore nods. anyway, separate it out and i'll need to thnk on the tier xp. i hadnt posted it
Trevor pages: So... are you needing them in separate notes?
You paged Trevor with 'yes, and unset anything taht was bought with that'.
Trevor pages: With both freebies and XP or just the XP?
You paged Trevor with 'just make a standard app. pull out anything that was bought with tier xp'.
Trevor pages: All right, those are done. But Eochaid specifically asked me to app a Seer. I won't be able to do that with the stats I have. :l
You paged Trevor with 'i mean, you wont be able to have multiple arts and proficiency in soothsay no'.
You paged Trevor with 'also, holdings is a restricted bg'.
You paged Trevor with 'and needs discussiona n dreview before being approved'.
Trevor pages: He told me to take a dot to pool with the others.
You paged Trevor with 'yeah, just a bit of mixup'.
You paged Trevor with 'we'll get it sorted'.
You paged Trevor with 'there are folk in game with teh other arts, but whats missing is a soothsay specialist'.
Trevor pages: Well, I was really wanting Primal, Chronos, and Autumn to help with investigations.
You paged Trevor with 'we have an investigator already'.
You paged Trevor with 'any tier xp for this slot will likely be restricted to boosting soothsay, fae, actor, prop, intuition, fortune-telling'.
You paged Trevor with 'someone that is primarily, conceptually, a seer, not something else that also does soothsay'.
You paged Trevor with 'if youre willing to drill down into that aspect of teh pc, we can likely approve tier xp'.
Trevor pages: Er... I mean... Kithain have human lives too.
You paged Trevor with 'other than that, however, its base cgen build'.
Long distance to Trevor: Phantasmavore nods. they do!
You paged Trevor with 'anyone can builkd any base app they like'.
You paged Trevor with 'tier xp is an incentive to get stuff thats missing'.
You paged Trevor with 'inthis case, someone with a seer focus'.
Trevor pages: I mean, that's essentially what I spent the XP on. Things to make me better at gathering information and interpreting omens.
Long distance to Trevor: Phantasmavore sees an investigator build w seeing tacked on, as oppose dto a seeing build w other stuff tacked on
You paged Trevor with 'its ok, but for discretionary xp, i'm really looking for osmeone leaning into the seeing part'.
Trevor pages: I fail to see why there has to be a divide drawn between the two, but I guess that's just a matter of interpretation.
You paged Trevor with 'there doesnt have to, tier xp is specifically to gin up gaps that STaff want/need'.
You paged Trevor with 'we have plenty of investigator apps'.
You paged Trevor with 'predictably'.
You paged Trevor with 'seer primaries, not so much'.
You paged Trevor with 'thus, trying to inentivize w tier xp'.
Trevor pages: I mean, literally the only thing I didn't have that you mentioned was Intuition and Fortune-Telling.
You paged Trevor with 'for exampel, if yoru base app doenst have soothsay as the primary art, thats not a seer template'.
You paged Trevor with 'you ahve soothsay equal to 2 other arts'.
Trevor pages: I do -now-. Originally it was my highest Art.
You paged Trevor with 'it shoudl be highest as base app'.
You paged Trevor with 'teh extra is to amke teh base build better not to fill ingaps that someone dosnt want'.
You paged Trevor with 'its a lovely app, don't get me wrong'.
Trevor pages: I... really don't see why the order I take things in matters. I did it the way I did to maximize the benefit of spent XP. It's cheaper to buy second dot Arts than to spread it out to multiple first dots.
Trevor pages: I built the way I did specifically with a seer concept in mind.
Trevor pages: He's here to offer vision, insight, and wisdom for the protection of the Dreaming and the realm's citizens.
Long distance to Trevor: Phantasmavore nods
Trevor pages: So yes, with his base build he's stretched out. But with the benefit of XP he's able to specialize much more deeply.
Trevor pages: If it would help, I could drop the dot of Onieromancy and take Soothsay 4 instead.
You paged Trevor with 'pardon slow, staffing a scene'.
Trevor pages: All g, take your time
You paged Trevor with 'i think we can make it work'.
You paged Trevor with 'just needs some friendly amendments'.