People Trumps...

[thad]

Question: We can make trumps of places. And so far the Trumps of people are on those who have walked the pattern. Can we make Trumps of people who haven't walked the pattern? If so, can we Trump to them like we can places?

(Logan, you can say "feel free to experiment" but if the answer is just a straight "no" then that isn't interesting. If it is "under certain circumstances you need to find out" then that's interesting!)

[PotatoJedi]

No. We cannot. Just like we can't pull them through unless it's a Trump Gate.

[Scott]

I've not tried it myself, but According to Joshua, you can make a trump of regular folk and it will let you talk to them, but that's it.

Can you create a workable Trump of someone who has not walked the pattern - I was able to create a Trump of Elwin. I was not able to establish a full connection to him, just talk to him via the Trump.

[PotatoJedi]

Oh. I was under the impression they just didn't work. What's the ruling here, Logan?

[logan9a]

Nothing.

Updated basic trump in all it's 'my god does it need editing' glory now reads:

NOTE - YOU MUST HAVE PATTERN OR LOGRUS (or ‘other’, consult GM) AS A PREREQUISITE TO THIS.


BASIC CREATE TRUMP

Casting time: CREATION: Special, minutes, see also ‘skill whoring’. USE: 2 minutes
Range: Touch
Duration: Somewhat permanent though cards may inexplicably stop working, are easy to destroy, etc.

Description:

This power allows you to make a painting or a sketch of a person/place and then travel to that person/place. You must first succeed on a painting roll and then a Create Basic Trump roll, otherwise you do not make a successful Trump card. See below for more information.

Trump sketch is faster though with the ‘skill whoring’ there is little need to sketch things as opposed to paint them. After one day, sketches stop working forever. To make a Trump, you must be able to spend loads of time within 3m of the person or place you are making a Trump of.

To use a Trump card, you must have the prerequisites but you do not need to have the skill to actually make the Trump cards. Activating a Trump card takes two minutes of full concentration. The GM may require rolls if someone is playing annoying music nearby, if you are wounded, etc. All Trump magic (even at higher level) is ‘unaided full normal human spectrum sight based’. If you can’t see or can only see certain colors or shades it does not work. If you are color blind it might not work. If you are wearing night vision gear or have changed your eyes to be able to see in the dark and are in the dark currently it will not work.

If a Trump card is made of a place, the user must concentrate upon the Trump card for two minutes. This causes a human sized visible portal to open. The user and anyone touching them may then walk forward through and into the new place. Note that if enemies are touching you they may choose to go through with you. If people who do not have the prerequisites are touching you, they are left behind (at this level). Trump cards made of a place are extremely tenacious in their grasp of that place and the ability to work. Should even a small change is made in the destination - or sometimes, for no reason at all - they will stop working forever. Note that at this level changing an area back to how it was when the Trump was made will not cause the card to resume working. Assume that Trump cards made of places will stop working after a season or two. Trump card destinations may not be too near major powers (GM gets to decide what is ‘too near’ - it could be several city blocks, at their whim). Trump destinations must be to flat level ground. Trumps must be painted of unique, recognizable places. Before going through, the Trump user gets a general sense of what the area is like and may choose not to go through the Trump gate. People will get a Sixth Sense/Danger Sense roll before wandering into some trap filled area, etc. Using a card of an area however is not a good way to spy upon it as the view is only of that which is painted and is my nature unmoving and unchanged. Trump cards may not be made of a place that is always changing - example - anywhere close to the Courts of Chaos, chaos nodes, etc. If the area a Trump is made to go to is moved (even if it appears the same) that forever breaks the power. Example: You cannot make a Trump of a shipping container interior then move the shipping container at all without negating the Trump.

Trump cards made of people are much more sturdy. Unless the person has changed their appearance (discounting clothing) through things like Shapeshifting, horrible new scars, etc these cards will last indefinitely. The person you are making a Trump card of must have the prerequisites above at this level (higher tier powers allow the creation of Trump cards of people who have not - for example - walked Pattern/Logrus/Other. Even with ‘skill whoring’ in order to (at this tier) make a Trump of a person, they have to be willing to pose for you.

To go through a Trump card (whether you are going to a place, you are going to a person or a person is coming to you) the person leaving their old place MUST be able to move freely. If they are chained up, foot in a bear trap, shoe strings tied together etc then they may not come through. There is no ‘half way’ - it is an all or nothing thing. The person leaving their old place must be able to move a meter or two away. Note if they have on a 5 meter long chain that still prevents them from coming through. They can have nothing that attaches them to the old place at all. As to gear, if you cannot comfortably carry it, you may not pass through the Trump until your load is lightened. At this level, you cannot simply hold open the connection and dump gear through though if you have multiple people with their cards they can laboriously send one poor person back and forth carrying gear. The gear on them must be generally ‘a human mold’. Things that stick out too far will cause the person to fail to go through and the gate to close.

Once you have made a card of a person, you can use it to contact them. This causes a human sized rectangular portal to open in the air between you and them if they choose to answer the Trump call. Note that this is neither stealthy nor secret and at this tier there is no way to make it so.

Whether using the cards to communicate or go through after three rounds max (sometimes sooner) they close.

If the person you are attempting to call through Trumps does not wish to ‘answer’, the contact may be forced through using higher tier powers (see below) or they can choose to block it by various means (Logrus Defense, Pattern Defense, Trump Defense) if someone attempts to force the contact. At this level, you cannot ‘force’ the contact (see higher level powers below). At this level, you cannot tell who is calling you - hence people at this level with enemies are unwise to ever answer any Trump calls.

Note that there are various areas, items, people and creatures which can cause Trump ‘black out areas’ where the Trump cards simply don’t work in to or out of.

This skill may be taught to those who have fulfilled the prerequisite. To teach this skill, the teacher must roll painting (or sketching), ‘basic create Trump’ and teaching. (All three.)

NOTE: Trumps to PLACES break all the time and for stupid reasons. Be ye warned says I.

You can’t use Trumps while ‘in motion’. Also, the area you are trumping both to and from MUST be lit sufficiently to be able to read. There can’t be stuff between you and the Trump (glass, plastic) as it upsets it’s ‘mystical connection’ to you. This could be one reason why you don’t find any (?) Amberites in space.

If someone is under water, lots of water comes out with them. Need swiming to advance toward card caller.

Can’t call someone while they are Clem’sing etc.

Shapeshifting (even minor shapeshifting then back) breaks basic trump cards. There is a higher level power which nobody has found yet that lets you paint one that doesn't break for this.

Unless someone has walked Pattern/Logrus/other, they cannot use Trumps, receive calls, etc. It takes specific powers (which are specifically listed that they can accommodate people without Pattern/Logrus/other) they cannot do anything with Trumps - no walking through, no phone calls, nothing.

[Scott]

Jan 27, 2020 18:24:27 GMT logan9a said:

Unless someone has walked Pattern/Logrus/other, they cannot use Trumps, receive calls, etc. It takes specific powers (which are specifically listed that they can accommodate people without Pattern/Logrus/other) they cannot do anything with Trumps - no walking through, no phone calls, nothing.

So we're retconning that the thing with Elwin didn't happen?

[logan9a]

It happened but apparently something now prevents it. The universe moves on.

[thad]

The pattern hadn't settled into a proper... pattern.

[PotatoJedi]