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Bleak Wood Episode 3 OOC
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#41Table top weekend canceled. I will post. -
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#42Okay. hu. That isn't a pleasant post. Mason is turning out to be a nastier character than I realised. I'm not sure how this is going to go.
Sorry Echo. I like Curie's optimism! Mason not so much. Maybe I should have toned it down? -
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#43Fi-ist fight, fiiist fiiight!
I think Mason and Curie needs to pound blindly at each other to get it out of their system. -
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#44Okay, an update, we now have three psychos in the party.. :P
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#45Might I suggest a do-over? I think we could work something out, and even D_D did not seem quite happy with how dark things had gotten.
We just need a better in-game reason then money to bring everyone onboard.
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#46I am trying really hard to create a game that is fun for everyone.
Right now I do not think it is fun at all.
The reason for this: A group of hard core gamers that play their role to the bone. They are in fact too excellent in their gaming. We have a freakshow circus on our hands, and by any rationale they are NOT going to work together.
So, I say, lets just be a little bit unrealistic. I've tried to give you motivation. Money, common enemies, common goals (inside the Scientists Tower, both Kips and Masons targets are in there).
I must admit I grew frustrated. Both d_d and Echo played immensely strongly, their characters were hard core, over the top. Awesome NPCs.
But I failed in creating a common goal, an incentive to stick together.
That is why I logically let Cormac throw the PCs out. He had already fought with Helena, she was pestering him about his friends making her apartment a "pigsty". It was logical that he took it mostly out on Mason, he had threatened Helena, his pregnant wife, after all.
I had hoped that lacking a place to live would force the group into playing along with Mason. Obviously I was wrong.
So now I am at a loss for what to do. I invested a lot of time and effort into both Curie and Mason. I was somewhat pissed when Echo talked about leaving the group and then posted that Curie ran to the scientist. It felt like a slap in the face and an abuse of my time and effort.
I really want this game to work. I love it to death. It makes me sad that you guys feel and react the way you do. -
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#47I had hoped that lacking a place to live would force the group into playing along with Mason. Obviously I was wrong.
Umm, we were/are playing along with Mason. Curie isn't a Mason fan, but that's ok. Lets just play it out. -
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#48I hoped it would force Curie as well. Running to the guy with the biggest scalpels hardly sound like a plan, but yes. -
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#49Incidentally, from a reading perspective the d-d/Echo "existential" exchange, rocked! Kudos gents.
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#50Does Curie know more about the Scientist than his name? If not, then she hears "scientist" and runs off to do science. Sure beats murdering people for profit.
If on the other hand Curie knows that the Scientist is an ass, then I will edit my post.
As for verissimilitude, if Mason-Garcia-Wesknife-whatever had presented anything besides "ooo look shinies" - even though he might have lied ("a ticket off-world") or played to paint the target black ("He kicks puppies and roasts babies on a stick") then I would be in. Dunno, expcted a player to be more able to 'play' his stooges.
So. Let me know how to salvage this. -
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#51Let Curie try for the Scientist. Let us say she escaped and after I fast forward you can be reunited.
This is what is gonna play out for Curie (learning the hard way):
The Scientist will take her in, and put scalpels and tubes to her body. He will lie to her (tell her what she wants to hear), and then experiment upon her.
A bit of the problem is that she is so naive. Well, let her learn then. But what will this make her? More bitter? If you can make her trust the only ones that treated her with kindness, Kiph et al, and then come back to them after she escaped torturous experimentation v2.0.
Would that work? Joining the lesser evil I mean.
There has to be a way to get to opposites to work together. Masons problem is that he nothing remotely similar to 13. -
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#52As for AG's "slap in the face" comment - I acted in character, imagine you are a rather naive being who believes to have 'friends' who reveal themselves as cold-blooded killers. You will stay around? Not. Imagine that you do everything right (in your own view), trying to protect those friends and set them right, only to be met with a 'meh'. Playing up her age and previous life experience, it leads to running.
If they want her back, they can role-play it. Curie still no idea what it would be to survive on her own. We can have Kiph catch up with the kid and try some fast-talking. We can have her caught by the Scientist. -
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#53we are role-playing it. I did chase after you. I'm even begging. Go post. :P -
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#54Going to post. -
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#55Dudes, we have to think up cool costumes for teh par-tay! -
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#56I'm going as Snake-Lady, Lady Viper, The Asp from Neon, Python-King's Concubine, The Hissing Lust...take your pick.
For mask, I'm using something from my original equipment. Snake skin mask. Tight, shiny, and leathery. For costume, also tight snakeskin under toga. Kiph is a woman for the puprposes of the ball. He's very skinny and slight, so it could work. Fake boobs, foam by hips, wires, peepee tucked away, good make-up job under mask, just in case, and all those other necessary woman thingies, courtesy of Helena's help. -
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#57Ah, a-ok! Good stuff, me smiling already! Fun-fun! -
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#58Curie will go as the Queen of the Night, Keeper of the Beyond, Sorceress of the Eclipsed Moon.
Long flowing robe with wide sleeves, black with star motifs and a collar supported by metal beams; part of the dress is decorated with wire constructions, much like man-made stuctures in space, the hat is tall and absurd, with a huge third eye in the middle of the forehead and a silvery disk between its horns. Curie's white hair fits it nicely. And, the alien mask will fit with this too, to conceal the weird face. Also, black feathers and veils and stuff. -
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#59Any possibility of having acquired any special equipment? Riv would like some form of C4 device acquired before the mission.
Still thinking about costume. what cover story do we have? -
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#60Well, Mason would be your source of such. Posing as Carnegie he could probably get his hands on a small shipment of arms and explosives. Hand guns, grenades, perhaps even explosives.
First Mason would have to agree with you and then use his network.
dark_dragon: If Mason wants to resupply the crew he will use Carnegie's credits and network. There WILL be a hazzle with security though, Carnegie ain't exactly the arms dealing kind, and such deals might jeopardize his reputation built upon numerous charities and orphanages.
So... To make an arms purchase (credits no problem), make a difficult persuasion attempt as Carnegie. (-10 to skill) -
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#61Taking to ball, somehwere hidden on my person:
- 4 gel lozenges (filled with my own blood)
- Tape recorder
- 3 x amphetamine (In portion packs (powder))
- 1 x flask of medical morphine (except removed from flask and placed into lozenges)
- 1 x M9 Side Arm (Beretta)
- 1 x Fossil, Inc - Wrist PDA mk III
- 1 x syringe -
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#62Kiph: Conceal +25% to get the gun inside. (50+25 = 75) -
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#63Won't bother for now.
Taking to ball:
Hunting Knife - left thigh.
Tie-dyed arab-type robe
SMG - stock removed, hidden inside armor.
1 extra clip, taped in small of the back.
Carnival style jester's mask, dark aspect.
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#64The game is proceeding slowly, and there has been some intrigue.
Let us take a break, and see if people still wanna do this in a month's time. -
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#65Taking to ball:
*Stunner (no expertise, but I will be firing it at unsuspecting people within a few feet at most, if at all)
*Spare data storage media -
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#66To elaborate:
* I need to focus on work for a while
* dark_dragon is obviously occupied, RL has its way of doing that to us now and then.
* We had a bit of drama, and we should leave that behind us.
I do NOT have any bad feelings about any of this.
You guys are awesome to game with, but now is not a good to play. Not for me, not for d_d.
1 months was just a measure of time I pulled out of my arse. It could be 2 weeks, it could be 2 months.
Echo:
Curie has a battle in store for her. Please do not post before I do. As a matter of fact.... I think I will lock the game thread! Preserve the status quo.
The game is proceeding slowly, and there has been some intrigue.
Let us take a break, and see if people still wanna do this in a month's time.
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#6726 April 2010
That is when the game resumes.
I will poll you guys 1 week in advance. Those who reply are in, those who neglect to reply are out. -
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#68I'm in. -
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#69In Like Flynn -
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#70Good to see the rebirth! I'm in. -
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#71Today is the 26th. I have not forgotten. -
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#72Neat! -
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#73Lock and load. Muro seems to have disappeared lately though. -
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#74He'll be back! -
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#75I'm here :) -
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#76W00t! :P
I'm back (well, working at round 10% Roleplaying efficiency -- I still haven't read most of the thread!)
In term of RL, I'm still under a stream,
a veritable deluge,
an artillery barrage,
nay, a brutal drowning cacophony of work!
But I'll do my best!
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#77Awesome! Tomorrow is friday night and I will get some free time to post! w00t!
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#78My apologies. I had intended the game to be running now, but for some reason it has not done so yet. My goal is to start it as soon as possible, just follow the main game thread. When someone posts in it, it is I. :) -
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#79So, when do we take off? -
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#80When I get the urge and the time off. ;)
I just have to want it. I wanted it around the 20th, "but", I thought, "perhaps it is premature... I wait another six days". By then the urge was gone.
No worries, I get the RPing urge every month.