OOC

I don't mind a bit of ooc discussion in game threads, specially when it's relevant to what's going on there, as long as it's short. For longer discussions, bring it here!

I'm gonna avoid pushing too fast to give fernymerk a chance to join in.

I had no idea this had started lol. Should've subscribed to the thread.

Are you allowing Human Variants?

What do you have in mind?

And don't fret, I'll get you out of those cages one fernymerk has a chance to weight in :)

Just the standard variant from the PHB. (+1 to 2 abilities, 1 skill proficiency, 1 feat)

That's absolutely fine. Even if your char isn't completely done yet, no big deal. You'll have time to complete as we get the story started. Feel free to post in the story thread even if it's not 100% yet.

My idea of a good PbP adventure/story thread is one that reads like a real story. A non-participant should be able to start reading it and follow along without having to read the character generation, world-building and other OOC threads. For that to happen, characters (whether PC and NPC) should be introduced. It can be a complete description the first time the character appears, or if you're going for some mystery or drama, details can be revealed gradually. Same applies to places or even monsters. But that's just me. :-)

Yah, I'm going to do my best to describe most everything you run into. I've always had an interest in writing, but never really been very good at it. I'm hoping I can let some of that out here. Even these opening posts, I've tried to narrate what I see in my mind, though I don't think I'm being very successful. I'm also trying to manage the notion that you're all waking up, your brains apparently coming out of some sort of stupor, while trying to maintain some suspense and hopefully not making it too obvious what's going on.

That's a big part of the reason I like PbP, I love to write, but don't consider myself good at it, so this is good practice in a safe environment. It's also helped a lot with my descriptive DMing

I'm no novelist (I have a few fruends who are) but like you guys I have an interest in storytelling. I guess it's safe to say all of us who PbP share this interest. And for the most part I'm pretty pleased with the creativity of everybody here. :-)

How do you pass secret notes to other players?

Click on the Note button just above the text box

Thank you

Imagining Tetsuwan's voice, my first thought is Orson Welles as Unicron. Maybe less sinister. Maybe like James Spader as Ultron, but less chatty. Maybe a much chattier Iron Giant, or Groot. In fact, go ahead and cast Vin Diesel in the film adaptation of Haunting Past. :-D

Sorry the start is slow guys. I'd like to give fernymerk fair chance to post, though we're going much slower than the 3 posts a week schedule I had originally intended. I'd like fernymerk to interact with his object before we continue the scene.

No worries. I also want to give everyone a chance. Sometimes I need to post a To-Do list for myself in the event that I'll forget what I wanted in the meantime; my recent post was one such reminder.

No problem, I'm really ok with a slow pace at the moment, I'm overwhelmed by my games right now, looking forward to two of them that I'm DMing closing up soon.

Pretty much same story here. The story of a GP addict. I literally started a new game today.

I really want to start a newbie-friendly game, but I'm so overwhelmed right now!

DMing 4 games and playing in 16!

That's what I said...then 40 minutes later there I was.

So sorry guys! Work has been hectic and I haven't had a chance to go through everything. Have a day off tomorrow though, so I'll definitely be posting.

That's fine fernymerk; RL always takes priority. I figure I'd do what most people seem to do on GP: at one week, send a PM. At two try again, and if for some weird reason 3 weeks pass, then look for someone else :p

Yeah no problem with the pace. :-)

No greatsword? Ah well, a longsword will have to do for now. :-)

Sorry for the delay guys. One player has been inactive just over two weeks. I'm giving him till Friday or I'm going to drop him. I can more easily get someone new in and retcon your wakeup scene with them in it over moving forward from here.

No worries on my end. I know I haven't been as active as I thought I was, but I'll strive to be better!

Yeah, no worries! :-) I know you're super busy with the site updates too!

I haven't forgotten that Edward heard sounds coming from the doors. Are the rest of us currently unaware of the sounds?

I've been playing that I didn't hear them.

That's what I was doing as well

Yeah, same here.

The sounds are the next step. I haven't heard from our 6th in a bit; I'm going to recruit one more, get them up, and hopefully move you guys forward with the sound by this coming weekend.

Added a bit of OOC to my last post. Readied action to strike whatever comes through those doors.

I am leaving for Cedar Point tomorrow morning (Friday, July 29th) and won't get back until late Sunday night (July 31st). I'll be recuperating on Monday, so my posting may be slow until Tuesday.

All the weapons that were taken from the weapon rack?

Yup.

Did this just happen?

Haha, if you mean the halfling, I hope not!

Just checking if this game is still ongoing?

I, for one, hope we are still playing.

Me too!

Sorry guys, you can expect an update between today and tomorrow. I spent pretty much every night two weeks back at a wedding (if you've never been to an Indian wedding, specially if you're in the family or close, it's easily 3 nights, in my case, 6) and then another week sick from said wedding. I'm so far back on GP and freelance work, I've barely been active on GP in general (if you follow me on twitter, you may have noticed a distinct lack of tweeting). I'm finally getting a handle of things.

I will be extremely busy the next three days. I may be able to make short posts now and then, but can't promise anything. Go ahead and move my characters along and roll for me if necessary. Thanks!

Can I assume none of you have anything to say or do before we move into the city? And mind if I just get a check in, to make sure you're still interested in playing? I have to apologize again for the really big disruption. I'm excited to get this game moving if you guys are.

I'm excited to keep playing, but Edward has nothing to do just now :)

I'm still in. Sorry been busy but will try and be on more

I'm still in.

I'm still in, too. Tetsuwan just doesn't do/say much.

Here, just waiting to get moving along to where there are some more people that could answer our questions.

Great point. I'll walk us into the city today or tomorrow. Maybe this part is just slow because of my GMing. I think we're just missing ratcatcher anyway. I'll PM um.

I think we'll do just fine as is. But I wouldn't mind it either if you want to recruit a new player.

Oh, and I have no problem with the pace. :-)

I don't intend on recruiting another right now; I don't wanna do another retcon. I can introduce someone new if we decide the team needs some more variety, but we'd need to be at a position where we could do it.

CancerMan, remember Tobin's wife gave you a small bag. It jingles.

Hey, guys! Check this out.

Heh, yah, saw that on FB a few days back. I'm curious as to how it'll be.

Sorry guys, I'm going to have to take a GP hiatus. More info here: http://gamersplane.com/forums/thread/1260/?p=162293#p162293

As posted in the Absences thread:

Just to save space, I'm dropping this game. If it starts up again, let me know!

Yeah same here. Cheers!