General Chat

I’m still in, but I agree this week the story has been dragging. This is my first PBP game so I don’t know what pace is typical, but this seems slower than it was a couple of weeks ago. That’s why I posted that my character continued to do what he had been doing. I wasn’t sure what to do since the skeleton hadn’t yet gotten up or fought back, and it wasn’t clear how much time had elapsed in game, but I felt like I had to post something.

I’m going to attempt to move things forward by having Deoring notice and engage with Roald.

This seems pretty typical. It fluctuates based on player availability. The more players there are the more it has to fluctuate since there are more chances for someone to get slowed.

The types of situations can make a big difference to the pace. I was encouraged by the fast pace and subsequently laid out a complex interconnected scenario, which stumbled with the suddenly slowed pace (and the slowed pace may be the result of the complex scenario which gave the players pause:).
There is huge benefit to such posts. It lets us know that the player is still engaged, it prompts us to move things along, and it shows that the situation is still the way we last saw it (that the player had not meant that to be a fleeting description).

I really like seeing such aspects of the characters. They are not 'big damn heroes' and this sort of panicked reaction would happen. The downside of such things that you end up stuck till another character can come to get you out (it is less cool to just get over it and move on to doing something else, but sometimes that has to happen).
Sorry about that. Yeah, I had intended for almost no time to have passed. It was not meant to be flailing there on the ground, but things slowed and conversations happened...

Maybe we can assume that time is contracted and concentrated by the events and it has been moments that felt like a waking nightmare? And that the talking was meant to convey these complex ideas, but was fast and efficient as befits a fight.
Yes. Thanks, that was needed and works well.

@vagueGM Thank you for the explanation. It seems like things are picking back up now. Maybe it was just a bad week for us all.
I like that a lot.

Please let me know when I can roll for Deoring attacking the skeleton.

Could the forum benefit from a ''like'' or ''I agree'' button? I regularly read a nice post or plot twist that I would like to give some credit without writing too much.😊

The idea gets bandied about from time to time, but never gets much traction.

I have psycho-social concerns with such things (but then I am an old grognard (even though I welcome you onto my lawn)). While I know that people don't post (or know where to post) "Hey, I really liked what you said there" posts, having buttons (and especially the Polls) fosters a mentality of not discussion things in favour of just clicking to 'express an opinion'.

Also true.
I see it more as a ''chuckle'' when someone writes something funny or has a unique view of things. Something I would never think of myself.

I guess the fact that I write a lot on my smartphone is an extra obstacle to write out ooc things like that.

Sorry I’ve had a rough few days, I hope to get back in the action tomorrow.

Sorry to hear that. Catch up when you have time.

Welcome back, TrailHead! :)

The next 5-6ish days I'm going to be absent-ish. I'll still try to post when I can. Dirk will still be tagging along, he's just gonna be a bit narratively absent!

Thanks. We will work around you, and you can catch up when you are free again.

Are people waiting on each other?

Seems like it. I made the last post. I’ve been waiting for someone else to go.

@vagueGM, do you want me to describe the the skeleton withstanding Deoring’s hit and the cost or consequences of my 7-9 roll? Rightly or wrongly, I was expecting you to do so. I can write it if you give me a sense of the scale of the consequences. Thanks.

Apologies. I introduced the possibility of an optional free hit at a cost, but that was traded away and then not used and the question confused things.
I will play them as standard and move things forward.

My apologies for not understanding the free hit with a cost offer.

No worries. It was me bending the rules (or at least, adding bits from other games) that caused the confusion. I also should have followed up harder.

It’s all good.

Oh, I see :) no worries

Been a bit of a busy weekend. Gonna post something for Albert tomorrow.
Just to let you all know :)