[OOC] Other discussion

@Windyridge, @Qralloq, I invited you based on your expressions of interest, but I understand that it's an optional invitation - no fuss if you can't fit this in.

I'm just going to start with some random rolls.

Edit: Submitted Marcel Blanc, entertainer

Here is my character

Rene Gagnon

Utility Rapier
Vanguard Tabard
Fencing School: Dumas’s Slash
Background Corsair
Quirks
Missing eye
Loud
Feather in Hat; Fire Falcon
Influent Connections
Marie, Perfume distiller
Twins:
Twist: New clues of father’s murderer.

Oh - please remember to choose one of Dodge, Recovery, Riposte at d10 and another at d8, as additional skills specific to fencing.

Pierre Lamaire

Skills
Fencing skill Strike d8
Fencing skill Dodge 1d10
Skirmish 1d8
Science 1d8

Trait: Secret Lab
Helps: against overly prepped opposition

Equipment
Rapier - War (heavy) Rapier has piercing engine.
Tabard - Vanguard - hidden blades all over it

School Nimo's Repost
Background - Merchant
Quirk - Broad, Lazy
Feather - Dodo
Load - Heavy
Perfume - Mist of last breaths - sound/silence

Character submitted.

Is there a character sheet for the game or just paste here?

If you want to use mine, here is the code for my character. Just click the Create Character box and replace what you want:

I'm going to take this as "Riposte d8"

Random rolls and character creation (post under edit)

Rapier: (3) War (Rapier has piercing engine)
Tabard (4) Espionage (Tabard can change pattern to match surroundings)
School (4) Closeau feint (d8 in Investigation and Slight of Hand) "Rich". Helps: try to manipulate skilled opposition

Jean Aramitz
Pirate
Strange Hair + Generous
Crane Feather

Connection: Marie the perfume distiller

unacceptableusername, could you please use Qralloq's helpful code (and the Characters menu, above) to make and submit your character?
Also, it seems you both know Marie ...

Don't worry much about back story.

Let's see where the tone takes us - I'm going to play straight for the start of it.

The first IC post is up! You may want to explore what your character knows about where to find violins or where to find monkeys ... or something else.

Also, I hope for a certain amount of period research and modification by each of you players. That is, I'm a bit lazy and although I would love to have a "twisted historically accurate" game, don't have time or patience to do all of the research that would need. So, please, seek out and/or invent appropriate details!

One monkey's paw to the first who names the Singer/songwriter who inspired the [IC} thread name.

Crazy week on the home front had me out of pocket this week! Not sure if it's too late to join in. I'm happy to sit out or join whenever it makes narrative sense. My proposed character (also submitted to the game):

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Jacques "La Souris (The Mouse)" Chéron

Skills: Fencing (Dodge d10, Riposte d8), Investigation d8, Sleight of Hand d8
Traits: Rich — ‘Helps’ you try to manipulate skilled opposition
Gear: Rapier (utility — it and those wounded by it don’t make a sound), and tabard (espionage — can change pattern to match surroundings).
Perfumes: L'esprit du sommeil ("Mind Sleep") — Will put a subject into a coma-like slumber, smells like a mix of damp rock and vanilla
Equipment: Light/Medium/Heavy TBD (pending the next mission)
Fencing School: Closeau’s Feint
Background: Entertainer
Quirk: Short, Gallant
Feather in Hat: Crow
Connections: d6 Secret Society (The Parisian Thieves Guild)

I'll take this moment to announce my resignation for this game. Honestly I haven't gotten around to posting and my spot would probably be better deserved in someone else's hands.

An entertainer could possibly be exactly what we need with the current mission. Maybe one with better understanding of violins than we do :)

Yes, an entertainer would be perfect!

Marcel is an Entertainer. But two would be fun as well.

Twin entertainers!

Ahhh I didn't read the characters enough. Apologies!

Ah! Now is when I grip my forehead in agitation and dismay.

I had a definite feeling that something should be helping Jean with the makeshift ladder, but couldn't think what despite "Pirate" being right there in front of me. I do apologize.

Would we all be open to "retconning" the past several posts, or would that be jarring?

That's fine with me!

No problem.

Ok then

Shamefacedly I inform you that

there was no alley next to the Palais Garnier, Opera d'Paris.

Nevertheless ... you have entered a janitorial closet via a window, unobserved, and have pulled up "your" rope after you.

Looks like this game has reached an early demise so I will exit stage left. Thanks for running it Tibbius!

ahhh, yeah, this would probably have benefited from me prompting for actions.

I think that I'll step away as well. Thanks all.

My sincere apologies. This seemed like a fun idea, but clearly didn't hold any of our interest as well as we'd hoped.