The Sacrifice Camp (OOC)

Indeed nice. :)

Taking this whole endeavor in aggregate it is a Partial Success, 'you succeed at your goal but it is not complete'. I think the 'not complete' part is that you have not dealt with whatever is behind this, but it is not an immediate problem for you or the valley.

We can say the stone table breaks, and the fire comes and cleanses things. I would think the fire is more likely to be from Raynor than from the —symbolic— 'flint and steel' blow, but you can describe it however you like. Go ahead and tell us what happens, and what you do next.

Each of you: fill in the bits you want and I can fill in the rest.

Here or in the rp thread?

RP, if you can.

I can probably do it later today, if someone else has time earlier, go for it 😊

I've still left more things to be added. If someone has a cool idea for a more detail description, that would be great

I wrote 'everyone', but feel free to exclude yourself or any npc 's

Just pictured it as a mesmerizing show.

Yes, by all means, exclude yourself from those that step back to avoid getting burned. :)

Hehe

To clarify. I meant burning like in sunburn 😉.
And thought Maybe others would not want to stay and watch.

Hehe, yeah. :)

How badly do we want to find our backpacks [ref]? Is there anything in them that is not easily replaceable (is there anything in Roald's at all:)?

Based on lack of looking for anyone's stuff (mainly women's clothes) the Hard Move: Take Away their Stuff was sorta enacted, and there is no stuff left around here, wherever the women's clothes vanished to is the same place your packs, Daryl's armour, and Phil's 'adventuring clothes for boys' (probably stolen form a servant?) went.

If we want to track down answers to what happened to the stuff we can, but, aside from Daryl's armour, everything can be replaced with better stuff.

In roald's there is just Standard adventure gear. A blanket (he gave his cloak away), a pot, some rations. Nothing special.

So he doesn't need it back. But will be needing to buy a new cloak and camping stuff. So we either have to find the backpack or some cash.

Albert's pack contained some original Deer's Antlers wooden mugs. He'll be sad to lose those, but not worth tracking down the woman for.

I think you can narrate us back into town at this point, vague. If you would be so kind :)

We can go on a quest to recover them, no problem there if you guys want. Else, if you want we can have them turn up later ... in an unexpected place.
Will do, later.

I'm a few days away from the computer and might be even slower than at other times.

With this in mind, and it looking like the drive behind the game has somewhat dwindled it seems. We're already in the pause perhaps?
I was thinking maybe it would be nice to just have a narration of what happened to Norbert, Roald and Albert over the next few weeks.
My idea on this is that vagueGM narrates what happens with the mayor, his kids, and the barons (maybe Ahsa and Bimi too?). I think you know our characters well enough to take some liberties :) . That'll finish the 'quest'. Then we can each add what our characters do next.

That'll round out the story for now until we want to get back into it.

What do you think, vague?

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I've had a great time in this game, btw. From the very beginning until now :) Thanks again for bringing us the story, vague!

Yes, it feels like a nice spot to pause. We all had some kind of closure.
When I started this game I would never have thought I would last for 1.5 years? Something like that? It has been a great adventure with enough excitement and humor to keep it interesting for so long. Thank you very much Vague, Gen and fossball.
If someone new comes along I will be happy to pick it back up.
If you'd still have me of course 😉.

I was thinking the same thing. Thank you both for what you brought to the story, it was only a small part from my efforts and creation, and was mostly carried by the players who directed most of the story, I just reacted. :)

Thank you as well @fossball, I know PbP did not really fit your style, but I still really enjoyed what you brought to the story and the positive energy that you brought to the group. I would love to play with any (or ideally all) of you guys in real life as well.

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My time is short at the moment, so I have closed this game for applications, but will open it again when time permits. I do appreciate having you guys along to fill out a party when new players arrive, it has been awkward —in the cyberpunk one— to have to discourage those new players with them being alone.

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I was also surprised at how long this went on, I don't think WoDu did us any favours and there was talk about transferring Albert and Roald to another, more robust, system. I do like that the system got out of our way, but a little more structure (for moves and character options) can help keep things interesting over time (that or a little less structure FKR-style:).

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I will give it a bit more thought, but I was thinking I actually like leaving things the way they are, without knowing how Theo and Phil get along with their arrival back home —so no hints as to how their plans will go :)—, and if we are 'planning' on picking this up again I almost don't want to say what happens 'next' to your PCs, and use that as the springboard into the next quest; that way we can tailor it to the new players we have.

However, I worry that it could be disappointing to not get a conclusion, especially since we did not 'end on a cliffhanger' or anything (Ahsa/Asha anyone?:). If we want I can easily summarise what happens, maybe with the celebration that was paid for (or did Barky abscond with your 1000 Silver?:), or possibly with what the Captain has worked out about the temple and the horned-wolf business (quest starter for the next big one?).

I don't think we want to hang around here for more adventure, so there is little downside to summarising how your actions have improved the valley, with a denouement of Norbert covering the next few months or weeks.

No matter what, we can assume that you are able to replace your lost gear, with money to buy, or with with better stuff (donated).

Do we want a 'conclusion'?
- What do we want to leave open?
- What do we want to nail down and conclude?

Since it's unsure when or if this game will continue, I think a conclusion would be nice. Perhaps the next part might take place x weeks/months from the last events.

But I'm also happy to leave it open if that seems more fitting. This game was all about the journey and the RP for me. And it already delivered on that! 😁

The system was maybe a bit too basic, but also didn't matter to me. I'd rather have a good story that's easy to follow instead of complex rules and ooc number crunching. So no complaints on my end.

I was also imagining a description of the party that was paid for. Not every loose end needs to be fixed of course.

Happy to hear you enjoyed it too, vague! I agree. We'd be a kick ass team at a real table!

I really enjoyed the story but I'm ready to say goodbye to Norbert.

I'm not really sure if you guys need anything more from me.

Thank you very much!