OoC and Clarifications

For all the OOC stuffs

Its cool to post your character in the Complement section

Question, what does Sq. stand for?

Squaddie

We will fail forward in this game. McLeod's failure is a setback, not a insurmountable obstacle

Sweet!

Sounds good. I’ll get a post in with my guy.

Got a question. Is Command like charisma and natural presence? Or is it rank? Because my guy has a 5, which is higher than the others, so does he out rank them, or he’s just someone everyone respects. Because I was thinking of having him just be a squaddie?

Command would represent force of personality, literally to command attention, respect, negotiation, commerce, or compelling obedience. It is the stat representing how loud your ape is. Command is an emotional demand.

Guile on the other hand would represent more subtle arts. Seduction, coercion, intimidation. As well as picking a lock or placing a claymore for effect. Guile is an emotional appeal.

Wits represents thinking, logic, rhetoric, communication through body language, finding your way through a labyrinth. Wits represents both lateral and forward thinking.

Brawn is your overall strength, toughness, coordination. Where wits might tell you where the best route for a jump in EVA will be, brawn is how you do it.

Rank doesnt matter, just like in mass effect your expertise takes seniority.

Just like the real world a command or guile is worthless against agency. Some commands that are heinous or against the nature of the character will be ignored.

Just like most RPGs character agency is sacrosanct. NPC agency is malleable.

How far apart are Barns and I?

No more than 20m apart.

Finally a success lol

@aegis

Gonna move for ya. Dont worry it wont hurt much.

@aegis

You coming?

This is great. Thanks. Sorry. I got locked out of the site for a minute or couldn’t access it or something. I’ll catch up.

Should I just continue on with my character or did you want me to wait on you GM

I think I might have woke up Zand without realizing that Zand was a pc until Aegis post. Sorry!

No need to apologize, this is all going to be weird.

@microtheMacroBear - that’s my bad. I must have missed that post. I can just edit what I have here or add a couple of lines about him waking up. All good.

Oh no, everything is good. I don't think you were awake yet when you went @Aegis.
@Jomsviking I'm liking the journey so far. It's suspenseful and cool.

Glad youre having fun!

No need to roll to recover - dehydration is the recovery process. You need water.

Very good and suspenseful writing.

@Jomsviking - I’ve got an idea for how to come awake if you want me to write something. Otherwise I’ll leave it to you. Don’t want to step on any toes.

Ill clear up the result of your first threshold experience then feel free.

https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-169-threshold-moving-between-the-realms/

I got so caught up in Zand's journey, I forgot about Tseng! Question, how do you want us to roll for help actions, individually?

Individually works. A failure isnt incompetence but forces out of your control interrupting your progress.

Ha. Yeah. I forgot about him too, lol

When the pressure is on the mind tricks us.

This tells me I am applying it well, without smothering you.

Btw Tseng is female.

Ok so combat kills games in PbP

So heres what I suggest.

Think of a way to fight back with one stat, whether that be hauling ass away and carrying injured to safety, or setting up traps. Or whatever. Itll take about a minute per check. Failure means you dont remove a threat.

I think for this fight, since there are 4 combat capable people, there will be 6 threats. 150% your size to represent the severity of the threat

Sounds good.

Sounds good to me.

@orkneyinga

This is a democracy. Whats your vote?

Keeping the pressure on.

Looks like we lost Orkneyinga but I sense he will return.

Hard choices to be made right now.

All good. I missed your post by 2 minutes I think. I must have been drafting when you hit submit, lol

Ok, sounds good

Sorry about the delay, I had the flu. Catching up on everything

No problem

No worries

Poor rolls make for tragedies. It got dark quickly.

Everyone okay with it?

I'm ok with that. It's certainly pretty crazy atm. I don't mind difficult story choices as long as they fit the story.

Sorry guys. I missed this update. I’ll post tonight

No worries!

Hope yall had a happy, or spooky Halloween.

Mine was spooky

Nice, I had a good one. I sat and watched the Fog while the cat fell asleep on my chest. Happy post halloween! Is the costume a nod to Ghost?

I get asked that a lot.

The paint is traditional Lappland war paint. The robe is taoist. Theres some bishop regalia. And the ensemble is a Buddha of Wrath with the sword and the noose.

All in all its just the real me.

Buddha of Wrath, I dig it.

Love it! Happy Belated Halloween!

Inspiration didnt come to me my last trip, though I had a cool vision about being Baphomet. Rest assured that I am not abandoning this game.

Lol. Sounds good.

Close one. Almost got my face melted off, lol. Or had a very bad trip

lol! Right?

Badger could try instead? But it would be face melting would be much much more likely for him.

There will be consequences to failure, but not death in this case.

Really? Yeah! I want to interface with the weirdness! I just didn't want it to be the end

Then roll and submit your soul to the machine

I will once Aegis goes or decides against it.

The machine made it sound like it would be very bad if we both went together.

Just a heads up, I’ll check in and post when I can but I’m traveling for Thanksgiving for the next week and a half, so my posts will probably slow way down.

Busy week for me too. No worries

Sounds good

Micro go ahead and resolve the roll to interface. I think E1M2 will start in the medical bay after the holiday.

Ok, will do!

Sorry. I’m still here. holidays and real life caught me, so I’m catching back up. I should post soon.

Welcome back! Totally understand. Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving (if you celebrate it).

Catching up myself.

Good news:

Amanita Muscaria bloomed for the first time in my recollection in this valley

Better news:

Theyre very potent.

Hi! I'm going to be traveling for work the next couple days
I'll try to check in, but I may have limited posting. I should be back to posting normally next week. Letting everyone know because we just started the next chapter.

@Aegis

Waiting on you

Merry ChristmaS

Merry Christmas!

With the death of Aegis i am taking it as a sign. Thanks for coming on this trip.

You're welcome. Thanks for having me. If you want to try the system again, Aegis shows up, or you find more players. Let me know.

Hey. Super sorry I just dropped off the planet like that. I had a TON of stuff happen in RL (wife had a kid super early AND a brand new job and new responsibilities) and got pretty overwhelmed. I kept thinking I was going to post something "tomorrow" but tomorrow kept moving and by the time I realized that, it'd basically been a month, I guess.

Anyway, with all of my RL stuff going on, I've got to scale back and basically quit any of the games I was in if they didn't quit me first, so I won't be on the site much for a while.

Again, sorry to be so flighty.