Lightning in a Bottle (OOC)

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My cellphone keyboard has them.
I'll give you some to copy.
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All my favorites! How thoughtful of you! <3

I use my phone or a Chrome plugin. Or you can copy paste them from any other website :)

The correct answer: "An escar-stay."

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I only have 1 emoji for this:
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Hehe :)

Sorry not sorry. hehe!

I don't know about the rest of you, but I like to make playlists for my characters. Think I found my theme song for Ezmaray today! - https://youtu.be/oFUiWciOwck?si=TpehXOjuZHONVa_q

karabooo, with your 12 I promised you 'something extra'. I figure the most useful thing right now is a direction to go in to find the source? But, if you prefer, it could instead be an insight into the nature of the source and then you would need to find it on your own, or something else completely.

If you want, go ahead and narrate (in character) how Ezme comes to this realisation/discovery, and tell us what you find that points you in the right direction, and what direction that is (probably using the river and towards or away from the ocean as landmarks?), or what you learn about the nature of the threat.

If you would rather get something else, we can talk about it.

If you would rather I do this narration, I am happy to do so.

GameMaster, I not sure how to respond to your taunting the mist. :)

Maybe explain what you are trying to acheive in the fiction, bearing the fiction in mind. In all probability 'it' knows where you are, so shouting won't bring it too you. Maybe you are trying to provoke it into coming out into the open, but that is a long-shot —given that it appears to be something 'alien' that 'hides' and 'manipulates' by its very nature— so that would require a lot more setup in the fiction and heroic rolling.

Possibly we can treat this as a 'learning experience' for Gronk? Maybe he sees how it responses, or something, and that could become valuable later, and may give him some needed edge.

May I ask what direction the ocean is? I imagined it was to the west and the crew was traveling north up the coast, but that may have been totally off....

That sounds about right, I believe, in a previous scene, the sun was setting over the ocean.

Unless we really need to define such things I tend to leave them vague. Players can decide when these details matter.

This sounded very familiar, I didn't know the artist, so I looked them up. Turns out I do know their one popular song.

Gotcha. I have an idea as to what Ezmaray could notice that will give us a sense of where to go next. I'll post it tomorrow.

Wow! It is hard to overstate just how wrong Ezme is on that point. :)
I am not inclined towards 'villain's monologues' where everything is explained. If you want to know answers to such questions your characters will need to put effort into finding out, and steer the story that way. Obviously of I misplace clues and players are desperate to know what was going on I can summarize some things, but often (mostly) I don't know what the 'real answer' is till the players manifest it in the story.

So far you have been very astute at picking up and running with what I have been putting down. It has been a pleasure.

lol. Well, I think we're all pretty aware the bad guys are doing their share of scheming!
I will usually try to dig deeper to the best of my ability while also staying in character. :-P Not sure how to go about doing so at this point in the story, but my eyes will be peeled for clues to unraveling such mysteries.
Been really enjoying the intriguing challenges and characters presented in this game. Thank you for running it!!

If Albert wasn't the nice guy he is, I would have made him say "Excelent suggestion, Gronk. Definitely nobody would ever say that out of their own free will!" :P

I knew a few First Aid Kit songs. They are nice :)
Emmylou is in my list of favorites.

I'm quite liking this mist story and intrigue too. Thanks, vague!

I'm not sure I've encountered this group before, but "Wolf" popped up on my Spotify playlist, and the lyrics were rather fitting. :)

Hope that works for you, @vagueGM!

I assume you are implying that you need to go inland or northeast? You can lead the way when the group is ready.