OOC General Chat

Copy from Narrative:

So far I've got Hawke, Lexi, and Tajanna going to Shank's Pre-Owned pawn shop, which is less than a minute's walk down the street from Charitable Charlatan's cantina. If CCL and Squeeks can confirm where they'd like to go by Monday 12:00 PM GMT, we can move on from here without delay. Just leave a short note in OOC General.

However, if you feel the need to strategize or plan, that's fine too.

Finishing finals was always a great feeling. You've got a nice breaking coming up then.

For those of you who haven't seen it... Rogue One was fantastic. Right up there with IV and V, in my opinion. Acting, writing, setting, story line... all amazing. I'll have to take a look on the net, but whoever the key individuals were in writing, directing, and producing this should be taking care of SW movies for awhile. They nailed it.

It might even be tied with RotJ for 3rd place on my all-time SW movie list (Ewoks were horrible; fun fact: originally, Lucas had Wookies at the end of RotJ, not Ewoks). The classic lightsaber duel between Vader and Luke for Anakin's soul gives RotJ the edge though. Yeah... V (ESB) is my fave, followed by IV (NH) then VI (RotJ). But, I've gotta say, Rogue One delivers on that every level with that SW feel, like Empire Strikes Back does, with a little bit of that darker and grittier vibe.

I almost feel bad about being on vacation in a tropical paradise, because I won't be able to see Rogue One until after Christmas.

Speaking of being on vacation, I don't currently anticipate having to miss any scheduled posts (if I do, I'll post in the absences thread), but I likely won't be able to make as many non-action roleplaying posts as I otherwise would.

One should never feel bad about being in warm weather around palm trees. I know I wouldn't.

I said almost feel bad. It would take a lot more than missing a movie premiere for me to not appreciate having no snow to shovel, and temperatures above zero (or above 32, for those of you who use Fahrenheit).

CCL, as far as your plans on going into Shank's Pre-Owned, that's a little too complicated on the planning ahead. You're not even in the store yet, and there are many things about the store that you may not know. Furthermore, I can't do a simple either/or' for that situation. Only do that for very simple things like Lissewa's questions of Zhaff (who was already Charmed and the questions were the basic kind), talking to a bartender ("when he gets to me, I'd like to ask if he's heard of Mr. So and So") etc. Your Influence has a check involved, and some specific things that you should decide when using it.

First off, remember: when using Influence you need to roll Discipline with it (declaring your intentions before the roll (e.g., I'm going to Jedi mind trick him with "These are not the droids you're looking for."). Every force power has an associated Skill check. Either you're going to try to improve relations (lights side points = positive emotions), cause negative emotions (dark side points), or cause confusion aka 'jedi mind trick' where you can get them to believe a lie (light or dark side points). Your use of the force here needs some role playing behind it with specifics, I'm not going to come up with your mind trick or influence choices for you. Keep in mind that the mind trick is for getting them to believe 'simple untruths', and the more unbelievable it is, the harder it will be to accomplish via setback dice and/or upgrading dice to red challenge dice.

The good news is I will let you bank those rolls for use in Shank's Pre-Owned, as your intentions are clear. Just add your Discipline roll when you actually try to use Influence on whoever it may be.

Just made some adjustments to Hawke's latest post. A little bit of 4th wall leaning and making a Perception check.

It's an RPG, no worries. By all means, role play.

Besides, the group also has a Greedy (Lissewa), Obsessive (Tajanna), Hatred (Lexi) and a Cruel (Hawke). All of you have a... dark side?

Ha. Ha. Ha.

I had to. It just came out that way.

HAH

A reminder for everyone: almost all of the Force powers have attached Skill checks that should be rolled simultaneously with your force dice. Check the Library before your roll and attach the proper skill check as needed.

As the group has split up, I've restructured the forums a bit. There's now an Operation Dark Thrall forum for the narrative, with sub forums for the group working together, separately, etc. You can't access threads which you aren't a part of; as such, Lissewa's thread where she is in Charitable Charlatan's shouldn't even be visible as a thread to the rest of you who aren't there. Also, for Squeeks, the other thread with the rest of the group going to Shank's shouldn't be visible.

Please confirm the above when you get this message. As I'm sure you've discerned, I'm doing this to give the game a a more realistic feel, as obviously you aren't aware of what is happening in different places.

Got it

If you need to communicate with one another via comlink, or some other means available to you, do so in the thread that your character is currently in. Whether it's a voice call, a holo-call, or a text message, I'll copy and paste the message to the other thread as needed.

Also, whenever the group separates, be sure to read what is in the Main thread before switching over to the thread where your character will continue their part of the story.

Also, I'm going to make OOC's for each of the narrative subforums. Do not ask questions about your part of the narrative in the primary OOC General Chat thread. We don't want to give story aspects away to characters and players who shouldn't be aware of them :)

Just to be clear, your characters are in separate places and narratives now. Don't spoil the fun by sharing across OOC. Lissewa should be clueless as to what is happening in Shank's, whereas the rest of you should be clueless as to what is happening in Charitable Charlatan's.

Again, you can communicate with each other via comlink, etc. but do so within the context of your separate narrative thread as a comlink call or what not.

Understood. Also loved rogue one, just got to see it yesterday.

Check. We went and saw it on Sunday finally (took our son for his birthday). Loved the flick.

Understood. And I'll be joining the Rogue One club a couple days after Christmas.

Would it be possible to have an additional page added to our character threads with the skill dice pools?

In Oggdude's, the skill page very conveniently has all of the skill dice images there to make quick work of figuring out the pools. As most of my posting time is usually when I'm AWAY from the computer with that information available, it'd be great (at least for me as I'm still very much learning the system at large) to have that kind of a key available here. Something like:

Lightsaber - YYGGW
Pilot Space - YYYGGW

I don't necessarily want to make more work for YOU, but for me at least it would cut down on the individual prep time for each post where I'm including skill checks.