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What a drag. Hopefully it's not too rough and doesn't last too long.

NEXT WEEK'S GAME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

This message will frequently look the same, but please pay attention to it as I will make the occasional announcement outside the norm.

Announcements

A friendly reminder:
We're gaming next week from: Monday, January 16, 1:00 PM GMT - Saturday, January 21, 1:00 PM GMT. Remember, our Thursday post has an extra day now. We're not adding a fifth game post (Friday) to the week.

A convenient link below in consideration of the global neighborhood:
Greenwich Mean Time Clock paired with my time zone
For those in the United States like me, this means the game starts early Monday morning (6:00 AM for me) and goes through late Thursday night/early Friday morning. This gives us 4 days of actual game time that also allows for the late night gamers to post into the early hours of the morning.

I will always do my best to post as early as possible in the morning, allowing the rest of you to have the remainder of the day, and the late night/early morning of the next day to post at your discretion.

Again, as described below, conversation is different and allowed at any time, within reason.

If you like, feel free to post in the narrative outside of our regular active game time, keeping your posts on the less action-oriented side of things. More specifically, focus on conversation, dialogue, and your character's inner voice, avoiding actions and movements that would distort and stretch the narrative timeline. The reason for this is that conversation, dialogue, and your character's inner voice fit very easily and neatly into the timeline of the game's narrative, due to the fact that the words your characters exchange, and especially the thoughts they may have, can happen in a very short period of time.

As such, any time outside of our active game is a great chance for you to RP a little more if you like, especially as an opportunity for your character to socialize with other characters, whether it's planning ahead or just bantering back and forth. Of course, posting like this has to be done with some discretion and within reason. Your character wouldn't be able to have full conversations within structured time situations (combat) while they likewise wouldn't be able to have an entire conversation in the middle of a dispute with local authorities (depending on how much the officer was willing to hear before interjecting). They would, however, be able to have short exchanges in those situations.

Ultimately, if you do decide to post outside of our active games, you are more than welcome to do so. It will add color and depth to the game while helping it, and especially your character, come to life. Just be sensible about it.

As requested (and a great idea), I've finally had the time to put together the color-coded skill portions of the character sheets. For added convenience and ease of play, I added additional info to the dice pools shown regarding adjustments from Talents and the like. Furthermore, rather than leave them simply alphabetized, I've arranged them into sensible categories, as I think this will make it a lot easier to consider options when similar/related skills are grouped together.

If you find any errors, or think something could be added that wouldn't be too obtrusive to the character sheet's format, don't hesitate to let me know. Any method we can find to streamline play for the PbP format is welcome, as long as it works.

Your character sheets will be updated shortly :) Enjoy!

We're going to bring the group together and back into one forum, which is pretty awesome.

Aw yiss!

Right?! I'm pretty stoked about it. It was like GMing two games there for awhile.

Everyone, Chapter 1.2 of Operation Dark Thrall, is now open, with the thread The Spear of Akrulta: Plotting ans Scheming, now available for your RPing enjoyment!

Milestone! 5 extra XP for all, immediately rewarded and spendable!

Also, if your characters are willing to share their experiences, now that they are together, we can hand wave it and save some time. If one of the Shank's group is willing to tell Lissewa the story, I can open up Chapter 1.1b to Squeeks so that she can read it at her leisure. Likewise, if Squeeks is willing, I can open up CHapter 1.1a to the rest of the group for their reading pleasure.

I'm a big fan of doing this, as it will allow us to fast forward a bit past some unnecessary posting to share the experiences in-game, and if I was you guys, well, I'd be curious to know the other side of things. Your choice, though.

The Player side of me says "sure, why not."

Character wise, Lexi would likely need to have some info as to why Lissi went dark before too many details were shared out.

Either way: I'm good with either decision.

As a player, I would love for you all to see what happened but I think at the moment, it may be best that she keep the exact details of what happened to herself. She will explain what needs to be said and leave it at that. For now at least. Ezeriah, I will let you know when Lissewa is willing to open up about the events that took place.

Okay. However, at some point, we are definitely opening this one up, as it would just be a shame for the rest of the group to miss all that. Perhaps I'll open them both when the group has a good chance to sit down for a moment, with some privacy, and share.

Well, that's good news. A cold is way better than a dam breaking.

Welcome back!

Making some changes to the character sheets. Did a test run on Krosus, liked it, so doing them all.

What I'm doing is making each section on the sheet into a 'spoiler', so that when your sheet comes up, there will be multiple categories to click on, making it easier to access the sheet and find exactly what you need. For those who don't know, simply click on the 'spoiler' for the section you want to look at, and it will open up in a convenient boxed in area. If you go into your character sheet and open them all up, this has the bonus feature of separating all of them into nice, boxed in groups. Also, if you're using a mobile device, this should make navigating your character sheet easier.

I love that spoilers are getting such love now.

This game was one of the reasons I put the suggestion in. The character sheet format just SCREAMS "put spoilers in me, please". :)

Noticed that and liked it.

Thanks. I'm a big fan too. Nice and tidy.

Btw, our game is public now!

Available for all members of GP to read. Personally, I enjoy reading along with some of the other public games, and thought there might be others on GP who might enjoy following this one. You guys write some good stuff, and so far I'm thoroughly enjoying the game.

Really looking forward to what you all do for your next step toward carrying out Operation: Dark Thrall.

OBLIGATION AND DUTY

For those less familiar with the game, the way the rolls turned out for our Obligation/Duty check today, it's fairly simple.

Lexi's Obligation: Her Oath to Vhrall Akrulta, and role as an Eye of Akrulta, has her worrying about her responsibilities, duties, etc regarding her role as an Eye of Akrulta, including worrying about the Oracle, the Cathedral, etc. The narrative flavor of Obligation in this case is relatively minor, as we don't have a major event such as Lexi finding out about some negative plot twist wherein something bad happens toward the Eyes of Akrulta, the Oracle etc. Here, she's just worried/stressing.

Drama, if you don't mind playing that part a bit, that would be cool. No need to get overboard with it, but your Obligation has your character stressed about her responsibilities outside the current mission. Hawke is also an Eye of Akrulta, so he would be able to relate to and share her concern.

In sum, Lexi suffers -2 Strain Threshold, while everyone else suffers -1.


Lissewa's Duty: Coincides with her recent efforts, as she has established a connection, of which I'm sure the rest of the group will learn more about. Either way, the group is bolstered by this success, Lissewa gaining +2 Wound Threshold, while everyone else gains a +1 Wound Threshold.

These bonuses are temporary, lasting until the next time we roll Obligation/Duty.

not sure how you guys want to proceed especially after what i learned. Can't discuss here because of meta gaming, but would like some feed back on what the plan is. I'm half inclined to drop a NEUROPARALYTIC in this guys brandy.

Tajanna is currently inclined to cooperate with Nash, or at least not antagonize him unnecessarily.

And I agree, our crew needs a chance to chat privately before any final decisions are made.

Lexi kind of wants to poison him just for being a sleaze. She also would be fine making him gargle lightsaber. But totally agreed that we need a chance to confer as ourselves without observation before we sign off on anything.