Down in the Gutter: OOC, The Nuts and Bolts of Staying Alive Options

[WinterRat1]

Felix did not pick up his stuff. Splintered Crash's former turf had quite a few ghouls in it during the time you went, so it wasn't going to be an easy trip and survival was by no means guaranteed.

For fairness sake, I prefer to say Felix simply beat a retreat out of there once the ghoul spotted him and did whatever else you would rather him do in the interim, planning to come back later (probably with Shade and Aziz to back him up) to retrieve his stuff.

[adamu]

Everyone is cleared to post as of 14:00:00, Sunday, November 2, 2070.

During this 'downtime', you each have 12 hours of time to rest and/or train, in whatever combination you wish.

Heya Winter - just to confirm that my accelerated training dream is coming true...wiki says max 4 hours training in a day, up to cap of 8 by spending karma.

If Christmas has come early this year, I am NOT complaining - you know I will be Johnny-on-the-spot with those IC posts.

But thought I'd just confirm before going ahead with that.

[WinterRat1]

Heya Winter - just to confirm that my accelerated training dream is coming true...wiki says max 4 hours training in a day, up to cap of 8 by spending karma.

You are correct. Of the 12 hours available, 4 may be spent training, 8 if you spend karma per the wiki.

Note that most characters should still be resting at least part or even the majority of the time, for role-playing purposes if not necessarily healing/statistical ones.

If I get the sense your character is not resting adequately throughout the course of the game, I will smack you with fatigue modifiers out of nowhere. Fatigue is nasty like that; you think you're doing fine, plenty of energy, then BOOM! Fatigue kicks you right in the nuts and you crash. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

For the record, I highly doubt that will be an issue, people have been great about realistically sleeping/resting/crashing. This was more of a 'don't abuse these downtime periods by trying to do nothing but train' warning.

Grack is probably the sole exception to this currently since every time I turn around, it seems like he's sleeping.

Any other questions?

[adamu]

Just one - can I get a reverse fatigue modifier if I build up enough surplus sleep?!?!?

[WinterRat1]

Just one - can I get a reverse fatigue modifier if I build up enough surplus sleep?!?!?

Sure - It's called 'penalty to all actions due to being sluggish from too much sleep', typically incurred when the target tries to mine for additional bonuses/benefits on top of the ones already bestowed. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[adamu]

Dude - I am innocent. Gator shamans are, like, obligated to sleep all the time and be generally lazy. I've got to stay worthy in the baleful eyes of the Scintillating One!

[Fresno Bob]

I'm excited for Aziz's upcoming first day of pimping. I have some fun ideas rolling around.

[WinterRat1]

I'm excited for Aziz's upcoming first day of pimping. I have some fun ideas rolling around.

You despicable scum! You probably deal drugs and murder people too! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

EDIT: In case it wasn't obvious, I was referring to Aziz, not Voorhees. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[adamu]

Okay - my last IC wraps up something over two hours of Assensing training. I'll round it down to two for convenience. Promise to put it on the wiki some time when I'm not swamped, maybe tomorrow.

Winter - since my own Training Time tracker spot predates the complicated, makes-my-head-hurt thing some other enterprising soul put on another page of my section, can I please keep using my own computer-stupid-person version? Grandfathering and all that...

pragma - since we already got the green light to post till 14:00, I reckon it's safe to say our local recon will not run into trouble (unless we do something insanely GM provacative----hmmm).
So, was there anything you wanted to get done during that?
If you want to do a Thumper/Grack scene, let me know.
If you are just following Legion's orders, cool, we'll run right through it.
Or whatever.

Tell me what you want to do, and which of us you'd like to IC it. I'm cool either way.

[Dantic]

Ok, no Karma yet, can I train now for what I plan to raise next? Not sure how that works.

[adamu]

Winter ruled some time ago that we could build up training hours in advance of getting karma.

[Neuntöter]

ehrrr...
i am terribly sorry for dropping off the radar like that. to make matters worse, i don't even have an excuse.
i just got kind of overwhelmed with my first ever university experience and somehow simply ...forgot about DitG.
that is, until i got a newsletter from wikispaces which produced a little bit of a "oh shi~" moment.

so... i kind of wondered if i am still in the game and wanted.

[WinterRat1]

Winter - since my own Training Time tracker spot predates the complicated, makes-my-head-hurt thing some other enterprising soul put on another page of my section, can I please keep using my own computer-stupid-person version? Grandfathering and all that...

I think I told you yes to this before, if not, consider it a yes now. As long as there is a clear and easily viewable method of tracking your training time, that's all I want. The tracker was simply instituted as a standardized method for those not as pro-actively organized as yourself.

pragma - since we already got the green light to post till 14:00, I reckon it's safe to say our local recon will not run into trouble (unless we do something insanely GM provacative----hmmm).

Your local recon will not run into trouble unless you do something insanely GM provocative. If you do decide to do something along those lines, consider two factors:

1. I did this time jump to sync everyone up again and reunite the gang so we can move on to the business of actually beginning to build the gang from the ground up. If someone was to foul up those plans and force me to delay moving forward, I might be very, very upset.

2. Someone (who shall remain unnamed) still has an automatic critical glitch hanging over his head somewhere. Not that I'd use it to arbitrarily punish him or anything, but I'm just saying they might want to be aware of that fact before doing something unnecessarily stupid to provoke the GM. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Ok, no Karma yet, can I train now for what I plan to raise next? Not sure how that works.

Winter ruled some time ago that we could build up training hours in advance of getting karma.

This is correct, you may train prior to actually getting the karma, since I hand out rewards a certain points in time in chunks, so it's only fair you can utilize your time in advance without the karma, and then spend it when you do, receiving the benefits of training at that point in time.

ehrrr...
i am terribly sorry for dropping off the radar like that. to make matters worse, i don't even have an excuse.
i just got kind of overwhelmed with my first ever university experience and somehow simply ...forgot about DitG.
that is, until i got a newsletter from wikispaces which produced a little bit of a "oh shi~" moment.

so... i kind of wondered if i am still in the game and wanted.

Neuntoter - The long absence from someone new to the game does not speak well of your commitment, but this game is not one that requires all players to be 100% invested 100% of the time. We are generally equipped to weather the occasional absences everyone, myself included, succumbs to, and in fairness it may simply be a case of you taking your turn at having RL issues prior to getting started playing, which I don't want to hold against you.

So if you are still interested in the game, we would still like to have you. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Your character has already been approved and you are free to post. My suggestion is to set something up with someone OOC to arrange for Will to meet up with and join the gang through meeting someone as they go about establishing their turf and building up their new empire. Let me know if you have any questions, and feel free to ask for help in getting the ball rolling for your PC, there are plenty of people here who are willing and able to assist you.

[Dantic]

Twiggs used his four hour window of scouting time to practice athletics group, if this is acceptable. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

Improvment roll for athletics group

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http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1636687/
1 hit

[WinterRat1]

Dantic - Just make sure you put up the relevant data on your wiki for tracking purposes.

[Bearclaw]

Hey, what kind of utilities do we have at HQ? Any?
And can we fix/steal what we don't have?

[adamu]

2. Someone (who shall remain unnamed) still has an automatic critical glitch hanging over his head somewhere. Not that I'd use it to arbitrarily punish him or anything, but I'm just saying they might want to be aware of that fact before doing something unnecessarily stupid to provoke the GM. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Skraa - critical glitch can't fight hez!

(But don't worry - the only way for Grack to do anything insanely GM-provocative would be for him to, in actual fact, be insane...)

[Vegas]

Hey, what kind of utilities do we have at HQ? Any?
And can we fix/steal what we don't have?

I don't think we've been officially told from on high what we have and don't have at the new HQ but I'd bet it isn't much (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

As for the second part of your question, most likely.. yes. But it's gonna take RP + time .

[Bearclaw]

I was just thinking that a lot of us have worked out at least once since the last shower (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Meriss]

@Winter: So four hours of MA training whilst high (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) 1:20 - 4:20 and then sleeping till 10:20 or seven hours sleep unless someone wants me before then. And I'm asking Shade what to do because it looks like I slept through everyone else doing cool shit and he seems to be the only one around.

EDIT: And I finally got around to entering the info on my Karma page

[pragma]

pragma - since we already got the green light to post till 14:00, I reckon it's safe to say our local recon will not run into trouble (unless we do something insanely GM provacative----hmmm).
So, was there anything you wanted to get done during that?
If you want to do a Thumper/Grack scene, let me know.
If you are just following Legion's orders, cool, we'll run right through it.
Or whatever.

Tell me what you want to do, and which of us you'd like to IC it. I'm cool either way.

I figure we don't want to hold things up too much -- I'll throw up an IC and shoot you a PM so we can hammer out some dialog to edit in later.

[WinterRat1]

Hey, what kind of utilities do we have at HQ? Any?
And can we fix/steal what we don't have?

Pretty much nothing. Lights don't work, no running water, obviously no wireless. Basically no electricity, plumbing, sewage, water, gas, heat, etc. Nothing, ixnay, zero, nada. You do have a nice artificial potted plant in the lobby though. Maybe even more than one. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

You certainly can fix/steal what you don't have, that's part of the fun of this game. What's more important, getting high, or obtaining reliable running water? Dilemma, thy name is hygiene. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

(But don't worry - the only way for Grack to do anything insanely GM-provocative would be for him to, in actual fact, be insane...)

Ah yes, I'd forgotten that Grack is the very definition of sanity.

@Winter: So four hours of MA training whilst high biggrin.gif 1:20 - 4:20 and then sleeping till 10:20 or seven hours sleep unless someone wants me before then. And I'm asking Shade what to do because it looks like I slept through everyone else doing cool shit and he seems to be the only one around.

I'm pretty sure at least some of the others are around, but I will respond to your post with an IC one tomorrow. After all, Shade hasn't been idle during this time either, so I may as well work in what he's been up to in my response.

[Meriss]

I'm pretty sure at least some of the others are around, but I will respond to your post with an IC one tomorrow. After all, Shade hasn't been idle during this time either, so I may as well work in what he's been up to in my response.

Actually Winter raises a valid point. Who else is around the HQ as of Nov. 2 10:20-10:30?

[Neuntöter]

@WR
thanks, i appreciate that.

well, i actually have to recap for myself a little bit...

Will had originally planned to outlast the gang war with his fosterlings on Splintered Crash turf which he assumed to be comparably safe at that time. And he certainly wasn't cocky enough to do that completely without any consent from the Crash, so i'll be going out on a limb and assume that he was at least casually acquainted with them (unless that poses too much of a problem). Of course all that turned out to be quite a miscalculation when the 162s went grocery shopping on Splintered Crash turf.
While Will miraculously survived the onslaught by simply being not there (and instead being out and trying to scavenge something for the kids to celebrate Halloween), his charges weren't so lucky. Their hideout was found out by one of the gangs of ghouls that roamed the turf after the main horde had dealt with the Crash.

By morning of November the First Will was still on Crash turf giving his fosterlings the last rites so to speak. Which wasn't exactly a desirable place to stay. I figured that he would still have tried to first find surviving Crash members by carefully making his way through their turf within a perimeter of his own Watcherspirits in order to elude straggling ghouls. (which still is pretty damn suicidal, if i understand things right)

so, proceeding from this point for now, is there anyone in the vicinity of the former Splintered Crash turf?

[Bearclaw]

Rico's somewhere close by in the park working out.

Neutoter> Tag is ex- Splintered Crash