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

[Mister Juan]

@WR1
PM sent.

[WinterRat1]

Meriss -

[ Spoiler ]

Ink suddenly feels like he should really just go inside and cool off, because now is not the time for this.

When I say 'suddenly feels like he should', what I really mean is, 'he has to'. Your next IC post must reflect this.

In case you are curious, I rolled your resistance for you, to speed up the process. From a time standpoint, when you get to the door you can make another resistance roll if you choose.

If you choose not to, then just post Ink going inside the church.

If you choose to try to resist the spell, then roll Willpower and end your IC post with Ink about to enter the church, and I'll tell you OOC what happens next, which you can then take into account in your next IC post.

[Mister Juan]

Damn you WR1! Reading that post with the little girl.... makes me feel all strange inside (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) But not in a good way. If you kill her, I swear, I'll cry.

[Dantic]

@Dantic
I'm sorry to hear that you're gonna have to walk away for awhile because of work.

I moved Twiggs down to the "inactive" players section. Is there a chance in the future that you'll be able to return to the game if work lets up or are you out for the count for good? Just trying to peg down if Twiggs is fair game for some GM-inspired removal from the game, or what (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Sigh. I would like to give it a try, but realistically, I'm probably out. Even after getting back off the road, I'm not sure how this new job is going to work out day to day, for scheduling. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

[WinterRat1]

Damn you WR1! Reading that post with the little girl.... makes me feel all strange inside (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) But not in a good way. If you kill her, I swear, I'll cry.

You don't really think it's going to be that easy, or that simple, do you? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/vegm.gif)

[Mister Juan]

You don't really think it's going to be that easy, or that simple, do you? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/vegm.gif)

OH MY GOD! THERE'S A BOMB IN THE PLUSHY DUNKIE!

[WinterRat1]

Ha, if only Caitlin's story was that cut and dried.

[Vegas]

Wow. This will be a fun scene indeed. About to eat dinner, but I'll try to get a reply up tonight.

[Lindt]

Child is going to attempt to be quiet and remain unseen while he moves around to the door, and keep an eye out for anything that looks like its alive.
Agit+Infiltration=4+0. [06] 04 02 02
Int+Perception=3+0. 04 04 03

[WinterRat1]

Child makes enough noise to be heard by Nevada and Thumper (3 hits and 3 hits on their respective Perception rolls). He won't see Caitlin until he arrives at the front door.

[WinterRat1]

Vegas - You might want to edit to reflect Lindt's post, since he apparently ninja'd you.

[Vegas]

Vegas - You might want to edit to reflect Lindt's post, since he apparently ninja'd you.

Damnit, ok (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) Sneaky Lindt.

[Lindt]

Yeah, i made one too many preemptive edits before I finished the post. My bad

[Vegas]

Vegas - You might want to edit to reflect Lindt's post, since he apparently ninja'd you.

Edit made.

[WinterRat1]

Lindt, Nevada - You two might want to coordinate your editing.

Child's post now happens before Nevada's according to the timestamps, but Nevada doesn't respond to his message. She also would have heard him sneaking up before he ever sent the message. Right now when I read the two they don't make sense.

You two may want to discuss via the OOC thread or PM so you don't keep ninja'ing each other. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[WinterRat1]

Everyone - OK all, here's how the next series of posts is going to go.

I want Vegas and Lindt to finish editing their posts so they flow appropriately before I respond. After I respond I'd like to get one more post cycle in of Nevada, Child, and/or Thumper interacting with Caitlin and Caitlin's response. I'll give this about a day or so in RL and try to get as many posts in the conversation as possible, but I want at least one more cycle (PC post and GM response) before I move on.

At that point, I'm going to fudge slightly and say that Legion, Ink, Shade, Baby, Felix, Rico, and Twiggs all return at about the same time. The roads are bad and the group walks fast. Whatever works.

Then they plus Grack, Bockscar, Nevada, Thumper, and Child can either talk with/about Caitlin, unload the truck, continuing fixing up the base, or just sit around and chill (i.e. talk to one another and have some inter-PC roleplay) while I handle Aziz taking the whores to the clinic.

Once Aziz's stuff is done (which will vary depending on how much time he spends conversing with the whores, but I don't plan on it taking very long and I will probably just handwave the actual clinic visit given everyone's positions right now in favor of getting you all back together and at the same point in IC time) I'm going to handwave a few hours and say you're resting or just chilling around the HQ to get everyone synced back up.

At that point, I'll have an in-game event for you and then you'll be free to disperse and do whatever again in accordance with Legion's orders and/or your own personal preferences.

Also, just to warn everyone, in the relatively near future IC-time wise I'm going to start making some Addiction checks. You'll also want to evaluate your supply situation, as I'm currently working on a way to track your daily lifestyle costs so we can more accurately portray the 'survival' part of the game.

That's the gameplan for the next series of posts and in-game time. If anyone has any questions, comments, thoughts, issues, or concerns with that, or if I missed taking anything into account, please let me know.

EDIT: Everyone is free to IC post as long as they don't advance from where they are. So interactive roleplaying and internal monologue type posts are fine, but no one should be heading advancing their PCs to a different geographic location, as I will be the one to bump you all to the HQ when the time is right.

Voorhees, I'm just going to let you play out your RP with the whores on your walk to the clinic and handwave the actual clinic, just because everyone is either waiting or will be waiting shortly to regroup, and it's not a material enough event to bother playing through.

[Vegas]

I can't do any more editing tonight and tomorrow I'm gonna be out of pocket most of the day/afternoon.

Just assume I'll re-write my post to fit. *sighs*

[WinterRat1]

Sorry Vegas for the need to edit, it's just that from my POV, I wasn't sure how to proceed since I don't know what you and/or Lindt will do, and I didn't want to overwrite you guys if I could help it.

If I don't see any changes in either of your posts by tomorrow afternoon, I will put up my next post in that situation and then you two can retroactively edit your posts around mine, just to keep the ball moving. That should take care of the problem and avoid unnecessary delays.

[WinterRat1]

Meriss - Ignore my previous spoilered post, as Legion's departure makes it irrelevant, since you guys will be leaving now. Don't worry, the Black Plague remember you, and you'll have plenty of opportunities to settle the score with them down the line. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Vegas]

WR- That's fine. I'm just overly short and snippy tonight because I have a migrane and can't think. Plus goofy timestamping is playing havoc with what little brain power I have.

If you want to push ahead, go for it and we can work this out tomorrow. I don't know if Lindt will be on before then anyway.

EDIT: I went ahead and edited up my post, should flow a little better I hope. Lindt will just have to adjust a timestamp instead of re-writing a post again, I hope. :-\

[Lindt]

Done. They both happen at the same time.

Yeah, if there is ever a problem PM me. Im kinda on and off, usually doing homework, so a PM will alert me that something is wrong, and Ill get it all fixed.

[rob]

Box's next task is to go back home and pack up his old lifestyle and get his toolkits, to move to the new gang HQ. He wants to take Grack with him, for a number of entertaining reasons to be explained IC, but that's waiting on Adamu.

That could happen before the rendezvous at HQ or afterwards.

[pragma]

Thumper isn't so much leaving the HQ as trying to get a good look at the direction he expect trouble to be coming from. For reference, he's going to loop back to the HQ after surveilling quickly.

[Meriss]

@Winter: Duly done.

[ Spoiler ]

Just out morbid curiousity was the spell Influence Emotions or Control Thoughts? It might have4 made a thematic difference in Ink's decision.

[Mister Juan]

@Meriss
Hey, I'm sorry for having Felix do that to Ink (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)