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

[Meriss]

@Fighting Hammerpackers: No Ink can't hear you he's down in LoCoS turf still. Moving north along 124th Ave NE. You can't be that loud. I'd say we prolly meet around the Pizza Bank NE 137th Pl & 124th Ave NE. In fact Ink is going to get a slice, before he heads to see his people. ICing

Edit: Perception roll fer the boss 5,4,1,1 1 hit. I swear I didn't stack that, it came from Invis Castle that way.

[Unarmed]

A brief note:

I might as well post that I will be away saturday-sunday-monday this weekend, and then friday-saturday-sunday-monday next weekend. If it's applicable, I'll try and make an IC post while I'm back for the three days, but I just wanted to let everyone know.

[WinterRat1]

All - Roll Call

OK everyone, it's been over a week and change since I first put up the character tracker, and we're still missing about half our roster who still have not checked in, either in the wiki, IC, or OOC.

So here's what we're going to do.

Our next Event in the Event Registry is finalized on wiki as Event 2: Among the Ashes.

Anyone who does not check in by the Real Life Deadline for Event 2, either via the wiki's Character Tracker, signing up for the event on the Event Registry, or by posting in the OOC/IC threads, will be considered inactive and their character immediately considered an NPC, their fate to be determined by me.

At the time of Event 2, we will see how many people are still around and active. If it doesn't look like we have enough to make it feasible to continue, we will decide as a group on one of the following courses of action:

1. Pack it in, fold our tents, and shut the game down. I don't have enough time to run this game as is, but I believe in a GM's responsibility to his players, and in trying to see the game through if at all possible.

However, I definitely have neither the time nor inclination to drag a game along in which my players are not interested and unwilling to hold up their end, so if people want to call our grand experiment a failure and call it quits, that's what we'll do.

OR

2. Continue the game. If this is the case, we'll likely hold another recruitment drive for PCs to give us enough players to form a solid nucleus for the PC gang, and for GMs as well, to try and give me some much needed assistance, because I can't continue to run this on my own forever.

Note that if we go this route and continue the game, the players will have to take on a much heavier responsibility than in most games. As it is, you already need to keep each other accountable to keep your respective IC groups going. If we continue, players will need to help people on the wiki, review characters, bring them up to speed, etc. If you're all willing to do that, I think we have a good chance of making it.

Anyway, that's the general update, and just letting you know that in about 3 weeks we'll be deciding DITG's fate together, so think about what kind of commitment you're willing to make to the game, and when the time comes, we'll discuss, vote, and go from there.

[WinterRat1]

Actual Game Stuff

Here's my assessment of where all our ACTIVE players stand.

(Translation: If I don't say something about you below, I consider you inactive)

Legion, Grack, Thumper, Doc, Ink - You guys are good to keep going and will coordinate Ink's eventual meeting with the Sushi Shack group. To my knowledge, you currently need nothing from me, so keep going and let me know if you need anything.

Nevada and Bockscar - I can't edit the wiki from my fiance's computer, so I can't update the combat chart until tomorrow. You are both up for Combat Turn 4, so go ahead and post your IC actions for Combat Turn 3, and once I put up the template for CT 4 you can go ahead and fill it out.

Fool and Child - Fool is waiting on Child's response. This does not need my intervention so I'm leaving it to you two to hold one another accountable and keep yourselves moving until you notify me that you need something from me.

Aziz and Felix - Aziz is waiting on Felix (and has been for about a week), so Mister Juan please respond as soon as practical to keep the ex-Crashers moving along. Thanks.

[rob]

@All - I'd love to see some GM and player recruitment, I like this game and I want to see it continue.

WinterRat: Box didn't happen to catch an approximate direction to the sniper? Anything I need to know about the building he's in? (like, whether there are windows that I can fire on the submachinegunners from?)

[Vegas]

I tried to hit up a few people for GM duty, but they politely declined :D

I'm still in this for the long (or short) haul, which ever the case may be.

[adamu]

Winter1

Dude, you know I'm here to stay.

Don't plan on doing the Event Register thing until we get closer to deadline, as there is a good possibility our location will change by that time.

[WinterRat1]

Rob - You couldn't tell, but the sniper has to be either north or west of your position, since the building would block any shots from the east and the buildings on the south side of the alley make any shots from the south impossible unless he was shooting from the alley across the street, which you are pretty sure didn't happen. :D

Adamu - No worries on the Event Register, the previous announcement was just to notify everyone of what's coming up in the next few weeks and what to expect. I'll remind you all when we get closer to the deadline. You're considered active in my book, so you have no worries. :)

[grendel]

Adamu, Unarmed, Pragma, and, by inference, WinterRat1 -

IC post is up for Legion trying to handle our internicine combat. I can modify if people think more persuasion would be necessary to deter Grack from his course of destruction, or if there are other character questions on how things were handled. Let me know.

[Meriss]

Winter:

I'm in this till they haul Ink away in a body bag or an APC.

[Abbandon]

Whats wrong with having a smaller group of people? Npc gangers could hold our turf in area's our characters are not actually at. In fact that would let opposing gangs really go nuts when they invade our turf and create cool rush to area scenes.

@Winter I sent Lindt a message on wiki spaces. Our profiles here are broken so i cant email him. I suggest you take control of Child.

[yoippari]

@Winter: Sorry for the inactivity. I started a night job a couple of weeks ago and it has interfered with everything. Obviously I'm dropping out. I'm pretty much having to drop all the games I was in before the job. Once again, sorry, and I hope the game survives this exodus. Its a great idea with a lot of potential.

[Unarmed]

Yeah, I'm in for the long haul here too. Additionally, if anyone has anything else that needs doing and doesn't require knowledge that I don't have, I'd be glad to help out with it. Let me know.

@ Adamu, Grendel, Pragma, Merris

I figure that we might as well just skip ahead to us entering LoCoS territory at this point, as WR1 has said that we should encounter no resistance and it seems like a pretty good point to head over. I don't know if we want to wait until Pragma gets back to actually meet with Ink, but we might as well at least get our characters over there.

Just a reminder that I am going to be gone from Aug 17th-20th, so I won't be posting during that span, but unless anything really important happens I shouldn't be needed.

[WinterRat1]

Abbandon - I don't have time to take control of Child. As long as you're not abusive towards his character, I'm just going to let you control Child in order to keep you two moving. Let me know your general course of action in the Character Tracker (and notify me here) and I'll give you feedback as necessary.

All - I also will be gone Aug. 17-20, as I will be attending GenCon. Unarmed, will you be at GenCon? The dates you're gone made me wonder.

In Hot Pursuit - Combat Turn 4 template is up. I gave you a short deadline of Wednesday, August 15 23:59:59 because I want to try to get a response up for you two before I leave for GenCon, and I'm leaving myself Thursday to do so.

[grendel]

I'll be out from 0800 PDT 15 AUG 07 to 0800 PDT 20 AUG 07 to attend Gen Con as well. Might be some access from the hotel, but I'm planning on being busy.

[Unarmed]

Unfortunately, it's just a coincedence and I won't be attending Gencon. I've wanted to for over a decade now, but for some reason every year I just can't justify the costs of going. Although, if it was held within a day's drive of me I'd probably see my way to going, but Indianapolis is really not close, lol. I'm sure it's a blast, I'm just poor.

But believe me, if I were going I'd let you guys know, because it would be nice to meet everyone, =).

[Meriss]

I agree with Unarmed but getting through customs can be a a royal pain. Thou it would be fun putting faces to this bunch of nutters. :D That being said I might be a little hit and miss Wednesday August 15 - the next Wednesday, I might have work, so I'll be a little slow posting.

[Unarmed]

@ Adamu, Grendel, Pragma, Merris

Alright, I brought us pretty much right up to the meeting with Ink. I hope that's okay with everyone, but if not, just yell and I can edit accordingly. I'm still uncertain on whether or not we want to actually go ahead and RP the meeting or wait for pragma. I don't really think that Thumper and Ink have much of a history and therefore I am thinking that everything should be kosher between the two characters, but I am not certain.

[grendel]

Unarmed -

Might want to move your time stamp up a little, since Ink's post ends halfway through 00:38, other than that, it looks good.

[Unarmed]

[rob]

WinterRat

Couple mechanical questions and one PBP-style question:
1. Can I infiltrate under fire? I want to make sure that I move to a position where I can screw up the Raiders, but I want to minimize the risk from one of them noticing before I open up on em.
2. Can boxscar rip the trauma patch off his eapaulette and say a sentence in the same free action?

PBP style question:
At this point in RL I would be calling for backup; however Legion's group has moved far past the time stamp where that would be appropriate. I decided to edit my plan assuming a no answer...

[Meriss]

@grendel: Meriss knows who it is but Ink don't. :D

[Vegas]

WinterRat

I believe both rob and I have declared actions for IP4.

Hopefully you can get us to resolution before you leave for GenCon.

Damn... I'm gonna be BORED this week with all you guys out at GC. :D

[Unarmed]

@ Meriss

I'm thinking it's feasible that Doc and Ink know each other previously, because Ink had perhaps purchased novacoke that Doc had cut in the past, maybe directly from him, as the 8-Balls and the LoCoS had no specific vendettas against each other. I was planning on writing that into my next post, so hopefully that's cool. I think I'll let grendel post first, though.

[WinterRat1]

Rob -