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

[WinterRat1]

Abbandon - Go ahead and post it. Just don't go past Grendel's earlier post where he spots Nevada and Bockscar approaching with the hookers (01:37:06 Saturday, November 1, 2070)

I'm dying to see this post!

Mister Juan - That's what I'm talkin' about. :D

[Abbandon]

[Meriss]

@Mr. Juan: Great sweet mother! :eek: That was beautiful man. I just hope I can put something that awesome up.

[Mister Juan]

[Meriss]

@All: Okay the only way I can get you to see this thing is if I describe it. I'm going to do my best here.

The Raven

Allright it is going to be at least four or five feet tall, so everyone knows who the hell we are. It's all in burnt brick so it's going to be black, Ink is going to try and pull some fancy shading on some of the elements. The bird it self is a modeled after Hitler's Nazi eagle, but with a raven's beak, the beak is turned to the left wing. There are feathers coming off the bird but not from disease, the feathers as they fall morph into flame. There is a large burning pyre underneath the bird indicating our gangs rebirth.

Okay is that enough for some talented artist type person to do a drawing?

EDIT:
I need to learn how to look. I found some nice inspiration images.

Sweet! I really like this one!
Less Sweet This is the one that made the best impression on me, there are tons more, ditch the swastika for obvious reasons though. Less we wanna tell the Plague and the Outlanders who`s the first on the list. :D

[WinterRat1]

Voorhees, Unarmed, Mister Juan – Your post is now up. Sorry if looks like I started slacking around the end. At the 5 page mark I started trying to just wrap it up to keep things moving, I admit. :)

Voorhees – I know I made Aziz a bit more mellow and understanding than he usually is. My rationale was he’s still doped up on drugs from the hospital, mellowing him out and letting his loyal side to his fellow gangers hang out more than it usually might. Plus, I could see from your descriptions of him on the wiki he does really care about the gang, he just doesn’t show it. The trauma of the last few days plus the drugs made him more outwardly caring than normal, but once back in the ‘real world’ (i.e. meeting up with Doc) he returned more to his usual self. If you want me to change anything, let me know.

Mister Juan – I integrated your post into my own, so it should flow fairly well. I presumed that neither Shade nor Aziz has seen Felix’s ‘dark side’ we saw at the end of the 410 Crash, so they tend to be more protective of him, picturing him as the ‘gang mascot’ he was in the 410 Crash. Same thing, if you want anything changed, let me know.

Unarmed – Hope you’re back with us man, Doc just isn’t the same without you playing him. You want anything changed, let me know.

Everyone – OK, everyone is free to post now. Your posts should revolve around regrouping with Legion and Ink, and should be approximately the same time stamp as when Legion notices Bockscar and Nevada approaching. I asked Grendel to change his timestamp to between 02:15:00 and 02:30:00 for continuity so everyone could realistically arrive relatively close to one another. No one should move past around 02:30:00 or so, as you’ll all arrive within about 20 minutes of each other.

Whatever order you post in (in RL) will determine the order your characters arrive. So adjust your posts accordingly, depending on who has posted before you (and thus who has already showed up) Some specific instructions:

Nevada and Bockscar – Don’t forget Legion doesn’t know either of you two, so you’ll have to introduce yourselves and explain what happened to Badmarsh.

Grack and Thumper – Explain whatever you want about finding a new base, or the lack thereof. If necessary, Nevada or Doc can explain the 8 Balls turf well…sucked. There wasn’t much of value there to begin with, and with the destruction of the Gang’s HQ, the best place for a base was destroyed. Most of the other defensible positions were destroyed when the Steel Demons and 405 Hellhounds took out the Side Street Rollers, as a lot of the fighting took place in the 8 Balls turf. Things are pretty barren in this area, there’s no easily occupied base that can be used mostly as is. If you want something solid, you’ll have to create it yourselves. Or go somewhere else.

Fool and Child – Fairly open for you two, since basically you’re simply giving an informative report. You two know the area fairly well too, since you were nearby. You also know there’s not too much worth having/holding in the lower SW corner of Kingsgate. There’s a reason despite having a large geographic area to occupy the 8 Balls and Side Street Rollers weren’t powers, after all.

Aziz, Felix, Doc – We still don’t know if Unarmed is still with us, so feel free to briefly use Doc in your post to introduce the former Splintered Crash members to the rest of the gang.

Legion – Wait until at least all the introductions of the new gangers are complete (Aziz, Felix, Shade, Nevada, Bockscar) and all PCs have gathered (not the same as all players have posted) before moving things forward. I want the whole gang to regroup and everyone to introduce themselves to one another before anything else. After that, it’s your decision to split people up to perform separate tasks or keep the group together. Of course, the other PCs are free to chime in (IC) with their opinions as well.

Also, please change the timestamp of your post on Oct. 9 to between 02:15:00-02:30:00 to help me with continuity.

Ink – Change your most recent post’s timestamp to around where I asked Grendel to change his, to help with continuity.

Injuries – Everyone should modify their condition monitors as follows (I already rolled for everyone where needed to speed things up and gave you all the benefit of the doubt in assuming if it was possible to rest, you were):

Legion – Remove 2 boxes of Physical; this leaves you with Stun 0, Physical 3

Thumper – Remove 3 boxes of Stun; this leaves you with Stun 2, Physical 2

Doc – Remove 4 boxes of Stun; this leaves you with Stun 4, Physical 1

Aziz – Remove 4 boxes of Physical; this leaves you with Stun 0, Physical 5.

Nevada and Bockscar did not have time to rest or heal. Bockscar has Stun 0, Physical 6 and Nevada has Stun 0, Physical 1.

If anyone has any questions, let me know, otherwise you’re all free to start posting. Keep in mind the game is running on ‘real time’, so the other gangs are (and have been) doing things themselves since the game started. Also remember that OOC you know the war is ‘over’ but IC, your characters don’t know that yet. In fact, from pretty much all characters’ points of view, it’s still going on right now. You know we’re in the ‘cleanup’ phase, your characters don’t.

Also remember, the focus right now is on regrouping and introducing yourselves to everyone else. This is essentially the ‘beginning’ of the game. The start of ‘Chapter 1’, if you will, as the prologue has just been concluded. The war is ending, the survivors are gathering, and now the political ramifications are about to begin. The stage is set, the players have been casted, and the game is ready to roll.

Game on everyone! (Again!) :)

[WinterRat1]

[WinterRat1]

[Abbandon]

I just finished playing Manhunt 2(playsttion 2) so split personalities is very appealing right now hehehe. There are most definately enough stessors around to cause a split....hmmm food for thought.

@edit. Oh man. I was hoping and wanting Felix to just magically explode and do something scary because of all that emotional build up. Like that Talon guy who in the novels who summoned up that hateful spirit. Felix looks like he is a mage instead of a shaman. It would have been cool if he had been a shaman and when he screamed everyone in a decent range around him would hear whatever his totem was screaming. I dont have a clue what a mage would do. I was thinking he would go all nerd and make some scary spell design or something.

I was let down that nothing happened!!

[Mister Juan]

[Vegas]

[rob]

* hands thunder to vegas *. Not a problem. i'll need a receipt for that, though.

Actually, works out with what I wanted to post.

For all concerned, I will have intermittent and random 2-3 day posting delays for the forseeable future.

[Meriss]

@Winter: Finito jefe!

[WinterRat1]

Vegas and Rob - Per my note to Grendel and Meriss above, please adjust your time/date stamps at the regrouping to some time between 02:15:00-02:30:00 to help me with continuity. Thanks!

[Vegas]

[WinterRat1]

Couple things –

1. Love the posting over the last few days! I can already feel the tension mounting as people drift into the scene and begin interacting with one another. It certainly feels like a gathering of gang survivors, and I’m looking forward to seeing how this thing unfolds.

2. Grendel – I know I asked you to wait and let everyone gather, but given that Adamu’s post has directed a large amount of focus to what Legion does next, go ahead and start posting. Just don’t physically disperse the gangers (IC) before Fool and Child return.

3. Anyone heard anything from Unarmed yet?

4. Everyone – Feel free to post in response to Grack’s latest actions. However, at this point everyone should be careful not to jump the story/situation too far forward and be careful not to take too much control of anyone else’s character in your post, since this could unfold lots of different ways, and I want everyone to retain autonomy over how their characters will participate as this plays out.

[Vegas]

I attempted to IM Unarmed when I saw he was logged in the other day, but I got no response (he was away...) I'll keep trying to catch him.

[Abbandon]

Sorry if I stepped on your toes Lindt but i wanna be at the party hehehe.

[WinterRat1]

No that's the kind of initiative we need, I'm glad you took it. If Lindt has a problem with it, we can always 'flashback' the relevant parts, since it was highly unlikely Lindt was going to veer off and do something material we actually needed to play out. I'd rather have to adjust and edit things than have nothing to work with in the first place. Good job Abbandon.

[WinterRat1]

Quick update: I got a hold of Grendel and the reason he hasn’t posted yet is because he’s been in the field the past few days without internet. He should have more regular internet access from now on, so he should be caught up and running again within a week or so.

I don’t want to take control of Legion now because obviously how he responds could have a huge impact, especially at the moment. Plus this scene is setting the stage for the gang formation and a large chunk of how the game unfolds in the near future. So I’d really prefer to leave that up to Grendel to actually play out.

Everyone can feel free to keep playing as they’ve been doing, even the Legion/Nevada/Grack conversation can get around Grendel’s absence for a few posts by having Nevada’s reaction played out before Legion can respond (which I would imagine will be something along the lines of ‘hell no!’). So by all means, please keep the ball rolling everyone!

[Abbandon]

Nevada, "And if you ever try and take it you will have one more hole in that head of yours, one that shows alot more than your teeth!"

[Vegas]

Can I just say for the record....

"Hot DAMN I love this game."

[Unarmed]

Hey guys,

Sorry I've been down and out recently, but unfortunately my internet has been spotty lately and I just started a new job that doesn't give me internet access during the day. That said, I am back and am hoping to post tonight. I'm excited that the game is back, and what you guys have been doing looks really great.

[Lindt]

[Vegas]

Nevada's got a bike.