Living in the Shadows: OOC, never relax... Options

[Slipshade]

Poor Sedna, looks like you're stuck in WinterRat1's bad acid trip. :silly:

Slip

[Sedna]

You don't know the half of it :wobble:

bandit: fyi, Virgil's headache isn't subsiding. Also, you get only Inleat's voicemail. Feel free to take it however far you want to take it through that evening, both. I'll monitor, and step in to answer questions as they are asked.

(Sorry about all the post-edits! It's just been that kind of day.)

[grendel]

Sorry, I like to try and wait for just the right moment of dramatic tension. I'll work on my timing for next time.

[WinterRat1]

Slip- All I can say in my defense is that boy, did she have it coming. She's more than earned this. 8)

Grendel- Personally, I thought your timing was pretty darn good. I know I was cracking up. :rotfl:

[banditf50]

Noted Sedna. Winterrat and I will take it from here . . .hopefully without any more ambushes. Am I correct in thinking that you have nothing more planned until the next day?

[Sedna]

Partly depends on what ronin does, but you two should be clear regardless. Go for it.

[WinterRat1]

Ahem, I should qualify that last statement. She didn't really 'earn' it from anything she did, more like, the circumstances of her life made this inevitable. She is not to blame for it. Sorry Sedna, hope that last one didn't sound too hostile or aggressive towards you or Alleycat. :)

[Sedna]

Actually, I thought both meanings were appropriate :)

[Scrapheap]

WinterRat-

[ Spoiler ]

Perception, if needed:
05 04 02 02 01

And the good dice rolling comes to an end...

[banditf50]

Winterrat: Just FYI, I am waiting on you in our storyline. There is only so much to talk about when your sitting in a restaurant by your lonesome :-P

[Tiredronin]

[Morgannah]

[The_Eyes]

Wow, you guys, just... yeesh. I'm glad my char isn't mixed up in with your plotting; I'd never be able to keep up. Impressive all; I'm gonna need to get a different job so I can be on when you guys are or something.

And yet another regret that I can't ditch and rebuild my charsheet; if only I had played for a month before writing the damn thing it might actually make sense with the character. Ah well, gotta play the hand you're dealt I guess, especially if you're the idiot who dealt it to yourself. :)

Oh, and just to be a pissant, January 6, 2073 is a Friday. :P

[Sedna]

[Sedna]

I'm going to have to adjust a time in Shadowland, to match an earlier guesstimate. The action is still happening, just a bit earlier with the initial question, and she won't have seen the answers yet.

[The_Eyes]

[WinterRat1]

Sedna- You're clear to wake up whenever and to do whatever. I'm working on the details of the results of this little escapade. Per our earlier discussions, I need to sort out all the details of your character to fit the results with the role-playing, if that makes sense. I will get it to you ASAP. Otherwise, you're clear for now. No more fuzzy bunnies or strange voices or husbands or kids or random events. At least in the near future. :D

Scrapheap and Slipshade- Give me perception rolls please.

Eyes-

[The_Eyes]

[WinterRat1]

Public Announcement

What I said to Eyes goes for everyone. The 'probationary period' exists for precisely this reason, that often the characters we make on paper do not translate into how that character is actually being played. We want players to have characters they're truly satisfied with and want to play for the long haul, and we put in the probationary period for that reason, so you could all get some experience seeing how it works out before putting in a 'final' version.

Now it is important to note that we seriously frown upon (and will probably reject) changes to make the character more 'effective'.

For example, if I went to Sedna and said I wanted to change a skill like Survival (a very logical and useful skill for a field mercenary to have, but not that useful in an urban sprawl) for say, Heavy Weapons or Launch Weapons (complete with Assault Cannon and/or Missile Launchers), because I need something to combat vehicles and drones...just in case we happen to run into any...ahem, yes, just in case... :D

Clearly this is not in line with a recon oriented field merc and is simply an attempt to make Dragon more 'effective', which we frown upon.

But if there are changes that make sense within the context of the character, then by all means, discuss it with your GM. For myself, I ended up dropping a fixer as a contact because reasonably speaking, it just didn't make sense for Dragon's character to have or need a fixer.

Note that we're not saying changes can't make characters more effective, sometimes that happens. What we're saying is that the rationale, basis, and motive for the change should be to play the character more appropriately, and to have the stats reflect the person, not the other way around.

If you believe you fall into this category, by all means discuss it with your GM and myself (unless you're one of mine, then you're stuck with just me :grinbig: ) because that's what we're there for.

Ultimately, we want to make LITS a world of people who are also runners, not runners who just happen to be people. I'm very proud of all of your characters, as it is very obvious just reading the posts without even looking at each others' stats that you have all done your best to hold true to this. So if you feel some changes and tweaks are necessary to continue working towards that goal, then by all means, please discuss with us and hopefully we can work something out that we'll all be happy with.

[The_Eyes]

[WinterRat1]

Two more notes:

1. Changes and tweaks are one thing. A constant stream of changes and tweaks are another, so please be reasonably sure of all the things you are examining before bringing it up so we don't want to strangle you for having to go through the process over and over and over... :)

2. This is not any new policy, btw, it's all in the Guidelines thread, but we figured out a long time ago that you guys don't always go through the Guidelines with a fine toothed comb, and sometimes you miss stuff, so I figured I'd post that to remind you all. ;)

[Scrapheap]

WinterRat-

[ Spoiler ]

Perception:
16 11 10 02 01

FYI- I had already provided a much crappier roll in an earlier post above. So, you may want to use that one.

[WinterRat1]

[Sedna]

Noted (re posting freedom/character details), WinterRat. In the background, besides all the rest, I'm doing the usual catch-up work myself, so I'll hold off a bit, match closer with paul. (It's not like she doesn't need the sleep!)

Eyes: in case it's more of a clash than you're willing to let on here, we're serious -- and WinterRat's in a position to understand what this means, it was an in-game discovery that his PC was mercenary First! which shifted perspective on quite a few things.

I think everyone understands the distinction between tweaks to reinforce internal consistency/revised understanding of the PC based on gameplay, and self-discovery/growth. Your PC has depth. Be confident that what you're discovering in the layers is consistent within your own understanding of the character and backstory. If you're at all uneasy about this, talk to WinterRat and grendel. I think we're easy to work with? :)

[The_Eyes]

Heh, very. Okay, I'll expound a little on what the problem is, and why it might not really be a problem.

[ Spoiler ]

So far when I look at my character's actual list of abilities, I see two things:

• Most of my character's skills/abilities are ruthlessly practical. Except for a very few notable exceptions everything on the charsheet is focused toward particular goals, in terms of useful traits for a runner. For example, a little voice is telling me to swap out some Knowledge skill points that I put into programming skills and take a few ranks in Chess Strategies or something similar, particularly as I seem to have accidentally schooled an experienced player. :)
• At the same time, all these skills and abilities are spread so thin that Eyes is essentially useful at nothing in particular. Each of his specialties is full of holes; I won't get into exactly how because that would mean posting large parts of my charsheet, which I probably shouldn't be doing, but anyone who already has it can probably tell that I'm trying to do too much with one character, and end up doing nothing terribly well.

So you see the "problems" I'm having are almost mutually exclusive, and pull the character's resources in two completely opposite directions, which indicates to me that I'm at least somewhere in the middle both in terms of usefulness and roleplayability, which indicates to me that there might not actually be a problem.