That's really not true, otherwise people could never interact. You didn't ask his true name, merely the name he wants to be known as to the public. Icewing is not his true name, nor is it Dollmaker or Ghostwalker or any other of the many things he may be called. I don't see that you did anything out of place.

But you can't make fun of people for not doing anything out of place.

Stupid question. Anyone know sprethiel?

Gypsy already spoke to it once in that language, but that seemed to be overlooked. I figure he'll try again though.

Backgammon: I tried to hand the social thing off to Dogma, as that is his specialty. When I made the post about it being his cue, I naturally thought that he knew at least a little bit of Sperethiel. I checked his sheet afterwards, but by then it was too late, so I left it as it was to see how things panned out.

Sorry mate. I didn't mean to steal the spotlight, but unless Pale-and-Scaly decides to communicate in a different fashion, there's not much choice.

One alternative is for you to have Dogma do some of the talking in the future, and just post that Gypsy is doing the translating for you.

Or he could start to learn Sperethiel and become a civilized elf!

Just a reminder that dragons tend to speak telepathically when dealing with metahumans (that's why Dunkie needed a 'translator.' Thought speak isn't picked up by mikes), and there hasn't seemed to be a problem with what language the metahuman thinks he's speaking in. We just have to think real hard at Ghostwalked to make him understand us.

That might not necessarily hold true for the Fourth World (I don't know for sure though). All I know is that Sphynx stated that the 'words' used by the dragon were in Sperethiel, and that he implied that the dragon did not understand the resulting answers from the rest of the team.

Gypsy could also use Mindlink, and I considered going that route, but he is kinda fatigued at the moment, so I figured that it would be better not to try.

Yeah, and PSI forms kinda suck... but that wont keep tev from pestering him about them.

Again. Dont let the dragon eat me.

Time to Eval the GM if you don't mind.

Watching other games, I see that my GM style seems to so greatly differ from others as to almost seem like a completely different gaming system. Where other games take weeks just to get started, our game has done more than most games ever will I think. My concern is that maybe you think I'm going too fast, like the numbers on the sheet don't matter as much as in other games since we so rarely have roll-the-dice events (we have alot of them, but I usually just don't mention what dice I rolled for players and just tell the story the way the dice rolled).

I don't mind some good criticing, I'd rather be told to change than lose the game, so please don't hold back if you hate certain aspects.

Anyhows, will have Karma posted soon, and I think ES_ is the only one I'm waiting on (will double check) to do a weekend IC post. So you may see an early post this week.

How do you work Karma Pool? Do we apply one of the awarded Good Karma points towards it (when we have accumulated enough), or is the addition to the Pool considered to be a seperate entity. I have seem both variations used in the past.

You have to place one of your own karma into Karma Pool. It's not a freebie in my games.

That's cool. I figured it's better to ask beforehand than it is to assume and be wrong.

Not quite there yet anyway, being an elf and all.

I don't see any problems with thinking all magic is in fact psi. Obviously a psi got a good boost from the Awakening, but it could be held up that all magic is merely applied will, and spirits manifestations of will.

Sphynx, I love the game, I'm not posting regularly because I'm not always in the story, so I only post when its relevant, rather than trying to draw the focus to me when it isn't required. I do appreciate you trying to draw me in the story more, and I'll post to accomodate.

I gotta say this is an AWSOME game. The posting 5 days at a time is kinda tough, but it really keeps it moving. 3 of us are in "Yarrrr" and look how slow thats moving in compairison.

And Woooo for being a human. 2 karma pool here I come!

If you dont post, you get abused by dragons. Case in point, Me! There was a reason i got smacked between rocks (cause up to that point I posted mabey 3 a week, and have stopped worrying about making good long involved posts and just getting the ideas out).

My evaluation:

I really like how this game is progressing. Everyone seems to be more or less involved, and things are moving along nicely. I wish all PbP games moved this fast; I'd join more of them if they did.

On a side note, I won't have regular access to the internet next week (from about the 5th to the 13th). I'll do what I can to post every day, but I can't guarantee anything.

Fortune, while I realize that, but if I go over here, and start cleaning my drones, then some other people do things, getting ready, and discussing, then some more talking ensues, while I'm still over there cleaning drones, and so on. I dunno, I figure talking takes a lot less time that doing other things, so I stay out while I'm preoccupied. Anyway, I'm not complaining about my lesser karma, because I'm posting less, thats fine. Just saying, I'm glad he'll make an effort to get me more involved, which will cause me to post more.

Don't forget, you don't always have to post what you intend to do, but also, what happened. The best posts are the ones where someone re-describes what I described, from their character's perspective. Good PBP storytelling looks a bit like this:

Yes! I get to talk with Rebo about PSI forms finally!
Lets just not let Sleel get eaten... cause that would be bad.

I play the game-that-shall-not-be-named. Arranging for my compiti... erh fellow party members to get eaten is par for the course.

But no, this would be a bad thing.

queen of spades will screw ypu every time

I did mention thats why I RUN SR, and play Planescape (attempt to give some creditability to that-other-system)?

I actually meant that previous post in the context of:

Hmmm, "Materialize, catch him, and free to go". I'm not really sure what was intended here, but I'll try to not read that super literally (As catching and then dispersing could quite defeat the purpose of catching).

I hope someone's got another spirit handy, because I just realized that the course of action just taken is a good way to make flatjacks.

I thought it was Slinky that was know as I Blame You.

And, just to be clear, is Gypsy still Astrally connected to Icewing, even after he departs?

Sorry; I forgot spirits have a Force too (first Conjuring roll I've ever made)

Fixing the Blame, and yes, still connected to Icewing (at least you'd guess so, there is a link that stretches for miles towards the north)

Meh, I thinking long term with my post. More of a get him safe, and once this is over your rewards is to go away. No harm done.
But this is so much more entertaining, playing magic rigger tennis.

Tell me thats cant be tramatic, getting ripped into projection when its not something your spossed to be able to do.

And just out of couriousity, would Sleel be in the sky domain or the mountain domain as he hit the ground?

Cool, I'll add a little bit to my post.

While appearing to suddenly drop dead to anyone without astral sight, right next to Slinky no less. Ah, morale on this mission has got to hit rock-bottom. Much like Sleel... ...

Ain't that he truth ... but at least we all didn't end up as lunch.

I just wanted to comment that I think Rebo's ascertations about magic are far closer to the system than the rest of you. The only "magic" I see is the conjuring of Elementals. "Mages", should anyone actually still call them that, and "Shamans" particularly are really just bending the world to their psyche. You don't see components being thrown, incantations being recited, or any other magic mumble-jumble (unless they willingly limit themselves to that). People are taking their self-granted psychic power and calling it magic to make people feel better about it. I mean, it's so much nicer to believe that someone's using an external source of power to perform these fantastic feats than to accept that that someone is just so much stronger mentally that he can, without external help, create such incredible feats. After all, that's the real difference between Magic and Psychic power. Magic takes an external source (astral energy?) and manipulates it. A Psychic just does it with his mind. And a Shaman, some external source of power that is deitic in nature. Yeah, that's believable. Anyone who calls it "Magic" is obviously just deluding themselves, or trying to hide from the general public that their power comes from within. Personally I'm guessing it's the 2nd, because even I'd be scared that I was lower on the evolutionary chain if people around me could bend things with their minds, and I couldn't.

Anyhows, even if there is such a thing as Astral Energy that you bend with your mind, I'd still call it psychic, as you're not reciting some archaic inscriptions while tossing fairy dust in the air. Everything you do is with your mind alone. I should just dock karma from anyone who thinks their magic comes from anywhere other than psychic power (elemental conjuring being the exception of course).

Sphynx

PS. Jus tkidding about docking karma.

I just have to say ... whatever!

I am playing a mage. He uses Magic! Rebo can call it what you like, but it isn't the default of the game setting.

Just wondering: it says that a week has passed, and a while ago I mentioned I wanted to learn Manaball at Force 6 (which would take 6 days). How many days do I have left?

A week has passed since we started. I don't think it has been a week since you resolved to learn the spell (which was after the battle with the Shades and The Hate). Actually, I would be surprised if more than a day or two has gone by since then.

Incidently, how do you go about learning spells (or whatever) without a formula?

That's cool. I just figured I'd ask, as it occured to me when I was away from my books.

Escape from Ireland.

Not starring Kurt Russel. First off, could we use multiple spirits to drag our sorry asses through the water towards merry new England? Second, with our variety of magic types, can anyone freeze a bug chunk of water? Also, with our variety of cyber types, we can probably scope the out the shoreline below us pretty well (I can also borrow the shades back from Meneer for a moment) see if there is any amount of driftwood, or other floaty stuff. Then we just have to get down to the water. More levitate spells to drift down to the beach?

I will assume these are not questions for me, right? ....

Hmm, I was a little less than clear...

The questions relating to magic are for the other players. The ones about if we can see anything useful on the shoreline down below is for the almighty GM.