Yep, that's sort of what I had in mind. Hopefully my second roll is good enough to fool any would be thieves.

I didn't realise that about taking 10! I'll keep it in mind for the future, handy to know.

For some reason most people (including many GMs I've met) seem to forget that rule. It's the same in D&D as well.

I don't mind splitting the parties, but there will be some rules:
1) I have kept everyone's thread open to all players, so that everyone can know what's going on. Try not to metagame, but you can assume that you guys are constantly updating each other via cell phone.
2) In order to keep my sanity and to keep the threads more-or-less in time with each other, I will only respond to each thread once per day (maybe twice if one is trivial). I will only go faster if (a) I have time for 6+ posts a day and (b) everyone is posting at roughly the same rate.
3) Since you are no longer in physical proximity to one another, temporal anomolies may or may not occur. The universe is a strange place.
4) This probably won't matter, but for the record: Tobias has one of the cars, Dr. Adele has the other one, and Frank is stuck walking.

I think I'm the only one who took Drive...

Well I'm not planning on performing any stunts...

Me neither. So, Adele has our car? Goddamn it, all my stuff is in there! We're having words about driving off with my gear when she gets back from looking at nasty crime scenes.

If you needed anything out of it you can assume that you would have gotten it out.

To be honest none of that stuff will come in helpful when he's just gathering information from the locals.

As Adele has the car, she might want to know that the following is inside:

Bolt Cutter 6lbs (boot of car)
Duct Tape 4lbs (car glove box)
Rope (150ft) 12lbs (boot of car)
Backpack 3lbs (boot of car)
Battery Flood Flashlight 2lbs (boot of car)
First Aid Kit 3lbs (Under car passenger seat)
Road Atlas 1lbs (in passenger seat pocket)

Sorry about the delay ladies and gentlemen (or maybe it's gentlemen and gentlemen?)... I was kind of expecting to be home this week and it didn't end up working out that way.

Ack, sorry about that. Last two weeks have been very busy.

I'm going to be away for the weekend, but will post at the start of next week.

How do you want us to do the conversation over the phone?

Err... I guess run it in Tobias's thread so that we can keep Frank's thread going simultaneously with that storyline (assuming he has time to make two posts at a time, that is). Remember that I haven't put any of the threads in groups, so you can just say "I catch him up on what I've seen" and go on with it from there.

When you pick up Frank, are you going to take him back to the crime scene? If so, then the three of you can pick up back in the main game thread.

Frank's a former cop, of course he drives! The Company are just too stingy to fork out for 3 hire cars.

Or maybe they were being green? Or maybe they didn't want you to split up into three groups :)

Now here's some fun: potentially, Frank could be posting in three different times at once, and Adele in two.

And you wondered why working for The Company seeminly made you age so quickly...

(And hopefully we don't have to find out what happens if you do something in the past that changes the future!)
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The future time-travels back to prevent it from happening.

There's a cabal of physicists who think the reason that we can't get the LHC working long enough to find the Higgs is that the Universe of the future is actively preventing it from happening.

Hrm that could work. I've always thought that there's no way to change the past, since it already happened. But since the future and the past are happening simultaneously you aren't changing the past so much as not changing the just past. Or something.

Basically Frank don't start shooting at people and we'll be ok :)

Bang goes my plan to put a hole between the good Reverend's eyes.

Just to let you know, I'm going to be away for a week from Saturday until next Sunday.

Thanks for letting us know.

By the way, if you guys want to go back into town, you can go back to the main thread and I'll close off this last one.

Sorry, been a bit busy recently. I'll get a post up tonight.

Even though I invented Ford, I think I drove through it the other day. It was so much a farm town that half or more of the commercials on the radio were for soybean seeds or crop inoculators.

Heh, that's funny!