Wait, what was that...



...Dusk Rat being silent? We'll all be killed!

To be fair, it's not Dusk Rat's silence that causes worry...it's the growls and snarls and the padding of many approaching paws, or the incoming rush of wings, or the thunder of a hundred incoming hooves that might be more of an issue ;).

She does has a way of always finding help everywhere, isn't it? :)

Anyway, dear players of mine, it's been over five days since I last posted in the main thread, and nobody has posted anything in answer to that. Is there a reason for this lack of play, something you need from me?

I'm letting Sabre and Hornet weigh in before going again. Though Sun Snake has one more sting... bite... something to drop :)

Eh, the scaling of the wall appeared to be a bit harder than I expected, but I will definitely heed your advice, Shadow - to sting myself before the snake bites ;) Will post tonight...

So, I'mmostlywaiting for Sabre before I push things onward, but just to confirm, the current idea is that Sun Snake wants to speak with White Mantis, and everybody else is fine with not speaking to anybody else, correct?

I just want to be sure - well, that and confirm you're also all still around, because I always am. :)

I'm also around. :) I'll just be visiting my grandma for the weekend, but I should be able to check the game on my phone.

Regarding IC: yep, Hornet don't want to speak with anybody over the Seeing Stone; and also thinks that it will be easier for Snake and Sun Fox to have White Mantis open up to them if the session is private, hence he won't join that conversation (albeit both as a player and the character I'm hugely curious how that is going to proceed :) ).

Well, he could always ask all about it later to his bestest of friends Sun Fox, couldn't he? :)

I'm still here, as always ;).

Presumeably Red Dawn can make the connection for White Mantis, rather than Shining Peacock.

While that's possible, I fail to see how that'd change anything on the bigger picture - anything Red Dawn learns, Peacock will know immediately (or, as soon as it's convenient for her to report). Also, with him right here - at your request, I might add - it'd be pretty weird to ask the less capable of the two to run the system. And, he can always order her not to do it, if he wants to do it personally, since everybody knows she'd obey.

So, while it's true that it's technically possible for Red Dawn to run the call in place of Peacock, on the practical level, there is no real difference between the two.

Red Dawn is less likely to interrupt if she's simply traying to clean all the information she can, and besides Red Dawn isn't Shining Peacock. There are things we can say to her face rather than have Shining Peacock know them.

Alos, I think I lost track of why we need anyone else to make the link - I thought Sun Snake and Sun Fox could combined make an active call? So if White Mantis actually knows to come to the Seeing Stone, or if she is given it, couldn't Sun Snake and Sun Fox speak to her on their own?

Given how potentially unstable Red Dawn is, it might be easier to nudge her into saying the wrong thing if Peacock isn't around to keep her on a leash.
Then again it also means he could claim she's just insane and babbling anything, not to be taken seriously.


Looks like Sun Snake can speak her language already ;)  hehe.
This message was last edited by the player at 07:21, Fri 02 June 2017.

Yeah, Red Dawn requires a specialized touch to handle. :)

Oh, if you want to play it that way, then yes, you could handle the call with just yourself and Sun Fox; that's perfectly possible. You'd just need to explain to Sparrow why you wanted Peacock to be present when talking to him, but not when speaking with Mantis. If you can explain that, you can easily run the call yourself (with Sun Fox's help, obviously) without any other interference.
This message was last edited by the GM at 08:46, Fri 02 June 2017.

I think it's safe to say that Red Dawn will do anything if she even suspects it might earn her the teeniest tiniest little hint of favour/attention with Shining Peacock. You wouldn't be able to tell her anything and expect her to keep it secret from him.

The less people there are in that conversation, the more likely it will be for Mantis to speak freely, I'd expect (that's why Hornet decided not to join, as a side note). Just giving you ammo to gun Peacock (or bricks for another wall of text? ;) ), not that I doubt you didn't realize that, too, Snake. :D

I'm fine with Snake speaking to her :)

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Second thoughts I'll have Fox have a chat with sparrow alone at some point if I may. I'll add that part in my next post

You can add it in your current post already if you want - I'm not pushing things onward until Snake has answered Peacock's question anyway, so you still have the opportunity, Sabre Fox. I won't mind. :)

Did you want to chat to Sparrow now then give the Seeing Stone to Sun Snake, or us the Seeing Stone later once Sun Snake has spoken with White Mantis?

Most likely after Snake has spoke to Mantis

If it'll cheer Sun Snake up any, he just got the 28000th post :)

And for making that milestone, every player in the game gets 1 FP - you're really an incredible group, and I'm glad you felt it worthwile to stick to this game this long. :)

I'm going to give you all a chance to react to this latest exchange between Peacock and Snake before I go on; I don't want Snake to hog all the spotlight, you're all involved in this. He just happens to be the one with whom Peacock has a bone to pick the most, that's all; I want everybody to contribute equally.

On tht note, Sun Snake, I hope you don't find that my playing of Peacock was aimed at irritating you as a player; the character is naturally being condescending to your own character for his own reasons, but I personally quite enjoyed the exchange of views you just had! ^_^

Yay, fate points!

No, Peacock seems to be consistent with himself, it's completely understandable. It just helps that Sun Snake being annoyed means everyone else gets to try and do stuff now :p


So unless Peacock actually talks to Mantis directly, it sounds like Sun Snake will still at some point speak to White Mantis, then Sabre Fox will speak to Golden Sparrow.

However, as it stands right now it sounds like Swift Fox will need to wait until getting to the monastery to do anything?

And presumably Water Horney can report in using the Seeing Stone later on (and alone) if he wants?

Well, it really depends; somebody would need to run the call for Hornet, for example. And Swift Fox is more than entitled to try and argue to Sparrow that, since he's letting literally everybody else speak with whomever they want via Seeing Stone, she should be allowed to do the same with Moon Shadow, as well.

You're the players, you're free to take the intiative and try to turn things around so they benefit you the most; I'm here to make it a challenge, but wether those challenges can be get past or not is entirely up to you! ^_^

By the way, speaking of Peacock, what's everybody opinion of his character, from what you've seen of him right now? Do you all agree with Sun Snake that he's been consistent throughout, or do you feel like his actions don't make full sense? He's the one character in the game (alongside Sun Fox) I put the most effort into, so having you give me a clear idea of how the end result is coming out to you would greatly help me in bettering my characterization skills. :)