This is the OOC chat room. Feel free to chat here about stuffs.

Shenanigans!

*waves* Howdy. As you can tell, I'm pretty far along...the fact that a lot of the cast of Deadwood is represented in the character portraits helps. Speaking of which, ever seen it? I plan on drawing a lot of inspiration from Deadwood...

When you announced this game, I had already resolved to see the show Deadwood. Or to finish it, rather. I'm a rather great fan of many of HBO's television series, and I saw the first two episodes of Deadwood. Sadly, I never finished it for a variety of reasons, but I've always been meaning to.

Maybe now I'll have yet another reason to do so.

I've so foar gotten through the first season...haven't picked up the others yet. But it's a good show.

Apparently it was terminated prematurely by HBO because of cost or whatever, but I've heard it was great. And I think Timothy Olyphant, who plays Seth Bullock, is a great actor. In any case, I'll be watching it sometime soon I think.

Good show indeed.  Wish to see more meself.  Only ever caught the first few and a scatter of them later.

Enjoying Hell on Wheels right now.  Good stuff.

hell on Wheels is awesome, indeed.

Hi all!  I just wanted to pop in and say hello.  I'm very much looking forward to this game!

Hello! I'm just staying quiet 'cause I have no TV, but likewise ready and interested.

Hey all! Not srttlrd on a character yet, but angling for a Blessed. And see we already got a martial artist and a weird scientist.

Just wanted to add my hello to the chorus.

Excited to be here.

Though never watched Deadwood... I have been catching up on Justified.

Adrian Vega here, for those in from the other game, btw

Mr. Spotswood here, to whom it may concern

Alouette's player, chaos included. Do we have any non-Storm folk aboard yet?

Me. I just stumbled upon this game from the players wanted. I feel  left out *sniff* *grin*

I'm right there with you, saw it from the player's wanted ad.

Anyone interested in forming a link in our backgrounds?

I haven't fully detailed out my character history (dealing with car troubles, grumble grumble) but by and large he is going to be a Lakota brave that journeyed out to Gomorra in the Great Maze with an old shaman from his tribe named Joseph Eyes-Like-Rain with the goal of helping to stave off the entry of a powerful manitou into this world. In that battle, he would have fought alongside Agents, Rangers, Collegium scientists, common criminals, Blessed and more. After the end of that threat (and one part of the Doomtown CCG story), he traveled across the country on his way home working as a scout for railroads (Denver Pacific at first, and when he returned to the Sioux Nation, Iron Dragon). I think that should open up opportunities for a shared story for a variety of characters based on background, geographic locality, etc.. Send me a PM if you're interested.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:28, Fri 17 Aug 2012.

I actually was going to suggest characters speak about possibly linking up backstories. As I wrote in the Character creation thread:



I wanted to let folk come up with backgrounds first before I pushed this. Since most of you are far along enough to have backgrounds thought out, go ahead and chat here about things. Or, if you want to tie your backgrounds to secrets, then PMs might be the way to go.

The Professor was in Shan Fan a year or two ago so its possible that in his travels he met up with you and shared an adventure on your way back home. That's perfectly in character for the Professor.

Yeah, I don't think Xiaohan will have any contacts beyond the met-in-bar level with the range o' folk so far.

@Prof & Zach - Just finding out who hasn't had their share of general crazy yet. ^_^

Hmm...  Nate's from Back East.  Come out to Deadwood to strike it rich and make his fortune.  Any other such folk?

The Prof is from Boston (originally England) but has been doing a lot of traveling this past few years.

Zac's been traveling all around the country with his newspaper reporter father for about 12 years, so it's entirely possible he's crossed paths with someone in his journeys.

Halleluja! Moses has arrived!

Sort of a travelling preacher, originally from the South.

About linked characters... a journalist might be interesting to explain some of Moses'... oddities. Interested, Zac?

Sure thing... who couldn't be interested in... oddities.

So let's meet up again in Deadwood. I'll send you a PM with what you know about me.

...and his...oddities.

Oddities? Just wait until you all meet The Professor *cackle*

I'll throw this out there.  Anyone who wants to have a connection with the Professor, please PM me. For those of you from the East, you could have known him 2-6 years ago if you were from Boston.

For the past 2 years or so he has been wandering the west, so he could have very well met up with anyone who lives/wanders out there as well.

Just let me know if you want to set up a preexisting relationship.

Players who have been working out connections between each other so far: Thunder Walker and The Professor, Moses and Zach O' Connell
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:27, Sat 18 Aug 2012.

So far, so good it appears.  At least on this end.

If people are curious about the phantom updates, I have a private thread that I use to collect the character backgrounds of those who've completed them. Once I have all these, I can begin making plots that tie into the backgrounds. The sooner I get these from people, the sooner we can begin the game.

Clever Stray is clever.

Noting Xiao's languages in the OOC thread as per house rules

Moses speaks English. And the language of The Lord.

Highly unlikely as it is, if by that you mean a random itinerant God-botherer speaks Angelic Cant (as in what True Name magic is based on) I will love you forever.

On the theme of superpowers and Western folk, chanced on this just recently:
http://www.tencentticker.com/p...ue-of-the-wild-west/
...doesn't Wonderwoman look mighty fine in clothes? Kinda sad Superman's not wearing bright red trousers under dark chaps, though.

The steampunk Spiderman set's on the same site, since this is a gang that might like that sort of thing:
http://www.tencentticker.com/p...-man-rogues-gallery/

The Professor speaks:

English
German
Latin
Chinese

I didn't distinguish between the Chinese dialects....maybe I should ;-)

Pretty cool pictures there, Tanxouette.

Now that my car situation is under control, I'm going to whip out my copies of Deadlands Reloaded and Savage Worlds Deluxe and pump out a character today.

@ The Professor: You should. It may become important to know whether you can speak or read Cantonese as opposed to Mandarin.

So..in this era, which dialect is the most common.  Which do most residents of Shan Fan speak, for example?

They are slightly more divergent from their common root than Italian and Spanish, if that helps...since both are highly tonal, trying to speak a mix would probably result in declaring one's Air-Cushion Accelerated Perambulator full of anguilliforms...go for Mandarin if you want to speak to the average coolie of the period.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:13, Sun 19 Aug 2012.

In reply to Thunder Walker (msg # 38):

You should also refer to the Character Creation thread, as I have some extra Edges there that don't appear in either book. Also, the Last Son's Players Guide has a TON of information about Indian characters...I strongly urge you to look at that as well.

@ Tan: The language of the local Sioux is Siouan: Mandans, Hidatsas, Crow, Lakota (Sioux), and other small Plains tribes.

In reply to ThunderVega (msg # 38):

They made me go eee. Also, cars work better with petrol in than characters, unless they're diesel cars.

@Stray: Siouan covers a lot of dialects - what I meant was that what Xiao knows will have been casually picked up around town/as per necessity; whatever's most common in the area with an even lower comprehension of other Siouan speech, rather than the general comprehension available to a lingistic scholar. Is all. You should probably stop encouraging me to ramble about linguistics whilst you can still get me to stop, though.

Yeah, thanks for the pics there Tan!  Very cool stuff!

Alrighty. I'll take your word for it.

For an Indo-European example, I can read Catalan or Occitan due to fluency in French and Spanish (the "big tribes" on either side of the dialect areas), but confronted with a speaker of either I can understand maybe one word in three, and certainly can't reply without sounding like the Incredible Hulk. Unlike me, Xiao lacks the advantage of text. Yes?

Oh, and I think Mose's "theme song" is now definitely Red Right Hand, what say you?

Hey Natewood, you ever been down as far as Albiene in your easterly wanderings? It might not be enough connection to net you an Advance, but in the right circumstances it might help glue you to the plot/posse if all else fails.

Abilene, Texas?  Laws no...  Deadwood's as far from home as I've been ever.  Don't think they'd let a Michigan boy wander down there, no way.

Maybe I heard of the Professor?  If he did something big enough Back East?

Williams charm is as a Eastern greenhorn in way over his head in Deadwood.  Not knowing folks fits.  Of course, once the stuff hits the fan, he'll stick with the folks that seem capable no doubt.
This message was last edited by the player at 22:28, Sun 19 Aug 2012.

Nick Cage's version?

Blasphemer! Nick Cave is not to be confused with American actors! (yes, the original.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrxePKps87k

...in case anyone is unfamiliar with the Australian God of Gothic Americana.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:17, Sun 19 Aug 2012.

Here's where we're at:

Tan Xiaohan is pretty much done. The player is still looking to link backstories with another character, but it seems none of the others have passed through Tan's life.

Moses and Zachery O' Connor are pretty much finished. Zach still needs to buy gear, figure out his free Advance, and draw his fate chips and 2 adventure cards. Moses still needs to buy his free Advance and his starting chips. Otherwise, I'm ready to start with them.

The Professor and Nate Williams are working out certain details. The Professor has gotten his Free Advance, his chips, and his cards and is ready to go, while Nate has not yet drawn his adventure cards or chips.

Thunder Walker has got his backstory done, but is still working on the character bits.

There are a few people who've RTJ'ed, but haven't gotten very far. One player has a character concept that we're ironing the kinks out of, the other two haven't gotten farther than concept.
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:40, Mon 20 Aug 2012.

In reply to The Stray (msg # 50):

As far as Chinese immigrants in 19th century America, most spoke Cantonese. Mandarin was the language of the elite and of the extreme north. All dialects of Chinese share the same written language.

Well then I'm going for Cantonese.  Or whatever dialect lets me talk to the majority of Chinese in the game ;-)

Oh!  Right.  I speak other languages too....  Lessee....

English of course...

German (Ma's side of the family)

Siouan, but only a little.  The Indians still around back home had a Siouan dialect.
This message was last edited by the player at 18:05, Mon 20 Aug 2012.

So I was supposed to build my character this afternoon and instead I went out and had a few beers and some sake, and then some dinner, and then a few more beers. Yeah, so...sorry - I'll nail it tomorrow. Now that I have my character concept nailed down, it shouldn't take too long.

Aw, but ThunderVega, sake is held by many to be liquid inspiration!

...on Chinese dialects, though - Xiao's a Mandarin-speaker due to being a peasant from Hunan, where the language was used as a standard among ethnically diverse mountain folk, rather than from being posh. Our US' high concentration of Cantonese speakers in the 1880s was due to emigration being sourced primarily from the east coast, the explosion of Mandarin (now our China's first language) having started thirty years before - I suspect the long US Civil War and European involvement in that would have left a less bullied, stronger China, better terms after the Arrow War and thus more widespread emigration (and more Mandarin-speakers about) rather than just people nabbed from the provinces beside the trade coast. ...yeah, alternate history makes me witter, too...sorry!

In reply to Tan Xiaohan (msg # 55):

I don't think the Qing dynasty would have done much better in the world of deadlands. The unfair treaties that did most of the damage were put in place as a result of the first and second opium wars, both of which occurred prior to the changes in historical timeline. Much of what weakened the Qing was internal corruption and rebellion. If anything I thing magical powers among the triad and religious groups might have further weakened the Qing.

Chinese who came to America were recruited from coastal areas by Western merchants. They were almost all poor and desperate and sought a better life. I doubt that would change either. I am sure there were some from the north, but their numbers were far less.

The setting seems to have embraced this based on the existing game material.

Sorry to insert my opinion. In the end it like everything is the GMs call.
This message was last edited by the player at 16:15, Mon 20 Aug 2012.

It would depend on who capitalized on the sudden availability of magic, and which side the Reckoners thought would produce more trouble, honestly. But since I know next to nothing about Chinese history in either world, I'll just accept that Cantonese would be the largest language group in the West, but that Mandarin would have made a showing (especially among Kang's hand-picked forces).

Opinions are good things to have, and alternate history is for playing with! I do so love watching the ripples...I believed the Arrow/Second Opium war was also in the 1860s, but due to a poor education my history gets somewhat fuzzy east of India (so though I'd hold to the liklihood of a stronger China if called on to reason it out, don't trust my memory). The Stray's word is indeed the right of things as far as the campaign's concerned.

I do think the Chinese aspects of the Deadlandsverse are woefully underexplored, magical/mythological aspects included, compared to say, voodoo or the main native foci, though. Hopping vampires, cat-women and fire-breathing anorexic ghosts!

In reply to Tan Xiaohan (msg # 58):

I have a degree in Asian Studies and lived and studied in Taiwan for three years. I am especially interested in the Triad and other secret society. I am without my books as I am in the middle of a move but my memory says the Second Opiun War began in 1854.

Living in Taiwan versus China gave me a chance to see traditional Chinese relgion in action. It is a very rich tradition with a ton of great ideas from which to draw.

Ooo...do feel free to correct me on period/details, for sure, I would be most grateful. May I mine you for some of those religious observations at some point, specifically any on personal ritual/observances? My grip on Xiao's spirituality is hazy, but I know there's a great deal of folk belief in there.

It is such a vast area of knowledge I don't think anyone can know it all, but I will do my best to help you.

BTW I too am a fan of Nick Cave.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:08, Tue 21 Aug 2012.

Almost everyone who I think is going to play is mostly ready. I'm almost ready myself...just trying to pick out the hook that will get everyone together. My plan is to run a few preludes to get everyone in the same place.

I am looking for connections to other characters ...

Jack Boudreaux hails from the South, New Orleans. He left home a few years ago and has been drifting form one place to another since. Boudreaux, while he seems a bit of a charlatan is a loyal friend and a useful ally.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:37, Tue 21 Aug 2012.

...such is the past, my friend - and here speaks an archaeologist! China is a big place, alternate histories are flexible when it comes to anachronisim, and all knowledge is a good thing*, both for the world becoming less ignorant in general and because the more 'realistic' a game, the more striking (and potentially hilarious) the oddities.

Yay! Ever seen The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford?


*provided one has a decent supply of brain bleach. Cattle husbandry techniques of the Western Isles, never ask about them.

Yes. Good soundtrack. Have you seen The Proposition?

Did you also reflexively go "No, don't shoot Nick Cave!" when Bob looked like he was about to?

Aye, it's one of my favourite (if permanently traumatising) films. I introduced the Stray to it and at least temporarily traumatised our dear GM with the exploding Aborigine...on the theme of Cave and favourites, ever read And The Ass Saw the Angel? They could never make that into a film because Eucharid's "narration" is too thick-smoke dense to ever translate, but man, if ever there was such thing as "blacklight prose" that is it. [thought] Oh, hey, Moses, you ever read that?

In reply to Tan Xiaohan (msg # 66):

No, haven't heard of that. And sorry about the cage/cave mistake,i blame it on my phone's keyboard! ;-)

Yeah, phone keyboards tend to suck.

In reply to Black Jack Boudreaux (msg # 63):

Zac has traveled around the South some with his father (a newspaper reporter), so there's a chance he'd know Black Jack... maybe he was a local fixer or otherwise helped with a story?

I have not read And The Ass Saw the Angel.

Ray Winstone is one of my favorite actors, Guy Peirce is another. So I saw The Proposal without knowing about Nick Cave's connection to the project.

@ Zach perhaps you were researching a story in New Orleans and ran afoul some dangerous people and Boudreaux helped extradite you from a bad situation.

Preview: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/rea...ib_dp_pt#reader-link
...y'all may need to keep a dictionary on hand, but as inspiration fodder for writing black humour and/or hellfire preaching it is strong stuff. Some reviewer described it as being like Faulkner x Whistle Down the Wind + narration by an utterly stoned blues musician, which is actually quite accurate.

Heh, my granny gets him confused with my boss...ach, actors! Someone tell me who they've been, then I'll know who they are.

My character's languages:

• Siouan
• Shoshonean
• English
• Cantonese

I'm opening up the IC threads with some preludes. Please post in the appropriate thread...give me some intos for your characters. Black Jack, Zack, Thunder Walker, please update your character descriptions.

In reply to The Stray (msg # 73):

Moses perhaps we have a connection. What do you think?

Could very well be, as I'm from the South as well, wandering around. I'll send you a PM to hash out the details.

...after all those introductions, my first thought was immediately "who's the jerk?"

Oh, and huzzah! [toasts the start of the game with tea]

Lol...this jerk.

((white chip to anyone who catches the reference! PM me if you think you got it...))

So, is anyone having trouble seeing "The Deadwood Stage" thread? It's open, but only a few people have posted yet, and I was messing with groups earlier...I may have inadvertently cut someone off.

In reply to The Stray (msg # 78):

I am in Disneyland so I have limited posting.

Yeah, I can see how going down splash mountain might make posting take a back seat...;) have fun!

In reply to The Stray (msg # 80):



"For one dollar I'll guess your weight, your height, or your sex. "

Navin Johnson

Not sure whether I'm supposed to be able to see it, but I can't :)

*checks* That's correct for you, since you're in a different group.

Attention Black Jack Bordreaux and Zach O' Connor!

Neither of you have draw Adventure Cards or Fate Chips yet. Please do so!

If they don't want their adventure cards or fate chips, I'm calling dibs on them.

In reply to Thunder Walker (msg # 85):

Working off a phone. Gm can you draw for me please.

Forgot to draw my chips!
21:52, Today: Moses rolled 10,26,52 using d35,d35,d35, rerolling max with rolls of 10,26,(35+17)52. Chips.

PM test

[Language unknown: sesom et. Oerncewitthu inetes nd not.]
[Language unknown: Ast ivelintic sear nisspe Cepour ekurpe evus utti]
[Language unknown: Hong lesthaure iouch atiardove Olischfoer tiilto nt inece]
[Language unknown: Chsa nceconrea ch dinverort Anekhind noaiti ect ri]
[Language unknown: At rutearive meho illproble Ounomeantine leeiek int enut]
[Language unknown: Ch Plthst inasst rea usill]
[Language unknown: Te osckce omas leshatera Derredyin menwhires metio oun]
[Language unknown: Tho ngwila ivec adame ntiut Thamenmen osinsa ven menad]

I don't have languages known from Black Jack or Zach yet. Those who I do have languages from, tell me if I've got it correct.

That worked for me. Now can you point me to the code/ place in RPOL where you can set that up? I didn't know it existed!

Check!

Check!

Check!

Check!



It's in the GM Menu. Edit Private Groups. It allows you to set up the whole scheme.

I see!  Excellent...I didn't know that existed.  Thanks!

Yeah, it was one of the major additions in the last 'patch' they did, bringing in fixes from the RPOL Beta site. I think it took place a few months ago, but it was a relatively recent change all things considered.

Yeah, it's a relatively new feature. I hadn't played with it much my own self before now.

LOL!

Thunder Walker lives up to his name!

Ecksdee...Xiao is about to bolt like a bunny.

Yeah, that was a fantastic bust. But aren't they all? :)

Do you want me to run this as a Chase, or just have you do it narrativly with Run checks?

Hmm...I think maybe running checks might be easier. Should I roll for the Braves as well as Thunder Walker?
This message was last edited by the player at 18:32, Mon 27 Aug 2012.

Cool. Run checks for now. Remember that both the Braves under your control have Fleetfooted, which gives them +2 Pace and a d120 running die.

Now I know where my next advance is going.

[facepalm]

d10 running die.

I just nearly spat soup on my keyboard there.

Just registering no preference...

I know, just having a little fun. :)

Stray? 1) How much headstart did Xiao have, or is capture imminent?

2) Promise me that if there is ever a Lakota warrior with a d12(+) running die (and/or kung fu powers) he'll be called Moves Like Lightning.

I did momentarily consider making a Shaman called "Smells Like Guardian Spirit."

Green Spirit would be better, I think, but that may be because the Guardian is the main centre-left newspaper in the UK and I get mental images of a shaman wrapped in newsprint pogoing very slowly...aaand that's driven whatever sharp and erudite thing I had to mention right out of my head, but I have to say that Thunder Walker's changing tagline gives me very great glee.

1) I'll use the 3 strikes rule for this. Whichever side beats the other thee times wins. The Lakota boys have one win so far.

2) Aw, but you already have Itza-chu being "faster than any horse!"

[Language unknown: En ard naare t ect?]

Sounds good to me.

[Language unknown: Wa i ess allain!]

Does it bring us close enough to get a look at him?

Yes it does.

And Thunder Walker gets an ace on the Run die! Nice.

Two wins for the Lakota!

Hoka he!

And...slowing down
This message was last edited by the player at 19:51, Mon 27 Aug 2012.

I thought the Run die doesn't ace?

And I hope I didn't kill Thunderwalker now. :-)

I'm letting them use their Run die in this Chase instead of Agility checks and cards. I'm allowing Aces here because it speeds things up.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:07, Mon 27 Aug 2012.

They're holy terrors!

Indeed!

And Nate's battle cry is "hide in the corner!" ;)

It is not!

It's....  You go first.

That's 2-1. We'll be tied up 2-2 for the next set, since we've already made our rolls. The tides have turned!

Xiao just wants you lot to go away and let a poor exhausted creature die in peace by now.

Die in peace? Over rated.

The Bear Butte thread is going to look odd to people not in either of those language groups...

Ach, they'll not see it a while yet. The speculation as to all this running must be killing, though.

English, Creole and Latin for my languages.

Preferable to dying in pieces!

...and when in doubt, go to Texas.

In reply to Tan Xiaohan (msg # 127):

Yeah, it's only about 1,400 miles from Deadwood. Should be easy!

What is "mile", honourable sir? ...I'm going to have fun with Clueless, I can tell. Whoever says it's largely Heroic that pulls the plot?

I saw this, and wanted to show it off:

That looks pretty awesome. Reminds me of "Far West," which I only heard of recently.

http://intothefarwest.com/

That looks way cool actually thanks for sharing.

I love the poster too.

I read that as 'Caligraphy Expo' the first time and now feel obscurely disappointed no ridiculously badass ink duels will be had. The artist has nice (cyber)brushwork, though.

Sorry for the holdup!

This is getting interesting.

I think Xiao may have just kicked the chicken.

I see what you did there.

That's going to have to be a phrase...kicking the chicken.

Definition for those not familiar with said chicken (because it's the speculation that kills): "getting in close proximity to a badass who is just about tolerating you and inadvertently taking a running punt at their core principles and/or berserk button."

I'll be headed to Atlanta for DragonCon today!  I have my IPad, but my posting may be delayed due to TOO MUCH FUN ;-)

Seriously though, I'll be home on Tuesday and I may post before then in an off moment(like standing in line) at the Con.

Thanks for letting me know, Professor! Fortunately, we have a built in excuse for your character...

Glad you liked the Pulp Fiction reference ;)

It was also the clever way you worked it into the dialog. Very nice way of making your point.

I think that particular quote has a lot of practical applicability to a lot of real life situations as well. Or at least, for me it does.

Oh, now I want to see that!

It's funny, because he was paraphrasing something Marcellus Wallace said...but since your character doesn't speak Sioux, much of the thread would be hard for you to read, even if I uncloak it.

But, since I am a generous GM...

I found this, and I had to share it...I may need some brain bleach, but it's funny as heck. http://walkingdead.net/perl/euphemism

I hit a bunch of them, and I think my favorite one was "hazing the longshoreman."

"Unbeknownst to me, they were all unleashing the justice."

~ Memoirs of an Oblivious Pupil at an Animé High School, maybe?

Oh, wait, no - "The last time I had this much fun, I was generating the manual" wins. On so many levels.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:37, Fri 31 Aug 2012.

How far am I from the dying indian?

Easily within hustling distance.

Specifically, it's well within your Pace, so you don't have to worry about any penalties for running.
This message was last edited by the GM at 07:03, Thu 06 Sept 2012.

I'm betting everyone who logs on today is going to be so confused by what's going on...ah, the benefits of being a night owl!

Did I miss something...? :-)

Question, the "code" of the train seems  to be S.O.S. ("three short bursts, then three long bursts, then three short bursts") -- would that be common knowledge to any of the characters? I can have Zac roll, he probably does use the telegraph to send stories to his editors, so he might recognize the letters if not the meaning.

You can guess it's Morse Code with no roll, and you can roll Common Knowledge (at +2 because of your background) to know the specific sequence.

Oh.  I kinda thought we couldn't see the train from camp....

Of course the spectral bird may have distracted attention

You can see the glow from the lamp on the horizon...you need to be on the hill to actually see the train, but the glow fades and appears in time with the flashing. Also, Jack was coming down to impart information to everyone, so I assume he mentioned the lights flashing in a pattern as well.

Though yes, Wanbli Luja is kind of a large distraction.

Dunno if it's appropriate here, though it's relevant:
http://www.indiegogo.com/PeSla-LakotaHeartland

...aaand why you never piss off a man who can throw an eagle at you (look at the wingspan vs. the size of the steppe ponies there):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWFtWzFbXCY
- or a man who is an eagle. Respect, lads!

Also musing on getting the Stray to change Xiaohan's official name to the one those characters who've troubled to ask have recieved just in case anyone slips up and calls for "Mr.Tan" IC (which'd send Xiao bolting again, for sure) - thoughts? Thunder Walker knows Xiao's real first (well, second literally speaking, because Chinese names are written that way, but y'all know what I mean) name, though. Hmm.

Lastly, whilst I know intellectually that when an American says "a British accent", he means "upper class southern English" rather than "an accent from any part of the countries comprising Great Britain", the way I 'hear' the Prof. has wandered around from Salisbury to Birmingham and appears to have settled on Cardiff, which delights me no end. If his first name turns out to be Hwell, I will go eee. Possibly a lot.

I think the name is fine as is, though it would be understandable if you changed it if confusion turns out to be a big problem.

My humble suggestion in the case that someone slips up and uses a name that their character doesn't actually know is to PM the player to give them a chance to edit their post, sort of handwaving over the mistake. While some in character reactions to the textual mistakes of players can be hilarious and good fun, in this case it might prove more burdensome on the story and the game as a whole if we have to stop for a chase scene anytime someone makes this particular error.

Just my two pence!

I have tried to be quite careful of that very fact!  And yes, handwaving a mistake, should it happen, would be great!

plus plus smart, Thunder Walker - and noted.

...is Nate planning to shoot the spirit eagle?

That would be silly.

A Winchester is generally of little use against a spirit eagle.

True story.

Ha! Well, if everyone else goes off on Magical Adventures, the remaining mundanes get to poke/hail/steal the distressed train and all the beans to themselves. Mister Nate can't say he wasn't warned before making his trousers attractive to Ghosts Who Eat Metal, at any rate.

"Sí, amigo! Hablamos Inglés!"

Sorry for the long wait for my post. It's been a pretty nutty couple of days around the house. Sometimes weekends are great times for posting, but with the kids you never know, which was the case this weekend.

We did go to Comic Con up in Baltimore yesterday for my son's ninth birthday. Took him & his brother and four of his friends. It was a little wild corralling all the boys, but also really fun. Got to meet David Petersen of Mouse Guard, which was probably the highlight of the event for me.

What is the lay of the land here, so to speak, geographically?

In reply to Thunder Walker (msg # 164):

These are the foothills of the Black Hills. The terrain is hilly and rocky, with rolling hillocks. You're near the river Wanbli saw, and it's flowing north between the bluffs. There are small clumps of trees scattered sporadically about, but not enough for continuous cover.

In reply to The Stray (msg # 165):

Does the river run through the area where the survivors are located?

Wanbli said that the survivors were in "caves lining the river," so yes.

Sorry I missed that. Thanks.

So I'm back in town. Just getting caught up at work, RPOL, and in general. It was nice to get away for a weekend, but catch-up is always rough.

If ever you (or anyone) need to make use of my hopeless prop obsession (e.g. "where am I standing what am I carrying?") do feel free. I hope you had good journeying also.

Hey, Natewood - smith anything good?

I don't see any new threads yet, boss - a group issue or didn't you get around to it just yet?

Ah, forget about it! :-)

Yeah, had a lot of posts to make in the other game. The threads are up now.

Moses!

...meanwhile, in keeping with the bird theme of the headings, the rest of the party are attacked by demon ducks...

In reply to Tan Xiaohan (msg # 174):

Yeah, Moses could sacrifice an eyebrow or something...

I did indeed, Tanouette!  It was a first for me and a great time.  Even got to forge some pieces for a customer while they waited.  They got a real kick out of seeing their iron art shaped out right then.

Sweet! That sounds like an awesome time.

Eee...it is always the Awesome to see that, especially when watching someone turn out arrowheads (or similar) in under 8 seconds, I have always wanted to try. You have my most warm and amiable jealousy.

I'm nowhere near that yet, but that is the goal.  I highly recommend it for anyone interested.  So far, all the veteran blacksmiths I've met love to share and teach interested folk if thy ask.

I will be heading out on a trip this Friday for a little over a week.  Internet access shouldn't be a problem, but time might be.  IE, my ability to post maybe become even spottier than usual.

Howdy everyone!  Your friendly local heroine here, ready to help save the day!

Howdy, ma'am!

In reply to Janet Weiss (msg # 181):

Hello there!

Weisssssssssss....*grin*

Okay, maybe I'm the only person who go that, aside from Janet.

Welcome to the game!

Welcome!

Welcome to the game.

Welcome!

Shouty Dude just sounds like Ian Paisley in my head...

GM what were my adventure cards?

I think one was:

3S - Shakin’ in Thar Boots
 “I won’t just shoot ya. I’ll kill ya good!”
 Play in a combat situation. Your character does or says something so intensely horrific and intimidating that it brings the area to a standstill. All other characters, friend or foe, are Shaken.

I may have to play it.



Can Jack do anything besides soak?
This message was last edited by the player at 03:57, Thu 20 Sept 2012.

I'm not entirely sure what you'd do to scare the Devil Bats, but once combat proper has started you can play it. Right now, though, all you can do is soak and draw your card for initiative.

Thanks Boss...  I realized that at the end, of course.  Lesson noted.

Everyone is so afraid of giving the GM chips with Red Chips, and they really shouldn't be. I spend chips on behalf of the PCs' allies as often as I spend them on the bad guys.

I'm about to spend one to get a plus d6 on my soak roll ;-)

Nope, just honestly forgot I had that Red Chip til the end...

White Chips are more like gambling, I think. For just a White you could roll the thing again and have it be awesome, maybe get three raises! A Red is a red though. More certainty there, if only a little.

Any way to tell how many crazy bat creatures there are?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AoxCkySv34

You're on a roll today, Tanxouette.

*golf claps* Indeed.  Bravo.

In reply to Nate Williams (msg # 196):

hee! The count is awesome.

Anyhoo, you can count three, maybe four of the things, but you can't be sure without a light source.

Just wanted to let everyone know: I had a family emergency.  I should be able to post in my thread tomorrow.

May it turn out to be less serious than thought!

(@ Nate: 4! Four bats! A!A!A!)

In reply to Janet Weiss (msg # 201):

Thanks for the heads up!

Lots of adventure cards today...going to need to figure out what sort of reinforcements are likely to show up...

I have an idea!

I do too. It's inspired by a quote from the movie Dirty Work:

"Ha ha! You didn't count on my loyal army of prostitutes, did you?"

No, I know what I'm going to do...have actual cavalry!

So now I have to run a battle involving over 40 separate combatants. Oy. I'm going to run this as a mass battle rather than roll for everything, since that's just asking for insanity.

This will be a first for me, since I've not yet run a Mass Battle in Savage Worlds yet. It will be a learning experience.

What I'm going to do is have the people on the Raven's Roost thread draw initiative for me and give me their actions so I figure out what they need to roll. Then I'll run through the battle round between the two sides. This will be good practice for me, since this campaign has a couple other Mass Battles in it's future.

Still...oy. Adventure Cards can do silly things.

Call it George. The Professor can tame it by alternately feeding it Earl Grey and shortbread and zapping it with his Sonic Spanner, then sling a lawn chair underneath for ease of travel. He can give it smoked goggles for daylight flying and maintain it on people's annoying dogs and children - win!
This message was last edited by the player at 09:10, Sun 23 Sept 2012.

Tan, I like the way you think! *chuckle*

Somehow I think that would give the Agency and the Texas Rangers a bit of a frilly fit...

They could always recruit his services as an independent crime-fighting agency...and attach one of those old-fashioned fire engine bells to it, so folk'd always hear it coming by the *dinna*dinna*dinna*dinna**dinna*dinna*dinna*dinna...*

Speaking of which...

Well done, sir. Very well done.

In reply to Thunder Walker (msg # 214):

Given who Jackie is, she may, in fact, have seen Pulp Fiction...

How come you see that and I don't?

Because he's in Group 4 and you aren't. I have the prelude threads split up between different groups because some of the PCs have secrets they don't want spoiled to the entire group. I plan on uncloaking all the prelude threads eventually, as they have some pretty interesting storytelling, but Janet Weiss's tale has some spoilers.

I had, in fact, forgotten that Thunder Walker was in group 4. I know Tan Xiaohan is in all my groups, since Tan's player helps me collaborate on GM stuff. Also, both Thunder Walker and Tan Xiaohan have NPCs under their control right now, which give them access to all the threads (as I tend to mark all my NPCs as part of every group so I can pull them in as needed).

Understood!

Through my control of an NPC for the combat sequence in our shared thread, I apparently have inadvertently been given access to a different group that I normally would not have access to, a fact that I did not realize until you mentioned it just now. Even if it was only briefly, I'm glad I did. That was a solid moment.

...by which the Stray means I let him ruthlessly exploit my obsession with props, and has done since I got similar Magical NPC Vision by picking up Carl Allans in the Storm, in case y'all were worried I have undue influence. The only way I "co-GM" is in the same way a small child allowed up the front of the 'plane "co-pilots".

Wanbli Luja apparently speaks Latin! This is the awesome.

Sky Hawk is awesome!

I'm quite fond of him as a character, actually. Thanks for saving him, Mose! (and sorry to encourage our friendly neighbourhood prophet to tell the Legion of Hell to shoo by himself...)
This message was last edited by the player at 19:52, Tue 25 Sept 2012.

Don't mention it, happy to! :-)

I still feel slightly mean, though I suppose it is what holy folk Do...mind you, if there is anything human left in those lads, Moses is the most likely to get a positive result from just going up with a greeting of "peace mon".

cf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMUQMSXLlHM

I'm definitely enjoying Moses referring to himself in the third person. Adds to the fun!

FYI folks, I'm headed out of town tomorrow and won't be back until Sunday. I may not have Internet access, so my posting will be slow to non existent.

Thanks mate! He's fun to play,too! :-)

good journeying, Prof!

I'm more amused by Moses' tendancy to grab people at random, even if it scares the hell out of Xiao.

Oh, and Jack, I think your spellcheck objects to Louisian Creole-accented French, though the idea of bidding folk ado is novel, and even sensical...

The spotiness of my ability to access internets has hit all at once.  Most likely out till Sunday.  Did my best.  Feel free to Npc if needed.  Have fun!

Thanks for the heads up!

[waves to Zach]

Hey Stray, can us lot sneaking hear/see Moses' "negociations", or are we in the trees already?

There's really no hiding the whirlwind or Moses' pronouncements, so yes, you can hear what's going on.

Back!  Apologies!

Yay! Draw a card for the fight on the Duck You Sucker thread.

The plan is to move away from the line of retreat of the fleeing injuns and hope we are not detected by the fleeing enemy or the dead guys chasing them.

If there are any terrain features that will conceal us but allow us to move out of the line of attack they are the first choice.

In reply to The Stray (msg # 232):

Consider Xiaohan bemused and more than a bit alarmed whilst running away, then, just not wont to comment. What do Wovoka and his friends make of all that?

Also, does this make Moses a wizard?

@Black Jack: Well, there are the bushes you were planning to hide in for your ambush...but it might be too late to hide.

@Tan Xiaohan: I see. Alrighty..going to post for Wovoka.

It'll be a while before the survival-based submissiveness starts fading, I suspect.

[of soldiers] I half-expected one of them to say something like that sooner and get in a squabble with their (black) comrades - one of the Custers had command of the Tenth at about that time, I think - it would be a rather funny lampshading of how silly it is to be racist, especially when the death that comes for us all makes it impossible to tell humans apart at a glance.

It's more complicated than that...this soldier used to be a confederate in life. The Black Regiment is drawn from both sides of the war. Though yeah, that might be interesting to explore the next time The Black Regiment shows up.

Does that make a difference? Heh.

"Skeleton soldier 1: Die, you consarned fightin' spade!
Skeleton soldier 2: Hey! I resemble that remark!

[both skeletons are skeletons]

Skeleton soldier 1: ... "

Only in what they say.

Heh.

In reply to The Stray (msg # 237):

No spurs, draws or stream beds?

Not close enough for you to get to before the fighting engulfs you.

In reply to The Stray (msg # 237):

No spurs, draws or stream beds?

Welp, if we can't run, Nate will fight.  Should I take action or wait on initiative order or....?

In reply to Nate Williams (msg # 245):

Scatter, lads!

Hey, do zombie horses have jump reflex? Considering the darkness and the grass cover your best bet may be to simply lie down and cover your head rather than drawing attention/fire...mind you, then we wouldn't get to see what the Prof's fancy gadget does.

In reply to Nate Williams (msg # 245):

Give me a description about what you plan to do in game. Again, the only cover within the distance you can cover before the dead attack the natives is the ambush point you'd already picked out.

In reply to Black Jack Boudreaux (msg # 244):

See Message #243

Is it just me, or is Janet Weiss's story beginning to resemble a James Bond Meets The Wild West mashup?

Oh, I don't know about that.  More like Gone With the Wind meets Jonah Hex.  =P

Well, I could go so far as to say this bit is turning into a Wild Wild West-style story...but no. I liked that movie, but it's a guilty pleasure at best. Though I do admit that I've mentally cast Kenneth Branagh (Dr. Loveless) as Mr. Sebastian...

With Artemis, from the start of this, runnin' the game
James West, tamin' the West, so remember the name!

Professor, it seems your Trouble Magnet is dragging the battle to us wether or not we are hiding.

Oh I know that, I'm just trying to understand what the threat is to us.  It looks like if we keep running/avoiding them they will eventually kill each other off ;-)

I suppose that's one way to look at it. A lot of this is fallout from the unexpected card Thunder Walker played earlier. The response of normal people would be to let them fight it out among themselves.

But in turn, let me ask you this: would The Doctor sit on the sidelines in this situation? Of the two sides involved in this, one side is made up of misguided young men who have understandable grievances, and the other side is made up of a band of soulless monsters who only appear to prolong bloody conflicts and stir up hate and fear. Sure, you can let them fight it out to see who comes out on top, but if the Ravenites win, their hatred of the white man only gets more strongly cemented, and if the black regiment wins they'll just ride off to terrorize someone else.

The tagline of this game is "War is coming to the Dakotas." This is one of the opening skirmishes of that war. I'm watching to see what sides gets chosen, and how best to proceed from here. I'm getting a sense of where the other characters stand and what arcs they are building for their characters, but because the conflict for the group in the "Duck, You Sucker" thread went and did a 180 from what I was expecting, I have no idea how the PCs here will react. So I'm trying to get a sense of which way the PCs will jump when faced with a crisis. From there I'll be building the rest of the campaign.

Well, The Professor would try and find a solution that prevented bloodshed on both sides. Both sides are wrong, so the only solution is one that stops ALL the violence.

To that end, he will fight in self defense and in defense of his friends, but he's not about to slaughter the Ravenites 'behind their back' as they fight the undead.  He also really doesn't understand that the cavalry are 'evil' per say.  Perhaps someone animated the corpses of the soldiers in an attempt to stave off the depredations of the natives.

I love TanX's choice of phrases. Liquor and bitches.

Hell, that's the same reason I go to town at night.

In reply to The Professor (msg # 256):

Well, you have a flamethrower and dynamite, both really flashy things that can cause useful scares if you don't want to use them as outright weapons.

@Thunder Walker:

You say that like it's a good thing. ;)

Anyhoo, waiting for a post from TW addressing The Old One before I get to his reply.

Right!  I just was asking for a recap of the situation.  I was confused as to the nature of the battle.  But now I think I have a better understanding of things.  Time to formulate a plan...

Thanks!

It's a great thing!

And I just posted.

I was operating under the assumption, perhaps wrongly, that in the dark we wouldn't be ablt to tell the cavalrymen were Black Regiment.  Ergo, the Indians are the larger threat (since they caused all this as far as Nate's concerned).  If, on the other hand, we can tell that they are Abominations from hell, I'd like to change my action....

Dang, I thought I finally had a handle on what was going on...

Due to where Tanx's Sioux and English were picked up, swearing like a railroad man is no problem. Normal conversation...bit more of an issue.

Wild West rampant prostition: fastest way to be "the Daddy" without a quadruple homicide conviction!

Of the cavalry, I'd throw in an agreement to Zach's previous observation that being undead doesn't make one a bad person...but being a bad person and undead is generally bad news.

Is undead really even the correct phrase to use?

For my part, I'd call them "differently alive."

In reply to Nate Williams (msg # 261):

Black Jack shouted a warning about that just before you all headed for the hills. If you want to change your action, go ahead.
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:52, Sat 06 Oct 2012.

Edited with new action.

I'll try to keep up better.

I picture the chanting in Janet's thread going something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...&feature=related

Greaaaaat!  Out of one frying pan, and into another.

We can be "everyone in Deadwood trying to kill you" buddies!

I wouldn't want your life to get boring now, would I?

I seriously considered using this for the mood music there. Then, for a mercifully brief moment, this.

LOL

Good thing, too, that latter song has an alarming rate of sanity destruction...

By the way, Tanx is happily following Wovoka, LC and the mimes to their nebulous "somewhere better" rather than trying to take over and lead them anywhere - unless Thunder Walker catches up or Sky Hawk is leading/heading back to the rest of the posse then to the stage for his horse, we have no idea where that party's going.

Verdict on Lawless, 'case anyone here's not seen it yet: Hot. Damn.

I've thought about checking it out, so now I might. If I can make myself go to the theater. And I need to catch up on Prohibition-Era Boardwalk Empire.

So...waiting for posts, any posts, on the "Duck, You Sucker" thread...

I'm trying to get the party back together at the moment, so we can move forward. I can't do this without people actually posting when they check in. I see you checking in, but not making comments, and as a GM that frustrates me. I know you've seen what's happened, but seem to be waiting for someone else to post.

I'm aware that the fight in the "DYS" thread jumped around a lot, from potential distraction to devil bat attack to suddenly being faced with fallout from the other thread, to suddenly ending. Actions from one thread had a cascading effect on the other, and that gets a bit confusing at times. I am aware some of the players have been out of town at times, or have had limited connectivity to the internet.

But when players aren't being posting, I have nothing to react to, and I 2 options: let the thread be fallow until whatever posting detente is cleared up, or insert new situations for the PCs to react to. Either way, I feel like I have fundamentally failed to engage the players on some level.

I can see when people have checked in, and can compare that to their last round of posting. When it gets mismatched, usually that speaks to a problem in the game. It's usually either a GM problem (the GM has to deal with issues in RL that take time away from his posts) or some form of player dissatisfaction.

So...let me know what's up. What is dragging your enthusiasm down? Let me know what issues you are having (either with the game or IRL) so I can adjust and account for them.

I check in a lot more than I have the chance to post.  Most of the time I'm checking in via my phone, and I don't have the time to post ( and I hate typing via the phone anyway).

Also, (and this is just my opinion) a play by post game needs the GM to be more directive, because it lacks the discussion and back and forth in a tabletop game. I have hard time keeping track of the narrative  with all the asynchronous posts and breaks for combat, and given that the other thread is happening, it's difficult for me to know how their action syncs time wise with our group.

I  am enjoying the game, and I think one of the difficulties with a post game is that it is hard to discuss things among the players ( like where we think we should go next) because of people's real life posting rates, and the fact that a simple back and forth could take over a week of real time given multiple people.

The Professor was designed to be reactive to trouble and situations. He has little in the way of driving goals that must be accomplished, aside from helping the ghost dancers and ( if plot threads develop)  dealing with his past. As such, he's willing to go with the group decision as to places to explore, or things to do at least for the time being.

In short, I read rpol daily, but don't have the time to post daily and in some cases I hold off posting until I see what others have to say. I'm sorry if that has slowed things down.

Thanks for the reply...it's good to know the situation some folk are in, posting-wise.

Something that helps with this is to know the time zone you're posting from, since we have people from all across the world posting in this game.  I know the general posting schedule of many of the players (as many are in another game I run on RPol) but not all of them.

What time zone are you posting from? I'm in the Mountain time zone in the USA (it's 4 am as I'm writing this...I tend to have insomnia). What general blocks of time can I expect posts from the Professor?

I'm EST, but I'm starting a new job in 2 weeks, so I'm not sure what my posting time will be like.  I generally post in the evenings, from 7-10, but this all depends on real life.

I also check in several times a day, but don't always have time time to post. Sorry if that slows down the game.

I also check more than I post. Some days I've got nothing but time to post and post, but recently I've been assigned to multiple projects so my time to actually formulate a post has gotten a little thin.

Also, I admit that the recent release of an expansion to a well known MMORPG has had an impact on my evening and weekend posting.

Yeah, I kinda agree with the Professor, in that the strange posting and jumpiness of the current situation makes it difficult to quite know how to respond at times.  Just when I am thinking out my next post towards combat or whatever, it switches.  Which happens I know, but makes planning things out harder.

I'm able to check in more than I can post, much of the time.  My day is given over to taking care of a 2 -year old with attendant short attentiion span.  Sometimes I'll be mid-post and he'll need something, so I ditch the post and go play/change/feed/clean/etc.  So, I try to think through posts, then start typing, then get distracted, then come back and everything is different again.  Back to square one.

I also feel like Ih've kinda hit a creative wall lately and its been harder to find ways of pressing on.

So, to sum up, not a very good story pushing player right now....  For which, I apologize.

I'm EST as well, best able to post in the mornings most likely.  Sometimes at night.  Scattershot through the day.

I am in California. I also check in on phone and don't always post but try to throw something up when time permits.

Again, thank you for letting me know the situation, folks. It helps me plan things better.

You know where I am, on good old GMT. I agree with the Prof in this instance: whilst you don't need to push players about with a bargepole, in the particular group that happened to form up there you've got the busiest players with the loosest connections - they're basically only there because people they like ran off that way (Jack, Zach, the Prof) or they'd otherwise be left behind (Nate...I don't know why Sam Bass is still there unless he's a...Mosesist? Moserite? Mosite? Mosite.) - who'll need to be run through a real bond-or-die event to stick together, and then/also a common goal after/other than "trying not to die" to start momentum tumbling.

Tanx will be useless in terms of forward motion barring moments of brave stupidity/stupid bravery for a while yet I'm afraid.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:39, Thu 11 Oct 2012.

Hopefully, once you're all together meeting with Wovoka (who would have a shiny yellow question mark over his head if this were an MMORPG) will help get characters some direction.

Sam is there because Jack is there, and they bonded a bit. He's still hoping they'll let him go, but doesn't want to just run (he has Loyal as one of his hindrances).

Looks like we cross-posted.

Looks like, but I don't think Wovoka's points mess up yours too much. Different points of view on the same thing, really.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:28, Mon 15 Oct 2012.

Yes, figured that, too. :-)

Is Moses actually trying to frighten Xiao?

Moses, don't scare the kid away! Li is a hard kid to catch.

Nooooo!!! Moses is just really bad at the casual small talk.

Testing something. Don't mind me...

Got it.

PM

If that's what we discussed, you've put it in Private rather than Language again...

Meanwhile, Janet dies of adorable. Eee.

Ah? Oh, darn it...

[Language unknown: Eaudi hasncesti ne?]

o_O Adorable?

No, alas. [sadface] Maybe put asterisks to indicate bolded text in another language?

All the little tentacles! Bwee!!! How can you not find that adorable? (y'know, barring the razor grips and imminent deathage...but lookit the ickle wiggly tentacles!)

Cool scene.
This message was last edited by the player at 08:59, Fri 19 Oct 2012.

@Tan: You have some strange tastes in cute. But then, I've known you long enough that I really should have seen it coming...

@Black Jack: Glad you liked it.

Should we delete our previous posts in the adventure card thread? To make it easier to read?

09:52, Today: Moses rolled 5,6,33 using d36,d36,d36, rerolling max with rolls of 5,6,33. Chippity chip.
2 White, one blue

EDIT: Spent my advance on True Grit.
This message was last edited by the player at 07:57, Wed 24 Oct 2012.

In reply to Moses (msg # 300):

I'd rather you didn't. If you want to edit it with your current cards, that's fine.

Ill get to the adventure cards, chips, and advance hopefully this evening.

Natewood - Tanx will have told 'Mister Nate' to tell Calamity Jane the 'Flying Chinaman' sent him if he decides to seek her out to learn how to shoot people faster (it's an in-joke).

Straay - just checking, I discarded stuffs, kept my blue chippit, and drew another two to make three chippits(A!A!A!), is that right?

Draw an extra chip...the blue chip is an extra chippet. This goes for everyone: discard all but your blue chips, then draw three (with the blue chips as an extra bonus for good RP)

Tanouette - Gotcha.

Yo, Moses - intentional use of Tanx's name?

Weren't you introduced like that at some point?

EDIT: Oh, my bad. I'll edit my post accordingly.
This message was last edited by the player at 22:56, Sun 28 Oct 2012.

Since there's serious Trouble attached to that name, decidedly not. Thunder Walker knows the little stray's real 'first' name due to an incident involving an angry man and a tomahawk, but agreed not to mention it. People have been calling the kid "Li".

edit: Oop. Anyway, if Moses ever does holy hunch that name and use it, the results will be...dramatic. Moses' combined ability to know things he shouldn't and squish Tanx into a pulp if he really felt like it is part of why the Prophet alarms the youth so.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:49, Sun 28 Oct 2012.

I thought Black Jack went with us to Bear Butte?

In reply to Moses (msg # 310):

No. After some concideration he went to Deadwood. When Skyhawk made him a blood brother it forced Jack to put his interests ahead of his own. They wanted him in Deadwood, so Jack agreed and went with the others.

edited.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:48, Mon 29 Oct 2012.

Ah, so that's what happened...though Jack is Sky Hawk's brother now - part of a local Lakota tribe, not Paiute. Not that it makes a great deal of difference unless Sky Hawk has a sister (in which case her kids'd inherit your stuff, since I think Jack's older than Sky Hawk).

By the way: Just waiting for the GM to tell us we're also at the site.
Don't want to interject.

It was probably a delay on my account, Moses, since I was slow to respond. Though I'm totally fine and wasn't effected that badly, I've nonetheless been weathering some hurricane related circumstances and that caused a delay. Anyway, I posted now so hopefully that helps some.

No worriesnmate, just wanted the GM to understand why I was checking in but not posting. :-)

Sorry for being quiet. I'll be back to regular posting soon...just been hit with a bit of Busy.

Are we walking away from or towards Li?

You don't know where Li has got to...the tracks lead well away from Li, though.

Check this out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYqx3nwcpQ0

(Warning..it's long. But really interesting)

In reply to The Stray (msg # 319):

The Story Board is awesome. Patrick Rothfuss is an excellent author. I haven't read anything by the others, though I hope to.

And here's a vid of these authors playing a game together:
http://goo.gl/uj1LM
This message was last edited by the player at 05:03, Fri 09 Nov 2012.

For the GM, and just others in general:

I'm on business travel all week this week in the great State of Michigan, so if I'm a little slow, that's why. I don't know what my internet access situation and availability is going to be like. GM, feel free to take over my character as an NPC if needed or desired to keep things moving.

Busy three day weekend.  And not paying attention before.

Sorry (Especially to Professor) but back now

In reply to Nate Williams (msg # 322):

No worries. I expect the games I run to slow down a bit as the Holidays chug through.

I have this feeling Nate Williams is going to join the hunt for a certain walking $4-600...

Well....   Prospecting doesn't seem to pay the bills....  :)

I'm just incredibly amused by how the Professor just took it in stride and was all "Pfft, who needs $400?" whilst Nate was on the other side of the room going "Nooo, I need $200 to do anything here..."

The dice roller loves Moses' Persuasion attempts :-)

4 + 4 = 7? Do you have a -1 Mod from something? Because otherwise, I count 8...

Don't I have to substract the wounds? So it's actually worse, at -3 it comes down to 5. Silly me, I was adding them all together.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:28, Sat 01 Dec 2012.

Ah. Yes, you have to subtract for wounds, and I can see where the mistake is, now. Ah, well.

Clearly Moses needs to sweet-talk the dice roller some more.

On a slightly random note, I've finally got round to reading My Journey to Lhasa, and good grief, Alexandra David-Neel was like an older, more badass(!) version of the Prof. I'm going to generally recommend the volume to adventure-lovers, because the truth comes up with things the wildest pulpsmiths don't dream of, like a 54-year-old Frenchwoman nearly shooting a man in his tracks over fancy spoons.

With the fever gone now, I might be able to go into more preachings before rolling again, if time permits. :-)

Damn, look at that roll.

22:18, Today: Thunder Walker rolled 15,2 using d4,d6, rerolling max with rolls of (4+4+4+3)15,2. Intimidate.

I think the dice gods are with me today as far as intimidation is concerned. In another game, I had a 14 year old girl intimidate a U.S. Marshal by threatening to kick him in the nuts if he bothered her and I rolled:

(12+12+12+6)42

To be fair, her tag line is "Kick 'im in the jimmy"...

It is something of a trademark move for the young girl, and I suspect it will continue to be so even after she learns about all the things that little bit o' Whateley blood she has in her lets her do.

Smite on steel toecaps? ...yikes.

I've updated the House Rules and Game Systems thread. There's a new House Rule there--Joker's Wild!

From now on, whenever a player draws a Joker (for any reason), all the PCs may draw a Fate Chip. I'll call these awards out on the Fate Chips thread.

I did give new meaning to the "for any reason" thing, I suppose.

So, of Moses's questions, what proof would satisfy the Nakota? Is this something Thunder Walker would just know, or should I make a Smarts roll for Common Knowledge (presumably with some kind of circumstance bonus for being of a very similar cultural origin?

Huzzah for chips for any reason!

I think what you'll need is proof that Moses can divine the past from present objects, since that's why y'all are there, (though they still might not trust him) so maybe ask a random brave for loan of something, then Moses could tell who made that?

Tanx has some very good proof, but sort of...got tied up in events...

Moses is a prophet, not a stage magician!

Have you seen some of these televangelists? They can apparently cure serious medical conditions by talking crazy and pushing people down. I think you can be both a Blessed AND a stage magician.