Trav understands full well what the hell is happening. But only Sereth can teach Smoke what it means in regards to her.

That's not fair. Tchezari will be accompanying us, but why is Ensaven responsible for our behaviour?

Because he's a freakin' clever king. He knows how to play Sereth like a lute; it's not that hard admittedly. He's using the age-old ploys of emotional manipulation, and relying on our sense of honor.

On top of Sereth's interpretation (to which I can only say, Ain't I a stinker?) it's also reasonable to infer that this is a sort of judgment on the quality of the information that Ensaven is bringing to him: there's a certain implicit trust in you all that Ensaven is conveying, as he could have easily said that you're all dangerous monsters to be treated accordingly.

Or he wants to discredit, hurt, or get rid of Ensaven somehow and hopes we'll screw up and get him in trouble. :)

It seems to me to be insurance. I think he's judged that if we're on the level, then Ensaven will be allright, but if we're not, then Tchezari will take action if Ensaven gives signal that we're not to be trusted.

But Trav was being pretty transparent. I think the King got a good measure of her.

My interpretation was mainly due to him pointing it out. He didn't need to do that if he was just being scummy; Ensaven would know. But by pointing it out to us, he's playing off our honor - granted, he is assuming we have any. I also got his main thrust was against Sereth at that point. (Or to Sereth.)

BTW; we're running out of space in the OOC thread.

I see Impulsive is going to get a good workout here. ;)

We've still got forty-odd posts here.

I so wanted to drop the F-bomb there. :D But I figured it wouldn't fly in televised Who. So I used a fictional swearword from New Adventures instead. Which I tend to use a lot in my RP anyway.
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Sorry if it seems like I'm pixel-bitching a little over Trav's scans, but I am sort of hoping for a way that Trav can say "There are clues that say we could look here, or here, or here, roundabouts" rather than something that narratively says, "According to my readings, the thing we're looking for is right at THESE precise grid coordinates.  Why don't we hop in the TARDIS and materialize right on top of it."

I'm all for it.

Like with Sereth and diplomacy, Trav's modifiers for that kind of thing are so ungodly high that, barring a poor role, it becomes an exercise in dicerolling if you let it.

Of course. Working it out would be more interesting and obviously there's a story along the way.

So, I had Smoke start us off. It's basically her thing. :)

I'm fine with failing forward! Boss, feel free to take away my toys at any interesting moment, although I do request the occasional story point goody in recompense.

Also, the TARDIS just dig a big trip. Sweet Boy is recharging! So, no TARDIS travel until Gary says we can.
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Sorry, but I don't remember that. When was that?

It appeared in the Arsuran Orbital Prime thread; Trav had Smoke fetch it from the TARDIS. I think Trav used it to check out Stan when he received the psychic message.


Smoke's agreeing with Sereth's plan. Unless, GM, you don't want us to split the party? ;)

... is it Doctor Who if we don't split the party, at least once?

In all seriousness, the biggest advantage I've seen in PbP as opposed to tabletop; is split parties don't kill the game as badly.

Split whatever you like.  I agree with the sentiment that split parties are relatively easy to deal with -- you sometimes get problems syncing back up, but there's no sense of people being on hold while they still have things to do in their thread.

I'll proceed as soon as we have a consensus on who's going where and doing what.

You could always leave Smoke Alarm alone in the fortress.... :D

*shrug* If Traveller insists on going; I'll stay with Smoke Alarm. I just figured splitting it along a 'brainy and action person' way worked best.

Thanks, I've found it now. Msg #423 is when it is first mentioned. As far as I can tell, Trav never gave the box to Stanley, because we were interrupted by more Fists. Stanley doesn't even know what it is for, so I don't think he has it with him.

If you want, you can just spend a story point and discover that you have it (whatever was in the box, I believe it was an emergency sonic?) in your pocket, rather than have Trav's nifty thing be arbitrarily spoiled.  Just go back and edit your IC post if you want to do that.

(An Us must have slipped it in your pocket when you weren't looking.)

In my experience, splitting the party gets harder on the GM in PbP, as they effectively start running two distinct games in place of one. It works on some light investigation and RP, it gets hard when one or both get into a fight. (Like the time I had assassins ambush three groups simultaneously...)

Anyway, the TARDIS would have dropped us near the village if that was where the main story was. ;)

Yes, let Smoke Alarm search the fortress all by herself! She'll get the job done. :D

I don't mind much where we go. Smoke's preference is to stay at the castle, but as her player I see amusement in riding a dinosaur. :) I'm happy to go wherever.


Actually, the backup sonic screwdriver (I'll never say just "sonic"!) was something else that Smoke fetched along with the box. It wasn't in the box.

Okay, I'll spend a SP to have it with me. I have edited my post.
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I'm assuming this Silurian iss poor to be collecting rags and rubbish, hence him wearing threadbare clothes. Correct me if that's wrong.

I presume we've left the watch-tower now?

Yes, that's what I was assuming.  If you had something you wanted to do particular to being there, it's easy enough to get back to it.