Current suspicion is ONI's Policy Liaison Group is the source of the leak.  See Vest's statements in post #345 of the IC thread.

Seb's already implied that the the PLG has a leak


Thinking was that if they thought the PLG was watching their backs it might have made them more cooperative / less likely to send back channel messages to the PLG.

Yes, but what if it's not PLG?

From Chain of Command, I learned that Trinidad and Tobago currently lays claim to the highest number of ISIS combatants per capita.

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So, when it comes to PbP', I'm finding that my memory isn't very good. During an episode where that matters- like the current one- I find myself struggling to come up with anything of any substance or quality to post IC. Perhaps those of you with better memories can help me.

I'm getting the impression that the compound we've entered is not an ET or ET-affiliated facility, as we first suspected it to be. I can't remember what tipped us off to the place or why we thought it was an ET base of some sort.

The geezer's comments imply that it's an above top secret gov't complex of some sort, used to "store" the old guys that worked on the ET stuff in the 50s & 60s. If that's the case, why didn't we know about it? Obviously, it's super secret, but why didn't any of the other survivors (like Hawkins) or Grey Cell affiliated organizations know about it, or tell us about it. Is this just a matter of black ops compartmentalization resulting in the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing and vice versa or am I missing something? Who are the guards up top? We could have wasted them all. Are we lucky or unlucky? So many questions!

I just don't want to say the wrong thing, or ask the wrong question IC, slowing things down further. Am I the only one who's a bit lost? If so, I can accept that, but would someone mind trying to bring me up to speed?

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We are here because there was a lead based on Frye's lawyer, IIRC.  Relevant posts are above.

The team really didn't know what to expect, so that's why we're armed to the teeth.  A lot of this scenario has been a race against the ETs, so it's possible we might show up here and find ET's in well-established defenses, or perhaps in process of attacking these guys, or the ET's could be hot on our heels either due to the leak (which we think we've identified).

The ETs could have located this facility through whatever mechanism they first used to start hunting down these vets (PLG might be the initial source, or a source the ET's compromised along the way).  Hence the worry they were already in control here.  Maybe now we are ahead of them and have sufficiently plugged leaks so the ET's don't know about this place at all.  Maybe some dude put a space worm in Coel's ear the minute we walked out and ET is coming for us right now.

Memory aside (and I know I've had my issues), I'd say if you're feeling confused, not quite sure if we are winning, losing, or just holding ground, and thinking the enemy might be around this corner or the next, then Teg's doing a great job running an espionage scenario!!



Yeah, that's how this works right?  Compartmentalization and need to know.  At the point at which Grey Cell had a need to know, the folks who knew (Frye/Celeen) were either dead or unconscious.
This message was last edited by the player at 10:43, Thu 01 Feb 2018.

Thanks, Spartan. Just to clarify, my confession of confusion is no way a criticism of the GM. IMHO, this is an outstanding game. It's simply a function of the passage of time (the posts you quoted from are over a year old, no?), my not-so-great memory, and the sad fact that I just don't have the time to read back through old threads looking for answers.

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I heartily endorse Spartan's summary and would have more to say if I hadn't just wrapped up running the first session of my Roll20 game.

In reply to James Choi (msg # 761):

Well to be honest, I'm not using some ancient Chinese mind-mapping secret.  I just went to the current thread, selected page All, then did a control-F to find Belize.  Of course RPOL stops allowing selecting an entire thread to be displayed on one page if the post count goes about 1,000 in an single thread, which is why I always advocate for GMs to create a new thread when things get to 950.  There's quite a few threads in Fuze's game that are over 1000 posts and that you can't go back and easily keyword search.  Going back through 25 pages of posts one by one is a non-starter for me.

I might try a google search akin to:

https://www.google.com/search?...=chrome&ie=UTF-8

But if a Google site specific search doesn't help, I'm out of tricks.

Before James starts blabbing, is there anything that we don't want to share?

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In reply to James Choi (msg # 764):

Off the top of my head I can’t think of anything that we can’t share.

I don’t recall us being briefed on the Shag harbour incident and I’d never heard of it until I googled it five minutes ago so I’m going to presume Seb hasn’t heard of it either. BTW, the name Shag harbour did make me chuckle – it’s vaguely rude here in a sort of schoolboy humour way.

I had planned to have a post up tonight but I went to the gym and my tiny Tyrannosaurus arms are shaky. Tomorrow.

By now, I should know better than to say anything about specific upcoming post times.

Greetings, Cthulhu. We come in... peace?

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Just wanted to say I’m not trying to steal dcoda’s thunder but I figure Seb’s thought process is that Branham seems quite keen for dcoda to go first which, combined with the fact that he can’t see what’s in there, is ringing some alarm bells with him and in that sort of situation he’s not the sort of guy that would be overly happy standing back and letting someone else potentially put themselves in harm’s way. Throw in the fact that Hannah has the psychic ‘thing’ that makes her more valuable than him.

I hope that all makes sense...

Teg, can visible light penetrate the darkness? How about an IR spotlight?

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There is nothing abnormal about the darkness.  It is ordinary subterranean darkness.

Can I cast magic missile on the darkness?

You do, in fact, have a wand of magic missile.

I guess I didn’t get the dark, eerie vibe, just the ordinary subterranean darkness. I need to go rewatch the X Files.

In reply to Sebastien Durand (msg # 774):



It is metagaming for me to go by the second quoted line, but I don't think it's metagaming for James not to trust the old guys. I mean, we just met them, they're a little off, and nefarious aliens are involved. I mean, if I'd just met some odd old dude and hung out for five minutes, I think I'd still think twice before entering a dark room they'd just invited me to walk into with no explanation of what I was about to encounter in there.

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That was a great post Rae.  Assuming your goal is getting me to never post IC before you post IC.  Next time if you want to do that, do it right off the bat.

There's probably a deeper discussion here about character agency, but this pretty much sums up how I felt after seeing that post:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEwlW5sHQ4Q
This message was last edited by the player at 19:12, Wed 21 Feb 2018.

Fair enough. It is a matter of player agency. I shouldn't have negated other players' moves. I guess it's like in improv, where one is supposed to follow any proffered premise with "yes, and..." I'll delete.

I guess I need to figure out how to play along when I disagree with a fellow player's move (i.e. maintain my own player agency whilst respecting others').

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This message was last edited by the player at 19:23, Wed 21 Feb 2018.

Whoa! Take it easy, Spartan. I already deleted my IC post and posted an OOC retraction. No need to go so hard. Now I don't want to post, like ever.

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Your original post made it sound like Choi thought we were a pair of imbeciles. At least that's how I read it. Also, 48 hours had passed since the turn post had gone up and no one had posted anything IC - it's not like I posted ten minutes after the turn post went up and didn't give anyone else a chance to put forward an alternative option.