Post OOC stuff here.

Hi everyone! Pumped about the game starting up again!

How much of the Ship / Loresheet design do you want to be done by the players? Are there guidelines or examples for us to base suggestions off of?

Go frigging nuts.  The more you add, the easier it is for me, and the better my creative juices start flowing.

No guidelines yet but you can expect some in the next few days.

I live!

So, I'm trying to settle on a character concept for this go around. Thinking I might go for a Water or Air Aspect Terrestrial.

In reply to Nald's Character (msg # 5):

Why not, since Terrestrials are actually playable alongside Celestials under these rules!

What kind of concepts you got?

Hello everyone, also. Looking forward to things taking off again. Invictus has asked me to help with Loresheets, so any and all suggestions are welcome. Groups for the people in the Loresheet, cool heresies, or even some interesting relationship loresheets might be worth a writeup. Even if you have a mechanical idea, but aren't sure what concept would go well with it, feel free to post it.

Also, yes, yay for Terrestrials.

I'm kicking around an ice and quick sword draw type, stealing from the Single Point Shining in the Void Style from 3e. Thinking it'd be easiest to keep them as a straight Warrior with maybe a handful of Extraordinary Techniques for some flavor.

Let's go with Gabriel Hockenberry. 20 now, 10 when the exodus began. Native of Alaska, fled east with his family as the Neverborn took Russia to arrive in Chicago early enough to board the Ark.

Hockenberry is a pretty great name.

Also, Invictus, thanks for the intro writeup. There were a lot of basics I wasn't familiar with, and that fleshes things out considerably. Should make writing thing easier, though I feel like someone who knows Demons better than me should do their lores. Also, it's very cool.

I am admittedly stealing it from Ilium. Trying to decide if he has any nickname, those always drive me nuts.

Hockenberry sounds like a Canadian Huckleberry Finn. I love it.

So Water Aspect, I'm assuming? Sounds good, great to have younger characters along too.

Ice based at least, which could go Air or Water but probably leans towards water in LotW.

What would Michael name the Ark?

Soul Plane, clearly.

Michael lacks an obvious sense of humor or irony. Last Refuge.

Polite reminder that you guys have a say in the setting and I actually do want to accommodate you, so feel free to fire ideas or suggestions at me.

Polite reminder that if you want I'll craft up shit too... seeing as I'm the GM and all *shifty eyes*

I'll try to catch up and contribute on Tuesday. New job changed my schedule three or four times in the last week. Think it finally settled down, and two of the projects that were eating into my time are finally put to bed as well.

Very cool. Congrats on tackling those giants, and yeek, inconsistent schedules are the worst thing besides no schedule.

Hey everyone, noticed a bit of a problem with capital ships-  they have no skills!  Normally capital ships don't really need them, but when you're dealing with a disrupt...

That is, until I just said 'screw it'- they have 0 skills, pretty much.  However, whenever they make a Disrupt/Disorient (or defend with a Disrupt/Disorient) they're making it at a +5 bonus/rank as their base 'skill' level.  So a Rank 5 has a +0, but a Rank 4 has +5.

Yes, this means a Buchenwald-class has a base bonus to Disrupts = +25.

Sounds "good" to me!

Sorry I've been in hibernation. Will post more writing soon. Was just predictably burnt out.

How far along are everyone's characters, btw?

Lucifer's pretty much done, Lyla I know is roughly 50% done. What about the rest of ya?

Ideally I'd like to get cracking on this sucker sometime soon.  For those of you who aren't done, please let me know if there's anything you need from me (loresheet, help, etc.).

All for getting started soon so we don't lose momentum!

Lots of Loresheets that I still need to finish. I'm kind of hoping that this weeks Wulin game gets me back into the Wuxia mindset. Once those are done... I can build Jess.

Are all of those Loresheets critical to building Jess, though? I don't think it'd be a problem to keep building those as the game goes on, with priority on things that are relevant to stuff that's going on right now. I doubt Jess is entangled with ALL the different parts and factions in the ship so you should be able to build her without having everything ready.

Valid point. Did the normal Destiny side of things. Extremely rough draft, but I can optimize it once I figure what I'm saving with Entanglement. Of course, Entanglement will be harder, as none of the sheets I've written up directly apply to her, mechanically.

I want to start the Raid on the Buchenwald next week Saturday.  Don't have to get everything all squared away with your characters (especially secret arts), but having a character at least decently fleshed out is a must.

Understood.

Could we get a character introduction/info topic somewhere?

I think it'd be nice to see descriptions about all chars, also pics, and what do they do around the ship, and what they are known about. Also we could then plan how our chars know each other, since it's not the first time they are doing things together.

Or am I the only one who wants to know about things like these? XD

Seconding a character introduction / contacting discussion! Maybe as a separate "Who's who" thread? Could also add important NPCs there as the game goes on.

Good idea.

There, added a brief intro of Lucy to the Who's Who thread. If anyone's interested in fleshing out the relationship between him and your character, let me know!

Added mine. I was... less brief, so I linked her lifebackstory in a pastebin.

Same deal as the post above. If anyone wants to try and figure out how these character know/interact with each other, I'm game.

Done'd Lylas info

I'm going to be vaguely amused if the disc jockey ends up being the only politician in the group.

Well..the current other options are a stripper and a guy who tackles airplanes for fun. :D

Finally got around posting in the Who's who.
This will be my first forum rpg, so be gentle :3

Also everyone:

Unless otherwise stated, permanent conditions default to only one Major to start, with the rest being Minor.

Also, there are no penalties for Elemental Chi... yet.  This will likely change in the future but it will be a plot point.  When it does happen, it'll take up a Permanent Condition.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:39, Sat 10 Sept 2016.

That seems fine, but are we talking about gaining an additional permanent chi condition from going up in rank, or are they going to be a story based award? Mostly asking because I was planning on eventually going Wood/Fire.

Thank you for clarifying.

Edit: Also, if anyone cares, I decided to do a gallery link instead of a singular image on the who's who page.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:40, Sat 10 Sept 2016.

xS Lyla just got 10 years older, 'cause I just completely had forgotten about the 10 y gap between games. Fixed the age. Yes this was important, especially for an almost every young Solar.

Had been wondering why she was 15 when she Exalted.

Also, is the plan to wait for everybody to get a post in before we talk more?

15 y old stripper xD omg.

I think we can freely comment on each other but GM response might be waiting for everyone to chime in at first?

Correct, I usually wait for everyone to post.  Especially for the first time :p

My current post is based on the assumption that we've already observed the mechanics regarding Abyssals getting teleported back to their capitol ships after blowing up their fighters. Jess may also be making the fairly realistic assumption that an Abyssal in a capitol ship can't necessarily teleport away to yet another capitol ship if it goes boom boom.

Just let me know if that info is missing from our brains presently.

Ephesians Sequence Ready!

This broke me. I may need duct tape getting back together.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:04, Sat 17 Sept 2016.

Also, Billhook 3 is Daniel's nigga.

PHRASING

Totes unintent.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:04, Sun 18 Sept 2016.

So... roll initiative?

In reply to Jess (msg # 54):

Yes

For those unfamiliar with RPOL:

Rolling Dice
1. Click on the Dice Roller button in the top left ribbon (image: http://i.imgur.com/WeCzoJu.png)
2. Adjust the number of dice from the dropdown menu if necessary
3. Write a description for the roll to show what you're rolling (e.g. "Test", "Initiative")
4. Copy the results over to your post and do the math and mechanical declarations OOC in the beginning of the post. Make note of possible Chi expenditures for easy tracking!
This message was last edited by the player at 23:44, Sun 18 Sept 2016.

Oops.

Clarification, both Jess and Grunt got Interesting Times.

How does one do exorcism in this?

Ever see how Brock Samson deals with a mummy in Venture Brothers?

I guess it involves punching or punch related things?

PROSTITOOOOOOOOOOO

In all seriousness?

Be a Priest and use Quick Work.

Otherwise just beat the shit outta him.

Jess takes another point of Joss for something her player pointed out to me.

Grunt was mostly hoping that Endings had a strong affinity for dealing with the dead. Certainly didn't expect it but one always hopes.

I'll post initiative for Lyla once we see what Endings & Grunt are up to. So if you botch your rolls, she'll be there to fish you out.

Spammer here again:
I have a suggestion concerning these times of "I am *insert reason here* and cannot post". Yes, people have lives and things to attend to, so it's normal for it take a while for all of us to post (naturally this problem also becames smaller when we are no longer all in the same thread depending on each other) but still to get onwards with the plot and things at least I would love to get forward a bit faster instead of a turn taking a week to do.

So thus, I'd suggest some solution to this: My idea was that the player would be asking for some other player to post for you and fill out the roll things etc, fluff can be added later. Or asking the GM to roll and post for you in obvious cases of "what are you going to do". Naturally the latter means more work for GM, who is already busy as it is with everything else.

My suggestion only applies to cases like in which we are now, aka combat. Ofcourse if someone else is away from all internet connection for a week,then its different.

I endorse this.

I agree with Avy, it's understandable to have stuff holding you up but that's exactly why a system to stop things from stalling when that happens is good to have.

I think a 24 hour period after the last GM post would be reasonable? If you know you can't do it by then, tell someone to do it for you, or if nothing's been heard after 24h either the GM or someone else will do what would seem natural for the character.

Of course, this is only necessary in situations like the current thread where there's multiple PCs at the same place in combat or otherwise dependent on each other's timely input in order to advance.

Endings and Grunt, move to the next thread.

Kumiho is suggesting grouping the crappy fighters together in the same zone via the judicious use of Knockbacks, then slamming that zone with an AoE attack.

Didn't realize the minor action variant of old painless still had to be performed on initiative. Saves me chi. Will fix later.Don't roll defense. Need sleep.

Grunt tragically discovers the Buchenwald is not Mac compatible.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:59, Sat 08 Oct 2016.

Unix is the real standard.

Nonsense, what else would the nihilist villains aiming for the downfall of humanity use?

Clearly we need to upgrade our transmitters. To cruelly deprive them of our flows is a cruelty, and we must not go down to their level.

Managed to finish the calculations for the Blocks and Disorients/Disrupts, minus the Bathory. Looking at another 8 Ripples (Bringing it up to 23), 4 Rippling Rolls, and a successful Disrupt to Toughness so far. This could be it.

Thanks for the patience, everyone.  Expect a large post (with a tactical shift) tomorrow night.  Today has been crazy.  Trying to at least get the rolls done.  You don't want to roll init yet.

Making a wiki.  Feel free to contribute!

http://chronovertex.pbworks.co.../112255984/FrontPage

Aww yiss

Yay, longer char introductions!! Or at least thats what im going to do for lyla :DD

Going to Disney tomorrow morning.

To the Americans in the game: My deepest condolences for electing Agent Orange.

DNC got what it deserved.  This was hubris on a world-breaking scale.

(I didn't vote for the Cheeto.)

Computer blue screened.

Posting freeze- as I'm headed up to Buffalo/Rochester for Christmas.  Posts resume day after Christmas.

Have fun.

We'll have a new player soon.

In the meantime, have been feeling under the weather and creatively bankrupt.  Expect posts soon, as soon as I can nail down the Machinae guild.

Regarding posting schedule:

Life has hit me hard recently, mostly in a good way- wedding stuff and work projects.

I'll try to post daily, with the exception of Fridays and Sundays, which is when I'm getting most of my secondary chores done.

Heaven forbid that you have a real life!

Glad to hear its due to good reasons, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMbI7DmLCNI

Everyone, thanks for being patient- I've been entertaining guests for 2 weeks now.

My own apologies, I've been bad with allergies and busy with a spike at work. Going to be more regular from now own.

Sorry everyone, recovering from Disney.  Hopefully a post tonight or tomorrow.

Posts will be a while.

Off to get married!

Good luck and congratulations at the appropriate moment.

Have a good one and congratulations!

!!!
Hey everyone, I'm back in 'murrica!  Let me have a day or two to get my feet back underneath me and then posting will resume.

AWWWWWWW YISSSSSSS

Hope you had a great honeymoon!

A belated welcome back.

Welcome back and hope you had fun!

(arky isn't... he's getting his ass kicked big time. jesus fuck...)

Sorry all, allergies acting up.  Expect a post tomorrow.

Everyone, head's up:  I plan on taking a quick break (for my own sanity) from our normal threads to do a big group battle thread again.  This time it'll be an attack on an Abyssal cruiser factory.

More details to come.

Nothin' better to get in the groove than some Abyssal asskickery!

Alright, everyone, here's what's gonna go down:

Right before Jess bowed out, she'd discovered an Abyssal manufactorium on a far-away moon under the auspices of people who call themselves the Immaculates.  They seemed to be creating new weapons for the undead, and at this point they've succeeded.  It's too late to stop them there.  But you CAN take out the manufactorium, which will reduce the numbers of these enhanced asswipes.  As it stands, for every 5 Abyssal cruisers you encounter, 3 of them will be the enhanced versions.  You can knock that down to 2 or even 1.  An epic failure will, of course, boost up that number.

Currently, our roster is looking like this:
-Lucifer
-Lyla
-Grunt
-Arkady
-Kumiho
-One other NPC of your choice

Lucifer, Lyla, Kumiho will be in the business of just wrecking shit.  Arkady and Grunt will be entering the facility to extract what information they can and plant some charges from within.  Because, well, this manufactorium is dug in real deep.

For opponents, you won't be dealing with any of the Big Three.  Not unless you fuck up something awful.  This should give a chance for some of the Lesser Abyssals to shine before you annihilate them.  However, as a GM, I'd like to have a few more not-faceless opponents for you to deal with, so be warned that I'll want at least some of them to survive and bring more flavor to your opponents.

Any thoughts?

Sounds good to me!

If babus's new character is far enough along this'd be a good place for a test drive too?

Secret aaaaagent slav! This is gonna be fun.
:D

"-One other NPC of your choice"

What. We get to choose as a group? :D

Also this sounds awesome!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have travelled in time to bring you the grand finale of Chrono Vertex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcEDtftPeRE

Yep, decide which one.  Could be another member of the infiltration group, could be another Face Smasher in space.

And to reiterate:

I want to introduce some recurring Abyssal villains that aren't the Big 3.  Emphasis on RECURRING.

Are you subtly implying something :V

I just don't want anyone to bitch when the Abyssal makes a quick escape.  :V

Lever that shifts the world/craft + clarity in openness/craft +10 = "you're not going anywhere Suka!" ~ Arkady

If he/she gets away it is well deserved. :D

My suggestion for the NPC would be Battles. Didn't get to see him much yet!

I vote for Battles as well!

Regardless expect new thread up tomorrow.

Arkady, we'll continue with your thread too.

https://media.giphy.com/media/...-downsized-large.gif

"Oooooiiiii blin!" I'm so excited!

My vote for NPC is some form of less social demon. Blood Ape #128796.

As for recurring Abyssals, we need a spy of some sort. Femme Fatale would be the classic. Wouldn't mind a Zen Monk whose path of enlightenment included a great appreciation for painting/calligraphy. Or a specialist in debilitating but not killing, who uses some specific minion to finish off crippled prey.

I might have challenges replying to posts on time. Spending the next two weeks in Poland with limited Internet access.

Same with me and Avy, really, although I believe there actually is internet in the abandoned Soviet airbase we're staying at. So we'll see how it goes!

Starting when, guys?

Arky's already underway and we're leaving on saturday, but like I said I'm pretty sure we'll have some form of internet. I remember posting last year during the same event >_>

Yeah, we can huddle together for our OOC chat, and post in turns from Lucy's company phone :DD

We are back! Somehow we just got stuck in to the larp, and didn't find time for posting. Sorryyyy

Holy shit. I survived the apocalyptic wastelands of poland. This means posting resumes :D

Sorry for the delay, but I'm setting up the maps.  :)  I'm almost done, hope to have a post up tonight.

Quick question for all ya'll Onyx Spire crashers- you guys want a separate thread or keep in this one?

Imho two threads would keep things more coherent I think, unless there is going to be more contact between group "Fuckshitup" and group "oopsIbrokeIt", and it's still the same amount of work for the GM.

I'm with Arkady, it would also make it easier to control relative time passing if the two diverged. Still, whichever causes fewest headaches is fine.

2/3 is good for me.  Expect new thread probably tonight, guys.

Just so that nobody gets shocked, I've decided to change Lyla's colour in text from Green to Blue. :D

Posts coming soon.  Just finished traveling.  My apologies.

I'll take whatever mini you feel appropriate, still haven't found a good image for Grunt.

I'll make my own mini when I have time (Sunday-Monday).
 Use any placeholder in the meanwhile.

Honesty time: I completely misunderstood the 'go first in init part'. Oops.

Stand by the declared actions though.

Putting some stuff on brief hold until I feel a bit more comfortable about Irma.

Yikes, stay safe!

P.s. Irma is a finnish name >_>

Apologies for the slow posting lately.  My classes have just started ramping up and I'm getting big projects on a weekly basis.

Understandable, they just passed my capstone about five minutes ago so I feel your pain.

Thanks everyone,

Just wrapped up my biggest project last night.  Down to one more graded assignment but it's nowhere near as long.  Thanks for being patient with me and my apologies.

Glad to hear it. Hope you get some rest over the upcoming holidays.

I hope everyone's doing well!  Happy holidays!  Some news:

• Holiday Bonus:  +5 XP, can be spent immediately, with immediate effects.
• Fuck I'm Busy Bonus:  +2 XP, can be spent immediately, with immediate effects.
• Jesus Christ My Wife's Cat Won't Get the Fuck Off of the Keyboard Bonus:  Take an immediate specialty in a non-combat, non-QW-related skill.
• Wife and I bought a house!  We plan on moving the 7th, so from here on out posts will be even more sporadic (I know, I know...) because I'll only be able to post from work for a bit.

Congratulations! I will be sending you a free calico kitten in celebration! She loves eating Christmas Trees!

Still working on the move, everyone!  Still no internet at home.  Sorry if I've lost track of the Storming thread choices, but I've moved some stuff around, so you guys should pick a door.

I have internets!

Victory! also belated congrats on the house! That's awesome :)

Glad the most important utility is up and running.

Concerning combat and timezones: would it be silly for all of us to post our rolls in different order if we have the time to do it as long as there is no enemy turn in between us?

Ofcourse still treating them in the initiative order.


In example: in this current thread it might unnecessarily prolong the battle because I could post myself now at the day, and Gabriel can post prolly later in thr night for us which might mean that Arkady posts tomorrow. Making one turn last three days.

Suggest something if you have better ideas :D or if this has been solved already
This message was last edited by the player at 15:15, Thu 01 Feb 2018.

I agree with Aila. It's not like it matters who deals the killing blow :D

Posting order won’t change the order of events, just possibly the order of declarations. it saves massive amounts of time by changing the posting order from
GM-> PC1 -> GM -> PC 2 -> GM -> PC3 -> GM

to

GM -> (PCs 1,2,3 in any order) -> GM

While there’s a slight tactical disadvantage to not seeing the results of every action before declaring yours, I’d be more than happy to make that sacrifice for expedience’s sake.

While I won't object to the streamlining it does restrict tactics more than a little. The status of Waves, Disrupts, Disorients, and any ability that triggers off of something else (like if an opponent is wounded) seems like it might lead to a lot of nested if/then statements.

Doesn't really matter with Grunt, because none of his particular suite involve most of those things except some Wave influencing stuff. Just pointing it out.

.....and I'm really showing my roots in how this is the Exalted Transparency Problem in my head.

Fair point, it's potentially more than a little troublesome - but compared to taking a week of irl time per round of combat... Daniel will have talked through the personal histories of everyone on the Jagganathika in detail by the time the boarding party's done :D

To be frank I'd rather spend the time RPing, than just waiting for someone to take their turn. I don't have any suggestions how to make it better, but I'd just hope things to flow smoother. Like now a week went past, and we have managed to get through one round just barely.

I'm ready to give up on tactics to get a move on. Its hardly inspirational for anyone to be stuck grinding the same thing for a half a year.

edit: sorry about my rant :D
This message was last edited by the player at 15:27, Sun 04 Feb 2018.

I'm of the opinion that we have to streamline the posting process.  If something fucks up tactically I'll try to solve it by awarding joss to the offended PC/NPC to compensate.  I'm having a hard enough time posting, and that's not because I'm not invested, just my life has gotten so damn busy at work, school, and at home.  I'm still trying to find my feet here.

Also everyone take 5 XP for RAISINS.

Life finds a way...to ruin and complicate the fun things in it! Despite my previous rant keep up the good work! I just do it because I like the game and most certainly dont want it to be an extra burden to the GM.

Also yay XP. I havent even thought out what to do with all the previous ones.

Hey everyone- how do people feel about Discord as an additional means of communication?

Totally fine!

Sounds good!

Sure!

I've used it in other games and have no objections.