No worries.

In reply to baduizt (msg # 23):

I'm planning on playing a member of House Dougal. :)

BTW, have you considered using the C20 rules for Unleashing? It depends on the magic level of the game, obviously, but it adds some flexibility to cantrips.

The rules are really simple and you can read them here: https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...6262?cursor=12154905. In short, you roll as normal, adding Nightmare dice to your dice pool. Difficulty 5 if you want to coax it, or 8 if you want to command it. If you roll fewer successes than your Art level, the result is as normal. If you roll more, the casting has unexpected negative consequences as it runs away from the caster. If you coax the Unleashing, the ST decides the outcome; if you command it, you get more say. It costs two Glamour points and you gain Nightmare dice.

So, two Ailil, a Dougal, A Scathach, and a Fiona so far. What ranks are you folks looking at, and is anyone interested in having some background in common with a knight of Fiona with a passion for exploring the Dreaming?

I'm thinking Title 2, tops.

any ideas on a background pool?

Also want descriptions for any freehold, as I say in the char creation rules.

Well, there are a number of options. I'm just throwing around ideas here, so take whatever works.

You could have the characters reclaim a lost/forgotten freehold. The Resurgence reignited some old balefires, but the Second Coming also did. Depending on when you set the story, it's entirely feasible that an old deserted bar or house has been discovered with a burning balefire, and that the characters are helping nurture it back to health. Alternatively, the PCs could even be people with competing claims over the same freehold, and they settle on the idea of all living there until the issue is sorted (would fit your political focus).

The characters might be invited to join a cooperative freehold. Everyone can claim sanctuary if they pitch in.

It might also be that they're all in the household of the local count, vying for power, shored up against the angry commoners outside. (See 'Accordance: A Social History' for ideas, here: http://forum.theonyxpath.com/f...nce-a-social-history.)

Ideas for freeholds:

-a treehouse that spirals into the clouds, the branches becoming their own towers
-an underwater upside-down house that rises (descends?) on stilts from the water in a mirror realm
-a disused railway arch
-the house of a famous artist--it's surreal topography reflective of the artist's unusual style
-a riverboat
-a travelling circus, with the tent unfolding to reveal a vast interior world, and the main coach having a Tardis effect
-a disused train car
-a deserted school gymnasium
-an enchanted meadow, where the trees, flowers and mushrooms become buildings
-a disused, turn-of-the-(20th)-century cinema
-a theatre
-a shopping centre/mall
-an unfinished housing project abandoned during the financial crash

or maybe the Freehold was created as a place to meet negotiate and politic?

True. In that case, though, would they have any claim to it, or would they just have access to it? Taking Freehold as a Background means you can get some dross or Glamour from it. But if it's only a place they sometimes visit, there would presumably be others with a stronger claim to its Glamour resources.

yes having some claim to it sounds good.

Oh something that seems very in keeping with Ailil?

A winter Motiff.
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How about a zoo? An abandoned Arctic-themed zoo, full of penguins, killer whales, seals, etc. Or, at least, the chimerical versions of the same. Think of the Penguin's lair in Tim Burton's Batman.

Maybe, or Perhaps a place for figure skating?


We'll probaly see more then one freehold in play.
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You could figure skate there too. :P

I like this idea. Or, a related one, my knight found a trod to a forgotten freehold in the Near Dreaming. Some of you claim the freehold, while I claim the trod which allows access to it. Politics ensue.

I like that idea too.

sounds good well want to go with the Artic theme for a Freehold to start off in? (Not sure what its mundane appearance would be)

How many points would we be required to invest in it?

Hmmmn a good Freehold maybe 2 or 3 points.

Is that each, yes? I can probably tweak my concept a bit to do that. Have you seen my character sheet? I sent it by PM.

That was alltogether actually.

but Everyone having their own freehold might be good.

Sorry, I thought we were being asked to pool background points into a big freehold. But if we're pooling, I can easily contribute a Background dot towards the total.

Where should be post character sheets?

Send it to me in a PM.

Is this still happening?

yes Just need to go ahead and pick a starting location.

I'm open to suggestions. San Francisco? NYC? An invented city of your own creation?