In reply to Narrator (msg # 2):

Okay, does the NWO have any federal ties or contacts that can be used to insert myself in with? Sure they'll have some means of making official appearances to the government or local officials? What would be the general method other agents have used when meeting with people?

If it's the case of "The general public and officials can never see or hear of us," I'll probably change it me simply contacting the Sheriff's Office only. There was an after shock or some sort of physical anomaly that affected the city, right?
This message was last edited by the player at 03:25, Tue 15 Sept 2020.

The Technocracy in general and the NWO in particular typically claim to be part of a relevant government agency when dealing with local officials.  Your teammates will likely either have fake ids indicating that they are with the FBI (and others indicating they are part of various other government agencies, such as the CDC) or a team member who can use his powers to make the authorities believe that is the case if they don’t.  Agent Roswell told the members of your police station that she was with the FBI.




Maybe. That hasn’t been determined yet.

I think the best way to answer your question is with an example pulled from some TV show I saw on the sci-fi channel years ago.

What happened could be equivalent to a portal to the age of the dinosaurs being opened in someone’s back yard.  (A significant continuing disruption in space/time occurring over a relatively small area.)  It is possible that no dinosaurs have come through yet (best case scenario).  It is possible that one or two smaller ones have come through and not been noticed yet.  Maybe someone’s dog has been eaten or there is a sabretooth kitten that has climbed up an old lady’s tree and is meowing for help.  It is possible the city has been overrun with dinosaurs.  Until someone on the team does further research, you don’t know yet.

Note:  It’s not going to be dinosaurs.  At least not this time.  But now that I’ve remembered the show…..well…..it is probably going to be dinosaurs someday.

As mentioned in the portion of the first post associate with your name, if you watched the news this evening, you do know that a severe wind and rain storm was predicted to hit Mendocino tonight and there will be bad weather in the surrounding region as well.  Since you have 0 dots in Reality Deviant Data, you have no way of knowing whether or not that is relevant.  One of the other team members might.
This message was last edited by the GM at 04:04, Tue 15 Sept 2020.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 8):

If I were to ask Agent Roswell if I was to be given any credentials (Legit or fake federal agent ID etc.), what would my answer be?

In reply to Bernard Hathaway (msg # 9):

She will be able to get you fake FBI credentials before you leave.

Also Agent Kiki Roswell is one of three identical clones. The three clone sisters are Kiki, Lili, and Mimi. Their cloning facility was in Roswell, New Mexico. None of the Player Characters would know this fact, only the three sisters and NWO agents with high enough authority. Clones subjects A-J could not take and were rejected before the process could go underway. Clones K, L, and M were the only ones to take hold and form before the template became too corroded to create anymore viable clones, and you do NOT want to clone a clone. It never works.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:10, Tue 15 Sept 2020.

In reply to Bernard Hathaway (msg # 11):

Bernard, I just noticed that you edited your post.  Thank you for including the additional information.

Unfortunately, neither the Sheriff nor the Mayor are minor NPCs.  Nor are they NPCs that are a component of your character such as your mentor or Shawn and Luci's familiars. Conversations with them will need to be played out in IC thread.  Especially, since the conversation is likely to go in a very different direction than you are assuming.

I've gone ahead and posted the Sheriff's response to the initial portion of your conversation.

You can go ahead and update your initial post with the corrected conversation when we are done or just leave the sentences I used in the initial post and let the rest of it just play out in the thread.
This message was last edited by the GM at 12:29, Tue 15 Sept 2020.

And one quick clarification, since I think I noticed some confusion.

Agent Kiki Roswell is Bernard's mentor.  She is not the team's supervisor.  I will get your supervisor added as an NPC tomorrow along with Xhiva's trainee.

Xhiva and his trainee will be making an appearance on the jet and each will have a post.  So no one post the jet taking off yet.
This message was last edited by the GM at 08:58, Tue 15 Sept 2020.

I’d like to do some investigating into star scam sometime, on my own if need be. I may be a thief myself, but to fleece people like that (and I’m assuming poor people donated to that cause when they really needed that money for themselves) crosses a line for me and ya I know it sounds funny for a thief to say that lol.

Akari:  How many people can fit in your vehicle?  Will we need a second rental car for part of the team or will everyone fit?  Currently there are 5 of you on the plane and you will be meeting up with Bernard in California.  But, there may ultimately be two more team members (depending on whether or not they are able to join us).

So can 8 people and a sugar glider fit comfortably in IVAN?
This message had punctuation tweaked by the GM at 03:30, Wed 16 Sept 2020.

I think it would be kind of nice if everyone had an assigned color for their dialog boxes. If this sounds like something we'd like to do to add a bit of personality to this, I'd like to take the color Coral.

Many Play-By-Post games do use colored text to indicate who is speaking and while I won't mandate it, it is something I've been trying to do with my NPCs.

The only potential issue is that some colors can be hard to see and which colors are hard to see vary from user to user and computer screen to computer screen. For instance, Luci mentioned she found the dark blue challenging to read, whereas on my computer it is one of the colors I find easiest to see.

If I or someone else use a color that is hard for you to see, please let us know and I'm sure we'll be happy to change it.

Since I believe there may still be a few things occurring on the jet that haven't finished playing out, I'm going to set your thread on hold for right now Bernard.  You should be getting to meet up with the group soon.  But I'd like to let everyone finish what they are doing on the jet first.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 18):

Sure

In reply to Narrator (msg # 18):

I’ve finished my parts on the plane

Since one of our players will not be able to join us until October 1, I’m hoping to draw the getting to know each other and driving to Mendocino part out a bit.  Feel free to share stories of missions the group has gone on together in the past (you can make up things that would be logical), etc.

Though when/if the conversation dies down and we need to move on, we will do so, even if it will still be some time before Xhiva’s player can join us.

Akiri, at some point in the drive, go ahead and make a driving roll at difficulty 7 before bonuses are applied.  You won’t have an accident unless you botch.  But use the results to influence any posts about how challenging it is to drive to Mendocino and any issues that you might encounter.

A comment made in passing last night made me realize I’d been making an inaccurate assumption and should have instead provided a bit more information.

Your characters would realize that the relatively short message you received letting you know about the reality breach in Mendocino did not necessarily contain all of the available information.  Additional relevant information might be found in the Presidio Construct’s libraries (most of which is accessible digitally).

Basically, what happened is one of the devices used to monitor the Southwestern United States for issues started flashing a red alert stating there was an issue in the specific area you are being directed to investigate.

Sometimes the citizen who saw the alert (the un-Enlighted employee monitoring the screen) will do further research and add additional information to the alerts before sending them out.  Sometimes, as in this case, they leave that up to you.

What that means, is that if you do an intelligence + research + library roll you may find out that there are certain individuals in Mendocino who have been tagged as potential threats.    As I mentioned a while back, not all reality deviants the Technocracy finds are immediately captured/processed/killed etc.  Sometimes, if they don’t seem like a threat, they just monitor them or even just add them to the database to be followed up on later.

The same is true for Bernard.  The message the team received simply indicated: “You will be meeting a potential new recruit, Bernard Hathaway, at the airport in Santa Rosa and driving to Mendocino.  He will be assisting in the investigation.”  But you could have easily pulled up a dossier of information about him.  That wouldn’t even require a roll.

Since this was my mistake (I wasn’t clear enough), if you want to say that you did either of these things prior to boarding the jet or while you were on the jet, you can do so.

Additional Information:

Your direct supervisor is Ethan Wellesley, NWO
The director of the Presidio construct is Andrew Davenport, Syndicate.

Pictures of them can be seen in the "The Cast" section.  Additional information about them will be added to that section in the coming days.

Two question questions.

1.  For everyone:  Just for my own awareness.  How old are each of your characters?

2.  For everyone other than Bernard:  Does your character pay any attention to the political side of things in the construct?  How familiar are they with managers other than their, how management interacts with each other, etc.?

In reply to Narrator (msg # 24):

Robert appears to be around 33, exact age is unknown and he tries to keep up with the going ons of management and the politics, never know what will pop up and help or hinder him

In reply to Narrator (msg # 24):

Akari is 22 but due to Asian magic she looks 17-18

In reply to Narrator (msg # 15):

Unfortunately, IVAN seats 6 plus the driver. But we could probably rig something up for someone in the back space area with the robot :)

My next post is going to be quite large and I'm still in the process of getting it typed up.  I don't believe I will be able to finish before I go to bed.  So it will probably be posted tomorrow evening.  I'll have it available for you as soon as possible.
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:24, Mon 21 Sept 2020.

So what is the living arrangements gonna be? Like, in character, Bernard called a motel and put some rooms on hold because in real life, there really isn't much in Mendocino in the ways of chain hotels and such. Did you want to make up a hotel, because I read from someone, can't find it, that they were hoping for a good hotel. Not sure if we were gonna let IRL bleed into the game is all. This is also for anyone to read and add on top off.

While Mendocino is a small town, the majority of the town's income comes from tourism and it is home to a large number of bed and breakfasts and inns, including some very nice ones.  I will agree that their aren't many hotel chains.

If you are looking for a luxury hotel, your best bet is The Heritage House.  Rooms run about $600 a night.  https://www.heritagehouseresort.com/

Other less expensive but still very nice inns include the Sea Rock Inn https://searock.com/, the Agate Cove Inn https://www.agatecove.com/, and Stanford Inn by the Sea  https://stanfordinn.com/.

But I have no problem with the players creating their own Bed and Breakfast or Inn if they wish.

Additional information about Mendocino can be found in the setting thread.
This message was last edited by the GM at 12:08, Mon 21 Sept 2020.

I know like that last set of posts may seem like an overwhelmingly large amount if information.  Don't worry.  That won't be the norm.