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Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

Posted by The StrayFor group 0
The Stray
GM, 785 posts
The Marshal
'round these parts
Tue 23 Nov 2010
at 17:56
  • msg #5

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

Wildcat Hawkins:
OOC:  Drawing a gun, and if there's time for another action, taking the Aim action.  Incidentally, does the gun look solid or spectral?  If it happens to look solid I'm aiming at that.  I don't know why it would but it's worth mentioning just in case.


The gun looks like the rest of the man...slightly transparent.
Wildcat Hawkins
player, 431 posts
Texas Ranger
P5 T6 W0 F0 B1W0R1B Cha 2
Tue 23 Nov 2010
at 18:14
  • msg #6

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

I figured, but my mind over analyzed it, thinking a gun that would harm a solid person might have to file solid projectiles, but I know that's not necessarily the case.

That and I was going for another trope, firing the gun out his hand. :D

Incidentally I hate multiple choice questions, as I overthink them...
The Stray
GM, 786 posts
The Marshal
'round these parts
Tue 23 Nov 2010
at 18:19
  • msg #7

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

Yeah, I knew what you were going for.

It's nice to have another Troper in the game...
Alouette
player, 365 posts
Automaton/Angel
P4 T8(2) W0 F0 B3 Cha -3
Tue 23 Nov 2010
at 19:26
  • msg #8

Digging for Zhang

Does the rest of the party need to roll notice to hear Gus?
This message was last edited by the player at 19:28, Tue 23 Nov 2010.
The Stray
GM, 787 posts
The Marshal
'round these parts
Tue 23 Nov 2010
at 19:39
  • msg #9

Re: Digging for Zhang

Make Notice checks with a +2 bonus to hear him.
Wildcat Hawkins
player, 434 posts
Texas Ranger
P5 T6 W0 F0 B1W0R1B Cha 2
Tue 23 Nov 2010
at 22:46
  • msg #10

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

In reply to The Stray (msg #7):

Heh, I don't actually play to them on purpose.  It's just hilarious to me how memetic fiction (and real life) is.  We do things and I see tropes in them.

For example right now WC is setting herself up for Didn't Think This Through in her desperation to get that... thing... away from Carl.  The character's whole backstory is Best Served Cold.

I can do it with all the PCs...

Charging Bear is hard to peg, he sort of puts on the demeaner of a Noble Savage but he's subverting that trope.

Wildcat is an Action Girl.

John Smith is Mysterious Past meets Supernatural Martial Arts.

Katy is a Plucky Girl.

Augustus is Soap Opera Disease or more likely Victorian Novel Disease meets Mad Scientist.

Etc.
This message was last edited by the player at 22:47, Tue 23 Nov 2010.
Wildcat Hawkins
player, 435 posts
Texas Ranger
P5 T6 W0 F0 B1W0R1B Cha 2
Tue 23 Nov 2010
at 23:06
  • msg #11

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

Ugh I can't stop.

•The Hero - Evans (note that in this ensemble, the Hero is not necessarily the most important character, but Evans has assembled the rag tag bunch of misfits so he gets the billing)
•The Lancer - possibly Gangatsu (hates him but more or less on his side even if she doesn't like it), possibly Wildcat (different life experiences and philosophy)
•The Big Guy - Charging Bear
•The Smart Guy - Augustus Spotswood
•The Old Guy - Robert
•The Young Guy - Katy Devon
•The Funny Guy - Aloutte

Okay no more TV tropes...
Gangatsu
player, 139 posts
The 'Suicide' Samurai
P6 T5 W0 F0 B3 Cha -2
Tue 23 Nov 2010
at 23:16
  • msg #12

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

The Family Guy - Jake Lawrence
The Drifter - John Smith.

^_^
The Stray
GM, 788 posts
The Marshal
'round these parts
Tue 23 Nov 2010
at 23:23
  • msg #13

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

Gangatsu isn't the Lancer so much as a Sixth Ranger Hot Chick With A Sword. Wildcat is probably the Lancer of this bunch. Robert certainly is a Cool Old Guy Guile Hero and the Smart One of the bunch that hangs around the town, while Augustus is The Smart One of the folks out at the ranch. Katy has shades of The Chick. Alouette is a Cloud Cuckoolander Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant.
Alouette
player, 367 posts
Automaton/Angel
P4 T8(2) W0 F0 B3 Cha -3
Tue 23 Nov 2010
at 23:24
  • msg #14

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

In reply to Wildcat Hawkins (msg #10):

I just read that as 'Super Marital Arts'. I think I may be tired. I am going sleeps now.
Augustus Spotswood
player, 172 posts
Scientist!
P2 T6 W0 F0 B C -1
Wed 24 Nov 2010
at 01:20
  • msg #15

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))


Mad Scientist?  Mad?  I'm a little frustrated but not mad.  Heh.

As for Disease...that's pretty accurate...

By the way, you guys really crank out the posts!  Its neat, but I spend alot of my free posting time just tyring to catch up and read everyone elses!  If only your posts weren't so darn interesting...
The Stray
GM, 790 posts
The Marshal
'round these parts
Wed 24 Nov 2010
at 01:22
  • msg #16

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

I know! It's the curse of a fast moving game. We keep momentum, but it's like riding a wave.
Wildcat Hawkins
player, 437 posts
Texas Ranger
P5 T6 W0 F0 B1W0R1B Cha 2
Wed 24 Nov 2010
at 01:53
  • msg #17

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

Ah Augustus, you messed up.  Evans won't snap out of it until someone punches him square in the gullet.
The Stray
GM, 792 posts
The Marshal
'round these parts
Wed 24 Nov 2010
at 01:57
  • msg #18

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

Yes, because physical abuse is just what a traumatized non-soldier needs right now. I don't think Evans works on Percussive Maintenance.
Augustus Spotswood
player, 174 posts
Scientist!
P2 T6 W0 F0 B C -1
Wed 24 Nov 2010
at 02:03
  • msg #19

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))


I thought about it....  Actually, my first thought was to whack him with the cane like a crotchety old man.  But then Eli figured, much as the Boss said, beating him wouldn't fix it.  Not a soldier.
Jake Lawrence
player, 6 posts
Huckster
P5 T5 W0 F0 FC:-
Wed 24 Nov 2010
at 02:31
  • msg #20

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

Jake's theme song.... Carry on Wayward Son by Kansas
Alouette
player, 369 posts
Automaton/Angel
P4 T8(2) W0 F0 B3 Cha -3
Wed 24 Nov 2010
at 07:47
  • msg #21

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

Is it me, or is there some kind of demented mutual protection thing going on between Carl and Wildcat at present? Only I know Carl'd react to a threat to Wildcat with a "{{puff}} My Ranger to murder" the same way Wildcat goes "{{puff}} My prisoners"...if either of them end up indebted to the other for it they're going to have to start a tally sheet before they can duel...
John Smith
player, 161 posts
Bennies W:2 R:0 B:1
P: 7/8 T: 6 W: 0 F; 0
Wed 24 Nov 2010
at 07:48
  • msg #22

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

Ah John, still rather weak, he needs to eat more protein and workout more of his physical muscle instead of his spiritual muscle.
Gangatsu
player, 142 posts
The 'Suicide' Samurai
P6 T5 W0 F0 B3 Cha -2
Wed 24 Nov 2010
at 09:48
  • msg #23

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

They should just go on a date already.
He's quiet, she's talkitive.

He's wrong, she's right.

He's a gun man. She's been gunned down. [Just pick a hole -laughs at that, almost falling over]
Wildcat Hawkins
player, 443 posts
Texas Ranger
P5 T6 W0 F0 B1W0R1B Cha 2
Wed 24 Nov 2010
at 14:28
  • msg #24

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

Gangatsu:
They should just go on a date already.
He's quiet, she's talkitive.

He's wrong, she's right.

He's a gun man. She's been gunned down. [Just pick a hole -laughs at that, almost falling over]


XD

I could not stop laughing for 30 seconds.
Wildcat Hawkins
player, 445 posts
Texas Ranger
P5 T6 W0 F0 B1W0R1B Cha 2
Wed 24 Nov 2010
at 15:19
  • msg #25

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

Alouette:
Is it me, or is there some kind of demented mutual protection thing going on between Carl and Wildcat at present? Only I know Carl'd react to a threat to Wildcat with a "{{puff}} My Ranger to murder" the same way Wildcat goes "{{puff}} My prisoners"...if either of them end up indebted to the other for it they're going to have to start a tally sheet before they can duel...


It's a little more genuine on WC's end.  Carl probably can't be expected to understand or care, but killing Jesse really weighs on her because she doesn't believe it was her place to actually kill him.  Kat has a bit of a martyr complex and sees trying to kill her as a lesser crime than trying to kill a non lawdog; her daddy issues have a lot to do with that.  She wanted Jesse to face trial in earnest.

As far as WC's concerned, Carl's few hours in the pokey absolves him of anything he's done so far up to and including the threat of killing her.  She's not going to drop her guard or think that it changes anything from Carl's end, but under the circumstances, she's accepting this short incarceration as putting everything squaresies.  She's a vengeful bitch, but Evans in her eyes was and will again be a legitimate authority figure and more impartial than her, and if he has decreed one night in the pokey is adequate, she accepts that.

The irony is WC has lived her whole life hating someone she can never forgive and will think Carl is broken and pathetic if he makes his move, and as far as she's concerned the satisfaction of cuffing Hardin will never happen now, so she sees no reason Carl's entitled to anything that's been denied her.

Two helpless men being phantom shot by a... hell thing, is something she can't tolerate even if they deserve it.
Alouette
player, 371 posts
Automaton/Angel
P4 T8(2) W0 F0 B3 Cha -3
Wed 24 Nov 2010
at 19:07
  • msg #26

Re: Out of Character: The Grand Bull Saloon ((OOC II))

@Gangatsu - [snerk] That is so very wrong...he might get a court date, if he's on his worst behaviour.

Don't know about that...Wildcat may have moral reasons rather than dodgy sense of honour, but the effect/personal involvement is the same...there's something unsettling, if not ironic, about the fact that Wildcat (the good gal's!) motives are largely rooted in hatred - for Hardin as/and/or the archetypal criminal, for those too lawless for her to empathise with - whilst Carl's (the dirt snake's) are just as deeply drawn from love...it's just very limited to blood, pack and land, in about that order. Wildcat almost picked up on that, but took it for resentment of the world rather than just not caring...she does have some love for the world in general, I think, when she looks up from her path a bit.

Eh. I wonder if ghost-rabies is transmissable through saliva...though of course it might be The Virus. [sigh]
Wildcat Hawkins
player, 447 posts
Texas Ranger
P5 T6 W0 F0 B1W0R1B Cha 2
Wed 24 Nov 2010
at 22:05
  • msg #27

Bored and stuck at a computer with nothing to do..

Thought some of you might find these mildly amusing.

Humorous incidents from new player.

Deadlands:

quote:
I stuff the lit dynamite in my purse!
“Your purse or your carpetbag, you said you have both with you.”
The purse.
“Okay, the dynamite is in the purse, and the fuse is still burning, you literally have like three seconds.   Now there is an underground lake here below you in the mine shaft, but you possibly risk a cave in no matter where you throw it.  I won’t make you roll throwing if you drop it in the lake though, all you have to do is let it go.”
I throw it in the lake!
“The purse with the dynamite in it?”
Yes!
“Okay it doesn’t have time to sink very far, but it does get a short ways under the surface of water when it goes BOOM.  A lot of water sprays everywhere, but no one is hurt.  Some sand and sediment comes down the shaft, but it seems to have held up just fine.”
Where’s my purse?
“You just blew it up.  Mark off anything you were carrying in it.”
Why did I put it in there!?
“I don’t know.”


Dark Heresy

quote:
(A little background on this one.  I’m playing a Tech Priest who lost his face to an elder attack, basically an alien elf just cut my face off one time so my Fellowship is 3 on a scale of 1 to 100 more or less.  Tech Priests are sort of half robot, so I worked it out with the GM my character basically has a metal plate for a face with two glowing optical sensors on it, which is why my Fellowship is so low now.  Also, I’ve never said whether this character is male or female, and since he/she is half robot, speaks with a synthesized voice that can sound like literally anyone, and wears a big robe all the time, and responds to being called either a he or a she out of sheer indifference, it’s sort of a running gag.  That and the other players are perverts who make hilarious pervert remarks all the time but I've left those out since this game is rated Mature.)

New player has found what’s basically a paint marker in game.
I’m gonna draw big moustache under her nose.
GM:  “First of all, why do you think the pile of bolts is a her now when you’ve been calling it he and him this whole time, second of all, what are you going to draw it under, the tech priest doesn’t have a nose any more.   It’s just a metal plate with a grill where the mouth should be and two glowing sensors where the eyes should be.”
I draw it anyway
GM:  “Do you let her?
“No.  I say, stop that, you’re messing up my finish.”
But I want to draw a face on you.
“No.”
But you need a face, you’ll never be pretty without a face.
“I don’t care.”
(Some time later, the exasperated Tech Priest makes some rolls and wrestles the marker away from her and stuffs her in a locker.)
How can he do that!?
GM:  “So it’s a he again now?  Anyway your Strength is like 25, the tech priest has like a 60, your weapon skill sucks too, his is good, so this probably is how it should go down.
But I’m an assassin.
GM:  “Yeah who uses guns.
Some time later, she decides to get revenge by shooting me with her autogun.   My character is basically like the Terminator or something, and she’s using ordinary ammo, so it does nothing to me.
“Stop that.”
(She keeps firing to no avail, other players are laughing.)
But I use guns!
GM:  “You have to do like 13 damage to hurt the tech priest.  You can hurt him you're just rolling not so good.
WHAT!?
GM:  “Yeah, why do you think when you guys went down that hallway the priest walks in first and the other characters stand behind him for cover!?
Her!
GM:” Whatever!  Look she’s made out of more metal than bones and stuff.
How come I’m not cool like that!?
You are.  She weighs like 800 pounds and people are afraid of her, and she can’t fight like you can, and she can hardly move at all and you can move really fast…
Oh, so that’s why he doesn’t have a face.
Yes, that’s why he doesn’t have a face.  He’s basically a cyborg.
So he doesn’t have a face and that’s why he can take so much damage.
That’s right.”
Really?  Hey, do you have a sword?
“Uh, yeah…”
Cut my face off with it, I want to be all tough like that too.
GM face palms.

Alouette
player, 373 posts
Automaton/Angel
P4 T8(2) W0 F0 B3 Cha -3
Wed 24 Nov 2010
at 22:19
  • msg #28

Re: Bored and stuck at a computer with nothing to do..

Kee! I want to see what happens if Alouette gets hold of dynamite - it's already logiced out that it's a minimum-smoke alternative to cremation and thus the best way to deal with undead (or unundead, or deadundead) corpses.

Some slightly out of context quotes from work today (I was in the lab sorting beastie skellies):

"I'll be back in a second - don't worry if it blows up."

"I do transpose myself sometimes."

"I know it's a dog by the shape it is..."
The Stray
GM, 796 posts
The Marshal
'round these parts
Wed 24 Nov 2010
at 22:19
  • msg #29

Re: Bored and stuck at a computer with nothing to do..

Wow...that is one player I'd probably boot...I tend to have a low tolerance for Chaotic Stupid stuff directed at other PCs.
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