New OOC thread, since the old one is nearing the 1000 post limit.

And to kick this off on a somber note, my mom just called to tell me that her cat, Chica, has died of old age.

:(

In reply to The Stray (msg #1):

=(

In less dire news play the card why not.

sadness...

Vote for noted. On the theme of dire things, the name of this thread makes me picture it lit by a flaming Lurch, just so y'all know.

Thank you.

So one vote against, 2 votes for. Still waiting on John and Adrian to add in their two cents.

Heh. Funny image. You know he's not dead, right? The flames hurt him to Incapacitated, but fire won't actually kill him. So you might be seeing him again.

I do. Carl's aware of it, too, since he sees Lurch as a sort of pasty deadpan Tex. I...I can't help but imagine he'll still be on fire. I know it's illogical, but...

Well, by now all his clothes would have burned off...here's an image for your visual imagination! Naked flaming Lurch!

Uh, thank you. I am going to go sleeps now. If I have Naked Flaming Lurch dreams I will blame you unreservedly.

For the record, my vote is for

...that wasn't very helpful...

[offers Adrian a full stop] 3 for, 1 against...unless JohnJohn has some pressing reason I shouldn't, I think that's a go.

Well, when the only choice was "for" or "against" I thought that would have been sufficient, though I suppose the "." would have been helpful.

For the use of the Frying Pan card

Cool. Frying Pan isn't limited to only being played on your turn, so if you want to spend it now, just post the intention to do so on the Adventure Card thread and I'll handle it when I get back from work tonight.

We're all gonna die!!!!

but think of the spectacle!

Random draw = 1 white & 2 red chippits, putting my lot at 2 white, 2 red.

That init. draw for the Dreaded Frying Pan? Best Ever. (Unless Alouette draws the RJ! next round, of course) PCs are now reminded that they are stood on a wet street next to a metal pole with a thunderstorm coming, and

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also in the company of a lad with a now thoroughly over-excited baby thunderbird in his chest.

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10:06, Today: Charging Bear rolled 14,21,14 using 1d35,1d35,1d35, rerolling max with rolls of 14,21,14. Fate Chips.

2 white and 1 red ...
so I total of 3 white and 2 red for me

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Now that Natural Healing roll...
10:12, Today: Charging Bear rolled 5,5 using 1d8,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5,5. Natural Healing.
That'll put CB at 2 wounds.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:13, Fri 11 Nov 2011.

I drew a red chip with a 29!

10:05, Today: Adrian Vega rolled 29 using 1d35 with rolls of 29.

Is there any way to know what chips NPC Wild Cards have?
This message was last edited by the player at 20:13, Fri 11 Nov 2011.

If The Stray tells you.  It really is meant to be hidden from the players.  It is fair game however to ask how many personal chips they have burned.

Gotcha. I was just thinking of using my Karma Thief card, but I didn't want to steal a chip from another player.

As A Gm, I currently have 1 white and 1 red. The Wild Card NPCs in this fight have 2 White Chips each.

In reply to The Stray (msg #20):

19:07, Today: Wildcat Hawkins rolled 25 using 1d35, rerolling max with rolls of 25. They call him Chipper, Chipper!

One of each color!  I have a feeling I am about to need them!

Oy. Sorry for the delays, everyone. It's been a rough few days at work, which haven't made my brain thingy feel worky. That, and I've been trying to figure out the best way to kick off the Frying Pan event as well as a couple of other in-game events for those not involved in the big fight. I'll have stuff up either tonight or tomorrow during the day.

Tis all right, I figured that card would throw you off a few days trying to figure out how to deal with it.  XD

Note to Self: Asian Horror movies, in a candle lit room, with the wind howling like demons or something lovecraftian makes for a helluva evening!

Note to World: getting ginger on that bit at the back of your throat that's slightly up your nose = eye-watering discomfort. Marmite = headbanging agony.

BIRDIE! Aww, lookit the destroying angel impression...can I soak on my turn, now I have chips, or is it too late?

[Private to GM: Also, can the Hawk roll to break the command on the clank if people pose a genuine threat to the fledgie?]
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In reply to Alouette (msg #25):

Yes, now that you folks have chips, you can make soak rolls for the damage inflicted by the crowd. This goes for everyone damaged in that last brawl who hasn't acted yet.

[Private to Alouette: Yes.]

For your comic book fans in the audience this mini-series looks to be worth the read when it hits

http://io9.com/5859616/read-an...weird-western-hawken

He looks pretty good for a scalped dude, that fellow does.

Y'know, the new situation could be solved very swiftly if only we had a beachball, a horse, and a priest inclined to throw tar...

Hello all, new player here. Some might know me from other games here or from the TAG/Peginc forums, where I'm derfinsterling. (Haven't been active lately on both, though).

Looking forward to join a game that's already got way over 6000 posts!

Welcome to the game!

Howdy! Mind the birdies, help yourself to a toasting fork and feel free to make use of our nice flaming Lurch, things are only going to get stranger.

Normal is indeed relative around here.  I felt like Wildcat and Charging Bear were the last brother and sister of normalcy, and now Wildcat's lost to The Strange.

Aw, they can still be Terrible Luck siblings! At least Carl isn't going to learn how to trap his enemies in invisible boxes any time soon? Then you should probably be afraid.

Oooooh game question.

If Danny Boy is floatin 18 feet in the air, can Wildcat and Adrian seem him or no?

Yes, you can see him. He's kind of hard to miss.

I think Wildcat is about to draw aggro from Alouette...Danny is kind of special to the clank...

Better Wildcat than the Blackthornians.

It's the Seven of Spades!

It is indeed! And that "friend" he's "paying his respects" to? Guess who that is! }:D

Gotta love it :)

Indeed. Incidentally, he didn't shoot your horse...your horse is the one he's riding! (makes you wonder whose horse it was you saw there...and just how long Adrian was actually in the ground for...)

Nature facts!

1. Many species of bird will attempt to hatch out or care for anything found in their nest (including golf balls, chicks of other species etc.) if their own young is removed or destroyed. Taking advantage of these extremely strong base instincts is how cuckoos propagate.

2. The bigger and more badass a bird of prey, the more likely it is to be female.


...ironically, the wee thunderbird was/is trying to help, in its own overkilling way, but now the Hawk is distracted from bringing down the source of the trouble because the kid is scarier than watching it attack thin air...

Alert! I will be scarce this weekend (at least until Sunday morning). I will get some posts in, but I won't be around much on Saturday.

It's going to be fun should Wildcat meet up with someone else who actually is in her Bible.

Hey considering recent developments, that's a double entendre now!

Indeed. Seven isn't going to be happy to see the law coming to his tiny, corrupt little hide-a-way, and might leap to some assumptions. Another enemy for Wildcat! (like she needeed anymore)

Evans is so terrible at dealing with Carl I feel sorry for him. I wonder if he'll catch that being allowed to potentially make the loaded weapon work is a trust offering, or whether he'll just give up and storm off... Carl, by this point, is somewhat annoyed by Evans' insistent attempts to touch him and mildly weirded out.

Oh, hey, will Seven (for some reason I keep trying to type Se7en) be looking for Nate when he hits town?
This message was last edited by the player at 21:55, Mon 21 Nov 2011.

After around 4pm today I'm going to be offline for the Thanksgiving holiday and won't be back near a computer till next Tuesday (Nov 29th) most likely.  This is do to my going to NYC for the holiday and the following few days. I'll do my best to monitor the happenings of the game but can't guarantee I'll have time to post anything

Happy Thanksgiving US-players. ;-)

I think it's great how the only real way you've got to find out who you're sharing a game with is by these holiday-announcements that are copied and pasted to every game... :-)

Doesn't help that I'm in a fair number of games. This is the current list

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[SavW] Iron Dynasty - Intrigue & Betrayal -- GM
Sixguns & Spellslingers: The Storm [Deadlands: Reloaded] -- Charging Bear/Jack Lawrence
(SavW) 50 Fathoms -- Maximilien Monte
(SavW) Old School Fantasy -- Lyrial Duskhunter
(SavW) Daring Tales of Adventure -- Mauler Malone
(SavW) Slipstream -- Blood Claw
(SavW) Necessary Evil -- Menes/Golden Tiger
(SavW) Temporal Probability Agency: To Predict and Serve -- Aidan Rath
[MnM3e]/[SavW-Supers] No More Heroes -- Franklin Lucas/Obsidian
[Dresden Files] Unformed dreams (FATE) -- John Randolph Anthony Kent
[Savage Worlds] Interface Zero: Deep-Six -- Zdenko
SavW-Wake up in a new world -- LeMont Allen
Santa Angela [SavW Deadlands Reloaded] -- James Wilder

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This message was last edited by the player at 15:34, Wed 23 Nov 2011.

Well that's just silly.  XD

<facetious on.  Bear in mind Carl doesn't have the context of what else has happened but if you ignore that consideration some hilarious implications result>

Incidentally I love the way Carl's mind, and the minds of the Blackthorn residents, works.

The black sorceror of a Mayor conjures up a crowd to attack her against their will (let's face it even people who don't like Wildcat wouldn't actually attack her without his manipulation), but that black magic is okay, no one goes after the Mayor for being a witch.  XD

And then Carl immediately jumps to the conclusion these circumstances are that's her fault, and then a Yankee flies into the air and throws lightning bolts, most likely killing several residents of his precious town at this point, and only Jake Lawrence and the Damned Ranger have managed a counter attack (not that anyone else is unwilling to, it just worked out that way).  But he's got to stop her!  That lightning fueled rampage must go on!

But apparently Jake Lawrence's particular brand of arcane dealings, attempts to stop a murderous rampage and all, are not acceptable, but throwing freaking lightning bolts at bystanders or mind controlling mobs to kill people is.  XD

It's also a bit amusing, and I realize this is just the often ignored power of Trappings, Wildcat throws off the single most visible arcane power shy of the lightning bolts, twice, and no one thinks much of it other than Wildcat whose mind is going What did I just do!?

I can see it now, Wildcat is going to be within inches of shoulder tackling Danny Boy when Carl shoots her in the back or something.  XD

<facetious off>

Complicated town social mores are complicated.

In reply to Charging Bear (msg #49):

Good lord, you must be in almost every Savage Worlds game on RPOL! :)

In reply to Adrian Vega (msg #51):

I'm in a few, I've been in most that have come through since I started on here.

RIP Games - Games that died
Necessary Evil -- Tuff
[SavW] Savage Stories -- Strickland5/Conall Aisling
[SavW] Stormwatch -- Richard "Blitz" Crous
Pirates of the Spanish Main - Rebels & Revenants -- Orson Kemp
Solomon Kane: The Path of Kane -- Itzli
DLR - On the Trail of Horror -- Caleb Aston Diver
[DnD 4E] The Ashes of Dragonstorm -- Kolbe
[SavW] Arena -- Elrohir Aelvin
[SavW] Necropolis -- Theron
DnD4e - Eberron: Five Nations -- Valandil
Fallout: Quest for the Northwest [SavW] -- Carter Mason
(SavW) - Necessary Evil - Omegan Resistance -- Discharge
Deadlands: How the West was Weird -- Wang Chi
Savage Worlds - Blue Box Adventure -- Fyver Bloodbeard
Fantasy Realms (Savage Worlds) -- Keth Tomas
SavW - Aliens vs. Predator -- CPL Keegan Boyd
Rippers-The Black Ankh -- Carl Wenham
[SavW] Sword and Planet -- Lyon Kilpatrick
[DnD4E] Shadows of the flame -- Amon
[DnD4e] The Wilderlands -- Ayadin Elrath
Slip Stream Adventures -- Blood Claw
Deadlands: The Big Boom -- Kit Randell
Mass Effect - Beyond the Varian Rift -- Kit Derkin
[Savage Worlds] Shadows of the flame in C'Th'outer space -- Roger Norville
[SavW] Do not go gentle -- GM
SavW (Deadlands) - Deadshot -- Terrence McSteven
Savage Worlds: Space Station Kronos -- Orion
(SavW) 50 Fathoms: Maiden Voyage -- Zahast
[DnD3.5] Shackled City Adventure Path -- Merrick Torchar
(Savage Worlds) Boreas -- Charles Eckert
Knights of the Sea (SW:Weird War II) -- Alex Sellers
(Savage Worlds) Mystaran Misadventures -- Kraig Krossmorn
(SavW) Fantasy Gaming -- Kadajj Dunerunner
(SavW) Dark Sun - Savaged -- Ger
The Keep on the Borderlands B2 [SavW] -- Fyver Bloodbeard
[SavW - Hellfrost] Fimbulwintr -- Kjartan Jonsunu
[SavW] Evernight -- Fintan
(SavW) Alien Conspiracy -- Reynard Fox
(SavW) Day after Ragnarok: Serpent's Legacy -- Jon Miller
(SavW) Realms of Cthulhu: Rise of Darkness -- Alejandro Cortez
Dresden Files: Sound of Drums -- Ashburn Fitzgerald

Completed/Finished Games
Savage RIFTS -- Brindle
[Dead] Precious Cargo -- GM
(SavW) The Gentleman Caller -- GM
[Savage Worlds] ScatterPoint -- Atticus
[SavW-POTSM] Welcome to Singapore! -- Eadwig Kemp

In reply to Wildcat Hawkins (msg #50):

The Black Magic the mayor used makes them susceptible to groupthink and mob mentality. It didn't have any flashy special effects aside from making the crowd speak in unison. It might be obvious to observers that they were manipulated, but not to the people themselves. Once the mental whammy was on them, cognitive dissonance convinced them that they really did want to do what the mayor told them to do. This is probably not the case for Alouette, who was hunting after the mayor to harm him...the cognitive dissonance would be too great.

Also, while they might remember the arcane powers used by Wildcat and Danny boy, they were mind controlled and unable to react. Now that they're free of the control, they're free to act however the please, keeping in mind many of them still are acting on the last order they received because they're convinced its what they really want to do. The ones who Wildcat yelled at, though, are the ones who are questioning the wisdom of attacking her, and the gunplay has clenched their decision to run away.

Danny, meanwhile, is still floating two yards above everyone and has been shooting scary lightning from his face. he's terrifying for your average unarmed townsfolk, and they've now missed him twice in a row with thrown rocks. The people are angry at all the "witches" but Jake is the only one they can reach right now. They're taking their anger and fear out on him because he's an easier target than Danny at the moment.

Never underestimate the capacity for large groups of people to do stupid things.

I am NOT a witch!

Do you weigh more than a duck?

In reply to The Stray (msg #55):

No

Hmmm... I think I failed to update WC's chip total.  I thought I only had one blue left.  I'm going to play it that way as right now I show one of each color.

Fixed that for you... XD

Shoot her...with a rope? Naw, the only thing that'll stop him killing Danny if he sees/gets hold of the boy would be Danny's usefulness in manipulating the clank/the fact he'll listen to Alouette but believes it's just a robot (so when it says "don't kill him again, you'll make him worse!" he'll assume someone with the relevant knowledge programmed that in and therefore it's true).

I don't think you need worry too much about Carl, though, considering his current Pace of 3 and the way the means to improve said pace and actually pose a threat to anything is playing silly buggers.

Alouette, now...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! At least to the Americans among us. To everyone else, have a great next few days :)

And in the spirit of the Ghost Dance and the Sioux Nation and the Coyote Confederation, a remembrance of the native peoples of this land, a remembrance of the generosity which was given to the first colonists of this land.

Happy Friday!

You know, the Deadlands community is so insular and incestuous on RPOL. Out of all the people that run an active Deadlands game right now in whatever version of the rules or whichever particular setting, I either:

- am one of them
- have played in a game with them in another Deadlands game
- have been in a game run by one of them
- have GM'd for them

Heh. Well, you have to count on the overlap between:

A) people who are interested in Deadlands as a setting and
B) People who get their RP fix in PBP game sites like RPOL.

That's not a large pool of people. And most folks who like gaming are in multiple games. As long as we have good GMs and players, well, our community can be as insular as it wants to. And we have new blood, as well.

I have randomly encountered someone who agrees with me about Harrowed and freckles (they can has!). This came up as a tangent from a gleeful discussion about what happens when you shine a laser pointer at a vampire standing in front of a mirror. ^_^

I agree completely!



I would have to agree with you about Harrowed and freckles as well.

Just waiting on CB's player, who said he'd be back by Wednesday or so...

I had an idea some years ago, a fleeting idea, that someone should run Deadlands in the Prohibition Era, with the player characters as bathtub spook juice moonshiners.  I even had a vague idea of metaplot, although it wouldn't fit the canon proper per se.

But I thought it would never work it's all wrong.

Then I played Red Dead Redemption.  And saw Oh Brother Where Art Thou?

But it's an idea that would take more time to do justice than I've energy for right now.

Wildcat, that sounds actually kinda cool...

Although when you said that what popped into my head was a 1920's Call of Cthulhu game with Hucksters, Shamans, Blessed, etc. as the investigators, with sort of a Pinkerton/Ranger "keep it quiet" mentality. Or something like that.

I don't think Cthulhu and moonshining are mutually exclusive. A poor combination for local sanity, yes, but you certainly wouldn't go blind (barring accidents such as clawing one's own eyeballs out in an attempt not to see the ghastly Things that dwell in dimensions Man was not meant to wot of, naturally).

In reply to The Stray (msg #66):

I'm back! Lots of interwebs to catch up on.

In reply to Adrian Vega (msg #68):

My idea for it is an anachronistic approach of Roaring Twenties/Prohibition/Great Depression as the backdrop with The Secret Wars of World War I being fought in Europe.  The other metaplot idea in the background is that a Ravenite conspiracy is trying to form a spook juice cartel or something like that.

Part of the reason I haven't gotten into it like I might otherwise is because the early twentieth century is where Deadlands and Deadlands:  Hell on Earth would meet in the middle, and you'd need aspects of both rulesets and they have yet to get around to Hell on Earth Reloaded.  The last of the hucksters wouldn't be gone yet, but Alvin York is canonically a psyker.  Obviously you're not going to have cyborgs or Doomsayers though, and I don't think Junkers would exist yet necessarily although Mad Scientists would.

Then you have to dance around the metaplot consideration of a certain canon Mary Sue I personally detest.

In reply to Alouette (msg #69):

I once had a GM who ran "The Complete Masks of Nyarlathotep" (an old school Cthulhu campaign) set in the Weird West, 1876.

It was completely awesome.

Mad Scientists would all be German, of course. ;-)

@Adrian: Tell that GM some random on the Internet loves them.

@Wildcat: It's not my intent to force Wildcat to carry the clank's pet wendigo around like a handbag dog (though it'd be funny) - do feel free to drop Danny if she automatically took him in the first place.

Poor, poor CB...hopefully if his luck's contagious Cantrell'll catch some of it.

I'm just hoping CB can make it out of the death trap

Well, he just made a goodly number of successes towards that end...

Hush! Do not take the favour of the dice gods for granted! [chucks a horseshoe at CB]

Heh, Wildcat's going to hog tie him and give Deputy Clank the rope.  We'll see about stitching him later.  Rest assured after that he's not seeing unrestrained freedom, that is unless.... hmmmm.

Later.

Yeah, let's hope the jail is still intact at that time...

Tie him up...with a gun?

The clank is right, though: a Danny in need of flesh and aetheric energy (and the baby bird with all the psycho powers has been fed almost exclusively on fear and hatred so far, so that's what it'll try to provoke) is far more likely to become a threat - and what a threat (or did you forget the lightning and mini-tornado?) - than a Danny not abruptly starving and terrified for his life.

Not that tying him up will keep him anywhere for more than five minutes if he hits the tipping-point of hunger, mind.

Hi folks.  Some of you might remember me - I was a player here way back when the game first started, until I disappeared off the face of the earth the internet.

The Stray has kindly offered to let me rejoin the game, which I'm honestly really excited about.  My real life situation is more stable this time around so I have no intention of dropping out again, touch wood.

I'm looking forward to getting to play with you all, whether again or for the first time.

In reply to August Colby (msg #81):

Welcome back!

Welcome!

You came back! Like Gandalf! Glad t'have ya.

That's awesome!  Are you coming back as Colby I hope?  I could use some help here...

Just remember, August, that there have been 4 Advances since you last were involved. I'm waiting for your proposed Advances before I work up a post for you.

Thanks for the welcome.



That's the plan, hopefully it'll actually work out that way...

Is it a white horse?

So, I'm noticing a problem. The limit on Adventure Cards, which I was hoping would get diversity in what cards were available, seems to be causing some frustration and confusion, as people draw stuff other people have.

This might be a problem with die roller bias, it might just be a problem with the fact that we have 8 active players drawing on a limited resource. It might be both.

I can only see this problem getting worse as we raise in Rank.

My question to you all is this: Should I continue to limit cards to create diversity, or allow anyone to have any card as long as they don't have multiples of the same one?

8 players drawing 2-3 cards each from a 54 card deck definitely means we are more likely to pull the same card as the die roller doesn't care which cards were already drawn.

I say we just worry bout a player not having duplicate cards.

In reply to The Stray (msg #89):

From the perspective of the GM alone, I think it might be worth considering the latter option. It's just less for you or anyone to have to keep track of, and more time for you to dedicate to the telling of your most excellent tale.

That works and is the easiest and therefore probably the best.  However I suggest some...

Alternatives:

Use your real Adventure Deck to deal the cards for us.  Yeah, clumsy.  I don't like it either.

Hybrid system (What I might do in response to this problem myself):  Pick a value, say 10.  Any card with a face value equal to or greater than 10 is unique.  The others are not.

Create a spreadsheet and see if you can figure anything out.  (Hehe, auditors,  We're silly.)

Ugh. None of those seem very appealing.

Then you know what to do.   <shrug>

Hey, guys! I just discovered that there's a "Magic 8-Ball" setting in the drop-down list on the die roller!

00:11, Today: Wildcat Hawkins got the result "Concentrate and ask again" on the magic 8-ball. is curious.

That is stupid good.  XD

Eee, we should use it for important plot decisions!

Magic 8 Ball, will William get his fingers broken if he muffs this ToW?
[rollery]
16:33, Today: Alouette got the result "It is decidedly so" on the magic 8-ball.

ecksdee ecksdee...I've never encountered a real one of these, so it's even more fun. Magic 8, should we feed Danny a bottle of communion wine, since the majority of Blackthorn is Catholic and it should therefore be considered holy blood?

16:41, Today: Alouette got the result "Reply hazy, try again" on the magic 8-ball

Hmm. Apparently it doesn't have hard answers to the question of regular transubstanciation in a world with relatively frequent physical miracles either...

Yes, I was hoping more for a 16 rather than a 6... here's to hoping that she rolls a crappy 2!

In reply to William Pierce (msg #98):

Well, given that she has circumstance bonuses from having you surrounded and not being "quite right," there's a dim chance of that... }:D

But alas, I must be off to work, so I'll handle it when I get back this evening.

At least he was using his left hand...

17:11, Today: Alouette rolled 5,20 using d36,d36. chippits.

2 white chippits for my randoms.

11:24, Today: Wildcat Hawkins rolled 33,2 using 1d35,1d35, rerolling max with rolls of 33,2. Random Chippers.

Leaves me with the patriotic combo of a red, white and a blue.

18:51, Today: William Pierce rolled 7,26,8,8 using d35,d35,d35,d35, rerolling max with rolls of 7,26,8,8. Chippity chip.

3 white, 1 red. I got a feeling I'm gonna need them!

It means Carl uses the expedient of striking the flat of the bones of his fingers with the opposite fist to crack pecans against a hard surface, by the way (he once spent a good ten minutes throwing nutshells at the clank's head), not that Carl has freakish manly strength.

If I vanish very abruptly then the wind will have caused another blackout - the lights just flickered and we've had a couple of gale force 11-12 storms recently. They tend to throw bits of pylon into the sea.

That sounds really alarming, good luck there.

Fate chips:

22:50, Thu 01 Dec: August Colby rolled 37 using 3d35, rerolling max with rolls of 11,4,22. Chips.

19:48, Today: August Colby rolled 22,12 using d35,d35 with rolls of 22,12. Chipses?

So August is sitting on three white and two red (assuming he gets the two basic chips from today's update).  Not that he's going to need them.  He'll be fine.  Yep.

Seems all right at the moment, sleeting merrily. At least I know my chickenhouse can survive 80mph winds gusting up to 130, though - I was quite terrified it'd blown away when I was woken by a tremendous crash during Tuesday's storm. Turned out to be a wheelie bin* hitting my (fortunately double-glazed) window.

Ask the Magic 8 Ball!


*one of these: http://www.diggingthedirt.com/...36px-wheelie_bin.jpg I forget what y'all in the US call them. Ancestors of Daleks.

That would be known generically as a garbage can, or a wheeled garbage can if you wanted to be specific.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88FuCiac8IE

Because I had to.

That is not a can. In any fashion.

*clickies*

O_o  'hinerhay' is a new one on me...though I do recall having to inform the US students over the summer that you don't tell children to sit on their fannies, especially if said group includes boys, who will (did) point out they don't have one...possibly more amusingly, a lot of said visiting students got souvenir bobble hats from the big summer dig with the highly amusing Ness of Brodgar site code on, apparently with no idea it's a double entendre and the intention to wear them out and about in the wide world...

You think that's bad, there are regional variations on what common objects are called within the US.  I'm from Texas.  If you ask for a Coke, the response is "What kind?"

Some of you get it instantly, Alouette I'm fairly sure is baffled unless the explanation has been supplied to him previously.

I'm also curious if you could translate this movie clip for us, I've never been able to figure out what they're talking about once the subtitles stop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgPH0tYXJrA

We have diet/cherry Coke too...

Oh, Lordi*, test my knowledge of Cockney, will you... [listens] I think they might be deliberately talking nonsense in the ??? bit, but they're going very fast...bottle = bottle & glass -> arse, Lyme Regis -> penis...the only reference to kettles I'm aware of is kettle & hob -> fob -> any kind of watch, and your turtles = pretty turtle doves -> gloves, so yeah, probably just an orphaned punchline gag. Or something about sodomy with a timepiece, requiring gloves. [shrug]


*Lordi: http://youtu.be/GUIS4Zn_E4o

Hahahaha so gloriously missing the point while being technically absolutely correct.  Yay for language barriers and humorous results thereof!

So it's all dirty nonsense concocted to sound even more baffling to foreigners then?  That is what I suspected.

Consider me bemused.

It is indeed filthy nonsense...it's Austin Powers!

Yes, but in Texas (and much of the midwest), a "coke" is what you say instead of "soft drink,", "soda," or "pop," of which the various types of Coca-Cola are but a small fraction.

heeheeheeHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! }:D

man...that's funny on so many levels for those of us who know the Deadlands metaplot...

Good old A.L. :)

In reply to The Stray (msg #112):

Y'all can come to Atlanta ... Visit the awesome World of Coke

@ Stray: The excuse still only works once. (what happens if you want an actual Coke, then?)

@ CB: I'd likewise invite you to visit Glasgow, the World of Smack and Straight Razor Violence, but I don't think that was what you meant...

It literally goes like this.

"You want a Coke?"

"Sure."

"What kind."

"Coke."

Like so.

In reply to Wildcat Hawkins (msg #117):

As a Texan, I have never conducted myself in such a manner; I ask for the drink I want. :)

Nevertheless, I can only agree that the strong branding of the Coke product has gained a notorious measure of synonimity with any and all carbonated beverage products to the extent of becoming a colloquialism of sorts and term of reference for what those in some other regions refer to as "soda" or laughably "a pop" or "soda pop."

You are all strange people, wanting soda in your fizzy drinks.

Of no relation to the above, I think Pierce might arguably have attained the highest level of Screwed so far, within in-game minutes of hitting town...arguably because he's not going into the fight wounded and there's one potentally allied NPC there from the start, but on the other hand, he is surrounded by frikkin' vampires.

Not only is he surrounded by vampires, he's angered the Ancient Vampire Queen and it's raining outside. So yeah, high levels of screwage indeed. At least Vinny's not there as well

On the other hand, he's due to come home soon, and will have to use one of the doors to do so - possibly the side door that Pierce might just reach if he makes a run for it past Marina rather than fighting the pack gathered behind him.

I think there should be some sort of award for this.

You mean like a "You're so screwed" award? William still has all his adventure cards and most of his chips...He has the ability to come back from the dead Harrowed (or as a vampire, as the case may be) AND the Last Stand card.

Still, it makes sense that because he's facing down a Legendary creature in a fight, he should get something for it...

Since I just blew my draw for initiative, I guess I get some nice puncture wounds in my neck.
And I'm holding on to my cards since I can only play one...

In reply to William Pierce (msg #123):

Given how close we are to the end of the current Chapter (now that the fight is over in the Wild in the Streets thread), you'll have a chance to redraw and use new Adventure cards fairly soon (within about a week or two would be my estimate). Keep that in mind.

Most Screwed In Combat Award. Yes! - like a gold-painted corkscrew glued to some MDF. Or a legend chip works.



This reminds me of reports of US Civil War soldiers (I'm sure it happened elsewhere a lot, too) dying of combined heat exhaustion and dehydration with full canteens.

I know, I know, but I have one card that I can play after death. And Last Stand gives me +2 to Parry and Toughness *but* costs me a red chip, too.

Actually, I'm seriously reconsidering chip costs on Adventure Cards. I put them on some cards as a balancing mechanic, but I think they might be making some cards much too unattractive to play...thoughts, people?

For what it's worth, even if I didn't have to pay a red chip for Last Stand, I'd be hardpressed to play it - I don't see a big chance of winning that fight, +2 to parry and toughness might just prolong it.
But, since I'll probably need all my chips for soaking and damage control, it's much less likely that I would play it.

Dead men can't spend chips, either.

...well, not for a while, anyway, unless they're particularly lucky with Harrowing. Wildcat'd know the numbers sense. Pers'nally I'd try to stay alive rather than risk winding up a vampire whore within twenty minutes of hitting town.

Of chips and cards...since Adventure cards tend to get played as a desperation move (i.e. when one really needs chips) I think it increases the importance of their results. It can be frustrating if those results can be mostly soaked/very sucessfully opposed, as in you've rolled unlucky on the card and automatically thrown a chip at it already, so maybe drop the chip costs on cards like that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHgbPNK3YFM

Wildcat, do you have an opinion on the "chips for cards" issue?

I personally think it's okay, it might need to be reviewed on a case by case basis on certain cards perhaps, but you're not stingy with the chips so that mitigates things.

What I would suggest if you take the chip costs away is give characters one less card than they get now.

In reply to William Pierce (msg #130):

William theme song can has!



...er, why?

Marshal:

What does the room look like?
How far is Adrian from the door?

Wildcat:

Is our favorite Ranger still just outside in the street?

RE: Alouette.  Desperate times.  Blackthorn has taught her she can't put out all the fires herself, and to find help in truly strange places.  She's not crazy about relying on the seemingly insane clank without supervision either but

RE:  Adrian Vega

I assume so, as she stopped to reload and tell Evans that much.

@ Adrian:

The room is long and slightly large, as it's the entry foyer. There's a security checkpoint and a desk where a secretary would normally be working, as well as a number of chairs. Adrian isn't far from the door at all, perhaps one or two steps inside the building. Alistair is at the other end, standing by the corridor that leads deeper into the building.

Also, do you have any thoughts on whether I should ditch or modify the chip requirements for Adventure Cards?

I was thinking more that she's seen the Dust Adders' reaction to percieved threats to the townsfolk - and Carl's specifically, shouting (and lobbing a bottle) at Evans for threatening the almost-lynch mob. There's at least one downed woman around, Wildcat claiming the Mayor did it, but folk attacking someone else for being a witch...and Carl will kill Danny if left to his own devices.

Hopefully Dutch'll see reason and Jake'll account for himself.

edit: I'm also amused Wildcat is too preoccupied pick up on the clank referring to one of her friends as differently alive...
This message was last edited by the player at 20:40, Sun 04 Dec 2011.

Going to listen to this while reading William's thread - good luck, seriously.

Also, the game just hit 7000 posts.  Wow.

I know. We're a chatty bunch when we all get together.

I spent the Legend Chip... so it's in the pot. ;-)

Lam the lamia with a lamp and leg it, laddie!

[of own thread] The problem with being your own Mad Science device is that critical malfunctions in certain areas can be sort of...critical.

In reply to The Stray (msg #136):

It has been pointed out that you give out chips on a rather regular basis, and while this is true, there is also a lot of combat and a lot of need to spend those chips (or chances at least), so I think that balances itself out.

I'd be in favor of removing the chip requirement, as it may increase usage of the cards. If you wanted, you could even do an experiment by temporarily removing the chip requirement and see how it plays out, and reimplement it later if you think it is excessive.

In reply to Adrian Vega (msg #142):

I think I'll take that advice.

ATTENTION SIXGUNS PLAYERS!

I've gone through the list of Adventure cards and removed the Fate Chip requirements for a great many of them, replacing them with an autodraw for me from the Fate Pot as a cost of some of the more problematic ones. I'm doing this as a temporary measure to see if I can encourage Card use.

Please, go through your list of Cards and use the new wordings. Post your current cards on the Adventure Cards thread.

Doesn't look like any of the ones I hold currently changed.

Incidentally I'm just waiting for Deputy Lawrence to get a word in edgewise before Wildcat presses the assault on City Hall.

I think she and Adrian are about to have an interesting conversation.  "You're going in where!?"

The back door. Because there's a dude with a shotgun 'round the front.

Send him to the Oriental. I could use a Dude with a shotgun.

Apparently I need to slice out some time to check game on the weekends as I'm very behind here.

3 random chips for me
07:30, Today: Charging Bear rolled 26,21,34 using 1d35,1d35,1d35, rerolling max with rolls of 26,21,34. Fate Chips.
So that's 2 Red , 1 Blue , and 1 White which was awarded

Now I'll be reading through the Chapter 12.2 to see what all I've managed to miss.

Well, Adrian's got the "Overconfident" hindrance, or as it's called in Classic "Big Britches"...so he shouldn't take much convincing to follow pretty much any foolish plan.

Permission to strategize breaching OOC to save time Cap'n?

Permission granted.

Good because this is just tedious (but sometimes fun) IC.  Combat mechanics aren't really about accurately simulating the world the characters are in, they're just for resolving what happens, so discussing them IC is always awkward for me.

Wildcat's Super Special Awesome Plan for Breaching a Door With a Guy Waiting Behind it To Kill us With a Nasty Shotgun Attack

There's a specific way I want to set this breaching attempt up.  I could try to distract him but the best I've got is an unreliable stun that's really meant for large groups of Extras, I can create water, blow out a candle, and my big gun of distractions cannot be used indoors.  So I'm thinking we let him shoot me.

Round 1: Call down a Barrier Miracle (bear in mind I just got this AB so my arcane skill is a d6 and I'd roll at -2, but I've chips at least) 1" in front of the door.  This leaves a small gap for the other parts of the plan to work.  This is something of a hard roll but I feel I should try it.

Round 2:  Second round of the Barrier.  Call down a Deflection miracle if not out of chips from Barrier.  Assuming The Stray would reduce the damage of the attack by the Toughness of the Barrier (10),  WC stands behind barrier with Deflection.  I'm harder to hit, the barrier will soak the first 10 points of the damage anyway.

Adrian borrows Wildcat's shotgun and blasts the door's lock with both barrels as hitting a door is trivial.  Or he does something better, this is just what I have to offer up.

Our Man Inside might use his held action now or next round, it doesn't matter because:

Round 3:  Third Round of Barrier, second of Deflection - Adrian holds til the right time and kicks door open if needed, else he goes in after Wildcat has gone and attacks.  Our Man Inside will see WC and fire.  Bear in mind a Blessed's Barrier is invisible as is Deflection, so hopefully he fires his big attack at me and wastes it.

Then business as usual?  Any other ideas?  Adrian's probably actually better at taking him out than I am, but if we can make him "waste" his nasty 2x3d6 attack. it would be worthwhile.  Technically I'd like to call down two Barriers because each attack will destroy one possibly, but we'll have to see if the dice roller allows for any of this.  This is just the basic idea.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:06, Mon 05 Dec 2011.

You are assuming he's waiting right behind the door to shoot you. What if he's just waiting to shoot the first person who crosses the threshold?

<Venkman>
"So I'm thinking we let him shoot me." That's your whole plan, huh? Very scientific.
</Venkman>

In reply to The Stray (msg #152):

We live in a cynical world that celebrates the snarky nitpicker and pans the creative idealist who generates ultimately unfeasible solutions, but ultimately it takes both kinds to get anywhere.  The first idea offered up to solve a problem is very seldom the one that is best or that is attempted.

This is why I'd use Deflection after Barrier.  Additonally Adrian probably has an idea to make this work, or his own idea that's better.  For instance if someone had the Taunt skill to coax him into shooting, this plan could work as written.

I also have no idea what Adrian brings to the table, for all I know he can make the illusion of someone walking through the door.  IC I have no idea he's a huckster or anything other than someone from Blackthorn who came back and seems to not like the idea of the Mayor using the people he knows as pawns.  OOC I can't see his character sheet.  XD

...what's wrong with just using the other door?

[pause]

Ah, right, heroes.

In reply to Alouette (msg #155):

He still has a held action and a loaded shotgun either way we come in.

See, the lesson I've learned from this encounter is to shoot first and ask questions later. If there's a dangerous looking fellow, assume the worst and put a bullet in him before he goes for his gun! :)

Well, here's a thought:

You've already talked about blowing up the Church. How about instead we toss a stick of dyanamite in there and flush out this guy? (Or kill him). I mean, from the impression I'm getting from NPCs at least between the Dust Adders, the Marshal, Ranger and company you guys have shot the town up one side and down the other. What's a little more dynamite on top of it all?

Either way, it's six up and half a dozen down.

Unless he's come over and is listening to you (Wildcat might need to take the homebrew edge Indoor Voice at some point) you'll have some measure of surprise that way at the least. Not that the Mayor's guard dog can cover both points on his oddy knocky.

In reply to Adrian Vega (msg #157):

The trouble with that idea is:

1) He didn't actually pull the trigger, just warned you off, which implies that he might not be totally evil, and

2) To date almost no one who has died in Blackthorn has actually stayed dead, and many have come back with supernatural powers.

So...you're saying Wildcat should shoot herself, then charge in? These plans are just getting better and better...

Ooo, Jake Lawrence snaps.

Well the thing is, blowing a hole in the door with a shotgun to defeat a lock (assuming he locks the door) to breach the building is one thing.  Tossing dynamite inside a structure we want to remain structurally sound is another, else we lose an option for the coming Comanche attack.

The simpler alternative is we jump him from both sides with whatever preperations we can each make at the ready.

My thoughts here are to A) capture or B) run him out of the building, with a strong preference for A.  If we kill him, he can't tell us anything, plus WC's done a surprisingly good job of not killing people in general (Other than Jesse, who picked a fight with a wounded ranger with a paralyzed arm, but of course she lost the face down so it looks like she drew first so yay me, who else has she really outright killed?  For all the Dust Adder talk that's it I think), and is so far perfect for not killing people who stand down.

If I were playing another character, our undead Yankee friend would be long dead, cut into pieces, and burned on a pyre.  But I choose to carry the Idiot Ball called Heroic because it's more fun that way.

Also, William Pierce:

0_o

That is some kind of record.  Hat's off to you.

@ Wildcat:

Aren't you glad you didn't get into a fight with Marina earlier?

And, of course, one of your deputies is currently having a meltdown...

In reply to The Stray (msg #161):

He's not the heroic type... he's here to do a job, not save the world.

Hell I'd love to fight her.

I would likely lose.  Badly.  Mah blood's like a poison, bitch!  XD

But I'd love to scrap with Marina.  I've been carrying a stake around this whole time, and I've been meaning to ask the priest if he ever found any proper stakes but we've just been so busy.

(And I realize that clever bit so long ago about not responding to her subordinate's mind control probably wouldn't fly against her.)

To be fair, Lawrence is Evans' deputy, but she'd care all the same.  It's going to be massively entertaining if he goes to retrieve Alouette and the Clank opts to obey The Other Angel instead of listening to him.

Not to mention she's not going to trust a man who renedges like that to supervise what's basically a walking/tracking rolling Masquerade Violation, especially after he left The Clank be after purposefully putting him in charge of Alouette's supervision (although that was understandable).  He's massively qualified to supervise The Clank as far as she is concerned, but WC's standards of personal behavior are both at once lofty and bizarre.

Oh Jake isn't going to ask Alouette to come with him, when has anything in a gaming situation been THAT simple

Oh this ought to be good.  XD

The thought just occurred to me.  Wildcat is the only person to gain supernatural powers from Blackthorn without dying.

I dare Jake to touch it and the Hunting Grounds simultaneously.

The Enlightened folks aren't differently alive...

Yeah but they're mad scientists and stuff, and they aren't actually from Blackthorn, they've just lived there for many years.  They didn't come there, touch the crazy, and get all sparkly...

Ah, you have something I need to borrow, then.

Sorry I'm not there to loan it to you.

If William Pierce has got sparkly that is just insult to mortal injury.

Oh, my vampires sparkle in the sun, alright...just before they catch fire and burn into powdery ash...

Well if we can't come up with anything brilliant, and it sounds like we can't, I guess we can just try to come around opposite sides and do the best we can separately.

Alrighty. If you have your plan in place, have Wildcat discuss it with Adrian on the IC.

Cool. That works. Oh, by-the-by, have you been watching Charging Bear's thread?

You will have to clarify.  There's NPC Charging Bear terrifying August Colby and new NPC Dr. Oswald, there's Charging Bear who got clobbered and I'm not sure where he is at this point, and silly Wildcat's too distracted to go try to help him which she really should be doing but there's too much shit going on, and then the same player is Jake Lawrence who apparently is about to shoot The Clank, which Wildcat would not approve of in the least, but alas there is but one of her in one place.

I'm talking about the PC Charging Bear. He's actually still in the Mining Office, just down in the vault. Oh, and remember that gun The Salesman was talking about? It's been found.

Which thread is following him again?

Should I be afraid or overjoyed?

What's with Charging Bear's aliases being so despicable and cowardly lately?

Will Mary ever learn if Tom is the father of her baby!?

Ah. I forgot, I've put CB's thread in a group Wildcat couldn't see. I'll fix that.

I will let you decide that.

He's been pushed to the limit for a job he wasn't really interested in doing in the first place, and trying to get back to his original goals.

I think she should be more worried about the fact that the baby is eating it's way out...

In reply to The Stray (msg #180):

How terrible of you.

My decisions never work out well for anyone least of all me.

I didn't say it was a bad thing, it's rather hilarious.

Soap opera riff.  Find out next time on the Young and the Useless!

Well, it's fixed now.

Heh. Still...

Indeed. The Marshal is going to chew him out so badly...though that's a funny thought in itself.

...and next week the show is preempted by Monday Night Foosball and then cancelled.

Oh God.

/facepalms

YOU JUST HAD TO PULL THE CANON MARY SUE OUT DIDN'T YOU

What the Salesman said makes perfect sense now.  I hate Stone.  Lazy ass Mary Sue metaplot writing pisses me off.

The worst part is, that gun is simultaneously the single most important object in the universe and yet UTTERLY FUCKING USELESS

I think he rather plans to threaten a hostage/everyone in the church, since he knows better than anyone else present (minus Evans) that shooting the clank in the head will have no effect and shooting it anywhere else could very well blow them all to blazes, leaving not only no clank to bring in but no-one to bring it...




Ever notice that whenever Wildcat takes a prisoner and leaves a locality, someone gets shot or stabbed?

She's cursed!

In other news there's about to be a nice big crater where the mining office used to be.

You may be both the worst Marshal's deputy and interior decorator ever, and it is glorious.

Jake quit but he didn't kill anyone while a deputy... but right now all bets are off.

CB is just in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people and weapon.

Oh Jake I perfectly understand.  My theory is that the people of Blackthorn are some of the most myopic ingrates imaginable due to decades of supernatural manipulation through ambient Fear levels, allowing cognitive dissonance to rule their minds.

Ultimately the only weapons that will work are changing their hearts and minds, which is impossible as we lack a Tale Teller, and an amount of compassion for others which is in and of itself superhuman.

But Charging Bear just saying "All right fine I'll help you escape" to two guys he knows are just going to go start murdering people again is pretty bad (seriously those people are horrible).  XD  It's what Charging Bear would do, but it's still terrible.

CB knows the The Jellicle Gang are hired guns, which means they're in this for the money until it gets personal. He'd rather deal with one who he knows is rotten - aka Cantrell - now and sort out the Jellicle Gang later. He might be Heroic but CB isn't suicidal.

But it just looks so bad.  XD

There's a fine explanation for it "Cantrell pulled some BS and if I didn't do it I was going to die" certainly works.

But it just looks so bad it makes me laugh hard OOC.

Pro tip: Given Wildcat's Batman style origin, you probably never want her to find out about this and all will be well.

In reply to Wildcat Hawkins (msg #191):

No doubt it LOOKS horrible.

Just be glad CB is heroic else he might have accepted the offer to join the gang - though I'm not sure he'd change his name to go along with the 'theme'

I suspect mostly they simply don't know what's going on (it's a survival mechanisim in itself, around there). As for Tale Telling, John Smith's doing all right in popularity and if Carl can stay upright another twenty minutes or so you might even get the Fear level down...yes, I know there's a strong irony in the choice of "tellers" there. The priest isn't set against the party and he's popular, too, and only gaining in such...we also have two crazy-compassionate deputies in the church at present (for a certain definition of 'compassion', anyway). Deputy Chicken passes no judgement on anyone.

...but CB, you could be Rumpleteazer! They could call you "Rumpy" so as not to confuse you with Rum...

Super busy at work today so wasn't able to post till just now. Let's keep our fingers crossed on this one, Ranger!

There's also the fact that, before the group arrived in Blackthorn, things weren't great but they were working. The folk didn't like the Dust Adders running around like they owned the town, but gave them a pass because the DA's kept the town safe. They liked the idea of having a Marshal, but were also mostly fine with the Marshal being relatively toothless. Evans only got his job because he helped the town defend against one of the few overt outbreaks of the supernatural that happened in recent months. The townsfolk figured they would let the DA's deal with mundane threats like bandits, over zealous tax collectors, and the like, while Evans could handle any wierd events.

For the most part, Alouette has it right. The people of Blackthorn don't know their town is a Hellmaw. Only one of the dead Yankees reached town, and it was put down before it could cause too many problems. The vampires hadn't gotten up to any serious mischief yet, and as for Ward's messing with the supernatural, well, the townsfolk didn't question why his beef was always the best quality and his herd had few of the illnesses that have rampaged other cattle herd in the area. They reaped the benefits of quality beef and never questioned the methods that brought that beef to them. The town is a company town, after all--it just switched one company for another. Really, the only overtly supernatural thing most in town have witnessed is the Angel Clank, who is a player character.

From the perspective of the townsfolk, Evans illegally hired on deputies to go to war with the Dust Adders and brought in a Ranger to give his campaign of Yankee domination over them a veneer of legitimacy. They hear that not one but two of these new deputies are wanted fugitives, which soured them on Evans' hiring methods. They see a ranger vowing to bring law and order to a town that was doing acceptably well without it, thank you very much, and resent the very visible times she's gone against public opinion on matters (i.e. stopping the lynch mob).

They have no idea that the mayor and Ward are dealers in supernatural forces. They have no idea the mayor has the power to sway minds. They have no idea someone hired assassins to strike at Wildcat. They have no idea there are vampires in the Oriental. They know something bad is in the mine, but only a few have ever seen it. They don't know Ward captured a band of bushwhackers who couldn't accept the war was over, and wouldn't be particularly displeased with how he held them captive if they had. They don't know that since the Fear Level in town began rising nobody who's died has stayed dead.

In short: What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:08, Wed 07 Dec 2011.

I had the idea to play a native son of the town somewhat randomly, but it seems to fit relatively well into the agenda of trying to improve the law dogs in the local good graces. Hopefully I can work that into things as we move along.

I'm gonna die!

In reply to Adrian Vega (msg #196):

Indeed. I hope to work on that my own self. I like that Adrian is a local and I'm milking that for all I can.

In reply to Charging Bear:

On the upside, you'll probably be dead long before he gets to town...oh, wait. That's not much of an upside, is it? }:D

In reply to The Stray (msg #198):

Considering no one in Blackthorn is staying dead... no it isn't.

Happens to the best of us. ;-)

Did I miss when Wildkitten became Blessed?

In reply to Charging Bear (msg #201):

Apparently.  But that just happened like 15 minutes ago (in game.)

You thought she was self righteous before...

In reply to Wildcat Hawkins (msg #202):

I'm the worst player ever apparently.

There was some PMs involved, so don't feel too bad.

Lookit, the clank's got the hang of 'we'! I think that might be off Wildcat as well. Or lots of people making grouping statements around it.

@Stray - There is a piece of paper at work with lots of little Saints of Killers on (making snowmen, baking, playing dodgems etc.), I blame you for this.

Sweet! I'd like to see that...

I'll put it in my bag next I remember. Relatedly, does Stone often get shot with his own guns, lying around as they do?

[Private to GM: Also I'm going to annoy you about having Molly react, since it's naught to do with Jake/Alouette interactions and once he's established the preacher will treat such wounds Carl may 'ask' if he's willing to treat the super-fun chomp mark out of his own arm...which leads on to Telling etc.]

Actually, no. This gun was one he used when he was still alive, and he's coming for it specifically so he can destroy it like he's done with most of the other guns he's ever handled. This one slipped his attention because the guy who found it and locked it up died in the cave-in before Stone could get to him and get the location of it from him.

[Private to GM: Alrighty. I'll get to that after I get myself something to munch on.]

...has he ever been shot with his own guns, then?

Not yet, and it's something he wants to avoid, which is why he's hunting them down and destroying them (and whoever has them) in the first place.

You have no idea how badly my prop obsession wants to experiment with this effect now.

Oh, and Adrian - yes, you are verily what the town needs (minus the dynamite), sorry to forget ye.

In reply to Alouette (msg #211):

Well, the party has his gun, and he's heading the posse's way, so when he gets here you're welcome to try the experiment.

... I'm gonna die ...

Neither of mine have any reason to throw guns on strings at him to see if it a) triggers catch reflex or/and b) makes him vaguely alarmed by the prospect of power implosion via said weapons the same way he's apparently wary of getting shot with this one.

Of course, there's my ongoing investigation into the inverse relationship between sugar availability and misanthropy, so maybe instead of attacking him we could take him out for ice cream and see if that stopped him wanting to kill CB (and everyone). Even if it didn't, at least he'd die full of ice cream.

Alouette's wittering reminds me of the extract from the gospel of St.James I once read which elevated him to the status of Favourite Saint Who Probably Existed* in my estimation...you can tell it's got some big idea, but expressing it is proving somewhat more difficult and it hasn't really got the hang of parables. Good luck, Jake!

[Private to GM: *sleepy bother-bother*]
*my Favourite Saint Who Probably Didn't Exist is Saint Uncumber - look her up!

Should I assume that there is a backdoor and that I can sneak up from behind Mr. Shotgun?

If that is not the case, please let me know so I can know what kind of post I can make. :)

Thanks!

In reply to Adrian Vega (msg #215):

Yes, there is a back door. Sorry for not mentioning that in my earlier post.

No worries, I understand it is easy for these things to happen. I do them myself all the time.

Announcement!

I'm going to be ending Chapter 12 and some of the associated threads (such as CB's thread and William Pierces' thread) in a bit. There will likely be a short time skip, long enough for folks to get wounds looked at and next moves plotted.

I'd like to get summaries from you folks on what sorts of tensions you'd enjoy RPing, and which you'd prefer I'd gloss over. Give me a short summary of your intentions for the next 20-30 minutes of game-time.

Intentions of clank:
- get people inside to be fixed
- persuade Jake to repent and live a better life
- get/make some sort of collar for Danny, preferably involving shiny/silver (if it manages this I suspect Carl'll offer to neuter Danny free, but I presume someone'll stop him), fix and chide said pet wendigo.

Intentions of Carl:
- See if the preacher will treat what is clearly a wild animal bite, & if he's not afraid of possibly-rabid blood, the bullet wound as well
- Reassure everyone the cougar is dead for real this time (look, bits) and that everything is under control:
- Feel out just how unpopular Wildcat is (if she can't be used here any more, he'll make her change that stinky butcher shirt of hers - which can't really help her image - and spirit her away to the ranch, picking up the Mayor's wife and daughters along the way to get them out of their vulnerable, relatively isolated house & make sure the Mayor stops hiding and turns up at Ward's) and start organising/delegating town defense accordingly.
- Demonstrate there's a (somewhat shaky) truce in effect with the law, and that the Adders are concentrating their efforts on keeping y'all safe.
- Attempt to establish a protocol of decapitating corpses.

...think that's it.

In no particular order...
... find my guns & horse
... find out about Jenny
... find new clothes (if needed)
... start plotting my revenge that ultimately ends the un-life of Marina and probably burns the Oriental to the  ground ;-)

... oh, and I probably should find Spades and tell hin that I hhave some other commitments now.

Some of these goals might change of course once I know what's going on in this town!

Charging Bear's Intentions
1. STAY ALIVE!
2. Find and kill Cantrell
3. Repeat #1 as needed until no more Cantrell
4. See that the Hop Along Gang actually leaves town
5. Find Evans and Wildkitten for a status update
6. See about dealing with the spirit issues brought forth by Doc Ward and company

Jake's Intentions
See how long he can get the automaton to talk to him
Figure out how to turn off automaton
If all else fails see if he can get the automaton to run out of go-go juice

I think the answer is "indefinitely".

20 to 30 minutes?

Wildcat's still dedicated to her plan.  She actually thinks her plan sucks.  I the player think it's simple enough to actually be useful but advanced enough to actually be effective until contact with the enemy.

Milburn, Carl, Marshal Evans, Deputy Vega are the key players so far, as she thinks the four of them appearing united is what's going to make this work.  If Milburn will see to the "shelter" component of City Hall, Wildcat wants to see if Carl will at least get the Dust Adders to listen to Adrian (she knows they won't listen to her even after not killing Dave).  As far as she knows, Evans and Carl are going to approach the Comanche under a white flag and attempt to parley.

If she happens to spot the Salesman, she's got another idea too.  But that's minor and of lower priority.

Wildcat herself plans to ride into the Comanche horde, but Carl would probably not have much trouble hood winking her into "saving" some civilians.  The problem is he's going to have to talk.  Wildcat can only really figure out what Carl means in retrospect at present.

I might have a more detailed response for you if I wasn't working so many hours at present, but I think that at present I am content to strive to follow Wildcat's lead at present and also any directives from Evans - in an Adrian Vega fashion of course.

Yeah, about that...he can't. The fact he's normally both mute and stubborn helps him hide the fact he's physically dying, but his throat's a mess: ghost rabies seems to cause lesions in addition to the normal attacks on/stiffening of the laryngal muscles. Don't worry, though, the Chaotic Practical will nail one of Lawful Stupid's feet to the floor if he has to.

Sorry if im intruding and im way off topic, but looking back from watching the old 90s X-men cartoon, we could say Gambit was a huckster

When I read the Deadlands dime novels, I always channel Gambit in my head when reading for Velvet van Helter.

You seem to have a Gambitty streak yourself, the Adrian - complete with literal Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. It makes me grin greatly.

Oh! and your manitou is apparently very handsome as birdies go. I'm not sure if that's a compliment, but there it is.

In reply to Alouette (msg #225):

Well, actually...I'll get to that when I have more free time, but the priest might just be able to help with that problem...

Which? Problems in Blackthorn, you need to be specific.

Also, weather's still doing things like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Sf2kGOJUU
so if I vanish... etc.

Good luck with the weather Alouette, it sounds amazingly unpleasant up there.

My chickens sincerely thank you for your wellwishes. Everything else I am less concerned about, since I have a good supply of blankets, candles and chocolate biscuits.

Heh - I may find myself being a stereotype sometimes, but I told my supervisor I was slightly late in on Tuesday due to fighting the coop door open through the layer of ice, and that because of said running late they'd got half my breakfast porridge...she said her father (who lives on Rousay, one of the smaller islands) always fed his chickens porridge in the morning of a winter, and his dog and the barn cats, too. Apparently he's never had a chook or a barn cat blow away...

Alouette - Is this near you?
http://io9.com/5866698/the-win...and-renewable-energy

That was at Ardrossan windfarm, about 100 miles away on the West coast (that is very far away, here). I live in Kirkwall (yes, really), which does have a stupidly big turbine providing power for the docks, but it's geared for high winds - if that blows up it'll just fall into the sea.

Someone in the department had a neighbour lose his near-empty shipping container in yesterday's weather - it turned up on a hillside about half a mile away, miraculously redecorated in avant-guard style by the tins of paint that were in there when the storm hit.

Alouette, you are wrong.  The only two places to live in the UK are certain blocks of London and in the castle.  I know because I seen it in the movies.  So please be so kind to correct yourself.

No, no: you go to the part of Scotland that is filmed in Romania and populated only by English holidaymakers and werewolves (see here: http://youtu.be/m79bTcHMqu8) and keep going North. If the people speak strangely and have horns on their helmets, you have gone slightly too far East. Polar bears, too far North.

If you find a hundred blokes having a massive punchup over a leather ball ( http://youtu.be/owRYiNOWtBY ) you're in the right place.

In reply to Alouette (msg #234):

My mom lives ~100 miles from me, and that's not considered too far a drive here

This is because we who live in the UA have a huge freaking country and an Interstate Highway system that is designed to bridge said huge tracts of land.

Remember: "In the UK, 100 miles is a long way. In the US, 100 years is a long time."

Reminds of the Pinnacle forums where someone askes me if I went to see James Bond when they were shooting Quantom of Solace in Bregenz - which is like a 10-hour-drive away. When I pointed this out, most Americans where like "But, Dude - it's James Bond! And it's only 10 hours!"

Aye, that and even your kids have cars there, wheras here if you're under 25 it's unlikely...not that it'd avail you much in the Highlands and Islands, mind: so much of the country is vertical it's really either walk or get a boat. Or break in a Highland pony.

Hey Stray, I'm not wearing anything older than your state today!

I can drive for ten hours and still be in Texas.

@ Alouette:

Wash all that mummy dust off, then? Or did the wind blow it away?

@ Adrian:

That's just because Texas is freakishly huge.

In reply to Adrian Vega (msg #241):

If I drive 10 hours I'd be in Texas or DC

Quick rules question, guys - I've got one foot out the door to get to work and can't see the answer at first glance.  Can you use a fate chip to re-roll snake-eyes?

Yes.

Is Carl Blessed now too but with Unholy trappings house ruled in?  Probably not but I hope so because that would just be hilarious beyond words, with that whole Anti-Wildcat theme running through him.

Or is Wildcat the Anti-Carl?  I forget.  Who started this ride?  Where do I get off?

*remembers Gangatsu's humorous comment from so long ago that they just need to have carnal relations and get it over with, I'm starting to feel the same way about Jake Lawrence and Alouette*

If he's on the road to being Blessed, it wouldn't be with any Unholy trappings. People with the same powers can still be on opposite sides of issues.

Ad for Jake and Alouette...no. Just...no.

Naw, they're just going to start up the entire Protestant/Catholic fight on a personal level ("miracles should be performed by anyone, in the vernacular!" *Carl points insistently at priest*). I don't think Carl will ever have any special powers, though...possibly the more sparkly Wildcat gets, the more his mundane (but very useful) competence will show. I'm hoping he'll get to use the Word (which in reality is just knowing how to handle horses really really well) to great effect at some point...doubtless at the same time Wildcat gets opportunity to throw thunderbolts. Or something.

Also, you made me throw hot tea on myself. Alouette is not a fembot!

But that's not as much fun, it ruins our whole dynamic!  We should get combat bonuses against each other, it's epic that way!



BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA



Is it any worse than the Other Thing Which Should Never Happen?  Good Lord, that coupling could actually produce a child, how #$%^ed up would that kid be!?

It's in your head now though isn't it...  whoever invents brain bleach will become so very rich.



But... is he a love machine?

Technically, Alouette is an "it." The spirit that guides Alouette is more of a "she."

...but with a cardboard tube and some stickyback plastic, anything is possible!

{{twitchshudder}}

XD XD XD XD XD XD

XD
There is no way that WOULDNT work

<.<

>.>

- inert the sound of exploding brain here -

Worst Blue Peter episode ever.

...I need to get those threads finished and up before my brainstem leaps out of my skull and tries to strangle me out of mercy...

We are about to write the world's most disturbing Deadlands fan fiction.

<DarthVader>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!</DarthVader>

...it's gonna be awesome though. Stray, you might need to up the rating to "Adult", though.

No, not for another 2 years

It's all right, we can smurf all the really smutty bits. After all, it's the speculation that kills.

...poor Jake Lawrence...

Sometimes when we touch,
the honesty's too much,
and I get a capacitor caught in my fly...
Hold still so I don't die
I'll be electrocuted if I cry...
Becaaaaause you're high amperage inside...

*brainbreak*

Haha it fits!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVf940pO5ME

Hello, players!

Look at the Fate Chips thread, now back at me, now back to the Game Menu, now back to me.

Sadly, the game seems almost dead right now, but if you start posting on the new Chapter 13 threads the game can continue. Yay!

Look down, back up, where are you? You're in a long-running Deadlands game with newly unlocked threads just waiting for your replies and a spiffy new post on the Experience And Fate Chips thread.

What's on your screen? Back at me. I have it, it's a game with two threads for that RP you love. Look again, the threads are now open.

Anything is possible in Sixguns & Spellslingers and not a dead game. I'm high on sugar.

#doo doo doot-doot-doo doo-doot-doo#

XD
RP you loive is too powerful to let this post end
Plot device!
Characters!
EXPLOSIONS!!!!!!
_{doo doo doot-doot-doo doo-doot-doo}

In reply to The Stray (msg #265):

I have a whole new mental image of you.  Huh...

(Did I break August's thread, by the way?  It says the last post was fifteen minutes ago, but there's nothing visible in there since my fate-chip-aganza this morning.)

No, I just bumped it so it wouldn't get buried.

Ah, right.  Understanding dawns.

Keeping a blue.

18:09, Today: Wildcat Hawkins rolled 26,33 using 1d36,1d36 with rolls of 26,33. Random Chippers.

Keeping Folk Hero.

18:11, Today: Wildcat Hawkins drew the 2 cards: KC, 6S using the Deadlands system. Replacement Cards.

Time to update the other thread!

Renown and Folk hero? hey, if you get a chance to play 'em maybe the townsfolk won't hate your guts so much. ;)

Considering Carl and Miliburn are currently working on every possible plan to make sure I won't be able to use either, I'm not optimistic.

Chips:
- Keeping 1 Blue
- Drew 2 Reds

Cards:
- Keeping Mysterious Treasure and Hidden Stash
- I drew 6H: Parley

Edit: If anyone with better Persuade or some such than me wants to trade for that Parley card, I'd be willing to do so readily. It could come in handy for the story to come soon, or at least that which seems imminent.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:59, Tue 13 Dec 2011.

As I'm out of Chips

08:17, Today: Charging Bear rolled 85 using 5d36 with rolls of 36,28,4,5,12. Fate Chips.

36 = Legend
28 = Red
4,5,12 = White

Nice draw, CB.
Out of chips, too, sooo...

15:13, Today: William Pierce rolled 19 using 1d36, rerolling max with rolls of 19. Extra Fate chip.
15:12, Today: William Pierce rolled 8,30,23 using d36,d36,d36, rerolling max with rolls of 8,30,23. 3 draws from the pot.

3 Whites, 1 Red. (Yes, I'm taking that extra random chip)

In reply to The Stray (msg #271):

Oh but they might if my card comes into effect, or maybe it is just me they'll stone to death. I love suprises :D

Thanks, for some reason I feel that I'm going to need it.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:19, Tue 13 Dec 2011.

First Quick Funeral, now Eulogy... I do keep drawing death-related adventure cards! :-D

Congrats on the Legend Chip CB, *insert evil laugh here* 7 of spades

The original Jake made me laugh.

As did New Jake's reaction to Alouette.  Wait until he finds out the "clock bird thing" is an Officer of the Law.

As is the chicken.  But she's in reserve.

Looks like everybody in this game is either undead, or a lawdog... or both! :-)

I am neither ... yet

Are there that many of us Harrowed?

Depends on how you count it up, most of the PCs are deputized at this point.  Two Harrowed characters, even in a posse this size, is actually a lot.  Three, if we count Robert Micklethwait, but I'm not sure if he's pure Harrowed or some home brewed idea The Stray cooked up that acts a lot like a Harrowed.

The only one that's really a stickler for establishing that Blackthorn is in fact subject to state and national laws at this point is Wildcat, and she's had to put that idea aside here lately given all the other problems.

Is amazed Wildcat Hawkins isn't dead yet.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:21, Tue 13 Dec 2011.

In reply to Wildcat Hawkins (msg #280):

Officer of the kaw?? Seems legitiment

*Is overjoyed that Wildcat's hick vocabulary is barely intelligible*

I really do work on that, you have no idea how hard it is to consistently "sound" like Wildcat, a mixture of a few period expressions, a deep drawl, and the vocabulary of a poorly educated country girl are hard to reconcile.  I mess up a lot though, sometimes "th'" manages to come out as "the" implying she put a vowel there.  It amuses me further that both she and Carl have great difficulty communicating with others.

Adrian can barely understand her, and he's starting to doubt her sanity - which really says something, because he's also starting to doubt his own sanity.

No one in Blackthorn is overly sane... just a byproduct of a high fear level

I d believe I have found the page that our villan needs to read, tougholy, such as these rules

12.One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.

60.My five-year-old child advisor will also be asked to decipher any code I am thinking of using. If he breaks the code in under 30 seconds, it will not be used. Note: this also applies to passwords.

I dunno, the villain's plan seems to be working smoothly so far...the Fear Level is ticking up quite nicely. Also, this one:



Doesn't really help our villain much because he is already, in point of fact, a giant snake.

YES! Finaly someone else who know TVtropes (Sorry for random spam)

Not to mention the two NPC Harrowed running around town...

And Robert was harrowed, yes. Or rather, he used some variant harrowed rules I cooked up to make him more like a vampire. (Different hit location needed to redead him, needs blood instead of meat to heal, fangs and some associated hindrances, etc.)

In reply to Jake 'Rattler' Cuthings (msg #291):

The Evil Overlord list has been around far, far longer than TVTropes, my friend. Not that there aren't Tropers here (Wildcat for one, me as another). But the Evil Overlord list is Older Than You Think.

touche salesman,
but im not always sure when people have seen what where

Carl is now un-unundead and not a lawdog, but that's probably because Wildcat is still very alive and lawful.

Jake cuthings isnt a low-dog eaither, hes a deserter

Give it ten minutes.

If he is a deserter, I'm pretty sure some would consider him a low dog

Ahh, sorry, thought it said "Law-dog"

Yeah, I'm just messin' with ya

For some reason I find shiny!Wildcat completely hilarious. 101 uses for a shiny Ranger!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pQYtmb-f0w

I am also amused that Pierce got a free formal suit with his vampirisim.

That's one part I can cross off my list of goals, then.

Check if you have a widow's peak hairdo, too.

It's not really the best argument either.  I'm going for more of an appeal to WTFery.

Rudolph the Red Nosed Ranger...

What's utterly hilarious though is the very best evidence that something is supernaturally wrong with Blackthorn is one of the people questioning me.  XD

Ah my childhood, This is the version ive been listening too recently
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY7OfZyTfQU

Fate chips, which I forgot to roll earlier today: one white, one red.

19:46, Today: August Colby rolled 10,23 using d35,d35 with rolls of 10,23. Chips, likely soon to be needed.

Adventure cards: keeping QH, replacing the others.  (Tale Teller would be great for anyone else, but August has no stories to tell that would help the rest of the group.  The sad tale of how he spent the last three days tied to a post, eating scraps and being menaced at regular intervals might earn him some sympathy, but that's about it...)

19:52, Today: August Colby drew the 2 cards: QH, 8H using the Deadlands system. Replacement cards.
19:52, Today: August Colby drew the single card: 6H using the Deadlands system. How many times can I roll QH?

New cards: 8H - Turncoat, 6H - Parley.

QH - Love Interest.... I know someone you should not play that card on.

"Charging Bear"?

Actually, I think August and Bear would make a lovely couple.

Because she's a maneater?

The world's most disturbing Deadlands fan fiction rears its ugly head again!

Really didn't need my brain to go there!  Thanks, guys!

With added creepy!

Oops, I need to do chips too...er. [tallies] Chips of self, Carl chip, Carl extra chip of holiness, bunny chip. 6,25,6,30,31.

What is it with you guys and kinky wrong stuff lately, anyhow?

The Blessed started it!

...and somehow that just makes it all the more disturbing.

http://www.google.com/imgres?q...biw=1280&bih=812