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!