Wow. This is the 4th OOC thread I've made for this game. The Lodge of The Enlightened is reaching the 1000 post limit. I wonder what I'll name the next thread...

Anyhoo, resume posting OOC comments here!
This message was last updated by the GM at 05:05, Mon 07 May 2012.

Oh, and because it had to be said...

FIRST!!!!11!!1!

I think that means you have to do some sort of dance...

Carl's last card pulled was 3S, it says right there - think that means the giant psycho gets to hit him some more before he can do anything about it...also, I think Murphs should get an instant chip from heaven since you have a summary and Murphs needs chips.

For some reason I now expect Wildcat to pull a string of really nice trade beads from one of her many pockets.
This message was last edited by the player at 07:10, Mon 07 May 2012.

Murphy, take 1 Random chip for having to deal with several problems at once.

Wildcat, take one Blue chip for your awesome summary. I know how hard it can be for writers to deliberately misspell words for effect.

It's rhe heart at the end that makes that letter pure awesome!

In reply to The Stray (msg #4):

18:21, Today: Mad Irish Murphy rolled 28 using 1d35, rerolling max with rolls of 28. random chip.

A red chip for the Irish guy. Of course!

The speech is bad enough, writing for her is even worse.  The more I look at the world from Alouette's perspective the more my head hurts.



It's become a recurring joke at this point.  It was originally meant to be a character trait of sorts (an inappropriately sincere and gentle salutation next to her moniker says a lot) but it just turned into a gag.

Oh, the clank's perspective's what's on the punchcards there, nice and neat, logged and summarised - I was not writing all that witter out, hell no.

As for the Hawk, it's just wacked out on its bindings (and suffering severe PTSD), that's about as much sense as it makes to itself...

This is a Ranger who's weaponised hugs, though.

And angel clanks.  At least once I find an ax handle.  May have to whittle the ends down so Alouette can hold it...

It's actually very elegant, hand-wise, part of its whole "impossible obsessively-worked tech" shtick...whilst it probably couldn't deal with guns very well (if at all) you could probably get it to grip the thinner end of an axe handle without issue...it'd just be explaining the concept of deliberately hurting people with it that'll be tricky.




She has a whole stake!

Boo! hiss! Bad joke!

But while we're on the subject of Indians and rape...

Adrian, take one Blue Chip for your summary.

Just got back from seeing The Avengers. This movie. is. AWESOME!

In reply to The Stray (msg #13):

I'm hearing that all around. Gonna have to see it.

If you're wondering why I'm kind of quiet today, this happened two blocks from where I live. It's kind of exciting and scary.

Distillery fire? Be sure not to make the same mistake as the Dubliners did in 1875: two firefighter burns casualties from the flames, at least half a dozen deaths from drinking hot whiskey.

(cf. http://www.londonancestor.com/iln/whisky-irish.htm)

Yikes.

Wildcat hasn't staked William or shot him in the back yet. I consider this a breakthrough in my vampire-human relations.

Shoot it or Recruit it.

Seriously think about it, this is pretty much the worst situation imaginable as far as the Rangers are concerned.  Without going into a silly amount of detail why, this is a time to recruit.

I personally find this conversation ironic because WC is delivering a lecture she needs to hear herself.  If she lives through it all somehow, I actually do not see good things for her when the Rangers figure out one of theirs "came back wrong".

Well not so much "wrong" as "on a mission from God".  Point is they will exploit the hell out of her!

We don't know yet. I think the investigation is still ongoing.

They will certainly "ask" her to join The Chaplain Corp...

Adrian, you are its mummy now - that gaping beak means "feed me!"

...I have to draw this thing.

I know just what its first meal is going to be. This will be awesome.

Yay! can I post it when you're done with your doodleage?

How far could i throw Sally and how far is the indian away? And would that take a throwing roll or would that count as an agility trick?

I would think you'd have to move a bit closer to the Indian to throw Sally. You can move half your pace with her in tow. I'd say you need to roll the higher of your Strength or Agility vs. Sally's Strength. Your roll will also determine what the Indian has to roll to avoid the Trick. If both Sally and the Indian fail their opposed rolls, I'll count this as a Trick, with all the benefits applied to both. If the Indian wins but Sally doesn't, you'll land her adjacent to the Indian and the trick fails (though Sally will still be Shaken). If Sally wins her check, you're still grappling with her.

Bwee, you can hold it up at Comanches and let them die horrible, horrible deaths by turning to stone until it needs a nap...

That looks awesome.

Couldn't find a pencil or I'd have drawn in moar! fluff! Considering it's about sparrow-size, your enemies might just die of cute.

...Wildcat is going to have a fit, isn't she?

So the Chaotic Neutral and the Lawful Good fail to come to an accord at last.

It's cute, horrific, and awesome all at the same time!

So now we have the Hometown Harrowed Huckster trying to make a pet of El Pollo Diablo there. *sigh*

Yeah, I think Wildcat is gonna have kittens.

On a lighter note, we now have something comparable to Pig Witch in this game...

I think if Wildcat had kittens (literally) that would put the icing on the cake to pretty much every situation.

O_o

What has been seen cannot be unseen

On a much different note...

DAMN YOU ITZA CHU DAMN YOU TO HELL

I had my fingers and toes crossed for Carl for DAYS.  GET 'IM CARL, GET 'IM!

Damn it Stray... you were taunting the dice roller! :-)
"Roll anything but a 1", he said... Yeah, I'll show him!

It seems to be my special talent...I told Alouette's player the only way to hatch an abomination from the egg goop was to roll a Raise on Weird Science...and now we have El Pollo Diablo hopping around.

It is the cutest abomination unto the laws of nature ever.




Believe me, he's trying. You notice Carl's picked up the mirror image of Wildcat's Danny-inflicted shallow head injury? Be his lucky charm and don't get stabbed.

*does a reflexive male wince at the event that just occurred in the thread...*

ow. I feel very, very sorry for Murphy right now.

I'm just happy that was not a damage roll to my nuts. Paddy might have a third child after all!

Oh Wildcat, for whom vowels are strictly optional, except when you pick the wrong ones.

PS IT'S OVER 9000!

Congrats to The Stray on longest running and most posted to game I've seen here

9K worth of posts wowie

Awesome game. Now let's take it to 10.000!


I fondly remember the time when my friends and I were talking about game night the day after in a public place earning lots of funny looks.
We didn't even do it consciously.
Most priceless: We're talking about a cyberpunk game and the infiltration of a military camp.
We reminiscence who killed who and when and how and what, until finally I ask:
"Where was Stephen the whole time, by the way?"
- Harry answers: "He lost his legs when we crossed the minefield, don't you remember? I think he's still bleeding out there."
...at whcih point an elderly lady got up and sat down in another booth. :-)

Because it had to be said...

It's over 9000!

Though I know of a Deadlands game that's currently ongoing that is, in fact, longer than this one...Adrian Vega's game!

Impressive. Looking for more players, Vega?

Loving the "over 9000" references here :)

In reply to William Pierce (msg #42):

My game is in recent days a little slower paced than this one and the system is Classic, and not Reloaded. If you're interested, send me a PM and I can give you more info.

Evans' response to the cockatrice reminds me of an early Victorian "Birdwatcher's Guide" I read in the course of my studies, which in all seriousness recommended against the use of fowling pieces (think shotgun) on anything smaller than thrushes. Quite how many sparrow-sized birdies the author had reduced to a few sad feathers and a sort of smear in the process of determining this lower limit were not mentioned.

On the theme of small passerines, Adrian might be familiar enough with mining canaries and possibly minahs in New Orleans to know that if you want to pick a bitty birdie up on your finger you put said finger right in front of them to trigger the step-up reflex. I've actually done this with wild sparrow fledgies too young to know they're supposed to fly away - if something's built to perch, it'll do it.

By the by, this game is very educational. I was never aware that "Luck of the Irish" was supposed to be an ironic term.

In reply to William Pierce (msg #45):

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

It can be used both ironically and unironically...it refers to both particularly good AND spectacularly bad luck, which seems to follow the Irish around.

On the subject of Irish luck, this.

The Gathering approaches!

Well, I had to go and remedy this... I had to avoid confusion!
Also, there has been an example of a player character chopping off his own head, so I gotta be careful.

Gotta dig through the internet to see if I can still find that story...

*clap, clap, clap*

Nice Adventure Card use, Carl. Post the usage in the thread, then draw a random chip for teh awesome.

And now I need to find out something...heading to the Pinnacle boards for a ruling.

Well played indeed.

I wouldn't, but 3 wounds straight off...really, no.

3 - yay, my white chip came back!

...why does that make me nervous?

@Murphs - shving!

Mood music for the Comanche raiders?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qSkaAwKMD4

To quote Carl: ?

Now I'm having a player dilemma. CB is Heroic (yes with a capital H) but Hates (also with a capital H) Itza-chu and what he represents with pretty much every fiber of his being.

Now Heroic just says "Character always helps those in need" so shooting Itza-chu from hiding is in theory fine for CB. If he had Code of Honor it would be very cut and dry, but I do try to play CB with a Honorable nature... except for shooting William Pierce for possibly going after Cantrell... BUT I do have the Feel It adventure card and a very nasty Dragoon to boot...
This message was last edited by the player at 18:06, Fri 11 May 2012.

Sorry, sudden sword noise. I don't even recall what corner of UK or possibly French pop culture it comes from.

@CB - what's wrong? Feel free to draw a dozen bulletproof Comanches and a crazy combat monster in your direction, really. You can always yell at him first so's he's facing you.
This message was last edited by the player at 18:10, Fri 11 May 2012.

Hmm... does CB know they're bullet proof?

The choice seems clear: Shoot Carl to make sure that you get to take out the crazy indian.

No...just that they're a weird silvery colour and Alouette was going on about a leader who could do magic of some sort. 'Course, there's still a lot of them and only one actual Charging Bear, so he might be leery of potentially pissing them off anyway.

In reply to Charging Bear (msg #56):

On the one hand, Cantrell specifically told Charging Bear not to engage anyone until he'd gotten the lay of the land, returned, and they could hash out a plan.

On the other hand, if CB attacks from his vantage point he can very likely get The Drop on Itza-chu, and with that awesome gun and the Feel It card might actually be able to take him out in one shot (or at least Incapacitate him for a follow-up attack).

On the other other hand, CB is badly outnumbered by experienced warriors who might or might not take exception to their leader getting shot from ambush. Warriors who are, though CB doesn't know it, bulletproof (though he has a magic gun, which might make a difference).

On the other other other hand (running out of hands here) CB has been known to leap first, look at some vague time later (due to the whole heroic thing) and I tend to award Fate Chips for Hindrances (such as Heroic). And if he doesn't want to use Feel It, he's always got a Legend Chip and the dreaded "Out Of The Frying Pan" card to play...

So really, I ask you...WWCBD?
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In reply to William Pierce (msg #59):

That's crazy talk. None of our players would ever do something like that... ;)

Of course! I merely wanted to point out CB had one more option. :-)

Ha! I missed that post. No no,


Agh, McCoy, how I wish you displayed some competence! I hope they'll find the pincushioned horse and Carl's hat and presume he's dead by now.

Bill was scared almost to death by a brass hatrack after drunkenly shooting at (and missing) a treed cat, then pissed himself at the sight of a bloody girl. Not to mention the fact he got suckerpunched by Dave of all people and then sweet talked by Cantrell into going on a wild goose chase and leaving the prisoners behind to mind themselves. Whatever gave you the slightest impression Bill McCoy was in any way competent? He's the very model of a Clueless Deputy.

We shall see, Carl. We shall see.

{Evil laugh}

Evans sounds as if he needs a slap from Murphy to get a grip on himself.

Do Murphy Slaps work on everyone? If so, he could start up his own buisness...

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/ADVG/888.jpg

"Next!" *whack*
This message was last edited by the player at 09:07, Sun 13 May 2012.

The only one I slapped was Joel and it worked. So I got like 100% success rate.

Not the best to counter national stereotypes, though...



Manitou playing up?

Just responding to something I got in a private message. Assumed this must have been a different Sally.

Adrian as himself shouldn't know a Sally connected with the Robertsons if he'd been gone nine years, is all. ...does he need a hug?

Dead men don't need hugs

Are you sure?

I mean, we've got centuries of vivicist prejudice to get over here: people see a zombie coming towards them with arms wide and sort of flailing and they think "oh no! It wants to tear me up and maybe devour my brains!" - but c'mon, zombies have poor motor control, the tensile strength in those muscles not powered by demons is pretty rubbish, maybe they just want a hug. They try to communicate this, but when they want to say "Hugs!" it comes out "uuuuUUUUUUUuuuggg" and that's not really their fault now, is it. And then living people get the wrong end of the stick and things get ugly. Who knows how many terrible zombie massacres could have been avoided if folks just plumbed the creatures' motivations and showed them a little love? Not too much love, though. That could get wrong.

It sounds like they need better motor control and vocal control more than they need hugs.

Well for that they'd need protein...

Or a more powerful manitou!

In reply to Adrian Vega (msg #71):

I thought Adrian's been gone about 6 years. Sally would have been about 3 then.

Also, realized that the PM Adrian's referring to had a mistake in it...darn gremlins!

I've edited the post (and Adrian's response) for clarity.
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:08, Tue 15 May 2012.

No-one dares speak of

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the Greater Manitou of Hugs

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If he left when he was 22 and he's 31 now, that is more than six, see...

I feel like taking inventory every few posts. There's a comedy western with Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer (They Call Me Trinity, I think, is the English title).
Spencer's the town marshal, Hill's his brother. Spencer has to leave town for 2 hours, leaving his brother in charge who gets in all sorts of trouble.
And then there's the hilarious scene where Spencer lists all the things that went wrong while he was away:

I just love how the Blackthornians adapt, I really do. I can picture Old Grandma Bennett pottering off down to the shops with a short-handled shovel and/or a shotgun on days when there's a zombie alert, barely noticing the musical *ding* of metal off undead skulls...

You leave the clank alone for two hours, now, you'd be lucky if the town was still standing.

I liked "They Call Me Trinity"...fun little spoof western. The second one in the series is the one with that little slap-fight I posted a while back (the other one was from "My Name Is Nobody," which just had Terrance Hill).

On the matter of the Crowcatrice, though, they've been too busy dealing with Emma to really look at the thing. Trust me, once Adrian's had a chance to respond I'll deal with the strangeness of the tiny talking monster....but they've simply mistaken Exodus for a trained crow. Still pretty unusual, but I'll get to it, don't worry.
This message was last edited by the GM at 10:51, Tue 15 May 2012.

In other less wacky news - it looks like I MIGHT be out two characters rather shortly
This message was last edited by the player at 11:41, Tue 15 May 2012.

A Frankenstein's monster and a ghost... you must have donde something bad.
Don't worry, Carl's gonna light the wrong CB on fire and everything will be fine.

I'm thinking this is going the way of a TPK, I've got that feeling.

Oh Stray cool nod to WildKitten's game with the James Van Owen reference

The dice roller can't hate you that bad.
But it's frustrating. "Oh, 1 on the blue chip-d6. Let me re-roll that... 2."
Awesome. 100% improvement yet still sucking majorly.

The Dice Roller is a fickle mistress, and it doesn't help that I've burned all but one chip.

In reply to Charging Bear (msg #83):

Well, none of your characters are harrowed yet...so don't give up ALL hope! ;)

And thanks. I thought, "A gunslinger runs into a blonde Englishman...what would he think?" and I remembered Van Owen...I hope Wildcat enjoys the reference when she gets back.



This is CB we're talking about. The Dice Roller hates him for some reason.

I don't think CB would take well to being Harrowed ... Jake either for that matter.

Yes the Dice Roller and I have a love hate relationship, she loves to hate me

The manitou don't care if people take well to crawling out of their graves...in fact, they probably enjoy causing just that sort of misery. The question really is, would you be bothered playing a harrowed, if it came down to it?

I was gonna try and boost the Marshal's trait that he used for whipping up his concoction or the woman's Vigor, if that would have helped her chances of recovery.

Ah. Well, right now he's relying on his Mad Science skill, if you want to still try and boost it.

A trained crow with glowing red eyes? Incidentally, I picture Exy's voice something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2zTAixMIQ




It's a Comanche. On the other hand, CB believing he's definitely going to die generally means the dramatic tension's a-humming. Walk through him, laddie! If he tries to be all solid at you, shoot 'im.

...I'm also amused that the preacher remembers his talk with Carl as a long chat, considering the man contributed two words to it. He should take the Good Friday service in the Town Hall, that'll cheer people up.

Ha! That does sound pretty nifty...Expy tends to be less foul-mouthed, though.

True, but they were the two most important words of his life. And most of the nonverbal communication got counted, as well. And the letter.

I dunno, a service by a brand new preacher about the day their savior was nailed to a stick of wood might not go over so well, especially if the little scene Itza-chu has prepared gets discovered.

Did y'all see that the next PEG setting is going to be Deadlands Nior?

http://www.kickstarter.com/pro...20095/deadlands-noir

Thinking of kicking in some $$$ for it.

hee! That's awesome.

Heheh, and blow less raspberries, but you see what I mean. Did you just automatically call Exodus Expy?

True, true. [pause] I hope Percy doesn't go to church before that's washed off, I mean imagine sitting in Mass or what have you, then noticing the wall appears to be covered in bloody letters apparently commanding you to save the father of a devil bottle with bad phonetic spelling, it'd be enough to scar you for life...

Any preacher's better than none, surely? And Himself was nailed there to deliver them all...He just took a day off to redeem folks Downstairs first.

Looks interesting, can't wait to see what PEG dreams up.

I'm giving them funds and blaming it on my home Deadlands game that I had set in New Orleans.

@Charging Bear: I'd certainly like to see what the Deadlands world looks like time-adjusted...seems pretty sweet. I'd like to send funds myself, but I don't currently have a way of doing that (no debit card).

@Alouette: Er, yes?

I'm pretty sure he has by now.

True.

You know, that Deadlands Noir concept looks like it would be perfect for a Deadlands/Call of Cthulhu mash-up adventure. I might have to run such a game if this becomes a reality.

Not a bad combo Adrian!

I think I've got the PDFs of Agents of Oblivion and Realms of Cthulhu from Reality Blurs stashed on my home computer...

In reply to Adrian Vega (msg #100):

I want to make a sophisticated comment to this suggestion but my brain only comes up with 'eee'.

I think that is in some ways the most likely response to a vision of many entities of the Cthulhu mythos, if any response is possible.

Really? I'd have thought of that as more of an 'aaa', myself...

to Jake: fly, you fools!
This message was last edited by the player at 18:10, Tue 15 May 2012.

In reply to Alouette (msg #104):

on it!

Yikes! Itza-chu is insane!

And lucky. Damn fucking lucky.

That man has clearly never heard of 'stop, drop and roll'.
not that it'd do him any good since he's covered in kerosene, but the alternative doesn't bear mentioning.

Re: Deadlands Noir: Interesting. I'm just curious about how they want to set up the typical group adventures. Those detective stories usally are one man against the system, so to speak.

And I found the clues to be pretty hard...

They'll probably add some pulp action in, as that's also the same time period as Doc Savage and his crew. Remember, Westerns are usually "one man against the system" style stories, too...lone gunmen and mysterious drifters abound. And yet Deadlands makes it work.

William and Vinny had the clank point them out that the "other vampires" went away southwest out of town, if they believe it (but then it did find them and know what they were).

... I thought that was where Victoria was at? I'll need to get the geography straight, I guess.
My awesome Tracking roll might help with that, though?

Also: As Undead, do I suffer from Wound penalities normally?

Since you're a Harrowed, yes, wound penalties affect you normally.

Alouette pointed in the general direction of Victoria (westerly). If course, he's going to find a lot of trouble no matter which way he goes...

You're not undead, you're just differently alive!

Blackthorn is slightly further south in my head than the Stray's, I think.

[pokes Long Ride thread] what be going on there? Also, is Itza-Chu really downed and on the floor or is that just for narrative propriety?

I'm going to be out traveling for work tomorrow and Thursday so my posting might not be overly frequent... I'll do what I can via my cell phone

I dunno what Alouette and Adrian were going to do in response to the events.. I was waiting on you to post, actually. Though I was also working on a post for that thread. I'm only one person! And I have to get myself to Work soon, so I can't do everything that I'd like...

Adrian, would you like to gain control of an NPC in one of the threads that's about to erupt in combat? I have Jericho Cantrell and August Colby available close enough to ride in on the War Crimes thread.

I'll post something for Adrian, but I have to pass on taking control of an NPC for the moment, as fun as it sounds. I'm treading water in all of my games right now, including the ones I run.

Meeeee? The clank lacks a thing to react to, really, and its attention's on Emma.

chippits: 20,27,10 WRW...run away, CB!

Got Backlash on my latest hex, Marshal :)

What were you trying to cast? And were you going to use that Joker?
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I love going into combat wounded! :-)

Seven DID try to get you to go to the Ranch instead... ;)

And miss my chance to take revenge?
I'm about to find out what happens when I drain a vampire, is my take. ;-)

I was trying to Boost my own Persuade. I wasn't going to use the Joker, because I had a sufficient hand without it. But my Spellcasting roll was a complete bust - snake eyes (1,1).

Ok. Normally, it would just men you're shaken, but since you had the joker drawn and it's a Critical Failure (ie the worst possible failure you can get) I'll roll on the Blacklash table and apply something fiendishly creative to it.

Backlash is half the fun of being a Huckster, at least in my book. I look forward to whatever fiendishness you manage to conjure up.

Well, then...have a look at this!

Good fun for me, not good fun for Adrian :)

Or Evans, or Joel, or Emma, or Frank...they all got a Panicked result on their Fear checks.

Alouette, roll a d20 to see what your Fear fate is!

They need to put some steel in their spines and not get afraid by little things like a guy throwing up a litter of chicken-lizard-crows!

Said witchcraft was bad for you.

Hey, you do that usually...4

I know, but I wanted to see what would become of it if I left fate in your hands this time.

1-4
Adrenaline Surge: The hero’s “fight” response takes over. He adds +2 to all Trait and damage rolls on his next action.

Bad? He just did the same thing Alouette did, except a lot better. Instead of only making one, he made a whole bunch. :)

Not Bad, bad for you. You know how sometimes you wake up (possibly wedged down the back of someone's sofa) and your mouth feels like the bottom of a parrot cage? Demon birdies.

...scree?

*nod* Scree.

Maybe five rounds later I can start taming all the birds, then sic them on the Comanches.

Already on it.

I'm in Hamburg for the next few days with little to no internet access. I'll be back Sunday evening.
That goes for Mad Irish Murphy, too, of course. ;-)

I'll have posts waiting for when you get back!

Poor Murphs, he will be most disconcerted to be teleported to Hamburg. Go well!

On the theme of zappiness, one for the Stray:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdrqdW4Miao

Jake is going to have some serious mental issues with the "spirit" crows he's been seeing coming to life... poor Jake.

Why do I have the feeling The Hawk isn't going to have much nice to say to Adrian?

At least he wasn't doing it in church or near its adoptive chick. It's not entirely happy with him, though, no.



You want to stroll on in there and go "'sup guys, I'm your replacement Charging Bear, nice ring o' torture you got going here. Mind if I put a few planks on the fire? Nice, let's break out the marshmallows."
This message was last edited by the player at 17:02, Fri 18 May 2012.

I have no idea, either...the Comanche are about looking for the intruder, Carl and Is Not Afraid there are going round in circles in their discussion...I'm a little at a loss myself.

Oh, and Alouette? what was the Go go angel touch meant to do this time around?

Just introducing Adrian and Adrian's little friend to the Hawk - spirit check.

Carl'll think of something. He's good at that. Probably something racist, though, since his vast ignorance is why he'll never get over d6 Smarts. It amuses me no end that he's far more of a savage than CB or most of the Comanches there will ever be. What's the bowman's name?

Ah. Right-o!

Yellow Buffalo.

Aww, it's nice to have fans, even though Carl and the Dust Adders aren't actually a Goth Rock/Country band...you could try de-crucifying a vampire for shits and giggles. Carl still might attack you if he notices, but his attention's more on his own "tribe".

Cause CB would WANT to unleash a vampire on the world... wait he doesn't.

True, but neither Carl nor CB know they're vampires...at least, not yet.

Carl suspects from Evans' and Wildcat's talking about vampires in the theatre in front of him, though he's not entirely sure what a vampire is (something that flies, possibly?) or how to deal with one.

...he'd probably free them anyway if he knew, since undead or not they're the right colour and female, and likely they'll want to take being horribly abused out on the Comanche rather than him.

In other news the dice roller hates me

oh and I'm running Warrior Dash this weekend!

Carl, did you want to control Jesse during this little bit, or leave him in my hands?

Carl would be very confused by that, but the magic 8 ball's mysterious sources say "no", [points at edited post] so I won't.

Clank-speak is catching...

So, I have a quandary. I don't want to ghost Wildcat, as I've not been given permission to do so, but her absence is beginning to get felt. Thoughts?

Has the player ever asked you specifically not to ghost them?

In the absence of such a request, I believe it is the GM's prerogative to ghost an absent player's character when necessary and appropriate.

If not, then I'd send a PM to let them know that their character's integral role in the story thus far somewhat begs their presence, and that unless asked otherwise informed you'll be ghosting them to keep them in the scene so they don't get left behind.

Even otherwise, to put myself in an absent player's shoes, I would rather Adrian be involved even though not under my control than sitting around somewhere, missing all the major action (which is every five minutes in Blackthorn) and then making an awkward transition back into the game where the other characters are wondering why they missed the whole shebang.

I'm so sorry, Charging Bear. The Dice Roller is trying to kill you!

But wait! I've noticed a mistake, and one of those massive hits against you has to be rerolled!
This message was last edited by the GM at 04:25, Sat 19 May 2012.

...and is still massive.
You know, I my theory is the dice roller is psychic, and knows when a character's supposed to be lucky or unlucky - some of you will know what I'm talking about when I say it adores Kerry Faust in much the way it deplores Charging Bear.

What Adrian said. We can't leave Wildcat locked in the privy indefinitely, and it'd be hugely unfair to leave her ambiguously wandering the streets in the event of Comanche attack. You could do it mininmally, like "posse comes up to find Wildcat overseeing the hauling of hot water to roofs, she signals she'll talk to them in a minnit" so that you could give her a presence but didn't have to navigate the angel-talk, even.

It did seem to enjoy giving Faust the upper hand a lot. And it also seems to hate Danny, especially while he's trying to escape.

I figure she's currently engaged in that Streetwise Roll she made before we stated the new chapter threads, now that her conversation with William over. That was to check the towns defenses and see that everything was in place. This would put her over by either City Hall or The Old Mining Offices, both of which are out of earshot of the Grand Bull.
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Danny is not good at making friends. Aye, and you can guarantee that the only one likely to remain unaffected by this run of Jokers in combat is Alouette...

If she was at City Hall that'd give her a bit more time (waiting on Murphs to get back), the knowledge from the sucessful check that Carl's gone missing and access to any holy buckshot already being made. Tim's there for her to bother, too, though he'd probably just growl at her and make the Adders there close in and growl at her too if she tried.

Actually, Aloutte's Schizophrenia is activated each time any player draws a Joker in combat, not just those present around it at the time...though I don't think that counts for the GM's characters. So the Hawk might get a chance for a few words...

Makes sense. I'll do that, then.

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY does the Dice Roller hate Charging Bear so much!?

You ever kill a Comanche, CB?

Really? Really really? You said that was a myth last I asked. Kee...

I re-read it. It says ANY player. That should make things fun...

...unless Alouette just exploded. (Oops.)

Y'know, CB, I think letting Itza-Chu get his hands on the Doom Gun might be a really, really bad idea...

Heee...this has been a session for Magic Going Wrong, hasn't it?

Oh, don't think I haven't thought of that... }:D

In other news, I got a message from Wildcat. seems she was experiencing technical issues and should be able to resume posting soon.

Yay Wildcat! Aye...

You mean if CB plays his Frying Pan card, Stone walks in, kills Itza-Chu, then gives everyone else ice cream, right?

Back from Hamburg! What did I miss? Oh, Jericho, again...

You missed the bit with the demon crows. I haven't posted anything for Murphy yet...I figured it would get buried anyway, so I'll post something for you in a new thread (since you'll shortly be joined by Wildcat, when she resumes posting).

I am certain you'll find lots of volunteers to help you set up an arrangement involving Itza-Chu, a straightjacket, an upright trolley and a straw...

PM

In reply to The Stray (msg #171):

I like the name...Fortress o' Fear :)

The break in the numbering scheme though...shouldn't it be 14.5?
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Whoops! Did not notice that...fixed now.

Angels: they're like Templars, with feathers! This is the Best Mix.

I have the feeling this won't end well for Adrian...

Hah. Probably not. I'm not even sure what's going on, exactly. And so neither is Adrian.

I suppose it is one big electric hand buzzer...

Sorry again everyone.  Work has been busy.  I usually get there early and I either update or work on updates before it's time to do work, or I get to work right away and stop to update later, but I haven't been able to do the update in the morning.

Normally when that happens I update at home, but my home ISP went out last Monday.  It's a 45 minute hold to get through to my cable company, so I couldn't call them until Tuesday after work, and even then the soonest they could get anyone out when I could be there was Thursday.

Thursday the guy came, said he found the problem but had to come back Friday.  I said I couldn't meet him, he said he technically didn't have to come inside to fix the problem, so he gave me his mobile number and said to call him when I got home.  Whatever he did worked.

Anyway Stray you have permission to sock puppet Wildcat when need be.

Okay I got out what I had to say to Willy P.  so that worked out okay.

Wildcat believes she's on a mission from God to save the town proper from Comanche raiders, so what thread is that.

Incidentally, sorry for the triple post, but last week was a terrible time to lose home internet access for a Diablo fan.  Although maybe not, as it seems most people couldn't play very much the first 2-3 days. XD

Good to have you back, Wildcat.

As an FYI, I'm traveling today so if I'm not responding till later that's why.

Hey, Wildcat!

I've been assuming that you were following up on that Streetwise roll you made a while back, checking on the defenses and the like, so that would lead you to City Hall, and the Fortress o' Fear thread.

Huh. Maybe you run into that lovely zombie private who was so fond of singing.
Vampires, Zombies, Immortals, oh my! It's the monster mash!

No, he's about to run into someone worse than all of those combined... }:D

Me? :-)

"heheheHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhahahahahahehhhhh...you're so stupid!"

Oh the fun!

Forgot to update my chips... down to one red, one legen... wait for it! .d

You forgot to add a link there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZftK2kO6U

...I must say, it's great fun to watch vampires in action when one's not on the recieving end of them.

In reply to Alouette (msg #190):

It certainly helps that I'm counting William's Fangs as magical weapons for the purpose of hurting them.

PMage!

"I'm supernatural, bitch!"

And you all are going to hate me forever.  XD

In reply to Wildcat Hawkins (msg #194):

I'm already dealing with


Jake here has gone around with ole Laughs At Darkness, now CB is too. Apparently I'm all about the dream/vision quests... who know?

At least CB already has a name...LaD is probably just going to make him do all his laundry or something.

[points at the Ride thread] With the choice of a deputy, an angel and a man favoured by Coyote, how did we end up with Danny in charge of decision-making?

Actually...about that...well, you'll just have to see. It will be a bit more involved than laundry, I'll tell you that.

Lord knows. Going to be fun when I finish up my post there, though.

In reply to Alouette (msg #196):

Who's favored by Coyote?
This message was last updated by the player at 17:59, Wed 23 May 2012.

Jake had LaD nab him from the path of a crow-mobbing and talk to him helpfully in a place sheilded from Tezcatlcoatl's hearing...Chuckles either belongs to Coyote, channels Coyote or is Coyote, possibly depending when you ask...

hee. Oh, and Vinny's black Joker...?
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PM

Mip?

Considering how this kind of thing usually works, I now half-expect Charging Bear to discover a hitherto unsuspected love for a well-strung barbed wire fence, giving him insights into the mind of his opponent.

In reply to Alouette (msg #202):

I expect nothing good to come from all this, but have no doubt it'll be fun!

Avoid the inevitable off-pissing of the Shrike as long as possible. You have not seen rage until you've seen bird rage. Also remember not to eat any apples or pomegranates, and if someone's boiling a salmon or a snake and you taste some, run away soon after.

Adrian, you have the dead crowcatrice as proof at least some are dead; it's a good start for telling the truth and that you've been told to repent (which is true, even if you won't)...though if you blamed everything on the clank Gus'd definitely believe that, too. They have a sort of hate-hate relationship.

I have to show this off...someone wrote a Deadlands-themed filk song called "The Ballad of Lil' Lemon."

! so much love.

I think the situation with Gus is beginning to deteriorate.

Considering the Ranger's given up on keeping occult occurrences secret, I think it's time to either tell the truth or demand you talk with an angel present.

...meanwhile, Comanches!

I've already begun thinking through another character.

Well, don't count Adrian out just yet...

For those of you in the states, happy Memorial Day!

In reply to The Stray (msg #211):

What's that about?

Wikipedia entry on Memorial Day.

That is a very strange holiday. May it include ice cream and/or other good things for y'all stateside, and be sure to think about the dead Yankees as well as the racecars.

Adrian, look! Other people have scary talky crow friends, too: http://swanblood.tumblr.com/po...-172-other-wild-pets

LOL. Wow, I don't really even know what to say about that, but it has made my day so far. Granted, my day has only just begun, but still that's something.

I know I've been beaten over the head with the fact that going on is a stupid idea. But William doesn't know that a doctor would be an option for him. Just sayin' :-)

Oh, I figured you'd know. I like the reply you gave...gives me a hook to RP with.

I'll take the extra adventure card - QD Windfall.

I may be out of touch for a little bit...having some internet issues. I'll let you know what's up later on today.

I've fixed my Internet issues, and will resume regular posting.

Sorry it's been slow...it seems like a lot of you have been busy this week, and , truth be told, I've been busy myself. I don't expect to be around the rest of Today or Tomorrow, so I'll resume regular posting on Sunday.

We'll be around, boss.

Anecdotally on the theme of busy, I didn't get time to change between the schools' living history event for the Thing* Project on Thursday and accompanying a visiting aunt to the bird sanctuary on one of the more remote islands. I can only put the airstrip assistant's look of startled horror on opening the tiny 'plane door to find a Viking sitting there down to folk memory, since most staff were merely a bit bemused. I remain unsure whether grinning brightly at her was quite the right thing to do.


*Þing anglisises poorly.

Still been busy...will hopefully get some posts up later this week.

Time for some plus plus witchery!

[hopeful] Boom?

Hopefully without almighty backlash this time. I say, amused as I am by Murphs accidentally persuading puppet!Wildcat on a mission of madness mercy, I'm not sure how she'll justify that one IC...I mean, sure she wants to run off and kill injuns, but she seemed to be gaining an awareness that she should be proving to the People she's not a psycho and that maybe the Law gives a damn...thoughts from everyone else who's not Wildcat?

Getting Carl back in one piece might help her get a few of the Dust Adders on her side, I'd say.

I don't think Wildcat's really interested in the respect of the "whickid men" her "natural enemies" - Carl has offered bits of it repeatedly and she's taken it variously as bribery, cowardice, and opportunity to push for her way since she's still fundamentally unable to see them as other than black hats. She'd rather be friends with a Yankee vampire who is also an outlaw than with Carl, too - unless she really wants to escalate their...whatever it is those two have...by saving his life I don't see why she'd care for him more than the small and scared enough to run into danger. Murphs probably knows Carl's feelings on bringing white women within live capture reach of overexcited Comanche soldiers, too.

She might be coming to see that she (and thus the rule of Law) could be seen as less of a scary mean thing to the locals if she worked alongside the Adders in defense of the town, though. Also she's held on to Folk Hero for most of the game now, c'mon.

William has a very sunny outlook on life, a great and fun! guy to have around. Did that not come through?

Oh, certainly, if a bit of a rake: the first thing he did on getting to town was to hit the whorehouse and let the girls know the drinks were on him, after all. As soon as he walked into the saloon the Blackthorn nightlife got more lively and several times louder, too - he's the very unlife and soul of the party, our Mr. Pierce.

Did I mention Jake is a bit paranoid?

"Where the white women at?"

In reply to Adrian Vega (msg #232):

http://youtu.be/jGQ-ISsDm8M

Hah! Right on the money :)

Heee...Real Charging Bear should see if he can find Sheriff Bart's big grey rabbit spirit animal, then he'd be in for the win for sure.

Carl...Carl was brought up back when you could own people paler than him if they had the 'wrong' racial label; he thinks of natives as a kind of wild animal, black people as a kind of domesticated animal, and 'irony' as meaning 'kinda like iron'.

Bizarrely, that and mild sociopathy makes him less overtly racist than Gus, since Carl bonds better to animals than people and is more ready to meet them on their own terms...and once someone is "tribe" he'll defend them to the death whether they're red, white, undead or Methodist.

To reply again to an old post, this thing had an original funding goal of $8,000 and is now funded at over $96,000. Pretty impressive level of interest for Deadlands out there.

As for 730EDT they're at $102,253, which is alot of $$$. With (2) $1000 pledges and (4) $500, wow amazing the support they're getting

I pledged some at a much lower level than that, but the benefits are pretty good at all the levels.

At this point William is half-sure that he's either fast asleep and has the weirdest dream ever... or that he's already in hell.

This is still the same day, right?

Could be worse...they could sing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O163ogpOI7k

Ok, I has to share this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA7lv1SDzno

Yay! Posts are up! And I'm another year older...my birthday was on the 21st!

[gives Stray a balloon on a string]

William is properly introduced now, he can have many friends!

Congrats! How often have you turned 27 now? :-)

Happy belated birthday! Gonna be a little slow but hopefully will catch up tonight. More dreaded business travel.

I swear this is not me (I can't knit, for a start):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-s...ey-shetland-18633867

...but noting that the phenomenon apparently started in Texas and recalling my hero worship of the guy on the cover of The Manly Art of Knitting my imagination is taken with the idea of a band of iron-jawed, steely-eyed Texas cowboys who have vowed to bring the joy of knitwear to the very corners of the earth, Kirkwall included. This is surely the most plausible explanation.

Intimidating a vampire - and failing the attempt - is a severe health risk. Ask William, he learned the hard way that you're always polite to fangsters.

I dunno, I suspect Vinny's the type that bites when threatened.

Then again, so's Carl...hey, maybe if Carl breaks skin before Vinny reduces him to itty bitty pieces Vincent will find himself changing, consumed by a weird and unnatural urge! ...to herd cows, talk in a slow drawl and be nice to horses.

Meanwhile, Jake's pragmatisim and anachronistic monster/scientist confusion amuses me no end.

In reply to Alouette (msg # 248):

I double checked to make sure Frankenstein had already been published before making the reference ... it was published in 1818, plenty of time to make its way to the U/CSofA

Aye, but people only started thinking the nameless monster was called "Frankenstein" after Boris Karloff as said monster appeared on posters screaming "FRANKENSTEIN", causing folk to confuse the two...Frankenstein in the book is about Jake's build and prone to nervous breakdowns, the poor faintly incestuous daftie, wheras the monster is an uncanny valley-inducing yellowy-grey dude built on a statuesque scale.

On a tangent, my undergraduate dissertation supervisor worked on the initial excavation of the laboratory complex of Crosse, the English scientist who inspired Frankenstein. He had a "lightning-collecting" device! Nothing above-ground, but the geophysical survey shows the place up as just a mass of metallic stuffs and funny buisiness.
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True... hmm... guess I should correct that.

Nuuu, it (and justifying on the fly) is what alternate universes are for! (plus it is funny)

I'm pretty sure someone in the Deadlandsverse has whipped up something like Lurch before and called it a "Frankenstein man", you know, like the thing with the Coke and the...whatever you call plasters (as in what you stick on cuts) that is also a brand name but I can't remember at present.

You mean Band-aids?

In reply to The Stray (msg # 253):

plus plus band-aids

Those! My brain kept coming up with "elastoplast", but I don't think you even have that brand.

@Adrian: I shall teach you an idiom, so you can tell Frenchmen how bad a fight is: une cause de sparadrap - "a thing that requires/will require plus plus bandaids" (loose translation).

Thanks, Alouette :)

I will attempt to keep that in mind, guarding against the unlikely event in which I run into any Frenchmen and I need to communicate with them about rough fights.

Be prepared, as it said on the scout buckle recovered from the alligator swamp.



Or a coup stick, waved in a ferocious fashion (before being mobbed to bits)!

...just an addition to the list of

Ahem...  Did someone call for a Scientist?

Augustus?! Really really?

Sir, you are definitely getting tacklehugged if you get within launching reach of the clank. Hello!

Welcome aboard!

Yep, from the murky twilight, the Light of Scientific Truth has returned!

And I'm quite sue Augustus will be duely mussed by said tackle hug.

Happy Independence Day, folks! (or at least those of you in the US)

On business travel, with spotty internet access, AND sick...not sure when I'll get to post but I will do so as soon as is feasible

[proffers electronic orange] May you get better soon and your internet less pimply.

Get well soon!

I'm sorry I haven't been around a lot this weekend...I'm dealing with some RL issues. a friend of mine is having some serious medical issues, and it's pulling at my concentration. Please, send some well-wishes for my friend.

No worries, Stray. Take your time, and the best of wishes to your friend.

Self is busy also...but I had to share yesterday's quote of the day here. The Ness of Brodgar is part of a UNESCO/World Heritage site and is incredibly important for understanding the Neolithic in general, so we get lots of international students and volunteers coming to dig, including one great big fellow with a hefty handshake who declared:

"I got this grip fighting bears - it's what makes me American!"

...so Stray, it is official now, you can no longer deny it.

You're talking like Alouette now LOL.

I have to admit, Alouette-speak is kind of infectious. I'm occasionally tempted to use it in character.

You know, at that time in the morning I couldn't even tell you if it was intentional or not.

It is! Heh, I do like how Adrian's been gamely trying to communicate with the clank on its own terms and I wouldn't be entirely surprised if the odd +/- slipped into his speech patterns, no...maybe he can become an approximate-interpreter between it and Wildcat, or just translate when the clank attempts to use the Ranger's idioms...

Well, I have had for some weeks a planned line for him to say in clank-speak. We'll just have to see whether or not the opportunity to use it actually comes up in character.

Just reminded me how much fun I had with Augustus dealing with the clank.

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks 'ah, that'd be some fine phrasing' and hoards it sometimes.

The clank adores AUG-US-TUS, like he's a comprehensable Evans or possibly its mother, I do hope they meet up again...a rare instance where Science loves you back!

Back to posting. Will post more when I get home from work. Thanks for being understanding in this difficult time.

I think I might have missed and/or forgotten something pretty significant here.

What's the deal with Wildcat's Ghost? Is the Ranger dead? Is someone else playing Wildcat while the player is away? These are the possibilities that immediately occur to me.

The Stray just really really didn't want to ghost a character as strong/noisy/idiosyncratic as Wildcat, so he made a copy of her stats so's I can collaborate in posts for her until she gets back, without giving me GM powers or locking her player out. She's still temporarily an NPC for now.

...so yes, there's two of us trying to work out Wildcat-speak at present and neither have quite managed yet. [amused by this]

Question: does this mean Murphy slaps are currently super effective against vampires whilst his lead is not?

Alouette, I saw this earlier. Reminded me of some of your earlier posts:

I don't think I trust the Modern Man, he looks like he means to stab that wool with his handful of needles until it maybe turns into something...which in turn reminds me of a book obtained by my uncle in his youth, now owned by my mother:



...which turned out not to be about how to be a hit with the young ladies in the American style, but a book on how to turn things like curtains into dresses that looked like they were made out of curtains etc. The knitted beachwear section may have scarred me for life, but I will also forever remember the large caption beneath a picture of a young lady wearing something that had probably been a blanket or a throw rug at one point in its existence:

"A PONCHO IS NOT JUST A GARMENT. IT IS A WAY OF LIFE."

Words to live by.

He'd have to slap Vincent and see, wouldn't he? }:D

In other news, posts up!

Considering Murphy Slaps cure psychological trauma, now'd be the best time to apply them!

*SLAP!*
"The Blessit Ranger Hawkins can hurt me because I am a bad person. And I like-"
*SLAP!*
"-and I want to reform, it's just that the world seemed dark and awful and I should-"
*SLAP!*
"My mother never loved me!"
*SLAP!*

[Vinny surrenders]

...I hope Wildcat's player'll forgive me the liberty of playing up about the only thing the character feels secure expressing humility over, but staring down a vampire, what're you gonna do?

edit: [of Shakens] No...Vinny was Shaken, then he got hit for a Wound and a Shaken, but...the second injury-shaking doesn't count 'cause it came later? I need to go to work, though...
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O.o

Alrighty then...

Oh, I was thoroughly tempted to use the old: "Badges? I don't need no stinkin' badge!"

That actually makes things less clear, but it's all right, I figured it out at work when I was actually awake and so on - it is timing.

Meanwhile, poor Wildcat fails to catch the bad guys once again...

That's because she's a Ranger.  Rangers don't always catch the bad guys.  Mounties on the other hand "always get their man"
(not actually their motto, but oft noted)

...or their sasquatch, but yes! Yay for mountie organisation! ...although if there was one in Deadlands' Texas, they'd be very lost (or possibly very very determined to get that man...now there's a character concept for fun and confusion).

It's just Wildcat...well, the only person she's arrested in-game who's stayed under arrest more than 2-3 hours was Charging Bear. Who didn't do anything.

I think they might actually cover the Mounties in the Weird White North sourcebook...I'd have to reread it to be sure. I'm sure they exist, and I'm pretty sure they're analogs of the Rangers and the Agency, but I have no other details on them.

Yeah, it's almost enough to make someone start shooting things...I think chasing the vampire away is still a victory, though. Or at least gives Blackthorn one less thing to worry about.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:23, Mon 30 July 2012.

In the Classic supplement called The Great Weird North, Mounties are covered in a small amount of detail (there's a one page write up about them, and an archetype page). To quote the book, "they've become the Canadian equivalent to the Texas Rangers, except that the Mounties have fewer men, usually operate solo, and are charged primarily to study any strange events and report back. They only interfere when human lives are at risk, which of course, is often the case." They sometimes serve as judges in some proceedings, and are well respected almost universally (in Canada) even by the Indian tribes.

That book is mostly a location sourcebook for conducting Deadlands adventures in Canada, so they're presented in that context.

Wildcat's main issue with the vampires is contagion, though - she's more worried about them running around making more than just plain attacking people. On the other hand, she has the vampire whores to take it out on.

@Murphs Peculiar thing today - one of the Oregon students said he was in Austria recently and was amazed to see porcupines "all over the streets" - I presume he meant he'd seen some flattened hedgehogs, but he assured me the creatures were alive and wasn't sure what a hedgehog was, so I am perplexed. Can you elucidate?

This will be the 10,000th post for Sixguns & Spellslingers. I'd like to thank you all for sticking with me over the years. You guys are awesome.

Five digits! Welcome to the club, Marshal :)

To the fist.

Augustus, you can do things at -2 in a round if you unshake without raising now, th'Stray changed it to stop people staying Shaken all fight.

Good to know!

There's a bunch of new edges n' suchlike stuff in the Rules thread, too, like you can't stick Blessed to the ceiling but you can summon bunnies or develop Jackie Chan scenery skills and so on.

Meanwhile, the situation in the Lodge is making me grin so very much.

Edited in my failed shot.

Curiosity about this rule...  Does it apply to everyone?  PCs?  NPCs?  Wild cards?  Extras?

Oh and dropped the Guts skil, moved the points to Persuasion.  He was a lecturer after all and had to pitch his inventions as well.
This message was last edited by the player at 04:43, Sat 04 Aug 2012.

I'll give it a look.

Yup. It has the practical effect that I spend fewer GM chips on unshaking, which means NPCs actually spend a bit more time Shaken than they otherwise might.

Awesome. We now have a character with Persuasion in the group again!

You mean this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...mons/d/d4/Igel01.jpg
?
They're actually endangered here, but there are some parks and public gardens where you can find them. Really depends on where specifically in Austria he was.
But I've never seen living hedgehogs all over the street. Dead ones a-plenty though.

Southeast, I think - I was wondering if there was some sort of zoological park that had housing in or an escaped population of porcupines like the Lomond wallabies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...troduced_populations) or London parakeets...mysterious!

He probably just saw a live hedgehog or two and was so excited by the 'exotic' wildlife his imagination blew them out of all proportion. Sad to hear they're in decline over there, though. I was accused of hedgehog theft recently (I was bringing it back! It got stuck in a gate) but even way up here they're too common to get possessive about.

We have an introduced population of Burmese pythons in the southeastern United States, and those things are nasty. Apparently, they've infested the Everglades and are competing for prey with the already endangered alligators.

http://science.time.com/2012/0...ring-the-everglades/
This message was last edited by the player at 22:54, Sat 04 Aug 2012.

Yikes! I hope those are edible. Poor alligators!

I'm totally rooting for the gators here.

William's so mean I just want to give him cake. He must've lived a cake-deprived life.

He clearly lacks the refinement to appreciate the finer things in life, such as cake. Or a can of shrimp.

I really wish John would post...I want to get to Adrian's bit. Ah, well. I'll put him on Ghost for a bit while I work out the next piece of Adrian's troubles.

If wishes were fishes they'd be some sort of small goldfish or possibly shrimp. Something that multiplies fast but isn't much good to anyone on its own. [nods]

Ah, but I have a Theory on the inverse relationship between sugar availability and misanthropy, you see...the Stray wouldn't let me attempt to feed Stone 5 litres of molasses, though we did come to the conclusion it'd only mellow him out if we also fed him enough cornbread to give him coarse poteen bourbon for blood...and if a man merits all the canned shrimp he can appreciate, he is a noble man indeed.

Now that's what I call plus plus shrimpery.

And take your time Marshal, I can wait for John or move ahead as the needs of the game require.

There definitely was a deficency of cake in William's live. Nougat, too.

I think one might go so far as to say that his life was 'minus bakery.'

Alas! No wonder he goes around ignoring angels and pushing deputies into doom pits.

...I wonder if it's possible to make vampire-friendly ice cream...

Much as he might throw the insult "west Brit" at an Ulsterman, it's very unlikely Murphs'd consider the terms "British" and "Saxon" interchangeable (we're not all bloody Sassenach, after all). There was a Feen saying that translated along the lines of "Rob an Irishman, take his gold; rob a Scotsman, take his gold and beat him up; rob an Englishman, take his gold and beat him up and kill him dead...then spit on him." So although he might not care for harm done to non-English Brits (something that hasn't changed - growing up in London, five-year-old me came within half a street's length of being blown up by the IRA) it's unlikely he'd mentally lump them in with the English (the only Saxon population on the islands). Jus' saying.

I think you do Murphs' fanaticisim very well, by the by. There's something darkly amusing to me about antique prejudice, not sure why...perhaps because it shows off an eternal human foolishness and/or assures us that it's possible that in a century or so some of the great oppressions of our time will seem quite quaint.

I've been searching for a good, general derogative the Irish would have used of the British. Sassenach or Saxon was the only one I really found, but I found it to be rather... unsatisfying. I was expecting there would be an equivalent to Yankee or Krauts or whatever. If you have a suggestion, I'd love to hear it.

Ah...there's a headache-inducingly complicated situation there. The Saxons/English are the oppressors Murphs was directing his efforts against, but they're fielding British troops, doubtless including Royal Irish volunteers..."British" is insult enough to non-English British troops/folk, since it implies they want to be there/are associated with the English, but it'd be a conscious one to Murphs.

So...if he hates the common soldiers, he can call them British, since they probably are. If he hates the people who own his country and are running it into the ground at that point in time, he hates the Saxons. It's very unlikely he'd confuse the two, or want to, unless personally insulting someone. The use of 'Saxon' for the English enemy is well-documented.

I've never heard an Irishman use 'Sassenach' (or rather, whatever their equivalent is) when speaking English, though...as for alternate names, again, it depends whether he hates the Crown or hates the redcoats.

Waiting on CB's player for game posts, by the way - I think he's going to to help/interfere in one case and set a flaming vampire on us or something in t'other, so. Since he mentioned Bill, though, Murphy might want to tell Carl the poor man'll be dithering down on the hillside with a bunch of nervous horses. Didja bring Carl's horse out?

What's a Roland-like noise?


Not a bad idea. :-)
The d William would've done that. You know, the hard-core bandit one, from up North. And right niw there's nothing down there to be hurt...
But let's see what card Jake gets.

I'll be on vacation wih limited to no acccess to the internet starting august 19th till the 27th.

Same goes for Murphy!

I think I've missed or forgotten something again. Who or what exactly is "Deputy Chicken"?

It's the chicken that Alouette found and deputized. It's been staying at the church mostly, but followed William to the Lodge.

LOL

You know, that's kinda what I assumed, since it seems like the type of thing Alouette would do - but I had to confirm that Deputy Chicken was in fact a chicken, and not simply something that fit into Alouette's nomenclature scheme for another entity.

She! Deputy Chicken is a hen...and a deputy, as overseen (ignored) by the Marshal and given orders by a Texas Ranger.

@William - a sort of French 'hmm'/mild growl of annoyance it picked up from Roland after trying to drag a dead Yankee into the Grand Bull's kitchen.
Ha! Like Jake'll help. What makes me laugh even harder is that not only has Danny ended up at least temporarily the group leader, but y'all make him look like a decent human being...

In reply to Alouette (msg # 319):

Heh. Danny boy, leader and decent person. My how things change.

Maybe he should run for Mayor once they expose the current incumbent as a dastardly witch.

What makes you think Danny would even want that job?

Adrian is hoping to be Blackthorn's first "differently alive" mayor.

In reply to Alouette (msg # 319):

Jake's just been having a bad spell here of late. He's not that villainous ... honest!

Heh. That would be an interesting campaign platform.

"What do we want?"

"Brains..."

"When do we want it?"

"Brains...."

In reply to Jake Lawrence (msg # 324):

-he says, clutching a Doom Tome bound in what may or may not be pigskin.

@Stray - Now now, don't be vivicist...you know, if Adrian did become Blackthorn's first openly non-living Mayor the tourist-related economy would skyrocket as the town became known as a hub of the grey community...

Until the Texas Rangers came by...they don't have a high tolerance for that kind of thing.

The Revoloution will not be buried! ...twice.

Is that Reg Shoe?

Yes...you need to become familiar with the work of Paul Kidby, so you do. Here: http://www.paulkidby.net/

...do we have any non-Pratchetteers aboard? If so, sorry to confuse you.