I am going out of town for the week. I'll have limited internet access, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to make regular posts. Look for me to start posting again on Friday, if you don't hear from me before.

Evans, are you in the upstairs hallway with William, Abbie, Percy and Jake or in the study with Adrian, Abraham, and Alouette? Or did William follow you down?

Hank, meanwhile, has probably made it back outside by now...

Oh. I thought William was explaining to Evans that Marina had escaped, and that the bit with Alouette was nearby...

Evans ran out of the study and (possibly? seemingly?) up the stairs when William started yelling and throwing baths up there...I've been careful to put dividers in and such since Jake got confused, but I don't know if that helps less visually-focused folk, especially with the low post rate.

...aaaand the in-game-time timer is on:

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That. Hard to keep in mind who could talk to whom when it's all one thread.
Maybe we should just cut to 5 minutes later and we're chasing after them?

I'd love to; tell me

-which NPCs y'all are taking
- how you're going (there's a steam wagon, a huge mule, Spades' horse and the half-eaten zombie horse around)
- and whether y'all plan to split up

..and I'll do that at once (with maybe some rolls in for Persuasion of NPCs, depending). I reckon about eight and a driver can squeeze into the steam wagon, maybe more if people sit on each others' laps.

^ seriously, the above's all I'm waiting on.

Mine scene reminds me of this comic - http://wondermark.com/979/

...they're not gonna, though.

Sorry, it got a bit hard to keep track of things at some point, and the impetus for action is less clear. Also everyone with information on smake stuff seems to be gone, and the defeat of snakes is more of a priority to Adrian than randon vampire hunting.

Well, I'll be going, I'm assuming so is Hank and Evans.

@Adrian: But, the evil spirit took Father O'Rourke. Vampire hunting is just a side-job :-)

@Adrian - Pierce has the right of it: the main goal is saving Sarah and the priest before anything nasty happens to them (Sarah has been stalling the one that took her all this time my making him run wedding-related errands). Vampires are in vaguely the same direction and would be a bonus.

So, let's see:

- Evans wanted to take Bruebaker, Lazarus and Hardin, and presumably the clank. Adrian has made no objections.
- Hank is going to take himself regardless, but William wants him around too
- Mrs. Bradshaw wanted to come to make amends, but whilst she's got useful knowledge and powers and is more tractable than Bruebaker, she's also prone to hysterics
- The Dust Adders (Percy, Al, Dave) have land/shortcut/mine knowledge, but no powers.
- Jake, though not an NPC, may or may not want to come
- There's a faint chance John Smith might turn up again
- Gangatsu, Spades, Mrs. Bruebaker and her girls, Master Zhang, Abraham, Georgia the cat, Tao Tao the Pekingese and the Goddamn Watermelon are also around, in decending order of usefulness to anyone.

If the other PCs are still motivated to save the priest and Sarah, that's what Adrian has been wanting to do for some time now. It's just seems to me that the focus of the scene and discussion is getting diluted by random happenstances, sudden sounds, lots of in-thread room  hopping, etc. If there was someway to keep that separated a little more, it would be appreciated - and might even help the posting rate go a little higher. At least for my part.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:24, Tue 17 Mar 2015.

I've been trying to herd y'all into one room to decide the above (honestly, if you can get it done OOC I don't mind, 'cause the lack of go-group/plan is what's causing all this milling) since the cows calmed down. I don't like to take Evans over to give orders because he's nominally the Stray's PC at present, else I'd have made him gather you all and shunted y'all onto a track by now.

Anyway. It looks like all PCs bar Jake (on a chair in the upstairs hallway watching Abbie and Percy - probably looking very bemused at Evans & William running downstairs again) are in/have run down to the study right now.

Send the butler to fetch Jake if you want him, then there'll be no need for extra threads.

Jake, wanna get in the room with the rest of the characters so we can formulate a plan and move things along?

In reply to Adrian Vega (msg # 351):

It's that or go for an axe-wielding murder spree ...

Well then...come in the room. We promise Jake plenty of time to mope and murder people with axes after the current conflict is resolved.

Axe nicely now...there's a cue to go see what the others are up to if you want it.

In reply to Alouette (msg # 350):

Remember that I'm still doing the truck driving school, so go ahead and puppet Evans to get everyone moving. Because honestly, I'm not sure what is and is not on the table right now.

Ye-es, that would be why things are going slowly. [grumbling] All right, you bean-filled sandal-wearing Ood, you asked for it... [hefts a plot rail]

edit: Last call for objections, ere I start a new thread (thank all the gods) this evening/tommorrow maybe. Jake, you coming?

It won't make a difference to your conversation with Lou as you're sort of sideways from Time there. There're ways to catch up, too.
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Also still want to make sure Hardin is with us. I do not want to leave him behind at the ranch

He would be a dubious bandit friend, yes.

Meanwhile, SCIENCE!

Right. Travelling PCs, I would like you to nominate one of your number (including the clank, if you like) to roll for each of the following:

Driving (Driving! or Mad Science if no-one has it)

Shotgun (Notice, -2 Dim light)

Navigation (Smarts, +2 for the crowlets' help, other mods depending)

Morale (Persuasion...effectively a mini-Tale Tellin')

I'd also like each of the nominated to draw a card and post it here, as though this were a Dramatic Task.

Shotgun! Wiliam's glowing red eyes are kinda built for that purpose...

Adrian can navigate!

How about Jake for Morale? He seems like a cheerful, upbeat fellow.