Obligatory thread, GO!

We've managed to pick up somebody that couldn't get into the previous game with the MIA GM. =^.^=

Very cool. Did a quick import of the character stuff from the other game. If you have a chance to open up character sheets, I/we can port those on over too.

Sheets are open now.

Pardon the dust while I'm still setting up all the things. ^.^;

Hi and thank you for all of this.

Are we still doing the segregated schools thing? Or having a single school of monster hunters (some of which are 'good' monsters that hunter 'bad' monsters)?

There are still three schools in Moorhaven - Moorhaven High which is for normies, Rainsford for hunters, and Baneberry for non-humans.

Felicia would be non-human that is for sure.

So the setting premise is essentially the same as in the other game. Okay.

"By the way, communications equipment actually has to use this effect instead of jumping straight to a mile for one equipment point."

Just curious, does this mean a commonly purchased walkie-talkie costs 8EP?

Communication effects use the extended distance column, so one mile is four points.

oh, okie.

Hey all.

I suppose I might need to rethink the usefulness of the cellphone I have, but good to know...

I do think that our fearless GM has a plan to consolidate some of the game information in a wiki, but I do think it might not hurt to have a separate thread to discuss what we want to have for the established lore.

I mean, if there is a bunch of griping, I'm prone to changing things to suit my players. >.>

But you should also keep in mind that a mobile phone connects to the nearest tower which will relay the signal through a network, greatly extending the range.

In reply to Aeternitas (msg # 14):

No, no my apologies. I totally didn't consider that. >_<

Hey, all!  How's it going?

In reply to Tiffany Cabot (msg # 16):

I thoroughly inserted my foot in my mouth.

It does make sense that we use the rural nature of the game to keep us from just calling the police or supernatural police when things get hot, I say casually to further asceed my being rude.

Hello! I’m the new guy. I’m like Mage-y Poppins - practically perfect in every way.

Meow... pleasure to meet you... purrrrrr

Hiya! Going pretty good here, just beat. How are you?

everyone slowly coming over. Glad you could make it Kenzie.

Eliza, 'hun, I wouldn't go anywhere near that far. =^.^=

We're still missing Scott but I suppose we can start discussing some things.

First of all, I'd like to thank Eliza for volunteering to help me out so many times. What I've decided would be the most helpful is to make use of the mostly forgotten wiki feature RPoL has and have Eliza help me with the creation of relevant pages and keep them up to date. Like a true wiki the pages, after creation, can be edited by any player in the game, so this should be a great resource for us all. I haven't set that all up yet and I might not get to it before I have to go attend to some other responsibilities of mine, but it will be Soon™.

I suppose the first thing to discuss is the elephant in the room - Just how is it that we have all of these non-humans and all of these hunters, but neither is supposed to be aware of the other?

And I'm rather inclined to go counter to Ryuai and say that they are aware. I don't want to decide something like this unilaterally, and I'm interested in any ideas y'all have to explain the situation that doesn't result in out and out war between the relevant schools, their students, and their families. Naturally, I have an idea of my own, and I think it's a good one. Simply put, perhaps the headmaster of Baneberry Academy is a being of sufficient personal power and the right temperament that if they say, "No adults are allowed to hunt any of my students, or every human in Moorhaven and the surrounding environs will die within the night," and mean it.

Yeah, I think just our opening scene shows how hard it would be to actually keep a total lid on that aspect of things. I like the idea of the two schools knowing about each other and generally being at peace, although the threat of mutual destruction seems a little... heavy? It works though :)

Now I'm wondering if, with that in the background for all this time and just a fact of life, the students have settled into a Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School style of intense rivalry between boarding schools...

That is an interesting idea.

I think that might work, potentially with a sort of "the monster world had established this school as means to train their youth in fitting in - the hunters came in and tried to cause a ruckus - the threat gets laid out - and the hunters form a school and 'keep an eye on things'"


I think it would make sense if the agreement is actually nominally a well kept secret, unless someone does something to threaten the peace, vis-a-vis some illusion spell when a monster or hunter at either school is near death at the hand of the other.

Its vague enough to make it interesting and drop plot ideas like a rogue outsider causing trouble and forcing the schools to work together to figure out who and how and why.

 I wish the numbers where more equal we could have like a competition between the schools, friendly but it does get out of hand every now and then.
I agree the schools know about each other and have a mutual understanding and a rocky peace. I mean if the threat is big enough the hunters would allow training the monsters, think hunters want bigger and better hunts. If the monsters are trained think of the hunts they could ahve when these Monsters graduate.

I absolutely think that we should do something where the peace is off as soon as the monsters leave Moorhaven, or something along those lines.

That would make sense, but the crisis might make the whole dynamic change, too.

 Yes if there is a big problem the hunters might ask for help from the Monsters especially if some of the Hunters already know Monsters that are good, AKA: Kenzie and Felicia.

In reply to Tiffany Cabot:

I kind of get the impression that the threat against people is relatively long standing and the initial tension has kind of passed, though I wouldn’t be surprised if some on both sides are unsatisfied with it too.

In reply to Felicia Zamon (msg # 28):

Full disclosure, Eliza Draper is a human girl  possessed by a specific type of demon that will need to eat sane, conscious humans as Eliza gets older, as long as we stick to originally established backgrounds. It may need to change in tone or scope to still fit in, but the original tone did imply that the monsters were supposed to be, ah, worth hunting.

 Yes oh Felicia is a major threat as well she can only eat raw meat and some love human flesh so... and they are very protective of their temples.

I'm not thinking mutually assured destruction. I'm thinking, I dunno, that the headmaster of Baneberry is something almost unstoppable, a dragon or the like, and the threat is "you hunt one of my kids, every human for ten miles dies in dragon fire."



Brilliant. If there are no objections, I think that shall be the canon sequence of events.



^ That. The threat of retaliation applies to students, and only students, and only within, let's say, the county within which the school is located.



I'm not going to tell people that they can't tweak their characters, but the whole point of Baneberry is for the beings that attend to be dangerous, if not actively inimical, to human life. As mentioned above, if the school is meant as a place where the nonhuman kids learn to get on in human society without blowing their cover, they should generally have a reason to be in hiding in the first place, and considering humans a delicacy is a fine reason for that.

I am looking into expanding the appeal of playing a Baneberry student for the purposes of recruiting some more players and that's probably going to require lifting Ryuai's firm insistence that every non-human race be truly monstrous as a race, but the harmless non-humans would be a minority and maybe hunted just as fervently for reasons other than preying on humans. To use that one player that never posted previously, Shiro Gistune, as an example - assuming that I can take the name literally - a gitsune is a fox-like spirit the size of a rat which appears in large numbers, and while not exactly dangerous they're still vermin. Another Japanese example, because why not, could be the tanuki - also harmless, but a pest in most folktales and a delicacy of sorts themselves under the right circumstances.

My two cents worth of opinion on this.

I can find my way to roleplay just about anything. If we stick with 2 schools that don't know the other one exists, I'll figure out how to make it work in my head.

I am also good with there being an enforced peace between the two schools. It is like having Xavier and Frost run schools for mutants. Everyone involved knows there are two schools and the students are supposed to leave each other the hell alone.

Both groups could be operating under "Masquarade" rules - everyone who is normal is better off not knowing there is a magical world. So both monsters and hunters are supposed to keep the whole thing a secret.

I come from a family of monster hunters. So of course I know that there are monsters. But we're more like 'monster cops' so honestly, don't care that you might be a monster as much as I care about you not breaking the laws.

Schools could work on two independent stories. They don't need to cross over.

Schools could have cross over stories, particularly against common threats.

I don't know about the long-term shape plan for the game. Start in School threads allows people to be in small groups to get to know each other. Cross over happenning almost right away (I did like the notion of zombies attacking the carnival - it certainly breaks the masquarade - maybe both groups have a reason to make that stop - and find the where and why of those zombies)

 Felicia is a monster, but she could be a hunter as well. I am open to whatever I just dont want to loose the relationships Felicia has made with Kenzie, Pandora and Lesleigh.

Tiff's a monster, but the real issue with her isn't just what she might do as what her family does.

That would be the same with Felicia, she can protect herself but if anything bad did happen to her. Her parents would be here in a heart beat and two Ancient Bastet's pissed off at you would be very bad.

Hallo, Mage-y Poppins =3

Guess I wasn't totally off base in my thinking. I was thinking she had a Symbiote (like the Venom character) inside her.

I'm still interested in knowing how the hunter squads are going to work--particularly since there is an indivisible number of student monster hunters.

Anthony Arkham is going to be a Baneberry student that looks like a normal human. But he has twisted magic, a lot of power and a bad attitude so they sent him to live with the real monsters where, it should be noted, he belongs.

In reply to Anthony Arkham (msg # 39):

Welcome Anthony! (I am totally not just doing this since you joined the winning team, I mean to say hello earlier)

As for Eliza, it hard to call it a symbiotic relationship, but the monster part didn't completely quash the human half so they could hide their nature as the demon settled through pubterty. Eliza is still in there, but its hard to say that is any less monstrous than the alternative.

I am working on the wiki now, give me a little time to build some structure, and I can add requested pages.

In reply to Eliza Draper (msg # 40):

Damn, I had no idea Rpol even had a wiki function! Is there anything else I've missed?

Also how much of a genre shift is the new game gonna have? I mean it had already starting drifting while we were all unsupervised at the festival.

Are we gonna try and snap back to Fate's original plan or keep going ad we are?

I know you said you might slack his "monsters are monsters" rule and it seems to schools ate more in a cold war than a rivalry at the moment.
This message was last edited by the player at 12:47, Mon 02 Sept 2019.

There's only one of me and I'm quite busy today, and I haven't gotten this far just yet with all of the things that have to get done first. However, Lesleigh is likely to be put on the sidelines in these kinds of activities for reasons that shall become apparent when we get there.

No worries. I appreciate all you are doing for us.

 Omg hun take your time I know it isn't easy doing this and thank you very much. If I can help in any way please let me know.

The most help people can be is to get their character sheets, descriptions, portraits, and biographies squared away, followed by contributing to the wiki if there is any information they wish to add. That way when  I go to move the old game's thread over to this game, everything will be in order without additional fiddling from me.

In the same vein as the previous topic about the school's awareness of each other, there is the matter of what, if anything, the government knows. For that, I'd like Jason to outline some thoughts that he had that Ryuai originally shot down as well as opening the floor to any other ideas. Anything else that people want to hash out would also be a welcome discussion topic.

One that I think I'm going to just decide unilaterally, seeing as my original character was Lesleigh and the rest of the Ebongroves with her, is the definition of a witch: this is any human with magic inside them which they can use to cast spells, as opposed to a human who does not have it and would have to use an outside source to power any spellcraft they happened to learn. A spell consists of an incantation at the absolute minimum and can also include a wide variety of other materials, tools, rites, and reagents as the power and complexity increases. It's worth noting that most witches are also able to wield certain magical powers that are not spells.

Lastly, witches are commonly divided into the arbitrary and subjective groupings of "bright" for the happy and helpful sorts and "dark" for the types that can and will actually turn you into a toad for giggles.

In reply to Aeternitas (msg # 45):

Got that added in there, as part of the Monsters, because they aren't pure humans with a lot of skill.

http://wiki.rpol.net/?edit=74125/monsters_of_moorhaven

If any other monsterfolk want to build out their species feel free to add basic details in the link above, or message me if you want me to add it in.

Hunters feel free to add specifics to how your monster huntering works, if its not already captured here, or IM me: http://wiki.rpol.net/?edit=74125/hunters_of_moorhaven

Jason, if you want to IM me with or without the GM, I can also add in some generalized "How much does the government know" tidbits in the general setting info page.

http://wiki.rpol.net/?id=74125/General%20Information
This message was last edited by a game editor at 18:59, Mon 02 Sept 2019.

**stab stab stab*** I'm good =3

OK, the first version of Anthony Arkham is uploaded for the GM. One small magical array of three spells, all really potent and broad, just how I like it.

Not a combat character. :-)

 Felicia is multi-purpose. Stealth and spying as a house Cat, hunting and combative in Panther form, and just unique in her Hybrid form.

Awwww. Hugs spy kitty anyway =3

 Well house cat form can be used for spying but she loves being a house cat a lot of humans love her and it makes her feel good.
Thank you Pandora kitty hugs you back...
This message was last edited by the player at 22:44, Mon 02 Sept 2019.

Does Anthony go around saying 'Abracadabra' when he casts his spells (just to annoy people, of course, being that he's a rebel and all that)? =3

 Well Felicia will be definitely picked on and she has never been to a real school before.
But if he pulls her tail she will get very mad.

Anthony's personality says he's not a bully and in fact he sides with the 'underdog'...err undercat. So I'm sure Felicia will be fine. Plus Tiffany and Eliza are her friends in Baneberry too.

Yes they are I know Tiffany will help me and Eliza is interesting but they got along great.
So yes Felicia will have friends but first time ever to a school and it is high school oh boy poor girl, some people might get cut up some lol..

BTW, Felicia, in house cat form, totally needs to learn how to shoot a fireball out of the tip of her tail to see Jason's reaction =3

OMG that would be so damn funny. She can run fast enough to leave a fire trail.. lol

Don't mind me. I got lots of sleep yesterday and today, so I am in a silly mood =p

don't worry hun. Felicia still loves you.

Anthony does not say “Abracadabra” at any time for any reason.

But if you are being picked on, it will go poorly for them.

heh heh =p

 Oh I bet she will, never being in school before she will need help. Plus she is a humanoid cat.

In reply to Anthony Arkham (msg # 60):

Obviously it’s “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” as a spell word. =P

I will say that a ‘twisted’ Mary Poppins sounds like a delightful archetype.

Twenty-five percent of the transcription officially done, and I hadn't even planned on doing any today. >^.^<

Great job..... it was nice to re-read some things.

Yes, great job! We really do appreciate all the hard work you are putting into moving the game over.

Eh, it's a pretty mindless process. I just put on an OST and copy-paste things.

Mahoutsukai no Yome has such enchanting music. =^.^=

I would go nuts doing that.. omg

Oh, honey, I've done so much more tedious tasks than this in my life. >^.^<

Oh wow I did some in the Navy but my mind needs to be active.

Geez a loo! This has both been an incredibly refreshing change of pace. But I cannot believe you're doing all of this! Thanks a ton, Aeternitas!

Wouldn't that just be what happens if Tal holds Felecia?

 If you hold Felicia by the tail like that you will be getting clawed..... her claws are not nice...

Oh just to let everyone know in her house cat form I added, attractive-1 (Cuteness).

Fitting, fitting... For the holiday, we went to a friend's house for a cookout.  We met their kittens.

Squee.

Damn, I thought we would just be carrying on where we left off, I didn't think you would actually go through the effort of transcribing the backlog!


Just something Aeternitas suggested I open up the floor before I make it's made canon through play. When I originally made my character he was going to be actually fostered by the US Government itself instead of a celebrated veteran who was no longer part of the military but respected and rich enough that he could get away with building a bunker in the ass end of nowhere and training child soldiers to fight vampires, cats and russians.

In the original idea, Jason would have been sponsored by whatever department or bureau of the government knows about the supernatural and attended Rainsford on a grant and a sizeable donation to Rainsford academy.

This would have given the US gov a sizeable interest in the academy and therefore, potentially a sizeable impact on the story potentially.

Fate disliked the idea of that because it didn't fit into the narrative he had already planned for but as the story may now be going in a different direction and it hadn't already been fixed in the story I was wondering if any of you minded me going back to the original idea in which the US military have a partnership with Rainsford?

Nothing would change for Jason character wise, just a few details of his backstory.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:40, Tue 03 Sept 2019.

In reply to Jason French (msg # 76):

I'd be up for that, sure. In fact I could make an adjustment to Kenzie's family as well in that case, since they could be civilian contractors of medical supplies. Let me know if it goes through :)

Unrelatedly, should I hold off on posting in Ryuai's game while Aeternitas is copying things over here, or keep going?

Meow..... Felicia sees you as a threat either way I am fine with it. The Military might know her parents.

Keep going. I can copy-paste much faster than y'all post. ^.^

Also, I've haad Jason describe this because I wanted to let him decide which specific details to spoil or not, but whether or not the military is involved with Rainsford is something I'm leaving up to a majority consensus. Some people may not wish to blatantly involve the actual military for various reasons, after all, and it wasn't part of the deal originally.

I don’t really have a vote on how Rainsford handles it, I am mostly rambling to ramifications and can be ignored largely if too detailed/irrelevant.

I think it makes sense that if there is some serious military investment into counter paranormal activity, they would focus more on international threats that may be faced by soldiers abroad, rather than investigating domestic issues (deploying troops inside the United States is actually pretty legally sticky). It might suck funding away from a more focused FBI or domestic task force, or at least force some sort of competition for limited and poorly understood money funds.

I’d imagine a military effort means that they probably would focus on fighting common physical (were-folk, Bastet-like folks, mad science constructs) or Psyops (vampires, or mind magic) threats that might be faced in the field, but not really know how to handle individualized or specialized threats.

(I suppose though, that a cult worshiping a non-US native dark deity might be sufficiently adjacent to a terrorist cell to fit, but I guess it also depends on how well funded the department is to stay up to date. Domestic cultists are probably still handled by some subdivision of the FBI and local law enforcement. )

Why I’m even thinking about this is that it might explain why the Cabot family (as American and old as the founding of the nation), and Eliza -nominally an illegal alien/body snatcher - aren’t caught and prosecuted by a government that widely understands supernatural threats. If the funding has always been military since as far back as WW2, it just might be a general blindspot.

In reply to Jason French (msg # 76):

I don't mind the idea. Tal is indifferent to the idea of government sponsorship. And it doesn't affect his actions in the slightest. He'll go along with policies for the most part but is by no means loyal or motivated by the initiative.

My suggested nuance on this (that I just thought of so everyone is free to shoot down) would be that Rainsford is oddly a school in which church & state intersect. That the government is heavily funding & sponsoring the revitalization of a school that was long ago founded in the wake of Salem by an ancient, crusadorial Christian order. Now, leadership/programming is an odd mongrel of government & religious leadership & training.

Just a thought. Though if popular, I'd make a couple of changes to Tal that I was on the fence about.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:56, Tue 03 Sept 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzoBKAo04Og

That was cool, Felicia has a tail like that.

OK, so I completed Anthony's character sheet. He came out a little different than I was originally thinking, but much, much better. I now know why he is like he is, and will very, very much enjoy having fun with you folks.

Can't wait to meow at you, and we are in the same school so cool.

In reply to Talberon O'Malley (msg # 81):

I do think it makes sense that there be a tinge of Christian theological and smiting going on especially with maybe a single professor, but I’d be a little worried that we might be take it to a point where Rainsford are where the Christians go, and any religious minorities that were victims in the past belong to the monsters, which gets kind of sociopolitically ugly pretty quick. Being Jewish, I’d always be wondering just who’s side I should be on if the US counter-paranormal organization was also funded by the Pope.

I’m in for a politically charged game like that but... it also sets a wholly different tone than some occult aware folks of the government know Rainsford exists and likes to send recruiters to the graduating class for their... specialized curricular skills.

 I thought the school of Monsters was started and run by powerful Monsters wanting to help others get an education and learn how to stay alive in a world that wants them dead.

In reply to Eliza Draper (msg # 86):

You brought up a good point I didn't consider (and that most monster/witch movies dont consider). So maybe find a better middle ground like an ecumenical/religious illuminati foundation that was founded by Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Protestants, and other religious groups. So less religion-specific but more of an enemy of our enemy is our friend against monsters. That way we still get the secular (government/military) & the religious dynamic. So just as all monsters are alike not all hunters are either.

But I'll also concede on this entirely if you all think the tone is too much/in too much conflict.

Well Felicia worships the Goddess Bast, all other religions mean nothing to her, but she is willing to learn and understand but she will never convert she is a daughter of Bast.

I don't think we really need to decide the larger picture of the US and other countries anti-non-human actions in any kind of specific detail, but I like the idea of having it be centred in the DoD and therefore handled somewhat clunkily. I think it makes a lot of sense when you consider that certain non-humans require more firepower than a civilian hunter would be able to easily acquire - this is both one reason those old school hunters still exist, taking out targets with swords and spells instead of rifles, and a reason for the Rainsford Institue to even consider working with the military in the first place.

At the same time, I imagine there would be a lot of push back. Consider the anti-intellectualism and anti-government trends in the country and how they would apply to people that actually knew for an absolute fact that the government was keeping a secret as massive as the existence of non-humans. Other conspiracy theories probably don't sound as crazy to people in such a position, ne?

Overall I like this because it creates that rift within the school faculty and student body, which makes things more interesting and provides more options for plotlines. However, intra-faction drama wasn't in Ryuai's original offering, so I'm still shying away from declaring it canon until I hear from more of you about it.

I imagine religiously motivated hunters as another faction, since they were brought up, different from hunters who happen to have faith (and I imagine most do under "there are no atheists in foxholes" logic). Outright crusaders are probably rather tiring to deal with, and probably have enough blind spots that their numbers will never rise high enough to call them the majority of hunters and I imagine Rainsford to be an entirely secular institution, personally.

And not just because I'm disinclined to orchestrate the activities of a religious school or something, although there is that. >.>

 Felicia is fine with whatever you guys decide, like I said she is a free spirit, but her Parents might be on that Monster List to watch for sure.

Well, since I am the new player and don’t know the history... I will comment that having a dragon running the school is really, really intriguing. The fact that dragons exist at all is awesome! Assuming the headmaster is not the only dragon, that in itself is a world-changing fact, and would give the mundane world pause before spinning up a all-out war.

With the prospect of a bloody, brutal and costly war maintaining the peace and mostly good-behavior, maybe the schools coexist as a “proving ground” to see if disparate species can live peacefully?

My shiny new hardback 'Superteam Handbook' for MnM3E just arrived today in the mail - woot! =D

https://greenroninstore.com/co...s/superteam-handbook

So when can I jump in?

Awesome hun

As soon as I finish copy-pasting everything from the old game.

In reply to Anthony Arkham (msg # 94):

As a for reference, the original thread has 486 posts.


In reply to Aeternitas:

what do you want me to do with the hidden threads/PM action that happened between Eliza and Tiffany and Eliza and Felicia?

I think we could manage to update you via a summary in PM if you don’t wanna manage another thread or two. I think most of what’s happened has already been addressed in the main thread indirectly.

 Yeah I or Eliza could brief you on our meeting in the woods.

Hrm, PM it to me as one giant pile of quotes, perhaps?

I can try but it wont be ubtil later tonight D and D table top group tonight.

Alright, that feedback was pretty interesting actually. If the students of both schools are planning on becoming pally with each other it might make sense to have a bit of strife on the home sides.

I'm easy whichever way it runs, everyone here seems to have a decent grasp on the situation and the story they want to tell.

I'm not sure everybody plans on being chummy. But, one of the big things that you have to deal with as a teenager is everybody and their mother trying to get you to decide (usually according to their ideas) who you will be in the future, so having factions within the schools plays into that.

In reply to Aeternitas (msg # 102):

I’d be interested in how Anthony wants to play the game. I think right now Eliza is the most obviously morally grey monster around, with Tiffany’s relations being more or less so ancient they might as well be grandfathered in as aforce of nature rather than considered active threats (at least as I’ve gathered.

Eliza is more than willing to be nice, though she will likely be skittish around the more righteous hunters, and hide their more primal nature.

Felicia is probably more at risk from PETA or a Kill Shelter than the reverse,in general.

If I’m more or less the odd one out, It could be just as easy to make Baneberry a finishing school to train monsters to play nice inside the loose boundaries of the human world, cooling tensions without a massive threat of death because these are the ‘reformable’ monsters.

Honestly, I'm wavering between "trickster with a (deeply buried) heart" and "amoral alien". Waiting to see how it all shakes out.

I assure you, there are true monsters in every sense of the word about. >.>

Even though I said that I want to expand the range of characters to include less straightforwardly monstrous beings, the essential nature of the Baneberry Academy hasn't changed. The bit about learning how to get along in human society is more, Rosario to Vampire, than Jistu wa Watashi wa, if y'all are familiar with either of those.

So I'm going to be erratic for a few days-- my computer is in the shop.

Notes#1 =)


**Jason French**
How tall is Jason?

Above average for his age I would say. Perhaps 170-173cm. I'm bad with height anyway so forgive me if that's way out. I literally just googled average height for 14 year old male and added a few years on.

So like 5'7½" or thereabouts. Okay.


**Felicia Zamon**
It is her own black Panther, she is stronger and faster than any normal Black Panther.
She weighs 225 lbs of pure muscle in Black Panther Form.

Mystical Black Panther! Sweet!

In her house cat form, is Felicia a green-eyed, black-furred cat? Any unusual marks or patterns in her fur that stand out, or is it just solid black? Is she a long furred, or short furred cat? Does she have a normal tail, or a bobbed tail?

Does she have on a collar? If so what does it look like? Does she have a name tag or anything like that, and, if so, is her name on it? Anything like an address or 'owner' information on it?

Felicia does have a small patch of white under her neck. She does wear a collar that is black, it has a tag with the name Felicia, also has a green stone dangling from it as well. Felicia does has green eyes and i would say medium hair length. She is exceptionally groomed to be a stray.  There is no address but there is ancient Egyptian writing on the back.

She has a long tail, yes? Not bobbed?
Yes long tail

BTW, when Felicia transforms from housecat to bipedal catperson, is it like a puff of smoke and shazam she's in the other form, or is it like a werewolf-style transformation were she morphs into the other form?

Also, does clothing magically appear on her in her bipedal form, or is she just covered in her fur?

It is an instant transformation nothing like werewolf style.
Well actually Bipedal form is her normal form.  She does where clothes her fur is thin on her front and belly like a real cat. When she transforms her clothes and anything she carries is magically stored while she is in either other form. She was going to transform to Panther form but she thought that might frighten Kenzie.

So like in a puff of smoke. Neat.
Yes

How bestial or human does she look in her catperson form?

I mean, does she have a 'cat head' or does she have a human head with some cat features (Your description says she is covered in dark brown, nearly black, fur with cat eyes, ears, whiskers, and has has a cat tail).

Are her hands and feet like human hands and feet (but with retractable claws), or more like cat paws? Are her legs plantigrade like a human, or digitigrade like a cat?

Does she have a small patch of white under her neck in her bipedal form like she does in her housecat form, or does that turn dark brown/black?

Her face looks like her picture I got lucky. Cat head. Just darker brown and black with the white patch under her neck.
She does have a patch of white under her neck in all forms.
Her hands and feet are a combination, she has human hands but covered in fur with retractable claws on hands and feet. Legs are digitigrade like a cats.
Her tail is prehensile.

In her bipedal form, does Felicia wear modern day clothing, or does she wear some sort of archaic-style clothing?

That is a good question I would say right now I say it would be more Ancient Egyptian, but her Parents got her modern day clothes for school.


**Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine**
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This message was last edited by the player at 07:03, Thu 19 Sept 2019.

Awesome great job for finding that.

More Notes:

**Talberon**

And aura is literally like metaphysical aura. So if you can read people's auras, his is brilliant red.

Yes, he'd light up like a Christmas tree with heat-vision/IR tech. He can turn it all off but that takes more work to be "normal" than it is to be just slightly warm.

I do need to create some kind of guide to his powers. At least for my own internal consistency and maybe to help y'all.  For now, assume that there will be some warmth emanating from him by default. In physical/stress situations (like the carnival shooting), it will be more like heat. He won't break into flames without either conscious control (writing his name on wood) or a serious circumstance.

His flames are magical in nature and so will look more like a spell caster than natural/chemical. So you would recognize it as fire and see it as strange/dangerous, but it will seem oddly contained and controlled. It won't give off too much of a scent unless it acts upon another object/material (burning/melting).

TLDR: He looks like a normal kid but feels like some one ran him through a microwave for 20 seconds.

I haven’t created individual wiki pages for players yet, just have a section for notable students. Do we want to make something like that?

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I don’t expect Eliza to be the most nasty monster out there but if Baneberry becomes a monster integration school I’m not opposed, from a sense of dropping the contrast of dark monsters and showy competition Ryuai was going for.

I don't feel we need wiki pages for the PC students right now. I just wanted to try not to loose anything of note while transitioning to over here.

I'm not opposed to them, though, if that's what people want to do. We have descriptions we can edit though. Might that be a better place to put anything we generally want to be known about our characters?
This message was last edited by the player at 18:14, Thu 05 Sept 2019.

I think we are good now. Pandora I will check our PM's to see if there is anything good there.

Okie dokie, Felicia.

A few of the recent posts do raise an interesting question, which is, how many "enhanced senses" type folks are out there? Meaning, how much esoteric information should I post in my description?

Tal just has Infravision. So I assume you just light up like a normal human by body heat unless you have any other factor that would contribute to heat production.

In reply to Anthony Arkham (msg # 114):

I believe Lesleigh had the native ability to see magic, but I am not sure if anyone else can, and the GM ran Lesleigh, so they know what you have. Nor do I know what that would allow her to see, beyond magical intensity.

Eliza also has Infravision, and Felicia has an advanced sense of smell.

"Lesleigh can always see and hear spirits. She can also has visual magic awareness."

I think we can stick the players that want or warrant a wiki entry into the same "notable students" section.

for the sake of sanity, unless you really wanna play it close to the chest, everybody should probably list their special senses somewhere like their description and likewise for the results. Well, I tend to favour transparency, having everything out in the open, so that makes sense to me. If you want to keep a secret, I'll relay the right information privately as needed.

As far as what things do or do not reveal, I'd like to point out that infravision by itself isn't predator-vision, nor does magic awareness reveal anything other than magic or not.

Felicia has acute scent, tracking scent and low light vision.

GM, how do you typically award pp in your PbP games? Just trying to understand at what pace we can expect our characters to grow (mechanically, I mean).

I'm still sort of catching up on the whole wiki thing. This is the first game I've ever been in that has one!

Oddly enough, no enhanced senses - yet! But maybe one of these days.

I am getting a lot of mileage out of the super language thing. I had no idea that would be so much fun.

Tiffany has sonar, so it's not likely to matter much.

 Well good luck with Sonar Felicia wont hear it, her and water really don't get along as far as swimming, she can cross a shallow river as long as she can touch the water bottom she is good, if she can't touch ground in the water...she will PANIC!!!!

In reply to Felicia Zamon (msg # 123):

So I’m guessing I should write up a “meta-info” part of my description, and a “meta-senses” part as well, which will be brief since he doesn’t have much in the way of super-senses.

He’ll show up oddly to magical senses, tho...

Felicia registers as very OLD magic.

Somewhat arbitrarily whenever milestones of some sort have been reached, really. I might do some for post count this time as well, considering the way everybody can keep a scene going. >^.^<

Pandora was surprised to run into another teenager capable of speaking her languages.

OFF TOPIC

As some of you already know, I volunteer for a small charity. Every single night the establishment is open, no matter how bad the weather is, we collect surplus foodstuffs from various eateries at a local shopping mall and distribute them to the local homeless and impoverished. We're a legitimate organization, with licenses and everything.

Now, if somebody decides they don't want a tax credit anymore just from allowing us to collect stuff they were literally going to toss in a dumpster not even ten minutes later, that's fine. I can't think of any good reasons to do that, but whatever. To not fucking act like an adult and keep leaving your employees to come up with bullshit excuses on the spot after we've already shown up, on time, exactly as we have every single fucking night for the last year and a half, on the other hand, makes me just a teensy bit pissed the fuck off.

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

In reply to Aeternitas (msg # 128):

Douchebags and cowards, oh my.

I am so sorry hun

I got a good night's sleep and all my work is done early, so I'm in a much better mood. =^.^=

So! I'm gonna roll up my sleeves and put on some Youtube (Katherine of Sky playing Factorio for the win) and see if I can't polish off the last of the transcription today.

In reply to Aeternitas (msg # 131):

Sounds good Aeternitas, thanks for doing that :)

I've had a busy/weird few days, so I might hold off on posting in the other game if I can just do it here soon instead.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:43, Fri 06 Sept 2019.

First up, Aerternitas, thanks for sharing about your job. Even though the story was  "I'm mad at these fools" I had missed what you do for a living and that's awesome. Makes being a teacher seem like I'm slacking.

And thanks for the love Pandora. Honestly wasn't sure if I was ruining your schtick by giving you someone who could speak your language. But don't worry that won't be everyone so most of the time you'll be back to giving us your best English.

Well, that's not a full-time job or anything. ^.^;

I used to (sometimes still do, to be honest) work in video games, and now I write books. =^.^=



Next on this game's agenda is figuring out whether or not the remaining mini-threads and the pool party ought to be posted up, but I think I'll leave that to the relevant parties to determine. I recall tiffany saying something about adjustments needing to be made for the pool party?

The next threads that I want to make that are all new are essentially opening ceremony type situations so that I can introduce a small host of NPCs and provide the characters with some information (and a couple of dramatic surprises).

There's some wiki editing that I have in mind as well, turning the existing descriptions of the various non-human/hunter subgroups into highschool specific entries. Along with that, if there are any more such groupings - especially on the Baneberry side - then I am all ears.

Sorry about that crap, Aeternitas. Hopefully your day has been better since.

Also, geez a loo, did you finish the transcription already?!?!? You must be superhuman yourself.

I just have a high degree of control over my own schedule, is all. ^.^

Is all good. Been having fun.

Looking forward to the next stage of the game.

Felicia is having a blast.

If you are looking for a more proper subdivision of how the students might break along trait species lines, I can think up a few:

Primals: Any species that has a large portion of non-human traits and might struggle to fit into human societies direcly, like Felicia, Were-folk, particularly poorly made constructs, or things like treants. (I imagine they would likely learn concealment or even illusion spells to hide their nature for forays into human societies with modern technology.)

Devourers: Creatures that by their very nature must feed on humanity, either lethally or unwillingly. Obvious groupings of vampires, things like Eliza, dream eaters, and the like. Taught how to get what they need without getting caught, disturbing order, either legally or illegally.

Arcana: High magic creatures that otherwise need specific training on what magic they can use and how to get away with it in modern society.  I am thinking things like fey, or elementals, or even wizards and mad STEM majors would fit into here.

Eternals: These are the folks that live forever and may need to hide their nature for decades or centuries. Classes on changing appearance, accents, and social norms and remaining flexible well into your second centuries are here.

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It would make sense for students to do a "liberal arts" style curriculum, since Eliza fits into the Devourers and Arcana slot.

I can think of a few more, but Moorhaven's original incarnation under Ryuai made this strictly a "danger to human society" monsters school. So none of these would really fit, say, a changeling or modestly mad scientist or other monsters that might be able to go to normal schools without being caught.

Did a quick look at the wiki and read the Hunters of Moorhaven page.

Turns out I'm a Paladin by those descriptions which probably isn't a word Creighton would pick but as the writer behind the scenes that descrip fit like it was tailored for me.

 Are we officially caught up on posts?

Ha, you can thank Talberon for that one, it’s his description verbatim. I had kind of blended the Hexenjaeger and the Paladin originally.

So that would make Felicia technically a Primal Eternal.

In reply to Felicia Zamon (msg # 143):

And Anthony would be an Arcana Eternal (Arcane Eternal)?

The other religious/mystical one seemed focused on eliminating all magic. I figured Tal and I guess people like you would think that lighter forms of magic could be used creatively for good.

But if you have a better name, go for it. I was just suggesting a trope based off that class in D&D and couldn't think of a better name of someone who uses magic in hunting for the greater/divine/human good.

Felecia, it looks like the carnival is caught up, so if you meant story posts then we should be.

Yes sorry should have said that, okay great.
I say re-start the Pool Party not sure how far Tiffany got with it.
Felicia would love to invite Kenzie but that would be bad.
THANK YOU very much Lesleigh for doing everything to move the game and keep it alive.
I really think this game can be amazing.
I also want to say GREAT job everyone for keeping this game alive without a GM. Awesome players all of you.

I would prefer to be a brand new student at Baneberry, like, just walking in the door. Definitely not in shackles. No. I have a strong dislike to memorizing details of people I should have met already. Blank slate, which is coincidentally my porn name.

I'd also like to jump into the fray immediately, seeing as Anthony is a particularly social animal, like one of the teachers/guards tells me to go to the party at 1010 Antipaladin Avenue or some such.

In reply to Anthony Arkham (msg # 148):

I don’t see why you can’t jump into the carnival thread for a bit while our GM sets up the next venues. I assume we are going to just have Scott Hamlin fade into the bushes Homer Simpson style (maybe not literally, in case he comes back to join us.) I haven’t been following the threads closely (cause I don’t like to accidentally metagame) but aside from the main group posting in the fair, Eliza and Tiffany are near the stage playing mediocre localish bands.

Well, I have a computer again.  Now I can try and figure out when we're caught up, and what to do to work around our missing player.

Creighton, Pandora, and Tal just got off the Ferris Wheel and are looking around for their next event/booth.

In reply to Talberon O'Malley (msg # 152):

If it’s ok with the GM i’ll prepare a suitably auspicious entrance.

Now, where did I put my holocaust cloak?

I thought I said that you can join the festival thread when it opens? Well, I'm saying it now, at least, so there you go. ^.^

I don't know that species traits are a good way to subdivide the Baneberry students. If part of the point of playing teenagers is the drama revolving around them determining who they want to be as adults, there needs to be options that they can choose.

As far as Scott is concerned I'm thinking about having his phone ring because hes got to go and then having him exit the scene. That's like the third thing on my To-Do list right now, not that I've made any progress on it at all today.

( I blame Grinding Gear Games for putting tower defence in my ARPG while also letting me build my offence around flaming skull bombs. >^.^< )

There are probably other posts I'm missing a response to here but I'm hungry so I'll be back in a little bit. =^.^=

Why do I have the gut feeling that between Tal & Anthony we'll be lucky if any of us make it to our graduation day alive and not behind bars?

Everybody is a freshman looking forward to their first day of high school.

ON THAT NOTE, for everyone's information, Lughnasadh is traditionally celebrated on the first of August, and the festival lasts for three days. I decided to move it to the next full moon (plus the day before and after for three total days still) so there isn't such a huge downtime to fill between the festival and the first day of class. If there's something that you want to play out in a thread between then and the start of school, or I guess in general for future reference if you want a thread, just say so here or in the Urgent communications thread and specify the time and place and I'll create the thread as soon as I see it.

I haven't decided yet if I want to put the first day of both schools on the 21st or 28th, but either is early for schools in the area to be perfectly honest. I have an explanation for this that I totally didn't come up with because of Ryuai's questionable decisions, I swear. >.>'



Funnily enough, I have a similar feeling. >.>;

There is now a Legends of Moorhaven page on the wiki with three rumours to start with. I'll probably add to it later and I welcome idea submissions on this as well as all the other things. ^.^

Um... No.

Anthony is welcome to go to the festival, and if you really want to play it as him being on the academy's shitlist from moment go we can do that, but there is zero possibility that they would give him information about the other students and I'm also wondering why it is you think the school would be delivering him to the fairground?

In reply to Aeternitas (msg # 158):

Deleted.

But for the record, wandering around not knowing who anyone was did not seem like a good use of anyone’s time (mine or yours), like wandering around asking, “Are you my mother?”

Absent that, I’ll just wait.

In reply to Anthony Arkham (msg # 159):

Hey, Anthony, that’s sort of how we all jumped in. We’ve been good about gravitating towards one another as players. Is it perfectly normal for normal teens? Probably not? But like calls to like and all that. You won’t be left dangling too long.

Eliza had arrived with their parents and promptly seperated, meeting others even though they had no idea who anyone was.

Agreed, we all did stone cold introductions just based on the notion that people are willing to meet with strangers at a happy thing like a fair and that teens will be outgoing and talk to each other out of nowhere.

I know it feels like you're walking in on a group of friends, but you're really walking into a group of strangers who met each other at the fair.

Oh, and Anthony happily claims post #666.

How appropriate the 'monsters' claim that win. (not sure who won it in the last game).

How's everyone doing?

 We are not monsters, okay some of us are, just because my people love human flesh doesn't make me a monster, or does it?

Why would Felicia 'love' human flesh if she is a protector of humanity? Doesn't that conflict with her purpose?
This message was last edited by the player at 18:34, Sun 08 Sept 2019.

 Well it is actually like this. They are protectors of their temples and of good people, but part of their curse ift hey eat human flesh they can get addicited and go on a blood lust, it is basically a punishment for eating human flesh.  All Bastet know human flesh tastes amazing but if they give into it they can be punished. Does that make more sense Pandora? By the way where is your box sweetie?

Oh, so they become their own enemies, in a sense. What happens when they go rogue? Do they get hunted down by their own kind?

 They can but usually humans get them because they can't stop human flesh can be very addictive. In the old days when there where more of her kind yes they would. Now there are not enough to hunt a rogue Bastet. They are also known to protect their Temples with gruesome violence as well. If anyone enters a Bastet Temple without permission will receive a violent, gruesome and very painful death.

Which, if the intruder is human, will result in the Bastet going berserk/rogue?

 Yes very possibly, some Bastet feel they should eat the intruders alive. Others prefer to rip them apart but not eat the flesh. Depends on the Bastet if they want to risk getting the blood lust.

I vaguely recall noting that I had but I could be mistaken, but Lesleigh is kind of a hunter by default and would probably be a Baneberry student in alternate universes, so. =^.^=

Speaking of, if you exclude the NPCs, there are now four Baneberry students and five Rainsford students among the PCs, so the power balance is a good bit closer to even. I'm thinking of throwing out an advertisement but I'll put it somewhat lower on my To-Do list, which currently looks like this:

• Composing the opening posts of the welcoming ceremony threads. [In Progress - ~33%]
• Editing the wiki, especially the Town of Moorhaven, Hunters of Moorhaven, and Monsters of Moorhaven pages. [Not Started]
• Character Sheet review [Not Started]

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Actually, new thought, let me set up something small real fast and people can mingle a little as they take their seats and such like...
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:25, Sun 08 Sept 2019.

 So is this the next day or later in the week?
Are we doing the pool Party?
Also Can Felicia post entering the Auditorium?

The threads have dates in their titles you know. >.>

I'm happy to create a pool party thread if Tiffany still wants to host one.

Folks are welcome to post in any relevant threads but do keep in mind that these are on completely different days.

It's one week later, on a Wednesday.

Doing the happy dance here that we're moving the story along. So glad to be doing something closer to being in theme. Don't get me wrong, meeting everyone at carnival was fun, and big love to everyone for making that a worth our time writing experience, but also happy to be moving forward. Blame it on gamer ADD

In reply to Pandora Pavlosky (msg # 174):

Opps I see the time stamp now sorry my bad. I will blame it on a hairball. lol

For the Rainsford students, is the dress code (for the civilian students anyways) "full gear" or "casual clothes only" or some kind of school uniform for that matter?

Casual clothing is fine. ^.^

Tiffany, myself and I can do a short side PM or thread to discuss the generalities of what happens at the Baneberry girl’s pool party. Without doing a bunch of NPCs, we can just describe a little of what we do and learn about one another. About the only scene I thought might be fun was that Eliza was promised a meal, which I was excited to describe. It could be done in a few posts overall.

I wouldn’t wanna put moving NPCs for all the other students At the school on the GMs plate anyway.

It's not unreasonable to leave the majority of students at both schools as faceless mob characters, really, so you don't have to worry about that. The question is more whether or not Tiffany wants to orchestrate all the setting descriptions, since it's her party after all.

As a much as he's a proud, true Griffindor, if Tal sees so much as what looks like a talking hat, you're all witnessing the fastest expulsion due to fire-based incidents in Rainsford's history.

And as a pure-blooded Ravenclaw, I am personally loving the image of how that goes down.

Oh, I understood the setup but I guess I used "row" too loosely :) I was thinking of the area in front of the seats as a row to itself.

I didn't realize you meant literally. Will make an edit.

 So Eliza, Tiffany and Anthony are we doing the Pool Party or are we going to post in the Auditorium?

I'm mellow; we can go either way.

You can do both if you don't mind keeping track of the fact that one is on a different day than the other. The pool party was meant to be the same day as the festivals start, right?

Yes the pool party was in the afternoon of the Festival.
Yeah we could do that, I will both ways I have no problem with that. lol

I just threw it up for y'all to use or not as you see fit. Reminds me that Jason and Lesleigh were going to go flying on Friday evening before school started...

Don't be shy if you want a thread for something.

I’d like to go to the pool party. But it depends on a few things, pursuant to a PM.

GM, you didn't mention a dormitory in the Rainsford Institute opening post but you did in the Baneberry Academy opening post. Do the Rainsford Institute students live in a dormitory?

Waiting for Tiffany for the Pool Party and Felicia wouldn't be the first one too show up at the School she would be later she is very nervous.

Can you put a half point into skills in M&M 3e? I need to revise my skills somewhat...

I believe so, Anthony. I know I certainly did. Quoting Below:

Er, if there needs to be a dormitory, then it exists. =^.^=



Eliza has the right of it. Note that nothing else in the game costs less than one whole point, so you can also think of it as "one power point gets you two skill points, which can then be assigned to skills on a point by point basis." It's similar to how one power point nets you five equipment points.

Just getting caught up on reading and readying to post.

I do need for there to be dorms, the notion for me is that I'm living on campus.

While we're on the topic of spending points on equipment - which I totally forgot about but could rectify should it be allowed - what is the cost of a cellphone?

Are cellphones so ubiquitous that they are 'no cost'? Are they so awesome that they cost 5 points? This seems to be a hot button item with some gamers and thought I'd every so gently ask about it.

I tend to vary my answer to this question based on the game and in this one I'm having a cell phone cost one point and a smartphone two, as it says in the book / on the SRD site. The reason for this being as reinforcement for the rural isolation of several locales within the game - the phone won't work outside of town. This and just my general thoughts on the matter of the communication effect, in general, is also why there is no commlink that reaches an entire mile.

If you go well off the beaten track, you can get stuck there without a way to call for help.

Thanks for the speedy response and the nice explanation to go along with it. Appreciate it!

 I am going to put this out again. Felicia has three colors for text. Aqua for cat speech in House cat and Panther form, Purple for mental speech in House cat and Panther form, and Rose for verbal speech in Hybrid form.

I added a little blurb about the dorms to the Rainsford thread.

I'm hoping that I'm properly conveying a mix of spartan discipline and simple financial necessity for Rainsford's shabby industrial aesthetic. If I'm not, please let me know. ^.^

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I've edited the General Information and Town of Moorhaven pages and created a new page, Magic of Moorhaven on the wiki as I go about filling in details and organizing some thoughts. I've decided to leave off on editing the monsters and hunters page for the moment as I gather more suggestions and formulate a few plans, but I wanted to get the magic thing more or less set in stone before I start going through all of the character sheets.

In an ordinary game, I would have been reviewing all of them while y'all were bumping into each other at the festival, but at this point, it simply can't be helped. Some of y'all are probably going to need to tweak things, and I'll say here what I have told a few of you already. If you want to make a tweak, and it doesn't introduce any continuity problems, please go right ahead. Then send me a message with a specific, itemized list of the changes you made.

Note that more than a handful of points being moved is not a tweak and I would prefer that you present to me what you would like to change before you do it instead of after in that case. ^.^;

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So, I've started going through all the sheets and checking all the math, more or less in whatever order strikes my fancy based on how organized your sheet is. I am noticing several people who have phones in their RP but have not purchased one with equipment points. Rather than retcon all of that out, or make everybody go back and adjust their sheets, I have devised a new House Rule:


Kids These Days

Your character may own a smartphone (phone plus internet, aka advanced phone, costs 2 equipment points) without paying for it with equipment points, however, that phone shall not function during any scene in which a character may be endangered and desire to use it. You should decide what the explanation is for the phone's failure at that time (dead battery, drop it, no signal, et cetera).
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:25, Tue 10 Sept 2019.

Wow, you're incredibly benevolent. I was gonna go with and am going with Tal gives out his family landline.

 I have one equipment point left not sure what else Felicia needs, she has a smart phone, computer, leather armor.

In reply to Felicia Zamon (msg # 201):

Lazer pointer? Catnip?

 Aeternitas can i spend a equipment point on Cat Nip and always have it available? It would be like 420 to humans. lol

No.

Which is not to say that Felicia cannot have catnip or whatever, but to say that you should not be spending equipment points on it, silly. >^.^<

Okay sorry, I wont. Can i leave that point in case I need something then?

Certainly.

A certain individual in this game has like nine equipment points on his sheet that he hasn't allocated yet, for comparison. >.>

In reply to Aeternitas (msg # 206):

Debbie?

 Eliza sorry to say Felicia doesn't have the mental communication in her Hybrid from only in her cat forms, sorry.

In reply to Felicia Zamon (msg # 208):

No worries! Eliza is more than willing to shout into the void of their own head.
This message was last edited by a game editor at 21:38, Wed 11 Sept 2019.

 I figured she would have no problem with that, but just wanted you to know she can't hear you right now.

I'm gonna wait for a couple more posts in the Baneberry thread, and I'd like to remind/point out to Anthony that the nameless girl he's talking to is his character to manage until she becomes important in some way.

A bunch more character sheets should get checked off today after a final double-check of math results. If you'd like to get a rough idea of the progress, characters with fully cleared sheets have group C added to their access groups. This will probably be removed once I've cleared all of the sheets.

Speaking of roles, are the different threads for the game supposed to be hidden from one another? I like the obvious coding of Baneberry and Rainford being B and R respectively, but I just wanted to make sure you knew everything was still "Group 0"

Obviously, this is totally very low on the concern list, you've got plenty of important things to do, I just wanted to make sure ya knew.

I set it that way on purpose. I'm generally of a philosophy that unless you want to surprise people, everything should be as transparent as possible at the game table. If there's a thread that should be hidden away, I'll put it in the B or R or whatever group as needed.

Obviously this is sensitive to y'all's input as well. If any of you want a particular thing tucked away, you need but mention it to me and I'll take care of it.

That makes perfect sense and I like it personally. It means I get to enjoy all of the game, not just my parts.

OK, so my head is a weird place and I can't help but think

Kenzie = Willow
Pandora = Buffy

Which leaves me wondering if I'm accidentally setting myself up for Zandering.

In reply to Creighton Knight (msg # 215):

I've never watched the show, so I'm unsure of the significance ^^'

You don't want to be Zander.  Buffy has the kick-ass slayer powers, and Willow is just terrifying.

To understand what it is to be Xander, a big Xander-themed episode was called "The Zeppo," for Xander was compared to Zeppo Marx.

we should find movie or TV rolls for all of us... Tiffany damn let's see Jane Bond....

Oh, snap! You're on to me.

Tiffany throwing some serious shade there. >^.^<

In reply to Aeternitas (msg # 221):

I liked Xander...

Same.

Also, so much for keeping Lesleigh being alive a secret. >^.^<

Oh no Felicia forgot about that but hopefully no one heard her. Sorry my bad should I edit her post? I mad edit so she was speaking softly.

I'll allow it this time but in the future, I won't. Mostly because it spoils some of the clues and mystery I'm trying to build in the storyline between the Ebongrove sisters if it comes out this early.

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I'm going to advance the school threads once everybody has posted in them again at least once, by the way. ^.^
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:18, Sat 14 Sept 2019.

In reply to Aeternitas (msg # 225):

I'm slightly fearful of that rule, my character has a much better memory than I do ^^'

It doesn't really apply to Kenzie, though. The only people she asked to keep her survival a secret are Tiffany and Felicia, and the person they're supposed to keep it from is Maura. I'm not going to rule out the possibility, but I would be very surprised if Kenzie is ever in a position to let the cat out of the bag.

Oh, I meant it more in general, in case Kenzie let something slip about some other subject when she should have known better. If that only applies to those specific characters then yeah, it probably wouldn't come up.

Yeah, no, I should have been more clear. I'm only talking about that specific storyline. Honestly, that storyline only exists in as developed of a state as it does because I was going to have it as a player in Ryuai's game once they added Maura as a character for me, but of course, they never did, so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm winging it rather a bit and giving y'all lots of freedom here, but I hope a cohesive world comes out of it all in the end. This is such an amazing group, I kind of feel bad for Ryuai squandering the chance to GM for you all. =^.^=

Aw, thank you ^^ We're all grateful that you picked it up, you're doing great!

Gosh, my favourite GM praised my GMing. Please pardon me while I preen just a little. >^.^<

Anywho, there are only Felicia and Talberon left on the character sheet review. I think when that's done all I have left is some wiki editing I want to do. If you would be so kind, Eliza, I'd like to create a people or notable or something like that section and start populating it with names (alphabetized) and brief bios, so any help getting that started would be great. ^.^

I think once the last character sheet stuff is marked off I will also make an advertisement and see if we can't attract one more Baneberry student in order to fully balance the player group sizes. If anybody has a friend they would like to invite, please have them RTJ with their character idea and specify who invited them. =^.^=

GM, are you thinking about using an NPC (or perhaps Lesleigh, but you implied she isn't physically up to it, I believe?) as the 6th hunter...so as to have an even number of hunter students to be able to form 2x 3 hunter student squads (or possibly 3x 2 hunter student squads)?

I know you've been busy. No hurry on an answer. Just curious on how the whole competitive squad thing is going to go, is all.

 Again sorry my bad, hey if anyone is going to let the cat out of the bag it would be her. Lol. I edited it so she said it very softly, hopefully Tiffany says something to remind Felicia.

Felicia is not good at keeping secrets =3

No she doesn't want the cat in the bag. Lol I was making a cat joke. Lol

heh heh =3

Sorry Kenzie isn't talking much - it's hard to measure an ongoing situation in PbP, I'm scared there's at least some chance that the principal is just slowly, silently looming toward the kids while they chat XD

No worries.

Pandora's English will get better over time, making communicating with her less difficult.

Right now though her broken English reinforces the whole 'foreign girl' thing and lets Creighton's super-language thing shine.

I haven't really gotten to that just yet but I am currently considering the idea of simply having a team of five as the baseline, for the convenience of being able to put all the PCs in one group. I am also considering the notion that there will likely be different teams and teams of different sizes depending upon the specific form the competition is taking. In events where there are two three-person teams or three two-person teams, yes, I'll need to put an NPC in one of those slots and for some events that can be Lesleigh, but for others that won't work. I don't have any good clues as to what Scott's build was like before, so I probably can't use him, either, and I kinda just, don't want to anyway.

I'm also thinking that the first competition will be on an individual basis. Specifically, you know how some teacher swill give out a first or second day "gauging what you already know" test? That, but for asskickery, also known as a tournament. ^.^

GM, have you seen 'My Hero Academia'? Or 'Naruto'? They do things like that.

Kenzie certainly hasn't met Tal yet has she?

Snicker =p

You realize that Pandora has not mentioned vampires to Talberon or Creighton, right? Only in shielded whispers to Kenzie. Unless Talberon has super-hearing or something to hear shielded whispers?

In reply to Pandora Pavlosky (msg # 243):

Whoops, missed that. Thanks. Will change. It's late on my end

Ha :)

I don't want to double post over Pandora or Creighton, so I'll wait for them to post if they want to.

I didn't watch the Naruto anime. I tend to prefer the light novel and manga forms, to be honest. ^.^

Lesleigh's working fast. Jason's practically married =3
This message was last edited by the player at 22:12, Sun 15 Sept 2019.

Oh, I don't think so. >^.^<

Friendly update to all: the GM and I dropped Tal's infravision/heat-vision.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled broadcastings.

wants to beat something up =/

 Oh boy who upset Pandora?

In reply to Pandora Pavlosky (msg # 250):

Well, you can try bullying Tal and see how fast Pandora heals from 2nd/3rd degree burns.

Wouldn't recommend it, but you're free to try...

Pandora is not a bully, she's a mischievous tomboy in case that's not been clear.


Just getting antsy. Tired of talking. Want to some action.

In reply to Pandora Pavlosky (msg # 253):

Oh, I figured (twas just a joke). Point still stands you could always try to clock out Tal. He does talk too much and might actually deserve it.

Felicia could use some action as well, wish we could spar...

I can accelerate things a bit on the Rainsford side if people would like. I've been holding off so Jason can post a reaction to being called out by the Principal but I think when I get to my office tomorrow I'll advance things whether he has or not, and compress the scene a teensy bit. How much action there is at that point is up to y'all.

If things are going on ahead, I'll go ahead and post rather than wait for Creighton. Not that Kenzie's going to do anything noteworthy anyways.

Sorry, I've been out of it all weekend. I will work on this presently.

I'll take the notable people section from the schools and just make a parent page for people and each person will be designated to a school there.

I've got the start here: not sure how detailed you want to go. http://wiki.rpol.net/?edit=74125/people_of_moorhaven

I will reply to the threads I am on later today. Sorry to all those posting with me, I am more of a daytime poster, and I think most of the rest of us are late evening. (at least in my timezone.)

And hey Tal, I'm not sure anyone in the group is really planning on stopping you from ranting. We're probably more likely to Stop the Bad Monster than we are to Stop the Guy from Spewing out His Conspiracy Theory stuff.

In reply to Creighton Knight (msg # 260):

That's cool. Tal isn't really the most socially aware/relatable individual. I'm imagining that the three of you have entered the Peanuts cartoons with the "ma-na-na" of the adults.

Talberon should probably stay away from gas stoves =p

Someone ask for a Monster.... I am just a kitty on steroids... lol
Oh damn yes please stay away from gas stoves. lol

Also grain silos.  You wouldn't think that flour could cause a fuel-air explosion, and yet...

Oh god yes grain gives of flamable fumes.

That would be funny to see - maybe not so much fun for Anthony though =3

Oh, there's no rush at all. Thank you so much for your help. ^.^

Well, I've had a right bitch of a day, but it's done with for now so let's see about getting this party started, shall we?

Like I said about Tal, it'll be lucky that we all make it to graduation alive, emphasis on him.

Sorry you had a bad day. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.


Woohoo! Turn the party up =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8hMhxRU8UE

Kenzie can't see but the rest of y'all realize that this girl has large eyes with vertical slits and an impossibly vivid sea-green colour that shimmers slightly, right?

Pandora just presumes the girl is blind/has damaged eyes since she doesn't know real witches exist yet.

She took off her glasses, so Pandora can see this quite clearly.

In reply to Aeternitas (msg # 270):

You mean, at the fair? I know it's one thread, but I was not playing it like we were all in a single area. I assumed Tiffany and Anthony were in one place (out of earshot and visual range) from the Rainsford group.

If we are closer, and can see Lesleigh, please advise (or confirm).

In the Rainsford thread. Between this and the people that recognize the family name comes the intense negative reaction.

I understand. Pandora just presumes the girl has blind eyes, has an eye deformity, or somehow had an accident and damaged her eyes (such as chemicals splashing into her eyes) because she doesn't know witches (or magic, for that matter) are real.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:27, Tue 17 Sept 2019.

Hey there, catching up on reading now. Post coming up soon! Seems like things happened while I was asleep and then at work. Happy to see things!

You showed Tal and Jason earlier. So Tal is still uncomfortable but it's not a surprise. He also heard a little of your story. So he knows Lesleigh isn't bad.

Is RPoL running slowly for anybody else? >.<;

Yes, I had to survive some long load times to get in and do things with it this afternoon. So it isn't just you.

Yeah, it sure is for me at least! Since yesterday in fact.

Oh yes very slow two times last night i couldn't even get on. It hasnt done that today but it has been running slow.

Hi Kenzie.... Felicia misses you....

Kenzie misses Felicia too :)

we can set up a play date after school sometime... if Kenzie wants too.

Just waiting to see what happens next. Pandora doesn’t need to do anything until some else happens.

Today, everybody's been posting while I was stuck at work... Oh, well.

<yawns> Rainsford thread and PMs will have to come tomorrow. Sorreh! ^.^;

Sounds like fun!

I was really hoping that Pandora would have said "Which witch?"

Funny. Pandora wouldn't understand the wordplay though =p

So, Ryuai came back to his game and... just immediately deleted it without a word? ._.

I guess he may have been put out that we recreated his game here?

Without a word, yes.

Oh wow didn't say a thing, yeah maybe he was mad we moved on but hey he was gone for a long time.

Notes#2 =)

If you need to carry or throw someone, if a floor or bridge supports only so much weight, etc., here is a weight reference.

Listed in order of height so it's easy to see who is taller or shorter than your own character. Thank you everyone for your help.


Name, Height, Weight (in pounds)
********************************

Jason, 5'7½", 155#

Tiffany, 5'6", 135#
Anthony, 5'6", 125#

Eliza, 5'5", 160#
Felicia, 5'5", (130# Bipedal, 1600# Giant Panther, 6# Housecat)

Pandora, 5'2¾", 104#

Talberon, 5'2", 120#
Kenzie, 5'2", 105#

Creighton, 5'1", 105#

Lesleigh, 4'10", 70#
This message was last edited by the player at 07:27, Wed 02 Oct 2019.

I never realized that Jason is a Goliath in a squad of Davids.



I now really want someone to chuck a flaming Tal against a horde of minions.

Yup, Jason’s a big boy.

 Felicia's Panther form is pretty big as well, but as humans go he is a big boy... and cute.. hehehe

Psh, just a Welterweight.

I’m kind of surprised at how middle of the road we are in height, but I guess that can change as we grow older in the game.

Oh yes Felicia is only 14, her Hybrid form will get a lot bigger I assume, i was thinking 5'10"- 6'0" when she is fully grown.

 OH I just realized this, when Felicia talks in Hybrid form English is her second Language her native Language is Ancient Egyptian. She would speak with a Egyptian Accent sorry about that. She speaks perfect English but she does have a accent.

If Felecia can read hieroglyphics, does she like emojis?

 Actually I didn't think about it but I would say she would love emojis....something she is used too symbols as words or phrases.

Is Tiffany trying to get the whole fair burned down? I feel like the paradox/sheer insanity of Anthony & Tal meeting will bring about the apocalypse.

Over 1000 posts everyone... Great Job to our new GM............
Love you guys....

*Purchases a large bucket of popcorn*  You call it the apocalypse, I call it entertainment...

Oh hell yes, let it burn i will come back....

Talberon can burst into flames? We should all grab some sticks and cook some hot dogs or smores and have Talberon be the camp fire. Talberon might get melted chocolate, marshmallows, or hot dog drippings in his hair though - heh =3

It's very possible I'm bad at gauging heights as well as weights.

In reply to Pandora Pavlosky (msg # 307):

I was kind of stretching his powers for fun. But I think it might work with the right stunt or planning.

So, the drama continues, but I was able to spend most of today recuperating. I'm going to get some noms and then see about trying to catch up on everything over here, prioritizing posts that unblock people who are waiting on me.

---

Wow, I actually got out all of the posts. >^.^<
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:46, Sat 21 Sept 2019.

Woohoo! =D



Oh, snap! Talberon's in trouble! Without his fire powers, he's gonna get all beat up  O_O!!

GM, how are we going to do the fights?

I mean, if we do them one-by-one sequentially, it will likely take a really long time to play them all out--as well as leave any player not fighting without much to do other than watch and comment on the fight as it happens.

In reply to Pandora Pavlosky (msg # 311):

"Hey, I did only fight with my body! It just happened to be on fire at the time due to an earlier, unrelated incident."

LOL - that's awesome! =P

I imagine that 'first round' fights can be done sort of simultaneously with a Player (us) going against Non Players (people controlled by Storytelling Superboss). That way every one of the writers is doing something, even though it also would mean that in story Creighton wouldn't get to see Pandora's first fight or what Kenzie does. I'm pretty sure Tal is going to blaze someone up one way or another.

If I am reading it right the intention is that this is some sort of Welcome to School Freshman so it is mostly the first year folks against well, whoever the Non-Players are.

If you have as much space as the gym, then it'd be easy enough to have many fights happening as long as you don't plan on, you know, running through the whole gym as part of your awesome fight sequence.

And big love for Storytelling Superboss for getting out all the posts!

OK, Rainsford Institute sucks. Real, "Lord of the Flies" level evil.

At least we're monsters on the outside. You all are rotten right to the core.

It is weird right? Welcome to hunter academy, lets see if you are good at punching and kicking! I feel like we all just accidentally joined Dauntless.

Which, don't get me wrong, I like it, way to go Storytelling Boss!
This message was last edited by the player at 15:07, Sat 21 Sept 2019.

So...if flames are part of Tal's body, then he ain't breaking any rules? Just for Tal's future reference.

You were advertised a battle high school shounen, so I thought I should deliver. >^.^<

Which makes for some really awkward headspace transitions as I move between it and the superpowered high school slice of life drama, lemme tell ya.

As far as the organization of the tournament itself, I want to give everybody a chance to play out any particular fights that they wish to have in detail but I think most of them can be glossed over. Additional mats and faculty are going to get squared away so that it doesn't take all day to get through everybody.

Something I just realized that I failed to include is that, in general, a single solid hit is enough to be declared the winner. PCs and named NPCs have the option to struggle on by explicitly asking to continue after getting hit - think of a referee checking on a boxer to see if he can still fight after taking a rough round of beating. There's no protective gear on offer, after all, and one solid punch in such conditions can easily render a human unconscious in real life.

Somebody should totally ask a faculty member why the ranking is done with unarmed combat. ^.^

By the way, Talberon, your opponent is the crewcut kid. Eamon kept him from up and sucker-punching Talberon right then and there.

Somebody can invite Eamon to a round if they want but speaking as your GM, I advise against it. >.>

Just curious, but when Talberon eats a big spicy burrito, does he shoot fire out his butt and fly through the air? =3
This message was last edited by the player at 17:58, Sat 21 Sept 2019.

Perfect, totally misread that (did think it was strange an upperclassman was gonna fight freshman.

I'll edit that and reply.



I guess you'll find out when we all brave the caf's Taco Tuesday...

So if it can just be 'glossed over' would you like us to write up a post about say - The First Fight - and just handle details on our own or should we write up a bit of story that is All the Fights We Did.

I don't mind the gloss, we don't need to slow down the whole game for round after round of Mortal Combat and I certainly don't mind writing both 'sides' of the fight for Creighton.

How much or how little detail you want to go into is your prerogative, to be honest, but grand summaries should probably be saved until people have gone through their specific fights.

I'm working out how I want to determine what the final rankings will be but there's almost certainly going to be a match between Creighton and Jason in there toward the end if they don't fight each other sooner, just from the character sheets. I think, if nobody objects, we can safely call that the finale and have that one be played properly.

I'm going to commandeer Jill from the youth soldiers for a match with another NPC, but I'll put that all together into a single post, I reckon.

Any other specific fights to play out?

OK, so I'll write up something for Round 1 and sure, we can do something with a Finale, that sounds like fun.

Of course, when there is some kind of academic test, Kenzie will kick all our butts.

One simple way to resolve who won quickly between two opponents (if you want to roll) would be:

Each character rolls 1d20-1d20 (to get an average)
+ the higher of their Fighting/Close Attack/Unarmed Skill or Strength/Strike/Unarmed Damage
+ the higher of their Parry Defense or Toughness+Protection+Defensive roll

The higher roll wins. Re-roll on a tie unless draws are allowed.
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 19:44, Sat 21 Sept 2019.

Pandora's fight post is ready. Just waiting on Talberon's fight to finish up.

I don't know about that ^^'


Meanwhile, the Baneberry PA system in the background: "...And for lunch today, your choice of Hitchhiker Stew or Orphan Surprise!" ;)

Also, I was waiting for Pandora to post, but if she's going to do a full summary, should I go ahead? I was hoping to play out meeting Kenzie's opponent and seeing how one fight went at least, and I doubt she'll get too many and hold up the works :P

I can post. I just wasn't sure I should interrupt Talberon's fight.

*****

I guess I can go ahead and post it. If the GM wants, it can be deleted, and I can re-post it later after Talberon's fight since I have it saved in Word anyway.
This message was last edited by the player at 07:17, Sun 22 Sept 2019.

Sorry I kept you waiting. Didn't realize. Hope the fight was reasonably exciting to read.
This message was last edited by the player at 07:25, Sun 22 Sept 2019.

No problem, that was a fun read :)

Does anyone want to spar with the military students? I can have the military kids spar each other/npcs but if anyone needs a partner we can just rp it out.

Maybe I misread the introduction, or the fight setup, but aren't they all first-years? I thought none of the new kids were going to fight each other.

Otherwise Kenzie could have been Pandora's first partner, taken one tap to the chest, and been all "Oh the pain, I concede, please take me to the nurse now" ;)

In reply to Kenzie Rinne (msg # 332):

I'm not quite familiar with the US educational structure but aren't freshmen the first years?
I thought freshmen were the new joiners which is what we are?

I may be wrong though so feel free to correct me.

In reply to Jason French (msg # 333):

No, that's right. I guess an NPC did say that this was for freshmen only, but it doesn't seem like any of the fights are going that way so far, as far as I can tell? Unless some of the NPC new students have really picked up the culture already :)

In reply to Kenzie Rinne (msg # 334):

I think Talberon's thing is more some random student started on him and then it kind of lead into a supervised fight instead of them just scrapping on the hall floor.

Pandora didn't even hesitate though which I find hilarious as it means Jason's assessment of her war pretty on the money if you discount the giraffe.

Ah, okay, that would do it. And yeah, good for Pandora jumping right in :)

Kenzie could take on a military student if one of them wants to come over to her mat, although it might actually backfire on their reputation to be the one that started off by beating up a blind kid ;)

Do edits show up in the notifications? If not I just sent Ross over to Kenzie's mat. I'm not sure if you want to play this in any particular way Kenzie, If you do let me know.

No, they don't, thanks for the heads up! I wouldn't say I have a particular goal with it, Kenzie will just be rolling with the punches :)

OK, getting a Round 1 post up for CK now, sorry for the delay. Reading and then writing it up

Giraffes can be fairly scrappy in their own fighting. So maybe Pandora thought it was fitting. Did she bring it to Rainsford?
This message was last edited by the player at 13:06, Sun 22 Sept 2019.

And I think I'm going to end up with one of the military students eventually - but that's you Jason, so I can wait until that thing happens.

And wow, everyone else who has put their round 1 together, awesome. I've loved everything from Pandora's detailed fight with that mouthy Thorn to Kenzie getting to meet a military student. I have glasses not brittle bone -  classic line. Love that they had to stop Pandora from kicking someone's skull inside out.

I decided that some of the military students were a bit too friendly so I imported Kobra Kai for Creighton. I hope I'm not overstepping a bit, GM said I could have a bit of agency with the cadets but I don't want to overdo it.

That's hysterical and sure, it is fine man. Every Nice Kid needs to be balanced out by a Cobra Kai right?

I’m driving to Boston to jump on a cruise ship bound for Bermuda. On the positive side I bought the internet package so I’ll have decent connectivity and probably more time to post.

Thanks for letting us know, Anthony. ^.^

Also, I'm glad y'all are excited, truly, buuuut I guess Creighton found out the prety boy was white knighting Lesleigh and he, what, just walked off?

Also, Jill defeating Carson doesn't count. She has to fight the other girls to get points. This also means that since Pandora has one point, Jill can't fight her until she also has one point. Luckily, I can correct this with the post I wanted to commandeer Jill for, but please refrain from posting for her until I get that written up, thank you. I won't be long, so Pandora isn't sitting in limbo, and then she can and Jill can have their match.

In reply to Aeternitas (msg # 345):

No worries, we can just have  that being a standard interunit shenanigans. Feel free to retcon some stuff about. I can wait/adapt.

Sorry if we went too fast, yes I figure the other guy was just an upper classman who was keeping things calm but then the principal announced Mortal Combat and everything went to heck in a hand basket. I can rewind that if you like!

Too much to rewind now, so don't worry about it. I just want to establish how that went down for future reference when he encounters the pretty boy again.

Sure, the pretty boy stopped me after I put him in a bad position of blocking my way, and we sort of parted after that due to the overwhelming distraction of the meeting turning into Mortal Combat.

Kenzie, I added a bridging post at the top of Pandora's fight. Sorry, I thought we were all skipping ahead to our first fights. I didn't meant to not respond to your post.

Cute =)

My understanding was that the PCs were all going to fight an NPC for their first sparring match, so I went ahead and built her first fight with that in mind.



My feelings on Thorn is that she knew what to expect and was ready for it. While Pandora wasn't expecting a full-contact sparring match--especially on day one--she is generally quick to adapt to circumstances.



I may have over did it on her first fight.

I wasn't sure how to best go about it. It just sort of came together naturally.

Also, she really likes her giraffe plushie.



She has her giraffe plushie, but she didn't bring it to the welcoming ceremony.



She wasn't sure of the rules of 'victory' other than beating her opponent down, so she just kept going until she was told to stop.