In reply to Ghost-of-Silver (msg # 233):

Tell me about it. If I could find a job that paid me for posting on RPOL, I'd be set for life, buddy. lol :)

Ey Ghost. How's that other game going? You tried to recruit me for something, but it had something I didn't like as far as I can remember?

I don't actually remember it now, which means that either I ended up not in it, or it didn't last long enough to stick with me.

The distressingly short lifespan of RPOL games seems to be much, much worse with the WoD systems.

Thankfully there's not to many WoD games to begin with, so we're not disappointed too often, eh? ;)

I'm still around, but kinda full up on games at the moment and school's starting up again.

I would say that I'd liike to get through a complete story with this character sometime this decade...

...but the first time I said that was in the 00s.

Yeah. I agree with all the above sentiments.
So... should we stick a pin in this game and come back to it in a few months when--you know--we're all magically less busy? (Because life definitely works that way, in my experience...)?
I mean, like I said, I'm willing to transfer ownership or appoint a temporary GM if it'd help, but it sounds like I'm not the only one facing scheduling issues right now.

Doing some housekeeping, so I'm thinking it's time to delete this game. If anybody has anything to say, do it now!

SOMEBODY FIND ME A WEREWOLF GAAAAAAAME!

In reply to Big Sister (msg # 242):

Aw! :(
I mean, I can try to start this back up if it's gonna make you cry. lol
I'm kinda in the middle of going through an (amenable but still complicated) divorce, so I have MORE time now than I did before. But I want to spend it on games in which people are actually interested. Make sense?
So... I mean, I'm not exactly a Werewolf Storytelling pro, but I'm willing to put in the work if there's interest. Yeah?

I'd be willing to resume if we still have enough people to do it. I have no recollection of the story by now, but at 80 posts it shouldn't take too long to catch up.

In reply to Ghost-of-Silver (msg # 244):

I think we'd probably do better to shift into a new storyline based on where everyone wanted to go with it, but that wouldn't be difficult. Like you said, there wasn't a whole lot of backstory to get in the way.

Don't feel pressured to start a game on my behalf ST, that's a sure way for another game to strand in no time.

Me and Ghost did pm and mentioned how WoD games on rpol seem cursed to fail, we've more or less jumped on the same few games that popped up over the years (and recognize our recurring characters) and each and every one just burns out quickly.

I joined just as things died, but I am still here and still like werewolf.

I'm also still around; I'd be up for a reboot, but am not jonesing particularly hard for new games right now.

I did a quick look over the old one, and I remember it now. It looks like it could be more or less picked up where it was, but if you don't want to do that then it's a perfectly good background for a successful-mission handwave and the pack is now a little bit later and doing... whatever new thing.

In reply to Everybody:

Aw. It makes me happy that so many of us are still around and active on here. I love getting to play with good gamers. :)
Okay. It'll take me about a week to sort out my notes and refamiliarize with the rulebooks, but we can go ahead and start about what direction we want to take the story. And holy crap. Scanning over my notes, I'd forgotten how much pack politics I'd had planned for this story.

Basically, as written, the main pack's Alpha has a powerful combination of strength and diplomacy that holds together a truce between the werewolves and other supernatural factions in the area so they can focus on... like, Black Spiral Dancers and fomori and stuff. However, there are many members of the pack that don't like being chummy with... oh, say vampires, for example, and they'd rather take the pack (and its affiliates) in a more belligerent direction. So in the original story, the main pack's Alpha would be assassinated and it would be up to you guys to navigate your own pack's relations through a shifting quagmire of alliances.
Suuuuper heavy. Kinda ambitious, too, but with lots of space in the sandbox for you guys to deal with the aspects of the game that you wanted--plenty of opportunities for action, loads of intrigue going around, politics between formerly allied packs, interspecies relations to be explored. Tons of stuff.

So if that sounds interesting to you guys, I would be happy to go in that direction. Otherwise, we can pivot and explore something else. The good thing about being your own pack affiliated with a larger group is that you can do your own thing without having to do everything yourselves, so you have a lot of freedom in what kind of gameplay you'd like to pursue.

Votes? Brainstorming? Discussion? Engage! lol

I'm still here too!

And personally I love the idea you threw out. Werewolf games so rarely spend time on sept politics which I've always felt was a really interesting part of the game.

A related question: how large is the sept? The impression that I've had is that the books suppose that most septs are about a dozen strong at most; only really major caerns get a larger (permanent) population, and even that might not be much higher.

Most games seem to treat the typical sept as being dozens strong, though.

I like intrigue and politics, mingled in with the Garou culture. So I'm all for your idea ST.

In reply to Valgard (msg # 251), Ghost-of-Silver (msg # 252), & Big Sister (msg # 253):

Slightly embarrassed and pleased by the votes of confidence. Thanks! :) lol

And to answer your question, Ghost-of-Silver, I agree that many septs in the book appear to be smallish. Despite Texas' reputation for rugged individualism, though, Austin in particular tends to be very collaborative in culture, so it made sense to me that a lot of the septs that in other places might be allied without merging would choose to come together here, especially under a powerful Alpha. However, where in smaller septs you'd see separate groups with their own ideologies pursuing different goals, in this collective you have a number of differing and sometimes opposed factions within the same sept, and that's making things very volatile. The splinter groups the sept is seeding is one way they're trying to deal with the issue, but it's not going to be enough. When the Alpha dies and the group has to face the divisions that already exist within it, it's going to make things extremely tense.
And that's a spectacular backdrop for some great drama.

Or at least, that was what I was thinking... lol ;)

So we'd be part of a small (probably 2-4 pack) sept that's part of a... regional federation, I guess you could say, and THAT is what's having the political crisis - with appropriate domino effects on our own sept. Okay, I can see that working.

Ping.
Just wanted to let you guys know, I haven't forgotten about you. RL is being a bit of a bitch right now, so I'm moving slowly. I had a couple job interviews and am hoping things stabilize a bit in the next couple weeks, so I should have more time either late this month or early next.
Fingers crossed.
Hope life is being a little nicer to you all.

Best wishes,
Jonathan

I'm at home with a burnout, so not great, but definitely in the mood for some distraction! :D

Good luck with the job hunt!