EXACTLY!! :D

C'mon guys. Everything is in order with our Gamemaster and with the game, it is we the players who need to move forward a little more actively. Not only to talk flowery and not only to express wishes, but to declare actions that the Gamemaster could respond to. As far as I can see, Nerull always reacts if we declare an ACTION, and not just chatting. In my opinion, the Gamemaster is still waiting for us that one of us will finally announce that he is going to the count and putting forward our offer to the count. This is me hinting at Andrew and Alyx ;)

In reply to Danila (msg # 187):

<Jumps 3 meters forward and 2 meterup>

Hey. Who poked me with a cattle prod?
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 22:48, Tue 20 Sept 2022.

Thank you! You are correct. Talking about doing it, and doing it are two different things.

I'm letting some others take a turn, I dominated quite a bit for a while.

I'll get something together soon. Been dealing with the sudden passing of a friend. The funeral was Monday and I'm still a little off...

Well well, look how the action-reaction works perfectly : nearly one week without progress.. our gamemaster really is waiting for us players to state actions, not roleplay ;)
So; Lt. Arthur McMickles asked "Can you arrange the March Harrier be sent back to it's owners?"

Nerull is waiting for an answer ; I suggest it be a "Yes, we can, and I'll do it", in descending order of relevance, by :
- Theodore Bickle owner representative
- Frederick Vicouna, our broker (organizing ship transport is his job, ain't it?) but he hasn't posted here since 9 months... :(
- our captain
- Juraj (Youri) Sebastian (tag: "player" in the Cast list)... he has spent 3 terms in the Merchant Marine
- Barak Obama - but, "Yes we can" - as John Stewart once remarked - "does not mean that we will" ;)

Need I to go down the list? With 0 in Broker, Gvou is probably not your arranger! :D

Sorry, it was my fault, I didn't whip Nerull, because I was busy myself.
Onward!

Goodness, my condolenses..! I didn’t even notice this.

How are you doing, Alyx?

In reply to Joonan Marr (msg # 194):

I'm doing OK. Been a rough few weeks, though. Doesn't help that my father in law's been in and out of the hospital in that time and my mother in law has been staying with us.

I’m surprised you haven’t snuffed her ou—

Erhm, yeah! That would be hard on anyone..! Joking aside, yeah — must be a total shit show. Sorry to hear it. :/

I could have sworn that we had decrypted what message was on Gvoudzon's family heirloom earierl

Look for it, you did, pretty sure.

I don't remember what circumstances I was keeping in mind while designing the ship, but I made "heavily armed free trader" option feasible.
While we are explicitly on a sanctioned mission then I expect we do not have to pay mortgage. May be later?
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Do we agree that :
1- our priority is to go after the Mammoth?
2- we'll disguise as traders-transporters, and give the baron is 7% (net) (You don't haggle with a Baron! plus, it seems fair) on our benefits
and
3- well pretend we're explorers/archeologist, if we need a reason to go somewhere the Mammoth is, and where we could not pretend to go for business
Then- so if the Baron would share his lead on some Ancient sites, and show us where he'd like us to explore, we'll be happy to seize the opportunity, if it happened to go along our priority?

I’d haggle just on principle, he’s expecting us to negotiate; otherwise happy with the above as long as we get going.. :)

The Marquis is here? Can I assume  that he will disavowed the actions of those used the resources of his (wife's) company to commit treason? If so I suspect is would be in his family's best interest in supporting our efforts to get the Mammoth? (or was that the ship that crashed so they could hide the theft)
This message was last edited by the player at 00:29, Sat 12 Nov 2022.

In reply to Andrew Steward Copeland (msg # 202):

I agree on all these points.

Works for me

In reply to Andrew Steward Copeland (msg # 205):

Fine by me. Alyx wants to get to the end of the Mammoth story but masking his name good again any way he can is fine.

(since Gvoudzon ignores the nobility rank of Joonan Marr, but may know the captain's) "Captain, I believe you're the one able to haggle the amount of the share of the Baron Feri"

Joonan is technically a Marquis, though he’d never admit to it.

In reply to Joonan Marr (msg # 208):

What is the consensus then?

May the captain have a bonus if he starts the bargaining by presenting the very objectives that align with the Baron?

1- our priority is to go after the Mammoth, avenge the harm done, punish the culprit
2- if we need an excuse to go somewhere the Mammoth is, we'll pretend we're explorers/archeologist, and explore for the Baron meanwhile: may the Baron please tell us where he'd like us to explore for him? Looking for Ancient sites that interest him."
3- given that our priorities are non-commercial, we'll earn less, thus the Baron's share should not encroach on the economic balance of the ship... I suggest the captain starts his proposal at 3.5%