Hey folks!

Are we all still ehre?
   Shout out if you would, please..

Has anyone heard from our GM ?

GM logged in 3 days ago, but hasn't posted in 5 weeks.

I'm here. Sorry. My summer ended early.  The start of the semester is ultra busy. Now things have stabilized, it seems.

In reply to The Keeper (msg # 74):

Welcome back!!  :)

It's all good. Just glad to have you back!
This is such an interesting story and the folks involved are great!

Hi folks!
I think our GM intends to come back but is a bit buried in RL stuff at the moment.
This message was last edited by the player at 13:11, Mon 20 Sept 2021.

Hello

Being buried under RL stuff is an understatement. You have no idea how bad things got. I think its better now. I however don't know if it is best to continue from where we left of, or to do a reboot.

Why not both?  Take the story element you have left, and pull it forward into where you add more?

I'm here and delighted that you're back!
(Welcome back!!)

Ok, while awaiting on more people to rejoin -if any, in which case, while we recruit new players- how about we try to continue?

Works fine for me. But a recap, if possible, would be super-useful

I took over an existing character, so I would lean a bit more toward reboot (new characters, keep if you want to) rather than picking up where we left off, or Precious's idea of restarting with a reboot.

But either way - 10000% this


I remember this was a crossbow expert character, and Precious was my semi-familiar player-friend, and there were...interviews for...murder, maybe? That's all I got.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:21, Fri 09 Dec 2022.

And Lia had spotted something at a murder scene that we were going to investigate..

Ok, just let me reread, because I need a recap too.

Well, the story so far:

There have been a series of strange killings of young women. After the third victim the General Commander recruited Titus and Allison from the guard to investigate a possible connection to the city guard, as the killer seems to have inside information. She also recruited Vinnie as someone who could hang around the guard without having the same loyalty to peers. Precious follows Allison and is a package deal.

The group made their way to the stone sword pub and got a reading of the situation until they got interrupted by news of a fourth victim. Vinnie had to stay behind because a Bearaler in the pub liked him too much.

Lia the rookie was the first on site and found evidence that the killer isn't human and that the time of death was in late at night. Dave,  another rookie, was also on the scene and got to interrogate one witness -an urchin-, but didn't press for much information. Precious and Allison got to get more information from the child. The child has a missing friend -Dhur, a fellow urchin- who might have seen something. The urchin left with Dave who was going to feed them.

Other facts.

* The stone pub is frequented by the members of the guard. Lannie, the bartender is a fixture in the community.
* One of the secretaries was at the pub talking to Lannie. No details could be obtained beyond the talk being related to Dave the rookie.
* There was a cloaked stranger in the pub who was restraining anger the guard members around.
* Mark -a guard member- was getting very drunk and was consumed by guilt and grief.
* Only the commander, the captain Virgil and the secretaries know all of the people working on each shift and the watch routes.


We can get away with losing Vinnie for good, but we might need a replacement player for Titus if he doesn't comeback.

People don't generally care for taking over existing characters. Since we're starting it back up after a huge break, I would just have them start fresh with their own characters, scrap whatever unnecessary ties there were to those characters, and anything that's actually important you can give to a new character as their hook.

New characters are generally better, but they can also be new capabilities with the same name, or even new names with the same 'role' in the story.  Keeping Alison as she started is completely irrelevant except in the strength of her relationship with Precious, even that can be changed into something different if that helps.

I would suggest giving them the option..

Ok. Lets get restarted then.

Good to see you've resurfaced GM. Glad RL stuff resolved

<Waves> at Titus.

Hello Lia. Seems we will be playing together again.

Yeeeeaa!
Good times

Ok, what do you need form me for the IC posting to resume?

Nothing for me at current. You posted as Titus recently so I'm just waiting for others to respond.

I think some sort of IC summery of the previous/current scene and starting us off into the next one so we all have the same fresh start would be best.

I know there was some kind of information gathering we were doing, some goal we had in mind, but no idea what that was or why.  Skipping past that will get us out of the quagmire of memory and put us in the present tense.