Standard OCC Thread

We have two player characters so far.

Billy Thomson and Liam Roeker.

Just bumped my ad, need to get a Slayer and some more female characters.

We have a Slayer!

Esperanza Glass.

Good evening all, I am Esperanza Glass, known as Hopie and I am your Slayer.
Buenas noches todos, soy Ezperanza Glass, conocida como Hopie y soy su Slayer.

Welcome!  Although now I wish I had taken Spanish for Liam.

Is okay guapo, I speak Americano as well.

We have three player characters.

If you click the The Cast list, you'll see two characters in the NPC section which will be played by me.  Brittany Foster and Edward Hudson.

With three player characters and two NPCs, I think we have enough characters to get the game going soon.

*Edward Hudson is the Watcher.  Like Giles, he's the librarian of the school.  He's just started at Sunnydale High at the start of the 2006-2007 school year.  Remember the game will start in January 2007, halfway through the school year as the students return after new year.  As the game begins, he has yet to identify the new Slayer, that will come soon.

The three of you should at least be vaguely familiar with him, maybe more so if you spend a lot of time in the library.

*Brittany Foster is going to be the Cordelia of the group but less abrasive.  She's also a brand new student, the first day of the game will be her first day of school.  So of course none of you will know her.  She doesn't know anyone and has no social standing or position at all at Sunnydale High.

Esperanza, Billy, and Liam all have a class together: 6th period gym class (last class of the day)so you will all know each other from that class.

Oh my... Cordelia with no social standing... she'll be like the sweet and brave Cordelia from Angel.

Ah gym, the favorite class of every nerd.

Ah Rico, at least you don't have anybody checking your ass as Ms Kaplinski makes us climb the ropes.

Oh, it’s a boys/girls joint class?  Maybe there are some benefits.  At least until dodgeball.

*rolls her eyes and wonders if her aim got better over Xmas.

I was thinking we could start the game with Esperanza as a normal girl and then her Slayer powers would manifest right before our first major fight scene.


Does Esperanza have any idea what a Slayer is or that vampires are real? Or she blissfully unaware of it all?

Not vampires as such but...



She believes in La Llorona, the hungry woman, who weeps for the children she drowned.

I know very little of Mexican culture.  I’m already loving learning about the tidbits Esperanza is dropping.  Keep it up!

Yeah... everything I know about Mexican culture I learned from Jaime (and 'Beto) Hernandez.  I even stole Esperanza's name (but not her character) from Love and Rockets.  In the Comic, Hopey is half Scottish and Half Columbian and was born just outside Los Angeles.

We should be ready to get started soon.

Remember the game takes place in 2007, so keep that in mind for your real world and pop culture references.

*George W. Bush is the president.

*If your character has a cell phone, it will be a flip phone.

*If your character likes super hero movies, you can't talk about the Marvel Cinematic Universe because it doesn't exist yet.  Iron Man 1 is still more than a year away from relase.

And so on.

Or even better their cell phone could be a Nokia 1 with actual buttons on it.  And of course, Esperanza will use Telcel América.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:02, Wed 13 Apr 2022.

Oooo… he’s a walk down memory lane.  Trying to find stuff that might apply to a teenager.

Minimum wage went from $5.15 to $5.85
2/4/07 Colts defeated Bears in Super Bowl
10/24/07 Red Sox sweep Rockies in World Series
Movies Transformers and Toby McGuire Spider-Man 3 came out
This is before the 2008 Recession
Computer games out in 2007:  Call of Duty 4 and Assassin’s Creed

I'm in the process of starting the game.  Don't post anything in the story thread yet until I say it's okay.

You got it jefe!

Esperanza- slight change of plan.  You are now the Slayer as of this morning.

You went to bed last night, feeling normal.  You slept through the night and woke up feeling stronger and healthier than you ever have in your life.


Everybody can post now.  It's first thing in the morning at Sunnydale High, first day back to school since New Year.

What kind of weather was it during the break?  Where I’m from it would have been snow.

California is relatively warm in winter.

No recent snow.

The weather would be in the 60s in the daytime and the high 40s at night.

NdD Billy, una mujer spoke to you.  Una mujer guapa!

NdD?

Nombre de Deos (roughly equivalent to OMG)

We have a new addition to the group.

Say hello to Tori Hart.

Tori is a cheerleader and plays other sports as well.

As you can see by the latest episode thread post, Tori was late for school and didn't get a chance to socialize with anyone.

She is also in Coach Keel's 6th period gym class, so Esperanza, Billy, and Liam would know her from class.

Hello Tori.  Are you the Tori who was all over Scott right there in the Bronze?

Welcome Tori!

Hi!

The name was originally a weird coincidence, but I've agreed with the GM they're the same.

Tori being Tori, she did it on a dare. The description has undergone some teenage exaggeration...

Welcome!

Ooh... will Napoleon Dynamite be encouraging Pedro to stand as class President?

Which of us is Napoleon Dynamite and which of us is Pedro?

Unrelated (or maybe very related), my family dressed as Napoleon’s crew for Halloween once.  Wife was the Llama.

Brittany is the only brand new student here.

Hopie, Liam, Billy, and Tori have all been in the coach's gym class for the first half of the school year, so they should be somewhat familiar with each other.

Got it.  Thanks.

Just to clarify, Tori didn't quite perform the vault as intended: she didn't put her hands on the vaulting horse, but relied on hitting the springboard fast and hard enough. Hence the less than graceful landing :)

Thanks.  I just had the coach yell at her too, though not as harshly.

We made it past our first hundred posts.

The last two games I joined as a player died before getting to a hundred posts, so that's worth a celebration.

Hopie, don't forget it's 2007.

Nobody knows what Descendants 2 is yet since it won't be released for another 10 years.

To be fair, I had no idea what it was either, and nor did Hopie. I had to look it up.  I just assumed Hopie was in contact with a time traveller.

I’ll wait for Tori’s response before I post arriving at the Bronze.  I can see it going a couple of different ways.

Would you believe that in Scotland they have deep fried snickers bars?  Actually they'll deep fry anything.  After the ice cream wars in Glasgow in the seventies, they started selling deep fried ice cream fritters.

I was thinking about doing a subplot in which Brittany runs for class president against Malvina.

No rule that says new students can't run.

Unless one of you really wanted to do it.

Want to run against Malvina for class president?

Hopie?  Tori?  Billy?  Liam?

I don’t see Liam running.  Sounds like a great opportunity for someone to spit Malvina.

I was hoping to find a Mexican candidate who wasn't me but Brittany would be a fine candidate.

Billy would rather be drawn and quartered.

We're about to wrap up things at the Bronze and everyone should be getting ready to go home.

I suggest you all leave together and go through Sunnydale Cemetery.

If you go that way, you will encounter some vampires which will lead to our first fight scene.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:29, Fri 06 May 2022.

Fair enough.  As players we know that, as characters, maybe not.

When the GM suggests I go through the cemetery, I start thinking what my next character will be.

Liam will be fine.  Probably.

The cemetery scenes in our series will have a lot of scope and atmosphere.

If we were an actual TV show, we would go out on location to real cemeteries to film the cemetery scenes.

Something they did during Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season One.  Then beginning with Season Two, they built a cemetery set which was used for the rest of the series.

Next time you watch a Buffy episode in Season One, pay attention to the cemetery scenes.  Then compare it to any cemetery scene in Season Two to Seven.  I'm sure you'll notice the difference.

Battlestar Galactica?

Star Trek.  Google Lt. Worf for a good idea of the reference.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:09, Wed 11 May 2022.

Gotcha, although I of course prefer B'elanna Torres.

Boss, may I ask a question about combat, please?

It's this.  If I make two offensive actions and want to use a drama point for the second, can I mae the drama point dependent on the success of the first action?  For example, if I want to grab hold of a vampire and then toss him, the second action can't happen unless I grapple him on the first action - so if I fail to grapple on the first action, do I still lose the drama point for the toss on the second?

When you make multiple attacks, the proper way to do it is make one roll for both attacks. The second attack would suffer the -2 penalty plus be modified if your doing a different attack for the second move (which is what your describing here).

The drama point would apply to both the first and second attacks, so you would get the +10 benefit to both moves.

The Drama Point rule section is not 100% clear on this, but I'm sure I read that's how it works somewhere else in the book, so that's how we'll handle it until further notice.

While we're on the subject of the Grapple move, make sure you read my house rule on how a grapple attack is now Dexterity plus Kung Fu - 2 and d10.  Not +2 like it says in the book.

I had a player in a previous game that used the grapple move a lot, which called to my attention to the fact that's it's way too easy to hit.  So I made it tougher.

This applies to villains too, so a vampire who wants to grapple you by the neck and then bite you will now find it harder to do.

I'm on my tablet today so I can't cut and paste. I'll post in the combat thread as soon as I can get on my laptop (probably ten hours from now but maybe tomorrow)

Thanks.  That will be fine.

We're just about done with episode 1.

The good guys have made it home safely.

Tomorrow I'll do a brief epilogue where we'll get a view of some of the villains and then episode 1 will be complete.

Everybody is awarded 2 drama points for your heroic acts in defeating the vampires in the cemetery fight.

Some fight commentary:

*The Multiple Opponent bonus was the White Hat's best friend.  Most of the White Hat attack and defend rolls would have been a fail in a one on one situation, but the multiple opponent bonuses I added when resolving the round made a big difference. Strength in numbers matters.

*You guys had a good night escaping the fight unscathed.  It's a rare occasion where all the good guys make it through a fight without getting hit and taking some damage.

No experience point awards.  Not yet.

I'm going to do the experience points like this; I'm planning on the season lasting 10 episodes.  When we get to the end of Episode 5 (halfway through the season), you'll all get a lump sum of experience points for episodes 1-5.

Then when we get to Episode 10 (end of the season) you'll get another lump sum of experience points to cover episodes 6-10.

Episode 2 has now started.

You may post at will.

This one starts same as last episode, first thing in the morning.  Show up for school, talk among yourselves until the first bell rings.

But with it being 2007 and Liam being a gamer, has he played VtM, MtA or WtA?

Also does anybody (IC) remember Nancy Collins' books like Sunglasses After Dark?

wrt Billy's post.

In one game, my character built a holy-water-cannon into her Melbamobile.
In another, only yesterday, my girl Sabine used poor man's napalm to try to take out a vamp.  Then one of the vamp's minions shot her so that wasn't so good.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:39, Wed 25 May 2022.

I had to look these up as I haven’t played them.  Vampire the Masquerade and Multi Theft Auto make sense and I can imagine decapitations in those games.  That sounds a little gory for the Womens Tennis Association.  What is your WtA reference supposed to mean?

Mage the Awakening, Werewolf the Apocalypse- games set in the same world (World of Darkness or WoD) and interplayable with that edition of Vampire.

I think in those days it was Mage the Ascension.  There was also Hunter the Reckoning, and the wonderful Orpheus which only came out weeks before the end of the old WoD and its replacement with the new. (And so I ended up buying all eight Orpheus books because otherwise I'd have no way to get them as they'd no longer be marketed and they'd never become collectors editions).

GM, are you ok with us creating NPCs to flesh out story like I did with Brock?

No problem there.

Go right ahead.

Hopie, you forgot to change the dice from d20 to d10.

Also, I think when being sneaky you can use either acrobatics or crime, whichever is higher.

Don't have the rulebook handy at the moment, will have to double check.

Oops sorry 😬. If I'm using acrobatics instead of crime though I guess it's d10+9.  I'm on my tablet so could you roll for me please?

I just rerolled for you and edited your message to reflect the corrected roll.

And I've verified in the core rulebook that acrobatics can be used instead of crime when being sneaky or stealthy.

Awesome thank you.

I'm confused by the IC on the girls' side:

-Brittany leaves locker room ostensibly for library
-Hopie finishes changing
-Hopie leaves locker room to sneak to the library
-Hopie arrives at library sneakily
-Brittany follows Hopie's example at the library - having arrived after her or first but spotted her?

This is how I interpreted it:

*Brittany leaves locker room to go to library.

*Hopie leaves locker room and follows Brittany to the library.

*Hopie runs ahead of Brittany and goes through library entrance first.

*Brittany then follows Hopie  into the library.


I just edited Brittany's post to reflect that.
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:39, Wed 01 June 2022.

Blargh.  Twice I came back to my computer and saw that I had walked away without hitting send.  Need to stop doing that.

Happens to me to sometimes.

Liam:

"Is the note hand written or a print out?"


The note is handwritten.

Rules on crosses:

If you read the section in the core rule book about crosses in holy water, it describes using a physical cross to repel a vampire.  And the vamp can defend from that by knocking the cross from your hand.  Touching a vampire with a cross causes two points of damage.

No mention of wearing pictures of crosses repelling vamps or holding up two sticks in cross shape, etc.

That's consistent with the show as I recall.

So that's the rule in effect here.  You can only repel a vamp with a Christian cross you can hold in your hand or wear around your neck that you obtain in a church, religious store, etc.  Pictures of crosses on clothes or holding two stick in cross shape won't work.  If it did, vamps would be way to easy to repel.

On lighting on the cemetery:

Between moonlight, residual light from nearby buildings, and a few exterior lights in the cemeteries, there will always be enough light to move around and fight without penalty.  Buffy and the characters never seemed to have a problem with enough light in the cemetery and neither will we.

Thanks!  That will make things easier.

Is the effect of injecting Holy Water the same as ingesting holy water?

Say for example, you had a syringe filled with holy water.  You stabbed a vamp with it, then injected it, that would count as internal ingestion of holy water.

Of course, keep in mind a minor can't just buy a syringe on demand, so this option would be very limited.

If you're thinking of dipping crossbow arrows in holy water, and then shooting a vamp, that wouldn't do it.  Not enough holy water.  A splash of holy water does two points of damage.  The amount of holy water on the tip of an arrow would be negligible.
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:43, Wed 08 June 2022.

I was thinking tranquiliser darts.

A tranquilizer dart filled with holy water would count as internal ingestion.

Except tranquilizer darts with holy water don't exist.

Somebody with Billy's scientific genius would have to custom make them one at a time.

*grins* And there we have it Billy.

Fixed it for you :)

Thanks!

Anyone have anything else to add to this discussion?

Sounds like the characters have a plan.  Brittany, Billy, and Hopie show up early and hide.

Liam and Tori show up with Tori disguised so the vampires think she's the slayer.

Good guys attack.  Epic battle ensues.

If you're done planning, we will move ahead to later tonight.

I’ve heard nothing from Billy.  I assumed he would be up close as well.  If he has a flash, that is probably best used in close.  Plus, only two people showing up for a group event seems like a poor showing.

Is Tori comfortable with them thinking she might be the Slayer?

Game will be on hiatus for a couple of weeks.

I'm really busy at work.

I'm sorry to say this game is dead.

I've found out I've got new responsibilities at work and won't be able to keep it going.

Thanks for playing.

It was fun while it lasted.

Thanks!  I now have another concept for the next Buffy game.  Take care!

Cool, what do you have?  I have an existing one but I think it's winding down.  My next plan is to convert Esoteric Enterprises to be Powered by the Apocalypse and allow a group to explore the horrors that are under London.

Merry Christmas shopping season.

I might be able to get this game going again.

Who wants to slay some vampires?

Anybody?

This is the part where you guys jump in and post "I want to slay some vampires!" or something like that.

Who wants to slap some vampires? I do!

Liam will compliment them on how authentic their cosplay looks, but prefers the medieval period over the goth look.

How about *program* some vampires?  I'm sure I could eventually do a better job with those chips...

I guess you can consider this an official announcement:

I'm going to proceed with getting the game rolling again.  Stay tuned for some announcements in the next couple of days regarding the re-start.

Brittany Foster and Edward Hudson will be here since they are NPCs controlled by me.

Hey Brittany, ready to slay some vamps?

"Yeah, lets kick some vamp butts.  They won't stand a chance against us.  Billy's got a new gadget to use on them.  It's gonna be cool."

"Hey Billy, next can you build me a toe treatment gadget so I don't have to go to the mall to get a pedicure?"

"The vamp-weapon is just a proof-of-theory.  If the theory's right, it might do something to them... if not..." He grimaced.

Billy sputtered in geek for a moment before finding some actual words.  "To even start to do that, I'd need to know more about pedicures than I ever intend to."

Esperanza won't be rejoining us. That leaves us without a Slayer.

And that's absolutely no problem and won't keep us from restarting.

I've decided to change the cast structure of the game.  This will now be an all White Hat game.  Billy, Tori, and Liam are all White Hats.  As are Brittany and Edward.  No impact on any of you.  Any future players recruited will be White Hats as well.

I was inspired by watching some Buffy reruns. Remember at the end of Season 2, Buffy left Sunnydale.  At the start of Season 3 we learn she's working as a waitress in Los Angeles.  So who was taking care of the vampire problem in Sunnydale?  We learned that Cordelia, Willow, Xander, and Oz were fighting the vamps in Buffy's absence.  Just normal teenagers fighting vamps with no Slayer in town.

The first BTVS game I ever played on RPOL was an all White Hat game.  We had a lot of fun.  I think we can do it here too.

My plan is to pick up where we left off at the end of Episode 2.

You may want to read the last four pages of Episode 2 to refresh your memory on where we left off.

Here's the quick version:

*Edward was kidnapped by vampires.
*They left a note for the teens saying meet them at midnight at the Robinson Family Mausoleum or Edward dies.  The note was signed The Order of Raven.
*The teens made plans.  Brittany and Esperanza would show up early and get into ambush position. Billy, Liam, and Tori would show up at midnight to meet with the vampires in cosplay costumes Liam would provide.

That's about where we left things.  The difference now is Esperanza will never show up.  The White Hats will have to defeat the vampires with no Slayer.  Don't worry, it will be a winnable fight.

Now for the really good news!

Originally I said I wouldn't award Experience points until after Episode 5 where I would give you a lump sum for Eps 1 to 5. Changed my mind.  After we finish Ep 2 I will give you Ex points for Eps 1 and 2, then award Ex points at the end of each Episode onward.

Sounds good!

Reminder to everybody who's carrying swords to use against the vampires:

House rule from the Game rules thread-

*Slash/stab attacks against vampires will be divided by five, just like with bullets, unless the slash/stab attack is a wooden weapon to the heart or decapitation attack which will work normally as explained in the rules.

This rule has been there since the start of the game, nobody noticed in the first fight since no one had a sword.

The point of this rule is to more in line with the show.  I can't think of an episode where Buffy used a sword to slice and dice a vamp before finishing them off, but yet she pounded a vamp with punches and kicks before staking them nearly every episode.

Unless you're going for a decapitation move, swords won't damage vamps much.

Example 1- Billy with his strength of 3 slashes a vamp with a sword to the midsection and gets three success levels.  That's 3 points of damage.

Example 2-Billy with his strength of 3 punches a vamp with his bare fist and gets three success levels.  That's 9 points of damage.

Decapitation is a tough move to hit.  Dex plus Get Med -5.  Liam with a his Getting Medieval skill of 5 will likely hit a Decapitation move if he spends a DP.  But everyone else could fail a Decapitation attack even when they spend a DP.
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:39, Wed 14 Dec 2022.

If nobody has any other questions, you can all start posting in character in the episode thread.


Billy has gotten the ball rolling by showing up at Liam's house.

Rough week so far.  Kid in the hospital.  I am slowly refreshing on where we left off.

Take your time.

Sorry to hear that.  Hope the youngster is now out of the hospital or will be soon.

Here's a fun Brittany fact that will be relevant when the fighting starts.

Brittany's Getting Medieval skill is zero.

She has Archery as a Wildcard skill at level 3.

What does that mean?

If you read the rules for the Bow Shot maneuver in the Core book, it's Dex + Get Medieval - 2.
The Through the heart maneuver is a -3 penalty, meaning a Bow Shot Through the Heart has a total of -5.

Archery is a specialty skill that applies to the Bow Shot only, but since it's a specific skill the -2 penalty doesn't apply.  I didn't invent it, one of the Archtypes in the Corebook has it.

Brittany is good with the bow, not so good with other weapons.

If you want to borrow her bow in the fight, you'll have the -2 penalty on top of everything else.

Any plans to post looking for new members?

Once we wrap up Episode 2 here, I'm going to see about getting some new players.

Billy and Liam are now changing into their costumes at the main cemetery entrance.

Hopefully Tori will join you soon and change into her costume as well.



You have two options on how to proceed after that.

*Head straight for the Mausoleum and wait for the vamps to arrive.

*Hide behind some trees and let the vamps arrive first at the Mausoleum before you show yourselves.

You can discuss it among yourselves on how to proceed.

Fight scene about to happen.

Don't post any combat moves yet.  I'm going to go over some combat reminders since we haven't done a fight scene in a while.

Happy New Year everyone!

Happy New Year!

This episode will be wrapping up shortly.  Once everyone's had a chance to react to the news of Esperanza's death, the group will head home and that will wrap up this episode.

Episode 3 will begin eight days after tonight to give the characters some time to deal with the grief before going up against their next supernatural enemy.

Anybody have anything to add regarding the news of Esperanza's death at this time?

If not, I'll wrap up this episode with everyone heading home while coping with the news.

I figure Liam would not know how to cope.  He'll skip school for the next week and mope around depressed trying to process that it happened.

And that's a wrap for episode 2.

Will pass out drama and experience points later.

Award time:

*Everybody gets 3 drama points.  2 for the heroic battle, 1 in The Agony That is Life category for the death of Esperanza.

When you update your Drama Point total, don't forget to deduct the Drama points you spent during the battle.


*Experience points- Everybody gets 10 points.  5 for episode 1 and 5 for episode 2. I didn't award any at the end of Ep 1.  So here's a lump sum for Eps 1 and 2.

I will allow Exp point spending for attribute or skill improvement at this time.

So if you want to spend some Exp point and improve an attribute or skill, let me know.

If you don't have the Corebook handy, here's a quick summary of Attribute and Skill improvement cost through Experience points.

Raising an Attribute costs two times XPs of the new level.  So for example, raising an attribute from 2 to 3 would cost 6 experience points.  (3 X 2 = 6)

Raising a skill is the same two times XPs of the new level.

Buying a skill you don't have (going from zero to 1) cost a flat five points.

*You CAN'T buy a new language skill unless you spend a month learning the new language before you spend the points.

New house rule - effective immediately.

*Normal human characters (which is the whole cast) healing rate will be constitution level per day.

Corebook says humans heal 1 point per day, constitution level per day if under medical care. Under this rule, you'll get back constitution level per day whether under medical care or not.

Since 8 days will pass between episode 2 and 3, everyone will be back to full life points when episode 3 begins.

Good news.  Liam is ready to go!

Vampire minions... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sWfE_0WLOg

You just can't get good minions these days.

I may get a chance to post tomorrow, but otherwise I'm out 'til Sunday 'camping' with a bunch of teens (and other adult youth leaders) from area churches.

I call it 'camping' because this group does it in cabins, at a conference center, with staff-cooked meals.  Still, it gets them to separate from their electronics and do some real thinking for 48 hours, so I call it a win.

Have a good time.

Yeah, if you can get a kid separated from their devices for a while, it's a good thing.

I'm about to transition us to 6th period gym class.

Hey all - family is within 30 miles of East Palestine and we're working on a big, fast move away.  Posting will be sporadic for the next little bit.

Thanks for letting us know.

Best of luck with the move.

Hey all, sorry about the low involvement of late.  Thank you all for keeping the game going!

I've had super limited time with working on the move after switching jobs fairly recently.  So I'm putting in my 40 hours around 500 mile drives to our new state and rebuilding our homestead from nothing but a few of the animals and open space.  Hopefully by April 1 (no joke) I should be back to steady, regular posting.

Wow!  Good luck!  We’ll be here.

Thanks for the update.

We'll keep things rolling here.

First we lose our Slayer, then our Watcher?  Did we move into another TV show about teens?

Guess I can share some behind the scenes trivia now.

Edward was never here for the long haul.  I originally planned for him to die in Episode 2.

He has a life point score of 30 and no levels of Hard to Kill.  He was designed for a quick and easy death.

I changed my mind about his death and will let him exit quietly.

The kids will be getting a new adult mentor.  Someone well aware of what's going on in Sunnydale.

Happy St. Patrick's day everyone.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  I forgot and didn’t wear green.

Good for Mr. Hudson.  Got to have someone survive!

(Failed to hit send on this yesterday - so tired.)

Happy St. Patrick's!

I'm Irish enough that one half of my mom's family picked on the other half for not being Irish enough.  Wore orange and green today.

For anyone Irish, Christian or who ever studied early church history:

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

Thanks Billy.  I took a look at the video.


I wore my green socks yesterday.  And got a Shamrock Shake from McDonald's.

Yikes!  I’m glad I’m not on the cheerleading team!

I'm sure it's just a coincidence!

Welcome back Billy!

At the end of this episode, I'll be giving each of you 100 drama points and 100 experience points.

Not really.


Ha Ha!

April Fool!

Hi guys.

Bad news I'm afraid.

Things have gotten too busy at work and I'm going to have to shut the game down.

Game is on indefinite hiatus.

Don't know when or if it'll come back.  We've come back before.

Thanks to you all for sticking with the game for so long.

Game still dead.

It bugged me we never finished episode 3, but I was in no position to get the game going again.  Over the course of several months I slowly finished episode 3 from Brittany's point of view.

Here's the finished episode 3 now declassified for anybody who's interested in reading it.

We made it to page 9 before the game closed down last April.  The second half of page 9 beginning in May is where I picked up.