Okay, we have our 5th and final member (whose name will NOT actually be what it looks like it is), a human who was already an adult when the curses fell, who joined the Brotherhood of Steel early on (in the Scribe chapter of things), but who got tired of the BoS's rigid politics so he left the BoS a few years ago to "freelance."

SO my new question for you all is:

Do you wanna play starting like:

1. Your characters all know each other already,

or

2. You are all about to meet each other for the first time?

In reply to The GM (msg # 45):

My character can work both ways. He can have met any PCs out in the wilderness during his normal scavenging, and hired on as a scout. Or he could have met the PCs in the settlement selling his wares.  Or another NPC could have recommended him.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:31, Wed 17 Nov 2021.

So that's one vote for "I don't care, y'all decide..."

Other votes, please...?

(If no one cares, or if there's a tie, I'll decide... and I guess I'll lean toward "you're all about to meet for the first time." But I don't wanna railroad you all into it, so...

I want to know each other

In reply to Big Eye (msg # 43):

Welcome Big Eye and our new BoS member!

Looks up, up, up, at Big Eye.

Beep Bop Boop - "You are big !"

In reply to Xan (msg # 50):

No offense Xan, but I am gonna be hiding behind him. It's just easier.

:P

Okay, so that's one vote for starting already knowing each other... more votes, please...

Big Eye will need to be familiar with at least one other character to start, otherwise it would take far to long for him to figure out what needs to happen for the action of the story to work well.

That's 2 votes for "know each other already," and a logical reason, too...

More votes, please...

I was honestly kinda hoping for us starting with meeting each other. Mostly because Renata's still very much at the start of her quest and it not being very long since she's left her Vault.

And welcome, fellow human!

Beep Bop Boop - "That makes sense !"

Hello all! I'm looking forward to jumping on this crazy train we're about to ride on!

As far as my vote is concerned for "knowing" or "not knowing" each other, could there be a middle ground maybe? Maybe my character has run across Big Eye and/or Xan, and we all know each other,  and maybe Telric and Renata bumped into each other shortly after Renata left her vault, or something? Just an idea to help muddy the waters. But then there'd just be two groups of us that have to then get together.

Just an idea (we could work the groups out differently to, this was just one thought). If that's too weird or whatever, then let's just say we all know each other!

That middle ground idea sounds good to me!

As for the crazy train, I'm just hoping we have enough rails to keep from crashing. :)

So:
1 "whatever you guys want"
2 "let's know each other already"
1 "let's not know each other already"
1 "Let's have SOME of us know each other already"

SO... how do y'all feel about that last one? What if TWO of you know each other already and THREE of you know each other already, and now the 2 and the 3 meet for the first time to become 5?

Is that... okay? Any objections?

(If so, who knows whom?

Or do you want my suggestions?)

Beep Bop Boop - "No objections, that is fine with me."

I don't really have any particular preferences as to which people I might already know. I would like to hear your suggestions, GM! In addition to that, I don't have any objections to the group distribution as drawn up by Torbald.

I don't think having the two oddballs paired would help enough to be worth the comedy, so I should either be paired with someone other than Xan, or in the group of three.

Beep Bop Boop - "Oddball !?!"

What about, perhaps, the Ogre and the Ghoul already knowing each other...?

If that's not comfortable for some reason, then perhaps add Torbald ("Tor" to his friends) to those two, making them the trio...?

I think you want the humans in separate groups.  Then put the most vault styled 'others' with the vault human and the more wilderness styled 'others' with that human.  Some of that will depend on what kind of vault it is, and what each character is like, but I doubt Big Eye is from anywhere near an open vault.

In reply to The GM (msg # 64):

I am assuming even Ogres have problems with the curse, correct? So even beings as physically powerful as they are still 'living things' when it comes to negative energy zones?

As opposed to me, who risks going feral if I spend too long in such places. However, I have the advantage of being able to sense things and areas high in negative energy.

In that case, I could insure Big Eye gets access to quality food and not stumble into high curse areas. At the same time, he could make sure intelligent beings don't decide to kill me out of hand just because I am ghoulish. Animals tend to avoid me because I am not good eating.

Plus, he can carry a lot of goodies! Making when we load up and head back to the settlement for trading we can make a serious profit.

70-30 even spilt, Big Eye. Did I say 70-30? I meant 60-40! Yes, that's what I meant...

:P

hehehe

I am fine with whoever.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:41, Wed 17 Nov 2021.

Probably best to just tell him it is a 50/50 split and play games with the math, it isn't as if he can count high enough to tell the difference anyways.

Actually, they're okay with it except in certain extra-extreme circumstances. They probably shouldn't just stand around in a ground zero spot where a curse-cask broke open, but there are all KINDS of OTHER reasons that THAT's true...


Okay so what are we doing?

Big Eye and Telric and Tor

and then

Renata Medb and Xan ?

Or something else?

I am ok with that or even being found in the ruins somewhere.

That pairing though is fine by me and makes sense.