Sorry for your loss. Happy to distract you.

Thanks.

I know this part of rolling for each NPC here is kind of tedious, but it needs to be done.

(in principle, I could roll for it myself)

In reply to Chris Yog-Dossoth (msg # 20):

Have you messed around with "secret to" at all? Seeing how you're handing out information, it's a really great feature. One game I GM'd a while ago I used it when I would describe scenes. I could feed different information to different people based on their observation, and they wouldn't know what others might have missed that they saw or what others saw and they didn't. There is a way to see that you're getting "secret to" information, but it's easy to avoid doing that.

I do that all the time, but I find that it's cumbersome when using paragraph-sized chunks of text such as are involved here.

In reply to Chris Yog-Dossoth (msg # 22):

Yes, definitely not what you want here. Really fun and useful in some cases, though.

OK, Edward's player hasn't logged in for a couple of days, so if he doesn't show up shortly I will just go on and fill him in later.

In reply to Chris Yog-Dossoth (msg # 24):

Sounds good.

Yup, sounds good.

After I get up in the morning, the actual briefing -- and so your investigation -- will start.

Mentioning ahead of time in case I forget.

I having foot surgery on Tuesday and may be off for a couple of days.  I'll try to check in, but no promises.  Depends on how 'up and around' I can be.

Also responding that today and tomorrow are full… will be back on Monday!

Good luck with the surgery.

Yikes. Good luck man!

Thanks for the well wishes.  It's just a 'tarsal tunnel release' - like carpal tunnel, but in the foot.  Should only be down for a couple of days, but I hope to still be able to check in before Thanksgiving (Thursday, for you non-US folk).

I guess we'll pick up once you get back.

I'm back.  Let's go!  ;-)

I just got a COVID shot, meaning that I feel like crap. So after a night's rest.

Hope you feel better soon. One day did it for me.

How we doing, boss?

Onward!

Yay! ... or, oh no, she's remained sane so long at this pace! ;)

We have had a dropout, so Edward vanishes. He has, in fact, never been.

In reply to Chris Yog-Dossoth (msg # 40):

John Dies at the End reference!

Afraid not! I started that movie a couple of times, but never watched it all the way through.

I'm waiting on something from Pascal, and then we'll continue.