With this game being solo-ish, there is less need for an OOC thread.  However, I'd still like people to be able to chat here, if you like, and I very much want you to post here if you plan to be away for more than a couple of days.  Anyway, anything goes here, so have at it.

Well hello, my glorious colleagues / rivals / victims / whatever!  :D

Oh, a commoner? How charming :)

There's two of us commoners running around.

I suppose that's statistics for you. :)

Mama! They are letting all the commoners in! Mamaaa!

If your prologue does not feature a musical chase scene Ricka, I am going to be very disappointed.

I suppose you could do one as well Scarlet, although I imagine wanting "more than this provincial life" would be more appropriate.

Gotta keep one jump ahead of the lawmen.  That's all, and that's no joke.

Bonjour, how are your families?

*Hums*

Be prepared for the coup of the century...

Be prepared for the murkiest scam...

La, la, la

Noooooooo...

Ooooonnnneeee....

... shoots like Barton, makes those beauts like Barton

no one's bastard's as haughty and cute as Barton's

Heeeeeee's especially good at pro, creating....

xDDDDDDDDDDD

Oh my gosh, how didn't I think of that???? That's genius, Ricka! :D

Just a little math for you all.

Barton is 25 years old, and Scarlet is 10, as we start.  Her mum is now 29.

He was 15, she was 19,
Can I make it any more oooobvious...

That's their ages when you were born.  Conception was 9 months sooner, which seems all the worse, to my humble sensibilities.

The worst. And on that note: Maybe I could humbly suggest we, let's say, start at age 12 instead of 10 and jump 2 years per level instead of 1, so at least by level 4 we're not minors? That would make things considerably less awkward, I think.

Umm, yes.  Good point.  Certainly you should start at 12, and I'll bump Barton's age by a couple of years.

... where do I find Flaws?

Sorry, that was a copy/paste error from a different game I used to run.

@Urvon:  I am planning to wait to respond to your awesome post until the others have had a chance to respond to theirs.  I'm hoping to develop a similar rhythm in the stories, which will be important when you interact with each other, or with common NPCs.  I could have completely unrelated timelines for you each, since it will only matter when there is interaction, but I don't want to track world events separately.

I'm hoping you didn't intimidate the others with your post.  You did go straight through two different obstacles I had planned for you (below).  To the others: don't feel you're expected to write a similar tome.  Feel free to do so, but smaller posts with less activity is fine, too.

1. Dealing with the lack of light.  I knew your eyes would adjust, and there were candles, unused torches, a pitch pot, and a flint and steel available, or you could go on completely by touch as you did.

2. Finding the secret door.  I had a plan of making you roll for this, but then the whole story is in a quandary if you roll poorly.  I did have some contingencies such as saying that the door is actually easier to find by touch than by sight, allowing for another roll when forced to put your lights out.  Anyway, it's fine that you moved straight past this for this pre-story, but in general you should pause your narrative when something happens that you know will require a roll.  If you roll really well, you can go ahead an assume success and continue.  In the real game, I might have backed you up to that point, or possibly rolled for you and let that determine if I accept your continuation or roll it back.

This brings up a good point.  Which would people prefer in such a case?  Do you want to make your own rolls always?
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I truly don't care which of us makes my rolls, random = random.  :)

Also I'm finishing up my sheet right now, I'll have it to you shortly and get an IC post up right after!

You are very kind.

I'll admit I had taken incorrect assumptions that this prelude was more of an exploratory narrative, an assumption that was perhaps later reinforced by the disclaimer in Scarlet's opening thread.

I'll make a point to avoid that in the future. Now that I know that the prelude is more of a living thing and less of a forgone conclusion, it does change things a bit. It will likely result in smaller more segmented sections as well when we bring in the dice.