Oh sure, let's meet the secret police.

... aaaaaaand I suddenly remembered that oh yeah, CoD does have something called "Beasts" who are born with their powers. I had successfully suppressed it from my memory, on account of every time I remember that that game exists my will to live drops drastically. D<

I'm not all that familiar with that one, although I've heard of it...but at least you don't have to worry about it being that since I don't even own that book xD

Your next thread is up!

That is a genuine relief. Just hearing BtP described to me traumatised me so badly that I have since written a 150,000-word game of my own on the premise of "modern-day mythological creatures in human form being persecuted by inept, neurotic would-be monster-hunters," just to get the bad taste out of my mouth. :p

Having that said, I am starting to feel that I'm coming across as very negative in this game. I always seem to be griping about something. :/ I'm really sorry about that - I don't mean to, and I'm not really this grouchy. Or, well - I am totally this grouchy, but usually I do a much better job of not showing it. ^_^; Anyway, I'll do my best to cheer up.

No worries Acciaio!

Also, since March is now over, I'll be awarding folks another 10XP. It will be added to the XP log section of your character sheets.

If any of you want to spend some of the XP you've earned so far, feel free to PM me with what you've got in mind, but make sure you have some good IC justifications for it too! :)

There’s a new thread up for the two groups to meet back up at the Sanctum. Feel free to jump in and start roleplaying with each other, exchange any info you want, etc.

Arwen is still out on her own doing her thing, but she will join in once she’s finished with her own investigation.

Just a heads up to all of you. I'll be out of town 4/13-4/17 and unable to post during that time. Feel free to keep roleplaying amongst each other in the current scene of course, but I'll refrain from starting up some new threads for folks to chase after more plot until I return so things don't just stall while I'm away! :)

Sorry for the silence guys! I got back from my trip, but much later than expected due to some unforseen circumstances, and I've been drowning in work the last 24-48 hours. In any case, I'll get things back up and running shortly.

Looks like Acciaio is gonna go to the scene of the murder, along with Mamanu and possibly Chiron again?

Link is working on setting up the Wards? Do I have that right?

I thought this might be a good moment.

a) I can join Arwen when she comes back.
b) I have a busy 14 or so days ahead, so doing something low key may be a good idea.
c) We can time it so that a suitable amount of time has passed.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:23, Tue 19 Apr 2022.

That sounds like a sensible plan to me. I hope you'll be busy in the good sense--e.g. going on holiday or something!

In reply to Storyteller (msg # 175):


If Mamanu wants company, Chiron's happy to come along.

Yep. I'ma gonna get my forensics on, and probably fail dismally at it. 8)

I'd like to do a little research on this death cult before we go back in the field, though. Having insight into the motives of whoever we're dealing with might help us figure out when and how they'll strike next.

In reply to Mamanu (msg # 178):

For sure we need to look into the mask and knife combo - see if it's associated with anything specific.

I can help out with research as well.

The question is - is our library equipped for such research, or do we need to go somewhere else? I know one of our topics is dead languages, so we might get a translation of the cult name, but that's different from it's history and origins.

In reply to Mamanu (msg # 181):

If we don't have the resources, we could try the university?  Chiron has some contacts there.

Whatever you guys choose to do is fine with me. If the whole group is just going to be hitting the books, we might find a way to do those rolls without having to run a whole scene in which you guys spend hours reading over books!

I feel like that wouldn't be too compelling...LOL

In any case, let me know how you all would like to proceed of course. It seems I unfortunately caught something on my flight...once again...so I'm slowly recovering from that while trying to stay afloat at work >.<

STOP GETTING SICK ON PLANES!!!

I mean, I don't actively go on planes in hopes of getting sick? lol

I'm happy to just do my rolls and move onto continuing with more of the story - I don't want to spend a lot of time scenery chewing on doing research.

I'm fine with however you guys want to handle that part. It is true that we don't need an entire scene of you guys just making extended research rolls :)

Just tell me what to roll, and I'm good. :)

Depends on what you are researching. If you are looking into the beast magic thing, you would be making an Intelligence + Occult roll. You can do research rolls as extended actions, but just remember the limitations of extended actions per scene that can be found in the house rules thread :)

Beast-magic, yes. :)

06:18, Today: Acciaio rolled 1 success using 7d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 8,3,7,7,3,3,2.  Intelligence + Occult.