Yes, I did let folks know that they can remain in the Court thread if they wish, or make an exit if they would prefer for their character to be done with that scene. Folks are welcome to ask for new scenes and the like, they will just take place AFTER court in terms of our IC timeline.

I've got a thread for Carthians and one for the members of Clan Nosferatu, because those players asked for those. It's looking like the Acolytes will likely end up with a thread of their own as well.

@Ricka -- I see you asked about a feeding scene, and happy to run that. Not sure whether Nefertiti and VV will join though, since they do seem preoccupied with other matters and will likely end up doing the scene I just mentioned above. But not to fear, if Ricka ends up with no feeding partners for the evening, she can always go hunting solo and that's okay!

Anyone else interested in pursuing some other type of Clan or Covenant meeting of sorts, or any other type of thread that might be of interest to you at the moment, give me a shout here or in your respective Clan/Covenant OOC planning thread :)

Angel's player summed it up.

Aside from people being Awe'd by the Harpy and the Prince's announcement about Balitmore, the characters are reacting and then either leaving/organizing into Covenant investigations/or taking care of stuff they need to get done at court.

The conversations are personal fluff.

A few of us respond to one another using the "quote" function to track our own conversation bubbles. I'd recommend RPing that your PC hones in on a group he finds interesting and hands out his card as an IC excuse to open  up smaller personalized scenes in the "future"!

Nathan spoke to you and gave you his starter recruitment pitch to the Ordo.

I'm totally interested in a feeding scene in general, and all the more so with Ricka ;)  I think a general feeding thread for the game would be a good idea, maybe more than one if it gets busy.

Alternatively though, how about Ricka just comes along to the Crone meeting and we feed along the way?  Are you open to being recruited, Ricka? :)  You'll totally love the Crone for the hedonistic, blood-wild bacchanalias, if nothing else!  I was planning to offer an invite IC, but figured I'd propose it OOC first.

Yeah, no. I'm not planning on having an ongoing feeding thread. I've got a house-rule in place to basically expedite feeding so folks don't need to spend so much time on feeding scenes!

I'm happy to run feeding scenes on occasion for those interested of course, because feeding is a HUGE part of a vampire's nightly routine and it can lead to interesting RP and repercussions, but given that the PCs were created with 120xp and are expected to already have been released from their Sire's care and all, I expect that most are at least competent feeders so we don't always have to be running these scenes.

Thank you for listening to my PSA about responsible feeding ;-)

Darlin', I would follow you anywhere.

As to a Hunter's thread -- this is more what I had in mind:

http://neonink.com/publications/vampire_weather.cfm

And when it becomes irresponsible don't forget to contact your local authorized dealer in Forgetful Minds to flip the frown upside down for a negotiable but fair price when put into context with the Masquerade and penalties the Prince or their duly appointed ministers may impose.

Back to your regularly scheduled PSA of the night...

So, any actual hunting/feeding scenes that take place that aren't happening "off-screen" via the feeding roll listed in the house rules, have a potential for repercussions for a PC as they interact with the setting and random NPCs and the like.

I am totally happy to run those from time to time, as I said, feeding is a very important part of a Kindred's routine and shouldn't be overlooked! What I don't want is to have a single feeding thread for the whole game and for feeding to become such a big focus of scenes that other aspects of the Kindred condition and story arcs are lost in the mix.

Does that make sense? And I do plan to run that feeding scene for Ricka (and possibly Vika?) once you guys decide that's what you'd like to do and leave the Court scene to go have some fun hunting :)

In reply to Nathan Tyler (msg # 386):

Did I not reply to that?  I swear I wrote up a post about saying that was interesting and asking if the Ordo were looking for a cure..... Must not have posted it.... Damn.

Welp got some time so better to go write a post

I don't remember it, not to say you didn't post it. I lost track - my wife had a cardioversion and a very big storm hit that knocked out power for alot of people so have been distracted myself for the last couple of days.

Already sent the player a pm to make sure he knows this is simply color, and not going to result in any grudges. Too much going on to notice and respond to everything that happens.

As an aside to the deadly drama, anyone up for a Gangrel Yeeting thread, taking place at some indeterminate time?

That scene is already happening. A couple of Gangrel and Gabriel are doing it.

In reply to Storyteller (msg # 396):

Gasp!

I think they wanted to keep it a smaller affair so the scene is easier to manage for them.

Totally understandable!

I, for one, would be down for a bar thread with characters who would be into that sort of scene.

If Felix, Angel or others wanted to have a social scene at Borderlands, happy to set that up for anyone interested :)

Im going to have to assume they were frightened of competition.

If people are still interested in this, I can just do reverse Gangrel yeeting? And have Carpentier and the Hound taking turns tossing other Kindred? xD

A BBQ you say?

To be fair, Angel wasn't in the in-character discussion about the fastball special idea so I don't think anybody was aware she might be interested!  Felix was, but I got the sense he didn't take it very seriously, haha.  If y'all got wind of the time and place via the rumor mill would you try to crash the party in Savage territory, though?  Hmmmmm, that might be interesting ;P

Anyway, Gabriel got dibs on first yeeting, but once we prove out the concept it'll surely become a phenomenon that sweeps the whole domain :D

Totally! >.>

In reply to Vika Voracious (msg # 404):

Valkyrja really.  Don't have me put an ankle locator on you.

I guess it's a semi-win he masks well enough in court to not reveal that he is a complete trashfire stuffed into an expensive suit. Somewhere in South Africa a Spina is patting themselves on the back for a job well done in dog training :,)

I just want to add that I did not want to leave anyone out of the yeeting thread. We did describe it so that there was too little waiting, sorry for that. For me it is the lingering effect of the overwhelming Elysium thread, I was not aware of all who were interested.