But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new

The game purposefully didn't give too much detail on the world, so it's up to us.

I'm aiming for 3-4 players, maybe more depending on if someone wants to co-dm. But I like the idea of it being somewhat PVP. Not that you're killing each other (maybe) but your goals might be directly contradicting and only one player can win.

Also there are a dozen one shots, I'm setting up the world for the first one called ALT.

For now please ask all questions you have, you can go ahead and start making your character, you have $0 right now so no bonus mods. That will come once we start the game.

We’ve got a second player!!! YAY!

And now the plot thickens! I want you all to promise you won’t metagame, because I want to keep everything in one thread, and that means secrets will be exposed, but I expect characters to only act on what info they know. Sound good?

Welcome, Sammik!

Just my two cents: sooner or later, PvP always, and I mean always, devolves into bickering, metagaming, rules-lawyering and bad blood. I'd rather we kept it to slightly differing agendas at most, instead of opposed interests.

In reply to Nova (msg # 4):

Thanks for the welcome :)

I'm happier with more co-operative play but am good with some tension where agendas clash. Having an open door policy for chatting about stuff, I find, is the best way to reduce agro.

Still figuring out my guy, hopefully can jump in soon.

Yeah i dont want pvp to turn into ooc disputes. Think of this more as a collab story??? Besides, you get a new body when you die! Besides these are all one shots, you make a new character when we move on to the next chapter.

Hmmm. Its not too late to start over so we don't have conflict.

Could I please keep Nova, pretty please? I'm loving her thus far. And at least the few I checked are also a similar flavor of SF anyway, right?

Ok, there will be conflict but definitely not pushing PVP, more just the choice is there if working together doesn't work. You might have conflicting goals, and that is all we will worry about for now.

I haven't thought too much about carrying over characters from one story to the next, as the modules are all one shots, right now it's all about having ALT skins. Next one you might not have a body at all. But we can worry about that later, and if we can figure out a way to keep your characters we will.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:38, Fri 06 May 2022.

I am typically not around on weekends.

Then how come you are? xD

So!

Sammik, you ready to join?
Wise GM, are we going forward?
I wanna get started! :D

Not sure what's up with Tinten, I wanted him to join the scene but i am ready with the next

They're Tinten now? Let's go!

Hello hello, let's roll, no? :)

Bringing a second player in might have caused a stall. :(

I have updated the rules that a weekly post is mandatory.

I'm not poking fun at any religion, I am a Christian and hope Jesus comes back before 2400. :)

I haven't set any rules about not being able to post religious stuff bc I hope we are all adults and can have our characters explore faith without the players having to argue about it.

Still, I didn't say Glo is talking about Jesus, he just said God, which could be anything.

Poke fun to your heart's content ;P  I'm an atheist and FWIW I do hope by 2400 we'll know better (which also tells you I'm terribly naïve, and/or I have an inordinate faith in the wisdom of humanity; or both, because the latter is proof for the former).

Shall I wait for Tinten to post before I post again? What's our etiquette code regarding that?

I am fine with continuing.
I will be out of town until thursday but can probably still get a post in every day or two.

By the way, you mentioned something about co-gming. Would you like me to run a game, if you fancy playing too?

guys.

So sorry. RL got real bad. I'm going to have to bail.

Sorry to hear that, but real life always has to go first. Hope things get better soon, take care!

I've been out of town, will update tomorrow. Sorry Tinten, thanks for letting us know.

In reply to Nova (msg # 19):

Thank you, right now I'm too busy to play too, was more looking for another dm to help me run this if we got more players, but I can handle it being just us.

By "three clicks away", do you mean like 3 kms away inside the same planet, or in an actual satellite (do I need to find a space shuttle to get me there)?

I was considering how much effort we want to put into mapping the solar system. I don't want to do a lot, but if you like it I'll leave it to you.

It's like $10 a "click" for a space taxi ride. Once you get rich enough to buy your personal ship it is $5 a click for fuel.

It's not exactly a light year. Most of the spaceports are closer than light years
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:39, Thu 26 May 2022.

That's probably enough detail for now. How much money do I have? I take it these $ are not the ¢ in the rules, right?

It is the same, Idk how to make the coin symbol. lol.

Using the hard drive reader was expensive. Be sure to keep your receipt for reimbursement
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:25, Thu 26 May 2022.

I'm in the red then, I had 0 credits.

Add on your character sheet Credit Card -$1, payments are due at the end of the month, or you accrue 20% interest.

Damn, I'm hurtling towards bankruptly at the speed of light xD Do I have something like a phone? Or do I have to steal one?
This message was last edited by the player at 16:25, Fri 27 May 2022.

Haha. Phones aren't like iphones, they are more like walkie talkies. Yes you have one.

Also bank accounts and credit cards work like they do now, where you can pay and the money leaves your account immediately, but when you get paid it takes a whole friggin day.

Ah, I only realized now, rules day the cortical stack provides HUD and smartphone functions. So no need for a handheld terminal then.

Ok ok. Sounds good.

You still there?

Yeah.

Sorry for the wait! I think I overcomplicate my posts in my head and it keeps me from posting, but then I realize I just gotta start writing and the ideas will come.

From experience, it's much better to just wing it and see what happens than overthink. Even more so in a game like this one, with the rules being so lite, the setting made on the fly and only one player. It's not like we had a load of stuff to take into account :)

"CTRL guards" or "CMD guards"? They aren't Clay's men, are they?

I screwed up. CTRL = Us, CMD = them

I don't know if it's just me, but I have the feeling the transport prices are super inflated compared to the rest of equipment. Just sayin'

I suppose there are other ways I can force you to stay in one place.  :)

OH NO! TRAVEL EMBARGO! NO ONE CAN LEAVE.

Hah! Fair enough :P

As long as I can fleece this guy and go splash out on clothes...

I was joking about making you stay put. If you want to go to the Holy Church Place let's do it!

And I kind of wasn't when I said fleece him - the plan was to charge him for the trip and then find a way to get rid of Glo without leaving Alpha Centauri ;)
This message was last edited by the player at 18:15, Fri 03 June 2022.

Ahhh yeah that actually makes more sense. HAHAH.

Overthinking again? ;)

Uh huh

Well, don't :P

Hello hello, you there?

yes sorry.
will post tonight.

I lied. :(
Ok, hopefully I am doing better. June is a bad month for me, I wont make excuses tho. Im sorry. Im back.

Yay, you're back! Well, July is just around the corner, so that's a good thing...

I put our chapter in group 1, lemme know if you don't see it.

I would appreciate help in fleshing out the wife's friends list. :)

I'm having tons of fun, but to create several npcs that probably won't even show up is a touch of work. I was looking over the guidebook again for inspiration, and noticed this: After an operation, each
character gains d4 credits (₡) and increases 1
skill (none➡d8➡d10➡d12).

So one of your skills should be a d8 now. Even though I have yet to find a reason to make you roll. :)

Oops, somehow I missed this post, sorry about that. Sure, I can come up with a handful of high-society/Mafia freindos.

All my skills are already at d8 (because I spent a point on each of them at character creation, to have a nice spread of average-ish skills instead of just one very strong and narrow speciality). I'll see which one I want to push to d6.

In other news I already gave Roger my "I do", so let's move on to whatever is next. Nova will be looking for a way to get the wife out of the equation without killing her: she's a swindler and a hustler and would have little compunction about offing mercenaries, thugs or other armed opposition, but killing a woman who's done her no harm in cold blood just to replace her, that's a step too far for our (anti-)heroine.

Whatever happened to the astronomic amounts Roger was offering earlier on? Have they been discarded when the marriage thing came into scene?

You did get the $60: which is $20 now, 40 in 24 hours
And the rest remains to be seen
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:30, Wed 06 July 2022.

Woohoo! For a current total of 25 credits.

Am I right to assume you can't add upgrades to an already existing skin, you have to buy a brand new one with the extra enhancements?

yeah and I was thinking about how we actually role play that. I suppose there is a store you can just walk into>? lol.

I've got a few ideas for where the story proceeds, looking over your last post.

A store you can walk into was my idea, pretty much! With off the shelf models to choose from, I'd assume, the most basic ones, and then you can get custom stuff made if you have the cash. If it's the mechanical ones I guess they can get the mods and install them, if it's biological ones, they tell you come back next week while they grow them in vats.

I was thinking something like, "hey, here's a sample of my current skin's DNA, I'd like a spare in case a certain wife shoots this one, with some upgrades thrown in while we're at it". And probably get a tougher and less pretty one for the heavy duty stuff. And the way things might go, I'd probably should worry about using a "skin shop" without ties to CMD, eh?

Glad you liked the post, and apologies again for missing yours here on OCC for so long. Pick one of those ideas and let's see where it leads us (to mayhem, I anticipate...).

Just checking if you need any more inputs from me?

all good. sorry, usual weekend busyness. if you don't hear back from me by tomorrow you can flog me.

*flogs you*

ahhhhhh
that really hurts!

I'll be back thurs

Should have been harder and earlier, actually. You keep forgetting.

Preemptive advance flogging

So what's the plan for this game? Your rules say "at least every 3 days" but your own pace is actually once a week. So far it's fun but if we go this slow I keep losing the plot and have to read back. Is there anything I can help with?

Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down.

Probably running around and hurting you.

I'm not sure how you can help me help you, if I don't post its because I don't know what to do yet. LOL.

I'm sorry it's too slow. I do have continuing plot ideas, so it's not that we wrote ourselves into a hole.

I do have an idea, do you use discord? I use it way more, and we could either migrate everything there, or have ooc chats that are quicker, and then we post here.

Yout think you can't get rickrolled with text-only? Think again!

Yeah, no, that's the thing, it's not like the story is in some saggy middle point where it's not obvious where to go or what to do next, that's why I wonder what's not working. Are you too busy, are you waiting on some additional inputs from me, like should I for instance make up more NPCs or go on quest of my own, do you need co-GMs or other players to riff ideas on, etc.

I use Discord for work only, and I'd rather keep it that way. Lack of instant messaging is not the problem here anyway, it's not like one of us can't reply to the other's post for lack of access or whatever.

And I hate to sound like I'm pushing you, but in my experience a game either gains some momentum or it eventually dies, killed by its own inertia, by how cumbersome it is to get that ball rolling again once it's stopped. We need to achieve a certain rhythm here, I can't feel like every time I post I'm like "right, where was I, what was I doing, have I already asked this to this guy? Oh, yes, I have. OK, how did she speak, ah, yes, right," etc.

OKAY! School has started, I think my life will now have a routine. Let's get back into this! I am so sorry. I also realize I make things to complicated, trying to create all the details when what matters is what matters to you, not what there is available.

I ASSUME You want to know everything about the mansion? Well crap, I'll spend an entire month brainstorming what's in that house.

So I will stop assuming and just wait for you to ask me what is important to you. :)

When was this good news??? Lol, good for you.

As for the rest: yes, perfectionism is a flaw of character. I have it too, it sucks. Always remember:


Good Enough > Perfect

Decent and done is better than perfect and never happened.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:58, Wed 03 Aug 2022.

How are you doing?

For every HOW question you will henceforth wait 10x as long.

So I've got about 2 weeks left until I figure out the answer to your IC question.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:57, Mon 15 Aug 2022.

How how how how how

Generating cool hotel...

Don't overthink it, it's just a waiting place. Could be one of those Japanese capsule hotels or whatever.

OK real talk now: this is not the first time a simple post takes ages. You are not respecting your own rules re:posting rate and almost every single time I post I have to nag you a week later to get a reply. I'm enjoying this game but it's high time you decide whether you actually want to commit to GM here or not.
This message was last edited by the player at 08:40, Sat 27 Aug 2022.

Rude.

I will shut it down.

Not "rude", I've been very patient with you but you have squandered all that goodwill.

Thank you for the game, it has been fun at times. Goodbye and best of luck.