This thread is for welcoming new players, OOC questions, and the like.

First and foremost, thank you so much for co-creating with me! I am excited to get to know each and every one of you and hope you all thoroughly enjoy your stay!

First cup of tea/coffee is on the house, folks! ;p
This message was last updated by the GM at 16:57, Mon 09 May 2022.

Welcome to New York, Cassandra "Cassie" Webb! Pull up a chair, your first drink is free! ;p

Welcome, Malcolm Unsworth! Cup of tea or mug of coffee? :)

Welcome Hans Becker! Would you like to see our specials?

Welcome Juste l'Requête! Sorry the site won't let me use French letters. Welcome to the cafe. Menu?

Attention all players!: Please post here when your character sheets are ready for inspection!

It's pretty hectic today but I will get to checking them as early as tomorrow! :)

I've got a quick question!

Do we anticipate that all of our characters will begin play as members of the same Krewe? I'm still figuring out how to spend my Merit dots, and I know there's some shared merits like Haunt, so I was trying to get a sense of that before making final decisions on that.

In reply to Cassandra Webb (msg # 7):

Nope! I was gonna pair you off based on backgrounds in game. You will all be meeting in game unless you and another player decide you want to know each other previously.

There will also be an in-game social event once there are enough players ready.

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I reserve the right to change my mind on this if needed due to lack of players lmao

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If you take Haunt or any shared merit and no one else wants to pair up with points, I will compensate you in some way for it in-game. :) just don't forget to remind me. :)
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:44, Tue 10 May 2022.

Got it, thanks for the quick response! :)

In reply to Cassandra Webb (msg # 9):

You are welcome! Thank you for the question! :)

I'm about to sign off for the night but will be reviewing sheets tomorrow! When we have at least 3 pcs ready to go, I'll begin the first IC thread!

Welcome, Stephen Wiles! Take a load off!

How do all, looking forwards to the game.

Heyo! :)

My sheet is still a WIP at this point, although it is close to being done I think. Probably needs some minor tweaks here and there.

I am curious as to what other players are doing though! Are folks interested in sharing some about their character concepts?

Mine is Cassie Webb, an introverted young woman that spends a lot of time in front of a computer screen. A college dropout turned hacker, she is one of the Silent and a Bonepicker. She's resourceful and subtle, but not really of much use in a fight and has like no social skills given her background and general lack of social interaction IRL.

I'm still workshopping her Geist and her keystone, so not much to share in terms of that. Mechanically, I'm envisioning her as someone who is good at computer hijinks, as well as being sneaky. Like I mentioned, not really a social type, so not great in terms of those attributes and skills. Not much of a fighter either, with her physical skills focusing more on things like larceny and stealth. I'm gonna go with the Stillness and Industrial Keys, and in terms of starting Manifestations, I'm just going to invest heavily (read: all 3 of my starting dots) into Shroud so she can really excel at the whole being sneaky thing!

How about the rest of you guys?
This message was last edited by the player at 21:42, Tue 10 May 2022.

I may have to pivot a bit then... which is fine, I'm still at the feeling things out stages...

Juste is also a Silent, though Necronamcer, eternally asking why.  I envisioned him as more of PI, so investigative, but I can shift from non-social to social capable.  He's not-useless in a fight, but stand-up brawling was not going to be his forte either.

Aside from that I haven't had time to sit down and figure anything out, though so far favoring Stillness and Stigmata...

But hey, if we end with a whole pack of skulks, at least we'll be less likely to ever have a "I BLEW MY STEALTH ROLL!  EVERYBODY!  DID YOU HEAR ME, I FAILED MY STEALTH CHECK!" moments of team stealthiness.

In reply to Juste l'Requete (msg # 15):

Oh, no worries! I mean, it’s possible we may end up in different Krewes anyway! So we may end up as our own Krewe’s sneaky person ;-)

It's really interesting to see the purely coincidental overlap-- I'm playing one of the Silent, too, a master confectioner from Mott Hill.  He has an odd set of social skills to complement his cooking.
Supernaturally, he's all in on Boneyard, with the Industrial as his favorite key.  So he'd mostly do stealth by not being there in the first place.

In reply to Cassandra Webb (msg # 14):

I may have to pivot a bit also.  Mine's a hacker also.  Shy, painfully introverted, hacking was just easier than going in for an honest job/career.

Hah!  A bunch of asocial misfits who don't want to be seen... BEST KREWE EVER!

Haha, so true!

This is really a high degree of overlap. Silent introvert that can't fight here as well.

We just need Malcolm to reveal that he too is a Silent introvert and we have a full skulk party!

Okay, so regardless, unless Malcolm wants to be the face, I'll pivot to be the face, Juste's detectiving can all be based on talking to people and getting them to reveal themselves...