OOC discussion

[Sohala]

The dragon will be able to fly in the tunnels?! Well dam...plan B it is.

Plan B mainly involves explosive rune...bombs.

[Brainpiercing]

The dragon will be able to fly in the tunnels?! Well dam...plan B it is.[/spoiler]

I actually think a deep dragon is rather quick on his legs... but I have to look that up again, I might be wrong. At least you can't assume that a paranoid dragon absolutely will follow you. Some research into the matter would be appropriate.

Plan B mainly involves explosive rune...bombs.

Even though I usually say that there is no gentleman's agreement (because that would mean I have to play nice )... you do understand that any cheesy tactics you use I can use, too. So use these things with self-restraint...

[Sohala]

Oh, wasn't looking to use them on bosses, more on buildings and such, aka piss them off.

[Brainpiercing]

Ah, nothing like a bit of terror .

[McPoyo]

I'm on my honeymoon for a couple days and come back to explosive rune bombs and a dragon attack? Glad I'm on the surface!

[Brainpiercing]

Oh, but we're just waiting for Raith to get all of the rest of you down there...

Speaking of which.... raith0?

[raith0]

sorry life hit me the last few days with pre holiday needs of getting things done with my son being 2 and everyone and there great grandma wanting pictures ill make a post after i get some food in me about traveling to the oasis and running into everyone

[Brainpiercing]

I'm sorry, I'm forgetting things already: Who got XP so far for the underground events? I think I gave some to MARC, but I don't remember.

[Brainpiercing]

By the way I have to apologize a bit to raith0: Sometimes it's hard to find the right tone to adress other characters, because you can't see them. This is made somewhat harder if you are not reminded constantly of what they look like. I've been treating Doyle too much like a freak, and too little like a very charismatic freak. (And no, I don't equate this to being pretty.) This may be excusable by the circumstances under which my NPCs made contact with them (jaded town guards, Devanar just recovering from being tortured), but still. Now I see you are trying to improve the way people see you, so I'm going to try to improve my reactions.

I'm just saying this because I looked again at the public sheets now that McPoyo posted one.

[McPoyo]

Forgot I hadn't done that yet

[raith0]

Thanks BP im playing him that hes always been a freak but also found ways to use that to his advantage.  partly i am doing this because i plan on taking Leadership with my next feat, and partly because it seemed to fit the way the character came together. 

I will write up a scene request when the time comes so i can roleplay the "calling" or how ever you want to put it of a cohort.

It never made sense to me that Charisma always ment you were attractive as well.  so i tend to play it differently by characters that have high Charisma but arent attractive by the normal sense.  (now if we were to be confronted by a group of orcs i think he would be more attractive to them but thats a different situation)

[Sohala]

I just had an epiphany.

Chances are, at least the way things are sounding, that anyway I/we try to go about this side venture that Torgthen has reasoned out, it is going to take longer than we have before the attack is planned to take place.

Now to my understanding, the group from Lundeth has been tasked with a scouting mission to some portals or something. To this group’s reasoning, are the events taking place with transformations, tied to the portals?

I am going about this line of questioning because I may have reasoned out a way that makes sense for Torgthen to carry on, at least for now, with the scouting instead of the civil war, personally anyways.

Going with what I was already planning to do, sending a hound back to Baztgirn to trade for needed supplies, we could have it return with a message to continue with the group, as they are going to send the drow a small contingent of troops to help. This would allow for him to feel like he is keeping his word, and just in case the drow are not behind it, he is following another lead. That coupled with the news coming from above, should easily convince him.

Now for the logic behind the dwarves helping, they want the portals, plain and simple. The merchant minded leaders will see them as a way to increase profits. That is if they can befriend the local drow into allowing them to set up a trade route through there. The elimination of the dragon merely adds to the safety of the area.

[Brainpiercing]

You mean your attack on the dragon/drow sisters, or the attack on the demon base?

Whatever, you have to figure these things out. There is no plan of action I have laid out for you. I'm just trying to let everything make sense, more or less.

Now if you agree ooc that you want to do something, we can also skip all the IC discussion part via the scene mechanism - we just don't play it, but it's taken place at some time in the background. Even though I'd love an IC discussion, I'm obviously not playing, you are. Devanar will go anywhere that seems to further the goals of finding the cause for the events, and Cat will go anywhere Daelric goes.

[Sohala]

The attack on the drow/dragon will most likely have to happen in the form of raids instead of an all out attack, which will probably extend far past the large assault being planned on the demons.

Of course, I was just laying out another option as the idea struck me, as I didn't know if anyone had a preference on which arc we go on with.

I am going to try and RP it, just it seems to be taking awhile.

[McPoyo]

While I realize it breaks the flow, and may not be entirely accurate, the phrase "fleshy man-wrists" made me giggle in a training meeting this morning too much not to use.

[Sohala]

I am in need of a direction, would we like to meta and go with the most likely choice for solving the problem?

[Thistledown Thurbertaut]

I admit I am in need as well.  Part of my lag in posting is a bit of writer's block around my character and how this group is supposed to plausibly gel.

[Sohala]

Well we need to fully introduce ourselves, which I will start shortly. As luck would have it, the next two group members should be joining us shortly, saving us some time.

[Brainpiercing]

I admit I am in need as well.  Part of my lag in posting is a bit of writer's block around my character and how this group is supposed to plausibly gel.

This is a problem. As it is, the characters are very diverse, and should have differing interests and motivations. The only thing we can do here is find some rationalisation why it's good to hang out with these other guys for now. Or not think about it too much.

The MARC, for instance, has no more allegiances from his old life. He has to find something new to do. It makes sense to hang with those new guys until you find someone else - which hopefully won't happen in the context of the game. Even for the others, individual motivations shouldn't make compromising to stay within a group impossible. After all, it's a dangerous world out there. A loner faces all sorts of problems.

[Thistledown Thurbertaut]

I'm just feeling like Marc is some kind of lost puppy right now and am unclear on what our purpose is.