Ironclaw: The Will to Power

Game Master UltraFennec

An Ironclaw: Squaring the Circle game set in the environs of Triskellian, with potential to expand further. Focused on the intrigue and violence surrounding the conflicts between the rising Guilds, with a lighthearted base tone.


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Female Weasel Dilettante

I s'pose. And the classic favored for melee/ranged seems to be 'with my favorite weapon' which will mean just about all of the time (although we've just had an example of the 'well, this is all that was available'), so it's clearly not supposed to be a hard/exceptional pickup.


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

It's as fair as any other location based Favor. You don't get it literally anywhere outside of cities then, and there's plenty of civilized places that simply aren't big enough to count as a city too, not to mention all the other places we'll go that aren't cities.


Female Weasel Dilettante

I am starting to mentally edit other people's writing whenever I read this forum.

Most notably I keep reflexively editing "Madonna/Lady Rosza" into "Madonna/Lady Rosza, that freaking lunatic,".


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

XD

BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Oooooh, that's good! I should use it IC sometime. Along with somebody who can actually call you "Bloody Rose" to your face.


Female Weasel Dilettante

Oh pffff, anyone can do the latter, it's a question of getting away with it.

There's an old bon mot about the initiation of an affair of honor where the gloves are thrown as follows:

"My seconds shall call upon you in the morning!"

"And my seconds shall call upon you in the alley!"

The trick is not being able to call RJ "Bloody Rose" to her face. Anyone with a tongue can pull that off. The trick is doing it without being attacked by outraged weasels. Including herself, sooner or later.

(If this is confusing to anyone (although in this crowd it probably isn't), the idea here is that the same fellows who would act as one's seconds in a proper duel of honor would simply administer a beatdown to anyone foolish enough to issue a challenge that was beneath the station of the recipient. i.e., the proverbial commoner with a sword who wants to take on the nobleman... Outside of Hollywood, this person simply gets thrashed by the noble's hangers-on.)

Rosza is scandalous. She's not ahistorically scandalous, there were such sorts, and often as not they did NOT have a heart of gold (Rosza only mostly does...We've seen her lean towards cruelty.). She operates just barely within the bounds of propriety and gets away with some things simply because she is believably less dangerous to pretend to overlook than to affront. In some part due to her own rakish reputation for being a dab hand with pistol and blade...But also in some part because I imagine that her generation of the Vieuxponts has created its own little reputation even among the Lissemanteau...So she's riding somewhat on the reputation already blazed by her siblings.

I am still horribly sick and somewhat out of it between decongestants and painkillers. I had a really awful sneezing fit and actually clenched hard enough that I cracked a filled molar. BONUS PAIN. So if RJ is more lackadaisical than usual I blame it upon a surfeit of motrin and nyquil.


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

Lackadaisy Rosza should be interesting. I vote yes!


Female Weasel Dilettante

Ah boo, re-read it, I was re-editing things in my medicated state when you relied.


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

Barely within the bounds of propriety is about right, I should say! I imagine if this were contemporary Guillaume would be the poor "face" tasked with your PR and damage control, and becoming increasingly close to his wit's end finding new ways to spin behavior.


Female Bat : Star Elementalist

Lackadaisy! That's it!
Thank you both for reminding me of the name of one of the intermitent comics I follow.
I had forgotten the name, and couldn't for the life of me find it again.
And yet, there it is: Lackadaisy.

Anthromorphic cats in St Louis during prohibition. Well drawn and fun. Take a look yourself.


Female Weasel Dilettante

Ah yes, Lackadaisy Cats!

But Rosza is no Rocky. She wouldn't look nearly that good with a violin.

(Though I confess I am now tempted to scribble her in a 3-piece pinstripe suit.)


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

Lackadaisy is great!

Are we ready to hit the last scene of this chapter? I almost feel like this should be the end of a Chapter itself given what happened. Maybe I'll do that.

Ceallach, you has a question to respond to, btw!


Tiger Taoist, Sworddancer

Lackadaisy, very good, though first time I saw a couple pictures, I thought it was Plush and Blood.


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

I'll post later today once errands are done and I'm at something with a real keyboard!


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

And POST.


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

Did I curtail conversation? He did just ask not to discuss things until tomorrow so maybe I did...oops? To be fair though there was a point to that, in that fork 2 of the shenanigans needs to be introduced somehow.


Female Weasel Dilettante

Motrin and nyquil have now been upgraded to hydrocodone and amoxicillin and the winds are kicking up a ton of pollen so I get to add benadryl on top of that and why am I still standing up?

Anyway, I don't THINK you curtailed conversation, there hasn't been a real 'posting cycle' since your last post? Only Natalia has posted so far. (Woo! Go Natalia!)

I was rather tickled with the interjection of the childhood image of Natalia and Rosza getting hold of someone's paintset...And then someone went and upstaged it with mature Natalia finding her social mojo in the most awesome possible way. :D


Male Raccoon: d6 Witch Finder: d6

Natalia totally confused Delroy, too, so bonus points to her.


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

Ooooh, prescription drugs. You got something real then! Dang, get better soon. Lucky that Benadryl's enough to help your allergies though. Antihistamines basically don't work on me anymore, except topically applied stuff for insect bites.

The drowsy part of Benadryl totally works way too well though, so much so that I usually end up awake still, feverishly wondering if I'm still moving and alive or if I'm actually a ghost or some sort of existential spirit creature.

No, seriously, that happened the last time I took Nyquil. Ask Ceallach, we were living together at the time. I swore to everyone there that if I went to sleep I would die, so I couldn't sleep, because dying was BAD.


Female Weasel Dilettante

Was gonna post tonight but passed out. Meds doing that a lot. Gonna pass out again. Surgery in morning. Should post tomorrow. Sorry.


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

Well, I hope your surgery goes well. That's a bit of a sudden thing, what on earth happened?


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

OK I know Rosza's not the only one we're waiting on posts from, what's up guys and gals?


Female Weasel Dilettante

I had a flu with horrible awful sneezing fits. It developed into a really painful sinus infection.
I tried to stop sneezing. The sneezing fits were so bad I was getting sore muscles all through my abdomen and thighs.
I stupidly tried to 'clench' through a sneezing fit and cracked one of my molars.
My whole jaw on that side kind of exploded into an infectious mess along the nerve that laces through the jaw. It was swollen up outrageously.
All the inner areas were full of stuff they shouldn't have had. Which meant numbing them was almost impossible.
I ended up having four teeth removed on that side including the split molar (already root canaled and such) so they could be sure to clean out the horrible infection dug into my mandible. It was really bad because of the inability to numb places and how deep they had to go. I went in at 0830 and got out at 1pm. All but a half hour of that was in extended surgery with multiple re-applications of local anaesthetic to try to numb areas as they were cleaned.

So now I have a mouthful of gauze and I am kind of a rag-doll wreck from longterm adrenaline burn and involuntary muscle spasms.

Hopefully things get better now.


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

O_O I...wow. I'm sorry you had to go through that. My sympathies! I'm not really sure what else I can say...that must have been terrible.


Female Weasel Dilettante

They have switched out my hydrocodone for Vicodin. I am having difficulty understanding this, because these seem to be so chemically similar as makes no difference...

Still woozy as hell. Will attempt to post more tonight. Sorry I know it's not up to my usual wordiness.


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

Vicodin is hydrocodone mixed with acetaminophen. Presumably for more effective pain management with less actual addictive narcotic.


Female Weasel Dilettante

Yeah, except that the generic hydrocodone I had previously was also hydrocodone mixed with acetaminophen...

They're even the same dosage ratio (5/500).

They were prescribed by different doctors. One was a GP just giving me something for the pain until I could see the dentist for surgery. The other by the dentist post-surgery. Brand-name preference?

Anyhow, I am goingt o take a little nap and will probably post in 3-4 hours.

Take care everybody


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

Did they cost the same? Maybe the dentist doesn't trust generic drugs? IDK.


Male Raccoon: d6 Witch Finder: d6

The acetaminophen is actually there to keep the pills from being readily abused.


Female Bat : Star Elementalist

And here I thought it would be safe with a discussion, when the raccoon drops his towel. And then poses. :/
I sort of hope that Rosza's cousin Penny decides to "make your acquaintance", in her own uninhibited fashion.

And I hope that Rosza and her teeth turn out well. I've never had that bad of problems with mine (despite wisdom teeth removal and two seperate root canals). I hope you get better soon.


Male Raccoon: d6 Witch Finder: d6

I left that hanging to get everyone's reactions, before Delroy flees for the pool or seeks to recover the towel, depending on what happens.

Curse you for bringing Penny into this. :P


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

Oh you silly ducks! Now I have to think of something funny, that'll delay the post. :D / D:


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

Nobody said that Tanner remained undetected, lol. Just that nobody could CATCH him for a long time. And even then he haunts dreams and minds. Think of the villain from any slasher film series ever. That's what I'm going for.


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

I battled a high-powered stomach that had tokusatsu combat skills. I'm finally feeling a bit better, but I already fell asleep once typing a post, so I'm gonna call it a night and hopefully feel better tomorrow morning.


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

The pun...I'm sorry, I just HAD to!


Male Raccoon: d6 Witch Finder: d6

Bad Gm. :P
As quickly as I want Delroy to make his his mind to grab his towel or just go into the bath like he meant to drop his cloth, I'm waiting on the others to react before deciding what the 'coon may do.

Not even sure why I did it, other than the fact that Del seemed to have a slight reason to be nervous, and he only had one article to fidgit with.

I just figured that's a possible if not probable outcome (Raccoons and their hands) and, well, I went with it.


Female Bat : Star Elementalist

Don't worry Delroy, I'm trying to send you a paladin to save you from your peril!


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

She'll just move on to Ceallach, and then the next guy, and the next...it's an endless storm of libido and bad choices.


Male Raccoon: d6 Witch Finder: d6

I'm not sure Delroy is ready for that peril!


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

As I'm sure Rosza will attest, there's a reason why so many italicized words get used between them. Both of them have a reputation that doesn't fit their noble image amongst their peers (the common folk, on the other hand...) even if they aren't entirely true in some ways.

Penny's ah...lascivious behavior is well-known enough nobody can refute it. I imagine that the fact that many suspect the same of Rosza is endlessly anger-engendering.


Female Bat : Star Elementalist

Delroy, It can't be that perilous.
I'm sure that a veritable army of handsome young men of Triskellian have braved that peril already.

And your paladin friend seems to think that you aren't in peril at all.
Perhaps she feels you lack the necessary skill at arms? That you don't have the internal stiffness to rise to the occasion ?

Hee, hee, hee... (~_^)


Male Raccoon: d6 Witch Finder: d6

Delroy's resolve is quite firm, I assure you, Hence his current stance.


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

My god, what have I unleashed?

Not sure Penny's response about analogies is actually doing what I wanted it to but I can't really think of a way to make it clearer so...whatever! It'll stay there.

And now I roll out an actual plot thread! There's actually a second one aside from the surprise sort-of-tertiary one that appeared, but it won't show up quite yet because it's another sort of surprise that has to happen outside the bathhouse. I think I'll link it up to happen after the Constabulary visit tomorrow. Or maybe during since I think we've at least one weasel that doesn't want to lollygag about the law's abode, hmmm?


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

I am keeping track of the Sideboard, in case anyone wondered. I'm pretty sure the only scene currently active there can resolve between the three of you ladies without my input though. Might need me later when the MAGICK STUFF starts happening but until then.


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

Are we waiting on me? I think we're waiting on me but I'm not sure.


Male Raccoon: d6 Witch Finder: d6

We may be?


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

Alright, I think I've just about done everything I wanted to do at the party. The question is, have all of YOU done what YOU want to do here? If so, then it's time to move on, and probably call a Chapter and whatnot because that took longer than I planned for, and involved more STUFF than planned for.


Male Raccoon: d6 Witch Finder: d6

I think I've caused enough mischief, myself, The time shall soon come to allow Del to redeem himself.


Tiger Taoist, Sworddancer

Indeed I am finished, Quinn is just watching as things occur having lost any desire to socialize after the attack.


Male Hooman Utter Fool/4

See it's that watching things without reactions that confuses me and makes me wonder where people have gone because they're not posting. You don't need to react to everything obviously, just let me know you're still alive once in awhile.

Anyway, that's two votes for done, do I hear more?


Male Raccoon: d6 Witch Finder: d6

I tend to make a 'just watching' statement when I'm either done, or stumped for further doings.

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