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Lorm, don't worry, the interplay between Uriah and Ishmael isn't screwing up anything. Until Val jumped the shark with Ishmael's behavior, I felt that the pair's disparate backgrounds would lend itself to some mutual animosity that could provide a little spice to the RP'ing in the group. I decided to keep Ishmael roughly intact, personality-wise. I think the most recent posts are in a sense a 'clearing of the air' between the two of them. Essentially an "I don't like you" and "you don't like me" but "we need to make this work on some level to get things accomplished".

I don't necessarily foresee this getting much better between them, nor do I see it turning into open violence (Hopefully, heh). It will probably remain pretty interesting, however...

I'll be posting a little bit later tonight, as I have to get the little people off to bed.

Thanks Davi, depending on the pace, expect first post to be in a couple of days at most...

Welcome back, Bal, just in time for you and Johnnie's chance to shine. Hive City Orcut VII, here we come!

As promised:

Ivaanov and Iacton.

Oh, and here is the linking page.

Let me know what you think...

Davi, Wrath, I should have your character dossiers up on the wiki later tonight. I foresee Ivaanov and Iacton coming "on stage", so to speak, within the next couple of scenes, so be ready.

OK, recruiting is closed again for the time being.

Welcome to Davi and Wrath!

I will be moving the posts over to the OOC thread once again.

Sorry to get back to you so late. I've been busy with a computer LAN party over the weekend and getting into a new job outside of that. I haven't been on my computer while it's online in nearly a week.

Balfic/Chris is right. I've decided not to play. Not that I didn't like your game, I would have been honored to play in it. After the initial anticipation of playing a Battle Sister wore off, I just realized that I might not stick with posting as much as I might need to. I really have to pay closer attention to my own real life roleplaying game. As I am a stickler for details in making characters, I am also with my game world. I'll pay attention to the posts, though and continue to read your superlative, descriptive content. Thank you again for the invite.

As for Balfic/Chris, I plan on getting him up and running tomorrow. One of his computers has a serious motherboard issue and the other needs to have an entire overhaul. It's gonna be a chore.

Talk to you later.
Steve

OK, thanks for the heads up Bal, hope to see you again soon.

OK Davi, sent an email along to you. Let me know what you think.

Hi Lorm/Bal, since we will soon have five playing again, I was wondering if your friend still wanted in. I offered him some alternatives for characters, or if he preferred, the opportunity to assume Albrek or Ishmael, but I haven't heard back to this point. Despite not being able to accept his initial character concept, he is still more than welcome to join if he so wishes.

Any feedback would be appreciated. Things in game are about to get interesting, so having an idea would help so that another new PC would have a logical entry point.

OK, Davi, Wrath, thanks for being patient with me.

Wrath and I are presently hashing out some of Ivaanov's background, and I think we have a logical pretext for his entry into the campaign, which should be occurring relatively soon.

Davi, I have a notion for how Iacton got involved, as well. I'd like to avoid spoilers for the others, similar to how I notified Wrath, so could you please send me an email at rookseye at yahoo dot com?

Some new material has been added to the Oremor Affliction wiki, I'll let you guys discover what it is.

Good catch, I forgot about the background. I adjusted the sheet, consider yourself temporarily demoted, ;)

Wow. I'm faster than I thought. Savalos and Uriah are updated on the wiki taking into account their new ranks and most recent advances.

OK, Wrath, I have transferred your profile over to a character sheet and just wanted to note a couple of changes I made. I bumped your INT up to 38, and your PER up to 32, purely by GM fiat. So please note this on your profile sheet. Like Albrek originally was, your rolls seemed to be on the low side, and this brings you more in line with the attribute scores of the others.

I will try to have your sheet posted to the wiki in the next 24 hours or so. Once it is up, I will let you know. I am only waiting because I would like to post both you and Davi at the same time.

For my current players that have take advances, your updated sheets should be on the wiki later tonight.

Wrath those both excellent ideas, and I'm thinking of incorporating both of them. I see Ivaanov as someone requested by Desius Krade to serve on retainer from the Adeptus Mechanicus as part of the group to aid in the investigation. The fact that Oremor is rife with abandoned archeotech in the 'equatorial dumping grounds' (I really need a better official name for this area) is just another reason for the Machine Cult to go along with the request. Perhaps Krade has clout enough to allow Ivaanov unfettered access to this region.

If you can keep a secret, I will brief you on exactly what specialty Ivaanov has that is so necessary to the mission if you want to email me. I'm not ready to reveal this as group knowledge just yet.

The arrival at the Adeptus Arbites spire concludes the Prologue of the Oremor Affliction.

Act I commences soon.

I hope to have the new players entering the campaign within the week.

Hey Rookseye, I told you I have not rolled a good roll since combat ended. At least we didn't crash.

Welcome Davi and Wrath to the game. You are entering it just as it is getting interesting.

Rookseye wrote:

Do not necessarily feel bound by having to serve the existing acolyte's inquisitor, Ahmazzi. Numerous other possibilities exist. Even though I have some good ideas for your introductions based on your character careers, I would like to hear what you have to say on the subject and incorporate what you have for notions about your character's background/personality into the storyline.

If you have a better reason for me to join than "the probably-slightly-paranoid captain of his ship lent him to someone, possibly Ahmazzi", I'd be glad to hear it.

Hi again, Wrath, looking forward to having you as a player!

Thanks guys, I will begin converting the profiles to character sheets, and hopefully I should have something up on the wiki before the end of the week for both of you. Please feel free to begin brainstorming character backgrounds and reasons/ideas for where/how your characters will enter the campaign story.

Do not necessarily feel bound by having to serve the existing acolyte's inquisitor, Ahmazzi. Numerous other possibilities exist. Even though I have some good ideas for your introductions based on your character careers, I would like to hear what you have to say on the subject and incorporate what you have for notions about your character's background/personality into the storyline.

I sure don't miss those hours. No worries, I'll be doing a brief post and then off to bed, the kids burnt dad out today.

Davi, like I told the others, make sure you choose what appeals to you most. If you would truly prefer to start a new character or adjust your assassin's stats, create one or use him. The campaign and setting are extremely flexible, and I set it up this way intentionally for mid-game additions.

In short, you have a spot reserved in the game. Feel free to follow along until you are ready to join in. Do not feel as though you need to rush. The game isn't going anywhere, I promised as much to the others.

Albrek has an important role to play in the outcome of the Oremor Affliction, one way or the other, PC or NPC, he will play his part. I can provide a bit more of what I have in mind for him if you end up choosing to play him.

Sorry about that Wrath, you are correct, if you don't have ownership rights on the .pdf or the full version, I think it prevents saving changes. I'll look into the sheet from my end.

In the interim, just scale back whatever advances that Ivaanov had from the other game on your Paizo profile to the starting advances (500XP) and add a single 100XP advance. I will transcribe the character as soon as I get the opportunity and post your sheet to the wiki.

Good to have you aboard!

And I'm the berk who GMed that failed game.

Anyway, I oh so very much want to play in this game. I want a chance to finally use that character I made for the failed pbp that lead to me running a game myself. Of course, it doesn't matter what I want, since my books are on the other side of the state.

In other words, if you still have an opening Thanksgiving weekend when I have a chance to go home and grab the core rules again, I'll gladly fill it.

Going to wait on Rad's post before continuing. I want to give him the opportunity to make the skill test suggested. It might help your decision making process.

Heya Rookseye,

I have a character I created for another pbp attempt at 40k. That one didn't make too far and I'd be keen to try him again. I've played one RL game for this now and would be keen to try the pbp option again.

I was with Radavel in that one, and I'm in a PbP with some of the others you've got in here.

My only concern is there are times when I won't be able to post daily. I teach and my schedule can get very intense at times, so I may miss a day or two in those periods.

If that's not an issue then please consider me for a position in the game.

Cheers
Wrath

(I'll post as my alt so you can check his creation and stuff also. Let me know what is suitable and what needs to be changed for your game.)

I'd like to introduce new characters organically to the story, so please follow along once these steps are complete, and I'll give you prompt when you come into play (this shouldn't be long). I'm OK with someone posting every couple of days or so, as long as they are consistent and in the campaign for the long haul.

This thread is now re-opened for two new players. The game has just begun, so you still have an opportunity to get in at the beginning of things. Please post your character concepts here.

The OOC thread is here.
The IC thread is here.

Hi all, just a quick note. We will be attempting to round out the group with some new additions. I have reopened the recruiting post and Balfic is conferring with a couple of potential new players. In the interim, we will continue on with Albrek and Ishmael as NPCs until the storyline of the campaign dictates otherwise. If anyone has someone in mind for the game, feel free to have them post a character concept in OOC or the Recruiting thread.

There is a nice preview from the Radical's Handbook on FFG's site today as well.

Thanks, Lorm, I'm sorry it didn't work out, but the enjoyment of the majority supersedes the individual in this case. I foresaw the same messy outcome as well, and felt it would have jeopardized the campaign's story before it even had a chance to begin. If I honestly felt there was any better solution, I would have tried it, but this will benefit everyone in the end, I think.

so I guess we can all talk without quotes so nobody knows who is saying or talking to who and still insult others. blah blah blah

OK Val, I have tried to allow this to resolve itself through some gentle warnings about how I expect players to conduct themselves in this game, but apparently you did not notice, or were not willing to take the hint.

There is a very distinct difference between role-playing a character who is abrasive and actually being abrasive, and I think you have repeatedly crossed it. This, coupled with the a tendency to post out of format and seemingly without reading the details of what has gone before shows that you have very little regard for your own, much less others enjoyment of the game. I believe that everyone has given you wide latitude so far to correct this, but you have only managed to incite everyone further. The last post, obviously OOC in the IC post was the end of my patience.

I don't want to have everyone in this game more preoccupied with how to deal with your issues or your character's than with the game itself, so at this point, I would appreciate it if you would bow out gracefully.

If anyone else believes this to be too heavy-handed, or in any way out of line on my part, I will entertain any recommendation that Val be allowed to keep playing. This is a group decision in the end.

Uriah has posted another journal entry to the Scriptorium Chronicle.

Savalos has added a new log entry to the Oremor Affliction wiki in the Sciptorium Chronicle, posted here.

Ach! Cranky teething baby tonight. I will be posting tomorrow following the Halloween festivities. Happy Halloween everyone!

The wiki will be expanded and fill out gradually through play, with NPC information, locations, images, etc.

I have reserved the section 'Scriptorium Chronicle' for anyone who wishes to post 'in character' summaries of the events that have occurred thus far.

Simply login to the wiki, edit the page, and begin writing. I'd recommend using the Imperial dating convention (an example is listed at the top of the page) to indicate what day the event occurred on.

For example: The date posted on the page is '1.816.M41', therefore day two of your campaign would be: '2.816.M41'. The '816' is the standard year, and obviously, M41 is the millennium, in this case, 40. I find the in-character postings add a lot to the richness of the campaign, and even gives me some insight into the character's mindsets that can further open up the ideas for future events.

Anyway great playing with you guys so far, looking forward to more.

I did, reply sent.

kk
I would like to put my advancement in Awareness.

Having the Pilot (Spacecraft) skill that Uriah has as an untrained basic skill is sufficient to pilot the shuttle under routine circumstances, such as undocking, moving from orbit to planetside (and vice versa), and landing the craft under normal conditions. Voidborn have an innate acumen with spacecraft due to their origins. Where Uriah would potentially run into trouble would be when he needs to make a skill check due to an adverse situation, maneuvers in combat and things of that nature.

The long and short of it, is, yes, Uriah can fly the craft. With about as much skill and expertise as a commercial pilot flies a 747.

Rad, I will update Johnnie with +5% if that is your choice. I will post the new sheet to the wiki as soon as I have confirmation.

Val, one thing to remember, like Bal said, what is written in quotes is what is said aloud. Please don't feel affronted for what his character thinks. I'm perfectly willing to accept Ishmael as something of a violence-prone, slightly irrational character but by the same token, Savalos can be a snarky, sarcastic hiver scum. Some intra-party conflict can be good for RP'ing as long as it doesn't get out of hand or become interplayer squabbling.

Also, I'm not sure how familiar you are with the Redemptionist cult in 40k, but they are essentially perceived as ultra-orthodox violence-driven nutcases by a lot of the established, traditional clergy. This is, in a sense, a good thing for how you are portraying him, as it justifies some of your tendencies. The Imperial Faith is widely adhered to, as Uriah's frequent oaths attest, but your character will sometimes need to fight for acceptance, particularly among the more baseline clerics. The cool part is you get to burn things, with fire... a lot.

OK, Val, Rad, please feel free to spend the XP in the next few scenes if you so choose, otherwise you can save it for a later advance. I will hold off on Albrek as well, assuming for the time being that Dr. Dark will be stepping in at some point.

Lorm is right Val, it will take at least ten insanity points accrued before you start, acting, um, "differently". I'm just assuming Ishmael is a bit 'touched' as it is. Fair enough. Just keep in mind actions do have consequences in this game.

So that everyone is aware, the character sheets have been updated again on the wiki. I have added a pump-action shotgun and five clips to Johnnie and annotated Savalos and Uriah for their advances and XP used. These sheets will be kept current for the duration of the campaign.

Thanks, Lorm. One of the best parts about PbP games is that you get to consider the action and descriptions a little bit more than you would around the table before relating things to the players. In a written medium you can generate a narrative that can be more evocative, and it has the added bonus of allowing a person to reference back to what has gone before if they don't recall a particular detail.

As handy as Invisible Castle is, I do miss the rattle of dice on the table, though!

Thanks for posting Dr. Dark, I'm very glad you are still with us. I will keep ghosting Albrek as needed until your able to rejoin. With a full time job that necessitates frequent OT and two small children, I know exactly where you are coming from.

I'm glad you are enjoying it. We have barely scratched the surface, though, I'm hoping to have you guys for the long haul. There is a great story to be told here.

Glad you like IC, Bal! It made my adversaries seem very inept tonight. Ishmael is a lucky cleric.

Rogue Trader arrived today, FFG games sure makes some impressive books!

OK, sounds good Rad.

I'll try to finish round #2 later this afternoon, Invisible Castle seems to be down at the moment.

I pre-ordered my Radical's Handbook as well. Should be a great fit for this campaign.

Yeah, I would like to see a post from Albrek soon, he seemed to be pretty interested in the game. If not, I'll just move on and ghost him until something else is figured out.

If he is indeed out, I'll post again on the recruiting thread. If any of you have someone who would like to assume the character, that would be fine too. Worst case scenario he will be NPC'ed until a solution can be found.

Sorry to hear things are still so lousy, Rad. Like I said before, though, I might be able to help with a temporary solution. Just email me.

Also, once the Radical's Handbook is released, it will be available for character options. I plan on getting my hands on a copy as well.

Keeping the thread open for two alternates.