DM Skull's Kingmaker Campaign (Dead) (Inactive)

Game Master Shady_Motives

I liked the purple squirrels one but I'm not sure Aleidi would go for it. Though using our names to make something... That would be cool.

Who are all the members? Shalira, Reknar, Aleidi, Aarya, Mikhail?
SAMRA? ARMSA? RASMA? eh you get the point. Aashalremi works too.

That one made me laugh.

I am sure I could brainstorm a few more, but by all means the five (soon to be six if the cleric gets his act together *ahem*) have the rights to name yourselves.

Liberating Chaos? Because we are good and about freedom, but we are chaotic to a degree...

I think I'm just going to try to sleep on it. Sorry I'm not much help with the naming thing right now.

I've just stood up and something makes me think "The Killer Cookies" might be a good idea. *YAWN*

I was thinking if you seriously wanna go with that Freedom thing I'd like "Spirits of Freedom". Though "The Spirits" would sound nicer to me. As for making up something out of our name - I like the idea, but since no one reacted to my in-game suggestion so far it didn't seem very popular. If we were an all-girl group I'd love "The Valkyries" or "The Muses", but that doesn't work for or group right now.

Kinda reminds me of a song.

Up and dance - Spirits,
Rise up and dance - Masquerade
- Leaves' Eyes - Spirits' Masquerade [on Spotify] [on YouTube]

A few more ideas based on songs:
Aces High
Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die
Run, live to fly, fly to live, aces high
- Iron Maiden - Aces High [on Spotify] [on YouTube]

Kiss Away
War, children, it's just just a shot away,
Love, sisters, it's just a kiss away.
- The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter [on Spotify] [on YouTube]

Black and Gold - I actually like that one.
Paint my name in black and gold
my heart my flame my heart my road
- Malaise (covering The Sisters of Mercy) - Heartland [on Spotify] [on YouTube]

River of Life - might be a reference to the East Sellen River
The river of life is all filled with sin,
The water I drink is the blood on my hands.
- Xandria - Blood on my Hands [on Spotify] [on YouTube]

The Gathering
The song that angels sing,
the spell that caused the gathering.
- Delain - The Gathering [on Spotify] [on YouTube]

That would require a good in-game reason of course. Depends on whether we can assume the song to exist in-game.

A recent favourite of mine has been A Merced de la Lluvia. At the mercy of the rain or by the grace of the rain. If I'd think more from Shalira's perspective I might end up with Nightwish's "Sacrament of Wilderness", which I consider pretty much her theme song.

What I would like is to have more IC input from our missing companions - I am guessing from our cleric it would be kinda hard since he is not around yet, but hearing from Mikhail would be nice :D

Reknar is not really tied up with the name, but as a group it may be a decision that really should ponder everyone's opinion.

Blarg well as soon as Mikhail and Aarya chip in their two cents I am sure it will come to a swift resolution.

And Aleidi has put her 2 cents in.

I well now I am a trouble. I really like the sound of "The Wild Wardens". But. I want to be squirrel, too. I say nothing for now and let the rest react if that is ok with everyone. Ah, well, I will say just that.

We could name our new home something about Purple Squirrels.

The Purple Squirrels will be a problem when it comes to Reknar. Just saying :D

We could try and bribe him with acorn...

We could...

Acorns.... Hmmmmm....

*sets down a whole bushel of acorns* Fresh gathered acorns.

Holy moly, that's a lot of posts since the last time I posted. I-- I'm going to go catch up.

I think i need more acorns...

@Mikhail: See what happens when you decide to disappear for a bit?

@Aleidi: You just might.

Well, almost every second post in the discussion is from Shalira. I didn't want her to be that dominant and talkative, but rather calm, friendly and observant.

It's more the thing that I as a player find it difficult to hold back and not post anything if I could post.

Shalira is probably just driven, because she just wants this charter and tries whatever she can to reach an agreement.

On a side note: Are you sure that the "libera" in Anima Libera is the correct conjunction? Wouldn't it rather be liberalis?

Sorry I gave up on the idea with the Squirrels, but if there is just one suggestion I'd want to make something serious.

Democracy, isn't it the most amazing of things? :D

It's so fair and democractic that all of the time when decisions should be made people are too busy talking about what to decide about.

And whoever thinks America is still a democracy is living in a fairy tale.

On a positive note I love the fact that something that was just a creativity and rule following test is going to become part of the story like this. Way to run with it.

It's so fair and democractic that all of the time when decisions should be made people are too busy talking about what to decide about.

So you're saying it would have been better if Shalira had just made the decision on her own without referring to the group? I don't think this group would have accepted that. The problem is, the way I see it, that out of five, three don't seem to be willing to compromise or consider possibilities presented by others, not the amount of talking Shalira does to try and mitigate between them.

If Reknar hadn't rejected 'Anima Libera' that might have been it. If Mikhail hadn't rejected 'The Wild Wardens' by ignoring the option and making an own that might have been it as well...

Well, what I could have done is simply say: "Anima Libera it is then.", because it was Aarya's suggestion, Aleidi said she liked it and if Shalira would have agreed to it it wouldn't have mattered what Reknar and Mikhail think. But since Reknar opposed it very decidedly...

I was actually referencing the US government shutdown, not your group. Please forgive me not clarifying earlier. I find all these random ideas hilarious and it's fun to read and good for hammering out your still developing group dynamic. Continue as long as it pleases you, i will adapt.

Aleidi said she didn't really like Anima Libera. She did like The Wild Wardens though.

And this is helping our character bond and develop as a group. Aleidi did try to compromise at an earlier point, she heard a name she liked better.

And yeah stupid government shutdown. Five year olds could make better and faster decisions.

We shall just have those squirrels guard our home when we make one. Then we can have an army of purple squirrels ^^

Aleidi said she didn't really like Anima Libera. She did like The Wild Wardens though.

Oh, well. I misread you then. If that were the case I could have made everything clear without the vote easily. :/ Well, what happened happened.

Yep, and it's fine with all the different suggestions going around. Neither Aleidi nor I is upset by a vote. Just thought I would clarify it for you.

Lucky that Reknar didn't notice that condition, or this would be dragging :D

It's all because I misread Aleidi, otherwise I would have made it clear before Mikhail even spoke up. Three out of five would have been enough. I am truly sorry about this.

Don't be sorry - this is all about group dynamics. It is a good thing ;)

We don't mind ^^ Or at least I don't

On a side note: Are you sure that the "libera" in Anima Libera is the correct conjunction? Wouldn't it rather be liberalis?

Not a clue! I'm actually fairly horrible at latin, and may well be getting it confused with Italian.

I'm fine with whatever - Wild Wardens works as well as anything.

I think we are just waiting on the final votes to be cast in game

Indeed.

May I simply assume that the rest of the group (Mikhail, Aarya and from Shalira's perspective Reknar) remains silent at this point?

Just to move things along group has till end of today to suggest something other then Wild Wardens.

What about "The Perceptive Bunch?" :D

That could work XD

Oh come one one of you has to fail! It's not fair!

I was expecting to roll either really really low or really high. Aleidi was apparently paying attention today.

Well, I already got one natural one on a perception check. Rolling a fifteen now seems fair. :D

Mikhail is too busy being flustered by democracy to notice!

Hmm. Shalira doesn't even know what a democracy is - but you don't have to to suggest a reconciliation. I'll formulate a post. Give me ten minutes.

*Grabs popcorn* Mmmmm interesting adventure ahead.

*Fire in the hole!*

Guys, I am not going to post in gameplay yet - the thing here is that it seems that it has taken forever to make the decision, but in fact only a couple of seconds have passed :D

Things are not taking THAT long in game time. They are however taking a long period of real time.

Why I am not posting in gameplay is because I think we would have waited for Aarya to respond, or even better, even if she only responds in two days of real time, in the game her response would probably be immediate.

Not sure if I am explaining my cunundrum correctly here... What I mean to say is that we could go on a long winded debate about the name, etc, etc, when in fact Aarya is just standing there next to us, and Reknar would probably simply be staring at her, waiting for an answer.

Still don't feel I have explained myself exactly as I would have liked, but hope I got the picture across :D

I realize how long it has taken - and that Aarya didn't say anything last night even though she was around; I have taken that as she deliberately remains silent. And I'd say it was more in the range of a couple of minutes.

The way I see it the discussion was fruitless - three out of five did not show the will to compromise. That's why Shalira suggested the vote. Now if that isn't accepted we're simply running out of options.

Besides, as a player I do wish to go on and not spend a week on every little detail.

Agreed as a player, but I also think (me, the player) that we should wait for her to express her opinion.

And Reknar thinks the same ;)

I understand Reknar but in this case I am going to make a DM call. As I stated earlier she has 5 hours to disagree and then Wild Wardens goes in the log and we move this along.

On an OOC level she already said she could live with "The Wild Wardens", so there is no question there...

EDIT: Sorry, didn't see the DM comment when I posted. Forget I said anything.