Us Gun geeks will have to remedy the manual pepperbox barrel rotation ... ;-)
The good news is that 'advanced firearm' revolvers are available in the Zeitgeist AP at a certain point for our resident Gunsmiths to fawn over (and rifles too!)...
...the bad news is that it isn't in the first AP module, or for a good long while yet ;)
Thanks for being understanding guys. My hand is slowly getting better and I can type a bit without much pain. I wanted to get in a post. For now I'm going to be keeping my stuff short, but I can tell that things are getting better!
That's great to hear. Channeling energy your way!
Thanks for being understanding guys. My hand is slowly getting better and I can type a bit without much pain. I wanted to get in a post. For now I'm going to be keeping my stuff short, but I can tell that things are getting better!
Good to see ya Celeador, and thanks for the Arthur post! Take it easy, but if you need me to proxy-post something for you just give me a shout and I'll take care of it.
We're technically just about one more big post from me to wind down the current social scene, so have fun with it and get your interactions in as you'd like to before I move things along. This is a social scene and not a puzzle scene or decision interaction, so nothing you need to solve here.
By the way, the next few scenes are also "Social" in nature, so this is the time to really explore your character personalities and interact with both PC's and NPC's. Zeitgeist makes a distinct point to categorize its various scenes for the DM, as the campaign has a wide variety in its combat encounters, skill challenge encounters, social encounters, puzzle-solving elements, and story transitions. I was thinking to add to the new scene I use with the following information, so that it might be easier for you to understand and get a feel for what is expected:
Scene Types: Action (combat or skill), Exploration, Exposition, Puzzle, Social, or Hybrid.
Duration: Montage (a few hours or days), Real-time (a few minutes), or Tactical (round-by-round).
Sounds good?
Sounds good
Yeah!! Arthur's back! (mostly)
Glad you're doing better!
Welcome Back Arthur!
I am hoping I can post tonight, stinkin' RL is getting in the way... lol.
Took a break myself but will get a Devinn reaction post in tonight, followed by the final assignments post tomorrow for you (which will then change scenes).
Gah! I'll find some way to post tonight. I am on call at work, busy busy. You know how it is in IT ... :-)
For the sake of story, we're just going to hand-wave that you took your dress outfit and main gear with you on the carriage ride to Flint HQ (since you didn't know where you would be), and then brought it along to the Royal Square checkpoint area where it was stored and guarded with the other uniforms and such.
Waiting on Gemma's response before I go to post the next part of the new scene at the quarter-till six o' clock hour - I will probably get it posted on Friday evening.
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I am terrible, ain't I? ... ;-)
Glad I stayed up late to get my post done for Gemma! DM and I had a feeling you'd need something to do for the graveyard shift for Anneca:)
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I am terrible, ain't I? ... ;-)
Yes you are -- lalalalalalallalalalalaa not listening! I like my life right now free of video games where I am actually interacting with my wife and kids. Plus my home PC is like 3+ years out-of-date for any decent quality games coming out these days.
lol ... I will not be a home wrecker and tempt you further.
As an aside (and not picking on you Anderlorn, but just using it as a recent example for reference), remember that even if you are writing in third-person narrative, you still don't want to break verisimilitude and include non-Lanjyr world names/places/points-of-interest into your posts for description. This goes hand-in-hand with keeping away from anachronisms in the game. So instead of using Irish as an adjective for something you're trying to explain, use Risuri or perhaps a rural region of Risur or something like that.
Page 30 on the Zeitgeist Extended Player's Guide has suggestions for languages and accents in the Zeitgeist setting, though it's meant to give a bit of flavor on language/places/names/dialects and not imply a cultural parallel. So even though the Danorans have a "French" accent in their Common tongue and I may incorporate some French-sounding names for their ships and such, there's no "Eiffel Tower" equivalent or guillotines or any of that nonsense. Even so, the Zeitgeist AP author (IMO) even gets a bit too close with Iberian Spanish to represent cities and aspects of the nation of Ber, so I will most likely change some of that to be less of an Earth-type parallel.
Sure you are, you are getting me back for posting that above link ... lol
Oops, definitely a Freudian slip. Please substitute Irish Pennant for Danoran Pennon (an older word for pennant).
Yeah...this should go well. With my Diplomacy of +0, I'm going to throw caution to the wind!!
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Sure you are, you are getting me back for posting that above link ... lol
The problem is that I've heard rumblings about a rehash of Star Citizen in a persistent world setting for a long time now, and of course there's a part of me that goes back to the old Wing Commander flight sim days. But then I have to plug my ears and keep my mind from thinking about it. I'll just stick with my occasional Civ IV game...
Yeah, so based on my prior rolls and the fact that I have absolutely no skill in Diplomacy, I decided to play it safe!
I am going to try to post tonight or tomorrow day at the latest.
Not a problem - I am planning on posting PM Lee's reply tonight after work, so there's plenty of time if you want to get in on it.
"As for the scribes, be pleasant and vague and direct them to either myself or Lady Inspectress Saxby, but don’t give them grist for the grain mills. In fact…” Delft looks over to Gemma and nods at her pointedly, ”…Atherton it’s best if you don’t speak to them at all…just smile and nod and point in my general direction.”
Gemma must be a Took? ... ;-)
Oh rats, too late to edit, but here is the comparison ... :-)
Gandalf: "Listen carefully: Lord Denethor is Boromir's father. To give him news of his beloved son's death would be most unwise."
Gandalf: "And do not mention about Frodo or the Ring."
Gandalf: "And say nothing of Aragorn either."
[Gandalf again turns to enter, but stops and glances down at Pippin.]
Gandalf: "In fact, it's better if you don't speak at all, Peregrin Took."
Oh rats, too late to edit, but here is the comparison ... :-)
Gandalf: "Listen carefully: Lord Denethor is Boromir's father. To give him news of his beloved son's death would be most unwise."
Gandalf: "And do not mention about Frodo or the Ring."
Gandalf: "And say nothing of Aragorn either."
[Gandalf again turns to enter, but stops and glances down at Pippin.]
Gandalf: "In fact, it's better if you don't speak at all, Peregrin Took."
Hehe yeah I wasn't going for the intentional mimic on that particular line, but it's definitely close to RotK isn't it?
To reference Spacecat here, if I was going to mimic a line for her character I'm sure she'd prefer that it came from Aliens, as that's one of her favorite movies :)
You mean like "How do I get out of this Chicken S!!+ outfit?"
Zip that s**t Hudson!
Ha! Yes!
We still have a bit for the current scene, and I won't start writing the next one until this weekend.
I'd like to take a quick poll though and give you a choice on what you'd prefer for the next scene - onboard the Coaltongue, taking a tour of the ship with Talyssa Dane and select other assistant NPC's.
I'll go with the majority, with at least three of you posting your preferences for a quorum. Would you rather:
(a) Have a full interactive set of scenes for the ship tour, being able to interact with various NPC's along the way and going into more detail for you to roleplay out?
OR
(b) Have simply a descriptive narrative of the ship tour, giving you information about the ship (but no custom interactions) and then allowing you to forward to the next scene afterwards, where you will interact with various guests up on deck?
Either way is fine with me, so give me a sense as players on what you would prefer to do.
Unless there is strategic importance for A, my selection is B.
For the sake of keeping the story moving forward, B.
Wow, getting to ask the Arch-Magi of a Kingdom a single question... thats a pretty cool boon!
I'll go with B.
Okay so have fun with the scene and ask your question (or don't) to PM Lee, and then as the scene wraps up with the King's arrival I'll do more of a narrative post for your tour of the Coaltongue with Talyssa (including deck maps), and then you'll move to interacting with some of the more "interesting" V.I.P.'s on deck as the maiden voyage is underway.
Took a mental hiatus with the three day weekend, but I'll get back on the posting horse later today.
I will let him answer a few as she mulls her questions.
That's cool, I am a running a little slow right now. We are iced in so I am "chillin'" today.
I'll cover any final questions if asked tomorrow, then conclude our scene with P.M. Lee and move us to the launching of the Coaltongue and a narrative of the ship's tour by Talyssa Dane.
I'll have Arthurs question up today.. FYI, I think its going to do with Cauldron Hill.
Kinda an odd question, but I feel like with an Int of 18 and my behavior, Arthur would ask something unique.
I am going to be delayed maybe not until Monday, limited Internet due to noise on the main neighborhood drop causing the Internet to reset continuously or not work at all, and inclement weather. Bot me if necessary.
No problem -- I've been suffering some writer's block over the past few days, but it's on me to get responses for the last two questions and then narrate the tour and get you all setup for the next part!
Robert! Great to see you and that you're keeping tabs on us! I have potentially another small interaction scene coming up soon with Ifris (on the deck of the Coaltongue), so I'll be doubly sure to try and capture her essence there as best as I can there.
Hey Robert. Nice to know you're still around. I miss Ifris!
Ok, it looks like my Internet is pretty much back to normal. I am going to start to catch up. Hopefully by tonight but no later than tomorrow night.
You can certainly wait until I transition the scene to onboard the Coaltongue if you'd like to -- I'm looking to get that scene change done tonight for everyone.
Happy belated Birthday DM Vord! If it was not my 15th anniversary and my Internet was behaving, I would have been more punctual.
How old are ya now? 25?