Fevered Dreams

Game Master JonGarrett

Hello, Jennifer. :)

Looks like your character is *actually* a librarian while my character just looks like one. I apologize in advance if you hate her urban fantasy novels. :)

The librarian thing is all in her past. And she hate (or pretends to hate) most things.

She's very emotionally healthy!

I didn't know Jennifer wasn't a librarian anymore.
I guess I should spend less time talking about myself.

Are you three the remaining players from the last session?

Hey folks, busy day yesterday so I wasn’t able to check in, but I’ll get Ross and Zaoth set up later today. Looking forward to playing with you all!

I didn't know Jennifer wasn't a librarian anymore.

She's more of a borrower of libraries, now. And other places. Sometimes she's a returner.

Are you three the remaining players from the last session?

Me, Doctor Solomon (although this character hasn't been around in a while), and whomever Nurai/D_Var_Stars decides to play.

Alright, I should be mostly good to go, though I'm still sorting out gear.

Quick question, how does firearm proficiency work? I couldn't find rules indicating it worked differently, but I thought I'd check.

Alright, I should be mostly good to go, though I'm still sorting out gear.

Quick question, how does firearm proficiency work? I couldn't find rules indicating it worked differently, but I thought I'd check.

Yeah, I want to know this too... I think I might have to adjust my character because I have a proficiency in two martial weapons of my choice, but sniper rifle might be exotic... didn't see where it said that anywhere though.

If so, probably no big. I can trade out my stamp attack for exotic proficiency, but want to make sure I'm not breaking the rules. :)

Will this be a reboot of the previous campaign session, or will the new players be part of a continuing story?

Continuing as part of the story. Each "mission" is a mostly self-contained story.

Yup, this is part of a continuing plot. There was a brief summary in the recruitment, but nothing should be hugely difficult to explain.

Guns are all simple weapons, bar the heavier weapons, which might be exotic. Rocket Launchers aren't simple.

And, yup, Solomon and Jennifer have both been in stories before, and Nurai has been in all the previous jobs. It's a quirk of this game that after each chapter players have the choice to swap out and try a new character. It makes for some interesting interactions between characters, and some very bizarre stuff.

OK, ladies and gentleman, here is your job choice.

A night on the Town

Midsummers Night! Founder's Night! Fever is at fever pitch as the town prepares to party. There will be food, from Aileen's Bakery, the Tumultuously Tiny Taco Company Robert's Finely Refined Burger Company and Pi77a! Drinks from the Sanctuary Bar and the Blind Seer! Music by the Fever Amateur Concerto and, later, DJ Frosty Tipz.

Nothing could possible go wrong in a supernatural community loaded up on food, booze and partying, right?

...right?

The Broken Cup

The Museum in Fever has always been special. Perhaps it's simply a quirk in the town, that magic items still have a place there. Maybe the place simply attracts magic items. Or, of course, someone goes and gets them.

However they get there, though, someone has been stealing them, and seems to aiming for one exhibit in particular - an old, broken cup.

Thanks for the response.

And A Night on the Town sounds awesome.

Both look great, but I think I'd enjoy the party atmosphere of A Night on The Town. What a good time to introduce new characters than Fever's biggest night! A formal event, I assume.

Clearly this festival is an opportunity for the Astounding FANTASMO! to try and rekindle his career?

Both also sound good to me, and it looks like I am the minority already, but just throwing in the fact that a good mystery about magic items sounds great to me, and curious about what the old, broken cup is.

It does sound cool, but it seems like it would be a hell of a lot harder to introduce new characters into it. I may be wrong on that though.

Doctor Solomon was my first adventurer in this game but I ran into some mechanical difficulty with him. I shelved him for a while, recently rebuilt him, and now he's back.

As such, I think the Broken Cup is exactly Solomon's speed, though last time he was here he did a pretty good job investigating certain mysterious party events. I'm game for either, though Jim (my other character) would be sad to miss a party.

Oh, it'll be simple enough to introduce people. There's a reason you all have a Campaign trait, but I have a slightly more organic plan for that one.

So that's 3 for Party Night and 1 for the Library Ultra Secret 'Shhhh' party so far, with our original trio yet to vote.

I'm also voting for The Broken Cup, because a museum is very aligned with Jennifer's motivations. With Solomon's post (right before yours, Jon), it looks like we're tied!

Nurai will be the tie-breaker.

Nurai will be the tie-breaker.

She's always breaking stuff honestly.

It's becoming a problem.

OOOoooo so much potential with both.

I'm throwing in with the museum, if only to see how our GM, trained archaeological scientist with his behind the scenes experience at museums, has in store for our characters. Special museum fun.

Also, special museum things to break. Gonna stick with Nurai for that, give her and her shadows eidolon a chance to welcome the newcomers. Hopefully it won't involve gun again.

Okie dokie, I'll turn my notes into something remoately usable and get the game started tonight or tomorrow.

Will that be enough time for everyone to finish there character sheets and get things set up?

I'm all set. Ready to get started!

I'm set to jet.

I'm still finishing up reading through the story so far, but other than that I think I'm ready... and since my character won't know the story so far, shouldn't be something that slows us down.

I have a stupid question. I wasn't going to ask, but it keep rattling around my head. Is the campaign world in the middle of covid-19?

I'd imagine a few cure disease spells would make pretty short work of it.

I wouldn't think so; particularly given the fact that IIRC this is a world where magic is super duper top secret.

Should've clarified, I meant specifically in Fever.

No, sadly this world is still in 2019. Those poor NPC's.

Appologies, I got invited to play a new game and wasn't expecting the game to go on so long. I'll try and get a post up before I head to bed, or when I get up if not possible.

First post is up! You'll notice some of you have slightly different goals, depending on if you're working at the behest of the Old Blood of Fever, Valda or yourself. These goals don't conflict, I promise - I'm not setting PC against PC as an intro - but might mean you have different priorities.

Ross, I couldn't see your campaign trait on your sheet - an oversight on my part - so if you could mention which one it is, I'll pop an intro and goal for your Trait in when I get a moment.

It’s Touched by Twilight. Could’ve sworn I had it on there, but I’ll double check come morning.

It's really hard to pass up X-RAY VISIONS (you better believe it, brotha).

On the plus side that mean's it is indeed already up.

Sorry for the late start folks. Had family in town and then had to catch up. You've all been busy I see. Hope you don't mind if I dive right in.

Just as clarification... not sure if it was clear... Median is using telepathy (universal monster rule, not spell) when she speaks in <this format>, not the message cantrip or anything discernible.

If it would be clearer with some other format, or you guys already have a format for that, just let me know.

It was clear for me. Nurai's very used to telepathy from others so I figured she could give a strong if buzzy brief thought for Medina to pick up after Medina initiated.

As she doesn't have telepathy, Nurai is now using Message so she can invite Medina, Jennifer, and Doctor Solomon at the same time to bring people together. She's all about that - and to make things easier on us & the GM. I wasn't entire sure where everyone was, but I figured on the way there she'd spot each person enough to do this.

I think Median just didn't want to confuse
<Telepathy>
with
<Message>

Maybe we could agree on a standard? Something like:
"Spoken"
"Thought"
"Whispered or Message'd"
<Mental>
<<Texting, email, etc>>

So basically I guess that would be:
Bold = out loud
Italics = subtle
Quoted = in a voice
Enclosed = over a medium

With all the abilities & tech going on and some of us having more the one being communicating, I think having the means of communication within the post/scene is clearer.

<this> also has other uses, like foreign languages others can understand and other unusual speech. We could end up really wound up trying to code everything when we can include the information in the posts and ask if there are concerns of confusion or questions.

Like I said, I didn't have any with any of the posts that have used telepathy or internal voices so far.

For foreign languages I've seen "//This kind of notation.//"

Anyway that's just my 2¢. Don't care too much either way I guess.

If you guys want we can create a formatting system for this, but honestly I feel 'making it clear it's not regular speech' and 'saying the form of non-standard communication' should be enough.

When it comes to languages, I just make spoiler tabs.

The card reads: Sanctum Obscuri: Purveyor of occult items, rituals, and knowledge. Tarot and palm readings available. We do parties!

Ooh, he does parties.

I think <"Telepathy"> is perfect. As I've always said: if it's good enough for the Andalites, it's good enough for us.

Not trying to be contrary, but you can come up with all the formatting you want, but I'll forget and just use whatever is in my head at the moment. The most I can hope for is getting it the same across my own posts.

Wasn't trying to start an argument, promise. Was just confused at the same formatting for different things, so thought I might be doing it wrong. I think we're golden though. Everyone is being clear about what they are doing.

Is everyone talking about magic in a normal speaking register?

Joe has just been talking about swords and cups (tarot reference?). But he's been in enough museums where talking loudly is frowned upon, so the tall man is talking in a lower register.

I was mostly talking about this bit:

... but anyway, back to the sword. Something like magic, but not quite magic... what could that possibly be?

She's just talking to Joseph quietly, not addressing the room, but I'm sure someone could overhear if they were specifically trying to. It's Fever, and Valda's friend, so Median isn't doing anything extra trying to hide (or she would just speak telepathically).

(Also, in reading back, I am not sure whether that comment should have been about the cup. I was examining both items, so it's unclear.)