Forged in Steel - Milwaukee by Night - A Second Edition Vampire the Masquerade Story (Inactive)

Game Master Dennis Harry

"A Beast I am, lest a Beast I become".

Woot, first PC post in gameplay!

What do I win?

:D

A horrible character death? ;)

A horrible character death? ;)

Probably. Which ironically does not rule out a spectacular character death either :)

A horrible character death? ;)

That's the sort of reward I would want to share with all of you ;-)

Sorry bout that Patrick, forgot Randolph was the other Tremere!

One day I'm going to have to play a scumball... err Tremere. :)

heh. It's funny cause it's true

Night got away from me, I'll update this tomorrow.

Ach, too much time in between updates and last week started out so hot for my posting rates!

More updates coming your way now!

All PCs receive 3 more XP.

Poor Shane is wondering if they have the words "Catspaw" blazoned on their heads. :)

It's a common tattoo

I think Shane has decided he ain't going back to Gary. They got guys what think destroying an elder equals a freaking boat ride. That's nuts, and the dude wasn't even Malkavian.

Let's hope Old Milwaukee tastes as great as its name ;)

Updating soon, needed my book to answer the specific questions posed and I was sick for the last week so my posting was sparse.

Updating soon, needed my book to answer the specific questions posed and I was sick for the last week so my posting was sparse.

Hmm, that delay lasted longer than expected.

Regardless see below re Backgrounds.

Hopefully with this illness now (mostly) behind me, I can get that post rate up a bit higher!

John you gain 2d2 ⇒ (2, 2) = 4 BP.

Shane you gain 2 BP.

Patrick you gain 2 BP.

As we move to the next night (coming soon), each PC mark off ONE BP.

Also, all PCs gain 2 XP.

I have a friend who is looking to play, by next week I will have him in among you, he has an interesting concept in mind.

DOT.

OK, pushing us forward once more!

Updating now, hopefully that madness is behind me.

Heh, Malkavian tour guides....

Sorry folks, I know you've waited long but I am now caught in family holiday chaos in another part of the state.

No worries. It's the holidays. I hope everyone's are fantastic.

Tis OK Shane, I just wanted to get the game rolling again Holidays aside, so in the New Year we could pick up some steam. To call 2017 challenging for me was an understatement!

Dear all,
Having computer problems. Will likely be unable to post for a few days. Apologies. Please bot me as needed. I hope to be back soon, but with the holidays, my computer repair may be delayed.

Texted Jack and asked him to post so we can get this going again :-)

What could possibly go wrong with this scene? :-)

I'm trying to get on track folks, hopefully everyone will reappear I/C soon. Sorry for the delay there, RL's been well bad lately.

What could possibly go wrong with this scene? :-)

I'm trying to get on track folks, hopefully everyone will reappear I/C soon. Sorry for the delay there, RL's been well bad lately.

So yeah, not much hope here but at least a new update. RL still a bit f#%*ed, I'll do my best to continue to update as frequently as possible but if you follow my Status thread you can see it's not been the best lately.

Thanks for hanging in there folks!

It’s pretty late at night as I am writing this. I’ve been through a significant amount of struggles through the past two years (actually through the past 41 but especially the past 2). I’ve had worse stretches of time before but I believe that these past struggles were due to my own lack of maturity and self-awareness at the time those events took place.

Likely those events were necessary for me to experience to survive the events of the past two years and get through them as well as I have. Physical ailments, getting older and requiring more sleep, bankruptcy, and ultimately divorce. You know life is not going swimmingly when going to work feels like a vacation.

Regardless, when I first started getting involved in PbP on the boards it was a chance to play, finally! I’d been DMing for the bulk of the time that I’ve played table top that I was enjoying being able to be a player for once. Then with so many damn flaky GM’s I just started running games and well, things snow balled from there.

Life was fairly stable at the time the normal ups and downs. Then about two years ago, I started getting into PbP as a way to escape reality. Sort of the same ways drugs were casual and enjoyable for me as a teen and ultimately led me as close to suicide as I ever want to get again.

I am not saying that PbP has made me suicidal but I am saying that I recognize that I was using PbP as a coping mechanism to avoid a bad marriage. PbP did NOT lead to the failure of my marriage but it did contribute to my ability to tune it out.

I make a decent living but between bankruptcy and divorce I’ve little to show for it (well except for this killer book and RPG collection ). I could point the finger at my soon to be ex-wife but when you point one finger at a person, three more point back at you. I could have prevented things from becoming this bad and I chose not to. I did it, ironically, because I believed that if I had the marriage would have ended and ended badly, so much for best intentions. I am not going to second guess myself, what happened happened. As divorces go, this one has been rather amicable as we have put our daughter first and ourselves second.

Being married to someone who makes as much if not more money then you (depending on sales that year) places one in a position to “take it easy” when it comes to being aggressive about making money (well it placed me in such a position anyhow perhaps because making money does not move me).

Early on in my career I had an opportunity to become a premiere M&A Financial Services Tax Attorney in a Big 4 Firm. It’s a big deal and potentially a lot of money but I did not really want it because I knew I would be working a lot and traveling a lot. My ex agreed that I should turn it down as she did not want to be married to a workaholic and that was not who I wanted to be anyway. Nor do I want to be that person now. (In yet another twist of irony, she has become a workaholic, funny how things turn out).

I do not regret the decision though I do lament the loss of income that such a decision would have brought to me.

All of this rambling nonsense is leading to the point of this post, I need to work more. Not at my current job nor do I want to get a new job, I actually like being there as odd as that sounds (to me). I need to get a second and perhaps a third job, side gigs. At 41 about to turn 42 with no retirement and no savings for my daughters college, I can no longer hope that the ex’s business will come through as an investment plan. Even if it does, I will not be the beneficiary of that largesse. I need to make up for 11 years of being “comfortable” simply working.

Thus, it is with heavy heart that I am announcing that I will need to close down a number of the threads I run and withdraw from a number of the games I am a PC in.

I suppose this decision will not be a surprise to many of you as my posting rates have been abysmal since these events took a turn for the worse (in some respects the better to be honest) since Thanksgiving of 2017.

I am not generally a person that feels remorse or guilt but I do feel a level of disappointment with having to make this decision. I apologize for disappointing many of you who put work into PCs relying on my consistency as a GM/DM over the course of the past several years.

My plan had always been to run a hardcore dose of RPG’s until my daughter was a teenager and then, spend my free time writing the novel I had been working on since before she was born. I had hoped that over the next 9 years or so I could wrap up most of these campaigns and the few that remained would be more manageable.

Life has not worked out that way.

The good news is that I will still run several games but the current load is too much for me to handle in this transition. The further good news is that I believe this will allow for those games to move along much more quickly.

By tomorrow I will have made my decision as to which games I will keep and which I will shut down.

Thank you all for taking the journeys with me despite the lack of length or resolution of so many of them.

I will still be around just in a diminished capacity so this is not goodbye just a “be seeing less of you”.

I have decided to keep this particular game IN the rotation. Look for updates Wednesday night.

That's awesome thanks Shadow.

So hi. I'm currently going through some relatively serious issues in my personal life and may be unavailable for a while. I also might not be. One of those things where I have no idea how it's going to shake out or when I'm going to be capable of posting. It sucks and I'm sorry, but it's unavoidable. I'll do what I can.

I hope things work out for you. Take your time.

best of luck

So hi. I'm currently going through some relatively serious issues in my personal life and may be unavailable for a while. I also might not be. One of those things where I have no idea how it's going to shake out or when I'm going to be capable of posting. It sucks and I'm sorry, but it's unavoidable. I'll do what I can.

Trust me, I can relate!

Hang in there ol' ST Shadow!

My apologies for the prolonged absence but I was hoping that working through some things would clear me up to retain a good chunk of my posting interests.

Unfortunately, that is not going to be feasible.

I need to start working a second or third job possibly in the coming months so my time will be much more limited than it was before. As a result I will need to close down this game.

Thanks for understanding.

Torpor at an end?

Morag and Iron John are a go, one more Yea and I will start the thread again this week with a synopsis of what happened thus far.

Shane is a Yea. I'll get this started again this week, anyone else who wants to join in can. Otherwise I'll take them out of active Gameplay after 10 days.

I'll have this game up no later than this Friday night. :-)

Yay

Would have been tonight but I have to finish drafting a contract le sigh...

Alright, the synopsis is up.

I believe we have the following PCs remaining:

Iron John Anderson,
Morag Darrow,
Shane Driscoll, and
Randolph Miller.

I have privately recruited one more PC who will join once he returns from vacation in a few weeks.

That is 5 PCs an more than enough to get this going once more, I do not plan to recruit anyone else.

I will put up a push post now to get the action going once more.

Thank you all for returning to give this one another go :-)

Thank you for giving it another chance.

Shhane is hoping someone with better social skills can bluff this guy while he's pinned into the 'prank' theory, otherwise we might have to drink him.

Glad to see this back up and running, and you feel like taking on more.

I'm back!

Freaking mess these boards are.

Trying to update between today and tomorrow.