Iron Kingdoms: Trollkin Unleashed! (Inactive)

Game Master Mark Sweetman

Sorry guys - one of those days today... update tomorrow!

It's all good!

Shadowrun: Hong Kong just came out so I'll be a little scarce. Shoyld still get my posts in, though.

Sorry for the radio silence over the weekend - had a Monday public holiday in KL, inclusive of a Friday poker night, and Sunday dinner party that stretched into the wee hours of Monday... so haven't been able to catch up.

Should have posts up in da morning my time.

KL?

Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur

ah, cool. Never been there. i had forgot that i had ever even heard of that place until a brief google search brought up those two towers with the bridge between them, which i remember reading about several years ago.

Busy with Offshore Europe today/tomorrow gents, so please bot me scrapper as necessary.

Normal service should be resumed by close of play tomorrow.

Cheers

Provisos and notes and such:

Myself and family will be travelling off to London for both the Rugby World Cup, and taking my mum back to the UK for the first time since she emigrated about 50 years ago. Will be fun... not so much the transit (kids plus planes = tired parents) but once we get there much fun and frivolity should ensue.

We have wifi at the accommodations I'm going to, but I can't promise that I'll be around often enough to get frequent posts in, nor verbose ones if the situation calls for it. When you combine that with the relative verbosity required of the DM position... it makes it somewhat untenable. So for that reason I'll be calling a pause on the campaign while I'm away.

I'll be back in KL and ready for resumption of general service on the 9th-10th ish of October.

Sounds good. Have a great time.

checking in, because I hadnt heard from this game in a bit. then saw we are resuming on the 9th-10th.

FYI, i'm currently primarily posting from my cell phone, dealing with crappy Hawaii hotel wi-fi (it's like they expect me to go outside or something) for four days until i fly to a different hotel with unknown wi-fi potency for an unknown number of days.

So, while i will be posting, they will be slightly more infrequent and most typically brief.

Copy/pasted to all games.

Back in black and sinking back into the lifestyle. Planning to have things rolling again tomorrow.

Flying tomorrow so may not post.

With the fact that we've only had two people check in most likely due to the loss of momentum from my lengthy absence... I'm wondering if it might be easier just to call it a day and shut the PbP down?

I'm here.

or re-recruit. I am still here.

Still here - sorry busy week at work... was also trying to find out best way to deck a steam jack... ;)

I'll note that the fundamental question posed in the main gameplay thread is as yet unanswered as well. There hasn't been any in character discussion or decision as to which area the group's headed towards or any back and forth as to why one option might be better / worse than another... you can assume your characters have a reasonable understanding of warjacks and how they might function to aid that.

As a DM I prefer to have character actions posted out IC rather than stated OOC as well.

So if we could get at least a little back and forth in thread on that?

I blame the World Cup... updates tomorrow.

Ditto. 1 feckin point. Hope the Aussies win the whole thing now so we can claim to have run them that bloody close.

Great games in the Quarters!

There is a certain je ne sais quoi about the Argie team at the moment though...

Immensely physical at the breakdown, and with go forward - they have indeed got the bit between their teeth.

I'm still here, and should be in thread fairly shortly to advance things. Just struggling with a sense of ennui and lingering throatsoreness and blah-ness.

This is the primary source of it - I have only seen blue skies once (for only a couple of hours) since I arrived back from the UK over a week and a half ago...

Yuck! I lived in a very London-like foggy area before, and though it didnt affect me, i saw how it affected my significant other at the time. I know pollution-haze is worse than mere fog.

As a small FYI - I'm off on a short trip tonight and tomorrow to a rugby tournament for my son (well... depending on whether there is breathable air or not...). Thusly I'll be a less wordy / potentially silent for a couple of days.

So basically getting the thumbs down on the current course of action, what else would we do?

Save Conrael? Can we?

Find an alternative way to blast em? Maybe with barrels of uiske?

Wait until they leave and gather info?

Katherson would have waited until they were all gone but from what I saw the trollkin were all about swift vengeance, so he backed your play assuming it was blaze of glory time.

But that many soldiers, "overwhelming" is the word used I believe, attacking is not a great idea.

Its not, but leaving Conrael to die is not an option. Listen I'm happy to sacrifice Oengus if you lot can use the distraction to get the troll to safety? He's a headcase so I've no qualms about a forlorn hope, but not if it gets all of you killed and doesn't save Conrael.

So, near as i can tell, oengus is going in and the rest of us drag out conrael? Trade a PC for an NPC?

Depends if my actions kickstart a massive counter attack?

I've never been precious about my PCs so more than happy to chance an epic action for possibly glorious death...

Mark's game tho so will respect his take on such a forlorn hope?

Pulling back slightly to this post (which we can soft reset to if you like) the key questions are:
1) Conrael is still alive.
2) The Khadorans are many and only just departing.
3) One jack remains, with significant damage to it's center... and that jack has seemingly been abandoned.

The warjack looks like this...
Where it's damaged looks to be around the cortex...
If it's acting on instinct rather than direction, maybe it's not thinking straight...
I wonder if there is anything that could be done which wouldn't sound like fresh enemies into the fray?...

Ahhhh... now I gets the jist.

Forlorn Hope: Stand Down!

Having home interwebs headaches gents - and not getting a chance to post at work (good news is I'm still gainfully employed in the ailing oil industry... bad news I've more responsibility (cough) workload (cough) in my new role)

Might be a tardy in posting for this week coming...

Though i anxiously await your post, i also spent all day moving my life's belongings into my new apartment and have a powerful ache that only spicy chicken and beer can cure. And i think the cure will be a multi-day type of treatment... :]

Sorry guys - today's been a one day pity party for me and I haven't gotten the mental headspace for an update. Tomorrow's the plan after a refreshing night's sleep.

Sirs, with all due respect and apologies I'm going to have to shut down this campaign. I apologize for leading you astray into a scenario and setup where I haven't been able to either capture your attention and engage it in the flow of the narrative, or seemingly place down text that's interpretable and able to offer guidance and direction for your actions.

Ultimately it comes down to my failings, and I know from experience when I start finding reasons to delay updating that it's easier to rip off the bandaid than let it fester along. I had a thought process and mental idea, I just haven't been able to deliver for you guys.

It's clear to me that my lassitude has flowed through to your interest as well, as we're far from any critical mass on posts and flow.

So thankyou for your time and interest, and fare you well upon the boards.

Ouch.

I can't argue your facts though. My posts have been lacking as well.

No worries Haggis... we've been lucky enough to be sparring partners plenty o' times - no doubt will do so again.

Thanks to one and all for indulging my Scots vernacular ;)

Cheers

I too am sorry to see this go, but it was fun to play the plucky sniper with a chip on his short little shoulder.